Re: Why renice not work in OpenBSD?

2010-10-12 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
On 10/12/10 07:54, frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 07:12:57AM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt said that use linux, you are clearly a moron, it will suit you better. your civility on this mailing list is decreasing by the day. it was much better when you started. perhaps now you

Re: Why renice not work in OpenBSD?

2010-10-11 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
On 10/11/10 02:27, Dmitry-T wrote: 11.10.10, 08:46, Tomas Bodzartomas.bod...@gmail.com: 6) Did you test it on real OpenBSD, real HW and latest release or snapshot? I'm search stable and secure OS. I'm test: my work Mac OS X 10.6.3, FreeBSD 8.1 on livecd frenzy-1.3-ju-release-rus, my home

Re: FreeBSD isn't Free

2010-10-06 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
On 10/06/10 00:22, Theo de Raadt wrote: Just for fun. since i don't bother with freebsd much i have to guess this is a result of the project being US-based and containing integrated crypto. these laws are stupid and slow down the development of technology in the both the open source and

Re: Suggest, Recomendations and advices

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
On 09/16/10 10:14, Francisco Valladolid wrote: :D Always pathetic The subject say, advices: suggestions and recomendations. This list is for Advanced users or for misc topics ? There are a people that can reply honestly and funny. While I can read the mail archives and seach in internet, I

testing iked

2010-09-13 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
took a quick stab at getting iked working because isakmpd is so awesome. i was not able to figure out the proper way to get the CA cert and host cert and key imported to a non-CA host. i am using hosts 10.160.0.10 and 10.160.0.150 and the vpn subnets will be 10.160.10.0/24 on 10.160.0.10 and

Re: 4.8 Release and Download and

2010-09-10 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
On 09/10/10 18:22, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:19:16 -0700 Bryan Irvinesparcta...@gmail.com wrote: I also heard it said once (though I'm sure I'll be corrected if wrong) that Theo's salary comes from CD purchases but not donations. So the only way to keep him employed full-time

Re: Checking Routes/Gateways For Good Connection

2010-08-25 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Don Tek wrote: I've recently implemented a firewall with two internet connections using multipath routing and round-robin outbound load balancing. I am looking for a solution from the shell to detect failure of these two internet gateways so I can force routing and pf changes from a script.

Re: Some apps kill/hang X when using scrotwm(1) as wm

2010-08-17 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
LEVAI Daniel wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:30:57 +0200, Tomas Bodzar wrote: Hi all, did someone saw similar problem in scrotwm(1)? Eg. when I start xeyes(1) on empty workspace from menu M-p it simply shut down X. Wish I hadn't tried it :) Yes, it happens here too. [...] So someone

Re: Same shit all over again

2010-08-16 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
David Hill wrote: This email comes from kd85.com. contact-hdl: CCOM-138654 person: Wim Vandeputte organization: KD85.com bvba email:w...@kd85.com address: Kasteeldreef 85 city: Lovendegem postal-code: 9920 country: BE phone:+32.478217355 wim

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Dave Anderson wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: Dave Anderson wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010,j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, all of whom you want to have system accounts

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Dave Anderson wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010,j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: sendmail is fine if you have a few users at a relatively quiet domain, all of whom you want to have system accounts on the mailserver. You imply that sendmail is _only_ fine for such limited uses, which is

Re: mount ffs as msdos, system hangs

2010-07-25 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Theo de Raadt wrote: Thanks for telling me do so some reading, but a google of your name on these mailing lists will show a 10 year pattern of you not being able to self-help. Something to do with your parents, probably. 'this hammer *sucks* for putting screws in the wall! what's the

Re: [openbsd] fwd: [dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability/]

2010-06-24 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
pourl...@hushmail.com wrote: There will always be OpenBSD haters, I want to be able to have a constructive, fact based discussion with them. If someone HAS valuable information, they can reply directly, without replying to misc. Thank you. fact: you are some douchebag who is late to

