Re: contributing

2014-11-16 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Eric, Eric Furman wrote on Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 11:40:49PM -0500: > OpenBSD's man pages are fantastic, but one area I have > noticed that could be improved is that some entries could > benefit from having more and/or better examples of use. That is true. Not all manual pages are short of exa

contributing

2014-11-16 Thread Eric Furman
OpenBSD's man pages are fantastic, but one area I have noticed that could be improved is that some entries could benefit from having more and/or better examples of use.

Re: Postfix SASL auth problem in OpenBSD 5.6

2014-11-16 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 7:00 AM, giacomo wrote: > Recently I have upgrade my system from OpenBSD 5.4 to 5.5 and 5.6. > In old system I installed the port of Postfix with SASL and MySQL support. > In the 5.4 the program work fine. After the two aupgrade with the same > configuration I have problem

Re: bridge + vlan broke after 5.5 > 5.6 upgrade

2014-11-16 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | > On 4 Nov 2014, at 06:41, Pieter Verberne wrote: | > | >> On 2014-11-02 13:51, Jorge Schrauwen wrote: | >>> Hey All, | >>> TL;DR: traffic leaving a bridge over a vlan does | >>> not get tagged but leaves untagged after upgrade. | >>> Is this by design? | >> Looks e

Re: patch for FAQ14

2014-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/16/14 16:09, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014-11-16, Daniel Jakots wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to add some content to FAQ14 but I saw some errors there, so >> first I corrected them. >> >> The problems are >> - No 14.13 >> - No 20.2 > > That's intentional, we don't generally do a bulk re

Re: Contributing

2014-11-16 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Eric, Eric Furman wrote on Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 09:18:06PM -0500: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2014, at 12:50 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> andrew fabbro wrote on Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 04:34:35PM -0800: >>> What about writing tutorials/articles? >> That is most definitely *not* a job for beginners. >> Writ

Re: Contributing

2014-11-16 Thread Eric Furman
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014, at 12:50 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > andrew fabbro wrote on Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 04:34:35PM -0800: > > > What about writing tutorials/articles? > > That is most definitely *not* a job for beginners. > Writing good tutorials requires much more expertise and > e

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
I use bookmarks, but I have them in my Drupal portal so no need to remember links, that by the way is restricted using apache authentication. The basic idea is this: any time I need to set something in Firefox I have to restart the VM as read-write, and while on it do not open any site. The firs

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Worik Stanton
On 17/11/14 10:55, Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount wrote: [snip] > I restart every week that server as read-write to patch it and that's > all, [snip] > I have been using that VM more than half a year and invested like 4 > hours setting it up. Is it not worth 4 hours a software that you use > every

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
Altho' I'm currently just using a) and don't do things like banking, (rather go check out the tellers if I've got to do banking... eases the agravation) I think that c would be reasonable if you had an automated setup that had already identified the dependancies firefox has. This would allow rei

Re: unbound auto-trust the root.key file

2014-11-16 Thread Quentin Rameau
Hi Kevin, > can we not make unbound not try to write to it at all it seems that you are using auto-trust-anchor-file, but what you search for is trust-anchor-file. > and have a cronjob that runs to update it every so often to make sure it is > the correct key? Then you can use unbound-anchor t

Re: xombrero crashes with "ReferenceError: Can't find variable: iom"

2014-11-16 Thread Luiz Roberto dos Santos
At 16 Nov 2014 16:45:46 + (UTC) from trondd : On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 11:21 PM >I like to use a browser that is keyboard-centric (vi-like, ideally) Yep. >that supports modern web functionality Well, there are many support for "features" unnecessary. Many scripts are insecure, and we just don'

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
Quoting Jason Adams : On 11/16/2014 12:15 PM, Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount wrote: I have other approach that has worked for me so far: I created a virtual machine with Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (sorry but I'm new here), and installed Firefox there and other software I would need like image and PD

Re: Smokeping issues on 5.6

2014-11-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-11-13, Mxher wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not able to start Smokeping on my (recently installed) OpenBSD 5.6. A similar problem was reported by Lars Hecking a couple of weeks ago, please try updating your ports tree to OPENBSD_5_6_STABLE and rebuild the package.

