Re: no internet with cable provider (videotron.ca)

--- Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21/03/06 00:56]: > : Hi everyone. I am troubleshooting a client (running OpenBSD 3.8) > who > : cannot connect to a Canadian cable provider (videotron.ca) with > : dhclient. dhclient cannot find a dhcp server. I

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

--- "Donald J. Ankney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I threw together a Perl script that uses tar and external firewire > drives. Tar has flags that will let it backup over SMB (for the > windows > boxes) and one can always do use scp (via certificates) piped through > > tar for remote linux/BSD

Re: no internet with cable provider (videotron.ca)

Thus spake Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21/03/06 01:46]: : > Was the Win2k box connected first? Many (most?) Canadian cable : > providers : > cache the MAC address of the connected machine, and generally : > speaking, : > unplugging the cable modem for five minutes should re-set the cached : > addre

Re: no internet with cable provider (videotron.ca)

Thus spake Peter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [21/03/06 00:56]: : Hi everyone. I am troubleshooting a client (running OpenBSD 3.8) who : cannot connect to a Canadian cable provider (videotron.ca) with : dhclient. dhclient cannot find a dhcp server. Is there anything : special one needs to do besides 'dhc

no internet with cable provider (videotron.ca)

Hi everyone. I am troubleshooting a client (running OpenBSD 3.8) who cannot connect to a Canadian cable provider (videotron.ca) with dhclient. dhclient cannot find a dhcp server. Is there anything special one needs to do besides 'dhclient '? The connection is made instantly when win2k box is co

Re: Install defaults

Thank you, you convinced me that it's not a good idea :) 2006/3/21, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bruno Carnazzi wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Why not use soft update as a default for created file system on > > install ? It seems to be a good practice, no ? > > Well...assuming you: >*

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

Steve Shockley wrote: I disagree with that; from a scalability point of view you don't need your own DNS resolver, but I've found that many ISPs' DNS servers for customer use aren't well-maintained or they're overloaded. Running your own DNS server eliminates this as a possible problem. Ab

Re: OpenBSD finances

I just wanted to remind the community that OpenBSD 3.9 pre-orders are up. I know you saw a blurb from Bob a few days ago and many of you purchased and/or donated some cash, thank you very much for that! The bad news is that OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $20K USD (

OpenBSD finances

I just wanted to remind the community that OpenBSD 3.9 pre-orders are up. I know you saw a blurb from Bob a few days ago and many of you purchased and/or donated some cash, thank you very much for that! The bad news is that OpenBSD for the past 2 years has turned a loss of approximately $2

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Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 00:19, Will H. Backman wrote: > > 2. I don't see a firewall. > > I assume something like a $40 linksys. If your intention is to use OpenBSD why be cheap on the fireqwall and use total garbage? --- Lars Hansson

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 03:02, Peter wrote: > Why is DHCP a bad idea? It isnt, it's usually a very good idea since it makes network management a whole lot simpler. Of course, with only a handfull of machines using a static configuration might not be a big deal but if you have people coming in

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

Will H. Backman wrote: I assume something like a $40 linksys. Might I suggest that if you have budget for an extra computer or an older one laying around (not *too* old if you want decent outgoing internet performance) pop some NICs into it and use pfSense ( www.pfsense.com ) to make it a fire

netstart error

Hello, After updating the source tree through cvs and make build, my system reported errors when starting netstart as followings :- netstart [226] dbteste_error: missing operator (offset -1) netstart [318] dbteste_error: netstart [323] .. I had updated the etc files using mergemaste

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

Check out bacula (www.bacula.org). The list OpenBSD as a client... but I can't see why it wouldn't work as a server as well... (although I personally haven't tried). -- Curt On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:20, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Check out Box Backup, it has win2k and linux clients > > Failing

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

Check out Box Backup, it has win2k and linux clients Failing that, "Karen's Replicator" and a Samba server seem to work for windoze clients Obi Okeke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An appeal to the Gods of OpenBSD! Let me write up > front that I am most grateful for all that the OpenBSD > project ha

Re: How to get crash details onto another system?

