Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
am out of 19 rackmount rails here and would appreciate advice on
manufacturers and models for both sliding (attached) rails and the fixed
kind (L bracket).
i am aware that there is a balance between being cheap and paying for it
later in labor, frustration, etc.
bofh wrote:
On 7/9/07, Steve Shockley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have yet to find aftermarket sliding rails that don't suck. Either
I've been impressed by HP's sliding rails. Haven't really seen other
rails but damn, Sun doesn't even do sliding rails for the v100s or
whatever it was I
Dag-Erling SmC8rgrav wrote:
A shoo-in candidate for Bruce Schneier's doghouse award...
Nuts, and I was going to use it for a crime against humanity.
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
got a 4.1-release machine that shares its disks via samba to a few
windows xp workstations and is transferring files slow as molasses (1 GB
file takes ~30 min to transfer). this machine serves FTP at ~10 MBps,
close to linespeed for 100 Mbit, so disk speed is not the
Pieter Verberne wrote:
I wonder how much time it took for the average person to 'master'
OpenBSD or a similar OS.
Twelve years.
Timo Schoeler wrote:
although I had a bunch of dual-head (or more) setups in my life, it was
all in the sgi, Sun or Apple universe. I never did this on OpenBSD;
however, as everything I touched during the years on OpenBSD machines
ran out of the box :) I wonder whether a dual (or triple screen)
Travers Buda wrote:
conspiracy theory: the devs must
be working on some super-secret baby mulching machine that can't
be revealed until after the hackathon...
I thought they traded the baby-mulching machine for half of a cruise
missle...
Rolf Sommerhalder wrote:
so far I have been unsuccessful in locating templates (and fonts?) for
MagicPoint presentations in OpenBSD-style
The typeface is Comic Sans MS and can be found in the msttcorefonts
port or at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/. There's no package
because of the
Raimo Niskanen wrote:
Sorry, I can't make it work. For a DL140 G3 (or rather now a DL145 G3).
I remember seing something like that on a DL380, though.
telnet machine gives a weird prompt /./ that has no help and only
responds with command errors. There is also a HTTP server running
at the
I've just upgraded my firewall to 4.1. The firewall runs spamd, and
redirects connections (that don't go to spamd) to a server behind the
firewall.
I modified my pf.conf per the sample in the spamd(8) man page. It's a
couple of days later, and suddenly I realize that I'm only getting mail
Allie D. wrote:
YES ! It's on it's way !!
BSD41.0020
I suppose that means you were the 20th to order...
David Cary wrote:
tried to create audio1 but did not get it right so moved audio0 to audio1
and replaced the symlink between audio and audio0 with one between audio and
audio1.
I think /dev/MAKEDEV audio1 will create all four sound devices. After
that try unmuting all outputs and volumes
Damon McMahon wrote:
This all makes sense now, and you are indeed correct. The garbage
input is being sent from my console device to the OpenBSD machine when
the console device boots (booting Windows 2K in this case). The reason
for the 1 in 25 or so frequency is because this event only occurs
Steven Presser wrote:
We have settled on
what software to use for everything but the mail server.
I'm reasonably happy using the Courier-MTA suite on OpenBSD. It's had
four reported vulnerabilities
(http://secunia.com/product/2557/?task=advisories), three DOS and one
remote-code-execution
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenBSD has really made a cool solution with pkg_add -u, but why not kernel
and basesystem binary updates as well?
You can do binary updates. On your build machine just update to -stable
and do make release, then upgrade your machines.
Siju George wrote:
I wish somebody would design a simple hardware that has 24 or more NIC
ports ( and of course WiFi ) and processor than can install OpenBSD.
