Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-28 Thread Steve Shockley
Lars Hansson wrote: I don't think think running Linux is a basic human right. I'm not aware that using a computer is a basic human right...

Re: Backport drivers from 4.1 to 4.0

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Shockley
Kevin Cheng wrote: Upgrade code based on release of obsd is easy, but it would a big job to maintain early released of products based on previous version of obsd. For example, we would maintain 8 version of products from 3.3 to 4.0 if codes are upgraded every half years. Why? If you do an OS

Re: PF rdr based on hostname

2007-08-15 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Holland wrote: as stated, you can't do what you want to do the way you propose doing it. To be specific, if you want to have multiple sites behind one IP address and one port, you need an application proxy. With http, you can do this with host headers and a reverse http proxy. You can'

Re: Kuro5hin: OpenBSD Founder Theo deRaadt Has Conflict of Interest With AMD

2007-08-06 Thread Steve Shockley
Artur Grabowski wrote: The real question is who's paying that guy. I guess any corporate owned asshole can publish random slander on the internet and call it "research". I doubt it's quite so complicated, his previous use of rolloffle.blogspot.com was to post Harry Potter book spoilers. Do a

Re: Hack OpenBSD and improve fitness at the same time

2007-07-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Stefan Olsson wrote: -Apart from health this could be used to generate electricity for Theo's servers! You're not looking at the big picture; if you've got some sweaty person running the generator, that increases the cooling load in Theo's datacenter.

Re: Live Earth - Power management

2007-07-10 Thread Steve Shockley
f.janczuk wrote: My motherboard (Mini-itx) is running with a fanless processor VIA C3. Do you know tools who give estimation of watt consummation ? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B9MDBU/openbsdA/

Re: OT: rackmount rails

2007-07-09 Thread Steve Shockley
bofh wrote: On 7/9/07, Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have yet to find aftermarket sliding rails that don't suck. Either I've been impressed by HP's sliding rails. Haven't really seen other rails but damn, Sun doesn't even do sliding rails for

Re: OT: rackmount rails

2007-07-09 Thread Steve Shockley
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: am out of 19" rackmount rails here and would appreciate advice on manufacturers and models for both sliding (attached) rails and the fixed kind (L bracket). i am aware that there is a balance between being cheap and paying for it later in labor, frustration, etc. I'

Re: Recommendations for zone management (web)tool for Bind?

2007-06-26 Thread Steve Shockley
L. V. Lammert wrote: Webmin will do what you wish, .. but it might take some scripting to manage permissions so the user will only see THEIR zone file. Webmin is pretty and functional, but scary to run as root. Maybe use authpf to force users to authenticate before allowing them to connect to

Re: ADVERT: Secure communications

2007-06-11 Thread Steve Shockley
Dag-Erling SmC8rgrav wrote: A shoo-in candidate for Bruce Schneier's doghouse award... Nuts, and I was going to use it for a crime against humanity.

Re: samba: really low throughput

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Shockley
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: got a 4.1-release machine that shares its disks via samba to a few windows xp workstations and is transferring files slow as molasses (1 GB file takes ~30 min to transfer). this machine serves FTP at ~10 MBps, close to linespeed for 100 Mbit, so disk speed is not the bo

Re: How much time to 'master' OpenBSD

2007-06-08 Thread Steve Shockley
Pieter Verberne wrote: I wonder how much time it took for the average person to 'master' OpenBSD or a similar OS. Twelve years.

Re: Matrox G200 Quad supported?

2007-06-04 Thread Steve Shockley
Timo Schoeler wrote: although I had a bunch of dual-head (or more) setups in my life, it was all in the sgi, Sun or Apple universe. I never did this on OpenBSD; however, as everything I touched during the years on OpenBSD machines ran out of the box :) I wonder whether a dual (or triple screen) s

Re: CVS hosed

2007-05-25 Thread Steve Shockley
Travers Buda wrote: conspiracy theory: the devs must be working on some super-secret baby mulching machine that can't be revealed until after the hackathon... I thought they traded the baby-mulching machine for half of a cruise missle...

