Re: isdn/dsl pci cards? (I4b)

2009-04-25 Thread Theo de Raadt
Oh. That's too bad. Why is that? I mean why drop something that is working and might be of need for at least some people? Wow, you sure like to make presumptions. It was dropped because it was unmaintained and unmaintainable. It did not fit into the system, and it did not work. Anyway. As

Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

2009-04-25 Thread Theo de Raadt
CVSROOT:/cvs Module name:src Changes by: dera...@cvs.openbsd.org 2009/04/25 11:36:48 Modified files: etc: Makefile Added files: etc/root : dot.Xdefaults etc/skel : dot.Xdefaults Log message: Provide users by default with

Re: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src

2009-04-25 Thread Theo de Raadt
I concede, this mail and my solution was not completely thought out. While making Xsession/xinitrc (tried startx since my first e-mail) run under sh -l would source .profile And what if a person's shell is actually csh, or some other shell? Then it does not work.

4.5 soon, but ...

2009-04-25 Thread Theo de Raadt
So OpenBSD 4.5 will be available soon, next weekend. I feel that I should urge people to avoid the new snapshots until after they give 4.5 a try, because a few of us have been improving the system installer a little bit. It is night and day. Therefore; don't try to install a -current snapshot

Re: wifi modes

2009-04-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
Why do only certain wireless cards support host AP mode or IBSS mode? Because someone has to _want_ to do the work. I understand not everyone can do the work, but why bother making lists. It isn't going to encourage anyone to want to. Why don't you all see that? We are not your slaves.

Re: OpenBSD install question

2009-04-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
root on cd0a swap on cd0b dump on cd0b stopped at debugger+0x4,leave Panic: cannot read disklabel, 0x600/0xf00, error 5 What official release CD did you generate this error on?

OpenBSD 4.5 released, May 1, 2009

2009-04-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
by Theo de Raadt, Mark Kettenis, and Miod Vallat. X11 builds by Todd Fries and Miod Vallat. ISO-9660 filesystem layout by Theo de Raadt. We would like to thank all of the people who sent in bug reports, bug fixes, donation cheques, and hardware that we use. We would also like to thank those who

Re: Improving kernel crypto performance

2009-04-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
I think the crypto framework still does too many context switches for small operations. IIRC It also doesn't do much load balancing when you have multiple accelerators in the system. I'm not too interested in accelerator cards at this point, just software implementations (i.e.,

Re: Improving kernel crypto performance

2009-04-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote: If you turn on cryptodevallowsoft and run openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc, you can watch the crypto thread in the kernel soaking up cpu. In order for the thread to be running, you're definitely context switching to

Re: Improving kernel crypto performance

2009-05-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
For instance, you have a hifn and a via cpu. Which does [should] crypto use? It should use the via, since it is way way way faster :)

Re: Error while applying 001_openssl.patch on OpenBSD 4.5

2009-05-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
Well, you did not build your tree correctly. It is well documented in 'man release' and in the /usr/src/Makefile I just tried to patch a virgin OpenBSD 4.5 installation by applying 001_openssl.patch (Version 2). After successfully rebuilding and installing the library, as well as

Re: How do I enable bsd.mp kernel in 4.4/i386?

2009-05-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
I am running OBSD 4.4/i386 on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (E1505) w/ 2GB RAM and a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (Merom). I am running the GENERIC OBSD 4.4/i386 'bsd' kernel and would like to set up the bsd.mp kernel instead. How do I go about this? cd / mv bsd bsd.sp mv bsd.mp bsd reboot

Re: How do I enable bsd.mp kernel in 4.4/i386?

2009-05-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
I am running OBSD 4.4/i386 on a Dell Inspiron 6400 (E1505) w/ 2GB RAM and a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (Merom). I am running the GENERIC OBSD 4.4/i386 'bsd' kernel and would like to set up the bsd.mp kernel instead. How do I go about this? cd / mv bsd bsd.sp mv bsd.mp bsd

Re: How do I enable bsd.mp kernel in 4.4/i386?

