Google ad: OpenBSD 2.6 changes

2005-12-15 Thread Alexander Farber
Just smth funny FYI: I read misc@ mails using GMail thorugh a web browser and I've noticed that it displays on the right side an ad OpenBSD 2.7 changes the main OpenBSD page www.openbsd.org or even 2.6 changes :-)

Re: Nokia IP330 OpenBSD 3.8 Information and Installation Assistance

2005-12-15 Thread NetNeanderthal
Here is the world's first (that I know of) Nokia IP330 dmesg from OpenBSD 3.8. Some parts are missing as I've been hacking on the kernel, boot, and biosboot all night so a real 'fix' will follow this message after I clean it up a bit and figure out exactly which of the nasty hacks I used made it

Re: Nokia IP330 OpenBSD 3.8 Information and Installation Assistance - SOLVED

2005-12-15 Thread NetNeanderthal
Ok, here's my quick and dirty hack to get OpenBSD operating on a Nokia IP330. Please bear in mind that this is not a fully correct solution, only a hard-coded workaround for legacy hardware. - relocate the Nokia hard drive into a surrogate machine - Install OpenBSD 3.8, be sure to include

Re: Daily script and root backup question.

2005-12-15 Thread Mikolaj Kucharski
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:20:19PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: What problem are you trying to solve? It's my curiosity and urge for understanding. What procedure is more safety? dd'ing device and then run fsck on output device, or runing after dump/restore installboot? There are multiple

Re: hostap mode on existing firewall

2005-12-15 Thread Niall O'Higgins
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:20:06PM -0500, Chris Zakelj wrote: Here's the problem I've run into... after staring at the dhcpd.conf man page for a while, it didn't seem like you could feed it two interfaces at once. So off to Google, where the top articles (for Linux, admittedly) seem to

Re: hostap mode on existing firewall

2005-12-15 Thread Remco
Chris Zakelj wrote: Here's the problem I've run into... after staring at the dhcpd.conf man page for a while, it didn't seem like you could feed it two interfaces at once. So off to Google, where the top articles (for Linux, admittedly) seem to confirm that you can't serve both the wired and

Re: hostap mode on existing firewall

2005-12-15 Thread Chris Zakelj
Niall O'Higgins wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:20:06PM -0500, Chris Zakelj wrote: Here's the problem I've run into... after staring at the dhcpd.conf man page for a while, it didn't seem like you could feed it two interfaces at once. So off to Google, where the top articles (for Linux,

Halifax Bank Account Information

2005-12-15 Thread Halifax Bank
[IMAGE] Dear Customer, Our Technical Service department has recently updated our online bankingsoftware, and due to this upgrade we kindly ask you to follow thelink given below to confirm your online account details. Failure toconfirm the online banking details will suspend you from accessing

Re: browser security - restricted user

2005-12-15 Thread Lukasz Sztachanski
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:48:28AM -0800, Bob Smith wrote: Just a thought: sudo -u $some_restricted_user $your_preffered_browser ? good that you brought this up; i been wondering about this too. does it help? if so how come there isnt a default non-privileged user created for, say,

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Bryan Allen
On Dec 15, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Dag Richards wrote: Php is what I am comfortable doing what I used to do with PERL CGI. So what are the recommended languages for developing ... buzz Interactive Data Driven Websites /buzz. http://catalyst.perl.org/ -- Bryan Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
Dag Richards wrote: I have a php app that I inherited, and moved to an OBSD server. I can make it run but only by -u -ing it. It makes a bunch of really risky calls to shell utils ( cp, rm, openssl for example). So I will rewrite the app so it will run in a properly chrooted web server, not

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Brandon Mercer
Darrin Chandler wrote: snip I'm not sure you're going to get many flames about this... If you try really hard, you can clean up the php. Mostly. Then there's Python or Ruby on Rails. Better stuff than php. You still have to code securely. Rails just had a new release with emphasis on

Universal Ethernet Telecommunications Service (UETS)

2005-12-15 Thread J Herrero
Hi to all, I want to share with you a project under way called UETS that was idea of one of my networking teachers here in Spain, Jose Morales, an engineer that participates in the LAN MAN commitees of IEEE 802.3. It's quite revolutionary and perhaps Theo and the rest of the experts may see

Re: Recommendations for another POP3/IMAP/SMTP mail reader client?

