pkg_add ambiguous description in FAQ 15 ?

2007-08-25 Thread Uwe Dippel
Wanting to find out which packages needed an update, I referred to FAQ 15: "Invoking pkg_add(1) with the -u flag and no package name will just examine all installed packages for updated versions." This results here in # pkg_add -u Candidates for updating bzip2-1.0.4 -> bzip2-1.0.4 bzip2-1.0.3

Help with Altell PC6700

2007-08-25 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
hello misc@ I am in a bit of a time crunch and I am looking for help. it seems Windows Update screwed over a bunch of our laptops somehow(gee go figure) now remote desktop has some sort of a weird screen update problem that I can't seem to fix.(spent Thursday and Friday on it) (you type and it nev

Qemu networking help

2007-08-25 Thread Allie Daneman
So I recently installed Qemu w/XP on my 4.1 box and am having a bear of a time getting pf and the networking going. I've tried the undeadly howto and another on the Qemu forum to no avail. Can anyone share their qemu ifup script, how they run it, and the important parts of their pf.conf to get i

OpenBGPd, Kernel Routing Table, Carp and Next-Hop

2007-08-25 Thread Falk Brockerhoff
Hi, I just trapped into a little bug within the combination of OpenBGPd, Carp and the "depend on" directive. I'm using the latest OpenBSD 4.2 snapshot on i386. When I configure the eBGP session without any carp interface the kernel routing table got the right next-hop: my eBGP neighbor. Same conf

Re: Radeon X1300 mobile + WXGA - out of luck?

2007-08-25 Thread Adriaan
On 8/25/07, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I just got a laptop (Acer Aspire 5100 `series') with a Radeon video card > (X1300) and a WXGA screen - 1200x800. It was a good deal, but the ATI > video card had me worried. > > Am I correct in thinking that there is no way to ge

Re: Compiling Release Patches

2007-08-25 Thread Clint Pachl
Darren Spruell wrote: On 8/25/07, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The reason for this is that I can use a single build machine running the current release, and two source trees, current and previous. [1] Well, it usually does, but it can break in interesting ways that are dif

Re: Compiling Release Patches

2007-08-25 Thread Darren Spruell
On 8/25/07, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The reason for this is that I can use a single build machine running the > >> current release, and two source trees, current and previous. > > [1] Well, it usually does, but it can break in interesting ways that are > > difficult to fix. > > J

Energy saving AMD 64 X2 EE CPU possible?

2007-08-25 Thread James Lepthien
Hi, I run my OpenBSD 4.1-stable firewallsystem on a System which is way oversized for my needs. I want this system to consume as little power as possible so I need your advices. I started the apmd with the option -C but the apm output is the following: Battery state: unknown, 0% remaining,

Re: Compiling Release Patches

2007-08-25 Thread Clint Pachl
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:31:32PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: djgoku wrote: On 8/24/07, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can one reliably compile 4.0 release patches on a 4.1 release system? Is there some patches that aren't in 4.1?

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-25 Thread Kevin Stam
The default system can run graphics adequately. So can pdaXrom, and OpenZaurus/Angstrom, or the Cacko ROM. These OS's burden the Zaurus less then OpenBSD does. There are ways to improve speed, however.d If you're expecting to run KDE or GNOME with 10 open windows, good luck with that. If you use mu

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-25 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/25/07, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm, on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:04:29AM -0400, Nick Guenther said that > > The battery life is 7 hours (12 if you pull magic hax of making the > > screen turn off when not in use and compulsively put it in standby > > most of the time) and a

Re: calling firefox from mutt

2007-08-25 Thread Allie Daneman
No problem /etc/urlview.conf COMMAND ~/.mutt/mozilla.sh ~/.mutt/mozilla.sh #!/bin/sh URL=$@ /usr/local/bin/firefox -remote "openurl($URL, new-tab)" || /usr/bin/firefox "$URL" ###/usr/local/bin/mozilla -remote "openurl($URL, new-tab)" || /usr/local/bin/mozilla "$URL" Enjoy Chris([EMAIL

Re: Compiling Release Patches

2007-08-25 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:31:32PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: > djgoku wrote: >> On 8/24/07, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Can one reliably compile 4.0 release patches on a 4.1 release system? >>> >> >> Is there some patches that aren't in 4.1? If so that seem really weird >>

Re: Securing syslog in insecure mode (syslog -u )

2007-08-25 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 10:17:30AM +0300, Lars Nood??n wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:31:20PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > > i expect he means push syslog messages to the log server with encryption, > > e.g. tunnel through ssh, etc. > > That's vaguely what I was wondering, but there see

calling firefox from mutt

2007-08-25 Thread Chris
Not sure if it's OpenBSD related but I'm using urlview v0.9 with mutt v1.5.12 and firefox v2.0.0.3 on OpenBSD 4.1. My window manager is wmii. I just put the following line in my /home/me/.urlview and nothing in .muttrc or anywhere else. When I go to mutt and press CTRL-b, it shows the url list and

Re: IPSEC openBSD<->LANCOM

2007-08-25 Thread Martin Hedenfalk
On 8/23/07, Christoph Leser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I tried ( and failed ) to set up an IPSEC Tunnel to a LANCOM VPN Router in a > somewhat special constellation: > > main mode is ok > > quick mode negotiated successfully and established the following flow: > > # ipsecctl -s flow >

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-25 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:04:29AM -0400, Nick Guenther said that > The battery life is 7 hours (12 if you pull magic hax of making the > screen turn off when not in use and compulsively put it in standby > most of the time) and a lot less with a wifi card in. 7h is not that bad compared to a

Re: Securing syslog in insecure mode (syslog -u )

2007-08-25 Thread Lars Noodén
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 04:31:20PM -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > i expect he means push syslog messages to the log server with encryption, > e.g. tunnel through ssh, etc. That's vaguely what I was wondering, but there seems to be a risk that the messages might not get through. It would be le

Re: Securing syslog in insecure mode (syslog -u )

2007-08-25 Thread Lars Noodén
Darren Spruell wrote: > Would be good to know what is meant by "securing", as in "what exact > sense of security are you trying to address?" I was thinking specifically of injection of false messages or flooding the logs. But I'm sure there is plenty of other mischief that I have not thought of.