Re: verifying ntp status?

2009-09-01 Thread Chris Kuethe
look in /var/log/daemon On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:06 AM, stan wrote: > ON mainstream ntp, you can run "ntpq -p" to obatin the "status", that is > what peers it is atached to, etc. I realize that the OpenBSD version has > beenrewriten to enhance security, and I am thankfull for that. > > But, is th

Re: Use memory as disk

2009-08-21 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:03 PM, obvvbooo > obvvbooo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there a way to use memory as a disk/partition? Such as mount it to >> /mnt/mem or such things. I can't find information of this in the man pages >> and after goo

Re: 4.6: softraid boot problems

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > Everything works like a charm except that sd2 (on which my /home lives) > doesn't get attached at boot time. This causes /etc/rc to yell at me > when it comes to point where it wants to do ``fsck -p''. As I am new to > softraid I am pretty un

Re: New Project - MICO

2009-07-22 Thread Chris Kuethe
Have a look in the ports@ archive for "clish"... On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Fernando Quintero wrote: > > Hi Tico, Im working in the project too. > > Basically, how do you add new "commands" to nsh?, coding in c?, the > idea is use a .xml file with easy fields. > > And, We Think nsh is used

Re: VIA chipsets: support of CN700, VT8237R, VT1708/A

2009-07-08 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > Before I buy http://download.asm.cz/inshop/prod/barebone/3V700A.pdf > I want to make sure that the components are supported by OpenBSD, > where "supported" means it works under 4.5 or current. > Both success stories and failure stories are welcome.

Re: AMD64 with 4GB RAM

2009-06-22 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Gaby Vanhegan wrote: > I'd gathered that from reading one of those threads to the end. I really > wanted to avoid having to build a custom kernel, especially if the results > might not even work. I suppose I was just inquiring about the status of > bigmem in 4.5 a

Re: OpenBSD as a storage SAN

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Lars Nooden wrote: > OpenAFS is part of the base distro. no it isn't. the arla afs *client* is, but the afs server (milko) isn't. openafs is in ports. -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?

Re: promiscuous mode

2009-05-19 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Fortunato wrote: > Thanks, tcpdump does it alright, but I'd like to have promiscuous mode on without running tcpdump in the background if possible. (I'll take this as a learning moment otherwise.) I'm trying to use the first vr[0-3] interfaces like an L2 switch in

Re: softraid

2009-05-13 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Uwe Dippel wrote: > You are right. I simply could not read from the man page the most obvious: > that > the state is displayed without any options (and me stupid tried almost all > options!). > So I guess it still is a cronjob to scan for 'degraded'? sysctl hw.se

Re: wimax

2009-05-03 Thread Chris Kuethe
the last wimax device i used with openbsd acted a lot like a dsl modem. plug in to the ethernet port, get an address from dhcp, log in to the management interface over http, configure settings like the ISP said to... done. don't remember who made it though. On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Aaron Ma

Re: Software for Wireless Surveys

2009-02-26 Thread Chris Kuethe
ports/net/spectrum-tools On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Marcel Dan wrote: > Besides Kismet, are there other Site Survey tools or commercial software > applications that run on OpenBSD? > > I'm wondering if I can use a couple different tools on OpenBSD for a site > survey to end up with similar

Re: bgpd crashes on long AS-path

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Kuethe
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=123490079821382&w=2 looks like this might already be fixed. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Jules Desforges wrote: > I admin multipe openbgp servers for a handful of companies. > > On Monday (16th), I was notified that bgp had crashed on 4 out of the > 8 machi

Re: hoststated on OpenBSD

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Kuethe
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=120959605703777&w=2 it was renamed to relayd On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Beavis wrote: > Greetings List, > > I would like to ask some folks here regarding hoststated is it > still available for OpenBSD? All i got through google is > http://cvs.openbs

Re: Find - Sillyness

2009-01-22 Thread Chris Kuethe
do you have any programs called "echo ./daemon.2.gz"? you want -exec echo "{}" \; On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Morris, Roy wrote: > I know this is more of a general 'huh' kind of thing, but I figured someone > could kick start my brain for me. Anyone know why this doesn't work? It > appears

