Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Craig Skinner
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 09:39:28PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > Yes, but /etc/rc doesn't: > > # prune quickly with one rm, then use find to clean up /tmp/[lq]* > # (not needed with mfs /tmp, but doesn't hurt there...) > (cd /tmp && rm -rf [a-km-pr-zA-Z]* && > find . ! -name . ! -name lost+

Re: Encrypting files

2006-07-01 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:14:59AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: | Hi | | I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my | laptop, in case it gets stolen. If someone can steal your laptop, can they also take it for a short while, fiddle with it (eg install a malicious kernel) and retur

Re: Patent jeopardizes IETF syslog standard

2006-07-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:54:14 +0300, "Alexey E. Suslikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Patent jeopardizes IETF syslog standard. Read here >http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/28/2320232 This sucks. It's no different than what Cisco did with their HSRP patent to try to kill off VRRP. Th

Re: Encrypting files

2006-07-01 Thread Travers Buda
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 02:14:59 +0200 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my > laptop, in case it gets stolen. tedu just improved svnd's crypto... "add -K option which uses a salt file and pkcs5 pbkdf2 to create a more secure ke

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 14:52:18 +, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:45:55 -0700 >"J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Howdy misc@ >> >> Though I stayed out of the last public fiasco regarding HiFn here on >> the misc@ list, I privately contacted the people

refund of 3.80

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Re: Encrypting files

2006-07-01 Thread Peter Philipp
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:14:59AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: > Hi > > I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop, in > case it gets stolen. > > I have no prior experience in this field. > > I have been thinking about using "mcrypt" with blowfish, but is this a good >

Encrypting files

2006-07-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop, in case it gets stolen. I have no prior experience in this field. I have been thinking about using "mcrypt" with blowfish, but is this a good way to go about? Are there a better alternative? And is blowfish the best way

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Tony Abernethy
Peter Philipp wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 02:10:05PM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: > > Peter Philipp wrote: > > [snip] > > > I heard he bitches because he's right most of the time and > people realise > > > this. > > > > Actually 90+ percentile. > > (Particularly when he "ought" to be only 50

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Peter Philipp
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 02:10:05PM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: > Peter Philipp wrote: > [snip] > > I heard he bitches because he's right most of the time and people realise > > this. > > Actually 90+ percentile. > (Particularly when he "ought" to be only 50+ percentile) With close to 20,000 comm

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:40:33PM +0100, Craig Skinner wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:40:18PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > > | I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: > > | nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway. > > > > Not only at b

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Josh Tolley
Here's what I think is cool: despite the tendency public forums discussing the subject have of saying "OpenBSD people generally (or Theo, or someone else specifically) are jerks", those same "jerks" value freedom enough to write the best-engineered general purpose operating system available, the w

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Tony Abernethy
Peter Philipp wrote: [snip] > I heard he bitches because he's right most of the time and people realise > this. Actually 90+ percentile. (Particularly when he "ought" to be only 50+ percentile)

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Craig Skinner
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:40:18PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > | I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: > | nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway. > > Not only at boot, see daily(8) : > > - Removes scratch and junk files from /tm

Re: pkg_add: Updates and dependency cleaning

2006-07-01 Thread Andrés
The script to remove "packages wich are not needed by others" is not buggy, is just not fully automated. You MUST decide what packages delete. Greetings On 7/1/06, Tom Doherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Please could someone familiar with pkg_add(1) confirm whether the behavior I'm experi

Re: A little script to remove packages don't needed

2006-07-01 Thread Andrés
I've done a rewrite, which reads directories and searches for files, which is MUCH faster :) Greetings #!/bin/ksh function check_for_packages { for package in $(ls /var/db/pkg); { echo "Checking if any package depends on $package" if ! $(test -a /var/d

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 01:45:15PM +0100, Craig Skinner wrote: | On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:00:12PM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote: | > | > I never understood why putting /tmp on its own partition is good when nobody | > notices /var/tmp. In addition to /tmp I always put /var/tmp on its own | > part

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 05:32:27PM +0100, Stefan Olsson wrote: > From: "Lars Hansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Friday 30 June 2006 20:45, Craig Skinner wrote: > >>I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: > >>nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot an

