Re: Would a crypto-accelerators help WEP on Soekris?

2008-03-06 Thread beck
Quoting Andre Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi all, I have been turning a Soekris Net 4801 box into a wireless access point. I saw that one can get a crypto-accelerator card from Soekris Engineering that plugs into the free PCI slot on the 4801. One quick (silly) question. Under OpenBSD 4.2 woul

Re: Why no compiler on prod system [Was: Re: How to update httpd without a compiller]

2006-08-24 Thread beck
[Bleat bleat.. "Don't install the compiler it makes it a "little bit safer"] [Bleat bleat "No it doesn't make a difference"] Mooseapples. Both herds are wrong. *Not* having the compiler makes the system *Less* secure, because it's more of a PITA for the admin to apply fixes. Doesn't matter

Re: Will spamd work with db on a RAM disk?

2005-12-12 Thread beck
Quoting Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Will spamd work if /var/db/spamd is a symbolic link to a file on a RAM disk? I noticed that spamd uses quite a bit of disk I/O (on a box that is bound by disk I/O). Is it safe to make a backup copy of the file while spamd is running? I'm willi

Re: Will spamd work with db on a RAM disk?

2005-12-12 Thread beck
Quoting Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Will spamd work if /var/db/spamd is a symbolic link to a file on a RAM disk? I noticed that spamd uses quite a bit of disk I/O (on a box that is bound by disk I/O). Spamd uses Berkeley DB - if your disk file is large you will use plenty of I/O t

Official OpenBSD 6.1 CD !

2017-05-03 Thread Bob Beck
So. There *Is* an official OpenBSD 6.1 CD Just One. If you are interested, please bid on ebay : http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-only-Official-OpenBSD-6-1-CD-set-to-be-made-For-auction-for-the-project-/252910718452?hash=item3ae2a74df4:g:SJQAAOSwrhBZBqkd (It's a pretty cool little CD set!)

Re: TOFU/cert pinning in libtls

2020-05-09 Thread Bob Beck
On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 06:18:50PM +, Lucas wrote: > Hello Stephen, > > > My basic idea for the client is: > > > > - load a db of self-signed certs. > > - connect to host > > - if host cert is self signed > > - if not in db, prompt user and add to db > > - if in db, check fingerprint an

Re: ssl/libssl certificate validation broken?

2020-10-20 Thread Bob Beck
On 20 Oct 21:01, Uwe Werler wrote: > Hi folks, > > before opening a bug report I'll ask here because I want to make sure that I > have not missed something. You should probably submit a real bug report instead of jumping to conclusions on misc@ > > With the upgrade to 6.8 my cert validation se

Re: Suggestion: Replace Perl with Lua in the OpenBSD Base System

2019-12-31 Thread Bob Beck
read fucking code. change fucking things. send some fucking diffs. get fucking yelled at. learn from your fucking mistakes. show some fucking passion. filter fucking misc@ and all this useless bleating into the toilet. none of us have time to spoon feed you in some “boot camp” there are two ty

Official OpenBSD 6.2 CD set up for auction on Ebay

2017-11-18 Thread Bob Beck
So, the only 6.2 set to be produced is up for auction, featuring hand-drawn artwork by Theo. Artisanally Made in Canada! All proceeds of the sale to fund OpenBSD development. Go have a look at http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Official-OpenBSD-6-2-CD-Set/253265944606

Re: Meltdown workaround enabled?

2018-03-13 Thread Bob Beck
Intel make kitty scared... What a fuckmess. On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 22:57 Brian Camp wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 10:39 PM, Theo de Raadt > wrote: > >> According to some sources, Intel and a handful of others have known > about the > >> issue since February 2017(!), so perhaps it has alrea

Re: Meltdown workaround enabled?

