Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Saturday, August 27, Dave Feustel wrote: On Saturday 27 August 2005 06:07, JSD wrote: I have a big root access problem. If someone has physical access to my OpenBSD box, than he/she can swith into single user mode (-s) and can change the password of root. It is a big problem for me

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Tuesday, September 6, Kelly Martin wrote: I've got an A6 primary partition with various /usr and /var style partitions within. Pretty standard, but I ran out of disk space. I added a second primary A6 partition in the freespace of the same disk using fdisk, but cannot figure out how to

Re: adding a partition, fdisk, disklabel, and other fun

2005-09-07 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Wednesday, September 7, Alexander Hall wrote: Well, I was referring to the OBSD MBR partition (of type A6) (aka BIOS partitions), a' la fdisk(8). Maybe a bit unclear on that. So, basically, I wondered if it would be possible to extend MBR: ||A6 partition..|Unpartitioned|...|

Re: Technical OpenBSD kernel documentation.

2005-09-15 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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) of a complex system is very difficult

Re: Live dc

2005-09-20 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 right

Re: PostgreSQL/other DBs and OpenBSD?

2005-09-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: make build fails

2005-09-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.) But

Re: Migration to PF - some questions

2005-10-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 quick

Re: Limiting Shell Access Damage (was Guruness)

2005-10-19 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Wednesday, October 19, Will H. Backman wrote: 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 students

Re: Telnet daemon retired in 3.8 ?

2005-11-08 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 place in a

Re: Very low sound

2007-07-09 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pieter Verberne wrote: outputs.lineout=125,125 outputs.lineout=85,85 Strange... Try changing these to 255. --Toby.

Laptop death...

2007-07-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: Laptop death...

2007-08-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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's

Re: Swap priority and paging strategy... a couple of questions

2007-08-22 Thread Tobias Weingartner
[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

Re: Atheros 5424

2007-09-04 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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? Seriously,

Re: comics and recurring donations Was: Show your appreciation and get your 4.2 DVD

2007-09-12 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Craig Brozefsky wrote: /me raids refrigerator for leftover curried rice... Curried rice! Hmm... gotta get me some new spices... -- [100~Plax]sb16i0A2172656B63616820636420726568746F6E61207473754A[dZ1!=b]salax

Re: unstable and multiple reboot for 4.2 on Sun X4100 M2 with ACPI enable on AMD64 bsd.mp with SAS RAID 1 setup.

2007-09-12 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: [Possibly OT] 16-bit Assembly Programming

2007-09-16 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: sudo wheel group

2007-09-16 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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... :) -- [100~Plax]sb16i0A2172656B63616820636420726568746F6E61207473754A[dZ1!=b]salax

Re: ACPI Security

2007-09-19 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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?

Re: Speed Problems Part 2

2007-09-26 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: Get developers some big machines to support more RAM

2007-10-08 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: CVS - Lock File

2005-05-04 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Wednesday, May 4, Alan Finlay wrote: I have done significant work with ClearCase and CVS in a software development team environment, and some minor work with other revision control tools. Team size for ClearCase was around 20 developers, and with CVS around 10 developers. For an open

Re: Sad boot problem (boot.conf: invalid argument)

2005-06-09 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, June 9, Luciano ES wrote: Hello, Stuart. The answers to your latest questions: On 09/06/05 at 12:11, Stuart Henderson wrote in 7K: How does 'fdisk wd0' look? - The second slice (offset 63) was marked as unknown. Then I fixed it with OpenBSD's fdisk. Now it is marked as

Re: Problem booting from wd0

2005-06-15 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, June 16, Uwe Dippel wrote: It installs your PBR boot block, IE: your partition boot block. Thanks for the info ! - But still, I don't see how this comes into view: the kernel was looking 'broken' at loading in the OP; OP? What is OP? then he wiped the MBR. Should he

Re: GRUB's boot parameter

2005-06-16 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Friday, June 17, ikesan wrote: panic: /boot too old; upgrade! Oh! I installed newest verson of OpenBSD, and how can I upgrade it. Because I could not boot OpenBSD. So I thought if GRUBS parameter was wrong. Use the chainloader. Use the chainloader. Use the chainloader. Use the

Re: A system for patches....

2005-06-20 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Monday, June 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somebody could write a shellscript wich includes the Checksums for a compiled (and patched) binary for each architecture. Sure, my company could do that. The rate I've quoted you before. Or you could do it yourself... only to findout that the

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Monday, June 20, Dave Feustel wrote: I thought you had more insight. All of OpenBSD's security is at risk with this technology. Nope, he has lots of insight. You on the other hand are the security risk here... well, you were, and maybe, just maybe, if you smarten up and realize what you

Re: Honesty needed...

2005-07-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
I'm late to the game... but why not split the load over a number of servers? Using carp for reduncancy, rdr/round-robin and/or hash, you should be able to spread the load some. --Toby. On Wednesday, June 29, Jeffrey Lim wrote: On 6/29/05, Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just spoke with

Re: IDE / SATA Filesystem Mounting Problem

2005-07-24 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Sunday, July 24, bofh wrote: On 7/24/05, George Georgalis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the sense there is a way to use GENERIC, somehow I just need to tell the kernel the BIOS disk 0x80 is wd0, 0x81 is wd1, 0x82 is wd2 and so fourth, not the other way around. Maybe wd0 at pciide0

Re: x86 rings?

2005-08-04 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, August 4, Ed White wrote: Is there any plan to use x86 cpus rings (0..3) to improve OpenBSD security? Can you enlighten me how that would improve security? If you can show me a way that does not break the unix/posix model of the universe, I'm all ears. --Toby.

