Re: OpenBSD4.4 cant sync the time

2009-01-03 Thread Darrin Chandler
ore than one server, so it would be ok if one didn't answer. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation [demime 1.01

Re: spamd issues

2009-01-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
gt; entires)? WHITE is seen first, so the GREY has no effect. This behavior started a few releases ago, and it's been discussed several times. There's no need to remove the GREY entries. They expire on their own in short order. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Grou

Re: spamd issues

2009-01-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
on $ext_if proto tcp from to any port smtp no rdr on $ext_if proto tcp from to any port smtp rdr pass on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port smtp \ -> 127.0.0.1 port spamd -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org

Re: spamd issues

2009-01-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
127.0.0.1 port spamd > > Seems to be working just fine, thanks. GREY/WHITE "issue" is still > there though. I'm glad it's working. If it were really a problem then you'd have a bazillion GREY entries and/or no email would get through. It'll stop being an

Re: Best supported arch/workstation

2009-01-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
and 64/32 bit is really nice when developing. And if you can make performance acceptable on sparc64 then it'll scream on amd64/i386 I'd love to force the Firefox people develop and test on sparc64. ;-) -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand..

Re: 4.4 behind router - Apache not responding from external

2009-01-10 Thread Darrin Chandler
ctly. > > Any help would be much appreciated! Without more information it could be almost anything. Things you might do: * reduce to simplest pf.conf with problems and post it here * enable pflog and tcpdump on pflog0 to see which rule matches for block, or if the traffic is even getting th

Re: spamd won't use my WHITElist

2009-01-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
If you edit your list and want it to take effect you can do it manually with pfctl -tmywhite -Treplace /etc/postfix/spamd_white.txt -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/

Re: Survey on the usage of IPv6

2009-01-30 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:14:12PM +0200, Lars Noodin wrote: > Registration is a barrier. What do you want to know? The button on the upper LEFT, which says "Start Survey" I made the same mistake. ;-) -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@

Re: Postgresql create tablespace permissions problem

2009-02-11 Thread Darrin Chandler
t what's wrong. Here's an example of how to show things: - Help! echo doesn't echo what I type!!! $ echo foo bar foo bar - Given the above the answer is forthcoming. Without the output it's unlikely anybody can/will answer.

Getting dmesg out [was: dmesglog]

2009-02-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
For those of you who: * have a machine not set up for mail * have ssh to a machine that CAN send mail Here's an easy way to get your dmesg without copying files around or whatever... $ dmesg | ssh myhost.com mail -s "type of machine" dm...@openbsd.org --

Re: adding human readable SIGINFO status to fsck_ffs

2009-02-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
ent situation without adding more junk to it. > > Can we end this thread, pretty please? It's become a classic bike shed. This isn't about paint color. It's a really nice idea that can almost but not quite work out. But you're right about the thread being done. -- Darri

Re: scrotwm.conf setting custom xterm

2009-03-05 Thread Darrin Chandler
" Check the man page for your shell for details about how and when .profile, ENV, et al are processed. It may take you a few goes to get things working how you want, but then everything will work right everywhere without special incantations. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User G

Re: scrotwm.conf setting custom xterm

2009-03-05 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:36:39AM -0800, Bryan wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Darrin Chandler > wrote: > > > > Making a non-login shell act as a login shell isn't the best way, > > whether you're in an xterm or at console. There are nicer ways to

Re: Nginx: filedescriptors, users and login.conf confusion

2009-03-11 Thread Darrin Chandler
on. A common practice is to copy the 'daemon' class to a new login.conf entry named whatever you like, start your daemon using that class, then tweak as desired. For lots of details about doing that, search the archives for 'mysql' and 'login.conf'... -- Darrin Cha

Re: Nginx: filedescriptors, users and login.conf confusion

2009-03-11 Thread Darrin Chandler
rt nginx with 'kill -HUP pid') 'kill -HUP pid' will not work for this. You kill need to 'kill pid' to terminate it completely, then start it fresh. Otherwise the new login class will not be applied. If you do that with a script or by hand is up to you. -- Darrin Chand

