Re: alix help

2008-09-21 Thread Martin Schmitt
Kendall Shaw schrieb: > If I were able to upgrade the bios, I don't know how I will actually install > openbsd on the disk. Aside from transfering files using Xmodem, what is the > procedure for actually installing an image onto the CF card? I have tried two methods for installing OpenBSD, and

Re: perl/CGI getting SIGSEGV *occasionally*, called by apache in chrooted env

2008-09-21 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 03:40:09AM +0200, Robert Urban wrote: | Hi folks, | | OS Env: OBSD4.3 running on a dual-PIII (ProLiant 380). | | I've got a perl/CGI script doing a bunch of stuff (talking to PostgreSQL, | writing files, etc) which is dying with SIGSEGV, but only occasionally. I'm | unabl

Re: UFS on OpenBSD

2008-09-21 Thread Lars Noodén
Beavis wrote: > thanks for the reply ted... i guess even if i try to forman the drive > on HFS I won't be able to mount it on openbsd. If you have PPC architecture you can work with HFS just fine: http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/powerpc/hfsplus-1.0.4p2.tgz-long.html Regards, -Lars

Re: Limit number of login sessions

2008-09-21 Thread Dorian Büttner
On Sunday 21 September 2008 02:16:58 Maximo Pech wrote: > Hi I'm looking for a way to configure a limit for the maximum number of > simultaneous login sessions for a user. I want to do this for preventing > users to create multiple ssh sessions. I think something similar can be > done trough pf, bu

Re: Limit number of login sessions

2008-09-21 Thread Dorian Büttner
On Sunday 21 September 2008 02:16:58 Maximo Pech wrote: > Hi I'm looking for a way to configure a limit for the maximum number of > simultaneous login sessions for a user. I want to do this for preventing > users to create multiple ssh sessions. I think something similar can be > done trough pf, bu

Re: broken disk?

2008-09-21 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
It seems that it runs fine but I don't get output from the "long" test... Any hint? ?Why? It's very easy: $ smartctl -h -t long /dev/wd0c ... wait the needed time and next $ smartctl -l selftest /dev/wd0c PD. "Adromina" it's a funny name (divertit, vaja) :P -- Thanks, Jordi Espasa Clofent

Re: broken disk?

2008-09-21 Thread Rajneesh N. Shetty
i have a fracture in my spine, does that answer your question? tel : +61431 823 603 'Worry looks around, sorry looks back, faith looks up'. --- On Sun, 21/9/08, Pau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Pau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: broken disk? To: "misc" Received: Sunday, 21 September, 2008,

Re: Can one dd to /dev/rwd0c?

2008-09-21 Thread Pierre Riteau
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 10:28:07PM -0700, Aaron Stellman wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 06:02:37AM +0100, Sunnz wrote: > > OK I am trying to completely erase the data of a hard disk so I though > > I can just do `dd if=/dev/arandom of=/dev/rwd0c` as to my > > understanding that is the entire hard

Re: Can one dd to /dev/rwd0c?

2008-09-21 Thread Sunnz
2008/9/21 Pierre Riteau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Sunnz says he's running off an install CD so he should not run into > problems related to securelevel. I guess he's root too. It is just the official OpenBSD 4.3 CD that I brought, which on start up it asks Install/Upgrade/Shell. I am just using She

Re: alix help

2008-09-21 Thread secucatcher
Le Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:51:23 + (UTC) Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a pris sa plume: > On 2008-09-20, Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I got an alix2c2 which I'm hoping to install openbsd on. Is there > > a way to upgrade it's bios and install openbsd on it from openbsd? >

Re: Help with CARP

2008-09-21 Thread secucatcher
Le Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:18:08 +0200 "Jonathan Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a pris sa plume: > I have it set to (1) on the promary and (100) on the backup. > > How high did you set yours? > > Jonathan mine in test phase is nothing on first and 100 on the second firewall

Re: Can one dd to /dev/rwd0c?

2008-09-21 Thread Johan Ström
On Sep 21, 2008, at 7:02 AM, Sunnz wrote: OK I am trying to completely erase the data of a hard disk so I though I can just do `dd if=/dev/arandom of=/dev/rwd0c` as to my understanding that is the entire hard disk (slice c) of wd0 in 'raw' mode? But that dd refuse to do it. If you just want

Re: alix help

2008-09-21 Thread Vladimir Kirillov
On 12:55 Sun 21 Sep, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > /etc/boot.conf: > set tty com0 > stty com0 38400 I think it's better to set com speed _before_ setting com0 as tty, it can start throwing garbage into console, as it was spectated on soekris net4801: stty com0 38400 set tty com0 ... -- Vladimir K

Re: alix help

2008-09-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/09/21 12:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Le Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:51:23 + (UTC) > Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a pris sa plume: > > > On 2008-09-20, Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I got an alix2c2 which I'm hoping to install openbsd on. Is there > > > a way to upgra

Re: broken disk?

