Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Matthew Dempsky
(Ugh, I wish I had noticed this message a few minutes earlier.) On 11/29/07, Tobias Weisserth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to point out that D.J. Bernstein has put qmail in public domain. I'm not implying anything but wouldn't it be a perfect opportunity to get rid of sendmail (GNU

Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Matthew Dempsky
Dan Bernstein has placed qmail 1.03 into the public domain (see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html). Is there any interest in replacing sendmail with it to remove another component from the src/gnu/ hierarchy?

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/30 10:41, Lars Noodin wrote: Postfix, the license isn't good for base Exim the license isn't good for base qmail never had a license - now it's in the public domain it's allowed to distribute it, but I don't like to imagine what misc@ would look like after the following release

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Han Boetes
The most logical step to me seems to be readding qmail and other DJB tools to ports. # Han

Re: ilo (ipmi) and serial console redirection

2007-11-30 Thread Markus Hennecke
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, holger glaess wrote: of cause , i try to setup com2 but the system says at bootpromt com port is not aviable , but if the kernel already loaded the com port is aviable. there is no setting options at the bios to change the com port from the ipmi board. Doesn't the

sendmail question

2007-11-30 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Fri, 30.11.2007 at 15:27:15 +0100, Pete Vickers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case it's needed (which I doubt), I'll voice my VERY strongly preference for sendmail instead of all these other pretenders. I take your plug for sendmail as an invitation to ask a sendmail question: I have a

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Marco Peereboom
Does qmail have the ability to block all email concerning replacing sednmail in base? On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:27:32AM -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote: Dan Bernstein has placed qmail 1.03 into the public domain (see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html). Is there any interest in replacing sendmail

Re: cbb0: controller is missing in dmesg

2007-11-30 Thread Rob Lytle
I cvsup'd today and saw that /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pccbb.c had been changed. I turned on all the bugging code I could, and I get in the dmesg cbb0: controller is missing. Yet right above it in the dmesg is says cbb0 at pci6 dev 4 function 0 TIPCIXX12 Cardbus I was wondering if there is

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Hart
Wouldn't such reasoning about a gift apply equally to a BSD-license on free-as-in-beer software? Andrew Ruscica wrote: ... Why the Public Domain Isn't a License (Linux Journal) http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225 From the article: ... Unfortunately, such gifts are illusory. Under basic

Re: Postfix(chroot) and Postgresql

2007-11-30 Thread Bengt Frost
Thanks, Not sure if this mail is showing in correct thread - lost your mail att google server. On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:15:29PM +, Craig Skinner wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:33:04PM +0100, Bengt Frost wrote: Someone out there have any suggestions how use Postfix (and Dovecot)

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Jake Conk wrote: I have to keep coming here each couple of days to check if that is full and delete them. My question is, is this normal and I just created my /var mount too small? I think the fact that my pflog is that big is the actual problem, does anyone know of a way to fix this? Well,

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread NetOne - Doichin Dokov
Jake Conk P=P0P?P8QP0: Hello, I have my /var partitioned out to be 150mb which I thought was a enough but every 2-3 days it gets full because I end up with a pflog file that is ridiculously large! Right now I have one that is 53.6mb and I have gotten them larger like 100mb +!! Because of this

Update RAIDFrame-Enabled ISO for 4.2

2007-11-30 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Updated diff, ISO image, build instructions. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~seklecki/obsd_wRAIDFrame.html Note: There's a small problem with my regex in install.sub that prevents scanning of RAIDFrame boot lines in dmesg.boot. The work-around from the bsd.rd shell is to: $ export

Listing of family practice doctors and 34 more specialties

2007-11-30 Thread baptismal Lawrence
Here is the package deal we're running for this week Board Certified Doctors in the USA 788,035 in total * 17,693 emails Featuring coverage for more than 30 specialties like Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Opthalmology, Anesthesiologists, Cardiologists and more 16 different sortable

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Bryan Irvine
No, I think you missed the point of the article. It's trying to say that you retain copyright like a sticky booger. Merely saying 'this stuff is in public domain now' is not enough to make it so. Strangely, it appears that you have no right put something in the public domain, it just happens 70

