Unattended 5.3 install post-configuration problem.

2005-01-21 Thread David Robillard
/post_install.sh system # From /stand/post_install.sh # cat - END /tmp/a # rc.conf # # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # # David Robillard, December

Re: live mirroring

2005-02-14 Thread David Robillard
the configs (which is error prone, not to mention long and painfull), you simply change the file on the master and let it distribute itself. It's relatively easy to setup and works very well. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notarius (TSIN) Inc. 465, rue

Re: Kernel problems on 5.3.

2005-03-03 Thread David Robillard
/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile for # more information. # # David Robillard, December 9th, 2004 # Host from which files are fetched. # # *default host=cvsup.ca.freebsd.org *default host=cvsup4.freebsd.org # *default host=cvsup.ch.freebsd.org # Directory where CVSup stores info about it's work

Re: I'm looking for school of freebsd in montreal.

2005-12-13 Thread David Robillard
Berkeley University (California) to learn more about it. #I hope at the same time to give the hand to Arnold Waterstachi #Tanx for your help #Eric Royal -- David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Local portaudit server.

2006-03-10 Thread David Robillard
portaudit server. This server would fetch the vulnerabilty file and all the rest of our servers would fetch it from the local portaudit server. Has anyone done this setup? Any help/pointers would be great. Thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Sendmail and Jails

2006-03-27 Thread David Robillard
make clean Check if you're using the right one: sendmail -bt -d0.1 /dev/null Let me know if you need more assistance. Of course, YMMV. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems admin, CISSP ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Java and tomcat

2006-03-30 Thread David Robillard
Magalhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I´d like to install java (virtual machine) and tomcat on the freebsd 6.0.. Are they full compatible ?? Are they in ports ?? Help me please, Aguiar -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Help clarify the '-l' option of ls(1).

2006-04-12 Thread David Robillard
Hello everyone, I'd like to have an explication about the '-l' (minus L) option of the ls(1) command. What exactly is the signification of the second column in the display? The man page states that it is 'the number of links'. But what does it mean exactly? The man page states: -l (The

How to link CPAN to FreeBSD ports perl modules?

2006-04-19 Thread David Robillard
-HTTP will return all perl modules which names start with p5-HTTP. But the above CPAN module does not exist. Does this means that the CPAN module is not in the ports? Or is there another way to link CPAN modules to the ports collection? Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, David -- David

Re: BIND inside a jail on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-05-01 Thread David Robillard
any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-05 Thread David Robillard
+and+Portsformat=html -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Broken Compaq ML530 G1 ACPI.

2006-05-09 Thread David Robillard
this name. But again it failed miserably. Can anyone give me a hand with this problem? I am not a member of the freebsd-acpi mailing list, so please reply to me at this address. Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: securing beyond the handbook.

2006-05-10 Thread David Robillard
security. Have fun! David Thanks, -Jim -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montréal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread David Robillard
You might want to talk to the author of this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/6.en.html Reflections on Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD by Brooks Davis. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread David Robillard
http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 If you receive something that says Send

Re: Heimdal 0.6.3 in FreeBSD 7.1

2009-01-19 Thread David Robillard
A popular BSD-licensed implementation of Kerberos 5 Long description : Sources : Changes : Download Maintained by: sh...@freebsd.org Also listed in: ipv6 Requires: libtool-1.5.26 HTH, DA+ -- David Robillard UNIX team leader Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE, SCSA SCSECA Montreal: +1 514

Re: suspending login

2005-04-06 Thread David Robillard
to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from logging in? -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notarius (TSIN) Inc. 465, rue St-Jean, suite 200 Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2R6 Tel. : +1 514 966 0122 Fax. : +1 514 281 1226

Donating to FreeBSD.

2005-04-06 Thread David Robillard
? And for those of you who donated to the FreeBSD project. May I ask how much did you decided to give? I'm just looking for ball park figures, just for curiosity's sake. Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notarius (TSIN) Inc. 465, rue St-Jean

Difference between `mod_auth_mysql' and `mod_auth_mysql_another'.

