Adam M. Dutko wrote:
How do they deal with legal jurisdiction? Technically the government can
still subpoena and they'd have to turn over the documents in the persons
account, including backups.
Use GPG so all the ISP could do is hand over the encrypted bits. You
hold the key.
Brad
Can anyone recommend good/reputable domain name registrars in
Switzerland to buy .ch domains from and/or transfer .com names to? I'm
in the US and have heard good things about switchplus, but I wanted to
ask here as I know many OpenBSD people are in Europe.
Thanks,
Brad
Kevin Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:44:51 +0100
Jan Stary h...@stare.cz wrote:
On Nov 30 12:32:16, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:17:17 -0500
Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote:
Do they really fail that often?
My current understanding is that a mostly empty SSDS
Kevin Chadwick wrote:
I almost completely agree, but also disagree and yes I'd say it's not
worth getting into again. I would have to check the latest developments
as I can imagine an algorithm which solved the problem during idle
periods or didn't use it's full capacity but currently I don't
On 11/29/2010 02:56 PM, Ted Unangst wrote:
buying a new SSD to replace your burned out one every year is still
cheaper than building a 15k sas drive raid set with equivalent
performance.
I've been using an inexpensive Kingston SSD for more than a year now in
a 4.6 box. It works fine and I've
James Hozier wrote:
Are there any books that are more noob-friendly that want to learn C as their
first language and explain basic programming terms along the way?
I'm no expert, but I do program C for applications (not operating
systems). My advice would be to study data structures, pointers
Brad Tilley wrote:
James Hozier wrote:
Are there any books that are more noob-friendly that want to learn C as
their first language and explain basic programming terms along the way?
Forgot to mention a book... If you decide to take the C++ route, I
suggest Accelerated C++.
http
carlopmart wrote:
Advantages are very clear for me: provisioning, administration tasks,
etc ... But I will to know disadvantages. What is your opinion from the
point of view of security?
I use virtualization for many things (mainly for the productivity
advantages that you list), but it has
Nick Holland wrote:
what's changed?
Layering? Nope.
Crappy programming? Nope.
Better hardware? not really.
Features-before-security? Nope.
Good points. The goals of virtualization are, easy management, power
savings, quick provisioning and deployment, redundancy, etc. When you
talk about
On 10/31/2010 04:01 PM, Diana Eichert wrote:
excuses only go for so long. I tell you IPv6 deployment is moving
forward.
Perhaps we can shame them into facing facts:
$ dig +short www.netbsd.org
2001:4f8:3:7:2e0:81ff:fe52:9a6b
$ dig +short www.freebsd.org
2001:4f8:fff6::21
$ dig
On 10/30/2010 04:18 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote:
Lets hope the youtubes and facebooks go v6 so that they get of my v4
lawn.
No need to hope:
$ dig +short www.v6.facebook.com
2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3
Brad
James A. Peltier wrote:
No, the NFS share is re-exported out via Samba as a native CIFS mount to
Windows machines. It's a simple copy paste for them
CIFS? How do you encrypt that? That's all clear text (except the auth)
right?
Brad
On 10/29/2010 09:24 PM, Corey wrote:
I've put off learning anything really about IPv6 in hopes that after
most organizations ignore it, it withers and dies (at least in its
current form).
snip
I like it. It works well with OpenBSD and you can get free tunnels from
Sixxs and others to use
James A. Peltier wrote:
Now, that said, is there anything that you could recommend instead of NFSv4
for offering secure file services to multiple platforms?
Apache with SSL may be a solution. I've used it on small scale projects.
You can auth users against LDAP, AD, etc. Should work with any
One last note... it seems that OpenPAM on the other BSDs and LinuxPAM on
Linux systems address all of PCI requirement 8. However, they all seem
to differ slightly with their PAM implementations and PAM in general
seems overly complex (to me at least).
I mis-configured PAM on a test system
On 10/17/2010 12:56 PM, Dewey Hylton wrote:
just a quick note on how we addressed 8.5.13 ... yes, it requires python,
but we are
a python shop so this was not an issue for us. i'm just posting it for the
purpose of
sharing ideas.
http://www.deweyonline.com/files/openbsd/login_-custompasswd
Jurjen Oskam wrote:
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:17:23PM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote:
I thought about doing that too. I need to test it more to see what
happens when ksh is the shell and the user executes csh manually. I
suppose ksh will still honor TMOUT in that case.
