Re: Because Theo and various users told them that the projects GnoBSD and Comixwall were worthless and that they weren't contributing to OpenBSD?

2015-10-18 Thread patric conant
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Kevin Gerrard wrote: > > Im going to chime in here a second, even though it probably is not my > > place. > > > > I am not a network guru, or computer wizard. I have made a living for > > the last 5 years by networking. We use nothing but OpenBSD routers for > th

Re: Upgrade from 5.7 to 5.8 : bsd.rd doesn't complete boot

2015-10-19 Thread patric conant
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Jean-Philippe Provost < jphilippe.prov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't have any CD. I just downloaded the bsd.rd for 5.8 and it wont boot > and ask what I want to do. > > Since I have 5.7 installed on it, the dmesg I got is the one from 5.7 boot > and not bs

Re: Can I accelerate my magnet HDD using a SSD in any way?? E.g. softraid patch/ARC, dedicated hardware e.g. Intel RCS25ZB040LX="Nytro MegaRAID", anything

2016-02-01 Thread patric conant
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Tinker wrote: > Patrick, > > On 2016-02-01 07:10, Patrick Dohman wrote: > >> There is some hardware solution, e.g. Intel made the >>> >> >> http://ark.intel.com/products/70029/Intel-RAID-SSD-Cache-Controller-RCS25ZB04 >> 0LX using the "Nytro MegaRAID" chip. >> >>>

Re: My /usr cleaning campaign..

2023-08-13 Thread patric conant
proceed with the upgrade. > > Why potentially risk deleting something you don't understand? > > > > I would suggest either: > > - Proceed with the upgrade. > > - Reinstall the system from scratch with a larger /usr. > > > -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424

Re: Performance optimizing OpenBSD 7.2

2023-02-15 Thread patric conant
ated nics never keep up with their vmx counterparts in my experience. -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424

Re: Simple PF Router/Firewall/NAT requirements: was Performance optimizing OpenBSD 7.2

2023-02-15 Thread patric conant
> Steve Litt > Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm > > -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424

apropos

2013-06-28 Thread patric conant
"During the first Toronto hackathon, I focused on the SQLite database backend for mandocdb(8). Currently, mandocdb is still disabled in OpenBSD-current, but it is intended to become a drop-in replacement for the makewhatis(8) utility, providing enhanced search capabilities for the apropos(1) manual

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-14 Thread patric conant
This just in, all the data in the world successfully moved with rsync just a coincidence. On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 04:13:41PM +, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > > Marc Espie wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 03:09:48PM +, hru...@gma

OpenZFS announcement

2013-09-17 Thread patric conant
http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Announcement It supposed to be open-er. I didn't find a license, thought it might be of mild interest.

Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

2008-12-12 Thread patric conant
I'm sorry but I am a little foggy, is kqemu a kernel module, is it fairly straightforward to get working, or do you really have to alter your openbsd installation a lot, and does it deliver the 8X- 10X performance increase over qemu on openbsd that it does on other platforms. I suppose what I am r

rtfm

2008-12-16 Thread patric conant
Is /etc/group documented somewhere, specifically, there are several _groups and I am trying to discover if they are read, I thought I had read that _groups were ignored, but can't find reference to it one way or another. man -a group makes no mention of files, nor the file, apropos /etc/group also

Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

2008-12-23 Thread patric conant
Lets not forget Debian maintainers who think entropy is optional in encryption. On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Douglas A. Tutty [2008-12-23 05:45]: > > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 02:41:08AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > > * Jussi Peltola [2008-12-11 20:52]: > > > > O

Re: sftp chroot ?

2009-02-23 Thread patric conant
That was the funniest thing I have ever seen. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Mike Erdely wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:19:07PM +0100, Jean-Francois wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > As far as I understand, the sftp service is always running since it is > > the ssh daemon (maybe one can correct

OpenSSH release CDS

2009-03-11 Thread patric conant
I've repeatedly been in a position where we weren't making direct use of OpenBSD, but were using OpenSSH, and if there were a recurring cost associated with it (like purchasing a semi-annual CD) it would have been relatively painless to get a rubber stamp approval of such a cost, whereas purchasing

Re: Weird behavior of find on ntfs partition

2009-03-24 Thread patric conant
Were you trolling? On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Paul Irofti wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 01:14:51PM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > > I saw "find" behaving inconsistently while finding files on an ntfs > > partition. > > Is this GENERIC? > > -- /"\ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ /Res

Re: European orders

2009-03-26 Thread patric conant
This doesn't seem reasonable to me, I understand there can be a variety of subtleties and points of view, but either the guy is in arrears on his payments to the project or he isn't, does he really have a story that involves him not having received any product for which he has not remitted payment?

