Re: Serial console questions on i386 and amd64

2008-02-27 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: Don Jackson wrote: I use serial consoles on all my OpenBSD servers for remote serial access to the machines, both during initial install via pxeboot, and later on in regular use after the install. I'm currently running either 4.2 or 4.1 on all my machines. The FAQ

Re: P2V with VMWare - ERR M

2008-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
RANT ALERT!! RANT ALERT!! Zlfar M. E. Johnson wrote: Thanks for the replay. I was not sure which man page you were referring to, but I took a quick glance at installboot. I have often cloned linux systems at work with rsync. I have also done bare-bone restores using system-rescue cd and

Re: [bug fix] Problem installing OpenBSD 4.2

2008-03-07 Thread Nick Holland
Saulo Bozzi Daleprane wrote: I have a problem installing OpenBSD 4.2 in old machines. The bug fix instructs to use disc 2 of amd64, but what's the name of this ISO?! lots of responses, all wrong. This issue ONLY impacted the official, purchased CD sets, not the downloadable images. If you

Re: Is there a tool or a deamon that documented a change in the /etc directory?

2008-03-12 Thread Nick Holland
Stephan Andreas wrote: The problem is clear, I think. But a simple example: You are an operator for e.g. a OBSD Firewall. Yesterday everything was ok, Today a person phoned me and want that I open a tcp port for him. Ok I open. Tomorrow, I notice problems that I never have had before. But I

Re: Move hard disks in soft raid to new machine

2008-03-13 Thread Nick Holland
klemen wrote: Hello I have new computer in which I would like to have same things as on old one (OpenBSD 4.2). In old one have software raid with two 500g ide drives. How will raid react if I move both disks to new computer with completely different hardware. depends how completely

Re: AMD Geode

2008-03-18 Thread Nick Holland
Nicolas Legrand wrote: Damien Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Dimitri wrote: Hello all. My cuestion is simply. OpenBSD run over AMD Geode, Yes. specificly over Packard Bell S18P?. I've read it's an AMD Geode LX800, so yes. ONCE AGAIN, the processor on an

Re: [OT] Pursuing Management to adopt OpenBSD

2008-03-20 Thread Nick Holland
Chris wrote: I been trying (rather unsuccessfully) to convince various clients and employers to adopt OpenBSD. Most people, I find, are resistent to change and would not use anything they are not familiar with. Others would say that if I leave the job, it would be hard to find people who can

Re: BSD Documentation License?

2008-03-22 Thread Nick Holland
Lars Noodin wrote: If one has to identify a specific license (or licenses) for OpenBSD documentation, which is/are recommended? Is there a generic BSD-Documenation License anymore? I wasn't able to spot anything in either the OpenBSD FAQ or the Misc mailing list archive. Regards,

Re: Intel Core2 Dual/Quad - i386 or amd64?

2008-03-25 Thread Nick Holland
Alexander Hall wrote: What is the recommended architecture to use for Intel's Core2 (Dual/Quad) processors? I have two computers I'm considering going amd64 on: ... I've found the following (likely incomplete) list of things that may affect the choice, or might be affected by it, are: -

Re: File System Corrupted Due to didn't Umount cause by power failure

2008-03-27 Thread Nick Holland
Peter_APIIT wrote: Hello all expect openbsd user, i have encountered this incident before where previously i can solve it easily but not this time. My openbsd is running for 24 X 7 but my mother going off the power and i didn't know about that for few times. After that, file is not

Re: Dangers to upgrading without install kernel

2008-03-27 Thread Nick Holland
Juan Miscaro wrote: Hello, The online upgrade documentation [1] is fairly vehement about its recommendation regarding the use of the install kernel when upgrading. I was wondering why? What dangers await someone going down the remote upgrade path? /juan [1]

Re: RAMdisk, not for boot, how?

