Re: OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD 5.9

2016-04-12 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:31:35 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 10:12:23 -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: > >>On 04/08/16 23:25, Rod Whitworth wrote: >>> I'm trying to replace Postfix with OpenSMTPD and I'm having a battle. >>> >>> I don't se

Re: OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD 5.9

2016-04-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 10:12:23 -0500, Edgar Pettijohn wrote: >On 04/08/16 23:25, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> I'm trying to replace Postfix with OpenSMTPD and I'm having a battle. >> >> I don't seem to be able to get the clues to match the hardware and the >> configure recipes

OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD 5.9

2016-04-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
I'm trying to replace Postfix with OpenSMTPD and I'm having a battle. I don't seem to be able to get the clues to match the hardware and the configure recipes that I need. The most up to date I can find breaks at the second stanza and I can guess that the instructions for configuring for PF are

Re: Paris..

2015-11-13 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:10:53 -0800, Ryan Freeman wrote: >Completely off-topic but I am concerned for the .fr devs.. > >http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/paris-police-report-shootout-at-restaurant-explosion-near-stadium/article27256201/ > >Can I get a ping to this thread from all the .fr

Faulty memory - not the hardware

2015-09-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
About 18 months I set up two i386 boxes running 5.5. One is called HOME and the other is AWAY and they were set up with SSH confugured to allow AWAY to call HOME to get some data by using the home data to be seen at AWAY and to use AWAY to remotely modify data at HOME. It worked

Re: Faulty memory - not the hardware

2015-09-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
Whoops! Forgot to say both ends are running XFCE4. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/

Whooda thunkit?

2015-06-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
Microsoft To Support SSH In Windows and Contribute To OpenSSH Seen on /. this morning (Australia EST) I hope the contributations are generous.. R/ Rod/ From the land down under: Australia. Do we look umop apisdn from up over?

Re: Whooda thunkit?

2015-06-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 10:31:26 +1000, Rod Whitworth wrote: I hope the contributations are generous.. Oh dear! Fingers running without brain looking. Rod/ In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain The Word of Rod.

Da man passing an other year

2015-05-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
Happy Birthday Theo. Rod/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not

Re: RIP Paul Schenkeveld

2015-03-31 Thread Rod Whitworth
transfer. So add my name to the list of those who were helped by a lovely man. Maybe someone close to his family can pass on my condolences from around the world. Vale Paul. Rod Whitworth. Just recently Paul held a tutorial at AsiaBSDcon 2015; as we know he enjoyed - or rather lived for - BSD

Re: Hiawatha install on 5.6 i386 :: FIXED by guess

2015-02-23 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:32:18 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: Installed from my ISP's mirror. Starting hiawatha results in: Warning: can't write PID file /usr/local/var/run/hiawatha.pid. There is no file of that name found by locate. There is no directory var/run in /usr/local/ hiawatha runs seemly

Hiawatha install on 5.6 i386

2015-02-22 Thread Rod Whitworth
Installed from my ISP's mirror. Starting hiawatha results in: Warning: can't write PID file /usr/local/var/run/hiawatha.pid. There is no file of that name found by locate. There is no directory var/run in /usr/local/ hiawatha runs seemly ok other than the above. Any clues? /R/ Rod/ From the

BGPD.conf - Clue needed

2015-02-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
I'm trying to help a friend with a bgpd problem and I'm cutting down the bgpd.conf more than I normally would because I'm prepping for a serious eye operation and I don't have the time to edit the entire file to make it impervious to unwanted viewers. Here are what I think illustrates the

Re: Follow up from What happened....

2014-12-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 08:10:52 +0100, Marc Peters - m...@mpeters.org wrote: On 12/17/14 04:32, Rod Whitworth wrote: Here is a rough dump of the attempted install: [snip] Let's install the sets! Location of sets? (cd disk ftp http or 'done') [cd] Available CD-ROMs are: cd0. Which CD-ROM

Re: What happened when 5.5 met my old reliable box

2014-12-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
to use ttyU0 as mentioned in ucom(4) On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:16:52 -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 16:05, Rod Whitworth wrote: I tried 5.5 - crashes there too. 5.4 and earlier work well. Clues

Re: What happened when 5.5 met my old reliable box

2014-12-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 21:22:35 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: Thanks much. A different approach to some others. I'll file them all because I suspect that one method will suit one problem better than others. On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 07:48:05 +0100, Adriaan wrote: From the OpenBSD FAQ: At the boot

Re: Dovecot happy on 5.6?

