Is anybody here keen to test a new boot menu for vps?
hello
should i be able to relay mail through my vps?
Squillis: yes
ok. i'll keep digging
Squillis: i.e. there are no packet filters for typical smtp ports
that's what i was asking
thanks
oh, cox
Note: SMTP is only permitted outbound to Cox-provided SMTP servers.
i should have guessed
Rough.
quality service from a quality company
Squillis: do they allow port 587 (submission)?
it's not explicitly blocked
i was going to use another port
if postfix allows that
i figure it does
it does. but submission is actually meant to be used by smtp clients connecting to a relay
instead of 25
ah. i didn't know that
yeah it's pretty lonng standing
and postfix will automatically support it these days
you can adjust stuff in master.cf if you want some alternate port or such
i actually support providers that block port 25 outgoing, because every legit user should use 587
I support residential ISPs blocking 25 because of spam botnets
that's what i wanted to express ;)
(It's usually paired with requiring authenticated SMTP to the ISP's own relays)
heh
Now people spam through Gmail.
mercutio: still need someone to test the new boot menu?
yeh sure
mnathani: shutdown and boot your VM and you should get it
what's new in the new boot menu?
dns: it always shows boot options
so you don't need to press f12
shutting down now
cool
aha, I don't shut down very often :)
neither do i
but i think this is a good improvement none the less
12 second timout
could probably use like 15
mnathani: you can press enter or select boot option to go quicker
ahh
had to shut down the other day though - for some reason the freebsd bootloader didn't find the disk when I rebooted for an upgrade (never happened before)
dne: 10.3?
there seems to be an issue with 10.3
yup, second reboot during freebsd-update (after userland is upgraded)
hmm
that's not good
i had issues with iso booting
first reboot (only kernel upgraded) was fine
so kernel didn't boot?
hmm
there was an issue with 10.1
i think it got stuck at the 1st stage bootloader
that could be the same issue that 10.3 boot iso is having
how did you work around it?
after shutdown it booted fine again
oh
from the panel
that could be the "warm boot" kvm bug
aha
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1329956
i found when trying to figure out why 10.3 iso isn't booting
weird
this never happened before though, that I can remember
the 10.1 bug was different
after install it didn't umount the file system cleanly
and so you'd need to do a fsck
which is just wrong, but doesn't actually stop things working
ah yes, but that was a freebsd bug
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-15:05.ufs.asc ?
that shouldn't occur on a fresh install from the iso though
I wonder what's a good web-based IRC gateway...
glowing-bear.org :) (technically a web-weechat relay gateway)
lol
I was thinking more for people who don't use IRC at all.  So they could still join this channel from our website or something.  Not long term, but maybe to ask a question or something.
I usually point people at Freenode's own web irc gateway
ah OK