Re: Misc questionning about DNS

2015-01-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/13/15 16:26, sven falempin wrote: > Dear OpenBSD users, > > Recently unbound made his way in base, pushing the complex bind/named > out for our own good. > > I would like to internally and externally solve some domain names > differently (so some service are accessible from inside and outsi

Re: What are the disadvantages of soft updates?

2015-01-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/19/15 14:10, Currell Berry wrote: > I infer from your response that soft updates possess: > > 1. increased overhead over default FFS settings. > 2. increased implementation complexity over default FFS settings. for a "he stated" definition of "you infer", sure. > Also, I infer that journal

Re: What are the disadvantages of soft updates?

2015-01-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/21/15 07:34, Mihai Popescu wrote: ... > After watching this thread, I enabled softdep on all FFS partitions > thinking that Firefox will speed up a bit. I will see the results in > time. Keep in mind what softdeps do -- they improve performance of disk writes. They do nothing for disk reads

Re: Anybody replace the disk drive in a Lemote Fuloong?

2015-01-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/26/15 09:55, Libertas wrote: On 01/26/2015 05:05 AM, John Long wrote: Is anybody using a regular USB stick as a primary disk drive for OpenBSD and if so how well do they work and how long do they last? Is this a reasonable solution for an appliance or dev box and are there better alternati

Re: Wouldn't `daemon_enable=YES` make more sense than `daemon_flags=""` in rc.conf.local?

2015-01-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/28/15 17:25, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: ... > Most of my daemons don't have any flags ... ... Really? Look closer... IF the vast majority of daemons didn't have any flags at all, maybe there'd be some merit to this, but I don't think that's true. Here's a moderately simple rc.conf.local

Re: Openbsd broke my hard drive twice! Getting frustrated

2015-02-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/05/15 03:26, Gene wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Daniel Dickman wrote: > ... >> does seem like a firmware bug based on the contents of the mbr. will see if >> I can diagnose further. >> > > It's not a bug. It's a "security feature"... or maybe "very effective exploit mitigatio

Re: Best filesystem & options for large drive

2015-02-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/11/15 11:58, Jan Stary wrote: On Feb 10 17:48:22, na...@mips.inka.de wrote: On 2015-02-10, yary wrote: I know FFS2 can handle that size easily, but I'm worried about fsck taking forever. This machine will have 1.5GB RAM, from what I've read that's not enough memory to fsck a 4TB volume

Re: Best filesystem & options for large drive

2015-02-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/12/15 10:10, Boris Goldberg wrote: > Hello Nick, ... > I was entertaining the idea of making a 100 TB OpenBSD based archive > storage, even asked the list. The only answer pointed to that FAQ page, and > it stopped me from pursuing that idea. Servers with 128 GB of RAM aren't > uncommon, bu

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

2015-02-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/17/15 17:44, Gene wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:37 PM, trondd wrote: He's using http protocol. Just because the hostname has ftp in it, doesn't mean it's the ftp protocol. It's not just the hostname I'm basing it off of, it's the error message: good try, but no. ~ $ sudo pkg_a

Re: Help needed: pkg_add dropps connections

2015-02-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/17/15 18:59, Stefan Wollny wrote: > ftp: connect: No route to host you need to fix that before you worry about anything. Once you get THAT fixed, then you can get back to worrying about your dropping connections. Gotta make it before you can drop it.

Re: CPU criteria for OpenBSD firewall

2015-02-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/18/15 17:30, ML mail wrote: Hi, Stupid question but if you would have to choose between two different Intel CPUs for an OpenBSD firewall using 4 to 6 Intel NICs with all /24 networks behind and around 50-60 Mbit/s average traffic would you rather choose the CPU with higher Frequency and le

Re: OpenBSD firefox useragent Facebook

2015-02-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/18/15 09:32, Erling Westenvik wrote: > Not sure if this belongs in @misc or @ports - if any! - but I'll give > the former a shot. > > All below applies to amd64/current-installations of mine. > > The last few months, I've been unable to tag other people when > commenting on Facebook. I've t