2008-03-27 Thread Nick Holland
chefren wrote: On 3/28/08 1:20 AM, Rod Whitworth wrote: The CF wearout meme needs to die. Specs, it's all about specs, it seems a fact to me that standard CF cards, as used in camera's, often without any technical specification other than size, cannot be written as often as ordinary

Re: i have lost /etc

2008-03-27 Thread Nick Holland
Rafael Morales wrote: Hi list, Please someone help me I have deleted my /etc dir (rm -rf /etc), is there any way to recover it, or there is a way to recover my data stored in /home ??? Rergards restore from backup? :) something tells me this is not an option. Actually, even if it is

Re: i have lost /etc

2008-03-27 Thread Nick Holland
forgot something: Nick Holland wrote: ... You could also boot bsd.rd, and do something like: mount /dev/wd0a /mnt cd /mnt tar xzpf /path/etc.tgz er.. one potential problem with that: it will overwrite parts of your /var partition, which may or may not be a problem for you (i.e., if you have

Re: configuring the GENERIC kernel (was Re: Issue compiling a program on OpenBSD)

2008-03-29 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: ... One thing I'm not clear on: if the only issue is kernel size based on having an old box with low memory, where every MB counts, does deactivating unnecessary drivers with config actually result in a smaller kernel or just a kernel with deactivated drivers?

Re: configuring the GENERIC kernel (was Re: Issue compiling a program on OpenBSD)

2008-03-30 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: ... So perhaps to add to this entry for the FAQ, something that address this desire to shrink the kernel to save memory: ... For standard i386 old computers with little ram, recompiling the kernel does not provide enough free memory to affect what

Re: creating FAT32 partitions?

2008-03-31 Thread Nick Holland
Fred Snurd wrote: I apologize for the newbie question, the lack of line wraps is mighty annoying, too. but how is one supposed to add a FAT32 partition? The following shows where I have verified the partitioning of a USB flash drive containing two partitions through fdisk. One for

Re: Optimising OpenBSD

2008-04-08 Thread Nick Holland
Matthew Smith wrote: Quoth Rod Whitworth at 2008-04-09 08:04... Matthew, you are pretty new here so I'll be kind. Read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Why For this, I apologise. I am currently in the situation that I don't know where to look for what. I might try writing a OpenBSD for

Re: install42.iso hangs....any ideas?

2008-04-15 Thread Nick Holland
Redirected from ports@ to [EMAIL PROTECTED] An explanation of what lead you to post it to ports@ would be interesting, second one of those in a couple days, starting to sound like something is unclear somewhere. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey All, I'm trying to install OpenBSD 4.2 and have

Re: Logging failed SSH users and the passwords they typed

2008-04-23 Thread Nick Holland
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Is there a way to login the passwords that were used in the bruteforce attack? I am siting trying to come up with a good reason why you would give a damn what passwords they tried? Actually, I have a reason why a list of PWs that the brute-force apps use would be

Re: Problems reading CD during install

2008-04-24 Thread Nick Holland
Wade, Daniel wrote: The installer can't mount the cd to read the files from it. I'm using a recent install43.iso. I'll try to use ftp for the install sets, but it would be nice if I could do it all from the CD. Here is what I get if I try to mount the CD cd0(ahci0:1:0): Check Condition

Re: Upgrade 4.1-4.2-4.3

2008-04-27 Thread Nick Holland
Damon McMahon wrote: Greetings, Can anyone enlighten me as to why DHCP clients are no longer retrieving their domain name from my OpenBSD DHCP/DNS server which I recently upgraded from 4.1 to 4.3 via 4.2? DHCP and DNS seems to functioning normally otherwise... Any advice

Re: OpenBSD 4.3 released May 1, 2008

2008-04-30 Thread Nick Holland
Rich Healey wrote: ... I've been finding it a bit slow, but nice enough, bnut with the release realeased as it were, I should now rebuild the kernel/userland to incorporate the changes? Sorry if this is in the FAQ somewhere, I've been unable to find it. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html

Re: Double 4-port NIC happiness

2006-02-16 Thread Nick Holland
Stefek Zaba wrote: I've just brought 3.8-RELEASE up on an oldie-but-goody machine - ASUS P3B-F - into which a total of 10 NICs have been thrust. 4 are on an Adaptec AHA-62044, whose NICs get named sf0 .. sf3 (note that as per the i386 info at http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html, these are

Re: updating the kernel to CURRENT

2006-02-17 Thread Nick Holland
Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When updating the kernel to CURRENT (in the case, 3.9), do I have to update ports and already installed packages? I think the OP is using words in non-standard ways. The kernel is one file, /bsd. Ports and packages are the add-on stuff.

