Re: Doubts about the successors of OpenBSD leadership and development

2017-07-10 Thread Dennis Davis
doubts about the provenance of that message. In particular: Date: 2013-08-10 0:45:10 looks suspicious. Shouldn't it be dated 1st April ? Or is this a cunning ploy to mislead your favourite acronym agencies ? -- Dennis Davis

Re: iwm0: fatal firmware error / could not initiate scan

2015-05-04 Thread Dennis Davis
; iwm0: fatal firmware error > iwm0: could not initiate scan Don't have an iwm interface. But is the firmware installed? Is the following thread of any use: http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/iwm0-fatal-firmware-error-on-current-td267434.html -- Dennis Davis

Re: macppc install56.iso -> CD issues

2014-12-09 Thread Dennis Davis
hese images > to disc? As described in the FAQ, "4.3.1 - Making a CD-ROM" ? -- Dennis Davis

Re: OT:Password strength

2014-11-30 Thread Dennis Davis
enoopatecoge > > gootrozapiceelytrithunula > > preezypeendothanundipeesooka > > These stand no chance against a finnish attacker! Are you sure? I thought these passwords would be low-hanging fruit for the Swedish chef from the Muppets[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Chef -- Dennis Davis

Re: ksh, csh same vulnerability as bash

2014-10-08 Thread Dennis Davis
d and I should upgrade. However I've tweaked the port for bash to include all the recent patches. So I'm now running: GNU bash, version 4.2.53(1)-release (i386-unknown-openbsd5.3) -- Dennis Davis

Re: openssh

2014-07-03 Thread Dennis Davis
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Blaise Hizded wrote: > From: Blaise Hizded > To: misc@openbsd.org > Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:41:10 > Subject: Re: openssh > > Le 03/07/2014 15:17, Dennis Davis a écrit : > > On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > > >> Fr

Re: openssh

2014-07-03 Thread Dennis Davis
pigeons, or swallows, even! (African or European) Sounds to me like this means that RFC1149[1] should be updated. Technology has improved somewhat since this RFC was written. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 -- Dennis Davis

Re: Vision 2020: Making OpenBSD the world's fastest OS

2014-06-10 Thread Dennis Davis
o. To go somewhat off-topic, I'm reminded of one of the quotes of the late Chuck Yerkes: Shirt, Shoes, Sober... -- pick two. -- Chuck Yerkes Chuck was a long-time contributor to this list and OpenBSD. The above quote amuses me. -- Dennis Davis

Re: Wrong Shutdown

2014-05-26 Thread Dennis Davis
27;t win. That's not makeup! That's the black eye I got in last night's bar brawl :-( Now what's this "World Peace" thingie? -- Dennis Davis

Re: The book of PF

2014-05-01 Thread Dennis Davis
're hoping that, as they fade into the past, early editions will appreciate massively in value. Much as early CD releases of OpenBSD have. At least according to the prices listed at the Computer Shop of Calgary :-) -- Dennis Davis

Re: Unbound in base, yes, what about ldns?

2014-03-24 Thread Dennis Davis
#x27;t seem to have materially changed from the version in the port/package. *But* "cursory reading" has let me and others down badly in the past :-( -- Dennis Davis

Re: ksh: expr 2147483648 / 2 = -1073741824 expected behavior or bug?

2014-02-24 Thread Dennis Davis
NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Seems like bash is not adhering to the POSIX standard :-) -- Dennis Davis

Re: unbound dnssec revisited

2013-12-31 Thread Dennis Davis
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Chris Smith wrote: > From: Chris Smith > To: Dennis Davis > Cc: OpenBSD-Misc > Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:53:03 > Subject: Re: unbound dnssec revisited > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Dennis Davis > wrote: > > It's a while since I l

Re: unbound dnssec revisited

2013-12-31 Thread Dennis Davis
cked the root key and put a date stamp in the root key file indicating when this was done. And a further date stamp indicating when the next check is due. Doesn't seem to me that you need to run unbound-anchor as a part of /etc/rc.d/unbound. You just need to run it once as part of setting up unbound. After that a running unbound will periodically check the root key. -- Dennis Davis

Re: BackupPC

2013-12-09 Thread Dennis Davis
just installed it to satisfy the build requirement of other software. -- Dennis Davis

Re: Are there OpenBSD users who are not IT professionals?

