Re: New cpuid code to test

2008-10-20 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Julian Leyh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make already knows how to compile C files, no need to call the compiler yourself ;) My bad... I was using make incorrectly. I'll stick to gcc by hand :)

Re: New cpuid code to test

2008-10-20 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Julian Leyh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: make already knows how to compile C files, no need to call the compiler yourself ;) On 4.4 i386 make does this: $ make cpuid.c ./cpuid `cpuid.c' is up to date. ksh: ./cpuid: not found It does not produce a cpuid

Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Brad Tilley
Hey guys, I'm looking for some generic advice to give folks who cannot or willnot verify what chipset a wireless usb adapter is using before purchase. What do you guys say to people who do not want to use apropos wireless or man ath, but at the same time want to just walk into Walmart (or where

Re: Wireless USB Adaptor

2009-08-25 Thread Brad Tilley
Maybe it's worth to see this presentation: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/brhard2007/ I definitely agree with OpenBSD's uncompromising stance on this. I'll take quality code from sensible devs over binary blobs any day. I admire folks who stand-up for what is right. That's one reason I choose

Re: encryption

2009-08-26 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:46 PM, My List Mailemaillistem...@gmail.com wrote: What cipher is used to protect confidential information on the SECRET and TOP SECRET levels? Its not blowfish, its AES-256. I've done IT Security work with financial institutions (banks) and you'd be surprised how

Re: encryption

2009-08-27 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM, puuselpa.l...@gmail.com wrote: Brad Tilley wrote: They still have mainframes. Sure. And mainframes have very good encryption [snip] Yes, my point exactly. Those mainframes *still* support plain, old DES. Read the link you sent.

Re: encryption

2009-08-27 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:35 PM, puuselpa.l...@gmail.com wrote: Unless I misunderstood, you seem to imply that using a mainframe means you *need* to use weak encryption. That's wrong. Yes, you misunderstand. Financial institutions use DES today because of backward compatibility. They've been

Re: 802.11n AP mode adapter

2009-09-06 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrerah...@osvaldobarrera.com.ar wrote: I'm about to set up an small box as an 802.11n access point/gateway/firewall. I've been doing my research in order to purchase a compatible adapter, and all except one I've found use the run(4). According to

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

2009-09-09 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: I just signed up for a $5 USD a month subscription using PayPal. I was unaware of that. That's a nice feature. I don't have a PayPal account (don't trust them) but I'd like to do something similar with my credit

OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread Brad Tilley
Hey Misc, I'm running -current on a first gen Asus eeePC (701 series). It has the small 4GB drive, so I use an additional 4GB USB flash drive mounted as /usr in order to have room to do stuff. Works OK, just wondering if anyone else runs OpenBSD like this on these laptops. The new disk setup

Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-17 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:58 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: does the built in usb emulated sd card reader works? i can read anything from it, but writing anything big ( 100MB) freezes first the process doing the writing, then the io subsystem, and eventually the whole system.

Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-18 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Dawe dawed...@gmx.de wrote: It doesn't seem like just an msdos issue to me. I made my 701 model lock-up while using a ffs formatted SD card, but not by coping files ( I tried that a few dozen times w/o issue). I directed the output of dd to a file on the SD card

Re: OpenBSD on first gen Asus eeePCs

2009-09-20 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 9:07 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: hmm, on Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 03:38:06PM +0400, Alexander Polakov said that Try setting OS Installation in BIOS Setup to Finished. has been like that all the time. Yes, mine too. Still same problem.

Re: NAS server

2009-09-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:48 PM, freebsdwo...@gmail.com wrote: ... I have (16 gigs) ddr2 ram free ... If you plan to run OpenBSD on the box, donate 12 gigs of RAM to charity :)

Re: automating 'fsck -y' after a power failure

2009-10-02 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote: if fsck thinks there is a problem, there is nothing left but to press y anyway. B although i'd very much like to read stories of other admins doing otherwise. Put a rock on the 'y' key and go get some coffee.

