Re: Question about FAQ section 10.3

On 10/23/14 21:36, worik wrote: > "Processes local and package scripts in /etc/rc.d" is listed as the last > thing rc does after boot. > > What does "Processes" mean in this context? like "processing food" -- do whatever needs to be done. (not my best analogy, I'll admit) But yeah. run the scrip

Re: Libretto 70CT

On 10/23/14 19:17, Fred wrote: > On 10/23/14 23:30, Mike Larkin wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 09:59:04PM +0100, Fred wrote: >>> Hi Sebastian, >>> >>> I've just installed -current on my Libretto 70CT - as you can see >>> from the output below it stoped with: >>> >>> kernel: integer divide fault

Re: Question about FAQ section 10.3

On 10/23/14 22:28, Worik Stanton wrote: > On 24/10/14 14:53, Nick Holland wrote: >> On 10/23/14 21:36, worik wrote: >>> "Processes local and package scripts in /etc/rc.d" is listed as the last >>> thing rc does after boot. >>> >>> What does &

Re: X11 screen blanking issue

On 10/24/14 20:57, frantisek holop wrote: > Christian Weisgerber, 24 Oct 2014 21:46: >> On 2014-10-24, frantisek holop wrote: >> >> > ok, it seems a paused mplayer could be the reason. >> > is that expected? >> >> Yes. MPlayer disables screen blanking. When you watch a movie, >> you usually do

Mirror openbsd.cs.toronto.edu is currently broke

Due to an administrative error (hint: I'm the administrator :-/ ), openbsd.cs.toronto.edu dumped its copy of most of the OpenBSD distribution files that it serves. It is currently refilling, but this will take a few days before it is where I want it to be. To minimize further downstream damage, r

Re: Mirror openbsd.cs.toronto.edu is currently broke

On 11/01/14 13:53, Clint Sand wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2014 at 04:00:04PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: >> On Nov 01 09:07:15, n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: >> > For the curious, and perhaps as an educational lesson, what happened: >> > Late last night (error one: scripting when tired) I was editing

Re: 5.4 instead of 5.5 in faq1.html

On 11/01/14 15:26, Eduardo Lopes wrote: > In http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#WhatsNew: > > "The complete list of changes made to OpenBSD 5.4 to create OpenBSD 5.6 > can[...]" > > I think that 5.4 was left behind, wasn't it? > yep, thanks Nick.

Re: Upgrade56.html instead of Upgrade54.html

On 11/02/14 18:15, Mario St-Gelais wrote: > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldBinary > [Quote] > It is recommended that you install the binary by using the "Upgrade" option > of the install media. If that is not possible, you can also unpack the > binaries as described here. Regardless, you m

Re: Mirror openbsd.cs.toronto.edu is NO LONGER broke

All supported and close-to-supported versions of OpenBSD have been reloaded (5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and -current snapshots), rsync is back on. Again ... my apologies for the inconvenience at a most inopportune time. Nick. On 11/01/14 09:06, Nick Holland wrote: Due to an administrative error (hint

Re: Migrating users from one machine to another

On 11/15/13 05:10, John Tate wrote: > I want to migrate users from one machine to another, I was hoping > someone had a script. I basically want to copy every user with a UID >>= 1000 and their password to the new system. I have copied their home > directories with rsync, so it would be good if it

Re: How-to: dualboot Windows 8.1 and OpenBSD 5.4

On 11/17/13 12:53, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote: > Le 2013-11-17 20:27, dmitry.sensei a écrit : >> What about 1Tb disk? Is CHS mode correct for this disks? > > I done the test using Virtualization. > Not tried with a physical hard drive 1 TB. The smallest common non-SSD laptop drive is probably

Re: Patch to remove "adult" content from spamd(8) man page

On 11/21/2013 12:33 PM, J. Lewis Muir wrote: I found some of the example email addresses and domains in the spamd(8) man page to be somewhat "adult" in nature. If given the choice, I'd choose to read the man page without the adult content. Here's a patch against -current that replaces the adult

Re: FAQ 7.3

On 11/21/2013 09:22 AM, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: Yes tmux would be a hack i use it already on sparc64 over ssh. But here the idea was using just vanilla console with the least possible clutter. The idea of fb on console could enable the porting of software like the fbi picture viewer on linux, but

Re: is zeroing CRYPT needed?

