uvm_fault crash on fresh 4.2

2007-11-12 Thread Nick Guenther
I just installed an old compaq desktop that I intend to use as a webserver. I haven't installed anything on it yet, it's using vanilla 4.2-RELEASE. Twice now, I've booted it and left it running, intending to ssh in and work on it, except I've found that I couldn't because it's crashed on me. It has

Re: Daily insecurity report and drop priv accounts for handling automated tasks

2007-11-13 Thread Nick Holland
it is, so it must be better!). Otherwise, treat it as just part of your daily mails. (Interestingly, your subject line auto-filed your message into my "Insecurity Reports" folder, and it rather concerned me that a new message suddenly arrived there. :) Nick.

Re: Slow Performance on Encrypted svnd

2007-11-15 Thread Nick Guenther
; backed by files, svnd devices backed by whole disks and disk partitions > are extremely slow. This is really really really weird. You'd think that files, having the filesystem to go through before getting to the disk, would necessarily be slower. There must be some kind of weirdness with the thing. -Nick

Re: Please send email directly to misc@openBSD.org (no cc please)

2007-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
ask one novice question and you become an expert on mail list etiquette? You have the nerve to dictate how people help you for free? You can't imagine how offensive that is. I've got a really interesting idea for a filter... Nick.

Re: Softraid Experimentation

2007-11-16 Thread Nick Guenther
On 11/16/07, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am playing with softraid. So far it seems very good. > Hijacking the thread a bit: Do all your disks need to be the same size to use softraid? softraid(4) and bioctl(8) do not mention anything about that. -Nick

Re: Helping with Softraid testing

2007-11-16 Thread Nick Guenther
.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=softraid&sektion=4 It would help to read this too: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bioctl&sektion=8 -Nick

Re: Softraid Experimentation

2007-11-16 Thread Nick Guenther
On 11/16/07, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:01:13AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > > > > Hijacking the thread a bit: Do all your disks need to be the same size > > to use softraid? softraid(4) and bioctl(8) do not mention anything

Re: Slow Performance on Encrypted svnd

2007-11-16 Thread Nick Guenther
On 11/16/07, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > instead of pondering problems with using the whole disk, you could > just use svnd with a file. Yeah but doesn't this hint at some horrible inefficiency in the stack somewhere? -Nick

Re: Source for man pages.

2007-11-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On Nov 17, 2007 12:14 PM, David Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is a convenient way for me to get the source for the man pages in > current? Something like find /usr/src -path "*/man/*" ?

Re: system not using second entry in $PKG_PATH

2007-11-19 Thread Nick Guenther
hould put your preferred repository at the > > front, > > and less wanted stuff later: if pkg_add finds something in the > > preferred > > repository, it won't even look at the rest. > > > So something is apparently wrong then. I saw this bug two years ago when I first started with OpenBSD. I assumed I was doing something wrong and forgot about it. things to try: are you sure the second repository has the package you need? -Nick

Re: lost root account

2007-11-19 Thread Nick Holland
t should also be documented in faq8.html, I'll try to fix that this evening. :) Nick.

Re: can't change password with passwd comand

2007-11-20 Thread Nick Holland
passwd file. You have a regular "user" at line 24...that's been a while since a regular user popped up that early in the file. You probably have got lots of problems there. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to rebuild. Just save a copy of your current version, and after the dust settles, copy over the individual users you need (and watch for wraps!). And ONLY those users... Nick.

Re: can't change password with passwd comand

2007-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
problem is IN that file, and not a systemic problem, which is not out of the question, considering the other apparent damage to it. Then do what we will do and chew through the file and figure out why it isn't working. Nick.

Re: File collision while using pkg_add

2007-11-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 11/22/07, Pieter Verberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install gnome-doc-utils : > > $ sudo pkg_add gnome-doc-utils > perl: warning: Setting locale failed. > perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: > LC_ALL = (unset), > LC_CTYPE = "en_US.U

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

2007-11-24 Thread Nick Guenther
See http://www.openbsd.org/armish.html That port is primarily meant for the zaurus devices, but it's possible you could adapt it (and write drivers for it) to elsewhere. -Nick

Re: How do you start a non-standard daemon/program near end of boot?

