Re: maybe OT 8 year anniversay of Chuck Yerkes death

2012-08-27 Thread Christopher Linn
amp;m=**109385676632581&w=2 > > Just wanted to remember you Chuck, take it easy wherever you are. > > diana > > -- Christopher Linn

Re: Most secure Operating-System?

2011-09-05 Thread Christopher Linn
hi alec, - Alec Taylor wrote: > Good evening, > > What's the most secure operating system? > > /me is thinking OpenBSD > > Features required: > TCP/IP Suite with IPv4 and IPv6 (yeah, I know, big security loss by > incorporating Internet access!) > GUI > Web-server (with HTTPS capabiliti

Re: mouse cursor keeps jumping up and left in latest snapshot

2010-06-03 Thread Christopher Linn
i'll cautiously jump in and report on this one. On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 05:25:18PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 04:46:27PM +0200, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > today I upgraded my system to the latest snapshot from some -current > > version end of ap

Mirror Services restored at obsd.cec.mtu.edu second level mirror

2010-01-24 Thread Christopher Linn
syncing as of approximately 14:00 EST US. We apologize for the inconvenience. Sincerely, Chris Linn, Maintainer -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions

service outage at obsd.cec.mtu.edu second level OpneBSD mirror

2010-01-22 Thread Christopher Linn
Unfortunately we here at obsd.cec.mtu.edu have experienced a hardware failure with our system. We have a replacement system, however there is much work to be done to transfer hardware components from the now-dead production system to the backup/spare. If we are lucky the mirror should be in p

Re: Current fails to boot a Dell R300

2010-01-04 Thread Christopher Linn
ago by > dlg@, or wait for the next snapshot to be ready. > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/atapiscsi/atapiscsi.c?rev=1.85 > > May fix your problem. > > Best, > > Daniel > -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System

Re: Web Browsers

2009-12-18 Thread Christopher Linn
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:25:13PM +, nixlists wrote: > Hi. People on this list are security-conscious. I wonder what browsers they > use? > What browsers do you consider more secure than others? > Granted, they're all full of all kinds of holes, but what do you do to > tighten their security?

Re: mount /usr partition nosuid

2009-12-03 Thread Christopher Linn
ckages) in /usr/local. in the new install script the disk auto-layout feature creates a separate /usr/local partition; do this and mount it nosuid... THEN run "find /usr/local -perm 4555 -ls" to see what apps you are breaking 8*) cel -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either

Re: mount /usr partition nosuid

2009-12-03 Thread Christopher Linn
unning 4.6 release generic i386 > thanks, Mark why do you want to do this? (what problem are you trying to solve?) cel -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation

dmesg oddities, amd64 (c2d), (GENERIC.MP) #101

2009-05-07 Thread Christopher Linn
i understand that the extent prints are normal debug stuff in the snap, hoever i also see {io,mem} address conflict lines in there too. just upgraded to this snap from -release. the system appears to be functioning normally. i was gently prodded to report this along with pcidump -xx output, wh

Re: Memory and Swap Info

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Linn
0 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Re: Slow SATA write speeds with SMB

2009-04-20 Thread Christopher Linn
ight on that.. > > Hope your balls get better soon. estwing? i think not. more like some low grade foundry in China.. -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | f

Re: I can't download OpenBSD 4.5, "550 /pub/OpenBSD/4.5: Permission denied."

2009-04-16 Thread Christopher Linn
you will likely not be able to do this until 4.5 is released on may 1st. cel -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Tech

Re: Article about network monitoring system developed on OpenBSD

2009-02-02 Thread Christopher Linn
in the project and has > link to the article or homepage. would this be it: ? http://labs.omniti.com/trac/reconnoiter/ > -- > best regards > q# cel -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable

Re: bash for root?

