Re: Define hosts lookup for pf.conf

2007-09-19 Thread Bob Beck
> fresh pom blood perchance? > Fresh luser blood. Non Ex Transverso Sed Deorsum... Now, please return to discussing openbsd... -Bob

OpenBSD misc gets most fed Trolls award....

2007-09-20 Thread Bob Beck
Lemme give you a big whack with the old cluestick guys.. Trolls only work if you *respond*. If you don't feed it. it goes away. Please just stop feeding the trolls.

Re: spamd shows up as an open relay

2007-09-26 Thread Bob Beck
> I'm not 100% certain I'm "get"ting your idea here ... we do currently > run inbound/outbound mail on different IPs, but the problem isn't with > the connections themselves. > > From the example session transcript with spamd that I posted earlier: > > 250 Hello, spam sender. Pleased to be wastin

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-26 Thread Bob Beck
> Oh, I'm not saying it doesn't work. What I'm saying is, greylisting > is trivial to bypass, and some spammers have figured that out. > Amazingly, most of them still haven't, which is why it still works in a > significant number of cases. > greylisting does what it does. It delays t

Re: Greytrapping by destination server IP (Honeypotting?)

2007-09-27 Thread Bob Beck
* Richard Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-27 07:49]: > In recent weeks I have seen a number of spam attempts to servers we host > that should never see them. More concisely, people are trying to send > spam by connecting to port 25 on our web servers. These connections die > on their arse becau

Re: SMTP flood + spamdb

2007-09-27 Thread Bob Beck
* Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-27 11:36]: > > --- Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > greylisting does what it does. It delays the initial email > > for 30 minutes or more. what you do with that 30 minutes will de

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-01 Thread Bob Beck
> Wouldn't it be win-win if people there could buy DVD (with more data on > it, i.e. needing less downloads) and an agreement could be made that XX > $ (enough to compensate for the not-sold CDs) for each DVD sold are paid > to OpenBSD? No, it wouldn't. The project has already contemplated

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-02 Thread Bob Beck
> (though i have to confess, i haven't made a donation since i upgraded > my gateway to 4.1 ... i have an excuse !!! and it was only last week. > and i will) > And this is exactly the problem. Look, you guys can quibble all you want about "awww, we should be able to make our own distros"

Re: I need a new non-sucky laptop...

2007-10-02 Thread Bob Beck
This time you should really let the U of A buy you one ;) -Bob * Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-01 23:37]: > Through mysterious circumstances, my Thinkpad T42 disappeared in the > Minneapolis airport today. > > I know it went into the xray machine. I know I didn't hav

Re: Thank you developers... 4.2 arrived in the mail today

2007-10-05 Thread Bob Beck
> Okay, well fresh from an install on my Sun X2100M2 my daughter wanted > to check it out > > http://balius.com/openbsd.4.2.jpg Ok, that's a cool picture. Thanks daniel :) -Bob

Re: cvs disk space error

2007-10-12 Thread Bob Beck
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Aaron wrote: > > > > > ? share/man/mantest > > > unable to write, file adduser.8 > > > No space left on device > > > > > > and returns me to the #. > > > > > > There is plenty of disk space. > > > > Try a different cvs server: > > http://openbsd.org/anoncvs.html#CVS

Re: late install of patch 011_openssl.patch

2007-10-19 Thread Bob Beck
> I just noticed 011_openssl.patch and installed it on my 4.1 i386 system. > Does anyone have any idea to what extent I risked being hacked? If the > risk was significant, what is the best way to check if someone's been naughty? If anyone competent is being naughty, you probably wouldn't

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 works on OpenBSD

2006-06-07 Thread Bob Beck
> I use OpenOffice with sudo soffice.bin ... Shudder. My glasses just went dark. That's fucking terrifying. Seriously dude, You are begging for a security problem doing this. Absolutely begging. In all honesty you may as well be running office as an administrator on a Micro$haft box, you ha

