Re: GPL version 4

2008-07-17 Thread linux-os (Dick Johnson)
# Nah. Should be GPL V-infinity That way there won't be any more. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.29 BogoMips). My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/ _ The information

Re: Wasting our Freedom

2007-09-18 Thread linux-os (Dick Johnson)
an empty shell? -- Funny quotes: 36. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. Fri_, Spammer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - How about [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.22.1 on an i686 machine (5588.30 BogoMips). My book : http

network/mask in AllowUsers (sshd_config)

2006-04-14 Thread Dick Visser
Hi guys Is there any way of configuring networks in sshd_config's AllowUsers? You can put in user, [EMAIL PROTECTED], but no [EMAIL PROTECTED]/mask. Having networks in AllowUsers would be extremely usefull. Best regards, -- Dick Visser TERENA (IT Support Officer) Singel 468D 1017AW

plotting 2 3-d graphs of data with C

2006-04-09 Thread dick
i have done some searching for ways to graph 2 and 3-d data using a C program on openbsd and not found anything particularly satisfactory. perhaps i'm not using the right keywords. i need to graph data from a C program and would prefer one library or other program (preferably port) with a C API

Re: When would you NOT use OpenBSD?

2006-04-05 Thread dick
Original message Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 02:37:48 +0200 From: Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When would you NOT use OpenBSD? To: misc@openbsd.org On 2006-04-05 19:52:16 -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: Slightly offtopic, but ironically a related-page that showed up for

C++ textbooks: recommendations?

2006-04-04 Thread dick
i need to learn C++, but do not know where to begin with textbooks or online docs. since, AFAICT, there are a great many skilled programmers on list, i would appreciate any recommendations that can be made about introductory and intermediate texts on C++. my motivation for asking this is to avoid

driver blobs: systrace-able (or something like it)?

2006-03-28 Thread dick
having had a gander at the 3.9 song, which is quite amusing, i had an idea that might be useful and i suspect it is ill-conceived. i have the utmost confidence that readers of misc@ can quickly elucidate why it is a stupid idea. if the integrity of closed-source binary blob drivers is

Re: It's not about the money

2006-03-25 Thread dick
The 10 people who are helping get it. They know that help is about action, and that if you stops at just words, it just plain isn't help. the extent to which this thread has wasted time and not helped to draw any new conclusions is astonishing. theo makes a good point when he accounts for the

CGI security: in addition to chroot

2006-03-22 Thread dick
i'm putting a machine into production in the next week or two that uses binary CGI scripts. i want to add additional layers of security beyond having apache chroot-ed in case the binaries decide to run amok. things that occur to me as a good idea are systrace and sbox (see

Re: restore question: is my dump hosed?

2006-03-20 Thread dick
Original message Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:35:47 -0500 From: Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: restore question: is my dump hosed? To: misc@openbsd.org Thus spake Joachim Schipper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20/03/06 00:34]: : Provided that you didn't do something strange when

restore question: is my dump hosed?

2006-03-19 Thread dick
i made what i thought would be a fine backup of a freebsd-6.0 machine using dump. more specifically i issued a # dump -0f - /usr | ssh -o 'EscapeChar none' [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /usr/dumps/usr.fs this created usr.fs on my openbsd backup host. now that i'm trying to restore the dump on my backup

skype on openbsd?

2006-03-05 Thread dick
i saw a post just recently on bsdforums.org about getting the linux version of skype running on freebsd, http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39145 . i'm trying to get this working on openbsd, but when i run the static binary with Qt compiled in, it tells me: skype: error while

Re: skype on openbsd?

2006-03-05 Thread dick
Original message Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:40:31 -0500 From: Barry, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: skype on openbsd? To: misc@openbsd.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread dick
OpenBSD Vista - Home Basic. (aka. Vista Home, Dave Fuestel) Same as Home - Premium, but has all the man pages deleted to save valuable space. LOL! there could be a special mailing list for Vista users: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread dick
Original message Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:19:33 +0100 From: Jean-Sibastien Bour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0??? To: misc@openbsd.org Reid Nichol a icrit : --- Jean-So?=bastien Bour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthias Kilian a icrit : a) 4 is

Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0???

2006-03-03 Thread dick
Original message Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 19:04:32 -0800 (PST) From: Reid Nichol [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: what is next? 3.10 or 4.0??? To: Matthew Weigel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org I find it interesting that you didn't send this entirely condisending superior reply

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-01 Thread dick
Backup MX is a relic and a legacy. It breaks almost all spam filters. Modern mail infrastructure doesn't need it, except in rare cases. me thinks this is spreading FUD. define modern mail infrastructure. perhaps the origin of the FUD is the M$ visual studio .net overexposure?

Re: tutorial for securing wifi networks with ipsec and openbsd, somewhere?

