Eric Raymond about GPL and BSD

2005-06-08 Thread Alexey E. Suslikov
original article were in portuguese... http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfreebsd.com.br%2Fmodules.php%3Fname%3DNews%26file%3Darticle%26sid%3D1262&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools' very interesting :) Alexey.

Re: Eric Raymond about GPL and BSD

2005-06-08 Thread Richard P. Koett
Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: > original article were in portuguese... > > http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfreebsd.com.b r%2Fmodules.php%3Fname%3DNews%26file%3Darticle%26sid%3D1262&langpair=pt% 7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools' > And what langua

relationship passwd file - homedir(s)

2005-06-08 Thread Uwe Dippel
Is there anything similar to Linux's pwck available ? (No need to tell me that we're in OpenBSD, please !) What I'd want, is to check the passwd file and delete all home dirs that have no user account any longer. Then, I'd also create home dirs for all users in the passwd without home dir yet. Sin

pf and "rdr pass" nat

2005-06-08 Thread Brian McKerr
The man page says; "If the pass modifier is given, packets matching the translation rule are passed without inspecting the filter rules:" I like this as it will reduce the size of my rules file, however, how can I "rdr pass" and have it honour (for want of a better word) altq ? Cheers, B

Question about OpenBSD start up

2005-06-08 Thread Said Outgajjouft
What source file contains the start up code for OpenBSD? OpenBSD keep it real by keeping it free! Said Outgajjouft

Correct Values - Sysctl Variables

2005-06-08 Thread Anderson Nadal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello. What is the correct values for a high load firewall: net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 net.inet.tcp.rfc3390 The default values is: net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 net.inet.tcp.rfc3390=0 []'s Nadal - -- +---+

Re: Question about OpenBSD start up

2005-06-08 Thread Lars Hansson
On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 14:02:35 +0200 Said Outgajjouft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What source file contains the start up code for OpenBSD? /etc/rc --- Lars Hansson

Re: Question about OpenBSD start up

2005-06-08 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:02:35PM +0200, Said Outgajjouft wrote: >What source file contains the start up code for OpenBSD? What do you mean by "start up"? Boot? Kernel initialization? Userland initialization? Kind regards, Hannah.

Re: relationship passwd file - homedir(s)

2005-06-08 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:31:29PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: >[...] >What I'd want, is to check the passwd file and delete all home dirs that >have no user account any longer. >Then, I'd also create home dirs for all users in the passwd without home >dir yet. >Since this is a migration of >

Re: relationship passwd file - homedir(s)

2005-06-08 Thread Bryan Allen
On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:31 AM, Uwe Dippel wrote: What I'd want, is to check the passwd file and delete all home dirs that have no user account any longer. Then, I'd also create home dirs for all users in the passwd without home dir yet. Since this is a migration of > 100 users from Linux, I d

Re: relationship passwd file - homedir(s)

2005-06-08 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 6/8/05, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'd want, is to check the passwd file and delete all home dirs that > have no user account any longer. You can use find(1) -nouser for this. > Then, I'd also create home dirs for all users in the passwd without home > dir yet. Use awk that

more file descriptors for user www

2005-06-08 Thread -f
hi there, i have processes running as www, eating up file descriptors. after a while i get errors because i need more. this is not about serving pages, this is about processes which run as www. so how can i raise the number of file descriptors for www? can be this done from /etc/login.conf ? i a

i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Barter
I've obviously spent too much time away from the console lately. I am looking for a package and can't, for the life of me, remember how to find them. I know there is a search key option to a command, but I can't remember which command. make? pkg_info? I've tried searching the archives, bu

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:19:58AM -0400, Rick Barter wrote: >I've obviously spent too much time away from the console lately. I am >looking for a package and can't, for the life of me, remember how to >find them. >I know there is a search key option to a command, but I can't remember

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread endrju
cd /usr/ports make search name=package_name make search key=package_keyword you can reindex with 'make index' ick Barter wrote: > I've obviously spent too much time away from the console lately. I am > looking for a package and can't, for the life of me, remember how to > find them. > > I know

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Carson Chittom
On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:19 AM, Rick Barter wrote: I know there is a search key option to a command, but I can't remember which command. make? pkg_info? I've tried searching the archives, but I can't seem to find it. I've looked for 'find package' and 'find port'. I found a package finder at

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Terry
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:19:58AM -0400, Rick Barter wrote: > I've obviously spent too much time away from the console lately. I am > looking for a package and can't, for the life of me, remember how to > find them. > > I know there is a search key option to a command, but I can't remember >

