Cleaning out my firewall box (Atom 330 based) before upgrading, and I
noticed it had a BCM5805 crypto accelerator card installed. Is there any
reason to keep this these days (even an an entropy source for random(4)),
or should I just recycle it as a door stop?
Thanks.
Not OpenBSD related, but this can be achieved with standard Unix
permissions. From memory you'll need something like:
Two groups, one for read-only (R), the other for write access (W). Anyone
in the latter group should also be in the former. Then create the following
directory structure:
foo (gro
On 23 April 2012 12:35, Laurence Rochfort
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My laptop's integrated wifi adapter is not supported by OpenBSD.
>
> Can anybody suggest a USB adapter that doesn't stick out of the port very
> far?
>
> Ideally I'd like one that protrudes less than a centimeter. B There are
> several
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 15:53, Jeff Ross wrote:
> Opterons are new to me. B Have I already damaged the CPU? B I can get an
> couple of active CPU heatsinks to replace the passive ones but if that chip
> is already damaged I'd rather lose some more time and return the
motherboard
> while I still can
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 23:24, STeve Andre' wrote:
> B I am wondering if there is a port or otherwise available
> code which is good at comparing large numbers of files in
> an arbitrary number of directories? B I always try avoid
> wheel re-creation when possible. B I'm trying to help some-
> on
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 08:52, Steve wrote:
> I am trying to use chown -R to selectively change permissions on files.
>
> A series of files are contained in many folders under the root data folder. No
> files are stored in the data folder itself.
>
> Running
>
> chown -R user:group /data/*.dat
>
>
2008/9/21 Sunnz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This is running off a OpenBSD 4.3 CD, there are no intention to
> actually destroy the hard disk in any way, just erasing the data off
> the hard disk so that it can be reused, re-sold, whatever. The data
> are not some military top secret, but it is interesti
2008/8/1 Paul M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all
>
> I'm attempting to install 4.3-release on an old compac but I'm getting
> random freezes shortly after boot. The most it has stayed up is about
> 1/2 hour, usually it'll die within a few minutes, sometimes it'll die
> during boot - once it even faile
On 29/01/2008, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I use zsh on my OpenBSD boxes.
>
> About a week ago ctrl+a and ctrl+e stopped working in zsh. These
> combos should skip to the begin and end of the line. These functions
> seem to work in zsh on our solaris boxes.
>
> I have jus
On 09/12/2007, Mats Erik Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, I have OpenBSD 4.2 running on this machine using
> AMD-K6-2/350 on an AT-mainboard with VIA chipset VT82C598
> and VT82C586B. (Well, both AT and ATX in fact.) I have not
> detected any trouble until I patched libssl according to
On 31/07/07, poncenby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grateful if anyone could recommend a mail retrieval program which does
> not require a local SMTP service like fetchmail does.
Try 'getmail'.
-- ach
On 6/14/07, Marius Hooge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I issued trace and ps and... don't have a clue what to do now.
I considered overheating of my CDD-Mirror, but smartctl reports
below 40 degrees C.
Have you considered PSU or other hardware failure?
-- ach
On 5/11/07, Todd T. Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking and probably just blind but haven't found any complete systems
using the via c7 esther chipset. Specifically I'm looking for rsa
accelleration.
Via EPIA EN15000?
-- ach
On 4/17/07, Jon Steel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Im trying to find a way to do a sort of very soft reboot. For example I
want to boot up the computer into a kernel on one drive, and then after
saying reboot, the computer loads up a kernel from a second drive.
This sounds very similar to the Lin
On 4/20/07, Manuel Ravasio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have something that looks like a couple of pcmcia cards, which fit into two
pcmcia slots... I don't have a tester at home, so I can't check voltages.
PCMCIA and CardBus cards are physically (very slightly) different:
http://www.pcmcia.org
On 4/13/07, Luke Eckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am having a hard time finding a ral(4) cardbus card for my laptop. I
recently bought a Hawking Tech HWC54G - which happens to be acx(4) -
thinking I was buying a Hawking Tech HWC54GR (which is listed as
supported by ral(4)).
Try the Edimax EW
My question is. I have OBSD 4.0 running on an Asus p3b-F with 6 pci
slots that i'm wanting to use as a router/firewall. I have 5 fxp
interfaces in the machine inserted starting from the bottom pci slot
up.
I have a very similar setup here at home - however I deliberately used
a different make/
On 1/17/07, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a laptop with FreeBSD and no CD drive. I'd like to
convert to OpenBSD. I have the 4.0 CD.
What is the easiest path (other than buying a CD drive ;)?
dd if=floppy40.fs of=/dev/wd0c
sync; sync; sync
-- ach
On 1/2/07, Gordon Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking for some NICs for some OBSD firewalls. After scanning the
archives (and lurking on the list) SysKonnect appear to be a well
regarded and supported brand of NIC in the OpenBSD arena. But I can't
seem to find any resellers in the UK.
