Re: Error (setuid) starting openwebmail.pl

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
FTP wrote: Hi, when I try to access: https://myserver/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl I get the following: '/var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl' must setuid to root but my current permissions are: -rwsr-sr-x 1 root wheel 35830 Jun 26 13:05 openwebmail.pl I thought that the

Re: Strange 3.9 lock-up

2006-07-16 Thread Nick Holland
Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I have mentioned before my 3.9-box locks up in a strange way: 1. it is pingable 2. syn-scan gives out open ports 3. but those ports are not accessable(for ex. I can not drop in into this box via ssh or browse port 80) This is a second lock-up

Re: How to make fsck run faster?

2006-07-16 Thread Nick Holland
Antti Harri wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, knitti wrote: On 7/16/06, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kernel is 3.8 GENERIC and there is one large ffs partition on the SATA disc, roughly the size of 180G. Most of the files make smaller slices and mount only the ones r/w which you absolutely

Re: Expand /var

2006-07-16 Thread Nick Holland
Gaby Vanhegan wrote: So, I have this disk setup: # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 49.2G1.6G 45.2G 3%/ /dev/sd0g 181G2.0K172G 0%/backup /dev/sd0f 167G549M158G 0%/home /dev/sd0e 9.8G 12.0K

Re: How to make fsck run faster?

2006-07-17 Thread Nick Holland
Antti Harri wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Nick Holland wrote: nope, you can still likely use multiple partitions. Break your backup job into smaller chunks, put each chunk on its own partition. Or put each machine on its own partition. Or ... Interesting ideas. I didn't think that having

Re: dhcpd static addresses

2006-07-18 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Gloez wrote: Hello, I have a soekris box where dhcpd is running to give ip addresses for clients, now i was thinking is it possible to give clients a static ip based on which interface it is connected, so when i plug the network cable to specified network port on soekris it would always

Re: wikipedia amd64 Intel EM64T W^X OpenBSD

2006-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
Siju George wrote: ... so does this mean that W^X support was available on EM64T processorseven before XD bit was added if you use OpenBSD? Sure it was...IF you ran OpenBSD/i386 on it. If you ran OpenBSD/amd64, no. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2004-02/2145.html

Re: serial console question

2006-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
Denny White wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've hunted around the archives, googled, read the faq on serial consoles, read what's in my copy of Absolute OpenBSd, but can't seem to find what I need to fix my problem. Running obsd 3.9 on one box obsd 3.8 on an ancient p90.

Re: [OffTopic] AMD buys ATI

2006-07-24 Thread Nick Holland
Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: Quote: However, AMD believes that it will not morph into another Intel: Our approach is very different from Intel, said AMD spokesman Bubba Wolford. You really would be comparing apples to oranges. We are very much about an open approach. That includes opening up our

Re: OpenBSD Gateway to replace old Linux gateway

2006-07-26 Thread Nick Holland
elaconta.com Webmaster wrote: Howdy We have here an old (Mandrake Linux 8 - yeah i know...) PC with two NICs which serves as a firewall for our LAN and runs a Bind caching nameserver. Although the machine is getting old, it still works well. Thing is, i'm having a hard time trying to reproduce

Re: What do you use for MIME email?

2006-07-26 Thread Nick Holland
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: ... MIME has been around for 14 years. There's no excuse for any MUA not to be able to deal with it at least minimally. In the case of /usr/bin/Mail that means recognizing content types and only displaying text/* sections when printing to the screen. It doesn't

Re: bufcachepercent samba

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Holland
Craig Hammond wrote: I am setting up a Samba fileserver on obsd 3.9-stable I noticed that up until obsd3.3, in section 11 of the faq, it recommended increasing bufcachepercent for fileservers with lots of free memory. Now there is no section 11 at all in the faq. For a box that is basically

Re: hard drive problem

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Holland
RV Tec wrote: Folks, I had two crashes, on two different days, with the same reason: a dying hard drive. Definitively, it is really unpleasant to get caught with my pants down. [there were a few potential comments here, but we'll keep this a family-oriented mailing list! :) (ok, the real

Re: misterious network/all freezing.

