Re: Linus at NewsForge...
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:14:38 +0200, Dimitri proclaimed... OpenBSD: http://www.screensavershot.com/automation/hummer.jpg A Hummer? No way! Those aren't flexible and capable like OpenBSD :) Instead, I submit the following: http://www.midwestjeepthing.com/mymwjt/jeepimages/2061/newliftfrontside.JPG
Re: Linus at NewsForge...
On 6/15/05, Dimitri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's like cars I guess. Linux: http://www.metricmind.com/images/fiat_mult.jpg OpenBSD: http://www.screensavershot.com/automation/hummer.jpg Windows XP: http://www.foxtoys.cz/nrb04/1-43%20Lada%201200%20%20Ixo%20Models.jpg lol, this is hilarious... I especially like the windows xp dig!! ;P -jf
Re: PHP or Mysql problem?
Kiraly Zoltan wrote: mysql error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/#sql_4c99_0.MYD' (Errcode: 9) snip mysql error: Can't find file: './bsdforums/administrator.frm' (errno: 9) May be a simple search will help you. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=mysql+openfiles+openbsdbtnG=Google+Search http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-miscw=2r=1s=mysql+%2Berrcode+9q=b Daniel
Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?
Well, the microsoft XP firewall log file is pf.log. -Original Message- From: Bob DeBolt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 June 2005 08:12 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls? Funny you should bring this up today I just received a phone call from a headhunter from 3000 miles away who is looking for couple of people who are opensource security savvy (closer to the engineering level and C proficient) and the conversation related to his client who is putting together firewall / VPN appliances based on OpenBSD and / or Linux. I would not have received the call had I not been involved in OpenBSD, likely numerous others have received similar calls. It is likely that there are scores of companies using OpenBSD code / ideas or portions thereof, that won't reveal what they are doing. Microsoft comes to mind. Any comments on the devices? Links would be appreciated. Bob
Re: more file descriptors for user www
eric wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:05:54 +0200, Alexander Hall proclaimed... Create a new class (e.g. www or httpd) and use sudo (as root) to run httpd using that new class. What the hell are you talking about? Just change the www users' class and modify /etc/login.conf. It will then propagate. I'm talking about similar issues with mysql, where the change of user (and group?) id made by the daemon itself did not automatically make use of the appropriate login class (which I suppose is proper behaviour), but instead kept running as the login class of the user that started the daemon. I seem to recall that using something like `sudo -c _mysql mysqld_safe' solved the issue, and I thought that the same thing could apply to this case. Since, as the original poster implies, www never logs in, login.conf is not read (at least not by login(1)). If this is done automagically by httpd, then of course this is not the problem here. Please enlighten me if I am talking out of my ass, and in that case, please specify what parts I've got the wrong idea about. /Alexander
Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?
IP Freedom by Ridgeway Systems also use OpenBSD. Although not a firewall, it is usually used in conjuction _with_ a firewall, for enabling conferencing products to work, even if the firewall does not support the protocols. http://www.ridgewaysystems.com/products_ipf_faqs.aspx Ok, slightly off topic, but an addition to the users.html I suppose. Tor
Re: PHP or Mysql problem?
Hi Kiraly, mysql error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/ #sql_4c99_0.MYD' (Errcode: 9) MySQL problem. Simple suggestions, not idiot-proof: /etc/my.cnf: [mysqld_safe] open-files = 1024 Up kern.maxfiles, if needed. `sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=17720`, for instance. Modify /etc/sysctl.conf to make changes permanent. /etc/login.conf changes: daemon:\ :ignorenologin:\ :datasize=infinity:\ :maxproc=infinity:\ :openfiles-cur=1024:\ --- check this one :stacksize-cur=8M:\ :localcipher=blowfish,8:\ :tc=default: and/or: default:\ :path=/usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/local/ bin:\ :umask=022:\ :datasize-max=512M:\ --- check this one :datasize-cur=256M:\ --- check this one :maxproc-max=128:\ :maxproc-cur=64:\ :openfiles-cur=1024:\ --- check this one :stacksize-cur=4M:\ :localcipher=blowfish,6:\ :ypcipher=old:\ :tc=auth-defaults:\ :tc=auth-ftp-defaults: Whatever suits your need. A reboot will make mysql run in class daemon, if you start mysql with `sudo mysqld_safe `, you'll most probably be in class default. That's why I upped both. If I am wrong, somebody will kick me in the nuts, so do check back here. ;-) I've had problems with both open files and memory limits. Those problems are gone now. HTH... Nico
mount_union hangs the system.