2014-12-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 01:11:34 -0500, Brad Smith wrote: On 12/15/14 23:48, Rod Whitworth wrote: I have been trying out dovecot for some years and it has always had some irritating bug or limitation and I have seen a few gripes from others. It seems to have been very quiet lately so I thought

Follow up from What happened....

2014-12-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
Here is a rough dump of the attempted install: cannot open cd0a:/etc/random.seed: No such file or directory booting cd0a:/5.5/i386/bsd.rd: 6038804+425032 [72+234464+223327]=0x699f80 entry point at 0x200120 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of

Dovecot happy on 5.6?

2014-12-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
I have been trying out dovecot for some years and it has always had some irritating bug or limitation and I have seen a few gripes from others. It seems to have been very quiet lately so I thought I'd have another attempt to get it running whilst choosing options that look like ones to suit

What happened when 5.5 met my old reliable box

2014-12-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
[dmesg follows] I have several light weight i386 boxes made by Aopen around y2k at the time of the shonky motherboard caps. A customer gave me all the ones that had not failed until well out of warranty and I bought a bag of superior caps and swapped out all the bad ones and they all have

Re: What happened when 5.5 met my old reliable box

2014-12-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:16:52 -0500, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 16:05, Rod Whitworth wrote: I tried 5.5 - crashes there too. 5.4 and earlier work well. Clues? I love these low power skinny boxes in my rack and I'm betting that the problem exists in all the ones I have

2 VoIP phones on one line

2014-10-23 Thread Rod Whitworth
Years ago I bought a Minitar VoIP ATA and it was great. Then SWMBO wanted one too and I set up siproxd which mostly worked. Then I go two global IPs and put one ATA/Phone on each. Perfect! No Siproxd! Now I am about to need those 2 IPs. Neither phone needs to recieve incoming calls. Anybody

Re: 2 VoIP phones on one line

2014-10-23 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 21:24:56 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2014-10-23, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: Years ago I bought a Minitar VoIP ATA and it was great. Then SWMBO wanted one too and I set up siproxd which mostly worked. Then I go two global IPs and put one ATA/Phone

OT? - people going to EuroBSDcon in Sofia

2014-09-03 Thread Rod Whitworth
Hello from Aus. I don't want to clutter this list so I have provided a temporary email address for ALL replies. Please use nods dot 20 dot wtw at xoxy dot net I am going to Sofia and it is about 32+ hours from home to hotel flying out of Sydney Aus. So I am arriving on Thursday 25 Sep. and I

Does OpenBGPd suffer collateral damage with this?

2014-08-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/how-flakey-is-the-inter net-20140816-104t8p.html I would love to hear that our beloved BGP routers are the only ones that don't get screwed or at least we are one of the few. I haven't heard any noises from the hosting site that I look after.

On the way...Yay!

2014-04-28 Thread Rod Whitworth
Snip from an email this morning (GMT+10): Shipment from Canada via small packet AIR is confirmed via: CN22 28 April 2014 (ship date). OpenBSD 5.5 CD sets. Now I just have to wait for airmail and customs here in Australia. If you have been slack about ordering now is the time to do it. Lots of

Re: New hardware for BGPd

2014-04-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:21:59 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: I should be getting a supermicro A1SAi-2550F box from a system builder to test in a week or so, which covers most of this while using less power. 4 ports onboard and a PCIe slot so you could add a quad nic (though for my intended

Re: New hardware for BGPd

2014-04-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 18:51:58 + (UTC), Doros Eracledes wrote: We had very good results with SuperMicro machines with the X9SCi-LN4 motherboard. It comes with 4 x Integrated Intel 82574 L Gigabit LAN Ports so with an additional Intel Quad card we get 8 ports in total. the CPU we get is the

New hardware for BGPd

2014-04-03 Thread Rod Whitworth
I've been running a couple of Soekris 5501s with an add-in 4-port network card. We are looking to upgrade and I need to get a clue about suitable hardware. Google is, these days, totally crap for searching things like what I need and I'm sure there is more than one bit of kit that is running

Randall strikes again!

