Re: Dell PowerEdge R410 not booting 6.4

Why are so many people lining up to die on the "One big root partition" hill?  Partition your disks for fuck's sake, or if you are too lazy to do that, just let the installer do it for you.  And, no, it doesn't "just work", it doesn't, it just hasn't broken yet. Also, both install.i386 and instal

Re: Thinkpad T430

On 10/30/2018 11:51 AM, leroy jordan wrote: Hello, I have a question about the config, A. and the BIOS setup if any for obsd6.4, please point me in the right direction. Also, is it possible to activate Sim, as I don't trust public Wi-Fi. Thank you very much Leroy Jordan I'm running a T430.

Re: spamd and google smtp ips

On 11/4/2018 2:25 PM, Mik J wrote: Hello Peter, Thank you for this article. Do you know why, and particularly Microsoft, use very random IPs to send mails. In that way, they make greylisting not as reliable as it should be. We could all use greylisting if google or microsoft would use the sam

Re: 6.4 - Unable to boot after successfully installed

On 11/5/2018 8:24 AM, Luthing wrote: Hello there, I'm facing a strange issue and I need help to fix it. I created a bootable USB key using Rufus3.3 (Windows) and I successfully installed OpenBSD 6.4 on my Dell server. After the installation is done, I cannot boot on my system... I can see th

Re: spamd and google smtp ips

On 11/4/2018 3:06 PM, Mik J wrote: Thank you Peter for this opinion. Misc User, these gmail, live, yahoo spams you're talking about are really comming from IP addresses that belong to them ? Because on my side it seems it's not the case. In my greylist right now I have ros

Re: Cannot mount install.fs disk image to create custom auto_install.conf based USB flash drive

On 11/11/2018 1:28 PM, Andrew Lemin wrote: Hi list, I really need some help mounting an install.fs disk image, and hope someone can help :) I have been trying and failing to create an auto-installing USB flash drive for OpenBSD. All of the below steps are being performed using an existing OpenBS

Re: Missing LVM (Logical Volume Manager)

On 11/17/2018 10:53 AM, Predrag Punosevac wrote: On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 01:35:05AM +0100, Willi Rauffer wrote: Hello, we want to make one logical volume out of several physical volumes, but there is no \ LVM (Logical Volume Manager) in OpenBSD! Will there be a LVM in OpenBSD in the future?

Re: Missing LVM (Logical Volume Manager)

On 11/18/2018 2:54 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-11-17, Misc User wrote: I concur, software raid is a bug, not a feature, especially since if you truly need RAID, hardware cards are fairly cheap. Never had a RAID controller die? I've had plenty die, but the number of HW raid

Re: With all this CPU/hardware mess, any advice on what to use for an organization?

On 11/20/2018 8:43 AM, Chris Bennett wrote: I am almost certainly going to be replacing with a new server for an organization I am a member of. With all of this mess with Meltdown, Spectre, insecure motherboard chips,etc. I am pretty clueless on exactly what is going to be a secure set of server

Re: Supermicro X7SPA-HF D510 and OpenBSD

On 11/22/2018 6:13 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2018-11-22, Radek wrote: Hello, does anybody run OpenBSD 6.3/amd64 or 6.4/amd64 on SUPERMICRO X7SPA-HF D510? Does it work well together? I need to build a backup server (rsync only) with 2-3x 4TB HDD, 3U/4U Rack case for better cooling. RAID i

Re: With all this CPU/hardware mess, any advice on what to use for an organization?

On 11/22/2018 12:56 PM, Chris Bennett wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 09:55:35AM -0600, Boris Goldberg wrote: Hello Chris, There is something extremely weird going on around lately. People are easily take offense where no offense where intended (and hard to find anyway). Nick was just telling

Re: Thinkpad T430 random power off while sleeping

On 12/4/2018 2:12 PM, Charles A Daniels wrote: Closing the lid on the T430 causes OpenBSD to suspend, as per my setting for machdep.lidaction=1. This usually works as expected, but occasionally I take my laptop out of my bag to find it sitting on the xenodm login screen, not suspended, with the l

Re: Advice on Security Cameras

On 1/1/2019 9:46 AM, Elias M. Mariani wrote: Hi list, I'm thinking in installing some cameras in my private home, I have been looking for solutions, my concern is that I wish to be able to look the videos from outside the house and I'm a little paranoid about the quality of the software that the

Re: Experiences with single mode fibre on OpenBSD ?

On 1/2/2019 12:12 PM, Rachel Roch wrote: Hi, I see the man pages mention the odd SM fibre NIC, which is a good start. However I could do with some real-world feedback from people in terms of the SM NICs they're using and any other experiences with SM on OpenBSD. Thanks ! Rachel There shou

Re: mount_ffs Permission denied as root

On 1/2/2019 4:21 PM, myml...@gmx.com wrote: On 1/1/19 10:02 PM, Philip Guenther wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 6:27 PM myml...@gmx.com mailto:myml...@gmx.com>> wrote:     I just did a new install of current AMD64 from the 12/31/2018     snapshot     and having some pe

Re: Blocking "shodan.io" - What are my options?

On 1/3/2019 3:06 PM, Jordan Geoghegan wrote: Hello, I wrote a small script called 'pf-badhost' to block shodan and other annoyances via pf firewall. Check out www.geoghegan.ca/pf-badhost.html to see the script. pf-badhost also blocks ssh bruteforcers and other annoyances by loading a list o

Re: Blocking "shodan.io" - What are my options?

On 1/3/2019 11:20 PM, Radek wrote: A little ncat, sed, pfctl, and a dash of cron are able to do the job just fine. cron is just there to start the ncat processes at boot and run an hourly script to do a pfctl -T expire 86400 to keep the table clean of old attackers. Sounds good. Could you shar

Re: vultr

On 1/5/2019 2:22 PM, ed...@pettijohn-web.com wrote: I was thinking about spinning up a new instance on vultr to play with. They have an option to install OBSD 6.3/4. Has anyone tried these? I attempted the FBSD one in the past, but the default install was all whacked out and I had to start over w

Re: Blocking "shodan.io" - What are my options?

On 1/8/2019 3:16 PM, Aaron Mason wrote: On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 5:46 AM Misc User wrote: On 1/3/2019 11:20 PM, Radek wrote: A little ncat, sed, pfctl, and a dash of cron are able to do the job just fine. cron is just there to start the ncat processes at boot and run an hourly script to do a

Re: Where can I find X server's core files?

On 1/16/2019 12:44 PM, Leonid Bobrov wrote: X server crashes and I can't find its core file for debugging purposes. #find / -name '*.core'

Re: setup authoritative DNS for myself with nsd + unbound

On 1/18/2019 11:10 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: It really depends on what you want/need. If you would like to host your own DNS servers, then multi location is a good idea: Example: Master NS1 in LA and Slave NS2 in Miami. I have no idea about GoDiddy but my US based domain hosting company let'

Re: single user question

On 5/9/2019 9:21 AM, James Huddle wrote: If the following questions trigger a sense of road rage, you may safely assume they are not directed to you. Is anyone running in single-user mode regularly? Is anyone running a web server, for instance, in single-user mode? Many thanks in advance. Shie

Re: single user question

On 5/10/2019 1:28 AM, cho...@jtan.com wrote: Misc User writes: It is theoretically possible to do that, but you'd have to do -a lot- of work to get it to do so. It'd be much easier finding a proper way to accomplish what you want without running single-user. I wouldn't recomme

Re: The su manual doesn't mention use root account by default

On 6/13/2019 9:42 AM, Adam Thompson wrote: On 2019-06-12 03:55, Ingo Schwarze wrote: During initial system installation & deployment, before doas is configured, and assuming you haven't [yet] added your SSH keys to ~root/.ssh/allowed_keys, it's quite impossible to avoid using su. (AFAIK.  If t

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

On 6/21/2019 11:02 AM, Frank Beuth wrote: On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:29:32PM +0200, Maxim Bourmistrov wrote: Installing via NOT RECOMMENDED WAY(following upgrade65.html) - scripting on steroides (ansible). I don't want to re-open the hostilities, but installing OpenBSD via Ansible is very re

Re: Ansible install Re: Reboot and re-link

On 6/21/2019 1:08 PM, Frank Beuth wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 12:36:22PM -0700, Misc User wrote: I use PXE + install.conf + siteXX.tgz + siteXX-%hostname%.tgz for my installs.  I also have an rc.firsttime to download and install the required packages. Thanks, but neither this nor the

Re: OT: hardware war with manufacturers (espionage claims)

On 7/2/2019 12:43 AM, John Long wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 10:07:59 +0300 Mihai Popescu wrote: Hello, I keep finding articles about some government bans against some hardware manufacturers related to some backdoor for espionage. I know this is an old talk. Most China manufacturers are under th

Re: Secondary monitor switches off when inteldrm switches on

On 7/2/2019 2:45 PM, Henry Jensen wrote: Greetings, to keep it short: - older Fujitsu Esprimo PC, Core2Duo, Integrated Intel Graphics - 2 monitors, connected at VGA and DVI - during installation both monitors were on all the time. - Computer switched on, both displays on, boot begins - inteldrm