Re: [PATCH] Remove "Multibooting" in FAQ

2019-04-06 Thread patric conant
452763710 ] NTFS > > 2: 27 28247 58 36 - 28351 195 4 [ 453791744: 1679360 ] Win > Recovery > 3: A6 28351 227 37 - 60801 15 14 [ 455473152: 521295872 ] > OpenBSD > > Leonid Bobrov, Nice patch to the web site, where on earth are any of the logs

Re: network address in vm by kvm

2016-11-26 Thread patric conant
or reply. > > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html -- Patric Conant Mirage Computing Lead Consultant @MirageComputing <https://twitter.com/MirageComputing>on twitter https://m.facebook.com/MirageComputing/ 316 409 2424

Re: Please help advertise DigitalOcean on OpenBSD Misc (again)

2015-01-20 Thread patric conant
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Libertas wrote: > On 01/20/2015 09:12 PM, Steve Shockley wrote: > > On 1/19/2015 9:06 AM, openda...@hushmail.com wrote: > >> So please stop by and give us your upvotes. > > > > So, is this advertising or SEO? > > > > Probably not. They're a cheap, common, and reli

Re: lynx is gone?

2015-03-05 Thread patric conant
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Paolo, > > Paolo Aglialoro wrote on Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 05:20:51PM +0100: > > > So it looks like that, till some months ago, everybody here was > > on the wrong OS and risking their lives, as lynx was in base! > > That's a fallacy so com

Re: Router performance amd64 vs i386

2015-05-26 Thread patric conant
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 04:27:23PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: > > ..or, if it really is important for you, why not set up a test and > > benchmark it? > > > > I have no idea if or when amd64 would have surpassed i386 in performance, > >

Re: redhat <-> openbsd tcpdump

2015-06-16 Thread patric conant
What's file say when you run it against it? On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to convert a pcap done with tcpdump under redhat to a > format I can read with tcpdump(8). At least I think the following error: > > tcpdump: unknown data link type 0x71 >

Re: pf vs mp

2015-09-01 Thread patric conant
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > Em 01-09-2015 14:21, Quartz escreveu: > > Also, does a local DNS resolver really consume that much cpu that it > > would see any notable effect from having another core? I thought that > > was more a RAM thing. > > If it will be the re

Re: pf vs mp

2015-09-01 Thread patric conant
Quartz, I'm sorry I'm not familiar with either of the processor's you're describing. In the vague terms you have given, I am 100% that the answer is use the multicore setup. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Quartz wrote: > but the short answer is to use the >> multi-processor system. The single

Re: boot-time NFS mount broken in latest snap?

2015-09-01 Thread patric conant
Rerun with pf disabled. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Joe Gidi wrote: > With the latest snap of amd64, my NFS mount from fstab is now failing to > mount at boot with this line: > > mount_nfs: can't resolve address for host microserver > > Changing the fstab entry to reference the IP address c

Dumbing down the recent SSL stuff for users

2014-06-06 Thread patric conant
Misc, So we knew that OpenSSL had some problems, indicated by the fact that they were blissfully unaware that Valgrind gave warnings when compiling their code, from the Debian debacle. Then Heartbleed came along, and people knew how bad things really were, and then members of the OpenBSD got toget

Dragonflybsd's pf concurrent instead of single-threaded

2014-07-03 Thread patric conant
This seems relevant to a lot of interest. commit 3a0038bfb239dd522057809c52d7d23dd2134c38 Author: Matthew Dillon http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/mailman/listinfo/commits>> Date: Thu Jun 26 20:40:32 2014 -0700 pf - make the bulk of PF concurrent under normal operation * state and ip frag

Re: openssh

2014-07-06 Thread patric conant
Collisions become a much larger concern in this model. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Mihai Popescu [2014-07-02 17:05]: > > Better buy a hardisk, copy your data and mail it abroad. Seriously. > > A truck full of harddisks is a transport link with fantastic bandwidth.

Re: Looking for version advice

2014-08-09 Thread patric conant
Releases come out very predictably every six months, the next one will be November 1st, snapshots aren't releases, and releases aren't snapshots. In short, no, there is no snapshot that is going to be 5.6 release that you can get some time soon. Close-ish might be available with some work, but the

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

2014-01-14 Thread patric conant
How about we hold a bake sale? On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Bob Beck > wrote: > > >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

Re: cheapest firewall?

2014-02-02 Thread patric conant
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:12 PM, patric conant wrote: > > http://www.ascendtech.us/amd-athlon-64-x2-4200-2-2ghz-desktop-pc_i_dtwm2npvmx24200.aspx?agent=pricewatchand > another nic will do itt just fine. > > > On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Predrag Punosevac > wrote: >

Re: Missing "A" DNS record for openbsd.org ?

