Re: Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Holland
Alexander Hall wrote: ... Apache is chrooted by default, making `apachectl restart' unusable for quite some time. It should be in the archives and possibly in the FAQ. it is (and has been for quite some time)... http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot Nick.

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Ouellet wrote: Bob Beck wrote: Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve windows, and they deserve pop up buttong in their browsers that they click ok blindly for everything. I love this

Re: SunOS 5.9 UFS drives

2007-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
new_guy wrote: Hi guys, I just received an old Sun Netra T1 (105) that has an older version of Solaris (SunOS 5.9). It has two 18GB SCSI drives, no cd or floppy drives. There is a serial/LOM port that I can access and dual Ethernet ports. I can get the ok prompt (Stop-A), the LOM prompt and

Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
bofh wrote: Heh. I think we're having far too much fun in the other threads. I have a serious question. thank goodness. :) I'm a mangler in a largish company. We have developers, and contractors. No coding standards and all that, so, things are... messy. I'm not in charge of

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Nick Holland
Brian Hansen wrote: ... I can't help wonder, why so much software are being developed using C. ... Because no one has done anything other than TALK about an alternative. People who talk, like alternatives. People who program seem to like C. Bringing up a general purpose OS on another language

Re: Usage of underscore in system accounts

2007-12-25 Thread Nick Holland
Mike Lott wrote: Hi list I've been wondering why system accounts from UID 28 upwards are prepended with an underscore, whereas UID's in the range 0 up to 27 do not have this. I've done a bunch of searches on Google, but come up with nothing as yet. Could anyone enlighten me? Date. :)

Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
I've got a little project I'm working on here. It involves stuffing a computer in a donation box with a money detector, so every time someone tosses money in the box, it plays an MP3 file. (no, you can't make a living at this. At least, *I* can't) The first two of these I did were many years

Re: Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Dear friends, Please excuse the silly subject line. I am unfortunately not qualified enough to come up with a better one. First my assumptions, then my questions. Request inputs on both. Assumptions

Re: diff of the official FAQ

2007-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
Chris wrote: I haven't read the FAQ for a while and realize a lot has been changed. Is there any way I could get a diff on the FAQ for the last 1 year and read only the parts that has been changed? Thanks for any help. cvs web: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/faq/ will let you

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-30 Thread Nick Holland
Steve Shockley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, the stash of Compaq iPaqs I came across recently have built-in sound, a very capable built-in speaker, nearly silent in operation and are easy for Joe Average to understand. We've got enough we could even ship out a spare with

Re: Updated ports/packages in -stable/-release

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello misc@, I have a question : If I want the last packages/ports, I use a -current system, with -current ports tree. Last updates of softwares are in -current. On the other hand, they're developpement versions, Might be better to say they are what is going to

Re: Improving disk reliability

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
Erik Wikstrvm wrote: Hi I am setting up a OpenBSD box to act as a router/file-server for my parents, the box consists mostly of old parts and I try to not spend any extra money on it. One of my biggest worries is, since it will act as a file-server which will contain stuff with some

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
Good thing OpenBSD only runs on one platform and one type of computer, eh? Xavier Mertens wrote: ... 16 partitions: #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a:481950 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16 c:4902347520

Re: Advice requested on security issues

2008-01-04 Thread Nick Holland
Rusty Gadd wrote: I am seeking advice on the security aspects of the configuration of my home system. I have 2 PC's, connected to the internet via a firewalled NAT router. The main PC is an i386 P4 used for general computing, the second is an older i386 P3 which I intend to dedicate to

Re: Hard disk speed

2008-01-08 Thread Nick Holland
Manuel Ravasio wrote: Hello list. Can anyone suggest me a way to measure a hard disk speed? I'm thinking about a tool like linux's hdparm / sdparm A simple solution could be measuring the time required for the generation of a big file, something like time dd if=/dev/zero of=/some/file

Re: Apache file upload

2009-01-23 Thread Nick Holland
pcnico...@freesurf.fr wrote: Hi I need a very simple web page to upload files on my Apache web server. I found some cgi script like this one http://www.raditha.com/megaupload/ but I always face internal server error message. Did anyone done some like that ? I had an application like

Re: tale of two nic's and dhclient

2009-01-27 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hi gang, i am at a bit of loss here. i have finally a notebook where both the wireless (iwn0) and normal nic (lii0) get recognized. both are dhcp clients of my home router. consider the following scenario: 1. boot up, lii0 gets a lease 2. i disconnect the wire

Re: Network card, usb or pcmcia

2009-02-03 Thread Nick Holland
foulis wrote: Hi I'm looking to set up a home firewall and proxy server using an old laptop, I have no experience doing this, but I want to learn network security and about using BSD. Obviously I will need a second ethernet connection, but would OpenBSD 4.4 be more likely to support a USB

Re: laptop heating due to wpi(4)?