Re: OT: Australia may allow punitive damages for security vulns

2010-06-22 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
mark hellewell wrote: http://www.news.com.au/technology/no-anti-virus-software-no-internet-connecti on/story-e6frfro0-1225882656490 Companies who release IT products with security vulnerabilities should be open to claims for compensation by consumers, apparently. Illegal to run without

Re: dhcpd knob

2010-06-20 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Rod Whitworth wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:38:10 -0700, Mehma Sarja wrote: I can vouch for the water in India. Which is no doubt the reason that Mr Tata supplied us with crates of bottled water when we were working there? So you could vouch for it? We were instructed not to even use

Re: disk geometry issues when trying to set up encrypted partition

2010-06-17 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Harry Palmer wrote: Have you considered softraid crypto? Thanks for this independent advice. Looks like it works at the block device level which must be better. I must say that while the official openbsd documentation I've seen is second to none, there seems to be relatively little

Re: isakmpd falling over: alternatives?

2010-05-28 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Michiel van Baak wrote: And you want any help after talking to this list that way ? i explained my problem pretty succinctly in the first email - isakmpd is episodically unreliable, painful to debug, and i am looking for an alternative if anyone is using something else on openbsd for

Re: isakmpd falling over: alternatives?

2010-05-26 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Bryan wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 14:06, j...@fixedpointgroup.com j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: over the past several years i have encountered a variety of problems with isakmpd that range from difficult to translate error messages to tunnels dropping without explanation.

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

2010-05-23 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Nick Holland wrote: jean-francois wrote: Hello, May I use with peace of mind the softraid device of OpenBSD 4.7 in 'small production' (personal servers for home use actually) ? NO. (or at least, for no more than about six months. :)

Re: Resilient RAID

2010-05-21 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Jan Stary wrote: On May 21 16:28:32, John Rowe wrote: On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 11:25 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: If you check usb flash stick packaging, it may say guaranteed for a 1000 writes which is marketing crypto speech for, sectors may fail after 1000 writes. However, the

Re: openbsd not blob free?

2010-05-05 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
discovery channel has shark week, misc@openbsd.org has troll week. did you know that a troll's vision is actually very poor? their most acute sense is that of smell, which they routinely use to find garbage online. Marco Peereboom wrote: No one can resist UML threads! On Thu, May 06,

Re: low httpd performance. Apache 2.2 as default? never? *sighs

2010-05-03 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
person who doesn't check the archives why doesn't openbsd do X? person who does check the archives the license is not acceptable | benchmarking tools don't tell the full story | you do not understand the security implications of what you suggest in your case it's all 3 of the above. get a

Re: crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-17 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Robert wrote: Jozsi Vadkan wrote: I want to put my server in a server hotel. But: I don't trust my server hotel owner. What can I do? 1) Even if you encrypt the whole disk and you have a remote console available (via serial port or KVM switch), you still will have to trust your provider

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Zachary Uram wrote: As a long time Linux user I will soon try out OpenBSD, I have been reading the list emails and contacted 1 OpenBSD top person who was very rude. There is some of the RTFM or get lost attitude in Linux, but if a questioner seems sincere there is usually a certain level of

pjsua + asterisk: debugging or working config

2010-03-11 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
trying to get pjsua working with asterisk using a really basic config file and am having trouble: registration keeps timing out. here is the config file: --registrar=sip:A.B.C.D --id=sip:u...@a.b.c.d --realm=* --username=user --password=pass pjsua then sends registration requests and times

Re: Refusal to mention OpenBSD in a MSc Advanced Networking course

2010-02-13 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
TS Lura wrote: I feel it's game over, at this point. But maybe you guys have some suggestion about good arguments that might persuade my professor? here's a quick little seminar on professors and academia. it is very advanced and you may not understand it at first: - professors have a

Re: routing and pf at 10Gbps

2010-02-10 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Mike Williams wrote: Really, nobody firewalls at multi-Gbps? anybody who does firewall at high bandwidth / pps is unlikely to provide this information freely. also note that you've not made an effort to do any tests and share them, so it is not surprising that others are not sharing

Re: anyone need old PC crap?

