Re: vmm/vmd users running Alpine 3.21 guests

2024-12-10 Thread Dave Voutila
izzy Meyer writes: > On Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:13:03 -0500 > Dave Voutila wrote: > >> Just a heads up, if you use vmm_clock[1] and virtio_vmmci[2] kernel >> modules that I maintain, you'll need to pull the latest. >> > > > Great work! I just tried this out on my laptop with a Devuan 5 VM and a >

Re: Sizing a server for modest web/mail ?

2024-12-10 Thread Implausibility
> On Dec 10, 2024, at 3:40 PM, Mike Fischer wrote: > > For a low-traffic site that should be fine. > > The actual disk footprint depends on your needs of course. Only you know what > those are. How big are your DocumenRoot directories, databases and mailboxes? The only large-ish site (30GB)

Disk encryption on cloud servers...

2024-12-10 Thread Implausibility
Second question of the day... Is the key to an OpenBSD (7.6) encrypted disk stored 'in the clear' in RAM? Or is the key somehow obscured while in memory? My security needs for web server with a few blogs and personal eMail is relatively low, and my goal here is to be 'better than average' in c

Re: Disk encryption on cloud servers...

2024-12-10 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 21:19:17 +0100, Implausibility wrote: > > Is the key to an OpenBSD (7.6) encrypted disk stored 'in the clear' in > RAM? Or is the key somehow obscured while in memory? > How do you see the use of these keys if they are stored in an encrypted way? > My security needs for web

Re: Sizing a server for modest web/mail ?

2024-12-10 Thread Mike Fischer
> Am 10.12.2024 um 21:59 schrieb Implausibility : > > >> On Dec 10, 2024, at 3:40 PM, Mike Fischer wrote: >> >> For a low-traffic site that should be fine. >> >> The actual disk footprint depends on your needs of course. Only you know >> what those are. How big are your DocumenRoot director

Re: large file system issues and rescue questions

2024-12-10 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 09:10:51PM +0200, Divan Santana wrote: > Greetings and happy December :) > > I have a 3.5TB ffs mounted at /data which is specified in fstab. > > When there is a power outage this file system corrupts (I'll install > another UPS shortly). > > Is it possible to fsck_ffs a

Re: Sizing a server for modest web/mail ?

2024-12-10 Thread Janne Johansson
> It will serve myself and a few friends, mostly some very small, relatively > low-traffic WordPress sites, a Wiki, YourLS, a few static sites, and a mail > server. > I'm wonder if there's a way to estimate if the server I have will meet the > needs of these sites -- the stack I'm using is vanil

Re: vmm/vmd users running Alpine 3.21 guests

2024-12-10 Thread izzy Meyer
On Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:13:03 -0500 Dave Voutila wrote: > Just a heads up, if you use vmm_clock[1] and virtio_vmmci[2] kernel > modules that I maintain, you'll need to pull the latest. > > Folks in Linux Land decided to twiddle some of the API surface area > forcing me to add yet another block of

large file system issues and rescue questions

2024-12-10 Thread Divan Santana
Greetings and happy December :) I have a 3.5TB ffs mounted at /data which is specified in fstab. When there is a power outage this file system corrupts (I'll install another UPS shortly). Is it possible to fsck_ffs a 3.5TB file system from the boot rescue environment? When I've tried before I'v

Re: httpd (does not) delivers (obsolete) html file

2024-12-10 Thread Tim Hoddy
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 05:46:35AM +0100, Sylvain Saboua wrote: > Regularly I make minor [ae]d?ditions to my static html files. > > Afaik the browser needs to manually refresh the file in order to > display the latest version. > > Am I doing something wrong or is there a workaround ? You can us

Re: Sizing a server for modest web/mail ?

2024-12-10 Thread Mike Fischer
> Am 10.12.2024 um 21:09 schrieb Implausibility : > > I'm wonder if there's a way to estimate if the server I have will meet the > needs of these sites -- the stack I'm using is vanilla 7.6 plus MySQL, Nginx, > PHP8.3+FPM, and OpenSMTPd. The hardware is two-cores of Intel CPU @ 3Ghz, > 4GB R

Re: large file system issues and rescue questions

2024-12-10 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2024-12-10, Divan Santana wrote: > Greetings and happy December :) > > I have a 3.5TB ffs mounted at /data which is specified in fstab. > > When there is a power outage this file system corrupts (I'll install > another UPS shortly). > > Is it possible to fsck_ffs a 3.5TB file system from the bo

Re: large file system issues and rescue questions

2024-12-10 Thread Kirill A . Korinsky
On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:10:51 +0100, Divan Santana wrote: > > Secondly question, is it possible from the rescue environment to edit > the real /etc/fstab file? Because it would be handy for me in some > cases to do so without booting from the install image. > I just double checked bsd.rd from am

Sizing a server for modest web/mail ?

2024-12-10 Thread Implausibility
Hi. I'm closing my office next month, and as a result I'm losing my fibre line and static IPs. I've built a VM in a major cloud provider's datacentre, and managed to install OpenBSD 7.6. It will serve myself and a few friends, mostly some very small, relatively low-traffic WordPress sites, a

trying to bring a raid5 back online after failure

2024-12-10 Thread Divan Santana
Greetings :) I have a raid1 and raid5 array. The raid1 is for the OS and has no issues. The raid5 has been offline since a kernel panic and reboot. I see this in dmesg root@cephas:~# dmesg |grep sd6 softraid0: trying to bring up sd6 degraded softraid0: sd6 was not shutdown properly softraid0:

Re: Sizing a server for modest web/mail ?

2024-12-10 Thread Michael
I run a similar suite of servers on a Vultr VPS with 1 GB of RAM, running OpenBSD of course. I have had no problems. On 12/10/24 03:09PM, Implausibility wrote: > Hi. > > I'm closing my office next month, and as a result I'm losing my fibre line > and static IPs. I've built a VM in a major clo