Hello, I am using the generic kernel on 3.7 and it seems that unionfs isnt built into it. I tried to compile sys/miscfs/union/* into a VFS lkm as suggested in /usr/share/lkm/vfs/ (for kernfs). loaded the module successfully after compilation. Here is the make file i used // SRCS=unionfsmod.c OBJS=$(SRCS:.c=.o) KSRCS=/sys/miscfs/union/union_vfsops.c /sys/miscfs/union/union_vnops.c KSRCS+=/sys/miscfs/union/union_subr.c KOBJS=union_vfsops.o union_vnops.o union_subr.o MODOBJ=combined.o KMOD=unionfsmod CFLAGS+= -D_KERNEL -I/sys -I. all: $(MODOBJ) clean: rm -f $(OBJS) $(KOBJS) $(MODOBJ) $(KMOD) load: modload -o $(KMOD) -e$(KMOD) $(MODOBJ) unload: modunload -n $(KMOD) union_vfsops.o: /sys/miscfs/union/union_vfsops.c $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $ union_vnops.o: /sys/miscfs/union/union_vnops.c $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $ union_subr.o: /sys/miscfs/union/union_subr.c $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $ $(MODOBJ): $(OBJS) $(KOBJS) $(LD) -r -o $(MODOBJ) $(OBJS) $(KOBJS) .include bsd.own.mk However when i tried # mount -t union /sys $HOME/sys The system died. Has anyone else faced similar problems. Please point out what i might be doing wrong. TIA varun.
Re: mount_union hangs the system.
--On 15 June 2005 15:49 +0530, Varun Dubey wrote: Hello, I am using the generic kernel on 3.7 and it seems that unionfs isnt built into it. I tried to compile sys/miscfs/union/* into a VFS lkm as suggested in /usr/share/lkm/vfs/ (for kernfs). loaded the module successfully after compilation. unionfs has gone, http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20050527155028
Re: PHP or Mysql problem?
Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Kiraly, mysql error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/ #sql_4c99_0.MYD' (Errcode: 9) MySQL problem. Simple suggestions, not idiot-proof: /etc/my.cnf: Mmm..installing mysqlserver usually doesn't create /etc/my.cfn...isn't it? I can't find that file but I'm running mysqld...
Re: ADSL connection (PPPoE)
Clint Pachl wrote: (I know I should start a new thread with this, but here we go) Can't an OpenBSD box handle a PPPoE/PPPoA connection directly? I recently setup a VPN between two networks with DSL connections where the modems make a PPPoA connection. An OpenBSD box resides behind each modem. Basically, the modem gets an IP address dynamically, does the authentication, and gets the block of static IPs, one of which the OBSD box gets. So I was thinking, couldn't the OBSD box theoretically make the connection and eliminate the modem all together? As far as I know, and I'm certain someone will correct me if I'm wrong, OpenBSD cannot make a PPPoA connection, but can make a PPPoE connection. So, no, you need something else (for example, a modem) to make the ATM connection.
Re: Installing OpenBSD on Zaurus without Compact Flash
Thanks to all who replied. I eventually got OpenBSD installed by ``insmod zbsdmod.o; cp bsd.rd /proc/zboot'', partitioning the hard drive to the example in INSTALL.zaurus, booting into Linux again, copying the installation files to the DOS partition (minus X), booting into OpenBSD again, and installing. OpenBSD was installed, but it was still booting into Linux, despite ``fdisk -u wd0''. I discovered the terminal program on CD1 and installed that. Then ``su root -c 'ipkg install openbsd37_arm.ipk'', and it was booting into OpenBSD. Is there a way to have the Zaurus boot directly into OpenBSD without using the openbsd37_arm.ipk file? I then installed X. It should be noted that, although the USB ethernet cards I bought for the occasion are recognized by OpenBSD, it doesn't seem to work if I booted into OpenBSD from the ``insmod cp'' method. Thanks again! -Ray- On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 03:26:11AM +0200, Uwe Stuehler wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:36:38AM -0400, Ray wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install OpenBSD on my Zaurus but no stores around me carry Compact Flash wired/unwired ethernet cards. I've got an SD card with an OpenBSD snapshot on it and a USB ethernet card (which Linux doesn't have a driver for but hopefully OpenBSD will). The text is all Japanese so I'm sort of feeling in the dark. I tried to install the OpenBSD package from the SD card by inserting it and clicking on it. I get prompted twice in Japanese (the latter of which looks like an error message, with the giant exclamation point and all), I click what I presume to be OK, reboot, but I don't get an OpenBSD boot prompt and booting into Linux doesn't give me an OpenBSD application. So now I try the hard way, booting into single-user mode. Unfortunately the ipkg binary is nowhere to be found, so I can't install the package there either. Other than single-user mode I can't find any other terminal program on the system. I was tempted to just skip that step and just ``insmod zbsdmod.o; cp bsd.rd /proc/zboot'' but I didn't want to be left with a dead Zaurus by doing stuff out of order. Any suggestions? -Ray- Rename openbsd37_arm.ipk to openbsd_arm.ipk and try again. While Qtopia's GUI installer refuses to install packages with the former name from the filesystem, it will happily install packages with any name via network. Clever... The insmod and cp method is also safe to try it if you just want to see whether your USB card works, as long as you don't modify the disk.
