Re: OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are live!

2010-03-14 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/14/10 5:47 AM, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:53:12 -0700 Ted Robyted.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Jason Dixonja...@dixongroup.net wrote: https://https.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/order?CD47=1CD47%2b=Add -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting

Re: OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are live!

2010-03-14 Thread Daniel Ouellet
And I thought I was early! Just a bit under 10 minutes from the cvs email. Not sure if you are the first one, but I challenge you for the next release! (; The looser have to buy two! Any other up for the challenge? On 3/14/10 11:23 AM, Ted Roby wrote: Date Sat Mar 13 16:36:24 MST

Re: OpenBSD 4.7 pre-orders are live!

2010-03-14 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/14/10 5:12 PM, Steve Shockley wrote: On 3/14/2010 2:38 PM, Denny White wrote: 2010/3/14-12:29:45-27293 I can play too! Order number 2010/3/12-10:57:51-952 Hey, No cheating. (; That's before the 4.7 release was even done. You order 4.6, not 4.7 right?

Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support

2010-03-23 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/23/10 6:28 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:45:51 -0500 Ahlsen-Girard, Edward F CTR USAF AFSOC AFSOC/A6OKedward.ahlsen-girard@hurlburt.af.mil wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 20:50:18, Otto Moerbeek wrote: If two things happen after another, it does not imply that the

Re: RouterBOARD RB600A support

2010-03-23 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/23/10 5:40 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM, David Vasekva...@fido.cz wrote: there are bad news about RB600A. As everybody can read on MicroTik's website, RB600A has suddenly been discontinued: http://www.routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=55 They also

Re: Apache DirectoryIndex priority not working

2010-03-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/30/10 6:05 PM, Andreas Gerdd wrote: I have changed the httpd.conf file as follows: DirectoryIndex index.html index.php But httpd still loads the index.php instead index.html after the restart. Both files are existing in the htdocs. How can i change the index file priority order? (I am

Impressive little Super Micto low power box with X7SPA-HF running very happily 4.7

2010-04-05 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, Purely for fun and interest on low power impressive little box. Just to follow up on previous emails on misc@ for the super micro X7SLA-H and good feedback from henning on it. I decided to give a try to the newer one to see. The X7SPA-HF. Very impressive for a small box and very low

Re: dmesg of Dell Optiplex 780 + problem with xlock(1)

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel Ouellet
OpenBSD 5.8 (GENERIC.MP) #356: Mon Aug 9 00:28:02 MDT 2010 ^^^ dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP Really? Unless I am mistaken, that should be in 5 years from now. Can I get a turn in your time machine and get the next winning loto numbers so

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 8/13/10 7:35 AM, Tomas Bodzar wrote: You can try smtpd(8) which is in base. Some people reported that they are using it in production already. At least configuration is much more easier then in sendmail(8) I have been for almost 18 months now. I use it as spam filter and front end for

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 8/13/10 8:27 AM, Fredrik Henbjork wrote: On 08/13/2010 10:49 AM, Richard Toohey wrote: But as Christer has said, if it's in the OpenBSD base, that should mean something. Just because it's in base doesn't mean that it's the best choice. After all, it *could* just mean that noone has had

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 8/13/10 9:08 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net [2010-08-13 15:04]: Hmmm. Sendmail was in base and is still in the system, but was replace as the default MTA by smtpd a few release ago. bullshit. You are right as out of the box MTA in standard operation. I

Re: MTA choice

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
But I also like my network servers to have been field proven in the nasty wilderness by others for some time before starting to use them myself in production, Men, that's rather very selfish! So, you want everyone one else to do the work, but not you!? You don't want to participate in testing

Re: Web hosting, restrict user to access only his folder

2010-08-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
i used ftpd (-4Dln) for users to upload their website(with /etc/ftpchroot configured). My problem, user can see content of others. For example, 2ndxx can update his folder but he can see also the content of firstxx folder. How can i restrict that ? Well, you could setup no login in the

Use of -n flag with rdate on Sun V100 with latest snapshots give Bus error (core dumped) and do not work

