Re: getmail question

2006-01-02 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:15:39 -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: When I use getmail to retrieve email, getmail reports that the directory named Maildir is not a maildir. What makes a maildir different from a standard directory and how is it created? maildirmake is probably the official answer. (I

Re: What does this error message mean?

2006-01-02 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 23:50:01 -0600, Jim Mays wrote: How do you turn off Sendmail? What starts it in obsd? (Like where is the equivalent of /etc/rc2.d? Question is, if you want this !? I can't believe you don't want local delivery. Who changed rc.conf(.local) in the first place to accept

Re: Dead switch, a quick carp failover question

2006-01-02 Thread Marco Pfatschbacher
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 10:52:43PM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 01/01/2006 03:09:03 PM, Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 12:28:42AM +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: [...] Suppose I have 2 firewalls, one failing over to the other with carp. (net.inet.carp.preempt=1 on both

Re: ATTEMPT AT SCAM: Re: Verify Your Account Information:16186

2006-01-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 09:30:04PM -0600, Julesg wrote: Why does this list get so many of these scam letters?? We're a pretty sophisticated audience, wrt internet scam's. But I have to go to my bank now, I just got a letter from a new friend in Nigeria; Who is offering me a great

256 ip: bridge or router

2006-01-02 Thread Pailloncy Jean-Gerard
Hi, I get a new block of 256 IPs. And my provider gives me two cables and two gateways (a.b.c.1 and a.b.c.2) inside my block (a.b.c.0/24). I want to install a redundant filter made from two soekris. I do some tests on my desk, with a redundant bridge. But I got storm of packet (loop of

biosboot broken?

2006-01-02 Thread M. Schatzl
Hi, I've got a strange problem here; maybe some of you have a better understanding of the issue: Machine:Thinkpad X40 Disks: 40G, 60G Partitions: 7.5G NTFS : OpenBSD : Free Space : 4G CompaqRescue Installing OpenBSD on the original disk (40G) made no problems at all. Everything worked

3.8 Wireless Accesspoint DOS attack survival

2006-01-02 Thread Siju George
Hi all, From http://wlsec.net/void11/ I read that OpenBSD 3.1/3.2 HostAP freezed after some flooding. What about 3.8? Thankyou so much :-) Kind regards Siju

Re: 3.8 Wireless Accesspoint DOS attack survival

2006-01-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 07:56:46PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi all, From http://wlsec.net/void11/ I read that OpenBSD 3.1/3.2 HostAP freezed after some flooding. What about 3.8? Thankyou so much :-) I don't know, but since the same page lists OpenBSD's hostapd as a project, I'd

Re: 256 ip: bridge or router

2006-01-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:26:07PM +0100, Pailloncy Jean-Gerard wrote: Hi, I get a new block of 256 IPs. And my provider gives me two cables and two gateways (a.b.c.1 and a.b.c.2) inside my block (a.b.c.0/24). I want to install a redundant filter made from two soekris. I do some tests

Re: biosboot broken?

2006-01-02 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:06:52 +0100, M. Schatzl wrote: Now that I switched to a 60G disk (cloned the other 2 partitions and the Windows bootsector, then installed OpenBSD anew from the same floppy/mirror as before), OpenBSD won't boot any more, except when I run the boot-floopy and boot

Re: 256 ip: bridge or router

2006-01-02 Thread Pailloncy Jean-Gerard
I get a new block of 256 IPs. And my provider gives me two cables and two gateways (a.b.c.1 and a.b.c.2) inside my block (a.b.c.0/24). I want to install a redundant filter made from two soekris. I do some tests on my desk, with a redundant bridge. But I got storm of packet (loop of 8000

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-02 Thread kami petersen
Daniel Ouellet skrev: May be good, but the bus is PCI only if I am not mistaken looking at the spec. Not even PCI Express or PCI X, so it would be interesting to see, but if you are concern about congestions with the Intel one, may be this would be saturating the bus at 33MHz, or may be it

Re: Dead switch, a quick carp failover question

2006-01-02 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 01/02/2006 03:31:10 AM, Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: Although it's rather hypothetical to have two broken switches at the same time, your assumptions are correct. The backup will not take over. It is rather hypothetical, but perhaps not as much as you might think. I have already, during

Gallery on OpenBSD 3.8: resolv.conf needed for email registration through remote smtp

2006-01-02 Thread Justin H Haynes
Thanks Nick Holmes and misc for http://www.openbsdsupport.org/GalleryInChroot.html. It was very helpful in getting Gallery working in OpenBSD in the chrooted Apache environment for me. However, I need to use an external smtp server to handle registration emails. I was getting this error

Re: Gallery on OpenBSD 3.8: resolv.conf needed for email registration through remote smtp

2006-01-02 Thread Chris Zakelj
Justin H Haynes wrote: Thanks Nick Holmes and misc for http://www.openbsdsupport.org/GalleryInChroot.html. It was very helpful in getting Gallery working in OpenBSD in the chrooted Apache environment for me. However, I need to use an external smtp server to handle registration emails. I

tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Nuno Morgadinho
How to use tar(1) to compress ridiculous large files? #tar cvfz /dev/rst0 /fitabackup /fitabackup/server1.tgz /fitabackup/server3.tgz * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * server3.tgz has 10.0Gb.

