Yahoo! mail and OpenBSD greylisting

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

Re: IPv6 virtual hosts

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

Re: Yahoo! mail and OpenBSD greylisting

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

Re: Yahoo! mail and OpenBSD greylisting

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

Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: Best postscript printer with network support?

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

Re: serial over USB

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

Re: vlc and udp multicast

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

relayd(8) transparent proxy does not work!

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

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

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

replacement for transproxy?

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

radius client /NAS server for OpenBSD

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

IPSec isakmpd pre shared interoperability with Fortigate VPN

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

LiveUSB OpenBSD and LiveCD-OpenBSD site updated

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

Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

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

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

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

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

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

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

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

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

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

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

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

Re: Question on LPD and OpenBSD printing

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

Manual IPsec setup with ipsec.conf

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

Re: Manual IPsec setup with ipsec.conf

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

Debugging a CD/DVD driver?

2007-10-30 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hello friends, I am having a great deal of handicap with OpenBSD since I am unable to use/access my SATA DVD drives. The machine would freeze and do nothing till I reboot. ( I am running 4.0, it used to sometimes work with an old installation) Here is the excerpt from dmesg. <<<

Support for HDMI and Disk On Memory?

2007-10-31 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hello friends, Please excuse me for sounding like a newbie. I have not obtained enough info about these technologies on the web. Any pointers are much appreciated. I want to know what needs to be done to make OpenBSD boot from a DOM module. Does DOM emulate a hard disk? Are any special drivers

Re: [i386/Thinkpad T41]USB mouse + Xorg obsd 4.1

2007-11-01 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 05:28:58 Nov 01, Mark Thomas wrote: > On Oct 31, 2007 9:47 PM, Vadim Jukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You need only one "InputDevice" section for all your mice with > > "/dev/wsmouse" as "Device" option, indeed. > > I'm sorry but I do not understand. I tried putting both mice in one > Input

Thinkpad t61 OpenBSD support?

2007-11-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Hello friends, Was wondering if IBM Thinkpad T61 can be a good buy if I wish to run OpenBSD on it. Any anecdotes? Advice? My friend is in US right now. So I could ask him to bring it for me. Which is the best website to order from? Thanks. Have a nice day! regards, Girish

Re: Thinkpad t61 OpenBSD support?

2007-11-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 23:10:35 Nov 06, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > You should not pay more than $1000 including taxes and shipping for > ThinkPAD T61. The prices vary a lot from web-site to web-site, from > store to store and from one week to another. Hmmm... > Actually have you heard of Black Friday? No. > Thi

Re: Cannot ssh after reboot! Help!!!!

2007-11-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 19:44:00 Nov 08, Jake Conk wrote: > I rebooted my server and now I get this error when I try to ssh: > > > Last login: Thu Nov 8 19:40:00 2007 from 192.168.10.246 > OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Sep 13 18:41:29 PDT 2007 > > Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating syste

Re: Printing with apsfilter

2007-11-10 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:32:21 Nov 10, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > There used to be an article on the web about dealing with LPD printcap files > and setting up filters. I used it to set up one of my HP printers. The > process > is really quite simple if you know what your printer's magic incantations > are. > However

Re: partition and copy in one line?

2007-11-10 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:38:38 Nov 10, Lars Nood??n wrote: > I had a hard drive die and used the chance to move to 4.2. Since the > 'new' machine is of the same vintage as the one it replaced, I expect it > to start grinding to a halt soon, too. > > Is there a way to copy one entire hard drive, partition table and

Re: Printing with apsfilter

2007-11-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:22:19 Nov 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > PCL is a printer control language. PS is a stack based programming > language with graphics primitives for drawing. it may also be > classed as a PDL (page description language). Thanks. I definitely stand corrected. I definitely meant PDL and not

Re: Connectivity Issues with Linksys 802.11 USB Adapter

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:01:31 Nov 14, Stuart Henderson wrote: > These are in the same subnet, this won't work. You might like > to look at trunk(4). > Can't you bridge them or create separate subnets and route them? Is trunking the purpose here? Just wondering regards, Girish

Re: win32-codecs, avi and amd64 question

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 08:41:22 Nov 14, Didier Wiroth wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently running current i386 on my amd64 processor. > I'm considering to move to the amd64 distribution but I noticed that the > win32-codecs package is only for i386. > > Is there currently a win32-codecs alternative for amd64 or is it

Re: win32-codecs, avi and amd64 question

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:52:32 Nov 14, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > I committed a workaround a couple of days ago that might help. > Cheers! > Wow! That is great news. :) I specifically had problems with DVD creation and creating a video with still pictures. Thanks. I shall test if I get time. Best, Girish

Re: Connectivity Issues with Linksys 802.11 USB Adapter

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:37:48 Nov 14, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > failover trunks are quite good for this situation (depending on how > long your switch takes to notice the move). Separate subnets are another > option but means doing more (and losing active connections) when you > change between wired and wireless.