Re: 4.6 arriving

2009-10-03 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Rod Dorman r...@polylogics.com wrote: Is setting a password on the new package hierarchy and including the password with the CD feasible or desired? Use ports. They work great. The only area I have issues with ports are on under-powered netbooks... takes forever

HP Mini 110-1020NR

2009-10-07 Thread Brad Tilley
I purchased one of these to replace an old first-gen Asus eeePC. It was inexpensive and had a very nice keyboard (feels full-sized) and a sharp display. Nice touchpad and buttons too. Works fine with -current. I use USB 802.11 devices when I need to be online. It's extremely fast compared to the

Re: Snort on OpenBSD

2009-10-08 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Richard Brooks richard...@sky.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to get some up to date information on how to install and configure Snort on a modern OpenBSD box. At the moment it seems that Snort has only limited functionality for OpenBSD... I use snort on Free and

Re: Snort on OpenBSD

2009-10-08 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: There is no support for the queue packets to userspace required by Snort's IPS mode in any released OpenBSD version... I have never seen Snort deployed in IPS mode, only IDS mode for monitoring purposes. IMO,

Re: pf blocks vlan bridge even without any rule

2009-10-13 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Roger Schreiter ro...@planinternet.de wrote: In order to find the matching rule, I deleted rule by rule. Put log into your rules: For example, rather than 'block in' use 'block in log', etc. Then view the pflog interface to find the offending rule: tcpdump

Re: pf blocks vlan bridge even without any rule

2009-10-13 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Roger Schreiter ro...@planinternet.de wrote: I already tried this, but I couldn't find those packets in the log. Now I assume, I rather have to bring pf to ignore the state for packets, just passing through. But howto? I'm not sure. I've never had the need

Re: 4.6 arriving

2009-10-13 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com wrote: The CD set showed up in today's mail (near Boston, Mass.) CDs arriving around Roanoke Virginia today. The coffee mug got here about a week ago. Brad

Re: thanks for 4.6!

2009-10-21 Thread Brad Tilley
de-installed screen(1) and will start using tmux(1), as it's in base. thanks for the effort of doing that---screen was always among the very first packages i installed on a virgin system. Same here. For the tmux newbies rather than the Ctrl+A keys use Ctrl+B otherwise, the syntax of tmux is

Re: thanks for 4.6!

2009-10-21 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:45 PM, John Cosimano j...@cosmicnetworks.net wrote: i seem to remember a thread here on misc@ that was meant to be a tmux guide for experienced screen users. One thing that screen got right is the A key. It's a lot closer to Ctrl than B. So far, key proximity has been

Re: thanks for 4.6!

2009-10-21 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: May I also suggest the FAQ article written by tmux author Nicholas Marriott? B http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#tmux Nice. My use of screen was very limited. So just knowing to use Ctrl+b rather than Ctrl+a

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-27 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Jordi Espasa Clofent jordi.esp...@opengea.org wrote: $ dd if=/deb/zero of=disk_to_delete ?Do you think is it safe enough? I mean ?is it enough against the common recovery low-level data tools? There is no evidence of over-written data *ever* being recovered.

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: or you should realize that you and your data really aren't that important. It's an issue about privacy, not self-importance. Pawn shops are full of stolen computers with other people's data. That's the *only* reason I

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Bob Beck b...@openbsd.org wrote: Is there some kind of remote bioctl --de-assify I could run? I'm not sure you can be de-assified.

Re: Secure way to delete data in hard disc

2009-10-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: What in the world do stolen disks have to do with over writing the content on it? The thread suggested svnd, softraid and cfs as a counter measure. An encrypted disk with no key is effectively an over written disk. How

Re: PF challenge dealing with HTTPS URL restriction policies.. would it help, other possible solution?

