Re: mixed (compile from source, binary update) approach

2007-01-16 Thread Nick Holland
Patrick Useldinger wrote: > Nick Holland wrote: > >> UpGRADING (changing functionality, changing version numbers) from source >> is HARD. Having thousands of people thinking they should be able to >> build a new version from some arbitrary old version by source is a >&

Re: Is there a typo in the CARP FAQ/documentation ?

2007-01-21 Thread Nick Holland
Ronnie Garcia wrote: > Hey, > > On http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html I can read: > > advskew > This optional parameter specifies how much to skew the advbase when > sending CARP advertisements. By manipulating *advbase*, the master CARP > host can be chosen. The higher the number, the les

Re: IBM ServeRAID

2007-01-22 Thread Nick Holland
Peter Matulis wrote: > Hi. I would like to install OpenBSD 4.0 on an IBM eServer (xSeries 220) > that contains a ServeRAID SCSI controller. I see that in OpenBSD > Current a driver has been added (ips). Does that mean I cannot install > OpenBSD 4.0 and have access to the controller on this ma

Re: IP change trouble

2007-01-22 Thread Nick Holland
Wrap your lines, please... Paul Irofti wrote: > I have changed one of my workstation's IP with: > > $ sudo ifconfig vr0 inet 192.168.1.64 > > Afterwards some applications (trn, rtorrent, gaim) acknowledged the > change and worked on the fly. Others, such as irssi, worked on a > random basis (i.e

Re: apache security

2007-01-23 Thread Nick Holland
Almir Karic wrote: > what i would like to achieve is that on a shared host if bad guys (tm) > break into one site they can't get to other sites. if "get to"=look at, this is probably pointless. Unless it is a authentication-protected site, the information is usually spread around by various brows

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Nick Holland
Patrick Useldinger wrote: > Otto Moerbeek wrote: >> How are we supposed to help if you omit all relevant info? dmesg, >> disklabels, fdisk info... > > A good start would be to read my post, all the information is there. > Except for dmesg, which is not useful in this case. > > -pu Bullshit. Yo

Re: Aironet MPI-350 Wireless

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Holland
Travers Buda wrote: > * Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-29 15:16:15]: > >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:30:01PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: >>> Well I think both are equally dangerous (binary firmware and >>> binary drivers.) They're basically the same thing. Not at all, see below...

Re: run "diskless" server with USB memory stick only?

2007-01-29 Thread Nick Holland
Christoph Peus wrote: > Hi, > > assumed that I have installed OpenBSD to an USB memory stick and the box > is booting from this "drive" successfully and I've taken these > precautions to avoid frequent writes to the write cycle limited memory > stick: > - there's no swap space configured > - al

Re: dmesg and fdisk do not match about usb external disk

2007-01-30 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: > hi there, > > please compare the following for my external usb disk: > > amaaq> sudo fdisk sd0 > Disk: sd0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976768065 Sectors] > Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 > Starting Ending LBA Info: > #: idC H S -C H

Re: Anyone tried the Raid solution Accusys ACS-75170?

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Holland
Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am thinking about buying this raid solution for a small server. Has > anyone had experience with this device on OpenBSD? Any comment would > be welcome. > > > Also I noticed something that caught my attention... > > At the address: http://www.a

Re: Nearly 1/4 of New Filesystem Gone

2007-02-02 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... dangit... forgot to fix that. 8-/ yes, that was me... Nick.

Re: Option to power off monitor

2007-02-03 Thread Nick Holland
Phusion wrote: > Is this any option to power off the monitor after x minutes or > seconds, kind of like a screen saver. In FreeBSD this can be done in [..freebsd lesson snipped...] http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#Blanker (personally, I still prefer the power switch on the monitor, however)

Re: OpenBSD on Xeon 64 bit

2007-02-10 Thread Nick Holland
Alvaro wrote: > Hi, > > > I like to know if the OpenBSD for amd64 is working fine with intel Xeon > processors (64 bit). I am reading here ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD64 ) and here ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon#Xeon_.26_Xeon_MP_.2864-bit.29 ) that > these processors are based

