Question about dynamic DNS (BIND 8 EOL: OpenBSD Makes It Easy)

2007-09-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
for information on this. Or, is nobody using dynamic DNS for some reason? Thanks for any advise about this. Tom Van Looy

Re: 4.2 song

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Van Looy
I think it should have been 101 instead of 11. But if it's not than it's a good easter egg :-p (and I don't get it). ropers wrote: On 08/10/2007, Craig Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: And there's a few easter eggs hidden in the song as well. Okay, I can't

Re: cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-19 Thread Tom Van Looy
I read that single unix specification thing again because the OpenBSD cp manpage says it is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible. quote For each source_file, the following steps shall be taken: 1) If source_file references the same file as dest_file, cp may write a

Re: : cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-19 Thread Tom Van Looy
ps: it was a ;-p Nick Guenther wrote: On 10/19/07, Tom Van Looy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Toohey wrote: On 19/10/2007, at 8:12 PM, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Looks like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X BSD bits have the same sort of outcome. Copy foo to foo only once and quit, I think

Re: cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-19 Thread Tom Van Looy
cp on linux is part of gnu coreutils (http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/) the error can be found in /coreutils-6.9/tests/cp/into-self So it is not a part of bash or ksh (also on OpenBSD it is not part of the shell, the code is in /usr/src/bin/cp/). I beat you to trying it on Linux No I

Re: : cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-19 Thread Tom Van Looy
install (got some Slackware 12.0 CDs) and look at what it does (and its source code) - sure someone will beat me to it. Looks like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X BSD bits have the same sort of outcome. I got this from Tom Van Looy (thanks, Tom): Copy foo to foo only once and quit, I think that's

Re: cp(1) bug ?

2007-10-20 Thread Tom Van Looy
: From: Tom Van Looy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:21:56 + Subject: Re: cp(1) bug ? it shall do nothing more with source_file and shall go on to any remaining files. Doesn't this mean that cp should not do anything when, for example, the following command is run

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-25 Thread Tom Van Looy
I think you forgot to count power savings here? Theo de Raadt wrote: And when physical servers cost less than some vmware licenses Then it is even more dumb to defend such stupid practices.

Re: Beep!

2007-04-10 Thread Tom Van Looy
great man, thanks :-) the echo \a etc. never worked with me I replaced echo '.' in /etc/rc.local with echo 'C' /dev/speaker so now I know when my headless server is ready booting up Reyk Floeter wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:53:23AM -0700, Manuel Ravasio wrote: Hello list. I have a

acx/ath card information

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Van Looy
This (acx) is a wireless minipci card I got out of a broken D-Link DI-624+ acx0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 TI ACX111 rev 0x00: irq 10 acx0: ACX111, radio Radia (0x16), EEPROM ver 5, address 00:0f:3d:0e:28:75 Also I use the ath driver for a D-Link DWL-G650 rev C. (but it seems unstable, after eg.

Re: Read and write disk statistics

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Van Looy
$ systat -w 1 iostat Federico Giannici wrote: I'd like to know how much of the disk activity is for reads and how much is for writes. It seems that there are a few system commands that show statistics about disks activity (iostat, vmstat, systat) but none of them separate reads and writes.

ntpd use dhclient ntp-servers

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Van Looy
Hi, I wanted to let my ntp client use the servers it receives from the dhcp server (3.0 from packages). I made it working like this: I added ntp-servers to /etc/dhclient.conf, and the following function to the /sbin/dhclient-script script: add_new_ntp() { if [ -n $new_ntp_servers ]; then

Re: ntpd use dhclient ntp-servers

2007-05-03 Thread Tom Van Looy
Maurice Janssen wrote: On Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 00:23:00 +0200, Tom Van Looy wrote: Hi, I wanted to let my ntp client use the servers it receives from the dhcp server (3.0 from packages). I made it working like this: I added ntp-servers to /etc/dhclient.conf, and the following function

Re: find -exec {} help

2007-06-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
I think this is also correct: find . -name '*.htm' -exec cp '{}' '{}'.new \; \ -exec sed -i s/old/new/ '{}'.new \; Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:01:12PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: [...] Don't use for loops with find results, they do not scale well. Also, beware

Re: How to run and manage a DNS server.

2007-06-06 Thread Tom Van Looy
http://lifewithdjbdns.org (henning@ wrote this ;-) It's not about bind but it has stuff about mysql and ISP-Environments. So it may be of your interest. Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: well here is a question, I was wondering if there would be anyway to make OpenBSD based DNS servers have a

ssh and sudo, password not hidden

2007-06-30 Thread Tom Van Looy
this not expected behaviour. Normally I ssh from an Ubuntu box to the firewall, but to be sure, I ssh-ed to localhost on the openbsd box and I got the same result. What's wrong? Kind regards, Tom Van Looy

Re: ssh and sudo, password not hidden

2007-07-01 Thread Tom Van Looy
Oke, problem solved. But, why doesn't this flag get set implicitly when using a command with ssh? Chris Cohen wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2007 19:31, Tom Van Looy wrote: Hi Today I used sudo as command to ssh and it echoed my sudo password. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ ssh soekris sudo pfctl -s

Re: OpenBSD 4.2 dhcpd(8)

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Van Looy
The current implementation of dhcpd in base was a reworked version of ISC dhcpd 2.0pl5-OpenBSD (port). The rework was done by Henning Brauer. If you look at cvsweb you can find this information. Kind regards, Tom Tim Stewart wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know which version of ISC DHCP

Re: Network Slowness Proliant DL380 G4

2008-02-07 Thread Tom Van Looy
I also have this nic in my Lenovo R60: bge0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 Broadcom BCM5751M rev 0x21, BCM5750 C1 (0x4201): irq 11, address 00:16:d3:b8:d6:4c experiencing the same problems Joe Warren-Meeks wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:04:13PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: Hey there,

Re: FOSDEM 23/24 Feb Brussels

2008-02-22 Thread Tom Van Looy
Actually, it's the Netherlands that speak a slightly modified version of dutch. Only Flemish Belgium speaks true Dutch. The term Flemish covers the Belgian Dutch dialects. It's a bit confusing because of the naming and translations to English, I think this is caused by the fact that Belgium is

Compile bind on 4.2 fails - no acceptable grep in path

2008-03-05 Thread Tom Van Looy
as dependency. I guess it must be my fault because I searched the list and didn't find anything. But I don't see what I'm doing wrong ... Kind regards, Tom Van Looy

Re: Compile bind on 4.2 fails - no acceptable grep in path

2008-03-06 Thread Tom Van Looy
, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Tom Van Looy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The source is the src.tar.gz from CD's, I didn't update/patch it yet. ... checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... configure: error: no acceptable grep could be found in /bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/xpg4/bin

4.3 - acpi critical temperature on Lenovo R60

2008-03-07 Thread Tom Van Looy
Yesterday I sent my 4.3 dmesg (to dmesg@). Today I was comparing dmesgs to see what changed and noticed critical temperature warnings. See dmesg below, I would say that's not normal. But with acpi I am able to turn off my machine now without rebooting :-) Very nice, thank you! OpenBSD 4.3

Hacking At Random 2009

2008-07-31 Thread Tom Van Looy
I just wanted to let the list know that it's only a year before HAR2009. But, they are already looking for volunteers and villages. More info at http://har2009.org, you can subscribe at their mailing list. I hope lots of OpenBSD people will be there again just like WTH2005. Kind regards, Tom

Broken link in 'man sendmail(8)'

2007-02-22 Thread Tom Van Looy
The manual page of sendmail(8) contains the following link: http://www.sendmail.org/tips/DontBlameSendmail.html It seems sendmail replaced the link by the following: http://www.sendmail.org/tips/DontBlameSendmail.php Can someone please fix this?

