Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-10 Thread Jan Stary
> Me? I usually buy whatever is cheap and on sale. And if it fails, I > test my tolerance and recovery plans :) Do this right, your system will > be back up faster than you can digest dozens of people's opinions about > the "best" drives and pick one (which may turn out to be a stinker anyway).

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:34:40 +0200, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: > But YOU have to make it secure and private. If you're not able to do > this yourself, then your best option is to choose a strong password and > change it often. Also you have to trust the machine and the browser > you're login in fr

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:01:41 -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: > ARP Networks DOES have OpenBSD VPS. I run my mail there. I'll second ARP Networks. I've been running Postfix and stuff on a FreeBSD VPS there for many months now, and they've been wonderful. They virtualize using KVM, so you can

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Mark Shroyer
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:03:42 -0500, Adam M. Dutko wrote: > How do they deal with legal jurisdiction? Technically the government can > still subpoena and they'd have to turn over the documents in the persons > account, including backups. I "pine" for "Sealand" but even then one would > have to tru

Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-10 Thread Nick Holland
On 12/10/10 17:25, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > ok, what manufacturers are left??? :)) just toshiba??? > I'm going to say "Anyone who says brand X is great and Y is crap" has just exposed themselves as a newbie in the computer business. :) I've seen every make of drive have some real stinkers, and a

Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-10 Thread roberth
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:25:56 +0100 Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > ok, what manufacturers are left??? :)) just toshiba??? i am happy with samsung, because in that area i am a cheapskate. hardware dies, deal with it, don't buy the new kid on the block and be happy. :) sata disk got really crappy since t

Re: Freeze with Western Digital Caviar Green HDD

2010-12-10 Thread Paolo Aglialoro
ok, what manufacturers are left??? :)) just toshiba??? On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:16 PM, roberth wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:50:21 +0100 > roberth wrote: > > > WD's trackrecord is reaching Seagate levels. > > Heck, even Hitachi has remidied itself from the deathstar tech they > > took over f

pf: default queue issues

2010-12-10 Thread David Hardy
[sorry if I posted this twice but I haven't see it show up ] I have an openbsd box doing queuing for 200+ users, each with their own cbq queue to limit bandwidth on a per-client basis. My issue is that I'm seeing a good 60-80% of the traffic on the client-facing interface going into the default qu

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread David Newman
On 12/9/10 12:34 PM, Kapetanakis Giannis wrote: > On 09/12/10 17:07, Gilles Chehade wrote: >> Own box :-) >> >> lh wrote: > > That's ofcourse the best solution. > > But YOU have to make it secure and private. If you're not able to do > this yourself, then your best option is to choose a strong p

Re: editing user disk usage quota

2010-12-10 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:34:13PM -0200, Friedrich Locke wrote: > Dear folks, > > i am trying to set quota for a user and a grace period too. I am using > edquota to manage this, but when a try to to execute repquota -a no > information about grace period is show! Here you have: > > lion# edquo

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:26:36PM +0100, frantisek holop wrote: > hmm, on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:38:19PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot said that > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop > > wrote: > > >why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style "set these to "NO" to turn > > >them off. > > >o

Re: Donations

2010-12-10 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/10 Stuart VanZee : > I would have to agree that the people of the United States have lost > some of their essential libertys. The problem has been in defining what > exactly ARE the essential libertys and then getting our congress and our > president to keep their mitts off of them. Still

editing user disk usage quota

2010-12-10 Thread Friedrich Locke
Dear folks, i am trying to set quota for a user and a grace period too. I am using edquota to manage this, but when a try to to execute repquota -a no information about grace period is show! Here you have: lion# edquota sioux Quotas for user sioux: /: KBytes in use: 5582, limits (soft = 10, h

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Frantisek, frantisek holop wrote on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:26:36PM +0100: > hmm, on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:38:19PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot said that >> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop wrote: >>> why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style "set these to "NO" to turn >>> them off.

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 05:38:19PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot said that > On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop > wrote: > >why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style "set these to "NO" to turn > >them off. > >otherwise, they're used as flags" approach? > > It's not how it works, it won

[PATCH] uticom driver fix

2010-12-10 Thread Daniel Gracia
Hi there! Being in need of uticom driver noticed that it didn't worked out of the box. Compiled, but opening the serial port twice panics the kernel. With the attached fix applyed to sys/dev/usb/uticom.c it's working for me now with single port devices. Regards, Dani Patch ===

Re: Donations

2010-12-10 Thread Stuart VanZee
> Err, that's supposed to be essential liberty and temporary security. > > Any society that *doesn't* give up at least a little liberty > is anarchy and > Franklin was not, to my knowledge, an anarchist. > > On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Leonardo Rodrigues > > wrote: > > > To paraphrase Benjamin Fr

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Edho P Arief
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: > sorry for offtopic: > have you tried to install openbsd on it? > Nope - I'm still saving money to buy it I found that someone posted its freebsd's dmesg though: http://docs.hcf.yourweb.de/moin.cgi/ProLiantMicroserver/FreeBSD?action=Att

Re: ext2fs 2GiB file size limit

2010-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:47:06PM +0100, Peter J. Philipp said that > -O filesystem-format > Select the filesystem-format. > >0`GOOD_OLD_REV'; this option is primarily used to > build root file systems that can be

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Sergey Bronnikov
sorry for offtopic: have you tried to install openbsd on it? On 22:56 Fri 10 Dec , Edho P Arief wrote: > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Damien Miller wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone recommend a small, fanless computer that will accept a HD > > (perhaps > > a 2.5" drive) that uses ECC RAM? Ne

