sasyncd peer

2007-12-12 Thread Tom Bombadil
Hi all... Is there any side effect of having both local and remote IPs in the peer directives in sasyncd.conf? For example: server1: 10.0.0.2 server2: 10.0.0.3 carp:10.0.0.1 So, can I have in both sasyncd.conf: --- peer 10.0.0.2 peer 10.0.0.3 --- The idea is to avoid different configurat

Re: Bernstein puts qmail in public domain

2007-12-03 Thread Tom Bombadil
> exim is an insecure piece of shit that makes old sendmail look good. > besides, it is not free. Curiosity here since we are exim users... what makes it insecure? Should we be really worried about running it? Cheers, g.

ibgp

2007-12-03 Thread Tom Bombadil
Greetings... We are trying to use a couple routers with carp and uplinks with 2 different providers. One router as master and another one slave. The slave getting all the routes from the master using IBGP. The problem is that when I bring to interface of the master down to test if the failover wo

Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Bombadil
> net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen defines how many packets can be queued in the IP > input queue before further packets are dropped. Packets comming from the > network card are first put into this queue and the actuall IP packet > processing is done later. Gigabit cards with interrupt mitigation may spit >

Re: Speed Problems

2007-09-26 Thread Tom Bombadil
Hi Claudio... What does 'net.inet.ip.ifq.maxlen=256' do for us? Tried a few 'man', and a few google searches and I wasn't very successful. Found tons of other posts telling ppl to bump up that sysctl, but never found what it does exactly. Cheers, g.

Re: list of all files in the filesystem

2007-09-11 Thread Tom Bombadil
YES! That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a lot Todd! Todd C. Miller wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > so spake Tom Bombadil (grlists): > >> I guess this is a stupid question... >> >> But is there any way to get a list of all files in

list of all files in the filesystem

2007-09-07 Thread Tom Bombadil
I guess this is a stupid question... But is there any way to get a list of all files in the filesystem without using 'find'? For a big drive with millions of small files, running find is just too slow. Thanks for any hint.

Re: spamd DB_SCAN_INTERVAL

2007-08-31 Thread Tom Bombadil
> Probably Bad things. Oh-oh... I increased it to 2 minutes. Thing are a bit better now. > Shouldn't be. What rev of openbsd are you running this spamd box on? > I run it on a single ide drive, I'm probably bigger than your site. Really? We get mail for different companies... Even t

spamd DB_SCAN_INTERVAL

2007-08-30 Thread Tom Bombadil
Hi all... What happens if we change "#define DB_SCAN_INTERVAL 60" to 600 in /usr/src/libexec/spamd/grey.h? Sorry, I'm no C coder... Basically we just want to spread out table scans for now until we get new hardware in, because it's fairly heavy on an single IDE drive. Does DB_SCAN_INTERVAL have

Re: msk2: phy failed to come ready

2007-08-29 Thread Tom Bombadil
>> This is a pretty staple Dell 1750, with two extra dual-port syskonnects. > >> ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 8 pa 0xfec0, version 11, 16 pins >> ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 8 >> ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 9 pa 0xfec01000, version 11, 16 pins >> ioapic1: misconfigured as api

msk2: phy failed to come ready

2007-08-29 Thread Tom Bombadil
Well... I guess I'm the unluckiest man on earth: Aug 28 21:55:59 van-fw1 /bsd: msk3: watchdog timeout Aug 28 21:56:00 van-fw1 /bsd: msk2: phy failed to come ready Aug 28 21:56:31 van-fw1 last message repeated 77 times Aug 28 21:58:32 van-fw1 last message repeated 297 times Aug 28 22:00:00 van-fw

Re: bge0: watchdog timeout

2007-08-29 Thread Tom Bombadil
> The 5704 has a particularly crappy DMA controller. This might be the usual > problems of the bge hardware. Not only does it support only one DMA transfer > in parallel, it also jams for some times, and if it has a particularly bad > day, it jams the bus, too. > > There might be a description on

bge0: watchdog timeout

2007-08-29 Thread Tom Bombadil
Greetings... I'm getting a few "bge0: watchdog timeout -- resetting" errors on 4.1-stable The box becomes unresponsive for a minute or so, and then comes back to life. Any hints? Thanks, g. # dmesg OpenBSD 4.1-stable (GENERIC.MP) #0: Mon Aug 27 11:04:17 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sy

syskonnect SK-9E22

2007-08-27 Thread Tom Bombadil
Greetings all... We bought a SK-9S22 (pci-x) card a while ago, and even though 'man msk' listed it as working on 4.0, it actually didn't work. So, now we are thinking about a SK-9E22 (pci-e) for another box, and we think we should ask if this model is working on 4.1 before actually spending any m

Re: spamd - 250 return text

2007-08-07 Thread Tom Bombadil
As far as I understand from them, the sysadmin was showing the defer to his boss using a telnet session, and the boss got pissed off, because they are actually very diligent about their spam policies. Anyways, I just wanted to know if it there was another way to change the 250 messages without cha

