Re: poll(2) vs kqueue(2) performance

2008-04-23 Thread Niels Provos
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Gilles Chehade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Yay, I too fell in love with it and it's various API's despite the lack
>  of documentation for most of them, header help understanding how things
>  work but I wasted quite some time on bufferevents ;-)

The documentation has actually become much better over time:

 http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/doxygen-1.4.3/

However, I'd be happy to see any patches to improve the documentation.

Thanks,
 Niels.



Re: ipw freezes my system

2008-04-23 Thread Alexander Nasonov
Replying to myself> I'm running 4.2 with -current kernel on acentrino
notebook with> Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 netword card.

I already got areply off-list (thanks Mike!) with asuggestion to run
astandard configuration. Actually, I started with OpenBSD 4.2 but it
didn't work. So Idecided to give new kernel atry.

Sorry for not being clear in the first message. My one year old daughter
can't sleep unless we turn all lights off, it was already late and Iwas
in ahurry. She's sleeping now but the modem with acable is in her room
and I'm writing this from M$ Windows. Now you understand how important to
me is to get the wireless working ;)
--Alexander Nasonov



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread General Delivery
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 19:10 +, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2008-04-23, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > And even, if I - or someone - will ask the question covered by any docs,
> > isn't just easier to skip it, giving no response at all, instead of wasting
> > time answering the question, which - as I understood from some answers -
> > perhaps isn't (from that person's point of view) worth any response?
> 
> It's in everyone's interests to keep the signal:noise ratio high enough
> that those developers still reading misc@ continue to do so. Sometimes
> skipping it is best, sometimes it feels better to post on a thread to
> try and dissuade other posts - I think this needs to happen from time
> to time to keep up the quality of the questions :)
> 

A suggestion...

www.bsdforums.org

a good, and possibly better, channel for user/admin class questions and
dialogue (i.e. non-developer).

:-)



Re: Upgrading 4.1->4.3

2008-04-23 Thread Emilio Perea
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:03:18AM +0930, Damon McMahon wrote:
>
> I avoided the 4.1->4.2 upgrade due to the libexpat issue - using 
> several packages which use libexpat and not wanting to install xbase 
> on my system. I have read through upgrade43.html and just want to make 
> sure that I can upgrade 4.1->4.2, skip the "Upgrading packages" step 
> and then upgrade 4.2->4.3 without having to install xbase?

I did it without problems when the 4.3 CDs arrived last week.  As long
as you are careful, you should not have a problem (as usual around
here).



Re: mrxvt and ksh issue

2008-04-23 Thread Clint Pachl

Jesus Sanchez wrote:

Hi, I'm using 4.2.


I'm using 4.1.



I have installed from ports the program mrxvt it works well as people
say but I have (I believe) found a buggy behaviour when using mrxvt and
ksh (the OpenBSD one).

I launch startx (with fvwm2 and mrxvt on my .xinitrc) as a regular user
(it's in the wheel group) and then I open a few tabs on mrxvt (3 or 4),
then I close X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and I found with 'ps -ax' that
the ksh opened with mrxvt (ttyp0, ttyp1, and more) are still running,
not mrxvt.


I am also using fvwm2, but I use xdm instead of startx. I used to have 
the same problem you describe and I can't remember what I did to fix it.


In my ~/.Xdefaults I have the line:
mrxvt.macro.Primary+Ctrl+W: Close 0

I only have that because it matches the shortcut to close a tab in my 
Seamonkey browser.


Also, I'm not sure if I installed from ports. OpenBSD didn't have an 
mrxvt port for quite awhile so I always compiled my own. Here are the 
characteristics of my current mrxvt:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] mrxvt -h
Mrxvt v0.5.2
Options: XPM,Jpeg,PNG,transparent,fade,tint,utmp,menubar,XIM,
scrollbars=rxvt+NeXT+xterm+sgi+plain,xft,frills,linespace,selectionscrolling,
256colour,cursorBlink,pointerBlank,session management,Resources



When I try to kill them this doesn't works and ps return the "Is+" STATE
I get 0wn3d and then try (as root) kill -9  and still doesn't
works, ps returns "IEs+" STATE.  Even If I have to power off the
computer with 'halt -p' these ksh sessions make it imposible, I have to
use 'halt -p -q'.


What happens when you type the exit command instead of using the 
keyboard shortcut to close a tab/terminal? I wish I could remember what 
I did to fix the problem, but I also found this interesting line in my 
~/.Xdefaults that may help:


mrxvt.holdExit: 0x00



This stuff doesn't happends with tcsh and mrxvt. And also if I use rxvt
instead of mrxvt this also doesn't happends with ksh.

I have not added my dmesg or something else because I really don't know
if it's necessary.


You may also want to try the mrxvt mailing lists. I'm subscribed and 
they seem very active. The lead developer is top notch.


-pachl



NFS Failover Fails

2008-04-23 Thread Tom Geman
I have two public load balanced webservers and one private database server.
The database server runs nfsd and is nfs mounted by the two webservers.

I am adding a backup database server so that when the master database fails,
the backup takes over.  No problems there.

The part I am having difficulty with is the nfs mounts.  It is no secret that
when the nfsd goes down, it becomes a headache to umount the directories that
relay on this.

I have tried everything that I have been able to find in my searching.  My
most successful attempt was like this:
- the two databases use carp and ifstated, when the master database fails and
the backup database takesover, it triggers a script in ifstated.
- The script will ssh into each webserver, umount the nfs mounts then mount
them again with the backup database as the target.

When the initial mount used "mount -t nfs ..." the umount would just hang.
When the initial mount used "mount_nfs -is ..." the umount would work only
sometimes, with no obvious pattern of when it would work or not.

I will consider any suggestion, or alternative.  Is OpenAFS an option?
I am just looking for a way to have failover for network file storage.

Thanks,
- Tom

---

# cat /etc/ifstated.conf
init-state auto

carp_up = "carp0.link.up && carp1.link.up"
carp_down = "!carp0.link.up || !carp1.link.up"

state auto {
if $carp_up
set-state master
if $carp_down
set-state backup
}

# in this state we are the master mysql server, and the nfs mount
state master {
init {
# start nfs posse
#run "/usr/sbin/portmap"
#run "echo -n>/var/db/mountdtab"
#run "/sbin/mountd"
#run "/sbin/nfsd -tun 4"

#run "/bin/sleep 20"

# go through each client using our nfsd and umount them
#  from their current nfs mounts and remount them using us
run "/etc/ifstated_scripts/remount_nfs.sh"

# let things settle
run "/bin/sleep 20"
}

if $carp_down
set-state backup
}

# in this state we are just waiting to take over
state backup {
init {
# stop nfs posse (in reverse order)
#run "ps -acx | grep nfsd | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill "
#run "kill -TERM `cat /var/run/mountd.pid`"
#run "ps -acx | grep portmap | awk '{print $1}' | xargs kill
"

# let things settle
run "/bin/sleep 20"
}

if $carp_up
set-state master
}



# cat /etc/ifstated_scripts/remount_nfs.sh
#!/bin/sh

# when using master nfs server, ip=192.168.20.32
# when using backup nfs server, ip=192.168.20.31
# webserver (nfs-client) ips = 192.168.20.12, 192.168.20.11