2009-05-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
Another way would be through creating/editing /etc/boot.conf and having an entry for the mp kernel ex: boot wd0a:/bsd.mp where wd0a is your root partition. I recommend against that. Firstly, one developer has already been fried on an upgrade using the -current bsd.rd Secondly, it is

Re: How do I enable bsd.mp kernel in 4.4/i386?

2009-05-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Sun, 3 May 2009 08:45:55 -0700 J.C. Roberts list-...@designtools.org wrote: Thirdly, it should be removed. The new installer destined for 4.6 already does the right thing, so the i386\amd64 specific etc/boot.conf hack is redundant and leads to confusion. Hmm, how should I specify

Re: [dera...@cvs.openbsd.org: Re: I would like to send this to misc@ and security-announce@, from me.]

2009-05-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 01:38:16PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: Look dude, that ftp site made something available before any of the second level mirrors were even opened up to other sites to retreive it. Deliberate action was taken to release something early without mirroring it from a

Re: snapshots index.txt and SHA256

2009-05-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
apparently, the format of index.txt has changed: the 'old' index, as shipped with 4.5, just lists the basenames, while a current index.txt is a 'ls -l'. Is this just for snapshots, or for future releases too? Is this temporary, or should my scripts expect this format from now on? scripts

Pre-orders for 5.1, and the new song!

2012-03-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
It is that time again. I have just activated pre-orders for CDs, tshirts, and posters for the 5.1 release -- due May 1. http://openbsd.org/orders.html At the same time, I am making available the song that will come out with the release (hmm, it is still moving out to the ftp mirrors at

Re: time kepping using GPS

2012-03-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
some insights for people using GPS for very critical server time keeping http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15817272,00.html This misses the point in a rather large way. Most of this jamming makes the true GPS signal hard to receive. When the signal cannot be received, the existing free-running

Re: time kepping using GPS

2012-03-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
Oh my god ... does not work for me since I don't belive in that kind of god. It's not a balony, just some information. Did you read the article till the end? After a few paragraphs I said oh, it is just a jamming, but furthermore the team explained that some already available devices are

Re: using access(2)

2012-03-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
The manpage of access(2) says CAVEATS access() and faccessat() should never be used for actual access control. Doing so can result in a time of check vs. time of use security hole. However, access() is used in test(1): case FILRD: return

Shut up and Hack

2012-03-23 Thread Theo de Raadt
Today we are releasing one of the extra songs which can be found on the 11-release celebration audio CD. KMFDM! It is called Shut up and Hack, and you can find a description of it at http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#audio_extra51 As well, the MP3 file:

Re: Is nginx to complement or replace apache?

2012-03-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
Seeing the work that is done on nginx as Daily changelog shows I was thinking the same, that eventualy nginx will replace httpd (it cannot replace apache). About that too many files open, I run it this once, but Stuart Henderson suggested to alter the values in /etc/login.conf. I was

Re: Is nginx to complement or replace apache?

2012-03-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
was expecting some decent values there, but I found out from FAQ that the default file has the corespondent values for the minimal hardware system OpenBSD is able to run on, so the giant machines need adjusting. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote

Re: similar behaviour to Linux netstat -lpn ?

2012-04-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
I'd like to see every program (with program name) that listen something on network. I can achive that on Linux by running netstat -lpn, like that server:~# netstat -lpn Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

Re: Recent DELL hardware support

2012-04-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
So your choice is between hardware which should already work in OpenBSD and hardware which (at least the nics) is known not to work yet but might work sometime in the future. Nobody here can make that decision for you :) Last time such issues happened, the people involved made sure we had the

Re: after downgrade OpenBSD dmesg display wrong information

2012-04-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
Some machines keep previous dmessages in mem. Scroll down to see the most recent dmesg, or check /var/run/dmesg.boot A cold boot wipes the dmesg buffer. -Otto Did something change in -current? Might be surprising, but things always change in -current...