2008-09-21 Thread Pau
Hi Jordi, thanks. I have looked also in the bios. SART is enabled per default. It seems that the disk is fine. Could it be the RAM? How to test? Pau # /usr/local/sbin/smartctl -d ata -t long /dev/wd0c smartctl version 5.37 [i386-unknown-openbsd4.3] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is

New scheduler, same problem (ALTQ questions)

2008-09-21 Thread Chris McGee
Hi guys- I've been using an OpenBSD firewall on my home network for about 10 years. I recently upgraded the hardware to a retired gaming machine and went to OpenBSD 4.3 (woo!). I'm playing with the new scheduler in altq, and I like the way that it works, but the documentation is iffy a

Re: alix help

2008-09-21 Thread secucatcher
Le Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:49:49 +0100 Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a pris sa plume: > what, upgrading the bios from openbsd? nop just install openbsd for the bios i don't remenber exactly it was easy for what i remenber

OpenBSD + isakmpd + VPN concentrator 3060

2008-09-21 Thread Mariusz Makowski
Hello, Firstly i want to mention that it's my begining with ipsec/isakmpd tunneling. My problem is about making connection from OpenBSD 4.3 to Cisco VPN concentrator 3060. Cisco concentrator is out of my range so i can't check log there and i only wish that configuration there is done well. H

Re: UFS on OpenBSD

2008-09-21 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Lars Noodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beavis wrote: >> thanks for the reply ted... i guess even if i try to forman the drive >> on HFS I won't be able to mount it on openbsd. > > If you have PPC architecture you can work with HFS just fine: > http://www.openbsd.o

Re: Can one dd to /dev/rwd0c?

2008-09-21 Thread Sunnz
2008/9/21 Johan StrC6m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > If you just want to erase the disk securely and don't really need to run > OpenBSD, check out http://www.dban.org/ > > -- > Johan > Oh I just thought that I have OpenBSD CD lying around, but thanks that seem like a good tool for my personal "utilit

Re: alix help

2008-09-21 Thread Andrew Konkol
Whatever you do, do NOT attempt to update bios by sending a file over a console session. Screwed up my bios and had to have pc engines send me a "rescue" bios chip and bootable cf card. Once obtaining the latest bios I just plugged in a cf to ide converter and continued as if it was a normal inst

Re: broken disk?

2008-09-21 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
thanks. I have looked also in the bios. SART is enabled per default. It seems that the disk is fine. Could it be the RAM? How to test? Could be. A deep memtest test should be enough. -- Thanks, Jordi Espasa Clofent

Re: OpenBSD + isakmpd + VPN concentrator 3060

2008-09-21 Thread Mariusz Makowski
Mariusz Makowski wrote: Hello, Firstly i want to mention that it's my begining with ipsec/isakmpd tunneling. My problem is about making connection from OpenBSD 4.3 to Cisco VPN concentrator 3060. Cisco concentrator is out of my range so i can't check log there and i only wish that configura

Re: Can one dd to /dev/rwd0c?

2008-09-21 Thread bofh
Afaik, erasing a disk 7x7 times using a truly random source of entrophy, using the proton decay multiplexed with the frequency of solar flares on alpha centauri, and just dd'ing /dev/zero to the drive *ONE* time makes no difference to data retrieval/forensics. Please kill this urban legend about t

Re: Can one dd to /dev/rwd0c?

2008-09-21 Thread Johan Ström
I can't say that I know if that is true or not, but I do however know that it is probably easier to slap a DBAN CD in to a drive and press enter to make it wipe my disks, compared to start up OpenBSD from CD and perform dd operations (depending on what you got at hand). But if it makes any ac

Re: broken disk?

