Re: Packets/Bandwidth Monitoring

2006-10-04 Thread tony sarendal
I wrote a stats script for PF that can show bandwidth per label. http://www.prefixmaster.com/eyeonpf.php If you can identify your user with rules that match a label it would work. /Tony -- Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] IP/Unix -= The scorpion replied, "I couldn't help

Re: 3.9: kernel panic when using disklabel on ramdisk

2006-10-04 Thread Lars Hansson
T. Valent wrote: I am still not sure if MFS helps me. My project is an embedded system that does not have a swap. I'm pretty sure the system will not run out of memory. So am I supposed to create the MFS on swap though I don't have any? From an "embedded" box running from CF and without swap:

ipsec vpn: freebsd and openbsd

2006-10-04 Thread Stephen J. Bevan
kintaro oe writes: > I'm setting up ipsec/vpn on freebsd and openbsd. I try to read this > how to http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1859 but this applies to 2 > openbsd > systems. could anyone help me on how to setup between two systems? Type "man vpn" on your OpenBSD box and read the sect

Re: [Love Letter] Functionnality vs State of mind

2006-10-04 Thread RedShift
Bruno Carnazzi wrote: Hi misc, I'd just like to say that nowadays, in free software world (real free software, not open source), from my point of view, I feel you have to choose between "featurefullness" and state of mind. By state of mind, I mean project goals and moral values. From this po

[Love Letter] Functionnality vs State of mind

2006-10-04 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
Hi misc, I'd just like to say that nowadays, in free software world (real free software, not open source), from my point of view, I feel you have to choose between "featurefullness" and state of mind. By state of mind, I mean project goals and moral values. From this point of view, I love Ope

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:57:23AM +0400, Bruno Carnazzi wrote: > Great Bluetooth support will really enjoy me ! > From my point of view, it's one of the biggest lack of OpenBSD at this > moment (with WPA too). > > Can you elaborate on this point ? Take a look at this: http://jcs.org/notaweblog/

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
2006/10/4, Fred Crowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ivorob wrote: > > Ok, Thanks. I try to investigate this problem. If you have some links > about WinModem programming and something about creating drivers in > OpenBSD, please, send it me ;) Thanks in advance. > > PS. I built custom kernel because bluet

Re: Serial control of LCD display

2006-10-04 Thread Woodchuck
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Jeff Quast wrote: > On 10/2/06, Peter Bako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to get a CrystalFontz 632 serial display to work with an OpenBSD > > box. Under Windows I can just connect the display to a com port, run > > Hyperterminal and send text directly to it, so I

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Travers Buda
Theo et al. say: don't buy intel hardware--our drivers are going to be lacking/buggy because we can't get docs. Thats not very smart of intel, considering that OpenBSD is writing the best drivers for them with a BSD liscense for FREE! Said driver is not just limited to OpenBSD; you could make you

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Lars Hansson
Lets just not take the discussion in this direction, ok? --- Lars Hansson

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread mcb, inc.
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Richard P. Koett wrote: The user complained that Internet access seemed slow [snip] Any other advice would be appreciated. Leave the Soekris in place tomorrow but tell the user the original device is now back doing duty. See if he reports the network speed as improved. --

How to contact top people at Intel Wireless

2006-10-04 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
Hi misc@, In the light of the recent discussions about Intel, I'd like to remind misc@ subscribers that Intel publishes information about all their top people that are responsible for producing wireless devices. Intel doesn't publish the email addresses of these top people, but knowing Intel's a

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Philip Guenther
On 10/4/06, Spruell, Darren-Perot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Good point to make. Intel doesn't want consumers to know that; they want everyone to *think* they are getting cutting edge technology innovation, thus justifying the premium money you drop on any product with the Intel name on it.

