Re: Help with lpd and XP

2005-12-02 Thread Greg Thomas
Additional info. With this printcap on my OpenBSD laptop printing works fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ethant# cat /etc/printcap rp|remote line printer:\ :sf:sh:lp=:rm=grits:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: So it appears to be an XP issue. Any suggestions for XP? Greg On

USB stuff (was Re: theo)

2005-12-02 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the goals of OpenBSD, I would not expect USB rodents, sound cards or even video to be necessarily well supported. The reality is that USB gear is becoming much, much more common. USB HIDs (human interface devices) should be

Re: USB stuff (was Re: theo)

2005-12-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the goals of OpenBSD, I would not expect USB rodents, sound cards or even video to be necessarily well supported. The reality is that USB gear is becoming much, much more

Re: USB stuff (was Re: theo)

2005-12-02 Thread Gordon Willem Klok
Could this thread just die please, The problem did not lie with the mouse the laptop in question had screwy pci interrupt routing and consequently configuration of the usb controller failed. GWK On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 02:40:09AM -0600, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:51 -0600,

Re: Help with lpd and XP

2005-12-02 Thread Fred Crowson
Greg Thomas wrote: Ok, I decided to switch from using a little Linksys 802.11b parallel print server to using my OpenBSD box for printing to my one printer. Printing locally works fine but I'm having trouble printing from XP. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ethant# cat /etc/printcap # $OpenBSD:

Re: theo

2005-12-02 Thread badmagic
Steve is my brother you moron and he fixes my Mother's computer sometimes Sherlock On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 00:10 -0600, Billy B. Bilano wrote: LLSLSOLS Okay guys, this is nuts! Who is this person thinks they are? Wow! They are really reaching around for one! I know a thing or twelve

Re: USB stuff (was Re: theo)

2005-12-02 Thread Tony
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the goals of OpenBSD, I would not expect USB rodents, sound cards or even video to be necessarily well supported. The reality is that USB gear is

Re: install 3.8 on hppa using lif38.fs

2005-12-02 Thread mickey
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:21:54PM +0100, Jimmy Scott wrote: Hello, re I tried to install a few machines with OpenBSD/hppa 3.8 without success. In the past I installed them with OpenBSD 3.6, switched them the hard way to use the serial console (using machine) and threw away the horrible

Re: top show named 50% CPU usage

2005-12-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:58:00PM -0200, Beto wrote: Hi friends, I got a strange high cpu usage on my server with openbsd 3.8 release. I have on my lab 20 machines using ldap to authenticate and squid proxy transparent to access the internet. Their homes were mounted by nfs, however my

wrong behaviour of su

2005-12-02 Thread Uwe Dippel
# whoami root # su foo passwd: login/uid mismatch, username argument required. # su udippel $ whoami udippel $ exit # whoami root # su bar passwd: login/uid mismatch, username argument required. # su ba su: unknown login ba I came in to root through 'udippel' (su); and I am sure it worked a few

finish

2005-12-02 Thread Sophie Laurie
This is it. I didn't wan't a discussion or any more foul replies (although I can take 'em) This isn't a hoax. What would be the point. My Mother is in hospital for a few days and I'm looking after her house whilst she's in - that's how I found the emails. The laptop was my brother Steven's. Our

Re: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt

2005-12-02 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:44:32PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: I recently purchased a pair of Iron Systems A210 servers for a firewall installation. The systems were ordered with no hard drives and ide-to-CF adapters onboard. They are running 3.8 -release on 512MB compact flash (SanDisk

Re: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt

2005-12-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:44:32PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote: I recently purchased a pair of Iron Systems A210 servers for a firewall installation. The systems were ordered with no hard drives and ide-to-CF adapters onboard. They are running 3.8 -release on 512MB compact flash (SanDisk

Daniel

2005-12-02 Thread Sophie Laurie
To: Mail Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] (return email address didn't work) Daniel, Thank you

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-02 Thread M. Schatzl
oh, like putting it in the gecos field? that'd be kinda cool. I like that idea.. But what are you doing if you want to transfer your crypted dir to another machine? Will be definitely harder to squeeze the bits out of the gecos. And you probably get a high probability of funny terminal behaving.

