OpenBSD on Radxa ROCK 5 ITX, RK3588 8-core CPU, Mini-ITX Motherboard

Good day misc, Has anybody been able to install OpenBSD on Radxa ROCK 5 ITX, RK3588 8-core CPU, Mini-ITX Motherboard? I see support for Radxa ROCK 5B, and I was hoping to build a custom PC based on this board and install OpenBSD ARM64 on it. Please advise on possible challenges when installing and

GNUstep back and base in OpenBSD 7.4 ARM

Hi misc, I was hoping to install GNUstep packages in ARM but it seems gnustep-back and gnustep-base are not yet available in ARM. I was under the impression that these are needed to start basic GNUstep development. Please advise what options are available to move forward. Also addressed to Sebastia

Configure and Access Keycloak

Hi everyone, Recently exploring how to configure and administer Keycloak, can somebody please point me to the resources for doing this in OpenBSD 7.4? There seems to be no man pages for this purpose. Would greatly appreciate all the help to make this work. Thank you very much.

Re: OpenBSD on M1 Mac using VMware Fusion 13

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 5:22 PM Janne Johansson wrote: > Den sön 26 nov. 2023 kl 09:03 skrev Tito Mari Francis Escaño > : > > > > Hi misc, > > I want to run OpenBSD on company issued M1 Mac through VMware Fusion 13, > > for experiments and development. > > I

OpenBSD on M1 Mac using VMware Fusion 13

Hi misc, I want to run OpenBSD on company issued M1 Mac through VMware Fusion 13, for experiments and development. I tried to use the ARM64 image but it does not seem to work, it's my first time to use non-X86 machine. Has anyone here been able to run OpenBSD on M1 Mac through VMware Fusion before?

Printing Via Wifi

Hi everyone, Can somebody please point me to the proper resources on printing through wifi? I will have an Epson L3250 and wants to print from my OpenBSD 7.3 laptop. This printer should work nicely with my office-issued Mac, and wants to use it with my personal laptop running OpenBSD. Advise would

httpd and libmodsecurity

Hi, Can somebody point me to resources on how to use libmodsecurity with httpd to create a WAF for a web application? If it's not feasible, please advise what options are there for WAF that can be used with the built-in httpd. Thank you.

OpenBSD on Thinkpad X13s ARM-based laptop

Hi everyone, Has anyone tried to install and run OpenBSD on ARM-based Thinkpad X13s? What are the challenges on making OpenBSD run on it? Thank you.

Re: CIAM recommendation

ion' anyway... > > With best regards, > Tobias > > > > > -Original Message- > From: owner-m...@openbsd.org On Behalf Of Tito > Mari Francis Escaño > Sent: Sunday, 24 July 2022 07:11 > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: CIAM recommendation > > Hi ever

CIAM recommendation

Hi everyone, Can you please recommend package(s) I can setup on OpenBSD to create a CIAM or customer identity and access management system? This is to provide SSO between enterprise applications. While it's easy to go for Linux option, I prefer to build on top of the security offered by OpenBSD fro

Re: yacc.h

file. I also tried using the y.tab.h file but it had the same error. I tried to comment out the yacc.h header, still got the same error message. On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 1:44 AM Omar Polo wrote: > Tito Mari Francis Escaño wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to build Port

yacc.h

Hi everyone, I'm trying to build Portable Object Compiler from https://sourceforge.net/projects/objc/ in OpenBSD snapshot but it keeps complaining that it can't find yacc.h so it won't push through. I have the build tools installed during initial installation, so I was wondering where the problem i

support update

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Github/Bitbucket free alternative

Hi everyone, I'm trying to develop web apps on OpenBSD but Github and even Bitbucket seems to think that only Windows and/or Linux are the platforms so I feel forced to use VS Code that runs only on those systems. Can somebody please point me to alternative free online code repository services that

support update

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Re: Permit to reprint tshirt artwork

If no response on the permit to reprint, does silence means yes? On my part there’s no plan to commercialize this and will produce nothing more than 10 shirts. Thanks so much. On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 2:54 PM Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > Good morning! > > titomarifran...@gmail.com (Tito Mar

