Re: crypt question/server hotel

2010-04-17 Thread Robert C Wittig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/17/10 04:49, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: I want to put my server in a server hotel. But: I don't trust my server hotel owner. What can I do? I wouldn't do business with anyone that I didn't trust. I don't trust very many people. So, what I

Re: logging successful logins only

2010-04-13 Thread Robert C Wittig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter HEINER wrote: Hi all, I have a home router with 4.6/i386 installed on a 512 MB CF card. As both disk space and RAM are scarce, I want to minimize logging. As I don't usually have other machines running, remote logging is not really a

Re: Jacek Books

2010-02-16 Thread Robert C Wittig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.C. Roberts wrote: Stop bitching and think. 1.) You do not have a name. You only have an email address. 2.) If your email address really indicates your location, then you are on a tiny island *EAST* of Madagascar in the Indian ocean. 3.)

Re: strange (?) ssh user

2009-08-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Uwe Dippel wrote: I can't as of now (weekend). But I can see it reoccurring, kind of: Aug 21 18:31:25 mybox sshd[31888]: Accepted password for isuser from XXX.XX.XX.XX port 57519 ssh2 in authlog, reflected pretty well by isuser ttyp0

Re: DHCP question

2008-07-23 Thread Robert C Wittig
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hari Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:33 AM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: DHCP question fxp0: warning: SCB timed out (x 3) Is 'SCB' a typo for 'SBC'? I have SBC DSL, and did have some weirdness

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: Yes, I know, it's completely a dumb question; but I'm curious about it. I'm just learning C applied in networking area and I wonder what editor is preferred by OpenBSD developers. At present moment I use vim. vi/vim. I use it for most of my editing tasks, not

Re: running mail server at home

2008-02-07 Thread Robert C Wittig
Shane Harbour wrote: I beg to differ. It really depends on your ISP and how far you really want to go. I've run everything (DNS, mail, etc) out of my basement for 3 years now. Ditto. I've been running my own OBSD web/mail server in an old 1U SuperMicro server up my attic for about two

Re: Using the C programming language

2007-12-22 Thread Robert C Wittig
I can't help wonder, why so much software are being developed using C. C permits the programmer freedom to write code as the programmer sees fit. How the programmer uses that freedom, is up to the programmer. Putting 'training wheels' on a programming language not only limits the mistakes

Re: : expansion of FAQ# 1.10 re OpenBSD as a desktop system

2007-10-15 Thread Robert C Wittig
Raimo Niskanen wrote: Perhaps the best, but not the only. Flash i all over the net. E.g to see the weather forecasts from the Swedish Meteorology and Hydrology Institute (SMHI), you need Flash 8. Just a few months ago you needed Internet Explorer as well, but they are aware and improving...

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Robert C Wittig
Siju George wrote: I thought by running an amd64 kernel will get me twice the speed than an i386 on an amd64 machine since one is 64 bit processing and the other is just 32 bit :-( 64 bit processors (combined with 64 bit capable operating systems) have the ability to address more RAM than

Re: firewall is very slow, something's wrong

2007-10-10 Thread Robert C Wittig
Paul de Weerd wrote: wittig wrote: | 64 bit processors (combined with 64 bit capable operating systems) have | the ability to address more RAM than 32 bit processors because 64^2 is a | much larger number than 32^2... lots more RAM addresses). Oops! that should have read: 2^64 and 2^32

msdos partitions, made by Windows

2007-10-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
On a machine that dual-boots both Windows 2000 and OpenBSD 4.0, I have a second data hard drive (wd1) with two primary partitions, FAT32L, which were created by Windows 2000. Mount fails because they do not have OBSD disklabels... Device not configured. # disklabel wd1 ...warns that the

Re: msdos partitions, made by Windows

2007-10-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 02:40 PM 10/3/2007 -0500, Robert C Wittig wrote: On a machine that dual-boots both Windows 2000 and OpenBSD 4.0, I have a second data hard drive (wd1) with two primary partitions, FAT32L, which were created by Windows 2000. Mount fails because they do not have OBSD

Re: msdos partitions, made by Windows

2007-10-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
Joachim Schipper wrote: You cannot, and should not try to. The automatically constructed disklabel is fine, mount /dev/wd1i or /dev/wd1j. Thanks, Joachim... worked perfectly! -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ .

Re: OpenBSD www

2007-05-25 Thread Robert C Wittig
Ioan Nemes wrote: No problem here. Ioan Ikmal Ahmad [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/25 1:18 pm Hi, http://www.openbsd.org/ Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/1.3.34 Server at www.openbsd.org Port 80 anything wrong there? On http://openbsd.org/ was ok. I

Starting PF

2006-11-29 Thread Robert C Wittig
I am running OBSD 3.9, and I finally got around to setting up PF. Following the instructions at: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/config.html ...I added: pf=YES # enable PF ...to the file /etc/rc.conf.local. I had to create the file first, as it was non-existent. I also added:

Re: Starting PF

2006-11-29 Thread Robert C Wittig
Marcus Popp wrote: I'm sure that you have done more to your system then you told :-) No too much more... just the usual set-up stuff. This is a practice box. Once I refine what I am doing on it with PF, I will use the PF set-up on my web/mail servers. verify that your /etc/rc.conf

Re: OpenBSD Paypal used against User Agreement?