Re: "OpenBSD-style" Templates for MagicPoint Presentations

2007-05-19 Thread Steve Shockley
Rolf Sommerhalder wrote: so far I have been unsuccessful in locating templates (and fonts?) for MagicPoint presentations in "OpenBSD-style" The typeface is "Comic Sans MS" and can be found in the msttcorefonts port or at http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/. There's no package because of the li

Re: : : HP ProLiant DL140 G3 problems

2007-05-04 Thread Steve Shockley
Raimo Niskanen wrote: Sorry, I can't make it work. For a DL140 G3 (or rather now a DL145 G3). I remember seing something like that on a DL380, though. telnet gives a weird prompt /./ that has no help and only responds with command errors. There is also a HTTP server running at the address. But

Spamd Q

2007-05-03 Thread Steve Shockley
I've just upgraded my firewall to 4.1. The firewall runs spamd, and redirects connections (that don't go to spamd) to a server behind the firewall. I modified my pf.conf per the sample in the spamd(8) man page. It's a couple of days later, and suddenly I realize that I'm only getting mail t

Re: : HP ProLiant DL140 G3 problems

2007-04-28 Thread Steve Shockley
Darth Lists wrote: Honestly, it blows big-time compared to a real serial console since it has a more or less useless scroll-back buffer. You can ssh in to the ILO IP address and get console redirection. You can even redirect the serial console to the ILO ssh after POST if you want.

Re: Automatic boot of i386 occassionally fails; manually boots OK

2007-04-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Damon McMahon wrote: This all makes sense now, and you are indeed correct. The garbage input is being sent from my console device to the OpenBSD machine when the console device boots (booting Windows 2K in this case). The reason for the 1 in 25 or so frequency is because this event only occurs w

Re: Audio

2007-04-20 Thread Steve Shockley
David Cary wrote: tried to create audio1 but did not get it right so moved audio0 to audio1 and replaced the symlink between audio and audio0 with one between audio and audio1. I think "/dev/MAKEDEV audio1" will create all four sound devices. After that try unmuting all outputs and volumes wi

Re: [Fwd: Shipped Order:2007/3/12-13:27:10-21493:]

2007-04-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Allie D. wrote: YES ! It's on it's way !! > BSD41.0020 I suppose that means you were the 20th to order...

Re: Blocking web content

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Shockley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run an openbsd firewall. I want to block certain sites either by IP address or by domain name. How do I get more information on how to set this up? The article is old (I think it was written for 3.1 or 3.2) but I did the same thing using Squid: http://shockley.ne

Re: Mail Server (seeking recommendations)

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Shockley
Steven Presser wrote: We have settled on what software to use for everything but the mail server. I'm reasonably happy using the Courier-MTA suite on OpenBSD. It's had four reported vulnerabilities (http://secunia.com/product/2557/?task=advisories), three DOS and one remote-code-execution

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-09 Thread Steve Shockley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OpenBSD has really made a cool solution with pkg_add -u, but why not kernel and basesystem binary updates as well? You can do binary updates. On your build machine just update to -stable and do make release, then upgrade your machines.

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread Steve Shockley
Siju George wrote: I wish somebody would design a simple hardware that has 24 or more NIC ports ( and of course WiFi ) and processor than can install OpenBSD. With PF then I could have a very inexpensive managed switch with ACLS for all hosts on the network:-) The problem isn't just getting lot

Re: Is OpenBSD good/best for my 486?