2009-02-09 Thread Nick Holland
Amarendra Godbole wrote: i recently started using intel wireless on my thinkpad x60, through the wpi(4) driver. earlier, i had heating issues, which were resolved by setting hw.setperf to 0, but now i again see my laptop heating up -- especially below my right palm. temperature sensor

Re: Segmentation fault (Core dumped) when Make Build

2009-02-11 Thread Nick Holland
Insan Praja SW wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:59:23 +0700, Alexander Yurchenko gra...@disorder.ru wrote: do a binary update from the snapshot using bsd.rd first. then try to make build. Well of course, my usual step on upgrading my experiment boxes would be: 1. get latest source.

Re: Texvc Mediawiki under OpenBSD

2009-02-17 Thread Nick Holland
Vivek Ayer wrote: Hi guys, Because I believe OpenBSD's apache is chrooted, it's causing problems with texvc parsing stuff. then run it with a -u... There are things that should be chrooted, and there are things that are more trouble than they are worth to chroot. I think your project falls

Re: Diskless 4.4 machines.

2009-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
John Tate wrote: Is it possible to have OpenBSD diskless or almost diskless? By almost diskless I mean an incredibly small amount installed locally and the rest over NFS or something. In addition to the man diskless response, by today's standards, 1G is incredibly small and plenty for an

Re: 1.2GHz US$99 ARM wall plug

2009-02-25 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Wilson wrote: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html Marvell Semiconductor, eh? They look rather nifty. Even the hardware design is to be released under some sort of open license. a company with a spotty history on open -- see malo(4) (spotty is giving them a benefit of doubt)

Re: Root as R/O

2009-03-01 Thread Nick Holland
Jean-Francois wrote: Hi All, One could develop a little bit the addvantage(s) of mounting root as read only ? considering the collection of fairly basic questions coming from you in the last few weeks, may I suggest a bit more walking before you try running? Run the system as intended

Re: Upgrade on non-live disk

2009-03-02 Thread Nick Holland
Damon McMahon wrote: Greetings, Is it possible/wise to follow the upgrade instructions on a non-live OpenBSD disk mounted on /altroot? I have a second drive I use as a non-live mirror with dd(1); can I use the Upgrading without install kernel instructions to upgrade this disk by mounting

Re: reboot on ath0 (Atheros AR5413 rev 0x01) using 4.5-snapshot

2009-03-02 Thread Nick Holland
FRLinux wrote: Hello, I am using 4.5 snapshots from 28022009 and using the atheros chipset AR5413, the system just reboots when trying to set it as an access point. On the same soekris using the AR5212 does not make the box reboot (although I am still trying to configure it right) could

Re: Acer Aspire One freeze with Atheros AR5424 on OpenBSD 4.5

2009-03-16 Thread Nick Holland
Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Hello, I send this messages to b...@openbsd.org a few days ago. I don't know if this is the all the information the developers need. Anyway I would like to create this thread just for search purposes...may be there is more people with the same problem. I found a

Re: Install freezes on macppc

2009-03-21 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Barowy wrote: Hello everyone, A little searching on the lists and Google don't reveal anyone else having this problem, so I thought I'd ask for help. I originally tried installing 4.3 on this machine awhile back, and when I ran into this problem, I had other things to do, so I

Re: Install freezes on macppc

2009-03-21 Thread Nick Holland
J.C. Roberts wrote: ... I've got no clue what kind of serial connector is used on your G4 Sawtooth, but if it uses MiniDIN-8F, you can easily find a converter to DE-9. Run a null-modem cable between the G4 and your x86. well..here's another feature of the newer MacPPC systems: no serial port.

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-21 Thread Nick Holland
Frothingdog.ca wrote: I'm not sure of the command to run. Can you elaberate on the command. Please keep in mind I'm pretty new to this. How about just getting a 1G CF card, and doing a normal install? What do you gain by inflicting this pain upon yourself?

