TRAP from? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Pruett
I wanted to let you know that any emails from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ARE likely exploited computers, for several weeks we have been avalanced by returns to those addresses significantly more than any others... In my situation, I beleive I can not use spa

Re: TRAP from? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Pruett
From: Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oh, so they found your domain, then. It may be a bit overwhelming right now, but not to worry, spamd is your friend. .the bounces to go away, give it a week before you put any given address into the greytrap. No this is not new and yes I have

obsd 3.4 port of mysql may have error9 issue again...

2008-03-17 Thread Paul Pruett
just a heads up, for mysql on new openbsd 3.4 just did the make build for src with OPENBSD_3_4 Tag and mysql port from anoncvs today because I was starting to see the infamous errorcode 9 with the beta port of mysql If I run mysqlcheck -A against a lot of databases... about the last database i

Re: obsd 3.4 port of mysql may have error9 issue again...

2008-03-19 Thread Paul Pruett
OpenBSD 4.3, you mean. If I run mysqlcheck -A against a lot of databases... about the last database it comes back errors... Error: File './*_drupal/vocabulary_node_types.MYD' not found (Errcode: 9) Error: Got error9 from storage engine error: Corrupt No such issues there with

atactl smartstatus to email other than cron user

2007-01-23 Thread Paul Pruett
Using cron and atactl to email smartstatus errors to an email address other than cron user: - I was playing with the suggesion in the man page for atactl and smart status. After using rc.local to make sure smart is enabled, something like echo -n 'wd0: '

Re: spamd - SPEWS status

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Pruett
It seems like their soft started analyzing the return codes, and so they are resending their mail after a short while. So I think blacklisting is still in rule. -- Since greylisting has become more defacto, I have seen more successfull 411 like spam squeezing through "legitimate" email serv

Re: OT: Domain Name Freedom

2007-02-03 Thread Paul Pruett
Please pardon the off topic post but last month some people on this list were wondering about "Friendly Registrars" after what happened to "Fyodor" (of nmap fame) with is seclists.org domain being shut down by godaddy. godaddy and registerfly have really cheap vale resaler possiblilites, and no

Re: pf rules

2007-02-12 Thread Paul Pruett
block in quick on $ext_if proto tcp from {!$me, !$mynet} to $ext_if port 80 read also http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/tables.html another way to deal with negative in your pf.conf is to use tables... maybe try a table with safeip combinations like, but do test and read and try variations, this

cyrus squatter haning computer?

2007-02-22 Thread Paul Pruett
Has anyone else had a problem with cyrus-imap squatter causing the enire computer to hang? cyrus-imapd-2.2.13p0 OpenbBSD 4.0 I had /etc/cyrus.conf to do squatter at 06:00 and maybe after about five to seven days the computer would hang, either with the display frozen or no display, requiring a

same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Pruett
After consideration and due to weird problems afore discussed, I will likely be upgrading an openbsd 4.0 i386 server to an openbsd 4.0 amd64. Yes in retrospect I should have used the amd64 build not the i386 build on an athlon64 cpu... But I now have a 'production ' cyrus-imapd/sendmail server th

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Pruett
I have received several assurances that -current may have resolved some weirds for i386 on amd64 processors... With hesitation I could try jumping to current instead of stable amd64. I have used -current on productin before, but only after verifying the ports could make w/o fubars Either amd64

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-03-02 Thread Paul Pruett
The fix was just to remove PAE support from the i386 kernel (until the bug is found). So, try copying the latest snapshot kernel to /bsd and reboot. Just grab it from the snapshots/i386 directory on the ftp server. Agreed, I did not see a easy one line change to kernel compile to remove PAE fo

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-03-03 Thread Paul Pruett
The fix was just to remove PAE support from the i386 kernel (until the bug is found). So, try copying the latest snapshot kernel to /bsd and reboot. Just grab it from the snapshots/i386 directory on the ftp server. I copied a current i386 kernel from this week , and it rebooted okay on the a

yelp...bit screwed, cyrus-imap not starting after switch to 64bit

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Pruett
Okay, sorry to pester list, but I jumped and fell short on an active mail machine, about 6 hours ago. I knew doing this on a cyrus-imapd server was insane I "Upgraded" from i386 openbsd 4.0 to amd64 openbsd 4.0 So if someone experienced with cyrus-imapd on amd64 can send me some suggestions

Re: yelp...bit screwed, cyrus-imap not starting after switch to 64bit

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Pruett
If you actually ran the upgrade from the install media to do this I have no idea what sort of cruft you've left messed up. Most of us on the list are probably shaking our heads My advice? get another box, start from scratch on i386 and see what you can salvage. My suspicion is

note - upgrading from i386 to amd64 sameversion.

