Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-24 Thread Frank Beuth
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:59:44AM +0200, David Sastre wrote: I would not consider ansible as the right tool to provision a system from scratch (as in PXE booting, etc...). Ansible is better used on a system you can connect to using SSH and perform actions as required, with or without doas, as yo

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-24 Thread Frank Beuth
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 11:43:36AM +0300, Gregory Edigarov wrote: I don't want to re-open the hostilities, but installing OpenBSD via Ansible is very relevant to my interests. Previously discussed on this list was a very roundabout approach using Qemu -- is there a better way now? it's all ea

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-24 Thread David Sastre
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 11:50 PM Frank Beuth wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Misc User wrote: > >I use PXE + install.conf + siteXX.tgz + siteXX-%hostname%.tgz for my > >installs. I also have an rc.firsttime to download and install the > >required packages. > > Thanks, but nei

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-24 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On 21.06.19 21:02, Frank Beuth wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: Installing via NOT RECOMMENDED WAY(following upgrade65.html) - scripting on steroides (ansible). I don't want to re-open the hostilities, but installing OpenBSD via Ansible is very rele

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-23 Thread Frank Beuth
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 10:49:22AM +0300, cho...@jtan.com wrote: Frank Beuth writes: You go ahead and continue to trust your VPS without taking any care to consider where your software comes from. It's choices like that which make "hardening" even be a thing. Have you considered _not_ buildi

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-23 Thread chohag
Frank Beuth writes: > You go ahead and continue to trust your VPS without taking any care to consider where your software comes from. It's choices like that which make "hardening" even be a thing. Have you considered _not_ building a system on a foundation made of cheese? Have fun with that. M

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link (ignore previously sent message)

2019-06-22 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
[Please ignore the previous message I sent on this topic. I accidentally pressed 'Send' before my message was complete.] On 22/06/2019 19:52, cho...@jtan.com wrote: > Lyndon Nerenberg writes: >> We are looking forward to that. *However*, there is a lot to be >> said for regularly re-installing y

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 22/06/2019 19:52, cho...@jtan.com wrote: > Lyndon Nerenberg writes: >> We are looking forward to that. *However*, there is a lot to be >> said for regularly re-installing your hosts from scratch. This >> ensures your installer scripts don't rot as host system "features" >> accrete over time.

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Brian Brombacher
oices), leading to further problems, and then people got > angry. > > For details search the misc@ archives for "Reboot and re-link" (the subject > line), things got spread across multiple threads: > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=Reboot+and+re-link&q=t >

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Frank Beuth
ding to further problems, and then people got angry. For details search the misc@ archives for "Reboot and re-link" (the subject line), things got spread across multiple threads: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&w=2&r=1&s=Reboot+and+re-link&q=t

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread chohag
Frank Beuth writes: > That's the interesting thing in my case (at least)... the system *IS* already > extant! And how have you introduced it to your command-and-control system? That is, ultimately, the key. > It has a nice shiny new Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/centOS install that has just > been > im

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Frank Beuth
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 10:29:22PM +0300, cho...@jtan.com wrote: Ansible is not the correct tool for this job; it can only configure and maintain an _extant_ system. None of the recent plethora of configuration management tools have considered the scenario *before* an operating system has been

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew Luke Nesbit
On 21/06/2019 19:02, Frank Beuth wrote: > I don't want to re-open the hostilities, but installing OpenBSD via > Ansible is very relevant to my interests. I feel exactly the same way and am surprised that Ansible caused hostilities. Can you send me a link to the thread where this happened please?

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread chohag
Frank Beuth writes: > Yes, and being able to Ansible-manage even the re-installation would make the > whole process that much nicer :) Ansible is not the correct tool for this job; it can only configure and maintain an _extant_ system. None of the recent plethora of configuration management tool

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Frank Beuth writes: > Yes, and being able to Ansible-manage even the re-installation would make the > whole process that much nicer :) I started writing a rebuttal to this, but it quickly turned into writing our design document for how we handle this internally across he data- centre. That's not

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread chohag
Lyndon Nerenberg writes: > We are looking forward to that. *However*, there is a lot to be > said for regularly re-installing your hosts from scratch. This > ensures your installer scripts don't rot as host system "features" > accrete over time. This is prone to happen when you Ansible- or Or a

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Frank Beuth
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 10:28:53AM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: We are looking forward to that. *However*, there is a lot to be said for regularly re-installing your hosts from scratch. This ensures your installer scripts don't rot as host system "features" accrete over time. This is prone

