Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Tobias Ulmer wrote: > In the time you've been spamming my inbox, every half-competent sysadmin > could have learned ncurses(3) and write the perfect(tm) interface for > his purpose. > Sorryk, my posts have been but a pittance in the BS spouted on this thread, .. it's a shame t

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Bret S. Lambert wrote: > Your original post[1] said, and I cut'n'paste, "that would be useable > for basic sysadmin types". How the fuck can anyone comprehend a question > you're incapable of asking correctly? > Certainly not you, .. who, amongst others, are far more intereste

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Paul M wrote: > it's **Not clear whatproblem you're actualy trying to solve.** > What's so difficult about "need a way to edit crontab with something like an nCurses" interface? That seems to be, by definition, simple, point-and-click, definate options, no man pages, no vi edi

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > On 19 February 2010 14:32, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > Man pages typically have examples. > *BUT* man pages are not instructions to perform a task/function, .. and are irrelavent for this question. > It's called "learning" a

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > On 19 February 2010 14:37, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > Didn't say they had access to the **MACHINE** THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT FOR > > THE NCURSES QUESTION, if you had bothered to read the OP instead of > > bitching about

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, FRLinux wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:08 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > Found one tcl/tk at: > > http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/vcron/vcronGB.html > > but running an X tool would app would be too complicated for this > > requirement. > >

Re: more OT than you think Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Diana Eichert wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > No, that isn't going to work. This isn't some elitist club - if we can't > > provide a simple, sane, safe way for a [priviledged] user to push a backup > > image ou

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > If *you* are letting underqualified users have privileged access to an > Unix machine then the failure here is *you*. > Didn't say they had access to the **MACHINE** THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT FOR THE NCURSES QUESTION, if you had bothered to read the OP inste

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Johan Beisser wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:21 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > No, that isn't going to work. This isn't some elitist club - if we can't > > provide a simple, sane, safe way for a [priviledged] user to push a backup >

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Lars Nooden wrote: > L. V. Lammert wrote: > > ... no way I'd saddle some of these > > guys with vi, much less setting the cron time parameters correctly. > > Then you are far, far better off not letting them anywhere near the > server room if th

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, patrick keshishian wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > > > > The kind that I don't want messing with crontab to begin with. > > this reminds me of the saying about giving a man a fish vs teaching > him how to fish. > That would be like trying to

Re: OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, bofh wrote: > What kind of basic unix admin can't deal with > > % export EDITOR=vi > % crontab -e > > ? > Didn't say they were *unix* admins, .. no way I'd saddle some of these guys with vi, much less setting the cron time parameters correctly. Lee

OT, .. but has anyone seen a crontab editor

that would be useable for basic sysadmin types (maybe something nCurses)? Found one tcl/tk at: http://www.linux-kheops.com/pub/vcron/vcronGB.html but running an X tool would app would be too complicated for this requirement. TIA, Lee

Re: Firefox malware in add-ons

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010, Chris Bennett wrote: > I might not post this, except I suspect that there are other add-ons > that are not secure. > > I recently had Firefox 3.5 open web pages "magically" > I had a similarproblem - FF opening sites 'magically'! In my case, it was a plugin that automatically d

Re: File system

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 >

Re: fsck segfault on a big partition, 4.6

On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Rob Sheldon wrote: > Hi, > > So, the short version is that I have a server with OpenBSD 4.6 that can't > fsck its big partition; fsck fails with a segfault every time. If I "ulimit > -d unlimited" before fsck'ing, it just takes a little longer to segfault. > It produces no oth

Re: [4.6-stable] /etc/daily: Null message body; hope that's ok

At 04:16 PM 1/26/2010 +0100, Daniele Pilenga wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:46 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > At 02:37 PM 1/26/2010 +, Helmut Schneider wrote: > >> > I thought I had fat-fingered something with sysmerge, but I >> > re-extracted /etc/daily and com

