Re: Help contacting Richard Stallman

2010-05-28 Thread Igor Sobrado
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? > > Simple! yes. Agreed, in a level IV multiverse at least (before you ask, we need a very good cosmologist to def

Re: Help contacting Richard Stallman

2010-05-26 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Vadim Jukov wrote: > > Now he'll definitely come here, because you wrote "Linux" instead" of > religiously correct "GNU/Linux". Do you mean Apache/BSD/GNU/IPL/MIT/SGI/X11/Linux, right?

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-15 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:05 AM, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO wrote: >> > For them? Maybe the freedom to give copies to their friends whithout >> > being sued or doing anything illegal. >> >> That can easily be applied to any of the free licenses without any >> other legal obligations. >> > > Yes! Bec

Re: /altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> df /altroot shows: "Mounted on /" >> (df -h doesn't show /altroot.) > > Thus, /altroot is currently not mounted. As you said before, it shouldn't be usually mounted as it is used by dd(1). daily.out's output on the first email shows that th

Re: Hardening OpenBSD : Just delete!

2010-03-14 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Robert wrote: > > There is nothing wrong with cripling an os by deleting files, if one > isn't hurting enough yet. > If some random textfile referencing 2.8 helps you achieve what you > want, go for it. There are very good reasons to remove files from an operating

Re: OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are live!

2010-03-14 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Edd Barrett wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Jason Dixon wrote: >> https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CD47=1&CD47%2b=Add > > Is anyone from openbsd europe on this list? I have some problems with > my pre-order and the "contact" email page doesnt work

Re: machine panics under heavy network load

2010-03-08 Thread Igor Sobrado
2010/3/8 Miguel Araujo Pirez : > Do you think if I post the trace and other information on the lists I will get > any help? any recommendations? Usually posting all information available helps when asking for support on mailing lists. Upgrading to a current snapshot may help too, as there had been

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Miod Vallat wrote: > > You do not want to tinker with the firmware. The stock PMON2000 does not > support these machines, so you'll need to start with the pmon code > provided by Lemote, and saying that it is in a dire need of cleaning is > an understatement. After

Re: is the Lemote Yeeloong available in the US?

2010-02-04 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > There are two models. I have the 10" model. It really has a 10" > screen, but indeed it runs at 800MHz. Also, while a little video hole > is there, the camera hardware seems to be absent or not connected. The > 8.9" version does have a worki

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-18 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:07 AM, David Gwynne wrote: > On 18/12/2009, at 1:26 PM, Raymond Lillard wrote: >> >> Real men use cat. :-) > > real men use COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE real men use EDIT/TECO.

Re: Lucent Technologies Orinoco Wifi card (PCMCIA) and OpenBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Dorian B|ttner wrote: > > some time ago I had a usb wlan adapter from avaya at hand > http://old.nabble.com/AVAYA-Wireless-USB-Client-%28Gold%29-td21817914.html > It turned out, then when opening the cover of the desk stand it was nothing > more than a pcmcia card

Re: Lucent Technologies Orinoco Wifi card (PCMCIA) and OpenBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Mike Small wrote: >> You might want to try 4.5 and see if that works for you. I have a wi in >> an old dell laptop too that no longer got detected as of 4.6. If anyone >> wants to see it for some reason, I can

Re: help please, my real memory is disappearing

2009-11-17 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Pete Vickers wrote: > alternatively you could run/spawn ftpd from inetd, which will presumably > mean that all the resources will be 'returned' as soon as the connection > closes. However significant performance hit on a busy ftp server. this is not what art@'s s

Re: Problem with iwn firmware on 4.6 snapshots

2009-10-30 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Dan Harnett wrote: > > The kernel you are using predates the iwn changes. B The man page you > read postdates the changes. B So, yes, use the 5.1 firmware until you > update to a snapshot after 10/24. B That should match the firmware that > the iwn manual page incl