Re: Utilisation of free memory as disc cache: tweaking is required?

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:49:01PM +, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: ... Although the documentation says that it defaults to 5%, it actually seems to default to 10% on amd64, alpha, hppa and hppa64. Why it's not made to default to 10% on i386 too if enough memory is available? because

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-21 Thread Nick Holland
Marcus Barczak wrote: ... -- dmesg output -- ahc0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 Adaptec AHA-2940U rev 0x00: irq 11 scsibus2 at ahc0: 16 targets st0 at scsibus2 targ 4 lun 0: HP, C1537A, L706 SCSI2 1/sequential removable st0: density code 0x8c, variable blocks, write-enabled Has anyone seen this

Re: Pf questions for larger implementation

2006-02-22 Thread Nick Holland
Steve D. wrote: Hi, I'm setting up a gateway (1.7 Ghz machine with 1 Gig of ram) for 700+ users using pf with NAT and BINAT's (90% NAT).I would like to know if anyone has any recommendations on tweaking the runtime options in PF. This box will pretty much just be handling the natting

Re: In chroot: /dev/stdin: Device not configured

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:38:13PM +0100, Matthias Kilian wrote: Hi, can anyone tell me wtf I'm missing in the commands below? # mkdir foo # cd foo # mkdir bin dev # cp -p /bin/cat bin # cd dev # /dev/MAKEDEV std # cd .. # chroot . /bin/cat /dev/stdin cat: /dev/stdin: Device not

Re: Dependancies with make search key=

2006-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
Harry Putnam wrote: ... So shouldn't `X' appear as a dependancy? Or whatever package supplies X? No. X is not a package. It is a file set, not part of the ports tree. Assuming I need to backup and get the installation package *x*.tgz. I'm not sure how to proceed.

Re: Nothing in FAQ about X ?

2006-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
Harry Putnam wrote: I haven't seen any section of FAQ devoted to setting up X. Is it supposed to just work after installing the base tgz files? it would be nice. But they have not reached that goal yet, at least on some very popular platforms. Or maybe I'm just blindly overlooking the

Re: make build error on 3.9 (-current) i386

2006-03-01 Thread Nick Holland
Reza Muhammad wrote: Hi guys, I was just updating my source tree through cvsup, and I've been following -current for a while. There hadn't been any problems before. But today, make build returned errors. ... Can anyone help me with it? What seems to be missing from your process is the

Re: Sun Ultra 1 and Ultra 5

2006-03-03 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:51:31PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: Hey folks, i have an sun workstation in hand and had never had a previous experience with sun hardare before. I would like redirect console to serial port. These machine are very old, and hardware documentation has been lost. It

Re: OpenBSD has bad security

2006-03-06 Thread Nick Holland
Damien Miller wrote: Please, This troll is several years old, let it go already. Not only that, the number of times you guys repeated the links will raise Google's interest (and that site's profile) the next time it digs through a mail archive. I'm sure the author of that site will thank

Re: OptiPlex GX620n - OpenBSD

2006-03-07 Thread Nick Holland
Mark Pecaut wrote: On 3/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Are they suitable to run OpenBSD on them. Here is a dmesg from a GX620. I can report that everything works quite well, including X. You prompted me to go back and take another shot at X on a Optiplex 620. I've

Re: crash: savecore - saves core dump every day?

2006-03-09 Thread Nick Holland
Stefan Drexleri wrote: Hi, from the faq: Upon reboot, savecore(8)will attempt to save the contents of the swap partition to a file in /var/crash savecore would be called by /etc/rc. So which criterias must be fulfilled to make core dump upon reboot? Does savecore look for special file names at

Re: crash: savecore - saves core dump every day?

