choosing a lightweight database

2019-01-15 Thread reed
Any recommendations on a lightweight database (no extra server process) to use with dynamic website? It is not a lot of data. Currently stored in ~1000 flat files (all stored in git) and could easily be converted to JSON or XML for readable text store. Each file ranges between 7 and 184 unique

Re: Install kernel and userland without source?

2019-02-09 Thread reed
On Sat, 9 Feb 2019, J. Lewis Muir wrote: > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2008/03/04/msg89.html > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2008/03/04/msg90.html > > but that's for upgrading from NetBSD 3.1 to 4, so I'm not confident that > it applies to NetBSD 8. That

change console font size to larger 80x24

2019-04-06 Thread reed
Using evbarm on pinebook (NetBSD current as of yesterday). The font size is too small. I enabled additional virtual consoles in /etc/ttys wsconscfg -t 80x24 2 results in: screen 2 is already configured I remove with wsconscfg -dF 2 Then wsconscfg -t 80x24 2 results in wsconscfg:

Re: max users

2019-04-27 Thread reed
On Sat, 27 Apr 2019, JP wrote: > is there a maximum number of users that can be logged in at a given time? config(5) says there is no such limit. Linux has a pam way using limits.conf. FreeBSD could use inetd to spawn sshd with a inetd.conf "max-child" option. I don't know of an existing

time consistently behind 6 seconds every day

2019-08-02 Thread reed
that may be useful. Thanks! Jeremy C. Reed p.s. I noticed this because I flagged a DNS RRSIG Inception time in the future by 6 seconds off. I checked and I was off by 5.717946 and fixed a moment later and I was off by 5.726703. Still I think the other system was at least a fraction of a second fast

Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?

2019-08-21 Thread reed
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I want to use a flash drive instead of a CD to upgrade from an > old 'current' to our latest. This is being done on an ancient > emachine amd64: "ancient" In my experience some old systems just won't boot from USB flash disks well. In some cases, I

Re: Xs with WM or Desktop brakes? Clean installation.

2019-11-15 Thread reed
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, lati...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > 1. the Xs brakes when i try to use WMs or Desktop Mate and XFCE4, and how > to get out of Xs? Ctrl+Alt+Backspace do not work, pressing right button of > the mouse+exit does not work, it stay forever. For Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, maybe need xorg.conf

Re: Why are all pkg* commands in man section 1?

2019-12-13 Thread reed
On Fri, 13 Dec 2019, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I wonder why they are all in section 1 of the manual pages and not in > section 8, where one would expect them to be. I think it is a mistake. I thought there was a PR (problem report) ticket for it. I certainly reported it before. Some others I

Re: Letsencrypt certificates

2019-10-22 Thread reed
> pkgsrc Masters, what's the story? Because the package is used by other packages. https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/creating.html#creating.python-module Another reason is pkgsrc builder can choose to use different python version so potentially (for some packages) could have the software

Re: Letsencrypt certificates

2019-10-22 Thread reed
> I am trying to work out whether that means that the keyfile > contents must be manually added to the zone file, because in > named.conf I have an include line for update.key which contains the > path to that key, so it should be there already. Do you also have your zone configured to allow

Re: Letsencrypt certificates

2019-10-22 Thread reed
I realize I didn't answer your question. You shouldn't need to do all SIG(0) style with KEY record. Ignore that. Use the "key" in named.conf with allow-update or update-policy.

Re: How do you set $PS1 on /bin/ksh

2020-01-25 Thread reed
In addition to the other recommendations, don't have the PS1 prompt run commands everytime the prompt is generated. For example, you don't need to run commands each prompt to figure out your username and hostname as likely they won't or cannot change in the same shell session. For example:

commercial preinstalled NetBSD systems?

2020-01-18 Thread reed
NetBSD.) Thanks! (I was searching for small systems with wifi ... any suggestions?) Jeremy C. Reed echo Ohl zl obbx uggc://errqzrqvn.arg/obbxf/csfrafr/ | \ tr "Onoqrsuvxzabcefghl" "Babdefhikmnoprstuy"

Re: Shared object "libintl.so.9" not found (but its there)

2020-03-11 Thread reed
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > $ ldd /usr/pkg/bin/git > /usr/pkg/bin/git: > -lpcre2-8.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0 > -lpthread.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1 > -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12 > -lz.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 > -lintl.1 => /usr/lib/libintl.so.1 >

Re: SMTP servers receiving from gmail

2020-04-16 Thread reed
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020, ignat...@cs.uni-bonn.de wrote: > However, SPF seems > to work to pacify Google and isn't very difficult to setup. For many years, I periodically send emails using NetBSD.org address. I didn't think about SPF. I never get any bounces for this. Now I see the SPF rule in the

Re: DNSSEC vs netbsd-8/sparc?