Re: tcpdump functionality

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Kuethe
"((tcp[0:2] >= 10) && (tcp[0:2] < 120)) || ((tcp[2:2] >= 10) && (tcp[2:2] < 120))" On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Steve Laurie wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to find out if tcpdump can be used to listen on a particular > port range (ports 10 to 120 TCP inclusive to be specific) but can't seem

Re: : OpenBSD 4.4 amd64 bsd.mp can't detect 4GB memory

2008-12-17 Thread Chris Kuethe
yeah, that was my mistake. i could've sworn i've set bigmem that way to avoid a recompile... i'll shut up now. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Markus Hennecke > wrote: >> So I read all that before and now I have to out me as plain stupid. I

Re: OpenBSD 4.4 amd64 bsd.mp can't detect 4GB memory

2008-12-15 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Paul de Weerd wrote: > You'll have to > enable bigmem yes. > and compile a new kernel yourself. no. the "config" program can do this without a recompile. -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?

Re: diff to make lynx use anonymous ftp password

2008-11-22 Thread Chris Kuethe
DO NOT WANT! you can already suppress the userid by setting the USER environment variable, and the server operator gets your ip and/or hostname in the logs already... if you must do something like this, make lynx honor the HOST variable. On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Dieter Rauschenberger <[EM

Re: Packet Filter: how to keep device names on hardware failure?

2008-11-07 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Dave Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm just confused, but my recollection is that one needs to set up > the appropriate hostname. to enable the interface before > the "egress" interface group works. > ... haven't tried this, but maybe you can use the "

Re: editors in floppy44.fs (OpenBSD 4.4.) - newbee help

2008-11-01 Thread Chris Kuethe
As long as your filesystems are still readable, you can use a more comfortable tool: mount /dev/wd0a /mnt mount /dev/wd0d /mnt/var mount /dev/wd0e /mnt/usr /mnt/usr/sbin/chroot /mnt vi (or mg) /etc/fstab you could possibly even just copy your fstab from your freshly mounted /var (/var/backups/etc

Re: NTFS-3G Stable Read/Write Driver ready to merge on cvs obsd ?

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, (2^32)-1, or 4GB, is the max size per file > (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463). I can see that being a problem if > you're trying to run a database off of your thumb drive, but otherwise... can > you giv

Re: Intel quad port PRO/1000QP 82575GB chipset

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Prabhu Gurumurthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed 4.4 (current) on Dell 2950, dmesg at the bottom, I am having > trouble seeing the Intel quad port PRO/1000 QP card in OpenBSD. > > When I look into /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/{pcidevs, pcidevs.h} I see that the >

Re: root acount unable to mail gmail.com

2008-10-09 Thread Chris Kuethe
i can send mail from root to my gmail. check your mail logs and mail queue. On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jesus Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, using a clean install of OpenBSD 4.3, after doing some changes, the > /etc/rc.conf sendmail_flags uses /etc/mail/sendmail.cf as config file. >

Re: amd64 over 4g of ram

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Kuethe
ECTED]> wrote: > Can you say how you turned it on. I haven't changed configs in openbsd > kernel. (only have done two kernel rebuilds for RAID things) > Want to see this in 4.5 so would like to help or will it be active in > current? > Thanks > Ben > > On Mon,

Re: amd64 over 4g of ram

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Kuethe
you can use config to edit the binary kernel. go ahead and run it, there may be problems but they're not gonna get fixed unless people test and submit bug reports. i'm running this at home with good results but maybe i'm just lucky or have just the right sort of hardware. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 1

Re: cannot alloc NNN bytes for blockmap

2008-09-24 Thread Chris Kuethe
r PIO, LBA48, 238474MB, 488395055 sectors >> > wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 >> > ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x01: apic >> > 2 int 19 (irq 11) >> > iic0 at ichiic0 >> > spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x5

Re: Apache lib/link problem

2008-09-10 Thread Chris Kuethe
library major version bumps. welcome to tracking -current... it happens. you probably have something like php with php-mhash or php-mcrypt installed. your httpd is linked against libssl.12, but the php goo is linked against libssl.11. you can either wait for new packages, or build 'em yourself.