2006-01-24 Thread dick
Original message Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:35:31 + (GMT) From: Didier Wiroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tutorial for securing wifi networks with ipsec and openbsd, somewhere? To: misc@openbsd.org hello, I've read man ipsec and vpn. Unfortunately I'm totally new to ipsec and

Re: postfix w/ encrypted virtual mailboxes: delivery failure file too large

2006-01-15 Thread dick
based on my previous posts about trouble with svnd encryption having not garnered any replies (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=113717720822507w=2 ), i'm going to rephrase my questions. - what methods, if any, can be used to reliably encrypt my virtual mailboxes so that they are

postfix w/ encrypted virtual mailboxes: delivery failure file too large

2006-01-13 Thread dick
heya, i've got the postfix-2.2.5p0-sasl2 port on an openbsd 3.7-stable machine. the setup has been working great thus far, but now that i'm trying to encrypt my virtual mailbox directory (using vnconfig) i'm encountering problems that i can't resolve myself. i have everything working fine

Re: postfix w/ encrypted virtual mailboxes: delivery failure file too large

2006-01-13 Thread dick
what do you guys think about this response i got on the postfix-users list? On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 01:28:53PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ ls -al protected -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 204800 Jan 13 11:26 protected sudo vnconfig -ck -v /dev/svnd0c /home/protected sudo mount -o

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-01 Thread dick
Original message Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:39:02 +0100 From: Said Outgajjouft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blowfish still good enough? To: misc@openbsd.org Travies all crypto is breakable. The only demand on crypto is how long in takes to break it. If it takes more than 5 years

isakmpd outputs: help interpreting

2006-01-01 Thread dick
heya, i've established IPsec connections originating from several windows xp machines with public IPs to my openbsd firewall that is running isakmpd. they are working just fine. however, i have a windows machine here at home behind NAT that is giving me grief when i try to establish an IPsec

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2005-12-30 Thread dick
Original message Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:27:42 -0800 From: Chris Cappuccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blowfish still good enough? To: Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My concern is the strength of Blowfish--it's

VPN: solutions that interoperate with win xp

2005-12-18 Thread dick
heya, i've been grinding away to get a VPN setup where i can have win xp clients connect to my openbsd firewall and access the network behind it. i have tried a number of things, none of which have yet worked for all my users. i am very much interested in hearing from other admins who have

Re: #define failure opportunity

2005-11-29 Thread dick
Original message Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:56:33 +0100 From: Han Boetes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: #define failure opportunity To: misc@openbsd.org The people who they are addressing are bussiness, and they think in terms of gaining money and loosing money. Open Source Software

Re: skype security?

2005-11-18 Thread dick
Original message Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:14:22 +0800 From: Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: skype security? To: misc@openbsd.org Skype was brought to you by the same people who brought you Kazaa. Draw your own conclusions regarding ethics, security and openness from

skype security?

2005-11-17 Thread dick
i searched the archives for messages about skype, but i didn't find anything that addressed whether the skype service is safe or not. i did a google for skype security and one of the first links talks about a couple serious exploits of skype and the glowing (a.k.a. sponsored) review from dr.

CARP, PPPoE and redundancy

2005-11-11 Thread dick
heya, i have fixed public IPs and i have ADSL using PPPoE. i would like to make things very redundant, so that if any one piece of hardware craps out, there will be a failover. i have conceived of a setup and am wondering if anyone can suggest improvements or tell me if it just won't work. here

isakmpd setup problem

2005-11-04 Thread dick
since i've heard that the new ipsec.conf and ipsecctl command simplify setting up vpns, i figured i would give the old way of isakmpd.conf another pass to help me figure out the new syntax. now that i have gone back and tried to setup isakmpd as a tunnel between two machines on my home newtork

Re: isakmpd setup problem

2005-11-04 Thread dick
oops, didn't realize my attachments would get stripped. here are the isakmpd -d -DA=10 and tcpdump outputs i mentioned in the first message: i've included the outputs from each instance of isakmpd and a tcpdump from the host in between them as attachments. isakmpd.peer-X.out: 085803.480596

Re: isakmpd setup problem

2005-11-04 Thread dick
heya, i tried this setup with IPV4 addresses on the same subnet (10.0.3.1 and 10.0.3.2) and it worked fine, i.e. i tcpdump -i enc0 and see encapsulated packets. this leaves me wondering what it is about my prior setup that made it not work. i saw no appreciable difference in the outputs from

Re: tried 3.0 not 3.7 and still can't get very far

2005-10-30 Thread dick
paul, when I purchsed 3 there were all kinds of problems with loading on a laptop Now I purchsed 3.7 and it looks like this is the final end of the road for openbsd and me I tolerated figuring out the wireless settings and even though there is some reason for a huge time lag installing packages

backup utilities: boxbackup?

2005-10-27 Thread dick
i'm currently using bzip2-ed dumps to backup my machines and i wonder if there is a better way to do it. by better i mean more secure and more automated than adding cron jobs. i am interested in encrypted backups, as i would prefer to have non-hijackable backups. i did see

Re: know any neat tricks for 2 * dhclient?