Re: VPN Concentrator

2007-11-30 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users or give them an ip from our main dhcp server via a bridge. That's a tall order. In Cisco-land

pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Jake Conk
Hello, I have my /var partitioned out to be 150mb which I thought was a enough but every 2-3 days it gets full because I end up with a pflog file that is ridiculously large! Right now I have one that is 53.6mb and I have gotten them larger like 100mb +!! Because of this my /var partition fills up

Re: Postfix(chroot) and Postgresql

2007-11-30 Thread Bengt Frost
Ok, Efficiency can sometimes be important. Had no idea about this solution - have to figure out how to do it. Thanks! Is OpenLDAP something to consider. --bfrost Genadijus Paleckis wrote: Instead of that I would recommend you to use DB files generated at regular intervals instead of

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Jake Conk wrote: Hello, I have my /var partitioned out to be 150mb which I thought was a You're probably getting a lot of log hits on a default block log all at the end of your rules. You can prevent a lot of crud by doing block quicks w/o log statements for the

Re: Postfix(chroot) and Postgresql

2007-11-30 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:33:04PM +0100, Bengt Frost wrote: Someone out there have any suggestions how use Postfix (and Dovecot) with PostgreSQL? Pull the user data from PostgreSQL and generate the files: /etc/sasldb2.db (copy to /var/spool/postfix/etc postfix reload) /etc/cram-md5.pwd

Re: Postfix(chroot) and Postgresql

2007-11-30 Thread Bengt Frost
*Addition* to above: In pg_hba.conf (PosgreSQL): vmail(user) access to datab with md5 password local(and host) --bfrost Bengt Frost wrote: Hi, I am trying to use PostgreSQL as a backend for my Postfix virtual mail system and dovecot(psql) for smtp-auth. 'Postfix' is chrooted - most of it -

Is the tree borked, or am I?

2007-11-30 Thread STeve Andre'
The last time I built -current was Nov 22. Now I can't build the kernel. Yes, I've made the change to config ala the upgrade FAQ. I've gotten a new /usr/src/sys thinking that CVS messed up somehow, but that didn't change anything. I'm doing the standard make clean ; make depend ; make

Re: OpenBSD version / build question

2007-11-30 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Patrick, Patrick Smith wrote on Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:50:48AM -0800: I'm upgrading a server from OpenBSD 4.1 to 4.2 and there are a number of servers that have been done already. 'uname -a' tells me that they are: OpenBSD hostname 4.2 GENERIC#375 i386 OpenBSD hostname 4.2 GENERIC#410

Postfix(chroot) and Postgresql

2007-11-30 Thread Bengt Frost
Hi, I am trying to use PostgreSQL as a backend for my Postfix virtual mail system and dovecot(psql) for smtp-auth. 'Postfix' is chrooted - most of it - and with MySQL socket there is no problem to auth users and use Postfix transport_maps and virtual_*_maps. I have problem with postgresql

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Marco Peereboom wrote: I will dig my x4100 out of storage any day now. Last time I used it it was stable on i386 and amd64. Only amd64.mp is not stable ( and only in writing to the disk) , amd64 is stable as well as either i386 kernel are stable. And in case it does make a difference, it's

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Pieter Verberne
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:45:02PM -0500, Andrew Ruscica wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:27:32AM -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote: Dan Bernstein has placed qmail 1.03 into the public domain (see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html). Might be worthwhile reading this (from a US legal perspective

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Please note that postfix does not undergo the rigorous code scrub that sendmail goes through. [...] Will you please cut the crap? Thank you. Unlike Sendmail, Postfix was written from scratch with security in mind. It had only one published security flaw since its first public release

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-30 Thread Marco Peereboom
I will dig my x4100 out of storage any day now. Last time I used it it was stable on i386 and amd64. On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:51:00PM +1000, David Gwynne wrote: this diff cannot affect the behavior of your system. the code below deals with domain validation on SPI mpi variants while the

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Liviu Daia
On 30 November 2007, Geoff Steckel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liviu Daia wrote: On 30 November 2007, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that postfix does not undergo the rigorous code scrub that sendmail goes through. [...] Will you please cut the crap? Thank

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Ruscica
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:27:32AM -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote: Dan Bernstein has placed qmail 1.03 into the public domain (see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html). Might be worthwhile reading this (from a US legal perspective at least): Why the Public Domain Isn't a License (Linux Journal)

