RE: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread FreeBSD-Questions
man tuning? Cheers, Lars. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Carey Posted At: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:28 PM Posted To: FreeBSD-Questions Conversation: Kernel Options fo a File Server Subject: Kernel Options fo a File Server Hello,

Re: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow

2007-05-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Maxim Khitrov wrote: Do you know if there is a reason they chose to do it this way? Accept the connection, but don't allow the client to do anything with it? If sendmail just dropped

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Carey Posted At: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:28 PM Posted To: FreeBSD-Questions Conversation: Kernel Options fo a File Server Subject: Kernel Options fo a File Server Hello, What would be the best Kernel

Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]

2007-05-23 Thread Ghirai
[..] I did that, but now xorg constantly uses 20-30% CPU. CPUs were running cooler indeed, but everything ran jerky, because of the xorg cpu usage. [..] Point being, if powerd has selected your lowest cpu frequency because load is less than default (or as specified by -i

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

2007-05-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:02:24 -0400 Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first though was to rebuild, but I've done that twice now, once by just rebuilding php5 and php5-extentions, and once trying portupgrade -rR php5-2.2. I re-read the docs on portupgrade, as far as I can tell, my

Re: portmanager -s deletes ports?

2007-05-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 23 May 2007 03:15:05 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_version -vl will give you a list of out of date ports. Alternatively, portversion -v | grep \ eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed May 23 17:26:33 2007] /usr/home/betom $ portversion -v | grep \ [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree

Re: portmanager -s deletes ports?

2007-05-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23/05/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007 03:15:05 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_version -vl will give you a list of out of date ports. Alternatively, portversion -v | grep \ eg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Wed May 23 17:26:33 2007] /usr/home/betom $

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
dhaneshk k [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , but I havn't configured spamassasin ,amavisd etc in this box. so I am suffering from spams daily .. Spamassassin is available as a port, as are a number of other useful bits

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-23 Thread Andriy Babiy
You need at least the following ports: x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard I wanted to thank everybody who helped me. I added those ports, and that fixed the problem I had before. So, I was able to issue: X -configure and obtain

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:47:28AM -0700, Andriy Babiy wrote: You need at least the following ports: x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard I wanted to thank everybody who helped me. I added those ports, and that fixed the

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-23 Thread Andriy Babiy
I guess you missed the several replies (and the note in UPDATING) telling you to install the xorg port to obtain a complete xorg installation. Kris Thank you Kris. Now I see, I didn't have xorg meta-port installed, that was my fault. Do I have any chance to fix a mistake by installing it

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:07:18AM -0700, Andriy Babiy wrote: I guess you missed the several replies (and the note in UPDATING) telling you to install the xorg port to obtain a complete xorg installation. Kris Thank you Kris. Now I see, I didn't have xorg meta-port installed, that

Re: portmanager -s deletes ports?

2007-05-23 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
RW wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007 09:39:33 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, i use # portmanager -s|grep OLD | sort -t: -k2 occasionally to see which ports need upgrading. Ports tree is cvsup'ed each night. I then noticed that almost *all* X11 manpages had been deleted.

VPN server software ?

2007-05-23 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I have to setup a VPN server and I wonder which free software running on FreeBSD to choose as my knowledge in such softwares is very limited for now. So any feedbacks, links, infos are welcome Thank you -- Regards Frank ___

Re: VPN server software ?

2007-05-23 Thread James Seward
On 5/23/07, Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to setup a VPN server and I wonder which free software running on FreeBSD to choose as my knowledge in such softwares is very limited for now. OpenVPN is in ports and is working very well for me (including having Windows clients

Re: Alternative keyboard layouts not working with xorg7.2

2007-05-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 23 May 2007 02:36:14 +1000 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I've had xorg 6.x configured to allow me to switch from US English keyboard to US English with international support (for accented characters) as follows: in xorg.conf: [...] Section InputDevice

Re: Alternative keyboard layouts not working with xorg7.2

2007-05-23 Thread Nick Jagger
- Original Message From: Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:51:50 AM Subject: Re: Alternative keyboard layouts not working with xorg7.2 On Wed, 23 May 2007 02:36:14 +1000 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: what's up with portsnap?

