Dear sirs and ladies!

2025-07-12 Thread Richard Bostrom
Dear sirs and ladies! starting xendom my screen turns completely black xrandr returns can't open display installed xfce4 screen goes completely blank when running startxfce4 I have no Xorg.conf file. Thank you. Yours sincerely Richardh Bostrom

Dear sirs and ladies!

2025-07-10 Thread Richard Bostrom
Dear sirs and ladies! If I place my OpenBSD Firewall the foolwing way. Internet --> Firewall --> Router --> Switch How do I administer my Firewall? How do I SSH into it? Yours sincerely Richardh Bostrom

Re: Non-recurring Events in calendar(1)

2025-05-27 Thread Richard Ulmer
> 05/27/2025 test > May 27 test2 > > There a tab between the dates and the text. "May 27 2025" works, too. I'm afraid they don't work for me. While the dates in your suggested formats are displayed correctly this year, they are also displayed for next year (calenda -t 20260527). The

Non-recurring Events in calendar(1)

2025-05-27 Thread Richard Ulmer
work when trying to look far into the future or past. Does anyone use calendar(1) for one-off events and if so, how? Or is this not the right tool for the job? Greetings, Richard

Static No Internet

2024-11-13 Thread Richard Bostrom
I have a static ip using this configuration in my hostname.interface inet 192.168.1.240 255.255.255.0 It wont allow for internet access. I have an openbsd book but I cannot find the right syntax. Hello.

music-server

2024-11-12 Thread Richard Bostrom
Which folder is best practices keeping my music in, if building a music server? Thanks.

Script at boot

2024-11-12 Thread Richard Bostrom
Please how do I run a script at startup?

Samba on OpenBSD or just Windows

2024-11-12 Thread Richard Bostrom
My samba share wont allow me to move executables (.exe) into the share folder. I get the below message but not when transfering flac's and mp3's. "The destination already has a file named "file_name_here.exe" Replace the file in the destination. Does not happen when transfering files from Linux.

SFTP

2024-11-12 Thread Richard Bostrom
Distinguished Gentlemen. Please. SFTP works out of the box with the installation settings from the OpenBSD installer. Following this guide. https://ipv6.rs/tutorial/OpenBSD/OpenSSH_SFTP_server/ However SFTP runs on port 115 according to /etc/services However SFTP only works on port 22 which is a

RT Kernel

2024-11-11 Thread Richard Bostrom
Is there a real-time kernel for openbsd?

PF Firewall Rules

2024-11-11 Thread Richard Bostrom
Sirs and ladies. I would like to build a music server using samba, minidlna, navidrome, maybe jellyfin. I need to know the simple firewall rules to open up the firewall for inbound traffic for samba, jellyfin etc. I am used to ufw. I don't know the pf commands. Grateful for any help. Yours sin

Re: Sleep induces acpi0 interrupt storm

2023-10-25 Thread Richard Ulmer
Mike Larkin wrote: > check the lists; this was reported lots of times. I think it was some > thunderbolt related thing in the BIOS. Ah, I missed the right threads when searching previously. Apparently I wasn't specific enough. Now I found the message you mentioned: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-mi

Sleep induces acpi0 interrupt storm

2023-10-25 Thread Richard Ulmer
I'm not sure where to start. Do I have to go through all 49 devices listed in acpi(4)? Greetings, Richard dmesg; the last 22 lines were generated when closing and opening the lid: OpenBSD 7.4 (GENERIC.MP) #1397: Tue Oct 10 09:02:37 MDT 2023 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/

Open-source security processor

2023-09-07 Thread Richard Thornton
nal CPU validating an OS install in completely the wrong way? Thanks Richard

Re: less prints superfluous characters with --no-init

2022-11-18 Thread Richard Ulmer
"Richard Ulmer" wrote: > Hi all, > I find this behaviour unexpected: > > $ printf foo | less --no-init | xxd > : 666f 6f1b 5b41 1b5b 4b foo.[A.[K > > less prints ANSI escape codes for 'cursor up' and 'erase in line' at

less prints superfluous characters with --no-init

2022-11-18 Thread Richard Ulmer
tmux, the result is different: $ printf foo | less --no-init | xxd : 666f 6f1b 4d1b 5b4b foo.M.[K Is this intended behaviour? If so, is there any flag to disable this? Greetings, Richard

