Re: USB Keyboards during install

2006-12-04 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 12/4/06, Matthew P Szudzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be problems using USB keyboards during the OpenBSD install on i386, and workarounds were discussed in section I've done a few 4.0 installs with usb keyboards on different i386 machines, haven't had to perform any

Re: console font size

2006-01-25 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 05:45:52PM -0600, Igor Vilensky wrote: How does one control appearance of console/fonts on the screen? On one laptop, letters are quite large and console fills entire screen, on another, letters are tiny and the console fills a fraction of the screen. Check out

Re: A Little Tip for OpenBSD Users of KDE

2005-12-26 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 12/26/05, Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't use sudo in any konsole session. That's odd. Why shouldn't you use sudo? Mike

Re: Why Perl (a request to the developer sof the Ports-System)

2005-12-02 Thread Mike Hernandez
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:27:34AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: Perl has been around 'forever', .. is very useful for a ton of sysadmin applications (a good reason for it to be in base), .. has a lot of good support (a la class libraries interfaces), .. but it's NOT true OO (which has it's

Re: su on 3.8 soekris

2005-11-11 Thread Mike Hernandez
Someone (you perhaps?) just recently said: Additionally, try to su and sudo to another account - create one, if necessary. Report back on your findings. I missed the beginning of this thread (fingers get happy on the d key some mornings;)) but you may want to add a new user in the staff

Re: OpenBSD hack for the ipod

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 10/20/05, Ed Wandasiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3.8-current now provides scsi access for all ipods, including the nano. If apple only knew that I was waiting for this so that I could plug an ipod into my zaurus. What a great advertising campaign that would be... Mike

Re: OpenBSD's 10th birthday -- how about a present?

2005-10-21 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 10/21/05, Ramiro Aceves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi OpenBSD fans! My 3.8 CD preorder is sent also! I am waiting nervous for the 3.8 release! Nervous? You must mean anxious :) One of the main reasons I love OpenBSD is because there is so much less to be nervous about! Mike

Re: getting usb networking up on the Zaurus

2005-10-04 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 10/4/05, Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I don't immediately see why you say that those would be better choices than the usb solution. I'm guessing that if you don't have the usb host cable then it's the better choice. Buying one piece (i.e. a cf network card) is easier than

Re: OpenBSD on Nokia IP3300?

2005-10-04 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 10/4/05, Alexandre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they did it with Linux, it can be done with OpenBSD. unless it uses some proprietary drivers ;) (like my nvidia card...doh!) Mike

Re: PF story, happy ending.

2005-10-01 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 10/1/05, Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I helped a friend setup a firewall environment years ago in front of his web business, first it was on IPF(back when OpenBSD shipped w/IPF), then PF. Amazingly he's managed to keep his business up, running and growing through the dot-bomb

Re: is there a way to block sshd trolling?

2005-09-23 Thread Mike Hernandez
IIRC there are scripts what will automatically add lines to your hosts.deny file. Sorry, but I can't remember the names. I suggest you also create some keys for yourself to use and disable password authentication. With password auth disabled the attacks won't go be more than an annoyance for the

Re: Text Editor

2005-09-12 Thread Mike Hernandez
You might try gvim, or xemacs, or bluefish? Mike

Re: scp Remote - Remote fails

2005-09-08 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 9/8/05, Roy Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is not 'exactly' openbsd directly related but I'll give it a go anyway. I am trying to copy remote 2 remote, basically to change the name of a file. If you are working with remote files only, and you know they exist, why not just use

Re: [OT] Question about vpn and athorization between OpenBSD and Windows clients

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Hernandez
I use openvpn, it uses PKI so only hosts with keys that you've signed will be able to access your vpn. I found an article (http://blog.innerewut.de/articles/2005/07/04/openvpn-2-0-on-openbsd) that helped me get it set up. openvpn also has client + server versions for windows, so it might be

Re: Shell account cgi script

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 9/7/05, Will H. Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the OpenBSD community can at least come up with some general hints for people who wish to use OpenBSD for hosting shell accounts. IMHO a good method of this is by setting up a chroot for user shells, whereby a user can log in and at

Re: Shell account cgi script

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 9/7/05, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:37:45 -0400 Mike Hernandez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone is wanting to give people shell accounts, then they generally want people to be able to access more than just the shell itself. The whole point is to let them use

Re: Shell account cgi script

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 9/7/05, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And web hosting is not shell hosting is it? What does work with mean anyways? You need all the binaries to work with, and they need all their libs to function. Sure, you could copy all the binaries and libraries of the entire OS into the chroot, but

Re: Shell account cgi script

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 9/7/05, Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a useful idea in some scenarios, in others it's not. Right, and providing shell accounts is in the not category. Adam OK I have to concede here. I didn't realize how powerful user classes were. After doing some research I see that all of

Re: Text editor

2005-08-06 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/6/05, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5.) pico is a very simple editor that is friendly to new people who have only worked with modeless editors like MS notepad. If you just want to edit the damn file without destroying it or giving up in frustration, pico is a good answer that