On 09/21/10 22:03, LOL wrote:
Hello everybody, I read already all the faq and the doc on the openBSD
websites. There's just two-three thing that I'm not very sure how to do it
correctly.
The proper way to update a -RELEASE installation is to pick the patch on the
openBSD websites and just
On 09/22/10 18:24, LOL wrote:
2010/9/22 Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com
On 22 September 2010 21:51, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote:
Wow, Thanks very much for all the answer. When I sayed that I think it's
stupid to install all the port tree just to search, I meant that the
ports
tree
On 10/03/10 22:11, David Higgs wrote:
I am building a replacement router/firewall for home use
stop there.
You aren't General Motors, Yahoo, or Google.
You are looking to spend a lot of time and money trying to optimize
performance on a super-fast-sport-car that will be only used to go to
and
On 10/07/10 18:24, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote:
Should I conclude nobody else gets this?
(The story was about install48.iso from 05-Oct-2010 hanging on boot with no
error message when encountering a misbehaving device that was simply disabled
in august snapshots and previous releases).
Well,
On 10/13/10 17:25, Robert wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:18 -0400
Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote:
can be done about it, and 10 year old quirky PC hardware doesn't
attract a of interest...
As long as it's on [1] I hope it does?
I guess I'm not the only one who uses a Pentium 4
On 10/22/10 11:56, Tomas Bodzar wrote:
It's not only problem with license, but with quality of Adaptec as a
whole http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=125783114503531w=2 . But
maybe it changed as there is not Adaptec anymore.
And don't forget this follow up:
On 10/31/10 12:17, Maxim Belooussov wrote:
Hi all,
Somehow amd64 4.8 cd install did not want to install properly on a
sata disk. Upgrading from 4.7, however, worked flawlessly. I had to
install 4.7 in another box, and than upgrade on target box.
Am I the lucky one or are there any other
On 11/01/10 10:01, roberth wrote:
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:40:04 -0500
Josh Grossej...@jggimi.homeip.net wrote:
In gerneral, if you want to run -current, you start by
upgrading to/installing the latest snapshot.
=That= is the reason the OP's build failed.
Othere general advice for OP,
On 11/05/10 08:46, Felipe Mesquita de Oliveira wrote:
Hi All,
I'm long time far from OpenBSD world, but planning to come back.
The plan is to buy an old machine, but, maybe try an new platform, if the
investment worths...
I have these options, all in the same price range:
A) Sun Fire V100
On 11/05/10 08:37, Marcus wrote:
---Question
Would somebody rewrite #flashmemLive section for the diskmap interface
change?
or how to edit the /etc/fstab for live USB device without worrying
wheter it would come up as sd0, sd1 sd2, etc.
---Answer:
Somebody will, as time permits.
On 11/05/10 14:29, Joe McDonagh wrote:
If your Sun fails -- that's a big IF. It's approaching a possibility
of 0 in my experience.
If performance isn't an issue and stability is your chief goal, none of
this hardware is as stable as a Sun.
Good to hear your experience with sun HW is
On 11/08/10 20:01, mark hellewell wrote:
Hello,
I installed 4.8 on this 'netbook' as soon as my CD set arrived -- thought
I'd give it a go what with the new ACPI work that's been done -- and, aside
from an AR5424-based ath wireless adapter that doesn't want to connect to
any network
On 11/08/10 17:19, stupidmail4me wrote:
I have a machine currently running 4.6 and want to upgrade to 4.8. I know you
shouldn't skip releases for upgrades, so I'm planning on wiping and
installing.
heh. you COULD just put 4.7 in the middle, you know.
Problem is I have some important data
On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote:
...
Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64
installation CD.
...
Then comes the question of installation media and the choices are ftp
http or done.
I can do the installation via http so I'm ok. But I am wondering how do
I do
On 11/09/10 13:02, Leslie Jensen wrote:
On 2010-11-09 18:00, Nick Holland wrote:
On 11/09/10 10:37, Leslie Jensen wrote:
...