2009-10-29 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Matthew Young myoung24...@gmail.com wrote: Iam looking for a way to have an allowed list of SSL enabled sites that a end user can browse... Off-topic, but if the users are knowledgeable with OpenSSH, they can go around any obstacle you place in front of them

Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-30 Thread Brad Tilley
I wrote some notes on how I normally encrypt /home on OpenBSD laptops. I was hoping misc could read it and bash it around some. I'd like to know if I'm doing something wrong. No jokes about Beck's ass please :) http://16systems.com/openbsd_laptop_encryption.txt Thanks, Brad

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: You should also be careful to note that /root is not encrypted under this scheme. The title says it all. Like most normal people, I keep data in /home. I don't care about meta data that might be in /tmp and I

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-11-01 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: I can't tell whether you miss the point or are arguing that a 90% solution is good enough. I understand that when I do this *only* /home is encrypted. The title says it all, right? In the first case: try it.

Re: svnd vs softraid for encrypting /home et al

2009-11-04 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, umaxx um...@oleco.net wrote: I have one advantage to mention: I have done some comparison measurements (with bonnie benchmark) and some self-written dd scripts under 4.5 - result: in my setup svnd seems to be much faster. I think this is maybe related to the

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-11-07 Thread Brad Tilley
Thanks to everyone for the feedback. The biggest criticism to this approach has been that /var is not encrypted. My practice of only encrypting /home and using rc.local to setup /home at boot would not seem to work for /var as /var is needed long before rc.local is executed. Is anyone using

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-11-07 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: How do you bring this up at boot time and shutdown in an orderly fashion? I found mount_vnd that should do it.

Re: Truncation Data Loss

2009-11-10 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Bob Beck b...@openbsd.org wrote: 2009/11/10 Jussi Peltola pe...@pelzi.net: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:18:57AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: If you want to never lose data, you have an option. B Make the filesystem syncronous, using the -o sync option. If you

Re: parfait

2009-11-12 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: I noticea tool called parfait is being used by some OpenBSD developers to check code for problems. Is parfait available to average people? Can't find a download for it. http://research.sun.com/projects/parfait We

parfait

2009-11-12 Thread Brad Tilley
I noticea tool called parfait is being used by some OpenBSD developers to check code for problems. Is parfait available to average people? Can't find a download for it. http://research.sun.com/projects/parfait

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-11-13 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:50 AM, elias r. obs...@crudp.ath.cx wrote: Especially because OpenBSD isn't about 90% solutions i still don't understand why nobody seems to be interested in finding a solution for encrypting entire / If you are only concerned about data in /home and protecting

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-11-13 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote: What's the point of encrypting certificates? They only contain information that is public. They can be revoked and re-issued as well.

Re: Spanish language resources for OpenBSD

2009-11-18 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: There is that website that records older websites, waybackmachine or something like that. Maybe the Mexican site has been recorded there? I will try and look for it. http://www.archive.org/index.php

Re: OT: Have you hugged your local OpenBSD dev lately?

2009-11-20 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:06 PM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: It's naive to point elsewhere and say see, they're not secure. Other similar systems are not as secure and that has been objectively demonstrated. Here's one example. See the chart at the top of page three:

Re: OT: Have you hugged your local OpenBSD dev lately?

2009-11-26 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:10 PM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:22:45 -0500 Brad Tilley wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:06 PM, rhubbell rhubb...@ihubbell.com wrote: It's naive to point elsewhere and say see, they're not secure. Other similar systems

Re: BAD SU

2009-11-29 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 4:51 PM, phil philippe.aub...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I have some strange behavior with su in openbsd 4.6, I have two users root and test, test user is in wheel group with usermod -G wheel test, when i try to be root with su - I have the sorry message and in the

Re: BAD SU

2009-11-29 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: I see the same on 4.6-release. The initial user I added during install can su and sudo Just to be clear, 'sudo su' works for newly added users who are in the wheel group, but su by itself does not. Apologies

Re: BAD SU

2009-11-29 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Nick Guenther kou...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: I see the same on 4.6-release. The initial user I added during install can su

