Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrt inodes)

2004-09-24 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 13:17, David Bear wrote: The problem is that I am running snort and its creating hundreds of entries in /var/log/snort -- one directory for each alert generated by an IP address. then specific info on that alert in a file under each directory. So -- aside from the

Re: ulimit -d's upper limit

2003-02-17 Thread Duncan Anker
above 2^31-1. FreeBSD uses signed ints for this value, so the results are interesting ... Regards, Duncan Anker -- The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email in any way. Dark Blue Sea does

Re: recover overwritten file

2003-01-22 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:16, george donnelly wrote: hi i just overwrote a critical file, can anyone andvise me on how to recover it? thankyou Restore it from backup. If you don't have a backup, then you just learnt a very important lesson. I don't believe there is any way to recover

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-16 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 07:59, Frank Li wrote: Thanks, Roman, options MAXDSIZ=(256*1024*1024) options MAXSSIZ=(256*1024*1024) options DFLDSIZ=(256*1024*1024) Depending on what you're doing, you might well find using a 64-bit platform (Alpha hardware?

Re: Increase memory limit ?

2003-01-16 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 12:08, Frank Li wrote: Thanks for all of your replies, Now I can do it through recompiling the kernel and the limits did increase. I haven't tried whether it can increase over 2G (I would love that if it can!). The code I used cannot be easily changed to reduce

Re: make in ports versus pkg_add

2003-01-16 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:58, paul van den bergen wrote: Hi all, dumb q warning it seems to me that doing an install from /usr/ports/... is fine and all, but how do you do an uninstall? make deinstall ok, with pkg_remove or pkg_delete, this is not a problem... but how does pkg

Re: Stable or not stable?

2003-01-14 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 08:28, MArek wrote: Hello , I've got a little question. I'm quite new to FreeBSD, recently I was trying to up date my sources using CVSup - I read chapter about CVSup in FreeBSD Handbook but I still have got a little problem: If I specify in a tag field value RELENG_4

Re: port/ftp/mirror-2.9 Out of memory! message--some progress

2003-01-14 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 13:12, Tom Parquette wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tom Parquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting an Out of memory! message from the mirror (/usr/ports/ftp/mirror-2.9) port trying to update a large archive. I've tried a number of things but I can't resolve

Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail

2003-01-13 Thread Duncan Anker
anyone, nor starting a flame war, so I will now cease participation in this thread as it is getting off-topic. Regards, Duncan Anker -- The information contained in this email is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose or use the information in this email in any

Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail

2003-01-12 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 23:03, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-07 09:52:44 +1000: um ... what's wrong with doing this in /etc/make.conf? NO_BIND = true NO_OPENSSL = true NO_SENDMAIL = true and so on. Seems to be exactly what you want to do No it's

Re: mail problems

2003-01-09 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:45, Bsd Neophyte wrote: i've setup my webramp700s to send logs to my freebsd machine daily. however, it says that it cannot send the mail. i really don't know much about sendmail, but these two processes are running: root 85 0.0 0.3 2884 1592 ?? Ss

Re: Motd Updating

2003-01-09 Thread Duncan Anker
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:01, Coreix Systems - UNIX Developers wrote: Can someone tell me he name of the .c or .h file containing code to do the updating of MOTD, i want to add company specific support data to the source so it can be updated to motd on a daily basis, but do not want it to be

Re: Renaming files with spaces in the name to files withoutspaces..

2003-01-09 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:10, Stijn Hoop wrote: On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:51:08PM -0500, parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Stijn Hoop thusly... On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:49:18AM +1030, Rob wrote: If you want to do it for all files in a directory: # for file

Re: web write-up

2003-01-08 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 03:53, Sean Ellis wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I wonder if anyone has any comment on this web article. The results of the benchmarking seem to portray FreeBSD in a less than favourable light. http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1148/sam0107a/0107a.htm

Re: arp: link address is broadcast for IP address??

2003-01-07 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:15, yen-po wang wrote: I get a lot of syslog messages(every day/every second) arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 192.168.1.6! arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 192.168.1.7! my private ip is 192.168.6.254 netmask is 192.168.0.0 Netmask

Re: arp: link address is broadcast for IP address??

