kern.maxdsiz big memory/tuning questions

2005-12-13 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello, I'm trying to RTFM but the M does not appear to exist. I am dealing with processes over 512MB in size on 6.0 on x86 and am using these loader.conf tunables as suggested by MySQL and other documentation: kern.maxdsiz=1073741824 # 1GB kern.dfldsiz=1073741824 # 1GB

Re: ipfilter question

2005-12-13 Thread Rob Lytle
Here's my setup: /etc/rc.conf ipmon_enable=YES ipmon_flags=-Dns /etc/syslog.conf security.* /var/log/ipfilter.log Make sure you don't have any other security.* facility specified in /etc/syslog.conf yes, there is no other security.* facility, actually i got it

Re: Off-Topic

2005-12-13 Thread Pietro Cerutti
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Re: /etc/mail/local-host-names

2005-12-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to enable anybody in IPv4 10.0.0.0/8 to relay through this server 10. seems not to work. I think--but don't *quote* me:) -- that the host-names file does eactly what ^Cwhostname does in sendmail.cf. So if your host were named foo, you would put ^foo in

Re: /etc/mail/local-host-names

2005-12-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think you need to put that in /etc/mail/access as 10 RELAY and then do a #make maps Check the Makefile in /etc/mail/ for more on the make option Read /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README for more info. thanks. so what does local-host-names control? exactly as filename states? what domain

pine

2005-12-13 Thread caleb
Hi everyone, I am having some problems setting up pine .pinerc using FreeBSD 6.0 - STABLE. My ISP uses POP and I am using thier SMTP for outgoing. I spoke to the helpdesk and the POP server does not support ssl. Pine was compiled and installed with support for POP3 here are some

Re: version 6!

2005-12-13 Thread John Nielsen
After realizing how long I made this little explanation, I decided it might be helpful to someone if I made it available on the freebsd-questions mailing list. List: take the following for what it's worth. On Tuesday 13 December 2005 07:00 pm, ntkonn wrote: Crap amighty, I just upgraded

Re: Multiple CPUs

2005-12-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:54 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:12:57PM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I guess this means my new server is only using one of my CPUs? esmtp# grep CPU /var/log/dmesg.today CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2399.33-MHz 686-class CPU)

Re: pine

2005-12-13 Thread RW
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 01:01, caleb wrote: Hi everyone, I am having some problems setting up pine .pinerc using FreeBSD 6.0 - STABLE. My ISP uses POP and I am using thier SMTP for outgoing. I spoke to the helpdesk and the POP server does not support ssl. I have

Re: Multiple CPUs

2005-12-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:00:13PM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 14:54 -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:12:57PM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I guess this means my new server is only using one of my CPUs? esmtp# grep CPU

Re: ipfilter question

2005-12-13 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Rob Lytle thusly... Here's my setup: ... in /etc/syslog.conf yes, there is no other security.* facility, actually i got it working Please keep the attribution attribute the respective authors. I have the problem that ipmon logs to

Re: ipfilter question

2005-12-13 Thread Elmer Rivera
Got it working. forgot to add security.none after *.notice; Thanks guys... -- Elmer Rivera, http://www.vizcayano.com, http://youand.i.ph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: pine

2005-12-13 Thread caleb
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, RW wrote: If the server supports neither ssl, nor any form secure authentication, there nothing you can do to protect your password. Hi RW, Thanks for your reply. Would IPSEC be an option for securing my login details or kerberos? caleb -- There is no spoon

Re: can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?

2005-12-13 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
ah... that's the ticket! thanks! jeff. - Original Message - From: Tino Boss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jeff D. Hamann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 10:49 AM Subject: Re: can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6? Jeff D. Hamann wrote:

Re: pine

2005-12-13 Thread Mac Mason
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:12:38PM +1100, caleb wrote: Would IPSEC be an option for securing my login details or kerberos? Nope. Unless the ISP's mail server supports some form of encryption, there's nothing you can do. On the other hand, your desktop machine is probably only about two hops

IMAP-UW Security question

2005-12-13 Thread Jose Borquez
Just recently installed IMAP-UW through ports and once the install finished I got the following security message: SECURITY REPORT: This port has installed the following binaries which execute with increased privileges. /usr/local/libexec/mlock What can I do to minimize this security

Re: Multiple CPUs

2005-12-13 Thread Bob Lee
Quoting Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here's my top procs: last pid: 2079; load averages: 8.31, 8.91, 8.43up 0 +00:35:15 20:57:53 149 processes: 13 running, 136 sleeping Robert, FWIW, I did some research a short time ago on utilization and other aspects of watching

Re: IMAP-UW Security question

2005-12-13 Thread Frank Steinborn
Jose Borquez wrote: SECURITY REPORT: This port has installed the following binaries which execute with increased privileges. /usr/local/libexec/mlock What can I do to minimize this security risk? Do I create an mlock user? In fact, every port that installs a suid-binary will

I need a better way to loop in the shell...

