EuroBSCon: 18-20 Sept 2009

2009-05-07 Thread Marc Balmer
EuroBSDCon 2009 - Call for Papers 9th European BSD Conference September 18 - 20, 2009 University of Cambridge, UK http://2009.eurobsdcon.org/ Introduction The European BSD Community is once again gathering for EuroBSDcon. In 2009, we invite you to join us in Cambridge, England for the latest

Re: [semi-OT] Can anyone recommend an OpenBSD-compatible colour laser printer?

2009-04-05 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 05.04.2009 um 19:44 schrieb ropers: I'm looking for a colour laser printer that's so cheap that I can put it on my birthday wish list and stand a chance of getting it (too broke to buy one myself). - The printer should work with OpenBSD without a hitch, and by that I don't mean can

Re: HowTo gpio with com-port?

2009-03-29 Thread Marc Balmer
and that provides the modem control lines as GPIO. While I think such a driver would be fairly easy to write, it does not yet exist to my best knowledge. You can, however, open the serial port's tty device and query the modem control signals. - Marc Balmer [...]

Re: PF and CLamAV Integration - how to do it?

2009-03-21 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 20.03.2009 um 12:15 schrieb jmc: --- Marc Balmer [Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:36:18PM +0100]: --- Am 19.03.2009 um 15:27 schrieb Protocol Six Consulting: Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knows how to integrate the PF firewall with ClamAV. smtp-vilter, which is in ports, does that, i

Re: PF and CLamAV Integration - how to do it?

2009-03-19 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 19.03.2009 um 15:27 schrieb Protocol Six Consulting: Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knows how to integrate the PF firewall with ClamAV. smtp-vilter, which is in ports, does that, I am planning on putting into production an OpenBSD firewall and would like to do virus scanning at

Re: openbsd in virtualization

2009-03-18 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 18.03.2009 um 09:13 schrieb sonjaya: Hi... My boss ask how to move current obsd server to virtualiaztion ( such as openvz, vmare , etc ) . anyone in here sucsess moving obsd to Environment virtualization ( openvz , vmware etc ) , may be want share to me ? So obsd become guest OS ? I

Re: Using ldap everywhere ...

2009-03-05 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 05.03.2009 um 19:24 schrieb a. e.: But It seems that serving ns zones over ldap is not possible on OpenBSD... The sdb-ldap backend is not in the OpenBSD ports... You can add dlz-ldap backend to OpenBSD's bind. All you need to do (assuming that you've got OpenBSD's sources in / usr/src

Re: Using ldap everywhere ...

2009-03-04 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 04.03.2009 um 15:15 schrieb Alexander Hall: Since you seem to get few responses to this, I'll give you my $.02 here: After years of using OpenBSD, I've come to the conclusion that OpenBSD is best served with as little fuzz as possible (using what's in the base system if at all

Re: TNC Packet Radio for OpenBSD

2009-02-25 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 26.02.2009 um 00:27 schrieb ropers: 2009/2/25 Joseph C. Bender jcben...@bendorius.com: Marc Balmer wrote: I am using a TNC7multi. http://nt-g.de/de/tnc7multi/tnc7multi.php5 The venerable KPC-3 from Kantronics is always a good choice as well. http://www.kantronics.com/products/kpc3

Re: TNC Packet Radio for OpenBSD

2009-02-24 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 24.02.2009 um 16:23 schrieb Dan Colish: I just got a radio for my car and it is capable to handling TNC tranceiver traffic. So, now I'm on a search for a decent packet radio, but it looks like the only ones I've found are Windows only. It not as concerned with the software as I am with the

Re: TNC Packet Radio for OpenBSD

2009-02-24 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 24.02.2009 um 19:41 schrieb Dan Colish: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:50:55PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: Am 24.02.2009 um 16:23 schrieb Dan Colish: I just got a radio for my car and it is capable to handling TNC tranceiver traffic. So, now I'm on a search for a decent packet radio

EuroBSDCon 2009, Cambridge, UK

2009-02-22 Thread Marc Balmer
EuroBSDCon 2009 - Cambridge, UK 18-20 September 2009 The Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) family of computer operating systems is derived from software developed at the University of California at Berkeley. The various family

Re: usr.sbin/wake removal

2009-02-10 Thread Marc Balmer
the old wake(8), written by Marc Balmer/Eugene M. Kim. wake was added to the tree for some reason. it was then removed for some reason. now we look at what is the best place for this functionality. I'd honestly prefer if we could close the wake discussion for now. we will eventually come up

Re: Survey on the usage of IPv6

2009-01-30 Thread Marc Balmer
://ilias.msys.ch/goto.php?target=svy_41client_id=ipv6 and you start the survey by pressing the button on the top left. Many thanks, Marc Claudio -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ In God we trust, in C we

Re: Trouble ticket system suggestions

2008-12-23 Thread Marc Balmer
regards, --Toni++ -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ In God we trust, in C we code.

