Re: Chrooted sftp-server and /dev/null

2006-07-07 Thread Joshua Sandbrook
On Friday 23 June 2006 22:24, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > You could set up a named pipe (mkfifo(1)), and have a process > continually drain it (cat /home/john/dev/null >/dev/null &); however, > while this would work for the most likely use (writing to /dev/null), it > wouldn't allow for reading. >

bash-static on OpenBSD 3.9

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
If anyone has been lamenting the loss of the bash-static package, this evening i took the time to figure out how to create something that works just as well. I peeked in the Makefile for bash on an older version of OpenBSD to see how the static version differs. The difference is when compiling

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 7/7/06, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the motivation for asking this is that i'm running an ecommerce website from work and am interested in having a failover and/or loadbalancing for it in the event that the power goes out at work, etc. colocating the machine that serves it is

Re: tutorial for securing wifi networks with ipsec and openbsd, somewhere?

2006-07-07 Thread Diana Eichert
> >For those who are interested and have wifi windows xp clients. > > > >Recently I came across a tool called "smartvpn dial-up connection > >management" from draytek. It is a freeware (ipsec) client that makes it > >very simple to configure ipsec on windows 2k/xp. You will not have to > >use mmc +

Re: switch Radio on in order to use iwi0?

2006-07-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/07/07 18:46, Bryan Brake wrote: > Andreas Burghardt wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I want to use my wireless card and everything seems to be well > >configured except one thing: how to switch Radio on? I have a "Joybook > >5200G (Benq)" and if I want to switch Radio on by using the keyboa

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-07 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
vladas wrote: > > Thank you for all these good ideas. > I will check them out. > > vladas > > Foremost might help too. It find for file headers/footers. Don't know if it will help on a very fragmented FAT, but it worked for me on an ext3 partition, where i deleted some files. The only problem is th

Re: switch Radio on in order to use iwi0?

2006-07-07 Thread Bryan Brake
Andreas Burghardt wrote: Hello everyone, I want to use my wireless card and everything seems to be well configured except one thing: how to switch Radio on? I have a "Joybook 5200G (Benq)" and if I want to switch Radio on by using the keyboard it isnt working! Perhaps this is a very noob-questio

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/07/07 10:56, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > the motivation for asking this is that i'm running an ecommerce website from > work and am interested in having a failover and/or loadbalancing for it in the > event that the power goes out at work, etc. colocating the machine that serves > it is prob

Re: switch Radio on in order to use iwi0?

2006-07-07 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 06:32:57PM +0200, Andreas Burghardt wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I want to use my wireless card and everything seems to be well > configured except one thing: how to switch Radio on? I have a "Joybook > 5200G (Benq)" and if I want to switch Radio on by using the keyboard it

Re: Sizing an IMAP Server on OpenBSD

2006-07-07 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
First, about hardware requirements. What you're proposing is absolute overkill for such a small client load. You won't need to upgrade the hardware :-) About resource limits of _cyrus user and sysctl values, are there well known values? Should I increase kern.maxfiles for example? I wouldn't

Re: Sizing an IMAP Server on OpenBSD

2006-07-07 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Bob Beck spake: IF you're only talking about around 300 users, you've probably not got to worry about these questions - what you have will work very well for what you are proposing, likely without any tweaks. -Bob * Samuel Moqux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-07 10:56]: H

Re: Sizing an IMAP Server on OpenBSD

2006-07-07 Thread Bob Beck
IF you're only talking about around 300 users, you've probably not got to worry about these questions - what you have will work very well for what you are proposing, likely without any tweaks. -Bob * Samuel Moqux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-07 10:56]: > Hi everyone, > > I'm pl

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | (2) are there any particular online docs that are > recommended reading for > BGP? > > The RFC (I think it's 1771) is very good, check it out. Superseded by RFC4271. I also found http://www.iana.org/assignments/bgp-parameters to be a good reference, with other relate

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Peter Philipp
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 06:30:06PM +0200, Peter Philipp wrote: > I think you can do it with the following: Get 2 cheap routers that can pass > 3Mb/s, no big functionality needed except that they do ethernet (Cisco 2500's? > they should be cheap by now..), 2 switches for the etherlink between the

Sizing an IMAP Server on OpenBSD

2006-07-07 Thread Samuel Moñux
Hi everyone, I'm planning to deploy a SMTP(Sendmail) and IMAP(Cyrus) server on a mid-sized organization(~300 remote users, dunno about messages/day), and since is my first IMAP server (until now we do only POP), I have some questions about sizing. First, about hardware requirements. I had tought

switch Radio on in order to use iwi0?