Re: BAD SU

2009-11-29 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Nick Guenther kou...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: I see the same on 4.6-release. The initial user I added during install can su

Experimenting with softraid encryption

2009-11-30 Thread Brad Tilley
I wrote some notes about installing and experimenting with softraid encryption on laptops. I was wondering if misc would have a read and perhaps make suggestions or corrections to my approach? I appreciate any feedback. http://16systems.com/openbsd_softraid_encryption.txt Brad

Re: Experimenting with softraid encryption

2009-12-01 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 7:35 AM, LEVAI Daniel l...@ecentrum.hu wrote: I wrote some notes about installing and experimenting with softraid encryption on laptops. I was wondering if misc would have a read and perhaps make suggestions or corrections to my approach? I appreciate any feedback.

Re: Experimenting with softraid encryption

2009-12-01 Thread Brad Tilley
quote 6. Upon each subsequent boot enter this: # bioctl -c C -l /dev/wd0d softraid0 exit /quote I'm also specifying the -r 32768 along with these. I suppose it is useless then, isn't it? I'm not sure. The man page is unclear. It seems to work either way. Can rounds be

Re: Experimenting with softraid encryption

2009-12-01 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:52 PM, LEVAI Daniel l...@ecentrum.hu wrote: What is confusing me, is that one creates and activates a crypt device with basically the same command. How could I know if I'm creating a new crypted device, or opening an existing one? You'll enter a pass-phrase twice at

Re: Experimenting with softraid encryption

2009-12-01 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Aaron Poffenberger a...@hypernote.com wrote: If you're creating a new device, you'll be prompted twice for the password. I've found that's one notable difference between softraid and vnconfig crypto volumes. vnconfig never prompts more than once for the password,

HP Mini Touchpad Broken in Recent Snapshots

2009-12-05 Thread Brad Tilley
With recent snapshots, the touchpad on my HP Mini netbook stopped working. Here is a dmesg for a few months back when the touchpad worked followed by one from the most recent snapshot: http://16systems.com/hp/hp-mini-110-1020NR.txt http://16systems.com/hp/hp_mini_broken_touchpad.txt

Re: HP Mini Touchpad Broken in Recent Snapshots

2009-12-05 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Miod Vallat m...@online.fr wrote: With recent snapshots, the touchpad on my HP Mini netbook stopped working. Here is a dmesg for a few months back when the touchpad worked followed by one from the most recent snapshot:

Re: HP Mini Touchpad Broken in Recent Snapshots

2009-12-05 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Miod Vallat m...@online.fr wrote: With recent snapshots, the touchpad on my HP Mini netbook stopped working. Here is a dmesg for a few months back when the touchpad worked followed by one from

Re: HP Mini Touchpad Broken in Recent Snapshots

2009-12-05 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Miod Vallat m...@online.fr wrote: With recent snapshots, the touchpad on my HP Mini netbook stopped working. Here is a dmesg for a few months back when the touchpad worked followed by one from the most recent snapshot:

Re: IPv6 configuration issues

2009-12-09 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:47 AM, sys...@gmx.net wrote: Hello, I try to setup a new webserver with IPv6 and IPv4 connection. B The IPv4 connection works great. B I'm new in IPv6 and got some routing problems. B I called the provider support and he told me how to setup the gateway and the

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Donald Allen donaldcal...@gmail.com wrote: Certainly I agree with you that a blazingly fast but unstable and/or insecure system isn't worth much in most, if any, settings. On the other hand, a rock-solid, secure system that simply doesn't deliver the

Re: SMP

2009-12-09 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Ouellet dan...@presscom.net wrote: So, what's heavy for you may be just simple routine for others and no, I do not miss the fine lock either yet anyway. Would be nice, but really, I haven't run into it's need for me anyway yet. That's true for me as

Re: ComixWall terminated

2009-12-10 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:19 AM, spamtester spamtester spamtesterspamtes...@gmail.com wrote: if you can't see that users come in many shapes and forms you are seriously *wrong*. --- I think the point is that while users are very different, we should learn how things happen here and respect

Re: Comparing large amounts of files

2009-12-11 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Alexander Bochmann a...@lists.gxis.de wrote: find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -r -n 100 md5 -r md5sums You could now just sort the md5sums file to find all entries with the same md5... Or sort by filename (will need some more logic if files are distributed

Re: New Western Digital disks will have 4KB block size - issue?

