On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
To make your deployment faster, just use fdisk, disklabel, newfs to setup the
disk and tar to copy the files. That's a much smarter/faster way to go, even
with TRIM support. I automated it in 'growimg' for flashdist/flashrd, for
instance. Of cour
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Ted Unangst wrote:
It's not about writing too often, it's about the performance hit doing
a read/modify/write when there's no free blocks. Like the 4k sector
problem, but potentially even worse.
On the other hand, it depends on how much writing your server will do
in servi
On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Marco Peereboom wrote:
What problem are you trying to solve?
And no, TRIM isn't supported.
My concern is the procedure we've been using to deploy OpenBSD machines.
We set up a base machine with a standard disk layout, utilities, admin
account, etc... and then make a co
Hello,
Anyone know the status/plans of TRIM support in OpenBSD? I poked around
a bit in ahci.c and scsi.c, but nothing pops out at me (I also don't
really know what I'm looking for).
Thanks,
Dan
Hey guys,
The 4.5 changelog references aoe(4), but aoe man pages don't appear to
exist. If have net/if_aoe.h on my 4.5 system but nothing else. Looking
through CVS, it appears that this hasn't been touched in awhile. Do any
developers have plans to pick this up again?
We're currently
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Theo de Raadt wrote:
It is stuff that isn't on root's path.
Ok-- it turns out I am even more naive than I previously thought. I can
see that /usr/libexec is not in root's path on my machine (maybe that's
why the 'usr' part is in there?).
But why not? /sbin/init is s
Hello everyone,
This is, I'm sure, a naive question, so bear with me. What is the
purpose of /usr/libexec? I see from hier(7) that it has something to do
with "System daemons and utilities (executed by other programs)" which
probably means, "stuff not normally executed by users". But it's
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, J.C. Roberts wrote:
Any chance you know the brand name of the upgraded processor?
It's a FastMac. 1.2 GHz G4. I _think_ the model # is APP-5582. FastMac
seems to have removed most of the information for this upgrade from their
website.
As for the missing serial (t
Paul M wrote:
I was bitten by a similar issue on i386 hardware - freezes during
install, or shortly thereafter.
After too many hours bashing on it, I reinstalled the original windows
disk, and it worked perfectly. I stress tested it for several days
without a single (aparent) problem, but swa
Hi Nick,
Thanks for looking at this...
Nick Holland wrote:
Keep in mind the Macs are basically closed, secretive hardware, supported
by a closed, secretive OS provided by the same vendor...so they can stick
workarounds in for odd hardware quirks that no one else knows about (and
they do have
Hi J.C.,
Thanks for the post...
if any, patches were stored in your NVRAM. The only way to get rid of
the patches is by doing a "Parameter RAM" (PRAM) reset via Opt-Cmd-P-R
on boot. Booting into MacOS is known to re-patch the firmware, but I'm
I did a PRAM reset, and indeed, the boot cons
Hello everyone,
A little searching on the lists and Google don't reveal anyone else
having this problem, so I thought I'd ask for help. I originally tried
installing 4.3 on this machine awhile back, and when I ran into this
problem, I had other things to do, so I never followed up on it. N
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Marco Peereboom wrote:
Somehow the word Java comes to mind...
Tell me again how that one runtime meme worked for them again.
Are you saying that Java is not being used widely? All of the fundamental
courses in my CS department are taught using Java, and I don't think my
Hello everyone,
Can someone here shed some light on why my vmstat might have negative
values? If I understand the manpage correctly (and Henning and Phillipp's
paper on tuning), these values are nonsensical:
$ vmstat wd0 wd1 sd0
procs memorypagedisks
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Calomel wrote:
Dan,
The "blocked while grey listed" number of 8 is dependent on the amount of
retries the remote mail server attempted while grey listed. Comcast servers
for example will try once per minute to deliver their mail. For example, if
you grey listed comcast for
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Daniel Barowy wrote:
I would greatly appreciate it someone would help me diagnose this spamd
problem. We've been running spamd since last October, and until this past
Thursday, it was working great. I may be mistaken, but I don't think I've
ever seen e
Hello everyone,
My apologies if you get this twice-- it just occurred to me that I sent
my original message out using the wrong email address.
I would greatly appreciate it someone would help me diagnose this spamd
problem. We've been running spamd since last October, and until this past
Hello everyone,
I would greatly appreciate it someone would help me diagnose this spamd
problem. We've been running spamd since last October, and until this past
Thursday, it was working great. I may be mistaken, but I don't think I've
ever seen entries like the following before (email add
Hello,
Due to the fact that I am now reading other's people PHP code at work,
and due to the fact that some of it is horrid, 200-column stuff (and
admittedly, some of that horrid stuff is mine), I am looking for a
program, a macro, ANYTHING, that will reformat this stuff ala OpenBSD's
inden
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Daniel Barowy wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have any pointers for getting the HTML Tidy extensions
working in PHP on OpenBSD? I am running a 4.0 system.
In case anyone is looking to fix this particular problem, this is how I
fixed it:
http://secure.lv/~nikns/stuff/ports
Hello,
Does anyone have any pointers for getting the HTML Tidy extensions
working in PHP on OpenBSD? I am running a 4.0 system.
According to PHP's website, I do not need to download the version of
Tidy from PECL, because Tidy is supposed to be built-in in PHP 5 (I have
the PHP 5.1.4 package
Hello,
Does anyone have any pointers for getting the HTML Tidy extensions
working in PHP on OpenBSD? I am running a 4.0 system.
According to PHP's website, I do not need to download the version of
Tidy from PECL, because Tidy is supposed to be built-in in PHP 5 (I have
the PHP 5.1.4 pac
Daniel Horecki wrote:
After installing mod_perl you should run /usr/local/sbin/mod_perl-enable.
This message was displayed after installing package.
Thanks, Daniel. That did the trick. I think I may have installed
something where mod_perl was a dependency and missed that message in the
va
Hello everyone,
I've been struggling with this problem since yesterday, and if anyone
has any pointers, they would be appreciated.
I get the following error when I try to load the Apache::DBI perl module:
Syntax error on line 934 of /var/www/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'PerlModule', pe
Hello,
I have a number of port replicators I (finally) got permission to send
off to OpenBSD devs. I thought I saw someone asking for one on the
hardware wanted page, but now that I look again, I don't see it. Any
takers? Here's what I have:
* Thinkpad X4 UltraBase Dock (new)
* Thinkpa
Daniel Barowy wrote:
The Rogue Fugu wrote:
You can make it run a shell script using this procedure:
1) Create a directory called MyApp.app
2) Create a directory within MyApp.app called Contents
3) Create a directory within Contents called MacOS
4) Place your shell script within the MacOS
Hi everyone,
I apologize, as this may be more of a MacOS question than an OpenBSD
one...
We are using authpf for authenticating remote users. Works great, and
I haven't had any trouble at all writing frontends for Windows clients--
I just use AutoIt to hide all of the details of opening u
Hi everyone,
I realize that there's probably not much value in keeping backups of
/var/db/spamdb, since entries have a relatively short lifetime, but it
would be nice to be able to drop an existing spamdb onto another
machine; or to keep last night's backup in case a spamd/firewall fails
and
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