2007-11-24 Thread Nick Guenther
pt that gets run at the end of /etc/rc Put your calls in rc.local or make /etc/rc.mydaemons and call it from /etc/rc or something. It's a pretty simple system. -Nick

Re: updating source code from updated tarballs

2007-11-25 Thread Nick Holland
es a lot of output, which you may be misinterpreting as "changes", even though it was just a progress report. ("-q" is your friend. usually). If you really are getting large numbers of actual changes, you probably aren't working with a -stable tree. If you didn't intend to, that's life, lots of changes are made to the tree every day. If you did intend to, your process is wrong, because you aren't. :) Nick.

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Nick Guenther
.. > MATH WORKS BITCHES! 'poor dude' probably never even tried... did you actually read the comic? meh. I find it more interesting that "BSD" appearently defaults to OpenBSD and not FreeBSD here. -Nick

Re: OpenBSD on VMware

2007-11-26 Thread Nick Guenther
that user logs off the vmware > host the guest computer will shutoff. > > In order for it to be available at all times, it should be running in the > local system context OR a specially created user. Then it runs regardless of > the login status of the person who clicks the start button on the vmware > console. And if the admin is being uncooperative, take your business elsewhere. -Nick

Re: ssh session died during 'make build'

2007-11-26 Thread Nick Holland
ke install". -stable has the advantage that old binaries and new binaries are "compatible". Now, if the power had gone out mid-way through, you might have some nasty messed up files, but if you just lost console, things should be more-or-less intact. Nick.

Re: OpenBSD in the webcomic XKCD

2007-11-26 Thread Nick Holland
two times and both times it >> worked. Dual boot is for sissies who can't get a second machine. >> > > Either you knew everything then or you got incredibly lucky. If we define "Guru" as one who knows the wisdom of the creator, Art is no guru. He's a creator. :) Nick.

Re: [plz. help] constant attack from: 201.244.17.162, 222.231.60.88, 82.207.116.209....

2007-11-26 Thread Nick Guenther
On Nov 26, 2007 9:56 PM, badeguruji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just discovered by chance that, someone is > constantly trying to break into my openbsd box from: ,... > > whois details on each IP go to South America, Bangkok, > Taiwan... all over the world! Although i have sent > email to the em

Re: Question about AnonCVS Instructions

2007-11-27 Thread Nick Holland
ENBSD_4_2 -Pd you really want a -d in there. Pretty much mandatory if you are using the source tar files. OpenBSD docs are rather good, but IMO, "http://openbsd.org/anoncvs.html"; could be simplified somewhat. try http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html instead. (yeah, there's some redundancy that should be eliminated). Nick.

Re: usb problems with external drive (on current)

2007-11-27 Thread Nick Holland
dering if your USB port isn't putting out the juice needed to spin it up fast enough, and you get the timeouts. If you have to wait for a POST and a OS boot, it probably has plenty of time to get to speed. Nick.

Re: anyone using netbeans ?

2007-11-28 Thread Nick Guenther
http://www.wiroth.net/images/netbeans.png > > How can I solve this problem in netbeans? Looks like a font problem. I'm guessing Netbeans is trying to use fonts you don't have installed? Can you change the font preferences anywhere in Netbeans? -Nick

Re: Filesystem activity monitoring

2007-11-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On Nov 29, 2007 10:07 AM, Yuri Spirin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, misc. > > I wonder, is there some software that could show me in top(1) manner > which files are accessed most intensively right now and by which > process/user? The main question I wish to answer is why my OpenBSD/4.2 > rout

Re: Dumb 486: Install From Hard Drive?

