virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

Yes, I have consulted the interwebs. But, forsooth, the interwebs have forsaken me... I've been running various colocated OpenBSD boxen for a long time (19 years?). The hardware is mine; the phat pipe I pay for, in some aircon'ed warehouse somewhere in southern England... never been... (I'm i

Re: virtual colocation? Amazon/cloud?

On 15/06/2018 00:12, Fred wrote: I like mythic beasts[1] - they have data centres in Cambridge and London - they are technically literate and both my OpenBSD VM are with them. Cheers Fred [1]https://www.mythic-beasts.com/ Aha. Looks interesting. Thanks. Steve

Re: CIDR vs aliases with ifconfig/hostname.if

on. There's also this, which I wrote to help a student (my daughter) understand netmasks and CIDR notation: http://www.fivetrees.com/netmasks/netmasks.php It's kinda fun to watch the bit patterns move around... Steve -- ------ St

Re: CIDR vs aliases with ifconfig/hostname.if

On 03/12/2020 13:20, Steve Fairhead wrote: There's also this, which I wrote to help a student (my daughter) understand netmasks and CIDR notation: http://www.fivetrees.com/netmasks/netmasks.php It's kinda fun to watch the bit patterns move around... I can see from my logs tha

pf: brute-force ssh defence no longer working in OpenBSD 6.8

ubtle change in pf behaviour which is breaking my filter? Thanks, Steve -- ------ Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

Re: pf: brute-force ssh defence no longer working in OpenBSD 6.8

an idiot. I *always* have a default deny at the start of pf.conf. Except this time, I didn't, and didn't spot the omission depsite reviewing it, well, a lot. Oops. (I did say it'd been a while...) Thank you, Peter, for setting this old twit right. Steve -- -----

Any love for HPGL?

Hi folks, Years back (late 80s, 90s) I wrote a comprehensive HPGL emulation package, with support from a hardware manufacturer (and HP): http://www.sfdesign.co.uk/hpglexp.htm Over the years I've seen it integrated into several HPGL viewer utilities (without my permission, of course). Would

Re: errors rebuilding binaries after sysupdate to 7.5

On 21/04/2024 18:46, Steve Fairhead wrote: Still no problem. Then I started to rebuild the binaries: cd /usr/src make obj && make build ... but eventually ran into shedloads of errors until it bailed. The first few errors are: Sorry, missed a bit. Before kernel/binaries

errors rebuilding binaries after sysupdate to 7.5

of member function 'clang::interp::ByteCodeExprGen::VisitBinaryOperator' requested here template class ByteCodeExprGen; ^ What did I do wrong? Thanks, Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead www: http://www.fivetrees.com

errors rebuilding binaries after sysupgrade to 7.5

Hi folks, (Apologies if this is a dupe. Looks to me like this didn't originally get far.) Pretty sure this is pilot error, so please be gentle. I sysupgraded 3 machines (all different) to 7.5; no problems. I then updated installed packages; again no problem. Then I updated the source trees: cd

Re: errors rebuilding binaries after sysupgrade to 7.5

ct dir: rm -rf/usr/obj/* > > Then try again. Nuking /usr/obj/* did the trick. Thanks! I think I'll tweak my process to use a fresh tree checkout after a sysupgrade (as suggested by Marc Peters - thanks!). Steve On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 at 22:09, Steve Fairhead wrote: > Hi folks,

Re: errors rebuilding binaries after sysupgrade to 7.5 - apologies for noise

My last response to Otto seems to have had a lot of noise appended. I replied via gmail, which seems to have added all sorts of things, as my own SPF/DMARC rules seem too strict, and seem to stop the mailing list relaying. Will review. Humbly, Steve

embarrassing mail problem

all cluebats gratefully (and probably painfully) accepted. Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead email: st...@fivetrees.com --

Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

04 GB" for both the original "49 GB" Maildir and the 188 GB copy.) I'm just puzzled, and clearly missing something. Can anyone enlighten me as to the large (nearly 4*) discrepancy? Thanks, Steve -- ------ Steve Fairhe

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

nsion. Apologies for being too brief. I was using: /usr/local/bin/rsync -avz --delete src dest There are no symlinks etc in the Maildir folder in question. I'm not sure if that's what you meant re warning. Thanks, Steve -- -- Steve

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

32753 30977229 8% /home New machine: Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/sd0a 2130681584 1691626016 33252150484% 2679491 30930491 8% /s0 Thanks, Steve -- --

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

.. in case using compression somehow negated the sparse files setting. Again no change - still 188 GB. Mysterious. Thanks, Steve aka Baffled of Bursledon -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service tel: (+44)(

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely) - SOLVED

On 22/01/2023 21:06, Steve Fairhead wrote: After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other folders/partitions) were near-enough identical on both machines, except for one - my boss's 😉 . After more analysis, I found that it was his Maildir (using dovecot) that was

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely) - SOLVED

On 23/01/2023 19:00, Steve Fairhead wrote: On 22/01/2023 21:06, Steve Fairhead wrote: After a lot of analysis, I found that all user folders (and all other folders/partitions) were near-enough identical on both machines, except for one - my boss's 😉 . After more analysis, I found that it

Re: Weirdness with du/df/my brain (latter more likely)

cting hard links in a Maildir. Same apology goes to Steve Litt, whose message I've not received (saw it just now on the marc.info board). Thanks, chaps. Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead email: st...@fivetrees.com www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

smtpd: access.db?

Hi, I'm in newbie mode again. I'm working on replacing an old OpenBSD server running Sendmail with a new one running smtpd. With Sendmail, I rely heavily on the access.db feature to block TLDs, usernames, email addresses, and domains. Is there an equivalent feature with smtpd? Also I can't s

Re: Developing device driver for parallel lcd dispaly modules

On 26/08/2013 09:41, Denis Maros wrote: Yes, i'm talking about 2*20 character LCD display connected to 24 pin parallel port on motherboard. I've tried to access this device simply via this command: # echo "Test" > /dev/lpt0 ksh: cannot create /dev/lpt0: Device busy Yeah, failed. Do you suggest an

blocking openvpn port scanners

I'm probably missing something obvious. Cluebats invited. A few OpenBSD servers I look after have OpenVPN server installed (for homeworkers' access), which means port 1194 is open. Recently they seem to have appeared on some scumbag's "hack this" list, as they're constantly deluged with brute-

Re: blocking openvpn port scanners

On 20/12/2018 13:20, tors...@cnc-london.net wrote: Try to add below to your pf.conf table persist pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if port 1194 \ (max-src-conn 10, max-src-conn-rate 30/5, \ overload flush global) This is pretty much exactly what I have

Re: Daily digest, Issue 4662 (14 messages)

On 22/12/2018 13:20, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-12-20, Steve Fairhead wrote: On 20/12/2018 13:20,tors...@cnc-london.net wrote: Try to add below to your pf.conf table persist pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to $ext_if port 1194 \ (max-src-conn 10, max-src-conn

Re: new (nasty) spam pattern

On 05/08/2015 22:41, Steve Fairhead wrote: FWIW I nowadays record the last IP so that I can see patterns, and at the very least identify spammers which otherwise I would have missed. Finally, this has paid off. After a couple of years of collecting stats, I've identified some patterns,

new (nasty) spam pattern

ing often enough now that gmail and yahoo are rate-limiting my servers because of spam... meep! Seems hugely unfair, and I shall cry. Any cluebats? Steve -- ------ Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

Re: new (nasty) spam pattern

most never bother to resubmit, so it's pretty effective (it cut down my spam to under 5% literally overnight). Yep, already running greylisting. (I did say I was running spamd.) Thanks, Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - f

Re: new (nasty) spam pattern

ggestions for retribution? -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service email: st...@fivetrees.com www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

Re: new (nasty) spam pattern

On 30/07/2015 23:07, Steve Fairhead wrote: Oooh, nice. Some meat there for me to look into. Thanks. Well, it seems I could have phrased that better... (one private response had me nonplussed until I googled the phrase - refers to a male with a larger than average... errr... never mind

Re: new (nasty) spam pattern

e I would have missed. Steve -- ------ Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

dovecot-lda delivery failure: "can't expand ~/"

Hi folks, I'm preparing a new machine (OpenBSD 5.5, Dovecot 2.2.10) to replace an elderly but venerable (OpenBSD 4.3, Dovecot 1.0.10) mailserver. Access from mail clients to the IMAP Maildirs is working fine (so it's not an auth issue, I think), but local mail delivery (to/from system users) i

Re: dovecot-lda delivery failure: "can't expand ~/"

e user, I tried running dovecot-lda manually as the user - it seemed to succeed (with no message to deliver, but maillog showed delivery to INBOX, and the Maildir indexes were updated. Now wondering if it's a sendmail issue... Steve -- --

Re: dovecot-lda delivery failure: "can't expand ~/"

;). Thanks for your help. Steve -- ------ Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service tel: (+44)(0)(1730) 814091 mobile: (+44)(0)(7899) 847346 email: st...@fivetrees.com www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

icalendar support on openbsd 5.5 - mod_dav removed

Hi folks, I'm aware that mod_dav has been removed from 5.5. I was supporting a group of icalendar files under 5.3 with mod_dav. Do I have options for doing the same (read/write access) under 5.5, maybe using a different method or package? Or is there a way of using mod_dav, despite its antiqu

Re: icalendar support on openbsd 5.5 - mod_dav removed

Thanks for the responses, Stuart and Johan. Will investigate and play... [I'm a little reluctant to go for Apache2, simply because I've never tried it, and I have other webserver stuff to support... perhaps I'm being a wuss ;).] Steve

error rebuilding binaries after 6.9->7.0 sysupgrade

'do-build') *** Error 2 in /usr/src (Makefile:74 'build') Where did I goof? Thanks, and apologies for my dumbassness, Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

Re: error rebuilding binaries after 6.9->7.0 sysupgrade

best bet is to stay with -current on this machine.) Thanks for your responses. Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

Re: error rebuilding binaries after 6.9->7.0 sysupgrade

On 07/11/2021 10:35, Steve Fairhead wrote: That's what I'd expect, and I did indeed run sysupgrade without specific options. Nonetheless I seem to have wound up with -current when I would have expected -stable: # dmesg | grep OpenBSD OpenBSD 6.9-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Mon Aug 2

sysupgrade from -stable (was: error rebuilding binaries after 6.9->7.0 sysupgrade)

atches applied (so -stable)? Thanks, Steve -- -- Steve Fairhead fivetrees ltd - for the complete music service www: http://www.fivetrees.com --

upsdrvctl issue (nut/UPS) since sysupgrade to 7.5 (and nut update)

Hi folks, I have no doubt this will turn out to be pilot error, so apologies in advance. We have a server with an APC UPS via USB, which was working fine over several sysupgrades to 7.4. Since 7.5, not so much. I also did a package update (pkg_add -ui) as part of the process, and saw that nut wa

opensmtpd: email groups with external addresses

Hi folks, Newbie opensmtpd user/dumbass here. Our old sendmail aliases file supported email groups with external addresses, e.g.: # Internal users: fred, bert # External users: ernie: somed...@somedomain.com # Groups: somegroup: fred, bert, ernie This doesn't seem to work with opensmtpd - I get

Re: European orders - Thank you Theo and your team, some of us appreciate you!

Slightly late in responding to this, but hey: Michael Grigoni wrote: >> William Chivers wrote: > Thank you Theo and your team of developers for OpenBSD. > > Some people responding to the "European Orders" thread seem to have lost sight of what OpenBSD is and who develops it. I am a bit of a newb

Re: Request for DVI monitors in the UK

>> Around two weeks ago Owain (oga@) mailed out a request for some monitors in the UK, so that he could hack better on X. << This is now sorted. I'll be driving a pair up to Owain in the next few days, courtesy of my employer (HGL Dynamics Ltd). Steve -- http://www.fivetrees.com

Re: bastille day in calendar

>> Jul 14 Storming of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris, 1789 Jul 14 Bastille Day is this needed twice? << The first time was a rehearsal. Steve -- http://www.fivetrees.com

SCSI, LUNs, and volume sizes

I'm running an OpenBSD 4.0 system (generic kernel), fitted with an Adaptec 29160 SCSI card (so using the ahc driver), with the intention of running an external 3Tb RAID5 array (a Nexsan ATAboy). The intention is to setup a variety of partitions, the largest of which is 900Gb. So far, so good. The

Re: SCSI, LUNs, and volume sizes - SOLVED

daniele.pilenga wrote: >> First, those SCSIFORCELUN* options are no longer used in 4.0... this cost me a few days to figure out! :-\ << I did wonder about that; those options are missing from the manpage, but used to be there... >> All I was able to do was make my server see the first lun, but no

Re: 4.1 Packages Page

Djgoku he say: >> http://www.openbsd.org/4.1_packages/ Gets a 404 error. http://www.openbsd.org/4.0_packages/ Works fine. << This appears to be normal procedure when a new release comes out. Give it a few days, and it'll be fine. (He says, confidently.) Steve http://www.fivetrees.com

Re: flowcharts

[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: >> Do any of you use flowcharting software, and if so what do you use? I am just beginning to explore the world of programming and have so far used Microsoft (spit) Visio. I tried both Kivio and Dia but they fall short for me. My code choices are (due to the course I am at

panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted - SCSI parity errors

Hi folks, One of the servers (running 4.0, generic, fully patched) I'm responsible for has had a panic (see title line). I'll confess right away that I wasn't able to run trace or ps; I was away from the machine at the time and had to guide a colleague by phone through restarting the machine in a

Apache/Perl oddness: Analog, maybe also Apache::MP3

Hi folks, It's possible that ports@ would be a better place for this, but since there is a possibility that Apache (base install) is involved, I thought I'd try here first. (I've also discussed this with Joachim on the misc newsgroup. Thanks, Joachim.) I recently upgraded my home server from 3.8

Re: Needed: Loaner tape library

>> We need access to a robotic tape library (with barcode support) and a connected server (running -current) for thorough testing of the new Bacula port. Preferably something with multiple drives and an I/O slot. Speed is not as important as chio(1) compatibility. << I might be able to help wi

Re: problem with locate

>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Otto Moerbeek wrote: I see the problem. The problem occurs if top bigrams contain spaces. These are not handled correctly by awk. We'll have to use a field separator that can not be in a bigram. A tab is well suited, AFAKS. Try this. << I've run into this same probl

Re: problem with locate

As cna be easily checed using cvs (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/locate/locate/mklocatedb. sh) this diff was committed after 4.1 was tagged. << Thanks and apologies; I am lacking in CVS-reading-fu. I shall patch and report. >From CVS: >> Problem seen by Han Boetes and other pe

Re: problem with locate

I said: >> Thanks and apologies; I am lacking in CVS-reading-fu. I shall patch and report. << Wahay! Works lovely. Thanks. Steve http://www.fivetrees.com

Re: Zurich OpenBSD

>> Edd Barrett wrote: > I have actually never seen anyone in the UK wearing a bsd shirt apart > from my friends.Sometimes I wonder if I am the only british OpenBSD > user :p 'nother one here in South Wales. << And another (Selsey, near Chichester). Steve http://www.fivetrees.com

Re: Hmm...

>> To upgrade to a newer network setup, we kind of need a particular piece of equipment: Cisco T1 DSU/CSU WAN Interface Card (WIC-1DSU-T1-V2) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/routers/ps221/products_data_sheet0918 6a00801a9184.html It has to be the V2 model. If someone can get one to me, t

Re: corrupt locate.database

>> My Problem is, that locate tells me: locate database header corrupt, bigram char outside 0, 32-127: 14 << This has been discussed a couple of times here. Search the archives for "problem with locate", e.g. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=problem+with+locate&q=b I had the same issue

Re: OpenWebMail (package)

Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Just need to remember to change fstab to remove the nosuid switch on /var << FWIW, the package (at least on OpenBSD 3.8) had problems - file ownerships were wrong. The port, OTOH, seems fine. Steve http://www.fivetrees.com

Re: OpenBSD 3.9 (i386) on a Nortel Contivity 100

NetNeanderthal [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> I finally got my hands on one of these beasts after seeing it 'supported' by someone on the m0n0wall forums (circa 2003) and decided to see what it takes to upgrade its hardware and retrofit it with a modern operating system -- OpenBSD of course. I'm provi

Re: OpenBSD's own compiler

Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> I read about how Ada is been used in all areas where safety is of great issue, and about how it's being used in rockets, Boing Airplanes and so on because of it's high level of safety. What I understood from it is, that the demand and control upon compilers,

Re: Lost IP traffic

>> My PF edge router has been cruising along for sometime now (years) without problems, doing just ask I ask of it. For some reason today it decided to stop serving webpages from my internal webserver. NOTHING changed anywhere to the best of my knowledge. I'm the only user on all of the servers in

Re: What about Agile

Darrin Chandler said: >> At this point I'll add something else. Great coders will do fine with whatever methodology. Bad coders will do bad. Great coders see the value of tools and use them appropriately. Bad coders follow a list of rules without knowing what they mean or how to apply them and get

Re: Vulnerability Note VU#800113 - Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning

STeve Andre' said: >> You know what I expect? I expect the OpenBSD response will be excellent, and out on its own timeframe. Rushing a fix into place can be worse than not doing anything at all. I have no idea what they're doing, have no idea with whom they may be talking. But I know that it is

Re: OpenBSD dedicated hosting

Gilles Chehade wrote: >> Hi misc@, I am looking for companies that provide OpenBSD-powered dedicated hosting. Currently, I am being hosted by a french company which turned out to be as incompetent as can be, and I am willing to switch as soon as possible (preferably before the 25th of September). <

Re: hearing complaints regarding pre-orders

Theo said: >> We don't have a shipping pricing system. Those are very finicky prediction systems, parsing hopelessly horridly entered address information all the time. I suppose Austin and Wim could set one up, for instance, a very simple one, like: $30 USD shipping to anywhere in the wo

Re: hearing complaints regarding pre-orders

Michael Scheliga [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> This thread is such a waste of time for the people running the project you said you already donate to. What's the point? << The point is to make it easy and attractive for people to pay money to OpenBSD. Or, at the very least, to not provide them with r

Re: C unit tests seen by OpenBSD developpers

Bruno said: >> I'm currently learning C. In many languages, you hear lots of stuff likes 'unit testing', 'refactoring', 'agile programming' and others... It seems that these techniques are not very present in C programming (whereas check framework is in packages, it seems too complex) Looking quic

Re: massive memory leak in 3.8-stable samba

> One of my production machines (3.8-stable) has suddenly started > panicing every couple of hours. I found out that the culprit is smbd, > eating through memory like there's no tomorrow (approx. 10Mb / > minute! ). Can't figure out what has triggered it, nothing changed on > the machine latel

Re: EPIA issues...

>> Running 12V fans at 7V often works nicely (easily achieved with PC hardware by connecting the fan to 5V and 12V rather than 0V and 12V). << With my electronics-designer cap on, I'd advise a little caution with this. The 5V regulator is designed to source, not sink, current. If the fan current e

Re: embedded computers with RS485

>> anyone knows where i can find embedded computers with RS485 ports on board, where i can run OBSD? << PC/104 CPU boards quite commonly have at least one serial port switchable from RS-232 to RS-485. Try Googling for "+CPU +RS485 +PC104", and you should find plenty. Steve http://www.fivetrees.co

Re: embedded computers with RS485

anyone knows where i can find embedded computers with RS485 ports on board, where i can run OBSD? <<< >>> PC/104 CPU boards quite commonly have at least one serial port switchable from RS-232 to RS-485. Try Googling for "+CPU +RS485 +PC104", and you should find plenty. <<< >> I was looking f

Re: diff: plug telldir/seekdir leaks and more (fwd)

>> Trying to find testers, see below << Yep, count me in. (I installed 3.8 for a local company [instead of a broken W2k box] a while back. Worked well, except Samba panicked regularly - one specific user. After sitting down to watch said user, realised she was saving files into a folder already c

Re: Static functions in C code

Denis Doroshenko said: > So how do you specify that a function should be visible only to the > local compilation unit? Or, how do you keep others from using your > locally-scoped (but not declared static) function in a global context? >> why would you even want that (moreover in opensource)? hi

New spammers' behaviour pattern

Hi folks, I'm seeing a new pattern of behaviour from spammers over the last few months, which shows signs of growing. Briefly: - Mail originates from a correctly-configured mailserver, typically called ssl.somedomain.com, so spamd doesn't catch it. - The domain is entirely sacrificial, and ma

OpenVPN errors after sysupgrade to 7.6

Probably pilot error, again, but... Since the sysupgrade, I can no longer create or revoke OpenVPN keys. In both cases I get the following: ./easyrsa revoke old-user Easy-RSA error: Unsupported SSL library: 4 EasyRSA Version Information Version: 3.1.1 Generated: Thu Oct 13 06:37:48 CDT 2

Re: OpenVPN errors after sysupgrade to 7.6

On 19/11/2024 15:07, Peter Wens wrote: This is fixed in upstream (3.2.2). Check: https://github.com/OpenVPN/easy-rsa/ commit/7df616ba1ed4add956d0353b68fce9d865f46c82 Thanks. Working now. Steve