Re: SD/MMC Support for OpenBSD/zaurus

2006-10-04 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:41:49PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Someone has to write this one day, basically a fairly simple driver > equivelant to sdhc(4) but for the PXA270 cpu's thing. > > All the chip-level stuff to handle the bus easily found in the > publically available PAX270 cpu document

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
I for one do not mind that, BSDstats breaks out the BSD operating systems. I only wish that someone with sufficient knowledge would put the BSDstats script in the OpenBSD ports tree. because if I could install it I could add 27 OpenBSD systems. Sam Fourman Jr. On 10/5/06, Greg Thomas <[EMAIL P

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Han Boetes
Breen Ouellette wrote: > Han Boetes wrote: > > Anything which is favourable to you, but not to corperations may > > get you called communist. If you are that easily subdued you > > might as well donate your money directly to the corporations. > > > > Yes I am a communist, since I believe we should

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Greg Thomas
On 10/4/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What the software is measuring, or is trying to measure, is the number of active *BSD installations there are ... So why doesn't it do only that? Just "Systems This Month: 2938" and the numbers broken down by country or continent. Gre

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Marc G. Fournier
--On Tuesday, October 03, 2006 06:57:31 +0200 Ingo Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote on Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 10:28:34PM -0300: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I doubt t

Re: SD/MMC Support for OpenBSD/zaurus

2006-10-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I noticed the recent addition of sdhc(4) and sdmmc(4) and the message > that announced this new support. Is work going on toward supporting the > SD slot on the Zaurus SL-C3x00? Thanks. Someone has to write this one day, basically a fairly simple driver equivelant to sdhc(4) but for the PXA270 c

OpenOSPFD Redistribution

2006-10-04 Thread Nick Davey
Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to control if the routes redistributed by openospfd are advertised as type 1 or type 2 external routes. Also, is there a way to specify a metric on redistributed routes? Thanks, Nick

SD/MMC Support for OpenBSD/zaurus

2006-10-04 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
I noticed the recent addition of sdhc(4) and sdmmc(4) and the message that announced this new support. Is work going on toward supporting the SD slot on the Zaurus SL-C3x00? Thanks. Bryan

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Breen Ouellette
Han Boetes wrote: Breen Ouellette wrote: PS - before I get accused of being a 'commie' in this latest round of discussions regarding bad corporate behaviour, I'd just like to say that it was my understanding that believing the law should not be broken is not how you define a communist.

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:00:01 -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: >Rod.. Whitworth wrote: >> I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would >> install on a HDD. >> >Rod, tried to email you off-list, but it seems my ISP is relaying >through a Chinese server that's on your blacklist

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:40:20AM +1000, Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:45:28 -0500, David Bryan wrote: > > >The other reason for not mounting the CF in a read/write mode is that CF > >has a limited number of write cycles (~10,000 gate transisitions). > > I have a 4801 with CF

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:00:01PM -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: > Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > > I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would > > install on a HDD. > > > Rod, tried to email you off-list, but it seems my ISP is relaying > through a Chinese server that's on you

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Jean-Gerard Pailloncy
One thing that I would really recommend is looking into using the compact flash with the memory file system. For a first install or if you have phyiscal access to the box, a laptop HD is just fine, but when it is sent to a far away place, where power- or heat can effect it, always use a CF

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Marian, Marian Hettwer wrote on Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:08:11AM +0200: > Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> I doubt the project is worth the effort at all. >> Whatever numbers might result will be heavily biased. To clarify: As far as i understood, BSDstats intends to measure the number of *BSD systems

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Zakelj
Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would > install on a HDD. > Rod, tried to email you off-list, but it seems my ISP is relaying through a Chinese server that's on your blacklist. Anyways, what special sauce are you using to install to CF?

