radius client /NAS server for OpenBSD

2013-05-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hi, I am looking for a RADIUS client/NAS server that can glean accounting info like packets/bytes transferred, time connected and even kick users who exceed a threshold. I know that freeradius is in ports but I don't see any Radius client/NAS port. Any ideas? -Girish

replacement for transproxy?

2013-04-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hi Misc, I see transproxy port has been removed in 5.2. I thought relayd(8) could do instead but then I want relayd to forward the HTTP request to tinyproxy and not directly proxy to the web server. What is the way out? Does relayd support transparent proxying to tinyproxy? -Girish -- Gaya

Re: relayd(8) transparent proxy does not work!

2013-04-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
By any chance did I hit this bug? I hope not: http://openbsd.7691.n7.nabble.com/using-relayd-in-transparent-mode-td35424.html On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Misc, > > Perhaps I am doing something silly but I rat

relayd(8) transparent proxy does not work!

2013-04-09 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hi Misc, Perhaps I am doing something silly but I rather want to get relayd working with simple HTTP transparent proxy. No SSL. My relayd.conf: relay transdivertproxy { listen on 127.0.0.1 port 8080 transparent forward to destination interface re0 } My pf.conf: pass in on egre

Re: vlc and udp multicast

2013-01-05 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Erling Westenvik wrote: > It's been more than a year since my last unsuccessful attempt to sync > music between OpenBSD machines running vlc 0.8.6, but since vlc in ports > now is at 2.0.4, I've decided to give it another try. > Good idea. ;) > First I start a se

Re: serial over USB

2013-01-02 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Also try turning off hardware flow control On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013-01-02, Jan Stary wrote: >> This is 5.2/i386 on an IBM Thinkpad T40. As this laptop does not have >> a serial port, I bought me this USB-to-serial gizmo: > > There is a real serial port, b

Re: Best postscript printer with network support?

2012-12-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I mean to print with a2ps on TCP port 515 with LPD... On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > I want to print from my OpenBSD machines on the ethernet LAN. > > I asked HP and Epson but did not get a good response. I want to avoid HP. > > I want basi

Re: X issues with Intel HD 2000 graphics card on ASUS P8 H61 mobo

2012-12-25 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Beni wrote: > > Yep, this sounds exactly like the problem I ran into. The -configure option > segfaults before it writes a working configuration. So you need to write it > yourself. Using the xorg.conf.new file wont work because I doesn't come into > existence. N

Re: X issues with Intel HD 2000 graphics card on ASUS P8 H61 mobo

2012-12-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Beni wrote: > I think you ran into the known sandy bridge problem. It the X server > fails it wont be able to resume to a console. So all you get is a black > screen. Yes. That is what I got even after the config you suggested. # X -config xorg.conf.new Same r

Re: X issues with Intel HD 2000 graphics card on ASUS P8 H61 mobo

2012-12-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Should I dump my newly purchased hardware? ;) -Girish On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Here is the dmesg and Xorg. > > Machine crashes if you run X and I have to cold reboot. > > --dmesg--- > > OpenBSD 5.2 (GENERIC) #0: Th

Re: Any recommendation for WAN optimization?

2012-07-25 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Particularly for MS SQL kind of stuff? > > Do we have anything interesting in ports? > > Using ssh with -C flag? > > -Girish > > -- > Gayatri Hitech > http://gayatri-hitech.com -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com

Any recommendation for WAN optimization?

2012-07-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Particularly for MS SQL kind of stuff? Do we have anything interesting in ports? Using ssh with -C flag? -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech http://gayatri-hitech.com

Re: Manual IPsec setup with ipsec.conf

2012-04-05 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 05:53:27AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> Such a silly thing is not documented anywhere, no vpn(8) man page and >> not on the Internet. >> > >

Manual IPsec setup with ipsec.conf

2012-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, Such a silly thing is not documented anywhere, no vpn(8) man page and not on the Internet. I am forced to send this mail though it is embarrassing having worked on the internals of manual IPsec keying back in 2004. But well here goes. on peer A: remoteip="173.167.82.52" remotenet="1

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

2012-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:46 AM, Jan Stary wrote: >> >> Nothing. > > Then something else is broken. > > Run lpd with -l to make sure that the print job > at least made it to lpd as a request. > If the queue clears that is what it means right? It does make it. I will also take a stab at the -l swi

