How to serve NFSv6 ?

2009-02-14 Thread jean-francois
Hi All, Unfortunately it looks like I have mounted a NFS v2/3 server. Is'nt the standard nfs for OpenBSD 4.4 a v4 ? If so how is it I could not mount it as a V4 on the client but only as a v2 or v3 (i'm not sure which of 2 or 3) ? Please help me to understand. Is it a good thing to go for NFSv4 in

Re: How to serve NFSv6 ?

2009-02-15 Thread jean-francois
Thanks for answer. Why is NFSv4 not used ? Is there any way to use it instead ? JF Le samedi 14 fC)vrier 2009 C 21:37 -0600, Aaron Poffenberger a C)crit : > On Feb 14, 2009, at 18:23, jean-francois wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Unfortunately it looks like I have mounted

How to serve NFSv4 perfiormance

2009-02-15 Thread jean-francois
dimanche 15 fC)vrier 2009 C 12:42 +0100, Peter Hessler a C)crit : > openbsd uses nfsv3 over ipv4. nfsv4 is still being worked on, but is > not ready. nfsv3 does not work over ipv6. > > On 2009 Feb 15 (Sun) at 01:23:37 +0100 (+0100), jean-francois wrote: > :Hi All, > : > :Unfort

Security issue, damn I've been hacked

2009-02-20 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, It looks like my server running since few days has already been hacked. It looks like a new user called 'daemon' ID 1 and a new group daemon. User's full name 'The devil itself' First time I find out evidence of hack on my server, however it's only one month running !! It looks like

sftp chroot ?

2009-02-23 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, As far as I understand, the sftp service is always running since it is the ssh daemon (maybe one can correct me if I'm wrong). Hence I need to chroot some users to specific directories. I prefer not to use vsftp at present time if this feature is available with sftp of OpenBSD. One can he

Re: sftp chroot ?

2009-02-23 Thread Jean-Francois
anged in sshd_config : #ChrootDirectory none Thanks JF Le lundi 23 fC)vrier 2009 C 19:07 +0100, Floor Terra a C)crit : > See sshd_config(5) and search for ChrootDirectory. > > Floor > > On Feb 23, 2009 6:24 PM, "Jean-Francois" > w

Unfortunate dot was ... missing

2009-02-24 Thread Jean-Francois
All, I just forget the dot !! in the 'rm -r ./dev' so I have no /dev anymore on my server box. One can tell me if this is possible to backup the system without freshh install ? This is a i386 4.4 OpenBSD. One could eventually send me a way or another the full /dev in case this option actually work

Re: NAT, Firewall & pf

2009-02-24 Thread Jean-Francois
You should try to go look at http://74.125.77.147 which is google. That way you check if the comm is going. In the first place I had DNS troubles. If then it is a DNS problem at least we have localised sth. Please try to locate the problem by sniffing packets using tcpdump on the OpenBSD's interfac

System security question

2009-02-25 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, I actually built the following system : - OpenBSD running on a standard AMD platform - This box is actually used as firewall - This box is also used as webserver - This box is finally used as local shared drives via NFS file but only open to subnetwork through PF Assuming that subnetwork

Re: System security question

2009-02-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Le jeudi 26 fC)vrier 2009 C 23:13 +0100, Ingo Schwarze a C)crit : > Hi Jean-Francois, > > Jean-Francois wrote on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:08:22PM +0100: > > > I actually built the following system : > > - OpenBSD running on a standard AMD platform > > - This box is a

Re: System security question

2009-02-28 Thread Jean-Francois
6, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Ingo Schwarze > wrote: > > >> Jean-Francois wrote on Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:08:22PM > +0100: > > >>> I actually built the following system : > >>> - OpenBSD running o

Root as R/O

2009-03-01 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, One could develop a little bit the addvantage(s) of mounting root as read only ? Regards J-F

Re: Root as R/O

2009-03-01 Thread Jean-Francois
Janusz, I try to secure a box by forbidding the change to main system files. /dev /etc /tmp /var are on separate slides and would be w/r of course. Le dimanche 01 mars 2009 C 13:15 +0100, Janusz Gumkowski a C)crit : > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:18:54AM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: > &g

Re: NFS or SAMBA ?

