Re: Firewall setup

> On Apr 14, 2024, at 08:09, Karel Lucas wrote: > > Hi all, Hi. > So let's start simple and then proceed step by step. I want to continue with > ping so that I can test the connection to the internet. This works: ping -c > 10 195.121.1.34. But this doesn't work: ping -c 10 www.apple.com.

Re: Bash instead of ksh

> On Apr 2, 2024, at 20:26, Brian Conway wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, at 10:08 PM, Nick Holland wrote: >> What is it that you see bash doing so much better than stock pdksh? > > Multiline command editing. > > (I don't use bash, but it would be a nice feature.) I dunno. It’s a mixed bag.

Re: squid replacement

> On Oct 20, 2023, at 11:35, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) > wrote: > > Does anyone know of another HTTP proxy that supports squid-style > ACLs? That's a big part of why we chose it in the first place. We > restrict which hosts can connect to the proxy, and further restrict > which

Re: Update from 6.5 to 7.3

> On Sep 9, 2023, at 00:54, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Il 08/09/23 19:54, Marc Espie ha scritto: >> On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 06:36:57PM +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >>> >>> Il 08/09/23 18:24, Peter N. M. Hansteen ha scritto: On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:01:45AM +0200, Alessandro Baggi

Re: recommendations for web hosting in Canada?

On Jul 6, 2023, at 23:09, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: > vultr seems to have vps in toronto, canada and last time I checked they > supported OpenBSD via its deployment webapp I literally deployed a Vultr VPS with OpenBSD 7.3 last night. Took about 10 minutes. I only mention it

Re: ChatGPT writes a pf.conf by spec, earns an "F" grade

> On Jun 7, 2023, at 01:28, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > > Recorded at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/chatgpt_writes_pf.conf.html for those > who would be interested. So in the thread that made you try it (https://bsd.network/@dch/110501874752402311) they said: "@pitrh I’m still waiting for it

Re: sysupgrade fails with "FAILED" when "verifying sets"?

> On Dec 14, 2022, at 03:03, Bodie wrote: >> On 14.12.2022 11:34, Why 42? The lists account. wrote: >> Right you are, that's the one :-/ I used to be a SPARC kinda guy, but >> those are all gone now. > > OT - they are not, but those prices... > >

Re: Possible Bug - 7.1 stable - scsi_xfer pool exhausted

> On Dec 3, 2022, at 09:06, Stuart Henderson wrote: > AFAIK the main options available at that point are: > > deadlocks waiting for resources > detect the problem and randomly kill processes (e.g. linux oom killer) > detect the problem and panic I recall a long time ago reading on LKML that

Re: OpmenBDS XFCE

> On Aug 13, 2022, at 02:58, Omar Polo wrote: > (Also, please, it's spelled OpenBSD -- where BSD stands for Berkely > Software Distribution) Super Minor Nit: Berkeley For fun and wasting some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution

Re: Trouble with lpr and Brother wireless printer

> On Aug 4, 2022, at 21:27, Ben Hancock wrote: > > So, to wrap up: I do not recommend the Brother HLL2350DW for your > OpenBSD printing needs. I may end up heeding the suggestions to > simply buy a printer that speaks PostScript. Recommendations welcome. HP used to make freakin’ tanks, and I

Re: Trouble with lpr and Brother wireless printer

The shortest postscript I know to test a printer: %! newpath clippath stroke showpage It will draw a line around the page clipping path (i.e., the outer most edge the printer can print at). Sean PS That’s also short enough to type at a printer if you connect to it with ’nc’. :-) > On Aug 2,

Re: OpenBSD 7.1 : reorder_kernel: failed

> On Aug 2, 2022, at 06:30, Nick Holland wrote: > > On 7/29/22 7:29 AM, Nicolas wrote: > >> What's you opinion, could you help me with that message ? > > Well, I'm not really sure what is going on, but I'm guessing you > have done something odd in the past that left the kernel rebuild >