Re: Problem with iwn firmware on 4.6 snapshots

2009-10-30 Thread Igor Sobrado
2009/10/30 TomC!E! BodE>C!r : > I'm using snapshots : > > $ sysctl kern.version > kern.version=OpenBSD 4.6-current (GENERIC.MP) #259: Thu Oct 22 20:46:08 MDT > 2009 > B B dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP > > $ > > So I will wait for next one. This is last availabl

Re: Problem with iwn firmware on 4.6 snapshots

2009-10-30 Thread Igor Sobrado
2009/10/30 TomC!E! BodE>C!r : > > When I use this file > http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/packages/openbsd/iwn-firmware-5.1p0.tgz > which was mentioned in older versions of this man page then everything > is ok. > > So is it problem of my card that it can't use 5.2 version of firmware > or typo in m

Re: Questions for OpenBGPd Developers

2009-10-13 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Ross Cameron wrote: > > Uhm perhaps to provide a better OSPF and BGP implementation to the for an OS > that is the OS of choice of millions of users and thousands of corporations? users and corporations should learn how to choose the operating systems that best fi

Re: calendar typo?

2009-08-26 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Daniel Gracia Garallar wrote: > It all depends, as Paraguay has two native languages: spanish and guaranm. > In spanish, the country name is written as 'Paraguay', and 'Paraguai' in > guaranm. > > I barely, if ever, have read 'Paraguai' in any text, maybe because I

Re: calendar typo?

2009-08-25 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:16 AM, frantisek holop wrote: > hi there, > > Aug 25 Constitution Day in Paragual > > shouldn't that be Paraguai? Indeed, it is a typo. However, is it not a much more usual spelling "Paraguay"?

Re: Is anyone using the TeX Live DVD binaries for OpenBSD?

2009-08-20 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Edd Barrett wrote: > On 8/20/09, Igor Sobrado wrote: >> we have a few problems here too (using TeX Live in both OpenBSD 4.6 >> and -current, on i386 and amd64); i would suggest sending a detailed >> bug report to the TeX Live developers

Re: Is anyone using the TeX Live DVD binaries for OpenBSD?

2009-08-20 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > > I bulled ahead and installed the 2008 texlive from TUG, but still > errors. Say I do: [...] > Thoughts? (Sorry if this is such a sketchy report, but I'm pressed for > time right now!) we have a few problems here too (using TeX Live in both

Re: /altroot

2009-08-16 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:44 PM, 4625<4625...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is it correct string for /etc/fstab? "/dev/wd2d /altroot ffs xx 0 0" > > Assuming /dev/wd2d is the correct partition, yes. (You're looking at > the daily(8) manpage, right?

Re: Samsung HD License Issue

2009-05-04 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 11:46:51AM +0200, David Vasek wrote: >> Possibly, but you need to get the mentioned license _from Microsoft_, as >> is written in the license: "...may require an additional license from >> Microsoft." > > the operative

Re: Mail(1) behavior of p command?

2008-08-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
Aaron W. Hsu sacrideo.us> writes: > I am trying to use the mail(1) p command. According to the help that is > printed out when running the program, it seems that the p command should > pipe the message out to LPR and print it. However, it just prints the > message out to standard output. > >

First Technology Meeting at Isla Cristina city

2008-03-31 Thread Igor Sobrado
The first Technology Meeting at Isla Cristina city will take place on April 3rd and 4th, 2008 at Isla Cristina, near Huelva, Spain. This two days event will be a good oportunity to talk to developers and users of some of the most important free software projects. There will be three workshops on th

Re: Booting a Thinkpad T23

2007-04-04 Thread Igor Sobrado
Check BIOS settings too... Don't know about the current status of OpenBSD on these fine laptops, but you will probably need to boot to UKC and disable ahc0. This change is (was?) required for installation kernels only. GENERIC kernels do not need this workaround to boot... but you will need to b

Re: [OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.10] "diskinfo" command on net4801

2007-03-28 Thread Igor Sobrado
Igor Sobrado writes: > > I would like to ask if this output for the "machine diskinfo" command > on the OpenBSD/i386 BOOT release 2.10 is expected: > > > Using drive 0, partition 3. > Loading... > probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[639K 255M a20=on] > disk:

Re: Routing on one NIC?