2007-12-01 Thread Nick Holland
his is what I will do right now on a 16MB machine just for the experience. > It seems partition magic only creates linux partitions AFAICT. > >> 8mb won't work for openbsd without trickery that you want to get near. >> I believe these days 24 is about the lower limit. Nick corr

Re: This list: CC and TO fields

2007-12-02 Thread Nick Holland
ceived a bit of bad advice from someone else), or if they have tried to raise a stink about getting two copies of a response (do that, I'll make sure you get two copies from me! :). Sometimes, the direct response is faster, sometimes the mailing list is faster (if the recipient is using greylisting, for example). A further arguement: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html Nick.

Re: dhclient.conf

2007-12-02 Thread Nick Guenther
You have to change the server's settings (or hack dhclient I guess) to give you this ability. -Nick

netstat freezes

2007-12-04 Thread Nick Guenther
. But now I've seen it on other systems too, so I'm wondering what's up. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? I've search the archives with "netstat hang" and "netstat freeze" and found nothing. -Nick

Re: netstat freezes

2007-12-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/4/07, Claudio Jeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:05:31PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > > Hi misc, > > > > I noticed way back with 3.8 that netstat would sometimes hang on me > > for a very long time (over two minutes) before spi

Re: Access to a remote Oracle database

2007-12-04 Thread Nick Guenther
may be able to use a binary blob linux client under linux emulation to make it work (but that it'll be kind of lame). You might be able to run another database as a wrapper around the oracle one? e.g. see http://www.sqlmag.com/Article/ArticleID/22264/sql_server_22264.html ? -Nick

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Guenther
it. Just > > curious about this... is the process described someplace? > > No. OpenBSD doesn't sign code. Well, there's the MD5 files (e.g. http://openbsd.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/i386/MD5). but yeah, for the most part OpenBSD doesn't need it. -Nick

Re: OpenBSD mentioned in Bruce Schneier interview

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Guenther
y flakey. Still, it's a good point. OpenBSD manages to boot so quickly even though it has all drivers enabled and running at boot--though I'm not sure if it's always "under a minute". -Nick

Re: binary installed? or not?

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/5/07, badeguruji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On solaris, i can do: > > grep /var/sadm/install/contents > > and see whether it is installed or not, also location > etc. > > But, How can i do it on OB? where is the system map? > to see whether/where is installed. > > Thanks in adv

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Guenther
iles for the main distribution, and for packages.. well the official OpenBSD mirrors are all trustworthy--if they aren't, it will be discovered and they will no longer be official mirrors. This isn't a great answer, I know. -Nick

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Bender
On Dec 5, 2007 2:23 PM, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/5/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Come on... twice a year and get the benefit of not being excluded from > > company policies which require digital signature of software downloaded > > through the inte

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Guenther
nbsd :-)) Oh? What story is that? I can't google it. > Maybe the faq needs a prequel in front of it - if you are not willing > to do the work, don't use openbsd. Doesn't it already have that, pretty much? -Nick

Re: /var/log/messages permissions in 4.2

2007-12-06 Thread Nick Holland
f my machines, I found nothing I wouldn't be more than happy to post to the Internet, other than the rather anemic specs might be a bit embarrassing, but I found that I was glad I didn't have to have root privs to look at them. Nick.

Re: Could Hiawatha replace Apache as in base HTTP server if it's license changed?

2007-12-07 Thread Nick Guenther
sides not really giving a chance to listen to the other. He finds BSDers abrasive; Funny, I've more found linux to be the bastion of irritating screechy fanbois. This is a sign that we (myself included) don't all have the overall picture. "we" call him 'sheer stupid' for being overzealous with "No security bugs"? Well how far removed, really, is that claim from "Only two remote holes in the default install, in more than 10 years!"? But I don't want to get into personality debates again. -Nick

Re: rouge IPs / user

2007-12-07 Thread Nick Guenther
ve decentralized systems/methods for this. There's no way to combine data together, the best you can do is share techniques which you can verify with your own logic -- except for blacklists like SPEWS, and even then there are all sorts of politics and troubles. -Nick

Re: rouge IPs / user

2007-12-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 7, 2007 1:03 PM, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > badeguruji wrote: > > I am getting constant hacking attempt into my computer > > from following IPs. Although, I have configured my ssh > > config and tcp-wrappers to deny such attempts. But I > > wish some expert soul in this comm

Re: Problem during OpenBSD 4-2 installation

2007-12-08 Thread Nick Holland
Since you are using QEMU, it most likely counts as a "new disk". Make sure you either answer "y" to the "Use entire disk" or "Reinit" the drive in fdisk to put down a valid MBR before. I'm not sure if #2 will give you that message, I do believe error #1 will. Nick.