Re: fdisk flag bootable partition during install

2012-04-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
1. When I used flag 1 in fdisk during install, did the installer place the new files in fdisk partition 1? [...] IIRC, behaviour with more than one A6 partition is undefined, but I'd say so, since it was the first A6 the kernel encountered on that disk. Undefined? Sorry. But if you

Re: fw_update

2012-05-10 Thread Theo de Raadt
Also, while I recognize this is an edge case, I have in the past sold systems with OpenBSD installed on them to other people, and now that I come to think of it I have no idea whether that's legal to do with, say, iwn-firmware installed on it (it's probably not). Every firmware package includes a

Re: unbound

2012-05-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
As unbound is now in base but not yet built by default how is it built in order to test it (is it a simple 'make install' or is more involved)? How to add it to the list the gets built with a make build of userland (or is this even safe)? Or is it simply best to use packages or ports at this

Re: Upgrading OpenBSD

2012-05-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Richards, Toby toby.richa...@slo.courts.ca.gov wrote: OpenBSD does have an Upgrade option, but does it upgrade the installed packages? pkg_add -ui Even more relevant: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade51.html Interestingly, when I upgrade a

Re: Upgrading OpenBSD

2012-05-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
Outstanding point. The thing is this: With MS PHP is clearly distinct from the OS. I go get it from php.org. With BSD I must rely on the package system. That is balony. On OpenBSD, you get PHP yourself, too. PHP is not part of OpenBSD. The package tree is a convenience. If you expect us

Re: OpenBSD in April's issue of the CACM

2012-05-29 Thread Theo de Raadt
: Robert Barr rb...@cisco.com To: 'Theo de Raadt' dera...@cvs.openbsd.org Subject: RE: Patent claims on VRRP Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:33:25 -0700 I hope CARP is successful, I really do. Please think about my risk management comments tho. I am not trying to win any argument

Re: OpenBSD in April's issue of the CACM

2012-05-29 Thread Theo de Raadt
of anyone trying to follow the standards, so that they could not later claim they did not know. It was corporatism to the top. IETF claims having those IPR statements there is not their own claim, but that position is retarded. What if tomorrow I requested IETF to add a Theo de Raadt IPR statement

Re: OpenBSD in April's issue of the CACM

2012-05-29 Thread Theo de Raadt
Wow, and look at this: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2011-10-2011-12.html#The-New-CARP Look at that last entry about talking to IANA! Yet we -- who wrote the protocol -- never received a mail from any of them. So it is OK for him to accuse of us not going through the proper

Re: OpenBSD in April's issue of the CACM

2012-05-29 Thread Theo de Raadt
My favorite part is above. This shit cracks me up. Now imagine if there were proprietary tcp protocols. All sorts of different devices running there own version. Yes it would be a nightmare. I think you are mixing up things. TCP? No, that was another time, a little later:

Re: nonexistent tables in pf.conf

2012-05-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
There is a difference between an empty table and a nonexistent table, and there is a difference between a table not existing at load time and table being deleted. Since you have such firm opinions, perhaps you should write your own packet filter.

Re: nonexistent tables in pf.conf

2012-05-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
On May 30 12:14:22, Theo de Raadt wrote: There is a difference between an empty table and a nonexistent table, and there is a difference between a table not existing at load time and table being deleted. Since you have such firm opinions, perhaps you should write your own packet

Re: realtek 8188ce not configured

2012-05-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Fred Crowson fred.crow...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 May 2012 21:45, patrick keshishian pkesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi misc@, Lenovo won't let me replace the Realtek 8188CE mini-pci card that came with it with another. The hardware refuses to boot with an

Re: realtek 8188ce not configured

2012-05-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
Lenovo won't let me replace the Realtek 8188CE mini-pci card that came with it with another. The hardware refuses to boot with an unauthorized network card detected or somesuch error (brilliant!). What are the chances of getting this card working with obsd? :) bios-mods.com has high-wire

Re: (Kinda O.T.) Digital Millennium Copyright Act used to censor hardware specifications

2012-05-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
Shame on you. Don't you know that linking to links that link to links that have DCMA'd is a crime? Enjoy the bars. On Thu, 31 May 2012 17:12:58 +0200, Ted Unangst wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:11, Brett wrote: Pursuant to a rights owner notice under the Digital Millennium Copyright

Re: spamd 250 messages

2012-05-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:00:45 -0400 Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote: That's also why spamd in greylisting stutters for the first 10 seconds. Many spammers disconnect now when stuttered at, so they give up before even starting the greylisting process. It might be