2007-03-23 Thread Steve Shockley
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: Assuming you don't try to do more with it than you have CPU and RAM for, you should be fine. However, once you've tested that all your hardware works with the GENERIC kernel, I would strongly recommend you compile a custom kernel and run that (do a Web search for a Perl prog

Re: USB Printer Recommendation

2007-03-21 Thread Steve Shockley
James Turner wrote: Although this seems like a great printer, my biggest limitation is price. We have a university property disposition near me, which I'm going to go check out later today. My friend has gotten a couple sun sparc stations from them for under $20 bucks. I'm hoping they will hav

Re: Wireless PCI card recommendation needed

2007-03-08 Thread Steve Shockley
Thomas Mullins wrote: We are going to build a wireless network using OpenBSD. I have looked at http://www.openbsd.com/i386.html#hardware to see the supported wireless PCI cards. Could someone please recommend an 802.11g card that has a stronger transmit power? Or another card they have had goo

Re: revision control system for system administration

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Shockley
Toni Mueller wrote: If Qemu runs OpenBSD, that'd answer another long-standing question I had in my pipe because I'm currently lacking such a thing. VMware Server is now cost-free as well, if the rest of the license is acceptable.

Re: pcn in VMware, 5KB/s

2007-02-10 Thread Steve Shockley
Brad Brad wrote: Scp's between the guest and host only manage about 5KB/s so I tried going back to le which worked great. I configured a new kernel with "disable pcn*" but on next boot I had no nics at all, so i tried again "disable pci*" also since I think le is isa, but it still didn't work

Re: install image to computer

2007-01-26 Thread Steve Shockley
Damian Wiest wrote: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multiple Disk imaging My point was more to use the siteXX.tgz file to deploy the OS plus all modified files.

Re: install image to computer

2007-01-26 Thread Steve Shockley
smith wrote: Why?: I've received a few new computers that I have to configure. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multiple

Re: OT:

2007-01-24 Thread Steve Shockley
Tautvydas wrote: Little off topic, but I need some help. For a week I'm working in a small company. (~250 workstations). Till 2008 there will be 400-600 workstations. So, they are planning to buy something for spam/mail filtering (http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/spam_overview.php). I

Re: Compaq Dual Cpu

2007-01-09 Thread Steve Shockley
unde find wrote: Hello Misc. Very recently came into my hands a compaq 1U proliant DL360 server. Openbsd runs just great on it! I only have 1 problem. Openbsd only see's 1 of the 2 processors the server has equiped. If bsd.mp doesn't fix your problem, download the Smartstart 5.5 ISO from HP (

Re: OBSD: OS Of The Rad

2007-01-05 Thread Steve Shockley
Artur Grabowski wrote: # uptime 6:45PM up 9136 days, 5:29, 1 user, load averages: 0.26, 0.12, 0.09 I win. http://www.blahonga.org/~art/diffs/epenis-enlargement.20060210 What's that patch do, adjust the insecurelevel?

Re: uaudio trouble

2006-12-26 Thread Steve Shockley
Alexandre Ratchov wrote: If you have some time could you apply all patches and see if the device work as expected? Feel free to contact me if you need more info about how to test these diffs and/or to make uaudio(4) work Installed the patches, now audioctl -f /dev/audioctl1 play.encoding=sline

Re: uaudio trouble

2006-12-23 Thread Steve Shockley
Alexandre Ratchov wrote: does at least the following work? audioctl -f /dev/audioctl1 play.encoding=slinear_le play.precision=16 Huh, that returns "audioctl: set failed: Device not configured"... something's not right. It's strange that "audioctl -f /dev/audioctl1 -a" works properly and thi

Re: Screen resolution and ACPI

2006-12-23 Thread Steve Shockley
Passeur wrote: Also I would like the PC to actualy shut down when I do "shutdown -h now" instead of having to press the power button. This option is supported but disabled by default as far I have read, but how to enable it ? See the first and last message at http://www.vmware.com/community/th

