Hard drive going bad? or something else? (obsd4.0)

2006-10-30 Thread patrick ~
I just finished installing OpenBSD 4.0 on a machine of mine. After installation first thing I did was to get some ports installed. First post was PostgreSQL. Running 'make build' failed with an error pointing in configure script. I looked at it to see if it was the patch process that messed up

Re: Is there a deluser equivalent in OpenBSD?

2006-10-30 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:38:59AM -0500, Eric Furman wrote: | On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:12:49 +0100 (CET), Otto Moerbeek | [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | but as has been pointed out, it is trivial to write a script | that would automatically go out and modify /etc/group | on even a large number of

Re: Applying patch ?

2006-10-30 Thread Joel Goguen
Are you in /usr/src/ when you apply the patch? Did you download and unpack the source tree? Does no good to patch something that isn't there. -- Joel Goguen Bachelor of Computer Science III University of New Brunswick http://iapetus.dyndns.org/ Maverick wrote: uppsss I am sorry I

Re: Hard drive going bad? or something else? (obsd4.0)

2006-10-30 Thread Marcus Watts
I've not see this type of problem before, so I turn to you guys. Is this a sign that maybe a drive is going bad? Or sign of bad memory? What's going on here!? I know it is almost Halloween and all, but this is kinda _spooky_ to say the least. Idea? Please? :-) Hard drives contain

Ralink broken after last update

2006-10-30 Thread Erki Malling
I'm running Canyon CN-WF511 wireless PCI card (Ralink RT2561S) in hostap mode in my 30m2 flat, serving one laptop next room. The wireless quality has always been less than stellar, even when few meters from the OpenBSD box antenna. But it works for reading mail and news and thats all that matters

Re: mounting problems

2006-10-30 Thread Nick Holland
Jay Jesus Amorin wrote: hi, pls. help me mount my partition in my linux partitions ... http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#foreignfs Nick.

Re: docs for OpenLDAP and cyrus-imapd on OpenBSD?

2006-10-30 Thread Paul Pruett
I have it working a similar setup. All you need once the openldap side is runnning (and there are lots of docs about OpenLDAP for users authentication out there): Thanks, got openldap with bdb up using various example conf files... Getting the openldap side supporting a table or index or

EuroBSDCon is coming up !

2006-10-30 Thread Massimiliano Stucchi
Hi all, EuroBSDCon, the main European BSD event is coming up in less than two weeks. We would also like to inform that people who want to attend the event should sign up as soon as possible in order to take advantage of the early bird rate, which will be available until November 2. Way more

Re: Ralink broken after last update

2006-10-30 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:06:14PM +0200, Erki Malling wrote: I'm running Canyon CN-WF511 wireless PCI card (Ralink RT2561S) in hostap mode in my 30m2 flat, serving one laptop next room. The wireless quality has always been less than stellar, even when few meters from the OpenBSD box antenna.

Re: bridge(4) RSTP

2006-10-30 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, Patch applies cleanly and appears to work great: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ tcpdump -i bge1 stp tcpdump: listening on bge1, link-type EN10MB 15:25:02.061139 802.1d RSTP config flags=0x3clearn,fwd,role=desig root=6011.0:18:74:61:e5:40 rootcost=0x0 bridge=6011.0:18:74:61:e5:40 port=0x8630

defaults for OpenSSH

2006-10-30 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
Hi misc, In order to have sane configuration defaults in OpenBSD, what are the good reasons to not disable ssh root access, and to not disable sshv1 protocol by default ? Best regards, Bruno.

OpenBSD Audio!

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Hernandez
I just had to mention that the OpenBSD audio cd is great for playing at the office. Thanks OpenBSD! Not only is the operating system a pleasure to use, but the music has us all in great spirits here. Mike H

Randomized malloc() randomized mmap()

2006-10-30 Thread João Salvatti
Hi all, Reading Theo de Raadt's presentation about exploit mitigation techniques, I could not understand the advantages of using randomized malloc and randomized mmap techniques. I've searched on the Internet about this subject but I couldn't find a thing, maybe because this subject is too

why my LCD monitor repeat black screen

2006-10-30 Thread Baskervilles
Hello, I'm using OB3.9 release version, and X.org plus fvwm2, after start X windows, what I got is my LCD monitor repeat black screen between several minutes, even there have keyboard and mouse movement. after black screen, I can ctrl+alt+F1 then ctrl_alt+F5 to switch back screen. keyboard and

Re: Ralink broken after last update

2006-10-30 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
2006/10/30, Erki Malling [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm running Canyon CN-WF511 wireless PCI card (Ralink RT2561S) in hostap mode in my 30m2 flat, serving one laptop next room. The wireless quality has always been less than stellar, even when few meters from the OpenBSD box antenna. But it works for

kern.nprocs not (closely) matching ps -ax |wc -l ??

