Re: spamd vs IPv6

2021-02-22 Thread Nick Guenther
February 22, 2021 1:22 PM, "Edgar Pettijohn" wrote: > Have you tried starting spamd with '-l ::1' to alter its address to bind > to? I hadn't! But it's no help: comms# /usr/libexec/spamd -l ::1 -d -v -G 15:4:864 -C /etc/letsencrypt/live/comms.kousu.ca/fullchain.pem -K /etc/letsencrypt/live/co

Re: spamd vs IPv6

2021-02-22 Thread Nick Guenther
July 1, 2020 7:34 AM, "Harald Dunkel" wrote: > Hi folks, > > spamd(8) still mentions 127.0.0.1, but no indication of IPv6 support. > Looking on Google for "openbsd spamd ipv6" gives me some entries of > 2015 and 2016, but no up-to-date information. Please excuse if I am > too blind to see. > >

Re: Hidden Long Filenames and mount_cd9660

2012-02-19 Thread Nick Guenther
ave to because Remco has stumbled into the proper solution. On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:41:44 +0100, Remco wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: Here's what cd-info(1) (for the archives: this is from package libcdio) has to say about a DVD that OpenBSD shows LFNs for: ~$ cd-info --dvd [snip] Disc

Hidden Long Filenames and mount_cd9660

2012-02-19 Thread Nick Guenther
Hiya misc@, Upfront: if you have something useful to say, CC me, please. I haven't been on this list in a while, managing to solve my own shit before having to mail the hivemind, but today I am at a loss. I have some old DVD backups from the days when backing up to DVD sort of made sense, an

Re: What does your environment look like?

2010-01-03 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: > I use default fvwm(1) and I'm happy with that. I tried cwm(1) after > this post http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090502141551 > and I found it very clean and useful, but I still use fvwm(1). Anyway > I plan to try this one http://ww

Re: Web Browsers

2010-01-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2010, at 4:02 AM, Nick Guenther wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Theo de Raadt >> wrote: >>>> >>>> Firefox: might slow down on some sort of sites (heavy javascript, >&

Re: Web Browsers

2010-01-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 2:47 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> Firefox: might slow down on some sort of sites (heavy javascript, >> etc). If on tab crashes, the whole thing goes down. Privacy a bit more >> trustworthy than google > > Why? > Because Google's stated mission is to collect all the world's in

Re: Web Browsers

2009-12-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 2:39 PM, nixlists wrote: > On 12/20/09, Robert Bronsdon wrote: >> Google are clearly clever enough to know that upsetting the 'tin-foiled' >> [...] > > Google also wants the browser to be > used by businesses - so there will be many features similar to those > IE has in t

Re: DVD burning software besides cdrecord/growisofs

2009-12-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:19 PM, James Hozier wrote: > Okay, so cdrecord I got from pkg_add with 4.6-release cannot even > burn DVDs at all. growisofs refuses to burn my DVD with the error: > > more than 50% of space will be *wasted*! > use a single-layer media for this. > > And there's no option

Re: OT: Python (was Re: vi in /bin)

2009-12-19 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 02:51:32PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: >> and just to add to the pyre... >> >> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Claudio Jeker >> wrote: >> > >> > Ugh, a programming lang

Re: OT: Python (was Re: vi in /bin)

2009-12-19 Thread Nick Guenther
and just to add to the pyre... On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > Ugh, a programming language where you can't copy paste from xterm to xterm > without fucking up the program is just way to much pain to work on. >On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > for

Re: Scroll with laptop touchpad

2009-12-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Mikael Bak wrote: > Dope Ice Apollyon the Third wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:36:02PM +0100, Mikael Bak wrote: Hi list, I'm really new to openbsd, so please forgive me if th

Re: running openbsd 4.6 under qemu

2009-12-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: > ETHER=em0 BRIDGE=bridge0 qemu-system-x86_64 -no-fd-bootchk -hda boot.img -hdb > 1.img -hdc 2.img -hdd 3.img -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net tap -nographic > -serial stdio > > don't use kqemu; it simply doesn't work right. How so? Does it cra

Re: pseudo-crash on OpenBSD 4.5

2009-12-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, wrote: > Got a bit of an oddity with OpenBSD 4.5 - it's not quite a crash, but > close. It has happened 3 times now, usually after running flawlessly for > 2-3 weeks. > > Fully up to date with 4.5-stable, running GENERIC.MP on a Dell poweredge > R300 quad-core se

Re: Looking for "Secure Architectures with OpenBSD" pdf.

