Re: Paris..

2015-11-13 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:10:53 -0800, Ryan Freeman wrote: >Completely off-topic but I am concerned for the .fr devs.. > >http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/paris-police-report-shootout-at-restaurant-explosion-near-stadium/article27256201/ > >Can I get a ping to this thread from all the .fr fo

Another year goes by

2013-05-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
Happy birthday Theo. Many more, I trust. Thanks for your leadership and the quality work that engenders amongst others. R/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is

Re: Boning the Troll

2013-07-12 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:59:33 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: > >Troll feeding is a mostly unskilled operation, many more people are >available for this service than for anything requiring actual thought. > +1! *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender a

BGPd filter puzzle

2013-08-06 Thread Rod Whitworth
I logged in to an OpenBGPd router which I maintain remotely as I needed to check something from dmesg. The command "dmesg|less" resulted in 150 lines, none of which was what I expected to see. Here are some samples: cannot forward src fe80:0005::0420:77e7:f6bf:3550, dst 2406:a000::0006:0d08, n

Re: BGPd filter puzzle

2013-08-06 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 07:30:49 +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote: >This is from the network stack, it does not mean that bgpd added routes >for this. For that you should check bgpctl show rib, bgpctl show fib and >route(8) output. I'll have to check when some traffic is passing. Pity the error line doesn't

Re: 5.3 Installer Hangs After Entering Netmask (Broadcom NIC)

2013-09-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 22:45:50 -0700, andrew fabbro wrote: >I have a Shuttle SD11G5, which is a small Celeron-based PC (1.5Ghz Celeron, >2GB RAM, a couple SATA drives). > >The OpenBSD 5.3 installer consistently hangs after I enter the Netmask for >the onboard NIC. > >I'm booting the 32-bit x86 instal

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:01:13 +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: >2013/9/19 > >> Alexander Hall wrote: >> > Marc already anwered all your questions. Let me quote it. >> > >> > > Fuck off >> >> The most brilliant answers of the experts: >> > >An old quote which fits nicely here: > >A book is a mirror:

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-22 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:34:15 +0200, Marc Espie wrote: >On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:28:24PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: >> There are some tools in the ports tree, like ports-readmes, that fulfill >> the same purpose but make use of the infrastructure to do a better job. >> http://ports.su/ is b

Re: Forced shutdown due high temperatures

2013-11-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:23:56 +, E. Goncalves wrote: >Hello there, I've just installed OpenBSD 5.4 on my machine and a few >minutes >of uptime without doing nothing the system shuts down saying the >temperature >is high, and I put my hands on top of keyboard in the location where the >process

Re: offtopic - postfix book/doc recommendation

2008-12-06 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 19:01:30 -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: >On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:30:32AM +0100, Jesus Sanchez wrote: >> I want to start learning about postfix running on OpenBSD >> for a serious pourpose than home services. >> >> Think I'm not familiar with the mail servers concepts >> and I'm st

BGPLG mostly working

2008-12-07 Thread Rod Whitworth
For a BGP project I'm working on, I have enables bgplg using the steps outlined in the manpage. The stuff that gets results using bgpctl shows valid data for all the choices that I'd expect to have anything showing without actually being on line. e.g. the summary and memory choices. Although I di

Re: BGPLG mostly working

2008-12-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:06:16 -0600, tico wrote: >Rod Whitworth wrote: >> For a BGP project I'm working on, I have enables bgplg using the steps >> outlined in the manpage. >> >> The stuff that gets results using bgpctl shows valid data for all the >> ch

Network challenge?

2008-12-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
I have a friend who has two internet connections. Lucky B! He wants me to have a look at some of his operation without travelling to his site (lng way). I would need to be able to effectively duplicate some of his system and make it look like it was still at his site. Hopefully I can keep the

Re: Network challenge?

2008-12-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:03:40 -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: >On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 07:49:04AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> I have a friend who has two internet connections. Lucky B! >> >> He wants me to have a look at some of his operation without travelling >> to his

Re: Network challenge?

