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http://openbsd.org/faq/upgrade-minifaq.html#3.1.1 according to this section you have to 'make build' and similar things a few times after upgrading. have you upgraded to 3.2 yet noc?

According to the openbsd upgrafe-minifaq you have to do a handful of things in order to upgrade your system, but i feel it is leaving a handful of things out. for example: Do you have to perform the steps in the order they are written? (oldest on the bottom to newest on the top) Do you...

yeah, I might use disk quotas, but I wont want to have any cpu or ram limits. I have lots of unix boxen so this one should be a dedicated mailserver and/or mail/webserver that won't recieve all that much traffic. It is a good thing to learn, but i have no real use for it.

by limits do you mean account size limits? I thought with qmail you had to use unix's built in file quota system.

theo seems like a really nice guy :) My reservations stem from comments like the one N0c made about how it takes alot of time and expertise to set up and secure qmail properly. I began reading lifewithqmail before posting this thread, and thought to myself, this doesn't seem very simplistic...

I want to install a mail server on one of my machines and have been focusing on qmail and postfix. From what i've read postfix is easier to set up, but qmail is supposedly more secure. One huge bonus in postfix is that it is already in the openbsd ports collection. I'm willing to read plenty...

i just got a p2-333 machine for free fom work and will be bringing it home today. i currently have 5 computers at home in addition to the two my girlfriend has, and the two my other roommate has. i know i should get rid of at least one of my computers, but i just can't bring myself to do it...

first: there is no such thing as a secure ftp server now that we have that out of the way, i agree with n0c, that i only really use the one supplied wiht openbsd. another supposedly uber secure one is called publicfile and can be found here: http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html. I've also breifly...

I'm a bsd lover and want to try gentoo but it refuses to boot form either of my two test boxen. redhat, mandrake, freebsd, openbsd all boot and install/compile fine on those machines so don't know whats wrong with gentoo. sooner or later i will get it to work:0 congrats! for the time beign...

yeah i installed the zip port and it works just fine. I think its a problem with winzip cuz my machine can untar the files elsewhere ok (as i knew it would) oh well:)

i can tell you a bit of a hackish way to get it done, i use it to create an index of files on my website. http://www.mattvanmater.com/indexgenerator.tar.gz basically i have a header and footer to the file, and then something that runs a pattern matcher to insert what in your case would be the...

I made a script that tars a handful of directories into a tar.gz file. the strange thing is, when i use winzip on windows to unzip that file there are a few files whose path is not preserved. is there a way to ensure that path is strictly enforced when tarring the directories? ie when i tar...

when using scp, make sure you are using the blowfish algorithm. by default ssh uses 3des, which is a higher level of encryption and therefore slower performing. i know with my p133 firewall i can transmit at about 175 kb per sec with 3des on and 500-700 with blowfish. i am running on a...

1. The only network filesystem I know anything about is SMBFS, and it doesn't appear to preserve all of the file attributes. Plus I don't even know if OpenBSD includes Samba or not. If you want to share a dir on your openbsd box, you can use samba like any other unix variant. f you want to...

As an addendum to what n0c said, if you wanted a commercial firewall i'd use sidewinder. Not only have i heard its the best, but i believe it is based off of BSD software :) If you plan on having that many visitors to your site than the machine is not necessarily overkill. You won't need that...