> Frantisek Holop wrote:
> >
> > i am reading the fdisk source to have a better understanding
> > what is what... it is not going really well i am afraid :]
Please read up on hale landis' "how it works" series. It's roughly
the best I've found on the subject. http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwmbr.ht
Note, I'm not on this list, Theo forwarded the message for me.
On Tuesday, March 31, Theo de Raadt forwarded:
> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:13:22 +0200
> From: frantisek holop
> To: misc
> Subject: Re: the fdisk man page and the fdisk behaviour
>
> hmm, on Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:34:38PM -0400, N
Hello all,
I'd love to get another round of cpuid testing done (i386/amd64).
The code is available at: http://www.tepid.org/~weingart/cpuid.c
I'd appreciate it if people could do something like the following
on their i386 and amd64 boxes:
make cpuid && ./cpuid | mail -s 'cpuid output' [EMAIL PROT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> I'm wondering if in your travels, have any of you seen a case (tower,
> desktop, or rackmount) that is:
- Grab an old iron stove, and stuff a newer case into it.
- Go to the nearest welding shop, have them weld a nice 500lb steel box
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lars Noodin wrote:
>
> 2) Under what circumstances (generally) would one encounter a situation
> where it would strongly desirable to have a custom kernel?
When I happened to get an obsd kernel running on an 8M memory machine
by stripping out network support, unn
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nikns Siankin wrote:
>
> I don't believe anymore, that someone from side can make it better.
> The only people who could make it better are talking to community
> only when release CD needs to get sold or donations are needed.
So you think that the community at
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nikns Siankin wrote:
>
> # Stable release cycle.
>If you want to run latest bugfree ClamAV or FireFox - upgrade to CURRENT!
>But don't forget to buy release CD's!!!
Well, by buying the release CD you get a fairly secure method of getting
the majority of
Diana Eichert wrote:
>
> give me X.25 any day, instead of this new fangled ISDN technology.
My eyes! Aaarrrghhh... the "pleasure" of remembering the days I had
to implement an X.25 stack... aaah
-Toby.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Wilcox wrote:
>
> Testing the software has nothing to do (as far as licensing goes) with a
> final, released GPL product. You can release the alpha and beta releases
> under whatever license you want to. Just license the final product under
> the GPL.
If
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chefren wrote:
>
> It's misleading to call "GNU" "GNU" it should be called "BSD/GNU".
>
> BSD/GPL
> BSD/GPLvX
>
> Somewhat more typing but good PR.
Again, I surely hope you jest?
Please don't associate me or anything I currently code on with the GPL.
Why wou
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, chefren wrote:
> On 1/8/08 11:28 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote:
>
> > 2. Same NIC without flash/ROM bad
>
> Eh, that's just a meaningless pile of transistors.
Surely you jest? An FPGA is a meaningless pile of transistors?
Weird...
-Toby.
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Stuart Henderson wrote:
>
> It wouldn't be more likely that the disk _crashes_ by doing this,
> and it may give _some_ protection against _some_ failure modes.
> It also gives new and exciting ones to take their place.
Actually, since you'd be mirroring to two different portions of the
same di
Russell Gadd wrote:
>
> I was going to ask for assistance as my new install of OBSD wouldn't
> recognise the cdrom. However after much investigation I fixed it by changing
> the "physical" position of the device from IDE slave on the secondary IDE
> interface to master (in dmesg speak, from ch
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Holland wrote:
>
> What have I forgotten? Is there anything else I can do to avoid
> slapping my forehead and saying, "D'oh! Forgot to ..." before I
> ship it out fully detached? The good news is I'm pretty sure
> there is at least one OpenBSD developer n
Adliger Martinez von der Unterschicht wrote:
>
> I am a total amateur and new to the list. I moved recently from linux
> and I am running openbsd usually (not on this system) because of a
> number of things (I guess I don't need to be eloquent here).