2010-02-08 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Nick Holland wrote: ropers wrote: You (or anyone else, really) wouldn't happen to have any 1st or 2nd generation PC stuff (as in, IBM 5150 PC / IBM 5155 Portable, or IBM 5160 PC XT)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5150 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5155

pf and apache: to stop a scripter

2010-02-01 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
there is a website protected by pf and running apache on a recent openbsd snapshot that needs to be protected against scripting attacks. i can configure both pf and apache to help block this behavior but am not familiar with the best practices for such configurations. the situation is that a

smtpd alias entries: delivery trouble

2010-01-30 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i've got a machine that is running RT from packages and am having trouble getting smtpd to pass mail to RT. this is usually done with sendmail but i figured it should be no huge leap to use smtpd here. the config that works with sendmail has local aliases like so rt_queuename:

smtpd + dovecot: virtual map trouble

2010-01-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i am working on a new production mailserver using smtpd for an mta and dovecot for serving mail. i have run into a problem where i would like to use the same authentication mechanism for smtpd and dovecot so there is only one password database to maintain. as best i can tell i need to use

Re: Intel PRO/1000MF (82545GM) Hardware Initialization Failed - 4.6 amd64

2009-11-23 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Ben Franklan wrote: Hi All I have 2 identical machines running 4.6 stable. I have tried removing some of the other hardware and changing some irq settings in the bios, but there is not really much to change. Does anyone have any advice on getting these network cards to work? the relevant

Re: Security via the NSA?

2009-11-21 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Doug Milam wrote: Will OpenBSD be the next to be 'helped'? http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html can we stop these dumb posts about the NSA and windows 7? it's really not related to openbsd. spend less time being preoccupied with the fact that

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-11-13 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Brad Tilley wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: What's the point of encrypting certificates? They only contain information that is public. They can be revoked and re-issued as well. can you and elias please stop this thread? it is clear

Re: softraid crypto performance

2009-11-11 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Jan Stary wrote: On Nov 10 16:21:04, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 21:31 +0100, Michael wrote: Hi, when using softraid crypto with OpenBSD 4.6-current I never get more than ~10-11 MB/s disk writing speed even though the disk (WD Raptor 73 GB) itself, without

partitioning wifi networks: multiple APs and access control

2009-11-08 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
am looking to partition some wifi networks into multiple segments and am looking for both hardware and software advice. the goal is to have 2 wifi networks in the same physical location that are split as follows: - guest AP for visitors and friends - business AP for coworkers - appliance AP

Re: anyone, low power rack-mount server for home usage?

2009-11-07 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Stijn wrote: Didier Wiroth wrote: Hello, I would like to buy/build a low power 19 rack-mount server for home usage that will run openbsd. The server should be used for (secure hardware) file storage (some kind of hardware raid would be nice), nfs server, dhcp dns caching I was wondering if

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

2009-11-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 03:45:33PM +0100, Justin Smith wrote: Theo wrote: For the record, this particular problem was resolved in OpenBSD a while back, in 2008. Nice, but: Since 2.6.23, it has been possible to prevent applications from mapping low pages

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Brad Tilley wrote: I wrote some notes on how I normally encrypt /home on OpenBSD laptops. I was hoping misc could read it and bash it around some. I'd like to know if I'm doing something wrong. No jokes about Beck's ass please :) http://16systems.com/openbsd_laptop_encryption.txt Thanks, Brad

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-29 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Noah Pugsley wrote: Can I interest you in a pair of steganograpanties? Or for cooler weather, steganograpantaloons? are you suggesting there are messages hidden in pictures of beck's ass? the russians will be very upset. you should have taken thermite to those disks... Marco Peereboom

Re: bioctl crypto passphrase file?

2009-10-19 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
elias r. wrote: Is there way to get the passphrase for softraid-crypto out of a file? greetings! do think about this: it seems to defeat the entire purpose of disk crypto to have the passphrase stored in a file, unless i'm missing something. having a 2nd factor for authentication, e.g.

