Re: pre-orders for 5.0

2011-09-07 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
on the FTP sites. As usual, we try to get CDs in people's hands slightly a few days before that. __ Daniel A. Ramaley Network Engineer 2 Dial Center 112, Drake University 2407 Carpenter Ave / Des Moines IA 50311 USA Tel: +1 515 271-4540 Fax: +1 515 271-1938 E-mail: daniel.rama...@drake.edu

Re: 4.9 errata page

2011-07-18 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On 2011-07-17 at 01:20:43, Theo de Raadt wrote: So far there hasn't been anything serious enough for an errata. That's a good thing, right? That is simply amazing. Thanks to all the developers for such a fine release! __ Daniel A. Ramaley Network Engineer 2 Dial Center 112, Drake University

Re: problem patching with 004: RELIABILITY FIX: November 17, 2010

2010-11-19 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
of researching my problem i found the answers i needed. Occasionally the answers are in the list archive, but more commonly in the man pages or the FAQ. __ Daniel A. Ramaley Network Engineer 2 Dial Center 118, Drake University 2407 Carpenter Ave / Des Moines IA 50311 USA Tel: +1 515 271-4540 Fax: +1 515

Re: 4.6 arriving

2009-10-15 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Got mine in the USA yesterday. I agree, this release looks great. Thank you to everyone involved in getting another release done! On 2009-10-15 at 05:31:36, you wrote: my 4.6 arrived in the uk today from openbsd europe... thanks for the release to all developers. keep going! btw. my favourite

Re: 4.5 delivery - How do they do it?

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On 2009-04-20 at 19:56:15, you wrote: We are working on changes to do this trick in a variety of our deamons and in our kernel; precognition means that we can identify an upcoming period when such packets will come in -- packets which would defragment and subsequently arrange themselves into an

Re: [semi-OT] Can anyone recommend an OpenBSD-compatible colour laser printer?

2009-04-06 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On 2009-04-05 at 13:26:54, Martin Schrvder wrote: 2009/4/5, ropers rop...@gmail.com: - The printer should work with OpenBSD without a hitch, and by that I don't mean can sometimes be gotten to work by endlessly tweaking CUPS, and I also don't mean can be gotten to work with compat_linux and a

Re: How to break the httpd's 4G file size limit?

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On 2009-03-10 at 14:34:30, you wrote: I want to set up the web server to share file, but i know apache-1.3.x (which is openbsd default httpd) had the 4G file size limit, can i break this limit? I don't know the correct answer to this question, but i thought of a possible work-around in the

Re: Pre-Order Prizes

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On 2009-03-02 at 16:45:00, Theo de Raadt wrote: Sorry, but I am not going to spend my time making coffee mugs. Thank you. I really like OpenBSD and contribute with money. I already have enough coffee mugs. Dan Ramaley

Re: Unfortunate dot was ... missing

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Firstly, don't panic. I think if you recreate /dev with the appropriate permissions, add the MAKEDEV script and run it, that everything will be fine. You might have to do all this after booting from a CD though and mounting the filesystem. Here's what the permissions look like on my 4.4

Re: Backup strategies

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday February 3 2009 21:16, you wrote: rsync -aHESvv --delete \ --exclude '/home/jonathan/crypt/*' \ --exclude '/mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/crypt/*' \ /home/jonathan/ /mnt/oxygen/home/jonathan/ This works fine except that the --exclude options are not

Re: ftp-proxy on a nat firewall

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
I've gotten a couple of off-list replies with suggestions to try. I greatly appreciate any ideas, but still have not had any luck so far. I've trimmed my ruleset and adjust some of it to be more permissive. Any ideas as to why ftp-proxy still doesn't work? ext_if = vr0 int_if = fxp0

Re: Find - Sillyness

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday January 23 2009 08:07, you wrote: I am sure it's got something to do with the way I am quoting but it's not making a lot of sense at this point. Here is the actual command I am trying to run and it's error output. spider:/var/logtransfer/dc-fw1# find . -name pflog.*.gz -exec zcat {} |

