Local cvsup mirror

2006-10-01 Thread stan
I'd like to set up a local cvsup mirror of OpenBSD, I've done this with FreeBSD using thier cvsup_mirror port, and it has helped me to work around a veary slow external connection. Is thier documentation as to how to do this? -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the

Re: OpenBSD as TV media center

2006-10-01 Thread Graeme Neilson
I am using mediabox from https://www.umaxx.net/mediacat/. It is written in python and I customised the code to add xmame and it was very straightforward. Recommended On 10/1/06, Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Very Much I didn't see those I am going to give xawtv a try I

Re: Intel policy wrt OSS [was: Re: cvs.openbsd.org: src]

2006-10-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/09/30 20:19, Bill wrote: If Intel was more cooperative, would it help with getting the Intel Pro/1000MT Dual I have sitting on my desk working? I have the version that don't work. I don't know about the duals, but I had a not-working quad that was receptive to having irq assignments

Re: Intel policy wrt OSS [was: Re: cvs.openbsd.org: src]

2006-10-01 Thread Siju George
On 9/30/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would also like Intel to GRANT us distribution rights for the binary firmwares of their 3 wireless chipsets. Quite frankly we don't care what their reasons are, because their reasons must be lies according to the slides Intel presented at a

Re: Intel policy wrt OSS [was: Re: cvs.openbsd.org: src]

2006-10-01 Thread Siju George
On 9/30/06, Maxim Bourmistrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't ignore them and don't buy their products? don't buy their productss. but don't ignore them either. let them know the reason why you don'y buy their products. help them change and improve their business. :-) Kind Regards Siju

Re: Wireless Auth

2006-10-01 Thread Damon McMahon
Sam, From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1 October 2006 3:07:24 PM To: Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Auth Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I am looking for ways to Authenticate Wireless users(Windows Xp , Mac OSX) that connect to a wireless AP (several

Re: Local cvsup mirror

2006-10-01 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, stan wrote: I'd like to set up a local cvsup mirror of OpenBSD, I've done this with FreeBSD using thier cvsup_mirror port, and it has helped me to work around a veary slow external connection. Is thier documentation as to how to do this?

Re: OpenBSD as TV media center

2006-10-01 Thread Joerg Zinke
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:30:40 +1300 Graeme Neilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using mediabox from https://www.umaxx.net/mediacat/. It is written in python and I customised the code to add xmame and it was very straightforward. Recommended wtf - hui - a real user :) i thought nobody uses

ppp -foreground fails with NO CARRIER, manually dialling works

2006-10-01 Thread Sebastian Reitenbach
Hi all, I have a problem to establish a connection with ppp automatically, or from commndline. below is my ppp.conf file. with this file in place I can dial manually using ppp: # ppp Working in interactive mode Warning: iface rm: ioctl(SIOCDIFADDR_IN6, fe80:a::240:5ff:feaf:4c5f/64): Can't a

[OT] Raw socket programming

2006-10-01 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
Hi misc, For my own education, I'm writing in C a PPTP proxy for pf-driven NAT-boxes, based on libevent. A PPTP session is made of a TCP control connection and a GRE tunnel. I've got no trouble handling the control connection, but I don't know how to handle GRE packets. Actually, I bind a first

Re: Local cvsup mirror

2006-10-01 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:26:23PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, stan wrote: I'd like to set up a local cvsup mirror of OpenBSD, I've done this with FreeBSD using thier cvsup_mirror port, and it has helped me to work around a veary slow external connection. Is

Re: Wireless Auth

2006-10-01 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Original message Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 20:55:42 +0930 From: Damon McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wireless Auth To: OpenBSD-misc list misc@openbsd.org Sam, From: Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 1 October 2006 3:07:24 PM To: Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

consolidating 4 T1 lines and traffic profiling

2006-10-01 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i'm working for some friends of mine and i would like to consolidate the 4 T1 lines at their business. before doing this, however, i need to get a good idea of the traffic profile for the VoIP lines that currently occupy 2 of the T1s. to consolidate the T1 lines, i was thinking about using trunk

Re: Local cvsup mirror

2006-10-01 Thread Christian Weisgerber
stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a local cvsup mirror of OpenBSD, I've done this with FreeBSD using thier cvsup_mirror port, and it has helped me to work around a veary slow external connection. Excellent. Now take a look at the workings of cvsup-mirror and extend it for

Re: Local cvsup mirror

2006-10-01 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, stan wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 01:26:23PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, stan wrote: I'd like to set up a local cvsup mirror of OpenBSD, I've done this with FreeBSD using thier cvsup_mirror port, and it has helped me to work around a

Re: Local cvsup mirror

2006-10-01 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:12:22PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a local cvsup mirror of OpenBSD, I've done this with FreeBSD using thier cvsup_mirror port, and it has helped me to work around a veary slow external connection.

