Re: how to clear dmesg outpout

2007-07-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On 7/4/07, smonek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On FreeBSD i have 'sysctl kern.msgbuf_clear' bu OpenBSD don't have this options find a clean one here: /var/run/dmesg.boot HTH, Timo This now work cool! :) sorry not work :-( I think what he's getting at is that

Re: how to clear dmesg outpout

2007-07-04 Thread Nick Guenther
How is this any worse? On 7/4/07, Jose H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is a pretty valid question(request?), you have to relay on external mechanisms, like syslog, or to compare differences from previous outputs of dmesg. On HP-UX dmesg has the optional parameter '-' which: system

Re: [[ in sh(1)

2007-07-19 Thread Nick Guenther
On 7/17/07, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:42:14AM -0400, Eric Furman wrote: | The description of [[ ]] is missing from sh(1) though, hence my | statement which, I believe, is only a difference in documentation. | This difference is only in the

Re: Please it is urgent: new OpenBSD 4.1 crash

2007-07-20 Thread Nick Guenther
On 7/20/07, carlopmart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, This is my third post about problems with OpenBSD 4.1 during last two months ... Crash report from console: How can I fix this?? I can find any bug report abot this on OpeBSD's site Please it is very urgent ... Many

Re: wi0 (pcmcia0): system freeze after pulling card out

2007-07-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On 7/24/07, jkv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 25, 2007, at 12:13 , vladas wrote: In hostap mode, machine freezes after pulling card out. Keyboard still reacts in Caps or NumLock but terminal does not accept any input; the following gets repeated: A while ago i had the same problem(kinda),

remapping ok/cancel under X

2007-07-26 Thread Nick Guenther
Hi list, This is a question for my zaurus, but it's really yh more of an X issue so I'm not posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Under console I've successfully used wsconsctl keyboard.map+= to make the Ok and Cancel buttons on the back of my zaurus be Fn and Ctrl, respectively. This makes typing much

flash on OpenBSD!

2007-08-01 Thread Nick Guenther
(this would be ports@ but it's something many people would care about, I think) I'm reporting that I've got Gnash-0.8 (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) working on OpenBSD. It's really choppy and doesn't work right on everything, but it's pretty close. In 60% of cases it's workable (and you

Re: flash on OpenBSD!

2007-08-02 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/2/07, Markus Lude [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:55:51PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: I'm reporting that I've got Gnash-0.8 (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) working on OpenBSD. gnash in the ports tree was updated to 0.8.0 a few weeks ago. What isn't working

Re: flash on OpenBSD!

2007-08-02 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/2/07, Deanna Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: === gnash-0.8.0p0 depends on: boost-headers-* - not found === Verifying install for boost-headers-* in devel/boost === Faking installation for boost_1_33_1 install -c -s -o root -g bin -m 555

Re: Yaifo on a Server with fBSD preinstalled...

2007-08-05 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everbody, I would like to get a OpenBSD installed on a box where a FreeBSD 6.2 is currently installed. I thought about using Yaifo like I did many times before. I just have to face a problem with FreeBSD.: My HDD is ad4s1 and I

Re: various lamo questions from a shiny new person

2007-08-09 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/9/07, poncenby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List What options are there when you have multiple IP addresses and 1 openbsd 4.1 box with two NICs acting as a firewall? The Internet goes into NIC1 and a switch (with boxes plugged in) goes into NIC2 (10/8 address range). Is the alias command

Re: setting dscp or tos bits

2007-08-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/22/07, David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Also, I noticed today that Google marks all their stuff with a DSCP of 0x38 (high throughput, low delay). Nice trick, but also an excellent argument for re-marking capability in all routers.

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/24/07, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there, i am planning to go on a longer trip and i am considering buying a sub-sub-sub notebookish thingie... i know openbsd support zaurus quite well, and i have found a promising sale of a C3200 for around 500 euros... the things

Re: to zaurus or not to zaurus

2007-08-25 Thread Nick Guenther
On 8/25/07, frantisek holop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:04:29AM -0400, Nick Guenther said that The battery life is 7 hours (12 if you pull magic hax of making the screen turn off when not in use and compulsively put it in standby most of the time) and a lot less

Re: communism is good

2007-09-05 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/5/07, Josef Stalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: communism is good, openbsd comrades. it is very nice. Party on.