2006-10-30 Thread Bill Marquette
I understand that the ps -ax would have spawned at least one more process (and a header) than the sysctl count, but I'm not seeing why sysctl is showing 11 more processes than ps does: $ sysctl kern.nprocs (ps -ax |wc -l) sysctl kern.nprocs kern.nprocs=46 35 kern.nprocs=46 This machine

Re: defaults for OpenSSH

2006-10-30 Thread Bruno Carnazzi
2006/10/30, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bruno Carnazzi wrote: In order to have sane configuration defaults in OpenBSD, what are the good reasons to not disable ssh root access, and to not disable sshv1 protocol by default ? It's insane if you can't login after a fresh install... But a fresh

Re: defaults for OpenSSH

2006-10-30 Thread Matthew Weigel
Bruno Carnazzi wrote: 2006/10/30, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bruno Carnazzi wrote: In order to have sane configuration defaults in OpenBSD, what are the good reasons to not disable ssh root access, and to not disable sshv1 protocol by default ? It's insane if you can't login after a fresh

Re: kern.nprocs not (closely) matching ps -ax |wc -l ??

2006-10-30 Thread Philip Guenther
On 10/30/06, Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand that the ps -ax would have spawned at least one more process (and a header) than the sysctl count, but I'm not seeing why sysctl is showing 11 more processes than ps does: Check out the -k option to ps. Philip Guenther

Re: kern.nprocs not (closely) matching ps -ax |wc -l ??

2006-10-30 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Bill Marquette wrote: I understand that the ps -ax would have spawned at least one more process (and a header) than the sysctl count, but I'm not seeing why sysctl is showing 11 more processes than ps does: $ sysctl kern.nprocs (ps -ax |wc -l) sysctl kern.nprocs

Re: Lenovo notebooks

2006-10-30 Thread Laurence Tratt
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:44:41AM +0100, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: The main thing I've found which doesn't work at all well is sending video to the external video connector to drive a projector for conference presentations. The usual tricks like changing the X resolution (with 'xrandr') and

Re: defaults for OpenSSH

2006-10-30 Thread Theo de Raadt
In order to have sane configuration defaults in OpenBSD, what are the good reasons to not disable ssh root access, Machine administration. and to not disable sshv1 protocol by default ? I am actually more worried about security problems in the protocol 2 code which is roughly 4-5x as

macppc kernel panic during boot with 10.23.2006 snapshot

2006-10-30 Thread Ben Calvert
This is on a 400mhz 1st gen tibook. It boots runs fine with 3.9. Unfortunately the keyboard isn't doing anything useful, so all i can report is what's on the screen: the last message is: - openpic0 at macobio0 offset 0x4000panic: trap type 200 at 2eafb0 (

low through-put on bge cards OBSD 4.0 3.9

2006-10-30 Thread Dag Richards
I have a pair of Sunfire x2100's I am trying to configure as vpn routers to bridge between two Data Centres. isakmpd - easy working bridging - also easy bridging over ipsec tunnel - surprisingly easy as well The problem I am having is the one part that I _assumed_ would be the easiest. I can

low through-put on bge cards OBSD 4.0 3.9

2006-10-30 Thread Dag Richards
I have a pair of Sunfire x2100's I am trying to configure as vpn routers to bridge between two Data Centres. isakmpd - easy working bridging - also easy bridging over ipsec tunnel - surprisingly easy as well The problem I am having is the one part that I _assumed_ would be the easiest. I can

Re: Contributing and Shame [Was: Lenovo notebooks?]