2003-01-07 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:40, yen-po wang wrote: oh~ sorry... netmask is 255.255.0.0 not 192.168.0.0 I mean netmask in 255.255.0.0 and got the message arp: link address is broadcast for IP address192.168.1.6! Ah, that's different. Well, is there anything else on your network using that

Re: sendmail save panic

2003-01-06 Thread Duncan Anker
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:46, Özgür Özaslan wrote: Hi, When I try to send mail by using php mail function , I get an error like: sendmail(xx) : xxx: Loosing ./xxx : savemail panic sendmail(xx) : xxx: SYSERR (www) : can not save recejted e-mail anywhere I use FreeBSD 4.6.2 and my

Re: Automatic file system check failed . . . help!

2003-01-06 Thread Duncan Anker
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 12:39, Martinez, Joey wrote: Hello FreeBSD folks! I have just built my first desktop and I am trying to install FreeBSD. FreeBSD is the only OS in this machine so I was praying for a smooth installation. I have encountered my first. The error message says,

[Fwd: Re: NFS Reserved Port Only?]

2002-12-19 Thread Duncan Anker
that the documentation says this clears the nfs_privport sysctl flag but you can't allow it by clearing the flag yourself. I didn't find that flag - however I Found that clearing the sysctl flag did work. Odd. Ryan On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 18:57, Duncan Anker wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 03:59, Ryan Sommers

Re: NFS Reserved Port Only?

2002-12-19 Thread Duncan Anker
to explicitly tell nfsd which ones to bind to, as wildcarding doesn't work with UDP. HTH Duncan Anker To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2002-12-16 Thread Duncan Anker
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 16:31, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:18:45AM -0600, Franklin Pierce wrote: - Original Message - From: Romain Kang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:22:22 -0800 To: Mike Hogsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD Stability

Re: soft updates inconstinency

2002-12-08 Thread Duncan Anker
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:07, tristan gestim wrote: hello, when i try to boot my freebsd box, i see the following: [...] ad1s1e: hard error reading fsbn 12394751 of 6197344-6197471 (ad1s1 bn 12394751: cn 771 tn 137 sn 5) trying PIO mode ad1s1e: hard error reading fsbn 12394751 of

Slightly OT: PHP Fatal error:  Unable to start session mm modulein Unknown on line 0

2002-12-05 Thread Duncan Anker
PHP is better than an optimized broken one, but I prefer to fix problems than to try and work around them and pretend they are not there - they usually come back to bite you further down the track. Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA Duncan Anker -- The information contained in this email

Re: strange ftpd login problem

2002-12-03 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 13:55, Kurt Bigler wrote: I am using a VPS service provider who is running: FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 FTP server (Version 6.00LS) A user is having problems with FTP login using GoLive 6.0 on MacOS X. The user has no problems with other FTP servers. I tried a

Re: Dual Processor

2002-12-03 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 15:15, Abhay Kumar Srivastava wrote: Hi, I want to run freeBSD 3.2 on a dual processor intell xenon machine. I tried using the SMP option in the config file. Is there a utility by which i can accertain if freeBSD has detected both the processors and can use them.

Re: using mount_union

2002-12-03 Thread Duncan Anker
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 14:48, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Evening all ... I just read through the man page a couple of times, and it sounded quite straightforward, but I've obviously mis-understood ... My read of the man page is that I can create to directories (/d1 and /d2), mount /d1

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-25 Thread Duncan Anker
/'`; done That's the way I've always done it - works a treat (try doing THAT with a GUI :-) Hope it helps, unless you had your heart set on xargs Regards, Duncan Anker Senior Systems Administrator Dark Blue Sea -- The information contained in this email is confidential. If you

Re: A question of where to put swap

2002-11-21 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 09:44, Cliff Sarginson wrote: I am in the business of re-arranging my disk layouts to reflect the realities if life :) My FreeBSD system currently runs on a SCSI-3 Disk, but I have two modern, fast IDE disks that will be gaining a considerable amount of free space in the

Re: Timezone and/or imapd

2002-11-20 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 4.7 on a server named zeus and 4.4 on a server named malkav. On both computers, I'm running qmail and imap-uw of the same version from the ports collection. Both are in EST timezone and date shows the same time

How can I get a core dump?