Re: Trouble ticket system suggestions

2008-12-23 Thread Marc Balmer
* Jason Dixon wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:23:16PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: * Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Tue, 23.12.2008 at 19:44:57 +0200, open...@bgone.net open...@bgone.net wrote: I would like to get your suggestions and experience with some Trouble Ticket Systems

Re: pppoe not reconnecting

2008-12-20 Thread Marc Balmer
na...@mips.inka.de -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ In God we trust, in C we code.

Re: Soekris equivalent

2008-12-17 Thread Marc Balmer
McDonald / Peter Sinfield -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ In God we trust, in C we code.

Re: OT, .. but eCommerce?

2008-12-13 Thread Marc Balmer
can always contact us. -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ In God we trust, in C we code.

Re: securelevel(7) and gpioctl(8)

2008-12-09 Thread Marc Balmer
* Lars D. Noodin wrote: On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Marc Balmer wrote: NB: not all arches have GPIO. Thanks. Ok. I see now. The online pages return a result only for items present in all architectures. The need for Securelevel 0 was mentioned. Does that mean the device must operate

Re: manpage for gpioctl(8) missing?

2008-12-08 Thread Marc Balmer
-to date. NB: not all arches have GPIO. it is present in 4.4-current on i386 and 4.3 on i386 Regards, -Lars Lars NoodC)n ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ In God we trust, in C

Re: 4.4 apachectl configtest segfaul

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Balmer
on debugging. If your configuration file does not contain any secrets, can you please mail it to me so that I can take a look at it? Thanks, Marc Thanks in advance! -- Gabri Mate [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http

Re: 4.4 apachectl configtest segfaul

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Balmer
you... dmesg, the configfile, the usual stuff -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ In God we trust, in C we code.

Re: Latest Portable OpenNTPD?

2008-11-22 Thread Marc Balmer
the device drivers. It's probably easier to switch your timeservers to OpenBSD than going through the pain of porting this to Linux... In some areas we are just better ;) Ani -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch

Re: Ralink RT2860 based cards

2008-11-19 Thread Marc Balmer
buy them at different companies): http://shop.msys.ch/product_info.php?products_id=48osCsid=0h1sq50c1ftgva5k1g0mpm7b32 They work as expected. Cheers, -Chris -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch

Re: (open)smtpd, the mystery smtpd daemon

2008-11-10 Thread Marc Balmer
and here: http://shop.msys.ch/product_info.php?cPath=29products_id=43 (shipping cost valid in .ch only, all others please inquire) -- Mathias Reitinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch

Re: Apache 1.3 in base or 2.2.8 from ports ?

2008-11-08 Thread Marc Balmer
://bsdguy.net In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Gen. 1:1 -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ In God we trust, in C we code.

Re: current support for Asus Eee PC 4G

2008-10-05 Thread Marc Balmer
* Daniel Polak wrote: How well do the different Eee PC models currently work with OpenBSD? Any limitations? I'm especially interested in the Eee PC 4G as they are really cheap (a little over 200 euro) now. The integrated WLAN adapter does not work, other than that it is working great.

Re: PCI Compliant Vulnerability Scanner

2008-10-03 Thread Marc Balmer
* Stuart VanZee wrote: Once again it is time for the quarterly security review required for my company to maintain PCI compliance. Unfortunately, It seems that the Nessus scanner that we had been using is no longer free. Can anyone recommend a PCI compliant vulnerability scanner that I can

Re: Can't start Apache... MaxCPUPerChild is invalid??

2008-09-02 Thread Marc Balmer
* Sunnz wrote: Ok I am totally lost... googling MaxCPEPerChild gives no result, while MaxCPUPerChild gives lots of OpenBSD httpd.conf file with the exact same conf I have, http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2008/6/16/2138454 where MaxCPUPerChild 0... The httpd optionis

Any users in Romania?