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Pruett
Re: yelp...bit screwed, cyrus-imap not starting after switch to 64bit i am surprised that you didn't reinstall. seems easy enough provided you backup your mail directories, or, better yet, you move them to a different machine and then mount them via NFS until you're ready to migrate them back

Re: Wireless PCI card recommendation needed

2007-03-09 Thread Paul Pruett
If you can't find a card with the transmit power you want, you may be able to get the range you're looking for from antenna gain and type. Here is some info if you go the antenna route to improve gain. Note a directional antenna is the best, but then you have to be pointing in the direction..

use OpenBSD to blacklist phone calls?

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Pruett
OpenBSD spamd works great for blacklisting IPs, and maybe it could be use for our blacklisting telephone calls using callerID? Even though we are on the 'do not call' registry we still get 4-10 calls a day at home, and at work its just phone spam spam spam Thinking about adding a modem that

Re: use OpenBSD to blacklist phone calls?

2007-03-21 Thread Paul Pruett
mgetty might have something useful - see http://home.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/mgetty_15.html thanks. Hmm, maybe it can be as simple as setting up fax support for just the black list. From what I read on your link, it suggests the configuration can be set to only accept for specified numbers.

Re: use OpenBSD to blacklist phone calls?

2007-03-23 Thread Paul Pruett
SUCCESS the package mgetty+sendfax can be used to intercept phone calls by callerID using fax answer after modification to port mgetty+sendfax --- notes --- I had ordered a generic modem for asterisk usage, but was warned that it may need "Zaptel" support by a subscriber, so that was a wasted $6

adding video cameras for cms on openbsd.

2007-03-31 Thread Paul Pruett
Any suggestions for opensource video survelliance applications on OpenBSD? I setup an openbsd server to support a condominium association, and it has been successful using cyrus-imap and drupal. Now I was asked if we could add video cameras and security using the openbsd server. The short answe

Re: adding video cameras for cms on openbsd.

2007-04-03 Thread Paul Pruett
followup to my inquiry: An approach to security surveilliance is to use projects already maturing for recording television shows, DVR, digital video recorders, and implement a web interface. This port looks interesting: FFmpeg is a collection of free software that can record, convert and stream

anyone using zoneminder.com on OpenBSD?

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Pruett
Is anyone using ZoneMinder, www.zoneminder.com on OpenBSD? And if so, impressions? gotchas? I was unable to google success for openbsd, but saw some port activity for freebsd. Zoneminder (uses php/mysql/apache + ?): "ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security appli

Re: anyone using zoneminder.com on OpenBSD?

2007-04-23 Thread Paul Pruett
Is anyone using ZoneMinder, www.zoneminder.com on OpenBSD? the zoneminder shop links to some compatible video capture cards like a 16 port video capture card for $169 using the Connexant BT878a chipset http://store.bluecherry.net/16_port_video_capture_card_linux_bt878_p/pv-155.htm The man pa

Re: anyone using zoneminder.com on OpenBSD?

2007-04-24 Thread Paul Pruett
Is anyone using ZoneMinder, www.zoneminder.com on OpenBSD? fyi, It appears the answer is no, so here lies a trail blazing opportunity :( I received a few emails offline from others with interest, and an associate is going to lend some cameras to test with, so I may pursue this for awhile a

spamd for http?