Re: Forcing a password change on first login

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/04 15:59, Jeff Simmons wrote: > When adding a user to a system, I am required by a client's security policies > to set a one time password that must be changed by the user the first time > she logs in. Is there a simple way to do this? default .profile runs passwd and either copies a

Re: Forcing a password change on first login

2006-10-04 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > When adding a user to a system, I am required by a client's > security policies to set a one time password that must be > changed by the user the first time she logs in. Is there a > simple way to do this? > > 1) Obviously, a slightly complex

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Intel may just be worried that there _might_ be a problem > they don't > > know about and are trying to protect themselves. I imagine > that there > > are plenty of opportunities for someone to either willfully or > > accidentally introdu

Forcing a password change on first login

2006-10-04 Thread Jeff Simmons
When adding a user to a system, I am required by a client's security policies to set a one time password that must be changed by the user the first time she logs in. Is there a simple way to do this? 1) Obviously, a slightly complex way would be to add the user, and then insert the present day

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Original message >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 14:37:09 -0500 >From: Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense >To: misc@openbsd.org > >On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:39:37PM -0600, Breen Ouellette wrote: >> Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: ... >>

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:45:28 -0500, David Bryan wrote: >The other reason for not mounting the CF in a read/write mode is that CF >has a limited number of write cycles (~10,000 gate transisitions). I have a 4801 with CF installed with 3.9 in exactly the manner I would install on a HDD. Partitio

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Han Boetes
Breen Ouellette wrote: > PS - before I get accused of being a 'commie' in this latest > round of discussions regarding bad corporate behaviour, I'd just > like to say that it was my understanding that believing the law > should not be broken is not how you define a communist. Anything which is fav

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:37:09PM -0500, Damian Wiest wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:39:37PM -0600, Breen Ouellette wrote: > > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > >>a) Intel doesn't own the technology, but licensed it from another > > >> vendor. The licensing terms don't allow Intel to relea

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On Oct 4, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Damian Wiest wrote: > Rather than releasing > information and potentially having to deal with an intellectual > property > issue, Intel just doesn't release the information. There's a yang inside the yin. Their not releasing the info is a wonderful cleanroom defen

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Intel may just be worried that there _might_ be a problem they don't > know about and are trying to protect themselves. "may just be"? > I imagine that there > are plenty of opportunities for someone to either willfully or > accidentally introduce patented technologies, for which Intel does

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-04 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:39:37PM -0600, Breen Ouellette wrote: > Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > >>a) Intel doesn't own the technology, but licensed it from another > >> vendor. The licensing terms don't allow Intel to release full > >> details. > >> > >>b) Intel has agreements with other c

Re: Driver for BCM4318

2006-10-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > does somebody already work on a driver for a Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce > > One 54g] 802.11g WLAN driver? > > > > steffen > > > > Probably not. Broadcom generally are bitches like that. But note that > this information you've given is just the card model, what's important > is the actual chip

Re: Packets/Bandwidth Monitoring

2006-10-04 Thread Bryan Irvine
On 10/4/06, kintaro oe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guys, need some advice..i have a openbsd as my firewall/ntp/dhcp/vpn server. is ther a package that can i see or monitor on the packets/bandwidth usage for a user? i've seen ntop. any advice? I use cacti. I've never set it up to monitor tra

Re: Packets/Bandwidth Monitoring

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/04 13:28, kintaro oe wrote: > Hi guys, > > need some advice..i have a openbsd as my firewall/ntp/dhcp/vpn > server. is ther a package that can i see or monitor on the packets/bandwidth > usage for a user? i've seen ntop. any advice? lots...depends what you're looking for. some options:

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread David Bryan
Richard P. Koett wrote: I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9. The user complained that Internet access seemed slow, however. I'm plann

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread 'Stuart Henderson'
On 2006/10/04 11:40, Richard P. Koett wrote: > As for your other questions, there was particular mention of e-mail > seeming slow. My first thought was that I was filtering IDENT > connections without sending a reset packet (yes, I'm using pf) but > that wasn't the case. DNS hasn't changed. I'll ch

Re: ath(4) testers needed: AR2413, AR5413, AR5424 and AR5212 11a mode

2006-10-04 Thread Pierre Riteau
On 9/27/06, Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 02:58:34PM +0200, Pierre Riteau wrote: > On 9/19/06, Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >hi, > > > >i recently enabled support for some newer wireless chipsets from > >atheros, like the AR2413, AR5413, and AR5424 s