2009-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM, jackwssp q wrote: > 2 Tomas Bodzar: > Why you so ugly? I don't looking for pf manual. As you can see above, i'm > not alone. When i got it, will share it for all on misc@, and you may > furiously try to stop me. > > Truly we have the markings of a gentleman *and*

Naming FFS volumes?

2009-12-09 Thread Nick Guenther
I know that a filesystem in unix just exists wherever it exists (i.e. it's 'identity' is its mountpoint), but I find it extremely handy with ext* and FAT filesystems to be able to give every volume its own name. I was just living with not being able to do this on OpenBSD, just discovered dumpfs(8)

Firefox pegging my CPU

2009-11-30 Thread Nick Guenther
I installed firefox35 on 4.6 and used it happily until yesterday when it went crazy. It will still load pages but extremely slowly--to the point of being unusable. I deleted my .mozilla directory--no luck. I reinstalled it--no luck. I got rid of swfdec--no luck. Here's top(1): load averages: 3.57

Re: BAD SU

2009-11-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Brad Tilley wrote: > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Brad Tilley wrote: > >> I see the same on 4.6-release. The initial user I added during install >> can su and sudo > > Just to be clear, 'sudo su' works for newly added users who are in the > wheel group, but su

Re: BAD SU

2009-11-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:51 PM, phil wrote: > Hello > > I have some strange behavior with su in openbsd 4.6, > I have two users root and test, test user is in wheel group with usermod -G > wheel test, when i try to be root with su - > I have the sorry message and in the /var/log/authlog I have :

Re: Connect to wireless Access Point according to MAC address

2009-11-26 Thread Nick Guenther
2009/11/26 TomC!E! BodE>C!r : > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Milin wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'd like to connect to the wireless AP according to its MAC address. >> For example there are two wireless AP >> >> nwid Open chan 6 bssid 00:0b:0e:29:06:40 189dB 54M short_preamble,short_slottime >> nw

Re: Question regarding to dsniff.

2009-11-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Mateusz Gierblinski wrote: > > 2009/11/24 Olivier Cherrier > >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:39:02PM +0100, mateusz.gierblin...@gmail.comwrote: >> > I'm playing around with some security tools and I would like to test out >> the >> > dsniff package. I have tried to

Re: TOSHIBA PORTEGE R600

2009-11-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Peter Ericson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:42:49PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: >> Funny you should ask. I have an R500 and it works fine, excepting the >> lack of ACPI support of course. The Fn-Mute key combo even works right >> away,

Re: USB key with OpenBSD - hangs at POST

2009-11-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Andrius V wrote: >> > > I tried to play with usb key yesterday. Yes, when I copied mbr from > the other computer, computers didn't hang anymore. Of course, that mbr > is not suitable to boot OpenBSD as it points to grub which doesn't > exist in this usb key, howeve

Re: TOSHIBA PORTEGE R600

2009-11-23 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, wrote: >> Hi m...@i'm thinking of buying an R600 to run current on.Has anyone had any >> experience with these machines?From the spec sheet: Part Num

Re: TOSHIBA PORTEGE R600

2009-11-23 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, wrote: > Hi m...@i'm thinking of buying an R600 to run current on.Has anyone had any > experience with these machines?From the spec sheet: Part Number > PPR61A-02200R CPU > IntelĀ® CoreTM2 Duo Processor ULV Su9400 >

Re: Question regarding to dsniff.