2007-03-25 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Lachlan. What you are looking for is usually called "router on a stick". Perhaps you can use some binat rules to specify bidirectional mappings between external netblocks and the internal aliases. Don't know why you are doing it, however. The only time I made a "router on a stick" was on my C

[OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.10] "diskinfo" command on net4801

2007-03-25 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello. I have a soekris net4801 embedded computer. This computer currently runs OpenBSD 4.0. There are two internal drives on it: an enhanced availability Hitachi Travelstar E7K100 (ready for 24/7 use) and a SanDisk SDCFB-1024 CF card that is being used as installation media and net4801 document

Re: is the Thinkpad T30 supported?

2007-03-22 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello! Joachim. I think that the problem you had with your Thinkpad happened to the son of a friend I have at Illinois too (on a slightly different variant). On his laptop (a T20) the display CCF lamp did not turn on. Indeed, buying at least two similar laptops is a smart idea. That is the rea

Re: is the Thinkpad T30 supported?

2007-03-20 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Beck writes: > > I have a T30. pretty much everything works on it and very > well, it suspends and resumes again. The only concerns I have with OpenBSD are related with APM and ACPI support (e.g., problem report number 5307/kernel). In fact, APM was the

is the Thinkpad T30 supported?

2007-03-20 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello. I am looking for a laptop to replace my old, but excellent, Dell Latitude CPi R400GT (this computer has a broken hinge right now). The OpenBSD/i386 laptop page (http://www.openbsd.org/i386-laptop.html) has a lot of information on Thinkpads (from the earliest models to the most recent units)

patch for src/etc/skel/dot.cshrc

2007-02-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello. This patch removes the -g option from src/etc/skel/dot.cshrc. The reason I am suggesting this change is that -g "does nothing; [it is] kept for compatibility with older versions of ls" (source: ls(1)); so this option is superfluous on this alias. If it is better opening a problem report,

Re: [OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?

2007-02-01 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Jason. Thank you very much for your advice, but I prefer stay at the software provided in the base system if it is possible (why choosing an operating system if we do not like the software it provides?). ksh is a powerful shell and the default configuration in OpenBSD makes it really useful, n

Re: No HD DMA? (Was: Harddisk slow)

2007-01-31 Thread Igor Sobrado
Well, it seems that the problem related with the V210 system is a consequence of a lack of documentation provided by Sun Microsystems. pciide works fine on other sparc64 systems. As the Geode computers are not designed with I/O performance in mind, it makes sense thinking on the processor as the

Re: No HD DMA? (Was: Harddisk slow)

2007-01-31 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello! I want to say that this thread seems related with this one: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=117027330031702&w=2 Two very different computer architectures (a i386-compatible embedded computer running a 200 MHz Geode processor and a high-end sparc64 computer) but both with

Re: [OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?

2007-01-31 Thread Igor Sobrado
ndeed, sometimes mail behaviour is very difficult to understand... ...or believe! :-) > [2007-01-31 16:27] Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > debug_level++; > > break; > > case 'F': > > +

Re: on the awk(1)/nawk(1) usage synopsis

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007, Jason McIntyre wrote: > ah, ok. it is not 4 options (-s, -a, -f, and -e), but one (-safe, as in > "not in danger"). that's why it is described as a "...first (and not > very reliable) approximation to a ``safe'' version of awk." > > you are confusing that with the -f option, w

Re: on the awk(1)/nawk(1) usage synopsis

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
In a private email, Philip Guenther has observed that awk does not completely folow the POSIX option guidelines. [-safe] is not [-s,-a,-f,-e] but a single option! The right patch is then: --- main.c.orig Mon Jan 29 15:01:20 2007 +++ main.c Mon Jan 29 15:52:47 2007 @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@

Re: on the awk(1)/nawk(1) usage synopsis

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Jason. Sorry for sending the patches before answering to your email. As I am not subscribed to this mailing list I have not read your answer before working on the patches. I think that the "-f" option requires an argument. The argument is not optional, though. It seems that the case block th