Permit to reprint tshirt artwork

Good day, I really like the tshirt design as illustrated here: https://www.openbsd.org/images/tshirt-23.gif I bought this shirt before and I was hoping to buy at least one but as per https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html this is out of print. Can you please point me to whom I should ask permission

Default installurl and Package Source

Hi misc, I recently installed 6.8 on VM then applied errata patches. When I tried to install git, it complained that git is not in the packages-stable folder, I was pleasantly surprised. The /etc/installurl by default is http://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD, and I got error 503 on the site. Checking

Bluetooth adapter that works with OpenBSD

Hi misc, I'm building an OpenBSD desktop PC and would like to use my Royal Kludge RK71 mechanical keyboard with it via USB Bluetooth dongle. Can somebody please point me to USB Bluetooth dongles tested working with OpenBSD? Hopefully you can guide me. Thanks so much.

Recommended Mini-ITX board

Good day misc, Planning to build a small form factor PC, can somebody please recommend a mini-ITX Ryzen 5 3000 motherboard that's tested to work very well with OpenBSD? Ang gotchas I have to watch out for? Looking forward to hearing from you. Thanks so much.

OpenBSD and HP ProBook 445 G7

Good day to everyone at misc. Has anybody tried tried checking how OpenBSD worked with HP ProBook 445 G7 with Ryzen 5 or 7 4000 and Intel AX200 WLAN card? Unfortunately, being in the Philippines, I can't yet check because it's not yet available here, and I was hoping someone in the community can ve

PgTAP ports

Hi to everyone at misc, Is anyone working to create a PgTAP package from pgtap.org? I think this would be great for TDD down to the database level. Unfortunately my OpenBSD setup is running on a VM and not sure it's advisable to create and build packages using this environment. Your feedback and ad

Flask and uWSGI on OpenBSD httpd

Good day to everyone on misc, I’m trying to setup a Flask-based web application on OpenBSD 6.5 and I keep encountering mention of uWSGI in integrating it with OpenBSD httpd, but I found there were very few and vague resources online. I have already figured out what packages I should use, I used t

Tryton build fail and stdarg.h

Hello everyone, I was trying to build Tryton on 6.2 and it fails complaining that stdarg.h is not found, this is related to the libxml2. Can somebody please point me to the right direction through this? Further, what other option can I try as free and pen source ERP for OpenBSD 6.2? Looking forwa

PostgREST post in OpenBSD

Hi everyone! I'd like to ask if somebody already tried or is working on a port of PostgREST (https://github.com/begriffs/postgrest) in OpenBSD. It has a working FreeBSD port but of course I prefer it running on arguably the most secure OS on the planet. I'm not confident I can make a port on my VM

OpenSMTPD Block Email Attachments

Good day, I was looking into how to block any email with attachment for later verification and download by the recipient, would like to ask how anybody has done that with OpenSMTPD and related support packages. I have searched online for this and found no OpenSMTPD-related literature. Hope somebody

Full disk encryption by auto install

Hello everyone, Is full disk encryption via auto install script feasible? Has anyone tried this before? Maybe somebody can share pointers on what to watch out for if it's already been done. I was wondering how the full disk encryption password can be secured during auto install. Maybe somebody can

Re: new

Thanks Ingo, I think this would do for now, the important thing is our company is back on. Gratefully will work harder to contribute to further make OpenBSD known in the Philippines. By the way, our company is planning to organize OpenBSD hackathon here but not sure who to reach to, can you give me

C Compiler, Clang and Software License

I have recently read that one of the long-term concern of OpenBSD is to have a BSD licensed compiler, and Clang seems to be a sensible choice for this as it claims to be BSD licensed. However, I haven't read any expressed acknowledgement from Theo or anyone from the OpenBSD project if the Universi

no zlib from zlib.net

Good day, I'm planning to experiment modifying FirefoxOS to be based on OpenBSD instead of the default Linux kernel, and it seems we don't have the corresponding zlib from www.zlib.net. I checked on Ubuntu and they use zlib 1.2.8, this is the latest version as per zlib homepage. Can somebody please

Re: Only two holes in a heck of a long time, but why?

