shell hosting

Hi, May you suggest me a shell + www + mysql hosting service (with OBSD, of course) ? Thanks a lot.

unix hosting

Dear OBSD friends, right now i am hosting my site within geekisp. There i provided with a unix shell, using openbsd. I am in need to change my hosting provider, may some here suggest an obsd hosting service that besides email, web (with php), mysql DBMS and unix shell ? Of course, i am not looki

Re: Running your own mail server

if you demand for performance, FreeBSD + Qmail-ldap is THE way to go. my 1 cent. On Sat, Sep 8, 2018 at 12:26 PM Ken M wrote: > Just curious how many of you use openbsd to run your own personal email > server? > Do you find it a hassle to manage in any way? > > I know openbsd is perfectly fine

RAID controller

Hi folks. Does OBSD 6.2 support DELL H840 and DELL H740p raid controllers ? Thanks a lot.

OpenBSD Internals

Dear obsd friends, I wonder if there is a documentation for openbsd internals as there is for netbsd ? Thanks a lot for you time and cooperation. Gustavo. Livre de vírus. www.avast.com

vmctl

Is openbsd vm a container ? Thanks for explanation. Livre de vírus. www.avast.com

Re: nobreak powers down openbsd

;https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail>. <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Solène Rapenne wrote: > Je 2017-10-23 15:40, Friedrich Locke skribis: > >> H

nobreak powers down openbsd

Hi folks! I would like to have my openbsd server to be shutdown when my nobreak power becomes lower than 20% of its capacity; is that possible ? Any one with experience in this regard ? Thanks a lot.

raid and crypto file system

Hi folks, In the FAQ page, it is stated: Much like RAID, full disk encryption in OpenBSD is handled by the softraid(4) subsystem and bioctl(8) command. This section covers installing OpenBSD to a single encrypted disk, and is a v

Re: keyboard layout 6.1 obsd

; Test it with layout br for your case; it should work. > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Friedrich Locke < > friedrich.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> i have just installed obsd 6.1 amd64. My keyboard is set as "br" in >> /e

keyboard layout 6.1 obsd

Hi folks, i have just installed obsd 6.1 amd64. My keyboard is set as "br" in /etc/kbdtype and it is working 100% on the console. But when i start xenodm, it is not working for "br" ! Do you know where i should set X to start it working with "br" keyboards. Thanks in advance.

kqueue

Hi Folks, am i wrong or kqueue support for socket descriptor is limited to 2 ^ 16 open sockets ? Thanks in advance.

booting 6.1

Hi folks, i burnt and install61.iso cd and tried to boot uefi, but could not. Does anybody know this amd64 6.1 install image support booting UEFI ? Thanks in advance

Re: SSO solution in ports?

I go for ldap + sasl + kerberos. It is perfect, at least to me. Em 16/07/2009 11:52, John Almberg escreveu: I am trying to build a set of web applications that are accessed through a web portal that uses a Single Sign On (SSO) solution. Problem is, there are MANY competing SSO solutions. Since b

file systems

Hi folks, does anybody here run OBSD with a file system bigger than 10TB ? How much time boot takes to bring the system up (i mean fsck) ? Are you using ffs2 ? With softdep ? Thanks.

Limits on OBSD amd64

Hi folks, i wonder what is the maximum file system size OBSD supports using different file systems like FFS, FFS2 and ZFS ? May you clarify it to me ? Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation. Best regards.

home dirs and autofs

Hi folks, i have four harddisks in my server i use for user home directory. I would like to have an uniform access to every user directory inside my server. The four drivers mounted on on /hX where X is 0, 1, 2 or 3. But for home directories i would like an uniform access, with link to the prop

automounting home dir

I folks, is anybody here aware about how to mount user directories from multiple storage servers ? With amd, we could use a link from /home/username -> /h/server1/username and it goes l ike this. How to implement the same with autofs ? Thanks.

amd

Hi folks, i have been a little bit far from openbsd and i would like to know if it supports automounter (amd, amq, etc) utilities ? And about autofs ? Is there support to it ? Is it possible to integrate autofs with nis ? Thanks a lot.

obsd 6.1

Hi folks, i wonder if there is an obsd 6.1 cd set to order ? If not, when will it be released ? Thanks.

kqueue

Hi folks, just started to play winth kqueue and i wonder what happens if i request to add n events to the queue there is memory only for a subset of the events. Will the subset be added or the whole operation will fail ? Thanks in advance.

ordering

Hi folks, i would like to order obsd 6.1, butfrom the openbsd store i cannot see it available for ordering. May you help me ? thanks, gustavo.

