Openbsd

OpenBSD 5.1 on Sun Ultra 5

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It’s been a while since I owned a Sun Ultra 5, back to 2002. It has run many OS, mostly BSD flavoured, and served me well in many cases. It has been tweaked a bit: add a Quad HME card, replace the CD-ROM by a CD-RW burner and replace the fan and PSU by silent PC parts. I’ve just powered it on and it is indeed quite silent. I really would like to use it again… if it wasn’t needing 61 Watts (more than a Mac Mini G4). So here we are, a last OpenBSD install before I find a new home for it.

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Quick look at OpenSMTPD on OpenBSD 5.1

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I want to have a look at a replacement for my Postfix/Dovecot/OpenLDAP mail server using the OpenSMTPd implementation. Not that it doesn’t work ; in fact I don’t get that much mail and everything works like a charm. I just want to see if I can use as much all-inclusive OpenBSD 5.1 daemons.

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The remote OpenBSD 5.1 desktop

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I already post on using VNC to connect to a remote OpenBSD 4.9 server . I’m just gonna write a short refresh while configuring a brand new OpenBSD 5.1 i386 workstation on my ESXi 5.

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Proxify SOGo access with OpenBSD

       476 words, 3 minutes

I used to run all of my services on the same OpenBSD server. Now that I switched to a virtualized environment, I’m on the way to dispatch the services on various virtual machines. As I have issues with the family’s iPhones and the SOGo 1.3.8.1 instance running on my OpenBSD gateway, I think it’s time to switch to an up-to-date version running elsewhere. Here are the directions to publish a remote SOGo instance, here 1.3.13, with an OpenBSD Apache.

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Transfer OpenBSD through the network

       531 words, 3 minutes

Last time, I transferred OpenBSD from one local disk to another . This time, I want to replicate OpenBSD from a remote working system to another, through the network.

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