2009-03-13 Thread Jean-Francois
BTW this thread helped me a lot (I was the originator) and I agree that NFS works a lot very well. Over Gigabyte network it's looking like really a local disk behaviour. I have still troubles copying videos because the Linux desktop constantly loads the litle snapshot of the vid file it is transfe

Re: slave data HDD drives waking up without access

2009-03-30 Thread Jean-Francois
Thanks for advise, i'll have a look. It happens during night i did'nt notice the exact time. Regards, JF Le lundi 30 mars 2009 C 21:22 +1300, Richard Toohey a C)crit : > On 30/03/2009, at 9:10 PM, Jean-FranC'ois SIMON wrote: > > > Hi All, > > For my actual server, there is a primary SSD drive

Re: slave data HDD drives waking up without access

2009-03-30 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, Sure it comes from the df made daily. Please helkp me to change the time of the daily actions, I could not find it with man pages of cron, crontab, etc ... Thanks for help. Le lundi 30 mars 2009 C 11:24 +0200, Jean-Francois a C)crit : > Thanks for advise, i'll have a look. > &

Re: European orders

2009-03-31 Thread Jean-Francois
I agree. Should one take care about this at the moment I guess I have no time at all to start this activity. Le mardi 31 mars 2009 C 13:33 +0800, David Schulz a C)crit : > Jeez i cant believe all this goes on on misc@ , truth be told the best would > have been to setup a 2nd trustworthy distribu

OpenBSD as primary OS

2016-09-11 Thread jean-francois
Hi, I'm moving to OpenBSD for primary use, I'll have to keep a Windows OS for some specific purposes also. Just thanks for the development of OpenBSD, it's very easy to use since logical and well documented, I've been enjoying it for the past years for what it deserved to do. Also looked

ETE - ETA

2017-01-22 Thread jean-francois
Hi, I always wondered what was ETA for during the installation process. As of today, I noticed this should read ETE as for Estimated Time Enroute. ETA stands for Estimated Time of Arrival and is therefore more or less constant. Regards

Installing Apache PHP/Mysql support

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, I don't want to bother you with that matter. Could one tell me where clear up to date infos are available regarding how to mount the PHP support for my website hosted on OpenBSD machine. Actually web infos are just small how to which do not give any more informations. Further some tell

Re: Installing Apache PHP/Mysql support

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, Both pkg installed, links made, and after reboot, command line works : $ php -i phpinfo() PHP Version => 5.2.6 but .php page shows only source code in firefox ? One insight please ? Le mardi 14 avril 2009 13:56:32, vous avez icrit : > Dnia wtorek, 14 kwietnia 2009, Jean-Fr

Re: Installing Apache PHP/Mysql support

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Francois
hp page shows only source code in firefox ? > > One insight please ? > > Le mardi 14 avril 2009 13:56:32, vous avez icrit : > > Dnia wtorek, 14 kwietnia 2009, Jean-Francois napisa3: > > > Now I saw there are many packages php5 and mysql, however it's not > > >

error : pkg add phpMyAdmin

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, Can you please help me with this : $ sudo pkg add phpMyAdmin-2.11.7.1.tgz Can't install php5-gd-5.2.6: lib not found X11.11.1 Dependencies for php5-gd-5.2.6 resolve to: jpeg-6bp3, php5-core-5.2.6, t1lib-5.1.0p1, png-1.2.28 Full dependency tree is libiconv-1.12,jpeg-6bp3,libxml-2.6.32p1,php

