Re: mysql problem

2007-07-16 Thread Tony Abernethy
Marcos Laufer wrote: You didn't read it and you didn't pay attention to statement in bold either. I could tell you what to do to fix it, but then you wouldn't learn from it. If it wasn't explain there, I would be happy to tell you, but it is there and pretty clear as well.

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
Daft? Nobody here defended that (the GPL)? Are you tweedledee or tweedledum? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva Seabra Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 4:33 AM To: Tony Abernethy Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; misc@openbsd.org

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
No, according to your last email copncerning the introduction to the GPL, the purpose is to make people daft and unsorted. Are you Tweedledee or Tweedledum? Please sort yourself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
I stopped and thought. You are confused. All your issues are confused. My insane opinion is much more valid than yours. Are you Tweedledee or Tweedledum? Do you even know who you are? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
Actually I do get the point that you are not talking about. In my point of view, the GPL has NOT kept you from being a social failure. You are what you see --- I sincerely hope not. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Good luck doing so without any source code. Teehee Teehee. No luck required. It does however take a wee bit of skill and competence. Actually, for exacting work, the source is a liability. The source tends to make assorted bugs vanish. You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Damien Miller wrote: To: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra Cc: J.C. Roberts; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to change a program

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
as if that would make all past wrong arguments become true. Your subjunctive is derailed. Tweedledee is getting tweedledummer and dummer

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
- From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 8:48 AM To: Tony Abernethy Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:25:29AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: Damien Miller wrote: To: Rui

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Most people think it's magic, and most don't understand that I've always had the impression that OpenBSD is NOT most people They seem to be people who think it's actually worthwhile knowing what they are talking about. Seems like most people on this list think that you are incredibly dense and

Re: Mailing list issues (was: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award)

2007-09-19 Thread Tony Abernethy
Dunno about anyone else, but that seems like some kind of poetic justice. Preserving the pseudo-integrity of garbage seems like it should be very low on the list of priorities. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Given Sent:

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-24 Thread Tony Abernethy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24.09-13:48, Darren Spruell wrote: [ ... ] Oh, that sounds like a recipe for success. - Run _arbitrary_ _binary_ application on system. Intend to use policy wrapper to restrict to allowed operations. exactly, if the application cannot run within the

Re: Tool for HD analyzing

2007-10-01 Thread Tony Abernethy
Calomel wrote: If you really want to check the drive and verify it has errors then check out the binary called badblocks. I do not believe OpenBSD has badblocks but you can use the cd distro system rescue cd and run badblocks from there without removing the drive from the current

Re: Upgrade process in 4.2

2007-10-06 Thread Tony Abernethy
Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Hi, I just download the last snapshots available on ftp.openbsd.org. note Because my new and shiny CDs not arrive yet to Costa Rica and i can't wait to install 4.2 /note. I was reading the faq on the OpenBSD web: -Current is where active development

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Abernethy
Robert C Wittig wrote: Siju George wrote: I thought by running an amd64 kernel will get me twice the speed than an i386 on an amd64 machine since one is 64 bit processing and the other is just 32 bit :-( 64 bit processors (combined with 64 bit capable operating systems) have

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Tony Abernethy
Siju George wrote: snip so you think a 20 ton truck is twice as fast as a 10 ton truck? O.K I get it :-) So when does changing from 32 bit to a 64-bit processor actually help? Quoting Paul de Weerd, In short: There is no short answer. It depends on what you're doing. ( Not to mention how you

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread Tony Abernethy
L. V. Lammert wrote: gibberish

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread Tony Abernethy
only an idiot would think that separatey physical machines would NOT increase security Many IBM PCs vs IBM mainframe Many mailboxes vs Fort Knox. Many avenues of attack vs few. People learn to count in kindergarden.

Re: Problem with disk size

2007-10-25 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jon Sjvstedt wrote: Please dont kill me :) I'm really not experienced with this kind of stuff. Looks like you maybe cloned an 8GB disk to the 250GB disk and are now running out of space on the cloned file system. fdisk wd0 should give you the MS-DOS partitioning (what BIOS sees) 16383/16/63

RE: Re: beginner, intermediate, and advanced scripting

2005-05-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Are you saying that instead of distinguishing between foo and my foo, the distinction should be between everybody's foo and foo for some spelling of everybody's ? - --- Original Message --- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:43:00 On Mon, 16

Re: Webservers with Terrabytes of Data in - recomended setups

2007-04-20 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jason Beaudoin wrote: snip Use all the tricks you can for YOUR solution, including: * lots of small partitions What are the reasonings behind this? Thanks for the awesome post! I think it runs something like this If there is a problem somewhere on the disk, if it's all one big

Re: Equivalent to linux disk delete?