Re: Dell Poweredge 860 Perc 5IR - can't recognize raid device (sd0)

2007-02-12 Thread Nick Holland
Steve Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I have a brand new Dell Poweredge 850 with two 160 G SAS disks attached > to a Perc 5IR controller card. > > In the BIOS, I have configured them as an IM (Integrated Mirror) Logical > Volume. I have synchronized the mirror, and the array is activated. > > I hav

Re: Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-02-17 Thread Nick Holland
Damon McMahon wrote: > Greetings, > > I've installed OBSD 3.9 on an old (circa 2000) IBM Aptiva > successfully, but I'm having trouble configuring a serial console for > it. ... > # cat /etc/boot.conf > stty com0 9600 > set tty com0 > > After connecting a known working null modem cable to COM

Re: Serial console not working for IBM Aptiva

2007-02-19 Thread Nick Holland
Damon McMahon wrote: > Thanks for the response, Nick, I'm almost there and just one further query: > > On 18/02/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The Aptiva has an anaemic BIOS program, but by disabling one of the > two serial interfaces I now app

Re: Save ports

2007-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
Bray Mailloux wrote: > I ran an nmap -sS localhost which output > > port state service > 13/tcp open daytime > 22/tcp open ssh > 25/tcp open smtp > 37/tcp open time > 53/tcp open domain > 113/tcpopen auth > 587/tcpopen

Re: Sending In dmesg

2007-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
J.C. Roberts wrote: > FAQ 4.9 > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#SendDmesg > "NOTE - Please send only GENERIC kernel dmesgs. Custom kernels that have > device drivers removed are not helpful." > > On systems where one can run GENERIC or GENERIC.MP do developers prefer > if we send in a separ

Re: vr(4) speed problems

2007-02-20 Thread Nick Holland
Paul Irofti wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:00:07PM +0200, Paul Irofti wrote: >> Strange, the dmesg I submitted (and the one dmesg shows:) both point to >> my configuration before the snapshot update. But the login informs me >> that I'm running ``OpenBSD 4.1-beta (GENERIC) #847'' and uname say

Re: keyboard lockup, KVM, dual-boot

2007-02-25 Thread Nick Holland
Stefan Kell wrote: > Hallo list, > > I want to use this machine as a dual-boot system together with windows. It > is connected to a standard PS2-KVM, no USB-mouse or keyboard. Installation > of both Windows and OpenBSD 4.0 from CDs worked without any problems. But > now if I boot OpenBSD from h

Re: keyboard lockup, KVM, dual-boot

2007-02-25 Thread Nick Holland
Stefan Kell wrote: > Hello Nick, > > On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Nick Holland wrote: ... >> It sounds like this: >> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#i386smouse >> >> Some KVM switches work great, some don't. I've got some that work >> great while

Re: same version upgrade i386 to amd64 gotchas?

2007-02-27 Thread Nick Holland
Paul Pruett wrote: > I have received several assurances that > -current may have resolved some weirds > for i386 on amd64 processors... > > With hesitation I could try jumping to current > instead of stable amd64. > > I have used -current on productin before, > but only after verifying the ports

Re: vmware: detecting real interfaces?

2007-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
Guido Tschakert wrote: ... > Hi, > yes finally you must go outside, this is done with the bridged interface. > The question is (I don't have the complete answer, but a strange feeling): > How secure is your windows with a network interface enabled and nothing > on it configured. > > guido exactly

Re: Viewing IPS in authusers table

2007-03-02 Thread Nick Holland
maxracks wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to view the IP's listed in the authusers table and the > authpf_users. > Does anyone know the command to show this? im sure this is an easy one. It's just a table, do as you do any other table... # pfctl -t authpf_users -T show 68.43.117.34 But this i

Re: Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported

2007-03-16 Thread Nick Holland
Karel Kulhavy wrote: "Some reasons why NOT to build from source: [...] Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported." http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html I want to upgrade my 4.0-release system to get rid of the ipv6 remote vulnerability. I understood it's possible only by re