Re: kernel: page trap fault
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:46:04 +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I hope someone with much more insight looks into this, Seems nobody follows up, yet. I did: swapped out the NIC which would generate the fault 1. into another slot *plus* 2. replaced it with another NIC (also RTL8139, other vendor) 3. removed the third NIC from PCI slots (now only two NICs left) 4. changed the hostnames to relieve the 'crasher' from 100BASE duplex to 10BASE simplex And still, the first few TCP packets kill 3.7. FYI, that's all I could do, Uwe
Re: tftp:bsd.rd RLX
Thanks for the confirmation. I'll invest in a device that will link all the serial consoles together with network access. On 6/14/05, Diana Eichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I re-read what you posted, you will only be able to see console output from RLX blades on the serial port. RLX did some linux mumbo-jumbo magic to redirect to the rlxconsole, which they never open sourced, though I tried real hard to get them to do so. Now that they are out of the blade server market I bet they could care less whether you can get it to work. I lost all faith in them after I visited their booth at SC2004 last Novemeber, then they announced they were shutting down their blade server line the following week. I agree. These RLXs are a PIS. I use serial console servers to talk to the serial ports on my RLX blade servers. Also, I managed to locate the HD boot code that supports set tty set ktty, but I believe the pxeboot loader is on the Linux system blade that I pulled from the chassis after I brought up all the blades on OpenBSD. That's ok. OpenBSD's pxeboot works. It was just the kernel not writing to the rlxconsole that was confusing me, especially thinking that linux did without a rlx mod. Btw, I posted before without much advice, but what do you do for a raid solution on your rlxs?
Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?
Ray Percival([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005.06.14 09:49:25 -0700: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:52:53AM -0500, James Harless wrote: I know that several firewall vendors use various flavors of Linux as the basis for their devices. Are there any that use OpenBSD similarly? If so, which? Any comments on the devices? Links would be appreciated. If it is the latter there is strong evidence that IPSO (The OS on Nokia and Checkpoint based firewalls) is derived from OpenBSD. I can't think of any commercial vendors that use pf and advertise the fact. IPSO derived from FreeBSD as a engineer employed at nokia told me; regards teemu -- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Schopenhauer [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Teemu Schaabl wrote: IPSO derived from FreeBSD as a engineer employed at nokia told me; In the version of IPSO I once used you didn't need to guess, the names of the FreeBSD developers were still in some of the files on the system. IPSO is a heavily modified version of FreeBSD, that is well known within the IPSO user community. -- Brett Lymn
Why Warren Buffett Chose FX Over Real Estate - Live Meeting June 21st on Alternative Investments
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Writing to console...
Hello all, I was downloading GNU gcc on a machine and when I looked over after the download, the screen was writing: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy If this is normal I didn't take it as such, I immediately took the machine off the test network. So, praytell, what gives? thanks in advance, kevin
Recommendations for pop3s daemon?
Finding myself in need of a POP3S daemon, I headed over to the ports tree to get the old standar UW, and noticed that there are several of the little devils hiding out in there. Anyone have any recommendations? Favorites? Pros and cons? Reasons to use something other than UW? Any information would be greatly appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenBSD in commercial firewalls?
