Re: [freebsd-questions] Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Howard Jones
On 22/12/2011 22:53, William Brown wrote: Again, git wins here. It has good support on windows, as well as with graphical tools on windows. Is there a git equivalent of TortoiseSVN then? That's the best VC integration I've seen on any platform... One small but cosmetic thing with git vs svn:

Re: [freebsd-questions] Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Howard Jones
On 22/10/2011 15:37, Bruce Cran wrote: If you run some sort of shell server, or where many people need to login using ssh, you'll have a bit of a support problem telling people to select the non-default port. Also, some might consider it security through obscurity, which is often said to be a

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-11 Thread Howard Jones
On 11/08/2011 12:37, Daniel Staal wrote: (Well, ok, given the current release structure having an update today means you are in a supported branch, and that supported branch will continue to get updates for the foreseeable future. But that still does not tell me when the branch is likely to

Re: [freebsd-questions] Maintenance script/port

2011-07-21 Thread Howard Jones
On 21/07/2011 09:25, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Can someone recommend me a text driven maintenance (re)port that informs me about the health of my FreeBSD system? I currently use the standard BSD report information, but like to get more information out of my partitions, OS etc. This program should

Re: [freebsd-questions] Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Howard Jones
On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: I'm the one...using Linux since '99 (SuSE, Gentoo,Arch) and moved to PCBSD-9.0 some months ago. I'm *very* happy and cannot believe how little time I spend doing admin work 'cause the OS 'just works'. Otoh, Linux was saga with *constant*

Re: [freebsd-questions] Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Howard Jones
On 18/07/2011 19:18, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Howard Jones ho...@thingy.com mailto:ho...@thingy.com wrote: On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: Interesting - I'm in the process of switching our FreeBSD servers to Linux (Debian and CentOS

ZFS on 8.1 - various problems after a disk failure.

2011-06-13 Thread Howard Jones
I have a FreeBSD 8.2 server at home with 4 2TB drives in it running ZFS with a raidz pool. Some time ago, I had a disk fail. Initially it wasn't totally obvious the disk had failed so I ran a 'zpool scrub' on the pool, which threw up a lot of errors, and also produced a lot of sense errors, making

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-26 Thread Howard Jones
Wojciech Puchar wrote: you are right. you can't be happy of warm house without getting really cold some time :) that's why it's excellent that ZFS (and few other things) is included in FreeBSD but it's COMPLETELY optional. Well, I switched from the heater that doesn't work and is poorly

FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-25 Thread Howard Jones
Hi, Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing fancier. I have a set of brand new 1TB drives, a Sil3124 SATA card and a FreeBSD 7.1-p4 system. I created a RAID 5 set with gvinum: drive d0 device

IPFW/Dummynet/Bridging with VLAN trunks?

2009-04-21 Thread Howard Jones
I'm trying to use Dummynet+IPFW and bridging to make a packet shaper that runs across multiple VLANs. So my intended set up is: [users]-[Aggregate Switch]=[FreeBSD]=[Upstream Switch (with IP interfaces for each vlan)]-The World where - is a single VLAN, and = is a tagged dot1q trunk. The aim is

Re: [freebsd-questions] Dangers of using a non-base shell

2007-10-30 Thread Howard Jones
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: You could possibly also put bash -l exit in your .shrc, which would exit if bash exited successfully. I haven't tested it, but it should work. or 'exec bash -l' which will replace the existing shell with bash in memory, rather than run it from it as a subprocess. I

Re: [freebsd-questions] easiest way to install CPAN on FreeBSD

2007-10-24 Thread Howard Jones
Gerard wrote: On October 24, 2007 at 02:11PM Sean Murphy wrote: 2) Use CPANPLUS to install the module. Unless the user has the time, knowledge and motivation to do the first, the second approach is usually superior. What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better

Re: [freebsd-questions] Good FreeBSD Supported Gigabit Ethernet Card?

