Opsware

Does anyone use something similar to Opsware to assist in managing their servers? I have roughly 15-20 servers, Solaris, Fedora, OpenBSD and FreeBSD, and I am looking for something that is similar to Opsware, but free/cheaper. This is for a community college, and our budget is 0, so I'm pretty

Re: Opsware

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:30:44AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone use something similar to Opsware to assist in managing their servers? You'll get better answers if you describe what you're trying to do, as opposed to mentioning

Re: Raid card for FreeBSD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Wun wrote: Hi, I will host a mail server in FreeBSD 6.x. Since we are going to use Raid for mirroing, can anyone please recommend a RAID CARD that is fully compatible with FreeBSD? I found the following RAIDCARD sounds good, what is your

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~uptime 4:05AM up 940 days, 9:18, 1 user, load averages: 0.24, 0.28, 0.25 -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpJhgUiinJVz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: hosts file

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 16:43 +, eoghan wrote: Hi Has anyone got an example of how the hosts file should be setup to allow locahost to work in a browser? Mine doesnt work anymore unless i go through the ip. This is when i start apache, maybe there is some other place i need to set it?

Long Uptime

-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #3: Fri Jul 18 17:09:10 CDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Bart i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~uptime 10:38PM up 699 days, 3:51, 1 user, load averages: 0.41, 0.27, 0.23 - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Stickers

the last one on the last page. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgpJuykJqQMAA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ps -awux

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:42:20PM +0530, Akhthar Parvez. K wrote: Hello, When I run the command ps -awux from a user's bash shell(not root), it's listing the processes under the particular user only. Can anyone tell me why? What is security.bsd.see_other_uids set to? -- Bob Bomar

Re: Cannot use cvsup

| | And if I try to re-add cvsup, it says this: | su-2.05b# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup/ | su-2.05b# make install | make: don't know how to make install. Stop | | Can someone please help me with this? I don't know what to do from here... | | Try cvsup-without-gui, doesnt require X - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL

Re: Examine IP packet

. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC1yXU9Jm/aTrtdKoRAjw1AJ9u6ntPTBedCSVNKhAbtVFBleO6YwCgjoM5 u9xWxkjKSlMZ98b1LA/TM/g= =vey9 -END PGP

Re: Need advice on building a system with a Raid drive

' device = 'PDC20268R FastTrak100 TX2/TX4/LP EIDE controller' class= mass storage subclass = RAID -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgpAf5utdB7XA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Time not wanting to change

/share/zoneinfo/ZONEFILE /etc/localtime /etc/localtime controls what timezone the system uses, KDE uses something different. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgpGRxS3R9gHG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Time not wanting to change

as suggested. How do i now get the system to use the /etc/localtime ? im hoping i dont have to peform a windows trick an reboot *chuckle* The system will automatically use /etc/localtime. All you need to do is link then file. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD

Redirecting requests

I am looking for the best way to redirect request on a specific port. Baiscally all I want to do is when a connection is made to a port, say 5000, send that request out through another port, say 2000, on the other interface. Any ideas? -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Redirecting requests

to any port {3380:3390} keep state On 7/8/05, Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for the best way to redirect request on a specific port. Baiscally all I want to do is when a connection is made to a port, say 5000, send that request out through another port, say 2000

pam_start error

pam_ssh.so libfetch.so libpam.so pam_tacplus.so libfetch.so.3 libpam.so.2 pam_unix.so What am I missing? -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgpVegQ2ivTqb.pgp

Re: Install ports as non-root user?

use what commands. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgpOcMHqpyNL5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Install ports as non-root user?

will allow a command to be run as root, i.e. make install clean. You can configure sudo to only allow the command to be run in a specific directory. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgpYFWLSM11Ei.pgp Description: PGP

RAID Cards

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am looking to build a new file server. I have used Promise cards exclusivly in the past, but I am looking at Highpoint cards for this machine. Anybody have any opinions on RAID cards? - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob

Re: mac osx disklabels

an Apple format. There were some tools in ports to read HFS fs's, but not HFS+. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCts7o9Jm

Re: web calendar program recommendation

to sync with it. There are several out there. Another that I have used is Web Calendar, http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php. Its pretty good.q - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: Webmail Selection Setup Configuration

://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/mailserver/imp.php -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgp118XswCNIc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ThinkPad X30 installation problem

PartitionMagic in general after FreeBSD is installed or is it something else? What is the purpose of using PartitionMagic after the install? Are you able to boot into FreeBSD and Windows? If so, then I fail to see the problem, if not, then what errors are you getting. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sun Fire V40z Server.

