Re: syslog-ng on OpenBSD 5.9

2016-07-12 Thread Nathan Wheeler
With the changes in 5.6 using sendsyslog(2), only syslogd picks up local syslog. Search the openbsd-ports list for syslog-ng to see some comments on it.

Re: Unable to sufficiently clean up softraid metadata

2015-12-01 Thread Nathan Wheeler
I have a similar sort of setup during installs and I clear out the first 10m before setting up the CRYPTO disk and it works for me. I don't think you're zeroing out enough at the beginning of the disk. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c bs=10m count=1 On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Patrik Lundin wro

Re: Mixing auto_install with softraid0 hdd encryption

2015-11-14 Thread Nathan Wheeler
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:37 PM, szs wrote: > I have been playing around with auto_install today, hugely satisfying seeing > your system install in less than two mins! > > I wondering if anyone has any experience mixing this with disk encryption with > bioctl? > > I'm thinking that it may take som

Re: installboot with amd64 root on softraid crypto, NOT 'a' partition

2015-11-08 Thread Nathan Wheeler
I ran into this exact same issue when I was trying to create a rollback install with CRYPTO for a sort of appliance I develop/manage for my company. We only have remote access with console and remote hands aren't easy to get so when upgrading it'd be nice to have a rollback in case something happen

Re: OpenBSD + OptiPlex 320 = frozen clock?

2015-01-02 Thread Nathan Wheeler
Try changing the value for the sysctl variable "kern.timecounter.hardware"? Its just a guess, but its helped me when I had problems with the clock before. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 7:47 AM, John Merriam wrote: > Hello. I have a strange issue with OpenBSD on my Dell OptiPlex 320. The > clock doesn'

Stop console logging during install

2014-12-22 Thread Nathan Wheeler
I'm trying to create an appliance like install and want to stop logging to console. So this is during the install process, not a normally running machine. I know this is very useful information, but this would definitely be nice to disable for a bit. In particular when running bioctl to setup a so

Re: Hide VM data from customer

2014-12-10 Thread Nathan Wheeler
Tim, I didn't even think about just using another disk. That's the simpler solution by far, but does come with some drawbacks. A very small partition or disk by itself is pretty conspicuous, and wouldn't be very hard to figure out what its for. It also does make our install a bit more complex. We

Re: Hide VM data from customer

2014-12-10 Thread Nathan Wheeler
Eric, thats an interesting way to do it. Though I think it would take more changes in the system than we'd like to implement. I was actually able to get full disk encryption to work without entering the passphrase. I edited softraid.c (http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/i386/sta

Re: Hide VM data from customer

2014-12-09 Thread Nathan Wheeler
s eyes, I don't need to stop someone really determined. I just want to make sure there isn't some standard way to obfuscate partitions/data in VMs used as appliances. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 11:38 AM, John Merriam wrote: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2014, Nathan Wheeler wrote: > >> Hi eve

Hide VM data from customer

2014-12-09 Thread Nathan Wheeler
Hi everyone, We use OpenBSD currently on physical hardware and manage it in our customers location. We want the option to give out VMs to host on customer premises and we'll still manage the VM (but not the VM platform). The problem is not letting the customer access to our proprietary data as th