Ray Percival wrote: If it is the latter there is strong evidence that IPSO (The OS on Nokia and Checkpoint based firewalls) is derived from OpenBSD. Nokia say that IPSO is based on FreeBSD
Re: Problem booting from wd0
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:06:14 -0500, arf wrote: Use dd form /dev/zero to wipe MBR and start of disk. Check Bios settings - AMI Bios set to Auto shows LBA mode and DMA, etc. I'm not so sure here; what this would be good for. Downloaded June 10 snapshot and checked md5 sums. Installed without problems. The installboot output was: boot: /mnt/boot proto: /usr/mdec/biosboot device: /dev/rwd0c /usr/mdec/biosboot: entry point 0 proto bootblock size 512 /mnt/boot is 3 blocks x 16384 bytes fs block shift 2; part offset 63; inode block 24, offset 1704 using MBR partition 0: type 166 (0xa6) offset 63 (0x3f) what does installboot do here ? Maybe I'm simply lost or stupid.? You're doing a fresh install, or what ? How's your disk layout ? (And, as Nick pointed out, does it boot from diskette / CD ?) http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#Bootloader http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#Boot386 scroll down to What can go wrong and understand how to recreate the MBR. HTH, Uwe, who runs a 160GB hard disk without any hassle on a 1995 P100 MB with a limit of 8GB hard disk; and a root partition of 150 MB at 'a'. With the completely wrong geometry. I guess, as long as the '/' is found somehow, the rest is taken over from the BIOS.
Re: tftp:bsd.rd RLX
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Rob Foster wrote: Thanks for the confirmation. I'll invest in a device that will link all the serial consoles together with network access. FWIW, we use Think Logical secure console servers at the office. We used to use LANtronix, but switched to Think Logical, http://www.thinklogical.com/ . Btw, I posted before without much advice, but what do you do for a raid solution on your rlxs? don't do RAID on the RLX blades we have, even though all of them have dual hard drives on them. diana
Re: Writing to console...
On 2005-06-15 at 17:17:30 kevin wrote: I was downloading GNU gcc on a machine and when I looked over after the download, the screen was writing: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy It's probably just your screensaver, don't panic. :P See http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/screenshots.html and search for XJack. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
Re: moving to a bigger disk
its quite simple... boot into single user mode, foreach partition you have, mount the src under /src/X and /dst/X (where src is the old disk and dst is the new disk) and do a: cd /src/X; tar cf - . | (cd /dst/X; tar xpf - ) ive used this before, works great. after that just make sure you install your boot blocks. Mihai IACOB wrote: Hello! I need to move my OpenBSD 3.6 installation to a bigger disk, because the /usr partition is 92% full. And no, I cannot keep both disks. I searched google and found nothing similar to my situation. I think I can partition and label the new disk, dd the / partition, then copy /var and /usr with tar/pax/cpio, switch the disks and pray it works. Do you think the above steps might work or did anyone do this before? Thank you for your time. Mihai IACOB -- Tony Lambiris [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] so if it is really hard for you then perhaps you are just retarded and need treatment w/ electricity and if that does not help then perhaps should not use computers...
Re: Recommendations for pop3s daemon?
On Jun 15, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Jeff Simmons wrote: Finding myself in need of a POP3S daemon, I headed over to the ports tree to get the old standar UW, and noticed that there are several of the little devils hiding out in there. Anyone have any recommendations? Favorites? Pros and cons? Reasons to use something other than UW? Any information would be greatly appreciated. This has been beaten to death on the list. To summarize, most folks use Courier (maildir) or dovecot (mbox or maildir). -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
Re: Recommendations for pop3s daemon?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been using mail/solid-pop3d FLAVOR=apop on my LAN. The pop_auth utility is handy for setting up ssh-public-key-like logins. Jeff Simmons wrote: Finding myself in need of a POP3S daemon, I headed over to the ports tree to get the old standar UW, and noticed that there are several of the little devils hiding out in there. Anyone have any recommendations? Favorites? Pros and cons? Reasons to use something other than UW? Any information would be greatly appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCsFdaBOPsJyAQkeARAv2kAJwIZTqqR+kDkx5+JucnXQbI7ngB/wCfbvdF Gj7eURAUkZB8AVnr6uZas3U= =P/5W -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Linus at NewsForge...