2008-12-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:30:55 -0600, John Jackson wrote: > >The layer 2 IPSEC bridge example here has worked well for me in the past >for extending networks: >http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=brconfig&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html > Thanks John but my

Re: Network challenge?

2008-12-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:40:56 -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: >I don't know how to answer your question because the network art above >is unreadable. gre(4) will allow you to route networks across a tunnel. >Think of it as IPSec without the Sec. It will allow networks that are >usually non-routable (rfc

Re: Network challenge?

2008-12-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:29:16 -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: >On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 09:16:29AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 16:40:56 -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: >> >> >I don't know how to answer your question because the network art above >> >

Re: OpenBGPd kickstart

2008-12-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
Continuing the learning process: Since my last session on this I've had lots of pointers to things I could research. Particular thanks to Stuart. Man oh man, there are lots of monkeys typing junk that Google pads out the useful search results with. Anyway there are some things that are a matter

Re: OpenBGPd kickstart

2008-12-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
es) Hopefully there will be some tutorial value for others setting out to do BGP without the big name router makers' training to get the basics. Very gratefully, Rod/ On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:41:40 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2008-12-10, Rod Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Carp with aliases route problem

2009-02-23 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:52:33 -0600, Todd T. Fries wrote: >As a corrilary, for those ISP's who think there is only need for a >single /30 for a client's router, the concept of failover routers >means 1 physical IP per router, and 1 IP for the failover IP, aka >3 IP's for the client side, dictating

Re: Inexpensive, low power, "wall wart" computer

2009-02-25 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:26:05 +0200, Lars Nood+*n wrote: >David Vasek wrote: >> What would be firewire good for? > >Data transfer such as for full backups or cloning or audio/video. >Haven't tested it yet on OpenBSD, I still have USB-only / ethernet-base >storage for those systems. Subjectively, I

Re: NAT, Firewall & pf

2009-02-25 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:39:08 -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: >You need states created for traffic passing through the pf firewall, >specifically through the $ext_if to allow packets flowing back in, >otherwise line 09 blocks those packets. I don't see where states would >get created for outbound

Re: NAT, Firewall & pf

2009-02-25 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:39:31 -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: >The floating states based on line 10 would be for pre-NAT sources on >$int_if and wouldn't match any inbound packets on $ext_if. Unless I'm >misunderstanding how NAT works with pf, there are no pass out rules >that would create states

Re: NAT, Firewall & pf

2009-02-25 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:27:24 -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: >On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:14:43PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:39:31 -0800, patrick keshishian wrote: >> >> >The floating states based on line 10 would be for pre-NAT sources on >> &

Re: Ramifications of blocking SYN+FIN TCP packets

2009-03-12 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:17:30 +0100, ropers wrote: >You could have scrubbing turned off at the bride So what's she going to do? Just the dishes? Why did he marry her anyway? *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the

Re: Ramifications of blocking SYN+FIN TCP packets

2009-03-13 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:30:38 +1100, SJP Lists wrote: >2009/3/13 Rod Whitworth : > >>>You could have scrubbing turned off at the bride >> >> So what's she going to do? Just the dishes? >> Why did he marry her anyway? >> >> > >Careful Rod, fr

Re: PF and CLamAV "Integration" - how to do it?

2009-03-20 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:35:57 +, Pedro la Peu wrote: >I'm not sure it matters, you only catch some bank phish, not much >benefit for the effort expended. Unless you have some tasty poker chips to serve with them ;-) *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the send

Re: SOEKRIS - How to install MTR to a Flashdist image

2009-03-26 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:53:16 -0700 (PDT), Frothingdog.ca wrote: >Wow pretty sad when people have nothing better to do then bash on someone who >is just trying to learn the ropes. I full install to flash is next on the >todo list, I wanted to figure this out because this is what was used 3+ >year

Re: OpenBSD mta with postfix

2009-03-27 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:24:31 -0500, Matthew Weigel wrote: >John Brooks wrote: >> I've just received this response from a large corporate email >> system regarding their claim that emails sent to them are not >> getting through even though our logs contain acknowledgements >> of accepting the mail

Re: OpenBSD mta with postfix

2009-03-28 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:50:21 -0500, Matthew Weigel wrote: >Rod Whitworth wrote: > >>>> Anybody run into this kind of logic before? >>> Yes, that's part of how greytrapping works: >>> http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd#GREYTRAPPING >

Dovecot happy on 5.6?