2007-05-06 Thread Tony Abernethy
Sebastian Rother wrote: On Sun, 6 May 2007 11:12:54 -0700 Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/6/07, Sebastian Rother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I`ve a problem with one HDD wich has 3 empty Partitions at the beginning. I wanted to remove those partitions

Re: [OT] Open Source OSS for OpenBSD?

2007-06-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
OpenBSD is free as in air. We'll stick to our principles for reasons entirely dissasociated from those problems, and noone will ever really understand. Because you can. Because it's there. Most mortals dare not even attempt.

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-10 Thread Tony Abernethy
Nikns Siankin wrote: I see people keep repeating nonsense like this instead of talking about topic. At least he can read. And think.

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
Alexey Vatchenko wrote: On 2008-01-18, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 06:24:16PM -0700, Clint Pachl wrote: If you want security, get rid of X. Even if it's OpenBSD's X? The one that you need should you need to build any ports (including if you follow

Re: So, is there a sure way to delete a file? (Was Re: UNIX way of undeleting files?)

2008-01-19 Thread Tony Abernethy
bofh wrote: I don't get what you're talking about. If you overwrite the file (vulnerable sshd) with a new one, the file gets replaced. All the hardlinks would point to the new file. Copying to a file can be done in two distinct ways with different results for any other hard links to same

Re: avoid logging useless ssh brute force attempts

2008-02-02 Thread Tony Abernethy
elpinguim wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 05:28:11PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: 2008/2/1, elpinguim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Configuring pf to not even respond to unallocated ip space also helps. Search for Bogon filtering. No. This just adds another way for things to go wrong. KISS.

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
Mayuresh Kathe On Feb 17, 2008 5:50 PM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mayuresh Kathe wrote: OpenBSD is an OS with amazing security and stability, but it has too few modern features. H related? thats exactly my point, our mindset has become that security

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
. On Feb 19, 2008 9:46 AM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You just said that you are a dead goat??? Amazing --- and I've got a life. Whats is it that you have? What kind of a life does a dead goat have? -Original Message- From: Mayuresh Kathe [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
disconnected from reality when you start thinking? On Feb 19, 2008 9:53 AM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand English sentences. What is this English-based sentences you speak of? My logic may be flawed, but it seems it surpasses you abilty to elucidate the exact

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
from reality. Please don't even try to think. On Feb 19, 2008 11:59 AM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dead billy goat or dead nanny goat? which are you? -Original Message- From: Mayuresh Kathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:26 AM

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
, 2008 11:59 AM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dead billy goat or dead nanny goat? which are you? -Original Message- From: Mayuresh Kathe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What is our ultimate

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
an email based altercation with me, do it off-list. About my true colours, forget it, you don't have enough vision or intelligence to understand me. On Feb 19, 2008 12:22 PM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may be an oaf, but it is with FULL REALIZATION THAT I AM SENDING

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Tony Abernethy
, you are disconnected from reality. Go get yourself a life, and more importantly, get yourself treated from a psychiatrist. On Feb 19, 2008 12:11 PM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which half? You really ought to go back to kindergarden. -Original Message- From

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Tony Abernethy
19, 2008 12:38 PM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You claim you don't have enough vision or intelligence to understand me. and you offer (to the list included) no explanation. I may lack the vision and intelli9gence, but why do you insist that the rest of the list also lacks

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Tony Abernethy
ultimate goal?? On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:52:35AM -0600, Tony Abernethy wrote: I may be an oaf, but it is with FULL REALIZATION THAT I AM SENDING THIS TO THE LIST MY PURPOSE IN DOING SO IS TO PAINT YOU WITH SOMEHTING RESEMBLING YOUR TRUE COLORS. Is it fair? Some day, someone other

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Tony Abernethy
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zbigniew Baniewski Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:20 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: What is our ultimate goal?? On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:12:46AM -0600, Tony Abernethy wrote: Fair No. It is like dead fish after 4 days

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Tony Abernethy
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:52:35AM -0600, Tony Abernethy wrote: I may be an oaf, but it is with FULL REALIZATION THAT I AM SENDING THIS TO THE LIST MY PURPOSE IN DOING SO IS TO PAINT YOU WITH SOMEHTING RESEMBLING YOUR TRUE COLORS. Is it fair? Some

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-19 Thread Tony Abernethy
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:37:33AM -0600, Tony Abernethy wrote: You mean that the proponents of threads are overyly emotional? If the sides are calling each other with terms like idiot - or something similar - do you really find it as non-emotional? How

Re: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

2008-02-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Stuart Henderson it's all a marketing scheme for the Apple laptop with soldered RAM... Please, not when I'm drinking coffee.

