Re: Splitting xbaseXY.tgz - stupid idea?

2006-05-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 02:43:36AM +0200, viq wrote: > Sorry if it sounds otherwise, I have no intention of telling anyone what to > do > and how, just sharing some idea I had that could possibly satisfy both sides > of the argument, and maybe allow to avoid bi-weekly reocurring question. > Seei

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread Sevan / Venture37
mal content wrote: > On 5/20/06, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: >> mal content wrote: >> > Ah, well, there's the problem you see. I'm actually trying to get >> > a serial login as the last lot apparently set the console to some >> > ridiculous resolution that no monitor here can handle. >> > >> > It's lo

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread Sevan / Venture37
mal content wrote: > Ah, well, there's the problem you see. I'm actually trying to get > a serial login as the last lot apparently set the console to some > ridiculous resolution that no monitor here can handle. > > It's looking pretty unlikely that I'm even going to get that though, > this one mi

Re: Sound card with supported digital out

2006-05-19 Thread Jan Johansson
andrew fresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a supported sound card that supports digital outputs? > > I am trying to build a media pc that is similar to GeeXboX[2]. > Pretty much just minimal system that will netboot and get > mplayer running, but on an OS I like, OpenBSD :-) However, I > w

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread mal content
On 5/20/06, Sevan / Venture37 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try holding STOP & F & powering up the system, this forces output via serial port A STOP-D forces a diagnostic power on. The NVRAM Parameter diag-switch? is set to true. Not supported by USB Keyboards. STOP-F forces input and

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread mal content
On 5/20/06, Sevan / Venture37 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mal content wrote: > Ah, well, there's the problem you see. I'm actually trying to get > a serial login as the last lot apparently set the console to some > ridiculous resolution that no monitor here can handle. > > It's looking pretty unli

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread mal content
On 5/20/06, Chad M Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Being a U5, its used, which means someone could have changed the baud rate of the serial port. :) I've got two U10s, a SS20, and 220R in my basement^H^H data center. ;-) If you can use a keyboard & monitor to get to the ok prompt, then yo

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread Chad M Stewart
Being a U5, its used, which means someone could have changed the baud rate of the serial port. :) I've got two U10s, a SS20, and 220R in my basement^H^H data center. ;-) If you can use a keyboard & monitor to get to the ok prompt, then you can check the speed of the serial port. I can't

Re: Hostap and 802.11g

2006-05-19 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:12:09PM -0500, Eric Steen wrote: > I got it up and running under 3.9, but still the same issue as before - only > working under 11b configuration. I can get the interface to come up while > configured as 11g, but no clients will auth against it. Once in 11g mode I > can

Re: Spamd & stats

2006-05-19 Thread Timothy A. Napthali
I got this script (spamd_parser.tgz) from a guy called Christopher Kruslicky so all credit goes to him. It uses RRD Tool and provides a fairly nice graph. It also runs as a daemon. I butchered his code to produce two Perl daemons (spamd.zip) - one that monitors the spamd log and updates the RRD da

Splitting xbaseXY.tgz - stupid idea?

2006-05-19 Thread viq
Sorry if it sounds otherwise, I have no intention of telling anyone what to do and how, just sharing some idea I had that could possibly satisfy both sides of the argument, and maybe allow to avoid bi-weekly reocurring question. Seeing all those "why can't I compile port XX?" "install xbase" "but

Sound card with supported digital out

2006-05-19 Thread andrew fresh
Is there a supported sound card that supports digital outputs? I am trying to build a media pc that is similar to GeeXboX[2]. Pretty much just minimal system that will netboot and get mplayer running, but on an OS I like, OpenBSD :-) However, I want to be able to do AC3 and DTS passthrough and I

Updated Patch for Darwin Streaming Server 5.5.1

2006-05-19 Thread Sevan / Venture37
http://www.geeklan.co.uk/?p=68 http://www.geeklan.co.uk/files/DSS55_patch-release.tar.gz -- "The truth, the half-truth, and nothing like the truth." - Mark Brandon Read

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/05/20 00:03, Gaby vanhegan wrote: > On 19 May 2006, at 21:25, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > > Change your home directory to the /var/www, or may be link from > > home to var/www, not the reverse. > > Unfortunately, it's not just my home directory, it's that of about 80 > users, some of whom

Re: XF4.tar.gz in "/usr" or "/usr/src"?

