Re: OpenBSd or HP-UX?

2007-08-28 Thread Marc Balmer
Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: We run an OpenLDAP installation on OpenBSD that is fully synchronized on two servers (one master, one slave) for the public schools here. ~15'000 accounts and all important systems (email, fileserver, even the ~80 firewalls, login, etc.) pull their data from it.

Re: maybe OT 3 year anniversay of Chuck Yerkes death

2007-08-28 Thread Johan SANCHEZ
I don't think it's off topic but others might. I'm writing this post to remember Chuck Yerkes, a long time contributor to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. http://www.sage.org/about/yerkes.html Chuck died 3 years ago this past weekend while riding his motorcycle.

BENEFITING JOB OFFER FROM JAMES harrison invites you to keep in touch on Multiply

2007-08-28 Thread Multiply
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Re: Scaling DNS with CARP + pf (+ hoststated ?)

2007-08-28 Thread reje
In the sense of expanding DNS infrastructure, your comments seem sane enough (you definitely read that DNS BIND book :-) On the other side, I really need to introduce _additional_ availability of DNS servers/resolvers. This is especially true for resolvers as they are the first layer users are

Re: Software freedom

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
For me it's a consistency problem. It's like selling a sport car with 4x4 tires. First of all, if you opt for an open source system it may be because you are concerned by the aforementioned problem, otherwise you would go for Windows or another proprietary OS. In second comes the issue of having

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/08/25 00:04, Nick Guenther wrote: On 8/24/07, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am planning to go on a longer trip and i am considering buying a sub-sub-sub notebookish thingie... i know openbsd support zaurus quite well, and i have found a promising sale of a C3200 for

Re: OpenBSd or HP-UX?

2007-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Travers Buda wrote: *snip* Just tell him that OpenBSD in the stead of HP-UX will be cheaper, faster to setup, and easier to maintain (because of your experience with Open.) Both OpenBSD and HP-UX can do LDAP, yes, but it's yourself that makes the

Re: openbsd instead of cisco vpn client

2007-08-28 Thread Samuel Moñux
2007/8/27, Paolo Supino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I came across the following situation: there's network where several employees have access to a client of theirs using Cisco VPN clients. To centralize and ease administration I want to put in place an OpenBSD box that will create a single VPN.

Re: FOSS Open Hardware Documentation

2007-08-28 Thread Craig Skinner - Sun Microsystems - Linlithgow - Scotland
Joco Salvatti wrote: http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/open_chips_wiki_open http://wikis.sun.com/display/FOSSdocs/Home Yay! Action at last. -- Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +44 (0) 1506 673024 5-digit

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? On 8/28/07, Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this article interesting. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6204348.html -- Terry http://tyson.homeunix.org http://www.UnixByte.com

OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Terry
I found this article interesting. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6204348.html -- Terry http://tyson.homeunix.org http://www.UnixByte.com

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Lars Hansson
On 8/28/07, Die Gestalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? Because it would violate his parole? Who cares anyway? If you can't do the time don't do the crime. --- Lars Hansson

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
Good point. On 8/28/07, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/28/07, Die Gestalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? Because it would violate his parole? Who cares anyway? If you can't do the time don't do the crime. --- Lars

Re: openssl: digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal:bad decrypt

2007-08-28 Thread Craig Skinner - Sun Microsystems - Linlithgow - Scotland
Craig Skinner - Sun Microsystems - Linlithgow - Scotland wrote: Hi lads, Having a wee bit of bother decrypting a dump before a restore following a 4.0 - 4.1 migration on i386. Different box, same hardware apart from a bigger disk. Solved, was revenge of the wonkey donkey sysadmin (me).

Umass0 Phase Error, residue=0

2007-08-28 Thread Pieter Verberne
Hi, I'm trying to backup my music collection on a msdos/fat formatted external harddrive. After copying some files, the process 'hangs'. I'm copying with xfe (gui-file manager) but cp does the same. I'm not sure when the error exactly occurs. It might be when a specific file is being operating

Re: FOSS Open Hardware Documentation

2007-08-28 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 28/08/07, Craig Skinner - Sun Microsystems - Linlithgow - Scotland Yay! Action at last. Wow! This is great news. What I would really like to see is SMP for sparc64. Hopefully this has become easier now. -- Best Regards Edd ---

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Lars Hansson wrote: On 8/28/07, Die Gestalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? Because it would violate his parole? Who cares anyway? If you can't do the time don't do the crime. We should all care, because there's

