Re: IRC

2024-03-21 Thread Brett Lymn
On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 03:28:02PM -0400, Justin Parrott wrote: > Anybody want to talk about an IRC client? > I have used irssi for a long time. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now

Re: makewhatis is missing on netbsd 6.1.4

2024-02-24 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 07:22:54PM +, xuser wrote: > makewhatis is missing on netbsd 6.1.4 what sould i do? > update to a supported release. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now

Re: X11 modular-xorg

2023-12-30 Thread Brett Lymn
erm ... ' ? > No. Have a read of the doom legacy documentation about how to set the video mode. > GTX-1660 says it wants 1920x1080. > Indeed but unless you tell doomlegacy otherwise it will set the display to 320x200 and that is what your monitor is complaining about - it doesnt support tha

Re: X11 modular-xorg

2023-12-28 Thread Brett Lymn
correctly. It sounds like doom is correctly mode setting the resolution to one that your monitor will not support, hence the floating rectangle. Try running doom in windowed mode or forcing the resolution using height and width to specify a supported resolution for your monitor.. -- Brett Lymn

Re: mutt and gmail on NetBSD

2023-12-17 Thread Brett Lymn
didn't provide a facility for sending email. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: mutt and gmail on NetBSD

2023-12-14 Thread Brett Lymn
aying. The setup I use is here: http://implementality.blogspot.com/2013/07/netbsd-sendmail-and-smtp-auth.html It is a bit old but it works for me and, yeah, sendmail because... reasons. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

2023-12-12 Thread Brett Lymn
you said that extra 50Gb would not make much difference to your ZFS but just calling it out :) -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

2023-12-11 Thread Brett Lymn
epends on what you put in it! Yes, that is the problem and it is really painful when you undershoot or even overshoot on other partitions and find you really need that space elsewhere. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewol

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-28 Thread Brett Lymn
e > couldn't handle writes to some of the registers without some structural > changes. > OK - here are the diffs, I just apply the gen 8 work arounds, there is a couple of complaints but they don't seem to break anything but, likewise, they may be pointless... -- Brett Lymn -- Sent

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-25 Thread Brett Lymn
hat would indicate a totally new product instead of an iteration on a previous one. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-22 Thread Brett Lymn
interested to try to see if that fixes the artifacts you are seeing. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-17 Thread Brett Lymn
> > I've just popped it into my local tree and I'm giving it a try :) > Very interested in the results of this. I haven't had decent X since I updated. Vesa works but the resolution is pathetic and suspend/resume does not work. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "W

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-15 Thread Brett Lymn
e of the PCI mapping is 0 and, hence, the kernel panic. I am not really experienced in the PCI mechanics but I was thinking of copying the code from elsewhere that checks the sizes of all the BARs of memory type and returning that sum. Is that right? anyone? -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD dev

Re: X on 10.0 RC1 is unusable on my laptop

2023-11-14 Thread Brett Lymn
will probe and attach early versions but it is a bit hit and miss whether it will work or not due to hitting hardware errors. The drm driver appears to be missing some gen 7 devices - like the one in my laptop so you may get a probe failure with that. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device.

Re: Rackmount Server for NetBSD in 2023

2023-11-14 Thread Brett Lymn
has changed from ciss. I'm sorry, I can't recall what the new one requires but it wasn't supported when I tried. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Not a blocker for 10.0: synaptics touchpad lies about coordinates

2023-11-11 Thread Brett Lymn
nded with blymn@ when 10 was branched and he wanted to make a > proper fix, but apparently that didn't make it into 10.0. > Sorry, I updated to NetBSD 10 on my laptop and have not had X since, that has soaked a lot of my hack time working on fixing that problem. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from

Re: segfault in libterminfo with ncurses with nethack

2023-09-02 Thread Brett Lymn
mit a PR and I will look at it when I have a chance. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: /dev/tty01 will not open on Beaglebone Black

2023-09-01 Thread Brett Lymn
you can get into ddb and get a backtrace there. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: segfault in libterminfo with ncurses with nethack

2023-09-01 Thread Brett Lymn
ream code by using the available defines in both ncurses and our curses instead of hard coded values that happen to match ncurses but has triggered very real improvements to the builtin curses. There are big improvements in the NetBSD 10 curses all due to pkgsrc bug reports. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from

Re: segfault in libterminfo with ncurses with nethack

2023-09-01 Thread Brett Lymn
perform sweeps of the PR database for curses related problems every now and then. There was a major update to the refresh code between 9 and 10 driven by problems raised by packages. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "

Re: segfault in libterminfo with ncurses with nethack

2023-08-31 Thread Brett Lymn
. > ok, so what version of NetBSD? and is there a PR for this? If there isnt a PR then please submit one. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: /dev/tty01 will not open on Beaglebone Black

2023-08-31 Thread Brett Lymn
handshaking that is missing? Is DTR asserted? If you cannot do the hardware signalling you may need to set the line discipline on the tty to disable hardware controls. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolve

Re: dhcpd(8) and unused or old MAC addresses

2023-08-24 Thread Brett Lymn
s also spec-compliant behavior. > > With dhcpd? > Yes, isc-dhcp-server. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: dhcpd(8) and unused or old MAC addresses

2023-08-23 Thread Brett Lymn
ux server where a vm I was constantly rebuilding would get a different IP despite the interface MAC being the same every time. As long as it doesn't double allocate it really shouldn't matter if dhpcd hands out the same address to something reappearing after the lease time has expired it. --

Re: dhcpd(8) and unused or old MAC addresses

2023-08-22 Thread Brett Lymn
be released quickly. The balance being if you have devices that you want having the same address are off for a while then they may not get the same address again. For those you could statically assing a particular mac address an IP and have another part of the range available for dynamic allocation.

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-27 Thread Brett Lymn
ence with ZFS on Solaris, these numbers are not unique to NetBSD. ZFS is a notorious memory pig regardless of the OS :) -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Contribute/Volunteer

2023-05-28 Thread Brett Lymn
kpad or some other device that is missing a driver, make it work and submit a PR with the code. Also interact on the mailing lists helping out and asking questions about what you are trying to do. Consistent, quality contributors get noticed and is the surest path to becoming a developer prope

Re: HUION tablet

2023-05-18 Thread Brett Lymn
b hid trackpads and digitisers. > > Is somebody using it right now? Has somebody tryed it with the base > X? > It is on my work queue but I am distracted with other things at the moment. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mea

Re: Which ARM SBC would work well with NetBSD?

2023-03-10 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 05:30:56PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > > But you could put a mosfet on the main power supply and drive it with a > GPIO :) > Or just buy a cheap timer switch to turn the power supply off and on regularly... -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device.

Re: NetBSD on older Macbook Pro: Wi-Fi and trackpad

2022-12-22 Thread Brett Lymn
could take the underlying raw finger positions and perform things like button emulation, two finger scroll, scrolling regions and the like. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Does any common mortals here (not programmers or sysads) use NetBSD as their daily productivity driver?

2022-10-10 Thread Brett Lymn
trackpad using hw.synaptics.movement_enable=0 -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Does any common mortals here (not programmers or sysads) use NetBSD as their daily productivity driver?

2022-09-27 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 09:12:36AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Arduino IDE (haven't tried) > FWiw, this worked the last time I tried it on NetBSD. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were

Re: LTFS support for HP tape drive devices

2022-07-16 Thread Brett Lymn
get a 5 because they were too expensive and I couldnt read my 2 tapes on a 5 drive. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: LTFS support for HP tape drive devices

2022-07-14 Thread Brett Lymn
ations online? > It would appear so. My guess is it is a pretty niche thing. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: LTFS support for HP tape drive devices

2022-07-13 Thread Brett Lymn
all but if anyone is motivated to do the implementation I can help out with testing I have LTO 2 and LTO 4 tape drives. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Setting keyboard layout on xterm

2022-06-30 Thread Brett Lymn
No, there is a complete X distribution in xsrc which is part of the NetBSD src, you don't need to install X from pkgsrc, you just need the X sets. There is a version of X in pkgsrc so people can choose either the in-tree or pkgsrc version. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are w

Re: Synaptics button - movement issues

2021-11-25 Thread Brett Lymn
context-menu! > As Chavdar has said, this is fixed in -current, I recently committed a rework of the synaptics driver part of which makes the button region, optionally, not report movements - this is on by default for clickpads which is the type of device you have. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetB

Re: Firefox (other GTK3 apps?) sends PDF to PostScript printer

2021-08-14 Thread Brett Lymn
elcome to what the rest of the world has been putting up with for decades. Just about everywhere else apart from the US uses the metric system but just about everything had to be tweaked, sometimes unsuccessfully, to use metric. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: LTO support

2021-08-12 Thread Brett Lymn
hba and fibre to make them go and I don't think NetBSD has any FC drivers. All my drives are the old style paralell scsi, of course, you need a scsi card for those. I am not 100% certain but I expect the SAS drives would work fine too. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are we

Re: backspace in wscons console sends ^H to processes

2021-07-19 Thread Brett Lymn
kernel and old userland dunno. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: backspace in wscons console sends ^H to processes

