Re: Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation

> Since X is just contained in a .tgz file, just mount the CD (or > whatever other install media you used) and do something like: > $su > #cd / > #tar -zxvf /path/to/install/sets/x* > #exit > $startx Don't forget the 'p' flag in there, when dealing with install sets: tar zxvpf /path/to/install/se

Re: OpenBSD todo list?

On 4/10/06, Shawn Nock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A quick search of the archive and google didn't turn anything up, so > I'll ask here. rewrite units. it can convert euros to dollars at an awesome rate of 94 cents per euro, but can't convert temperature. > Is there (if not could there be) a do

Re: Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation

tar -zxpf permissions are important -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Guenther Sent: 12 April 2006 04:21 To: OpenBSD-Misc Subject: Re: Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation On 4/12/06, Andrew Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

heads up about filesystem troubles

As part of the work to integrate FFS2 support, there have been several changes to the filesystem code. Unfortunately, there are cases where it may cause data corruption. The problematic change was altering the format of the on disk superblock. FFS2 uses a slightly different superblock than FFS1

Re: Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation

On 4/12/06, Andrew Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > understand that there are options to select xbase, game etcs during > OpenBSD installation. Can I install these options, (particularly X) > post-install same as the standard install, and not for Ports or other > methods? I would not want to

Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation

Hi, understand that there are options to select xbase, game etcs during OpenBSD installation. Can I install these options, (particularly X) post-install same as the standard install, and not for Ports or other methods? I would not want to re-install the system unless necessary. Appreciate any help

Re: Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation

Andrew Ng wrote: Hi, understand that there are options to select xbase, game etcs during OpenBSD installation. Can I install these options, (particularly X) post-install same as the standard install, and not for Ports or other methods? I would not want to re-install the system unless necessary.

Installing X after OpenBSD 3.8 installation

Hi, understand that there are options to select xbase, game etcs during OpenBSD installation. Can I install these options, (particularly X) post-install same as the standard install, and not for Ports or other methods? I would not want to re-install the system unless necessary. Appreciate any help

Re: Strange rxvt/xterm behavior

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:20:31PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > On 4/11/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:54:50PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > > > Dear friends, > > > > > > i am running two xterm. When i run from any of them the "w" command i got > > >

Re: Strange rxvt/xterm behavior

Excuse, but this is already accomplished by my .Xdefaults file. On 4/11/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:54:50PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > > Dear friends, > > > > i am running two xterm. When i run from any of them the "w" command i got > > this: > >

Re: spamd not logging to /var/log/spamd

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:42:09PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > ---My modifications to syslog.conf--- > !spamd > daemon.err;daemon.warn;daemon.info /var/log/spamd > when you: $ sed -ne '/spamd/l' /etc/syslog.conf do you have !spamd\n$ daemon.err;daemon.warn;daemon.

Re: spamd not logging to /var/log/spamd

At 06:42 PM 4/11/06, Bryan Irvine wrote: I think I just need a second pair of eyes because I'm obviously missing something. I've just installed a new firewall, and i'm trying to get spamd to log to /var/log/spamd. Did you 'touch' the file? You need to create the file yourself.

Re: spamd not logging to /var/log/spamd

On 4/12/06, Bryan Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed a new firewall, and i'm trying to get spamd to log > to /var/log/spamd. Have you SIGHUP'ed the syslogd process? It should re-read its configuration file at that point, using your new configuration. > !spamd > daemon.err;da

[solved] spamd not logging to /var/log/spamd

the problem was here: > ---My modifications to syslog.conf--- > !spamd > daemon.err;daemon.warn;daemon.info /var/log/spamd When I started syslog with syslogd -d I saw this error: syslogd: unknown priority name "info /var/log/spamd" I double checked and b

spamd not logging to /var/log/spamd

I think I just need a second pair of eyes because I'm obviously missing something. I've just installed a new firewall, and i'm trying to get spamd to log to /var/log/spamd. It *does* log to /var/log/daemon though, and the greylisting daemon is working fine. fire:/var/log#ls -al spamd -rw-r-

Re: Strange rxvt/xterm behavior

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:54:50PM -0300, Gustavo Rios wrote: > Dear friends, > > i am running two xterm. When i run from any of them the "w" command i got > this: > > $ tty && w > /dev/ttyp0 > 10:47PM up 8 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.88, 0.50, 0.23 > USERTTY FROM LOGIN@ I

Re: gcc miscompiles ntohs16() inline assembly in OpenBSD 3.8

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, chefren wrote: > On 04/11/06 11:39, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, chefren wrote: > > > On 04/05/06 02:07, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > > > > > > Actually I bet ntohs16 is violating C aliasing rules. > > > > > > Interesting, how do you figure that? > > > > The fol

Re: Privilege revocation and privilege separation choice.