Dell R930 server

What about my questions ? Thanks.

Dell R930 server

Does anybody here run openbsd on this machine ? Does OBSD "see" all the 96*128G memory available ? Thanks in advance.

trunk and vlan devices

Hi folks, i wonder if i can set a vlan above a trunk device. I have two interface: bge0 e bge1. I would to create a trunk interface using those bgeX interfaces. Once i have setted the trunk may i create a vlan on the trunk0 interface ? Thanks a lot.

forking

It does not matter what i do, i cannot fork more than +- 1900/2000 process on my system. Besides kern.maxproc what else is necessary to fork more process ? Thanks in advance. Some limits in my system: etosha# sysctl kern.maxproc=1 kern.maxproc: 1310 -> 1 etosha# sioux@etosha$ ulimit -a

fork 2k process

Hi folks, i am having problems trying to create 2k process in a very simple style. My environment is the following: sioux@etosha$ sysctl kern.maxproc kern.maxproc=1 sioux@etosha$ ulimit -a ... processes2048 sioux@etosha$ ulimit -aH ... ... ... processes 2048

mss and obsd

Hi folks, i am pinging my desktop from a obsd machine and i am very curious about the size of packet an sending. Here you have it: sioux@etosha$ ping -s 65467 gustav.cpd.ufv.br PING gustav.cpd.ufv.br (200.235.177.58): 65467 data bytes 65475 bytes from 200.235.177.58: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=12.241

uefi boot

Hi folks! I wonder if that's possible to boot obsd amd64 5.9 CD on a computer whose bios is setted to boot UEFI secure mode off. Thanks a lot.

uefi

Hi folks, i would like to know if there is anyone in this list that is running Windows and OBSD 5.9 amd 64 on the same machine with UEFI and doing, naturally, multiboot. Thanks a lot for your answer. []s fried.

dell Latitude 3540 notebook

I am trying to get OpenBSD 5.9 amd64 to install on my notebook. Butno success so far. Since my notebook is programmed to boot by means of UEFI, i did some researc on internet. I am aware obsd does support it in the secure mode off. I insertted the CD of 5.9amd64 and the only options that appear ar

obsd limits

Thanks you all for the answers and patience too. []s fred.

openbsd limits

What is the maximum partition size supported by OpenBSD ? Thanks in advance. PS: sorry if i have already sent the message, but it is not in my "sent message".

encrypting fs

Hi folks, I have a doubt related to fs encryption. May i encrypt the wd0c file system partition and have the sd0 disk fully encrypted for any one partition like a, d e f ? Thanks in advance.

obsd limits

Hi. I was wondering what is the maximum size an openbsd partition may be. May anybody clarify me ? Thanks in advance. PS: sorry if this question has been asked before.

authentication infra structure

If you had about 10k users and 5k machine how would you manage authenticating issues? Keep in mind that this is a very heterogenous environment with ldap, ftp, smtp, pop3, traditional unix boxes etc

cyrus-sasl2

Does security/cyrus-sasl2 include support for GSSAPI (I am in need of kerberos) ? Thanks in advance.

kerberos

I am a little outdated, but was heimdal removed from the bsd world or it was just moved from the base system to the ports collection ? Thanks.

kerberos

What is/are the alternative(ies) for kerberos on openbsd ? (Since is was removed from the distribution). Thanks.

problems trying to install courier-authlib

I am trying to get courier-auth lib, but i am getting the following error on package construction: (It seems to be something related to libauthsqlite*, may some one help me?) ===> Building package for courier-authlib-0.65.0p1 Create /usr/ports/packages/amd64/all/courier-authlib-0.65.0p1.tgz Erro

courier authlib

Hi folks, I am trying to get courier authlib installed into my OBSD 5.4 server system. I am issuing the following commands: # FLAVOR="no_mysql no_pgsql no_userdb" SUBPACKAGE="-ldap" make build After the ocmpilation is done, i try to make a package of it: # FLAVOR="no_mysql no_pgsql no_userdb" S

ypldap does not map users ( i am desperated)

Hi folks, i am trying to get my ypldap working with a single user entry in passwd comeing from the ldap directory. I changed the passwd file (using vipw) and add the following line: +grios:* When i issue a "id grios" on command line, i get: obsd# id grios uid=2000(grios) gid=2000(ord)

hard times with netgroup and ypldap.