Re: spamd - 250 return text

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Bombadil
> Editing the binary? (Is recompiling really so hard?) Not hard, just changed it right now... But sometimes it pays to ask around to see if there is a simpler way that doesn't involve messing around with the original source code. > Ah, you'll be looking for the OpenBSD Corporate Edition - with su

spamd - 250 return text

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Bombadil
Hi all, Short of recompiling spamd, is there any undocumented way of changing the 250 responses from spamd? - 250 Hello, spam sender. Pleased to be wasting your time. - 250 You are about to try to deliver spam. Your time will be spent, for nothing. "man spamd" and a quick search in the ML archiv

Re: Announcing: The OpenBSD Foundation

2007-07-26 Thread Tom Bombadil
Money just spoils the weak in character. Lack money is what spoils everything ;) Gregory Edigarov wrote: > BEST OF THE LUCK, GUYS!!! > > DON'T LET THE MONEY TO SPOIL EVERYTHING!!! > > HOPE ON YOU!

LACP

2007-05-02 Thread Tom Bombadil
Hi all... is there any support for LACP on openbsd? On any plan to have it working? A quick read on trunk(4) doesn't look very promising, but I read an interview on onlamp a while ago saying it would be available sometime. Thanks!

Re: a few questions on spamdb

2007-03-08 Thread Tom Bombadil
> I'm currently going in to test some new stuff that > will fix this problem. so as theo said. wait a few days.. damn... you guys rock! Will it be something in the lines of pfsync? Cheers

a few questions on spamdb

2007-02-28 Thread Tom Bombadil
I wonder how people are coping with master downtime when using spamd? Is it a good idea to regularly dump into a file, rsync it to the backup carp server, and load these IPs in a separate table? I was thinking of lowering "whiteexp" on spamd as well (to have a leaner DB) >From what I gather from

Re: spamd-white

2007-02-28 Thread Tom Bombadil
Thank you all for the input. jared r r spiegel wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:44:05PM -0700, Bob Beck wrote: >> * Tom Bombadil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-02-27 15:09]: >>> Greetings... >>> >>> By any chance, will spamd delete any IPs that I ad

spamd-white

2007-02-27 Thread Tom Bombadil
Greetings... By any chance, will spamd delete any IPs that I add manually to spamd-white? spamd(8) says: "spamd regularly scans the /var/db/spamd database and configures all whitelist addresses as the spamd-white pf(4) table." How exactly does spamd configure spamd-white table? The objective i

Re: Wanted: OpenBSD Systems Administrator

2007-01-03 Thread Tom Bombadil
> Here, here! I agree with Diana! Now go away with your silly questions! > Why would anyone want to work for you? E... unemployement?

Re: Wanted: OpenBSD Systems Administrator

2007-01-02 Thread Tom Bombadil
The just guy sent one single e-mail asking if a bsd user wanted a job, which I bet many among us might be interested. A bit off topic, yes but if that doesn't apply to someone, bitching just creates more noise... As it is clearly stated in that page: "Complaining about and commenting upon spam on

dual port syskonnect gigabit card

2006-12-20 Thread Tom Bombadil
Hey all... We got a few SysKonnect SK-9S22 dual port cards, and they don't work under 4.0, nor under stable (as of 19/12/2006). We got these cards because it was listed in the msk(4) manual pages: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=msk&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+4.0&arch=i386&fo

carp weirdness

2006-09-15 Thread Tom Bombadil
Greetings all... This was probably discussed before, but I couldn't really find anything in the archives. 1) We have a carp0 interface with a few aliases in it, and carp works fine between master (SERVER-A) and backup (SERVER-B)... until... 2) ... we plumb a another new alias into SERVER-B's carp

Re: broadcom

2006-09-11 Thread Tom Bombadil
mm... I thought it was to save ~500K in the kernel: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#Optraid Is there any other reason? Cheers Marco Peereboom wrote: > RAIDFrame is disabled in GENERIC for a reason you know. > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 10:08:48AM -0700, Tom Bombadil wrote: &g

Re: broadcom

2006-09-11 Thread Tom Bombadil
Yes... I agree with with you... not really my decision at the time, since I didn't work here... but I guess the thought was that RaidFrame would provide more uptime in case of multiple harddrive failures, and not really data protection. Thanks Daniel Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Tom Bombad

Re: broadcom

2006-09-09 Thread Tom Bombadil
Unfortunately we cannot provide a bug report for now, because we set ddb.panic=0 because those boxes are in production, and were having the same panic at the exact same time... So, no debugger for now or else I'll get myself fired :) We are trying to convince the boss to order a box with completel

broadcom

2006-09-08 Thread Tom Bombadil
Hi all, This subject always comes up in the list, but due to the evolving nature of the the driver, we (non-developers) always have to keep bugging people about it. How's the status of the broadcom bge(4) drive? Is it stable and fast enough? Many of the big server makers (HP, sun, etc) seem to