Re: nologin shell allows me to connect to FTP server

2006-02-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Lars Hansson wrote: > On Monday 20 February 2006 20:07, you wrote: > > To completely disable an account, change its password to *, or remove it. > > You can still log in with ssh and keys to an account with * as the password so > that doesnt completely disable it. OK, to mak

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-20 Thread Aaron Hsu
Marcus Barczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an > external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. > The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with > mt for instance: > > % mt -f /dev/rst

Re: /ect/resolv.conf on obsd

2006-02-20 Thread John Brooks
> hosts contains (amongst others): > some.remote.com NNN.NNN.NN.NNN some > looks a little funny to me... might work better as NNN.NNN.NN.NNNsome.remote.com some or possibly NNN.NNN.NN.NNNsome some.remote.com otherwise it seems to disregard the entry in /etc/hosts

Re: nologin shell allows me to connect to FTP server

2006-02-20 Thread Bryan Allen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 20, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Lars Hansson wrote: On Monday 20 February 2006 20:07, you wrote: To completely disable an account, change its password to *, or remove it. You can still log in with ssh and keys to an account with * as the passwor

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-20 Thread A Rossi
I like this idea. But one question: is it possible for the OpenBSD box to access all these "hidden" partitions through SMB as one large storage space possibly with some kind of error protection? This sound like it might be more of a Samba question... But I'll ask here anyways. thanks Daniel A

Re: /ect/resolv.conf on obsd

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running current on a home lan of several computers. > Running bind-9.3.2 (not on the obsd box) > > Trying to understand the various ways of using keywords in > /etc/resolv.conf. > > On my setup the obsd box resolv.conf looks like: > > dom

Re: nologin shell allows me to connect to FTP server

2006-02-20 Thread Lars Hansson
On Monday 20 February 2006 20:07, you wrote: > To completely disable an account, change its password to *, or remove it. You can still log in with ssh and keys to an account with * as the password so that doesnt completely disable it. --- Lars Hansson

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-20 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 16 February 2006 01:58, A Rossi wrote: >My client didn't really like the idea of just making a windows >partition and disallowing the users from accessing it with > permissions, because then they'd know about something... And some > might complain about it being "broken" - they have

SysKonnect sk driver high CPU interrupt rate after 3.8 upgrade

2006-02-20 Thread Paul B. Henson
We have been running a pair of firewalls under 3.3 for quite some time, and just upgraded them to 3.8. Before the upgrade, they would typically run at about 35-40% interrupts. After the upgrade, they are running at 90-95% interrupt utilization. It looks like a lot of changes have been made to the

SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-20 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Guys, Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with mt for instance: % mt -f /dev/rst0 status The mt process will just han

SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-20 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Guys, Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with mt for instance: % mt -f /dev/rst0 status The mt process will just hang, the

Re: Airlink101 awlc3026

2006-02-20 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 07:38:32AM -0800, Benjamin Collins wrote: > Anyone know what chipset is used in the awlc3026 card? It's on sale at > Fry's for $8, and I wanted to get it for use in my OpenBSD laptop. > > Even better, anyone have a dmesg with this card listed? Marvell Libertas according t

Re: openbsd 3.8 on a nokia ip110 and the reboot problems (it hangs after a soft reboot)

2006-02-20 Thread Simon Slaytor
Same deal on a IP120, thankfully for me my IP120 is local, as such on the rare occasion that I need to reboot it I simply 'halt' it then hit the reset switch.

Re: Intel SRCU42L

2006-02-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/02/20 22:34, Edgars wrote: > So, nobody knows? :( You waited only half a day, which doesn't give people much time to respond. Choose one of these options: - Relax and wait a while, though by repeating the question you made it less likely you'll get an answer. - Search better. There are p

Re: machdep.userldt implications.

2006-02-20 Thread Craig McCormick
Ted Unangst wrote: On 2/20/06, Craig McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am presuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to set machdep.userldt to 1, by default and that I should enable it and disable it, as and when I need to make use of it. So far, I only need it for the win32-codecs package.