Re: Links+

2007-03-17 Thread Nick Holland
Karel Kulhavy wrote: > http://openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html > > The name of the browser that is at http://links.twibright.com is not > Links+, but Links (or Twibright Links). It's not a different browser than the > textmode Links. If you run recent Links without -g, you get the textmode > links. > Th

Re: Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported

2007-03-18 Thread Nick Holland
RStachowiak wrote: > On 18/03/07, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You may want to note that *my* approach of running -STABLE is considered >> by many on this list to be "unnecessarily conservative" and I have to >> admit they are probably right. Unlike other projects, the -CURRENT >>

Re: Compiling your own system as a way of upgrading it is not supported

2007-03-19 Thread Nick Holland
RStachowiak wrote: > On 18/03/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The question was not about normal upgrade procedure (which I'm perfectly > aware of ) but about internal working of system during upgrade phase to > let me understand it better and comprehend

Re: Upgrade direction from older to newer

2007-03-20 Thread Nick Holland
Alexander Hall wrote: > Henning Braue wrote: > >>> > Is it possible to upgrade from 4.0-current to 4.1-stable? > >>> No... Thats what the above quote is trying to tell you. A -current >>> src tree is always the newest code; -stable is the original release >>> with patches. >> >> yayaya, but his

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-21 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB > and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. > > Box has two uses: > > under normal cirumstance, as a thin client to my > athlon box elsewhere in the hous

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-25 Thread Nick Holland
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 10:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:56:32AM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: >> > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> > > Hello, >> > > >> > > I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, wit

Re: rmoption INET6

2007-03-28 Thread Nick Holland
John Brahy wrote: > Is there any reason I shouldn't add rmoption INET6 to my kernel? I don't use > IPV6. maybe because you were smart and read the instructions? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#ProbIPv6 You provide the feet, we provide the bullets. And the warning. Nick.

Re: dmesg for 29 10/100 Ethernet Ports in one PC

2007-03-29 Thread Nick Holland
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > hello misc@ > > I bought a collection of old quad port NICS from Ebay and put them in > a old gateway server, just to see what would happen. > > Everything worked great the only trouble I had was *if* the plug and > play os option in bios was set to yes. the GENERIC kerne

Re: vi keys in mg

2007-04-03 Thread Nick Holland
jared r r spiegel wrote: On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:58:38PM -0600, Kjell Wooding wrote: mg is a fine little editor, but it just seems so emacs-centric. This little diff fixes that. Please test and get back to me. Maybe *now* we'll get some users. clarification wise, this diff is just to sup

Re: Booting a Thinkpad T23

2007-04-04 Thread Nick Holland
sweetnsourbkr wrote: > I'm trying into install OpenBSD 4.0 onto my laptop. It's a Pentium 3 1.13 > MHz with 768MB RAM. > > I burned an install CD following the installation instructions. I buned the > cd40.iso first, started a multisession CD. Then afterwards, burned the rest > of the package

Re: fileserver lockups: no ddb

2007-04-08 Thread Nick Holland
Stephen Takacs wrote: >> cpu0: AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3000+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class, 256KB L2 >> cache) 1.60 GHz > > That's interesting. How long have you been running OBSD 4.0 on that > machine? I have the mobile version of this cpu, and my laptop started > locking up erratically (also w/

Re: fileserver lockups: no ddb

2007-04-08 Thread Nick Holland
Stephen Takacs wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:11:37PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: >> What you are describing is almost certainly the i386-on-amd64 problem. >> >> Solution is to do one of the following (in my order of preference, your >> criteria may be dif

Re: GPL is free for forcing people to free code when they publish, not free as in free to do what you want, which is actually what free as in BSD, and real freedom ends at the tip of my nose

2007-04-12 Thread Nick Holland
Jack J. Woehr wrote: > On Apr 11, 2007, at 2:25 PM, chefren wrote: > >> Clearly not to death and people here are seriously interested in >> pro and contra arguments. > > Hey, if you young folks still have all that typing power in your > fingers, please bang on the > code for BSD some more! >