OpenBSD 4.0 dvd case

2007-03-03 Thread Tom Van Looy
Some people thought the current 4.0 artwork was to childish for a corporate environment. I created a more simple and clean looking dvd case. You can download it at http://puffy.ctors.net/ If you have some comments about this, please let me know.

Re: OpenBSD 4.1 Pre-Orders...

2007-03-12 Thread Tom Van Looy
No T-shirts this time? Darrin Chandler wrote: Have you got yours yet?! http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20070312181549

Re: Important OpenBSD errata

2007-03-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
What about: Release Mode: FORCED RELEASE? This is about the exploit, right? And not the advisory. Theo de Raadt wrote: This means everyone should have our latest patches installed. Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:40:15 -0300 From: CORE Security Technologies Advisories [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Missing security announcements

2008-11-13 Thread Tom Van Looy
just fire a crontab entry and move on actually, that's a great idea, I just scheduled the following script this mails the diff of errata.html, but only if something changed #!/bin/sh rel=44 # OpenBSD version ftp http://www.openbsd.org/errata$rel.html /dev/null 21 if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo

Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
Hi I use the dump script of openbsdsupport.org to backup the internal SATA disk of my soekris to an external USB disk. snip DUMP: 197357941 tape blocks DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Nov 13 23:03:31 2008 DUMP: Volume 1 completed at: Fri Nov 14 09:25:20 2008 DUMP: Volume 1 took

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
Is it slower than the USB is *supposed* to be? USB is not fast. The external disk is a: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=333 It has: Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0) 480 Mbits/s (Max) The soekris port is 2.0 capable usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0. I'm getting an

Re: Dump on soekris slow?

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
Thanks for all the responses :-) I did a dump 0af /dev/null /usr: DUMP: Average transfer rate: 10618 KB/s Next I did a dump 0af /backup/test1 /usr: DUMP: Average transfer rate: 5352 KB/s I also compared the speed of cp with dump and they seem equally fast. Anyway, it seems like the speed is

Re: I/O redirection

2008-12-03 Thread Tom Van Looy
No, check the ksh man page. Or, you could use the /usr/bin/time command to just avoid the ksh builtin. /usr/bin/time java helloWorld time.report 21 Which works as expected.

4.3-stable panics on a Soekris net-5501

2008-12-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
usb_discover(d0d7db80,d06267cc,8,246,d61e5560) at usb_discover+0x36 usb_event_thread(d0d7db80) at usb_event_thread+0x91 Bad frame pointer: 0xd092ce78 ddb ps: I won't pull out the cable again ;-) Kind regards, Tom Van Looy

Re: possible bug in OpenNTPD code?

2008-12-10 Thread Tom Van Looy
Why would you assume that? That seems a bit hostile. Perhaps the developers are a bit busy at the moment. True. I generally post on the Linux lists and I believe I am spoiled by getting quick responses from my postings. In future, I will remember to keep more patience. I would like to respond to

Re: CARP under heavy load

2008-12-12 Thread Tom Van Looy
Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: One can use 'carppeer' to not send multicast but unicast. However, I was under the impression one still needs to do peering on the same link as the carp interfaces sit. Yes, because if you send carp messages on an other (dedicated) link and the link to the

Re: Openbsd mounting

2008-12-20 Thread Tom Van Looy
Dorian B|ttner wrote: rizzo0917 schrieb: and usb devices. keyword is hotplugd(8), includes example. I think he's looking for amd(8).