Re: error : pkg add phpMyAdmin

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi >Did you set PKG_PATH correctly so that pkg_add can fetch dependencies ? No, I just use the standard configuration out of the box, which until now installed most packages without any problem. >Did you install de xbase44.tgz packages? I guess no, I did not install X, I run console. This is a s

Re: error : pkg add phpMyAdmin

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, I totally agree. I think I just missed it from where the info is available either in the man pages or directly in the FAQ itself. Le mardi 14 avril 2009 20:17:30, vous avez icrit : > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: > > Hi, > > That's why i asked the man ref / link, i could'nt

Re: error : pkg add phpMyAdmin

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Francois
Thanks for that hint, it helped. Rgs, JF Le mardi 14 avril 2009 23:29:51 Matthew Clarke, vous avez icrit : > Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 06:14:35PM +0200, Jean-Francois may have written: > > Hello, > > Can you please help me with this : > > > > $ sudo pkg add phpMyAdmin-2.1

Re: error : pkg add phpMyAdmin

2009-04-14 Thread Jean-Francois
14 avril 2009 23:29:51 Matthew Clarke, vous avez C)crit : > > Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 06:14:35PM +0200, Jean-Francois may have written: > > > Hello, > > > Can you please help me with this : > > > > > > $ sudo pkg add phpMyAdmin-2.11.7.1.tgz > > > Can&#

Apache : admin directory secured access setup

2009-04-15 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello I am in process to change in /var/www/conf/httpd.conf from "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride AuthConfig" in order to include .htaccess .htpasswd files for some directories. Please let me know if there is any security issue with that or if it ios better to use another way for authentic

Changing the daily / weekly scripts

2009-04-15 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi I will move the following on my local box from daily to weekly.local so that this part of code is executed once a week only. It will therefore not be sent by mail since it seems to me that the weekly is not logged via local email as the daily is. This loss of information is not a problem but

Re: 4.5 arrived in Canada

2009-04-17 Thread Jean-Francois
Absolutely *Splendid* As of today for order to France what is the channel ? Regards, Jean-Frangois Le vendredi 17 avril 2009 18:29:43, vous avez icrit : > This year I was watching more closely for pre-order page to be updated > and paid a few extra bucks for express shipping. > > Same picture -

Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, My question is in two parts. First considering the default install, assuming that one box should be only used for exapample as a firewall, how good is the security level ? I mean I know there are only 2 remote holes in 10 years, but my qustion is do we have any experience about the level

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi This is clear and I truly agree, now maybe not everyone will be capable of breaking into the default system openbsd (this was my first question) and evade from chroot (my second question) therefore the other way around to ask about that concern would be which probability do you estimate for eve

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Francois
se work on recent > openbsd installs. > > In otherwords, you need to learn a lot more, and spend a lot of time > thinking about what you want to do and figuring out exactly what you > want to ask and/or do. Those are only simple questions, yet I only seek for some help if you would.

Re: Question about security

2009-04-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Good evening, Thanks for your answer, my comments within. Regards, Jean-Frangois Nick Holland a icrit : > Jean-Francois wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> My question is in two parts. >> >> First considering the default install, assuming that one box should be >>

KDE 4 for OpenBSD

2009-05-10 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, Might I ask if it will be considered in the future to incorporate KDE 4 in the port ? Thanks. JF

Ordering more than the CD

2009-05-29 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, Could you please indicate where one in France can order the Shirt and CD, I found only CD resaler. Ordering in EU/US is not a problem if needed. Thank you! JF

Install difficulties

2009-07-08 Thread jean-francois
Hi all, Actually installing on sd0 the last 4.5 resulted in sd1 and sd2 boot sectors to be modified and not able to boot their own system anymore, while I only wanted to install openbsd and its boot on sd0. Is this normal ? How is handled the boot manager install, where is it installed by default

crash after first boot

2009-07-08 Thread jean-francois
Hi, In the correct order of what happens from 1 to 5 please see attached the crash report. Thanks for a help of any kind. Rehards, Jean-FranC'ois [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had a name of 1.JPG] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/jpeg which had