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 02:27, Steve Shockley wrote: > viq wrote: > > I'm playing with OpenBSD in a virtual machine (VMWare) on my linux box. > > The box has two CPUs, so every once in a while I try to set the machine > > to have two as well - which every singe time ends in a crash after some > >

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

Smith wrote: I would even consider doing away with dns and point everyone to the isp dns along with using static ip addresses. You only need dns if you anticipate a lot of users making dns queries to the point of affecting your bandwidth or you need a dns server to point the rest of the inter

Re: How to get crash details onto another system?

viq wrote: I'm playing with OpenBSD in a virtual machine (VMWare) on my linux box. The box has two CPUs, so every once in a while I try to set the machine to have two as well - which every singe time ends in a crash after some time. Any hints as to how I could get the trace etc out of it short

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

Smith, I'd highly recommend the HP JetDirect in a small printer like a Laserjet 2x00 series. With 5-10 users and enough RAM in the printer, users won't even notice. They also seem to work well with whatever we throw at them, including OpenBSD (I'll be putting a LJ3500 on the network with an OBSD

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

I would even consider doing away with dns and point everyone to the isp dns along with using static ip addresses. You only need dns if you anticipate a lot of users making dns queries to the point of affecting your bandwidth or you need a dns server to point the rest of the internet to your we

Re: Install defaults

Bruno Carnazzi wrote: Hi all, Why not use soft update as a default for created file system on install ? It seems to be a good practice, no ? Well...assuming you: * Have some extra RAM to spare. * Don't mind added complexity * aren't running on a Sun4c sure, soft updates are a fine

How to get crash details onto another system?

I'm playing with OpenBSD in a virtual machine (VMWare) on my linux box. The box has two CPUs, so every once in a while I try to set the machine to have two as well - which every singe time ends in a crash after some time. Any hints as to how I could get the trace etc out of it short of typing it

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

On 3/21/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amavisd has a very good algorithm for balancing backups. It is, sadly, > otherwise a bit of a pain to get going. I suspect you mean amanda (misc/amanda in ports). Cheers, Rogier -- If you don't know where you're going, any road will get

Re: SCSI disk from an Alpha box, in a Sparc

> I have a disk from an Alpha server that I need to get data from... The > Alpha server no longer boots, and I dont have the time right now to > diagnose the problem. So I took the disk and lashed it into a Sun Ultra60, > which is also running OpenBSD. My problem is that I cant remember all of > th

SCSI disk from an Alpha box, in a Sparc

Hi. I have a disk from an Alpha server that I need to get data from... The Alpha server no longer boots, and I dont have the time right now to diagnose the problem. So I took the disk and lashed it into a Sun Ultra60, which is also running OpenBSD. My problem is that I cant remember all of the deta

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

On Monday 20 March 2006 18:36, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:37:42AM -0800, Donald J. Ankney wrote: > > I threw together a Perl script that uses tar and external firewire > > drives. Tar has flags that will let it backup over SMB (for the windows > > boxes) and one can always

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:02:58PM -0500, Peter wrote: > --- Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Do you usually assign static IPs? > > > > Yes, on a small LAN such as this - why not? It cuts out one bad idea > > (DHCP), and does not have any disadvantages I can see. Ex

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:23:36PM -0500, Will H. Backman wrote: > Will H. Backman wrote: > >Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. > >Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. > >Question: What would an all BSD setup look like? > >Solution that comes t

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:37:42AM -0800, Donald J. Ankney wrote: > I threw together a Perl script that uses tar and external firewire > drives. Tar has flags that will let it backup over SMB (for the windows > boxes) and one can always do use scp (via certificates) piped through > tar for remot

Re: textfile tabstops oder sqlite

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:30:54AM -0800, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 3/20/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > now my question: should i use sqlite or a textfile and awk for this? > > > > Whatever you feel most comfortable with, but databases are not > > necessarily easy to get up in

ipsec.conf with fqdn

I've looked at both the ipsec.conf man page and the "Zero to IPSec in 4 minutes" article and I'm none the wiser about how to define flows using srcid and dstid. Both of those resources blithely say it is possible and never say how, either by example or BNF. Can someone please give a simple explana

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

* Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-20 20:08]: > Why is DHCP a bad idea? it isn't.

