Re: OpenBSD thumbdrives

2008-07-24 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Guenther wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, the finished flash drive is wonderfully useful. :) (I've got a 4G, partitioned out as 2G OpenBSD, 2G FAT32, which is bootable on OpenBSD and still usable as a Windows flash drive, as well

Re: OpenBSD 4.3 FAQ in PDF?

2008-07-29 Thread Nick Holland
my mail wrote: i don't have 24 hours connection at home, and want read FAQ OpenBSD 4.3 in PDF format. in this address i can read 4.3 FAQ http://openbsd.org/faq/index.html but when i try to download from pub/OpenBSD/doc at FTP mirrors, this FAQ for 4.2 version not for 4.3 where i can

Re: Update release 3.8 on AMD64 with a “fix” for the recent “DNS cache poisoning” vulnerability?

2008-07-30 Thread Nick Holland
skogzort wrote: Hello, ...[I don't care why, you just need to keep your system up-to-date]... I have inherited an Open BSD DNS server that provides external DNS for our web server and serves NTP for our infrastructure. I donbt know UNIX or Open BSD. Ibm reading through the Open BSD website

Re: config GENERIC error

2008-08-04 Thread Nick Holland
pezking wrote: On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Emilio Perea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:54:17PM -0500, pezking wrote: Hello, This is my first OpenBSD mailing list post so I hope I am in the correct place, and if I am not I apologize in advance. I'm having some

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-04 Thread Nick Holland
M. Feenstra wrote: Thank's for you answer. Yes I have read the FAQ (some people actually do). That is where I came up with the memory as a suspect. The reason I still ask is that is crashes the system. It does not quit with an out of memory kind of error but just freezes the whole device.

Re: question about raidframe getting stuck

2008-08-11 Thread Nick Holland
Harald Dunkel wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: With IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), the controller is *on the drive*. A failing drive/controller can do all sorts of nasty things to the host system. So you mean I should not use IDE disks (PATA or SATA), because Raidframe cannot

Re: BIND workaround for older versions?

2008-08-14 Thread Nick Holland
Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:36:43AM +0200, Guido Tschakert wrote: Stuart Henderson schrieb: On 2008-07-24, Mike Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the cache poisoning patch (which I see for 4.3). Are there any effective workarounds for OpenBSD 4.0/4.1? The

Re: Booting from /dev/rwd0c (aka wd0)

2008-08-23 Thread Nick Holland
Lars Noodin wrote: I have the main system on a smaller, pre-existing drive set up with a recent 4.4 i386 snapshot on a Dell Optiplex gx270. Booting is normal until I add two SATA drives. OpenBSD sees the drive as wd0, but fdisk sees it as /dev/rwd0c, so the effect is that when booting,

Re: wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-02 Thread Nick Holland
Khalid Schofield wrote: On 1 Sep 2008, at 22:41, johan beisser wrote: On Sep 1, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'm running openbsd 4.0 (yeh old I know but it's a vital system that I'm replacing but it processes data that makes a lot of money). Better replace the disk

Re: Can OpenBSD run in 24 MB of RAM?

2008-09-04 Thread Nick Holland
ropers wrote: 2008/9/4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've searched the FAQ and the Web for any guidance on what the minimum RAM is for OpenBSD, with and without X. I just acquired a Compaq Armada 1125 laptop that maxes out at 24 MB of RAM, and I'm wondering whether or not it's feasible to run OpenBSD

Re: [OT] moving out to a new /home

2008-09-07 Thread Nick Holland
Nuno Magalhces wrote: ... My test box is an old Compaq Armada laptop - no battery, no monitor, a piece of junk. But works, with 96RAM running Open BSD. I use it to serve http and ssh at the moment, and maybe ftp in the future. Being a laptop it uses less power and the fan is more silent. I'm

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Nick Holland
Igor Sobrado wrote: I cannot see why making a patch to change the links is difficult. I will look at the cvs repository as soon as I get some time and submit a patch. In any case, I would appreciate a carefully review of it, just to fit it to the taste of the developers. Igor. It's harder