2005-12-13 Thread user
I always do loops in /bin/sh like this: for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done Easy. I like doing it like this. The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new line... For instance, lets say I have a

Re: I need a better way to loop in the shell...

2005-12-13 Thread Robert Eckardt
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:44:42 -0500 (EST), user wrote I always do loops in /bin/sh like this: for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done Hi, try instead: cat file | while read f ; do rm -f $f ; done In your command `file' is presented as 10,000 Maniacs MTV Unplugged - 01 - These Are Days.mp3

Re: Multiple CPUs

2005-12-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:50:39PM -0700, Bob Lee wrote: Quoting Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Here's my top procs: last pid: 2079; load averages: 8.31, 8.91, 8.43up 0 +00:35:15 20:57:53 149 processes: 13 running, 136 sleeping Robert, FWIW, I did some research

When using make install for php5 it fails

2005-12-13 Thread Jose Borquez
When attempting to install php5 from ports it attempts to download, but I get the following errors: Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/php-5.1.1.tar.bz2: File unavailable (e.g., file not found,

Re: I need a better way to loop in the shell...

2005-12-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
user wrote: I always do loops in /bin/sh like this: for f in `cat file` ; do rm -rf $f ; done Easy. I like doing it like this. The problem is, when I am dealing with an input list that has multiple words per line, this chops it up and treats every word as a new line... For instance, lets

RE: Lousy network performance ...

2005-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Turn on SNMP on your router plugged into the adsl modem and use a tool like mrtg to graph the circuit utilization. Also, access your adsl modem's error counters and find out what your signal to noise ratio is, what your received decibel level is, if your taking errors, and such. Some of the

RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

2005-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gayn Winters Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:49 AM To: 'Ted Mittelstaedt'; 'Winelfred G. Pasamba'; 'Yance Kowara' Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections

RE: Polling For 100 mbps Connections? (Was Re: Freebsd Theme Song)

2005-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Drew Tomlinson Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:48 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Michael Vince; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Polling For 100 mbps Connections?

Re: kern.maxdsiz big memory/tuning questions

2005-12-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Michael Dexter wrote: [ ... ] However, I am not clear if: 1. It is permitted to use M and G notation (kern.maxsiz=1G)? - some say yes, some say no and I would prefer not risk the system not booting. Using 1G or some number followed by M is working for me in 5.x and 6.0. 2. Which tunables

Re: you need mirror from israel?

2005-12-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
YairNet LinuxServ wrote: Hello we Compay WebHosting (Www.linuxserv.co.il) You need to mirror freebsd from israel ,if yes give me help so mirror good day. It's likely that this document will tell you all about mirroring FreeBSD:

doubts

2005-12-13 Thread Anirban Adhikary
Hi guys This is Anirban. I have a doubts on the following question. How to write a shell program that will check whether a server is up or down (on ping) and log the report to a file. Hope i will receive my answer soon. With regards Anirban. ___

nfs exporting mounted iso files ?

2005-12-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I have been trying to export four mounted iso images under /mnt on my FreeBSD-5.4 box via nfs and I can export everything under /mnt but the iso's don't show up on the client, only the directories. First I mounted all the iso's with the following series of commands. mdconfig -a -t

Can't connect to local MySQL server

2005-12-13 Thread Jose Borquez
I am attempting to create a mysql database so that I can install Group Office using mysqladmin create groupoffice and I keep getting the following errors: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)'

Re: Getting the network traffic amount since the interface went up

2005-12-13 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Chuck Swiger thusly... Parv wrote: ... Is there a way to find out the amount of traffic (in out) since a network interface has been up (not since the OS has been up)? There are lots of solutions to this problem, it kinda depends on what you're

Re: When using make install for php5 it fails

2005-12-13 Thread Björn König
Jose Borquez schrieb: When attempting to install php5 from ports it attempts to download, but I get the following errors: Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/php-5.1.1.tar.bz2: File unavailable

Re: Can't connect to local MySQL server

2005-12-13 Thread Björn König
Jose Borquez schrieb: I am attempting to create a mysql database so that I can install Group Office using mysqladmin create groupoffice and I keep getting the following errors: mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket

Re: I need a better way to loop in the shell...

2005-12-13 Thread Björn König
Hello user, This worked for me: xargs -I% rm % file Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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