2014-03-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
http://xkcd.com/1343/ NB xkcd newbies: There is a message that pops up if you place the mouse pointer inside the frame. Enjoy! *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to:

I haven't heard of anyone else with this screen problem

2014-03-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
A while back I posted a tech message dealing with a couple of buglets. One got fixed pronto (that's why we test lots of snapshots) and the other got attention from jsg@ and I tried all his suggestions but we had no luck. I nobody else has the prob then it's hard to justify wasting too much

Re: I haven't heard of anyone else with this screen problem

2014-03-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
Didn't do the edit properly. Fixed here. Sorry. On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:53:06 +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: A while back I posted a tech message dealing with a couple of buglets. One got fixed pronto (that's why we test lots of snapshots) and the other got attention from jsg@ and I tried all

Re: Forced shutdown due high temperatures

2013-11-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:23:56 +, E. Goncalves wrote: Hello there, I've just installed OpenBSD 5.4 on my machine and a few minutes of uptime without doing nothing the system shuts down saying the temperature is high, and I put my hands on top of keyboard in the location where the processor is

Re: update my box and Cinnamon avaible

2013-09-22 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:34:15 +0200, Marc Espie wrote: On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:28:24PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: There are some tools in the ports tree, like ports-readmes, that fulfill the same purpose but make use of the infrastructure to do a better job. http://ports.su/ is based

Re: cvsync, rsync

2013-09-19 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:01:13 +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: 2013/9/19 hru...@gmail.com Alexander Hall alexan...@beard.se wrote: Marc already anwered all your questions. Let me quote it. Fuck off The most brilliant answers of the experts: An old quote which fits nicely here: A book is

Re: 5.3 Installer Hangs After Entering Netmask (Broadcom NIC)

2013-09-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 22:45:50 -0700, andrew fabbro wrote: I have a Shuttle SD11G5, which is a small Celeron-based PC (1.5Ghz Celeron, 2GB RAM, a couple SATA drives). The OpenBSD 5.3 installer consistently hangs after I enter the Netmask for the onboard NIC. I'm booting the 32-bit x86

Re: BGPd filter puzzle

2013-08-07 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 07:30:49 +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote: This is from the network stack, it does not mean that bgpd added routes for this. For that you should check bgpctl show rib, bgpctl show fib and route(8) output. I'll have to check when some traffic is passing. Pity the error line doesn't

BGPd filter puzzle

2013-08-06 Thread Rod Whitworth
I logged in to an OpenBGPd router which I maintain remotely as I needed to check something from dmesg. The command dmesg|less resulted in 150 lines, none of which was what I expected to see. Here are some samples: cannot forward src fe80:0005::0420:77e7:f6bf:3550, dst 2406:a000::0006:0d08,

Re: Boning the Troll

2013-07-12 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:59:33 + (UTC), Stuart Henderson wrote: Troll feeding is a mostly unskilled operation, many more people are available for this service than for anything requiring actual thought. +1! *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender

Another year goes by

2013-05-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
Happy birthday Theo. Many more, I trust. Thanks for your leadership and the quality work that engenders amongst others. R/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address

5.3 halfway round the world (almost)

2013-05-11 Thread Rod Whitworth
I pre-ordered on the day that orders opened. I'll probably never order #1 due to the timeshift but that's life. My CD sets and the Absolute OpenBSD Second Edition ( on paper) were postmarked May 2 (which is already May 3 here) and the parcel arrived and cleared customs by May 10. Great artwork

Happy Birthday Stu

2013-04-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
I don't know where I found out your birthday date Stuart, it's the only one of the devs and I never went hunting for any of them. In any case it's a chance to thank you for being a very productive member of the great team that is OpenBSD and a very polite and helpful friend to many of us. So

Re: Pre-orders for 5.3

2013-03-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:53:29 +0100, ropers wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KAZXO5UbnU Aquarela was 5.2's song *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is

Re: Precisions on ZFS (was: Millions of files in /var/www inode / out of space issue.)