2021-07-17 Thread Brett Lymn
ently that I have to do the stty erase ^? otherwise I get del characters in vi, this didn't happen prior to the update. My usual update method is to build into a separate install dir, tar the results over / and then run postinstall so maybe I have missed something. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent fro

Re: IPF rules

2021-07-03 Thread Brett Lymn
-w 4 = 4 second timeout so you don't wait forever). If there's a > network problem the connection will timeout or you'll get an error. Here are > examples: > Yes, this would be good to try. > > And I use mail.google.com somewhat often and it goes to the same place as > gmail.com. &

Re: IPF rules

2021-07-02 Thread Brett Lymn
rity Alert" popup, > and the mouse gets frozen. I need to press the button, and reboot. > The site you probably want is gmail.com unless you work for google. > How much of this prob is IPF and how much is Google? > Probably neither, the previous comments about not breaking DNS stand regardles

Re: IPF rules

2021-07-01 Thread Brett Lymn
I say wrong?) - if a DNS response won't fit into a UDP packet then the DNS server will reply to the client telling it to try over tcp. If your firewall doesn't allow that to happen there may be delays in name resolution which could cause the appearance that gmail is slow. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent f

Re: Driver for wireless card

2021-06-15 Thread Brett Lymn
job. I have used edimax adaptors in the past but you need to do some careful research to ensure the one you get has a supported chipset. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: NetBSD 9.1 amd64 base X11: hypersensitive touchpad

2021-04-15 Thread Brett Lymn
ork too. That error means the trackpad did not respond with the right value when asked to identify itself. Setting PMSDEBUG would be very helpful to see what is going on. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-03 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 09:51:48PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brett Lymn wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > SPF identifies authorized IP addresses for domains in the message > > > envelope. Therefore the reverse DNS pointer record does not matter in > > > &

Re: postfix for 2 domains on 1 vps 1 ip

2021-01-02 Thread Brett Lymn
and reject the mail if the addresses don't match. I can't give specific examples, I cannot remember, but they exist so keep an eye out for rejected mails. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

2020-11-25 Thread Brett Lymn
to the casual bystander but if you have the skills it can get you over the line - the internals of a hard disk are pretty simple and robust, most failures are the electronics that make it go. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: .cshrc elm and PIDs

2020-11-23 Thread Brett Lymn
ked time to fix the code so I, with regret, switched to another MUA. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

2020-11-23 Thread Brett Lymn
e past to good effect. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Tunneling in NetBSD

2020-11-18 Thread Brett Lymn
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 07:08:38AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote: > > I will dig up the document I wrote about the setup. My fuzzy memory is that > there > were no hacks required. Little wonder my memory was fuzzy - I did this 13 years ago. I found the documentation. I did use a r

Re: Tunneling in NetBSD

2020-11-18 Thread Brett Lymn
the base NetBSD or pkgsrc. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Tunneling in NetBSD

2020-11-17 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 10:16:34PM +0100, Bodie wrote: > > Or something way easier? https://www.wireguard.com/ Assuming you are running current... -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now

Re: Tunneling in NetBSD

2020-11-17 Thread Brett Lymn
complex, debugging a psk setup is comparatively easy. Once psk is working switch the auth to what is desired to debug that. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: NetBSD 9.1 upgrade and file system crash - reboot fails

2020-11-02 Thread Brett Lymn
icularly bad for - you don't want to use them for ZFS but for a NTFS/FFS file system they seem to be fine. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: /var/run mechanics

2020-08-07 Thread Brett Lymn
ormation that you need to persist between boots it should be put elsewhere. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Access GPT partitions on LVM volumes (map entry doesn't fit media)

2020-07-21 Thread Brett Lymn
fig (well linuxy equivalent) but the process should be close to the same. I was able to recover all the vm's doing this. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: I finally bricked my NetBSD system

2020-07-20 Thread Brett Lymn
stand why this also is not a good idea. It would be safer to either create a shell alias so you can save keystrokes when you log in or use another account with uid 0 as the favoured login. I set the toor account shell to bash and use that and leave root's shell as default. -- Brett Lymn --

Re: Use network printer from NetBSD

2020-06-26 Thread Brett Lymn
ine, new page resulting in a page coming out of the printer. If that doesnt work then check the sttings for printing language auto swiching perhaps it is off if it is there at all. I am pretty sure on my printer I didnt need to twsak anything. The printer works fine from both wired and wireless

