Re: qemu speed

2007-10-05 Thread Josh Tolley
On 10/5/07, Gerald Thornberry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been informed that I was talking out of my hat, as I suspected. KQEMU (QEMU accelerator) is a Linux kernel module and, therefore, not an option for the OpenBSD. I'll put my hat back on my head now. For whatever it's worth, I had to

Re: BSD thin client

2007-01-27 Thread Josh Tolley
On 1/27/07, Joachim Schipper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without details, that's about the best I can do. Some things which may or may not be useful to you: siteXYtools some form of binary patching freeNX, some VNC, or just plain X-over-the-network; or rdesktop, if you use

Re: BSD thin client

2007-01-27 Thread Josh Tolley
On 1/27/07, Reiner Jung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the next 2 weeks, a free NX client will be released which is runs on OpenBSD without Linux emulation. All closed source parts from Nomachine client are rewritten. As there are some parts from original Nomachine client was used, it will be

Re: revision control system for system administration

2006-12-19 Thread Josh Tolley
I'm not so convinced it is that complex on a homogeneous OpenBSD network. OpenBSD is a very manageable system, such as the entire OS contained in compressed tarballs for easy extraction and the flexible ports system. Both of these entities are easily scriptable. Then all there is to worry about

Re: News From HiFn

2006-07-01 Thread Josh Tolley
Here's what I think is cool: despite the tendency public forums discussing the subject have of saying OpenBSD people generally (or Theo, or someone else specifically) are jerks, those same jerks value freedom enough to write the best-engineered general purpose operating system available, the

Re: lightweight openbsd

2006-06-26 Thread Josh Tolley
On 6/25/06, Lars Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll have a hard time fitting that on 128Mb. base, etc, man, bsd and bsd.rd adds up to ~170Mb and I doubt leaving out man and bsd.rd will get it down to less than 128Mb. Speaking again from experience, it is possible to get by without

Trouble with auich and Intel 82801DB

2006-06-25 Thread Josh Tolley
I've finally taken the time to look into why sound doesn't work on my laptop under 3.9 RELEASE. The full dmesg is below, however the part I think is most relevant is here: auich0 at pci0 dev 31 function 5 Intel 82801DB AC97 rev 0x03pci_intr_map: no mapping for pin B Both auich(4) and the

Re: lightweight openbsd

2006-06-25 Thread Josh Tolley
On 6/24/06, Rogier Krieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to install to a 128M CF, I suppose you're limiting yourself to base39.tgz, etc39.tgz and a few bytes or spare space. I wonder whether flashdist (as is rather popular on Soekris devices) would be an easier tool for you. Citing

Re: Status of tomcat on OpenBSD

2006-05-30 Thread Josh Tolley
From: Jeremy Huiskamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 29, 2006 11:46:07 PM EDT (CA) To: Leonardo Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Status of tomcat on OpenBSD And failing that, vanilla tomcat usually just requires an unpack and run, so long as you've got java installed properly. In

Re: Evaluating load average

2006-05-03 Thread Josh Tolley
On 5/3/06, Will H. Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for some hints on evaluating load average. I have a new system that is showing load averages over .50 most of the time, but I don't see that it is doing much according to systat vmstat. I figured that this machine would be way

Re: (OT: PostgreSQL vs MySQL)

2006-04-07 Thread Josh Tolley
On 4/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to losing data, I suspect you'd lose a lot more from PostgreSQL than MySQL on a failing hard drive. Any particular reason for that suspicion? I ask out of genuine interest, and I promise I don't want to start a flame war. -Josh

Re: OpenBSD hardware router

2006-02-03 Thread Josh Tolley
(though it made some users unhappy when they couldn't transfer their files as quickly). All that being said, we 1) didn't have an encryption accelerator in the box and 2) didn't really spend any time doing performance tuning on it, so someone who worked at it could probably get more out of it. -Josh

Re: Oracle, anyone?

2005-12-06 Thread Josh Tolley
On 12/5/05, J.C. Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:57:15 -0700, Josh Tolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenBSD is written for uses where freedom, stability, adherence to standards, and security are the top concerns You are pontificating your personal opinions on why

Re: Oracle, anyone?

2005-12-04 Thread Josh Tolley
Running oracle on any unsupported platform is probably not the best idea, not only because you won't get support, but also because running it on a more secure platform will still leave you with lots of holes; in other words, you're going to need something in front of the box to protect it anyway.

Re: Hardware RAID

2005-11-12 Thread Josh Tolley
On 11/10/05, Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a number of examples and projects online. The Soekris lists are a fountain of good information. Personally, I like the flashdist project. http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/soekris/ -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting

Re: congrats on OpenBSD SAN... one little question

2005-10-22 Thread Josh Tolley
space on a partition, it's much easier to move the data to a larger partition if larger means 100 GB instead of 1 TB. -Josh Tolley

Re: How scared should I be of atactl: ATA command timed out

2005-08-26 Thread Josh Tolley
-- Allie Daneman Allnix,LLC. http://www.allnix.net On Fri, August 26, 2005 10:04, Josh Tolley wrote: One of my cronjobs, as suggested in the atactl manpage, is the following, designed to email me if my soekris gets disk errors (it's a disk-based install, not a flash-based one

Re: ftp-proxy's -S option has no effect

2005-07-22 Thread Josh Tolley
On 7/20/05, Josh Tolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have an FTP server behind a pf firewall running generic 3.6, and am trying to run ftp-proxy in reverse mode. Active transfers work, but passive ones don't. snip So I found out about the -S option, which I understand is supposed to change

Re: OpenBSD log server

2005-07-12 Thread Josh Tolley
On Sunday 10 July 2005 06:13 pm, Steve Shockley wrote: Qv6 wrote: I have set up an OBSD firewall to replace my PIX, and configured it to log to an OBSD log server - a loghost. I'll like to set up a web interface to monitor the logs using msyslog (with mysql and php). Has anyone on

Re: openbsd list fckery

2005-06-04 Thread Josh Tolley
I do like the installer though, I'm serious. I'm right in the middle of installing 3.7 via serial port B on a Sun I LOVE the OpenBSD installer. I really have to second this. The OpenBSD installer is great. I had to laugh when I overheard two friends who typically work with Windows OSs

Re: Summer of Code ?

2005-06-03 Thread Josh Tolley
, even if it's just RTFM. Thanks. -Josh Tolley On 6/3/05, Bob Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd have no problem coming up with or supervising a few projects for students like this, unfortunately, they aren't taking other projects anymore... -Bob * Dunceor . [EMAIL PROTECTED