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel Ouellet
In trying the latest snapshots on sparc64 servers, so far 3 of them all give me the same errors. I can't use the -n flag anymore with rdate as before. It worked on 4.7 and before. Not sure of the exact date it stop working. Any suggestions? Best, Daniel Example: # rdate -pcv

Re: Use of -n flag with rdate on Sun V100 with latest snapshots give Bus error (core dumped) and do not work

2010-08-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
I just tested the first one first from Matthieu. That worked. Also, just fyi. Shouldn't the line have only one ;; + u_char *receive = (u_char *)receivebuf;; Not a big deal for sure. (; I will test Kenneth one in a few minutes and report back too. On 8/15/10 7:08 AM, Kenneth R

Re: Use of -n flag with rdate on Sun V100 with latest snapshots give Bus error (core dumped) and do not work

2010-08-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 8/15/10 7:08 AM, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 09:16:32AM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net wrote: In trying the latest snapshots on sparc64 servers, so far 3 of them all give me the same errors. I can't

Is it stupid to may be have S.M.A.R.T in sysctl sensords frame work?

2010-08-20 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, If this is stupid, just say so and ignore me, but I don't really know much about how the smart drive suppose to be any good monitoring works to alerts of up coming hard drive failures. I saw some exchanges on misc@ from Marco I think, may be when talks about softraid where he give an

spamdb -t -a w.x.y.z add trap, but do not remove grey listing and end up passing it.

2010-08-23 Thread Daniel Ouellet
One question here. Shouldn't the spamdb -t -a w.x.y.z when adding a trap manually in the spamd database also removed any grey listing for the same IP's? What happened is of in the same 4 hours window I manually add an IP to the trap, but I also see source for that IP in the greg listing, they

Re: Sun 1U FireX4100 Opteron256-3.0GHz(2x) dmesg anyone?

2010-09-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 9/3/10 10:56 PM, k z wrote: Hello, Could anyone share Sun 1U FireX4100 Opteron256-3.0GHz(2x) dmesg? X4100 had reported amd64.mp crashes [1] before, are these still present? [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg92883.html Here you go. Your success may be different then

Re: It still doable to buy VIA padlock engine CPU?

2010-10-20 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Well, thanks for the info but I think I cannot use that kind of boxes in this specific environment cause I need fanless boxes. Well, if you are looking for fan less boxes, I use this one: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-PHF.cfm dmesg is in the archive as well if

Short thank you and gratitude note for constant OpenBSD improvements/evolutions!

2010-10-29 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, Many things got me to want to write a quick thank you note to the devs for a long time and as many things goes, times fly and sadly I keep putting it off. But, I guess some of the very disgraceful emails one misc@ lately including some totally off topics f*cked up one about OpenBSD

Re: is SHA256 file used or not ?

2011-02-08 Thread Daniel Ouellet
I've been told I succeed from time to time. :) Men I fell bad now! Only from time to time!? Men, you are doing an incredible job and I sure hell do not envy you by a very long shut! I am the first buyer of Nick book with plenty of Nick-isims in it! (; The FAQ is actually what got me going

Re: how to set an alias on a carp interface?

2011-02-17 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 2/17/11 4:33 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: your way to configure aliases is correct, however, the masks are not. you are screwing up routing. you want an all-ones netmask on each and every IP address except one per subnet. alas you want 255.255.255.255 on the carp if's IPs. That explains alot.

Re: how to set an alias on a carp interface?

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Think about it that way may be. You want an alias IP's, not an alias subnet, so how do you enter a single IP? With a /32 subnet. Actually I _do_ want to have alias subnets, as written before: Why? Please note that I would like to have 172.12.96.0/22, but 172.12.101.0/24 and

Re: how to set an alias on a carp interface?

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 2/18/11 5:42 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net [2011-02-18 11:15]: Alias are enter with /32. huh? hell no. OK, but all examples show it as such in man(5) hostname.if and such. Your network card is configure with the IP 172.12.96.5 and you want to have on

Re: how to set an alias on a carp interface?