2007-05-23 Thread r17fbsd
At 11:52 PM 5/22/2007, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # portsnap fetch Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have! That's really strange. And it doesn't happen for me. Is it possible that you have a misbehaving proxy which is caching a month-old snapshot? Colin

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-23 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:07:18AM -0700, Andriy Babiy wrote: I guess you missed the several replies (and the note in UPDATING) telling you to install the xorg port to obtain a complete xorg installation. Kris Thank you Kris. Now I see, I didn't have xorg meta-port

Re: VPN server software ?

2007-05-23 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Frank Bonnet wrote: I have to setup a VPN server and I wonder which free software running on FreeBSD to choose as my knowledge in such softwares is very limited for now. So any feedbacks, links, infos are welcome Try net/mpd4. It probably does anything you need from radius auth to netgraph

Re: what's up with portsnap?

2007-05-23 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 06:03:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:52 PM 5/22/2007, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # portsnap fetch Latest snapshot on server is older than what we already have! That's really strange. And it doesn't happen for me. Is it possible that you have a

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
dhaneshk k wrote: Hi Everbody I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , but I havn't configured spamassasin ,amavisd etc in this box. so I am suffering from spams daily .. You can give it to postfix - just setup some dnsbl zones for it. Good place

RE: Wireless, WEP, DHCP, and bcmwl5_sys - not working

2007-05-23 Thread Stanley
Ah, it did post to the mailing list. I got a failure notice and couldn't find it in the archives. I'm currently at school, so I'll try using wpa_supplicant as soon as I get home. Thanks. Quoting Nick Jagger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - Original Message From: Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Alternative keyboard layouts not working with xorg7.2

2007-05-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 23 May 2007 03:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Nick Jagger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:51:50 AM Subject: Re: Alternative keyboard layouts not working with xorg7.2

Re: portmanager -s deletes ports?

2007-05-23 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 23 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/05/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007 03:15:05 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_version -vl will give you a list of out of date ports. Alternatively, portversion -v | grep \ eg:

Re: Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Ghirai wrote: I'm kinda interested in these fujitsu-siemens laptops myself, so I'm still keen to see your 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' please? Ok, i think i got it working. dev.cpu.0.freq_levels showed about 14 possibilities. Would you care to cut'n'paste

Extended partition

2007-05-23 Thread Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh
Dear all, I have 1 freebsd partiotion 4 other partitions: 1.Etended DOS (Primary) 2.ext3 logical under 1 3.ext3 logical under 1 4.solaris swap (primary) When i mount ext3 partitions, i receive invalid argument mount_ext2fs -o ro /dev/ad0s6 /media/mymountpoint I have checked ad0s6 exist. Please

Maple 10

2007-05-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
I have been trying to get Maple 10 working on FreeBSD 6.2. With the patch to the kernel to add `linux_rt_sigpending', it works fine with the exception of the help command. This gives me: Help error, during help initialization - No help database found The help database file are *.hdb files and

Re: Maple 10

2007-05-23 Thread Colin Percival
Sandy Rutherford wrote: I have been trying to get Maple 10 working on FreeBSD 6.2. With the patch to the kernel to add `linux_rt_sigpending', it works fine with the exception of the help command. Wow, this is news to me. Did the Maple 10 installer work, or did you have to use linux to

Re: Server rebooting after some minutes

2007-05-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nico -telmich- Schottelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since today a server is rebooting after some minutes of uptime with the following error: mode = 0100600, inum=566528, fs=/hsphere panic: ffs_valloc: dup_alloc cpuid=1 boot() called on cpu#1 Cannot dump: No dump device defined. iir0:

Re: portmanager -s deletes ports?