2006-03-10 Thread Nick Holland
Stefan Drexleri wrote: 2006/3/10, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not entirely sure I understand your question, the subject and the body of your message don't seem to be completely related. However, I think you may find the answers to your questions in man 8 crash Third paragraph (more

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-13 Thread Nick Holland
Ramiro Aceves wrote: ... Yes, WM also works fine here. But again, it is not a solution. GNOME should not be released in such buggy state. I don't follow your logic here. Ok, let's say GNOME was removed from ports by your suggestion. In that case, you WOULD need to find another solution. In

Re: Install defaults

2006-03-20 Thread Nick Holland
Bruno Carnazzi wrote: Hi all, Why not use soft update as a default for created file system on install ? It seems to be a good practice, no ? Well...assuming you: * Have some extra RAM to spare. * Don't mind added complexity * aren't running on a Sun4c sure, soft updates are a

Re: kernel panic

2006-03-23 Thread Nick Holland
Joe Advisor wrote: ... Can anybody provide any insight for me as to what I might be doing wrong? I am not sure where to be even begin to debug. Thanks in advance. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq2.html#Bugs Nick.

Re: sudo nopasswd rm

2006-03-28 Thread Nick Holland
Marco Fretz wrote: hello i've got a little problem. i have to remove some files in a shell script that or not owned or writable by the user the shell script runs. is there a way to give this user write access only to the files needed to remove by the shell script (with sudo nopasswd)? With

Re: Problems with X in OpenBSD (3.9) -current with LCD WideScreen Monitor

2006-03-29 Thread Nick Holland
Francisco Valladolid wrote: Hi folks. Recently I bougth a new LCD display, it is a ViewSonic 19 WideScreen, i have proble with xorg in -current, for correct display mode only 1024x768 is displayed. The X windows is so wrong. Some have some tips about the X under xorg. This monitor work fine

Re: 3ware 9500 and large drive issues

2006-03-31 Thread Nick Holland
Vincent Meanie wrote: I am attempting to use a 3ware 9500s, the problem is how it displays the 8 disks as one large 2.3tb disk. There are documented issues with disks over 1tb, will partitioning under this limit prevent further issues, or will I have to look forward to errors in the future

Re: Theo opinion of Plan 9

2006-04-02 Thread Nick Holland
Andris Delfino wrote: I would like to know what does Theo think about Plan 9. Just curiosity, :P. Not curious enough to Google for it? First page of hits for 'deraadt plan 9' gets you some interesting reading. You get more interesting stuff if you play with the spaces in various

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Feustel wrote: I got my 3.9 Cdrom set yesterday and today started installing it on an external usb disk so as not to wipe out my existing 3.8 setup. When I got to the disk partition, I erased the existing 'a' partition (dos) and created a new bsd 'a' partition. The partition had a default

Re: OpenBSD 3.9 stable from cvs

2006-04-12 Thread Nick Holland
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 01:03:58PM +0200, Piotrek Kapczuk wrote: Hi I have a new server to deploy and I don't want to wait unlit official release. So I'd like to compile 3.9 stable from source and I've faced a problem. I have a machine which runs 3.8-stable I've wiped out

Re: OpenBSD 3.9 stable from cvs

2006-04-12 Thread Nick Holland
Ted Unangst wrote: On 4/12/06, Geof Crowl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I am reading something wrong, isn't this: If you had started from a 3.9-beta, you might have got lucky. But jumping from 3.8 to 3.9 is NOT an easy process, and is completely unsupported. [building 3.9 source on 3.8]

Re: OpenBSD 3.9 stable from cvs

2006-04-14 Thread Nick Holland
Piotrek Kapczuk wrote: ... It was fixed. First time I've seen it happen before official release though. Well, security problems just before releases are not that common. ;-) If I understand this right. This commit is in OPENBSD_3_9_BASE in cvs but it's not on CD's. Isn't it ? n...