# the same test directory exists on all nfs-server and nfs-client servers
# /backup/nfs_test_mount

NFS_SERVER_IP=192.168.20.32

SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
MOUNT=/sbin/mount_nfs
UMOUNT=/sbin/umount
SLEEP=/bin/sleep
ECHO=/bin/echo

# list all directories that haves to me umount'd
NFS_MOUNTS="/backup/nfs_test_mount"

for machine in 192.168.20.12 192.168.20.11
do

$ECHO "Logging into $machine ... ";

for directory in $NFS_MOUNTS
do
NFS_UNMOUNT="$UMOUNT -f $directory"
NFS_MOUNT="$MOUNT -si $NFS_SERVER_IP:$directory $directory"

$ECHO "- unmounting $directory"
$SSH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "$NFS_UNMOUNT"

$ECHO "- sleeping zZzZ"
$SLEEP 20

$ECHO "- mounting $directory"
$SSH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "$NFS_MOUNT"
done

done
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Re: Upgrading 4.1->4.3

2008-04-23 Thread Unix Fan
Damon McMahon wrote:

> I have read through upgrade43.html and just want to  make sure that I can 
> upgrade 4.1->4.2, skip the "Upgrading packages"  step and then > upgrade 
> 4.2->4.3 without having to install xbase?



http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade43.html wrote:

> Note: Upgrades are only supported from one release to the release immediately 
> following it. Do not skip releases.



Does this not answer your question? Skipping the 4.2 release means you can't 
install the 4.3 one, assuming you chose to setup multiple labels and didn't 
throw everything in wd0a (/), you can backup various configuration files into 
your /home partition and then install 4.3 "fresh".



Just be sure to answer "none" when it asks you about your /home label, as you 
risk the installer newfs-ing it. :)







-Nix Fan.




Bad aperture size reported? (agp..)

2008-04-23 Thread Unix Fan
Hello,



Seeing how OpenBSD 4.3 is due out "officially" soon, I decided to try it out on 
one of my older AMD systems:



I'm noting an unusual problem though, agp0 is showing an unusual large aperture 
size, I only have a 32M card, and 32M is selected in the BIOS.



~SNIP~

pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8377 PCI" rev 0x00

agp0 at pchb0: v3, aperture at 0xfc00, size 0xe80

ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT8235 AGP" rev 0x00

pci1 at ppb0 bus 1

vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NVIDIA GeForce2 MX" rev 0xb2

-SNIP~



I'm not positive, but does 0xe80 mean 232 MB aperture? Kinda crazy isn't it?



More information is available if needed, my real concern is, Will it cause 
problems when I upgrade? I'm running Xorg on this box with OpenBSD 4.2 without 
problems.







-Nix Fan.




OpenBSD 4.3 arrives to Costa Rica !!

2008-04-23 Thread Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez
Hi folks,


 My copy of OpenBSD arrived this morning to my hands. Very nice !! I
had a lot of fun reading the story.

 Good Work guys !!


 Warm Regards,


Alvaro



Upgrading 4.1->4.3

2008-04-23 Thread Damon McMahon

Greetings,

I avoided the 4.1->4.2 upgrade due to the libexpat issue - using  
several packages which use libexpat and not wanting to install xbase  
on my system. I have read through upgrade43.html and just want to  
make sure that I can upgrade 4.1->4.2, skip the "Upgrading packages"  
step and then upgrade 4.2->4.3 without having to install xbase?


Any advice will be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Damon



ultima fecha de MAMMON

2008-04-23 Thread MAMMON INFO
 ZLTIMA FECHA DE MAMMON
  e s t e   j u e v e s2 4 / 4

Mammon cumple aqos y lo festeja en la zltima fecha del ciclo
 O sea, tiramos la casa por la ventana pero sacado, mal.
Vamos a tocar todo el repertorio iujuuu   , mas de un invitado sorpresa 
como para que digas eh para !! Se fueron al carajo.
Globos, preservativos usb para todos, fiesta, alegrma y mas fiesta

MAMMON despide el ciclo a lo grande !!!
este jueves 24/4 a las 21:30
El Condado . Niceto Verga 5542   (ant. $12 puerta $15)

Te esperamos cabeza de raviol   
Trai amigos asm rompemos todo
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si no queris recibir mas mails de MAMMON es szper entendible, respondi este 
mail vacmo y en el subject poni BASTA



Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-23 Thread Parvinder Bhasin
Thanks Guys!!  Like what Claer said, this was just for the purpose of  
honeypot research.  I don't care about user passwords in real world :)


Thanks for the patch.

-Parvinder Bhasin

On Apr 23, 2008, at 9:06 AM, HDC wrote:


I have 3 sshd deamons in my border firewall, 2 in no common ports for
my use, and 1 on default port (without real access) for "prevention
statistics".
Depending of the "prevention statistic" I design de security policy to
SSH and passwords.

It nice to see the statistics of ilegal access on the default port of
your sshd :)

Greetings,
Hernan
OpenBSDeros.org

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>

wrote:

"Ed Ahlsen-Girard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


When I was getting brute forced that way I just turned off remote

password

login and use keypairs exclusively.

Which won't work for everybody, I guess.


plus, of course, the fact that overload + flush global is fun to  
watch


- P
--
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation  
team

http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673  
seconds.







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# /dev/hdc
-> OpenBSDeros.org
hdc [at] openbsderos [dot] org




Re: slow ping with em(4)

2008-04-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-04-23, Benoit Chesneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Marc Winiger
>>  What happens if you penetrate your disk while pinging? Something like
> that:
>>  dd if=/dev/sd0c of=/dev/null
>>
>>  Marc
>>
> hi,
>
> While doing this, ping time response is ok around 85ms. What does it
> mean ? Anyway seem like you catch it .
>
>
> - benont

ahci0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801GBM AHCI" rev 0x02: apic 2 int 16 
(irq 11), AHCI 1.1
em0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel PRO/1000MT (82573L)" rev 0x00: apic 2 int 
16 (irq 11), address 00:16:d3:c0:22:c8

em0 is not really generating interrupts on the line the OS has detected
but some other line (i.e. the OS didn't correctly determine how interrupt
routing is done on your machine).

by forcing the disk controller to generate interrupts it is causing the
NIC's service routine to be run.

I'd try a bios update, looks like there are some newer ones for your
machine.



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Tony Abernethy
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> 
> Pay attention: there is a feedback.
> 
Seems like there has been a lot of feedback.
Assuming that you can read,
can you take your own advice?



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:24, you wrote:
>The old saying goes, "the only stupid question is the one that you
>don't ask."  However, it should be modified for OpenBSD as, "the only
>stupid question is the one you don't research before you ask."  It's a
>tough crowd but in time you start to understand why.