Hi folks, I have implemented ypldap and it is working quite well. But i am having a hard time getting netgroups to work locally. In my user database i have adding the following entry using vipw: +@we:*/bin/ksh My netgroup file is: we (,grios,mojave) When i issue a finger command, it w

ypldap

Dear list members, i have just configured my system (yp) to retrive information on groups and users. It's working 100% ok. Now, i would like to set some netgroups. How does netgroup works with ypldap ? Thanks. fried.

high performance systems

Hi list members! I have just started to learn SDL (software and description language) and i am learning a new approach to software design. It seems and if software could be made event oriented it could increase a lot its performance. The main advantage comes to big software project, like operatin

large file system

Is there anyone using openbsd for large file systems ? For a large file system, nowadays, i mean 16 TB! Thanks on advance.

pf and nat

Hi folks, i am studying pf and a doubt arose! Since my state policy if if-bound (set state-policy if-bound) i need two rules for each traffic i want to pass. Is that understanding right ? For instance, for nat i could : pass out on tl0 from dc0:network to any nat-to tl0 pass in on dc0 from dc0

obsd pf

Hi folks. I am studying obsd pf and saw there are no more nat rules and rdr rules the old way. Now it is nat-to and rdr-to. What is the motivation for "match" rule ? Time ago, the last match for a filter rule was the winner, for the nat and rdr the first match is the winner. And now, what is it

raid

Good afternoon folks. I wonder if OBSD supports DELL RAID controller like H710/H310/etc. I am using OBSD 5.4. []s gustavo.

ffs2

Hi folks, i just want to know how to format a partition in OpenBSD for ffs2 ? May some one help me ? Thanks a lot

file system and memory limitation

Hi folks, i wonder what are the limitations on main memory and file system sizes ! Thanks a lot. gustavo.

sshd/ssh and kerberos heimdal

Hi folks. May someone tell me how do i enable gssapi and krb support to sshd/ssh ? Thanks in advance. PS: i am running OBSD 5.4

just installed 5.4

Hi folks, i have just installed obsd 5.4 and to my surprise sshd is not built with support do krb and gssapi! May some one tell me why ? Thanks a lot.

OBSD firewall+carp+vpn

Hi folks, how does carp + vpn integrate in a two server firewall ? Does carp make vpn redundant too ? Thanks in advance.

bioctl

Hi Foks! This is my first time with bioctl and raid in general. I issued the following comand: # bioctl -b 1:2.0 mfi0 and the disk started blinking ... Then i tried : # bioctl -u 1:2.0 mfi0 It is still blinking. What was my mistaken ? Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation. Fried.

OBSD 5.4 and OpenLDAP

Hi folks! I would like to setup a OpenLDAP server using OpenBSD and the ports collection. I wonder if the current OpenLDAP in the ports is still broken ? Do it supports mdb/hdb/bdb ? Thanks a lot. gustavo.

My CD Set did not arrived.

Hi folks, i did order my OpenBSD 5.4 CD Set on 2013/11/02. The people at calgary shop sent me an email saying my order was shipped on 2013/11/12. Until the present moment i did not receive any thing yet. I am writing to the mailing list because none o the email i sent to shipp...@computershop.ca

mac mini

Does anyone here run Open/FreeBSD on mac mini ? Does the OS fully supports macmini hadrwared ? Thank you for the answers. Fried.

signals under openbsd

Hi folks, i am writing a program that: 0) manages to handle sigchld signals, 1) creates 100 process 2) put the childs to sleep 1 second 3) loops (the parent process) until 100 child process have been died. It is not working, why ? Thanks for you time and cooperation. Best regards, Fried. PS:

Dell servers

Is anyone running OBSD 5.3 on Dell R*** series servers ? What about 10G etherner devices ? And Storage ? Is there any concern when buying these machines ? Thanks in advance.