Re: pf and "rdr pass" nat

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Dixon
On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Brian McKerr wrote: The man page says; "If the pass modifier is given, packets matching the translation rule are passed without inspecting the filter rules:" I like this as it will reduce the size of my rules file, however, how can I "rdr pass" and have it honou

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Timothy Donahue
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 08:59 am, Terry wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:19:58AM -0400, Rick Barter wrote: > > Also, it says ethereal is in /usr/ports/net/ethereal, but I can't find [snip] > What version are you running? I have a 3.5 box and a 3.6 box, still > haven't loaded 3.7 yet :(, and th

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido
Well, you could have looked at the Makefile inside /usr/ports :) make search key='something' On 6/8/05, Rick Barter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've obviously spent too much time away from the console lately. I am > looking for a package and can't, for the life of me, remember how to > find the

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Terry
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:24:41AM -0400, Timothy Donahue wrote: > The cvsweb repository is always a good place to try and figure out why > something doesn't seem to be in the repository anymore. > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/net/ethereal/Attic/Makefile?hideattic=0 Oh, duh. Tha

php4 ports build error

2005-06-08 Thread John Tate
I got these errors trying to compile php4 on OpenBSD 3.6 (Will upgrade to 3.7 soon). My ports collection was upto date. I tried again with the REFETCH=true args and I got the same error. >> No sha1 checksum recorded for php-4.3.11.tar.gz. >> No rmd160 checksum recorded for php-4.3.11.tar.gz. >> No

Re: A Business Case for integrating OpenBSD into IT Infrastructures

2005-06-08 Thread steve . shockley
On Mon, June 6, 2005 9:48 am, Mark Uemura wrote: > Thanks for taking the time to provide me with your feedback. I'm not > adverse to getting or taking criticism if I'm wrong and/or if I learn > something. As my very close father-like friend says to me, "Mark, if > you're not careful, you'll learn

Re: php4 ports build error

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Crawford
I know php4, both core and extentions builds fine for me in 3.6. Is there any reason why you're not just using packages? They're all on the FTP site, including the latest ones for 3.6. Otherwise, my guess is that something is out of sync with your ports tree (you're at least missing the distinfo fi

Re: php4 ports build error

2005-06-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 09 June 2005 01:03 +1000, John Tate wrote: I got these errors trying to compile php4 on OpenBSD 3.6 (Will upgrade to 3.7 soon). My ports collection was upto date. I tried again with the REFETCH=true args and I got the same error. "My ports collection was up to date": you mean, you're tryi

Re: php4 ports build error

2005-06-08 Thread John Tate
Your right the distinfo file is missing, hell ill just grab the packages. On 6/9/05, Jason Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know php4, both core and extentions builds fine for me in 3.6. Is > there any reason why you're not just using packages? They're all on > the FTP site, including the l

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread alain
make search key= On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 08:19 -0400, Rick Barter wrote: > I've obviously spent too much time away from the console lately. I am > looking for a package and can't, for the life of me, remember how to > find them. > > I know there is a search key option to a command, but I can't

Re: PPPoE Download Performance Woes

2005-06-08 Thread Javier Villavicencio
Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: Kevin wrote: On 6/7/05, Can Erkin Acar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Melameth, Daniel D. wrote: Prior to migrating to DSL, this same card was used for a cable connection and doing more than 1.5Mb/s. This really does not mean much. It could be a negotiation problem.

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Golliher, Blake
I really like to use this. make search key= | grep Path: | grep That output should tell you exactly where to cd to. -Blake -Original Message- From: alain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:51 AM To: Rick Barter Cc: OpenBSD-Misc Subject: Re: i don't *mean*

Re: Eric Raymond about GPL and BSD

2005-06-08 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 10:53 +0300, Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: > original article were in portuguese... > > http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myfreebsd.com.br%2Fmodules.php%3Fname%3DNews%26file%3Darticle%26sid%3D1262&langpair=pt%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Fla

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread STeve Andre'
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 13:21, Golliher, Blake wrote: > I really like to use this. > >make search key= | grep Path: | grep > > That output should tell you exactly where to cd to. > > > -Blake Something I frequently to is cd /usr/ports make print-index > ~steve/pkg_list This makes an i

Problems with X AGP and mouse copy-paste

2005-06-08 Thread Anssi Alhonen
I keep having some very annoying problems with X on a month old current binary snapshot (but I have experienced these problems also on 3.6-release and 3.7-release). 1) When I exit the window manager I some times (maybe every 15-20 logouts) find that xdm won't start but instead X dies and doesn'

ntpd: negative delay (zaurus <-> i386)