Re: [4.6-stable] /etc/daily: Null message body; hope that's ok

At 02:37 PM 1/26/2010 +, Helmut Schneider wrote: > I thought I had fat-fingered something with sysmerge, but I > re-extracted /etc/daily and compared, and there were no differences. Same here, I upgraded from 4.5-stable and sysmerged a few times. I get one on a clean install, .. have not h

HP/Dell RAID

Looking to build a couple of production servers, so I was thinking about heading to the local 'recycled' store for off-lease systems. Only problem is, it's really hard to figure out if the RAID controllers are compatible (e.g. Perc 3 vs. OpenBSD Perc 5); can anyone share any recommendations? F

Re: Dumb package questions

At 08:38 AM 12/29/2009 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-12-28, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Trying to fix an old 4.3 machine, for some strange reason both versions of > ImageMagick require X11 - i.e.: > > Is there a valid no-X11 version of ImageMagick available somewhere Yes, in Op

Dumb package questions

Trying to fix an old 4.3 machine, for some strange reason both versions of ImageMagick require X11 - i.e.: # pkg_add ImageMagick-6.3.6.10-no_x11.tgz Can't install libwmf-0.2.8.3p3: lib not found ICE.8.1 Dependencies for libwmf-0.2.8.3p3 resolve to: libxml-2.6.30, libiconv-1.9.2p5, jpeg-6bp3, png-1

Re: New user trying to plan for upgrade

On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Paul M wrote: > On 22/12/2009, at 2:23 PM, David Shuman wrote: > > > It appears there are issues and processes that require > > the maintenance of config files and the like after an > > upgrade of OpenBSD. > I prefer to merge directories with mc - allows visual comparison of i

Re: How to set up sendmail

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Mark Yieh wrote: > Hi I'm trying to set up sendmail as my home mail server but it's my > first time so I'm not sure what to do. > I know it's already installed and enabled in base but will only accept > requests from local host. > So I've added this flag in rc.conf.local to en

Re: VirtualBox2.2+OpenBSD4.4 (fail)

At 03:27 PM 10/7/2009 +0100, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: From: "L. V. Lammert" On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: It's VirtualBox - looks like it's still crap. VMWare works fine, so does qemu. As does VirtualBox with proper hardware support (AMD64 Socke

Re: VirtualBox2.2+OpenBSD4.4 (fail)

On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: > It's VirtualBox - looks like it's still crap. VMWare works fine, so does > qemu. > As does VirtualBox with proper hardware support (AMD64 Socket AM2), .. though we do not use X on VMx. Lee

Re: Simpliest issue tracking software?

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Gregory Edigarov wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am looking for an advice of which issue tracking system to use for a > small team of admins (4 members)? > OTRS, RT - are an overhead for our purposes. so we don't need anything > fancy, all we need is to make sure all requests

Re: Recommanded way to set up a mail server

On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, jean-francois wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently setting up a mail server comprising of the following > services : > > - mail (send/receive) > - accounts (base of some many clients) > - webmail > Save youself a lot of headaches and start with: http://www.allardsoft.co

Re: Supporting OpenBSD

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Nick Holland wrote: > What makes OpenBSD unique? Everyone's got their own list, but here's > mine: > Looks pretty good to me (list and following points), .. I missed the 'early order' - ours will be in shortly. Keep up the good work all! Lee

Re: laptop suspend and battery runs dry

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Chris wrote: > I have an IBM T41 that runs current snapshot. I put it in suspend mode > with apm -z or zzz but when I wake the system, the battery runs dry. > Is there any way to avoid this other than turning off the the system > completely and turning it back on again? > > Th

Re: apache1.3 without jail and PHP cannot execute some system binaries..why?

At 11:30 AM 8/14/2009 -0500, Andres Salazar wrote: ls -la /bin pretty much says that the permissions and ownership are the same for mv, cp, cat, ls I dont think its a permission/ownerhsip issue. You missed the point - permissions ARE an issue when you're running as www or apache! To change a

Re: apache1.3 without jail and PHP cannot execute some system binaries..why?