2009-11-23 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Mateusz Gierblinski wrote: > Hello > > I'm playing around with some security tools and I would like to test out the > dsniff package. I have tried to install dsniff using ports, db, libnet & > dsniff had been compiled but on the end of the installation process log

Re: USB key with OpenBSD - hangs at POST

2009-11-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Andrius V wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Robert Bronsdon wrote: >> Don't forget booting from USB is a black art. Different USB keys will >> represent themselves in different ways, some keys represent themselves as >> USB Floppy drives, some as USB CD-

Re: Gnash

2009-11-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: > Does anybody use it happily? > I'm going to be snippy and say No. The old youtube player seems to work with it but I haven't come across a youtube video I've wanted to watch has used that player. It's coming but not.. yet. -Nick

Re: USB key with OpenBSD - hangs at POST

2009-11-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Andrius V wrote: > Hello, > > I installed OpenBSD 4.6 (default install) into USB key (Patriot > Xporter XT 16GB). > However after install computer hangs during POST while USB key is inserted > (I tried several other computers but they also hanged). What have I done

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:32 PM, AG wrote: > Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Doug Milam wrote: >> >> >>> Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? >>> >>> http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html >>> >>> NSA also helped Linux with SEl

Re: Adding 3Com CardBus card

2009-11-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:11 PM, rhubbell wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:52:48 -0800 > J.C. Roberts wrote: > >> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:45:24 -0800 rhubbell >> wrote: >> >> > I'm new to OpenBSD and so far so good. >> > One thing I am floundering around on is that I cannot get my 3Com >> > card wo

Re: Truncation Data Loss

2009-11-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: >> See, since it seems that BSD doesn't have this file-data consistency >> guarantee, are Linus' worries about ext4's potential data loss just >> bei

Re: Truncation Data Loss

2009-11-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:35 AM, David Vasek wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Nick Guenther wrote: > >> [ext3 data= / FFS] >> journal ~= sync (ensures consistency of both metadata and file data) >> ordered ~= softdep (ensures consistency of metadata both internal

Re: 802.11 Monitor Mode in 4.6-Release

2009-11-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Tom Smith wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: > >> >> A snaplen of 0 on linux really means a snaplen of 2^16-1 which is >> "good enough". I'd imagine "tcpdump: invalid snaplen 0" was c

Re: locking a softraid crypto vol

2009-11-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > where sd3 is the softraid crypto volume. > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 07:38:00PM -0600, c l wrote: >> Is it possible to lock a softraid crypto volume without rebooting? >> >> It seems bioctl -d is what I want but I'm not sure. >> >> What

Re: Truncation Data Loss

2009-11-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: >>On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Nick Guenther wrote: >>> So, as nicely summarized at >>> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Possible-data-loss-in-Ext4-740467.html , >>> ext4 is kind of broken. It won

Re: 802.11 Monitor Mode in 4.6-Release

2009-11-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Tom Smith wrote: >> Made some progress: >> >> ifconfig rum0 chan 11 >> ifconfig rum0 nwid TheOpenWAP >> ifconfig rum0 mediaopt monitor >> ifconfig rum0 up >> &

Re: 802.11 Monitor Mode in 4.6-Release

2009-11-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Tom Smith wrote: > Made some progress: > > ifconfig rum0 chan 11 > ifconfig rum0 nwid TheOpenWAP > ifconfig rum0 mediaopt monitor > ifconfig rum0 up > > tcpdump - -s 1514 -i rum0 -y IEEE802_11 > > This seems to capture a lot, but not quiet what I expect. Why i

Truncation Data Loss

2009-11-10 Thread Nick Guenther
So, as nicely summarized at http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Possible-data-loss-in-Ext4-740467.html, ext4 is kind of broken. It won't honor fsync and, as a /feature/, will wait up to two minutes to write out data, leading to lots of files emptied to the great bitbucket in the sky if the machi

Re: Premature end of archive

2009-11-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:49 AM, sonjaya wrote: > Dear all > i try install clamav from packages but get error like this , how to solved ? > - i try another mirror still same > - try donwload to local pc still same > > # export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.6/packages/i386/ > # pkg_a

Re: Native Instruments 'Soundcards'

2009-10-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Jacob Meuser wrote: >> the alsa driver looks to be a complete driver that has nothing to do >> with any of the usb standards based drivers for audio or midi. one >> of the copyrigh

Re: Native Instruments 'Soundcards'

2009-10-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Jacob Meuser wrote: > the alsa driver looks to be a complete driver that has nothing to do > with any of the usb standards based drivers for audio or midi. one > of the copyright holders on the alsa driver has an @caiaq.de email > address. http://caiaq.de doesn'