OT: domain registration

Does anybody know the website of the uk domain registration ? I am lokking for the uk's entity for domain registration, not thirdies that do it too ! Thanks

obsd 5.3 and openldap

Hi folks, may someone in the list tell me if with obsd5.3 openldap supports hdb or even bdb. As far as i know, openldap in openbsd ports is broken. Thanks you all. gustavo.

openbsd hosting

Dear list members, i am in need to host my web stuff oversea. Is any aware about any hosting services with the following features: OpenBSD Shell access (as also mysql client program) MySQL database option; Java support on apache, and MySQL java support. Thanks in advance.

strange error on openbsd: program listing

Here you have it: #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct passwd *p; int e; e = errno, errno = 0; p = getpwuid(0); if (errno) { fprintf(stdout, "errno is: %u\n", errno);

strange errors on OpenBSD

Hi folks, i would like some here to run the small program in the previous email on a OBSD machine acting like a nis client. May you ? If you did it, let me know you results. []s gustavo.

Strange error on OPenBSD

As Noah Pugsley noted: it should have worked, regardless error checking code is not right. As asked: sioux@scallop$ ls -l /etc/pwd.db /etc/spwd.db -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel1220608 May 1 12:41 /etc/pwd.db -rw-r- 1 root _shadow 1273856 May 1 12:41 /etc/spwd.db sioux@scallop$ I am run

strange error on openbsd

Dear list members, I am in need to write a simple program to return the passwd entry for a given uid number. Here you have it: #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { struct passwd *p; int e; e = errno, errno = 0;

OT : different output compiler:

Hi folks! I am compiling an ansi c source code and depending on the compiler version i get error messages or not. With the following environment : lion# ./mkasd * Generating config ... * Building lib ... * Creating directories ... * Building bin ... main.c: In function `main': main.c:38: warning

php e kerberos

Hi folks, i am running OBSD 5.2 and i would like to try to connect to a kerberos server using php. In the following link http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.kadm5.php in the requirement section it is stated : "No external libraries are needed to build this extension." OBSD, apache

Disk layout: OpenBSD OT

Hi folks, just wonder in a typical hard drive nowadays (SATA/SAS), the sector 0 is in the inner or outter track ? Which tracks are faster: the inner ones or the outter ? Thanks in advance.

preventing amd from fetch files from nis server

Hi folks, i have a set of computer on my network that is configured as a nis client. The nis server is working 100% ok, and it is serving a map called amd.home. But for a particular client machine, while it should retrieve the list of users/groups/etc from the nis server i don't want it to retriev

Re: ordered OBSD cd set.

22, 2013 at 08:22:24AM -0200, Friedrich Locke wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > has anyone already had problems related to delivery of OBSD CD set ? > > It would probably help debugging the situation if you tell us where you > ordered from and to where (country or region). S

ordered OBSD cd set.

Hi Folks, has anyone already had problems related to delivery of OBSD CD set ? thanks.

Delayed deliverey

Hi folks, have anyone here already order a OBSD cd set and have them not delivered. Then you ask a a replacement cd set and by the day this new replacement is sent when original set (sent from the first time) arrives ? Thanks in advance.

Re: openldap on OBSD amd64 5.2

Hi, sounds strange. Claudio said it was borked for amd64. Are you using BDB ? Which version ? On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Vijay Sankar wrote: > Quoting Friedrich Locke : > > Hi, >> >> i am trying to get openldap running, but my experience has been not that >>

openldap on OBSD amd64 5.2

Hi, i am trying to get openldap running, but my experience has been not that good. I have built and installed from ports. I can get it up and running but as soon as qmail tries to bind into it, it begins to consume memory up to all my available memory. I asked for help in the openldap mailing lis

virtualization

Hi folks! I have a windows desktop and would like to install a virtualization software in order to have two virtual machine. I pretend to install OpenBSD on both of them. Which virtualization solution would be the best one for OpenBSD to run on ? Thanks.

trunk limits

Hi! How many network interface may i have per trunk device ? Tnx.

trunking

Hi folks! What happens if i have a trunk(loadbalance) interface setted for 2 physical interfaces and connect each physical one on different switches? Tnx

Re: 3k machines

; Puppet may useful for that many work stations. > > Are one single company using 3000 OpenBSD work stations? Cool, but I have > never heard anything like this before. > > // Johan > On Jan 1, 2013 11:15 PM, "Friedrich Locke" > wrote: > >> Hi folks, >&g

ypldap

Hi, does anybody here know if ypldap will propagate changes to the slaves servers ? Of course, i mean ypldap that comes with OBSD ! Thanks in advance

