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problem with make build on 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Maciej Jan Broniarz
Hi,

I am trying to make build from the latest 4.6 sources. During the
compilation proces i encounter the following error:

make -f Makefile.old clean  /dev/null 21
../../../miniperl -I../../../lib -I../../../lib Makefile.PL
INSTALLDIRS=perl INSTALLMAN3DIR=none PERL_CORE=1
LIBPERL_A=libperl.so.11.0
Warning: prerequisite Fcntl 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite POSIX 0 not found.
Warning: prerequisite Socket 0 not found.
Writing Makefile for Sys::Syslog
== Your Makefile has been rebuilt. ==
== Please rerun the make command.  ==
false
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/obj/ext/Sys/Syslog (line 884 of Makefile).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/obj (line 655 of makefile).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl (line 80 of
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/Makefile.bsd-wrapper).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin (line 48 of /usr/share/mk/bsd.subdir.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src/gnu (line 48 of /usr/share/mk/bsd.subdir.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src (line 48 of /usr/share/mk/bsd.subdir.mk).
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/src (line 73 of Makefile).


What might be the problem?

All best,
mjb



Re: PowerEdge 850 for a small office firewall

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Dukes
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 snort running as well. I would WAG atleast a 2 GB memory and the Atoms
 max out at that...? If the firewall will be doing other stuff like snort,
 vpn, dns, dhcp, nat, (I am talking pfSense here), then 2 GB is rather short
 and I'd like to see a beefier CPU as well. So, the question really is what
 all are you going to be doing with it?

Is it still woefully inadequate if snort, vpn, and DNS are moved
off the firewall?
I ask because running DNS on the firewall has given me the heebie jeebies
for years.  And I have dim memories of a few security exploits for snort.
 

-- 
Chris Dukes



Re: PowerEdge 850 for a small office firewall

2010-01-27 Thread Brad Tilley
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 snort running as well. I would WAG atleast a 2 GB memory and the Atoms
  max out at that...? If the firewall will be doing other stuff like snort,
  vpn, dns, dhcp, nat, (I am talking pfSense here), then 2 GB is rather short
  and I'd like to see a beefier CPU as well. So, the question really is what
  all are you going to be doing with it?
 
 Is it still woefully inadequate if snort, vpn, and DNS are moved
 off the firewall?

On a busy interface, Snort can use a good deal of CPU consistently:

load averages:  0.50,  0.31,  0.24 08:09:25
33 processes:  31 idle, 2 on processor
CPU0 states:  4.4% user,  0.0% nice,  0.2% system,  8.8% interrupt, 86.6% idle
CPU1 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
CPU2 states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
CPU3 states: 11.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 88.2% idle
Memory: Real: 180M/542M act/tot  Free: 2819M  Swap: 0K/518M used/tot

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE WAIT  TIMECPU COMMAND
16499 _snort310  171M  158M onproc/1  -24.9H 16.89% snort
 5502 root   20 1116K 2080K sleep/1   select0:51  0.00% sendmail
16446 _pflogd40  636K  444K sleep/0   bpf   0:06  0.00% pflogd


 I ask because running DNS on the firewall has given me the heebie jeebies
 for years.  And I have dim memories of a few security exploits for snort.
  
 
 -- 
 Chris Dukes 



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Rob Sheldon
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:10:47 -0600 (CST), L. V. Lammert
l...@omnitec.net
wrote:
 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Rob Sheldon wrote:
 
 Don't know if this is related to a problem I had on a machine recently,
..
 however I found that if I hung the 'bad' drive on ANOTHER machine, the
 fsck ran just fine!

To be honest, I'm not sure how I'd set that up without a ton of effort.
The 6TB are done through multiple drives (raid 6) through an Areca raid
controller; without having an identical machine to swap the hardware into,
I don't think I could pull that off. Even if I did have an identical system
to do that with, I doubt it would gain me anything in this case.

Thanks for the tip though. :-)

- R.

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Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Rob Sheldon
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:42:42 +0100, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:38:47AM +, Rob Sheldon wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 Therse days, amd64 is the only platform that increases the limit
 (MAXDSIZE) to 8G. Though you venture into untested territory, we
 (myself at least) just do not have the hardware to test anything
 beyond 2T. 

OK. I just went back and looked at the order sheet for this thing, and it
looks like it shipped with enough RAM to require amd64, so it should be
(had better be!) running that kernel.

I'd like to help, if at all possible. I should be able to get on-site with
the client for at least a couple of hours today, and I can probably draw
this out for a few days before I have to get the server back on-line. I can
provide a dmesg and any other system specs without too much trouble -- is
there any way to help track down the exact source of the segfault?

 The SEGVs may be related to not having swap. Running OpenBSD in
 overcommitted state is not what you want. 