Re: Intel SRCU42L

2006-02-20 Thread David Hill
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:34:03PM +0200, Edgars wrote: > So, nobody knows? :( > > > Hello! > > I want to know about this RAID controller, is it supported or no? > > On hw page i didn't find him, but in google and monkey.org i found that > > somebody tried it with OpenBSD 3.4 > > http://www.intel

Re: Intel SRCU42L

2006-02-20 Thread Edgars
So, nobody knows? :( > Hello! > I want to know about this RAID controller, is it supported or no? > On hw page i didn't find him, but in google and monkey.org i found that > somebody tried it with OpenBSD 3.4 > http://www.intel.com/design/servers/raid/srcu42l/index.htm

Re: machdep.userldt implications.

2006-02-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On 2/20/06, Craig McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am presuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to set machdep.userldt > to 1, by default and that I should enable it and disable it, as and > when I need to make use of it. So far, I only need it for the > win32-codecs package. > > I would as

Dell Perc 4/SC low performance

2006-02-20 Thread Mitja
Hi, I am trying to figure out why the performance of PERC 4/SC RAID controller is so poor. I've searched the archives but nothing usefull came up. I'm running OpenBSD 3.8-release on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 server, RAID 5. # time (dd if=/dev/zero of=x bs=1m count=100; sync; sync) 100+0 records in

Re: /ect/resolv.conf on obsd

2006-02-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/02/20 12:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > lookup This keyword is used by the library routines gethostbyname(3) >and gethostbyaddr(3). nslookup is the wrong program to test from, it doesn't use these library routines.

/ect/resolv.conf on obsd

2006-02-20 Thread reader
Running current on a home lan of several computers. Running bind-9.3.2 (not on the obsd box) Trying to understand the various ways of using keywords in /etc/resolv.conf. On my setup the obsd box resolv.conf looks like: domain local.net0 nameserver 192.168.0.4 # local lan name server name

Re: machdep.userldt implications.

2006-02-20 Thread Craig McCormick
Jeff Quast wrote: The lock-ups may have been related to the caveat in the manual page for emu(4), which I have since removed from the system for this very reason. Well, I didn't realise that one. I've always sworn by Creative cards up until now and I have a fair few SBLive cards here :( Looks

Re: machdep.userldt implications.

2006-02-20 Thread Jeff Quast
On 2/20/06, Craig McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I've been googling around for the answer to this, but can't find > anything concrete to answer it one way or another, or at least not > that I understood. ;) > > I am presuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to set machdep.userld

machdep.userldt implications

2006-02-20 Thread Craig McCormick
Hi all. I've been googling around for the answer to this, but can't find anything concrete to answer it one way or another, or at least not that I understood. ;) I am presuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to set machdep.userldt to 1, by default and that I should enable it and disable it,

machdep.userldt implications.

2006-02-20 Thread Craig McCormick
Hi all. I've been googling around for the answer to this, but can't find anything concrete to answer it one way or another, or at least not that I understood. ;) I am presuming that it wouldn't be a good idea to set machdep.userldt to 1, by default and that I should enable it and disable it, as

Airlink101 awlc3026

2006-02-20 Thread Benjamin Collins
Anyone know what chipset is used in the awlc3026 card? It's on sale at Fry's for $8, and I wanted to get it for use in my OpenBSD laptop. Even better, anyone have a dmesg with this card listed? bc -- Benjamin Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:49:01PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > >[...] > > >> If this is a common state of affairs, you can always raise the > >> percentage of memory used for the buffer cache in the kernel, using > >>

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:49:01PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: ... > Although the documentation says that it defaults to 5%, it actually > seems to default to 10% on amd64, alpha, hppa and hppa64. > > Why it's not made to default to 10% on i386 too if enough memory is available? becaus

Re: Ifstated question

2006-02-20 Thread Steven S
For the archives, I noticed some commits to ifstated for 3.9-beta so I built the 3.9-beta ifstated on a 3.8-stable box. Ifstated seems to be much more reliable now. Thanks! -Steve S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm trying to use ifstated to determine the state (up or > down) of my

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:49:01PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: >[...] >> If this is a common state of affairs, you can always raise the >> percentage of memory used for the buffer cache in the kernel, using >> config -e: config -e -o /bsd.new /bsd >> then the command >> c

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006/02/20 13:17, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > And 512MB, I must add, is the de facto minimum today for any machine, > > For Windows PCs, maybe... Of the machines I have running OpenBSD, 64MB > is the most common RAM size, and those