2007-09-14 Thread Howard Jones
Oliver Hansen wrote: I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so I'm going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I just received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6 which I found (

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD + PHP + Barcode scanners for Web Application?

2007-08-19 Thread Howard Jones
perikillo wrote: Hi people. Look we have some applications at work, that use scanners Manufacture by Symbol. Those applications were created in Access, but i want to create those app for a Web browser, my doubt is: Does someone here has a app running from the browser that use bar

Re: [freebsd-questions] cacti lost it's images

2007-04-26 Thread Howard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After my last cacti upgrade, I seen it totaly lost it's images and sounds like it also lost it's css... The strange... I mean _STRANGE_ thing is when analysing the HTML source... the images are not even called!!! No img anywhere Is it possible that the port

Re: [freebsd-questions] Mount an iso image?

2007-04-25 Thread Howard Jones
Dan Nelson wrote: If that's all you need, there's an even easier way: tar tvf mycd.iso, since libarchive understands the iso9660 filesystem format :) That's a useful trick! Is there an equivalent for ufs filesystems? I'd like to be able to extract files from a floppy image without needing

Re: [freebsd-questions] Code beautification and/or printing utilities that are not part of an editor

2007-04-19 Thread Howard Jones
Andrew Falanga wrote: Another question for everyone. Are there any programs, hopefully available in the ports, that one can use to print source code files to a printer (or create as a postscript file)? I'd like something that I can feed a C++ program, have it parse through the code, print line

Re: [freebsd-questions] slightly OT - my freebsd email topology

2007-04-05 Thread Howard Jones
Jonathan Horne wrote: currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works satisfactory. i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the internet, which then

Re: [freebsd-questions] root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Howard Jones
Wojciech Puchar wrote: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. once again - can someone answer my question instead of giving very intelligent

Re: [freebsd-questions] [freebsd-questions] root login with telnetd

2007-03-11 Thread Howard Jones
Wojciech Puchar wrote: so generalizing that telnet and rsh is bad is as stupid as telling that oxygen is bad as it makes fires. Well, that's true, but if you have the choice, there are better choices. You *can* hammer in nails with the butt of a gun, but there's a chance you'll somehow shoot

Re: [freebsd-questions] Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up

2007-02-28 Thread Howard Jones
Dwight Smith wrote: Good morning, My name is Dwight Smith, and I only had a question or two in terms of the future useability of FreeBSD. I have used it on and off and found it to be a great UNIX operating system for servers, but my only major concern was the amount of time it takes to

Re: [freebsd-questions] syslog from Cisco - FreeBSD not working

2007-02-06 Thread Howard Jones
Ewald Jenisch wrote: To further track this down I changed the above line in syslog.conf to read +myrouter local7.*/var/log/cisco-syslog +* What I did to get this working was (in syslog.conf): +printserver !* *.* /usr/log/printserver.log AND in

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD Torrent Server

2007-01-31 Thread Howard Jones
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The FreeBSD server operators don't pay a dime for bandwidth and if the bandwidth supplier for freebsd.org made the slightest complaint about the bandwidth they are donating, there's a passel of ISP's and networks that would fight each other for the chance of the feather

Re: [freebsd-questions] freebsd 6.2 jumpstart install

2007-01-28 Thread Howard Jones
Paul Kostick III wrote: I am trying to jumpstart install an IBM x336 server with a intel Pro100 nic with freebsd 6.2. I have successfully done this install with freebsd 5.3 and 6.0 on the same machine. The sysinstall boot menu comes up from PXE. But when I put in the NFS path to the files, it

Re: [freebsd-questions] Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD

2007-01-26 Thread Howard Jones
Gable Barber wrote: Hello all, I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now)

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Howard Jones
Nikolas Britton wrote Well that's just it... No way we could afford full rates, If we could we would hire someone off the street to program x, y, and z to are liking. I was talking about supporting someone who is already working on x, y, and z because they have an itch to scratch... To help them

Re: Simple DoS

2007-01-10 Thread Howard Jones
Nejc Škoberne wrote: Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would like to do it on the server side, not on the user side.) Get a switch that runs Spanning Tree Protocol. I don't think there's much you can do on the server about a problem in the switch.

