Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
inetd running is discouraged. Instead run the daemons on boot using rc scripts. If you look back in the history, inetd running is a security risk, and was discouraged in the 5.X releases. -Derek At 01:07 PM 5/12/2006, Eric Schuele wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006

Re: Access from the internet

2006-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
Can you ssh to your system from another unit in your home LAN? Check that you don't have restrictions set in /etc/hosts.allow One other thing, ssh uses port 22, NOT port 21. -Derek At 02:49 PM 5/12/2006, Terry Stoner wrote: Hi my name is Terry Stoner. I just set up a new Firewall

Re: Upgrading 6.0 to 6.1 with etcmerge

2006-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
Add the audit group to /etc/group if you have not. you would add: audit:*:77: As for /etc/master.passwd, you can usually ignore this. The mergemaster shows the differences which will be the CVS id in the first line, and any differences from adding or removing users. -Derek At 11

Re: Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1

2006-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
a system to the base release using a binary upgrade, then will cvsup then build world, etc. to have it be current. -Derek At 12:15 PM 5/12/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has possibly been discussed a number of times, and if it has, I apologize. Here is my situation: I would like

Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
Yes it is still true today. The default system now has inetd running nothing. And the ports now install rc scripts for these reasons. For network daemons, when they are running in a listen mode there is no real overhead on the system. -Derek At 03:41 PM 5/12/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
archives on the actual exploits about inetd. -Derek At 07:46 PM 5/12/2006, Eric Schuele wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:07:22PM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: Although I am curious about ftpd and tcpwrappers I am also interested in whether or not running

Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
security problems have been found, changes have been made to the OS, like the move away from inetd. This also forces that only required services are running, not a slew of services running on demand like finger, ftp, tftp, etc through inetd. -Derek At 07:44 PM 5/12/2006, Eric Schuele

Re: Samba Domain Problem

2006-05-10 Thread Derek Ragona
/forest. -Derek At 08:06 AM 5/10/2006, Kariuki Kaboro wrote: Hi, I successfuly installed FreeBSD 5.4 with Samba 3.02 off the ports collection. However, there is one problem. The windows machines i am trying to add to my domains give me an error that they cannot contact the local domain

Re: HTTP

2006-05-05 Thread Derek Ragona
Check the order in your apache httpd.conf for default document types. With no page name given the pages are served in the order listed in the configuration. -Derek At 03:32 PM 5/5/2006, jason zeng wrote: Hi, I need some basic helps! :) our sytem run at FreeBSD 5.3, and my team

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine: clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread Derek Ragona
Clamav works well but can be slow scanning an entire system. -Derek At 08:06 AM 4/29/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving

Re: OT: Domain Registration

2006-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek At 06:44 AM 4/25/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I know this is off topic, but I can't think of a good place to ask this where knowledgable people will answer, and this list usually has a high tolerence of ot but technical questions (plus I will be using a FreeBSD server, so

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona
to chug along, flushing the CPU cache often, and slowing things down considerably. -Derek At 07:47 AM 4/25/2006, Bill Moran wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:31:46 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get better information directly from intel's website on motherboards

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona
the data model, and how the data is used. -Derek At 07:47 AM 4/25/2006, Bill Moran wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:31:46 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get better information directly from intel's website on motherboards and CPU performance. Dual core is faster than

Re: Purchasing the correct hardware: dual-core intel? Big cache?

2006-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona
help, as may dual core CPU's, or faster CPU's. In the end, you may only see marginal improvement if the application or database is really where you need to tune things. -Derek At 08:25 AM 4/25/2006, Bill Moran wrote: On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:56:03 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona
For a caching nameserver simply follow the instructions in named.conf. Enable named in rc.conf, and start the daemon. -Derek At 05:50 PM 4/25/2006, Richard Collyer wrote: Hello, I've recently been getting a lot of trouble with SpamAssassin performing a lot of rDNS lookups which

Re: A portupgrade question

2006-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona
I have: FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=YES in /etc/make.conf for portupgrade or if I need to re-install a port manually. -Derek At 06:16 AM 4/24/2006, Ian Moore wrote: On Monday 24 April 2006 20:43, Ian Moore wrote: Hi, I've got a question about portupgrade and something that's happened

Re: Upgrade path from 4.7 STABLE to 4.11 or 5.4

2006-04-23 Thread Derek Ragona
to access the console during the process. If you end up doing the upgrade to 5.4, you may as well go to 6.0 while you are at it. -Derek At 08:25 AM 4/23/2006, Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote: Hi all, I have a 4.7 STABLE (production) server and I need to upgrade it to atleast 4.11 STABLE

Re: question on ftp - drag and drop

2006-04-21 Thread Derek Ragona
You can use a different client for this type of access. One client that works well AND can provide secure ftp as well is filezilla which is an opensource client: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla -Derek At 10:01 PM 4/20/2006, David Banning wrote: I am interested in setting

Re: Text files going double lined

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
needs and output device. -Derek At 08:10 AM 4/18/2006, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hello, Does anybody know why text files sometime go double lined? That is, there somehow getting one empty line in between every line. I work with a lot of people across many platforms and I find it very

RE: server hardware

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
are more flexible. -Derek At 08:25 AM 4/18/2006, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: The box that currently runs is an old dimension, 400 mhz mirrored IDE 256 ram, so anything / everything out there on the market will be improvement, as far as putting it together I can most certainly do

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
suggest you create separate compressed tar volumes for your backups, then you can restore them individually if you need to. -Derek At 02:53 AM 4/16/2006, Oliver Iberien wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar

RE: server hardware

2006-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
a good brand that supports different cooling options and quieter operation on the larger 3U and 4U models. You may want to use a couple shopping bots to help find the best prices once you have your shopping list complete. -Derek At 09:16 AM 4/18/2006, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: From what

Re: FreeBSD-4.11 and 4GB RAM

2006-04-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Verify your BIOS settings that the 4 GB of RAM is configured as all 4 GB useable by the system. -Derek At 02:18 PM 4/16/2006, Odhiambo Washington wrote: On my brand new Dell PowerEdge, now running FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE under test, there is 4GB RAM, but looking at dmesg.boot

Re: Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.4 6.0

2006-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to provide more information on your system such as what disk controller(s) it has and what hard disks. -Derek At 07:24 AM 4/16/2006, Mohamad Babaei wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 6.0 on my intel Celeron 2.0 Pc, but every time i get the following error when

Re: vsftpd wont start at boot

2006-04-15 Thread Derek Ragona
rename the script to: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vsftpd.sh -Derek At 04:37 PM 4/15/2006, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Saturday 15 April 2006 16:09, albi wrote: On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:47:25 -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i compiled vsftpd from ports today. at the end

Re: WAN setup help.

2006-04-12 Thread Derek Ragona
connectivity first. -Derek At 02:08 AM 4/12/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Gurus, I have a Head Office, and have 2 Restaurants in diffrent areas, I have been told that i can link them all together, WAN. them. Can please someone explain to me how to do that? all to be as a one

Re: fxp: promiscuous mode enabled

2006-04-09 Thread Derek Ragona
promiscuous mode means the ethernet NIC grabs ALL packets, not just the ones addressed to it. This is typically done by packet sniffers. -Derek At 09:35 AM 4/9/2006, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: Hi, I have a problem with my ethernet adapter (fxp)... When a run 'dmesg

Re: NIS

2006-04-08 Thread Derek Ragona
Normally you add the account to the master then do a yppush to push the new maps out right away. -Derek At 09:15 PM 4/7/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have nis setup and working great. I made a copy of master.passwd in /var/yp and removed the system accounts. The manual says

Re: src upgrade from 4.11-p16 to 5.4 possible?

