Re: Mouse Pointer Disappeared

2008-06-19 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Daniel B. wrote: Hi, sometimes my mouse pointer disappear. Restarting xorg do not solve the problem. Any hints? Add: Option SWcursor True in the Device section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and see if it helps. -- Antoine

Re: Any offshore OpenBSD hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Tomas Bodzar
Nice idea,but if you want implement everything you write than you are terrorist in modern democracies ;-) Ball is on another place in game : http://www.democracynow.org/2007/8/7/freedom_next_time_filmmaker_journalist_j ohn -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: OT: Mail was Re: Changing From headers in mail on a whim?

2008-06-19 Thread Richard Toohey
On 19/06/2008, at 1:04 PM, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: Hey Predrag, Since I'm the one that brought up this issue, I figure that I could comment on your suggestion... I was wondering if you guys could clarify something for me. I looked heirloom mailx (nail) very carefully and it looks

OpenSSL Certificate Authority Setup

2008-06-19 Thread GVG GVG
Dear Group, I was trying to create a my own CA for signing certificates for sendmail and when I did apply the following command: --- openssl ca -policy policy_anything -out cert.pem -infiles csr.pem --- I got: Using

NEC usb controller and huawei E620 support

2008-06-19 Thread Maxim Belooussov
Hi all, I have a small question, but it's not tech enough for tech@, so asking it here. How do I add support for NEC usb controller to OpenBSD? http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=145 Currently it looks like the NEC usb controller is not recognized because OpenBSD doesn't

Re: OpenSSL Certificate Authority Setup

2008-06-19 Thread Harald Dunkel
I know the man page for openssl is huge, but the man page for isakmpd has some nice description about how to setup a local CA. Maybe this helps as a starting point? Good luck Harri

Re: NEC usb controller and huawei E620 support

2008-06-19 Thread Alexander Polakov
* Maxim Belooussov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080619 14:11]: Hi all, I have a small question, but it's not tech enough for tech@, so asking it here. How do I add support for NEC usb controller to OpenBSD? http://www.huawei.com/mobileweb/en/products/view.do?id=145 Currently it looks like the

Re: RAID/Intel Installation Problem

2008-06-19 Thread Rogier Krieger
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Kenneth R Westerback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is the device you expect to provide disks, the only obvious candidate I see, it is not currently supported in the RAMDISK_CD kernel if at all. From a quick glance at pciide(4), I suppose it should work.

Re: mdoc.samples fix

2008-06-19 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:32:58PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: Man page says: No macro yet exists to cause a line break without inserting a vertical space (such as troff's `.br' macro). But since nroff(1) is actually a wrapper to GNU groff(1), .br macro works there. Diff is at the end of

pass pasword to ssh

2008-06-19 Thread Richard Storm
I am writing script, that would ssh to switch and dump configuration in file. 1) Since it is switch, i have no way to make use of public key authentication, because I have no way to store pubkey on switch. 2) Since I'm using dedicated box for backups, I don't need to hide password from ps.

Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-06-19 Thread Gaby Vanhegan
On 18 Jun 2008, at 16:51, Marco Peereboom wrote: As far as I know I fixed the hot-spare thing on ami. If that is not the case let me know. I booted into the card's BIOS and confirmed that the drive was marked as hot spare. It seems to have worked, and this is on 4.1 as well. Thanks!

Carp problem on Realtek 8169SC rev 0x10: RTL8169/8110SCd

2008-06-19 Thread Benjamin Jeeves
Hi All I am new to OpenBSD and have two boxes with the same hardware running 4.2 as the dmesg below. I have setup and tested carp on the re0, re1, and re2 network card but it does not work. I have watched the traffic with tcpdump and do not see any of the 224.0.0.18 traffic from the second boxes.

Re: pass pasword to ssh

2008-06-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-06-19, Richard Storm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing script, that would ssh to switch and dump configuration in file. 1) Since it is switch, i have no way to make use of public key authentication, because I have no way to store pubkey on switch. Which switch? On my HP switches I

Re: Carp problem on Realtek 8169SC rev 0x10: RTL8169/8110SCd

2008-06-19 Thread Sevan / Venture37
http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-wrapper?full=yesnumbers=5787 _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl001002ukm/direct/01/

Re: developer laptop choices

2008-06-19 Thread j . thornburg
Do you guys use your WWAN card under OpenBSD at all? :) Sure. I'm typing this on a Thinkpad T41p (bought used on ebay.de 1.5 years ago), using the local wavelan at a conference. ipw(4) works fine if you read 'man ipw' and pkg_add the firmware described in the man page. On the whole I'm happy

Re: OpenSSL Certificate Authority Setup

2008-06-19 Thread Dorian Büttner
GVG GVG schrieb: Dear Group, I was trying to create a my own CA for signing certificates for sendmail and when I did apply the following command: --- openssl ca -policy policy_anything -out cert.pem -infiles csr.pem --- I got:

Re: OT: Mail was Re: Changing From headers in mail on a whim?