At 09:59 AM 8/14/2009 -0500, Andres Salazar wrote: Hello, mv and cp do not display any output (this do not execute), while cat and ls do. Probably because the scripts get launched with the UID/GID of Apache, and you don't have write permission to the directory as that user/group. Test it b

Passenger?

Can seem to find anything in the archives, .. I just finished setting up a Rails app under Passenger on a Linux box - pretty nice! We have a Rails app running with Mongrel on 4.5, but I would really like to use an Apache SSL session; never could get that working with mod_rewrite, however, when we w

Re: OT, .. Majordomo problem

On Sat, 23 May 2009, Frank Bax wrote: > Your subject says it all; this is OT on this list; try MD list at: > http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/ > Tried that last time, .. thought there might be someone here that knew MD. Lee

Re: OT, .. Majordomo problem

On Sat, 23 May 2009, ropers wrote: > I don't know what causes your problem, but I saw this: > No kidding! Wonder why I sent the email to the list! Why would MD reject an email when it is listed in the list members? > 2009/5/22 L. V. Lammert : > > > >t...@ted.co

OT, .. Majordomo problem

OT question, but I was hoping there might be other folks that might have seen a similar problem [old MD installation (1.94.5)]: Given this email in the list members: t...@ted.com Even though this email is listed correctly as a list member, when MD receives an email from this email add

Re: Raid controller?

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm currently trying to verify something, because while I know makefiles > really > well, the ones for the FreeBSD kernel are too indirect for me, so I can't yet > verify about the twa driver. > Doesn't make any difference, 3Ware was abandoned by the proj

Re: Raid controller?

On Fri, 15 May 2009, Chuck Robey wrote: > OK ... but you could tone it down just a touch ... > You might want to monitor the list a while, .. OpenBSD is build by developers, for developers. Us'n Users get to enjoy the fruits of their labors and contribute when we can. The reply was entirely appro

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

At 05:49 PM 5/12/2009 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: L. V. Lammert wrote: Or as in this case may be use @gmail.com email as they can't obviously setup their own mail server looks like. Or can make it secure, or set it up with spam filter properly so they use @gmail.com. Not everyone that

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

At 02:22 PM 5/12/2009 -0700, Henry Sieff wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:07 AM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > If you want simple, install Webmin. Runs fine with sendmail, default > install! Yeah, because if you can't see the complexity, it doesn't exist. What does complexit

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

At 09:55 PM 5/12/2009 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:31 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > Also, if sendmail has such a horrible track record, why is it the default > MTA on this system? We handle 40K+ emails daily on a single box with no > problems a

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

At 09:16 PM 5/12/2009 +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > If you want simple, install Webmin. Runs fine with sendmail, default > install! I'm not that crazy to combine something that remembers passwords in clear text with an MTA that has a horrible security track record. If this is clear text

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:26 PM, bofh wrote: > I'm also looking for a very simple MTA that I can use at home and have > it configured to relay e-mail without having to write 75 directives in > 3 configuration files (and then use m4 or generate th

Re: sendmail vs. other MTAs

At 06:08 PM 5/11/2009 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: This new smtpd better be at least as good as qmail, otherwise - what's the point? For fun and learning dammit. It's been explain on undeadly before and in the list. And because it's smaller, easier to maintain, clean and works! Never a thank

Re: Installboot to usb drive?

At 08:28 PM 5/5/2009 -0400, you wrote: You are (probably) changing from sd0 to wd0, but that only messes up your /etc/fstab file. Good point! Usual error is to forget that "boot" specified on the installboot command line is not the one in the installboot directory or your current root partit

Installboot to usb drive?