Re: crash after first boot

2009-07-08 Thread jean-francois
Sorry I did not see this. Files are available as an archive file on my server at www.jean-francois-simon.com/jean-francois/files/arch.tar.gz Le jeudi 09 juillet 2009 C 09:35 +1000, Aaron Mason a C)crit : > Jean-FranC'ois, > > The mailing list removed your attachments. Could y

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-08 Thread jean-francois
nbsd on sd0 has changed anything on the MBR of other disks ? Le jeudi 09 juillet 2009 C 08:03 +0200, Jan Stary a C)crit : > On Jul 08 23:56:56, jean-francois wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Actually installing on sd0 the last 4.5 resulted in sd1 and sd2 boot > > sector

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread jean-francois
Something has been changed which prevent sd1 and sd2 to start however no data loss. I don't understand, I have launched install on sd0 ? Le jeudi 09 juillet 2009 C 11:29 +0200, Jean-FranC'ois SIMON a C)crit : > Sorry, I mean, I installed on SD0 using "all disk space". > I am not sure the MBR has

Re: crash after first boot

2009-07-09 Thread jean-francois
Hi Nick, More questions from me within you mail. Le jeudi 09 juillet 2009 C 07:13 -0400, Nick Holland a C)crit : > jean-francois wrote: > > Sorry I did not see this. > > you have been on this list for quite some time, kinda odd that > you haven't noticed attachments bein

Re: crash after first boot

2009-07-09 Thread jean-francois
attachments. Could you upload them to > >> somewhere like tinypic.com and give the links please? > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> On 7/9/09, jean-francois wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > In the correct order of what happens from 1 to 5 please see attached the > >> > crash report. > >> > > >> > Thanks for a help of any kind. > ...

Re: Install difficulties

2009-07-09 Thread jean-francois
I remember that I used to start install procedure on each disk answering yes to 'all disk should be used for this install', then I just checked the size of the disk in the disklabel, in order to identify the one I was look for and then quit & reboot without more modifications (p at disklabel then q

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-02-21 Thread Jean-Francois
I am not completely sure to understand, is it possible to make a pseudo device bridged to an interface and marking the packets with a tag according to rules based on MAC adress and then to take account of the tag in pf while doing NAT translation to a second interface ? In my opinion, this migh

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-02-21 Thread Jean-Francois
en you can use tag boss > in pf rules. The change in future will be that there will be no > brconfig(8) command, but it will be included in ifconfig(8). > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Jean-Francois wrote: > > I am not completely sure to understand, is it possible to make

another filesystem as backup

2010-02-21 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, Do you believe it is not a bad idea to use ext2 as a file system for the regular back-up (dumps) of the filesystem ? Actually, I would like to be able to read from a simple Linux the disk that contents the dumps - reaon why. Are there any constraints in doing so ? May you strongly reco

Re: another filesystem as backup

2010-02-21 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, Le Dimanche 21 FC)vrier 2010 16:11:20, vous avez C)crit : > For storage/backup you may find much more better Hammer FS or ZFS I can't find out how to make a newfs with HFS or ZFS. Are there any additional packages to install ?

RAID1 : offline -> online (how to?)

2010-02-21 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, Sorry for the so many questions but still manual may not always answer to them. I actually mounted 2 usb pens in RAID 1 in order to understand how it works. When one is removed the RAID device properly works. When remounted I keep having the device offline. $ sudo bioctl -i sd2 Volume

Re: RAID1 : offline -> online (how to?)

2010-02-21 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Dimanche 21 Fivrier 2010 18:56:32, Rogier Krieger a icrit : > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 17:51, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Sorry for the so many questions but still manual may not always > > answer to them. > > Did you read bioctl(8) and did you try the -R option that man page

Re: another filesystem as backup

2010-02-21 Thread Jean-Francois
t; Solaris is not free anymore including security updates after change in > rules before one week. Support for ZFS in FreeBSD is marked as > experimental, but it depends. So Hammer FS looks like most promising > regarding feature on other BSD systems (just my personal tip) > > On

Re: RAID1 : offline -> online (how to?)