Re: Local cvsup mirror

2006-10-01 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:12:22PM +, Christian Weisgerber wrote: stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to set up a local cvsup mirror of OpenBSD, I've done this with FreeBSD using thier cvsup_mirror port, and it has helped me to work around a veary slow external connection.

Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Louis Bertrand
Mr. Awad, As a user and supporter of open source projects, I am calling on Intel to revise its policy on distributing firmware and hardware documentation for its wireless chipsets. The firmware binary bundle should be freely distributable in its original form, without requiring users or

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Louis Bertrand
Louis Bertrand wrote: Mr. Awad, As a user and supporter of open source projects, I am calling on Intel The address [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounced. Anybody have anything more current? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mga01.intel.com[192.55.52.88] said: 501 #5.1.1 bad address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:45:57AM -0400, Louis Bertrand wrote: Louis Bertrand wrote: Mr. Awad, As a user and supporter of open source projects, I am calling on Intel The address [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounced. Anybody have anything more current? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
I believe that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is another person who is involved. These people will try to tell you that there are parts of the firmware that Intel does not own. They'll say that positively about two of the firmwares, and want you believe that is the case for all three. Then you can read the

openssh errata

2006-10-01 Thread nikns
http://www.openssh.com/report.html *patches and notes regarding OpenSSH* points to http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html Shouldn't there be seperate errata for openssh? If not, I should see there recent DoS security vulns that has been fixed in 4.4, but I don't see them there. Is there one place

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Henning Brauer
* Louis Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-10-01 17:51]: Louis Bertrand wrote: Mr. Awad, As a user and supporter of open source projects, I am calling on Intel The address [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounced. Anybody have anything more current? [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mga01.intel.com[192.55.52.88]

Re: openssh errata

2006-10-01 Thread Martin Toft
nikns wrote: http://www.openssh.com/report.html *patches and notes regarding OpenSSH* points to http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html Shouldn't there be seperate errata for openssh? If not, I should see there recent DoS security vulns that has been fixed in 4.4, but I don't see them there. Is

Re: OpenBSD as TV media center

2006-10-01 Thread Diana Eichert
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Graeme Neilson wrote: I am using mediabox from https://www.umaxx.net/mediacat/. It is written in python and I customised the code to add xmame and it was very straightforward. Recommended I found mediabox when I was looking into multimedia apps for OpenBSD a month or so

Re: openssh errata

2006-10-01 Thread Daniel E. Hassler
Humm I just upgraded to 3.9-STABLE on 9/29/06 and ssh/sshd still show OpenSSH_4.3 Martin Toft wrote: nikns wrote: http://www.openssh.com/report.html *patches and notes regarding OpenSSH* points to http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html Shouldn't there be seperate errata for

Intel Firmware license analysis

2006-10-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
Intel has a seriously restrictive license on the firmware of their two older chipsets. It seems Intel didn't design these chipsets but purchased them but failed to buy all the rights, and now feels compelled to restrict us. That license can be found at

Re: Intel Firmware license analysis

2006-10-01 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:06:46PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: But this does bring up the side question: Is all of Red Hat Enterprise Linux licensed under the licenses stated at http://opensource.org/licenses, [...] Obviously not---they include the IPW firmware.

Re: OpenBSD as TV media center

2006-10-01 Thread Edd Barrett
On 01/10/06, Joerg Zinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:30:40 +1300 at the moment i'm really busy, but if i find some time i will try to make a stable/working release... any help is wanted and greatly appreciated. regards, joerg Wow, This looks really interesting. Keep

Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense

2006-10-01 Thread Brian
I am still working on drafting up a response to Intel's decision to not be open. But for your reading pleasure: http://news.com.com/Intel+lowers+the+boom+on+marketing,+IT+departments/2100-1014_3-6112412.html Looks like AMD has taken 26% of Intel's server market since 2003. And Intel is cutting

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread marrandy
On Sunday 01 October 2006 12:14, Theo de Raadt wrote: I believe that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is another person who is involved. These people will try to tell you that there are parts of the firmware that Intel does not own. They'll say that positively about two of the firmwares, and want you

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:17:39PM -0400, marrandy wrote: I want to know from the OpenBSD community, which products are best supported, which are the best (less cpu load, more bandwidth ie. more efficient etc.). I am really not interested in intel, adaptek and their games anymore. I am

Re: Wireless Auth

2006-10-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 03:42:38AM -0500, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I am looking for ways to Authenticate Wireless users(Windows Xp , Mac OSX) that connect to a wireless AP (several using OpenBSD's new Roaming in hostapd) running OpenBSD 4.0 the way i understand it if I use authpf that requires

Re: overwritten file recovery - how ?