im not a hummer fan myself, but who cares. and im not going to even bother with your comments. can misc@ be alterd so only subscribed addresses can send to it, and to become subscribed you need to take an iq test or something, well i know iq tests are not perfect. perhaps a im not a lame linux/windows lover that wants to try and defend 'my ego' by spamming misc@ test. im even willing to work on the questions. #1 do you gnu? #2 do you think bill is sexy? #3 there is no #3 (if you anwser yes, you loose) ... could be some more, sbr. On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Bruno Delbono wrote: Dimitri wrote: It's like cars I guess. OpenBSD: http://www.screensavershot.com/automation/hummer.jpg Perfect example.They suck a lot of fuel, run slow, have expensive maintenance, give shitty millage and when found on the urban roads driven by a red neck dude are nothing but show off toys. WOW! What beautiful comparison to OpenBSD. You've captured it all, misc@ zealotry, OpenBSD speed/performance (lol), misc@ ego checks and everything in between. -Bruno
Re: Writing to console...
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:17:30AM -0500, kevin wrote: Hello all, I was downloading GNU gcc on a machine and when I looked over after the download, the screen was writing: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy If this is normal I didn't take it as such, I immediately took the machine off the test network. So, praytell, what gives? thanks in advance, kevin Sounds like xscreensaver xjack was running Paul
Re: 'I am beginning to think'
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 12:31:16AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: On Tuesday 14 June 2005 10:00 pm, Christer Solstrand Johannessen wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Dave Feustel wrote: [mac mini+ms office:mac] I have been thinking about getting a Mac. I hadn't considered a mini, but that is an intriguing idea. What does the above hardware and software cost in the US? 1.25GHz/40GB/256MB ram Mac mini from $499. 1.42GHz/80GB/256MB ram Mac mini from $599. MS Office:mac 2004 $399.95. All prices from Apple's website and current as of right now. Cheers, -Christer I can't afford this software, but thanks for the info. Okay, Appleworks comes bundled with the mini, and via translator software, opens excel spreadsheets, or at least most of them. (None of the OpenBSD packages would likely open ALL Excel sheets either, even if they *could* print.) -- 83. If I'm eating dinner with the hero, put poison in his goblet, then have to leave the table for any reason, I will order new drinks for both of us instead of trying to decide whether or not to switch with him. --Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord You can get a machine that runs WinXP proficiently for 200 bucks, Office Basic is 180, Windows XP home is 80... 460 bucks. Put it behind your OBSD firewall and you'll be fine and have the most modular productivity suite on Earth at your fingertips. By the way, in what manner does this have any Fing thign to do with OBSD?
Rebooting... and hang
I4ve installed OpenBSD3.7 on a i386box (asus mainboard + celeron processor) When I put the commands: reboot or shutdown -r the machine flush the disk (the normal operation) and then stand on the message Rebooting... and... *surprise* it wont reboots... :-( here is my dmesg (fresh install OpenBSD3.7 -release GENERIC default kernel) -- cut --- OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC) #50: Sun Mar 20 00:01:57 MST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (GenuineIntel 686-class) 2.40 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,PNI, MWAIT,CNXT-ID real mem = 258777088 (252712K) avail mem = 229367808 (223992K) using 3184 buffers containing 13041664 bytes (12736K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 01/10/05, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010 apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2 apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf/0x1 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xf5f60/144 (7 entries) pcibios0: no compatible PCI ICU found: ICU vendor 0x1106 product 0x3177 pcibios0: Warning, unable to fix up PCI interrupt routing pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc/0xc000 cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 VIA VT8751 PCI rev 0x00 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 VIA VT8633 AGP rev 0x00 pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 S3 ProSavage DDR rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) rl0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 Realtek 8139 rev 0x10: irq 5 address 00:08:54:17:5d:13 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy rl1 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 Realtek 8139 rev 0x10: irq 10 address 00:08:54:17:5d:a0 rlphy1 at rl1 phy 0: RTL internal phy rl2 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 Realtek 8139 rev 0x10: irq 3 address 00:08:54:17:5d:a2 rlphy2 at rl2 phy 0: RTL internal phy uhci0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x80: irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1 at pci0 dev 16 function 1 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x80: irq 5 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci2 at pci0 dev 16 function 2 VIA VT83C572 USB rev 0x80: irq 10 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 VIA VT8235 ISA rev 0x00 pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 VIA VT82C571 IDE rev 0x06: ATA133, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 config ured to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: SAMSUNG SP0411N wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 38204MB, 78242976 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 pciide0: channel 1 disabled (no drives) isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker sysbeep0 at pcppi0 lm0 at isa0 port 0x290/8: W83697HF npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 biomask eff5 netmask effd ttymask pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80 root on wd0a rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302 -- cut - -- Diego Augusto Dalmolin (41) 9648-0882
Re: mount_union hangs the system.