Re: xidle(1) and autosuspend

> On Jun 29, 2022, at 04:24, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2022-06-07, Florian Obser wrote: >> So after 5 minutes xidle starts xlock and 5 minutes after that my laptop >> autosuspends. If I unlock the laptop before 5 minutes expire the sleep >> gets killed and the laptop doesn't suspend. > >

Re: Another kernel fault incident on a Vultr OpenBSD VM

I’ve been running a few Vultr instances since. . . before 2018. Periodically, something comes up. I think in the 5-ish years, I’ve had 2 issues. Raise an issue with their support team and state what happened. Both times, they responded with some information and that they needed to

Re: Please put vi in base

> On Mar 12, 2022, at 18:38, i...@tutanota.com wrote: > > In my 30 years of doing sysadmin work, I have never - not even once - come > across a > situation where a normal editor like vi or nano or something equally simple > didn't > exist on the install media. Lucky you, never ever having to

Re: What password manager do you recommend?

> On Jan 7, 2022, at 13:38, Crystal Kolipe wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:23:30PM -0800, Sean Kamath wrote: >> gpg < file.gpg > > Why gpg and not openssl? 21 years of muscle memory? But that is a good point. . . Hrm.

Re: What password manager do you recommend?

> On Jan 7, 2022, at 11:53, fo...@dnmx.org wrote: > > Hello. I hope this these types of questions are okay for an mailing list.. > I completely understand if they are not.. > > There's password-store, but it does need some shitty dependencies.. > Then there's opm, but since it doesn't seem to be

Re: rc.firsttime after package daemons

> On Nov 3, 2021, at 01:42, Kapetanakis Giannis > wrote: > Anyway, I followed Stuart's advice of adding a second DNS server in > resolv.conf apart from 127.0.0.1 > which was my usual practice for caching servers. I see no harm on this. I generally always run resolving and authoritative

Re: Are there any protection againts heisting the "shell builtin"s?

> On Sep 8, 2021, at 02:24, jim hook wrote: > ... > ex.: "unset cd" would help, but any solution in general? I alias ‘ls’ to my preferred args. Sometimes I don’t want those. In ksh, I just use \ls to not use the alias. I confirmed \cd will use the builtin (at least on ksh) with: $cd() {

Re: pf.conf parser/lint

> On Dec 21, 2020, at 14:24, Aham Brahmasmi wrote: > For the defaults, I try to explicitly write some of them sometimes. I > find this helpful because it is difficult for me to remember what the > defaults are. However, I do understand that I run the risk of being > caught unawares if the

iterm2 tmux integration with OpenBSD 6.8 failing?

Hi. Just wondering if anyone else has seen any problems with tmux integration with iterm2 on 6.8. I updated two i386 machines (alix 2c13) to 6.8 using sysupgrade, and both of them seem to be unresponsive to tmux integration using the latest version (3.4.2) of iterm2. In 6.7 and earlier, I’ve

Re: Input Filter and LPD

> On Oct 19, 2020, at 18:26, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > CUPS is not needed around here. Possibly it will not be needed sometime in the future: https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/15/apple_cups_develoment/

Re: home printer

> On Sep 17, 2020, at 09:48, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > That answer [HP] used to be spot on until about the year 2000. I concur. I used to work at a printer company that competed directly with them. Once I no longer had a free printer, i bought a *used* HP LaserJet 4MV in 2006. It had been

Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

> On Aug 27, 2020, at 01:16, Janne Johansson wrote: > It doesn't matter if it was "change spaces to tabs", "html made carriage > returns where a space was found" or if it was "make two - - chars into one > single utf-8 -- token" or "spell check/correction edited fnd_trgl_dsk() to >

Re: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source

> On Aug 26, 2020, at 12:08, Chris Bennett > wrote: > > Can't get your email to go plain text, attachments work. > If they don't, why not change providers? > It's a bit of work, but almost anyone can setup their own email server > for next to nearly free. I encourage everyone to do this, but