2002-11-14 Thread Duncan Anker
hackers are privy to? If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very grateful. I really want to get this problem knocked over soon. Thanks in advance, -- Duncan Anker Senior Systems Administrator Dark Blue Sea To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: Mounting Files -- Help Plz :)

2002-11-10 Thread Duncan Anker
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 10:12, RD wrote: Wuzzup guys, I'm running 2 boxes with freebsd. One with pure-ftpd and the other runs my apache/php/mysql. My ftp is an old compaq prolient workgroup server p pro 200mhz. My webserver is a p3 - 500mhz. My question -- What is the best way to

Re: Hard drive physically damaged?

2002-11-06 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:08, Carlos Carnero wrote: Hi, the following messages that I just saw in my logs mean that my IDE hard drive is almost hosed right (at least a bit)? I would say so. You may want to back up all your important stuff. Last time I saw this the machine limped along,

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-06 Thread Duncan Anker
, so I would say there was a lot of overhead in there, as well as retransmissions. I am still playing with buffer sizes but chances are in this case the FreeBSD default is best. Regards -- Duncan Anker Senior Systems Administrator Dark Blue Sea To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

NFS Performance woes

2002-11-04 Thread Duncan Anker
wondering if this is that type of scenario. I'd appreciate hearing the experience of others in terms of tuning a setup like this, or even if someone could point me in the direction of some more useful analysis tools. Thanks -- Duncan Anker Senior Systems Administrato Dark Blue Sea

Re: Sendmail - File descriptors missing on startup: stdin, stderr;Bad file descriptor

2002-10-31 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 11:48, Tuc wrote: Hi, Having a problem that we can't figure out. 2 different people installed machines, one is working fine, the other gives : Oct 31 00:07:34 lodur1 sendmail[47337]: File descriptors missing on startup: std in, stderr; Bad file descriptor

Re: After make world, periodic sends me suid diffs

2002-10-31 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 07:02, Andrew Boring wrote: I upgraded a box from 4.6 to 4.7 that is not in production yet. This was my first time upgrading via CVS and make world and everything appeared to go smoothly with no issues. However, the following day I received mail from the daily periodic

Re: FTP gone weird

2002-10-09 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 13:54, DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people' wrote: I seem to remember a post about cron not doing what the user did, and it was a shell issue. Try your command in sh, csh, etc., and see if you can get the same error from CLI, if so, then the shell is the issue.

Re: Connecting to mysqld

2002-09-25 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 07:06, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-09-25T20:49:20Z, Carl-Johan Kihlbom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I created the users with GRANT ALL ON *.* TO kihlbom IDENTIFIED BY 'password';. The users show up fine in the mysql.user table. Did you FLUSH PRIVILEGES after the

Re: Limit Network Traffic APACHE 1.3

2002-09-23 Thread Duncan Anker
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 09:14, Christopher J. Umina wrote: Does anybody know of these modules? The ipfw thing would limit bandwidth on the whole server unless I have a tun device, which I don't. I want it to be fast in the internal network, but not use too much of the speed serving to the

Re: find case-insensitive challenge [cut/sed]

2002-09-23 Thread Duncan Anker
in various scripts around the place Regards, Duncan Anker To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Virtual memory allocations and signal 11 core dumps

2002-09-22 Thread Duncan Anker
be Should I ensure that the number of precesses running won't use more than my total available memory less the 1Gb for the kernel? Thanks in advance Duncan Anker To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Locating performance bottlenecks

2002-09-22 Thread Duncan Anker
something that isn't the problem, but I'm at a loss to know where to start - Everything looks relatively normal in the standard tools. Thanks in advance, Duncan Anker To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-19 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:53, Oliver Fromme wrote: In general, it is a good idea to try to avoid -exec, because it is inefficient. -exec runs the specified command for every single file, whilch can be terribly slow if there are a lot of files. Better use xargs instead, which will collect

Re: Is It Possible To Sort My Text File?

2002-09-19 Thread Duncan Anker
by doing it yourself. And the other is that I would have to do this myself first, and why duplicate the effort when you're going to do it? ;-) Hope that helps. Drop me a line if you need more detailed info. regards, Duncan Anker To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: /etc/rc.conf question

2002-09-18 Thread Duncan Anker
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 10:44, Greg Lane wrote: You will need to remount your root filesystem rw: mount -o rw / This is the bit I left out - I think last time I had to instruct someone how to do this over a phone, it wasn't necessary. Everything just worked. Maybe the system had already