Re: OpenBSD 3.9 stable from cvs

2006-04-14 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 01:16:17PM +0200, Srebrenko Sehic wrote: On 4/14/06, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/libsm/fflush.c OPENBSD_3_9_BASE is tagged...and that's it. (well..usually. I'm sure there's some exception

Re: SMP support for Sun E450 Sparc64?

2006-04-17 Thread Nick Holland
David B. wrote: Hi, are there any plans to release a bsd.mp version for sparc64? My box currently can only use cpu0; I have 4 processors, and it seems a shame to waste all of that power. thanks There is, of course, desire to support SMP on mvme88k, sparc, sparc64, Alpha, and just about

Re: LZMA and the Install Sets?

2006-04-17 Thread Nick Holland
curiosity got the best of me here. Found I had a machine with several major compression programs on it, and while this tired argument isn't worth this, I found it the idea of a comparison interesting, so I thought I'd share... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you obviously missed the part about the

Re: dual port ethernet (DP83816-based)

2006-04-17 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to add a DMZ for a webserver and need to add another ethernet port. My 3.5- based box upgrade. has limited card space, so I thought of using a dual port card to add the 3rd ethernet port. I have access to a NS DP83816-based dual port card. I see that I

Re: upgrade halted

2006-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
Jasper Bal wrote: After nummerous advices on the list that I should upgrade, I decided to try remote upgrading. there is reason we suggest practicing on an identical LOCAL box first! At the folowing step: Reboot on the new kernel: This might be a tempting step to skip, but it should be

Re: pf blocking nets in a way like *.google.com ?

2006-04-21 Thread Nick Holland
Falk Husemann wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That doesn`t mean I can use *.google.com but I would be able to use www.google.com if I understood the FAQ and the manual correctly. Because I may not be bale to know every Hostname in a foreign network a Joker would be a neat solution. Is it maybe

Re: How will OpenBSD Defend against Virtual Rootkits?

2006-04-25 Thread Nick Holland
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 07:32:41AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: This question comes to mind as a result of my reading just now VM Rootkits: The Next Big Threat? By Ryan Naraine March 10, 2006 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,193,00.asp Not much that can be done. As has always

Re: X on Compact Flash

2006-04-28 Thread Nick Holland
Steve wrote: Hi all, I am currently using 3.8 release with a basic X install and rdesktop as a thin term for a windows terminal server. I would like to migrate this to compact flash or similar. Flashdist and flashboot dont seem to be able to accomodate this. as they were designed for

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Nick Holland
prad wrote: On April 29, 2006 02:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The state of the art of computer science has gone (steadily?) downhill for the last 30 (maybe 40) years. The computers are bigger and faster, but the knowedge of what to do with them has decayed. There are a few pockets of

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
Anton Karpov wrote: Maybe, because in some cases, it just takes a bit more time to 0wn your box if it has no compiler installed. Bull. I've never heard of someone taking over a box using a compiler. After all, the compiler is not exposed to the outside world. At most, they build some tools

Re: www.openbsd.org defaults to Japanese

2006-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tan Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any reason why www.openbsd.org displays Japanese by default now? Tan I see English when accessing www.openbsd.org as I have always done so. You might want to look at your locale settings. You might want to check your browser

Re: AMD64 still broken...

2006-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
Ed V. wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions (on list and off list). At this point I have: ...provided vague, imprecise descriptions, with some details scattered in a lot of different messages in multiple threads. Here's the explanation, plain and simple: you did something wrong. amd64 is NOT

Re: patch validation

2006-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yea. i'll keep that in mind. too bad it doesnt work in an audit. seriously, is there anything that a) can be queried against? sometimes b) compared against? sometimes c) hashs of files? don't count on it. d) etc? yes. Seriously, tell us what your criteria is

Re: i386 chroot on amd64 platform (obsd 3.9)

2006-05-03 Thread Nick Holland
Karel Gardas wrote: Hello, I've installed OpenBSD 3.9(amd64) on AMD64 box and now I thought about installing i386 OpenBSD minimal install into this installation just to be able to chroot from amd64 environment to i386 without a need to reboot computer. I tried this, but it seems at least on

