machdep.allowaperture=1 setting is safer?

2009-10-31 Thread srikant . bsd
Hello All I have a Intel Core2Duo desktop (dmesg attached below) running fully patched i386 4.6 GENERIC.MP. xdriinfo and glxinfo o/p doesn't change whether machdep.allowaperture is set to 1 or 2. And X is fully functional/stable in both cases as it has been for the past 6 months (with

Re: Partitioning an external USB drive through OpenBSD -- disklabel

2009-10-31 Thread Kenneth R Westerback
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 08:48:47PM -0400, Tony Abernethy wrote: Sorry for top-posting, but please: Disk sectors start with 1 (unless you are reformatting the entire track and something like Write Record zero still exists) On DOS-FORMATTED disks, the initial sector is at cylinder 0, head 0,

Re: Partitioning an external USB drive through OpenBSD -- disklabel

2009-10-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
Sorry for top-posting, but please: Disk sectors start with 1 Just pathetic. Hope you actually get a life sometime.

Re: machdep.allowaperture=1 setting is safer?

2009-10-31 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 6:57 AM, srikant@gmail.com wrote: Hello All I have a Intel Core2Duo desktop (dmesg attached below) running fully patched i386 4.6 GENERIC.MP. xdriinfo and glxinfo o/p doesn't change whether machdep.allowaperture is set to 1 or 2. And X is fully

umask for remote host in sftp / sftp-server

2009-10-31 Thread Lars Nooden
How can umask be set on the remote host for chrooted sftp users? I'm having trouble guessing how to set umask for sftp users on the remote system. AFAIK, it is usually function of the shell, which is not used by the sftp client. ~/.cshrc, ~/.profile, and ~/.login seem to not affect sftp, nor

Re: umask for remote host in sftp / sftp-server

2009-10-31 Thread LEVAI Daniel
On Saturday 31 October 2009 10.13.44 you wrote: How can umask be set on the remote host for chrooted sftp users? [...] Setup a umask for your users' class in login.conf(5). Perhaps add them in a new class, eg.: master.passwd(5): user:*:1001:1001:sftp:0:0::/home/user:/bin/ksh login.conf(5):

Re: machdep.allowaperture=1 setting is safer?

2009-10-31 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 31 October 2009 c. 10:47:31 Matthieu Herrb wrote: '2' is needed by X.Org drivers that rely on the int10 emulation to get things setup through the bios of the card. And how can user easily detect that a driver rely on int10 emulation? Or no one should bother as the drivers will get fixed

NFS client hang.

2009-10-31 Thread Ksh J. Fry
Hi, I'm using OpenBSD 4.6 GENERIC on a alix 2D3 board with a compact flash card mounted as ffs. wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: CF CARD 4GB wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3831MB, 7847280 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 I try to use remote NFS directory for /usr/ports,

pf: NAT, ALTQ and pflow at the same time

2009-10-31 Thread Alexander Shikoff
Hello! My LAN (10.51.0.0/16) is behind OpenBSD router with pf. vlan2 - external interface, vlan621 - internal. In order to count traffic from Internet to LAN and vice versa with pflow I need to use states on internal interface vlan621. But when states are enabled then queues do not work. My

Source for LENOVO parts?

2009-10-31 Thread Frank Bax
I have a Lenovo T60p (8744-J2U L3-CM199-07/07). I have been running OpenBSD on it since I purchased it (Summer 2007). The CPU fan is getting noisy and I'd like to replace it. The store where I purchased my laptop cannot order the replacement part. Can anyone suggest a supplier for this part?

Re: machdep.allowaperture=1 setting is safer?

2009-10-31 Thread srikant . bsd
BTW, does anyone know if any other (X?) programs require '2', and in which cases? mplayer? I have been running mplayer, xine and openarena without any problems with value 1 for more than 6 months. Yours Srikant.