Re: requesting support for persistent memory

2020-06-12 Thread Brett Lymn
ashes.=Using%20simple%2C%20non%2Dnested%20local,the%20event%20of%20a%20crash. Not a recommendation, just pointing it out. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Securing DNS traffic

2020-05-22 Thread Brett Lymn
nning your own name server is either you want a local cache to speed up repeated requests or that you have some domain you need local control over. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-18 Thread Brett Lymn
reconfiguration. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Unable to boot to install 8.1 and 9.0 RC2 on amd64 Laptop

2020-02-11 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 09:50:04PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > Some lines before, I read this: > > pckbc: cmd word write error > > What's that? > > PC keyboard controller - handles the keyboard and, probably, trackpad (mouse). -- Brett Lymn -- Sent fro

Re: reading config files from C

2020-02-02 Thread Brett Lymn
it may be worth investing in learning lex/yacc to do the parsing instead of rolling your own. It is a bit of a learning curve to get going but extending the config language is a lot easier than a roll your own. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "

Re: NetBSD and User Private Groups (Unique Groups)

2020-02-02 Thread Brett Lymn
o 077 so people had to make the choice to share. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: No HDMI output on Lenovo V145, NetBSD 8.0

2019-12-11 Thread Brett Lymn
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 08:52:03AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > Touchpad is still not working. > Dang. Is it getting identified in the dmesg? -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: No HDMI output on Lenovo V145, NetBSD 8.0

2019-12-10 Thread Brett Lymn
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:09:02PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > Touchpad worked on debian though. > It may work in -9 too, at least there is a better chance because support for clickpads was added along with some other improvements. No guarantees though... touchpads are... touchy.

Re: GPG Smartcard not working

2019-11-27 Thread Brett Lymn
may give you some clues as to where the problem is or help someone with more relevant experience help you. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Memory leaks?

2019-11-12 Thread Brett Lymn
these pages can be mapped into multiple processes so just summing SIZE is not a valid thing to do. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Hardware encryption Netbsd

2019-09-08 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 11:03:28AM +0200, Pierre Dupond wrote: > Thanks for your answer but I was thinking to > the AES instructions of the processor which can speed > up a lot the encryption. > > FreeBSD has for that the module AESNI, but I have not seen someting > similar for NetBSD. > Well,

Re: Hardware encryption Netbsd

2019-09-07 Thread Brett Lymn
bly because the effort of shuffling the data into/out of the device is slower than a modern cpu just doing the calculations. A quick search on the internet doesn't show many devices available, the only one I saw was rather expensive too. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are

Re: pam_krb5 on NetBSD

2019-08-11 Thread Brett Lymn
another auth method... -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: State of ZFS in 9.0_BETA

2019-08-11 Thread Brett Lymn
pdating safe and easy. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: NFS client permanent mount points under /mnt?

2019-07-28 Thread Brett Lymn
tem, they can be hard to track down so messy to clean up. Much better to mount the fs where it is supposed to be in the first place. Also, to be nit-picky there is a performance impact from a sym link, the link is read every time it is traversed so you double your reads on a path traversal f

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-25 Thread Brett Lymn
e some sort of buffering to hide the write delay. If you rely on syncing of the mirror components then you still can lose data if the up-to-date component fails before the mirror sync is done. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-24 Thread Brett Lymn
. > Odd - I am on 8.99.26 at the moment but my configuration has been booting fine since around April 2014 when I bought the laptop. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Laptop Recommendations for NetBSD?

2019-06-23 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 06:32:55PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote: > > Mostly, it seems folks don't really run NetBSD on laptops, and if they > do they're silent about it. > As a lot of other people, silent because my laptop is ~5 years old so hardly helpful. Most of my NetBSD is done on a

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

2019-06-23 Thread Brett Lymn
(the > pseudo-device) to make it work. > Have you looked at coda? It is a disconnectable file system that will automatically cache files locally and allow modifications while the file server is unavailable, when the server is available again it will write the changes back to the server. --

Re: fsck: too many inodes

2019-06-19 Thread Brett Lymn
; > Any advice better than restoring backups? > Try an alternate superblock? Use scan_ffs -b to find superblocks and use an alternate with fsck_ffs. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: a decent wifi dongle?