By easier to maintain, it means having regular task of patching the system here or there a.k.a. job security for system administrators :) On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Eric Furman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014, at 01:47 AM, Martin Braun wrote: > > The particular issue didn't compromise the web

Huawei E355 and OBSD as SMS gateway

Hello everyone, I researched online for using Huawei E355 with OpenBSD as a means to create an SMS gateway, however I did not find any reliable resource on this. Can somebody also please point me to the proper direction how OBSD can be used as an SMS gateway? I have seen many references only for Li

Re: Request for Funding our Electricity

For additional financial source, may I suggest that the project license some of their artworks? I think this has been asked for so many times before, maybe you should reconsider your stand on this. Of course Theo or the OpenBSD project as a whole, or the OBSD Foundation can define which artwork is

PHP and MongoDB package

Good day, I was trying to implement what they call the MEAN stack on OpenBSD and found that PHP doesn't (yet?) have a support library to read/write to/from MongoDB. I saw PHP with Redis is at the port.se site, hopefully Cassandra is not far behind :) Can somebody please give me pointers on this? Th

ejabberd installation and configuration guide

Good day, I'm planning to setup ejabberd on OpenBSD 5.4 for a project as proof of concept but I have no experience with XMPP stuff. Can somebody please point me to the right direction how to configure ejabberd on current OBSD. Thank you very much.

OT: OpenBSD website scores high in Google PageSpeed Insight

Check this out: http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=www.openbsd.org If OpenBSD code is very textbook-worthy, how about the high score in Google PageSpeed Insight? Whatever the OpenBSD web development crew is doing, their effort is worth praising. Keep it up guys, your work

Re: OpenBSD pxe automated install

Please read http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE and hope this helps. You'd have been told with deliberately unpleasant choice of words if next time you don't research well before asking in the list. On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Loïc BLOT wrote: > Thanks for the precision James, you con

Commercial Support for OpenBSD

Good day, I'd like to get pointers how I can list my company as offering commercial support for OpenBSD here in the Philippines on http://openbsd.org/support.html. I followed the steps provided on that link, but it seems only an automated Majordomo responds and no actual person seems to be on it. H

Re: Why I abandoned OpenBSD, and why you should too...

I was initially thinking this is a troll, but with these quotes: "...was prepping to migrate the whole of our shop, a regional ISP in the United States of America, to OpenBSD 5.3..." Pray tell what regional ISP you speak of here to earn their deserved praise or ridicule for avoiding the OpenBSD d

Build Apache Cocoon 2.1.12 on OBSD 5.3/i386

Good day, On a recent project, I was trying to build Apache Cocoon 2.1.12 from source. I have already successfully installed JRE and JDK 1.7 and already ran Tomcat 7.x on it, with the objective of building and running Apache Cocoon on it, currently without success. The message I get is as follows:

PHPUnit2 on OBSD 5.3

Good day, I was trying to setup a PHP 5.x devt environment and was planning to have PHPUnit for unit testing purposes and other test-driven devt tasks, so I installed pear-PHPUnit2 package. However when I tried to run PHPUnit, it doesn't work, there isn't even a CLI command for it. Can somebody ple

Re: Header files for C/C++ development

Since you already installed the system, you can extract comp53.tgz on / so you don't have to reinstall if I recall correctly. YMMV but hope this helps. On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote: > eatg75 writes: > > > Hi there I am 'experimenting' with OpenBSD and ponder

Re: How to Run WindowMaker and GWorkspace on OBSD 5.3

work :) On 5/19/13, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday, May 19, 2013 15:57 CEST, Tito Mari Francis Escaño > wrote: > >> Hello again Sebastian, >> As you advised I was able to successfully install most if not all the >> apps that are to be included with

Re: How to Run WindowMaker and GWorkspace on OBSD 5.3

Ustep and OpenBSD tandem, it's so cool, hope this would be one of the desktop options in OBSD. Thank you very much and look forward to help test and refine GNUstep on OBSD. On 5/19/13, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: > > On Saturday, May 18, 2013 18:06 CEST, Tito Mari Francis Escaño > w