2018-03-14 Thread Bob Beck
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 05:38 Robert Paschedag wrote: > > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. März 2018 um 06:13 Uhr > > Von: "Bob Beck" > > An: "Brian Camp" > > Cc: "Theo de Raadt" , misc@openbsd.org > > Betreff: Re: Meltdown workarou

Re: bug tracking system for OpenBSD

2018-04-01 Thread Bob Beck
Christoph, your conversation is distracting. Nobody gives a damn about the tool. Everyone gives a damn about the triage. I hate to break it to you, but you are not the first person to broach this discusson. The only way this would work is with a dedicated team of people to triage each area and c

Re: Libressl verify failure with 3.9.0

2024-04-08 Thread Bob Beck
> On Apr 8, 2024, at 5:44 AM, Theo Buehler wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2024 at 04:57:24PM -0500, Ted Wynnychenko wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I recently updated to -current (about a week ago). >> >> I see that Libressl is at 3.9.1 just now, but I hope that won't be an issue >> (I did not see anyth

Call for support to continue Radeon KMS work...

2013-06-02 Thread Bob Beck
Some of you may be aware of the recent developments in current that have brought us Intel KMS Support. With this we get proper accellerated X on current and future Intel graphics hardware. There are a few other nice side benefits to this work: - We gain the ability to use the kernel debug

Still looking for 1U servers in western canada.

2013-06-10 Thread Bob Beck
I'm still looking for 1U servers in western canada. we have an opportunity to build a better build infrastructure for ports but need the gear to do it with. I would be keenly interested in 1) Workable semi-modern amd64 capable intel hardware, 1U - 4 GB of ram or more is nice, One disk drive. (mo

Re: softdep issue in 5.3-current ?

2013-06-26 Thread Bob Beck
Update to something that has version 1.27 of sys/kern/vfs_biomem.c and tell me if you still have the issue. On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Tori Mus wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running current snapshot of OpenBSD on amd64 architecture, MP kernel > (Lenovo Thinkpad to be concrete). Based on the official

Re: spamd uatraps blacklist size

2009-02-10 Thread Bob Beck
* Peter N. M. Hansteen [2009-02-02 10:22]: > "Jose Fragoso" writes: > > > This list has gone quite small in size recently. The size changed from > > above 10 IP addresses to only 1 now. Could it be because > > University of Alberta is not being targeted so often anymore? Or is > > it bec

Re: spamd uatraps blacklist size

2009-02-10 Thread Bob Beck
> > it because they have become more selective in trapping addresses? Oh and it's not because of this. We just managed to expire 66,000 accounts here which will only make the trapping get better ;)

Re: Donations (was, sadly, European orders)

2009-04-02 Thread Bob Beck
> Others are trying to do it too, but they are just more quiet about it. > > And then there's the other catagory... the breeders... > No, you're forgetting the third category - the titanium clipped, whose ungrateful spawn are now 18 and will soon be old enough to be capable of leaving th

Why is Itojun's Funeral listed as someplace OpenBSD Donation money went to..

2009-04-07 Thread Bob Beck
-Bob -8<- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 16:10:37 -0700 From: Bob Beck To: Marco Peereboom , hack...@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Itojun, and sending our regards. Message-ID: <20071105231037.gk...@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Marco

Why is Itojun's Funeral listed as someplace OpenBSD Donation money to..

2009-04-07 Thread Bob Beck
-Bob -8<- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 16:10:37 -0700 From: Bob Beck To: Marco Peereboom , hack...@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Itojun, and sending our regards. Message-ID: <20071105231037.gk...@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Marco

Re: Why is Itojun's Funeral listed as someplace OpenBSD Donation money to..

2009-04-07 Thread Bob Beck
to fund OpenBSD events in europe? -Bob > yes, it was just a pass through transaction, just as the sponsor money > that was destined for Opencon > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Bob Beck wrote: > > * Wim Vandeputte [2009-04-07 12:26]: > >> Two developers who w

Re: Why is Itojun's Funeral listed as someplace OpenBSD Donation money to..

2009-04-07 Thread Bob Beck
* Wim Vandeputte [2009-04-07 12:26]: > Two developers who wanted to contribute to the funeral did not have a > credit card and asked me if they could wire the money to the IBAN > account I then forwarded the money with my credit card towards the > paypal account Which is fine, but then th

Re: Why isn't OpenBSD in Google Summer of Code 2017?...