2008-08-26 Thread Marc Balmer
Do we have any OpenBSD users/hackers/afficionados in Romania? If so, please contact me off list... - Marc

Re: [semi-OT] using IPv4 addresses in alternative formats (i.e. not dotted decimal notation)

2008-08-23 Thread Marc Balmer
* ropers wrote: Hiya, I only recently learned that when addressing an Internet server/host by IPv4 address, it is possible to not use the standard dotted decimal notation (abc.def.uvw.xyz) but instead use any of a number of alternative formats; for example it is possible to specify the IP

Re: How to copy an entire directory to my home directory

2008-08-15 Thread Marc Balmer
* Pedro Martelletto wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:40:38PM -0700, Johan Beisser wrote: man cp(1) You're all apparently missing out on a great tool called GHome Mover (http://www.brookepeig.com/ghomemover/). I know the guy said he is logging in from remote, but it is definitely worth the

Re: slapd hangs, was: Re: OpenLDAP and Berkeley DB 4.6

2008-08-05 Thread Marc Balmer
* Toni Mueller wrote: Hi, On Sun, 09.03.2008 at 16:31:27 +, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have several recommended options: - dump your database, uninstall, install the unFLAVORed version and restore your database. I tried that, but now run into the problem

Re: openbsd web server failure

2008-08-04 Thread Marc Balmer
the software you are trying to install would hurt nobody, either. - Marc Balmer

Re: ldattach dies after gpsd starts

2008-08-04 Thread Marc Balmer
* Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: since a few i386 snapshot, and also in the latest GENERIC#1012 i386, I observe that # /sbin/ldattach -p -s 4800 -t dcd nmea tty00 dies once I start # /usr/local/sbin/gpsd -N -D 2 /dev/ttyp1 Do you see this as well when you use ldattach on cua00? This was

Re: config GENERIC error

2008-08-03 Thread Marc Balmer
* pezking wrote: Hello, This is my first OpenBSD mailing list post so I hope I am in the correct place, and if I am not I apologize in advance. I'm having some trouble upgrading from OpenBSD 4.2 to 4.3 - particularly at the config GENERIC stage. I am a little bit stumped as I have not

Re: free plot software

2008-07-29 Thread Marc Balmer
* Pau wrote: Hi, do you know of a command-line, active, FREE programme to produce scientific plots? I am getting more and more used to gnuplot, but I don't like their conditions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnuplot#License I have read something about gri, but it doesn't seem to be as

Re: Dynamic filtering in PF based on httpd error log

2008-07-26 Thread Marc Balmer
* aeonsystems.com wrote: Hi, I saw this thread from 2003 http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-pfm=104540589312892w=2 This is a very nice idea which I'd like to implement in some form on my network(s). One question though... Is there an easy and secure way to update a banned table on the

Re: clock on alic3 board

2008-07-22 Thread Marc Balmer
* Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-07-19, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Remember that the ALIX.2/3 boards usually do not have a battery to backup a realtime clock. 3c3 does. I think it's basically all the ones with a VGA bios. Yes. the 1b, 1c, and 3c3

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-21 Thread Marc Balmer
* Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-07-20, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Henning Brauer wrote: lighttpd. can it do reverse proxying, as needed for zope? it definitely can in 1.5, I'm not sure about the in-tree version but I think it's likely. nice. btw, there is also a light

Re: Light HTTP servers.

2008-07-20 Thread Marc Balmer
* Henning Brauer wrote: lighttpd. can it do reverse proxying, as needed for zope? -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting -

Re: clock on alic3 board

2008-07-19 Thread Marc Balmer
always start at 0 when powered up, and 0 is the epoch, Jan. 1 1970. A mechanism like ntpd -s is needed for those boards. The ALIX.1B/C do have a battery, btw. - Marc Balmer

Re: clock on alic3 board

2008-07-18 Thread Marc Balmer
local clock by 86910.009693s Jul 17 16:37:10 pceng4 ntpd[5847]: adjusting local clock by 86908.914398s and possible configuration error? not an error, but you might want to start ntpd with the -s option. put 'ntpd_flags=-s' into your /etc/rc.conf.local file. Best regards, Riwan - Marc

Re: OpenBSD 4.3 and relayd from -current (make fails)