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

2012-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > On Apr 04 22:25:18, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> ftp://g3tech.in/printcap > > Sigh. Next time, please post the six damn lines inline. > > rp:HP PRinter:\ >:lp=:rm=192.168.1.6:rp=lp:\ >:af=/etc/foo

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

2012-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I don't want to use CUPS. I will also avoid LPRng. Please guide me. lpr command from Mac is working like a cake. It uses CUPS and IPP. -Girish On 4/4/12, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On 4/4/12, Jan Stary wrote: >> On Apr 04 21:54:30, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >>> O

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

2012-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 4/4/12, Jan Stary wrote: > On Apr 04 21:54:30, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Jan Stary wrote: >> >> Failed. It is silent. >> > >> > What failed? How does your /etc/printcap describe the printer? >> > >&

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

2012-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Jan Stary wrote: >> I try this against a HP Professional m1213ncj printer and it does nothing. > > Before using the script, try to get it printing with just lpr. > Failed. It is silent. nmap reports port as open, if I disable LPD script does not work, so LPD seems

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

2012-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I mean HP m1213nf On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Dear all, > > If this is OT kindly pardon me. > > I have a script based on Net::LPR. > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > use strict; > use vars '@ARGV'; > > use Net::LPR;

Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

2012-04-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, If this is OT kindly pardon me. I have a script based on Net::LPR. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use vars '@ARGV'; use Net::LPR; use IO::File; die "usage: $0 \n" if (@ARGV != 3); my $lp = new Net::LPR( StrictRFCPorts => 0, RemoteServer => $ARGV[1],

LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

2012-04-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
After a long long time. Sigh. http://liveusb-openbsd.sf.net http://livecd-openbsd.sf.net -Girish -- G3 Tech Networking appliance company web: http://g3tech.in mail: gir...@g3tech.in

IPSec isakmpd pre shared interoperability with Fortigate VPN

2012-04-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, I am having a ball of a time configuring ipsec.conf against our friendly Fortigate VPN box. I think the model is some very old one, perhaps 50B or something. Now some other Linux based commercial VPN is able to talk to it as Fortigate also is from the same parent. So is every other bo

WAN link aggregation

2011-01-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear folks, I find that there are primarily 4 ways to aggregate/concentrate/failover WAN links. 1) trunk(4) 2) ECMP(read FAQ) 3) pf(4) route-to 4) relayd(8) Router 5) BGP I say 4 since BGP cannot be used in most cases. Which is the best way to achieve this goal in our usual approach of simplici

Re: pf and DNS

2011-01-07 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Martin Schrvder wrote: >> >> And consequently pf which does not know a thing about domains does not help us. > > What exactly is the problem you want to solve? > Sorry for having been abstract. Here is the detailed explanation. One domain translates to around 100

pf and DNS

2011-01-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I try to use OpenBSD wherever I can and in the firewall I have installed in a big jewel store here I have the following problem. Many websites these days "Akamize" or do whatever that gives them a different IP address everytime you access it. And consequently pf which does not know a thing about

spamd in a cloud setup?

2010-12-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear folks, OpenBSD's spamd is a network level spam filter and consequently we need the MX records to point to spamd before it hits our mail server thereby achieving bandwidth protection as well as spam protection. This is really fantastic. Now the issue is this. Since MX records do not underst

Re: Help contacting Richard Stallman

2010-05-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
This thread could be more humorous. -Girish On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Igor Sobrado wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: >> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Reyk Floeter wrote: >>> >>> So the question is - am I living in a parallel universe? >> >> Simp

LiveUSB-OpenBSD updated with 4.7 images

2010-05-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hi all, This link says it all. http://liveusb-openbsd.sf.net Download and enjoy. -Girish -- Gayatri Hitech web: http://gayatri-hitech.com SpamCheetah Spam filter: http://spam-cheetah.com

Re: Stop spam from ISP Mailserver

2010-04-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:31 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I have a client, he receives a lot of spam from his ISP Mailserver. > Is there a way to limit spam using an OpenBSD Gateway with PF and Spamd at > his place ? (His mailserver is ISP Mailserver, so he hasn't mailserver) > > I think it is not possib

Re: IPSec VPN and tunnel mode routing

2010-03-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Many thanks for the answers. I should certainly thank Daniel with a full heart since he really made my day. Many thanks. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> I am able to create SAs using automatic keying with isakmpd and 1 line >> in ipsec.conf. > > If you describe your co

IPSec VPN and tunnel mode routing

2010-03-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, I find no explicit mention of how to encapsulate and decapsulate IPsec protected packets in tunnel mode. Are we supposed to use gre0 or gif0 interface to add routes? I am able to create SAs using automatic keying with isakmpd and 1 line in ipsec.conf. But I am unable to connect two pr

Re: Unofficial OpenBSD 4.6 USB installer on LiveUSB-OpenBSD page!

