Re: HP DL360 Fan Control

2009-09-27 Thread RedShift
Mikel Lindsaar wrote: I am looking at working out how to control the fans in a HP DL360. Right now, the fans start low, but if the room gets warm, they go to high (Boeing 747) volume, and the only way to put them back down to low, is a reboot, PITA. It looks like the HP website mentions OS spec

Re: hello whiners and crybabies

2009-04-03 Thread RedShift
kytoon wrote: hello whiners and crybabies, you people make me sick. theo has a right to run obsd anyway he wants. why? he runs the project! don't like that? start coding. because that's the only thing that matters. you know, like you got anything going on in there? oh, that's right. you don't

Re: Dealing with Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware.

2009-01-26 Thread RedShift
Dieter wrote: Recovering from Seagate's problematic 7200.11 firmware. Most of you have read about the problems with Seagate's 7200.11 disks. For those of you that haven't, the firmware on many of these drives is buggy, and can "brick" the drive when powering up or rebooting the system. Thus fa

Re: looking for openbsd friendly server vendor

2008-01-28 Thread RedShift
Lord Sporkton wrote: Im about to buy a small server, mostly for personal use looking for a 1u was hoping to find some vendors that are openbsd friendly if they offer more than just i386 that is a plus as im investigating other archs as a possiblilty, any suggestions welcome this server will be

Re: HP DL320G5P doesn't boot

2007-12-21 Thread RedShift
Boris Goldberg wrote: Hello RedShift, Friday, December 21, 2007, 4:41:53 AM, you wrote: R> I've got a new DL320G5P to play with for a very short while, while I'm R> waiting for the SAS controller cable to arrive (it's supposed to have R> another OS on it, which shal

Re: HP DL320G5P doesn't boot -> Solved!

2007-12-21 Thread RedShift
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/12/21 12:58, RedShift wrote: OpenBSD 4.2 (RAMDISK_CD) #1249: Tue Aug 28 10:56:45 MDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/RAMDISK_CD The first thing to do is try a snapshot, there's no point chasing a problem which may already be

Re: HP DL320G5P doesn't boot (with disabled uhub dmesg)

2007-12-21 Thread RedShift
RedShift wrote: Hello all, I've got a new DL320G5P to play with for a very short while, while I'm waiting for the SAS controller cable to arrive (it's supposed to have another OS on it, which shall remain nameless). So I have the luxury of testing out this fine machine, but

Re: HP DL320G5P doesn't boot (with full verbose OpenBSD dmesg)

2007-12-21 Thread RedShift
Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:41:53AM +0100, RedShift wrote: Hello all, I've got a new DL320G5P to play with for a very short while, while I'm waiting for the SAS controller cable to arrive (it's supposed to have another OS on it, which shall remain namel

Re: HP DL320G5P doesn't boot [with full OpenBSD dmesg]

2007-12-21 Thread RedShift
Raimo Niskanen wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:41:53AM +0100, RedShift wrote: Hello all, I've got a new DL320G5P to play with for a very short while, while I'm waiting for the SAS controller cable to arrive (it's supposed to have another OS on it, which shall remain namel

HP DL320G5P doesn't boot

2007-12-21 Thread RedShift
Hello all, I've got a new DL320G5P to play with for a very short while, while I'm waiting for the SAS controller cable to arrive (it's supposed to have another OS on it, which shall remain nameless). So I have the luxury of testing out this fine machine, but it doesn't boot under OpenBSD. It

Re: OpenBSD supported servers ?

2007-12-20 Thread RedShift
Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:37:34PM +0530, Selva Raj wrote: Hi all, I am looking for a HP or IBM server which can run OpenBSD Operating System out of the box? we're using G5 HP DL360 and DL380 with no problems whatsoever. Note that the DL320G5P (the G5P, the newe

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread RedShift
Richard Stallman wrote: OpenBSD is by far the most free OS in the landscape. Everything that ships with it is free or else it won't be distributed with it. Yes, that's what I was told. I was also told that OpenBSD's ports system includes non-free programs. Is that accurate too?

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread RedShift
Richard Stallman wrote: It looks like some people are having a discussion in which they construct views they would find outrageous, attribute them to me, and then try to blame me for them. For such purposes, knowledge of my actual views might be superfluous, even inconvenient. However, if anyon

Re: RAID1 powerloss - can parity rewrite be safely backgrounded?

