Re: [ot] Security question from 2004 MCS 494

2006-06-04 Thread Alexander Hall
Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: One possibility is that between the first ls -l and the rm that joe changed just-testing to a symlink to /etc. However, I think this attack scenario relies too much on joe's ability to blindly predict when the sysadmin is about to run rm. We do not know if joe

Crypto Partition Problem

2006-06-04 Thread Rott_En
Hello I had a power failure yesterday morning and because of that my server went down because of no battery present. When trying to mount the crypto partitions, I have figured out its not possible anymore because a set of 2 errors, as follows: # sh cryptfs -m -p /home -f

RAID on 3.9 hangs

2006-06-04 Thread Simon Vallet
Hi, I'm just in the process of upgrading to 3.9 from a root-on-RAID 3.8 -stable install. I fetched the sources from the CD, built a RAID-enabled kernel, and rebooted : the kernel hangs after issuing Kernelized RAIDframe activated and won't go further. Browsing through the archives, I notice this

Re: Crypto Partition Problem

2006-06-04 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:07:22AM -0700, Rott_En wrote: # Important Note: Under OpenBSD's current encrypted vnd filesystem # implementation, when a system with a mounted, encrypted vnd filesystem # is shutdown uncleanly, the encrypted vnd filesystem's structures get # damaged and, since

Re: malloc option 'G'

2006-06-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/3/06, Kroty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm running OpenBSD 3.9 and I have a program that is giving some unexpected output. But, if I run it with MALLOC_OPTIONS=G, I works fine. What does it mean? I've read the malloc(3) manpage, but I don't quite understand what the G option does.

opencvs after c2k6

2006-06-04 Thread Joris Vink
I thought it might be nice to give some details about what state opencvs is in after the hackathon. the best way to do this is probably with some examples. so here goes: we need a repository to test on, lets import it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/misctest opencvs -d ~/test/repo import -m initial

Re: MAC - IP - MAC

2006-06-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/3/06, Gaby vanhegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 Jun 2006, at 17:03, Clint M. Sand wrote: So all I have to do is *TRY* to login as you on another machine and your original legit connection is dropped? Think about this. Only successful logins would update the IP associated with that

Re: RAID on 3.9 hangs

2006-06-04 Thread Simon Vallet
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:09:03 +0200 Mitja Muenih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I even tried to replicate the problem locally on supposedly same hardware (HP Compaq dc5100 + 2x SATA HDDs) but here I couldn't get it to hang on raidframe. I did manage to consistently hang it by enabling the front two

Re: MAC - IP - MAC

2006-06-04 Thread Gaby vanhegan
On 4 Jun 2006, at 15:55, Nick Guenther wrote: Being more restrictive will just end up being a pain. For example, maybe two friends want to share a connection, so the first gets on and then after a bit passes it off to the second who changes their IP and MAC to match, but then bam, they can't

ultra-slow filesystem on mp

2006-06-04 Thread Christian Pedaschus
Hi list, i'm about to install a webapplication on my obsd test system and noticed that copying/deleting lots of small files (50.000 files with 150mb) is very slow, around 50kb/sec. The system does nothing else, cpu-load is 99% idle and 100% idle, but system load is around 3-4 when deleting and

Re: malloc option 'G'

2006-06-04 Thread Kroty
Nick Guenther wrote: On 6/3/06, Kroty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm running OpenBSD 3.9 and I have a program that is giving some unexpected output. But, if I run it with MALLOC_OPTIONS=G, I works fine. What does it mean? I've read the malloc(3) manpage, but I don't quite understand

Re: malloc option 'G'

2006-06-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/4/06, Kroty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: On 6/3/06, Kroty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Hi, thanks for your reply. I've run the program with MALLOC_OPTIONS=AFPG and it doesn't crash at all. In fact, it works fine if I run it with the G, but if I run it with g, it

Re: Xen/OpenBSD Summer of Code project

2006-06-04 Thread Anil Madhavapeddy
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 05:23:53PM +0200, Dries Schellekens wrote: Peter Blair wrote: Are you saying that OpenBSD is targetted as a Dom0 OS? I couldn't tell from the above mentioned links. No, I think the goal is to run OpenBSD as DomU. It seems NetBSD can run in Dom0, so OpenBSD could

Re: ultra-slow filesystem on mp

2006-06-04 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 05:25:36PM +0200, Christian Pedaschus wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't hijack threads. /dev/sd0e on /var type ffs (local, nodev) http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates

carp preempt not working

2006-06-04 Thread Chad M Stewart
I'm trying to debug why when I take either carp interface (only 2 in a 2 pair fw) not all carp interfaces fail over. Only that interface switches. If I take one of the physical interfaces down, both carp interfaces switch over. fw1 - # uname -a OpenBSD sabus 3.9 GENERIC#617 i386 #

Re: ultra-slow filesystem on mp

2006-06-04 Thread Christian Pedaschus
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 05:25:36PM +0200, Christian Pedaschus wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please don't hijack threads. won't happen again, sorry.

