Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread Romain FABBRI
Nor a safe in case of a major fire. -Message d'origine- De : owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] De la part de Quartz Envoyé : mardi 29 septembre 2015 06:35 À : misc@openbsd.org Objet : Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices >It's gonna be behind a 3020j surge prote

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread Quartz
It's gonna be behind a 3020j surge protector A $20 spikebar will NOT protect this machine from a lightning strike that hits the pole in front of your house. Take a different view: Mirrored drives and RAID are not really for data protection, they're so you can keep operating in face of (some

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread Quartz
Well, isn't your NAS already a backup? No. At least, not really. Any "online" backup (in other words, an actively running machine) is always subject to issues that could destroy your data. The power supply could go bad and fry your drives, software issues could cause silent corruption, and yo

HDMI video initialization issue

2015-09-28 Thread Quartz
We have a system with only HDMI and displayport video outputs. If the system is booted with no HDMI cable attached, and then the cable is attached after the system is up, video is completely nonfunctional until the system is rebooted. (We don't have any displayport displays or cables to test th

redirect spkr to headphone jack?

2015-09-28 Thread Quartz
We have a system with NO physical internal speaker of any kind. Audio otherwise works from the headphone/line jack, playing wave files with aucat and messing with mixerctl all work as expected, but there are no 'beeps' (can't get a terminal bell using echo, can't get anything from wsconsctl, no

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread dominik . db
On 2015-09-28 20:15, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2015-09-28, dominik...@openmailbox.org wrote: I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two WD Red drives in mirror using softraid(4). Any particular reason not to just put the OS on the mirrored drives? Good question

Re: Slightly OT, .. 5.5 Nagios

2015-09-28 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Also note: if this is on a 32-bit machine (e.g. i386), the time_t > change breaks things with nagios and icinga. Fixed for icinga in > the OpenBSD 5.7 package (patches in 200+ places for this) but nagios > is comparatively unloved. ;) > Interesting, .

Re: Slightly OT, .. 5.5 Nagios

2015-09-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-09-28, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:31 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: >> Trying to upgrade our 5.4 Nagios system to 5.5, .. everything went fine >> with the system, but it appears that there are some new dependencies for >> the web UI: > ... >> X has never been installed o

Re: OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2015-09-28, dominik...@openmailbox.org wrote: > I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two > WD Red drives in mirror using softraid(4). Any particular reason not to just put the OS on the mirrored drives? > If I setup a script that'll shutdown the machine if it de

OpenBSD Home Server: Hints and Advices

2015-09-28 Thread dominik . db
Hi, I'm buying some new hardware to setup a home server. The server's primary job will be to act as a backup/file server. I'll use a 500GB SATA drive for the OS installation and will setup two WD Red drives in mirror using softraid(4). A NFS or CIFS share later and that should be enough to star

Re: Slightly OT, .. 5.5 Nagios

2015-09-28 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Mon, 28 Sep 2015, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:31 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > Trying to upgrade our 5.4 Nagios system to 5.5, .. everything went fine > > with the system, but it appears that there are some new dependencies for > > the web UI: > ... > > X has never been i

Re: Slightly OT, .. 5.5 Nagios

2015-09-28 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 1:31 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Trying to upgrade our 5.4 Nagios system to 5.5, .. everything went fine > with the system, but it appears that there are some new dependencies for > the web UI: ... > X has never been installed on this box, .. why now? http://www.openbsd.org

Slightly OT, .. 5.5 Nagios

2015-09-28 Thread L. V. Lammert
Trying to upgrade our 5.4 Nagios system to 5.5, .. everything went fine with the system, but it appears that there are some new dependencies for the web UI: # pkg_add nagios-web-4.0.1-chroot Can't install php-gd-5.4.24 because of libraries |library X11.16.0 not found | not found anywhere |library

Re: OpenBSD official reference book ( like FreeBSD handbook / NetBSD Guide )

2015-09-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Adam, Adam wrote on Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 12:04:56PM +0200: > What I like about the https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ It is intentional that OpenBSD does not have a handbook like FreeBSD. OpenBSD is not supposed to be so complicated that you need to read a book to use it, or even to becom

Re: Xorg very slow startup (X1 Carbon, Intel 5500) -current

2015-09-28 Thread Ted Unangst
Conor O'Reilly wrote: > I am using a 2015 Thinkpad X1 Carbon and am having issues starting X. I > first came across this issue with 5.7 and it persists. I was hoping with > the addition of the Broadwell drivers that it would be corrected however > that is not the case. > > I installed -current sna

Xorg very slow startup (X1 Carbon, Intel 5500) -current

2015-09-28 Thread Conor O'Reilly
I am using a 2015 Thinkpad X1 Carbon and am having issues starting X. I first came across this issue with 5.7 and it persists. I was hoping with the addition of the Broadwell drivers that it would be corrected however that is not the case. I installed -current snapshot this morning and it takes ab

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD for my (server/router) purposes? (Total n00b)

2015-09-28 Thread Theo's Ghost
> VM's give you no added security unless you are running them > on hardware that has been designed for that purpose, such > as IBM mainframes or the AS400. Probably some others > I'm leaving out, but NOT x86 hardware. > Just search for VM and security on the internets and see > what comes up. Secur

Re: FreeBSD or OpenBSD for my (server/router) purposes? (Total n00b)

2015-09-28 Thread Matt Hamilton
> On 28 Sep 2015, at 04:23, Eric Furman wrote: > > And then he states; "For me, this is a very nice blend > of security, manageability and convenience for my use-case." > This statement clearly demonstrates that he believes his > setup is secure. When, in fact, it is not. > That's why the security

Re: IPSEC with Juniper SRX220

2015-09-28 Thread Claer
On Sun, Sep 27 2015 at 42:13, Alexandre Westfahl wrote: > Hi, Hello, > > I have trouble configuring ipsec with my sokeris 6501 (OBSD 5.7) with a > carrier router (Juniper). > SA seems to work well, I see packets going out on em0 and also see them on > enc0. However, the other side said nothing co