Re: Time for OBSD everywhere?

2008-05-16 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 16 May 2008 22:35:00 +0200 chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know at time it was said that OpenBSD is not for everything, but so far, I still haven't find anything that I need that OpenBSD can't shine doing. I can almost second that except for the few cases in which we really need to

Re: Time for OBSD everywhere?

2008-05-16 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 16 May 2008 17:48:47 -0400 Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2008 22:35:00 +0200 chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know at time it was said that OpenBSD is not for everything, but so far, I still haven't find anything that I need

Re: How secure is OpenBSD really

2008-04-15 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:45:14 +0200 Jernej Makovsek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please just ignore this post! As I said in my first post Now with this post I don`t want to start any wars. I know that nothing is bullet proof and so on but as a wannabe OBSD user I`m just interested in if this

Setting up a HA server with limited resources

2008-03-22 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. A customer with very limited resources needs to set up a high available system running apache, mysql, postfix and dovecot and I have gotten the task. I have only two Pentium 4 machines at my disposal, and I have begun researching how to make them work with load balancing and fail safe

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-18 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:41:18 +1300 Joel Wiramu Pauling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but to me sounds like your making a non-issue into a mole hill. Even the most limited of hardware can run decent browsers. Why you are insisting on using your access box, when you have another machine is beyond

Re: most secure graphical browser

2008-01-17 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:54 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 05:11:53PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 03:42:38 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to be able to use

Re: facts about OpenBSD (FOOOLS)

2008-01-14 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:53:35 -0800 johan beisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bitching and whining get you nothing. When will you people stop responding to whiners like this!? He's bitching and your just bitching back. Leave the ignorant fool alone, and he will stop barking up your three! It's not

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:33:57 -0600 Tony Abernethy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikns Siankin wrote: I see people keep repeating nonsense like this instead of talking about topic. At least he can read. And think. Leave the troll alone, he wants someone to play with, and he got that.

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-08 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:46:43 -0700 L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Stallman wrote: I hope that the other OpenBSD developers will repudiate such conduct. You said the other openbsd developers. In this context, it implies that I am an OpenBSD developer. The other means that I am

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-05 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:14:27 +0100 Jacob Grydholt Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're missing the point why somebody is calling OpenBSD non-free. Or supposedly why emacs runs on non-free. And you apparently missed the posts where the leading developers of OpenBSD stated that they don't

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:27:15 -0800 Kirk Ismay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rico Secada wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:06:39 -0600 David Higgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 22, 2007 5:53 PM, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that C is the hackers

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-24 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 17:01:54 -0500 Jon Radel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rico Secada wrote: Again lets ask Boing. I'm fully aware that spelling flames are terribly tasteless, but the image of planes loaded with Ada code going boing, boing, boing down the runway just won't leave my mind

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:06:39 -0600 David Higgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 22, 2007 5:53 PM, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that C is the hackers tool while Ada is the tool of the engineer. I think it is mostly because of tradition. Your understanding

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 21:11:50 +1100 Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used and taught Ada, for what that's worth. I also looked at Ada for writing OS kernel code, but the quality of the compilers forced me back to the C family. What compilers? Question for the proponents of

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:11:55 -0600 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a constant: your code is a bad as the developer. I agree :-), and here is another constant: #define strlcpy Theo de Raadt From lwn.net in 2003: Years of buffer overflow problems have made it clear that the

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Rico Secada
, but then it has its own problems. The language is bloated with functions, it is constantly changing making backwards compatibility difficult, and really.. Its just C and then some more crap. You cannot beautify what is born ugly. Rico Secada.

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:08:05 +0100 Erik Wikstrvm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not very familiar with Ada so I do not know if it allows for the same kinds of low-level programming (which is necessary when writing an OS or code that interacts with hardware) that C does. It does. Again, I do

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:04:05 +0530 Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. If security is a major concern, or perhaps The Main Concern, why not use Ada? I specifically mention Ada since one of the most security demanding industries are building aircrafts and they use Ada. I

Theo vs. Richard - avoiding the facts!

2007-12-15 Thread Rico Secada
regards. Rico Secada.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-14 Thread Rico Secada
I see you are being your usual friendly self ;-}. Yes, and you are being the usual slimy hypocritical asshole. I really fail to see, how a response like this serves OpenBSD or any other good purpose at all! If Richard Stallman is a hypocrite his answers and statements will show this by

Working with Docbook on OpenBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. Are there any tools that can be installed using packages or ports for converting docbook xml files into PDF? Normally I would use FOP, but I would pref. not having to install that from source. Best regards. Rico.

