Re: securelevel(7) and machdep.allowaperture

2006-08-19 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:34:10PM +0100, Andrew Smith wrote: Just a question about the man page securelevel(7) really. It doesn't mention that for architectures where the aperture is enabled that the aperture value can only be lowered once in securelevel 1 or higher. Is this

[OT] 2U Server

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Geman
Looking for server advice. I am attempting to decide on a new file server (home and work use, I work at home). My requirements are cheap, plenty of storage ... or basically 6-8 hot-plug SATA drives in a RAID 5 formation (before you ask, I am not relying on this as my only backup strategy, I

Re: Choices for Soekris disk drives

2006-08-19 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 08.08.2006 at 03:13:36 +0200, Pailloncy Jean-Girard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use now 24x7 drive with extended temp range, and I hope it will where do you get these? service more than 6 months. Pretty

Problems with DansGuardian 2.9.7.5 on OpenBSD 3.9

2006-08-19 Thread Soner Tari
Hi All, I think that this problem is related with DG (or its interactions with OpenBSD), and I have already posted the following emails to the DG maillist, but I could not receive any replies. So I assume that most DG 2.9.7.5 users run it on Linux, and they don't have this problem. Therefore, I

Re: crypto: available ciphers

2006-08-19 Thread Dries Schellekens
Chris Cappuccio wrote: Plenty of algorithms that are used in OpenBSD and other free systems are patented. Who cares? Which? IDEA crosses my mind, but that is it. AES, DES, RSA, Blowfish, SHA-1/2 are all not patented. Cheers, Dries

Re: Lost IP traffic

2006-08-19 Thread Steve Fairhead
My PF edge router has been cruising along for sometime now (years) without problems, doing just ask I ask of it. For some reason today it decided to stop serving webpages from my internal webserver. NOTHING changed anywhere to the best of my knowledge. I'm the only user on all of the servers in

Re: pxeboot

2006-08-19 Thread Marten
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 10:10 +0100, Tom Cosgrove wrote: Jeff Quast 16-Aug-06 02:29 if you had used tcpdump -Xs 99 you would have seen in the first few packets of the negotiation, the wrap netboot client sent a request for changing the packet length. This was silently ignored by the

Re: What about Agile

2006-08-19 Thread Steve Fairhead
Darrin Chandler said: At this point I'll add something else. Great coders will do fine with whatever methodology. Bad coders will do bad. Great coders see the value of tools and use them appropriately. Bad coders follow a list of rules without knowing what they mean or how to apply them and get

Re: OT hardware IDE RAID cards

2006-08-19 Thread Karsten McMinn
On 8/17/06, Antti Harri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Karsten McMinn wrote: You might find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBF useful. I appreciate the lecture. Well, not really. I'll take my 1.2million hr [EMAIL PROTECTED] vs a 700thousand hour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bye.

Re: OT hardware IDE RAID cards

2006-08-19 Thread bofh
On 8/16/06, L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:55 AM 8/17/2006 +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: We are not stuck on SATA. The whole data directory has ~ 80GB of data so PATA would work just as well. I fear you missed the point. This is hardly about SATA vs. PATA, but rather

MySQL, UTF-8 Package questions

2006-08-19 Thread Mike Dalgity
Greetings, I'm in need of some guidance. I'm fairly new to *nix but I've been playing with OBSD for the past while. I choose OBSD because I found the project's goals matched what I was looking for and it's superior documentation; Linux docs in general are frustratingly out-dated, inconsistent,

WG: pf - strange behavior

2006-08-19 Thread openbsd misc
Hello, nobody has an answer for that? :/ Or was my explanation not english enough? =) Please let me know if something is ambiguous. Regards Hagen Volpers -Urspr|ngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von openbsd misc Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10.

Re: 3.9 freeze

2006-08-19 Thread Pedro Martelletto
I cannot declare that the problem is solved... but I had no more freezes since I'm using a custom GENERIC kernel with doubled NKMEMPAGES_MAX and maxusers, both with the i386 and the amd64 machines. But consider that this happened only 7 and 10 days ago... It has been approximately a month

Kernel never loads completely

2006-08-19 Thread Greg Thomas
I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive and any OpenBSD boot floppy it hangs here: booting

Re: pf - strange behavior

2006-08-19 Thread openbsd misc
On 8/19/06, openbsd misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, nobody has an answer for that? :/ Or was my explanation not english enough? =) Please let me know if something is ambiguous. Regards Hagen Volpers Hi, Hello, I do not know about pf, but maybe I can help anyway. Did you

Re: Kernel never loads completely

2006-08-19 Thread Greg Thomas
On 8/19/06, Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive