Re: Linus at NewsForge...

2005-06-15 Thread eric
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:14:38 +0200, Dimitri proclaimed... OpenBSD: http://www.screensavershot.com/automation/hummer.jpg A Hummer? No way! Those aren't flexible and capable like OpenBSD :) Instead, I submit the following:

Re: Linus at NewsForge...

2005-06-15 Thread Jeffrey Lim
On 6/15/05, Dimitri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's like cars I guess. Linux: http://www.metricmind.com/images/fiat_mult.jpg OpenBSD: http://www.screensavershot.com/automation/hummer.jpg Windows XP: http://www.foxtoys.cz/nrb04/1-43%20Lada%201200%20%20Ixo%20Models.jpg lol, this is

Re: PHP or Mysql problem?

2005-06-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Kiraly Zoltan wrote: mysql error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_4c99_0.MYD' (Errcode: 9) snip mysql error: Can't find file: './bsdforums/administrator.frm' (errno: 9) May be a simple search will help you.

Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?

2005-06-15 Thread Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu
Well, the microsoft XP firewall log file is pf.log. -Original Message- From: Bob DeBolt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 June 2005 08:12 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls? Funny you should bring this up today I just received a phone

Re: more file descriptors for user www

2005-06-15 Thread Alexander Hall
eric wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:05:54 +0200, Alexander Hall proclaimed... Create a new class (e.g. www or httpd) and use sudo (as root) to run httpd using that new class. What the hell are you talking about? Just change the www users' class and modify /etc/login.conf. It will then

Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?

2005-06-15 Thread Tor Houghton
IP Freedom by Ridgeway Systems also use OpenBSD. Although not a firewall, it is usually used in conjuction _with_ a firewall, for enabling conferencing products to work, even if the firewall does not support the protocols. http://www.ridgewaysystems.com/products_ipf_faqs.aspx Ok, slightly off

Re: PHP or Mysql problem?

2005-06-15 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Kiraly, mysql error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/ #sql_4c99_0.MYD' (Errcode: 9) MySQL problem. Simple suggestions, not idiot-proof: /etc/my.cnf: [mysqld_safe] open-files = 1024 Up kern.maxfiles, if needed. `sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=17720`, for instance. Modify /etc/sysctl.conf to

mount_union hangs the system.

2005-06-15 Thread Varun Dubey
Hello, I am using the generic kernel on 3.7 and it seems that unionfs isnt built into it. I tried to compile sys/miscfs/union/* into a VFS lkm as suggested in /usr/share/lkm/vfs/ (for kernfs). loaded the module successfully after compilation. Here is the make file i used

Re: mount_union hangs the system.

2005-06-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
--On 15 June 2005 15:49 +0530, Varun Dubey wrote: Hello, I am using the generic kernel on 3.7 and it seems that unionfs isnt built into it. I tried to compile sys/miscfs/union/* into a VFS lkm as suggested in /usr/share/lkm/vfs/ (for kernfs). loaded the module successfully after

Re: PHP or Mysql problem?

2005-06-15 Thread Luca Losio
Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Kiraly, mysql error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/ #sql_4c99_0.MYD' (Errcode: 9) MySQL problem. Simple suggestions, not idiot-proof: /etc/my.cnf: Mmm..installing mysqlserver usually doesn't create /etc/my.cfn...isn't it? I can't find that file but I'm

Re: ADSL connection (PPPoE)

2005-06-15 Thread Melameth, Daniel D.
Clint Pachl wrote: (I know I should start a new thread with this, but here we go) Can't an OpenBSD box handle a PPPoE/PPPoA connection directly? I recently setup a VPN between two networks with DSL connections where the modems make a PPPoA connection. An OpenBSD box resides behind each modem.

Re: Installing OpenBSD on Zaurus without Compact Flash

2005-06-15 Thread Ray
Thanks to all who replied. I eventually got OpenBSD installed by ``insmod zbsdmod.o; cp bsd.rd /proc/zboot'', partitioning the hard drive to the example in INSTALL.zaurus, booting into Linux again, copying the installation files to the DOS partition (minus X), booting into OpenBSD again, and

Re: kernel: page trap fault

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:46:04 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I hope someone with much more insight looks into this, Seems nobody follows up, yet. I did: swapped out the NIC which would generate the fault 1. into another slot *plus* 2. replaced it with another NIC (also RTL8139, other vendor) 3.

