Re: required by?

2011-12-27 Thread Christopher Hilton
On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Once you have a port installed, pkg_info -R gconf\* will tell you. - Bartosz Just to be clear, this will list the ports that you have installed which require the target port, in your example gconf. That's not a complete list of all

Re: Block IP

2006-12-21 Thread Christopher Hilton
Oliver Fromme wrote: [ snip ] In general that's not a good idea. If you do it wrong, it makes DoS attacks against your machine easier (i.e. a clever attacker might be able to lock yourself out of your own machine). And getting it right is not easy. The best way to prevent brute-forcing is to

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
Oliver Fromme wrote: Dimitry Andric wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: What does stuttering mean? Is it similar to sendmail's greet_pause feature? See here: http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/spamd/mgp00014.html OK, so the answer to my question seems to be yes. :-) Actually I'd

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
JoaoBR wrote: why the spam daemon should introduce an artificial delay (tarpit) if this can be done already before like Oliver said, it would only eat up and slow down threads between both daemons (smtp + spamd) and overall spamd doesn't even talk directly to the remote smtp Spamd does

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
JoaoBR wrote: opss, so your spamd must be ports/mail/spamd then, thank's for clarification I dont know if it is a good solution even if it works. I am completly satisfied using sendmails ClientRate and greeting delay features and I do not need an additional software to take care of.

Is syslog() reentrant? Was: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
Christopher Hilton wrote: Has anyone gotten a newer version of OpenBSD's spamd than the one in ports going? I'm cvsupping my ports tree now but since I didn't see an update on the cvs server I'm assuming 3.7 is the latest version. Between OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8 spamd gained the ability to tarpit

Re: Is syslog() reentrant? Was: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 19), Christopher Hilton said: A casual attempt to compile a fresher copy of the software shows that spamd is using the OpenBSD's reentrant syslog functions (syslog_r, openlog_r, etc) Is FreeBSD's syslog already reentrant? It is, as of FreeBSD 5.4

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
Charles Sprickman wrote: On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Christopher Hilton wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Dimitry Andric wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: What does stuttering mean? Is it similar to sendmail's greet_pause feature? See here: http://www.ualberta.ca/~beck/nycbug06/spamd/mgp00014

Re: OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-19 Thread Christopher Hilton
jdow wrote: Spamd does talk to the remote smtp. It does this until it determines that the remote smtp is RFC compliant in the area of retrying mail. On the first delivery attempt it sets up a time window for the delivery tuple: (server, sender, recipient). If it receives another delivery

OpenBSD's spamd.

2006-12-16 Thread Christopher Hilton
Has anyone gotten a newer version of OpenBSD's spamd than the one in ports going? I'm cvsupping my ports tree now but since I didn't see an update on the cvs server I'm assuming 3.7 is the latest version. Between OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.8 spamd gained the ability to tarpit or stutter at all