2006-08-02 Thread Nick Holland
Inigo Tejedor Arrondo wrote: scene: home webserver (athlon 1,2Mz via chipset, lan realtek) dmesg at the end of email. OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST 2006 The server is conected to a 3com superstack hub, and witouth keyboard/screen, managed with ssh. Packet Filter is disable

Re: console screensafer

2006-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
Andreas Bartelt wrote: Hi, is there a way to disable to console screensafer in OpenBSD? Problem description: after about 60 seconds after booting, the console screen blanks and my monitor turns off (disabling power management on my monitor doesn't help). Sometimes, shortly after starting

Re: DMESG question

2006-08-07 Thread Nick Holland
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/08/07 16:15, Gabriel George POPA wrote: 1) When the OS generates too much messages, old messages are lost (oldest lines present in `dmesg` are lost). What can I do to see ALL messages ever recorded for dmesg printing? More precisely, take a look at my `dmesg`:

Re: OpenBSD and high availability

2006-08-07 Thread Nick Holland
knitti wrote: On 8/7/06, Jens Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While the networking part can be handled by carp, I'm collecting ideas on how to keep the local file systems in synch - especially for ftp users and the mailinglist archives. The synchronization will be done via a dedicated cross

Re: ProLiant with RILOE keyboard freezes after boot sometimes

2006-08-08 Thread Nick Holland
Robert Urban wrote: Hello, has anyone else noticed that after booting, the keyboard on a ProLiant (DL380-G2) with the RILOE (Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition) card often freezes? If I take the RILOE card out, the kb is always ok. WARNING: Complete and total speculation (or Wild-A**ed-Guess)

Re: openbsd fail to detect second harddisk

2006-08-09 Thread Nick Holland
Gustavo Rios wrote: Hey folks, i have just installed a second harddisk in my Dell Precision Workstation 370 (Seagate ST3808110AS). OpenBSD fails to see it. Have anybody here already faced such scenario? Just today, in fact... What you don't indicate is where you plugged this drive in or

Re: how to boot openbsd on second disk

2006-08-10 Thread Nick Holland
(sorry for the dup, Gustavo, I should have sent that to the list... -N.) Gustavo Rios wrote: Dear fellows, i have two disks, my first disk (wd0) is running XP, my second (wd1) is running openbsd 3.9. In order to boot openbsd from windows boot manager, i did the following: $ dd if=/dev/rwd1a

Re: backups: best privilege policy

2006-08-12 Thread Nick Holland
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i have a script that runs on a single backup host and gathers dumps from other machines on the network by ssh-ing into them as root using pubkey authentication. allowing root access via ssh is, of course, not a good idea. The of course part is dubious actually. If you

Re: Lost IP traffic

2006-08-13 Thread Nick Holland
JR Dalrymple wrote: List, Forgive me, I'm only smart enough to get myself into trouble unfortunately. My PF edge router has been cruising along for sometime now (years) without problems, doing just ask I ask of it. For some reason today it decided to stop serving webpages from my internal

Re: Compaq Proliant ML 530 impossible to install OpenBSD

2006-08-13 Thread Nick Holland
Beto wrote: Hi Folks, I'm trying to install OpenBSD 3.9 on a Compaq Proliant ML 530 but It just doesn't work. When the cd install kernel are reconizing the devices it shows a panic error and prints a halt message. I also tryed install OpenBSD 3.8and the same error. going backwards is NOT what

Re: Kernel never loads completely

2006-08-20 Thread Nick Holland
Greg Thomas wrote: I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive and any OpenBSD boot floppy it

Re: How to update httpd without a compiller

2006-08-23 Thread Nick Holland
Juha Saarinen wrote: On 8/23/06, Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Set up another, non-production, box with 3.9 and build -stable on that. Follow `man release` and read the upgrade guide on how to extract the sets. Seems a slightly cumbersome way to deal with security issues which may be