Re: kernel naming proposal

2008-02-25 Thread Tony Abernethy
Nick Holland wrote: Sometimes the way to avoid one error opens the door to three or four others. That's why I lurk on this list. Good advice regardless of context. Thanks.

Re: Singularity OS

2008-03-07 Thread Tony Abernethy
Perpetual motion machines? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Die Gestalt Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 6:16 AM To: Otto Moerbeek Cc: misc Subject: Re: Singularity OS I don't think it is relevant or even polite to question one's

Re: Where I ma? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: Is it possible to participate in this mailing list without being insulted for asking a question, being called by names and so on? Yes. Easily. However, you do NOT get to set anyone's agenda, not even your own. The developers do this the way they want to. They

Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Tony Abernethy
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: Pay attention: there is a feedback. Seems like there has been a lot of feedback. Assuming that you can read, can you take your own advice?

Re: Empty root password

2006-05-06 Thread Tony Abernethy
Peter Fraser wrote: I was very surprised, that when I was installing a 3.9 system, that you can use an empty root password I accidentally entered a 'return' when it asked for the root password, so I entered a 'return again when I was asked to repeat the password, thinking that a empty

Re: Partition not showing up in disklabel

2006-05-06 Thread Tony Abernethy
Joseph C. Bender wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: On 5/6/06, Henrik Borgh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ sudo fdisk wd0 Password: Disk: wd0 geometry: 4864/255/63 [78140160 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: idC H S -

Re: www.openbsd.org defaults to Japanese

2006-05-06 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jacques wrote: Florin Iamandi wrote: Jacques dixit (2006-05-05, 12:58:02): May we know, what kind of 'incident'? Sounds like a security issue. At this point nobody with a clue will take this or any of its descendents seriously. Think. Imagine I've just managed to crack the OpenBSD

Re: Partition not showing up in disklabel

2006-05-06 Thread Tony Abernethy
Nick Guenther wrote: On 5/6/06, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Me, I'd take a closer look at that j OpenBSD partition. It does NOT look like it corresponds to anything in the DOS partitions. Whether or not you redo the disklabel from scratch, the critical operation is writing

Re: kde: kio accessing files in /etc

2006-05-07 Thread Tony Abernethy
dave feustel wrote: On Sunday 07 May 2006 16:16, D. E. Evans wrote: The question is, if I am not doing anything with those files, then why is kio accessing them? Why are you repeating your question when you've already been answered? OK I didn't get it the first time. What was

Re: Evaluating load average

2006-05-08 Thread Tony Abernethy
Theo de Raadt wrote: I'm looking for some hints on evaluating load average. You can't. It's a statement about job queue lengths, not about how busy a machine is. And since different operating systems (and even different versions) have made various tweaks to it over the years, it is

Re: Manually naming Multiple NICs

2006-05-09 Thread Tony Abernethy
Darrin Chandler wrote: On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:14:06PM -0400, Adam wrote: On Tue, 09 May 2006 19:52:10 -0400 Dave Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or another viable solution. There's no solution because there's no problem. OpenBSD doesn't randomly reorder interfaces for

Re: huge CSV file: /var too small

2006-05-10 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i have a single CSV file that is 2.5GB (!) unzipped which i need to either partition into chunks or read from directly. trying to open it with vi doesn't work since 2.5GB 500MB, the size of the /var partition on this machine. opening with vi gives a /var: write

Re: Sendmail configurations

2006-05-16 Thread Tony Abernethy
SkyBlueshoes wrote: I've just installed OpenBSD 3.8...my first ever *nix. I've got most up and running, but I'm having problems recieving email. I followed the guidelines on this page http://www.nomoa.com/bsd/mailServer.htm to the letter. All the localhost tests work, but when I try to

Re: Splitting xbaseXY.tgz - stupid idea?