2005-04-20 Thread David Robillard
. So far, I understand that `mod_auth_mysql_another' understands more encryption methods then `mod_auth_mysql'. But what are the other differences? Could someone please point me in the right direction? Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator david DOT robillard CIRCLED_A

Re: How to filter the contents of two text files.

2006-08-08 Thread David Robillard
://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diffapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASEformat=html sort(1) -- sort lines of text files http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sortapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASEformat=html Enjoy! DA+ -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle

Re: Linux-HA howto for FreeBSD.

2006-08-23 Thread David Robillard
. For databases, consider MySQL real-time replication or Oracle Dataguard. For ftp and http data sets, take a look at net/rsync. For mail servers, it's a bit more tricky, but there is mail/maildirsync which I've never tried. David Thank you very much. -- David Robillard UNIX systems

Re: Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

2006-08-28 Thread David Robillard
/osiris/pkg-descr. Of course, don't install osiris on a machine which you're not sure if it has been tampered with, it would defeat the purpose... You can also take a look at other integrity checking software such as Samhain, Tripwire or aide. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems

Re: Hostile vs. Friendly instances of Sendmail

2006-08-28 Thread David Robillard
/. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread David Robillard
powerfull volume management tools such as Veritas Volume Manager or Sun DiskSuite, then you need gvinum. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread David Robillard
: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 411377980 Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-09-01 Thread David Robillard
with me. In case you're interested, I can offer you a space on my website should you want to have them online. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: MONOWALL WAN

2006-09-01 Thread David Robillard
Artymiak's book Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF, 2nd edition http://www.artymiak.com/books/index.html Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: what happed to mod_perl in 6.1?

2006-09-01 Thread David Robillard
Hi, my cgi scripts doesnt work in 6.1, and i dont see any entry about mod_perl in httpd.conf, how do i enable it? For Apache 1.3.x http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/www/mod_perl/pkg-descr For Apache 2.x http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/www/mod_perl2/pkg-descr David -- David

Re: need a restricted shell

2006-09-07 Thread David Robillard
Handbook for info on how to set this up. Alright, if you have any questions, please be my guest and send them up to me. Cheers! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

2006-09-07 Thread David Robillard
volume via NFS and then mount it on your FreeBSD machine? All what FreeBSD will see is an NFS volume which we all know work very well. Just an idea, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: trouble with a pair of bind9 servers

2006-09-08 Thread David Robillard
, and im about to pull what little hair i have left out. can someone shed light on this for me please? any help at all would be much appreciated! cheers, jonathan -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).

2006-09-12 Thread David Robillard
://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

2006-09-18 Thread David Robillard
://www.freebsdsystems.com/. By their name, one would think that the hardware they push should work fine with FreeBSD. I never dealt with them, so I really have no idea if they're good? Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread David Robillard
at another company and it was already pretty good. They're at version 3.5 now, so one could think it's better now. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Does mpd (multi-link PPP daemon) support IPv6?

2006-09-28 Thread David Robillard
://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)

2006-10-10 Thread David Robillard
client. Make sure the DNS you're using can resolve both forward and reverse for the client and the server. Then your ssh session will be fast and free of this error. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread David Robillard
, you get quality hardware and real support. Of course it might be a bit more expensive. But it's worth it. Well, you get what you pay for don't you? YMMV of course. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1

Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-06 Thread David Robillard
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Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-06 Thread David Robillard
-backup/pdf/FAQ.pdf HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Anyone running FreeBSD 6.x on HP DL320 G5?

