Re: Backup strategies

2009-02-01 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 31 Jan 2009, at 06:36, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Dear All, I am seeking advice about the backup strategies and possible use of CVS to accomplish this task. I happen to use 4-5 different computer on the daily basis for my work. I use my laptop, desktop, and a file server at work as well as

Port ZFS to OpenBSD

2009-01-15 Thread Khalid Schofield
Dev's. What are the chances of getting a port of ZFS to OpenBSD? I can't quite bring myself to run solaris since it lacks so much of what I love about OpenBSD and Linux is back to square one because of the reasons I moved to OpenBSD. Khalid

Re: Port ZFS to OpenBSD

2009-01-15 Thread Khalid Schofield
Yeh just been reading that actually before I emailed m...@ On 15 Jan 2009, at 15:34, Josh Grosse wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:21:19 +, Khalid Schofield wrote Dev's. What are the chances of getting a port of ZFS to OpenBSD? I can't quite bring myself to run solaris since it lacks

Re: Port ZFS to OpenBSD

2009-01-15 Thread Khalid Schofield
Ha you flatter me! You really want my code in the OpenBSD kernel! On 15 Jan 2009, at 15:35, Marco Peereboom wrote: Why don't you write a port? You can do the kernel pieces using .ko (like kqemu for example). On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:21:19PM +, Khalid Schofield wrote: Dev's. What

Re: Port ZFS to OpenBSD

2009-01-15 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 16 Jan 2009, at 06:51, Janne Johansson wrote: Dieter wrote: What are the chances of getting a port of ZFS to OpenBSD? I can't quite bring myself to run solaris since it lacks so much of what I love about OpenBSD and Linux is back to square one because of the reasons I moved to

Re: tar(1) bug?

2008-11-19 Thread Khalid Schofield
Also I've noticed that openbsd's tar doesn't do multi-volume archives to tape. khalid On 19 Nov 2008, at 12:55, LIVAI Daniel wrote: Hi! $ uname -mrsv OpenBSD 4.4 GENERIC#0 i386 $ pwd /home/daniell $ tar -C / -cvf test.tar ./home/daniell/.ksh* tar: Unable to access ./home/daniell/.ksh*:

Re: PF rule help

2008-11-19 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 19 Nov 2008, at 13:36, Ricardo Augusto de Souza wrote: Hi, I AM getting some erros to apply this rule in my PF. I am running OpenBSD 4.3. winupdate = { 65.54.87.0/24 , 207.46.112.0/24 } Are these the windows update servers for microsoft? Where did you get this ip range from?

HP DLT80 and OpenBSD WriteProtect only?

2008-10-02 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, I've just installed an HP DLT80 drive on OpenBSD. I'm trying to use the drive as I used my DLT4000 with dump. dump -0au -f /dev/nrst0 /dev/rwd1a But I've run into the following problem: For some reason mt reports: # mt -f /dev/nrst0 status SCSI tape drive, residual=0

Re: wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-02 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 1 Sep 2008, at 22:41, johan beisser wrote: On Sep 1, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'm running openbsd 4.0 (yeh old I know but it's a vital system that I'm replacing but it processes data that makes a lot of money). Better replace the disk tomorrow, then. Or, implement

wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-01 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, I'm running openbsd 4.0 (yeh old I know but it's a vital system that I'm replacing but it processes data that makes a lot of money). I'm getting these errors in dmesg. Should I be freaked out that the disk is failing or is it something else? I have tar backups but I want to make

What fiber channel card to buy

2008-08-13 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, after a very bad experience with the ISP driver and my QLogic ISP2200 copper fiber channel card I'm decided to dump the idea of using this board with openbsd. The sun T3 works of a sort under linux (fairly slow). But it's full of 10k 73Gb FC disks so I want to use these arrays with

Re: make build fails for OPENBSD_4_4 on i386

2008-08-08 Thread Khalid Schofield
Oh yes there is On 8 Aug 2008, at 12:28, Ted Unangst wrote: There is no 4.4.