2006-05-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jacob Meuser wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:27:18PM +0300, Liviu Daia wrote: On 20 May 2006, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:09:15AM +0300, Liviu Daia wrote: I have a simpler question: is there any plan to make installing xbase a

Re: Lynx starting vi with strange -c arg

2006-05-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Rod.. Whitworth wrote: I have used lynx for years as a file browser as well as web browser (when I can) and it is routine for me to fix /etc/lynx.conf to show me dotfiles. Recently I need to inspect lots of text files and sometimes edit a few so I set vi to be the system editor for lynx.

Re: ifficiency

2006-05-23 Thread Tony Abernethy
Nick Guenther wrote: On 5/23/06, prad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 May 2006 17:54, you wrot You can consider short-circuiting of Boolean evaluation greedy, but it a feature which may also save clock cycles if the right-most sub-expressions are costly to evaluate.

Re: Apache: Odd Errors with HTTPS and NameVirtualHosts

2006-05-24 Thread Tony Abernethy
Marcin Wilk wrote: Hi I'm using OpenBSD 3.7 with default Apache with SSL over two VirtualHosts witht he same IP. Here is how it works in there: NameVirtualHost *:80 NameVirtualHost *:443 Regardless of what you can put in any configuration, Port 80, http 1.1+ (I think) allows you to

Re: OpenBSD Newbie

2006-05-26 Thread Tony Abernethy
misiu wrote: Hello all, I'm new to OpenBSD, I installed it a few times but than did not know what to do realy. Right now I'm little more experienced with Linux and I thought give it a nother try. Now I'm runnin an Openbsd 3.9 Box. Default setup. I try to run a Webmailbox and later

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Adam wrote: The question was about scalability. I keep seeing that term. Is it supposed to mean something? Methinks there is a problem with scalability if you cannot even add two numbers together. (Well maybe with Lisp and infinite tapes) Dijkstra had an analogy with comparing, as a means of

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Adam wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2006 13:58:39 -0500 Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam wrote: The question was about scalability. I keep seeing that term. Is it supposed to mean something? Yes, and retarded posts like this aren't needed thanks. Then what precisely

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Henning Brauer wrote: OpenBSD scales very well an most tasks you'll find. There are some exceptions tho. That unfortunately includes threads. Out of curiosity, what happens when you run apache on SMP hardware where the libraries are not thread safe? (or whatever it's called)

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Adam uttered following nonsense. Linux programs have nothing to do with anything, That is a good characterization of SMP and scaling? and your desire to make a big stupid thread of bullshit is quite annoying. You are annoyed. My desire is a small thread.

Re: Windows to copy open bsd

2006-06-02 Thread Tony Abernethy
akonsu wrote: in my understanding a proper implementation does not require any service packs. in other words: if one implements something that later requires a service pack, this is not a proper implementation. Exactly. (And I don't seem to hear a lot about keeping OpenBSD patched

Re: Multiprocessors load measurements

2006-06-04 Thread Tony Abernethy
Federico Giannici wrote: I have just switched to a multiprocessing kernel (3.9-stable i386) with a dual core Athlon 64. I noticed that top command now have two CPUx rows, one for each CPU. But iostat has only one cpu column. Question 1: are the iostat's cpu values a mean of the values of

Re: eWeek comment on OpenBSD

2006-06-06 Thread Tony Abernethy
Eliah Kagan wrote: On 6/6/06, Roger Neth Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even OpenBSDin my humble opinion, the safest operating system on the planetis crackable, if you allow anyone to come and pound away at its network interface. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1972281,00.asp

Re: like the faq 14.16.1, partition is not in my disklabel ... need help anyway

2006-06-08 Thread Tony Abernethy
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:31:59PM +, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hello, My ntfs amd comaq diag. partition is not in the disklabel. Unfortunately I don't know how to add correctly in the disklabel. I've read the faq 14.16.1 but it only shows a modification. Here

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-13 Thread Tony Abernethy
Travers Buda wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:10:13 -0700 Hank Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, There has been some discussion of late on this list about Hifn's policy with respect to releasing documentation to the general public. That discussion lead to a great deal of uninformed

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Breen Ouellette wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: Look, it's pretty obvious from early exchanges in this thread that these issues have been discussed by the principal parties over a fairly long period of time. How many brilliant insights have been added by this thread? More important, has