2009-12-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
rish On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Brad Tilley wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:34 +0530, "Girish Venkatachalam" > wrote: > >> I played no tricks, it is just the CD/DVD installer in the USB stick. ;) > > I normally just install -current or -release to a USB stick

Unofficial OpenBSD 4.6 USB installer on LiveUSB-OpenBSD page!

2009-12-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, My friend wanted it. I wanted it too just for fun. So I did it. Please remember, it is 100% unofficial. This project is not officially or unofficially endorsed by OpenBSD in any way. So use it at your own risk! That said, I am quite certain that many of you will benefit in a big way

OpenBSD and my portable mp3 player

2009-11-23 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I am warning you ahead that some of this may be braindead simple or trivial for some of you but I am still sending this because many of you will benefit by this mail. Here is what I did with my portable Sandisk mp3 player. I have a strange problem. I am a devout Hindu and I want to listen to Ved

Please use this to convert people to OpenBSD

2009-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear friends, People have the mistaken idea that OpenBSD is meant for the creme de la creme or the privileged crowd. That is absolutely and patently false. OpenBSD has all the elements of true UNIX. We are very friendly but we are choosy about who our friends are. ;) Anyway jokes aside, kindly

Re: LiveUSB project with a new look

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear folks, I got a personal mail that my USB images do not fit into 1GB and 2G sticks. Obviously I got this wrong. 10^3 != 2^10 I have images of 2*1024^3 whereas USB sticks are short by roughly 80 MB. I found a very interesting way of tackling this issue. Hence this mail. Once again qemu com

LiveUSB project with a new look

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear folks, I added a non X version and dressed up the page a bit. http://liveusb-openbsd.sf.net All versions have mplayer. ;) Now there are 3 variants. A minimal version without X, a Lite version with Windowmaker and few packages and a full version with firefox browser. Thanks. -Girish --

Re: LiveUSB based on 4.6 project at sourceforge

2009-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > > hey ... there is even a version with mplayer !!! > > now I don't have to use ubuntu anymore in the work notebook :) > > really thanks, the hell of a great thing :) Hey Bud, You confused me for a minute. There is mplayer in both editions

LiveUSB based on 4.6 project at sourceforge

2009-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hello misc, Kindly spare a moment for this site: http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net Hope you like it. You know that OpenBSD already comes with cwm and several other networking daemons. This USB stick is a great way to carry OpenBSD 4.6 with you wherever you go. Enjoy! -Girish -- Gayatr

Re: [pf question] Positive condition for adding in the table?

2009-08-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ivan Radovanovic wrote: > Thanks for your respone. If I understand you correctly pf kernel module > actually supports operating with tables based on positive conditions (ie not > only when rule is broken, but also when rule is true), and the way to define > rules of

Re: [pf question] Positive condition for adding in the table?

2009-08-27 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Ivan Radovanovic wrote: > I am new into pf configuration and I am curious if it is possible to add > some host into table in firewall rules if some conditions are met (not > if they are broken). I was thinking about some way to prevent port > scanning of machine and

Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

2008-12-26 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:50:08 Dec 25, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Right, now tell me again about strl* > Also about the kernel source. -Girish

Re: Yahoo! mail and OpenBSD greylisting

2008-12-23 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:40:30 Dec 22, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Oh hmm. Just grepped my mail logs and pulled out a few addresses to > check, it seems dnswl's coverage of yahoo isn't all that great (at least > not for their UK-facing outbound servers). > > And pulling their prefixes out of a bgp feed is fiddly at

Re: Yahoo! mail and OpenBSD greylisting

2008-12-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 09:30:48 Dec 22, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > Hi Girish, > > ?Have you tried to contact with Yahoo! technical staff about it? I know you are serious , so I don't want to kid. I almost got talking to a relatively highly placed individual in yahoo! to take a look at OpenBSD greylisting. But gu

Re: IPv6 virtual hosts

2008-12-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:31:02 Dec 22, Henning Brauer wrote: > if you plan to look at apache2 code, make sure you're close to a > toilet. puke on the keyboard tends to be nasty. He he. I believe there is a new e-mail archival project called lucene which is written in the greatest programming language on the planet.