Re: X problems with touchpad

>The problem I have is with the touchpad - it is hyper-sensitive, > and my hand brushing the edges of it as I type scrolls my xterms > up and down wildly. I try to keep my hands away from it, but it's > just inevitable. > >Most of the time, I don't even use the touchpad - I prefer to > use

Re: Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

I threw together a Perl script that uses tar and external firewire drives. Tar has flags that will let it backup over SMB (for the windows boxes) and one can always do use scp (via certificates) piped through tar for remote linux/BSD boxes. I've been using this solution across several platforms

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 20:02:24 +, Ste Jones proclaimed... > rogue dhcp servers, broken clients, possible man in the middle attacks > and unauthorised access problems > http://www.networkpenetration.com/dhcp_flaws.html Right, cause that doesn't happen w/o DHCP. Quit spreading FUD.

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

Will H. Backman wrote: Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. Question: What would an all BSD setup look like? Solution that comes to mind: * Single server for DNS, DHCP, LPD, SMTP, IMAP, and home directories.

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

> Why is DHCP a bad idea? > rogue dhcp servers, broken clients, possible man in the middle attacks and unauthorised access problems http://www.networkpenetration.com/dhcp_flaws.html cheers ste

[CVE-2006-0745] X.Org potential privilege elevation and DoS

Hi, The vulnerability in X.Org 6.9 presented in this recent advisory: partially applies to OpenBSD-current. The impact of the vulnerability is limited on OpenBSD thanks to the privilege separation code in the X server. Elevat

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

At 02:02 PM 3/20/2006 -0500, Peter wrote: > Yes, on a small LAN such as this - why not? It cuts out one bad idea > (DHCP), and does not have any disadvantages I can see. Except maybe > that > you need to update the DNS server(s) on all the Windows boxes if it > changes. And yes, that's happened t

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

Peter wrote: --- Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Do you usually assign static IPs? Yes, on a small LAN such as this - why not? It cuts out one bad idea (DHCP), and does not have any disadvantages I can see. Except maybe that you need to update the DNS server(s) on all the

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

--- Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Do you usually assign static IPs? > > Yes, on a small LAN such as this - why not? It cuts out one bad idea > (DHCP), and does not have any disadvantages I can see. Except maybe > that > you need to update the DNS server(s) on all the Win

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:00:49 +0100 Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake: > > >- DHCP is not generally useful, unless you implement ... > > > > Do you usually assign static IPs? > > Yes, on a small LAN such as this - why not? It cuts out one bad idea > (DHCP), and does not have any disadvan

Re: binutils port

On 3/20/06, Niklaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) I was trying to install binutils2.16 from source and it didn't make it > 2) So how do i build binutils 2.16 from source and what is target . Why > 3)I wanted to build gcc without propolice gcc-3.4.6. So what is the target > 6) I saw from the CV

Re: textfile tabstops oder sqlite

On 3/20/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > now my question: should i use sqlite or a textfile and awk for this? > > Whatever you feel most comfortable with, but databases are not > necessarily easy to get up in the face of disaster and your dataset is > so small they do not produce

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:14:04AM -0500, Will H. Backman wrote: > Joachim Schipper wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:53:30AM -0500, Will H. Backman wrote: > > > >>Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. > >>Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. >