Re: snapshot upgrades

2009-03-21 Thread Nick Holland
Mark Bucciarelli wrote: Is there danger in upgrading to the latest snapshot using a script? Usually, or edge case? - fetch tarballs and kernels - run sysmerge -s etc*.tgz - run sysmerge -x xetc*.tgz as pointed out already, these are interactive programs... - extract tarballs to

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-22 Thread Nick Holland
are doing on a real computer. Nick Holland wrote: How about just getting a 1G CF card, and doing a normal install? What do you gain by inflicting this pain upon yourself? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemBoot Nick.

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-24 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hi there, this is for the dying breed of fdisk gurus... prepare some snacks, it's long. i am about to install openbsd -current (feb 28) on a notebook with a 320G hard drive in IDE mode, although it is AHCI really. bsd.rd dmesg at the end. my goal is to have the

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Nick Holland
Robert wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Frothingdog.ca marro...@hotmail.com wrote: Ran into another small snag. Working on installing netstat, I did the exact same thing I did with MTR however it still doesn't work. Gives me a /dev/drum error. And I can't seem to copy

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-03-31 Thread Nick Holland
to be designed by people who think the IBM AT way is The Way to do things... hmm, on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:34:38PM -0400, Nick Holland said that I really don't want to ignore what you call an exotic geometry. A lot of people seem to think there is something standard about what you are calling n

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-01 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 05:05:10AM +0200, frantisek holop said that i wonder what will happen when 65536/255/63 is reached, what kind of frankenstein translation table will come into life just to save c/h/s again. maybe there will come an LBA only age, i mean

Re: European orders

2009-04-01 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Seuffert wrote: ... I don't care what you do for a living. If it's not enough get a job and work like anybody else. Rumor is, he'll be in the cube next to yours starting Monday... Nick. (doing his part to drum up donations to keep this from coming true)

Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour

2009-04-02 Thread Nick Holland
J.C. Roberts wrote: ... On a the lower and fundamental levels, solid state storage does not have the limitations or organization of rotating storage (disks), but none the less, in current products the new tech has been (intentionally) impaired and implemented with the old ideas to provide

Re: 2 seperate questions: segmentation fault and powerdown issue

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Holland
Theodore Wynnychenko wrote: Hello: I hope these questions are not off topic. I have been working with the 4.4 release for the last few months (learning something new keeps brain cells alive). I got an old P2 or P3 (?) up and running as a firewall at home. It appears to be very stable,

Re: where to order now ?

2009-04-11 Thread Nick Holland
Ingo Schwarze wrote: ... I think it *needs* to be done privately. I hate to say so, but that doesn't agree with my experience. Private communication was still reasonably civil, but led to nothing. When i went public, the part of the problem i was directly involved in got resolved quickly.

Re: Serial connection settings on Sun Ultra 1

2009-04-12 Thread Nick Holland
Aapo Lehtinen wrote: Hello I'm trying to get Sun Fire V100 working using old ultra 1 machine (obsd4.4/sparc64) as terminal. I'm using tip(1). The problem is connection dies easily with Lost Carrier. [EOT]. Now, I'm bit new to using serial connections so I've only tried tweaking /etc/ttys

Re: Low power OpenBSD machine

2009-04-13 Thread Nick Holland
Timothy Hume wrote: Hi, My current PC is not very healthy. I am considering building a new low power consumption machine. I want something a bit more powerful than a Soekris, but it doesn't have to be the fastest machine around. I will be using the machine for web browsing, Email, managing my

Re: Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame on RAMDISK_CD

2009-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
Vadim Zhukov wrote: Hello all. Is there any particular reason to not have RAIDFrame built-in in RAMDISK_CD kernels? I mean, are there any restrictions, except kernel/ramdisk size, which are not the case with RAMDISK_CD, obviously? Maybe I missed something digging through Google output

Re: Live OpenBSD Bootable i386 CD

2009-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
new_guy wrote: I'm interested in building a live, bootable OpenBSD CD for forensics, cloning and data recovery. Basically, boot and try to automatically bring up any existing network interface. I'm not interesated in a GUI or play things... only good, old-fashioned Unix tools like dd, netcat,

Re: sendmail: cannot open /var/spool/mqueue

2009-04-20 Thread Nick Holland
Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: Has anyone seen this before in /var/log/maillog? Apr 20 08:37:51 srv1 sm-mta[10664]: n3K6bpjJ010664: SYSERR(root): gatherq: cannot open /var/spool/mqueue: No such file or directory Apr 20 08:38:52 srv1 sm-mta[15383]: filesys_update failed: No such file or

Re: ThinkPad T60 audible bell *very* loud

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Holland
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-04-21, LEVAI Daniel l...@ecentrum.hu wrote: I'm using this ThinkPad T60, and just realized that if using an earphone, the console's audible bell is blowing my ears off. I couldn't find anything relevant in mixerctl -a output, nevertheless I've changed every

Re: newfs changes fstype from RAID to 4.2BSD?