2006-10-30 Thread Breen Ouellette
Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2006, Breen Ouellette wrote: I honestly do not know as I do not have access to the size of the user base nor the financial needs of the project. If 5000 users gave $100 per year to the project that would be half a million dollars. Are there 5000 users? Is

Re: low through-put on bge cards OBSD 4.0 3.9

2006-10-30 Thread Kyle George
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Dag Richards wrote: I can not seem to get more that ~43 megabytes per second through the bge cards on these boxes. This is the unencrypted speed with the cards attached by x-over cable or on a 2950 switch with only these two boxes attached. [snip] Any suggestions? Try

Re: Ralink broken after last update

2006-10-30 Thread Damien Bergamini
Could you please run the following commands on your ral-based access point, preferably before and after the rssadapt-AMRR change: # netstat -i # ifconfig -M ral0 Thanks, Damien | I'm running Canyon CN-WF511 wireless PCI card (Ralink RT2561S) | in hostap mode in my 30m2 flat, serving one laptop

Re: Ralink broken after last update

2006-10-30 Thread Damien Bergamini
| I'm in this case too using OpenBSD 4.0-current (GENERIC) #1163: Thu | Oct 19 14:40:44 MDT 2006 : | | ural0 at uhub0 port 1 | ural0: Nintendo Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 | ural0: MAC/BBP RT2571 (rev 0x05), RF RT2526, address 00:0d:0b:c3:cb:bb | | ural0 is in hostap mode,

Re: Contributing and Shame [Was: Lenovo notebooks?]

2006-10-30 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 people

Re: Secure Apache Webserver

2006-10-30 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:20:25PM +0100, Aiko Barz wrote: Hello, I already discussed this subject on the list. There were several possible solutions for this subject and I have chosen one, I would like to present now. The problem: I have several vhosts, which are used by several people.

Re: new postgresql in ports

2006-10-30 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:59:33PM +0100, LeVA wrote: 2006. October 29. 22:30, viq: On 29/10/06, LeVA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! There was a commit today which updates postgresql to version 8.1.5. This fix made it to the stable branch too, so will there be a package for it, or

Re: I need help in interpreting some Docs

2006-10-30 Thread Joachim Schipper
[Excuse me for the very late reaction, please; I was away this weekend.] On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:46:45PM -0700, John Draper wrote: Joachim Schipper wrote: I also posted this to the snort users list, [EMAIL PROTECTED], but (sigh) my postings are not making it to the list. Have they

kevent sample code?

2006-10-30 Thread stuartv
Can anyone point me at some sample code for kevent. I am trying to write a program that will watch a file for a write and can then read the new lines and act upon them. So far, I get the first event but not subsequent events. Stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Secure Apache Webserver

2006-10-30 Thread Marc Balmer
Joachim Schipper wrote: I believe it is possible to set this up using FastCGI, which will actually be (reasonably?) fast too. Yes, I am a FastCGI fanboy. I just spent the whole day setting up FastCGi using www/mod_fastcgi and www/fcgi. I ended up with a server process, written C, that runs

misc, Da Ve recommends that you use Google Calendar

2006-10-30 Thread Da Ve
I've been using Google Calendar to organize my calendar, find interesting events, and share my schedule with friends and family members. I thought you might like to use Google Calendar, too. -- Da Ve recommends that you use Google

Re: specified device does not match mounted device

2006-10-30 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Here is a late afterthought... I wrote on Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:36:38PM +0200: Karel Kulhavy wrote: I tried to mount a CD-ROM twice: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /dev/cd0c /mnt/cdrom mount_ffs: /dev/cd0c on /mnt/cdrom: \ specified device does not match mounted device As soon as you start

Re: kern.nprocs not (closely) matching ps -ax |wc -l ??

2006-10-30 Thread Bill Marquette
On 10/30/06, Otto Moerbeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Bill Marquette wrote: I understand that the ps -ax would have spawned at least one more process (and a header) than the sysctl count, but I'm not seeing why sysctl is showing 11 more processes than ps does: $ sysctl

Re: EuroBSDCon is coming up !

2006-10-30 Thread Marc Balmer
OpenCON 2006, the OpenBSD conference will be held in Venice, Italy, December 2-3. Massimiliano Stucchi wrote: EuroBSDCon, the main European BSD event is coming up in less than two weeks. I do not want to miss this occasion to make you aware of a different event that is also taking in place

Re: specified device does not match mounted device

2006-10-30 Thread Pedro Martelletto
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:40:53PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: The improvement was committed more than a month before we discussed the point... Somewhat amazing, i must say... Apparently, reading source-changes@ is useful when trying to answer questions. :-/ Sorry for not warning you guys

Re: low through-put on bge cards OBSD 4.0 3.9

2006-10-30 Thread Dag Richards
Kyle George wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Dag Richards wrote: I can not seem to get more that ~43 megabytes per second through the bge cards on these boxes. This is the unencrypted speed with the cards attached by x-over cable or on a 2950 switch with only these two boxes attached. [snip] Any

Re: kevent sample code?