2013-11-19 Thread Dennis Davis
those. Impress: http://www.libreoffice.org/features/impress/ from LibreOffice may do what you want. Haven't used it myself. LibreOffice is in ports/packages on the amd64 & i386 platforms. -- Dennis Davis

Re: Data Mining/Crawling a Mailing List

2013-09-05 Thread Dennis Davis
o, no. The NSA, and their British counterparts GCHQ, are already aware of your request. They will shortly be in contact with both of you. -- Dennis Davis

Re: OpenSMTPD - thank you!

2013-02-04 Thread Dennis Davis
/2013/jan/15/horse-dna-found-supermarket-beefburgers ...yes, I know. Totally off-topic and in extremely poor taste. I'll get my coat and leave by the first exit... -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: OpenBSD/iwn(4) support for WPA2/PEAP/MSCHAPv2?

2013-01-24 Thread Dennis Davis
ect network> 0 anquetil.bath.ac.uk ?// The "BUCS-WiFi" network is our unsecured network. You have to authenticate to use it. The "BTOpenzone" network is there for visitors to use if they can't access via "eduroam". I believe you need an account to use "BTOpenzone". -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: man page contents [was: Re: C******.org]

2012-07-27 Thread Dennis Davis
I suspect they were installed as part of the texlive_base-2011p3.tgz package. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: OpenBSD in a dual stack anycast DNS resolving setup

2011-12-15 Thread Dennis Davis
to build 1.5 or 1.6 from ports until Sun releases the plugin code. Note that you will need plenty of RAM for this build to succeed. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: maildir in sendmail

2011-12-08 Thread Dennis Davis
maildir format. Although this facility isn't built in by default. See: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch26.html -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.announce

2011-11-23 Thread Dennis Davis
p or read it on the web. See: http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.os.openbsd or point your newreader at news.gmane.org, eg: knews -nntpServer news.gmane.org or: NNTPSERVER=news.gmane.org trn See: http://gmane.org/faq.php for further details. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath

Re: route flush and sh /etc/netstart not enough?

2011-02-17 Thread Dennis Davis
nd PF switches directly from one to the other. There is no intermediate stage with no rules loaded or a mixture of the two rule sets. This is also explained quite early in both editions of his book. On page 14 in the first edition, page 21 in the second edition. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, Uni

Re: Minimally painful mail client for "rich" (spit!) messages

2011-02-09 Thread Dennis Davis
om/ works well under linux emulation. Although you'll need to augment the linux emulation with the linux rpm openssl-0.9.8b-8.i386.rpm to get the secure connection stuff. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: (Perhaps?) dumb pf question relating to tables

2010-11-11 Thread Dennis Davis
.cat1: pftabled.1 - nroff -Tascii -man pftabled.1 > pftabled.cat1 + mandoc -Tascii -mandoc pftabled.1 > pftabled.cat1 pftabled-client: ${CLIENTOBJS} ${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o $@ ${CLIENTOBJS} ${LIBS} -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: Multi-Port SSH brute force protection

2010-11-01 Thread Dennis Davis
ug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: Wireless Network GUI

2010-10-14 Thread Dennis Davis
visible, with X# varying strengths, from the University Library foyer. X X00:11:20:70:4a:50 | 00:11:20:70:4d:30 | 00:11:20:70:4f:c0 | \ X 00:11:20:70:50:e0 | 00:11:20:70:56:50 | 00:11:20:70:66:10 | \ X00:11:20:70:6d:b0 | 00:11:20:70:71:c0 | 00:11:20:70:78:e0 | \ X00:11:20:70:79:f0 | 00:11:20:75:8e:e0 | 00:11:20:75:a2:30 | \ X00:11:20:8d:b9:20 | 00:11:20:8d:ef:40 | 00:11:20:8d:f4:20 | \ X00:11:20:90:d5:40 | 00:11:20:90:ff:00 | 00:16:47:0c:fd:10 | \ X00:16:47:0d:02:90 | 00:16:47:0d:07:10 | 00:27:0d:4a:29:ef | \ X00:27:0d:60:b3:ff) X XNWID=BUCS-WiSM XNWKEY= XWPAKEY= XCHAN= XBSSID=$MAC X;; X X*) Xreturn 1 X;; Xesac X Xreturn 0 END-of-rc.wireless.conf exit -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: 1 out of 3 hunks failed--saving rejects to kerberosV/src/lib/krb5/crypto.c.rej