2014-12-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
I have been trying out dovecot for some years and it has always had some irritating "bug" or limitation and I have seen a few gripes from others. It seems to have been very quiet lately so I thought I'd have another attempt to get it running whilst choosing options that look like ones to suit

What happened when 5.5 met my old reliable box

2014-12-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
[dmesg follows] I have several light weight i386 boxes made by Aopen around y2k at the time of the shonky motherboard caps. A customer gave me all the ones that had not failed until well out of warranty and I bought a bag of superior caps and swapped out all the bad ones and they all have bee

Re: What happened when 5.5 met my old reliable box

2014-12-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:16:52 -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: >On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 16:05, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> I tried 5.5 - crashes there too. >> >> 5.4 and earlier work well. >> >> Clues? I love these low power skinny boxes in my rack and I'm betting tha

Re: What happened when 5.5 met my old reliable box

2014-12-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
h something >like"tip -v -19200 tty00" you can then start tip. >If you have an USB->Serial converter you need to use ttyU0 as mentioned in >ucom(4) >On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> >> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:16:52 -0500, Ted Unangst wrot

Re: What happened when 5.5 met my old reliable box

2014-12-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:22:35 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: Thanks much. A different approach to some others. I'll file them all because I suspect that one method will suit one problem better than others. >On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:48:05 +0100, Adriaan wrote: >>From the OpenBSD

Re: Dovecot happy on 5.6?

2014-12-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:11:34 -0500, Brad Smith wrote: >On 12/15/14 23:48, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> I have been trying out dovecot for some years and it has always had some >> irritating "bug" or >> limitation and I have seen a few gripes from others. >> >&

Follow up from "What happened...."

2014-12-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
Here is a rough dump of the attempted install: cannot open cd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory booting cd0a:/5.5/i386/bsd.rd: 6038804+425032 [72+234464+223327]=0x699f80 entry point at 0x200120 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of Califor

Re: Follow up from "What happened...."

2014-12-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:10:52 +0100, Marc Peters - m...@mpeters.org wrote: >On 12/17/14 04:32, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> Here is a rough dump of the attempted install: >> >[snip] >> Let's install the sets! >> Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'd

BGPD.conf - Clue needed

2015-02-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
I'm trying to help a friend with a bgpd problem and I'm cutting down the bgpd.conf more than I normally would because I'm prepping for a serious eye operation and I don't have the time to edit the entire file to make it impervious to unwanted viewers. Here are what I think illustrates the pro

Hiawatha install on 5.6 i386

2015-02-22 Thread Rod Whitworth
Installed from my ISP's mirror. Starting hiawatha results in: Warning: can't write PID file /usr/local/var/run/hiawatha.pid. There is no file of that name found by locate. There is no directory var/run in /usr/local/ hiawatha runs seemly ok other than the above. Any clues? /R/ Rod/ >From the

Re: Hiawatha install on 5.6 i386 :: FIXED by guess

2015-02-23 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:32:18 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >Installed from my ISP's mirror. > >Starting hiawatha results in: >Warning: can't write PID file /usr/local/var/run/hiawatha.pid. > >There is no file of that name found by locate. >There is no directory var

Re: spammers getting less stupid?

2012-11-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:52:50 +0100, Joakim Aronius wrote: >* Kurt Mosiejczuk (kurt-openbsd-m...@se.rit.edu) wrote: >> Jan Stary wrote: >> >> >Strangely, the only occurence of 2.139.201.210 in the last month's >> >maillog is just this; that's half an hour after it got WHITE. >> >What happend at Mon

Thinkpad choice?

2012-11-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
I already have a Lenovo Edge model that has the sandybridge graphics that aren't fully supported right now and I'd be surprised if that changes any time soon. AIUI it won't be a minor fix and I'm not whining about how long it will take. Instead I'm hoping I can pick a Thinkpad that is workable

Re: Thinkpad choice? -Is Nvidia tolerable for generic X?