>
> And asks me how "my" OS behaves. Is th
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> There has to be _some_ solution but it doesn't have to revolve around
> groups. Surely we don't need a separate box for every 16 projects (and
> lets not get into another reason to use Xen :)) )
Group accounts with ssh keys controlli
Timo Schoeler wrote:
>
> AMD64 or EM64T machine with 8GB+ of RAM (or $1700 to buy one) needed in
> Edmonton. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Having the hardware will help some. I've got access to some larger
hardware here at the university, and have sent out the large mem diff
for amd64 machines. I
rezidue wrote:
> kern.version=OpenBSD 4.0-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu Mar 15 07:28:19 CST
Just for the hell of it, try running GENERIC, instead of GENERIC.MP.
--Toby.
Nick Guenther wrote:
>
> I just came across these notes on ACPI:
> http://lwn.net/2001/0704/kernel.php3 (search down for "acpi") and got
> wondering what OpenBSD's take on securing ACPI is. Can AML code
> actually be an attack vector, or are there safeguards in place in
> OpenBSD against that
Ted Unangst wrote:
>
> cp /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/xsh
> chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/xsh
>
> then only tell the trusted users about xsh,
> and you can avoid sudo altogether.
Ohhh... EEEVVVILLL... :)
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Hsu wrote:
>
> I am attempting to create an assembly program (for a class) on
> OpenBSD. The teacher has no issue with me developing the code based
> on the UNIX-based assembly (int 0x80 syscalls vs. int 0x21 Dos
> Function), but he does not want me to use
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
>
> So, I am not sure what testing you did, unless you built your own. new
> Snapshots was just release now, witch I will be happy to test tonight
> and see the results and report back.
If you guys could test out my ACPI diff I posted to
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Craig Brozefsky wrote:
>
> /me raids refrigerator for leftover curried rice...
Curried rice! Hmm... gotta get me some new spices...
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Hsu wrote:
>
> I am just wondering if any work is going into the Atheros 5424 chipset? (I
> noticed some disturbing news about new code being added to the Atheros code.)
>
> How much work would be involved to get the chipset working?
Documentation? Serious
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> My question is really around unreferenced state data that has been
> pushed out to swap and isn't being demand paged back in. Is there
> functionality in the swap strategy to migrate such pages to a lower
> priority device so that you can bias p
On Thursday, August 2, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> This is really bad that your laptop is dead..
It is unfortunate that it happened now. The timing sucks.
> but I personally always wonder how it can be that such over-qualified person
> can't even earn enough damn money for a laptop?! I mean it
Hi all,
I hate doing this, but I'm in a tiny bit of a bind. I'm in need of a
new laptop. My old IBM T40p is slowly giving up the ghost after 5+
years of faithful service. As this is my main terminal to hack on and
do everything I do on a computer, it's impending doom will significantly
affect m
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pieter Verberne wrote:
>
> outputs.lineout=125,125
> outputs.lineout=85,85
Strange... Try changing these to 255.
--Toby.
Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 16:51 +0000, Tobias Weingartner wrote:
> > And no information about the machines beyond that? No dmesg, no
> > information
>
> option NKPTP=16
>
> ...fixed it. I wasn't going to burn 200k and 30 minute
Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>
> The 1st stage loader just resets the prom before the kernel load.
And the 1st stage loader would be? mbr? biosboot? /boot? lilo?
winxp boot loader? Specifics make a difference.
> Can anyone else confirm this? You don't even need to elfrdsetroot(8) to
> test.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sibastien Colmant wrote:
>
> I m quite new to OpenBSD but i m familiar with *nix systems.
> I m currently looking at using OpenBSD to build a nas appliance,
> however after looking into the packages list i havent found a Volume
> Manager, anyone able to point
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Holst wrote:
> Quoting Jimmy Mitchener ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Try `sudo 915resolution 4d 1680 1050 32`
> >
> > If 4d is the only one that has 1680x1050 available you only have 16bit
> > color, and you're trying to use 24, so it's not changing anything.
>
>
Tobias Weingartner wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Holland wrote:
> > > cpu0:
> > > FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16
> > >
> > ..
> > Is this an amd64 cap
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yggdrasill Senecoen wrote:
>
> Ssh_Cyrrhus="443"block in inet
This line could be problematic.
--Toby.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Holland wrote:
> > cpu0:
> > FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SSE3,CX16
> >
> ..
> Is this an amd64 capable Sempron? It looks like it is, based on the
> rest of the dmesg.