Re: Sometimes OpenBSD forgets the disklabel

2006-08-23 Thread Nick Holland
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 03:10 PM 8/23/2006 -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: On 8/23/06, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody. # disklabel wd1 16 partitions: # sizeoffset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2343763 4.2BSD 0 00 # Cyl

Re: Why no compiler on prod system [Was: Re: How to update httpd without a compiller]

2006-08-24 Thread Nick Holland
Anton Karpov wrote: 2006/8/24, Stephan A. Rickauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: People from time to time say they don't want to have a compiler installed on a productive system due to security issues. I don't understand this. Isn't is too late anyway, if someone's already able to make use of the

Re: Code beautifiers, anyone?

2006-08-24 Thread Nick Holland
Kyrre Nygerd wrote: Hello people, I'm looking for the best ways to create a line of code beautification (reformatting) scripts -- one for C, one for Ruby, one for Bash and one for web development languages like XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP and Ajax. Whether as frontline warriors or household maids,

Re: console screensafer

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Holland
Andreas Bartelt wrote: Andreas Bartelt wrote: ... thanks, you made me look at my BIOS and (at least I think) I found the cause. There's an option called Video Off method, which was set to DPMS support. I just switched it to blank screen and didn't experience the usual problems after rebooting.

Re: ksh vs bash

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Holland
Martin Toft wrote: Sam Chill wrote: ksh does most everything bash does too, so it doesn't seem like a loss. FWIW, I miss a couple of features in ksh and consider to switch (back) to bash: - When using tab completion, and you press tab two times to get a list of possibilities, ksh doesn't use

Re: OpenBSD/Networking noobie: home micro-server setup?

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
Neoklis wrote: Hi all, I have opened an account with an ISP that provides me with a fixed IP address and this tempts me to set up a micro server at home for my website etc. I must confess I am a Linux user but consider OpenBSD the best choice for a secure server, so will install soon on my

Re: Soekris

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:01:52AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Plus, if you wish to do PPPoE, you may find the Soekris machines horribly underpowered. Huh? I'm using pppoe(4) on a net4801 for a 2-Mbit DSL without problems. IMHO, soekris as router and/or firewall is fine

Re: syncing pf tables

2006-08-29 Thread Nick Holland
Kian Mohageri wrote: Hello, I was just curious if any of you sync pf tables between hosts, and how you do it. I know it may be considered abusing tables, but in our setup, we hold a list of registered clients within tables (which are updated dynamically by scripts). We also use carp (and soon

Re: Soekris

2006-08-30 Thread Nick Holland
Chris Cappuccio wrote: Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really. However a 2Mbps DSL line is not the fastest out there... a friend of mine is griping about his 200MHz PPro (which will probably run circles around the 4801) being unable to keep up with his 6Mbps DSL line with PPPoE

Re: Missing section in FAQ - 6 Networking ?

2006-09-03 Thread Nick Holland
Bruno Carnazzi wrote: Hi misc, There is a numbering problem or a missing section in FAQ - 6 Networking : http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#6.8 Not quite sure how that's a problem. Things get added and removed. I have an aversion to renumbering articles excessively... Even though one

Re: problem with HP NETSERVER openbsd 3.7 mp kernel

2006-09-03 Thread Nick Holland
Vo9tenak Vladimmr wrote: Hi I have got a problem with the bsd.mp kernel. Please can you help me solve the problem in some way??? I ve gotnbsp; HP NETSERVER 2xPPRO200 Mhz. I am using OPEN BSD version 3.7. The generic kernel works fine, but the bsd.mp kernel boot until: fd0 at

Re: automated source code scanning

2006-09-04 Thread Nick Holland
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: since the openbsd project prides itself on being especially proactive about debugging, it would not surprise me to learn that there is automated code auditing going on. is this already the case? i didn't see openbsd listed on coverity's page, http://scan.coverity.com/

Re: upgrading without physical access

2006-09-22 Thread Nick Holland
Bernd Schoeller wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:44:30 +0200, Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might not be the 'right' way to do things, but I've had no trouble upgrading machines remotely. YMMV, depending on how busy the thing is. What I would do is: Please, that is not

Re: Crash Report - Desired Info Quality?