2008-06-19 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
Hey Richard, I agree with you... From: Richard Toohey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OT: Mail was Re: Changing From headers in mail on a whim? On 19/06/2008, at 1:04 PM, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: I was wondering if you guys could clarify

Re: pass pasword to ssh

2008-06-19 Thread Michiel van Baak
On 16:14, Thu 19 Jun 08, Richard Storm wrote: I am writing script, that would ssh to switch and dump configuration in file. 1) Since it is switch, i have no way to make use of public key authentication, because I have no way to store pubkey on switch. 2) Since I'm using dedicated box for

Re: pass pasword to ssh

2008-06-19 Thread Pete Vickers
perhaps you could write your script in perl ? http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/i386/p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.30.tgz-long.html /Pete On 19 Jun 2008, at 16:31, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-06-19, Richard Storm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing script, that would ssh to switch and dump

Re: pass pasword to ssh

2008-06-19 Thread Tim Donahue
Quoting Richard Storm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am writing script, that would ssh to switch and dump configuration in file. FYI, there may be a more effective way than writing your own script. Check out RANCID. It will manage just about any device from just about any vendor and manage the

dhcpd sync

2008-06-19 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
After updating my home firewall cluster (two ALIX boards) to the i386 snapshot two days ago, I proceeded to try the great new sync feature of dhcpd. Before, each of the cluster node was running its independent instance of dhcpd, each dishing out from non-overlapping IP address ranges, independent

Re: OT: Mail was Re: Changing From headers in mail on a whim?

2008-06-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/18/08, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously one can use nail, mutt, alpine or gazzilion of other light weight GUI mail clients to accomplish above but how to do that only with tools from the base? You don't do those things with only base.

OpenBSD syslogd

2008-06-19 Thread Beavis
greetings kind folks, I would like do ask out if there's anyone here that uses OpenBSD's syslogd as a central log server for cisco equipment. I've been doing some googling and found the following thread http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0110/msg01263.html I did put a -u on my

xbase43 and friends, no MD5 checksums?

2008-06-19 Thread Stephen Day
Hello The MD5's for the X packages seem to be missing from the distribution directories for 4.3 and snapshots. $ wget ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/MD5 --21:15:35-- ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/i386/MD5 = `MD5' Resolving ftp.openbsd.org...

Re: OpenBSD syslogd

2008-06-19 Thread Philip Guenther
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Beavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I did put a -u on my /etc/rc.conf syslogd_flags= -u -a /logserver If you have pf enabled, does your pf.conf let through UDP port 514 from the cisco? Philip Guenther

memory leak with filtering bridges in i386 snapshot

2008-06-19 Thread Rolf Sommerhalder
The weekend before the hackaton started, I updated my 2-stage firewall clusters at home, where the outer stage is setup as a filtering bridge cluster, and the inner stage is setup as a filtering router cluster. Both clusters are currently operating in active-passive mode, using pfsync, carp,

no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?

2008-06-19 Thread Juan Miscaro
I just installed the thttpd package on a recent snapshot (060408) and noticed it only comes with two files: $ pkg_info -L thttpd Information for inst:thttpd-2.25bp1 Files: /usr/local/man/man8/thttpd.8 /usr/local/sbin/thttpd I then looked at the port's distfiles and there is something called

Re: OpenBSD syslogd

2008-06-19 Thread Beavis
thanks for the reply. i didn't enable pf at all. I'm using openbsd 4.2 rc.conf ospfd_flags=NO # for normal use: pf=NO # Packet filter / NAT pf_rules=/etc/pf.conf # Packet filter rules file pflogd_flags= # add more flags, ie. -s 256 On

Re: OpenBSD syslogd

2008-06-19 Thread Beavis
I want to thank the list. :) I was able to find out how to fix it. thanks, -B On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Beavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the reply. i didn't enable pf at all. I'm using openbsd 4.2 rc.conf ospfd_flags=NO # for normal use: pf=NO #

Re: Painful Puffy

2008-06-19 Thread Kenneth Ismert
If the nut sack was particularly hairy, maybe the puffer mistook it for Richard Stallman? (sorry, cheap shot -- couldn't resist!) -Ken On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Rod Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SMH (Sydney, Australia Newspaper) reports: Angry puffer fish goe nuts.