2006-04-07 Thread Derek Ragona
and sendmail for sasl2. Otherwise the ports I had seemed to mostly work. But you might want to do a: portupgrade -a -Derek At 08:27 AM 4/7/2006, B. Cook wrote: Hello all, I am running a set of 5 FreeBSD 4.11 p16 servers here at the library. For various reasons we are unable to 'get

Re: src upgrade from 4.11-p16 to 5.4 possible? (some success)

2006-04-07 Thread Derek Ragona
may want to try a different mirror to pull the 5.4 source from. -Derek At 12:00 PM 4/7/2006, B. Cook wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# echo $? 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src]# make -j6 buildworld The CPUTYPE is not defined in /etc/make.conf, trying to make a clean build

Re: memory slot info

2006-04-05 Thread Derek Ragona
Look up your motherboard at: http://www.kingston.com/ or http://www.edgetechcorp.com/store/memory.aspx or http://www.smartupgradeconfigurator.com/config/ You will find the part numbers and even some pricing information too. -Derek At 05:40 AM 3/29/2006, Simon Gray wrote: Hi guys, I

Re: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread Derek Ragona
supported, or for some special feature the original manufacturer does not support (different CPU's or controllers, etc.) For a 3rd party BIOS, 39.95 is cheap. They can be much higher, close to $100. -Derek At 09:49 AM 4/5/2006, Thompson, Jimi wrote: I just encountered what I consider

Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.

2006-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:03 AM 3/30/2006, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, My server name is mailsrv and it has two interfaces: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx =external ip, internet yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy =internal ip, private lan File /etc/hosts looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.com localhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Re: virtusertable blocking seems to have no effect

2006-03-29 Thread Derek Ragona
Did you compile the access database? Typically done with: /usr/sbin/makemap hash /etc/mail/access /etc/mail/access -Derek At 08:54 PM 3/28/2006, Mikhail Teterin wrote: צ×ÔÏÒÏË 28 ÂÅÒÅÚÅÎØ 2006 18:55, Derek Ragona ÎÁÐÉÓÁ×: Block that in /etc/mail/access instead, use this syntax

Re: intel server board: strange LAN problem!

2006-03-29 Thread Derek Ragona
Check the BIOS that both interfaces are enabled. -Derek At 07:23 AM 3/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: hi together! our intel server board SE7320VP2D2 has 2 onboard LAN interfaces. HW address .:40 and .:41. ifconfig -a on freebsd only shows the 2nd interface (:41

Re: virtusertable blocking seems to have no effect

2006-03-29 Thread Derek Ragona
If your access db is not being used, your sendmail configuration is not setup to use that. -Derek At 08:12 AM 3/29/2006, Mikhail Teterin wrote: On Wednesday 29 March 2006 08:39 am, Derek Ragona wrote: = Did you compile the access database? = = Typically done with: = /usr/sbin/makemap

RE: intel server board: strange LAN problem!

2006-03-29 Thread Derek Ragona
fxp0 lo0 -Derek At 08:15 AM 3/29/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net wrote: Check the BIOS that both interfaces are enabled. they are. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: virtusertable blocking seems to have no effect

2006-03-28 Thread Derek Ragona
Block that in /etc/mail/access instead, use this syntax: @example.comERROR:550 No spam, thanks Note the leading space and use of double quotes. -Derek At 01:22 PM 3/28/2006, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Hi! I host a domain with a handful of real addresses. I noticed

Re: Samba shares and logging in

2006-03-22 Thread Derek Ragona
You can configure a samba server to be a domain controller/active directory slave and get the login credentials from the windows server. You can add a script to create the accounts on the samba server if they do not already exist. -Derek At 03:11 AM 3/22/2006, Vayu wrote

Re: hard error reading: set fstab mounts to frw: can no longer access filesystem

2006-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
files off. You can also try tar'ing files to floppy or other removeable drive you may have on the server. Not a great solution, but it may be all you can do. -Derek At 08:12 PM 3/20/2006, Edwin D. Vinas wrote: Hi, After a power outage my FreeBSD-4.10 server's 40GB HDD had many

Re: sendmail configuration

2006-03-20 Thread Derek Ragona
Your problem is in the name resolution for your domain. Check your hosts file, sendmail typically checks hosts before DNS. -Derek At 04:55 AM 3/20/2006, Ming Tang wrote: Hi - there, I got an email problem. My server can only receive email but cannot send any email out after I

Re: Urgent FreeBSD Boot question!

