Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading)

Matthew Closson wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2006, Uwe Dippel wrote: I have tried the archives and google, but didn't find any good pointer (maybe a problem of keywords ?): After some 20 cycles of power outage / restore - that is some twenty crashes - a database server of mine doesn't reboot any long

Re: LinuxWochen Wien May 31 - June 2, 2006, Austria

On Monday 29 May 2006 00:50, Bob Beck wrote: > * Wim Vandeputte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-28 22:45]: > > Hey, > > > > just a quick heads up that we'll be at LinuxWochen in Vienna this week, > > I'll be there Wednesday noon to Sunday, drop by to say hello. > > LinuxWurstchen? Yeah, is this

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading)

On Mon, 29 May 2006, Uwe Dippel wrote: I have tried the archives and google, but didn't find any good pointer (maybe a problem of keywords ?): After some 20 cycles of power outage / restore - that is some twenty crashes - a database server of mine doesn't reboot any longer. It gets stuck at boo

Re: LinuxWochen Wien May 31 - June 2, 2006, Austria

* Wim Vandeputte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-28 22:45]: > Hey, > > just a quick heads up that we'll be at LinuxWochen in Vienna this week, > I'll be there Wednesday noon to Sunday, drop by to say hello. LinuxWurstchen?

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

STeve Andre' wrote: >You know, all this discussion of the scalability of OpenBSD is really >fruitless. Every application is different, and a multitude of factors >come into play here, not the least of which is the hardware involved >in the equation, so with all the other questions like this, the

Re: getting ^L to clear the screen?

On Mon, May 29, 2006, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Claus Assmann wrote: > > What's wrong with > > alias =clear > > It works for me (OpenBSD 3.8, /bin/ksh). > How? You enter ^V^L? That's probably not what the original The alias is in .kshrc. I just it CNTL-L on the command prompt and t

box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading)

I have tried the archives and google, but didn't find any good pointer (maybe a problem of keywords ?): After some 20 cycles of power outage / restore - that is some twenty crashes - a database server of mine doesn't reboot any longer. It gets stuck at booting hd0a:/bsd 4804448+939504 [52+247296

LinuxWochen Wien May 31 - June 2, 2006, Austria

Hey, just a quick heads up that we'll be at LinuxWochen in Vienna this week, I'll be there Wednesday noon to Sunday, drop by to say hello. As most developers are out of town because they are at the Hackaton in Calgary, I'm looking for volunteer boothslaves. http://www.linuxwochen.at/2006

Re: getting ^L to clear the screen?

Claus Assmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong with > > alias =clear > > It works for me (OpenBSD 3.8, /bin/ksh). How? You enter ^V^L? That's probably not what the original poster asked for, given the mention of bash. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber

Re: getting ^L to clear the screen?

Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A last option would be to send a patch for ksh that adds a clearscreen > command to bind to. Send it here and it'll probably get more attention > from developers. This is left as an excercise to you ;) This would require linking ksh to libtermcap, growin

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Sunday 28 May 2006 23:05, Lars Hansson wrote: > On Monday 29 May 2006 03:07, Adam wrote: > > I think if you don't even understand a simple question, and have no > > way to answer, you shouldn't bother responding with nonsense. > > Its a very simple question. I know openbsd scales poorly in SMP,

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Sun, 28 May 2006 21:58:12 +0200 Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OpenBSD scales very well an most tasks you'll find. > There are some exceptions tho. That unfortunately includes threads. I don't find that actually. Apart from threads, there's also anything that needs > 1GB MAXDSIZ

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Monday 29 May 2006 03:07, Adam wrote: > I think if you don't even understand a simple question, and have no > way to answer, you shouldn't bother responding with nonsense. > Its a very simple question. I know openbsd scales poorly in SMP, I > know it scales poorly using apache, sendmail, courie

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Monday 29 May 2006 03:45, Adam wrote: > Again, if you can't answer the question I asked Henning, then do not > reply. Funny how you did not answer the question Henning asked you. --- Lars Hansson

About PF: Is the RED algorithm the same as WRED?

hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just want to know, whether the RED algorithm is the same as WRED. thanks :)

Re: mailing list program

Haluk Durmus escribis: Do some one knows what mailing list program is used for the openbsd mailing lists ? I also want to use it for my mailing list project. Thanks, Haluk Haluk: OpenBSD uses Majordomo for its mailing lists. Cheers, Salvador Sabaini.

sendmail and pop with multiple domain

Hi, I am going to use sendmail and popa3d in release 3.8 for multiple domain. I had setup and run mcojaya.com to run on rel 3.8. I will like to add more domains: mcojaya.com, abc.com, xyz.com, etc. If I could do that, then how do i setup the users for those abc.com, xyz.com Do I need other mail

Re: getting ^L to clear the screen?