On 11/25/13 04:07, obsd, cgi wrote: > according to: > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bioctl > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd3c bs=1m count=1 > > is needed. but Why? > I've actually found it more useful to zero the raw RAID partition than the "assembled" softraid "disk". This takes

Re: is zeroing CRYPT needed?

On 11/26/13 04:29, Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:49 AM, obsd, cgi wrote: >> Wouldn't it be much easier that before I create the bioctl softraid CRYPTO >> I would dd zero the psychical disk for the first.. dunno, 10 MBytes? > > I don't see how and why it should be easier. We are

Re: Help troubleshooting performance problem

On 12/01/13 06:20, John Hynes wrote: > OK, just to clarify: > > The kernel is 5.3 with the official patches applied, no other modifications. > > I read through the changes for 5.4 and certainly, there has been a ton of > work done, and I will upgrade soon. Nothing listed in the changes seems > l

Re: PXE boot RHEL 6.3 or OL 6.3 from OpenBSD 5.4

On 12/01/13 07:48, mufurcz wrote: > On 1/12/2013 10:31 PM, Jiri B wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 10:20:55PM +1100, mufurcz wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> It is possible to PXE boot other OSs (like RHEL 6.3 and/or OL 6.3) >>> with pxeboot. If so, can somebody point me to a valid PXE >>> configura

Re: Keeping OpenBSD up2date

Short version: you are doing it wrong. On 12/08/13 09:49, Lars Bonnesen wrote: > I like OpenBSD for it's easiness, straight forwardness and simpleness on > daily usage. Unfortunately with the last releases, I find keeping OpenBSD > up2date between releases to be confusing. Please help me on this o

Re: Single process needing a lot of memory

On 12/13/2013 09:10 AM, Zé Loff wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 02:44:26PM +0100, Peter Hessler wrote: On 2013 Dec 13 (Fri) at 13:24:41 + (+), Zé Loff wrote: :On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:16:06AM -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: :> :> I think R is using virtual memory as best it can, and I seri

Re: Are xdm configs overwritten on upgrade?

On 12/14/13 08:31, Laurence Rochfort wrote: > Hello, > > I want to prevent xconsole starting with xdm. I see it is started in > /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0. > > Is there a user or system specific file for xdm conf files as there are for > /etc/rc.conf? If not, and I modify Xsetup_0 will it be overwritt

Re: Live usb stick quite slow

On 12/13/13 04:08, Jérôme Frgacic wrote: > Hi misc, > > I have installed OpenBSD on an USB stick (a Kingston DataTraveler G3). > Nevertheless, the system is quite slow... For example, I recently install > firefox or, more precisely, those packages: > ...[snip lots of packages]... > > which have

Re: [OpenBSD-5.4/amd64] Lenovo T430 hangs in X

On 12/23/2013 10:11 AM, Alexei Malinin wrote: On 12/23/13 17:59, Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: Alexei Malinin mail.ru> writes: OpenBSD 5.4 (GENERIC.MP) #41: Tue Jul 30 15:30:02 MDT 2013 deraadt amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP I would recommend trying -current f

Re: cleaning old files

On 01/08/14 03:10, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hello, > I've been updating my computer from binaries over the years, I'm mostly > running current. > What is the best way to clean/delete old (zombie unused) binary, libraries > /etc files ...? > How are you doing it? > Thank you very much for your feedb

Re: Security

On 01/10/14 01:36, agrquinonez wrote: ... [compromised box] ... > Ideas are going to be really appreciated, because i am not a technical guy. ok, this is the unpopular answer, but here it is anyway: Stop. You should not be running your own web and mail server. Years ago, I used to say that I cou

Re: faq addition: working with mfs disks?

On 01/26/14 11:31, éÌØÑ ûÉÐÉÃÉÎ wrote: > hello, > > what do you think of adding a faq item which will give example how /tmp (or > any other write intensive temp disk partition) can be stored in mfs drive? > > Ilya Shipitsin > well... no. First, at this point, tmpfs is hopefully going to be rep

Re: Upgrade path from 4.1?

