booting to ignore fstab
Hi, hate to bother. I'm working in 3.8 and I've run across something new and can't figure out. For some reason, on this box a drive isn't mounting, and the boot blows and asks for shell. so, I go to shell and I've tried to edit the fstab file to remark out the mountpoint that's gone bad. First off, VI isn't there, so I've tried ,s/old/new/g using ed, but then it says that it's a read only file, and when I try to whoami, or to su, it doesn't see the programs. So, all I need to do is to be able to edit fstab and remark out the bad mount point and I can take it from there. thanks Its free.
find -exec {} help
hi, I'm using 3.8, and I hate to bother, but I have spent two days on the
net trying to find the answer to this problem.
I am using 'find' to batch file a sed search and replace. Sed, of course,
outputs to stdout, the problem I am having is finding the correct syntax so
that I can change the extension of the input file to create the new output
file. For example:
Find . -name "*.htm" -exec 'sed s/old/new/' > '{}'.new
From what I've read, I should be able to use the '{}' as a global replace;
so if the input file happens to be smith.htm, then '{}' would be smith.htm
and the idea is that the output filename for the sed command would create a
new output file called smith.htm.new.
this of course isn't working.
any help please? thanks.
david
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remove sendmail/install postfix
hi, hate to bother, but... I looked around on the net and couldn't find a howto on howto uninstall sendmail, the default in 3.8, and then install postfix. I know how to install postfix, but how do you completely remove sendmail, since it isn't a package where I can just pkg_delete it? my understanding is that postfix and sendmail aren't friendly on the same box, and I've found quite a few articles that strongly suggest removing sendmail if you've chosen to use postfix. any links would be helpful, thanks _ Turn searches into helpful donations. Make your search count. http://click4thecause.live.com/search/charity/default.aspx?source=hmemtagline_donation&FORM=WLMTAG
pf
I've looked an man pf, and it's way too confusing; I'm using smoothwall as a standalone firewall, and it pretty much works the way I want it to; however, I've found a reason to block a an IP range, particularly 216.87.0.0/17; is there an equivalent to an iptables command I can use to simply drop all traffic coming from that range? like go into a file, and have a command in the form of: 'drop all from 216.87.0.0/17'? oh, and does anyone have any comments on Labrea? as a honeypot? it looks pretty good, and it comes for openbsd, or is openbsd simply best left alone? thanks _ Get the latest Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta version. Join now. http://ideas.live.com
rc.local command for postgres
trying to get postgres to start up at boot. found this at postgresql's site On OpenBSD, add the following lines to the file /etc/rc.local: if [ -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -a -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster ]; then su - -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l /var/postgresql/log -s' postgres echo -n ' postgresql' fi my pg_ctl and postmaster executables are at /usr/local/bin, and have modified the script accordingly. my script reads as follows: if [ -x /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -a -x /usr/local/bin/postmaster ]; then su - -c '/usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /WEBSITE/DATADIRECTORY start' postgres fi at boot the error thrown is "No such login class: /usr/local/bin/pg_ctl -D /WEBSITE/DATADIRECTORY start" the command I usually use after su'ing into postgres is: pg_ctl -D /WEBSITE/DATADIRECTORY start as /usr/local/bin is obviously in my PATH. Any Ideas? thanks _ Stay in touch with old friends and meet new ones with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp007001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us
Version 4.0 release
I see 4.0 is coming out, and yet, no hardware raid support, no fixes for raidframe, and still no SMP support, for sparc64 on Ultrasparc II machines. I'm using only 1 processor out of 4, and 4 hard drives out of 30 because I can't hardware raid my enterprise fiberchannel array, I can't hardware raid the majority of the drives in my E450, and because raidframe is so old and buggy, I can't raid5 any of it, and am left mirroring my 2 boot drives together, and 2 data drives together. This is a $125,000 machine 5 years ago, and I treat it no better than some crappy i686 box because security is my primary issue. If I went with another OS, I could get a lot of the functionality I want, but what good is it, if some 12 y/o kid in pakistan can hack my box. I just can't see why SMP and hardware raid aren't supported on sparc64/II. Thanks at least for a very secure OS. I've been online now for 6 months on this E450 with no hacks.
