Re: RAID1 powerloss - can parity rewrite be safely backgrounded?

2007-10-01 Thread Nick Holland
Steve Shockley wrote: > RedShift wrote: >> Anyone got any similar experiences with hardware RAID cards? Hardware >> RAID has always been misery for me. > > I've had two instances where older Adaptec RAID cards had a disk failure > and then reverted to a week-old copy of the data. I'm not quite

Re: Question on upgrade path from 3.9 to 4.1 (pf, carp, etc.)

2007-10-01 Thread Nick Holland
kyle wrote: > Hey list.. > > Im looking to upgrade my 3.9 boxes to 4.1. I plan on upgrading the > standby boxes first, and am expecting them to still be paired up > pf/carp/ospf-wise with the 3.9 active boxes while I burn them in. I > know in the past I ran into an issue where there were differenc

Re: Addendum to FAQ 4.8 - Multibooting OpenBSD/i386

2007-10-01 Thread Nick Holland
Paul Stvber wrote: > If OpenBSD's MBR bootcode works for you (fdisk -u), you can hexedit > it so that it will boot a fixed MBR partition (instead of the > ``active'' one) if the user holds down either Alt key during boot. > > The marked byte at offset 0x35 tells the fixed MBR partition > (04=first

Re: partition layout

2007-10-03 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a 486DX4-100 with 32 MB ram. I bought an 8 GB drive to put in my > P-II and it won't boot it so I've put in in the 486 along with a 1 GB > drive. you might want to spend more time on that PII system... > I'm on dialup and would like to avoid a bad

Re: How can I install 4 OS'es on one disk?

2007-10-07 Thread Nick Holland
stan wrote: > I have a new laptop that I would like to set up to have 4 different OS's > on. The OS's I would like to install are: > > OpenBSD > FreeBSD > Linux > Windows (XP r Vista) > > Is it possible to do this on the one disk. I do have enough space, my > concern is about portions. If it is p

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Holland
booted and ran just file. > > Then I fdisked again to do partition 0, easy. Even remembered the 63 > offset. > > BUT (and I can see Nick Holland smiling here) when I get to the > disklabel phase and use b to describe the disk, I still end up with all > those other partitions visible

Re: Multi booting OpenBSD and OpenBSD and

2007-10-10 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:51:26PM +0200, Tilo Stritzky wrote: > >> I just got a brand new office PC, 64bit CPU. But I'm stuck with some >> Apps in i386 compatibility. So I installed i386 for work. Next week I'm >> going to get an USB stick and put an amd64 install on it

Re: expansion of FAQ# 1.10 re OpenBSD as a desktop system

2007-10-11 Thread Nick Holland
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I've been evaluating OpenBSD as a desktop system while learning about it > on my lesser (older) hardware. I've learned a lot and will continue to > learn about OpenBSD but I don't think it will work as my primary > desktop. > > Based on what I've learned here on Misc, I

Re: openbsd 41 install

2007-10-14 Thread Nick Holland
Mike F wrote: > i am installing in ipx, created floopy, booted ok into floopy, but got > these errors when I selected [I] for install. > > ERROR: No root partition (sd0a). > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Input/output error > > Is my hdd toast? > > thanks, Toast, or not there, or not hooked up pr

Re: No-name NICs

2006-06-06 Thread Nick Holland
Lars Hansson wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:42, Martin Schrvder wrote: Hi, how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable? In my experience, very. Most are using the same chipsets (ie rl) as the "brand" NICs anyway. I cant recall ever having a NIC, brand or non-brand, tha

Re: Custom /bsd.rd to send in dmesgs?

2006-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
vladas wrote: Will devs ignore dmesgs from /bsd.rd that would resemble the -current GENERIC /bsd (if it is possible to do so)? I want to send in a few dmesgs from the machines where I cannot install OpenBSD, so I thought /bsd.rd would help. There are a lot of reasons why developers want the

Re: Combining boot floppies

2006-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
When I saw your note, I figured Something Ain't Right here. I wasn't the only one. Theo noticed. I'm on a mission from Theo. Michael White wrote: Hi all, I'm attempting my first install of OpenBSD (version 3.9) on an HP Omnibook 800CT (Pentium 166, 80 MB RAM, 4.3 GB HD, 3COM 3CXEM556 Carbu