2020-04-16 Thread reed
with: dig +multi -t DNSKEY . Now maybe you don't trust that. Also see http://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/keys/9.11/ and https://data.iana.org/root-anchors/root-anchors.xml and https://www.iana.org/reports/2017/root-ksk-2017.pdf but that is a DS which can be verified: t1:reed$ dig +multi -t DNSKEY . &

Re: DNS Failures - All of a sudden today 20200325

2020-03-25 Thread reed
On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, ya...@sdf.org wrote: > Another user on the ISC list suggested setting > dnssec-lookaside no; > Which also feels risky. Comment out or remove the NetBSD provided configuration for that in named.conf. > And generically ISC suggested all users remove the dlv.isc.org zone

Re: DNSSEC vs netbsd-8/sparc?

2020-04-21 Thread reed
The problem I reproduced in March (but didn't solve) was on amd64 where the DS didn't match. It used SHA384. Two different examples: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2020/03/24/msg024303.html https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2020/03/20/msg024285.html

Re: trouble resolving protonmail.ch, dnssec, seems netbsd-specific maybe

2020-03-19 Thread reed
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, Greg Troxel wrote: > I changed > >dnssec-validation: auto > > to > >dnssec-validation: yes Are you saying this fixed your problem? > after finding this hint: > > https://kb.isc.org/docs/aa-01547 > > dnssec-validation yes; or dnssec-validation auto; (the

Re: trouble resolving protonmail.ch, dnssec, seems netbsd-specific maybe

2020-03-19 Thread reed
I was able to reproduce maybe the problem. I think the version of named is bad (it is unsupported). I believe you got it to work because dnssec validation was disabled. (When enabled the queries did not work.) > My config file starts out (now that I changed auto to yes): > > options { >

Re: trouble resolving protonmail.ch, dnssec, seems netbsd-specific maybe

2020-03-20 Thread reed
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Jarle Greipsland wrote: > r...@reedmedia.net writes: > > I was able to reproduce maybe the problem. I think the version of named > > is bad (it is unsupported). > Might it have to do with the fact that the (only) DS RR for > protonmail.ch uses digest type 4 (i.e. SHA-384),

Re: trouble resolving protonmail.ch, dnssec, seems netbsd-specific maybe

2020-03-20 Thread reed
I added a large amount of debugging. Too bad the many checks didbn't have debug logging. I don't know why but the created new digest hash didn't match. The technique is to use same digest algorithm type and create a digest of the matching DNSKEY. In this case the resulting digest didn't match.

Re: trouble resolving protonmail.ch, dnssec, seems netbsd-specific maybe

2020-03-20 Thread reed
> I don't know why but the created new digest hash didn't match. > The technique is to use same digest algorithm type and create a digest > of the matching DNSKEY. In this case the resulting digest didn't match. > (New one was six bytes shorter.) I did this wrong. A little cleanup below. I

Re: something is randomly closing ssh-tunnels (was: ipfilter randomly dropping..)

2014-06-24 Thread Darren Reed
On 23/06/2014 8:24 PM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: During the past few weeks the ssh-tunnels to a remote machine started failing randomly. In a previous mail to tech-net I prematurely blamed ipfilter because disabling it yielded some immediate success. Unfortunately, subsequent testing showed

Re: something is randomly closing ssh-tunnels (was: ipfilter randomly dropping..)

2014-06-24 Thread Darren Reed
On 24/06/2014 10:39 PM, Darren Reed wrote: On 23/06/2014 8:24 PM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: ... * sshd bails on a failed write() with ENETUNREACH So the problem is this: * sshd tries to write to the socket, gets ENETUNREACH and then exits leading to the FIN packets being transmitted

Re: something is randomly closing ssh-tunnels

2014-06-26 Thread Darren Reed
Peter, The workaround for this is to add pass out log body quick proto tcp from 85.X.X.X port = 22 to 77.X.X.X.X at the end of all of your keep state ipf rules. I've added the log body bit to provide more information about the ssh packets that aren't picked up by the ssh rules and session state.

memory usage, including shared, for a set of programs?

