Problems with X11 traffic over ssh in pf.conf

2007-03-23 Thread carlopmart
Hi all, I need to allow X11 services over ssh for my developers on one openbsd box. Rule for ssh service works ok, but when I try to start a X11 app (like xterm for example on destination host) doesn't works. On openbsd side nothing is dropped. Somebody knows how can I debug this?? Do I

Re: Installing Skype

2007-03-23 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi there, On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:47 AM, Rafael Morales wrote: I have OpenBSD 4.0 on a HP laptop and I need to install Skype because is for the comunication in my job and I have the freedom for install my lovely OpenBSD. This what I have done: 1. I installed the redhat_base-8.0p8.tgz for the

Re: Problems with X11 traffic over ssh in pf.conf

2007-03-23 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 3/23/07, carlopmart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to open additional ports or protocols?? Not so much additional ports or protocols, but are you sure you enabled X11 forwarding? A few suggestions for things to check: + in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, did you enable 'X11Forwarding' ? + for

Re: Problems with X11 traffic over ssh in pf.conf

2007-03-23 Thread carlopmart
Rogier Krieger wrote: On 3/23/07, carlopmart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to open additional ports or protocols?? Not so much additional ports or protocols, but are you sure you enabled X11 forwarding? A few suggestions for things to check: + in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, did you enable

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread Artur Grabowski
Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm speechless. This is the low water mark on misc@ this week. How can you call it a low water mark art? I wasn't speechless, I laughed my ass off. I needed the humor this morning, I'm hung over and spent the morning in a stupid

Re: Problems with X11 traffic over ssh in pf.conf

2007-03-23 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 3/23/07, carlopmart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is wih pf rules. If I put on pf.conf pass all, all works ok. Then the easiest debugging feature is doing a tcpdump on pflog0 for blocked packets. Assuming (without your pf.conf, it's hard to guess) you use a default block, add a log

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-23 Thread chefren
On 3/23/07 2:53 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Symantec have been trying to demonise OS X for a long while. And it is going to work soon. Because OS X has no Propolice-like compiler stack protection, nor anything like W^X which makes parts of the address space non-executable, nor anything like

Re: CARP flip flop problems

2007-03-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/03/23 12:38, Nigel Roberts wrote: We're running carp on two Openbsd 4.0 routers on vlan interfaces and we're observing a state change from backup to master to backup on the host that should stay as the backup. This happens periodically and adjusting the advbase and advskew seems to

Re: zaurus bootstrapping

2007-03-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/03/23 00:24, Nick ! wrote: Is there any way to control the backlight? I don't see in the manpages any reference to it, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong places. wsconsctl(8) What's the upgrading procedure? Is it something like: put bsd.rd on the / filesystem somewhere and the

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread Kamil Monticolo
*snip* I'm speechless. This is the low water mark on misc@ this week. //art How can you call it a low water mark art? I wasn't speechless, I laughed my ass off. I needed the humor this morning, I'm hung over and spent the morning in a stupid meeting. That message made my

Re: Problems with X11 traffic over ssh in pf.conf

2007-03-23 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 08:35:19AM +0100, carlopmart wrote: My problem is wih pf rules. If I put on pf.conf pass all, all works ok. Did you remember to pass loopback connections?

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread Artur Grabowski
Kamil Monticolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Example given with stripe shows how we can save disk space on good known OS and services running on it, but I'm sure it's not recommended way. I think that anybody who wants running up several services on machine with only 48M RAM have also a small

Re: Installing Skype

2007-03-23 Thread Josh Grosse
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:26:53AM +0100, Tobias Weisserth wrote: I wouldn't use the rpm, I'd instead download the statically linked file that's available on the Skype site: http://www.skype.org/go/getskype-linux-static That should solve all library issues. I did look at this once

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-23 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Hello, I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. [...] Debian Etch will need more than 32 MB ram so am starting the planning. I've