Re: dhcpd question

2006-12-14 Thread Nick Holland
Richard P. Koett wrote: I'm building a firewall/router for a small private network. The external network interface uses dhclient. The internal interface will run dhcpd. Rather than hard-coding 'option domain-name-servers' in dhcpd.conf I'd like dhcpd to pass whatever nameservers were

Re: following -stable

2006-12-22 Thread Nick Holland
Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, when following -stable and also following the advice to place /usr/obj on a separate partition, how much space is recommended these days? I've just discovered that 1 gig isn't enough. Thank you! Best, --Toni++ barely over 1G...at the moment. It's not

Re: following -stable

2006-12-22 Thread Nick Holland
Toni Mueller wrote: ... It's not getting smaller anytime soon, so if planning ahead is something you like to do, I'd probably leave at least 2G for future growth. That's why I asked... any estimates about the growth rate? not really. Things putt along slowly for a while, then suddenly

Re: moving kernels between machines

2007-01-04 Thread Nick Holland
David Newman wrote: I have two machines: - Machine A, a single i386 box without enough disk space to unpack the source tree - Machine B, a two-CPU i386 box running bsd.mp with plenty of disk My questions: 1. For purposes of applying kernel security patches, can I compile a patched

Re: SMP kernel on single CPU machines?

2007-01-07 Thread Nick Holland
Tobias Weisserth wrote: Hi everybody, this may be a really stupid question but I'm going to ask it anyway since I didn't find anything using Google or in the archives. I was looking at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#SMP I'm wondering if there are any disadvantages if I run a

Re: compiling kernel for sparc64 target on a i386 machine

2007-01-12 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List, i want to compile a new kernel f|r a sparc64 target on a i386 machine. Is this possible to build any code/packages for other platforms on a e.x. i386 machine ? How can i do that ? Thx Thomas http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#ProbXComp :

Re: compiling kernel for sparc64 target on a i386 machine

2007-01-14 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i saw that, but i can't found the cross-compiling tools, that are on the system. :-( i there anyone who use that ? Thomas AGAIN, cross compiling is not supported. How can we make that more clear? If you wish to do this, you are ON YOUR OWN (that means you don't get

Re: mixed (compile from source, binary update) approach

2007-01-16 Thread Nick Holland
Patrick Useldinger wrote: ... I thought that the rationale for using binaries was security: That is incorrect. The reason for using binaries is sanity of the developers. UpGRADING (changing functionality, changing version numbers) from source is HARD. Having thousands of people thinking they

Re: Zero-budget/long uptime/Adaptec question...

2007-01-16 Thread Nick Holland
Kit Halsted wrote: So, the latest uptime thread reminded me that I also have a server with a shamefully long uptime I really need to replace it with something a little better. I blew my savings replacing my 4-year-old laptop in November, then went deeper into debt repairing my bike after

Re: mixed (compile from source, binary update) approach

2007-01-16 Thread Nick Holland
Patrick Useldinger wrote: Nick Holland wrote: UpGRADING (changing functionality, changing version numbers) from source is HARD. Having thousands of people thinking they should be able to build a new version from some arbitrary old version by source is a leading cause of developer hair loss

Re: Is there a typo in the CARP FAQ/documentation ?

2007-01-21 Thread Nick Holland
Ronnie Garcia wrote: Hey, On http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html I can read: advskew This optional parameter specifies how much to skew the advbase when sending CARP advertisements. By manipulating *advbase*, the master CARP host can be chosen. The higher the number, the less

Re: IBM ServeRAID

2007-01-22 Thread Nick Holland
Peter Matulis wrote: Hi. I would like to install OpenBSD 4.0 on an IBM eServer (xSeries 220) that contains a ServeRAID SCSI controller. I see that in OpenBSD Current a driver has been added (ips). Does that mean I cannot install OpenBSD 4.0 and have access to the controller on this

Re: IP change trouble

2007-01-22 Thread Nick Holland
Wrap your lines, please... Paul Irofti wrote: I have changed one of my workstation's IP with: $ sudo ifconfig vr0 inet 192.168.1.64 Afterwards some applications (trn, rtorrent, gaim) acknowledged the change and worked on the fly. Others, such as irssi, worked on a random basis (i.e.

