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Enabling proper mail for runbsd.eu (OpenBSD + Postfix + Dovecot + OpenDKIM)

Posted on zo 16 november 2025 in runbsd

On the list of things that should work on OpenBSD in my runbsd.eu project, e-mail is somewhere on the top. This is where the project helps to do stuff on OpenBSD. Because for normal use, I outsourced most of the e-mail server tasks to Soverin. And that works fine …


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Syncthing on OpenBSD (incomplete notes)

Posted on zo 09 november 2025 in runbsd

Incomplete notes for running syncthing on OpenBSD

pkg_add syncthing

systctl settings

bash-5.3# echo "kern.maxfiles=80000" >> /etc/sysctl.conf
bash-5.3# sysctl kern.maxfiles=80000

login.conf for syncthing daemon

syncthing:\
        :openfiles-cur=64000:\
        :openfiles-max=64000:\
        :tc=daemon:

set daemonflags in /etc/rc.d/syncthing:

daemon_flags="-no-browser -gui-address=0.0 …

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Deploying my first virtual machines on top of OpenBSD vmm

Posted on do 06 november 2025 in runbsd

After installing the MacBook Pro with OpenBSD and enabling the virtualization software on it by enabling 'vmd', it took a couple of days to find some time to work on the #RUNBSD project.

Today I did get the macbook to do ethernet bridging, so the virtual machines that I will …


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#RunBSD on a twelve year old Macbook Pro

Posted on za 25 oktober 2025 in runbsd

To run things in parallel for my RunBSD project, I needed some extra devices. Going onto Marktplaats/Ebay is easy enough, but I want to avoid adding more devices to my stock.

MBP Cheetah running OpenBSD 7.8

To have somewhat of a 'server system' at home in the RunBSD VLAN, I considered using a leftover …


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Planning to RunBSD

Posted on di 21 oktober 2025 in runbsd

After my interest in OpenBSD was renewed a couple of years ago, the idea was to replace existing things with OpenBSD things here and there. So in my homelab both the ingress and egress web proxies #RUNBSD. And there is ofcourse virtual server Petpuffy, serving a couple of websites using …


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