What do you mean by overcommitted state -- not enough resources? The
only thing this machine is supposed to do is run backuppc, which is just
rsync with some Perl scripts. The old backup server was doing the same job
with less resources for quite a while. The old server did have a swap
partition, but as near as I could tell it was rarely used. ...In fact, I
just logged in to the old server; it has an 8G swap partition, and top says
it's not using any of it.

So here's something I don't understand then: in the generic kernel, will
fsck allocate more than 1G if swap is available, or is it still limited to
just 1G?

 There's no dmesg attached because I'm not on-site with the server at
the
 moment, and because AFAICT this is a known problem.
 
 A pity, since it does matter what platform you run on. fsck needing a
 lot of memory is indeed a known problem, but the SEGVs are not. You
 might want to check if they still occur when you have enough swap.

OK. I'll get that info to you, and anything else you need (that I can
handle), and I'll futz around with it and see if I can cable in a spare
drive for swap.

- R.

-- 
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[__ Information technology support and services
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Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:06:20PM +, Rob Sheldon wrote:

 On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:42:42 +0100, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote:
  On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:38:47AM +, Rob Sheldon wrote:
  
  Hi,
  
  Therse days, amd64 is the only platform that increases the limit
  (MAXDSIZE) to 8G. Though you venture into untested territory, we
  (myself at least) just do not have the hardware to test anything
  beyond 2T. 
 
 OK. I just went back and looked at the order sheet for this thing, and it
 looks like it shipped with enough RAM to require amd64, so it should be
 (had better be!) running that kernel.
 
 I'd like to help, if at all possible. I should be able to get on-site with
 the client for at least a couple of hours today, and I can probably draw
 this out for a few days before I have to get the server back on-line. I can
 provide a dmesg and any other system specs without too much trouble -- is
 there any way to help track down the exact source of the segfault?
 
  The SEGVs may be related to not having swap. Running OpenBSD in
  overcommitted state is not what you want. 
 
 What do you mean by overcommitted state -- not enough resources? The
 only thing this machine is supposed to do is run backuppc, which is just
 rsync with some Perl scripts. The old backup server was doing the same job
 with less resources for quite a while. The old server did have a swap
 partition, but as near as I could tell it was rarely used. ...In fact, I
 just logged in to the old server; it has an 8G swap partition, and top says
 it's not using any of it.

The point is that fsck_ffs need loads of memory.

 
 So here's something I don't understand then: in the generic kernel, will
 fsck allocate more than 1G if swap is available, or is it still limited to
 just 1G?

Depends on the arch. i386 is limited to 1G, amd64 is limited to 8G per
process.  What happens if more memory is allocated than the available
swap is that the kernel will kill random processes to free swap. That
might be what is going on in your case. Also, in some cases a lack of
physical memory might kill processes. 

-Otto

 
  There's no dmesg attached because I'm not on-site with the server at
 the
  moment, and because AFAICT this is a known problem.
  
  A pity, since it does matter what platform you run on. fsck needing a
  lot of memory is indeed a known problem, but the SEGVs are not. You
  might want to check if they still occur when you have enough swap.
 
 OK. I'll get that info to you, and anything else you need (that I can
 handle), and I'll futz around with it and see if I can cable in a spare
 drive for swap.
 
 - R.
 
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Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:28:12PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek said that
 Depends on the arch. i386 is limited to 1G, amd64 is limited to 8G per
 process.  What happens if more memory is allocated than the available
 swap is that the kernel will kill random processes to free swap. That
 might be what is going on in your case. Also, in some cases a lack of
 physical memory might kill processes. 

the kernel will kill random processes?  are we talking about linux's OOM
here or openbsd?  since when is this in openbsd?  i seem to recall
some debate where openbsd devs found that idea ridiculous.  i know i do,
and the machine should panic instead of starting shooting down processes.

-f
-- 
to get a loan you must prove you don't need it.



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Joe Gidi
On Wed, January 27, 2010 9:28 am, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
 Depends on the arch. i386 is limited to 1G, amd64 is limited to 8G per
 process.  What happens if more memory is allocated than the available
 swap is that the kernel will kill random processes to free swap. That
 might be what is going on in your case. Also, in some cases a lack of
 physical memory might kill processes.

   -Otto

Does this mean that amd64 can now handle 4G of RAM, or is that a separate
issue?

-- 
Joe Gidi
j...@entropicblur.com



Re: Killing Random Processes [was: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6]

2010-01-27 Thread Rob Sheldon
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:00:32 +0100, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org
wrote:
 hmm, on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:28:12PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek said that
 
 the kernel will kill random processes?  are we talking about linux's OOM
 here or openbsd?  since when is this in openbsd?  i seem to recall
 some debate where openbsd devs found that idea ridiculous.  i know i do,
 and the machine should panic instead of starting shooting down
processes.

