Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-11-15 Thread Kami Petersen
Damien Miller skrev 2010-10-30 02.14: Hi, Can anyone recommend a small, fanless computer that will accept a HD (perhaps a 2.5 drive) that uses ECC RAM? Needless to say, it must run OpenBSD. Being 64 bit, having accellerated crypto and/or supporting multiple drives would be bonus points, but

Re: smtpd support DIGEST MD5 AUTH ?

2009-10-27 Thread Kami Petersen
a bit longer answer: smtpd is interfaced to bsdauth (see authenticate(3)). so if you want you can implement authentication method, just like I did to authenticate smtpd client to pop3 server. authenticate(3) makes my head spin, it would be awesome if you shared how you did that! Has anybody

Re: spamd - nixspam list, September 30, 2009

2009-10-01 Thread Kami Petersen
On 2009-10-01 14:39, Toni Mueller wrote: I didn't check whether the stale file gets removed, but thought about using a different source instead. If spamd(8) could use RBLs in addition to static tables, that would ease the problem, too. The concept of RBLs aren't in line with the idea that

Re: Bridge wireless and wired networks.

2006-07-05 Thread kami petersen
Jan Johansson skrev: Hello. On my laptop I use trunk(4) failover to switch between wired and wireless networks. It works great. But I think my solution for the router is a bit dirty. Is there a better way? The router has one interface connected to the internet (fxp0) and two interfaces for the

Re: Bridge wireless and wired networks.

2006-07-05 Thread kami petersen
Jan Johansson skrev: kami petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, it should work. however, you should set an address on either of the interfaces that constitutes the bridge, not the bridge itself. but you don't say exactly where you are unsuccessful... It works, I just thought there might

Re: svnd security

2006-04-04 Thread kami petersen
It sounds scary,specially for those of us who do not understand too much about computers, I basically wanted to know if there is any truth in all this or it just another persorn trying to sell his product well by undermining others. say hello to the archives.

Re: slow network performance

2006-02-15 Thread kami petersen
... wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout type: ata c_bcount: 512 c_skip: 0 wd0e: DMA error writing fsbn 2651200 of 2651200-2651211 (wd0 bn 3819472; cn 3789 tn 2 sn 34), retrying wd0: soft error (corrected) wd0(pciide0:0:0): timeout type: ata c_bcount: 0

Re: -stable or -current kernel error

2006-02-15 Thread kami petersen
Paul Barbeau skrev: I am trying to move from the base install from the CD/FTP to either stable or current. I get the same error regardless of what version I try with and regardless of what machine (different components inside). Below is the steps I am doing to rebuild the kernel and the error I

Re: 3.8-STABLE :cvs/XF4 seems to be broken.

2006-02-13 Thread kami petersen
J.C. Roberts skrev: Can anyone confirm or deny if XF4-STABLE is broken? I've updated source twice and have had two failed builds of X while following FAQ5. can you confirm that you actually have XF4-STABLE? a *clean* checkout usually cures a non-compiling tree. /kami

Re: Pet-grub.com a cia front?

2006-02-09 Thread kami petersen
Dave Feustel wrote: It looks like there may still be a few security holes to be dealt with. no, they are called backdoors, through which all who are sick of you play their dirty tricks. I've started running apache webserver. My web address (until the next power failure) is 71.97.182.5.

Re: RAIDframe stability and reliability

2006-01-31 Thread kami petersen
Dave Diller skrev: The main reason RAIDframe is not in GENERIC, I seem to recall, is that it makes the kernel quite a bit bigger for no gain in the average case. Yeah, 20% or so, with RAIDframe being the only change: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5281094 Sep 16 21:30 bsd-stock-3.8-install

Re: SSH publickey authentication - identity logging

2006-01-25 Thread kami petersen
Spruell, Darren-Perot skrev: From: Joachim Schipper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Our situation is that we have a user account that multiple people have access to log into to retrieve files. Each user authenticates to that account with their own SSH key. Current log entry shows: Jan 24

Re: CGD

2006-01-03 Thread kami petersen
Ted Unangst wrote: On 1/2/06, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've made it very clear that CGD won't be imported into OpenBSD, yet you've never explained why, or why you ported it in the first place. Care to let us in on why? I expect your reply will be a short no just like a few of