2006-03-20 Thread Derek Ragona
Look in the tools folder on the FreeBSD CD for booteasy. You can load booteasy onto both hard disks from a command window under XP. -Derek At 03:42 PM 3/20/2006, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear Daniel: I have an old but very reliable Dell Dimension 8200 that's 6 years old. It does

Mounting an OpenBSD slice

2006-03-18 Thread Derek Tattersall
How would I mount the partitions of an OpenBSD slice, when no devices are built at probe time? If I display the disk label, I get several warning messages as the c partition refers to the whole disk, not just the slice. -- Best regards, Derek Tattersall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: System administration question

2006-03-18 Thread Derek Ragona
I use BigSister, it is in the ports. Depending on your server, you can gather more information with a good SNMP MIB. I have BigSister log events into a mysql database which I can then query for more history beyond what is displayed. -Derek At 01:13 PM 3/18/2006, Paul Schmehl wrote

Re: More Server Crash Saga

2006-03-16 Thread Derek Ragona
-of-band monitoring. You should see what you can use to monitor the system and see what the system is reporting prior to a lockup. It may be time to just call dell and have them send a replacement MB or entire unit. -Derek At 03:47 PM 3/16/2006, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Still

Re: hosts file

2006-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your resolv.conf, should have files first. -Derek At 01:44 PM 3/15/2006, eoghan wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Yes, mine reads: ::1 localhost nathaniel 127.0.0.1 localhost nathaniel Upon starting apache, i can only get to it by using the ip. 127.0.0.1 wont work

Re: hosts file

2006-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Sorry, my mistake. Check: /etc/nsswitch.conf You should the line: hosts: files dns With the files listed first -Derek At 01:56 PM 3/15/2006, eoghan wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Check your resolv.conf, should have files first. -Derek resolve.conf reads nameserver

Re: hosts file

2006-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Well, your resolv.conf points to 192.168.1.1, what is at that address? Do you have any other DNS issues? Can you ping localhost, or 127.0.0.1? Is named running? -Derek At 02:14 PM 3/15/2006, eoghan wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Sorry, my mistake. Check: /etc/nsswitch.conf You

Re: hosts file

2006-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
It sounds like the tcp stack is not even running. What does: ifconfig -a show? Do you have any valid IP address on this computer? -Derek At 02:37 PM 3/15/2006, eoghan wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Well, your resolv.conf points to 192.168.1.1, what is at that address? Do you have any

Re: hosts file

2006-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 -Derek At 02:48 PM 3/15/2006, eoghan wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: It sounds like the tcp stack is not even running. What does: ifconfig -a show? Do you have any valid IP address on this computer? -Derek Yep, I can get to my www files when apachee

Re: hosts file

2006-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Try manually adding the address, or uncomment that line and reboot. -Derek At 02:59 PM 3/15/2006, eoghan wrote: Ken Stevenson wrote: eoghan wrote: Hi Has anyone got an example of how the hosts file should be setup to allow locahost to work in a browser? Mine doesnt work anymore

Re: To track or not to track

2006-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
Yes I use the same CVS tags for the ports and user, and src. -Derek At 11:15 PM 3/9/2006, Chris Maness wrote: I just wanted to get pros and cons for tracking the whole port tree on a production server. Any opinions? ___ freebsd

Re: System Freezing -Again

2006-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
Grant, Are the two ethernet interfaces on the motherboard or on PCI cards? What add-on cards are in the system? -Derek At 01:33 PM 3/10/2006, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, As mentioned in the recent past, I am getting lockups on my Dell PE 1850 w/ FreeBSD 6.0. Dmesg says ipv6

Re: coming back up after power failure (UPS)