2009-12-17 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:14 +0100, Robert rob...@openbsd.pap.st wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:31:58 -0600 Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote: Highly specialized applications could benefit but lets count how many of those use WDC SATA drives. I can see the BS already coming our way,

vi in /bin

2009-12-17 Thread Brad Tilley
I use ed in emergencies when /usr is inaccessible, but I'm a lot more comfortable with vi. Will a static vi ever live in /bin? Helping someone use ed remotely, who has never used ed, when I myself don't use it regularly is always an adventure. Brad

Re: vi in /bin

2009-12-17 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:12 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Brad == Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com writes: Brad I use ed in emergencies when /usr is inaccessible, but I'm a lot more Brad comfortable with vi. Will a static vi ever live in /bin? Helping someone Brad use

Re: Web Browsers

2009-12-18 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:25 +, nixlists nixmli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. People on this list are security-conscious. I wonder what browsers they use? What browsers do you consider more secure than others? Granted, they're all full of all kinds of holes, but what do you do to tighten their

Re: Encrypt entire filesystem with AES 256bit. Softraid tutorial?

2009-12-18 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:18 -0600, Andres Salazar ndrsslz...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Iam looking for ways to encrypt my entire filesystem, but it must be with AES 256bits... Ive bene searching and I deduce that the only option I have is using softraid, however iam unable to find any tutorial or

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

2009-12-22 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:43 -0500, David Shuman d.shu...@att.net wrote: Thanks to all as an inexperienced user in the process, my choice in this area was more of self-protection should I mishandle the upgrade process at some point in time. It's nice to see so many indicate I am probably

Re: help to keep disk spinning

2009-12-24 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:16 +1300, Paul M l...@no-tek.com wrote: [snip] Try a different usb enclosure. Some Seagate FreeAgent enclosures do this. Seagate forums have lots of complaints about it. Research before buying another enclosure. I purchased a FreeAgent a few years ago before this issue

Re: compilation performance on Dual Atom 330 proc?

2009-12-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:09 -0600, David Taveras d3taveras3...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Ive recently began using a Intel Atom 330 @ 2 x 1.60GHz (Silverthorne 45nm) with 2GB of RAM. However Ive noticed that compilation of userland takes 130minutes to complete, versus 45min on a standard

Re: Trying to boot OpenBSD on Juniper Networks J2320.

2010-04-13 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:29 -0400, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote: Now I'm curious - in what way would a decent juniper hardware be better than some off the shelf stuff? MTBF is greater. If you don't care about that, there's probably not much difference... unless you need routers in space. Not

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-14 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:17 -0400, Steve Shockley steve.shock...@shockley.net wrote: On 4/14/2010 5:11 AM, Zachary Uram wrote: smacks of superiority and even condescension at times. Is this a fair I don't think they're superior and condescending... I think they're superior and busy.

Re: OpenBSD culture?

2010-04-15 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:20 -0300, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO vt...@c3sl.ufpr.br wrote: Saying that ISC is more free than GPL makes no sense Saying Do not remove our text does not restrict your freedom. That's all the ISC asks of you. Leave the copyright notice and the permission to use alone.

Re: Multibooting (was : OpenBSD culture)

2010-04-19 Thread Brad Tilley
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:07 +0100, Peter Kay (Syllopsium) syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote: OpenBSD does not require a primary partition, nor does NetBSD. Solaris does for the moment, although code to fix that has been committed. I have a Windows 7 x64, OpenBSD, Solaris, NetBSD multiboot.

