openbsd

Running xinc on OpenBSD's Apache Server

Has anyone been able to get xinc to run correctly under OpenBSD's chrooted default Apache? I'd like to keep our development server running fully chrooted just like our Production server so that we make sure our code runs just fine chrooted. ...

How can I run VisualWorks under OpenBSD?

Has anyone gotten VisualWorks running under OpenBSD? It's not an officially supported platform, but one of the Cincom guys was telling me that it should be able to run under a linux compatibility mode. How did you set it up? I already have Squeak running without a problem, so I'm not looking for an alternative. I specifically need to ru...

Are you using OpenBSD for anything other than a firewall or router?

I have been wondering about the relatively small adoption rate of OpenBSD (excepting firewalls and routers). Is anybody here using OpenBSD for other purposes? ...

To what extent can Version Control help in system administration?

I'm currently tinkering at an OpenBSD system with a view to building myself a firewall and some other bits and bobs. As this is fairly experimental (I'm an OpenBSD n00b, and I've already trashed my system 3 or 4 times), I wonder what experience others have of making part or all of the file system (I'm thinking in particular of /etc) a w...

chrooted Apache+MsSQL on openBSD; Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name

php generates GIFs on the web server using a databases on a second server. The the page shows 20 GIFs, so there is some load for a short time (multiple connections) Some GIFs are loaded but some are not, in /var/www/logs/error_log [Mon Feb 23 10:05:56 2009] [error] PHP Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Lost connect...

home, end, delete, pageup, pagedown with ksh

Hello. I want to use home, end, delete, pageup, pagedown with ksh. My TERM is xterm-color. These keys works fine with tcsh and zsh, but not with ksh (print a tilde ~) I found this: bind '^[[3'=prefix-2 bind '^[[3~'=delete-char-forward bind '^[[1'=prefix-2 bind '^[[1~'=beginning-of-line bind '^[[4'=prefix-2 bind '^[[4~'=end-of-line ...

Why can not add subversion package to my OpenBSD 4.5 machine?

Hi all, I have an OpenBSD 4.5 on a virtual machine. I configured the net and my machine can connect to the OpenBSD FTP repository in Canada (ftp.openbsd.org) correctly. But when I execute this line: *pkg_add -v subversion-1.5.5* Occurs this error: Unknown element: @sha FTlY/mreDMe9nRNLR5+fSIIZWMnivjO0p83rQLSL6F0= in SCALAR(0x7...

Any book that covers internals of recent versions of Unix OS

This summer I'm getting into UNIX (mostly *BSD) development. I've graduate level knowledge about operating systems. I can also understand the code & read from here and there but the thing is I want to make most of my time. Reading books are best for this. From my search I found that these two books "Unix Internals: The New Frontiers"...

Is it possible to use distcc in osx for openbsd box?

I found the only one simillar question but that's for linux and xcode only... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/854675/is-it-possible-to-set-up-a-linux-box-with-distcc-to-build-my-xcode-projects im really interested to use OSX GCC for OPENBSD BOX. because my server is really slow, and all I need is file sharing and printing at home. I...

"jpeglib.h: No such file or directory" ghostscript port in OPENBSD

Hello I have a problem with compiling a ghostscript from ports in openbsd 4.7. SO i have jpeg-7 installed, I have latest port tree for obsd4.7. ===> Building for ghostscript-8.63p11 mkdir -p /usr/ports/pobj/ghostscript-8.63p11/ghostscript-8.63/obj gmake LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -shared' GS_XE=./obj/../obj/libgs.so.11.0 STDIO_IMPLEMEN...

Use OpenBSD's malloc, realloc and free in my program

I would like to use OpenBSD's implementation of malloc, realloc and free on my Debian lenny desktop rather than glibc's. Are they simply drop in replacements: will they work on my Linux desktop ? Which are the file(s) that I need and which OpenBSD package contains them ? ...

IEEE 1003.1 licenses compared

Software or real people can technically copy a BSD software, install it and sell it. What are technical and licence advantages and disadvantages compared to taking Linux or other 1003.1 and delivering or selling it? Which license is most flexible for instance when selling or delivering a computer BSD licence seems more flexible than Lin...

Bloated echo command

Look at the following implementations of the "echo" command: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/echo/echo.c?rev=1.7;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup (OpenBSD) http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/bin/echo/echo.c?rev=1.18&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=MAIN (NetBSD) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cv...

How do I get signal details in debugger while ptrace?

I have a debugger that I am porting over to *bsd from linux. Currently, I am working on the OpenBSD version. Under certain conditions I would like to know the details of the signal that was delivered. For example, suppose a SIGSEGV was delivered, I'd like to know what the faulting address was, and if possible, if it was a read or write....