2012-11-11 Thread Rod Whitworth
alternative at Lenovo, Nvidia, might behave better in that respect. > > >On 2012 Nov 10 (Sat) at 17:06:12 +1100 (+1100), Rod Whitworth wrote: >:I already have a Lenovo Edge model that has the sandybridge graphics >:that aren't fully supported right now and I'd be surprised

Re: Crowding out OpenBSD

2012-11-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:49:37 -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >https://lwn.net/Articles/524606/ > >don't have a subscription but for those who do, enjoy. > But http://lwn.net/Articles/524920/ will give you the idea without $$$ R/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to t

Time conversion

2012-12-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
I think I'm suffering from OldTimers Disease ;-) I often have cause to use "date -r " to show me what the date stamp is in human terms. It is usually in spamd or on some documents I get that are time stamped using the seconds since the epoc. Now I have a need to generate some timestamps of my own

Re: Time conversion

2012-12-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:47:32 +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: >On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:31:43AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >| Cluebat? > >date +%s Ah yes. Reading the date man page won't do one any good unless you follow the pointer to strftime. Thanks for the wakeup which

Re: Time conversion

2012-12-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:55:37 +1300, m...@extensibl.com wrote: >On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:31:43AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> I think I'm suffering from OldTimers Disease ;-) >> >> I often have cause to use "date -r " to show me what the date stamp is &g

I need a little more Enlightenment

2013-01-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
Present machine (dmesg below) is really "fun" to work with X but that will go away with current. I found that out by installing the Jan 9 snap onto a USB stick. I'll start running that or later snaps when my new custom built T series laptop arrives. Meanwhile I decided to try running Enlightenment

Re: I need a little more Enlightenment

2013-01-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:33:54 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: >On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:35:24PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> E installs without whining. >> >> I changed xinitrc to remove the icewm setting and added:- >> exec enlightenment_start >> >> star

Re: I need a little more Enlightenment

2013-01-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:13:09 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: >On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:50:36AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:33:54 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> >The dmesg you quoted is from 5.2. Please show the -current dmesg from >> >

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:09:56 -0600, Maximo Pech wrote: >Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few >technical skills. Crap! It is well documented and very little data needs to be typed in as most input can be done by accepting the default. > >Why not make it a live sy

Re: Precisions on ZFS (was: Millions of files in /var/www & inode / out of space issue.)

2013-02-21 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:54:58 -0430, Andres Perera wrote: >On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado > wrote: > >> OpenBSD doesn't have support for loadable kernel modules or FUSE, so >> OpenBSD should include the code inside of the kernel. This is a big >> difference with Fre

Re: Pre-orders for 5.3

2013-03-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:53:29 +0100, ropers wrote: >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAZXO5UbnU Aquarela was 5.2's song *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is pro

Happy Birthday Stu

2013-04-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
I don't know where I found out your birthday date Stuart, it's the only one of the devs and I never went hunting for any of them. In any case it's a chance to thank you for being a very productive member of the great team that is OpenBSD and a very polite and helpful friend to many of us. So Happ

5.3 halfway round the world (almost)

2013-05-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
I pre-ordered on the day that orders opened. I'll probably never order #1 due to the timeshift but that's life. My CD sets and the Absolute OpenBSD Second Edition ( on paper) were postmarked May 2 (which is already May 3 here) and the parcel arrived and cleared customs by May 10. Great artwork an

Re: RIP Paul Schenkeveld

2015-03-31 Thread Rod Whitworth
e sorted out my hunds transfer. So add my name to the list of those who were helped by a lovely man. Maybe someone close to his family can pass on my condolences from around the world. Vale Paul. Rod Whitworth. > >Just recently Paul held a tutorial at AsiaBSDcon 2015; as we know >he

Da man passing an other year

2015-05-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
Happy Birthday Theo. Rod/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not the r

Whooda thunkit?

2015-06-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH Seen on /. this morning (Australia EST) I hope the contributations are generous.. R/ Rod/ >From the land "down under": Australia. Do we look from up over?

