pf.conf reassemble and antispoof questions

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Waite
I have been on OBSD 4.4 for a bit and had not really messed with pf.conf for a while. When I updated to 4.6 there were a couple of settings that seemed ambiguous to me. 1) under Options, "set reassemble on". I know it is on by default but I got a parsing error when I tried it. I also found some m

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 STeve Andre' > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I > > once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt > work. > > After a while, the SSD disk beco

testing smtpd; can someone hit me with a cluestick

2009-11-05 Thread John Cosimano
i'm testing smtpd (OpenBSD/i386 -STABLE; stock GENERIC.MP) here're the full headers from a mail i sent from a host at $work. my domain is cna.org , not cna.org.net . but i cannot figure out if something i have done is appending that ``.net'' after the ``.org''. my employer doesn't even own our equ

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Robert
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:08:48 +0100 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > 2009/11/4 STeve Andre' > > > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > > > Hello, > > > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD > > > HD ? I once could on one machine but on my act

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 K K > 2009/11/4 Jean-Frangois SIMON : > > Hello, > > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I > > once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt > work. > > After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable to > >

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 Aaron Mason > 2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON : > > Hello, > > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I > > once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt > work. > > After a while, the SSD disk becomes like overloaded and unavailable

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/5 Robert > On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:08:48 +0100 > Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > > > 2009/11/4 STeve Andre' > > > > > On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD > > > > HD ? I onc

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Joachim Schipper > wrote: > > This seems predicated on the firmware being smart enough to swap out bad > > sectors for good setors that are addressable but not used in practice. > > Is the firmware that

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Joachim Schipper wrote: > Still, the point I was trying to make - that leaving part of your disk > unpartitioned doesn't really help - stands, no? Depends. Partitioning or not partitioning is unlikely to make a difference, as it's writes that matter. However, if

Re: tmux as an educational facilitator

2009-11-05 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, frantisek holop wrote: > as an old time screen user i was perplexed to see that when i > attached to an already attached tmux session, both clients were > updated real time and accepted input as well. the ascii art with > the differing terminal window sizes is also a breakthro

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Robert
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:32:59 +0100 Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Joachim Schipper > > wrote: > > > This seems predicated on the firmware being smart enough to swap > > > out bad sectors for good setors t

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Aaron Mason
2009/11/6 Jean-Frangois SIMON : > > > 2009/11/4 Aaron Mason >> >> 2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON : >> > Hello, >> > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I >> > once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt >> > work. >> > After a while, the

Re: tmux as an educational facilitator

2009-11-05 Thread frantisek holop
thanks everyone on/off-list for pointing out that screen can do this as well. it was not the point of my mail though. it was not a pissing contest what screen and tmux can/can't do. everyone can now stop sending screen -x, thank you. $ screen -x ksh: screen: not found -f -- if they can send a

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread David Zeillinger
Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Joachim Schipper wrote: Still, the point I was trying to make - that leaving part of your disk unpartitioned doesn't really help - stands, no? Depends. Partitioning or not partitioning is unlikely to make a difference, as it's writes that ma

Re: Package dependencies size estimate script

2009-11-05 Thread Aaron Mason
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:42 AM, wrote: > Hi > > Just wanted to share a script with fellow OpenBSD > desktop users who like to keep minimal non-base > software on the machine and prefer to use lighter > alternatives whenever possible. > > This script will help you estimate the total space > which

Re: Package dependencies size estimate script

2009-11-05 Thread Aaron Mason
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:42 AM, wrote: > Hi > > Just wanted to share a script with fellow OpenBSD > desktop users who like to keep minimal non-base > software on the machine and prefer to use lighter > alternatives whenever possible. > > This script will help you estimate the total space > which

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread SJP Lists
2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON : > Hello, > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I've been using flash based SSD's in OpenBSD systems for 6 or 7 years, starting with small CF in firewalls and now SATA SSD's in desktops and laptops. Never had a problem installing t

Re: Package dependencies size estimate script

2009-11-05 Thread Srikant Tangirala
Hi Aaron On 11/6/09, Aaron Mason wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:42 AM, wrote: >> Hi >> >> Just wanted to share a script with fellow OpenBSD >> desktop users who like to keep minimal non-base >> software on the machine and prefer to use lighter >> alternatives whenever possible. >> >> This sc

Xorg Fails to start.

2009-11-05 Thread Steven
Hi, I'm unable to get Xorg to start any more on my computer since about three, or four snapshots ago. I'm not desperate for a GUI, but it would be nice. Fails whether machdep.allowaperture is set to 1, or 2. dmesg, /etc/X11/xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log outputs follow. machdep.allowaperture set to

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread richardtoohey
Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON : [cut] > The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very > very > slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . > errors : many "atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout" > one "d0(ahci0:3:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x28 > SENSE KE

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

2009-11-05 Thread ropers
2009/11/5 Tobias Ulmer : > Dear sweetheart, > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:12:58AM +0100, Claire beuserie wrote: >> Yes, I know, I was present in the room when Illja gave the talk in 2006 at >> the CCC Kongress and the two OpenBSD developers in the room decided to >> completely ignore the exploit h

rum wireless adapter in hostap mode

2009-11-05 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
I'm trying to set up a small box as an 802.11g AP, but there seems to be something wrong. Regrettably, the only devices close by I have to test the connection are -A Windows XP PC -A Windows 7 PC -A PSP I'm pretty sure the problem isn't any of the clients anyway. For testing purposes, I'm running a

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
2009/11/6 > Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON : > > [cut] > > > The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very > > very > > slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . > > errors : many "atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout" > > one "d0(ahci0:3:0): Check Condition (error 0x70

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
> 2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON : > > Hello, > > Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? > > I've been using flash based SSD's in OpenBSD systems for 6 or 7 years, > starting with small CF in firewalls and now SATA SSD's in desktops and > laptops. > > Never had a pr

Re: Xorg Fails to start.

2009-11-05 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Steven wrote: > Hi, > > I'm unable to get Xorg to start any more on my computer since about > three, or four snapshots ago. I'm not desperate for a GUI, but it > would be nice. Fails whether machdep.allowaperture is set to 1, or > 2. It looks like /dev/pci* devic

Re: rum wireless adapter in hostap mode

2009-11-05 Thread Bryan
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 20:00, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > I'm trying to set up a small box as an 802.11g AP, but there seems to > be something wrong. > Regrettably, the only devices close by I have to test the connection are > -A Windows XP PC > -A Windows 7 PC > -A PSP > I'm pretty sure the pro

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/6 > Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON : > > [cut] > > > The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very > > very > > slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . > > errors : many "atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout" > > one "d0(ahci0:3:0): Check Condition (error 0x70

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/6 Jean-Frangois SIMON > 2009/11/6 > >> Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON : >> >> >> [cut] >> >> > The error actually appears while installing xfont46.tgz which is very >> > very >> > slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . >> > errors : many "atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout" >> >