2005-06-08 Thread Matthias Kilian
Running ntpd -s on my zaurus, I sometimes (not allways) get log messages like reply from ...: negative delay -0.22 IMHO, potential candidates are (in decreasing order): - a somewhat fishy aue0 on the zaurus (a cheap usb/ethernet adapter that tends to cause lots of "usb errors on in

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Stephen Marley
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:19:58AM -0400, Rick Barter wrote: > I've obviously spent too much time away from the console lately. I am > looking for a package and can't, for the life of me, remember how to > find them. For packages, you'll usually find the file 'index.txt' in the appropriate pack

pthreads question

2005-06-08 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
For a threaded network application I'm developping, I have to watch the number of concurrent connections. I currently use this code: if (curconns < maxconns) { curconns++; } else { pthread_cond_wait(&conns_is_at_max, &useless_mutex); continue; } curconns is decremented by

Re: ntpd: negative delay (zaurus <-> i386)

2005-06-08 Thread Chris Kuethe
Funny you should mention this - I've been poking at my zaurus to see about keeping track of time across power loss. It seems that the RTC is powered from the battery/wall and if there is no power, we lose the RTC. Why oh why couldn't they have stuck in a little wristwatch timer, BACKED BY AN INDEPE

Re: ral(4) not associating with AP on latest snapshot (06.04)

2005-06-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Paulius Bulotas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was able to install 3.7 using wireless without any problems, although > running it after that was quite bumpy experience (panic's because of ral). > It seems, there were some fixes to ral(4), so I installed latest snapshot. > What's strange, that I ma

Best options for a boot CD without union mounting?

2005-06-08 Thread chefren
Ted Unangst wrote at Thu, 26 May 2005 01:16:55 -0400 (EDT) "notice layered mounts are gone". I have understood from all sides the union mount implementation was bad and buggy, so no problem with that. My question is: What are the options for a pretty complete OpenBSD boot-cd without layered mo

3.7 briefly...

2005-06-08 Thread Tom Healy
Well I installed 3.7 last week on an old laptop Friday night to finally check it out. Unfortunately my house got broken into & the laptop was stolen on Sunday. I got to spend about 3 hours with it. Thankfully I had removed the CD from the drive before I left so I still have that. I'd lo

Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-08 Thread Luciano ES
Hi to all. I have been interested in BSD for about a year and have tried all of the three most popular free ones. I would like to start by saying something good: OpenBSD was a very pleasant surprise to me. After trying FreeBSD and NetBSD, I left OpenBSD to the end of the queue because of so many b

Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-08 Thread Luciano ES
I am sorry, I forgot to say that my motherboard is an Asus A7N 266 VM. I am sure that someone will want to know. -- Luciano Espirito Santo Santos, SP - Brasil

Re: Correct Values - Sysctl Variables

2005-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
Anderson Nadal wrote: > Hello. > > What is the correct values for a high load firewall: > > net.inet.tcp.rfc1323 > net.inet.tcp.rfc3390 > > The default values is: > > net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 > net.inet.tcp.rfc3390=0 Generally, use the defaults, unless you have a problem you are trying to fix.

How do I restart sendmail?

2005-06-08 Thread Timothy Horie
I changed some options in the .mc file and rebuilt the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. How do I restart sendmail?

Re: i don't *mean* to be stupid. it just happens. need a refresher...

2005-06-08 Thread Rick Barter
Thanks for the help, everyone. It really is appreciated and helped me a lot today. Thanks, rvb

Re: How do I restart sendmail?

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Crawford
pkill -HUP sendmail kill -HUP `head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` as in, send a SIGHUP to sendmail man 1 kill man 1 pkill Jason On 6/8/05, Timothy Horie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I changed some options in the .mc file and rebuilt the > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. > How do I restart sendmail?

Re: How do I restart sendmail?

2005-06-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 08 June 2005 17:38 -0700, Timothy Horie wrote: I changed some options in the .mc file and rebuilt the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. How do I restart sendmail? Standard unix: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid`

Re: How do I restart sendmail?

2005-06-08 Thread Todd C. Miller
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so spake Timothy Horie (tak): > I changed some options in the .mc file and rebuilt the > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. > How do I restart sendmail? This is what I do (as root): kill -HUP `sed q /var/run/sendmail.pid` Sending SIGHUP to sendmail causes it

Re: How do I restart sendmail?

2005-06-08 Thread Byron Morton
+++ Timothy Horie [Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:38:58PM -0700]: > I changed some options in the .mc file and rebuilt the > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. > How do I restart sendmail? easily: sudo kill -HUP `sudo head -1 /var/run/sendmail.pid` -- byr0n

Re: How do I restart sendmail?

