starting gnome session with gdm as non root

2009-02-19 Thread Moritz Herrmann
hi everyone, I installed gdm to use gnome in a comfortable way. As root I can start gnome by just typing gdm, and then log in as a user. But I dont think this is a right or secure way to use gnome. When i try to start gdm as a user it says: $ gdm gdm-binary[24860]: WARNING: GDM file

Re: starting gnome session with gdm as non root

2009-02-19 Thread Tom Van Looy
I can start gnome by just typing gdm, and then log in as a user. But I dont think this is a right or secure way to use gnome. add the following line to the end of /etc/rc.local /usr/local/bin/gdm -nodaemon This starts gdm at system startup. If you want to log in from the commandline you can

Re: starting gnome session with gdm as non root

2009-02-19 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 19 February 2009 c. 13:26:24 Moritz Herrmann wrote: hi everyone, I installed gdm to use gnome in a comfortable way. As root I can start gnome by just typing gdm, and then log in as a user. But I dont think this is a right or secure way to use gnome. It is (more or less) secure way to use

pfsync vs contrackd

2009-02-19 Thread Mikel Jimenez
Hello What are the diferences between contrackd an pfsync ? What are the limitations of contrackd? -- Mikel Jimenez Fernandez Irontec, Internet y Sistemas sobre GNU/LinuX - http://www.irontec.com +34 94.404.81.82

Re: pfsync vs contrackd

2009-02-19 Thread SJP Lists
2009/2/19 Mikel Jimenez mi...@irontec.com: What are the limitations of contrackd? Maybe this is a better place to ask... http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/support.html

Re: A virus road map for GNOME and KDE?

2009-02-19 Thread KammyDoe
You've already said what needs to be said, don't save-and-open email attachments, even if you know and trust the sender, etc. It's a pretty interesting article. The autostart file he mentions does seem to be a bit inviting. Mind you, it's not really hard to check the contents of the autostart

Re: pfsync vs contrackd

2009-02-19 Thread Mikel Jimenez
SJP Lists wrote: 2009/2/19 Mikel Jimenez mi...@irontec.com: What are the limitations of contrackd? Maybe this is a better place to ask... http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/support.html yes yes, but is better pfsync? -- Mikel Jimenez Fernandez Irontec, Internet y Sistemas

Re: pfsync vs contrackd

2009-02-19 Thread Alexander Yurchenko
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 02:00:50PM +0100, Mikel Jimenez wrote: SJP Lists wrote: 2009/2/19 Mikel Jimenez mi...@irontec.com: What are the limitations of contrackd? Maybe this is a better place to ask... http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/support.html yes yes, but is

Re: A trojan road map for GNOME and KDE?

2009-02-19 Thread Lars Noodén
KammyDoe wrote: Shagbag OpenBSD wrote: Did anyone else read the article http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229#compact ? It's a trojan not a virus. Designing the filesystem layout with W^X in mind should mitigate or stop the trojan. P.S. have I posted this in the right list (I'm still new to

Re: A virus road map for GNOME and KDE?

2009-02-19 Thread Lars Noodén
KammyDoe wrote: You've already said what needs to be said, don't save-and-open email attachments... Actually there are a lot of milters that can remove all the attachments for you automatically. Complex ones like procmail can even autorespond to dipshits who are dumb enough or rude enough to

Re: A virus road map for GNOME and KDE?

2009-02-19 Thread KammyDoe
Complex ones like procmail can even autorespond to dipshits who are dumb enough or rude enough to send files as attachments. I wouldn't say it were dumb or rude to send files as attachments, just to be wary of them. Unless you can verify what it is, then just don't open it, really. Of

Re: A virus road map for GNOME and KDE?

2009-02-19 Thread Pau
I agree that e-mail should be to exclusively used to write plain text, full stop. Nobody sends VHS cassettes or DVDs attached to post letters. But I would be making a lot of people upset by calling them dumb automatically any time I get 1MB file e-mail file from them... unfortunately this is a

Re: A virus road map for GNOME and KDE?

2009-02-19 Thread Lars Noodén
Pau wrote: I agree that e-mail should be to exclusively used to write plain text, full stop. Nobody sends VHS cassettes or DVDs attached to post letters. But I would be making a lot of people upset by calling them dumb automatically any time I get 1MB file e-mail file from them... Which is

Re: A virus road map for GNOME and KDE?

2009-02-19 Thread KammyDoe
I don't think the average obsd user clicks randomly or executes blindly script files attached to e-mails. I fully agree with you there. I think the most vulnerable people will be the mass influx of Ubuntu users that the last year or two has seen. Mind you, a lot of them would have migrated

Re: amd64 4.5-beta kernel hang with pciide timeouts

2009-02-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
Doesn't eliminate the need for the dmesg. Also an acpidump -o would be nice. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:41:38PM -0600, Craig Brozefsky wrote: Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us writes: we need the dmesg from the NOT working kernel. Understood, however, I was not able to get a the serial

How does OSPFd manage load balancing ?