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Holland
kell...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to have everything except /home mounted on wd0, with /home mounted on a RAID 1 array comprising wd1a and wd2a. There are no other partitions on wd1 and wd2. (Unless you count the c partition.) I tried to prepare wd1 and wd2 with: # fdisk -i wd1 #

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Nick Holland
Jean-Francois wrote: Hi All, My question is in two parts. First considering the default install, assuming that one box should be only used for exapample as a firewall, how good is the security level ? what kind of rating system are you looking for? My answer is, better than anything

Re: Auto allocations in 4.6 with big drives and bios limitations

2009-04-26 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Ouellet wrote: Hi, First off. I wanted to take a little time to thank you for making the install even simpler and faster. Who would have thought that a simple install could be made simpler. You guys did it again! On a side note, I have a question on the auto partition as I see

Re: installing i386 filesets with a amd64 cd.... possible?

2009-04-27 Thread Nick Holland
Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:16:55PM -0400, unix3 wrote: Hi, I want to know if there would be any incompatibility if I use the amd64 install cd to call a http server with the i386 filesets and install them.. is this safe? Thanks Since the install process

Re: OpenBSD install question

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Holland
Chuck Robey wrote: (I sure hope I was clear in my description, go ahead and complain if I wasn't, I'll try again) complain! :) I'm going to end up nit-picking your language, but mostly because, well, I'm confused. And no one else is responding, so I am going to take a wild guess that I might

Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

2009-05-01 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Ouellet wrote: ... He put the CD 4.5 in his laptop and booted from it. Then started the install but at the question do you want to use all the disk space for OpenBSD he did answer Yes. Right after that even he realize it was wrong and didn't proceed to anything else, just did CTL-C

Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

2009-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Ouellet wrote: Nick Holland wrote: the Use entire disk question changes no more than 512 bytes on your disk. That's the good news. The significance of that 512 bytes is the problem. (and while 512 bytes doesn't sound that bad, that's 2^(512*8) combinations...so we still gotta do

Re: How do I enable bsd.mp kernel in 4.4/i386?

2009-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
Parvinder Bhasin wrote: Another way would be through creating/editing /etc/boot.conf and having an entry for the mp kernel ex: boot wd0a:/bsd.mp where wd0a is your root partition. -Parvinder Bhasin but don't do it this way. not only did it not improve things in the past, it will make

Re: sysmerge detects changes in files patched by upgrade45.patch

2009-05-04 Thread Nick Holland
Siju George wrote: Hi, I followed http://www.openbsd.com/faq/upgrade45.html and upgraded from my OpenBSD 4.4 to 4.5 I applied the patch file upgrade45.patch correctly. but when I ran sysmerge as said in the final steps section it again showed differences between the installed versions and

Re: Installboot to usb drive?

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Holland
L. V. Lammert wrote: Trying to build a replacement HD, I did an installboot to the drive when it was connected via USB adapter. That DNW, however, .. but I'm not sure if was an issue installing to a USAB drive or something lse happened. Is there any issue with changing the drive ID after

Re: Installboot to usb drive?

2009-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 08:28 PM 5/5/2009 -0400, you wrote: ... Usual error is to forget that boot specified on the installboot command line is not the one in the installboot directory or your current root partition, but rather the /boot that exists on the root partition of the target drive

Re: how to configure Grub 0.97 for booting my OpenBSD 4.5

2009-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
Feifei (7I7I) wrote: Hi, guys, I just install the OpenBSD 4.5, but my grub configuration can't boot it. Before that, I use OpenBSD 4.2, it is a new installation, not upgrade. ... It works well with the OpenBSD 4.2, But , if I use it to boot 4.5, I only get a error : Starting up ...

