Re: Debian libssl security (OpenSSH safe?)

2008-05-14 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/14/08, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure. Lots of those keys out there already. So is something like > ssh-vulnkey the right approach? I do have a couple of users on one of my > boxes. Mind, they're all good OpenBSD people and I really hope their > keys didn't come from a de

Re: uvm_mapent_alloc: out of static map entries on 4.3 i386

2008-05-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/15/08, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I'm getting quite a lot of these errors in /var/log/messages and can't > seem to find an appropriate fix in the archives: > > May 14 21:05:54 svr02 /bsd: uvm_mapent_alloc: out of static map entries > May 14 21:57:47 svr02 /bsd: uvm

Re: Debian libssl security (Cause???)

2008-05-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/16/08, Ross Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mmm this isn't the first time I've heard of bogus reports from Valgrind. > How does one politely inform the Debian project to not trust it explicitly > and to human audit anything it flags? I think people are placing too much blame on val

Re: possible setup "bug" -- chose of default "a" partition can be wrong like if it is swap

2008-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/08, Jay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I have my "a" slice/partition is a "small" swap partition and my "c" slice > is a "large" BSD partition, setup should install to "c". > Or at least maybe prompt. Usually I want fewer prompts/questions, but.. a is / and b is swap. Yes, you can set

Re: fsck large filesystem, memory limit problem

2008-05-19 Thread Ted Unangst
It is very arbitrary. But its not so easy to fix. Ok, the diff is only about 8 lines, but its the other things like testing and compat that make it hard. On May 19, 2008, at 8:38 AM, Hannah Schroeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:49:57PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wro

Re: using lynx to manage router

2008-05-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/22/08, Default User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I choose option #2, what what graphical browser would have the least > overhead, and above all, do the least damage to my security? > > I know it's not OpenBSD's fault that the router's control webpage > requires javascript, but I am surp

Re: [OT] developers running -current on laptops

2008-05-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/23/08, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see from the recent undeadly posts and pictures that most > developers are using laptops and I know you have to run -current to do > development work. I was just wondering if these laptops are for > development use only or development+personal

Re: Problems installing OpenBSD-4.3 using bsd.rd

2008-05-25 Thread Ted Unangst
use a usb floppy. On 5/25/08, F. Caulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I'm currently trying to install OpenBSD-4.3 on my > subnotebook (JVC MP-XP3), the problem is that it > doesn't have any CD-ROM and/or floppy drive and it > isn't capable of booting using PXE nor booting from > USB

Re: timezone anomalies

2008-05-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/25/08, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what i am trying to say is, that at least for me it doesn't > make sense by default to apply TZ to files on the disk fortunately, they're not.

Re: [OT] Python License [WAS: Re: Why Perl for pkg_* tools ?]

2008-05-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/24/08, Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about the python license? How about them Yankees? > Given that is > there any chance realistic chance that python will be part of the obsd > default at some point in the forseeable future? No.

Re: Google in "shell" - looks interesting

2008-06-04 Thread Ted Unangst
If it were actually usable from a shell, it'd be interesting. If I'm already running a graphical interbrowser, it's because I want graphical interwebs.

Re: "remove any unwanted devices from the kernel. "

2008-06-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/5/08, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I usually name the kernel to the machine hostname, but you can give it > > any name. Edit the kernel config file: > > > > Remove any hardware related options that are not relevant to your > > machine. > > > http://www.muine.org/~hoang/openpf.html#

Re: "remove any unwanted devices from the kernel. "

2008-06-06 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/6/08, Jordi Beltran Creix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then what is the meaning of this comment in the kernel's memcpy? > A few kbs don't matter, yet a dozen bytes do? > > > /* > > * This is designed to be small, not fast. > > */ That comment comes from a time when memory cost ten bucks

Re: "remove any unwanted devices from the kernel. "