I remember reading a thread here about killing random processes a long
time ago, but I don't recall the results of that. I can't find it (quickly)
in the archives.

If you (and all) don't mind, if there's going to be any debate about this,
I'd like to see it under a different thread instead.

- R.

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Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:11:57AM -0500, Joe Gidi wrote:

 On Wed, January 27, 2010 9:28 am, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
  Depends on the arch. i386 is limited to 1G, amd64 is limited to 8G per
  process.  What happens if more memory is allocated than the available
  swap is that the kernel will kill random processes to free swap. That
  might be what is going on in your case. Also, in some cases a lack of
  physical memory might kill processes.
 
  -Otto
 
 Does this mean that amd64 can now handle 4G of RAM, or is that a separate
 issue?

virtual mem != physical mem, so that's indeed a different issue.

-Otto



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Ted Unangst
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:00 AM, frantisek holop min...@obiit.org wrote:
 hmm, on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 03:28:12PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek said that
 Depends on the arch. i386 is limited to 1G, amd64 is limited to 8G per
 process.  What happens if more memory is allocated than the available
 swap is that the kernel will kill random processes to free swap. That
 might be what is going on in your case. Also, in some cases a lack of
 physical memory might kill processes.

 the kernel will kill random processes?  are we talking about linux's OOM
 here or openbsd?  since when is this in openbsd?  i seem to recall
 some debate where openbsd devs found that idea ridiculous.  i know i do,
 and the machine should panic instead of starting shooting down processes.

Some archs will kill processes, some will panic.  i386 and amd64
should both panic I believe.



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Robert

frantisek holop wrote:

the kernel will kill random processes?  are we talking about linux's OOM
here or openbsd?  since when is this in openbsd?  i seem to recall
some debate where openbsd devs found that idea ridiculous.  i know i do,
and the machine should panic instead of starting shooting down processes.

-f


Am I missing something here?
If the OS runs out of (any) memory then there is already a serious 
problem. In such a case I would prefer that the kernel kills some random 
applications but protects itself, so that I can login on the console and 
check what's going on. It might even be possible to make a clean reboot 
(avoiding a long fsck).

A kernel panic is IMHO the worst option.

?
Please explain your point of view, or why the devs consider it a bad 
idea (a quick search on the list didn't show anything).
(I understand that in case of kernel development a panic would be useful 
as it shows information, but I consider the daily usage case)


regards,
Robert

PS:
What is the actual situation in OpenBSD? Does it have some OOM killer?



Change root password from shell-script

2010-01-27 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent

HI all,

?Is there any way t change the root password using a shell-script (aka 
non-interactive mod as passwd uses)?


I've used pw in FreeBSD and chpasswd in Debian GNU/Linux to do it, bit 
I've not found a way/command to do it with my OpenBSD boxes.


At present my approach will be install except from ports and use it to 
get my goal.


--
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that 
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass 
over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner 
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only 
I will remain.


Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.



Re: Change root password from shell-script

2010-01-27 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:05:17 +0100
Jordi Espasa Clofent jordi.esp...@opengea.org wrote:

 HI all,
 
 ?Is there any way t change the root password using a shell-script
 (aka non-interactive mod as passwd uses)?
 
 I've used pw in FreeBSD and chpasswd in Debian GNU/Linux to do it,
 bit I've not found a way/command to do it with my OpenBSD boxes.
 
 At present my approach will be install except from ports and use it
 to get my goal.
 
Have you looked at man usermod? -p flag in particular. 

-- 
With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov



Re: Announcing: JigglyPuffBSD

2010-01-27 Thread Vadim Zhukov
On 26 January 2010 c. 02:14:22 Eric wrote:
 By the way, I like your sig.

It's just seen by me on misc@ a long time ago :)

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Re: Change root password from shell-script

2010-01-27 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent

Have you looked at man usermod? -p flag in particular.


Shame on me, indeed. It has been a game:

#!/bin/sh
PASSWORD=$(echo my_new_password | encrypt -b 6)
usermod -p $PASSWORD root

Thanks.

--
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that 
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass 
over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner 
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only 
I will remain.


Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear.



Re: Sun Fire x4170

2010-01-27 Thread Luca Corti
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:44:01AM -0500, Bryan Allen wrote:
 They're solid, and they fly.

That's what I hoped to hear.

 You can pick up RAM cheap from crucial, and get disk sleds from memoryx
 (541-2123) so you don't have to pay disk markup.

This is not an issue. The one I'll have at hand has 4GB RAM, which is more than 
what is currently supported by the OS.
 