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 2/18/11 6:10 AM, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: one IP per subnet with the real mask so there is a route, all others with all-ones netmask. Then, It is like this.. # cat /etc/hostname.em0 inet 192.168.9.62 255.255.255.0 inet alias 192.168.9.63 255.255.255.255 inet alias 192.168.5.62

Re: how to set an alias on a carp interface?

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 2/18/11 3:23 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net wrote: On 2/18/11 5:42 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net[2011-02-18 11:15]: Alias are enter with /32. huh? hell no. OK, but all examples show it as

Re: how to set an alias on a carp interface?

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 2/18/11 3:45 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: On 2/18/11 3:23 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net wrote: On 2/18/11 5:42 AM, Henning Brauer wrote: * Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net [2011-02-18 11:15]: Alias are enter with /32. huh? hell

Re: how to set an alias on a carp interface?

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 2/19/11 12:51 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net wrote: On 2/18/11 3:45 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: On 2/18/11 3:23 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: Unless you refer at me writing /32 instead of the long way 255.255.255.255? Ah, yes, I thought

Re: Your web development opinions

2011-02-23 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 2/23/11 5:34 PM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 02/23/2011 08:59 AM, Ana Zgombic wrote: you mind to turn it on sometimes? What browser do you use (lynx, firefox, chromium, ...)? not much choice. firefox. Regrettably, it is. Firefox is now more about: * users are too stupid to read

Could OpenBSD router benefit from Xeon CPU and Intel PRO/1000PT Quad combination?

2011-02-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, I am testing various hardware processor, however I can't get one of each type, money is not endless. But I came across this statement for this Intel card: Intel. EXPI9404PTL PCI-E PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Low Profile Server Adapter Additionally, the Intel PRO/1000 PT Quad Port Server

Re: network bandwith with em(4)

2011-02-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
OK. Anyway NIC buffers restrict buffered packets number. But the problem remain: why a (for exemple) dual Xeon E5520@2.27GHz with Intel PRO/1000 (82576) can't route 150kpps without Ierr :-) http://www.oxymium.net/tmp/core3-dmesg Just an idea, but may be it very well could have something to do

Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, Would it be possible to get some clarification on what would work and not for the 10Gb Intel network cards? I compare the man page, both man(4) ixgb and man(4) ix as well as the hardware section and looked at the data from Intel to find more in trying to answer that question. But I am

Sun Netra X1 still get dc0: watchdog timeout and crash on current.

2011-03-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, I was testing routing with this box to see what could be done and when use in full duplex mode routing traffic with tcpbench on servers at either side of this box and this one as a router in between, I get this crash after a timeout of the watchdog. Only happen when I process traffic in

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/3/11 3:28 AM, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:09:36PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Hi, Would it be possible to get some clarification on what would work and not for the 10Gb Intel network cards? I compare the man page, both man(4) ixgb and man(4) ix as well

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi Jonathan, The intel product documents are confused about which chips they use. The clearest split is something along the lines of: 7 82599EB -- PCI Express* (PCIe*) 2.0, dual port 10 Gigabit Ethernet controller 7 82599ES -- Serial 10 GbE backplane interface for blade

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/3/11 3:16 PM, FRLinux wrote: On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net wrote: On this one, I will make a leap of fate here. I suppose you are right. Would be nice to know for sure anyway. The only way to know if for me to gt one I guess and test it for real. leap

Re: Would appreciate clarification on supported 10Gb Intel to resolve conflict between man and hardware section.

2011-03-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/3/11 3:51 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:35:58PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: There are mentions of 82598 10GbaseT working, I don't see why 82599 10GbaseT wouldn't work off hand. That could well be, but I learn many years ago to do my homework first on hardware

Re: Sun Netra X1 still get dc0: watchdog timeout and crash on current

2011-03-04 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/3/11 3:28 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote: Daniel, Can you try this diff? It won't get rid of the watchdog timeout, but hopefully it will prevent the DMA error. Hi Mark, Here is the results for this. Sorry it took me so long to get to test it. It does make a difference and I will test more