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Howard Jones
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-( Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed this, I'd like to hear about it. This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I've

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-10 Thread Howard Jones
Jay Chandler wrote: I've been trying to script an install for FreeBSD since I just had a bunch of servers dropped on me-- may I ask how you did yours? Roughly speaking, I started with this document: http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml and this document:

Management techiniques for multiple FreeBSD servers?

2007-01-09 Thread Howard Jones
Hi, I'm looking around for any articles/docs regarding techniques for managing groups of FreeBSD servers - things like running a local package mirror or build server, standardised installs, update management - all the usual boring stuff. I know that people like Yahoo use thousands of *BSD

Re: Software inventory management

2006-12-12 Thread Howard Jones
From: stan Subject: Software inventory management : : Sudenly there is an improved desire to keep up to date on the latest : security fixes at work. I've got about 50 machines that I manage. OpenBSD, : FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, and HP-UX. : : I am looking for recomendations for a

Re: question on batch email sending

2006-11-30 Thread Howard Jones
David Banning wrote: I have a standard mailbox with around 40 messages. I want to be able to just send them all to someone, the same person, not as an attachment but as individual emails. I want to do something like; cat /var/mail/frank | someprogram [EMAIL PROTECTED] So that Frank can just

Re: Cacti -vs- mrtg

2006-11-07 Thread Howard Jones
Jeff Mohler wrote: I can use MRTG, and have MRTG do what I want it to do. Id like to try cacti, but..am I alone in finding that it's a PITA? Im not trying to be negative, just looking for a reality check. I like the simplicity of mrtg, but I like the go back in time of cacti to view

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread Howard Jones
On 4 Sep 2006, at 05:35, Gary Kline wrote: How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? If what you want is a backup to the disk on a remote system (rather than a tape drive or whatever), then have a look at rdiff-backup: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-30 Thread Howard Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your DVD player can't play mp3s, then it can't play DVDs. ;) Remember, mp3s are the audio layer of mpegs. And DVD videos consist of mpegs. For a DVD-Video disc, the audio formats are PCM (plain old wav, effectively), AC-3 (dolby digital) and MPEG-1 Audio Layer II

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-28 Thread Howard Jones
Gary Kline wrote: Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm not sure that I have three hours of favorites; probably, but no more. Most of my favorite tunes are on

Re: taking many 198k mp3 files and converting them to 16k mp3

2006-08-27 Thread Howard Jones
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote: --Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's onto one Very long-playing disk. That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Howard Jones
Marc G. Fournier wrote: The uniqueness is a combination of IP+hostname ... again, as one pointed out with PCBSD, this isn't always necessarily the case, but, IMHO, that is a flaw of PCBSD having all hosts on the same network using the same hostname ... That's the nice thing with the

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-09 Thread Howard Jones
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Right, and the bad thing is if yu alias another IP on that device, the hash totally changes, so we see that one host now as being two different ones :) That's why we disqualified using ifconfig right at the beginning ... But didn't you say that you effectively wipe

Re: [freebsd-questions] awk quickie.

2006-08-06 Thread Howard Jones
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Can aanybody spot what I'm doing wrong in this tiny awk scripy:: Using awk is what you are doing wrong ;-) Assuming that this is all you are doing with the list, anyway... From the grep manpage: -l, --files-with-matches Suppress

Re: [freebsd-questions] How big a flashrom for a minimal freebsd install?

2006-07-28 Thread Howard Jones
Chris T. wrote: Im toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it off. I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can swap setups on the thing by swapping cards. I don't see myself using

Re: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-25 Thread Howard Jones
Jerlique Bahn wrote: Actually mrtg is used to graph the results of the program that I am looking for. So to clarify my initial request, what I am seeking recommendations for is the program that collects the information, such as server load, temperature, open tcp connections etc of the

Change detection order for firewire vs SCSI?