Re: error while creating CA

2007-12-09 Thread Nick Guenther
untryName_min = 2 > countryName_max = 2 ^ your country name is not set to 'US' like you think it is? -Nick

Re: Seg fault by cc1 on AMD-K6-2

2007-12-09 Thread Nick Holland
kernel built for (which was needed for a driver not in GENERIC), but once running, it is pretty solid. I won't even try to build a system with it until I get around to slowing it down/putting better RAM in it. Nick.

Re: Revision on Macbook Guide

2007-12-09 Thread Nick Guenther
me know. Appearently you have to make sure to plug into the frontmost port for some unknown reason. Also I've seen USB keyboards not get along with bsd.rd before, so you'll have to make sure the one you're using works. -Nick

Re: cvsweb browsing out of sync with latest src?

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Holland
actually look, you will see that the old files are stored in the "Attic", where they can be referred to in the future, should the need arise. Nick.

Re: copy root disk from IDE to scsi

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
y because the disks are different sizes, so you'll have to re-disklabel manually. Plug the scsi into an extra box OpenBSD box you have lying around (you have extras, right?). fdisk and disklabel the scsi. Mount its partitions somewhere (I suggested /mnt/$part but you can pick). Does this help? -Nick

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
tware won't teach > users that non-free is ok by giving an example: not distributing it. Since when was propaganda honourable? > > always going to be someone respected taking shots at you. Talking > > about it gets noting accomplished. > > Neither does bullshitting about it. Exactly. -Nick

Re: Secure FTP

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
says "Option to preserve file timestamps on downloads (all protocols)" (and it makes sftp look like ftp, so you can push for using a secure set up). It's not a function of the server at all. -Nick

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
t your site on you ("modify software they use") then you are violating the Four Freedoms and the GPL. Is any of that anywhere near reality? Argh, the GPL is so ridiculously complex; nobody understands it. The main attraction open source has for me is that I *don't have to think about licensing shit*, and GNU (especially now with GPLv3) miss that goal completely. -Nick

Re: Revision on Macbook Guide

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
nto an untrusted network, boot up, get your macbook booted with a malicious kernel. -Nick

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
ith the free GNU/Linux distros. Sir, it was brought up that the linux distributions you do suggest do often include in their ports systems non-free software. See e.g. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119726055819074&w=2 What do you say to that? Was that a lie or a mistake? Respectfully, -Nick

Re: not to use pool.ntp.org setup in default configuration.

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
, shouldn't the default configuration change to address their > requirements and to make it more user friendly? Well what are you going to change it to? OpenBSD is used globally. Perhaps an extra step in the installer, or something implied from setting the timezone, but you can't presume where it will be used like that. -Nick

Re: not to use pool.ntp.org setup in default configuration.

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
ng the service you're relying on, isn't it? What's the worry? That who uses OpenBSD will be trackable through ntp by what pool they use? -Nick

Re: not to use pool.ntp.org setup in default configuration.

2007-12-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 10, 2007 4:02 PM, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-10 19:39]: > > That is sure 100% true. I was just trying to be sensitive to the request of > > the ntp.org itself asking not to do so. There is multiple zone and as such > > it would b

Re: Can I specify the bios time offset utc?

2007-12-11 Thread Nick Guenther
RC, can I tell OpenBSD the > > > bios time zone? > > > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=111956694726618&w=2 > > > Thanks, but I can NOT open the page, could you excerpt for me ? Really? What's wrong? Are you in China? -Nick

Re: Can I specify the bios time offset utc?

