Re: insecure scheduler in OpenBSD 4.7

2010-10-11 Thread Firas Kraiem
On 11/10/2010 23:12, Dmitry-T wrote: 12.10.10, 00:54, Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Dmitry-T wrote: Run as _normal user_: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null It is not secure. One user script or program may load CPU and database or another

Re: Wireless Connection Problem - Verizon MiFi2200

2010-09-28 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi On 29/09/2010 03:23, Carl Trachte wrote: ifconfig iwi0 up nwid network id nwkey 01234567891 The key is probably in hex, so prefix it with 0x. Firas

Re: pci wireless card for AP

2010-08-11 Thread Firas Kraiem
On 11/08/2010 17:08, Matt Bettinger wrote: I am looking for recommendations on an pci wireless (b/g) card that will do hostap and wpa. I checked out the HCL and noticed the Zonet 1600 is supported by ral

Re: code for fun

2010-07-18 Thread Firas Kraiem
On 18/07/2010 12:27, Aaron Lewis wrote: Hi, how can i determine the maximum size of `double' without printing out DOUBLE_MAX ? And what about the precision of a `double' , anyone give a try ? Google ain't giving much information , i just can't figure out , it's very funny

Re: OT: Re: code for fun

2010-07-18 Thread Firas Kraiem
Assuming 64-bit double, it has a mantissa of 52 bits and an exponent of 11 bits. If the mantissa is all-ones, that will give a significant of 2-2^(-52). The exponent cannot be all-ones (an all-ones exponent means infinity or NaN), so the largest exponent is 2^11-2 = 2046, minus bias

Re: Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-24 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Thursday 24 January 2008 14:02:28 markus ploner wrote: just for the record: you could've just dd'ed the floppy42.fs to the usb device this has worked for me several times. markus Really ? I tried that but it didn't seem to work... -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\

Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-23 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings everyone :) So here's the deal, I have : - An i386 machine with no floppy or CDROM drive that I'm willing to install OpenBSD on - A nice and shiny 4.2 CD-set - A 2 GB USB flash drive Because I'm stingy and I don't want to spend fifty bucks on an USB CDROM drive when installation is

Re: Install OpenBSD from USB ?

2008-01-23 Thread Firas Kraiem
, boot from the USB drive, type bsd.rd at the boot prompt, voil` :) Firas Firas Kraiem wrote: Greetings everyone :) So here's the deal, I have : - An i386 machine with no floppy or CDROM drive that I'm willing to install OpenBSD on - A nice and shiny 4.2 CD-set - A 2 GB USB flash

Re: System update errors

2007-12-16 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Sunday 16 December 2007 17:13:49 Per-Olov SjC6holm wrote: Hi I have today updated (well tried) two OpenBSD -STABLE systems. One 4.0 and one 4.1. First the kernel update and a reboot... No problem Then a make obj make build of the userland. This gave me the following error after a

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-16 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Sunday 16 December 2007 23:24:48 David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: Ray Percival wrote: On Dec 16, 2007, at 11:58 AM, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: Marco Peereboom wrote: You can use OpenBSD to build a baby mulcher or a nookyoular weapon and you have the choice to retain the source code. You

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-16 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Monday 17 December 2007 03:44:39 Rod Whitworth wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:20:19 -0500, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: So if I write a non-free insecure kernel and install it via ports that is acceptable. You are trying to argue both pragmatism and principle concurrently, You are obviously

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Saturday 15 December 2007 21:37:37 Mattieu Baptiste wrote: This is to me simply pathetic that you don't admit all the merits, qualities and efforts regarding freedom that OpenBSD developpers made. http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html Not to mention the countless times Richard

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Saturday 15 December 2007 23:50:38 Mattieu Baptiste wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 11:46 PM, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what ? Are you telling me that, just because there is one thing about which Richard disagrees with OpenBSD, he shouldn't have the right to also tell the good he

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Saturday 15 December 2007 23:27:25 Mattieu Baptiste wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 11:11 PM, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention the countless times Richard acknowledged all the positive contributions of OpenBSD as a whole to the Free Software movement, including in this very

