New safe C string library proposed by CERT

2006-06-17 Thread Henry Lenzi
Hi -- Though slightly OT, might be of interested. http://www.cert.org/secure-coding/managedstring.html

Cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Siju George
Hi all, Hope you will find this interesting :-) Haven't tried this out but am currently preparing a system for it. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/c4o/ Kind Regards -- Siju Oommen George, Network Consultant. HiFX IT MEDIA SERVICES PVT. LTD. http://www.hifx.net

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-17 Thread Breen Ouellette
Siju George wrote: I 've been told by people ( more than one ) off list how *uncivilized* it is to forward *private* mail publicly *even when it has some bad content*. I wouldn't sweat it too much. It would be one thing to bait him by first promising not to go public with his mail and _later_

Re: New safe C string library proposed by CERT

2006-06-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
Though slightly OT, might be of interested. http://www.cert.org/secure-coding/managedstring.html This is written by people who just don't understand the problem space or the solution space. Let me summarize; If people can't handle something as simple as C strings, don't try to shove

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Marc Balmer
* Han Boetes wrote: I've been working for quite some time now on an alternative package-manager for OpenBSD, and since things start working rather fine now I think it's time to let you guys know. this is about the most idiotic wast of time I ever heard of. what is wrong with our own package

pkg_add -u not working

2006-06-17 Thread atstake atstake
I have just upgraded from OpenBSD 3.8 - 3.9. I set my PKG_PATH to ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/ and did a pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends but it doesn't update all the packages instead just compare them. Here's the output - # pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends

harddisk clone

2006-06-17 Thread LinuxUser
Hi List, i manage to succeed in cloning openbsd harddisk by g4u . my trial is using copying a disk locally the command is very simple , namely copydisk wd0 wd1 wd0: 3079MB wd1: 9541MB the speed is about 3.25MB/s . --- Regards. takesima

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-17 Thread Eliah Kagan
On 6/16/06, Siju George wrote: Hi all, I 've been told by people ( more than one ) off list how *uncivilized* it is to forward *private* mail publicly *even when it has some bad content*. And I have been asked to apologize publicly ( not by Hank Cohen ). Without trying to Justify my points

Re: package dependencies

2006-06-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:47:40PM +0100, poncenby wrote: p.s. this question comes from the need to know the exact packages to download and burn to CD in order to get a reasonably usable desktop system running gnome, when said system has no connection to the interweb Just use pkg_add !

Re: package dependencies

2006-06-17 Thread Bihlmaier Andreas
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 11:15:59AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:47:40PM +0100, poncenby wrote: p.s. this question comes from the need to know the exact packages to download and burn to CD in order to get a reasonably usable desktop system running gnome, when said

Re: package dependencies

2006-06-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/06/17 11:38, Bihlmaier Andreas wrote: Could you elaborate on this, since that was my first thought how to do it, but it didn't work (and doesn't), do I need a special -F flag? setenv PKG_PATH $OBSD_FTP/snapshots/packages/i386/ setenv PKG_CACHE $HOME Results in: /usr/sbin/pkg_add

Re: package dependencies

2006-06-17 Thread Bihlmaier Andreas
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 11:20:44AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/06/17 11:38, Bihlmaier Andreas wrote: Could you elaborate on this, since that was my first thought how to do it, but it didn't work (and doesn't), do I need a special -F flag? setenv PKG_PATH

Re: Hifn policy on documentation

2006-06-17 Thread Siju George
Hi all, Just after I send this I saw Hank's mail in my inbox with sincere apology for his mail sent to me in private. And I 've put that part of the matter behind me now. He has also stated that he does not hold any grudge againt me or anyone. I thought it is fit to state it here. Not posting

Re: slow realloc: alternate method?

2006-06-17 Thread Graham Toal
Yup, I used this in (function splitfields) where the delimiter was chosen with getopt: http://etudiant.epitech.net/~veins/sort/sort.c Oh yes, sort... that reminds me... http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/sort/sort.[ch] - see the above for the epitome of managing store yourself... It's

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Siju George
On 6/17/06, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: I've been working for quite some time now on an alternative package-manager for OpenBSD, and since things start working rather fine now I think it's time to let you guys know. this is about the most idiotic wast of time I

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Tony Abernethy
Siju George wrote: On 6/17/06, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: I've been working for quite some time now on an alternative package-manager for OpenBSD, and since things start working rather fine now I think it's time to let you guys know. this is about

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Henning Brauer
* Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-17 13:32]: One think I would like to use would be a utility like FreeBSD's portupgrade ( with upgraded ports tree ofcourse ) to easily upgrade installed ports. Don't know how easy it would be to make with our ports system. huh? afaik, that tool is one