Re: Defending OpenBSD Performance

2009-09-15 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
this thread is fucking stupid. consider that the majority of machines are horribly underutilized, even in large organizations where some of the machines are under heavy load. the reason that everyone here is so dismissive of benchmarks is that they do not translate to real world results.

Re: :Microsoft VPN

2009-09-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: stan wrote: OUr company was bought out a while back, and the new oweres are changing pretty much everryhting. This includes changing external access from a Cisco VPN to a Microsoft VPN. Can anyone here give me a pinter to where I can get information on this? What I

Re: :Microsoft VPN

2009-09-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
stan wrote: OUr company was bought out a while back, and the new oweres are changing pretty much everryhting. This includes changing external access from a Cisco VPN to a Microsoft VPN. Can anyone here give me a pinter to where I can get information on this? What I want to be able to do is

supported travel printer and scanner

2009-09-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i am looking for a travel printer and scanner (two separate devices) that are supported by openbsd, specifically amd64. i am aware that this info is listed on the site but a suggestion from an actual user is what i'm after prior to purchasing. main things i'm after are - durability -

supported travel printer and scanner

2009-09-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i am looking for a travel printer and scanner (two separate devices) that are supported by openbsd, specifically amd64. i am aware that this info is listed on the site but a suggestion from an actual user is what i'm after prior to purchasing. main things i'm after are - durability -

Re: OT rack mount monitor/keyboards

2009-09-08 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Steve Shockley wrote: stan wrote: I have a few locations where I have installed 1U rack mount KVM/monitor/keyboards, and quite frankly. I'm not happy with any of the ones I have tried. I recognize this is off topic, but the people on this list are pretty hard to please. Given that I was

Re: encryption

2009-08-26 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
somebody wrote: blah blah blah do your homework

Re: man pages conflict or clarification for mount_vnd, newfs and man 5 disklabel

2009-07-27 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
please stop jargonizing in an attempt to make yourself sound smart, it is painfully academic. your behavior reminds me of grad school misfits i have worked with who are convinced that being a pompous jerk is equivalent to being successful. have some manners and don't send your retarded

Re: man pages conflict or clarification for mount_vnd, newfs and man 5 disklabel

2009-07-27 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
leon zadorin wrote: i am the smartest person in the room and have no respect for people who are obviously much more talented and accomplished than i. it is my life's work to make mountains out of minutae, bear witness to my steaming pile of awesomeness. stop posting this on tech@ plz, it's

Re: Porting HammerFS

2009-07-22 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Christiano Farina Haesbaert wrote: Pointing out my mistake(s) and explaining why is enough. there is no such thing as enough: misery is openly traded on the exchange of m...@openbsd.org. i become miserable from reading emails like this and make you miserable in turn. as gerald pointed

Re: reason for libexec?

2009-07-15 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Michal wrote: As far as I'm aware ADD is on the autistic spectrum, and it is generally believed that a lot of people in IT are on the spectrum, especially those in the more technical areas, so in a way, your probably sort of right...in a way. Though, have you been tested for Asperger Syndrome?

Re: A thesis at Naval Postgraduate School that discusses OpenBSD

2009-06-28 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Seven years old, but the abstract looks nice: http://cisr.nps.navy.mil/pubabstracts/02abstract_smith.html [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/DEFANGED which had a name of eagirard.13040DEFANGED-vcf] gave this a read and expect that some devs

Re: About the OpenBSD repository

2009-06-23 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Marco Peereboom wrote: I used git twice. Once I lost hours worth of work and the second time it munged instead of merged the code. No thanks. If it works for you great, now stop evangelizing some retarded versioning system that will never, ever, ever, ever, ever be used in OpenBSD.