Now I want to make an installation on a USB stick using the amd64
installation CD.
...
Then comes the question of installation media and the choices are ftp
http
On 11/14/10 08:59, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to ask if anyone is using Adaptec 5805Z sata/sas raid
controller on OpenBSD.
Is this device tested/supported?
I guess not cause it's not mentioned anywhere on the man pages, aac(4)
etc or the supported hardware web page.
On 11/14/10 12:09, OpenBSD Geek wrote:
Hi,
I read OpenBSD FAQ at
[url]http://www.openbsd.org/faq/fr/faq4.html#site[/url]
I understood well, that install.site/ Upgrade.site and of course
SiteXX.tgz is enabled at the end of the installation.
My question, i boot on 4.7 RELEASE, choose
On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
Hi,
I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade
from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- the boot
sequence gets as far as softraid0 at root
and then stops. There is no response to
ctrl-alt-del and the system must be power
cycled.
On 11/15/10 23:53, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
On 11/15/2010 06:35:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade
from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs --
Where should I go from here?
try a snapshot, or do a remote
On 11/23/10 08:32, carlopmart wrote:
On 11/23/2010 02:30 PM, Timo Schoeler wrote:
...
http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2007/10/24/352059
Yes, but this question is three years old and hypervisors have changed
Thanks.
what's changed?
Layering? Nope.
Crappy programming?
On 11/28/10 20:01, Claus Assmann wrote:
I was about to buy an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD when I read that firmware
updates for that kind of SSD require some M$ Windows version. Is
someone using SSDs with a high IOPS rate (the Sandforce controller
claims 45-50 kIOPS) which can be updated under some freely
On 11/29/10 18:42, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Nick Holland
n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
Assuming your firmware update utility works through the USB interface (I
suspect it would, they have to be doing some kind of command abstraction,
since they probably don't
On 12/10/10 17:25, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
ok, what manufacturers are left??? :)) just toshiba???
I'm going to say Anyone who says brand X is great and Y is crap has
just exposed themselves as a newbie in the computer business. :)
I've seen every make of drive have some real stinkers, and also
On 12/11/10 21:37, Jonathan Thornburg wrote:
I'm trying to set up a softraid crypto volume on top of a disk partition
/dev/wd0j (on an i386 laptop running 4.8-release). I'm using
# bioctl -c C -r 10 -l /dev/wd0j softraid0
to try to initially create the softraid volume. I expected this
On 12/20/10 10:45, Orestes Leal R. wrote:
Hi guys, yesterday I was adding a new virtual disk (in vmware
workstation) to my 4.8
virtual but I can't do it because the procedure to format and make a new
partition
seems diferent for 4.6 or 4.3 compared to 4.8, any help?
no, not really different
On 12/20/10 12:43, Orestes Leal R. wrote:
everything from update the MBR, dislabel, etc, seems to work, but when I
do newfs /dev/NameOfPartition
It says
/dev/NameOfPartition: Block Device
geez. Definite security issue there, definitely can't let us find out
what disk you are trying to newfs
On 01/05/11 18:17, Rodolfo Gouveia wrote:
On 01/04/2011 08:02 PM, Joachim Schipper wrote:
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:34:08PM +, Rodolfo Gouveia wrote:
I have a machine with 4.7 softraid CRYPTO.
On the upgrade48.html it's recommended to rebuild the softraid volume
I believe rebuild means
On 01/06/11 06:44, Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote:
Hello,
I got the idea from FAQ that OpenBSD is not using more than one core
from multicore processors.
please indicate where you got that from...
I can't do much about crap you ...read on the 'net..., but if there is
something in the FAQ that
On 01/16/11 09:16, Mikle Krutov wrote:
Hello, misc!
I've got trouble with network, as i can not change the netmask of both
of my net-devices:
...
# ifconfig vr0
vr0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500
..
inet 10.196.100.206 netmask 0xff00 broadcast
On 01/28/11 14:57, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
Updated diff based on private Atom feedback and bigmem feedback.