2006-09-25 Thread Nick Holland
Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, I'm getting a reproducible panic on a remote 3.9-stable system and have managed to talk someone into taking photographs with his cell phone camera that show the panic and 'ps' and 'trace' info. The image quality is generally poor, however. The crash occurs when

Re: multiple ways to build a kernel in docs

2006-09-26 Thread Nick Holland
Will H. Backman wrote: Henning Brauer wrote: * Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-26 22:36]: Having just done it with make install for the first time, I'd always copied and moved it manually, it looks like it saves the previous kernel as /obsd. it actually replaces the kernel

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Holland
Cross-list addresses removed. Come on, is it so difficult to post the same message (or even lightly personalized message?) three or four times so we can minimize the cross-list trash that results from people hitting group reply mindlessly? Marc G. Fournier wrote: The point of using periodic, at

Re: PXE capable NICs: non-intel chipsets

2006-10-02 Thread Nick Holland
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i am planning on grabbing some PXE capable NICs in the next few days and would like to know if any particular cards are better than others. in the vein of intel being crappy, i am actively avoiding any intel-based chipsets. i'm looking for something cheap and

Re: benefits of older versions

2006-10-08 Thread Nick Holland
prad wrote: why are older versions of openbsd (or linux or whatever os) kept around? Not sure what you are referring to..I'm guessing you are referring to things you saw on some FTP servers and for sale on the website... If so, the answer is, much the same reason libraries don't throw away

Re: Disk problem with -current kernel

2006-10-10 Thread Nick Holland
Emilio Perea wrote: I ran into a problem when rebooting to a current kernel (i386 GENERIC) due to a secondary disk without an 'a' partition. I don't think the lack of an 'a' partition is your problem. Goodness knows, I've got a lot of machines with no 'a' partition on the second and later

Re: Disk problem with -current kernel

2006-10-10 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: Otherwise..I'm confused...which isn't to say I'm not missing something. I've been informed that I *was* missing something, that this is a problem which is being dealt with, beatings are being applied (including to me, for missing it...). Disregard my comments...things

Re: Oldest Server you run

2006-10-12 Thread Nick Holland
Gordon Grieder wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:22:43PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: Bryan Irvine wrote: You win. I'm waiting for Nick Holland to chime in... he's probably got an SE/30 in production, or maybe a VAXstation 2000. Nick replied ages ago but his machine is still processing

Re: disks not detected during install

2006-10-17 Thread Nick Holland
I'm a little behind in my reading, obviously... Patrick Cummings wrote: On 11/10/06, Patrick Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi misc, I'm trying to setup a new openbsd 3.9 install on i386. It worked before on that computer when I installed quickly to test for compatibility, but I needed to

Re: what version to install now and P.D.

2006-10-20 Thread Nick Holland
Iqigo Tejedor Arrondo wrote: Hello, I have to do a clean install of a server, this weekend :) I suppose that most suitable is -stable (3.9), and update when 4.0 happen to -release... but I would like to hear opinions if somebody thinks different. Given the choices you have right now, I'd

Re: new tool: openportd

2006-10-22 Thread Nick Holland
Steffen Wendzel wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:42:18 +0200 Inigo T. A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... : If you have a security problem with a service, the only more secure : action is to fix it, don't to open it eventually. : this isn't correct. Every service had some security problems in the

Re: Dell 2650 with unsupported Adaptec PERC 3/Di RAID controller?

2006-10-24 Thread Nick Holland
Ingo Schwarze wrote: This might make it yet into some FAQ... :-/ been there for quite some time, actually: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#aac :) Nick. K Kadow wrote on Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:47:06PM -0500: I've inherited a half dozen Dell PowerEdge 2650s with the PERC 3/Di

Re: Modemsupport?