 I do not use the SAS RAID card, and couldn't speak its being supported by
 OpenBSD regardless. (I have a J4200 plugged into the non-RAID SAS card, 
 because
 ZFS  hardware RAID.)

Having at least RAID1 hardware would be nice for resilence in case of a disk 
failure.
I won't even touch the ZFS part, I don't want to even accidentally start 
falmewars! ;)

 You may find that you'll need to disable some of the em(4) ports so you can 
 get
 access to the Service Processor. I run OpenBSD on my X2100 M2s and have to
 disable bge* (via config(8)) so I can get at the SP. Just something to keep in
 mind when provisioning.

Having a few ports on the x4170 is nice for many purposes. LOM is nice too, but 
I can use a serial console if the box comes with a serial port. Have to check 
this.

thanks a lot

Luca



Re: Change root password from shell-script

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Branston
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:48:15PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
 Have you looked at man usermod? -p flag in particular.

 Shame on me, indeed. It has been a game:

 #!/bin/sh
 PASSWORD=$(echo my_new_password | encrypt -b 6)
 usermod -p $PASSWORD root


A little more generic in case there is no usermod -p

PASSWORD=$(echo my_new_password | encrypt -b 6)
perl -p -i.bk -e  's/^root:.*?:/root:$PASSWORD:/' /etc/shadow



Re: Change root password from shell-script

2010-01-27 Thread Brynet
Paul Branston wrote:
 A little more generic in case there is no usermod -p
 
 PASSWORD=$(echo my_new_password | encrypt -b 6)
 perl -p -i.bk -e  's/^root:.*?:/root:$PASSWORD:/' /etc/shadow

Wow,

Question: are you even using OpenBSD?

-Bryan.



Re: Announcing: JigglyPuffBSD

2010-01-27 Thread Jussi Peltola
http://www.gossipgamers.com/pokemon-redesigned-in-traditional-japanese-style-artwork/



Using Facebook API: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

2010-01-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello,

does anybody please have experience in using Facebook API
from OpenBSD with chrooted Apache and the php5 from packages?

I'm trying to call theirs $fb-api_client-admin_setAppProperties()
but get the error:

Warning: fopen() [function.fopen]: URL file-access is disabled in the
server configuration in /htdocs/facebook/facebookapi_php5_restlib.php
on line 3343

How could I enable that URL file-access temporarily?
(I need to run the admin_setAppProperties just once).
I've tried changing following lines in php.ini with no success:

; Whether to allow the treatment of URLs (like http:// or ftp://) as files.
allow_url_fopen = On

; Whether to allow include/require to open URLs (like http:// or
ftp://) as files.
allow_url_include = On

And I can't run my php-script at the CLI, since Facebook
is supposed to HTTP post some info to it.

Regards
Alex



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 04:35:19PM +0100, Robert said that
 If the OS runs out of (any) memory then there is already a serious

there's plenty of discussion about the virtues/stupidity
of the OOM killer approach, including various pardon policies.
google for out of fuel linux for amusement.

 problem. In such a case I would prefer that the kernel kills some
 random applications but protects itself, so that I can login on the
 console and check what's going on. It might even be possible to make

riiight.  and how pray if that random process happens to be the
ssh daemon or some other process supporting your infrastructure?

if a process is out of control, i'd rather have the system complain
loudly and angrily.  i am not keen on seeing mysterious missing
processes, user/customer complaints because of untraceable failures
of transactions, tasks, jobs, whatever.

-f
-- 
fish and guests smell in three days.



Re: Change root password from shell-script

2010-01-27 Thread Chris Dukes
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:14:51PM +, Paul Branston wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:48:15PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
  Have you looked at man usermod? -p flag in particular.
 
  Shame on me, indeed. It has been a game:
 
  #!/bin/sh
  PASSWORD=$(echo my_new_password | encrypt -b 6)
  usermod -p $PASSWORD root
 
 
 A little more generic in case there is no usermod -p
 
 PASSWORD=$(echo my_new_password | encrypt -b 6)
 perl -p -i.bk -e  's/^root:.*?:/root:$PASSWORD:/' /etc/shadow

Breaks on AIX :-).  Breaks with NIS and LDAP as well :-).

I've always had the pipe dream of there being a chpasswd(8)
on *BSD like there is on current AIX and Linux distros.
But usually there isn't that much headache using something like usermod.


 

-- 
Chris Dukes



Alternatives to Wireshark.

2010-01-27 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
Hi there,

I've always used wireshark for packet sniffing, it solved most of my needs.

First of all, I'm not questioning the why of not having a port, I've
read the previous posts (I really don't care why, don't start a
discussion).

My main need is debugging DNS packets (mDNS), and reading raw tcpdump
output isn't very easy, I need to really debug the protocol, so
something that could show me field names and values would be cool.