You may even come to not only understand it, but even appreciate it. 
I've asked questions before that could have been answered with enough 
research. Now i don't. Instead i go to greater effort to find an answer 
on my own. And if i still feel the need to ask, often in the process of 
composing a message and going through and making sure i've got all the 
details of my question correct, i stumble across something i missed and 
end up finding the solution and not needing to ask at all. As a result, 
these days i rarely ask anything, because there is simply no need. 
OpenBSD is so well documented and there is so much information already 
in the mailing list archive that needing to ask is very rare. OpenBSD 
and the -misc community has taught me how to do my own research. 
Knowing how to find answers to my future questions is far more valuable 
in the long run than merely being handed the answers when i ask. Thank 
you, both to the developers, and to the community on this mailing list.

Now if only i could learn to write in the concise, information-dense 
style that Theo uses... the above could probably be condensed to 2 or 3 
lines.


Dan RamaleyDial Center 118, Drake University
Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave
+1 515 271-4540Des Moines IA 50311 USA



Re: E17

2008-04-23 Thread HDC
See the commands on this post:
http://log.openbsderos.org/2008/04/13/openbsd-e17-sepp0/

In this test the openbsd are -current.

Greetings,
Hernan

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:35 AM, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:22:51PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
> > Where can i find the E17 port maintainer?
> >
> > This info doesn't seem to be in mine, perhaps my tree is borked?
> make show=MAINTAINER gives you
> The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> so there you have it.
>
>



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rdr to squid proxy with authentication

2008-04-23 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all,

I implemented the following rule and so far I can see that all users are
accessing my proxy server



Tried the following in /etc/inetd.conf

127.0.0.1:5000 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/bin/nc nc -w \
   20 192.168.3.106 8080


rdr on $int_if proto tcp from $int_net to $ext_if port 80 -> \
   127.0.0.1 port 5000


But I have one question, my proxy requires authentication before browsing,
how can I have the firewall also authenticate, because if I disable on the
squid proxy authentication, it works. If I enable it, all sites I try to
visit comes up with a page that I need authentication first to use the
proxy.

Thanks


BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking



Re: slow ping with em(4)

2008-04-23 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Marc Winiger
>  What happens if you penetrate your disk while pinging? Something like
that:
>  dd if=/dev/sd0c of=/dev/null
>
>  Marc
>
hi,

While doing this, ping time response is ok around 85ms. What does it
mean ? Anyway seem like you catch it .


- benont



Re: Where I ma? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Woodchuck
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Tony Abernethy wrote:

> Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> > Is it possible to participate in this mailing list without 
> > being insulted
> > for asking a question, being called by names and so on?
> Yes. Easily.

No, not easily.  Only certain questions can be asked without meriting
insult.  The casting of an uninsult-worthy question is difficult.

This is because of semantic problem, in that "to question" in list
language has the primary meaning "to criticize", and "to criticize"
has the sole meaning, "to slander, deprecate, mock, or ridicule"
and by implication, "to demand changes".

The usual broader-world meaning of "to question" is "to request
information".

> However, you do NOT get to set anyone's agenda, 
> not even your own.

Illustrating my point about list-speak semantics.

>
> The developers do this the way they want to.
> They accomplish a lot with extremely limited resources.
> You and I do not even get to have an opinion.

Right.

The OpenBSD core has this bifurcated nature: they do not accept
questions about their policy, offering the project's results on a
strict take-it-or-leave-it basis.  They do not pretend, in other
words, to have a user base that pays for the product and that as
consumers have the final say in whether the product succeeds or
fails.  This attitude is brutally (some might say "inhumanly")
honest, easily articulated and frequently understood.  Sometimes,
however, people insist that OpenBSD fulfill a "democratic-socialist"
political model including universal suffrage, or a market-driven
"business" model, with a sovereign consumer.

On the other hand, the core really-really likes:
a) fawning gratitude, and I do mean fawning, almost like
that which drips from the slack jaws of a religious worshipper, but
also like that from a doting, hovering mother, or syrupy lover,
b) regular "donations" in cash or kind or purchase of 
the product(s).

These two tines of the fork -- absolute autonomy on product design
and policy and a hunger for fawning worship and donations --
characterize a monopolistic religion, not a business or demo-socialist
political entity.  (OpenBSD does not pretend, I repeat, to be a
business or any sort of democracy.)

The term "OpenBSD core" is a misnomer.  Like the medieval Catholic
church, there is no "core/rim" division. The "users" constitute a
"laity", who, seeking heaven and fearing hell, need the sacraments,
and approach the Church, which is constituted solely of the "clergy",
for them.  In return, one tithes, prays, and hopes.  Some, eager
to work for the Church, and demonstrating their zeal, wisdom and
obedience, can receive Holy Orders and join the clergy, i.e. the
Church.

It is a curious model, but in fact works rather well.  But the
layman does not ask the bishop why the Mass is in Latin, or why
it's held on Sunday morning and not Friday night or Wednesday at
3PM.  This is treated almost as if he asked if the nature of Christ
is human *and* divine, or solely divine, or solely human, or if
Christ is present en toto in the Eucharist bread, or if the wine
is necessary.  The layman does not ask those questions.

There are also a number of lay zealots, who form various lay
orders, (such as the Knights of Columbus, Malta, St. John...) who
are used to slay the heretic or infidel when such stumbles into
Christendom, purging with flame impurity and falseness.  When an
heresiarch such as the reviled Stallman or one of his deluded imps
assaults the Church, spreading dissension and citing false scripture,
the Pope might call for Crusade.  These lay orders then swing into
violent and righteous action, and gratifying flame-fed autos-de-fe
entertain the congregation, illuminating the orthodox and obliterating
those fallen into Error.

Questions of the form "request for information" are covered in a
periodically revised chatechism, styled a "FAQ".  Requests for
information not in the FAQ are entertained on the list, but should
be submitted in special form, surrounded by fawning and hand-kissing,
in illuminated emails, and often gently reminding the clergy that
the supplicant has diligently and regularly tithed.

Dave "I'm not Luther"
-- 
   The future isn't what it used to be.
 -- G'kar



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:24:57PM -0400, Gerald Thornberry wrote:

> you'll often hear that OpenBSD exists at the pleasure of its
> developers, not the users.  Absolutely.  They put in the time and
> effort.  They would do so, presumably, if we users did not exist.

Maybe. But - forgive me for being contrary - with much, much lesser pleasure.

Why? It's simple: every creator likes his work to be appreciated. The
painter likes his pictures to be watched, the writer likes his books to be
read - not just to lie on the shelves - and so is with software developer.

Pay attention: there is a feedback.

But I'm afraid, this thread goes still more and more out of topic.  ;)
-- 
ZB



Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-23 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello,

> AFAIK OpenBSD has 2 releases a year - which means, that devs are trying to
> keep the packages and OS itself "fresh". But I'm wondering: wouldn't be in
> such situation reasonable to switch to s.c. "rolling release" model - and
> even more convenient for both devs and users?

I as a user am very happy with the way this is organised now, I wouldn't
mind having only 1 release a year if eventually 2 per year get's to much.
But nothing faster please.

I'm mostly using snapshots but I am very happy that stable exists and the
way it is maintained.

-sm



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Gerald Thornberry
I understand your perspective, zb, but there was a pile of charred
remains beside the door you walked through. You just didn't know to
look for it.  :-)

As a casual user, I mostly read what comes over the wire here and
buy/install new releases.  If you continue subscribing to this list
you'll often hear that OpenBSD exists at the pleasure of its
developers, not the users.  Absolutely.  They put in the time and
effort.  They would do so, presumably, if we users did not exist.  I
am quite happy they share their efforts because it makes my computing
experiences better and I've learned a lot by using OpenBSD.