Re: apc ups daemon

2009-06-10 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Diana Eichert wrote: Remember real hardware hackers eat serial for breakfast. :-) diana lol! this made my morning diana. cheers, jake

OT Re: Kylin

2009-05-18 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: the chinese government really feels so vulnerable against U.S.? i mean, they say it like the WWIII will begin soon and we need to defend us on the cyberspace with our super-secure OS They're prob'ly as worried about their own hacks as anyone elses,

Re: Disk enryption or storing data in safe

2009-05-08 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Cem Kayali wrote: Thanks for reply... Well, i checked that before, but also heard that 'when a system with a mounted, encrypted virtual filesystem is shutdown uncleanly, the encrypted virtual filesystem's structures get damaged and, since OpenBSD's fsck command will not currently acknowledge

Re: OT: 10GbE Physical Network Taps

2009-05-06 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
openbsd misc wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009, J.C. Roberts wrote: I need to collect raw throughput statistics without increasing latency or reducing bandwidth on 10GbE fiber links, so most of the typical methods are

Re: svnd is incredible slow... somebody else notice that?

2009-04-26 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Sebastian Rother wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:37:24 -0500 Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: You are retarded and unable to figure out what is going on. Spouting horeshit as usual. Seriously just go away. From one retard to another: Go and fix the retarded pf code or

Re: svnd is incredible slow... somebody else notice that?

2009-04-25 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Marco Peereboom wrote: You are right about how awful all this stuff is. Man it seems like you should use an os that suits your goals a little better. I have heard that Linux offers awesome performance. based on the manner in which you routinely complain and provide zero deliverables, i

kd85 outstanding balances

2009-04-08 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i and plenty others donate funds and time to the openbsd project. i cannot speak on others' behalf but i find this entire matter very shady. the possibility that someone has embezzled funds due to the openbsd project is deeply offensive to me. issues -- in order to have any kind

Re: European orders

2009-03-25 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:41:04AM +0100, Floor Terra said that Why doesn''t Wim explain the situation here. Less work isn't it. ;) I don't know. And I don't want to get involved. I'm concerned about Theo, Wim, the project and anybody else who is involved

Re: arp MiTM

2009-03-09 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
irix wrote: Hello Misc, I am a customer and not the network administrator, and someone in the network makes MiTM attack, a network of billet in the uncontrolled swithes and ISP will not translate everything on the managed. Therefore, software implementation of this patch

Re: OT: Free, online backup service provider compatible with BSD

2009-02-11 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Jason Dixon wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:02:51PM -0700, Steve B wrote: Thanks to all for the ideas. Amazon looks like it might be the best for me. They should be around for a while, and at $0.17 that's almost free. While I agree with some that DR and free are not synonymous this is for

Re: Reset root password on system with console insecure?

2009-02-06 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
bofh wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Pierre Riteau pierre.rit...@gmail.com wrote: Or learn to use ed :) My god, ed? He should be editing the file on the hard drive by hand, poking it in with dip switches! so you've never had to edit text files with only programs under

Re: If you don't understand how to do it properly...

2009-01-27 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
bofh wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/27/blowfish_poisoning/ hack on the linux kernel? ;)

Re: DCBSDCon 2009 - Two weeks to register

2009-01-18 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Jason Dixon wrote: We're got less than three weeks to DCBSDCon 2009. The entire lineup has been released and today we announced the Frack Room, a space dedicated to casual BSD gaming and hacking sessions. Attendees will be able to plug in their laptops and play from their choice of networked

Re: Split Horizon DNS issues w/named.conf

2009-01-13 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: Repost with conf file included: I'm trying to track down a split horizon DNS issue. On initial startup everything works great. Internal hosts can resolve names against my complete zone and can resolve names for other internal hosts just fine. External hosts

Re: Updating AD DNS server

2009-01-06 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Peter Bako wrote: I'm looking for a script that I can run on my OpenBSD boxes that would allow them to register their DHCP assigned IP addresses with my Windows 2003 DNS server. My windows boxes do this automatically and its convenient to be able to just ping them by name regardless of what IP

Re: Yahoo! mail and OpenBSD greylisting

2008-12-22 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 09:30:48 Dec 22, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Hi Girish, ?Have you tried to contact with Yahoo! technical staff about it? I know you are serious , so I don't want to kid. I almost got talking to a relatively highly placed individual in yahoo! to take a

Re: pppoe not reconnecting

2008-12-20 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Christian Weisgerber wrote: Every few weeks...months, the PPPoE session for my ADSL line goes away (some time during the night) and is not reestablished. The corresponding pppoe interface is down, state initial, a number of PADIs have been sent, but no further retries seem to be happening. When

Re: package integrity, security and checks. .... where are they ?