Re: sysupgrade with sysmerge failure

> On Jun 2, 2020, at 02:15, rgc wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 10:47:02PM -0700, Sean Kamath wrote: >> I didn???t see any place in sysmerge that used mail, and did not receive any >> mail for the failed sysmerge. >> But I see in /etc/rc that it does mail the out

Re: sysupgrade with sysmerge failure

> On Jun 1, 2020, at 03:43, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Normally the output from rc.firsttime is mailed to root. e.g. I didn’t see any place in sysmerge that used mail, and did not receive any mail for the failed sysmerge. But I see in /etc/rc that it does mail the output of sysmerge to the

sysupgrade with sysmerge failure

Hi. I just used the new ‘sysupgrade’ to upgrade my little Alix boxes to 6.7. It worked very well, and thank you for this upgrade simplification tool. I do have one question. After upgrading the first machine, when I ran syspatch to patch the system, I got a failure saying that the user

bsdauth being removed from Dovecot?

Hi. Wondering if anyone noticed Timo’s email where he said: > To start, the following features are likely to be removed in next few > releases of Dovecot. > > - Authentication drivers: vpopmail, checkpassword, bsdauth, shadow, sia I’m a bit behind so if the last couple of releases of OpenBSD

Re: But there is Fossil...

> On Jan 6, 2020, at 16:18, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > GitHub is so successful because it is non-trivial to get Git working. I found gitea trivial to install. Having said that, I use whatever repo projects provide. I’m not here to say VCS “A” is better than VCS “B”, just saying

Re: dhcpd and unbound on a small LAN

> On Jan 6, 2020, at 04:24, Anders Andersson wrote: > Right now I'm considering something that monitors dhcpd.leases for > changes and updates a running unbound using unbound-control(8) but I > don't feel confident enough writing such a tool that does not miss a > lot of corner cases and handle

Re: ownership of mailboxes with dovecot

On Dec 31, 2019, at 08:30, Roderick wrote: > As said, I had UW imap serving system user mailboxes, and now > cyrus imap serving virtual users. You have to decide. With > dovecot I have no other experience than compiling it. > > I think, I would preffer now UW Imap, because I have only few and

Re: Hardware for Access Point on OpenBSD

I just got a Ruckus here in the US. You can just not use any of the cloud crap on it. Has PoE which made mounting it on the ceiling trivial. The OpenBSD router stays a router, and I have so many ssid options + vlans. It’s kinda crazy. Sean Typed with my thumb. > On Jan 1, 2020, at 12:39, Zé

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

> On Nov 21, 2019, at 23:54, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > wait until you see the next thing i'm interested in. modern > machines will barely notice it, but alix's will quake. I look forward to what’s in store. As for all the other helpful comments (from Theo and others), thank you. The

Re: Turn off Swap on boot disk

> On Nov 21, 2019, at 09:55, Kenneth Gober wrote: > ... > The need for more swap may be related to kernel relinking -- it might be an > interesting experiment to see if your existing swap space is enough with > kernel relinking disabled. Yes, precisely. I did add some larger CF cards on

Turn off Swap on boot disk

Hello. Can someone provide me a pointer to how to do this? I have a bunch of Alix 2d13 boxes. With 6.6, I’ve found I need more swap than the default layout on a 2G compact flash drive has. So, I got some 1G USB thumb drives, and want to use JUST those for swap. Despite different attempts

Re: Misc i386 questions

I missed that (deprecating buslogic). Sadly, Fusion on a Mac defaults to buslogic, but doesn’t put it in the config file. Anyway, switching to lsilogic worked like a charm. Thank you! Sean > On Oct 15, 2019, at 09:49, Todd C. Miller wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:37:41 -0600, Todd C.