Re: Blocking web content

2007-04-17 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I run an openbsd firewall. I want to block certain sites either by IP > address or by domain name. How do I get more information on how to set > this up? > > Thanks in advance. I'm very fond of DNS blocking: http://www.holland-consulting.net/tech/imblock.html simple

Re: Automatic boot of i386 occassionally fails; manually boots OK

2007-04-18 Thread Nick Holland
Damon McMahon wrote: > Greetings, > > This is quite strange: very occassionally (perhaps a rate of 1 in 25 > occasions or so?) automatic booting 3.9/i386 fails, but manually > booting via the console works. Below is the console output and other > potentially relevant information - is this faulty h

Re: Webservers with Terrabytes of Data in - recomended setups

2007-04-19 Thread Nick Holland
Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > How Do you handle when you have to Serve terrabytes of Data through > http/https/ftp etc? > Put it on Differrent machines and use some knid of > loadbalancer/intelligent program that directs to the right mahine? > > use some kind of clustering Software? > > Waht hard

Re: Webservers with Terrabytes of Data in - recomended setups

2007-04-20 Thread Nick Holland
J.C. Roberts wrote: > On Friday 20 April 2007 08:32, Tony Abernethy wrote: >> Jason Beaudoin wrote: >> > >> > >> > > Use all the tricks you can for YOUR solution, including: >> > > * lots of "small" partitions >> > >> > What are the reasonings behind this? >> > >> > Thanks for the awesome post!

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2007-04-20 Thread Nick Holland
Default User wrote: > is a root account really necessary? well, the account is needed for many tasks. I presume you mean to ask, "Is it necessary to be able to directly log into the root account?", and that answer, in OpenBSD, is no. However the account must exist so that many applications can r

Re: q, should have been Re: is root account really necessary?

2007-04-21 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: ... sure fat fingered that topic..sorry about that. 8-/ Nick.

Re: 4.1 packages on the ftp sites

2007-04-23 Thread Nick Holland
frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:27:21PM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that >> > today my openbsd package arived (thanks wim) and i know that >> > it's not released yet, but i was wondering if it was possible >> > to make the packages available on the ftp servers. the base >> >

Re: 4 port router card

2007-04-30 Thread Nick Holland
Steve Glaus wrote: I bought a Realtek based 4 port pci 10/110 card off of ebay. I was hoping I would be able to use this card to set-up for individual networks. When I boot the card in openbsd it only comes up with one (ral0) interface. Is it possible this is just a 'switching' card and I can

Re: openbsd 4.0 server, new setup, getting panics

2007-05-01 Thread Nick Holland
John Mendenhall wrote: >> PS a dmesg would be useful... > > Sorry! I forgot the dmesg. much better... The symptoms you describe sound like classic hardware problems, however, I see a couple things worthy of note in your dmesg: > - > OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #1107: Sat Sep 16 19:15:58 MDT 2006

Re: Instaling openbsd Y windows

2007-05-02 Thread Nick Holland
Miler Alberto Garcia Villanueva wrote: > hi for all, i have a Hard disk of 80 GB, I like to user 20 GB for > OpenBSD and 60 GB for Windows XP, it is posible? becase I read in the > FAQ openbsd that say: its necessary to installa the openbsd in the > firts 7GB of the Harddisk Where the heck did yo

Re: Problem on installing OpenBSD - disks not found

2007-05-04 Thread Nick Holland
satimis wrote: > Hi folks, > > > Old P-II 350 box > IWill motherboard support - ATA-33 HD > Hot Rod ABit ATA-66 PCI Controller > Maxtor HD - ATA-100 10G connected to above Controller > > OpenBSD 4.1 CD installer - burned with CD41.iso with a dmesg, we would have known all that. AND, we might ha

Re: Equivalent to linux disk "delete"?

