Install OpenBSD on Hetzner vServer

Posted on Thu 27 November 2014 in English

This is a short English howto for installing OpenBSD on a vServer from Hetzner.

Preparation

The first step is to install a VNC client on your host system (ssh connection didn't work out for me as the keyboard layout was havocked - perhaps a tmux problem?). If you need a suggestion …


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FreeBSD TT-RSS

Posted on Wed 29 October 2014 in english

Since Google shut down its Reader you were desperately looking for an alternative? Or you would simply like to have a central place to follow your favourite news sites?
For all of you: tt-rss to the resque!

"What's tt-rss?" you ask?
tt-rss is an open source news feed reader and …


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FreeBSD CGit

Posted on Wed 06 August 2014 in english

I copied this setup for a FreeBSD based git server with nginx and cgit from various sites and thus I should call it my Frankenstein jail...

First we must create a new jail, copy the resolv.conf, followed by the installation of various packages, namely:

# pkg install nginx fcgiwrap git …

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Wacom and xHCI

Posted on Sun 13 July 2014 in english

Today I tried to get my Wacom Bamboo graphic tablet into a working state. The result is depending on how you define "working".

I plugged it into an active USB-hub attached to an USB3 port, which seems to be the root of all evil. The dmesg message is:

[   62.112449 …

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WM-Fieber

Posted on Sat 21 June 2014 in german

"Die wohlfeilste Art des Stolzes hingegen ist der Nationalstolz. Denn er verrät in dem damit Behafteten den Mangel an individuellen Eigenschaften, auf die er stolz sein könnte, indem er sonst nicht zu dem greifen würde, was er mit so vielen Millionen teilt. Wer bedeutende persönliche Vorzüge besitzt, wird vielmehr die …


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FreeBSD Server

Posted on Tue 06 May 2014 in english

This post will show how I set up my FreeBSD server which aims to act as a fileserver (primarily).

Failover

# ifconfig igb0 up
# ifconfig igb1 up
# ifconfig lagg0 create 
# ifconfig lagg0 up laggproto lacp laggport igb0 laggport igb1 10.0.1.1/8

This is how the result looks:

lagg0 …

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OpenBSD Desktop

Posted on Sat 15 March 2014 in english

This is just a reminder for me to set up my Lenovo x230 as an OpenBSD laptop (I'm running -current).

Full-disk encryption

For full-disk encryption choose the (S)hell option from the installation medium.

If your hard disk isn't available yet, change directory to /dev and enter

::: ksh
# /bin/sh …

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english posts

Posted on Tue 11 March 2014 in english

I realized that some guys of my german speaking ADN followers hesitate to write english blog posts or Twitter/Facebook/whatever messages because they think their English isn't good enough. As consequence I'll start blogging in english more often to do the first step into the right direction.

It's been …


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Endlich hab ich einen Mac

Posted on Thu 06 March 2014 in german

All meine Computersorgen sind vorbei, die Rettung ist da! Endlich kein stundenlanges Gefummel an meinem ollen PC, denn ich habe das Gerät des heiligen Steve empfangen! Einen Mac Mini!

Spaß beseite, das Spielzeug ist natürlich nur dafür da, dass ich OpenBSD Ports auch für PowerPC testen kann (es handelt sich …


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Gentoo und Arch

Posted on Tue 14 January 2014 in german

Vor circa einem Jahr hatte ich bei mir auf dem Laptop Gentoo installiert und ich muss zugeben: Es war eine Erfahrung wert.
Alles muss kompliert werden, nur einige Rießenpakete sind vorkompiliert erhältlich. Während dir Arch vergleichsweise noch die Einzelteile eines Autos anbietet und du sie nur noch zusammensetzen musst, hast …


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