2007-12-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 11, 2007 11:26 AM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007 12:58 AM, Dongsheng Song <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 2007/12/11, Darren Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Dec 10, 2007 9:58 PM, Dongsheng Song <[E

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Nick Guenther
tu.com/community/ubuntustory/components Um, that first link says "Restricted removed". So presumably they mean gNewSense = Ubuntu.Universe - Ubuntu.Restricted -Nick

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Nick Guenther
e ports > > tree would be useful. > > PERMIT_*=(not Yes) The infrastructure is all there, it's just not emphasized. -Nick

Re: apm doesn't sleep/suspend desktop

2007-12-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/11/07, Chris Zakelj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Guenther wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2007 12:30 AM, Chris Zakelj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Curious problem here, though I'm probably missing something obvious. I > >> have apm enabl

Re: 4.2 i386 install fails on a HP Compaq dc7700

2007-12-12 Thread Nick Holland
M in production, what happens if you do an FTP install? I suspect that will work fine. 2) If you need a CDROM, try a dull, ordinary PATA drive 3) if you need THAT CDROM drive, try a snapshot. I do believe I have heard there may still be some issues on SATA CD/DVD drives. Don't quote me on that. Nick.

Re: Inaccurate restart of Apache 1.3

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Holland
Alexander Hall wrote: ... Apache is chrooted by default, making `apachectl restart' unusable for quite some time. It should be in the archives and possibly in the FAQ. it is (and has been for quite some time)... http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot Nick.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Guenther
se on people! You might have meant "I don't think it is wrong in general to get permission from the original authors to relicense code from BSD to GPL" but it doesn't sound like that. And in *all* cases it is useful not to do so, because you should always be trying to integrate fixes upstream. -Nick

Re: cvsweb browsing out of sync with latest src?

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/10/07, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Nick, sorry to go against you, but do take a look at; > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/ > > > > It's been eliminated since there's a replacement by Todd under

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Holland
gt; for everything. > > I love this one. May be will need a bob.c along side the theo.c soon > too! (;> Only if Theo decides to make OpenBSD an "Adult" operating system, and I don't mean you need the wisdom of age to understand it. :) Nick.

Re: swap encryption

2007-12-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 14, 2007 10:45 AM, Lars Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not that clear if it is, at least on the version of OpenBSD 4.2 I > have. It's very much a plain vanilla setup however, /etc/sysctl.conf says: > #vm.swapencrypt.enable=0 # 0=Do not encrypt pages that go to swap > > To me

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 14, 2007 5:09 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But I would also like you to answer my emails, especially this one: > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119741909911558&w=2 > > However, because of your offer, I will send mail to try to find the > message that URL refers

Re: SunOS 5.9 UFS drives

2007-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
new_guy wrote: > Hi guys, > > I just received an old Sun Netra T1 (105) that has an older version of > Solaris (SunOS 5.9). It has two 18GB SCSI drives, no cd or floppy drives. > There is a serial/LOM port that I can access and dual Ethernet ports. I can > get the ok prompt (Stop-A), the LOM promp

Re: (Thread name objectionable as well) Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-16 Thread Nick Guenther
; speaking of a single person, but the language has evolved. > Actually, it just came back to it's roots: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html But now we're offtopic. -Nick

Re: come, help me with something more productive

2007-12-16 Thread Nick Holland
(WHY oh WHY do some websites where all I'm interested in is downloading an application and reading documentation a: insist that I log in at all, b: have a password of 37 or more characters, mixed case, odd punctuation, three digits and want to know when my mother gave up her virginity?) If you follow the above advice, you will not be guaranteed quality code, but I can assure you your project will take much longer and cost more than management was hoping. And this is why shit happens. Nick.