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:35:28PM +, Nuno Morgadinho wrote: How to use tar(1) to compress ridiculous large files? #tar cvfz /dev/rst0 /fitabackup /fitabackup/server1.tgz /fitabackup/server3.tgz * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * server3.tgz has 10.0Gb. Use

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-02 Thread RedShift
33 Mhz * 32 bits = 1 056 000 000 bits per tick, 1 056 000 000 / 10^6 (1 megahertz = 10^6 ticks per second) = 1 056 megabits per second 1 056 / 8 = 132 megabytes per second It should actually be 100/3 Mhz. kami petersen wrote: Daniel Ouellet skrev: May be good, but the bus is PCI only if I am

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Nuno Morgadinho wrote: How to use tar(1) to compress ridiculous large files? #tar cvfz /dev/rst0 /fitabackup /fitabackup/server1.tgz /fitabackup/server3.tgz * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * server3.tgz has 10.0Gb. I must be stupid or this

Re: graphing pf stats

2006-01-02 Thread Bob DeBolt
On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:52, you wrote: pfstat works well, it may be a nice starting point for you or it may do everything you want. Bob

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:44:02PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * [...] server3.tgz has 10.0Gb. I must be stupid or this error message is not generated by tar. Please provide the

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:44:02PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: * tar: File is too long for ustar /fitabackup/server3.tgz * [...] server3.tgz has 10.0Gb. I must be stupid or this error message is not generated by tar. Please provide the EXACT message, and an ls -l of the /fitabackup dir.

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:05:21PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: If I don't misinterpret the code, the problem is that the size for a 10GB file needs 12 octal digits, which doen't fit 0-terminated into hd-size. Wonder if hd-size should be 0-terminated, but no time to check now. IMHO, it

Re: tar(1) File is too long for ustar

2006-01-02 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 10:05:21PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: If I don't misinterpret the code, the problem is that the size for a 10GB file needs 12 octal digits, which doen't fit 0-terminated into hd-size. Wonder if hd-size should be

email

2006-01-02 Thread edith scott
I am [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I cannot get any of my mail from Concast; it keeps saying I have a wrong password but it is the same one I have used for years. How can I get my mail - it shows 182 emails (I was out of state for a month). I have tried everything I can think of but to no avail. Thank

Re: Skull Bones cursor in KDE

2006-01-02 Thread Qv6
On Sunday 01 January 2006 04:12 pm, Dave Feustel wrote: Is sudden appearance of a skull bones cursor on the kde desktop associated with any exploits against kde? Don't know, but if you hit ctrl, alt, and esc keys at the same time, you get that cursor. It will kill any window you click, so be

Policy filtering (tags) overhead

2006-01-02 Thread Miguel
Hi, is there a significant overhead when using policy filtering using tags instead of the tradicional pass in on ext_if proto tcp port blabla, pass out on int_if proto tcp port blabla, etc? I like the tags better, it seems a cleaner solution, my pf.conf has fewer lines now, what do you

Re: Dell PowerEdge 4200/266 resets under bsd.mp

2006-01-02 Thread Craig McCormick
re: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=113578617328369w=2 Sorry to be a pain, I'm trying my best to flounder through this one on my own initiative. In SMP land, if the SMP kernel were to crash at this point in my dmesg, when trying to boot bsd.mp: - Point of crash (this is from

CGD

2006-01-02 Thread Travers Buda
Ted Unangst, Yes, I've looked at the archives. You've made it very clear that CGD won't be imported into OpenBSD, yet you've never explained why, or why you ported it in the first place. Care to let us in on why? I expect your reply will be a short no just like a few of your replys to this

Re: What does this error message mean?

2006-01-02 Thread Jim Mays
hmm. sendmail_flags was already set to NO. So sendmail isn't running. I thought this error was attributed to sendmail, but do you think it is comming from pf? I admit to not dealing with obsd that much. And, so I forget things and have to go look them up again or ask someone. So, please

Re: What does this error message mean?

2006-01-02 Thread Claus Assmann
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006, Jim Mays wrote: hmm. sendmail_flags was already set to NO. So sendmail isn't running. Hence the MSP queue runner (sm-msp-queue) can't send the mail. See sendmail/SECURITY about the MSP; run sendmail -Ac -bp to see the mail queue. Moreover, there might be a problem with

Re: Gallery on OpenBSD 3.8: resolv.conf needed for email registration through remote smtp

2006-01-02 Thread Alexander Farber
You could try mini_sendmail_chrooted package On 1/2/06, Justin H Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Nick Holmes and misc for http://www.openbsdsupport.org/GalleryInChroot.html. However, I need to use an external smtp server to handle registration emails.

another amazingly smooth upgrade

2006-01-02 Thread Bill Chmura
I Just did a remote 3.7 to 3.8 upgrade... Flawless. As I have only done a few upgrades on openbsd, I am still amazed by the simplicity and effectiveness of the openbsd process. I mean, how much easier could all this get. I especially loved the pkg_add -u Thanks to Theo and all the devs!

Re: ethereal port for 10.14 (was Re: Ethereal 0.10.14 howto. Now with

2006-01-02 Thread ober
I have added the updates to create/use user _ethereal. Also I have made use of much stricter priv dropping. It now does all 3 states of uid/gid - _ethereal. You will need to chown _ethereal /usr/local/var/_ethereal for now as the package is not setting it right. Also once you capture, the