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Jack J. Woehr
It just shows how these laws are designed to protect Microsoft at the expense of everyone else. Microsoft has been very effective over the past decades at lobbying congress to enclose the commons of computer science. There is a bill before Congress now to roll back patent protection, notably in

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:19:40AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Lars Hansson wrote: On 8/28/07, Die Gestalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? Because it would violate his parole? Who cares anyway? If you can't do

Re: maybe OT 3 year anniversay of Chuck Yerkes death

2007-08-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Monday 27 August 2007, ACP wrote: Just wanted to remember you Chuck, take it easy wherever you are. diana Thanks Diana! Chuck is a superstar. To this day I can think of no one who as made me laugh more while at the same time teaching me important technical details. There are countless

Re: Umass0 Phase Error, residue=0

2007-08-28 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 05:00:32PM +0200, Pieter Verberne said that umass0: Phase Error, residue = 0 i have met Mr residue a couple of times as well. i think i even asked about it on the list. also with disks/devices that contain msdos partitions. i think once it was clearly when i moved

Re: FOSS Open Hardware Documentation

2007-08-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: On 28/08/07, Craig Skinner - Sun Microsystems - Linlithgow - Scotland Yay! Action at last. Wow! This is great news. Better late than never, but damn is it late. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG

Re: Radeon X1300 mobile + WXGA - out of luck?

2007-08-28 Thread Joachim Schipper
was a *very* busy day. The following configuration works, albeit at the wrong resolution: http://jschipper.dynalias.net/~joachim/posts/20070828/Xorg.conf It also contains some failed attempts that might be interesting (ModeLine ...; Virtual 1200 800 and Option ShadowFB no). Joachim

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-28 Thread Marmotic Marvel
I've been watching this thread, perhaps my comments are worth something, or are amusing. Executive summary: track -current. Make releases in step with OpenBSD. On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Kevin Cheng wrote: Artur, Thanks, Upgrade code based on release of obsd is easy, but it would a big job to

Re: FOSS Open Hardware Documentation

2007-08-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:08:02PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: On 28/08/07, Craig Skinner - Sun Microsystems - Linlithgow - Scotland Yay! Action at last. Wow! This is great news. Better late than never, but damn is it late. Indeed, that is the correct sentiment regarding Sun's action

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Gilles Chehade wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:19:40AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Lars Hansson wrote: On 8/28/07, Die Gestalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't he run the monitoring software in a virtual machine? Because it would violate his

trying to compile frickin pptp proxy

2007-08-28 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi I'm trying to compile frickin pptp proxy on an OpenBSD 4.1 system. The compilation fails with the following errors: g++ -Wall -g -O2 -I/home/paolo/src/frickin/include -L/home/paolo/src/frickin/lib -o frickin2 main.o logger.o configuration.o session.o listener.o entity.o server.o client.o

Re: trying to compile frickin pptp proxy

2007-08-28 Thread Lars Noodén
Paolo Supino wrote: I'm trying to compile frickin pptp proxy on an OpenBSD 4.1 system. You may want to reconsider the experiment with PPTP. It's very difficult to deal with and there appear to be serious problems with the protocol itself, even in later versions:

Re: trying to compile frickin pptp proxy

2007-08-28 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi Lars I know about the limitation and their implications, but unfortunately I don't control the other peer and have to live with what I'm given. TIA Paolo Lars Noodin wrote: Paolo Supino wrote: I'm trying to compile frickin pptp proxy on an OpenBSD 4.1 system. You may want

dmesg amd64-current on Sun Fire X4600 M2

2007-08-28 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
Thanks for all posts with dmesgs from Sun Fire X2100 / X4100 / X4200 (although most without M2 suffix). They helped us in our purchasing decision of several such servers with M2 suffix. Please find below the dmesg of amd64.mp-current (snapshot 23-Aug-2007) on a Sun Fire X4600 M2 which is equipped

Re: dmesg amd64-current on Sun Fire X4600 M2

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: Please find below the dmesg of amd64.mp-current (snapshot 23-Aug-2007) on a Sun Fire X4600 M2 which is equipped with four dual-core Opteron 8220 CPU, 32 GB of RAM and four built-in NICs. Sadly, the only problem is that you will not be able to use that much memory

Re: maybe OT 3 year anniversay of Chuck Yerkes death

2007-08-28 Thread Mike Erdely
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:08:25PM -0600, ACP wrote: Just wanted to remember you Chuck, take it easy wherever you are. We'll hoist a few in his honor at the CapBUG meeting tonight. If you're in the MD/DC area and can join us, please do. http://capbug.org/ -ME

