Re: pledge(2) API ideas for libraries

pledge should be used to restrict a program to whatever it is necessary to do, rather than everything the library can do. So if I use libimaginarydb to parse a csv file I've already read into a memory buffer (nearly pledge("", NULL)), but the library can read/write/create files, do remote db

Re: wifind(8) find your wifi

> On Jun 3, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Erling Westenvik wrote: > As much as I endorse and approve of any effort to create a good solution > for handling wifi's, I must say I find the use of perl and json > unnecessary for such a project. I've been using a "pure ksh" solution >

Re: wifind(8) find your wifi

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 10:33:47 +0100 skin...@britvault.co.uk (Craig Skinner) wrote: > Hi Ray, > > On 2016-06-03 Fri 00:26 AM |, Ray Lai wrote: > > > > I got tired of configuring my wifi every time I had to move my laptop. > > Here's a script a whipped up. > > p

Re: wifind(8) find your wifi

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016 15:52:34 +0200 Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 03:22:19PM +0200, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > > Perhaps it's time that the best tool be chosen and made a part of the > > base install? I've already seen like a 100 different OBSD WiFi scripts > >

Re: wifind(8) find your wifi

> On Jun 3, 2016, at 8:59 PM, Etienne <etienne.m...@magickarpet.org> wrote: > On 06/03/16 05:12, Ray Lai wrote: >>> >>> #!/bin/sh >>> >>> if [[ $1 == "home" ]]; then >>>doas ifconfig run0 nwid foonet wpa wpakey ultrasecret &

Re: wifind(8) find your wifi

> On Jun 3, 2016, at 6:17 AM, Gleydson Soares wrote: > > I usually just use a small script that lives in ~/bin > > cat ~/bin/wifi > > #!/bin/sh > > if [[ $1 == "home" ]]; then >doas ifconfig run0 nwid foonet wpa wpakey ultrasecret >doas dhclient run0 > fi Yup. The goal

Re: wifind(8) find your wifi

> On Jun 3, 2016, at 2:36 AM, Kamil Cholewiński <harry6...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, 02 Jun 2016, Ray Lai <r...@raylai.com> wrote: >> use JSON::PP; > > That's just my personal opinion, but JSON sucks for configuration files. > It's more of a human-readable d

wifind(8) find your wifi

) HISTORY I got really tired of editing hostname.if(5) every time I moved my laptop. AUTHORS Ray Lai <r...@raylai.com> CAVEATS Please avoid nwid or wpakey with quotes, dollar signs, or backslashes. I'm sorry if you dislike Perl, but it comes stock with OpenBSD. OpenB

Re: Can't use sshfs as user

I've fixed "sshfs -o idmap=user", please test and give feedback: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech=146383589632694=2 Index: fuse_opt.c === RCS file: /home/cvs/src/lib/libfuse/fuse_opt.c,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -u -p -r1.15

Re: pftpx

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:28:12PM +0100, Gaby vanhegan wrote: The last mention of this on misc@ was march, and not much prior to that. Does anybody have any good/bad experiences with pftpx? I plan to use it to proxy incoming FTP connections, the opposite of what I'd use ftp-proxy

Re: bash vs. ksh

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:35:46PM -0400, Michael Erdely wrote: Janjaap van Velthooven wrote: Luke Bakken wrote: cmd1 21 $WHERE What you would want is cmd1 $WHERE 21 I was going to respond with the exact same thing. Then, just for kicks, I decided to read ksh(1) from 3.9 and searched

Re: www.openbsd.org defaults to Japanese

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:26:37PM +, Tan Dang wrote: Any reason why www.openbsd.org displays Japanese by default now? April Fools! -Ray-

Re: OpenBSD via serial line

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 12:15:09PM +1000, John Kintaro Tate wrote: I was wondering about installing OpenBSD on a very old laptop (no cdrom) via serial line. I am aware it would take literally ages. I am guessing slip would be the way to go, I have never used it before. Does anyone have