Re: zaurus bootstrapping

2007-03-23 Thread Jeff Quast
On 3/23/07, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: zaurus is quite brittle and depends on some of the stuff on the disk. I really don't agree. That was mostly in the past. These days I always install a zaurus without any Linux on the drive. That linux stuff is not neccessary anymore. This

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-23 Thread Darren Spruell
On 3/23/07, chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. Maybe I was too harsh against Karel? Survey says: No. DS

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thursday 22 March 2007 22:08, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:40:48AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Sounds similar to debian which also has to reboot a new kernel. Do you run the rebuild niced? I don't. I want it to be done as soon as possible. If you want your

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-23 Thread Marius ROMAN
On 3/23/07, Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/23/07, chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. Maybe I was too harsh against Karel? Survey says: No. DS I agree :) Marius

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
On 3/23/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your suggestions re used books. I'll try some of Kingston's used book stores and see what I can get at the Queen's book store. You can also check Amazon.com. For example used copy of Absolute OpenBSD costs less than 15 bucks

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Frank Tegtmeyer
J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as suggested in release(8), I would guess it has something to do with the pain the developers endure when building releases on very slow archs It's always better to run batch processing with nice. The only reason is not to affect normal work on the

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:07:54AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six months, you have to reboot into that? How long does an upgrade from one release to the next take? Minutes on a fast machine. I have seen a HPPA B180 take

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:08:02PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:40:48AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six months, you have to reboot into that? How long does an upgrade from one release to the

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Shockley
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: Assuming you don't try to do more with it than you have CPU and RAM for, you should be fine. However, once you've tested that all your hardware works with the GENERIC kernel, I would strongly recommend you compile a custom kernel and run that (do a Web search for a Perl

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Douglas, Just bumping into this thread. So on a production machine, it has to be off-line for 30 minutes every six months (not complaining, just clarifying). Basically, yes. But, that would mean no patches applied to your production system during those six months. If you were to build a

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:56:32AM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 22:37 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Hello, I've got a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus, with two drives: 840 MB and 1280 MB IDE. Currently running Debian GNU/Linux Sarge. Assuming you don't

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Tim Kuhlman
On Friday 23 March 2007 8:30 am, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:08:02PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:40:48AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six months, you have to reboot

Re: Installing Skype

2007-03-23 Thread Rafael Morales
I have downloaded, but where I put the uncompressed folder ??. I put it under /emul/linux, but how do I execute it ?? --- Tobias Weisserth [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribis: Hi there, On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:47 AM, Rafael Morales wrote: I have OpenBSD 4.0 on a HP laptop and I need to install

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-23 Thread Henning Brauer
* Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-23 16:12]: I thought compiling a custom kernel was _discouraged_? so is giving bad advice on mailing lists. yet, people keep doing both. I see no reason not to use GENERIC on a 32MB system. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: isakmpd gateway-to-gateway VPN woes...

2007-03-23 Thread Boris Golberg
Hello Jack, Thursday, March 22, 2007, 6:49:14 PM, you wrote: JB ... having some trouble getting a LAN-to-LAN VPN working ... JB10.0.0.2/24 --- 10.0.0.1/24 JB L1 F1 F2 L2 JB 10.4.14.1 --- 10.4.12.1/22 10.2.12.1/22 --- 10.2.14.1 JB

Convergence time with carp(4)

2007-03-23 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi list, Please Cc: me in your reply, I'm not subscribed. I'm setting up a redundant router using OpenBSD and carp(4), as you surely have already deduced :). The configuration is pretty simple: +-+ bnx0| |bnx1 +--| A |--+

Re: zaurus bootstrapping

2007-03-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
Also, if I understand correctly, the HD can be blown away completely (or even removed), and we can still boot linux off the embedded flash? It can still boot linux off the embedded flash effectively in single user mode. That's all that they fit up there. And that is where we place our boot

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:36:34AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I don't. I want it to be done as soon as possible. If you want your build done as soon as possible, then you would use nice(1) as root to have the build process run at a higher priority and hence receive more processing time.