2008-07-18 Thread Marc Balmer
* Marco Fretz wrote: thanks. yes i did so, but OpenBSD 4.4 -current is not really stable at the moment :( I am using it, so are my colleagues at work. We have no issues relayd in 4.3 is buggy and i cant find a patch... marco Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-07-16, Marco Fretz

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-17 Thread Marc Balmer
* Shizzle Cash wrote: On Jul 17, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: agreed. I barely can wait to see Ty Semaka artwork for 4.4. Definitively it should include monkeys. And amoebas too. I agree, monkeys should definitely be somehow incorporated into the artwork for the next

Re: in-kernel pppoe issue with username/password length

2008-07-16 Thread Marc Balmer
* asd asd wrote: First of all I would like to say you hello! I have some problems on setting up a OpenBSD box as gateway for pppoe connection. I'm using a DSL modem running in bridge mode / well, i try to use it :) /. PPPOE username/password are 16 character in length and i believe this

Re: This is what Linus Torvalds calls openBSD crowd

2008-07-16 Thread Marc Balmer
* Denis Doroshenko wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:33 PM, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950 Again a mis representation in pulic? haha, poor linus cries like a baby coz not everyone is gonna kiss his ass these days. of course

note for faq, maybe

2008-07-10 Thread Marc Balmer
if you use pppoe(4) for internet, and want to do a remote update from 4.2 to 4.3, over said pppoe(4) link, then the normal update procedure will not work, because the 4.3 kernel and the 4.2 ifconfig binary can not work together. after rebooting the new 4.3 bsd kernel, the network will not be

Re: OT: cases for geode LX 800 board

2008-07-01 Thread Marc Balmer
* Bryan wrote: For all of you who have the AMD Geode series boards... Where did you get your cases? homemade? custom ordered? I bought the LX800 board, but I think to realize that it would need a case. OR a power supply. What is _the_ LX800 board? I have about ten different ones. And all

Re: eeepc 900 4.3-current

2008-06-29 Thread Marc Balmer
today I got my eeepc 900 and was eager to install 4.3-current on it. So I downloaded the latest snapshot of bsd.rd and pxeboot and netbooted the eee. Sadly the kernel boot stops after attaching pciide0 at pci0. I also tried to boot /bsd.rd -d in the hope to get more information about what

Re: booting a different kernel

2008-06-23 Thread Marc Balmer
* James Hartley wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 7:07 AM, annne annnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I had windows installed first, then I installed openbsd, what would I type to boot into windows? Read FAQ 4.8 FAQ 14.6. Any maybe Matthew 22:14 ...

Re: Apache theoretical questions (was Re: no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?)

2008-06-19 Thread Marc Balmer
apache in base will ideally look like? yes, i'm blowing a lot of dust on this one. i'm just curious. If you have any diffs that make httpd better, fix bugs, or make the code more readable (KNF, see style(9)), please mail them. But small steps, please. - Marc Balmer

nmeaattach(8) removed in -current, superseeded by ldattach(8)

2008-06-09 Thread Marc Balmer
If you are using a GPS device with nmeaattach(8), please switch to ldattach(8) now. The nmeaattach command has been removed in -current, so has the nmeaattach_flags option in /etc/rc.conf (replaced with ldattach_flags). Please note that ldattach(8) has a slightly different synopsis than

Re: nmeaattach(8) removed in -current, superseeded by ldattach(8)

2008-06-09 Thread Marc Balmer
* James Hartley wrote: On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are using a GPS device with nmeaattach(8), please switch to ldattach(8) now. Thanks Marc for passing on this information. Can you describe in short why this change was made? we do not want

Re: cannot link to ftp

2008-05-25 Thread Marc Balmer
* Dan Liu wrote: export PKG_PATH=ftp://obsd.cec.mtu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/ The correct path on the server would be pub/OpenBSD/4.3/packages/i386/ pkg_add -i screen Error from ftp://obsd.cec.mtu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/4.3/i386/: ftp: Login failed. ftp: No control connection for command. ftp:

Re: [OT] Can i connect two box directly using wireless cards ?

2008-05-25 Thread Marc Balmer
* elflord woods wrote: I have two laptops running linux and openbsd, both with a working wireless card. I am wondering if i can connect these two computers directly and communicate between each other wirelessly I'm a network nut and have no idea if this is possible. Thanks this is

Re: [OT] Python License [WAS: Re: Why Perl for pkg_* tools ?]

