Re: named questions.

2008-03-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:59 PM 3/12/2008, jekillen wrote: Hello: I have named running as secondary server on v6.2 It will not start without a specific configuration file set on the command line. After doing some investigation it appears that that is because it runs chrooted and there is not a symlink from

Re: source upgrade from 6.3 - 7.0 fails

2008-03-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:41 PM 3/12/2008, David Newman wrote: Having trouble upgrading 6.3 to 7.0 from source. This is on a single-CPU amd64 machine. These steps all work OK: 1. cd /usr/src 2. cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/local/etc/security-supfile (tag points to RELENG_7_0) 3. make buildworld 4. make buildkernel

Re: Best practice: sendmail and SMTP auth

2008-03-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:19 PM 3/12/2008, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, Not sure if this is the most appropriate place for this question, but since all my servers are FreeBSD 6.x/7.x, I'll give it a go... I am considering setting up SMTP auth on a number of sendmail instances that I control. After much googling and

Re: Upgrade 4.11 to 7.0, possible?

2008-03-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:14 PM 3/10/2008, Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I am trying to see if it's possible to upgrade 4.11 to 7.0 by using cvsup. When I run make buildworld, I got these errors. Are there packages missing? -- Building an up-to-date make(1)

Re: doesn't change to Daylight Saving Time

2008-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:17 AM 3/10/2008, Robert Huff wrote: Derek Ragona writes: My FreeBSD 6.2 doesn't change to Daylight Saving Time. How should I fix it? I'm having the same problem with -CURRENT. I have updated the zoneinfo files (using misc/zoneinfo) and (re-)run tzsetup, but am

Re: doesn't change to Daylight Saving Time

2008-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:38 AM 3/10/2008, Robert Huff wrote: Derek Ragona writes: Have you checked the ntpd log file for errors, and verified it is running. Often ntpd won't reset the time if the delta is too large, and you have to stop ntpd and run ntpdate instead, then start ntpd. I genuflect

Re: doesn't change to Daylight Saving Time

2008-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:43 AM 3/10/2008, Robert Huff wrote: Xihong Yin writes: My FreeBSD 6.2 doesn't change to Daylight Saving Time. How should I fix it? I'm having the same problem with -CURRENT. I have updated the zoneinfo files (using misc/zoneinfo) and (re-)run tzsetup, but am still a hour

Re: doesn't change to Daylight Saving Time

2008-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:28 AM 3/10/2008, Robert Huff wrote: Derek Ragona writes: Have you checked the ntpd log file for errors, and verified it is running. Often ntpd won't reset the time if the delta is too large, and you have to stop ntpd and run ntpdate instead, then start ntpd

Re: SIGHUP and Program Flow in a 6.2 Application

2008-03-06 Thread Derek Ragona
things working. Debugging signal handlers and interrupt handlers is always a challenge. I am an old assembly coder too, and have done embedded work as well. It can be very challenging in any environment debugging these, particularly with re-entrancy issues. -Derek Derek Ragona writes

Re: SIGHUP and Program Flow in a 6.2 Application

2008-03-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:26 PM 3/5/2008, Martin McCormick wrote: A SIGHUP signal to a running process needs a signal handler like signal( SIGHUP ,startlogging); What sort of end statement needs to be in the function called to allow program execution to resume back in the main caller? I

Re: So How Hard Is Moving From 6.3 To 7.0?

2008-03-02 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:25 AM 3/2/2008, Ezat - Ezatech wrote: Would tend to agree. I just lost a machines hdd so it's a good opportunity to build with latest release but otherwise, i have still have a 6.0 box running strong and executing tasks which it was built for. No plans to upgrade. ezat

Re: Booting from Memory Stick

2008-03-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:23 PM 3/1/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on getting a FreeBSD system to boot from a USB memory stick. Would it be possible to install the operating system using the following: cd /usr/src make DESTDIR=/mnt/usbdisk world boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate da0 Or, is there an easier

Re: So How Hard Is Moving From 6.3 To 7.0?