2007-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
Sebastian Rother wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2007 11:12:54 -0700 > "Ted Unangst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 5/6/07, Sebastian Rother <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hello everybody, >> > >> > I`ve a problem with one HDD wich has 3 empty Partitions at the >> > beginning. I wanted to remove those

Re: Problem on installing OpenBSD - disks not found

2007-05-06 Thread Nick Holland
satimis wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Tks for your advice. > >> > Old P-II 350 box >> > IWill motherboard support - ATA-33 HD >> > Hot Rod ABit ATA-66 PCI Controller >> > Maxtor HD - ATA-100 10G connected to above Controller >> > OpenBSD 4.1 CD installer - burned with CD41.iso > >> with a dmesg, we woul

Re: booteasy fate?

2007-05-07 Thread Nick Holland
Michael Dexter wrote: > Hello, > > I have found references to: /pub/OpenBSD/3.6/tools/booteasy suggesting that > it was part of the distribution but I do not see it listed for 3.7 and newer. > I do not see a 3.7 changelist entry for it and I the online man pages to not > seem to refer to it. Fr

Re: Softupdates question

2007-05-08 Thread Nick Holland
George C wrote: > I've just stumbled across the SoftUpdates section in the FAQ, and was rather > surprised that I had never seen/heard of this feature before. Before > I mount any > partition using softdep, I thought I'd google, browse the archives, etc. for > any > information about when/where t

Re: Softupdates question

2007-05-09 Thread Nick Holland
mickey wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 07:06:06AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: >> George C wrote: ... >> > Is it always best to mount /, /tmp, /usr, /var, /home with softdep? >> > Under what curcumstances would it not be appropriate? >> >> If your app

Re: Failing to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] in X

2007-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
Alex Holst wrote: > I see from the archives that I'm not alone with this problem, but I have > found no solution: Trying to get the VGA port on my X40 to deliver > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my Dell E228WFP and failing. > > Attempt 1 with no xorg.conf in place outputs [EMAIL PROTECTED], a virtual, > s

Re: 4.0 locked up over the weekend

2007-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
Bruce Bauer wrote: This system has been running flawlessly since mid-March with GENERIC plus the 010 patch. dmesg below This morning I found it totally unresponsive both through network and at the console. Had to use the power switch to recover. Where do I start trying to track this down? The

Re: rdate issue

2007-05-13 Thread Nick Holland
John Nietzsche wrote: ... > Everything is working ok except because of those two boxes always have > a time about 20/22 seconds after my gateway time, like in the output > for date command: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] date > Sun May 13 23:04:35 BRT 2007 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] date > Sun May 13 23:04:59 BRT

Re: authpf wrong shell warning

2007-05-15 Thread Nick Holland
Lawrence Horvath wrote: > I am trying to set up authpf. I created all the files however i would > like to be able to login and then start authpf instead of having a > separate user for authpf. when ever i try to start authpf after loging > in with ssh i get the below error > > May 14 22:03:31 free

Re: xenocara

2007-05-19 Thread Nick Holland
Brian wrote: > I am updating my system, and I have just read about xenocara in -current. Do > I > just build this over my pre-existing X.org? I wasn't quite sure from the > README. "updating" from what to what? If you are wondering about Xenocara, I hope you are intending to end up on -current

Re: No text cursor on OpenBSD/i386 4.1

2007-05-24 Thread Nick Holland
Chris S wrote: > On 5/24/07, Jeff Quast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> try: >> >> printf "\033c\033[?25h" >> >> on the command line? > > I was wondering, would this problem justify a bug report? probably, but not necessarily with OpenBSD. :) I saw this problem a few days ago, figured it was a str

Re: No text cursor on OpenBSD/i386 4.1

2007-05-28 Thread Nick Holland
Chris S wrote: > On 5/25/07, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's an add-on SATA board. Remove card, no problem. Install >> card, no cursor. >> > > That's not the case for me, I don't even have the cursor on the > OpenBSD boot

Re: accessing the MBR in multibooted systems?