2017-04-02 Thread Bob Beck
We tried it for two years, it was too much effort on the part of the foundation organizers mentors to deal with the bureaucracy involved, and we didn't really see enough return in terms of new developers to the project, which, frankly being selfish on OpenBSD's part is the only reason for us to do

Re: a thankyou to OpenBSD

2015-02-11 Thread Bob Beck
Wave.. Thanks Diana. I still owe you a beer or thirteen. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Diana Eichert wrote: > I don't post much any more, my OpenBSD systems "just work". > > Just wanted to post a thank you to OpenBSD because it does > "just work". > > My day job entails a lot of Linux support

Re: OpenSSL vulnerabilities coming on the 19th

2015-03-17 Thread Bob Beck
And while I will reiterate, stop mailing us privately and asking, I can confirm that the situation has changed, and core LibreSSL developers have now had disclosure from OpenSSL. We will be keeping discusssion of all details strictly to that group until such time as OpenSSL releases publicly. -B

ftp/www.openbsd.org downtime today. don't panic

2012-10-12 Thread Bob Beck
Hi Folks, The main web, ftp, and anoncvs servers are going to be down for a short period today while they move from data center to data center at the University of Alberta. The University has been so kind as to offer the project space in two racks in their new state of the art data centre in a ne

OpenBSD 5.2 Released

2012-11-01 Thread Bob Beck
ing the quality of the software. Our developers are: Aaron Bieber, Alexander Bluhm, Alexander Hall, Alexander Schrijver, Alexander Yurchenko, Alexandr Shadchin, Alexandre Ratchov, Anil Madhavapeddy, Anthony J. Bentley, Antoine Jacoutot, Austin Hook, Benoit Lecocq, Bob Beck, B

CD ordering problems in the last day or so fixed.

2012-11-15 Thread Bob Beck
The https.openbsd.org machines were under a denial of service attack originating from LeaseWeb USA and LeasWeb Netherlands: Their nets have now been filtered and you should be able to order again. Thank you to those who dropped me a note. -Bob If you know anyone here you could tell them if t

Need for modern i386/amd64 machines in Edmonton AB.

2013-03-19 Thread Bob Beck
The project is looking for some modern i386/amd64 machines in edmonton, AB. They need to be relatively recent, and rack mountable. Ideally they should have rails, or the ability to find rack mount rails for them. 1U is best, ideally something that runs OpenBSD well. We'r

BitCoin donations to the OpenBSD Foundation.

2015-07-09 Thread Bob Beck
We've recently noticed a few attempts at larger Bitcoin donations to the OpenBSD Foundation. Due to the nature of these, we don't actually know who is attempting to donate, so I'm posting here. Due to changing laws, our provider (BitPay) had to limit transactions to $1000/day causing these donati

But wait, there's more.. another 5.8 song!

2015-09-01 Thread Bob Beck
Coming soon to http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html is the next 5.8 release song "A Year In The Life". I seem to have this bad habit of talking to Theo about release themes when drinking alcohol, and it brings out the poet (My inner Weird Al) in me. Then I get cajoled into finishing the Opus befor

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-01 Thread Bob Beck
I have more up to date versions of these patches around here. The problem with them is that fundamentally, the WAPBL implementation as it is assumes that it may infinitely steal buffers from the buffer cache and hold onto them indefinitely - and it assumes it can always get buffers from it. While

Re: WAPBL?

2016-04-01 Thread Bob Beck
e > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:06 AM, Bob Beck wrote: >> >> I have more up to date versions of these patches around here. >> >> The problem with them is that fundamentally, the WAPBL implementation >> as it is assumes that it may infinitely steal >> buff

ftp/www.openbsd.org will be down for an upgrade today.

2016-05-08 Thread Bob Beck
There will be an extended downtime of the main ftp and www sites for an upgrade today starting in approximately one hour's time from now. The mirror sites should be unaffected - so use a mirror if you discover the main site is unavailable today. Thanks -Bob

Re: TLS now supported on openbsd.org?