Ted Unangst wrote: On 4/11/06, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the answer. So, what would be a very good example in the tree of a revoke one then. I love looking and studying the ntpd and bgpd code as it is a very clean and understandable one. Specially ntpd for a small app

Re: Privilege revocation and privilege separation choice.

On 4/11/06, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the answer. So, what would be a very good example in the tree > of a revoke one then. I love looking and studying the ntpd and bgpd code > as it is a very clean and understandable one. Specially ntpd for a small > application where

Re: Privilege revocation and privilege separation choice.

Adam wrote: I am trying to see the best way or choice in design between privilege revocation and privilege separation. Its just a question of wether it needs root initially for startup, and then never needs it again (revoke) or if it needs to keep doing stuff as root all the time (seperate).

Re: Privilege revocation and privilege separation choice.

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:50:11 -0400 Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to see the best way or choice in design between privilege > revocation and privilege separation. Its just a question of wether it needs root initially for startup, and then never needs it again (revoke) or

Re: gcc miscompiles ntohs16() inline assembly in OpenBSD 3.8

On 04/11/06 11:39, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, chefren wrote: On 04/05/06 02:07, Andrew Pinski wrote: Actually I bet ntohs16 is violating C aliasing rules. Interesting, how do you figure that? The following diff (backported from gcc PR

Privilege revocation and privilege separation choice.

I am trying to see the best way or choice in design between privilege revocation and privilege separation. A very simplistic explication of the application is, I have an application that I my putting together that provide network service from a daemon and that daemon gets data from a SQLite fi

Re: generic driver inclusion

Compile your own amd64 kernel with clcs enabled (copy the clcs and audio at clcs lines from i386 GENERIC) Test it, see if it work as well in amd64 mode as it does in i386 mode If so, file a PR or talk to someone who can enable clcs in amd64 GENERIC Tim Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm inter

Re: OpenBSD todo list?

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Shawn Nock wrote: > A quick search of the archive and google didn't turn anything up, so I'll ask > here. > > Is there (if not could there be) a document that describes portions of the > tree that particularly need attention? I am looking for a way to contribute > and without

Re: FAQ 10.11 disk quotas

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Frank Bax wrote: > I'm trying to follow along with FAQ 10.11 and it just doesn't seem to work > right for me. > > $ grep quota /etc/fstab > /dev/wd0g /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,userquota,groupquota 1 2 > > $ man edquota | grep -A1 one.second > should be imposed. Setting

FAQ 10.11 disk quotas

I'm trying to follow along with FAQ 10.11 and it just doesn't seem to work right for me. $ grep quota /etc/fstab /dev/wd0g /var ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,userquota,groupquota 1 2 $ man edquota | grep -A1 one.second should be imposed. Setting a grace period to one second indicates that no g

generic driver inclusion

I'm interested in getting the clcs audio driver included in the generic amd64 kernel, what is necessay to move this process forward? -- Tim Leslie Dept. Of Geography Arizona State University

Re: ADSL with pppoa (over ATM)

> The WAN allocated from the ISP's RADUIS server will be passed through > the DLink, via DHCP, to your NIC. > > If you aren't convinced, put a windows box with a DHCP NIC behind the > DLink while in bridge mode, and see it get a routable address. > > Try this: unplug the telephone wire, reboot the

using a 122-key keyboard with OpenBSD

Does anyone here have any experience using TN3270-style keyboards (such as http://www.pckeyboard.com/emulator.html) in OpenBSD? I'm thinking of starting to use them with the machines I build for enhanced functionality (vim would be fantastic with all of those keys, although I feel like an ueberner

Re: OpenBSD todo list?

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:25:55 -0700, Kent Watsen proclaimed... > Christmas in April? ;) A couple requests I recall seeing (*cough* > posting *cough*): > > - enable chroot-ed apps to dump core (this is an easy one) > - enable openbsd to run as a para-virtualized Xen guest (this is more > in

Re: OpenBSD todo list?