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:30:43AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Yes, you must reboot and perform the upgrade. If you read the upgrade guide and get your ducks in a row you can be all done *easily* in 30 minutes. If there were some kind of contest with cash prizes it could probably be

Re: HP SA P400/P800 ciss support and caveats

2007-03-23 Thread Joel Knight
--- Quoting Boris Golberg on 2007/03/22 at 19:12 -0500: Hello guys, We are looking to buy an HP ProLiant DL320s server with about 5-8 terabyte of storage and Smart Array P400 or P800 for a backup purposes. According to

Re: use OpenBSD to blacklist phone calls?

2007-03-23 Thread Paul Pruett
SUCCESS the package mgetty+sendfax can be used to intercept phone calls by callerID using fax answer after modification to port mgetty+sendfax --- notes --- I had ordered a generic modem for asterisk usage, but was warned that it may need Zaptel support by a subscriber, so that was a wasted $6

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thursday 22 March 2007 05:54, Kamil Monticolo wrote: You may also stripe nearly all of your libraries, for example: # ls -lhS /usr/lib/libcrypto*a -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.7M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_pic.a -r--r--r-- 1 root bin 11.6M Mar 22 13:53 /usr/lib/libcrypto_p.a

OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-23 Thread Luca Corti
Hello, I've set up OpenNTPD 3.9p1 on Linux with a couple of servers to sync to and listen on to sync my machines to OpenNTPD. Clients (some openntpds, some ntpds, some Cisco routers) refuse to sync to my server. OpenNTPD on a client reports my OpenNTPD server is not synced. This is not

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-23 Thread Greg Thomas
On 3/23/07, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/03/07, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/22/07, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/03/07, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 03:28:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Their challenge is

Strange locate behavior

2007-03-23 Thread James Turner
I'm running OpenBSD -current from 3-10-07. I just ran /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb as root on my system. When I run locate mutt I get this error locate database header corrupt, bigram char outside 0, 32-127: 14. I've tried to run locate.updatedb again but the following locate yields the same

Re: Request for links to BSD adminstration docs

2007-03-23 Thread Greg Thomas
On 3/23/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:07:54AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: However, is it correct that when a new release comes out every six months, you have to reboot into that? How long does an upgrade from one release to the next take?

Help with dmesg GENERIC i386 won't boot in -current

2007-03-23 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
hello misc@ I have the results of a dmesg below on -current I could boot GENERIC i386 from a snapshot build that was dated 3-10-2007 however when I did a fresh install of -current based on the snapshot I just downloaded from ftp.openbsd.org, I can not boot GENERIC i386, however GENERIC.MP w/

Re: named stopped with error

2007-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thursday 22 March 2007 23:32, RW wrote: On a firewall that is not mine but where the admins run to me for help 8-) somebody noticed that name resolution was not working. rc.conf.local says: named_flags= named.conf is the default (caching with recursion only for local clients) uname says:

Re: named stopped with error

2007-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Thursday 22 March 2007 23:32, RW wrote: It started up manually and ran as it has for the past (nearly) year, so it looks like a one-off but I'd love to hear of possible causes. Thanks, Rod/ from: src/usr.sbin/bind/lib/isc/mem.c /* * Perform a free, doing memory filling and overrun

Re: Installing Skype

2007-03-23 Thread Rafael Morales
I need the shared library libasound.so.2, anybody could send to me ???, I don't have a linux box here. Regards --- Nick ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribis: The large file called 'skype' is the binary. Just execute it (go to a command line, cd to that directory, chmod +x it if necessary, and then

Re: Installing Skype

2007-03-23 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi, On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Rafael Morales wrote: I need the shared library libasound.so.2, anybody could send to me ???, I don't have a linux box here. I need my box rooted, can anybody please send me a trojaned binary library I have to trust blindly? If you really need binary

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:27:45AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: No. You've just destroyed your libraries in a way that's worse than just deleting them since now you will need to wade through strange error messages which are trying to tell you why your stripped libraries no longer work.