2006-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
to reboot or power off the system If you want other behaviors you simply configure NUT and your system BIOS appropriately. -Derek At 11:46 AM 3/9/2006, James Long wrote: Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 01:37:21 +0200 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: coming back up after power

Re: System Freezing -Again

2006-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
A freeze like you describe, no logging sounds like a hardware problem. You didn't include a current dmesg or other system inventory. You may have shared irq's causing the problem, or a power supply, or a management board. Those are the three things I would look at. -Derek At 05:00

Re: System Freezing -Again

2006-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
I'd guess you have an irq problem, the @'s sound like a mail bomb of some kind, but my server's get that all the time. I would guess it indicates an extended network I/O when something else happens that causes the conflict. -Derek At 05:28 PM 3/9/2006, Grant Peel wrote: Sorry Derek

Re: coming back up after power failure (UPS)

2006-03-08 Thread Derek Ragona
it back in, you have it right. I have NUT set to power down on low battery, so if you need help, let me know. -Derek At 05:39 PM 3/8/2006, Peter wrote: --- Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On an updated 5.4 box I am using Network UPS Tools (NUT) with an APC Smart-UPS

Re: suggestions for an ecomomy laser printer

2006-03-07 Thread Derek Ragona
is more expensive as the toner containers are smaller capacity, which keeps the cost per page higher. You will get the lowest cost per page using high capacity monochrome toners. -Derek At 10:15 AM 3/7/2006, David Banning wrote: I have been looking at economy laser printers in the stores

RE: Problems with SCSI

2006-03-05 Thread Derek Ragona
stumped. I'd suggest it may be time to contact the manufacturer or vendor and ask them if there is some secret to getting the SCSI working, or if they have a diagnostic utility to test the SCSI. You may just have a bad board. -Derek At 10:07 PM 3/4/2006, David LeCount wrote

Re: Problems with SCSI

2006-03-04 Thread Derek Ragona
and independent of any Operating System. You should be able to check your SCSI configuration and see what SCSI devices the controller has found. If your CD is not found, check the settings, termination and cabling. -Derek At 08:58 PM 3/3/2006, David LeCount wrote: I recently purchased a Tyan

Re: Problems with SCSI

2006-03-04 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek At 09:49 AM 3/4/2006, David LeCount wrote: Okay, now we're getting somewhere (maybe). Looking in the CMOS for firewire, I finally found the SCSI controller setting. I never would have guessed it would be under PCI configuration. Anyway, I enabled that, and I disabled firewire, both

RE: Problems with SCSI

2006-03-04 Thread Derek Ragona
this will be a choice to boot from it. These are on page 54 -Derek At 01:38 PM 3/4/2006, David LeCount wrote: What is your motherboard model ? if this is a pre-made server what is the make and model ? Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE __ Do You Yahoo

Re: Fileserver with FBSD?

2006-03-03 Thread Derek Ragona
Sure there is no reason you cannot. Check the compatible hardware list before you buy to make sure you have proper hardware to run FreeBSD. -Derek At 03:00 PM 3/3/2006, Huy Ton That wrote: I am curious if I setup a fileserver with freebsd, and let's say, I setup 4 HDDs within

Re: Where to place refuse file for CVSUP?

2006-03-02 Thread Derek Ragona
Mine is located at: /usr/sup/refuse for FreeBSD 6.X -Derek At 09:10 PM 3/1/2006, Jose Borquez wrote: In my ports-supfile my base=/var/db and prefix=/usr. Does that mean I should place my refuse file in /var/db/sup/ ? I am a little confused, so if anyone can help me out it would

Re: PCI Express 1x NIC

2006-03-02 Thread Derek Ragona
PCI Express is NOT PCI-X PCI-X is larger slot usually running faster at 66MHz vs. standard PCI at 33MHz. PCI-X is found mostly on server motherboards. PCI Express is a small connector found on primarily desktop motherboards. -Derek At 10:12 AM 3/2/2006, Andrea Venturoli wrote

Re: Choosing cpu type when building kernel (stupid one i know)