OpenBSD version / build question

2007-11-30 Thread patrimith
Hi List! I'm upgrading a server from OpenBSD 4.1 to 4.2 and there are a number of servers that have been done already. 'uname -a' tells me that they are: OpenBSD hostname 4.2 GENERIC#375 i386 OpenBSD hostname 4.2 GENERIC#410 i386 OpenBSD hostname 4.2 GENERIC#468 i386 375, 410, 468: Are these

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Geoff Steckel
Liviu Daia wrote: On 30 November 2007, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that postfix does not undergo the rigorous code scrub that sendmail goes through. [...] Will you please cut the crap? Thank you. Unlike Sendmail, Postfix was written from scratch with

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Antti, Except that when doing package upgrade with pkg_add the sendmail configuration (in mailer.conf) will be restored and it won't be re-enabled until manually doing postfix-enable. You have a point there. To me, however, this falls under the 'no magic' clause. I try to use as many

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread STeve Andre'
On Friday 30 November 2007 10:50:09 Gregory Edigarov wrote: Pete Vickers wrote: In case it's needed (which I doubt), I'll voice my VERY strongly preference for sendmail instead of all these other pretenders. I agree. Please do not remove sendmail. it is the most advanced opensourced

Re: Performance problem with CF card on AMD CS5536 IDE

2007-11-30 Thread Don Jackson
Here are some results using the Lexar Professional UDMA 300x CF drives. My favorite CF-IDE and CF-SATA converters are from Addonics http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/adidecf.asp Here are some typical boot messages from one of my servers with the Lexar/Addonics combo: wd0 at

How can I get alarms about my arc/Areca raid controller?

2007-11-30 Thread Don Jackson
Hello, I have an Opteron machine running OpenBSD 4.2/amd64 I have an Areca ARC-1110 RAID controller in this machine. I'd like to be able to query or get notified of alarms on the raid controller, how can I do that? I can do: # bioctl -v -q sd0 sd0: Areca, ARC-1110-VOL#00, R001, serial

Re: Machine will not recover from 'deep sleep' state [ IBM Thinkpad T41 ]

2007-11-30 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Hi, I am having the same issue. Have you succeed at waking up the video? Pau 2007/11/7, Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Nov 6, 2007 5:34 AM, Mark Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I close the lid on this laptop ( Thinkpad T41 ) the machine goes into a deep sleep but will not recover

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Ralph Gessner
Matthew Dempsky schrieb: Is there any interest in replacing sendmail with it to remove another component from the src/gnu/ hierarchy? No. In ports yes, in base no. I don't see any advantage switching from sendmail to qmail. ...and yes, i know qmail. It was the first mailserver i get in

Great posters !

2007-11-30 Thread Gabriel Linder
Nope, this is not a spam ;) We ordered posters some time ago and they just appeared in a wall near me, I now have a Puffy watching my code and roaring if I use strcpy ;) Posters are great and high quality, thank you OpenBSD !

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Steve Shockley
Antti Harri wrote: Except that when doing package upgrade with pkg_add the sendmail configuration (in mailer.conf) will be restored and it won't be re-enabled until manually doing postfix-enable. At least it used to be like that, correct me if the pkgtools has the needed features nowadays to

Re: Trouble with LSI Megaraid 8204/8208XLP in 4.2

2007-11-30 Thread Marco Peereboom
LSI decided to make non raid cards use the same marketing name as actual raid cards. Very nasty of them. We currently do not support fake raid (driver assisted) cards. On a positive note we are debating on how to possibly support some of these in the future. If anyone is familiar with metadata

Re: ilo (ipmi) and serial console redirection

2007-11-30 Thread Steve Shockley
Markus Hennecke wrote: Doesn't the bootloader number the com ports from zero on? AFAIR I could set the bootloader on a DL 385 to use the ILO com port via setting up com1 in boot.conf. This is a few month since I did that and I have no physical access to that machine now, so I can't look at it

Re: VPN Concentrator

2007-11-30 Thread visc
On 30-Nov-07, at 2:13 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users or give them an ip from our main dhcp server via a bridge. If I have say a mac user at home

Re: Where/how can I set the flags for savecore during boot?

