Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD-Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:05:26 PM Subject: FreeBSD for webserver? Hi there I am going to make 2 Webserver at my work going to handle 50

Re: Spamassassin very slow

2008-07-23 Thread lyd mc
thnx Philip, your config will help in my current setup. --- On Wed, 7/23/08, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spamassassin very slow To: James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date:

Re: Spamassassin very slow

2008-07-23 Thread lyd mc
Hi James, I remove spamc on .procmailrc and I can see lots of improvements! Thanx, alyd --- On Wed, 7/23/08, James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: James Tanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spamassassin very slow To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 11:07 AM lyd mc

RE: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul Schmehl Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:22 PM To: VeeJay; FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD for webserver? --On Tuesday, July 22, 2008 22:05:26 +0200 VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 03:47:04 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: This seems to be a common misperception about ports. Ports aren't something magical. They do exactly what you would do from the commandline (i.e. ./configure, make, make install), except they come with several bonuses. 1) The

Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread VeeJay
Really good contribution I would of course go with ports but have a question in mind What should be installation sequience? 1. Apache 2.2.9 2. MySQL 5.1.26 3. PHP 5.2.6 And are there any options you guys would like to suggest to avoide for performance or security reasons? Regards VJ

Re: Has anyone used libusb for accessing usb devices here?

2008-07-23 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 06:20:09 Andrew Falanga wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 08:38:58 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to know if anyone here on the list has ever used libusb (http://libusb.sourceforge.net) for accessing usb devices. I successfully

Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread Julien Cigar
At least ports-mgmt/portaudit, which check if installed ports have published security vulnerabilities. I don't use PHP, but I used to create a separate user for each webapp with a special login class, so I would run PHP in FCGI mode (with something like xcache) instead of mod_php. For the rest

max MFSROOT size

2008-07-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i made 350MB mfsroot, and loader simply ignores to load it. with 100MB it works. machine have 512MB RAM. how to fix it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread FreeBSD Questions
Yet your point is completly valid one.. and that's why The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is the only book that I've been hesitant on buying so far ... Lucas (Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition), Lavigne (The Best of FreeBSD Basics), Kong (BSD rootkits), Lehey (Download

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Dave
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 08:12:02AM -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: Yet your point is completly valid one.. and that's why The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System is the only book that I've been hesitant on buying so far ... Lucas (Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition), Lavigne

ng_netflow question

2008-07-23 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Hi there. I'm stuck with splitting input and output traffic. I can't use srcaddr/dstaddr as the machine generating traffic gets dynamic ip's. I'm thinking of using input/output for that purpose, but it's not clearly stated how this parameters are populated. I.e. for outbound connection we

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
FreeBSD Questions wrote: And what about Absolute FreeBSD? It's updated for FreeBSD 7, so I know it's current. Is it a good book? Is it worth the read? How valuable is its content? (I know I'm asking some very subjective questions, but if I'm going to spend hundreds of $$$ to build my

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread dfeustel
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 04:12:51PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: FreeBSD Questions wrote: And what about Absolute FreeBSD? It's updated for FreeBSD 7, so I know it's current. Is it a good book? Is it worth the read? How valuable is its content? (I know I'm asking some very subjective

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread darko gavrilovic
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:12 AM, FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: details like the nitty-gritty of configuing sendmail, apache, samba, NFS, etc? You might want to look at specific books targeting that software. Check o'rielly.For example http://search.oreilly.com/?q=sendmail

Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd (was: FreeBSD for webserver?)

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the original source from the author's site. I've had a few where the author released the code under GPL then a few years later lost interest, stopped paying whatever

Upgrade 6.2-Release to 7.0-Release - stuck!

2008-07-23 Thread Marc Coyles
Am running freebsd-update following instructions at http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.htm l It’s decided that it can’t merge named.conf changes automagically and has dropped me into vi with the file open… looking as below. What exactly is it wanting me to

Re: connecting to a secured Windows 2003 terminal server

2008-07-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
doubt, since even after googling for nearly five days I couldn't find any solution. Recently my company has updated their server to Windows 2003. The earlier 2000 server didn't have SSL enabled, so rdp/rdesktop worked for me without any problem. But now, as I try to connect to the server, it

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
cpghost wrote: Why not add this to pointyhat scripts? Just upload a copy of every *new* distfile ever encountered from the author's page to freebsd (unless there are legal constraints not to do so, of course)? Some might say that this already happens. Well, it's on ftp.freebsd.org rather

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
cpghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the original source from the author's site. I've had a few where the author released the code under GPL then a few years later lost interest, stopped

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew Seaman wrote: cpghost wrote: Why not add this to pointyhat scripts? Just upload a copy of every *new* distfile ever encountered from the author's page to freebsd (unless there are legal constraints not to do so, of course)? Some might say that this already happens. Well, it's on

Re: connecting to a secured Windows 2003 terminal server

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wojciech Puchar wrote: doubt, since even after googling for nearly five days I couldn't find any solution. Recently my company has updated their server to Windows 2003. The earlier 2000 server didn't have SSL enabled, so rdp/rdesktop worked for me without any problem. But now, as I try to

Re: Upgrade 6.2-Release to 7.0-Release - stuck!