2007-05-31 Thread Nick Holland
James Hartley wrote: > Section 4.8 of the FAQ discusses how to capture the PBR for multibooting > with dd: > > # dd if=/dev/rwd0a of=openbsd.pbr bs=512 count=1 > > Two questions. > > * For stand-alone installations, is the PBR the same thing as the MBR? no. > * More importantly, how can I use

Re: openbsd 4.1 install cd hangs at "Realtek 8139"

2007-06-05 Thread Nick Holland
studio-v wrote: > I'm trying to install openbsd 4.1 on a firewall server. I'm using the > cd41.iso. The problem is that when the computer boots from cd (in order to > install), it hangs about halfway through. This is the last line: > > rl0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0 "Realtek 8139" rev 0x10: irq 12 >

Re: Problem booting CD for serial console

2007-06-05 Thread Nick Holland
RW wrote: > I have a Commell LE564 which will work happily with a serial console > including doing BIOS stuff. > > The BIOS allows use of a USB CD drive and that works too. Well, it > works perfectly if you can just time it right and blindly type in the > magic string to redirect the console to co

Re: adaptec 2410sa raid card not reconized

2007-06-09 Thread Nick Holland
luccio01 wrote: ... > And what do you think about stability of aac driver ? > Because I read it is not a good idea to use it ... http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq12.html#aac do you care about your data? do you feel lucky? Nick.

Re: upgrading RAIDFRAME systems

2007-06-11 Thread Nick Holland
Josh Grosse wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:53:49PM -0400, I wrote: >> What I have always done is a "manual" upgrade: >> >> 1. Back up. >> 2. Boot in single user mode >> 3. # mount -a -t ffs >> 4. For each fileset except etcXX.tgz and xetcXX.tgz, issue: >> # tar xpzf -C / >> 5. Using

Re: Two instances of chrooted OBSD Apache?

2007-06-13 Thread Nick Holland
Matt wrote: ... > So I am trying to have another instance of the OpenBSD version of Apache > 1.3 - chrooted and all. > > I *think* it can be done by downloading src.tar.gz and compile it again > from there with instructions so it does not overwrite the existing httpd. > Just changing the /usr/sr

Re: http://openbsd.rt.fm/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot

2007-06-18 Thread Nick Holland
Darrel wrote: > http://openbsd.rt.fm/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot > > Per the heading 'What is a chroot?', I plan to change the owner of all > the files in the /var/www directory as read-only by User www. Should > the group of directories and files be changed to www as well? At the > moment, all o

Re: http://openbsd.rt.fm/faq/faq10.html#httpdchroot

2007-06-18 Thread Nick Holland
Martin Schrvder wrote: 2007/6/18, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The question isn't who owns the files, the question is, who can WRITE to the files. IF the user www can write to the files, But the owner can always change the permissions (if the directory is writable by h

Re: how to clear dmesg outpout

2007-07-05 Thread Nick Holland
Jose H. wrote: ... > On 7/4/07, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> Why do you need to clear the dmesg? > I think it is a pretty valid question(request?), you have to relay on > external mechanisms, like syslog, or to compare differences from previous > outputs of dmesg. and the probl

Re: Running out of RAM -- for the archives

2007-07-07 Thread Nick Holland
Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 07/06/2007 06:46:26 PM, Chris Smith wrote: >>> I assume the problem is not enough RAM because when I >>> add more RAM everything works fine. >> >> Repeatable? Sure you've ruled out a seating problem? > > Yes, repeatable. yep, I'd believe that. Some time back (3.6?), whe

Re: IDE or SCSI virtual disks for VMWare image?

2007-07-07 Thread Nick Holland
Todd Pytel wrote: > ...If it > matters, this is going to be lightweight, home server kind of stuff. There's the answer to your question: For your app, it just won't matter. You've spent more time asking, and others (including myself) have spent more time answering your question than you will ever

Re: FAQ/PF Guide PDF links out of date?