Re: Misc i386 questions

> On Oct 14, 2019, at 20:06, Nick Holland wrote: > > What SCSI hw are you emulating in your VM? There doesn’t seem to be a lot of options in VMware Fusion. There’s a popup in the config for “Bus Type” and you can select “SCSI” or “IDE”, “SATA” and “NVMe”. On the 6.0 installation, using

Re: Misc i386 questions

Doh! set tty com0 Alix is coming along OK now. Still have questions about i386 and SCSI. . . Sean > On Oct 12, 2019, at 23:13, Sean Kamath wrote: > > Hi. > > In my odyssey to get larger disks on my Alix machines, I bought some 16G > CompactFlash cards. I put inst

Misc i386 questions

Hi. In my odyssey to get larger disks on my Alix machines, I bought some 16G CompactFlash cards. I put install65.fs on a card and tried to boot it on the Alix, but it just reboots after it loads the kernel. Meanwhile, the VM I used to dd the install65.fs file to the CF card is running 6.0, so

Re: Alix 2d13 and OpenBSD 6.5 Problems

On Oct 4, 2019, at 16:28, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2019-10-03, Sean Kamath wrote: >>> You can disable the reordering by removing /var/db/kernel.SHA256 >>> but be aware that syspatch relies on the reorder_kernel mechanism in >>> order to apply kernel pa

Re: Alix 2d13 and OpenBSD 6.5 Problems

Just wanted to say a thank you for everyone’s comments. I’ve combined all my replies into one mostly to sum everything up. > On Oct 2, 2019, at 02:16, Stefan Sperling wrote: > Try adding swap space. > I have added 2GB of swap space on my alix and it has been running fine ever > since. My

Alix 2d13 and OpenBSD 6.5 Problems

Hi. I’m hoping someone either has a cluebat or some helpful suggestions beyond “reinstall”. I had an alix 2d13 running OpenBSD 6.3. I finally got around to upgrading to 6.4 (via https://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade64.html), and that seemed to go just fine (I used the Upgrading Manually

Re: How to synchronise 2 spamd instances

On May 26, 2019, at 04:41, Mik J wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm coming back on this topic. I added the -K option > # /usr/libexec/spamd -v -s 5 -S 5 -w 1 -G5:24:2400 -l 127.0.0.1 -h > myhost.mydomain.org -y vmx0 -Y myhost2.mydomain.org -K /etc/mail/spamd.key -n > ABCD > # spamd: need key and

Re: Puffy Security smtpd out of date ( closed )

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 10:38, Geir Svalland wrote: > > It's a shame good work like > this is > of no use anymore. According to my opinion, it's well written and easy > to follow. > > /Hasse So, I’ll take issue with the “well written” part of that. It doesn’t do much in the way of explaining

Re: Need to swap partitions: /tmp amd /usr

A random shot in the dark, but sometimes it happens. Perhaps unmount /usr/obj and/or /usr/src and confirm there is no existing files under either? It’s rare, but sometimes happens, that we set things up one way, then change it later. And mounting a filesystem on top of an existing directory

Re: How do you do "family remote support"?

> On Jul 11, 2017, at 2:42 PM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > > >> On 11. Jul 2017, at 23:33, Kurt H Maier wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 05:22:29PM -0400, Rupert Gallagher wrote: >>> Never heard of whatismyip.org? >>> Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

Re: chmod of /usr/obj/usr.sbin/unbound/util

would “$(INSTALL) -d -m 775 util” be a less evil hack? > On Feb 26, 2017, at 7:51 AM, Theo Buehler wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 04:37:57PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 04:30:38PM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at

Re: tfdpd doesn't deliver pxeboot file

> On Oct 6, 2016, at 7:24 AM, Peer Janssen wrote: > > But I realized that there must be something in the dhcpd options and/or > something related to arp resolution, which I didn't grok. So I read some > more RFCs about pxebooting in relation to dhcp and arp, but finally > abandoned

Re: tfdpd doesn't deliver pxeboot file

I’ve been working on transitioning to an all Alix 2d13 environment for my home set up. Using 6.0 base, I had no problems with PXE (DHCP or tftp) on my Alix 2d13 machine. The server in this case is running on a MacBook Pro with VMware Fusion with a (just freshly built) 6.0 (Stable) install.

