Re: time based rules on pf

2010-05-18 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
As you already know, that feature doesn't exist. cron should help this time -if you have any faith at all in its granularity!-. You'd better write some kind of daemon to help updating those pf tables on the fly... May the code be with you. El 17/05/2010 16:03, Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
That attitude is shelfish, and I will try to state why: Linux want to conolize the world; OpenBSD exists for its own sake, that is the same as saying for the sake of both developer and curious users. You are expecting OpenBSD community should embrace you because Linux would like it: A new

Re: How to make FTP work from the firewall system?

2010-03-17 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
From the FAQ, read: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ftp.html Regards, Dani El 16/03/2010 4:49, Dave Anderson escribis: I'm configuring a notebook which will use PF to protect itself from the environments in which I use it, and would like to have FTP 'just work' on it -- whether it's from an

Re: Joomla - MySQL Problem: Could not connect to MySQL

2010-03-13 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Not quite a solution, I think. What about if /var/www mounts in a different filesystem than /var? Hardlinks from chrooted environments don't seem to be a wise solution anyway... Just IMHO. Regards, Dani El 12/03/2010 12:16, Sunnz escribiC3: 2010/3/11 Janmalepa...@googlemail.com: I didn't

Re: AMD power reduction

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
If absolute raw power is not mandatory, you may have a look at Atom-based servers -like http://www.supermicro.es/?opcion=contenidoplt=notasid=137 for example-. This servers consumption should make a difference when working on renovable energy sources. Regards! Jean-Francois escribis: Le

Re: USB voltmeter or DAQ module, small, inexpensive, with OpenBSD support

2010-02-01 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
With a proto board and some skills, you could build a serial system with a total cost around US$30, small enough to not even need a rail support. You could also try to hang on the I2C iface of your mainboard and add you own devices, but if you're not so much into electronics... Go the Arduino

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
It is true, and AFAIK, todays it's a topper nice task... almost 20. Regards, Dani Donald Allen escribis: My understanding is that OpenBSD still employs the Giant Lock approach to SMP, serializing access to kernel services. Is this still true? If it is, do Theo and the other kernel developers

Re: Connect to wireless Access Point according to MAC address

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
'man ifconfig' states you can use bssid parameter to specify your desired bssid -automatic is the default mode-. So you may try 'ifconfig iwn0 nwid Open bssid 00:0b:0e:33:ed:00'. Regards, Dani Milin escribiC3: Hi all, I'd like to connect to the wireless AP according to its MAC address. For

Re: Does Atom dual-core work with SMP?

2009-11-23 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
As a rule of dumb, and as far as the big lock is present -OpenBSD has not the best performance-wise SMP solution out there-, if your dealing with high I/O rates -all computing at kernel space-, a dual core system isn't going to scale very well... So you will get similar performance on both

Re: Spanish language resources for OpenBSD

2009-11-21 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
translating... but can help whenever possible (native spanish speaker). It's just that all the people that I know that can use (thoroughly) OpenBSD in my city can also read english very well (at least)... On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:24:54AM +0100, Daniel Gracia Garallar wrote: I'm not aware

Re: Please use this to convert people to OpenBSD

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Ey, nice project! And appears just on time... I was missing an alternative to Wordpress for my not-caring-about-never-used-features fellows. Will give it a try :) Jason Dixon escribis: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:46:00PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Dear friends, Please stop spamming

Re: OpenBSD blog software

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
[...] P.S. And this will be the last you hear about it from me. ;) I hope this doesn't come to mean the project falls dead. I've been reading the source and seems surprisingly simple, but those damned regulars... hehehe. My treat!

Re: Spanish language resources for OpenBSD

2009-11-17 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
I'm not aware of many spanish resources... AFAIK, the only big resource centre was the Mexican community, but now it seems to be gone with all their translated and own documents. I'd never been a big advocate of translating efforts, but as a native spanish speaker, I should help whenever

OpenBSD platform of choice?

2009-11-11 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Hi there! Now that I have to change my little server farm and I'm able to choose a new platform, I would like to choose wisely. It's a matter of fact that Intel x86 is bogus-prone, and after experimenting a lot with OpenBSD and listening about the different archs since several years ago, I

Re: 200g harddisk after newfs = Available 174g?

2009-10-29 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Manufactures use the 'giga' prefix in the International System meaning. That said, 1Gb would be 10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes. Computer programmers, OS and all around computer chit-chat use the prefix 'giga' to refer 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes. IEC recommends calling this GiB, but it's

Re: Trouble with a uaudio(4) device

2009-10-24 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Probably you'll have to create the /dev/audio1 device. Just go to /etc and make a 'sudo MAKEDEV audio1'. This script will create all the required devs to operate your audio card. Regards! Dani Jona Joachim escribis: Here's the dmesg output when I plug in the device: uaudio0 at uhub3 port

Re: calendar typo?

2009-08-26 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
It all depends, as Paraguay has two native languages: spanish and guaranm. In spanish, the country name is written as 'Paraguay', and 'Paraguai' in guaranm. I barely, if ever, have read 'Paraguai' in any text, maybe because I'm a native spanish speaker. So 'Paraguay' goes for me. Igor

Re: Bind ntpd on certain interface?