Re: Whooda thunkit?

2015-06-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:31:26 +1000, Rod Whitworth wrote: >I hope the contributations are generous.. > Oh dear! Fingers running without brain looking. Rod/ In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain The Word of Rod.

Faulty memory - not the hardware

2015-09-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
About 18 months I set up two i386 boxes running 5.5. One is called HOME and the other is AWAY and they were set up with SSH confugured to allow AWAY to call HOME to get some data by using the home data to be seen at AWAY and to use AWAY to remotely modify data at HOME. It worked perfectly...

Re: Faulty memory - not the hardware

2015-09-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
Whoops! Forgot to say both ends are running XFCE4. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ -

OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD 5.9

2016-04-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
I'm trying to replace Postfix with OpenSMTPD and I'm having a battle. I don't seem to be able to get the clues to match the hardware and the configure recipes that I need. The most up to date I can find breaks at the second stanza and I can guess that the instructions for configuring for PF are f

Re: OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD 5.9

2016-04-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 10:12:23 -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: >On 04/08/16 23:25, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> I'm trying to replace Postfix with OpenSMTPD and I'm having a battle. >> >> I don't seem to be able to get the clues to match the hardware and the >> con

Re: OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD 5.9

2016-04-12 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:31:35 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 10:12:23 -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > >>On 04/08/16 23:25, Rod Whitworth wrote: >>> I'm trying to replace Postfix with OpenSMTPD and I'm having a battle. >>> >>> I do

Does OpenBGPd suffer collateral damage with this?

2014-08-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-flakey-is-the-inter net-20140816-104t8p.html I would love to hear that our beloved BGP routers are the only ones that don't get screwed or at least we are one of the few. I haven't heard any noises from the hosting site that I look after. ***

OT? - people going to EuroBSDcon in Sofia

2014-09-03 Thread Rod Whitworth
Hello from Aus. I don't want to clutter this list so I have provided a temporary email address for ALL replies. Please use nods dot 20 dot wtw at xoxy dot net I am going to Sofia and it is about 32+ hours from home to hotel flying out of Sydney Aus. So I am arriving on Thursday 25 Sep. and I ha

2 VoIP phones on one line

2014-10-22 Thread Rod Whitworth
Years ago I bought a Minitar VoIP ATA and it was great. Then SWMBO wanted one too and I set up siproxd which mostly worked. Then I go two global IPs and put one ATA/Phone on each. Perfect! No Siproxd! Now I am about to need those 2 IPs. Neither phone needs to recieve incoming calls. Anybody us

Re: 2 VoIP phones on one line

2014-10-23 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:24:56 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: >On 2014-10-23, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> Years ago I bought a Minitar VoIP ATA and it was great. >> >> Then SWMBO wanted one too and I set up siproxd which mostly worked. >> >> Then I go two global

I haven't heard of anyone else with this screen problem

2014-03-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
A while back I posted a tech message dealing with a couple of buglets. One got fixed pronto (that's why we test lots of snapshots) and the other got attention from jsg@ and I tried all his suggestions but we had no luck. I nobody else has the prob then it's hard to justify wasting too much tim

Re: I haven't heard of anyone else with this screen problem

2014-03-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
Didn't do the edit properly. Fixed here. Sorry. On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:53:06 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >A while back I posted a tech message dealing with a couple of buglets. > > >One got fixed pronto (that's why we test lots of snapshots) and the >other got attent

Randall strikes again!

2014-03-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
http://xkcd.com/1343/ NB xkcd newbies: There is a message that pops up if you place the mouse pointer inside the frame. Enjoy! *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address

New hardware for BGPd

2014-04-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
I've been running a couple of Soekris 5501s with an add-in 4-port network card. We are looking to upgrade and I need to get a clue about suitable hardware. Google is, these days, totally crap for searching things like what I need and I'm sure there is more than one bit of kit that is running Open

Re: New hardware for BGPd

2014-04-07 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:21:59 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: >I should be getting a supermicro A1SAi-2550F box from a system builder to >test in a week or so, which covers most of this while using less power. >4 ports onboard and a PCIe slot so you could add a quad nic (though for >my intended

Re: New hardware for BGPd

2014-04-07 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 18:51:58 + (UTC), Doros Eracledes wrote: >We had very good results with SuperMicro machines with the X9SCi-LN4 >motherboard. It comes with 4 x Integrated Intel 82574 L Gigabit LAN Ports so >with an additional Intel Quad card we get 8 ports in total. >the CPU we get is the

On the way...Yay!