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Daniel Jakots writes: > You can automate installation with autoinstall(8). You can also > automate upgrades with autoinstall(8) This works like a charm. On our load balancers we PXE install with a local rc.firsttime that installs python. After that we do all the system, haproxy, nginx, &c manag

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread tom ryan
On 6/22/19 7:23 AM, Frank Beuth wrote: > I wonder if there is a way to have Ansible build a custom > autoinstall.conf (using templates) and insert it into bsd.rd immediately > prior to uploading. I use elfrdsetroot from upobsd to do something along these lines $ pkg_info upobsd Information for i

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-22 Thread Frank Beuth
aused hostilities. Can you send me a link to the thread where this happened please? I want to know why, i.e., pros and cons. It's the parent thread of this one (look for subject line "Reboot and re-link"). The issue was not Ansible, just that the original thread poster got very angry with people.

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-21 Thread Frank Beuth
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 01:20:44PM -0700, Misc User wrote: You could stick bsd.rd onto a bootable partition then point grub to it. You could also disable password login for root and just use a key pair. That way you wouldn't be sending the password encrypted (or at most only giving it a password

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-21 Thread Frank Beuth
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Misc User wrote: I use PXE + install.conf + siteXX.tgz + siteXX-%hostname%.tgz for my installs. I also have an rc.firsttime to download and install the required packages. Thanks, but neither this nor the autoinstall suggestion seem applicable for my u

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-21 Thread Misc User
On 6/21/2019 1:08 PM, Frank Beuth wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Misc User wrote: I use PXE + install.conf + siteXX.tgz + siteXX-%hostname%.tgz for my installs.  I also have an rc.firsttime to download and install the required packages. Thanks, but neither this nor the autoin

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-21 Thread Misc User
On 6/21/2019 11:02 AM, Frank Beuth wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: Installing via NOT RECOMMENDED WAY(following upgrade65.html) - scripting on steroides (ansible). I don't want to re-open the hostilities, but installing OpenBSD via Ansible is very re

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-21 Thread Daniel Jakots
On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 20:02:48 +0200, Frank Beuth wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > >Installing via NOT RECOMMENDED WAY(following upgrade65.html) - > >scripting on steroides (ansible). > > I don't want to re-open the hostilities, but installing OpenBSD

Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-21 Thread Frank Beuth
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: Installing via NOT RECOMMENDED WAY(following upgrade65.html) - scripting on steroides (ansible). I don't want to re-open the hostilities, but installing OpenBSD via Ansible is very relevant to my interests. Previously discussed

Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-21 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
On 21 June 2019 14:04:50 BST, Florian Obser wrote: >On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:47:49PM +0200, mathijs wrote: >> this makes misc@ so much more amusing > >It really doesn't. We are not here to have manure tossed at us for the >audience's amusement. Agreed. This kind of abuse happens in any FOSS

Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-21 Thread Florian Obser
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:47:49PM +0200, mathijs wrote: > this makes misc@ so much more amusing It really doesn't. We are not here to have manure tossed at us for the audience's amusement. Everytime something like this happens it takes time away from hacking on OpenBSD. It doesn't matter that it

Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread chohag
mathijs writes: > this makes misc@ so much more amusing I didn't join for the soap opera. Matthew

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread U'll Be King of the Stars
Dear Maxim, How are you? Have you considered taking time away from the computer and doing something else for a while? Abusing people generally doesn't work well when you're asking for something to be done, regardless of whether or not it's paid work. Why would anybody with any self-respect resp

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2019-06-20 Thread Jan Betlach
t 22:51, Theo de Raadt wrote: The OpenBSD user community is has too many people like this. From: Maxim Bourmistrov Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:34:54 +0200 Subject: Re: Reboot and re-link To: Theo de Raadt Go away?! I'm your user - FIX IT. On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 22:32, Theo d

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-06-20, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > What is seen in 'top' is what compile does to the sys. snmpd just freacks > out, and the rest as well. > This is VMWare. Storage below is VSAN. > bgpd streches 4 arms - to fw1 and 3 remote VPS. No big deal here. Private > stuff, no massive peering. No peer

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2019-06-20 Thread Ian Darwin
On 6/20/19 5:31 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: It just doesn't stop. Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: I'd say this whole project is your milking cow.(Having a good times biking??) You really don't move froward much. Except poor guy trying to fix net stack. You move around vars, back and forward. But real