Re: Mouse problem

2006-05-04 Thread Nick Holland
Gabriel George POPA wrote: ... Unfortunately, one day when I came to work the mouse pointer started to behave in a chaotic manner on the screen when I moved the mouse. Both in console and in X. Very nasty. I know it is a stupid problem and a stupid question, but that's it. ... Could this be

Re: www.openbsd.org defaults to Japanese

2006-05-05 Thread Nick Holland
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 12:41:51PM +0200, Jacques wrote: Nick Holland wrote: You might want to check your browser cache. The site was certainly was messed up at the moment you wrote that. :) yeah, there was an incident...it's been fixed, but it will take a while for the fix to replicate

Re: Partition not showing up in disklabel

2006-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
Henrik Borgh wrote: Hello there. I have a laptop which dualboots Windows XP and OpenBSD. For each of these i have a partition. Further more i have a partition, which contains somekind of restore-information and at last another partition. The Windows XP-partition is FAT32, the restore-partition

Re: 3.9, Sparc64, and X issues (black screens)

2006-05-08 Thread Nick Holland
Chris wrote: Are there issues with 3.9 and Sparc64's with ATI Mach64 cards and X? I cant seem to find a happy place to have X running. All I get is a black screen. I tried several diff mem settings, screen sizes, etc and still nothing but black screens. I ask becasue this is the same on both

Re: ftp-proxy isssues

2006-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Until pf 3.9 i've had no problems with ftp-proxy and now it doesnt work anymore because of the anchor stuff, very nice .. ... How can i transform all this into the anchor stuff? See at least the following: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade39.html

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:50:14AM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: Don't change root's shell. It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use

Re: Manually naming Multiple NICs

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: [you edited out discussion of *USB* devices] Normally these devices come up in the same order each time. It is not gauranteed, unfortunately, because device bring up can race against other devices. I've seen it be non-deterministic. me, too. especially,

Re: PF references

2006-05-11 Thread Nick Holland
News Collector wrote: Hello: Where (what) is the canonical site (or book) for PF. documentation-wise? that would be the OpenBSD man pages. They are authoritative. When things change, they get updated, or people get beaten. In particular, see pf.conf(5), pfct.(8), pf(4) and the SEE ALSOs in

Re: ksh and X windows.

2006-05-13 Thread Nick Holland
Peter Fraser wrote: If you install a new 3.9 system, and enable X windows (The only package I installed was emacs) Create a new userid with ksh as its shell and sign on though X. ~/.profile does not get executed Nor does ~/.profile get executed then a new xterm is created using the left click

Re: Help needed with 3.9 bandwidth/speed problem

2006-05-24 Thread Nick Holland
Adam wrote: Hello, I have an odd problem with my 3.9 server. I can not seem to push more than 2.5 - 3.0 mbps per connection over the Internet to hosts. I've tested this with scp, apache/httpd, and lighttpd. I've also tried this with PF on and off, resulting in no difference at all. I have

Re: dual boot problem

2006-05-25 Thread Nick Holland
viq wrote: On Thursday 25 May 2006 09:22, Jan Johansson wrote: akonsu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=mbr count=1 Here is your error dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=pbr count=1 For the NTLDR you want the PBR (Partition Boot Record) not the MBR (Master Boot Record). I changed the of= for

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Nick Holland
misiu wrote: Hello all, I'm new to OpenBSD, I installed it a few times but than did not know what to do realy. Right now I'm little more experienced with Linux and I thought give it a nother try. Now I'm runnin an Openbsd 3.9 Box. Default setup. I try to run a Webmailbox and later Openvpn.

Re: Wondering about security...