Re: sudo wheel group

2007-09-15 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/15/07, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I been looking for ways to let normal user run privileged commands and after some searching found that adding users to the wheel group is bad and also adding NOPASSWD and ALL = ALL to sudoers for an user is also plain as bad. The only alternative I

Re: A simple about the openbsd kernel

2007-09-16 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/16/07, PowerMan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/9/16, PowerMan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dear sir or madam, My first language is not English, please forgive me if I made some bad words or sentences. I am an embedded system engineer writing device drivers for

Re: A simple about the openbsd kernel

2007-09-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/17/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:39:12AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: security features make the internet a safer place to be. If you are working for a company, the BSD license is probably more favourable to you because it pushes less

ACPI Security

2007-09-17 Thread Nick Guenther
Hi misc@, I just came across these notes on ACPI: http://lwn.net/2001/0704/kernel.php3 (search down for acpi) and got wondering what OpenBSD's take on securing ACPI is. Can AML code actually be an attack vector, or are there safeguards in place in OpenBSD against that? I tried searching the

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-09-17 Thread Nick Guenther
Why are you still talking? Why are you topposting? Why does it matter to the world at all what your one random friend does? And the standard: What does this have to do with OpenBSD? On 9/17/07, The One [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apple will, undoubtedly, implement some of these basic techniques for

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-09-20 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/20/07, The One [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/19/07, Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The One [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Security is one of the concerns Leopard will solve. **BLAM** Security is never, ever a completely solved problem. Your world just isn' that

Re: Question on interface enumeration

2007-09-23 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/21/07, Marius ROMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/21/07, Gregory Edigarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best thing however would be to have the ability to set the name of an intreface based on it's mac address, perhaps somebody is working on it/having it on the todo list? Something

Re: kde automounting

2007-09-25 Thread Nick Guenther
On 9/25/07, Rodrigo V. Raimundo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Antti Harri wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Rodrigo V. Raimundo wrote: Is there a way to get kde's automounting functionality working under obsd? At linux I think it uses hal-deamon plus something like pmount. Some way to make

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/1/07, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/07, Tito Mari Francis Escaqo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I plan to prepare and produce a DVD version of 4.2 when available this November, complete with the packages, and I'd like to use some artworks as graphics, if not a basis for a

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

2007-10-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/1/07, Hannah Schroeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:50:05AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: [...] To explain this more fully with the party line: the project supports itself via donations and selling CDs of releases. If you create DVDs to distribute you

Re: OpenBSD Desktop sighted in Yahoo Bangalore, India

2007-10-03 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/2/07, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, One of my best friends who was working with me for about 5 years recently got job in Bangalore. He had repeatedly turned down my offer to teach him OpenBSD and even teased me at times :-) As he Joined Yahoo Bangalore to his horror he

Re: OpenBSD Desktop sighted in Yahoo Bangalore, India

2007-10-03 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/3/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:10:59AM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: On 10/2/07, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my best friends who was working with me for about 5 years recently got job in Bangalore. He had repeatedly

Re: OpenBSD Desktop sighted in Yahoo Bangalore, India

2007-10-03 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/3/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 06:28:52PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: I think the project is always in need of money. There's no steady supply of incoming cash except for the (dropping) CD sales etc. Always try to persuade your employer to

Re: OpenBSD Desktop sighted in Yahoo Bangalore, India

2007-10-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/4/07, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/4/07, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the original poster: can you get your friend to ask about these things for us? *Did* Yahoo India buy the OpenBSD discs or did it just download them? Is there a large OpenBSD presence

TPMs in Macbooks on OpenBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Nick Guenther
I've got me a macbook and I'm figuring out how to install OpenBSD on it (I'm going to see if I can do it without BootCamp, appearently it's possible: http://refit.sourceforge.net/myths/). One of my friends mentioned too bad about the evil to me and so I started digging into one of the evils:

Re: Encrypting home partition

2007-10-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just trying to encrypt my laptops /home partition to hide my personal info if the worst happens and my lappy is stolen. I'm wondering what would be the best method to encrypt the hard drive? I saw some discussion on the mailing list recently

Re: TPMs in Macbooks on OpenBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/6/07, Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/6/07, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got me a macbook and I'm figuring out how to install OpenBSD on it (I'm going to see if I can do it without BootCamp, appearently it's possible: http://refit.sourceforge.net

Re: Encrypting home partition

2007-10-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/6/07, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/6/07, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: are you sure you want to encrypt your *whole* drive though? Yes. (says the guy who left his laptop in an airport last week) Is your data really that secret? Why is that important? AKA

Re: Encrypting home partition

2007-10-06 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options of the image that are needed to succesfully mount the partition on boot but didn't reveal if there's a method to encrypt whole partition. I know it will give me small