Re: tftp:bsd.rd RLX

2005-06-15 Thread Rob Foster
Thanks for the confirmation. I'll invest in a device that will link all the serial consoles together with network access. On 6/14/05, Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I re-read what you posted, you will only be able to see console output from RLX blades on the serial port. RLX did some

Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?

2005-06-15 Thread Teemu Schaabl
Ray Percival([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005.06.14 09:49:25 -0700: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:52:53AM -0500, James Harless wrote: I know that several firewall vendors use various flavors of Linux as the basis for their devices. Are there any that use OpenBSD similarly? If so, which? Any comments

Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?

2005-06-15 Thread Brett Lymn
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Teemu Schaabl wrote: IPSO derived from FreeBSD as a engineer employed at nokia told me; In the version of IPSO I once used you didn't need to guess, the names of the FreeBSD developers were still in some of the files on the system. IPSO is a heavily

Why Warren Buffett Chose FX Over Real Estate - Live Meeting June 21st on Alternative Investments

2005-06-15 Thread Forex Managed Accounts
Event Date: June 21st at 10:00 AM EST, 2:30 PM EST, and 7:45 PM EST With Top-Ranked Alternative Investment Manager, Michael Mansfield Top-ranked alternative investment manager Michael Mansfield, co-manager of the #1-ranked Global Diversified FX Portfolio (GDFX), is having his next live online

Writing to console...

2005-06-15 Thread kevin
Hello all, I was downloading GNU gcc on a machine and when I looked over after the download, the screen was writing: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy If this is normal I didn't take it as such, I immediately took the machine off the test network. So, praytell, what

Recommendations for pop3s daemon?

2005-06-15 Thread Jeff Simmons
Finding myself in need of a POP3S daemon, I headed over to the ports tree to get the old standar UW, and noticed that there are several of the little devils hiding out in there. Anyone have any recommendations? Favorites? Pros and cons? Reasons to use something other than UW? Any information

Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?

2005-06-15 Thread Simon Slaytor
Ray Percival wrote: If it is the latter there is strong evidence that IPSO (The OS on Nokia and Checkpoint based firewalls) is derived from OpenBSD. Nokia say that IPSO is based on FreeBSD

Re: Problem booting from wd0

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:06:14 -0500, arf wrote: Use dd form /dev/zero to wipe MBR and start of disk. Check Bios settings - AMI Bios set to Auto shows LBA mode and DMA, etc. I'm not so sure here; what this would be good for. Downloaded June 10 snapshot and checked md5 sums. Installed

Re: tftp:bsd.rd RLX

2005-06-15 Thread Diana Eichert
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Rob Foster wrote: Thanks for the confirmation. I'll invest in a device that will link all the serial consoles together with network access. FWIW, we use Think Logical secure console servers at the office. We used to use LANtronix, but switched to Think Logical,

Re: Writing to console...

2005-06-15 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2005-06-15 at 17:17:30 kevin wrote: I was downloading GNU gcc on a machine and when I looked over after the download, the screen was writing: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy It's probably just your screensaver, don't panic. :P See

Re: moving to a bigger disk

2005-06-15 Thread Tony Lambiris
its quite simple... boot into single user mode, foreach partition you have, mount the src under /src/X and /dst/X (where src is the old disk and dst is the new disk) and do a: cd /src/X; tar cf - . | (cd /dst/X; tar xpf - ) ive used this before, works great. after that just make sure you

Re: Recommendations for pop3s daemon?

2005-06-15 Thread Jason Dixon
On Jun 15, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Jeff Simmons wrote: Finding myself in need of a POP3S daemon, I headed over to the ports tree to get the old standar UW, and noticed that there are several of the little devils hiding out in there. Anyone have any recommendations? Favorites? Pros and cons?

Re: Recommendations for pop3s daemon?

2005-06-15 Thread Myk Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been using mail/solid-pop3d FLAVOR=apop on my LAN. The pop_auth utility is handy for setting up ssh-public-key-like logins. Jeff Simmons wrote: Finding myself in need of a POP3S daemon, I headed over to the ports tree to get the old standar

Re: Linus at NewsForge...

2005-06-15 Thread sbr
im not a hummer fan myself, but who cares. and im not going to even bother with your comments. can misc@ be alterd so only subscribed addresses can send to it, and to become subscribed you need to take an iq test or something, well i know iq tests are not perfect. perhaps a im not a lame

Re: Writing to console...

