Re: net/aget : project contacts not reachable?

2013-06-04 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 09:25:14PM +0100, Gerard Lally wrote: > You could also consider the following alternatives, which are > maintained: aria2; curl; wget. I am aware of curl and wget. But I don't think they are accelerators like aget. Will try out aria2. Mayuresh.

Re: net/aget : project contacts not reachable?

2013-06-04 Thread Gerard Lally
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 22:26:03 +0530 Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:42:12PM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote: > > I don't see any updates to the package (beyond ones dealing with > > pkgsrc infrastructure) since its import: > > > > so maybe things have just moved on for them? > > Looks li

Re: More puzzing nmbclusters

2013-06-04 Thread Greg Troxel
Konrad Neuwirth writes: > | pinie# sysctl -w kern.mbuf.nmbclusters=32768 > | sysctl: kern.mbuf.nmbclusters: Invalid argument > > No. The only result that doesn't produce an Invalid argument is … 16384. > > What can I do? > > This is a NetBSD/i386 machine with 2GB physical RAM. Probably you a

Re: XBMC?

2013-06-04 Thread Pierre Pronchery
Hey David, On 04/06/2013 21:20, David Wetzel wrote: > > XBMC is now at version 12.2. How about trying that? > They fixed a lot of issues on the mac version so I guess some of that will > affect the build on BSD too? well, good to know, but I do not have the time/motivati

Re: XBMC?

2013-06-04 Thread David Wetzel
Hi Pierre! XBMC is now at version 12.2. How about trying that? They fixed a lot of issues on the mac version so I guess some of that will affect the build on BSD too? Thanks David On 4 Jun 2013, at 15:13, Pierre Pronchery wrote: > > IIRC I never got it to compile all the way through back the

Re: XBMC?

2013-06-04 Thread Pierre Pronchery
Hi David, On 04/06/2013 18:05, David Wetzel wrote: > > is anybody using XBMC on NetBSD? > It does not seem to be in pkgsrc, but it seems to be in pkgsrc wip. I am the one who tried to package it in wip, about three years ago. > How good does it work compare to the mac os

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 12:46:46PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Basically, NTP (ntpd and ntpdate) assume that the mean of the outgoing > and incoming local timestamps (in the local machine's time) is the same > time as the mean of the remote machines incoming and outgoing timestamps > (in the rem

Re: net/aget : project contacts not reachable?

2013-06-04 Thread Mayuresh
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:42:12PM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote: > I don't see any updates to the package (beyond ones dealing with > pkgsrc infrastructure) since its import: > > so maybe things have just moved on for them? Looks like ... thanks for the findings. Anyway, the tool is really nice

Re: update 6.0.1_PATCH -> 6.0.2 added suid to /usr/bin/passwd

2013-06-04 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:24:49AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: > > > # ls -la /path/to/6.0.1/usr/bin/passwd > > -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 31003 Mar 6 13:35 > > /path/to/6.0.1/usr/bin/passwd > > # ls -la /path/to/6.0.2/usr/bin/passwd > >

Re: cpp in base?

2013-06-04 Thread Greg Troxel
quick question - should I be able to use /usr/bin/cpp -E without having installed the compiler binary set? So far on this 5.1.2 host I've got the base and etc sets installed and when trying to use cpp as a pre-processor only, I get the following: Without the compiler set, you should not e

Re: net/aget : project contacts not reachable?

2013-06-04 Thread Alistair Crooks
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 06:51:47PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > I find net/aget - a download accelerator - suitable for my download > requirement. > > I just find that, the command line option to provide a different local > filename to the downloaded file (-l) does not work. > > I can perhaps write a

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread Greg Troxel
tlaro...@polynum.com writes: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:20:21AM +, Michael van Elst wrote: >> >> NTP doesn't use ICMP but UDP and client and servers exchange time >> information directly within the NTP protocol. The gateway is >> nothing more than a router in the path that causes some dela

Re: update 6.0.1_PATCH -> 6.0.2 added suid to /usr/bin/passwd

2013-06-04 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: > # ls -la /path/to/6.0.1/usr/bin/passwd > -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 31003 Mar 6 13:35 > /path/to/6.0.1/usr/bin/passwd > # ls -la /path/to/6.0.2/usr/bin/passwd > -r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 31003 Jun 3 14:21 > /path/to/6.0.2/u

XBMC?