TMOUT is at most
Leif Blixt wrote:
Brad Tilley brad at 16systems.com writes:
I was experimenting with a program to meet PCI DSS 1.2 password length
and content/complexity requirements and integrating it with login.conf
for users who have shell access to OpenBSD systems. It seems to work as
expected, but I
Leif Blixt wrote:
Hi!
We have just figured out a different approach, and will discuss our new idea
with our QSA tomorrow. The idea is to completely turn of the possibility to
log in with passwords, and to use SSH key pairs with long and good
passphrases instead. It will lead to more work
what your
QSA determines. It seems some of this is open to interpretation and
depends on the opinion of the QSA.
Brad
-Original Message-
From: Brad Tilley [mailto:b...@16systems.com]
Sent: den 14 oktober 2010 14:09
To: Leif Blixt; openbsd-misc
Subject: Re: Force passwordcheck
Stuart VanZee wrote:
For 8.5.12 see login.conf man page, look for passwordcheck.
You will have to write (or find) a program that keeps track
of previously used passwords. I just stored a hash of them
in a file and have it check to see if the new password hash
matches any of the old 4
Brad Tilley wrote:
I created the file /etc/profile to force sh and ksh to logout users
after a certain period of idleness:
$ cat /etc/profile
# Force sh and ksh to logout idle users after 15 minutes
# Prevent normal users from disabling this setting
readonly TMOUT=900
export TMOUT
Adam M. Dutko wrote:
Any good reason to not do this?
They're not the same shell.
Yes, I know that part :)
I can't think of any security reasons because
I'm not familiar with the code but as far as logs and noise factor I imagine
it would go up or various things might start breaking that
Jan Stary wrote:
Why do you want to logout idle users?
There is sysutils/idled if you need it.
I'm experimenting with getting an OpenBSD base system to meet the PCI
DSS requirements. I'm trying to avoid using any software outside the
base system.
rm /bin/csh
cp /bin/ksh /bin/csh
You just
On 10/14/2010 05:08 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote:
rm /bin/csh
cp /bin/ksh /bin/csh
You just forced your csh users to use ksh. Why do you want them to hate you?
It's just a shell, they'll get over it.
Remove it from /etc/shells instead. Replacing csh with ksh is evil, and
I don't mean that
On 10/14/2010 05:13 PM, Jan Stary wrote:
On Oct 14 17:01:30, Brad Tilley wrote:
Jan Stary wrote:
Why do you want to logout idle users?
There is sysutils/idled if you need it.
I'm experimenting with getting an OpenBSD base system to meet the PCI
DSS requirements.
Does PCI DSS require you
On 10/14/2010 06:45 PM, Ben Niccum wrote:
I thought about doing that too. I need to test it more to see what
happens when ksh is the shell and the user executes csh manually. I
suppose ksh will still honor TMOUT in that case.
Brad
Don't mean to complicate things for you, but just thought
Mark Romer wrote:
use passwdqc it is in packages.
in login.conf under default I have:
:minpasswordlen=12:\
:login-tries=4:\
:passwordtries=3:\
:passwordcheck=/usr/local/libexec/passwdqc -3 12
Mark
I've heard complaints that it is too stringent (I tend to agree,
I created the file /etc/profile to force sh and ksh to logout users
after a certain period of idleness:
$ cat /etc/profile
# Force sh and ksh to logout idle users after 15 minutes
# Prevent normal users from disabling this setting
readonly TMOUT=900
export TMOUT
That works great. I've tried to
I was experimenting with a program to meet PCI DSS 1.2 password length
and content/complexity requirements and integrating it with login.conf
for users who have shell access to OpenBSD systems. It seems to work as
expected, but I wanted to run my configuration by misc.
I appended the following
On 10/11/2010 04:59 PM, Martin Schrvder wrote:
2010/10/11 Dmitry-T dmitr...@yandex.ru:
How you use the OpenBSD as web servers and hosting platform?
RTFAQ
Permanently catch and kill processes?
man ulimit
What do you see when you man ulimit?
Best
Martin
Guillaume DualC) wrote:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 09:33:44 -0300, Christiano F. Haesbaert
haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote:
Why not make a curses GUI ? I find it much more useful than gtk/qt (IMHO).