In short, no.
In long: well, see notes within.
Index: amd64.html
===
RCS file: /cvs/www/amd64.html,v
retrieving revision
I prefer the word incomplete :)
On 01/28/11 17:46, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#NewCompiler
AFAIK, since 4.8 archs have started the shift to gcc4. mips64 and
mips64el is mentioned in current.html and will switch in 4.9,
shouldn't the entry be expanded to include
On 02/02/11 08:59, Jean H. Theoret wrote:
This one's got me stumped for a few days now...
How is it possible to control the network interface numbering assignment
order?
barely.
Here's my specific case: the box has 2 on-board Ethernet interfaces and
a 3rd one on a PCI-Express card. They
On 02/03/11 14:14, frantisek holop wrote:
hmm, on Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 10:24:55PM -0500, Nick Holland said that
problems which are easy to fix. Having worked with similar problems
(and their recovery) on other OSs...ick.
talking about other OS's and risking making a fool of myself,
what do
On 02/04/2011 08:32 AM, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
Hi,
I have a similar problem since I an using softraid to encrypt /var and
/home. The softraid device is usually on sd0. But when I have an usb
mass storage device plugged in during boot up it gets assigned to sd0
and softraid gets sd1.
On 02/05/11 09:32, Jean-Francois wrote:
Hello,
I just read some extracts of a paper, study from Margo Seltzer Keith A.
Smith from Harvard university, a comparison of LFS FFS.
the paper from 1995??
Dude. That's a LONG time ago in the computer world. It is also a very
non-specific
On 02/07/2011 09:56 AM, Tomas wrote:
Hey there all on the misc,
I am having problems booting into bsd.rd on my machine. Currently the
machine holds OpenBSD 4.4 Generic and is working fine. But now I've decided
to upgrade it (I will be doing a clean install) to version 4.8. So I've
downloaded
On 02/08/11 15:45, Mihai Popescu wrote:
...
I will send here another thing. I hope it will be received nicely. I
mean I don't know how to tell it to be nice for everyone. But I will
tell it: parts of FAQ go into being more difficult and more abstract
than the style it use to be back in time.
On 02/10/11 08:25, Eukasz Czarniecki wrote:
Hi
I've bought a Dell R310 with H200 raid controller reported in dmesg as:
Symbios Logic SAS2008. It uses mpii driver and has two hard drives
configured in RAID 1.
...
Now it seems to work fine but i still have a problem with its
performance.
On 02/13/11 15:04, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
Hi all,
there's much hype around about these plugcomputers which are going to spread
in the market.
I've heard that. many years ago, actually.
(heh. Wikipedia says plug computers are only a couple years old.
That's not my memory. Not worth me
On 02/13/2011 10:30 PM, Nick Holland wrote:
[bla bla bla, Nick doesn't think plug computers are going anywhere]
I should probably make it clear: those were MY opinions, not any kind of
official OpenBSD policy statement. All it takes is a developer (or
someone else) to say, I want this device
On 02/20/11 17:56, klerfe [Bodegas] wrote:
I was following 4.8 stable branch. After kernel compiled successfully
make build has failed with the following:
Start at the top of FAQ 5. Read and understand 5.1 and 5.2 carefully
and more-or-less completely, there's a test that follows.
5.3 is the
On 02/24/11 20:15, Ron McDowell wrote:
System installed from a 4.8-amd64 CD today, then cvs-update to HEAD less
than an hour ago...
No, your process is broke.
Please read FAQ5.
The part you definitely violated is 5.3.2
Nick.
On 02/25/11 15:21, Ron McDowell wrote:
...
No, sorry, I started with an empty /usr/src. Given that, what would
checkout -rHEAD [as shown above] do? I'm trying to understand, wrap my
head around, if you will, this concept... Thanks.