2006-10-24 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, winmodes are not supported. Only actual modems are supported. Well I`m no expert marco but is every Modemchip found on a Motherboard or included into a Laptop a Winmodem? I have not seen a single exception to that in a very long time. If you didn't pay extra

Re: Problems with we* ISA NICs

2006-10-28 Thread Nick Holland
Fssforo wrote: Hi guys. I am new to OpenBSD. I am trying to transform my Linux gateway + firewall into OpenBSD gateway + firewall. Currently i've 2 PCI NICs - both Realtek 8139 (correctly recognized by OBSD) and 2 ISA NICs - both SMC EtherEZ 8416 (now recognized but not working). 8416

Re: mounting problems

2006-10-30 Thread Nick Holland
Jay Jesus Amorin wrote: hi, pls. help me mount my partition in my linux partitions ... http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#foreignfs Nick.

Re: Upgrading to 4.0 - fsck takes a very long time?

2006-11-01 Thread Nick Holland
Leith Brandeland wrote: This is my first OpenBSD upgrade. I'm going from 3.9 to 4.0 and the fsck -fp step seems to take a VERY long time. Is this normal? It has been running for over an hour. The machine is a PII-233Mhz with 64MB ram and a 30GB HD. Thanks. It seems your dmesg was

Re: why my LCD monitor repeat black screen

2006-11-01 Thread Nick Holland
Baskervilles wrote: Hello, I'm using OB3.9 release version, and X.org plus fvwm2, after start X windows, what I got is my LCD monitor repeat black screen between several minutes, even there have keyboard and mouse movement. after black screen, I can ctrl+alt+F1 then ctrl_alt+F5 to switch

Re: CPU selection

2006-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Alexander I completely agree with you and in the long run it will happen, but getting a second machine is beyond my budget for the next couple of months. Then, you should go grab a couple OLD machines, and build your firewall with them. You probably won't be

Re: CPU selection

2006-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
Alexander Lind wrote: As for RAID on a firewall, uh...no, all things considered, I'd rather AVOID that, actually. Between added complexity, what complexity? RAID, kiddo. It's more complex. It is something else that can go wrong. And...it DOES go wrong. Either believe me now, or wish you

Re: Transfer an install (part thereof) to another machine

2006-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
Uwe Dippel wrote: [And I did read FAQ Chapter 14 forth and back] I have a working install on sd0. There are plenty of data on separate partitions on sd0 that I don't need, but it's a good install. Therefore I'd like to transfer the system only to sd1. dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/rsd1c

Re: building kernel for new release in previous stable system

2006-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
Igor Goldenberg wrote: Thanks for the ideas! And if I understand correctly the most easy and safe way to build custom kernel for a new release is to temporary setup this release on any computer (maybe even under virtual machine) and build the kernel there. And then use generated kernel

Re: Upgrade to 4.0 - fsck freezes system.

2006-11-08 Thread Nick Holland
Jon Simola wrote: On 11/7/06, Price, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're trying our first upgrade to 4.0 and fsck during the upgrade process seems to freeze the machine. wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 238475MB, 488397168 sectors a: 47185884963 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl

Re: video hardware determination

2006-11-08 Thread Nick Holland
Default User wrote: Hello. I inherited an old '586 computer with built-in graphics (no video card) and a no-name 17 color monitor. I have no documentation for either. I am trying to set it up using xorgconfig. Probably the hard way. See the new FAQ 11

Re: video hardware determination

2006-11-08 Thread Nick Holland
Michael Hernandez wrote: ... Is that expected behavior? Of course not... and for the record, no it doesn't work with the same automagic goodness on the evo at work (I think it's the card in the evo, the monitor is exactly the same as the one I have at home) but if you haven't tried to just

Re: getting siteXX.tgz, possible bug

2006-11-13 Thread Nick Holland
Thanos Tsouanas wrote: Hello. For some reason, the site40.tgz wasn't recognized as an option when I was using http to get the sets, but it was when I moved the sets to my ftpd... Or maybe it was my bad. not really your bad...but an error of omission, none the less. :) You will note a

Re: Script to sync pf rules for CARP fws

2006-11-14 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... ok, that's what one gets by doing silly stuff with too many mail clients at too many different places and getting sloppy about how one configures them. That was from me, in case anyone wasn't sure. :) Nick.