2006-05-26 Thread Nick Holland
Peter Philipp wrote: Hi, I had this USB stick called CHEER, see message ID Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] here is a clip from messages showing the ID, May 11 16:05:41 neptune /bsd: umass0: CHEER USB_DISK, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 May 11 16:05:41 neptune /bsd: sd1 at scsibus2 targ 1 lun 0:

Re: dd problem

2006-05-31 Thread Nick Holland
akonsu wrote: hello, i wanted to create an ISO image of a CDROM, so i ran this command: dd if=/dev/cd0a of=my.iso and i waited and waited for about 30 minutes until i just gave up and pressed ^C. the resulting iso file was much larger than the source disc. try dd if=/dev/rcd0c

Re: one drive in a raid 0 failed, can I save any data?

2006-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:57:08AM -0700, John Brahy wrote: F.r.a.c.u.l. .e.k. . .a. .u.n.n. .i.h.u. .a.k.p. .n. .n. .f.t.e.d.i.e. .i.d. .s.t.e.e.a.w.y.t. .e.o.e. .n. .f.t.e.d.t. .r.m.t.e.d.i.e.? N t l k l . o r . - Drive 0, RAID0 o i e y S r y - Drive 1, RAID0 Nick. - Drive 0,

Re: A joke

2006-06-01 Thread Nick Holland
Sean Cody wrote: On 1-Jun-06, at 10:22 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Jun 1, 2006, at 1:44 AM, Rico wrote: Manager: George, I need a program to output the string Hello World! You forgot one: a lazy person #!/bin/sh echo Hello World! Why waste an extra shell process not to mention all

Re: No-name NICs

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Holland
Lars Hansson wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:42, Martin Schrvder wrote: Hi, how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable? In my experience, very. Most are using the same chipsets (ie rl) as the brand NICs anyway. I cant recall ever having a NIC, brand or non-brand, that

Re: Custom /bsd.rd to send in dmesgs?

2006-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
vladas wrote: Will devs ignore dmesgs from /bsd.rd that would resemble the -current GENERIC /bsd (if it is possible to do so)? I want to send in a few dmesgs from the machines where I cannot install OpenBSD, so I thought /bsd.rd would help. There are a lot of reasons why developers want the

Re: Combining boot floppies

2006-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
When I saw your note, I figured Something Ain't Right here. I wasn't the only one. Theo noticed. I'm on a mission from Theo. Michael White wrote: Hi all, I'm attempting my first install of OpenBSD (version 3.9) on an HP Omnibook 800CT (Pentium 166, 80 MB RAM, 4.3 GB HD, 3COM 3CXEM556

Re: like the faq 14.16.1, partition is not in my disklabel ... need help anyway

2006-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:31:59PM +, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hello, My ntfs amd comaq diag. partition is not in the disklabel. I presume this means you deleted them, and now want 'em back. As they appear to have been there before the OpenBSD install, I'd have

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Nick Holland
[re Dovecot as an IMAP server] Adam wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:39:24 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it even work on openbsd yet? Its got a long history of corrupting indexes, and spinning out of control sucking up 100% of the CPU. I first read this out-of-order...

Re: Kernel panic ... Unknown source ...

2006-06-11 Thread Nick Holland
Scott Plumlee wrote: o?= wrote: Hello, My OpenBSD 3.9-stable Box is quite unstable. I don't have physical access to my box so I can't debug it directly. I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with DEBUG support and set ddb.panic to 0 in sysctl.conf so that it's rebooting automaticly. But no

Re: ftp problems with OpenBSD 3.9

2006-06-14 Thread Nick Holland
Smith wrote: This will answer two post: It does work in 3.8 still. As a matter a fact, I have two servers on the intranet. The 3.8 works fine but not the 3.9. I tried the passive/active and still the problem persist. If I use the command line or filezilla (another windows ftp client

Re: ftp problems with OpenBSD 3.9

2006-06-15 Thread Nick Holland
Smith wrote: how do I compile it. I know I can look at previous patches and possible figure it out but I wouldn't know if it's the proper way to do it. I have a test machine all setup and ready and my pwd is /usr/src/libexec/ftpd. Just replied privately, but since you asked publicly also,

Re: dmesg warning, ahc0: Illegal cable configuration!!

