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2009-02-21 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hi Misc, I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join Facebook! Once you join, you can also create your own profile. Thanks, Brandon To sign up for Facebook, follow the link below:

Re: Solid State Hard Disk in OpenBSD

2008-06-16 Thread Brandon Mercer
:09:48PM -0400, Brandon Mercer wrote: Hello all. Well my raid 10 of 10k scsis just wasn't cutting it anymore so I decided to replace it with something interesting. I picked up an Mtron mobi 3000 solid state hard drive. This drive didn't come without issue. I poorly researched hardware

Re: Solid State Hard Disk in OpenBSD

2008-06-16 Thread Brandon Mercer
they were that fast. Solid state isn't up to par yet so these numbers are actually quite good. The next generation is going to be much more competitive. On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 09:44:16AM -0400, Brandon Mercer wrote: Yes, just a little bit... The do seem slow, but I acknowledge the fact

Re: Solid State Hard Disk in OpenBSD

2008-06-16 Thread Brandon Mercer
I've seen some benchmarks showing the Mtron mobi 3000 (the drive I have) blasting 7000 seeks a second and going the full 100MB read, 80MB write. This is not expected over pciide. I'm trying to hack ahci to not panic on boot :). Brandon On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Chris Cappuccio [EMAIL

Solid State Hard Disk in OpenBSD

2008-06-15 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello all. Well my raid 10 of 10k scsis just wasn't cutting it anymore so I decided to replace it with something interesting. I picked up an Mtron mobi 3000 solid state hard drive. This drive didn't come without issue. I poorly researched hardware and then had to substitute my mainboard choice

Re: New dell server

2006-04-22 Thread Brandon Mercer
Gaby vanhegan wrote: On 14 Feb 2006, at 20:18, Brandon Mercer wrote: Has anybody managed to get the CERC SATA raid controller running on 3.8 or 3.9-stable? Alternatively, where's the cheapest source of LSI SATA cards? Can I boot from a system installed on an LSI card? LSI

Re: php in cgi mode suphp missing(?) from packages

2006-03-15 Thread Brandon Mercer
Anon wrote: Hello :) My questions can be summarised as : 1) What is the easiest way to install php in CGI mode on OBSD? 2) Why doesn't OBSD have a package for php that includes the CGI version? 3) Why doesn't OBSD have a suphp package? Is there any special reason? I ask these questions because

Re: New dell server

2006-02-15 Thread Brandon Mercer
Gaby vanhegan wrote: On 14 Feb 2006, at 20:18, Brandon Mercer wrote: Has anybody managed to get the CERC SATA raid controller running on 3.8 or 3.9-stable? Alternatively, where's the cheapest source of LSI SATA cards? Can I boot from a system installed on an LSI card? LSI

Re: New dell server

2006-02-14 Thread Brandon Mercer
Gaby vanhegan wrote: Hi, I'm considering getting a Dell PowerEdge SC1420 SATA. We need a small, cheap server for hosting some websites and email. A dual PIII-733 generic server isn't cutting the mustard any more so it looks like it's time to spend money. Has anybody managed to get the

Re: Good SMTP and POP proxy for OpenBSD

2006-02-06 Thread Brandon Mercer
Joachim Schipper wrote: On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:34:26PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi all, Till now I have been Simply NATing SMTP and POP connections form the LAN through the OpenBSD 3.8 Firewall. I would like to have some finer control of mails comming in and going out and would like

Re: Flame bait - recommendations for web devlopment language?

2005-12-15 Thread Brandon Mercer
Darrin Chandler wrote: snip I'm not sure you're going to get many flames about this... If you try really hard, you can clean up the php. Mostly. Then there's Python or Ruby on Rails. Better stuff than php. You still have to code securely. Rails just had a new release with emphasis on

Re: Mirroring

2005-12-06 Thread Brandon Mercer
Peter Fraser wrote: In light of recent discussions about how to implement device mirroring, it might be useful to describe an approach used in Bull's GCOS8 operating system. (GCOS8 is a mainframe operating system designed for the highest possible reliability and dynamic replacement of parts.)

Re: RAID controller recommendation

2005-11-22 Thread Brandon Mercer
Matthew S Elmore wrote: Greetings misc@, I am currently building a mail server and would like to utilize OpenBSD with a SATA RAID setup. We need preferably a multi-channel controller, to do two mirrored arrays (both 2x160GB). If we must, we can use two single-channel controllers. The

Re: Telnet daemon retired in 3.8 ?

