Re: Shouldn't OpenBSD X11 come out with -nolisten tcp as default?

2005-08-29 Thread Tony
Security is not having to say how high? when someone says jump! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Miroslav Kubik Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 4:54 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Shouldn't OpenBSD X11 come out with -nolisten tcp as

RE: Re: Portmap non-local set / unset attempt

2005-09-22 Thread tony
Security is everything you've ever said, plus a process. No. security does not require the process. Attempted security (that doesn't quite work) requires a process. Like the difference between does work and should work.

RE: Re: Portmap non-local set / unset attempt

2005-09-23 Thread tony
Making is a process. Toast is not a process. - --- Original Message --- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 02:30:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Security is everything you've ever said, plus a process. If it is secure, it doesn't need a

RE: Netgear WG311 v3

2005-10-02 Thread tony
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] These cards don't seem to be ath anymore. The relevant bits from my dmesg. rl0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 D-Link Systems 530TX+ rev 0x10: irq 11 address 00:11:95:24:6a:0d rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy rl1 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 D-Link Systems 530TX+ rev 0x10: irq

RE: Re: sh-script executing

2005-10-06 Thread tony
The editing is perfectlty safe. It is the reading of a file that is being changed that is unsafe. Of course there's Microsoft Windows. - --- Original Message --- - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:39:47 OM I know this behaviour form every

Re: FileSystem Corruptions? Very important Files at stake.

2005-10-08 Thread Tony
The first thing to do is to copy the drive with the photos to fresh disk space before further damage is done to the originals. Expect recovery to be long and painful even with some tools to make it easier. There are people here that know a lot more about this than I, but the first thing is to get

Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread Tony
There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less. The stunt is essentially the same as stuff in newspapers. The reporter writes. The editor puts as much as will fit in the alloted space and ignores the remainder without even looking. The

RE: Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread tony
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:06:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less. Nonsense. Just because your MS Outlook does not support or is not configured

RE: Re: Non Developers allowed to ask questions ?

2005-10-19 Thread tony
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 10:07:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:06:11 +0100 Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a legitimate use for top posting. Deletion and/or answer of message in 10 to 15 seconds or less.

Re: 10 things i hate most on unix

2005-11-05 Thread Tony
Quoth Gustavo Rios Saturday, November 05, 2005 8:40 PM Hey folks, sorry, but i found this on the web. May someone tell if it is serious, i myself could not believe it. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=424451seqNum=1 UNIX was a terrific workhorse for its time, but

RE: Re: OT: 10 things i hate most on unix

2005-11-06 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 12:40:12AM -0200, Gustavo Rios wrote: Hey folks, sorry, but i found this on the web. May someone tell if it is serious, i myself could not believe it. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=4244 51seqNum=1 Looks like a rehash of

Re: Bandwidth loss

2005-05-13 Thread Tony
Further, since the switch is manageable, it has some ability to report port status. Odds-on that there is a disagreement on FULL/HALF-DUPLEX between the switch and the network card. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuart Henderson Sent:

Re: fdisk and disklabel C/H/S

2005-05-14 Thread Tony
Can you put the files on two different disk drives? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mikhail Malamud Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2005 9:39 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk and disklabel C/H/S --- Steve Shockley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-02 Thread Tony
Some I've been in, the owner never gets a chance. You're already out of there. Forcibly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markus Kolb Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 5:06 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific

Re: howto clean disks ?

2005-06-02 Thread Tony
Results can be a bit, ... interesting if there is a Linux swap partition in existence. (That's partition as in DOS/Windows/Linux, not partition as in BSD) The swap is activated by default and the verification errors can be interesting. badblocks probably gives better assurance that the disk is in

Re: Problems with CPU/ARCH specific compilation!?