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-02 Thread kami petersen
pci bus around ~1 Gbit/s? so, assuming the system is dedicated to routing, why would a theoretical maximum of ~0.4 Gbit/s be so hard to handle, especially as most of it should stay on the internal pci bus of the nic? kindly kami petersen

Re: ccd mirroring and ccdxc

2005-12-29 Thread kami petersen
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Re: Trying to understand iostat output

2005-12-13 Thread kami petersen
Markus Wernig skrev: I have a system (obsd3.8/sparc64) with 2 identical scsi drives (4 partitions + 1 swap each). The largest partition (10G) is mirrored over the 2 drives as a ccd with interleave factor 16. And 1.2M/s is rather less that what I'd have expected, is this figure really the

ccd mirroring usefulness?

2005-11-21 Thread kami petersen
documented. it seems trivial to set up, but what kind of functionality can be expected as a disk fails? will the system continue working? how is failure reported? what is the procedure to replace the disk and rebuild a mirrored ccd? - dd? /kami petersen

Re: openbsd 10 yrs old and nobody puts a story on undeadly?

2005-10-18 Thread kami petersen
frantisek holop skrev: (what's the deal?) stop whining and write it yourself ;) /kami

Re: HP Proliant ML350 G4

2005-10-13 Thread kami petersen
Uwe Dippel skrev: For some this might be boring, but for others encouraging: Box off-shelf as above boots properly with cd37.iso Broadcom NC7761 Gigabit Server Adapter is recognized LSI 53c1030 Duplex U320 is recognized The 146 GB 15k drive is recognized I'll come back later as usual when the

dynamic ip aliases?

2005-10-07 Thread kami petersen
what are the chances of getting multiple dynamic ip's assigned to one dhclient interface, as can be done with aliases for static ip's? there's an alias specification in dhclient.conf(5) but it's not really clear whether you would be able to use it to get more than one dynamic ip (assuming

Re: uh oh promise card problems

2005-08-27 Thread kami petersen
What would be the best way to use OpenBSD on these systems? obviously you need to get other controllers (http://openbsd.org/i386.html). then offer to donate the surplus cards to the developers, and maybe someone will do some work on it, i.e. porting it from freebsd. /kami

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread kami petersen
Did you miss the line If someone has physical access to my OpenBSD box? With physical access, all of your suggestions are easily bypassed with a bios reset. as you are sure you know, that, along with matt's tip, is about as reasonable advice you can get if you can't physically secure your

Re: Disable/Passprotect single user mode

2005-08-27 Thread kami petersen
Dave Feustel skrev: On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:08, kami petersen wrote: Did you miss the line If someone has physical access to my OpenBSD box? With physical access, all of your suggestions are easily bypassed with a bios reset. as you are sure you know, that, along

Re: sensorsd and mail alert

2005-08-27 Thread kami petersen
Antoine Jacoutot skrev: How can I make sensorsd or syslog to mail me this, without running a parser every minute on /var/log/messages which looks overkill. man 5 sensorsd.conf /kami

Re: Queueing on two interfaces

2005-08-22 Thread kami petersen
Fridtjof Busse skrev: Hi Since I didn't get any reply to my initial question, I'll try to be a bit more specific: I've got a machine with three interfaces: One is my SDSL-link and the other two are internal. One of the internal interfaces is wired, the other one wireless, using OpenVPN (i.e.

Re: notice: layered mounts are gone

2005-05-26 Thread kami petersen
null and union mounts have been deleted. cool. why?

Re: File system mirroring for SMTP/POP Servers

2005-05-13 Thread kami petersen
Mario Lopez skrev: I'm sorry I didn't mention it earlier, we use NetQMAIL + VPOPMAIL + mysql centralized auth. with this kind of setup you should be able to get insane availability figures using standard tricks like ups, quality hardware (no ata), conservative time-proven settings, raid... (i

Re: File system mirroring for SMTP/POP Servers

2005-05-13 Thread kami petersen
but when it comes to the mail repository, as far as i know maildir storage is *not* the choice for replication. Why? Or are you implying that mbox storage is? no Or that neither is? neither, it's not a problem with maildir, it's a general problem of maintaining files synchronized. Basis for