Re: Many video frames dropped unless sound is muted

2022-10-28 Thread Richard Ulmer
So for now I'm going to go with -b960 (20 ms buffer); in the brief testing I've done, even the audio stutter seems to have disappeared. Maybe I just went the wrong way when adjusting the audio buffer before... - Richard [1] https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html

Re: Many video frames dropped unless sound is muted

2022-10-23 Thread Richard Ulmer
es are dropped when audio is turned on and almost no frames are dropped when using mpv --no-audio with the same file. - Richard

Historical Releases on CD for Donation

2022-06-13 Thread Richard Koett
;s lacking these releases? Or perhaps someone who has made significant contributions to OpenBSD and would like them for sentimental reasons? I would like to see them go to some better use than (literally) gathering dust on my bookshelf. Appreciatively, Richard Koett.

Re: Sprurios errors from syspatch -c

2022-04-22 Thread Richard Narron
r has it that the source patch is good but the syspatch is bad, so someone renamed the syspatch 7.1 directory to prevent its use. Has anyone heard anything "official" about this? Richard Narron

Re: Openbsd 6.9 TCL ISSUE

2021-08-29 Thread Richard Toohey
ttp request so not saying the egg drop code is guaranteed to work but might get you further along. Download and extract the source code, configure, make and use. It seems to just work. Do you want to give that a go - I can give more details if you need. Thanks, Richard

Re: Auto-mounting removable disks

2021-03-23 Thread Richard Ipsum
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:43:09AM +, tetrahe...@danwin1210.me wrote: > I have a removable disk that I want to auto-mount. However, it may not > always be present. If I put an entry in fstab for it, will the system be > able to cope even if the disk is not present? > > Is there a better way to

Weird file(1) behaviour with multiple matching tests

2020-12-25 Thread Richard Ulmer
#!/usr/bin/env a >15 string >\0 %s script text executable Greetings, Richard Ulmer

Re: OpenBSD fakeroot

2020-10-03 Thread Richard Ipsum
On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:21:45PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Richard, Hi Ingo, > > Richard Ipsum wrote on Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 01:14:07PM +0200: > > > I needed fakeroot for some tests I'm writing, > > You are not really explaining what it is that you act

Re: OpenBSD fakeroot

2020-10-03 Thread Richard Ipsum
ng as root. Thanks, Richard On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 12:30:30PM +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi Richard, > pardon my ignorance but would chroot with a copy of the / and sub > directories, do the same thing ? > > thanks > > On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 12:30, Richard Ipsum wrot

OpenBSD fakeroot

2020-10-03 Thread Richard Ipsum
re: https://git.vx21.xyz/sfakeroot/ Since OpenBSD's coreutils are statically linked and it needs LD_PRELOAD to work you'll probably want to use it with sbase[1] to be able to do anything useful. Thanks, Richard [1]: https://git.suckless.org/sbase/

install of 6.7 failed on acer Swift

2020-08-28 Thread Richard Darwin
Hello all: I tried to install OpenBSD 6.7 on my acer Swift SF113 with amd64, 4GB RAM, 64GB HD. I downloaded the image from openbsd.org and used Rawrite under Win 10 to create a bootable USB key, then used Advanced startup options > Restart now ... Use EFI USB device. After about a minute of black

Re: Firefox and mail attachments

2020-08-21 Thread Richard Toohey
On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 at 4:45 AM, djraymondnm wrote: > I notice that in firefox, when trying to add an attachment in gmail that > the menu of available files to attach is basically empty. Is this a feature > or a bug? I suspect it has to do with pledge/unvail. If so, how do you deal > with attachme

Re: ls -R bug?

2020-07-04 Thread Richard Ipsum
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 02:16:29PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:59:08 +0200, Richard Ipsum wrote: > > > Output of ls -R between OpenBSD and GNU coreutils seems to differ, > > OpenBSD ls -R will apparently list "hidden" directories like .git, &g

ls -R bug?

2020-07-04 Thread Richard Ipsum
Hi, Output of ls -R between OpenBSD and GNU coreutils seems to differ, OpenBSD ls -R will apparently list "hidden" directories like .git, whereas GNU coreutils will not, is this expected behaviour or a bug? Thanks, Richard

Re: athn on APU2

2020-06-06 Thread Richard Ulmer
> None of the clients gets more than cca 1.5MB/s from that, alone. > Is that to be expected with 11g? (Not that I expect the 54 Mbit/s) I faced the same problem with my new APU2 just yesterday and found more info here: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=158680303103003&w=2 It seems like 11a is r

Re: How do I set up a Wi-Fi access point (using APU2)?