Re: theo Sophie Laurie

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Douglas
I've sat back and read these email discussions and said nothing. Generally I feel this is what should be done but I can't take it anymore. Here is my 2 cents and my final 2 cents as I don't care to join in the polluted discussions. I'm a huge advocate of OpenBSD and the OpenBSD community. I've

Re: theo Sophie Laurie

2005-12-02 Thread Adam Douglas
Supposedly this is all a fake act, that isn't true. So if this is or isn't the case whatever I don't care. It should not have gone this way weather it was true or not. Let's MOVE on people. Do something constructive. Ignore this crap. Best, Adam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

BOINC

2005-12-02 Thread Johan P . Lindström
I'm sorry if this comes across as flame bait, that's not my intention. With that out of the way; How about that BOINC initiative, http://boinc.berkeley.edu is that something that interests anyone else? I can come to think of plenty of reasons why one would not want a port of it, I use obsd for

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

2005-12-02 Thread Sebastian Rother
I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-Language. I can't decide between Perl and Python. Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. Python on the other hand is under a BSD-compatible License and has less modules. I would like to know some

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

2005-12-02 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 06:14 PM 12/2/2005 +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: I can't decide between Perl and Python. Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. Python on the other hand is under a BSD-compatible License and has less modules. I would like to know some facts why Perl is in the base system on a BSD even

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

2005-12-02 Thread Jimmy Scott
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:14:18PM +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-Language. I can't decide between Perl and Python. Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. Python on the other hand is under a

Re: Help with lpd and XP

2005-12-02 Thread Greg Thomas
On 12/2/05, Fred Crowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Thomas wrote: Ok, I decided to switch from using a little Linksys 802.11b parallel print server to using my OpenBSD box for printing to my one printer. Printing locally works fine but I'm having trouble printing from XP. [EMAIL

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

2005-12-02 Thread Jason Crawford
On 12/2/05, Jimmy Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:14:18PM +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-Language. I can't decide between Perl and Python. Perl has a lot modules

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

2005-12-02 Thread Darrin Chandler
Jimmy Scott wrote: I advice to learn both, you can browse the Python tutorial in one day, and Perl shouldn't be any harder if you learn it from the supplied documentation 'perldoc perl' and 'perldoc perlintro' it a good start. I second that. Also, as with most any language, they each have

Re: Help with lpd and XP

2005-12-02 Thread Simon Slaytor
Why not use CUPS?, with the CUPS LPD daemon, works like a charm for us. Just enable RAW and LPR Byte accounting on your Windows XP hosts. When configuring the CUPS printer again choose a RAW device to ensure straight pass through from your Windows PC to the printer. I seem to remember a

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

2005-12-02 Thread Miod Vallat
http://www.perl.com/download.csp#srclic It is NOT gpl'ed. According to this: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README?rev=1.8content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup it is GPL'd. According to this very same file, it is not. It is dual-licensed, which is VERY different

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

2005-12-02 Thread Juan Jose Natera
Hi, Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. [snip] It is NOT gpl'ed. [snip] According to this: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README?rev=1.8content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup it is GPL'd. Well actually you're both kind of right, it's either GPL or Artisticly

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

2005-12-02 Thread Jason Crawford
On 12/2/05, Miod Vallat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.perl.com/download.csp#srclic It is NOT gpl'ed. According to this: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/README?rev=1.8content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup it is GPL'd. According to this very same file, it

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

2005-12-02 Thread Jimmy Scott
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:02:32PM -0500, Jason Crawford wrote: On 12/2/05, Jimmy Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:14:18PM +0100, Sebastian Rother wrote: I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-Language.

Re: Booting very slow when using CompactFlash adapters

2005-12-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On 12/1/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see you have a P4. Could the heat sink have fallen off/not been mounted properly? Supposedly, the P4 will slow itself down when it overheats. IF the heat sink were not on at all (or a tiny air gap existed), the thing would probably

find a file greater than X MB's

2005-12-02 Thread Bob DeBolt
Greets I have had an issue with a hard drive filling up in a very short time after upgrading a software package. Although I resolved the issue and all is well now, I spent more time than I should have looking for files greater than a certain size. I tried numerous combinations of find

Re: find a file greater than X MB's

2005-12-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Bob DeBolt wrote: Greets I have had an issue with a hard drive filling up in a very short time after upgrading a software package. Although I resolved the issue and all is well now, I spent more time than I should have looking for files greater than a certain size.

Re: theo (fwd)

2005-12-02 Thread Benjamin Collins
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:21:05PM +1100, Ioan Nemes wrote: She went her anger, just leave it! Theo doesn't need advocates to reply - if he wants too! Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum! Ioan Stilus email est humanus , tamen caput capitis - stipes est diabolical. and Quid

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

2005-12-02 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Sebastian Rother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I scrited with pdksh all the time lon for now. Now I'm interested into learning another Scripting-Language. I can't decide between Perl and Python. Perl has a lot modules but it's GPLed. Python on the other hand is under a BSD-compatible

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-02 Thread Alexander Farber
I have one suggestion: if a user logs in and the path to home dir in the /etc/passwd is actually pointing to a file, then it is encrypted

Re: latin pedants (was theo fwd)

2005-12-02 Thread scorch
Theo doesn't need advocates to reply - if he wants too! Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum! Ioan Stilus email est humanus , tamen caput capitis - stipes est diabolical. and Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur usque ad mortem bibendum :-) cheers, scorch -- out of

Re: my multipath routing questions...