2005-06-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 09 June 2005 02:04 +0100, Timothy Horie, misc@openbsd.org wrote: --On 08 June 2005 17:38 -0700, Timothy Horie wrote: I changed some options in the .mc file and rebuilt the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file. How do I restart sendmail? Standard unix: kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sendmail.pid` ha, a

Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 08 June 2005 21:22 -0300, Luciano ES wrote: Now, the bad thing. Contrasting with the very good experience I had in my tests, I have already installed it three times because of a problem that beats the heck out of me. You certainly have heard about it before: disk: fd0 hd0+ OpenBSD/i386 BO

Re: Correct Values - Sysctl Variables

2005-06-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Nick Holland wrote: > > The default values is: > > > > net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=1 > > net.inet.tcp.rfc3390=0 > > Generally, use the defaults, unless you have a problem you are trying to > fix. You described no problem, so leave 'em alone. especially since neither value will hav

Re: pthreads question

2005-06-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: > For a threaded network application I'm developping, I have to watch > the number of concurrent connections. I currently use this code: > > if (curconns < maxconns) { > curconns++; > } > else { > pthread_cond_wait(&conns_is_at_max, &useless

Re: Weird MAC Address Problem with 3.7 on Dell 600 series

2005-06-08 Thread j knight
--- Quoting eric on 2005/06/07 at 00:18 -0500: > fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > address: 00:02:b3:b1:a8:9a > description: ipv6_if > media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex > status: active > inet6 2001:x:y:z::133 prefixlen 96 > inet6 fe80::202:b3ff:feb1:a

MySQL issues

2005-06-08 Thread John Tate
Hey, I am having trouble with phpBB2 running on my OpenBSD 3.6 machine, it cannot connect to the database (Mysql). I am guessing this is because Apache and phpBB2 are running in a chroot environment and cannot connect to the Mysql Server's socket. What is the best way around this (preferably) with

Re: MySQL issues

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Dixon
On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:10 PM, John Tate wrote: Hey, I am having trouble with phpBB2 running on my OpenBSD 3.6 machine, it cannot connect to the database (Mysql). I am guessing this is because Apache and phpBB2 are running in a chroot environment and cannot connect to the Mysql Server's socket. W

Re: MySQL issues

2005-06-08 Thread Jason Crawford
Well, as long as where ever the mysql unix socket is located is on the same partition as apache, you can just create a hard link for it inside the apache chroot. Another option is to make the mysql server listen on localhost, and have phpBB2 connect via localhost. The benefit to that is that it doe

Re: MySQL issues

2005-06-08 Thread Chris Zakelj
The answer is in the archives ;) Trust me, I'm the one who caused it to be so. Hint: You'll want to create datadir and socket directives in /etc/my.cnf John Tate wrote: Hey, I am having trouble with phpBB2 running on my OpenBSD 3.6 machine, it cannot connect to the database (Mysql). I am gue

compat_&any - Question because the neede files (e.g. for HP-UX copatibility)

2005-06-08 Thread sebastian . rother
I just like to know if it would be possible to store the needed files for compat_$any in the portstree? E.g. what should somebody do who has a HP-UX-Application but no HP-UX to get the needed libaries? :-/ So I thought it would maybe better to create a directory called "compat" in the portstree an

Re: compat_&any - Question because the neede files (e.g. for HP-UX copatibility)

2005-06-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Or is that already a license-violation (e.g. if it deals with HP-UX)? > The compat-modes are nice to migrate but useless if you've just an old > application and no e.g. HP-UX to get the needed files. ask hp to put the files up for download. compat_li

Re: When will halt -p at AMD64 be supported..? ;)

2005-06-08 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does somebody know if OpenBSD 3.8 will support halt -p on AMD-64? depends how many people help with acpi... > Yes I could use OpenBSD i386 but why do we need a AMD64-Version if we use > 64Bit just to support more then 4GB of RAM (even it's not possib

MTU Problem / OpenBSD Newbie

2005-06-08 Thread pug
Hello, it's my first time OpenBSD problem: I setup a network configuration with IPsec and a GRE tunnel. There is an IPsec connection between a local loopback interface (lo1) and a remote loopback interface (dummy0 on a Linux box). The gre interface uses these loopbacks as tunnel src/dest. Followin

Re: Question about OpenBSD start up

2005-06-08 Thread Said Outgajjouft
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 04:06:49PM +0200, Said Outgajjouft wrote: [...] What source file contains the start up code for OpenBSD? What do you mean by "start up"? Boot? Kernel initialization? Userland initialization? I mean