pf.conf reassemble and antispoof questions

2009-11-05 Thread Robert Waite
I have been on OBSD 4.4 for a bit and had not really messed with pf.conf for a while. When I updated to 4.6 there were a couple of settings that seemed ambiguous to me. 1) under Options, set reassemble on. I know it is on by default but I got a parsing error when I tried it. I also found some

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk

testing smtpd; can someone hit me with a cluestick

2009-11-05 Thread John Cosimano
i'm testing smtpd (OpenBSD/i386 -STABLE; stock GENERIC.MP) here're the full headers from a mail i sent from a host at $work. my domain is cna.org , not cna.org.net . but i cannot figure out if something i have done is appending that ``.net'' after the ``.org''. my employer doesn't even own our

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Robert
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:08:48 +0100 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/4 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 K K kka...@gmail.com 2009/11/4 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk becomes like

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/4 Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com 2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine it simply does'nt work. After a while, the SSD disk

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/5 Robert rob...@openbsd.pap.st On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:08:48 +0100 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/4 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu On Wednesday 04 November 2009 16:10:06 Jean-Frangois SIMON wrote: Hello, Is there any particular problem with

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: This seems predicated on the firmware being smart enough to swap out bad sectors for good setors that are addressable but not used in practice.

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: Still, the point I was trying to make - that leaving part of your disk unpartitioned doesn't really help - stands, no? Depends. Partitioning or not partitioning is unlikely to make a difference, as it's writes

Re: tmux as an educational facilitator

2009-11-05 Thread Daniel Bolgheroni
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, frantisek holop wrote: as an old time screen user i was perplexed to see that when i attached to an already attached tmux session, both clients were updated real time and accepted input as well. the ascii art with the differing terminal window sizes is also a breakthrough

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Robert
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:32:59 +0100 Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: This seems predicated on the firmware being smart enough to

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Aaron Mason
2009/11/6 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: 2009/11/4 Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com 2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I once could on one machine but on my actual machine

Re: tmux as an educational facilitator

2009-11-05 Thread frantisek holop
thanks everyone on/off-list for pointing out that screen can do this as well. it was not the point of my mail though. it was not a pissing contest what screen and tmux can/can't do. everyone can now stop sending screen -x, thank you. $ screen -x ksh: screen: not found -f -- if they can send a

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread David Zeillinger
Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: Still, the point I was trying to make - that leaving part of your disk unpartitioned doesn't really help - stands, no? Depends. Partitioning or not partitioning is unlikely to make a

Re: Package dependencies size estimate script

2009-11-05 Thread Aaron Mason
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:42 AM, srikant@gmail.com wrote: Hi Just wanted to share a script with fellow OpenBSD desktop users who like to keep minimal non-base software on the machine and prefer to use lighter alternatives whenever possible. This script will help you estimate the total

Re: Package dependencies size estimate script

2009-11-05 Thread Aaron Mason
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:42 AM, srikant@gmail.com wrote: Hi Just wanted to share a script with fellow OpenBSD desktop users who like to keep minimal non-base software on the machine and prefer to use lighter alternatives whenever possible. This script will help you estimate the total

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread SJP Lists
2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I've been using flash based SSD's in OpenBSD systems for 6 or 7 years, starting with small CF in firewalls and now SATA SSD's in desktops and laptops. Never had a

Re: Package dependencies size estimate script

2009-11-05 Thread Srikant Tangirala
Hi Aaron On 11/6/09, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:42 AM, srikant@gmail.com wrote: Hi Just wanted to share a script with fellow OpenBSD desktop users who like to keep minimal non-base software on the machine and prefer to use lighter

Xorg Fails to start.

2009-11-05 Thread Steven
Hi, I'm unable to get Xorg to start any more on my computer since about three, or four snapshots ago. I'm not desperate for a GUI, but it would be nice. Fails whether machdep.allowaperture is set to 1, or 2. dmesg, /etc/X11/xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log outputs follow. machdep.allowaperture set to

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread richardtoohey
Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: [cut] The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very very slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . errors : many atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout one d0(ahci0:3:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/

2009-11-05 Thread ropers
2009/11/5 Tobias Ulmer tobi...@tmux.org: Dear sweetheart, On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 01:12:58AM +0100, Claire beuserie wrote: Yes, I know, I was present in the room when Illja gave the talk in 2006 at the CCC Kongress and the two OpenBSD developers in the room decided to completely ignore the

rum wireless adapter in hostap mode

2009-11-05 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
I'm trying to set up a small box as an 802.11g AP, but there seems to be something wrong. Regrettably, the only devices close by I have to test the connection are -A Windows XP PC -A Windows 7 PC -A PSP I'm pretty sure the problem isn't any of the clients anyway. For testing purposes, I'm running

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
2009/11/6 richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: [cut] The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very very slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . errors : many atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout one

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
2009/11/5 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: Hello, Is there any particular problem with installing OpenBSD on a SSD HD ? I've been using flash based SSD's in OpenBSD systems for 6 or 7 years, starting with small CF in firewalls and now SATA SSD's in desktops and laptops.

Re: Xorg Fails to start.

2009-11-05 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Steven w.steven.schnei...@ualberta.net wrote: Hi, I'm unable to get Xorg to start any more on my computer since about three, or four snapshots ago. I'm not desperate for a GUI, but it would be nice. Fails whether machdep.allowaperture is set to 1, or 2. It

Re: rum wireless adapter in hostap mode

2009-11-05 Thread Bryan
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 20:00, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera h...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: I'm trying to set up a small box as an 802.11g AP, but there seems to be something wrong. Regrettably, the only devices close by I have to test the connection are -A Windows XP PC -A Windows 7 PC -A PSP I'm

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/6 richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: [cut] The error actually appears wjile installing xfont46.tgz which is very very slow. It is normal speed util that particular file . errors : many atascsi_atapi_cmd_done, timeout one

Re: Installing OpenBSD on SSD drives

2009-11-05 Thread Jean-François SIMON
2009/11/6 Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com 2009/11/6 richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz Quoting Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1...@gmail.com: [cut] The error actually appears while installing xfont46.tgz which is very very slow. It is normal speed util that particular file .