Re: Failing to build -stable Xenocara

2015-02-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/22/15 16:24, Henrique Lengler wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 02:57:18PM -0600, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: >> Are you following this? >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Xbld ... > Yes I am, and this is my second attempt. ... Start at the very very very top of the page http://www.openbs

Re: Fix for ix(4) SFP+ module detection when booting without the modules plugged in. (current vs 5.6 stable)

2015-02-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/24/15 18:33, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi Lads > > I saw this changelog for SFP+ drivers so that they will recognize a SFP > module when it is plugged in (rather than having to reboot the box to have > the OS pick up the new module) > > Fix for ix(4) SFP+ module detection when booting without the

Re: OpenBSD install has 1 not so logical part

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/03/15 10:55, Thisis theone wrote: Hello, Do you expect to run the X Window System? [yes] no Do you want the X Window System to be started by xdm(1)? [no] no Isn't this a contradiction? Or is it related to "machdep.allowaperture"? If "machdep.allowaperture" isn't needed anymore, why is it

Re: How to run a GUI app without X?

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/03/15 14:15, someone wrote: If X security is so bad, how can one run a GUI app, ex.: Firefox without it? you can't. Firefox was designed for a very few graphical interfaces -- Windows, X, and maybe whatever it is on Mac. Using framebuffer? How can then someone use a GUI password mana

Re: Does wpa-psk still exist?

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/03/15 18:21, Bob Eby wrote: Hi, I'm trying to connect to a wireless network using OpenBSD 5.6. I see a couple FAQ questions talking about a "wpa-psk" command to convert plaintext to encrypted string, but still getting secure wireless working is about as clear as mud. Yes, if you search

Re: panic due to bridge mem address conflict on IBM x3650M4 server

2015-03-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/03/15 23:39, Ninad Shaha wrote: > Dear All, > > I want to use openbsd on IBM x3650 M4 server. I am able to install it > successfully. But while 1st boot I am getting lots of bridge memory > address conflict errors. > > Server Details: > > IBM X3650 M4 > E5-2670 2.6 Ghz cpu, > 32gb memory

Re: Does wpa-psk still exist?

2015-03-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/04/15 07:38, Bob Eby wrote: > I had tried this link: > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man5/hostname.if.5?query=hostname.if&sec=5 > > Which seemed to say this would work: > > nwid mynwid > wpakey mywpakey > dhcp > > which doesn't work, what is up, unwiredbsd, rtso

Re: Home server rack recommendations?

2015-03-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/10/15 09:27, Kent R. Spillner wrote: Can anyone recommend a good server rack for home? Ideally something with casters so I can move it around, preferably 12-16U. I found several via Google but my primary concern is the quality & durability of the casters. Not that I plan on wheeling this

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

2015-03-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/10/15 15:50, John Long wrote: Hi, What's the reason for generating all the various SSH key types every startup? Given the source of all the new elliptical crypto I don't want to use it so I changed the cipher list in sshd_config. But /etc/rc appears to generate all missing key types every

Re: Why generate SSH keys at startup?

2015-03-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/11/15 18:59, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > On 2015-03-11, Nick Holland wrote: > >> As for the general premise of thinking you know more than the OpenSSH >> developers...I just have memories of certain Debian devs who thought the >> same thing once ... Crypto is

Re: Broadcom NIC issues

2015-03-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/13/15 15:38, Miguel Barbosa Gonçalves wrote: > Hi! > > Installed Ubuntu 14.04.2 (amd64) and the NIC does not work: it does not > configure through DHCP and it simply does not work if I set a static IP > address. > > Ran FreeBSD 10.1 (amd64) Live CD and the network worked fine. > > It seems

Re: Server screen does not wake up

2015-03-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/19/15 18:38, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2015-03-19, Lars wrote: >> I did something stupid while configuring pf and locked myself out of my >> server using ssh. >> So I connected an older lcd-screen and a usb keyboard to my server to >> get console access. Unfortunately the screen did no

Re: Getting errors during security(8) maintenance

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/26/15 04:32, Denis Lapshin wrote: > Some time ago start getting errors after nightly Secutiry running: > > What problem can be? > > Running security(8): > > Checking root sh paths, umask values: > /etc/profile /root/.profile > The root path includes . This would not be a bad thing to fix.