Re: package dependencies

2006-06-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 12:34:47PM +0200, Bihlmaier Andreas wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 11:20:44AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/06/17 11:38, Bihlmaier Andreas wrote: Could you elaborate on this, since that was my first thought how to do it, but it didn't work (and doesn't),

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Siju George
On 6/17/06, Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The most updated software version must be synonymous with the latest bugs. Which are better, the old familiar bugs you know about or the new improved bugs nobody's heard of? Ok Tony take this case. there is a software called foo suppose

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Siju George
Thankyou so much for your response Henning :-) On 6/17/06, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-17 13:32]: One think I would like to use would be a utility like FreeBSD's portupgrade ( with upgraded ports tree ofcourse ) to easily upgrade installed

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Eric Faurot
On 6/17/06, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a software called foo suppose 3.9 installs foo.1.1.1 if you use ports. now a few security holes are found in foo.1.1.1 So the foo developers release foo.1.1.2 And the foo developers *strongly encourage* everybody running foo.1.1.1 to

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Moritz Grimm
Siju George wrote: there is a software called foo suppose 3.9 installs foo.1.1.1 if you use ports. now a few security holes are found in foo.1.1.1 So the foo developers release foo.1.1.2 And the foo developers *strongly encourage* everybody running foo.1.1.1 to upgrade to foo.1.1.2 as soon

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Siju George
On 6/17/06, Eric Faurot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/17/06, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a software called foo suppose 3.9 installs foo.1.1.1 if you use ports. now a few security holes are found in foo.1.1.1 So the foo developers release foo.1.1.2 And the foo

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Siju George
On 6/17/06, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thankyou so much for your response Henning :-) On 6/17/06, Henning Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-17 13:32]: One think I would like to use would be a utility like FreeBSD's portupgrade ( with

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Lars Hansson
On Saturday 17 June 2006 22:21, Siju George wrote: # echo $PKG_PATH ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/ # # pkg_add -uF mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1 Error from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/: Unknown command. Using pkg_add correctly helps. -F takes a

Re: pkg_add -u not working

2006-06-17 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 06:38:21PM +1000, atstake atstake wrote: I have just upgraded from OpenBSD 3.8 - 3.9. I set my PKG_PATH to ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/ and did a pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends but it doesn't update all the packages instead just compare

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Will Maier
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:51:15PM +0530, Siju George wrote: it didn't update my packages. Could someone please tell me what I missed out? Did you read pkg_add(1)? '-F' requires _keywords_, not package names, as its option. # echo $PKG_PATH

Re: Tracking security advisories

2006-06-17 Thread Travers Buda
Well I checked the archive, and it seems that only the issues that devs deem as exploitable are posted to security-announce, and errata.html. Never fear, if there is a 'sploitable bug that Theo co. know about, they're going to let you know about it too. After all, OpenBSD's reputation could be

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Breen Ouellette
Marc Balmer wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: I've been working for quite some time now on an alternative package-manager for OpenBSD, and since things start working rather fine now I think it's time to let you guys know. this is about the most idiotic wast of time I ever heard of. what is

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Deanna Phillips
Breen Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc Balmer wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: I've been working for quite some time now on an alternative package-manager for OpenBSD, and since things start working rather fine now I think it's time to let you guys know. this is about the most idiotic

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Erdely
Siju George wrote: it didn't update my packages. Could someone please tell me what I missed out? # echo $PKG_PATH ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/ # # pkg_add -uF mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.1 Error from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/3.9/packages/i386/: Unknown command.

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi, On Saturday, 17. June 2006 18:36, Deanna Phillips wrote: ... As I see it, this is an example of working _against_ a project instead of with and for it. A personal NIH syndrome, if you will. It's not just some Linux thing he put together that also works here. Look at his quote:

mss clamping for IPsec over PPPoE.