On 02/06/14 05:49, davy wrote: > Hi, > > I’ve recently was asked to take over the maintenance of an old > OpenBSD machine, which has not been updated in the last 7 years. > > Currently the machine has been running for close to 1000 days on 4.1. > It has been a while since I worked with OpenBSD (s

Re: Documentation on rc.conf.local lacks important warning

On 02/09/14 14:31, VaZub wrote: > Sorry, my bad - I assumed that it was only natural for newcomers to > copy the file and edit it afterwards instead of creating it from > scratch to override some values. If you can figure out how to help me write documentation to override people's assumptions, ple

Re: new to OpenBSD and have a few questions

On 02/09/14 18:30, d...@genunix.com wrote: >> > question two is honestly : I don't know. Yet. :-\ >> >> One of the Frequently Asked Questions, apparently. :-) > > ah .. there I NOW see : Other platforms do not need or use fdisk(8). > right. Little trick in life: use phrases like "I didn't se

Re: More OpenBSD on Hacker News -- RBAC and jails anyone?

On 02/23/14 21:09, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > Got some more layman's questions here after reading > [url snipped] > >> > OpenBSD for security >> >> I dunno, I hear this a lot. Sure OpenBSD has created and implemented >> some (often very bleeding edge) hardening features, but nothi

Re: Vision 2020: Making OpenBSD the world's fastest OS

On 03/05/14 10:08, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > Anybody have any thoughts on how to achieve this? > > Thanks. > > O.D. Wrong people. That would be Linux. Probably wrong time. That would be about ten years ago. I hope by 2020, people will maybe realize that being the fastest is far from the

Re: Left side and bottom of boot text console off of screen now

On 03/08/14 08:51, Chris Bennett wrote: > As of this update, I have had these two portions of the screen move off > of visible area. "this update" ... from what? I'm going to assume from a pre-radeondrm version. > > ++ > | | | > | |

Re: Left side and bottom of boot text console off of screen now

On 03/08/14 09:26, Chris Bennett wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:06:54AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: >> On 03/08/14 08:51, Chris Bennett wrote: >> > As of this update, I have had these two portions of the screen move off >> > of visible area. >> >> "

Re: Broken links on faq

On 03/12/14 22:35, ropers wrote: > On 13 March 2014 00:23, Maurice McCarthy wrote: >> On the typo http://[url snipped]/faq//faq1.html an extra "faq/" is placed ... >> where it should not be. > > It isn't really *placed*. > > If you look at the HTML source, you'll see that the links that (only) >

Re: ffs2

On 03/16/14 17:43, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 09:53:29PM +0100, carsten.ku...@arcor.de wrote: >> > i just want to know how to format a partition in OpenBSD for ffs2 ? >> >> You could have a look in the newfs(8) manpage for the option "-O". -O 2 >> should be FF

Re: ffs2

On 03/17/14 21:24, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014-03-17, Nick Holland wrote: >> (Exception: when you make a partition small enough to be ffs, but plan >> to growfs it later to a bigger size -- growfs works on ffs and ffs2, but >> doesn't convert from one to the other.

Re: ffs2

in a CARP pair (as I do), you just rebuild the second (standby) one the way you want it, copy your data back to it, promote it to master, and do the same for the other machine. Nick. > On March 17, 2014 8:40:34 PM CDT, Nick Holland > wrote: >>On 03/17/14 21:24, Stuart Henderson wr

Re: Setup a RAID

On 03/19/14 09:30, Matias Moreno Meringer wrote: > Hi! > > Have a 5.4 currently installed in sd0 and want to build a softraid1 to use > the disk in conjunction with a secondary sd1. > > I know a way to build the raid at installation point, but not sure how to > do it after the installation withou

Re: upgrades no longer allow ftp for sets

On 03/25/14 21:09, n...@leviacomm.net wrote: > Thanks and I understand the reasoning. The current ftp server won't be > able to do http and use of siteXX files prevents using an external > source. Will nfs be supported or am I going to need more hardware? I'm not understanding something here, an