Just stick to the instructions in faq5.html (which don't
On 02/28/11 10:39, Chris Bullock wrote:
I am trying to install OpenBSD on a box without a CDROM. After I perform
the install, it will only boot with the CDROM attached. It doesn't have to
have the CD, just as long as the IDE CD ROM is seen. I have gone into UKC
and disabled softraid and
On 02/28/11 19:26, Timothy Legge wrote:
Hi list!
I'm looking to setup my first Open BSD firewall in the near future, and I
was hoping to get a little feedback from you about ideal specs for a first
time machine.
Below is a little about my situation.
I plan to install the firewall
On 03/08/11 05:10, Mattieu Baptiste wrote:
Hi all,
I know this setup might not be fully supported but I wanted to report this.
On my Sun Fire V240 I have two softraid(4) volumes:
- sd4 (UUID a45b5629cc97897e), RAID1 for : /tmp, /var, /usr, /home
- sd5 (UUID 5cd55a71b5790766), RAID0 for
On 03/08/2011 11:04 AM, Mattieu Baptiste wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Kenneth R Westerback
kwesterb...@rogers.com wrote:
I don't think it has anything to do with your problem, but I am curious why you
have /dev/sd0a in the fstab, rather than the DUID.
On sd0, sd0a is / and on sd1,
On 03/09/11 13:09, marc wrote:
First of all, thanks for all the feedback.
(at FAQ 4.9) I still think that adding a note that rsd0 is the name of
the raw character device associated to the device sd0 and that
consequently you can find the correct parameter for dd in your system by
adding
On 03/10/2011 10:47 AM, Kent Watsen wrote:
|
Welcome to the OpenBSD/sparc64 4.8 installation program.
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? S
# fdisk
sh: fdisk: not found
# ls /sbin/fdisk
ls: /sbin/fdisk: No such file or directory
# ls /sbin
bioctl dmesg init
On 03/10/2011 11:25 AM, Kent Watsen wrote:
it's not there, nor should it be. sparc* does not use fdisk.
That's what I had read, but my other Netra T1 running 4.6 has it - and
I used it when configuring RAIDFrame (raid(4))...why is it there? -
why did it work?
you CAN use fdisk when
On 04/02/11 05:16, Eukasz Walczak wrote:
hi,
Is it possible with OpenBSD's PF to set up redundant firewall using
authpf mechanism together. I mean users logging into firewall via ssh,
accounts with authpf shell, obtaining specific rule set, with redundancy
firewall based on CARP.
yes,
On 04/04/11 15:29, Patrick Hemmen wrote:
Am 03.04.2011 um 17:30 schrieb Nick Holland:
HOWEVER, if your users were doing something with the currently active
states, for example downloading a large file via http, the state that
permits the incoming file WOULD be sync'd to the standby system
On 04/05/11 03:49, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:11:02AM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote:
All right, let me ask again, or a little differently. I understand
what you are saying, but the 32 bit limit on amd64 has surprised
a lot of people lately (I know, they didn't read up).
On 04/06/11 18:46, Steven R. Gerber wrote:
I ran the upgrade from CD.
from i386 to amd64? No. Don't do this.
Boot off the CD again, and this time pick install.
You can save your /home directory and config files.
amd64 and i386, for OpenBSD, are totally different platforms. You can't
upgrade
On 04/07/2011 12:37 AM, Steven R. Gerber wrote:
On 4/6/2011 8:57 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
Is this in the FAQ? Never thought I would read such a question.
Don't see that one too often, no. :)
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Nick Holland
n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
On 04/06/11 18:46
On 04/07/2011 01:02 PM, Steven R. Gerber wrote:
On 4/7/2011 12:30 PM, Ted Unangst wrote:
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Steven R. Gerber
sger...@gerber-systems.com wrote:
The partitions/mounts problem is far more disconcerting. What if I need
to save data to a striped array to do the
On 04/07/2011 02:08 PM, Steven R. Gerber wrote:
Nick,
Thanks for the clue, but I still don't get it (me dummy?).