2005-06-03 Thread Tony
No, they hate it when you do things that are advised against and that tend to run into trouble and you expect them to bail you out when you don't even supply any hard information about the failures. I've been following this thread, actually a bit amazed at the reticence of the developers. About

Re: heal the world, and misc@ [strictly coffeetime reading]

2005-06-10 Thread Tony
Some people on this list seem to have some anger management issues. Some people not on this list seem to have some anger management issues. Both statements true and both statements approximately equally relevant. Overall, this list seems quite a friendly place, and if anything is surprising, it

Re: heal the world, and misc@ [strictly coffeetime reading]

2005-06-10 Thread Tony
OpenBSD has an annoying habit of being right. Perhaps if OpenBSD can be civilized into not speaking their minds, OpenBSD won't be so annoying (by not being so right). That seems to be the implicit thrust of these thingees. Flames invited if I've misread the situation. -Original Message-

Re: heal the world, and misc@ [strictly coffeetime reading]

2005-06-11 Thread Tony
The gcc thread. The advice is to NOT use strange optimizations. The experience supports that advice. This is similar to people not following a recipe and complaining that the recipe doesn't work. This thread is started by someone with a degree in teaching computer science, who is afraid to

Re: Some Sites Don't Load Behind pf NAT

2005-06-12 Thread Tony
Dunno if relevant, but a long time ago, routing ethernet over an internal SLIP connection (don't ask, fiber is much better), connections were real flaky until I upped the MTU on the SLIP connection to 1500. Seems Microsoft likes to put a Don't Fragment into the TCP/IP setup and silently ignores

Re: Theo gave an interview to Forbes Mag. about Linux

2005-06-17 Thread Tony
Correctness is difficult. Actually, security is the easier part. (and it's easier to keep score;) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of chefren Sent: Friday, June 17, 2005 6:17 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Theo gave an interview to Forbes

Re: Why timezone it is always incorrect??

2005-06-18 Thread Tony
User A is on the east coast. User B is on the west coast. They both use the same computer. What time is it? UTC is the correct time. User wants to view time in his own time zone. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of C. L. Martinez Sent:

Re: No man pages after installing bash

2005-06-20 Thread Tony
Check /etc/man.conf from fresh 3.7 install (with bash and a few others installed) ?? Did you install the man pages ?? bash-3.00$ cat /etc/man.conf # $OpenBSD: man.conf,v 1.8 2001/04/05 19:05:49 millert Exp $ # Sheer, raging paranoia... _versionBSD.2 # The whatis/apropos database.

Re: mcopy -s foo a:

2005-06-21 Thread Tony
Dunno if it will help but Writing to a fresh floppy (W98) foo.txt bar.foobar dir dir.txt The (possibly) long filename take up an extra directory slot and is in the proper case. Floppy should be FAT12 (very limited number of clusters) but this has nothing to do with long file names. The extension

Re: can't find /etc/crontab ?

2005-06-25 Thread Tony
man crontab (from fresh OBSD 3.7) FILES /var/cron/cron.allow list of users allowed to use crontab /var/cron/cron.deny list of users prohibited from using crontab /var/cron/tabsdirectory of individual crontabs I think there's a reason that they include the man

Re: Strange df output

2005-06-25 Thread Tony
5% or so is reserved for root and is not available. When everybody has run out of disk space, it is very helpful if the situation does NOT apply to root. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew S Elmore Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:35

Re: Strange df output

2005-06-25 Thread Tony
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 256252180540 6290074%/ 256252 blocks less 5% reserve. This gives 243440 blocks total available for users. less 180540 gives 62900 blocks currently available for users. 180540/243440 gives

Re: SH programming

2005-06-27 Thread Tony
The following seems to work. $ year=2005 $ foo=$(expr $year - 1900 ) $ dayscount=$(expr $foo \* 365 ) $ echo $dayscount 38325 Problems include an unescaped asterisk man expr indicates that parentheses should work but my playing with them seems to indicate otherwise. ---Correction: $

Re: boot failure: If i could drop dead right now ...