2006-06-16 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Hammett wrote: ... ahc0: Illegal cable configuration!!. Only two connectors on the adapter may be used at a time! [Full dmesg posted below] yay! :) This isn't unique to OpenBSD: I've seen similar reports in the dmesg from SuSE Linux using the 2.4.xx series kernels and also from

Re: latest sendmail patch

2006-06-20 Thread Nick Holland
Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to apply the latest patch for sendmail and on my make, I get the following error: ... OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #685: Mon Apr 10 14:00:41 MDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC Patches are for RELEASE. Not -current.

Re: latest sendmail patch

2006-06-20 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to apply the latest patch for sendmail and on my make, I get the following error: ... OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #685: Mon Apr 10 14:00:41 MDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC Patches

Re: Errors with IDE DMA beyond FAQ 14.11

2006-06-20 Thread Nick Holland
[from a few days ago] Chris Smith wrote: I am a n00b. you missed: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq2.html#Bugs ... The system still chokes with a DMA timeout after ~30mins of heavy stuff (I was compiling /usr/ports/x11/gnome as something I knew would take forever). Is this a self-inflicted

Re: FYI SK(4) D-Link DGE-530T Rev B1 does not appear in dmesg.

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The dmesg with the B1 card only lacks the three appropriate lines which appear for the Rev A1 card when it is inserted in the same PCI slot: IF that is true, your card wasn't inserted properly. PCI cards show up. SOMETHING will show up...even if it isn't

Re: Doubts about OpenBSD security.

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
Bob Beck wrote: ... IMNSHO, a root password for single user makes the system *LESS* secure, and I'm dead serious. I would object to any attempt to commit changes to OpenBSD to have one by default. Why? Real simple: *because you asked this question*. - Now I'm not just crapping on you,

Re: Crashes and HDD params

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
Przemys3aw Pawe3czyk wrote: Hi, How to change HDD parameters like this: wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: FUJITSU MPD3084AT wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063MB, 16514064 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 to get rid off the crashes I register several times a day? With

Re: FYI SK(4) D-Link DGE-530T Rev B1 does not appear in dmesg. (SOLVED)

2006-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The dmesg with the B1 card only lacks the three appropriate lines which appear for the Rev A1 card when it is inserted in the same PCI slot: IF that is true, your card

Re: Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Holland
partition on system X doesn't mean every system will see any benefit from that same partition. when I first posted Nick Holland replied with several reasons to have multiple partions. Those being security, fragmentation, protecting the filesystem from overfilling, organization and space tracking. I

Re: openwebmail with chrooted apache

2006-07-03 Thread Nick Holland
FTP wrote: I installed openwebmail from the ports and when trying to launch: http://your_server/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl I get a 500 error. I suppose that this is due to the chrooted apache but how do I find the dependencies for a perl script? 1) you think really hard about what a

Re: openwebmail with chrooted apache

2006-07-03 Thread Nick Holland
FTP wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:49:03PM +0200, Sigfred Heversen wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/07/03 13:52, Nick Holland wrote: (contrast this to Squirrelmail, which does (amazingly) run in a chroot Same for Hastymail and Roundcube. I guess it's not too much of a stretch

Re: Preventing password reuse

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
Rod.. Whitworth wrote: ... Test with well known cracker tools and weep. I have (as root) fed a slice of master.passwd to John the Ripper with a few nologin users added using dictionary words of 7 or 8 chars as passwords and after 10 days it had not cracked one of them. I bet it takes less time

Re: openwebmail with chrooted apache

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
FTP wrote: ... bottom line, your suggestion is to stick with openwebmail (if I don't want to intsall IMAP) and run 'insecure' apache? Would that be a 'good' solution for a small e-mail server? MY suggestion..yes. Reasonable people may (and probably will) have differing opinions. Here's a

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
Rob Baldassano wrote: I have been running OpenBSD 3.6 since the day it came out, and am now in need up going to 3.9 The question is: What upgrade issues have folks run into? Very few, myself. I've got at least one machine running which started out with OpenBSD 3.1, and has been remotely

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