Re: Fund raising

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/26/15 01:40, worik wrote: ... > Today I spent $US5 on an ebook containing tutorials for software I am > considering using. By exercising my mouse I could have got it for free. > > I did not. > > So I am bringing this up again. I do not want CDROMs. I have been to > the trouble of paying

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-11 Thread Nick Holland
... I'm struggling with 7Tb filesystems, it takes about 30 minutes to check them in case of cold reset. Too much. Very too much. and currently, no journals or anything else which could speed up 7Tb filesystems check ? Almost always (in my mind/experience), file systems that big are bad design.

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/11/2012 01:15 PM, Илья Шипицин wrote: 2012/10/11 Jiri B On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 09:29:50PM +0600, Ð?лÑ?Ñ? ШипиÑ?ин wrote: there are http access logs for half an year. this is a trivial case where using multiple file systems works wonderfully. it's easier to rotate them

Re: Upgrading 3.8 to current

2012-10-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/13/12 13:18, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:47:50AM -0500, Matt Morrow wrote: >> After dealing with a number of issues due to an old 3.8 install which have >> been resolved in current releases, I think I'm going to do the individual >> release upgrades (3.8->3.9->4.0, etc etc)

Re: OpenBSD upgrade guide 5.2?

2012-10-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/19/12 23:25, Matt Morrow wrote: > Does anyone know when the upgrade guides are usually posted? I know we're a > couple of weeks away from the release, but I also thought I read that 5.2 > cds had already been shipped to some locations, which would imply that it's > pretty much ready for relea

Re: OpenBSD upgrade guide 5.2?

2012-10-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/21/12 07:29, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 23:05:20 -0400 > Nick Holland wrote: > >> On 10/19/12 23:25, Matt Morrow wrote: >> > Does anyone know when the upgrade guides are usually posted? I know >> > we're a couple of weeks away

Re: Upgrade to 5.2?

2012-10-31 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/31/12 00:13, Daniel Melameth wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Matt M. wrote: >> Yesterday I upgraded from 5.1-release to -current. Is there any need to >> upgrade to 5.2-release? Could this cause issues since -current is really >> newer than what's on the 5.2 media? > > You are now

Re: Upgrade to 5.2?

2012-10-31 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/31/2012 07:17 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: / Nick Holland wrote on Wed 31.Oct'12 at 7:03:48 -0400 / On 10/31/12 00:13, Daniel Melameth wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Matt M. wrote: Yesterday I upgraded from 5.1-release to -current. Is there any need to upgrade t

Re: *** Error 1 in /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP (Makefile:816 'copy.o')

2012-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/03/12 10:29, Hrvoje Popovski wrote: > Hello, > > last few days I want to update the lastest current from cvs um. no. You compile for giggles, you update from binary. > (ftp5.eu.openbsd.org or anoncvs.spacehopper.org) and I allways had this > error. ... > # dmesg > OpenBSD 5.2-current (GEN

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/12/12 15:37, Robin Björklin wrote: > Hi! > > First and foremost I'd like to present myself, I'm a young and naive junior > sys admin that think people should be able to compromise and see the bigger > picture and the good of the cause. "compromise". That is almost always an evil word. In

Re: openbsd 5.2 i38 migrate to amd64

2012-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/22/12 09:58, bofh wrote: > Can I just run install -> upgrade and install everything but etc.tgz > and xetc.tgz? Any post installation stuff I have to worry about? > No. Reinstall completely. Do not try to "migrate" without a complete wipe/reload. Let's phrase this differently... Preten

Re: openbsd 5.2 i38 migrate to amd64

2012-11-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/24/12 08:26, bofh wrote: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Nick Holland > wrote: >> On 11/22/12 09:58, bofh wrote: >>> Can I just run install -> upgrade and install everything but etc.tgz >>> and xetc.tgz? Any post installation stuff I have to worry about