Right now I'm using tcpdump and accounting stuff like: ok this is the
id, so the next 2 bytes is the query type and so on... (this isn't
working :-D).

I understand I could make some script to interpret the values, but I'm
sure you guys already though of something better.

Thanks.



Re: Using Facebook API: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

2010-01-27 Thread Alexander Farber
Tried adding

   66.220.146.15   api.facebook.com

to /var/www/etc/hosts  as well...



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Rob Sheldon
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:42:42 +0100, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:38:47AM +, Rob Sheldon wrote:
 
 There's no dmesg attached because I'm not on-site with the server at
the
 moment, and because AFAICT this is a known problem.
 
 A pity, since it does matter what platform you run on. fsck needing a
 lot of memory is indeed a known problem, but the SEGVs are not. You
 might want to check if they still occur when you have enough swap.

OK, I was able to visit for a few minutes today, enough to get the machine
answering ssh again.

First, disklabel so you know what it actually has:

$ sudo disklabel sd1
# /dev/rsd1c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: Transcend 4GB   
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 488
total sectors: 7843840
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
boundstart: 63
boundend: 7839720
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#size   offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:  7839657   63  4.2BSD   2048 163841 # /
  c:  78438400  unused   

$ sudo disklabel sd0 
# /dev/rsd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: ARC-1220-VOL#00 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 729458
total sectors: 11718749184
rpm: 1
interleave: 1
boundstart: 63
boundend: 3128808178
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#size   offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:  11718749121   63  4.2BSD   2048 163841 
  c:  117187491840  unused   

...and the dmesg...

$ dmesg
OpenBSD 4.6 (GENERIC.MP) #81: Thu Jul  9 21:26:19 MDT 2009
dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 3486973952 (3325MB)
avail mem = 3370655744 (3214MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xcfedf000 (39 entries)
bios0: vendor Phoenix Technologies LTD version 1.2a date 12/19/2008
bios0: Supermicro X7SB4/E
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP _MAR MCFG APIC BOOT SPCR ERST HEST BERT EINJ SLIC
SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT
acpi0: wakeup devices PXHA(S5) PXHB(S5) PEX_(S5) LAN_(S5) USB4(S5)
USB5(S5) USB7(S5) ESB2(S5) EXP1(S5) EXP5(S5) EXP6(S5) USB1(S5) USB2(S5)
USB3(S5) USB6(S5) ESB1(S5) PCIB(S5) KBC0(S1) MSE0(S1) COM1(S5) COM2(S5)
PWRB(S3)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz, 2494.07 MHz
cpu0:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR,NXE,LONG
cpu0: 2MB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
cpu0: apic clock running at 199MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5200 @ 2.50GHz, 2493.75 MHz
cpu1:
FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR,NXE,LONG
cpu1: 2MB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 2 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic1 at mainbus0 apid 3 pa 0xfecc, version 20, 24 pins
ioapic2 at mainbus0 apid 4 pa 0xfecc0400, version 20, 24 pins
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 2 (PXHA)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 3 (PXHB)
acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 4 (PEX_)
acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 7 (EXP1)
acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 13 (EXP5)
acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 15 (EXP6)
acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 17 (PCIB)
acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, PSS
acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3, PSS
acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB
acpivideo0 at acpi0: IGD0
ipmi at mainbus0 not configured
cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep 2493 MHz: speeds: 2500, 2400, 2000, 1600, 1200
MHz
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 Intel 3200/3210 Host rev 0x01
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 Intel 3200/3210 PCIE rev 0x01: apic 2 int
16 (irq 5)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
ppb1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 Intel PCIE-PCIE rev 0x09
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
Intel IOxAPIC rev 0x09 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 not configured
ppb2 at pci1 dev 0 function 2 Intel PCIE-PCIE rev 0x09
pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
Intel IOxAPIC rev 0x09 at pci1 dev 0 function 3 not configured
ppb3 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 Intel 3210 PCIE rev 0x01: apic 2 int 16
(irq 5)
pci4 at ppb3 bus 4
ppb4 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 Intel IOP333 PCIE-PCIX rev 0x00
pci5 at ppb4 bus 5
arc0 at pci5 dev 14 function 0 Areca ARC-1220 rev 0x00: apic 2 int 18
(irq 11)
arc0: 8 ports, 256MB SDRAM, firmware V1.46 2009-01-06
scsibus0 at arc0: 16 targets
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: Areca, ARC-1220-VOL#00, R001 SCSI3
0/direct fixed
sd0: 5722045MB, 512 bytes/sec, 11718749184 sec total
ppb5 at pci4 dev 0 function 2 Intel IOP333 PCIE-PCIX rev 0x00
pci6 at ppb5 bus 6
uhci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 0 Intel 82801I USB rev 0x02: apic 2 int 16
(irq 5)
uhci1 at pci0 dev 26 function 1 Intel 82801I USB rev 0x02: apic 2 int 17
(irq 10)
uhci2 at pci0 dev 26 function 

Re: Alternatives to Wireshark.