Re: How to Run WindowMaker and GWorkspace on OBSD 5.3

Thanks for the pointers SEbastian :) I tried creating an xsession or .xsession file with those contents but they didn't work. Following your example, what I did instead was to create on the home dir the file .xinitrc with the following content: wmaker & /usr/local/bin/gpbs /usr/local/bin/gndc /usr/

How to Run WindowMaker and GWorkspace on OBSD 5.3

Good day, I tried to install OpenBSD 5.3 64-bit on VMware Workstation 9.x and so far it's working like a charm. I next tried to install WindowMaker, to override the default twm, I created an .xinitrc file on home directory with just one entry: wmaker. When I typed startx, as expected, the X window

Is there support for LEON4 SPARC v8-compatible CPU

Good day, I checked http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html and found no explicit support for LEON4: http://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/boards/gr-leon4-itx. I plan to inquire and hopefully get this board as gift in the last quarter of this year, but it doesn't seem to be explicitly supported. I go

Re: Recommended ANSI C language coding standard compliance checker

More than just using GCC, since my idea is to also consider LLVM and PCC. Thanks for the advise. Looking forward for other options, especially what the OpenBSD dev team does to ensure every file complies with the coding standard. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On Tue, 27

Recommended ANSI C language coding standard compliance checker

Good day, I'm trying to re-learn ANSI C as part of the effort to write a book for beginners or intermediate level. I'm thinking of including the use of ANSI C code compliance checker, similar to PHP CodeSniffer, that detects whether a given C program file complies with a coding standard. Can you pl

Re: Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

Alright, how about the not so old that I can buy brand new? Buying second hand leaves me at the mercy of the seller, praying it won't break just when the shop or personal warranty expires. Thanks for the advice. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 19:23,

Recommended new laptop under US$800 for OpenBSD

Good day, I'd like to seek your advise what new laptop brand and model should I buy that is fully functional (video, LAN, Wifi, sound) with OpenBSD 5.x. I searched online and found only older models. My sisters plan to give me a laptop for Christmas so I'd like to make sure I get the laptop that wo

Liferay: Sharepoint Alternative

Good day, Has anyone here tried Liferay? It's functionality reflect some of Sharepoint and I'd like to seek pointers and advise should there be gotchas I have to watch out for. Thanks in advance.

Pointers on starting X, then run browser and when it quits, automatically shutdown the computer X

Good day, My task is to design a kiosk that will only display a web browser, Firefox for now (I'd also appreciate guide on other graphical web browser) when OpenBSD boots up. When the browser quits, the whole system should shutdown as well. Can you please point me to guides how to do this? My idea

Re: Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie should be the patron saint of software development and engineering. :) On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:57 AM, OpenBSD Europe wrote: > On 13/10/11 11:32, Donald Reichert wrote: > >> Original-Nachricht >> >>> Datum: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:14:20 +0200 >>> Von: David Coppa >>>

Re: How does OpenBSD compare to Ubuntu Server?

All Linux-based distributions are hacked together like a Frankenstein monster, coming from disparate sources stitched together to build a new whole, hoping it won't fall apart anytime soon, while OpenBSD is like a finely tuned thoroughbred, it may not go first place in speed, but will deliver with

Recompile OpenBSD without built-in Apache 1.3

Good day! Is it possible to recompile the whole system while excluding the built-in Apache 1.3 web server? I was hoping to save a few more megabytes off the base installation of the system. In case it's not advisable, can you please discuss the bad side effects of doing so? Thanks in advance.

Testing OpenLDAP 2.4.23p1 on OpenBSD 4.9

Good day! I was able to install OpenLDAP 2.4.23p1 on OpenBSD 4.9, sure enough it will run as daemon when I edited /etc/rc.conf as below: ldapd_flags="" I run slaptest -u and get the complaint: unable to open file "/var/run/openldap/slapd.pid" I find that /var/run/openldap is not created, when I e

How to host multiple PHP versions

Good day. I need to setup a development web server that should host both PHP5.2.x and PHP5.3.x. Our goal is to maintain PHP5.2-based application versions while having room for growth to have ready environment for PHP5.3 web development. Can anybody please give me pointers on how this can be done? O

Re: SSH Connection Accounting

Thanks for the reply, but what I hope to find was an administrative tool rather than resource/building blocks to build such an application. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Jan Stary wrote: > On Nov 04 14:35:12, Tito Mari Francis Esca??o wrote: > > Good day! > > I'm googling for resources on SSH

SSH Connection Accounting

Good day! I'm googling for resources on SSH connection accounting and unfortunately for me, I keep bumping into Cisco-related resources online. What I need to know is how to determine the SSH connection accounting per user, like if a user is currently connected, when a user connected, how long the

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Re: OpenBSD users.