Re: apache security

2007-01-23 Thread Nick Holland
Almir Karic wrote: what i would like to achieve is that on a shared host if bad guys (tm) break into one site they can't get to other sites. if get to=look at, this is probably pointless. Unless it is a authentication-protected site, the information is usually spread around by various browser

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Nick Holland
Patrick Useldinger wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: How are we supposed to help if you omit all relevant info? dmesg, disklabels, fdisk info... A good start would be to read my post, all the information is there. Except for dmesg, which is not useful in this case. -pu Bullshit. You ask for

Re: Aironet MPI-350 Wireless

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Holland
Travers Buda wrote: * Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-01-29 15:16:15]: On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:30:01PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: Well I think both are equally dangerous (binary firmware and binary drivers.) They're basically the same thing. Not at all, see below... My

Re: run diskless server with USB memory stick only?

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Holland
Christoph Peus wrote: Hi, assumed that I have installed OpenBSD to an USB memory stick and the box is booting from this drive successfully and I've taken these precautions to avoid frequent writes to the write cycle limited memory stick: - there's no swap space configured - all logging

Re: dmesg and fdisk do not match about usb external disk

2007-01-30 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hi there, please compare the following for my external usb disk: amaaq sudo fdisk sd0 Disk: sd0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976768065 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: idC H S -C H S [

Re: Anyone tried the Raid solution Accusys ACS-75170?

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Holland
Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: Hi everyone, I am thinking about buying this raid solution for a small server. Has anyone had experience with this device on OpenBSD? Any comment would be welcome. Also I noticed something that caught my attention... At the address:

Re: Nearly 1/4 of New Filesystem Gone

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... dangit... forgot to fix that. 8-/ yes, that was me... Nick.

Re: Option to power off monitor

2007-02-03 Thread Nick Holland
Phusion wrote: Is this any option to power off the monitor after x minutes or seconds, kind of like a screen saver. In FreeBSD this can be done in [..freebsd lesson snipped...] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#Blanker (personally, I still prefer the power switch on the monitor, however)

Re: OpenBSD on Xeon 64 bit

2007-02-10 Thread Nick Holland
Alvaro wrote: Hi, I like to know if the OpenBSD for amd64 is working fine with intel Xeon processors (64 bit). I am reading here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD64 ) and here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#Xeon_.26_Xeon_MP_.2864-bit.29 ) that these processors are based on

Re: Dell Poweredge 860 Perc 5IR - can't recognize raid device (sd0)

2007-02-12 Thread Nick Holland
Steve Williams wrote: Hi, I have a brand new Dell Poweredge 850 with two 160 G SAS disks attached to a Perc 5IR controller card. In the BIOS, I have configured them as an IM (Integrated Mirror) Logical Volume. I have synchronized the mirror, and the array is activated. I have played

Re: Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-02-19 Thread Nick Holland
Damon McMahon wrote: Thanks for the response, Nick, I'm almost there and just one further query: On 18/02/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The Aptiva has an anaemic BIOS program, but by disabling one of the two serial interfaces I now appear to have eliminated IRQ conflicts

Re: Save ports

2007-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
Bray Mailloux wrote: I ran an nmap -sS localhost which output port state service 13/tcp open daytime 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 37/tcp open time 53/tcp open domain 113/tcpopen auth 587/tcpopen

Re: Sending In dmesg

2007-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
J.C. Roberts wrote: FAQ 4.9 http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#SendDmesg NOTE - Please send only GENERIC kernel dmesgs. Custom kernels that have device drivers removed are not helpful. On systems where one can run GENERIC or GENERIC.MP do developers prefer if we send in a separate

