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> On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 03:48:49PM +, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > In a situation where a NetBSD machine (9.2 amd64 if it matters) has
> > multiple network adapters each with multiple IP addresses
> > corresponding to diverse domain names, to what are p
In a situation where a NetBSD machine (9.2 amd64 if it matters) has
multiple network adapters each with multiple IP addresses
corresponding to diverse domain names, to what are port numbers
uniquely attached?
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. I'm under some pressure,
because i have tax returns to file, and I can't read the PDF invoices that
need entering into accounting software.
I imagine this is something very obvious I'm missing in X11 configuration -
suggestions please.
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to have them out of action for an extended
period, which is what happened with the three machines I have upgraded
so far.
Thanks again,
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> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
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> > Results are:
> > 1. cron: in pam_vprompt(): no
/security/pam_rootok.so.4
Kind regards,
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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
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> > the cron/rsyncd.conf etc. config in place. I checked that everything
> > ran normally back in July, but now I find /var/log/cron is f
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, though whether I'm clever enough with grep to
write a RE for "a line starting with an alphanumeric followed by any
number of trailing lines beginning with a space character" is to be
doubted.
Any suggestions?
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> On 27/05/2022 17:18, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > 1. How to limit /etc/daily,weekly,monthly so they do not cross nfs mount
> > points? One of my development systems crashes occasionally when left
> > running a long job after hours. It reboots itself,
, when there is
significant nfs service between sites.
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> On Fri, 27 May 2022 at 17:18, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
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> > 1. How to limit /etc/daily,weekly,monthly so they do not cross nfs mount
> > points? One of my development systems crashe
that is sure-fire, and based on an understanding
of nfs clien-side behaviour. I can, of course, reboot, but this is a
customer-facing server in a remote data centre, which otherwise is
functioning properly.
This is 9.2 on amd64, but I don't belkieve for a moment that this is
version-related.
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time ago.
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is a real benefit: it was sweated labour converting our font
collection to be usable with groff (but it is a big collection).
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> At Fri, 4 Mar 2022 17:2
it extensively: I have substantial
software systems which emit *roff source files, it's not just a
manpage generator.
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> This is on amd64, but I doubt that that's relevant.
>
> I have an extensive collection of fonts for PostScript, so
> /usr/share/g
: if I mount_nfs a backup
copy of the same fonts directory on a remote server and point
groff_font/devps at that instead, everything goes back to normal.
Anyone have any insight into why migrating from 7.0 to 9.2 might cause
such a problem?
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> On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 04:27:33PM +, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > FWIW this is what I put in my (Tcl) script:
> >
> > set vendorprod [split [exec /sbin/sysctl -n machdep.dmi.system-vendor \
> > machdep.dmi.system-product machdep.dmi.system-versio
I put in my (Tcl) script:
set vendorprod [split [exec /sbin/sysctl -n machdep.dmi.system-vendor \
machdep.dmi.system-product machdep.dmi.system-version] "\n"]
It turns out that different machines may have either of the last two
blank but not empty, with the product's name arbitrarily in one position or
the other.
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transaction translator
uhub4: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered
uhidev0 at uhub4 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0
uhidev0: Logitech USB Receiver, rev 1.10/15.00, addr 4, iclass 3/1...
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> On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
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> > Is
I can see in /var/run/dmesg.boot, immediately before the line
beginning "mainbus 0" a string identifying the machine's manufacturer
and model name.
Is there some way of accessing this string from a shell-level command?
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Why does NetBSD not have either the preconv preprocessor or the -k
option to groff to cope with utf-8 input, the way Linux and MacOS
distros have? Or is one or the other present in a NetBSD version I
haven't installed yet?
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ternal program over part of a vi buffer. It's not
restricted to vi-in-elm, so elm itself is probably not implicated.
I imagine it's left hanging around in a buffer in the shell and never
gets cleared deown.
Thanks for spending so many action potentials (and glial cell support
- never forget the glia) on my issue.
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guessing that umask is internal to csh, so elm is the last process
to be started from .cshrc. But I'd like to understand what's going on
as well as fix it.
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not know which C library. Vim
fails to display Japanese characters in an xterm, but will if it is
called via a uxterm, which seems to have no manpage for NetBSD.
