Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)
On Fri, January 30, 2009 11:37 am, drc...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync : http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html You should check out the rsnapshot port. it does what you are looking for and more. It will save you a lot of scripting, etc and it works great. I have been using it as part of my backup procedure for a while now and it works well. Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 6.3 to 7.0 STABLE upgrade buildworld failures
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Can we no longer use make buildworld to upgrade from source builds? Everytime I've tried, I get build errors. I've gotten the impression from a few things I've read that freebsd-update is suppose to be used. I don't want a binary install/upgrade though. I've just sync from CVS with this in the config: well i exactly upgraded this way. no errors. ___ same here. no errors on a few boxes. do you have extra stuff in your make.conf file? if so, comment them out and try again ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need to build a new mail server
Foo JH wrote: I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's extensible. and requires 400 patches to do basic things =( heres some interesting reading about qmail... http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need to build a new mail server
Patrick Baldwin wrote: Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement. However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail servers. I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail servers that would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server. I've only got about two dozen users, though they are all very heavy users of email. I'm using IMAP, and I'd like to continue to do so. Finally, we have quite a few aliases I'd want to port over to a new server. Thanks, I like postfix + dovecot. Easy to set up and both have a ton of features. any relatively modern hardware will do with that kind of volume. your aliases shouldnt be a problem either. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: suggestion on a backup utility
David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can do that part myself via crontab. I realize I could just make a script file with some tar commands, but I'm looking for something that is quicker to maintain and allows me to organize what I'm backing up. I have been using reoback but recently I ran into some problems with is duplicating files X 10! - I looked into to solving it but it might be easier to just try something else. flexbackup is pretty decent. i used it for a while before i just went to using dump on entire file systems. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [SSHd] Limiting access from authorized IP's
Kurt Buff wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At any rate, locking down ssh access is one of my concerns, for sure, so this discussion is helpful. Wouldn't turning off password based logins and using public and private keys (with a strong password) for ssh logins do the trick? if you limit yourself based on IP addresses, its inevitable that you will need access from an IP NOT on your exemption list at some time (like when you are on vacation, at relatives, etc). Using keys to authenticate ssh sessions has worked very well for me. if you are concerned about the brute force attempts (which cant work without the private key which you put a strong password on), you can use something like denyhosts to block those hosts from even connecting. hth Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start up scripts stopped working
Jerry McAllister wrote: to rc.conf i see things getting evaluated, but nothing is launched. this forces someone to log in locally to the machine and start openssh so i can get to the box. Are there startup scripts for these things in rc.d? Putting something in rc.conf is only setting a flag or value that scripts read up to see if they should run or not and what values to run with. Nothing actually starts (or shouldn't) from the rc.conf file. jerry yes, the files are in the rc.d directory and start up properly when i issue the commands manually (ie #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dovecot start). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start up scripts stopped working
Frank Shute wrote: I spotted a couple of things with your rc.conf that could be causing you trouble: 1) There are a lot of unquoted YES's for enabling services. I don't know if that could screw thing's up but for form's sake, I'd try quoting them and rebooting. 2) You seem to have set your security level quite high. I can't find where they are documented in 6.3 (in 7.0 under security(7)) but it could be worth a try commenting out the securelevel lines and rebooting and then setting your security level through sysctl (I think you can do that). I will give this a whirl and see how it goes. I have never had issues with the unquoted YES statements unless they are not balanced (i.e. foo_enable=YES or foo_enable=YES blows up), but I did quote everything to be consistent I commented out the securelevel stuff as well. Thanks for the suggestions. i will report back once i get the box rebooted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: start up scripts stopped working
Eric Zimmerman wrote: Frank Shute wrote: I spotted a couple of things with your rc.conf that could be causing you trouble: 1) There are a lot of unquoted YES's for enabling services. I don't know if that could screw thing's up but for form's sake, I'd try quoting them and rebooting. 2) You seem to have set your security level quite high. I can't find where they are documented in 6.3 (in 7.0 under security(7)) but it could be worth a try commenting out the securelevel lines and rebooting and then setting your security level through sysctl (I think you can do that). I will give this a whirl and see how it goes. I have never had issues with the unquoted YES statements unless they are not balanced (i.e. foo_enable=YES or foo_enable=YES blows up), but I did quote everything to be consistent I commented out the securelevel stuff as well. Thanks for the suggestions. i will report back once i get the box rebooted success! commenting out the securelevel resolved the issue. i never ran into that before, but glad its working as expected now. Thanks for the help! Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Server build config, what would you do?
Hello, Can anyone recommend a solid motherboard for building a BSD server around? I would like at least a Core2Duo CPU, but would consider Xeon (single or dual CPU boards are fine). The server will be for file storage and general services like email, apache, etc. Not a ton of volume for either I plan to use a 3-Ware or Areca controller (4 port). Does one of those work better than the other? I have had pretty good luck with some 3-Ware cards so far with FreeBSD, but have heard good things about the Areca cards too. Heck, while we are at it, can anyone recommend some decent internal SATA enclosures with 5 or so slots? Thank you for your time, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server build config, what would you do?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: would like at least a Core2Duo CPU, but would consider Xeon (single or dual CPU boards are fine). The server will be for file storage and general services like email, apache, etc. Not a ton of volume for either so why at least core2duo. for your case 50$ used computer (possibly with larger disk) is enough. I plan to use a 3-Ware or Areca controller (4 port). Does one of those work better than the other? I have had pretty good luck with some 3-Ware cards so no special controller works best. I'd like a C2D to allow for future growth and the fact that it will be serving files for several people on my home network not to mention the other services on it. Why do you think no special controller works best? If that was the case, why would they even make hardware based RAID cards, or RAID cards at all? I have a solid backup plan in place, but why risk downtime when solutions are available? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Loading smbfs Module on Boot
Schiz0 wrote: I'm trying to mount a networked NTFS drive via smbfs. However, my kernel secure level is set to 2, so I cannot load the smbfs module while the system is running. How can I set the smbfs module to load on boot? I checked /boot/defaults/loader.conf, but didn't see anything in there for smbfs. i added smbfs_load=YES to my /boot/loader.conf. I think thats what you want. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Supermicro motherboard compatibility/Server recommendation help
can anyone speak to successes with using the newed Supermicro server boards with FreeBSD? i was looking at things like this: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/7045/SYS-7045A-CT.cfm On-Board Devices Chipset * Intel® 5100 (San Clemente) chipset * Intel® ICH9R + PXH-V SATA * Intel ICH9R SB SATAII Controller * RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support (Windows only) * RAID 0, 1, 10 support (Linux) Does FreeBSD support that SATA controller for various RAID setups? Does anyone have any suggestions for a vendor that provides barebones servers (tower models) with hot swap SATA drives included? Thanks, Eric ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