2020-06-05 Thread Richard Ulmer
infoomatic wrote: > it seems you skipped the firewall part of the document you were > referring, you need NAT connections. Indeed I did, because I thought if I said `pass in log (all)`, all traffic would be allowed to pass. It seems like I have a lot to learn... With this pf.conf I can reach the i

How do I set up a Wi-Fi access point (using APU2)?

2020-06-05 Thread Richard Ulmer
subnet 192.168.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option routers 192.168.3.1; option domain-name-servers 192.168.178.1; range 192.168.3.20 192.168.3.100; } I'm an absolute noob when it comes to network configuration, so the problem is probably something really stupid, but I c

Re: OSPF lsa_check issue

2020-05-06 Thread Richard Chivers
ted if anyone has done anything similar. Regards Richard On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:52 AM Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 09:33:11AM +0100, Richard Chivers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Some progress has been made, we can now replicate this consistently and > it

Re: OSPF lsa_check issue

2020-05-06 Thread Richard Chivers
hanks Richard On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:04 PM Richard Chivers wrote: > Hi, > > We have sent the pcap directly for the raw packets. > > In terms of the above change, we haven't compiled ospf previously, we will > give it a go and see how we get on. > > Are we

Re: OSPF lsa_check issue

2020-05-05 Thread Richard Chivers
Hi, We have sent the pcap directly for the raw packets. In terms of the above change, we haven't compiled ospf previously, we will give it a go and see how we get on. Are we ok to clone off the github mirror? Cheers Richard On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 10:22 AM Claudio Jeker wrote: > On

Re: OSPF lsa_check issue

2020-05-05 Thread Richard Chivers
ink this is not a problem. Cheers Richard On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 6:12 PM Richard Chivers wrote: > Hi, > > Following on from the OSPF issue we were seeing in 5.8, we have built a > vagrant lab with a complete replica of our production network in order to > test config again

OSPF lsa_check issue

2020-05-04 Thread Richard Chivers
Hi, Following on from the OSPF issue we were seeing in 5.8, we have built a vagrant lab with a complete replica of our production network in order to test config against 6.6 (latest syspatch applied) and test a number of scenarios. All in all everything has gone well, and other than some minor co

Re: Ospfd default route query

2020-04-27 Thread Richard Chivers
Hi, That makes a lot of sense thanks, and appears to have solved the problem, we had a route added through our loopback interface in production" "!/sbin/route add -reject default 127.0.0.1" Is that the best/general practise in general? Cheers Richard On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at

Re: Ospfd default route query

2020-04-26 Thread Richard Chivers
r 2020, 17:09 Richard Chivers, wrote: > Hi, > > Hope someone can help, I am having a strange issue and can't seem to > isolate the problem. > > We have "redistribute default" set globally on our bgp/ibgp speakers > in the ospfd.conf. The bsd boxes are all 6.

Ospfd default route query

2020-04-26 Thread Richard Chivers
Hi, Hope someone can help, I am having a strange issue and can't seem to isolate the problem. We have "redistribute default" set globally on our bgp/ibgp speakers in the ospfd.conf. The bsd boxes are all 6.6. These routers are connected via ibgp to some other routers and have external bgp sessio

BGPD announce deprecation query

2020-04-19 Thread Richard Chivers
hes applied, in the test environment. Thanks Richard

MultiPath / ADD_PATH for bgpd

2020-04-15 Thread Richard Chivers
there has been any progress, we are really interested to explore using this in a project we are working on, and just keen to understand if it may be coming? Thanks Richard

Re: OSPF seems to stops processing updates

2020-04-13 Thread Richard Chivers
this, are there snearios where this is valid? We only run a single area. Thanks Richard On Mon, 13 Apr 2020, 14:39 Stuart Henderson, wrote: > On 2020-04-13, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 02:08:31PM +0200, Remi Locherer wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 a

OSPF seems to stops processing updates

2020-04-13 Thread Richard Chivers
bits & OSPF_DBD_MS) == !nbr->dd_master) { log_warnx("recv_db_description: neighbor ID %s: ".. Could anyone explain the scenario in which this would be expected, so we can see how to resolve the issue. We run some of our routers under VMware, could some sort of OS pause cause this? Thanks Richard