The bottom line is that you are not the first person who posted to
this list only to leave crispy and fried around the edges.  Please, do
not take it hard.  You will _certainly_ not be the last.  Also, do not
request a change in tone or "atmosphere" on the list.  That's another
pile of toasted carcasses you'll trip over.  The old saying goes, "the
only stupid question is the one that you don't ask."  However, it
should be modified for OpenBSD as, "the only stupid question is the
one you don't research before you ask."  It's a tough crowd but in
time you start to understand why.

Gerald


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:17:23PM +0100, Wim Wauters wrote:
>
>  > I think you underestimate the importance of this "misc" mailing lists,
>  > this is not the place to demonstrate a lack of understanding of what
>  > OpenBSD is about
>  > or that you haven't read anything about the OpenBSD release system :-)
>
>  But I'm not here to demonstrate *anything*; I was supposing, that I can ask
>  here a question not covered by the FAQ's contents, for example (believe me,
>  there isn't any answer to the question: "why we chose such way").
>
>  And even, if I - or someone - will ask the question covered by any docs,
>  isn't just easier to skip it, giving no response at all, instead of wasting
>  time answering the question, which - as I understood from some answers -
>  perhaps isn't (from that person's point of view) worth any response?
>
>
>  > Out of personal interest: have you been using OpenBSD long, and what do
>  > you use it for?
>
>  Not too long - since about beginning of this year - and "using" is perhaps
>  a bit exaggeration at the moment, it should be rather: "I'm going to".
>
>  What for? I've found, that probably OpenBSD could be best replacement for my
>  earlier NetBSD-based installations, because - unfortunately - there still
>  are some problems with such basic things like PATA/SATA drivers (or USB),
>  which I'm unable to fix by myself, and the devs are currently busy with other
>  things.
>
>  OpenBSD just seems to be very well working on the hardware, which one can
>  obtain very cheaply nowadays - f.e. Slot1 motherboards, which are working
>  reliably, but aren't of any use for WinXP/Vista users now.
>
>  I must say, I was surprised, when I reported the problem with SATA, writing
>  in addition, that OpenBSD at the same hardware works without any problem.
>  And I've got an answer: "...but they just ported our driver".   :-O
>  --
>  ZB



Re: slow ping with em(4)

2008-04-23 Thread Marc Winiger

Hi

Benoit Chesneau schrieb:

Hi all,

I usually use wifi to connect so never noticed. But today I have to
use the wire to connect to the network and doing some remote tests and
I get slow results. So I did a ping to differerent server like yahoo
and get this :

PING yahoo.fr (217.12.6.29): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=182.585 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=157.585 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=86.655 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=160.425 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=4 ttl=247 time=150.316 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=5 ttl=247 time=140.267 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=6 ttl=247 time=130.263 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=7 ttl=247 time=85.141 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=8 ttl=247 time=110.447 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=9 ttl=247 time=100.354 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=10 ttl=247 time=90.343 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=11 ttl=247 time=897.197 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=12 ttl=247 time=1010.535 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=13 ttl=247 time=850.532 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=14 ttl=247 time=1010.333 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=15 ttl=247 time=84.840 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=16 ttl=247 time=1010.139 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=17 ttl=247 time=1010.541 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=18 ttl=247 time=1010.446 ms
  

What happens if you penetrate your disk while pinging? Something like that:
dd if=/dev/sd0c of=/dev/null

Marc



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-04-23, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And even, if I - or someone - will ask the question covered by any docs,
> isn't just easier to skip it, giving no response at all, instead of wasting
> time answering the question, which - as I understood from some answers -
> perhaps isn't (from that person's point of view) worth any response?

It's in everyone's interests to keep the signal:noise ratio high enough
that those developers still reading misc@ continue to do so. Sometimes
skipping it is best, sometimes it feels better to post on a thread to
try and dissuade other posts - I think this needs to happen from time
to time to keep up the quality of the questions :)



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slow ping with em(4)

2008-04-23 Thread Benoit Chesneau
Hi all,

I usually use wifi to connect so never noticed. But today I have to
use the wire to connect to the network and doing some remote tests and
I get slow results. So I did a ping to differerent server like yahoo
and get this :

PING yahoo.fr (217.12.6.29): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=0 ttl=247 time=182.585 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=1 ttl=247 time=157.585 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=2 ttl=247 time=86.655 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=3 ttl=247 time=160.425 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=4 ttl=247 time=150.316 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=5 ttl=247 time=140.267 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=6 ttl=247 time=130.263 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=7 ttl=247 time=85.141 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=8 ttl=247 time=110.447 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=9 ttl=247 time=100.354 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=10 ttl=247 time=90.343 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=11 ttl=247 time=897.197 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=12 ttl=247 time=1010.535 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=13 ttl=247 time=850.532 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=14 ttl=247 time=1010.333 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=15 ttl=247 time=84.840 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=16 ttl=247 time=1010.139 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=17 ttl=247 time=1010.541 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=18 ttl=247 time=1010.446 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=19 ttl=247 time=816.722 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=20 ttl=247 time=805.865 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=21 ttl=247 time=591.387 ms
64 bytes from 217.12.6.29: icmp_seq=22 ttl=247 time=787.180 ms
--- yahoo.fr ping statistics ---
24 packets transmitted, 23 packets received, 4.2% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 84.840/490.439/1010.541/394.641 ms
enlil% sudo route delete default

This isn't an hardware problem, I tried with an ubuntu livecd and
evrything is ok. I can ping to yahoo (in this case) and have response
time in 85ms.

If use wpi(4) time response is 85ms, so there is no problem. Does
anyone has such problem too ?


- benont
OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC.MP) #628: Fri Apr 11 15:31:04 MDT 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU L2400 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 
GHz
cpu0: 
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,VMX,EST,TM2,xTPR
real mem  = 1063677952 (1014MB)
avail mem = 1020375040 (973MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 07/26/07, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd690, SMBIOS 
rev. 2.4 @ 0xe0010 (67 entries)
bios0: vendor LENOVO version "7BETD1WW (2.12 )" date 07/26/2007
bios0: LENOVO 17025PG
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT ECDT TCPA APIC MCFG HPET SLIC BOOT SSDT SSDT SSDT 
SSDT
acpi0: wakeup devices LID_(S3) SLPB(S3) DURT(S3) EXP0(S4) EXP1(S4) EXP2(S4) 
EXP3(S4) PCI1(S4) USB0(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) USB7(S3) HDEF(S4)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: apic clock running at 166MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU L2400 @ 1.66GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 1.67 
GHz
cpu1: 
FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,VMX,EST,TM2,xTPR
ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic0: duplicate apic id, remapped to apid 2
acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (AGP_)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (EXP0)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 3 (EXP1)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 4 (EXP2)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 12 (EXP3)
acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 21 (PCI1)
acpiec0 at acpi0
acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2
acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3, C2
acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 127 degC
acpitz1 at acpi0: critical temperature 97 degC
acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID_
acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB
acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 model "42T5247" serial   538 type LION oem "SANYO"
acpibat1 at acpi0: BAT1 not present
acpibat2 at acpi0: BAT2 not present
acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online
acpidock at acpi0 not configured
bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xea00! 0xcf000/0x1000 0xd/0x1000 0xdc000/0x4000! 
0xe/0x1!
cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU, msr 0x06130a1d06000a1d
cpu0: using only highest and lowest power states
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 1667 MHz (1164 mV): speeds: 1667, 1000 MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82945GM Host" rev 0x03
vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82945GM Video" rev 0x03
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
agp0 at vga1: aperture at 0xd000, size 0x1000
"Intel 82945GM Video" rev 0x03 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured
azal

mrxvt and ksh issue

2008-04-23 Thread Jesus Sanchez

Hi, I'm using 4.2.