Re: ifconfig bridge delete

2012-05-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
$ sudo ifconfig bridge0 delete athn0 ifconfig: athn0: bad value $ sudo ifconfig bridge0 del athn0 $ Uuhm? This is an error in the manual page. It came about due to the merge of brconfig(8) into ifconfig(8). When brconfig was a seperate program either delete if or del if would do the same

Re: (Kinda O.T.) Digital Millennium Copyright Act used to censor hardware specifications

2012-05-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Thu, 31 May 2012 18:25:14 +0200, Theo de Raadt wrote: Shame on you. Don't you know that linking to links that link to links that have DCMA'd is a crime? Enjoy the bars. I'm sure quoting mails that link to links that link to DCMA'd links is a felony, too. Perhaps we'll

Re: (Kinda O.T.) Digital Millennium Copyright Act used to censor hardware specifications

2012-05-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
Very clever. But those who give up their right to link to DCMA'd links for a little more liberty deserve neither. Or something very close to that. Most of those falling into that trap are Americans, so they don't know where you are coming from.

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
2012/6/1 Tyler Morgan tyl...@tradetech.net: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive That doesn't mention GPT, which is the problem with drives 2TB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table Can OpenBSD already boot from a 4TB drive on an UEFI system? Try to buy systems

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
On the other hand, GPT by itself appears useful. What is useful about GPT? *EVERY USER* has the following simple requirements: 1. I have a machine. 2. I want to install an operating system on it (or, have an operating system installed from the factory) What am I missing -- what

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
The apparent advantage of GPT over FDISK partitions is that it can describe partitions 2TB for systems hosting multiple OSes. That's all I meant. Sorry that it wasn't clear. US-based missile-armed predator drones by themselves appear useful.

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
Can we please differentiate GPT from EFI. GPT may be part of the EFI specification, but it's a standalone piece - implementing GPT is not going to restrict anyone's freedom to do what they want with a machine. Some possibilities EFI offers are more contentious.. You are turning it upside

Re: SMTP server pools at odds with the RFC?

2012-06-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
Not only is greylisting fine from a protocol point of view (as others have pointed out), the IETF is also well aware of it. This is about to become an RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-greylisting That's a marked improvement over what appeared to be the status only a

Re: Large (3TB) HDD support

2012-06-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
I don't have a particular issue with most of the disk hackery that OpenBSD currently performs, but the key detail is that at least under x86, powermac and sgi platforms [1] it seems to work within the boundaries of the native disk partitioning by using a custom disk format, performing custom

Re: SMTP server pools at odds with the RFC?

2012-06-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org writes: it is still false to say that greylisting wasn't permitted by the original RFC's. it was, and it is. Any reasonable interpretation (IMO) of the relevant parts of RFC5321 and RFC2821 means that greylisting is well within the protocol

Re: llround(), round() broken?

2012-06-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
This seems to come up most often regarding the math functions. Which Unix system doesn't require -lm for those math functions? man intro (3) comes close in OpenBSD (I did man -k libraries to find it) It just seems like if a function requires a special library that should be mentioned in the

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Dominguez, Roland roland.doming...@tamucc.edu wrote: I just came across this article and was wondering if it's legit: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/OpenBSD-forked-to-create-Bitrig-161695 4.html Yes, it's legit and it reflects the reality of the facts

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 16:14, Peter Laufenberg wrote: Funny thing is, I've never been upset about the 20+ OpenBSD and ex-OpenBSD developers who now work for google. Do they still work on OpenBSD and contribute back? yes. some more, some less. first off, I do not understand the word back

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
The secretive nature is concerning. But I hope that this situation can somehow turn out to be beneficial to both projects in the long term. As long as my favourite and most relied upon OS continues to evolve, I will be happy. And I will certainly continue to buy from and donate to the OpenBSD

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:59:16AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Ariane wants to be involved as well, but is still waiting to see how others in the project feel. I've changed from waiting to being involved. And in Theo's interest in breaking secrecy: I've stepped down from maintaining

Re: Following -current through a semi-automatic process: a strategy for encouraging user involvement?

