Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
l for writing bsd.rd to /dev/hda or /dev/sda or whatever they have there. Some kind of "depenguinator" for OpenBSD... Regards Alex On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Andre wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:13:23AM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: > >> It hangs when starting in

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
boot (switched to "normal" mode) and the Strato "remote console" just hangs Regards Alex On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > Again. Read FAQ 4 where is correct setup how to prepare floppy for install. > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Alexan

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alexander Farber > wrote: > Where on that page is sentence that you need to use cat floppy47.fs >> > /dev/sda? Read this http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html before trying

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-16 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Thomas, On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Alexander Farber > wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM, umaxx wrote: >>> http://wiki.bsdforen.de/howto/strato_mr2_openbsd >>> for initial installation proc

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Farber
Below is the Linux dmesg output (pardon the blasphemy). Any ideas please how to make amd64 install47.iso boot at this remote server? Thank you Alex Linux version 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 (mockbu...@builder10.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)) #1 SMP Thu May 13 13:08:30 EDT 2010

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-15 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello again, On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM, umaxx wrote: > http://wiki.bsdforen.de/howto/strato_mr2_openbsd > for initial installation procedure since dettus.net was not really > working for me cause of MBR boot issues (probably my fault). > >> (Also I guess I should take amd64 there?) > > Yes.

Hosting at Hetzner.de: root server EQ4

2010-06-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, sorry for yet another hosting question. For 25 Euro more Hetzner.de promises me to mount OpenBSD install image for their http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4/ but they can't tell me if that server would be able to run OpenBSD 4.7 The HW specs only mention: Intel Core i7

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread Alexander Farber
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Markus Hennecke wrote: > I still got the old "M" server with the athlon and I > have to disable ACPI to make it run correctly. > Markus, how do you disable ACPI, with some Linux command? Thanks Alex

Re: Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-10 Thread Alexander Farber
I was wondering that as well, since Strato doesn't mention "Remote Console" in the description of its "PowerServer L" and "M". And without that you probably can't install OpenBSD there? (I've seen a web page though, which somehow used VMWare for that...) After some consideration, I've decided to b

Re: Why I left OpenBSD

2010-06-10 Thread Alexander Farber
I was hoping for some interesting arguments But there was just whining about Theo's personality (with which I don't agree) and lack of some drivers (blobs - no thank you)

Hosting at Strato.de: anybody using PowerServer L with Opteron 1212 HE?

2010-06-09 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm using the german provider strato.de and had to jump through few hoops to install (unsupported by them) OpenBSD at the rented Celeron server (actually 2; dmesg attached just FYI) - I followed the instructions at http://dettus.net Now after few years I'd like to upgrade to their "PowerS

Re: Adding a route for chrooted Apache/PHP

2010-05-08 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, thanks for your replies. The reason for my PHP script failure Warning: file_get_contents(http://94.100.188.5/robots.txt) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: No route to host have been 1) missing /var/www/etc/resolv.conf (the hosts I had already) and 2) I forgot that I

Adding a route for chrooted Apache/PHP

2010-05-07 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm a longtime happy user of OpenBSD + stock Apache + PHP (from packages), but now I have to send a HTTP GET request from one of my scripts to one host (to appsmail.ru). So I've added the file /var/www/etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost 94.100.188.5appsmail.ru www.appsmail.ru A

Re: Using Facebook API: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

2010-01-28 Thread Alexander Farber
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Chazza wrote: > Take a look at your php.ini file to allow fopen to work on URLs. Yes, setting allow_url_fopen = On allow_url_include = On and restarting Apache brings me a bit further but then I fail with a getaddrinfo error. Adding localhost and api.facebo

Re: Using Facebook API: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

2010-01-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Tried adding 66.220.146.15 api.facebook.com to /var/www/etc/hosts as well...