Yahoo! mail and OpenBSD greylisting

2008-12-21 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hello folks, I am unable to manually whitelist yahoo! mail sender IP addresses since yahoo! does not play well with greylisting. However I can whitelist gmail, aol, hotmail, rediff and so on since they publish SPF records. Is there a way to determine the IP addresses yahoo! uses for sending mail

Re: Samba printing, OpenBSD client to Windows server

2008-11-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:33:56 Nov 29, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Unless your printer supports postsript natively (most cheap printers > don't) you need some kind of converting filter. > You mean like a2ps? /usr/ports/print/a2ps -Girish

Re: ftpd(8) is not logging

2008-11-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:12:46 Nov 28, L?VAI D?niel wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using OpenBSD's ftpd(8), and specified the -l option on the command > line when starting it, which according to the man page, makes ftpd(8) > to log to syslog with facility LOG_FTP. > Well, I've set up syslog.conf to capture that facility to

Re: PF blocking outbound packets that don't have S/SA flags

2008-11-21 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 01:10:03 Nov 21, Joe S wrote: > OS: OpenBSD 4.4 RELEASE i386 > > PF is blocking traffic that I want it to pass. I notice this when I > run nmap 4.76 (compiled from source). It appears that my packets are > being dropped because they don't match the "pass out quick" rule in my > pf.conf. I notic

Re: help with network connectivity

2008-11-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:28:34 Nov 21, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > If you set named=" " in /etc/rc.conf.local you can use your Typo. It should be named_flags="" -Girish

Re: help with network connectivity

2008-11-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:07:02 Nov 20, Jon wrote: > I have updated the /etc/myname with the server > I have updated the /etc/mygate with the comcast's gateway IP > I have set the IP address using ipconfig ? ipconfig? > the /etc/hostname.em0 has 'inet 255.255.255.0 NONE' in it. Shouldn't it be inet 192.168.1.23

Re: PF and the old SIP issue

2008-11-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 19:32:58 Nov 19, Jason Beaudoin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Mikel Lindsaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > FWIW I run about 8 asterisk servers behind openbsd firewalls. I have found > > the most non-problematic way to run them has been by using the asterisk > > servers as a SI

Re: ifconfig promiscuous mode

2008-11-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 03:43:49 Nov 18, Man Lam wrote: > Hi, > > How to enable and disable the promiscuous mode with OpenBSD 4.3. > > I didn't find the -promisc argument in ifconfig. > man pcap -Girish

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:34:47 Nov 17, Jorge Valbuena wrote: > One simple thing that i will try is: > > If is already installed OpenBSD 4.2 and wants to install 4.3 or 4.4 , first > take a look at the /etc/fstab file and write down the name of the /home > partition > > /dev/wd0h /home ffs rw,nodev,nosuid 1 2 >

Re: vpn with an iphone

2008-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:36:00 Nov 17, Johan Beisser wrote: > PoPToP is in ports. > I dunno a thing about iPhone but there is also /usr/ports/net/pptp -Girish

Re: apache 1.3.29 + PHP 5.2.6 on OpenBSD 4.4

2008-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 02:01:19 Nov 17, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > > > This doesn't apply here because the library is pre-loaded before the > httpd is chrooted. > > More details: > > Pre-loading Shared Libraries > > To extend the functionality of the webserver it can dynamically load > shared libraries, e.g. a databa

Re: apache 1.3.29 + PHP 5.2.6 on OpenBSD 4.4

2008-11-16 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 08:04:25 Nov 17, Andrei Pirvan wrote: > Hello > > The problem I have is that default apache can't load PHP module. PHP > was installed from packages (php5-core-5.2.6.tgz), so here is nothing > custom made. The only error I have is when I try to start apache is > when I make a configtest. > > #

Re: Layer 7 relaying still needs pf?