Nope, no "LONG" i
Timo Schoeler wrote:
>
> I was disappointed quite often by vaporware in the Amiga universe,
> However, as this really might become reality
Don't hold your breath. $1500 for a system that is meant to cator
to the "amiga" crowd. *shrug* If you want to start on a port, get
in contact with
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Artur Grabowski wrote:
>
> Simple, I trust the people I drink beer with.
Do they have to be drinking beer too? :)
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Maus wrote:
>
> Is it possible for users (non-root) to mount NFS exports?
Mount, likely not, unless you do sudo. Have a look at nfsshell...
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On Wednesday, April 25, Chad M Stewart wrote:
>
> I did NOT suggest blocking ALL ICMP, just echo-request and echo-
> replies from internal hosts to untrusted IPs.
And how is this not violating RFCs?
> Trojans have used echo-request and echo-reply as a method of covert
> communication.
I've you
On Wednesday, April 25, Timo Schoeler wrote:
>
> actually, me thinks the same about allowing/denying ICMP as you,
> tobias. however, we recently had a CCIE/NSA certified blahblah guy in
> our company, tuning our, err, Cizcoooeee equipment.
>
> guess what he did -- he violated 'the RFCs'.
>
> unf
Chad M Stewart wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Allen Theobald wrote:
> >
> > pass in inet proto icmp all icmp-type $icmp_types keep state
>
> This can be used as a covert communication channel. Allowing
> internal IPs to send/receive ping is bad.
Bull. Not allowing ICMP is just as b
Eugene Hercun wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a hard time trying to set up a root on software
> raid with raidctl with two external usb hard drives. The reason why I
> am trying to configure this as root on raid is because I have a fast
> notebook that is continually frying hard drives (I personal
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, frantisek holop wrote:
>
> and all you others: so is it not a punishment that you
> have the cds and still can't use them? hypocrites, all of you!
Last time I looked, there were packages on the cd too...
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Matthew Szudzik wrote:
>
> Of course, but the kernel doesn't support drm, and somebody reading the
> documentation has no way to know. At the very least, there could be an
> Errata section at the bottom of the man page, mentioning that OpenBSD does
> not support hardware 3D acceleration.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nick Holland wrote:
>
> Dumping the data from one disk to another is fine and dandy when you
> are talking about your 40G disk on your home or desktop computer,
> the fact that you are down for a few hours is no big deal. But what
> about a server? I don't car
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Steel wrote:
>
> I have gotten this to work with the use of a file to pass information
> between boots, but that is not an ideal solution. What I really want is
> either a way to pass a parameter to the BIOS so that it can pass it to
> boot upon restarting,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
> MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP
> databank.x 300M 18877 91 22440 71 11985 77 20317 75 30745 68
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You have a 150MB (roughly) machine?
> processor and 1 GB of 400 MH
On Monday, March 19, "Chris 'Xenon' Hanson" wrote:
>
>Optimally, you could switch between allocators as a compile-time
> define. U se a tougher allocator for debugging and stress testing. Use
> a lighter, faster one in situ ations where you are confident that the
> code is solid and needs spee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Wilson wrote:
>
> I dunno. Am I being overly paranoid, or should I stick with nice
> dependable old-fashioned malloc?
I usually take dependable and slightly slower over faster and nastier
any day. Especially if it's fast enough.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Martinez wrote:
>
> For instance, i don't run telnetd anywhere and so if a connection to
> port 23 is made, i would like to add the connecting machine's IP to a
> 'bad_guys' table on the fly so subsequent connects will be dropped. For
> the life of me
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Dexter wrote:
>
> Might anyone have any pointers to sources of fdisk automation scripts
> for OpenBSD that that can determine the size of a disk and follow a
> set of partitioning guidelines? Scenario: cookie-cutter systems with
> different drive sizes.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Cameron wrote:
>
> I have a 3.8 PF/CARP setup that I can reproducibly screw up simply by
> cat'ing lots of text over a telnet session.
Chances are that you're hitting some bug in 3.8, that has likely been
fixed in 3.9, or 4.0. Or the rule you're using to p
Wijnand Wiersma wrote:
>
> Development cycle of OpenBSD4.0 support starts tomorrow and will be
> finished when 4.1 releases?
Sure, why not.