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Emilio Perea
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Richard P. Koett wrote: > Based on other people's responses it sounds like no kernel > customization is even required on this device. I started out using flashdist on mine, but switched to a standard installation on a 1G flash card (/ mounted rw,noatime,so

Re: [most likely OT] Re: cron jobs

2006-10-04 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:50:23AM -0700, Ben Calvert wrote: | On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:26:55 +0200 | Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > My cronjobs do not output anything when stuff Just Works (tm). When | > something goes wrong, they will give output which will be sent to the | > admin (

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Zakelj
"Richard P. Koett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9. The user complained that Internet access seemed sl

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:44:30AM -0700, Richard P. Koett wrote: > I thought that since I'm not using compact flash (and don't care about > writing to disk) I'd have no need to "build a filesystem in virtual > memory"?

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Richard P. Koett
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/10/04 10:42, Richard P. Koett wrote: >> I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a >> firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact >> flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD >> 3.9. The user complained

Re: [most likely OT] Re: cron jobs

2006-10-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Original message >Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:25:08 -0600 >From: "Chris Kuethe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [most likely OT] Re: cron jobs >To: "Ben Calvert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: "Paul de Weerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], misc@openbsd.org > >On 10/4/06, Ben Calvert

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Richard P. Koett
Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: > The Soekris kernel configs from flashdist are the best way to go. You > do not need to remove the MFS option but I would add the > FFS_SOFTUPDATES option. The MFS option is used for building a file > system in virtual memory. It has nothing to do with compact flash > cards

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Richard P. Koett
Chris Kuethe wrote: > Theo builds my custom kernel... it's called GENERIC. I've been running > GENERIC on a CF-based soekris (both 4501 and 4801) for about 5 years > to no ill effect. > > CK Chris: I'm a pretty big fan of Theo's kernels as well. I just wasn't sure if this particular device neede

OT: nagios & thttpd

2006-10-04 Thread Dominguez, Roland
Has anyone setup Nagios using Thttpd as the web daemon on Openbsd? If so, anything I need watch out for? thanks roland

Re: mount_null replacement?

2006-10-04 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, G 0kita wrote: Specifically I'm looking to have a writable directory mounted read-only in another location. Svnd mounts aren't the solution I'm looking for, I'm fairly sure. You could try local NFS mount. -- Antoine

Re: [most likely OT] Re: cron jobs

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/4/06, Ben Calvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm sorry to jump in here, but I'm really curious about how you tell the diference between the job never running and it Just Working (tm)? I don't know about you, but particularly in the case of backup i'm very interested in making sure it wor

Packets/Bandwidth Monitoring

2006-10-04 Thread kintaro oe
Hi guys, need some advice..i have a openbsd as my firewall/ntp/dhcp/vpn server. is ther a package that can i see or monitor on the packets/bandwidth usage for a user? i've seen ntop. any advice? cheers, kintaro Oe

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/04 10:42, Richard P. Koett wrote: > I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a > firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact > flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD > 3.9. The user complained that Internet access seemed s

Re: Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
The Soekris kernel configs from flashdist are the best way to go. You do not need to remove the MFS option but I would add the FFS_SOFTUPDATES option. The MFS option is used for building a file system in virtual memory. It has nothing to do with compact flash cards. Those are still supported using

mount_null replacement?

2006-10-04 Thread G 0kita
Hi there, I've been using null mounts for the last while to maintain a readonly filesystem under OpenBSD 3.6. For example: /etc/fstab: /home/user/dir /var/www/dir null ro,nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 I just tried this on an OpenBSD 3.9 system and it fails on the helper program for null (ie. mount_null

Re: 3.9: kernel panic when using disklabel on ramdisk

2006-10-04 Thread T. Valent
>> Anyway, I agree with you here that I maybe should have taken a closer >> look at MFS. I just didn't take it into consideration because I have >> worked with rdconfig since OpenBSD 3.2 without problems. > > There's not much crosslinking in the manual between them, I wonder > whether rd(4) should