Re: Working with Docbook on OpenBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:21:02 +0100 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Never mind! I found htmldoc which converts HTML into PDF very nicely. So Docbook - HTML -PDF. It does the job and without Java like FOP needs! Hi. Are there any tools that can be installed using packages or ports

Lets wrap up the Richard/non-free discussion in a kind manner

2007-12-12 Thread Rico Secada
that the ports tree contains non-free software. It does not. It is just a scaffold of Makefiles containing URLs, and an occasional patch here or there. Lets wrap this up in a nice manner. Best and kind regards. Rico Secada.

Support for Brother HL1430

2007-12-12 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I looked at the http://openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware, but ofcourse it doesn't say anything about printers :-) Does the OpenBSD 4.2 package of ghostscript support Brother HL1430? Is it possible to get this printer running without having to patch ghostscript? Best regards. Rico.

About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. I have just listed to the interview of Richard Stallman on BSDTalk: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2007/10/bsdtalk132-richard-stallman.html In the interview he states: I am unhappy with the various distributions of BSD, because all of them include, in their installation systems, the ports

About BSD Certification

2007-06-08 Thread Rico Secada
Hi What do you think of The BSD Certification Group at bsdcertification.org? Is this a good idea? From my perspective it looks like a smart marketing way. A way to make money from people who think this would help in some way. Taking a certification doesn't prove anything imho. And the way

Re: About BSD Certification

2007-06-08 Thread Rico Secada
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 00:28:08 +0200 Marc Balmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Rico Secada wrote: What do you think of The BSD Certification Group at bsdcertification.org? It is as useless as MSCE and all the other vendor certificates. I would even go so far to claim it's a lot worse than

Re: Chrooting users the right way

2007-05-13 Thread Rico Secada
. I have tried to find articles on this, but haven't been succesfull. Does anyone know of a good tutorial on how to do this on OpenBSD? Best and kind regards. Rico Secada.

Gluster

2007-05-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Anyone with experience in setting up and using Gluster from GNU on OpenBSD? Rico

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-28 Thread Rico Secada
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:35:06 +0100 mal content [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28/04/07, Maurice Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 23:45:51 +0200, Maurice Janssen wrote: Some progress was made in the last couple of days. First results are up at

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:34:52 -0500 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the point again? What part didn't you understand? On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:13:12AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi Before I testrun this http://paradigma.pt/~gngs/sshjail/ does anyone already know

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:30:03 -0700 Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:34:52 -0500 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the point again? What part didn't you understand? why are you asking

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
with that attitude. Try to understand the subject first. The guy who made the patch are not using OpenBSD and hasn't done any testing on OpenBSD hence no benefit. On 4/27/07, Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:17:16PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:15:02 -0400 stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marco Peereboom Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:28 PM To: Rico Secada Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: SSHJail patch

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:14:32 -0500 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:08:31PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:27:58 -0500 Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:17:16PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote

Re: SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-27 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:38:48 +0200 Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rico Secada wrote: Hi Before I testrun this http://paradigma.pt/~gngs/sshjail/ does anyone already know if this patch would work with OpenSSH on OpenBSD 3.9? Best regards Rico Honestly, you

SSHJail patch for OpenBSD

2007-04-26 Thread Rico Secada
Hi Before I testrun this http://paradigma.pt/~gngs/sshjail/ does anyone already know if this patch would work with OpenSSH on OpenBSD 3.9? Best regards Rico

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-24 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:22:05 -0700 Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/23/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Messages should look like: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim

Re: shutdown gets stuck at `syncing discs...'

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
), retrying wd0: soft error (corrected) cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x0 SENSE KEY: Not Ready ASC/ASCQ: Medium Not Present # Han -- Best and kind regards Rico Secada

Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I need some comments from you guys on using sshfs as a solution at work. I need to make some of our NFS servers available for employees at their homes (where they live). I have been looking at both IPSec together with VPN, but I really like SSH better. At debian mailinglist I got a

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:05:51 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi I need some comments from you guys on using sshfs as a solution at work. I need to make some of our NFS servers available for employees

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:43:53 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:48:46AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:05:51 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote

Re: Help needed with server setup at work

2007-04-23 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:33:10 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 12:48:46AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:05:51 +0200 Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 09:28:53PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi

AFS Server on OpenBSD

2007-04-16 Thread Rico Secada
Hi, I have been trying to find some information on setting up a AFS server on OpenBSD, is it even possible? Rico.