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Paul Irofti wrote:
>
> Thanks, but I'm interested in specfic details regarding sparc, not generic
> concepts and fundamentals.
Sparc as implemented by whom? I mean, you can find VHDL/Verilog source
out there for the LEON implementation of the sparc CPU. But I'm
sure that futjitsu, and everyon
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Breen Ouellette wrote:
>
> I feel that if the user base can meet the financial needs of the project
> then the user base is doing its part. Unfortunately, I know of several
> people who use OpenBSD that will never send in a flat penny. These are
> the same pe
Martin Schrvder wrote:
> 2006/10/6, Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Its complete and utter nonsense actually. The linux kernel is used in
> > closed source products all the time, it has no effect there just like it
>
> Please show us one example of a closed source Linux device.
Sure, the broadco
Vesselin Peev wrote:
>
> The glibc C runtime library has a function __libc_freeres to free any memory
> allocated by the runtime. What is the equivalent in OpenBSD's libc?
exit(3)
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Diana Eichert wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Bob Beck wrote:
> SNIP
> > > then stream the capture with ffmpeg. However you keep mentioning fxtv so
> >
> > An OpenBSD powered video capture and archiving device..
> >
> > Help the Ministry of Information help you...
>
> Good thing this isn'
Bryan Irvine wrote:
>
> I can't wait to see what goodies you've been holding back for the
> 4.0release. ;)
Hold back?
> Congrats on the momentum, and thanks for the good work.
Thanks. :)
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On Sunday, March 12, "Wijnand Wiersma" wrote:
>
> I have a problem with gnome and the gnome guys should just fix it.
So, go bug the gnome guys.
> Switching is NOT the solution.
"I use crappy software, it crashes, I like the pain, I will
not switch, please help". I have a LART here somewhere...
On Thursday, March 2, "Rod.. Whitworth" wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 23:16:59 -0600, Graham Toal wrote:
> >
> >If your DNS is on the same net as the mailer, its down too. Senders
> >soon get no result at all when they look you up, with the result that
> >mail *bounces* (unknown address) rather tha
On Monday, February 27, Michael Schmidt wrote:
>
> version: 3.8
> architecture: i386
>
> I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition.
> Why can it be not on an extra partition?
Where is the information located that tells it how/where to mount
the /etc partition from?
--Toby
On Sunday, February 26, "Sgt. Stedenko" wrote:
>
> I had already seen that one and didn't find it to be any help. Thanks
> anyways though for taking the time. The author offers a solution but no
> explanation. I've tuned many sysctl's and experimented with the mtu's,
> changing from autoselect to
On Sunday, February 26, "Sgt. Stedenko" wrote:
>
> Is there a way to tell a process to switch which processor it's using in the
> SMP version of the obsd 3.8 system?
Short of using the primary cpu with a UP kernel, no.
> Also, have there been any efforts into Ethernet device polling in the bge
On Friday, February 24, Michael Schmidt wrote:
>
> In case you put a "boot" into boot.conf or set timeout to zero then you
> do not have the opportunity to boot in single user when it may be
> necessary. Are there ways to circumvent the latter?
With physical access to the machine, yes, there a
On Tuesday, February 21, Aaron Hsu wrote:
>
> ath0 at pci3 dev 7 function 0 "Atheros AR5212" rev 0x01: irq 10
> ath0: AR5213 7.9 phy 4.5 rf2112a 5.6: RF radio not supported
I'd say that would give you a clue. Looks like the radio (rf2112a) is
not supported yet.
--Toby.
On Tuesday, February 21, "Gustavo Rios" wrote:
>
> I was wondering what is the state of art in SMP technologies ?
The state of art in SMP tech is this misc@ list. Seriously, think
about it. You've just made (and me too!) thousands of cpu's burn
some useless energy in processing your question.
On Saturday, February 11, Dave Feustel wrote:
>
> I found out via a google search on 'tickets sudo' about
> the behavior I had discovered and reported. Then after Otto
> let me know how pathetic my post was, I went back to man sudo
> but found nothing about tickets or about sudo being active in
>
On Wednesday, February 8, chefren wrote:
> On 02/08/06 14:56, Nickolay A Burkov wrote:
>
> > Weee! I think OpenBSD kernel should be implemented in hardware part!