Trying to build a replacement HD, I did an installboot to the drive when it was connected via USB adapter. That DNW, however, .. but I'm not sure if was an issue installing to a USAB drive or something lse happened. > Is there any issue with changing the drive ID after running installboot (i.e. s

Re: Getting 4.5 from FTP

At 06:52 PM 5/5/2009 +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hi! Since when is the Iran a member of the EU? Kind regards, Hannah. Neither is Iran part of the US, .. service availability varies by country, so it's up to the 'sender' to locate an available service and mechant based on suggestions we

Re: Getting 4.5 from FTP

At 08:30 PM 5/5/2009 +0430, MANI wrote: Hi, I just wanted to download OpenBSD 4.5 from one of FTP mirrors but according to Date modified field of files, I assumed the files are not latest released version of 4.5, for example at main ftp: ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/ pub/OpenBSD/4.5/amd64/ install45.iso

Re: HD 'Analysis'

At 03:36 PM 5/4/2009 -0700, Jose Quinteiro wrote: I use this http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Saludos, Jose. Thanks! I have used smart tools in the past, .. but how do you use them for testing? Lee

Re: HD 'Analysis'

At 05:45 PM 5/4/2009 -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: There is, in the e2fsprogs package, something called badblocks. I have used it (on Linux) to "rescue" bad disks. (Windows laptops -- kinda redundant?) Interesting, .. it DNB on 4.0, however, .. and I'm unsure as to any issues between utilitie

Re: HD 'Analysis'

At 10:32 PM 5/4/2009 -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: On 5/4/2009 5:56 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: What is the best way to do a surface analysis on a disk? badsect seems like a holdover from MB-sized disks, and it doesn't do any analysis. MHDD might do what you want: http://hddguru.com/conte

Re: HD 'Analysis'

At 06:06 PM 5/4/2009 -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: The best way is to get a new disk. I'm serious. Disks are cheap enough, and the value of whats on them is high enough that if you think its going, get a new one. Even if this is a hobby system, I'd do that. And I'm serious too - how many hard

HD 'Analysis'

Been trying to build a replacement HD for a system, .. and it seems impossible to verify whether a disk is bad or not (having wasted some hours rsync'ing data only to have the HD lock up the system when doing the final rsync). What is the best way to do a surface analysis on a disk? badsect se

Re: Upgrade to -current

On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, MANI wrote: > Currently I am using 4.2 stable and I am willing to upgrade to -current > because of some new features which i need. > According to faq (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld) I should first > upgrade to closest binary, which means upgrade from 4.2 to 4.3 and

Re: Offline installation

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Jose R.T wrote: > I already have the packages to install, and i would like to burn the > packages in a cd and then install them in OpenBSD (i suppose that it can be > done in the installation of the OS, right?), but the questions is: > > How have i burn the packages? with folde

Re: I can't connect to Internet

At 12:19 AM 4/7/2009 +0200, Jose P.G wrote: At last it's working. The truth is that there are so many responses that i missed that part. Right now is downloading slowly, could someone say me how can i select a mirror near to me? Thank you very much for bothering to answer. http://openbsd.org/

Re: I can't connect to Internet

At 11:06 PM 4/6/2009 +0200, Jose P.G wrote: Wow... i never expected so many responses... i still have problems, and *this time i have written it correct* for sure: "export pkg_path= ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.4/packages/i386/";. This time is written well, i still don't know where the pro

Re: I can't connect to Internet

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, [ISO-8859-1] Jeszs P.G wrote: > Ops, sorry, i wanted to write "export pkg_path= > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBsd/4.4/packages/i386/. > It's written well. > > Thank you very much. > ahh, .. it's not written well if it doesn't work

Current bioctl h/w?

