Re: 4.8-current snap, possible OSX NFS issue?
Just a quick update with the Dec.6 amd64 snapshot, and the problem still exists. I had hoped with some recent attention to nfs re: the systat -m freeze that there might have been some movement on this one. I had written a couple other replies previously that never made it to list. Hope this one fares better. Cheers, -- Jason
4.8-current snap, possible OSX NFS issue?
Hello all, Recently, my lazy ass went from 4.6-current snap to the most recent 4.8-current snap (#647: Fri Nov 26, amd64). Machine in question is mostly a local file server, NFS to a few Macs. I say mostly, 'cause it does some other stuff, and sits in a DMZ. Since the upgrade to 4.8, I'm unable to read /some/ files from the nfs server to the macs. I say some, because in testing I've been able to ascertain the following: 1. I can write any size file from the mac to the nfs server. No issue. 2. I can write a small file (like 5 KiB), and read it back to the Mac. 3. I can write a large file (like 700 MiB), and cannot read it back to the Mac. 4. I am unable to read any previously existing files on the NFS share to the Mac, whether they be large, or small. Because the machine is in a DMZ, I made sure to disable the DMZ-Internal filtering rules and stuff to rule out any stupidity. Traffic dumps show no blocked packets. While grasping at straws, I set vfs.nfs.iothreads=4. The Mac is mounting the share as -o resvport,hard,intr,nolock. The troubleshooting results thus far are just erratic enough to have me believe it's nothing I've done; nothing is making sense. I'm basically looking for corroboration here. Can anyone else replicate this? -- Jason
Re: 4.8-current snap, possible OSX NFS issue?
Jan Stary wrote: I am experiencing something similar on 4.8-current (server) and MacOSX 10.5.8 (client). I suspect the MacOSX to be the quilty one, as no other NFS client shows any of these symptoms. From the mac, I can write a file to the (auto)mounted share (/media) and read it back, but I cannot read any of the files that existed there before I mounted. A simple 'cat /media/.../file.txt' results in nothing (the command is still running); after a while, a window pops up saying 'Server connection interrupted: media [Disconnect]'. I can _list_ the content of the mounted share though. I am (auto)mounting it with -resvport,noauto,nodev,noexec,noatime. No filtering is done in between the boxes; they are on the same LAN, pf is not running. I need to look at what exactly the mac firewall is doing I guess. Jan Thanks Jan, that sounds a lot like what I'm seeing on several 10.6.5 OSX clients. To be sure, it's the Mac clients with the issue; I've been able to mount the share on another OpenBSD machine on the network and it functions normally. Whatever the issue, it was unexposed using any previous snapshots, and in my case, there is no OSX firewall involved. I'm gonna start dumping traffic at the OSX clients and see if I can find something there. In the meantime, anyone have any recall of recent-ish changes to the NFS code? I'm gonna start combing through src-changes now... -- Jason
Spamd china and korea lists
Hello all, Willing to suffer scorn if I've missed a commit message or previous post on the matter, but I've been getting a 404 for these two lists since approximately the `unplanned maintenance' www event of a few weeks ago. Shall I comment them out of spamd.conf, or will they make their return? Regards, Jason.
Re: Low power OpenBSD machine
I'm currently trying to get my hands on a Nexcom Nise 2000. Should come in under your power specs. Our goals are slightly different - I want a smaller, quieter home server, don't care to do anything desktop related with it. I'm sure it would work fine for either. Timothy Hume wrote: Hi, My current PC is not very healthy. I am considering building a new low power consumption machine. I want something a bit more powerful than a Soekris, but it doesn't have to be the fastest machine around. I will be using the machine for web browsing, Email, managing my digital photos and so on. The main requirement is that the machine is quiet and has a low power consumption so I can leave it on all the time. I obviously want to build something which works perfectly with OpenBSD. Is it possible to build something like I describe which uses under 30 Watts, and if so, what hardware would people recommend? Cheers, Tim.
Re: UPDATE: mozilla-firefox-3.0
On 16-Jul-08, at 3:23 PM, Daniel W Barowy wrote: On the other hand, web developers think this thing is hot shit. I'd just be a little more comfortable if you qualified that a little. Perhaps with something like `wrong-thinking web developers think...' The current breed of standards-based web developers - which in my estimation form the bulk of all web developers currently doing anything anyone is seeing, and of which I am fairly representative, would think nothing of the sort. Truly well-versed web developers find cross-browser issues bothersome, but far from insurmountable; certainly not worthy of abandoning xhtml, css and javascript for something with funny names and registered trademarks. Flash has a place on the web, just like any other rich media format. It should be used responsibly, as semantically as possible, and degrade nicely for those who care not to use it. I make every effort to use it within these guidelines, and present them as gospel to my clients. Many (most?) modern web developers do too, except for the ones at a Flex conference who still think drawing entire websites in Flash is a good idea. Shame on them, but they are a dying breed. At a bank? Yeesh...
Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??
Marcos Laufer wrote: My opinion is that more money should be raised in order to keep -stable up to date. I think it's important to mantain a stable distribution, it's one of the things that give openbsd it's fame of being solid rock Marcos Seriously? More money? Like enough to woo someone from their job and keep stable packages up to date for you? I'm not sure you understand how this whole thing works. Also, may your payment be the first of the windfall, and your -stable package patches the catalyst for la revolucion. -- Jason
Re: No Blob without Puffy
SW wrote: Hi, this is the conversation I had with Theo: snip Your `No Blob!' poster, complete with logos of BSD systems that ship with blobs, will feel right at home beside my `Trustworthy Computing Initiative' and `Mission Accomplished' banners. A true laughing-stock in the making. Trust me, this isn't just Theo and the big, bad openbsd ogres being hardasses about blobs. This is just a stupid and misleading campaign.
Re: [offtopic] Fiery X2-W Raster Image Processor
Nickolay A. Burkov wrote: My question is: Anyway, what is it? :) Fiery is a brand of RIP, as you mentioned. The one you describe probably drove a Xerox colour printer/copier in the mid to late nineties. For a time, they were built by sgi, so the mips makes sense. Some had cool little lcd screens built in and stuff that would be fun hacking on. Why I was unable to find specs and finally, can I install some kind of my favorite BSD on it and bring it to life as a complex computer system? You should attempt to load openbsd on this machine immediately, and report any failure to make a complex computer system.
Re: error in if_em.c building -stable kernel on sparc64
Shane J Pearson wrote: Hello, I am getting an error in if_em.c when trying to build a -stable kernel on sparc64. It stops with this error: /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_em.c: In function `em_rxeof': /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_em.c:2446: error: structure has no member named `align_buf_len' The correct header file seems to have been committed. You should cvs up and try again. -- jason
Re: Looking for HowTo instructions ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: The point of using periodic, at least under FreeBSD, is that there is a 'report' that is issued at the end of the monthly periodic run letting the admin know the status of various things on their servers ... So, for instance, it would give them a monthly reminder that the script *is* running on their machine ... $ ls -l /var/log/*.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1693 Oct 1 01:31 /var/log/daily.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel15 Oct 1 05:30 /var/log/monthly.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel59 Sep 30 03:32 /var/log/weekly.out -- jason