Re: PRIMERGY RX200 S2 installation problems

2012-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/29/12 06:42, Tony Berth wrote: > Thanks > > Both i386 and amd64 fail! But, are that many differences between stable and > current? You caught us, nothing has changed in OpenBSD since 1995, we just drink beer and increment the version number every six months. The most significant changes t

Re: BSD licensed gnupg replacement question

2012-12-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/09/12 06:50, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Chris Cappuccio wrote: ,,, >> OpenSSH and OpenBSD IPsec represent the OpenBSD solutions to the quality and >> licensing problems in those areas. OpenSSH is still the gold standard, >> OCF/IPsec, >> maybe not. PGP worked

Re: Installing 5.2 with PXE

2012-12-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/09/12 11:17, ML mail wrote: > Hi, > > I want to install OpenBSD 5.2 amd64 with PXE so I downloaded the > latest bsd.rd and pxeboot file from: > > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.2/amd64/ > > and put it on my TFTP/DHCP server but when I boot this specific files > I get the installer for

Re: BSD licensed gnupg replacement question

2012-12-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/10/12 21:45, Maximo Pech wrote: ... > Well, with the information you have given me so far, I think the answer is > something like "nobody has written it because we have more important things > to do and nobody believes there is a real need for that". Am I right? > I have lived a long time a

Re: Wireless WPA and crypto hardware

2012-12-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/15/12 11:45, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:03:00AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 09:52:28AM +0100, Martin Kjær Jørgensen wrote: >> > Hi misc >> > >> > Can a wireless interface (say, athn) make use of a hardware crypto card >> > like hifn wh

Re: Plausible deniable encryption

2012-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/12 00:50, Robert Connolly wrote: > Assuming you have read what is out there, I have a technigur > and the margin was too small...

Re: Help with the board H77-D3H

2012-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/20/2012 11:01 AM, What you get is Not what you see wrote: I try to install OpenBSD 5.2 i386 to a box with this board. It has an Intel G645 Pentium processor with 4GB of ram and a 500G of Sata3 hard drive. It has an onboard AR8151 ethernet which I understand is not supported by the generic k

Re: How to list available all hard disks in OpenBSD

2012-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/20/12 22:17, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > HI, > > I would like to know How to list available all hard disks in OpenBSD ? > > If I run below 2 commands, it will give an output. > > dmesg |grep wd0 > > fdisk wd0 If you want USEFUL, you might use: dmesg |grep "^[sw]d" if you care about fl

Re: openbsd clusters

2012-12-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/22/12 07:54, Friedrich Locke wrote: ... > But for other services i don't have now what i could use. A example: i need > a file system that must expand by adding more machine in the network in a > simple way. in plain English: "I'm not thinking out the design carefully, so I'm going to rely o

Re: openbsd live cd installable?

2012-12-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/23/12 17:24, Francesco Cardi wrote: > Hello, for the longest time I try to read more material useful for > openbsd to learn as much as possible, I bought the book :) I always > follow the project carefully because it is my preferred system, I have > done many tests with the system but i never

Re: openbsd clusters

2012-12-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/25/12 19:50, Eric Furman wrote: > Not long ago Nick did go into some detail about this very thing. > I don't remember how long ago or what the thread was about, > but you might find it in the archives. > Just search for Nick Holland. Anything you find will be worth >

Re: Nginx log rotation

2012-12-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/26/12 17:02, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: ... > Btw, as apache is still present in faq, is any man nginx.conf / faq entry > planned or the only nginx.org is THE doc resource? > > Thanks > The reason for FAQ entries about things like Apache/httpd being chrooted is that it isn't standard in the "m

Re: Compression is broken on (S)hell booting install52.iso

2012-12-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/26/12 19:38, Live user wrote: > When using (S)hell from live cd installer, the what? the /install CD/ produced by the OpenBSD project? or a "live cd" that someone else produces? I'm going to assume you mean the install CD...which is in no way to be confused with what people traditionally ca

Re: Broken link on faq14

2012-12-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/26/12 19:30, Live user wrote: > On this page > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html > > at > see the Setting up disks part of the Installation Guide > > The link redirects to faq4.html#Disks which no longer exists. > yes, thanks. I just committed a fix, it is on the main site already.