Re: Problem Compiling Stevens' Socket Source Code

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:10:14AM +0200, Tobias Ulmer wrote: Here's a patch that removes all(?) warnings/errors from the intro chapter if you followed the instructions in the readme... diff -ru unpv13e.orig/intro/byteorder.c unpv13e/intro/byteorder.c --- unpv13e.orig/intro/byteorder.c

Re: Verizon PC5740 card (Curitel Communications) wireless WAN card

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:52:09PM -0500, Chris Paul wrote: Thanks to Jolan's recommendation to fiddle with umodem.c has helped. I now have #define UMODEMIBUFSIZE 2048 #define UMODEMOBUFSIZE 2048 It works quite well now except that almost everytime I pull out the card, OpenBSD freezes.

Re: heads up about filesystem troubles

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:49:29PM +0200, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: Hi, The window of danger was booting a kernel from any time _after_ 2 weeks ago and running a fsck from any time _before_ 4 days ago. If you have booted a new kernel, do not use the old fsck. Do I infer correctly from

Re: OpenBSD todo list?

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:44:36PM -0700, Shawn Nock wrote: A quick search of the archive and google didn't turn anything up, so I'll ask here. Is there (if not could there be) a document that describes portions of the tree that particularly need attention? I am looking for a way to

Re: RedBlack trees

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:07:14PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: Hey folks, i saw OpenBSD comes with a library that implements a redblack tree features. I know there are many ways to implement it. The difference is in performance. I don't know the fastest one. May some of the openbsd friends

Re: Spamd and verbose logging...

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:53:01AM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to understand why spamd isn't doing any verbose logging on my mail server. Spamd is working fine, so this is more curiosity/learning than anything else. NOTE: I have replaced the standard syslog with socklog.

Re: openbsd and the money

On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 09:57:25PM +0200, Tobias Kirschstein wrote: On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:50:04 +0200 Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Tobias Kirschstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-25 20:26]: Maybe our friends of humppa.com will make a Humppa OpenBSD Support Tour 2006 or add

Re: UPEK Fingerprint-Reader (ThinkPad Notebooks)

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:24:31AM +, Deanna Phillips wrote: Karsten McMinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 3/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops, that's a good heads up. I was considering getting an R51. Is that going to have an unsupported wireless NIC? Paul

Re: Reminder about the X Aperture

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:56:44PM -0800, A Rossi wrote: snip modern PC video card architecture containing a large quantity of PURE EVIL. This joke has a whole new meaning... http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20021029 As an aside, there are no alternative windows systems that

Re: Fw: Why packets are not blocked

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:48:14PM -0600, Jim wrote: don't forget to flush/kill states if you want existing connections to be torn down. How do I do that? pfctl -k -Ray-

Re: Dependancies with make search key=

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:04:46PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Maybe I don't understand what the dependancy lines are supposed to do. I thought they would list any dependancies. I have no part of X installed so should I see some dependancies listed here? # make search key=ratpoison

Re: systrace filename exists rule

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 05:48:26PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i was writing a systrace rule and i could not find a way to create a rule that would permit writing to a file but only if it does not exists, so it could only create new files but not override old ones. Would that require

Re: squid cachemgr: Unknown host: localhost

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:57:24PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: Hi, I've a firewall/proxy with 3.7 running a named and transparent squid. I want to use cachemgr.cgi, so I've setup apache to listen on port 8080 and copied /usr/local/libexec/cachemgr.cgi to /var/www/cgi-bin Now, the Cache

Re: auto-adding bad hosts to a table

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:47:02PM -0500, Chris Smith wrote: In addition to preventing infected PC's from using their own SMTP engine to send out spam by blocking port 25 from all but the mail server. I would also like to add those hosts automatically to a table in order to block their

Re: auto-adding bad hosts to a table

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:31:41PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Chris Smith wrote: In addition to preventing infected PC's from using their own SMTP engine to send out spam by blocking port 25 from all but the mail server. I would also like to add those hosts automatically to a table in