2012-06-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
never mind the premise that snapshots contain changes not found in the trees, you state things to the effect of user chooses wether or not to reboot to new kernel. didn't even bother; e.g., comparing nm outputs well, hang on. quite often those diffs in snapshots are not yet commited for a

Re: Fresh install of 5.1 doesn't allow me to creat user but after install I can.

2012-06-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
Quoting cody chandler cody.a.chand...@gmail.com: Hello, OpenBSD 5.1 -Release. 4 installs tested. During install when it first asks do I want to creat a user. It does not allow me to creat the user name II00I00II. But after the install I can use useradd or adduser and am

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:24 PM, richardtoo...@paradise.net.nz wrote: I'd prefer the (small) team of developers to work on the code. Well, that's a false dichotomy: not all OpenBSD committers work on the code. A handful work primarily on maintaining the website and/or documentation,

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
Speaking personally, I wouldn't mind if OpenBSD's website were updated. Just no one has volunteered yet to do the dirty work of actually coming up with a functional design and then updating the HTML. Talk is cheap. Yes, talk is unbelievably cheap. On the other hand, if whatever anyone

Re: OpenBSD's webpage desing

2012-06-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 08:19, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote: Really? Can we do that? Seems, by this thread and previous about this subject, that nobody is waiting for any diffs regarding this There's so much low hanging fruit that could be improved before somebody starts dicking

Re: OpenBSD - UEFI Secure Boot

2012-07-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
Be realistic. Talking about it on misc won't change anything. Dear Your name should be here ;-) , I have been considering the implications for BSD and Linux and any non-MS O/S of the implementation of UEFI Secure Boot (SB). As I understand it, ARM devices wishing to receive Win8 cert are

Re: missing /etc/fstab

2012-07-08 Thread Theo de Raadt
I remember some early 5.1 snapshot which installed and successfully run without /etc/fstab however, 5.1-RELEASE came with /etc/fstab it would be nice to move system from one server to another without having to bother about /etc/fstab (I moved several of them due to buggy hardware). is it

ss20's wanted for ports builds

2012-07-16 Thread Theo de Raadt
As many of you know, we continue to build packages on a lot of architectures which you don't have anymore, since quite often bugs are exposed which affects the mainline architectures. Unfortunately, we are running low on 32-bit sparc machines. If any of you have ss20's in good shape to give to

Re: atexit() and stdio() protection

2012-07-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
I guess you are talking about mitigation mechanisms. I am not aware of any stdio protection mechanisms. However, our atexit has a bizzare quirk, as does our malloc. These functions protect their own internal data structures by mprotect()'ing them as non-writeable after updating them. It isn't

Re: ss20's wanted for ports builds

2012-07-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:45:30PM +0200, [BG-Consulting] Elmar Bschorer wrote: What do you mean with ss20? Actually a good question. At least for those old enough to remember the Soviet era SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic nucelar missiles. I'd like one of those too.

Re: ss20's wanted for ports builds

2012-07-19 Thread Theo de Raadt
On 07/19/12 10:42, Erling Westenvik wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:45:30PM +0200, [BG-Consulting] Elmar Bschorer wrote: What do you mean with ss20? Actually a good question. At least for those old enough to remember the Soviet era SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic nucelar

Re: OpenBSD's brilliant design

2012-07-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
I'm about to write an article on OpenBSD's brilliant design, mainly to make things clearer to myself as well as my coworkers - all of whom have been using FreeBSD for the past 15 years. All of whom have recently converted to OpenBSD due to the need for something simpler to base our

Re: OpenBSD on GitHub

2012-08-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
I don't find this controversial, except the notion that sticking with blunt tools to solve a human/procedural problem is a good idea. How else should I, as the maintainer of the trunk, contain the damage from these human/procedural problems? Careful -- every suggestion you want to suggest now

Re: Any T410/T420 with suspend/resume fully working in 5.1 or current?

2012-08-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
Can anyone report a successful suspend and resume in a Thinkpad T410 or T420? Yes, yours resumes fine (so do others). My T410 with current (5.2) resumes but with usb ports down (no power). This is a known bug with the T410, T510, x201, and x201s. I've spent a lot of time trying to find a

Re: Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
It is good sense to push unix users into a mentality that usernames should be lower case by default. I don't see any reason to change it. The choice of usernames during OBSD install is more restrictive than adduser. For example install does not allow capital letters in usernames. I read up

1u machine wanted..