FreeBSD emulation
hi, hate to bother, ... I'm running 3.8 on a sun E450 sparc64. I need to be able to enable freebsd binary emulation. I checked the /etc/sysctl.conf file to un-remark the line, but it isn't there; which makes me think that the sparc64 version of 3.8 doesn't provide emulation by default in the kernel, or, it's not available at all on the sparc64 platform. Am I out of luck? or do I just recompile the kernel? thanks
sendmail
sorry to bother, can anyone suggest a definitive book I should buy on how to set up Sendmail on Openbsd 3.8? I have looked all over the net for a HOWTO or an article that steps me through how to set up a user account and password, and then how to retrieve it (look at it on the server), but all the articles go on and on on how to download it, compile it and install it; none of them tell me how to use it. The articles talk about just every possible subject except how to simply create a user/password account, and then tell you where the email is supposed to be on the server, and then how to look at it. They don't seem to explain how to "name" the server either. My URL will be quikadz.com, and I can turn on port 25 in my firewall (smoothwall) and forward it to the internal IP, but how do I tell the server it's supposed to accept the email for quikadz.com? anyway, so I don't waste anyone's time asking a bunch of beginner questions back and forth, any suggestions on a book to buy would help tremendously. thanks
OpenSSH Server
3.8 on sparc64. How do I determine if OpenSSH is installed on my box? (command line only, no X11), and whether it's a server versus a client? I'm getting to the stage where I need to be able to log into my server remotely. thanks
Panic: biodone already
me again, sorry. I have a raidframe raid5 array, I had it originally installed, had a kernel panic of some sort, don't remember, and turned off the machine. I have had to clean the disklabels on the raw drives, newfs them, raidctl -C the array, -I the array, -vP the array, and had a new array. I rebooted and -s to make sure everything was optimum and clean. I create a database on the raid with postgresql and then attempt to upload an .sql file to 'restore' (that is move a copy of my system from a different box) my database onto this Sun box, and I get a kernel panic that says 'biodone already.' three questions: 1) is there a command I can put at the ddb> prompt so that I don't lose my raids? when I try boot, it says that root wasn't umounted properly and I have to rebuild raid0 and my SAN array (raid1 - where the database is supposed to sit). When I try 'continue', it responds with syncing disk and then reboots, and lose my raids again. 2) is there a command where I can entirely erase my drives so I can start from scratch? This is a sparc64 build and I can't use fdisk - is newfs enough? 3) is there any way to prevent this biodone panic? like turning off a feature or recompiling the kernel? It takes a whole day to rebuild the SAN array because it's so big, if this were to happen in a production machine I suspect I'd lose everything. thanks
recover raidframe
hi, I have two raids set up, raid0 (boot) and raid1 (a fiberchannel SAN), I need to boot my raid kernel and bring up raid0 (automatically rebuilding parity), but not bring up raid1. I renamed the raid1.conf file in root as temp.raid1.conf hoping that when the kernel booted up it wouldn't construct raid1, but it grabbed it from somewhere (probably from raid0a). raid1 is a 500GB SAN and takes 5 hours to rebuild parity (which isn't working, so I am just going to newfs the drives and start from scratch). so what file do I delete, or command do I give so I get the raid kernel, but omit raid1? I don't mind omitting raid0 either, I can easily rebuild that by copy backing from sd1d, but I can't turn off autoconfig if I don't have the raid kernel booted, but when I 'boot disk0:a bsd.raid' it automatically configures raid1, which I don't want to do. thanks
mount floppy drive
hi, hate to bother on such a silly problem, but when I try to mount_msdos /dev/fd0c I get a 'device not configured' error. I've already looked at fdc(4) and mount(8) and see that the device is fd, the number -usually 0, and then in my case B for a 1.44 drive and then the partition, but, of course, there are no examples; so, I've tried mount -t msdos /dev/fd0Bc, fd0c, fd0bc, fd0a, fd0ba, etc I've also tried ./MAKEDEV fd0, and then even newfs_msdos-ing the device. I checked GENERIC to make sure that fdc* at sbus? wasn't REMed out for some reason. Any other ideas? thanks
SMP support for Sun E450 Sparc64?
Hi, are there any plans to release a bsd.mp version for sparc64? My box currently can only use cpu0; I have 4 processors, and it seems a shame to waste all of that power. thanks
3.9 coming out
hi, I see 3.9 is getting ready to be released. Do you plan on bundling Apache2 with it? it would seem a logical thing to do, since the Apache version currently bundled with it seems to have problems. I just lost my entire development box to a hack this week, right through smoothwall's DMZ. I had apache up, postgresql installed with the mod_php as the middleware. All settings were default and the only port I had open was 80 through smoothwall. I even had all packets dropped that came from asia, south america and africa. The point being, if you sell security as your market niche, you might want to make sure that, at least, Apache be up to date, and not a version from 5 years ago where who knows how many hacks there are out there for it. I don't mind rebuilding my development box from scratch because that's why I had it on the net like that anyway, simply to see how long it would take for someone to crash it. It took less than a month - that's not very good from a default security viewpoint. I'm assuming of course that Apache is the problem, as there are no logs or anyway to tell what happened, but the hard drive started to make an awful screaching sound as the drive was apparently being forced to track the heads back and forth very quickly. The drive is fine, but apache and postgresql won't start, and the wtmp file was erased, so that when I did a 'last' only my most recent login came up. Anyway, it would be nice if Apache 2 were available for 3.9
scsibus at? target at?
installing a raidframe. raid(4) says I have to hardcode the devices and not use sd4a, etc. When I boot, the screen scrolls by so fast I can't see what scsibus the /dev's are attached to. My primary is obviously scsibus0, currently with 4 targets, 0 through 3, found at sd0-3; however, I have a Qlogic 2100 FC-AL HBA to which my SAN array is attached with 12 fiberchannel drives. These drives are sd4-15. Is there a command or a utility I can use to see what scsibus and target the drives are attached to? or is it a default that the primary be scsibus0 and the Qlogic HBA be scsibus1? If I add another scsi controller to the pci bus, does that change anything? or is everything automatically attached to scsibus0, and in this case the targets are going to have the same numbering as the devices? (e.g. sd4 is scsibus0 at target 4) thanks
DPTMGR - can't find it
Hi, I've installed 3.8 on a sun E450, I recompiled the kernel to include RaidFrame for my boot drives and dpt(4) to support my Adaptec/DPT controller. The OS now sees /dev/sd4, which is the controller card, but I can't find any source code or binary for dptmgr to configure the array. Does openbsd use a different utility to configure hardware raid? any links to where I can download dptmgr? because I'm on a sun, I can't use the DOS boot stuff that's out there. apparently, I can use the linux versions of dptmgr (presumably after recompiling) but I can't find the source code. thanks David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