2010-06-21 Thread Dennis Davis
t; > > as referred in: > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/4.7/common/001_kerberos.patch -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: 4.6 arriving

2009-10-20 Thread Dennis Davis
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Martin Schrvder wrote: > From: Martin Schrvder > To: OpenBSD general usage list > Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:07:01 > Subject: Re: 4.6 arriving > X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) > > 2009/10/9 Bret S. Lambert : > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:30:07AM +0200, Lukas Ratajski wrote: > >> Oh ma

Re: 4.5 - stable/ports/gcc-4.2/Error code 1

2009-05-29 Thread Dennis Davis
ports/lang/gcc/4.2/w-gcc-4.2.20070307/bootstrap/bin/egcc 04402000 2443b000 rlib 01 0 /usr/lib/libc.so.42.0 09b3d000 09b3d000 rtld 0 1 0 /usr/libexec/ld.so *But* as noted above, consider installing the package -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK d.h.da...@bath.ac.uk Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: PF and CLamAV "Integration" - how to do it?1,$

2009-03-19 Thread Dennis Davis
and any other traffic types that makes sense) for a > group of 25 people. ... > Any pointers and/or info would be greatly appreciated by this > newbie. You might find Wil Knolls's paper mentioned in: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20081220195047 useful background

Re: Howto connect to several wireless network ?

2008-08-29 Thread Dennis Davis
ll be in the various mail list archives. For example: http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg52116.html Usual disclaimer applies: I've not used either of the above, but they might be useful and/or a useful starting point for your own ideas. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath,

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-01 Thread Dennis Davis
e.nuug.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html is an excellent starting point for setting this up. That's where I started from. > Make sure you empty the table with attackers once in a while though. See: /usr/ports/sysutils/expiretable for an easy way to set this up, either as a daemon process o

Re: : booting openbsd on eee without cd-rom

2008-01-30 Thread Dennis Davis
ze would be about 250 MByte. > > If the ethernet adapters does not work, what is the use? "wireless driver reports an error and does not work" is short on detail. It might just be that non-free firmware needs installing (eg the firmware for the iwi driver) to get it to work. --

Re: OT: OpenBSD on Asus eeePC

2007-11-14 Thread Dennis Davis
?cref=PD1024415 Looks neat, a bigger (memory, flash memory) device running OpenBSD would be attractive. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: OpenBSD for a desktop environment ?

2006-02-14 Thread Dennis Davis
/jdk*), then start OpenOffice. You can then re-enable Java (chmod 755 /usr/local/jdk*) and keep it that way. but I'm not running with a Java virtual machine so it's not a problem I've experienced. -- Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 1225 386101

Re: #define failure opportunity

2005-11-29 Thread Dennis Davis
>From: Qv6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: #define failure opportunity >Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:35:24 -0600 ... >Intersting news. > >I once worked for a major Telecom firm that used a commercial >implementation of ssh. I was curious and I asked one of the other

Re: Blocking many accesses to ssh port from single IP

2005-06-30 Thread Dennis Davis
>Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:05:43 +0200 >From: Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Steve Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: misc@openbsd.org >Subject: Re: Blocking many accesses to ssh port from single IP > >> I am running OpenBSD 3.7-stable, pretty standard install, spamd >> greylisting, httpd, se

Re: Limit access to msn to a couple of hours a day

2005-06-28 Thread Dennis Davis
>Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 09:25:18 -0400 >From: Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: misc >Subject: Re: Limit access to msn to a couple of hours a day ... >(note: grepping the output of "ps -ax" is a starting point...but >remember: sometimes the you will pick up the grep line itself in ps...) Qu