2006-03-01 Thread Derek Ragona
builds everything using the full Pentium 4 instruction set. -Derek At 01:13 AM 3/1/2006, Steel City Phantom wrote: in bsd 6, i have to recompile the kernel to add atapicam. ok, fine. the part of the config file that gets me is this: machine i386 cpu I486_CPU cpu

Re: Recommended Web Mail software

2006-03-01 Thread Derek Ragona
http://www.openwebmail.org/ It is in the ports as well. -Derek At 02:20 PM 3/1/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All... I'm looking to install a web-email package on our FreeBSD 6.0 system. Sendmail, Dovecot IMAP, and Apache 2.0 are already installed. I'll be installing from

Re: FreeBSD with KVM switch

2006-03-01 Thread Derek Ragona
Some BIOS are set for autodetection of keyboards, check and make sure it is set to installed. Also check your screensaver setting, and turn off any screensaver in FreeBSD. -Derek At 05:55 PM 3/1/2006, jeffrey shi wrote: Hi, I have installed FreeBSD version 6 on a new PC

Re: Freebsd with multiple nic's

2006-02-28 Thread Derek Ragona
with one or two built-in ethernet NICs on the motherboard. You can just check them out at intel's website. -Derek At 09:28 PM 2/27/2006, gahn wrote: Thnaks Derek: Well, I shut down what I don't need and I can see those shared irqs. I guess you are on the point. My problem is that I

Re: Help Sun Blade 1000

2006-02-28 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek At 09:41 AM 2/28/2006, Scott Einuis wrote: Hi People, I've been using FreeSBD for years on x386 machines, and just yesterday someone gave me a Sun Blade (Ultra-Sparc III) machine with an external SCSI CD-ROM. It has Solaris 8 pre-installed. My questions are.. Should I keep Solaris 8

Re: shared irqs and freebsd

2006-02-28 Thread Derek Ragona
were created to manage multiple resources on a single card/interrupt. In the dark ages that meant multiple port serial cards to run terminals on, etc. -Derek At 10:29 AM 2/28/2006, gahn wrote: Hi: How goes FreeBSD deal with shared irqs? Looks like FreeBSD could only work with two

Re: Does FreeBSD have problems with SCSI CD-drives ??

2006-02-28 Thread Derek Ragona
. Once I have the system loaded on the hard drive it is fine. I know this is of no help, just letting you know you are not alone. -Derek At 02:01 PM 2/28/2006, Rene Brehmer wrote: I've got SCSI Plextor CD-drives in my computer (AMD Athlon XP-based), and ATA harddrives. When I try

Re: I could not run this script in /etc/crontab

2006-02-28 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your script for and use full pathnames for commands, cron doesn't guarantee you will have a path or any environment variables you don't set in your script. -Derek At 02:15 PM 2/28/2006, Halid Faith wrote: Hello I have a script. I can run it without a problem as root manually

Re: System Burn In

2006-02-28 Thread Derek Ragona
The motherboard manufacturer's usually have stress tests in their diagnostics. These usually run outside any OS, meaning you boot the diagnostics. Run them for a couple days continuously to show any issues that may occur. -Derek At 02:27 PM 2/28/2006, Don O'Neil wrote: What

Re: Freebsd with multiple nic's

2006-02-27 Thread Derek Ragona
If the nics are all PCI you may have trouble with the shared interrupts. You may need to use a multiple port adapter to get the results you want. -Derek At 07:25 PM 2/27/2006, gahn wrote: Thanks Chuck: Yes they are on different lan subnets. I am trying to build a freebsd based

Re: changing Sendmail server's IP address, nightmare!

2006-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
maps begin proliferating which usually takes 24-72 hours. Hope this helps. -Derek At 09:35 PM 2/25/2006, Curtis Hart wrote: Does anyone have any specific information on making IP address changes to Sendmail servers since I have found that this situation is a lot more difficult

Re: Desperate - FreeBSD 6.0 Freezing

2006-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
. PC platforms while they are always improving, do still suffer from the heritage which allowed for hardware conflicts. It could be through the way you are using the hardware/software that these have just come to be exposed. -Derek At 03:24 AM 2/26/2006, Grant Peel wrote: Derek

Re: Desperate

2006-02-24 Thread Derek Ragona
It is likely a hardware issue, so please detail the hardware you are using. You may also want to remove any unneeded hardware in the server. -Derek At 03:00 PM 2/24/2006, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I am getting server 'freeze ups. 4 in the past 3 days, on a very new server

Re: Tracing Program

2006-02-24 Thread Derek Ragona
Up the logging by sendmail, you will see alot more then. -Derek At 04:13 PM 2/24/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: Chris wrote: Greetings, Are you using Sendmail? If so, check your /var/log/maillog. That should at least point you in the right direction. Best wishes, Chris

Re: FreeBSD on Sun Fire V20Z

2006-02-23 Thread Derek Ragona
I am not familiar with this Sun unit, but on other sun sparcs their boot devices were set in the prom. As I recall the cd boot is not the same slice/dev as the FreeBSD one. You may try to drop to the prom and try other cd devices to boot from. -Derek At 12:27 PM 2/23/2006, Paul

Re: Qpopper v4.0.8

2006-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
are still having problems connecting check the log add the option: -t [some log file location and file name] such as -t /var/log/qpopper.log Then you can see what the problems are. Hope this helps. -Derek At 12:51 PM 2/22/2006, michaela wrote: I was running an older version of Qpopper

Re: sendmail hangs with errors after setting hostname

2006-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
I would suggest setting the hostname as a different address from localhost. There are multiple instances of sendmail that run, as your rc.conf file has them enabled. You can use a private non-routable IP for the hostname. Hope this helps. -Derek At 04:10 PM 2/22/2006, Rob wrote

Re: qpopper load heavily the machine ?

2006-02-21 Thread Derek Ragona
There are two options to running qpopper, on demand from inet, or running all the time in server mode. Running it from inet can cause a load as inet will exec qpopper on demand. I run qpopper in server mode with out seeing much load on 5.X servers. Hope this helps. -Derek At 09:07

Re: qpopper load heavily the machine ?

2006-02-21 Thread Derek Ragona
My mistake, sorry. I was referring to standalone mode. -Derek At 02:29 PM 2/21/2006, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:20 PM 2/21/2006, Derek Ragona wrote: There are two options to running qpopper, on demand from inet, or running all the time in server mode. What you're referring to above

Re: Blocking an individual email address....again

2006-02-16 Thread Derek Ragona
happening. You should be aware that there are typically 2 to 3 separate instances of sendmail running passing the mail around. Hope this helps. -Derek At 09:39 AM 2/16/2006, James Csoka wrote: I'm reposting this with some more info.any help would be greatly appreciated. I have

Re: Mounting data DVDs?

2006-02-16 Thread Derek Ragona
It is possible your DVD is not cd9660 standard format. The cd9660 pre-dates DVD's and is for CD-ROMS. Can you mount a standard CD-ROM? You may also need to add the -r flag to mount to specify it is a read-only filesystem. Hope this helps. -Derek At 04:20 PM 2/16/2006, Ronald

Re: Blocking an individual email address

2006-02-15 Thread Derek Ragona
If you installed MailScanner from the ports, look to change: /usr/local/etc/MailScanner/rules/spam.blacklist.rules You can specify To, and From rules, there, maybe more. I am no expert. Hope this helps, -Derek At 09:52 AM 2/15/2006, James Csoka wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 5.4p10

Re: SATA Raid

2006-02-11 Thread Derek Ragona
is usually fine unless you need higher performance. Soren is the one to answer on what works well beyond the hardware list. Hope this helps. -Derek At 09:35 PM 2/10/2006, Robert Uzzi wrote: Anyone know of any of the cheaper SATA raid cards that work well under FreeBSD. I'd love to go get

Re: Additional Hard Drive Prblems

2006-02-11 Thread Derek Ragona
It sounds like your computer is trying to boot from the sata drive. Check the boot order in your BIOS and make sure it is set to boot the ide drive first. Hope this helps. -Derek At 02:28 PM 2/11/2006, Devin Miller wrote: Hello Everyone, Thanks in advanced for helping me. I am

Re: need some advice on our cisco routers..