Re: win32-codecs, avi and amd64 question

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:44:00 Nov 14, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > IMO vlc has higher quality playback of most media, can do things > mplayer can't, has a nicer ui, etc, etc ... > UI? Well I am a command line person. mplayer cannot understand DVD menus. That is the only problem mplayer has IMHO. I honestly tried v

Re: win32-codecs, avi and amd64 question

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 01:58:13 Nov 15, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > command line media player. sorry, but that doesn't make sense, IMO. > I mean, if you're playing a video, you have a video window .. it's > graphical by nature. > Didn't you check out the menu option in my article? mplayer has a sexy OSD. :) Well any

Re: win32-codecs, avi and amd64 question

2007-11-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 04:40:22 Nov 15, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > nonsense > Agreed. But for playing media I don't need. > > you are obviously not talking about mplayer on OpenBSD. > It will have it in future of course. :) > > because you do not say how or why it is better. are the options > more sensible? is

Re: Using CBQ with variable upload bandwidth

2007-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 08:00:08 Nov 16, Jonathan Stewart wrote: > I though about doing something like that but the usable upload is so > variable that 60% could completely knock the normal_folk off when it > gets congested. I have 256kbit up right now and get anywhere from as > low as 64kbit to 160kbit+ actual thro

Re: Using CBQ with variable upload bandwidth

2007-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:12:45 Nov 16, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > Say you have a 10Mb ethernet feed, plugged into an > unmanaged switch with a bunch of other people in the > building connecting to other ports, who sometimes use > up all available bandwidth on the uplink, and other > times use nothing. I am not sur

Re: ntp and pppoe

2007-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:02:17 Nov 17, Henning Brauer wrote: > > bad idea. loses all state. > just give it a little slack, it copes. > Probably what he means is that if you restart ntpd with ifstated and interfere with its normal operation the clock filtering and correction algorithms will go for a toss. Time cor

Re: password echo turned off when performing sudo auth checks via ssh

2007-11-17 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:54:54 Nov 17, Walter Goulet wrote: > Hi, > > I don't think this question is really OpenBSD specific per-se but > rather an OpenSSH command. > > I'm using public key authentication between my OpenBSD systems > (running ssh-agent) so that I can ssh/sftp between my systems (both > are 4.1) wit

Re: Running cwm and fvwm at the same time?

2007-11-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:26:22 Nov 20, Alexander Hall wrote: > Hi! > > I'm just curious how come it its possible to start (and run) cwm at the > same time as running fvwm (from base). AFAIK a window manager normally > cannot (or refuses to) run if another window manager is already in use. Correct. > Is this onl

Re: mutiple pptp pass-through PF

2007-11-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:28:05 Nov 20, Beavis wrote: > lars, > > thanks for the reply. as for the pptp implementation, I just wanted > to make PF do this (pass-through) like what other packet filtering > (iptables, even PIX) can do. I know how unsafe this implementation is, > but the site where we are currently ge

Re: OT - SSHD

2007-11-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:58:03 Nov 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > Not specifically about OpenBSD, it is SSHD. > > What causes sshd not to respond? Attached is sshd -v -v. > > I tried to connect to the box remotely, it seems like sshd is asleep somehow. > > > Kind regards, > > > Yance > ssh -v -v -l

Re: mutiple pptp pass-through PF

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:04:56 Nov 22, Reyk Floeter wrote: > i'm sure that somebody told you about the reason to reject these patches: > > it does not belong into the kernel! > > write a userland proxy. > > like ftp-proxy, tftp-proxy, hoststated, ... Sure. > > how hard is it to understand? > It sure isn't.

Re: mutiple pptp pass-through PF

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:40:57 Nov 22, Henning Brauer wrote: > sounds reasonable. but i have no idea how coplicated gre is or what it > takes to translate callIDs. Take a look at my diff. I have already done all the work for you. The only advantage with my design is the ease with which you can get it working. No c

Re: mutiple pptp pass-through PF

2007-11-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
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Re: remote Gnome OpenBSD 4.2 problems

2007-11-23 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 02:49:32 Nov 23, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > I have been trying to establish an Xnest connection to an OpenBSD > 4.2 machine without success. > I do not care about security - in this particular application. > > 4.2 is using a newer Gnome and the config files are reorganized. >

