Re: Friday's Calendar;- Beltane is evening of 30th April

2015-05-01 Thread jmc
Hi. There is a festival on the 30th in Edinburgh, yes. But that doesn't mean that's the one true date. At least reading the wikipedia entry will give some background. I think changing our calendar entry would be wrong. By the way, your mail would have been clearer if you'd attached a diff. jmc

junk directory cleanup question

2009-06-09 Thread jmc
from /etc/daily: # Additional junk directory cleanup would go like this: #if [ -d /scratch -a ! -L /scratch ]; then # cd /scratch { # find . ! -name . -atime +1 -execdir rm -f -- {} \; # find . ! -name . -type d -mtime +1 -execdir rmdir -- {} \; \ # /dev/null 21; }

Re: junk directory cleanup question

2009-06-09 Thread jmc
--- Daniel Ouellet [Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 08:33:34PM -0400]: --- jmc wrote: is this to suggest that the best thing to do is edit /etc/daily and wedge in the directories i need cleaned up? i'm only asking because my first thought of course would be to put this code in /etc/daily.local

Re: Simple Installation (about PKG_CACHE)

2009-05-15 Thread jmc
--- Jose Perez Rodriguez [Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:15:17PM +0200]: --- Hi. Yesterday I was installing packages from the ftp and i was using this: export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/packages/i386/; PKG_CACHE=/home/ pkg_add . But when I install a package the

Re: Simple Installation (about PKG_CACHE)

2009-05-15 Thread jmc
--- jmc [Fri, May 15, 2009 at 03:36:55PM -0400]: --- --- Jose Perez Rodriguez [Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:15:17PM +0200]: --- Hi. Yesterday I was installing packages from the ftp and i was using this: export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/packages/i386/; PKG_CACHE=/home

Re: Upgrade or not?

2009-05-09 Thread jmc
--- Alfredo Perez [Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:54:31PM -0400]: --- Hi I am running version 4.4 and I am very happy. I use my box to ssh in and get my emails when I am away from home. Should I upgrade to 4.5? http://www.openbsd.org/plus45.html for an idea of what you'll be getting for your

Re: problem with some graphical apps in 4.5 on some machines

2009-04-27 Thread jmc
--- Rene Maroufi [Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:51:43PM +0200]: --- Hi, i update 3 machines from 4.4 to 4.5. On 2 of these machines I have a very strange problem: Some graphical apps can't display graphical icons or any image. For example: Pidgin: Shows no icons (red cross instead of the

Re: Can you subscribe to the PF mailing list? I can't

2009-04-09 Thread jmc
--- Bob Beck [Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 03:35:36PM -0600]: --- * Cezary Morga c...@therek.net [2009-04-09 15:14]: Nick Guenther wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Bryan Irvine sparcta...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is that you can't use the pf mailing list from gmail.

Re: spamd handling multiple sending servers

2009-03-23 Thread jmc
--- Mikel Lindsaar [Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:59:03PM +1100]: --- Hi all, New user to spamd, love it. In getting our low traffic email server running, the first thing I noticed while following the logs that sites like gmail et al will retry a message from a different host. Sometimes gmail

Re: PF and CLamAV Integration - how to do it?

2009-03-20 Thread jmc
--- Marc Balmer [Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:36:18PM +0100]: --- Am 19.03.2009 um 15:27 schrieb Protocol Six Consulting: Hi, I was wondering if anyone here knows how to integrate the PF firewall with ClamAV. smtp-vilter, which is in ports, does that, i started paying attention to this

Re: PF and CLamAV Integration - how to do it?