Re: QLogic 2200 with Sun T3 FC Raid and OpenBSD

2008-08-08 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 31 Jul 2008, at 11:56, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:42:00AM +0100, Khalid Schofield wrote: On 31 Jul 2008, at 01:52, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:58:57PM +0100, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about setting up my server

QLogic 2200 with Sun T3 FC Raid and OpenBSD

2008-07-30 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, I'm thinking about setting up my server with OpenBSD and wondering if I can connect my Sun T3 fiber channel raid to the system using the QLA2200 FC card that came with the raid. Before when I plugged it into an OpenBSD system it just hung on boot. The only firmware I could find on the

Re: QLogic 2200 with Sun T3 FC Raid and OpenBSD

2008-07-30 Thread Khalid Schofield
the system hangs on boot? I'll build the system with OpenBSD 4.3 today and see how it goes. Comments please. khalid On 30 Jul 2008, at 18:58, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'm thinking about setting up my server with OpenBSD and wondering if I can connect my Sun T3 fiber channel raid

Re: QLogic 2200 with Sun T3 FC Raid and OpenBSD

2008-07-30 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 30 Jul 2008, at 19:59, Jon Simola wrote: On 7/30/08, Khalid Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any luck with QLA2200's and OpenBSD? I ran one as an experiment for a while, using an old EMC shelf full of 36GB drives. Similar story, trying to boot with the array attached would stop while

Re: Memory not detected

2008-07-23 Thread Khalid Schofield
64bit limit dude? Is the kernel your running 64bit? On 23 Jul 2008, at 15:59, John Nietzsche wrote: Dear OpenBSD user, i am installing openbsd 4.3 on a dell poweredge 2900 hardware. It has 8GB RAM but openbsd seems to detect only 4 GB. Any suggestions on this matter (i would like to have

Re: Memory not detected

2008-07-23 Thread Khalid Schofield
, at 17:56, John Nietzsche wrote: I installed amd64! How could i find out if it is running ni 64bit mode? On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Khalid Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 64bit limit dude? Is the kernel your running 64bit? On 23 Jul 2008, at 15:59, John Nietzsche wrote: Dear

Re: Got Cerfiticate how to use it. WAS: Re: OpenSSL On Openbsd help

2008-06-16 Thread Khalid Schofield
Many thanks to all who gave information. It's been really useful. So to help others here is a write up: 1) Generate your ssl key file openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 4096 2) Protect your key file (not vital but you should take REAL care over the key file) chmod 400 server.key 3)

Got Cerfiticate how to use it. WAS: Re: OpenSSL On Openbsd help

2008-06-15 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, ok used godaddy in the end and decided to throw both suggestions and use a password with a 4096bit certificate. So I've got my certificate signed back and the key on my box. I've tried to intergrate it into my system but had no luck. Running openbsd 4.0 and apache 1.3 . I've loads of

Re: Got Cerfiticate how to use it. WAS: Re: OpenSSL On Openbsd help

2008-06-15 Thread Khalid Schofield
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Rogier Krieger wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Khalid Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running openbsd 4.0 and apache 1.3 . I've loads of virtual hosts on apache and I'm now running apache from rc.conf.local with: httpd_flads -u -DSSL . That probably is a typo

Re: OpenSSL On Openbsd help

2008-06-14 Thread Khalid Schofield
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Chris Kuethe wrote: On 6/14/08, Khalid Schofield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One last thing who would you recomend to sign my csr? I got my cert through godaddy. ~$20. took about 4hrs, start to finish... I started looking at godaddy and almost bought a 4 year certificate

Re: OpenSSL On Openbsd help

2008-06-14 Thread Khalid Schofield
This is REALLY useful. Thanks. Gets right to the matter! Although this will fix my issue the other people's replys are an interesting insight and I shall follow advice and read about how x509 works. On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, Dustin Lundquist wrote: Khalid Schofield wrote: So do I have to use

Intel Mac Mini OpenBSD 4.3

2008-05-01 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, thinking about buying an intel mac mini to run openbsd 4.3 on for my webserver at home. I need to use the wireless. Does anyone know anything about the wifi support of the mac mini with openbsd 4.3? Any experiences of openbsd on the intel mac mini. Currently have a PowerPC mac mini