2005-11-10 Thread Brandon Mercer
Theo de Raadt wrote: It in not the question of sshd works or, not! In large environments, where you have a large number of legacy hardware Well, if you have lots of legacy hardware, maybe you could just run some well patched legacy openbsd 3.7 that still has what you need. Brandon What you

Re: rapid response to ordering :-)

2005-11-04 Thread Brandon Mercer
Pete Vickers wrote: Hi, Just to say thanks to all involved. I ordered my 3.8CDs on via OpenBSD/europe page on tuesday, and they arrived today (friday)... in Norway. All in tact and unblemished (as usual). Great service, thanks :-) Me too! Great work to the entire team. I ordered my

Re: Opera Confusion

2005-10-18 Thread Brandon Mercer
Roy Morris wrote: Does the port (not pkg) of Opera contain flash? I was checking through the mail list, one guy says it works great and another says you can't include it on Openbsd. I saw something about a port FLAVOR but didn't see it in the makefile. I'd rather not install all the shit

Re: HOWTO on spamd+transparent bridge under OpenBSD

2005-10-14 Thread Brandon Mercer
Graham Toal wrote: For anyone who is interested, I've written up a document on how to install OpenBSD, configure it as a transparent bridge, then install spamd on it. It was written primarily for our campus computer center who want to know how to do it if something happens to me (like I get a

Re: OpenBSD MetaStore

2005-10-03 Thread Brandon Mercer
Szechuan Death wrote: The MetaStore is at this point essentially complete, save for content. There are links on the page to assist in populating it. There are about 20 pieces of hardware featured on this: IT NEEDS MORE. I have received several bits and pieces of information, but to make

Re: LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8X controller

2005-10-03 Thread Brandon Mercer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heya, i'm interested in getting an 8-channel SATA RAID controller that runs on the ami driver so i can use all the new neato RAID functionality for my backup server. i haven't seen anything in the archives about a known working controller like i've described, but i did

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-27 Thread Brandon Mercer
Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: On Monday 26 September 2005 20:10, you wrote: Try this one out for size, I can vouch that it's super http://www.lsilogic.com/products/megaraid/sata_150_4.html Brandon Is there an LSI SATA card that doesn't have RAID and works with OpenBSD? I don't want RAID

lighttpd apache

2005-09-26 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello Group, I remember reading a while back about the licensing issues with apache and all the talk of removing it. Just recently I started working with lighttpd and find it rather nice. It's got a BSD style license, seemingly clean code base, and is quite fast and user friendly. I just

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-26 Thread Brandon Mercer
Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: I have an i386 file server running OpenBSD 3.7-release. I want to add an SATA drive to the system. Since the motherboard does not have SATA built-in, i need to purchase a controller card. I notice on http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html that a number of SATA chips are

Re: Which SATA controller to purchase

2005-09-26 Thread Brandon Mercer
Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Montag, 26. September 2005 20:41 CEST schrieb Brandon Mercer: Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: I have an i386 file server running OpenBSD 3.7-release. I want to add an SATA drive to the system. Since the motherboard does not have SATA built-in, i need to purchase

Re: is there a way to block sshd trolling?

2005-09-23 Thread Brandon Mercer
John Marten wrote: You know what i mean? Every day I get some script kiddie, or adult trying to guess usernames or passwords. I've installed the newest version of SSH, so i'm covered there. But I still get a dozen or 2 of the sshd Invalid user somename from ###.##.##.### input_userauth_request:

Re: is there a way to block sshd trolling?

2005-09-23 Thread Brandon Mercer
Roy Morris wrote: why not use max-connections ? and dump them into a table with no access. Or if this is a home machine just move the port to some high port, most scripts wont bother looking. Yup, I forgot to add that you can put another thing in that max-conn... that handles the

Re: Lifecycle question

2005-09-06 Thread Brandon Mercer
Will H. Backman wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Theo de Raadt Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 11:43 AM To: Stephan A. Rickauer Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Lifecycle question The reason why I bother this list

Re: DBMail on openBSD

2005-09-03 Thread Brandon Mercer
Jean-Daniel Beaubien wrote: Hi everyone, I'd like to get an idea of the status of DBMail on openBSD. If anyone has had some experience with DBMail on obsd please let me know what you think about it. Is it stable? How is the speed? How's the initial setup? I know I there's a dbmail

ral0 wireless trouble

2005-08-26 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello Group, I've seen a lot of emails about wireless... and now I'm adding to it :-). I've got a WAP running OpenBSD 3.7 configured as follows: # cat /etc/hostname.wi0 !/sbin/wicontrol

Re: ral0 wireless trouble

2005-08-26 Thread Brandon Mercer
Brandon Mercer wrote: Hello Group, I've seen a lot of emails about wireless... and now I'm adding to it :-). I've got a WAP running OpenBSD 3.7 configured as follows: Please disregard transposed the key! Brandon P.S. I love an OS that you can plug in the supported hardware and it just

Re: How to configure bind to work under OpenBSD 3.7

2005-08-25 Thread Brandon Mercer
Joco Salvatti wrote: HI all, I'd like to know where I could find informations about how to configure bind to work under OpenBSD 3.7. I've already made a search in the net, but the available documents are vacant. I've already looked at FAQ files, but I also cound't find a thing. U,

Re: Negotiating a license for Sun Java on OpenBSD?