2013-03-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
What is best way to figure out memory usage for a set of programs? (I have nine python programs running.) Do I need to use pmap and have something compare what shared memory is used in each and then deduct all duplicates? As far as I understand, the ps output may have duplicated details.

Re: update 6.0.1_PATCH - 6.0.2 added suid to /usr/bin/passwd

2013-06-04 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: # ls -la /path/to/6.0.1/usr/bin/passwd -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 31003 Mar 6 13:35 /path/to/6.0.1/usr/bin/passwd # ls -la /path/to/6.0.2/usr/bin/passwd -r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 31003 Jun 3 14:21

Re: Where to put custom fonts?

2013-11-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Ottavio Caruso wrote: I was thinking of copying the ttf fonts from Windows somewhere on the Netbsd partition. I don't have fontconfig (yet) but I have fc-cache. If you have fc-cache, you probably have fontconfig. I just copy TTF files to my personal ~/.fonts/ directory/

Re: Where to put custom fonts?

2013-11-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Ottavio Caruso wrote: I just copy TTF files to my personal ~/.fonts/ directory/ In \Windows\Fonts I have some fonts ending in .ttf, others in .TTF. Would the system understand the ones ending with capital .TTF or do they have to be converted or maybe just changing the

Re: Printer

2013-12-07 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 7 Dec 2013, f...@freddyfisker.dk wrote: How do I setup a Network Postscript printer? It is a Lexmark X544 printer and I use the Xfce desktop. Is there some pkgin packages I need to install? Is it in the Terminal the printer have to be setup? From a quick look I couldn't tell if

Re: disks question

2013-12-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Roelof Wobben wrote: I have two disks on my system. One of 300G and one of 80G where Netbsd can be installed. In linux they are called : /dev/sdb 300G /dev/sda 80G. Is there a way I can check which is which one on installing ? The next sysinst display will show the

Re: pmake/NetBSD make sources for Linux?

2014-01-06 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 6 Jan 2014, Malcolm Herbert wrote: Alternatively, are there reasonably current stand-alone versions of pmake to be had that would compile under Linux that someone can point me at[3]? See http://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bmake.html http://www.crufty.net/ftp/pub/sjg/ has recent

Re: Xfburn

2014-01-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, f...@freddyfisker.dk wrote: Why don't NetBSD have the Xfburn to burn CD and DVD? I think the libburnia dependency needs to be ported to NetBSD. But maybe for other platforms it may be added. I see an old version was pkgsrc-ized:

Re: lpd/samba printing with usb

2014-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, pierre-philipp braun wrote: When I try to print a job from a windows client, with the printer configured and looking good, the printer spins on however nothing happens, the jobs stays in the queue (saying it is still printing), no page comes out and there is no log in

Re: Does my processor support 64bit kernel?

2014-02-11 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014, Rhialto wrote: On Tue 11 Feb 2014 at 12:18:37 -0600, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Try cpuctl identify 0 and look for LONG cpu feature. With yours you will probably also see EM64T. That can't be right. On my cpu (on which I have installed the 64-bit version) I don't have

Re: No subdirectory accepted in /var/run ?

2014-02-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, herbert langhans wrote: I create a subdirectory /var/run/snort I restart the server - subdirectory /snort is gone Removed by /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal hier(7) says that the /var/run/ system information files are rebuilt after each reboot. It would be good to have this,

using getent(3) and specifying more arguments after the key?

2014-06-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
, then `false' is always returned. But I cannot reproduce it, for example: t1:reed$ getent disktab floppy ty t1:reed$ getent disktab floppy ob t1:reed$ getent disktab floppy pc t1:reed$ getent gettytab Console rw But I would think it would be like this: t1:reed$ getent disktab floppy ty floppy t1

Re: using getent(3) and specifying more arguments after the key?