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:52:49PM -0400, Daniel Dickman wrote: | Does anyone know how to bind ^L to clear the screen in a default 3.9 | installation? I'd prefer to not have to change to bash if I don't have to... Please note that when using emacs editing mode (I think this is the default mode, un

Re: mailing list program

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:34:46PM +0300, Haluk Durmus wrote: > Do some one knows what mailing list program > is used for the openbsd mailing lists ? > > I also want to use it for my mailing list project. > > Thanks, > Haluk > > majordomo Tobias

Re: getting ^L to clear the screen?

On Sun, May 28, 2006, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Daniel Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to bind ^L to clear the screen in a default 3.9 > > installation? > You can't, at the shell prompt. ksh can't do that. What's wrong with alias =clear It works for m

syweb & sendmail

I'm looking for any syweb layouts and processing scripts for sendmail logs. Hopefully something that will handle the dnsbl/rbls features in sendmail too. Mike Spenard

Re: getting ^L to clear the screen?

Daniel Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to bind ^L to clear the screen in a default 3.9 > installation? You can't, at the shell prompt. ksh can't do that. Run clear(1). -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pf logging: tcpdump: need root privileges

Martin, The solution in the FAQ was ok for 3.8 but things changed in 3.9. For now if you run the script underneath from root's crontab every 5 minutes you'll most likely be ok. There should be a check in the script to see if it is already running to prevent another instance starting when the o

mailing list program

Do some one knows what mailing list program is used for the openbsd mailing lists ? I also want to use it for my mailing list project. Thanks, Haluk

getting ^L to clear the screen?

Does anyone know how to bind ^L to clear the screen in a default 3.9 installation? I'd prefer to not have to change to bash if I don't have to...

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

Adam uttered following nonsense. > "Linux programs" have nothing to do with anything, That is a good characterization of SMP and scaling? > and your desire to make a big stupid thread of bullshit is quite annoying. You are annoyed. My desire is a small thread.

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

Henning Brauer wrote: > > OpenBSD scales very well an most tasks you'll find. > There are some exceptions tho. That unfortunately includes threads. Out of curiosity, what happens when you run apache on SMP hardware where the libraries are not "thread safe"? (or whatever it's called)

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

* Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-28 21:17]: > Pretending openbsd scales well at these things, or pretending its other > benefits make up for this doesn't change anything. Nobody is saying > scalability is all that matters, I just want to know what the mysterious > task that openbsd scales well

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 03:07:02PM -0400, Adam wrote: > > > The question was about scalability. > > > > I keep seeing that term. Is it supposed to mean something? > > Yes, and retarded posts like this aren't needed thanks. It isn't retarded. The term *is* fuzzy, and often abused, especially in

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Sun, 28 May 2006 14:39:05 -0500 "Tony Abernethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then what precisely is it supposed to mean? > > Running your Linux programs is not an adequate answer. If don't understand the question (which wasn't directed at you) then don't reply. "Linux programs" have nothing

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

Adam wrote: > > On Sun, 28 May 2006 13:58:39 -0500 "Tony Abernethy" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Adam wrote: > > > The question was about scalability. > > > > I keep seeing that term. Is it supposed to mean something? > > Yes, and retarded posts like this aren't needed thanks. Then wh

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 08:08:54PM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote: [...] > > (sometimes I've the impression that Linux is only fast when idling). > > This statement is clearly ridiculous. No, just my personal experience. > This whole discussion is ridiculous and pointless. May be. > There is no

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Sun, 28 May 2006 13:58:39 -0500 "Tony Abernethy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam wrote: > > The question was about scalability. > > I keep seeing that term. Is it supposed to mean something? Yes, and retarded posts like this aren't needed thanks. > An application which has evolved under

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

Adam wrote: > The question was about scalability. I keep seeing that term. Is it supposed to mean something? Methinks there is a problem with scalability if you cannot even add two numbers together. (Well maybe with Lisp and infinite tapes) Dijkstra had an analogy with comparing, as a means of

Re: pf logging: tcpdump: need root privileges

Tcpdump must now be run as root. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=114279291827416&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=107980397806077&w=2 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20040220120426 Found by searching for "tcpdump root" in the marc archives... ;) On 5/

