Re: Dell R210 "no disks found"

2011-05-26 Thread Paul Macdonald
Any one else get FreeBSD installed on an R210? Is there a BIOS setting that I need to check or something? I've spent about a week on this and will need to return both R210s soon if I can't get them working. I've got loads of these and never had a problem, including 8.2-REL. do the drives de

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Jorge Biquez
Thanks for your comments, tomorow morning will check it again, now is normal . I was thinking on shutting it down but I guess it is better to leave it running and even with the risk , the server will have problems soon but I guess is better to tr to find how they did it will go to sleep a

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 11:25 p.m. 26/05/2011, you wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that > root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of > address... Was the root account on the box actuall

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Jorge Biquez
At 11:27 p.m. 26/05/2011, Jon Radel wrote: On 5/27/11 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of address... And what does it say in the logs? We'll he

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Jon Radel
On 5/27/11 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of address... And what does it say in the logs? We'll help you interpret them if you wish, but righ

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Robert Simmons
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that > root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of > address... Was the root account on the box actually used, or did someone spoof email coming

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello. I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of address... JB At 11:07 p.m. 26/05/2011, you wrote: I don't remember for sendmail but if you install postfix root cannot receive any email

Re: Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Frank Bonnet
I don't remember for sendmail but if you install postfix root cannot receive any email Le 27/05/2011 05:03, Jorge Biquez a écrit : Hello all. Is it possible that the root user can be limited to send email only for activities realetd to the server and only locally? or limit the amount of root

Disable or limit email in root?

2011-05-26 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. Is it possible that the root user can be limited to send email only for activities realetd to the server and only locally? or limit the amount of root user can send. I have a 7.3 small server working as secondary dns, 3 domains for http and email. very few traffic. Using sendmail

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Gary Gatten wrote: Your biggest consumers would be FBSD itself and the routing tables. I *think* full internet routing tables are still less than 512MB, (google to check), so unless you have more routes than that - 512MB may work, 1GB most likely will. Too many unknowns,

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Gary Gatten
Your biggest consumers would be FBSD itself and the routing tables. I *think* full internet routing tables are still less than 512MB, (google to check), so unless you have more routes than that - 512MB may work, 1GB most likely will. Too many unknowns, like; is this ipv4 only or 6 and 4 routes?

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 26, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Chris Hill wrote: > I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My > question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? How many DHCP leases and NAT clients? ISC's DHCPd typically runs a few tens of MB unless you have

RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chris Hill
Hello list, I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? This box will be running isc-dhcpd, doing NAT either via natd or pf, and not much else. I expect the amount of traffic (throughput) to

Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread RW
On Thu, 26 May 2011 15:40:09 -0700 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: > > I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. > > You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not > support. > > > I wanted to install something fr

Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: > I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not support. > I wanted to install something from the ports, but I am getting > this error on almost every port; > >

ports problem in an old system ver 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread David Banning
I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. I wanted to install something from the ports, but I am getting this error on almost every port; # make ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE ===> Extracting f

Re: Dell R210 "no disks found"

2011-05-26 Thread Barrett Clark
Jaime, If you are using the on board controller, try changing the BIOS settings between AHCI and ATA. An issue you may have with ATA, the internal DVDROM may not work. I always had an external USB CDROM so I can't say for certain. Hope that helps. Barrett W. Clark On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:16

Re: Dell R210 "no disks found"

2011-05-26 Thread Steve Polyack
On 05/26/11 15:16, Jaime Kikpole wrote: I am attempting to install FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 from a CD onto a Dell R210 server. When I boot and run fdisk from sysinstall (under "Custom"), it tells me "No disks found!" and then points me to the hardware guide. Nothing in the hardware guide really seems

Dell R210 "no disks found"

2011-05-26 Thread Jaime Kikpole
I am attempting to install FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 from a CD onto a Dell R210 server. When I boot and run fdisk from sysinstall (under "Custom"), it tells me "No disks found!" and then points me to the hardware guide. Nothing in the hardware guide really seems to apply. Any one else get FreeBSD instal

Re: Unusual Error while compiling from Portstree

2011-05-26 Thread Jason Helfman
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 04:44:16PM +0200, herbert langhans thus spake: Hi Daemons, recently some of the ports get stuck when I compile from the portstree with #make install - it says '1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to nbase/configure.rej'. The portstree is updated, FreeBSD 7.2 on this l

Re: zfs newbie question

2011-05-26 Thread icema
On 05/26/11 17:29, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: Hi, zpool create is a destructive command to data on the disks, ie any preexisting pool, but it would normally warn you if it found an existing pool on the disks you are trying to use. Run: # zpool import and it will scan any attached disks for

Re: Hardware Recovery Company

2011-05-26 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Polytropon cc list, I wrote: > > > > You could look at man fsdb > > > > FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue > > tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided > > by the base system, are "fetch -rR " and also > > recoverdisk. > > > > In the ports collection you'll

RE: zfs newbie question

2011-05-26 Thread a . smith
Hi, zpool create is a destructive command to data on the disks, ie any preexisting pool, but it would normally warn you if it found an existing pool on the disks you are trying to use. Run: # zpool import and it will scan any attached disks for pools that are importable, if it detects

Unusual Error while compiling from Portstree

2011-05-26 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Daemons, recently some of the ports get stuck when I compile from the portstree with #make install - it says '1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to nbase/configure.rej'. The portstree is updated, FreeBSD 7.2 on this laptop, many other ports are working. I had such trouble with ports/graph

Can net.inet.tcp.msl be set per interface?

2011-05-26 Thread Tom Worster
If a server has one interface to the Internet and another interface to a switch connecting to a few other servers, it seems TCP's MSL value might reasonably be set a lot lower on the private interface. I'm specifically thinking of a lot of short MySQL connections between the servers on the private

Re: Trouble with LDAP-authentication to Apple Open Directory

2011-05-26 Thread Aleksander Steffensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 They were not, but I synced them both to the same time server. I don't use Kerberos anyways, I use nss_ldap, so it didn't work. Best regards, Aleksander Steffensen Den 26. mai 2011 kl. 14.42 skrev mcoyles: >> Hello! > >> Yesterday I finally manage

zfs newbie question

2011-05-26 Thread icema
hi, i have a new fbsd-8.2 install (dual boot with win7, just desktop general use) on entirely ufs disk, and am not sure how to mount a zfs formatted disk from a previous install, without loosing what is on there. (freebsd-zfs). in short, the zfs disk was from a previous freebsd install, same v

RE: Trouble with LDAP-authentication to Apple Open Directory

2011-05-26 Thread mcoyles
> Hello! > Yesterday I finally managed to get my FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE box to actually authenticate to the Xserve, running Open > Directory on Mac OS X 10.5 Server. I was able to log in to the FreeBSD box (egil.kreativsone.no) as a directory > > user via SSH and also via netatalk. > > Unfortunately,

Trouble with LDAP-authentication to Apple Open Directory

2011-05-26 Thread Aleksander Steffensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Yesterday I finally managed to get my FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE box to actually authenticate to the Xserve, running Open Directory on Mac OS X 10.5 Server. I was able to log in to the FreeBSD box (egil.kreativsone.no) as a directory user via SSH an

fuser(1): do FIFOs and sockets count as "named" files?

2011-05-26 Thread Pan Tsu
fuser(1) man page mentions the tool is supposed to list processes that have specified named file(s) open. As there are several types of files (according to stat(2)) it's not clear which are supported, e.g. $ (mkfifo foo.fifo; cat <>foo.fifo) & nc -lU foo.socket & $ fuser foo.* foo.fifo: fo