2013-02-21 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:54:58 -0430, Andres Perera wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado i...@juanfra.info wrote: OpenBSD doesn't have support for loadable kernel modules or FUSE, so OpenBSD should include the code inside of the kernel. This is a big difference

Re: Legal Question: OpenBSD Spin-off

2013-02-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:09:56 -0600, Maximo Pech wrote: Well, installing openbsd is not what I'd call easy for people with few technical skills. Crap! It is well documented and very little data needs to be typed in as most input can be done by accepting the default. Why not make it a live

Re: I need a little more Enlightenment

2013-01-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:13:09 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:50:36AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:33:54 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: The dmesg you quoted is from 5.2. Please show the -current dmesg from the USB stick install which actually has

Re: I need a little more Enlightenment

2013-01-15 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:33:54 +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 04:35:24PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: E installs without whining. I changed xinitrc to remove the icewm setting and added:- exec enlightenment_start startx gives a very dark screen and a mouse cursor pops

I need a little more Enlightenment

2013-01-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
Present machine (dmesg below) is really fun to work with X but that will go away with current. I found that out by installing the Jan 9 snap onto a USB stick. I'll start running that or later snaps when my new custom built T series laptop arrives. Meanwhile I decided to try running Enlightenment

Time conversion

2012-12-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
I think I'm suffering from OldTimers Disease ;-) I often have cause to use date -r to show me what the date stamp is in human terms. It is usually in spamd or on some documents I get that are time stamped using the seconds since the epoc. Now I have a need to generate some timestamps of my own

Re: Time conversion

2012-12-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 23:47:32 +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:31:43AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: | Cluebat? date +%s Ah yes. Reading the date man page won't do one any good unless you follow the pointer to strftime. Thanks for the wakeup which was the result of looking

Re: Time conversion

2012-12-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 11:55:37 +1300, m...@extensibl.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:31:43AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: I think I'm suffering from OldTimers Disease ;-) I often have cause to use date -r to show me what the date stamp is in human terms. It is usually in spamd or on some

Re: Crowding out OpenBSD

2012-11-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:49:37 -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: https://lwn.net/Articles/524606/ don't have a subscription but for those who do, enjoy. But http://lwn.net/Articles/524920/ will give you the idea without $$$ R/ *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to

Re: Thinkpad choice? -Is Nvidia tolerable for generic X?

2012-11-11 Thread Rod Whitworth
, Nvidia, might behave better in that respect. On 2012 Nov 10 (Sat) at 17:06:12 +1100 (+1100), Rod Whitworth wrote: :I already have a Lenovo Edge model that has the sandybridge graphics :that aren't fully supported right now and I'd be surprised if that :changes any time soon. : :AIUI it won't

Thinkpad choice?

2012-11-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
I already have a Lenovo Edge model that has the sandybridge graphics that aren't fully supported right now and I'd be surprised if that changes any time soon. AIUI it won't be a minor fix and I'm not whining about how long it will take. Instead I'm hoping I can pick a Thinkpad that is workable

Re: spammers getting less stupid?

2012-11-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 07:52:50 +0100, Joakim Aronius wrote: * Kurt Mosiejczuk (kurt-openbsd-m...@se.rit.edu) wrote: Jan Stary wrote: Strangely, the only occurence of 2.139.201.210 in the last month's maillog is just this; that's half an hour after it got WHITE. What happend at Mon Oct 29

Re: SSI

2012-09-28 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:20:59 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: Veteran, yes. But as you know, the set of aquired acronyms depends much upon environment. I once had a meeting (fresh from university) with some IBM engineers on the subject of the introduction of the first RS/6000 models in .nl. I still

Re: !!!!

2012-09-05 Thread Rod Whitworth
I could have answered lots of points that were weak or erroneous in this thread but that would just be feeding trolls. I see lots of OpenBSD should... and I want... types of statements. For the benefit of absolute newbies here is a precis of the OpenBSD raison d'etre: OpenBSD is the product of

Re: 5.2 pre-orders are up

2012-09-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:40:36 -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: On 9/4/2012 10:23 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: We've activated 5.2 pre-orders. I tried to go to the order page, but wound up at a 27B-6 form instead. When I saw your email I had just finished ordering and I thought There it goes again -

Re: Signatures for distribution sets and packages?