Re: -kernel-kqemu, WinXP guest on August 3 Snapshot

2008-08-07 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Protocol Six Consulting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone else seen this issue? > Any insights and/or solutions? At least FPU instructions are broken when kqemu is at all active. I've seen all kinds of breakage under WinXP, Ubuntu and OpenBSD when using kqemu:

Re: svnd questions (encrypting all of a partition or disk)

2008-07-20 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... In contrast, an >initially-zeroed imagefile would be sparse, with most blocks not >actually allocated, so I'd need the freespace reserve to make >imagefile block allocation reasonably fast & vaguely-con

Re: svnd questions (encrypting all of a partition or disk)

2008-07-19 Thread Chris Kuethe
If you have some time and a spare disk, why not experiment with the 3 or 4 options available to you before settling on one. - cfs - svnd backed by a file in a filesystem - svnd backed by a whole slice on disk - softraid w/ crypto softraid w/ crypto is still kind of a work in progress, but it's ver

Re: the backend...

2008-06-24 Thread Chris Kuethe
gee... maybe you should GOOGLE FOR IT! http://www.google.com/search?q=google+database http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html http://www.mysql.com/customers/customer.php?id=75 On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:07 PM, badeguruji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Group, > > sorry this is slightly off

Re: boot install cd on pentium mmx

2008-06-21 Thread Chris Kuethe
as you said, it's an old machine. possibly the bios doesn't like the boot cd format (non-emulation). luckily, there are these wonderful floppy images you can use. your cd burning program should allow you to build a bootable cd in "El Torito", or floppy emulation format - you might have better luck

Re: CVS Log Message "sync"

2008-06-18 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You'll notice those commits are preceeded by other commits. Often this > is the case when a device is added to a file and committed, then stuff > is autogenerated. Comitting the autogenerated stuff separately makes it > e

Re: PF, "self" keyword

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Yuri Spirin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to automatically update rules and tables containing > "self" keyword when interface address changes (like "($ext_if)" > behaviour)? Did I missed something in manual? depending on what you're trying to accomplis

Re: [OT] Can i connect two box directly using wireless cards ?

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 8:01 AM, elflord woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks everyone > > i noticed on this page (http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#Wireless) that my > card(ipw) can not be used as AP(access point) > Does this matter ? if you only want them to talk to eachother, there's always

Re: using OpenBSD to make a network switch

2008-05-23 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jeffrey Thunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... I'd appreciate it very > much. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. I'd almost suggest that the obvious thing you're missing is to just buy a switch. You can get an 8-port gig switch for $50 at fry's and it'll gen

Re: [OT] developers running -current on laptops

2008-05-23 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can see from the recent undeadly posts and pictures that most > developers are using laptops and I know you have to run -current to do > development work. I was just wondering if these laptops are for > development use only or d

Re: Decipering "Understanding IP addressing"

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks everyone. > > How about this then from page 4, about class A networks: > > "Each Class A network address has an 8-bit network prefix, with the > highest order bit set to 0 (zero) and a 7-bit network number, followed >

Re: "dhcpd-sync not in /etc/services"

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Kuethe
I'd say read the error a couple of times. DHCPD can't find the definition of "dhcpd-sync" in /etc/services. To see if there's a newer version of this file, you can check cvsweb (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/services) and patch it in yourself or use the shiny new sysmerge.sh to mer

Re: Decipering "Understanding IP addressing"

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Kendall Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "IPv4 defines a 32-bit address which means that there are > only 232 (4,294,967,296) IPv4 addresses available." > > 232 what? Typesetting error. That should be 2^32 or 2**32 or pow(2, 32) or 232 > 23 or 8 what? Bits

Re: Next great toy like Zaurus with OpenBSD?

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 21 May 2008 14:53:36 Mark Mathias wrote: >> 2008/5/21 Tomas Bodzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2846711250.html >> >> This thing really just sounds like a EEE clone, but with much r

Re: PF Congestion and state table question

2008-05-15 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:02 PM, nuffnough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/9 Thomas Althoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I don't recall Henning's rule, search the archive something like X times > > your number of nics. > > I completely misread this to mean "Hennings rule of misc is Search th

Re: nagios monitoring of a remote openntp service

2008-05-08 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nagios checks almost never have sufficient debugging mechanisms, and UDP > services dont send RST+ICMP. you should get an ICMP port unreachable if there is no UDP service listening. i haven't looked at nagios, but i

Re: -current and rthreads

2008-05-02 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Maxim Belooussov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 2 computers, thinkpad T42 (i386) and sun ultra 10 (sparc64). > Both are running current. I've tried to check in the kernel > configuration files (GENERIC) where I can enable RTHREADS option, but > couldn't fin

Re: Rolling release?