Re: Lockups and Semop panics

2006-06-08 Thread Bob Beck
* Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-08 10:00]: > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Michael Erdely wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've got a Dell Dimension XPS B866r desktop running as my web/mail server > > (recently upgraded to 3.9). > > > > Occasionally, after a seemingly random amount of time, the machi

Re: developing a backup strategy

2006-06-12 Thread Bob Beck
* prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 11:54]: > i've gone through the threads: > > Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution > remote data backup > > and am contemplating the ideas as they apply to my rather simple setup - 2 > webservers (one does email as well). not too much change

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Bob Beck
* Constantine A. Murenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-12 15:07]: > On 11/06/06, Hamorszky Balazs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm looking for some help on an article on wikipedia. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_operating_systems > > Whilst there, what about another impo

Re: ddos mail attack thwarted by spamd greylisting!

2006-06-13 Thread Bob Beck
> Luckily, spamd greylisting saved the day. If it wasn't for BASE/snort > reporting of the portscan, I wouldn't have even bothered looking in my logs > tonite, and probably would never have been aware of the thwarted attempt. > Good thing they're only portscanning and mailbombing you th

Re: pics from the hackathon

2006-06-15 Thread Bob Beck
http://bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca/beck/pictures/c2k6 has my full set. -Bob * Kroty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 04:30]: > Hey folk, > > anyone willing to share some pics from this year's hackathon? > > I just have seen a couple of them

Re: ddos mail attack thwarted by spamd greylisting!

2006-06-16 Thread Bob Beck
* Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-15 18:03]: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:07:46AM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > > > Luckily, spamd greylisting saved the day. If it wasn't for BASE/snort > > > reporting of the portscan, I wouldn't have even bothered l

Re: Doubts about OpenBSD security.

2006-06-21 Thread Bob Beck
* Joco Salvatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-21 11:38]: > My doubts may seem fool, so thanks in advance for those who will read > this e-mail and may help me with my doubts. > > 1. Why doesn't passwd ask superuser's current password when it's run > by the superuser to change its own password? May

Re: Sizing an IMAP Server on OpenBSD

2006-07-07 Thread Bob Beck
IF you're only talking about around 300 users, you've probably not got to worry about these questions - what you have will work very well for what you are proposing, likely without any tweaks. -Bob * Samuel Moqux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-07 10:56]: > Hi everyone, > > I'm pl

Re: spamdb not pruning entries

2006-07-12 Thread Bob Beck
If you can, mail me offlist your spamdb output, the date of your system, and which entries you are referring to. -Bob * Rod.. Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-11 19:19]: > I regularly run spamdb|less to keep an eye on what is happening. Since > I started greytrapping attem

Re: BSD kernel going to be included in University

2006-07-12 Thread Bob Beck
> Not to mention the poor Sysadmin forced to support more than one OS in > one class ;) > Balderdash. then he ain't very talented. Give em machines, authpf in front, and OS CD's. Give bonus points to any groups that manage to break into other groups machines. any other way to teach an OS

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-12 Thread Bob Beck
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 09:45:59AM -0500, Travers Buda wrote: > > Oh noes! Theo made an anti-American comment! Well we need all the anti- > [ yadda yadda ] (I tried to shut up and not continue this thread but you've sucked me in...) You freaking boneheads

Re: problem with spamd

2006-07-12 Thread Bob Beck
no fixup smtp is the only thing that will help you. The PIX's smtp nonsense is utterly broken. If you look, it's even in the microsoft knowledge base for problems it causes in front of mmmSexChange servers. -Bob * Polkan Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-12 11:36]: > Hi all :)

Re: problem with spamd

2006-07-13 Thread Bob Beck
> The spamd log include two different entries, the spamassassin daemon > (spamd) and spamd openbsd: > > Jul 13 09:32:56 www2 spamd[25447]: (GREY) 200.xxx.xxx.xxx: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jul 13 09:32:56 www2 spamd[25447]: 200.xxx.xxx.xxx: disconnected after > 11 seconds. > Ju