Re: Encrypting home partition

2007-10-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options of the image that are needed to succesfully mount the partition on boot but didn't reveal

Re: Encrypting home partition

2007-10-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: On 10/7/07, Timo Myyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: On 10/6/07, Timo Myyrd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read the mount_vnd manual page and it describes the mount options of the image

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/7/07, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new laptop that I would like to set up to have 4 different OS's on. The OS's I would like to install are: OpenBSD FreeBSD Linux Windows (XP r Vista) Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space, my concern is about

Re: Encrypting home partition

2007-10-08 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/8/07, Alexey Vatchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-10-06, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #note: the image file should be available somewhere that isn't /home, obviously... you may be able to have a /home with it on there and then mount over that and it might keep

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install OpenBSD on it. Naturally bios can't boot from USB. So i've thinked to boot the bsd.rd , but how

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther ha scritto: On 10/10/07, Christopher Bianchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My situation is this: i've a laptop, a Sharp pc-ax10 with Windows 2000 preinstalled , without cdrom, floppy. I wish install

Re: ERR M on boot: how to fix?

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/10/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: had a problem with the / partition getting full (105%) on a fileserver here and then rebooted it. after rebooting the ERR M line came up immediately after the drive 0 partition 3 message that is normally followed by the boot prompt. this

Re: Which remvable drive is connected to which USB port

2007-10-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/11/07, Edwards, David (JTS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again. Just a wrap up to this thread. - Disk naming seems to be consistent after you first plug the device in. So: The first disk plugged into a port (say addr 2) gets sd1 (if your SATA disk is sd0) The

Re: Server just freeze with no reason

2007-10-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/11/07, Dmitry Slobodchikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, My server freezed periodically like a log. I can't understand why. There are no any special software and non standard core, only packages from the same release. Server got router role and many people depend on it. Just

Re: How can i boot a bsd.rd from windows 2000 ?

2007-10-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/11/07, Guido Tschakert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerald Thornberry schrieb: How about an external CDROM drive connected to a parallel port? Micro Solutions used to make one (called BackPack) that could connect via USB, PCCard, and Parallel Port. Once you loaded the drivers under

Re: : : Which remvable drive is connected to which USB port

2007-10-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/12/07, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007/10/12 11:47, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Use the disklabel: it has a disk name field that can be edited. Great proposal! I may be blind, but can not find an editable name field. Which is it? And how can I edit it? Label - you

Re: Google employment opportunity

2007-10-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/13/07, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Hale wrote: OMG a Google employee was dumb enough to spam an entire mailing list to get to one person. WOW, I thought they hired really smart people. Not any more. Google's been hiring msfters for a few years without a year or two

Re: hardening BSD (was systrace/stsh policies)

2007-10-15 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/15/07, Eduardo Tongson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Watson's paper discusses concurrency vulnerabilities. Impact include policy bypass and audit trail invalidation. A bypass means it is useless. That pretty much hammered in the last nail on the coffin for security tools based on

Re: Download or Fetch Packages w/o Install?

2007-10-15 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/15/07, Clint Pachl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to download a package and its dependencies, to PKG_CACHE for instance, without installing anything? afaik nope. Maybe later? The usual recommendation is to set up a test system to download and install everything on. Then grab the

Re: : cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-19 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/19/07, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:52:03PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: | Conceptually, though, why can't cp look at the source directory and take a | snapshot, a to-do-list, of everything it has to copy, then do it? That | way, any recursion

Re: Wireless WAP encryption question

2007-10-18 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/18/07, Luca Corti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 02:04 -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I read carefully FAQ as well as man pages for ifconfig and it seems to me (probably I am wrong) that OpenBSD supports only WEP wireless protocol by default. I understand that both

Re: cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-18 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/18/07, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/2007, Richard Toohey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ mkdir foo $ cp -R foo foo Ill try this on a solaris box and a linix box tomorrow at work :P For what's it's worth, this is what OS X decides: Axkbk:~ kousu$ mkdir test Axkbk:~

Re: : cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-19 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/19/07, Tom Van Looy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Toohey wrote: On 19/10/2007, at 8:12 PM, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Looks like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X BSD bits have the same sort of outcome. Copy foo to foo only once and quit, I think that's the correct behaviour. I

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... Relevant info: --- I'm burning a re-writable DVD using the above instructions The mkisofs command to burn the image is as follows: /usr/local/bin/mkisofs

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:21:06 -0500, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Please CC to me directly as I am offlist... Relevant info

Re: Help with LiveCD/LIveDVD

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/22/07, Ted M. Goodridge, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdbr is listed in the installation instructions as the cdboot loader. cdboot is the second stage boot loader IIRC. Don't hesitate to correct me if I'm wrong here. Oh, no, that sounds about right, I guess. The help is

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/22/07, ropers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/10/2007, carlopmart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I know that time to time somebody do the same question, but I need to know it: is it planned at some point to release a paravirtualized xen kernel for OpenBSD 4.3 or 4.4???