2012-08-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
Donation request: I am looking for 1 or 2 very fast 1u x86 machines (for instance fast-cpu dell r610) so that I can do a refresh of the ports tree amd64-build machines with newer hardware. The current machines are lagging in performance and I want to improve the build times. The two faster

Re: 1u machine wanted..

2012-08-21 Thread Theo de Raadt
Donation request: I am looking for 1 or 2 very fast 1u x86 machines (for instance fast-cpu dell r610) so that I can do a refresh of the ports tree amd64-build machines with newer hardware. The current machines are lagging in performance and I want to improve the build times. The

Re: More sensible and consistent rc.conf.local

2012-08-25 Thread Theo de Raadt
(For sake of the argument: pfctl has options, maybe they should be a rc.conf option for it?) pfctl is not a daemon per se, as opposed to e.g. smtpd or httpd. As far as enabling pf and loading the ruleset, only a subset of the pfctl flags are of interest. Therefore, there is

Re: xenocara not building on amd64-current

2012-09-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
Sorry. You may think you followed the instructions correctly, but you didn't. Obviously though there are new X snapshots available, so this problem is not in the tree. http://openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20120831a Read the second sentence again: Everyone is encouraged to update via

Re: xenocara not building on amd64-current

2012-09-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
I read the whole sentence, and followed the instructions: Everyone is encouraged to update via snapshots (dated after 2012/08/31); if you want to upgrade via sources, follow these instructions: ... But, ok, I'll just update from a snapshot. OK, fine, let me translate that for you: Go

5.2 pre-orders are up

2012-09-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
We've activated 5.2 pre-orders. Yeah, we know the http://www.openbsd.org/52.html page sucks, and doesn't list all the stuff we've done recently. Hopefully that will change.

v215/v245 for .ch

2012-09-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
we have a developer who wants a pci-e sparc64 machine in switzerland. probably a v215 or v245, i am not sure if he wants a sun4v machine, but we can see about that. It will improve modern (pcie) network drivers on every architecture, kind of by accident or designed, depening on your point of

Re: Question about the code

2012-10-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
Hi, it's about src/usr.sbin/unbound/ldns/drill/work.c at line 184: What is the 'fp' FILE used for ? Here - if I'm not mistaken - we fopen() filename, and that's it. We don't use the 'fp' variable, and we never fclose() it. If you type unbound into google, you will see that this is upstream code

Re: the idea of /fastboot ?

2012-10-09 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 22:55, Илья Шипицин wrote: Hello! I'm investigating /etc/rc script. And I found the following there: if [ -e /fastboot ]; then echo Fast boot: skipping disk checks. elif [ X$1 = Xautoboot ]; then echo Automatic boot in progress: starting file

Re: OpenBSD-current, any chance to have TU2-ETG (ethernet adapter) working?

2012-10-17 Thread Theo de Raadt
I just install the last snapshot i386, and plug my Trendnet Ethernet Adapter (TU2-ETG). When i run this: (ifconfig axe0 media ; dmesg ; sysctl hw.sensors) axe0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lladdr 00:50:b6:4e:5a:c9 priority: 0 media:

Re: copyright on grdc?

2012-10-18 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 13:22, Carson Chittom wrote: This is pretty minor, but: 1. I just noticed that both grdc.c and grdc.6 (in src/games/grdc) say Copyright 2002 Amos Shapir. Public domain. The US Copyright Office says[1], essentially, that copyright and public domain are

Re: GPU driver for Raspberry Pi open sourced

2012-10-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221 Well, they are lying to everyone. Their open source is nothing but a layer of code which calls into a closed source back-end.

