clustering SMP machines: MPICH2 build error

2005-07-30 Thread dick
lo all, i've been looking into clustering a couple dual-processor openbsd boxen (both running 3.7-release and bsd.mp) and haven't found very much documentation on the topic. i figured that either MPICH2 or PVM would be a good route, but i tried to compile MPICH2 from source and encountered errors.

gcc 2.95.3 to 3.3.5: compile errors

2005-08-08 Thread dick
greetz, me and a C++ programmer i know have a C++ program that would compile cleanly and run when using gcc 2.95.3 (from openbsd 3.6-release), but now that i've upgraded to 3.7-release, which uses gcc 3.3.5, he gets errors on compilation. since neither of us are very familiar with the details of u

PVM 3.4.5 on 3.6-release: compilation/library problem

2005-08-19 Thread dick
heya, i'm trying to get PVM 3.4.5 to compile from source on a 3.6-release system and have run into some problems. when i first attempted this, i got the following error: ... cc -DIMA_BSD386 -I../../include -I../../tracer -I../../src -DSOCKADHASLEN -DNOREXEC -DRSHCOMMAND=\"/usr/bin/rsh\" -DHASSTD

Re: CD-less upgrade question

2005-08-20 Thread dick
jay, >I've got some time this weekend, and would like to upgrade my 3.6 box to >3.7. I checked the upgrade instructions, but they are a bit vague >(deliberately?) wrt upgrading without cds. I seem to recall that >upgrading via bsd.rd was pretty straightforward... does this still work >provided

Re: Boot hanging following power out - it's worse

2005-08-20 Thread dick
gary, Original message >Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:13:32 -0700 >From: Gary Clemans-Gibbon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Boot hanging following power out - it's worse >Cc: OpenBSD misc-list > >I rebooted the box and now it is hanging with > >Automatic boot in progress: starting fi

Re: PVM 3.4.5 on 3.6-release: compilation/library problem

2005-08-20 Thread dick
alex, >Hi, I actually use PVM on Linux... > >2005/8/20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> cc -DIMA_BSD386 -I../../include -I../../tracer -I../../src >> -DSOCKADHASLEN -DNOREXEC -DRSHCOMMAND=\"/usr/bin/rsh\" >> -DHASSTDLIB -DNEEDMENDIAN -DHASERRORVA >> S -o pvm cons.o cmds.o job.o trc.o -

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-22 Thread dick
theo, >We ask our users to help us uncover and fix more of these bugs in >applications. Some will even be exploitable. Instead of saying that >OpenBSD is busted in this regard, please realize that the software >which is crashing is showing how shoddily it was written. Then help >us fix it. For

Re: RAID management support coming in OpenBSD 3.8

2005-09-09 Thread dick
>> how does openbsd's RAID support stack up to the other *BSDs? > >on a scale of 1 to 10, it's an awesome. > >-- >And that's why your software sucks. > just how awesome is it? when i read theo's anouncement i thought to myself "this is missing something". your having mentioned how awesome it is

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-11 Thread dick
>> Mexico's greatest exports to the US are poverty and disease. > >You ignorant fool. > depends on how you measure "greatest". i think several of the border states in the US declared a "state of emergency" about the most profitable, and probably best known, mexican export. ;) and no, it's not via

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-12 Thread dick
>> depends on how you measure "greatest". i think several of the >> border states in the US declared a "state of emergency" about >> the most profitable, and probably best known, mexican export. ;) >> >> and no, it's not viagra. >it's a big problem on both sides of the border. > >However, one is wo

shell script generator?

2005-09-14 Thread dick
i am relatively lazy and there are a number of configurations (e.g. mailserver, backup server, etc.) which i would like to generate shell scripts for. i have thought about making these scripts for quite a while, but i have been reticent to invest the time required to make the shell script by hand.