2008-07-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Marc Coyles wrote: Am running freebsd-update following instructions at http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.htm l I did similar recently, although I went from 6.2 to 6.3 then to 7 (almost certainly not necessary though.) It’s decided that it can’t

Re: Free BSD 6.3 Export Control Classification

2008-07-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:54:39PM -0400, darko gavrilovic wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html I don't see anywhere in that reference that the question is answered or even alluded to. It does give information on how to obtain a copy of FreeBSD, but nothing about ECC. jerry On

Re: Upgrade 6.2-Release to 7.0-Release - stuck!

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Marc Coyles wrote: Am running freebsd-update following instructions at http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html It’s decided that it can’t merge named.conf changes automagically and has dropped me into vi with the file open… looking as below. What exactly is

Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:01:44PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote: Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Some people enjoy doing that. Most people just want the software to work, be easy to maintain and upgrade and then stay out of their way. Ahem, and that 'just works' crowd is

RE: Upgrade 6.2-Release to 7.0-Release - stuck!

2008-07-23 Thread Marc Coyles
Have left as is (for now). Finish the rest off tomorrow... The box runs WHM / cPanel... and just holds a few vhosts under single domain. DNS is handled by ISP's servers... If anything in original was modified, it was done by WHM/cPanel, not me... Am at the freebsd-update install point now... so

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
FreeBSD Questions wrote: This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x branches. We've progressed further and are now into version 7. How well does this book apply to more current versions of FreeBSD, such as

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd (was: FreeBSD for webserver?)

2008-07-23 Thread James Tanis
cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ports would still go to the primary sites (to conserve bandwidth), but should the original distfile disappear, it would be still available on freebsd. I think his problem comes from the fact that some ports don't do this, not that it isn't a good idea. The

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
James Tanis wrote: cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ports would still go to the primary sites (to conserve bandwidth), but should the original distfile disappear, it would be still available on freebsd. I think his problem comes from the fact that some ports don't do this, not that it

Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread DAve
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 09:01:44PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote: Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Some people enjoy doing that. Most people just want the software to work, be easy to maintain and upgrade and then stay out of their way. Ahem, and that 'just

Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, July 23, 2008 11:06:30 +0200 VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Really good contribution I would of course go with ports but have a question in mind What should be installation sequience? 1. Apache 2.2.9 2. MySQL 5.1.26 3. PHP 5.2.6 Install Apache before you install

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FreeBSD Questions wrote: This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I know there were some significant changes between the 4.x and 5.x branches. We've progressed further and are now into version 7. How well does this book apply

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cpghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the original source from the author's site. I've had a few where the

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
cpghost wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cpghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Another problem with ports is that all of them like pulling the original source from the author's site. I've had a few

Re: Auto-saving distfiles on freebsd

2008-07-23 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:06:36 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cpghost wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:51:10 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cpghost wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:47:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Another problem with ports is that all

RE: Free BSD 6.3 Export Control Classification

2008-07-23 Thread Chocas, Connie S
I could not find anything referencing export controls for FreeBSD. You may find the following link for Apache Software Foundation products helpful. This is the type is information that is needed to determine what is required to legally export software. If FreeBSD has any cryptographic

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread James Tanis
Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I stand ready for correction, but Design Implementation is mostly about, well, the design of the system itself ... not an operational manual but a programmer's guide to OS internals. And, not only that, but it's about 4.4BSD (1993?), so the exact OS

Re: Free BSD 6.3 Export Control Classification

2008-07-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:18:32AM -0600, Chocas, Connie S wrote: I could not find anything referencing export controls for FreeBSD. You may find the following link for Apache Software Foundation products helpful. This is the type is information that is needed to determine what is

Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-07-23 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 15:23:15 Erik Trulsson wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:09:17AM -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: This book was printed in August 2004. This predates FBSD 5, and I know there were some

boot -s hangs

2008-07-23 Thread Peter Clark
Hello, I have a FreeBSD install that will hang when trying to enter single user mode. If I use shutdown now from the console the system will return System shutdown time has arrived as expected but it will just hang there indefinitely. If I use option 4 (enter single user mode) from the boot

libbz2.so.3 ?

2008-07-23 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 6.3-R amavis, spammassassin, clamav installed via ports clamav is logging : Jul 23 16:08:32 mx2 amavis[2626]: (02626-01-2) (!!)run_av (ClamAV-clamscan) FAILED - unexpected exit 1, output=/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libbz2.so.3 not found, required by clamscan All the system

Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread Derek Belrose
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I've inherited a fairly large number of FreeBSD servers. All of them are running 6.3. What is the recommended way of doing port management? Or if there isn't a recommended way of updating ports on 10-15 servers, what do people do? How do you

Re: libbz2.so.3 ?