2007-05-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports. I agree that is not clear why it is removing ports without warning. I consider this a

Re: Maple 10

2007-05-23 Thread Sandy Rutherford
Colin, On Wed, 23 May 2007 you wrote: Wow, this is news to me. Did the Maple 10 installer work, or did you have to use linux to install and then copy the installed files across? No problem with the installer. It's java-based and I used the FreeBSD native version of jdk1.4.2. The

pop3 proxy server (antispam/virus)

2007-05-23 Thread Roberto Pereyra
Hi all !! Somebody knows a pop3 proxy server to use for spam/virus filter ? My users have his pop3 accounts in a external server (ISP). Thanks in advance. roberto -- Ing. Roberto Pereyra ContenidosOnline http://www.contenidosonline.com.ar ___

Net/Force Install

2007-05-23 Thread magikman
Hello, The co-host that i use to host my email, web and DNS doesn't offer the option of using FreeBSD. This isn't really a problem per-se, but i would *really* rather use FreeBSD as it is what i am accustomed to and most comfortable using. So, off to my question. They offer a

Net/Force install

2007-05-23 Thread Darren Terry
Hello, The co-host that i use to host my email, web and DNS doesn't offer the option of using FreeBSD. This isn't really a problem per-se, but i would *really* rather use FreeBSD as it is what i am accustomed to and most comfortable using. So, off to my question. They offer a

Net/Force Install

2007-05-23 Thread magikman
Hello, The co-host that i use to host my email, web and DNS doesn't offer the option of using FreeBSD. This isn't really a problem per-se, but i would *really* rather use FreeBSD as it is what i am accustomed to and most comfortable using. So, off to my question. They offer a

Re: Net/Force Install

2007-05-23 Thread magikman
magikman wrote: Hello, The co-host that i use to host my email, web and DNS doesn't offer the option of using FreeBSD. This isn't really a problem per-se, but i would *really* rather use FreeBSD as it is what i am accustomed to and most comfortable using. So, off to my question. They

Net/Force Install

2007-05-23 Thread lists
Hello, The co-host that i use to host my email, web and DNS doesn't offer the option of using FreeBSD. This isn't really a problem per-se, but i would *really* rather use FreeBSD as it is what i am accustomed to and most comfortable using. So, off to my question.

Re: Net/Force Install

2007-05-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 5/23/07, magikman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the multiple posts. For anyone reading, don't let your 5 year old play with your computer with the email client open. Don't let him grow into a spammer ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re[4]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]

2007-05-23 Thread Ghirai
Hello Ian, Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 4:27:35 PM, you wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007, Ghirai wrote: I'm kinda interested in these fujitsu-siemens laptops myself It's an amilo pro v3205, the size of an A4 paper, 1.8 KG. This is the CPU (reasonably cheap, worth the money IMO): CPU: Intel(R)

NDIS troubles / broad com WIFI

2007-05-23 Thread Dan Sikorsky
Hello, I have a dell latitude x300 laptop, with the broadcom BCM4309 mini pci wireless card. I have tried ndising it... first having problems with syntax on line 13, and converting from utf into ascii, trying different driver versions etc. It seems I always get to this point. where you:

RE: Cloning

2007-05-23 Thread Brown, Steve
I clone Thinkpads all the time with G4L. I haven't used G4U but from what I gather it's what G4L is based on (either the code or the concept - not sure). You can clone everything including the recovery partition no problem. The only snag I've run into doing this is with some of the older

burncd on FreeBSD-6.2

2007-05-23 Thread sac
Hi, I was trying to burn cds using burncd. When I try to blank using `burncd -f /dev/acd0 blank', it hangs forever until I interrupt. And when I burn data in verbose mode it outputs message saying cd burnt successfully: addr = 0 size = 372736 blocks = 182 writing from file

Re: Maple 10

2007-05-23 Thread Benjamin Lutz
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 15:41, Sandy Rutherford wrote: I have been trying to get Maple 10 working on FreeBSD 6.2. With the patch to the kernel to add `linux_rt_sigpending', it works fine with the exception of the help command. This gives me: Help error, during help initialization - No

Re: burncd on FreeBSD-6.2

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 22:36:06 +0530 sac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to burn cds using burncd. When I try to blank using `burncd -f /dev/acd0 blank', it hangs forever until I interrupt. And when I burn data in verbose mode it outputs message saying cd burnt successfully:

Re: portmanager -s deletes ports?

