multiple nis domain on a single master server: how to manage ?

Dear obsd friends, i would like to configure NIS for handling multiple NIS domains. I would like to know how have you been doing such ? How to add a user only to a given nis domain (i.e., do a specific domain passwd file)? AFAIK, useradd only add to /etc/passwd? How to manage uid/gid and the like

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: d) There are so many patents issued for obvious techniques used in computer peripheral chips that releasing documentation might tempt an ethically challenged company to sue them for royalties. Intel has been on record as stating that patent issues are now a sig

Re: Question About low cost CD's

Dear / Steve This is a Brilliant Idea, but would be the ones I make "I mean the CD's" Like the ones Copyrighted? there must be a difference even in the layout plus this is preventing me from feeling happy with my CD's Posters you know all that fanatic stuff. Any Way will see what pop's up the

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: a) Intel doesn't own the technology, but licensed it from another vendor. The licensing terms don't allow Intel to release full details. b) Intel has agreements with other customers/vendors to not release information about a particular piece of hardware.

Re: NFS mount in /etc/fstab

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:49:57AM +0800, Ikmal Ahmad wrote: > On 10/4/06, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry > >that references a NFS mounted filesystem? > > > >The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine > >NFS server mach

3.9 NFS DoS

Hello, Recently started playing with OBSD. I have the machine setup as a file server at home. It is running NFS, DHCP and DNS. When I try to do large writes to my BSD box (from a SuSE 10.1 client) over NFS, using async I/O (default for mount -t nfs ... on SuSE), it causes a DoS, that is, the NFS

Re: NFS mount in /etc/fstab

On 10/4/06, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry that references a NFS mounted filesystem? The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine NFS server machine is unavailable. how about amd? which will mount automatically when fil

Re: NFS mount in /etc/fstab

> Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry > that references a NFS mounted filesystem? > > The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine > NFS server machine is unavailable. Read mount_nfs(8), there are options that do what you want. Of course understand that whil

NFS mount in /etc/fstab

Can I use the bg, and soft options in a /etc/fstab entry that references a NFS mounted filesystem? The idea is to allow the machine to boot, even if the machine NFS server machine is unavailable. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

On 03/10/06, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) Intel doesn't own the technology, but licensed it from another >vendor. The licensing terms don't allow Intel to release full >details. > > b) Intel has agreements with other customers/vendors to not release >informat

CARP Backup Interfaces

Hi, I have two firewalls running CARP and pfsync for high availability. The physical interfaces do not have IP addresses, only the CARP interface do. The problem is is that the backup CARP interface still needs to be able to source and forward traffic. Is this possible? Nick

Re: annoying openbsd mutt package

On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:02:57 -0500, joerch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:02:21PM +0200, Zoran Kolic wrote: Is there any chance to "touch" that file? Make it and go on. If the app looks for that file, post to mean that you told it so. Could you try to change ".muttrc" for

What machine can I mirror OpenBSD's cvsup tree from

I'd like to set up a local cvsup mirror for OpenBSD, as I have a very slow conection from work. What machine may I do this from? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)

Re: The new 4.0 song(s)

Original message >Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:07:21 +0200 >From: RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: The new 4.0 song(s) >To: misc@openbsd.org > >Yeah! This one will definitely score some chicks! > >Theo de Raadt wrote: >> We have just put up the new songs for 4.0 >> >> There ar

Re: The new 4.0 song(s)

On Oct 3, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Enjoy at http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html Genial! -- Jack J. Woehr Director of Development Absolute Performance, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303-443-7000 ext. 527

Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

> a) Intel doesn't own the technology, but licensed it from another >vendor. The licensing terms don't allow Intel to release full >details. > > b) Intel has agreements with other customers/vendors to not release >information about a particular piece of hardware. > > c) Intel doesn'

Re: The new 4.0 song(s)

Yeah! This one will definitely score some chicks! Theo de Raadt wrote: We have just put up the new songs for 4.0 There are two... well, there is one for 4.0, but there is an extra song that Ty made by himself (without any input from us) specifically for the audio CD. Much to our amusement that

Re: CDROM mounts always on 2nd attempt

> Could the first problem occur if the cd is being mounted while it is > still spinning up, i.e. if you attempt to mount immediately upon > inserting the cd? I could be reading too much into the error message > but that's what it looks like it might(tm) mean. That is exactly what it means.