2008-12-17 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Martin Schrvder wrote: 2008/12/17 Marc Espie es...@nerim.net: We think it's worse to sign packages than not to sign them if you don't have a fairly strict process that ensures you have a correct chain of trust. Agreed. PGP provides that, but I can understand that nobody wants GnuPG in

Re: how to bundle multiple internetconnections?

2008-12-16 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Sebastian Rother wrote: Hi everybody, I currently would like to bundle multiple internet connections to one virtual internet connection wich: 1. uses all the download/upload 2. take care about wich packet goes wich way by itself. I've 3 internet connections for 3 offices. All offices have a

Re: OT, .. but eCommerce?

2008-12-12 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Michiel van Baak wrote: On 09:33, Fri 12 Dec 08, L. V. Lammert wrote: A friend of mine is trying to get a small cCommece site up on one of our 4.4 servers, .. he is trying to get eCommerce Templates running but is having problems with curl it looks like others are ahead. This seems that is

Re: USB CD-ROM support

2008-11-03 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Marco Peereboom wrote: I use one every day. You want to use PXE on blades. i had no problem booting an enclosure full of dell 1855 blades using an external usb cdrom. installed an amd64 snapshot on em. not sure what your problem is... booting PXE is pretty easy so you should try that

Re: file encrypyion

2008-10-29 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Paul M wrote: I'm looking for a way to encrypy backup files for secure storage. Gpg is an obvious candidate, but I'm wondering if there's anything in base, perhaps a creative use of ssh or some other tool, though not something liable to break, obviously. Any thoughts would be much

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
mak maxie wrote: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080rid=-219 Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://msn.com.hk wow, that's a really good

Re: dmesg IBM x3650 OpenBSD 4.3

2008-10-10 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
gm_sjo wrote: 2008/10/10 Breen Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When you have proven yourself even 10% as helpful to the cause of OpenBSD as Theo is, then maybe, just maybe, you are justified in criticizing his tactics. I look forward to that point in time, but until then I really have no reason

Re: Patching a SSH 'Weakness'

2008-09-12 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To all who opposed the suggestion to send one block of data when the Enter key is pressed: my suggestion strictly referred to the login procedure, not to the later data communication. I did not mention this because

Re: VistaPE PXE booting from a OpenBSD tftp

2008-08-18 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I currently try to set up a WinPE 2.0 solution (VistaPE) to replace the old BartPE solution I currently do use. Even after using some HowTos I somehow failed to manage to get the VistaPE booting from a OpenBSD Server. The BCD claims that it can't find

Re: DOJ Incompetence and corruption

2008-08-06 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
james dandey wrote: For those that do not know, DOJ is department of justice. Incompetence and corruption cost an innocent man, Irvins, his life. The FBI have been harassing me for 15 years. I have posted many emails to this list with a variety of descriptions of what has happened to me.

Re: atheros - just curious, ot

2008-07-28 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Reyk Floeter wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: I threw my git saving throw so I was able to avoid looking at it. There is a version in the OpenWRT tree:

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

2008-07-12 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Martmn Coco wrote: Hi misc, I'm currently looking for hardware alternatives for firewalls that should have more than four NICs. Currently we are buying R200s from Dell, but we have the 4 NIC limitation. We could tell Dell to install a quad port NIC (in addition to the two-port onboard

Re: sshd_config(5) PermitRootLogin yes

2008-07-11 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: maybe if people actually READ THE ARCHIVES, they'd be better informed. i wish this mailing list had I didn't want to rehash it all again. Everyone knows the issues. so put your own /etc/ssh/sshd_config into your

Re: sshd_config(5) PermitRootLogin yes

2008-07-10 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Marco Peereboom wrote: And they got it all wrong. It is all for the perceived sense of security. Not being able to login over ssh right after install sucks. I am that guy that ends up enabling it on all other boxes that use a different default. The machine I install and then deploy to be