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/12 05:57, lilit-aibolit wrote: > On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote: >> Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : >>> Hello misc. >>> I have a /home at old system and I want >>> to install new one from scratch. >>> But I need to save all data in /home without >>> moving it out of box

Re: how to save /home during reinstall

2012-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/2012 07:48 AM, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 02:24 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 12/27/12 05:57, lilit-aibolit wrote: On 12/27/2012 12:29 PM, Wesley wrote: Le 2012-12-27 14:15, lilit-aibolit a écrit : Hello misc. I have a /home at old system and I want to install new one from

Re: Request improvement for faq 15.2

2012-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/2012 10:10 AM, Live user wrote: I think 15.2.2 should go before 15.1.1, since if there's no point in running pkg_* when the PKG_PATH is empty, which is after installing using the interactive method. there is no 15.1.1. 15.1 is an introduction, no commands where PKG_PATH would be used

Re: openbsd clusters

2012-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/27/12 17:25, Jiri B wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 03:26:43PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: >> Probably thinking of this thread: >> http://marc.info/?t=117689108200011&r=1&w=2 >> and my two contributions to it. A number of other people provided some >>

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

2012-12-31 Thread Nick Holland
If you think you can implement OpenBSD on a Raspberry Pi machine, shut up and hack. Then, make the result fit with the OpenBSD policy statements in http://www.openbsd.org/goals.html and http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html THEN talk about it. If you can't do it, no point talking about it. OpenBSD

Re: 3k machines

2013-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/01/2013 05:15 PM, Friedrich Locke wrote: Hi folks, i am managing some openbsd machines. There are a company, here, in the city a live that holds about 3k machines and i not including servers hardware; only desktop. I was wondering: How do you manage such a volume of nodes, i mean, in an e

Re: growfs on bsd.rd

2013-01-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/08/13 23:38, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2013-01-04 00:41, Aaron Mason wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera >> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm curious as to why growfs is not included in bsd.rd. Is there any >>> particular reason for this? I belive it would be

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/11/13 16:38, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: ... > Btw, how many are really using ed everyday, now in 2013? I believe I'm not > the only one who thinks this. My guess is that vi could be more appreciated > by most of the user base more than ed. If you claim to be a unix administrator, learn ed. If y

Re: vi vs ed in bsd.rd - proposal

2013-01-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/12/13 06:22, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > So guys, I perfectly understand (and respect) how much many of you use and > value ed. As much as others have a repulsion for it, but this is not my > point: no, it's like the scissor jack and lug wrench in my Jeep. If I get a flat tire on the side of th

Re: OT using absolute paths in scripts

2013-01-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/13/13 12:03, Maximo Pech wrote: > At work, we have an "information security" area for IT. > > They mandate that on all shell scripts we have to use absolute paths for > every single command. > > I feel that this does not provide real security and only makes scripts > somewhat more painful t

Re: Still possible to get OpenBSD onto Soekris net5501 via qemu install to flashcard?.

2013-01-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 01/14/2013 10:15 AM, Sarah Caswell wrote: Hi all, I'm having a frustrating problem getting OpenBSD-current (or snapshot) to run on my Soekris net5501. With previous versions of OBSD I was able to use qemu to install to a compact flashcard directly, by connecting the flashcard to my laptop an

Re: openbsd and vmware

2013-02-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/05/13 06:03, Bogdan Andu wrote: > Hello, > > A few questions related to openbsd and vmware. > > > What are the best practices to run OpenBSD in vmware? Just Do It? I haven't found any problems running OpenBSD in VMware ESXi or whatever they call it this week. I usually just tell the mana

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/09/13 21:23, Crookedmaze wrote: > Dear OpenBSD Community, > > Hello I am wondering if there is a tool similar to FreeBSD-update on > OpenBSD? If not are there any reasons for why a tool like this > hasn't been developed? Also if there isn't a tool like this > (I am pretty sure there isn't on