Do
On 12/15/06, Andreas Maus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just a wild guess ...
Do you tried rsync?
(Although I don't know how rsync deals with _hard_ links).
rsync --archive --hard-links ...
-- ach
Erik,
From dhcp.conf:
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
Wouldn't netmask 255.255.0.0 work better?
-- ach
On 11/9/06, Cassio B. Caporal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have problems to print '%' in stdout... Suppose code below:
Use:
fprintf(stdout, "%s", foo);
This is mentioned in the man page for fprintf.
-- ach
Machine 1:
cpu0: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-class) 1.83 GHz
type 16 bytes 64 bytes256 bytes 1024 bytes 8192 bytes
aes-128-cbc 27752.30k30348.75k31400.62k31634.09k31639.75k
Machine 2:
cpu0: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2600+ ("AuthenticAMD" 686-c
On 10/17/06, Didier Wiroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
How can I exclude files or directories when using tar?
I found that gnu tar uses --exclude, but
how can I do this in openbsd?!
Use find (/usr/bin/find) to select the files you require, and pipe the
output to tar.
-- ach
On 8/31/06, Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andy Hayward wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't know what secure mode means, but a ramdisk (mount_mfs(8)) would
>> be difficult to get data from, and pretty quick; an
On 8/31/06, Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know what secure mode means, but a ramdisk (mount_mfs(8)) would
be difficult to get data from, and pretty quick; an encrypted vnd
interface (see vnconfig(8)) would also be pretty secure. Once you turn
off the computer, of course...
On 8/29/06, Steffen Wendzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I currently own 3 home directories. one on each of my workstations and one
on my laptop but I want to have the same data in all 3 folders.
Look for rsync and/or unison.
-- ach
On 7/16/06, Gustavo Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
He folks,
i am facing this scenario i could never imagine to be possible (I am
serious, ok). Look the entry for file "q".
Does anybody here have an ideia about what is going on?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ touch "q"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ touch
On 7/4/06, Thomas BC6rnert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
bridging doesn't work with wireless lan.
Yes it does. However the wireless adapter needs to be in hostap mode.
-- ach
I'm playing w/ ntop, and pressing 'n' repeatedly changes the display
format of the host. One selection is network board manufacturer, based
on MAC allocation I'm guessing. My CARP interface says the mfg is U.S.
Department of Defense.
Is this normal?
Possibly. You should be able to check for you
On 6/20/06, Federico Giannici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As I have already told in a couple of previous emails, I'm experiencing
occasional computer freezes (the PC lockups with no error at all, and I
can only reset it).
I replaced all the hardware (motherboard, cpu, ram, disc controller,
etc...
On 6/15/06, Bob Bostwick (Lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to setup an NFS share, and am getting horrible write
performance. Reads are fast as can be expected. I've searched the
archives and found several threads on the subject, but no resolutions.
I've tried all possible fstab opti
On 6/7/06, Gaby vanhegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The reviews seem to rate them, it's listed as supported hardware and
it's less than #30. Any reason I shouldn't get one of these to go
with a 3.9 box?
Edimax EW-7128G
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=152539
-- ach
On 6/6/06, Lars Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 06 June 2006 17:42, Martin Schrvder wrote:
> Hi,
> how likely is a no-name 100MBit NIC to just work with 3.9 stable?
Very, in my experience, They almost always use a Realtek 8139 chipset - rl(4).
-- ach
On 5/23/06, Michael Lechtermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
since I still got trouble (first slow than stops working) with 2 D-Link
DUB E-100 devices using axe I wonder if anyone of you is using any other
USB<->Ethernet NICs that work and are getting full 100MBit speed with
USB2.0?
Netgear FA120
On 5/18/06, Peter Bako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was looking through the list of wireless PCMCIA cards known to be
supported from the man page for wi(4), but it appears that all of those are
just 802.11b cards. I'd prefer to get one that also supports g mode
Any recommendations?
Edimax
Has anyone had any experiences with the Edimax EN-9230TX-32 gigabit
network adapter?
According to the technical documents at:
http://www.edimax.com.tw/download/datasheet/EN-9230TX-32.pdf
It uses a Realtek 8169S chipset which is supported by the re(4) driver, however
this card isn't mentioned on
On 5/4/06, Didier Wiroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 currently using an ATI FireMV 2200 card (dual DVI) PCI card, but
PCIe versions are also available.
http://www.ati.com/products/
On 2/1/06, Greg Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter Fraser" writes:
> > and as a result all file writes to the failed
> > drive queued up in memory,
>
> I've never seen that behaviour... I find it hard to believe that
> you'd be able to queue up 2 days worth of writes without a) any reads
>
On 2/1/06, Peter Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But why was there a crash, I would of thought
> that the system should run after a disk failure.
