Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
AFAIK OpenBSD has 2 releases a year - which means, that devs are trying to
keep the packages and OS itself fresh. But I'm wondering: wouldn't be in
such situation reasonable to switch to s.c. rolling release model - and
even more convenient for both devs and users?
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
You mean: syncing with that branch gives in effect what I was writing about?
Didn't try it... maybe I should.
Maybe; it's the development head, so it requires monitoring the source
changes when upgrading your system and occasionally (rarely) breaks.
There are also
Stuart Henderson wrote:
If you (and anyone else) want to follow http://spacehopper.org/acpi.txt
I'll collect acpidump from broken systems and put them in one place for
any developers who want to look (cvs:~sthen/acpi).
No problem. Presumably acpidump will work on a kernel with acpi disabled?
I'm setting up an HP d530 desktop with 4.3-release. With acpi enabled,
it crashes during boot (after install), with it disabled it seems to
work okay. Below is the dmesg/trace/ps when it crashes, below that is a
successful boot with acpi disabled.
OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 3.01
boot
booting
Protocol Six Consulting wrote:
When I tell others about OpenBSD I can easily tell them what I like, but
I was also curious what sort of (verifiable) factoids folks here
highlight when advocating for OpenBSD.
Personally, I'm a fan of OpenBSD because the dev team is uncompromising.
Even though
Jon Simola wrote:
Not claiming to be an optimal solution (dd is faster), but does a
read pass across the entire partition: $ sudo md5 /dev/rwd0c MD5
(/dev/rwd0c) = a85c2c67475f983a98007fd9a47378b7
I think part of what he wanted about badblocks is that it does a
non-destructive write test as
bofh wrote:
Any ideas what that does? bsd (uniproc) works across all 4 options.
bsd.mpdoesn't work with APIC disabled. What is the difference between
APIC/Mapped/Disabled? Just curious.
Have you tried playing with the OS Selection knob in the BIOS?
Have to hand type in, so missing a
Antoine Junod wrote:
Any comment? Did I miss a simpler / more clever way to do that?
Emailing the files could work as a method of queueing if the link is
down. While perhaps more clever, it might not qualify as better or simpler.
Michael Seney wrote:
Recently I have taken notice in a growing number of articles
concerning memory sniffing threats. Today's post at The Register they
talk about the DaisyDukes memory sniffer. Is this truly a threat if I
am running OpenBSD?
Your message at 9:00 wasn't enough, so you sent
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
- fast disks with hardware raid, i.e. u320 or sas, that are
hotswappable; am willing to accept SATAII if other criteria work
Fast disks are usually hot. Usually heat goes up with spindle speed.
- low power draw / heat signature
- low noise
- 1U or 2U size
The
Nick Holland wrote:
Ok, based on the fact that I did that today already, let's say I'd
SUGGEST going with amd64, even though I'd probably forget and go with
i386 myself. :)
Weren't there some problems with interrupt performance on amd64? Maybe
that's fixed already.
I've got an OpenBSD 4.2 mail server behind an OpenBSD 4.2 firewall.
Over the past day, I've noticed a lot of hung Sendmail processes in
the process list:
sendmail: m2NF4TFL003726
tnf-mta01-75.ebusiness.householdaccount.pgs01.com [137.236.172.75]: DATA
(sendmail)
sendmail: m2NF4whi024039
On a related note, on my firewall I'm seeing:
On a related note, I'm seeing:
11:48:55.034320 66.35.250.225 71.126.119.199: icmp: host 66.35.250.225
unreachable - admin prohibited [tos 0xc0]
(that's SourceForge)
Does that mean they're blocking my return traffic, when they initiate
the connection to me?
Richard Daemon wrote:
I appreciate any clarification on these questions.
http://marc.info/?m=78239214459
Unix Fan wrote:
I did a search around and found something called SmartStart,
Apparently it's a bootable configuration utility for your system
that configures various settings in NVRAM.