2005-12-15 Thread Lukasz Sztachanski
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:34:29AM +0100, viq wrote: Well, I'm trying to go the other way - from using KMail to finally make myself configure mutt ;) or try mutt-ng [1]. It's patched version of mutt, that supports nntp, sidebar and other usefull extensions.

dd performance

2005-12-15 Thread chefren
Wiping identical 18GB SCSI disks on same Dell 1750 machine: OpenBSD 3.8: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0c bs=1024k 6MB/s Linux 2.4: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024k 53MB/S Any clue about the difference? Of course I'm also interested in different ways to do this but the difference is

Re: dd performance

2005-12-15 Thread Jason Crawford
I think the very first thing you should change is use the raw device in OpenBSD (/dev/rsd0c) and that should speed things up a bit. Jason On 12/15/05, chefren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wiping identical 18GB SCSI disks on same Dell 1750 machine: OpenBSD 3.8: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0c

login.conf - chpass - _mysql

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
Just another curiosity: The archive is full of suggestions to combat the dreaded MySQL Error No.9 with a specific login class (and others); usually suggested to be 'mysql' in login.conf. Now, for reasons of pure logic and beauty, I call it _mysql. Then - if my logic is correct - I need to define

Re: dd performance

2005-12-15 Thread ober
They have a superior /dev/zero :D -Ober On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, chefren wrote: Wiping identical 18GB SCSI disks on same Dell 1750 machine: OpenBSD 3.8: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0c bs=1024k 6MB/s Linux 2.4: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1024k 53MB/S Any clue about the difference? Of

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 07:08:00AM -0800, Dag Richards wrote: I have a php app that I inherited, and moved to an OBSD server. I can make it run but only by -u -ing it. It makes a bunch of really risky calls to shell utils ( cp, rm, openssl for example). So I will rewrite the app so it will

Re: Recommendations for another POP3/IMAP/SMTP mail reader client?

2005-12-15 Thread Jack Woehr
Bryan Irvine wrote: On 12/14/05, Jack Woehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recommendations for another POP3/IMAP/SMTP mail reader client (if one exists) other than Mozilla? Want to stay in gui-ville? I recommend evolution. Thanks to everyone for the lively discussion and many

Re: login.conf - chpass - _mysql

2005-12-15 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Uwe Dippel wrote: Just another curiosity: The archive is full of suggestions to combat the dreaded MySQL Error No.9 with a specific login class (and others); usually suggested to be 'mysql' in login.conf. Now, for reasons of pure logic and beauty, I call it _mysql.

hme0 error

2005-12-15 Thread Cody Holland
I'm running a Sun Netra T1 105 server with OpenBSD 3.8. Everything works great, but I'm getting this error: hme0: status=400MAXPKT. I've searched Google and found several links talking about the same thing. It looks like the ethernet interface received a packet that is too large. My question

Re: Recommendations for another POP3/IMAP/SMTP mail reader client?

2005-12-15 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:58:42PM +0100, Lukasz Sztachanski wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 01:34:29AM +0100, viq wrote: Well, I'm trying to go the other way - from using KMail to finally make myself configure mutt ;) or try mutt-ng [1]. It's patched version of mutt, that supports

OpenNTPD problem

2005-12-15 Thread Jakob Fix
Hello, I'm running the latest portable OpenNTPD on a Debian box, but it's just not keeping time. When I first start it, just executing ntpd, it sets the time correctly, but then starts diverging, after a couple of weeks, like this (this machine is currently one hour and a half ahead): sh-3.00$

Re: OpenNTPD does not 'pull-in' wrong time

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:32:13 +1100, Darren Tucker wrote: By my rough calculations, your system clock is drifting at about 1.6%, which is more than adjtime can correct for (roughly 0.5%). All fine, and no flame intended: There have been people bragging about openntpd to be advantageous compared