Re: mutiple pptp pass-through PF

2007-11-23 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:48:37 Nov 23, Andre Ruppert wrote: > A short "user's view" from a simple OBSD user: > > Pptp is a security risk, d'accord. > > But here in Germany, a lot of H.323-VoIP-systems (gates and clients) > work with pptp tunneling to be independent from H.323-NAT on firewalls. > > The correspondin

Re: Would I be encouraged to use OpenBSD as embedded system

2007-11-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:16:18 Nov 24, PowerMan wrote: > Hello, > >My English is poor and I wish I could express myself clearly. > No problem. English is not my native language either. ;) >I am an embedded software engineer developing arm-linux based > system. In fact, ebmedded system is an huage

Re: mutiple pptp pass-through PF

2007-11-26 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 23:11:21 Nov 23, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > I am working on it. I plan to spend the whole night hacking it. > > My diff is old and is not coded as per style(9). > > So I am reworking it and also generating a diff against -current. > > Please wait for an update

Re: ftp-proxy and pf help! Working 50/50

2007-11-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 19:12:32 Nov 28, Jake Conk wrote: > #1 server: 200 PORT command successful - not using PASV eh?\r\n You are using active mode ftp which requires the rdr-anchor. See below. > #1 active: server to client port 32818 via port 50073 > #1 client: LIST\r\n > #1 server: 425 Timeout establishing data

Re: Strange em(4) issues

2007-11-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 20:47:57 Nov 29, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Been there, done that. If you use plaintext protocols (ftp or so) > over the interface, you'll see random corruption visible in the > data (e.g. directory listings). > > At 133MHz there's some corruption between motherboard and card. > Disappears at

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-02 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:45:37 Dec 02, Henning Brauer wrote: > * MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-02 15:35]: > > When I run the command > > > > pfctl -sr > > > > a list of the rules is displayed, a sample line is below. > > > > pass in log quick on fxp0 inet proto tcp from 226.174.167.164 to > > (fxp0) port =

Re: removing sendmail

2007-12-02 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:31:27 Dec 03, RW wrote: > Forget it. > No, I'm not ordering you to. It's a tip. > Given that the developers are ignoring this thread, my guess is that > nothing is going to happen. It's all been said before. Not true. They just don't have the time. > BTW I run or admin several mailservers.

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:45:41 Dec 04, frantisek holop wrote: > +1 > > one man's worthless feature is other man's best friend. > please put it in... No use shouting yourself hoarse over this. If it is a no , it is a no. I later realized that nobody can satisfy everyone's needs and it is impossible to ever get to

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:08:13 Dec 04, frantisek holop wrote: > > shouting? are you serious? > I am rarely if ever serious. ;) -Girish

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 11:06:09 Dec 04, Bob Beck wrote: > Personally, I think if I were starting from square one, I'd > do port numbers, not service names, but that's not the way it's > been for many years and even though my preference would be numbers > my loathing for yet another option far outweighs this pref

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 23:44:31 Dec 04, Stuart Henderson wrote: > *seriously* unsupported: > > $ perl -pi -e s,etc/services,etc/sXrvices, < /sbin/pfctl > > ~/bin/pfctl-no-service-names > > your foot is > > : > > : > > : > > V > > this way Wow ;) I never imagined one cud get so devious with programming. Ha h

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:22:23 Dec 05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A longer winded version (same idea - Perl ... and no prizes for my code) > > use warnings; > use strict; > > # Get the rules > my $pfctl_rules=`pfctl -s rules`; > > # Get the known services > open(SERVICES," my (@services)=; > > # Pull out the TCP

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 06:12:09 Dec 05, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > If there is enough coffee for me in the list, I would do it. ;) > This diff should satisfy everyone. -Girish Index: pfctl_parser.c === RCS file: /cvs/src/s

Re: Problem during OpenBSD 4-2 installation

2007-12-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 21:55:02 Dec 08, hogo hogo wrote: > I have got a problem during OpenBSD 4.2 installation. > I install on a QEMU virtual machine on a hard disk with 7000M of size. > In the end of installation process when the system writes MBR onto the disk > I get such a message: > > Installing boot block...

