It boggles my mind that we can lie around complacently, arguing about
installer menus and taking the bait from trolls, while our freedoms
are quickly eroding away. The rights and recognition of one of our
own developers (reyk@) have been molested, and all we've done as a
community is to participate in useless flames and blog postings.
Theo has thrown himself, once again, against the spears of the Linux
community and their legal vultures in order to protect our software
freedoms. How ...

Im currently running openbsd 4.1 on my server, Proliant 8500. This server
is SMP with 4x 700MHz PIII proc. Im just wondering, is it using all four
cpu's? or do I have to configure the system to utilize SMP?

P.S. I did show my appreciation, and I bought a CD!

Thank you,
Cyrus

SMP is the kernel that supports multiple CPUs. If you're not running
SMP, you aren't multiprocessing.

Useful ways to diagnose your CPU configuration; what does your kernel
say it found?

# dmesg |grep ^cpu

# sysctl hw.ncpu

DS

Please read http://cvs.openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#SMP

And http://cvs.openbsd.org/faq/faq2.html#MailLists
Especially the bottom of 2.2

Mike

No, Sam's code and Reyk's code are completely different.

Sam has an open source driver and a closed source binary blob, the HAL.
Reyk reverse engineered the HAL and wrote an open source replacement.

Sam DID NOT open the HAL code, it is still a closed binary object.

Can you see now why Reyk's code is so critical?

Otherwise GPL and BSD developers have to include a binary object into the
kernel, which is out of their control. They can not fix bugs in there and
make sure it works with present a...

sorry, this should go to ports@

I installed FreeBSD once in my life. Took me 3 tries and I am sure some
kittens were murdered in the process. I am also pretty sure I wept at
some point. Honestly I can't remember a much worse installer; maybe SCO
OpenServer but not by much.

I assume you're only encouraging this because it's likely impossible.
Frankly, I find the FreeBSD installer somewhat confusing. About the
only thing that would maybe make the OpenBSD installer simpler for new
(or impatient) users would be a "default" disk layout with sane
partition sizes for /, /tmp, /var, /usr, etc. Of course I rarely
install OpenBSD on non-x86 boxes but I'm sure sane defaults for x86 are
quite different than mac68k or hppa.

(In my defense, i do have a Sparc Classic and ...

You're also assuming that the automatic partitioner would allocate the
entire disk...

There are other issues, too; /usr/ports and /usr/src, /usr/obj,
databases and logs and spools in /var, the list goes on.

Honestly, I don't see why. How does making the installer more
complicated is going to "help" anything.

I recently sat a friend down to show how easy an install was. This
was on a 400MHz Dell with a 10G disk. Putting the disk in the box
to having a system that booted up took 11 minutes, with me
making comments about each step.

Once the machine came up, I said it was done, the system was ready
to use.

"<blink> <blink> You mean, thats all?"

Yes, I replied and left him to p...

To me easy of install and improvements is what's already done and added
time to time that show really how this is so easy and better. Example,
sure here is one that I notice in 4.2 and the first time, I read it as
it was different and I was use to always do the same thing, may be not
in 3 minutes flat like J.C., but may be 4:15. I guess he has faster box
then me. (;> Anyway, to the point.

In 4.2 there is the new way to specify your ntp server at the install
time. I always use to go back ...

Oh, please. Even it it fits, it would be useless. Installation is
sequential (find disks, fdisk them (on i386-like archs), disklabel
them, choose install sets, install). Fancy curses interfaces or
even high-resolution progress bars with dancing puffy animations
won't change this.

Ciao,
Kili

ps: this is mainly adressed to the OP, and obviously not to beck@ ;-)

--
What is this? Some kind of grep bitten by a radioactive spider?
-- William S. Yerazunis about the crm114 interpreter
i...

GPL is just a license, hate is a too strong word for it.
We usually prefer to point out that it is not free (enough).

There are people that represent the free software movement, and
there are people that take the words of the GNU project and twist
the meanings to suit themselves.