Re: spamd greylisting

2006-07-13 Thread Bob Beck
You haven't showed your pf rules. If your friend is blocked because you are using the "korea" blacklist un-greylisting him won't help. Using the standard example from the man page: rdr pass inet proto tcp from to any \ port smtp -> 127.0.0.1 port spamd rdr pass inet pro

Re: OT: (don't open if you don't like) Kerberized FTP client/Server

2006-07-17 Thread Bob Beck
* Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-17 20:16]: > Dear friends. > > I am implementing an openbsd kerberos server and would like windows > client to connect to another openbsd ftp server using kerberos. Is > that possible? What kind of ftp client have you been using on windows > for such tas

Re: radioctl error on i386 Aug 1 snapshot; Inappropriate ioctl for device

2006-08-04 Thread Bob Beck
> I understand I need an application to capture video, I was planning on > using ffmpeg. I don't want or need to display it locally, that's why I > was trying to avoid fxtv. I thought I could change channels via radioctl, > then stream the capture with ffmpeg. However you keep mentioning fxtv so

Re: smtp proxy

2006-08-09 Thread Bob Beck
> Hi, > > use a standard smtp daemon (sendmail, postfix or whatever) and put the > spooling directory in a ramdisk :-) Don't bother with the ramdisk. disk is cheap and fast compared to smtp. OpenBSD spamd in front of a cluster of sendmail/postfix running boxes which have the v

Re: spamd and spamlogd syslog level

2006-08-09 Thread Bob Beck
* Will H. Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-08 09:51]: > Does anyone know why spamd and spamlogd log to syslog at different log > levels. > It isn't too hard to change syslog.conf to include daemon.debug in order > to capture output from spamlogd, but why the difference? > because sp

Re: smtp proxy

2006-08-09 Thread Bob Beck
> The only thing I can use is a ramdisk. I want it to run on a wrap > system. Writing to the cf card is not an option, and all I have > are 128MB RAM. There are only two options: Yuck. just get a couple of real (small) systems and carp 'em. if you can't afford that see below.. > - forwar

Re: spamd and TLS on port 25

2006-08-10 Thread Bob Beck
Completely correct. spamd does not do TLS. It doesn't need to. since starttls will fail the mailer will fall back anyway. * Will H. Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-10 07:58]: > Am I correct in assuming that spamd and TLS on port 25 don't get along? > > -- Will > -- | | |

Re: spamd and TLS on port 25

2006-08-10 Thread Bob Beck
> Yes. I'm protecting a Microsoft Exchange server with spamd on an > openbsd bridge. Because Microsoft Outlook uses Microsoft's way of > having MUAs talk to MTAs, there is no problem there. > I also enabled IMAPS (port 993) and SMTP-TLS (port 25) on the Exchange > Server so that normal mail cl

Re: spamd and TLS on port 25

2006-08-10 Thread Bob Beck
> Also, while STARTTLS does have its merits, it's still better suited for > handling MTA authentication than protecting user data - use GPG for the > latter. STARTTLS opportunistically between MTA's is wonderful for making shit like Carnivore unusable. The Government should not be able to

Re: spamd and TLS on port 25

2006-08-11 Thread Bob Beck
> For those servicing larger networks such as universities' ResNets or > campus networks, using a mandatory smarthost can be an excellent > detection tool to see which users/stations need to end up in a > quarantine. > > Granted, the largest customer base for this sort of thing are likely > to be

Re: spamd and TLS on port 25

2006-08-11 Thread Bob Beck
* Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-08-11 08:23]: > Speaking as someone who does this, for the truly big university > there are a lot of clueless idiots... Gee, although I suppose I should use my openbsd.org address when giving such advice. Let me rephase - At most

Re: broadcom

2006-09-08 Thread Bob Beck
* Tom Bombadil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-08 13:27]: > Hi all, > > This subject always comes up in the list, but due to the evolving nature > of the the driver, we (non-developers) always have to keep bugging > people about it. > > How's the status of the broadcom bge(4) drive? > Is it stable a