Re: syslogd udp port

2005-08-04 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Thursday, August 4, poncenby wrote: I remember asking how to stop syslogd opening udp port 514 a while ago and never doing anything about it, here goes again... And people asked you to search the archives. Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) udp

Re: stat() st_ctime

2005-11-14 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 example

Re: Filesystem redundancy

2005-11-16 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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, how the

Re: Tyan Thunder LE SMP issues

2005-11-17 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 similar

Re: Tyan Thunder LE SMP issues

2005-11-17 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 said,

Re: finding duplicate files

2005-12-16 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: APIC

2006-01-03 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 as

Re: learning to code - suggestions needed

2006-01-03 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: Blowfish still good enough?

2006-01-04 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 to

Re: Apple MacBook Pro support

2006-01-11 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 to

Re: pf by mac address?

2006-01-23 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit

2006-01-25 Thread Tobias Weingartner
On Wednesday, January 25, Christoph Fritz wrote: Maybe the linux source is all docu they give out? Linux source is *not* documentation. --Toby.

Re: boot.conf timeout ignored on amd64?

2006-01-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 no

Re: MAC filter Bridge

2006-02-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: MAC filter Bridge

2006-02-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 a MAC

Re: Brain wash for live partition, or directory mirroring concept idea(s)?

2006-02-02 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 the

Re: MAC filter Bridge

2006-02-02 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 (or

Re: openbsd's future plans?

2006-02-07 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: Linksys (Cisco) = OpenBSD VPN config

2006-02-08 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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:

Re: openbsd's future plans?

2006-02-08 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 the same

Re: Sudo

2006-02-11 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 all

Re: encrypted svnd and disk throughput

2007-03-29 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 -- You have a 150MB (roughly) machine? processor and 1 GB of 400 MHz

Re: Loading a Second Kernel

2007-04-23 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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, or a

Re: Webservers with Terrabytes of Data in - recomended setups

2007-04-23 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 care how

Re: radeon driver in -current Xorg 7.2?

2007-04-24 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: 4.1 packages on the ftp sites

2007-04-24 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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... --

Re: root on raid with external usb disks

2007-04-24 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 personally

Re: Prevent circumventing dansguardian with pf

2007-04-25 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 bad.

Re: Prevent circumventing dansguardian with pf

2007-04-25 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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've

Re: NFS mount by non-root

2007-04-26 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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... -- [100~Plax]sb16i0A2172656B63616820636420726568746F6E61207473754A[dZ1!=b]salax

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-05-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Artur Grabowski wrote: Simple, I trust the people I drink beer with. Do they have to be drinking beer too? :) -- [100~Plax]sb16i0A2172656B63616820636420726568746F6E61207473754A[dZ1!=b]salax

Re: Chances of this hardware running OpenBSD?

2007-05-09 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: 4.0 locked up over the weekend

2007-05-10 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 in that cpu

Re: configuration's errors with pf ?

2007-05-10 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yggdrasill Senecoen wrote: Ssh_Cyrrhus=443block in inet This line could be problematic. --Toby.

Re: 4.0 locked up over the weekend

2007-05-10 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 capable Sempron? It looks like it is, based on the rest

Re: Failing to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] in X

2007-05-11 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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. Thanks for

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-17 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 me in

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-15 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: Kernel MINIROOTSIZE 8192 = No Boot

2007-06-26 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 16:51 +, 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 minutes on an e-mail about an issue

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-10 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 the

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-10 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: building a kernel for net4801 from dmassage

2008-01-24 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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,

Re: [OT] beefy steel cases

2008-02-22 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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. -

Re: SMP

2006-02-21 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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. How

Re: Atheros WG311T Rev 1, return it or not?

2006-02-21 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: boot.conf

2006-02-24 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 are

Re: SMP process control

2006-02-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: SMP process control

2006-02-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: /etc and partitions

2006-02-27 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: Backup MX server

2006-03-01 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 than

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 ports quality?

2006-03-12 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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...

Re: 4.0-beta

2006-07-28 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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. :) -- [100~Plax]sb16i0A2172656B63616820636420726568746F6E61207473754A[dZ1!=b]salax

Re: What is the equivalent to glibc's __libc_freeres?

2006-08-11 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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) -- [100~Plax]sb16i0A2172656B63616820636420726568746F6E61207473754A[dZ1!=b]salax

Re: GPL = BSD + DRM [Was: Re: Intel's Open Source Policy Doesn't Make Sense]

2006-10-06 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 broadcom

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: [OT] sparc64 CPU specifications: pipelines

2006-10-31 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 everyone

Re: Boost OpenBSD security - Zophie for 3.9

2006-10-31 Thread Tobias Weingartner
Wijnand Wiersma wrote: Development cycle of OpenBSD4.0 support starts tomorrow and will be finished when 4.1 releases? Sure, why not. -- [100~Plax]sb16i0A2172656B63616820636420726568746F6E61207473754A[dZ1!=b]salax

Re: Firewall partially failing with high traffic

2006-11-14 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 pass

Re: fdisk automation scripts? Autopartition?

2006-12-06 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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.

Re: auto adding of hosts to bad_guys table

2007-01-29 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 i

Re: Google's Perftools and tcmalloc - Worth the risk?

2007-03-19 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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. --

Re: Google's Perftools and tcmalloc - Worth the risk?

2007-03-19 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 speed more

New cpuid code to test

2008-10-19 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-31 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 controlling

Re: linux kills laptop hard drive... how does obsd behave?

2007-10-31 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 there a

Re: Embedding OpenBSD

2007-12-28 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 near-by,

Re: possible bug in CDROM recognition?

2008-01-02 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 channel

Re: Improving disk reliability

2008-01-03 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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 disk

Re: Open Source Article Spawns Interesting Ethical Question

2008-01-09 Thread Tobias Weingartner
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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