Re: openbsd 4.0 installation on soekris box: i am desperated.
On Nov 18, 2006, at 4:45 AM, Uwe Dippel wrote: On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:42:52 -0500, Michael Hernandez wrote: Great reason to buy a cd set. The 4801 uses i386, which comes on the cd's. And you throw in the CD drive for Soekris, I guess ... !? (Of course, I advocate and support buying CDs, but please, go for the right arguments ... !) Uwe You copy the contents of the cd to a machine you already have. Any laptop with a network card is usually enough. How about the machine being used to pxeboot? You can use apache and install via http or use nfs or copy the packages to the cf card, or Sorry I thought that might be obvious. Mike
Re: openbsd 4.0 installation on soekris box: i am desperated.
On Nov 17, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Gustavo Rios wrote: I am trying to get openbsd installed in my net4801 box. I can pxeboot it, and get bsd.rd readed from my tftp server. But, the problem is that when i choose installtion by means of ftp. It is too slow to download them, in the order of 4 to 5 KB/s. In order order, to simply download bsd file from the ftp server it takes about 1200 seconds. Have anybody already faced such scenario ? thanks in advance. Great reason to buy a cd set. The 4801 uses i386, which comes on the cd's. Or you could download the sets over time and keep them handy and install from a local machine. Buying cd's is probably the best way to go ;) Mike
Re: video hardware determination
On Nov 8, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote: That being said, many newer monitors will feed that info back to X.org via DPMS, and X.org will then use it to configure itself...usually incorrectly. :) (that's not entirely fair...sometimes, X gets it right. In my experience, however, it is wrong more often than right, but I use weird stuff). I actually just installed 4.0 on a compaq evo in my office, which has some nvidia card in it. I knew I had an nvidia card at home, so I ssh'ed into the box to take peek a the xorg.conf, since I knew I was running X at home and I figured the conf would be similar. Funny thing is... I couldn't find an xorg.conf file anywhere on the system! When I got home... I looked... and low and behold... X was running just fine, and there was no xorg.conf to be found. I looked at the X log and found that X had actually configured itself! What really happened is that I formatted my drive instead of upgrading and when I copied my config files in I completely forgot about X. It just worked somehow... and actually chose what the dell flat panel feels is the optimal resolution (it tells me so when I click the menu button on the monitor). Is that expected behavior? Of course not... and for the record, no it doesn't work with the same automagic goodness on the evo at work (I think it's the card in the evo, the monitor is exactly the same as the one I have at home) but if you haven't tried to just run X without any config file... give it a go! You might get a pleasant surprise! Mike H
thank you openbsd
For many things, but specifically for not signing scary deals with microsoft, ever.
OpenBSD Audio!
I just had to mention that the OpenBSD audio cd is great for playing at the office. Thanks OpenBSD! Not only is the operating system a pleasure to use, but the music has us all in great spirits here. Mike H
Re: OpenBSD 4.0 - Where is it?