Re: figures with magicpoint

2006-09-11 Thread Bob Beck
> There are also a few drawing programs in koffice, and they tend to get better > from release to release... > Actually, just from personal experience doing 4.0 ports testing and setting up my kids' machines (my kids become release install guinea pigs every release :), While I still have

Re: Redundant firewall

2006-09-13 Thread Bob Beck
* Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-13 13:20]: > Does pfsync support redundancy for IPSec and NAT too? > > Thanks in advance. > pfsync synch's NAT states along with the rest of pf state. IPsec is not done by pfsync. RTFM at sasyncd(8) for info on how to do that.

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-13 Thread Bob Beck
... [various other misinformed half truths] ... > * Out of date vi, harder to navigate and use, poor visual feedback. > vi is completely current. I believe you are thinking of "vim" which a bunch of linux distros install, and stupidly, alias to vi - it's not the same thing. It is in port

Re: OT: elliptic curve crypto

2008-09-26 Thread Bob Beck
On 26-Sep-08, at 14:43, "Ted Unangst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:02 PM, John Nietzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i am searching for a tutorial on this regards that explain howto implement it using ANSI C (I don't really care about the math background abot this subject

U of A (and associated OpenBSD machines) going offline for up to 4 hours or so.

2008-05-25 Thread Bob Beck
We're having some major electrical work done in our data centre. While I have UPS, the nature of the work means I don't have air conditioning ;) The result is some of the OpenBSD sites (ftp, www, anoncvs, etc.) may be unavailable for much of this morning - potentially into the afte

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-16 Thread Bob Beck
On 16-Jul-08, at 12:14 PM, Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not a monkey. Hey but I am! Pass the banana flavoured lube! Oook oook oook! Now could we return to useful conversation instead of feeding the trolls? -Bob

Re: Upgrading through several versions via anoncvs

2006-09-14 Thread Bob Beck
> * Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-14 14:11]: > > Unless you remove and re-add all your packages, the pkg_* > > tools won't work as smoothly as they should. > > this is untrue. > > pkg_add -u does a wonderful job, even on ancient installed packages. > > I just had such an upgrade,

Re: webbased authpf ?

2006-09-18 Thread Bob Beck
* Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-18 00:55]: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 08:46:40PM -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote: > > On 9/17/06, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Saturday 16 September 2006 03:33, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > >> Just make a table and write up some script that add

Re: hearing complaints regarding pre-orders

2006-09-21 Thread Bob Beck
* Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-21 08:52]: > I have seen on two sites a guy complaining about the CD ordering > system. Apparently there is no mention of the amount you will actually > be paying unless you provide your CC info. This may detract some > potential buyers. news to me. y

Re: hearing complaints regarding pre-orders

2006-09-21 Thread Bob Beck
* Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-21 09:17]: > > I can't speak for others, but I have seen various posts online from > folks saying that the [intl] shipping information is not available > until after the CC info is passed on. I cannot confirm nor deny this > first-hand. Al

Re: hearing complaints regarding pre-orders

2006-09-21 Thread Bob Beck
> BTW, > I tried ordering this morning and got a disk full error upon posting. > Is it OK to order now ? Yes, but of course you had to post to the list to find out. -Bob

Re: hearing complaints regarding pre-orders

2006-09-21 Thread Bob Beck
> buying CDs since 2.5. I'm amazed that anyone is making an issue of > it now. ... because it's fun and gets a reaction. If you have kids you figure this out quickly or go insane. Everyone please just stop feeding the trolls and let the thread die. -Bob -- #!/usr/bin/perl if (

Re: automate changing strcpy() to strlcpy()

2006-09-22 Thread Bob Beck
> - The system can prevent the worst at run-time by truncating strings. .. and you also have to think about cases where truncation *can* matter, and if so, detect it and react appropriately by using the return value from strlcpy (look at the man page for a very good example of how to

Re: The new 4.0 song(s)