Re: Low power OpenBSD machine

2009-04-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
Has anyone had experience with eBox? They look interesting... http://www.wdlsystems.com/ebox/ebox.shtml -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the

Re: Security considerations for login with an SSH host key

2009-04-14 Thread Darrin Chandler
r keys instead. They are easy to generate. You can have more than one such key per machine and tie each key to a forced command on the server. You can run processes as normal users instead of root. The list goes on. The only drawback is spending a few seconds generating keys. -- D

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-21 Thread Darrin Chandler
heuristics in his shipping operation. I don't think the shipping algorithms will work for network stuff. However, I have some half baked diffs based on bistromathematics that show an amazing throughput improvement. Tested so far on sparc64 and i386, but the robot waiters keep glitching on a

Re: Calomel.org

2009-05-07 Thread Darrin Chandler
#x27;d never take the info without thinking it through myself, check against the man pages, FAQ, etc. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the D

Re: No OS safe??

2009-05-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
additionally in mitigation techniques should a breach happen. But your machine can still participate in a botnet from your normal user account. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www

Re: CUPS Printing Problem

2009-05-14 Thread Darrin Chandler
or forget CUPS and do it the simple way: http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/using-foo2zjs-with-openbsd-lpd/ -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the

Re: CUPS Printing Problem

2009-05-14 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:19:38PM +, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:41:16PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > or forget CUPS and do it the simple way: > > http://erdelynet.com/tech/openbsd/using-foo2zjs-with-openbsd-lpd/ > > looks to me like most deskj

Re: Even and Odd numbered OpenBSD versions

2009-05-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
I can think to skip every other release is that releases continue to be supported for a year, so you *can* upgrade only once each year and still get errata patches. However, upgrading is so simple that doing so twice each year is not a burden. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group

Re: PF performance problem

2009-06-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
nted on the envelope. You can run around waving the envelope asking what changed, or you can look inside and find out. > All systems continue to be responsive and it only seems that the > reported load avg value is just bumped by a base value. It is > definitely odd. So it's not a

Re: List of old forked or frozen code like apache that needs cleanup?

2009-06-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
ave been "noise" not "nose". > > > > Fair picking, I deserved it! (;> > > Hey! I did not pick your nose. :-) Now I don't have to say it. Thank you. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | htt

Re: List of old forked or frozen code like apache that needs cleanup?

2009-06-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
. > > Fair picking, I deserved it! (;> Picking? Nose? I can't do it. It just doesn't seem sportsmanlike. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: When ACPI systems fail to boot or act weirdly

2009-06-07 Thread Darrin Chandler
@ the sendbug in current does just that. And > yes, we'd love to see those too. Sendbug only does those when run as root? Or am I thinking of something else? -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | ht

Re: tmux vs screen questions

2009-07-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
gt; just ignore them. This would be great! -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG dwchand...@stilyagin.com | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: using ssh to forward the install console

2011-12-07 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 08:31:42PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > The answer: you can't. That was what I thought, too. But now I wonder about using yaifo from a desktop running a vnc server. It might work. -- http://code.phxbsd.com/

Re: create a backup of an online server

2011-12-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:00:52AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > However, backing up an IMAP mail store daily leaves a lot to be > desired. Most likely time for someone to accidentally delete the > important mail they have been waiting for is probably not too long > after it arrives. Depending (mos

Re: Network Time Synchronization using timed or ntpd or a Combination?

2007-10-23 Thread Darrin Chandler
pool.ntp.org and score quite well. In fact, they compare favorably to servers running the more "heavyweight" ntp daemons. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
ike to know more about virtualization, pros and cons, I ask you to put more actual meat into your posts if you're going to continue. As it stands, fits all too well. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:20:59PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:44:37PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > At 05:27 PM 10/24/2007 -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: > > >> L. V. Lammert wrote:

Re: lookup option in /etc/resolv.conf ignored

2007-10-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
u should wish to do so: In about:config, two new integer entried: network.dnsCacheExpiration-> 0 network.dnsCacheEntries -> 0 -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyag

Re: What is the "nice" process state?