2008-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:45:56 Nov 13, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > Why does layer 7 relaying require pf still? > There are cases where relaying works in tandem with redirection. pf never looks into the packet payloads. -Girish

Re: cvs, cvsup and xenocara advice

2008-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 01:28:57 Nov 13, Ansen Lloyd wrote: > 1. What are the main differences between cvs and cvsup when updating sources > to stable? > cvs is the revision control technology. You can use cvs to check out the main OpenBSD repository to your local machine by which you only get the files pertaining to

Re: Using a separate boot partition

2008-11-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 19:52:30 Nov 11, Joseph Alten wrote: > Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate > boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for > booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a > separate disk. > > I'm kind of ne

Re: VLC/MPlayer/ffmpeg audio/video sync issues introduced in 4.4..

2008-11-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 19:13:41 Nov 10, Brynet wrote: > > See, I typically use VLC only.. with mplayer for the odd file, but I > haven't tweaked it's configuration file at all, as for VLC, I have tried > toggling a lot of settings.. > > I'll try the settings you mentioned, but the fact is... video playback > has slowe

Re: Packet Filter: how to keep device names on hardware failure?

2008-11-07 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:43:11 Nov 07, Guido Tschakert wrote: > Surely we assume that nobody fakes the mac. > I could be wrong but I don't think it possible to fake the MAC reported in dmesg(8). ifconfig can fake MAC address but this should be unique since it is reported by the NIC whilst probing. -Girish

Re: tap devices on bridge cannot connect

2008-11-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:37:11 Nov 06, Lord Sporkton wrote: > I am running Qemu with 2 virtual machines. I have put the tap devices > into a bridge with a trunk interface, the trunk acts as a gateway, > allowing a virtual network inside the host server which can nat to > public IPs and be firewalled. For some reason

Re: Problems booting OpenBSD

2008-11-03 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:34:44 Nov 02, Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having trouble booting my new opebsd installation. I was able to > boot usihg the CD and I tried to use installboot to record the > biosboot to the PBR. I booted with -s option, so I'd start in single > user mode and I mounted /us

Re: editors in floppy44.fs (OpenBSD 4.4.) - newbee help

2008-11-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:01:54 Nov 02, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > vi is certainly there. You have to mount /usr. > Which means it is not part of RAMDISK kernel. Sorry Edd is right and I was wrong. I end up using vi from somewhere I don't remember whenever I boot in single user mode. I guess it

Re: editors in floppy44.fs (OpenBSD 4.4.) - newbee help

2008-11-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 02:39:06 Nov 02, Edd Barrett wrote: > > As much as i love vi/vim/nvi, these are not available in ramdisk kernels. > vi is certainly there. You have to mount /usr. -Girish

Re: installboot: broken mbr on 4.4

2008-11-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:35:43 Nov 01, Michael wrote: > I have been trying to install 4.4 on a previous 4.3 partition, but keep > getting this message after formatting and new installation: > installboot: broken MBR > And then when booting from the hd, all I get is: ERR M > This means that installboot failed(I thin

Re: editors in floppy44.fs (OpenBSD 4.4.) - newbee help

2008-11-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:36:22 Nov 01, Chris Kuethe wrote: > As long as your filesystems are still readable, you can use a more > comfortable tool: > > mount /dev/wd0a /mnt > mount /dev/wd0d /mnt/var > mount /dev/wd0e /mnt/usr > /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt > vi (or mg) /etc/fstab > > you could possibly even just copy

Re: file encrypyion

2008-10-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:48:25 Oct 29, Paul M wrote: > I'm looking for a way to encrypy backup files for secure storage. > > Gpg is an obvious candidate, but I'm wondering if there's anything in base, > perhaps a creative use of ssh or some other tool, though not something > liable to break, obviously. > > Any thou

Re: generate pgp

2008-10-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:44:46 Oct 28, Benjamin Adams wrote: > I'm trying to generate pgp to use with email. Anyone know a simple > how to? or can help me with commandline tool? thanks > I was in the same boat as you several months ago and after a lot of dilly dallying I ended up enabling it in my favorite mail c

Re: change serial console to display

2008-10-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 08:49:13 Oct 28, ico wrote: > Hello gents, > > I did configure my old box with serial console probably 2 y ago. > Now I'd like to get it back to normal. I don't have null modem cable > available. > What needs to be changed? > > I already tried without success: > > echo "" > /etc/boot.conf > o