Re: Seagate ST3250310AS not recognized

On 03/26/14 16:59, Charlie Farinella wrote: > I'm trying to install OpenBSD 5.4 on a Dell Vostro 400, it's several > years old but not ancient. 4GB RAM, 250GB Seagate ST3250310AS hard > drive. The installation goes normally until it tries to find the > hard drive and then tells me no hard drive i

Re: pf to redirect local dns traffic to another port

On 03/29/14 17:09, Stéphane Guedon wrote: > Hello > > I am currently trying to run two nameserver on the same Openbsd > server. > > The first one is an autoritative (let's say bind or nsd, no one cares). > the second will be dnsmasq. > > You guess the objective of the construction : give local

Re: OpenBSD Website, multilanguage faq

On 04/03/14 04:29, Wesley MOUEDINE ASSABY wrote: > Hi > > There's no anymore multilanguage pages ? The problem was that few of the translations were kept up to date or complete. Really, I'm amazed that the (volunteer) translators could keep up as well as they did, but it wasn't generally as up t

Re: Only two holes in a heck of a long time, but why?

On 04/03/14 22:04, Martin Braun wrote: ... > Maybe I am just plain stupid, but could someone explain to me the point in > "bragging" about only two remote holes in the default install, when the > default install is useless before you add some content to the system, > unless you're running a web ser

Re: feature patch -> replace /etc/crontab by /etc/cron.d/

On 04/08/14 16:35, Remy wrote: > Hi guys, > > here is a simple patch to replace /etc/crontab by /etc/cron.d/. > You need to manually mkdir /etc/cron.d. > um. eight days late. I look forward to your contribution next year, but try to hit the right date next time. Nick.

Re: OpenBSD on IBM Power

On 04/13/14 20:47, Zeljko Jovanovic wrote: > On 09.04.2014. 18:24, Fil Di Noto wrote: >> Is there any hope of OpenBSD running on IBM Power hardware (System P, >> LPAR) in the future? > ... >> OS on that hardware without cooperation from IBM? I don't see any >> Linux distros that do not have a relat

Re: PI-like board for OpenBSD?

On 04/19/14 21:01, Martin Braun wrote: > Hi > > I know that there isn't going to be any support for the Rasberry-PI, > but I have been looking for something similar that runs OpenBSD > without any problems. > > I am mainly interested because of the low power consumption and > because I want to ha

Re: Dell PE R210 won't boot from install54.iso CD

On 04/22/14 12:08, Mike Grau wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to OpenBSD and hope someone here has been able to install > OpenBSD on a Dell PE R210. It will not boot the install CD (made from > install54.iso). Here's the console: > > CD-ROM: 82 > Loading /5.4/AMD64/CDBOOT > probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem

Re: No hw.setperf on Intel Atom CPU D2550 64bit system

On 04/30/14 21:56, Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 07:28:16PM +0200, Thomas Bohl wrote: >> Am 30.04.2014 05:23, schrieb Jonathan Gray: >> >On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:22:29PM +0200, Thomas Bohl wrote: >> >>cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) >> >>cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU D255

Re: Firefox tweaking

On 04/30/14 08:45, Mihai Popescu wrote: > Hello, > > I am running a very recent snapshot and I want to try Firefox again (now at > version -28.0p0). It seems that I get some unresponsive behaviour, like > intermitent scrolling, long delays for content rendering, etc. I must say > that I had no cra

Re: a man.openbsd.org oddity, and a cvsweb niggle

On 8/16/21 9:06 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: ... Speaking of backend code I don't know how to find, much less submit a diff for: For folders that are entirely in the Attic[0], could cvsweb.openbsd.org somehow be convinced to display these only in the actual Attic, and not list them in the parent's

Re: Run a command on "last day of month"

On 9/1/21 5:50 AM, Joel Carnat wrote: Hello, I would like to run a command on "the last day of each month". From what I understood reading the crontab(5) manpage, the simplest way would be setting day-of-month to "28-31". But this would mean running the command 4 times for months that have 31