2014-04-28 Thread Rod Whitworth
Snip from an email this morning (GMT+10): "Shipment from Canada via small packet AIR is confirmed via: CN22 28 April 2014 (ship date). " OpenBSD 5.5 CD sets. Now I just have to wait for airmail and customs here in Australia. If you have been slack about ordering now is the time to do it. Lots o

Re: European orders

2009-04-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:14:03 +1000 (EST), Damien Miller wrote: >On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, ropers wrote: > >> [citation needed] > >http://bit.ly/3dMFBs > Enough of the pix. Send me a real one! It's not far and I'm just a few km from BK. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mai

4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-20 Thread Rod Whitworth
This morning I had an email arrive at "Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:58:36 +1000 (EST)" from computershop.ca announcing that my order had been mailed. At 09:05 I went to check my PO box for the morning mail and found my 2 sets of 4.5 CDs How did Austin and the gang know that my package had made it out of c

Re: OT: Plea for HELP on dual boot MAC/OpenBSD disaster with refit that turn really bad!

2009-05-01 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 01 May 2009 21:55:59 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >Hi, > >Now sure if anyone could give me a hint or pointer, but I very much >would appreciated ANY help if there is actually something possible to do. > >My Son did a mistake on his laptop tonight in trying to upgrade his >OpenBSD partiti

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 14 May 2009 20:55:22 +0100, John Bond wrote: >Hello, > >Im looking into bulding a home rourter device and my obvious OS choice >is OpenBSD however im strugeling to find an ADSL2+ pci cards which i >can use. I have only managed to find to devices which may work > >snagoma data card s519 --

Re: ADSL2+ PCI card

2009-05-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 15 May 2009 17:48:31 -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: >Rod Whitworth [glis...@witworx.com] wrote: >> >> I have no experience with either BUT I do know that the Viking just >> "looks like" a Realtek NIC to OpenBSD. That was done to make the >> provision

Re: Raid controller?

2009-05-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 18 May 2009 05:04:24 -0600, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: >Hard words, Theo. Do you think anyone you talked to >could actually understand what you were sayin'? > Dumb words, Dhu. Do you think anyone who reads this will think you could understand what you were meaning if you did not rea

Re: OpenNTPD warning

2009-05-22 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 22 May 2009 11:43:50 +0200, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: >Hi all, > >I've updated my public NTP server (time.cdmon.com); 4.5 works like a charm! > >Despite of that, I see the following warning in /var/log/messages > >(...] >May 21 23:53:53 time ntpd[12997]: sendto: Can't assign requested ad

Re: primepower sparc64

2009-06-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:27:41 +0200, ropers wrote: >2009/6/11 OsRider : >> http://nakajin.dyndns.org/sparc64.html . > >Looking at that page and its HTML source, it appears that >OpenOffice.org now is everything that was wrong with MS Office ten >years ago. No tool (I've seen) forces wonderful html

Re: spamd nixspam.gz not found

2009-06-24 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:57:16 -0300, Jose Fragoso wrote: >Hi, > >Actually, it is still there. But the format has changed >and spamd is not being able to handle it because the IP >address is now in the second column, like in: > >2009-06-24T12:28+0200 117.199.144.132 > >So, for the time being, the be

Re: spamd nixspam.gz not found

2009-06-25 Thread Rod Whitworth
Some interspersed new text. IMPORTANT for anybody copying scripts. On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 05:19:07 -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: >On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:57:16 -0300, Jose Fragoso wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >&g

Re: spamd nixspam.gz not found

2009-06-25 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:26:48 +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: >or did I thoroughly miss a clue? No. did. I forgot (until reading your note) that pkg_add mentioned using that capability some time in the past. I tried doing ftp to the page (must have been some trace of memory there) but omitted

Re: pf table update-daemon? Does it exist?