Re: Best nic/driver combination

2006-11-15 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcel Prisi a icrit : Hi all, I am in the process of reinstalling our OpenBGPd router under OpenBSD 4.0. We are currently using two fxp's and a quad sis. The fxp's are ok, but the sis are really bad. It looks like the first of the four ports (sis0) works OK, but

Re: -stable buggy or hardware flaky?

2006-11-17 Thread Nick Holland
Marc Peters wrote: sorry for answering myself, but i forgot the dmesg: Yep. Ever so important... if for no other reason: ~ $ dmesg OpenBSD 4.0-current (GENERIC) #1: Wed Nov 8 19:19:54 CET 2006 ^^^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC ... Marc

Re: screen resolution problem(was: X configuration)

2006-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
arnuld wrote: i have configured X using xorgcfg but it does not work properly: 1.) everytime i use xinit it switches OFF/ON my monitor for once. 2.) by default it show me the 1280x1024 mode which has verysmall icons. i want to have 1024x768. to do that i added Modes 1024x768 in the

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Nick Holland
Igor Sobrado wrote: Hi again. Out of this thread, Mr. Tongson pointed me to an interesting post from march 2005: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-03/2808.html i.e., DROP IT. IT WILL NOT CHANGE. The guy in charge has spoken. From this post, it is difficult

Re: Mail to 'misc' being forwarded to 'ports'?

2006-11-24 Thread Nick Holland
Brian Candler wrote: I'm getting the following when posting to 'misc'. Is this known and/or intentional? I'm not bcc'ing to 'ports' - honest! Regards, Brian. ... Yeah, someone did something annoying with their mail account. The right people to fix it are trying to be contacted...in the

Re: X.org on Sun Ultra 10

2006-11-24 Thread Nick Holland
Christian Ruediger Bahls wrote: i post this to the list so it shows up in the web should somebody have the some problem (if you see any mistake please do not hesitate to contact me) i hat problems setting up X.org for an Ultra 10 (i normally use that machine remote so X is less important)

Re: Boot above cylinder 1024

2006-11-28 Thread Nick Holland
Brian Candler wrote: I've recently installed OpenBSD 4.0 on two machines in spare space at the end of the disk. It turns out that OpenBSD is unbootable if the root filesystem starts above cylinder 1024. However, this isn't a problem for FreeBSD; I guess it makes use of newer BIOS calls.

Re: Boot above cylinder 1024

2006-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
Brian Candler wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:18:53PM -0800, K WESTERBACK wrote: I've booted OpenBSD from above cylinder 1024 (at least 8G) as far as I recall. However you *cannot* boot it from an extended partition w/o assistance of some kind. It's unclear from your email if this is what

Re: xorg config for imac 333Mhz

2006-11-30 Thread Nick Holland
Bryan Irvine wrote: I'm having a devil of a time setting up xorg on an ancient imac 333Mhz. Anyone have a working config? yep, but being the mean guy I am, I'm not giving it to you. :) But I will tell you how I did it, more educational that way... (besides, knowing apple, I wouldn't put it

Re: CPU running hot due to (buggy) software

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Holland
Patrick Cummings wrote: ... While I perfectly understand that you said you had a problem with Mailman that uses too much CPU time, you need to understand that normally the hardware is built to allow you to use the CPU at 100% for all the time. According to that and the temperatures you