**
NOTE for re-installers: The new installer will not clear your old
disklabel if you chose (C)ustom Layout, but you will need to
this time, to list! What a concept
On 04/08/2011 06:15 AM, irix wrote:
Do you planning to remake installer script to allow install system to
software raid from it ?
no. why?
you can do that now.
boot install kernel
drop to shell
configure softraid devices
type install
note that your
On 04/08/11 18:14, irix wrote:
When I try to build softraid0 during install with command bioctl -c 1 -l
/dev/wd0a,/dev/wd1a softraid0
System return softraid0 invalid metadata format. How can I fix it ?
You can't softraid your boot partition. I rather suspect you are going
to be booting from
On 04/09/11 06:57, irix wrote:
Also I try to add wd0d and wd1d with same commad but system return me
same error invalid metadata format.
Why this error is happening ?
to elaborate on Marco's answer, before running bioctl, try:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=1m count=1
dd if=/dev/zero
On 04/19/11 16:10, Miod Vallat wrote:
So if you want to contribute but don't know what to get, get a CD set
(or several!). Noone will mind if you frame them and hang them on your
wall; it's the thought which counts.
Miod
I'm gonna hate myself for this, but if it sends money to the project,
On 04/27/11 08:27, Kent Watsen wrote:
Maybe you should tell us what happened and what you were expecting.
I saw the check-in which stated that it was being turned on to see what
response there is, which is all I'm doing...
When installing on a system only having IDE-based drives, I was
On 04/28/2011 08:26 AM, Trey Sizemore wrote:
I'm doing an install of openbsd 4.8 on a desktop machine with 3 SATA
drives. I want to use the 2nd drive (sdb in linux, sd1 on openbsd).
This is a multi-boot machine, so I don't want to install the bootloader
on the MBR, but would like to install it
On 04/28/2011 10:58 AM, Bryan wrote:
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 19:55, David Gwynnel...@animata.net wrote:
amen.
anything that helps us get away from the kernels arbitrary numbering of
devices to identify disks is a good thing.
dlg
Would there be a reason why you wouldn't use DUIDs? Do some
On 04/30/11 01:34, George Georgalis wrote:
Nico, I don't know what your risk is, but if it's a perimeter
box running pf and ssh maybe consider running on cflash or usb
stick? Or one of those bootable cdroms? I log to a ram fs so I
think the only media writes are for ntp.drift, and yes I'm more
On 04/30/11 05:53, David Steiner wrote:
can the upgrade process via bsd.rd be automated? i'm thinking of
upgrading remote machines, which are only available via ssh .
like this: fetch the latest bsd.rd from ftp. replace /bsd.rd.
echo 'boot bsd.rd' /etc/boot.conf
reboot
from here on, i'd
On 05/01/11 07:13, David Steiner wrote:
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:24:30 -0400
Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote:
um...
bsd.rd assumes console.
which i don't have and am looking for a workaround. maybe bsd.rd should
assume: accepts commands from a file/stdin to be automated
On 05/01/11 12:30, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
Nick,
I have always assumed that you don't run X, i.e you kill X and then
you upgrade from a root console.
I do run X on a lot of systems. I'm writing to you on a machine with
two 24 1920x1200 flat panels running a lot of xterms, Firefox, Chrome,
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 05:34:17PM -0400, bofh wrote:
Why would you do that? Go read The Software Conspiracy. The author,
Minasi, got, on the record, interviews from VPs of development at
Microsoft, Netscape, Sun, Oracle, etc basically saying that they don't
give
This thread is a bit bothersome for a lot of reasons. However, there
is a lack of hard info so far.
When you say it isn't booting the CD, what does this mean? Does it try
but fail with some error? Does it not even stop at the CD on the way
to attempting to boot the hard disk?