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure about amount of time sacrificed each time to prepare new complete > release... but perhaps it could be spared, if the system+packages is > "refreshed" piece-by-piece / month-by-month? Tell ya what: try it

Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Kuethe
no. but you have the source, you can hack up your system however you'd like... On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Parvinder Bhasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to login the passwords that were used in the bruteforce > attack? > > thx. > > -- GDB has a 'break' feature;

Re: configuration tweaks for CF-based systems?

2008-04-03 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Fred Snurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yet I'm puzzled by the desire/need to move /dev into mfs. The timestamp on > the files within /dev don't change, so what is the reason for moving the > device > nodes into memory? Are there parameters which are frequently c

Re: OpenBSD && !GSoC

2008-03-26 Thread Chris Kuethe
Google is the ultimate arbitrator of mentoring organizations. You may find the following sections of the GSoC faq useful http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_mentoring_orgs http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_org_eligible http://code.google.com/opensource

Re: The REAL reason we use OpenBSD

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Sevan / Venture37 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://blog.anamazingmind.com/2008/03/real-reason-we-use-linux.html > > > > oh, and before you started to read, to be more comfortable just do > > s/linux/openbsd/g > > > > You mean > %s/linux/openbsd/g not if

Re: USB PCI card to buy: Belkin F5U220?

2008-03-12 Thread Chris Kuethe
Depends on the chip. As far as I can tell from that photo, it's an NEC usb controller. The last add-on usb card I bought had an NEC controller and it worked well enough... On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a new-to-me dual P-133 Tyan board with 4

Re: multiple connections to GPS device?

2008-03-06 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:01 PM, James Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to watch the NMEA traffic originating from a USB GPS > device *while* attached via nmeaattach(8)? no > Once nmeaattach(8) has attached to the device, any subsequent > connection attempted via cu(1) fails

Re: upgrade from 4.2-release to -current error

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Kuethe
looks like you didn't rebuild config... http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html On Feb 11, 2008 5:47 PM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to upgrade from 4.2-release to -current. I am following: > http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html > > I did: > > cd /usr > > export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: Forwarding roots mail to another account , seperate email server

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Feb 11, 2008 8:55 AM, Jay Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regardless, I can't seem to get mail forwarding working. The two main openbsd > books say all I need to do is create a .forwarding file and give the name of > the email address to forward to, but for two months not one email was > forwa

Re: Where is NAN Defined?

2008-02-10 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Feb 10, 2008 8:31 AM, Jim Razmus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to compile a program that uses NAN. It includes math.h which > I'm told C99 says should define it. I've grepped the entire source tree > and read up on man 3 math and man 3 isinf. Still no joy. > > Trying to compile the

Re: ifconfig or install hangs when trying to use fxp on new Intel mobo

2008-02-09 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Feb 9, 2008 9:29 PM, Rod Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenBSD 4.2-stable (GENERIC) #4: Wed Jan 23 10:41:51 EST 2008 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC Too old, try a snapshot. > bios0: Intel Corporation D945GCNL Evil, evil machine. > apm0 at bios0: Power

Re: Inexpensive networking.

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Feb 6, 2008 7:57 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Better to throttle the student's desktop than to throttle the student. > :) You don't know the students I went there. CK -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?

Re: Using Altq?

2008-02-02 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Feb 2, 2008 3:17 PM, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * How do I determine my actual up and down provided to me from my service > provider? The way I did it was to find a very popular torrent with lots of seeders and leechers (a new linux distro would suffice) and leech as much as possible

Re: cvs running behind?