2007-09-28 Thread RedShift
Greg Oster wrote: I worry more about a hardware RAID card forgetting its configuration after a power outage than I do about parity checking in the background :) ("What do you mean these 14 disks in this 2TB hardware RAID array are now all 'unassigned'!?!?!?!". That wasn't a fun day.) Rea

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-28 Thread RedShift
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 27/06/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you make more money if your widgets break because your new widget is vastly improved. new packaging, same great defects! The best thing about computer parts randomly failing will hit us in a few years, due

Re: Failing to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] in X

2007-05-10 Thread RedShift
Alex Holst wrote: Quoting Nick Holland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [..] I tried tweaking xorg.conf like you suggested and some other things: http://a.mongers.org/x/xorg.conf http://a.mongers.org/x/Xorg.0.log Now X outputs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uh. Xorg.log mentions CRT as an active disp

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread RedShift
Marco Peereboom wrote: I have to reply to this horse shit. :-) *snip* Regarding freedom: Take the Linksys routing devices. They ship with GPL software. Taking what you said as an example, it would be OK if Linksys made proprietary changes to the free software and deliver a closed sof

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread RedShift
Claudio Jeker wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:54:03AM -0600, rc wrote: Let us know if you get this working. I would love to run OpenBSD on my switches. PF running at wire speed would be beyond awesome. Oh please. A managed switch is not even closely able to run PF especially those cheapo

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread RedShift
RedShift wrote: Hello all, I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The telnet interface can't configure everything (just basic setup, you can't even set up SNMP or VLANs) and the we

Re: running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-06 Thread RedShift
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On 4/5/07, Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Siju George wrote: > I wish somebody would design a simple hardware that has 24 or more NIC > ports ( and of course WiFi ) and processor than can install OpenBSD. > With PF then I could have a very inexpensive managed sw

running OpenBSD on switch hardware

2007-04-05 Thread RedShift
Hello all, I've got this linksys SRW2016 managed 16 port gigabit switch at home. The only problem with it, is that the firmware well eh, sucks. The telnet interface can't configure everything (just basic setup, you can't even set up SNMP or VLANs) and the webinterface only works correctly wit

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-22 Thread RedShift
Siju George wrote: Hi, http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3667201 Just for some entertainment, no troll :-) --Siju IMHO it's not a fair comparison, most linux distributions ship with alot more software than microsoft windows does, and most bugreports indicate an issue with

Re: Saving memory on small machines

2007-03-22 Thread RedShift
Kamil Monticolo wrote: The OpenBSD kernel is a bit over 5MB. I assume that gets loaded into memory and is not swappable, giving me 43MB left, which isn't a lot. You can turn off ipv6, altq if not needed, and of course lots of hardware that you don't need also. For example I have a 2 x smaller

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-03-19 Thread RedShift
Marco Peereboom wrote: If you like losing data ext3 and reiserfs work just fine. I manage to lose Linux installations pretty often by doing crazy things like rebooting. On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:41:05PM +0100, RedShift wrote: Claudio Jeker wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:48:44PM +0100

Re: OpenBSD speed on desktops

2007-03-19 Thread RedShift
Claudio Jeker wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:48:44PM +0100, Karel Kulhavy wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:36:00PM -0500, R. Fumione wrote: Hello, I am using OpenBSD on server since few years now, and I am very happy with it's easy maintenance and it's stability. I want to try on desktop,

Re: ES40 (alpha servers) available for donation in the munich area

2007-03-12 Thread RedShift
Robert Urban wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Folks, a friend is in about to scrap several ES40 Alpha servers. The approximate configuration is: - - 4x CPUs (533MHz maybe, 833 is unlikely) - - several gigs of memory (4?) - - 1 or 2 SCSI controllers these things weigh a

Re: DragonflyBSD creating a new FS

2007-02-27 Thread RedShift
Miod Vallat wrote: Since I know little about filesystems, I'm basically asking to any developper if this FS would be a good addition to OpenBSD...or the goals are way too different and it wouldn't be very useful. How can we answer your question as long as the design itself is a moving target?

Re: problem booting Supermicro PDSMA

2007-02-23 Thread RedShift
Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote: hello, We've just bought a Supermicro PDSMA motherboard and we would like to install OBSD 4.0. Specific hardware is a SATA II RAID controler, an Areca 1110. North bridge : Mukilteo E7230 South bridge : ICH7R 2 GB lan controlers on the motherboard, an Intel PRO/1000

dmesg for supermicro x7dvl-e

2007-02-14 Thread RedShift
Hello I've got a new toy today, here's the dmesg: What does this server contain? * Intel Xeon 5130 * SuperMicro X7DVL-E (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000V/X7DVL-E.cfm) No other specialities. The keyboard is connected via USB, works. Disks are attached to the SATA

Re: apache security

2007-01-26 Thread RedShift
Lars Hansson wrote: Toni Mueller wrote: To me, this currently comes down to using unique user and group ids for individual web site instances, and then chroot each server into their respective tree where the requirement for reading other people's data is to break out of the chroot first. This

Re: set obsd 3.9 as dns server

2007-01-24 Thread RedShift
Craig Skinner wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:25:13AM +0700, sonjaya wrote: Dear all i have obsd 3.9 , i want setup as dns name for my ip public and mydomain , i try follow step in openbsdsupport.org , but until now always get error lame server and etc , so where i get good tutorial about set