It looks like ami, arc, and mfi are the most likly candidates for a SATA h/w RAID, .. are there any 'more compatible' or have a better track record than others? Thanks! Lee

Re: European orders

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Daniel Seuffert wrote: > WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE Mr. Grabowski? > Evidence is immaterial - this is not any Court; the decision has been made and that's OK with us (if you don't like it, go cry in your beer). Can we ALL just shut and code, or just shut up? My delete key is gettin

Re: OpenBSD mta with postfix

At 02:46 PM 3/27/2009 -0500, John Brooks wrote: I've just received this response from a large corporate email system regarding their claim that emails sent to them are not getting through even though our logs contain acknowledgements of accepting the mail sent. Must be a legal firm? Can't think

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Paul de Weerd wrote: > The RFC specifically states what to do if you do not have proper > reverse mapping records (4.1.1.1 of rfc2821). It may not be best > practice today, but your remark is utter BS. > Partially true, .. an EHLO may be used for further validation, but that w

Re: correct HELO behaviour in SMTP connections

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Jose Fragoso wrote: > Hi, > > If a host is responsible for sending outgoing messages from multiple > domains, should it always use the same HELO command (ie. the same > hostname) or could it use a different HELO command when sending > mail from different domains? > > Thanks fo

Re: openbsd in virtualization

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, sonjaya wrote: > Hi... > > My boss ask how to move current obsd server to virtualiaztion ( such > as openvz, vmare , etc ) . > anyone in here sucsess moving obsd to Environment virtualization ( > openvz , vmware etc ) , may be want share to me ? > So obsd become guest OS ?

Re: Where is "Secure by default" ?

At 04:50 PM 3/9/2009 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:36 PM, irix wrote: > Hello Misc, > > In www.openbsd.org wrote "Only two remote holes in the default > install, in more than 10 years!", this not true. I using OpenBSD > like customer, not like administ

Re: Texvc & Mediawiki under OpenBSD

At 10:45 PM 2/16/2009 -0800, Vivek Ayer wrote: Hi guys, Because I believe OpenBSD's apache is chrooted, it's causing problems with texvc parsing stuff. Don't know anything about texvc, however if you ARE running Apache chroot'd, you need to accomodate it properly. './uploads/tmp' was actua

CPU balancing?

Getting ready to try a MP server, .. but can't seem to find any info on load balancing, or, perhaps, dedicating one CPU to possibly MySQL. Any pointers or cluesticks? TIA, Lee

Re: OT: Free, online backup service provider compatible with BSD

At 01:57 PM 2/10/2009 -0700, Steve B wrote: Can anyone recommend one of the free, online backup service providers? I would like to tar up all of my config files, custom scripts, etc any time they change and then upload them to some place offsite. I do not need a lot of space1GB would be more

Re: PHP5 & GD2

At 10:19 AM 2/5/2009 -0600, you wrote: Because php modules are loaded on demand (after chroot) and apaches modules are loaded at start (pre chroot) ? If they are loaded after chroot, how do they work loading from /usr/local/lib?? Can any of the devs shed some light on the question? L

Re: PHP5 & GD2

At 04:02 PM 2/5/2009 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-02-05, L. V. Lammert wrote: > On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Diana Eichert wrote: > >> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, L. V. Lammert wrote: >> >> Uhhh, why don't you just edit php.ini to give it the correct location? >> &g

Re: PHP5 & GD2

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Diana Eichert wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > Lee > > I know you've been on this list for a long time. In that time I can't > believe you've never seen the requirement to have xbase installed to > get GD graphics libra

Re: PHP5 & GD2

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Diana Eichert wrote: > On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > Uhhh, why don't you just edit php.ini to give it the correct location? > Uhh, .. because the path in php.ini is correct? Because the modules are installed in the wrong place by the PACK

Re: PHP5 & GD2

At 12:50 PM 2/4/2009 -0600, you wrote: I tried this but I am still getting errors relating to GD using PHP5 I also copied it into the chroot, but made no difference. You might want to check the error messages, specifically: [Wed Feb 4 12:20:02 2009] [error] PHP Warning: imagecreatefromgif()

Re: PHP5 & GD2

> Can someone point me in the right direction to determine what packages >> are required for 'GD2' support, php5, OBSD 4.3? The SilverStripe CMS is >> asking for 'GD2', but they don't provide enough information to isolate >> the required packages. php5-gd Found the problem!! php5-gd-5.2.5-no_x