2016-05-09 Thread Bob Beck
>It's great to see OpenBSD Project supporting Let's Encrypt. I am absolutely not supporting Let's Encrypt. The client scares the shit out of me, and shows me how low the bar has become. Considering all I need is put something on a web site that I can convince a DNS server is the one they'll check,

Re: ftp/www.openbsd.org will be down for an upgrade today.

2016-05-09 Thread Bob Beck
e time schedule for the > maintenance? > > Regards > > Markus > > > Am 08.05.2016 um 23:44 schrieb Stefan Wollny: >> >> Am 05/08/16 um 20:03 schrieb Bob Beck: >>> >>> There will be an extended downtime of the main ftp and www sites for &g

Re: white noise about broken manpage (web) links

2016-05-10 Thread Bob Beck
You need to complain at reyk - since these web pages are not in the openbsd www/ tree they didn't get fixed when we converted to man.openbsd.org On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:52 PM, Vivek Vinod wrote: > Dear Misc, > > I could not find a separate mailing list for openiked. Hence posting here. > > web

Re: new OpenSSL flaws

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Beck
We are not on a linux distros mailing list, because we are not a linux distribution. And this private mailing list is not really an acknowledged conduit for vulnerability release. I was asked by someone privately if *I* would be on that mailing list on June 2nd. I said I would consider it, but as

Re: new OpenSSL flaws

2014-06-05 Thread Bob Beck
I may also remind people that those lists are acknowledged right at the top as experimental. They also do not allow for non personal subscriptions, so they aren't very practical for this. What if I was away for a day or three.. Or more.. Essentially this is a nice experiment, but not really a p

The OpenBSD Foundation now accepts BitCoin donations...

2013-11-26 Thread Bob Beck
I'm happy to announce the OpenBSD foundation can now accept donations to assist in funding project activities in BTC. We are using BitPay.com to host our BitCoin donations, which are converted to CAD for use by the project. If you have been interested in making donations in BitCoin, please visit

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
Just to bring this issue back to the forefront. In light of shrinking funding, we do need to look for a source to cover project expenses. If need be the OpenBSD Foundation can be involved in receiving donations to cover project electrical costs. But the fact is right now, OpenBSD will shut do

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
here, and often, you (the people who use it and work with it) need to make the case to them that their support is important - far better that explanation comes from you rather than someone they don't know. -Bob On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >Just to bring this issu

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread Bob Beck
ter that's an idea we'd probably like to put up - as it gets that crowdsourcing type interest going. But in this case it would likely not be 20K, more like a 150K yearly goal would be best. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Kirill Bychkov wrote: > On Wed, January 15, 2014 00:03, Bob Be

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-15 Thread Bob Beck
Yes, I believe so - and we'll be ramping that up shortly . but realisticly the need is for donations in general - electricity is one thing that the funding can be applied to. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Bob Beck wrote: >>

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-16 Thread Bob Beck
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Daniel Cegiełka wrote: > Another example: Google will pay even more than $3000 for finding an > error in OpenSSH (Core infrastructure network services) - do they know > about your problems? > > http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/going-beyond-vulnera

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2014-01-20 Thread Bob Beck
Greetings All, About a week ago I warned you all that the OpenBSD project did not have the funds to cover our bills for the past year (especially the ability to handle the electricity) and that our funding sources were not sustainable. As most of you know the news of our predicament has been wide

OpenBSD Foundation Fundraising for 2014

2014-01-20 Thread Bob Beck
Greetings All, About a week ago I warned you all that the OpenBSD project did not have the funds to cover our bills for the past year (especially the ability to handle the electricity) and that our funding sources were not sustainable. As most of you know the news of our predicament has been wide

Google Summer Of Code 2014.

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Beck
ntors together with students to accomplish things that may become useful to the community at large. This will be our first year doing this, so we hope to learn from the experience and see if it will work out in future years. -Bob Beck - The OpenBSD Foundation.

Re: OpenBSD Website, multilanguage faq

2014-04-03 Thread Bob Beck
Well if you're going to have your thousand hands, perhaps they could just do one word at a time, in one language, and pretty soon we'll morph into something that isn't english and you'll all be a happy little umama ofebayo I'll even start, as I looked in the kernel for a phrase to change, and the

OpenBSD Foundation 2014 Fundraising Campaign.