2006-10-05 Thread Bob Beck
> Thoroughly enjoyed the bonus track. > Ty's ramblings reminded me of Ruby Rhod's in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. Ty as Ruby.. OMG, you just made me lose my coffee. can't wait to tell him that one although theo will beat me to it :) -Bob

Re: Letter to OLPC

2006-10-05 Thread Bob Beck
* Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-05 14:56]: > It sure seems that OpenBSD and a few others with the FSF are > the last bastions of freedom. I guess no one else understands how it > serves their interests to demand openness. Was it always this way or > have we somehow lost the picture? >

Re: Letter to OLPC

2006-10-05 Thread Bob Beck
> In a private reply to my initial mail Jim Gettys (OLPC / Red Hat) said: > > Free and open software is a means to an end, rather than the > sole end unto itself for OLPC. > > I was totally stunned by this admission. "morally bankrupt", as Bob > says, is exactly what is going on. >

Re: Letter to OLPC

2006-10-05 Thread Bob Beck
* Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-05 16:03]: > > Free and open software is a means to an end, rather than the > > sole end unto itself for OLPC. > > > > I was totally stunned by this admission. "morally bankrupt", as Bob > > says, is exactly what is going on. > > Hmm, sounds li

Re: Letter to OLPC

2006-10-06 Thread Bob Beck
> if they want to fix third world countries they should start with the > governments, this seems more like a marketing excercise Unfortunately, fixing the government while maintaining the universal democracy that is practically insisted upon by the USA as world uber-cop makes that a very d

Re: /etc/motd SHA1 checksum keeps changing

2006-10-10 Thread Bob Beck
* Tobias Weisserth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-09 16:39]: > AIDE keeps reporting a change in the SHA1 checksum of /etc/motd. Even ... > > I did a thorough check of the system and didn't notice any funny Well, you may not have noticed anything funny, but what you're seeing is normal.

Re: OLPC

2006-10-10 Thread Bob Beck
> > How so? They've both been clear about what they want and what they > > stand > > for. > > Every book is new until one has read it. It's interesting to see the > different take > these two crusaders have on the firmware. > How so? that RMS is ranting about another undoable unmain

Re: blurb blurb

2006-10-12 Thread Bob Beck
> > We, the authors of this work, are giving it away to you, dear > > reader (and to everyone else), as an opportunity, not as a > > service. Do with it whatever you want. We welcome your > > contributions, and we owe you nothing. > > This fails to grant the rights explicitly ide

Re: Swedish speakers -- OpenBSD and IBM Tivoli TSM BA

2006-10-12 Thread Bob Beck
Hi. I happen to also run Tivoli/TSM. As far as I know there is no native OpenBSD Tivoli client. and for disaster recovery purposes (if that's all you are using it for) you don't really need one - the tivoli client does object by object (read that - file by file) backup w

Re: 421 error on ftp.openbsd.org

2006-10-13 Thread Bob Beck
Hi gang, we've had a machine failure here that's impacting ftp.openbsd.org. We are working on correcting the problem. Please be patient. -Bob Beck * Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-13 02:31]: > Trying to download the latest patches, I have been get

Re: 421 error on ftp.openbsd.org

2006-10-13 Thread Bob Beck
> > 421 There are too many connected users, please try later. > > Hi gang, we've had a machine failure here that's impacting > ftp.openbsd.org. We are working on correcting the problem. Please be > patient. Problem now fixed. sorry for the inconvenience everyone. -Bob -- #

Re: Swedish speakers -- OpenBSD and IBM Tivoli TSM BA

2006-10-13 Thread Bob Beck
While I'm mildly terrified, if it actually works perhaps shit should be a port with a linux-lib dependency? There is a use for this if someone is up to building it. * ropers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-12 16:27]: > For the benefit of the archives: > > I also did > touch /emul/linux/etc/

Re: Swedish speakers -- OpenBSD and IBM Tivoli TSM BA

2006-10-13 Thread Bob Beck
> >It appears, though I've not done more than take a quick glance, that > >this product can back up from NFS exports. If so, that might be the > >least hackish solution. > > Sorry to appear lazy, but do you remember where you saw that? IMHO > IBM's Tivoli documentation is all over the place, that'

Re: spamdb man page - greytrap address

2006-10-17 Thread Bob Beck
> Should the man page be updated, or am I doing something wrong? Both. Know what shell you are running and know if it eats "<" and ">" in a string. Having said that it's nicer if the man page makes you not have to think. I've changed it to single quotes in the example. -Bob

Re: Happy Birthday OpenBSD!

2006-10-18 Thread Bob Beck
> Theo president ! :) > > What an interesting idea. I would vote for him... > I wouldn't, and I count him as a friend. The president is a puppet whore of special interest groups and shitheads, made to manipulate to the lowest common denominator so the USA gets the government it de

Re: Is doing a network restore from bsd.rd at all possible?

2006-10-19 Thread Bob Beck
My typical way to do his is find my latest dump(s) on tape or elsewhere - chuck them on an nfs server accesible to the machine to be restored, boot from bsd.rd, mount the nfs location with the dump files and proceed. -Bob * Michal Soltys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-19 09:19]: >

Re: Spamd - whitelist of mis-behaving SMTP server POOLS

2006-10-20 Thread Bob Beck
> I am 99% sure that I have seen on the internet SOMEWHERE a "whitelist" > of servers that are like this. I thought Bob Beck had forwarded one at > one point in time, but I can only find his post regarding the tarfile he > maintains for the "zombie" hosts. >

Re: krb5 login help

2006-10-24 Thread Bob Beck
> I'm trying to configure 3.9 to authenticate against a Kerberos 5 > realm. Kerberos is correctly configured (I can get a ticket via > kinit). I've created a new user class and assigned krb5-or-pwd > authentication (relevant portion of login.conf is below). I assigned > a user to the class

Re: krb5 login help

2006-10-24 Thread Bob Beck
modified that is of the form host/[EMAIL PROTECTED] How your campus kerberos admins choose to do this I wouldn't know, sorry, you'll have to break down and ask them. -Bob * Donald J. Ankney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-24 14:27]: > > On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:29 PM, B

Re: Large scale deployments

2006-11-03 Thread Bob Beck
* Michael Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-02 18:33]: > All, Wrap your bloody lines! > > Here's a question that I wanted to pose to the OpenBSD community about > managing and maintaining a large number of OpenBSD systems in the field. To > provide some background, we currently ha

Re: spamd

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Beck
No, not yet. see http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/spamd/ * edgarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-07 01:54]: > Hi misc! > > Is it possible to keep in sync two or more spamdb over the network? :) > > Thanks. > Edgars. > -- #!/usr/bin/perl if ((not

Re: proposed patch for ifconfig(8) man page

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Beck
* Jason McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-07 11:25]: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:52:19PM +0100, Igor Sobrado wrote: > > > > Can I suggest adding atalk(4), inet6(4), ipsec(4), pf(4), pflog(4), > > eon(5), hostapd(8), and tcpdump(8) to the "SEE ALSO" section of > > ifconfig(8)? I think that, a

Re: Wild card greytrapping setup in spamdb

2006-11-14 Thread Bob Beck
Hi Daniel, I don't do this in spamd at the moment, because I want to keep spamd small and secure, and regex code is amazingly big and scary. have a look at my prototype greylist scanner from my nycbug talk for a way to do this. -Bob * Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

U of A havin network issues...

2006-11-18 Thread Bob Beck
this means that access to ftp. and www. will suck. we're busy trying to fix. thank you for your patience. -Bob -- #!/usr/bin/perl if ((not 0 && not 1) != (! 0 && ! 1)) { print "Larry and Tom must smoke some really primo stuff...\n"; }

Re: webmail

2006-11-23 Thread Bob Beck
All webmail products suck. I am using horde in one location and squirrelmail in another. -Bob * Jasper Bal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-23 07:48]: > Anyone using webmail on OpenBSD? What's good, what's not? > > Jasper > -- #!/usr/bin/perl if ((not 0 && not 1) != (! 0 && ! 1)

Re: Which tools the OpenBSD developers are using?

2006-11-28 Thread Bob Beck
* Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-28 14:03]: > Hi OpenBSD developers, > > > Which are your preferred tools for develop? (For C, C++, Java, > etcno matter the language) Visual C++, .NET, and C sharp of course. Theo mandates taht we all to use only the 7337est

Re: spamd [-c maxcon]

2006-11-28 Thread Bob Beck
> >spamd(8) says the default is 800, which is actually a compiled-in > >limit and is quite generous for most situations. The consequences of > >raising it are not immediately obvious, but I imagine could be > >entertaining. because if you go much beyond it you need to consider things like

Re: pf load balancer and server health

2006-11-30 Thread Bob Beck
* Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-30 16:41]: > Hi, how can i check the servers' health and delete a server from the > pool when it loses connection with the load balancer, is such thing > posible? > thanks > http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/scripts/sslcheck

Re: problem with spamd-white table and greylisting

2006-12-06 Thread Bob Beck
* peter dunaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-05 20:15]: > > I can send all pf.conf or other config files upon demand, but it's > pretty much the default. spamd.conf is the same as default except that > I added Bob Beck's blaklist and it doesn't have to do anything with > greylisting anyway. > > W

Re: Is it safe to use group 'users' in /etc/group?

2006-12-06 Thread Bob Beck
* Stas Myasnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-12-06 11:57]: > Hello, > > is it safe to use group 'users' from /etc/group as the login group for > the users? Or it is reserved for some system use? > While I actually believe it is safe on OpenBSD, I never give users groups from the system g

Re: problem with spamd-white table and greylisting

2006-12-06 Thread Bob Beck
> > [private email from bob saying "you've screwed up, show me this"] > > [public reply spewing output to list.] Obviously you still have a configuration problem, but if I contact you in a private email to sort out your problem because I am willing to help you, and you then start spewing

ftp.openbsd.org issues

2005-05-26 Thread Bob Beck
We have some issues at the U of A. It is being worked on and will be restored asap. -Bob -- Bob Beck Computing and Network Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta True Evil hides its real intentions in its

memory desperately needed in calgary to solve 4gb barrier

2005-05-26 Thread Bob Beck
Hi gang. We are pleased to say progress has been made on a solution to the 4gb memory barrier for amd64 hosts by jason wright at the hackathon unforutunately we lack enough memory to test and finish it, and trolling the stores hasn't turned up the right stuff what we n

Re: authpf password changing

2005-06-01 Thread Bob Beck
and in a root session type > "passwd user" > > have searched all over for the answer to this. > appologies if its a FAQ but any help would be much > appreciated > > many thanks > > sincerely, > > alastair johnson > -- Bo

Re: Gigabit Firewall NIC Interrupt Performance Problem

2005-06-01 Thread Bob Beck
different animal. -bob * Sean Knox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-01 18:57]: > Marco Peereboom wrote: > > >I remember that there was a boo boo in the bge interrupt handler. > >beck@ found it and I believe krw@ fixed it. If you can you should try > >som

Re: Summer of Code ?

2005-06-03 Thread Bob Beck
erwards. > > > I saw that and missed OpenBSD also. > > > They had some nice projects over at NetBSD actually. > > > > it's not like a bsd rsync, or a better ffs, or ... wouldn't help openbsd > > either. > > > > hell, go

Re: Summer of Code ?

2005-06-03 Thread Bob Beck
a place I've seen > that says, "This needs to be written, wouldn't take tons of > experience, but takes time no one has wanted to spend on it -- go to". > Can you offer suggestions? > > I appreciate any help you can give, even if it's just "RTFM". Th

Re: ami(4) support for >1 logical drives in 3.7?

2005-06-09 Thread Bob Beck
71024640 sec total > >sd1 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: SCSI2 0/direct fixed > >sd1: 139900MB, 17834 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 286515200 sec > >total > >isa0 at pcib0 > >isadma0 at isa0 > >pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 > >pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) > >pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot > >wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 > >pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 > >midi0 at pcppi0: > >sysbeep0 at pcppi0 > >npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 > >pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo > >fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 > >fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec > >biomask c840 netmask c8e0 ttymask c8e2 > >pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled > >dkcsum: sd0 matched BIOS disk 80 > >dkcsum: sd1 matched BIOS disk 81 > >root on sd0a > >rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02 > >ami0: timeout ccb 1 > >ami0: timeout ccb 2 > >ami0: timeout ccb 1 > -- Bob Beck Computing and Network Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta True Evil hides its real intentions in its street address.

Re: GRUB's boot parameter

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Beck
27;s boot parameter changed or parameter I set > was wrong, please let me know correct thing. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > -- Bob Beck Computing and Networ

Re: GRUB's boot parameter

2005-06-16 Thread Bob Beck
an <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-06-16 11:29]: > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:27:15 -0600 > Bob Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is probably because OpenBSD != NetBSD, and > > I suspect grub is using whatever it's notion of a netbsd boot > > bl

Re: ftp server down?

2005-06-17 Thread Bob Beck
Hi gang, major outage here that is affecting ftp.openbsd.org I love embedded disk products with firmware that crashes. Thank you adaptec. We'll be back when we are back, sorry for the inconvenience. -Bob

Re: How do we disable console output temporarily.

2005-06-20 Thread Bob Beck
- I'm ssh'ing into it. The box is 400 KM away. > > > > > > >>I also have a > >>problem in that my "ps" command don't work. > >> > >> > > > >Ah, there's a fair chanc

Re: LinuxTag Karlsruhe Germany June 22 - 25

2005-06-21 Thread Bob Beck
> I'll be hiding in the back, wearing nothing but a Speedo, it's really really > warm here. Yeah for global warming! > Wim hanging out in a speedo? Darn. Where's my frequent flyer miles. If I'm quick I can bring my speedo and hang out with him :) -Bob

Re: spamd greylisting and server pools

2005-06-21 Thread Bob Beck
> This is where SPF actually comes in handy. Just look at the spf > record for that domain and manually whitelist that. No, simply go to http://www.greylisting.org/whitelisting.shtml and whitelist them manually :) -Bob

Re: spamd and comcast

2005-06-29 Thread Bob Beck
to only greylist the poor souls that use > comcast), please lemme know. I'd love to continue using spews[12], but too > many people complain. > > Thanks. > > - Eric > -- Bob Beck Computing and Network Services [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamd and comcast

2005-06-29 Thread Bob Beck
> > complaining, tell them to send through a non blacklisted SMTP server. The problem is that spews tends to blacklist the entire provider, including their smtp server, so people who have the service have no choice of using a smarthost to forward mail out. Short answer? don't use

Re: spamd and comcast

2005-06-29 Thread Bob Beck
t; Worldnet Service mail servers? Seems that things like 204.127.198.34, > > > and > > > almost everything in 204.127 is in spews1. > > > > > > If anyone has a way around this (to only greylist the poor souls that > > > use > > > comcast), please l

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-07-01 Thread Bob Beck
(such as OpenBSD, although > > > do you know whether or not OpenBSD's SMP can support Dual Xeon's?) or > > > NetBSD. Otherwise, I have to go to linux or windows which I really don't > > > want to do at all. > > > > > > Thanks again for your help. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Matt > -- Bob Beck Computing and Network Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alberta True Evil hides its real intentions in its street address.

Re: Small office samba on OpenBSD

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Beck
> >I'd like to create a simple product for SOHO customers for file storage, > >DVD > >backups, spam/virus filtering, etc. It's obviously going to be more secure > >than the same 5 PC's behind the NAT router alone, but should I recommend > >the > >box is behind a NAT router for that extra level o

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