Re: Sun Netra X1 still get dc0: watchdog timeout and crash on current

2011-03-04 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/4/11 7:40 AM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: On 3/3/11 3:28 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote: Daniel, Can you try this diff? It won't get rid of the watchdog timeout, but hopefully it will prevent the DMA error. Follow up on my previous email, I let it run 12 hours so far with as much traffic I

Re: Sun Netra X1 still get dc0: watchdog timeout and crash on current

2011-03-05 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/5/11 1:49 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote: Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:40:59 -0500 From: Daniel Ouelletdan...@presscom.net I get pretty much a symetric traffic of ~43.5Mbps each direction using tcpbench as before. Then after may be one minute, both side will cut off oppose to before when only one

Re: MAXDSIZ

2011-03-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 3/30/11 7:23 PM, Scott McEachern wrote: On 03/30/11 19:18, Henning Brauer wrote: * Amit Kulkarniamitk...@gmail.com [2011-03-31 01:09]: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Henning Brauerlists-open...@bsws.de wrote: * Amit Kulkarniamitk...@gmail.com [2011-03-31 00:45]: Nothing directly, just

Re: Wildest Africa Tour

2011-04-05 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 4/5/11 12:07 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2011-04-04, Stuart VanZeestua...@datalinesys.com wrote: Don't be silly. While Lions do provide excelent physical security they don't provide any data security at all. I love animals: I'm always talking about animals, I love 'em. But the thing

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-10-31 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Men, This is a long list of emails. I read them all for fun. You want to know where to start, then you can simply do very simple things if you want as simple as taking the code and check for very simple style(9) stuff as simple as. spacespacespacetab for example. style(9) is very specific

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-11-01 Thread Daniel Ouellet
n0g0013 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Development is not the same process as writing a whiny mail. that is a shame. i can probably better understand the relectance to re-visit this if it has failed before. perhaps, others are right, perhaps linux can tolerate it because it's not as good as

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-11-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Karel Kulhavy wrote: You cannot, of course. But janitor being a rookie doesn't imply he doesn't know what he's doing. He could be doing a job that doesn't require any special knowledge - like rewriting documentation into a different format, fixing HTML correctness, fixing typos and unclear

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-11-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Karel Kulhavy wrote: Maybe the outsiders just cannot find the PR database. I put openbsd pr database into google and looked into all links on the first page. The pr database is always mentioned, but never linked. Where is it? This only again proof the point of waisting time try to help. How

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-11-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hannah Schroeter wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:16:06PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: So, start by sending diff's then. Almost every diff's I saw sent in, got reply one way or an other. My recent experiences differ, for my last 2 submissions (an issue with swig, sent to ports@ after

Re: OpenBSD kernel janitors

2007-11-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
This include example and full diff's below as well. May be this is a waist of time, but will see. Some say they needs some details, then here is an example, and this took me only about 30 minutes or so from start to finish, including getting the source tree. Doesn't mean it will be pick up,

Re: What is the nice process state?

2007-11-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
bofh wrote: I just read man top. So, just to confirm, for those without ability to read the source, or understand it, the nice cpu processor state is the percentage of time spent on niced processes. Someone mentioned he was not sure if it was 1-20, or includes -1 to -20. From the way the man

Re: [4.2 Upgrade] Apache: bad username nobody

2007-11-06 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Chris wrote: However, typing newaliases still gives the mailwrapper.core segmentation fault core dumped error. I have had postfix installed which I removed (pkg_delete) after the upgrade. Could this be the cause of this problem? I manually deleted the _postfix user/group after I restored the

Re: Clamav

2007-11-06 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Juan Miscaro wrote: You recommend a production server to be running -current? Poll: who here is doing that? I do. Actually started about a year and half ago or so. Not every servers, but most and I see no reason not to if you fell OK with OpenBSD at large. The real reason is I find it

identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-08 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, I am trying to find a way ti identifying sparse files properly and quickly and find a way to rectify the situation. Any trick to do this? The problem is that overtime looks like I am ending up with lots of them and because I have to sync multiples servers together the sparse files

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-09 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Any clue as to how to tackle this problem, or any trick around it? I really do not understand the problem here. But you might be able to detect sparse files compartaring the size vs the number of blocks it uses. Without making a bit writing out of it. Let say that the problem is for now a