2006-05-19 Thread Alexander Hall
Tobias Weisserth wrote: I was just installing my 3.9 release from the CDs Wim sent me (Thanks Wim!!) and right now I'm in the process of applying the errata patches. I have spent the last three hours reading the online documentation from the website when I stumbled across something I cannot exp

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Gaby vanhegan
On 19 May 2006, at 21:19, jared r r spiegel wrote: > i made myself a seperate /var/www/htdocs/ partition and > then make individual symlinks from ~/public_html -> > thatpartition/ IIRC I can't write hard links across partitions, and /var and /home are on different partitions. On 19 May 200

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/19/06, Matthew S Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Each user had a specified directory they could put files in, /var/www/users/bob or whatever. I simply set the proper permissions on that directory and did this: # ln -s /var/www/users/bob /home/bob/public_html Is there any reason this sim

Re: Spamd & stats

2006-05-19 Thread Gaby vanhegan
On 19 May 2006, at 21:28, Mike Spenard wrote: > I'm looking for scripts to generate statistics off of /var/log/spamd If you don't mind using rrdtool to collate the information, I have some scripts here: http://vanhegan.net/software/ In the Misc section down the bottom, you'll find my php/rrd/

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread marcus . lindemann
- Original Nachricht Von: mal content <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: misc@openbsd.org Datum: 20.05.2006 00:01 Betreff: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line > Hello. > > I'm trying to connect to a Sun Ultra 5 from my OpenBSD > laptop (a thinkpad) but I'm currently stuck. I have

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread mal content
On 5/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to connect to a Sun Ultra 5 from my OpenBSD > laptop (a thinkpad) but I'm currently stuck. I have next to > no experience with serial communications, so I'm groping > around in the dark currently. > > I have a seri

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 11:01:02PM +0100, mal content wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to connect to a Sun Ultra 5 from my OpenBSD > laptop (a thinkpad) but I'm currently stuck. I have next to > no experience with serial communications, so I'm groping > around in the dark currently. > > I have a se

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread mal content
On 5/19/06, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Instead of using minicom, can you try: # cu -l /dev/cua00 This works fine (here) from and to a Blade 100/SS4/SGI 02. Hello. The output from that command was colourful to say the least and in fact caused xterm to glitch (the pro

Re: Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > When I switch on the Sun, I'm told that I should get some > console output and then the usual ok> prompt. I actually > get a lot of control characters and binary gibberish. > > Where exactly do I start with troubleshooting? The cable > doesn't seem to be at fault, so I'm

Re: Hostap and 802.11g

2006-05-19 Thread Eric Steen
I got it up and running under 3.9, but still the same issue as before - only working under 11b configuration. I can get the interface to come up while configured as 11g, but no clients will auth against it. Once in 11g mode I can't even see it as a access point found by any of my wireless clients

Connecting to Sun Ultra 5 over serial line

2006-05-19 Thread mal content
Hello. I'm trying to connect to a Sun Ultra 5 from my OpenBSD laptop (a thinkpad) but I'm currently stuck. I have next to no experience with serial communications, so I'm groping around in the dark currently. I have a serial cable with a null modem adapter connected to the DB9 serial port on my

Re: suppress ssh login banner question

2006-05-19 Thread Didier Wiroth
thx a lot !!! it is exactly what I was looking for !!! didier > "LogLevel quiet"

Spamd & stats

2006-05-19 Thread Mike Spenard
Hi, I'm looking for scripts to generate statistics off of /var/log/spamd Thanks, Mike Spenard

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 01:43:04PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > hardlinking directories is very not good. We need a manpage for understatement(7).

Re: suppress ssh login banner question

2006-05-19 Thread Darren Tucker
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:42:54PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: > I use my own cvs repository where I ("backup") changes I make to my > openbsd config files. The files are checkedout or committed on an external > server, via the ssh shell. > > The server uses a ssh login banner. Every time I cvs co

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 04:25:46PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > >>Would hardlinking /home into /var/www/home help? I don't know all the > >>details of chroot so I don't know if this would work. [...] > >apache's chroot. Is it then possible to hard-link from the chroot > >into the home director

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Gaby, This is how I approached the problem: Each user had a specified directory they could put files in, /var/www/users/bob or whatever. I simply set the proper permissions on that directory and did this: # ln -s /var/www/users/bob /home/bob/public_html Is there any reason this simple soluti

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
When a user logs in, what would prevent them from accessing their files in /var/www/home/wherever by just using the cd command to change to that directory? Just make sure permissions on whatever they need to access in /var/www/home/wherever are such that the users can change files and Apache ca

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/19/06, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would hardlinking /home into /var/www/home help? I don't know all the details of chroot so I don't know if this would work. hardlinking directories is very not good.