2005-06-30 Thread Tony
Just guessing, but it looks like you are at the very fringe of what BIOS can and cannot access. Insignificant differences have large consequences, just like a few inches near the edge of a cliff. If so, any recompile of the kernel would be unbootable. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: OpenBSD with Linksys WRT54G

2005-07-03 Thread Tony
The Linksys WRT54g has a 4-port switch, an RJ45 jack labeled Internet, and an access point which can speak 11Mbps and/or 54Mbps. What I do on our local lan is essentially to use it/them as a bridge. Turn off the Linksys DHCPD, set the internal IP address, set a password, set whatever parameters

Re: Toshiba laptop 3.7 installation problem

2005-07-08 Thread Tony
From a Toshiba Satellite, maybe not too dissimilar: I assume the Q of pckbc0 ISA Q Port 0x60/5 is a typo Seems to be a pckbc0 and a pckbd0 Beyond that I'm out of my depth. (way out;) Loading... probing: pc0 mem[639K 478M a20=on] disk: fd0 hd0+ OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.06 boot booting hd0a:/bsd:

Re: Writes to samba server very, very slow

2005-07-19 Thread Tony
This *may* help. man mount softdep (FFS only.) Mount the file system using soft dependen- cies. Instead of metadata being written immediately, it is written in an ordered fashion to keep the on-disk

Re: network adapter order

2005-08-01 Thread Tony
Rod.. Whitworth wrote: [snip] We chose to use 0 for outside 1 for internal and 2 for server. I cannot fool anybody into thinking that 2 looks like S, dammit! From the land down under: Australia. Do we look umop apisdn from up over? [snicker] try a mirror. But seriously folks, that looks like THE

Re: x86 rings?

2005-08-04 Thread Tony
Unless I am very much mistaken, this is Unix not Multics. To do anything with the rings, you must make userland into a three-ring circus. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Feustel Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 4:05 PM To: Theo de Raadt

Re: x86 rings?

2005-08-04 Thread Tony
Rings and segments are pretty much orthogonal concepts. C is hardly unique in not supporting segmentation. The only languages I am aware of that even come close are Burroughs Algol and PL/I (and as always Basic Assembly). (Lisp?) But overriding is the fact that x86 supporting segments does not

Re: Requesting an change in the installer

2005-08-05 Thread Tony
Alexey E. Suslikov wrote: Nick Holland wrote: PERSONALLY, I prefer to call the single processor kernel bsd.sp, bsd.sp is not correct if you crazy about correct terminology :) bsd.up (uniprocessor) is correct one. Alexey. Maybe it's just me, but everytime I see up I see down as its implicit

RE: Re: timekeeping on Soekris net4801 w/ ntpd. 3.8

2005-11-15 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:20:07 On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:23:00AM +0100, the unit calling itself Henning Brauer wrote: 'adjusting local clock by XXs' The word 'by' is a preposition with a specific meaning in the context of its use... it means in the amount of... but

RE: Re: slightly OT: TCP checksum and RFC conformity

2005-11-17 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Damien Miller wrote: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] djm]$ netstat -sp ip | grep -E '(bad.*checksum|total packets)' 61092730 total packets received 0 bad header checksums wouldn't netstat -sp tcp | grep -E '(bad.*checksum|total packets)' give the output

Re: timekeeping on Soekris net4801 w/ ntpd. 3.8

2005-11-18 Thread Tony
Ted Unangst: [i was trying to stay away, but can't.] I've never really trusted prepositions ;) By and by, stand by that clock and adjust it by 30 minutes, by whatever means and by whatever rubric you deem appropriate. By which direction, I wonder. On 11/18/05, J Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: FileSystem versus File System

2005-11-26 Thread Tony
J.C. Roberts wrote: I went looking for HIER(7) but didn't know it's name, so I stuffed the words file system into an Apropos keyword search and got nothing. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=file+systemsektion=0 manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386apropos=1format=html Damn, I

Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-11-26 Thread Tony
J.C. Roberts wrote: To the rest of list users; Please pardon another long email from me on this. Helping reasonable people like Robbert understand why many people consider HOWTO's to be harmful is hopefully worth the added noise and bandwidth. On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 10:57:12 +0100, Robbert

Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-11-27 Thread Tony
Daniel Ouellet wrote: In all these: I'm going to take this thread for what I think it is... the old guard telling us youngin's that our efforts are appreciated, but we've got a bit more to learn about how things work, and how to write good documentation, before we're really ready to jump

RE: sent some www diffs, your one and last chance to flame me

2005-11-28 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] all or nothing. make the pages match the quality of the code and the cd's. even if you don't care, other people do. I PAID for my CDs. I am happy with artwork, particularly the smirk on that puffer fish. I did not pay for the website. If I can stumble into the FAQ

RE: Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-28 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm, on Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 05:32:54PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek said that It's even a FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#wwwnotstd doesn't mean it's right, does it? Certainlly doesn't mean it's wrong. Almost certainly means it's OpenBSD What system were you

RE: Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-28 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:53:45AM -0800, the unit calling itself J.C. Roberts wrote: I would assume that J.C. Roberts is a human, not a unit, whatever that is supposed to imply. On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:27:56 -0600, J Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did think - I

RE: Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-28 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using a mozilla 1.7 browser, with CSS on, JavaScript off. And it doesn't run javascript. Outside my area of expertise, but that seems normal somehow. The menus on the referenced cerealport.com web-site don't expand at http://cerealport.com does not answer

Re: openbsd web site design proposals (from HOTO write bad docs)

2005-11-28 Thread Tony
Jacob Meuser wrote: this is how the world works: ignore the whiners, they offer nothing useful. Some irresistable straight lines?

RE: Re: Updated CCD Mirroring HOWTO

2005-11-29 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robbert Haarman writes: Greg, Again, you raise some interesting issues. I wonder how likely the catastrophic failures you describe are, versus how likely it is that things fail in a way where ccd actually helps you. I was hoping someone else would comment on

Re: theo

2005-12-01 Thread Tony
Sophie Laurie wrote: theo, Coming from Canada, have you ever skated on thin ice? Well, you're doing it now! I've lived in Canada. Nine months of winter and three months of bad skating is just a myth. She's a wheelchair bound 65 year old woman who only wanted your help and Same age, but

Re: USB stuff (was Re: theo)

2005-12-02 Thread Tony
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering the goals of OpenBSD, I would not expect USB rodents, sound cards or even video to be necessarily well supported. The reality is that USB gear is

Re: OpenNTPD does not 'pull-in' wrong time

2005-12-15 Thread Tony
Uwe Dippel wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: So don't use it. But please, I beg of you, stop your incessant complaining. The more you whine, the less we feel the need to change anything. Oh, my wrong. I simply thought you were with the intention to improve the system. They are.

Re: plz help + UNIX NETWORK PROGRAMMING

2005-12-26 Thread Tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear I installed the package autoconf but still day time client is not working following error occur plz help [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gcc -o byteorder byteorder.c byteorder.c:1:17: unp.h: No such file or directory byteorder.c: In function `main': byteorder.c:10:

Re: Mounting / ro

2005-12-30 Thread Tony
Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: Hi, I got a quick question because I fucked up and think quite a bunch of other people I have read about here did as well. I read in a couple of postings that people like to mount their root partition as read-only, I followed that since it prevents accidents in

Re: Remove all password restrictions?

2006-01-10 Thread Tony
On Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:12 AM, Peter Bako wrote: To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Remove all password restrictions? I have an internal OpenBSD 3.8 system that I use as a data dump, internal source for PXE installs and the like. It is not accessible to the outside world, so security is

Re: Partition sizing

2006-01-21 Thread Tony
On Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:16 PM the whatever calling itself J Moore wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 05:42:08PM +0800, the unit calling itself Lars Hansson wrote: On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:30:34 -0600 Get a bigger H/D... 40 GB is about the smallest you can buy today; 4 GB drives

Re: Securia Rates OpenBSD

2006-01-23 Thread Tony
Bob Beck wrote: * Matthias Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-23 15:58]: On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 05:08:00PM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: Securia gives OpenBSD a pretty nice security rating at http://secunia.com/product/100/ Those statistics say nothing at first glance. For example, I

RE: Re: webstore software: safe and configurable?