2007-10-27 Thread Darrin Chandler
or long enough that you should be trying things like "man nice", "apropos nice" and "man top" before asking these kinds of questions. Also, Googling for "unix nice" also yields plenty of info. If you learn how to find answers to extremely basic q

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread Darrin Chandler
G o o g l e [OpenBSD_TODO_] ^ [ Google Search ] [ I'm Feeling Lucky ] | ^ | | 1. type here 2. click here -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group |

Re: I've done something stupid

2007-11-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
.. # mount /dev/wd0a /mnt # cd /mnt/bin # cp ksh tcsh # echo /bin/tcsh >> /mnt/etc/shells # reboot # rm /bin/tcsh -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: style(9)

2007-11-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
te in a clean, understandable, and consistent manner. If you break a style(9) rule because it makes the code more readable then you are not wrong. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." -- Ralph Waldo Emers

Re: ifconfig regress in combination with pppoe(4)

2007-11-10 Thread Darrin Chandler
oving trailing spaces then I'd say that's a side-effect, and should not be relied upon. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Powered by obsd stickers and other stuff

2007-11-11 Thread Darrin Chandler
I noticed some slight problems pulling the files to my home. I've put them at http://www.phxbsd.com/OpenBSD/inigo/ for others to use (with Inigo's ok). This is in the USA, so it might be better for people in the Americas. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | Meta

Re: how best to handle DNS on firewalled home network?

2007-11-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
0.1;" in dhclient.conf, so the router itself gets the same benefit. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: removing a list of users

2007-11-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
kuBpSUA6FlkBzlYR/nsMdA== > =OoOR > -END PGP MESSAGE- Yes, except you should HRPItJbBkCg0z47OZoPa7aKA== also. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: fdisk manual page missing

2007-11-25 Thread Darrin Chandler
omething with the cgi. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: httpdv6

2007-12-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
s for fucking everyone, I'd rather have sensible configs going forward rather than mindless backward compatibility, but if that's even an issue here I don't see it. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | h

Re: httpdv6

2007-12-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
*me* least. > The config change is trivial, small and painless and can be well > documented. As I said before, good configs going forward makes me happiest. These changes are simple enough and can get a big note in install/upgrade instructions. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoe

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Darrin Chandler
he other is not free. BSD/MIT/ISC licenses retain a very minimal set of rights to the original author(s), and give away everything else. Whatever the merits of ISC v. GPL, there's really no debate on which is more free. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 02:41:27PM -0600, Ken Ismert wrote: > Darrin Chandler wrote: > > > Offering something to someone as "free" with one hand, while taking back > > rights with the other is not free. BSD/MIT/ISC licenses retain a very > > minimal set of rig

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
t then it's important to see those principles used in everyday life by the community at large. If you can't recommend OpenBSD from where you stand maybe you should have a fresh look from somewhere just a few feet away. Things look different from here. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoen

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
t; > Talking about "lies", or "hypocrisy" is nothing more than petty insulting. This is directly enabling people to continue using non-free software while feeling good about it (if they don't think too hard). -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaB

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
right hypocritical. So far, Theo's position is completely consistent. This is what I've taken away from this thread. This is important in both theory and practice. Theo is winning this on both ideological and pragmatic ground. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | Meta

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
can't think of another reason at all. And the $200 Walmart Linux PC has already done more in that regard than years of GCC and Emacs for Windows. So I think the ideological reasons justifying GNU Windows software are shaky at best and outright hypocritical at worst, and the pragmatic reasons

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:07:19PM -0500, bofh wrote: > On Dec 15, 2007 7:09 PM, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The single benefit of distributing "free" Windows software that comes to > > mind is to introduce a user to the idea that free software can