And let's see
Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
Hello friends,
I am having a great deal of handicap with OpenBSD since I am unable to
use/access my SATA DVD drives. The machine would freeze and do nothing
till I reboot. ( I am running 4.0, it used to sometimes work with an old
installation)
upgrade. 4.2 will
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
hail all,
I use FreeBSD for a long time and now I'm changing my routers slowly
to OpenBSD. I have one router running 4.2-current (or anything like
this, uname shows 4.2 but motd shows 4.2-current. I confess this still
confuses me) and I'm studying it to be confident
Markus Wernig wrote:
Dear list
I have a couple of 4.1 firewalls that I would like to upgrade to 4.2.
Before taking them online again I'd like to deploy the openssl patch
from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.2/common/002_openssl.patch
Being perimeter firewalls, those systems
Limaunion wrote:
hi all! I've been using OpenBSD during the last 2-3 years mainly running
it as a firewall.
I've an old machine (486 + 48MB RAM) and yesterday decided to make
some improvements: upgrade it from 4.0 to 4.2 (new installation) and
replace the two NICs, switching from NE2000
Greg Thomas wrote:
On 11/4/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
boot
booting hd0a:/bsd: 5665588+872060 [52+291168+272312]=0x6c5c70
entry point at 0x200120
booting hd0a:/bsd: 5665588+872060 [52+291168+272312]=0x6c5c70
entry point at 0x200120*
Here's where I get slammed as the n00b I am.
Greg Thomas wrote:
On 11/2/07, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:00:32 +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote
I want to upgrade from 4.0 to 4.2 and I see I am supposed to perform
4.0-4.1 first.
That's correct. :)
Hmmm, on my second upgrade today I did a 4.0 to 4.2 upgrade,
Chris wrote:
I just upgrade from 4.1-current to 4.2-current on i386. Apache failed
to start saying bad username nobody. There is no mention of user
nobody in /etc/passwd or httpd.conf file. The user/group apache
starts as is www and both of them exist in /etc/group, passwd file.
Apache was
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Wade, Daniel wrote:
-Original Message-
From:Ted Unangst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:Mon 11/5/2007 7:43 PM
To: Wade, Daniel
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: avail mem is only 66% of real mem
Jan Stary wrote:
Hi all,
this is a diff to faq4.html (the install faq) so that it mentions
/altroot for the installing user before he partitions his drive. Now,
the altroot feature is described in daily(8), which you only read when
you already have a system installed, your disk is already
Jan Stary wrote:
...
See at bottom; looks much simpler now, hmm :-)
I leave the RAID analogy to someone else.
Anyway, first diff, screwed up,
I'd prefer the term, learning experience.
thanks for all the comments.
Jan
Index: faq4.html
Edd Barrett wrote:
Hi,
I just had a read of the man page for the new softraid features in
OpenBSD. Sounds like it's well on the way to replace raidframe, but
some questions remain unanswered.
a) Can disks be dynamically added/removed to a mirror?
b) What happens when a disk fails?
Lars Noodin wrote:
I had a hard drive die and used the chance to move to 4.2. Since the
'new' machine is of the same vintage as the one it replaced, I expect it
to start grinding to a halt soon, too.
Is there a way to copy one entire hard drive, partition table and all,
to another -- in
Lars Noodin wrote:
Nick Holland wrote:
...
In general, it seems to be bad to drastically change the disklabel on a
running system (i.e., changing the beginning and ending points of a
currently mounted partition).
HOWEVER, if you can do it from bsd.rd, it should be no problem.
I
Dave Harrison wrote:
Hi all,
I've been wondering how to deal with this particular issue for quite
some time now, and I can't find any references to the right way(TM)
to handle it.
I always prefer to run automated tasks as limited privilege users on
my OpenBSD hosts - such as tasks that
Piet Slaghekke wrote:
I like to filter my openBSD emails and the only way I can do it is if everyone
send their email with misc@openBSD.org in the To field.
Please send email To misc@openBSD.org and do not CC it to this address.