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Is there any way to access the MAC addresses of network interface
devices programmatically?
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on
yourmachine.prd.co.uk.
I have restarted lpd on the target machine without the -s option.
In the remote /etc/printcap rp=colour, which is the printer name on
the local machine.
What am I missing?
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an easier way forward than other examples
I had seen that were more complex and error prone.
I suppose having had a go at Python I might turn my gaze to Perl...
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You wrote:
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> On 10/22, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > > On 10/22, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> >
OSs
on which success has been reported, but not NetBSD.
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individual mail readers (being of
Jurassic vintage I use elm).
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Well because of the well-defined date/time of the inaccessibility of
our regular mail server, I was able to split the target /var/mail files
and drop in the files from the remote VPS without difficuilty.
Thanks for the help.
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> Steffen Nurpmeso
f RAM, later upgraded to a whole MByte,
with a 40MByte drive. Eventually I ran twelve dumb terminals off it,
and it worked, but that was 35 years ago. But then I go back to the
time when dropping your deck of punch cards was tantamonnt to
ines I have four distinct ways of booting,
including from a DVD-RAM as a last resort, plus a proper remote
management console independent of the motherboard.
Thanks for the thoughtful suggestions (and to the others who replied
off-list).
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> On 7 June 2018 at 14:03, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > I have a remote server (about to be replaced, but still in service and
> > needs to stay that way until a replacement is fully commissioned) that
> > has just developed a single bad sector. The result has
condition without being able to
access it in single user mode (because there is no remote console
access).
How should I proceed?
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then is there the fatal error. Also, if it weren't linked
with -lX11, why would the error message specify the libXext shared
library (which is present and apparently the correct version for
NetBsd 7.0). But
# strings /usr/X11R7/lib/libXext.so.7 | grep XGetRequest
_XGetRequest
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to most, or I'm just no using the right search terms
to identify the issue.
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?
Remedies?
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on the two are quick changes in /etc.
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ncerning the boot filter
(UEFI/Legacy) which I shall pursue - although so far as I am aware I
have done everything in Legacy mode.
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> On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 05:31:28PM +, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > After various helpful discussions off-list,
a long and frustrating
journey, alleviated only by the customary kindly helpfulness of the NetBSD
community.
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in
single-user mode (the real aim of this exercise).
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>
> Hi,
>
> lets take a tour into these things:
>
> Server have serial port and a special option to redirect screen.
> When redirection is on - BIOS is instructed to send all da
. For that I need network access to the console in
single-user mode.
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You wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:15:55PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 03:12:39PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > You have to tell Ne
one, so I
assume this is com0). I this /dev/constty? Might I need to change
its permissions? The remote management controller believes I am
called admin, but at the point where I initially connect there is no
access to the NetBSD passwd file.
Thanks,
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on configuring with an
rlogin - it's very tricky via the USB caddy because all the device
names are wrong.
Does anyone know if this chip is supported/likely to be supported?
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You wrote:
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> Date:Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:52:43 + (UTC
nabled CSM (compatibility
support) and set everything to Legacy mode, hardware RAID is disabled,
the disk is first in the boot priority list, and clearly something is
being read from it, else the "NetBSD MBR boot" line would not appear.
Any suggestions?
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bombardment from .cn and .ru).
/etc/gettytab needed :sp#9600: adding to the Pc entry, and /etc/ttys
needed constty to be edited out.
Kind regards,
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You wrote:
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> After paying more attention:
>
> things think that libc.so. is in /usr/lib sometime
tried changing to match what is on the old machine. I have vague
memories of seeing a similar problem around 15 years ago, but I have
no real grasp of what the issue may be.
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to use RAID. The smallest replacement
I can find is 500Gbyte, and there are only two disk bays in the
chassis. I'm taking the opportunity to put much more RAM on them
at the same time.
Any advice as to the best way to proceed?
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Is there a way of identifying the file that's affected from the fsbn?
Because it's the boot partition and the server is far away I need to
be sure the machine will come up in multi-user mode if I have to
reboot.
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You wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 05, 2
that this server has been under heavy attack
(ssh mostly) for a couple of days from addresses in China.