Using Facebook API: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

2010-01-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, does anybody please have experience in using Facebook API from OpenBSD with chrooted Apache and the php5 from packages? I'm trying to call theirs $fb->api_client->admin_setAppProperties() but get the error: Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the server confi

Shutting down OpenBSD VM when closing VMWare WS or ESX

2009-04-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I use several OpenBSD/i386 (versions 4.3 and 4.4) VMs under VMWare Workstation and ESX. They work great for my purposes (few LAMP servers + 1 OpenVPN server), but there is one annoyance: when I close the VMWare or shutdown the host, then the OpenBSD VMs aren't shutdown properly. I've trie

Re: HP Proliant DL385 slower than CentOS for some web connections (over VPN)

2009-03-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Kamil, On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Kamil Monticolo wrote: > you can bump sysctl recv/sendspace for TCP/IP up to 65535 > what throughtput do you have? > paste output of vmstat here please vmstat -w 1 procsmemory pagediskstraps cpu r b w

Re: HP Proliant DL385 slower than CentOS for some web connections (over VPN)

2009-03-27 Thread Alexander Farber
And it can't be bge0 or the switch, because when I scp big files between machines - they transfer very fast and never die. It's only the web (over Junipers VPN) transfers where the OpenBSD machine has issues.

HP Proliant DL385 slower than CentOS for some web connections (over VPN)

2009-03-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, we have a 4.4 stable machine acting as Squid proxy (for up to 400 users). Underneath it and hanging at the same switch (and I tried to switch cables/ports too) I have a CentOS 5.2 Linux machine. All machines hang at a Juniper SSG-140 Firewall, which maintains few VPN-connections to partner

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-19 Thread Alexander Farber
We run OpenBSD 4.4 + openvpn package at VMWare ESX 3.5 at work - without any problems. With VMWare Workstation it works too (I'm using OpenBSD 4.3 and 4.4 at my notebook)

Re: HP Proliant DL385 with Squid at a Gigabit-switch - bad network performance

2009-02-27 Thread Alexander Farber
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Han Boetes wrote: > cache_dir aufs xxx yyy Thank you, I've switched to aufs, I hope it works ok on OpenBSD (docs mention "POSIX threads"). The netstat actually doesn't show I/O errors: afar...@ablprx01:squid> netstat -I bge0 NameMtu Network Address

HP Proliant DL385 with Squid at a Gigabit-switch - bad network performance

2009-02-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, our web proxy for 400 users (actually at the moment less than 100, but we are going to switch the others to use it soon) is slow. It is a HP Proliant DL385 running OpenBSD 4.4-stable with the squid-2.7.STABLE3 from packages (dmesg below). Does anybody please have a good advice how to find

ypbind hangs - how to debug?

2008-12-23 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, we have around 20 RHEL/CentOS machines (one of them acting as NIS server) and 3 NetApps at work, but also have 1 OpenBSD (virtual) machine acting as an openvpn-Gateway. Until recently it worked well, but now whenever I reboot it the ypbind would just hang. Does anybody has an idea, how to d

Re: Automounting home dirs using amd: No value component in ...

2008-11-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Ok, I've got it: autofs format != amd format and the former is not supported on OpenBSD On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to automount home dirs from an OpenBSD 4.4: > > # amq -v > amd 1.1.1.1 of 1995/10/18

Automounting home dirs using amd: No value component in ...

2008-11-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm trying to automount home dirs from an OpenBSD 4.4: # amq -v amd 1.1.1.1 of 1995/10/18 08:47:13 bsd44. # uname -a OpenBSD ablvpn01.internal.novero.com 4.4 GENERIC#1021 i386 And have the problem that the amd doesn't seem to understand the NIS format here in our RHEL 3,4,5 + Solaris 10 +