Re: patch for FAQ14

2014-11-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-11-16, Daniel Jakots wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to add some content to FAQ14 but I saw some errors there, so > first I corrected them. > > The problems are > - No 14.13 > - No 20.2 That's intentional, we don't generally do a bulk renumbering if a section is removed. > - 14.5.*, 14.17.* a

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Jason Adams
On 11/16/2014 12:15 PM, Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount wrote: > I have other approach that has worked for me so far: I created a virtual > machine with Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD (sorry but I'm new here), and installed Firefox there and other > software I would need > like image and PDF viewers. After

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Jason Adams
On 11/16/2014 11:08 AM, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > (e) maybe have firefox go through an ssh tunnel to localhost > (f) run firefox as an unpriviliged user _firefox, group _firefox, and > use Unix file permissions to deny that user access to $HOME/ I think these two in conjunction would be suff

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
Quoting Daniel Dickman : On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: Are there other practical ways of securing an OpenBSD web browser? [I'm afraid "just say no" fails the "practical" test. :( ] one practical thing I'd love to see is for someone to port the Quark web browser:

Re: making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Daniel Dickman
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > Web browsers scare me: they're huge pieces of code, un-audited, they > have embedded Turing-complete interpreters, they live in a horribly > imsecure environment, [...snip...] > > Are there other practical ways of securing an OpenBSD w

making firefox less insecure

2014-11-16 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
Web browsers scare me: they're huge pieces of code, un-audited, they have embedded Turing-complete interpreters, they live in a horribly imsecure environment, [I have to put in a plug here for James Mickens' classic rant "To Wash It All Aawy" (Usenix ;login, March 2014, p.2-8):

patch for FAQ14

2014-11-16 Thread Daniel Jakots
Hi, I wanted to add some content to FAQ14 but I saw some errors there, so first I corrected them. The problems are - No 14.13 - No 20.2 - 14.5.*, 14.17.* and 14.20.* are not linked in the "Table of Contents" Also what's the policy about giving numbers (like 14.5.1)? Because they are assigned to

unbound auto-trust the root.key file

2014-11-16 Thread Kevin Gerrard
I have been unable to find a fix or good solution for this. Since it is bad for the unbound daemon to have privileges to write to the root.key file, can we not make unbound not try to write to it at all and have a cronjob that runs to update it every so often to make sure it is the correct key? It

Re: xombrero crashes with "ReferenceError: Can't find variable: iom"

2014-11-16 Thread trondd
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:45:46 -0500 > trondd wrote: > > > I installed xombrero, but my snapshot is old and I need to update. No > > issues so far. Maybe it's specific sites? > > There are definately bugs beyond memory leaks in webkit and l

Re: xombrero crashes with "ReferenceError: Can't find variable: iom"

2014-11-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014 11:45:46 -0500 trondd wrote: > I installed xombrero, but my snapshot is old and I need to update. No > issues so far. Maybe it's specific sites? There are definately bugs beyond memory leaks in webkit and libs and a simple hunch tells me the webkit devs are more interested i

Re: xombrero crashes with "ReferenceError: Can't find variable: iom"

2014-11-16 Thread trondd
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Luiz Roberto dos Santos < arrowscr...@mail.com> wrote: > Seems to happen not just on OpenBSD, but also on 3.2 linux-libre kernel. > Why not remove Xombrero from -current? Any thoughts? I mean, it's good, > but is based on webkit, and have some bugs... maybe port A

Re: RISC-V ?

2014-11-16 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 04:15:15AM +, Luiz Roberto dos Santos wrote: > Hi, > There's any effort yet to iniciate a port for RISC-V? No > > Regards, > L.

Re: Contributing

2014-11-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 11/16/14 12:50 AM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > andrew fabbro wrote on Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 04:34:35PM -0800: > >> What about writing tutorials/articles? It's been a recuring talked before and just do not work. > That is most definitely *not* a job for beginners. > Writing good tuto

Re: Contributing

2014-11-16 Thread Daniel Ouellet
> I'm not sure how I formed the opinion openbsdsupport.org was blessed > (probably someone's forum post somewhere) so thanks for the correction. It never been blessed, it is a social experiment to prove a recurring point that it doesn't work. Many talked a bout it, none actually do the work. Dan

Re: Sun/Cassini Quad Gigabit Card Not Detected

2014-11-16 Thread Jeff
Brad, Thanks! I made the one line change and it had no effect. Do I need other changes from current? Thanks again, Jeff On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 12:53:13AM -0500, Brad Smith wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 01:41:10PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > > # arp -a > > # arp -a > > firewall-x.us

Re: recent and64 shapshots: USB device timeouts, xhci: NULL xfer pointer

2014-11-16 Thread Martin Pieuchot
Hello Peter, On 15/11/14(Sat) 15:29, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > and I just noticed that the supplied dmesg did not in fact capture the NULL > xfer pointer messages, > but here's one that does, from a few minutes later running the same snapshot. > > The failure pattern isn't entirely consisten

Re: Contributing

2014-11-16 Thread andrew fabbro
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > What about writing tutorials/articles? > > That is most definitely *not* a job for beginners. > The thread starter did not describe himself as a "beginner," just a non-programmer. Since he was referring to old content on the web site, pe