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), retrying
Sep 5 16:56:49 trafalgar /netbsd: wd0: (uncorrectable data error)
The fsbn is mostly 1005056 but sometimes 1005086.
Server response time is impacted.
I've never had, so never tackled, this kind of issue before. Advice
much appreciated.
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particular to watch out for (apart from getting the
config files right of course)?
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they're not practical.
o
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> st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
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> > Following on from the recent saga of upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0 which
> > assiduous readers may recall, the servers were re-installed in their
> > racks i
for shutdown(8) and fastboot(8) that
there is provision related to this kind of circumstance. Would it
simply be a matter of having an empty file named /fastboot in the root
directory? If it matters, these are i386 machines.
Any gotchas with this approach?
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-device and attaches ld*, but the disk have not been
configured properly for this. So I built a custom kernel, installed
new bootblocks, and everything is runing fine now.
Thanks to all who helped
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/bootxx_ffsv1
>
> cp -p /usr/mdec/boot /
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> --=-=-=
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> -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-
> Version: GnuPG v1
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> iEYEARECAAYFAle174EACgkQ+vesoDJhHiUo6gCgio7KLFvUm+L6xnuQmmfJmW5r
> tKcAoK55mI/ir/Y
gical block driver: man 4 ld
>
> The system doesn't have a hardware raid controller on it does it??
>
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n my other 7.0 systems a /kern in the filesystem and in
> /etc/fstab. Should I be setting this up (and how)>
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> You wrote:
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> > On August 18, 2016 9:45:31 AM EDT, st...@prd.co.uk wrote:
> > >Still u
filesystem, swap device etc., whereas I need
them to boot non-interactively.
I see in my other 7.0 systems a /kern in the filesystem and in
/etc/fstab. Should I be setting this up (and how)>
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You wrote:
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> On August 18, 2016 9:45:31 AM EDT, st...@
about to start upgrading the 3.0 system to 7.0 - this already had
a working PAM configuration, which I don't want to trash...
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device, swap device etc.)?
It's been a long day, and I don't get to do this sort of thing very
often.
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, and set up a sensible
layour for the rest of the disk while keeping a bootable root
partition.
All thoughts welcome.
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You wrote:
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> st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> > While I have them here I want t
before a certain stage had been reached.
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You wrote:
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> => I have two servers I have just retrieved from their regular home in a
> => data centre some distance away. (Less tha opportune interventions by
> => the staff there meant t
in their absence.
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You wrote:
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> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
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> > Can anyone suggest a good way forward with X11 window managers using
> > X11R& (I'm in the processw of moving to amd64 7.0). For many years I
> > have used IceWM, but the pkgsrc binary
mwm binary fails in the same way. But twm works (does
anyone actually use twm these days?).o
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as well?
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You wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:51:06 -0400
> Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
>
> > st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
> >
> > > vendor 0x10ec product 0x8179 (miscel
ss devices access it normally. But the router is too
modern to support WEP encryption. Is encryption likely to be the
problem? Other suggestions?
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configuration (4): Device not configured
which I imagine is the source oof the problem. Can someone enlighten
me please?
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on i386. I'm preparing for forthcoming upgrade of
systems, and the idea was to learn the ropes on familiar territory so
as not to go on wild goose chases in the uprated environment.
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Thank you for a very helpful response - five-finver exercises in kleys
and certificates...
But my certificate and key pass your tests, so I'm really beginning to
wonder about the libraries.
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You wrote:
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Steve
round in circles and making no progres.
This is NetBSD 4.01, with the SSL libraries updated to the latest
version for that release.
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You wrote:
Hello again
Having just now been confused by similar error to yours when setting up
postfix certificates on 6.1, I
reading.
Permissions on the subdirectories are 0755.
Have I got faulty libraries, faulty data, or both?
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You wrote:
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st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
This is still a live issue - apologies, I missed your
created.
I'm hoping these two errors are sufficiently diagnostic for me not to
have to bother the list with what I take to be consequential errors.
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What VPS provider?
xen?
Distance to peers is highly unlikely to be the issue, unless you are
complaining about 10 ms jitter in achieved timekeeping.
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