2005-08-08 Thread Brandon Mercer
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 10:23 -0400, Michael W. Lucas wrote: I can't see spending my time working on Sun's code, but that's your choice, and if it works for you more power to you. You know, for every Kurt, there have to be several hundred people (OpenBSD users or

Re: HP thin Client

2005-08-05 Thread Brandon Mercer
Gustavo Rios wrote: Anyone running HP thin client with OPENBSD (netbooting from a openbsd server)? What is your experience with them? thanks. Yes, they work great. I really like the combination of this thin station with openbsd as the boot server :-) Brandon

isakmpd question

2005-08-03 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello all, I've been setting up a hub and spoke VPN for a while now and for the most part things are working as normal. However, I have one box a netgear FVS318v1 that doesn't give me the flexibility in creating my VPN policies and IKE setup that the other ones do (FVS318v3). I keep seeing a no

Re: 1U server recommendation

2005-07-28 Thread Brandon Mercer
Matthew Bettinger wrote: Hello, Can anyone recommend a decent rack server from HP, Dell, IBM or CDW that will run OpenBSD for webserver use? I would prefer a machine that has SCSI drives with Mirror Raid capabilities. I know I can go piecemeal one from FRY's but I need one that can have a

Re: 1U server recommendation

2005-07-28 Thread Brandon Mercer
Kevin wrote: On 7/28/05, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have an 1850 because by the time they came out, Dell didn't have an amd64 based server, and Sun and IBM did, so we switched. Prior to that I bought lots of dell stuff and had good experiences with them. (still do with

3.7 Diskless Config

2005-07-22 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello Group, I have been using the DISKLESS kernel image in 3.5 and 3.6 to boot my thin stations, but there isn't a config file for that in the 3.7 release. Was this removed because of support reasons or is there another way of doing this now? Thanks for any help. Brandon

Chrooted CGI+Mysql Problem

2005-07-21 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello all, I've been playing around with database driven web stuff lately in the chrooted apache. I've got a pretty simple CGI written in C that selects all of my blog entries from a database and displays them in a web page. I got things working running httpd with the -u flag and now i'm

Re: Chrooted CGI+Mysql Problem

2005-07-21 Thread Brandon Mercer
Brandon Mercer wrote: Hello all, I've been playing around with database driven web stuff lately in the chrooted apache. I've got a pretty simple CGI written in C that selects all of my blog entries from a database and displays them in a web page. I got things working running httpd with the -u

Shell Scripting Question

2005-07-18 Thread Brandon Mercer
hello group, I was recently playing around with dbmail and in doing so, had to overcome some shell unknowns. i was instructed to pipe an email message as follows: |/usr/local/sbin/dbmail-smtp -g ${RECIPIENT:7} When I did this I got a bad substitution error in my logs. I have a feeling this is

Re: Shell Scripting Question

2005-07-18 Thread Brandon Mercer
Jason Opperisano wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:40:01PM -0400, Brandon Mercer wrote: hello group, I was recently playing around with dbmail and in doing so, had to overcome some shell unknowns. i was instructed to pipe an email message as follows: |/usr/local/sbin/dbmail-smtp -g

Userland Threading

2005-06-23 Thread Brandon Mercer
I was reading an article on kerneltrap.org about the new rthreads being in the kernel. Is this in current yet or is it still not ready. Because I know nothing about this and I'm just trying to learn, is this implemented in all architectures similarly? Just curious. Thanks, Brandon

Re: Authpf Help

2005-06-21 Thread Brandon Mercer
Mark Uemura wrote: Now I understand why you guys need an rdr rule. I'm port forwarding my RDC connections through ssh. This eliminates the need for rdr. However, if you don't port forward, then I can see why the rdr rule is needed. I assumed too much before in my previous post. Sorry for

Re: clamav package upgrade

2005-06-21 Thread Brandon Mercer
FBN wrote: Hi I had installed clamav-0.83.tgz package in my OpenBSD 3.7, but it displays: LibClamAV Warning: LibClamAV Warning: *** This version of

Authpf Help

2005-06-20 Thread Brandon Mercer
Hello Group, I've been playing around with authpf and got things working pretty well with it. Now I've got a request to make things work even better and that's where I got stuck. My setup is that I authenticate users on our gateway before allowing an incoming Remote Desktop connection from them.

Re: Authpf Help

2005-06-20 Thread Brandon Mercer
Mark Uemura wrote: like to be able to log in to their machine. I've tried setting up specific rules that rdr to their machines to no avail. Here are some things I've tried: I'm not quite sure why you are using the rdr rule? I've got the same requirements as you have described above but

Re: Sun Netra T1 105

2005-06-02 Thread Brandon Mercer
Brian McKerr wrote: I am thinking of getting one (or two) of these for my new firewall, just curious if nayone has any opinions on its suitability in such a role. Spec as follows; 64bit 360mhz CPU (IIi) 128mb RAM 1 x 18gb 10krpm 2 x integrated NIC 1x PCI (which I intend to put a dual