Recommendations for an OpenBSD-based Backup Solution

An appeal to the Gods of OpenBSD! Let me write up front that I am most grateful for all that the OpenBSD project has done. Some friends of mine need a backup solution that can easily handle regular, automated backups from some M$ Win 2k and Linux workstations as well as an OpenBSD 3.8 based Samba

Re: crashed

first, you should lock in your logs, situated in /var/logs/. Check the deamon or messages. Then, try "last" command to see who's on your box and who's still in The last but not the least, maybe this could you help to give away any doubts: www.chkrootkit.org. download and install it. then run the

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

I would be interested in the details on that also. Thanks in advance. On 3/20/06, John R. Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will H. Backman wrote: > > Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. > > Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. > > Question

Re: sftp and scp and chroot

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:35:31PM +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > OpenBSD version 3.8 > Architecture i386 > > After having read several man pages and faqs I have found nothing > describing sftp jailed by chroot and scp jailed by chroot. > I am looking for both sftp and scp configurat

Install defaults

Hi all, Why not use soft update as a default for created file system on install ? It seems to be a good practice, no ? Best regards, Bruno.

sftp and scp and chroot

Hello, OpenBSD version 3.8 Architecture i386 After having read several man pages and faqs I have found nothing describing sftp jailed by chroot and scp jailed by chroot. I am looking for both sftp and scp configurations where client users are forced into chroot jails from where they cannot esc

Re: UPEK Fingerprint-Reader (ThinkPad Notebooks)

On 3/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oops, that's a good heads up. I was considering getting an R51. Is that > going to have an unsupported wireless NIC? > > Paul ath0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5212 (IBM MiniPCI)" rev 0x01: cannot map register space I've turned

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

John R. Shannon wrote: Will H. Backman wrote: Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. Question: What would an all BSD setup look like? Solution that comes to mind: * Single server for DNS, DHCP, LPD, SMTP, IM

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

Joachim Schipper wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:53:30AM -0500, Will H. Backman wrote: Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. Question: What would an all BSD setup look like? Solution that comes to mind: *

Re: UPEK Fingerprint-Reader (ThinkPad Notebooks)

-- Original message -- From: "Karsten McMinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 3/19/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > In that sense I am happy too. I don't accept the compromise of vendor > > lock-in, so I am totally thrilled with whatever devices ma

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

Will H. Backman wrote: Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. Question: What would an all BSD setup look like? Solution that comes to mind: * Single server for DNS, DHCP, LPD, SMTP, IMAP, and home directories.

Re: UPEK Fingerprint-Reader (ThinkPad Notebooks)

On 3/19/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In that sense I am happy too. I don't accept the compromise of vendor > lock-in, so I am totally thrilled with whatever devices manage to we > get to work. I abhor vendor driver and documentation runarounds as much as the next bloke, but

Re: crashed

Pretty bad hacker who pwned openbsd box? :) I think just friend who have acess to that machine :) Joachim Schipper wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:54:32PM +0100, Jinxi Cheng wrote: HI, I recently installed openbsd and 2 days back openbsd shutdown byitself. Probably a system crash. I hope it

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:53:30AM -0500, Will H. Backman wrote: > Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. > Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. > Question: What would an all BSD setup look like? > Solution that comes to mind: > * Single server for

Re: crashed

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:54:32PM +0100, Jinxi Cheng wrote: > HI, I recently installed openbsd and 2 days back openbsd shutdown > byitself. Probably a system crash. I hope it is not some one that has > rooted the box and shut it down. Is there any tool to scan the system > to see if it is rooted o

Re: Strange carp issues

It would appear my issues are related to timekeeping on these boxes (Compaq DL360 G1). If I bump advbase to '3' on each box everything is more stable. Given this, I now have a roughly 10 second fail-over time, but that is still acceptable. Since these are production boxes I'll probably wait un