[most likely OT] Re: cron jobs

2006-10-04 Thread Ben Calvert
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 11:26:55 +0200 Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My cronjobs do not output anything when stuff Just Works (tm). When > something goes wrong, they will give output which will be sent to the > admin (me). I'm sorry to jump in here, but I'm really curious about how you t

Custom kernel for Soekris net4801-50

2006-10-04 Thread Richard P. Koett
I'm setting up a Soekris net4801-50 (128 Mb RAM) for use as a firewall. For storage it has a 40Gb IDE drive rather than compact flash. For my first attempt I used a generic install of OpenBSD 3.9. The user complained that Internet access seemed slow, however. I'm planning to try again using a cu

Re: 3.9: kernel panic when using disklabel on ramdisk

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/04 18:35, T. Valent wrote: > I am still not sure if MFS helps me. My project is an embedded system > that does not have a swap. I'm pretty sure the system will not run out > of memory. So am I supposed to create the MFS on swap though I don't > have any? Yes, this is fine. You don't nee

Re: /var/mail/$USER not created [was: annoying openbsd mutt package]

2006-10-04 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 04 11:58:10, Okan Demirmen wrote: > On Wed 2006.10.04 at 17:40 +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > On Oct 02 22:06:34, Gustavo Rios wrote: > > > I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error > > > i got just after i start it on command line: > > > /var/mail/grios: No such fil

Re: Some recommendations on file locations sought

2006-10-04 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Will Maier wrote:> > >On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:29:56PM -0700, John Draper wrote: > > > > > >>Here is what I did... > >> > >>htpasswd -c /var/www/conf/auth/passwd edp < I set the > password here > > >> > >>chown root.nogroup /var/www/conf/au

Re: /var/mail/$USER not created [was: annoying openbsd mutt package]

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Gignac
Mutt tries to open $MAIL (which is obviously /var/mail/grios), not "folder". The reason "it only happens with openbsd installed version" is probably that obsd didn't create /var/mail/$USER (which most other system do, imho).I guess it's just different design philosphies. Probably just different

Re: 3.9: kernel panic when using disklabel on ramdisk

2006-10-04 Thread T. Valent
Problem: Using disklabel on /dev/rd0c causes a kernel panic. >>> I think you're looking for mount_mfs(8), its use is demonstrated >>> in fstab(5). >> No. MFS != ramdisk > Exactly. rd(4) is for ramdisks built-in to kernels, MFS is for > normal use... > Doesn't the fact that you have to build a

Re: /var/mail/$USER not created [was: annoying openbsd mutt package]

2006-10-04 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 11:58:10AM -0400, Okan Demirmen wrote: > On Wed 2006.10.04 at 17:40 +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > On Oct 02 22:06:34, Gustavo Rios wrote: > > > I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error > > > i got just after i start it on command line: > > > /var/m

Re: Question About low cost CD's

2006-10-04 Thread M.Salah
Dear / Siju In Egypt the conectivitey is very high not like the US or Europe but you can relay on it, infact one of the companys is called Link Dot NetI saw it's name on msn sites and it has mirrors for the famous twocows FTP server's anyway, I do not tru

Re: /var/mail/$USER not created [was: annoying openbsd mutt package]

2006-10-04 Thread Okan Demirmen
On Wed 2006.10.04 at 17:40 +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Oct 02 22:06:34, Gustavo Rios wrote: > > I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error > > i got just after i start it on command line: > > /var/mail/grios: No such file or directory (errno = 2) > > Note that when a ne

Re: 3.9: kernel panic when using disklabel on ramdisk

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/04 17:17, T. Valent wrote: > >> Problem: Using disklabel on /dev/rd0c causes a kernel panic. > > I think you're looking for mount_mfs(8), its use is demonstrated > > in fstab(5). > > No. MFS != ramdisk Exactly. rd(4) is for ramdisks built-in to kernels, MFS is for normal use... Doesn'