Re: USB Keyboards during install

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Holland
Matthew P Szudzik wrote: There used to be problems using USB keyboards during the OpenBSD install on i386, and workarounds were discussed in section 12.7.4 of the FAQ. That section is missing from the current FAQ. Does this mean that the OpenBSD install kernel now has complete USB

Re: slow terminal on macppc

2006-12-05 Thread Nick Holland
Bryan Irvine wrote: I'm running a test openldap server on an imac 333Mhz. When I run things from the console it's really really slow, but when I'm in X things are a lot faster. For example: I just ran as a test (several times) the ldap command time slapcat, which basically dumps the

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-06 Thread Nick Holland
Igor Sobrado wrote: Nice to see that the text and PDF releases of the FAQ have finally been upgraded to 4.0... Just a suggestion: would it be possible replacing the links of the class ...can be found here (e.g., '1.7 of the OpenBSD FAQ) in the FAQs to more useful descriptions (e.g., ...can

Re: the snapshots way

2008-05-03 Thread Nick Holland
Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: Hello, Since the applications packages are not updated anymore for -release / -stable I decided to follow the snapshots. I know that this way is for experienced users and I'm not as good as a developer but I need to stay with this. The FAQ is not so rich in

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Nick Holland
Owain Ainsworth wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:56:33PM +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Nick Holland
ropers wrote: 2008/5/4 Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [vim] alters files in unexpected ways, which I consider a major sin. I didn't know that, and cursory googling didn't turn up anything enlightening. Could you elaborate? Thanks and regards, --ropers It might have been better if I

Re: Is NV supposed to be SLOW?

2008-05-04 Thread Nick Holland
Marco Peereboom wrote: Yes. NVIDIA refuses to make a useful open source driver. It is barely functional and it generally sucks really really bad. Stay away from NVIDIA when doing open source. I'm going to express a very small and highly qualified exception to this comment... I have found

Re: newfs during install

2008-05-04 Thread Nick Holland
Denis Doroshenko wrote: ... the faq continuously repeats root partition where (i believe) root filesystem is actually meant. it is confusing, as a partition may be primary or secondary, then OpenBSD supports only primary partitions and only one per drive (unless something changed since) and

Re: [OT] suitability of CF for weekly backups

2008-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Can anyone see a problem with using CF cards in a removeable CF/IDE adapter for daily/weekly/monthly backup cycle? Note: not for 30-year archive or anything, just for backup. I'm thinking it would fill the niche between DVDs and a tape drive and not have the

Re: uvm_fault after fsck on OpenBSD 3.9

2008-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
Kirk Ismay wrote: I get the following on boot: Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks. /dev/rwd0a: 1707 files, 16951 used, 283059 free (35 frags, 35378 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) /dev/rwd0a: MARKING FILE SYSTEM CLEAN uvm_fault(0xd05e1aa0, 0x800, 0, 1) - e kernel:

Re: dhcpd dying

2008-05-09 Thread Nick Holland
Emilio Perea wrote: I have been running amd64 GENERIC.MP -current on my home server for a about 2-1/2 years. Two or three days ago dhcpd started dying without any error message. Since I see that there have been quite a few changes in the last few days, it is possible that this is a known

Re: Old EmBSD docs

2008-05-11 Thread Nick Holland
Jason George wrote: Sometime ago I had run EmBSD on a little P100 and it served me nicely. Since its disappearance from the landscape I've been using a stock OpenBSD install on my home machine. However, I recently acquired a nice little Jetway board with a PicoPSU and the idea of running EmBSD

Re: Old EmBSD docs

2008-05-12 Thread Nick Holland
Michael Dexter wrote: here's a better idea: just use a standard install. It is very difficult to buy a 1G flash media anymore that isn't covered in dust, so it is hard (if not nearly impossible) to justify building a crippled system anymore. Nonsense. Many new embedded boards have limited

Re: SPARC32 == SPARC32on64?