2007-11-30 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:19:37AM -0800, Don Jackson wrote: When I boot the machine, I see: root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b I guess the kernel devaults to wd0b for swap and dump? it defaults to root disk, partition b (wd0b for you). But later in the boot messages I see:

Re: cbb0: controller is missing in dmesg

2007-11-30 Thread Rob Lytle
I cvsup'd today and saw that /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pccbb.c had been changed. I turned on all the bugging code I could, and I get in the dmesg cbb0: controller is missing. Yet right above it in the dmesg is says cbb0 at pci6 dev 4 function 0 TIPCIXX12 Cardbus I was wondering if there is

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Pete Vickers
In case it's needed (which I doubt), I'll voice my VERY strongly preference for sendmail instead of all these other pretenders. /Pete On 30 Nov 2007, at 10:25 AM, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On 11/30/07, Peter Hessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being said, its really easy to install qmail

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Pete Vickers wrote: In case it's needed (which I doubt), I'll voice my VERY strongly preference for sendmail instead of all these other pretenders. I agree. Please do not remove sendmail. it is the most advanced opensourced mailer, I do strongly prefer it. -- With best regards, Gregory

ral-rt2860 wireless mini-pci

2007-11-30 Thread Bret
Greetings I am trying to use the SparkLan WMIR-215GN in a Soekris 5501. The mini-pci is not seen as a rt2860 chipset. The dmesg follows: OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28 10:38:44 MDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by

X2100, no mgmt card, no sensors

2007-11-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
Can anyone think of a better fix than disable ipmi to make sensors start showing up again on a (non-M2) X2100 without the management card? Unfortunately I don't have a spare X2100 and I'm a bit limited with what I can try on these ones. Two dmesg follow (one from October, and one from another box

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Liviu Daia
On 30 November 2007, Amarendra Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that postfix does not undergo the rigorous code scrub that sendmail goes through. [...] Will you please cut the crap? Thank you. Unlike Sendmail, Postfix was written from scratch with security in mind. It had

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:16:37AM +0100, Pieter Verberne wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:15:34AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/11/30 10:41, Lars Noodin wrote: qmail never had a license - now it's in the public domain it's allowed to distribute it, but I don't like to imagine

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Eric Ziegast
Frans Haarman wrote: Did he change his djbdns license as well !? From the Google Video (http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Bernstein+releases+code+public+domain)... After talking about shortcomings of BSD/GNU licensing... ... as a result of seeing this mess for some decades and thinking

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 11:26:47AM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: sendmail is the only one of them beeing BSD-licensed. Sendmail *used* to be BSD-licensed. There *is* a reason it got moved to .../gnu/... in the source tree even if its current license isn't exactly gpl. But its current license

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Pieter Verberne
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:15:34AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/11/30 10:41, Lars Noodin wrote: qmail never had a license - now it's in the public domain it's allowed to distribute it, but I don't like to imagine what misc@ would look like after the following release if it was to

Re: Configuring sendmail openbsd 4.2

2007-11-30 Thread Khalid Schofield
Ok definetly working now. It would be good to tweak the config a little more but it's accepting incoming and dealing with outgoing mail properly so I'm happy. thanks for all the help to everyone to replied. On 29 Nov 2007, at 23:50, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Frans Haarman
On Nov 30, 2007 9:38 AM, Matthew Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Ugh, I wish I had noticed this message a few minutes earlier.) On 11/29/07, Tobias Weisserth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to point out that D.J. Bernstein has put qmail in public domain. I'm not implying anything

Re: Strange em(4) issues

2007-11-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/30 09:57, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 20:47:57 Nov 29, Stuart Henderson wrote: Been there, done that. If you use plaintext protocols (ftp or so) over the interface, you'll see random corruption visible in the data (e.g. directory listings). At 133MHz there's some

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Nov 30, 2007 8:30 AM, Juan Miscaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to do away with sendmail as much as possible. I prefer postfix. Now I know that the sendmail binary is entwined with the system's internals but is there any way to completely get rid of it? I see that some

Re: restore hanging on an unusual file name

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Toohey
On 29/11/2007, at 9:21 PM, Richard Toohey wrote: On 21/11/2007, at 10:48 PM, Otto Moerbeek wrote: I think dump should 'vis' the filenames it prints. -Otto [cut] (Just done some more testing before posting and realized that I have only looked at verbose mode ls, so still got

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Frans Haarman
On Nov 30, 2007 9:27 AM, Matthew Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Bernstein has placed qmail 1.03 into the public domain (see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html). Is there any interest in replacing sendmail with it to remove another component from the src/gnu/ hierarchy? This would be very

Re: cbb0: controller is missing in dmesg

2007-11-30 Thread Miod Vallat
I cvsup'd today and saw that /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/pccbb.c had been changed. I turned on all the bugging code I could, and I get in the dmesg cbb0: controller is missing. Yet right above it in the dmesg is says cbb0 at pci6 dev 4 function 0 TIPCIXX12 Cardbus I was wondering if there

Re: [plz. help] constant attack from: 201.244.17.162, 222.231.60.88, 82.207.116.209....