2007-05-20 Thread Paul Pruett
spamd version for http? Instead of just grepping the logs and adding to the pf tables, and blocking, love to redirect to a fake webserver and waste their time also Guess I could redirect their http(s) requests to spamd, confuse the hell out their http client.. :) Getting tired of seeing the

spamd-setup and CBL list chokes on 5million+ address files

2007-10-13 Thread Paul Pruett
FYI - limits on spamd-setup when importing blacklists Playing around with 4.2, and although spamd in grey mode no longer uses table, it still choked with a 'malloc' error when I used the CBL list as a file in /etc/mail/spamd.conf Since the CBL list is over 5 million lines, I used split to brea

Re: Google employment opportunity

2007-10-13 Thread Paul Pruett
OMG a Google employee was dumb enough to spam an entire mailing list to get to one person. WOW, I thought they hired really smart people. I was thinking it might be a troll too, but I checked the headers... About a year ago I got an employemnt opp email, and was flattered... I did call the rec

Re: mknod fails after wrong arch MAKEDEV

2008-05-04 Thread Paul Pruett
Isn't /tmp mounted with option nodev, by chance? Would not explain it failing in /dev but a good thought. uhmm on this computer, /tmp is on the root partition, did not make a separate mount in fstab for it, ... yes, probably should have made a /tmp partition so as to be able to add options

Re: mknod fails after wrong arch MAKEDEV

2008-05-05 Thread Paul Pruett
How does it fail? Try for example (manually): mkfifo foo mknod foo c 1 1 # cd / # mknod foo c 1 1 ksh: mknod: foo: Invalid argument FAILS with invalid argument. What *can* be an issue is that mknod inside a chroot is not allowed, as well as mknod as non-root (except for pipes, i.e. mknod

mknod Invalid argument after upgrade.

2008-05-07 Thread Paul Pruett
Apologies, but so far suggestions have not worked. What things should I check to fix mknod, short of format hard drive? Situation, after possibly messing up using a wrong MAKDEV during upgrade to OBSD 4.3 (amd64) from beta, I fixed by making sure /dev was empty of all, then booting from sta

smtp-vilter may not put IP into pf table if cannot resolve hostname

2006-10-16 Thread Paul Pruett
Anyone else using smtp-vilter.conf with the "react on" statment, like react on spam add to table vilterspam for 1 day And if so do you notice error messages when the hostname can not be resolved like: Oct 17 03:41:23 mail smtp-vilter[25288]: pftable_modify: can not resolve hostname [202.46.1

docs for OpenLDAP and cyrus-imapd on OpenBSD?

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Pruett
Looking for docs for OpenLDAP and cyrus-imapd on OpenBSD I am trying to implement cyrus-imap on OpenBSD sendmail for virtual hosting with support for pop3, imap (localhost), and smtp-auth. I've googled so much information with that just did not quite fit that it is daunting for those of us wh

Re: docs for OpenLDAP and cyrus-imapd on OpenBSD?

2006-10-29 Thread Paul Pruett
If all you want about LDAP is to authenticate your users from LDAP, then Cyrus IMAPd will just do it from sasl interface. Be sure you have installed cyrus-sasl package with "ldap" flavor I think I need a little more than that, I am not even sure how best to insert the username realm and password

Re: docs for OpenLDAP and cyrus-imapd on OpenBSD?

2006-10-30 Thread Paul Pruett
I have it working a similar setup. All you need once the openldap side is runnning (and there are lots of docs about OpenLDAP for users authentication out there): Thanks, got openldap with bdb up using various example conf files... Getting the openldap side supporting a table or index or proper

Re: docs for OpenLDAP and cyrus-imapd on OpenBSD?

2006-11-03 Thread Paul Pruett
I did it, finally. the promised notes: http://www.cocoavillagepublishing.com/development/tools/openbsd/tips/cyrus-imapd/ It was not obvious to me how to setup LDAP with Cyrus-IMAP and Sendmail all in harmony for virtual hosting while still having things like /etc/mail/virtusertable work with t

customize smtp mesg for GREYTRAPPING?