2010-02-21 Thread Jean-Francois
Making again the test on 4.6 Now I have "bioctl: BIOCCREATERAID: Invalid argument" however on a another machine. Am I wrong in any point ? Is there any need to compile raid into the kernel as I saw here ? http://www.argon18.com/raid_openbsd.html Following example (same method as I first used) E

poor setwork performance on gigabit link

2010-02-26 Thread jean-francois
Hi All, I can reach only approx. 8 Mbyte/s on a LAN between the server and the client. The complete network is capable of gigabit yet the speed reaches 15Mb/s then starts to trigger high/low and stabilyses at 8000kb/s. I tried the 2 interfaces of the server (running OpenBSD) with similar result

Re: poor network performance on gigabit link

2010-02-26 Thread jean-francois
Le Vendredi 26 Fivrier 2010 19:48:55, Christiano F. Haesbaert a icrit : > Sorry but I'm dieing of curiosity, how the heck did you swap a "n" by > a "s" in your subject ? I can't say. Thanks for the few answers, however I already tried such things as turning the net.inet.tcp.recvspace and net.inet

Re: poor setwork performance on gigabit link

2010-02-26 Thread jean-francois
I think topic is closed. Thanks for notice PIO mode. Network is ok but disk mode is not. Here is the limit, not the network. Regards. Le Vendredi 26 Fivrier 2010 21:04:04, Peter Strvmberg a icrit : > On 2/26/2010 5:27 PM, jean-francois wrote: > > pciide1 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 &quo

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-03-03 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, What is the reason why some packets passing on re0 will not be seen on bridge0 given I set up the following configuration : bridgename.bridge0 add re0 up I expected to see all the packets passing on re0 on bridge0 too which is obviously not the case. # brconfig bri

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-03-03 Thread Jean-Francois
Thank you for your help in understanding. I want to configure a NAT between int_if and ext_if and filter based on MAC address. I was going to proceed as follows, but after reading bridge(4) man page I understand that the following won't work. If the bridge0 has only one member, int_if, it will

Re: Dump levels ?

2010-03-03 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Jeudi 18 Fivrier 2010 23:02:38, Otto Moerbeek a icrit : > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:54:55PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to clarify what resides behind the concept of levels > > regarding dump(8) ? > > For me the level 0 is unders

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-03-04 Thread Jean-Francois
gards Le Mercredi 03 Mars 2010 22:39:59, Jean-Francois a icrit : > Thank you for your help in understanding. > > I want to configure a NAT between int_if and ext_if and filter based on MAC > address. > > I was going to proceed as follows, but after reading bridge(4) man page I > under

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-03-04 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Mercredi 03 Mars 2010 21:38:18, vous avez icrit : > > What is the reason why some packets passing on re0 will not be seen on > > bridge0 > > > > given I set up the following configuration : > > bridgename.bridge0 > > add re0 > > up > > > > I expected to see all the packets passing on

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-03-05 Thread Jean-Francois
have any idea in order to help me to try something new it would be helpful. Thanks. Le Jeudi 04 Mars 2010 19:17:00, Jean-Francois a icrit : > Le Mercredi 03 Mars 2010 21:38:18, vous avez icrit : > > > What is the reason why some packets passing on re0 will not be seen

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-03-06 Thread Jean-Francois
> > What is the reason why some packets passing on re0 will not be seen on > > bridge0 > > > > given I set up the following configuration : > > bridgename.bridge0 > > add re0 > > up > > > > I expected to see all the packets passing on re0 on bridge0 too which is > > obviously not the

nmbd does not listen

2010-03-07 Thread jean-francois
Hi, After installing the default system + installing samba I am in front on a system now working but not replyying to windows port 137 requests to nmbd for mapping the server, the windows neighboor function. After checking netstat I see that nmbd is not in listen on this port however running.