Native Instruments 'Soundcards'

2009-10-28 Thread Nick Guenther
I was very excited to open up my new Native Instruments Audio4DJ soundcard today, but when I plugged it in I found out the wool they're pulling over their customers eyes. With 4.5 it shows up as ugen0 at uhub0 port 1 "Native Instruments Audio 4 DJ" rev 2.00/0.92 addr 3 which, you'll note, is NOT a

Re: PKG_PATH never works as stated

2009-10-26 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Juan Miscaro wrote: > I've had this problem for a long time (over many OpenBSD releases). > > The pkg_add man page (for 4.5) states: > > "If a given package name cannot be found, the directories named by > PKG_PATH are searched. It should contain a series > of en

Re: Xconsole using Xfce

2009-10-19 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zvlde-Fejir wrote: > Dear all, > I have installed the new OpenBSD - and am now toying with a shiny new > desktop. > I am using Xfce, but I am wondering about one thing: I keep getting a > status Xconsole. Could anyone point me to how I might di

Re: Forum engine

2009-10-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Samuel Baldwin wrote: > 2009/10/11 Mic J : >> Why is that better? > > Because you get to pick your UI, because all your mail as amalgamated > into one mailbox where you can sort it yourself where there's no easy > place for garbage "off-topic" discussion, because y

Re: Forum engine

2009-10-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Mic J wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Jesus Sanchez wrote: >> Samuel Baldwin escribiC3: >>> >>> I've heard good things about FluxBB and PunBB, but really you should >>> consider using a mailing list instead of a server. >>> >>> >> +1, mail list with arch

Re: image editor

2009-10-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Frank Bax wrote: > I'm looking for basic image editor: crop, resize, lossless jpg rotation. > > Something minimalistic would be nice, so GIMP is out. This will force KDE libs on your system, but KolourPaint is actually really really good. I'm not sure what package

aucat -l and mpd

2009-10-03 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:18 AM, wrote: > hello, > while I see there is some talking about aucat, I'd like to pose a question > myself. > If I use aucat -l and then play multiple sessions of, say, mplayer, > everything is fine, but if I start mpd while running aucat as server, mpd > refuses to sta

Re: how to trace a hardcore-bug in OpenBSD-4.5

2009-09-15 Thread Nick Guenther
I don't think anyone understands. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Got that finger fixed yet? > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:44:40PM +0200, paranoid.gand...@googlemail.com > wrote: >> Today I faced a issue which blowed my mind because if left no traces at >> the affected

Re: boot disk ???

2009-08-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Chris Dukes wrote: > > Noone in their right mind installs an operating system just to install > an operating system. For the matter, noone in their right mind uses > a computer to just use a computer. > There are rational human oriented end goals for which installin

Re: boot disk ???

2009-08-05 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM, PJ wrote: > Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > It really pisses me off that everyone assumes that the poor sap who is > asking for help is too stupid to have done things right and they just > forget that maybe the problem is in the SOURCE ! > I know what a bootable image

Re: Success!!

2009-07-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Wayne M. Scace wrote: > *YES > I've got OpenBSD 4.5 installed on an older box that is earmarked as a > Firewall/NAT box. I've added a regular user account and pkg_add'd some > packages of CLI apps that I prefer to use. I must say, the install process > wa

Re: Voice-chat on OpenBSD with nothing more than aucat and ssh

2009-06-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 06:02:01PM -0400, Ryan Flannery wrote: >> With the recent work done to the audio system on OpenBSD, a buddy of >> mine and I figured it should be easy to setup two-way voice-chat >> between two OpenBSD clients using

Re: Building OpenBSD

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Guenther
Is that always true? I don't think that's always true. Take wpa-psk which does not just work for me on current or 4.5, or how I've never seen linux unable to sleep a laptop but I've plenty of machines that OpenBSD's sleep is funky with. The important thing is that that's always the -ideal-, wheras

Re: mDNS

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Marco Peereboom wrote: > >> I need an mdns solution as well. If you have something working please >> let me know. > > I'm working on avahi which I intend to finish at c2k9. > Thank you!