Re: Find - Sillyness

2009-01-22 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Remove the quotes from echo {}. The No such file or directory error is because find cannot run a program named echo ./daemon.2.gz. Remove the quotes and it will try to run echo with an argument of daemon.2.gz. On Thursday January 22 2009 13:54, you wrote: I know this is more of a general 'huh'

Re: ftp-proxy on a nat firewall

2009-01-21 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Hello. I haven't gotten much response on my ftp-proxy issue, but i realized that i forgot to include the all-important dmesg. I don't know that it would help any, but it is below. Has anyone else gotten ftp-proxy on 4.4-stable to work? OpenBSD 4.4-stable (GENERIC) #1: Mon Jan 12 12:36:24 CST

ftp-proxy on a nat firewall

2009-01-19 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Hello. I'm setting up an OpenBSD (4.4-stable) NAT firewall (with a couple servers behind it) for the first time. Everything seems to work except for active ftp from machines behind the firewall. Active ftp connections made from the firewall itself do work, though. I do have

Re: Testing in a virtual environment

2009-01-04 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Thanks for the responses! I'll look into KVM and VMWare, and possibly some of the others. From the variety of responses it sounds like VirtualBox is the only virtualization software that *doesn't* work with OpenBSD though. Strangely enough, after asking my question, i reinstalled OpenBSD in

Testing in a virtual environment

2009-01-03 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Hello. I have what is hopefully a quick question. Has anyone successfully run OpenBSD 4.4 in a virtualized environment? If so, which one? I've been trying to get it to run within VirtualBox 2.1 with limited success. (OpenBSD will install, but trying to compile software results in a crash.)

Re: ftp from script

2008-12-31 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday December 31 2008 13:34, you wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Christoph Leser le...@sup-logistik.de wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl `cd /path-to-dir`: `rm *`; You shouldn't be using backticks in a perl script. Backtick simply starts a new process/subshell and runs whatever you have

Re: Image::Magick help

2008-12-05 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday December 4 2008 14:12, Gabri Mate wrote: I'm running 4.3 and installed p5-PerlMagick from packages. When i try to load this module with one of my perl scripts it says: Can't load '/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/auto/Image/Magick/Mag ick.so' for module Image::Magick:

Re: 4.4 arriving in the U.S.

2008-10-14 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday October 14 2008 12:19, you wrote: Today's mail delivered the 4.4 CDs near Boston, Mass. Also to Des Moines, Iowa. Many thanks to the developers, Agreed. Thank you developers! Dan Ramaley

Re: contact info for PC Weasel?

2008-08-06 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Given the $350 price tag of the PCI version, it might even be cheaper to get a different motherboard. The PC Weasel site looks unmaintained; the order page only lets you set a credit card expiration date from 2002 to 2008. On Wednesday August 6 2008 15:58, Chris Cappuccio wrote: spend your

Re: OpenBSD 4.3 FAQ in PDF?

2008-07-22 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday July 22 2008 09:04, you wrote: for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9; do ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/faq0${i}.html done for i in 10 11 12 13 14 15; do ftp http://openbsd.org/faq/faq${i}.html done Wouldn't it be simpler to be done in one loop? for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Re: Vulnerability Note VU#800113 - Multiple DNS implementations vulnerable to cache poisoning

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday July 9 2008 10:48, you wrote: Why haven't the developers posted a formal annoncement clearifing if the distributed BIND is vulnerable? If so, where the hell is the patch? Just curious, how much did you pay for your support contract? Clearly if you feel you are so entitled to a

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-23 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday June 20 2008 18:09, you wrote: Oh god... Into my University it's almost the opposite, so much professors using MS Word(R) and still using the IEEE .doc template to write papers. ... Personally I dont understand why it's so fuckin difficult to understand that LaTeX it's great. I once had

Re: OT: Dissertation ideas for my degree

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday June 20 2008 11:47, you wrote: There's a pretty good chance that TeX is going to become obsolete, and replaced by some HTML or XML derivative. Many technical publishers have already made the transition. See, for example, the following link from Cambridge University Press

Re: Where I am? [Was: Rolling release?]