Re: setresuid not available in OpenBSD's perl

2008-08-18 Thread Alexander Farber
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Philip Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This question doesn't really have anything to do with OpenBSD. Thanks, but I think it has to do with OpenBSD, because the question is about implementation at this platform. I'll try using following for now: drop_root(

setresuid not available in OpenBSD's perl

2008-08-17 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I hope I don't ask somtething too stupid, but I'm trying to port a C-program to Perl and for the drop privileges part of it I'd need to call setresuid(). The following test at 4.3 returns a failure though: $ perl -M'POSIX qw(setresuid)' -e 1 "setresuid" is not exported by the POSIX module

Re: Xbox 360 controller at the -current

2007-10-06 Thread Alexander Farber
into a PC. On 10/6/07, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:26:58PM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: > > /bsd: ugen0 at uhub0 port 1 > > /bsd: ugen0: "Microsoft product 0x028f", rev 2.00/1.05, addr 2 > > /bsd: ugen0 detached > Did

Xbox 360 controller at the -current

2007-10-06 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, /bsd: ugen0 at uhub0 port 1 /bsd: ugen0: "Microsoft product 0x028f", rev 2.00/1.05, addr 2 /bsd: ugen0 detached has anyone tried to use it? :-) (Yes I'd read the news about the "old Xbox" port, but this here is an Xbox 360 controller) Regards Alex

FreeBSD Announces Intel Approval for Redistribution of Wireless Firmware

2007-03-08 Thread Alexander Farber
FYI (sorry if this already been mentioned here): http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/03/prweb509818.htm "In order to use the firmware provided by Intel, FreeBSD users must first agree with the license. FreeBSD developers have added a simple mechanism to the operating system to agree to the license

Re: apache security

2007-01-24 Thread Alexander Farber
Joachim, could you share your config files for that? On 1/23/07, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The simple solution is to not allow the web server to write anywhere but /tmp. Regards Alex -- http://preferans.de

Re: Why setresuid() and not setuid() is used?

2007-01-22 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Stuart, On 1/22/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007/01/22 12:19, Alexander Farber wrote: > 1) Can't a compromised process change back to its saved root uid? setresuid/setresgid: set real, effective, *and saved* uid/gid ok! > 2) Why is setresu

Re: Why setresuid() and not setuid() is used?

2007-01-22 Thread Alexander Farber
Oops I meant "Privilege revocation", like here: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ven05-deraadt/mgp00033.html On 1/22/07, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also is there maybe a good guide on priv. sep. on OpenBSD?

Why setresuid() and not setuid() is used?

2007-01-22 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm writing a small network daemon program and want it to drop priviliges after it opens a listening port. I've looked at the several programs in /usr/src/usr.sbin and many do it in the similar way: 1) getpwnam(NTPD_USER) to find its home dir 2) check that the home dir belongs to root an

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-18 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, On 1/17/07, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: most "real" content in flash is about using the newest coolest features to get across what could easily be done in plain old HTML. Most clicked item on the web: "Skip Intro" sorry, you are wrong: there is some very cool flash stuff: l

TALQ_LAST and TAILQ_PREV macros broken

2006-12-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, the TAILQ_LAST and TAILQ_PREV macros in sys/queue.h only work because by coincidence the head and the entry struct are similar (they both have 2 pointers: struct type* and struct type**). If you insert a char dummy in between: #define TAILQ_ENTRY(type)\ st

Re: Moving from tcsh to pdksh: how to recall partially typed in command? (ESC-p)

2006-12-02 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi Otto, On 12/2/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It looks like ESC-p cycles, but ESC-n not. If you have a terminal that has a beep, you'll hear a beep when ESC-p wraps, but ESC-n keeps beeping when the end is reached. I'll take a look at this. thank you. IMHO it would be better,

Re: Moving from tcsh to pdksh: how to recall partially typed in command? (ESC-p)

2006-12-01 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello Otto, On 11/30/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Turns out matthieu@ already made an updated diff some time ago. Here it is. thank you for the patch. There seems to be a problem: I type an "l" (ell) and then use ESC-p to cycle through the previously typed commands starting wi

