Re: Using a separate boot partition

2008-11-14 Thread Janne Johansson
Stuart Henderson wrote: I'm backing ben here : OpenBSD / should be small enough to fit it entirely into a boot partition. /etc/{master.,}passwd and /etc/{s,}pwd.db can grow pretty large on some systems... # wc -l /etc/passwd 118993 # ls -lh /etc/*db -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel75.2M Nov

Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
Hi I use the dump script of openbsdsupport.org to backup the internal SATA disk of my soekris to an external USB disk. snip DUMP: 197357941 tape blocks DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Nov 13 23:03:31 2008 DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Fri Nov 14 09:25:20 2008 DUMP: Volume 1 took

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Lars Noodén
Tom Van Looy wrote: ... to an external USB disk... Is it slower than the USB is *supposed* to be? USB is not fast. Regards -Lars

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
Is it slower than the USB is *supposed* to be? USB is not fast. The external disk is a: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=333 It has: Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0) 480 Mbits/s (Max) The soekris port is 2.0 capable usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0. I'm getting an

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-11-14, Tom Van Looy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The script did a level 0 dump of my /strg mountpoint to /backup yesterday. But, I think this is really slow. What should I be looking at? a faster machine?

openbgpd bgplg ping and traceroute do not work

2008-11-14 Thread Ivo Chutkin
Hello misc, I cannot get ping and traceroute working with bgplg on 4.4 stable. Both show failed on the web interface. Everything else works perfect. I followed man pages and checked everything many times and there is no log entries for any errors. I appreciate your help, Ivo

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Simen Stavdal
Hi Lars, The USB 2.0 Specification says max 480Mbps, and is to be considered a theroretical max. This equates to about 60MBytes/second. The devices that connect through the bus rarely get even close to this rate. In fact, if you compare it to the SATA-2 specification says 3000Mbps

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread David Vasek
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Simen Stavdal wrote: Hi Lars, The USB 2.0 Specification says max 480Mbps, and is to be considered a theroretical max. This equates to about 60MBytes/second. The devices that connect through the bus rarely get even close to this rate. In fact, if you compare it to the

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Almir Karic
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:41:03AM +0100, David Vasek wrote: I am always getting similar transfer speeds (up to 5MB/s) under OpenBSD (and the same with NetBSD) with external USB hard disks too, while the real transfer speed under some other OS's (Linux, Windows) is around 28 MB/s on the

Re: [obsdfr-misc] besoin de comprendre l'install de ma soekris

2008-11-14 Thread Denis Fondras
Salut, voila mon histoire, je viens d'installer openbsd4.4 ( au moin dix fois en 2 jours ;oD ) sur ma soekris en pxe avec l'interface minicom pour girer l'install . Apris de multiples echec de connexion suite ` mon installation ( essais avec 2 postes sous deux distributions Linux

Re: opencvs weird problem 4.3

2008-11-14 Thread Tobias Stoeckmann
You are doing it wrong. Check out the up command for cvs. No, the person in charge doing something wrong is you. If you download the source from an ftp site, there are no CVS/ directories available which would be used by an up command. The use of checkout is obviously even stated on

Re: opencvs weird problem 4.3

2008-11-14 Thread Tobias Stoeckmann
Erm... [...] there are no CVS/ directories Just link me into the list of people doing things wrong. :) Anyway, running a checkout from /usr for src will fully work and does what is expected (updates the source tree). There is nothing wrong in doing so, although the server should be specified

Re: In a bit of a pickle with ral0

2008-11-14 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:18:24AM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:54:55 Juan Miscaro wrote: I'm providing wireless internet access for a small building with OpenBSD 4.3 (some snapshot) as access point. I'm using the ral driver. I regularly need to bring down

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 11:49, Fri 14 Nov 08, Almir Karic wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:41:03AM +0100, David Vasek wrote: I am always getting similar transfer speeds (up to 5MB/s) under OpenBSD (and the same with NetBSD) with external USB hard disks too, while the real transfer speed under some other

Re: Missing security announcements

2008-11-14 Thread Artur Grabowski
Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do not let serious problems sit unsolved. It's not a serious problem for us. //art

Re: opencvs weird problem 4.3

2008-11-14 Thread Jesus Sanchez
Tobias Stoeckmann escribis: Erm... [...] there are no CVS/ directories Just link me into the list of people doing things wrong. :) Anyway, running a checkout from /usr for src will fully work and does what is expected (updates the source tree). There is nothing wrong in doing so,

Re: jdk 1.6 build needs jdk 1.5 ?