2008-06-06 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/6/08, Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Threats of unspecified system instability are hard to believe. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=109088660014351&w=2 > For systems which must boot very quickly, removing unused drivers > whose probe routines cause significant timeouts can

Re: "remove any unwanted devices from the kernel. "

2008-06-06 Thread Ted Unangst
me of them read the faq. So at least let them get the best answer for them. On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:14:55 -0400 "Ted Unangst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote On 6/6/08, Geoff Steckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Lost sensors info when upgraded from 4.2 to 4.3

2008-06-09 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/9/08, Per-Olov Sjvholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 05 June 2008 15.42.37 you wrote: > > On 2008-06-05, Per-Olov Sjvholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I did an upgrade (read reinstall) last week on a Dell PE830 server from > > > OpenBSD 4.2 to 4.3. It is a 4.3 RELEASE std ins

Re: Get rid of windows limit in 'window'?

2008-06-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/15/08, Pieter Verberne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:05:34PM +, rivo nurges wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 01:44:12PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > > > > I still don't understand the current craze about window, since > > > it doesn't have the one killer feature

Re: Exporting nfs read write.

2008-06-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/15/08, Robert Keizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the server, there is a file "test" chmodded to 777 in /storage. > Using the command > > mount -t nfs 10.0.0.101:/storage /mnt/storage > > I can mount the nfs volume in ubuntu 8.04 (laptop). But the > permissions are not set right, I can

Re: developer laptop choices

2008-06-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/16/08, Lars D. Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Michiel van Baak wrote: > > On 09:33, Mon 16 Jun 08, Michael Gale wrote: > > >> I just picked up a IBM Thinkpad T61p. > > I have the same and really love it. > > > How were either of you able to get one without the

Re: UDP reception with minimal overhead

2008-06-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/18/08, Markus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be grateful for some advice towards the filtering, since I > have no idea how well bpf performs with a load in the order of > 800 MBit and more. There's probably a better way to get this done. > Is it realistic to expect no data loss on a mach

Re: OT: Mail was Re: Changing From headers in mail on a whim?

2008-06-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/18/08, Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Obviously one can use nail, mutt, alpine or gazzilion of other "light > weight" GUI mail clients to accomplish above but how to do that only with > tools from the base? You don't do those things with only base.

Re: no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?

2008-06-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/19/08, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed the thttpd package on a recent snapshot (060408) and > noticed it only comes with two files: > > $ pkg_info -L thttpd > Information for inst:thttpd-2.25bp1 > > Files: > /usr/local/man/man8/thttpd.8 > /usr/local/sbin/thttpd

Re: no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?

2008-06-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/19/08, Anathae Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Considering how small the program is, and the license (seems like a bsd > style license to my inexperienced eye) are there any reasons why this > couldn't be included in base? For better or worse, the base web server is Apache 1, and that

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/20/08, Curt Micol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Pieter Verberne > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Plan 9-clone ISC licensed. > > > I strongly second this. Absolutely. That can't be more than a few months of work.

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/18/08, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I > wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: Unfortunately, I think asking misc "What do you want?" is pretty fruitless. Everybody wants somet

sloppy states and dsr

2008-06-20 Thread Ted Unangst
One would only use sloppy state tracking on the load balancer, right? The firewall in front of everything still uses normal tracking?

Re: Can you contribute code under anonymous under ISC License?

2008-06-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/22/08, Ringo Kamens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My guess would be that the content is released into the public domain > since you can't sue because there is no proof that you are the > copyright holder. He absolutely can sue. He says "I don't know who this anonymous person is, but they c

Re: Can you contribute code under anonymous under ISC License?

2008-06-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/22/08, Sunnz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, just wondering what's your opinion on this... Looking back, I realized the subject question is not the same as the body question and nobody has answered it. For OpenBSD, the answer is no, you cannot contribute anonymously. > If one were to rele

Re: OpenBSD project goals

2008-06-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/24/08, Matthew Szudzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And troff. :-) > > The OpenBSD base install contains groff, not troff. (groff is 3rd party > software maintained by Gnu.) That statement is about as useful as saying OpenBSD contains BSD ls, not ls.