2010-01-27 Thread Bryan Irvine
I like ettercap for that.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Christiano F. Haesbaert
haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote:
 Hi there,

 I've always used wireshark for packet sniffing, it solved most of my needs.

 First of all, I'm not questioning the why of not having a port, I've
 read the previous posts (I really don't care why, don't start a
 discussion).

 My main need is debugging DNS packets (mDNS), and reading raw tcpdump
 output isn't very easy, I need to really debug the protocol, so
 something that could show me field names and values would be cool.

 Right now I'm using tcpdump and accounting stuff like: ok this is the
 id, so the next 2 bytes is the query type and so on... (this isn't
 working :-D).

 I understand I could make some script to interpret the values, but I'm
 sure you guys already though of something better.

 Thanks.



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Rob Sheldon
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:06:19 +0100, Otto Moerbeek o...@drijf.net wrote:

 No, currently the amount of physical memory an amd64 can address is
 limited.

Well, F___. :-(

The rule here then is, if you've got a partition bigger than 1TB, you
*must* have swap?

- R.

-- 
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[__ Founder, No Problem
[__ Information technology support and services
[__ Software and web design and development
[__ (530) 575-0278
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Gandhi



Re: Alternatives to Wireshark.

2010-01-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-01-27, Christiano F. Haesbaert haesba...@haesbaert.org wrote:
 My main need is debugging DNS packets (mDNS), and reading raw tcpdump
 output isn't very easy, I need to really debug the protocol, so
 something that could show me field names and values would be cool.

 Right now I'm using tcpdump and accounting stuff like: ok this is the
 id, so the next 2 bytes is the query type and so on... (this isn't
 working :-D).

tcpdump already handles mDNS, it shouldn't be too hard to extend
and add what you're missing...



Re: Sed and GNU-like

2010-01-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-01-27, ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote:
 Or maybe FreeBSD uses GNU sed -- I haven't checked.)

nope, that's GNU sort that they use (ya rly). they use BSD sed.



Re: Postgresql and Memory Usage

2010-01-27 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:13:45PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote:
 I have searched (and searched) so I wonder if I'm running into the
 i386 1GB limit I see referenced, as in the thread today about fsck
 on larger partitions.

Yes you do. Also, kernel memory is limited, insane shm value will
probably (havn't looked at the code) have bad effects.



Re: File system

2010-01-27 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Yamidt Henao wrote:

 Hi,

 somebody know how I can change the mount available in me file system?

 # df -h
 Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
 /dev/wd0a  159M   70.5M   80.4M47%/
 /dev/wd0f 11.6M130K   10.9M 1%/home
 /dev/wd0d 19.3M   12.0K   18.3M 0%/tmp
 /dev/wd0g  632M632M  -31.6M   105%/usr
 /dev/wd0e  2.3G641M1.6G28%/var

man fstab



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Brad Tilley
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

 ...maybe it really doesn't like running without swap?

It's there. disklabel -vh sd1 and you'll see b is swap. Try swapctl as well... 
also dmesg | grep swap:

root on sd1a swap on sd1b dump on sd1b
 

 Oh wait, it's showing only 3G of memory installed. I just physically
 checked the machine, and it has 4 full banks of 2G each. amd64 should be
 able to address that, right?

I think you would need a bigmem enabled kernel.
 
 That could certainly explain why fsck is unhappy.
 
 Thanks,
 
 - R.
 
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 Gandhi



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2010-01-27, Rob Sheldon r...@associatedtechs.com wrote:
 The longer version: this is a backup server running backuppc for a
 corporate client (large enough number of workstations) that does research
 work (some really big files). I _thought_ I had read the big filesystem
 FAQ carefully, but somehow missed that fsck simply couldn't handle anything
 over 1TB without doing funny things during the fs setup.

The default is to create an inode for each 8192 bytes of data space.

They aren't especially funny things; if you have a fairly large
filesystem with files most people would now call medium or larger,
you'll probably be rather surprised at the difference in fsck time
if you lower the inode density a bit...

If it's not essential data I don't think I'd waste time tryings
to fsck it. Force a read-only mount and copy any backuppc config
you need off first, disklabel, allocate some swap, consider
splitting into smaller chunks, and newfs with more appropriate
settings, you'll still have the main OS install on the other
partitions. Or, indeed, use a different OS if you prefer.



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Brad Tilley
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
  
  ...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
 
  ...maybe it really doesn't like running without swap?
 
 It's there. disklabel -vh sd1 and you'll see b is swap. Try swapctl as
 well... also dmesg | grep swap:
 
 root on sd1a swap on sd1b dump on sd1b
  
 
  Oh wait, it's showing only 3G of memory installed. I just physically
  checked the machine, and it has 4 full banks of 2G each. amd64 should be
  able to address that, right?
 
 I think you would need a bigmem enabled kernel.
  
  That could certainly explain why fsck is unhappy.
  
  Thanks,
  
  - R.
  
  -- 
  [__ Robert Sheldon
  [__ Founder, No Problem
  [__ Information technology support and services
  [__ Software and web design and development
  [__ (530) 575-0278
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  Gandhi



Re: Postgresql and Memory Usage

2010-01-27 Thread Jeff Ross

Tobias Ulmer wrote:

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 02:13:45PM -0700, Jeff Ross wrote:

I have searched (and searched) so I wonder if I'm running into the
i386 1GB limit I see referenced, as in the thread today about fsck
on larger partitions.


Yes you do. Also, kernel memory is limited, insane shm value will
probably (havn't looked at the code) have bad effects.



Thanks!

By what definition of insane?  I'd like to be able to say to the PostgreSQL 
folks that their sizing model doesn't work on OpenBSD because of x but this is 
the correct way to size on OpenBSD.


Also, I just saw a message from in the same thread referenced above that amd64 
is also limited to, if I'm reading between the lines correctly, 3GB physical 
memory.


The postgresql people suggest it is a ulimit problem but I have followed the 
README.OpenBSD there as well and put the _postgresql user in its own login 
class with increased openfiles-cur limits.  Unfortunately that has not helped.


Jeff



Re: File system

2010-01-27 Thread Ted Unangst
I suspect man growfs may be closer to his needs. Hopefully g is at the  
end of a drive with some space left.


On Jan 27, 2010, at 5:11 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote:


On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Yamidt Henao wrote:


Hi,

somebody know how I can change the mount available in me file system?

# df -h
Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a  159M   70.5M   80.4M47%/
/dev/wd0f 11.6M130K   10.9M 1%/home
/dev/wd0d 19.3M   12.0K   18.3M 0%/tmp
/dev/wd0g  632M632M  -31.6M   105%/usr
/dev/wd0e  2.3G641M1.6G28%/var


man fstab




Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Denis Doroshenko
On 1/28/10, nixlists nixmli...@gmail.com wrote:
  Why kill random processes that may not be misbehaving and/or cause a
  kernel panic when you want to kill the process(es) that leak memory or
  are hungry in the first place? It's possible to avoid kernel panics in
  this case IMO, and not kill random processes.

aren't you missing the point of original comment made by Otto?

consider a situation, when all the processes in the system are
behaving, none of them violates their rlimits, but they all together
have allocated more memory than the box contains (RAM + swap).

so the OS needs to do something. what should it do? should it just
panic? or may be losing one process is better than losing them all?
then, what are the criteria for choosing processes to be killed?..

wondering if random means the process with PID 1 could be one of them...



Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread bofh
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:14 PM, nixlists nixmli...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Denis Doroshenko
 denis.doroshe...@gmail.com wrote:
 aren't you missing the point of original comment made by Otto?

 consider a situation, when all the processes in the system are
 behaving, none of them violates their rlimits, but they all together
 have allocated more memory than the box contains (RAM + swap).

 The idea is to limit memory such that running out of RAM+swap is not
 possible, or unlikely. You can set the limit on the allowed number of
 processes as well.


$ ulimit -m
971876
$ dmesg | grep real\ mem
real mem  = 1039691776 (991MB)

So... this box should run only one process?

$ ps -auxww|wc
  54 7134936

If I were to use the max memory usage of each process, I would need a
53Gig ram machine?


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Re: way to help: laptops and weekly

2010-01-27 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
Bofh (Peter Kay) syllopsium () syllopsium ! com suggested
 System maintenance, IMO, should be invisible to the user unless it
 requires input. Shutdown is
 a poor time to run maintenance because it's (probably) run more often 
 when something needs to
 be done to the machine or the user has to go somewhere in a hurry.
   
 I like the ideas of running it say half an hour after startup,

You mean right in the middle of an hour-long presentation whose
movies don't really play fast enough as it is?  Ick.

A few days ago I had to give a presentation using a laptop running
Windows 95 (my OpenBSD laptop can't seem to do external video output
properly, and I've been too busy to track down the problem or file a
proper bug report).  Every 10-15 minutes during the talk, a window
would pop up saying that the system was about to update virus
definitions, and giving me 15 seconds or so to click the go away,
don't bother me now button.  This sort of experience is *not* one
that I'd like to repeat under OpenBSD...