Re: OpenBSD 6.0 and emacs-24.5p2-gtk2

This drove me nuts for a while to. Then I found pkg_add gsettings-desktop-schema provided the missing schema entry/entries. Sean > On Sep 5, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >> On Sep 5, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Peter Fraser wrote: >> >>

Re: help with kshrc

> On Apr 18, 2016, at 10:03 PM, dan mclaughlin wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:42:56 +0200 Marko =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cupa=3F?= wrote: >> if ($tty == ttyv3) then >> startxfce4 --with-ck-launch >> logout >> endif >> >> How can I achieve the same with

Re: OT: True hardware UNIX terminal

Still using a Wyse (50?) on my Ultrasparc 80. In college, we had these weird DEC PC’s that we used as VT100 compatible terminals. There were so many. The VT100 was the prototype what XTerm emulated. Sean > On Mar 29, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Nick Holland wrote: > Some

Re: Show us your /etc/profile

On Aug 2, 2015, at 8:49 AM, li...@wrant.com wrote: never thought of using a shell function in .profile till I read this thread. ... Functions has always been impressive once you move past the alias shortcomings (can't handle arguments etc), so also worth a read the Functions

Re: cp from 4 different home folders without overwriting files with different content

On Jun 28, 2015, at 7:28 PM, Aaron Poffenberger a...@hypernote.com wrote: IMO, you're over thinking it. Step 1) GET THE DATA OFF THE FAILING DRIVES. Doing *anything* before that's done means you *want* to lose data. Step 2) okay, *now* that the data is safe, compare files between trees

Re: Set PKG_PATH using Time Zone?

On Mar 26, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Dale Lindskog dale.linds...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2015, L.R. D.S. wrote: Is really boring write the package repository everytime we install. Why not set the repository using the Time Zone as a reference? For example, if you set Japan as your zone,

Re: Crash cart console adapters compatible with OpenBSD?

I've got about 10 of these where I work (Adder iPEPS: http://www.adder.com/products/adderlink-ipeps). I got them because we needed to have a set of workstations to use for builds. Basically, they work pretty well. Sometimes they loose their brains, but for the most part they just work. Some

Re: Are nc -lu /dev/zero /dev/null a good throughput test?

On Jul 19, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Raimundo Santos rait...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I am testing OpenBSD 5.5 Release over XenServer 6.2 with HVM and qemu-dm wrapper to change the default r8139 to virtio, adapted from [1]. So, to test the server private network throughput and other things

Re: open bsd router

On Oct 4, 2013, at 3:11 PM, Comète com...@daknet.org wrote: Yes, we use a lot of ALIX 2D13 as routers on many sites since 2 or 3 years (nearly 20 ALIX boxes now). It works like a charm with a good compact flash card, no problem at all ! And i've recently discovered they even included a

Re: remote management

On May 14, 2013, at 7:55 PM, Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: The AdderLink can be a bit expensive for small businesses and hobbiests in their recommended one-per-server configuration (approx USD 500), however if you don't have to have different access levels for different servers' consoles,

Re: How to set aliases in ksh

On Mar 17, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Robert Connolly rob...@secondfloor.ca wrote: Hi. I have tried using both ~/.kshrc and ~/.profile to set an alias such as: alias ls='ls -F' and it doesn't work automatically on login. The files are being sourced, because my definition of PATH and PKG_PATH work. If

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

On Jan 3, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Gene gh5...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Bruno Flückiger inform...@gmx.net wrote: My personal favorites are the boxes from this small company in Switzerland: http://www.pcengines.ch Regards, Bruno The ALIX hardware is incredible. I

Re: Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi

On Jan 4, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Johan Beisser j...@caustic.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Aaron Mason simplersolut...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Dan Shechter dans...@gmail.com wrote: You have all failed to mention that the ALIX devices come with Swiss chocolates

Re: Best postscript printer with network support?

On Dec 27, 2012, at 3:38 AM, David Diggles da...@elven.com.au wrote: I want to avoid HP. Why? I got a Jaserjet 8150DN second hand for $50. Works perfectly. I totally second this. I used to work at a company that competed directly with HP in the color printing space. Then we were

Re: openbsd router performance (i know.. again)

On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Yusof Khalid - FreeBSD / OpenBSD frysha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, Any happy ALIX user here ? I plan to deploy alix board on 2 of my client.. currently serving as gateway/firewall/squid and a little bit of samba. Search the mail archives for raves about Alix

Re: pfsense and or OpenBSD Home router.