Re: install questions

2012-03-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/18/12 10:10, fullmoon wrote: I've downloaded the /install50.iso (x86) and verified the sha-256. Under Ubuntu 11.10 running the virtualbox 4.1.10-76795~Ubuntu~oneiric from the Oracle site, I've set up a virtual machine to go through the install process and learn how not to shoot

Re: ctrl+alt+backspace bypasses xlock and allows terminal access

2012-03-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 03/23/12 22:02, Brett wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:43:53 +0100 Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Brett brett.ma...@gmx.com [2012-03-24 01:56]: its normal behaviour. from xorg.conf(5): Option DontZap boolean This disallows the use of the Terminate_Server XKB

Re: LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/06/12 07:35, Dan Shechter wrote: Hi, Sorry for the newbe question, but what is wrong with what he is doing? Best regards, Dan First of all, OpenBSD is completely free software. we can not, nor do we want to stop anyone from making their own project (or product) based on OpenBSD. That

Re: Hi-Five OpenBSD World - New installation - Power management questions

2012-04-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 04/11/12 17:13, Michael Davies wrote: ... I attach at the bottom of this e-mail my dmesg output for my relatively simple platform for the NAS (I knoww, it's a waste of an excellent OS! But I am after the security): not at all. Its a fine general purpose OS, too. :) ... However, I

Re: Can't install rrdtool on OpenBSD 5.0

2012-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/02/12 16:47, Nicolas Pence wrote: Hi, if you upgrade to 5.1 you'll have the same problem (but for libfreetype.so.18.1). You don't really need to install the complete xbase, oh, please don't. just that specific library, you can do it like this (change the values for your release and

Re: OpenBSD 5.1 i386- ports vs packages

2012-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/07/2012 01:29 PM, Dimitry T wrote: Thank you all for the detailed answers. Is there any changes in compiling if recompile kernel with option machine i686, now uname shows i386? Sure. Big change. You hurt yourself. Usually badly. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#WhySrc

Re: Flashboot for OpenBSD 5.1 is now available

2012-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/07/12 00:52, Johan Ryberg wrote: Hi. Not stupid at all. Flashboot is not intended to replace a standard OpenBSD installation and if you want to use a normal installation on a USB stick then you are probably best off with the installation process that you described. Flashboot is

Re: 4.4 m68k packages?

2012-05-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/10/12 17:56, David Diggles wrote: Were there ever 4.4 m68k packages? I can only find 4.3 packages for m68k on ftp sites. Or, is it possible to cross compile for m68k arch on i386? Or if I can't compile 4.4 packages either cross compile, or on the SE/30 itself, I will downgrade the

Re: a live cd/dvd?

2012-05-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/11/12 21:46, Eric Oyen wrote: hello everyone. I was thinking that if we had a live image (A full running system) with an installer, we could have easier installations for the blind (and others as well). Now, some systems have the ability to port the screen to a local serial port

Re: a live cd/dvd?

2012-05-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/12/12 14:16, Tyler Morgan wrote: On 5/11/2012 8:48 PM, Nick Holland wrote: I suspect the interest in [an OpenBSD Live CD] is rapidly approaching zero. Its a concept who's time has come...and gone, I think. Five or six years ago, yeah...cool. Today...why?. A live CD gives you a very

Re: unbound

2012-05-20 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/20/12 17:49, David Diggles wrote: Ok, I am interested in opinions on why one should migrate from BIND to unbound? 1) It is unlikely there will be any more updates to BIND9 in OpenBSD base install. 2) It is even more unlikely that the comedyfest that BIND10 appears to be added to OpenBSD

Re: spamd 250 messages

2012-05-30 Thread Nick Holland
On 05/30/12 06:56, Jan Stary wrote: On May 30 10:34:31, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:25:01AM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: On May 29 22:22:35, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:53:40PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: It seems that during the SMTP dialogue, spamd

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
Otto gave you a good answer here, but I had already provided lots of detail, so I'm sending anyway. :) On 06/01/2012 01:04 PM, Scott McEachern wrote: Hello everyone, I'm hoping that I'm missing something simple (like usual) and maybe someone could straighten me out. I'm trying to add a pair

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/01/2012 03:26 PM, Martin Schrvder wrote: 2012/6/1 Tyler Morgantyl...@tradetech.net: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive That doesn't mention GPT, which is the problem with drives2TB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Can OpenBSD already boot from a 4TB

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/05/2012 07:40 AM, David Diggles wrote: ... What a bummer, the Dell Precision 690 I am currently trying does not support 2TB on its SAS or SATA controller. Oddly, the SATA controller presents it correctly as 2.8T, but it will not mount. The SAS controller on the other hand, presents it

Re: OT: bitrig relation to OpenBSD

2012-06-09 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/09/12 14:01, Jiri B wrote: Hi, is bitrig fork just because of license, goals issue or is this also because some disagreements between developers? I think you ask the wrong people. Not sure why you would ask here, rather than the people who actually DID the fork. ... Anyway, people can

Re: Solid state disk geometry

2012-06-11 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/11/12 19:25, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: Dear Mailing Listeners, Let me know, please, whether it makes sense to modify disk geometry for solid state disks? no Which meaning have the default values of cylinders, heads, and sectors for these devices? roughly the exact same thing it

Re: let user can only run one command (passwd)?

