Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-29 Thread Richard Toohey
On 29/10/2007, at 5:24 PM, Craig Findlay wrote: As other have already said, it seems to only be a problem with quite old PC's. At least mine is. (see dmesg below) Cheers, Craig OpenBSD 4.1 (GENERIC) #1435: Sat Mar 10 19:07:45 MST 2007 [EMAIL

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-29 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 29/10/2007, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread is a bit bothersome for a lot of reasons. However, there is a lack of hard info so far. When you say it isn't booting the CD, what does this mean? Does it try but fail with some error? Does it not even stop at the CD on

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi again, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 02:38:08 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: I just installed OpenBSD on a i386 from cd41.iso as described in the FAQ, chapter 4. When I restart the system from the CD all OpenBSD partitions show up properly and I can chroot into /mnt after I mounted them.

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Hi, I don't quite understand what you're doing? Are you looking for a dual-boot with linux via grub? If so, have a look at www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/zen_process_obsd.html Read it in detail. If not, just forget this mail. Cheers, Pau 2007/10/29, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi again, Am

Installation Troubles

2007-10-29 Thread Chris Harper
m fairly new to OpenBSD (been using FreeBSD for years) and have stumbled across some issues on a desktop install (after several server based installs over the past few months). The system has two identical drives (WD 250G) which I wish to RAID (1). As i understand it openbsd has no support for

Hoe to specify multiple transform suites in ipsec.conf(5)

2007-10-29 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hello list, I am trying to move my IPsec configuration from isakmpd.conf to ipsec.conf. However i cannot find a syntax to specify multiple transform suites with ipsec.conf I tried something like: ike passive esp from any to any quick enc {aes,3des} but it is rejected. I want something like

Re: 4.2/amd64 cannot detect any CDROM even the one from which it was installed

2007-10-29 Thread Siju George
On 10/27/07, Calomel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siju, Has the device name changed? Perhaps to /dev/cd0a No Calomel, I tried even cd0a it doesn't work out. Meanwhile I gave that system for servicing because it shuts down automatocally when the CPU load increases. Will see if there is any

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-29 Thread RW
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:48:20 -0400, Nick Holland wrote: This thread is a bit bothersome for a lot of reasons. However, there is a lack of hard info so far. Well, I read Theo's message and I know we can't ask for any changes to the issue CDs. Shit happens. I just get my terrier genes showing a

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 11:01:44 +0100 schrieb Pau Amaro-Seoane: I don't quite understand what you're doing? Are you looking for a dual-boot with linux via grub? Yes. I have a Linux box here with Grub. Admittedly the first hard disk contains a Windows that gets used sometimes by other

Re: Problems booting 4.2 CD on two older machines.

2007-10-29 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, Great work on the detailed inspection. On 29/10/2007, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is 67,108,864 a possible barrier for old BIOSes ? But weren't peoples old machines booting home made 4.2 cd's just fine? My concern is more for some young guys with only one old dumpster surprise and no

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:31:31PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: It's a pretty simple concept, really. A few years ago, I was giving a talk at a local high school. One of the students asked me why his computer crashed a lot, why can't they build an operating system that doesn't crash?. I told

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-29 Thread bofh
On 10/29/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if nobody makes really good hardware then there's nobody to reward for it, so you end up buying bad hardware and rewarding the maker for it. If given a choice, I think I like Sun's sparc hardware most of all. Though IBM's boxes do allow

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread michael hamerski
is it a recent grub? if you're reading grub source I will assume you know more about it than I do, but am writing this on a box which boots debian/openbsd/xp without problems, from grub installed circa 6 months ago. I certainly did not dd any sectors around. I can send you my grub conf when I

Re: Cyrus IMAP performance problems [Long]

2007-10-29 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:18:07PM -0300, Marcus Andree wrote: Got similar problems with imap once, a long time ago... Had to switch from mailbox format to maildir then, it wasn't Cyrus. -- Stephan A. Rickauer --- Institute of

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
I am writing this from a dual-boot system with linux only and I never had your problem. 2007/10/29, michael hamerski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: is it a recent grub? if you're reading grub source I will assume you know more about it than I do, but am writing this on a box which boots debian/openbsd/xp

Re: Samba files used logging

2007-10-29 Thread Calomel
You need to use at least samba-2.2.7a and use the audit.so module. The samba source code has what you need. Check out the information in ~samba/examples/VFS/audit.c and in the README file in that directory. -- Calomel @ http://calomel.org OpenSource Research and Reference On Sun, Oct 28, 2007

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
indeed... you seem not to have read the site I pointed to previously. Don't say you have read it if you didn't. The information is there. Do what Andrew says and tag it as A6; i.e. openbsd from the linux fdisk This is *also* written in the web page 2007/10/29, Andrew Daugherity [EMAIL

Re: Non-x86

2007-10-29 Thread Lars Noodén
Martin SchrC6der wrote: 2007/10/26, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Where are the choices for non-x86? The only remaining alternative is Sparc. Everything else is either old (macppc) or expensive unsupported (IA64). It's too bad that Apple discontinued their PPC. It was an acceptable

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Daugherity
On 10/28/07, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grub root (hd1,^I Possible partitions are: Partition num: 0, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Partition num: 1, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x82 Partition num: 4, Filesystem type is ext2fs,

Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread Austin Hook
I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. There are cases where the same CD works with a newer machine, but fails to boot with an older one. I presume this means the track alignment is marginal in some cases.

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread jmc
--- Austin Hook [Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:49:09AM -0700]: --- older one. I presume this means the track alignment is marginal in some cases. i swapped CD drives and that solved my problem. but it sounds as if i should go retrieve that old drive from the garbage now, as i just chalked it up to

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. I don't have a suitable machine to try it on, but amd64 boot loader is now able to boot an i386 kernel, and I suspect (but am

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 11:54:23 -0500 schrieb Andrew Daugherity: On 10/28/07, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grub root (hd1,^I ... Partition num: 5, No BSD sub-partition found, partition type 0xa6 ... Here is a `sfdisk' (Linux) output:

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:42:19 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. I don't have a suitable machine to try it on, but amd64 boot

what's makes a route not valid in openbgpd?

2007-10-29 Thread Aaron Glenn
running 4.2/i386 as of two weeks ago, I've got a default route that isn't being seen as valid and consequently not installed in the RIB. when I first rolled this router out, however, it was valid and being installed. while I'm interested in what could have happened between then and now, I'm more

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Thanks a lot for your patience when I became fretful. I also become very usually fretful when something that SHOULD be working is as stubborn as to refuse to do it. I know it. Oh, yes... and how... glad to read that it worked for you! Pau 2007/10/29, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi,

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread Barry Miller
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:42:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. [...] So, it may be worth someone with an affected

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:29:42 -0400, Barry Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:42:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines.

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread RW
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:49:09 -0700 (MST), Austin Hook wrote: I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. There are cases where the same CD works with a newer machine, but fails to boot with an older one. I

Re: Non-x86

2007-10-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:53:38PM +0200, Lars Nood??n wrote: Martin SchrC6der wrote: 2007/10/26, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Where are the choices for non-x86? The only remaining alternative is Sparc. Everything else is either old (macppc) or expensive unsupported (IA64). It's

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:11:01AM -0400, bofh wrote: On 10/29/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if nobody makes really good hardware then there's nobody to reward for it, so you end up buying bad hardware and rewarding the maker for it. If given a choice, I think I like

Re: what's makes a route not valid in openbgpd?

2007-10-29 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 10/29/07, Claudio Jeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nexthop depends on a bgp route which is considered evil and therefor not allowed by default. Add nexthop qualify via bgp to the global config part and your setup should work again. Henning hit me with that clue-by-four privately, and

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread Theo de Raadt
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:42:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. [...] So, it may be worth someone with an

Re: what's makes a route not valid in openbgpd?

2007-10-29 Thread Henning Brauer
* Aaron Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-29 23:33]: On 10/29/07, Claudio Jeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nexthop depends on a bgp route which is considered evil and therefor not allowed by default. Add nexthop qualify via bgp to the global config part and your setup should work again.

Re: Marginal boot CD #1 in OpenBSD 4.2 sets

2007-10-29 Thread Antti Harri
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Barry Miller wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:42:19PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/10/29 10:49, Austin Hook wrote: I understand that some people have experienced boot problems with CD #1 in the new 4.2 release set, mainly with older machines. [...] So, it may

Re: what's makes a route not valid in openbgpd?

2007-10-29 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:40:07PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: running 4.2/i386 as of two weeks ago, I've got a default route that isn't being seen as valid and consequently not installed in the RIB. when I first rolled this router out, however, it was valid and being installed. while I'm

Re: what's makes a route not valid in openbgpd?

2007-10-29 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:32:59PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: On 10/29/07, Claudio Jeker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The nexthop depends on a bgp route which is considered evil and therefor not allowed by default. Add nexthop qualify via bgp to the global config part and your setup should

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
* Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-26 16:53]: On 10/26/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, then, is the correct way to separate the project files of more than 16 projects, where some users will need access to all of the groups? There has to be _some_ solution

Re: Remove escape characters from file

2007-10-29 Thread Brett Lymn
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:45:39PM +0200, Pieter Verberne wrote: does OpenBSD have a program/script to remove control characters (escape sequence) from text files? Try col -b -- Brett Lymn Warning: The information contained in this email and any attached files is confidential to BAE

Re: First install: Grub doesn't find partitions

2007-10-29 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 20:01:22 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf: Am Montag, 29. Okt 2007, 11:54:23 -0500 schrieb Andrew Daugherity: I think this is your problem -- the OpenBSD partition needs to be a primary partition (hda1-hda4 in Linux terminology, or (hd0,1) - (hd0,3) in GRUB

using bgpd and ospfd

2007-10-29 Thread Tony Sarendal
I set up a test network with bgpd/ospfd, a standard service provider design where ospf carries the network links and loopbacks and bgp carries everything, bgp routers doing nexthop self, core full mesh and access routers rr-clients of the two nearest core routers. I'm seeing some pretty odd

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-29 Thread Balázs
On 10/29/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As for LPARs, I don't really need them. Unless, I suppose if they really do provide rock-solid virtualization so I can run an OpenBSD firewall in one LPAR and another instance of OpenBSD (or Debian, whatever) in another LPAR for doing

carp on wan interface

2007-10-29 Thread Aaron
I've been reading about and want to set up a set of (2) carp/pf/pfsync redundant firewalls but I haven't seen anything in the docs or on the list similar to what i'm hoping to accomplish so here goes: I'm horrible at ascii art so i'll try to describe the scenario as best i can: 2 firewalls,

bge driver problem

2007-10-29 Thread Balázs
I'm trying to convert a 22 node ~100 CPU cluster from Linux to OpenBSD. The motivation is to increase reliability and security. However, I have a peculiar problem with the bge driver. It seems that bge doesn't detect properly the media type the hardware supports. The nodes I'm trying to convert