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Gonzalo Lionel Rodriguez
Maybe it's more usefull encrypted a file IN the /home partition and move the 'shit' there, then you create symlinks (ln -s) to the encrypted file and done. 2009/10/30 Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com: I wrote some notes on how I normally encrypt /home on OpenBSD laptops. I was hoping misc could

Re: machdep.allowaperture=1 setting is safer?

2009-10-31 Thread Brynet
Vadim Zhukov wrote: BTW, does anyone know if any other (X?) programs require '2', and in which cases? mplayer? No, it's related to physical memory access (..drivers) can access, if the X server starts then then the same programs will start.. X is the only thing that ever directly opens

Re: machdep.allowaperture=1 setting is safer?

2009-10-31 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:01:58PM +0300, Vadim Zhukov wrote: On 31 October 2009 c. 10:47:31 Matthieu Herrb wrote: '2' is needed by X.Org drivers that rely on the int10 emulation to get things setup through the bios of the card. And how can user easily detect that a driver rely on int10

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 07:57:08PM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote: I wrote some notes on how I normally encrypt /home on OpenBSD laptops. I was hoping misc could read it and bash it around some. I'd like to know if I'm doing something wrong. No jokes about Beck's ass please :)

Re: machdep.allowaperture=1 setting is safer?

2009-10-31 Thread Matthieu Herrb
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Brynet bry...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is unrelated, Matthieu.. but are you and Owain working on getting DRI/DRM working on other supported architectures? and fixing the other drivers (..ragedrm/mgadrm/machdrm/etc have been broken since 4.5). It's on

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Joachim Schipper joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote: You should also be careful to note that /root is not encrypted under this scheme. The title says it all. Like most normal people, I keep data in /home. I don't care about meta data that might be in /tmp and I

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
Brad Tilley wrote: I wrote some notes on how I normally encrypt /home on OpenBSD laptops. I was hoping misc could read it and bash it around some. I'd like to know if I'm doing something wrong. No jokes about Beck's ass please :) http://16systems.com/openbsd_laptop_encryption.txt Thanks, Brad

Re: Source for LENOVO parts?

2009-10-31 Thread Eric Elena
The same thing happened to me 2 months ago. Maybe this fan is not very reliable. Anyway, I bought mine online on the IBM France website. For Canada, it seems you have to contact the Toronto Parts Order Centre

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Robert
If you have enough memory you can avoid the /tmp problem by moving it into RAM: fstab: swap /tmp mfs rw,async,nodev,nosuid,-s=200 0 0 This will also speed up some things that write to /tmp. But keep in mind that in case of a crash the content is lost (if this is relevant for you).

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Markus Bergkvist
* To Unmount, do this: - # unmount /home + # umount /home # vnconfig -v -u svnd0 /Markus Brad Tilley wrote: I wrote some notes on how I normally encrypt /home on OpenBSD laptops. I was hoping misc could read it and bash it around some. I'd like to know if I'm doing something

What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread stan
I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I plan on putting Ubuntu 9.10 as the base OS, and I want to be able to run OpenBSD as a guest OS under one of the FM' choices. Preferably one of the free ones (eg not VMWare). What is the wisdom of the list on this? -- One of the main causes of the

Re: Encrypting /home on OpenBSD Laptops

2009-10-31 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jacob Yocom-Piatt j...@fixedpointgroup.com wrote: disk name is sd0) fdisk -iy sd0, disklabel -E sd0, make a smallish 100-150 MB 4.4BSD partition for root and the rest of the disk set as a single partition of type RAID e.g. /dev/sd0a is root and /dev/sd0b is

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Bryan Irvine
I've been running it under virtualbox quite a while. Has trouble compiling a full release, but does well other than that, -B On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:12 AM, stan st...@panix.com wrote: I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I plan on putting Ubuntu 9.10 as the base OS, and I want to

Re: Problems with 4.5 as a KVM guest

2009-10-31 Thread Chris Dukes
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 09:42:58AM +0100, Michiel van Baak wrote: I tried to upgrade my 4.5 and got the same. Sorry, have no way around it for the moment. I reverted the vm back to it's previous working state. GENERIC has a few things enabled that play hob with current generation KVM and