Re: Is this a case of paranoia?

2010-04-25 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:48 +0200, Danny dannydeb...@gmail.com wrote: Shane, What I have found with our company's installation of Webmarshall is that you can , for example, go to linux.box.sk and surf around for about 5 mins, then all of a sudden it gets blocked. 95% of what these devices

Re: reporting a bug in ports/net/flow-tools?

2010-04-27 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:41 +0300, Stas Miasnikou m...@gurtam.com wrote: Michael W. Lucas: Sendbug doesn't seem to have a ports option, and my bug report doesn't have a single recommend solution in any case, so I'm asking here. The flow-log2rrd, flow-rpt2rrd, and flow-rptfmt programs in

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-27 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:01 +0100, Alastair Johnson att...@googlemail.com wrote: if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots folder on a mirror i end up with a -current system eg: OpenBSD 4.7-current (GENERIC) #636: the docs state that you cant go from -current to

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:37 -0500, Ahlsen-Girard, Edward F CTR USAF AFSOC AFSOC/A6OK edward.ahlsen-girard@hurlburt.af.mil wrote: On 2010-04-27 23:01:30 Alastair Johnson wrote: if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots folder on a mirror i end up with a -current

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:08 -0600, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote: Nor am I, but I do that often with base installs and have not had any major issues. There would be security concerns (especially with ports

Re: confused about updating -current

2010-04-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:05 -0500, Chris Bennett ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote: A while back on some thread, someone said that they ran -current versions for a long while, updating ports tree for that snapshot and could run with that particular -current as long as they liked by adding

Re: scp speed ffs/fat

2010-04-28 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:09 +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote: Transfering a file using scp into my home directory gives me this speed (home netword): 658.8KB/s while copying it directly into a usb stick (fat32) gives me this: 1.5MB/s is it normal? scp is encrypted and traveling across your

Re: State of multiprocessing and multithreading in OpenBSD

2010-05-05 Thread Brad Tilley
Tony Abernethy wrote: Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: pe...@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes: I would think that would be a fair question to ask the person who told you PF is garbage because it is multithreaded: eh, because it is *not* multithreaded: Now watch when application

Re: openbsd not blob free?

2010-05-05 Thread Brad Tilley
Kent Watsen wrote: There is a discussion on the osol-discuss mailing list this morning where it's pointed out that OpenBSD source tree has a blob in it: http://osdir.com/ml/opensolaris-discuss/2010-05/msg00095.html The location of the blob in the tree is here:

Re: Consideration before installling on SSD hard drive

2010-05-22 Thread Brad Tilley
On 5/22/2010 12:21 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote: Yeah; ignore dos and donts the ssd, if of any quality, will do fine. That has been my experience with SSDs on OpenBSD and Linux. I've been using an inexpensive Kingston SSD for about six months now, it works great. Here is an older dmesg from it:

Re: Help contacting Richard Stallman

2010-05-26 Thread Brad Tilley
Julian Acosta wrote: Really we need to contact with Richard Stallman, just for give us his opinion and answer us some questions about free software, How can I contact him? What's his real email? Just talk a lot about open source and the Linux operating system. He'll show up.

Re: GNU/Linux user wanting to make the switch to OpenBSD for ADSL2+ Router.

2010-05-27 Thread Brad Tilley
Jon Scruggs wrote: How reliable is the Wireless N with that chipset here? To my knowledge, there is no 802.11N support in OpenBSD. Read the last paragraph: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athnsektion=4apropos=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386 Brad

Re: Installer bug? - Upgrade 4.6 to 4.7 failed to upgrade base47, on i386 and amd64

2010-06-05 Thread Brad Tilley
Theo de Raadt wrote: If [you] don't know what you are doing, install a new snapshot. We do this frequently. Works very well. bsd.rd makes it easy to move to a new snapshot. We buy -release CDs too, but seldom open them. Brad

Re: It is 2010. Still no 3GB support by default?