>
> Of course, big gate array and stellar performance.
>
> So the language should be VHDL!
Ugh! That's akin to using C++ and C# at t
On Wednesday, February 8, Jack Culpepper wrote:
>
> Encryption Key: 123456789012345678901234
> Authentication Key: 12345678901234567890
>
> So then on the OpenBSD end, those correspond to:
>
> Encryption Key: 3132333435363738393a3132333435363738393a31323334
> Authentication Key: 3132333435363738
On Wednesday, February 8, Felipe Scarel wrote:
>
> Just to explain better what happened, I was willing to install OpenBSD on
> the machine even if it somewhat lost some power because of the SMP stuff.
> However, my boss doesn't share the same views regarding security with me,
> so I had no choice.
On Friday, February 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm running Postfix 2.3.20050716-sasl2 (chrooted) and
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.20p4 on OpenBSD 3.8 stable. Everything is running peachy.
> My roaming users are able to connect and send e-mail.
We use authpf to do this. If you're authenticated through a
On Wednesday, February 1, "Badbanchi Hossein" wrote:
> > Basing security policies on something as easily changable as a MAC
> > address (and as public as a MAC address) is stupid.
>
> Thanks for the complement.
You're welcome. Honestly though, what would you call it?
> Although this might seem
On Wednesday, February 1, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
>
> The idea is to configure a directory on a master server to copy the file
> that are change in it's monitor directory to one or multiple other
> server(s) in the same directory structure.
nfs? You keep the "master" copy on the nfs server, and
On Wednesday, February 1, "Badbanchi Hossein" wrote:
>
> I intend to switch the traffic originating from "unknown" MACs to a "quaranti
> ne"
> subnet, connected to a third interface member of the bridge.
Basing security policies on something as easily changable as a MAC
address (and as public as
On Wednesday, February 1, "Badbanchi Hossein" wrote:
>
> Does this really mean that no hash function is used? I mean if I have 2
> MAC Addresses and want to check **each packet** against this list serially,
> I suppose I had better forget about it!
The immediate question that rises to the s
On Friday, January 27, Toni Mueller wrote:
>
> - /etc/boot.conf ---
> set timeout 30
> boot /bsd.mpr
> - /etc/boot.conf ---
>
> This should give me a 30 second pause before the machine boots the
> named kernel, but instead, it boots _immediately_, so I have
On Wednesday, January 25, Christoph Fritz wrote:
>
> Maybe the linux source is all docu they give out?
Linux source is *not* documentation.
--Toby.
On Sunday, January 22, David Benfell wrote:
>
> Is it possible?
You have hostile users. They know how to change IP addresses. You
want to block by another means they are able to change. Instead have
a look at authpf.
--Toby.
On Wednesday, January 11, "Constantine A. Murenin" wrote:
>
> Anyone has any plans on this matter?
Do you have enough money to buy a few (note, more than 2) developers
the required hardware, along with the documentation (if they are not
using a "standard" PC bios) to do the port? Are you willing
On Wednesday, January 4, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
>
> In my personal opinion, I think, the weakest link is entering the
> password when opening a svnd device. Are there already solutions known
> which combine passwords (knowledge) with hardware devices (i.e.
> smartcards) or biometrics in order t
On Tuesday, January 3, Joe S wrote:
>
> Do you have any recommendations on how I should get started?
> Any help or recommendations would be appreciated.
Just get started. Learn C. Look at code. Read code. Understand.
--Toby.
On Tuesday, January 3, martin wrote:
>
> Does OpenBSD 3.8 use the APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt
> Controller) ?
In bsd.mp, yes.
> Some cards, e,g telephony and framegrabbers have issues with the
> limited standard XT 16 IRQ's.
How so?
> APIC motherboards give you 24 or more (I've seen
On Saturday, December 17, Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Schr=F6der?= wrote:
> On 2005-12-16 17:18:09 -0800, Smith wrote:
> > Is there any unix utility or script or OpenBSD port that will find
> > duplicate binary files within a directory?
>
> Google for uniqleaf
To get a list of files (with sums) that a
On Friday, December 16, Smith wrote:
>
> Is there any unix utility or script or OpenBSD port that will find
> duplicate binary files within a directory?
md5(1) and sort(1) should largely do what you want.