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 04:35:42PM +0100, Martin Schrvder wrote: > 2010/12/10 Christian Weisgerber : > > The Atoms don't use ECC memory, do they? > > Of course not; Intel reserves ECC for Xeons. Most athlons do, though. Intel's EP80579 embedded processors also do ECC, there are several machines w

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Edho P Arief
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Damien Miller wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a small, fanless computer that will accept a HD (perhaps > a 2.5" drive) that uses ECC RAM? Needless to say, it must run OpenBSD. > > Being 64 bit, having accellerated crypto and/or supporting multiple drives > wo

NAT64 via pf/OpenBSD

2010-12-10 Thread Pete Vickers
Hi, We're currently deploying some IPv6 connectivity (no flame wars please), and need to provide a suitable transition solution for IPv6 only clients to access IPv4 services. At a bare minimum generic TCP/UDP/ICMP services should be supported for large pools of users. I'm aware of Reyk's work here

Re: the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:25:40 +0100, frantisek holop wrote: why not reuse the /etc/rc.conf style "set these to "NO" to turn them off. otherwise, they're used as flags" approach? It's not how it works, it won't start anything unless you add it to the rc_scripts variable. this way i could sa

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Martin Schröder
2010/12/10 Christian Weisgerber : > The Atoms don't use ECC memory, do they? Of course not; Intel reserves ECC for Xeons. Most athlons do, though. Best Martin

Re: OT - Switzerland domain name registrars

2010-12-10 Thread Samuel Baldwin
2010/12/10 Wolf Stettler : > The official registrar is Switch (http://switch.ch/) a foundation to provide > internet services to swiss universities. They have quite a good reputation. I use nic.ch (part of switch.ch) for my .li (Liechtenstein) address; they handle the .ch and .li TLDs, and they're

Re: OT - Switzerland domain name registrars

2010-12-10 Thread Wolf Stettler
The official registrar is Switch (http://switch.ch/) a foundation to provide internet services to swiss universities. They have quite a good reputation. Regards Wolf On 12/08/10 17:03, Brad Tilley wrote: Can anyone recommend good/reputable domain name registrars in Switzerland to buy .ch doma

the new rc.d subsystem

2010-12-10 Thread frantisek holop
hi there, i am making the transition to the new rc.d thingie and of course am happy to see the system becoming a bit more admin friendly. is there an "official" way to start a service as someone else? most of my daemons for example use the "service" login class. for example, in the old rc.local:

Re: OpenBSD-capable, fanless, diskful computer with ECC RAM

2010-12-10 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Mehma Sarja wrote: > >> Can anyone recommend a small, fanless computer that will accept a HD > >> (perhaps > >> a 2.5" drive) that uses ECC RAM? Needless to say, it must run OpenBSD. > > I have a supermicro atom(D510) system with a 32 GB SSD in it running > pfsense (FreeBSD) and IPMI - 4 GB RA

Re: Donations

2010-12-10 Thread Ted Unangst
Err, that's supposed to be essential liberty and temporary security. Any society that *doesn't* give up at least a little liberty is anarchy and Franklin was not, to my knowledge, an anarchist. On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:19 AM, Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: > To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin (an american

Re: Donations

2010-12-10 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin (an american! diplomat!): "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread C. Bensend
> are that stupid). Or that the crackberry can only use an encrypted > connection with a blackberry server? Certainly not; at my previous job, *all* of our Blackberry email traffic to/from our non-Blackberry mail server was encrypted. Benny -- "I'm no meteorologist, but I'm pretty sure it's ra

Re: sha256 hash for /bsd

2010-12-10 Thread J Sisson
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:29 PM, OpenBSD Geek wrote: > So how can i proceed ? > > > http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/i386/SHA256 That file contains the correct sha256 for all the install sets, including bsd.

Re: nfs related freezes with OpenBSD 4.8-current

2010-12-10 Thread Michael Lechtermann
Can I execute that command from ddb or just normal shell? Because when I say freeze, i mean "nothing responds anymore" and the machine needs a hard reset. There was no systat in the ddb shell, but this is what I got on the real shell with updates every 0.1 seconds: IFACE LIVELOCKS S

Re: HP NC550SFP 10GE card

2010-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gray
There is no support for these 10g serverengines chips, the best bet at the moment are Intel 82599 based devices, the documentation is freely available to all and there is a working driver. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 01:37:19PM +0800, Patrick Coleman wrote: > Can't seem to find anything bout this, so

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:19:00 -0500 Chris Dukes wrote: > I deal with lawyers that still insist on POP3 in the clear for their > crack berry to retrieve email. OMG I've never even looked closely at the crackberry's (my brother laughed a long time at that) because the server was obviously designed

Re: OT - gmail alternatives

2010-12-10 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 10:41:32PM +0100, roberth wrote: > Brad Tilley wrote: > > Adam M. Dutko wrote: > > > How do[es Lavabit] deal with legal jurisdiction? Technically the > > > government can still subpoena and they'd have to turn over the > > > documents in the persons account, including back

bwi trubba

2010-12-10 Thread Lemuel Houyhnhnm
Having a hard time getting my Broadcom wireless card to connect to a wpa network using OpenBSD 4.8. It sees networks when scanning, but doesn't seem able to make a connection. # ifconfig bwi0 nwid SomeNet wpa wpapsk `wpa-psk SomeNet xx` # ifconfig bwi0 bwi0: flags=8843 mtu 1500