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booting_netra

2009-10-01T19:08:47-07:00

I don't know why I have some much trouble with such a simple task, but here it goes. Netras configured to boot off the disk and if it fails tries to boot from the net. This works fine for net booting netra into Solaris installer, but after install is done you must reset it to boot from disk. There is an option during installer to modify eeprom

cpan_notes

2009-06-18T17:55:07-07:00

CPAN stores build data in user's home folder, so if you run it as root (as required to install some modules) you can fill the root partition. To reconfigure CPAN to use different build directory start cpan and the issue o conf init to re-run configuration.

cvs_phrasebook

2010-04-09T18:35:27-07:00

Setup Add CVSROOT variable to profile export CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs1.ca.openbsd.org:/cvs #export CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.comstyle.com:/cvs export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.ca.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/packages/`machine -a`/ # For use with make package 2>&1 | $PL /usr/ports/log export PL=/usr/ports/infrastructure/build/portslogger

deleting_package_with_dependencies

2009-08-19T12:34:26-07:00

If a package is required by other installed packages not mentioned in the list of packages to remove, man>pkg_delete will list those dependent packages and refuse to delete the package. Mike Erderly suggested a quick hack to accomplish it: * $ /bin/ls -1a /var/db/pkg/ | grep -Ev "^(\.|\.\.)$" > plist $ vi plist # remove pkgs I want to KEEP (vim, ...) $ for f in `cat plist`; do sudo pkg_delete $f; done $ for f in `cat plist`; do sudo pkg_delete $f; done $ for f in `cat plist`; do sudo pkg_d…

flavours_and_subpackages

2010-07-22T15:37:20-07:00

* Please do read the ports(7) manual page, which gives a good overview of this topic. There are two mechanisms to control the packaging of software according to different needs. The first mechanism is called flavors. A flavor usually indicates a certain set of compilation options. For instance, some applications have a "no_x11" flavor which can be used on systems without X. Some shells have a "static" flavor, which will build a statically …

openbsd_ad_auth

2009-09-04T12:05:31-07:00

* Adopted from: Intro * Users must exist on the OpenBSD system before attempting to login. They are not autocreated. * If you want users autocreated, look into Samba/Winbind. I've had nothing but trouble (inexplicable crashes, serious log spamming, unreliable authentication) from it, so I only use it when I have to. * This was tested on OpenBSD 4.5 and Windows Server 2003. I'm pretty sure it'll work…

porting

2009-10-19T16:36:08-07:00

Guides * Ports foils - Marc Espie, 2005 * Advanced Porting foils - Michael Erderly, December 2007 * Porting Tutorial foils - by Berndt Ahlers, 2007 * Building an OpenBSD port - OpenBSD.org * Maintainer's Guide to Port Updating * Undeadly.org Tutorial, 2008 * Porting Checklist - OpenBSD.org * man>bsd.port.mk * TBA

ports_and_packages

2010-07-22T15:36:29-07:00

* Deleting package with dependencies * Update package with dependencies * Flavours and Subpackages openbsd, ports, packages << start

postgres

2009-08-06T19:14:57-07:00

Installation * On windows install using installer or unpack zip and manually initialize cluster and setup service * On OpenBSD use pkg_add postgresql * When installing PostgreSQL always select UTF-8 or Latin1 as default encoding * each database can have its own encoding, but changing default 7-bit C_ASCII encoding for a server or existing database is a pain.

pppoe

2010-10-10T00:25:12-07:00

There's a very good write up on how to configure PPPoE on OpenBSD. If you are setting up a gateway used by other computers make sure you fix MTU of the packets by adding the following statement to pf.conf. * scrub out on $ext_if max-mss 1440 The issue manifests itself in inability to access certain websites (e.g. me.com, itunes store, etc.)

references

2011-03-01T11:59:28-07:00

* One of the best collections of original solutions and how-to openbsd << start

solaris_9_net_config

2009-10-01T19:27:06-07:00

Pretty standard: * /etc/hosts: contains IP and names * /etc/resolv.conf: contains DNS servers * /etc/nsswitch.conf: make sure that hosts: files dns * /etc/defaultrouter: contains your router * reboot to pickup the changes See Also * NDD command explained

ssh

2009-10-19T13:26:40-07:00

Delay During Login Sometimes this is caused by issues with reverse DNS resolution. Set UseDNS no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and reload SSH with kill -HUP `cat /var/run/sshd.pid` (this shouldn't kill your session) ssh << start

start

2011-03-01T11:58:34-07:00

This wiki is a collection of my notes on subjects that interest me and relate to my work or hobbies. You can help improving these pages: do>register as a user, do>login and start editing. OpenBSD * CPAN notes * CVS Phrasebook * Tracking -current * Ports and Packages * Porting * OpenBSD AD Auth * SSH * PPPoE * References

tracking_-current

2010-04-12T10:57:23-07:00

The easies way to track -current is to periodically download current snapshot, reboot using it and do an upgrade. Takes about 30 minutes, plus some more in case housekeeping is required (configuration chages, broken packages, etc.) Don't forget to also update /usr/ports and /usr/src

translation

2008-06-13T10:33:55-07:00

To ease the translation of the DokuWiki documentation pages, the translation plugin was installed at wiki.splitbrain.org. The plugin displays a language selector on all pages inside the wiki namespace. Existing translations are shown in blue, missing translations are gray.

update_package_with_dependencies

2010-04-09T16:37:22-07:00

* sudo pkg_add -ui drupal-6.16 openbsd, packages << start

upload

2008-03-11T15:39:06-07:00

* Upload your files here *

video

2008-04-28T12:43:46-07:00