2006-12-01 Thread Paul Pruett
apologies, but I was not able to man or google this question: When using the "Greytrapping" feature of spamd, can you and if so how do you customize the message used for the smtp dialogue for the the 24 blacklisted IP address? Is it done in the spamd.conf(5) like we do for the other blacklists?

goldflipper as a ringer for cellphone

2005-06-12 Thread Paul Pruett
Okay WAY 2 cool I finally killed the old cell phone I was using for years and years, and got a sprintpcs replacement with multimedia (after signing another 2 years...:( Anywho Had to try making a ringer, what better mp3 than an OpenBSD lyric! I trimmed 29 seconds from the Gold Flipper and

Re: phpbb

2005-06-18 Thread Paul Pruett
sauce for the goose... On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Clint M. Sand wrote: Anyone care to share a procmail line to destroy any message with "how do I" "chroot" and "mysql and php"? see http://perlcode.org/tutorials/procmail/proctut/ HINT By default, procmail scans only the headers of the email message

ssh from cellpone to openbsd

2005-06-25 Thread Paul Pruett
FYI - I was able to ssh2 vith vt320term using username/password to openbsd using sprintpcs cellphone (not the fancy palm like ones but the newer lesser vision phones that play media and midp java apps) application on cellphone: MidpSSH is an SSH and Telnet client for MIDP 1.0 / 2.0 devices s

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Paul Pruett
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html Ed, man! !man ed On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Richard P. Koett wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 09:01:40 -0700 From: Richard P. Koett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Text editor You guys are all sissies. Real men use cat(1).

any luck with CBL for spamd pf Table ?

2005-08-07 Thread Paul Pruett
Tried to use CBL for spamd.conf, it was a bust. may have been sysadmin err0r/misunderstanding..:). Anyone else successfully using CBL for /usr/libexec/spamd-setup ? It appears that the CBL black list has about 1,744,279 entries The CBL list is a big part of the Spamhaus XBL list, and gets a

success - equifax signed cert for starttls and under us16.00

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Pruett
-- Musings on getting a CA signed cert for STARTTLS and other gotchas -- If you ask the companies who market SSL certs about sendmail, they will say that they don't support certs for mail, but for websites only. But maybe the help/support desks are wr

Re: success - equifax signed cert for starttls and under us16.00

2006-03-15 Thread Paul Pruett
if I remember correctly, the last time I tried Postfix on OpenBSD, I can use self-generated SSL cert. Hope it's helpful to you. self-signed certs can work with mail smtp servers postfix or sendmail, man starttls But when you used self-signed certificates, other servers or clients may at a m

Re: sftp and scp and chroot

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Pruett
there is better alternative w/o need to breaking ssh down: An alternative to jailkit is chrsh http://www.adg.us/computers/chrsh.html it also does not require changing any code in ssh, it is a chroot jail wrapper, invoked by setting user's shell to the wrapper. (warning - warning - if you inc

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

2006-03-21 Thread Paul Pruett
If you didn't already, try running rsync as a *server* on the Windows side (if you want SSH, forward the ports). There's a cygwin bug that bites rsync in some circumstances (when network buffers fill, iirc). rather than setting a standalone rsyn server listening to a port, you can try a minamili

ANS: Mysql Crontab Question

2006-04-09 Thread Paul Pruett
I never googled an answer to this, but I found what may be why: From: Eric Moore (*) Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 16:14:34 CDT If I run, root #> mysqladmin refresh it runs properly, reading the root password from .my.cnf. If I run the same from the crontab: 52 20 * * * /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin

can mixed case username receive email

2006-05-16 Thread Paul Pruett
Is there a way to deliver email to usernames with mixed case? looking at OpenBSD 3.8 w/ sendmail Per the man page for adduser it is recommended to use only lowercase, but it will take mixed case for a login and be case sensitive. So for example adduser EWhite but if after I try mail EWhite

Re: can mixed case username receive email

2006-05-17 Thread Paul Pruett
good answer On Tue, 16 May 2006, Claus Assmann wrote: Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:08:43 -0700 From: Claus Assmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: misc@openbsd.org To: Paul Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: can mixed case username receive email On Tue,

Re: ssh brute force attacks

2005-11-14 Thread Paul Pruett
I'm the same way - I do not look forward to spending an afternoon upgrading a box, and then manually hacking through the config files checking for changes. After 30 minutes of this mind-numbing minutae, I usually start making mistakes which leads to more time consumed. Anyway - most upgrades are n

