Re: UPS just delivered the 4.0 release CD-set

2006-10-13 Thread Sigfred Håversen
On Friday 13 October 2006 20:22, Stefan Klein wrote: Just a shy question - if version 4 CDs have been shipped already, there *should* be a downloadable version laying around somewhere, shouldn't it ? Those pre-ordering the CD sets gets a preferential treatment ;-) Sometimes Theo is extra nice

Re: Hairy Eyeball?

2006-09-13 Thread Sigfred Håversen
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 19:32, James Blasius wrote: I have seen references to Hairy Eyeball, a systrace site.. I can't find it. Does it still exist? I think it is dead. There was another site (http://hades.uint8t.org/) run by Luiz Gustavo that had some systrace policies based upon the

Re: Forum-Software, good and secure, on OpenBSD systems?

2006-09-13 Thread Sigfred Håversen
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:35, Marcos Laufer wrote: Take a look at www.mybboard.com The license contains the following gem: The MyBB Group may alter or modify this license agreement without notification and any changes made to the EULA will affect all past and current copies of MyBB.

Re: Subversion client for openbsd

2006-08-01 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Siju George wrote: Hi, What subversion ( GUI ) clients do you use on your OpenBSD systems? Seems there is none on 3.9 ports and I will have to compile from source. Will 4.0 have any subversio client in ports? Subclipse (Java) was very recently committed and is a plugin for Eclipse, and that

Re: Easy for a newbie to manage an OpenBSD server?

2006-08-01 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Titan wrote: [snip] In your experience, would it be possible for someone with no *NIX experience to maintain a simple FTP server? That could work well if that person is willing to read documentation. OpenBSD comes with very good documentation in the form of manual pages and FAQ. Google is

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-12 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Peter Philipp wrote: I do agree with you the freedoms you mentioned are part of the package of what I call ultimately freedom. Wonder what is contained in that package. But wait,... let us read There is a few more I'd add but this isn't about me. Of course not. It's about America

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-12 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Peter Philipp wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:22:26PM +0200, Sigfred H?versen wrote: So I think criticism such as this it can be forgiven if you're a decent human being and american. That pretty much sums up your definition of ultimate freedom, does it not? /Sigfred No it does not.

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-12 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So I think criticism such as this it can be forgiven if you're a decent human being and american. That pretty much sums up your definition of ultimate freedom, does it not? Blah blah blah. Let's please drop this sociopolitical debate

Re: dovecot from ports or from source

2006-07-06 Thread Sigfred Håversen
FTP wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 12:08:43AM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:37:56PM +0200, FTP wrote: Hi, the dovecot ports pkg is a bit 'old' but would it make sense to istall this and then make a second installation from the current source? Does the port

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Joachim Schipper wrote: Several Java implementations are in ports; Sun Java works on i386 only, I believe. Sun Java 1.5 works on amd64 in -current. /Sigfred

Re: openwebmail with chrooted apache

2006-07-03 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/07/03 13:52, Nick Holland wrote: (contrast this to Squirrelmail, which does (amazingly) run in a chroot Same for Hastymail and Roundcube. I guess it's not too much of a stretch with IMP either (though I haven't actually used IMP recently enough to have

Re: Encrypting files

2006-07-02 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:14:59AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop, in case it gets stolen. I have no prior experience in this field. I have been thinking about using mcrypt with blowfish, but is this

Re: Problems trying to log on squirrelmail.

2006-05-31 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Stuart Henderson wrote: [snip] If you are simply looking for a decent IMAP server and don't particularly need the features of Cyrus, try Dovecot instead. It's simpler and quite easy to use. In -current, Postfix (mail/postfix/snapshot/) supports Dovecot SASL: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Sasl

Re: /dev/rst[01] Question

2006-05-05 Thread Sigfred Håversen
dave feustel wrote: I have just installed OpenBSD 3.9 and I am running into some strangeness. What are the devices /dev/rst[01]used for? See st(4) under FILES section. /Sigfred

Re: Dual Core

2006-04-18 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Matt Jibson wrote: Some of us have had problems with dual core: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscm=113860396723795w=2 Many improvements have been done since then. For my particular motherboard (Asus A8N-SLI Premium, rev 1.02), the amd64 MP went from problematic to working very well.