2008-03-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:12 PM 2/1/2008, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I have a stable 6.3 production server. If I buildworld/kernel for 7.0, install them, and reboot, will everything pretty much work the same as it did under 6.3, or have file locations, userland configuration, etc. changed? Will my 6.3 binaries run

Re: Freebsd quota sendmail

2008-02-27 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:29 PM 2/27/2008, Ofloo wrote: I'm putting this under freebsd because there is no forum for sendmail, and it does concern freebsd as well. My problem is this, when i set quota in /var/mail directory to each user and this user creates a cronjob, that doesn't forward all data to /dev/null,

Re: My Rebuild Problem

2008-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
If you want to re-format the drive, download a CD image from the drive manufacturer's website. Most manufacturer's have bootable CD images that include utilities to test and format their drives. -Derek -Original Message- From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Calendar Solution?

2008-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:29 AM 2/26/2008, B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Anyone have any suggestions for a 'corporate' calendar? Either ports or DIY or other .. I am trying to get them on the idea of an OSX server.. They are using words like 'Exchange' and 'Externally Hosted Exchange' servers.. (just sends a chill

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:06 AM 2/25/2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi guys, this is really not about freebsd per sa. But this is the only computer-related forum I use. so please forgive me. my desktop was relocated due to my recent moving to a new apartment. After settling down at the new place, I plug in the

Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:58 AM 2/25/2008, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: thank you all for helping. I will reinstall my main again from scratch. one thing i want to know is that if my m-board is short somewhere, does this mean my board is damaged? or it's okay if i can find out what is wrong, and so most likely i need to

Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:38 AM 2/25/2008, Nenad Mihajlovic wrote: Hi all, Recently I have received the reuest from the colleague to create the homebrewn NAS for his small office, so I started checking the possible options, and having good, stable and long relationship with FreeBSD I've settled again for it.

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:11 PM 2/23/2008, Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: It has a Via CPU? Comment that option and try again. Mel, It does indeed have a Via cpu. The box is running on a VIA EPIA EK 8000EG motherboard (which has a CPU integrated into it). If I run cat /var/log/dmesg.today | grep CPU, I get... CPU:

Re: My Rebuild Problem

2008-02-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:14 AM 2/23/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I get this when I try and log on: no /boot/loader All I want to do is rebuild the silly FBSD! Again, I fell into this silly loop when I tried to rebuild: -- Select Drive -- FDISK Partition Editor (Q) -- Install Boot Manager and it just

Re: tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:23 PM 2/22/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anybody know program to split data (from stdin) on tapes like that something|splittotapes /dev/sa0 and then concattapes /dev/sa0 |something i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. Well sonny in the old

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:34 AM 2/21/2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I recently recomplied the apache20 port (updated) with no compile-time changes. Since that time, I noticed it was hogging 98% of the CPU and hanging. I adjusted the various Max/Min server levels and that seemed to fix it - except at midnight when

Re: 6.3-STABLE Apache 2.0 uses high CPU when restarted....

2008-02-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:57 AM 2/21/2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 08:34 AM 2/21/2008, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I recently recomplied the apache20 port (updated) with no compile-time changes. Since that time, I noticed it was hogging 98% of the CPU and hanging. I adjusted the various Max

Re: Shell scripting question - incrementing

2008-02-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:35 AM 2/19/2008, Paul Schmehl wrote: I could do this in perl easily, but I'm trying to force myself to learn shell scripting better. :-) I'm parsing a file to extract some elements from it, then writing the results, embeded in long strings, into an output file. Here's the script:

Re: freebsd dead after attempt on upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3

2008-02-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:02 PM 2/15/2008, Deian Popov wrote: Hello, I'm pretty stuck with the death of my bsd machine after attempt on upgrade from 6.2 to 6.3. Some time ago, I successfully upgraded from 6.1 to 6.2following the steps in the manual 1) cvsup source to specific release 2) buildworld 3) buildkernel

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:16 AM 2/14/2008, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: I usually just set the shell to /usr/bin/false or /usr/sbin/nologin for users like these. Of course you can't test these interactively with su. If you want to do that, give the account a valid login shell, test it, then set

Re: tar backup script

2008-02-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:57 PM 2/13/2008, Steel City Phantom wrote: this isn't really bsd specific but i still need help with it. im writing a backup script a clip from that script is this: find /usr/local/www/data-dist/ -name config.php /usr/local/backupScript/include find /usr/local/www/data-dist/ -name

Re: Network Help

2008-02-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:50 AM 2/14/2008, Victor Farah wrote: Alright, I have the machine up to 6.3-STABLE #1 now. I've changed subnets on the one card that pushes the traffic. There is a run down of the machine now. The machine is still having the weird network traffic problem of capping at around 100mbps

Re: FreeBSD6.2 What is the easiest Way to Capture RS-232 Serial Data?