Re: FOSS Open Hardware Documentation

2007-08-28 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Edd Barrett wrote: What I would really like to see is SMP for sparc64. Hopefully this has become easier now. The major requirement for SMP on sparc64 is for some extremely talented people having both significant interest and copious amounts of free time. After

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Emilio Perea
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:49:56PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: But, as I understand the issue, this is _not_ part of his specified punishment -- it's just a side-effect of the manner in which the government wants to impose a portion of his punishment. There appears to be no real reason for it

Re: trying to compile frickin pptp proxy

2007-08-28 Thread Marmotic Marvel
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I'm trying to compile frickin pptp proxy on an OpenBSD 4.1 system. The compilation fails with the following errors: g++ -Wall -g -O2 -I/home/paolo/src/frickin/include -L/home/paolo/src/frickin/lib -o frickin2 main.o logger.o configuration.o

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday 28 August 2007 10:32, you wrote: There is a bill before Congress now to roll back patent protection, notably in the field of software. American users of OpenBSD might want to follow this struggle, which is running into massive opposition from non-comp-sci patent holders. Software

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Emilio Perea wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:49:56PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: But, as I understand the issue, this is _not_ part of his specified punishment -- it's just a side-effect of the manner in which the government wants to impose a portion of his punishment.

Re: OpenBSd or HP-UX?

2007-08-28 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 07:07:58PM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: tried to take a bit of a side adventure and get HP-UX going on a PA-RISC machine and it's no walk in the park. for cost, support, compatibility and simplicity reasons i've abandoned the project

Re: 1-wire uow(4) bug ?

2007-08-28 Thread Julien TOUCHE
Hi i get the following in dmesg with ds9490r-a and ds1820 or iButton uow0 at uhub1 port 1 uow0: Dallas Semiconductor USB-FOB/iBUTTON, rev 1.00/0.02, addr 2 onewire0 at uow0 uow0: read failed, len 128: TIMEOUT uow0: read failed, len 128: TIMEOUT uow0: read failed, len 128: TIMEOUT [...] uow0:

Re: OpenBSd or HP-UX?

2007-08-28 Thread Marc Balmer
Joachim Schipper wrote: P.S. One more issue: you *do* realize that getting OpenBSD to authenticate against LDAP is not entirely trivial, right? This might be a serious problem if the LDAP system is to handle network-wide logins... OpenBSD can not authenticat against an LDAP server. Well,

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
I think they simply have the monitoring software for Windows and not for Linux because it has not been bought/developed/whatever. Linux is not the point, it would be the same if he were using hardware that prevents the monitoring (such as a firewall). While I sympathize with what the fellow is

Re: FOSS Open Hardware Documentation

2007-08-28 Thread Jason George
What I would really like to see is SMP for sparc64. Hopefully this has become easier now. The major requirement for SMP on sparc64 is for some extremely talented people having both significant interest and copious amounts of free time. We have Kettenis. As long as I keep tossing him edge

Re: OpenBSD Berlin?

2007-08-28 Thread Vim Visual
Last message regarding OpenBSD Berlin Gabriel set up a mailing list. if you are interested, join it: Mailing list for OpenBSD in Berlin : = -- http://www.abc.se/mailman/listinfo/openbsd-berlin -- Cheers, Pau PS: Gabriel, did you get my emails re last meeting?

lenovo x61s bsd.mp Obsd 4.2 difficulties et al.

2007-08-28 Thread Vim Visual
Hi, I am having a couple of issues with obsd on the lenovo x61s... especially the lackage of wireless support, but the driver (Intel 4965AGN) should be ready in 1-2 weeks. I'd like to ask you whether you see some obvious error. I installed -current from a snapshot: uname -a OpenBSD

Re: openbsd instead of cisco vpn client

2007-08-28 Thread c l
I've successfully built a site to site vpn between openbsd and cisco gear, both the 3000 series concentrators and asa 5520's. This might help. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=117242498422792w=2 This details my setup that finally worked. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=117245629704699w=2

Re: trying to compile frickin pptp proxy

2007-08-28 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi Thank you!!! I had the feeling that the problem is in the Makefile.OpenBSD, but didn't know how to fix it. Doing what you suggested below solved the problem and I'm now able to build frickin proxy. Now I have to make it work ... TIA Paolo Marmotic Marvel wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2007,

sendmail WANT_SMTPAUTH=yes broken in -current

2007-08-28 Thread Andreas Bihlmaier
Hello misc@, today my long-working automatic installer broke because sendmail doesn't compile, or to be more exact install with WANT_SMTPAUTH anymore. How to reproduce? pkg_info | grep -i sasl cyrus-sasl-2.1.22p1 snip echo pwcheck_method: saslauthd /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf \ ||

sendmail reject and access_db question

2007-08-28 Thread Kareem Dana
Our domain gets e-mails from Company A, but as the log below shows they are rejected because the Message-ID field is invalid: Aug 28 14:21:44 grimace sm-mta[15540]: STARTTLS=server, relay=host234.companya.com [65.218.114.XXX], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA,

working 802.11a/g/n adapters...