Re: Moving from tcsh to pdksh: how to recall partially typed in command? (ESC-p)

2006-11-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hmm doesn't seem to work: I type "ll /va" then press CTRL-r and the line I've typed (the "ll /va") is deleted (in emacs mode) And in the vi mode I just see "ll /va^R" On 11/30/06, Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander Farber wrote: >

Moving from tcsh to pdksh: how to recall partially typed in command? (ESC-p)

2006-11-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I'm trying to switch to ksh as my login shell. It seems to me, that the vi mode is more capable than emacs-mode in ksh and so I've switched to it ("set -o vi" in my ~/.kshrc) and I do know that I can hit ESC, then / and type a part of my command to search for it. However I just can't fin

Re: syslog.conf question: log into a separate file, but not into /var/log/messages

2006-11-24 Thread Alexander Farber
Thanks Otto, that was it On 11/24/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >!!pref >*.*/var/log/pref > > Now no messages at all are written into /var/log/messages :-/ > Add the end marker !* after the *.* line -Ott

Re: syslog.conf question: log into a separate file, but not into /var/log/messages

2006-11-24 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi Marcus, On 11/24/06, Marcus Popp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone please give me a hint? read man syslog.conf read my original mail. Can you imagine, that I've read the man page, but it is just not good enough for me (or vice versa)? Regards Alex -- http://preferans.de

syslog.conf question: log into a separate file, but not into /var/log/messages

2006-11-24 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I've read "man syslog.conf" several times, especially this passage: !!prog causes the subsequent block to abort evaluation when a message matches, ensuring that only a single set of actions is taken. !* can be used to ensure that any ensuing blocks are further evaluated (i.e. ca

Re: Is inetd needed on a web server + PostgreSQL?

2006-11-07 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, On 11/7/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006/11/07 12:36, Alexander Farber wrote: > Do you think I still need to run inetd? I've looked through the > /etc/inetd.conf and there are only 2 time services + ident. I think > I don't need those 3 serv

Is inetd needed on a web server + PostgreSQL?

2006-11-07 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I have a small web server (OpenBSD 4.0 stable) running phpBB with PostgreSQL. Then there is sshd @ port 443 and default sendmail @ localhost.25. Do you think I still need to run inetd? I've looked through the /etc/inetd.conf and there are only 2 time services + ident. I think I don't need

Re: OpenBSD AJAX

2006-10-24 Thread Alexander Farber
Sam, the easiest way for you would probably to use the stock Apache 1.3.x coming with OpenBSD and then the CGI::Ajax Perl module (just install it using "perl -MCPAN -e shell;" ): http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/977 On 10/24/06, Sam Fourman Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: my next question is

Re: automate changing strcpy() to strlcpy()

2006-09-22 Thread Alexander Farber
On 9/22/06, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://fredrik.rambris.com/files/sleezeball-0.6.tar.gz I used sleezeball and other filters for squid earlier too, but now I've just switched to the Adblock Plus plugin for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/ IMHO the only effective way to fil

Re: SMS from OpenBSD

2006-08-18 Thread Alexander Farber
Try comms/gnokii from ports? On 8/18/06, Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering is there any way to send SMS messages from OpenBSD OS? May be there is any program to do such task? -- http://preferans.de

Flash Media Server by Adobe/Macromedia

2006-08-16 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I wonder if anyone has been successful with running Adobe's FMS on OpenBSD. I've got FMS_2_0_2_r51_linux installed on -current the following way: 0) Installed redhat_base-8.0p8 package and set kern.emul.linux=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf 1) Downloaded these 4 rpms: http://download.fedoraleg

Re: Flash Media Server: fmsini fails with Abort trap

2006-07-26 Thread Alexander Farber
On 7/26/06, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # ~/FMS_2_0_2_r51_linux/fmsini ~/FMS_2_0_2_r51_linux/fmsini: relocation error: /RHEL4/libc.so.6: symbol _rtld_global_ro, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file ld-linux.so.2 with link time reference I've found that symbol