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Varun Dubey wrote: Thanks for the reply. I went through the thread but i believe the problem i am facing is not exactly due to no support for unionfs. you misunderstand. the reason union was removed is because it didn't work. removing it didn't break it, it was removed because it was broken. mount_union doesn't work? yes, we know. -- And that's why I'm late getting here.
Re: Openbox and x.org
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:36:00AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: It would seem that openbox as installed from the package in 3.7 doesn't have rc.xml or menu.xml files. Is this on purpose or is it a bug or, very likely, am I missing something obvious? I'm going to try importing the ones I have on my Debian box to see if that solves it. missing something obvious /usr/local/share/openbox/rc.xml /usr/local/share/openbox/menu.xml Also coming from Debian I've not yet played with x.org a lot. I've not had a lot of luck with their website and was kind of hoping that somebody might point be at a OpenBSD specific fm. I don't understand the question. -- Mathieu Sauve-Frankel
FYI: Zaurus startup guide
Hi, the german reseller TRIsoft has a little startup guide for the sharp zaurus for download that may help avoid Zaurus newbies panic too often (like I did). http://www.trisoft.de/c3000howto.htm The guide is available in german and english, and they've also a anglified version of the preinstalled Linux for download (C3000-2005-03-18-12-30.zip). Oh, and please, when they write don't do this at home, then you really shouldn't do it or your Zaurus may be transformed into a noble paperweight, without any function, as they note in the startup guide. Ciao, Kili -- It compiles -- let's ship it!
Re: Writing to console...
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:17:30AM -0500, kevin wrote: I was downloading GNU gcc on a machine and when I looked over after the download, the screen was writing: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy i know there's an xscreensaver for that. since you said specifically console, maybe that has nothing to do with it. outside of that, i'm no big help. jared - [ openbsd 3.7 GENERIC ( jun 3 ) // i386 ]
Re: Openbox and x.org
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 04:20:50PM -0400, Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:36:00AM -0700, Ray Percival wrote: It would seem that openbox as installed from the package in 3.7 doesn't have rc.xml or menu.xml files. Is this on purpose or is it a bug or, very likely, am I missing something obvious? I'm going to try importing the ones I have on my Debian box to see if that solves it. missing something obvious /usr/local/share/openbox/rc.xml /usr/local/share/openbox/menu.xml Fair enough. Thit is what I'm seeing. Openbox will start and now that I have my xorg.conf right, thanks to Brian, the resolution is right. But I'm seeing a grey background, the default I assume, but I can't get any menus to come up with the right, left, or middle mouse buttons. I do have a cursor and it does move with the mouse so I'm pretty sure the mouse is configured right. To be honest at that point I rebooted into Debian and started doing some searching around I came across a old webpage and, much to my everlasting shame, made the assumption that the lack of config files it talked about was the problem. So this all brings me to the better version of my question. I'm seeing the above and know that by default openbox doesn't look in /usr/local/share but that that is where OpenBSD design says they should go. So should the OpenBSD build be looking there or do I just need to move the files over to the right spot in my home dir. I'm a bit confused because twm just works. Thanks much. Ray -- BOFH excuse #190: Proprietary Information. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
S-Video TV Hookup
I recently purchased the item from http://store.yahoo.com/videoware/prosvideo6.html. I'd like to use it to hook my laptop up to my TV. I can get the audio to play, but I need help getting the video to work. The cable claims to work with the 7 or 4 pin monitor connector. I have the 7 pin. The audio source plugs into the headphone jack. What program should I use or how should I configure it so I can use the TV as a video/audio monitor? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone.
Re: PHP or Mysql problem?