Re: on the awk(1)/nawk(1) usage synopsis

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Jason. Thank you very much for managing these small bugs so fast. The first patch is for main.c: --- main.c Mon Jan 29 15:01:20 2007 +++ main.c Mon Jan 29 15:04:28 2007 @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "C"); /* for parsing cmdline & prog */ cmdname = __progna

Re: on the awk(1)/nawk(1) usage synopsis

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
Jason, you are very fast! I will download the new main.c as soon as I arrive at home and remove the case for the "-m" option. I will remove the "f" option in "[-safe]" as it seems that the argument to it is not optional. I will submit the patch, based on the updated code, later. Two changes:

Re: on the awk(1)/nawk(1) usage synopsis

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
Looking carefully at the switch () {...} structure in main.c it seems that the option "-f" requires an argument: iff the argument to "-f" is optional I would write: awk [-sae] [-V] [-d[n]] [-F fs] [-v var=value] [prog | -f [progfile]] file ... But it does not look as an optional argument,

on the awk(1)/nawk(1) usage synopsis

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello. Just a though... I was writing a simple awk(1) script and looked at the options supported by this utility in the hope to make the code cleaner. It seems that there is a big difference between the synopsis in the manual page: awk [-safe] [-V] [-d[n]] [-F fs] [-v var=value] [prog | -f pr

Re: 3 bugs in OBSD 4.0 "bc"

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Cosgrove writes: > > What is happening here is that when you enter > > ibase=16 > l(0.1) > > you get "0.0" passed to the l() function, which gives -infinity. (I > would call that the expected result under the circumstances.) > > If you enter > >

Re: 3 bugs in OBSD 4.0 "bc"

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
Please, drop my last example about how bc works on Solaris... bc was on base 16, not on base 10, when run that test... it seems this is a bad and very long day! :-) $ bc -l l(0.0625000) -2.77258872223978123766 Now all is clear, Igor.

Re: 3 bugs in OBSD 4.0 "bc"

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Otto Moerbeek writes: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > > (I suppose that setting obase=10 after setting the input base to 16d > > means that the output base is set to 0x10...) > > indeed. > > In the last e

Re: 3 bugs in OBSD 4.0 "bc"

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi again. Of course, Karel Kulhavy is the one to provide feedback on this patch. But I have tried it too (after upgrading src/usr.bin/bc) and seems to be working fine for this case (NetBSD and Solaris are running their own flavours of bc): For OpenBSD: $ bc -l ibase=4 obase=10 scale=100 l(1.031)

Re: 3 bugs in OBSD 4.0 "bc"

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Otto Moerbeek writes: > > bc hase some more unexpected things for the casual user: > > scale=4 > 1/3 produces 0. > 2/3 produces 0. Not so unexpected -- a mathematician would work out 0. and 0.6667 respectively, but your excellent example is what we wou

Re: 3 bugs in OBSD 4.0 "bc"

2007-01-29 Thread Igor Sobrado
[copied and pasted, I am currently not subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > Note that some of your tests still > produce strange results, but that is due to weird handling of > non-decimal fractions wrt scale: > > For example, with ibase=11 > 0.1 produces 0.0

Re: [OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?

2007-01-27 Thread Igor Sobrado
At last, I want to note that the switch structures in sftp.c and ssh.c related with getopt(3) can be reordered. Currently, its order is very difficult to understand, at least for me. (perhaps my patch does not put the "case 'l':" in the right place for that reason, beware!) and there are some ind

Re: [OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?

2007-01-27 Thread Igor Sobrado
Ok, I have a candidate for a patch: --- sftp.c Sat Jan 27 08:43:11 2007 +++ sftp.c Sat Jan 27 08:46:45 2007 @@ -1415,8 +1415,8 @@ fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s [-1Cv] [-B buffer_size] [-b batchfile] [-F ssh_config]\n" - "[-o ssh_option] [-P sftp_

Re: [OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?

