Re: NetBSD 10.0 installation cd boot hangs

On Mon, 27 May 2024, e...@tilde.team wrote: On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 03:09:14PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 03:00:24PM +0200, Benny Siegert wrote: This is technically not a hang. The kernel did not find the device to boot from, so it is waiting for you to enter one.

Re: "Building products with NetBSD"

On Fri, 3 May 2024, Liam Proven wrote: A design study I just found while researching some Acorn stuff. https://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/attachments/77_BuildingProductsWithNetBSDthin-clients-Stephen-Borrill.pdf From 2009. You're welcome! It was an update of my talk at EuroBSDCon 2007.

Re: TOTP apps, and WebAuthn recommended devices?

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023, Greg Troxel wrote: 2FA is increasingly required, which is fine, but I wonder about strategies for coping as a NetBSD user. One thing is TOTP. There are Android apps from f-droid (which suits me but not everyone), and there is vaultwarden which should allow bitwarden to do

Re: Gateway server experiencing degraded performance

On Mon, 16 May 2022, Andrew K Adams wrote: I've looked at traffic with tcpdump, but there is so much in both scenarios that I can't really say that one service, or a packet-of-death is triggering the degraded state. But thinking in aggregate, if there was a way to monitor the average

Re: Sendmail SMTP AUTH no longer works

On Tue, 26 Apr 2022, Stephen Borrill wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Stephen Borrill wrote: I've upgraded to pkgsrc-2022Q1 and now SMTP AUTH no longer works. This upgrades all the cyrus stuff to 2.1.28 from 2.1.27 as well as revbumping sendmail 8.16.1. The configuration files have not changed

Re: Sendmail SMTP AUTH no longer works

On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Stephen Borrill wrote: I've upgraded to pkgsrc-2022Q1 and now SMTP AUTH no longer works. This upgrades all the cyrus stuff to 2.1.28 from 2.1.27 as well as revbumping sendmail 8.16.1. The configuration files have not changed and yes, I'm installing the cy2-plain, etc

Sendmail SMTP AUTH no longer works

I've upgraded to pkgsrc-2022Q1 and now SMTP AUTH no longer works. This upgrades all the cyrus stuff to 2.1.28 from 2.1.27 as well as revbumping sendmail 8.16.1. The configuration files have not changed and yes, I'm installing the cy2-plain, etc. plugins. I've found that if I revert to my

Re: NetBSD 8/9 freeze

On Wed, 2 Mar 2022, Dima Veselov wrote: I have two similar NetBSD boxes, one is under 9_STABLE and the other is old 8_STABLE. Sometimes one or another or even both get hit by something and OS freezes. It looks like hardware stops working, but OS do not catch panic. It means if ping is constantly

Re: Cannot export/import ZFS pool

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, Greg Troxel wrote: David Brownlee writes: Does {r}xbd0 behave differently to {r}xbd0d? - worth a quick test? On a random 9/amd64 box, "ls -l /dev/*xbd0{,d}" shows: crw-r- 1 root operator 142, 3 Jan 7 2019 /dev/rxbd0 crw-r- 1 root operator 142, 3 Oct 21

ZFS ashift?

I've ascertained that ZFS appears to be able to correctly determine native sector size. On a Xen DomU I get: # zdb | grep ashift ashift: 9 On a physical machine with a disk with 4k native sectors I get: # zdb | grep ashift ashift: 12 However, I cannot see a way to

Re: Cannot export/import ZFS pool

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, David Brownlee wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 11:56, Stephen Borrill wrote: NetBSD 9.1_STABLE NetBSD 9.1_STABLE (XEN3_DOMU) #0: Sat Jan 9 19:31:08 UTC 2021 mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/xen/compile/XEN3_DOMU amd64 zfs.kmod has been built with MAXPHYS

Cannot export/import ZFS pool

NetBSD 9.1_STABLE NetBSD 9.1_STABLE (XEN3_DOMU) #0: Sat Jan 9 19:31:08 UTC 2021 mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/xen/compile/XEN3_DOMU amd64 zfs.kmod has been built with MAXPHYS=32768 as it's a -9 DomU # /etc/rc.d/zfs rcvar # zfs $zfs=YES # zpool create tank /dev/xbd1d # zpool

dhcp server null pointer in option_cache_dereference

On some machines newly upgraded to 9.0_STABLE, dhcp runs fine for, say, 24 hours then starts logging the following. After this point, it no longer handles any DHCP requests: Null pointer in option_cache_dereference: /usr/src/external/mpl/dhcp/bin/server/../../dist/server/dhcp.c(4067) That

Re: NetBSD Jails

On Thu, 21 May 2020, Sad Clouds wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2020 00:17:27 -0400 "Aaron B." wrote: There's still networking to worry about after that, but just isolating processes in a more useful way is a huge step forward. You can probably do that. If you use chroot to emulate containers, simply

Re: daily vs named

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019, Dima Veselov wrote: its not a great issue, but I wish to know if there is a clue to daily(5) not complaining about relocated named(8). I always move named(8) to /var/chroot as it is supposed in rc.conf for security. After that daily(5) always complain: Checking special

Re: Server hardware

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019, Jan Danielsson wrote: I normally spend some time before buying new hardware to run NetBSD on, but recently our office router croaked so I was in a hurry to get something to replace it. I looked at the Dell PowerEdge T130, quickly went through the list of the most

Re: "Virtual" RAID1

On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Brett Lymn wrote: I have in mind a simple block upon which one could imagine building distributed data. Have you looked at glusterfs? It sounds like you may be trying to implement something like that. There's also FreeBSD's HAST:

Re: Web + email hosting recommendations

On Tue, 7 May 2019, Sad Clouds wrote: Hello, could anyone recommend web hosting providers for the following cases: 1. Register domain while it is available and set up basic web + email. This only needs to be an empty landing page and ability to send/receive emails at the new domain. There are

Re: how to use netbsd with ubuntu?

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019, Niels Dettenbach wrote: Am Freitag, 12. April 2019, 10:02:54 CEST schrieb Abhinav Upadhyay: Things might have improved with qemu, I haven't tried it recently. Xen is another option to Run Linux "under" NetBSD. Ubuntu as PV (or the newer PVM) Guest could be more efficient

Re: ccd vs LVM

On Sun, 7 Apr 2019, Michael van Elst wrote: kab...@lich.phys.spbu.ru (Dima Veselov) writes: If anyone knows - what is the best practice in performance and fault-tolerance - ccd or LVM? Neither is fault-tolerant, CCD only supports striping and we have only implemented striping for LVM. You

Finding bottlenecks on a proxy server

I'm using squid and danguardian as a content-filtering web-proxy combo. These are arranged in the chain: clients -> squid (1) -> dansguardian -> squid (2) -> Internet The first squid provides the most flexible filtering (time of day, MAC address, user authentication, client IP/port, etc.). It

Re: Automatically frozen Laptop

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019, Jay Patel wrote: I am testing if 'hal' might be the problem. do you have it installed? I do not, but in my case, the problem is definitely networking/firewalling related. On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:43 PM Stephen Borrill wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Jay Patel wrote

Re: Automatically frozen Laptop

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019, Jay Patel wrote: Hello Manuel, Can't ssh into box when machine is frozen. Can it be related to powerd? Is it connected to the Internet? What firewall do you have? I'm seeing random complete lockups too, but generally this is related to being connected to the Internet

Re: rc.d problem

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019, Martin Husemann wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 03:17:57PM +0300, Dima Veselov wrote: The rc scripts use "sleep 0.05" but not all versions of sleep support non-integral values. I never replaced original one. The only replacement was done - upgrading via build.sh

Re: rc.d problem

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019, Dima Veselov wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 12:13:52PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 02:00:54PM +0300, Dima Veselov wrote: Greetings! After some 8.0-STABLE upgrades all my NetBSD boxes have problem with rc.d scripts. They are definitely working,

Re: npf forwarding <-

On Tue, 20 Nov 2018, Patrick Welche wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:37:51PM +0300, Dima Veselov wrote: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 03:14:33PM +, Patrick Welche wrote: procedure "log" map iwn0 dynamic any -> 10.111.65.65 pass family inet4 from 10.168.204.0/24 # id="1" map wm0 dynamic

Re: npf forwarding <-

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018, Patrick Welche wrote: How is npf <- meant to work? This is the simplest test rig I could think of: # rpi laptopwebserver # NetBSD-8.99.25/evbarmNetBSD-8.99.25/amd64 NetBSD-8.99.25/amd64 # usmsc0 10.168.204.26/24 <-->

Re: Interfacing webcam with NetBSD

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, Mayuresh wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 03:41:51PM +0100, Michael van Elst wrote: The last message is probably caused by uvideo trying to guess the correct USB "alternate interface" and failing. Then sorry, your camera is not supported yet. Is it possible to write

Re: Some questions about NetBSD

On Sun, 12 Aug 2018, Greg Troxel wrote: Next, I noticed that there was a lot of things installed. For example, I don't need X11. On Linux, pretty much everything is managed by the package manager, but pkgsrc only takes care of /usr/pkg. That's how it is. Ancient BSD tradition is to have

Re: wip/virtualbox vs emulators/qemu vs xen performance comparison?

On Wed, 6 Jun 2018, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 07:30:38AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 07:56:50PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: If you want to run on a desktop you'll probably run into graphic drivers issues with NetBSD/Xen. qemu on NetBSD is a plain

Re: sshguard fails to start

On Tue, 22 May 2018, Mike Pumford wrote: On 21/05/2018 18:03, Mayuresh wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:20:22PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: # /etc/rc.d/sshguard start Starting sshguard. # /etc/rc.d/sshguard status sshguard is not running. # /etc/rc.d/sshguard rcvar # sshguard $sshguard=YES Ok,

Re: cloning RAIDframe config

On Wed, 2 May 2018, Steve Blinkhorn wrote: I have two identical servers, each with two identical disks, front-panel swappable. One now has a working RAID-1 setup, fully populated. Can I clone it on the other machine by disk-swapping and reconstructing (with the first machine cleanly shutdown,

Re: SMB

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018, Patrick Welche wrote: I haven't tried SMB in years (it definitely worked against a different windows server). Quick attempt on -current/amd64 gets: $ smbutil -v login -I wibble //prlw1@wibble Password: smbutil: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device available)

Re: Does Linux emulation work?

On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, Hauke Fath wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 12:52:16 + (UTC), Christos Zoulas wrote: $ sysctl -a | grep linux emul.linux.kern.ostype = Linux emul.linux.kern.osrelease = 3.11.6 emul.linux.kern.osversion = #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 24 16:23:02 UTC 2013 emul.linux.enabled = 0

Re: Using a 4TB (Now 3TB) SATA disk with i386?

On Sat, 18 Nov 2017, Michael van Elst wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 02:42:30PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote: Now, installing a bootable netbsd onto such a disk is something else, but as a data disk it's even easier than before. I admit to not knowing how / whether that can be done, and from

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, trebol wrote: Well, ':' it seems to allowed. From https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx [...] In both NTFS and FAT file systems, the special file name characters are: '\', '/', '.', '?', and '*' [...] Windows 7 and 10 disagree,

Re: NetBSD on Amazon EC2

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, el kalin wrote: it says there: "I guess this is the patch from XSA-240, you need to boot with pv-linear-pt=true on the Xen command line" how would that work on aws? can "pv-linear-pt=true" be used in a some .d or .conf file at startup? Unfortunately no, this is a change

Re: proc.curproc.rlimit.descriptors.hard/soft can not be increased

On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, Andreas Beck wrote: Okay, ive done the job by editing /etc/login.conf. Andreas Beck schrieb: Hello, ive a Problem with 8.0_BETA and increasing proc.curproc.rlimit.descriptors.hard and proc.curproc.rlimit.descriptors.soft When I do "sysctl -w" or in /etc/sysctl.conf the

Re: Hypervisor advice

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017, Niels Dettenbach wrote: Am Montag, 31. Juli 2017, 12:01:40 CEST schrieb Stephen Borrill: XenServer is free and all the major OSes run on it. Only downside is that if you want to run its graphical management tool you'll need to run that on Windows. https://xenserver.org

Re: Hypervisor advice

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Andy Ruhl wrote: I've had a NetBSD/i386 machine that's been running since the late 90s and various hardware iterations. I think it's time to move it to a virtual machine. I need new hardware as well. It has about a 10 year old AMD processor and 1 gig of memory. This is

Re: Can I use NetBSD as a desktop system?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Riccardo Mottola wrote: [snip] I also notice that the "bus LED" that thinkpads have that says you can remove the DVD from the module, remains on... I don't remember if this happened with windows (don't have it anymore) but I don't feel this as correct, I will try to veriy

Re: Changing RAIDframe "Last configured as"

On Fri, 14 Jul 2017, Christos Zoulas wrote: In article <pine.neb.4.64.1707141110440@ugly.internal.precedence.co.uk>, Stephen Borrill <net...@precedence.co.uk> wrote: Just ran into RAIDframe endeavouring to keep device numbering constant when auto-configuring (which I do

Changing RAIDframe "Last configured as"

Just ran into RAIDframe endeavouring to keep device numbering constant when auto-configuring (which I don't remember it doing before). For example, I'd created a RAID-1 on raid0 on a lab machine to save rebuild time when doing a later installation and then added these drives to an existing

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Michael van Elst wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:32:18AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 04:23:08AM -, Michael van Elst wrote: An ISCSI target on the other hand doesn't require any privileges if you just export a file as a disk image. I mean, even to

Re: mount_smbfs permission denied

On Tue, 2 May 2017, Frank Wille wrote: On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 16:56:10 +0200 Frank Wille wrote: The same doesn't work with mount_smbfs, or am I missing something? tethys# mount_smbfs -I 192.168.0.251 -W WPSD //administrator@wps-terminal/Allgemeines /mnt Password:

Re: hdaudio jack detection

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Christos Zoulas wrote: In article , Fekete Zolt??n wrote: I have created a device.hints for FreeBSD formerly, see here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/52244 And simply adapted that configuration to

Re: Problem with Intel WiFi card

On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Rocky Hotas wrote: This is a lot of work to make the bus configure manually. Looks like OpenBSD has a lot more code (integrated this patch and more) in http://bxr.su/OpenBSD/sys/dev/pci/ppb.c to do this... Yes, the function ppbattach is much more "hinged" here than in

Re: /bin/sh command history in NetBSD/i386

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Marco Beishuizen wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, the wise C??g wrote: Try "set -o vi" or "set -o emacs" and "export ENV="$HOME/.shrc" in .profile. Unfortunately these didn't make any difference. What's your terminal type? echo $TERM -- Stephen

Re: Why is a wedge on RAID 10x slower?

On Thu, 5 Jan 2017, Patrick Welche wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:30:51AM +, Stephen Borrill wrote: mlelstv pointed out that because of the 64 sectPerSU RAIDframe setting (i.e. 128 sectors of data with 3 components, or 64k), the stripe unit is 32k, but the whole stripe is 64k

Re: Why is a wedge on RAID 10x slower?

in 11.520 secs (292846933 bytes/sec) On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Stephen Borrill wrote: I've a RAIDframe RAID-5 on 3x WD40ERFX drives. There's a well-aligned gpt and wedge on each: # gpt show wd0 startsize index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1

Why is a wedge on RAID 10x slower?

I've a RAIDframe RAID-5 on 3x WD40ERFX drives. There's a well-aligned gpt and wedge on each: # gpt show wd0 startsize index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 34

Re: Compiling minimal userland?

On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, William Z. wrote: I'm currently trying to replace Linux with NetBSD in some of my embedded devices. I have read "The Guide" and found out how to create a crosscompiler and compile a tiny custom kernel. However, I also want to create a very minimal userland, but as far as I

Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1

On Wed, 24 Aug 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote: On Aug 24, 9:15am, net...@precedence.co.uk (Stephen Borrill) wrote: -- Subject: Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1 | On Fri, 5 Aug 2016, metalli...@fastmail.fm wrote: | > For what it's worth, I have upgraded my kernel to NETBS

Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1

ur crashes but mine tends to happen when the box is forwarding VPN traffic. What type of VPN traffic (SSL, IPSec, etc.)? Do you mean forwarding from the internal network to the outside? I don't think that's the case here. On Thu, Aug 4, 2016, at 06:39 AM, Stephen Borrill wrote: On Wed, 3 Aug 2016

Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote: In article <pine.neb.4.64.1608021259170@ugly.internal.precedence.co.uk>, Stephen Borrill <net...@precedence.co.uk> wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, metalli...@fastmail.fm wrote: I've been very disappointed with the quality of NetBSD 7

Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1

On Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Christos Zoulas wrote: In article <pine.neb.4.64.1608021259170@ugly.internal.precedence.co.uk>, Stephen Borrill <net...@precedence.co.uk> wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, metalli...@fastmail.fm wrote: I've been very disappointed with the quality of NetBSD 7

Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1

On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, metalli...@fastmail.fm wrote: I've been very disappointed with the quality of NetBSD 7.0.1 since I upgraded from 6.1.5 a few weeks ago. I've been running pretty much the same system config as my home router/NAT/firewall/server since NetBSD 1.5. I believe that's almost 15

Re: Proxy server, mode intercept on NetBSD 7.0.1

On Wed, 27 Jul 2016, Rodolfo Edgar wrote: Hi guys, Help me please, I have a small LAN in my office, the scenary is: InternetRouter ISP(wm0-NetBSD-wm1,wm2)LAN1, LAN2 wm0=192.168.1.85/24 wm1=192.168.2.85/24 wm2=192.168.3.85/24 I am going to do proxy on wm1, currently NetBSD is a

Re: NetBSD's LVM works great for me

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Swift Griggs wrote: I've been using LVM under NetBSD now in 7.0 since the release. I have found it to be remarkably stable for such a newly implemented set of features. Maybe I just haven't been doing enough to beat on it. It's been around since the -6 era, so it's not

Re: Netbsd xenserver

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Siyar Erdemli wrote: 29 ??ub 2016 11:08 tarihinde "Stephen Borrill" <net...@precedence.co.uk> yazd??: On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Siyar Erdemli wrote: Hi. I want to use NetBSD7 on xenserver 6.5. But , ffs journaling not working. When journaling turned off perf

Re: Netbsd xenserver

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Siyar Erdemli wrote: Hi. I want to use NetBSD7 on xenserver 6.5. But , ffs journaling not working. When journaling turned off performance degrades dramatically Are you doing this paravirtualised, i.e. with XEN3_DOMU as a kernel? -- Stephen

Re: Replace default SSH with pkgsrc version

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, IT geek 31 wrote: In article , Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote: On December 8, 2015 10:15:41 AM EST, Andy Ruhl wrote: On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:32 AM, itgee...@googlemail.com

Re: priocscan vs fcfs

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:23:28PM +, Michael van Elst wrote: That's probably why setting the queues all to fcfs is the best for you. Not as dramatic as Emile's numbers but significantly higher read throughput: Am I missing something here?

Re: Beating a dead horse

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: I have a small server running NetBSD 6.1.5, setup last summer with a combination of help onlist (*THANKS*) & an online tutorial I found here: http://abs0d.blogspot.com/2011/08/setting-up-8tb-netbsd-file-server.html (watch for line wrap). He

Re: Resizing a GPT disk, for the record

On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Stephen Borrill wrote: On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Stephen Borrill wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, John Nemeth wrote: On Jun 17, 1:49pm, Stephen Borrill wrote: } } For the record, I'm presenting a transcript of dealing with a } resized virtual disk with a GPT table. The disk has been

Re: Resizing a GPT disk, for the record

On Thu, 18 Jun 2015, Stephen Borrill wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2015, John Nemeth wrote: On Jun 17, 1:49pm, Stephen Borrill wrote: } } For the record, I'm presenting a transcript of dealing with a } resized virtual disk with a GPT table. The disk has been resized } from 10G to 20G. Note

Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, David Brownlee wrote: OK, I've identified the problem (if not the solution :) I'm trying to setup - gpt with a wedge (at offset +64) that covers the entire disk, containing: - a raid1 partition, which offsets its context by +64, containing: - gpt with a wedge (at offset

gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

I've been testing out wedges combined with RAIDframe on HDDs 2TB. I have: # gpt show wd1 startsize index contents 0 1 PMBR 1 1 Pri GPT header 2 32 Pri GPT table 3420972448 1

Re: gptmbr.bin vs RAIDframe

On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, David Brownlee wrote: On 16 June 2015 at 14:14, Stephen Borrill net...@precedence.co.uk wrote: I've been testing out wedges combined with RAIDframe on HDDs 2TB. I have: # gpt show wd1 startsize index contents 0 1 PMBR

wedges, why is dk0 root?

I added a 2nd (virtual) HDD to my installed VM, created a GPT and then a ufs wedge on it. At a reboot, it now decides that the wedge is the root device: dk0 at xbd1: 8f7dbfb4-0f7f-11e5-895b-5acb6b8c1887 dk0: 20971453 blocks at 34, type: ffs boot device: dk0 root on dk0 root file system type:

Re: System fully writable right after install

On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, Justin Cormack wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Ottavio Caruso ottavio2006-net...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, just performed a fresh install of a Netbsd 6.1 patch (amd64) from the releng repos. The installl was very smooth (I had tried a Nebsd-7 install but I

Re: GPT questions - gpt reliability, wedge naming, and filesystem scaling.

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Greg Troxel wrote: Gerard Lally lists+netbsd.us...@netmail.ie writes: 1) Is it safe to use GPT on NetBSD? The warnings on the gpt man page leave me less than 100% confident. On NetBSD 6, I would say yes. Even on 5, I think so. I am not really clear on booting from

Re: NetBSD+Xen with short-lived throw-away guests

On Wed, 5 Mar 2014, Stephan wrote: What we need is something like Citrix Provisioning Services. Yes - but even Linux is not longer supported as guest by PVS. XenServer 6.2 has clone-on-boot (designed for MCS as opposed to PVS*) which would be a good option. The problem is the inflexibility

Re: dynamic authenticated tunnel set-up

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Paul Goyette wrote: In the not-too-distant future, I'll be moving overseas, to a location where fixed IPv4 network addresses are unavailable (or at least, they will be prohibitively expensive!) I'm planning to get a virtual machine in a US location, with a single fixed

sendmail, spamass-milter and zombies

I'm using sendmail and spamass-milter from pkgsrc on netbsd-5. When I use the -B flag to spamass-milter to forward on spam mail to another address, when a mail gets forwarded the child sendmail process (often) remains as a zombie. So: 1# ps ax | grep 'ZW.*sendmail' 2062 ? ZW 0:00.00

Re: Very slow filesystem

On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Christoph Badura wrote: On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:40:36AM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote: I've a machine which has a filesysmte that is extremely slow to create dirs and files. Look at the time to run mkdir below: backup 1# time mkdir /data/backup/previous4 0.000u 0.131s

Re: formating a large disk

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013, Michael van Elst wrote: derrick.l...@givex.com (Derrick Lobo) writes: I googled this and could not find a solution to netbsd. I have 2 x 2Tb SATA disk that are setup as CCD and am trying to format the with newfs and keep getting errors.. I can format a drive if the

Re: too many inodes error from fsck

On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Brett Lymn wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:58:12PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote: And this is i386 I guess, because the number of inodes is suspect: ... 0x51e4a0ed ... I guess your only chance is to try to fix it with 64 bit fsck because given the number of inodes the 32

Re: too many inodes error from fsck

On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Christos Zoulas wrote: On Oct 3, 3:02pm, net...@precedence.co.uk (Stephen Borrill) wrote: -- Subject: Re: too many inodes error from fsck | On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Brett Lymn wrote: | On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 07:58:12PM +, Christos Zoulas wrote: | | And this is i386 I

too many inodes error from fsck

1# fsck -fy /dev/rdk0 ** /dev/rdk0 ** File system is already clean ** Last Mounted on /data ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes 1288780186 DUP I=317676426 INCORRECT BLOCK COUNT I=317676426 (8 should be 48) CORRECT? yes 1288780182 DUP I=317676427 1288780183 DUP I=317676428 1288780184 DUP

Re: Fail to get a IP from dhcpcd

On Fri, 24 May 2013, Francisco Valladolid H. wrote: Recently I installed NetBSD 6.1 release in a old PIII/440BX chipset MB with intel Fast Ethernet card (fxp driver), whenever when try to get a IP from dhpcd it don't work correctly and no IP is associated to the nic. Whenever if the IP is set

Re: tw_cli reports not configured

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Matthias Scheler wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 04:06:46PM +, Stephen Borrill wrote: I've been using the FreeBSD binary tw_cli for a number of years. This machine is running 5.1_STABLE from July-ish. I'm sure when I was running an earlier netbsd-5 version it worked