Re: mount_msdos error

2006-06-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Fred Crowson wrote: Hi Misc, I keep getting the following error, when trying to mount a 2GB Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo (MSX-M2GN) in my Sony T7 digital camera: nike:fred /home/fred sudo mount /mnt/t7 mount_msdos: /dev/sd1i on /mnt/t7: Inappropriate file type or format Can anyone help me

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Tony Abernethy
Siju George wrote: On 6/17/06, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: I've been working for quite some time now on an alternative package-manager for OpenBSD, and since things start working rather fine now I think it's time to let you guys know. this is about

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Tony Abernethy
Tobias Weisserth wrote: Hi, On Saturday, 17. June 2006 18:36, Deanna Phillips wrote: ... As I see it, this is an example of working _against_ a project instead of with and for it. A personal NIH syndrome, if you will. It's not just some Linux thing he put together that also works

Re: Doubts about OpenBSD security.

2006-06-21 Thread Tony Abernethy
Nick Holland wrote: Bob Beck wrote: ... IMNSHO, a root password for single user makes the system *LESS* secure, and I'm dead serious. I would object to any attempt to commit changes to OpenBSD to have one by default. Why? Real simple: *because you asked this question*. - Now I'm

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Tony Abernethy
Peter Philipp wrote: [snip] I heard he bitches because he's right most of the time and people realise this. Actually 90+ percentile. (Particularly when he ought to be only 50+ percentile)

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Tony Abernethy
Peter Philipp wrote: On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 02:10:05PM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: Peter Philipp wrote: [snip] I heard he bitches because he's right most of the time and people realise this. Actually 90+ percentile. (Particularly when he ought to be only 50+ percentile

Re: USB keyboards / encryption

2006-07-09 Thread Tony Abernethy
Peter Philipp wrote: [snip] But little change by little change will isolate insecurities until a system is secure, right? (didn't somene coin the phrase security is a process?) Little change by little change will isolate little insecurities. Little change by little change will

Re: Logging failed console login attempts

2006-07-13 Thread Tony Abernethy
Will H. Backman wrote: Dimitry Andric wrote: Will H. Backman wrote: The console on OpenBSD 3.9 release doesn't seem to log unknown username or failed login attempts anywhere. See this commit: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/etc/syslog.conf#rev1.14 Make the default

Re: multiple openbsd installs on the same disk

2006-11-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Now let us come to disklablels. There is one disklabel per disk, not one disklabel per DOS partition. The DOS partitions come into play only while the BIOS is booting After that, the DOS partitions can contain any nonsense you like. I suspect you'll do better with

Re: Weird behaviour of KDM

2006-11-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Laurence Tratt On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Dr. Harry Knitter wrote: sometimes I get the right resolution (1280x1024) sometimes only standard vga (600x480). How can I tweak my system to get a reliable KDM with a resolution of 1280x1024? I'm not sure exactly when, but at

Re: Wayyyyyy OT: WAS: RE: small, random essay on performance tuning, was: remove....

2008-06-12 Thread Tony Abernethy
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 12:56:55PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: God is real, unless declared integer. I thought about this for a while. Given that the Spirit of God was upon the waters in Genesis 1, I think it's likely that God is float. Remember,

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Ted Unangst wrote: On 7/15/08, L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I'm sending an email to misc when a package depends on X that should **NOT** depend on X. That's what's broken, obviously, if you're saying I should be installing X on a production server. NOT. tar zxf X

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Tony Abernethy
MY APOLOGIES --- getting cross-eyed in my old age. On 7/16/08, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Unangst wrote: anip If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). I most certainly did not write that.

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

2008-07-16 Thread Tony Abernethy
Ted Unangst wrote: anip If a command line tool like git has a 'GUI Helper', then that package is broken (which, I believe, is the case in this situation). The parallel argument is that if any GUI tool has a command line helper function, then that package is broken. (Microsoft Windows still has a

Re: tcpdump -X

2008-07-17 Thread Tony Abernethy
GVG GVG wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:04 AM, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 July 2008, GVG GVG wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:54 PM, David Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:42:58PM +0200, GVG GVG wrote: Use the size of your MTU,

Re: DHCP question

2008-07-23 Thread Tony Abernethy
Hari wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Silly question, but WHAT IP is actually assigned during install? I think something like ifconfig before the halt might work I assume you are installing from CD, not from network It might be as simple

Re: DHCP question

2008-07-23 Thread Tony Abernethy
Hari wrote: Hello. I just finished installing OpenBSD 4.3. The dhcp setup during network configuration was fine, meaning, IP address was properly assigned. I went ahead with the default values provided. However, after rebooting post installation, I am getting the following messages that seems to