2007-05-23 Thread RW
On Thu, 24 May 2007 00:25:31 +1000 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports. I agree

Re: Cloning

2007-05-23 Thread Grant Peel
Just because it was brought up. Can Norton Ghost, run from a floppy be used to clone a FreeBSD disk? (SCSI - SCSI) -Grant - Original Message - From: Brown, Steve To: Richard Rice ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:31 PM Subject: RE:

Re: Net/Force Install

2007-05-23 Thread Rob
magikman wrote: The co-host that i use to host my email, web and DNS doesn't offer the option of using FreeBSD. This isn't really a problem per-se, but i . They offer a rescuemode where i can boot into and have full access to the disks. Do you think it would be possible to maybe

FOLLOW up - dell x300 / broad com / ndis

2007-05-23 Thread Dan Sikorsky
Well, I tried with both sets of inf/sys files I could find for this card When i kldload the first set, my machine freezes than reboots when i kldload the second set it returns to the prompt, but nothing is in dmesg or anything so i tried my old netgear ma521 card this loads and shows up in

Re: burncd on FreeBSD-6.2

2007-05-23 Thread sac
On 5/23/07, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 22:36:06 +0530 sac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to burn cds using burncd. When I try to blank using `burncd -f /dev/acd0 blank', it hangs forever until I interrupt. And when I burn data in verbose

one more follow up

2007-05-23 Thread Dan Sikorsky
Sorry guys the netgear shows up in dmesg but it says the following cbb alloc res fail cardbus1: Can't get memory for IO ports ndis0: NETGEAR MA521 802.11b Wireless PC Card port 0-0xff mem 0xe0215000-0xe02151ff at device 0.0 on cardbus1 cbb alloc res fail ndis0: couldn't map iospace

Re: Cloning

2007-05-23 Thread Kurt Buff
On 5/23/07, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just because it was brought up. Can Norton Ghost, run from a floppy be used to clone a FreeBSD disk? (SCSI - SCSI) -Grant Yup - you'll need the DOS scsi drivers, but it'll work, at the bit level. Kurt

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Schuller
Still looking encouraging with 7 drives plugged in. I have had a couple of issues that may or may not have anything to do with the controller support. I will send an update in a few days or so when I know more. So it's been a while now and though I had a couple of weird pauses (console work,

Re: NDIS troubles / broad com WIFI

2007-05-23 Thread Dimiter Ivanov
On 5/23/07, Dan Sikorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a dell latitude x300 laptop, with the broadcom BCM4309 mini pci wireless card. I have tried ndising it... first having problems with syntax on line 13, and converting from utf into ascii, trying different driver versions etc. It

Re: burncd on FreeBSD-6.2

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 23:09:57 +0530 sac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/07, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 22:36:06 +0530 sac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to burn cds using burncd. When I try to blank using `burncd -f /dev/acd0

Re: portmanager -s deletes ports?