2008-05-24 Thread Marc Balmer
* Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, How about the python license? Not that I'm really capable of rewriting and/or patching the pkg_* tools but from a license point of view I think that the license under which python is distributed is quite similiar to a BSD license. Especiall this: do you

Re: Why Perl for pkg_* tools ?

2008-05-23 Thread Marc Balmer
* Almir Karic wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as perl goes, it's about the only language that fit the bill. The older pkg_* were totally impossible to maintain and extend, and I needed a sensible script language that was in base. at the

Re: [OT] developers running -current on laptops

2008-05-23 Thread Marc Balmer
* Otto Moerbeek wrote: I can see from the recent undeadly posts and pictures that most developers are using laptops and I know you have to run -current to do development work. I was just wondering if these laptops are for development use only or development+personal use? I know -current

Re: Problems with apache vhosts

2008-05-21 Thread Marc Balmer
Taleon wrote: Thanks for the fast vhost-fix. I rebuilded my system some minutes ago and now it works perfectly without any error-messages. It is very important that the IPv6 additions do not break existing IPv4 installations. People should really look out for IPv4 breakage. Thanks for your

Re: Your help is needed: Please help us fund a replacement for ga@'s stolen laptop

2008-05-20 Thread Marc Balmer
Owain Ainsworth wrote: I'm very pleased to announce that about 2.5 hours after the initial email went out, enough money had been donated to fulfill the needed amount! I'm shocked at how fast that all happened. Well, actually it took a little bit longer than just 2.5 hours, but nevertheless it

Re: Problems with apache vhosts

2008-05-20 Thread Marc Balmer
Taleon wrote: Hi, I meet the same problem. The error messages looks like following: $ sudo apachectl start [Tue May 20 16:45:58 2008] [warn] VirtualHost *:80 overlaps with VirtualHost *:80, the first has precedence, perhaps you need a NameVirtualHost directive [Tue May 20 16:45:58 2008]

Your help is needed: Please help us fund a replacement for ga@'s stolen laptop

2008-05-19 Thread Marc Balmer
in CHF 200 (approx $ 200). (And any excess money would go as a donation to OpenBSD, btw.) Thanks, Marc Balmer

Re: Problems with apache vhosts

2008-05-16 Thread Marc Balmer
Pedro de Oliveira wrote: Hello, I'm having a little problem with vhosts with OpenBSD apache, not really a problem, more a Warning cause everything is working nicely, i just dont like the warnings. On which version do you see this problem? Are you running -current? If so, from when does

Re: Problems with apache vhosts

2008-05-16 Thread Marc Balmer
Pedro de Oliveira wrote: I'm running -current from Mon May 12 10:57:47 WEST 2008. ok, can you please mail in private your full httpd configuration, so that I can look into this? -Mensagem original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Marc Balmer Enviada

Re: Problems with apache vhosts

2008-05-16 Thread Marc Balmer
Pedro de Oliveira wrote: Hum, so I should just ignore it! Well, at least it is now *reported*. I am working on this. Even if the warnings are bogus, they should not be there. Thanks Marc and Stuart -Mensagem original- De: Stuart Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada:

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-08 Thread Marc Balmer
The nice thing about editors is that we have so many of them to choose from. Everyone will be happy, like some prefer blondes, other brunettes ... ;) Today one of our servers decided to send one of it's disks to the abyss, I was happy to be able to edit /etc/fstab in ed while in single user

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-04 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 03.05.2008 um 19:56 schrieb Jordi Espasa Clofent: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. I am using two editors on a regular base: vi that is

Re: i have lost /etc

2008-03-28 Thread Marc Balmer
Rafael Morales wrote: 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 ??? restore(8)

Upcoming PostgreSQL Update to version 8.3.1

2008-03-23 Thread Marc Balmer
(This is a crosspost from [EMAIL PROTECTED]; I want to make sure this reaches all OpenBSD/PostgreSQL users) PostgreSQL users, shortly the PostgreSQL port in OpenBSD will be updated from version 8.2.6 to 8.3.1. This is a major update and you have to dump your databases before update and

Re: glxpcib: tiny bug fix

2008-03-18 Thread Marc Balmer
Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: Without the fix below, reading back the state of the impulse switch (GPIO24) on my ALIX always returned '0' (e.g. switch is pressed). Now it returns '1' if depressed, and '0' only while pressing it, as expected. As AMD5536_GPIO_READ_BACK was already #defined but so far

Re: the death of the oldest OpenBSD system on the net...