mDNS

2009-05-13 Thread Nick Guenther
I've installed howl on my fileserver and enabled multicast. From linux I can do this: ko...@arcology:~$ uname -a Linux arcology 2.6.28-11-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux ko...@arcology:~$ nslookup muzkabox.local Server: 192.168.1.254 Address:192.1

Re: eject(1) locks machine on >= 4.4

2009-05-09 Thread Nick Guenther
I had a similar problem where trying to write anything with my CD drive, and sometimes even just reading it, would lock. I saw something go by on here that hinted it was because the drive was a fancy blu-ray/duallayer/hddvd-capable drive but that's as far as I cared to dig. On 09/05/2009, Jasper V

Re: No OpenBSD for Lenovo Thinkpad w500 4058CTO

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Guenther
Your disks aren't showing up in dmesg. Try tweaking your BIOS settings--i know that I had to change from IDE emulation to AHCI when I upgraded to 4.5. On 05/05/2009, Bill Maas wrote: > Hi, > > First, and just for the record: while trying to set up an FTP server on > OpenBSD 4.2 I got this error m

Re: Recovering data from OpenBSD drive using OSX

2009-05-05 Thread Nick Guenther
How does it not boot? What's the error/symptoms? I know I had OpenBSD booting without a hitch in qemu under OS X. You can either install it from darwinports or there's a GUI wrapper called Q.app available somewhere. On 03/05/2009, jebyrnes wrote: > Indeed, that was my first impulse as well once

Re: Someone has running Ekiga?

2009-04-29 Thread Nick Guenther
2009/4/29 Toma Bodar : > After installation of gconf-editor ekiga runs fine.So why isn't > gconf-editor as dependency for ekiga? Huh? Because gconf-editor just edits the gconf database. It shouldn't have caused this. Maybe installing it triggered something else to get installed that is actually

Re: wifi modes

2009-04-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > host-ap mode needs to be able to send out some very specific messages > that are not needed for normal client operation. If the HW/firmware or > whatever does not support us to generate these packets the card will not > support host-ap mode

Re: wifi modes

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:47:20PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: >> Why do only certain wireless cards support host AP mode or IBSS mode? >> Is the 'modality' hardwired into the wifi hardware? >> >> Fo

Re: wifi modes

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
Apologies. By now of course I see *that*. But so it's just a software issue then: that's the answer I was hoping for! It means there's nothing inherently wrong with my hardware, I can make it work if I just put the effort in (and find the time to learn). Thanks -Nick On 28/04/2009, Theo de Raadt

wifi modes

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
Why do only certain wireless cards support host AP mode or IBSS mode? Is the 'modality' hardwired into the wifi hardware? For the archives (since I couldn't find anything on this), the drivers that support being wireless routers (Host AP mode) are: acs(4), ath(4), pgt(4), ral(4), rtw(4), rum(4), u

Re: automaticaly mount/umount encrypted $HOME or ...

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
Interesting. But if I steal your laptop and run jack the ripper on it then I get your svnd password, don't I? Using bash seems awkward. Does this work if you're using xdm? Otherwise, this is very slick. The reason I haven't gotten around to using encrypted homes is just that it's awkward to do it

Re: Someone has running Ekiga?

2009-04-28 Thread Nick Guenther
The "apps" dir there is virtual. Gconf makes a virtual filesystem where preference data is stored. Install gconf-editor to understand really quickly. I found it confusing too. So did you run that command? On 27/04/2009, Toma Bodar wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed ekiga trough ports (pkg_add wa

aucat's volume-sharing algorithm

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
I'm playing with the new aucat. Or rather, running it, since unlike every other soundserver it doesn't require endless tweaking to just work. There is one issue I'm having, and I'm not sure if it's on purpose or not. Whenever (say) pidgin (or anything else) plays sound my music dims in volume. It m

Re: sudo won't work with login_fingerprint

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:14 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > On Friday 24 April 2009 12.27.50 you wrote: >> >> I followed the README too but it told me to add this: >> # >> # The fingerprint login class allows the fingerprint and passwd >> # authentication methods and checks your 7th (right index) finge

Re: sudo won't work with login_fingerprint

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:38 AM, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > On Friday 24 April 2009 09.28.34 you wrote: >> omg we have finger print reader support??? ! >> >> I installed the port and I'm playing with it. Can you post your full >> config? The login_fingerprint docs are short on the troubleshooting. I >>

Re: sudo won't work with login_fingerprint

2009-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
omg we have finger print reader support??? ! I installed the port and I'm playing with it. Can you post your full config? The login_fingerprint docs are short on the troubleshooting. I can enroll my fingers and I've got su asking me for finger swipes but whenever I do it says "invalid swipe" or "l

Re: Unable to mount CD/DVD-RW drive in OpenBSD 4.4/i386.