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-23 Thread Nick Guenther
On 10/23/07, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Per-Erik Persson wrote: To get the best performance out of qemu you need to run linux. The choices narrow. Can kqemu be compiled for OBSD? Is virtualbox an option? I had this thought a couple of weeks ago and started looking through the

Re: fsck_msdos misdetects corruption

2006-01-24 Thread Nick Guenther
trying to dual-boot with windows and share a data partition. Anyway, this is the correct way regardless of what the DOS boot block size is supposed to be since Microsoft obviously just changed the definition without telling anyone. -Nick Guenther

Re: fsck_msdos misdetects corruption

2006-01-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/24/06, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes, but i'd like to know where wolfgang came up with those numbers. 52 seems a more reasonable magic number than 11 + 79. since apparently either works, but they aren't really equivalent, i'd like to know why. Well how about if someone

Re: fsck_msdos misdetects corruption

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Guenther
The OpenBSD and NetBSD code is appearantly incorrect, from my tests. I modifed boot.c to dump the blocks to a file, then dissected them with python (yay python). What I found, at least in my case, is that the blocks are identical up to bye 430. From there to 6 bytes to the end (ie until byte

Re: fsck_msdos misdetects corruption

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Guenther
[:430] and [DOSBOOTBLOCKSIZE-6:], skipping the string space. Er, sorry, I meant 4 bytes. -Nick

Re: A small patch to make input style in license.template consistent

2006-01-29 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/29/06, Rod.. Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A legal pedant once informed me that (c) is not a valid copyright mark. He says that the only valid marks are the C-in-a-circle character or (copr). It probably isn't uniform but the Berne Convention may have some rules. As usual IANAL so

Making FAT play nice

2006-01-30 Thread Nick Guenther
I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's the only type that both OSes support well. # fdisk wd0 Disk: wd0 geometry: 2432/255/63 [39070080 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55

Re: Making FAT play nice

2006-02-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/1/06, Alexander Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick Guenther wrote: I dual boot OpenBSD with Windows and have a third partition for data which is mounted on /home. The data partition is FAT32 since that's the only type that both OSes support well. I am not rally happy to use FAT

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/2/06, Ray Lai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:37:19PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: snip This way, continuous live mirroring can be done and no need for cronjob, etc. And this would be much more efficient as well. snip

Re: About a USB CD-RW (USB 2.0) drive. Firefox/Mozilla security problems

2006-02-03 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/3/06, Gabriel George POPA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that with a stock OpenBSD 3.8 system a CD-RW like this : PLEXTOR PX-W4012TU Hi-Speed USB 2.0 CD-RW Drive 40x CD-Write 12x CD-ReWrite 40x CD-Read works very well (with cdrtools and xcdroast). Should I report

Re: OpenBSD hardware router

2006-02-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/7/06, z0mbix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/06, Sven Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget the wrap: http://www.pcengines.ch/wrap.htm They're slightly cheaper than the soekris. I use one with 3.8 and it runs as a cable router/firewall and runs ipsec between home and

Re: error on ifconfig, bssid

2006-02-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/6/06, Lucas Reddinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: one more question about the same thing. i got my access point i wish to use on a NWID that noone else uses. i specify this nwid using ifconfig on my clients. however, as soon as i get a better signal from another access point on a different

Re: Upgrading 3.6 to 3.8, and compiling -current

2006-02-10 Thread Nick Guenther
I'm hardly an expert so I hope you get some other opinions but here are my thoughts: On 2/10/06, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At a remote location, I have two boxes that are connected with each other via a serial cable, and through a router to the internet. One of the boxes

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/11/06, Matthias Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 06:03:51AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: 13-May-2004: The ease of (ab)using X11, Part 1 X11 is the protocol that underlies your graphical desktop environment, and you need to be aware of its security model. Whow!