2014-06-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Looks broken to me. Fix it. Okay, one line fix. I will commit if nobody objects. t1:getent$ ./getent gettytab Console junk rw sp false true 300 Index: getent.1 === RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.bin/getent/getent.1,v retrieving

Re: Aw: Re: pkgin: mplayer-1.1.1nb1 is not available on the repository

2014-07-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/reed/pkgsrc-package-sanity/missing-or-old-pkg_summary.txt See http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/reed/pkgsrc-package-sanity/README for some details

delete user from group (was Re: NetBSD reference card (again!))

2014-08-12 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Ilia Zykov wrote: Maybe anybody knows how to remove an user from a secondary(additional) group without manual edits the /etc/group. For instance: FreeBSD 'pw groupmod group -d user' The user(8) tool doesn't offer it, but its code does have rm_user_from_groups function

Re: pf version

2014-09-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 18 Sep 2014, Zoran Kolic wrote: What is pf firewall version on current (7.99)? I think it is from OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3-current. See the src/doc/3RDPARTY file about it. I plan to istall on rpi. Rules are already made, but I'm aware that version might be a bit old and syntax not the

Re: Listening on port 25 to receive mail

2014-12-05 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 5 Dec 2014, Rocky Hotas wrote: I tried to send an e-mail from a host in a LAN to another host in the *same* LAN which runs NetBSD. But the connection was refused because the NetBSD host is not listening on port 25. How could I make it possible? Your subject says to receive mail and

Re: using /etc/cron.d

2015-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 16 Jan 2015, matthew sporleder wrote: Okay it looks like modes 400 and 600 work The manpage should be updated for this. Or I prefer maybe we should fix it. The process_crontab code could be modified so /etc/cron.d/ follows the same mode rules as /etc/crontab. I think the crontab.5

Re: Bind ending up in Parked state.

2015-03-12 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Christos Zoulas wrote: Still I would like to know what is taking all this time... ktrace it and then kdump -R to display relative timestamps. I also have bind 9.10.2 on NetBSD/amd64 6.1.3 in 20117 jreed 430 1394M 1296M parked/0 0:52 0.00% 0.00% named That is

Re: pure-ftpd

2015-03-07 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Now I tried to configure it under NetBSD. While the installation (pkgin in my case) printed partial instructions, there was no mention about where to put the config file. The rc script gives no hint. I cannot even guess where to ftp directory for files to make available might be, since it

Re: Where to install user stuff

2015-07-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, Greg Troxel wrote: On various SGI, Linux FreeBSD boxen, I have always installed in-house software under /usr/local. I notice no such directory on my NetBSD 6.1.5 box. I did notice that pkg_add installed sudo under /usr/pkg. Is that the

man pages for section 5 config files with useless SYNOPSIS

2015-11-10 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I noticed some section 5 file format man pages for a configuration file have a SYNOPSIS, but most do not. For example, /usr/src/share/man/man5/passwd.conf.5 has .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm Well it is in the basic template. mdoc(7) says SYNOPSIS is mandatory and that .Nm is required for section 5. But

Re: pkgin giving download mismatch

2015-08-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Maybe on download server side the pkg_summary(5) available database doesn't match the actual download package.

greylisting multiple mail servers, greylisting with SPF, challenge response

2015-08-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
a friendly and understandable method for senders to verify, which may be like a sender using a micropayment, etc.). Any of you using challenge-response to limit spam? Jeremy C. Reed p.s. I noticed my spamd greylist database has 698631 entries in it. It doesn't seem to be cleaning up very quickly.

Re: greylisting multiple mail servers, greylisting with SPF, challenge response

2015-08-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Matthias Scheler wrote: I workaround these by adding individual IPs or blocks to my pf rules to bypass the spamd (so goes direct to mail server). It sounds like you need a better greylisting software. I would recommend milter-greylist which works with Sendmail and

Re: NetBSD website man pages down

2015-09-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
The admin said that after a power outage, a hyopervisor couldn't be brought up and on-site remote-hands were unable to revive it either. As of yesterday, an estimate of when it will be restored was unknown. I will email admins about it too. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: How do I start mixerctl as first daemon?