2008-02-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:55 AM 2/14/2008, Martin McCormick wrote: I wrote a C program several years ago that works and logs output from a telephone switch to a file and runs in FreeBSD4.x. I just opened /dev/ttyd0 for reading and it has run for up to 1,000 days at a time, but it also has issues as

Re: Curses problem with keymapping in screen and debugging curses

2008-02-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:06 PM 2/14/2008, Martin Cracauer wrote: I have the following problem when using screen sessions between FreeBSD and Linux: The pageup/pagedown keys stop working when I re-attach a session that was started under FreeBSD to a console that is Linux driven and vice versa. All other keys,

Re: Network Help

2008-02-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:01 AM 2/13/2008, Victor Farah wrote: I'm updating the system to 6.3-release now. All 13 machines are on the same subnet but they are scattered across different switchs. netstat -m: 7716/399/8115 mbufs in use (current/cache/total) 7388/326/7714/25600 mbuf clusters in use

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-13 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:51 PM 2/13/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: On 2/12/08, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become

Re: Help with su on 6.3

2008-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:16 PM 2/12/2008, Neil Gruending wrote: Hi, Today I upgraded my computer to 6.3, but now root can't su to other users. I login as a regular user (neil) over ssh and I can su to become root. But now root can't su to other users. For example, if I do su svn I get su: Sorry. My boot rc

Re: Network Help

2008-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:50 PM 2/12/2008, Victor Farah wrote: Hello, I have a machine setup with FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE setup on a 10/100/1000 switch. There are a pair of em interfaces, and the network traffic on this machine is very spuratic. Both EM interfaces reach 100Mbps and falls to 5~10Mbps, the very

Re: Freebsd based server lacking chown command, where to get it.

2008-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:49 AM 2/12/2008, deepcore wrote: chown is in /usr/sbin/ ok. I get that, and i found it I can, however not execute it. whenever i go to the usr/sbin and type chown i get chown: Command not found. i find this pretty strange as ls -l shows: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6688 Jan 12 2007

Re: Promise RAID array and mounting questions

2008-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:48 AM 2/12/2008, Trevor Hearn wrote: Hi there. I am hoping someone can help me with my question here. I have used freeBSD for many years, and I am pushing into new territory. I have constructed a 16 1tb drive array from Promise Technologies, and connected it via Fibre to a Dell server

Re: gnome screensaver crashes

2008-02-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:24 PM 2/10/2008, John L wrote: On a nice fresh install of FreeBSD 6.3 and gnome, gnome-screensaver crashes at X startup claiming that it can't talk to the dbus daemon, even though the daemon is running. Is this a known problem? It seems to be new in the latest version of X and/or

Re: Server getting crashed, any helpful comments?

2008-02-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:37 AM 2/10/2008, VeeJay wrote: Hello I am running a Freebsd server: 1. Software: Apache 1.3 mysql 5.0.27 php 4.4 2. Hardware: 2 intel procerssors 4 gb ram RAID 10 with hard drives 15K rpm I am having this problem quite often now. Apache stops responding due to mysql (my guess). And I

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:24 PM 2/6/2008, Eugen wrote: I tried everything you guys told me and it still doesn't work : - tried to set a static address as Derek indicated - commented out the ipv6 line in rc.conf, even if it was already set to NO - the answer to Kevin's questions follow: # ping -I dc0 192.168.1.1

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:09 AM 2/6/2008, navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system startup. I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add scriptname I want to achieve the same

Re: Host interface resetting - Asus nx 1101 (stge)

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:11 AM 2/6/2008, Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote: Hello, I recently purchased a Asus NX 1101 nic for a intel pc I have at home. The motherboard is a intel gigabyte GA-8I945GMF and I'm running FreeBSD 6.3 RELEASE. The card is correctly using the stge driver but whenever I try and bring the

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:33 AM 2/6/2008, navneet Upadhyay wrote: i dont want to go with the rename option, as if tomorrow i want to add more scripts to run at startup i will be in a mess. I will tell in detail so that it would be easy for you to understand my problem :- Intention is that the script file