2010-06-07 Thread Brad Tilley
Dexter Tomisson wrote: I'd really, really like to know what's the matter with a larger memory support? Why is 'bigmem' still not default? What faults/bugs does it still has? What do you need to make it ok? Do you need a hardware donation to make that better, do you need few bucks, do you

Re: pf and !

2010-06-10 Thread Brad Tilley
Peter Fraser wrote: man pf.conf never describes what ! does. The ! is used in some examples and a lot of the time is obvious what will happens. The pf faq has somewhat more of an explanation of ! with multiple address, but its explanation only refers to the use of ! in tables. There is

Re: Processeur Atom

2010-06-10 Thread Brad Tilley
E.T wrote: Hi In this text, I have a athlon1 available. But it takes a lot of room, very hot, a lot of noise, and consumes much electricity. I try to disconnect the fan to see, but the CPU temperature was up to 105 B0 C in 5 minutes. Otherwise, OpenBSD operating nickel above, I installed

Re: Processeur Atom

2010-06-10 Thread Brad Tilley
E.T wrote: very, very small processor. N270 best performance? . Firewall or desktop ? OpenBSD 4.6-current (RAMDISK_CD) #149: Mon Sep 14 04:31:59 MDT 2009 t...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class)

Re: Processeur Atom ?

2010-06-10 Thread Brad Tilley
FRLinux wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: I would like to make a firewall / router running OpenBSD. Okay, but what is your question? I guess he is asking if all Atom processors are compatible with OpenBSD, which i guess is pretty

Re: compilation performance on Dual Atom 330 proc?

2009-12-29 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:31 +, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org wrote: On 2009-12-28, David Taveras d3taveras3...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Ive recently began using a Intel Atom 330 @ 2 x 1.60GHz (Silverthorne 45nm) with 2GB of RAM. However Ive noticed that compilation of

Re: testing a drive with dd -- odd results

2009-12-31 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:03 -0500, Scott McEachern sc...@erratic.ca wrote: I've been using dd to test some of my hard drives and just ran into the oddest of coincidences. I used this command (or variation without the time command) # time dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null on three machines

Re: testing a drive with dd -- odd results

2009-12-31 Thread Brad Tilley
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:57 +0100, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com wrote: I tried it in VM on VirtualBox. Here is my output : $ dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null bs=1m count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 10485760 bytes transferred in 0.403 secs (25985597 bytes/sec) $ $ dd

Re: 802.11n cards for AP?

2010-01-01 Thread Brad Tilley
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:16 -0500, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote: So... back in the 3.6ish days, I had a Prism-based 802.11b card that I used in my OpenBSD FW for a wireless access point. Worked like a charm until I relocated my FW, and could no longer get good RF coverage. Went

scsi output similar to atactl identify

2010-01-04 Thread Brad Tilley
Is there a way to get scsi output data similar to 'atactl device identify' output? # atactl /dev/rwd0c identify Model: Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB, Rev: B090522a, Serial #: 06J990030232 Device type: ATA, fixed Cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sec/track: 63, total sectors: 125045424 Device

Re: scsi output similar to atactl identify

2010-01-04 Thread Brad Tilley
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:46 +1100, Jonathan Gray j...@goblin.cx wrote: For raid controllers like your mfi, you can use bioctl(8) to list some information about the individual drives. Not quite as informative as atactl... adding a -q breaks it: # bioctl -ihv sd0 Volume Status Size

Re: thinkpad x200 wireless 5100 old issue

2010-01-12 Thread Brad Tilley
If this machine isn't production, then no harm could come from trying a snapshot. It would give the developers a much better idea as to where you system's at. Use a USB thumb drive if you're that worried about trashing your data. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict

Re: the root is on

2010-01-16 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:37 +0100, Manuel Giraud manuel.gir...@univ-nantes.fr wrote: Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net writes: Here's a probably stupid question: since the kernel can detect the root on sd0a why is there still a need for fstab entry for it? Because you might want to specify

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