Re: revision control system for system administration

2006-12-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Brian Candler wrote: That makes a lot of sense. But enforcing that policy might be difficult. This is important if you're relying on your gold server for disaster recovery purposes - if the target machines had some change made which nobody remembers and weren't reflected in the gold server, then

uaudio trouble

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Shockley
I've got a Xitel DG2, which is a USB sound card with optical output. I previously set up a nice music player using mpd, and it worked great. Unfortunately the drive died, so I'm building a new one. (The old install's dmesg is at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=115863499102215, the hardware is

Problems with ral0 in wep mode

2006-12-16 Thread Steve Shockley
I've got an IBM A31p with a ral minipci card. It works fine with two different 802.11b access points (one with WEP, one without), but does not work with 802.11g access point (an OpenBSD box with a ral card). When I associate with the G AP and run dhclient it never gets an IP address. Any idea

Dual-boot with Vista

2006-12-15 Thread Steve Shockley
Has anyone successfully gotten Vista to dual-boot with OpenBSD using bcdedit? I found EasyBCD which will transfer control to Grub, but it seems I shouldn't have to load Grub to boot OpenBSD.

Re: intel pro NICs and OBSD

2006-12-09 Thread Steve Shockley
Russell Fulton wrote: My question is are the em NIC drivers vulnerable to the recently announced intel NIC driver stack overflow bugs? I see that there are new FREEBSD em drivers available on the Intel site but no mention of Open BSD. What makes you think the FreeBSD drivers are vulnerable? T

Expected 802.11g speeds?

2006-11-06 Thread Steve Shockley
I've got an OpenBSD 3.9 firewall/AP with a ral wireless card, and I'm connecting to it from a WinXP machine with an Intel 2915 wireless and Broadcom 5751 Ethernet. My provider just upgraded my speeds, so I was using http://speed.rutgers.edu to test it. When connected via Ethernet (100), I'm

Re: Another BLOB?

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Dries Schellekens wrote: I don't see what this has to do by blobs in drivers? There is nothing wrong the closed source software. You can even systrace it if you don't want it to misbehave... You also don't have to run it as root, and/or in the kernel.

Re: Missile Launcher For OpenBSD?

2006-10-19 Thread Steve Shockley
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: I was wondering if this would work in OpenBSD Maybe. http://scott.weston.id.au/software/pymissile-20060126/

Re: my harddrive or latest snapshots problem?

2006-10-19 Thread Steve Shockley
Didier Wiroth wrote: I updated my rather old sources via cvs and had lots of the following output: bdwrite: force async write on the buffer 0xd8003f20 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&s=bdwrite

Re: blobs are bad

2006-10-18 Thread Steve Shockley
Damian Wiest wrote: If you're looking to add dual, or triple-headed support or connect your system to a television or A/V receiver, good luck. I've had nothing but problems trying to find a suitable card with BSD support. I'm currently trying a Radeon 9600XT which some people have claimed wil

Re: Vulnerability and Patch Information

2006-10-17 Thread Steve Shockley
Podo Carp wrote: I recently underwent an audit of my OpenBSD 3.8 systems and the audit report identified CVE-2004-0700 (mod-proxy/mod_ssl format string vulnerability) as a potential risk. Perhaps your scanner relies on reported versions, rather than actual vulnerabilities? If I'm reading the

HP nc8230 and acpi

2006-10-16 Thread Steve Shockley
I tried enabling ACPI (uncommenting ACPIVERBOSE and ACPI_ENABLE and the acpi* devices) in -current, and the resulting kernel doesn't boot. It hangs after acpitimer0, partial dmesg below. GENERIC dmesg can be found at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=116079014005773. Let me know if there's any

HP nc8230 issues on -current

2006-10-13 Thread Steve Shockley
I'm trying to set up -current on an HP nc8230 laptop, dmesg at end of message. I'm having some network trouble. When connected by wired Ethernet, running /etc/netstart won't get an IP address (via dhcp). However, if I just run "dhclient bge0" I get an address without a problem. Secondly, when c

Re: Oldest Server you run

2006-10-12 Thread Steve Shockley
Bryan Irvine wrote: You win. I'm waiting for Nick Holland to chime in... he's probably got an SE/30 in production, or maybe a VAXstation 2000.