With PF then I could have a very inexpensive managed switch with ACLS
for all hosts on the network:-)
The problem isn't just getting
Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
Assuming you don't try to do more with it than you have CPU and RAM for,
you should be fine. However, once you've tested that all your hardware
works with the GENERIC kernel, I would strongly recommend you compile a
custom kernel and run that (do a Web search for a Perl
James Turner wrote:
Although this seems like a great printer, my biggest limitation is price. We
have a university property disposition near me, which I'm going to go check out
later today. My friend has gotten a couple sun sparc stations from them for
under $20 bucks. I'm hoping they will
Thomas Mullins wrote:
We are going to build a wireless network using OpenBSD. I have looked
at http://www.openbsd.com/i386.html#hardware to see the supported
wireless PCI cards. Could someone please recommend an 802.11g card that
has a stronger transmit power? Or another card they have had
Toni Mueller wrote:
If Qemu runs OpenBSD, that'd answer another long-standing question I
had in my pipe because I'm currently lacking such a thing.
VMware Server is now cost-free as well, if the rest of the license is
acceptable.
Brad Brad wrote:
Scp's between the guest and host only manage about 5KB/s so I tried
going back to le which worked great. I configured a new kernel with
disable pcn* but on next boot I had no nics at all, so i tried again
disable pci* also since I think le is isa, but it still didn't work.
smith wrote:
Why?:
I've received a few new computers that I have to configure.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multiple
Damian Wiest wrote:
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multiple
Disk imaging
My point was more to use the siteXX.tgz file to deploy the OS plus all
modified files.
unde find wrote:
Hello Misc. Very recently came into my hands a compaq 1U proliant DL360
server.
Openbsd runs just great on it!
I only have 1 problem. Openbsd only see's 1 of the 2 processors the server
has equiped.
If bsd.mp doesn't fix your problem, download the Smartstart 5.5 ISO from
HP
Artur Grabowski wrote:
# uptime
6:45PM up 9136 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.26, 0.12, 0.09
I win.
http://www.blahonga.org/~art/diffs/epenis-enlargement.20060210
What's that patch do, adjust the insecurelevel?
Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
If you have some time could you apply all patches and see if the
device work as expected? Feel free to contact me if you need more
info about how to test these diffs and/or to make uaudio(4) work
Installed the patches, now
audioctl -f /dev/audioctl1
Passeur wrote:
Also I would like the PC to actualy shut down when I do shutdown -h now
instead of having to press the power button. This option is supported but
disabled by default as far I have read, but how to enable it ?
See the first and last message at
Brian Candler wrote:
That makes a lot of sense. But enforcing that policy might be difficult.
This is important if you're relying on your gold server for disaster
recovery purposes - if the target machines had some change made which nobody
remembers and weren't reflected in the gold server, then
I've got a Xitel DG2, which is a USB sound card with optical output. I
previously set up a nice music player using mpd, and it worked great.
Unfortunately the drive died, so I'm building a new one. (The old
install's dmesg is at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=115863499102215,
the hardware
I've got an IBM A31p with a ral minipci card. It works fine with two
different 802.11b access points (one with WEP, one without), but does
not work with 802.11g access point (an OpenBSD box with a ral card).
When I associate with the G AP and run dhclient it never gets an IP
address. Any
Has anyone successfully gotten Vista to dual-boot with OpenBSD using
bcdedit? I found EasyBCD which will transfer control to Grub, but it
seems I shouldn't have to load Grub to boot OpenBSD.
Russell Fulton wrote:
My question is are the em NIC drivers vulnerable to the recently
announced intel NIC driver stack overflow bugs? I see that there are
new FREEBSD em drivers available on the Intel site but no mention of
Open BSD.
What makes you think the FreeBSD drivers are vulnerable?
Dries Schellekens wrote:
I don't see what this has to do by blobs in drivers?
There is nothing wrong the closed source software. You can even systrace
it if you don't want it to misbehave...
You also don't have to run it as root, and/or in the kernel.
Didier Wiroth wrote:
I updated my rather old sources via cvs and had lots of the following output:
bdwrite: force async write on the buffer 0xd8003f20
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscs=bdwrite
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
I was wondering if this would work in OpenBSD
Maybe.
http://scott.weston.id.au/software/pymissile-20060126/
Damian Wiest wrote:
If you're looking to add dual, or triple-headed support or connect your
system to a television or A/V receiver, good luck. I've had nothing but
problems trying to find a suitable card with BSD support. I'm currently
trying a Radeon 9600XT which some people have claimed
Podo Carp wrote:
I recently underwent an audit of my OpenBSD 3.8 systems and the audit report
identified CVE-2004-0700 (mod-proxy/mod_ssl format string vulnerability) as
a potential risk.