2006-01-25 Thread tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] All good points. That, however, still leaves my point standing that by evading PHP, you evade the worst crap. True, but that is the same as that by evading ENGLISH as a lnaguage in posts, you evade the worst crap. If these discussions were carried out in

Re: MS Security VP Mike Nash remarks on MS vs OpenBSD security.

2006-01-26 Thread Tony
Lukasz Sztachanski wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:42:13AM +1100, Shane J Pearson wrote: ~~~ OpenBSD by hahiss How is it that OpenBSD is able to be so secure by design with so few resources and yet all of Microsoft's resources cannot stem the tide of security problems that

Re: openbsd's future plans?

2006-02-08 Thread Tony
Quoth Marius Van Deventer - Umzimkulu On Wednesday 08 February 2006 04:20, Diana Eichert wrote: On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Miod Vallat wrote: i think we should rewrite the kernel in java since it has good support for threads. Remember we opted for C++ during c2k2 (or was it

Re: Sudo

2006-02-11 Thread Tony
man sudo for starters. (actually that's quite enough even for a noob like me) (even a very out of date linux is enough) sheesh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Feustel Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:50 AM To: Otto Moerbeek Cc:

Re: Sudo

2006-02-11 Thread Tony
You sudo something, it asks for your password You do it again soon after, it doesn't ask. So somehow it remembers you. Definitely more trouble, and probably opens some holes for nasties, if it also remembers which version of you. That's without knowing enough to have an opinion. -Original

Re: Sudo

2006-02-11 Thread Tony
Tobias Weingartner wrote: On Saturday, February 11, Dave Feustel wrote: I found out via a google search on 'tickets sudo' about the behavior I had discovered and reported. Then after Otto let me know how pathetic my post was, I went back to man sudo but found nothing about tickets

Re: BSD on x86 and virus

2006-02-12 Thread Tony
J.C. Roberts wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:35:58 -0500, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.C. Roberts wrote: As others have pointed out, you simply misunderstood the article and then posted to the list what many people would consider an inflammatory question. This is not the

Re: X11 Demo programs

2006-02-12 Thread Tony
Dave Feustel wrote: [snip] Well, I'm lazy, so I let pf drop all unsolicited incoming traffic. Works Great! Lets me experiment with my system in peace and safety. Not really. Depends on what you can be conned into soliciting.

Re: X11 Demo programs

2006-02-12 Thread Tony
Just in case? Like just in case a moth is drawn to a flame? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dave Feustel Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mats O Jansson; misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: X11 Demo programs

Re: X11 exploit info

2006-02-13 Thread Tony
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:00:24PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: I would expect the people writing books, specially on OpenBSD to know a lots more then me, so that I can learn from them, but if what you say is true, it make me question my idea and intention of buying

Re: It's not about the money

2006-03-25 Thread Tony
It's a lot like mountain climbing. People do it, although personally I can't really imagine why. Because it's there. Because they can. That's why. It is not rational. Nice words maybe don't hurt, but at that level are certainly irrelevant. Me, I lurk on this list because of the attitude and the

Re: When would you NOT use OpenBSD?

2006-04-05 Thread Tony
Daniel Ouellet wrote: I'm not saying that having a blobbed driver in-tree would be an improvement - however, a machine that runs is likely to be an improvement over one that doesn't, at least for a while (because, as pointed out, bugs like blobs). I prefer looking at what's supported first

Re: (OT: PostgreSQL vs MySQL)

2006-04-07 Thread Tony
Chris Kuethe wrote: On 06 Apr 2006 18:12:59 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com wrote: Given the cost of programmer time (and the cost of lost data) vs the cost of a slightly faster processor, is it ever really worth it even if MySQL is *twice* as fast? Yes. Example 1:

Re: (OT: PostgreSQL vs MySQL)

2006-04-08 Thread Tony
Josh Tolley wrote: On 4/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to losing data, I suspect you'd lose a lot more from PostgreSQL than MySQL on a failing hard drive. Any particular reason for that suspicion? I ask out of genuine interest, and I promise I don't want to start a