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Guenther
That wouldn't give device not configured. What does disklabel cd0 give? On 23/04/2009, Mike Erdely wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:13:06PM -0700, minsai0...@yahoo.com wrote: >> /dev/cd0a /mnt/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > Does /mnt/cdrom exist?

Too many partitions?l

2009-04-23 Thread Nick Guenther
I set up a dual booting OpenBSD/ubuntu (only for the audio, I swear!) install. I made sure to have the Ubuntu installer make an ext2 data partition for sharing. For some reason OpenBSd couldn't see the ext2 partition until I added it manually. I would like to know why. Here's my fdisk: $ fdisk sd0

gdmsetup hangs

2009-04-22 Thread Nick Guenther
I've installed the latest snapshot on my new laptop and have been poking around at things. I installed gdm from packages (which thankfully were all there, for gdm) and turned it on in rc.local. It works great but I've noticed that if I turn on "Themed with Face Chooser" in gdmsetup then if I try to

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-21 Thread Nick Guenther
Thank you! On 20/04/2009, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 05:19:05PM -0500, Tony Abernethy said that >> frantisek holop wrote: >> > all hw is unrealible to some degree, >> ... and all degrees of unreliability are equivalent? >> Methinks some people like stuff that is LESS un

Re: I need to mount in a normal account

2009-04-20 Thread Nick Guenther
2009/4/17 Juan Jimenez Galdos : > Hi. Right now i have written "db ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/mount /mnt/cd0, > /sbin/umount /mnt/cd0", but it seems that isn't correct. What could i write? > I was typing the root password, so i have tried the user password and it > works fine. > > THank you very much. >

Re: I need to mount in a normal account

2009-04-16 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Juan Jimenez Galdos wrote: > Sorry, I pressed enter. > > I add to sudoers (cd0 is the directory in /mnt/): > db ALL=/sbin/mount /cd0,/sbin/umount /cd0 > > But when I try "mount /dev/cd0c /mnt/cd0" and i write the password it says > "try again", and i have writt

NFS clarifications

2009-04-16 Thread Nick Guenther
(Sorry, I know nfs is boring.) The linux nfs(5) manpage says" NB: A so-called "soft" timeout can cause silent data corruption in certain cases. As such, use the soft option only when client responsiveness is more important

Re: Intel 5100AGN in 4.5?

2009-04-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:02 AM, wrote: > OpenBSD 4.5 Release has support for Intel WiFi Link 5000 Series > adapters. See http://www.openbsd.org/45.html > D'oh, that was the one place I didn't think to look. Thanks. -Nick

Intel 5100AGN in 4.5?

2009-04-13 Thread Nick Guenther
I'm considering getting one of the new ruggedized Thinkpad or HP laptops, but it seems like they all come with an Intel 5100AGN. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=123606425822588&w=2 claims iwn(4) supports it "in -current" but I'm stupid with CVS and can't figure out when 4.4-CURRENT because 4.5-R

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

2009-04-12 Thread Nick Guenther
Because, you know, blind faith has such a solid track record and reputation. On 31/03/2009, David Schulz wrote: > For me, i cant even estimate the time and effort that goes into all the > related work and issues for OpenBSD, and thus am more than thankful. OpenBSD > sits in every important Corner

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
t 04:58:38PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: >> I'm trying to make my torrents get started with my server. A script is >> at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-859543.html that starts >> it up in a detached screen session, but obviously the linux-ism of >> that script w