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:30 +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Kiraly, mysql error: Can't create/write to file '/tmp/ #sql_4c99_0.MYD' (Errcode: 9) MySQL problem. Simple suggestions, not idiot-proof: I prefer this on OpenBSD 3.6 (should be same on 3.7): Add to /etc/login.conf: # # for mysql to work right # mysql:\ :datasize=infinity:\ :maxproc=infinity:\ :openfiles-cur=2048:\ :openfiles-max=8192:\ :stacksize-cur=8M:\ :localcipher=blowfish,8:\ :tc=default: sudo vipw and change the login class for _mysql to 'mysql'. To use this class, you MUST use 'sudo -c mysql -u _mysql', like this (can be put in /etc/rc.local): sudo -c mysql -u _mysql /usr/local/sbin/mysql.server start This may be useful as well (can also put in /etc/sysctl.conf): sudo sysctl -w kern.maxfiles=16384 And finally, add to /etc/my.cnf on (OpenBSD 3.6 with mysql 4.0.20): [mysqld] ... open-files=1000 ... Jamie Strandboge
Re: Problem booting from wd0
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:07:06 -0600, Tobias Weingartner wrote: Use dd form /dev/zero to wipe MBR and start of disk. what does installboot do here ? Maybe I'm simply lost or stupid.? It installs your PBR boot block, IE: your partition boot block. Thanks for the info ! - But still, I don't see how this comes into view: the kernel was looking 'broken' at loading in the OP; then he wiped the MBR. Should he not better fdisk -u wd0 to get the MBR back ? Trying to understand ... Uwe
Re: CCD on /
mdff wrote: are there any plans to support the kernel being loaded directly from a RAID partition in order to avoid that annoying mini-boot-partition which cannot be raided? WHY do you want to mirror root? keep in mind, OpenBSD has an altroot system in place, which will update your backup root partition every night with any changes that took place over the day on your root partition. What are you storing on root that is changing more often than once a day? Software mirroring is cheap..but it causes problems, too. It takes time to rebuild, it complicates upgrades, performance either sucks or is non-existant when rebuilding. In general, you probably only want to mirror the data you have that is actively changing continually. I spent a bit of time trying out ccd(4) mirroring recently. I worked hard to build a system where as much of a disk was mirrored as I could -- I had a root partition of 130M, and had the rest of the drive be a big mirrored ccd(4) partition which I then sub-divided. It worked... But after I set up the altroot backup system, I realized...do I really CARE if my /usr partition is mirrored up? How about my /etc files? Isn't a nightly sync more than sufficient? Not only that, if I hose something, I have a whole drive that HASN'T been messed up yet (hate to use the word backup with a non-rotated, non-removable media. Let's call it Second chance). If I'm running a mail server, I want a mirror of my mail spools, of course. If I'm running a webserver, I might want a mirror of my data and my logs. Firewall? Maybe my logs, but really, why do I need a mirror there at all? Oh, sure, you might want your system to stay running after it wuffs a drive, but if you are running an IDE system, it almost certainly won't. If you are running SCSI, it *might*, but don't count on it. Consider cheap (i.e., software) RAID systems a way to rapidly repair a broken computer, not a way to keep the system running without interruption. BTW: one other reason RAIDframe isn't in GENERIC is you have to customize your kernel in other ways, not just turning it on. From raid(4): It is important that drives be hard-coded at their respective addresses (i.e., not left free-floating, where a drive with SCSI ID of 4 can end up as /dev/sd0c) for well-behaved functioning of the RAID device. This is true for all types of drives, including IDE, HP-IB, etc. (ccd(4), due to its simplicity, doesn't seem to care). Nick.
Re: S-Video TV Hookup
I have included my dmesg. Thanks in advance for anybody who can help me configure this for my TV hookup. Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of dmesg.boot]
OS fingerprinting and netcraft
Hi all, I recently moved a web server in my domain to OpenBSD 3.7. Out of curiosity I looked it up at netcraft. While they correctly identified the web server software, the OS was listed as unkown. Not that I really care about this, but I'm curious as to what prevented them from fingerprinting the OS. I notice that some sites are being recognised as running OpenBSD, hence it can't be altogether impossible. I wonder whether my firewall, which was also changed to OpenBSD/pf recently, is interfering. I'm using scrub in all as well as synproxy state on the inbound pass rules. Could that be defeating netcraft's fingerprinting attempts? Cheers Steffen.
4port Realtek nic
Compgeeks is offering a 4port RTL8139D nic for an attractive price. I know the 8139 chipset is supported, not quite so sure of the 8138D. Can anyone speak for these cards? The price is nice and a 4port nic would be very handy.
Re: Problem booting from wd0
On Thursday, June 16, Uwe Dippel wrote: It installs your PBR boot block, IE: your partition boot block. Thanks for the info ! - But still, I don't see how this comes into view: the kernel was looking 'broken' at loading in the OP; OP? What is OP? then he wiped the MBR. Should he not better fdisk -u wd0 to get the MBR back ? That's one way. --Toby.