2015-09-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Can I alter the init sequence to make mixerctl start as first daemon? See the special tags at the top of the rc.d scripts, like PROVIDE, REQUIRE, KEYWORD, and BEFORE. Try adding a # BEFORE: line in the mixerctl rc.d script, for example: # BEFORE:

[no subject]

2015-11-25 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
At Wed, 25 Nov 2015 10:00:00 + (UTC) I had a cron job run: for tz in America/Los_Angeles America/Chicago America/New_York \ Asia/Tokyo Europe/Berlin ; do TZ=$tz date -d "Wednesday 22:00utc" +"%A %B %d %I:%M %p %z %Z ${tz}" ; done This resulted in: Wednesday November 25 12:00 PM -0800

Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Have a look here: http://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=events:free_licenses In particular note that in 2002 the copyright owner made the old V7 code and 32V Unix code available as open source with a BSD-like license. While 3BSD was derived from 32V, it also included a lot of other code that was

Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Martin wrote: > Of course that is not what I was trying to suggest. Perhaps I should > have made it more clear but I am not trying to void the original > licence in any way shape or form. I am asking because I do not want > to. Though Lyndon you have answered my question.

Re: texlive xelatex not working [ Was fontconfig : .so.2 not provided by 2.11.1?]

2016-01-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I may have missed something in the previous thread or in this thread... but what feature are you missing? I don't know answer if full TeX Live distrubution is available in pkgsrc, but I use the pkgsrc for my LaTeX related work every week for over a decade. I have generated many documents

Re: Silly shell question

2016-03-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Some ideas to add to your research: echo $FOO FOO=def ksh echo $FOO exit > # FOO=abc > # export FOO > # ksh > # echo $FOO > abc > # exit > # FOO=123 > # ksh > # echo $FOO > 123 > # exit ksh echo $FOO unset FOO echo $FOO exit echo $FOO unset FOO echo $FOO ksh echo $FOO exit

Re: Silly shell question

2016-03-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Johnny Billquist wrote: > > Only environment variables are propagated to child processes. > > Thanks for the info, but do you happen to know what the actual > mechanism that the child processes is able to "import" the exported >

Re: window managers

2016-04-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: > Can anyone suggest a good way forward with X11 window managers using > X11R& (I'm in the processw of moving to amd64 7.0). For many years I > have used IceWM, but the pkgsrc binary fails with symbol _XGetRequest > not found in libXext.so.7. If I

old i386 3.1 packages or upgrading with KVM

2017-03-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Does anyone know where I can find old 3.1 packages for i386? I cannot find old source distfiles for using old pkgsrc. I am working on an old system that the hosting provider only has a Windows-based KVM. I am concerned upgrading it headless. I know our upgrade docs have tips of upgrade

Re: old i386 3.1 packages or upgrading with KVM

2017-03-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Jeff_W wrote: > "Jeremy C. Reed" <r...@reedmedia.net> wrote: > > > Does anyone know where I can find old 3.1 packages for i386? > > > > I cannot find old source distfiles for using old pkgsrc. > > .. > > If binaries a

Re: old i386 3.1 packages or upgrading with KVM

2017-03-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Thank you all for the responses (even off-list). Sorry I wasn't very clear and my subject line was wrong. This is upgrading WITHOUT KVM and I have no console access to this remote server.

Re: bind reacts badly to dhcpcd losing/regaining connectivity

2017-04-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 15 Apr 2017, Rhialto wrote: > and these errors about re1 (my external interface) kept going all the > time. When I noticed them and restarted named, they went away. > > Why does named not succeed in using the interface when it gets an > address again? What to do about it? I noticed

Re: xsane and root permissions

2017-06-15 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017, BERTRAND Jo?l wrote: > OK. I have found the mistake. ss0, nss0 _and_ enss0 are used by > sane. With 660 permissions an these devices, xsane runs as expected > and withtout root permissions. Glad it works. Often you can use ktrace to run a tool and then after run

Re: package upgrade strategy

2017-09-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, r0ller wrote: > By the way, what kind of difference is indicated by the number in the > 'nb' suffix? Means the original code (upstream source) was not changed. The nb means we may be building or installing it differently (like due to a new patch, new build option, or a

emulation for 32 bit big endian?

2018-05-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
What is the quickest and easiest NetBSD to install that is 32 bit and big endian using an emulator? I need a working network in the virtual system too or an easy way to copy files to its virtual disk. For example, I fetched kernel and iso and tried: $ qemu-system-mips -hda netbsd.evbmips.disk

Re: howto request a new package?