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Nick Guenther
On 5/19/06, Gaby vanhegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 19 May 2006, at 20:59, Nick Guenther wrote: > Would hardlinking /home into /var/www/home help? I don't know all the > details of chroot so I don't know if this would work. The basic premise is that each user has a websites folder that all

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Gaby vanhegan wrote: On 19 May 2006, at 20:59, Nick Guenther wrote: Would hardlinking /home into /var/www/home help? I don't know all the details of chroot so I don't know if this would work. The basic premise is that each user has a websites folder that all their sites are in. For example

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:37:13PM +0100, Gaby vanhegan wrote: > > I don't want to put the entire /home partition into the chroot, that > leaves everybody's files vulnerable if apache/php gets haxored. I > could just keep each users websites folder in the chroot, but then > sftpd or ftpd (b

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Gaby vanhegan
On 19 May 2006, at 20:59, Nick Guenther wrote: > Would hardlinking /home into /var/www/home help? I don't know all the > details of chroot so I don't know if this would work. The basic premise is that each user has a websites folder that all their sites are in. For example, we would have /home

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Nick Guenther
On 5/19/06, Gaby vanhegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have a new server (2.66Ghz Core Duo) with a spangly new LSI MegaRaid card (disable pcibios made it boot happily using bsd.mp), and once we'd found the broken stick of RAM everything's happy (dmesg at end) I have a systems question, rela

New server

2006-05-19 Thread Gaby vanhegan
Hi, I have a new server (2.66Ghz Core Duo) with a spangly new LSI MegaRaid card (disable pcibios made it boot happily using bsd.mp), and once we'd found the broken stick of RAM everything's happy (dmesg at end) I have a systems question, relating to apache. I would like to run apache chr

Re: /dev and sparc64 netboot

2006-05-19 Thread Miod Vallat
> I'm trying to do a 3.9 diskless boot of a Sun Netra T1 AC200 from an OpenBSD > 3.8 i386 server. I have followed through diskless(8) and am able to boot > bsd.rd from the server. Trying to boot bsd (using 'boot net') fails towards > the end of loading the kernel: [...] > I realized that I hadn't s

Re: /dev and sparc64 netboot

2006-05-19 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: Miod Vallat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > root device : gem0 > > [...] > > > What do I need to do in order for the node to continue > booting (using gem0 > > as the root device) without manual intervention? > > This is a known problem (PR #5058) which has been fixed > post-3.9. If you >

Re: /dev and sparc64 netboot

2006-05-19 Thread Miod Vallat
> > root device : > > I figured out that if I tell it here the network interface that connects it > to the NFS server, it boots correctly. > > root device : gem0 [...] > What do I need to do in order for the node to continue booting (using gem0 > as the root device) without manual intervention?

XF4.tar.gz in "/usr" or "/usr/src"?

2006-05-19 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi everybody, I hope this is the right place to post this. I was just installing my 3.9 release from the CDs Wim sent me (Thanks Wim!!) and right now I'm in the process of applying the errata patches. I have spent the last three hours reading the online documentation from the website when

Re: /dev and sparc64 netboot

2006-05-19 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Executing last command: boot net > Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 > File and args: > Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up. > 10800 > Server IP address: 10.0.1.2 > Client IP address: 10.0.1.20 > >> OpenBSD 3.9 (obj) #1: Wed Mar

Re: 3.9 Make Release Fails

2006-05-19 Thread Michael Siers
Hi, Here is a little more information. After "make release" fails, I type in the following commands and get the output below the command: df -h /mnt === FileSystem SizeUsed Avail CapMount On /dev/svnd0a 1.7M 1.3M 338K 80% /mnt umount /mnt = umount: /mnt: not c

Re: 3.9 Make Release Fails

2006-05-19 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 12:27:58PM -0500, Michael Siers wrote: > Hi, > Yes, I verified that /mnt is empty. Anything else you can think of that > I am doing wrong? when the build stops, run 'fstat | grep /mnt'. it might show something happening in /mnt. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks, > Mike

Re: how to organize posts

2006-05-19 Thread Terry
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:54:03AM -0700, prad wrote: > i am curious as to what people do to accummulate and organize information > emanating from this list. > > being primarily a forum user i never had this concern - there was nothing to > organize. when you want to look for something just go

Re: how to organize posts

2006-05-19 Thread Michael Erdely
prad wrote: i am curious as to what people do to accummulate and organize information emanating from this list. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ for archives. -ME -- Support OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org/orders.html

Re: 3.9 Make Release Fails

2006-05-19 Thread Michael Siers
Hi, Yes, I verified that /mnt is empty. Anything else you can think of that I am doing wrong? Thanks, Mike On 5/19/06, Alexander Belikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > MS> Hi, > MS> I have an i386 3.9 system and I am trying to do my own i386 > release. I have > > MS> followed the FAQ directions

How Can I enable delay_pools - SQUID - OpenBSD 3.7

2006-05-19 Thread Daniel Szortyka
Hi there, Im trying to use delay_pools in my transparent squid on OpenBSD. Firstly I instaled squid-transparent that is for download on OpenBSD site, after I tryed to compile a new squid with -enable-delay-pools , but Squid doesnt works. Somebody knows a patch to fix this bug? Or a site tha