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Stefan Olsson
From: "Lars Hansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Friday 30 June 2006 20:45, Craig Skinner wrote: I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway. /var/tmp is not wiped at boot. -No, but /tmp is and if you symlin

pkg_add: Updates and dependency cleaning

2006-07-01 Thread Tom Doherty
Hello, Please could someone familiar with pkg_add(1) confirm whether the behavior I'm experiencing is normal? My mail server has many packages installed that I like to keep up to date using pkg_add -uiv However, pkg_add seems to get confused with regard to the versions of the packages. For ins

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Travers Buda
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:45:55 -0700 "J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy misc@ > > Though I stayed out of the last public fiasco regarding HiFn here on > the misc@ list, I privately contacted the people I know at the > company. I didn't reply just to Hank Cohen who posted here on misc

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Chris Zakelj
Clint Pachl wrote: > So when Theo starts crying when companies don't open source, that is > very hypocritical behavior. This statement right here proves you don't know what the hell you're talking about, and makes the rest of your long-winded rant irrelevant. Theo did not, and never has, asked for

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Lars Hansson
> Don't; just drop it and act like a man. "No, Theo needs an apology > because his feelings are hurt." Holy shit, you sound like my sister and > her bitch friends. Good thing you have better things to do in your life than to write long tiresome letters on Theo's "attitude". Oh wait... --- Lars H

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Peter Philipp
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 04:00:03AM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: > Don't; just drop it and act like a man. "No, Theo needs an apology > because his feelings are hurt." Holy shit, you sound like my sister and > her bitch friends. What exactly do men act like? It seems you don't know, you only report

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread vladas
On 01/07/06, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have to say, people definitely get back what they give. For instance, I don't think I have ever heard a public outcry from the open source community stating "we need money" other than the recent display from the OBSD community. I have never h

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Clint Pachl
Breen Ouellette wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: I will ask this honestly: Why should we bleed our little hearts over a company who acted like assholes towards us for years, and only changed their policy due to public pressure? Don't; just drop it and act like a man. "No, Theo needs an apology be

USB modem

2006-07-01 Thread Alexey Vatchenko
Hi! I need inexpensive USB modem for Dial-Up (not ADSL, not GPRS). Any advices? -- Alexey V. Vatchenko http://psytech.h10.ru JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 162799204

Re: BSD.MP question

2006-07-01 Thread Adam PAPAI
Gabriel George POPA wrote: Hello, I have an Intel P4 processor (with HyperThreading) and I am using a bsd.mp kernel. Should I use the bare bsd kernel? I've noticed that a lot of desktop applications are crashing (Mozilla, for example). Could this be the cause (MP instead of bare?)

BSD.MP question

2006-07-01 Thread Gabriel George POPA
Hello, I have an Intel P4 processor (with HyperThreading) and I am using a bsd.mp kernel. Should I use the bare bsd kernel? I've noticed that a lot of desktop applications are crashing (Mozilla, for example). Could this be the cause (MP instead of bare?)? Servers don't crash. They

Re: OT: large, wireframe Puffy stickers

2006-07-01 Thread Wim Vandeputte
Hey Steve, https://kd85.com/notforsale.html > While browsing through some pictures of one of the OpenBSD events (can't > find the link again right this moment) there were a couple of attendees who > had large wireframe Puffy stickers on the lid of their laptops. There was > also a very large one

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 02:27:53PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > On 6/30/06, Breen Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>J.C. Roberts wrote: >>> This should take care of any of the long standing issues OpenBSD has had >>> with the HiFn's procedures for releasing documentation. >> Someone who parti

Re: Partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Lars Hansson
On Friday 30 June 2006 20:45, Craig Skinner wrote: > I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: > nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway. /var/tmp is not wiped at boot. --- Lars Hansson

Firewall slowdown (DLINK DGE-530T card maxing out at 17.3Mb/sec) P4 2.4 512M ram 424M free

2006-07-01 Thread Ben
Really odd problem here: I've set up a fairly simple firewall utilizing dual DGE-530T gigabit cards. Isolating a windows rack from the rest of campus. Note that testing the speed from a 100Mb linux host in the same office (plugged into the same router as the firewall but of course outside the fir

Re: OT: large, wireframe Puffy stickers

2006-07-01 Thread Lasse Bach
Hi Steve. Check out: https://kd85.com/notforsale.html - Lasse Bach Steve B wrote: While browsing through some pictures of one of the OpenBSD events (can't find the link again right this moment) there were a couple of attendees who had large wireframe Puffy stickers on the lid of their laptops.