Re: screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
Yeah, it's there, that's why I said "I don't have to bother with sudo -u" to switch from root to my user. I still want to know what's killing screen. Thanks, -Nick On 08/04/2009, Mike Erdely wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 04:58:38PM -0400, Nick Guenthe

screen(1) on boot

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
I'm trying to make my torrents get started with my server. A script is at http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-859543.html that starts it up in a detached screen session, but obviously the linux-ism of that script won't work here. I pulled out the important bits and just to start off wrote t

Re: Can you subscribe to the PF mailing list? I can't

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > The problem is that you can't use the pf mailing list from gmail. > > -Bryan Because people who use gmail aren't smart enough for PF? Because it's a free webmail provider and so a source of spam? -Nick

Re: European orders

2009-04-08 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Lazarus Wasbeim wrote: > > What has been posted from the acqusing part is full of lies. > It's a pity you can not read it. > Tiny little lies are used to makemuch bigger half-truth > look more plausible. Add to that a horde of screaming > masses and what do you get

Re: I can't mount HDDs

2009-04-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Jose P.G wrote: > I swear that i am not a troll. I don't understand anything, LOL, why have to > be a troll? My questions are REAL, i haven't read the faq carefully, i only > seek for help (more fast, i think). > > REALLY, i don't understand, when i was learning abo

Re: REQUEST OF INFORMATION

2009-04-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:25 PM, job2international wrote: > Hello. > Job2international is an association that helps students to find a work-placement. Our students generally have a good command of English -- and we have also have students who have mastered two additional languages. Job2internationa

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Chris wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Nick Guenther wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Chris wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, J.C. Roberts >>> wrote: >>>> If you are using ksh, and the above key

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Chris wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:13 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: >> If you are using ksh, and the above keys/key-combos do not work, then >> you have screwed around with the default ksh settings, or you are using >> a garbage terminal emulator that is screwing wi

Re: I can't connect to Internet

2009-04-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Jose P.G wrote: > Wow... i never expected so many responses... i still have problems, and *this > time i have written it correct* for sure: "export pkg_path= > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/packages/i386/";. This time is written > well, i still don't know wh

Re: hello whiners and crybabies

2009-04-03 Thread Nick Guenther
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:24 PM, kytoon wrote: > hello whiners and crybabies, > > you people make me sick. theo has a right to run obsd anyway he wants. why? > he runs the project! don't like that? start coding. because that's the only > thing that matters. you know, like you got anything going on

Re: dvd-rw as user?

2009-04-02 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:06 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 21:24:16 -0400 Nick Guenther > wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM, J.C. Roberts >> wrote: >> > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 04:46:10 + Jacob Meuser >> > wrote: >> >

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Chris wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Chris wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: >>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Chris wrote: >

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Chris wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Chris wrote: >>> I am trying to get the shell history with page-up but looks like it's >>> not working. I'm running -c

Re: shell history and page-up

2009-04-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Chris wrote: > I am trying to get the shell history with page-up but looks like it's > not working. I'm running -current with the default ksh and added > HISTSIZE=50 and export HISTSIZE to ~/.profile. > > Does anyone know how to get it? I've never seen it not work

Re: dvd-rw as user?

2009-04-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 04:46:10 + Jacob Meuser > wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 07:13:33PM -0700, OpenBSD wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > Could somebody please tell me how to use a dvd-rw as user? >> > I'am trying to install Slackware using

Re: fdisk -- difference between 'update' and 'write'

2009-03-26 Thread Nick Guenther
So then does 'fdisk -u' also install a disklabel [to sector 0 of the disk]? That surprises me, I'd think that disklabel would be for that, and the man pages don't explain what is going on. -Nick On 26/03/2009, Brynet wrote: > Jesus(?) wrote: >> The question is: What's the mainly difference betwe

Re: Browsers was: Re: firefox starts two times

2009-03-23 Thread Nick Guenther
an wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: >> > Also, youtube matters. This is going to get me flamed but a lot of >> > worthwhile content is in form of video now and not making that work >> > disenfranchises yourself. >> >> There

Browsers was: Re: firefox starts two times

2009-03-23 Thread Nick Guenther
I am no fan of firefox at all. I wish day and night it would work without sucking so hard all the time. But tweak headers? Random metacruft? That's feature creep too, just from a programmer's perspective -- which is even worse if you want people to take it up and use it and thus work out the bugs y

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