2007-08-28 Thread poncenby
are there any?

Re: working 802.11a/g/n adapters...

2007-08-28 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
I know that there is a intel 4965agn driver in the works. I am unaware of any others, and last time I checked even ralink was not responding favorably to documentation requests. Sam Fourman Jr. On 8/28/07, poncenby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are there any?

Re: working 802.11a/g/n adapters...

2007-08-28 Thread Sergey Prysiazhnyi
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:48:39PM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I know that there is a intel 4965agn driver in the works. I am unaware of any others, and last time I checked even ralink was not responding favorably to documentation requests. Sam Fourman Jr. On 8/28/07, poncenby [EMAIL

Energy saving AMD 64 X2 EE CPU possible?

2007-08-28 Thread James Lepthien
Hi, I run my OpenBSD firewallsystem on a System which is way oversized for my needs. I want this system to consume as little power as possible so I need your advices. I started the apmd with the option - C but the apm output is the following: Battery state: unknown, 0% remaining, unknown

Re: openbsd instead of cisco vpn client

2007-08-28 Thread Paolo Supino
Hi Samuel Great, thank you for the information. I will take a look at it and try it :-) TIA Paolo Samuel Moqux wrote: 2007/8/27, Paolo Supino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi I came across the following situation: there's network where several employees have access to a client of theirs

Linux Driver Violates BSD License

2007-08-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
Normally I wouldn't repeat undeadly stuff here on misc@, but I'm sure many of you will want to know. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20070829001634 And if you do this kind of thing, it's worth letting the rest of the world in on this:

Re: Scaling DNS with CARP + pf (+ hoststated ?)

2007-08-28 Thread Lars Hansson
On 8/27/07, reje [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering is there a way to scale DNS service using OpenBSD's CARP and loadbalancing/pool features of pf ? How about hoststated(8) ? (as I know hoststated(8) doesn't support UDP right now) You can do it with a pf table and with a small program

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Lars Hansson
But, as I understand the issue, this is _not_ part of his specified punishment -- it's just a side-effect of the manner in which the government wants to impose a portion of his punishment. If he don't like it he could always take the alternative; going to jail. All things considered, being

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Steve Shockley
Lars Hansson wrote: I don't think think running Linux is a basic human right. I'm not aware that using a computer is a basic human right...

Re: Scaling DNS with CARP + pf (+ hoststated ?)

2007-08-28 Thread Dave Anderson
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, reje wrote: On the other side, I really need to introduce _additional_ availability of DNS servers/resolvers. This is especially true for resolvers as they are the first layer users are facing. Assume the situation when ordinary Windows user tries to access a web page not yet

Re: trying to compile frickin pptp proxy

2007-08-28 Thread Marmotic Marvel
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Thank you!!! I had the feeling that the problem is in the Makefile.OpenBSD, but didn't know how to fix it. Doing what you suggested below solved the problem and I'm now able to build frickin proxy. Now I have to make it work ... TIA Paolo

Re: Linux Driver Violates BSD License

2007-08-28 Thread djgoku
On 8/28/07, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I wouldn't repeat undeadly stuff here on misc@, but I'm sure many of you will want to know. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20070829001634 And if you do this kind of thing, it's worth letting the rest of the world in

Re: Linux Driver Violates BSD License

2007-08-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 8/28/07, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Normally I wouldn't repeat undeadly stuff here on misc@, but I'm sure many of you will want to know. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20070829001634 And if you do this kind of thing, it's worth letting the rest of the

Re: lenovo x61s bsd.mp Obsd 4.2 difficulties et al.

2007-08-28 Thread Karl Sjödahl - dunceor
On 8/28/07, Vim Visual [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having a couple of issues with obsd on the lenovo x61s... especially the lackage of wireless support, but the driver (Intel 4965AGN) should be ready in 1-2 weeks. I'd like to ask you whether you see some obvious error. I installed