2007-07-13 Thread Nick Holland
Richard Wilson wrote: > I think I may have found a glitch in the OpenBSD website - The FAQ and > the PF User's guide are provided as PDF's, which is very handy for those > of us who like to print them out to hand to people as part of their site > documentation. Quickly out of date I know, but some

Re: Multi terabyte filesystems

2007-07-15 Thread Nick Holland
John Nietzsche wrote: > Dear list members, > > is there plans for openbsd to support multi terabyte filesystems? there is desire. There is work being done. > Which release should i expect to see such support? The release it is ready for. What do you want someone to say? For example, do you wa

Re: installation on extended partition

2007-07-23 Thread Nick Holland
Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: ... So the question is how to properly install and boot OpenBSD on an extended partition? I couldn't find any relevant documentation anywhere... Booting from extended partitions is not supported by the OpenBSD boot system. OpenBSD has to be installed on a primary pa

Re: installation on extended partition

2007-07-25 Thread Nick Holland
Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > Hello again, > > I forgot to mention that I'm not subscribed so please CC: me personally in > all > replies. > > I know that installation on extended partitions is not officially supported, > that's why I'm asking for "unofficial" information. Always interestin

Re: OBSD4.1 i386 IDE driver fails to find disk..?

2007-07-27 Thread Nick Holland
John H. Nyhuis wrote: Greetings, My apologies if this is a repost. I am having trouble getting this through to the list. I am trying to install OpenBSD (i386) 4.1 and am failing to get it to identify my standard parallel ide disk. The disk is identified at bootstrapping as hd0

Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

2007-07-30 Thread Nick Holland
First of all, a fine point of English: "How to" should be followed by an explanation of how to do something, not a question, 'specially if not followed by a question mark. The phrase you are probably looking for is "how do I . . . ?". (yes, strange thing for me, who has mangled English in many a

Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

2007-07-30 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: ... > 2) I see the thing is picking up as a "DMA mode 2" device. I've not > seen that with the CF devices and adapters I've used...might want to > try disabling the DMA on that device. "man 4 wd" > > 3) Try another OS on y

Re: Intel Core 2 - errata pulled?!?

2007-08-08 Thread Nick Holland
Toni Mueller wrote: ... > Leaving these aside, I just discovered that the i386 compatibility page > does apparently not list _any_ current intel CPUs (eg. "Pentium D"), > and the question about whether recent Xeons still classify as Xeon in > this list has been raised. > > So, is it right to concl

Re: amd64 snapshot: md5 mismatch "install42.iso"

2007-08-12 Thread Nick Holland
Adriaan wrote: > A md5 -c MD5 fails for "install42.iso" Thats' an experimental feature, not necessarily kept in sync with the rest of the build process at the moment, and thus, the MD5 files may very well not match. Nick.

Re: PF rdr based on hostname

2007-08-15 Thread Nick Holland
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > hello misc@ > > I am PRETTY sure there is no way to do a pf rdr command based on a hostname > and I am just trying to confirm this > Maybe I could somehow use hostated? > > What I want to do is have 4 seprate Windows XP Professional workstations > with 192.168.x.x address

Re: Problems installing OpenBSD to Soekris

2007-08-18 Thread Nick Holland
Timo Myyrd wrote: > Still having problems. I can't get the soekris to boot as far as I can tell. > > I used fdisk and created slice for OpenBSD and then used disklabel to > create the partitions inside it. > After that I extracted sets (base,etc,man) to the disk. > I used "fdisk -u sd1" to update

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-26 Thread Nick Holland
Kevin Cheng wrote: > Hi Darrin, > > Thanks for reply. > > The reason is that we have bunch of files integrated with 4.0 and it would > take us months to upgrade to 4.2 again. we just finished from 3.3 to 4.0 of > upgrade few months ago, plus months of test to stabilize our 4.0 based > application

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

Re: vmware & cvs

2007-08-31 Thread Nick Holland
Gabri Mati wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hey there! > > I'm trying to run OpenBSD under the latest VmWare server, but i've got > some problem: i can't use cvs to check out the repositories. It hangs at > the connecting phase. It's strange, cause ftp and http connect

Re: How to use (compact) flash cards with OpenBSD

2007-09-05 Thread Nick Holland
Don Jackson wrote: > I have gotten past all the problems I discussed in my original message > to this list. > > On the AMD/Tyan motherboard with the Addonics CF to SATA converter, > what I did was purchase a Lexar Professional UDMA 300X CF card. > This card is faster, and provides the UDMA interfa