2013-06-04 Thread David Wetzel
Hey folks, is anybody using XBMC on NetBSD? It does not seem to be in pkgsrc, but it seems to be in pkgsrc wip. How good does it work compare to the mac os versions? Thanks! David

Re: Raidframe device names: persistent?

2013-06-04 Thread Greg Oster
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:27:37 +0200 Ignatios Souvatzis wrote: > Hi, > > how persistent are autoconfigured raidframe device names? > > I'm asking because I mistakenly created a (onedisk) raid0 for system > on a new, bigger disk, then created a new one (raid2) on the slightly > older, former cold b

Raidframe device names: persistent?

2013-06-04 Thread Ignatios Souvatzis
Hi, how persistent are autoconfigured raidframe device names? I'm asking because I mistakenly created a (onedisk) raid0 for system on a new, bigger disk, then created a new one (raid2) on the slightly older, former cold backup disk and added the new disk (after unconfiguring the old one). Will ra

update 6.0.1_PATCH -> 6.0.2 added suid to /usr/bin/passwd

2013-06-04 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
Hi, not sure what happened here but after the upgrade from 6.0.1_PATCH to 6.0.2 the daily insecurity mail reported the following: Checking setuid files and devices: Setuid additions: -r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 31003 Jun 3 12:21:03 2013 /usr/bin/passwd -r-sr-xr-x 2 roo

More puzzing nmbclusters

2013-06-04 Thread Konrad Neuwirth
So the kernel tells me again: | WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase kern.mbuf.nmbclusters | WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase kern.mbuf.nmbclusters | WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase kern.mbuf.nmbclusters | WARNING: mclpool limit reached; increase kern.mbuf.nmbclusters | WARNI

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 03:13:10PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > > If your NAT device causes persistent enough packet handling delays in the > order of 2 seconds (or enough to make NTP erroneously drift that far), > you have a serious problem. >[...] > What timecounter source did your machine p

net/aget : project contacts not reachable?

2013-06-04 Thread Mayuresh
I find net/aget - a download accelerator - suitable for my download requirement. I just find that, the command line option to provide a different local filename to the downloaded file (-l) does not work. I can perhaps write a wrapper script to work around the issue, though just thought of checkin

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread Martin Husemann
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 03:05:21PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > The question arised because I have bad values (more than 2 seconds > offset) for a node on which I have made a "ntpdate -b" (so no adjtime) a > day before: the (new, dual-core x86_64, NetBSD 6.1) PC clock is not an > atomic clo

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 11:20:21AM +, Michael van Elst wrote: > > NTP doesn't use ICMP but UDP and client and servers exchange time > information directly within the NTP protocol. The gateway is > nothing more than a router in the path that causes some delay, > with NAT or without. > OK. But

Re: cpp in base?

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 10:07:03PM +1000, mjch wrote: > Wouldn't that make having /usr/bin/cpp in any set other than comp a little > pointless? > If it depends on the compiler, as it is perfectly allowed, yes. This only means that a cpp outside the comp set has to be standalone. But this does no

Re: ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread Michael van Elst
tlaro...@polynum.com writes: >If I understand correctly, the time offset are computed taking into >account the time the ICMP messages spent going from a time server to the >client requesting it. But does a NAT rewrite happening in between have >an impact on this computation? since both ends are u

Re: cpp in base?

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:26:55PM +1000, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > quick question - should I be able to use /usr/bin/cpp -E without having > installed the compiler binary set? So far on this 5.1.2 host I've got > the base and etc sets installed and when trying to use cpp as a pre-processor > only,

ntp/ntpdate and NAT

2013-06-04 Thread tlaronde
Hello, If I understand correctly, the time offset are computed taking into account the time the ICMP messages spent going from a time server to the client requesting it. But does a NAT rewrite happening in between have an impact on this computation? since both ends are unaware of the masquerading