2007-05-23 Thread Gerard
On Wednesday May 23, 2007 at 01:19:43 (PM) RW wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:53:39 +0200 Heinrich Rebehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is weird! A program that is supposed to show the *status* of installed ports should never arbitrarily *remove* ports. I agree that is not

Re: burncd on FreeBSD-6.2

2007-05-23 Thread sac
On 5/23/07, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 23:09:57 +0530 sac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/23/07, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 22:36:06 +0530 sac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was trying to burn cds using

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
dhaneshk k wrote: Hi Everbody I have a freebsd-6.0 server with postfix and mailman running on this machine , but I havn't configured spamassasin ,amavisd etc in this box. so I am suffering from spams daily .. Since I am a new be to FreeBSD , let me requset you to share your expertise

Security Run Output Questions

2007-05-23 Thread PeterPluta
I see this quite regularly. What exactly is the http process doing? I'm guessing this is the master process stopping and restarting when I rotate logs or something. Can anyone confirm? There is usally more processes, 10-15 or more. kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.ioLB2PiJ Wed May 23

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread PeterPluta
From what I heard from most BSD'ers it's not really feasible to re-compile or customize the kernel much these days. If you truly need to compile/optimize the kernel you're already overworking your hardware. With that being said I’m curious myself, I'm always interested in squeezing a little out

Re: How to do Spam Control in FreeBSD

2007-05-23 Thread PeterPluta
There is a amavisd-new port that allows you to install spamassassin. It also has a ClamAV (anti-virus) plugin. This should be all you need. The greater level of control lies in the configuration of the spamassassin plugins. dhanesh wrote: Hi Everbody I have a freebsd-6.0 server with

Re: pop3 proxy server (antispam/virus)

2007-05-23 Thread PeterPluta
Not sure what you're looking for. But i've done something like it with postfix, amavisd-new, and dovecot. You can spread the load to 3 different servers or more if needed. Example box 1 (postfix), box 2 (amavisd-new, spamassassin, clamav), box 3 (dovcot). Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hi all !!

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

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Pluta
I had somethign wierd with php recently too. I uninstalled it, and re-compiled php itself and all of it's extensions. Make sure the module isn't listed twice in httpd.conf (it does that). All seems good now. Patrick Baldwin wrote: Beech Rintoul wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007, Patrick

Ports Confusion - some errors

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Pluta
I recently got an email from portsnap that I have 30 or so ports to update. I did my usual logged in, looked at the ports that needed updating, and went ahead and updated them with portsupgrade -arR. This caused many problems because I had the xorg-libraries installed that needed updating. I

Re: Security Run Output Questions

2007-05-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 23), PeterPluta said: I see this quite regularly. What exactly is the http process doing? I'm guessing this is the master process stopping and restarting when I rotate logs or something. Can anyone confirm? There is usally more processes, 10-15 or more. kernel log

Re: Security Run Output Questions

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:40:19PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote: I see this quite regularly. What exactly is the http process doing? I'm guessing this is the master process stopping and restarting when I rotate logs or something. Can anyone confirm? There is usally more processes, 10-15 or more.

Can't Figure out What I Did to Our Environment FreeBSD6.2.

2007-05-23 Thread Martin McCormick
I discovered that the file utility works for some accounts on a new FreeBSD system but not others. When it doesn't work, the response is: file: could not find any magic files! If I am su'd to root, me, or any of several other accounts on the system, I get that same error. Still

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Grove
PeterPluta wrote: From what I heard from most BSD'ers it's not really feasible to re-compile or customize the kernel much these days. If you truly need to compile/optimize the kernel you're already overworking your hardware. With that being said I’m curious myself, I'm always interested in

Re: Security Run Output Questions

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Pluta
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (May 23), PeterPluta said: I see this quite regularly. What exactly is the http process doing? I'm guessing this is the master process stopping and restarting when I rotate logs or something. Can anyone confirm? There is usally more processes, 10-15

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:42:17PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote: Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server? I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual

Re: Can't Figure out What I Did to Our Environment FreeBSD6.2.