2018-06-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018, Kathe wrote: > is there any process for requesting a new package? > actually it's just a modification of an existing > package, just that netbsd isn't running on my > machine yet, and even if it did, i just don't > know how to create a new package from scratch. > thanks.

Re: Quick BIND question

2018-09-06 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I see you already found a newer version. Nearly all the many vulnerabilities it has had over the past decade don't provide privileged access nor compromise the system beyond just crashing named. Maybe some of your clients can be prompted to query your named for known queries that can crash it.

Re: bozohttpd

2018-03-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > The -s works when not using -b > > With -s and -b the debugging is lost. > > I see it uses daemon(3) > to redirect standard error to /dev/null -f -b -s combination works for me

Re: bozohttpd

2018-03-01 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
The -s works when not using -b With -s and -b the debugging is lost. I see it uses daemon(3) to redirect standard error to /dev/null

what wireless network adapters?

2018-10-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
What are the best wireless network adapters supported by NetBSD? I want to replace my provider's wifi router with a NetBSD solution. I don't see these supported, but anything comparable to Qualcomm Atheros QCA9980 or Broadcom BCM4366?

Re: /var on tmpfs

2018-11-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Don NetBSD wrote: > I've a box with a DoM. I'd like to mount / as ro and create a > tmpfs for /var (and /tmp). I don't think anything else NEEDS to > be rw (the infrequent changes to /etc can be made by unlocking / > to make those changes). > > I imagine I can just make a

Re: Testing a password

2020-04-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I found the master password file. The passwords that were set (root, > cvs, my account) > all start with $sha$ -- so the passwords are encrypted using SHA? > > If I write a PERL program that checks passwords (cant use crypt), how > would I do this? Any

Re: NetBSD Jails

2020-05-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 16 May 2020, Aaron B. wrote: > It also doesn't solve the ultimate issue here, which is isolation: a > user (in the kernel sense of user, not necessary a human logged in via > SSH) in one chroot could run 'ls' or equivalant syscalls and see > activity inside a different chroot. Assuming

Re: quad port gigabit eithernet?

2020-09-24 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > Yes. Still in production. > > https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/codename/36767/portville.html > > On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, SAITOH Masanobu wrote: > > I350-T4V2? Thank you. This gave me a hint to look in

quad port gigabit eithernet?

2020-09-22 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
gigabit ethernet network interface card with four RJ45 jacks supported by NetBSD and the device driver for it? Thanks Jeremy C. Reed echo Ohl zl obbx uggc://errqzrqvn.arg/obbxf/csfrafr/ | \ tr "Onoqrsuvxzabcefghl" "Babdefhikmnoprstuy"

Re: firefox and maxfiles and rlimit.descriptors

2020-11-14 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> So how can one increase the kernel limit so that ulimit -n can work with > a greater value? (it doesn't accept anything else but 956, despite > kern.maxfiles being increased). $ sysctl kern.maxfiles kern.maxfiles = 3405 $ sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=3500

HVM virtualization?

2020-10-31 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
One of my hosting providers is converting VPSes from PV to HVM virtualization due to security issue https://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-286.html They say NetBSD does not work under HVM mode and can choose a different BSD (or Linux). Can someone tell me about this? I did look briefly at

Re: Thoughts regarding Borg and Python, and pkgtools

2021-08-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sun, 8 Aug 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: > 2) Where are the man pages? My man-page viewer cant find them You can see if manpages are installed by looking at the package list pkg_info -L py39-borgbackup # replace that correct package name I don't think the package installs a manpage per the

Re: manpage section-names

2021-10-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: > I noticed that the manpage-reader at man.netbsd.org has > sections 3LUA and 9LUA. I noticed my system also has sections > 3f, 3am, and n . What are the names of these sections? > > As I continue installing software, will I have more new manpage-sections >

restore super block? recover missing data?

2022-03-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On NetBSD 8.x I had a disk failing. I didn't write down complete kernel messages but like: ahcisata0 clearing WDCTL_RST failed for drive 0 wd0 writing fsbn 288240960 ... bn 288243008 writing fsbn 544623424 ... bn 544625472 My system basically hung when I accessed some files. I had to power off

NPF/interface tuning? shell unusable on gateway

2022-03-26 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On same hardware, a week ago I changed my router from a different operating system to NetBSD/amd64 9.2. It is running a simple NAT gateway using NPF and also runs dhcpd and unbound for internal LAN. Periodically my shells on this new NetBSD router become unusable -- too slow to type. The

Re: restore super block? recover missing data?