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-09 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ted Unangst wrote: On 11/9/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for example, a source file that is sparse badly, don't really have allocated disk block yet, but when copy over, via scp, or rsync will actually use that space on the destination servers. All the servers are identical

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-09 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Otto Moerbeek wrote: So your problem seems to be that rsync -S is inefficient to the point where it is not useable. I do not use rsync a lot, so I do not know if there's a solution to that problem. It does seem strange that a feature to solve a problem actually make the problem worse. Well,

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, Before we go nuts on this issue, or look for the wrong things or create miss understanding. Just allow me a little bit more time to try to come with a viseable example showing the problem, or the issue here. Obviously as Otto pointed out to me, looks like I can't explain it to well. I

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, I will try to make this very simple and show the issue by example only when possible. I use two old servers on the Internet for the tests. The source use real example sparse file, but that have only ~1GB of usable data in it. The size show by 'ls -al' as an example gives~17GB. That's

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-10 Thread Daniel Ouellet
ropers wrote: Would people say that this edit is a decent description of these issues? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sparse_filediff=170645177oldid=168346326 I can't really comment well for proper writing for sure. (; But one thing that is not right as Otto pointed out to me and

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-11 Thread Daniel Ouellet
knitti wrote: if I'm not completely wrong, you could always tar -czf the sparse file, scp the archive and then tar -xzf the file in place in the other side. this should also create a new sparse file. of course, you lose the rsyncabilty and you have to identify your sparse file in advance. But

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-11 Thread Daniel Ouellet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Only two things here. 1. you have to identify your sparse file in advance. That is the question. Look at the title. Hi, Daniel. Did you look at the Perl script I sent? I am playing with it and looking if that can help

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-11 Thread Daniel Ouellet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you look at the Perl script I sent? I should also add in my previous emails in regards to good and bad part of it that it is actually a much better idea then what I was doing by the way! I think my emails didn't come out right in regard to the idea express

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-11 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I tried making a very sparse file (100 MB data, 1000 GB sparseness) and gave up trying to compress it. gzip has to process the whole thing, sparseness and all. Sure it would probably end up with a very small file, but the whole thing has to be processed. Yes it does

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-11 Thread Daniel Ouellet
RW wrote: What has not been addressed here is the question of what created those files. It isn't something you do with a shell script usually. Many things can do this, or could use this. So if you have, just as an example, a database program that does make such a file it is often possible to

Re: Mising dependencies expat.8.0

2007-11-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Rafa3 Brodewicz wrote: I didn't find expat.8.0 on any server. So, is this dependency ok? did you install xbase? http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade42.html#libexpat

Re: identifying sparse files and get ride of them trick available?

2007-11-14 Thread Daniel Ouellet
David Zeillinger wrote: Did you happen to investigate why rsync -S is taking so much time? If it doesn't deal with sparse file the way one expects, this option is probably broken. Also have you already tried something like the advice in

Re: Compromising a host with pf enabled?

2007-11-21 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Clint Pachl wrote: I've done a lot of network and DMZ design research over the last 3 days. I've looked at hundreds of websites and newsgroup postings and read the following titles: The best security setup are the simplest one that you can look at your pf configuration and understand very

Looking for ideas on stability research for Sun X4100 M2

2007-11-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, You may have seen a few posts from me on this box. I continue to try to isolate the problem as much as possible with it and it's now narrow to a more specific setup in the current kernel, but still this box WILL NOT be stable what so ever if use with the amd64.mp kernel. I am running

Re: How do you start a non-standard daemon/program near end of boot?