2006-09-30 Thread Robert C Wittig
viq wrote: I read some not-really-nice comments about paypal, and as one of alternatives listed were moneybookers (.com) Can't say i tried either, but comments seemed positive. I've been using Paypal regularly... a couple thousand transactions since 2000... on my website and eBay and for

Re: Launching the Internet

2006-09-15 Thread Robert C Wittig
dilbert wrote: My question is simple- I'm a relative newbie at BSD so please bear with me. I'm trying to launch the internet; so I open a terminal and go percent sign 'Internet' at the prompt ie: %internet and it doesn't work. What gives??!! Also percent sign 'Print' doesn't work and

Re: Looking for general info on OpenBSD

2006-08-23 Thread Robert C Wittig
Jon R H wrote: Dose OpenBSD have a printed manual like FreeBSD has The complete FreeBSD 4th Ed and also the The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System In addition to what Josh Grosse has already told you, there is a 'No Starch Press' book titled 'Absolute OpenBSD'

Re: sendmail

2006-07-27 Thread Robert C Wittig
If any of you old timers see any errors in my suggestions, please point them out. I am fairly new myself, and my two mailservers have been running fine for 6+ months with this setup, but I still have a LOT to learn. David B. wrote: sorry to bother, can anyone suggest a definitive book I

Re: Web mail

2006-07-19 Thread Robert C Wittig
Eric Johnson wrote: Which web mail package is easiest to install and use on OpenBSD? Are there any gaping security holes? Eric Johnson I've been using the sendmail (configured for Internet use) that was part of the OBSD 3.7 install on my two servers for the past 6 months, with zero

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello chefren, Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 8:34:09 AM, you wrote: c There are lots of dangers, and of course there is need of an operator c but if guns are around even an child of 2 years old can kill someone. c Eh: Without the tool (gun): there is definitely no problem. Of course c it's possible

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello chefren, Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 11:37:48 AM, you wrote: c This has nothing to do with OpenBSD and it's pretty impolite to c transfer information send to you personally to a mailing list. c You may wish to live that way but you won't make lots of friends with it. I have my MUA set so

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-03 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello chefren, Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 11:37:48 AM, you wrote: For what it's worth... Also... I have threading enabled, so a reply of any sort from a list-mail will cue on the thread. In order to escape the sort rule, one must begin an entirely new email. I do not intentionally reply to

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello Anton, Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 5:05:10 AM, you wrote: AK Maybe, because in some cases, it just takes a bit more time to 0wn AK your box if it has no compiler installed. It's like saying that a handgun makes your house an inherently more dangerous place. Handguns and compilers are both

Re: Compilers make a system less secure?

2006-05-02 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello chefren, Tuesday, May 2, 2006, 7:51:23 AM, you wrote: c It's quite difficult to shoot yourselves without a gun Yes, exactly... like I said the danger lies in the user, not in the tool. I suppose if a person wants to remain a kludge, and a stumble-bum for the rest of their life, then they

Re: OpenBSD as workstation...yes!

2006-04-16 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello Johan, Sunday, April 16, 2006, 5:42:06 AM, you wrote: JS Due to hard disk crash i decided to migrate the only machine not running OpenBSD to OpenBSD. JS But tired hearing here and there than OpenBSD is only useful and reliable on servers i made JS few screenshots on my main workstation

Re: openbsd and the money

2006-03-23 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello frantisek, Thursday, March 23, 2006, 8:09:08 AM, you wrote: fh this is what i feel sometimes, and i think sometimes more of you do. fh unfortunately there is no real community around openbsd. at least fh i dont see one -- one where there are people without cvs commit. fh if you don't have

sendmail/pop3 setup question

2006-01-26 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello, I have my 'test' OpenBSD server up and running, and serving pages at: http://70.142.248.62/ This was pretty easy. Now I am attempting to set up a 'test' email server using sendmail 8.13.3 (OpenBSD 3.7). The default installation (localhost.cf) works fine out of the box, sending mail

Re: DSL Internet Connection Question

2005-12-22 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello Robert, Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 4:20:28 PM, you wrote: RCW Would adding the line: RCW supercede domain-name-servers dns.IP.address.1 dns.IP.address.2; RCW ...do the job of hardcoding: RCW nameserver dns.IP.address.1 RCW nameserver dns.IP.address.2 RCW ...into the 'resolv.conf'

DSL Internet Connection Question

2005-12-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
I have a fair amount of experience networking in Windows 2000, Linux Red Hat, and FreeBSD, but I am a relative newbie to OpenBSD, just setting up my first practice machine, which is still basically a typical default installation. I have an SBC DSL connection, non-static IP (Netopia Cayman

Re: DSL Internet Connection Question

2005-12-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello Tobias, Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 1:00:08 PM, you wrote: TU To fix these values locally, take a look at dhclient.conf(5), especially TU at the supersede option and domain-name-servers. Right now 'dhclient.conf' is completely commented out. Would adding the line: supercede

Re: DSL Internet Connection Question

2005-12-21 Thread Robert C Wittig
Hello Fred, Wednesday, December 21, 2005, 4:49:51 PM, you wrote: FC You could put your local changes in /etc/resolv.conf.tail - thus when FC resolv.conf is overwritten your local changes will be preserved. Yep, thanks! Another listmember suggested this to me off-list, and I did it, and it has