2009-06-29 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:23:47 +0200, M. Feenstra wrote: >Hi List, > >I'm getting a bit tired of all those web vulnerability scanners. I generate >a list of 404 requests to find errors in my websites but this list is mainly >filled with these scanners. > >I have added a table to "pf" that blocks

Re: pf table update-daemon? Does it exist?

2009-06-29 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:39:07 +0200, Cristiano Deana wrote: >On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:23 AM, M. Feenstra wrote: > >> Does something like this exist? Or maybe, is there a better way of >> dealing with this? > >http://ossec.net/ > >it's EXACTLY what you want. > They don't say they do pf on their we

Re: Floating disk geometry

2009-06-30 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:26:30 +0600, Sergey Yudin wrote: >no it is not a garbage.. It's just zero filled disk. Geometry detection >process uses info from preexisting partition table? > And the zero fill included the MBR making it garbage. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the lis

Re: EuroBSDCon 2009, Cambridge, UK

2009-07-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:56:35 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: >* Sevan / Venture37 [2009-07-14 19:50]: >> Still some time to go but wondering, who's going? >> I'm very much looking forward to attending for the time. > >otto, tedu and I will be speaking. enough incentive? :) I didn't even know that w

Re: Jan

2011-12-11 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:54:36 +1100, richo wrote: Quoting the current resident full-of-himself little shit. I have a filter that sends stuff from him to /dev/null but he keeps getting answers that raise his google rating because you all go on quoting him. He is an oxygen thief - don't give him an

Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X

2012-02-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
dmesg is under the story, of course. I have been following 5.0 current through 5.1 beta updating from CVS and building through to release and a CD so that I can track stuff. When my smooth red new Thinkpad arrived I decided to use it to try out my latest 5.1beta CD. So I shoved win7 aside and le

Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X

2012-02-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:48:35 +0100, David Coppa wrote: >It's a known bug with Intel Sandybridge: support for this GPU is far >from being optimal. > There goes $552.59 ... ;(( I guess I'd bettr watch the commit messages closely for good news. We live in hope. Thanx for the message, even if it's

Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X

2012-02-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:34:43 +, Fred Crowson wrote: >On 14 February 2012 11:41, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> There goes $552.59 ... ;(( >> >> I guess I'd bettr watch the commit messages closely for good news. We >> live in hope. >> >> Thanx for the mes

Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X

2012-02-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:23:34 +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: >> OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #5: Tue Feb 7 08:26:54 EST 2012 >>r...@nero.witworx.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP > >Is it a custom built kernel ? No way. I just update from CVS and build as per the FAQ instructions. I

Re: SSH Mastery -- New book by Michal Lucas!

2012-02-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:42:21 -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: >Now I can tell people where they can pre-order print. And they will >stop bugging me. ;-) > >Seriously, I'm delighted to be able to do this. I'm giving the books >to the OpenBSD project at my cost. I expect them to use the proceeds >wel

USB-RS232 strange behaviour

2012-02-21 Thread Rod Whitworth
I have been using a USB-RS232 dongle for quite a while since DE9 connectors started going away on laptops. Typically I use "cu -l cuaU0" to connect and everything is fine. Today I tried to use the same (dongle and command) on an old desktop to talk to a Soekris 4801. The message I got was "/dev/

Re: manual about jobs control

2012-04-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:23:56 +0800 (CST), f5b wrote: >In OpenBSD we can use commands like "jobs" "fg" or something else, but why >"man jobs" "man fg" not work? > >and are there anything about "jobs control" in the base Manual? > man 1 ksh then /jobs or /fg Whilst there look at all the other b

Heads-up for Sydney OpenBSD users

2012-04-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
The Ruxcon (security conf) people have some monthly sessions in various cities (Melbourne and Sydney and, IIRC, Perth is on the todo list) with a couple of speakers on each date. This month's Sydney Ruxmon includes a talk by OpenBSD/OpenSSH dev Darren Tucker. Here is the full text of the notice f

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