2007-11-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
I've read all the relevant boot and rc type manuals and they only give a vague reference to starting programs with rc.local or rc.conf.local. I want to start wpa_supplicant and I haven't seen any variables for doing it. Some OS's have the /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory for such purposes. It's

Re: Looking for ideas on stability research for Sun X4100 M2

2007-11-24 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Just for the records. Here is what help some for the stability in BIOS: * Hotplug USB FDD Support[Disabled] * * Hotplug USB CDROM Support [Disabled] * Everything is default, or as F9 would put it when you load optimum setting in BIOS. Then you only need to

Abstraction layer difference between single and multi processor kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, Please correct me if my understanding is wrong. I am trying to trace a bug and I am not sure where it is really, but I got a possible idea I want to check for if that make sense. My understanding's is that all drives are using an abstraction layer between the kernel and the drivers

Re: Abstraction layer difference between single and multi processor kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ted Unangst wrote: On 11/26/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding's is that all drives are using an abstraction layer between the kernel and the drivers itself. Now, I don't know if there is a difference between drivers for a single processor kernel and a multiple core

Re: Abstraction layer difference between single and multi processor kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ted Unangst wrote: On 11/26/07, Daniel Ouellet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My understanding's is that all drives are using an abstraction layer between the kernel and the drivers itself. Now, I don't know if there is a difference between drivers for a single processor kernel and a multiple core

Re: Abstraction layer difference between single and multi processor kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
David Gwynne wrote: what is the bug you're able to reproduce? I posted it on misc@ and reply on an email with the same hardware problem on tech@ and open a but report as well on it. But the short story of it is that using amd64.mp kernel on Sun X4100 M2 I can crash the box at will by

Re: Abstraction layer difference between single and multi processor kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/11/26 18:21, Daniel Ouellet wrote: One more question for you if I may. As far as you know, does this difference interrupt processing is also use for UBS devices as well by any chance? yes, and everything else that uses interrupts. (/sys/arch/i386/config

Re: Abstraction layer difference between single and multi processor kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: save dmesg from the various different kernels and use diff to see what changes between them. I didn't see in your posts to this thread whether you've compared with/without acpi? (recent snapshots should enable acpi automatically if you have 1 cpu/core and you'll see

Re: Abstraction layer difference between single and multi processor kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Not sure if that mean anything what so ever. But when the box rebooted itself, this time I got this in ddb. All frozen, but the display show this: Not sure for the end of the line here = 0. Could be something else, but I can't see it. kkeerrnneell:: pprrootteeccttiioonn f a u l t t r a

Re: Abstraction layer difference between single and multi processor kernel

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, Is there a possible simple trick to generate dummy interrupts in a control fashion on an AMD system for testing? So, that I could increase the constant level of interrupts that the server would need to process per seconds as an example? So, far it doesn't look like the problem is with

current tree is broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
# cd /usr/src # tar xzf /tmp/sys.tar.gz # cd /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf # config GENERIC.MP Don't forget to run make depend Kernel options have changed -- you must run make clean # cd /usr # cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs get src/sys ... Lots of output. ... # cd /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf #

Re: current tree is broken?

2007-11-26 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Karl Sjodahl - dunceor wrote: config(8) has changed and need to be rebuilt first. If you wanna follow current always check: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html OK, I got cut. I usually check there, but this time around I didn't. I checked instead if an earlier version worked and it did.

Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Hi, I need some help here to narrow this down more or may be someone might find the answer quickly. I have pinpoint the crash/reboot for the Sun X4100 to the usage of the Ultra160: enable dual xfers, even if I think it is U360, but I could be wrong. Couldn't find the specs just yet. In any

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
David Gwynne wrote: this diff cannot affect the behavior of your system. the code below deals with domain validation on SPI mpi variants while the x4100 uses SAS mpi. the code you patched isnt run on your machine. Not sure I understand your statement, but as a test, I did exactly that and I

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
David Gwynne wrote: On 29/11/2007, at 4:51 AM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: David Gwynne wrote: this diff cannot affect the behavior of your system. the code below deals with domain validation on SPI mpi variants while the x4100 uses SAS mpi. the code you patched isnt run on your machine

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
David Gwynne wrote: On 29/11/2007, at 4:51 AM, Daniel Ouellet wrote: David Gwynne wrote: this diff cannot affect the behavior of your system. the code below deals with domain validation on SPI mpi variants while the x4100 uses SAS mpi. the code you patched isnt run on your machine

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: Now, if that's not use, how can this be then? mpi(4) is used, but dlg is saying that the part of it you touched relates to other cards supported by the mpi driver. You could add some printf if you want to check for yourself. I got that part on my second reading of the