2008-05-12 Thread Nick Holland
Jay wrote: I'm porting some oddball software, and trying to get every platform, if I have hardware, and getting more hardware (but not a lot). So, regarding SPARC, my quick understanding is that: OpenBSD has separate pure SPARC and SPARC64. On SPARC64, gcc accepts -m32 and -m64 (I think),

Re: Decipering Understanding IP addressing

2008-05-22 Thread Nick Holland
ropers wrote: 2008/5/21 ropers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Kendall Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'm having a hard time understanding it. In many places they use 2 numbers, e.g. 2(21) or 232 (4,294,967,296). Can you understand what they are saying? I am really

Re: E450 stuff

2008-05-24 Thread Nick Holland
Johan SANCHEZ wrote: On Fri, 23 May 2008 11:08:32 -0400 Christopher Sean Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 23, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: Hi, I inherited an E450 from my old job. It booted Solaris just fine but I was never able to get any of

Re: gnats

2008-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hi there, recently i have sent bug report using sendbug and did not get a gnats confirmation. it was from a 4.2-current machine, older one obviously, and i was wondering if there is some incompatibility between the old and new sendbug... i thought maybe the

Re: Problems installing OpenBSD-4.3 using bsd.rd

2008-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
F. Caulier wrote: ... I read in the FAQ that there's a possibility to install OpenBSD from harddisk through bsd.rd, so I downloaded the latest (4.3-RELEASE) bsd.rd, put it on a small separate partition in a directory named /boot, modified the Grub menu and tried to boot that. It didn't work

Re: remove any unwanted devices from the kernel.

2008-06-05 Thread Nick Holland
Jon wrote: I usually name the kernel to the machine hostname, but you can give it any name. Edit the kernel config file: Remove any hardware related options that are not relevant to your machine. http://www.muine.org/~hoang/openpf.html#customize Why would someone want to do this? Is

Re: Get rid of windows limit in 'window'?

2008-06-15 Thread Nick Holland
F. Caulier wrote: I just discovered 'window' in base, a very usefull tool! I was used to install 'screen' to get a terminal multiplexer but as I found 'window' which gives me multiplexing without 'screen's' bloat and restrictive license. Just two questions: Is there an example.windowrc

Re: boot install cd on pentium mmx

2008-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
Gabri Mate wrote: Dear List, i would like to install OpenBSD 4.3 on an old Pentium MMX machine. The BIOS can boot off from a cd, but it simply refuses to boot the OBSD installation media. It checks the cd, waits a few seconds, then just goes on. Any suggestions? -- Gabri Mate [EMAIL

Re: booting a different kernel

2008-06-23 Thread Nick Holland
James Hartley wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:07 AM, annne annnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I had windows installed first, then I installed openbsd, what would I type to boot into windows? Read FAQ 4.8 FAQ 14.6. and pay really, really close attention to the first paragraph of 4.8...

Re: OpenBSD project goals

2008-06-24 Thread Nick Holland
Thilo Pfennig wrote: Hi, I am using OpenBSD on a desktop system for about a year now and have some open questions about the project goals. I have read http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html , but I think it does not answer some questions. One question is what the ideal status of OpenBSD would

Re: note for faq, maybe

2008-07-10 Thread Nick Holland
Sounds good, but as I've successfully avoided both PPP and PPPoE for well over ten years now, I have no way to completely test, a diff would be nice. Nick. Mitja Muenih / Kerberos.si / wrote: Yes, I can confirm that. I too got bitten by it before and I was considering proposing a patch for

Re: yacc rebuild

2008-07-10 Thread Nick Holland
Charles Smith wrote: Good afternoon! So, before the next make build I must rebuild the yacc alone. I would like to know how can I rebuild yacc. I searched in old errata patches, Makefiles, bsd.*.mk files. In my previous logfile (2008.07.07/src_make_build) I see, that by yacc the make

Re: eeepc via usb pen

2008-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sorry for the noise but I am trying to install openbsd an an eeepc via a usb pen. I have managed to install 4.(1 or 2) in the past but do not seem to be able to get the 4.3 install to boot off a pen. I know I could (hopefully) un-tar the files from the

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