Re: vr(4) speed problems

2007-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
Paul Irofti wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:00:07PM +0200, Paul Irofti wrote: Strange, the dmesg I submitted (and the one dmesg shows:) both point to my configuration before the snapshot update. But the login informs me that I'm running ``OpenBSD 4.1-beta (GENERIC) #847'' and uname says the

Re: keyboard lockup, KVM, dual-boot

2007-02-25 Thread Nick Holland
Stefan Kell wrote: Hallo list, I want to use this machine as a dual-boot system together with windows. It is connected to a standard PS2-KVM, no USB-mouse or keyboard. Installation of both Windows and OpenBSD 4.0 from CDs worked without any problems. But now if I boot OpenBSD from

Re: keyboard lockup, KVM, dual-boot

2007-02-25 Thread Nick Holland
Stefan Kell wrote: Hello Nick, On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Nick Holland wrote: ... It sounds like this: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#i386smouse Some KVM switches work great, some don't. I've got some that work great while they work, but then the KVM switch itself crashes regularly

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-02-27 Thread Nick Holland
Paul Pruett wrote: I have received several assurances that -current may have resolved some weirds for i386 on amd64 processors... With hesitation I could try jumping to current instead of stable amd64. I have used -current on productin before, but only after verifying the ports could

Re: vmware: detecting real interfaces?

2007-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
Guido Tschakert wrote: ... Hi, yes finally you must go outside, this is done with the bridged interface. The question is (I don't have the complete answer, but a strange feeling): How secure is your windows with a network interface enabled and nothing on it configured. guido exactly. This

Re: Viewing IPS in authusers table

2007-03-02 Thread Nick Holland
maxracks wrote: Hello, I am trying to view the IP's listed in the authusers table and the authpf_users. Does anyone know the command to show this? im sure this is an easy one. It's just a table, do as you do any other table... # pfctl -t authpf_users -T show 68.43.117.34 But this is

Re: Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported

2007-03-16 Thread Nick Holland
Karel Kulhavy wrote: Some reasons why NOT to build from source: [...] Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported. http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html I want to upgrade my 4.0-release system to get rid of the ipv6 remote vulnerability. I understood it's possible only by

Re: Links+

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Holland
Karel Kulhavy wrote: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html The name of the browser that is at http://links.twibright.com is not Links+, but Links (or Twibright Links). It's not a different browser than the textmode Links. If you run recent Links without -g, you get the textmode links. There is

Re: Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Holland
RStachowiak wrote: On 18/03/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to note that *my* approach of running -STABLE is considered by many on this list to be unnecessarily conservative and I have to admit they are probably right. Unlike other projects, the -CURRENT branch of

Re: Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported

2007-03-19 Thread Nick Holland
RStachowiak wrote: On 18/03/07, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The question was not about normal upgrade procedure (which I'm perfectly aware of ) but about internal working of system during upgrade phase to let me understand it better and comprehend all corner cases. The formal

Re: Upgrade direction from older to newer

2007-03-20 Thread Nick Holland
Alexander Hall wrote: Henning Braue wrote: Is it possible to upgrade from 4.0-current to 4.1-stable? No... Thats what the above quote is trying to tell you. A -current src tree is always the newest code; -stable is the original release with patches. yayaya, but his 4.1-stable once

Re: cd drive error

2008-09-18 Thread Nick Holland
Paul M wrote: Hi all, I find I'm unable to coerce my mitsumi cd drive into writing a track. I've been using it for years to read, which it does just fine, but it's the first time I've attempted to write with this particular drive (I can write just fine using other drives). Checking the

Re: Mirror/anoncvs traffic stats?

2008-09-19 Thread Nick Holland
Vadim Zhukov wrote: Hello to all, especially ones running mirrors/anoncvs servers. Does anyone have traffic statistics, especially inbound traffic? I want to set up a mirror but I need to know how much inbound traffic it'll generate. I do not pay for outbound traffic, so I do not bother

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Nick Holland
mak maxie wrote: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080rid=-219 Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. Ah, so that's why Windows has proven so resistant to spyware and malware! I've always wondered! That's evidence of a Slow News Day.