2014-02-28 Thread patric conant
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:30 AM, nobody wrote: > umm, but isn't a CNAME or redirect or whatever should be needed? So if > people type in the browser: > > openbsd.org > > they can be redirected to www.openbsd.org ? > > Thanks. > > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > > Hi

Re: NFS server export node

2014-04-22 Thread patric conant
I keep mine in /var/samba, for historical reasons. On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Kenneth Gober wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Alessandro DE LAURENZIS < > just22@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > still unclear after reading the hier man page where is the most suitable > >

Re: Narcicism?

2011-12-01 Thread patric conant
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 16:39:24 +0100 > David Coppa wrote: > > > See the subject: "Narcicism" > > > > And, btw, the correct spelling is "Narcissism": as a guru, this is > > something you should already have known ;) > > I prefer narsciscism ;^)

Re: UPGRADE DAMNIT

2012-01-14 Thread patric conant
+1 remote upgrades are so clean and effective, and the directions are clear enough that I've not been able to drink enough beer to interfere with the process. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:16:15PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > I'm surprised y

Re: OpenBSD 4.4

2012-01-24 Thread patric conant
I'm not trying to help you not upgrade but my 4.9 box says Starting Nmap 5.21 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-01-24 15:13 CST Failed to resolve given hostname/IP: 10.20.0. Note that you can't use '/mask' AND '1-4,7,100-' style IP ranges WARNING: No targets were specified, so 0 hosts scanned. Nmap don

Re: My OpenBSD 5.0 installation experience (long rant)

2012-03-09 Thread patric conant
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Leonardo Sabino dos Santos [2012-03-07 > 19:44]: > > That being said, I think Dave understands the problem very well. That > > is probably the most dangerous point in the installation. It's > > dangerous even for experienced users (anyone

Re: Hardware recommendation for firewalls (more than 4 NICs)

2008-08-08 Thread patric conant
You strongly overestimate the value of your comments (3 cents), it seems like there are many places more appropriate than this one for you to suggest middle-of-the-road hardware running a proprietary OS that has among the worst security records in the industry. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:59 PM, phoe

Re: Intel x86-64 using the amd64 platform

2008-09-04 Thread patric conant
This is OT, but I am curious as to the application that makes no-execute a killer feature for you? On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Brian Drain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello misc@ > > I've read through the FAQ and done some searching on the mailing lists + > google, but I cannot find a defin

Re: PCI Compliant Vulnerability Scanner

2008-10-03 Thread patric conant
Wow, in the interest of killing this before it balloons out of control, the original poster was referring to Payment Card Industry, whereas the response referred to the Peripheral Component Interconnect, hence the reference to Nessus, a network vulnerability scanner. On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 8:39 AM

Re: dmesg IBM x3650 OpenBSD 4.3

2008-10-10 Thread patric conant
Are we really arguing whether or not its ever appropriate to call someone a bastard on public mailing list? Who cares? Suigesting that Theo becom less inflamatory didn't go so well for NetBSD, neither did pandering to hardware vendors so that their OS could run anywhere. Doesn't it seem reasonable

Re: new home box for secure data storage

2008-10-29 Thread patric conant
I'm confused, the encrypted volume cannot be backed up without a key? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:56:53PM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > > >I think I want root to be able to mount/access the directories so that > > >th

Re: pfctl

2008-07-15 Thread patric conant
if answer exists in man page then don't ask here, can I have a Regular Expression for "the answer" structure, so I can grep and make sure it isn't there before I post ... On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008/07/15 11:49, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote

Re: no packages for amd64 snapshot

2011-09-21 Thread patric conant
One more reason to hate Gnome. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:25:40PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Gregory Edigarov > > wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > is this intentional, or there is some problem that

Re: Performance problems with OpenBSD 4.9 under ESXi 5

2011-10-19 Thread patric conant
What could we ask you that would get you to post those "messages from boot"? On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Gene wrote: > I'm using amd64. I'll try i386 later today to see if the issue occurs > again. Another person replied to me saying i386 works fine for him in ESXi > 5. > > I had the VMs

Re: 4.7 pf: quick and rdr-to/nat-to

2010-05-23 Thread patric conant
Wow, just wow. On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Henning Brauer wrote: > * Rene Maroufi [2010-05-23 14:04]: > > Hi, > > > > i update my firewall to 4.7 and changed my rdr and nat rules. But there > > is one thing i don't understand: I use a transparent proxy (Squid) on > > the same machine and in

Re: is SHA256 file used or not ?

2011-02-08 Thread patric conant
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:59 AM, fqui nonez wrote: > 2011/2/8 Mihai Popescu : > > Hi Henning, > > > > It looks like you are in a bad mood. Please read my entire post and > > don't cut and paste out of context. > > Man, if you do not want to answer, please don't. You have spent a lot > > of time b

Upgrade experience.