2007-02-08 Thread David Robillard
If anyone is running FreeBSD 6.x on a HP DL320 G5 ? The following URL contains good information on running FreeBSD on Compaq/HP systems. http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/ HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator

Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-15 Thread David Robillard
://www.samag.com/documents/s=10118/sam0703b/0703b.htm HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-02-15 Thread David Robillard
/error.log root:www640 10 1048576 * Z /var/run/httpd.pid Check the man pages for newsyslog(8) and newsyslog.conf(8) for more information. I've been using this for more then two years now and it works like a charm. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP

Re: Ksh Shell script security question.

2007-02-15 Thread David Robillard
in an encrypted file eslwhere on your machine. You can then setup code that will check the md5 sum of the password file and use something like OpenSSL or GPG to encrypt/decrypt the file. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

2007-02-26 Thread David Robillard
of different UNIX flavors like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, RedHat, SuSE, Solaris, AIX, IRIX and HP-UX. So you're never lost because it's always the same :) Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966

Re: mysql50-server on FreeBSD 6.2 w/ LINUX_THREADS?

2007-02-28 Thread David Robillard
using mysql and sysbench http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/5705.html Aside from a potential holy flame war from FreeBSD vs Linux, this article does present you with an interesting my.cnf configuration file. Maybe that could interest you? Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-02-28 Thread David Robillard
that will be sent to the daemon process (or to all processes in a process group, if the U flag was specified). If this field is not present, then a SIGHUP signal will be sent. Cheers, David David Robillard wrote: Hi Peter, Someone told me that I need to gracefully

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

2007-02-28 Thread David Robillard
/publications/login/2005-12/pdfs/kanies.pdf HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-02 Thread David Robillard
it with a simple .htpasswd. Easy. BTW, may I suggest you also include the freebsd-questions list in Cc when you write back? Some people might be interested by what we're talking about. In fact, ideally we should only 'talk' via the list, but that's ok with me. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-03 Thread David Robillard
configuration to your other VirtualHosts. Talking about logs, you might want to send them to syslog. Here's a quick article on this topic: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-03 Thread David Robillard
. Yes, I agree with Danny. Arch Linux is as close to FreeBSD that you can get with Linux. I don't run any core business services on it, but a friend does run his webservers on it and so far he's happy. Again, my 0.02 on this topic :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
). HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
. Considering today's disk drive sizes are well beyond the 300Gb, I don't think this is a problem at all. Of course, YMMV so check your own needs and do the math. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
this way, then you will need 100 x 20Mb = 2000Mb or 2Gb for all your Apache logs. Considering today's disk drive sizes are well beyond the 300Gb, I don't think this is a problem at all. Of course, YMMV so check your own needs and do the math. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread David Robillard
on the list. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread David Robillard
://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

2007-03-13 Thread David Robillard
-MIRROR Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Serial Port Problems (Solved)

2007-03-16 Thread David Robillard
:\ :if=/etc/issue: To: default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%h (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:\ :if=/etc/issue:de=2: And restarted (not sure if a reboot is necessary here?). I had to fiddle a bit with the delay, but it did help. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems

Re: remote logging with syslogd

2007-03-22 Thread David Robillard
to enable other non-standard syslog ports. Try something like this: syslogd_flags=-b myhostname.intranet -a *.intranet:* Since you're using names instead of IP addresses in your configuration, make sure your DNS resolves both A and PTR records for the AirPort. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX

Re: remote logging with syslogd

2007-03-23 Thread David Robillard
forget to restart syslogd(8) of course. That will help you find out if your configurations are good. Now that should not prevent you from fixing your DNS :) Have fun. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514

Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-27 Thread David Robillard
/ Let me know if you need help on the setup. On the other hand, if you prefer to backup the VMWare machines as if they were physical ones, then I suggest rsnapshot. Of course, this will only work with UNIX VMs. More info here http://www.rsnapshot.org/ Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-10-29 Thread David Robillard
have one here in the lab. I'll see if I can spare a few minutes to test the hot-swap. I'll let you know how it turns out. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-10-29 Thread David Robillard
x3550 machines with the onboard RAID controller using the aac(4) driver. We haven't had any problems, the machines are stable and backed by IBM Professional Services. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-11-07 Thread David Robillard
On Oct 29, 2007 10:45 AM, Andrew Wasilczuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:08:12AM -0400, David Robillard wrote: We run FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on several IBM x3550 machines with the onboard RAID controller using the aac(4) driver. We haven't had any problems, the machines

Re: syslog time resolution

2007-11-08 Thread David Robillard
other syslogd replacements, check the Library at http://www.loganalysis.org/ Have fun! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Does anyone know how to get the required downloads from Sun to build Java?

2007-11-23 Thread David Robillard
, developer costs, and legal fees. Here's the direct link: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: named.conf - unable to set control bit

2007-11-30 Thread David Robillard
; }; }; Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Issues configuring cyrus-imapd

2007-12-03 Thread David Robillard
# Flags to imapd program. saslauthd_enable=YES # Enable saslauthd(8) (or NO). If you need more detailed info, I can send you my cyrus.conf(5) and imap.conf(5) files. As you can see, it's quite a lot more complicated then with Dovecot :) HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems

Re: How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment?

2007-12-13 Thread David Robillard
, If you make it out alive and everything works as planned, may I suggest you post your solution online so that the entire FreeBSD community can benefit from your efforts? Good luck Have fun! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread David Robillard
filesystem(s) meet(s) my needs in this case? NFS would probably do it. You can use either OS as the NFS server and use which ever file system you desire. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Best practice for SMTP relay with user authentication.

2007-08-13 Thread David Robillard
, Seebass Hein. Check it out at http://www.admin.com. It's a must read for all UNIX systems administrators. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-23 Thread David Robillard
is not yet published (as you can see from http://www.amazon.ca/OpenLDAP-Example-Practical-Exercises-Deployment/dp/0131488732/ref=wl_itt_dp/702-7398595-5616835?ie=UTF8coliid=I1YEUBXAR8YIE3colid=CWBQ1L7F8P6P ;) Seems quite promising. We'll see Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems

Re: named-bind-9

2007-09-17 Thread David Robillard
I am having problems with my zone file... There used to be a command to run and check zone files/Named files.. I can't seem to locate it...?? See named-checkzone(8) and named-checkconf(8) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security

Re: Monitoring tool for Compaq Smart Array 5300

2007-04-05 Thread David Robillard
/ David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Locking SSH Users to $HOME

2007-04-11 Thread David Robillard
fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-18 Thread David Robillard
all/bad reference Sorry, couldn't resist :) Let me know if you need any help with this setup. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd

Re: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-19 Thread David Robillard
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs FreeBSD ACPI http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi FreeBSD Hardware http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware Good luck ! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security

Re: RSA SecurID Pam Module Support?

2007-05-04 Thread David Robillard
supported OS to run their module. Because otherwise you won't receive any help from them if they know you're running this under FreeBSD. Sad, but unfortunately true. Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1

Re: scponly chroot doesn?t work FB6.2

2007-05-10 Thread David Robillard
instead of shells/scponly. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/shells/rssh/pkg-descr I'm not sure it does exactly what you're looking for, but it has similar features as scponly. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security

Re: Keyspan USB2Serial

2006-05-19 Thread David Robillard
it behaves as intended. Assuming you do have a Mac or a Win machine handy of course. FYI: I use this adapter on MacOS X laptop to access the console of FreeBSD, RedHat and Sun Microsystems machine. It works like a charm. Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator CISSP Sun

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-23 Thread David Robillard
off the list. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator CISSP Sun Certified Security Administrator Sun Certified Systems Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Implementing IMAP advice for first timer.

2006-05-24 Thread David Robillard
to change your sendmail configuration to change your MAILER from `local' to `cyrusv2'. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator CISSP Sun Certified Security Administrator Sun Certified Systems Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Tomcat script.

