Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

2008-12-12 Thread Scott Francis
2008/12/12 Aram Havarneanu : > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Scott Francis wrote: >> in theory, you could install the linux compatibility packages (see >> compat_linux(8)) and run e.g. VMware Server as a platform for a >> Windows VM. I haven't tried this myself yet

Re: Running another OS under OpenBSD

2008-12-11 Thread Scott Francis
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Jeff_1981 wrote: > Dear All, > > Please can you indicate me how to run Windows or Linux under OpenBSD ? > Under Linux for example there is possibility to virtualize another OS. in theory, you could install the linux compatibility packages (see compat_linux(8)) an

Re: Zen of Chroot Apache + Perl

2006-08-18 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/16/06, Jack J. Woehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I understand but want to check before I do something silly. I have OBSD 3.9 + chrooted apache + mod_perl after apxs. Now, to actually run perl cgi's I have to copy /usr/bin/perl and all relevant libs over to /var/www? Is there an aut

Re: Open BSD commands

2006-06-29 Thread Scott Francis
On 6/28/06, Ajith Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have two silly questions.. How to see the memoy details of a OpenBSD machine using commands ? How to see the processor details of a OpenBSD machine using commands ? [snip ridiculous boilerplate disclaimer] the canonical answer is dmesg(

Re: Where to start studying OpenBSD networking code

2006-06-28 Thread Scott Francis
On 6/28/06, joakinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings to all, I'm a programmer and network administrator and want to study the code of OpenBSD related to TCP/IP & Ethernet to understand networking from inside and also to see if I can be of any help to the rest of developers. I'm interested

Re: Throughput Problem OpenBSD3.9 soekris 4801 isakmpd

2006-06-28 Thread Scott Francis
On 6/28/06, Thomas Bvrnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Has everyone an idea what's the problem. Is there a way to get a higher throughput with encryption ? yes. Buy a vpn1411 hardware crypto accelerator for your net4801. In fact, you could have bought one when you purchased the soekris. I

Re: starting Apache in SSL mode

2006-06-26 Thread Scott Francis
On 6/26/06, FTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I was trying to start Apache in SSL mode and I did follow the http://openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#HTTPS steps. After that I issued "apachectl startssl" and everything went fine. Now, when I point to the https:// from my server I get an "unabl

Re: How to pass mount protocol traffic (mountd/NFS) using pf?

2006-06-23 Thread Scott Francis
On 6/23/06, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mountd > > It's definitely possible (Free and Net both offer the -p option). I think that is completely ridiculous. Hardcoding RPC utilities to non-random ports to try to tie it to someth

Re: How to pass mount protocol traffic (mountd/NFS) using pf?

2006-06-23 Thread Scott Francis
On 6/21/06, Clint Pachl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Because portmap(8) dynamically assigns the mountd(8) port, how would one write a pass rule in pf for mountd(8) traffic? My problem is that every time mountd(8) is re/started, it operates on a different port and my fixed pf rules block the mount p

Re: Anonym.OS - OpenBSD-based live CD

2006-01-23 Thread Scott Francis
On 1/22/06, NetNeanderthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/22/06, Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you mean, aside from including man38.tgz? What else are you looking > > for? There's some docs on their website, but why would you need > > a

Re: Anonym.OS - OpenBSD-based live CD

2006-01-22 Thread Scott Francis
On 1/19/06, NetNeanderthal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I'm less than impressed with it after mounting the iso and viewing the > contents. Their documentation is poor, if not void of content > altogether. you mean, aside from including man38.tgz? What else are you looking for? There's some

Anonym.OS - OpenBSD-based live CD

2006-01-18 Thread Scott Francis
Surprisingly, nobody else has mentioned this on-list yet (perhaps because it's been all over the news elsewhere): http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=anonym.os&btnG=Search+News I'm not in the least surprised that OpenBSD was chosen as the base for a live CD focused on privacy, anonymity and

Re: dual boot XP , Openbsd

2005-10-12 Thread Scott Francis
On 10/8/05, Roelof Wobben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > On this moment I have XP on my system. > Now i want a dual boot XP and Openbsd. > > XP has now the first 20 GB of total 40 GB. > When install Openbsd after XP i get a problem regarding the install > instructions. > But when i first i

Re: Volume based internet restrictions

2005-09-09 Thread Scott Francis
On 9/5/05, Fletch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greets > > I am setting up an openbsd router to manage a companies intenet access, > and would like to deploy volume based internet usage. I have setup > squid, but it doesn't seem to have any options to limit a user by volume > of traffic, only ban

Re: twiki

2005-08-22 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/21/05, Johan P. Lindstrvm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to co-write an installation guide for twiki (it's in > packages) for us less seasoned obsd monglers, I am finding it > not-so-straight-forward and would like to help every one else on their > way, does anyone know whom I may c

Re: How to patch a physically weak system & recommended use of sudo?

2005-08-18 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/18/05, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > 2. Alot of you seem to use sudo instead of su - when you want to do > > something that requires privileges. Why is this? What settings are > > you using for sudo? > > Various reasons .. if you use sudo on each command you want to e

Re: software testing

2005-08-04 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/4/05, Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I asked to see how the box would behave in terms of performance. go grab the oldest PC you can find and you'll probably have roughly equivalent CPU and RAM performance. I hope you're not considering disk I/O as part of "performance", because Soe

Re: Soekris & OBSD as servers

2005-08-04 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/4/05, Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to set a obsd and soekris boxes as a server for about 100 users. > This box is supposed to handle NIS + Kerberos. > > Does such configuration can handle the task ? I mean on a performance matter. > Does anybody have such configurati

Re: chroot sftp/sftp-server help needed...

2005-08-04 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/2/05, Michael C. Ibarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just ran into a wall with the scponly option: > > "If you do use chroot(), your binary will need to be setuid." > > I'll pass on that one for now... systrace could probably mitigate most of the risk here ... (privsep, if you're good enoug

Re: chroot sftp/sftp-server help needed...

2005-08-02 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/2/05, Michael C. Ibarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Scott; > > Ran across this one yesterday, just wasn't sure how secure it is as > sftp-only. So far it looks like this will be what I may use, throwing > in tcp-wrappers. not a lot of difference between scp and sftp (aside from sftp bei

Re: chroot sftp/sftp-server help needed...

2005-08-02 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/1/05, Michael C. Ibarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I am currently migrating/upgrading an entire farm of servers from > RedHat Linux & Solaris to current and one of the roadblocks I am > encountering is setting a chrooted sftp. I am aware of chroot.sf, but > am looking for a solution

Re: raidctl -P all in /etc/rc

2005-07-08 Thread Scott Francis
about it, and can manually mount the filesystem later after parity is fixed. I posted about this a few days ago; check the archives. (as I said earlier, my method may turn out to be a Bad Idea for some reason that hasn't occurred to me yet; if this is the case, I'd appreciate a heads-up

Re: Testing 3.6 problems w/ snapshot

2005-07-05 Thread Scott Francis
-t blk If this is a Really Bad Idea, I'd appreciate a heads-up to that effect. re-lurking, -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 Less and less is done until non-action is achieved