I have installed from ports the program mrxvt it works well as people
say but I have (I believe) found a buggy behaviour when using mrxvt and
ksh (the OpenBSD one).

I launch startx (with fvwm2 and mrxvt on my .xinitrc) as a regular user
(it's in the wheel group) and then I open a few tabs on mrxvt (3 or 4),
then I close X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and I found with 'ps -ax' that
the ksh opened with mrxvt (ttyp0, ttyp1, and more) are still running,
not mrxvt.

When I try to kill them this doesn't works and ps return the "Is+" STATE
I get 0wn3d and then try (as root) kill -9  and still doesn't
works, ps returns "IEs+" STATE.  Even If I have to power off the
computer with 'halt -p' these ksh sessions make it imposible, I have to
use 'halt -p -q'.

This stuff doesn't happends with tcsh and mrxvt. And also if I use rxvt
instead of mrxvt this also doesn't happends with ksh.

I have not added my dmesg or something else because I really don't know
if it's necessary.

Hope to be someway util.



carpnodes trouble

2008-04-23 Thread Holger Glaess
hi

i try today to use the ip loadbalancing feature of carp.

basiclly there ist an working carp cluster with 5 carp interfaces on 2 boxes.


on host a:
hostname.carp0
inet 10.100.0.254 255.255.252.0 10.100.3.255 \
vhid 25 pass office2world group lan_if
hostname.carp1
inet 10.10.223.15 255.255.255.0 10.10.223.255 \
vhid 15 pass office2world group wan_if
hostname.carp2
inet 10.90.1.202 255.255.255.0 10.90.1.255
vhid 90 pass manage2world group management_if
hostname.carp3
inet 10.90.5.202 255.255.255.0 10.90.1.255 \
carpdev em4 vhid 91 pass manage2world group management_if
hostname carp4
inet 10.11.223.15 255.255.255.0 10.11.223.255 \
carpdev em5 vhid 92 pass manage2world group an10-predmz

the devices em4 and em5 have are no ip .

on host b:
hostname.carp0
inet 10.100.0.254 255.255.252.0 10.100.3.255 \
group lan_if \
pass office2world \
vhid 25 \
advskew 100
hostname.carp1
inet 10.10.223.15 255.255.255.0 10.10.223.255 \
group wan_if \
vhid 15 \
advskew 100 \
pass office2world

hostname.carp2
inet 10.90.1.202 255.255.255.0 10.90.1.255 \
group management_if \
vhid 90 \
advskew 100 \
pass manage2world

hostname.carp3
inet 10.90.5.202 255.255.255.0 10.90.1.255 \
group management_if \
carpdev em4 \
vhid 91 \
advskew 100 \
pass manage2world

hostname.carp4

inet 10.11.223.15 255.255.255.0 10.11.223.255 \
group an10-predmz \
vhid 92 \
pass manage2world \
advskew 100 \
carpdev em5

now i try to what the document says i add the line on
host a
carpnodes 15:0,15:100 balancing ip
host b
carpnodes 15:100,15:0 balancing ip

id did this for all vhid's
then i try to load the setup i got the error "ifconfig: SIOCSVH: Invalid
argument" if i delete the part after the , der error is gone but it
kills my network.


what did i wrong ?
what i miss understud the man page ?

holger



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 05:17:23PM +0100, Wim Wauters wrote:

> I think you underestimate the importance of this "misc" mailing lists,
> this is not the place to demonstrate a lack of understanding of what 
> OpenBSD is about
> or that you haven't read anything about the OpenBSD release system :-)

But I'm not here to demonstrate *anything*; I was supposing, that I can ask
here a question not covered by the FAQ's contents, for example (believe me,
there isn't any answer to the question: "why we chose such way").

And even, if I - or someone - will ask the question covered by any docs,
isn't just easier to skip it, giving no response at all, instead of wasting
time answering the question, which - as I understood from some answers -
perhaps isn't (from that person's point of view) worth any response?

> Out of personal interest: have you been using OpenBSD long, and what do 
> you use it for?

Not too long - since about beginning of this year - and "using" is perhaps
a bit exaggeration at the moment, it should be rather: "I'm going to".

What for? I've found, that probably OpenBSD could be best replacement for my
earlier NetBSD-based installations, because - unfortunately - there still
are some problems with such basic things like PATA/SATA drivers (or USB),
which I'm unable to fix by myself, and the devs are currently busy with other
things.

OpenBSD just seems to be very well working on the hardware, which one can
obtain very cheaply nowadays - f.e. Slot1 motherboards, which are working
reliably, but aren't of any use for WinXP/Vista users now.

I must say, I was surprised, when I reported the problem with SATA, writing
in addition, that OpenBSD at the same hardware works without any problem.
And I've got an answer: "...but they just ported our driver".   :-O
-- 
ZB



there's news in OpenBSD history

2008-04-23 Thread John Doe
C.o.

http://www.silokarcema.lt/index?article=18061/18089/18149

The title loosely translates as:

  The program created by Shilute resident is being used by
  NASA scientists.

The last paragraph (where is the most exciting informatio) sounds like:

  The winner of the contest became a student from Shilute Martynas
  Venckus. He presented his and his colleagues' creation - OpenBSD
  operating system, which is now widely used in the world. The
  program created by Shilute's resident is used by scientists from
  space laboratory of NASA, internet search system "Google",
  producers of computer technologies "Apple".

Suppose the journalist got it in some interesting way...



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Wim Wauters
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Wim Wauters wrote:
>
>   
>> Everything the OpenBSD project has been carefully thought through, so 
>> asking silly questions - especially ones based on the latest fashionable 
>> feature added to other, more convoluted, operating systems - will get 
>> RTFM replies and waste project people's time.
>> 
>
> I would to point your attention to the fact, that I'm not trying to waste
> neither project people's time, nor anyone's. Besides - first: I'm not on
> the "dev" list, just on the "misc" - and second: answering posts isn't
> obligatory (or perhaps I missed something?).
>   
Yet again you demonstrate a lack of study into the OpenBSD project and 
it's people:
I think you underestimate the importance of this "misc" mailing lists,
this is not the place to demonstrate a lack of understanding of what 
OpenBSD is about
or that you haven't read anything about the OpenBSD release system :-)

I hope you hang around and get into the OpenBSD frame of mind.  Also, 
Undeadly.org is a good place to frequent.