Re: script

2009-01-13 Thread Tom Van Looy
Nick Guenther wrote: Does anybody provide a commercial shell scripting??? for i in Don't wait Buy Things Now Save Now $0.99 Get your instant trial account now Double Your Sales Calls, Free Script Demo; do echo $i done Like that? Hey man, that wasn't just 'commercial grade', that was

Re: [ot] debian switching to eglibc

2009-05-07 Thread Tom Van Looy
frantisek holop wrote: hmm, on Thu, May 07, 2009 at 03:13:53PM +0200, frantisek holop said that http://www.osnews.com/story/21441/Debian_Switching_to_EGLIBC http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980 hillarious. good fun. who does this remind me? let's see... and as added

Tron

2009-07-28 Thread Tom Van Looy
Hi Most of you have probably seen this getting posted on slashdot: http://kingofgng.com/eng/2009/07/26/tron-legacy-exposed/ That's cool :-) Kind regards, tvl

Re: Wireshark

2009-08-19 Thread Tom Van Looy
You can also capture the packets with tcpdump and open the pcap file in wireshark on another platform. That's how I do it if I want to use wireshark. Kind regards, Tom merlyn wrote: On Monday 17 August 2009 00:51:28 stan wrote: I realize that there is histroy here but I really need to make

Re: Java plugin

2009-09-14 Thread Tom Van Looy
Starting from 1.7 OpenBSD has a fully GPLv2 licensed port, that can be installed as a package. Users looking for the browser plugin will still need to build 1.5 or 1.6 from ports until Sun releases the plugin code. -- openbsd faq eagir...@cox.net wrote: Well, I built and installed the JDK

Re: eurobsdcon

2009-09-23 Thread Tom Van Looy
Henning Brauer wrote: so, otto, tedu, matthieu, oga and myself went to eurobsdcon in cambridge. to take the summary ahead, it was a very nice event. Thanks you all for doing the presentations and sharing the papers/slides. Awesome :-) Who knows if there is also video material available that

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability

2009-11-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
Ross Cameron wrote: Actually no it was turned on. This is from the commit to the Linux kernel: The amount of space protected is indicated by the new proc tunable proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and defaults to 0, preserving existing behavior. It was turned off, 0 means no protection.

Re: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/linux_kernel_vulnerability

2009-11-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
Matthias Kilian wrote: And if you install something like wine, the knob is set back to 0, probably without any notice (at least in ubuntu-8.10). That can explain why it's off on my system (karmic koala). By the way, this is from the debian wiki: Debian 5.0.3 ships with a default mmap_min_addr

Re: anyone, low power rack-mount server for home usage?

2009-11-07 Thread Tom Van Looy
Didier Wiroth wrote: I was wondering if some of you are using this type of low power hardware at home? Can you recommend such a rack-mount device? Can you recommend a european online reseller? This seems nice too: http://www.descom.be/configurator_server.php?mode=type=17

binat and VPN question

2007-11-21 Thread Tom Van Looy
network A and 10.10.2.1 is actually 10.10.1.1 on remote network B. But is that possible for an entire network? Or is there an other way? Kind regards, Tom Van Looy

Re: binat and VPN question

2007-11-21 Thread Tom Van Looy
And I can't just change the IP range of network A and B because these are customer networks (and they for sure don't want to change it). Tom Van Looy wrote: Hi I have 2 ipsec VPN endpoints on a firewall. The remote networks both use the same address range (10.10.1/24). The question is now

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Tom Van Looy
Hi About the ports tree, maybe you are right and OpenBSD should go kick out the possibly 50 ports that you have a problem with. Now, about BSD/GPL that's an other story. But that doesn't mean we can't learn from each other and help each other. I hope it has to do Richards efforts on the

Re: OpenBSD 4.3 in peril?

2007-12-18 Thread Tom Van Looy
I think you mean Hungry Hippo. :p Don't make me install Frosty Warthog!!