X and -current

2006-10-11 Thread Steve Shockley
Would one of the developers please rebuild X for -current i386? The 10/10 snapshot seems to have cranked the libc revision, but the 10/7 X seems to still uses the old libc. (At least, on a fresh install using the 10/10 sets and the 10/7 X, it complains that it can't find libc.so.39 and .40 ex

Re: anyone know where I can get an IO-DATA USL-5P in the United States?

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Shockley
Diana Eichert wrote: The subject line sez it all. I've been looking for a small embedded system to run OpenBSD on and very recent commits makes this look interesting. Hm, yes, interesting. http://www.plextor.com/english/products/product_nas.htm has "Add to cart USA" links, but I couldn't get

Re: Cross compiling

2006-10-06 Thread Steve Shockley
John Tate wrote: How would I go about cross compiling OpenBSD from i386 to sparc64? I am just interested because I want to build a system from a faar faster processor if possible. In general, cross-compiling isn't supported on OpenBSD, except when bringing up a new architecture. Why not just

Re: Question About low cost CD's

2006-10-03 Thread Steve Shockley
M.Salah wrote: I would like to help funding the project but not Like this !! more money goes to the wrong person. You could always make your own CDs or DVDs, and then donate whatever you're comfortable with to the project. That way all the money goes to the project, and there's little cost t

Re: PXE capable NICs: non-intel chipsets

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Shockley
Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: steve, these PXE capable cards are intended for the myriad shitboxes i currently lord it over and i can't justify the additional expense of gigabit cards. Depends what you call "cheap". Newegg's got new gig cards starting at $7, but I guess you could get a box full or

Re: PXE capable NICs: non-intel chipsets

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Holland wrote: Lesson there /might/ be: old PXE stuff is unreliable, new stuff is better. If you aren't sure how old it is, get something that can be updated. Alternatively, get gigabit cards that support PXE, which should be new enough to avoid problems. I've never seen a gigabit card

Cisco/Atheros G card

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Shockley
I've got a "Cisco" Atheros card, it shows up in dmesg as: ath0 at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros Communications, Inc., AR5001--, Wireless LAN Reference Card": irq 11 ath0: AR5213 5.6 phy 4.1 rf5112 3.6, FCC1A, address 00:40:96:a1:49:3c I can associate and connect to a Linksys AP (8

Re: pentium D

2006-09-17 Thread Steve Shockley
Marco Peereboom wrote: I have booted a SMP dual core PowerEdge 2900. Works fine. Does using both cores of a dual-core CPU require a proper MP-capable (server) BIOS? Or is that no longer an issue if the machine comes with a dual-core CPU? (Referring to http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?m=11159

Re: preferred hardware platform

2006-09-08 Thread Steve Shockley
Joachim Schipper wrote: Try mine: refurbished Dell Optiplex GX1, 400 MHz Pentium II, 128 MB memory, and two matching pairs of harddisks (6.1 and 4 GB) with a combination of RAIDframe, altroot, and regular backups guaranteeing data consistency. Runs mail, DNS, web, and a couple of other services,

Re: problem with HP NETSERVER openbsd 3.7 mp kernel

2006-09-03 Thread Steve Shockley
Votenak Vladimmr wrote: Please can you give me some advice??? With a 2xPPro, I'm guessing you've got an LH Pro or similar. I've got an LH II, and the last time I tried bsd.mp on it there were plenty of problems, early MP servers did some odd things to make multi-processors work. I'd try a

Re: Missing section in FAQ - 6 Networking ?

2006-09-03 Thread Steve Shockley
Sevan / Venture37 wrote: http://web.archive.org/web/20041130083644/http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PPTP More specifically, http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/www/faq/faq6.html, revision 1.211.