Re: ohci3: ? scheduling overruns USB ural attached

2006-02-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/11/06, Ed Wandasiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following dmesg with a ural device attached to a macppc, following current, as of 8 Feb 2006. Any suggestions? Ed. wd0(wdc1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 cd0(wdc1:0:1): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2,

Re: ohci3: ? scheduling overruns USB ural attached

2006-02-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/11/06, Ed Wandasiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:54:21PM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: On 2/11/06, Ed Wandasiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0xb00 rawdev=0xb02 ohci3: 1 scheduling overruns ohci3: 2 scheduling overruns ohci3: 1

Re: OpenBSD USB question

2006-02-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/11/06, Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Day, Background: I am busy with a project whereby all employees will be authenticated with their own SD cards. Read more about the cards here: http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1039)-SanDisk_SD_Cards.aspx The user will enter a secure

Re: bash: delete key sends ~ instead of [del]

2006-02-11 Thread Nick Guenther
Yeah, it does that. I don't know why, I assume historical reasons, and I would like to learn from someone here who does know. Use backspace instead. On 2/11/06, Martin Schrvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, on my freshly installed 3.7 in bash the delete key sends an ~ instead of [del]. How can

Re: OpenBSD USB question

2006-02-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/11/06, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More info on this piece of hardware can be found here: http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1145)-SDDR-89-SanDisk_ImageMate_12i n1_ReaderWriter.aspx I actually just tested my ImageMate 6-in-1 and it works flawlessly and I assume the 12

Re: how to map private ip to public ip behind NAT

2006-02-12 Thread Nick Guenther
Hello thar, Seems no one else wanted to help you. I'm not surprised, this isn't really the place to ask can someone please explain NAT to me? but here you go anyway: Wait, so you have two connections to the external internet? I don't think you need 61.16.254.20 You should set it up with the

Re: how to wireles login when WEP and SSID are enabled

2006-02-12 Thread Nick Guenther
The older cards are... old, and so are their drivers. If it is a Prism you have to use 2 programs: ifconfig and wicontrol: #ifconfig wi0 nwkey key up #insert the #wicontrol -n SSID -e 1 #insert the key and turn on encryption #dhclient wi0 There is no way to make it 'prompt' you, at least not by

Re: Wireless Problems (DWL-122)

2006-02-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/13/06, Luca Marra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up my wireless adapter in openbsd/macppc, it's a DWL-122 USB adapter and man wi says it's supported: The following cards are among those supported by the wi driver: [...] D-Link DWL-122 Prism-3 USB

Re: Wireless Problems (DWL-122)

2006-02-14 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/13/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then i use wicontrol to configure my wlan: Why not make it simpler? ifconfig does all this and is portable to other cards. cat /etc/hostname.wi0 EOF up nwid MyWifiName nwkey 0x0 dhcp EOF Because wi(4) is finicky. At

Re: GRAPE cluster supercomputer + OpenBSD

2007-04-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On 4/12/07, Vim Visual [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the GRAPE card http://www.metrix.co.jp/grape6A.html Now... I'd like to install OpenBSD on the cluster, of course... all I need is in the OS. But our IT department is not that happy... they want a debian and I'm very crossed. According to

Re: force password changes

2007-04-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On 4/12/07, John N. Brahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best way to force users to change their passwords? passwd(5), see the change field. Though I'm curious now, that says seconds since the epoch; is there any way to make passwords be changed every n weeks without resorting to

Re: sharing swap in OpenBSD

2007-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On 4/24/07, Jan Stary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I am trying to share swap between OpenBSD 4.0/i386 and FreeBSD, on a Dell laptop. I have sliced the disk as The FreeBSD installation lives in 'ad0s1a' (the first and only partition within the FreeBSD slice), and uses 'ad0s3b' (the only

Re: sharing swap in OpenBSD

2007-04-24 Thread Nick Guenther
On 4/24/07, Alexander Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Stary wrote: Hello list, I am trying to share swap between OpenBSD 4.0/i386 and FreeBSD, on a Dell laptop. I have sliced the disk as Disk: wd0 geometry: 41344/15/63 [39070080 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55 Starting

Re: NFS mount by non-root

2007-04-26 Thread Nick Guenther
On 4/26/07, Douglas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:33:47AM +, Douglas Maus wrote: Is it possible for users (non-root) to mount NFS exports? Mike Erdely responded: From mount_nfs(8): HISTORY The -P flag historically informed the kernel to use a reserved

Re: booting problem

2007-05-11 Thread Nick Guenther
On 5/11/07, alicornio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I can't boot my system after the instalation. My OS can't be finded. I follow the faq (4.12.2 - My i386 won't boot after install) and nothing change. But I can boot with CD typing b hd0a:\bsd. When I tried install again I saw a warning in

Re: RDR rule on PF

2007-05-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 5/13/07, Alberich de megres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/13/07, Johan Linner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is IP forwarding enabled? # sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 /Johan I checked tcpdump on internal if, and it's not working. I enabled ip forwarding on sysctl.conf, yes. It's so weird.