Re: Carp problem on Realtek 8169SC rev 0x10: RTL8169/8110SCd

2008-06-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-06-19, Benjamin Jeeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to OpenBSD and have two boxes with the same hardware running 4.2 as the dmesg below. Multicast is broken on multiple OS with this revision of re(4). I have tried looking on the web but only fine ref

Re: no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?

2008-06-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-06-19, Juan Miscaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed the thttpd package on a recent snapshot (060408) and noticed it only comes with two files: thttpd runs fine without a config file, just command-line options. If you want to write a file, just look at the manual, it's a lot

OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus if it is. Usually a project consists of a software build and a

Re: no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?

2008-06-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/19/08, Juan Miscaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed the thttpd package on a recent snapshot (060408) and noticed it only comes with two files: $ pkg_info -L thttpd Information for inst:thttpd-2.25bp1 Files: /usr/local/man/man8/thttpd.8 /usr/local/sbin/thttpd I then

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Irofti
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Edd Barrett
Paul Irofti wrote: Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?

2008-06-19 Thread Anathae Townsend
Considering how small the program is, and the license (seems like a bsd style license to my inexperienced eye) are there any reasons why this couldn't be included in base? Anathae

OpenBSD 4.3 amd64 in Qemu: Can't Find Disks

2008-06-19 Thread Ringo Kamens
I'm having some troubles getting OpenBSD 4.3 amd64 (running from install43.iso) to run in Qemu. Here's the command I'm using: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda disk -cdrom install43.iso -boot d -net nic,model=pcnet -net user I googled a lot and found that adding -no-kqemu can help but it didn't. The

Re: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Anathae Townsend
Shell commands for accessing web based search engines. I would like to do it myself, but am expecting that what seems like a simple idea on the surface quickly becomes non trivial. Anathae Townsend -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edd

Re: no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?

2008-06-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
Considering how small the program is, and the license (seems like a bsd style license to my inexperienced eye) are there any reasons why this couldn't be included in base? Sorry, but we are way too busy adding about 50 other small programs.

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Paul Irofti wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Irofti
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:53:33PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Paul Irofti wrote: Or a cli music database collection, that scans your media with given regexp and scans for ID3 Tags and what not, with minimal user interaction. mpd + ncmpc? In ports :) I know them, I use them. But what about

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD based, but it's a bonus

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread bofh
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). Something like the infamous googlefs? I'd

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Edd Barrett
Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful b) Conceptually new Ideas need not be OpenBSD

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:54:12AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:53:49PM -0400, bofh wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 19/06/2008, Darrin Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:15:54PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: Hi, As it seems my last two project ideas for my degree have fallen through, I wonder if anyone here has any ideas for software projects which are: a) Useful

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:08:06PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: How about a distributed network file system with RAID-like redundancy. Bonus for self tuning behavior (this machine gets shut down every night, don't rely on it being there). Dillon is working on it for how many

Re: no thttpd.conf for OpenBSD?

2008-06-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On 6/19/08, Anathae Townsend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering how small the program is, and the license (seems like a bsd style license to my inexperienced eye) are there any reasons why this couldn't be included in base? For better or worse, the base web server is Apache 1, and that's

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

2008-06-19 Thread Edwin Eyan Moragas
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For better or worse, the base web server is Apache 1, and that's how things are going to be. Since the subject of apache came up, i was reminded of a thread some time back about improving (?) apache in base. anybody (aside

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

2008-06-19 Thread Marc Balmer
* Edwin Eyan Moragas wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For better or worse, the base web server is Apache 1, and that's how things are going to be. Since the subject of apache came up, i was reminded of a thread some time back about

touch -h ?

2008-06-19 Thread Philippe Meunier
Hello, After accidentally deleting and recreating a symlink (call it, say, 'slink') to some file ('afile'), I tried to use touch(1) to set the modification time of slink to be the same as the modification time of the original symlink I had accidentally deleted (mostly to help me remember when I