2009-03-20 Thread jmc
--- Pedro la Peu [Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 01:35:57AM +]: --- On Friday 20 March 2009 11:15:05 jmc wrote: i started paying attention to this thread because i've been interested in setting up clamav for sometime. i noticed that there's a clamav-milter(8) that gets installed as part

Re: might be slightly OT: `probability in PF'

2009-03-13 Thread jmc
--- Artur Grabowski [Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 01:13:10PM +0100]: --- jmc j...@cosmicnetworks.net writes: block in log quick on $ext_if from openproxies to any probability 90% is because it seems a little bofh-ly to me. and i guess it borders on security-through obscurity, which of course

Re: strange load values

2009-03-12 Thread jmc
--- Gabri Mate [Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:58:15PM +0100]: --- Hey there! I have a Compaq DL580 G1 with 4x700Mhz PIII, 2GB RAM, 2x36GB U320 SCSI on a HP SmartArray 5300 with 64MB BBU. It's a general purpose 'hobby' server. The average concurrent i believe that Theo and many of the devs have

might be slightly OT: `probability in PF'

2009-03-11 Thread jmc
i say this might be slightly OT because i am asking more of a philosophical question, not a technical one. the excellent documentation has given me all i need to know about the probability directive. thanks, devs, for that. quick story: i have a couple dozen websites spread across two

Re: might be slightly OT: `probability in PF'

2009-03-11 Thread jmc
--- Jeffrey 'jf' Lim [Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:09:19PM +0800]: --- On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:01 PM, jmc j...@cosmicnetworks.net wrote: i say this might be slightly OT because i am asking more of a philosophical question, not a technical one. the excellent documentation has given me all i

Re: checkout src multiple times

2009-02-26 Thread jmc
--- Chris [Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:18:56PM +1100]: --- I have had to interrupt (^c) cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -P src command about three times. I was wondering whether checking out src three times would overwrite the old files or ignore what's already on the disk and update files that are not

Re: OpenBSD hosting

2009-02-23 Thread jmc
--- C. Bensend [Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:00:59PM -0600]: --- I've been at m5hosting for the last few months and so far they're way better than what I've seen elsewhere. Maybe just a bit too expensive, if you compare the hardware with what you can get elsewhere, but they do seem to know

Re: OpenBSD hosting

2009-02-22 Thread jmc
--- Friedrich Locke [Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 06:54:34PM -0300]: --- Dear gentleman, i am searching for web hosting service that : supports java, support MySQL allow me shell account access for software development with access to MySQL. allow ssh/sftp access. and runs OpenBSD at least for

spamd whitelisting not working, sure i'm missing something

2009-02-16 Thread jmc
i'm trying to deal with mail providers like gmail that have pools of outgoing smtp servers that shuffle among them for mail delivery. in the case of gmail, i've taken the output of 'dig txt _spf.google.com. +short', parsed it appropriately, and added it to table spamd-mywhite. (in short, i write

Re: spamd whitelisting not working, sure i'm missing something

2009-02-16 Thread jmc
--- (private) HKS [Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:52:32PM -0500]: --- On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:29 PM, jmc j...@cosmicnetworks.net wrote: i'm trying to deal with mail providers like gmail that have pools of outgoing smtp servers that shuffle among them for mail delivery. relevant pf.conf

Re: OT: Free, online backup service provider compatible with BSD

2009-02-13 Thread jmc
--- Dieter [Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:43:24PM +]: --- :Amen to backups, but why trust some company far away to handle things? :How do you know your data is in good hands, and that they won't slip up :let others see it? I won't mention the concept of the place going under, :financially.

Re: SSL error

2008-11-06 Thread jmc
--- Doug Milam [Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:58:39PM -0800]: --- I've followed the SSL instructions in the FAQ, http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html#HTTPS, but I get the following error in Firefox (other browsers don't work either) SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible

Re: Hardware recommendation request

2008-09-29 Thread jmc
--- nuffnough [Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:28:46PM +1000]: --- Or recommend dual port nics that I can use instead of my current intel nics? http://www.intel.com/products/server/adapters/pro1000mt-dualport/pro1000mt-dualport-overview.htm

Re: assembly for x86

2008-09-22 Thread jmc
--- G??bri M??t?? [Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 01:45:30PM +0200]: --- Dear List, I'd like to study the assembly language of the x86 architecture. I've searched for books, but there are a lot of them. Could you please recommend me a good writer/book about this topic? i'm a beginner, but i picked up

Re: FFS2

2008-07-24 Thread jmc
--- John Nietzsche [Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:19:11PM -0300]: --- Dear OpenBSD friends, how may i format a slice with FFS2? and what to put into /etc/fstab i think you have to be running = 4.2 to have FFS2 support. from newfs(8): -O filesystem-format 2Enhanced fast file system

Re: Cronolog Apache?