Re: CARP Cold Spare

On 9/24/21 6:13 PM, Don Tek wrote: Would there be any ‘problem’ with configuring a 2-machine CARP setup and then just keeping one machine powered-off until needed? I realize this defeats live failover, but this is not a requirement for my customer. I just want them to be able to, in the eve

Re: athn AP

On 10/16/21 7:40 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > > o Worked around a problem with certain athn(4) hardware that caused > > problem when running in HostAP mode with clients that use Tx > > aggregation. About a year ago, a gave up on having an athn in an ALIX as may home AP, and just conne

Re: proper way to grow softraid partition

On 10/27/21 1:11 PM, kasak wrote: Hello misc! I want to replace my two 2TB hdd, joined in raid1. I have two 4TB drives, and I want to replace smaller drives with them. it wouldn't be a problem, if i had some spare sata ports, but in my pc i have only one left. So, I can attach only one of thi

openbsd.cs.toronto.edu mirror issue

Hiya. The OpenBSD.cs.toronto.edu mirror is having some issues, I'm hopefully taking care of those right now, but it will take a a number of hours while to be back up to a fully operational state. Services are off until it is fixed. Sorry for any inconveniences. Nick.

Re: libdmx removal incomplete?

On 11/28/21 6:17 PM, Alexander wrote: ... Lastly: From your emails it seems to me that the use of sysclean after upgrading is very much encouraged if not necessary. Then why is it not included in base (especially when it's developed by OpenBSD developers)? Or am I misunderstanding the requirement

Re: dd: /dev/rsd1c: device not configured

On 11/30/21 8:36 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install 7.0 in a virtual box machine using full disk encryption, following . I've done it on real hardware without a problem, but I'm not understanding the error in the virtual box machine.

Re: Problems with a fresh install not finding SSD drive over floppy img HTML5/KVM

On 11/30/21 3:30 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: After looking over the list, it looks like many SSD's have compatibility problems, so I'm just going to switch over to a spinning drive. Sorry for the noise. categorical nonsense. SSDs work. Cheap ones work, expensive ones work. Some work better th

Re: /etc/bsd.re-config - change a device?

On 11/30/21 3:12 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: Thanks much for the info guys; something to look forward to in 7.1 :). hint: snapshots that do what you need beat releases that don't. Nick. On 11/30/2021 4:17 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2021-11-30, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2021

Re: disk lights on but top showed nothing!

On 1/1/22 3:08 PM, Luke Small wrote: 6 disk raid 10 15000 rpm array (2 mirroring x 3 striping) with a raid card which can handle a maximum of 8 disks. It didn’t last forever. mfii0 at pci12 dev 0 function 0 "Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS2208" rev 0x05: msi mfii0: "LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i", firmwar

Re: HP Probook audio only playing on left speaker

On 1/9/22 8:51 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hello, I have an HP Probook (dmesg below) that is only playing audio from the left headphone speaker. No matter how I try I cannot get any audio to play over the right side speaker. I have very little experience debugging audio issues on OpenBSD as ever

Re: Nagios check_by_ssh

On 1/10/22 6:33 PM, F Bax wrote: nagios install creates user _nagios with login = /sbin/nologin I have some OpenBSD systems not configured to send email to external addresses; there is one system (host0) that is configured to send email outside. I wish to use nagios on host0 to monitor the other

Re: HW raid adapter - Adaptec 8405 SGL

On 1/13/22 5:58 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2022-01-13, Aleksander Dzierżanowski wrote: Hi, Is 'Adaptec 8405 SGL' hardware raid controller working under OpenBSD? I saw there is *some* Adaptec support, but the model is not listed explicitly. Please advise if I should try to rent a dedicaated

Re: arrayfire?

On 2/3/22 11:25 AM, Raul Miller wrote: Currently, openbsd has no arrayfire port (see: arrayfire.org). Arrayfire is a computational interface to gpu hardware. I am not looking for someone to port arrayfire to openbsd -- but I would like to know if such a port seems viable (are there obvious fail

Re: Passage about licensing from OpenBSD documentation

On 2/6/22 11:57 PM, Ibsen S Ripsbusker wrote: My great and good friends, Like 20 years ago while trying to install OpenBSD for the first time I read a short passage in OpenBSD documentation that I really liked. Does anyone know where I can find it? The passage that said very directly that we li

Re: What happened to www/art on CVSWeb? Why is it empty?