Re: 4.2 and 4.3 BIND: masters_list does not work with masters option

2008-07-08 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
David Newman wrote: On 7/7/08 4:44 PM, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: afaict as of BIND 9.3.2 use of an acl in the masters option was supported, e.g. acl int_masters { 10.0.0.1; }; ... zone somedomain.com { type slave; masters { int_masters

4.2 and 4.3 BIND: masters_list does not work with masters option

2008-07-07 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
afaict as of BIND 9.3.2 use of an acl in the masters option was supported, e.g. acl int_masters { 10.0.0.1; }; ... zone somedomain.com { type slave; masters { int_masters; }; file slave/internal/somedomain.com; }; but apparently

Re: Continuation of OpenBSD's Stop the Blob

2008-06-26 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that OpenBSD's Stop the Blob message is getting more recognition: http://www.fsdaily.com/stop-blob As the article points out, better late than never. Though OpenBSD had been on

wireless barcode scanners

2008-06-23 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
does anyone on list know if wireless (e.g. bluetooth) barcode scanners can or do work with openbsd? couldn't find much information about it after searching. the application is inventory tracking, etc, where several users would concurrently scan and have barcodes register with a single

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Paul Irofti wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD

OT: good remote mgmt KVM switch

2008-06-10 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
have dug about and not found any KVM switches that do either RDP or VNC that are reasonably priced. any suggestions on equipment of this sort would be appreciated. looking for stuff that works easily with openbsd packages, no java stuff if it can be helped. cheers, jake --

Re: Schneier on Security: BlackBerry Giving Encryption Keys to Indian Government

2008-06-03 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote: Gulp. There are references in the comments along the lines of big deal, the mail spends a lot of time as unencrypted smtp, but that is not always true: a lot of corporate customers use BB within their own mail systems; we feel free to send things to BB users that we

Re: [OT] developers running -current on laptops

2008-05-23 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Chris wrote: I can see from the recent undeadly posts and pictures that most developers are using laptops and I know you have to run -current to do development work. I was just wondering if these laptops are for development use only or development+personal use? I know -current can break

Re: S/Key *and* password for SSH login

2008-05-18 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-05-18, Mark Shroyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've set up a nice secondary authentication mechanism on a Linux server. I use this when I must shell in from, e.g., a computer lab, and I don't have an authorized SSH private key on my workstation. To login

Re: irc

2008-04-27 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an official OpenBSD IRC channel? thank you, and i am sorry but couldnt find info about it in faqs use the archives, this has been discussed.

azalia problem on 4.2-release: loud tone

2008-04-26 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
have a little via c7 machine for my home workstation and the audio chipset is detected as an azalia device azalia0 at pci4 dev 1 function 0 VIA HD Audio rev 0x00: irq 5 azalia0: host: High Definition Audio rev. 1.0 azalia0: codec: VIA/0x1708 (rev. 5.0), HDA version 1.0 when i play music

Re: Chatting with developers? Is it soo 1996?

2008-04-16 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Artur Grabowski wrote: Andris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found an old email on the mailing lists, dating back to 1996, when Theo announced users could connect and chat with the developers on

Re: SSD drives: performance gain

2008-04-16 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
, thanks for letting me know the T61 comes with the optional SSD drive. will acquire an X300 to see how it performs. might end up going with the T61 + SSD if the horsepower of the X300 is insufficient. cheers, jake dlg On 15/04/2008, at 9:52 AM, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: am considering

SSD drives: performance gain

2008-04-14 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
am considering acquiring some machines with SSD drives, e.g. thinkpad X300, and was interested to hear about any experiences with openbsd on an SSD drive. the reduction in latency and load times is attractive, but i'd like to hear some about some real world experiences before doling out

Re: macosx vs winxp: pf packet blocking

2008-04-08 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
happens. Or use a sniffer and look. thx for the advice duncan. others share your suspicion of packet fragmenting or something similar. will post back after doing a more thorough investigation. cheers, jake Dhu On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:37:10 -0500 Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED

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