2019-06-03 Thread Brett Lymn
in 15m > distance from the access point. > +1 for edimax adaptors. I was also using one of their nano adaptors with the urtwn driver for years without issue. I only stopped using it because -current now supports my laptops built-in wireless. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. &qu

Re: WiFi adapter recommendations

2019-03-24 Thread Brett Lymn
in the chipset model number can meam big driver differences so check this out carefully including the letters that follwe the numbers in the model. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: mailcap and Microsoft OOXML

2019-03-18 Thread Brett Lymn
At $WORK I can get an email with a bunch of .png images attached, some will have the correct mime type and others will be octet-stream, seemingly on a whim. I can just imagine the eyeball glaze resulting from ranting at somebody that their attachments are not the correct mime type ;) -- Brett

Re: Finding bottlenecks on a proxy server

2019-03-04 Thread Brett Lymn
ad that this has been checked :) I haven't used dansguardian but have structured a very similar chain using a commercial filtering product and had a similar issue as you are having. I think you just need to keep bumping the dansguardian child pool until there are enough processes to handing the peak r

Re: Mailing list manager on NetBSD

2019-01-10 Thread Brett Lymn
t because the code base is old doesn't mean it needs to be thrown out. Escpecially when nothing else covers the same functionality. -- Brett Lymn "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Mailing list manager on NetBSD

2019-01-10 Thread Brett Lymn
likely replacement is maildrop but that does not easily do some things that procmail will do (e.g. pipe mail to a script which I can see people would consider dangerous but damn convenient when processing automated messages) -- Brett Lymn "We are were wolves", "You mean werewol

Re: is powerd supposed to work any more?

2018-12-19 Thread Brett Lymn
some more debug to see what I can find. - Original Message - From: "Brett Lymn" To:"Martin Husemann" Cc: Sent:Wed, 19 Dec 2018 07:50:38 +1030 Subject:Re: is powerd supposed to work any more? On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:29:38PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: >

Re: is powerd supposed to work any more?

2018-12-18 Thread Brett Lymn
. I do have: [ 1.160133] acpilid0 at acpi0 (LID, PNP0C0D): ACPI Lid Switch in dmesg so it looks like the kernel knows about the lid switch, just seems like no events are delivered. -- Brett Lymn "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

is powerd supposed to work any more?

2018-12-17 Thread Brett Lymn
on from powerd to some other mechanism or do I have something wrong? -- Brett Lymn "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

improvements to synaptics two finger scrolling

2018-12-04 Thread Brett Lymn
more. -- Brett Lymn "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Sun widget

2018-11-30 Thread Brett Lymn
u can replace it with a new one. Is it possible the netra was part of some automated test system? -- Brett Lymn "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-19 Thread Brett Lymn
Yes, it sounds like a lot of it is aimed at disaster recovery, when the machine has cratered. At $WORK that usually means somebody's services are down which they normally get agitated about at which point we usually just either have an Oracle field engineer out or have support guiding us. -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-18 Thread Brett Lymn
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 06:53:51PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: > On 11/17/2018 1:52 PM, Brett Lymn wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 02:11:26PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: > >> > >>Yes, but what's the prompt BEFORE that (u-boot>)? And, where do I > >>f

Re: apm command netbsd 8

2018-11-17 Thread Brett Lymn
sier to deal with as > it pretty much just returned a struct from it's ioctl. > I use xbattbar, that works correctly for me. -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-17 Thread Brett Lymn
FW password on the thing then it will be a bit more challenging. > BTW, examining some of the logs suggest it is (was?) running > Solaris 5.10 > That is feasible, Solaris 10 was supported by that platform. Solaris 10 went end of service life at the end of 2017. -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-16 Thread Brett Lymn
ld number: 61032 > SP firmware date: Tue Dec 6 10:59:21 PST 2011 > SP filesystem version: 0.1.22 > > -> ok, that is the SP prompt. Get a console using: start /HOST/console -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.

Re: Netra T5220

2018-11-14 Thread Brett Lymn
ps I might want) Unsure about NetBSD support but do keep in mind that the T5520 and friends are deprecated in Solaris 11.4. You will be stuck on Solaris 11.3 if you take that path... just saying :) -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.

two finger scroll added to synaptics

2018-11-06 Thread Brett Lymn
ngers side by side on the trackpad you should get scroll events instead of mouse events. -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.

Re: Trimming a diskless distribution

2018-10-16 Thread Brett Lymn
t; devices (so I don't have to get monies approved to build prototypes) and > pitch a proof of concept prototype to Management -- to fund REAL > development efforts. > Yes, this is not the first time that has been done. Good Luck :) -- Brett Lymn Let go, or be dragged - Zen proverb.

Re: Trimming a diskless distribution

2018-10-14 Thread Brett Lymn
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 07:13:41PM -0700, Don NetBSD wrote: > On 10/8/2018 2:10 PM, Brett Lymn wrote: > > > >For your purposes surely either just testing on loopback or on the local > >interface from the machine would be sufficient? You just wanted to make > >sure thin

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