booting to ignore fstab

Hi, hate to bother. I'm working in 3.8 and I've run across something new and can't figure out. For some reason, on this box a drive isn't mounting, and the boot blows and asks for shell. so, I go to shell and I've tried to edit the fstab file to remark out the mountpoint that's gone bad. First o

find -exec {} help

hi, I'm using 3.8, and I hate to bother, but I have spent two days on the net trying to find the answer to this problem. I am using 'find' to batch file a sed search and replace. Sed, of course, outputs to stdout, the problem I am having is finding the correct syntax so that I can change the

remove sendmail/install postfix

hi, hate to bother, but... I looked around on the net and couldn't find a howto on howto uninstall sendmail, the default in 3.8, and then install postfix. I know how to install postfix, but how do you completely remove sendmail, since it isn't a package where I can just pkg_delete it? my unders

pf

I've looked an man pf, and it's way too confusing; I'm using smoothwall as a standalone firewall, and it pretty much works the way I want it to; however, I've found a reason to block a an IP range, particularly 216.87.0.0/17; is there an equivalent to an iptables command I can use to simply drop a

rc.local command for postgres

trying to get postgres to start up at boot. found this at postgresql's site On OpenBSD, add the following lines to the file /etc/rc.local: if [ -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -a -x /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster ]; then su - -c '/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l /var/postgresql/log -s'

Version 4.0 release

I see 4.0 is coming out, and yet, no hardware raid support, no fixes for raidframe, and still no SMP support, for sparc64 on Ultrasparc II machines. I'm using only 1 processor out of 4, and 4 hard drives out of 30 because I can't hardware raid my enterprise fiberchannel array, I can't hardware

FreeBSD emulation

hi, hate to bother, ... I'm running 3.8 on a sun E450 sparc64. I need to be able to enable freebsd binary emulation. I checked the /etc/sysctl.conf file to un-remark the line, but it isn't there; which makes me think that the sparc64 version of 3.8 doesn't provide emulation by default in the

sendmail

sorry to bother, can anyone suggest a definitive book I should buy on how to set up Sendmail on Openbsd 3.8? I have looked all over the net for a HOWTO or an article that steps me through how to set up a user account and password, and then how to retrieve it (look at it on the server), but all

OpenSSH Server

3.8 on sparc64. How do I determine if OpenSSH is installed on my box? (command line only, no X11), and whether it's a server versus a client? I'm getting to the stage where I need to be able to log into my server remotely. thanks

Panic: biodone already

me again, sorry. I have a raidframe raid5 array, I had it originally installed, had a kernel panic of some sort, don't remember, and turned off the machine. I have had to clean the disklabels on the raw drives, newfs them, raidctl -C the array, -I the array, -vP the array, and had a new array.

recover raidframe

hi, I have two raids set up, raid0 (boot) and raid1 (a fiberchannel SAN), I need to boot my raid kernel and bring up raid0 (automatically rebuilding parity), but not bring up raid1. I renamed the raid1.conf file in root as temp.raid1.conf hoping that when the kernel booted up it wouldn't cons

mount floppy drive

hi, hate to bother on such a silly problem, but when I try to mount_msdos /dev/fd0c I get a 'device not configured' error. I've already looked at fdc(4) and mount(8) and see that the device is fd, the number -usually 0, and then in my case B for a 1.44 drive and then the partition, but, of course

SMP support for Sun E450 Sparc64?

Hi, are there any plans to release a bsd.mp version for sparc64? My box currently can only use cpu0; I have 4 processors, and it seems a shame to waste all of that power. thanks

3.9 coming out

hi, I see 3.9 is getting ready to be released. Do you plan on bundling Apache2 with it? it would seem a logical thing to do, since the Apache version currently bundled with it seems to have problems. I just lost my entire development box to a hack this week, right through smoothwall's DMZ. I

scsibus at? target at?

installing a raidframe. raid(4) says I have to hardcode the devices and not use sd4a, etc. When I boot, the screen scrolls by so fast I can't see what scsibus the /dev's are attached to. My primary is obviously scsibus0, currently with 4 targets, 0 through 3, found at sd0-3; however, I have a

DPTMGR - can't find it

Hi, I've installed 3.8 on a sun E450, I recompiled the kernel to include RaidFrame for my boot drives and dpt(4) to support my Adaptec/DPT controller. The OS now sees /dev/sd4, which is the controller card, but I can't find any source code or binary for dptmgr to configure the array. Does o