Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I m not tied in anyway to OpenBSD, what i m trying to avoid is multiplying the amount of different OS i m using hence the question about OpenBSD, i think i will indeed take a look at GEOM for time being. Point is i now have 2 servers running OpenBSD

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I m not tied in anyway to OpenBSD, what i m trying to avoid is multiplying the amount of different OS i m using hence the question about OpenBSD, Okay, but it helps to know this info up front. i think i will indeed take a look at GEOM for time being. Also, the Express releases of Solaris

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-18 Thread mvdeventer
Thanks to those that responded. I have a few ideas. Once i figure out how to add arrowheads, QCad may be just the thing. I got the idea from Douglas' xfig idea. Thanks man. Cheers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 2007/05/15 12:01 To:

Re: a cd key

2007-05-18 Thread Timothy Wilson
Had you thought about mounting certain areas as read only? For example, /etc, /local can be mounted as read only. When you want to make changes, such as installing a new package or whatever, just remount the file systems read/write. You can also use jails. Timothy

Re: pf state limits

2007-05-18 Thread Henning Brauer
* Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-05-17 23:52]: Given a i386 kernel, assume I can toss as much RAM at the box as needed (I know this isn't the limitation, it's a kernel memory issue), what's the maximum I can set the state table size to? I have a couple Wild guess: The limitiation

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Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-18 Thread Edd Barrett
Hi, On 18/05/07, Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give any information about the Sun Netra X1 being used as a pf firewall. I am specifically looking for throughput information. I am considering using a pair for a theoretical maximum throughput of about 45 Mbps. Can the Netra

Tracking stable procedure

2007-05-18 Thread stuart van Zee
As I am still a fairly new to OpenBSD in a production environment, I have written a few procedures for myself to follow so that I can do some of the day to day tasks without screwing them up. This is my procedure for tracking stable. If any of you see any errors, please call me an idiot and

pf default queue inspection

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Hamilton
Hi All, I've got a firewall with several dozen pf queues on, and all has been working fine for past few years, however I've managed to somehow at some point end up with a bunch of traffic end up in the 'default queue'. My intention is that every packet should end up in a defined queue

Media Proxy In OpenBSD

2007-05-18 Thread demuel
Hi, Just a taught. If there is proxying of FTP, is there any in existence what they called MEDIA proxying in OpenBSD? Regards, Demuel

Re: Tracking stable procedure

2007-05-18 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/5/18, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # make depend make (this will take a while) # cp /bsd /bsd.old # cp bsd / Why do you deviate from the FAQ? http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldKernel Best Martin

Re: Media Proxy In OpenBSD

2007-05-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Do you mean this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol ? ~BAS On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 14:16 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just a taught. If there is proxying of FTP, is there any in existence what they called MEDIA proxying in OpenBSD? Regards, Demuel --

Re: Tracking stable procedure

2007-05-18 Thread stuart van Zee
Mostly just because if I copy the kernel file over myself instead of using make install I have a copy of the old kernel in case I screwed something up (and know where it is). I am under the impression that copying the kernel to the root is what make install does. Is there a problem with this

Re: Tracking stable procedure

2007-05-18 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 10:35:32AM -0400, stuart van Zee wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Schrvder 2007/5/18, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: # make depend make (this will

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fist of all thanks for this enlightening answer, i m really trying to reduce the amount of different OSes i have to support at the moment, OpenBSD as been a wonderful replacement for web serving and ftp services plus of course network managment. ZFS

Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-18 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On May 18, 2007, at 4:56 AM, Edd Barrett wrote: On 18/05/07, Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give any information about the Sun Netra X1 being used as a pf firewall. I am specifically looking for throughput information. I am considering using a pair for a theoretical

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-18 Thread Anthony Howe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to those that responded. I have a few ideas. Once i figure out how to add arrowheads, QCad may be just the thing. I got the idea from Douglas' xfig idea. Thanks man. OpenOffice's Draw program can do Visio like flowcharts. -- Anthony C Howe Skype:

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/07, Sibastien Colmant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw, is there any plan to include volume management in a future release? what can volume management do that you cannot do with ccdconfig and disklabel?

Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-18 Thread Paul D. Ouderkirk
On 5/18/07, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must say that the LOM (Lights Out Management) on this machine is absolutely superb. The bad thing with it is that it has no cd drive, so you have to open it up and balance one on top for the initial install. From there on i reccommend bsd.rd

Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-18 Thread Edd Barrett
HI, On 18/05/07, Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the response. There isn't really an easy way to benchmark this type of thing except for putting it in production. I have one machine on the way and I can just test with that. I was just hoping that someone else might

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Snapshot, online resize and shrink, the ability to move the datablocks from one storage media to another without having to unmount or otherwise make copies of the datas, most importantly to me is the flexibility it allows in managing a resource that

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/07, Sibastien Colmant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 after reading some more on ccdconfig, just on the top of my head it doesnt seems to allow moving data block from on physical or logical volume to another for example. when i m saying volume

Remote Syslogd

2007-05-18 Thread djgoku
I am trying to filter remote syslog information that is coming from Motherboard Monitor on Windows. If all I do is change syslogd startup options in /etc/rc.conf from syslogd=-u all information is logged to /var/log/daemon. But I would really like the information be routed to something like

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Ted Unangst
On 5/18/07, Sibastien Colmant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps: this is in no way an attack after one of OpenBSD developer and most certainly someone better qualified than i am to know and understand the finer points of a system like lvm (the concept not the package), i merely miss some of the ease

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 after reading some more on ccdconfig, just on the top of my head it doesnt seems to allow moving data block from on physical or logical volume to another for example. when i m saying volume management i m encompassing more than concatenating disks or

https file transfer

2007-05-18 Thread stuart van Zee
I have just been handed a new project and would like to know if anyone has any software suggestions that would fit the requirements or at least a point in the right direction. We need to have an https server running that users can upload un-encrypted files to and have those files encrypted on

a bit OT question

2007-05-18 Thread Maxim Belooussov
Hi, Maybe I should ask this in ports@, so it is a bit OT. Is there a port of 'varnish' for OpenBSD? Varnish is BSD-licensed reverse-proxy, http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/varnish-reverse-proxy/ Maxim

Re: https file transfer

2007-05-18 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 03:31 PM 5/18/2007 -0400, stuart van Zee wrote: I have just been handed a new project and would like to know if anyone has any software suggestions that would fit the requirements or at least a point in the right direction. We need to have an https server running that users can upload

Re: flowcharts

2007-05-18 Thread Steve Fairhead
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Do any of you use flowcharting software, and if so what do you use? I am just beginning to explore the world of programming and have so far used Microsoft (spit) Visio. I tried both Kivio and Dia but they fall short for me. My code choices are (due to the course I am

Re: https file transfer

2007-05-18 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:31:50PM -0400, stuart van Zee wrote: I have just been handed a new project and would like to know if anyone has any software suggestions that would fit the requirements or at least a point in the right direction. We need to have an https server running that

Re: Volume Management

2007-05-18 Thread Sébastien Colmant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dear Ted, I m not after a fight here, i m simply asking if a tool similar to lvm, evms or vvm is available under OpenBSD. Also yes it is true that it is higly dependent on the filesystem. lastly i m mentioning lvm because it is a well know package

Re: https file transfer

2007-05-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/18 14:49, L. V. Lammert wrote: saving as a temporary file until the upload is complete, then encrypting. temporary file? that depends on the exact definition of absolutely sure that they aren't sitting on our system without being encrypted decryption will need to involve some

Re: https file transfer

2007-05-18 Thread viq
On 18/05/07, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just been handed a new project and would like to know if anyone has any software suggestions that would fit the requirements or at least a point in the right direction. We need to have an https server running that users can upload

Re: a bit OT question

2007-05-18 Thread Maxim Belooussov
Thanks for all the off-list answers. Looks like varnish uses some features that OpenBSD doesn't have yet. For those interested, the correct link is here: http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ Max

Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Bryan Vyhmeister wrote: One thing I was wondering about the X1. Does it support hard drives larger than 137 GB or whatever that old limit was? I don't know if Sun systems are affected by those same kind of issues as older PC stuff but I don't want to get bitten by that one if they are. No it

Re: Sun Netra X1 Firewall Throughput?

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On 18/05/07, Bryan Vyhmeister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give any information about the Sun Netra X1 being used as a pf firewall. I am specifically looking for throughput information. I am considering using a pair for a theoretical maximum throughput of about 45 Mbps. Can the Netra X1

Mysql POrts installation

2007-05-18 Thread John Nietzsche
Dear gentleman, i am trying to install mysql on my openbsd 4.1 server. But i would like to change the user and group names from _mysql, _mysql to mysql, dba. I have change a set of files: pkg/PLIST-server:@newgroup dba:1002 pkg/PLIST-server:@newuser mysql:1001:dba:daemon:MySQL

Re: Remote Syslogd

2007-05-18 Thread Darren Spruell
On 5/18/07, djgoku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to filter remote syslog information that is coming from Motherboard Monitor on Windows. If all I do is change syslogd startup options in /etc/rc.conf from syslogd=-u all information is logged to /var/log/daemon. But I would really like the

Re: Remote Syslogd

2007-05-18 Thread K K
On 5/18/07, djgoku [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to filter remote syslog information that is coming from Motherboard Monitor on Windows. If all I do is change syslogd startup options in /etc/rc.conf from syslogd=-u all information is logged to /var/log/daemon. But I would really like the

Re: a cd key

2007-05-18 Thread Clint M. Sand
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:47:21PM +1000, Timothy Wilson wrote: Had you thought about mounting certain areas as read only? For example, /etc, /local can be mounted as read only. When you want to make changes, such as installing a new package or whatever, just remount the file systems

Re: Bridge over gif on 4.1

2007-05-18 Thread Renaud Allard
Renaud Allard wrote: Markus Friedl wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:03:18PM +0200, Renaud Allard wrote: It's just quite annoying that the man page for brconfig says that the bridge over gif should work and it does not. well, it did work before and should work in 4.1 I know. But with

Re: Remote Syslogd

2007-05-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/05/18 14:39, Darren Spruell wrote: syslog.conf(5) doesn't make any mention of + prepending that I can find. + in syslog.conf is a FreeBSD extension, NetBSD picked it up with some other changes (including poll and signals - kqueue/kevent) Neither OpenBSD nor the Linux version I just

Re: a cd key

2007-05-18 Thread Sean Malloy
On 5/17/07, BradenM - Sonoma Computer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; In the past, I read an article which told me of a process in which a cd houses the important system binaries and software and even some settings and is left outside of the machine so that unauthorized users, and even root,

Re: https file transfer

2007-05-18 Thread bofh
And if he encrypts using the http server's ssl cert, he doesn't even have to worry about decryption issues - the https server can dwcrypt and toss it to the downloading user. Security? What's that? His looks more like a business/audit issue. Am I jaded that I can now see giving the users what

spamd-setup in blacklisting mode run from rc

2007-05-18 Thread Nick Templeton
Since when running spamd(8) in blacklisting mode requires that spamd-setup(8) also be run with the -b option, should /etc/rc (the system startup script) be modified with something like I provide below? Index: rc === RCS file:

xenocara

2007-05-18 Thread Brian
I am updating my system, and I have just read about xenocara in -current. Do I just build this over my pre-existing X.org? I wasn't quite sure from the README. And is there anything special I need to do with ports and packages? Thanks.

Re: isakmpd not deleting old SAD

2007-05-18 Thread Steven Surdock
Steven Surdock wrote: Greetings, I have an isakmpd process that's not letting go of old SADs. While it doesn't seem to be causing issues with the tunnels, it is causing higher than normal system utilization. It seems to be occurring on the tunnels which have multiple subnets defined

US Export of Cryptography

2007-05-18 Thread Mark Reitblatt
After reviewing OpenBSD's current policies on US contributions of cryptography, and current US law, I'd like a clarification. Current US law (c.f. the short guide http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/lechart1.htm) allows the unlicensed export/reexport of open source encryption source code. The only