In my opinion, the aim of this project is to provide a graphical tool,
which can be inserted in some
On 10/06/2010 09:54 PM, Mikle Krutov wrote:
Hello, list!
I'm a FreeBSD user (a very little experience with openbsd in the past),
but i'm kind of interested in any bsd flavour (i like *nix, but dislike
linux for some reasons).
So, the question is if there is any positive experience with
David Higgs wrote:
big snips
I know SSDs don't require TRIM, but most benchmarks are made by
knob-twiddlers that are presumably overemphasizing the performance
degradation you get without it. Is this even noticeable in practice?
I've used an inexpensive SSD (cheapest one I could find at the
Janne Johansson wrote:
What I meant was that one can complain of that the NIST programs (diehard
and
dieharder springs to mind) only do certain tests, but that is just because
noone
can make a short program that _proves_ a certain stream is random. The only
thing available seems to be a
Janne Johansson wrote:
List of the CURRENT fully implemented tests (as of the 08/18/08 snapshot):
#=#
# dieharder version 3.29.4beta Copyright 2003 Robert G. Brown
#
Martin Schrvder wrote:
2010/9/27 Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com:
How many privilege escalation attacks (normal user getting a root shell)
has OpenBSD had during the last five years? There have been several of
The absence of reports doesn't prove that the flaws don't exist (and
no, I'm
On 09/26/2010 04:54 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
It's occured to me that I think what Theo suggested was actually about
using more than one architecture, which may be a better method over
Linux.
How many privilege escalation attacks (normal user getting a root shell)
has OpenBSD had during the
Rikky Taylor wrote:
I was after some general advice. I need to setup a routing firewall with 3
interfaces, moderate traffic and a fair amount of NAT'ing in the rules.
Given identical modern server hardware would I expect a performance difference
between an OpenBSD/PF setup and a
Peter Fraser wrote:
man pf.conf never describes what ! does. The ! is used in some examples
and
a lot of the time is obvious what will happens. The pf faq has somewhat more
of
an explanation of ! with multiple address, but its explanation only refers
to the
use of ! in tables. There is
E.T wrote:
Hi
In this text, I have a athlon1 available. But it takes a lot of
room, very hot, a lot of noise, and consumes much electricity. I try to
disconnect the fan to see, but the CPU temperature was up to 105 B0 C in 5
minutes. Otherwise, OpenBSD operating nickel above, I installed
E.T wrote:
very, very small processor. N270 best performance? . Firewall or desktop ?
OpenBSD 4.6-current (RAMDISK_CD) #149: Mon Sep 14 04:31:59 MDT 2009
t...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD
cpu0: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class)
FRLinux wrote:
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Joachim Schipper
joac...@joachimschipper.nl wrote:
I would like to make a firewall / router running OpenBSD.
Okay, but what is your question?
I guess he is asking if all Atom processors are compatible with
OpenBSD, which i guess is pretty
Dexter Tomisson wrote:
I'd really, really like to know what's the matter with a larger memory
support?
Why is 'bigmem' still not default? What faults/bugs does it still has?
What do you need to make it ok? Do you need a hardware donation to make that
better,
do you need few bucks, do you
Theo de Raadt wrote:
If [you] don't know what you are doing, install a new snapshot.
We do this frequently. Works very well. bsd.rd makes it easy to move to
a new snapshot. We buy -release CDs too, but seldom open them.
Brad
Jon Scruggs wrote:
How reliable is the
Wireless N with that chipset here?
To my knowledge, there is no 802.11N support in OpenBSD. Read the last
paragraph:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=athnsektion=4apropos=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386
Brad
Julian Acosta wrote:
Really we need to contact with Richard Stallman, just for give us his
opinion and answer us some questions about free software,
How can I contact him?
What's his real email?
Just talk a lot about open source and the Linux operating system. He'll
show up.
On 5/22/2010 12:21 PM, Marco Peereboom wrote:
Yeah; ignore dos and donts the ssd, if of any quality, will do fine.
That has been my experience with SSDs on OpenBSD and Linux. I've been
using an inexpensive Kingston SSD for about six months now, it works
great. Here is an older dmesg from it:
Tony Abernethy wrote:
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
pe...@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) writes:
I would think that would be a fair question to ask the person who
told
you PF is garbage because it is multithreaded:
eh, because it is *not* multithreaded:
Now watch when application
Kent Watsen wrote:
There is a discussion on the osol-discuss mailing list this morning where
it's pointed out that OpenBSD source tree has a blob in it:
http://osdir.com/ml/opensolaris-discuss/2010-05/msg00095.html
The location of the blob in the tree is here:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:37 -0500, Ahlsen-Girard, Edward F CTR USAF AFSOC
AFSOC/A6OK edward.ahlsen-girard@hurlburt.af.mil wrote:
On 2010-04-27 23:01:30 Alastair Johnson wrote:
if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots
folder on
a mirror i end up with a -current
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:08 -0600, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote:
Nor am I, but I do that often with base installs and have not had any
major issues. There would be security concerns (especially with ports
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 17:05 -0500, Chris Bennett
ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote:
A while back on some thread, someone said that they ran -current
versions for a long while, updating ports tree for that snapshot and
could run with that particular -current as long as they liked by
adding
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:09 +0800, shweg...@gmail.com wrote:
Transfering a file using scp into my home directory gives me this speed
(home netword): 658.8KB/s
while copying it directly into a usb stick (fat32) gives me this: 1.5MB/s
is it normal?
scp is encrypted and traveling across your
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:41 +0300, Stas Miasnikou m...@gurtam.com
wrote:
Michael W. Lucas:
Sendbug doesn't seem to have a ports option, and my bug report
doesn't have a single recommend solution in any case, so I'm asking
here.
The flow-log2rrd, flow-rpt2rrd, and flow-rptfmt programs in
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:01 +0100, Alastair Johnson
att...@googlemail.com wrote:
if i install a system from install47.iso taken from the snapshots folder
on
a mirror i end up with a -current system eg:
OpenBSD 4.7-current (GENERIC) #636:
the docs state that you cant go from -current to
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:48 +0200, Danny dannydeb...@gmail.com wrote:
Shane,
What I have found with our company's installation of Webmarshall is that
you can
, for example, go to linux.box.sk and surf around for about 5 mins, then
all of
a sudden it gets blocked.
95% of what these devices
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:07 +0100, Peter Kay (Syllopsium)
syllops...@syllopsium.com wrote:
OpenBSD does not require a primary partition, nor does NetBSD. Solaris
does
for the moment,
although code to fix that has been committed.
I have a Windows 7 x64, OpenBSD, Solaris, NetBSD multiboot.
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:20 -0300, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO
vt...@c3sl.ufpr.br wrote:
Saying that ISC is more free than GPL makes no sense
Saying Do not remove our text does not restrict your freedom. That's
all the ISC asks of you. Leave the copyright notice and the permission
to use alone.
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:17 -0400, Steve Shockley
steve.shock...@shockley.net wrote:
On 4/14/2010 5:11 AM, Zachary Uram wrote:
smacks of superiority and even condescension at times. Is this a fair
I don't think they're superior and condescending... I think they're
superior and busy.
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:29 -0400, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote:
Now I'm curious - in what way would a decent juniper hardware be
better than some off the shelf stuff?
MTBF is greater. If you don't care about that, there's probably not much
difference... unless you need routers in space. Not
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 07:18 -0600, Daniel Melameth dan...@melameth.com
wrote:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Stuart Henderson s...@spacehopper.org
wrote:
The newest ones that I've had personal experience of being problem-
free in AP mode are the old PRISM cards (when running suitable firmware
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:08 +0200, Paul de Weerd we...@weirdnet.nl
wrote:
Your timeout idea is interesting. The bootloader loads the kernel
image and then starts executing it. After this, the bootloader is no
longer active, who will do this timing out ? The kernel (or the
garbage that was
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:09 +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen
pe...@bsdly.net wrote:
Kabayan kab4...@yahoo.com writes:
Problem solve after I restart pflogd
New problem is Why the pflogd process almost use 100% capacity of my /var ?
My guess would be that your pf.conf logs traffic with log (all)
No.
i...@iso2:~/Desktop$ grep import IDS_targets.py
import MySQLdb
import socket
import getpass
import datetime
i...@iso2:~/Desktop$ grep import -o IDS_targets.py
import
import
import
import
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:33 -0500, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us
wrote:
huh?
didn't you just
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:45 +0100, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote:
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 08:11:53AM -0400, Woodchuck wrote:
Ports/packages are sort of hit-or-miss.