Re: nmbd does not listen

2010-03-07 Thread jean-francois
Le Dimanche 07 Mars 2010 15:18:49, Rogier Krieger a icrit : > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 14:31, jean-francois wrote: > > Is there some basic configuration I missed to do ? > > As a quick check, did you start both smbd and nmbd components (ps ax > is your friend here) and did you p

Re: nmbd does not listen

2010-03-07 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Dimanche 07 Mars 2010 21:15:24, J.C. Roberts a icrit : > On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 19:10:20 +0100 "jean-francois" > > wrote: > > Le Dimanche 07 Mars 2010 15:18:49, Rogier Krieger a icrit : > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 14:31, jean-francois > > > > > &

Re: nmbd does not listen

2010-03-07 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, Le Lundi 08 Mars 2010 05:13:34, vous avez icrit : > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Jean-Francois > wrote: ... > > > I am not sure but believe the problem is in smb.conf > > ...but you'll not actually show the contents of that file. I take it > you'

Re: nmbd does not listen

2010-03-13 Thread Jean-Francois
> [...] > > As for answering requests, how do you know it isn't? Did you trace > > the process? Did you use tcpdump to confirm that the packets were > > being received? Have you confirmed that your pf config isn't blocking > > them? > > I did'nt trace the process, but tcpdump show the packets,

Re: Filtering based on MAC adress

2010-03-13 Thread Jean-Francois
All, As suggested. Just to confirm that it perfectly works. I made a NAT on ext_if from int_if In principle : - create a bridge, add the int_if to the bridge - add a rule filtering and tagging based on MAC address ex : brconfig bridge0 rule pass in on fxp0 src 9:8:7:6:5:4 tag boss - filter with

Consideration before installling on SSD hard drive

2010-05-22 Thread jean-francois
Good afternoon gents, I am building up a server with basically a solid state drive for the OS and a 1 TB hard drive for the datas. In order to maximize the life time of the SSD, I will avoir mounting slides that sustain continuous or sparsed write access. Could you briefly let me know the do's a

ok for softraid in production (v4.7) ?

2010-05-22 Thread jean-francois
Hello, May I use with peace of mind the softraid device of OpenBSD 4.7 in 'small production' (personal servers for home use actually) ? I had understood that as of 4.5 and before the softraid was still under lot of development, so my question. Thanks & Regards Jean-FranC'ois

Re: ok for softraid in production (v4.7) ?

2010-05-22 Thread jean-francois
Le samedi 22 mai 2010 C 21:38 +0200, Robert a C)crit : > On Sat, 22 May 2010 21:12:00 +0200 > jean-francois wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > May I use with peace of mind the softraid device of OpenBSD 4.7 in > > 'small production' (personal servers for hom

sftp chroot does'nt pass the login

2010-05-30 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, I am using sftp server with a chroot with following lines in sshd configuration file. The same works for my actual server in 4.4 OpenBSD but I just freshly installed a 4.7 one and on it the sftp login fails (it works without chroot). Match group web ChrootDirectory /var/www/htdocs

Re: sftp chroot does'nt pass the login

2010-05-30 Thread Jean-Francois
Le dimanche 30 mai 2010 17:39:36, Bret S. Lambert a icrit : > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 05:22:22PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using sftp server with a chroot with following lines in sshd > > configuration file. The same works for my actual server in

OpenBSD as a laptop OS

2010-06-18 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello All, I am thinking about changing my OS to OpenBSD on my laptop, which is standard x86. It would be used as internet browser, mail client, multimedia, pciture & video , etc ... My question is simple, is OpenBSD convenient enough for a daily usage ? What are the experiences about that ? J

Re: OpenBSD Makes Other Things Better (Advocacy)

2010-06-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Le jeudi 24 juin 2010 00:56:09, Daniel Melameth a icrit : > While most of us already know how the subject rings true, I still found the > following from REBOL's CTO's public blog post interesting nonetheless (I've > never used REBOL): > > "This was an interesting build, because it exposed a unique

Re: opensmtpd

2010-06-26 Thread Jean-Francois
Le samedi 22 mai 2010 15:03:50, Gilles Chehade a icrit : > On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 06:49:54AM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Is anyone using OpenSMTPD in production already? If the answer is > > yes..which numbers are handling by OPenSMTPD? (email average by day, > > etc..