Re: Following Current general question

2007-09-08 Thread Nick Holland
Allie Daneman wrote: > I finally have a box that's semi-production to run current on. I've read > the FAQ on how to do the install and CVS updates but was wondering how > people generally deal with keeping their -current, current ;) Do most > people just have cvs update cronjobs ? Run a cvs update

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-13 Thread Nick Holland
Theo de Raadt wrote: > I recognize that writeup about the Atheros / Linux / SFLC story is a > bit complex, so I wrote a very simple explanation to someone, and they > liked it's clarity so much that they asked me to post it for everyone. > Here it is (with a few more changes) > > - > starting

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-13 Thread Nick Holland
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 07:09 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: >> GNUspeak: > > These are definitely not the views of the GNU project. They *might* be > views of the self-styled "Linux nerds" that think they are "k00l" and > "eleet&quo

Re: serial port usage

2007-09-13 Thread Nick Holland
Darren Spruell wrote: ... > If cua00 is the right device to use when connecting out, why the > missing phone number error? That means your /etc/remote file is still at its defaults (which perhaps should change): tty00|For hp300,i386,mac68k,macppc,mvmeppc,vax:\ :dv=/dev/tty00:tc=direct:tc=

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Nick Holland
Chris wrote: > I was wondering whether this - http://openbsd.org/faq/faq3.html#ISO - > FAQ entry should be changed as OpenBSD now does provide ISO for base > install? As every release, many things are changed in the FAQ. Finding and changing the things that need to be changed occupies a LOT of my

Re: Creating bridge problem

2007-09-15 Thread Nick Holland
Jake Conk wrote: > Hello, > > For some reason when I try to add my bridge interface to one of my > cards it just hangs. My commands are: > > ifconfig bridge0 create > ifconfig bridge0 add fxp1 > > And it just hangs pretty much forever until i Ctrl-C it... If I put in > my /etc/hostname.bridge0 f

Re: : OpenBSD Install Goal

2007-09-19 Thread Nick Holland
did anyone notice that this thread was accidentally brought back from almost a year ago? Raimo Niskanen wrote: > A lot of people has praised the current OpenBSD installer. > I too. I think it is at the right level and does the right > things, without unneccesary hazzle. > > But... > > There are

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?

2007-09-20 Thread Nick Holland
Josh wrote: > Hello there. > > We have a bunch of obsd firewalls, 8 at the moment, all working nice and > so forth. But we > need to add about another 4 in there for new connections and networks, > which means more > machines to find room for. > > So basically I have been asked to investigate r

Re: Question on interface enumeration

2007-09-21 Thread Nick Holland
Gregory Edigarov wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > Supposing I have several identical NIC's in my server, can I predict > which become int0, which become int1, etc? > > A link to document explaining (or man something) would absolutely suffice. > Thank you. Not Easily, at least if you are referring

Re: 4.1 on ALIX.1C - recommendations?

2007-09-21 Thread Nick Holland
Jan Stary wrote: Hi all, last night, I installed 4.1 on the new ALIX.1C: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix1c.htm (see dmesg at bottom). The intended use of the box is a home router/firewall/NAT/DNS/DHCP for my home "network" of about four computers (heterogeneous). Everything works fine (as usual wi

Re: OpenBSD firewalls as virtual machine ?

2007-09-22 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: ... > Hi Nick. > > I understand your reasons. To me they look like reasons for separate > firewalls on separate boxes. In the scenarios you mention, would you > put separate firewalls on one machine? That's where you are supposed to 1) recognize that my mysteriously m

Re: minimum hard-drive space to compile patches?

2007-09-24 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I currently have OBSD running on my P-II with an 850 MB drive and 64 MB > ram. On install, I chose not to include the compiler set over concern > re drive space. The FAQ says how much space is required to minimally > run OBSD and it says how much to be able to comfortabl

Re: Porting OpenBSD to OLPC XO laptops.

2007-09-26 Thread Nick Holland
Floor Terra wrote: ... > Proprietary hardware and software seems to be directly against their > core principles. That would be the assumption. Though as always, watch the actions, not the words... > The XO laptop uses Open Firmware instead of a BIOS, so it's probably > a lot like a Sun SPARC or

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