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:31:27PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I discovered that the file utility works for some accounts on a new FreeBSD system but not others. When it doesn't work, the response is: file: could not find any magic files! If I am su'd to root, me, or any

Interrupt storm on an MS-1029 (AMD64)

2007-05-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I posted this question some month ago, got no replies. I recently repeated the installation with FreeBSD 6.2 and got the same results. -Robert Johnson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] STATEMENT OF PROBLEM FreeBSD 6.1 runs very slowly out of the box on my MS-1029 AMD Turion notebook

Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-23 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 May 2007 21:10:25 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/05/07 Ted Mittelstaedt said: Note that error counters are often bogus because so many cards today filter errors out in hardware, long before the OS driver gets them. Well, there are plenty there on my

Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 23, 2007, at 4:25 PM, RW wrote: Well, there are plenty there on my sis0 interface (internal). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ netstat -i NameMtu Network Address Ipkts IerrsOpkts Oerrs Coll sis0 1500 Link#1 00:0a:e6:4a:56:c2 37989565 3980 36808783 5749 6492857

Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-23 Thread Javier Henderson
On Thu, 24 May 2007 00:25:43 +0100, RW wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2007 21:10:25 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17/05/07 Ted Mittelstaedt said: Note that error counters are often bogus because so many cards today filter errors out in hardware, long before the OS driver

Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Jason Lixfeld
So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead of a tape. It would seem dump/restore are the tools of choice. My backup strategy is pretty much I don't want to be screwed if my RAID goes away.

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jason Lixfeld wrote: - Other folks dumping to a hard drive at night? Care to share any of your experiences/rationale? Not with dump/restore. After using amanda and a tape drive for eons I'm now happy with a bacula solution to backup 2 freebsds and a windows machine. It does incrementals

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread David N
On 24/05/07, Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Lixfeld wrote: - Other folks dumping to a hard drive at night? Care to share any of your experiences/rationale? Not with dump/restore. After using amanda and a tape drive for eons I'm now happy with a bacula solution to backup 2

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 23, 2007, at 16:27, Jason Lixfeld wrote: So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead of a tape. It would seem dump/restore are the tools of choice. My backup strategy is pretty much I

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup methodology but the restore methodology. Excellent point. Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so let me try it this way instead: I'm looking for a backup solution that I can

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:03:40 Jason Lixfeld wrote: On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup methodology but the restore methodology. Excellent point. Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so let me try it this way

Re: Can't Figure out What I Did to Our Environment FreeBSD6.2. fixed

2007-05-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Roland Smith writes: Maybe the ownership and/or permissions of /usr/share/misc are wrong? I checked against another system that isn't having any trouble and found the permissions to be exactly the same. I then ran strace -e trace=file to see what all it opens when being run. Bingo!

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, So I feel a need to start backing up my servers. To that end, I've decided that it's easier for me to grab an external USB drive instead of a tape. It's certainly faster, easier and cheaper now days. It would seem dump/restore are the tools of choice. This really repends of what

Re: portmanager -s deletes ports?

2007-05-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 23 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/05/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 23 May 2007 03:15:05 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_version -vl will give you a list of out of date ports. Alternatively, portversion -v | grep \

Re: Cloning

2007-05-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
Grant Peel wrote: Just because it was brought up. Can Norton Ghost, run from a floppy be used to clone a FreeBSD disk? (SCSI - SCSI) -Grant - Original Message - From: Brown, Steve To: Richard Rice ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:31 PM

Re: Security Run Output Questions

2007-05-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:40:19PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote: I see this quite regularly. What exactly is the http process doing? I'm guessing this is the master process stopping and restarting when I rotate logs or something. Can anyone confirm? There is usally more

Re: Backup advice

2007-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
On May 23, 2007, at 19:03, Jason Lixfeld wrote: On 23-May-07, at 9:23 PM, Doug Hardie wrote: The criteria for selecting a backup approach is not the backup methodology but the restore methodology. Excellent point. Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question, so let me try it this way

2 problems with shared libraries

2007-05-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have the two following problems: 1) $ ldconfig -r | grep libqt-mt.so.3 102:-lqt-mt.3 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 $ ldd colorseg colorseg: libfreetype.so.6 = /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x28279000) libjpeg.so.62 = /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x282e2000)