Re: Mambo Server hacks

2005-12-15 Thread chefren
On 11/26/05 11:58, Bruno S. Delbono wrote: Is there a better, more secure replacement as a CMS? If you are interested in a KISS approach take a look at TinyMCE, an easy to configure JavaScript WYSIWYG(!!!) editor: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example_full.php?example=true (Instantly drop

Re: dd performance

2005-12-15 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hello! On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 11:20:13AM -0500, Jason Crawford wrote: I think the very first thing you should change is use the raw device in OpenBSD (/dev/rsd0c) and that should speed things up a bit. You're right. And high enough block size (though 1024k should be okay). I.e. dd if=/dev/zero

BGPD Boot-Time Startup Problem

2005-12-15 Thread unixgeek
When I try and startup OpenBGP at boot time I get the following error message: Dec 15 18:15:45 www bgpd[31059]: neighbor 2001:4830:e2:25::1 (AS30071): session_connect bind: Can't assign requested address When trying to perr with the OCCAID network (www.occaid.net), running IPV6 however when I

Re: BGPD Boot-Time Startup Problem

2005-12-15 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:34:04PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try and startup OpenBGP at boot time I get the following error message: Dec 15 18:15:45 www bgpd[31059]: neighbor 2001:4830:e2:25::1 (AS30071): session_connect bind: Can't assign requested address You force a local

Re: BGPD Boot-Time Startup Problem

2005-12-15 Thread unixgeek
The ipv6 newtwork is setup in rc.local: #Setup ipv6 routing: echo -n 'Setting Up IPv6 to OCCAID Network' ifconfig gif0 giftunnel 68.21.68.114 69.72.192.238 ifconfig gif0 inet6 2001:4830:e2:25::2 route add -inet6 2001:4830:e2:25::1 -prefixlen 64 2001:4830:e2:25::2 route add -inet6 default

Re: OpenNTPD does not 'pull-in' wrong time

2005-12-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On 12/15/05, Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:32:13 +1100, Darren Tucker wrote: By my rough calculations, your system clock is drifting at about 1.6%, which is more than adjtime can correct for (roughly 0.5%). All fine, and no flame intended: There have been

Re: login.conf - chpass - _mysql

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:07:52 +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: Please report exact command lines and error messages. chpass _mysql [change daemon into mysql or _mysql]; :wq chpass: illegal character in the class field re-edit the password file? [y]: Use su(1) to start the command with a given login

possible rtl8185 in the wild?

2005-12-15 Thread Benjamin A. Collins
I just found this: http://linux-networking.news-view.co.uk/topic-24897.html Can anyone confirm whether the CompUSA cards have the chipset in them? bc -- Benjamin A. Collins [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

Re: OpenNTPD does not 'pull-in' wrong time

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:23:20 -0800, Ted Unangst wrote: start it with -s. Ted, thanks, I know. But this doesn't help my concerns: 1. Since it isn't the default flag; plus I *did* use it on those Proliants and the drift increasingly moved away from 0. Or, as we say in Process Control, the Error

Re: possible rtl8185 in the wild?

2005-12-15 Thread Han Boetes
Benjamin A. Collins wrote: I just found this: http://linux-networking.news-view.co.uk/topic-24897.html Can anyone confirm whether the CompUSA cards have the chipset in them? NIC manifacturers have found a new interesting game: Producing cards with the same name or serialnumber with varying

Re: OpenNTPD does not 'pull-in' wrong time

2005-12-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
As much as I welcomed openntpd (the other one is a bore to set up), now I feel less happy. I don't need more than 50 msec of precision, but I'd sleep better if it noticed 'running away'; and I'd be happy if it noticed great deviations and warned me, respectively initiated some rough setting

Re: OpenNTPD does not 'pull-in' wrong time

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Dippel
Theo de Raadt wrote: So don't use it. But please, I beg of you, stop your incessant complaining. The more you whine, the less we feel the need to change anything. Oh, my wrong. I simply thought you were with the intention to improve the system. And I was more than willing to help out here

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Re: OpenNTPD does not 'pull-in' wrong time

2005-12-15 Thread Tony
Uwe Dippel wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: So don't use it. But please, I beg of you, stop your incessant complaining. The more you whine, the less we feel the need to change anything. Oh, my wrong. I simply thought you were with the intention to improve the system. They are.