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:40 AM 2/6/2008, Eugen wrote: Thanks for all your input. For now I am posting my rc.conf, but I will try your suggestions this evening when I come back from work. If anyone needs additional details, please ask and I'll repost my initial cry for help. Eugen ### Console options

Re: question on DSL signal

2008-02-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:01 PM 2/4/2008, David Banning wrote: I run a small FreeBSD server with a standard DSL line. I have it ping the ISP every five seconds, and when it doesn't ping it logs the results. I notice very inconsistent results. Sometimes it's up for a week without a single drop, while other times

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:24 PM 2/5/2008, Eugen wrote: Are there really no experienced FreeBSD users who can help me with my behind a router problem ? Should I post it again ? Should I just give up using BSD altogether due to an unusable system? I would not like this idea, I was really starting to like it.

Re: MAGIC: /usr/local/bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied

2008-01-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:02 AM 1/29/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i've got on one of my servers on just one account when trying to run bash script (it is set to executable) doing bash ./scriptname instead of ./scriptname helps BUT on other accounts, or root account - it works. what's up? Your script

Re: MAGIC: /usr/local/bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied

2008-01-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:11 AM 1/29/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Your script likely has as the first line: #!/usr/local/bin/bash I would suspect /usr/local/bin is not in the path of the problem accounts or $ echo $PATH /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/smietnik/tmp/bin $ echo $PATH

Re: warning messages?

2008-01-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:00 PM 1/29/2008, Siraj Shaikh wrote: I have just installed FreeBSD 6.3 on my machine. I keep seeing these messages cpu0: Cx states changed cpu1: Cx states changed in somewhat random intervals, specially at startup. What are they? Should I be worried? Thanks

Re: Trouble compiling php5-xml

2008-01-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:10 PM 1/29/2008, Nick Rout wrote: I am bumping this because I haven't had a response. I'll add that I am running 6.1-RELEASE (according to the motd when I log in). I don't know what other info may be relevant, if I can provide anything else please let me know. Also, if there is a better

Re: redundancy in domain or hostname ?

2008-01-28 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:36 PM 1/26/2008, Walter Jansen wrote: The router connected to my server reports DNS inquiries like myserver.example.com.example.com which obviously leads nowhere The server is in a SOHO situation connected to a router which is connected to DSL; the server runs 6.3 Release and will serve

Re: machine migration from 5.3 to 6.3

2008-01-28 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:51 PM 1/28/2008, Josh Tremor wrote: Okay, I had a freshly installed 6.3 on a machine (thanks Derek Ragona), and my intention is to use this new installation as a direct replacement of an older 5.3 box. This means using the same host name, IP address, and services. I want to make sure

Re: Network configuration in FreeBSD

2008-01-28 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:38 PM 1/28/2008, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: I'm guessing it does detect the interface, network-device all that, bcos my ifconfig says the ethernet status is active. But still I'm unable to do any kind of networking at all, even pings from other PCs to this one remain unreachable. I'm

Re: adaptec embedded sata, 6.2 install

2008-01-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:25 PM 1/25/2008, Josh Tremor wrote: Greetings, Apologies in advance for too much info. I have a machine by SuperMicro with an adaptec embedded sata that the manufacturer set to RAID 1 on two 149 GB drives. I boot the machine, wait for the configuration checker to finish looking at the

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Frequent Lockups

2008-01-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:37 AM 1/16/2008, Joseph Yeager wrote: Hello, I'm experiencing daily lockups on a FreeBSD 6.2 machine thats currently being used as a gateway for a local church school. I have installed and/or configured the following services which are running on it right now: Quagga (only using the

Re: Nut and RAID on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-01-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:43 AM 1/11/2008, Derrick Ryalls wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 3:52 PM, Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 3:14 PM, Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/10/08, Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps I need to re-evaluate my line of thinking. Light

Re: Nut and RAID on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-01-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:51 PM 1/9/2008, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Greetings, I have a RAID fileserver plugged into a UPS and nut is able to communicate with it successfully. With the winds making the lights flicker, I started looking into having the computer shut down when power goes out for more than say 5 minutes

Re: Nut and RAID on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-01-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:40 PM 1/10/2008, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Greetings, I have a RAID fileserver plugged into a UPS and nut is able to communicate with it successfully. With the winds making the lights flicker, I started looking into having the computer shut down when power goes out for more than