On Oct 26, 2006, at 9:16 AM, ICMan wrote: I admit that I am not the most up to date on the release process, but why is 4.0 not out on the FTP server yet if people are receiving it in their homes on CD? And how do I get on that list of people who get the pre-release? ICMan Pre-orders have been accepted for weeks. People who pre-order get cd's early if the cd's are done being made and are sitting around. It's all in the archives... Mike PS pre-orders do not guarantee early delivery... I'm still waiting for mine here in ny but it's ok because my 3.9 systems are running just fine and they can wait :)
Re: UPS just delivered the 4.0 release CD-set
On Oct 13, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Joris, It's true this is hardly relevant for a discussion forum, but I hope you will all forgive me ... I just felt the need to voice my joy. Congrats! Please notify undeadly.org while you are at it. AFAIK it is good tradition to have the first My cd set arrived! on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now the rest of us can go ballistic. You lucky bastard!, Wim, where's my package!, My cd case is all busted! and insert-packaging-suggestion-#1, insert-packaging-suggestion-#2, etc. Be well... Nico :-) I just want my stickers. Especially the one that comes with the audio cd! :)
Re: pfctl
On Oct 13, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Gilles Chehade wrote: Alexander Belikov a icrit : Dear Community, I want to fix a problem on one of my servers. The problem is 2 admins 1 server :( Both of us have a root access to it. It was a will of our Top Managment.. Sometimes my 'partner' disables a part of pf rules to get a better download rate for himself. I want to add some code to pfctl which would add all important rules to pf. In such way, if that rules wouldn't be in pf.conf they would BE in pf. I'm asking for an example of code to add my RDR rule. Maybe, it looks like a silly game, but it isn't. Alternative ways are discharge myself, kill second admin and so on... I want to fix this _problem_ in my way. Thanks in advance, I'm sure i'll recieve a solution sysjail him and make it look like he is on the host system :-) If you really love the server you'll let it go. There's a story in a famous book about 2 possible mothers fighting over a baby. Maybe you've heard this story before? In the end the one that cared the most let it go, rather than have the baby cut in half ;) What does the server do for you? If it does a lot then maybe find another box, install openbsd 4.0 on it, and take some of the responsibilities off of the server you and your alleged partner are struggling over. Then you each get your own server, and even better, you get to use your shiny new openbsd 4 cd's! If it's a firewall, then find another box and carp them. This way if this other admin screws up one firewall, yours will be ready to step in and take over (and work better, if you do things right). I'm sure management would love a redundant firewall solution, right? Who wouldn't? Good luck in any case, Mike H
Re: best hardware plataform for openbsd
On Oct 12, 2006, at 9:42 AM, Cabillot Julien wrote: It's no very expensive, the electric consumption (I don't know if this expression is ok), the size, ... On 10/12/06, Mark Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 07:31:39AM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Gustavo Rios wrote: I meant more CPU processing cycles per a given constant amount of money! That's it. Hmmm, before I answer that question I'd like to know what are the intended uses? For example, for a DNS server I would seriously consider some of the platforms recently added, armish for one. What advantages do you see from building a DNS server using armish? m And most of the time DNS doesn't require much in the way of resources, at least from my experience. I imagine it could use more resources if you are doing IPV6 and DNSSEC (as it says in the bind manual). Mike
Re: CDROM mounts always on 2nd attempt
On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Joachim Schipper wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:31:55PM +0200, Karel Kulhavy wrote: When I mount /dev/cd0c I always get this in dmesg: cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x0 SENSE KEY: Not Ready ASC/ASCQ: Logical Unit Is in Process Of Becoming Ready And this in application: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /mnt/cd mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0c on /mnt/cd: Input/output error When I retry, it mounts. Do you know what the error messages mean and why it is error? To me it looks like the OS should wait if the unit is not yet ready. What I can hear is that it is spinning up the disk slowly. I don't know why slowly when it's a 50x or 48x speed drive or something like this, but it does. Can I somehow determine the type of the drive? My dmesg is full of these messages: uid 1000 on /: file system full uid 1000 on /: file system full uid 1000 on /: file system full While I'm not sure about how to deal with the first problem (the obvious workaround is to run dd if=/dev/rcd0a of=/dev/null count=1 first, or somesuch, but that's a workaround), the second is indicative of / being filled. Don't do that; not doing that is easier if /home is on a different partition. Joachim Could the first problem occur if the cd is being mounted while it is still spinning up, i.e. if you attempt to mount immediately upon inserting the cd? I could be reading too much into the error message but that's what it looks like it might(tm) mean. Mike
Re: soekris boot console
On Sep 19, 2006, at 1:58 PM, Gustavo Rios wrote: My soekris is a net4801-60. I am trying to access it before i can see the speed ! You need a null modem cable. Check this link out, I found it the other day http://www.ultradesic.com/?section=34 Mike
Re: Multi-tabbed Terminal
On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote:
It compiles and works here.
Just comment out The ugly hack for OpenBSD:
/*
# ifdef OS_OPENBSD
typedef unsigned int_our_wint_t;
typedef struct {
int __count;
union {
_our_wint_t __wch;
char__wchb[4]
} __value;
} mbstate_t;
# endif
*/
On Friday 04 August 2006 19:02, you wrote:
Can anyone recommend a light-weight multi-tabbed terminal for OBSD
3.9?
I looked through the i386 packages, but didn't notice any. I'm
using FVWM2.
I have used mrxvt, materm.sourceforge.net, on FreeBSD in the past and
really liked it; minimal dependencies and small memory foot print. I
just tried to compile mrxvt-0.4.2 on OBSD, but it failed.
-pachl
You might also want to try the latest version - I think 0.5.1 is just
about ready based on recent mailing list traffic.
Mike H
Re: Easy for a newbie to manage an OpenBSD server?
On Aug 1, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Titan wrote: I have quite a predicament. I have been tasked with setting up an FTP server for the research group I'm involved with. The problem is once I'm gone someone with no *NIX experience will be maintaining the server. I've been considering using OpenBSD because it looks like it can go far longer without updates than Windows and Linux servers and looks to be very secure. In your experience, would it be possible for someone with no *NIX experience to maintain a simple FTP server? How long would you trust an unpatched OpenBSD server to go unhacked? Thanks for your help. If the person maintaining the server has no *nix experience then maybe you should consider using technology that they are familiar with. Of course using openbsd has advantages but there's no point using it if you know the server won't get proper care and feeding. If using something the future maintainer can handle is out of the question (maybe they only know windows Me? I'm not sure ;)) then maybe you can get paid a little or do some pro bono remote maintenance? If the server will never get taken care of then you really should consider paying for some remote ftp hosting. At least then the management of the server is off your hands. It may not be an option if you have sensitive data but it might be more secure than leaving a server to get old. Personally, I don't think it will be *too* bad if you leave it running... as long as it doesn't get popular and/or people don't start poking at it to see if it will break. Mike
Re: Code to execute a command on another tty
On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Lawrence Horvath wrote: oh, actaully executing it in the other shell, not just outputting it to another terminal, yea thats trickier, havent been able to get that done, though i was working on it a while, did get to far, i guess you could direct input to the other shell? possible? almost to simulate having input the command at the other shell, idk how exactly though If you use screen you can just start a session on the terminal that you want to execute on and connect to it from any other machine that has access to that machine. It works on terminals on the same machine as well. Multiple users can attach to one session, it can make for some interesting vim sessions ;) Mike
Re: Totally bizarre problem - cannot connect to openbsd mahcine
On Jun 26, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Matt Singerman wrote: . I am obviously in over my head here. This may be too obvious, but have you gone through the pf faq? It has an example ruleset. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ Mike
Re: php on openbsd (library issue?)
On May 22, 2006, at 1:01 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/05/22 10:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am confused on which way to go here. How about using httpd from base, and php from ports? Porters have put a lot of time into making it all Just Work. Watch out you keep that phpBB up-to-date, whichever way you go. And if you use httpd from base make sure you are careful - it runs in chroot by default and may take some work on your part to ensure mysql and php can see the things they need to see. Mike
Re: time is always 10 minutes fast!
On Apr 18, 2006, at 11:07 AM, Jerome Santos wrote: Any hints or pointers much appreciated!! have you tried running ntpd -s once to set the time immediately? If you don't it will only be corrected gradually. Mike
Re: 3.9 song released
On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:43 PM, Roland Dominguez wrote: Love that retro sound! My favorite so far! :)
Re: openbsd and the money
On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: it would be interesting to know about how MUCH money donated to the openbsd project you all are REALLY talking here... In the last month about 1/5th of what we need to run in a year has been donated. Sad, eh. 350 donation transactions in one month. I had no idea that the OpenSSH deployment on the planet was that small. I suspected it to be much higher: http://openssh.com/usage/graphs.html I noticed that donations to OpenBSD are not US tax deductible as charitable contribution. American companies would give you more money if it were. Of course you know that already, so this is not to suggest that you have not thought of it. Hopefully it won't generate too much anger if I ask why not? What keeps the OpenBSD project from filing as a non-profit? Is it the location (i.e. Canada)? I have a feeling this has been asked before but I'm sure there are new readers on this list (such as myself) that could benefit from a repeated answer. Mike