Re: CARP Backup Interfaces

2006-10-04 Thread Ryan McBride
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > I have two firewalls running CARP and pfsync for high availability. The > > physical interfaces do not have IP addresses, only the CARP interface > > do. The problem is is that the backup CARP interface still needs to be > > a

/var/mail/$USER not created [was: annoying openbsd mutt package]

2006-10-04 Thread Jan Stary
On Oct 02 22:06:34, Gustavo Rios wrote: > I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error > i got just after i start it on command line: > /var/mail/grios: No such file or directory (errno = 2) Note that when a new user is created via adduser(8), his mailbox (/var/mail/$USER)

Re: 3.9: kernel panic when using disklabel on ramdisk

2006-10-04 Thread T. Valent
>> Problem: Using disklabel on /dev/rd0c causes a kernel panic. > I think you're looking for mount_mfs(8), its use is demonstrated > in fstab(5). No. MFS != ramdisk Just try what I wrote in my first mail. Create a ramdisk with rdconfig and then you'll see what I mean. T.

Re: Question About low cost CD's

2006-10-04 Thread Siju George
On 10/4/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the points of EEE is that they're produced in the country where they're intended to be sold, so the production costs are tied to that economy and currency, not to the price of oi^W^W^W US dollar, and reducing the level of imports into

Re: How to start up arpwatch on boot?

2006-10-04 Thread Martin Gignac
What's the "OpenBSD way" to start up arpeatch (built from ports) uopn system boot? I think: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#rc will give you all you need. -Martin -- "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."

Re: Question regarding -current

2006-10-04 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 03:59:41PM +0200, Tor Houghton wrote: > I am running > > OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #1017: Mon Jul 24 19:57:12 MDT 2006 > > on one machine, but I have deleted the source tree for that release (that > is, 3.9-current snapshot around July 20-24). I currently see 4.

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
> Ok, Thanks. I try to investigate this problem. If you have some links > about WinModem programming and something about creating drivers in > OpenBSD, please, send it me ;) Thanks in advance. there are two parts to making use of winmodems; The first part is the basic hardware interface, often

Question regarding -current

2006-10-04 Thread Tor Houghton
I am running OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #1017: Mon Jul 24 19:57:12 MDT 2006 on one machine, but I have deleted the source tree for that release (that is, 3.9-current snapshot around July 20-24). I currently see 4.0 snapshots (perhaps there are 3.9-current snapshots somewhere but I hav

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread Fred Crowson
ivorob wrote: Ok, Thanks. I try to investigate this problem. If you have some links about WinModem programming and something about creating drivers in OpenBSD, please, send it me ;) Thanks in advance. PS. I built custom kernel because bluetooth driver was disabled in GENERIC. Best regards,

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread ivorob
Fred Crowson wrote: ivorob wrote: Fred Crowson wrote: ivorob wrote: Hi, folks. Within my notebook I have internal modem. How Can I force to work my modem? Is it possible? Best regards, Vorobyov Ivan. Without a dmesg its impossible to tell. Fred Look below: OpenBSD 3.8 (BLUETOOT

How to start up arpwatch on boot?

2006-10-04 Thread stan
What's the "OpenBSD way" to start up arpeatch (built from ports) uopn system boot? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread Fred Crowson
ivorob wrote: Fred Crowson wrote: ivorob wrote: Hi, folks. Within my notebook I have internal modem. How Can I force to work my modem? Is it possible? Best regards, Vorobyov Ivan. Without a dmesg its impossible to tell. Fred Look below: OpenBSD 3.8 (BLUETOOTH) #0: Sun Jul 23 12:32:

Re: CDROM mounts always on 2nd attempt

2006-10-04 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:31:55PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: | Can I somehow determine the type of the drive? My dmesg is full of these | messages: | uid 1000 on /: file system full | uid 1000 on /: file system full | uid 1000 on /: file system full Simply look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, see dmesg(