maxcluster errors

2007-03-23 Thread mail-lists
I've looked over this mailing list and noticed some questions about maxclusters I'm running a wireless ap and for some reason the wireless link seems to die on me intermittently Looking at /var/log/messages I notice errors referring to maxclusters. I then increased my maxclusters to 65000

Re: Installing Skype

2007-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Friday 23 March 2007 11:35, Tobias Weisserth wrote: On Mar 23, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Rafael Morales wrote: I need the shared library libasound.so.2, anybody could send to me ???, I don't have a linux box here. I need my box rooted, can anybody please send me a trojaned binary library I

Re: Installing Skype

2007-03-23 Thread Rafael Morales
I need the shared library libasound.so.2, anybody could send to me ???, I donde have a linux box here Regards and thanks --- Nick ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribis: The large file called 'skype' is the binary. Just execute it (go to a command line, cd to that directory, chmod +x it if

Re: maxcluster errors

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Glaus
mail-lists wrote: I've looked over this mailing list and noticed some questions about maxclusters I'm running a wireless ap and for some reason the wireless link seems to die on me intermittently Looking at /var/log/messages I notice errors referring to maxclusters. I then increased my

Re: Strange locate behavior

2007-03-23 Thread James Turner
Please disregard my last question. A simple search of the archive whould have told me all I wanted to know. This is what I get for typing first and reading second.

fdisk with fat32 / external disk error

2007-03-23 Thread Julien TOUCHE
Hi i'm currently tring to add an external disk (thecus n2050 in raid1; fat32+ffs partitions) to my openbsd (4.0-stable/i386) box on usb2 problem * partitionning on openbsd works on openbsd, but seems not recognized by macosx (10.3) and win (2k) * partitionning and formating on osx is not

Re: Problems with X11 traffic over ssh in pf.conf

2007-03-23 Thread Kevin Frand
Are you using antispoof in your pf.conf? if so, X11 forwarding will not work. carlopmart wrote: Hi all, I need to allow X11 services over ssh for my developers on one openbsd box. Rule for ssh service works ok, but when I try to start a X11 app (like xterm for example on destination host)

Re: Dell Latitude D520

2007-03-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
You really need to run 4.1 on that machine; probably even with ACPI enabled. On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:32:33PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote: I installed 4.0 release on Dell Latitude D520 and found these issues: 1) Reboot will display messages about disk resync; monitor goes blank and then hangs

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-23 Thread Dan Farrell
On 3/23/07, Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/23/07, chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. Maybe I was too harsh against Karel? Survey says: No. DS I agree :) Marius I'll bottom post just this once to add to this list of agreement. danno

Re: Dell Latitude D520

2007-03-23 Thread Simon Effenberg
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:32:33PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote: 3) dmesg indicates Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG rev 0x02 I downloaded wpi-firmware-1.13 and installed the package; but when I try to bring up the device: $ sudo ifconfig wpi0 up $ dmesg | tail wpi0: timeout waiting for thermal sensors

Text about openbsd's security technology

2007-03-23 Thread Rafael Almeida
I'm aware that OpenBSD's developers create new technology for making the exploiter's life harder. On the OpenBSD site I could find a list of some of those kinda features (following this paragraph). Yet, I could not find any article describing all those ideas. Does anyone know what would be

ThinkPad X31, ACPI, suspend/hibernate buttons

2007-03-23 Thread viq
I have a TP X31 on which I just compiled ACPI-enabled kernel, so I finally can get access to the thermal sensors. But, at the same time, the shortcuts to suspend (Fn+F4), hibernate (Fn+F12) or even turn off the screen (Fn+F3) stopped working. Is that a known behaviour? Is there a way to make

Re: Text about openbsd's security technology

2007-03-23 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/03/23 17:36, Rafael Almeida wrote: I'm aware that OpenBSD's developers create new technology for making the exploiter's life harder. On the OpenBSD site I could find a list of some of those kinda features (following this paragraph). Yet, I could not find any article describing all