2008-03-18 Thread Marc Balmer
Henning Brauer wrote: * Marcus Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-03-18 12:31]: snip back in time (but not to long ago), I served 3000 email accounts for a Swiss multinational insurance company on a P133 with 32MB RAM. That is no big deal, however. sendmail and any Unix like system can

Re: the death of the oldest OpenBSD system on the net...

2008-03-17 Thread Marc Balmer
Marcus Andree wrote: I've just finished a small argument with some colleages here at work. They just couldn't believe a Pentium 133 was serving a hundred e-mail accounts... back in time (but not to long ago), I served 3000 email accounts for a Swiss multinational insurance company on a P133

Re: Samba(SMB) or Netatalk(AFP)?

2008-03-10 Thread Marc Balmer
Sunnz wrote: Basically I want to set up a network share on my OpenBSD box which my Mac laptops and Linux laptops can access to. Smb seems kind of weird in a environment with no M$ systems... however this is probably what I am most familiar with because I did it in the past on OpenBSD and it

Re: multiple connections to GPS device?

2008-03-07 Thread Marc Balmer
James Hartley wrote: Is it possible to watch the NMEA traffic originating from a USB GPS device *while* attached via nmeaattach(8)? Once nmeaattach(8) has attached to the device, any subsequent connection attempted via cu(1) fails with an all ports busy message. The manpage for cu(1) states

Re: multiple connections to GPS device?

2008-03-07 Thread Marc Balmer
James Hartley wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:01 PM, James Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some other manner in which I can tap into this connection? ports/misc/gpsd This looks really cool! Am I correct to

Re: openbsd router hardware

2008-03-02 Thread Marc Balmer
Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile) wrote: I'm looking for hardware to install an openbsd based dsl-router. I already searched the list archives and looked at WRAP and Soekris, but it seems that they do not match my requirements: - fanless - as small as possible - Soekris - Routerboard - Axiomtek -

Re: /etc/ttys fields for reading from tty00

2008-03-02 Thread Marc Balmer
AE sysadmin wrote: I am crafting C util to read data from tty00 (amd64, i386; connected to the data src device directly by serial cable). What should I put in /etc/ttys for the tty00 to make sure I am doing things correctly? The util is to be run as root. you don't need to edit /etc/ttys,

Re: OT: supposed advantages of threads

2008-02-18 Thread Marc Balmer
Geoff Steckel wrote: This is my last posting on this, take heart. The threads advocates have never specified any advantages of a program written using that model (multiple execution points in a single image) over a multiple process model, assuming that parallelism is useful. If the purported

Re: take threads off the table

2008-02-17 Thread Marc Balmer
Marco Peereboom wrote: If you want to run more of the same you fork. Threads usefulness are limited in scope. Threads dangers are endless. Nonetheless there are good reasons for threading; just not as many as people give it credit for. Ssh is not one of those use cases where threading is

Re: Where is NAN Defined?

2008-02-10 Thread Marc Balmer
Jim Razmus wrote: I'm trying to compile a program that uses NAN. It includes math.h which I'm told C99 says should define it. I've grepped the entire source tree and read up on man 3 math and man 3 isinf. Still no joy. Trying to compile the program yields error: `NAN' undeclared (first use

Re: Dell SC440 reboot

2008-02-08 Thread Marc Balmer
sandro guly zaccarini wrote: hi, i have two sc440 running 4.2 and i have some problem. i don't have the box here so i can't paste the trace or similar but i will try to explain and maybe if i'm not the only one that use this crappy hardware.. first of all, the raid controller is awful. this

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Marc Balmer
Chris wrote: I am trying to a access a switch connected to a USB-Serial controller to my laptop's USB port. When I plug in the USB port to my laptop I get the following in my /var/log/messages. But I am not sure which /dev/device to use in minicom to access the switch. I can see there is no

Re: Prolific USB-Serial Controller

2008-02-02 Thread Marc Balmer
Stuart Henderson wrote: /dev/ttyU0 you should use /dev/cuaU0 for dial-out. On 2008/02/02 20:53, Chris wrote: I am trying to a access a switch connected to a USB-Serial controller to my laptop's USB port. When I plug in the USB port to my laptop I get the following in my /var/log/messages.