If you like the rolling release concept, I would suggest you investigate 
"following -current", but I'm not a developer.

Out of personal interest: have you been using OpenBSD long, and what do 
you use it for?

For me as a sysadmin of small business networks, OpenBSD-stable is 
heaven to the Windows SmallBizServer hell :-)

-- 
With Friendly Regards,
Wim Wauters
T/A Unisoft Design





BSD DAY (Global)

2008-04-23 Thread HDC
Hola a todos, quiero anunciarles que estoy impulsando un proyecto para
realizar el BSD DAY en la mayor cantidad de paises posible. En
Argentina lo hariamos nosotros y ya contacte a otros grupos de OpenBSD
y estan muy interesados en realizarlo.

La idea es comenzar este proyecto con tiempo (ya que si es el primer
evento que realizamos, es muy probable que lo necesitemos), dentro de
un lapso de 10 meses a 16 meses creo que estariamos en condiciones de
realizar en conjunto varios eventos locales.

Mas detalles los pueden ver y seguir en el wiki:
http://www.openbsderos.org/wiki/index.php?title=BSDDAY

Espero que los interesados se sumen.

Se agradece la difusion de esta noticia.


Saludos,
Hernan

-- 
# /dev/hdc
-> OpenBSDeros.org
hdc [at] openbsderos [dot] org



Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-23 Thread HDC
I have 3 sshd deamons in my border firewall, 2 in no common ports for
my use, and 1 on default port (without real access) for "prevention
statistics".
Depending of the "prevention statistic" I design de security policy to
SSH and passwords.

It nice to see the statistics of ilegal access on the default port of
your sshd :)

Greetings,
Hernan
OpenBSDeros.org

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> "Ed Ahlsen-Girard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > When I was getting brute forced that way I just turned off remote
password
> > login and use keypairs exclusively.
> >
> > Which won't work for everybody, I guess.
>
> plus, of course, the fact that overload + flush global is fun to watch
>
> - P
> --
> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
> http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
>
>



--
# /dev/hdc
-> OpenBSDeros.org
hdc [at] openbsderos [dot] org



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Siju George
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Wim Wauters wrote:
>
>  > Everything the OpenBSD project has been carefully thought through, so
>  > asking silly questions - especially ones based on the latest fashionable
>  > feature added to other, more convoluted, operating systems - will get
>  > RTFM replies and waste project people's time.
>
>  I would to point your attention to the fact, that I'm not trying to waste
>  neither project people's time, nor anyone's. Besides - first: I'm not on
>  the "dev" list, just on the "misc" - and second: answering posts isn't
>  obligatory (or perhaps I missed something?).
>

Hi,

A lot of devs are on this list too helping people :-)

--Siju



Sendmail OpenBSD performance

2008-04-23 Thread Morris, Roy
I know this is not exactly a OpenBSD question but I am wondering
if anyone can give me a sense of the performance/limitations of
sendmail? Basically I have a machine that sends out 20,000 mails
a day and once and a while the application sending emails for delivery
complains that it has to wait for sendmail. I go and check the sendmail
machine
and it's hardly even breathing hard. Almost no cpu usage, memory fine blah
blah ..

I am not convinced this is a problem with sendmail, just looking for some
feedback
from anyone doing volume email on openbsd.

cheers
Roy



Re: SGI install -current: autoboot failed

2008-04-23 Thread Miod Vallat

Oh, I wanted to ask this for quite some time:

Can I create this volume header without an IRIX installation?

The disk in my O2 died, I have another SCA disk (from a Sun), wiped clean.
And my old IRIX CDs have read errors, so I can't even install IRIX from
scratch just to prepare the disk.


The OpenBSD installation media (which you can boot either from cd-rom or
over the network) can create a volume header if none is found on the disk.

Miod



Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Wim Wauters wrote:

> Everything the OpenBSD project has been carefully thought through, so 
> asking silly questions - especially ones based on the latest fashionable 
> feature added to other, more convoluted, operating systems - will get 
> RTFM replies and waste project people's time.

I would to point your attention to the fact, that I'm not trying to waste
neither project people's time, nor anyone's. Besides - first: I'm not on
the "dev" list, just on the "misc" - and second: answering posts isn't
obligatory (or perhaps I missed something?).
-- 
Disclaimer: if you don't like my question - just don't respond. If you want
to start a flamewar - choose someone else. If you've found my question "rude"
or "abusive" - most probably you've (mis|over)interpreted (besides: pay
attention, that I'm not native speaker - maybe used a wrong term?).



Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-23 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:34:29AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:

> Contrarily to what you might think, this email is NOT an exhaustive 
> description of things as they are. It's a very quick, oversimplified summary,
> of a taxing process and decisions. There are glaring mistakes, for the sake
> of simplification. In a nutshell, release is ways harder to do than you think.

Thanks a lot for explanation.
-- 
ZB



Re: SGI install -current: autoboot failed

2008-04-23 Thread Joel Sing
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, you wrote:
> > > I think I'm gun shy from my mac installs but there is a p partition on
> > > the drive that takes up the first 3515 blocks of the drive and I'm
> > > thinking I have to leave that there. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> > > Otherwise I did the normal install...
> >
> > Yes, you need to leave it there - the SGI Volume Header takes up the
> > first few blocks of the disk.
>
> Oh, I wanted to ask this for quite some time:
>
> Can I create this volume header without an IRIX installation?
>
> The disk in my O2 died, I have another SCA disk (from a Sun), wiped clean.
> And my old IRIX CDs have read errors, so I can't even install IRIX from
> scratch just to prepare the disk.
>
> Any workarounds?

You can easily install on a "blank" disk - the installer will create a SGI 
Volume Header on the disk if one is not already present. If one already 
exists it will give you the option to keep it or replace it. Once bsd.rd is 
booted you could even manipulate it manually (using sgivol(8)) if you really 
wanted to do so, however there is generally no need.

Grab a current cd43.iso (or netboot a bsd.rd) and give it a whirl!
-- 

 => Joel Sing | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 0419 577 603 <=


 "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
  - Terry Pratchett, Hogfather



Re: SGI install -current: autoboot failed

2008-04-23 Thread Olaf Schreck
> > I think I'm gun shy from my mac installs but there is a p partition on
> > the drive that takes up the first 3515 blocks of the drive and I'm
> > thinking I have to leave that there. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> > Otherwise I did the normal install...
> 
> Yes, you need to leave it there - the SGI Volume Header takes up the first 
> few 
> blocks of the disk.

Oh, I wanted to ask this for quite some time:

Can I create this volume header without an IRIX installation?

The disk in my O2 died, I have another SCA disk (from a Sun), wiped clean. 
And my old IRIX CDs have read errors, so I can't even install IRIX from 
scratch just to prepare the disk.

Any workarounds?


Thanks,
chakl



Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
"Ed Ahlsen-Girard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> When I was getting brute forced that way I just turned off remote password
> login and use keypairs exclusively.
>
> Which won't work for everybody, I guess.

plus, of course, the fact that overload + flush global is fun to watch 

- P
-- 
Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/
"Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.