Re: like the faq 14.16.1, partition is not in my disklabel ... need help anyway

2006-06-08 Thread Nick Holland
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 08:31:59PM +, Didier Wiroth wrote: Hello, My ntfs amd comaq diag. partition is not in the disklabel. I presume this means you deleted them, and now want 'em back. As they appear to have been there before the OpenBSD install, I'd have expect

Re: Mail Server configuration question(s)

2006-06-09 Thread Nick Holland
[re Dovecot as an IMAP server] Adam wrote: On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:39:24 +0200 Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does it even work on openbsd yet? Its got a long history of corrupting indexes, and spinning out of control sucking up 100% of the CPU. I first read this out-of-order...

Re: Kernel panic ... Unknown source ...

2006-06-11 Thread Nick Holland
Scott Plumlee wrote: o?= wrote: Hello, My OpenBSD 3.9-stable Box is quite unstable. I don't have physical access to my box so I can't debug it directly. I've recompiled a GENERIC kernel with DEBUG support and set ddb.panic to 0 in sysctl.conf so that it's rebooting automaticly. But no kerne

Re: ftp problems with OpenBSD 3.9

2006-06-14 Thread Nick Holland
Smith wrote: This will answer two post: It does work in 3.8 still. As a matter a fact, I have two servers on the intranet. The 3.8 works fine but not the 3.9. I tried the passive/active and still the problem persist. If I use the command line or filezilla (another windows ftp client that'

Re: ftp problems with OpenBSD 3.9

2006-06-15 Thread Nick Holland
Smith wrote: how do I compile it. I know I can look at previous patches and possible figure it out but I wouldn't know if it's the proper way to do it. I have a test machine all setup and ready and my pwd is /usr/src/libexec/ftpd. Just replied privately, but since you asked publicly also, s

Re: dmesg warning, "ahc0: Illegal cable configuration!!"

2006-06-16 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Hammett wrote: ...> "ahc0: Illegal cable configuration!!. Only two connectors on the adapter may be used at a time!" [Full dmesg posted below] yay! :) This isn't unique to OpenBSD: I've seen similar reports in the dmesg from SuSE Linux using the 2.4.xx series kernels and also from Fre

Re: latest sendmail patch

2006-06-20 Thread Nick Holland
Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to apply the latest patch for sendmail and on my "make", I get the following error: ... OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #685: Mon Apr 10 14:00:41 MDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC Patches are for RELEASE. Not -current.

Re: latest sendmail patch

2006-06-20 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to apply the latest patch for sendmail and on my "make", I get the following error: ... OpenBSD 3.9-current (GENERIC) #685: Mon Apr 10 14:00:41 MDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

Re: Errors with IDE DMA beyond FAQ 14.11

2006-06-20 Thread Nick Holland
[from a few days ago] Chris Smith wrote: I am a n00b. you missed: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq2.html#Bugs ... The system still chokes with a DMA timeout after ~30mins of heavy stuff (I was compiling /usr/ports/x11/gnome as something I knew would take forever). Is this a self-inflicted wo

Re: FYI SK(4) D-Link DGE-530T Rev B1 does not appear in dmesg.

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The dmesg with the B1 card only lacks the three appropriate lines which appear for the Rev A1 card when it is inserted in the same PCI slot: IF that is true, your card wasn't inserted properly. PCI cards show up. SOMETHING will show up...even if it isn't recogniz

Re: Doubts about OpenBSD security.

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
Bob Beck wrote: ... IMNSHO, a root password for single user makes the system *LESS* secure, and I'm dead serious. I would object to any attempt to commit changes to OpenBSD to have one by default. Why? Real simple: *because you asked this question*. - Now I'm not just crapping on you, eve

Re: Crashes and HDD params

2006-06-21 Thread Nick Holland
Przemys3aw Pawe3czyk wrote: Hi, How to change HDD parameters like this: wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 8063MB, 16514064 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 to get rid off the crashes I register several times a day? With very bad results on

Re: FYI SK(4) D-Link DGE-530T Rev B1 does not appear in dmesg. (SOLVED)

2006-06-22 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The dmesg with the B1 card only lacks the three appropriate lines which appear for the Rev A1 card when it is inserted in the same PCI slot: IF that is true, you