Re: CDROM mounts always on 2nd attempt

On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:31:55PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: When I mount /dev/cd0c I always get this in dmesg: cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x0 SENSE KEY: Not Ready ASC/ASCQ: Logical Unit Is in Pr

Re: comment /var mount

On 10/2/06, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/2/06, Riley McIntire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/2/06, Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I plan to MFS swap the /var to ramdisk as the following line in fstab: > > > Is there any gotcha if comment out line 258 in /etc/rc to: > > #

Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do whatever you like. I'm simply stating my preference and providing > an alternative setup for people to consider. I don't find receiving > 200+ messages a day from cron jobs running on the network with identical > subject lines to be a particularly g

Re: CDROM mounts always on 2nd attempt

> When I mount /dev/cd0c I always get this in dmesg: > cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x0 > SENSE KEY: Not Ready > ASC/ASCQ: Logical Unit Is in Process Of Becoming Ready > > And this in application: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /mnt/cd > mount_cd9660: /dev

Re: [MAYBE SPAM] Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:06:20PM -0400, Adam wrote: > Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:54:05PM -0400, Adam wrote: > > > Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Suppose your cron jobs don't emit output, which any good job shouldn't > > > >

Re: dmesg timestamps

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:40:38PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > Is it possible to turn on some kind of timestamps or sequence numbers in > dmesg? > When I ocassionally get an error message (uncorrectable error on CD), I would > like to know if I got one recently or not. Difficult to distinguish 1

Re: CDROM mounts always on 2nd attempt

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:31:55PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > When I mount /dev/cd0c I always get this in dmesg: > cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x0 > SENSE KEY: Not Ready > ASC/ASCQ: Logical Unit Is in Process Of Becoming Ready > > And this in applica

The new 4.0 song(s)

We have just put up the new songs for 4.0 There are two... well, there is one for 4.0, but there is an extra song that Ty made by himself (without any input from us) specifically for the audio CD. Much to our amusement that track relates so strongly to the current Intel (open source frauds) situa

Re: FreeBSD Netbackup client on AMD 64 version of OpenBSD?

On 10/3/06, Michael Durket <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Searching via Google it appears that a few people have reported that the FreeBSD version of Veritas Netbackup will run under OpenBSD if FreeBSD emulation is compiled into the kernel. the amd64 platform does not support any emulations.

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:54:05PM -0400, Adam wrote: > > Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Suppose your cron jobs don't emit output, which any good job shouldn't do. > > > > Huh? If you want a task to run on a schedule, and then mail y

Re: ral0 errors

Unfortunately I'm not on location right now, but I'll have the info on the PowerBook card tonight. Thanks! |-Original Message- |From: Damien Bergamini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 12:30 AM |To: Bob Bostwick (Lists) |Cc: misc@openbsd.org |Subject: Re: ral0 err

Re: dmesg timestamps

> Is it possible to turn on some kind of timestamps or sequence numbers in > dmesg? No. > When I ocassionally get an error message (uncorrectable error on CD), I would > like to know if I got one recently or not. Difficult to distinguish 1000 and > 1001 messages of this type in dmesg otherwise.

FreeBSD Netbackup client on AMD 64 version of OpenBSD?

Searching via Google it appears that a few people have reported that the FreeBSD version of Veritas Netbackup will run under OpenBSD if FreeBSD emulation is compiled into the kernel. It is not compiled into the AMD kernel version that I have (OpenBSD 3.7) and in fact, when I turn on the necessa

dmesg timestamps

Is it possible to turn on some kind of timestamps or sequence numbers in dmesg? When I ocassionally get an error message (uncorrectable error on CD), I would like to know if I got one recently or not. Difficult to distinguish 1000 and 1001 messages of this type in dmesg otherwise. CL<

CDROM mounts always on 2nd attempt

When I mount /dev/cd0c I always get this in dmesg: cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x0 SENSE KEY: Not Ready ASC/ASCQ: Logical Unit Is in Process Of Becoming Ready And this in application: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /mnt/cd mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0c on /mnt/cd

Re: OpenNTPD Question/Problem on OpenBSD 3.9 (stable) GENERIC #617 kernel

* Prabhu Gurumurthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-03 19:49]: > There seems to be a lot of jitter on OpenNTPD based machines (i.e DMZ > machines). This prevents the Intranet machines to sync up to the OpenBSD this could happen with machines that have a very bad system clock, i. e. ntpd needsto co

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:54:05PM -0400, Adam wrote: > Damian Wiest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Suppose your cron jobs don't emit output, which any good job shouldn't do. > > Huh? If you want a task to run on a schedule, and then mail you the results, > then cron is exactly what you want.