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/14/12 06:00, f5b wrote: I have setup OpenSMTPD + dovecot + roundcube simple mail server. People can ssh log in to the OpenBSD box, change their password using command passwd, the system account password is also the mail account password. So, for security reason, how to let the user

Re: let user can only run one command (passwd)?

2012-06-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/14/2012 08:55 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: sshd_config ChrootDirectory not suit our needs. Why doesn't it suit your needs (time to work out how to do it?), you could just use a locked down file permission system perhaps even including secondary groups. Force command might come in handy

Re: 8-ports serial card compatible with OpenBSD

2012-06-17 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/17/12 18:24, Jiri B wrote: Hello, could anybody recommend OpenBSD compatible 8-ports serial card? I'd like to build a small console server. Thank you. jirib So cheap, it's worth a try: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124099 I bought a few of these cards a

Re: Seagate Expansion 3T disk works via USB but not via SATA

2012-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/21/12 18:02, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:26:23AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:54:55PM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: It seems the lba48 capacity values being pulled out aren't sane for whatever reason. Can you try switch the

Re: macppc will it survive?

2012-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/21/2012 01:27 PM, Peter J. Philipp wrote: Hi, Since deraadt mentioned the names of people who left to bitrig and I'm wondering what will happen to the macppc port? Is it going to go the route of the mac68k port too? I saw some commits earlier on it so that got my hopes up... I have a

Re: daily.local ROOTBACKUP, disklabel problem?

2012-06-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/26/2012 03:00 PM, Darrel wrote: On OpenBSD50: 14:25:44 # cat /etc/fstab bb128e900f20094a.b none swap sw bb128e900f20094a.a / ffs rw 1 1 #bb128e900f20094a.d /altroot ffs xx 0 0 /dev/wd0d /altroot ffs xx 0 0 bb128e900f20094a.k /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 bb128e900f20094a.e /tmp ffs

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/27/2012 10:19 AM, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Really? Can we do that? Seems, by this thread and previous about this subject, that nobody is waiting for any diffs regarding this - Alvaro Of course, you can do anything you wish. No one is EXPECTING quality diffs, for our

Re: DHCPD give lease to specific machine brand

2012-06-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/27/2012 11:58 AM, sven falempin wrote: only way ? http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.1/packages/i386/isc-dhcp-server-4.2.3.2.tgz OpenBSD's dhcpd is based on ISC's DHCP server, stripped down to the simplest standard needs. This was done to keep the code clean, auditable and

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread Nick Holland
On 06/27/12 17:58, Peter Laufenberg wrote: Speaking personally, I wouldn't mind if OpenBSD's website were updated. Just no one has volunteered yet to do the dirty work of actually coming up with a functional design and then updating the HTML. Talk is cheap. I'm willing to indirectly

Re: Invallid signature in the boot block 2700

2012-07-03 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/03/2012 02:23 PM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, I messed up my wife's USB (FAT16) by accidentally pulling it from my OpenBSD box before it was completely umounted. Running fsck_msdos is producing message Invalid signature in the boot block 2700 Windows 7 is reporting USB drive as

Re: Running OpenBSD on an Acer Aspire One 110L netbook

2012-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/04/12 12:33, mlambda wrote: Before installing OpenBSD on my Acer Aspire One 110L netbook, I've tried to run it from a USB flash drive and have noticed the following problems (I have also tried the 5.1 release and an earlier snapshot, they showed the same problems): I've been running my

Re: Running OpenBSD on an Acer Aspire One 110L netbook

2012-07-06 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/06/12 06:17, David Coppa wrote: On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: ... N.B. you would need a MiniPCIE card, not MiniPCI. This card, for example, works beautifully with OpenBSD:

Re: cvsync - creating empty dir 'cvsync'

2012-07-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/13/12 19:38, Jiri B wrote: Hello, does anybody know why does cvsync create empty 'cvsync' dir inside the prefix for repositories? The config is same style as on OpenBSD page with refuse file excluding 'X11' and 'XF4'. (here localhost is ftp5.eu.openbsd.org via http proxy) #

Re: is it legal?

2012-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/23/2012 12:01 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: http://www.gwebtools.com/ns-spy/put your primary or secondary server here Anyone know from what data does it get such an info? By scanning every possible registered domain ? Could be by recording the info used by a dns resolver they manage. I

Re: is it legal?

2012-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/23/2012 12:53 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Could be by recording the info used by a dns resolver they manage. I suspect exactly what i thing they do. Actually, they give a pretty good idea how they do what they do on the website: How it works? We have a system running in

Re: That 'C.......org' website

2012-07-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 07/26/12 06:04, Peter Laufenberg wrote: ... That's bullshit; Google's pagerank means more people are linking to C.l, period. yeah... and by providing another almost 50 pages in every e-mail archive with that website in the topic, we've just perpetuated the problem. Big time. Oops.

Re: getty

2012-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/05/12 07:14, Friedrich Locke wrote: I would like to change /etc/ttys to get, for instance: ttyC3 /usr/libexec/getty std.192600 vt220 on secure instead of : ttyC3 /usr/libexec/getty std.9600 vt220 on secure Why? This is not a serial console. (for those that missed

Re: softraid 5 current state?

2012-08-06 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/06/12 17:22, Geoff Steckel wrote: Does anyone know what the current state of softraid 5 is? The man page says rebuild and scrub are not supported. The last checkin was about 6 months ago. sounds like your question is answered. Scrub and rebuild are critical for RAID5, if that wasn't

Re: Dilemma: between OpenBSD and NetBSD

2012-08-12 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/12/12 06:32, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: On 2012-08-11 18:43:56, Miod Vallat miod () online ! fr wrote: You will find idiots on @misc. It's one of the few things not in the FAQ. We'd rather not have idiots in the FAQ (-: Miod Alfred E. Neumann was in FAQ until May; the precedent is

Re: /etc/rc.d/httpd script : how to use it ?

2012-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/28/12 06:34, Wesley wrote: Hi, I use OpenBSD 5.1 RELEASE. To start Apache, i usually use this command : '/usr/sbin/apachectl start' This, works good. Therefore, i tried to do the same using : '/etc/rc.d/httpd start' Nothing happens. What is the use of this last one ? Thank you

Re: /etc/rc.d/httpd script : how to use it ?

2012-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
it won't work on reboot, too. Nick. Have a good day. Regards, Wesley. Le 2012-08-28 15:04, Nick Holland a écrit : On 08/28/12 06:34, Wesley wrote: # echo 'httpd_flags=' /etc/rc.conf.local and try again: # /etc/rc.d/httpd start httpd(ok) # ta-da! Curiously, this exact example

Re: Apache on OpenBSD 5.2 ?

2012-09-05 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/05/12 06:15, Mik J wrote: Hello, The web page http://www.openbsd.org/52.htmlsays Added nginx(8), an HTTP server, reverse proxy server and mail proxy server. Does it mean that Apache 1.3 will be removed from the default install ? Thank you someday, perhaps. Maybe even probably.

Re: OpenBSD hangs hard on a flashrd system with either 5.2 current or 5.1 stable with athn(4) patches

2012-09-07 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/07/12 03:58, Peter Kay wrote: I have a Pentium III system running 5.1 current with athn(4) hostap power saving patches or 5.2 current. It has the slightly unusual configuration of an ISA video card (X not used) and a 64 bit PCI NIC hacked to run in a 32 bit slot, but is otherwise a bog

Re: Building a single driver in the source tree

2012-09-14 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/14/12 20:16, jordon wrote: I am having trouble getting a Hifn7751 to work in an old Soekris box. I want to dig in and see if I can figure out what is going on but I am very new to this. From /usr/src/sys/dev/pci, I typed make hifn7751, but that leads to a lot of compiler errors. Is

Re: How to PROVE your system is up to date?

2012-09-18 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/18/2012 12:36 PM, Ed Flecko wrote: I have State and Federal regulators that want me to PROVE (since their only used to looking at Micro$oft servers) my OBSD 5.1 server is up to date, and there are no outstanding patches that need to be applied. *I* know that's the case, because I follow

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