Intel X553 and Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F Networking

2020-03-10 Thread Richard Laysell
that this support is likely to be in the 6.7 release Thanks to all the OpenBSD developers for your great work! dmesg from one of the systems below Richard OpenBSD 6.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #43: Mon Mar 9 20:52:27 MDT 2020 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP

Re: interface modifiers :network and :0 picking different subnets for IPv6

2020-01-27 Thread richard . n . procter
en address family) [0]. The patch makes ':0' skip link-local addresses, matching the behaviour of ':network'. best, Richard. [0] sbin/pfctl/pfctl_parser.c 1.186 ifa_lookup() Index: sbin/pfctl/pfctl_parser.c ==

Re: less --no-init and multiline $PS1

2020-01-21 Thread Richard Ulmer
olution which doesn't violate any layers and came up with something much simpler: I will replace my less with a script similar to this: /usr/bin/less $@ for arg in "$@"; do test "$arg" = '--no-init' -o "$arg" = '-X' && tput up el && exit done Thanks for making me re-think the problem! Best regards, Richard Ulmer

less --no-init and multiline $PS1

2020-01-19 Thread Richard Ulmer
Hi, when using a $PS1, which has more than one line, `less --no-init` cuts of some lines at the top, when it quits. This is especially annyoing when using `git diff` and `git show`. For example, `echo "foo\nbar" | less --no-init --quit-if-one-screen` with a two-line $PS1 leads to terminal content l

Re: [sh] Single quote in comment withing subshell buggy

2019-12-14 Thread Richard Ulmer
Hi Matthew, I'm unable to judge the patch, but appreciate your quick fix. Thanks a lot! I'm looking forward to the next release, in which it is contained. I just occurred to me, that the problem also exists for ". Is this covered with your patch as well? Richard cho...@jtan.com w

[sh] Single quote in comment withing subshell buggy

2019-12-14 Thread Richard Ulmer
untered this as a real world problem in a project on GitHub [1]. With best regards, Richard Ulmer [1] https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/pull/2943

Small typo in upgrade66.html

2019-10-23 Thread Richard Toohey
With less space the upgrade may fail and you should consider to reinstall the system instead." I think: "may fail and you should consider to reinstall the system instead" should probably be something like: "may fail and you should consider reinstalling the system instead" Thanks, Richard.

Re: ping time fluctuates, any idea?

2019-09-09 Thread Richard Procter
setting: # sysctl kern.timecounter.hardware=acpihpet0 would fix your ping results, and probably improve your ntpd(8) performance, too. There has been some work in this area on -current. best, Richard. PS. Please make sure to include a complete dmesg next time - half a dmesg is like half a photo

Re: 4GB RAM too little for Firefox?

2019-07-06 Thread Richard Ulmer
Hi Dumitru, Dumitru Moldovan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 01:25:10PM +0200, Richard Ulmer wrote: > >Hi all, > >after having Firefox running for some time (ca. 30min to 2h) my > >system seems to become slow. I get frequent freezes for several > >seconds, mpv i

4GB RAM too little for Firefox?

2019-07-05 Thread Richard Ulmer
idn't have this problem under Linux. Has anyone had similar experieces and noticed an improvement after a RAM upgrade? Greetings Richard Ulmer

Re: Installing OpenBSD on Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Laysell
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:36:23 +1000 Jonathan Gray wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 09:02:11AM +0100, Richard Laysell wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I was trying OpenBSD on a Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F which uses an > > Intel Atom CPU (Denverton). The board b

Installing OpenBSD on Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F

2019-06-15 Thread Richard Laysell
a, 16 byte fifo com0: console com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo efifb0 at mainbus0: 1920x1200, 32bpp wsdisplay at efifb0 not configured softraid0 at root scsibus0 at softraid0: 256 targets root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T Welcome to the OpenBSD/amd64 6.5 installation program. (I)nstall, (U)pgrade, (A)utoinstall or (S)hell? Regards, Richard

Putting fifos in subshells into the background

2019-06-12 Thread Richard Ulmer
> /dev/null 2>&1 & printf 'testfifo' )" I can make it work for all the mentioned shells like this: mkfifo 'testfifo' cat "$( ( ( printf 'foo\n' > testfifo 2>&1 ) & ) > /dev/null 2>&1 printf 'testfifo

Re: Monitoring system

2018-10-06 Thread Richard Toohey
your case, but do have a look in /usr/local/share/doc/pkg-readmes for anything php-related. On October 6, 2018 4:42:16 PM UTC, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-10-06, Richard Toohey wrote: On 10/06/18 07:16, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018/10/05 17:35, flipchan wrote: It's weird bec

Re: Monitoring system

2018-10-06 Thread Richard Toohey
On 10/06/18 07:16, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018/10/05 17:35, flipchan wrote: It's weird because I have no error files that it describes the error in, I am promted with "Configuration file errror DB type MYSQL is not supported by current setup" I don't think the issue here - but if you are us

Re: PF possibly causing weird SSL issues ?