Re: Flash Media Server: fmsini fails with Abort trap

2006-07-26 Thread Alexander Farber
I have kern.emul.linux=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf and have installed the newest redhat_base-8.0p8 package. Also I've updated to the newest -current. Then I've copied these libraries from a RH Linux PC: # ll /usr/local/emul/redhat/RHEL4 2848 -rwxr-xr-x 1 afarber users 1438761 Jul 26 17:12 libc-2.3

Re: Flash Media Server: fmsini fails with Abort trap

2006-07-26 Thread Alexander Farber
On 7/26/06, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm going to run fmsini on real Linux and copy the produced files to OpenBSD, but still I wonder, what call is this "fmsini" missing in the Linux emulation. Is there a way to find this out? Actually copying the files

Flash Media Server: fmsini fails with Abort trap

2006-07-26 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, has anybody please succeeded in installing and running Macromedia's Flash Media Server for Linux on OpenBSD? I'm currently stuck with the "fmsini" tool failing to run on OpenBSD: it prints "Abort trap" and quits: gate:FMS_2_0_2_r51_linux {1008} sudo sh -x ./installFMS -platformWarnOnly +

Re: Which free board software for PostgeSQL?

2006-06-09 Thread Alexander Farber
http://forums.punbb.org/viewtopic.php?id=8112 On 6/8/06, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PunBB isn't bad. Look in the archives, somebody gave some instructions how to set it up. As far as PhpBB goes, it's been plagued with security problems.

Re: Which free board software for PostgeSQL?

2006-06-08 Thread Alexander Farber
I use PunBB 1.2.12 with -current OpenBSD and postgresql from ports here: http://preferans.de/ On 6/7/06, Michael Lechtermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: anyone can recommend a free PHP board/forums software for use with PostgreSQL 8.x?

Re: CGI in C: getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH")

2006-05-31 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi Why 8190? IMHO just malloc() a buffer of any length you like (depends on what data len your app would typically receive), then read() into it and if you exceed its sizeof while read() still returns positive values (i.e. not -1 and not 0), realloc() the buffer. On 5/31/06, vladas <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: CGI in C: getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH")

2006-05-31 Thread Alexander Farber
This is bad because CONTENT_LENGTH could be > sizeof(buff): On 5/30/06, vladas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: char buff[1]; const char *len1 = getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH"); contentlength=strtol(len1, &endptr, 10); fread(buff, contentlength, 1, stdin);

Re: CGI in C: getenv("CONTENT_LENGTH")

2006-05-31 Thread Alexander Farber
On 5/30/06, vladas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am concerned for the cases where URL given by the cliend side is like 2MB. In my understanding, there is a gap between the server opening a socket for the connection and starting reading in the data from the client until the end of that readining-i

Re: Lynx starting vi with "strange" -c arg

2006-05-22 Thread Alexander Farber
In /usr/src/usr.bin/vi/common/main.c: ... * Change "+" into "-c$". ... if (argv[0][0] == '+') { if (argv[0][1] == '\0') { argv[0] = strdup("-c$"); On 5/22/06, Alexand

Re: Lynx starting vi with "strange" -c arg

2006-05-22 Thread Alexander Farber
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/lynx/src/LYEdit.c calls in edit_temporary_file(): char *editor_arg = ""; ... format = "%s +%s%s %s"; HTAddXpand(&command, format, params++, editor); HTAddParam(&command, format, params++, position); HTAddParam(&command, format, params++, edito

Re: FYI, 1and1 hosting fun (ip subnet zero)

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Do you see any kernel output at all? I believe one should always see at least the boot> prompt - unless the serial speed of the console doesn't match Do you see the boot> prompt and have you tried "verbose"? On 5/11/06, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Alexander

Re: FYI, 1and1 hosting fun (ip subnet zero)