Re: Linus about C++

2007-12-28 Thread Tom Van Looy
I advise you to read The Art of Unix Programming by Eric Steven Raymond http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch14s04.html#cc_language In this book you can find more about the Unix philosophy, and arguments on why C++ is wrong. - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: Brian Hansen

Re: Survey on the usage of IPv6

2009-01-30 Thread Tom Van Looy
Will (when) the results and the paper be published publicly? Claudio Jeker wrote: For an IPv6 related paper we are currently working on, Claudio and I are doing a small online survey on the use of IPv6 among OpenBSD developers and users. It would be nice if you could spare 10-15 minutes of

Re: starting gnome session with gdm as non root

2009-02-19 Thread Tom Van Looy
I can start gnome by just typing gdm, and then log in as a user. But I dont think this is a right or secure way to use gnome. add the following line to the end of /etc/rc.local /usr/local/bin/gdm -nodaemon This starts gdm at system startup. If you want to log in from the commandline you can

Re: Go order your 4.5 CD

2009-03-06 Thread Tom Van Looy
Ordered mine too. And here's the artwork in a wallpaper format: http://users.telenet.be/assarix/pub/wallpaper/45.png Daniel Ouellet wrote: The new puffy looks nice too. Look to me that may be we have a new disco puffy with the improvements on the audio in the system, but I could be wrong.

Re: openbsd.org man pages case sensitive (was: Re: umts need help)

2009-03-06 Thread Tom Van Looy
ropers wrote: I've just noticed that the web-based openbsd.org man pages are case-sensitive. Observe: Is this intended behaviour or a bug? So is the command line. I think it should stay case sensitive. E.g. man Carp and man carp point to different manpages.

[HAR2009] Finall call for papers: submit before may 15th

2009-05-02 Thread Tom Van Looy
Original Message Subject: [HAR2009] Finall call for papers: submit before may 15th Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 21:09:50 +0200 From: HAR2009 har-annou...@har2009.org Reply-To: har-annou...@har2009.org To: annou...@har2009.org Finall call for papers: submit before may 15th A

Re: 4.5 soon, but ...

2009-05-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
I tried the new installer today with the last snapshot. Nice job! Still pretty clean. Who's going to do the first 2 minute OpenBSD install with the new installer? ;-) Theo de Raadt wrote: So OpenBSD 4.5 will be available soon, next weekend. I feel that I should urge people to avoid the new

Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
I think the cheapest (Wireless-N 2230) is ok because they all are 300 Mbit/s and OpenBSD doesn't support bluetooth. And you would recommend iwn and not something else? On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Stefan Sperling s...@stsp.name wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 11:27:54PM +0100, Tom Van Looy

Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-04 Thread Tom Van Looy
Hi My laptop (HP ProBook 6560b) has a Broadcom BCM4313 wifi card. Seems like it's not supported (there is also a thread on misc@ about this card). I want to buy a new card. What mini PCI express card is the best card you can buy? For example, there are a lot of cards in the iwn driver. I can

Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-05 Thread Tom Van Looy
Thank you for warning me about the BIOS! I just tried with an Intel card from an old machine (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) and the BIOS indeed disables the card. I also had a USB device lying around which came with my TV :-) it's an Atheros AR9271 rev 1. It works and allows me to go sit in the

Re: Looking for Mini PCI Express wireless card suggestions

2015-01-05 Thread Tom Van Looy
Seems that HP has an driver for Intel cards that should work with my laptop. Maybe there is some hope for it to work after all. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp56501-57000/sp56752.html On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Tom Van Looy t...@ctors.net wrote: Thank you for warning me about the BIOS! I

Re: Authpf not working with ssh -fN session

2015-08-17 Thread Tom Van Looy
Yes. That is what the manpage says. I'm not sure what you are trying to say with it. I think I am not using it as a shell ... Can you explain? On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 9:39 PM, laudarch lauda...@host.sk wrote: authpf is not a shell On 2015-08-16 19:13, Tom Van Looy wrote: Hi I'm using

Authpf not working with ssh -fN session

2015-08-16 Thread Tom Van Looy
are closed they both print that data was transfered (send/receive) etc. Is this something that can work and if so, what am I doing wrong of how do I debug this any further? I'm stuck. :-) Thanks, Tom Van Looy