Re: Problem upgrading to 3.9 - Proliant dl380 g2 with LSI MegaRAID 320-1 RAID-card

2006-08-24 Thread Steve Shockley
Jonas Thambert wrote: Proliant bios Im using is P29 and MegaRAID bios is from mid 2004. On HP/Compaq servers, P29 refers to the firmware class, i.e. what motherboard is installed. (Also, if you really have P29 firmware, you've got a DL380 G3.) You can find a revision history of the P29 BIOS

Re: Active Directory authentication

2006-08-16 Thread Steve Shockley
Prabhu Gurumurthy wrote: Yes, it will require adding entries on /etc/passwd Okay, in that case login_radius offers no benefit to me over login_ldap (other than it's in base). Aside from the nsswitch patch posted on tech@, is there any auth method that does *not* require adding entries to /e

Re: Active Directory authentication

2006-08-16 Thread Steve Shockley
Prabhu Gurumurthy wrote: How about using login_radius feature by modifying login.conf to add a new radius profile and authenticate against a RADIUS server. You can compile freeradius and have rad_ldap plugin on the RADIUS server to authenticate against AD. Will that still require creating ent

Active Directory authentication

2006-08-15 Thread Steve Shockley
I'm researching setting up a wireless gateway using OpenBSD and authpf. We've got an existing Active Directory (2003) domain with about 5000 user accounts that I'd like to authenticate against. LDAP seemed like the obvious choice, but it appears I need to create local accounts to use login_ld

Re: Sensors experience...

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Shank wrote: I'm looking for an older server (dual P3 or so) that I can use for a netmon server here at the office. I'm curious what experience people have had w/ compaq or hp 1U P3 servers. Do sensors work? I've been unable to get sensors to work on any Proliant server. Haven't tried

Re: CPU cache problem with 3.9 ?

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Shockley
Xavier Mertens wrote: I found why my box freezes when booting 3.9 (GENERIC). I need to disable the CPU cache in the BIOS (PIII 1Ghz). Maybe the CPU cache is bad?

Re: Lost time in vmware...

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Shank wrote: I appear to be loosing time on a virtual machine running OpenBSD 3.9/ release under vmware workstation. The system is a Sun Ultra 40, and the host OS is XP-64, and keeps time fine. Thoughts? Don't rely on the clocks to stay synced in a guest OS unless you can run VM tools.

Re: ftp: -: short write on current when using pkg_add on ftp mirrors

2006-07-25 Thread Steve Shockley
Andreas Bartelt wrote: as nobody answers, I conclude I'm the only one experiencing this problem on CURRENT. I've rebuilt CURRENT today and the problem persists. I don't experience this problem on my OPENBSD_3_9 boxes (kernel from June, 17th). I had some problems like this (although I thought

Re: IBM 586V crashes during boot

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Shockley
Shawn D'Alimonte wrote: I have recently obtained a PC that I want to run OpenBSD, but can't get it to boot. You might try disabling the onboard video and use a PCI or ISA VGA card.

Audio device

2006-07-17 Thread Steve Shockley
Can anyone suggest a good USB audio device that's supported under OpenBSD? I'm looking for something that won't sound like crap when played through a home stereo. I tried an AOpen PCI card some time ago thinking that having an optical output would make having a cheap card irrelevant, boy was

Re: Boot panic with bsd.mp on a Compaq ProLiant 2500

2006-07-14 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Shank wrote: And, while I know it's a very different animal, it's still a Compaq server... I get the same error on a Proliant ML370 when using bsd.mp. I've got 3.9 running on a DL380 without trouble (GENERIC.MP), and that should be the same mainboard as an ML370. Make sure you've got al

Re: Sensors setup

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Shank wrote: Steve, Here is what dmesg says... Nick piixpm0 at pci0 dev 7 function 3 "Intel 82371AB Power" rev 0x08: SMBus disabled Okay, so the SMBus interface is disabled; it appears from piixpm.c that it pulls that info from the PCI config, so maybe your motherboard doesn't have sen

Re: Sensors setup

2006-07-13 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Shank wrote: after enabling sensors via sysctl, I still get "no sensors found". Do you have any supported sensors in your dmesg, such as lm? See iic(4).