2012-09-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:36:26 +0800, Rowdy OpenBSD wrote: Is there any way to verify that distribution sets and packages that I have downloaded have not been tampered with (e.g., by someone with access to the mirror from which I downloaded them)? The package system supports signatures, but the

Re: Signatures for distribution sets and packages?

2012-09-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 12:48:58 +0800, Rowdy OpenBSD wrote: Is there any way to verify that distribution sets and packages that I have downloaded have not been tampered with (e.g., by someone with access to the mirror from which I downloaded them)? The package system supports signatures, but the

Re: Calomel.org

2012-07-26 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:47:46 +0200, Joakim Dellrud wrote: Okay I feel that a flame war might be afoot but to put another log on the fire; is Calomel not trustworthy in the read and do alike not copying straight from kind of way? I have used the guides for instance about the PF and DNS. And that

Re: OpenBSD forked

2012-06-22 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:16:45 +0200, Gilles Chehade wrote: That and Linux for dummies too ! That reminds me - a friend had a whole bunch of little sticky labels printed. He would stick them on the front cover of $subject For Dummies books in the bookstore. They fitted between the $subject line

Re: OpenBSD as IPv4+6 gateway

2012-06-21 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:28:05 -0400, Michael Lambert wrote: On 21 Jun 2012, at 18:04, Mark Felder wrote: The provider shouldn't be using a /64 for the link net. That means your router is getting the broadcasts from everyone else on that link net. The provider should be setting aside something

Re: OpenBSD as IPv4+6 gateway

2012-06-21 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:52:18 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:39:24 -0500, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: It is not a school of thought - it is how it is. I have seen one /126 out in the wild but it is very lonely. I work at an ISP/datacenter. We use /126s

Re: spamd greylisting: false positives

2012-05-27 Thread Rod Whitworth
It amazes me that nobody has yet given you the calomel warning. Not the best source of clues. That is the most polite comment you will see about that website. On Mon, 28 May 2012 10:43:08 +1000, David Diggles wrote: These guys do in their example. https://calomel.org/spamd_config.html delilah

BGPd puzzle

2012-05-27 Thread Rod Whitworth
Hi gurus, We have OpenBGPd running for some years very happily but now one of our transits is changing their rules. We are getting a new fibre feed because we moved to another level in the datacentre instead of the ethernet we had two levels down. That is not of any concern BUT along with the

5.1 is shipping = maybe a little relaxing time for The Man

2012-05-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
May 19: Happy Birthday, Theo! *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who feel compelled to reply off list. Thankyou. Rod/ --- This life is not

Re: Source archives

2012-05-01 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 01 May 2012 21:24:19 -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: FYI, I noticed that src.tar.gz, etc. doesn't seem to be in ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/5.1/ or any of the mirrors. Obviously I can download via CVS or wait for the CD, but I was wondering if it's an oversight, or if it was moved

Re: Sandybridge will not poweroff

2012-04-28 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:28:02 +0100, Laurence Rochfort wrote: I have a Sandybridge chipset and am glad to say that with the arrival of my 5.1 CDs I now have the correct X resolution. However, I cannot switch from X to console or shutdown from X, both just give a blank screen. I can reboot from X

Re: security(8) and maildir

2012-04-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:45:12 +0100, Zi Loff wrote: It is hard to guess what you need from the scarce information you provide. I'm sorry... On hindsight, that was _very_ little information. I'm running 5.0, with postfix as an MTA, delivering mail for two virtual domains (maildir). Courier is used

Re: VPN on OpenBSD: OpenSSH or OpenVPN?

2012-04-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:40:53 +0300, Liviu Daia wrote: You should probably avoid SSH. Without actually looking at the code, I'd say SSH VPNs are prone to TCP-over-TCP meltdown. And plenty of people use TCP in preference to the original UDP in OpenVPN. Sometimes it works very well for a

Re: manual about jobs control

2012-04-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:23:56 +0800 (CST), f5b wrote: In OpenBSD we can use commands like jobs fg or something else, but why man jobs man fg not work? and are there anything about jobs control in the base Manual? man 1 ksh then /jobs or /fg Whilst there look at all the other built-ins as

Heads-up for Sydney OpenBSD users

2012-04-10 Thread Rod Whitworth
The Ruxcon (security conf) people have some monthly sessions in various cities (Melbourne and Sydney and, IIRC, Perth is on the todo list) with a couple of speakers on each date. This month's Sydney Ruxmon includes a talk by OpenBSD/OpenSSH dev Darren Tucker. Here is the full text of the notice

USB-RS232 strange behaviour

2012-02-21 Thread Rod Whitworth
I have been using a USB-RS232 dongle for quite a while since DE9 connectors started going away on laptops. Typically I use cu -l cuaU0 to connect and everything is fine. Today I tried to use the same (dongle and command) on an old desktop to talk to a Soekris 4801. The message I got was

Re: SSH Mastery -- New book by Michal Lucas!