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Tony
Dave Feustel wrote: I got my 3.9 Cdrom set yesterday and today started installing it on an external usb disk so as not to wipe out my existing 3.8 setup. When I got to the disk partition, I erased the existing 'a' partition (dos) and created a new bsd 'a' partition. The partition had a

Re: Questions about 3.9 Installation on External USB Disk

2006-04-09 Thread Tony
Dave Feustel wrote: On Sunday 09 April 2006 16:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something is very confused. I do not believe an existing 'a' partition (dos). I bought the disk at Best Buy and copied a few files from /home/daf to test the disk. The files were copied to the usb-connected

Re: Set up root partition as read only.

2006-04-14 Thread Tony
Joco Salvatti wrote: Hi all, To increase the security level of my OpenBSD system I have defined at /etc/fstab that the root partition should be read only. /etc/fstab follows: Me, I just lurk here but: 1) if having / ro would actually improve security, they would have done so long

Re: 3.7: weird IP address problem

2006-04-25 Thread Tony
Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, On Mon, 24.04.2006 at 15:30:55 -0400, Matthew Closson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ wrong IP address ] What could that be, and why can't I see this address anywhere? I'd rather not reboot only to make a change in IP numbers effective... Can you send us

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Tony
js wrote: 2006/4/28, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wonder why http://www.openbsd.org/books.html still recommend old daemon book, The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System? As most of you know, there's newer version, The Design and Implementation of the

Re: Why advocate Old daemon book?

2006-04-29 Thread Tony
prad wrote: [snip] (curiously, i've found on my system at least that some things seem to work faster on openbsd than freebsd.) Shouldn't be a surprise, really. Efficiency is really more a case of never being too inefficient rather that occasionally being very efficient. (ie hard.) Anything

Re: pf firewall question

2006-04-30 Thread Tony
S t i n g r a y wrote: Now what i want to know , maybe is O T in this list but what is the diffrence , i mean pf in openBSD is refered to as a firewall for home or small offices ? why is that , i mean what is the criteria of an enterprise firewall what is the diffrence between pf MS ISA /

Re: style(9) and return statements

2006-04-30 Thread Tony
Nick Guenther wrote: On 4/30/06, Matthias Kilian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I wonder what the preferred style of return statments is -- for returning simple values, both styles return foo; and return (foo); are used in the sources everythen and now. For

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Tony
Anton Karpov wrote If he can break in as a lowly user uname -a will tell him what it is anyway. And don't tell me we should disable that command or cause it to lie because then I'll shoot you down another way. Re-read my message, please. I didn't tell he cannot stat os version and

Re: 3.9, su command: bug or feature?

2006-05-02 Thread Tony
Cristiano Deana wrote: Hi, i'm new on OpenBSD. I just installed 3.9 (one week ago sources) and i got this: $ uname -rs OpenBSD 3.9 $ su Password: you are not in group wheel Sorry $ whoami cris $ id cris uid=1000(cris) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel) $ grep cris /etc/passwd

Re: disk bad block

2006-05-03 Thread Tony
Paulo Manoel Mafra wrote: Hi misc, I would like to create a large partition on a disk, but this disk has a known bad block. How could I create the partition without the bad block ? One solution is to create two partitions without the bad block and use ccd. Is there another solution ?

Re: Magic numbers, signed binaries (Re: Compilers make a system less secure?)

2006-05-05 Thread Tony
Otto Moerbeek wrote: Key mananagement is the most important part. The part that continuously will require time and attention from a lot of people, and the part that will cause the headaches. The part where the errors will be made. System managers experiencing problems and needing to get

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Tony
Andy Ruhl wrote: On 8/30/06, Charles M. Hannum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The NetBSD Project has stagnated to the point of irrelevance. It has Let me start by saying I'm probably not qualified to reply to this thread, but I was never worried about making a fool out of myself before so