2014-04-10 Thread Bob Beck
The OpenBSD Foundation is happy to report that the $150,000 goal of the 2014 fundraising campaign has been reached. We wish to thank our contributors large and small. We will continue our fundraising efforts both in the current year and next year. The success of this year's effort has allowed th

Re: OpenBSD Foundation 2014 Fundraising Campaign.

2014-04-11 Thread Bob Beck
On the web site at www.openbsdfoundation.org. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:15 AM, trifle menot wrote: > On 4/10/14, Bob Beck wrote: > >> The Foundation will continue to strive to improve its financial >> resources, and hopes to be able to provide further support to the >>

Re: panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies

2014-05-08 Thread Bob Beck
I'll be taking a peek based on what I see in his traceback. Travelling at the moment. On 9 May 2014 06:44, "Philip Guenther" wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:14 PM, STeve Andre' wrote: > > > On 05/08/14 22:43, Philip Guenther wrote: > > > >> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:59 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:

Re: Can you subscribe to the PF mailing list? I can't

2009-04-09 Thread Bob Beck
* Cezary Morga [2009-04-09 15:14]: > Nick Guenther wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > > The problem is that you can't use the pf mailing list from gmail. > > > > > > -Bryan > > > > Because people who use gmail aren't smart enough for PF? Because it's > > a free we

Re: Low power OpenBSD machine

2009-04-16 Thread Bob Beck
> I have a t5xxx also and want to do the same, but if I use usb flash (tried > and worked fine), how to limit at max disk writes ? so the flash can live > longer ... Please let me know if you find an answer to this question. I have all these openbsd machines booking off hard drives, and I'm trying

Re: I can't download OpenBSD 4.5, "550 /pub/OpenBSD/4.5: Permission denied."

2009-04-16 Thread Bob Beck
* Juan Jimenez Galdos [2009-04-16 14:37]: > Hi. I want download OPenBSD 4.5 but i can't. I try to enter in the directory > but it says "550 /pub/OpenBSD/4.5: Permission denied." The others > directories work well. > That's funny. it works for me.. I wonder what your issue is? -Bob

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread Bob Beck
> some of the devs really need to give up their thinkpads and start > buying cheap msi or other stuff with amd and nvidia monstrosities :] > Yeah... you're like... the guy who is sits outside the estwing factory hitting his balls with an estwing hammer - telling everyone who comes in and out tha

Re: autowhitelister for spamd needs testing

2009-04-23 Thread Bob Beck
> Auto-whitelisting based on input from the spammer is bad. You may as > well save yourself the trouble and not use spamd. > Indeed. it is utterly mentally retarded. most spam is bogusly sent from real envelope senders. Smart spammers just randomize their recipient lists and use them as the env

Re: autowhitelister for spamd needs testing

2009-04-24 Thread Bob Beck
> i think part of the success i experience using SPF as a means to create > whitelists is in the fact that i maintain the list of domains i fancy > whitelisting. unfortunately, it would be trivial for someone to take > advantage of an spf-based automatic whitelist to slip right on thru >

Re: RIT's mirror

2009-04-27 Thread Bob Beck
* Stuart Henderson [2009-04-26 05:05]: > On 2009-04-25, wrote: > > The RIT mirror is providing 4.2 sets from it's snapshots directory. > > Should they still be listed? > > snapshots aren't compulsory for a mirror, and they are providing > the required last two releases. that said, given that th

Re: Recipient Validation & Design Opinions

2009-04-27 Thread Bob Beck
> If you are able to weed out illegitimate recipients, this may go a long > way to reduce spam, or at least it did for us. Looking the email > address up in LDAP is *much* cheaper than doing a call-out to the > backend server(s). Greylisting helps us, too, but seems to "cost" mail > from broken ser

Re: [dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: Re: I would like to send this to misc@ and security-announce@, from me.]