[And now I'll CC the entire list. :-P) On Sep 11, 2012, at 2:47 AM, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:38:28AM +0200, Shaka Nkofo wrote: http://store.netgate.com/Desktop-Kits-C82.aspx I found this shop while looking for parts to build a home router. Has anyone been

Re: a live cd/dvd?

On May 13, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Eric Oyen wrote: ok, thats a bunch of information. However, for me, its the same as rocket science as I am totally blind and would require sighted assistance just to get it to either install a network card, or port to USB/Serial. Unlike the rest of you, using a

Re: ethernet-to-serial support

On Feb 23, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Dewey Hylton dewey.hyl...@gmail.com [2012-02-23 15:21]: i used the digi equipment over a decade ago with both hpux and aix with success. i'd really like to access these from my openbsd workstation and laptop, though the documentation mentions

Re: locate weirdness

On Jan 11, 2012, at 4:08 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: Agreed, .. but if locate.update does NOT run as root, that would seem to indicate some problem other than permissions. If you're saying what I think you're saying, then I disagree and think your

Re: using ssh to forward the install console

On Dec 11, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Chris Bennett wrote: this is the setup I use to upgrade and install on my remote server. It works great. This would probably be a good purchase since you could use it again in the future on other, later systems. Chris Bennett I use something similar:

Re: I don't get where the load comes from

On May 31, 2011, at 12:33 AM, Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Francois Pussault fpussa...@contactoffice.fr wrote: load is not realy a cpu usage %. In facts it is sum of many % (cpu real load, memory, buffers, etc...) that explain why load can up over 5.0

Re: [OT] OpenBSD on plugcomputers

On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Ron McDowell wrote: Or just get an Alix board http://www.pcengines.ch/alix3d3.htm [available stateside from netgate.com] for projects like this. AMD Geode CPU, common VGA/USB keyboard input, i386 versions of most OSes work, I have 4.7 i386 running on one with a

Re: Printing (well anything) using lpd...

On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, patrick keshishian wrote: It supports Postscript, and even has it's own lpd running so that you can FTP files to it to print. You keep saying and thinking that it supports post script. It does not. Otherwise feeding it a postscript file would print the document,

Re: Donations

On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:05 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: On Dec 4, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: If you don't know why I am sending this mail.. you are reading US managed news, and need to much much more informed It's in the US news. Even the mainstream news on TV. At least in

Re: Donations

On Dec 4, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: If you don't know why I am sending this mail.. you are reading US managed news, and need to much much more informed It's in the US news. Even the mainstream news on TV. At least in Silicon Valley. ;-) Gotta love the cloud. . . Sean

Re: nfsv4?

On Oct 29, 2010, at 7:43 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: As for SFTP or any other method that would duplicate data, I have already discussed why it is not a possibility. SSHFS *was and still is* a possibility but it was ruled out because of our HPC needs. I run something that could be considered

Re: availability of Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF, 3rd ed.

On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Alexander Hall wrote: On 10/23/10 11:10, Matthias Ochs wrote: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=127426139631321w=2 404 Not here and now anyway. Works fine from here. The link to marc.info works, but the link on that page (http://www.devguide.net/bfwoap3)

Re: Linux or OpenBSD

On Oct 23, 2010, at 12:33 PM, Jean-Francois wrote: Le Wednesday 22 September 2010 21:29:31, Rikky Taylor a icrit : I was after some general advice. I need to setup a routing firewall with 3 interfaces, moderate traffic and a fair amount of NAT'ing in the rules. Given identical modern server

Re: Incorrect FAQ entry about ksh(1) does not appear to read my .profile

On Oct 3, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Amit Kulkarni wrote: Then why is it placed there in the FAQ entry? Somebody thought there's a relation there. It's there because when you start an X terminal (xterm), you can tell xterm (via X resource DB) if you want shells it starts to be login shells, and that's