2006-05-11 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I probably have a similar setup at strato.de and use Kili's trick: h754815:afarber {103} cat /etc/hostname.fxp0 inet 81.169.186.95 255.255.255.255 NONE !route add 81.169.186.1 -link \$if: -interface See the explanation at http://www.dettus.net/ Regards Alex PS: I wonder if any

J2ME Wireless Toolkit 1.0.4

2006-04-28 Thread Alexander Farber
Just for the archives: Sun's J2ME Wireless Toolkit version 1.0.4 (the self-extracting j2me_wireless_toolkit-1_0_4_02-linux-i386.bin ) works ok on OpenBSD -current when using the jdk-1.4.2 port (with the jdk1.3.1-linux it has GUI problems and jdk-1.5.0 can't build). You have however to make a link

Re: BIND forwarding

2006-04-18 Thread Alexander Farber
Check http://groups.google.com/group/comp.protocols.dns.bind On 4/16/06, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 08:22:27AM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: > > On the USENET I've learnt that "forwarders" shouldn't be used... > >

Re: BIND forwarding

2006-04-15 Thread Alexander Farber
On the USENET I've learnt that "forwarders" shouldn't be used... > > -Original Message- > > From: Brendan Grossman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, 16 April 2006 6:17 AM > > To: 'misc@openbsd.org' > > Subject: BIND forwarding > > > > I have a simple BIND setup that forwards requ

Re: Bluetooth in OpenBSD

2006-04-04 Thread Alexander Farber
Dunno about USB-BT adapter, but GPRS does work - at least with my Nokia 9300 and infrared (the birda package) http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-09/1387.html On 4/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed OpenBSD 3.8 in a laptop with a winmodem so I can

Re: Firefox with Java and Flash

2006-03-31 Thread Alexander Farber
You need to install native jdk from the ports. Java works fine in Firefox, Mozilla and Konqueror here. laptop:afarber {516} ll .mozilla/plugins/ total 4 4 lrwxr-xr-x 1 afarber users 63 Mar 14 09:23 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/jdk-1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so On 3/31

Re: C Compiler Prob

2006-03-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Did you install the compXY.tgz? > On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:49:29PM +0200, oliver simon wrote: > > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C > > compiler cannot create executables

Re: pppoe (through pcn) stopped working in mid-February

2006-03-19 Thread Alexander Farber
The kernel and the rest were out of sync - that's why pppoe wasn't working. Sorry for the wrong report. On 3/9/06, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was following -current with my home gateway on a dual-CPU HP Kayak XAs > (full dmesg attached), but since m

pppoe (through pcn) stopped working in mid-February

2006-03-09 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I was following -current with my home gateway on a dual-CPU HP Kayak XAs (full dmesg attached), but since mid-February I'm unable to do it anymore, because when I boot a newly compiled kernel, I get these repeating messages: Mar 9 15:31:59 gate /bsd: pppoe0: phase network Mar 9 15:31:59

writev() on a nonblocking Unix-domain SOCK_STREAM socket

2006-02-21 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, do I need to retry writev() on a nonblocking Unix-domain SOCK_STREAM socket or will it always write out the exact number of bytes I wanted? And another question: is it possible to find out that such a socket has been disconnected before I call writev() on it (so that I reconnect it first)? Or

Re: httpd question - solved

2006-02-06 Thread Alexander Farber
And there is also ipcheck.py On 2/6/06, Keith Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This will handle the pesty case of your IP changing. > > 1. dyndns.org - get a free subdomain to map to your IP. > 2. ddclient package - updates your DNS whenever your IP changes.

Is unix domain UDP reliable?

2006-02-04 Thread Alexander Farber
Do datagrams arrive in order and without loss when using unix domain on OpenBSD?