2006-10-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 07:24:43PM +0200, Bambero wrote: Hello I need to recovery overwritten txt file. Ex. echo my data testfile.txt echo testfile.txt I have partition image file creted using dd. Is it possible to dump it and search using grep for example ? Is it possible to

Re: openssh errata

2006-10-01 Thread Martin Toft
Daniel E. Hassler wrote: Humm I just upgraded to 3.9-STABLE on 9/29/06 and ssh/sshd still show OpenSSH_4.3 I updated my 3.9 box from anoncvs.se.openbsd.org using 'cvs -q -d$CVSROOT up -rOPENBSD_3_9 -Pd' the 30th of September at approx 19:00 CEST (one day after you) and built kernel and

Re: openssh errata

2006-10-01 Thread Daniel E. Hassler
Ah - it's 4.4 now! Daniel E. Hassler wrote: Humm I just upgraded to 3.9-STABLE on 9/29/06 and ssh/sshd still show OpenSSH_4.3 Martin Toft wrote: nikns wrote: http://www.openssh.com/report.html *patches and notes regarding OpenSSH* points to http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
As far as I am concerned, yes we can email and complain, but they are so arrogant that nothing will change. Arrogant people change when their arrogance is too publically displayed.

Re: kern.watchdog.period halts the server

2006-10-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 07:11:29PM -0300, Fernando Braga wrote: Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble using kern.watchdog.period. Every time I set it, my DELL 1850 turns off. In two different SSH sessions, I did the following: cefeu:2642:$ sysctl kern.watchdog kern.watchdog.period=0

Re: [OT] Raw socket programming

2006-10-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 04:25:42PM +0400, Bruno Carnazzi wrote: Hi misc, For my own education, I'm writing in C a PPTP proxy for pf-driven NAT-boxes, based on libevent. A PPTP session is made of a TCP control connection and a GRE tunnel. I've got no trouble handling the control connection,

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
I am interested in this information as well. A list of recommended products wold be great or something to that effect. A list of recommended products may help you, but would not help the user list at large. They will continue to accidentally buy the wrong hardware from the wrong vendors. It

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 03:17:39PM -0400, marrandy wrote: On Sunday 01 October 2006 12:14, Theo de Raadt wrote: I believe that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is another person who is involved. These people will try to tell you that there are parts of the firmware that Intel does not own. They'll

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:17:58PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: A list of recommended products may help you, but would not help the user list at large. They will continue to accidentally buy the wrong hardware from the wrong vendors. It would be a tremendous burden on us to keep such a list

Re: OpenBSD as TV media center

2006-10-01 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Thanks Very Much for all the help, I am assuming that using Rhapsody.com Music Service From OpenBSD is a Not going to happen situation, that is fine I will Switch music services, any suggestions on a music service that OpenBSD supports? on my Journey to completely ditch windows on Every system

Re: Wireless Auth

2006-10-01 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
Concerning the problem of detecting when a client leaves the area, I wonder if somehow one could use OpenBSD 4.0's new ip roaming functionality in combination with the new rssi strength values on ath cards to figure out when client might* be close to leaving the area? While on the subject of

Re: consolidating 4 T1 lines and traffic profiling

2006-10-01 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/10/01 09:02, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: to consolidate the T1 lines, i was thinking about using trunk with CARPed firewalls. since the T1s carry mission-critical data on a regular basis, i cannot disconnect them and experiment at my leisure. i have not yet figured out how the T1 lines

Re: strange hw.cpuspeed readings

2006-10-01 Thread gklok
I have done some preliminary poking around, what I have learned so far is that the celeron processor can be paired with the ich southbridges that support speedstep, it however dosen't actually support this functionality. I have a patch in the works that will ensure that we only attempt to use ich

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:17:58PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: I am interested in this information as well. A list of recommended products wold be great or something to that effect. A list of recommended products may help you, but would not help the user list at large. They will continue

Re: strange hw.cpuspeed readings

2006-10-01 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
I have a Few of these CPU's that do the same thing. would it be of any help to post dmesg info from my systems? I will definitely test your diff Sam Fourman Jr. On 10/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have done some preliminary poking around, what I have learned so far is

Good Bye OpenBSD/cats

2006-10-01 Thread Dale Rahn
Sigh. It is time to say good bye to another OpenBSD port. OpenBSD/cats will no longer be supported and shortly, cats specific files will be obsoleted from the OpenBSD source tree. Cats was a nice ARM architecture to get OpenBSD started on the ARM cpu. However at this point there is little

Re: Good Bye OpenBSD/cats

2006-10-01 Thread RedShift
Dale Rahn wrote: Sigh. It is time to say good bye to another OpenBSD port. OpenBSD/cats will no longer be supported and shortly, cats specific files will be obsoleted from the OpenBSD source tree. Cats was a nice ARM architecture to get OpenBSD started on the ARM cpu. However at this point

