FreeBSD mini-ITX

2005-06-22 Thread Benjamin Keating
I've been eyeing up these mini-ITX boards - would like to make a quite little file server. Does anyone here run a mini-ITX board (what model)? Does it work out of the box? Anything not supported? I'd go for one of VIA's as AMD's and others are still a little new and pricey. Recommend a shop to

5.4 - Adding USB2.0 Support

2005-06-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
Hey List, So I have a few gigs of data I'd like to xfer over USB and version 1 is just wa to slow. However, I successfully plugged in my external USB drive, mounted it, xfer data to/from it and everything worked wonderfully, just incredible slow. So i read the handbook (

Re: syslog messages

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
I usually do (as root): $ echo email-addy ~/.forward this way sendmail and it's conf remain the same. less modification and changes can be easily found. On 5/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks glenn, it worked regrds, ananth.g Glenn Dawson wrote: At 10:13 PM

Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
Hey all, I'd like to tweak my drives / view there current configurations. I get really slow xfers from two machine in the same, quite, LAN (both running FBSD 5.4 with good Intell Pro100 NICS). Im not sure if DMA is enabled or not so I'd like to start with figuring out what to use to view this

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for. How did you learn about these tools? From the pages i've read (most of) the handbook, I didn't see it mention them. On 5/23/05, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:12:59AM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Hey all

Re: Tuning Hard Disks

2005-05-23 Thread Benjamin Keating
I just noticed, 3ware managed devices (obviously) don't show up. Is there 3rd party software that needs to be installed in order to view/tune 3ware (twe) devices? Nothing FreeBSD specific came with the card. On 5/23/05, Benjamin Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. This is exactly what I

Suggestions on FTP daemon with NIS support

2005-05-18 Thread Benjamin Keating
Running FreeBSD 5.4 Would like to run a FTP server, authenticating against NIS. No anonymous support required, just trust worthy office users. Would the bundled FTP daemon ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-ftp.html ) do the trick or would you recommend something

Ports Collection - INDEX Error (FreeBSD 5.4)

2005-05-12 Thread Benjamin Keating
I did a very generic install of FreeBSD 5.4 on stable hardware. Updated ports and then did this: toki# cd /usr/ports/ toki# make index Generating INDEX-5 - please wait../usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, line 4847: warning: duplicate script for target add-p list-post ignored fityk-0.4.4_1:

Setting up ntpd on FreeBSD (5.4)

2005-05-12 Thread Benjamin Keating
I'm running a generic install of FreeBSD 5.4 and would like to setup ntpd. ntpdate doesn't do me much good as I rarely reboot, but I took the handbooks suggestion of using it anyway (and I've verified it works)). Anyway, I'm having trouble setting up ntpd and it'd be great if I could get your

Re: Ports Collection - INDEX Error (FreeBSD 5.4)

2005-05-12 Thread Benjamin Keating
Thanks! I completely forgot about `make fetchindex`. Would this command replace `portsdb -Uu`? On 12 May 2005 18:01:19 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a very generic install of FreeBSD 5.4 on stable hardware. Updated ports

Re: Setting up ntpd on FreeBSD (5.4)

2005-05-12 Thread Benjamin Keating
Thanks! ntpdate running after ntpd was what was causing the problem. Also a good reminder to grep out relevant parts in /etc/defaults/rc.conf... as my conf file was, by default /var/db/ntpd.drift'. No wonder my /etc/ntpd.conf didn't get touched. Thanks again Sean. - bpk On 5/12/05, Sean Murphy

NFS Can't enumerate maps

2005-05-10 Thread Benjamin Keating
Howdy Gang, Im trying to setup a NIS slave in a already NIS powered network based on the handbook rules http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-nis.html. My masters relevant rc.conf nis_client_enable=YES nisdomainname=LONGNOW nis_server_enable=YES

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-05 Thread Benjamin Keating
PROTECTED] wrote: Benjamin Keating wrote: Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of date. A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project like it yet, I'd like to propose we

Re: NFS mounting

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
So putting NFs mounts in the background, via fstab would look like this(?): nfs.myserver.com:/usr/ports /usr/ports nfs rw,-b 0 0 (is the -b in the right place? I don't have a test environment to check this setting) Thanks! - bpk On 4/29/05, Xian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 29

Re: mutt working throu NFS only in read-only

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
You can also omit the client-side lockd and statd options if you include the `-L` option when mounting the NFS export (man mount_nfs, nfsd) - bpk On 3/8/05, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:37:19AM +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: Hello, I have some trouble in

The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of date. A wiki would be a great way to acheive this. If there isn't a project like it yet, I'd like to propose we set one up. I can contribute quite a bit of

Properly umounting a USB HDD

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
Hey all, I've noticed that a 'umount /mnt/portable' properly umounts the drive like it should, but when I hold the drive in my hand and give it a very gentle horizontal spin with my wrist, the reading head / platter.. something, sounds loose, as if the arm wasn't properly docked. Is there any

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Keating
On 5/3/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 05:00:06PM -0700, Benjamin Keating wrote: Is there anything being done to help keep the handbook just a little more updated? It's a great handbook, if it's content wasn't so out of date. What is out of date

NFS and rc.conf options (statd lockd, necessary?)

2005-03-16 Thread Benjamin Keating
Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and 5.3 machines The server is 5.2.1 and has the following in it's rc.conf: nfs_client_enable=YES # This host is an NFS client (YES/NO). nfs_reserved_port_only=YES # Provide NFS only on secure port (YES/NO). nfs_server_enable=YES # This host

Apache2 (ports) and VirtualHosts Problems

2005-03-09 Thread Benjamin Keating
I'm Running FreeBSD 5.3 and Apache2, compiled from Ports. I'm setting up a series of VirtualHosts in Apache. Apache runs fine otherwise. The vhosts that are not working are under: /data/vhosts/domain.com/{www,logs}/ (where /data/ is a single filesystem on it's own harddrive). Here is a sample

Vinum, newfs: could not open special device

2005-03-09 Thread Benjamin Keating
Hey all. Running FreeBSD 5.3 with GENERIC kernel. This isn't high priority, but I've never had problems with Vinum before and this one's got me stumped. /etc/vinum.conf ### bigbang# cat /etc/vinum.conf drive a device /dev/ad4e drive b device

Re: Apache2 (ports) and VirtualHosts Problems

2005-03-09 Thread Benjamin Keating
, Benjamin Keating [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm Running FreeBSD 5.3 and Apache2, compiled from Ports. I'm setting up a series of VirtualHosts in Apache. Apache runs fine otherwise. The vhosts that are not working are under: /data/vhosts/domain.com/{www,logs}/ (where /data/ is a single filesystem

Recompiling the Kernel for better ATA support

2005-03-07 Thread Benjamin Keating
I'm having a problem with my drives and found a promising solution (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-October/008821.html) It looks like i need to modify /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-lowlevel.c with the following, but im unsure how to read it. Some pointers about how to