Re: Where I ma? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Wim Wauters
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 07:58:37PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>
>   
>> Your initial mails were not taken as questions.
>> 
>
> Most probably because I forgot about question marks. I'm sorry.
>
> OK, forget it. As I wrote: no offence.
>   
Everything the OpenBSD project has been carefully thought through, so 
asking silly questions - especially ones based on the latest fashionable 
feature added to other, more convoluted, operating systems - will get 
RTFM replies and waste project people's time.

Any OpenBSD newbie (I'm too old to use "n00b") should "See, hear & pay up":
that's why there is new artwork ("see") and a lovely song ("hear") and 
with each release ("pay up for CD").
It is all very well designed :-)

Happy Daze!

PS. A rolling release would require more resources/input from artists 
for starters :-P



Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-23 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard
When I was getting brute forced that way I just turned off remote password
login and use keypairs exclusively.

Which won't work for everybody, I guess.
 
--
 
Ed Ahlsen-Girard
Senior Network Engineer
TYBRIN Corporation
tybrin.com
850-337-2830
850-337-2885 (fax)

-Original Message-
From: Sam Fourman Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:51 PM
To: Parvinder Bhasin
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

>  Is there a way to login the passwords that were used in the bruteforce
> attack?

I am siting trying to come up with a good reason why you would give a
damn what passwords they tried?

I mean for the most part they are scripts trying to BRUTE  your ssh port
anyhow.


Sam Fourman Jr.



Re: MS and OpenBSD interportability, a lil list with "patented" and non patented protocols

2008-04-23 Thread Marcus Andree


>  So if you think it would be handy if you could remotely shutdown your
>  whole network from the Firewall you may could code the daemon right now
>  'course the protocol itself is not "patented".



Probably the windows machines lying on the network are already
shutting down to apply hourly security fixes.

This argument about "integration" with MS code is leading OpenBSD to
nowhere, IMO.

I like pf, I like the developers decision for "correctness", and I like the
way engineers and coders created and enhanced UNIX.

Why to mess something that's working properly for 20+ years for
the sake of integration?

If MS had a minimal interest on integration, they should have read
implemented POSIX in a useful manner on their OS at least one
decade ago.

Now, all I can say is MS can keep its code for itself. My choice is clear.



The return of... Corrupted MAC on input

2008-04-23 Thread Michael
Hi,

after upgrading from

OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #599: Fri Dec 14 17:13:48 MST 2007

to

OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC) #820: Wed Apr 16 21:01:55 MDT 2008

a few days ago the following SSH error with the Soekris 4801 + vpn14x1
is back:

Received disconnect from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: 2: Corrupted MAC on input


I hoped that it had been fixed for good by now... :-(


Michael


*dmesg of the old version which worked:*
OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #599: Fri Dec 14 17:13:48 MST 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC"
586-class) 267 MHz
cpu0: FPU,TSC,MSR,CX8,CMOV,MMX
cpu0: TSC disabled
real mem  = 268005376 (255MB)
avail mem = 251260928 (239MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 20/50/29, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7840
acpi at bios0 function 0x0 not configured
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf/0x1
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc8000/0x9000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Cyrix GXm PCI" rev 0x00
sis0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A:
irq 10, address 00:00:24:c7:7f:64
nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis1 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A:
irq 10, address 00:00:24:c7:7f:65
nsphyter1 at sis1 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis2 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A:
irq 10, address 00:00:24:c7:7f:66
nsphyter2 at sis2 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
ppb0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "TI PCI2250 PCI-PCI" rev 0x02
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
sis3 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A:
irq 9, address 00:00:24:c7:4c:2c
nsphyter3 at sis3 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis4 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A:
irq 5, address 00:00:24:c7:4c:2d
nsphyter4 at sis4 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis5 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A:
irq 9, address 00:00:24:c7:4c:2e
nsphyter5 at sis5 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis6 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A:
irq 5, address 00:00:24:c7:4c:2f
nsphyter6 at sis6 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
hifn0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0 "Hifn 7955/7954" rev 0x00: LZS 3DES ARC4
MD5 SHA1 RNG AES PK, 32KB dram, irq 11
gscpcib0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "NS SC1100 ISA" rev 0x00
gpio0 at gscpcib0: 64 pins
"NS SC1100 SMI" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 18 function 1 not configured
pciide0 at pci0 dev 18 function 2 "NS SCx200 IDE" rev 0x01: DMA, channel
0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: 
wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 983MB, 2014992 sectors
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2
geodesc0 at pci0 dev 18 function 5 "NS SC1100 X-Bus" rev 0x00: iid 6
revision 3 wdstatus 9
ohci0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "Compaq USB OpenHost" rev 0x08: irq 5,
version 1.0, legacy support
isa0 at gscpcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: 
spkr0 at pcppi0
nsclpcsio0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: NSC PC87366 rev 9: GPIO VLM TMS
gpio1 at nsclpcsio0: 29 pins
gscsio0 at isa0 port 0x15c/2: SC1100 SIO rev 1:
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom0: console
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0 "Compaq OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
biomask f1e5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
ugen0 at uhub0 port 1 "American Power Conversion Back-UPS CS 500
FW:808.q5.I USB FW:q5" rev 1.10/0.06 addr 2
softraid0 at root
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b


*dmesg of the new version with the error again:*
OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC) #820: Wed Apr 16 21:01:55 MDT 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC"
586-class) 267 MHz
cpu0: FPU,TSC,MSR,CX8,CMOV,MMX
cpu0: TSC disabled
real mem  = 268005376 (255MB)
avail mem = 251047936 (239MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 20/50/29, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7840
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf/0x1
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc8000/0x9000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Cyrix GXm PCI" rev 0x00
sis0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00, DP83816A:
irq 10, address 00:00:24:c7:7f:64
nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis1 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x0

Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-23 Thread Nick Holland
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>>  Is there a way to login the passwords that were used in the bruteforce
>> attack?
> 
> I am siting trying to come up with a good reason why you would give a
> damn what passwords they tried?

Actually, I have a reason why a list of PWs that the brute-force apps
use would be interesting:  to show people how bad their PWs typically
are.

"Ok, everyone, pick a creative password for the all-powerful root
account.  Now...let's look at a brute force list, and see how original
you aren't.  Wow, look, five of you picked 'iamgod' for your root PW,
and here it is on the brute-force list!"

However, a much better way to this would be simply snag a copy of the
program.  (one way, perhaps: honeypot machine, with a firewall that
cuts off all net connections after it makes, say, ten outgoing ssh
connections in a minute).

Nick.



Re: MS and OpenBSD interportability, a lil list with "patented" and non patented protocols

2008-04-23 Thread sebastian . rother
> Samba is part of ports already, so the eventual improvements that come
> as the result of having won the lawsuit and appeal will also be usable
> with OpenBSD.  So if you know someone with a Windows server, you might
> steer them to ports:
>
>   samba-3.0.25b
>   samba-3.0.25b-cups
>   samba-3.0.25b-cups-ldap
>   samba-3.0.25b-ldap
>   samba-docs-3.0.25b
>   smbldap-tools-0.9.2ap1
>
> It is a step in helping them migrate to open services and protocols.
> You might find it more useful to know that AFS is supported more or less
> out of the box, as well as kerberos.  LDAP can be added.