Re: Intel Mac Mini OpenBSD 4.3

2008-05-01 Thread Khalid Schofield
card will not work. On 1-May-08, at 3:54 PM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, thinking about buying an intel mac mini to run openbsd 4.3 on for my webserver at home. I need to use the wireless. Does anyone know anything about the wifi support of the mac mini with openbsd 4.3? Any experiences

iTunes Server OpenBSD

2008-04-09 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, messing around with an iTunes server under openbsd. I've had a look at a number of web pages on setting on up using bsd. But not sure about mDNS. http://www.unixfun.net/howto/bsd/itunes.html I've installed mt-daapd from the ports tree but can't seem to find mDNSResponder. It's not in

Re: iTunes Server OpenBSD

2008-04-09 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 9 Apr 2008, at 15:07, Floor Terra wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, messing around with an iTunes server under openbsd. I've had a look at a number of web pages on setting on up using bsd. But not sure about mDNS. http://www.unixfun.net/howto/bsd/itunes.html I've

Re: iTunes Server OpenBSD

2008-04-09 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 9 Apr 2008, at 15:07, Floor Terra wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, messing around with an iTunes server under openbsd. I've had a look at a number of web pages on setting on up using bsd. But not sure about mDNS. http://www.unixfun.net/howto/bsd/itunes.html I've

Re: What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-02 Thread Khalid Schofield
very interesting reply. I look forward to reading it in more depth (just got out of bed to check if I have replys) really I'm after using openbsd to make a vpn concentrator so the traffic will be high. On 2 Apr 2008, at 02:21, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 23:05:06 Apr 01, Christian

What crypto card to buy?

2008-04-01 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, I'm wondering what is the best crypto card to buy to use with openbsd to do AES and blowfish and the SSL encryption. Is this the best buy? http://www.soekris.com/vpn1401.htm It mentions AES but not blowfish. thanks khalid

openbsd tar multi volume

2008-02-14 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, finally filled up my bsd system over 20Gb and need to use multiple tapes. Isn't so easy manually spliting the backup between several tapes so I want to span the archive over multiple tapes. On other unix systems tar would just ask for the next tape but on my openbsd 4.2 box it seems to

Re: RAIDframe sparc64

2008-01-22 Thread Khalid Schofield
GENIUS! On 22 Jan 2008, at 20:27, Scott Francis wrote: On Nov 24, 2007 5:14 PM, David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/19/07 4:14 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, can anyone tell me about RAIDframe under the sparc64 platform? Does it work

Re: SSH Brute Force Attacks Abound - and thanks!

2008-01-11 Thread Khalid Schofield
put this in pf.conf pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port ssh \ flags S/SA keep state \ (max-src-conn-rate 3/30, overload ssh-bruteforce flush global) :) enjoy On 10 Jan 2008, at 21:53, Ken wrote: A practical example, real life, last night. I was

Re: SSH Brute Force Attacks Abound - and thanks!

2008-01-11 Thread Khalid Schofield
dam you seconds ahead of my reply with the same info :) On 11 Jan 2008, at 09:24, Lars Noodin wrote: Kennith Mann III wrote: ... While moving the SSH port doesn't help much against anyone running an nmap scan, it stops blind port 22 scans that run generic password hacks and filling your

Re: Improving disk reliability

2008-01-08 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 8 Jan 2008, at 08:08, Nick Guenther wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 7:22 AM, knitti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/4/08, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would you verify the whole disk is readable? And if it's all readable, how do you ensure the data is still the same pattern you put on

Re: It's over! (was: a name I am sick to death of seeing)

2008-01-06 Thread Khalid Schofield
Yes please please stop. It's a technical list to better OpenBSD and benefit the community not to argue. The OpenBSD lists are really useful. Please don't reduce them to a petty argument. Spare the other list members the political debates. On 6 Jan 2008, at 19:00, Deanna Phillips wrote:

Re: XP1000 and 4.2?

2007-12-20 Thread Khalid Schofield
Thanks for your kind advice. Have you not had any network lockups too? I've tried 6 DS10's and seen other problems with VS and DS10's. Are you saying that the port has no issues on your box? What config is this? On 20 Dec 2007, at 07:04, Martin Reindl wrote: Khalid Schofield [EMAIL

copy root disk from IDE to scsi

2007-12-10 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, random question. I've a sun system running obsd 4.2. I though I didn' have a scsi card with openfirmware so I installed on an IDE disk and spent ages configuring the system. It's a mail server also so I don't have the time to have a few hours of down time. How would I go about cloning

DLT4000 on openbsd st0: 10240-byte record too big

2007-12-05 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, this error seems to have been around a bit on the news groups but I see no answers only questions (yeh I've got a bible on the shelf next to the Koran so I could try that). I've a DLT4000 tape drive connected to a scsi card in my sun blade 100 running openbsd 4.2 I'm getting this

Re: DLT4000 on openbsd st0: 10240-byte record too big

2007-12-05 Thread Khalid Schofield
working :) many thanks On 5 Dec 2007, at 10:52, Otto Moerbeek wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:23:46AM +, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, this error seems to have been around a bit on the news groups but I see no answers only questions (yeh I've got a bible on the shelf next

Re: VPN Concentrator

2007-12-04 Thread Khalid Schofield
On 1 Dec 2007, at 05:37, visc wrote: On 30-Nov-07, at 2:13 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users or give them an ip from our main dhcp server via

Re: VPN Concentrator

2007-12-04 Thread Khalid Schofield
, at 2:13 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users or give them an ip from our main dhcp server via a bridge. If I have say a mac user at home wanting

Re: Configuring sendmail openbsd 4.2

2007-11-30 Thread Khalid Schofield
:34AM +, Khalid Schofield wrote: ok it's still not working. I'm posting my configs here. It's not accepting incoming mail. Sendmail is set to use /etc/mail/sendmail.cf in rc.conf Incoming mail from the network? That's because of all the 127.0.0.1 and ::1 in you DAEMON_OPTION lines. You might

VPN Concentrator

2007-11-30 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, I'd like to make a VPN Concentrator using openbsd. I want users to be able to authenticate using usernames and passwords and to either nat the users or give them an ip from our main dhcp server via a bridge. If I have say a mac user at home wanting to connect into my network using the

Re: Configuring sendmail openbsd 4.2

2007-11-29 Thread Khalid Schofield
/HdrFromSMTP, R=MasqSMTP, E=\r\n, L=2040, T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP, A=TCP $h On 27 Nov 2007, at 15:13, Khalid Schofield wrote: Thanks for all the replies. In the end this document made great reading. http://www2.papamike.ca:8082/tutorials/pub/sendmail-m4.html On 27 Nov

Configuring sendmail openbsd 4.2

2007-11-27 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, I'm configuring sendmail on openbsd 4.2. Trying to get sendmail to send all mail via my smart host. What do I edit since there is no / etc/mail/sendmail.mc and in /usr/share/sendmail/cf there are lots of configs. The docs look pretty major reading so I thought I'd just ask people

Re: Configuring sendmail openbsd 4.2

2007-11-27 Thread Khalid Schofield
Thanks for all the replies. In the end this document made great reading. http://www2.papamike.ca:8082/tutorials/pub/sendmail-m4.html On 27 Nov 2007, at 08:54, Khalid Schofield wrote: Hi, I'm configuring sendmail on openbsd 4.2. Trying to get sendmail to send all mail via my smart host

Xorg on Dell PowerEdge SC 430

2006-09-06 Thread Khalid Schofield
Hi, has anyone here managed to get X working on a Dell PowerEdge SC 430 yet? I'm using the onboard graphics (or trying to). I run OpenBSD 3.9 with Xorg ver: X Window System Version 6.9.0 (for OpenBSD) Release Date: 21 December 2005 dmesg shows this for the graphics which looks right vga1 at