2006-02-09 Thread Derek Ragona
and update any firmware on your routers. Hope this helps. -Derek At 12:07 AM 2/9/2006, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, We have a couple of cisco routers. There was one time when suddenly we cannot login remotely via telnet. I investigate further and was shocked when I found out

Re: Program for restarting stopped/crashed daemons

2006-01-31 Thread Derek Ragona
You can try bigsister for some of this: http://bigsister.graeff.com./ But coding to check apache is trivial. I have rolled my own apache monitor as the daemon doesn't die but will stop responding at times. -Derek At 04:02 PM 1/31/2006, db wrote: Hi all I've been looking

Re: GEOM - how do we replace a failing HDD?

2006-01-29 Thread Derek Ragona
drive to the new drive. -Derek At 11:43 PM 1/28/2006, Yance Kowara wrote: Hi all, We are trying to use GEOM to make a RAID-1 system (using a pair of identical IDE) and it is quite simple to setup. Does anyone know how to replace the hard disk if any of the two disks fails? There does

Re: RAM check - Followup question

2006-01-27 Thread Derek Ragona
, or you may just have a bad module. I don't know any ram that is NOT guaranteed for life, so if you have a bad module contact the manufacturer and get it replaced. -Derek At 12:16 PM 1/27/2006, Philip Juels wrote: I switched the DIMMs from dual-channel to single-channel and so far (up

Re: C/C++ call to detect cpu?

2006-01-22 Thread Derek Ragona
MASM, and I have never ported it to gas. If you want a copy I can send you the assembler source code and/or the commented listing as well. -Derek At 05:50 PM 1/22/2006, Nicolas Blais wrote: On Saturday 21 January 2006 15:33, John Levine wrote: Other than 'grep'ing dmesg

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your /etc/rc.conf for this line: defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 add it and reboot if it is missing -Derek At 12:26 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: Yesterday I placed an HD with Freebsd 5.3 release in a Dell Dimension L800CXE. It booted properly. ( since it's running

Re: cannot ping anything

2006-01-20 Thread Derek Ragona
knock a cable loose. -Derek At 12:50 PM 1/20/2006, Alvaro J. Gurdián wrote: thanks, but the defaultrouter line was already present in my /etc/rc.conf. On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: Check your /etc/rc.conf for this line: defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 add it and reboot

Re: adding virtual webmail users, freebsd6

2006-01-08 Thread Derek Musselmann
Yes, it is doable with postfix and it's not too complicated. You'll basically need a database for the backend (mysql, postgresql) and a few config changes to postfix. There are several tutorials available on the postfix website: http://www.postfix.org/docs.html - Derek Musselmann http

Re: Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-01-08 Thread Derek Musselmann
mean that password checking won't be done, just that it will be handled with PAM. And then later in the file you have: UsePAM yes Try commenting out the PasswordAuthentication, PermitEmptyPasswords, and ChallengeResponse lines. - Derek Musselmann http://www.disflux.com

Re: good blogging port?

2006-01-07 Thread Derek Musselmann
The best blogging software for php/pgsql in my opinion is Serendipity. It has a great plugin architecture and works very well. - Derek Musselmann http://www.disflux.com On Jan 7, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: I need to start a blog. does anyone have any recommendations

problems with mod_auth_pam

2006-01-05 Thread Derek Musselmann
requiredpam_unix.so debug accountrequired pam_unix.so debug And my httpd.conf: Directory /usr/local/www/vhosts/dspam Options +ExecCGI AuthPAM_Enabled on AuthName DSPAM AuthType Basic Require valid-user /Directory Any help is greatly appreciated! Derek Musselmann

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