Re: NetBSD on a NUC

2021-09-28 Thread Carl Brewer
On 28/09/2021 5:59 am, Bob Bernstein wrote: My question: other than replacing the NUC's drive, are there useful directions in which I might point my efforts? NUC's are famous for overheating, SSDs for getting damaged by heat. Replace the SSD drive, they're cheap, it takes 10 minutes and all yo

Re: Modern Cyrus IMAP and Apache Guacamole on NetBSD?

2021-09-09 Thread Carl Brewer
On 9/09/2021 8:20 pm, Matthias Petermann wrote: A while ago I added version 3.0.13 to pkgsrc-wip[1] because I needed the CalDAV/CardDAV functionality. This package should currently also be buildable to evaluate it. I can help with the configuration. In the future, I would like to bring this t

Modern Cyrus IMAP and Apache Guacamole on NetBSD?

2021-09-08 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, Looking at pkgsrc, the version of cyrus imap seems to be pretty ancient, 2.4.20.something. I want to run a much more recent version, but don't have the skills or time to maintain anything in pkgsrc.  Has anyone here looked at, or is, running a more current version?  Maybe just compile

ZFS root & boot install story?

2021-08-22 Thread Carl Brewer
Hey, According to a wiki article from 16 months ago, ZFS root "works", but is a bit fiddly to set up : https://wiki.netbsd.org/wiki/RootOnZFS/ It seems a bit weird.  Has the story changed since that wiki article was written? I'm going to be replacing an old NetBSD server soon, and am pret

Re: pkgsrc-2015Q4 released - Kodi, openindiana?!

2016-01-01 Thread Carl Brewer
On 02/01/2016 05:27, Jonathan Perkin wrote: pkgsrc-2015Q4 = The pkgsrc team is proud to announce the availability of the pkgsrc-2015Q4 branch. Notable new packages this quarter include kodi (home media center software previously known as xbmc) Oh! great! Has anyone here got any

Re: upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

2015-10-31 Thread Carl Brewer
I ran the update last night, initially 5.2 -> 6.1.5, it mostly worked but when I rebooted after etcupdate'ing (which, has a _lot_ of "um? I dunno?" questions!) it wouldn't mount / r/w, kept complaining that /etc/rc.d/swap1 was finding /dev/wd0b busy. I could remount / and then stuff seemed to

Re: upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

2015-10-30 Thread Carl Brewer
On 31/10/2015 12:16 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Ottavio Caruso writes: On 29 October 2015 at 22:27, Greg Troxel wrote: use pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage which has scripts to automate what you describe, as well as merge /etc files. Do you use it after installation or before? I first register /etc

Re: upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

2015-10-29 Thread Carl Brewer
On 30/10/2015 9:27 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Carl Brewer writes: I'm planning to bump two amd64 virtual servers from 5.2 to 6.1.5 or 7 tonight. In the past, I've over-written the kernel with the new version, rebooted, then untar'ed the OS tarballs, over-writing everything, then

upgrading 5.x to 6.1.5 or 7?

2015-10-29 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I'm planning to bump two amd64 virtual servers from 5.2 to 6.1.5 or 7 tonight. In the past, I've over-written the kernel with the new version, rebooted, then untar'ed the OS tarballs, over-writing everything, then run postinstall to tidy up /etc, and it's "just worked" - everything in

6.1.5 amd64 and hot swapping drives?

2015-09-09 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I have a LAN server running 6.1.5 amd64, on a Gigabyte GA-B75m-D3H motherboard (no eSATA port, I think). I want to hook up a cheap esata drive caddy to it and do big backups onto hard drives on it if possible. A quick google around doesn't tell me all that much about how best to do i

Re: system ntpd starting when I have pkgsrc ntpd installed?

2014-09-26 Thread Carl Brewer
On 25/09/2014 8:47 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: Carl Brewer writes: On bootup on a NetBSD 5.2 (amd64) box of mine the original system ntpd starts (which is vulnerable to a DoS attack) : bash-4.3# ps -auxww | grep ntp root 269 0.2 0.1 11324 5424 ? Ss3:44AM 4:19.12 /usr/sbin/ntpd

system ntpd starting when I have pkgsrc ntpd installed?

2014-09-24 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, On bootup on a NetBSD 5.2 (amd64) box of mine the original system ntpd starts (which is vulnerable to a DoS attack) : bash-4.3# ps -auxww | grep ntp root 269 0.2 0.1 11324 5424 ? Ss3:44AM 4:19.12 /usr/sbin/ntpd bash-4.3# kill -TERM 269 bash-4.3# /etc/rc.d/ntpd sta

Re: graceful shutdown from Virtualbox with NetBSD 5.x as a guest - with no network

2014-07-22 Thread Carl Brewer
On 22/07/2014 11:49 PM, Toby Karyadi wrote: Did you enable powerd? No, but I can try it. If that doesn't work, a hack would be to use ssh to issue the shutdown. You might want to use certificate based login into the root account and setup sshd_config to use 'PermitRootLogin without-passwor

graceful shutdown from Virtualbox with NetBSD 5.x as a guest - with no network

2014-07-21 Thread Carl Brewer
G'day, I have a couple of NetBSD 5.2 servers running as VirtualBox guests (OpenIndiana host). Every now and then (~every 2 weeks), the network falls over and they lose their ethernet interfaces, as does the OI server sometimes - the only way I've been able to get it going again is to remove