2006-10-30 Thread Jon Simola
On 10/30/06, stuartv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me at some sample code for kevent. I am trying to write a program that will watch a file for a write and can then read the new lines and act upon them. So far, I get the first event but not subsequent events. tail(1) uses kevent

Re: Is there a deluser equivalent in OpenBSD?

2006-10-30 Thread Paul de Weerd
It was pointed out to me in private e-mail that I mistakenly assumed telnet to be telnet and not ssh. I'm quoting parts of the private e-mail I received to the list in the hopes of educating others on the use of ssh. On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:04:34PM -0500, Eric Furman wrote: | On Mon, 30 Oct

Freetype2 without X11 or no_x11 package

2006-10-30 Thread Jean-Gerard Pailloncy
Hi, I have a soekris that I udpdate to OpenBSD 4.0. I want to install symon, that use gd2 that use freetype2 that is part of X11. I do not have installed X11 on the soekris drive (obviously). There is no no_x11 flavor for g2. There is no package for freetype2. How to solve this ? Create

Via C7 fully supported?

2006-10-30 Thread Joe
Is the VIA C7 cpu fully supported yet? According to http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware , only the VIA C3 is supported. According to http://www.openbsd.org/40.html#new , Improved speed control on some systems: * New SpeedStep detection code, also adds support for VIA C7-M, and

Re: NOD32 Antivirus and OpenBSD?

2006-10-30 Thread smith
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:53:00 -0400, stuartv wrote working on it). The reason we run AV at the border AND on the inside boxes is quite simply that I have seen way too many times in my carreer a virus be ignored by one AV package but caught by another. Security is a must where I work and

Re: NOD32 Antivirus and OpenBSD?

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 10/30/06, smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put load on server? b = yes w = no *snicker* Protect a network from an infected laptop? b = no w = yes Pfff! At best I'd say w = possibly yes having seen various antivirus programs pop and say i detected that i'm propagating this malware,

Re: Via C7 fully supported?

2006-10-30 Thread Greg Mortensen
Is the VIA C7 cpu fully supported yet? C7-M dmesg below. The padlock feature designed to speed up crypto looks useful. type 16 bytes 64 bytes256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes aes-128-cbc 31885.24k 118568.67k 312349.58k 535048.83k 649099.91k Regards, Greg

Re: Via C7 fully supported?

2006-10-30 Thread Jean-Daniel Beaubien
Sweet Is there any company doing a ready-to-use board with this chip? Something like what soekris does...but with the VIA C7 chip... JD

Re: Contributing and Shame [Was: Lenovo notebooks?]

2006-10-30 Thread Breen Ouellette
Tobias Weingartner wrote: 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.

Re: NOD32 Antivirus and OpenBSD?

2006-10-30 Thread smith
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:28:41 -0400, STeve Andre' wrote On Thursday 26 October 2006 20:16, smith wrote: Some people like to run antivirus software on UNIX boxes to ensure they're not carriers for Windows viruses, etc. Personally, I think it should be the responsibility of the Windows

Re: Via C7 fully supported?

2006-10-30 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Jean-Daniel, Is there any company doing a ready-to-use board with this chip? Something like what soekris does...but with the VIA C7 chip... I have received my first Jetway mini-itx board yesterday. My supplier lists it as: Jetway J7F4K Series VIA CN700 VIA C7 @ 1.5 GHz D (TDP 25 W) It has

Re: Hard drive going bad? or something else? (obsd4.0)

2006-10-30 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 10/30/06, patrick ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to try swapping out modules, maybe I'll get lucky. unrelated but needing an archive mention is something odd I just ran across with the deadly uncorrectable sector messages is that I had two used maxtor drives that died on me after

Re: Hard drive going bad? or something else? (obsd4.0)

2006-10-30 Thread patrick ~
Thanks for the insightful info. Yes, as another user had suggested privately, I was running memtest86 since pretty much my post last night (early morning). Thus far 16 passes, running almost 17 hours and no errors. Although, I know, and as you pointed out, no errors doesn't really rule out bad