2008-09-21 Thread ropers
2008/9/21 Jordi Espasa Clofent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> thanks. I have looked also in the bios. SART is enabled per default. >> It seems that the disk is fine. >> >> Could it be the RAM? How to test? > > Could be. > A deep memtest test should be enough. Apologies if you already know this and/or did

Re: perl/CGI getting SIGSEGV *occasionally*, called by apache in chrooted env

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Urban
Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 03:40:09AM +0200, Robert Urban wrote: > | Hi folks, > | > | OS Env: OBSD4.3 running on a dual-PIII (ProLiant 380). > | > | I've got a perl/CGI script doing a bunch of stuff (talking to PostgreSQL, > | writing files, etc) which is dying with SIGSEGV,

making man(1) to open a file

2008-09-21 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
Hi! I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :) Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it conflicts w

Re: making man(1) to open a file

2008-09-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-09-21, LIVAI Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, > like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening > net-snmp package's snmpd(8) or snmpd.conf(5) man page, because it > conflicts with the base'

Re: making man(1) to open a file

2008-09-21 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:22:24PM +0200, LIVAI Daniel wrote: >I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :) >Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, >like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening >net-snmp pac

eSATA support?

2008-09-21 Thread Brian
I'm thinking about picking up an eSATA pci card and backing up my data to an external hd over eSATA using rsync. Is this supported? Thanks, Brian

Re: making man(1) to open a file

2008-09-21 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
On Sunday 21 September 2008 21.51.48 Hannah Schroeter wrote: > No, but in your case, you can use the option -M /usr/local/man (or -m > /usr/local/man) probably. > On Sunday 21 September 2008 21.45.59 Stuart Henderson wrote: > man -M /usr/local/man snmpd Argh, thanks, thanks! Sorry, I knew I read i

Re: Help with CARP - more advice needed

2008-09-21 Thread Jonathan Carter
Just so the newsgroup knows - I tried this and I still have the problem, so suggestions with commands / techniques for debugging my problem would be gratefully received. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21

Re: making man(1) to open a file

2008-09-21 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:22:24PM +0200, L?VAI D?niel wrote: | Hi! | | I think there is a way for this but I can not find it in man's man :) | | Like in Linux there is a `-l' option to man(1) which opens a Local file, | like man -l /usr/local/man/man1/somemanpage.1. I'm in trouble opening | ne

Getting the Thinkpad X200 working fully under OpenBSD

2008-09-21 Thread Robert
Hi all, got me a Thinkpad X200. Not everything is supported right now. Lots of this stuff might apply to any Centrino 2 notebook. This mail is more like a headsup for those looking into running OpenBSD on the newer Thinkpads. dmesg (amd64 GENERIC.MP, snapshot 2008-09-10) at the bottom of this mai

Re: Can one dd to /dev/rwd0c?

2008-09-21 Thread Sunnz
The original question was really asking where to write to, that is, rwd0c vs. wd0c; the source that was used in the example (urandom/arandom) wasn't any kind of "true random" entropy anyway, AFAIK, they are non-blocking pseudo-random stuff that the kernel spills out... I mean, as far as usability

Re: Getting the Thinkpad X200 working fully under OpenBSD

2008-09-21 Thread Neal Hogan
Fyi -- Similar issues with a new T400. The dmesg is below (I had a better/cleaner dmesg with an i386/4.4 install (09/10/2008)). OpenBSD 4.4-current (RAMDISK_CD) #882: Wed Sep 10 12:33:01 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P860

Need Help badly - PF related

2008-09-21 Thread Parvinder Bhasin
I have users that can access the website fine (75.44.229.18) and some user that complain they can't access it. I don't know what gives. I have asked on the list for help but haven't still resolved this. I would really appreciate any help. Why is the user in the below pflog getting bloc

Re: pf to block against DDoS?

2008-09-21 Thread Redd Vinylene
> > > > From: Redd Vinylene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: pf to block against DDoS? > > > > Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 3:23 pm > > > > > > > > Hello hello! > > > > > > > > I was quite shocked today when I heard I could use pf to b

Re: pf to block against DDoS?

2008-09-21 Thread Redd Vinylene
> > > > From: Redd Vinylene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: pf to block against DDoS? > > > > Date: Thursday, September 4, 2008 - 3:23 pm > > > > > > > > Hello hello! > > > > > > > > I was quite shocked today when I heard I could use pf to b

PPTP stopped working, need a little help

2008-09-21 Thread Steve B
I spent the evening reworking my pf.conf file in order to get AltQ working. I successfully have that working, but somewhere along the line I broke PPTP and can no longer connect back to the office. I have compared by old and new pf.conf files but have not quite found the problem. I also ran a tcpdu

Re: eSATA support?

2008-09-21 Thread Damien Miller
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Brian wrote: > I'm thinking about picking up an eSATA pci card and backing up my data > to an external hd over eSATA using rsync. Is this supported? eSATA is a conector, cable and electrical specification and otherwise is identical to regular SATA. If the particular adapter's