Re: DPD isakmpd question

2006-02-20 Thread Markus Friedl
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:11:41PM -0500, Matthew Closson wrote: > Hello, > > If you enable RFC3706 - Dead Peer Detection in isakmpd.conf, what is the > result of a peer-failing the DPD check. Will it Start over with Phase1 > negotiations again for that ISAKMP peer, or will it simply remove the

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 20/02/06, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:17:05PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > >[...] > > >Yes, there is always some compromise. But in this specific case we > >have much less than even a fifth of memory actually being used for > >pro

Alert from eSafe: document01.pif Infected with Win32_Netsky_Q

2006-02-20 Thread eSafe
*** eSafe detected hostile content in this email. *** Time: 20 Feb 2006 14:59:09 Scan result: Mail modified to remove malicious content Protocol: SMTP in File Name\Mail Subject: Re: Is that your document? Source: 10.222.88.88 Destination: 193.77.229.135 Mail Sender: misc@openbsd.org Mail Recipie

Question about static-port

2006-02-20 Thread Jason Dixon
This is probably a dumb question, but I can't seem to track down the answer in the docs or the archives. If one were to use static-port with a nat rule, what happens when multiple clients match the same source port? P.S. Am I mistaken in noticing that the rdr syntax section in pf.conf (

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi Hannah, On 2006.02.20, at 11:21 PM, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Just one "effect" you have to care for, on Linux (which *has* a unified VM/buffer cache system) we mkdir many directories (e.g. hashed buckets like squid uses them, just a few more, 256 * 256, to be precise). It was quite long

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/02/20 13:17, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > And 512MB, I must add, is the de facto minimum today for any machine, For Windows PCs, maybe... Of the machines I have running OpenBSD, 64MB is the most common RAM size, and those boxes are doing useful work. > making this even lack of tune-up

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 01:17:05PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: >[...] >Yes, there is always some compromise. But in this specific case we >have much less than even a fifth of memory actually being used for >programmes and kernel etc. Some of the rest is used for cache, but it >sti

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Antonios Anastasiadis
if it's unacceptable to you, either don't use openbsd or submit a patch.

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi! On 20/02/06, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > >I have a box with 512MB of RAM, which is running a snapshot from 2006-02-13. > > >The box does not get used much, so most of the RAM stays still, i.e

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: >I have a box with 512MB of RAM, which is running a snapshot from 2006-02-13. >The box does not get used much, so most of the RAM stays still, i.e. >not used by the userland. >I am now quite surprised why OpenBSD does

Re: nologin shell allows me to connect to FTP server

2006-02-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, MK wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong but in man pages is nothing about difference between these two > shells. Of course I had firstly searched man pages before I asked my question > here. > > from manpages: > > "nologin displays a message that an account is not available and exits >

Re: nologin shell allows me to connect to FTP server

2006-02-20 Thread MK
Maybe I'm wrong but in man pages is nothing about difference between these two shells. Of course I had firstly searched man pages before I asked my question here. from manpages: "nologin displays a message that an account is not available and exits non-zero. It is intended as a replacemen

Re: PF problem? Connection reset, but only from behind NAT.

2006-02-20 Thread viq
On Monday 20 February 2006 02:52, Reid Nichol wrote: > I had something like this problem awhile ago. It had to do with > something regarding the default max-mss values. Don't know the exact > details, but changing the scrub lines to the below solved my issue, > perhaps yours too. > > > scrub in a

Re: ifconfig man/usage err wrt deletetunnel on 3.8-beta

2006-02-20 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:36:36AM -0500, Brad Ely wrote: > The man page (and usage message) for ifconfig on 3.8-beta seems to > be out of date with respect to the current behavior when deleting > a tunnel. > > # ifconfig tun0 create > # ifconfig tun0 > tun0: flags=10 mtu 3000 > groups: tu

Re: Privoxy lockups

2006-02-20 Thread Schöberle Dániel
> > Using OpenBSD-v3.8 and v3.9-BETA on i386 together with tor, privoxy > > stops working alfways after a few minutes up to a few hours. 'Stop > > working' means either the privoxy process isn't running > anymore (so it > > needs to be restarted) or the process is running but no > data stream is

Intel SRCU42L

2006-02-20 Thread edgarz
Hello! I want to know about this RAID controller, is it supported or no? On hw page i didn't find him, but in google and monkey.org i found that somebody tried it with OpenBSD 3.4 http://www.intel.com/design/servers/raid/srcu42l/index.htm