Re: OpenBSD-Update Tool

2013-02-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/10/13 08:33, Crookedmaze wrote: ... > Thanks for replying guys, I have looked into using snapshots but it > looks like the snapshots are based off of current and I had a look at > the FAQ and in section 5.1 of the FAQ it says. > > "Between formal releases of OpenBSD, /snapshots/ are made ava

Re: [obsd] Re: Assigning an IP address to a bridge

2013-02-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/14/13 06:50, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013/02/14 12:19, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: >> > > >> > One minor comment: you don't *need* to reboot. Although it's a good >> > practice to reboot after >> > you're done setting things up to make sure you don't have any ephemeral >> > configurations (tha

Re: need help --reboot of newly installed OpenBSD 4.7 on Toshiba Libretto 70 neds in integet divide

2013-02-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/14/13 03:41, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 17:07:53, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 11:20:51AM +0200, Ariel Burbaickij wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > following situation: >> > I installed OpenBSD 4.7 on Toshiba Libretto 70 4.7 using hard drive donor >> >

Re: Constant attacks and ISP's are ignoring them

2013-02-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/14/13 18:24, Daniel Bertrand wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for providing such great software. It really is much > appreciated. > > I was wondering what your stance is about the constant hack attempts > on machines on our ISP networks.. "It happens. You can't stop the attack attempts. You ca

Re: Millions of files in /var/www & inode / out of space issue.

2013-02-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/19/13 05:47, MJ wrote: > Which app are you running that is generating millions of tiny files > in a single directory? Regardless, in this case OpenBSD is not the > right tool for the job. You need either FreeBSD or a Solaris variant > to handle this problem because you need ZFS. > > > What

Re: Softraid 1 Help

2013-02-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/22/2013 01:00 PM, Brandon Tanner wrote: Hello, This is my first time posting to this list. I am wanting to setup a softraid 1 array, with two 3TB drives. Every guide or howto I can find though is about installing onto such an array. My case however, the boot drive is on its own, a 250GB'er

Re: rsync too slow between two disks with softraid crypto

2013-03-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/01/13 19:16, Luis P. Mendes wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a new disk to my small home server in order to have a > backup of the previous disk. The backup is intended to run during > late night hours using rsync. > > First time, I rsynced some system directories to the second disk and > it w

Re: Softraid 3TB Problems

2013-03-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/03/13 00:34, Joel Sing wrote: > On Sun, 3 Mar 2013, Brandon Tanner wrote: ... >> OpenBSD area: 64-5860533168; size: 2.7T; free: 0.0T >> #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] >> a: 2.7T 64RAID >> c: 2.7T0

Re: SSH public key auth vs OTP auth

2013-03-06 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/05/13 15:36, Lars Noodén wrote: On 03/05/2013 10:29 PM, Peter Bisroev wrote: [snip] 100% agree. Having unencrypted private keys was one of the reasons that I have started looking into OTP/TOTP. At this point, I think it is probably better to force "untrusted" users (those who cannot be tru

Re: Intel hyperthreading w/ Atom E6xx & OpenBSD 5.2?

2013-03-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/07/13 23:24, David Ruggiero wrote: > I've been using OpenBsd for 8+ years on my main router/firewall (4 NICs). > Time to upgrade (I'm back on v3.8, yikes). Past time, really. Solots to > learn / re-learn here. Have patience. First question: > > I'll be loading 5.2 on a low-power, Atom E

Re: OpenBSD 5.2 AHCI problems with IBM x3250 M4

2013-03-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/09/13 19:26, Roger Wiklund wrote: > If I enable AHCI mode in UEFI/BIOS and boot from the cd52.iso, the > installation finds the disk (sd0) and I can setup everything in fdisk > and complete the installation. > However when I reboot, the system can't find any operation system. > > It works if

Re: renaming name of interfaces

2013-03-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/14/2013 11:31 AM, Jiri B wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:17:50PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:12:08AM -0400, Jiri B wrote: just for curiosity, is it planned for future? I can't just now think about real usability... Me neither. For most use cases I c