Re: Open source support for Intel wifi chipsets

2006-10-01 Thread Breen Ouellette
Theo de Raadt wrote: As far as I am concerned, yes we can email and complain, but they are so arrogant that nothing will change. Arrogant people change when their arrogance is too publically displayed. Not only that, but arrogant people leave their jobs and sometimes the replacements

4.0-current powernow-k7.c

2006-10-01 Thread Matthew L. Shobe
I thought the authors of powernow-k7.c might be interested in reports of success in r1.26. Thanks jason@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSSL speed output below the dmesg. Averatec AV3250HX-01: OpenBSD 4.0-current (GENERIC) #1122: Sat Sep 30 14:48:06 MDT 2006 [EMAIL

Lenovo laptops on OpenBSD

2006-10-01 Thread J Moore
I've got to buy a couple of laptops, and want to get something that's as open source friendly as possible. I know at one time, there were a number of OpenBSD users that were enthusiastic about ThinkPads. Are the Lenovo-manufactured ThinkPads still open-source friendly? The T60 or T60p look

avoiding INTEL

2006-10-01 Thread Gilles Chehade
Mr. Majid Awad, I have recently been provided with a DELL laptop at work which runs Windows and OpenBSD. I have recently bought a VAIO laptop for personal use which runs OpenBSD. These two laptops have a point in common. ALL of the hardware is recognized and works ... except for the Intel

Re: mandoc question

2006-10-01 Thread DoN. Nichols
On 2006/10/01 at 06:05:24AM +0100, Jason McIntyre wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:41:40AM +0159, Han Boetes wrote: ~/nfs/manpage% grep '.*' *.log cvs.1.log:cvs.1:1732: warning: numeric expression expected (got `l') [ ... ] the cvs.1 will be from the gnu page, right? you

Re: Lenovo laptops on OpenBSD

2006-10-01 Thread Ben Calvert
On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:17 PM, J Moore wrote: I've got to buy a couple of laptops, and want to get something that's as open source friendly as possible. I know at one time, there were a number of OpenBSD users that were enthusiastic about ThinkPads. Are the Lenovo-manufactured ThinkPads still

Re: Lenovo laptops on OpenBSD

2006-10-01 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 10/1/06, J Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The T60 or T60p look like reasonable units for my applications - anyone got any pros or cons they can share? I dont run OpenBSD on my T60p, so I'm of no real help there. They are about to release a T61 that's core-duo enabled (I wouldn't care from

BSDStats 4.0 - You need to upgrade ...

2006-10-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Apologies for the multi-list post, but I've been receiving several requests from varous *BSD users about this, so figured I'd hit everyone in one fell swoop ... First, for those that aren't aware, back in August, after some lengthy discussions on the FreeBSD mailing lists, I built a script that

Re: mandoc question

2006-10-01 Thread Han Boetes
Jason McIntyre wrote: but none of these are really issues for us - formatting is not affected, and the groff we use does not flag these as errors. OK, then I won't bother. # Han

Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I do not believe that either OpenBSD or NetBSD has a 'periodic' system similar to FreeBSDs, and would like to put something up on the site explaining how to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
--On Sunday, October 01, 2006 22:04:05 -0400 Jeremy Huiskamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1-Oct-06, at 9:28 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I do not believe that

Re: Intel Firmware license analysis

2006-10-01 Thread bofh
On 10/1/06, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if some vendor decides that they like OpenBSD so much that they want to turn it (or a part of it) into a commercial product, perhaps for a specialized market segment we do not reach? So they would take the OpenBSD source tree and mutate

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Jeremy Huiskamp
On 1-Oct-06, at 9:28 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I do not believe that either OpenBSD or NetBSD has a 'periodic' system similar to FreeBSDs, and would like to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread matthew sporleder
On 10/1/06, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone that has installed BSDstats on your server please email me instructions on *how* to install it for your flavor of BSD? I do not believe that either OpenBSD or NetBSD has a 'periodic' system similar to FreeBSDs, and would like to

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
The point of using periodic, at least under FreeBSD, is that there is a 'report' that is issued at the end of the monthly periodic run letting the admin know the status of various things on their servers ... So, for instance, it would give them a monthly reminder that the script *is* running

Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...

2006-10-01 Thread Jason LaRiviere
Marc G. Fournier wrote: The point of using periodic, at least under FreeBSD, is that there is a 'report' that is issued at the end of the monthly periodic run letting the admin know the status of various things on their servers ... So, for instance, it would give them a monthly reminder

Re: [OT] Raw socket programming

2006-10-01 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
2006/10/2, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 04:25:42PM +0400, Bruno Carnazzi wrote: Hi misc, For my own education, I'm writing in C a PPTP proxy for pf-driven NAT-boxes, based on libevent. A PPTP session is made of a TCP control connection and a GRE tunnel. I've