if FreeBSD supports the V40z sun machines... | | If anyone else can match something with about the same amount of quality that | FreeBSD does run on however, we'll also be interested in that. | It should work, it's similar to the v20z, just more processors. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: PPP Dialin Server Problem - Can you help me?

will need to contact a linux list, this is a FreeBSD list, similar but not the same. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCr6lf9Jm

Re: Pleasing FreeBSD Gods ? For A @freebsd.org ?

to become a committer, find an area that interests you, docs, ports, src, and then just hop in and go. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCr6un9Jm

Re: MAC address rc.conf

? |Thanks :-))) |Kind regards, |Pete | When the system boots, it will read rc.conf, and then it will pass the ifconfig_inf=... to ifconfig, so what I do is just to add ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff to that line: ifconfig_fxp0=inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.0.0.0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff - -- Bob

Re: MAC address rc.conf

] | | | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [[3]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Bomar | Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 10:42 AM | To: Peter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: MAC address rc.conf | | | Peter wrote: | |Hi, | |My ISP have aauthorization by username, password

Re: Can't connect to NFS Share

point me in the right direction to resolve this? | The Mac is trying the NFS request on a non priveleged port. Try setting setting nfs_reserve_port_only to NO in /etc/rc.conf - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin

Re: fstab option to 'skip' a file system?

. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCq6379Jm/aTrtdKoRAtj3AJ9UidrCbllUnJ7yXV22P/NWMW5DaQCfdg2+ rwkKV3b+NnKKUxCn7V9SZXw= =yVIT -END PGP

Re: cvs question

? | | | | On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Bob Bomar wrote: | | Denny White wrote: | | | | | | I know before asking this has been | | covered profusely, and I have read | | a lot in the handbook, man pages, | | fbsd web site mailing list archives. | | But, there are some things I just do | | not understand. My

Re: cvs question

with each relase, just the src. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCpiKD9Jm/aTrtdKoRAqNxAJ9SXVeyV7F1VZFZRqpSCJkVGyejxgCfeglr

Re: ircd

to zagreb.hr.eu.und and free.tyranz.com on the port for ircd, port 6667. Some trojens use irc channels for control, might look into that. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http

daapd and high load averages

collection. top: 57525 daapd1260 36624K 34356K RUN345.8H 32.78% 32.78% daapd - - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ibsd.us - - --- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org - -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin

Re: iTunes server SUCCESS!! Here are my notes

, and setup a directory that holds my music, then use Hymn (playfair) to convert m4p to mp4, then lame and some other tools to convert to mp3, and share the music across the network. I tried using Netatalk, but ran into some problems with file name lengths, and samba works just fine. - -- Bob

Compaq RAID 5 and a PC164

. The machine is running 4.11-Prerelease. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us - --- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFB2dEl9Jm/aTrtdKoRAvm0AJ0avsHZKQcsZiW7tN3Y5bhtZJ5R0wCbBWGC

conf/72964

Curious to the status of conf/72964. It pertains to adding an rc.d script to start wireless interfaces. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Really Dumb Question

/group su still fails. What am I missing? It's go to be something really dumb. What error are you getting? Are you using root's password or the user password? Look at security/sudo from the ports. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us - --- FreeBSD

Re: sun box

seen it run on a E250 Dual Proc machine. I was never able to get X running, but the base OS runs just fine. I was running Apache/Postfix/MySQL on an Ultra 5 and others just fine. See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware-sparc64.html#SUPPORT- SYS 2. Yes. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL

Need some ideas

serial port on the machine is taken, so it needs to be parallel or USB. Anybody have any ideas? - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us - --- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin

Re: How to connect iBook to my BSD network

server, but I don't have to use it if it's not the best way. How can I configure both computers to talk? What do you mean by talk? I have a 15 Powerbook, and DHCP running on my OpenBSD router, and it picks up an IP just fine. The PB uses NFS just fine. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: FreeBSD and UPS's

's connected to a 4.8 machine, and it works fine with nut. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us - --- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBfrkE9Jm

Re: Help with make install for php4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 24, 2004, at 9:43 PM, Shawn wrote: I did try that .. But each time I try to reinstall I see this line . === Found saved configuration for php4-4.3.9 I dont know where its finding it from though Take a gander at /var/db/ports - -- Bob Bomar