2008-11-14 Thread 23号
I use jdk1.7 from ftp: sudo pkg_add -iv jdk-1.7.0.00b24p2.tgz -- Best Regards My Chaos: https://n23.appspot.com On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 22:22, Cedric Brisseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just try to build jdk 1.6 on my fresh -current system, and the pkg_tools are telling me

Re: trouble installing ports (No packages available in the PKG_PATH)

2008-11-14 Thread 23号
I use it: Shell:~ : cat /etc/mk.conf SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo WRKOBJDIR=/usr/obj/ports DISTDIR=/usr/distfiles PACKAGE_REPOSITORY=/usr/packages _MASTER_SITE_OPENBSD?= \ ftp://ftp.freebsdchina.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ \

tcpdump: WARNING: snaplen raised from 96 to 116

2008-11-14 Thread soko.tica
Hello, list When I tried to see pf log of my recently installed OpenBSD 4.4 desktop box, I've got the message that snaplen has been raised from 96 to 116, even when I did give it a try with -s 96. $ sudo tcpdump -n -e -ttt -r /var/log/pflog -s 96 Password: tcpdump: WARNING: snaplen raised from

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Tom Van Looy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use the dump script of openbsdsupport.org to backup the internal SATA disk of my soekris to an external USB disk. snip DUMP: 197357941 tape blocks DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Nov 13 23:03:31 2008 DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Fri Nov

Re: Missing security announcements

2008-11-14 Thread Ed Ahlsen-Girard (TYBRIN Corp.)
-Original Message- From: Theo de Raadt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:29 PM To: Ted Unangst Cc: Thomas Pfaff; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Missing security announcements Of course, this is how things always work on misc. There's the developers do

Re: nfsroot hangs after reloading pf

2008-11-14 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Just FYI, The problem still persists on 4.4 On Jul 8, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Anyone? Any ideas? IMHO this seems to be a serious issue. -Heinrich Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, when i do a # pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf on my diskless (nfsroot) 4.3-stable machine, the machine

Re: opencvs weird problem 4.3

2008-11-14 Thread Jesus Sanchez
some new info about this issue, the command and the return: [avaricia:/usr] root# time opencvs checkout -P -r OPENBSD_4_3 src ... after about 2 hours without response I get: ... Read from remote host anoncvs.de.openbsd.org: Connection reset by peer opencvs [checkout aborted]: failed to write

Re: Missing security announcements

2008-11-14 Thread Eric Furman
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:29:09 -0700, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: someone should take the task to send a mail via it once something arrives on the errata page. It is really easy to use that word should when it isn't you. and some of us don't really consider the 'errata' to be

Re: Missing security announcements

2008-11-14 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Thomas Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently not, so just remove the damn thing and avoid confusion. Thanks, but we've decided to keep the list so we won't need the patch. Here: Index: mail.html

Re: In a bit of a pickle with ral0

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Juan Miscaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm providing wireless internet access for a small building with OpenBSD 4.3 (some snapshot) as access point. I'm using the ral driver. I regularly need to bring down and then back up the interface with ifconfig. Is this

Turning off sendmail

2008-11-14 Thread Doug Milam
To cut down on services I don't use, I'd like to disable sendmail, unless this is unwise. If so, I'd like to know why. Thanks.

Re: Turning off sendmail

2008-11-14 Thread Lars Noodén
Doug Milam wrote: To cut down on services I don't use, I'd like to disable sendmail, unless this is unwise. If so, I'd like to know why. Thanks. It should also possible to relegate it to inetd. Mail is used for feedback from cron at least. -Lars

Re: Turning off sendmail

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Holland
Doug Milam wrote: To cut down on services I don't use, I'd like to disable sendmail, unless this is unwise. If so, I'd like to know why. Thanks. it's VERY unwise to do, and you should be using it. The system goes through a lot of effort to prepare daily report and to check itself over for

Re: Turning off sendmail

2008-11-14 Thread Pereresus ne Vlezaet Buggy
On 14 November 2008 c. 19:31:10 Doug Milam wrote: To cut down on services I don't use, I'd like to disable sendmail, unless this is unwise. If so, I'd like to know why. Thanks. You use sendmail on your localhost. Please read FAQ carefully. -- WBR, Pereresus ne Vlezaet Buggy

Re: tcpdump: WARNING: snaplen raised from 96 to 116

2008-11-14 Thread Can Erkin Acar
soko.tica Wrote: Hello, list When I tried to see pf log of my recently installed OpenBSD 4.4 desktop box, I've got the message that snaplen has been raised from 96 to 116, even when I did give it a try with -s 96. That is normal. The snaplen is only used for listening on an interface. When