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/11/28 16:47, Daniel Ouellet wrote: I don't know x4100 m2, is this an optional card, or meant to always be there? No there isn't any cards that I added or anything. The difference you see is that the server also have RAID controller built in and as such will show

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: Well, it's certainly a bit odd that amd64 doesn't detect the ipmi, and i386 does... I don't really have any other clues though :( Looking in all my dmesg and all 4 servers, I sure can confirm this. i386 bring it as: ipmi0 at mainbus0: version 1.5 interface KCS iobase

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-28 Thread Daniel Ouellet
David Gwynne wrote: this diff cannot affect the behavior of your system. the code below deals with domain validation on SPI mpi variants while the x4100 uses SAS mpi. the code you patched isnt run on your machine. Not sure I understand your statement, but as a test, I did exactly that and I

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-29 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/11/28 16:47, Daniel Ouellet wrote: I don't know x4100 m2, is this an optional card, or meant to always be there? No there isn't any cards that I added or anything. The difference you see is that the server also have RAID controller built in and as such will show

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-29 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/11/28 21:00, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: Well, it's certainly a bit odd that amd64 doesn't detect the ipmi, and i386 does... I don't really have any other clues though :( Ah. It's not odd at all... revision 1.139

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Jake Conk wrote: I have to keep coming here each couple of days to check if that is full and delete them. My question is, is this normal and I just created my /var mount too small? I think the fact that my pflog is that big is the actual problem, does anyone know of a way to fix this? Well,

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Marco Peereboom wrote: I will dig my x4100 out of storage any day now. Last time I used it it was stable on i386 and amd64. Only amd64.mp is not stable ( and only in writing to the disk) , amd64 is stable as well as either i386 kernel are stable. And in case it does make a difference, it's

Re: removing sendmail

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Please note that postfix does not undergo the rigorous code scrub that sendmail goes through. [...] Will you please cut the crap? Thank you. Unlike Sendmail, Postfix was written from scratch with security in mind. It had only one published security flaw since its first public release

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-11-29 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/11/28 22:27, Daniel Ouellet wrote: I guess, that may be the only valid course of action here then. That may be shown by the difference in the iic1 code in dmesg between not working boot and stable one where so far, I am up to three time out of may be 50 or 60

PCI ID rules to be included in pcidevs

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Quick question on the rules of this if I may. What's the rules, kind of used to determine when new PCI ID can be put in the pcidevs in the tree? If I find new ID's, do they need to be verify by users first, etc? In looking at my SAS problem, I find that Symbios Logic may have 0x0066 Symbios

Re: pflog filling up /var mount every 2-3 days!

2007-11-30 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Jake Conk wrote: Thanks guys for your replies... I'll try to cut down on the all the useless logging I'm doing but when I opened the log files up to see what was inside them I only saw all this binary stuff. I assume thats not what's supposed to be in the pflogs right? Any ideas why I'm getting

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-12-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Ant feedback on this part? So, is it possible based on the logs I sent that it is in the DMA part of the mp kernel here? Still digging, but wanted to get some feedback as if it was possible or am I looking totally in the wrong direction. Fine if you tell me I am full of sh*t too. (; Just

Re: Skype on the OpenBSD

2007-12-02 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Jonathan Schleifer wrote: David Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're interested in VoIP, then you might want to look at wengophone, ( http://www.openwengo.com ), it seems to be basically the same thing, but it's GPL'd and the linux version is kept up to date. It might be easier to get

Re: License Violation - ksh

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Marco Peereboom wrote: No harm done just stupidity perpetuated. Kind of like fox news. I like that one! (; Started my day on a good note. Always thought Fox News was really bad, but felt many disagree.

Re: Narrow down the stability of amd64.mp on Sun X4100 to mpi.c

2007-12-03 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Marco Peereboom wrote: Yesterday I dug up a whole lot of stuff and I was able to see my x4100. Next time I should be able to get it home. Sorry for the delay. Please Marco, don't be sorry. Just for you agree to look into this is already very much appreciated! Anything I can do to help,

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