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Kuethe
CVS fan-out takes a while. Just keep an eye on it, and I'll try get the regular patch files and errata entries posted tonight. CK On Jan 29, 2008 11:06 AM, Maurice Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I saw an email on the cvs list about some security fixes for 4.1-stable > and 4.2-stable

Re: install error: "uid 0 on /: file system full"

2008-01-28 Thread Chris Kuethe
disklabel is broken in that snapshot. use the one from today (2008-01-28) On Jan 28, 2008 6:19 PM, Juan Miscaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install using cd42.iso from the 230108 snapshot and I get > a critical error when I try to set up my hard disk. > > Right after the question "D

Re: separate processors

2008-01-28 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Jan 28, 2008 11:46 AM, Lord Sporkton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what keywords should be be searching for? > i have no idea what this would be called? TLB Shootdowns from 20nm at dawn. ... start reading up on "processor affinity" and maybe even "asymmetric multiprocessing". -- GDB has a 'b

Re: 4.2-current throughput with pf enabled

2008-01-15 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Jan 15, 2008 12:06 PM, Chris Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 18:13:15 Chris Cappuccio wrote: > > Have you tried disabling apm? pcibios? What does your dmesg look like? > > No, I haven't. I can try it at the weekend, but since the "problem" only > appears when I enab

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Jan 14, 2008 5:00 PM, Max Hayden Chiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cause the latency issue. By contrast if I limit the number of > connections, BitTorrent can consume almost all of the bandwidth and > the issue will not appear. > > Perhaps this problem is specific to my configuration (or specif

Re: Suggested PF Setup when using BitTorrent?

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Jan 14, 2008 4:06 PM, Max Hayden Chiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian, > > After your post (and several others), I tried BitTorrent out on my > network (sparc64 router + DOCSIS 2.0 cable connection; see > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=120019379210857&w=2) > > After some experimentation,

Re: mmap() on i386

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 1/8/08, Kevin Stam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Either all of the various systems rtorrent crashes have similar bugs, or > rtorrent has bugs. I don't currently have the time to ascertain which is > which. Logic tells me it's more likely rtorrent, but I'm not a coder. Just > tried to help out, th

Re: Ethernet jumbo frames?

2007-12-29 Thread Chris Kuethe
Yes, there's value in it. NFS can benefit greatly if you can stuff a single read/write block into a single ethernet frame (rather than splitting it across 3 or 4). It's also helpful for wringing maximum throughput out of your network at higher speeds. Think about the interrupt rate to send 1Gb/s wi

Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?

2007-12-29 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Dec 29, 2007 9:56 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wondering if there was a way to undelete a file. > > I have never run into the situation so far (surprise, surprise) but I > sure will in future. dd, a hex editor and a love of jigsaw puzzles? maybe sysutils/sleuthkit

Re: mutt and Stallman

2007-12-16 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Dec 16, 2007 7:49 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am giving first aid after the war but still it will help. > $ grep sort ~/.muttrc > > set sort="threads" > > Now just watch the fun. > > Whenever you see a thread with the favorite subject line or as soon as > you read the

Re: Intel D946GZIS sound, video, nic?

2007-12-08 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Dec 8, 2007 11:35 AM, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our hardware supplier deals almost exclusively with Windows users (no > surprise); in the low-end business market, they sell many systems with: > Intel D946GZIS motherboard > SigmaTel* STAC9227 audio codec >

Re: Slow Performance on Encrypted svnd

2007-11-17 Thread Chris Kuethe
On Nov 17, 2007 4:24 AM, Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who says the tool is used the wrong way? > You? > > I think when OpenBSD developers go and write a "howto" about how to use a > tool in a certain way then you can be sure it's meant to be used this way. > > Please refer to: > https:

Re: Unable to get MP on Intel motherboard s3000AH and SE7230NH1

2007-11-05 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 11/5/07, Insan Praja SW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have several intel motherboard as I mentioned in the subject, and it > seem I can't get multiprocessing even after applying your patch > (http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=118975639013313&w=2), it still hangs > on boot (with acpi enab

Re: Network Time Synchronization using timed or ntpd or a Combination?

2007-10-25 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/25/07, Boris Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you very much for that (valuable) reply! > BTW, this is an argument for making an OpenNTPD ntpdate tool or adding > one_time_synchronization functionality into ntpd. :) no, it's not making an argument for a one-shot sync attempt

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/24/07, carlopmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear sirs please: I will return to my original question. I just wondered if > xen > will be included into the OpenBSD's kernel to act as a para-virtualized DomU > or > not. Nothing more. I will not go into issues of the type is insecure or not.