Christmas in April? ;) A couple requests I recall seeing (*cough* posting *cough*): - enable chroot-ed apps to dump core (this is an easy one) - enable openbsd to run as a para-virtualized Xen guest (this is more involved) Kent Shawn Nock wrote: A quick search of the archive and google

Re: Which Hardware for Firewall

Falk Husemann wrote: > Hello misc! > We're using OpenBSD on our Hardware since 2003 and have run our Firewall > on OpenBSD since that time too (always following -STABLE). > > Now the box i once built for that purpose has broken down and I'm in > need of a replacement I'll assemble myself again. The

Re: bash: home and end keys

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Martin Schrvder wrote: > On 2006-04-10 23:38:38 +0200, viq wrote: > > (usually running things in screen - though that doesn't seem to matter much) I > > just did "export TERM="xterm-xfree86"" and that didn't help... > > I use xterm and ssh. > > > The only result of pressing ho

Re: bash: home and end keys

On 2006-04-10 23:38:38 +0200, viq wrote: > (usually running things in screen - though that doesn't seem to matter much) > I > just did "export TERM="xterm-xfree86"" and that didn't help... I use xterm and ssh. > The only result of pressing home or end keys is ~ appearing where the cursor > is.

Re: bgpd, nexthop and dynamically created interfaces

On 11/04/06, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did find a bug. Not certain wethe rthis is what affects you. > We look at fields from rt_msghdr that the RTM_IFINFO messages do not > have - they use if_msghdr instead. We do abort on rtm->rtm_errno != 0, > but if_msghdr has no errno, so

Re: aliases with carp

* Falk Brockerhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-11 13:01]: > With carp implemented in FreeBSD 5.4 this doesn't works: this is not a freebsd ist. > "Master": > ifconfig_carp0="vhid 1 pass secretpassword 192.168.0.2 netmask > "Backup": > ifconfig_carp0="vhid 1 advskew 100 pass secretpasswort 192.

Re: bgpd, nexthop and dynamically created interfaces

I did find a bug. Not certain wethe rthis is what affects you. We look at fields from rt_msghdr that the RTM_IFINFO messages do not have - they use if_msghdr instead. We do abort on rtm->rtm_errno != 0, but if_msghdr has no errno, so we look at something in the data part instead. Surprising that

Re: aliases with carp

Am 10.04.2006 um 18:05 schrieb Simon Slaytor: inet 1.2.3.2 255.255.255.0 1.2.3.255 vhid 1 pass foo carpdev em0 inet alias 1.2.3.6 255.255.255.0 1.2.3.255 Try triming down your alias lines as see if that helps. Might be a shot in the dark but you never know. With carp implemented in FreeBSD

Re: PFlog

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:27:53PM +0100, Gaby vanhegan wrote: > On 10 Apr 2006, at 17:29, Joachim Schipper wrote: > > >> The only problem here is that I'm running 3.6 and pmacct requires > >> libpcap >= 0.6, and 0.3 is what I have. I can't do an upgrade at the > >> moment, there's too many varia

Re: Limiting userland RAM utilization

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 07:18:02PM -0700, Michael Favinsky wrote: > I have a userland process that once in a while goes haywire and starts > consuming lots of RAM. While I'm troubleshooting the problem, I need to set > up a way to limit this process's RAM consumption, to something along the > lines

Re: gcc miscompiles ntohs16() inline assembly in OpenBSD 3.8

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, chefren wrote: > On 04/05/06 02:07, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > > Actually I bet ntohs16 is violating C aliasing rules. > > > > So getting rid of GCC actually is wrong. Getting rid > > of these aliasing violations is the correct way. > > > > -- Pinski > > Interesting, how do

Re: OpenBSD todo list?

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:40:45AM -0401, Ray Lai wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 08:44:36PM -0700, Shawn Nock wrote: > > A quick search of the archive and google didn't turn anything up, so > > I'll ask here. > > > > Is there (if not could there be) a document that describes portions of > > th

sticker of transparant, white puffy hits Switzerland

Was also included in the 3.9 CD parcel I've received today! Aweseome, now the directors have to look at puffy everytime they enter my door ;) Thanks, guys. -- Stephan A. Rickauer --- Institut f|r Neuroinformatik Tel: +41 44 635