2008-12-02 Thread Christopher Linn
at you are doing.. cel p.s. 13+ years experience system management with NeXT, SunOS{4.x,5.x}, MacOS, OpenBSD (2.2 to present), Linux, OSF1/Tru64. -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Ex

Re: New cpuid code to test

2008-10-20 Thread Christopher Linn
very sorry, mangled my reply and didn't catch it. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:15:27AM -0400, Christopher Linn wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:59:00AM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Julian Leyh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > make a

Re: New cpuid code to test

2008-10-20 Thread Christopher Linn
, version 1, for OpenBSD, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), not stripped cpuid.c: ASCII C program text $ ./cpuid Found 686 class CPU with CPUID support. [...lots of stuff...] -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in

Re: New cpuid code to test

2008-10-20 Thread Christopher Linn
. I'll stick to gcc by hand :) > OTOH you should embrace the bsd make infrastructure.. -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conj

Re: Does OpenBSD only allow 19 Interfaces

2008-09-24 Thread Christopher Linn
: No such file or directory > > When I look in /dev I see bpf0 through bpf9. > > Hope this helps. > > Thanks, > Carl > -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Exper

Re: Pentium III speed?

2008-09-16 Thread Christopher Linn
0x41445303 (Analog Devices AD1819) ac97: codec features Analog Devices Phat Stereo audio0 at yds0 opl0 at yds0: model OPL3 midi1 at opl0: mpu at yds0 not configured mpu at yds0 not configured mpu at yds0 not configured mpu at yds0 not configured pckbc: command timeout pckbc: command timeout pckbc: command timeout -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Re: stupid suggestion

2008-09-12 Thread Christopher Linn
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:15:22PM +0200, Joseph A Borg wrote: > can you people start treating mass storage like network security? > I think it's becoming the next weak spot with the current changes in > hard-disk densities, cheap, easily accessible solutions and hot-swap > sata drives so what

Re: openbsd web server failure

2008-08-04 Thread Christopher Linn
d be instructive for those just beginning with CGI on chroot'd > Apache. The more people that can put competently put together a decent > web service, the better. > > regards, > -Lars me three 8*) cel -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administr

Re: incomplete set in snapshots amd64

2008-07-31 Thread Christopher Linn
gt; ftp://mirrors.nic.funet.fi/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64 > than the apparently complete version: > ftp://anga.funkfeuer.at/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/amd64/ i get this from the snaps dated 29 july, and only base44.tgz. snapshots/amd64 dated 30 july do not have this problem. cel -- Christophe

Re: OpenBSD 4.3 released May 1, 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Christopher Linn
were.) snapshots are twitchy things, if you use them you really need to pay close attention to what is going on. cel -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Re: How to HIDE "OpenBSD" as user-agent?

2008-04-29 Thread Christopher Linn
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:18:38AM -0600, macintoshzoom wrote: > How to HIDE "OpenBSD" as user-agent? > > For security reasons it is sometimes interesting to hide GLOBALLLY th [...] in my opinion this is ridiculous. no, wait, it is a troll. cel -- Christopher Linn

Re: Permission problems using NFS on OpenBSD 4.2

2008-04-18 Thread Christopher Linn
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:16:58AM -0600, Gregorio Arvilla wrote: [...] > -Original Message- > From: Gregorio Arvilla > Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 9:10 AM > To: 'Christopher Linn' > Subject: RE: Permission problems using NFS on OpenBSD 4.2 > > Cel

Re: Permission problems using NFS on OpenBSD 4.2

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher Linn
command and the output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] greg]# mount -t nfs 10.10.1.110:/public_nfs /home/greg/mnt > mount: 10.10.1.110:/public_nfs failed, reason given by server: > Permission denied > [EMAIL PROTECTED] greg]# > > > I'm wondering if you can tell me what

Re: man ftp site is very slow

2008-03-07 Thread Christopher Linn
> Arthur > > - Original Message - > From: "Christopher Linn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Openbsd Misc (E-mail)" > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:08 PM > Subject: Re: man ftp site is very slow &

Re: man ftp site is very slow

2008-03-07 Thread Christopher Linn
e many ftp mirrors? please see http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html. cel -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological

Re: floppy.fs

2008-03-05 Thread Christopher Linn
cppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask fdfd netmask fffd ttymask softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b -- Christopher Linn | By no means

Re: delete deleted data

2008-01-01 Thread Christopher Linn
furnace in you garage, get a good hardwood fire going, pop the disk in there, and stoak it again in 2 hours. there you go. cel -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Re: mutt and Stallman

2007-12-16 Thread Christopher Linn
> > Anyway hopefully my recipe will come in handy for future occasions. > > History repeats itself... > > -Girish -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Christopher Linn
http://xkcd.com/356/ -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Re: PLEASE DO NOT PUBLISH MY LAST email!!!! [ Re: Real men don't attack straw men]

2007-12-12 Thread Christopher Linn
yone. > That is not my intention. > > thank you. > -BG [...] -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technol

Re: Uncommon behavior after installing -current

2007-12-10 Thread Christopher Linn
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 04:56:39PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I noticed some crazy behavior lately, dmesg?

Re: Could Hiawatha replace Apache as in base HTTP server if it's license changed?

2007-12-07 Thread Christopher Linn
This horse is dead, Jim. Well, fix it, Bones. Sorry Jim, there's no way to do that. Damnit, Bones. -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinio

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-06 Thread Christopher Linn
to > > where it is written up. Maybe we're not looking in the right part of > > the FAQ. > > > > -Lars -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computati

Re: need help with softraid

2007-11-20 Thread Christopher Linn
i'm wondering if i missed something that should be obvious... On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:55:27AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: [...] > 2. Boot with softraid enabled with RAID partitions without any >filesystem on the softraid volume. > - Here is an example of creating a sofraid volume: >

Re: OpenBSD sucks

2007-06-05 Thread Christopher Linn
you know, this might just be the misc@ thread i've been waiting for all these years. a troll happens, and then the community just chuckles a bit, and otherwise just keeps on cruisin. HA. chris -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrat

Re: login and password

2007-05-04 Thread Christopher Linn
didn't make any mistakes. your login is "root", and the password you set is the one you want. chris -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opi

Re: ssh hangs from Ubunty Feisty 7.04 to OpenBSD

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Linn
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:42:17PM +0200, Joaquin Herrero wrote: > Hi, it seems that the new Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 has some broken things in ssh. have you tried the OpenSSH list? [EMAIL PROTECTED] chris -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator

Re: vi keys in mg

2007-04-03 Thread Christopher Linn
ought it was a bit strange but I > > completely missed the date for the whole day. > > > > -Nick > > > Mwa-ha-ha > > -kj > i feel soo silly now.. 8*) -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-16 Thread Christopher Linn
k the md5 and replace in bsd/ or wherever the kernel image is > stored? no. chris -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michi

Re: updating openbsd to current ...

2007-01-16 Thread Christopher Linn
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:38:23PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Use a snapshot. and then if you want to stay current, read the release(8) manual page, as well as http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html . chris -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator

Re: ifconfig commands for trunk0 to hostname.trunk0

2007-01-09 Thread Christopher Linn
ame.if > files? basically take the ifconfig command and put everything after > the interface name into the /etc/hostname.if file? hostname.if(5) -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Re: syslogd question

2006-02-10 Thread Christopher Linn
ering > > if I can set it up so that each of the AIX boxes gets its own log file on > > the openbsd box. Something like /var/log/aix1.log and /var/log/aix2.log. > > Sure, check out the man page for syslogd.conf(5). syslog.conf(5) -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall ei

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-09-01 Thread Christopher Linn
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:17:06PM -0500, Kevin wrote: > On 8/31/05, Christopher Linn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:12:07AM -0600, Peter Valchev wrote: > > > > I've been testing 3.8 on a couple of i386 systems (soon sparc also), > >

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-31 Thread Christopher Linn
but let us know of the details so this can be > fixed!! chris -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.