Why take it so personally. It is not GPL or GNU that is being attacked here.
There are always those that are misled or even malicious in every community.
Sometimes it is just a lack of knowledge, or being overeager t...

yes. this increases memory fragmentation immensly resulting
in (practically) less virtual space available for data.
as an increased penalty (200-300%) for cpu consuption
on processes w/ lots (20M and more) malloc(3)ed memory...
as well increased demand for the physical memory that
on the overcommiting nature of it you perhaps observe.
a way around it is only to use perl malloc (sbrk-based)

cu
--
paranoic mickey (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)

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Noone builds new block devices anymore (in OpenBSD, we instead write
drivers which hide behind the scsi subsystem, since this is more
flexible).

As for strictly character devices, these are inserted per-architecture
into the cdevsw[] arrays in arch/ARCH/ARCH/conf.c. At the same time,
/usr/src/etc/etc.ARCH/MAKEDEV* have to be modified to create the
device nodes.

There is no need to keep the major numbers in sync between different
architectures. Actually because of many historical reasons, it ...

Sorry Folks!

--
Joco Salvatti
Undergraduating in Computer Science
Federal University of Para - UFPA
web: http://www.openbsd-pa.org
e-mail: salvatti@openbsd-pa.org

What is the proper format for entering manual keys directly into the
ipsec.conf file?

Test file ipsec.test:

esp from 10.0.0.1 to 10.0.1.1 \
spi 0x00001011:0x00001010 \
auth hmac-sha1 enc aes \
authkey "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890" \
enckey "12345678901234567890123456789012" \

# ipsecctl -n -f ipsec.test
ipsec.test: 5: no authentication key specified
ipsecctl: Syntax error in config file: ipsec rules not loaded

The same happens if the key is specified:

12345678901234567890...

Hi All

I am trying to read-only the system but having a seperate location rw

In order to do this, I want to re-locate the user account files so accounts
can still be added when in read-only mode.

I have tried doing ln -s /confs/passwd /etc/passwd etc.. but when I try to
create an account it fails with PAM or something.

Any suggestions on what I require to do this?

I've been looking but hadn't found an answer to this, likely because i'm crazy
for trying but thats the point.

Thanks

Jam...

My OpenBSD 4.0 mail filter (running amavisd-new) has been up and
running well for 70 days. I received a complaint of delays this
morning. Indeed, I see that servers which had been whitelisted by
spamd were no longer so. I verified that spamlogd is still running.
Does anyone have any ideas how this could have happened?

- Juan

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spamlogd not only needs to be running, but it needs to
see the connections - your pf rules need to log them correctly.

The best way to see if this is happening is to fire
off some debug level syslogging, and see if spamlogd is logging lines
for the hosts that connect in. You should see lines like this where
your debug level syslogs are going.

Sep 13 07:03:49 mailcarp1 spamlogd[16523]: inbound 199.185.137.3

if you don't spamlogd ain't seeing them. check your pf rules.

--
#!/usr/bin/p...

Whitelist entries do expire after a while (a little more than a month
by default, if I remember correctly, but it's a tuneable). That's a
likely explanation, unless of course those servers have been sending
you mail at shorter intervals.

For known good (or important, infrequent, impatient, or a few other
varieties we'll skip here for brevity) senders it pays to whitelist by
hand using either spamdb or by setting up a way around spamdb such as
having a no rdr rule for members of your <knowngoo...

Hi,

My X40 disk also died two month ago. All attempts to find that somehow
special 1.8" NONE-ZIF connector disk failed so far.

I saw that Henning has the same problem and already asked on misc@ for
such a disk. If somebody has another of those for me, it would be most
helpfull. Using the X40 with an attached USB disk is not that portable,
and the X40 is a good hacking toy for Cardbus (wireless ;) devices ...

I'm located in Switzerland / Basel.

Thanks,
Marcus

----- Forwarded message fr...

given the sheer count of X40s in use by developers, it is a safe bet to
assume there are some going be be needed somewhat soon.

--
Henning Brauer, hb@bsws.de, henning@openbsd.org
BS Web Services, http://bsws.de
Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services
Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam

those are zif. the following are the 44-pin ones:

HTC424020F7AT00 08K1394 1.8" 20GB ATA-5
HTC424040F9AT00 08K1393 1.8" 40GB ATA-5

HTC426020G7AT00 08K1532 1.8" 20GB ATA-6 (IDE)
HTC426030G7AT00 08K1531 1.8" 30GB ATA-6 (IDE)
HTC426040G9AT00 08K1530 1.8" 40GB ATA-6 (IDE)
HTC426060G9AT00 08K1529 1.8" 60GB ATA-6 (IDE)