Re: Text about openbsd's security technology

2007-03-23 Thread Bob Beck
* Rafael Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-23 14:52]: I'm aware that OpenBSD's developers create new technology for making the exploiter's life harder. On the OpenBSD site I could find a list of some of those kinda features (following this paragraph). Yet, I could not find any article

Re: OpenNTPD reliability

2007-03-23 Thread Shane Harbour
man ntpd Look at the -S option and see if that's what you want. Luca Corti wrote: Hello, I've set up OpenNTPD 3.9p1 on Linux with a couple of servers to sync to and listen on to sync my machines to OpenNTPD. Clients (some openntpds, some ntpds, some Cisco routers) refuse to sync to my server.

Plextor PX-EH40L (landisk) power-off button?

2007-03-23 Thread Darth Lists
Has anyone using the Plextor PX-EHxxL landisk hardware gotten the power toggle switch to fulfill its intended purpose? Under the original Linux-based OS, the switch would send a signal to the OS to start a shutdown procedure and once properly shutdown, the OS would then power off the device.

Re: Plextor PX-EH40L (landisk) power-off button?

2007-03-23 Thread Miod Vallat
Has anyone using the Plextor PX-EHxxL landisk hardware gotten the power toggle switch to fulfill its intended purpose? Under the original Linux-based OS, the switch would send a signal to the OS to start a shutdown procedure and once properly shutdown, the OS would then power off the

Re: maxcluster errors

2007-03-23 Thread mail-lists
Well, I think I might have discovered the cause of this. I noticed that when I disabled pf that all the mbufs were released immediately. I then configured my pf rules from the wireless network with the 'quick' keyword and the current buffer count doesn't seem to be rising very much any more

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Friday 23 March 2007 11:48, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:27:45AM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: No. You've just destroyed your libraries in a way that's worse than just deleting them since now you will need to wade through strange error messages which are trying to

Re: ThinkPad X31, ACPI, suspend/hibernate buttons

2007-03-23 Thread Marco Peereboom
Nothing stopped working. It has never been implemented in ACPI. On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:25:29PM +0100, viq wrote: I have a TP X31 on which I just compiled ACPI-enabled kernel, so I finally can get access to the thermal sensors. But, at the same time, the shortcuts to suspend (Fn+F4),

Re: ThinkPad X31, ACPI, suspend/hibernate buttons

2007-03-23 Thread openbsd fan
NO. Its use APM instead of ACPI. The Phoenix BIOS in the X31 uses APM instead of ACPI. On 3/23/07, viq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/03/07, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing stopped working. It has never been implemented in ACPI. Ah, ok, so it's have thermal sensors or

Re: ThinkPad X31, ACPI, suspend/hibernate buttons

2007-03-23 Thread viq
On 23/03/07, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing stopped working. It has never been implemented in ACPI. Ah, ok, so it's have thermal sensors or have suspend keys work, as I suspected. Thank you for clarification. On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:25:29PM +0100, viq wrote: I have a

Re: Dell Latitude D520

2007-03-23 Thread Frank Bax
Thanks! 4.1 didn't initially change anything; but ACPI enabled fixed both #1 and #2. At 04:03 PM 3/23/07, Marco Peereboom wrote: You really need to run 4.1 on that machine; probably even with ACPI enabled. On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:32:33PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote: I installed 4.0 release

Re: Text about openbsd's security technology

2007-03-23 Thread Rafael Almeida
On 3/23/07, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look for theo's talk on http://www.openbsd.org/papers for a very good introduction. and beyond that, RTFS Yes, I've looked those, but most of them were slideshows, not real articles. I was looking for something more like this:

Re: Installing Skype

2007-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Friday 23 March 2007 12:13, Tobias Weisserth wrote: From the emails in this thread we know he needs it for work, so he hasn't really got a choice. There's no other client to the Skype network. Maybe there's a way to lockin Skype in systrace. On openSUSE I locked Skype in with

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread Philip Guenther
On 3/23/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Unfortunately, it actually is possible to remove the typically used function name symbols from dynamically loaded libraries (shared objects). Stripping the function name symbols (along with debug symbols) from shared libraries is often used