You don't really need SmartStart for a DL380 G2, you can press F9 during
boot to configure everything via
Lars NoodC)n wrote:
Would something like this be appropriate at the tail end of the httpd
man page for v 1.3.29?
Due to licensing changes, the version of Apache shipped with
OpenBSD will stay at version 1.3.29. Bugfixes will be provided,
but no further updates.
Marco Peereboom wrote:
What's next? an OS in java and php?
Are you living in 2001? It should be in Ruby on Rails.
Fabian Heusser wrote:
Yes a howto would be nice, for windows there are many, for linux some,
and for Openbsd not so many.
Recipes don't teach you how to cook.
Joe Warren-Meeks wrote:
I thought you only needed the license if you used higher resolutions
than a basic console. If you are just using text mode on the console,
then they work excellently.
ILO2 can't do KVM at all without the Advanced license, but I think ssh
still works. They also have a
Xavier Millihs-Lacroix wrote:
Who wins in the OpenBSD world? DRAC (Dell Remote Admin Card) or iLo (HP's
Integrated Lights Out) (or better ilo2) ?
I prefer HP ILO. Both do more or less the same thing, but Dell seems to
change their card interface every other week, and HP builds them into
Jay Hart wrote:
Yes, I too at one time bought a huge case. Has 10 5.25 bays. Only problem
is
that you can't use all of them due to cable length limitations.
Multiple controllers?
Onboard IDE controller (pri and sec interface) and a Adaptec 2940 SCSI card.
No, I meant you could use more
Yes, I too at one time bought a huge case. Has 10 5.25 bays. Only problem is
that you can't use all of them due to cable length limitations.
Multiple controllers?
I have one of these, http://calpc.com/catalog/mid_tower.html, and its quite
beefy.
Their web site lists that it can take *one*
Unix Fan wrote:
Apologies for not stating the obvious.. because everyone watches
DVD's on m68k.. right?
Nick Holland does, I think.
Henning Brauer wrote:
ever since Compaq switched away from the light beige carriers to teh
ones with the black handle they haven't changed eitehr. they have
different knobs for FC and SCSI to porevent one to be plugged into the
other slot; one some of the brackes these knobs are screws you can
Nick Holland wrote:
speculation
Old cac's have some kind of battery on them, they look like large lithium
cells. They don't really look like rechargeable. Even if they are,
they are so old, they are probably dead on yours (and mine). That may
be why my cac(4) experience was so uninspiring, or
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Did you have any trouble getting the software for setting up the scsi
raid card?
IIRC the 1850 didn't come with a built-in RAID card, a period-correct
card would probably be a SA 3200, which I think has built-in setup
firmware (press F8 during boot). I think the
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
What about a Compaq Proliant 2500R on eBay for $300?
max 1 GB ram, 1 PCI bus over 6 slots, dual Pentium Pro 166 MHz
4 bays + 2 1/2 height bays (for media) + CDROM and floppy
A 2500R for $300? I hope that's $25 plus $275 shipping.
Not a bad machine,
Sherwood Botsford wrote:
So I went to 3com's web site. Got frustrated as hell trying to find what
I was looking for.
3com still makes switches?
1. Why is a cisco 2960-PT-ATTL eleven times the price of a Dell
PowerConnect 2724?
Because it's painted that special blue-green color and has a
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Put one in each classroom and run 100 MB/s to
the upstream server and configure the desktops to only link at 10 MB/s
Why force them at 10?
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
A medical solution would be very nice but not forthcoming. Note that
apparently in either Norway or Sweeden (I forget which), a whole
non-electronic, non-EMF village has been set up for such sensitive
people. Hasn't happened in Canada or the US yet.
If moving is an
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I have a box that I want to keep as secure as I can but I also need to
be able to use a graphical browser from it (I know that this is a
trade-off).
Assuming you've already decided to run X, then why not just run the
browser on your other machine and set the display to
Eric Furman wrote:
You mean you killed a poor innocent puffy fish to make your unethical
corporate dollars? I'll have to report you to rms.
