Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Patrick Baldwin
of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower 617

Building a FreeBSD based mail server

2008-07-30 Thread Patrick Baldwin
, although I'm certainly open to sugegstions if people think a different version would serve better. -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower 617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-29 Thread Patrick Baldwin
to a new server. Thanks, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Yi Wang wrote: Try mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt some usb disk doesn't have s1 postfix. I get: webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/usbdrive mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument I'm wondering if I need to format the USB drive for use with FreeBSD? On 12/12/07, Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Tsetsbold Narantungalag wrote: Hi, have you tried this before: #mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb I hadn't initially, but I have now: # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument And dmesg: umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-12 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Trix Farrar wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, but: webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-12 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/12/2007 7:50 AM Patrick Baldwin said the following: Trix Farrar wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively

Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-11 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, but: webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block OK, it seemed a good chance the USB drive was

Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Patrick Baldwin
I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell me what kernel is being used?

Re: Determining kernel?

2007-12-04 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Patrick Baldwin wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD

FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Patrick Baldwin
can get another USB drive and repurpose the one I've got right now, but before I put any more resources into this idea, I thought I'd bounce it off some experts. Any suggestions, links, etc. welcomed. Particularly for large capacity USB drives that won't crash my system. Regards, -- Patrick

Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Patrick Baldwin
? And have you actually had to do a restore? -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

[freebsd-questions] USB drives?

2007-07-17 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Hi, I'm thinking of getting a couple USB drives to use in backing up my 6.2-RELEASE-p4 system. Any suggestions or warnings on brands of USB hard drives? Regards, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455

Re: [freebsd-questions] Best way to add SSL to Apache 1.3.37

2007-06-11 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:03:31 -0400 Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p4, and Apache 1.3.37. I'd like to add SSL support, but I'm not sure of the best way to go about it. may I ask why are you using Apache 1.3.x ? I think Apache

Re: [freebsd-questions] Best way to add SSL to Apache 1.3.37

2007-06-11 Thread Patrick Baldwin
to do this on FreeBSD, as it sounds just like what I want, thanks! Regards, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

[freebsd-questions] Best way to add SSL to Apache 1.3.37

2007-06-07 Thread Patrick Baldwin
), so any information on that would be more than welcome. Regards, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: [freebsd-questions] Can't build php5? - Builds now, but doesn't work due to gd.so

2007-05-22 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007, Patrick Baldwin said: First, my apologies to Beech for replying off-list, I'm on a few others that work a bit differently, and I was a little quick with the send button. On to the issue at hand: Beech Rintoul wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007

[freebsd-questions] Can't build php5? - Now builds, but doesn't work.- Fixed

2007-05-22 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Beech Rintoul wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007, Patrick Baldwin said: First, my apologies to Beech for replying off-list, I'm on a few others that work a bit differently, and I was a little quick with the send button. On to the issue at hand: Beech Rintoul wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007

[freebsd-questions] Can't build php5?

2007-05-21 Thread Patrick Baldwin
or the stupid way, please don't hesitate to tell me. It seemed like the easiest and fastest way to get a working install would be to install the package, but maybe I'm wrong. Regards, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455