Re: HP SA P400/P800 ciss support and caveats

2007-03-23 Thread Boris Golberg
Hello Joel, Friday, March 23, 2007, 11:16:20 AM, you wrote: We are looking to buy an HP ProLiant DL320s server with about 5-8 terabyte of storage and Smart Array P400 or P800 for a backup purposes. According to www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cissarch=i386sektion=4 it

ntpd can no longer cope with the clock drift

2007-03-23 Thread viq
I have a rather old x86 box, running a 600 MHz Duron. It does have problems keeping the clock in sync, so one of the first things I ran on it was OpenNTPd, and it was sometimes spamming the logs with the sync messages, but keeping the time beautifully. That is, untill yesterday, when I updated

Re: ThinkPad X31, ACPI, suspend/hibernate buttons

2007-03-23 Thread viq
On 23/03/07, openbsd fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NO. Its use APM instead of ACPI. The Phoenix BIOS in the X31 uses APM instead of ACPI. Gotcha, thanks. -- viq

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Friday 23 March 2007 15:27, Philip Guenther wrote: On 3/23/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Unfortunately, it actually is possible to remove the typically used function name symbols from dynamically loaded libraries (shared objects). Stripping the function name symbols

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-23 Thread bofh
On 3/22/07, Woodchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Golden Age of cheap servers (and laptops and ...) is almost upon us, just as soon as the lemmings start going to Vista. Oh crap, I *will* use this in my sig file. 8-)

Re: Dell Latitude D520

2007-03-23 Thread Frank Bax
At 04:16 PM 3/23/07, Simon Effenberg wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:32:33PM -0400, Frank Bax wrote: 3) dmesg indicates Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG rev 0x02 I downloaded wpi-firmware-1.13 and installed the package; but when I try to bring up the device: $ sudo ifconfig wpi0 up $ dmesg |

Postfix flavour for PostgreSQL ?

2007-03-23 Thread Peter
I see there is a postfix flavour for mysql but not for postgresql. Is this combination used much? I already have a PGSQL server and I want to plug postfix into it for virtual mailbox domains. Thanks for any advice. Peter

Re: Postfix flavour for PostgreSQL ?

2007-03-23 Thread Darren Spruell
On 3/23/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see there is a postfix flavour for mysql but not for postgresql. Is this combination used much? I already have a PGSQL server and I want to plug postfix into it for virtual mailbox domains. I can't say if it's used often, but I do see a page on

Re: Postfix flavour for PostgreSQL ?

2007-03-23 Thread Ted Unangst
On 3/23/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see there is a postfix flavour for mysql but not for postgresql. Is this combination used much? I already have a PGSQL server and I want to plug postfix into it for virtual mailbox domains. uh, what do you think the pgsql flavor is?

Re: Postfix flavour for PostgreSQL ?

2007-03-23 Thread Peter
Le Samedi 24 Mars 2007 01:13, Ted Unangst a icrit : On 3/23/07, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see there is a postfix flavour for mysql but not for postgresql. Is this combination used much? I already have a PGSQL server and I want to plug postfix into it for virtual mailbox domains.

Re: Dell Latitude D520

2007-03-23 Thread Simon Effenberg
My old Intel ipw2100 worked with openbsd 4.0/4.1 and this access point. My new Intel card doesn't. I don't know what it is because scanning is possible. I also see the SSID of my network but ifconfig up doesn't work. Could it be the firmware? s -- GnuPG: 5755FB64 Per aspera ad astra.

acpi is working but halt -p is now working, why?

2007-03-23 Thread Jay Jesus Amorin
im running openbsd 4.1-current on my laptop, acpi is working but halt -p is not working, it will just reboot instead of halt, WHY? here's my additional info: # sysctl -aA | grep acpi kern.timecounter.hardware=acpitimer0 kern.timecounter.choice=i8254(0) acpihpet0(1000) acpitimer0(1000)