I'm from Manila, Philippines On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Mateusz Gierblinski < mateusz.gierblin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi misc@ > > I'm just wondering. Where are you OpenBSD users from? > > I'm from Belgium, anyone else? > > Take care

Re: How to Replace twm with WindowMaker

Alright, I got this solved following the guide. It turns out that I should create the .xinitrc file with the word 'wmaker' in it and that does it. Thanks for the pointers! Maybe this can be made more elaborate in the guide that user may not find that file and they can create it. On Fri, Jun 18, 20

Re: How to Replace twm with WindowMaker

Have read portions of that, thanks for pointing it out, but I need the WindowMaker-specific command. On that documentation section, it focuses on cwm as the replacement window manager. Aside from that, this is for my root user, sorry if I left that detail out, there's no .xinitrc file for it. Thank

How to Replace twm with WindowMaker

Good day! I have just installed OpenBSD 4.7 complete with the X windowing system, verified it working with the twm default window manager, and I was able to install WindowMaker. Based on the documentation from http://openbsd.org/faq/faq11.html there's a guide on how to try a new window manager, but

Re: Is it possible to build OpenBSD from source using GCC 4.x from port or packages?

Thanks for this clarification. Now I understand better. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:52:37PM +0800, Tito Mari Francis Esca??o wrote: > > What's the purpose for those packages then? > > Some packages (ports) need compiler (mis)features o

Re: Is it possible to build OpenBSD from source using GCC 4.x from port or packages?

What's the purpose for those packages then? On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Edho P Arief wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Tito Mari Francis > EscaC1o wrote: > > Does it mean it will exactly fit the purpose of the compXX.tgz package > > provided tools? > > > > different package, differe

Re: Is it possible to build OpenBSD from source using GCC 4.x from port or packages?

Does it mean it will exactly fit the purpose of the compXX.tgz package provided tools? On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Edho P Arief wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Tito Mari Francis > EscaC1o wrote: > > The problem I have in mind is that if the base system has compXX.tgz to > > contai

Re: Is it possible to build OpenBSD from source using GCC 4.x from port or packages?

The problem I have in mind is that if the base system has compXX.tgz to contain the compiler and build tools, what's the purpose or use of the gcc-*.tgz, g++-*.tgz and gobjc-*.tgz from the package list? Can you please advise me on this? Thanks! On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Philip Guenther wr

Is it possible to build OpenBSD from source using GCC 4.x from port or packages?

Hello everyone! Is it possible to build OpenBSD from source using GCC 4.x from packages? There may be some new features on the new compiler that a user wants to use and also decide to rebuild OpenBSD from source, would that be possible? Or are we to stick with the provided version 2.95.3 or 3.3.5 c

Re: Limiting CPU to a process or process group?

Maybe it would be feasible to run your ideal user space in a virtual environment (i.e. qemu), where the guest user space thinks it can use the CPU for itself when in fact it's just 50-75% of the actual machine. On Jan 14, 2008 10:27 PM, Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 14/01/2008,

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007/12/11 Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:20:00 -0800, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > I don't see a need to reconcile the two sides. (It would be good if that > was possible, though.) Unfortunately, BSD and GNU come from different perspective, hence different philosophy of what

OBSD Functionality ala DTrace

One of the most developer- and sysadmin-friendly tools in Solaris is DTrace (dynamic tracing framework), enabling one to troubleshoot or observe the system's behavior and performance in real-time. However, I'm not sure if Sun's CDDL is BSD-friendly, and how feasible is it to implement. Having a fre

Re: To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

I have already found a resolution on this, I'll continue with creating an OpenBSD DVD, since I believe the custom-built distro would enable people in my country to reap the benefits of the software, but without using any OBSD artwork. As for donating to the OBSD project, of course I want to give b

Can OpenBSD perform hard/soft real-time functions?