2006-06-17 Thread Ben
Hi, I want to interconnect two distant OpenBSD 3.9 gateways using ipsecctl(8). Both gateways are connected with in-kernel pppoe(4). Both ipsec.conf(5) will use the default settings (esp, sha2-256 and aes-256). I don't use NFS. I've hard time to figure the best configuration for pf's max-mss : -

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Tony Abernethy
Tobias Weisserth wrote: Hi, On Saturday, 17. June 2006 18:36, Deanna Phillips wrote: ... As I see it, this is an example of working _against_ a project instead of with and for it. A personal NIH syndrome, if you will. It's not just some Linux thing he put together that also works

Re: Cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Han Boetes
Siju George wrote: Hope you will find this interesting :-) Haven't tried this out but am currently preparing a system for it. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/c4o/ Cheers! Let me know how it works for you. # Han

Re: Cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Marc Balmer
* Han Boetes wrote: Siju George wrote: Hope you will find this interesting :-) Haven't tried this out but am currently preparing a system for it. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/c4o/ Cheers! Let me know how it works for you. It's so full of defects that I guess (hope) no one will

Re: Cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Han Boetes
Marc Balmer wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: Siju George wrote: Hope you will find this interesting :-) Haven't tried this out but am currently preparing a system for it. http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/c4o/ Cheers! Let me know how it works for you. It's so full of defects that

Re: Cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Marc Balmer
* Han Boetes wrote: Yes, I love you too. too? I don't love you...

Re: Cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Thordur I. Bjornsson
Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat 17.Jun'06 at 22:23:50 +0200 * Han Boetes wrote: Yes, I love you too. too? I don't love you... Marc, please stop being a prick. -- Thordur I. Bjornsson Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex. -- Karl Marx

Re: Cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Kroty
Marc Balmer wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: Yes, I love you too. too? I don't love you... Please, stop being a fool.

combining 2 external interfaces ?

2006-06-17 Thread S t i n g r a y
Is it possible to combine 2 external interface into one in openBsD ? actually its cheaper for me to buy two smaller internet connection then a big one. so i was thinking ... *:$., 88,.$:*(((*$ Stingray *:$., 88,.$:*((*$ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

blocking FastTrack traffic ?

2006-06-17 Thread S t i n g r a y
Can i some how block FastTrack traffic with pf ? so in other words i want to block all the major p2p softwares out there effeciently .. rather then blocking each individually . regards *:$., 88,.$:*(((*$ Stingray *:$., 88,.$:*((*$ Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around

Re: 3.9 release 1st boot: kernel: stopped at scan_smbios

2006-06-17 Thread Craig Skinner
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:41:27AM +, Travers Buda wrote: Looks like a crappy bios (pardon the redundancy,) try boot boot -c UKC disable pcibios UKC quit I tried your suggestion, as well as: change pcibios 1,2,20 disable ppb On both bsd bsd.mp to no effect. I flashed the bois to

Re: pkg_add -u not working

2006-06-17 Thread Craig Skinner
There is always Debian and apt-get ;)

Re: isakmpd and AH?

2006-06-17 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Christian Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anybody uses isakmpd(8) to set up AH, I'd really like to see the relevant parts of their isakmpd.conf. To follow up on my own question: It turns out that when you define the protocol suite for AH, you need to specify the hash algorithm both as

Re: [Patch] RAID on 3.9 hangs

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Erdely
Simon Vallet wrote: 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

Re: pkg_add -u not working

2006-06-17 Thread atstake atstake
I'm sure it doesn't output 3 dots. So if you want serious help, provide the full output of pkg_add. Afaik, the -F flags are not needed because -i already asks you in tricky situations. Here are 3 diffrerent types of output - # pkg_add -uv Candidates for updating atk-1.10.1 - atk-1.10.3p1

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread J.C. Roberts
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:10:48 +0200, Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Han Boetes wrote: I've been working for quite some time now on an alternative package-manager for OpenBSD, and since things start working rather fine now I think it's time to let you guys know. this is about the most

Re: pkg_add -u not working

2006-06-17 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 09:43:53AM +1000, atstake atstake wrote: I'm sure it doesn't output 3 dots. So if you want serious help, provide the full output of pkg_add. Afaik, the -F flags are not needed because -i already asks you in tricky situations. Here are 3 diffrerent types of output -

Re: pkg_add -u not working

2006-06-17 Thread atstake atstake
Hi Tobias, The last one just solved your problem (in case you didn't notice). Next time use 'pkg_add -ui' The last one solved the problem because I gave the package name (atk in this case). If I didn't give the package name it would just have compared and exited like before.

Re: cruxports for OpenBSD

2006-06-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 05:29:29PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: None the less, Han is free to work on whatever he wants. Han has been kind enough to share his efforts with you and everyone but instead of saying thanks, you tell him is work is an idiotic waste of time. JCR: You said what I was

bug in tcsh-6.14.00p0 ?

2006-06-17 Thread Andreas Bartelt
Hi all, after upgrading one of my boxes to OpenBSD 3.9, I couldn't log in with tcsh any more. It looks like malloc options 'AFGJP' trigger a core dump with tcsh. I recompiled tcsh with debug symbols and ran gdb, which gives me the following output: # gdb /usr/local/bin/tcsh tcsh.core GNU