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-31 Thread Marc Balmer
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello, I have an unusual situation and problem at which I've been chipping away. The resultant system will need to run OpenBSD so I'm asking here for the accumulated wisdom. The base technology predates my IT experience. My wife is sensitive to what she describes as

Re: Test Limerick, please ignore

2008-01-29 Thread Marc Balmer
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There once was a message to test Repeated unto being a pest While marked to ignore It was seen more and more Until other begged, Give it a rest! That one needs to be included in the faq somewhere, urgently.

A note for PC-Engines ALIX board users

2008-01-21 Thread Marc Balmer
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Re: Problems with -current in CVS?

2008-01-21 Thread Marc Balmer
Colby W. wrote: I tried two different AnonCVS repositories (one in the USA and one in CAN) tonight but ran into the same problem when I tried rebuilding the kernel to bring my recent -release install up to -current. Per the instructions [1]: cou have to rebuild config(8) in

Re: building a kernel for net4801 from dmassage

2008-01-16 Thread Marc Balmer
Henning Brauer wrote: * Piotrek Kapczuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-16 12:05]: 2008/1/16, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-15 17:42]: What is recommended for using a second machine to compile a kernel for the soekris? nothing. there is no need to

Re: building a kernel for net4801 from dmassage

2008-01-16 Thread Marc Balmer
Paul de Weerd wrote: [...] port in /etc/ttys (see ttys(5) for more info). But yeah, like Henning said .. absolutely no need to build a new kernel. Definitely not worth the effort just to change the console speed. I do custom kernels to build a ramdisk kernel that has some special

Re: GENERIC -current kernel requires modification to boot on ALIX

2008-01-16 Thread Marc Balmer
* Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: To test, I have simpley disabled tickling by the kernel: sysctl kern.watchdog.auto=0 The watchdog bites within 30 seconds which is the default kern.watchdog.period=30 Running the userspace tickler watchdogd, which implicitly disables kern.watchdog.auto,

Re: AMD Geode LX Video on fit-PC

2008-01-09 Thread Marc Balmer
Matt Jibson wrote: I recently got a fit-PC. I found that after installing snapshots, issuing startx simply blacks the screen. The normal methods to stop X and recover the screen were unsuccessful. This is the behavior when using the vesa driver. Under the vga driver, X starts, but the fonts are

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-09 Thread Marc Balmer
Nikns Siankin wrote: Facts about OpenBSD: # Stable release cycle. If you want to run latest bugfree ClamAV or FireFox - upgrade to CURRENT! But don't forget to buy release CD's!!! # Secure By Default. OpenBSD uses broken WEP for securing WiFi networks. Has no WPA/WPA2 support. # Do

Re: NAT IPV4 and bridge only IPV6

2008-01-08 Thread Marc Balmer
Good Good wrote: Thank you for your answers. Free.fr http://Free.fr is the first general public ISP in France to provide IPV6 to its customers (it seems that I would be lucky) :) Marc is right, with a /64 I cannot do anything, my ISP seems to be skinflint (/64 or nothing). talk to them

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-07 Thread Marc Balmer
Dusty wrote: WHY, please really, tell me WHY you do not do your own research. Everybody on this list would LOVE to know why you do not do any of your own research?!?!?!?!!? Honestly I am not interested why this moron does not do any research. He seems to be a case for the psychiatrists.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-06 Thread Marc Balmer
Richard Stallman wrote: What is an operating system? An OS could be considered an application, You could consider an OS an application, and you could consider hardware software, just as you could consider the Earth a pumpkin. My response is that you're starting from assumptions I find

Re: NAT IPV4 and bridge only IPV6

2008-01-06 Thread Marc Balmer
Good Good wrote: [...] The problem : The /64 provided by my ISP is made to fuel only one ethernet segment and no more. So, it is not possible to route a part of the /64 to another ethernet segment (the private segment). ask them to get a /48 network. with a /64 network you can not do

Re: fvwm in base and repository with security issues?

2008-01-02 Thread Marc Balmer
* Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] I also forgot that Enlightenment seems to be under a suitable licence, although probably too big to put in base. enlightnment is development code that does not run stable. It is not usable for production or every day use machines. Doug. - Marc Balmer

Re: Postfix(chroot) and Postgresql

2007-12-26 Thread Marc Balmer
, then I suggest that you don't use it all. It can be complicated and complex. Of course, once installed it works like a charm (oh, and we even have an LDAP enabled version of the venerable vacation(8) program). - Marc Balmer [...] -- SELECT services FROM companies WHERE name = 'micro

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