Re: Partitions

2006-06-29 Thread Nick Holland
ake a case for a separate partition on system X doesn't mean every system will see any benefit from that same partition. when I first posted Nick Holland replied with several reasons to have multiple partions. Those being security, fragmentation, protecting the filesystem from overfilling, organi

Re: openwebmail with chrooted apache

2006-07-03 Thread Nick Holland
FTP wrote: I installed openwebmail from the ports and when trying to launch: http://your_server/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl I get a 500 error. I suppose that this is due to the chrooted apache but how do I find the dependencies for a perl script? 1) you think really hard about what a p

Re: openwebmail with chrooted apache

2006-07-03 Thread Nick Holland
FTP wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 08:49:03PM +0200, Sigfred Heversen wrote: Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/07/03 13:52, Nick Holland wrote: (contrast this to Squirrelmail, which does (amazingly) run in a chroot Same for Hastymail and Roundcube. I guess it's not too much of a st

Re: Preventing password reuse

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
Rod.. Whitworth wrote: ... Test with well known cracker tools and weep. I have (as root) fed a slice of master.passwd to John the Ripper with a few nologin users added using dictionary words of 7 or 8 chars as passwords and after 10 days it had not cracked one of them. I bet it takes less time on

Re: openwebmail with chrooted apache

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
FTP wrote: ... bottom line, your suggestion is to stick with openwebmail (if I don't want to intsall IMAP) and run 'insecure' apache? Would that be a 'good' solution for a small e-mail server? MY suggestion..yes. Reasonable people may (and probably will) have differing opinions. Here's a be

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
Rob Baldassano wrote: I have been running OpenBSD 3.6 since the day it came out, and am now in need up going to 3.9 The question is: What upgrade issues have folks run into? Very few, myself. I've got at least one machine running which started out with OpenBSD 3.1, and has been remotely upgr

Re: Error (setuid) starting openwebmail.pl

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
FTP wrote: Hi, when I try to access: https:///cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl I get the following: '/var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/openwebmail.pl' must setuid to root but my current permissions are: -rwsr-sr-x 1 root wheel 35830 Jun 26 13:05 openwebmail.pl I thought that the above are

Re: Error building ntpd on -current

2006-07-05 Thread Nick Holland
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:07:46PM +0200, Massimo Lusetti wrote: > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:41 +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > You probably did not do a make build, but took a shortcut. > > No at all. > > I've followed precisely the procedure described here: > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.h

Re: Strange 3.9 lock-up

2006-07-16 Thread Nick Holland
Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I have mentioned before my 3.9-box locks up in a strange way: 1. it is pingable 2. syn-scan gives out open ports 3. but those ports are not accessable(for ex. I can not drop in into this box via ssh or browse port 80) This is a second lock-up aft

Re: How to make fsck run faster?

2006-07-16 Thread Nick Holland
Antti Harri wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, knitti wrote: On 7/16/06, Antti Harri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kernel is 3.8 GENERIC and there is one large ffs partition on the SATA disc, roughly the size of 180G. Most of the files make smaller slices and mount only the ones r/w which you absolutel

Re: Expand /var

2006-07-16 Thread Nick Holland
Gaby Vanhegan wrote: So, I have this disk setup: # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 49.2G1.6G 45.2G 3%/ /dev/sd0g 181G2.0K172G 0%/backup /dev/sd0f 167G549M158G 0%/home /dev/sd0e 9.8G 12.0K

Re: How to make fsck run faster?

2006-07-17 Thread Nick Holland
Antti Harri wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, Nick Holland wrote: nope, you can still likely use multiple partitions. Break your backup job into smaller chunks, put each chunk on its own partition. Or put each machine on its own partition. Or ... Interesting ideas. I didn't think that h

Re: dhcpd static addresses

2006-07-18 Thread Nick Holland
Dave Gloez wrote: Hello, I have a soekris box where dhcpd is running to give ip addresses for clients, now i was thinking is it possible to give clients a static ip based on which interface it is connected, so when i plug the network cable to specified network port on soekris it would always gi

Re: wikipedia amd64 Intel EM64T W^X OpenBSD

2006-07-19 Thread Nick Holland
Siju George wrote: ... so does this mean that W^X support was available on EM64T processorseven before XD bit was added if you use OpenBSD? Sure it was...IF you ran OpenBSD/i386 on it. If you ran OpenBSD/amd64, no. http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2004-02/2145.html http://ww

Re: serial console question

2006-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
Denny White wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've hunted around the archives, googled, read the faq on serial consoles, read what's in my copy of Absolute OpenBSd, but can't seem to find what I need to fix my problem. Running obsd 3.9 on one box & obsd 3.8 on an ancient p90.