2005-06-15 Thread Paul Branston
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:17:30AM -0500, kevin wrote: Hello all, I was downloading GNU gcc on a machine and when I looked over after the download, the screen was writing: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy If this is normal I didn't take it as such, I immediately

Re: 'I am beginning to think'

2005-06-15 Thread JR Dalrymple
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:31:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 14 June 2005 10:00 pm, Christer Solstrand Johannessen wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: [mac mini+ms office:mac] I have been thinking about getting a Mac. I hadn't considered a mini, but that is

Rebooting... and hang

2005-06-15 Thread Diego Augusto Dalmolin
I4ve installed OpenBSD3.7 on a i386box (asus mainboard + celeron processor) When I put the commands: reboot or shutdown -r the machine flush the disk (the normal operation) and then stand on the message Rebooting... and... *surprise* it wont reboots... :-( here is my dmesg (fresh install

Re: mount_union hangs the system.

2005-06-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Varun Dubey wrote: Thanks for the reply. I went through the thread but i believe the problem i am facing is not exactly due to no support for unionfs. you misunderstand. the reason union was removed is because it didn't work. removing it didn't break it, it was removed

Re: Openbox and x.org

2005-06-15 Thread Mathieu Sauve-Frankel
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:36:00AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: It would seem that openbox as installed from the package in 3.7 doesn't have rc.xml or menu.xml files. Is this on purpose or is it a bug or, very likely, am I missing something obvious? I'm going to try importing the ones I have on

FYI: Zaurus startup guide

2005-06-15 Thread Matthias Kilian
Hi, the german reseller TRIsoft has a little startup guide for the sharp zaurus for download that may help avoid Zaurus newbies panic too often (like I did). http://www.trisoft.de/c3000howto.htm The guide is available in german and english, and they've also a anglified version of the

Re: Writing to console...

2005-06-15 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:17:30AM -0500, kevin wrote: I was downloading GNU gcc on a machine and when I looked over after the download, the screen was writing: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy i know there's an xscreensaver for that. since you said specifically

Re: Openbox and x.org

2005-06-15 Thread Ray Percival
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:20:50PM -0400, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:36:00AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: It would seem that openbox as installed from the package in 3.7 doesn't have rc.xml or menu.xml files. Is this on purpose or is it a bug or, very likely, am I

S-Video TV Hookup

2005-06-15 Thread Dan Smythe
I recently purchased the item from http://store.yahoo.com/videoware/prosvideo6.html. I'd like to use it to hook my laptop up to my TV. I can get the audio to play, but I need help getting the video to work. The cable claims to work with the 7 or 4 pin monitor connector. I have the 7 pin. The

Re: PHP or Mysql problem?

2005-06-15 Thread James Strandboge
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:30 +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Kiraly, mysql error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/ #sql_4c99_0.MYD' (Errcode: 9) MySQL problem. Simple suggestions, not idiot-proof: I prefer this on OpenBSD 3.6 (should be same on 3.7): Add to /etc/login.conf: # # for

Re: Problem booting from wd0

2005-06-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:07:06 -0600, Tobias Weingartner wrote: Use dd form /dev/zero to wipe MBR and start of disk. what does installboot do here ? Maybe I'm simply lost or stupid.? It installs your PBR boot block, IE: your partition boot block. Thanks for the info ! - But still, I don't

Re: CCD on /

2005-06-15 Thread Nick Holland
mdff wrote: are there any plans to support the kernel being loaded directly from a RAID partition in order to avoid that annoying mini-boot-partition which cannot be raided? WHY do you want to mirror root? keep in mind, OpenBSD has an altroot system in place, which will update your backup

Re: S-Video TV Hookup

2005-06-15 Thread Dan Smythe
I have included my dmesg. Thanks in advance for anybody who can help me configure this for my TV hookup. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of dmesg.boot]

OS fingerprinting and netcraft

2005-06-15 Thread Steffen Kluge
Hi all, I recently moved a web server in my domain to OpenBSD 3.7. Out of curiosity I looked it up at netcraft. While they correctly identified the web server software, the OS was listed as unkown. Not that I really care about this, but I'm curious as to what prevented them from fingerprinting

4port Realtek nic

2005-06-15 Thread Steven Bowers
Compgeeks is offering a 4port RTL8139D nic for an attractive price. I know the 8139 chipset is supported, not quite so sure of the 8138D. Can anyone speak for these cards? The price is nice and a 4port nic would be very handy.

Re: Problem booting from wd0

2005-06-15 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, June 16, Uwe Dippel wrote: It installs your PBR boot block, IE: your partition boot block. Thanks for the info ! - But still, I don't see how this comes into view: the kernel was looking 'broken' at loading in the OP; OP? What is OP? then he wiped the MBR. Should he