2009-05-04 Thread Bob Beck
4:55]: > C'mon, ftp.kd86.com was delisted from the ftp.html page on Mon Apr 6. > Can you just stop bashing Wim? It doesn't make anyone happier (except > Theo probably). Or maybe we should rush searching the whole fscking > internet for the incorrect OpenBSD mirrors? Ch

Re: [dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: Re: I would like to send this to misc@ and security-announce@, from me.]

2009-05-06 Thread Bob Beck
> > e.g. ftp://mirrors.nic.funet.fi/ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/ > > I'll make a bulk check of the mirrors that haven't got 4.5 yet > sometime soon and remind them to update their rsync inclusion > lists. I'll give it a bit longer because some are probably > still trying to fetch the release. >

Re: [ot] debian switching to eglibc

2009-05-07 Thread Bob Beck
> >> http://www.osnews.com/story/21441/Debian_Switching_to_EGLIBC > > > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980 > > Shut up! You should be punished anyway! > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00053.html > Silence... I kill You!

Re: No OS safe??

2009-05-08 Thread Bob Beck
> > http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/15/ibotnet-trojan.html It's a *botnet* guys, installed by *trojan* i.e. by tricking the stupid idiot at the keyboard into doing something retarded. The OS can be the most secure thing on the planet and if the person at the keyboard is stupid you'll

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

2009-05-12 Thread Bob Beck
> an MTA that has a horrible security track record. > Yes, Unix has a horrible security record. you shouldn't use it. My god, remember all those horrible SunOS 4 exploits and the morris worm? surely it must suck since software never changes. -Bob

Re: uatraps just growing

2009-05-21 Thread Bob Beck
Nothing that out of the ordinary. just your run of the mill massive joe job attack against @ualberta.ca - someone whanging out a metric bungwad of spam with bogus @ualberta.ca from addresses. the attempted bounces get trapped. It appears to be subsiding so that will probably star

Re: OpenBSD ESXi VMware image on Soekris Net5501

2009-05-26 Thread Bob Beck
* Michal [2009-05-21 11:01]: > Oh I didnt realise it was that under-poweredoh now I just feel stupid > :( Well, we are all laughing at you. but only because too many of us get hit with this bullshit at work. http://a2.vox.com/6a00d09e512cfdbe2b00f30f5b193a0001-pi I mean everyone knows Vmw

IMPORTANT, DO THIS OR YOUR E-MAIL WON'T WORK

2009-05-26 Thread Bob Beck
* Chris Harries [2009-05-26 10:48]: > it sure beats everyone moaning at me as they cannot read e-mails clearly > marked IMPORTANT, DO THIS OR YOUR E-MAIL WONT WORK, then moaning when their > email doesn't work IMPORTANT, DO THIS OR YOUR E-MAIL WON'T WORK We are refreshing our openbsd mailing lis

Re: IMPORTANT, DO THIS OR YOUR E-MAIL WON'T WORK

2009-05-27 Thread Bob Beck
> > > Original thread: > http://marc.info/?t=12428629293&r=1&w=2 > > Message that Bob replied to, starting a new thread (at least as far as > Gmail is concerned): The in-reply-to header was correct, just because the subject line changes doesn't make it a new thread. Mutt seems to u

Re: IMPORTANT, DO THIS OR YOUR E-MAIL WON'T WORK

2009-05-27 Thread Bob Beck
.. Sender ok RCPT TO: 250 2.1.5 ... Recipient ok DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself From: Bob Beck Via Secure Email To: X-Security-Verified: Trusted Email. Always Watch for this Hi this is bob. really. I can haz Ur Passwordz plz? ohai, and Ur bank accountz and

Re: misc@ list spam

2009-06-06 Thread Bob Beck
* x x [2009-06-06 18:04]: > The spam we seem to be getting as being part of this mailing list, is it > just an unfortunate thing have to live with? Is there someway to make > sure only get legit discussions/questions? Yes, kick all the idiots off and only allow members to post. O

Re: Problems with 4.5 as a KVM guest

2009-07-14 Thread Bob Beck
* Michiel van Baak [2009-07-05 11:05]: > On 10:36, Sun 05 Jul 09, stan wrote: > > I am trying to get OpenBSD 4.5 working as a guest OS using KVM on Linux. I > > have been able to get 4.4 to install and run fine, but 4.5 never gives me a > > login prompt. The last message I see is about setting tty