Re: [OffTopic] AMD buys ATI

2006-07-24 Thread Nick Holland
Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: Quote: However, AMD believes that it will not morph into another Intel: "Our approach is very different from Intel," said AMD spokesman Bubba Wolford. "You really would be comparing apples to oranges. We are very much about an open approach. That includes opening up our

Re: ccd

2006-07-25 Thread Nick Holland
Nathan Johnson wrote: trying to get ccd going on openbsd 3.9 i386 with no interleave (concatenation). I have wd1 and wd2 which are different sized disks. I did fdisk reinit on both drives, then ran disklabel and set up an 'a' partition (inside the 'c' partition) on both disks offset 1 cylinder f

Re: UDMA 5/4 issue with 2.5" 5K100 hitachi drive.

2006-07-25 Thread Nick Holland
Karel Gardas wrote: Hello, I'm using OpenBSD 3.9 current and if I recall correctly I started to see messages like below from around May/June this year. During that time I've used two hitachi drives, one 5K80 and the second 5K100. I've checked that at least 5K100 should support Ultra DMA mode

Re: OpenBSD Gateway to replace old Linux gateway

2006-07-26 Thread Nick Holland
elaconta.com Webmaster wrote: Howdy We have here an old (Mandrake Linux 8 - yeah i know...) PC with two NICs which serves as a firewall for our LAN and runs a Bind caching nameserver. Although the machine is getting old, it still works well. Thing is, i'm having a hard time trying to reproduce i

Re: What do you use for MIME email?

2006-07-26 Thread Nick Holland
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: ... MIME has been around for 14 years. There's no excuse for any MUA not to be able to deal with it at least minimally. In the case of /usr/bin/Mail that means recognizing content types and only displaying text/* sections when printing to the screen. It doesn't *have*

Re: bufcachepercent & samba

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Holland
Craig Hammond wrote: I am setting up a Samba fileserver on obsd 3.9-stable I noticed that up until obsd3.3, in section 11 of the faq, it recommended increasing bufcachepercent for fileservers with lots of free memory. Now there is no section 11 at all in the faq. For a box that is basically

Re: hard drive problem

2006-07-31 Thread Nick Holland
RV Tec wrote: Folks, I had two crashes, on two different days, with the same reason: a dying hard drive. Definitively, it is really unpleasant to get caught with my pants down. [there were a few potential comments here, but we'll keep this a family-oriented mailing list! :) (ok, the real t

Re: Using dd(1) to duplicate a hard drive

2006-08-01 Thread Nick Holland
Chris Zakelj wrote: Went back about two years in the MARC archives with the terms 'copy drive' (oddly enough, 'dd' itself wouldn't work), and got plenty of linux examples on Google (that pretty much say what I propose anyway) but no luck... I'm hoping to find a faster way to create an image of on

Re: misterious network/all freezing.

2006-08-02 Thread Nick Holland
Inigo Tejedor Arrondo wrote: scene: home webserver (athlon 1,2Mz via chipset, lan realtek) dmesg at the end of email. OpenBSD 3.9 (GENERIC) #617: Thu Mar 2 02:26:48 MST 2006 The server is conected to a 3com superstack hub, and witouth keyboard/screen, managed with ssh. Packet Filter is disable

Re: console screensafer

2006-08-05 Thread Nick Holland
Andreas Bartelt wrote: Hi, is there a way to disable to console screensafer in OpenBSD? Problem description: after about 60 seconds after booting, the console screen blanks and my monitor turns off (disabling power management on my monitor doesn't help). Sometimes, shortly after starting Xorg

Re: DMESG question

2006-08-07 Thread Nick Holland
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/08/07 16:15, Gabriel George POPA wrote: 1) When the OS generates too much messages, old messages are lost (oldest lines present in `dmesg` are lost). What can I do to see ALL messages ever recorded for dmesg printing? More precisely, take a look at my `dmesg`:

Re: OpenBSD and high availability

2006-08-07 Thread Nick Holland
knitti wrote: On 8/7/06, Jens Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While the networking part can be handled by carp, I'm collecting ideas on how to keep the local file systems in synch - especially for ftp users and the mailinglist archives. The synchronization will be done via a dedicated cross

Re: ProLiant with RILOE keyboard freezes after boot sometimes

2006-08-08 Thread Nick Holland
Robert Urban wrote: Hello, has anyone else noticed that after booting, the keyboard on a ProLiant (DL380-G2) with the RILOE (Remote Insight Lights-Out Edition) card often freezes? If I take the RILOE card out, the kb is always ok. WARNING: Complete and total speculation (or Wild-A**ed-Guess)

Re: openbsd fail to detect second harddisk

2006-08-09 Thread Nick Holland
Gustavo Rios wrote: Hey folks, i have just installed a second harddisk in my Dell Precision Workstation 370 (Seagate ST3808110AS). OpenBSD fails to "see" it. Have anybody here already faced such scenario? Just today, in fact... What you don't indicate is where you plugged this drive in or wh

Re: how to boot openbsd on second disk

2006-08-10 Thread Nick Holland
(sorry for the dup, Gustavo, I should have sent that to the list... -N.) Gustavo Rios wrote: Dear fellows, i have two disks, my first disk (wd0) is running XP, my second (wd1) is running openbsd 3.9. In order to boot openbsd from windows boot manager, i did the following: $ dd if=/dev/rwd1a o

Re: backups: best privilege policy

2006-08-12 Thread Nick Holland
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: i have a script that runs on a single backup host and gathers dumps from other machines on the network by ssh-ing into them as root using pubkey authentication. allowing root access via ssh is, of course, not a good idea. The "of course" part is dubious actually. If yo

Re: Lost IP traffic

2006-08-13 Thread Nick Holland
JR Dalrymple wrote: List, Forgive me, I'm only smart enough to get myself into trouble unfortunately. My PF edge router has been cruising along for sometime now (years) without problems, doing just ask I ask of it. For some reason today it decided to stop serving webpages from my internal web

Re: Compaq Proliant ML 530 impossible to install OpenBSD

2006-08-13 Thread Nick Holland
Beto wrote: Hi Folks, I'm trying to install OpenBSD 3.9 on a Compaq Proliant ML 530 but It just doesn't work. When the cd install kernel are reconizing the devices it shows a panic error and prints a halt message. I also tryed install OpenBSD 3.8and the same error. going backwards is NOT what

Re: Kernel never loads completely

2006-08-20 Thread Nick Holland
Greg Thomas wrote: I have an old, unused since OpenBSD 3.4 Athlon XP 1800+ that I just replaced the mobo on because the previous mobo wouldn't boot with a LSI MegaRAID 150-6 installed. I haven't yet tried other OSes but so far with the 3.4 system on the harddrive and any OpenBSD boot floppy it h

Re: How to update httpd without a compiller

2006-08-23 Thread Nick Holland
Juha Saarinen wrote: On 8/23/06, Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Set up another, non-production, box with 3.9 and build -stable on that. Follow `man release` and read the upgrade guide on how to extract the sets. Seems a slightly cumbersome way to deal with security issues which may be

Re: Sometimes OpenBSD "forgets" the disklabel

2006-08-23 Thread Nick Holland
L. V. Lammert wrote: At 03:10 PM 8/23/2006 -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: On 8/23/06, Andreas Maus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody. # disklabel wd1 16 partitions: # sizeoffset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2343763 4.2BSD 0 00 # Cy

Re: Why no compiler on prod system [Was: Re: How to update httpd without a compiller]

2006-08-24 Thread Nick Holland
Anton Karpov wrote: 2006/8/24, Stephan A. Rickauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: People from time to time say they don't want to have a compiler installed on a productive system due to security issues. I don't understand this. Isn't is too late anyway, if someone's already able to make use of the compile

Re: Code beautifiers, anyone?