Re: Router components

On Oct 3, 2010, at 11:15 PM, David Higgs wrote: NONE OF IT WILL MATTER TO YOU. I'll google up some smaller systems (Soekris, ALIX, etc?) and see how they strike me. Pointers here are even more welcome, as I am not as familiar with this end of the spectrum and want to avoid the

Re: request help with tip and serial port problem

On Jul 14, 2010, at 3:55 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:47:18 -0600 fred f...@blakemfg.com wrote: I restored the dialer group to /dev/tty01 and added the user to the dialer group as Nick suggested. It still doesn't work but the response is different now. I believe there is

Re: Processeur Atom ?

On Jun 10, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Teemu Rinta-aho wrote: On 06/10/2010 09:18 PM, E.T wrote: Hi all I would like to make a firewall / router running OpenBSD. I watch the ARM processors / Geode but they are less powerful and expensive for a complete solution. I also looked at the solution Soekris

Re: licensing

On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Chris Dukes pak...@pr.neotoma.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:53AM -0600, Ted Roby wrote: /* umpla...@cc.umanitoba.ca */ http://lmgtfy.com/?q=plawny+umanitoba I think you'll find a

Re: licensing

On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Sean Kamath kam...@geekoids.com wrote: On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Chris Dukes pak...@pr.neotoma.org wrote: On Wed, Apr

Re: licensing

On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: Please tell me what I should do with his permission? At best, he can let me host my own mud with his code. At worst, he must rewrite his entire license in all the associated files. Now *that* is an interesting question. As the

Re: licensing

On Apr 14, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote: You blew off on this message board assuming I hadn't even googled, or found our friend Voytek Plawny. So? Inquiring minds want to know! *Is* he the guy at EA? And more importantly, is he still a dick? Sean

Re: licensing

On Apr 14, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Ted Roby wrote: I got more help from the first poster who suggested using Circle Mud instead. The problem is, I was quite attached to to this modified Rom code, and perhaps committed the error of getting my hopes up. You just weren't sicto to/sic clear in your

Re: HP/Dell RAID

Should. But doesn't? :-) Sean On Jan 11, 2010, at 5:54 PM, Henning Brauer lists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Steve Shockley steve.shock...@shockley.net [2010-01-12 01:36]: The Compaq/HP Smart 5 and above controllers (ciss) should work well. ciss and work well in one sentence without a

Re: HD 'Analysis'

On May 7, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Tony Abernethy wrote: There are exotic ways of increasing risk by keeping the most of the not-failed-yet neighbors as supposedly good sectors. Not with a modern disk. The drives now essentially lie about where on the disk any given block is, you'll never know if

Re: Survey on the usage of IPv6

On Jan 31, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Michiel van Baak wrote: On 18:50, Fri 30 Jan 09, Claudio Jeker wrote: For an IPv6 related paper we are currently working on, Claudio and I are doing a small online survey on the use of IPv6 among OpenBSD developers and users. It would be nice if you could

Re: bash for root?

On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:55 AM, Nick Holland wrote: Other than generating duplicate user number error reports from the nightly security check, the generally bad idea of duplicate user numbers, creating confusion and ambiguity that doesn't need to be there, the likelihood that you will have

Re: Capture serial port output to a file

On Oct 29, 2008, at 2:13 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Marc Balmer wrote: * Bruce Bauer wrote: Problem: OpenBSD 4.2 on i386 Serial port /dev/cua00 connected to the console port on a firewall. I need to catch all text output from the serial port to a file. The process

Re: Here's a trivial question. . .

On Jun 12, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Martin Toft wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:29:41AM -0700, Sean Kamath wrote: Why is sendmail in /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin? sendmail is patently not a GNU application, and has a modified Berkeley license? Just askin'. Sean http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm

Here's a trivial question. . .

Why is sendmail in /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin? sendmail is patently not a GNU application, and has a modified Berkeley license? Just askin'. Sean