Re: OT: mailing list unix programming

It is a newsgroup, not a mailing list. What news client do you suggest in order to access it? On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas < jca+o...@wxcvbn.org> wrote: > Friedrich Locke writes: > > > Does anybody know any mailing list devoted to unix

OT: mailing list unix programming

Does anybody know any mailing list devoted to unix/posix programming ? Thanks in advance.

nfs 4

Does OBSD support NFS 4 ? If not, is there plans to do so ? Thanks in advance.

Re: openbsd clusters

Does OBSD support it? On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:02 PM, David Diggles wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 09:12:27AM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:23:12PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > But for other services i don't have now what i could use. A example: > i need > > >

bsd cloud

Hi folks, i have seen, some minutes ago, a message about cloud with BSD! I have seen announcements on cloud computing every where. What is the difference between a BSD cloud and a linux cloud ? A windows cloud and a linux cloud ? Isn't all that the new buzz word in the market ? So what would a B

openldap

Hi, i remenber when installing (after building it from /usr/ports/database/opendap) openldap the scripts in patch directory create user _openldap and the group too. Now i cannot see any reference to the user/group openldap server process will run as ? Isn't it necessary anymore ? I mean, doesn't

Re: Best Performance Server Strategy(Probably OBSD OffTopic)

Where i wrote listen i really meant accept. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Friedrich Locke wrote: > Hi folks, > > i am planning to write a simple web server. My initial ideia for this > server is that it will only serve static content. > So, i would like to have the best possi

Best Performance Server Strategy(Probably OBSD OffTopic)

Sorry for the last message. I did not finnish and hitted send wrongly.

ypserv

Does OpenBSD ypserv serve multiple nis domain simultaneously ? Thanks in advance.

nisdomains

Hi, i am learning nis and have some doubt. Users are setted within a domain, but in a netgroup the sysadmin may specify in which nisdomain the tupple is valid, correct? May i have a user, say john in a given domain moon and have a netgroup like : sysadmins (-,john,sun) That's to say the that tu

Re: strange cron behavior

Thanks a lot! It is working perfectly. On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:16:13AM -0200, Friedrich Locke wrote: > > Dear member list, > > > > i am running a backup script. When i exec it from a login shell it works > >

strange cron behavior

Dear member list, i am running a backup script. When i exec it from a login shell it works nicely altough it shows a message about a file being modified during copy to archive. The backup is performed ok, but when i schedule the script to be executed by cron, it stops executing at the first file

hardware suggestion: off topic (probably)

Dear list members, I have setted up a web server in my working environment and i was asked to install webalizer. Now my boss asked me to install a tool that "looks" at webalizer stats files and suggest a hardware capacity for that workload reported by webalizer. I dont know what to tell him. Why

Re: top res column > size column

Sorry for my mistaken, but according the manual page for the top utility, the SIZE column is: The total size of the process (the text, data, and stack segments). On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:51 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 00:30, Friedrich Locke wrote: >> I am moni

top res column > size column

I am monitoring my process using the top program. I started vim on a file with 55 lines and 939 character. Top reports the vim using 6008K of the res column and 2944K of the size column. My questions is (based on the fact that res means resident set size and size means data+stack+text of the proce

Re: strange system resource limits

is also bad design descision. I understand the facts, but Thanks. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Geoff Steckel wrote: > On 08/10/2012 06:33 PM, Vijay Sankar wrote: >> >> Quoting Friedrich Locke : >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> i have setted my syste

strange system resource limits

Hi, i have setted my system resources for a given user via login.conf, but after the user login the ulimit -a returns different values. Here is my login.conf entry: general:\ :coredumpsize=infinity:\ :cputime=infinity:\ :datasize=infinity:\ :filesize=infinity:\

ypldap

Hi folks, will ypldap serve normall files (but group and passwd) just like ypserv ? I mean: amd.home, ethers, etc . Thanks in advance.

Re: getty

n-networks.com > > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Friedrich Locke > wrote: >> >> I would like to change /etc/ttys to get, for instance: >> >> ttyC3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.192600" vt220 on secure >> >> instead of : >> >>

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