Free puffy fish for all!
No, it's okay; he borrowed the knife from someone else.
Marco Peereboom wrote:
I don't think so. We check for this before we buy hardware.
I'd bet money that you have hardware that requires driver assist.
I doubt it; if he needs to use a device that doesn't meet his criteria
for free (like a cell phone), he just has someone else carry it around
nicodache wrote:
I cannot anything but to appreciate and look how you are able to stay
calm and polite when I read some people on this ML talking about crap,
fucking duck with tape, shutting up things.
I have never seen anyone on this list fuck a duck with a tape. Ever.
openbsd puffy wrote:
Hey im just a small business man/consultant who
has been part of the BSD community for years. Im not trying to decieve
anyone.
Then why not use your real name and/or email address? Unless your real
first name is openbsd, in which case you're only 10 years old at most.
On Monday 07 January 2008 14:42:41 openbsd puffy wrote:
I can assure you this is not some email scam from africa, This is a
completely legitimate offer, and will be funded and shipped from the US.
Though I am currently travelling in Asia. IF you dont want one you dont
have to order one. plain
Jason Dixon wrote:
Everybody
on this list would LOVE to know why you do not do any of your own
research?!?!?!?!!?
Plausible deniability.
More like deniable plausibility.
Greg Thomas wrote:
Myth?
Have you read this:
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html?
You still haven't convinced me as to why I should believe a tax
analyst's rebuttal to a data security analyst's paper. Feenberg has no
expertise in this area, and Gutmann does.
Eric Furman wrote:
It can't be done. it's an urban legend, AFAICT.
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html
Which references Gutmann's paper which started all this...
Of course I'm sure a tax analyst (http://www.nber.org/vitae/vita184.htm)
knows more about data recovery
Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
Correct me if I am wrong but I believe it was this that saved the Mars
lander from total disaster a few years ago. I heard it was due to the
brilliant idea of some Indian professor. I don't remember much about it
now.
It's somewhat more difficult to access the
Jon wrote:
(not looking to delete a file securly - but to wipe the disk clean of
deleted file with out affecting the OS)
What problem are you trying to solve?
Marco Peereboom wrote:
Might it have something to do with money?
http://www.fsf.org/donate/patron/index_html
Thanks, now I know how Barracuda got away with barely paying lip service
to the GPL.
Nick Holland wrote:
Apparently, Compaq likes to (surprise) reuse product names.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb22/iPAQ/10638_na.html
I think that's what I was thinking of, at least the case looks like it.
I think at one point they marketed these as a thin client type of
device.
Interesting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, the stash of Compaq iPaqs I came across recently have
built-in sound, a very capable built-in speaker, nearly silent in
operation and are easy for Joe Average to understand. We've got enough
we could even ship out a spare with the system for spare
Nick Holland wrote:
Only 60M is mounted RW, so it fsck's
very quickly, and my app writes only to the MFS.
Why mount any CF partition RW? And you should be able to test your
system on a CD to prove it'll work without writing.
Richard Stallman wrote:
The GNU Project campaigns to give software users these two essential
freedoms and two essential requirements:
Freedom 0: the freedom to run the program as you wish.
Freedom 1: the freedom to study the source code and change it
so it does what you wish.
Requirement 2:
badeguruji wrote:
does this also affects folks who are using it on openbsd?
http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01299773
That page says it's CVE-2007-4995:
http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4995
Based on the dates OpenBSD fixed it
Richard Stallman wrote:
ISTR LAME is free software, but I will double-check.
The source code of LAME is licensed under the LGPL; however, the mp3
format itself is patented and restricted. Further reading:
http://www.mp3-tech.org/patents.html
http://www.mp3licensing.com/help/developers.html
Richard Stallman wrote:
Why don't you ask Theo, whom you once praised, about OpenBSD?
Because he tends to be unfriendly.
Interestingly enough, if you specified that as the reason you recommend
against using OpenBSD, this thread would have been a lot shorter.
Somehow I think Theo is more
Nick Guenther wrote:
From what I have heard, OpenBSD does not contain non-free software
(though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware
blobs).
Um, OpenBSD is the only common OS that is actively against blobs. See
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#39
We're on the same side
Richard Stallman wrote:
Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I
think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others. Therefore,
if a collection of software contains (or suggests installation of)
some non-free program, I do not recommend it. The systems I
Lars NoodC)n wrote:
Having a way to sift out the non-free stuff during a search of the ports
tree would be useful.
PERMIT_*=(not Yes)
Rico Secada wrote:
In the interview he states: I am unhappy with the various
distributions of BSD, because all of them include, in their
installation systems, the ports system, they all include some non-free
programs. And as a result I can't recommend any of them.
Include is an incorrect word
STeve Andre' wrote:
The one time I did send mail to an ISP was when one little
vandal developed an inordinate fondness for the web server,
and hit it 110,000 times in a week. Fortunately the ISP did
do something about that one. But the lice, I don't think you
can do anything about, unless you
I'm running spamd in blacklist mode, and it started running out of
memory today. It turns out the lists are getting close to the default
limit:
# /usr/libexec/spamd-setup -b -d
Getting http://www.openbsd.org/spamd/traplist.gz
blacklist uatraps 157348 entries
Getting
Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
Will the product at the following link work under OpenBSD?
http://www.synchrotech.com/products/card-rw_06_p111_p222_elan_pcmcia_pc-card_reader_slot.html
I haven't actually tried it, but their web site says it uses the TI
PCI-1420 PCI-Cardbus bridge, and OpenBSD appears
L wrote:
Well I have installed Linux successfully before for these devices using
a trick:
I took the hard drive out, put it into a computer that *does* have a
cdrom or floppy.. install linux on it. When done installing, transport
That should work fine, as long as the two machines see the
Antti Harri wrote:
Except that when doing package upgrade with pkg_add the sendmail
configuration (in mailer.conf) will be restored and it won't be
re-enabled until manually doing postfix-enable. At least it used to be
like that, correct me if the pkgtools has the needed features nowadays
to
Markus Hennecke wrote:
Doesn't the bootloader number the com ports from zero on? AFAIR I could
set the bootloader on a DL 385 to use the ILO com port via setting up
com1 in boot.conf. This is a few month since I did that and I have no
physical access to that machine now, so I can't look at it
Rob Lytle wrote:
Thats PCI-8x12/7x12/6x12 and it looks like there are quite a few
laptops out there with this chip. I don't know whats up with the
PN. Perhaps this is just a marketing name, but I could find no
reference to it anywhere on the TI website
The x replaces a number. I was able
Juan Miscaro wrote:
Hi, I would like to do away with sendmail as much as possible. I
prefer postfix. Now I know that the sendmail binary is entwined with
the system's internals but is there any way to completely get rid of
it?
Yes, but you don't want to. Recompile using skipdir and do a
Artur Grabowski wrote:
Dual boot is for sissies who can't get a second machine.
No, dual boot is for sissies who can't commit to a real OS.
(Now how do I hide those mail headers...)
Xavier Mertens wrote:
At random time, the server is just powered off (that's the feedback I
always received from
the VMware server administrator). There is nothing in logs and as the server
is off, the
console is not available anymore. :(
It sounds like the vmware guest process is crashing and
xavier brinon wrote:
I think this is worth reading,
http://www.nruns.com/ps/The_Death_of_AV_Defense_in_Depth-Revisiting_Anti-Virus_Software.pdf
Important to note on page 42/46:
N.runs is developing a secure system solution... The market
introduction begins in the 4th quarter of 2007.
If
Stuart Henderson wrote:
tcpdump runs the scary code in a jail.
