OpenBSD

From Solene

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.srcbeat.com/post/13468

Running a slightly modified version of Lemmy based on 0.18.5. Needed to upgrade a few of the dependencies. The worst was a segfault from the Rust crate jsonwebtoken!

Just spreading love for sysupgrade(8). I had a private server running 7.2 dutyfully serving a PHP software for a local organisation for the past 4 years.

Our provider suffered an outage which brought the server down for a few hours. When it got back up, I decided to use this outage to upgrade it to 7.4.

Two sysupgrade and one pkg_add -u later, the server is up and running again, without further intervention needed.

I did it all from my phone, in a train with a a laggy connection.

Thanks OpenBSD for caring this much about your users ! 🐡♥️

I am a bit surprised no one posted this here yet, but OpenBSD 7.4 was released:

https://www.openbsd.org/74.html

How long does it usually take for you to unhibernate after a ZZZ?

I timed my laptop where it stops at the "unhibernating @ block xxxxxx length xxxMB", and these are my times:

length 65MB: 1m 47s
length 285MB: 3m 29s

Are these normal times?

Setting vm.swapencrypt.enable=0 makes no difference, and according to dmesg "acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5".

Hello, I've tried to find someone else using OpenBSD in various places for a while now, but with no success, so I'm hoping someone will read this.

I'm wondering what your output is from file(1) on a file you know has text encoded as UTF-8.

On my system (7.3-stable) the output is "Non-ISO extended-ASCII text", and I'm trying to figure out if this is how it should be, or if I did something wrong setting up the system.

So, if you have a computer with OpenBSD and a minute to spare, could you try running file(1) on a UTF-8 file and see if it identifies it as UTF-8 or "Non-ISO extended-ASCII text"?

Thanks in advance

Considering that OpenBSD's umb(4) and umsm(4) drivers support cards like the Quectel EC25, which comes in a USB variant, I was wondering if it was (at least in theory) possible to make calls using OpenBSD. I know you can get to the internet and send SMS with the smstools port, but what about calling ?

OpenBSD 7.3 + vmd(8)

• alpine linux
• NixOS
• OpenBSD 7.3 -current ( for testings)

I would like to add a new keyboard layout (FR - AZERTY AFNOR). What is the correct way to do it ?

Ideally I would like to use it for everything:

• full disk encryption
• TTY
• xenodm
• xenocara session

For now, I updated /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr to add the variant, which I load in xenodm and my xsession using setxkbmap.

However I feel like it's not "clean" as it should be done with wsconsctl .

So what is the correct way to do it ?

Hey everyone,

I decided after many year to try again to slap OpenBSD on my old Acer Aspire one. The Wifi adapter is not supported, but I was thinking about using my phone to get network connectivity out of it. Unfortunately I'm hitting a strange behavior: ifconfig urndis0 autoconf works as expected, and I get an IP over DHCP. Ping and DNS resolution work as expected, but when I try any TCP connection, the connectivity simply stops working, and I cannot even ping the gateway anymore. dmesg doesn't say anything about it.

Has anyone encountered this already ?

I am fairly new to OpenBSD, and for some reason when I install it on my laptop it doesn't show any boot option. My computer will just say there's nothing to boot, and going into the boot options menu there's nothing. Any idea why this might be happening?

It's a bit of a tradition to run your favourite open source OS on an outdated ~~e-waste~~ notebook, decorated with stickers. Let's celebrate this and show off our sticker bombs!

This is my Acer Extensa 5630EZ (upgraded with a SSD and a whopping 4GB of RAM), used as a testing machine for distro hopping and currently intended for running OpenBSD. :)

Hi everyone,

For a very special use case of mine, I need to allow users to connect over SSH to my server to setup a SOCKS proxy:

ssh -D localhost:1080 -N my.server.domain.tld

However, I only want them to be able to reach 127.0.0.1 through this proxy (so, my server itself).

Is that even possible ?

an uneventful run for floppies turns into a race against time, as the techno-mage attempts to save her master after a machine ambush

'the machine bleeds blue'