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
your ideals or beliefs, this just seems like major suckage on your end. Can't you find a better way to pursue your ideology? To quote a common saying on the net these days: "You're doing it WRONG!" -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PRO

Re: System limits

2007-12-21 Thread Darrin Chandler
mples of limits that people have used for various daemons, how to start daemons with a given login class, etc. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Darrin Chandler
bove points are still worth mentioning on their own. If other languages have addressed some failings of C, they have not done so in a compelling enough way to make it worthwhile to abandon the advantages of using C. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PR

Re: Perpetually Current

2007-12-27 Thread Darrin Chandler
t;true" flag days are rare, -current often has some steps to perform as listed on current.html. Since I've been following -current those steps have been simple and easy to perform, but -current isn't something you should do unattended from a cron job. -- Darrin Chandler

Re: When spammers get whitelisted...

2007-12-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
written this up nicely at http://www.benzedrine.cx/relaydb.html, which is where I got it from to begin with. For me this has reduced spam to the point where it's not worth the extra effort to reduce it further. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sparc64 on Sun Netra T1 with external CD Drive

2007-12-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:04:10AM -0800, new_guy wrote: > Sorry for all the posts. I figured it out. I dd'ed floppy42.fs to one of the > unused drives and booted that way. It's been a while, but iirc you can just do "boot cd" instead of all the other happy horse

Re: delete deleted data

2007-12-31 Thread Darrin Chandler
onal Institute of Standards and > > Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-88, "Guidelines for Media > > Sanitation." > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://www.nabble.com/delete-deleted-data-tp14560809p14561973.html > > Sent fro

Re: Perpetually Current

2008-01-02 Thread Darrin Chandler
work, and it's pretty quick. Try it some time on a machine you have physical access to, just so you can run through it and see for yourself. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Perpetually Current

2008-01-02 Thread Darrin Chandler
> remote shell (e.g. serial terminal via modem). Or yaifo, which is essentially bsd.rd + sshd. Handy as hell if some form of console is not available, especially if you need to do something like reslice your disk. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PRO

Re: delete deleted data

2008-01-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
d(4), vnconfig(8), et al. Depending on your needs it may be even better to keep everything in encrypted form the whole time. If someone has already mentioned this then sorry for the noise. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.or

Re: How to find all package files

2008-01-07 Thread Darrin Chandler
for such a package there would be some parts which were > optional, so needed to be separated out, but I thought there must be a more > reliable way to determine which files to include. > > Is there a better way to do this? Normally just looking at the packages list will work fine.

Re: [Fwd: Open-Hardware]

2008-01-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
me hardware and that's where interaction with the system ends. They effectively replace onboard EPROM/Flash, and for practical purposes can be considered part of the hardware. This is very different from a driver, which interfaces with the kernel. Therefore they are part of the OS. BL

Re: Apache box behind Openbsd

2008-01-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
elsewhere? Or you pass by default? It's impossible to tell without seeing more. If you have a pass rule elsewhere that allows traffic to your IIS box, maybe it's not allowing it for the apache box? -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAI

Re: ssh controlling question

2008-01-10 Thread Darrin Chandler
of which I want the users to connect from "ANY" IP address > > 10 of which I want the users to only be allowed to connect from a specific IP > address that is assigned to them. > > Is there a feature to control SSH account from a specific ip address > > Thanks >

Re: 64 bit file I/O?

2008-01-10 Thread Darrin Chandler
dd" application distributed > > with OpenBSD 4.2, unfortunately it fails with: > > > > > > > > dd: count: Result too large > > > > > > > > Confused, I tried making the size smaller, and noticed it bails out at > > exactly 4294967295 byt

Re: 64 bit file I/O?