On 2/10/22 6:34 AM, Kacper Wilgus wrote: I tried to download some artwork from these pages: https://www.openbsd.org/art1.html https://www.openbsd.org/art2.html https://www.openbsd.org/art3.html But only the first one has an image, the rest of them give me 404 errors and I swear they used to be

Re: Syncing users between two OpenBSD systems

On 2/21/22 7:10 PM, Dave Wilson wrote: Hi all, I am setting up a pair of OpenBSD jump boxes, to be a pair of bastion hosts of a large network. I would like to have a primary and backup, with the same set of users on each one. I do not want to use YP or any other form of authentication server, be

Re: no serial access anymore after upgrade

On 2/22/22 8:21 AM, Thomas wrote: Hello, I have a bunch of firewall and router devices with serial ports only. No vga ports at all. After upgrading two of the devices to 7.0 I lose access to the console after the boot process has finished. Last thing that is printed on the screen is the date. No

Re: 12-hour vs. 24-hour clock format

On 2/22/22 3:02 PM, Svyatoslav Mishyn wrote: Hi, just wondering why are some programs using 12-hour/24-hour clock format by default? For instance, 12-hour clock format: w(1)/uptime(1) Should it be fixed? 24-hour clock format: date(1) ls(1) stat(1) systat(1) top(1) Well... keep in mind, if t

Re: OpenBSD Networking questions request answers

On 2/28/22 8:49 PM, Haiyan, YanX wrote: Hi misc, I am installing OpenBSD, following the configuration wizard, I configured a static IP as follows: [...all real info not actually provided, so not useful...] But after the installation is complete, I can't access the Internet. When I execu

Re: disk i/o test

On 3/3/22 7:59 AM, Mihai Popescu wrote: Hello, I am trying to test some disk i/o speeds and I am stumbled on two questions: 1. Does it matter if I set in BIOS Legacy or AHCI for the drive, regarding the read/write performance? anywhere between "big difference" and "OH WOW, I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY

Re: OpenBSD on WatchGuard devices

On 3/9/22 4:27 AM, Markus Rosjat wrote: Hi list, has someone out there ever attemted to reuse  WatchGuard devices? If so can he point out some hints on how to go about it? We have a few devices laying around here and i dont see the point in not trying to reuse them. Cheers I haven't used Wat

Re: Advice on catching up with current

On 3/13/22 11:06 AM, Ted Wynnychenko wrote: Hello I "had" been following -current since about 5.6. Unfortunately, due to events not at all related to anything here, I was unable to keep -current "current" for the last several months. I would guess my last update was about 8 months ago (6.9 GEN

Re: How much does battle-testing weigh?

On 3/14/22 4:31 PM, the guy who couldn't solve a trivial problem without vi on the install media wrote: Billions of companies world wide use the Linux kernel and several of the major Linux distributions daily. It would stand to reason that that would make a lot more bugs be discovered. The Ope

Re: chroot for go webserver with pledge and unveil

On 3/15/22 6:32 PM, i...@tutanota.com wrote: ... $ doas chroot -u www -g www /var/www /bin/go-server But that wouldn't keep it running after a reboot. The "easy" and historic way: man 8 rc more specifically, rc.local The "better" way: man 8 rc.d (and read the "see also"s.) Probably g

Re: Question about RS232/USB hub device compatibility

On 3/17/22 3:18 PM, Allan Streib wrote: I have used the two-port version of this with Linux and it "just worked," wondering if anyone has used this (or something similar) successfully with OpenBSD? I am looking to manage a few switches via their console/RS232 interfaces. https://www.startech.c

Re: growfs on an encrypted softraid0

On 3/24/22 8:38 AM, Leo Unglaub wrote: Hey friends, i have a 500GB drive that is fully encrypted using a softraid with raidlevel C. It works perfectly. But now the drive is getting full and i have to grow it. This server is running in the Hetzner Cloud and resizing the drive is supported to 10TB

Re: Question how to delete somewhat encrypted partisions / softraid?