Re: Capture serial port output to a file

2008-10-28 Thread Nick Holland
Marc Balmer wrote: * Bruce Bauer wrote: Problem: OpenBSD 4.2 on i386 Serial port /dev/cua00 connected to the console port on a firewall. I need to catch all text output from the serial port to a file. The process doing this must survive a loss of network. The box is running headless. I

Re: Problems booting OpenBSD

2008-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble booting my new opebsd installation. I was able to boot usihg the CD and I tried to use installboot to record the biosboot to the PBR. I booted with -s option, so I'd start in single user mode and I mounted /usr to /mnt/. Then I

Re: Management of HP Proliant DL and BL Series

2008-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
Mikel Lindsaar wrote: I've got a few (10) HP DL and BL servers running OpenBSD. I think that's not narrowing it down much... from memory, don't bother correcting me if I'm wrong, the DL name goes back to P3 class systems and is still used today for both Xeon and AMD chips... i.e., completely

Re: OpenBSD 4.4 FAQ in PDF?

2008-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
my mail wrote: --- On Wed, 7/30/08, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I still wonder if the occasional people asking for PDFs are actually from Adobe, trying to make people think people actually LIKE reading documents in PDF format. The idea is not bad, but the readers suck (in my

Re: incorrect MD5 file on mirror

2008-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: Hello, I got the install44.iso and MD5 from snapshots from openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de and the MD5 file failed the test. I got the MD5 from ftp.openbsd.org and run it against the install44.iso from openbsd.informatik[...] and it reports OK. Comparing

Re: incorrect MD5 file on mirror

2008-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: Hello, I got the install44.iso and MD5 from snapshots from openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de and the MD5 file failed the test. I got the MD5 from ftp.openbsd.org and run it against the install44.iso from openbsd.informatik[...] and it reports OK

Re: Packet Filter: how to keep device names on hardware failure?

2008-11-08 Thread Nick Holland
Rod Whitworth wrote: ... Let's look at this a little more analytically: My firewall is a Soekris 4801 with sis0, sis1 and sis2. sis0 is the 0utside (ADSL) sis1 is the 1nside (LAN) sis2 is the 2erver LAN heh. I gotta remember that naming/numbering convention, I like it! If 0 fails the

Re: 4.4 recently installed

2008-11-09 Thread Nick Holland
T D wrote: Hi all, I have installed 4.4 on a machine (ibm aptiva) with the below dmesg output. As I am somewhat new to this os, I would like some sugestions as to what I could/should do with this box and no I will not rm -rf / Any ideas/suggestions greatly apreciated. I presume, your

Re: active partition not booting

2008-11-13 Thread Nick Holland
Steven wrote: I installed NetBSD 4.01 (amd64) and then installed OpenBSD 4.4 (amd64) onto the same hard disk. I used the OpenBSD fdisk on the install CD to set it up OpenBSD like this: Offset: 0 Signature : 0xAA55 C H S C H S 0: A9

Re: Turning off sendmail

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Holland
Doug Milam wrote: To cut down on services I don't use, I'd like to disable sendmail, unless this is unwise. If so, I'd like to know why. Thanks. it's VERY unwise to do, and you should be using it. The system goes through a lot of effort to prepare daily report and to check itself over for

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Nick Holland
Denny White wrote: I've always tried to do a fresh install any time possible, and then copy all my backed up /home and /data stuff back to the new installed system. I'm just trying to figure out if there's a way to keep those 2 slices intact while wiping out and recreating everything else,

Re: Mount USB disk

2008-11-17 Thread Nick Holland
Christophe Rioux wrote: I try to mount an USB disk using FAQ14 (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html) dmesg: umass0 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 Cypress Semiconductor USB2.0 Storage Device rev 2.00/0.01 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets

Re: help with network connectivity

2008-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
Maurice Janssen wrote: On Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 20:07:02 -0800, Jon wrote: the /etc/hostname.em0 has 'inet static IP 255.255.255.0 NONE' in it. wrong subnet mask, so I am going to guess anything else you have could be wrong, too, but that's the right syntax, a broadcast is NOT needed