2007-01-27 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi again! I am working on the patch for supporting the "-l" option in both ssh and sftp. Looking at the OpenSSH source code I found some improvements in the messages returned by sftp and ssh when either the username or the hostname are not provided. The first patch: --- sftp.c Sat Jan 27

Re: [OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?

2007-01-26 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Ruediger Bahls writes: > > to have an -l option for sftp would be really nice > but perhaps one should argument a little bit differently > > your argument would be a lot stronger if it would go like that: Hi Christian! Indeed, you are right. Your argum

Re: [OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?

2007-01-03 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stuart Henderson writes: > On 2007/01/03 16:37, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > It is certainly better using the "sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]" syntax, but > > sometimes > > I miss the "user@" part on the command line when the logi

[OpenSSH] an option for setting the login name?

2007-01-03 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello. I would like to ask if there are plans to implement the "-l" option available in ssh(1) on the secure file transfer program sftp(1). It is certainly better using the "sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED]" syntax, but sometimes I miss the "user@" part on the command line when the login name on the remote

Re: OpenRCS: setting state of revision

2006-12-25 Thread Igor Sobrado
Other missing options in the switch structure are: -b[rev], -I, -M (this one does nothing by now, but it exists and is undocumented in the usage), and -tstr. I suppose that these options are just not implemented in OpenRCS right now. There is an -e option in the rcs(1)'s usage both with and witho

OpenRCS: setting state of revision

2006-12-25 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello. Is the -sstate[:rev] option supported by OpenRCS's rcs(1) in OpenBSD 4.0? Beware, this computer is not running -stable, just a fresh installation of OpenBSD 4.0. This is a possible scenario for this error: $ rcs -s"Rel" test.c rcs: unknown option -s usage: rcs [-eIiLqTUV] [-Aoldfile] [-a

Re: Disable IPv6 on OpenBSD 4.0 - forking discussion to icmp echo request blockage

2006-12-21 Thread Igor Sobrado
> Yes, you can use anything as a transport, probably even pidgeon > carriers, but you need a receiving end to effect anything. Indeed, see RFCs 1149 and 2549... two excellent april fools on avian carriers! > So, unless > you fear that someone is able to install a trojan on your OpenBSD > server b

Re: Bug in ksh // Improvement for tar ?

2006-12-09 Thread Igor Sobrado
I am not a member of this mailing list, so I will copy and paste the comment of Philip Guenther here: "The 'cpio' format for pax (selected using "-x cpio") handles long file names in a portable way, as opposed to GNU tar's non-portable extension for handling file names longer than 100 bytes." Agr

Re: Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Uwe. I see the advantages of your proposal but, as suggested in this thread and as you did, sed(1) can be very helpful in this matter. Just my opinion, but one of the best features in the BSD family of operating systems is that these operating systems are simple. The BSD operating systems do

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-08 Thread Igor Sobrado
D'oh! Of course, the SIMH entry in the FAQ 12 should read "Instructions can be found _at the_ OpenBSD/vax on SIMH page." Well... there are people with more appropriate english skills that will probably suggest a lot of changes like this one. Igor.

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-08 Thread Igor Sobrado
An important note: I missed one of the advices of Tom Cosgrove... I would replace the "OpenBSD's Flavors" link in the patch with something like "section 5" (as Tom suggests) or either "FAQ 5, flavors" as found on other parts of the FAQ. Tom suggestion is more readable, though. Of course, there ar

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Thanks a lot to all the people that provided feedback on this matter. Attached to this post is a new version of the patch. I did a mistake downloading the files used previously from the repository. This time, I choosed the right download method: $ cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs get www/faq The

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Cosgrove writes: > > Don't create a bug report for this. This is not a bug. This is a > change of style that you (and some others) would like to see in the FAQ. > Nick, myself, and other people who work on the FAQ read misc@; there's > no point just pi**ing us

Re: OpenBSD 4.0 CD Set Package List

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
sing characters, but I wanted to fit it in three columns, it was too large. Now the message: --- Forwarded Message Date:Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:53:51 +0100 From: Igor Sobrado To: Jeremy Huiskamp Subject: Re: OpenBSD 4.0 CD Set Package List In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Je