I'm sorry for not pointing out the intention of my mail more crefully.

The e-mail wich may is helpfull for programmers who might wish to program
daemons/tools to interact with Windows (Authentication or such things) was
send out to provide everybody who's interested into such things a little
overview. :)

Nothing more or less!

So if you think it would be handy if you could remotely shutdown your
whole network from the Firewall you may could code the daemon right now
'course the protocol itself is not "patented".
Or maybe somebody codes a login_ntlm or anything else. Who knows :)

There things wich are not "just" usefull for samba and where some
programers (not just for OpenBSD maybe) are maybe interested into. :)

Kind regards,
Sebastian



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Re: MS and OpenBSD interportability, a lil list with "patented" and non patented protocols

2008-04-23 Thread Lars Noodén
Samba is part of ports already, so the eventual improvements that come
as the result of having won the lawsuit and appeal will also be usable
with OpenBSD.  So if you know someone with a Windows server, you might
steer them to ports:

samba-3.0.25b
samba-3.0.25b-cups
samba-3.0.25b-cups-ldap
samba-3.0.25b-ldap
samba-docs-3.0.25b
smbldap-tools-0.9.2ap1

It is a step in helping them migrate to open services and protocols.
You might find it more useful to know that AFS is supported more or less
out of the box, as well as kerberos.  LDAP can be added.

Regarding those specific protocols mentioned in the lawsuit and the
appeal, here are two links about the context:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071220124013919
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070919214307459


[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
...patented...
[snip]

Whether they are or aren't patented is not relevant for many of us.  As
you know, software patents are not valid in Europe.  That includes
Germany.

For those for whom software patents are relevant, it does not matter if
it is 80%, 20%, 5%, 1% or even just one software patent.  All it takes
is one.  Besides, software patents are not a developer issue, they
affect the end user.

regards,
-Lars



Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-23 Thread Claer
On Wed, Apr 23 2008 at 01:00, Jon Radel wrote:

> Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> >>  Is there a way to login the passwords that were used in the bruteforce
> >> attack?
> > 
> > I am siting trying to come up with a good reason why you would give a
> > damn what passwords they tried?
> > 
> > I mean for the most part they are scripts trying to BRUTE  your ssh port 
> > anyhow.
> 
> Not only that, if you read any history of Unix's early days you should
> come across some instructive stories as to why logging the passwords of
> failed attempts is now generally considered a really bad idea.
> Basically has something to do with that between all the garbage from
> brute force attempts you'll find entries of legitimate attempts with
> small typos in the password.  Suddenly your log file has become really
> dangerous.
> 
If it's for honeypot and educationnal reasons, it's best to not use the
same daemon as the production one.

Searching a little I found this program :
http://kojoney.sourceforge.net/
You can use it as your base to do what you wanted.



Re: aterm, rxvt -- memory usage

2008-04-23 Thread Claer
On Tue, Apr 22 2008 at 43:22, Arun G Nair wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Claer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  I personnaly use unicode rxvt. It's a clone of rxvt that comes with
> >  unicode (oh surprising) and with client/server mode to reduce memory
> >  usage when you have serveral terms like I used to have.
> >
> >  urxvt is also one of the rare terms out there with transparency and
> >  whitening the background and not darkening it.
> 
> Hi, I where can I find urxvt for openbsd ? I can't seem to find it in
> ports. Am using 4.2.
> 
Oh sorry, I didn't check it's availability in ports. But, as stated,
it's certainly not too hard to compile it from sources.

Claer



Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:04:35AM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:48:47PM -0400, Jason Beaudoin wrote:
> 
> > the devs have been hard at work for many years, and I'd be willing to
> > bet that they like the system they've come up with. If they didn't,
> > they'd change it.
> 
> But it's pretty valid to ask? I thought, that's the mailing lists are for.
> 
> Maybe I'm wrong.

No, it's a valid question. There are hints of answers and even answers if
you read the mailing-list archives, but it's possible to overlook them.

Let me explain things to you another way.

OpenBSD tries to have quality releases, with several goals. Those goals 
include keeping support for a variety of non mainstream architectures alive.
There are various reasons for that, one of which being that it is useful
for i386/amd64, because some other arches are good at finding some classes
of bugs that affect all arches, but are more apparent on strict alignment
architectures (for instance). It's also good because it attracts kernel and
driver developers.

With that in mind, OpenBSD-current is always high quality, in theory.
In practice, comes release time, building and testing the release on each
and every arch weeds out hundreds of bugs... and takes a big chunk of time
and nerves out of Theo, and some other people involved. Thus the very quick
reaction.

We're trying hard to go up, up, up and have better and better releases.

If you read the archives, you'll see lots of calls to test things, in a
real community spirit, instead of the current `gimme, gimme, gimme' frame
of mind a lot of our users have...

so there have been some hard choices with respect to support, especially
wrt backporting stuff to -stable, or actually making these releases.

There will be hard choices in the future, undoubtedly.

Hence the harsh reactions from the people involved in the release process.

Just read the ml around `release build time' (which was a few months back,
actually, that's how slow the release process is), and you'll figure out
for yourself why `a release a month' is a bad idea, and also why the people
involved reacted so violently to your apparently innocuous email...
it kind-of implies the release process is something trivial you can change
as you want, which it obviously is not... and it also dismisses the ten
years of experience that our fearless leader has. Kind of insulting, don't
you think ? ;-)


Contrarily to what you might think, this email is NOT an exhaustive 
description of things as they are. It's a very quick, oversimplified summary,
of a taxing process and decisions. There are glaring mistakes, for the sake
of simplification. In a nutshell, release is ways harder to do than you think.



MS and OpenBSD interportability, a lil list with "patented" and non patented protocols

2008-04-23 Thread sebastian . rother
I recently read about MS and there's a Blog wich claims (it includes a
list) that like 80% of all MS server protocols are not patented right now.

This, if true, could propably handy for some developers or anybody else to
maybe improve the integration of oBSD into  MS networks.

The List (yeah, just avaiable as xls :( ):
http://www.centrify.com/downloads/public/microsoft_protocol_to_patent_map_courtesy_of_centrify.xls

The website:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8562

Wich leads me to this website:
http://www.centrify.com/blogs/tomkemp/mapping_patents_to_microsoft_protocols.asp

Kind regards,
Sebastian



Re: E17

2008-04-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:22:51PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
> Where can i find the E17 port maintainer?
> 
> This info doesn't seem to be in mine, perhaps my tree is borked?
make show=MAINTAINER gives you
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
so there you have it.



Re: collect2: ld returned 1 exit status....during linking...

2008-04-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 03:04:23PM -0700, vatocleti wrote:
> vatocleti wrote:
> > 
> > Hey all,
> >   I installed 'gmake' to build a Linux based Makefile that uses 'gcc' and
> > when I issue 'gmake' I get the following error:
> > 
> > /usr/bin/ld: my_app.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making
> > a shared object: recompile with -fPIC
> > my_app.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > gmake: *** [libAPP.so] Error 1
> > 
> > any ideas/suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> I added "-fPIC" to CLFAGS and this got me past this error...is that the
> proper fix?

More or less.