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:24, you wrote: The old saying goes, the only stupid question is the one that you don't ask. However, it should be modified for OpenBSD as, the only stupid question is the one you don't research before you ask. It's a tough crowd but in time you start to understand

Re: Optimising OpenBSD

2008-04-09 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday 08 April 2008 18:07, you wrote: As part of my move from GNU/Linux to OpenBSD on my server, I just want to clarify what I need to do to ensure that I have performance optimised. I imagine, if you run the standard OpenBSD system on your servers for some time, you'll be satisfied.

Re: Firefox 2.0.0.12

2008-04-07 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Monday 07 April 2008 14:00, you wrote: We'll provide you with a secure system, but.. hell, once you get it.. it won't be secure anymore, wait another 6 months, it'll be secure again. briefly. The developers provide a secure system that can be downloaded completely free of charge. If you

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday 08 February 2008 15:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I'd like to avoid root access as OpenBSD disables it by default for a good reason. But so far it seems the most maintainable solution. You could, with some work, do it differently. On the source box, make a tarball of what you want on

Re: multi-disk external scsi enclosures

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 22:38, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Since this will be for a low-MHz box, it's BIOS probably won't like large drives either. That means SCSI. If the boxes aren't great or have room or provide cooling for SCSI drives, that makes it external. Could you use a small IDE

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday 30 January 2008 12:35, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: My wife is sensitive to what she describes as electromagnetic fields. She gets headaches and other pains when exposed to equipment: the higher the frequency, the worse her symptoms. Rather than trying to find obsolete equipment that

Re: diff of the official FAQ

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Saturday 29 December 2007 00:34, Nick Holland wrote: And...just start at chapter 1 and start reading. :) Odds are, you didn't catch it all the first time, even things that didn't change will mean something to you now when it didn't the last time you looked. Exactly. About once a year i go

Re: FAQ on install ISO

2007-09-14 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday 14 September 2007 10:36, you wrote: As every release, many things are changed in the FAQ. Finding and changing the things that need to be changed occupies a LOT of my time between lock and release days. Truly, thank you for your hard work. One of the many things that keeps me buying

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:49, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:40:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Most dictionaries I had at my hand define alternative as choices. You can get http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternative Wow. Let's all go practice law with a

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday 28 August 2007 10:32, you wrote: There is a bill before Congress now to roll back patent protection, notably in the field of software. American users of OpenBSD might want to follow this struggle, which is running into massive opposition from non-comp-sci patent holders. Software

Re: scp batch mode?

2007-08-15 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 13:50, you wrote: How can scp be run without prompting for a password? Set up ssh shared keys. Dan RamaleyDial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst

Re: Macbook on Openbsd

2007-07-25 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 01:13, you wrote: Why would any one use amd64 since it's not even a amd? Is it because it's a 64bit? Do both amd64 and i386/64bit share so much? My understanding (and i'm sure someone else will correct me if i'm wrong) is that AMD extended their processors with 64-bit

Re: Regular Expression Problem

2007-06-14 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 14 June 2007 07:44, you wrote: I have a problem with regular expressions and can not solve it. I wants to egrep from a big text file all mail addresses. The first edition of _Mastering Regular Expressions_ by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl has a Perl script which generates a 6.5 kB regex which

Re: Recommendation for a UPS

2007-04-18 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
NUT = Network UPS Tools http://www.networkupstools.org/ Check the compatibility list. Even better, check the compatibility list for the version that is available in an OpenBSD package. The list will be in /usr/local/share/ups/driver.list after the package is installed. On Tuesday 17 April 2007

Re: Moving a 100GB directory tree with lots of hardlinks

2006-12-15 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Try something like this: rsync -avvHR /source/. /destination The -vv is optional, but will print a line for each file as it is being copied. If the copy is interrupted partway through, just run it again and it'll pick up where it left off. If you don't have rsync installed, look for it in

Re: mc function key problem

2006-11-16 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 16 November 2006 14:26, you wrote: This problem is persistent over several releases of OpenBSD and on multiple i386 computers, both desktop and laptop: What type of terminal are you using? If you are logging in directly from the console, mc does not work quite right with the default

Re: OpenBSD 4.0 - Where is it?

