kerberos questions

2006-04-29 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i've got a single kerberos server for 2 realms with most of the configuration i want. there are a few things i still need clarification on: (1) cross-realm authentication; this is discussed in the info page for heimdal where the following is printed: "For a two way trust between MY.REALM and OTHE

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Eric Furman
--- Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can tell someone who has spent too long with > Windows, they are the ones > bragging about "uptime", thinking it is a wonderful > and shocking thing when > you go over a year without rebooting. Uh..what was > supposed to happen? Can you imagine if

Re: problem with LSI Fibre Channel MPT AMD64 OpenBSD 3.9-current

2006-04-29 Thread Marco Peereboom
Yes. Got several offers and should be getting cables next week. Thanks to everyone who contacted me off list :-) Diana Eichert wrote: On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Marco Peereboom wrote: So I really meant SC->LC. Marco Did anyone ever pony up a cable for you? diana

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:31:42PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > And nice to see that OpenBSD is REALLY the only open source project that > really stick to their goals days in days out! I had a recent conversation that confirmed this for me. I was talking with people from different perspectives

Re: priv sep in syslogd

2006-04-29 Thread Damien Miller
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Brian wrote: > I am in the process of making syslogd more protocol independent (IPv4 > & IPv6). I am just about ready to add a priviledged fuction for > getnameinfo, but what I do not understand is why the the DNS lookups > are priviledged separated. I do understand the securi

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread prad
On April 29, 2006 02:08 pm, Nick Holland wrote: > I've been watching them try to make programming "easier" and faster for > almost thirty years > this is one of the most thorough and enlightening posts i have seen on any forum or maillist!! truly filled with aphoristic wisdoms! i very much a

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Tony
prad wrote: [snip] > (curiously, i've found on my system at least that some > things seem > to work faster on openbsd than freebsd.) > Shouldn't be a surprise, really. Efficiency is really more a case of never being too inefficient rather that occasionally being very efficient. (ie hard.) Anythi

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Nick Holland wrote: Stability should "just be": The natural result of quality code. Only cut to make it short, but all great stuff. It's a funny thing about goals. Lots of people have 'em, few people live by 'em, or will quickly compromise them for the most trivial of things. Which of co

Re: Toshiba Laptop keyboard issue

2006-04-29 Thread sec0 sec0
it worked, thanks for the tip :)

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Nick Holland
prad wrote: On April 29, 2006 02:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The state of the art of computer science has gone (steadily?) downhill for the last 30 (maybe 40) years. The computers are bigger and faster, but the knowedge of what to do with them has decayed. There are a few pockets of resista

nfs mount

2006-04-29 Thread Bachman Kharazmi
I try to mount a nfs share over internet between two openbsd servers. As faq describes rpcinfo -p on server should show that mountd listen at "udp: 633 and tcp: 916" But I get, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ > rpcinfo -p program vers proto port 102 tcp111 portmapper 102 u

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Henning Brauer
* prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-29 21:30]: > openbsd, on the other hand, doesn't even mention performance or stability in > its goals. (curiously, i've found on my system at least that some things seem > to work faster on openbsd than freebsd.) well, stability is a prerequisite to beeing use

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread prad
On April 29, 2006 02:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The state of the art of computer science has gone (steadily?) downhill > for the last 30 (maybe 40) years. > The computers are bigger and faster, but the knowedge of what to do with > them has decayed. > > There are a few pockets of resistance

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread js
2006/4/29, Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: js wrote: > I don't want to start holy war, but just out of curiosity. OpenBSD is, like FreeBSD, much advanced over BSD4.4, so the BSD4.4 book is not completely useful for hacking on OpenBSD or FreeBSD. But the FreeBSD book describes how *FreeBSD*

Re: openbsd on root-server?

2006-04-29 Thread Christian Pedaschus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:34:16AM +0200, Christian Pedaschus wrote: > > >>i'm trying since a few hours to get 3.8 on a (linux-based) root-server, >>without success. >> >> > >Use -current... otherwise the ServerWorks stuff doesn't gets detected. > > > > Will try i

iSCSI support

2006-04-29 Thread Fulvio Picecchi
Hi, I'd like to know if OpenBSD dev team is interested or is planning to include iSCSI support in source tree. I know that NetBSD has recently implemented a Target iSCSI support (not Initiator), but NetBSD is not OpenBSD... Thanks Fulvio

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread D. E. Evans
The state of the art of computer science has gone (steadily?) downhill for the last 30 (maybe 40) years. The computers are bigger and faster, but the knowedge of what to do with them has decayed. That time would it put it at about 1974, when the altair came out, and home users got to b

Re: Pf behaviour

2006-04-29 Thread Ted Strzalkowski
The best way to troubleshoot PF issues is to turn on logging and read the log. This will show you exactly what rule is catching your packets. Then you can debug easily from there. And also keep in mind the magic way to troubleshoot PF: "Think like PF. Be PF." That is all. Alex Stamatis w

Pf behaviour

2006-04-29 Thread Alex Stamatis
Hallo Misc ! I have a problem with the Pf. I dont understand why but for some reason it wont let ports 80 - 15352 pass even though I have set it up n the configuration. Its been done according to the faq and pfctl -nf doesnt return any errors at all !!! Also NAT in the internal network and all co

Re: quad de, flakiness with 3.9

2006-04-29 Thread Martin Reindl
David Terrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrading to 3.9 I've been having a problem with flakiness from > my older PCI quad ethernet card. de3 here is a dhcp interface (crappy > SBC DSL), de2 and de1 are internal (wired and wireless). > > the symptoms of failure are that de3 will stop s

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread js
2006/4/29, Aaron Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: compare OpenBSD's goals with the FreeBSD project's goals and you should be able to understand why Theo said what he said. aaron.glenn p.s. the offer still stands for a trade, so far no takers )-: I read both project's goals, however it is not enoug

Re: openbsd on root-server?

2006-04-29 Thread janus
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:34:16AM +0200, Christian Pedaschus wrote: > i'm trying since a few hours to get 3.8 on a (linux-based) root-server, > without success. Use -current... otherwise the ServerWorks stuff doesn't gets detected. With kind regards Simon

Re: priv sep in syslogd

2006-04-29 Thread Henning Brauer
* Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-29 08:17]: > I am just about ready to add a priviledged fuction for getnameinfo, but what I > do not understand is why the the DNS lookups are priviledged separated. because getnameinfo requires access to /etc/resolv.conf, maybe /etc/hosts, maybe YP maps and s

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Tony
js wrote: > > 2006/4/28, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I wonder why http://www.openbsd.org/books.html still recommend old > > > daemon book, The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating > > > System? > > > As most of you know, there's newer version, The Design and > > > Implem

Re: openbsd on root-server?

2006-04-29 Thread Holger Mauermann
Christian Pedaschus wrote: > i'm trying since a few hours to get 3.8 on a (linux-based) root-server, > without success. I googled some tutorials (for ex. > http://wiki.bsd-crew.de/index.php?title=Strato-Rootserver_mit_NetBSD&redirect=no) > but they don't seem to work > ... > Anybody got a better wa

Re: install pfstat

2006-04-29 Thread Lukasz Sztachanski
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:29:12PM +0700, riwanlky wrote: > hi, > > I am trying to install pfstat in my OpenBSD 3.8 box, I am new in Unix-like > OS, > I need to know how to compile the pfstat. > > Many thanks in advance. > pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.8/packages/`uname -m`/pfstat

Re: cyrus, sasl and /etc/passwd

2006-04-29 Thread Per-Olov Sjöholm
On Saturday 29 April 2006 02.00, John Brahy wrote: > How do I configure cyrus imapd to retrieve mail from normal unix mailboxes > and validate against the unix password? I have been trying to find info on > it and I can't find anything that works with v2.2.12 from 3.8 ports. Can > someone point me

install pfstat

2006-04-29 Thread riwanlky
hi, I am trying to install pfstat in my OpenBSD 3.8 box, I am new in Unix-like OS, I need to know how to compile the pfstat. Many thanks in advance.

Re: openbsd on root-server?

2006-04-29 Thread Christian Pedaschus
This is the same like the wiki.bsd-crew Howto (Dettus) from my initial mail. I tried 3 different Howtos (including the depenguinator) and lots of ideas i had, all with the same result: "Booting from Disk..." and then nothing more. I'm quite sure that the kernel does not boot and some posts i found

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Lim
On 4/29/06, Aaron Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: p.s. the offer still stands for a trade, so far no takers )-: pls... Try the freebsd mailing lists instead. :) -jf

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 4/29/06, js <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't want to start holy war, but just out of curiosity. compare OpenBSD's goals with the FreeBSD project's goals and you should be able to understand why Theo said what he said. aaron.glenn p.s. the offer still stands for a trade, so far no take

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread js
2006/4/28, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wonder why http://www.openbsd.org/books.html still recommend old > daemon book, The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating > System? > As most of you know, there's newer version, The Design and > Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating

Re: OU812

2006-04-29 Thread Shane J Pearson
On 2006.04.29, at 4:43 PM, Greg Thomas wrote: Wow, I guess we had to be there. Something like that. With only a few sleeps to go, some people are feeling silly for Puffy. It seems that a little silliness helps to fight against the sad seriousness of what OpenBSD is up against... http:/