Re: the backend...

2008-06-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/24/08, badeguruji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry this is slightly off topic, but i was curious. (that) What database > technology (Oracle, MysQL, Postgres...) does Google use for its database > need? both in its plethora of apps and internally to manage the company! > and i turned to s

Re: Hardening OpenBSD: BSD file flags questions (flags vs. mount)

2008-06-26 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Why do flags not prevent the mount system call from using > protected directories as mount points? > > I would guess that flags just "protect at inode level" while > mount "happens at vnode level". Exactly. > I am just wondering w

Re: vnconfig saltfile bug?

2008-06-30 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/30/08, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does it work? Even better... when I insert something at the > beginning of the saltfile instead, it doesnt work anymore... so it seems > only some part of the saltfile is used? Which part? Whats the maximum > file size of the saltfile before

Re: vnconfig saltfile bug?

2008-06-30 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/30/08, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, if not the whole keyfile is taken into account and one can modify > it (even taking something away from the end is possible), wouldn't that > mean that there are multiple keys for the lock? If I tape my key to the end of a stick, is it a dif

Re: Actual BIND error - Patching OpenBSD 4.3 named ?

2008-07-09 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/9/08, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mcbride@ pointed out that you can give named some more protection > by natting outbound udp traffic destined for port 53 (even just on > the box running the resolver, it doesn't have to be on a firewall > in front). something like, > > n

Re: Actual BIND error - Patching OpenBSD 4.3 named ?

2008-07-09 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/9/08, Steve Tornio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't think this actually accomplishes much. It still lets poisoned > > replies back in on the previous port number. > > > > > > But does it allow a poisoned reply from the spoofed address? oh, right. I think I forgot even UDP packets ha

Re: 4.4 beta wont shut down properly

2008-07-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/9/08, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On two machines now, recent snapshots are not powering off properly on > machines which used to, when I run shutdown -p -h now. > > It stops at syncing disks, and stays there forever. After a hard reset, / > comes up as not being unmounted successfu

Re: sshd_config(5) PermitRootLogin yes

2008-07-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On Jul 10, 2008, at 9:19 PM, "Brian A. Seklecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: maybe if people actually READ THE ARCHIVES, they'd be better informed. i wish this mailing list There is a security risk / attack vector here, however remote, without

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/15/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I'm sending an email to misc when a package depends on X that should > **NOT** depend on X. That's what's broken, obviously, if you're saying I > should be installing X on a production server. NOT. tar zxf X pkg_add crap rm -r /usr/X11R6

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/15/08, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > tar zxf X > > pkg_add crap > > rm -r /usr/X11R6 > > > > Lovely. > > Out of curiosity, what happens when you install X but answer > "no" to the quest

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/15/08, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Out of curiosity, what happens when you install X but answer > > > "no" to the question about intending to RUN X? > > > > exactly the same thing that happens when you answer "yes". > > > Doesn't that question effect the machdep.allo

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/16/08, Tony Abernethy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: > > > >If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is > >broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). I most certainly did not write that.

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/16/08, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was mentioned earlier that there is a non-X version in ports - why > don't the maintainers FIX the problem and make that the package instead of > all this bitching about why people compain about broken packages? The problem was fixed mon

Re: cross-compiling for NetBSD?

2008-07-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/17/08, Jason Beaudoin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > has anyone attempted (maybe with success) building a NetBSD toolchain > on OpenBSD? This would fall more into the NetBSD camp. After all, it's their toolchain. > NetBSD has a build script that facilitates building the system, > includi

Re: svnd questions (encrypting all of a partition or disk)

2008-07-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/19/08, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - svnd backed by a whole slice on disk I know some people have done this, but the code doesn't like it. I'd stick with normal files.

Re: svnd questions (encrypting all of a partition or disk)

2008-07-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/19/08, Tobias Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [4] # mount -o softdep /dev/sd0a /mnt > > [5] # dd if=/dev/arandom bs=1m of=/mnt/imagefile count=... > > > prepare to wait a few days... there is known plaintext at specific > locations anyway, disklabel, filesystem metadata,... very littl

Re: svnd questions (encrypting all of a partition or disk)

2008-07-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/20/08, Tobias Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Afaik there are (can be?) collisions in images bigger than ~40GB because > of blowfishs block size. Right. Unfortunately, the only online reference I could find indicating the significance of this is wikipedia's talk (!) page for birthday att

Re: svnd questions (encrypting all of a partition or disk)

2008-07-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/20/08, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wrong. if you write just one sector at the end, yes, you'll create a > sparse file. "dd if=/dev/zero of=image.bin bs=64k" will actually write > to each and every one of those sectors. until you cp or tar it. :)

correct way to run kdm?

2008-07-20 Thread Ted Unangst
I'm trying to setup a machine running KDE. it's supposed to look pretty (no need for console), so I want kdm. xdm isn't pretty enough, and lacks the shutdown option which is a must. First, I tried running kdm from the command line. Kind of worked, but when I logged in, no matter what session I

Re: BLOCKSIZE in .cshrc

2008-07-21 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/21/08, Jonathan Steel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is the line 'setenv BLOCKSIZE 1k' present in the .cshrc file? We > noticed this because csh appears to be the default shell for our 3.5 and 3.6 > boxes and subsequently any functions that use sys/stat.h are messed up. It's been like that

Re: mplayer, DVD's and dvd drive's digital out line

2008-07-24 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/24/08, Chris Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just set a a different computer with 4.4 > Mplayer works right out of the box except audio fails for some dvd's > > My question is: > Is the small two wire digital output on the drive the same as the coax > input that my stereo uses t

Re: BIND OpenBSD patch and ISC

2008-07-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/25/08, Amaury De Ganseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just a simple question: is the OpenBSD patch for bind is the same > solution as ISC ? Are they use the same RN ? It's not identical to what you'll find on the ISC servers.

Re: keyboard encoding

2008-07-28 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/28/08, Tony Berth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have in 4.3 with a default US keyboard. > > When I set wsconsctl keyboard.encoding=de in order to get a German one, > nothing happens! I get following reply: > > keyboard.encoding -> de > > but my keyboard is still on the US charset! Are yo

Re: Performance issues with the DNS patch?

2008-07-28 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/26/08, J Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder is anyone is seeing performance issues with the patched DNS in the > late snapshots? http://marc.info/?l=bind-users&m=121726908015389&w=2

Re: make ls not show "dot-files" as root

2008-07-28 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/28/08, Jesus Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I make "ls" to NOT show > the hidden files (.xinitrc , .vimrc, etc) when > using as Root?? ls * ls | grep -v ^. sudo -u nobody ls find . -name "[abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]*" -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 ls -

Re: Multiboot Windows XP + OpenBSD doesnt work

2008-07-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/29/08, thacrazze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want a dualboot with windows xp, and for this I used the FAQ > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting, but when I run the > command "installboot" i get only "ksh: installboot: not found" and > when I execute "dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=ope

Re: FAQ License?

2008-07-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On 7/29/08, thacrazze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The BSD Documentation License > > see http://bsdinstall.de/misc/license.txt No, that's not the license for the FAQ.

Re: SSE instructions on OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/14/06, Piotrek Kapczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Does anything in OpenBSD use SSE instructions by default ? I mean kernel, userland, ports. Particularly I need to know if SSE3 instructions are/may be used and by what part of the system. you can use them in userland.

Re: How is xlock authenticating?

2006-09-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/19/06, Peter Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had a look around the system today, actually I think I musta been high these last few weeks/months because xlock ceased authenticating. Now I took a look at the /etc/spwd.db file and here are its permissions: -rw-r- 1 root _shadow 40

Re: kernel rebuild - and rebuild userland?

2006-09-20 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/20/06, Patsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, John Costello wrote: > This is in regards to a 3.9 system that I installed and am patching. > > After rebuilding the kernel (patches 007 and 009), is it , unnecessary, > necessary, advised, or imperative to rebuild userland (FAQ 5

Re: Further: Debugging printfs in OpenBSD lkm module

2006-09-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/21/06, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've tried including syslog.h and using the syslog() call, but at driver load time it complains about modload not being able to load the module because of the reference to syslog. I tried printf(), which compiled, loaded and ran fine

Re: Is it possible to install old packages on new release

2006-09-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/24/06, Igor Zinovik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, misc readers. Maybe my question is obvious, but i want to know could one install old packages on new release? My situation is following: i have OpenBSD_3_8 and a lot of packages on CD with OPENBSD_3_6. Docs say: "Dont mix OpenBSD s

Re: a question about errno

2006-09-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/28/06, Paul Stoeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Should a userland program be allowed to depend on errno==0 on entry to main()? (At least one in the tree does.) checking errno is the wrong way to ascertain whether a function had a problem, so this shouldn't be a problem for a well written p

Re: OpenBSD Paypal used against User Agreement?

2006-09-29 Thread Ted Unangst
On 9/29/06, Karel Kulhavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "The PayPal service may not be used solely for the purpose of transferring money from one individual to another without an underlying transaction for the sale of goods or services." -- User Agreement for PayPal Service, 2.2 PayPal is only a

Re: FreeBSD Netbackup client on AMD 64 version of OpenBSD?

2006-10-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/3/06, Michael Durket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Searching via Google it appears that a few people have reported that the FreeBSD version of Veritas Netbackup will run under OpenBSD if FreeBSD emulation is compiled into the kernel. the amd64 platform does not support any emulations.

Re: GPL = BSD + DRM [Was: Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense]

2006-10-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/5/06, Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my world freedom is something you have to fight for, otherwise it gets taken away. Putting a limit on your freedoms is a good thing. For example freedom is most defined as `the freedom to do whatever you wish as long as it does not hurt somebod

Re: gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/9/06, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to find a compiler that supports variable length arrays. I'm currently taking a computer science class and noticed that gcc's support for variable lenght arrays is "broken" [0]. i think you'll be hard pressed to come up with an example that

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel in OpenBSD

2006-10-11 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/11/06, David Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK, no, but I was hoping to glean that information from the list... On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 23:31 -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > is someone planning on making a OpenBSD port for IceWeasel? and the point would be? what makes iceweasel a b

Re: max filesize split(1)

2006-10-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/17/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is no uniform way to ask the max file size of a given file system. ffs filestems do have that info in therir superblock, though, you can see it with dumpfs(8). it hardly matters. if the file is on the filesystem, the filesystem suppor

Re: Fast Xorg Performance

2006-10-17 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/17/06, Karsten McMinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to figure out what needs to be done in order to get fast 2d xorg (and friends) performance. I term fast as not having to wait for window operations, with most every application and xorg opertation taking no longer than 100ms. if an

Re: blobs are bad

2006-10-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/17/06, Sam Fourman Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pardon me if my Knowledge is lacking, but is there actually *any* video card vendor that would support Full 3D acceleration and *most* of the stuff desktop users want? intel, s3, older radeons, older matrox

Re: blobs are bad

2006-10-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/18/06, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/18/06, Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But intel's bad by definition :) Older radeons - those include the laptops with the mobility chips? (MIne's M300, so, probably not). not sure. ati parts are referenced by

Re: blobs are bad

2006-10-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/18/06, Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > intel, s3, older radeons, older matrox Do any of them work in OpenBSD? I thought DRI was required, and not supported in OpenBSD. no, but they are all capable of working. the drivers are all open source.

Re: getting the source of a snapshot

2006-10-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/18/06, Paul Stoeber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pretty please adopt this practice, for it is inexpensive, and I would recently have loved to have seen a diff between the snapshot source and the checked-out source. as stated, it's not possible. snapshots are generally for people who just w

Re: bsdstats.org WOW

2006-10-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/18/06, Sam Fourman Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Check out OpenBSD :) http://www.bsdstats.org/ based on the country distributions, i'm gonna guess this isn't quite a representative sample. just a hunch though.

Re: max filesize split(1)

2006-10-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/19/06, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 10:39 -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 10/17/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no uniform way to ask the max file size of a given > > file system. ffs filestems

Re: quick malloc guard patch

2005-05-25 Thread Ted Unangst
it is part of G. we will wait to see what effects it has. -- quit whining you haven't done anything wrong because frankly you haven't done much of anything

Re: stdio Buffered functions

2005-05-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Gustavo Rios wrote: > What happens to an application that was forked with stdout/stdin or > even stderr opened for non-blocking I/O and it tries to read/write > from/to any of those FD and no process is attained to the other end? it gets an error or SIGPIPE. -- desire is no

Re: stdio Buffered functions

2005-05-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Gustavo Rios wrote: > Would it be irrational to have it block ? yes. -- someone's writing down your mistakes someone's documenting your downfall

notice: layered mounts are gone

2005-05-25 Thread Ted Unangst
null and union mounts have been deleted. if you are using them and tracking current, you will have pain when you reboot. -- quit whining you haven't done anything wrong because frankly you haven't done much of anything

Re: Immediate cronjob NOW NOW NOW!!!

2005-05-26 Thread Ted Unangst
come on, fix your program. if you rely on a cronjob to run at the precise time specified and to complete in zero time, you are going to get dicked over every time. every time. -- we fear that pop-culture is the only kind of culture we're ever going to have

Re: Mounting freebsd partitions in openbsd

2005-05-28 Thread Ted Unangst
ufs2 is not supported. -- we don't run washington and no one really does

Re: Summer of Code ?

2005-06-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Dunceor . wrote: > > Ed White wrote: > > > http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html > > > > > > Where is OpenBSD ? why is your email two days late? > Well I think it's a great oppertunity to let a student dive into the > OS and they would probobly continue to work on the proj

Re: Maximum MAXDSIZ

2005-06-03 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, 28 May 2005, Fernando Braga wrote: > Looking vmparam.h, I see maximum data size for a process is limited to 1GB. > > As these servers came with 4GB RAM (and I really need this memory), > I'd like to know if it is possible to raise this limit. this is like asking what happens when you eat

Re: apm(8) on Zaurus

2005-06-04 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Matthias Kilian wrote: > I've connected the power supply to recharge the battery, just in > case it's just exhausted. However, five minutes before the display > went black, apm(8) reported the battery status as 75% charged. that's probably dead. they also apparently won't run

Re: quick malloc guard patch

2005-06-06 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Ted Unangst wrote: > it is part of G. we will wait to see what effects it has. and now it's option P. for some apps, it interfered with normal operation too much. -- And that's why he won't get my vote.

Re: Correct Values - Sysctl Variables

2005-06-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Nick Holland wrote: > > The default values is: > > > > net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 > > net.inet.tcp.rfc3390=0 > > Generally, use the defaults, unless you have a problem you are trying to > fix. You described no problem, so leave 'em alone. especially since neither value will hav

Re: pthreads question

2005-06-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: > For a threaded network application I'm developping, I have to watch > the number of concurrent connections. I currently use this code: > > if (curconns < maxconns) { > curconns++; > } > else { > pthread_cond_wait(&conns_is_at_max, &useless

Re: compat_&any - Question because the neede files (e.g. for HP-UX copatibility)

2005-06-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Or is that already a license-violation (e.g. if it deals with HP-UX)? > The compat-modes are nice to migrate but useless if you've just an old > application and no e.g. HP-UX to get the needed files. ask hp to put the files up for download. compat_li

Re: When will halt -p at AMD64 be supported..? ;)

2005-06-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does somebody know if OpenBSD 3.8 will support halt -p on AMD-64? depends how many people help with acpi... > Yes I could use OpenBSD i386 but why do we need a AMD64-Version if we use > 64Bit just to support more then 4GB of RAM (even it's not possib

Re: Linus at NewsForge...

2005-06-14 Thread Ted Unangst
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Gezim Hoxha wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 01:25 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Wow, Linux really is becoming more like Microsoft. > > > > Maybe that's why the founde rof "Gentoo" now works for MS :-) ;) > > That makes no sense. If you'd said "Maybe that's why the

Re: mount_union hangs the system.

2005-06-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Varun Dubey wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I went through the thread but i believe the problem > i am facing is not exactly due to no support for unionfs. you misunderstand. the reason union was removed is because it didn't work. removing it didn't break it, it was removed

Re: OS fingerprinting and netcraft

2005-06-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Steffen Kluge wrote: > I wonder whether my firewall, which was also changed to OpenBSD/pf > recently, is interfering. I'm using "scrub in all" as well as "synproxy > state" on the inbound pass rules. Could that be defeating netcraft's > fingerprinting attempts? fingerprinting

Re: 4port Realtek nic

2005-06-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Steven Bowers wrote: > Compgeeks is offering a 4port RTL8139D nic for an attractive price. I > know the 8139 chipset is supported, not quite so sure of the 8138D. > Can anyone speak for these cards? The price is nice and a 4port nic > would be very handy. re should almost cer

Re: Eric Raymond talks about GPL and BSD licenses on MyFreeBSD.com

2005-06-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse wrote: > Eric Raymond gave an interview on MyFreeBSD.com about the GPL and the BSD > licenses. Though on MyFreeBSD.com, it ain't a FreeBSD specific article. so should i click on the "identity theft protection" link or the "adware remover" link to re

Re: libc and BitTorrent

2005-06-16 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, -f wrote: > i was looking at BitTorrent, and this caught my attention: > > --enable_bad_libc_workaround > enable workaround for a bug in BSD libc that makes file reads > very slow. (defaults to 1) > > > anybody knows what does this mean, and is openbsd affected

Re: NFS Protocol not supported when mounting from a Linux machine.

2005-06-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, jared r r spiegel wrote: > i checked /usr/src/sbin/mount{,_nfs} and /usr/src/sys/nfs > to see what part of the code is making the 'Protocol not supported', > but didn't find it. :( doing a global search in /usr/src > ( granted, if somewhere in the code it is like '%s

Re: Install on Multiple Disks

2005-06-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > I have not found a way to use the installer to partition my drives in this > > manner using fdisk and disklabel. I have looked in the man files and in > > online FAQ's (although I have found how to move and resize the partitions on > > an existing inst

Re: Audio

2005-06-22 Thread Ted Unangst
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Ray Percival wrote: > I think the problem is that /dev/sound is > lrwx-- 1 root wheel 6 Jun 19 14:29 /dev/sound -> sound0 and for some > reason wont let me change the perms on it. it's a symlinks, permissions for it are irrelevant. (that's why you can't change them)

Re: Userland Threading

2005-06-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Brandon Mercer wrote: > I was reading an article on kerneltrap.org about the new rthreads being > in the kernel. Is this in current yet or is it still not ready. > Because I know nothing about this and I'm just trying to learn, is this > implemented in all architectures simi

Re: difference between newfs and newfs -m 1 on a 250G hd?

2005-06-25 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, bofh wrote: > I tried a newfs -m 1 /dev/wd3a. After newfs is over, wd3a is not mountable. > fsck can't find any usable superblock. However, when I did a "newfs > /dev/wd3a", the resulting partition checks out fine (fsck is ok with it) and > mounts without problems. Any idea wh

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