2007-11-30 Thread Craig Skinner
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 06:56:51PM -0800, badeguruji wrote: I just discovered by chance that, someone is constantly trying to break into my openbsd box from: My box is behind router-NAT which is allowing ssh. Try something like this, drops ssh connections from IPs that try more than 5 times

Re: ilo (ipmi) and serial console redirection

2007-11-30 Thread holger glaess
hi of cause , i try to setup com2 but the system says at bootpromt com port is not aviable , but if the kernel already loaded the com port is aviable. there is no setting options at the bios to change the com port from the ipmi board. holger -Urspr|ngliche Nachricht- Von: Stijn [EMAIL

Re: VPN Concentrator

2007-11-30 Thread Jason Dixon
On Dec 1, 2007, at 12:37 AM, visc wrote: On 30-Nov-07, at 2:13 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users or give them an ip from our main dhcp server via

Re: Is the tree borked, or am I?

2007-11-30 Thread STeve Andre'
On Friday 30 November 2007 15:15:52 STeve Andre' wrote: The last time I built -current was Nov 22. Now I can't build the kernel. Yes, I've made the change to config ala the upgrade FAQ. I've gotten a new /usr/src/sys thinking that CVS messed [snip] Never mind -- I am. Another machine

Re: ral-rt2860 wireless mini-pci

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Melameth
On 11/30/07, Bret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to use the SparkLan WMIR-215GN in a Soekris 5501. The mini-pci is not seen as a rt2860 chipset. The dmesg follows: OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC) #375: Tue Aug 28 10:38:44 MDT 2007 I believe initial work for the rt2860 chipset is only in

Questions about bioctl and arc/Areca

2007-11-30 Thread Don Jackson
Hello, I am have an Opteron machine running OpenBSD 4.2/amd64. This machine has an Areca AC-1110 raid controller. Among other things, I would like to either query or ideally be notified if the controller goes into alarm. How can I do that? I can do: # bioctl -v -q sd0 sd0: Areca,

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/11/30 01:56, Tobias Weisserth wrote: sendmail (GNU GPL) Despite being in /usr/src/gnu, Sendmail is not GPL. qmail's security record is better and many OpenBSD users prefer it to sendmail. And many don't. Maybe it's time to put it back into ports, though.

Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi everybody, I just wanted to point out that D.J. Bernstein has put qmail in public domain. I'm not implying anything but wouldn't it be a perfect opportunity to get rid of sendmail (GNU GPL) and have qmail as the standard MTA in OpenBSD? qmail's security record is better and many OpenBSD users

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Henning Brauer
* Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-30 10:07]: Tobias Weisserth wrote: ... I just wanted to point out that D.J. Bernstein has put qmail in public domain. ... I'm curious about why sendmail was chosen to be in the default setup over Postfix, Exim or qmail. These all have improved

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Lars Noodén
Tobias Weisserth wrote: ... I just wanted to point out that D.J. Bernstein has put qmail in public domain. ... I'm curious about why sendmail was chosen to be in the default setup over Postfix, Exim or qmail. These all have improved a lot and it may be time for a re-evaluation. -Lars

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On 11/30/07, Peter Hessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being said, its really easy to install qmail yourself and have it replace the in-tree sendmail (see mailer.conf). Right, and maybe for a future OpenBSD release you could swap the placement of sendmail and qmail in that sentence. :-) To

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread Peter Hessler
qmail has a seperate set of problems beyond its license. That being said, its really easy to install qmail yourself and have it replace the in-tree sendmail (see mailer.conf). On 2007 Nov 30 (Fri) at 00:27:32 -0800 (-0800), Matthew Dempsky wrote: :Dan Bernstein has placed qmail 1.03 into the

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Juan, Am I making any sense? Not to me. But it depends on your situation. Should I do anything special to sendmail when I install postfix? No. Just follow the instructions after installing postfix. And what of the postfix-enable command? Is this good enough? Almost. Apply the