2006-08-24 Thread Nick Holland
Kyrre Nygerd wrote: Hello people, I'm looking for the best ways to create a line of code beautification (reformatting) scripts -- one for C, one for Ruby, one for Bash and one for web development languages like XHTML, XML, CSS, PHP and Ajax. Whether as frontline warriors or household maids, t

Re: console screensafer

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Holland
Andreas Bartelt wrote: Andreas Bartelt wrote: ... thanks, you made me look at my BIOS and (at least I think) I found the cause. There's an option called "Video Off method", which was set to "DPMS support". I just switched it to "blank screen" and didn't experience the usual problems after reboot

Re: ksh vs bash

2006-08-27 Thread Nick Holland
Martin Toft wrote: Sam Chill wrote: ksh does most everything bash does too, so it doesn't seem like a loss. FWIW, I miss a couple of features in ksh and consider to switch (back) to bash: - When using tab completion, and you press tab two times to get a list of possibilities, ksh doesn't use

Re: OpenBSD/Networking noobie: home micro-server setup?

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
Neoklis wrote: Hi all, I have opened an account with an ISP that provides me with a fixed IP address and this tempts me to set up a micro server at home for my website etc. I must confess I am a Linux user but consider OpenBSD the best choice for a secure server, so will install soon on my deskt

Re: Soekris

2006-08-28 Thread Nick Holland
Matthias Kilian wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:01:52AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: Plus, if you wish to do PPPoE, you may find the Soekris machines horribly underpowered. Huh? I'm using pppoe(4) on a net4801 for a 2-Mbit DSL without problems. IMHO, soekris as router and/or firewall is

Re: syncing pf tables

2006-08-29 Thread Nick Holland
Kian Mohageri wrote: Hello, I was just curious if any of you sync pf tables between hosts, and how you do it. I know it may be considered abusing tables, but in our setup, we hold a list of registered clients within tables (which are updated dynamically by scripts). We also use carp (and soon

Re: Soekris

2006-08-30 Thread Nick Holland
Chris Cappuccio wrote: Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not really. However a 2Mbps DSL line is not the fastest out there... a friend of mine is griping about his 200MHz PPro (which will probably run circles around the 4801) being unable to keep up with his 6Mbps DSL line with PPPoE

Re: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500 - How to activate digital output

2006-08-31 Thread Nick Holland
Jack J. Woehr wrote: Excuse my ignorance. I plug in my Dell monitor digitally and it says the video is in power-saving mode. The analog port works. What can I read to learn how to tell OpenBSD to use the digital port on the NVidia card, please? from dmesg: - vga1 at pci1 dev 4 functi

Re: Missing section in FAQ - 6 Networking ?

2006-09-03 Thread Nick Holland
Bruno Carnazzi wrote: > Hi misc, > > There is a numbering problem or a missing section in FAQ - 6 > Networking : http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#6.8 Not quite sure how that's a problem. Things get added and removed. I have an aversion to renumbering articles excessively... Even though on

Re: problem with HP NETSERVER openbsd 3.7 mp kernel

2006-09-03 Thread Nick Holland
Vo9tenak Vladimmr wrote: > Hi > > I have got a problem with the bsd.mp kernel. > > Please can you help me solve the problem in some way??? > > I ve got  HP NETSERVER 2xPPRO200 Mhz. I am using > OPEN BSD > version 3.7. > > The generic kernel works fine, but the bsd.mp kernel boot until: > > f

Re: automated source code scanning

2006-09-04 Thread Nick Holland
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > since the openbsd project prides itself on being especially proactive about > debugging, it would not surprise me to learn that there is automated code > auditing going on. is this already the case? i didn't see openbsd listed on > coverity's page, http://scan.coverity.co

Re: pf.conf's example of tables using ports

2006-09-05 Thread Nick Holland
Pablo Halamaj wrote: > maybe i'm plain stupid or i have a weird install. > > All you have the following line at pf.conf ,that comes with OpenBSd 3.9,? > > #table { 80, 443 } no, that's something you (or someone) put in your machine. > I have readed the pf.conf 's man page also the FAQ at www.o

Re: Some questions related to 4.0

2006-09-06 Thread Nick Holland
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > Last but not least: > Has Henning something in the backhand? of course he does. :) > He owns openhttpd.org for some months now.. :) Lots of people own lots of domain names that they aren't actively doing anything with...it just helps keep one's options open should

Re: Low priority or real coders

2006-09-14 Thread Nick Holland
steve szmidt wrote: > Over the years one gets used to some small things that makes life easier but > is only slowly catching up on OBSD. I'm curious as why this is. Is it that > real coders don't need some of them, or is it just something like a matter of > being a lower priority? over the year

Re: config GENERIC error

2008-08-04 Thread Nick Holland
pezking wrote: > On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Emilio Perea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:54:17PM -0500, pezking wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > This is my first OpenBSD mailing list post so I hope I am in the correct >> > place, and if I am not I apologize in advance.

Re: Is this an fsck_ffs memory issue?

2008-08-04 Thread Nick Holland
M. Feenstra wrote: > Thank's for you answer. Yes I have read the FAQ (some people actually do). > That is where I came up with the memory as a suspect. > > The reason I still ask is that is crashes the system. It does not quit with > an "out of memory" kind of error but just freezes the whole d

Re: question about raidframe getting stuck

2008-08-11 Thread Nick Holland
Harald Dunkel wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: >> >> With IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics), the controller is *on the >> drive*. A failing drive/controller can do all sorts of nasty things >> to the host system. >> > > So you mean I should not use IDE disks (PATA or SATA), because > Raidframe

Re: BIND workaround for older versions?

2008-08-14 Thread Nick Holland
Raimo Niskanen wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 07:36:43AM +0200, Guido Tschakert wrote: >> Stuart Henderson schrieb: >> > On 2008-07-24, Mike Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Regarding the cache poisoning patch (which I see for 4.3). Are there >> >> any effective workarounds for OpenBSD 4.0/

Re: Booting from /dev/rwd0c (aka wd0)

2008-08-23 Thread Nick Holland
Lars Noodin wrote: > I have the main system on a smaller, pre-existing drive set up with a > recent 4.4 i386 snapshot on a Dell Optiplex gx270. Booting is normal > until I add two SATA drives. > > OpenBSD sees the drive as wd0, but fdisk sees it as /dev/rwd0c, so the > effect is that when booting

Re: wd0(wdc1:0:0): timeout on openbsd 4.0 macppc

2008-09-02 Thread Nick Holland
Khalid Schofield wrote: > On 1 Sep 2008, at 22:41, johan beisser wrote: > >> On Sep 1, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Khalid Schofield wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm running openbsd 4.0 (yeh old I know but it's a vital system >>> that I'm replacing but it processes data that makes a lot of money). >> >> Better r

Re: Can OpenBSD run in 24 MB of RAM?

2008-09-04 Thread Nick Holland
ropers wrote: > 2008/9/4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I've searched the FAQ and the Web for any guidance on what the minimum RAM >> is for OpenBSD, with and without X. >> >> I just acquired a Compaq Armada 1125 laptop that maxes out at 24 MB of >> RAM, and I'm wondering whether or not it's feasible to

Re: [OT] moving out to a new /home

2008-09-07 Thread Nick Holland
Nuno Magalhces wrote: ... > My test box is an old Compaq Armada laptop - no battery, no monitor, a > piece of junk. But works, with 96RAM running Open BSD. I use it to > serve http and ssh at the moment, and maybe ftp in the future. Being a > laptop it uses less power and the fan is more silent. I'

Re: cd drive error

2008-09-18 Thread Nick Holland
Paul M wrote: > Hi all, > > I find I'm unable to coerce my mitsumi cd drive into writing a track. > I've been using it for years to read, which it does just fine, but it's > the first time I've attempted to write with this particular drive (I > can write just fine using other drives). > > Check

Re: Mirror/anoncvs traffic stats?

2008-09-19 Thread Nick Holland
Vadim Zhukov wrote: > Hello to all, especially ones running mirrors/anoncvs servers. > > Does anyone have traffic statistics, especially inbound traffic? I want > to set up a mirror but I need to know how much inbound traffic it'll > generate. I do not pay for outbound traffic, so I do not bothe

Re: Modern operating systems are flawed by design, including OpenBSD.