2009-02-19 Thread Arnaud
Hi, I'm planning to install OpenBSD boxes as routers using OpenOSPF, since there is a redundant link in my architecture I would like to use it to load balance the traffic. So I was looking for how does OpenOSPF handle load balancing : -per packet ? -per destination (like Cisco CEF feature) ?

Re: How does OSPFd manage load balancing ?

2009-02-19 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-02-19, Arnaud vanco...@biologie.ens.fr wrote: I'm planning to install OpenBSD boxes as routers using OpenOSPF, since there is a redundant link in my architecture I would like to use it to load balance the traffic. So I was looking for how does OpenOSPF handle load balancing : ospfd

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Edd Barrett
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:59:55PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: sshfs would be really handy to have available on OpenBSD Strongly agree. You are a brave man indeed. The other BSD's do this with FUSE which is not an option for OpenBSD due to licensing. I guess if someone writes some code,

bwi0

2009-02-19 Thread Michael
I am trying (again) to get wireless working with OpenBSD 4.4. Following are /etc files and dmesg. With debug entered into my /etc/hostname.bwi0, I get sending probe_req ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff and then bwi0: no networksleeping Router is linksys wrt54g2 and card on laptop is broadcom 4318 11g.

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:33:25PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 07:59:55PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: sshfs would be really handy to have available on OpenBSD Strongly agree. You are a brave man indeed. The other BSD's do this with FUSE which is not an option for

Re: bwi0

2009-02-19 Thread David Hill
Do you have the firmware loaded as the man page says? /usr/ports/sysutils/bwi-firmware On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:42:49AM -0700, Michael wrote: I am trying (again) to get wireless working with OpenBSD 4.4. Following are /etc files and dmesg. With debug entered into my /etc/hostname.bwi0, I

Re: pfsync vs contrackd

2009-02-19 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 13:10 +0100, Mikel Jimenez wrote: What are the limitations of contrackd? When I looked into it some moons ago, contrackd would only sync established tcp connections. -- Stephan A. Rickauer --- Institute of

Re: bwi0

2009-02-19 Thread Michael
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:48:37AM -0500, David Hill wrote: Do you have the firmware loaded as the man page says? Yes, sorry I forgot to mention that. /usr/ports/sysutils/bwi-firmware On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 08:42:49AM -0700, Michael wrote: I am trying (again) to get wireless working

Re: bwi0

2009-02-19 Thread (private) HKS
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Michael bsd...@cableone.net wrote: I am trying (again) to get wireless working with OpenBSD 4.4. Following are /etc files and dmesg. With debug entered into my /etc/hostname.bwi0, I get sending probe_req ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff and then bwi0: no

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Kay - Syllopsium
From: Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net People always say this but never mean it. I have proof, and I'm sure Theo does too. You have no idea how much a real feature costs to implement. When you present them with the costs they always balk. To be fair, some of them do mean it, but just don't

Re: How does OSPFd manage load balancing ?

2009-02-19 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:46:52PM +0100, Arnaud wrote: Hi, I'm planning to install OpenBSD boxes as routers using OpenOSPF, since there is a redundant link in my architecture I would like to use it to load balance the traffic. So I was looking for how does OpenOSPF handle load balancing :

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
I'll write it for $10K USD. Check please. I'll even donate 100% of the proceeds to OpenBSD. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:18:38PM -, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: From: Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net People always say this but never mean it. I have proof, and I'm sure Theo does too. You

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:18:38PM -, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: From: Jason Dixon ja...@dixongroup.net People always say this but never mean it. I have proof, and I'm sure Theo does too. You have no idea how much a real feature costs to implement. When you present them with the

Re: How does OSPFd manage load balancing ?

2009-02-19 Thread Arnaud
Thanks to Stuart and Claudio for the quick and useful answers. Arnaud.

Re: amd64 4.5-beta kernel hang with pciide timeouts

2009-02-19 Thread Craig Brozefsky
Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us writes: Doesn't eliminate the need for the dmesg. Also an acpidump -o would be nice. Working on the dmesg. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream] -- Sincerely, Craig Brozefsky cr...@red-bean.com

Re: bwi0

2009-02-19 Thread Michael
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:04:35AM -0500, (private) HKS wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Michael bsd...@cableone.net wrote: I am trying (again) to get wireless working with OpenBSD 4.4. Following are /etc files and dmesg. With debug entered into my /etc/hostname.bwi0, I get sending

Re: amd64 4.5-beta kernel hang with pciide timeouts

2009-02-19 Thread Craig Brozefsky
Craig Brozefsky cr...@red-bean.com writes: Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us writes: Doesn't eliminate the need for the dmesg. Also an acpidump -o would be nice. Working on the dmesg. Oh , apparently attachements get stripped. you can snag it at:

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Kristaps Džonsons
sshfs would be really handy to have available on OpenBSD Strongly agree. You are a brave man indeed. The other BSD's do this with FUSE which is not an option for OpenBSD due to licensing. I guess if someone writes some code, something may happen. I would even pay for this feature. Please do

Re: bwi0

2009-02-19 Thread Michael
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:36:15AM -0700, Michael wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:04:35AM -0500, (private) HKS wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Michael bsd...@cableone.net wrote: I am trying (again) to get wireless working with OpenBSD 4.4. Following are /etc files and dmesg.