2018-09-18 Thread Richard Toohey
On 09/19/18 09:02, Tim Jones wrote: Hi, I'm wracking my brains here.   I have just replaced with one based on OpenBSD 6.3 PF. Nothing else has changed on the network, just the firewall. Lots of "stuff" that used to work (e.g. various nightly pushes of data to "the cloud") have suddenly stop

Re: Wireless on ThinkPad T40 - Connects but no data

2018-07-13 Thread Richard Laysell
On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:37:27 +0100 Richard Laysell wrote: The solution in the end was to use a spare USB wireless dongle that I had lying around. This was detected as a run(4) device. Everything now works perfectly Thanks to all who responded. Regards, Richard

Wireless on ThinkPad T40 - Connects but no data

2018-07-12 Thread Richard Laysell
idev2 reportid 17: input=19, output=19, feature=0 uhid5 at uhidev2 reportid 32: input=14, output=14, feature=0 uhid6 at uhidev2 reportid 33: input=31, output=31, feature=0 vscsi0 at root scsibus2 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root scsibus3 at softraid0: 256 targets root on wd0a (96ea0dc55ec74d33.a) swap on wd0b dump on wd0b radeondrm0: 1024x768, 8bpp wsdisplay0 at radeondrm0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wskbd1: connecting to wsdisplay0 wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (std, vt100 emulation) Regards, Richard

Re: Enabling ngx_http_addition_module on OpenBSD?

2018-06-28 Thread Richard Toohey
On 06/28/18 19:43, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-06-28, Özgür Kazancci wrote: I need to use "add_before_body" and "add_after_body" directives for Nginx for my personal webpage, by setting them in nginx.conf. However, it seems that my Nginx installation (from OpenBSD packages) doesn't support

Re: Virtualbox vs latest snapshot

2018-04-10 Thread Richard Toohey
On 04/11/18 10:50, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-04-10, csszep wrote: Hi! I installed the latest 04.10 snapshot, the install procedure went fine, but after reboot the VM stucks at endless boot loop . It prints only the "booting hda0:/bsd" line.. before reboot The 04.03 snapshot works fine.

Re: radeondrm(?) change causes console to recognize only 1024x768

2018-03-24 Thread Richard
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017, frohwein wrote: > On Sat, 2017-08-05 at 18:31 +0200, Robert wrote: > > During the last couple of weeks some change (radeondrm update?) > > caused the console to be locked to 1024x768, instead of whatever EDID > > the TFT supports, when using a Radeon card. > > Same issue here

Re: OpenBSD Puffy Stickers

2017-11-30 Thread Richard Thornton
I don't like stickers on my computers. I don't do bumper stickers either. On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > My goal is not to rip off anyone, but to help the project. > > You cannot help the project by begging on a mailing list that > I partake in business. > > Get over

Re: Files corrupted by one byte when downloading from my HTTPD server, any idea?

2017-06-07 Thread Richard Toohey
On 06/07/17 22:10, tec...@protonmail.com wrote: Hello, I am using 6.1 Release - all patched, including packages with mtier. I'm running a PHP56 web server, I am initiating automatic downloads using headers but whenever I download an image it cant be opened because no matter what image type it

Re: Raspberry Pi 3 booting from USB

2017-03-05 Thread Richard Toohey
On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 06:40:57PM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote: Hope this information is helpful to someone... -- Joe Gidi j...@entropicblur.com "You cannot buy skill." -- Ross Seyfried Thanks for the info, and (a bit off-topic) great to see OpenBSD coming to the Pi. So thanks to everyone

Re: ral(4) problems on current/i386 ALIX

2016-11-28 Thread Richard Procter
rk at -74dBm on the same channel. The network is otherwise quiet and I'm maybe 12M from the AP. best, Richard. (The kernel is running a patch but this shouldn't be affecting throughput.) OpenBSD 6.0-current (GENERIC) #8: Sun Nov 20 12:51:52 NZDT 2016 build@build.localdomain:/usr/src/