Re: possibly generic disk copy and restore question

2008-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
John . wrote: Hello misc, I want to install OpenBSD/amd64 on my laptop (a recent Toshiba amd turon with 3GB RAM) and ONLY have OpenBSD on it, but before I do this, I need to know how I can image the disk and restore it subsequently. It has vista on, and I may need to restore vista should I

Re: sun t1000

2008-11-26 Thread Nick Holland
Holger Glaess wrote: hi have someone experience to run this machines as firewall ? i plan to replace my old hp dl 145 boxes with the sun t 1000 server. why? i install an new 4.4 obsd and for now , the maschine runs wells ( i udpdate the src part by cvs and rebuild the kernel ). now

Re: OpenBSD 4.4-release installation hangs on large disk (x86)

2008-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
Chris wrote: I'm trying to install OBSD 4.4-release on this desktop which has two hard disks of around 465 GB each. If I install on wd0 with only one partition (/) of 10GB, the installation goes smoothly. But if I try to allocate /tmp (20g), /home (100g), / (50g), /var (50g), /usr (50g), swap

Re: bash for root?

2008-11-30 Thread Nick Holland
farhan ahmed wrote: Question is how can you make shell statically linked? I thought when you install package it should be linked rather than manual compiling and installing I think that is best left as an exercise for the asker. Here's what it boils down to: There is nothing wrong with a

Re: bash for root?

2008-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
Juan Miscaro wrote: ... Why not set up a user (ex: bigguy) and then force his uid and gid to be 0 and 0 with vipw? Give that user a nice coloured bash prompt and set up directories in his home. This way you get a customized superuser while keeping the real root environment pristine. Other

Re: bash for root?

2008-12-03 Thread Nick Holland
Jesse Zbikowski wrote: Nick Holland wrote: the generally bad idea of duplicate user numbers I am not aware that this is considered a bad idea to have two usernames for the same UID. It is a pretty established practice to add a so-called toor username for exactly the reason of getting a nice

Re: bash for root?

2008-12-03 Thread Nick Holland
Martin Schrvder wrote: 2008/12/2 Christopher Linn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: $ sudo su - Make that $ sudo -s Best Martin amazing how annoying two words can be. By saying make that, you are saying someone else was wrong, and this is correct. For many purposes, sudo su - and sudo -s are

Re: Multihead xorg.conf failing on latest snapshot

2008-12-06 Thread Nick Holland
Chris Bennett wrote: I just updated to latest snapshot. Now my multihead xorg.conf, for two monitors is failing to work. Not sure what to change since it was working fine on earlier snapshot of around 2 months ago. Has something changed in X that I need to know about? Thanks, Chris

Re: Erros when rebuilding Kernel

2008-12-29 Thread Nick Holland
Rildo Cezar wrote: Hi Misc, I got a erro when following stable. At last when i do make build the process goes for a long time and then: install: /usr/games/backgammon/backgammon: Is a directory *** Error code 71 Stop in /usr/src/games/backgammon/backgammon (line 127 of

Re: /dev/srandom vs. /dev/arandom

2011-10-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 10/18/11 16:47, James Hozier wrote: I'm doing dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/wd0c and your bottleneck was anything but uh...(/dev/)random. :) Doing it that way, you can't even push zeros out rapidly. Add a block size flag. Long ago, someone who should know assured me (or maybe the mail list?)

Re: Has any one had any problem with install50.iso?

2011-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/03/11 17:02, Johan Ryberg wrote: Hi there I has done some testing with install50.iso and USB stick installations and yesterday I had problem with corrupt packages like xetc50.tgz and others and I wanted to debug what happened but today every things works perfectly. _corrupt_, or

Re: Has any one had any problem with install50.iso?