Re: This is my first time to use OpenBSD

2013-03-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/17/13 22:10, ¿àÄյıý×Ð wrote: > Yesterday£¬I just install OpenBSD 5.2 in my little server. > I found that OpenBSD 5.2 seem no support for TRIM, it's terrible to our ssd > user. > How can I run just like 'fstrim' in Linux in OpenBSD? > How is this "terrible"? If you want things just like

Re: Base Packages

2013-03-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/19/2013 12:00 PM, Steve Pribyl wrote: Is there a way to determine which "base" packages are installed during the initial install. Thanks Steve Pribyl if the machine boots, baseXX.tgz, etcXX.tgz, bsd* if "man man" works, manXX.tgz if "gcc" works, compXX.tgz if "tetris" works, gameXX.tg

Re: Openbsd openrisc opencores arm

2013-03-24 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/24/13 21:36, max.stalna...@gmail.com wrote: > I do not know anything but I lurk here for most of the millennia or > more. > > Openbsd arm seems to lack a frame buffer. you mean like the one on the Zaurus? > If I try to ssh in thenci > do not need a frame buffer? Openrisc has a MMU or thr

Re: Announce: OpenSMTPD 5.3 released

2013-04-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/23/13 15:12, Evan Root wrote: > Gilles, > > How would you recommend a new unix admin learn OpenSMTPD? > > -Evan > Same way you learn most things in this business... sit down and "do it". In my case, I just recently had my local Internet provider start blocking outbound port 25 traffic, s

Re: SDHC cards under OpenBSD.

2013-04-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/05/2013 08:53 AM, Luis Suzuki wrote: I used dmesg to discover if my SDHC card is recognized but I see things like sdhc0 and sdmmc0 and no one works when I do : disklabel sdhc0 or disklabel sdmmc0.So,Is there a more common,usual device name for SDHC cards? Thanks. the device you want is t

Re:

2013-04-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/13/13 07:52, Jan Stary wrote: > Going over the X FAQ, I see > > 11.1.1 - How much computer do I need to run X? > > > While "How much computer" is slightly amusing, > was it meant to be "how much computer power" > or something? > > Jan > It was mea

Re: FAQ - Disk Imaging

2013-04-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/13/13 19:27, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > 4.15 of the faq says > > Unfortunately, there are no known disk imaging packages which are > FFS-aware. > > I haven't tested ... Get back with me when you have. I'll be happy to find out that statement is now wrong, but I've been doing this about 20 ye

Re: Important: following -current update!

2013-04-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/16/13 06:13, Michał Markowski wrote: > $ cd /usr/src/sys/arch/`uname -m`/config > cd: no such file or directory: /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/config > $ cd /usr/src/sys/arch/`uname -m`/conf > $ > > > --- /cvs/www/faq/current.html Tue Apr 16 11:54:22 2013 > +++ /tmp/current.html Tue Apr 16 12:

Re: Why does OpenBSD use CVS?

2013-04-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/20/13 03:42, Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: > Hi, > > first, I don't want to start a flame war about why is CVS better or > not better than X - it's just a question. > > If you say, we use it because it just works - it's okay. :) Good, 'cause it does. :) > So why does OpenBSD still uses CVS a

Re: Why does OpenBSD use CVS?

2013-04-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/29/13 00:00, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > On 2013-04-20 23:32, Nick Holland wrote: >> On 04/20/13 03:42, Alokat MacMoneysack wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > first, I don't want to start a flame war about why is CVS better or >> > not better than

Re: install openbsd to the area made by LINUX's fdisk

2015-03-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/29/15 14:25, Tuyosi Takesima wrote: > Hi all. > > this is my little expirience , it may be useful using openbsd & linux in > tha same hard disk . ... > i want to install openbsd OS into sdb4 . > But to install OpenBSD directly is risky . > if i fail , i lose all (including linux) . You have

Re: install openbsd to the area made by LINUX's fdisk

2015-03-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/30/15 14:05, RD Thrush wrote: On 03/30/15 10:12, Peter Kay wrote: On 30 March 2015 13:03:36 BST, RD Thrush wrote: The OP's OpenBSD partition is located above 128G, ie. sector start=842752000, which may have led to the complicated work-around. I'm pretty certain the artificial 128GB li