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Tony
Theo de Raadt wrote: [snip] We know one reason why we never got documentation. Bit by bit more information has come out to show that the hardware design is an embarrasment and there are countless bugs and shortcomings. Surprising? Not really. Affects ONLY OpenBSD? Not a chance. That's why

Merry Christmas from AnthonysTshirts.com

2006-12-21 Thread Tony
Greetings! ~ Merry Christmas! Wishing you... and your family the Christmas season's joys and wonders. Enjoy the holiday. Sincerely, AnthonysTshirts.com ~ AnthonysTshirts.com 2269 S. University Drive -

OpenBSD's brilliant design

2012-07-30 Thread Tony
design Its website http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-April/240174.html - Thanks! Tony

Re: OpenBSD's brilliant design

2012-07-30 Thread Tony
are on me! Tony On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.orgwrote: 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

Re: OpenBSD's brilliant design

2012-07-30 Thread Tony
I've since been advised that a show of appreciation is better expressed through donations. And they're coming - you have my word. Tony On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Tony ableton...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Theo, This was not meant as a troll, sorry if it came off like that. It was more

OpenBSD on GitHub

2012-08-04 Thread Tony
of pull requests, mostly on the documentation side though. Tony

Re: Unified BSD?

2012-11-12 Thread Tony
from all worlds? Tony http://soundcloud.com/abletony84

Re: Automatic failover of VPN connection when the primary internet connection fails

2005-08-12 Thread tony sarendal
one path go down, the bgp session will go down and your network will re-route. /Tony -- Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] IP/Unix -= The scorpion replied, I couldn't help it, it's my nature =-

vge0 on Abit Av8 (amd64)

2005-08-18 Thread Tony Lambiris
spkr0 at pcppi0 sysbeep0 at pcppi0 dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 -- Tony Lambiris [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] so if it is really hard for you then perhaps you are just retarded and need treatment w/ electricity and if that does not help

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-24 Thread tony sarendal
Thanks for not taking the easy route. Changes are always painful, but if they deliver then it's worth it.

i386 binaries on amd64

2005-08-29 Thread Tony Lambiris
Is there a way to compile something on i386 OpenBSD box to run on amd64? or is there a sysctl option I am missing? Thanks. -- Tony Lambiris [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] so if it is really hard for you then perhaps you are just retarded and need treatment w/ electricity and if that does not help

Re: i386 binaries on amd64

2005-08-30 Thread Tony Lambiris
architecture of input file `some.o' is incompatible with i386:x86-64 output Is compiling this way possible at all? Ted Unangst wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Stuart Henderson wrote: --On 29 August 2005 16:34 -0500, Tony Lambiris wrote: Is there a way to compile something on i386 OpenBSD box

Re: DELL Latitude D400 without X

2005-08-30 Thread Tony Lambiris
I actually hacked an existing util for NetBSD to run flawlessly on OpenBSD (I have a Dell inspiron 700m). You can get it here: http://lysergik.com/~tony/openbsd.phtml Baldur Sigurpsson wrote: hi use this thing: http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/i855vidctl/ just remember to put the command

i386 branch on amd64

2005-08-30 Thread Tony Lambiris
I know this will run fine, but will the dual-core and such be detected and setup correctly, or is this an amd64 specific thing? TIA. -- Tony Lambiris [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] so if it is really hard for you then perhaps you are just retarded and need treatment w/ electricity and if that does

Re: cheap mini-pci ral(4) cards

2005-08-31 Thread tony sarendal
. Is there any vendor that doesn't do that ? -- Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] IP/Unix -= The scorpion replied, I couldn't help it, it's my nature =-

Re: sysctl tuning for maximum network performance

2005-09-04 Thread tony sarendal
in internet/universe behaviour shows that there is an infinite amount of porn, you just have to tweak net.inet.somaxporn correctly. /Tony

Re: [OT]: good home switch?

2005-09-05 Thread tony sarendal
I use OpenBSD boxes with a few 4xFE on two sites as switches/routers =) I'm am happier with them than the cheapo switches I replaced. -- Tony Sarendal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] IP/Unix -= The scorpion replied, I couldn't help it, it's my nature =-

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