Re: Secret key in the packet filter.

2010-07-13 Thread Jean-Francois
Le mardi 13 juillet 2010 17:50:04, Christian Weisgerber a icrit : > Bryan wrote: > > really? the devs have a "backdoor" in PF? you're an idiot... > > Of course we do. > Don't try to find it. We have implemented a Langford hack. If you > read the source, the backdoor will jump over and inscribe

Remotely connect to gnome

2010-08-21 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, I've set up an OpenBSD server running gnome and administered locally or remotely for home use. I've understood that unixes are made to work as workstations and that gnome and kde could handle that. Could you please help me to get on the way to make remote connections possible to gnome

pf.conf : rule tagged x OR y ?

2010-08-22 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, Is it ever possible to have a rule in pf.conf such as : pass in on $int_if proto tcp to any tagged client or admin I think not, is the following a correct alternate ? pass in on $int_if proto tcp to any tagged client pass in on $int_if proto tcp to any tagged admin In my opinion the OR is

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-28 Thread Jean-Francois
Le mercredi 18 ao{t 2010 11:10:47, Gregory Edigarov a icrit : > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:07:58 +0200 > > Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Gregory Edigarov [2010-08-17 09:29]: > > > Qmail??? Postfix??? "easiest to use" Oh, please don't... I would > > > even not give a dime to exim, which of the "big

pf.conf : rdr-to IF rather than IP

2010-08-28 Thread Jean-Francois
Good evening, Is it possible to redirect to an IF or at least an IP range such as following rules ? match in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 1024:32768 \ rdr-to $int_if match in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to any port 1024:32768 \ rdr-to 192.168.100.0/16

Re: pf.conf : rdr-to IF rather than IP

2010-08-29 Thread Jean-Francois
. Regards > If you can explain what you're actually trying to do, rather > than talk about how you're thinking of accomplishing it, maybe > someone can suggest a way. > > On 2010-08-28, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Good evening, > > > > Is it possible t

Safely removing the rule blocking 6000:6010 in pf.conf

2010-08-29 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, One question, I run gnome on openbsd 4.7 and apparently there is no reason to keep the following rule since nothing listens to those ports on my machine. block in on ! lo0 proto tcp to port 6000:6010 I verified with netstat that there is nothing listening to any of tcp ports in the range 6

Re: Safely removing the rule blocking 6000:6010 in pf.conf

2010-08-29 Thread Jean-Francois
7;t understand. Why are you not running a default deny setup? > > Maybe because this pf.conf is the default one. > > > On 29 August 2010 14:45, Jean-Francois wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > One question, I run gnome on openbsd 4.7 and apparently there is >

How MAC address is incorporated in packets

2010-08-30 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, Might you please indicate how in the construction of an IP packet the mac address in incorporated into it. Is the job of the OS or of the IF ? If the OS is responsible for it, how is it processed and is it possible to change the physical address in the packets sent for an address of our cho

project : openbsd as nas

2010-08-30 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, I was thinking about how to help openbsd project, and since I am not able to help in programming, I'm thinking about starting something aroung openbsd such as a layer making it an easy enough to manage home nas server of good quality. I have not yet the whole picture of how to do it but

automounter

2010-09-10 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, Do you have an idea where to look for an auto mounter in openbsd ? I installed gnome as a server for a friend and would like that his fat32 usb disks are auto mounted ... It might be useful to auto mount also other kind of file systems. And for esata, is it possible to mount without reb

Re: problem with samba / broadcastClosed, it was an IF misconfiguration.

2010-09-10 Thread Jean-Francois
Solved, was an IF misconfiguration only. Sorry Le jeudi 09 septembre 2010 03:48:59, Jean-Frangois SIMON a icrit : > Hello, > > I have tonight a small problem, if you could please check and see if > something is wrong here. > The samba share seems blocked, the packets are not broadcasted. > > Than

Samba security hole chain_reply

2010-09-12 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, I am reading an article about Samba chain_reply vulnerability called CVE-2010-2063, where one can execute root shell on the server as far as I understand with all smb server up to 3.3.13 (excluded). One basic question, is this having the desired effect under OpenBSD as well or any mech

Re: pf.conf : rdr-to IF rather than IP

2010-09-12 Thread Jean-Francois
010 at 02:05:40PM +0200, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I would like to redirect particular ports on the sub-network, not only on > > one ip adress of the subnetwork. > > > > Taking an example, I would like some software that listen to ports on > >

Is GeForce 8200 supported ?

2010-09-30 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, I have a problem starting X and in Xorg.0.log there is the following lines. Is it a driver error ? It's an integrated graphic card on the MB providing both vesa/hdmi outputs. Could you please help ? (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa (II) Primary Device is: PCI 0...@00:00.0 (WW) N

Re: Is GeForce 8200 supported ?

2010-10-02 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Thursday 30 September 2010 22:45:02, Chris Cappuccio a icrit : > Not supported > > Jean-Francois [jfsimon1...@gmail.com] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a problem starting X and in Xorg.0.log there is the following > > lines. Is it a driver error ? It'

Re: Is GeForce 8200 supported ?

2010-10-02 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Saturday 02 October 2010 17:37:59, Ted Unangst a icrit : > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Is there noway to solve this with existing software, such as a compatible > > but limited driver ? > > Have you called up nvidia? You have a support contrac

Re: project : openbsd as nas

2010-10-02 Thread Jean-Francois
talled on? (or 'done') [done] e.g. # Force the user to think and type in a disk name by # making 'done' the default choice. # Jean-Francois Simon, ADD start echo for _n in $(get_dkdevs); do

Re: FreeBSD isn't Free

2010-10-06 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Wednesday 06 October 2010 12:10:53, Oliver Peter a icrit : > On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:22:03 -0600 > > Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Just for fun. > > "Stop wasting your time reading people's licenses.", > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/mg/theo.c.diff?r1=1.77;r2 > =1.78 > > Eh? :) S

RAID support

2010-10-06 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello, Is soft RAID currently a work in progress, I remember some important features were still added release after release recently. Will it be the case for forthcoming 4.8 ? Regards Jean-Frangois

Re: RAID support

2010-10-07 Thread Jean-Francois
Le Thursday 07 October 2010 13:22:01, g.du...@otasc.org a icrit : > > Hello, > > > > Is soft RAID currently a work in progress, I remember some important > > features > > were still added release after release recently. Will it be the case for > > forthcoming 4.8 ? > > > > Regards > > > > Jean-Fran

Re: RAID support

2010-10-07 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi, Doing tests, I could not always do properly the kick off of a rebuild. What is exactly the procedure for doing a rebuild with bioctl -R ? In particular I don't understand, when you have say a build with chunks sd0a and sd1a, then remove one chunk, plug a new one, if it doe'nt appear as sd1

OpenBSD's Songs

2010-01-01 Thread Jean-Francois
Hello list, I just would like to thank once the work around the songs and arts for the project, it really is kind of awesome every-time, and is I believe, an important part in the project. Regards

OpenSMTPd actual development and integration

2010-01-14 Thread Jean-Francois
Hi All, Could you please inform about the actual state of OpenSMTPd and when it shall be fully integrated into OpenBSD ? Thanks.

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