Re: swap encryption Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-15 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:02:42PM +0100, knitti wrote: > swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you > advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less > maintenance headaches. > > an yes, don't complain about being reminded that this is not a > netbsd / linux suppor

Re: swap encryption Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-14 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:02:42PM +0100, knitti wrote: > Gilbert, Douglas, > > swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you > advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less > maintenance headaches. besides, since a few releases it has been enabled by default.

swap encryption Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-14 Thread knitti
Gilbert, Douglas, swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less maintenance headaches. an yes, don't complain about being reminded that this is not a netbsd / linux support list. --knitti

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:59:21PM -0800, Jake Conk wrote: > > Anyways I don't want to get caught up in that but thanks for your help > Gilbert, it solved my problem :) You wouldn't happen to know what is > the equivalent to this for linux machines would you? Here's my /etc/fstab entry from m

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-09 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Jake Conk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ultimately it doesn't really matter but I love top posting because it > goes with the flow of using email. That is a discussion which has been beaten to death too many times to matter. One of the better summaries of the pros and cons of various posting an

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-09 Thread Jake Conk
Ultimately it doesn't really matter but I love top posting because it goes with the flow of using email. Usually when people hit reply they start toping at the top of the email, not the bottom just because thats about how most of the world uses email and you can keep the other email replies

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Jake Conk
Yeah as great as OpenBSD is for some reason there are tons of idiots on this mailing list that like to get pissed off at you for stupid things. For instance, I never knew there was a difference between top/ middle/and bottom posting! When I first joined this mailing list I got flamed so hard

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Greg Thomas
On Dec 7, 2007 4:56 PM, Antoine Jacoutot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: > > c'est hallucinant de voir que l'un des meilleur os > > disponibles rassemble autant de connards pretentieux > > qui ont rien d'autre a fouttre que d'emmerder les > > gens qui tente

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: c'est hallucinant de voir que l'un des meilleur os disponibles rassemble autant de connards pretentieux qui ont rien d'autre a fouttre que d'emmerder les gens qui tentent d'apporter de l'aide aux autres. vous avez que ca a fouttre bande de cons. Go a

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:28:27PM -0800, Greg Thomas wrote: > So why bother posting that??? on my laptop i use screen. every machine i use (netbsd, openbsd, debian..) has its console there, so i can talk to each machine and each os from one machine with ease. when i did post that line, i thought

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Greg Thomas
On Dec 7, 2007 4:08 PM, Gilbert Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:02:15PM -0800, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > > In my fstab I have : > > > > > > /dev/cgd0b noneswap sw 0 0 > > > > and you are not running openbsd. > > the machine which is hosting mutt is no

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 04:02:15PM -0800, Ted Unangst wrote: > > In my fstab I have : > > > > /dev/cgd0b noneswap sw 0 0 > > and you are not running openbsd. the machine which is hosting mutt is not my soekris is (openbsd 4.2) the chmod should do the trick (1777) -- unzip ; str

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Ted Unangst
On 12/7/07, Gilbert Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my fstab I have : > > /dev/cgd0b noneswap sw 0 0 and you are not running openbsd.

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread K K
On Dec 7, 2007 5:06 PM, Jake Conk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I have it so that anyone can write to the directory when the > computer starts up? The answer to your question is in "man mount_mfs": "If the -P file option is not used, the owner and mode of the created mfs file syste

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:06:05PM -0800, Jake Conk wrote: > Ok so I added that entry and it worked fine except for one problem and that > is root only had permissions to write to that directory so some services > did not start up properly. I then gave the /tmp directory 0777 with chmod > and r

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Jake Conk
On Dec 7, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:57:47PM -0800, Jake Conk wrote: I want to put my /tmp partition in RAM and I got the following example from the fstab's man page: swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=153600 0 0 The problem is that I don't want to

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 10:18:24PM +, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:57:47PM -0800, Jake Conk wrote: > > > I want to put my /tmp partition in RAM and I got the following example > > from the fstab's man page: > > > > swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=153600 0 0 > > >

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:57:47PM -0800, Jake Conk wrote: > Hello, > > I want to put my /tmp partition in RAM and I got the following example > from the fstab's man page: > > swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=153600 0 0 > > The problem is that I don't want to have any swap in RAM, only my /tm

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-07 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 01:57:47PM -0800, Jake Conk wrote: > I want to put my /tmp partition in RAM and I got the following example > from the fstab's man page: > > swap /tmp mfs rw,nodev,nosuid,-s=153600 0 0 > > The problem is that I don't want to have any swap in RAM, only my /tmp > partit