--Toby.
On Thursday, November 17, Lokkju wrote:
>
> Well, according to Theo, this is something of a known bug - he told me
> that you (Toby) were working on it...
I have yet to be convinced of that. All the bugs in this area have so
far been hardware issues. But I've been wrong before...
> As Brain sa
On Wednesday, November 16, Lokkju wrote:
>
> Sorry, given in this context means someone is letting me play with
> them to see if I can get them working with OpenBSD. They display
> equivalent crashes in NetBSD - I have not tried FreeBSD or any linux
> distros.
Ok, if 2 operating systems show sim
On Thursday, November 17, Andreas Bartelt wrote:
>
> As much better algorithms for error detection are known and PC
> performance (and also Internet traffic) has increased a lot since the
> introduction of TCP - do you think that the original checksum algorithm
> is still the best choice in ter
On Wednesday, November 16, "Will H. Backman" wrote:
>
> Maybe OpenBSD can merge with OpenVMS, which should be easy given that
> four of the letters are already the same. OpenVMS has some amazing
> clustering capabilities.
It's actually 5 letters... and if *you* can't even get that
much right, ho
On Tuesday, November 15, "B. Gas" wrote:
>
> I run system call to stat from a little
> C program that show the status of a file,..
>
> The time displayed is in seconds and therefore
> I need some help from anyone to show me how
> to make the time_stamp to look like something
> for example the exa
On Friday, November 11, Karl Kopp wrote:
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> We are in the process of setting up a production OBSD box to do some (a
> lot!) of routing and I want to make sure I get as much redundancy as
> possible. We have failover everything in the box, and we will use carp to
> setup multiple boxes.
If you us
On Tuesday, November 8, "Shawn K. Quinn" wrote:
>
> Telnet is a horribly insecure protocol subject to at least two attacks
> by third parties with access to any part of the network between the two
> hosts. Thus, telnetd is gone for a damn good reason, that being that
> it's a turd that has no plac
On Wednesday, October 19, "Will H. Backman" wrote:
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> Turning this into a learning experience: Does anyone have any hints or
> advice about hardening OpenBSD for shell accounts. Do people tweak
> things other than the login.conf settings? I have to deal with student
> shell accounts where stud
On Saturday, October 1, "Travis H." wrote:
>
> Yeah, I neglected stateful matching. I should have said that every
> packet that has to run the gauntlet of rules, has to run all of them.
> Subsequent reading of the PF FAQ confirms that there's no deep
> evaluation-reordering magic going on, that
On Tuesday, September 27, =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=F6rg_Horchler?= wrote:
>
> I installed OpenBSD 3.7 via cd37.iso and HTTP. Now I want to build a new
> release. I checked out the source code via 'cvs co -P -rOPENBSD_3_7
> src'. Then I did what is written in 'man release'. (Build a new kernel
> etc.)
On Monday, September 26, Szechuan Death wrote:
>
> What is wrong with dump/restore/tar is that nobody running a network
> larger than two computers uses it. Yes, I'm sure you can make it work
> with plenty of Perl scripting, some clever use of cron and ssh, and
> plenty of disk space. Nobody in
On Saturday, September 24, Kiraly Zoltan wrote:
> I want to build a home network using OpenBSD as gateway. A child in
> network have a computer, and like to surf the Internet. I want to drop
> her Internet connection at night (11:00AM) because the child don't go to
> sleep.
>
> I don't want to
On Tuesday, September 20, Alex Stamatis wrote:
>
> I want to thank all of you who replied on my previous mail about the live
> cd. I've seen many of those links you sent me which talk on how you can
> create a live cd. I would have done it my self but unfortunatelly I cant due
> to tech reasons ri
On Wednesday, September 14, Bernd Schoeller wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:03:36AM -0600, Tobias Weingartner wrote:
> >
> > Anything not covered by man pages is covered by the source.
>
> This is nicely said, but ...
>
> reading source code (any language)
On Monday, September 12, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
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> I know that, but be realistic, I know _nothing_ about programming... So
> I don't think saying it is only a matter of motivation is not really
> true. I'm not 18 anymore and I don't have time to learn C enough to do
> something like that.
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