Re: named on udp ports only

2006-06-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: This hack already exist. AFAIK, delegate http://www.delegate.org, can do this. Be careful what you wish for! He finally got around to checking for string buffer overflows in December 2004: http://www.delegate.org/mail-lists/delegate-en/2793 DeleGate has a reputat

Re: named on udp ports only

2006-06-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: How do I tell my named(8) to only listen on udp ports, and leave tcp ports for sshd(8)? Is this at all possible with named.conf alone? I've glanced through named.conf(5), but didn't find the desired option there... If you can't do it with named, you could use pf to

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

2006-05-29 Thread Steve Shockley
STeve Andre' wrote: You know, all this discussion of the scalability of OpenBSD is really fruitless. Agreed. Puffer fish do not have scales, therefore OpenBSD is not scalable at all.

Re: SCSI disks slow

2006-05-25 Thread Steve Shockley
Jeff Ross wrote: Backing up root filesystem: copying /dev/rsd0a to /dev/rsd0n One spindle, disk thrashes. Backing up root filesystem: copying /dev/rwd0a to /dev/rwd1m Two spindles, disk does not thrash.

Re: ServeRAID 4M

2006-05-22 Thread Steve Shockley
Joachim Schipper wrote: OpenBSD has an isp(4) driver, as 'man isp' will tell you. Nothing obviously ServeRAIDish in there, though. FreeBSD's ServeRAID driver is ips, not isp. isp is for QLogic controllers.

Re: ServeRAID 4M

2006-05-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Joachim Schipper wrote: 'not configured' typically means the kernel knows what it is, but doesn't know what to do with it. More specifically, it means that the kernel knows the PCI device's ID and vendor, but doesn't have a driver to hook it to. FreeBSD supports it with the ips driver and it

Re: PCIe graphic card with dual dvi output, anyone?

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Shockley
Didier Wiroth wrote: I was wondering if someone uses a PCIe graphic card with dual dvi output under x11 on Openbsd 3.9 or current? I'm using a Matrox G450 (dual analog, PCI), but they have a G550 PCIe that has dual DVI and may work.

Re: OT: Thoe's x commit and homeland security audit

2006-05-02 Thread Steve Shockley
Ste Jones wrote: 7 days before the official patch 7 weeks.

Re: Linksys support... hmm

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Shockley
Lasse Bach wrote: Wtf is that? How can that be a secret? Because the WMP54G, at least, isn't manufactured by Linksys, it's a rebadged Lite-On? (Hint: FCC ID) Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to: 1. Can v5 af the card be used with the ral driver? If you can

Re: i just have to share this with you guys...

2006-04-19 Thread Steve Shockley
Nick Nauwelaerts wrote: Nice, my 4 socket dual core opteron (hp bl45p) panics whenever I try to scp something to it. And because it doesn't have much in video hardware save java-web based stuff I can't even get a decent trace out of it. Sure you can, just ssh into the ilo and connect to the ser

Re: Dual Core

2006-04-17 Thread Steve Shockley
Gustavo Rios wrote: Does it make any difference to have dual core processor or not with openbsd ? I understand OpenBSD will use both cores, IFF your motherboard is mpbios-compliant, which most single-processor motherboards are not. I haven't actually tried this, so I could be mistaken.