Re: #define failure opportunity

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Pruett
omg what a load of , to funny, any coporation stupid enough to fall for that story by ssh to buy Tectia ssh and not use openssh deserves to be taken for plus the security issues they will get. - article referenced- http://www.ssh.com/company/newsroom/article/684/ smarter companies w

pfctl cannot allocate memory for using spamd w/ Table for CBL

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Pruett
suggestions? since upgrading to openbsd 3.8 I noted my spamd was not blocking, looked closer and with me using the CBL table (huge) trying spamd-setup gave this response: pfctl Cannot allocate memory The spamd is loading okay so long as I don't use a whopper table like the CBL, rsync://rsync.c

fyi - openbsd 3.8 squirrelmail php bug and imap-uw

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Pruett
I ran into something w/ squirrelmail on openBSD 3.8 with uw imap needing plain text login and with a php bug causing timeouts short answer - use flavor "plaintext" with imap-uw instead of trying edit of /etc/c-client.cf - and use imap serverside sort option on squirrelmail - or manually update/

Login shell chroot implementation - unofficial chrsh openbsd port issues

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Pruett
This is in response to an email awhile back: http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0208/msg00558.html Friday, July 19, 2002, 9:01:11 AM, you wrote: I have used many softwares like chrsh (Aaron Grifford) on a port from Ben Goren but didn't get it to work. I've done *everything* Aaron and

Re: Login shell chroot implementation - unofficial chrsh openbsd port issues

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Pruett
- - details and notes -- read no further unless need to know - . rm ./chrsh/w-chrsh-1.0b2/chrsh/chrsh.c oops thats my very bad, should be rm

Re: smtp-vilter + spam filtering question

2006-02-01 Thread Paul Pruett
FYI, the version on the stable port is old, it is upto smtp-vilter-1.2.5 http://www.etc.msys.ch/software/smtp-vilter/ I was using monit to restart the port milter-spamd when it would die about one or two times a week, I downloaded 1.2.4 and did the make install - went non standard and set it to

chrsh unofficial w/ current 3.9 - nope

2006-02-06 Thread Paul Pruett
Just a heads up for the few that use Ben Goren's Trumpetpower port for chrsh, http://www.trumpetpower.com/OpenBSD/chrsh It may not work as is with OpenBSD 3.9, without tweaking. but the official ports for current is compiling nicely even kde so far! got the following with current grabbed this

Re: chrsh unofficial w/ current 3.9 - nope

2006-02-07 Thread Paul Pruett
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 07:34:06 -0500 From: Jeff Quast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> i havn't looked at the code--but i've seen this before, try adding #include somewhere. For unofficial chrsh port with current (3.9) got the following with current grabbed this weekend, complaining about extra tokens at e

Re: Dilemma: between OpenBSD and NetBSD

2012-08-12 Thread Paul Pruett
> But in the past couple of years, I see hangers on trying to show off by bullying new comers, and that's really distasteful Possibly what you are experiencing in part is "bikeshedding" http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality I was

anyone tried the freebsd version of teamspeak3 with the freebsd emulation?

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Pruett
Was wondering if anyone else has recently tried the teamspeak3 server using the freesbsd (x86) beta server for download on an openbsd with freebsd kernel emulation? -tia.

mod_frontpage fopen fail for fpEXEC log after upgrade.

2011-01-11 Thread Paul Pruett
I have a legacy server, that supports some older frontpage website, yes I know.. but the customer wants it and the i886 still has mod_frontpage in ports. so I upgraded from i386 openbsd 4.6 to openbsd 4.8 and everything seemed to make it. it was brought to my attetion that while frontpage

mod_frontpage fopen problem on fpEXEC log after upgrade.

2011-01-11 Thread Paul Pruett
I have a legacy server, that supports some older frontpage website, yes I know.. but the customer wants it and the i886 still has mod_frontpage in ports. I upgraded from i386 openbsd 4.6 to openbsd 4.8 and everything seemed to make it.I got a call about frontpage it seems that while I see

Re: mod_frontpage fopen fail for fpEXEC log after upgrade.

2011-01-11 Thread Paul Pruett
fixed... problem was that kernel no longer supports bsdi Thank you for the observation by the other poster! On 1/11/2011 9:04 AM, Paul Pruett wrote: I upgraded from i386 openbsd 4.6 to openbsd 4.8 and everything seemed to make it. it was brought to my attention that while frontpage does log