Some of the /etc/weekly stuff (eg rebuilding locatedb) involves
walking all (non-NFS) mounted filesystems, so it really eats disk
seek bandwidth, i.e., it makes the machine painfully slow for most
other use while it's running.  So, only a human can decide when a
good quiet time is to run the disk-cruncher.  No automatic scheme
can avoid being at a bad time occasionally for some users.

So, what's needed is a cron with flexible-enough specification
semantics (a.k.a. crontab on steroids) so a human can tell cron
what the ok-to-run times are.

Alas, I am *not* vounteering to write such a program at this time
(way too much life happening already), so in the OpenBSD spirit,
I hereby forfeit any rights-to-complain-loudly that I might otherwise
have had.

ciao,

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Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

2010-01-27 Thread Ted Unangst
Obviously, as any competent sysadmin like nixlists knows, you should  
restrict all your processes to a max of 20 megs.


On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:23 PM, bofh goodb...@gmail.com wrote:


On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:14 PM, nixlists nixmli...@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Denis Doroshenko
denis.doroshe...@gmail.com wrote:

aren't you missing the point of original comment made by Otto?

consider a situation, when all the processes in the system are
behaving, none of them violates their rlimits, but they all  
together

have allocated more memory than the box contains (RAM + swap).


The idea is to limit memory such that running out of RAM+swap is not
possible, or unlikely. You can set the limit on the allowed number of
processes as well.



$ ulimit -m
971876
$ dmesg | grep real\ mem
real mem  = 1039691776 (991MB)

So... this box should run only one process?

$ ps -auxww|wc
 54 7134936

If I were to use the max memory usage of each process, I would need a
53Gig ram machine?


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internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks
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Re: File system

2010-01-27 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:54:31 -0500
Ted Unangst ted.unan...@gmail.com wrote:

 I suspect man growfs may be closer to his needs. Hopefully g is at the  
 end of a drive with some space left.
 
 On Jan 27, 2010, at 5:11 PM, L. V. Lammert l...@omnitec.net wrote:
 
  On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Yamidt Henao wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  somebody know how I can change the mount available in me file system?
 
  # df -h
  Filesystem SizeUsed   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
  /dev/wd0a  159M   70.5M   80.4M47%/
  /dev/wd0f 11.6M130K   10.9M 1%/home
  /dev/wd0d 19.3M   12.0K   18.3M 0%/tmp
  /dev/wd0g  632M632M  -31.6M   105%/usr
  /dev/wd0e  2.3G641M1.6G28%/var
 
  man fstab
 

He's growing something fat in /usr.  This content should
moved to somewhere in /var, say /var/youser/, and then
linked back into /usr with

ln -s /var/youser /usr/youser 

ergo, 
man mv
 and
man ln
have my vote ;-)

Dhu



OpenBSD on Wyse C90LE

2010-01-27 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Dear All,

I was wondering if anybody tried to install OpenBSD on Wyle C90LE.

http://www.wyse.com/products/hardware/thinclients/C90LE/index.asp

We are planning to equip 120 thin clients computer lab with those. I got
today one for my office for evaluation purposes and I really liked the
toy. It comes with Windows XPe but I almost can feel that it is crying
to be reinstalled with OpenBSD. I looked and it does support PXE boot.
I have not checked yet if it can boot via USB. Specifications can be 
found at 

http://www.wyse.com/products/hardware/thinclients/C90LE/index.asp

Cheers,
Predrag



Re: OpenBSD on Wyse C90LE

2010-01-27 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:59:59AM -0500, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
| Dear All,
|
| I was wondering if anybody tried to install OpenBSD on Wyle C90LE.
|
| http://www.wyse.com/products/hardware/thinclients/C90LE/index.asp
|
| We are planning to equip 120 thin clients computer lab with those. I got
| today one for my office for evaluation purposes and I really liked the
| toy. It comes with Windows XPe but I almost can feel that it is crying
| to be reinstalled with OpenBSD. I looked and it does support PXE boot.
| I have not checked yet if it can boot via USB. Specifications can be
| found at
|
| http://www.wyse.com/products/hardware/thinclients/C90LE/index.asp

I've evaluated another model (R50L) at my place of work somewhere last
year. As our main question was 'can it drive 2x 30 monitors' and the
default Linux install was both a pain to use and configure and didn't
properly support 2x 30, I quickly installed OpenBSD (yes, from USB,
worked flawlessly), fired up X with the two monitors attached, and it
came up in all its 5120x1600 glory (this model had ATI graphics so was
no problem to get running).

So, I'm not sure if the C90LE will work for you, the moral of the
story is to just give it a shot. And if it doesn't, and this is
important to you, at least the R50L works great so you could consider
switching to that model.

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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