Accounting "disabled/enabled" messages

2011-09-04 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
I noticed today the following entries in my dmesg. #v+ Accounting enabled Accounting disabled Accounting enabled Accounting disabled Accounting enabled Accounting disabled Accounting enabled #v- The uname -a follows. FreeBSD NAStie 9.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #0: Thu Jul 28 16:34:16 UTC 2011

Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?

2011-09-04 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, so I have a friend who is looking for the best OS for a web server, that allows to configure services (I guess HTTP, PHP, MySQL and web content) and do the OS maintenance (OS & package updates, firewall configuration) without having to touch a shell. I was wondering if something like PC-B

Re: Huge interrupt overhead reported after RAM added to Atom-based system

2011-09-04 Thread Brett Glass
At 05:33 PM 9/4/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: Does sound sorta-like VM thrashing. Could it be hardware based _bank-switching_ on memory? This would cause an intterrupt every time successive memory accesses were in differnt 'banks'. Indeed. In fact, when you put in a 4GB module, the BIOS reports

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:38:28 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > > See mailer.conf(5) and mailwrapper(8) > > > Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor > this and invoke sendmail directly. They're supposed to, /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symlink to mailwrapper. The real send

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Sierchio
Doesn't work in practice, since there are programs that don't honor this and invoke sendmail directly. On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:55 PM, RW wrote: > On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700 > Michael Sierchio wrote: > >> I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only.  This >> involves movi

Re[5]: vpn using pptpclient in FreeBSD

2011-09-04 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, the wise Коньков Евгений wrote: As I have so, you 1. Successfully connect to university MB> ng0: flags=88d1 metric 0 MB> mtu 1456 MB> inet 130.115.77.12 --> 130.115.3.34 netmask 0x MB> inet6 fe80::20e:cff:fe3d:e16d%ng0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 MB>

Re[5]: vpn using pptpclient in FreeBSD

2011-09-04 Thread Коньков Евгений
Здравствуйте, Marco. Вы писали 3 сентября 2011 г., 21:55:37: MB> On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, the wise Коньков Евгений wrote: >> Please describe your networks fully >> >> also I ask to send output of: >> ifconfig >> netstat -nr MB> My computer has IP 192.168.1.11, and sits behind a ADSL router which has

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 15:08:11 -0700 Michael Sierchio wrote: > I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This > involves moving /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way, and > > ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail > > which satisfies every invocation of sendmail I've see

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:01:03 -0600 Brett Glass wrote: > I'd like to see if I can set up > local delivery of mail without invoking the memory- and cpu-hungry > program that is sendmail. I have the default settings and have 2 sendmail process with 3MB of resident memory each, and I've never noti

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Michael Sierchio
I might suggest installing qmail, and running qmail-send only. This involves moving /usr/sbin/sendmail out of the way, and ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail which satisfies every invocation of sendmail I've seen. YMMV. - M On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > J

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Brett Glass
Johan: Actually, since the system I'm building is meant to be very secure and appliance-like, it doesn't ever need to get mail "out of the system." And it has limited memory, so it shouldn't be running a mail daemon. At most, it needs a mail system that can ONLY mail locally, solely for the p

Re: Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Johan Hendriks
Brett Glass schreef: I'm creating some small FreeBSD servers that shouldn't be able to send mail to, or receive mail from, the outside world. I was originally just going to set sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf and turn off the mailing of output from various utilities (e.g. cron), but alas

Cutting sendmail out of the loop

2011-09-04 Thread Brett Glass
I'm creating some small FreeBSD servers that shouldn't be able to send mail to, or receive mail from, the outside world. I was originally just going to set sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf and turn off the mailing of output from various utilities (e.g. cron), but alas there seem to be a f

Re: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher

2011-09-04 Thread Steven Friedrich
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Re: Possible obsolete entries in /etc/make.conf

2011-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/09/2011 12:27, Carmel wrote: > WITH_MOZILLA=firefox This seems to be obsolete -- there's no choice to use firefox available. Grepping the ports tree produces only 2 ports that mention WITH_MOZILLA (mail/mail-notification and deskutils/google-gadgets) and in those cases, WITH_MOZILLA is an O

Re: Possible obsolete entries in /etc/make.conf

2011-09-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 07:27:28 -0400, Carmel wrote: > A while ago, at least a year or more I would guess, I saw something > about placing a couple of entries in the "/etc/make.conf" file to > correct a problem with "Firefox". I am currently using Firefox-6.0.1 on > FreeBSD-8.2. These are the entries I

Re: Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/09/2011 12:09, Richard Collyer wrote: > Just incase anyone else reads this for a solution I think the cd > /usr/ports/packages line near the bottom was a typo and should have been > /var/db/pkg Yes. Dammit. One of these days I'll perfect the art of writing down exactly what I want to say.

Possible obsolete entries in /etc/make.conf

2011-09-04 Thread Carmel
A while ago, at least a year or more I would guess, I saw something about placing a couple of entries in the "/etc/make.conf" file to correct a problem with "Firefox". I am currently using Firefox-6.0.1 on FreeBSD-8.2. These are the entries I am wondering about: WITH_MOZILLA=firefox WITH_GECKO=lib

Re: Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Richard Collyer
On 04/09/2011 12:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 04/09/2011 11:05, Richard Collyer wrote: I was trying to get CUPS working last night and installed gutenprint-cups but the make failed half way through - managed to get the printer working without it so no longer need it. As a result its installed a

Re: Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/09/2011 11:05, Richard Collyer wrote: > I was trying to get CUPS working last night and installed > gutenprint-cups but the make failed half way through - managed to get > the printer working without it so no longer need it. As a result its > installed a fair number of packaged (mostly X11 re

Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Richard Collyer
Hi all, I was trying to get CUPS working last night and installed gutenprint-cups but the make failed half way through - managed to get the printer working without it so no longer need it. As a result its installed a fair number of packaged (mostly X11 related) that I don't need on this headl