Re: spamd greylisting not only wrong user, but also non-existent domain

2009-07-14 Thread Bob Beck
* Chris Bennett [2009-07-14 10:40]: > I have seen many emails for non-existent users greylisted. > Never thought twice about it. > > What I just saw is new (to me at least) are wrong domains: > > GREY|71.160.113.232|ijoaje.com|||1247574936|1247589336|1247589336|1|0 > GREY|71.160.113.232|ijoaje.c

Re: systrace

2009-07-15 Thread Bob Beck
* Ross Cameron [2009-07-15 03:19]: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Anton Karpov wrote: > > According to Provos's blog, > > > http://www.provos.org/index.php?/archives/34-Evading-System-Sandbox-Containme > nt.html > > > > "The initial prototype of Systrace as described in the paper avoided this

Re: reason for libexec?

2009-07-15 Thread Bob Beck
* Daniel Barowy [2009-07-15 09:58]: > Hello everyone, > > This is, I'm sure, a naive question, so bear with me. What is the > purpose of /usr/libexec? I see from hier(7) that it has something > to do with "System daemons and utilities (executed by other > programs)" which probably means, "stu

Re: reason for libexec?

2009-07-15 Thread Bob Beck
* Thomas Pfaff [2009-07-15 11:22]: > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:31:11 -0600 > Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > Does everyone on this list have ADD? > > > > Commit to usr.bin/mg/theo.c please ;-) > No, because all of us that read misc@ say this every single day :) theo.c is only for true theoisms...

Anyone got a 48 port gigabit switch, small and lower power? looking for a good home?

2012-01-11 Thread Bob Beck
OpenBSD's building infrastructure has a need for such things. if you are in the process of rewhacking your network, I would love to hear from you if you have such beasts that might be sent our way. We are looking to get these things in Calgary, Canada.

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-11 Thread Bob Beck
> So, you're advocating incomplete information? Is that not a bigger problem? No, we don't support old releases. 4.3 is very old. You should update your OS to something supported, and likely your problem will go away.

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Beck
> 1) The OpenBSD Foundation is NOT OpenBSD. > > 2) That application never elicited a reply from Google, so no > contract to read or sign was presented or known of. > > 3) At some later point the required contract was obtained and, as Theo > has said, nobody in the OpenBSD project or at the OpenBSD

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Beck
> they didn't say that Theo refused to sign any paper. Just wonder, what kind > of responsibilty that paper was about ? Accepting student's code to OpenBSD > code base or something ? No, it's actually about personal liability for the mentor (i.e. me) for taxes and other such nonsense. Google SOC

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-05 Thread Bob Beck
> at first, I'd notice, "3)" != "4)", right ? May not be the same, however they do want mentorship from somwhere associated to the projects. > at second, taxes are rather government thing, not googlish ? why should I > sign something with Google about taxes ? It doesn't make any sense. Because c

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-06 Thread Bob Beck
> Actually, there are a couple of organisations that are willing to act as > a proxy for the payments to organisations that are unable to deal with > the legalities imposed by the US IRS - it is not just foreigners that > have issues some projects inside the US just don't have the ability to > deal

Re: Google SoC 2012 is accepting open source organisations

2012-03-06 Thread Bob Beck
> I have done GSoC as a mentor before though I have > not been the admin for a project Have you dealt with the google contract then?