OpenNTPD Question/Problem on OpenBSD 3.9 (stable) GENERIC #617 kernel

All - This is going to be a long email. My apologies for that! I have a question regarding performance of OpenNTPD vs generic/DaveMills NTPD. Setup: 1. We have 3 machines in our DMZ which act as our primary NTP servers. 2. We have close to 8 machines in our Intranet which act as secondary N

Re: Question About low cost CD's

Dear / Steve You are correct, unfortunately even if the system was first introduced by its "Name" over an embedded device as a firewall appliance or a router, it won't find a room to breath in! becuase they follow here the brands or let me rephrase it they follow the knowen brands. M.Salah

Re: Some recommendations on file locations sought

Will Maier wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:29:56PM -0700, John Draper wrote: Here is what I did... htpasswd -c /var/www/conf/auth/passwd edp < I set the password here > chown root.nogroup /var/www/conf/auth/passwd chmod 640 /var/www/conf/auth/passwd What user/group are you running

Re: NIS server

On 10/3/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] note that at least OpenBSD can authenticate directly against LDAP, using sysutils/login_ldap. Personally, I suspect the OP has a specific interest in implementing NIS. Through NIS, OpenBSD can obtain the information it would otherwis

Re: Question About low cost CD's

M.Salah wrote: I would like to help funding the project but not Like this !! more money goes to the wrong person. You could always make your own CDs or DVDs, and then donate whatever you're comfortable with to the project. That way all the money goes to the project, and there's little cost t

Re: RAIDFrame parity rebuild: why so slow?

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:11:36 +0200 nothingness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using RAIDFrame on OpenBSD since 3.1 and in 4 years I've > never seen any performance improvement in getting the system to work > any faster at rebuilding parity after a hard shutdown. We have us

Re: annoying openbsd mutt package

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:02:21PM +0200, Zoran Kolic wrote: > Is there any chance to "touch" that file? > Make it and go on. > If the app looks for that file, post to mean > that you told it so. Could you try to change > ".muttrc" for that option? I believe that the /var/mail/whoever file is need

Re: Question About low cost CD's

What's more effective in this case is pressuring local vendors so _they_ get to import the CDs. If you prove them there's a reasonable consumer market, then they certainly will try to make the CDs available. Vendors know the process. Vendors can negotiate and get cheaper prices. Vendors can arrang

Re: RAIDFrame parity rebuild: why so slow?

"Jeff Quast" writes: > On 10/3/06, Joerg Zinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:11:36 +0200 > > nothingness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I've been using RAIDFrame on OpenBSD since 3.1 and in 4 years I've > > > never seen any performance improvement

Re: RE: filenames with extra characters like "é,è,ö ..." with rsync

Didier Wiroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, but I already did that, and I currently use this option. ;-) > This options strips/removes the special characters, No, it doesn't. Not in the general case. > isn't it possible to to store the files with the the extra characters? I just tried r

Re: annoying openbsd mutt package

Is there any chance to "touch" that file? Make it and go on. If the app looks for that file, post to mean that you told it so. Could you try to change ".muttrc" for that option? Zoran

Re: Question About low cost CD's

Dear / Siju Your relly hit the point, I relly wish that there is some thing like that "EE". and from my side I see no problem doing it for that part of the world "where I am I mean" What can I say I wish that there was more advertisement for the BSD's in my country! many ppl uses one of the BSD

Re: Serial control of LCD display

On 10/2/06, Peter Bako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to get a CrystalFontz 632 serial display to work with an OpenBSD box. Under Windows I can just connect the display to a com port, run Hyperterminal and send text directly to it, so I assumed that I could just send a data stream to /de

Re: RAIDFrame parity rebuild: why so slow?