Re: Storage container for servers & switches

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Shockley
Phusion wrote: I will be moving some servers and switches in the near future. The computer equipment is all rack-mountable so it's 1U and 2U. I was wondering if anyone could recommend storage containers for this type of computer equipment. Let me know if you have any ideas. Thanks. At work, we

Re: (OT: PostgreSQL vs MySQL)

2006-04-06 Thread Steve Shockley
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I keep seeing this, but I sometimes see the opposite. That "MySQL is faster" meme seems peristent though, as if the PostgreSQL want to provide *some* justification for people to continue to have a reason for MySQL. MySQL is perhaps slightly faster by default; PostgreS

Re: Moving a file mount point

2006-04-03 Thread Steve Shockley
Karl Kopp wrote: One thing I need to do urgently tho is move my /var mount - I'm not 100% how to do this on a running box with the least amount of down time. Any hints / advice would be greatly appreciated! Check towards the end of the http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#NewDisk (14.3) secti

Re: disable listen on ports

2006-04-02 Thread Steve Shockley
Niklaus wrote: How do i disable users on a system to run their own http proxy. I don't want to allow users who have login accounts on my system to listen to any port . How do i do that. Don't cross-post. pf will probably do what you want, they'll be able to run the proxy, but won't be able t

Re: SMP on Proliant 800

2006-03-31 Thread Steve Shockley
(Redirecting to misc@, since I think the smp@ list is mostly dead.) Marco Derix wrote: I'm running the latest bios from HP/Compaq available for my system (Compaq Proliant 800 (P2) V4.08a dated 4/19/2000). I also tried the system configuration utility, but there was nothing I could configure rega

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 on HP NC6000

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Shockley
Peter Bako wrote: I don't have any way of capturing the screen, but here are the last few lines: Uhub1 at usb1 Uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 Uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered Uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801DB USB" rev 0x03: irq 10 Uvm_

Re: Samba

2006-03-27 Thread Steve Shockley
J wrote: I've got an openbsd 3.8 box that I want joined to a win2k Active Directory domain. As a client, or as a server? If it's a server, try googling "samba ldap authentication" (no quotes). I haven't done this with Samba, but I've used LDAP to authenticate Apache users on OpenBSD against

Re: symon error in port install

2006-03-23 Thread Steve Shockley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attempting to fetch /usr/ports/distfiles/freetype-1.3.1.tar.gz from http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/freetype/. Size does not match for /usr/ports/distfiles/freetype-1.3.1.tar.gz Try a different sourceforge mirror.

OpenBSD and PostgreSQL performance

2006-03-22 Thread Steve Shockley
I've currently got a server running syslog-ng (1.6.9) with PostgreSQL (8.1.1) on a 3.9 snapshot from March 1. The setup has been working well for a while, but I've recently been told to have it accept syslog for a couple of anti-spam appliance devices, and they generate between 1-2 million sys

Re: Small office with BSD blueprint

2006-03-20 Thread Steve Shockley
Smith wrote: I would even consider doing away with dns and point everyone to the isp dns along with using static ip addresses. You only need dns if you anticipate a lot of users making dns queries to the point of affecting your bandwidth or you need a dns server to point the rest of the inter

Re: How to get crash details onto another system?

2006-03-20 Thread Steve Shockley
viq wrote: I'm playing with OpenBSD in a virtual machine (VMWare) on my linux box. The box has two CPUs, so every once in a while I try to set the machine to have two as well - which every singe time ends in a crash after some time. Any hints as to how I could get the trace etc out of it short

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 Stable and ICH6 AC97 does not sound anything

2006-03-18 Thread Steve Shockley
David T Harris wrote: I think he means to go and unplug your speakers from the computer case, and then plug that plug into one of the other ports in your computer case. No need to mess with any operating system (for now). Exactly. My Asus P4PE had this exact symptom. I wrote a patch that

Re: OpenBSD 3.8 Stable and ICH6 AC97 does not sound anything

2006-03-18 Thread Steve Shockley
Gustavo Rios wrote: Although i can use mpg123 to play a mp3 file or even cdio to play audio cd., i hear no sound. For kicks, try plugging your speakers into one of the other ports on the motherboard (mic, line). Sometimes the manufacturers misroute the outputs, then fix it in the Windows dri

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