2011-06-02 Thread patric conant
Had a 16 year-old jr. admin do an upgrade to the border router/firewall/content-filter/web-proxy/etc from the CD, entirely painless and clear process, could not have been more straight-forward, the upgrade guides were excellent, as an assurance, in 5 minutes + file copying/downloading time upgrade

website down from here

2011-06-20 Thread patric conant
$ ping www.openbsd.org PING www.openbsd.org (142.244.12.42): 56 data bytes --- www.openbsd.org ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss also cannot connect via browser.

dhcpd knob

2010-06-18 Thread patric conant
Is there a line to be added to dhcpd.conf to tell dhcpd to attempt to update bind9 with hostnames from dhcp client, BIND is configured to allow updates from the lan, and dhcpd and BIND are running on the same machine, I've seen other bind implementations that do this by default, and others still th

Re: Same shit all over again

2010-08-13 Thread patric conant
This appears to be none of my business, not sure how it got to misc, besides someone's deep enough interest to create a special gmail (in eu) account. Now I don't develop software, nor know anything, but this reads like the tree got locked because lots of testing was failing to occur, which sounds

undeadly's been down for a while

2010-08-22 Thread patric conant
just fyi, in case someone involved is on misc. -- /"\ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ /Respect for low technology. X Keep e-mail messages readable by any computer system. / \Keep it ASCII.

Re: ath5k case misinterpretation

2010-09-25 Thread patric conant
Noise. On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > There is wide spread misundestandig spread among GNU\Linux\BSD people > on Reyk's ath5k licencing issue at least in some mailing lists. > > Posts like > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=121723197314484&w=2 > > have benn mi

Re: It still doable to buy VIA padlock engine CPU?

2010-10-19 Thread patric conant
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010-10-19, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > > Does it still doable nowadays to buy VIA padlock engine equipped > > CPU/motherboard just to take advantage of the hw crypto acceleration? > > > > I mean, to do IPSec stuff it's better to use a 1.

Re: -current is not really -current

2010-10-28 Thread patric conant
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera < h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar> wrote: > On 10/28/10 01:59, bsdmas...@hushmail.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have been conducting a series of tests and I can say that there > > is a problem with the build service for the -current snapshots. >

Re: Dynamic web hosting and OpenBSD

2010-10-31 Thread patric conant
I have been successfully trolled, I honestly believe this was written sincerely by someone stupid enough to believe these things. On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 4:12 PM, wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I am currently starting my very own hosting business, > as I'm horribly tired of all the incompetence in t

Re: suggestion for a new/additional OpenBSD release media option

2010-10-31 Thread patric conant
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Everytime one of you write to Theo directly, > > I feel like I'm watching gay porn. > > would someone please block this prick. it was funny to start with but now > it's intensely annoying. > > -- > > Jamie Paul Griffin > > So you

Re: An OpenBSD smartphone

2010-11-17 Thread patric conant
Yes, and we won't be supporting any obsolete platforms around here. On Nov 17, 2010 8:34 AM, "Francesco Vollero" wrote: Il 17/11/10 15.17, Ted Unangst ha scritto: > > Compared to the hardware available today, the openmoko is ridiculously > obsolete. I Agree. It's really really obsolete. >

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-09 Thread patric conant
>From their services page: 5. Secure mail services (smtp-auth w/ TLS, IMAPs/POP3s) I don't actually make use of this, as the "killer app" for a shell account was a place where I could run (al)pine against local mail service (it is not all that nice as a pop3 client, in my experience). On Thu, De

Re: sha256 hash for /bsd

2010-12-09 Thread patric conant
Free, or Net or any damn thing, and change your name while you're at it. On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > Get a new bsd. > > On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 9:29 PM, OpenBSD Geek > wrote: > > So how can i proceed ? > > > > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 23:30:20 -0600, J Sisson > > wrote: If

Re: remove users from group

2010-12-13 Thread patric conant
You may also try copying over a valid groups file from a different machine. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > On Dec 13 12:01:58, OpenBSD Geek wrote: > > I have 100 users in groups : clients, and ftp_group > > How can i remove these 100 users from ftp_group ? > > I have already

Re: nat static-port option

2011-02-02 Thread patric conant
Comcast has 15.930 million high-speed internet customers. According to the wikipedia article. 2^24=16,777.216 So they are close. How about the smartphone market, are they largely being natted? Or are we likely to see a doubling of the need for IP addresses in the next couple of years, as non-smar

Re: Security List

2011-02-07 Thread patric conant
The last time someone brought up that there could be a bug in that the system did not work in the manner in which it was documented on the website, I believe something mature and well-thought-out like, "Oh, yeah, shut up." was the response. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 11:51 AM, woolsherpahat wrote: >

Re: NIC

2024-11-26 Thread patric conant
patible NIC's? > > THANKS. > > > > man 4 intro > > and pay attention to section LIST OF DEVICES > where most probably you will be enough wit > pci and usb section (man pages) > > > apropos wireless > > apropos nic > > apropos network > > >