Re: wd0: soft error (corrected)

2005-09-16 Thread dick
>Hi > >I have two harddisks: > >wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: >wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 12982MB, 26588016 sectors >wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 >wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: >wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 78533MB, 160836480 sectors >wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mo

Re: wd0: soft error (corrected)

2005-09-16 Thread dick
marco, >ehm... no. > >Replacing your power supply was a coincidence. The disk was going >bad and reallocated the bad areas. By the time you replaced the >power supply it was simply done. > i have had a lot of problems with this drive, and it correlated very strongly with the hardware to whi

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-26 Thread dick
>> ...and when some idiot vendor changes chips without changing product >> code, what then? > >The virtual store is a half-baked idea, I know. I'm just looking for >additional ways to support OpenBSD. In the above case, I return the >product and inform the virtual store that the referral isn't go

LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X controller

2005-10-03 Thread dick
heya, i'm interested in getting an 8-channel SATA RAID controller that runs on the ami driver so i can use all the new neato RAID functionality for my backup server. i haven't seen anything in the archives about a known working controller like i've described, but i did see the LSI MegaRAID SATA 30

Re: unnumbered PPPoE

2005-10-10 Thread dick
>Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, bridge(4) doesn't support >pppoe(4) as a possible interface. I don't know why, but it just >rejects it. Anyone know of a workaround for this? I'm on a 100mb/s >FTTH line so a userland pppoe is not an option. > >Kory T i don't think you can filt

openAFS or arla support?

2005-10-12 Thread dick
heya, i'm interested in getting an AFS server setup, but openAFS 1.3.87 will not compile from source on 3.8-current (same as http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112867186930581&w=2). i also noticed that ober had posted a "howto" for getting openAFS working on openbsd 3.7 (see http://ww

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread dick
per, >We can argue back and forth on the pros and cons of building >1TB >partitions or not, but the need for these giant allocations are real >enough and from a commen/broader view (small business) the demand is >also moving closer and closer. At work we have a disk-to-disk backup >server for

RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-24 Thread dick
heya, i got an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X a couple weeks ago and i noticed it was not quite "behaving". by this i mean that i had a 200GB disk on which i had installed a 3.8 snapshot and i plugged it into the RAID controller and booted the machine. it loaded the kernel just fine, but when it came ti

Re: RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-25 Thread dick
jon and marco, thx for the quick replies. this is more or less what i expected. if you install through the RAID controller, shouldn't it autodetect the number of actually available sectors (i.e. the "full" size modulo that required for the RAID info)? that's the thing that really surprised me.

backup utilities: boxbackup?

2005-10-27 Thread dick
i'm currently using bzip2-ed dumps to backup my machines and i wonder if there is a better way to do it. by better i mean more secure and more automated than adding cron jobs. i am interested in encrypted backups, as i would prefer to have non-hijackable backups. i did see http://www.fluffy.co.uk/

Re: know any neat tricks for 2 * dhclient?

2005-10-27 Thread dick
>So there's no solution? I see now that the packet flow doesn't support it, >but logically it does make sense to want an IP from that DHCP server >to be given to the other interface, after all any systems hanging off that >interface *will* get an address from the DHCP server on the other >side of

Re: tried 3.0 not 3.7 and still can't get very far

2005-10-30 Thread dick
paul, >when I purchsed 3 there were all kinds of problems with loading on a laptop > >Now I purchsed 3.7 and it looks like this is the final end of the road >for openbsd and me > >I tolerated figuring out the wireless settings and even though there is >some reason for a huge time lag installing pa

isakmpd setup problem

2005-11-04 Thread dick
since i've heard that the new ipsec.conf and ipsecctl command simplify setting up vpns, i figured i would give the "old" way of isakmpd.conf another pass to help me figure out the new syntax. now that i have gone back and tried to setup isakmpd as a tunnel between two machines on my home newtork us

Re: isakmpd setup problem

2005-11-04 Thread dick
oops, didn't realize my attachments would get stripped. here are the "isakmpd -d -DA=10" and tcpdump outputs i mentioned in the first message: >i've included the outputs from each instance of isakmpd and a >tcpdump from the host in between them as attachments. isakmpd.peer-X.out: 085803.480596 D

Re: isakmpd setup problem

2005-11-04 Thread dick
heya, i tried this setup with IPV4 addresses on the same subnet (10.0.3.1 and 10.0.3.2) and it worked fine, i.e. i "tcpdump -i enc0" and see encapsulated packets. this leaves me wondering what it is about my prior setup that made it not work. i saw no appreciable difference in the outputs from e

CARP, PPPoE and redundancy

2005-11-11 Thread dick
heya, i have fixed public IPs and i have ADSL using PPPoE. i would like to make things very redundant, so that if any one piece of hardware craps out, there will be a failover. i have conceived of a setup and am wondering if anyone can suggest improvements or tell me if it just won't work. here it

skype security?