Re: auto-adding bad hosts to a table

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:17:35PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Ray Lai wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:31:41PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Chris Smith wrote: In addition to preventing infected PC's from using their own SMTP engine to send out spam by blocking port 25 from all

Re: auto-adding bad hosts to a table

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:48:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Ray Lai wrote: I thought you meant you could do something like: block in log-table zombie to port 25 where zombie is updated automatically. If you read on the PF and look at what I send you, you will see that bad-ssh

Re: filesystem full problem

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 02:54:43PM +0100, Adam Papai wrote: Hello list, I've run into a problem. My /var reached the 105% disk usage. I've deleted 1.5G from /var but the df shows me still 2Gb. du -csh /var shows 38M What can I do? I tried: sync but nothin happens. The programs can't

Re: iwlist scan equivalent command under OpenBSD

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 05:17:30PM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: Hi OpenBSD fans. I have been googling around and have not been able to solve this question. ?How can one discover what wireless networks are available under OpenBSD? I am used to the iwlist scan eth0 under Linux, and I hate to

Re: xargs PF or BPF

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 11:39:45AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Michael Schmidt wrote: Matthias Kilian wrote: And watch out for silly file names containing whitespace. BTW: if this is a contest on creative use of find(1) and other standard tools: $

Re: PF or BPF

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 05:28:22PM -0500, Jason Crawford wrote: Well in the case of /usr/src, I think you must MIGHT hit the maximum argument length for the shell by using xargs, unless you did it inside of each directory in /usr/src. That and well, explaining xargs to Dave will end up leading

Re: Interface ranges in pf.conf (i.e. tun[0-10])

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:13:17PM -0500, Ray Lai wrote: On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:26:29AM +0100, Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 09:28:12PM -0500, kyle wrote: Im having trouble finding out if(I'm sure it does) the pf.conf supports interface ranges and how to implement

Re: users filling partitions crashing system

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 11:00:41AM +, MikeyG wrote: Is there any way to direct cores to be saved somewhere else? ... Feb 6 10:36:36 boxname /bsd: WARNING: / was not properly unmounted Feb 6 10:37:37 boxname savecore: reboot after panic: trap type 6, code=2, pc=d033737c Feb 6 10:37:37

Re: pf question - solved

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:59:54PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: I found the solution in the pf faq: skip lo0. This rule is not mentioned in Artymiak's book which I had been reading. I will now read the complete pf faq to see what I have not been aware of. You can also do ``set skip on lo'' to

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: snip This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob, etc. And this would be much more efficient as well. snip https://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=86187916316

Re: A small patch to make input style in license.template consistent

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 12:37:07PM -0300, Andr??s Delfino wrote: Or... somehow I changed that word when sending the message. Anyway, this is the correct diff: --- license.templateTue Jun 3 19:37:00 2003 +++ license.template.1 Sun Jan 29 12:33:55 2006 @@ -5,11 +5,14 @@ should be

Re: Ralink - device timeout

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 01:20:36PM +0100, Joakim Aronius wrote: * Jonathan Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 12:36:46PM +0100, Joakim Aronius wrote: Hi Anders, From your dmesg: pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xfd7a0/0x860 From RAL(4) CAVEATS

Re: which cf wifi card for a Zaurus C3100?

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 05:29:02PM +0100, Maik Kuendig wrote: can someone recommend a CF WiFi card for a Zaurus C3100? My dealer has the following cards available: - D-Link DCF-660W - Linksys WCF12-EU I use a Linksys WCF12 (no ``-EU'', bought in the US). Works great. -Ray-

Re: ipv6 tentative address generation

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:11:29AM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: Ipv6 allows for stateless configuration of a interface. The IEEE (aka MAC or hardware address) is generally used to generate tentative addresses which commonly end up being the assigned address provided stateful addressing does