2006-06-05 Thread David Robillard
|$_procnamebn|${_procnamebn}:|(${_procnamebn})|[${_procnamebn}])' Regards, David -- David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Opinions Wanted: Dell PowerEdge Servers ... ?

2006-06-26 Thread David Robillard
. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE, Sun Certified Security Systems Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-29 Thread David Robillard
in the server market in upcoming years. Just take a look at new machines from Sun, IBM and HP, they all switched to SAS drives. They're great, really. But so far I've yet to see 15K rpm in 2,5 SAS form factor. David -- David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-29 Thread David Robillard
by those machines. -- David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-29 Thread David Robillard
On 6/29/06, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/29/06, Joao Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SAS drives are coming in strong. It's what all new machines will have in the server market in upcoming years. Just take a look at new machines from Sun, IBM and HP, they all switched

Re: RSA SecurID soft tokens under FreeBSD

2006-07-11 Thread David Robillard
websites. Nagios is in the FreeBSD ports as net-mgmt/nagios. Basically, it's just a simple perl script wrapped into Nagios. It works very well. Let me know if you need more info. Cheers, David -- David Robillard CISSP, RHCE, SCSA Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: :::. Sendmail WorkAroundBrokenAAAA.

2006-07-19 Thread David Robillard
the broken name server. The sooner the broken name servers are fixed, the cleaner the internet will run. b) Add the define(`confBIND_OPTS', `+WorkAroundBroken')dnl into your sendmail.mc file. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE, Sun Certified

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-27 Thread David Robillard
Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread David Robillard
reasons (4.x is getting old...) I've isolated the 4.x machines in their own DMZ. I'll wait for new hardware to replace these machines instead of upgrading them to another version of FreeBSD. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security

Re: Sun Fire X4600 Server FreeBSD

2008-01-04 Thread David Robillard
. In this way you can use the FreeBSD/amd64 install CD and perform a real life test of the x4600. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How backup huge pgsql ?

2008-01-14 Thread David Robillard
on your production systems. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: compiling kernel with PAE

2008-01-21 Thread David Robillard
-sequence, 5000-sequence or 7000-sequence, then you can use FreeBSD/amd64 and use the memory above 4Gb. IMHO it should be more simple and efficient than compiling a kernel with PAE support. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread David Robillard
. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Amanda port update

2008-07-04 Thread David Robillard
the source tarball? Thanks. Did you try to contact the port maintainer? You probably want to check with him/her before you update the port no? In any case, it's a good idea to update the port because we're going to need it here too! Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator

Re: Ldap NSS PAM Samba

2008-07-11 Thread David Robillard
example) and use PAM to locate which module it has to compare the ticket or password against. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 If you receive something that says Send this to everyone

Re: Would ZFS and gmirror work well together in a two-node failover cluster?

2008-07-14 Thread David Robillard
mirroring. I would advise to test and retest very carefully before you go into production with such a setup. If you do try it, I'd be interested in reading what you've tried and what conclusions you came to. Good luck! HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE

Re: Problem in checking machine architecture.

2008-07-17 Thread David Robillard
-frequency, etc. It's also available for other UNIX flavors too, so it's nice when you have a heterogeneous environment where sysctl and uname don't have the exact same flags. I've tried it successfully on various versions of FreeBSD, RedHat Enterprise Linux Ubuntu Linux. HTH, David -- David

Re: how to simulate a user's crontab?

2008-07-21 Thread David Robillard
for the same type of Remember everything functionality as Yojimbo, but platform independent, then you might want to take a look at http://www.evernote.com. It's web based (but .Mac free) plus it also has a MacOS X and a Windows client if you need them. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

2006-10-25 Thread David Robillard
of Programming Perl from O'Reilly. So, Garret, if you need help with this, I have a /bin/sh version of the script you're trying to do. Just drop me a line and I'll send it to you. Just my two cents :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE Sun Certified Security

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