Small office with BSD blueprint

Looking for feedback on a basic blueprint for a small office using BSD. Situation: Small office with maybe five workstations. Question: What would an all BSD setup look like? Solution that comes to mind: * Single server for DNS, DHCP, LPD, SMTP, IMAP, and home directories. * Full install with what

Re: crashed

type: last Jinxi Cheng wrote: HI, I recently installed openbsd and 2 days back openbsd shutdown byitself. Probably a system crash. I hope it is not some one that has rooted the box and shut it down. Is there any tool to scan the system to see if it is rooted or not? best regards -- Jinxi Chen

crashed

HI, I recently installed openbsd and 2 days back openbsd shutdown byitself. Probably a system crash. I hope it is not some one that has rooted the box and shut it down. Is there any tool to scan the system to see if it is rooted or not? best regards -- Jinxi Cheng,

Re: textfile tabstops oder sqlite

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:34:06AM +0100, Marco Fretz wrote: > hello > > i need an a feedback to the following situation: > > i want to script a backup script with bash script. a script that reads a > file / database that contains the backup jobs (remote server, remote > user, remote dir, ...). >

Re: RAIDframe partitioning choices...

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 08:31:42AM +0100, Anthony Howe wrote: > Joachim Schipper wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:36:13PM +0100, Anthony Howe wrote: > >>Joachim Schipper wrote: > --wd0a----wd1a-- > / (bootable)/ (bootable) > /tmp/tmp >

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Re: restore question: is my dump hosed?

On 2006/03/20 03:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i suspect the answer is no, but could i restore a UFS2 dump on a UFS2 > filesystem > using openbsd (avoiding the reinstall of freebsd)? No. OpenBSD doesn't support UFS2 (yet: but see http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20060317204628&mode=exp

Re: restore question: is my dump hosed?

Original message >Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:35:47 -0500 >From: Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: restore question: is my dump hosed? >To: misc@openbsd.org > >Thus spake Joachim Schipper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/03/06 00:34]: >: Provided that you didn't do something strange

Re: bgpd crash in snapshot of Mar 18 when use as route-reflector

Claudio Jeker wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:00:49AM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: I got bgpd crashing and kill itself in current snapshot of March 18. Happen twice so far, but I can't see why yet. Here is the error message I got: Mar 20 01:34:14 vcnam1 bgpd[18551]: fatal in SE: session_dis

textfile tabstops oder sqlite

hello i need an a feedback to the following situation: i want to script a backup script with bash script. a script that reads a file / database that contains the backup jobs (remote server, remote user, remote dir, ...). i think, that file would contain about 10-30 rows. additionally i want to t

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

Hello OpenBSD friends, Just to clarify this post, I would like to say that I have run gnumeric under gdb as I was told. It seems that the crash problem is a libgnomecanvas bug that is solved in the newer versions, so it is a GNOME bug, not OpenBSD packaging problem. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/sho

Re: bgpd crash in snapshot of Mar 18 when use as route-reflector

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 02:00:49AM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > I got bgpd crashing and kill itself in current snapshot of March 18. > > Happen twice so far, but I can't see why yet. > > Here is the error message I got: > > Mar 20 01:34:14 vcnam1 bgpd[18551]: fatal in SE: session_dispatch_imsg

CARP failover behaviour

Hi misc I just have a question regarding carp failover. First I must say that everything is working. I have a lot of different installations at customer sites. But I do have a question regarding the failover back to the master. Example scenario: We have two firewalls with a bunch of interfaces

Re: Remote syslogging

On 3/20/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 01:00:58AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I want to log things remotely (from a consumer-grade router running > > linux that keeps dying on me). I think the proper way to do this is to > > do "syslog

binutils port

Hi, I have a few questions. 1) I was trying to install binutils2.16 from source and it didn't make it because ld had no target. So i tried building i686-unknown-netbsdelf as target , at this point binutils compiled fine but gcc failed saying ld /export/home/cross/i686-unknown-netbsdelf/bin/ld: