Re: : problem booting on other partition than hd0a

2008-02-08 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:24:27AM +0100, Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: Julian Leyh wrote: On 13:36 Wed 06 Feb , Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: I change the /etc/boot.conf, which now is : set tty com0 stty com0 19200 set timeout 5 boot hd0b:/bsd try set device hd0b instead of the last

Re: Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:07:15 +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Apparently we (our mail server) got targeted by a zombie network since suddenly there were some 3 hosts on spamd's whitelist, continously some 600 connections to spamd, and only mails to unknown users coming in. The network connection

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:24:14PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: I've warned you about a lot of them, you ignored that, but for some reason I feel obligated to try one more time. I just hate to see people do things like this to themselves (and I want to be able to say, No, not interested in

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Matt wrote: Hello, I am running a 4.2 webserver and want to add another machine as hot spare. The second machine is identical and is living in the same rack - this is purely for hardware failure / easy upgrading and at a later stage (need 3rd box) CARP. I understand I can use rsync over

Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Raimo Niskanen
Apparently we (our mail server) got targeted by a zombie network since suddenly there were some 3 hosts on spamd's whitelist, continously some 600 connections to spamd, and only mails to unknown users coming in. The network connection was flooded, the web server sluggish, downloads creeped,

Re: problem booting on other partition than hd0a

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: Alexander Hall wrote: Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: Hello, I'm using OpenBSD with a Soekris NET4801. To make my job easy and more secure to upgrade software, If think that boot do not read /etc/boot.conf : You might have missed the end of my last reply. Shortening

Regarding hard words between RMS and Theo

2008-02-08 Thread Fredrik Ludl
You are probably right both of you. I do not know. But as a user, I have to say that the best would be to put all energy into your own projects. The BSD licence is freedom. So any BSD qualify for a link at FSF! I sometimes have to use software that is non-free. I can not find a free

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Matt
Alexander Hall schreef: Matt wrote: Hello, I am running a 4.2 webserver and want to add another machine as hot spare. The second machine is identical and is living in the same rack - this is purely for hardware failure / easy upgrading and at a later stage (need 3rd box) CARP. I

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread Lars Noodén
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Lymn wrote: So, regarding these claims of interoperability, can you put LDAP+Kerberos+DNS services on an OpenBSD in a network of Windows clients and removed the need for any other machines running AD? have a look at this:

Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-08 Thread Unix Fan
Hello, This morning I applied the Xorg patches provided for OpenBSD 4.2.. the build took several hours on one of my Athlon XP+ 2600 machines but it's working wonderfully now. Is there an easy/safe way to upgrade Xorg on the rest of my workstations without repetitively building it on each

Re: multi-disk external scsi enclosures

2008-02-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/08 09:03, Woodchuck wrote: Does anyone make a universal hot-plug carrier or do the styles keep No. And they change all the time. Dell is disgusting this way. For their older (~1550) stuff, Dell carriers now cost about the same as a used 16GB drive. Sun are fairly

Re: sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command

2008-02-08 Thread Han Boetes
Michael wrote: I am looking for sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command: $ X=abcdefghi $ echo ${X:0:2} ab cut(1) # Han

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread Eduardo Alvarenga
A long time ago a asked the developers to implement nsswitch compatibility on OpenBSD, for sake of having user automatic syncronization on AD. The answer was not positive. There is also a patch that implements this hanging around. Got to ask Google :-) Maybe it's time for OpenBSD to become more

Re: : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:08:19PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:07:15 +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: : : * To make the greylist herustics validate the hosts by reverse DNS PTR lookup and then forward A lookup is apparetly a debatable issue according to the current

Re: : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 12:33:47PM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently we (our mail server) got targeted by a zombie network since suddenly there were some 3 hosts on spamd's whitelist, continously some 600 connections to spamd, and

Re: multi-disk external scsi enclosures

2008-02-08 Thread Woodchuck
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: If the drives and carriers are inseperable, then when HP decides to stop selling them, then no new drives can be had. However, if once one has HP probably stopped making them when people now on this list were in short pants. How time flies. the

Re: : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Raimo Niskanen wrote: Now I am trying to improve the Greyscanner. I noticed it did not trap hosts using an empty envelope sender, unless there were more than one entry from that host. I regarded it as a bug and fixed it. I hope an empty envelope sender really is suspicious or

Re: Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Calomel
Raimo, Can you use the spamd.alloweddomains to whitelist email addresses and domains you accept mail for? Any email sent to your mail server that is not on the list will only goto spamd and never get the chance to be greylisted/whitelisted. Then you could write a simple script to look through the

Re: Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-08 Thread Unix Fan
I've read release(8) and I've read the FAQ... but, both still require manually merging.. copying... etc.. I guess I'm just lazy.. I'll do it the overly complex way... :) Packages would be nice... pkg_add integration... Xorg is modular now remember?.. ;) -Nix Fan.

Re: Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-08 Thread Josh Grosse
On 8 Feb 2008 08:33:18 -0800, Unix Fan wrote I've read release(8) and I've read the FAQ... but, both still require manually merging.. copying... etc.. I guess I'm just lazy.. I'll do it the overly complex way... :) Manual merging/copying? Just of xetc*, and mergemaster makes short work of

Re: : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a backscatter gets through to sendmail, and it is to an invalid user, what is the proper thing for sendmail to do? My sendmail most probably does the default, which I guess is to bounce the mail. yes,

Re: running mail server at home

2008-02-08 Thread L. V. Lammert
At 09:33 AM 2/8/2008 -0500, Jim Razmus wrote: * L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080207 13:30]: At 04:43 PM 2/7/2008 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can absolutely run a mail server at home. This is not rocket science and in fact, it is dumb easy to do. Try to follow these steps: 1. Get

Re: sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command

2008-02-08 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 05:03:40PM +0100, Michael wrote: | Hi, | | Han Boetes schrieb: | Michael wrote: | I am looking for sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command: | | $ X=abcdefghi | $ echo ${X:0:2} | ab | | cut(1) | | Thanks a lot, sometimes the obvious solutions are the

Re: : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a backscatter gets through to sendmail, and it is to an invalid user, what is the proper thing for sendmail to do? My sendmail most probably does the default, which I guess is to bounce the mail. yes, if you receive a message intended for a

Re: running mail server at home

2008-02-08 Thread Jim Razmus
* Lori Barfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080207 12:41]: consumer IP space is really a problem for outgoing mail. at the very least, all the majors will add spam points to your messages and so your mail is a lot more likely to be bulked. even resold IP space at large colos is treated that way by

Dell SC440 reboot

2008-02-08 Thread sandro guly zaccarini
hi, i have two sc440 running 4.2 and i have some problem. i don't have the box here so i can't paste the trace or similar but i will try to explain and maybe if i'm not the only one that use this crappy hardware.. first of all, the raid controller is awful. this has been discussed in past so i

Re: Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-08 Thread Josh Grosse
On 8 Feb 2008 07:49:15 -0800, Unix Fan wrote ...Is there an easy/safe way to upgrade Xorg on the rest of my workstations without repetitively building it on each of them? Does FAQ 5.5 under Making a release help?

Re: OpenBSD as Xen domU

2008-02-08 Thread NetOne - Doichin Dokov
ropers NAPISA: On 07/02/2008, NetOne - Doichin Dokov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetOne - Doichin Dokov NAPISA: I'm trying to use Christopher's work, but I get the following errors when i try to make depend a xenU kernel: (...) Anyone any hints? Is it meant to be run on -current (I see

Re: Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/08 07:49, Unix Fan wrote: Hello, This morning I applied the Xorg patches provided for OpenBSD 4.2.. the build took several hours on one of my Athlon XP+ 2600 machines but it's working wonderfully now. Is there an easy/safe way to upgrade Xorg on the rest of my workstations

Re: sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command

2008-02-08 Thread Michael
Hi, Han Boetes schrieb: Michael wrote: I am looking for sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command: $ X=abcdefghi $ echo ${X:0:2} ab cut(1) Thanks a lot, sometimes the obvious solutions are the hardest to find... $ X=abcdefghi $ echo $X | cut -c 1-2 ab :-) Michael

Re: Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Apparently we (our mail server) got targeted by a zombie network since suddenly there were some 3 hosts on spamd's whitelist, continously some 600 connections to spamd, and only mails to unknown users coming in. The network connection was flooded,

Re: pf anchors with tag/tagged

2008-02-08 Thread Calomel
Are the pass rules valid for the packets you are redirecting? A redirect rule and pass rule like the following works without issue. rdr on $ExtIf inet proto tcp from $WorkSsh to ($ExtIf) port ssh tag OPENSSH - lo0 port $SshPort pass in log on $ExtIf inet proto tcp from $WorkSsh to lo0 port

Re: Binary distrubition of Xenocara 4.2-STABLE?

2008-02-08 Thread Sean Malloy
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:49:15AM -0800, Unix Fan wrote: Hello, This morning I applied the Xorg patches provided for OpenBSD 4.2.. the build took several hours on one of my Athlon XP+ 2600 machines but it's working wonderfully now. Is there an easy/safe way to upgrade Xorg on the

Re: : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Anderson
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008/02/08 11:35, Dave Anderson wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a backscatter gets through to sendmail, and it is to an invalid user, what is the proper thing for sendmail to

sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command

2008-02-08 Thread Michael
Hi, I am looking for sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command: $ X=abcdefghi $ echo ${X:0:2} ab Anyone got an idea? Michael

Re: blade servers

2008-02-08 Thread johan beisser
On Feb 6, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Need Coffee wrote: Does anyone run OpenBSD on blade servers? I don't mean Sun Blade 150 kind of hardware, but rather blade chassis with server blades (a la Sun Blade 8000, HP, Dell, etc.). I've been running FreeBSD on an Intel blade chassis with varying amounts

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Marti Martinez
Do the rsync over SSH -- unless you don't allow root ssh access? On Feb 8, 2008 3:54 AM, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Hall schreef: Matt wrote: Hello, I am running a 4.2 webserver and want to add another machine as hot spare. The second machine is identical and is living

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread Eduardo Alvarenga
2008/2/8, Karl Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/2/8, Eduardo Alvarenga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A long time ago a asked the developers to implement nsswitch compatibility on OpenBSD, for sake of having user automatic syncronization on AD. The answer was not positive. There is also a patch

Re: sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command

2008-02-08 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command: $ X=abcdefghi $ echo ${X:0:2} ab echo ab Yes, I'm being facetious, but without context it's not clear what an appropriate replacement would be. Traditionally, the regular expression

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/08 20:48, Matt wrote: Alexander Hall schreef: Marti Martinez wrote: Do the rsync over SSH -- unless you don't allow root ssh access? I think that was the solution Matt tried to avoid. I suppose he does not seem confident with (automated) root access/logins from other boxes. I'd

Re: pf anchors with tag/tagged

2008-02-08 Thread scott
The pf.conf -- with the tag/tagged -- is a long-time working config. All I did (trying to do) is move the rdr, in the redacted form, to an anchor as shown. In the future, there's going to be a very large number of rdr's and I'm seeking a cleaner and effective variant. It's behaving as if the

Re: multi-disk external scsi enclosures

2008-02-08 Thread Steve Shockley
Henning Brauer wrote: ever since Compaq switched away from the light beige carriers to teh ones with the black handle they haven't changed eitehr. they have different knobs for FC and SCSI to porevent one to be plugged into the other slot; one some of the brackes these knobs are screws you can

Re: pf anchors with tag/tagged

2008-02-08 Thread Calomel
All macros, redirections and rules must be in the that uses it anchor as I understand it. Take a look at the anchors section of this link. OpenBSD Pf Firewall how to ( pf.conf ) http://calomel.org/pf_config.html -- Calomel @ http://calomel.org Open Source Research and Reference On Fri,

Re: sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command

2008-02-08 Thread Aner Perez
Michael wrote: Hi, I am looking for sh/ksh replacement for the following bash command: $ X=abcdefghi $ echo ${X:0:2} ab Anyone got an idea? Michael How about this: $ echo ${X%${X#??}} ab ${X#??} is $X with the first 2 characters (??) removed. ${X%Z} is $X with Z removed from

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread Karl Karlsson
2008/2/8, Eduardo Alvarenga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A long time ago a asked the developers to implement nsswitch compatibility on OpenBSD, for sake of having user automatic syncronization on AD. The answer was not positive. There is also a patch that implements this hanging around. Got to ask