Re: httpdv6

2007-12-08 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 19:19:30 Dec 08, Mats O Jansson wrote: > This is the problem. You are trying to switch a daemon to be IPv6 centric > when the majority of our users doesn't use IPv6. I can understand that > KAME has that agenda but I dont think OpenBSD should. > I know only one thing and it is this. I was

Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:34:11 Dec 14, bofh wrote: > Heh. I think we're having far too much fun in the other threads. You mean threads or thread? ;) ha ha > I > have a serious question. Shoot. > I'm a mangler in a largish company. We have > developers, and contractors. No coding standards and all that, so

mutt and Stallman

2007-12-16 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I am giving first aid after the war but still it will help. I can give a lot of relief to those of you who had nervous breakdowns and blood pressure problems due to spam mails getting in the way of useful technical stuff. It is not hard at all. First thing is install mutt from packages. # pkg_a

Re: yt: youtube download issue

2007-12-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:33:07PM +1100, Chris wrote: > yt is giving me the following error while trying to download - > > $ yt http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw&feature=dir > > $ Getting http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw ... > /usr/local/bin/lua: /usr/local/bin/yt:42: assertion faile

tiny writeup on simultaneous audio playback

2007-12-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I thought this might benefit some of you folks. I find that esd is pretty cool when it comes to figuring out if you have got a mail when you are listening to music. There are other uses too of course. Here is a short writeup.

Re: mutt and Stallman

2007-12-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:44:48 Dec 18, Kennith Mann III wrote: > > If you want to share it, feel free to post it on openbsd-wiki.org =) > Sure. :) You can get them here. http://sirsasana.org/misc/muttrc-personal.txt http://sirsasana.org/misc/muttrc-list.txt -Girish

Re: mutt and Stallman

2007-12-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 10:13:06 Dec 19, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > You can get them here. > > http://sirsasana.org/misc/muttrc-personal.txt > http://sirsasana.org/misc/muttrc-list.txt > Very nice page on mutt. http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html -Girish

Re: Quick question about PF and binat

2007-12-21 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 03:14:10 Dec 22, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote: > Hi, > > # echo binat on wi0 inet proto '{' tcp udp icmp '}' \ > from 192.168.100.2 to any '->' 192.168.15.103 | pfctl -f - > > # pfctl -sn > binat on wi0 inet proto tcp from 192.168.100.2 to any -> 192.168.15.103 > > # sysctl -n kern.version

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:06:34 Dec 22, Brian Hansen wrote: > Hi. > > I address this issue on this list, because a lot of people here are very > skillfull C programmers. Yes. OpenBSD not only is secure , the code is also exceedingly beautiful. You can discern a certain artistic beauty in the way code is written, ev

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:32:54 Dec 23, Rico Secada wrote: > Now those two statements are somewhat in contradiction. You can't say > that Ada isn't an alternative to C without knowing what it is. Ada > fully serve as an alternative to C, but read up on that if you must > know. I have been wanting to ask this. Lot of

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:15:03 Dec 24, Marc Espie wrote: > vim actually has an internal fmt command. > > I found about it fairly recently. All vi users use the filter command > all the time, and it usually takes us a while to adjust to vim improvements ;) I have this on my vimrc. sy on se nu se textwidth=72 nnorem

Re: Using Mail(1)

2007-12-25 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:06:02 Dec 25, Pieter Verberne wrote: > In Vi I set "set wl=72" (wl = wraplen). But when I remove text in the > middle of a sentence, the text won't shift. This makes the line less > than 72 characters. I think Vim does shift the sentence automaticly? No, vim does not shift either. I was unde

Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear friends, Please excuse the silly subject line. I am unfortunately not qualified enough to come up with a better one. First my assumptions, then my questions. Request inputs on both. Assumptions - a) Most of the spam origin

What does this mean?

2007-12-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Check out http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso There is USA right at the top head and shoulders above the rest. The way I look at it is this: 1) It takes a lot of talent/energy even to cause harm 2) Spammers may use cheap tools written by others but they are a powerful cartel v

UNIX way of undeleting files?

2007-12-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Just wondering if there was a way to undelete a file. I have never run into the situation so far (surprise, surprise) but I sure will in future. It is best to know. I saw something like this. $ grep -a -B[size before] -A[size after] 'text' /dev/[your_partition] I want something from the old sc

Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?

2007-12-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:32:58 Dec 29, Unix Fan wrote: > From my understanding, restoring a file after deletion would be very > complicated because files aren't stored in a "sequential" fashion... > > > > When you delete a file, the inode for the file is removed.. (assuming there > wasn't another hard link to it

Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?

2007-12-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 02:34:15 Dec 30, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > > If you type rm foo and foo was the last link to the file (the underlying > inode) and there was no open file descriptor and no mapped memory > referring to the inode, either (I hope I've covered the important kinds > of references to inodes), the ino

Ethernet jumbo frames?

2007-12-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
What on earth is this? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/rhel-centos-debian-ubuntu-jumbo-frames-configuration/ I was under the impression that Ethernet frames can never be more than 1500 bytes. Or is it some kind of stupid linux hack? Or does it have any meaning? Is there real value in this? I don'

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-31 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:37:46 Dec 31, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Even so, it still allows recovery from some serious problems without > touching the machine. There are quite a few situations where this could > be very useful, though it might not be worth the extra expense and > complexity of adding an external device

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-31 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 13:37:28 Dec 31, Steve Shockley wrote: > Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> Correct me if I am wrong but I believe it was this that saved the Mars >> lander from total disaster a few years ago. I heard it was due to the >> brilliant idea of some Indian professor. I don

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

2008-02-03 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:37:44 Jan 13, Max Hayden Chiz wrote: > Okay, maybe I wasn't clear what the problem is. The problem is that > having a high number of bittorrent connections causes high latency on > the external interface. Using max-src-states fixes this problem, but > I don't understand why it is a problem

Re: KSH and Bash problem with long commands

2008-02-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:08:54 Feb 12, OBSD wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a small problem with the KSH and Bash on a OpenBSD 4.2. with very long > commands. > I have > echo $SHELL > /bin/ksh and > echo $KSH_VERSION > @(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2 > and in my ~/.inputrc is > set horizontal-scroll-mode Off > > I found

Re: rtorrent + OpenBSD = freeze

2008-02-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 14:42:37 Feb 19, Paul Irofti wrote: > I've been using rtorrent for more than a year now and it never > stopped/blocked/froze/etc. > I can second that . Little annoyances here and there but overall rtorrent works very well under OpenBSD. If it freezes very likely it is a network issue. -Giris

Re: rtorrent + OpenBSD = freeze

2008-02-20 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 16:43:00 Feb 19, Daniel Andersson wrote: > > Could you please elaborate? The only thing that was working after > the freeze was the routing. I guess I could try FreeBSD since they > have pf too. iptables is driving me nuts. > Sorry I was out and just came back home. I think my answer would b

Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes

2008-02-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:34:21 Feb 28, Matt wrote: > > I am not an authority on the subject at all but... > > A non-tech solution might be to buy a cheap notebook and use that as your > workstation and/or backup device. > If power fails or drops the battery will automatically take over and you > should not exper

Re: P2V with VMWare -> "ERR M"

2008-02-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 09:42:17 Feb 28, Steve Shockley wrote: > Recipes don't teach you how to cook. > I can second this because I have been cooking for more than three years now. And God alone knows how hard it has been. I never consult any book or even the Internet. I simply ask ladies and that too the ones who

Re: 4.3 Beta: no sound

2008-02-29 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:15:17 Feb 29, Claus Assmann wrote: > I've upgraded one machine to 4.3 Beta (2008-02-23, i386, dmesg > below) and there is no audio anymore (it used to work with 3.8). I > tried to cat an audio file directly to the device: > > $ file gong.au > gong.au: Sun/NeXT audio data: 8-bit ISDN u-law, m

Re: how I can save ddb trace information.

2008-03-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:16:31 Mar 06, Jorge Medina wrote: > Hi list: > I have a panic with mp kernel, when panic launch me to ddb prompt I > execute ps and trace but i don't know how save the dump information. > man crash(8) man savecore(8) You have type ddb> boot dump -Girish -- "unix soi qui mal y pense"

Re: Samba(SMB) or Netatalk(AFP)?

2008-03-11 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:59:06 Mar 11, Sunnz wrote: > But... the user account on the clients already has their own > uid/gid... do I have to make new accounts? Or am I missing something? > vipw ;) -Girish -- "unix soi qui mal y pense" UNIX to him who evil thinks +-

Re: pf label and viewing with tcpdump?

2008-03-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 12:13:56 Mar 18, Karl-Heinz Wild wrote: > After viewing the man pages and searched the internet > I couldn't find how to display pf tags-labels in tcpdump. > It is not possible for userland processes like tcpdump(1) to display pf(4) tags. So it follows that pfctl(1) also cannot read tags. Pack

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:18:30 Mar 18, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: > Hi, > > very often I have to give a talk about my work etc... The slides > contain a lot of math equations, plots and even sometimes some movies. > > I was used to latex-beamer to do all this because I want something I > can edit with vi(m) and it fulfi

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 17:45:26 Mar 18, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > I am a mathematician so I am quite often in the same position as you to > give presentations which contain > lots of formulas and images. > I use Powerdot class of Latex presentations (descendant of Prosper an > obsolete class of presentations ) which

Re: using openbsd to make presentations

2008-03-19 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 22:43:32 Mar 18, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > I find that the speed, or lack thereof, which which xpdf renders > each new page (or progessive-overlay-on-the-same-page) varies from > "too fast for any perceptable delay" to "a couple of seconds" and > sometimes even to "10 secondes". It seems to d

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