Tag Archives: openbsd

How to try OpenBSD

Download and try the following OS, and give it a go. OpenBSD v4.7 OpenBSD is a multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system, and is fast, simple to install and secure “out of the box”. Download installation files Read the Installation guide Read the Frequently Asked Questions A good introductory book for OpenBSD is the “OpenBSD Command …

July 4, 2010 – 02:22 | By lantrix | Posted in Musings | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Using your MacBookPro to PXEBoot OpenBSD

This post does not show a successful outcome in case that’s what you where hoping for. I was trying to get OpenBSD bootstrapped using the PXEBoot NIC in a server. I decided to use my Mac which has tftp and bootpd installed. This post is quite in depth and technical so if you are game …

December 8, 2008 – 03:07 | By lantrix | Posted in mac, openbsd, tech, unix | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Death to Spam

I’ve been hit by a number of Spam comments recently that snuck through the filters. If you are subscribed to the comments feed, apologies for this. It turns out that since I moved TechDebug to a VM host, I did not follow my own post and the spam tools where not connecting to Akismet to …

September 1, 2008 – 11:07 | By lantrix | Posted in openbsd | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

OpenBSD, postgresql and semaphore failures during initdb

Today I upgraded my postgresql database instance on OpenBSD. Did a pg_dumpall, removed the old packages and then added the new ones (latest version 8.1.9 for OpenBSD 4.0 – yes I’m behind). During the initialisation of the new DB, I got the following error: creating directory /var/postgresql/data/pg_tblspc … ok selecting default max_connections … 10 selecting …

April 22, 2008 – 01:54 | By lantrix | Posted in openbsd, unix | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)