Re: OpenBSD sucks

2007-05-31 Thread Nick Guenther
On 5/31/07, Damien Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007, Open Phugu wrote: On 5/31/07, qw er [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really sucks. it is slow. What you say does not apply to OpenBSD. What you said describes you. I find it amazing that, in 2007, people still respond to

Re: keyboard map configuration

2007-06-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/12/07, Alex Popov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use ksh under OpenBSD/arm 4.1 and noticed that command line history feature (up-arrow) suddenly stopped working. Pressing up-arrow inserts control code, but command completion (tab-key) works fine. `kbd -l` doesn't list any map and attempt to do

Re: FAT32 mount problem

2007-06-12 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/12/07, Mark Voortman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, After mounting a fat32 partition, the directory listings show everything in uppercase, except when a filename contains a combination of uppercase and lowercase characters or the extension is not 3 characters long, then it shows the

Re: OpenBSD port update

2007-06-20 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/20/07, Erka Gun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've successfully installed OpenBSD 4.1. I'm new for OpenBSD therefore still studying how to update OpenBSD ports tree. How can i do this? Please someone tell me quick tips. If give me more detailed information i'll be very happy. Read all of

Re: How to install packages from FreeBSD

2007-06-22 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/22/07, Alex Kwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I found some packages (mainly for Chinese) under FreeBSD are useful to me, how to install and runt it? thanks! The two (Free and Open BSD) don't share a package system, but they do have a similar ports system. If you get the ports files from

crypto drives

2007-06-26 Thread Nick Guenther
Hi misc@, I'm interested in having a secure drive and I'm looking for some honest information. The sources I've seen so far are all biased and/or incomplete and/or out of date. Take, for example: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/12/21/netbsd_cgd.html?page=3

ps wrapping

2007-06-26 Thread Nick Guenther
Is there anyway to make ps format its output to not cut off lines at the edge of the screen? Is have a long command line I'm trying to remember and I can't see it all. I tried -o command but it's still too long. Perhaps a newbie question, but I suspect it might not actually be possible. Also,

Re: ps wrapping

2007-06-26 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/26/07, Will Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:28:37PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: Is there anyway to make ps format its output to not cut off lines at the edge of the screen? Is have a long command line I'm trying to remember and I can't see it all. I tried -o

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-27 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/27/07, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Various developers are busy implimenting workarounds for serious bugs in Intel's Core 2 cpu. These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don't just cause development/debugging problems, but will *ASSUREDLY* be exploitable from

Re: path traversal exploits

2007-07-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On 6/29/07, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The unarj v2.43 archiver we have for use with clamav virus scanning does not really work. The same is true for the newer 2.65 version released by the author. The problem is unarj is unable to extract with paths, hence it will overwrite files and

Re: no partition number, how to mount a msdos partition

2007-07-01 Thread Nick Guenther
On 7/1/07, Alexander Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alex Kwan wrote: my OpenBSD hard disk have a msdos partition, but it has no partition number like sd0x, (my system's partition no. was from Sd0a to Sd0g) how can I mount it or put it into fstab? thanks! First, do `fdisk sd0` and locate the

Re: cardbus cant map interrupt - asus pundit barebone

2006-02-15 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi fellows, having issues to get the cardbus working. Hardware: Asus Pundit AB-P2600 Cardbus Chipset: ENE CB-710Q Chip vendor ENE, unknown product 0x0510 (class memory subclass flash, rev 0x00) at pci2 dev 12 funct 'unknown product'

Re: ath1 fails to work in OBSD3.8

2006-02-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/17/06, atstake atstake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ath(4) configuration is not working in OBSD3.8-Release. I have the same problem with my ath-based card. It's been mentioned on the list before. The problem seems to be that the card isn't sending proper association info. I intend to try and

Re: /ect/resolv.conf on obsd

2006-02-20 Thread Nick Guenther
On 2/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running current on a home lan of several computers. Running bind-9.3.2 (not on the obsd box) Trying to understand the various ways of using keywords in /etc/resolv.conf. On my setup the obsd box resolv.conf looks like: domain

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