Perhaps your scanner relies on reported versions, rather than actual
vulnerabilities?
If I'm reading
I tried enabling ACPI (uncommenting ACPIVERBOSE and ACPI_ENABLE and the
acpi* devices) in -current, and the resulting kernel doesn't boot. It
hangs after acpitimer0, partial dmesg below. GENERIC dmesg can be found
at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=116079014005773. Let me know if
there's
I'm trying to set up -current on an HP nc8230 laptop, dmesg at end of
message. I'm having some network trouble.
When connected by wired Ethernet, running /etc/netstart won't get an IP
address (via dhcp). However, if I just run dhclient bge0 I get an
address without a problem.
Secondly, when
Bryan Irvine wrote:
You win.
I'm waiting for Nick Holland to chime in... he's probably got an SE/30
in production, or maybe a VAXstation 2000.
Would one of the developers please rebuild X for -current i386? The
10/10 snapshot seems to have cranked the libc revision, but the 10/7 X
seems to still uses the old libc. (At least, on a fresh install using
the 10/10 sets and the 10/7 X, it complains that it can't find
libc.so.39 and .40
John Tate wrote:
How would I go about cross compiling OpenBSD from i386 to sparc64?
I am just interested because I want to build a system from a faar faster
processor if possible.
In general, cross-compiling isn't supported on OpenBSD, except when
bringing up a new architecture. Why not
Diana Eichert wrote:
The subject line sez it all.
I've been looking for a small embedded system to run OpenBSD on and very
recent commits makes this look interesting.
Hm, yes, interesting.
http://www.plextor.com/english/products/product_nas.htm has Add to cart
USA links, but I couldn't get
M.Salah wrote:
I would like to help funding the project but not Like this !! more money
goes to the wrong person.
You could always make your own CDs or DVDs, and then donate whatever
you're comfortable with to the project. That way all the money goes to
the project, and there's little cost
Nick Holland wrote:
Lesson there /might/ be: old PXE stuff is unreliable, new stuff is
better. If you aren't sure how old it is, get something that can be
updated.
Alternatively, get gigabit cards that support PXE, which should be new
enough to avoid problems. I've never seen a gigabit card
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
steve, these PXE capable cards are intended for the myriad shitboxes i currently
lord it over and i can't justify the additional expense of gigabit cards.
Depends what you call cheap. Newegg's got new gig cards starting at
$7, but I guess you could get a box full or
I've got a Cisco Atheros card, it shows up in dmesg as:
ath0 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0 Atheros Communications, Inc.,
AR5001--, Wireless LAN Reference Card: irq 11
ath0: AR5213 5.6 phy 4.1 rf5112 3.6, FCC1A, address 00:40:96:a1:49:3c
I can associate and connect to a Linksys AP
Joachim Schipper wrote:
Try mine: refurbished Dell Optiplex GX1, 400 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB
memory, and two matching pairs of harddisks (6.1 and 4 GB) with a
combination of RAIDframe, altroot, and regular backups guaranteeing data
consistency. Runs mail, DNS, web, and a couple of other services,
Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
http://web.archive.org/web/20041130083644/http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PPTP
More specifically,
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/www/faq/faq6.html, revision 1.211.
Votenak Vladimmr wrote:
Please can you give me some advice???
With a 2xPPro, I'm guessing you've got an LH Pro or similar. I've got
an LH II, and the last time I tried bsd.mp on it there were plenty of
problems, early MP servers did some odd things to make multi-processors
work. I'd try
Jonas Thambert wrote:
Proliant bios Im using is P29 and MegaRAID bios is from mid 2004.
