Posted on Fri 02 October 2015 in english
Several months ago I have converted my mail server from Postfix to OpenBSD's OpenSMTPD. When you want to know the basics I suggest you read William Orr's article first.
In the last couple of weeks it's trendy to blog about OpenSMTPD:
Posted on Thu 27 November 2014 in English
This is a short English howto for installing OpenBSD on a vServer from Hetzner.
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 …
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 …
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 …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 …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).
# 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 …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).
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 …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 …