/dev and sparc64 netboot

2006-05-19 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
I'm trying to do a 3.9 diskless boot of a Sun Netra T1 AC200 from an OpenBSD 3.8 i386 server. I have followed through diskless(8) and am able to boot bsd.rd from the server. Trying to boot bsd (using 'boot net') fails towards the end of loading the kernel: Executing last command: boot net Boot dev

Re: 3.9 Make Release Fails

2006-05-19 Thread Alexander Belikov
MS> Hi, MS> I have an i386 3.9 system and I am trying to do my own i386 release. I have MS> followed the FAQ directions for building the kernel and compiling the source MS> tree. MS> However, when I do the "make release" command, it runs for awhile and MS> then aborts on the "umount /mnt" command

how to organize posts

2006-05-19 Thread prad
i am curious as to what people do to accummulate and organize information emanating from this list. being primarily a forum user i never had this concern - there was nothing to organize. when you want to look for something just go to the search link and you find it. there is a similar 'search

SGI O2 R12000 - environment settings

2006-05-19 Thread Bachman Kharazmi
People have been asking me about env settings to boot a R12k. Here comes everything you need, and now it will be found in the archives by anyone. -- /Bachman --- Logs which worked with my R12k are shared without any guarantees. /bkw

Re: 3.9 hangs during first boot

2006-05-19 Thread akonsu
hello, thanks to everyone who responded for your help. "disable iic*" from "boot -c" worked. but i had to "disable piixpm*" from "config -e" to make it permanent. for some reason doing "disable iic*" in "config -e" and rebooting still froze the machine. i am not sure what the difference is betwee

3.9 Make Release Fails

2006-05-19 Thread Michael Siers
Hi, I have an i386 3.9 system and I am trying to do my own i386 release. I have followed the FAQ directions for building the kernel and compiling the source tree. However, when I do the "make release" command, it runs for awhile and then aborts on the "umount /mnt" command. It looks like the cdr

Re: High-Performance Network Cards?

2006-05-19 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hello, You may want to check this site too: http://www.vendorwatch.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Have a look at the Realtek details ... let's start support Openbsd friendly hardware vendors ;-)) Didier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ja

suppress ssh login banner question

2006-05-19 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hello, I use my own cvs repository where I ("backup") changes I make to my openbsd config files. The files are checkedout or committed on an external server, via the ssh shell. The server uses a ssh login banner. Every time I cvs commit or checkout, the ssh login banner is displayed on the client

Re: High-Performance Network Cards?

2006-05-19 Thread James Mackinnon
Nevermind, found my answer. Hint to self, Check the Darn hardware support list first. James - Original Message - From: James Mackinnon To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:51 AM Subject: High-Performance Network Cards? Hey everyone I'm looking at upgrading

Re: High-Performance Network Cards?

2006-05-19 Thread Marcus Popp
On 2006-05-19T11:51, James Mackinnon wrote: > Hey everyone > > I'm looking at upgrading my Environment to 2 firewalls using carp and such. > > I have a bunch of segments (5) internally + the pfsync connection > > I do alot of data transfers on the backend, which would likely be best managed > wi

Re: Sendmail configurations

2006-05-19 Thread Smith
Also, server.skyblue.mine.nu should be an A record. Smith wrote: Ah. Add server.skyblue.mine.nu to the file /etc/mail/local-hosts-names On 2006/05/16 01:15, SkyBlueshoes wrote: I've just installed OpenBSD 3.8...my first ever *nix. I've got most up and running, but I'm having problems recievin

High-Performance Network Cards?

2006-05-19 Thread James Mackinnon
Hey everyone I'm looking at upgrading my Environment to 2 firewalls using carp and such. I have a bunch of segments (5) internally + the pfsync connection I do alot of data transfers on the backend, which would likely be best managed with gigabit cards, the front end, will be connected to 2 cisc

Script for syncing PF rules on two paired firewalls

2006-05-19 Thread Ashley Moran
I wrote this little script to copy and reload rules on two firewalls. Thought I'd share it here in case it is any use or I am missing something. ( My money's on the latter :) ) it just needs a separate user with correct sudo privileges to run certain commands. It's very verbose just so I cou

Re: Sendmail configurations

2006-05-19 Thread John Gould
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Smith wrote: Ah. Add server.skyblue.mine.nu to the file /etc/mail/local-hosts-names On 2006/05/16 01:15, SkyBlueshoes wrote: I've just installed OpenBSD 3.8...my first ever *nix. I've got most up and running, but I'm having problems recieving email. I followed the guideli