2005-11-17 Thread dick
i searched the archives for messages about skype, but i didn't find anything that addressed whether the skype service is safe or not. i did a google for "skype security" and one of the first links talks about a couple serious exploits of skype and the "glowing" (a.k.a. sponsored) review from dr. be

Re: skype security?

2005-11-18 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:14:22 +0800 >From: Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: skype security? >To: misc@openbsd.org > >Skype was brought to you by the same people who brought you >Kazaa. Draw your own conclusions regarding ethics, security and >openness

Re: #define failure opportunity

2005-11-29 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:56:33 +0100 >From: Han Boetes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: #define failure opportunity >To: misc@openbsd.org > >The people who they are addressing are bussiness, and they think >in terms of gaining money and loosing money. > >Open Sourc

Re: I have $300

2005-11-30 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:24:50 -0800 >From: Sean Comeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: I have $300 >To: Bob Ababurko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: OpenBSD Misc > >On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:17:05PM -0800, Sean Comeau wrote: >> try these: >> >> http://www.commell-sys

VPN: solutions that interoperate with win xp

2005-12-18 Thread dick
heya, i've been grinding away to get a VPN setup where i can have win xp clients connect to my openbsd firewall and access the network behind it. i have tried a number of things, none of which have yet worked for all my users. i am very much interested in hearing from other admins who have current

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2005-12-30 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:27:42 -0800 >From: Chris Cappuccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Blowfish still good enough? >To: Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: misc@openbsd.org > >Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> My concern is the strength of Blowfi

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-01 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:39:02 +0100 >From: Said Outgajjouft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Blowfish still good enough? >To: misc@openbsd.org > >Travies all crypto is breakable. The only demand on crypto is how long >in takes to break it. If it takes more than 5

isakmpd outputs: help interpreting

2006-01-01 Thread dick
heya, i've established IPsec connections originating from several windows xp machines with public IPs to my openbsd firewall that is running isakmpd. they are working just fine. however, i have a windows machine here at home behind NAT that is giving me grief when i try to establish an IPsec conne

postfix w/ encrypted virtual mailboxes: delivery failure "file too large"

2006-01-13 Thread dick
heya, i've got the postfix-2.2.5p0-sasl2 port on an openbsd 3.7-stable machine. the setup has been working great thus far, but now that i'm trying to encrypt my virtual mailbox directory (using vnconfig) i'm encountering problems that i can't resolve myself. i have everything working fine without

Re: postfix w/ encrypted virtual mailboxes: delivery failure "file too large"

2006-01-13 Thread dick
what do you guys think about this response i got on the postfix-users list? On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:28:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > $ ls -al protected > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204800 Jan 13 11:26 protected > > sudo vnconfig -ck -v /dev/svnd0c /home/protected > sudo mount -o

Re: postfix w/ encrypted virtual mailboxes: delivery failure "file too large"

2006-01-15 Thread dick
based on my previous posts about trouble with svnd encryption having not garnered any replies (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=113717720822507&w=2 ), i'm going to rephrase my questions. - what methods, if any, can be used to reliably encrypt my virtual mailboxes so that they are

webstore software: safe and configurable?

2006-01-24 Thread dick
heya, i am setting up a webstore and i want to have a good balance of security and configurability for whatever software i settle on using. i've read on this list that there are security issues with many scripting languages (php, python, perl, etc.). since i don't have the time to script the store

Re: tutorial for securing wifi networks with ipsec and openbsd, somewhere?

2006-01-24 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:35:31 + (GMT) >From: Didier Wiroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: tutorial for securing wifi networks with ipsec and openbsd, >somewhere? >To: misc@openbsd.org > >hello, >I've read man ipsec and vpn. Unfortunately I'm totally new to ipse

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-01 Thread dick
>> Backup MX is a relic and a legacy. It breaks almost all spam filters. >> Modern mail infrastructure doesn't need it, except in rare cases. me thinks this is spreading FUD. define "modern mail infrastructure". perhaps the origin of the FUD is the M$ visual studio .net overexposure?

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread dick
>OpenBSD Vista - Home Basic. (aka. Vista Home, Dave Fuestel) >Same as Home - Premium, but has all the man pages deleted to save >valuable space. LOL! there could be a special mailing list for Vista users: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:19:33 +0100 >From: Jean-Sibastien Bour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0??? >To: misc@openbsd.org > >Reid Nichol a icrit : >> --- Jean-So?=bastien Bour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Matthias Kilian a icrit :

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:04:32 -0800 (PST) >From: Reid Nichol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0??? >To: Matthew Weigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: misc@openbsd.org > >I find it interesting that you didn't send this entirely condisending >super

skype on openbsd?