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2019-06-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
lled by law. > > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 22:51, Theo de Raadt > wrote: > > The OpenBSD user community is has too many people like this. > > From: Maxim Bourmistrov > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:34:54 +0200 > Subject: Re: Reboot and re-link > To: Theo

Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread mathijs
this makes misc@ so much more amusing On 6/20/19 10:44 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: The OpenBSD user community is has too many people like this. From: Maxim Bourmistrov Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:34:54 +0200 Subject: Re: Reboot and re-link To: Theo de Raadt Go away?! I'm your user - FIX IT

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Maxim Bourmistrov
Why the f I have old kernel? The ONE taking care of all sh. On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 22:43, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > btw, after reboot, sys converted to 6.4 kernel. yet again > I removed all /bsd* > Do I need to rm /usr/obj* as well > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 22:12, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >

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2019-06-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 22:51, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > The OpenBSD user community is has too many people like this. > > From: Maxim Bourmistrov > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:34:54 +0200 > Subject: Re: Reboot and re-link > To: Theo de Raadt > > Go away

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2019-06-20 Thread Bryan Wright
As just a “user” who has been trying to learn the OpenBSD way (which does take some effort), I’m very thankful to you and all the devs. It’s comedically sad to see the transition from “installing via NOT RECOMMENDED WAY” to “I’m your user - FIX IT.” Sorry you are catching needless abuse, and

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2019-06-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt wrote: > I wish he would leave me alone, I don't need his accusations. > > This Maxim obviously works for someone. Sometimes I wonder if I > should make a phone call. I cannot tell for sure, but maybe it is one of these people. https://www.verisure.com/about-us I lead and colla

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2019-06-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
22:51, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > The OpenBSD user community is has too many people like this. > > From: Maxim Bourmistrov > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:34:54 +0200 > Subject: Re: Reboot and re-link > To: Theo de Raadt > > Go away?! I'm your user - FIX IT. > &

Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread U'll Be King Of The Stars
20 June 2019 21:44:16 BST, Theo de Raadt wrote: >The OpenBSD user community is has too many people like this. > > >From: Maxim Bourmistrov >Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:34:54 +0200 >Subject: Re: Reboot and re-link >To: Theo de Raadt > >Go away?! I'm your user - FIX

Re: Reboot and re-link (fwd) Maxim Bourmistrov: Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
The OpenBSD user community is has too many people like this. From: Maxim Bourmistrov Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 22:34:54 +0200 Subject: Re: Reboot and re-link To: Theo de Raadt Go away?! I'm your user - FIX IT. On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 22:32, Theo de Raadt wrote: I take a lot of responsib

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt wrote: > Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > > > What is seen in 'top' is what compile does to the sys. snmpd just freacks > > out, and the rest as well. > > This is VMWare. Storage below is VSAN. > > bgpd streches 4 arms - to fw1 and 3 remote VPS. No big deal here. Private > > stuff, no m

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Theo de Raadt
Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > What is seen in 'top' is what compile does to the sys. snmpd just freacks > out, and the rest as well. > This is VMWare. Storage below is VSAN. > bgpd streches 4 arms - to fw1 and 3 remote VPS. No big deal here. Private > stuff, no massive peering. No peering at all, ex

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Maxim Bourmistrov
k wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > > > >> Hey, > >> > >> long story short: reboot and re-link is not practical. > >> > >> Long story: > >> Time to upgrade 6.4 to 6.5. > >> If re

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019-06-20, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> long story short: reboot and re-link is not practical. >> >> Long story: >> Time to upgrade 6.4 to 6.5. >> If re-link been act

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-20 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: > Hey, > > long story short: reboot and re-link is not practical. > > Long story: > Time to upgrade 6.4 to 6.5. > If re-link been active in 6.4 (don't remember) - I never noticed it. > Insta

Re: Reboot and re-link

2019-06-19 Thread Christer Solskogen
> > Hit me with stright answers and no "bs wrap-around". > > Upgrade to a snapshot using bsd.rd, and use sysupgrade from now on. -- chs

Reboot and re-link

2019-06-19 Thread Maxim Bourmistrov
Hey, long story short: reboot and re-link is not practical. Long story: Time to upgrade 6.4 to 6.5. If re-link been active in 6.4 (don't remember) - I never noticed it. Installing via NOT RECOMMENDED WAY(following upgrade65.html) - scripting on steroides (ansible). All down. Reboot. and