Can't set timezone in KDE - only UTC is shown

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, does anydody please know, why can't I set timezone in KDE? When I right-click on the clock -> Show timezone -> Configure timezones then there is only one timezone - UTC. And the KDE clock is off by 1h. At the same time I think the clock is ok on my laptop: laptop:afarber {517} grep -i timezo

Re: Squid and named DNS

2006-01-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I use squid in a similar environment too and have learnt in comp.protocols.dns.bind that forwarders are evil. Remove that line from your named.conf. I also used adzap (and before - squeezeball) to filter out ads for my home network hanging on ADSL But then I stopped doing that and just ins

Re: Debugging httpd

2006-01-27 Thread Alexander Farber
For the archives: On 1/22/06, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how could I please compile the in-tree Apache with -ggdb added and -O2 > removed? > > I've tried setting EXTRA_CFLAGS=-ggdb in src/Configuration, > but that file seems not to be used.

Debugging httpd

2006-01-22 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, how could I please compile the in-tree Apache with -ggdb added and -O2 removed? I've tried setting EXTRA_CFLAGS=-ggdb in src/Configuration, but that file seems not to be used. Also I've tried looking at src/Makefile.bsd-wrapper and the .included /usr/share/mk/bsd.{own,obj,subdir}.mk, but coul

Re: CVSync servers not syncing?

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Farber
Maybe because they are tagging it 3.9?

Re: OpenBSD 3.8, fxp, device timeout

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, for comparison I have a similar PC at the same provider and it works fine (I have fxp at irq 11 though, and use -current). Also I had used the original floppy image to install OpenBSD: wget ftp://ftp.de.openbsd.org/pub/snapshots/i386/floppy38.fs dd of=/dev/hda if=floppy38.fs bs=1k co

Re: OS FINGERPRINTS

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander Farber
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/filter.html#osfp On 1/20/06, G.Stefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What i have to do if i want to allow o n l y Windows OS to have acces > on the internet ? > I know that OS FINGERPRINTS can help me but how ?

Re: 3Ware Escalade 7506-8 IDE RAID controller support under OpenBSD 3.8

2006-01-16 Thread Alexander Farber
On 1/14/06, Jim Razmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Replace it with an LSI MegaRAID controller and don't look back. 3Ware > is on the same boat with Adaptec. They will not share the documentation > the developers need to fully support their controllers. man bioctl to > read what fully supported

Re: OT: wrt OpenBSD, what's a good laptop

2006-01-16 Thread Alexander Farber
I have T41 too and it works ok (except for my iwi which loses connection often and an "Edimax EW-7128g" PCMCIA ral card, which just won't work - maybe because of pcibios 2.1) iwi0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG" rev 0x05: irq 11, address 00:15:00:23:e2:9c Jan 15 10:14:20 lapt

Re: dhcpd: Multiple interfaces match the same shared network

2006-01-09 Thread Alexander Farber
Argh I should have reread the (man dhcpd.conf", sorry! This has helped, thank you On 1/9/06, Rod.. Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you need is 2 shared networks with individual names and their own > subnet entries. > > Here is the relevant bit of my box doing exactly what you want ( 1

dhcpd: Multiple interfaces match the same shared network

2006-01-08 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, why do I get this warning in /var/log/daemon: dhcpd: Multiple interfaces match the same shared network: re0 ral0 even though the dhcpd seems to work (ok, my WLAN over ral0 is unstable, but I'm not sure if this dhcpd warning is related to that problem): dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168

Re: Gallery on OpenBSD 3.8: resolv.conf needed for email registration through remote smtp

2006-01-02 Thread Alexander Farber
You could try mini_sendmail_chrooted package On 1/2/06, Justin H Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Nick Holmes and misc for > http://www.openbsdsupport.org/GalleryInChroot.html. > However, I need to use an external smtp server to handle > registration emails.

piixpm0: timeout, status 0x1 AND iic0: addr 0x48 00=17 01=00 ... ...