Re: Network Time Synchronization using timed or ntpd or a Combination?

2007-10-23 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/23/07, Boris Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The ntpd from OBSD is raw and lame yet. It takes days (!) to really > synchronize, adjusting time and clock frequency back and forth (even if you > start with -s) so it's too early to say that using it is "right". It will > be "righ

Re: Network Time Synchronization using timed or ntpd or a Combination?

2007-10-23 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/23/07, Rogier Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using ntpd gets you better synchronisation without the need of setting > something up with cron. Rdate will work, but the work developers put > into (further integrating) ntpd makes rdate appear rather ... > outdated. Rdate provides a single

Re: Performance problem with CF card on AMD CS5536 IDE

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/22/07, Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For my bsd-appliance project, I use CF media strictly for booting a MD/RD > kernel image. If you're doing a full-install on the CF card, you've got the > wrong approach. You're going to nuke your CF media with all of that atime > upda

Re: OpenBSD replacement for GnuPG

2007-10-12 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/11/07, Sean Darby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there an alternative PGP or OpenPGP-like program available other than PGP > or GnuPG/GPG? quoth http://www.cypherspace.org/openpgp/ * Tom Zerucha's reference OpenPGP implementation (C code, uses openSSL library, BSD license -- h

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/10/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > If you take the requirement to view a few flash pages at face value, > you're saying that that defeats the whole purpose of OpenBSD and I'm > better off just sticking with Debian for the whole thing. My mother is an accountant - Open

Re: Encrypting home partition

2007-10-07 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just trying that but the slice encryption could use some instructions > how to get the proper C/H/S -values. I tried quickly your factor method > and got a errors from fdisk that those were incorrect and I've been > searching the net for some help

Re: Encrypting home partition

2007-10-06 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/6/07, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > are you sure you want to encrypt your *whole* drive though? Yes. (says the guy who left his laptop in an airport last week) > Is your > data really that secret? Why is that important? AKA "it's my laptop, and I will explicitly choose to disc

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-06 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/6/07, Frank Bax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Presto, a complete ISO install disk. It would have been trivial to add > some packages. It seems to me the install process cannot find filesets > if they are placed in root directory on cdrom; but that's easily > corrected using expected director

Re: configuring ntpd to use GPS

2007-10-04 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/4/07, James Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After reading the manpages for ntpd(8), ntpd.conf(5), & nmeaattach(8), > I thought I had enough information to use a USB GPS device as a time > source. > > In /etc/ntpd.conf, the only line left enabled is: > > sensor cuaU0 nope "se

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-04 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/4/07, Julian Leyh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC, you can't use vnd0 for partitions, somehow it causes problems. But > if you use vnd1 or a higher number, it should just work. About the only reason I could see for that being the case is that the release(8) process is hard-coded to use vnd

Re: Encrypting partitions with openbsd 4.1 or 4.2

2007-10-03 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/3/07, carlopmart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks jacob, but I have received an email from openbsd's developer > that it isn't possible to encrypt partitions or disks ... only image > files created by dd command ... The developer of whom you speak may be slightly misinformed, or just has

Re: I need a new non-sucky laptop...

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/1/07, Chris Kuethe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Through mysterious circumstances, my Thinkpad T42 disappeared in the > Minneapolis airport today. The TSA is pleased to announce that I am a dumbass. In other words, I left it at the checkpoint, and they kept it under lock and

I need a new non-sucky laptop...

2007-10-01 Thread Chris Kuethe
Through mysterious circumstances, my Thinkpad T42 disappeared in the Minneapolis airport today. I know it went into the xray machine. I know I didn't have it in my carry-on when I got home. When and where it went between those two points, I cannot say. I've called the airports, the airlines, the T

Re: 4.2 and compactflash

2007-09-26 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 9/26/07, Chris Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question is: do I still need to mount / ro on current cf cards or do they have > enough write cycles? Go ahead and mount rw. I've put a couple of terabytes through a 256M card with iogen, and it's doing fine. The wear-leveling mechanisms on the

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 9/22/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone who knows both the details of OBSDs security enhancements > and the details of SELinux comment? A capsule summary of the situation is: OpenBSD aims to improve security by taking advantage of easy-to-use, hard-to-disable, low-

Re: lock(1) to lock all virtual terminals?