2008-10-23 Thread Nick Holland
mak maxie wrote: > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=264209080&rid=-219 > > Microsoft Windows is the only operating that supports signed binaries. Ah, so that's why Windows has proven so resistant to spyware and malware! I've always wondered! That's evidence of a Slow News Day. Obv

Re: Capture serial port output to a file

2008-10-28 Thread Nick Holland
Marc Balmer wrote: > * Bruce Bauer wrote: >> Problem: >> OpenBSD 4.2 on i386 >> Serial port /dev/cua00 connected to the console port on a firewall. >> I need to catch all text output from the serial port to a file. >> The process doing this must survive a loss of network. >> The box is running head

Re: Problems booting OpenBSD

2008-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having trouble booting my new opebsd installation. I was able to > boot usihg the CD and I tried to use installboot to record the > biosboot to the PBR. I booted with -s option, so I'd start in single > user mode and I mounted /usr to /mnt/. > > The

Re: Management of HP Proliant DL and BL Series

2008-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > I've got a few (10) HP DL and BL servers running OpenBSD. I think that's not narrowing it down much... from memory, don't bother correcting me if I'm wrong, the "DL" name goes back to P3 class systems and is still used today for both Xeon and AMD chips... i.e., completely

Re: OpenBSD 4.4 FAQ in PDF?

2008-11-02 Thread Nick Holland
my mail wrote: > --- On Wed, 7/30/08, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> I still wonder if the occasional people asking for PDFs are >> actually from Adobe, trying to make people think people >> actually >> LIKE reading documents in PDF format. T

Re: incorrect MD5 file on mirror

2008-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I got the install44.iso and MD5 from snapshots from > openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de and the MD5 file failed the test. > > I got the MD5 from ftp.openbsd.org and run it against the > install44.iso from openbsd.informatik[...] and it reports OK. > > Comp

Re: incorrect MD5 file on mirror

2008-11-03 Thread Nick Holland
Nick Holland wrote: Mihai Popescu B.S. wrote: Hello, I got the install44.iso and MD5 from snapshots from openbsd.informatik.uni-erlangen.de and the MD5 file failed the test. I got the MD5 from ftp.openbsd.org and run it against the install44.iso from openbsd.informatik[...] and it reports OK

Re: Packet Filter: how to keep device names on hardware failure?

2008-11-08 Thread Nick Holland
Rod Whitworth wrote: ... > Let's look at this a little more analytically: > My firewall is a Soekris 4801 with sis0, sis1 and sis2. > sis0 is the 0utside (ADSL) > sis1 is the 1nside (LAN) > sis2 is the 2erver LAN heh. I gotta remember that naming/numbering convention, I like it! > If 0 fails the

Re: 4.4 recently installed

2008-11-09 Thread Nick Holland
T D wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed 4.4 on a machine (ibm aptiva) with the below dmesg output. > As I am somewhat new to this os, I would like some sugestions as to what I > could/should do with this box and no I will not rm -rf / > Any ideas/suggestions greatly apreciated. I presume, your

Re: active partition not booting

2008-11-13 Thread Nick Holland
Steven wrote: I installed NetBSD 4.01 (amd64) and then installed OpenBSD 4.4 (amd64) onto the same hard disk. I used the OpenBSD fdisk on the install CD to set it up OpenBSD like this: Offset: 0 Signature : 0xAA55 C H S C H S 0: A9

Re: Turning off sendmail

2008-11-14 Thread Nick Holland
Doug Milam wrote: To cut down on services I don't use, I'd like to disable sendmail, unless this is unwise. If so, I'd like to know why. Thanks. it's VERY unwise to do, and you should be using it. The system goes through a lot of effort to prepare daily report and to check itself over for se

Re: Fresh install question

2008-11-17 Thread Nick Holland
Denny White wrote: > I've always tried to do a fresh install any time possible, > and then copy all my backed up /home and /data stuff back > to the new installed system. I'm just trying to figure out > if there's a way to keep those 2 slices intact while wiping > out and recreating everything else

Re: Mount USB disk

2008-11-17 Thread Nick Holland
Christophe Rioux wrote: > I try to mount an USB disk using FAQ14 > (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html) > > dmesg: > umass0 at uhub0 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0 "Cypress Semiconductor > USB2.0 Storage Device" rev 2.00/0.01 addr 2 > umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only > scsibus1 at umass0:

Re: Research for a Software Security paper

2008-11-21 Thread Nick Holland
Jose de Paula Eufrasio Junior wrote: > Hello, before anything else, I did read all material about the OpenBSD > security policies on the website. Now I am trying to get some more > insider insight on it. > Writing a paper about open source software security and not including > OpenBSD case is kinda

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