On HP/Compaq servers, P29 refers to the firmware class, i.e. what
motherboard is installed. (Also, if you really have P29 firmware,
you've got a DL380 G3.) You can find a revision history of the P29
Prabhu Gurumurthy wrote:
How about using login_radius feature by modifying login.conf to add a
new radius profile and authenticate against a RADIUS server. You can
compile freeradius and have rad_ldap plugin on the RADIUS server to
authenticate against AD.
Will that still require creating
I'm researching setting up a wireless gateway using OpenBSD and authpf.
We've got an existing Active Directory (2003) domain with about 5000
user accounts that I'd like to authenticate against.
LDAP seemed like the obvious choice, but it appears I need to create
local accounts to use
Andreas Bartelt wrote:
as nobody answers, I conclude I'm the only one experiencing this problem
on CURRENT. I've rebuilt CURRENT today and the problem persists. I don't
experience this problem on my OPENBSD_3_9 boxes (kernel from June, 17th).
I had some problems like this (although I thought
Nick Shank wrote:
I appear to be loosing time on a virtual machine running OpenBSD 3.9/
release under vmware workstation. The system is a Sun Ultra 40, and the
host OS is XP-64, and keeps time fine. Thoughts?
Don't rely on the clocks to stay synced in a guest OS unless you can run
VM tools.
Xavier Mertens wrote:
I found why my box freezes when booting 3.9 (GENERIC).
I need to disable the CPU cache in the BIOS (PIII 1Ghz).
Maybe the CPU cache is bad?
Shawn D'Alimonte wrote:
I have recently obtained a PC that I want to run OpenBSD, but can't get
it to boot.
You might try disabling the onboard video and use a PCI or ISA VGA card.
Can anyone suggest a good USB audio device that's supported under
OpenBSD? I'm looking for something that won't sound like crap when
played through a home stereo. I tried an AOpen PCI card some time ago
thinking that having an optical output would make having a cheap card
irrelevant, boy was
Nick Shank wrote:
And, while I know it's a very different animal, it's still a Compaq
server... I get the same error on a Proliant ML370 when using bsd.mp.
I've got 3.9 running on a DL380 without trouble (GENERIC.MP), and that
should be the same mainboard as an ML370. Make sure you've got
Nick Shank wrote:
after enabling sensors via sysctl, I still get no sensors
found.
Do you have any supported sensors in your dmesg, such as lm? See iic(4).
Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
How do I tell my named(8) to only listen on udp ports, and leave tcp
ports for sshd(8)? Is this at all possible with named.conf alone? I've
glanced through named.conf(5), but didn't find the desired option
there...
If you can't do it with named, you could use pf
Giancarlo Razzolini wrote:
This hack already exist. AFAIK, delegate http://www.delegate.org, can do
this.
Be careful what you wish for! He finally got around to checking for
string buffer overflows in December 2004:
http://www.delegate.org/mail-lists/delegate-en/2793
DeleGate has a
STeve Andre' wrote:
You know, all this discussion of the scalability of OpenBSD is really
fruitless.
Agreed. Puffer fish do not have scales, therefore OpenBSD is not
scalable at all.
Jeff Ross wrote:
Backing up root filesystem:
copying /dev/rsd0a to /dev/rsd0n
One spindle, disk thrashes.
Backing up root filesystem:
copying /dev/rwd0a to /dev/rwd1m
Two spindles, disk does not thrash.
Joachim Schipper wrote:
OpenBSD has an isp(4) driver, as 'man isp' will tell you. Nothing
obviously ServeRAIDish in there, though.
FreeBSD's ServeRAID driver is ips, not isp. isp is for QLogic controllers.
Joachim Schipper wrote:
'not configured' typically means the kernel knows what it is, but
doesn't know what to do with it.
More specifically, it means that the kernel knows the PCI device's ID
and vendor, but doesn't have a driver to hook it to.
FreeBSD supports it with the ips driver and
Didier Wiroth wrote:
I was wondering if someone uses a PCIe graphic card with dual dvi output
under x11 on Openbsd 3.9 or current?
I'm using a Matrox G450 (dual analog, PCI), but they have a G550 PCIe
that has dual DVI and may work.