2005-12-31 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, just FYI: I'm running -current on a dual-CPU HP Kayak-XAs 750 MT with a ral PCI card and regularly get these 2 messages: Dec 31 00:32:17 gate /bsd: Data modified on freelist: word 4 of object 0xd151560 0 size 0x100 previous type devbuf (0xdeadbeee != 0xdeadbeef) (is that coming

Re: C Compiler cannot create executable

2005-12-21 Thread Alexander Farber
Reza, do you expect everyone to pull the details out of you? Well, I use T41 too and it works ;-) Hope this helps Or reinstall 3.8 and don't touch /usr/bin/gcc On 12/21/05, Reza Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > "C Compiler cannot creat

Google ad: OpenBSD 2.6 changes

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Farber
Just smth funny FYI: I read misc@ mails using GMail thorugh a web browser and I've noticed that it displays on the right side an ad OpenBSD 2.7 changes the main OpenBSD page www.openbsd.org or even 2.6 changes :-) http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/pageclick?client=ca-gmail

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-02 Thread Alexander Farber
Ok, maybe not so excellent, because where that would be mounted :-/ On 12/3/05, Zachery Hostens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > excellent idea. this is a perfect solution. > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:02:12 +0100, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have one

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-02 Thread Alexander Farber
I have one suggestion: if a user logs in and the path to home dir in the /etc/passwd is actually pointing to a file, then it is encrypted

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-01 Thread Alexander Farber
On 12/1/05, Zachery Hostens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > he is saying use a random key for the disk. and encrypt this key with your > password. so changing your account password you just have to re-encrypt the > disk key. Where will that random disk key be kept? And isn't user password encryp

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-01 Thread Alexander Farber
On 12/1/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for some time, the size limit was on > 8,2G, but according to a documentation that was posted at undeadly.org, > this limitation doesn't exist anymore. I haven't verified it myself, > though. A 140 gig file seems to work fine here: gat

Re: OT: Transparent squid AND redirect_program possible?

2005-11-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Oops my problem were caused by antispoof quick for lo On 11/26/05, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.benzedrine.cx/transquid.html > together with any kind of a redirect_program? > > I've tried first using adzapper.sf.net and then just a "hello

OT: Transparent squid AND redirect_program possible?

2005-11-26 Thread Alexander Farber
Does anybody else successfully use Squid in transparent mode exactly as described in the (evil ;-) HOWTO http://www.benzedrine.cx/transquid.html together with any kind of a redirect_program? I've tried first using adzapper.sf.net and then just a "hello world" redirector from http://wiki.squid-cach

Re: An ftp command to fetch wildcarded packages

2005-11-22 Thread Alexander Farber
Clarification: On 11/22/05, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was not trying to come up with a subset of packages that > would be installed by a commonly used profile. I prefer vi to emacs, > windowmaker to kde or gnome, etc. Needless to say, building a set of > packages that will be all

An ftp command to fetch wildcarded packages

2005-11-22 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, I have few scripts to save some work after an installation: the install.site (pasted on the bottom) asks me if I want to install a (D)esktop, (L)aptop or (S)erver and depending on my choice copies the needed packages into /root Then it puts "-s" into /etc/boot.conf (the idea is stolen from C

Re: Subtle Referrence to OpenBSD in a Simpsons episode

2005-11-22 Thread Alexander Farber
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7F11.html ? On 11/22/05, Dan Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In one of the Simpson episodes Homer opens a cupboard to put something in it > > It is a mock up of a sticker that comes with the 'official' OpenBSD CDs > Except all the fish are in plastic bags as if they

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 & Bugzilla - does anyone have this running ok?

2005-11-16 Thread Alexander Farber
IMHO when you get situations like this: On 11/16/05, Trystan Negus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Symptom: Using a browser, configuration pages occasionally (1 in 5 > refreshes, more or less) return an error 500 page, coupled with > 'Premature end of script headers' error in Apache's error log. No e

Re: Telnet daemon retired in 3.8 ?

2005-11-08 Thread Alexander Farber
1 arg. for telnetd: MUDs :-)

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