On 10/3/06, Joerg Zinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:11:36 +0200 nothingness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using RAIDFrame on OpenBSD since 3.1 and in 4 years I've > never seen any performance improvement in getting the system to work > any faster at r

Re: Question About low cost CD's

On 10/3/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006/10/03 12:25, M.Salah wrote: > I would like to help funding the project but not Like this !! more money > goes to the wrong person. > > so it would be nice to have low cost cd's to be shipped for those out side > USA/Canada especially

Re: ipsec vpn: freebsd and openbsd

IPsec is based on standards (RFCs) while OpenVPN is not (it is based on "standard" SSL, though). I guess the best way to make your mind up is to actually go to the OpenVPN web site (http://openvpn.net/) and read up on it. There's some good info there. Also, a visit on Google with keywords "openv

Bug 5247

I think I have found the cause of bug 5247: . I'm not familiar enough with Lynx' source code to write a patch, but hopefully the following information will make it easier for someone else to do it. A short description of the bu

Re: Deploying isakmp/vpn with PKI

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:51:47PM +0200, carlopmart wrote: > Hi all, > > i need to deploy a PKI Linux based infraestructure, including > authentication (single sign on) for several Linux and OpenBSD servers. > We have two openbsd firewall clusters (3.9) with vpn using isakmpd. Is > it possibl

Re: startting arpwatch port on boot?

stan wrote: What is the prefered way to ave a daemon built from the ports tree (in this case arpwatch) strated at boot time? /etc/rc.local see man 8 rc HTH Fred -- OpenBSD on the Zaurus C3200 http://www.crowsons.net/puters/zaurus.php

Re: startting arpwatch port on boot?

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, stan wrote: What is the prefered way to ave a daemon built from the ports tree (in this case arpwatch) strated at boot time? See rc(8). The "preferred" way is to use rc.local. ex. something as simple as the following should suffice: # start my great deamon if [ -x /usr/lo

Re: NIS server

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 01:30:11AM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > I wonder if some here knows a NIS server (ypserv) that uses openldap > as information source! > > If so, please, let me know. I am desperately searching for a nis > server that uses ldap. This may not be useful, but note that at leas

Re: startting arpwatch port on boot?

On 2006/10/03 07:14, stan wrote: > What is the prefered way to ave a daemon built from the ports tree (in this > case arpwatch) strated at boot time? start it from /etc/rc.local

Re: Question About low cost CD's

On 2006/10/03 12:25, M.Salah wrote: > I would like to help funding the project but not Like this !! more money > goes to the wrong person. > > so it would be nice to have low cost cd's to be shipped for those out side > USA/Canada especially when you have this huge currency exchange rate. This is

startting arpwatch port on boot?

What is the prefered way to ave a daemon built from the ports tree (in this case arpwatch) strated at boot time? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)

Re: annoying openbsd mutt package

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:06:34PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error > i got just after i start it on command line: > > The message is the following: > > /var/mail/grios: No such file or directory (errno = 2) $ echo $MAIL And then

Deploying isakmp/vpn with PKI

Hi all, i need to deploy a PKI Linux based infraestructure, including authentication (single sign on) for several Linux and OpenBSD servers. We have two openbsd firewall clusters (3.9) with vpn using isakmpd. Is it possible to use x509 certs generated on a Fedora Directory Server (I have use

Re: comment /var mount

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:52:50PM +, Ray wrote: > > Don't hack /etc/rc > > > > set the "noauto" flag on /var. that will prevent it from being mounted > > by "mount -a" but "mount /var" will mount it anyway. > > > Thanks Riley! > > I would rather leave rc alone - but found out that using

Re: rebooting failure - dmesg included

On 2006/10/03 17:40, Rod.. Whitworth wrote: > Are there any config changes that are worth trying, any BIOS settings > that might work, any bit of code I can run to bypass the buggy > bios/chipset/whatever ? I had success on one box by changing BIOS settings. I made a couple of likely-looking chang

Question About low cost CD's

Hi all Is there any chance that OpenBSD Author "this goes to Theo right?" Could give the people out Side USA/Canada a low cost cd's? Because starting with me I found that if I purchased the cd sets it would coast me more than they want. Plus they won't benefit from it at all except they had what

Re: RAIDFrame parity rebuild: why so slow?

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:11:36 +0200 nothingness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been using RAIDFrame on OpenBSD since 3.1 and in 4 years I've > never seen any performance improvement in getting the system to work > any faster at rebuilding parity after a hard shutdown. I've tried >

rebooting failure - dmesg included

In the past I have been annoyed by (mostly Intel) mobos that reboot instead of powering down when halt -p is entered. We just tell 'em to halt and then hit the switch at the blue message. Forget sometimes = just one more cycle ;-) BUT now I have found a mobo that does powerdowns just fine. Problem

Re: annoying openbsd mutt package

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:06:34PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > I am using mutt with openbsd. I am getting annoyed by a message error > i got just after i start it on command line: > > The message is the following: > > /var/mail/grios: No such file or directory (errno = 2) [...] > I don'