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Matt
Alexander Hall schreef: Marti Martinez wrote: Do the rsync over SSH -- unless you don't allow root ssh access? I think that was the solution Matt tried to avoid. I suppose he does not seem confident with (automated) root access/logins from other boxes. I'd like to avoid root access as

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Marti Martinez wrote: Do the rsync over SSH -- unless you don't allow root ssh access? I think that was the solution Matt tried to avoid. I suppose he does not seem confident with (automated) root access/logins from other boxes. On Feb 8, 2008 3:54 AM, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Holland wrote: speculation Old cac's have some kind of battery on them, they look like large lithium cells. They don't really look like rechargeable. Even if they are, they are so old, they are probably dead on yours (and mine). That may be why my cac(4) experience was so uninspiring, or

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:48:30PM +0100, Matt wrote: Alexander Hall schreef: Marti Martinez wrote: Do the rsync over SSH -- unless you don't allow root ssh access? I think that was the solution Matt tried to avoid. I suppose he does not seem confident with (automated) root access/logins

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Matt
Stuart Henderson schreef: On 2008/02/08 20:48, Matt wrote: Alexander Hall schreef: Marti Martinez wrote: Do the rsync over SSH -- unless you don't allow root ssh access? I think that was the solution Matt tried to avoid. I suppose he does not seem confident with

Re: blade servers

2008-02-08 Thread Need Coffee
Thanks to all who replied. I'm going to investigate these options more in-depth. (To those who asked off-list: the only responses I got went to the list too.) And Srebrenko: thanks very much for the HCL, I check with it often but never thought to look into what all the ones up there actually

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread Karl Karlsson
2008/2/8, ropers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure I fully understand: I was under the impression that NT, up to NT 4, used the PDC/BDC model, and W2K and later used AD. While the kernel-panic tutorial does seem to address using OpenBSD to handle logins to NT4-compatible domains (including

Re: : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/02/08 11:35, Dave Anderson wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Raimo Niskanen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a backscatter gets through to sendmail, and it is to an invalid user, what is the proper thing for sendmail to do? My sendmail most probably does the

(Enhanced) SpeedStep issues on Thinkpad X61s

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Hi! My Thinkpad X61s does not (/no longer) do SpeedStep. From the 3 dmesg(s): cpu0: EST: strange msr value 0x061508250600880b and indeed, 88 for crcur seems rather high... :-/ Oh, wait... I just took a new dmesg, and now I get this: cpu0: unknown Enhanced SpeedStep CPU, msr

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread ropers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brett Lymn wrote: So, regarding these claims of interoperability, can you put LDAP+Kerberos+DNS services on an OpenBSD in a network of Windows clients and removed the need for any other machines running AD? have a look at this:

pf anchors with tag/tagged

2008-02-08 Thread S. Scott Sima, CISA, CISM
(sorry, orig post errantly had no subject) Trying to redact (simplify) pf rdr statements by moving the repeating (common) criteria to the top. The rules load error free. The pfctl -vvsnat shows the rdr-anchor in place; however, tcpdump shows the block rules being hit AS IF THE TAG/TAGGED IS NOT

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread ropers
On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I suppose that some things internally would be on the EISA bus (e.g. keyboard, floppy drive). Huh? The FDC and PS/2 ports are on the EISA bus? confused / --ropers

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread ropers
On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again. In my search for low-MHz machines, at least on eBay, I find lots of old Compaq Proliants (all around the $300 mark by the way). E.g: 4500R: P-133, 1 GB ram, no drives, $249. Ok, so I've been thinking... I do

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Matt wrote: Alexander Hall schreef: Matt wrote: Hello, I am running a 4.2 webserver and want to add another machine as hot spare. The second machine is identical and is living in the same rack - this is purely for hardware failure / easy upgrading and at a later stage (need 3rd box) CARP.

Re: multi-disk external scsi enclosures

2008-02-08 Thread Henning Brauer
* Woodchuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-08 15:05]: Does anyone make a universal hot-plug carrier or do the styles keep No. And they change all the time. Dell is disgusting this way. For their older (~1550) stuff, Dell carriers now cost about the same as a used 16GB drive. actually HP

Re: marvell yukon GigE freezes the bootup

2008-02-08 Thread LÉVAI Dániel
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 18:35:01 you wrote: On Wednesday 06 February 2008 18:02:58 you wrote: On Wednesday 06 February 2008 17:57:00 you wrote: A first start would be to tell us what version of OpenBSD you are running, and to send a full dmesg. If you are not running -current,

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread bofh
On Feb 8, 2008 7:58 AM, Lars Noodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: expected to emulate a Windows Server 200x domain controller. But the interoperability issue goes far deeper than this. In the domain control protocols that are used by MS Windows XP Professional, there is

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread Lord Sporkton
All i can say is that i have a 1850R and a 5000, both of which run wonderfully so far with OpenBSD, the 1850 is duel pII 450 and the 5000 is quad pII 400, havent had a single problem so far. however that price tag is way out of range, i bought both of mine for 90. On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty

Re: : Zombie Network Spam Attack

2008-02-08 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:36:01 +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:08:19PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:07:15 +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: : : * To make the greylist herustics validate the hosts by reverse DNS PTR lookup and then forward A lookup is

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread Karl Karlsson
2008/2/8, Eduardo Alvarenga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/2/8, Karl Karlsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/2/8, Eduardo Alvarenga [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A long time ago a asked the developers to implement nsswitch compatibility on OpenBSD, for sake of having user automatic syncronization on AD.

Re: running mail server at home

2008-02-08 Thread Jim Razmus
* L. V. Lammert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080207 13:30]: At 04:43 PM 2/7/2008 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can absolutely run a mail server at home. This is not rocket science and in fact, it is dumb easy to do. Try to follow these steps: 1. Get a domain name and look for registrars that

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Daniel A. Ramaley
On Friday 08 February 2008 15:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I'd like to avoid root access as OpenBSD disables it by default for a good reason. But so far it seems the most maintainable solution. You could, with some work, do it differently. On the source box, make a tarball of what you want on

Re: Authenticate squid in Active Directory

2008-02-08 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
I'm not sure I fully understand: I was under the impression that NT, up to NT 4, used the PDC/BDC model, and W2K and later used AD. While the kernel-panic tutorial does seem to address using OpenBSD to handle logins to NT4-compatible domains (including logins to such domains from W2K/WXP

Re: Dell SC440 reboot

2008-02-08 Thread Marc Balmer
sandro guly zaccarini wrote: hi, i have two sc440 running 4.2 and i have some problem. i don't have the box here so i can't paste the trace or similar but i will try to explain and maybe if i'm not the only one that use this crappy hardware.. first of all, the raid controller is awful. this

Re: Hot spare synchronisation?

2008-02-08 Thread Pierre Riteau
On Feb 8, 2008 10:32 PM, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Henderson schreef: On 2008/02/08 20:48, Matt wrote: Alexander Hall schreef: Marti Martinez wrote: Do the rsync over SSH -- unless you don't allow root ssh access? I think that was the solution Matt tried to avoid. I

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:23:32PM +0100, ropers wrote: On 08/02/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I suppose that some things internally would be on the EISA bus (e.g. keyboard, floppy drive). Huh? The FDC and PS/2 ports are on the EISA bus? confused / My only

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:03:31PM -0800, Lord Sporkton wrote: All i can say is that i have a 1850R and a 5000, both of which run wonderfully so far with OpenBSD, the 1850 is duel pII 450 and the 5000 is quad pII 400, havent had a single problem so far. Did you have any trouble getting the

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread bofh
Dude, I used to have a stack of proliants, and I agree with Nick. Prolaint bios was... Special. If you really want a low power cpu, get one of those c7 cpus, put it in an aluminium case, and you don't have to worry about all those issues that nick and others brought up. If you're worried about

Re: gotchas for old Proliants

2008-02-08 Thread Steve Shockley
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Did you have any trouble getting the software for setting up the scsi raid card? IIRC the 1850 didn't come with a built-in RAID card, a period-correct card would probably be a SA 3200, which I think has built-in setup firmware (press F8 during boot). I think the