Ste Jones wrote:
7 days before the official patch
7 weeks.
Lasse Bach wrote:
Wtf is that? How can that be a secret?
Because the WMP54G, at least, isn't manufactured by Linksys, it's a
rebadged Lite-On? (Hint: FCC ID)
Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to:
1. Can v5 af the card be used with the ral driver?
If you can
Nick Nauwelaerts wrote:
Nice, my 4 socket dual core opteron (hp bl45p) panics whenever I try to
scp something to it. And because it doesn't have much in video hardware
save java-web based stuff I can't even get a decent trace out of it.
Sure you can, just ssh into the ilo and connect to the
Gustavo Rios wrote:
Does it make any difference to have dual core processor or not with openbsd ?
I understand OpenBSD will use both cores, IFF your motherboard is
mpbios-compliant, which most single-processor motherboards are not. I
haven't actually tried this, so I could be mistaken.
Phusion wrote:
I will be moving some servers and switches in the near future. The
computer equipment is all rack-mountable so it's 1U and 2U. I was
wondering if anyone could recommend storage containers for this type
of computer equipment. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks.
At work, we
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
I keep seeing this, but I sometimes see the opposite. That MySQL is faster
meme seems peristent though, as if the PostgreSQL want to provide *some*
justification for people to continue to have a reason for MySQL.
MySQL is perhaps slightly faster by default;
Karl Kopp wrote:
One thing I need to do urgently tho is move my /var mount - I'm not 100% how
to do this on a running box with the least amount of down time. Any hints /
advice would be greatly appreciated!
Check towards the end of the
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#NewDisk (14.3)
Niklaus wrote:
How do i disable users on a system to run their own http proxy. I
don't want to allow users who have login accounts on my system to
listen to any port . How do i do that.
Don't cross-post.
pf will probably do what you want, they'll be able to run the proxy, but
won't be able
(Redirecting to misc@, since I think the smp@ list is mostly dead.)
Marco Derix wrote:
I'm running the latest bios from HP/Compaq available for my system
(Compaq Proliant 800 (P2) V4.08a dated 4/19/2000). I also tried the
system configuration utility, but there was nothing I could configure
Peter Bako wrote:
I don't have any way of capturing the screen, but here are the last few
lines:
Uhub1 at usb1
Uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
Uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
Uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 Intel 82801DB USB rev 0x03: irq 10
J wrote:
I've got an openbsd 3.8 box that I want joined to a win2k Active
Directory domain.
As a client, or as a server? If it's a server, try googling samba ldap
authentication (no quotes). I haven't done this with Samba, but I've
used LDAP to authenticate Apache users on OpenBSD against
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Attempting to fetch /usr/ports/distfiles/freetype-1.3.1.tar.gz from
http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/.
Size does not match for /usr/ports/distfiles/freetype-1.3.1.tar.gz
Try a different sourceforge mirror.
I've currently got a server running syslog-ng (1.6.9) with PostgreSQL
(8.1.1) on a 3.9 snapshot from March 1. The setup has been working well
for a while, but I've recently been told to have it accept syslog for a
couple of anti-spam appliance devices, and they generate between 1-2
million
viq wrote:
I'm playing with OpenBSD in a virtual machine (VMWare) on my linux box. The
box has two CPUs, so every once in a while I try to set the machine to have
two as well - which every singe time ends in a crash after some time. Any
hints as to how I could get the trace etc out of it short
Smith wrote:
I would even consider doing away with dns and point everyone to the isp
dns along with using static ip addresses. You only need dns if you
anticipate a lot of users making dns queries to the point of affecting
your bandwidth or you need a dns server to point the rest of the
Gustavo Rios wrote:
Although i can use mpg123 to play a mp3 file or even cdio to play
audio cd., i hear no sound.
For kicks, try plugging your speakers into one of the other ports on the
motherboard (mic, line). Sometimes the manufacturers misroute the
outputs, then fix it in the Windows
David T Harris wrote:
I think he means to go and unplug your speakers from the
computer case, and then plug that plug into one of the other
ports in your computer case.