2012-02-17 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:42:21 -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Now I can tell people where they can pre-order print. And they will stop bugging me. ;-) Seriously, I'm delighted to be able to do this. I'm giving the books to the OpenBSD project at my cost. I expect them to use the proceeds well, on

Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X

2012-02-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
dmesg is under the story, of course. I have been following 5.0 current through 5.1 beta updating from CVS and building through to release and a CD so that I can track stuff. When my smooth red new Thinkpad arrived I decided to use it to try out my latest 5.1beta CD. So I shoved win7 aside and

Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X

2012-02-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:48:35 +0100, David Coppa wrote: It's a known bug with Intel Sandybridge: support for this GPU is far from being optimal. There goes $552.59 ... ;(( I guess I'd bettr watch the commit messages closely for good news. We live in hope. Thanx for the message, even if it's

Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X

2012-02-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:34:43 +, Fred Crowson wrote: On 14 February 2012 11:41, Rod Whitworth glis...@witworx.com wrote: There goes $552.59 ... ;(( I guess I'd bettr watch the commit messages closely for good news. We live in hope. Thanx for the message, even if it's bad news. I don't

Re: Lenovo E320: strange things happen with X

2012-02-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:23:34 +0200, Mihai Popescu wrote: OpenBSD 5.1-beta (GENERIC.MP) #5: Tue Feb 7 08:26:54 EST 2012 r...@nero.witworx.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP Is it a custom built kernel ? No way. I just update from CVS and build as per the FAQ instructions. In

Re: Jan

2011-12-11 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:54:36 +1100, richo wrote: Quoting the current resident full-of-himself little shit. I have a filter that sends stuff from him to /dev/null but he keeps getting answers that raise his google rating because you all go on quoting him. He is an oxygen thief - don't give him

Re: Kernel without INET6 error on pipex.c

2011-11-24 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:09:31 +, Julien Crapovich wrote: Hello. Absolutely, but compiling without INET6 is not supposed to generate error. I've just disabled INET6 on GENERIC file, not other hack. You are the only one who knows exactly what you did. Maybe. Why should we waste time guessing?

Re: Burning DVDs

2011-11-14 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:07:06 +1100, John Tate wrote: This has no 'make install' for some odd reason. I clearly should become a packager. I don't see that happening soon given your confused posts here. It seems to be about time you did some learning. packages are provided and are installed by

Re: cdio burning images

2011-11-12 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 16:19:31 +1100, John Tate wrote: Recap... cdio... # cdio tao /home/john/ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso cdio: The media can't be written in TAO mode Well, I don't know if you have media that will take 788MB images. Who is silly enough to make those ISOs that big? Or are you

Re: I want copy pf.conf from FreeBSD 8.2 to OpenBSD 5 and use it

2011-11-07 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:16:52 +0330, Gholam Mostafa Faridi wrote: Gholam Mostafa Faridimostafafar...@gmail.com writes: Fix your clock. You are several days slow and it fux up mailers that sort by date/time as they all should. OpenBSD has ntpd to do it for you. R/ Rod/ Write a wise saying

Re: ThinkPad 600 screen size.

2011-11-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:10:57 +1030, David Walker wrote: I got my hands on a ThinkPad 600 and only about 50% of the screen is utilized on ttys in the middle. Can someone please tell me where to look for this, man page or whatever. IMBW but IIRC those guys had a BIOS setting to expand the

Re: ThinkPad 600 screen size.

2011-11-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:54:21 +1030, David Walker wrote: It's in good nick and IBM (Lenovo) still have all the docs and files on the web. The ThinkPad 600 Suppliment to the User's Guide (sic) is 221 pages ... That's the supplement. :] It's all english too. One of the PDFs has 63 pages of assembly

Re: Sales Traffic?? We Can Help!!