2011-11-05 Thread Nick Holland
Seems I made some things quite unclear here...so, lemme put in a few words I managed to leave out... On 11/03/11 18:45, Nick Holland wrote: On 11/03/11 17:02, Johan Ryberg wrote: Hi there I has done some testing with install50.iso and USB stick installations and yesterday I had problem

Re: how to disable fsck when power failure

2011-11-08 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/08/11 04:41, co...@tetrachina.com wrote: misc#,Dz:C#! when the box with OpenBSD had a power failure and the system did not unmount properly. it sometimes gets stuck.The system is asking me to RUN fsck MANUALLY. as a gateway ,so i can't go to fix it manually everytime.How do I

Re: similar lvm tool on openbsd??

2011-11-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/10/11 14:49, carlopmart wrote: Hi all, is it possible to work under OpenBSD with disk volumes?? Like in linux world does LVM... If not, how can I expand/resize a disk partition?? In the way LVM or Veritas products or some other systems do, no. However, most use of resizing

Re: similar lvm tool on openbsd??

2011-11-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/11/11 04:34, carlopmart wrote: On 11/11/2011 03:48 AM, Nick Holland wrote: [bla bla bla] Thanks Nick. growfs suites my needs. Is this the correct procedure?? http://wiki.arpnetworks.com/wiki/ResizeOpenBSDRootFilesystem the correct procedure is a big phrase. :) It's _A_ procedure

Re: wd0 timeout at boot

2011-11-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/15/11 04:45, ML mail wrote: Hi, I have a Nexcom NSA-1083 network appliance as firewall which I recently upgraded to OpenBSD 5.0 amd64 and am still having some delays during booting because of wd0 timeout. As I was running OpenBSD 4.4 I was told this somehow might disappear in later

Re: How to destroy softraid partition

2011-11-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/19/11 07:07, Ivo Chutkin wrote: ... Hi guys, Unfortunately both solutions does not help. I booted bsd.rd and disklabel reports the same errors. If I issue bioctl -d sd2 (which is the softraid disk made from sd0 and sd2) it does not find it. In dmesg there is sd2 and softraid on it.

Re: DNS Google ?

2011-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/21/2011 12:35 PM, hvom .org wrote: Hi DNS Google NS 1 : 8.8.8.8NS 2 : 8.8.4.4 Good alternative or Bad alternative ? Best regards It's a Good Thing to remember when setting up a system, as they are easy-to-remember emergency DNS resolvers, though I wouldn't recommend that for

Re: DNS Google ?

2011-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/22/11 02:50, Manuel Ravasio wrote: Chris, why would you suggest unbound instead of bind? Which advantages do you see? Thanks, Manuel My answer, Chris's may vary... Long term, BIND is done. Long term, unbound will probably be replacing it in OpenBSD. IF you are doing anything beyond

Re: DNS Google ?

2011-11-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/22/11 10:31, Claer wrote: On Tue, Nov 22 2011 at 13:16, Jan Stary wrote: On Nov 22 08:16:21, Nick Holland wrote: Long term, BIND is done. Long term, unbound will probably be replacing it in OpenBSD. IF you are doing anything beyond a simple resolver, I'd agree completely...take

Re: cd boot panic on 5.0 but not 4.9 or earlier

2011-11-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/26/11 00:21, quartz wrote: how safe are those two images? would it be ok to run on a production system or should I wait for the official 5.0 stable branch? different version of the same question: if I'm lazy, can I cheat by booting off a new install50 or cd50 snapshot, but actually

Re: how to find dependencies when building a new kernel

2011-11-29 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/29/11 04:04, T. Valent wrote: ... This is what I do: edit /usr/src/sys/conf/GENERIC ... edit /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC welcome to the ignore list of many developers. You aren't even following directions on how to hurt yourself properly without wasting people's time. ... I

Re: how much last entries should exist?