2009-08-16 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
The problem here is not the list attitude, but your silly That's right, I've already done it, I know, I know when somebody corrects you. That makes developers angry. Obviously something was wrong with your configs, and you think you know what, but don't. And that's worse than knowing you

Re: Is Radeon HD 4870 okay?

2009-08-12 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Shall you be dual booting your computer, you may consider using a virtual machine to exec OpenBSD, or even getting some 'el-cheapo' CPU to install OpenBSD and use it through SSH/Xming from you current system, to make full use of your terminal full resolution. Regards, Dani Sviatoslav

Re: FTP public

2009-08-04 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Always read the FAQ first. To support an active FTP server, you should allow traffic for ftp, ftp-data port and also all between net.inet.ip.porthifirst and net.inet.ip.porthilast ports, as configured by sysctl(8). Regards! Dani Yamidt Henao escribis: Hi, I cant publish a ftp server

Re: English and Spanish keyboard at same time?

2009-07-25 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Are you working with X, or shell only? Dani Chris Bennett escribis: I do most of my work in English, but I also do a small amount in Spanish. I have a Spanish keyboard, but when I tried hooking it up, didn't get what was on keys. Is there any way to change this dynamically so that I can

Re: System load stays high for no reason

2009-07-22 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Maybe these figures annoy you because you don't understand system load for OBSD. Take a look at http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20090715034920 Regards, Dani Jan-Erik Skata escribis: I have done a fresh install of 4.5, as a basic firewall (ethernet-ethernet) and web server with

Re: pf problem / maybe bug in parser

2009-07-17 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Holger, we should adhere to KISS principle. So, pf rulesets are fine like they are if they are working as expected, and this is our case. If you're missing some warning feature maybe you would try to write an aux app -` la lint for C- that could parse a pf.conf and look for suspect behaviour.

Re: spamd nixspam.gz not found

2009-06-27 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Talking about wget... Wouldn't be more convenient calling 'ftp http://www.blahblah.net/myitem.gz'? I use to recover files that way; works like a charm and allows getting files from http servers without installing any ports/packages. Regards, Dani patrick keshishian escribiC3: On Wed, Jun

Re: random crashes on a firewall with OpenBSD 4.5-stable

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Can't read that? Custom compiled kernel and cac error speaks by themselves; dirty solution, try other disk controller. Best solution, discard you don't have bad hardware and, if everything is ok, make contact with developers and help searching for a code patch to improve the RAID adapter

Re: random crashes on a firewall with OpenBSD 4.5-stable

2009-06-25 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Oh and maybe bad RAM; I've hit some nasty errors with these faulty DIMMs... :/ ComC(te escribiC3: Hi, we are using the last OpenBSD 4.5-stable release on an old Compaq Proliant ML350 as a firewall with spamd. But we encounter randomly some system crashes (once a week or two weeks). The

Re: CPU power control and 'unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU'

2009-06-18 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
That's reasonable, as SpeedStep is able to run CPUs only at several discrete speeds, dependant of your CPU model: SpeedStep is more like those good old 'turbo switchs' xD than a continuous infitine-step throttle. To further decrease your sytem clock speed you'll need to hack your

Re: apc ups daemon

2009-06-11 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
a software issue. Thanasis escribio': on 06/10/2009 12:34 PM Thanasis wrote the following: on 06/10/2009 11:53 AM Daniel Gracia Garallar wrote the following: Are you running the program with a user with dialer privileges? First, make sure your account has dialer privileges -is part

Re: apc ups daemon

2009-06-10 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Are you running the program with a user with dialer privileges? First, make sure your account has dialer privileges -is part of dialer group-. Then Shortcut pins 2 and 3 of your black cable while connected to the pc, and try on a shell 'cu -l /dev/ttyb'. If serial port is working, any keyboard

Re: pf, altq, packet rate

2009-05-29 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
As stupid as it can sound, you could develop a protocol to make routers talk each other and say how much bandwith is available in between. I think there's no other really sane way of inbound traffic control. Dropper techniques are a cheap trick nice for little networks. Serious and big

Re: OSSv4 on OpenBSD

2009-05-25 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Actually, when audio is a concern, I'm quite happy with the audio(4) framework of sio_open(3) and friends. I've just finished a remote PMR control app where real-time audio is needed, and all the bells and whistles are up to the task: multiple devices support -I'm working with four Behringer

Re: OpenBSD and VPN 1411 Criptographic Card

2009-05-24 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
AFAIK, crypto accel cards will be used by the OpenBSD kernel whenever possible without further user intervention needed other than plugging the card and rebooting the system. Make sure your dmesg displays the hifn* device and make some performance test: you may be satisfied. Joco Salvatti

Re: Spanish BSD Group

2009-04-30 Thread Daniel Gracia Garallar
Nice! I must confess I have a strong bias towards english language when talking about programming, but as a spanish OpenBSD user I'll try to support the group as far as possible. !Mucha suerte en la singladura! ;) Dani Daniel Andersen escribis: Well, I would like to announce that the