2006-10-26 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 26 October 2006 08:16, you wrote: I admit that I am not the most up to date on the release process, but why is 4.0 not out on the FTP server yet if people are receiving it in their homes on CD? From https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order: Will release and ship November 1 2006 If

Re: Oldest Server you run

2006-10-12 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 12 October 2006 13:54, Falk Husemann wrote: Hello List! We're trying to put an old server to good use again and would like to know what's exactly the oldest machine running OpenBSD? My home mail server was originally a 33 Mhz 486, but once 66 MHz CPUs became free i acquired one and

Re: upgrading without physical access

2006-09-22 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday 22 September 2006 00:39, you wrote: I have a machine running OpenBSD 3.6 on a remote location that I would like to upgrade. I only have ssh access unless I buy myself an expensive plane ticket. I wondered if there's a safe way to upgrade remotely or should I just wait until I get an

Re: [OT] 2U Server

2006-08-21 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Saturday 19 August 2006 03:13, you wrote: 1) Any chassis or supplier recommendations? Comments on Rackmountpro, since I have found this 2U chassis from rackmountpro ( http://www.rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=2421 ). I have purchased rackmount chassis from them before and been quite

Re: DMESG question

2006-08-07 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Monday 07 August 2006 08:15, Gabriel George POPA wrote: Most questions on this mail list require me to provide a valid output of dmesg. But if old messages are erased, how am I supposed to do this? Take a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot.

Re:

2006-07-31 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Monday 31 July 2006 09:41, you wrote: The SMART thing isn't that smart at all. Even after the server crashed twice due faulty harddrive, SMART keeps teeling me everything is OK. I think (someone with more knowledge may correct me if i'm wrontg) SMART communicates with the drive and asks the

sensors accuracy

2006-07-20 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
How accurate are the sensors on most computers? I ask because after learning (thanks to a few kind individuals on this list) how to monitor sensors with OpenBSD 3.9, i have been checking the values on one of my computers (a VIA Epia machine with 533 MHz C3 processor) to get an idea of what

sensorsd configuration

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Hello. I have not used sensorsd on OpenBSD before, but am trying to learn. I have read sensorsd(8) and sensorsd.conf(5) from OpenBSD 3.9 and the configuration looks very simple. However, i have a couple quick questions: The lines in sensorsd.conf start with hw.sensors.N (where N is a small

Re: sensorsd configuration

2006-07-13 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
Thank you to those who responded! I can figure out sensorsd.conf now. Also thank you to the developers who created such a simple way to monitor the sensors. I've configured sensors on other operating systems that have been a much greater hassle.

bash-static on OpenBSD 3.9

2006-07-07 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
If anyone has been lamenting the loss of the bash-static package, this evening i took the time to figure out how to create something that works just as well. I peeked in the Makefile for bash on an older version of OpenBSD to see how the static version differs. The difference is when compiling

Re: X not found

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
The file sets that are used to install OpenBSD are not packages even though they end in the tgz extension. Thus, pkg_add doesn't know what to do with it. Try a command like this instead: # cd / # tar -xvpzf /home/music/xbase39.tgz The -v is optional, but make sure you include -p to

Re: Question related to automaticly encrypted /tmp /vat/tmp (like swap..?)

2006-07-05 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 11:13, Hannah Schroeter wrote: It *is*. I've done so since a nearly uncountable number of years. Something like this in /etc/fstab helps. /dev/wd0b /tmpmfs rw,-m0,-s204800 0 0 In the past i've always symlinked /tmp to point to /var/tmp.

Re: OT: quiet fans and heatsinks

2006-06-06 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Sunday 04 June 2006 21:43, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: these machines need Socket A and Socket 370 heatsinks. it's a plus if they're low profile for 1U and 2U rackmount units. all suggestions appreciated. What i've found works well is to buy a fan adapter that will allow you to use a larger

Re: New server

2006-05-19 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
When a user logs in, what would prevent them from accessing their files in /var/www/home/wherever by just using the cd command to change to that directory? Just make sure permissions on whatever they need to access in /var/www/home/wherever are such that the users can change files and Apache

Re: Set up root partition as read only.

2006-04-19 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday 14 April 2006 22:17, you wrote: To increase the security level of my OpenBSD system I have defined at /etc/fstab that the root partition should be read only. That won't increase your security level much, but if you really want to make / read-only, there is more involved. (I recently

Re: Via EPIA board/box

2006-04-19 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Saturday 15 April 2006 20:03, Steve B wrote: I've seen a number of posts on various OBSD related sites about these Via EPIA boards and their various benefits - low power, hardware crypto, etc. They look like a nice replacement for my old board so I've been looking around at logicsupply.com,

Re: thin-client

2006-02-22 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 08:19, you wrote: Hello. What are the thin-client options with OpenBSD ? Something similar to www.ltsp.org If anyone is using openbsd as a thin-client server. i would be interested in hearing their experiences. I've actually used OpenBSD as an LTSP server. The

Re: SCSI tape drive hanging

2006-02-21 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Monday 20 February 2006 18:47, Marcus Barczak wrote: Just recently acquired a cast off Sun DDS3 SCSI tape drive. It's an external unit and connected to my internal Adaptec 2940UW controller. The problem i'm experiencing is anytime I try issuing a command with mt for instance: I have an

Re: network distributed storage with windows?

2006-02-20 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 16 February 2006 01:58, A Rossi wrote: My client didn't really like the idea of just making a windows partition and disallowing the users from accessing it with permissions, because then they'd know about something... And some might complain about it being broken - they have

Re: Deletion of indirectly -installed packages (dependencies)

2006-01-05 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:43, you wrote: I know it isn't simple, one must first have a way to say: hey, I'm a package who was added by a user, I wasn't added just to serve a package you deleted!!, and then check if the dependency is used by any package. Also, it should always ask if we want

Re: OpenBSD beep

2005-12-19 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Sunday 18 December 2005 03:05, you wrote: And my machine is old, it's Celeron 500 on Chaintech CT-6BTA3 with Intel 82440BX chipset, and my motherboard didn't provide any information about cpu/system temp... I'd suggest opening the case and seeing if all cooling fans are running; on older

Re: Big discrepancy between df and du used space values (3.8)

2005-11-08 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 10:36, you wrote: I'm trying to track down why /var is full, and df and du report major differences (or else I'm reading something wrong, in which case I submit to the verbal beatings). Pay attention to what it says for /var. Running OpenBSD 3.8 GENERIC as a

Re: OpenBSD Metastore

2005-11-03 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 03 November 2005 08:59, Martin Schrvder wrote: On 2005-11-03 08:20:47 -0600, Jared Solomon wrote: The AOpen MiniPC measures 6.5 x 6.5 x 2 inches, is powered by an Intel Pentium M or Celeron M processor http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/65660 A MacMini is cheaper and runs OBSD.

Re: [Fwd: Re: Theo, I am truely sorry. You misunderstood me.]

2005-10-21 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Thursday 20 October 2005 19:01, you wrote: Currently tracking 30+ pieces of hardware. However, I need help: I need people to email me supported hardware, or use the Submit New Kit link on the page to do it. It's pretty easy, and the only requirement is that you need to have personally

Re: Printer setup

2005-09-30 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
The last time i had to use a non-postscript printer with OpenBSD i used foomatic. Since i was not familiar with the software, it was a bit of a pain to set up. But like most other software on OpenBSD, once i had it configured properly it worked without any problems. Just curious, why don't you

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-27 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Monday 26 September 2005 20:10, you wrote: Try this one out for size, I can vouch that it's super http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/sata_150_4.html Brandon Is there an LSI SATA card that doesn't have RAID and works with OpenBSD? I don't want RAID support, so buying an expensive ($216

Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-26 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
I have an i386 file server running OpenBSD 3.7-release. I want to add an SATA drive to the system. Since the motherboard does not have SATA built-in, i need to purchase a controller card. I notice on http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html that a number of SATA chips are supported, though many will