> And even more to my surprise, about two days
> of my work disappeared.
>
> I believe, the disk drive died about 2 days before
> the crash. I also b
On 1/22/06, Joakim Roubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Searching archives for ASUS A7V8X-X, I have found some bug reports from
> 2003-2004, but then nothing. Is anybody using that motherboard with e.g.
> 3.8, and if so, is it working/stable?
Works perfectly, as long as you either tweak the pcibio
On 1/3/06, martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Besides doing a dmesg | grep irq, is there another way at seeing the
> assigned interrupts.
# vmstat -i
-- ach
On 11/17/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gordon Ross wrote:
> > We've got several VIA based micro ATX systems here. We've been using
> > OpenBSD on them for years now, and never had any problems.
> >
> > Today, I installed 3.8 (from the official CDs) and this went fine. I
> > then reb
In case anyone from .uk is interested, www.scan.co.uk are currently
selling a couple of Ralink RT2560 based 802.11g wireless cards
(supported under OpenBSD by ral(4)):
Edimax EW-7128G 54Mbps Wireless PCI Card
(http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=152539)
Gigabyte GN W
On 10/4/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> You only mentioned the drives.
> BTW: There are companies which sell "too long" IDE drive cables. If you
> want to go fast, you gotta keep 'em short, and that won't work in many
> boxes.
While we're on the subject of IDE cables:
* for the m
On 8/27/05, Russell Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having problems running argus on 3.7. The server runs
> for a variable amount of time (ususlly 1 - 2 hours) and then dies when a
> calloc for
> 128 bytes fails. We are fairly sure that this is not because of real memory
> exhustion
>
On 8/18/05, Edd Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I shall be transporting a hard disk between two sites for backup
> purposes. The backup shall be on a RAID-1 mirror in an openbsd server.
> The disk will primarily be used in a sun workstation running solaris.
As others have pointed out, use a t
> i've noticed my obsd box hasn't altered it's time (BST). I'm linked using:
>
> ln -fs /usr/share/zoneinfo/GMT /etc/localtime
Try /usr/share/zoneinfo/GB instead.
-- ach
On 8/16/05, Will H. Backman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm looking for comments on the care and feeding of OpenBSD servers.
> Essentially and "best practices" document for maintaining OpenBSD
> production servers. Yes, "best" is a stupid way to describe anything,
> but I'm hoping that there is s
Sebastian,
On 8/11/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just a little question to those who've already a VIA Epia Board.
> THe MINI-ITX-Factor looks very small so I asked myself if I would be able
> to include the board in anormal ATX-Case. Because I need the PCI-Slot
> (Wlan-GW
Chris wrote:
I use GMT for the system clock for all my openbsd boxes.
I searched to find how I can ajust DST without changing
to London time for example and I didnt found any answer.
date -d dst?
I m very confused or very stupid
I just want a way to keep GMT but to
have the time
On 8/10/05, Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:00:24PM -0700, Reid Nichol wrote:
> > In rc.securelevel there is:
> > securelevel=1
> > man securelevel
http://www.nt.phys.kyushu-u.ac.jp/shimizu/download/xmbmon/README-OpenBSD_chips.html
:)
-- ach
On 7/19/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to sniff a network segment and I need to sniff both headers and
> data. Because tcpdump captures only headers its unsuitable for the task.
> I saw that ports has ettercap and sniffit but I didn' get around to
> testing them
> More evidence - the description claims it uses the RTL8139D and RTL8305SB
> chipsets. The RTL8139D chipset is obviously the NIC, the RTL8305B chipset is
> a five port switch:
>
> http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=18
In the end my couriousity won and I acquired one of t
> At this point...I'm suspicious you found a nasty bug in the SCSI driver
> for that card, but a (set??) of really bad cables might explain it, too.
> Yes, I have seen piles of parts were every single one was bad in a similar
> way... Could also be a very bad jumper option on the drives, too.
Che
On 6/16/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a couple similarly marketed, similarly described cards (although,
> with a cheap dc(4) chip), and while they are VERY useful, they are not
> four-port NICs. What it actually is is a single port NIC with a four
> port switch. I'm fairly
Ed White wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to give away some old hard disks and I'm planning to
delete/overwrite all the data on them. Is there any tool to make this
automagically ?
badblocks -s -v -w
I usually keep a Knoppix CD around for this purpose, but its also
available in the e2fsprogs port.
On 5/20/05, Stephan Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What is recommended for bare-metal backups?
Never underestimate the power of dump(8) and restore(8).
-- ach
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