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What happened to citrus?

2009-02-19 Thread Jordi Beltran Creix
Hello, Why wasn't citrus i18n support merged in the end? Was it for technical reasons, lack of testing, licensing, NIHS or what? Thank you,

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 06:22:17PM +0100, Kristaps DEonsons wrote: Exactly how much were you looking to pay? Would != could :) Im poor. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Kristaps Donsons krist...@kth.se wrote: http://xfsskel.bsd.lv/ This is great. I didn't know about it before. I think one reason people haven't done much with xfs is the lack of good documentation / examples, but it looks like you spent a lot of time making

Re: nfs proxies

2009-02-19 Thread Marco Peereboom
Yeah I was looking for this and actually debating this with tedu at dcbsdcon. Thanks Kristaps. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:27:39PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Kristaps Donsons krist...@kth.se wrote: http://xfsskel.bsd.lv/ This is great. I didn't know about

building xenocara fails at libdrm (for me)

2009-02-19 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hello, I'm running current for some while now and I have not been able to build xenocara as it fails at some point (see the log below). I'm not a developer so I don't have any clue why this is happening. I tried deleting the sources and refetch them, but I still keep getting the error. I'm only

Re: nfs proxies (OT: xfs)

2009-02-19 Thread Kristaps Džonsons
http://xfsskel.bsd.lv/ This is great. I didn't know about it before. I think one reason people haven't done much with xfs is the lack of good documentation / examples, but it looks like you spent a lot of time making them. If somebody really wanted FUSE, it could probably be done based on

Re: bwi0

2009-02-19 Thread Fred Crowson
On 2/20/09, Michael bsd...@cableone.net wrote: Well, I disabled authentication and encryption and still couldn't connect :( I changed my /etc/hostname.bwi0 from: dhcp to dhcp nwid chan 6 mode 11g up debug I then rebooted, and still nothing. After rebooting OpenBSD 4 times, I rebooted

upd packets dropped due to full socket buffers

2009-02-19 Thread Boxsell Ian
Dear Misc, I have an issue with growth of UDP syslog outstripping performance of my box. Am running GENERIC#1368 amd64 as a VM on ESX. It is a task oriented box with no X/GUI I can allocate more mem if required. # netstat -s -p udp udp: 797597485 datagrams received 0 with

Re: bwi0

2009-02-19 Thread Michael
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:56:16PM +, Fred Crowson wrote: On 2/20/09, Michael bsd...@cableone.net wrote: Well, I disabled authentication and encryption and still couldn't connect :( I changed my /etc/hostname.bwi0 from: dhcp to dhcp nwid chan 6 mode 11g up debug I then

request for package: Distributed Checksum Clearinghouses (DCC)

2009-02-19 Thread Juan Miscaro
Are there any plans to package DCC for anti-spam gateways? Thanks. -- jm

Re: Bluetooth on Zaurus SL-C3200

2009-02-19 Thread openbsd
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:06:25 +1000, michael enoma aghayere unixadmi...@gmail.com said: 2009/2/16 open...@eml.cc: Does anyone know of an overview-type (howto) document for doing bluetooth on OBSD? I'm running 4.4 (on a PC and a Zaurus SL-C3200) and have plugged a bluetooth adapter that is

OpenBSD AMD64 4.4 install hangs at boot (softraid0 at root) on Intel Q9550, 8GB RAM, 1TB WD

2009-02-19 Thread David Heinrich
I am trying to install OpenBSD 4.4 amd64 onto my system. I obtained the install CD ISO from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/amd64/install44.iso and ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/amd64/cd44.iso (the same thing happens whether I use the full or mini boot CD made from those ISO

Re: OpenBSD AMD64 4.4 install hangs at boot (softraid0 at root) on Intel Q9550, 8GB RAM, 1TB WD

2009-02-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:24 AM, David Heinrich dh0...@gmail.com wrote: It then says available disks are wd0 sd0 sd1 sd2 sd3; I presume the sd0 - sd3 are because of my CF card reader. However, I don't want to install the latest beta-versin of OpenBSD; but can I use the current ISO as a

Re: OpenBSD AMD64 4.4 install hangs at boot (softraid0 at root) on Intel Q9550, 8GB RAM, 1TB WD

2009-02-19 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 20 February 2009 c. 08:24:28 David Heinrich wrote: I am trying to install OpenBSD 4.4 amd64 onto my system. I obtained the install CD ISO from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/amd64/install44.iso and ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/amd64/cd44.iso (the same thing happens

Re: OpenBSD AMD64 4.4 install hangs at boot (softraid0 at root) on Intel Q9550, 8GB RAM, 1TB WD

2009-02-19 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Vadim Zhukov persg...@gmail.com wrote: You should type disable softraid after entering UKC using boot -c at the bootloader prompt. More details on UKC you can find here: no, he shouldn't because that's not the bug.