Re: Redundant web servers

2007-01-18 Thread RedShift
Jeff Simmons wrote: I'm setting up some auto-failover web servers (load balancing isn't needed). CARP would seem ideal for the case where a machine fails, but I'd also like to failover if httpd stops responding for some reason. Some research has shown a couple of possible solutions, but there d

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-18 Thread RedShift
Frank Denis wrote: Le Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:36:07PM -0500, Matthew Szudzik ecrivait : Adobe released Flash Player 9 for Linux today. (I know, it's not open-source, but it's sometimes hard to navigate the web without it.) http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200701/011707Fl

Re: Intel ICH8DO Raid support

2007-01-08 Thread RedShift
Tom Spencer wrote: Jonathan, Thanks for the reply, but I'm not exactly sure I understand. When you say "the disks will show up" - does that mean the individual disks, or the raid volume set? It means the individual disks will show up in /dev I'm also not sure I understand what you mean by

Re: reverse http proxy on OpenBSD (or not)?

2007-01-03 Thread RedShift
Soner Tari wrote: Hi All, On my network, ASP sites are served on a Microsoft IIS, and PHP sites are on OpenBSD Apache, and there is only one Internet connection with a single IP (all DNS records point to this IP). Since these web servers run on different hardware/IPs, I need to distribute http r

Re: OpenBSD motherboard

2006-12-29 Thread RedShift
J.C. Roberts wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2006 15:33, Anthony Hennessy wrote: I was thinking of using an Intel S3000AHLX because of their high build quality Either your personal experience with Intel mother boards is a statistical anomaly, or you've mistakenly believed the hype told by Int

Re: Commands don't work after rm -rf /*

2006-12-06 Thread RedShift
Shane J Pearson wrote: On 06/12/2006, at 12:14 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: It's the anti-unix newbie avoidance system. I propose a source change to rm that *after* it has completed removing / it then displays a dialog that "the system would prefer it if you ran windows millennium". ;) Oh man,

Re: Missile Launcher For OpenBSD?

2006-10-20 Thread RedShift
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: Does anyone have one of these? http://www.latestbuy.com.au/usb_missile_launcher.html I was wondering if this would work in OpenBSD Sam Fourman Jr. Finally, a solution to the "physical access == root access" ;-)

Re: Oldest Server you run

2006-10-12 Thread RedShift
Intel Pentium 1 166 Mhz (with mmx!) 32 MB RAM Network: 1 x fxp & 1 x ne Hard Disk: Western Digital 80 GB IDE Connection internet: 15 mbit cable http://redshift.mine.nu:8080/~glenn/phpsysinfo/ Falk Husemann wrote: Hello List! We're trying to put an old server to good use again and would like to

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel in OpenBSD

2006-10-12 Thread RedShift
David Sampson wrote: Due to the recent flair over the use of the Firefox logo, the GNU camp has decided to fork the entire project, into IceWeasel. The idea here is that they can't use the FF logo freely, so of course they must fork it. I just want to know how this is going to affect the OpenBS

Re: Version 4.0 release

2006-10-09 Thread RedShift
Theo de Raadt wrote: 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 ar

Re: [Love Letter] Functionnality vs State of mind

2006-10-04 Thread RedShift
Bruno Carnazzi wrote: Hi misc, I'd just like to say that nowadays, in free software world (real free software, not open source), from my point of view, I feel you have to choose between "featurefullness" and state of mind. By state of mind, I mean project goals and moral values. From this po

Re: The new 4.0 song(s)

2006-10-03 Thread RedShift
Yeah! This one will definitely score some chicks! Theo de Raadt wrote: We have just put up the new songs for 4.0 There are two... well, there is one for 4.0, but there is an extra song that Ty made by himself (without any input from us) specifically for the audio CD. Much to our amusement that

Re: Good Bye OpenBSD/cats

2006-10-01 Thread RedShift
Dale Rahn wrote: Sigh. It is time to say good bye to another OpenBSD port. OpenBSD/cats will no longer be supported and shortly, cats specific files will be obsoleted from the OpenBSD source tree. Cats was a nice ARM architecture to get OpenBSD started on the ARM cpu. However at this point there

Re: Do mp3 concatenation programs exist?

2006-07-15 Thread RedShift
Peter Philipp wrote: On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:09:13PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: if there were some more guys like you authenticating every minute, there'd be no chance to get authenticated in a decent amount of time. you'd be offline due do a self caused DDoS, rendering the RADIUS machines

Router with NAT and DMZ host

2006-06-01 Thread RedShift
Hi everyone I've got a simple router set up as home, replacing an old US Robotics 8000. I set up NAT translation with pf. I have the following rules: -- begin /etc/pf.conf -- red_if="ne3" green_if="fxp0" dmz_host="192.168.0.102" dmz_ports="{1024:65535}" local_public_services="{, 8080}"

Re: What does that drive access every 3 seconds?