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Chris Dukes
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 10:12:02AM -0500, stan wrote: I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I plan on putting Ubuntu 9.10 as the base OS, and I want to be able to run OpenBSD as a guest OS under one of the FM' choices. Preferably one of the free ones (eg not VMWare). What is the

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
It works under KVM. I vaguely recall mpbios0 and acpmiadt0 need to be disabled. Then it doesn't work. I've got this car, but the engine won't start. But it works fine, because if some friends help me I can push it down the road. We won't cripple OpenBSD just because the virtual machines out

pf n00b

2009-10-31 Thread ghe
I'm fresh off the boat from Debian. I love OpenBSD's attitude, and the documentation is even pretty decipherable, but I'm still a little confused by pf. I managed to build a trivial filter, but there are a few things I don't understand. I read somewhere (3 books, google, the website docs,

Re: pf n00b

2009-10-31 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 1 November 2009 c. 00:00:41 ghe wrote: I'm fresh off the boat from Debian. I love OpenBSD's attitude, and the documentation is even pretty decipherable, but I'm still a little confused by pf. I managed to build a trivial filter, but there are a few things I don't understand. I read

Re: pf n00b

2009-10-31 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-10-31, ghe g...@slsware.com wrote: pf.conf consists largely of anchors (to fork on protocol) and sub- anchors below them to fork on service -- I'm trying to reduce the count of rules seen by a packet to a minimum. But no need for that, we have automatic skip steps, and a ruleset

Re: umask for remote host in sftp / sftp-server

2009-10-31 Thread Darren Tucker
Lars Nooden wrote: How can umask be set on the remote host for chrooted sftp users? You can set it on the server side with sftp-server's -u option but that's very new (post 4.6). You would have something like this in sshd_config: Subsystem sftp sftp-server -u 0022 -- Darren Tucker

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Garry Dolley
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 01:57:20PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: It works under KVM. I vaguely recall mpbios0 and acpmiadt0 need to be disabled. Then it doesn't work. I've got this car, but the engine won't start. But it works fine, because if some friends help me I can push it down the

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
OpenBSD 4.5+ works if mpbios is disabled, more info here: http://scie.nti.st/2009/10/4/running-openbsd-4-5-in-kvm-on-ubuntu-linux-9-04 OpenBSD 4.5 works on 99.9% of PCs out there with mpbios enabled, so KVM must have a really stupid bug.

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Josh Hoppes
I've had decent luck with VirtualBox as of late, in previous versions VirtualBox would cause problems at install time bugging out when extracting packages. I've never had a problem with VMware though, but my experience is limited. I've been running it under ESXi 4.0 for a while and it's been very

Re: pf n00b

2009-10-31 Thread Ryan McBride
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, ghe wrote: I'm fresh off the boat from Debian. I love OpenBSD's attitude, and the documentation is even pretty decipherable, but I'm still a little confused by pf. I managed to build a trivial filter, but there are a few things I don't understand. I

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Chris Dukes
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 05:50:57PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: OpenBSD 4.5+ works if mpbios is disabled, more info here: http://scie.nti.st/2009/10/4/running-openbsd-4-5-in-kvm-on-ubuntu-linux-9-04 OpenBSD 4.5 works on 99.9% of PCs out there with mpbios enabled, so KVM must have a really

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 05:50:57PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: OpenBSD 4.5+ works if mpbios is disabled, more info here: http://scie.nti.st/2009/10/4/running-openbsd-4-5-in-kvm-on-ubuntu-linux-9-04 OpenBSD 4.5 works on 99.9% of PCs out there with mpbios enabled, so KVM must have a

Re: What VM does OpenBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Ted Unangst
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Chris Dukes pak...@pr.neotoma.org wrote: I'm at a bit of a loss as to why mpbios is still enabled in GENERIC. Because more machines work with mpbios that don't work without it than machines that work without it but not with it. My memory of the brief