Re: openbsd list fckery

2005-06-04 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 6/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Dimitri Georganas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I do like the installer though, I'm serious. Not for it's user > > friendliness, but because > > it works for me. I've seen better ones, I've seen worse. > > I'm right in the middle of i

Re: relationship passwd file - homedir(s)

2005-06-08 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 6/8/05, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'd want, is to check the passwd file and delete all home dirs that > have no user account any longer. You can use find(1) -nouser for this. > Then, I'd also create home dirs for all users in the passwd without home > dir yet. Use awk that

Re: Stopping Xorg cleanly on Mac Mini

2005-07-01 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 7/1/05, Chandler May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace yields the same results - blank screen, locked > keys, bleh. This also happens on a iMac G4 running 3.7. The keyboard is still working so at least I can restart the computer properly from the console. cheers, Nickus

Re: syslogd-capabilities

2005-07-08 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 7/8/05, M. Schatzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a reason why the OpenBSD-shipped syslogd cannot write > directly into a pipe? This would come in quite handy for just-in-time > log-processing. > > In this case, its a script scanning for invalid ssh-logins invoked by > auth.info. It then

Re: carp and spamd greylisting

2005-07-19 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 7/18/05, Bryan Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a mail server located in a DMZ and I just changed my gateway to > run with carp. I was wondering if there's a way to sync the spamd db > so that in the event of failover new messages won't take twice as long > to arrive. I don't expect

Both carp interfaces are master

2005-07-19 Thread Niclas Sodergard
Hi, I'm having trouble with our firewalls. They are both Dell 2850 with identical hardware inside (dmesg below). I have five carp interfaces connected to five different em interfaces. carp0,2,3,4 works fine (master stays master and backup stays backup). For carp5 however both interfaces stays as m

Re: Slow Response When PPPoE Dies

2005-07-20 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 7/20/05, Blake Darche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When my PPPoE connection dies (userland PPP), my OpenBSD 3.7 box that > runs PF + NAT slows to a crawl when trying to login to it through SSH. > When the connection comes back up, it goes back to speed. Anyone > have any ideas what could be ca

Re: X11 question during install

2005-07-20 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 7/20/05, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started building some 3.7 machines, and since I have no intention of > runing X on them, I answered "no" to the install question about running X. > > Now as I build port I find many of the ones I one have a dependenct on X > :-(. I dowloaded and ins

Re: Carp: looking for tool to make failover system.

2005-07-20 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 7/20/05, Xavier Beaudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > Before I remake the wheel, I am looking if someone has done some kind > of software that > can monitor a carp interface and execute a script that can execute > some basic things. There is ifstated in the CVS tree but it do

Re: Lifecycle question

2005-09-06 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 9/6/05, Stephan A. Rickauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not to mention that upgrades with other OS's are even painful _with_ HA > setup ... > > As an Insitute we have limited resources in terms of personal AND money. > Therefore, I am forced to rethink any strategy twice. Thanks to all > comm

Re: RAID management support coming in OpenBSD 3.8

2005-09-12 Thread Niclas Sodergard
This is really cool. It will motivate me to upgrade our machines to 3.8 quickly. Now I don't have to do my daily excursion to the server room to check on the OpenBSD machines running hw raid to see if they have a faulty disk or not. cheers, Nickus

Re: Nice OpenBSD Artikel in the press (www.linux-magazin.de)

2005-11-09 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 11/9/05, Didier Wiroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For info: > Today I got the german "Linux Magazin" 12/05. > There is a real nice article covering openbsd as a redundant firewall > using CARP. > > The article is about 5-6 A4 pages with illustrations and screenshots. > > The untranslated name

Re: IMAP servers

2005-05-22 Thread Niclas Sodergard
On 5/22/05, Gaby vanhegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What IMAP servers do people use for email access? I use Dovecot at the > moment under 3.6, as it supports SSL, Maildir and mbox, but it has some > problems with indexes. I used to use the stock imapd that came with > OpenBSD, but that didn't