2008-01-10 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:49:42PM -0800, Unix Fan wrote: > Darrin Chandler wrote: > > Ted Unangst wrote: > > > what bs are you using? > > > > Try to be more polite, please. > > He wasn't being rude, bs the block size option for the dd command... > wh

Re: Sendmail smarthost

2008-01-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
mal, it's correct. If I have a box I don't want to have local mail on, I change /etc/mail/aliases and/or /etc/mail/virtusertable to reflect that, like "root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" which is not local so it uses SMARTHOST... -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Why do clients running BitTorrent make my router's latency go through the roof?

2008-01-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
ll. Yes, I measured upload speed and tried *that* number, but I still had to set it a bit lower. This is purely anecdotal, and I didn't do in-depth measurements. However, it's easy to try. :) -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http:

Re: failed to fork (Resource temporaily unavaliable)

2008-01-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
it. Default login class is maxproc-cur=64, which is usually fine. But if you have a lot of processes... If that's the problem then see login.conf(5) and either change which login class you are using (change to staff), or raise the default. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Gr

Re: Sun Ultra 5

2008-01-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
ing the whole screen. My solution was to use X and a window manager like ratpoison or ion. Both are fairly lightweight and fast, and are something like using screen under X. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: OpenCVS?

2008-01-20 Thread Darrin Chandler
he "cvs" command in > > OpenBSD 4.2 is "OpenCVS", > > it isn't - not everything in source is linked to the build yet. However, those interested in using/testing OpenCVS should take a peek at their /usr/src/usr.bin/cvs/README file as a start. -- Darrin Ch

Re: mailing list server downtime

2008-01-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
for some plumbing work, and they are scheduled > to finish by 6pm. If they finish earlier the list server will be > back sooner. > > This also affects anoncvs3.usa.openbsd.org which resides in the > same machine room. > > - todd > -- Darrin Chandler| P

Re: looking for openbsd friendly server vendor

2008-01-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:44:35PM -0800, Lord Sporkton wrote: > Perhaps i was wrong but i thought openbsd was only 32 bit for now? Yes, you are wrong. Thankfully :) See http://www.openbsd.org/plat.html for supported platforms. I have a supermicro amd64 that I'm quite happy with. --

Test Limerick, please ignore

2008-01-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
There once was a message to test Repeated unto being a pest While marked to ignore It was seen more and more Until other begged, "Give it a rest!" -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/

Re: Recording OpenNTPd PID at daemon startup

2008-01-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
d should I kill, the oldest, or the most recent? > > OK, 'pgrep -fl httpd | tail -1' does the trick, and pgrep is not safe > enough for finding parents, but... If you really want to find the parent you can... $ ps ax -O pgid | grep ntpd 4887 4887 ?? Is 0:00.01 ntpd:

Re: Test Limerick, please ignore

2008-01-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:30:21PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: > Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: >> Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> There once was a message to test >>> Repeated unto being a pest >>> While marked to ignore >>>

Re: Test Limerick, please ignore

2008-01-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
s, I was in contact with > the list admin - but you don't have to show off here, with your "poetry". > Seems, you want to. I was only trying to turn a minor irritation into enjoyment. Mostly I think I succeeded. It's too bad I didn't succeed 100%. -- Darrin Chandle

Re: PF - using overload for port 80 attacks/floods

2008-01-31 Thread Darrin Chandler
nto table which will still PASS. Now use different values for max-src-* on pass rule to look for longer term abuse and overload to . Effectively this lets you do 2 stages of evaluation, at the price of taking a bit longer to block attacks. Make sense? -- Darrin Chandler| Phoen

Re: setting up a noiseless workstation

2008-02-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
fins, and heatpipes to thermally connect CPU/GPU to the case. Anybody use anything like this before? -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
0x) by chance? ------+ -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Turning NTFS on in GENERIC kernels

2008-02-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:54:07 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:30:00PM -0500, Josh Grosse wrote: > > > ntfs_readattr: offset too big: 595591168 (5956