Re: pf logging: tcpdump: need root privileges

2006/5/28, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What's wrong here? Bug in the FAQ? you have to start tcpdump as root so it can run privilege seperated and you don't have the scary decoders running with any real user's privs. So it's a bug in the FAQ (faq/pf/logging.html), as that solution doe

Re: pf logging: tcpdump: need root privileges

* Martin Schr?der <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-28 20:12]: > Hi, > after upgrading from 3.8 to 3.9, logging pf via pfl2sysl (as per the > FAQ), this doesn't work anymore (and I don't get any error mails nor > can I find anything in the logs). > > When I run pfl2sysl manually via > sudo -u pflogge

out-of-date ports/packages?

I get the following message when running /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/out-of-date: Collecting installed packages Collecting port versions: complete Collecting port signatures: complete Outdated ports: devel/gettext # expat.4.0 -> expat.5.0 www/php5/extensions,-mysql # my

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

Hi, On Sunday, 28. May 2006 19:06, Matthias Kilian wrote: ... > Oh, but comparing general performance of Linux vs. OpenBSD on a > typical desktop/development PC, I *can* tell you that OpenBSD > performs much better, especially when the machine does lots of IO > in the background. A daring stateme

Re: pf logging: tcpdump: need root privileges

2006/5/28, Martin Schrvder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: FAQ), this doesn't work anymore (and I don't get any error mails nor Allright, I get the mails. But that doesn't help. :-( Best Martin

pf logging: tcpdump: need root privileges

Hi, after upgrading from 3.8 to 3.9, logging pf via pfl2sysl (as per the FAQ), this doesn't work anymore (and I don't get any error mails nor can I find anything in the logs). When I run pfl2sysl manually via sudo -u pflogger /bin/sh /home/pflogger/pfl2sysl.sh I get the message tcpdump: need

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Sun, 28 May 2006 19:06:33 +0200 Matthias Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Adam wrote: > > > PF and spamd, for example. bgpd may be a good candidate, too. > > > > Those scale better on openbsd than they do on freebsd and netbsd? Have > > you actuall

apm0 at bios0uvm_fault => page fault trap

Hi... I'm having a problem booting 3.9-stable, it crashed with apm enabled (I tried bsd and bsd.mp and get the same error). [] apm0 at bios0uvm_fault(0xd05eb1e0, 0x6000, 0, 1) -> e kernel: page fault trap, code=0 Stopped at trap+0x17b: movzbl 0(%edx),%eax ddb{0}> trace trap() at t

Re: they say openbsd is not as scalable as others

On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:37:11PM -0400, Adam wrote: > > PF and spamd, for example. bgpd may be a good candidate, too. > > Those scale better on openbsd than they do on freebsd and netbsd? Have > you actually tested this? No, I neither do benchmarking nor have I equipment and a large enough net

problem building stable from stable

Hi... I'm having (for the first time) an issue building 3.9-stable from 3.9-stable. I compiled a new kernel then reboot and after issuing the following command in /usr/src, I get this (this just "cvs -up -Pd"): # make build [.] ===> libexec/login_chpass cc -O2 -pipe -Wall -DYP -c /usr/src/

load balance outgoing ftp connections

Hi, I now have multiple WAN links from my OpenBSD box. I've followed the pf pools faq and can successfully load balance outgoing traffic on all links. But I'm unable to load balance ftp-proxy traffic, and FTP only goes through my default gateway on my OpenBSD router. I can understand why this

Re: ioapic0 degraded performance - another dmesg

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Srebrenko Sehic wrote: Try to disable pcibios via boot -c bsd.mp. Worked for me in several occasions. It does not work unfortunately :(

Re: ioapic0 degraded performance - another dmesg

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Srebrenko Sehic wrote: Try to disable pcibios via boot -c bsd.mp. Worked for me in several occasions. Yes, as I said on my first post, I saw references to this on Google, but I still don't understand the meaning of that message. Besides, although I got this message, every

Re: ioapic0 degraded performance - another dmesg

Try to disable pcibios via boot -c bsd.mp. Worked for me in several occasions. On 5/28/06, Antoine Jacoutot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2006, Christian Pedaschus wrote: > Just finished fun/test installing 3.9 mp on a x4000 and seeing the same > message. Glad to know I'm not the on

Re: ioapic0 degraded performance - another dmesg

On Sun, 28 May 2006, Christian Pedaschus wrote: Just finished fun/test installing 3.9 mp on a x4000 and seeing the same message. Glad to know I'm not the only one ;)