This is a very Spartan situation, and comes from a shortage of
resources.
Partly.
Being able to drop old shit fairly
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:36 +0100, T. Valent tmp...@4ss.de wrote:
In the end it seems like I have to give up the idea of keeping all
installations on the same level, it seems like I have create a complete
new platform (new motherboard type and new OpenBSD version) for all new
customers, just
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:20 -0700, Aaron Stellman z...@x96.org wrote:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:52:28PM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote:
There are ports that do this with more features, but I thought others
might like to do it in base with no added software. I've been using this
script since 4.2
There are ports that do this with more features, but I thought others
might like to do it in base with no added software. I've been using this
script since 4.2 and it works OK:
#!/bin/ksh
# Cron this script to run every X minutes. Written for OpenBSD.
# Get Current IP
lynx -dump
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:52 -0400, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com
wrote:
There are ports that do this with more features, but I thought others
might like to do it in base with no added software. I've been using this
script since 4.2 and it works OK:
#!/bin/ksh
# Cron this script to run
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:27 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot
ajacou...@bsdfrog.org wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Tobias Ulmer wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote:
openports shows that the openbsd version of kde4 is nearly two years
old. are there any future plans to
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:56 -0400, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com
wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:27 +0100, Antoine Jacoutot
ajacou...@bsdfrog.org wrote:
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Tobias Ulmer wrote:
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:33:03AM -0500, Donald Cooley wrote:
openports shows
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:43 +, TS Lura tsl...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sorry.
My intent was not to be inflammatory.
My experience with Cisco as a company is limited, so I'm therefor trying
to
find out more. In that process I maybe asking a controversial question.
Which for some is quite
We're considering this card for an OpenBSD Snort box. I think em
supports it well. It uses the 82576EB controller. Has anyone used the
card much? If so, are you satisfied with it?
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=36796
Thanks,
Brad
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:18 -0700, Ted Roby ted.r...@gmail.com wrote:
I can think of one good reason I need a vm machine:
So I can put OpenBSD on the Xserves, and run OSX in the vm for mac-only
apps the client requires.
Another good reason:
Reverting compromised Windows machines back to a
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:44 -0500, nixlists nixmli...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Chris Bennett
ch...@bennettconstruction.biz wrote:
You are talking about two separate issues.
Stability is not related to security directly.
The two are intricately combined but not the
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:12 -0500, nixlists nixmli...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems the opinion on running current in production ranges from
being overly optimistic to being very cautious. If running -current in
production is only recommended for people who are intimately familiar
with the
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:02 -0500, Scott McEachern sc...@erratic.ca
wrote:
Manuel Giraud wrote:
I wasn't clear enough: by new package, I meant a package not
installed on my system yet and not the bleeding edge version of one
package.
Ah ok, sorry, I misunderstood.
Maybe I'll stick
On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:50 -0800, J.C. Roberts
list-...@designtools.org wrote:
And I thought I was expected to be inconsistent. ;)
Anyhow, I was upgrading from the Feb 2, to the most recent snapshot, and
fsck is coming up with a problem on one of my partitions. I can probably
get it working
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:41 -0500, Dave Anderson d...@daveanderson.com
wrote:
I've inherited an old notebook (Sony Vaio PCG-FX120) and installed
4.6-release on it; while I haven't yet done extensive testing, most
things (except the LoseModem, of course) seem to work (full dmesg
below, and sent
Is it too early for Friday humor? If not, here are some clowns worth
watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfaCoA2sQk
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36 +, carlos albino garcia grijalba
genesi...@hotmail.com wrote:
Folks i dont mean obsd is insecure i love obsd, ive been using it for 5
years
i just want the community to read the history
sorry.
OpenBSD doesn't have the rubber stamps. That's what confuses people.
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:35 -0800, Michael Dexter dex...@bsdfund.org
wrote:
Thank you Seth and Brooke for materializing and putting on a great
OpenBSD booth at SCaLE in Los Angeles.
Overheard question of the day: Could you please get EAL level 4
certification so I can use you in the US Air
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:59 -0500, Jason Beaudoin
jasonbeaud...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi There,
As I often have greater respect for a much larger portion of this list
than the rest of the internet, I am curious what is thought about
current IDS/IPS hardware from vendors like Trustwave, Checkpoint,
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:05 +0100, Jean-Francois jfsimon1...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello All,
I am a little bit out of subject but please allow me to ask you about
feeds of
security issues.
Thank you
I read this page and the links off of it:
http://www.openbsd.org/errata.html
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:59 +0100, Bret Lambert bret.lamb...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Diana Eichert deich...@wrench.com
wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Claudio Jeker wrote:
Henning, I told you, we should not talk about unfinsihed projects.
We planned to announce this
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:06 -0500, Sean Kennedy woodentu...@hotmail.com wrote:
Moving this to m...@...
Would part of this discussion usefully related to such issues like using
'dd'
for diskwipes/copies/reformatting and slow data movement speeds?
There are times when I am wiping (for reuse)
On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09 +, Bayard Bell
buffer.g.overf...@googlemail.com wrote:
Formal evaluation just means that the features judged relevant to the
evaluation can be minimally verified. On the flip side, there's David
Litchfield's observation in the introduction to The Oracle
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:54 -0500, Chris Dukes pak...@pr.neotoma.org wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:38:08PM -0800, mehma sarja wrote:
I am running an embedded 533 MHz with 256 MB memory and it is woefully
inadequate for an office setting. Even for a home setting which wants stuff
like
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:43 +, Rob Sheldon r...@associatedtechs.com wrote:
[snip]
softraid0 at root
root on sd1a swap on sd1b dump on sd1b
...that's odd, it's showing swap (and dump) on sd1b, but there's no such
thing:
$ sudo df /dev/sd1b
df: /dev/sd1b: Device not configured
Whoops... re-reading, I see that I missed your disklabel output... sorry.
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:25 -0500, Brad Tilley b...@16systems.com wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:43 +, Rob Sheldon r...@associatedtechs.com
wrote:
[snip]
softraid0 at root
root on sd1a swap on sd1b dump on sd1b
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:32 -0800, Ben Calvert b...@flyingwalrus.net wrote:
Tracing this discussion back to it's origins earlier this month, I see
the
problem as arising from a statement made by a Mathematician (DJB) about
the
infallibility of his software when used with certain filesystems.
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:22 -0600, Marco Peereboom sl...@peereboom.us wrote:
It doesn't and I'll argue all day that it won't help you a bit.
Here is an example:
1. running system with OMGACL
2. pkg_add -ui
3. couple of days later at 3am bz got come to the datacenter because
the app
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:52 -0800, James Hozier guitars...@yahoo.com wrote:
With every single laptop I've bought/been given over the years, I
was able to run OpenBSD on them almost flawlessly save a few
quick/simple hacks to make anything that didn't work, work.
The one main issue I've had
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:37 +0100, Manuel Giraud manuel.gir...@univ-nantes.fr
wrote:
Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net writes:
Here's a probably stupid question: since the kernel can detect the root
on sd0a why is there still a need for fstab entry for it?
Because you might want to specify
If this machine isn't production, then no harm could come from trying
a snapshot. It would give the developers a much better idea as to
where you system's at. Use a USB thumb drive if you're that worried
about trashing your data.
--
Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict
Is there a way to get scsi output data similar to 'atactl device identify'
output?
# atactl /dev/rwd0c identify
Model: Kingston SSDNow V Series 64GB, Rev: B090522a, Serial #: 06J990030232
Device type: ATA, fixed
Cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sec/track: 63, total sectors: 125045424
Device
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:46 +1100, Jonathan Gray j...@goblin.cx wrote:
For raid controllers like your mfi, you can use bioctl(8) to list some
information about the individual drives.
Not quite as informative as atactl... adding a -q breaks it:
# bioctl -ihv sd0
Volume Status Size
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:16 -0500, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com
wrote:
So... back in the 3.6ish days, I had a Prism-based 802.11b card that I
used in my OpenBSD FW for a wireless access point. Worked like a charm
until I relocated my FW, and could no longer get good RF coverage. Went
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:03 -0500, Scott McEachern sc...@erratic.ca wrote:
I've been using dd to test some of my hard drives and just ran into the
oddest of coincidences.
I used this command (or variation without the time command)
# time dd if=/dev/rwd0c of=/dev/null
on three machines
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