Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Gaby, This is how I approached the problem: Each user had a specified directory they could put files in, /var/www/users/bob or whatever. I simply set the proper permissions on that directory and did this: # ln -s /var/www/users/bob /home/bob/public_html Is there any reason this simple soluti

Re: rdist notify@ broken?

2006-02-07 Thread Matthew S Elmore
At the very least, it does make me feel better that it is not just me. :) Perhaps we should file a bug report on the issue? Joachim Schipper wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:07:59AM -0600, Matthew S Elmore wrote: Greetings misc@, I am using rdist (with ssh as the transport) to update files

rdist notify@ broken?

2006-02-06 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Greetings misc@, I am using rdist (with ssh as the transport) to update files from one machine to another. This works fine, except that it does not send the notify message once it is complete. When running rdist from the command line, it hangs here: $ sudo rdist -o remove -f /etc/Distfile.n

Re: dhcpd pid file

2006-02-02 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Thanks Henning. That did the trick for me. pkill works wonderfully. Henning Brauer wrote: * Matthew S Elmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-01-27 20:55]: Though I have been successfully running dhcpd myself for a few years now, it has come to my attention when writing some scripts t

dhcpd pid file

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Greetings misc@, Though I have been successfully running dhcpd myself for a few years now, it has come to my attention when writing some scripts to help maintain systems that there is no /var/run/dhcpd.pid file. Is this by design? If so, is it possible to have it generate the pid file on sta

login class help

2006-01-26 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Greetings misc@, I am having an unusual problem attempting to setup ftp-chroot for users via login.conf(5). I have added (what I believe to be) the proper declarations for the desired login class, as well as the default class. From what I understand, ftpd(8) has login class support enabled

Re: OpenBSD for Sun Cobalt Qube3

2006-01-19 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Greetings, I'm not sure about this specific model but... the Cobalt stuff, in most cases, has a very unusual boot loader (a Linux kernel that can only boot only certain type binaries IIRC) that would make it impossible to boot a BSD kernel. I do recall seeing where someone was able to boot F

Re: Apple MacBook Pro support

2006-01-11 Thread Matthew S Elmore
No, the preproduction systems were desktop, not portable systems. They were basically standard PC guts in a G5 case. Timo Schoeler wrote: Thus Nick Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:40:26 -0500: I have one of the developer transition systems: Machine Name: Apple Devel

bioctl weirdness - wha???

2006-01-10 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Greetings misc@ (Marco in particular! :), I am having some unusual issues with bioctl while using an ami-based RAID card. The card is a LSI/Symbios MegaRAID 150-4 (FW 713N) in a 64-bit PCI slot. Drives are Seagate SATA drives. Case is a Supermicro 5033C-T with built-in drive cage. Currentl

Re: RAID controller recommendation

2005-11-22 Thread Matthew S Elmore
machine? By managing, I mean from controlling audible alarms to rebuilding or creating arrays. If someone can point me to something more specific, or recommend a specific piece of hard to use, I will be thrilled! Many thanks! Matt Brandon Mercer wrote: Matthew S Elmore wrote: Greetings misc

RAID controller recommendation

2005-11-22 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Greetings misc@, I am currently building a mail server and would like to utilize OpenBSD with a SATA RAID setup. We need preferably a multi-channel controller, to do two mirrored arrays (both 2x160GB). If we must, we can use two single-channel controllers. The ability to rebuild a damaged or

Re: Telnet daemon retired in 3.8 ?

2005-11-08 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Martin, That's what I was looking for. Many thanks! :) Matt Martin Ekendahl wrote: http://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/inetutils.html Download that and just compile the telnet server Ta Da! -Martin Matthew S Elmore wrote: I cannot appear to locate a telnet daemon in 3.8 installs no

Telnet daemon retired in 3.8 ?

2005-11-07 Thread Matthew S Elmore
I cannot appear to locate a telnet daemon in 3.8 installs now. It appears to have silently disappeared between 3.7 and 3.8. I see no mention of this in the release notes or after a cursory search of the mailing lists. It's possible it is mentioned somewhere and I am missing it. I understand

Re: Small office samba on OpenBSD

2005-07-06 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Seems like a waste to me. I tend to replace those routers WITH openbsd boxes. As long as you keep the box updated and your pf rules sane (block smb from outside world, etc) there is absolutely nothing to be worried about really. Kevin Roosdahl wrote: Scenario: 5 PC's --- 10/100 switch -- Op

Re: spamd and comcast

2005-06-29 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Jason Crawford wrote: So just because I'm too poor to get a colocated server, if I want to run my own mail server, I'm just shit out of luck? Yes. That seems unacceptable to me. Life sucks. Look, I do not want this to turn into a flamewar. Those are reserved for slashdot, not [EMAIL PR

Re: spamd and comcast

2005-06-29 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Probably because a very high percentage of spam comes from comcast IP space. Their customer base is completely clueless. If someone is complaining, tell them to send through a non blacklisted SMTP server. That IP space is in the list for a reason. On Jun 29, 2005, at 12:23 AM, eric wrote: Has

Re: Strange df output

2005-06-25 Thread Matthew S Elmore
un out at 100% than at 95%. Of course this requires that root runs out at something over 100%. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew S Elmore Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Stra

Re: Strange df output

2005-06-25 Thread Matthew S Elmore
s not "available". When everybody has run out of disk space, it is very helpful if the situation does NOT apply to root. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew S Elmore Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:35 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subjec

Re: Strange df output

2005-06-25 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Whichever definition the 'df -h' command is using. I'm assuming it's consistent in its use itself. ;) On Jun 25, 2005, at 11:45 PM, Chris wrote: Matthew S Elmore wrote: Can anyone explain this math to me? 490M - 32.8M != 433M Not that it's a big deal but just wo

Strange df output

2005-06-25 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Can anyone explain this math to me? 490M - 32.8M != 433M Not that it's a big deal but just wondering where that bit of space went. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/matt$ df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 490M 32.8M433M 7%/

Re: latest sudo patch 003 (3.7) SOLVED

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Thanks much, Todd, that did the trick. Silly me! -Matt Matthew S Elmore wrote: That would make sense. I will refetch from -stable cvs and try again. Thanks Todd C. Miller wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so spake Matthew S Elmore (elmore): This is on 3.7/sparc64. Source

Re: latest sudo patch 003 (3.7)

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew S Elmore
That would make sense. I will refetch from -stable cvs and try again. Thanks Todd C. Miller wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> so spake Matthew S Elmore (elmore): This is on 3.7/sparc64. Sources were fetched last night via anoncvs (OPENBSD_3_7) and patch 003 was a

latest sudo patch 003 (3.7)

2005-06-21 Thread Matthew S Elmore
; please report this error at http://courtesan.com/sudo/bugs/ Is there something I am missing? Regards, Matt -- Matthew S Elmore dbTechnology Inc.Tuscaloosa, AL www.dbtech.net (205) 556-9020

Re: phpbb

2005-06-17 Thread Matthew S Elmore
This question has been beaten to death. (I was the one of the ones doing the beating). Search the archives. It involves putting the mysql socket inside the chroot or forcing whatever software you are using to connect over the TCP socket. (Hint: You need a file /etc/my.cnf) Bryan Irvine wro

Re: Disklabel problems (3.7/sparc64)

2005-06-16 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Kurt, Thanks much! > g d did the trick. Regards, Matt Kurt Miller wrote: From: "Matthew S Elmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > a partition: [k] offset: [55625472] The OpenBSD portion of the disk ends at sector 16514064, you tried to add a partition at 55625472. You can

Disklabel problems (3.7/sparc64)

2005-06-16 Thread Matthew S Elmore
rrupt pcons at mainbus0 not configured No counter-timer -- using %tick at 299MHz as system clock. root on wd0a rootdev=0xc00 rrootdev=0x1a00 rawdev=0x1a02 -- Matthew S Elmore dbTechnology Inc.Tuscaloosa, AL www.dbtech.net (205) 556-9020

Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?

2005-06-14 Thread Matthew S Elmore
http://www.openbsd.org/users.html is a good place to start looking James Harless wrote: I know that several firewall vendors use various flavors of Linux as the basis for their devices. Are there any that use OpenBSD similarly? If so, which? Any comments on the devices? Links would be appre

Re: MySQL issues

2005-06-09 Thread Matthew S Elmore
/www/mysql/mysql.sock no other changes below this Restart apache, be sure your php4/5-mysql packages are installed properly and you should be good to go! It need not be very complicated! Matt Matthew S Elmore wrote: For your needs, you can use mostly the default settings. Look in /usr

Re: MySQL issues

2005-06-09 Thread Matthew S Elmore
For your needs, you can use mostly the default settings. Look in /usr/local/share/mysql There will be several files called my-small.cnf, my-large.cnf, etc. Copy my-small.etc to /etc/my.cnf. Edit the file and change the two lines where it references the mysql socket. Remove any links you made

Re: PKG_ADD Gnome on 3.7 PPC

2005-06-07 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Simon, I recently ran into the same problem. I had to compile the applets from the ports tree. If I recall correctly, I had to make some changes to libFLAC's Makefile. (Something to do with the configure script). Here is a link to the gnome applets macppc package as well as the flac package

Re: G3 iMac not seeing all of disk

2005-06-03 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Otto, Thanks for help friend. Of course, when I went back to look, that command seemed to appear in extra large bold type. ;) Many thanks! Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Matthew S Elmore wrote: Greetings misc@, I have run into a problem attempting to install OpenBSD 3.7 on a

G3 iMac not seeing all of disk

2005-06-03 Thread Matthew S Elmore
enBSD. Regards, Matt -- Matthew S Elmore dbTechnology Inc.Tuscaloosa, AL www.dbtech.net (205) 556-9020

Re: Apache chroot and webmail - what is it trying to use?

2005-06-03 Thread Matthew S Elmore
hosts and resolv.conf seemed to do the trick. Thanks much guys! Wijnand Wiersma wrote: Sometimes adding a etc/hosts file helps in the chroot. I hope this helps. Wijnand -- Matthew S Elmore dbTechnology Inc.Tuscaloosa, AL www.dbtech.net

Apache chroot and webmail - what is it trying to use?

2005-06-02 Thread Matthew S Elmore
this error: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: non-recoverable failure in name resolution I cannot tell what resource it is trying to access. Can anyone give me a pointer on where to look? Thanks much! Matt -- Matthew S Elmore

Re: Host AP using DWL-520 and Sun Ultra5

2005-05-31 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Support for many wireless cards was improved in 3.7. Perhaps you will have better luck with the latest release? Kevin Elliott wrote: Hello, Now that I've sent a "test" email to list and recived the collective hatred of it's members, I'll try posting my support-related question again. Sorry,

Cpanel or similar software for OpenBSD

2005-05-26 Thread Matthew S Elmore
? Regards, Matt -- Matthew S Elmore dbTechnology Inc.Tuscaloosa, AL www.dbtech.net (205) 556-9020

Re: 3.7 is released!

2005-05-19 Thread Matthew S Elmore
Excellent! I have already upgraded everything seems to be running great. :) Is it your birthday Theo? If so, make it a happy one! Theo de Raadt wrote: May 19, 2005. We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 3.7. This is our 17th release on CD-ROM (and 18th via FTP). We remain prou