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Len Conrad wrote: FreeBSD 6.3-R amavis, spammassassin, clamav installed via ports clamav is logging : Jul 23 16:08:32 mx2 amavis[2626]: (02626-01-2) (!!)run_av (ClamAV-clamscan) FAILED - unexpected exit 1, output=/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libbz2.so.3 not found, required by

system hangs on boot up if no internet available

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Abouav
I setup a FreeBSD server (v 6.1) for my company as a simple Samba server. It works fine. Except once in awhile our access to the outside internet goes out (due to our ISP), and when it does the FreeBSD server gets hung up, even after rebooted. This happened this morning, so I put a console on

Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available

2008-07-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Dave Abouav wrote: I setup a FreeBSD server (v 6.1) for my company as a simple Samba server. It works fine. Except once in awhile our access to the outside internet goes out (due to our ISP), and when it does the FreeBSD server gets hung up, even after rebooted.

Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:41:46AM -0400, Derek Belrose wrote: What is the recommended way of doing port management? There doesn't seem to be a single standard way of doing this. There are several things you could do, assuming that all servers use identically configured software. Probably the

Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available

2008-07-23 Thread Dave Abouav
Our DNS goes through our ISP. The IP addresses of their DNS servers are hard-coded into the server's /etc/rc.conf file. No amount of waiting seems to help. It always just hangs trying to load sshd. Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Dave Abouav wrote: I setup a FreeBSD server

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Or you could mount /usr/local from a single NFS server on all others, keeping them automatically in sync but that might strain the NFS server and make it a single point of failure which is undesirable. Maybe it would be better to use the Coda filesystem in this case.=20 In theory

Installing jdk on 7-Release: Has known vulnerabilities from 2005?

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
Hi, when I try to install linux-sun-jdk16 from ports I get: === linux-sun-jdk-1.6.0.07 has known vulnerabilities: = jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html = Please update your ports tree and

Re: Installing jdk on 7-Release: Has known vulnerabilities from 2005?

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Hi, when I try to install linux-sun-jdk16 from ports I get: === linux-sun-jdk-1.6.0.07 has known vulnerabilities: = jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html = Please

Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dave Abouav wrote: Our DNS goes through our ISP. The IP addresses of their DNS servers are hard-coded into the server's /etc/rc.conf file. No amount of waiting seems to help. It always just hangs trying to load sshd. Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Dave Abouav wrote: I

Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available

2008-07-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:04:15PM -0700, Dave Abouav wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Dave Abouav wrote: I setup a FreeBSD server (v 6.1) for my company as a simple Samba server. It works fine. Except once in awhile our access to the outside internet goes out

RE: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gonzalo Nemmi Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:02 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for webserver? On Wednesday 23 July 2008 03:47:04 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: This seems to

Re: Installing jdk on 7-Release: Has known vulnerabilities from 2005?

2008-07-23 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
Hi again! when I try to install linux-sun-jdk16 from ports I get: === linux-sun-jdk-1.6.0.07 has known vulnerabilities: = jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html = Please update your ports

Re: Installing jdk on 7-Release: Has known vulnerabilities from 2005?

2008-07-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Hi again! when I try to install linux-sun-jdk16 from ports I get: === linux-sun-jdk-1.6.0.07 has known vulnerabilities: = jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html =

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread darko
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Taking down or a failure of the NFS server pulls EVERY other system with it. ..just thinking out loud here...but.. what if you had 2 identical NFS/rsync servers and used them together in a standby/failover

Re: libbz2.so.3 ?

2008-07-23 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 6.3-R amavis, spammassassin, clamav installed via ports clamav is logging : Jul 23 16:08:32 mx2 amavis[2626]: (02626-01-2) (!!)run_av (ClamAV-clamscan) FAILED - unexpected exit 1, output=/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libbz2.so.3 not found, required by clamscan All the

Re: Can't ping

2008-07-23 Thread Tim Judd
Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone tell what is going on here. All of a sudden I can't ping. When I try a get this message: ping: sendto: Permission denied All internet functions seem to be working fine...just can't ping. Rem ___

Re: Samba and LDAP install on FreeBSD

2008-07-23 Thread Tim Judd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my problem. I installed the OpenLdap 2.4.10 server and SASL client. I then went to install the Samba 3.0.30 Port and it tells me that it needs to install OpenLDAP client 2.3.42, but the 2.4.10 is in the same place and I need to deinstall it. I deinstall 2.4.10

Re: Slapd not starting

2008-07-23 Thread Tim Judd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was having some troubles with the samba install telling me that openldap 2.3.42 and 2.4.10 would conflict. I had installed openldap 2.4.10 server and I guess that was the problem. It seemed to start up just fine, but since I could not get samba to install and it kept

portupgrade policykit problem

2008-07-23 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, Hope I didn't do something stupid here Tried to 'portupgrade -R policykit' but it came back with an error. So I deinstalled it and now I'm trying to reinstall it, but it fails with the following error. R=\/usr/local/etc\ -DPACKAGE_DATA_DIR=\/usr/local/share\

Re: Spamassassin very slow

2008-07-23 Thread jdow
That says you are driving spamd into swapping. The two canonical reasons for SpamAssassin to be really slow are dead BL sites or overrunning memory and going into heavy swapping. You made a change to reduce the amount of swapping. Hence you probably have too many children at any one time. Modify