On 3/25/22 5:28 AM, soko.tica wrote: Hello list, ... But I have failed to proceed before the installation with # cd /dev && sh MAKEDEV sd1 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd1c bs=1m count=1 So i ended up with unbootable install. I don't think that is cause and effect. If you want to start over

Re: How to determine if WiFi AP is compatible?

On 3/28/22 1:52 PM, Eric Thomas wrote: I'm trying to determine if a WiFi AP is compatible with OpenBSD. For example, checking the [Wireless FAQ's]( https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless), I don't see whether the chipset used by the [UniFi Access Point WiFe 6 Pro]( https://dl.ui.com/ds/u6

Re: openbsd, softraid recovery (I have password)

On 4/2/22 12:56 PM, harold wrote: ... I tell you my little story in  the attached document, Just a thought, but you might want to reconsider your means of telling your story. For example, I am not in the habit of opening unsolicited PDF documents... Nick.

Re: openbsd, softraid recovery (I have password)

On 4/3/22 9:44 AM, harold wrote: ... Hi everybody, good day everyone, ladies and gentlemen.. I’m looking for a way to retrieve back my data vanished accidentally .. I tell you more : a/ I had windows and linux mint 18 (gpt/efi) b/ I add openbsd to these double systems. Now three. Grub2 manages i

Re: How to track system changes?

On 4/4/22 11:32 AM, Eric Thomas wrote: I want to have a high degree of confidence in my system's state (packages that have been added, configs that have changed, permissions changed, etc). I've read about "read only filesystems" and the pro's/con's [here](http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/OpenBSD/

Re: RC version internal available only?

On 4/8/22 5:47 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: Hi folks, I would like to upgrade to OpenBSD beta on a Zotac O-series PC. I found the snapshots directory, but the upgrade71 document appears to be missing. Do you think it could be included into the snapshots directory, next to the INSTALL.amd64 file, for

Re: tcpdump rotating issue with newsyslog

On 4/10/22 9:39 AM, Yogendra Kumar Chaudhary wrote: Good Evening Community, I am running the following command in the OpenBSD 6.2. *"tcpdump -Nneqt -w tcpdump.pcap -i vic0 &"* and using the following newsyslog.conf entry for rotating the tcpdump.pcap # logfile_name owner:group mo

Re: No valid root disk found when upgrading

On 4/21/22 11:46 AM, michal.lyszc...@bofc.pl wrote: Hello, So I have OpenBSD 6.8 (yeah I know), and are trying to upgrade to 6.9 (and version by version until 7.1:)). Problem is that installer does not see disk. This is my very first time I upgrade OpenBSD, so I might be missing something simple

Re: clang 13 space issues with KARL

On 4/25/22 1:23 PM, Peter J. Philipp wrote: Hi, I have an openbsd amsterdam vps and KARL is using up so much RAM that it causes the system to swap. I recently upgraded it to 7.1 and it's the first time I had a problem with this (that I noticed). I have tried to put KARL into a login.conf'ed (3

Re: Unusable resolution on a widescreen monitor during install

On 4/27/22 9:15 AM, David Demelier wrote: Hello, I have a lenovo thinkcentre machine connected to 24” LG screen (with 4k resolution), the installer boots fine using UEFI but it looks like efifb takes a strange “squared” resolution where bottom part of the console is below the screen so I’m unabl

Re: creating new partition has corrupted the disklabel ("bad super block")

On 4/30/22 5:16 AM, Sylvain Saboua wrote: Hello I have recently got an upgrade for my laptop with a 1TB SSD drive. I successfully managed to install a dual boot between archlinux and openbsd, both on encrypted partitions. Everything was fine with both systems, until the final act of the dual bo

Re: Softraid on NVMe

On 5/6/22 9:03 AM, Proton wrote: Hi, I'm using softraid 1C on my remote dedicated server, built on two NVMe disks. It works really well from performance perspective and provide some data protection, but there is no way to check device health status because SMART doesn’t work. I guess bioctl wil

HP T430 "Thin Client": Won't sysupgrade without HDMI monitor attached.

here's a weird one. HP T430 Thin Client, reloaded with OpenBSD. In it's intended use, it runs Linux in BIOS boot mode. OpenBSD's installer will boot that way, but the kernel is unable to see the 16g storage device. In UEFI boot mode, OpenBSD works well, including running X. This machine has ON

Re: HP T430 "Thin Client": Won't sysupgrade without HDMI monitor attached.