Re: PHP5 & GD2

At 09:22 AM 2/4/2009 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2009-02-04, Les Richardson wrote: php5-gd Thanks! Turns out I had grabbed p5-gd by mistake. a no_x11 version of the package is available (but still, I'd install the xbase libs). I would prefer to not install xbase on a production serv

PHP5 & GD2

Can someone point me in the right direction to determine what packages are required for 'GD2' support, php5, OBSD 4.3? The SilverStripe CMS is asking for 'GD2', but they don't provide enough information to isolate the required packages. TIA, Lee

Re: Apache Port Config

At 03:00 PM 2/3/2009 -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote: Is there a way to have a virtual host listen on a port to which the main server does not, .. e.g. Port 81 Port 443 Port 80 Even with the port directive in the VirtualHost stanza, it still listens on Port 81 and not

Apache Port Config

Is there a way to have a virtual host listen on a port to which the main server does not, .. e.g. Port 81 Port 443 Port 80 Even with the port directive in the VirtualHost stanza, it still listens on Port 81 and not Port 80. TIA,

4.4 as a VBox guest?

Successfully installed 4.4 (release) on VBox 2.1.2 (AMD64 OpenSuSE 11.1), however after installation I'm starting to see SegFaults whenever I try to do anything (like pkg_add). It also looks like some weird things are showing up in dmesg (softraid0?), .. sshd appears to work OK so I'd be happy to

Re: Sending email in Apache chroot?

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Sunnz wrote: > I have set up mail and femail and they both works, just not in a chroot. > Remember that the chroot must provide *ALL* services required by the app, including things like DNS. Is your resolv.conf present in /etc of your chroot? Can you chroot from the command

VirtualBox 64?

Has anyone gotten 4.4 64 to start under VBOX? Tried this evening but it seems to crash booting the install kernel (from floppy.fs image): 00:00:04.858 Guest Log: BIOS: Booting from Floppy... 00:00:04.938 PIIX3 ATA: Ctl#0: RESET, DevSel=1 AIOIf=0 CmdIf0=0xec (-1 usec ago) CmdIf1=0x00 (-1 usec ago)

Re: Trouble ticket system suggestions

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 open...@bgone.net wrote: > Hello guys, > > I would like to get your suggestions and experience with some Trouble > Ticket Systems on OpenBSD. > It should be rather simple. > Users should be able to sand notes to support and check status of it. > Support should be able to answer

amd64 & Accton MPS 5030/5038 / rl0

Tried installing 4.4 [release] on an amd64 dual-core this AM, but the Accton onboard enet is detected by rl0, but it will not sense the cable - cannot get it off 'no carrier' & doesn't seem to be anything in the lists on it. Lee

OT, .. but eCommerce?

A friend of mine is trying to get a small cCommece site up on one of our 4.4 servers, .. he is trying to get eCommerce Templates running but is having problems with curl & it looks like others are ahead. This seems that is something from ASP land, so before I try to help him get it working thought

Re: webmin to admin OpenBSD

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, badeguruji wrote: > Hello all, > > Will I be able to completely admin all parts (servs etc.) of OpenBSD > using webmin? does anyone has any such experience? > > thank you. > We use Webmin on a number of machines, .. never had a problem other than adjusting the default configs.

Re: apache 1.3.29 + PHP 5.2.6 on OpenBSD 4.4

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Andrei Pirvan wrote: > Hello > > # apachectl configtest > Starting Pure-FTPd > Processing config directory: /var/www/conf/modules/*.conf > Processing config file: /var/www/conf/modules/php5.conf > Syntax error on line 1 of /var/www/conf/modules/php5.conf: > Cannot load /usr/l

Re: USB CD-ROM support

On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Bob Hope wrote: > When (if ever) will support for installing OpenBSD with a USB CD-ROM > be added? I have a few > servers I'd like to use OpenBSD on, but they are Blade units and the > only method of installing > the operating system is through USB CD-ROM. > > Thanks, > Tom > T