2007-09-23 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 9/23/07, Todd Alan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does "lock -nv" not work? I just read about this in "BSD Hacks" last > night, oddly enough. # lock -nv lock: unknown option -- v usage: lock [-np] [-a style] [-t timeout] -np will at least lock the terminal with your password and no timeout

Re: Intel motherboards and ACPI

2007-09-16 Thread Chris Kuethe
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=118975639013313&w=2 On 9/16/07, Micha3 Koc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have a bunch of machines based on Intel motherboards, most of them are > D945GCNL, > but unfortunately I'm not able to use SMP because of ACPI problems. > Beside the ker

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 Question

2007-09-06 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 9/6/07, Sam Fourman Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be some Examples of Network Cards that Support "interrupt > mitigation" lots of them, though they might call it different things. sometimes the hardware may "support" a "feature" but we don't enable it because it hurts more than i

Re: pagedaemon: deadlock detected

2007-08-02 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 8/2/07, Timo Schoeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i have an amd64 system running for about six months now flawlessly > (however, due to following -current, not with uptimes >10 days). > > today it crashed twice when i had two torrents active (not very big > ones, one 900MByte and one 13

Re: Dell sc440 / broadcom bcm5754 nic

2007-07-24 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 7/24/07, Charlie Farinella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you, I think this will solve my problem, but I have no idea how to proceed. I assume I need to recompile the kernel and swap out the new if_bge.c file for the one included with the OS. Is that correct? I've looked briefly at docs a

Re: Intel xeon fails to boot with 4.1 release

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 7/3/07, Austin Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks! What kind of an issue was it? You just had to increase the VM_PHYSSEG_MAX definition, or was that a misdirection? Just had to increase VM_PHYSSEG_MAX. BTW, way, how long does it take for such patches to show up in

Re: Intel xeon fails to boot with 4.1 release

2007-06-30 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 6/29/07, Austin Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trying to set up a fairly heavy duty web server I encountered boot problems with this fairly new machine using the release CD ROM. Using the -c command at the boot prompt I already see error messages, before it gives me the UKC> ... UVM_PAGE_PH

Re: How to run and manage a DNS server.

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 6/6/07, Karl R Balsmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... and restarted named/bind. -important because named/bind only parses the new changes in the config after a restart -maybe i'm wrong here but it's a good practice to get in the habit of [assuring daemons re-read config files after change

Re: Kernel interrupt timer?

2007-05-29 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 5/29/07, Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm new to OpenBSD and I'm trying to setup a traffic shaping router using pf and altq. The question I want to ask is: Can the kernel interrupt timer be increased from 100 hz? and if so how do I do that? I though there would have been a sysctl tunabl

Re: Zaurus upgrade to OpenBSD 4.1 network question

2007-05-23 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 5/23/07, William Bulley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) is the Netgear FA120 detected? (doesn't seem that it is until after I unplug/re-plug in the USB cable) Yes, though you may be asking for slightly too much power... 2) why do I have to unplug/re-plug in the USB cable for it

Re: Device modification time on /dev

2007-05-16 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 5/16/07, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't worry about your CF too much, they are designed to be written to! The main benefit of mounting RO is to avoid fsck. No kidding. I've been running iogen on a 256MB CF card for over a week now ... several hundred GB have been written/r

Re: OpenBSD serial terminal binary programs

2007-05-10 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 5/10/07, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if there's one thing that really bugs me when I'm working on a Linux system ( yes I do touch them on occasion ) is having to use minicom. Minicom is nice if you want to control logging during your session, and if you're doing something that m

Re: Tracking down bugs uncovered by enabling ``Pointer Protection''

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 5/2/07, Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've found a lot of documents cause xpdf to crash when using MALLOC_OPTIONS=P, and now I've found a way to crash firefox as well. Does anyone have advice on tracking down and fixing these bugs? * build xpdf with debug symbols cd /usr/port

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