Re: [patch] Consistency in FAQ

2015-04-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/01/15 03:37, Elias Diem wrote: > Index: faq/faq5.html > === > RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq5.html,v > retrieving revision 1.206 > diff -u -r1.206 faq5.html > --- faq/faq5.html 1 Dec 2014 09:49:47 - 1.206 > +++ faq/faq5

Re: Exploiting PCI-based DMA in OpenBSD

2015-04-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/04/15 10:17, Артур Истомин wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 03:27:05PM +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: >> 2015-04-04 13:08 GMT+02:00 Артур Истомин : >> > https://github.com/carmaa/inception/blob/master/README.md >> > >> > Is OpenBSD susceptible to this attack? I mean not tool thems

httpd file types

2015-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
I fear this is a stupid question, I suspect there's something I'm missing... I have a web server. Some files are binary, some are text. Problem is, few have an "extension". For purpose of example, the OpenBSD file sets show the problem very nicely: INSTALL.i386(text. Solvable, list out .i

Re: httpd file types

2015-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/19/15 12:13, Ingo Schwarze wrote: ... >> (waiting for a well-deserved "rtfm ...") > > More like RTFS. The source code of media_find() in httpd.c shows > that "extension" simply means the last dot-separated component of > the filename, or the whole filename in the absence of any dot. Thanks

Re: headless glass console looses colours on reboot

2015-04-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/23/15 04:34, Craig Skinner wrote: ... > Is there something in the boot process that enables console colours if a > monitor is connected? on some video cards, yes. I haven't seen this in a while (and I'm trusting my memory more than I should), but on some older systems, back in the day of mon

Re: a few question about sftp

2015-05-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/01/15 07:07, Markus Rosjat wrote: > hi there, > > I just do some testing with sftp access and I stumbled about some things > I dont get. > > if I use the chroot I would asume the user cant browse to the root dir > but it seems he can. > Do I get the whole chroot thing wrong here ? You g

Re: a few question about sftp

2015-05-01 Thread Nick Holland
pler". though I admit if I saw this on a machine without understanding why, I'd think unpleasant things about the administrator. :) Nick. > Am 01.05.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Nick Holland: >> On 05/01/15 07:07, Markus Rosjat wrote: >>> hi there, >>> >>>

Re: OpenBSD 5.7 Released

2015-05-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/01/15 19:09, Ralph Siegler wrote: > On Fri, 01 May 2015 09:00:43 +0100, OpenBSD Store Misc wrote: > >> Ralph Siegler wrote: >>> On Fri, 01 May 2015 00:06:46 +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: >>> May 1, 2015. We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.7. This

Re: report:intranet PXE network install (by nginx...)

2015-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/07/15 07:51, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > If it's correct and not against man pages it can be helpful for beginners > to have a ready recipe, just like FAQs. IF it is correct, maybe. But OpenBSD's philosophy has never been "more places of docs is better!". We really want one authoritative sour

Re: offtopic: political correctness

2015-05-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/08/15 10:29, Marko Cupać wrote: ... I guess this was intended to be a joke, but in my opinion it sucks. In that case, you may wish to avoid reading the FAQ, the man pages, certainly not the commit message log. You probably don't want to talk to the developers. The only thing PC about

Re: soekris install error

2015-05-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/15/15 07:33, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote: > I am trying to install OpenBSD on a Soekris 4801. I am getting the > following error when I try to partition the disk prior to installing the > sets. I tried 5.7 and 5.6, so I'm guessing this may be a hardware > issues. Hopefully someone out there can

Re: FAQ 2: don't mention GNATS

2015-05-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/20/15 09:13, Theo Buehler wrote: > Index: faq/faq2.html > === > RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/faq2.html,v > retrieving revision 1.125 > diff -u -p -r1.125 faq2.html > --- faq/faq2.html 11 May 2015 11:18:30 - 1.125 > +++ faq

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