2006-05-15 Thread RedShift
Can you show us the output of lsof? Peter Philipp wrote: Hi, I have an ibook that has a broken ata controller and thus I boot and run the OS off an USB stick. It ran fine for months on a 512 MB stick until 3.9 which increased the size (I think of the libraries) of OpenBSD, I switched to a 1 gi

Re: why is there . [dot] in default PATH?

2006-04-04 Thread RedShift
Jon Kent wrote: Hi, This one kinda supprised me. When I was looking around by new 3.8 install I noticed that in /etc/skel/.profile that PATH contains a . in it, which I found supprising as I've always assumed that this was not a sensible thing to do. I've taken it out as I'm not too happy when

Re: OpenBSD has bad security

2006-03-06 Thread RedShift
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ nslookup > www.wideopenbsd.org www.wideopenbsd.org A 129.128.5.191 > 129.128.5.191 Name: openbsd.sunsite.ualberta.ca Address: 129.128.5.191 > www.openbsd.org www.openbsd.org A 129.128.5.191 > *** insert conspiracy theory here *** Bryan Irvine wrote

Re: I can't find my scsi hard drives...

2006-03-06 Thread RedShift
Openbsd User wrote: From: Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Openbsd User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: I can't find my scsi hard drives... Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 20:13:19 +0100 (CET) On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Openbsd User wrote: > I've got two hard scsi drives in my serve

Re: X11 Demo programs

2006-02-12 Thread RedShift
Dave Feustel wrote: The source and OpenBSD executables for five X11 demo programs is now available at http://dfeustel.home.mindspring.com/e-files.zip. The programs are xkey, xspy, xwatchwin, xghostwriter, and xevact. The code and makefiles have been tweaked enough to compile and run on OpenBSD

Re: The Apache Question

2006-02-07 Thread RedShift
Wouldn't it be better then to start a spinoff project (openhttpd or something comes to mind) instead of still calling it apache httpd 1.3? Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2006/02/07 21:23, RedShift wrote: I've noticed OpenBSD still uses Apache httpd 1.3. Well, not exactly. Diff the so

The Apache Question

2006-02-07 Thread RedShift
Hi everyone I've noticed OpenBSD still uses Apache httpd 1.3. While it is good that on the OpenBSD side of things, it is maintained and there's an additional focus on security for httpd. However, sooner or later, httpd 1.3 *will be deprecated* in favor of newer versions (2.0, 2.2), and now certai

Re: Why /bin/[

2006-02-06 Thread RedShift
It's a digital phone for left-handed people. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there a file called "[" in the /bin directory of my generic 3.8 build? 144 -r-xr-xr-x 2 root bin 72128 Sep 10 15:18 [ Tim B Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: multi-port NIC cards

2006-01-02 Thread RedShift
33 Mhz * 32 bits = 1 056 000 000 bits per tick, 1 056 000 000 / 10^6 (1 megahertz = 10^6 ticks per second) = 1 056 megabits per second 1 056 / 8 = 132 megabytes per second It should actually be 100/3 Mhz. kami petersen wrote: Daniel Ouellet skrev: May be good, but the bus is PCI only if I am n

RAID on AAA-131U2

2005-12-29 Thread RedShift
Hi I've set up a RAID 0 set on two 9 GB SCSI disks, using an Adaptec AAA-131U2 controller. However, when I want to install OpenBSD on it, I get asked for which disk should be the root disk. Ofcourse, I see two disks, sd0 and sd1. This probably means that the hardware RAID on the AAA-131U2 isn

Re: cloned route gets wrong mtu

2005-12-23 Thread RedShift
Solar rays. Toni Mueller wrote: Hello, I just stumbled across a problem where a directly connected host gets a wrong MTU in his route entry in an OpenBSD 3.7 box. Network diagram: openbsd .1 -- linux .2 The two hosts are connected via Fast Ethernet which has a nominal MTU of 1500. T

Re: Hardware RNG speed

2005-12-21 Thread RedShift
I tought one of the new features of the Intel Pentium 4, was it's new real hardware-based random number generator, I remember reading about it. Also take a look at this: http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/HAVEGE1.0.html If you need alot of random numbers in a short time, you are looking f

Re: VIA fanless motherboard - NICS

2005-12-19 Thread RedShift
Does it happen on *all* fxp cards? Even on other boxes using different motherboards/CPU's? Greg Mortensen wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, martin wrote: I'm looking at a VIA motherboard with the following NICS. 3 x INTEL 82551QM & 1x 82540EM (Gigabit) Any issues with these ? (Commell LE-564 - Eden