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Sunday 16 December 2007 02:28:12 Marc Balmer wrote: Richard Stallman wrote: For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Friday 14 December 2007 21:49:23 Richard Stallman wrote: When speaking privately to someone I know is not likely to install non-free software, that is true. I can say to him, You could use OpenBSD, as long as you take care, if you use the ports system, to check that the programs you

Re: smarthost and sendmail on 4.2

2007-11-29 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi With modified DS sendmail still tries to send mail out directly Your config file seems okay, are you _sure_ sendmail is currently using the right one ? You can check it in /var/run/sendmail.pid Firas -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against

Re: Passive ftp problem: 425 error

2007-11-29 Thread Firas Kraiem
Hi Doug Milam wrote: The machine also sits on a LAN behind a router which currently only allows in port 21, but allows out everything. Suggestions welcome! Tried allowing in the high port used for passive connections ? Firas -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\

Non-ASCII input in console

2007-10-21 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings As the title says, I'd like to know how I could input non-ASCII characters in the console. I'm using OpenBSD 4.1 with the Bash shell (which supposedly supports Unicode). I've read the FAQ from A to Z and did a couple hours of googling but couldn't find anything about this, so any

Re: machine which freeze with openbsd 4.2

2007-10-21 Thread Firas Kraiem
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Denise H. G. a icrit : Try to boot without X and see if it still hangs. If it does not, this might be the problem of Xorg (the `nv' driver ?) Thanks for you response. I tested again and again this release of openbsd and my machine. I have the problem, with or

Re: machine which freeze with openbsd 4.2

2007-10-21 Thread Firas Kraiem
Nicolas Letellier wrote: Firas Kraiem a icrit : Salut ;) I have the very same problem on my laptop (running 4.2) and I've discovered that the freezings stop if I'm not using the built-in NIC (Realtek Gigabit 8169) but use an USB wifi adapter instead. If you also have a Realtek, maybe

Re: SMP

2007-09-13 Thread Firas Kraiem
Cyrus wrote: Im currently running openbsd 4.1 on my server, Proliant 8500. This server is SMP with 4x 700MHz PIII proc. Im just wondering, is it using all four cpu's? or do I have to configure the system to utilize SMP? P.S. I did show my appreciation, and I bought a CD! Thank you,

Re: Possible mug in mini_sendmail-chroot.

2007-08-09 Thread Firas Kraiem
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/08/09 04:02, Firas Kraiem wrote: I'm using the sendmail binary found in the mini_sendmail-chroot package to be able to use the mail() function in PHP pages. s/mini_sendmail/femail/ should fix this. It's pretty much drop-in, but by default looks up

Possible mug in mini_sendmail-chroot.

2007-08-08 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings, I'm using the sendmail binary found in the mini_sendmail-chroot package to be able to use the mail() function in PHP pages. However, it simply refuses to send mail when I specify the recipient address in the form Name [EMAIL PROTECTED]. For the example, let's consider the

Re: Can't find XF4 Folder

2007-07-25 Thread Firas Kraiem
Ramesh K Andey wrote: Hi Guys I am trying to install 004_xorg.patch 008_xorg.patch in BSD4.1 but can't find the XF4 folder in the system. Help Appreciated. Thanks And Hi The XF4 folder contains the source code for X. It is not present out of the box, you can get it either in a tarball

Re: ssh and sudo, password not hidden

2007-06-30 Thread Firas Kraiem
Tom Van Looy wrote: Hi Today I used sudo as command to ssh and it echoed my sudo password. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ ssh soekris sudo pfctl -s state [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: Password:secret_in_echo output of pfctl / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ I don't see anything about this in the manpage

Re: following stable, extra file sets?

2007-06-30 Thread Firas Kraiem
Aaron wrote: Just a quick, hopefully easy, question for everyone. I just installed a new 4.1 system, took a look at my options for keeping it up to date and decided that 'stable' would be best for me. When i installed i chose bsd, base41, etc41, comp41 and man41. I went through the

Mail server in that environment, possible ?

2007-06-23 Thread Firas Kraiem
Greetings, people :) This is not really an OBSD-specific question but since the machine I plan to do this on is running OBSD, I figured out I would post here, please don't throw pointing objects at me ;) So, here's the deal, I have a few machines behind a NAT gateway (router/modem provided by my