2011-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/01/2011 03:23 AM, [BG-Consulting] Elmar Bschorer wrote: Hi list, my server just had a little crash. Currently running: OpenBSD 4.9 GENERIC#477 amd64 After reset I checked last and I found only 5 entries. I am wondering I this is normal? Shouldn't there be more entries? The last one is

Re: Easy way to follow -current, a write-up

2011-12-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/03/11 16:47, Sime Ramov wrote: * Marc Espie es...@nerim.net [2011-12-03 20:36+0100]: As discussed with Antoine, sysmerge should be run *after* the update, not before, even though you may have to reboot an extra time. I am not sure about one more thing. Do I select etc.tgz and xetc.tgz

Re: obsd.cec.mtu.edu rsync 'ftp' target doesn't have 5.0

2011-12-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/05/2011 01:38 PM, jared r r spiegel wrote: openbsd.mirror.frontiernet.net rsyncs from obsd.cec.mtu.edu and thus the former doesn't have 5.0 either. whoops. Sorry 'bout that. set up fivezero, forgot ftp Should be working now... Nick.

Re: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on computers equipped with AMD Athlon64

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/12/11 11:02, sc...@web.de wrote: Peter Kay syllops...@syllopsium.co.uk wrote: Wikipedia says 'AMD64 supported by: all models with an OPN ending in BX and CV' and 'E6 stepping or later' It seems I have a BO: SSE3, but not AMD64 according to dmesg. Henning Brauer

Re: OpenBSD/amd64 runs on computers equipped with AMD Athlon64

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/12/11 12:38, sc...@web.de wrote: Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: No idea what you are saying there. It works, it will almost certainly keep working. What does mean: cpu0: [...] LONG, 3DNOW, ...? Is this LONG perhaps the expected AMD64? No idea, I'm

Re: New snapshot install throws ERR M on boot continued

2011-12-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/12/11 16:11, Jeff Ross wrote: On 12/12/11 13:18, Diana Eichert wrote: what is the output of fdisk when booted from bsd.rd? !DSPAM:4ee663138802030512579! Hi Diana! Thanks for the thought. Disk: sd0 geometry: 487/255/63 [7827456 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature:

Re: New snapshot install throws ERR M on boot continued

2011-12-13 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/13/11 12:02, Jeff Ross wrote: 5.0 release on the same Imation Nano Pro also throws ERR M. I used the identical disk layout for the install. To eliminate the chance that there was something wrong with that specific Imation flash drive, I got a SanDisk Cruzer and installed 5.0

Re: upgrade OpenBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/11 15:55, Lars Kotthoff wrote: Hi list, the OpenBSD upgrade pages carry a warning at the top Note: Upgrades are only supported from one release to the release immediately following it. Do not skip releases. What's the reason for this warning? I've had a look at the upgrade

Re: claimed 5.0 problems on sparc64 (was Re: Upgrading AMD64 4.9-stable to 5.0)

2011-12-19 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton thornton.rich...@gmail.com wrote: Do a simple clean 5.0 install. One would assume any browser package in the packages folder would install. None do for me on sparc, but with a clean 4.9 install all 4.9 packages

Re: claimed 5.0 problems on sparc64 (was Re: Upgrading AMD64 4.9-stable to 5.0)

2011-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/20/2011 07:49 AM, Richard Thornton wrote: I used the advice from the blog called gab software. Perhaps he was wrong. I am willing to reinstall. I have no personal data to lose on this old box. What was deficient on the official documentation? Nick.

Re: CF Card setup

2011-12-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/20/11 17:41, Jannik Pruitt wrote: Hi everyone. i am brand new purchased my open bsd 5.0 on 11 Nov 2011. we like to hear that. :) You put me in a good mood, so I'm giving you something other than just a pointer at faq6 :) I booted the CD on another computer installed every thing on a

Re: ftpd change?

2011-12-25 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/25/11 20:12, STeve Andre' wrote: [apologies if you see this twice--having mail loss problems] I have an old FTP machine (3.6!) that a horde of people are suckling from at the moment. I'm making a new one remotely, but found that an 'mget *' on the new machine fails, with no such

Re: create a backup of an online server

2011-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
As always...you design your backup for your application. Mail servers are particularly tricky, as the data the contain tends to change minute-by-minute, and they are prone to both hardware failure, administrator error AND user error. A user who nukes their mail store will want their data

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