Re: tcpdump: WARNING: snaplen raised from 96 to 116

2008-11-14 Thread soko . tica
Many thanks for your time, patience and explanation. On 11/14/08, Can Erkin Acar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: soko.tica Wrote: Hello, list When I tried to see pf log of my recently installed OpenBSD 4.4 desktop box, I've got the message that snaplen has been raised from 96 to 116, even when I

Re: Turning off sendmail

2008-11-14 Thread Alexander Hall
Doug Milam wrote: To cut down on services I don't use, I'd like to disable sendmail, unless this is unwise. If so, I'd like to know why. Thanks. As Nick and others have already stated, you will gain very little and loose much. Keep in mind that OpenBSD comes with quite few services enabled

Re: openbgpd bgplg ping and traceroute do not work

2008-11-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-11-14, Ivo Chutkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello misc, I cannot get ping and traceroute working with bgplg on 4.4 stable. Both show failed on the web interface. Everything else works perfect. I followed man pages and checked everything many times and there is no log entries for any

Re: In a bit of a pickle with ral0

2008-11-14 Thread System Administrator
On 14 Nov 2008 at 1:18, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:54:55 Juan Miscaro wrote: I'm providing wireless internet access for a small building with OpenBSD 4.3 (some snapshot) as access point. I'm using the ral driver. I regularly need to bring down and then back up

Re: In a bit of a pickle with ral0

2008-11-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-11-14, STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:54:55 Juan Miscaro wrote: I'm providing wireless internet access for a small building with OpenBSD 4.3 (some snapshot) as access point. I'm using the ral driver. I regularly need to bring down and then back

Solved Re: openbgpd bgplg ping and traceroute do not work

2008-11-14 Thread openbsd
The problem is solved, Thank you tico and Stuart. It was nosuid and noexec on /var. Best regards, Ivo Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-11-14, Ivo Chutkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello misc, I cannot get ping and traceroute working with bgplg on 4.4 stable. Both show failed on the web

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
Thanks for all the responses :-) I did a dump 0af /dev/null /usr: DUMP: Average transfer rate: 10618 KB/s Next I did a dump 0af /backup/test1 /usr: DUMP: Average transfer rate: 5352 KB/s I also compared the speed of cp with dump and they seem equally fast. Anyway, it seems like the speed is

Re: In a bit of a pickle with ral0

2008-11-14 Thread System Administrator
On 14 Nov 2008 at 21:50, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-11-14, STeve Andre' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2008 19:54:55 Juan Miscaro wrote: I'm providing wireless internet access for a small building with OpenBSD 4.3 (some snapshot) as access point. I'm using the ral

Re: openbgpd bgplg ping and traceroute do not work

2008-11-14 Thread tico
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-11-14, Ivo Chutkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello misc, I cannot get ping and traceroute working with bgplg on 4.4 stable. Both show failed on the web interface. Everything else works perfect. I followed man pages and checked everything many times and there is

Re: relayd exits when disabling and enabling hosts

2008-11-14 Thread uday
I like relayd and am fully satisfied with it. Pyr and Reyk have done a great job. Just needs a little more algorithms and other features but overall it does the job. I know I couldn't have done better :-) Just my 2 cts.

azalia patches in -current

2008-11-14 Thread Bryan
Greetings, I just inherited a Dell Inspiron 1520 a few days ago, and I was eager to install -current on it. I installed the November 6th snapshot. Sadly, I found that this laptop uses the azalia(4) driver. (my Inspiron 9300 uses auich(4) ). So far, I can hear audio in my headphones, and saw the

Re: azalia patches in -current

2008-11-14 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 04:25:49AM +, Bryan wrote: Greetings, I just inherited a Dell Inspiron 1520 a few days ago, and I was eager to install -current on it. I installed the November 6th snapshot. Sadly, I found that this laptop uses the azalia(4) driver. (my Inspiron 9300 uses

help with CPAN after upgrade to 111108 snapshot

2008-11-14 Thread Juan Miscaro
Hi, I upgraded to the 08 snapshot and when trying to install a Perl module with CPAN I'm getting errors: $ cpan CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.69) Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.10.0/DynaLoader.pm line 226. Use of uninitialized value

Re: azalia patches in -current

2008-11-14 Thread Bryan
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 04:25:49AM +, Bryan wrote: Greetings, I just inherited a Dell Inspiron 1520 a few days ago, and I was eager to install -current on it. I installed the November 6th snapshot. Sadly, I found that

Re: help with CPAN after upgrade to 111108 snapshot

2008-11-14 Thread Juan Miscaro
2008/11/15 Juan Miscaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I upgraded to the 08 snapshot and when trying to install a Perl module with CPAN I'm getting errors: $ cpan CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.69) Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at