No need to mess with any operating system (for now).
Exactly. My Asus P4PE had this exact symptom. I wrote a patch that
Koen Van Impe wrote:
Would anyone like to share his/her experiences with a Dell Precision M70
and OpenBSD?
It just so happens I got one to toy with here for a little bit. I threw
on the last 3.9-beta snapshot (Generic #617), I'll get a dmesg off of it
this weekend. Didn't recognize
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have verified
with memtest86 that I have 128 Mb of good RAM (one stick)
real mem = 268017664 (261736K)
avail mem = 238702592 (233108K)
Do you also have one bad stick installed? I'm not sure of OpenBSD's
mechanism for detecting installed memory, but if you
Danilo Piazzalunga wrote:
Am I missing something? Are snapshot not available anymore?
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#NoSnaps
Mike Loiterman wrote:
How can I tell if my -stable binary upgrade was successful?
I have done make obj make build but after several hours, the machine
seems locked up. What should the last few lines of output be? I can't ssh
in, and the keyboard is non-fucntional from the console. Should
L. V. Lammert wrote:
You're been saving Adaptec Promise raidctl, for 4.0, right?
That, and NdisWrapper support.
I'm using relaydb to scan through my mailbox (maildir format) to
whitelist and blacklist. I do something like this in my Inbox:
for message in $MAILBASE/cur/*
do
cat $message | /usr/local/bin/relaydb -vwf /var/spamd/relaydb
done
The problem with this is that I keep messages in my Inbox; so,
A Rossi wrote:
I like this idea.
But one question:
is it possible for the OpenBSD box to access all these hidden
partitions through SMB as one large storage space possibly with some
kind of error protection?
This sound like it might be more of a Samba question... But I'll ask
here anyways.
Joachim Mathes wrote:
- switched network cards from Realtek 8139 (100Mbit) to Realtek 8029 (10Mbit;
works fine for pppoe) (I know they are of poor quality!)
Throw out the Realtek cards and buy a good nic. I had a server (clone
P3) with network performance issues, saving files to the
dereck wrote:
The responses here are totally out of line.
So was his last comment in
http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.openbsd.misc/msg/942c4c6d5bc26fca
uv negativa wrote:
Hi all,
Well, i need some help!
what is the best Wireless hardware supported on openbsd?
FCC IDs are often a good way to tell the difference if you're in the US.
http://shockley.net/wireless/listcards.aspx
Additions to this page are welcomed...
Dirk Fohrenkamm wrote:
Have you tried upgrading the firmware?
Yes, I did (firmware 4.03 is the newest that I've found...)
I've successfully flashed HP Netraids with the current equivalent LSI
firmware, although it's probably a one-way process and you may wind up
with a doorstop.
Bruno Carnazzi wrote:
Is there some stability/performance advantage in upgrading the
Proliant Firmware ?
Since it's not on HP's web site (that I can find), here's the firmware
changelog:
Version 2002.12.18B (Contains Bug Fixes)
Enhancements
Added support for Windows Server 2003.
Fixes
Bruno Carnazzi wrote:
Everything seems to work fine but OpenBSD find only one CPU ! :(
Somebody know why and how can I use the 2 CPUs ?
I have a DL380 G1 (as well as two 1850s) running OpenBSD, works fine
with dual CPUs. As others mentioned, try changing the OS type to Linux
or Other.
Nick Holland wrote:
Oh, and what's with that picture on www.openbsd.org (lower-right corner)?
It is a cluster of computers using OpenBSD.
They're all firewalls; Theo gets hit with a lot of malicious traffic.
eric wrote:
Right, but the problem with a zaurus is that it doesn't lend itself to be a
gateway easily. Further, there's many insecure products out there that I'm
sure many of us are using for wireless access. Yes, I've created ad-hoc
networks, etc., but this is a low powered device with no
Julesg wrote:
this build has taken all day and 12GB on a 1400MHz machine! and I am wondering
if I am old fashioned because I think this is bloat! But I need this; Please
help.
Use packages instead of ports?
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