Re: DHCP question

2008-07-23 Thread Tony Abernethy
Hari wrote: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Tomas Bodzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh,I missed something.Look at /etc/hosts and $hostname Why is localhost.WORKGROUP localhost in /etc/hosts and mercury.my.domain in $hostname I have long suspected that this is the problem. I am a novice at this

Re: DHCP question

2008-07-23 Thread Tony Abernethy
Almir Karic wrote On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:33:27PM +0900, Hari wrote: Hello. I just finished installing OpenBSD 4.3. The dhcp setup during network configuration was fine, meaning, IP address was properly assigned. I went ahead with the default values provided. However, after rebooting post

Re: Disable IPv6 on OpenBSD 4.0 - forking discussion to icmp echo request blockage

2006-12-17 Thread Tony Abernethy
Marco S Hyman wrote: snip To me (and I'll be the first to admit that this is nothing but opinion and I won't pretend that my opinion is any better than yours) I see more harm than good in blocking icmp. I like it when other people tell me I've screwed something up because I can find it and

Re: OT Re: 'database filesystems'

2007-01-08 Thread Tony Abernethy
chefren wrote snip To get it started we should add some hooks of course, and when it's working FFS should be dumped. Of course the database file system can still save blobs, being Oracle database or whatever. How do you use this elegant filesystem to bootstrap the OS which handles this

Re: install image to computer

2007-01-27 Thread Tony Abernethy
Joachim Schipper wrote On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:42:14PM -0800, smith wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:07:01 -0600, Damian Wiest wrote On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 03:53:48PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote: smith wrote: Why?: I've received a few new computers that I have to configure.

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Patrick Useldinger wrote: Does the name really matter? Yes. Whether your partition is called 'a' or 'd', doesn't the disklabel get stored into the beginning of the first partition anyway? No. Actually, you have 16 partitions stored in the disklabel. This is OpenBSD not DOS.

Re: ccd, disklabel and partition 'a'

2007-01-28 Thread Tony Abernethy
Patrick Useldinger wrote: Otto Moerbeek wrote: I read through the mailing list archives and found a thread explaining that the disklabel is stored around the beginning of partition 'a' and that one should allocate a small partition 'a' which should not be made part of the JBOD.

Re: Nearly 1/4 of New Filesystem Gone

2007-01-31 Thread Tony Abernethy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 16 partitions: # sizeoffset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 390721968 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 328 # Cyl 0 -387620 c: 390721968 0 unused 0 0 # Cyl 0 -387620 Most likely, the disklabel or boot

Re: Nearly 1/4 of New Filesystem Gone

2007-02-01 Thread Tony Abernethy
Greg Thomas wrote: On 2/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Tony Abernethy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 16 partitions: # sizeoffset fstype [fsize bsize cpg

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 03/14/2007 09:13:19 AM, Martin Schrvder wrote: 2007/3/13, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This means everyone should have our latest patches installed. Just a reminder: security-announce exists for messages like this. Use it or delete it. While the bug

Re: No Blob without Puffy

2007-03-19 Thread Tony Abernethy
Lars D. Nooden wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Dave Anderson wrote: You've left out the extremely important fact that many vendors interpret acceptance of blobs by any free OS as validating their position of not releasing adequate documentation -- so accepting blobs (even when there's no

Re: bash for root?

2008-12-02 Thread Tony Abernethy
Juan Miscaro wrote: I turn off those annoying checks and I use the same password. Works great. /juan ... until it doesn't.

Re: Burning DVDs

2011-11-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
Out of curiosity, WHY should any make install in ports actually DO anything? Seems like the object of ports is to make packages and packages are installed by pkg_add. If you want to be something, say a packager, it helps if you have at least a slight clue what it is all about. -Original

Re: Burning DVDs

2011-11-14 Thread Tony Abernethy
You might try reading your own message. -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of John Tate Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 9:19 AM To: Fubar Cc: Richard Toohey; misc Subject: Re: Burning DVDs I have dvd+rw tools and cdrecord still gives

Re: USB WD HDD 1.5Tb read/write for files larger than 2048mb

2011-11-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Vitali wrote: I had some big movie files, development directories and so on which I ... Vital information missing: File system on the USB drive Guessing: The USB Drive is FAT32 which has a size limit of 2G on individual files

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