Setuid changes - kern.maxfiles issue?

2008-07-04 Thread Alexander Hall
Hi! I just got a daily insecurity output indicating a shitload of setuid changes. A few setuid deletions and a whole lot of rows where the only change is that the group name is replaced with the numeric group id. After examining and carefully entering the server (ssh -xa), I came to the conc

Re: cdio: The media doesn't support blanking

2008-07-04 Thread Rafal Brodewicz
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 03:29:56PM -0401, Jim Dew wrote: > Seriously though, what I'm thinking is you've got a 6x+ cdrw in the > laptop, > a 6x+ cdrw piece of media, and a 1-4x cdrw drive in the desktop Hmm. The problem is that I have quite new laptop with 24x drive. I've made test with two cdrw's

Re: An Introduction to OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Dimitri
some ideas. Read "THE HOLE HAWG OF OPERATING SYSTEMS" chapter in the book "In the Beginning was the Command Line" by Neal Stephenson. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/command.zip It is an explain of unix and BSD power. this can help you. regards. Dimitri.- http://es.geocities.com/trichotecene/ Ope

Re: bundling the speed of two ADSL lines with OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Vinicius Vianna wrote: > ... take a look at > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Multipath ... > ... Remember that you will be splitting the outgoing connections > between the two gateways (adsl lines in your case), so a single > connection will have the bandwidth of only one

Re: wi(4) device timeouts on macppc and zaurus 4.4-beta

2008-07-04 Thread marius
FWIW, rolling back if_wi.c back to revision 1.138 and building a new kernel did not change anything. Marius On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:03 PM, marius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Both my G3 ibook and Zaurus SL-C3200 are getting device timeouts using > wi(4) (built-in airport card and a compa

Re: An Introduction to OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 05:01:46PM +0200, raven wrote: > i want to make a presentation to introduce OpenBSD into the public of > my university. Someone can give me ideas to capture the public? Most > of my public work with linux, so i think i have to spent some words > into the difference between l

Re: cdio: The media doesn't support blanking

2008-07-04 Thread Rafal Brodewicz
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:19:54PM +0200, Rafal Brodewicz wrote: > I'm using 4.4 snapshots on both machines. > > dmesg: > OpenBSD 4.3-current (GENERIC) #1: Thu Jul 3 22:54:30 CEST 2008 Sorry, I've attached wrong dmesg. OpenBSD 4.4-beta (GENERIC) #2: Fri Jul 4 18:48:52 CEST 2008 [EMAIL PROTE

Re: An Introduction to OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Siju George
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:07 PM, raven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I already see that link, but i want to have ideas from misc guys, and...that > link contain specific things about openbsd. > I think to start easy with that people :) >>> > Hi, I gathered this 3 years back but there are so many

cdio: The media doesn't support blanking

2008-07-04 Thread Rafal Brodewicz
Hello. I can't blank cd on i386, and getting: "cdio: The media doesn't support blanking" message. Same cd blanks with no problem on amd64 laptop. Don't know if it's cd drive or platform issue. I don't have other drive to test it. I'm using 4.4 snapshots on both machines. dmesg: OpenBSD 4.3-curre

Re: ATTENTION: anyone using the the X driver for any ati card

2008-07-04 Thread Ian Lindsay
vga1 at pci1 dev 5 function 0 "ATI Radeon X1250" rev 0x00 The default AccelMethod is apparently still XAA (even though it says it's "unsupported" and to "please use EXA instead"). Since this is an IGP, the optimal MigrationHeuristic is probably "never", but "greedy" seems to be the best approxima

Re: 4.3 constantly hangs on MS Virtual Server

2008-07-04 Thread Steve Shockley
Tomas Bodzar wrote: I'm trying to setup 4.3 release on MS Virtual Server 1.1.603.0 EE R2 SP1. PC running MS Virtual Server is : Vista Enterprise 64bit SP1 See if this patch makes a difference: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=A79BCF9B-59F7-480B-A4B8-FB56F42E3348&display

Re: An Introduction to OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread raven
Hi Martial NDEKO, Martial NDEKO ha scritto: Hi Raven, [snap] Have a look here http://www.openbsd.org/papers/ you'll probably find what you need. I already see that link, but i want to have ideas from misc guys, and...that link contain specific things about openbsd. I think to start

Re: An Introduction to OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Martial NDEKO
Hi Raven, On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:01:46 +0200, wrote: > Hi guys, > i want to make a presentation to introduce OpenBSD into the public of my > university. Someone can give me ideas to capture the public? Most of my > public work with linux, so i think i have to spent some words into the >

An Introduction to OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread raven
Hi guys, i want to make a presentation to introduce OpenBSD into the public of my university. Someone can give me ideas to capture the public? Most of my public work with linux, so i think i have to spent some words into the difference between linux and OBSD. Ideas? Francesco

Re: bundling the speed of two ADSL lines with OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Nick Gustas
Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: Hi, Vinicius Vianna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, It's possible using multipath, take a look at http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Multipath please. But I needed to use some pf "route-to" rules to re-route the packets between the multiple gateways. It takes

Re: bundling the speed of two ADSL lines with OpenBSD

2008-07-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-07-04, Sebastian Reitenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For a single TCP connection, you mean? I think that would either >> have to involve the ISP (though most won't touch this sort of thing), >> or a colo box and creative use of tunnels and multipath routing. > > yep, I'll have more or

Re: openbsd with cf

2008-07-04 Thread secucatcher
like me with a sata to CF adapter but it stop here: pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21 wd0c: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0), retrying wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout type: ata c_bcount: 512 c_skip: 0 pciide0:0:0: bus-master

nfsroot hangs after reloading pf

2008-07-04 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, when i do a # pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf on my diskless (nfsroot) 4.3-stable machine, the machine hangs and needs a hard reset. The interface used for nfsroot is xl0 and i have set skip on {lo0 xl0} in my pf.conf. The machine boots and runs fine with the ruleset enabled, but as soon a