OpenBSD 5.1 released May 1, 2012

2012-05-01 Thread Bob Beck
hin, Alexandre Ratchov, Anil Madhavapeddy, Anthony J. Bentley, Antoine Jacoutot, Ariane van der Steldt, Austin Hook, Benoit Lecocq, Bernd Ahlers, Bob Beck, Bret Lambert, Bryan Steele, Camiel Dobbelaar, Can Erkin Acar, Charles Longeau, Chris Kuethe, Christian Weisgerber, Christ

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
* Ted Unangst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-26 16:53]: > On 10/26/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What, then, is the correct way to separate the project files of more > > > > than 16 projects, where some users will need access to all of the > > > > groups? > > > > There has t

Re: spamdb expire value gets default value instead of spamd_flag value (-G)

2007-10-30 Thread Bob Beck
Who put the 36 hour date in there? spamd or spamlogd? spamlogd may have done that for you. look at your syslogs -Bob * Claes Str?m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-24 10:13]: > Hi, > > When testing greylisting with synchronizing we noticed the following > strange behavior:

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread Bob Beck
* Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-31 08:40]: > On 10/31/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > They don't need a list. They could already have started coding. Yet > > we see how few people actually do start coding. Instead, they choose > > to write in english... > > How

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread Bob Beck
> and i would suggest that the severe and prevelant attitude toward the > possibilty of poor patches or under-educated actions is the most > significant barrier to encouraging new/young developers. > No, the severe and prevelent attitude toward the possiblilty of poor patches or under-edu

Re: Remembering Jun-ichiro Hagino

2007-11-02 Thread Bob Beck
* Adrian Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-01 11:22]: > This thread is the first I have heard of him. Who is (or was) he? > > A. How unbelievably [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can't even have the decency to google his name before you spout your ignorance here, in an incredibly insensitive man

Re: spamdb output

2007-11-19 Thread Bob Beck
* RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-11 22:39]: > It seems that the migrated database works but new entries go on the end > - no SORT of order, and SPAMTRAP entries (that I entered using a > script) ended up showing in two bunches in the midst of other unordered > entries. > > My question is: Is thi

Re: License Violation - ksh

2007-12-03 Thread Bob Beck
* Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-03 06:19]: > No harm done just stupidity perpetuated. Kind of like fox news. Dunno about "no harm done" there marco - Saying fox news doesn't do any harm is like saying Joesph Goebels didn't to any harm - only perpetuated stupidity..

Re: spamd DB_SCAN_INTERVAL

2007-12-03 Thread Bob Beck
* Tom Bombadil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-31 12:21]: > > Probably Bad things. > > Oh-oh... I increased it to 2 minutes. Thing are a bit better now. > > > Shouldn't be. What rev of openbsd are you running this spamd box on? > > I run it on a single ide drive, I'm probably bigger than you

Re: pfctl - show port numbers

2007-12-04 Thread Bob Beck
> while that is entirely true, I really don't see much of a point here. > actually, if I were to implement these parts now I'd make it print port > numbers only and not names - we don't print hostnames either. > but - it has been that way for more than 6 years. I don't see a good > reason to chan

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Beck
> Can you dismiss PKI and the benefits that OpenPGP signatures provide to your > user community? Knowing that xyz binary is signed by OpenBSD for > distribution or abc email came from an official OpenBSD source is a good > thing. Trojaned binaries and forged emails happen. PKI can help mitigate > t

Re: Two carp firewalls keep swapping from master/backup

2007-12-05 Thread Bob Beck
> Are you allowing the carp traffic in and out? This is the more common fuckup I make when configuring them that has this result. make sure the carp and pfsync traffic makes it in and out.

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-06 Thread Bob Beck
> do you have any idea how hard it really is to mount such an attack? > without being detected? and what's the trojan going to do? copy all > your secrets to their national citizen oppression center? how do they > get their nefarious packets through your firewall without notice? Of cour

Re: Hardware recommendations for OpenBSD carp router/firewall machines

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Beck
* Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-06 15:54]: > Does anyone have recommendations on server hardware for setting up a > redundant OpenBSD firewall? Right now our network handles several > million HTTP requests per day, and we expect that to continue growing. > I expect a simple pair of

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

2007-12-07 Thread Bob Beck
> The latter is far more accurate than the former. > > Greg Good god folks, just stop it. It's GPL, so it isn't going to happen. -Bob

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-12 Thread Bob Beck
* Mathieu Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-12 11:23]: > Hello, > > First I apologize if this is not the good address to post this kind of > message. I didn't find a 'getting involved' link on the 0penBSD website. > > Well, OpenBSD seems to care about quality, so as a developper I thought > thi

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