On 5/6/22 12:48 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Florian Obser wrote: So, if you end up with a /bsd.upgrade on the running system that is still mode 0700, your bootloader is on the fritz. If you have a /bsd.upgrade that's 0600 your bootloader found the kernel and tried to boot it, but the installer d

Re: HP T430 "Thin Client": Won't sysupgrade without HDMI monitor attached.

On 5/6/22 2:30 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 5/6/22 12:48 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Florian Obser wrote: So, if you end up with a /bsd.upgrade on the running system that is still mode 0700, your bootloader is on the fritz. If you have a /bsd.upgrade that's 0600 your bootloader found the k

Re: HP T430 "Thin Client": Won't sysupgrade without HDMI monitor attached.

On 5/7/22 5:40 PM, Mike Larkin wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2022 at 11:39:51PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: ... For giggles, I did a "gop" and a "video" at the boot> prompt, and both came back with no response, just another boot> prompt. just 'gop' amd 'v

Re: OpenBSD ports require xbase set - still true?

On 5/9/22 4:56 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: Hello. Just a rant, not for ports@. I am installing OpenBSD 7.1 right now; this is only a VM, and i want to create / manage ports there. Until now whenever i wanted to do this i had to install xbase, otherwise the port makefile complained some. (I am a

Re: calling all PFsync users for experience, gotchas, feedback, tips and tricks

On 5/11/22 3:32 PM, Tom Smyth wrote: Hello Folks, We are updating some course material for an upcoming PF firewall course, and I would like to put a call out to those who use PFsync in a redundant firewall cluster about your user experience, have you come across any edge cases? have you any tips

Re: gpt+uefi boot+openbsd+linux

On 5/24/22 6:28 PM, Gustavo Rios wrote: May some one here suggest a documentation the explains this scenario ? I am in needof this. Thanks in advance! I've actually been experimenting with the UEFI OpenBSD and Windows combo, though I suspect it is applicable to Linux, as well. Warning: I'm tr

Re: bsdtar -O | --to-stdout

On 5/26/22 4:55 AM, Dirty Dawn wrote: Hi, i'm looking for a way to reproduce -O flag in bsdtar/gtar using tar or pax but i didn't find one. There is a way to do that using standard tar or pax? Thank you It generally works better if you tell us what you are wishing to accomplish, rather than

Re: Cannot configure wi-fi card

On 5/27/22 10:25 PM, Matsuda Kenji wrote: Hello. I just installed OpenBSD 7.1 and am having trouble setting up a wi-fi card. There is no wi-fi interface in ifconfig output. Dmesg says that there is some error configuring NIC: iwm0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 926

Re: Convert a Linux VPS to OpenBSD

On 6/20/22 11:47 AM, Étienne wrote: Hello there, This is a bit of a long shot, but I'm trying my luck: There used to be a community thread on Scaleway's documentation website that explained how to convert a Linux instance to an OpenBSD instance, because no OpenBSD ISO image was available in thei

Re: Fanless amd64 sytem recommendations

On 7/11/22 1:13 AM, B. Atticus Grobe wrote: I've been running a Hewlett-Packard HP t620 Quad Core TC for a couple of years now in that role, with the AMD GX-415GA SOC in it. It's the bigger brother of that found in the APU systems. The stock configuration usually has 4GB of RAM in them, with a s

Re: Installing sets from /

On 7/13/22 1:11 PM, Vincent Legoll wrote: Hello, I was trying to autoinstall OpenBSD 7.1 on a VM when I stumbled upon something unexpected (to my uneducated eyes) in the installer. What I'm trying to do may very well fall in the "unsupported" basket, just tell me. But still, I think I can at le

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