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Nick. I read your post after sending the patch. I will do my best to make these links as short as possible. Don't know your taste on this matter, but I do not dislike relatively long links if these links make the text more readable, and it is independent of the format of the document being us

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Attached is the first draft of the patch. Once it has been debugged I will open a bug report on it. Please, check carefully all the entries in the patch and do not trust on my English skills. Some suggestions: - replacing references to threads in the mailing lists (now the thread subject)

Re: links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
I cannot see why making a patch to change the links is difficult. I will look at the cvs repository as soon as I get some time and submit a patch. In any case, I would appreciate a carefully review of it, just to fit it to the taste of the developers. Igor.

Re: OpenBSD 4.0 CD Set Package List

2006-12-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Jeremy. There is probably something wrong in the input to "grep -v" as a lot of the packages that "are not present in the CD" really *are* (e.g., xmms, xpdf, abiword...) Cheers, Igor.

Re: OpenBSD 4.0 CD Set Package List

2006-12-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
There are very good reasons to get an original OpenBSD distribution; packages are only one of these reasons. As you can see, the list of packages has been carefully choosed to meet the requirements of both servers and desktops. Hope this information will help you taking the right decision. The l

links in the OpenBSD FAQs

2006-12-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
Nice to see that the text and PDF releases of the FAQ have finally been upgraded to 4.0... Just a suggestion: would it be possible replacing the links of the class "...can be found here" (e.g., '1.7 of the OpenBSD FAQ) in the FAQs to more useful descriptions (e.g., "...can be found on the OpenBSD'

Re: Jacek Artymiak

2006-12-02 Thread Igor Sobrado
I had been in contact with him too. I sent some errata entries for his excellent book on pf and he acknowledged these fixes. On november 12, he mentioned on a private email that these fixes will be added to his checklist for the 3rd edition of the book. Never asked him about his health, however.

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-24 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chefren writes: > Hello Igor, Hello Chefren. > You missed the crux of quite a few important points that Nick tried to > explain to you. Indeed, I have carefully read his post. He certainly explains some important points related with sshd. He is certainly right.

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stuart Henderson writes: > On 2006/11/23 17:07, Igor Sobrado wrote: > ... > > to set up a firewall with an ever-growing list of hostile machines. > ... > > I think you misunderstand me. I mean to restrict direct SSH access > to only th

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Williams writes: > > I block brute force attacks using PF. They get a small set of attempts > before they are blocked. Very trivial. > > pass in on $ext_if proto tcp to $ext_if port ssh flags S/SA \ > keep state (max-src-conn-rate 5/40, overload )

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chefren writes: > On 11/23/06 6:35 PM, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > > Participate on flamewars is usually not my > > style and I have certainly more productive ways to waste my time > > and patience. > > Probably not with computer s

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Holland writes: > Igor Sobrado wrote: > > Hi again. > > > > Out of this thread, Mr. Tongson pointed me to an interesting post > > from march 2005: > > > > http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Darrin Chandler writes: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:24:38PM +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > First of all, I understand that remote root logins can be easily > > avoided by setting "PermitRootLogin" to "no" in /etc/ssh/ssh

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stuart Henderson writes: > On 2006/11/23 15:14, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > 2. There are a lot of brute force attacks from countries like > > Korea these days. These attacks will be less effective if > > the intruders get access

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi again. Out of this thread, Mr. Tongson pointed me to an interesting post from march 2005: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2005-03/2808.html >From this post, it is difficult understanding why disabling remote root logins is not a good idea; but after reading the entire thread

Re: on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anton Karpov writes: > I'm neither OpenBSD nor an OpenSSH developer, but I think, the main idea of > enabling root by default in OpenBSD is... protection from weak passwords! > Just look at this. When you're installing OpenBSD, systems asks for a root > password. You

on the remote root login in OpenSSH

2006-11-23 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi again! I have a question on the default behaviour of OpenSSH. Please, do not understand that I am complaining on it or trying to change its behaviour in relation with remote root logins allowed by default on OpenSSH (but I certainly believe it would be nice, that is the reason I write this mes

Re: ports installing files in /etc?