Thanks!
wow. You ask one novice question and you
Jumping Mouse wrote:
Hi there, I have inherited an openBSD machine with no root account. When I
boot up in single user mode boot -s and do a cat /etc/master.passwd | root
I presume there's a grep missing in there. :)
the only thing I get is: daemon:*:1:1::0:0:The devil
Jumping Mouse wrote:
Hi Clint and others,
I tried:
# rm spwd* pwd* passwd* ptmp # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
pointless.
then
#passwd username
but I am still getting: (for all users)
pwd_mkdb: corrupted entrypwd_mkdb: at line #24pwd_mkdb: /etc/ptmp:
Inappropriate file type or
Cristiano Deana wrote:
On Nov 21, 2007 10:48 AM, Kafriki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ok here is a user with full details: (this is in plain text, hope it's more
readable)
cat.cat:$2a$07$aYgatzjxAULHQmmZkjmvteGEaO8Ie8geMoUfhl7AAzKi.WeRhuoA6:10006:20::0:0:Pussy
Juan Miscaro wrote:
--- Ingo Schwarze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
The standard way to handle upgrades is to update the src
on the master only, to build new release sets on the master,
and to use the official upgrade process to install these
new release sets on the clients. That way, none of
new_guy wrote:
Hey guys, I got whacked off-line with a clue stick about using screen or
nohup to prevent this sort of thing in the future... OK, will do but, since
'make build' was interrupted, does anything 'special' need to be done like a
make clean, etc? Or do I just redo the initial
V. Karthik Kumar wrote:
Artur Grabowski wrote:
frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
but can't call yerself a unix guru if havent fu*ed up
dual boot at least once :]
never fucked up a dual boot. Only tried it two times and both times it
worked. Dual boot is for sissies who can't get a
new_guy wrote:
What is the difference between these two cvs commands? I know what the first
one does... checks out the source code to stable and assumes a CVSROOT is
around... but is the second command not the same? I understand all the
options... except for 'get'... how is that different from
Didier Wiroth wrote:
Hello,
I'm using an external usb2 freecom toughdrive 250gb see:
http://www.freecom.com/ecproduct_detail.asp?ID=3506CatID=8020sCatID=1146187ssCatID=1146191
The drive has no power supply!
people have reported problems with those...they sound like they are
right on the edge
L wrote:
Marco Peereboom wrote:
If you can't neboot the best way of getting it going is using the hdd in
one chassis for install and then move it to the desired machine
afterwards. This is way easier in openbsd than in linux.
This is what I will do right now on a 16MB machine just for
L wrote:
When I reply to the group.. it puts the person's address and the groups
address in TO/CC fields.
Is it possible for the server to just send mail to the TO field to the
group only, and not have a CC ?
anything is possible...
Not going to happen, however. :)
Is this on purpose, so
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 02:30:28PM -0800, Bryan Irvine wrote:
What would be the rationale for 640? ;)
Well according to cvs log:
it can be easily changed if you like it another way. millert,
So I guess one rationale might be as simple as because ;)
Does
hogo hogo wrote:
I have got a problem during OpenBSD 4.2 installation.
I install on a QEMU virtual machine on a hard disk with 7000M of size.
In the end of installation process when the system writes MBR onto the disk
I get such a message:
Installing boot block...
boot: /mnt/boot
proto:
Andy Hayward wrote:
On 09/12/2007, Mats Erik Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First, I have OpenBSD 4.2 running on this machine using
AMD-K6-2/350 on an AT-mainboard with VIA chipset VT82C598
and VT82C586B. (Well, both AT and ATX in fact.) I have not
detected any trouble until I patched
Karl Sjodahl - dunceor wrote:
On Dec 10, 2007 8:14 AM, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
It appears that browsing OpenBSD src/ through cvsweb points to old
src, and not the latest one. For eg.,
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/ turns up many
utilities which
Ioan Nemes wrote:
Greetings,
Try to install OpenBSD 4.2 i386 on a new HP Compaq dc7700 Small Form Factor,
but when it comes to install the software sets from the CD, the install
fails:
...
Let's install the sets!
Location of sets? (cd disk ftp or `done`) [cd]
Available CD-ROMs are: cd0
801 - 900 of 1680 matches
Mail list logo