2006-06-22 Thread Howard Jones
I have an old dual-P3 server with an internal SCSI backplane. I also have an external firewire drive attached to it as cheap, 'disposable' storage. It all works swimmingly apart from one thing: When the system boots, it loads the kernel from the SCSI drive OK, then at some stage it changes

Re: [freebsd-questions] Scanning MP3 files for skips

2006-06-13 Thread Howard Jones
Chuck Swiger wrote: Kyrre Nygard wrote: I'm curious whether there's a tool out there that will scan through audio files looking for patterns that resemble skips and other nonos in the world of music. I have MD5 checksums for all my MP3 files, but that doesn't guarantee that they were fine

Re: [freebsd-questions] Deny large number of IPs via ipfw

2006-06-11 Thread Howard Jones
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to just use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy way to do this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and is from cbl.abuseat.org. I do similar

Re: [freebsd-questions] What is the maximum file size on a dvd+r ?

2006-05-29 Thread Howard Jones
Fabian Keil wrote: While I didn't read the spec, I heard that explanation before and I think it's entirely correct to assume that the file size value is unsigned. This has nothing to do with embracing standards. Just for another datapoint, Nero Burning ROM (onWindows) also limits files on an

Re: [freebsd-questions] what does this mean

2006-05-21 Thread Howard Jones
Imran Imtiaz wrote: i've seen the following log in my messages can any body tell me what does it mean? May 21 02:50:29 darkstar sm-mta[55021]: k4KLoTeq055021: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA Do you run something like Nagios or BigBrother on

Re: [freebsd-questions] Bandwidth Troubleshooting

2006-05-18 Thread Howard Jones
Gunter Wambaugh wrote: The sad thing is that I read somewhere (probably on this list) that *forcing* 100 would _increase_ performance because there wouldn't be any auto negotiating. I added it to my rc.conf, but later I decided that it didn't help any so I ran ifconfig fxp0 media

Re: [freebsd-questions] Questions about monitoring Dell servers

2006-05-17 Thread Howard Jones
Jason Lixfeld wrote: Well, I managed to sort it out. The grey area was that the Dell BMC just needed an IP, username and password configured on it. I was under the mistaken impression that the OpenIPMI needed to be installed to speak the BMC, but ipmitools does that just fine. Between the

print-cdrom-packages.sh??

2006-05-15 Thread Howard Jones
Moving on with my automated installs, I want to build some additional packages into the FTP area of my install server, which was seeded from the 6.1-RELEASE ISOs. The FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Software Packages document on the FreeBSD website says that the release-building

Re: [freebsd-questions] Newbie File system

2006-05-15 Thread Howard Jones
Maan Jee wrote: Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my /home directory located? Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/ devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1e

Changing from 6.0 to 6.1 -'.' to end pause mode

2006-05-12 Thread Howard Jones
I've been experimenting with PXE-driven installations in preparation for the arrival of a pile of new servers, and I had a mostly-working setup for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE when 6.1 was announced this week. I've upgraded to 6.1 on my build system, and have it serving install data and an mfsroot

Re: [freebsd-questions] limit bandwidth 'make fetch'

2006-05-11 Thread Howard Jones
Pablo Mora wrote: how i can limit bandwidth when i using 'make fetch' (make install in Ports)? You can change the command-line parameters for fetch in the /usr/ports/Mk/ somewhere (grep for FETCH). Or you could try the 'trickle' port, which allows you to apply bandwidth limits to more or

Re: backup system rsync - dump

2006-05-02 Thread Howard Jones
Philip Hallstrom wrote: I have two disks; one is the fbsd system drive, the other is for backup purposes. I'm in doubt about what to use: dump or rsync I guess I can do something like: mount /dev/ad1s3a /backup/root mount /dev/ad1s3d /backup/var mount /dev/ad1s3f /backup/usr