Re: relayd - tcp_write: connect timed out

2008-10-25 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:22:37 Oct 25, uday wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm trying out relayd here and first of all, filicitation to PYR and > the community for their work on this piece of software. This is my > first time install and while trying it out, I came on to an issue, I > keep on getting "tcp_write: connect time

Re: slow network performance behind cisco

2008-10-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:46:18 Oct 24, Pierre Riteau wrote: > Because the delay between the two machines is very low. > It appears you need to read about bandwidth-delay product as well. > Actually it is quite a deep concept. How TCP "guesses" the bandwidth is quite a challenge. And often TCP gets it wrong. I

Re: alix 2c3 and i2c

2008-10-23 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:16:02 Oct 23, Per-Erik Persson wrote: > A while ago I purchased an alix board. > The plan is to hook up some external i2c sensors to it. > I see the i2c-header on the board, but while reviewing the dmesg I cannot > find anything related to i2c. > > Has the header no real function or is the d

Re: Can't SSH into CARP'd system from the outside

2008-10-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:45:49 Oct 18, Vivek Ayer wrote: > Actually, I feel kind of stupid for asking the question. Of course you > can never ssh into the virtual carp interface, which is what I was > trying to do. SSHing into the physical interface still works no > problem. Then again, it would be Yay..CARP is worki

Re: Can't SSH into CARP'd system from the outside

2008-10-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:26:51 Oct 18, Vivek Ayer wrote: > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which > had a name of pf.conf] > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-trash which had a > name of pf.conf.BAK] > This list does not allow attachments. You can

Re: X not start

2008-10-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:37:53 Oct 18, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > I did not try to initiate X of that way. After to have tried, it did not > work either. This is what I obtain in the log: > > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file Why are you getting this error? Copy

Re: reliable, dd over simple ip network

2008-10-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 23:57:17 Oct 17, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Johan Beisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You know ssh will compress what goes through its tunnel to begin with, > > right? > > ssh_config(5) says Compression defaults to "no". That is quite correct. And I left ou

Re: reliable, dd over simple ip network

2008-10-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:29:56 Oct 17, Mike wrote: > > > > will work out much faster and better than plain old dd(1). > > > > On the other side you have to run > > > > # | restore xf - > > > > -Girish > > > > whats the going to be? Sorry I was wrong. It was meant to be done in one step from the "dump side". This

Re: X not start

2008-10-16 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 00:55:38 Oct 17, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all! > > I'm trying to use KDE in OpenBSD but I'm having problems with the basic > step: to obtain that X server works. I have this problem with OpenBSD > 4.3. With snapshot of OpenBSD 4.4, X server

Re: Shutdown with the power button

2008-10-16 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:41:27 Oct 16, Guillermo Bernaldo de Quiros Maraver Pedroche wrote: > see /etc/rc.shutdown and set: > > powerdown=YES # set to YES for powerdown > Try this. It might work. My /etc/sysctl.conf has the line machdep.kbdreset=1 # permit console CTRL-ALT-DEL to do a nice halt

Re: reliable, dd over simple ip network

2008-10-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:28:56 Oct 15, Neko wrote: > Good day to all of you, > > i have found a really dirty way of going around this, > so im fishing for advices on finding a reliable way > to dd over simple ip network with the generic bsd. > > could this be done in a straight pipe ? > > i have an ftp on the gen

Re: Best Way to get OpenBSD installed on Sun Blade 1000/2000

2008-10-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:41:49 Oct 13, Vivek Ayer wrote: > I'm getting zilch. I'm starting to suspect that I got ripped off on > this cable. I could be just as wrong. I just need to test this cable > with a windows machine via hyperterminal to absolutely make sure it's > not working. > You can create a null modem c

Re: USB disklabel trouble

2008-10-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:48:18 Oct 11, Edward F. Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen: > > I wanted to use a 4GB thumb drive to move a complete partition from one > system to another, and needed to get a ffs volume on it. It was originally > fat32. > > Ran disklabel -E, said to use the whole disk, no luck

Re: PF Queue on a GROUP of nics?

2008-10-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:39:30 Oct 06, Sunnz wrote: > Is it possible? > > Say I have a few nics of the same group... dc0 dc1 dc2 dc3... which > all belong to a group "dc". > > And say if I wanted to limit the overall bandwidth for the group... so > say at any point in time the overall outgoing bandwidth of the grou

Re: Azalia configured but no audio

2008-10-05 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 03:18:01 Oct 06, Jacob Meuser wrote: > mplayer should be controlling `play.gain' from audioctl(1), which > should correspond to `inputs.dac' from mixerctl(1). either of these > should affect the playback volume, but if not, then you can use > mplayer's `-softvol' switch to adjust volume in so

Re: pkg_add interrupted by network dis connection, how to resume installation ?