PCI ID rules to be included in pcidevs

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Quick question on the rules of this if I may. What's the rules, kind of used to determine when new PCI ID can be put in the pcidevs in the tree? If I find new ID's, do they need to be verify by users first, etc? In looking at my SAS problem, I find that Symbios Logic may have 0x0066 Symbios

VPN Concentrator

2007-11-30 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users or give them an ip from our main dhcp server via a bridge. If I have say a mac user at home wanting to connect into my network using the

Re: VPN Concentrator

2007-11-30 Thread Lars Noodén
Khalid Schofield wrote: ... How would I know which is better to use ... Definitely not PPTP: http://www.vpnc.org/vpn-standards.html IPsec or SSL seems

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-11-30 Thread Lars Hansson
On Nov 30, 2007 6:16 PM, Pieter Verberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just before it was in public domain: Did someone asked the author if it was accepted to put a BSD-like license on it? He allowed us to share and modify the software but had no official document about is (a license). I think he

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Antti Harri
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Nico Meijer wrote: And what of the postfix-enable command? Is this good enough? Almost. Apply the changes to rc.conf.local and root's crontab and you're good to go. Any upgrade can then be like any other regular upgrade; nothing to worry about. No magic. Except that

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 not booting on alix2c2

2007-11-30 Thread baldoni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alix board is straight out of the box - with whichever bios PC Engines had on it when it was shipped out a week ago. try a different bios, there have been 6 new versions so far this month. Thanks for your help.

Re: Replace sendmail with qmail?

2007-11-30 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:27:32AM -0800, Matthew Dempsky said that Dan Bernstein has placed qmail 1.03 into the public domain (see http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html). Is there any interest in replacing sendmail with it to remove another component from the src/gnu/ hierarchy? everyone

Where/how can I set the flags for savecore during boot?

2007-11-30 Thread Don Jackson
I'm running OpenBSD 4.2/amd64 on an Opteron machine. I boot off of wd0, which is a flash disk. I also have sd0, which I use for more frequently writable partitons (swap, var, tmp, etc) (sdo is really a set of raid disks managed by an areca disk controller) Here is my /etc/fstab: # more

Re: OpenBSD version / build question

2007-11-30 Thread Greg Thomas
I believe #375 is RELEASE from Aug 28 2007, that's what's in /pub/OpenBSD/4.2/i386. Don't know where you're getting the others from, snapshots? It'd be nice if you mentioned your upgrade steps. On Nov 30, 2007 10:50 AM, patrimith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List! I'm upgrading a server from

Re: Postfix(chroot) and Postgresql

2007-11-30 Thread Genadijus Paleckis
Instead of that I would recommend you to use DB files generated at regular intervals instead of 'online' access to postgresql. It is less CPU expensive and much faster. But if you wish to use SQL maps I guess you may want to use 127.0.0.1 instead of local socket and of course you need to

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Jake Conk
On Nov 30, 2007 7:47 PM, NetOne - Doichin Dokov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jake Conk P=P0P?P8Q P0: Hello, I have my /var partitioned out to be 150mb which I thought was a enough but every 2-3 days it gets full because I end up with a pflog file that is ridiculously large! Right now I

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Richard Toohey
On 1/12/2007, at 7:23 PM, Jake Conk wrote: Thanks guys for your replies... I'll try to cut down on the all the useless logging I'm doing but when I opened the log files up to see what was inside them I only saw all this binary stuff. I assume thats not what's supposed to be in the pflogs right?

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Jake Conk wrote: Thanks guys for your replies... I'll try to cut down on the all the useless logging I'm doing but when I opened the log files up to see what was inside them I only saw all this binary stuff. I assume thats not what's supposed to be in the pflogs right? Any ideas why I'm getting

Re: VPN Concentrator

2007-11-30 Thread Scott Learmonth
On 30-Nov-07, at 9:57 PM, Jason Dixon wrote: On Dec 1, 2007, at 12:37 AM, visc wrote: On 30-Nov-07, at 2:13 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Ivan Hudiakov
Brian A. Seklecki ?: On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Jake Conk wrote: Hello, I have my /var partitioned out to be 150mb which I thought was a You're probably getting a lot of log hits on a default block log all at the end of your rules. You can prevent a lot of crud by doing block quicks w/o log