Re: Using CVS to back up /etc

2008-02-14 Thread Darrin Chandler
ctory completely, with symlinks to the files you're interested in. I.e. ~/configs/etc or /var/configs/etc or ... That keeps /etc clean, but requires you to have the discipline to symlink the files you change. I'd be interested to read of different ways. -- Darrin Chandler| P

Re: OpenBSD 4.1 Stable Strange Problem

2008-02-18 Thread Darrin Chandler
. > > I hope you can help me out. becuase my hair has drop until no more hair. > > If you all need extra information or configuration, please let me know. > > A billion thanks for your help. > > -- > Linux > -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Us

Re: OpenBSD 4.1 Stable Strange Problem

2008-02-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
Reply All" in your mail program or remember to CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail from the list does not automatically reply back to the list. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Why does pf work with last matching rule wins

2008-02-21 Thread Darrin Chandler
ch way of listing all exceptions without knowing the general (or default) case. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Why does pf work with last matching rule wins

2008-02-21 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:50:50AM -0500, Rod Dorman wrote: > On Thursday, February 21, 2008, 09:22:25, Darrin Chandler wrote: > > ... > > One good reason for last match wins is that the rules proceed from most > > general to most specific. This is a normal way for humans t

Re: OpenBSD as DNS Server - Benchmarked by ISC.. and it's well... :-(

2008-02-25 Thread Darrin Chandler
ty helpful responses to people about anything you've touched in (2) above. Thanks for all three! Keep it up! -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: pfctl -t -T test output

2008-03-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
oo -Tadd 10.1.1.1 1 table created. 1/1 addresses added. # pfctl -t foo -Ttest 10.1.1.1; echo status $? 1/1 addresses match. status 0 # pfctl -t foo -Ttest 10.1.1.2; echo status $? 0/1 addresses match. status 2 -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL

Re: WHITE and GREY spamdb entries from the same host

2008-03-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
its own soon. In other words this is a temporary and harmless condition, by design, seen for a short while after a host is whitelisted. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com

Re: zombies - solved

2008-03-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
k at http://nginx.net/ BSD license, seems to work, but I > don't know about its security profile. I'm sure it's not as secure as > the OBSD Apache, but it might be ok compared with apache2. There's also a port of nginx as of 4.2-current. THe port is of the stable versi

Re: zombies

2008-03-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
itching to something else, or bugging the developers to fix the problem. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Is there a tool or a deamon that documented a change in the /etc directory?

2008-03-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
es in cvs (or hg or svn). Last time this came up someone said they had a cron job to push the latest committed configs out to the machines periodically, which eventually helps you remember to check in your changes. ;-) -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PRO

Re: BSD Documentation License?

2008-03-27 Thread Darrin Chandler
y place where you want to share except when you don't. The available licenses are tricky legalese, and finding one to match your motives is difficult and the license may have consequences you don't anticipate. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL

Re: Dangers to upgrading without install kernel

2008-03-31 Thread Darrin Chandler
be a good choice for some people. Especially if you'd like to repartition, etc., remotely. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation

Re: Proposal for uname / cvs

2006-12-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
isting ones]. > > My excuses, if it exists. > > Uwe uname -sr | tr '[:lower:] .' '[:upper:]_' Somehow I think changing scripts is a better solution in this case. Or copy the above into a new script named uname-cvs. ;) -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |

Re: pf

2006-12-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
) and pfctl(8). Also see http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ The answer is yes, you can do that. Quick answer: echo 'block drop in from 216.87.0.0/17' | pfctl -mf - -n The above won't work until you read the man page for pfctl and remove one of the options. ;) There are

Re: apmd resume + xlock

2006-12-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
laying around. Seems that many of the "hacks" have various problems, mostly memory abuse. If there's a core for matrix then perhaps it can tell you something. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |

Re: Home networking for an amateur

2006-12-14 Thread Darrin Chandler
.chalmers.it/~eriwik/obsd/pf.conf is not viewable due to permissions. You'll need to chmod a+r. That's going to be the most crucial file in the mix... -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |

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