Re: GnuPG2 package or port

2007-12-18 Thread Nick Templeton
e-or-port-tp14375855p14375855.html > Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. It's easy to search ports: # cd /usr/ports # make search key=gnupg This is in the ports(7) manpage. -Nick

Re: Open Object Rexx compilation fails/Xalan

2007-12-18 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/18/07, Przemys3aw Pawe3czyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I bring up the subject once more. I tried to compile Open Object Rexx > for the n-th time but to no avail. It seems it needs Xalan program. I > tried to go for it but it needs Xerces C++ files for compilation, and so > on. > > [

dhclient ignoring DHCPOFFERS?

2007-12-19 Thread Nick Guenther
e is that those lines say "rejected", but the configuration file there is configured to reject 192.168.0.1 I haven't touched dhclient.conf, and this has been happening since 3.8 to 4.2. I don't know if this is a bug or just something confusing. Has anyone else ever seen this? -Nick

Re: dhclient ignoring DHCPOFFERS?

2007-12-19 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 19, 2007 7:53 PM, Kian Mohageri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007 10:26 AM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've seen this problem intermittently before. Every once in a while, > > this happens (the adapter it happens on doesn&#

Re: installing openbsd in xen

2007-12-21 Thread Nick Guenther
lly ready: http://www.ropersonline.com/openbsd/xen/ http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119801138304744&w=2 -Nick

Re: dhclient ignoring DHCPOFFERS?

2007-12-21 Thread Nick Guenther
On Dec 21, 2007 6:26 PM, Kian Mohageri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2007 8:25 PM, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2007 7:53 PM, Kian Mohageri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 19, 2007 10:26 AM, Nick Guenther <[

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Nick Holland
r an example. But ultimately, people who write bad software will do it on any platform, with any set of tools. Make it easier, you just get more bad software. Nick.

Re: pf + wii

2007-12-24 Thread Nick Gustas
johan beisser wrote: On Dec 24, 2007, at 12:34 AM, Lord Sporkton wrote: i could be wrong but here is my 2 cents: ive seen something like this related to upnp, i would venture to guess your 2 friends have routers which support upnp and so far as i know openbsd does not support upnp. I would su

Re: Usage of underscore in system accounts

2007-12-25 Thread Nick Holland
een the -current version of /etc/master.passwd and the early versions (say, OpenBSD 3.0). Easy to see where conflicts would start to occur. Nick.

Re: Source code of OpenBSD packages.

2007-12-26 Thread Nick Guenther
t sourcecode to make it run on OpenBSD. Download ports.tar.gz, extract it (into /usr/ports, canonically) and read the Makefile for the program you want. It'll have the URL you want. -Nick

Re: Perpetually Current

2007-12-27 Thread Nick Guenther
to reinstall a -release > every year... although I'll still buy CDs as they are released to support > the project. What you probably want is to go the upgrade-every-6-months route. -Nick

Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-27 Thread Nick Holland
e anything else I can do to avoid slapping my forehead and saying, "D'oh! Forgot to ..." before I ship it out fully detached? The good news is I'm pretty sure there is at least one OpenBSD developer near-by, but that's just all the more reason to make sure I don't screw it up, I'll never live it down. :) Nick.

Re: Hazy top of mind questions on spam control with OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
cessing. This is good. > 3) I hate spamassassin and I love dspam and its statistical filtering > math. But alas, the project is largely unmaintained and dying. What > alternative do I have in combating spam by textual analysis, context > sensitive Bayesian techniques and so on? Assuming this is a personal mail server, first of all, see how much gets through spamd. If not much, use your delete key for the rest. IF you really have a problem, then get fancy. Don't make your life difficult if you don't have a problem. Nick.

Re: diff of the official FAQ

2007-12-28 Thread Nick Holland
er memory than me (entirely possible) or you are missing out on some good stuff, and not just things that changed. (I have had people say to me, "Hey, you are just looking at the docs, I thought you knew this?" "I WROTE the docs. Doesn't mean I remember anything more than 'where to look'".) Nick.