2008-10-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 01:43:16 Oct 05, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > go to /var/db/pkg > > as root, do: > > # ls partial* > > the output are the partial packages you have to delete > with pkg_delete This is what I do since my pkg_add sometimes fails due to an unannounced power outage or a network outage. (I have fixed both

Re: odd greyscanner behaviour

2008-08-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:10:04 Aug 30, Paul de Weerd wrote: > | > | Does the last sentence of the first paragraph above suggest this? > > The section you quoted refers to receiving, not sending mail (more > specifically, to source routing e-mail). > Oh! > Can you point these out ? I've read the RFC and couldn't

Re: odd greyscanner behaviour

2008-08-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:44:19 Aug 30, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > I couldn't find this mentioned in RFC2821, could you point out the > > section number which talks about this? > > > > In any event, it's definitely not all that unusual... > > > > Obviously then I

Re: odd greyscanner behaviour

2008-08-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:44:19 Aug 30, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > I couldn't find this mentioned in RFC2821, could you point out the > > section number which talks about this? > > > > In any event, it's definitely not all that unusual... > > > > Obviously then I

Re: odd greyscanner behaviour

2008-08-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 08:30:22 Aug 30, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-08-30, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You must be aware that google and other such popular mail services like > > yahoo!, hotmail etc. blatantly flout RFC2821 and retry mails from a bank > > of ma

Re: odd greyscanner behaviour

2008-08-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:28:40 Aug 29, Jose Fragoso wrote: > Hi, > > I am running OpenBSD 4.4, spamd and greyscanner41 in a box. > > Looking at the log entries from the greyscanner, I found this > entry and others which I find a bit strange: > > Aug 28 12:55:44 wall greytrapper[25604]: Trapped 209.85.132.241: > M

Re: pf-nat help

2008-05-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:09:57 May 15, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > > nat on $ext_if from $localnetwork to any -> (ext_if) > How about changing this line to read nat on $ext_if from $localnetwork to any -> ($ext_if:0) -Girish

Re: Spamd table

2008-05-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 23:45:06 May 11, Pui Edylie wrote: > Hi > > When i ran pfctl -t spamd-white -T show it shows a list of IP addresses and > those IP addresses are mostly from China and etc ... (IE spamming > countries) > > I have enabled syslog logging with -v from the log file when tailing it, i > did not see

Re: Screen,colorls,xterms issue. 4.2

2008-05-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:45:06 May 11, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > I tried to set the TERM variable to rxvt value "export TERM=rxvt" > on the /etc/profile and I have problems with the virtual terminals now. > (the ones invoked by Ctrl+Alt+F1 to F4). I get weird color > when doing colorls -G in screen session, so your solu

Re: Screen,colorls,xterms issue. 4.2

2008-05-10 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:20:18 May 10, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > Hi, I'm using OpenBSD 4.2, a clean install. > > I have experienced some problems using screen and X with colorsls. The > issue is that when I launch 'screen' on virtual terminals (C0,C1...) I > don't have any problem but when launch X, on the xterm/rxvt I

Re: Jack, sun and envy problem

2008-05-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:39:14 May 04, Jean-michel Bessot wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem to start jackd to use my audiophile 2496 card. > > $ jackd -d sun > jackd 0.109.10 > [copyright information] > JACK compiled with System V SHM support. > loading driver .. > Enhanced3DNow! detected > SSE2 detected > sun

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:51:58 May 03, Robert C Wittig wrote: > vi/vim. > > I use it for most of my editing tasks, not just writing C code. I use vim since it enhances my coding speed in a big way. As to KNF I guess it is just a habit that I want to inculcate for all my C coding. Right now it is voluntary and occa

Re: Dual boot problem

2008-04-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 01:00:04 Apr 08, Andrei wrote: > Thanks Josh, this works fine. The reason I did not consider boot.conf at the > beginning is that it concerns second-stage bootstrap, while I was trying to > find a solution first-stage bootstrap. Then you have to do it manually. OpenBSD is not very convenie

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