2008-07-03 Thread jmc
--- L. V. Lammert [Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:54:45PM -0500]: --- Seems like Cronolog would be a good solution for rotating Apache logs when running Chroot'd, as it eliminates the need for stopping/restarting Apache. rotatelogs(8) works fine for me with the default chroot configuration. i'm

Re: Changing From headers in mail on a whim?

2008-06-17 Thread jmc
--- Aaron W. Hsu [Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 03:56:02PM -0500]: --- Hey all, I was looking at mail(1) and wondering if there was any way to get control over the other headers? I haven't checked the source yet, but I couldn't find any documentation on adjusting the from headers on a whim in mail.

Re: Enabling ipv6 in only one interface

2008-06-11 Thread jmc
--- carlopmart [Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:44:46PM +0200]: --- Hi all, Somebody knows how can I enable ipv6 in only one interface?? How can I do?? I have an openbsd 4.3 server with 6 interfaces and I need to setup ipv6 only in one interface to test some services. have you taken a look at

Re: Window Manager

2008-05-05 Thread jmc
--- Gonzalo Lionel Rodriguez [Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:29:42PM -0300]: --- I dont know if it is the place to ask it, but that window manager uses? And why? ratpoison. easy to customize, very minimalistic.

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-24 Thread jmc
--- Lord Sporkton [Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 02:32:37PM -0700]: ---7 I have an NTFS drive attached via USB that was previously attached to an XP home system [ ... ] # mount -t ntfs -r /dev/sd0i /mnt/usb2 mount_ntfs: /dev/sd0i on /mnt/usb2: Operation not supported you don't say if7you're using

Re: ntfs usb drive fail to mount

2008-04-24 Thread jmc
--- Lord Sporkton [Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 03:17:16PM -0700]: --- My appologies, i am indeed using GENERIC, I did think that perhaps it did not support ntfs, but then i also thought it would be rather absent minded to have included mount_ntfs if support was not included, thus since i had

Re: openbsd hosting services

2008-03-17 Thread jmc
--- Daniel Anderson [Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:29:59AM -0700]: --- I suggest letting the OpenBSD donation page ( http://openbsd.org/donations.html ) be your first step in this process, since they've donated something to the project and it's always nice to reciprocate. Personally, I chose

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread jmc
--- Austin Hook [Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:49:09AM -0700]: --- older one. I presume this means the track alignment is marginal in some cases. i swapped CD drives and that solved my problem. but it sounds as if i should go retrieve that old drive from the garbage now, as i just chalked it up to

Re: CVS update aborts with No space left on device

2007-10-26 Thread jmc
--- Heinrich Rebehn [Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 06:42:41PM +0200]: --- Hi list, when i try to update my sources using CVS i get e following error: i think the remote CVS server is giving you that message, not your machine. you could try another mirror or wait a bit and i'm sure it'll be tended to.

Re: procmail sets wrong permissions in /var/mail

2005-07-03 Thread jmc
guess the winning solution is to run what is in base, since it all works nicely together. jmc

Re: wireless usb

2005-06-27 Thread jmc
. otherwise it will just attach at ugen: ural0 at uhub0 port 1 ural0: Belkin Belkin 54g USB Network Adapter, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x03), RF RT2526, address 00:11:50:4c:46:59 jmc

Re: Minor patch to afterboot manpage

2005-06-01 Thread jmc
before it is created. hi, i did not take the patch, but decided to put the sections of afterboot(8) into a more logical order (i hope). thanks for the report though. please use unified diffs (diff -u) next time. jmc

Re: Kernel PPPoE and NAT (trying mtu)

2005-05-22 Thread jmc
through the phases continually, it's probably ok. jmc