Re: tcpdump needs no root privileges

2006-03-19 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:43:46PM +0300, Alex B wrote: Hello. When started from user, tcpdump complains: need root privileges, even if I want it to read packets from regular file. Error is located in privsep.c. It may be more secure to start tcpdump from user to

Re: OpenBSD for a desktop environment ?

2006-02-15 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Ramiro Aceves wrote: [snip] I do not want to start a flame war here, but I would like to know why there is not a native OpenOffice port for OpenBSD. I mean, the technicall resons, I am not a programmer and I would like to know it. Just curious. Much effort has gone into porting OpenOffice,

Re: slow network performance

2006-02-15 Thread Sigfred Håversen
I recently tried to use netperf, but it seemed more to test my CPU than the network and thus reporting low througput. benchmarks/netstrain is much less demanding on the CPU. Of course, one may use ftp to download large files since the OpenBSD one reports speed as well. /Sigfred Sebastian

Re: rapid response to ordering :-)

2005-11-04 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Pete Vickers wrote: Hi, Just to say thanks to all involved. I ordered my 3.8CDs on via OpenBSD/europe page on tuesday, and they arrived today (friday)... in Norway. All in tact and unblemished (as usual). Great service, thanks :-) I even got it before I paid for it, how's that for

Re: 3.8 -- svnserve on inet6 only

2005-11-03 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Dominique Jacquel wrote: Hi, I have just installed 3.8 from the CD :-) and FTPed all packages from ftp.kd85.com. It all went well but I am having a strange problem with subversion. svnserve does not seem to bind to inet but only to inet6. Yes, this is known. By default svnserve will only

Re: powernow

2005-10-27 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Ted Unangst wrote: there is a diff from gordon klok in the snapshots that should improve support for k7 and k8 family powernow (cool and quiet). i'd like to know where/if it works, what messages get printed, and if hw.setperf does anything useful. md5 -t with setperf=0 and 100 would be nice.

Re: DISKLESS tutorial that need feedback

2005-10-23 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Bachman Kharazmi wrote: Please STOP the discussion about document formats in this thread. You're taking my time complaing on the document format (pdf). In my first post I wrote that I want feedback on the document and nothing else. I understand your frustation that your thread has been

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 negative free space (?WTF?)

2005-08-24 Thread Sigfred Håversen
John Kintaro Tate wrote: [snip] So I did the next thing that comes naturally, I aborted and did a df -h... # df -h FilesystemSizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/wd0a 787M778M -30.6M 104%/ WTF is going on here? -30.6M sounds kinda

Re: Text editor

2005-08-07 Thread Sigfred Håversen
J.C. Roberts wrote: 3.) Learn ed -If vi is not installed, ed probably is. Some ancient systems don't have vi but the odds of coming across such a system are fairly slim. The only text editor in bsd.rd is ed, so chances are that one may have to use it on occasion (shudder). /Sigfred

Re: setting mediaopt ibss fails on ath (Netgear WG511T)

2005-06-29 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Hanspeter Roth wrote: On Jun 28 at 22:46, Kenneth R Westerback spoke: Of course, the other thing you could try is a -current snapshot yourself. Do you know where they are? I don't know by hart but I'll probably find out. The question is, can one install OpenBSD in the middle of a 60GB

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

2005-06-10 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Rick Barter wrote: [snippy snap stuff] Your experience with theaching are not that extensive, I gather? /Sigfred

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

2005-06-10 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Rick Barter wrote: [snip snappy stuff] I didn't say that he wasn't a teacher because he's not actively teaching. I was eluding to him not being a teacher because he is afraid of the responsibility that goes along with the act of teaching. Everyone is a teacher whether they know it or not.

Re: IMAP servers

2005-05-22 Thread Sigfred Håversen
Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hi, What IMAP servers do people use for email access? I use Dovecot at the moment under 3.6, as it supports SSL, Maildir and mbox, but it has some problems with indexes. I used to use the stock imapd that came with OpenBSD, but that didn't handle Maildir. I'm