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-30 Thread Nick Holland
nd you thought those distributed computing projects were "free"...) (my Wattmeter reads only to the nearest 1W, so all those figures are +/-1W on top of whatever the accuracy of the thing is.) (the hard disk is installed on this thing so I can start imaging and making additional flash cards o

Re: delete deleted data

2007-12-31 Thread Nick Guenther
But as a stopgap, look into rm -P (on OpenBSD). Linux has "shred" too. On Dec 31, 2007 1:25 PM, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grind them up. There is nothing else you can do to "permanently" wipe > disks. Residual magnetism is always there provided good enough > equipment. If you

Using PF to QoS on tun interface

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Golder
ingress on tun0. By the time it hits rl1, it is OpenVPN traffic. Any recommendations on how to handle this? -- Nick Golder

Re: Updated ports/packages in -stable/-release

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
the system as you can. The fewer packages you have installed, the fewer special cases you will have to deal with. The fewer cutesie-crap apps you put in your servers, the less often you will have to take down your servers because of cutesie-crap bugs. Nick.

Re: Improving disk reliability

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
Erik Wikstrvm wrote: > Hi > > I am setting up a OpenBSD box to act as a router/file-server for my > parents, the box consists mostly of old parts and I try to not spend any > extra money on it. One of my biggest worries is, since it will act as a > file-server which will contain stuff with some em

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
but not always). What you have here clobbers your MBR, which holds your (now hosed) fdisk partitions. see faq4.html. Nick.

Re: Improving disk reliability

2008-01-03 Thread Nick Guenther
lity of data loss. How would you verify the whole disk is readable? And if it's all readable, how do you ensure the data is still the same pattern you put on before? -Nick

Re: Advice requested on security issues

2008-01-04 Thread Nick Holland
uld choke your app and cause Bad Things to happen. The sad thing is you are being more careful with your system design than your bank probably is. :-/ By the time you are running OpenBSD on your banking computer, I suspect you have shifted the primary risk to the other end of the wire...your bank is a bigger risk to your data than you are. Nick.

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Nick Guenther
dered a crime trying to do or giving > you tips how to do this (incitement). > > > So don't expect any answer on this list. > That's a lame law. Information should be free, trust the people to do what's right, &c. Though I wouldn't help in this case, since it's obvious the OP does want to just steal wifi, and helping him do that without teaching him is a waste of everyone's time. -Nick

Re: Improving disk reliability

2008-01-08 Thread Nick Guenther
On Jan 7, 2008 7:22 AM, knitti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/4/08, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How would you verify the whole disk is readable? And if it's all > > readable, how do you ensure the data is still the same pattern you put > >

Re: Hard disk speed

2008-01-08 Thread Nick Holland
ing and why you are concerned about it, then maybe we can help you. Lies, damned lies, statistics, benchmarks, RMS. The only benchmark that matters is YOUR application, usually in production. Nick.

Re: Apache box behind Openbsd

2008-01-08 Thread Nick Ryan
Make sure that the windows 2003 firewall isn't set up to block web access. It's caught me out before in the past, although that was on SBS2003. See if you can telnet to port 80 from the OpenBSD firewall to the external interface on the windows box. On 8 Jan 2008, at 17:04, Sewan wrote:

Re: Apache box behind Openbsd

2008-01-08 Thread Nick Guenther
change to this web > server (2003-apache-php one) it don't work > > Can you get at the windows web server from inside the router itself? -Nick

Re: mmap() on i386

2008-01-08 Thread Nick Guenther
On Jan 8, 2008 8:53 PM, Kevin Stam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looking at a response [2] on a message posted on Libtorrent-devel, I > believe it is not an OpenBSD-only situation: > > "/me marks another notch on the list of kernels and compilers > r/libtorrent has killed..." > > Either all of the v

Re: Help with root partition on RaidFrame

2008-01-08 Thread Nick Guenther
e in the direction of what to look at or give > me any ideas of what could be going wrong. > When you build your new kernel you also need to change config(8) to "set root on raid0". fstab isn't read until *after* the root is mounted, remember; how is it going to know to read from raid0a:/etc/fstab if the file to tell it that is raid0a:/etc/fstab? -Nick

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