2005-12-02 Thread andrew fresh
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:33:14PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote: First I want to say thank you very much to Claudio, I appreciate the response and using pf sure seems like it SHOULD work, but it keeps crashing on me :-( Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to provide as much information as

Re: Help with lpd and XP

2005-12-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:19 PM + 12/2/05, Simon Slaytor wrote: I seem to remember a problem when I was setting up the same scenario as you using FreeBSD. When trying to print from a Windows host using LPR/LPD the FBSD LPD daemon expects connections from a certain TCP/IP port on the connecting host, but Windows

SolucioNIC Argentina - Reformas

2005-12-02 Thread SolucioNIC
Estimado Sr(a), Me dirijo a ustedes con el objetivo de iniciar de alguna forma, lo que podrma ser el inicio de una reforma interesante y justa para los dominios de internet dados bajo la autorizacisn de NIC Argentina. Aunque tanto en Argentina como en el extranjero, lo que es Legal o en el

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-02 Thread Zachery Hostens
excellent idea. this is a perfect solution. the only issue would be now is where to put/handle the key file, maybe $HOME.key or something :x everyone says this shouldnt be put into bsd itself and something that can lay on top of it. i for one would see this as a big step for user security.

Re: latin pedants (was theo fwd)

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Zakelj
scorch wrote: Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum! Stilus email est humanus , tamen caput capitis - stipes est diabolical. and Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum videtur usque ad mortem bibendum :-) Any hope of getting a translation? Having gone to a public

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

2005-12-02 Thread Reid Nichol
--- Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/2/05, Reid Nichol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Sebastian Rother [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is it that you wanted to accomplish? Just talk ;-) I know this is just a poke, but it does bring up a point about an ambiguity in my

Re: Problem with Realtek 8139 in very old machine

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Zakelj
Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Hi again, I've managed to make a serial laplink connection with my linux machine, so now i'm able to access my OpenBSD machine, using the pppd. I'm seding my full dmesg, for your apreciation and i hope it will help to solve my problem: snip dmesg Just a

Re: theo

2005-12-02 Thread Linaria vulgaris
This is perhaps the *worst* attempt at social engineering I've ever seen. Really. Sophie/Sophia/Martha, or whoever the fuck you are - I don't know why you want to attempt to damage the OpenBSD project. Did someone say something bad to you on the list? Did someone insult you? Awww. Well,

Re: BOINC

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Zakelj
Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote: I'm sorry if this comes across as flame bait, that's not my intention. With that out of the way; How about that BOINC initiative, http://boinc.berkeley.edu is that something that interests anyone else? I can come to think of plenty of reasons why one would not want a

Re: latin pedants (was theo fwd)

2005-12-02 Thread Benjamin Collins
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:47:11PM -0500, Chris Zakelj wrote: scorch wrote: Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum! Stilus email est humanus , tamen caput capitis - stipes est diabolical. To err is human, but to top-post is diabolical. and Quid quid latine dictum

Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-12-02 Thread Nick Holland
Greg Oster wrote: ... Here's what I'd encourage you (or anyone else) to do: actually, I'd encourage you do try your own test. Results were interesting. 1) Create a ccd as you describe in the HOWTO and mount the filesystem. used my own instructions, if you don't mind. :) Softdeps on. That

Re: BOINC

2005-12-02 Thread Bill
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:45:09 -0500 Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake: Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote: I'm sorry if this comes across as flame bait, that's not my intention. With that out of the way; How about that BOINC initiative, http://boinc.berkeley.edu is that something that

Apache 2 License

2005-12-02 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
Hi All, I've checked the Apache 2 License, which is said to be GPL-2 compatible (http://www.apache.org/licenses/). So, OpenBSD include some GPL programs (gcc), so what's make it unacceptable (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#HowAbout) ? What are the differences with Apache 1.3 License ?

Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-12-02 Thread Greg Oster
Nick Holland writes: Greg Oster wrote: ... Here's what I'd encourage you (or anyone else) to do: actually, I'd encourage you do try your own test. Results were interesting. Well... as we see, you did *your* version of the test, not mine ;) 1) Create a ccd as you describe in the HOWTO

Re: wrong behaviour of su

2005-12-02 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 18:16:31 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: # su bar passwd: login/uid mismatch, username argument required. Sorted; but took me half a day: bar has a SHELL of /usr/bin/passwd; so has foo. In order to do something on their behalf, su -m foo will do (but not change HOME, SHELL,

Re: disk encryption on login

2005-12-02 Thread Alexander Farber
Ok, maybe not so excellent, because where that would be mounted :-/ On 12/3/05, Zachery Hostens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: excellent idea. this is a perfect solution. On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:02:12 +0100, Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one suggestion: if a user logs in and the