Re: cuaU0 problems

2016-09-20 Thread Richard Procter
On 20/09/2016, at 9:53 PM, Richard Procter wrote: > > On 20/09/2016, at 8:00 AM, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > >> On 16-09-19 19:56:31, Kapfhammer, Stefan wrote: >>> Hello Edgar, >>> >>> I have no Soekris, but Apu2 is also connected >>> with a

Re: cuaU0 problems

2016-09-20 Thread Richard Procter
_subr.c revision 1.129 lies between these dates. Reverting this to revision 1.128 restores my keyboard, etc. best, Richard. [known good - and working FDTI USB->serial attached at end] OpenBSD 6.0-current (GENERIC.MP) #2466: Sat Sep 17 23:07:05 MDT 2016 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arc

Re: Installer overwrites partition table

2016-08-24 Thread Richard Thornton
‎It's true that OpenBSD works wonderfully under VMware, especially under a Linux host.   It's so good in fact, I see no logical reason to use OpenBSD any other‎ way because it frees me from driver & firmware he'll; it's true that native performance is probably better, but now I can use OpenBSD as I

Lenovo B590

2016-07-30 Thread Richard Thornton
works. FreeBSD will not even boot on this machine, and NetBSD is needlessly complicated. I turned off secure-boot, etc, and boot legacy. Attached is the dmesg. Thanks, Richard OpenBSD 5.9 (RAMDISK_CD) #1720: Fri Feb 26 01:25:23 MST 2016 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64

Belkin N300

2016-07-30 Thread Richard Thornton
Does this USB wireless add-o, which uses a realtek chipset, work with OpenBSD?‎The installer sees it, the firmware fails to load. Thanks, Richard

Re: Is true that the BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them?

2016-02-16 Thread Richard Thornton
I would read McKusick's book on FreeBSD. He gives a good historical accounting of the BSD's. Also the book Raymond's book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".  Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.   Original Message   From: Jorge Luis Sent: Tuesday, February 16,

Re: HP LaserJet Problem

2015-12-04 Thread Richard Toohey
On 12/05/15 07:33, bluesun08 wrote: hmm, the "device busy" message is gone. But now there is a new message: # ./testfile > /dev/ulpt0 ksh: ./testfile: cannot execute - Permission denied So what permissions fail? You don't have execute permissions on testfile? $ touch testfile $ ./testfile ksh

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

2015-12-02 Thread Richard Thornton
I have no clue what a hackathon costs, any ballpark averages? Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.   Original Message   From: Theo de Raadt Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 11:11 AM To: Donald Allen Cc: Theo de Raadt; misc; Richard Thornton Subject: Re: A

Re: A branded USB stick as an alternative to the CD set?

2015-11-30 Thread Richard Thornton
The reality is obvious - most users of open source are pure unadulterated free loaders.  Nobody pays but we all use it.   That includes very large corporations as well.  Torvalds solved it the old fashioned way;  he is an employee of his own foundation.  McKusick sells training videos.  All I can d

Unix::Pledge perl module

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Farr
||(||my $fd||, ||">"||, ||"/home/$ENV{USER}/.profile"||);'| $>|Abort trap (core dumped)| The github repo is available at: https://github.com/rfarr/Unix-Pledge Cheers, Richard

Re: Paris..

2015-11-14 Thread Richard Thornton
France is screwed and perhaps Europe, translation, WWIII, unless they get their Muslim problem under control ASAP. Glad I don't live there. Let's not forget Mr. Roy who went back home to Bangladesh for an award, or Van Gogh walking down a street in Amsterdam. Are France‎ and the few remaining Euro

Avahi daemon, dbus daemon

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Thornton
I am now using the 5.8 release. I have tried to start avahi in my rc.conf.local file but it always fails to load. In 5.7 I never had this problem. What's the correct way to load these daemons? Sent from my BlackBerry ;10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.

Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-15 Thread Richard Thornton
I spoke too soon earlier - mine arrived today as well! 10/15/2015. Princeton area, NJ On 10/15/15 14:26, Vijay Sankar wrote: Quoting Carl Trachte : Tucson, Arizona On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Ralph Siegler wrote: On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 14:51:28 +, M Wheeler wrote: CD's arrived to

Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-15 Thread Richard Thornton
I know I paid for a 5.8 disk, but I have never received it. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.   Original Message   From: Carl Trachte Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 10:36 PM To: OpenBSD general usage list Subject: Re: CD's arrived Tucson, Arizona O

Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-08 Thread Richard Thornton
I am in NJ. Have not received anything yet. RT Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.   Original Message   From: Raf Czlonka Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 2:38 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: CD's arrived On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 03:51:28PM BST, M Wh

Re: Native EFI Bootloader Support

2015-09-13 Thread Richard Thornton
There are no "one size fits all" OS's; why would we need one? That's why we have networks! Richard Thornton

Re: requesting help working around boot failures with supermicro atom board

2015-09-12 Thread Richard Laysell
why you are seeing it boot OK if you remove the power - the devices then either get reset to their default states or the BIOS has to set them up. Regards, Richard

Re: Start isc_named earlier

2015-08-23 Thread Richard Thornton
: secularsolutions...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Start isc_named earlier I am really sorry, but don't. .. I was hijacking your message to right a new question and then i happened to move my finger the wrong way and boom send... Sorry On Sun Aug 23 18:47:32 2015 GMT+0200, Richard Thornton

Accessing USB with OpenBSD 5.7/amd64

2015-08-23 Thread Richard Thornton
r system with USB. I have searched on the OpenBSD docs for a obvious solution, but nothing obvious is found. To be sure, accesing USB is not that important to me, but I was curious, if there was some sort of boot parameter which I could set, in order to fully access the USB ports with OpenBSD. Richard

Re: USB mouse spontaneously detaching

2015-08-17 Thread Richard Thornton
If you have xscreensaver installed, that definitely does not always play nice with mice and keyboards;   perhaps it's something like that. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.   Original Message   From: Luciano Rottava da Silva Sent: Monday, August 17, 201

Re: lxde

2015-08-14 Thread Richard Thornton
‎In the spirit of George box, all code is shitty, but some ‎is ok. Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.   Original Message   From: Joseph Oficre Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:05 PM To: OpenBSD misc Subject: lxde Hello, friends. Can someone teel me why t

Purchase/download a CD-ROM web page

2015-07-25 Thread Richard Thornton
This page still references version 5.6; just letting you know.

Bluetooth Support

2015-07-23 Thread Richard E. Thornton
I am just curious - is Bluetooth supported on any bluetooth enabled computers? Or is this a dead topic? Richard

Re: SPARC minimum hardware specification

2015-07-21 Thread Richard Thornton
I have dismantled my Sun Blade 100, circa 2002 era, and I have the (4) 500 MG memory sticks, keyboard, mouse, monitor, CD player, and the two original stock 15 GB IDE drives.  If anyone wants the parts, let me know. It was occasionally‎ a noisy box. I kept mine in a metal enclosure for medium

Re: which netbook not to buy?

2015-07-15 Thread Richard Thornton
I am glad that stinkpad argument is settled . How about discussing OpenBSD? I find that codeblocks core dumps every time . Would it dump less on Asus? Cause it dumps a lot on my Lenovo VM. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015, 8:48 PM Артур Истомин wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:01:19P

My Compaq Sempron 3400+

2015-07-11 Thread Richard Thornton
claimer - I am OS agnostic, in the sense that I believe in using the OS most suited for the computer & the desired application, but OpenBSD is a great OS and I highly respect its developer team. Attached is the basic dmesg; Richard ps: I am a contributer to the foundation with

Re: Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor

2015-07-10 Thread Richard Thornton
Check out this on fossforce... http://fossforce.com/2015/07/microsoft-writes-check-free-oscon-passes/#more-1253135 I thought this online blog was only interestedin linux, but apparently its focus is much larger. On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Joel Rees wrote: I see, now, how my post was misinterpret

RStudio

2015-07-02 Thread Richard Thornton
Has anybody built RStudio for OpenBSD? Richard

32bit vs. 64bit on older 64bit processors (fwd)

2015-06-29 Thread Richard Thornton
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:36:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Thornton To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: 32bit vs. 64bit on older 64bit processors A friend gave me a fully functioning Compaq Sempron 3400+; he has 1.2GB installed memory, but I have purchased a

Re: NAT reliability in light of recent checksum changes

2015-06-15 Thread Richard Procter
On 7/03/2014, at 2:15 PM, Richard Procter wrote: > > I've some ideas about solutions [for modifying checksums more cleanly] but > will > leave those for another email. Shifting this old thread to tech@: I've posted a patch that re-instates the pf algorithm of OpenBSD 5.4

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