Re: 4.4 Packages

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, new_guy wrote: > First time I've pre-ordered. Wondering when the 4.4 PKG_PATHs will be > available so that I can add packages? > -- Nov 1, of course, .. that's why it's called a release date. In the meantime, use your disks. Lee =

Re: Best Way to get OpenBSD installed on Sun Blade 1000/2000

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Vivek Ayer wrote: > I'm getting zilch. I'm starting to suspect that I got ripped off on > this cable. I could be just as wrong. I just need to test this cable > with a windows machine via hyperterminal to absolutely make sure it's > not working. > Serial cables can be a PAIN -

Re: apache proxy balancer for 1.3?

At 08:17 PM 9/4/2008 +, you wrote: On 2008-09-03, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting, .. looks like it might also handle the SSL connection - thanks!! transparently, too. (i.e. the web server can see the original source IP address). Unfortunately, it

relayd & different ports

Trying to configure relayd to proxy for three local mongrel instances, .. something like: table { 127.0.0.1:8000, 127.0.0.1:8001, 127.0.0.1:8002 } However, both the examples I have found: forward to port $web_port and the docs: forward to port 8080 seem to indicate that relay must use th

Re: apache proxy balancer for 1.3?

At 03:11 PM 9/3/2008 -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:50 PM, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone seen something like the 2.1 proxy_balancer we could use with 1.3? > >Lee skimming the proxy_balancer description, I would have to say re

apache proxy balancer for 1.3?

Has anyone seen something like the 2.1 proxy_balancer we could use with 1.3? Lee

Re: Need some information...

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Michiel van Baak wrote: > On 08:40, Tue 26 Aug 08, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Alexander Hall wrote: > > > > > mojo fms wrote: > > > > I would like a way to monitor all files on a server and when one > > > >

Re: Need some information...

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Alexander Hall wrote: > mojo fms wrote: > > I would like a way to monitor all files on a server and when one changes it > > makes the exact same changes to a server. I need byte by byte or bit by bit > > replication of one server to multiple other servers if possible. > > cro

Re: How to copy an entire directory to my home directory

At 11:14 AM 8/14/2008 -0700, skogzort wrote: Hello, Ibm trying to copy all the contents of "/root/var/namedb from a remote OpenBSD3.8 DNS server to my local PC. I am using WinSCP for file transfer. I have found that I am unable to download some of the directories: /root/var/named/etc /root/var/n

Re: Software for backing up files to DVD

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Rod Whitworth wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 21:46:20 -0500 (CDT), L. V. Lammert wrote: > > >DVDs are, believe it or not, not as reliable as a HD! > > Sez who? > Sez me - although most of the problem I've seen are DVRW - totally worthless (at least in

Re: Software for backing up files to DVD

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Tim Hume wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have a suggestion for software for backing up large > directories to DVD? I have many Gigabtyes (more than 20) of digital > photos on my OpenBSD machine, and would like a simple method of backing > the files up to several DVDs (which I can

cronolog followup - extra sh session?

Trying to get a cronolog config worked out for one of our servers, .. noticing something strange: 2513 ?? I 0:00.01 /usr/local/sbin/cronolog --link=/u/omnitec/logs/error . . . 9216 ?? I 0:00.04 /bin/sh -c /bin/sh cronolog is working correctly, .. BUT it also seems to be launci

Tomcat?

We may be looking at a project using Servlets, .. I see tomcat in packages, but are there any 'gotchas' running on a normal production system? There doesn't seem to be anything current in the archives (since 3.4). Thanks! Lee

Re: 'Nother broken package - git-1.5.4.2

At 09:03 PM 7/16/2008 -0400, bofh wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:41 PM, L. V. Lammert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Flavors is what enables the no_x11 option. What do you not understand about packages? If CVS requires X, then it requires X. You need to understand OpenBSD's philo

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