[Patch] RAID on 3.9 hangs

2006-06-04 Thread Simon Vallet
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:59:30 +0200 Simon Vallet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dmesg and the console output with RAIDDEBUG enabled follow -- it appears the two RAID members are indeed recognized, but they somehow can't be mounted as the root dev. After some crude debugging, I was able to identify

openbsd on virtual machine

2006-06-04 Thread akonsu
hello, this is just to share my experience running the os on a vmware player. may be it will be of use to these like me who has hardware which is not yet suppported completely. for example, i do not have any support for wireless yet on my laptop, and i have to use windows for work, so dual boot

Re: ultra-slow filesystem on mp

2006-06-04 Thread Christian Pedaschus
Matthias Kilian wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#SoftUpdates that did the trick, thank you i was a bit too fast with replying. deleting is very fast now, but copying still takes forever, 11minutes for 150mb... any more thoughts?

Re: Crypto Partition Problem

2006-06-04 Thread Stephen Takacs
Juha Erkkila wrote: i don't think this is true. just use vnconfig to attach a file to svnd0, and then do fsck /dev/rsvnd0c (maybe take a backup first?) OTOH, whether that works may depend on the disklabel on /dev/rsvnd0c, but at least i do this routinely in a similar script as yours, before

Re: How to enable hw crypto?

2006-06-04 Thread Breen Ouellette
Theo de Raadt wrote: I thought my mail was clear enough. Not necessarily. This thread was originally about the Hifn 7956 whereas my interest is in the 7955. You stated that about a year ago Hifn policies changed and that they decided they would no longer provide documentation. I know the

Multiprocessors load measurements

2006-06-04 Thread Federico Giannici
I have just switched to a multiprocessing kernel (3.9-stable i386) with a dual core Athlon 64. I noticed that top command now have two CPUx rows, one for each CPU. But iostat has only one cpu column. Question 1: are the iostat's cpu values a mean of the values of both CPUs? Regarding the

Re: Xen/OpenBSD Summer of Code project

2006-06-04 Thread Breen Ouellette
Anil Madhavapeddy wrote: The eventual plan is to get dom0 support in OpenBSD; we'll see how long it takes. Out of curiousity, do you know how the GPL licence of Xen affects dom0 support in OpenBSD? Breeno

Re: Multiprocessors load measurements

2006-06-04 Thread Tony Abernethy
Federico Giannici wrote: I have just switched to a multiprocessing kernel (3.9-stable i386) with a dual core Athlon 64. I noticed that top command now have two CPUx rows, one for each CPU. But iostat has only one cpu column. Question 1: are the iostat's cpu values a mean of the values of

Re: openbsd on virtual machine

2006-06-04 Thread knitti
On 6/4/06, akonsu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also, i think there is a way to run this machine from a raw disk instead of a virtual disk. there is a discussion about using raw disks on the vmware.com site. but as they say booting a VM from a raw disk and also being able to boot your physical

Have a laugh

2006-06-04 Thread Rod.. Whitworth
Note the fourth question. http://www.newsforge.com/articles/06/05/30/152219.shtml?tid=149 From the land down under: Australia. Do we look umop apisdn from up over? Do NOT CC me - I am subscribed to the list. Replies to the sender address will fail except from the list-server.

Re: openbsd on virtual machine

2006-06-04 Thread akonsu
thanks. how did you achieve this? i downloaded an evaluation copy of vmware workstation, created a machine with a raw disk pointing to my openbsd partition but it won't boot. it says that there were no bootable drives found. konstantin booting openbsd on a real partition both from bios and from

DS21140(Tulip) Quad port nic and PF

2006-06-04 Thread Justin Blackmore
Hello everyone, Ok here the deal, I have a test box with obsd 3.9 stable with a Adaptec ANA-6944A/TX 4 port network card(PCI). I copied the pf configs from the production firewall box (identical to my test box but it has intel nics) and tweaked it to reflect the new 4 port nic, well all looks

Re: DS21140(Tulip) Quad port nic and PF

2006-06-04 Thread Michael Scheliga
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Blackmore Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:36 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: DS21140(Tulip) Quad port nic and PF Hello everyone, Ok here the deal, I have a test box with obsd 3.9 stable

Re: DS21140(Tulip) Quad port nic and PF

2006-06-04 Thread Justin Blackmore
Did you remember to uncomment: net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf? Mike net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 in /etc/sysctl.conf? Yes this has been uncommented -Justin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Justin Blackmore Sent: Sunday,

OT: quiet fans and heatsinks

2006-06-04 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
i've got a few machines that have heatsinks and fans which are effective but very loud. i would like to get some heatsinks and fans that are quiet, reliable and reasonably priced. this has become a priority now that i've moved one of these machines to my home and keep it in my bedroom. these

Re: Does Lenovo suck ?

2006-06-04 Thread Rott_En
I have a Lenovo R51e and I can tell you that the hardware is 100% compatible with almost all live CD *nix distributions, no problem at all. I am very satisfied of this product because it is robust and fair, battery life is good and hardware seems to be largely supported. Cheers! Uwe Dippel

Problems with dvd+rw-tools and UDF

2006-06-04 Thread Martín Coco
Hi misc, I have, apparently, some sort of problem when burning DVDs with dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8 using UDF on OpenBSD 3.8. The DVDs are burned, but when I check them with tar (to list its contents for example) I get invalid header errors. Also, when checking the txt index file I also

Re: OT: quiet fans and heatsinks

2006-06-04 Thread Jean-Jacques Roh
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i've got a few machines that have heatsinks and fans which are effective but very loud. i would like to get some heatsinks and fans that are quiet, reliable and reasonably priced. this has become a priority now that i've moved one of these machines to my home and keep it