2006-07-07 Thread Andreas Burghardt
Hello everyone, I want to use my wireless card and everything seems to be well configured except one thing: how to switch Radio on? I have a "Joybook 5200G (Benq)" and if I want to switch Radio on by using the keyboard it isnt working! Perhaps this is a very noob-question ... but its my first note

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Peter Philipp
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:11AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > already have available (the 2 ADSL connections + old hw). > > i think CARPing machines when they're in different public IP blocks won't > work, > i.e. x.y.z.w/29 and a.b.c.d/29 cannot have a single address CARPed across > blocks

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:56:11AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > i think CARPing machines when they're in different public IP blocks > won't work, i.e. x.y.z.w/29 and a.b.c.d/29 cannot have a single > address CARPed across blocks. do tell if i'm wrong on this one since > this would work nicely

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:02:47PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: | i've started doing some background reading on how BGP works and am adrift in a | sea of acronyms. i'm confident that i'll learn how to swim, but there are a few | questions that i'd like answers to before i make the time investmen

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Original message >Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:54:24 +0200 >From: Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: BGP questions >To: misc@openbsd.org > >* Peter Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-07 08:47]: >> > would i need an AS number if this would work? >> >> Yup. That's not all.

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-07 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:23:51 -0400, "Peter Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ya, that'd be nice if I ever made it to a prompt to enter 'anonymous', >but the connection fails well before that point. > >$ ping ftp.hifn.com >PING ftp.hifn.com (208.10.194.169): 56 data bytes >64 bytes from 208.10.194.

Re: D-Link DUB-E100 new Revision does not work

2006-07-07 Thread Guido Tschakert
Jonathan Gray schrieb: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:14:12PM +0200, Guido Tschakert wrote: >> Guido Tschakert schrieb: >>> Hello, >>> >>> don't know if this is the right place, but I post it anyway. >>> >>> I bought an D-Link DUB-E100 which should work on OpenBSD accordingly to >>> the web site. >>>

Re: How to compile DHCPD source code

2006-07-07 Thread Peter Blair
Rahul: You don't need the sendmail patch, but it does outline the steps required to (re-)compile and install system software. -Pete P.S. Don't forget to CC misc@ On 7/7/06, Rahul Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Peter, Thanks for ur reply. It seems confusing to me that for recompiling

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-07 Thread vladas
On 07/07/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:56:55PM +0900, vladas wrote: > Hi all. > > I have fd up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk > (not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze > shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort > of backup

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-07 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:56:55PM +0900, vladas wrote: > Hi all. > > I have fd up the first 10Mb of the 3Gb fat disk > (not partition, the whole 3Gb disk) full of windoze > shit. Then, due to time limits, made some of sort > of backup of the mess with dd and put Puffy into > that disk (dedica

Re: htaccess + skey?

2006-07-07 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 03:23:40PM +0200, Rogier Krieger wrote: > On 7/6/06, Bernd Schoeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:33:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > >> Is there any way to combine htaccess with one-time-pads? > > > >Looks like a difficult task, as http

Re: Some though and more detail

2006-07-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/07/06 09:50, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > We are now in the days of being able to make a complete OS install > > onto a flashcard which costs less than the cheapest hard drive. > > Is this still the case if you include the controller? I don't know, just > asking... DiskOnModule are cheap i

Re: How to compile DHCPD source code

2006-07-07 Thread Peter Blair
First, *don't* download source from the cvsweb website. That source is handy for browsing, but you should be getting your code from a cvs repository. Look at the instructions for a given patch for guidance: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/3.9/common/001_sendmail.patch "And then rebui

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread Henning Brauer
* Peter Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-07 08:47]: > > would i need an AS number if this would work? > > Yup. That's not all. You need at least a /20 (AFAIK) to be able for large > backbones to even consider routing your advertisement. But this was heresay > years ago, I don't know if it s

How to compile DHCPD source code

2006-07-07 Thread Rahul Sharma
Hi, I need to make some minute changes to "db.c" file comes under DHCP source code . I wanted to know that how can i run dhcp now with these changes. Plz tell me for this whether I have to recompile whole source code(Kernel) again or if there is any way to just compile only this DHCP code. What I

Re: HTTP Load balancer

2006-07-07 Thread Richard Wilson
Pete Vickers wrote: On 7. jul. 2006, at 00.11, Clint Pachl wrote: Richard Wilson wrote: Hulloo list, Can anyone recommend a load balancer for http/https for OpenBSD? Currently I'm using Pound, from http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ which runs under OpenBSD, and supports connection tracking via IP, c

Re: BGP questions

2006-07-07 Thread tony sarendal
On 07/07/06, Peter Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:02:47PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > > (1) i have 2 blocks of 8 static IPs at my disposal, one at home and one > at work, > > So two /29's ? > > > and both connections are 3Mb/512Kb ADSL via PPPoE. the upstrea

Re: hints for scanning msdosfs patters?

2006-07-07 Thread vladas
Seems like a small tax on people who don't keep decent backups. Yeah, thats thats me. Thank you all so much for the links. vladas

Re: Question related to "automaticly" encrypted /tmp && /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-07 Thread Janne Johansson
Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: I have not seen documented how mfs allocates memory, so i just did a quick test. On a machine with 205 MB of RAM free i mounted a 128 MB mfs. Free RAM dropped to 199 MB; only 6 MB used! So OpenBSD must only allocate RAM for sectors that have actually been written to.