Re: Why anyone in their right mind would like to use NAT64

2012-10-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
Anyone have any possible explication that would actually justify the use of NAT64 that I obviously overlooked? The one use I could think of us to make your internal network independent of your ISP. Right now, if you change ISPs, your network prefix changes and your whole network has

Re: Why anyone in their right mind would like to use NAT64

2012-10-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:43:14PM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote: Le 2012-10-24 14:25, Kurt Mosiejczuk a écrit : The one use I could think of us to make your internal network independent of your ISP. Right now, if you change ISPs, your network prefix changes and your whole network has to

Re: Why anyone in their right mind would like to use NAT64

2012-10-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:43:14PM -0400, Simon Perreault wrote: What you need to multihome is either BGP or NAT. Exactly as in IPv4. Nothing has changed. The only new thing with IPv6 is that there's more bits. Oh? I have two internet connections plugged directly into my desktop box at

Re: Why anyone in their right mind would like to use NAT64

2012-10-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
End hosts need to get smarter, instead of the network adapting to their stupidity. But I'm not holding my breath. No, what you are really saying is that non-transient network traffic (long lived TCP sessions) need to have the applications talking them -- and obviously the protocols also --

Re: Why anyone in their right mind would like to use NAT64

2012-10-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:21:33PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: What happens if one of your links goes down for a day? Do all your ssh sessions to everywhere in the world stay up? The internet has non-transient traffic, too. No, I will have to re-start some of them

Re: Why anyone in their right mind would like to use NAT64

2012-10-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:28:38PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Basically to make IPv6 pseudo-multihoming work like IPv4 multihoming, ssh and sshd need to be modified that they can handle a network break, and re-connect using another address. I fail to see what any of this has to do

Re: boot(8) on amd64 asks for passphrase but keydisk...?

2012-11-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
Well I moved to position that booting with a passphrase and then concatenate strong passphrase from an Yubikey configured with static passphrase would be better solution than keydisk and passphrase. Although I don't have an Yubikey token now but as an Yubikey token is simulatin usb

Re: Incomplete packages for sh?

2012-11-05 Thread Theo de Raadt
I noticed when populating my mirror with the 5.2 release, that the packages for sh just end with the packages starting with 'g'. I just double checked when writing this, and even ftp.openbsd.org has the same incomplete set of packages for sh. Was there some glitch? Or is there some

Re: ftps?

2012-11-29 Thread Theo de Raadt
Because they can just hack it on top of their crusty old ftp server software, whereas using sftp would need much bigger changes? SSL/TLS makes everything more secure

Re: several X servers on one host

2012-12-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
PS. According to Wikipedia UNIX is a multitasking, _multiuser_ computer operating system, so it turns out that the loss of ability to run multiple startx/xinit sessions is equivalent to the loss of the essential UNIX feature- _multiuser_ support:( You have this very wrong. The problem is

Re: out of swap

2013-01-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
I ran into /etc/login.conf limits of datasize = 512M way before hitting any other limit, so is that bumped? that is for one process.

Re: How to configure pppoe client on OpenBSD?

2013-01-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013, at 02:26 PM, Jay Jennings wrote: Rudeness is why people find openbsd hard for newbies; and potentially new funders of the projects and buyers of cds and merchandise. Jay is the rude person here. Someone helps him, and he insults them. The world would be better off

Re: How to configure pppoe client on OpenBSD?

2013-01-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
My apologies to all; I didn't mean to be trolling or rude back to those helpful on the list. I just felt off putting comments like let-me-find-that-man-page-for-you are not the right way to treat those who support your projects. How do you, specifically, support our projects? Must be pretty

Re: Shell for PF

2013-02-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
I was wondering why nobody has ever created a shell for pf so that you could manipulate it in a way similar to JunOS instead of editing pf.conf. Also show / monitor commands. Hierarchical edit mode, stuff like that. Because pf does not follow the configuration model of a switch or router, or

Re: Shell for PF

2013-02-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
Someone referred me to NSH which is exactly what I was thinking of. No, NSH is now what you are thinking of at all. You are asking for something which nests the *entire heirarchy* of command structure to control interfaces and stuff PLUS pf... but NSH cannot do that in the 'natural way' you ask

Re: Shell for PF

2013-02-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
I would like to offer a suggestion though from my experience, simplifying the configuration of a device greatly increases its security, operationally. So if users (network IT staff) are presented with something vaguely familiar to what they would encounter in the other equipment like cisco or

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