2006-11-18 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Balmer writes: > > This is OpenBSD. We install all configuration files below /etc. Other > operating systems may use different locations, but here we use /etc. Indeed, I have just found this behaviour explained on section 15 of the OpenBSD FAQ. I was writin

Re: openbsd 4.0 installation on soekris box: i am desperated.

2006-11-18 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi Gustavo. Sorry to know that you have these problems with your soekris. It is certainly an unusual scenario. I have a net4801 here too and pxebooting it is very easy and... very fast. I would suggest looking for the throughput problem on the network itself. Your network does not look congeste

ports installing files in /etc?

2006-11-18 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello. I have just installed OpenBSD 4.0 on my desktop system, but were running this excellent version of OpenBSD on my soekris for a month or so. As a difference with the installation on the net4801, my desktop has X.Org, OpenMotif and Mozilla Firefox: $ pkg_info atk-1.10.3p1accessibili

Re: layout of filesystems on OpenBSD

2006-11-15 Thread Igor Sobrado
Thanks a lot to all that replied either in private email (Francisco), or in the misc mailing list (Joachim, Robert, Will, Stuart, Peter, Damian, Marc and Matthias). I will try to reply to all in the thread right now. As I am not a member of this mailing list I have not received a copy of the emai

layout of filesystems on OpenBSD

2006-11-10 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello. I have some questions related with the layout of the filesystems on OpenBSD and hope someone will be able to help me. I must start saying that I never had problems with this setup, but I certainly would appreciate some advice on it. To make things clear, I will try to outline the output o

Re: proposed patch for ifconfig(8) man page

2006-11-10 Thread Igor Sobrado
Thanks to all who answered to my question. I will not submit the patch then. I agree with all the people that answered to my question, we must provide man pages easy to read for first time users but, as Theo said, "man -k" can certainly help. Even if someone does not know how reading the manual p

proposed patch for ifconfig(8) man page

2006-11-07 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello, Can I suggest adding atalk(4), inet6(4), ipsec(4), pf(4), pflog(4), eon(5), hostapd(8), and tcpdump(8) to the "SEE ALSO" section of ifconfig(8)? I think that, as these manual pages are being cited in the ifconfig(8) manual page, they should be added to this section. Just want to check the

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pedro Martelletto writes: > On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:53:43AM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > but certainly diverging disklabels can explain the problem I outlined > > in the first message to this thread > > Uh, yes, maybe. I didn'

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
Ops! I did not added the "-group" switch to repl(1)!!! Sorry, this message should be directed to the mailing list too. --- Forwarded Message Date:Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:09:18 +0200 From:Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Pedro Martelletto <[EMAIL PROT

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-06 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pedro Martelletto writes: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 07:24:55PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > Indeed, it is a BSD disklabel related problem not a ffs's one. > > It *is* a FFS problem. The superblocks are different. The BSD disklabel pro

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, viq writes: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:24, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > > > Thanks a lot for the excellent reference you provided in your email. > > Indeed, it is a BSD disklabel related problem not a ffs's one. And > > it se

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hi viq! Sorry, I have read your message right now (...I am not subscribed to this mailing list, I was looking at MARC as it seems the most up to date archive, and found your answer.) Thanks a lot for the excellent reference you provided in your email. Indeed, it is a BSD disklabel related problem

Re: sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Quast writes: > On 9/5/06, Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I am trying to understand an odd behaviour in the Berkeley Fast File > > System as implemented in both NetBSD and OpenBSD. My mai

sharing ffs filesystems between NetBSD and OpenBSD

2006-09-05 Thread Igor Sobrado
Hello! I am trying to understand an odd behaviour in the Berkeley Fast File System as implemented in both NetBSD and OpenBSD. My main concern is not getting a workaround for this problem (hopefully, I found one) but understanding if there are hidden issues than can damage files stored in these sh