2011-11-01 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 14:50:06 +0530, Sabey Malhotra wrote: I am Sabey, SEO Consultant S= Stupid E= Excreta O= Output Advertising in the online world is one of most inexpensive and highly effective ways of promoting a business. You have just demonstrated that what you say is bullshit. It put me

Re: DST cancellation for Russia

2011-10-30 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 12:39:02 +0300, Dmitry Tigrov wrote: Russia has cancelled the move to DST for 2011. Is cancellation DST for Russia added to 5.0 version? Is any patch to cancellation for 4.9 version? You don't need any patch - just a new zoneinfo file for the region you need. It was easy

Re: USB mouse

2011-10-26 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:52:44 -0300, Zantgo wrote: How I can run USB mouse? Zantgo Run Puppy Linux. Please. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for

Has Matthieu@ been talking to Randall Munroe?

2011-10-12 Thread Rod Whitworth
Or maybe it was some disgruntled X user http://xkcd.com/963/ It tickled my funny-bone anyway. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I am subscribed to the list. Mail to the sender address that does not originate at the list server is tarpitted. The reply-to: address is provided for those who

Re: Has Matthieu@ been talking to Randall Munroe?

2011-10-12 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:54:38 +0200, David Coppa wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Rod Whitworth wrote: Or maybe it was some disgruntled X user http://xkcd.com/963/ It tickled my funny-bone anyway. s/TIME SINCE I LAST HAD TO OPEN XORG.CONF/TIME SINCE I STARTED USING XENOCARA/ ;-) Ah

Re: CVS

2011-10-11 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:45:23 +1030, Giridhari wrote: Why does it say on http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html a.. NOTE: If you are updating a source tree that you initially fetched from a different server, or from a CD, you must add the -d anon...@anoncvs.ca.openbsd.org:/cvs options to cvs.

Re: Webmin with OpenBSD

2011-10-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 16:31:24 -0500, Matt Bettinger wrote: The classic answer. Wont just work so why are you even using this software because of the security risk... I still run openbsd at the house but for anything,that actually pays the bills WE USE ANYTHING BUT.Intel mpi? Openmpi? Etc. If

Re: Why I uninstalled OpenBSD???

2011-10-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:44:01 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: On 10/01/11 23:08, Christiano F. Haesbaert wrote: Not again people, please. Stop feeding. Yes. Yet another never-heard-from-before-or-again loser (and *always* using a gmail account...isn't that interesting?) posting a link to that

Re: Problem with installing OpenBSD

2011-09-29 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:57:32 +, Sales - OrangeWebsite.com wrote: Here is some additional info regarding the problem: Our hardware is IBM HS22V You don't have a problem - YOU are the problem. Please stop spamming this mailing list. OBSD folk: Please don't reply to him any more and certainly

Re: Problem with installing OpenBSD

2011-09-29 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:36:43 -0500, James Shupe wrote: If you truly have an issue installing OpenBSD, you need explain the process you're using and the errors you are getting. Don't pointlessly redirect us to your site that doesn't provide the aforementioned information. dmesg output, etc would

Re: Security over wireless.

2011-09-20 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:38:28 +0200, ropers wrote: snip part that isn't relevant to this message 1. Legit user authenticates with authpf. 2. After authentication, PF (if thusly configured) just allows that IP full access to various and sundry services it otherwise blocks. 3. While the legit user

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:07:11 +0200, Fritz Wuehler wrote: Homophobia isn't welcome on this list. Says the big homo... Besides it isn't phobia, it's a disdain. Do you understand the difference? Perhaps you can invent a new word for your abominable practices. Fuck off. Eat shit and live,

Re: Apache problems

2011-09-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
What a pity that people don't do any searching b4 asking STFA for this list and (IIRC) find links to the PoC tool amongst other info. On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:24:19 -0600, Shane Harbour wrote: On 9/18/2011 9:42 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Amit Kulkarni wrote: Recently

Re: OT: Re: question about documentation

2011-09-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:00:19 +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I have been hoping this thread would die for a while as it serves little use Actions speak louder than words. You have been the perpetrator of the latest revival. Make your wish come true - just shut up. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT

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