2005-10-27 Thread dick
So there's no solution? I see now that the packet flow doesn't support it, but logically it does make sense to want an IP from that DHCP server to be given to the other interface, after all any systems hanging off that interface *will* get an address from the DHCP server on the other side of the

Re: RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-25 Thread dick
jon and marco, thx for the quick replies. this is more or less what i expected. if you install through the RAID controller, shouldn't it autodetect the number of actually available sectors (i.e. the full size modulo that required for the RAID info)? that's the thing that really surprised me.

RAID controller + disklabel = out of bounds

2005-10-24 Thread dick
heya, i got an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X a couple weeks ago and i noticed it was not quite behaving. by this i mean that i had a 200GB disk on which i had installed a 3.8 snapshot and i plugged it into the RAID controller and booted the machine. it loaded the kernel just fine, but when it came

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-21 Thread dick
per, We can argue back and forth on the pros and cons of building 1TB partitions or not, but the need for these giant allocations are real enough and from a commen/broader view (small business) the demand is also moving closer and closer. At work we have a disk-to-disk backup server for (for

openAFS or arla support?

2005-10-12 Thread dick
heya, i'm interested in getting an AFS server setup, but openAFS 1.3.87 will not compile from source on 3.8-current (same as http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=112867186930581w=2). i also noticed that ober had posted a howto for getting openAFS working on openbsd 3.7 (see

Re: unnumbered PPPoE

2005-10-10 Thread dick
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, bridge(4) doesn't support pppoe(4) as a possible interface. I don't know why, but it just rejects it. Anyone know of a workaround for this? I'm on a 100mb/s FTTH line so a userland pppoe is not an option. Kory T i don't think you can filter

LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X controller

2005-10-03 Thread dick
heya, i'm interested in getting an 8-channel SATA RAID controller that runs on the ami driver so i can use all the new neato RAID functionality for my backup server. i haven't seen anything in the archives about a known working controller like i've described, but i did see the LSI MegaRAID SATA

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-26 Thread dick
...and when some idiot vendor changes chips without changing product code, what then? The virtual store is a half-baked idea, I know. I'm just looking for additional ways to support OpenBSD. In the above case, I return the product and inform the virtual store that the referral isn't good any

Re: wd0: soft error (corrected)

2005-09-16 Thread dick
Hi I have two harddisks: wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: Maxtor 91360U4 wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 12982MB, 26588016 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: IC35L080AVVA07-0 wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 78533MB, 160836480 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0):

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-12 Thread dick
depends on how you measure greatest. i think several of the border states in the US declared a state of emergency about the most profitable, and probably best known, mexican export. ;) and no, it's not viagra. it's a big problem on both sides of the border. However, one is wondering what the

Re: OpenBSD website Design.

2005-09-11 Thread dick
Mexico's greatest exports to the US are poverty and disease. You ignorant fool. depends on how you measure greatest. i think several of the border states in the US declared a state of emergency about the most profitable, and probably best known, mexican export. ;) and no, it's not viagra.

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-22 Thread dick
theo, We ask our users to help us uncover and fix more of these bugs in applications. Some will even be exploitable. Instead of saying that OpenBSD is busted in this regard, please realize that the software which is crashing is showing how shoddily it was written. Then help us fix it. For

Re: Boot hanging following power out - it's worse

2005-08-20 Thread dick
gary, Original message Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:13:32 -0700 From: Gary Clemans-Gibbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot hanging following power out - it's worse Cc: OpenBSD misc-list misc@openbsd.org I rebooted the box and now it is hanging with Automatic boot in progress:

Re: PVM 3.4.5 on 3.6-release: compilation/library problem

2005-08-20 Thread dick
alex, Hi, I actually use PVM on Linux... 2005/8/20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cc -DIMA_BSD386 -I../../include -I../../tracer -I../../src -DSOCKADHASLEN -DNOREXEC -DRSHCOMMAND=\/usr/bin/rsh\ -DHASSTDLIB -DNEEDMENDIAN -DHASERRORVA S -o pvm cons.o cmds.o job.o trc.o

PVM 3.4.5 on 3.6-release: compilation/library problem

2005-08-19 Thread dick
heya, i'm trying to get PVM 3.4.5 to compile from source on a 3.6-release system and have run into some problems. when i first attempted this, i got the following error: ... cc -DIMA_BSD386 -I../../include -I../../tracer -I../../src -DSOCKADHASLEN -DNOREXEC -DRSHCOMMAND=\/usr/bin/rsh\

gcc 2.95.3 to 3.3.5: compile errors

2005-08-08 Thread dick
greetz, me and a C++ programmer i know have a C++ program that would compile cleanly and run when using gcc 2.95.3 (from openbsd 3.6-release), but now that i've upgraded to 3.7-release, which uses gcc 3.3.5, he gets errors on compilation. since neither of us are very familiar with the details of

clustering SMP machines: MPICH2 build error

2005-07-30 Thread dick
lo all, i've been looking into clustering a couple dual-processor openbsd boxen (both running 3.7-release and bsd.mp) and haven't found very much documentation on the topic. i figured that either MPICH2 or PVM would be a good route, but i tried to compile MPICH2 from source and encountered