Doesn't http://marc.info/?m=117390704628262 do the same thing? I
haven't looked at it, just saw the post.
knitti wrote:
- SMART didn't catch the errors. no monitoring is perfect, but it
seems unlikely that it won't notice read errors
Also, SMART thresholds are defined by the vendor. Setting them too high
reduces the number of warranty claims.
You'll notice wd1 has raw read errors and
Calomel wrote:
You can use geteltorito.pl by Rainer Krienke. It will extract what it needs
from the cdemu42.iso image and make a new cdrom42.fs image. Just takes a
second.
Doing:
./geteltorito.pl -o test cd42.iso
results in a file test that's identical to cdbr. Why jump through so
many
Soner Tari wrote:
I guess that's not what the OP was asking for. However, there is a
cdrom42.fs in cdemu42.iso for i386. But I also need the one for amd64,
so I am looking for ways to create it myself too.
Take a look at
Theo de Raadt wrote:
gonna setup a web page first, for your non-project? a wiki?
and a mailing list?
Not until they pick a catchy name and a mascot.
Antti Harri wrote:
Is -stable a good choice?
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-portsm=119347390302171w=2
Backporting port updates from -current to -stable is usually trivial.
Of course, the real solution would be to find a maintainer...
Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
but my main question is, how to make obsd allways up to date, keeping
it bug free. mas from time to time there is security bugs found and so
on.
Simple way: upgrade every six months, and follow the -stable branch.
Complex way: Follow -current, upgrade your machines almost
L. V. Lammert wrote:
The more discrete the security model (i.e. File/Print users are not
valid on the httpd server) the better.
There's something I think you don't see here. Let's assume, for a
moment, that you have a VM host running two guests, one OpenBSD, one
Windows.
Now, the OpenBSD
I've got a Compaq DL380G1 with a Smart 5300 card (ciss). I've got an
array plugged into port 1, and a tape plugged into port 2. The BIOS
setup for the card sees everything, but OpenBSD doesn't see the tape,
nothing in dmesg. I don't even see the second scsibus for ciss. Any
suggestions?
mickey wrote:
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:13:35PM +0200, Artur Litwinowicz wrote:
quick question: how can I connect OpenBSD box to iSCSI storage ?
by means of an iSCSI cable?
While that's true, I'm guessing he already has an Ethernet cable...
A quick Google search shows some people
Edwards, David (JTS) wrote:
I'm using 250G laptop disks powered from the USB cable.
Maybe you're hitting the limit of the USB power output?
Joachim Schipper wrote:
You should probably do a Google search on systrace before continuing
further down this road. In particular, I believe the issue highlighted
by Robert Watson has not been fixed yet (although I could be wrong, and
would be happy to be wrong in this case).
The white paper
ropers wrote:
Hm, Wikipedia currently only knows PC2-5300.
That's easy to fix.
Robert Urban wrote:
Does anyone know of any others that don't use PHP?
I don't use it myself, but sqwebmail may do what you want.
http://www.courier-mta.org/sqwebmail/
stan wrote:
Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space, my
concern is about portions. If it is possible can anyone give me an idea how
best to approach this? Or a pointer to some docs?
I've done what you mention using Acronis Disk Director or Partition
Magic, but
Cidric THIBAULT wrote:
I'm searching a way to enable a transparent firewall (without ip adress),
probably in bridge mode.., with a capability of NAT. I know the interest is
not evident to nat some computers on the same IP lan, but it's for a client,
so!
You want to have a bridge that does
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
So, there are some web sites that I need to access that use flash.
Mostly, online product catalogues. Does this mean that I have to use
Debian on my main box to do this since OpenBSD doesn't? Is that more
secure?
At that point, why not just run Windows? The vendor is
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
It also works just fine as:
home mail server,
Unless, of course, you run Perl-based anti-spam filters... I just
upgraded a P2 2x450 to P3 2x933 and it still seems sluggish.