Re: Question About low cost CD's

2006-10-04 Thread M.Salah
Dear / Stuart I am attaching with this email the layout scheme of the official OpenBSD CD Copy righted by theo, I am sorry it had to be like this but I needed to know the difference, I have no intention to redistribute the one I got and I intend to donate to the project. ok, according to what you

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread ivorob
Jeff Quast wrote: On 10/4/06, ivorob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dimitry Andric wrote: ivorob wrote: > The chance of getting these modems working on any non-Windows platform > is almost zero. Please complain to your vendor(s). :) Are you sure? I agree in theory, but I heard about ltmode

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread Jeff Quast
On 10/4/06, ivorob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dimitry Andric wrote: ivorob wrote: > The chance of getting these modems working on any non-Windows platform > is almost zero. Please complain to your vendor(s). :) Are you sure? I agree in theory, but I heard about ltmodem project for linux.

Re: Question About low cost CD's

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
One of the points of EEE is that they're produced in the country where they're intended to be sold, so the production costs are tied to that economy and currency, not to the price of oi^W^W^W US dollar, and reducing the level of imports into the country. (note the "intended to be sold"; they will

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread ivorob
Dimitry Andric wrote: ivorob wrote: Within my notebook I have internal modem. How Can I force to work my modem? Is it possible? Almost always, these notebook modems are "soft" modems. This means that the modem functionality (connection, protocols, error-correction, etc) is impl

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread ivorob
Fred Crowson wrote: ivorob wrote: Hi, folks. Within my notebook I have internal modem. How Can I force to work my modem? Is it possible? Best regards, Vorobyov Ivan. Without a dmesg its impossible to tell. Fred Look below: OpenBSD 3.8 (BLUETOOTH) #0: Sun Jul 23 12:32:50 GMT 2006

Re: internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread Dimitry Andric
ivorob wrote: > Within my notebook I have internal modem. How Can I force to work my > modem? Is it possible? Almost always, these notebook modems are "soft" modems. This means that the modem functionality (connection, protocols, error-correction, etc) is implemented completely in a closed-source

Re: ipsec vpn: freebsd and openbsd

2006-10-04 Thread kintaro oe
hi martin, thanks a lot for your advice..maybe this is the best alternative at all. cool! bsd rocks! cheers, kintaro0e - Original Message From: Martin Gignac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: kintaro oe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2006 9:18:34 PM Subject:

Re: filenames with extra characters like "é,è,ö ..." with rsync

2006-10-04 Thread Didier Wiroth
Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2006/10/04 10:23, Didier Wiroth wrote: > >> Here is an "ls -la" on openbsd host after the files have been downloaded >> (with "rsync -a") note the "?": >> > > try specifying the -q option to ls(1). > Hello, Thanks, but same results: $ ls -laq drwxr-xr-x 4

internal modem

2006-10-04 Thread ivorob
Hi, folks. Within my notebook I have internal modem. How Can I force to work my modem? Is it possible? Best regards, Vorobyov Ivan.

Re: Question About low cost CD's

2006-10-04 Thread M.Salah
Dear / Eric That will do Thanks any way M.Salah

Re: filenames with extra characters like "é,è,ö ..." with rsync

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/04 10:23, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Here is an "ls -la" on openbsd host after the files have been downloaded > (with "rsync -a") note the "?": try specifying the -q option to ls(1).

Re: 3.9: kernel panic when using disklabel on ramdisk

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/04 11:05, T. Valent wrote: > Problem: Using disklabel on /dev/rd0c causes a kernel panic. I think you're looking for mount_mfs(8), its use is demonstrated in fstab(5).

Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 02:51:51PM -0500, Damian Wiest wrote: | Do whatever you like. I'm simply stating my preference and providing | an alternative setup for people to consider. I don't find receiving | 200+ messages a day from cron jobs running on the network with identical | subject lines to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-04 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Ingo, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > I doubt the project is worth the effort at all. > Whatever numbers might result will be heavily biased. Of course it's biased. It's statistics of running *BSD systems. How could that possibly not biased?! > BSDstats i

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