Distributed File System

2007-04-16 Thread Rico Secada
Hi all. At work I am experiencing with setting up some distributed file system, at the current moment working with NFS. The problem is that it is being setup at work and people, from their homes, need to be able to mount the system. I have no prior experience in this, except for setting up and

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-13 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:16:41 -0400 Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to put the burning on anyone here, but if that was going to be done, I would love to be sure it is done properly, meaning with some guidance of devs to follow the same standard as the project if possible. Any

Binary kernel updates

2007-04-10 Thread Rico Secada
Hi all. I have noticed that the OpenBSD team puts a lot of emphasis on using binary packets rather than building from ports, which I think IMHO is good, but why is it that there is no binary kernel updates, rather than patching the kernel from source? I am asking this not from a point that we

Re: Binary kernel updates

2007-04-10 Thread Rico Secada
-u, but why not kernel and basesystem binary updates as well? Best and kind regards. Rico On 4/9/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I have noticed that the OpenBSD team puts a lot of emphasis on using binary packets rather than building from ports, which I

Re: Binary kernel updates

2007-04-10 Thread Rico Secada
to upgrade including kernel and basesystem upgrades. OpenBSD has really made a cool solution with pkg_add -u, but why not kernel and basesystem binary updates as well? Best and kind regards. Rico On 4/9/07, Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I have

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:43:56 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all for the kind and enlightening answers. When I read that it was mainly due to lack of people and so, and not because that it was a bad idea, I then hope OpenBSD will keep expanding, and one day have all the resources which

A little about assembly language

2007-02-08 Thread Rico Secada
Hi, I am brushing up a bit on my assembly language skills, I used to work on MIPS but are now looking on x86. I have a problem choosing between following a book using the (as) ATT syntax and another using (nasm) Intel syntax. I know that this isn't directly OpenBSD related but I would

Re: 202 days Uptime in OpenBSD 3.6

2007-01-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:47:38 -0800 Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/07, Francisco Valladolid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 202 days using OpenBSD 3.6 as router/firewall/ PPPOE. I want to share this screenshot. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/353353577_e8e875083d_o.jpg

OpenBSD's own compiler

2006-07-30 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am curently studying the Ada programming language and I read about the different safety demands, which has been made a standard, upon compilers. I read about how Ada is been used in all areas where safety is of great issue, and about how it's being used in rockets, Boing Airplanes and so

Why ksh?

2006-07-20 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I don't want to start a religios thread and I don't want general personal opinions :-) Why has OpenBSD developers decided to run ksh as the default shell and not for example bash or zsh? The question is being asked because of a debate at our datacenter about the three shells and I would

Something like Plesk for OpenBSD

2006-07-18 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I would like recommendations on solutions like Plesk for OpenBSD. The main fokus is to make it easy for people (clients) to log on to OpenBSD servers and administer their webhotels, change FTP password and so on. What are people, if any, on the list using? Best and kind regards! Rico

Encrypting e-mails

2006-07-10 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I have been looking into encrypting my e-mails and was thinking about GPG together with Sylpheed, since I am using Sylpheed. But I am wondering is there another and stronger or better way than GPG. Any recommendations? Best and kind regards, Rico

Re: UTF-8 text editor

2006-07-10 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 20:27:42 +0200 Mackan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! Is there any UTF-8-aware text editor (for terminal use) available for OpenBSD? Vi(m) and similar is out of question for me, I never learned those. I tried to compile latest nano from CVS, which support UTF-8, but

Encrypting files

2006-07-01 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop, in case it gets stolen. I have no prior experience in this field. I have been thinking about using mcrypt with blowfish, but is this a good way to go about? Are there a better alternative? And is blowfish the best way

Fw: NFSd problem - solved!

2006-06-30 Thread Rico Secada
Don't respond to this mail. Problem got solved, a powercut and a toasted exports file. On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:44:51 +0200 Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am having problems with one of our NFS servers at our datacenter. I have just set it up. I have edited /etc/rc.conf

NFSd problem

2006-06-29 Thread Rico Secada
Hi I am having problems with one of our NFS servers at our datacenter. I have just set it up. I have edited /etc/rc.conf and changes the portmap and nfs_server to YES. I have created the /var/db/mountdtab file. I have made an entry to /etc/exports When I reboot the machine and take a look