Re: Linksys WMP55AG (ath0) Not Finding Wireless Network

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:55:35PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: Some AR5212 chips seem to have problems, even though they are detected by OpenBSD. I read something about newer firmwares? The atheros chips do not use firmware. Please ignore my ignorance, I meant PHY:

Re: Linksys WMP55AG (ath0) Not Finding Wireless Network

Some AR5212 chips seem to have problems, even though they are detected by OpenBSD. I read something about newer firmwares? Try searching the archives. One person recently reported having success by setting COUNTRYCODE to de and rebuilding his kernel; it didn't work for me but I guess it's worth

MAXNAMLEN, NAME_MAX, FILENAME_MAX Plus One or Not?

What are the proper uses of MAXNAMLEN, NAME_MAX, and FILENAME_MAX? Do they represent filenames with or without paths? Do they include the terminating null or not? The source seems inconsistent: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/src] egrep -R '(MAXNAMLEN|NAME_MAX) ?\+ ?1' . ./bin/csh/file.c:Char

Re: MAXNAMLEN, NAME_MAX, FILENAME_MAX Plus One or Not?

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:11:32AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Ray Lai wrote: What are the proper uses of MAXNAMLEN, NAME_MAX, and FILENAME_MAX? Do they represent filenames with or without paths? Do they include the terminating null or not? The source seems

How Do I Get snprintf(3) to Return -1?

According to printf(3): snprintf() and vsnprintf() will write at most size-1 of the characters printed into the output string (the size'th character then gets the ter- minating `\0'); if the return value is greater than or equal to the size argument, the string was

sdiff implementation

Ever since the GNU diffutils were removed from OpenBSD there hasn't been an sdiff. So I wrote one and placed it into the public domain. It can be found at http://cyth.net/~ray/sdiff/. This sdiff supports all of GNU sdiff's options and is compatible with OpenBSD's diff. All feedback is welcome.

Re: additional features in bsd.rd

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:01:05PM +0100, Pete Vickers wrote: 1. Get a dmesg output from CD-ROM booted bsd.rd to my other machine for emailing etc. # dmesg | nc 10.20.30.40 1234 2. Get information off a machine, either for backup purposes or data recovery etc. # dd

Re: Assigning static device names for USB devices

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 09:00:16PM +0300, Antti Harri wrote: I have two USB printers, is there a way to assign a fixed device name instead of device name being assigned dynamically? If it's not possible at all, are there plans to implement it? If it's not possible at all, how does one go

Re: Webmail recommendations?

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 01:20:24PM -0500, Bob Bostwick (Lists) wrote: Not sure if it will run on OBSD or not (haven't had time to try yet...), but hands down Zimbra is the best looking web interface out there - including Exchange OWA. http://www.zimbra.com/ Egads, it's 150 MB! Just for

Re: OpenBSD on IBM X40 ...

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:46:26PM +0200, Reyk Floeter wrote: hi, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: ... just rocks :} openbsd always rocks ;) Thanks to the developers. I got some minor problems with one of the snapshots (ath0 kernel crash), but this is already fixed in -current.

Re: Time limited internet connection

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:27:05PM +0200, Remy Heiden wrote: OR: root cron job: 11pm: pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf-night 6am: pfctl -f pf.conf-day Until the kid learns, Hey, I can reboot daddy's firewall and have internet access again! (Assuming /etc/pf.conf allows it.) -Ray-

Latest ath changes panics system

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:27:09AM -0600, Reyk Floeter wrote: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005/09/19 04:27:08 Modified files: sys/dev/ic : ar5210.c ar5211.c ar5212.c ar5xxx.c ar5xxx.h ath.c Log message:

Re: more 1 than client can use same port from router (for bittorrent)

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 05:19:46PM +0200, Erik Wikstrvm wrote: On 2005-08-06 16:48, Vivek Ayer wrote: Hi guys, I was wondering if it was possible to port forward the same port to more than one client behind a router. Currently, my client is the only one using bittorrent behind the router. I