2006-03-05 Thread dick
i saw a post just recently on bsdforums.org about getting the linux version of skype running on freebsd, http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39145 . i'm trying to get this working on openbsd, but when i run the static binary with Qt compiled in, it tells me: skype: error while loading

Re: skype on openbsd?

2006-03-05 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:40:31 -0500 >From: "Barry, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: skype on openbsd? >To: > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Sunday, March 0

restore question: is my dump hosed?

2006-03-19 Thread dick
i made what i thought would be a fine backup of a freebsd-6.0 machine using dump. more specifically i issued a # dump -0f - /usr | ssh -o 'EscapeChar none' [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat > /usr/dumps/usr.fs" this created usr.fs on my openbsd backup host. now that i'm trying to restore the dump on my back

Re: restore question: is my dump hosed?

2006-03-20 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:35:47 -0500 >From: Damian Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: restore question: is my dump hosed? >To: misc@openbsd.org > >Thus spake Joachim Schipper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/03/06 00:34]: >: Provided that you didn't do something strange

CGI security: in addition to chroot

2006-03-22 Thread dick
i'm putting a machine into production in the next week or two that uses binary CGI "scripts". i want to add additional layers of security beyond having apache chroot-ed in case the binaries decide to run amok. things that occur to me as a good idea are systrace and sbox (see http://stein.cshl.org/s

dual monitors and using s-video out w/ ati radeon

2006-03-25 Thread dick
i recently gave windows the heave-ho on my home desktop machine (hooray!), but i'm having trouble regaining some of the functionality i had before when it comes to setting up s-video out on an "ATI Radeon VE QY" video card. i have done a bunch of searching for instructions on how to do this, none o

Re: It's not about the money

2006-03-25 Thread dick
>The 10 people who are helping get it. They know that help is about >action, and that if you stops at just words, it just plain isn't help. the extent to which this thread has wasted time and not helped to draw any new conclusions is astonishing. theo makes a good point when he accounts for the t

driver blobs: systrace-able (or something like it)?

2006-03-28 Thread dick
having had a gander at the 3.9 song, which is quite amusing, i had an idea that might be useful and i suspect it is ill-conceived. i have the utmost confidence that readers of misc@ can quickly elucidate why it is a stupid idea. if the integrity of closed-source binary blob drivers is questionable

C++ textbooks: recommendations?

2006-04-04 Thread dick
i need to learn C++, but do not know where to begin with textbooks or online docs. since, AFAICT, there are a great many skilled programmers on list, i would appreciate any recommendations that can be made about introductory and intermediate texts on C++. my motivation for asking this is to avoid

Re: When would you NOT use OpenBSD?

2006-04-05 Thread dick
Original message >Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 02:37:48 +0200 >From: Martin Schrvder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: When would you NOT use OpenBSD? >To: misc@openbsd.org > >On 2006-04-05 19:52:16 -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: >> Slightly offtopic, but ironically a related-page that showed u

plotting 2 & 3-d graphs of data with C

2006-04-09 Thread dick
i have done some searching for ways to graph 2 and 3-d data using a C program on openbsd and not found anything particularly satisfactory. perhaps i'm not using the right keywords. i need to graph data from a C program and would prefer one library or other program (preferably port) with a C API tha

network/mask in AllowUsers (sshd_config)

2006-04-14 Thread Dick Visser
Hi guys Is there any way of configuring networks in sshd_config's AllowUsers? You can put in user, [EMAIL PROTECTED], but no [EMAIL PROTECTED]/mask. Having networks in AllowUsers would be extremely usefull. Best regards, -- Dick Visser TERENA (IT Support Officer) Singel 468D 1

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-18 Thread linux-os (Dick Johnson)
y not giving back you're giving a strange signal. > > Gee, since you're demanding back anyway, you can use the GPL for your > project and use my contribution. Problem solved. > > Oh, you want people to be free not to share? Freedom includes having the > moral right to do some

Re: GPL version 4

2008-07-17 Thread linux-os (Dick Johnson)
5) 943-1983, cell: (647) 833-9377, (800) 555-9786 x56583 > bridge: (877) 385-4099 code: 506 9191# Nah. Should be GPL V-infinity That way there won't be any more. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.29 BogoMips). My book : http://www.AbominableFirebu