I tried googling for real-time computing with OpenBSD and all I found was reference to RTMX. In http://openbsd.org/products.html, it read: They (RTMX) have graciously donated the source code for these extensions, and these changes will be integrated into OpenBSD soon. In http://archives.neohapsis.c

To whom can I direct email for artwork use permission pls?

I plan to prepare and produce a DVD version of 4.2 when available this November, complete with the packages, and I'd like to use some artworks as graphics, if not a basis for a custom-made one, for the DVD. Therefore, may I pls know to whom can I direct email to ask for permission to use them? IIRC

Are Atheros AR5005G Wifi Network Adapter and Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller supported?

Greetings! I need to know if Atheros AR5005G Wifi Network Adapter and Marvell Yukon 88E8038 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller are already supported in OBSD 4.0 or will be in the next release. I bought me a laptop built-in with these and I'd love to have OpenBSD on it rather than any other OS. Thanks!

GNUstep and OpenBSD 4.0

Greetings! I'm aware that there's a GNUstep port for 3.9 and I'd like to ask if this can also be insalled into the latest release of OpenBSD (4.0 as of this writing). Pls provide me pointers about it. Thank you very much!

Is Compaq Presario C501 supported?

I found this affordable laptop model here in the Philippines and I really wish to have OpenBSD in it. I'd like to ask the list if this particular model is supported before my meager budget is wasted on a useless hardware. Thank you very much!

Support for TV Tuner Card

I looked into the compatible hardware for OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware but unfortunately did not find support for philips SAA713x-based TV Tuner card. Is there a support for this? What other supported TV Tuner cards are there? If I recall right, Hauppage and Brooktree are exp

IRC Server Setup and Configuration HowTo

Good day! In our office we use irc-hybrid on CentOS4.4 as IRC server. I plan to use OpenBSD 3.9 as my test IRC server with the provided irc-2.10.3p1 package. Can anybody on the list provide me with pointers to howto's how to configure this IRC server in OpenBSD? You're help would be very much ap

DVD to distribute OpenBSD Packages (Re: about signing OpenBSD packages)

On 9/1/06, Madars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...I do trust the packages that are on the CDs, but as space is limited, you can't put all of them there. Does the OpenBSD project consider the use of DVD to distribute the package set on a per architecture basis? IMHO can be in line with the project'

Invisible firewall and gateway in one box, is it possible?

I once setup an invisible (transparent) firewall and gateway, but on two separate boxes. Is it possible to setup invisible firewall and gateway in one box? My idea is to use four (4) NICs, the first two (2) for the invisible firewall bridge, then the output is connected to the third (which serves

Alternative superuser aside from root

Is it possible to replace root with another username as superuser? This could make the system very secure because when it comes to BSD/Unix/Linux, the root is the most coveted user account. That is, hackers would all be barking the wrong tree if the real superuser is actually another username. I

Email Monitoring on Gateway

Good day! Is there a way to monitor emails going out thru a pf firewall/gateway server going into an external email server? I have deployed a firewall/gateway server using 3.9. Pls. point me to pointers how this can be possible. Thank you very much!

Japanese language support

How can I enable Japanese language support in 3.8? How will my applications be enabled to have it? I plan to setup a basic installation with only Firefox and Windowmaker. Thanks! -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaqo Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent

Specifically supported Dual x86 CPU Servers

In my old company, I would have wanted to implement the web server in OpenBSD for security and performance reasons, but that ASUS AP1600 dual Xeon server just won't run even the install disk. Unfortuantely, there's no definite list of servers fitting this criteria; worse, I checked the internal co

OpenBSD on Sun x64 Servers?

Can OpenBSD (at least v3.8 or the latest release) run on Sun's AMD64-based SunFire x64 servers? Thanks! -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaqo Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent

/var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

I got me a 3.8 box as gateway with bash as root's default shell. The pf logs filled up the /var partition and bash complained about not being able to load libiconv which I believe is a dependency of bash. With the failure of loading libiconv, I can't login on the gateway box and I can't login remo