Christian Plattner wrote:
In my experience, things are not so clear. OK, using the e1000 is a must
(the vlance driver does not properly work with the emulation done by
ESX, probably an issue with the PCN_NTXSEGS value (16) in if_pcn.c)).
However, using the e1000 emulation is also not trouble
I've got a Compaq DL380G1 with a SA5300 controller running 4.1. Today
the thing died; I could still ping it, but it would refuse connections
and the console was mostly unresponsive. (The console monitor came back
on when I hit a key on the keyboard.) The following message was on the
screen:
Rob Waite wrote:
It also runs on the Intel ia32e processors (...) but since Intel
left out support for the page table NXE bit (No-EXecute)
there is no W^X support on the Intel CPUs.
Perhaps that last line should be ...on the Intel ia32e CPUs.?
RedShift wrote:
Anyone got any similar experiences with hardware RAID cards? Hardware
RAID has always been misery for me.
I've had two instances where older Adaptec RAID cards had a disk failure
and then reverted to a week-old copy of the data. I'm not quite sure
how that's possible, but
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
1) there are no multiple consoles on the install kernel.
Ouch!
How big a deal would it be to do that?
Very, if the installer will still fit on a floppy.
Would it be difficult to provide on the CD and perhaps a tarball on FTP
a directory structure that would allow
Bob Beck wrote:
As OpenBSD grows there simply is no reason, or logic to keeping
around such an archaic method of installation it now uses.
I await your diffs! Please feel free to write one that works, and
fits on the install media for 10 architectures.
I assume you're only encouraging this
Darren Spruell wrote:
I've found times where a default layout would have been useful, but on
the other hand I've been bitten more than once by a default layout
(from the sysinstall [A]utomatic partitioner) that didn't set up a big
enough /tmp for my needs. The result was spending extra time
Tony Lambiris wrote:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NjA1Mw
More relevant, but slow:
http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/
Stanislav Ovcharenko wrote:
I don't think it's actually possible to
shrink NTFS partition in a Microsoft supported way only extend it with
diskpart.
WinXP and later support shrinking disks.
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/a6680b96-28df-4308-949d-bb3f91ca5d4b1033.mspx
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
On the other hand, on some units long filenames ended up with MS-DOS
style 8.3 file names until I recreated the file system on them (newfs
-t msdos). Fortunately my new 4GB unit did not have that problem.
Also, it's worth noting that Vista and I think XP SP2 won't
stan wrote:
When I boot the 4.1 CD, I get to the partioning step, and I am confused.
Since I can't figure out how to capture the screen imafe from a machine
booted off of the CD. I'll show you what Linux's cfdisk shows.
You can capture the screen using a serial port and null-modem cable to
Lars Hansson wrote:
I don't think think running Linux is a basic human right.
I'm not aware that using a computer is a basic human right...
Kevin Cheng wrote:
Upgrade code based on release of obsd is easy, but it would a big job to
maintain early released of products based on previous version of obsd. For
example, we would maintain 8 version of products from 3.3 to 4.0 if codes
are upgraded every half years.
Why? If you do an
Nick Holland wrote:
as stated, you can't do what you want to do the way you propose doing it.
To be specific, if you want to have multiple sites behind one IP address
and one port, you need an application proxy. With http, you can do this
with host headers and a reverse http proxy. You
Artur Grabowski wrote:
The real question is who's paying that guy. I guess any corporate
owned asshole can publish random slander on the internet and call it
research.
I doubt it's quite so complicated, his previous use of
rolloffle.blogspot.com was to post Harry Potter book spoilers.
Do a
Stefan Olsson wrote:
-Apart from health this could be used to generate electricity for Theo's
servers!
You're not looking at the big picture; if you've got some sweaty person
running the generator, that increases the cooling load in Theo's datacenter.
f.janczuk wrote:
My motherboard (Mini-itx) is running with a fanless processor VIA C3.
Do you know tools who give estimation of watt consummation ?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B9MDBU/openbsdA/
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