2022-03-21 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, Michael van Elst wrote: > r...@reedmedia.net ("Jeremy C. Reed") writes: > > >FFSv2 sb at 2176 size 623508480, last mounted on > >FFSv2 sb at 2240 size 623508480, last mounted on / > > > One more thing. Since the first superblock is

Re: NPF/interface tuning? shell unusable on gateway

2022-03-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sun, 27 Mar 2022, David Young wrote: > Are there any packet drops or other errors? `sysctl net.interfaces`, > `sysctl net.inet6.ip6.ifq`, `sysctl net.inet.ip.ifq`, and `netstat -dvI > re0; netstat -dvI re1` may be revealing. David, thank you for the feedback and hints. I switched re1 to

Re: NPF/interface tuning? shell unusable on gateway

2022-03-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 28 Mar 2022, RVP wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2022, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > Any ideas why telnet works slowly but ssh does not at all in these > > cases? telnet is usable but cannot even see one character sent over ssh > > when ssh locks up (again it restores about

Re: NPF/interface tuning? shell unusable on gateway

2022-03-28 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Mon, 28 Mar 2022, Greg Troxel wrote: > I am surprised that anything is paying attention to DSCP codepoints > (said as someone who has implemented multiple research systems with new > prioritization controls). I am even further surprised that the > codepoint used for ssh low delay would lead

Re: pkgconf freetype and flags

2023-10-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 20 Oct 2023, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi! > > who sets what pkgconf returns for the packages? Is it upstream or does it come > from NetBSD? See the .pc files under: /usr/pkg/lib/pkgconfig /usr/pkg/share/pkgconfig /usr/lib/pkgconfig /usr/X11R7/lib/pkgconfig See the manpage about the

Re: Upgrading software with pkgsrc

2022-09-30 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I don't understand why NetBSD must have an additional tool like pkgin > to perform full upgrades whereas in OpenBSD you can just upgrade the > whole lot with "pkg_add -u". It looks like a case of "not invented > here" that plagues the *BSD ecosphere.

timers slow (sleep 1 taking five seconds)

2022-12-02 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
on present timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 hpet0 at acpi0: high precision event timer (mem 0xfed0-0xfed00400) timecounter: Timecounter "hpet0" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 2000 attimer1 at acpi0 (TMR, PNP0100): io 0x40-0x43 irq 0 t1:re

Re: timers slow (sleep 1 taking five seconds)

2022-12-03 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
lity 2000 > > >attimer1 at acpi0 (TMR, PNP0100): io 0x40-0x43 irq 0 > > >t1:reed$ date ; time sleep 1 ; date > >Sat Dec 3 00:31:40 UTC 2022 > >5.01s real 0.00s user 0.00s system > >Sat Dec 3 00:31:45 UTC 2022 > > > Can you check &g

npf NAT stops working on external interface IP changed

2023-01-16 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Last week, my NetBSD NPF router got a new IP address via DHCP. npfctl list showed many entries with the nat-addr:port with the old address. I did a npfctl reload and my NAT started working again. Today it happened again. "npfctl show" shows the current IP address in the map. Part of my

Re: making man-pages

2023-04-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023, Todd Gruhn wrote: > If I write a program, and a man-page with it; where do I install this > man-page ?? See the manpath on your NetBSD system: man -p That shows what directories actually currently has manuals. So also see: /etc/man.conf A common place to install your own

mount -u use fstab options and wapbl log questions

2023-08-10 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I saw in mount(8): "The set of options is determined by first extracting the options for the file system from the fstab(5) file ..." But when I did mount -u / Then mount didn't show the "log". t1:reed$ grep ffs /etc/fstab NAME=8ab393d0-4743-11e8-9359-b8ac6fdf499d

Re: cctlds in wtf

2023-06-29 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Also see /usr/share/misc/domains /usr/share/misc/country

fake daemons, honeypots?

2024-01-17 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Any suggestions for fake daemons to use to see scanners or malicious connections? Maybe some services I can run via inetd? They don't need to actually attempt user authentication, so just some that have greeting banners as appropriate to initiate use. I was looking for fake telnetd, imapd, ftpd