Command Line MP4 conversion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am looking for a command line utility to convert from mp4 to mp3. Any ideas? - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us - --- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Command Line MP4 conversion

for. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us - --- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve http://www.FreeBSD.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFBeD3/9Jm/aTrtdKoRAg2FAKCZmOtSbKrKvcpMCWdmaBZzsbw+zQCgmavB xcKmC24RtU5GmObyM9W2/NY= =Y5dP -END

Re: Command Line MP4 conversion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 21, 2004, at 5:54 PM, Michael Johnson wrote: okay, I'm stupid, I don't think it'll do mp4 to mp3.. sorry faad m4a (mp4) to wav, then lame to mp3. Its on the front page. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bob.bomar.us

Re: Command Line MP4 conversion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 21, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Michael Johnson wrote: Oh, I thought you wanted a tool to do it all for you. On Oct 21, 2004, at 6:58 PM, Bob Bomar wrote: I would, but I can roll my own as well, now that I have these tools. - -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: redundancy with freebsd.

multiple NIC's simultaneously, and prevents any loops that could be caused. FreeBSD does not have STP to my knowledge, but OpenBSD does. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ibsd.us signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Newbie...

decide on what windowmanager to use: http://www.plig.org/xwinman/ And then you can install the one you like. I would suggest KDE or GNOME for a new user. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Pkg_info issue

a : #pkgdb -u That will update the pkg database and see if that helps. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

PPP as a backup link

I am setting up a UPS monitoring system, and need to have ppp as a backup internet link. I have the network setup, but when the power fails, the network will go down, and I need to send out alerts to certain people. Has anybody done this using FreeBSD? -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: finding FreeBSD 3.2-RELASE

it? Or of a site that has the distribution ISOs? Any such information would be very much appreciated. http://freebsdmirrors.com -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hardware for 100Mbps bridge

not be able to support full load of 100Mbps. I run OpenBSD, with pf and bridging on a P-166 w/48M RAM and 2 100mb/s cards and it runs just fine. -- Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rebuilding the MBR

, and then you can mount the other partitions as neccessay, I would recommend mounting /usr and /var so that vi will work, or you can use ed to edit the /etc/fstab. -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob

Re: MySQL Problem

. -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freeBSD.org | \/ pgp0.pgp

Re: trolltech qt questions

/qt/mkspecs/freebsd-g++ hello.pro -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http

Dual X session question

not found any more infomation on this. I think this is possible, but I am trying to figure out how to do this, any ideas? Thanks Bob -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob

Installing 4.7 on Promise RAID card

: error reading fsbn 0 And the arrya is taken off line. Any ideas? -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power

Re: from GNOME to KDE

the line for gnome-session and add a line that says startkde Bob -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve

Evolution Crashes

Any ideas? Bob -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freeBSD.org

/stand/sysinstall core dump

warrior.bomar.us 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #5: Sun Jan 19 18:16:47 CST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Warrior i386 -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob

X Crash with Quake 3

= audio drm0@pci1:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x7161174b chip=0x51571002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies' device = 'RV200 Radeon 7500' class= display subclass = VGA -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL

Re: Support?

here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.7R/hardware-i386.html#AEN1648 -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power

Re: Using multiple window managers

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:40:11AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:20:40AM -0500, Bob Bomar wrote: I want to set up a demo box that shows diffrent Window Managers. What is a good way to swith between window managers? A simple shell script would do it--it's 1:30 am

USB Card reader problem

-- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freeBSD.org | \/ msg13746/pgp0

VMware2 port

I am looking to help with porting VMware 2 to FreeBSD. I cant take on a project like this alone, but I would like to help out however I can. Thanks Bob -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob

Re: VMware2 port

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 05:48:02PM -0500, Nick Slager wrote: Thus spake Bob Bomar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am looking to help with porting VMware 2 to FreeBSD. I cant take on a project like this alone, but I would like to help out however I can. vmware2 is already in ports: /usr

Re: NIC not found

On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 03:52:23AM -0700, Doug White wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Bob Bomar wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:01:26PM -0700, Doug White wrote: pciconf -lv output? I cant get past the install, I cant select the NIC to use because it can not assign the resource

Re: NIC not found

. -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freeBSD.org

Re: FreeBSD 4.7-RC

-- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freeBSD.org

Re: NIC problem

. -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob | || | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freeBSD.org

NIC problem

from the console, to another box on the LAN, it is still intermitant. Any body have any ideas? -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob

Re: NIC problem

timeouts or anything. I have noticed though that sometimes this box runs slower than my single P-166. -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob

Re: NIC problem

that, and no errors came out. The only diffrences were the amount of packets sent/recieved. -- /\ | Bob Bomar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bomar.us/~bob