Re: Nut and RAID on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-01-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:43 PM 1/10/2008, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Greetings, I have a RAID fileserver plugged into a UPS and nut is able to communicate with it successfully. With the winds making the lights flicker, I started looking into having the computer shut down when power goes out for

Re: 5.4-RELEASE crashing

2008-01-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:19 AM 1/9/2008, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I upgraded memory in a 5.4-RELEASE server from 1GB (2x512MB) to 4GB (4x1GB). I'm wondering if that can even be causing my problem since nothing went wrong for an entire week. One week later, the server just stops responding in the middle of the

Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-02 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:03 PM 1/2/2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if the problem is still there. -Derek I did try that too. Didn't work. Have you tried telnet

Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:17 AM 1/1/2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hello, I'm not sure what I did. I've been following instructions (really!) and after following the instructions from here: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html to setup SSL/TLS authentication for mail relaying, my sendmail

Re: How to make sendmail listen on an address other than the loopback

2007-12-28 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:33 AM 12/28/2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get an e-mail system working for my church (whitneybaptist.org). I've added a file called local-host-names in /etc/mail as described in the Handbook, then did /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart and then did sockstat | grep sendmail and

Re: Server crashes

2007-12-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:43 AM 12/23/2007, Monah Baki wrote: Hi All, I'm running a very old server (P3, dual 600Mhz, SCSI 9GB harddrive). Applications that I run on it is MySQL and Apache. I have no problem with server uptime but I am not able to update because once I run the command: make buildkernel

Re: Redirecting STDOUT

2007-12-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:49 AM 12/21/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of debugging a script and I would like to have the output of stdout redirected to a file. After reading about redirection on the Internet, I was under the impression the following would redirect stdout to a file, but I cannot

Re: Redirecting STDOUT

2007-12-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:12 AM 12/21/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:49 AM 12/21/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of debugging a script and I would like to have the output of stdout redirected to a file. After reading about redirection on the Internet, I was under the impression the

Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To

2007-12-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:05 AM 12/19/2007, Nuno Gonçalves wrote: Hi all, I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a different Hardware. I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying to install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already

Re: Panic on boot

2007-12-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:32 PM 12/15/2007, jekillen wrote: On Dec 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, jekillen wrote: Hello; I have had an AMD64 754 system that I have 64 bit SCSI card and two 15k rpm SCSI drives. It has been running fine with FreeBSD v 6.0 for about two years now. I have several things I wanted to change

Re: named mystery

2007-12-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:57 AM 12/10/2007, jekillen wrote: Hello: I have two name servers for four domains. The primary name server is running FreeBSD v 6.0 and the secondary is running v 6.2. I have an MX record for each of the four registered domains. I have set up Postfix to act as a smart host mail hub (the MX

Re: named mystery

2007-12-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:24 PM 12/11/2007, Bill Vermillion wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 18:23 , while impersonating an expert on the internet, [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent this to stdout: Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:09:11 -0600 From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: named mystery To: jekillen [EMAIL

Re: Determining bus speed/memory

2007-12-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:20 AM 12/6/2007, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a couple of servers (5.5 and 6.2) at a remote location that I need to order additional memory. I need to know bus speed and, if possible, how many chips currently installed to help determine whether I need to replace or match and fill

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:11 PM 12/4/2007, David Banning wrote: Often I have to maintain my fbsd box from outside locations. I have tried using webmin but sometimes outside computers stop me from running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out

Re: ./configure question for AIX

2007-12-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:05 AM 12/5/2007, Rogelio wrote: I have a question on compiling Nagios' NRPE on AIX (which I'm assuming would be similar to FreeBSDl, as I'm trying to use Autotools on ksh). I'm used to always running tar -zxfv file.tar.gz, but this time I had to run (I think) like tar z and then tar xfv

Re: What is best method to debug freezes/hangs?

2007-12-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:49 PM 12/4/2007, yar wrote: My question is how best to go about debugging sporadic freezes and hangs. Just looking for general methods.On a couple of our IDS systems there are sporadic hangs or freezes that occur every couple weeks or so, that are recoverable by either system reboots

Re: Shell script in crontab cannot write files into FreeBSD's filesystem. (2nd evised version)

2007-12-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:02 AM 12/5/2007, Supote Leelasuppakorn wrote: Hi all, Please anybody help me, I faced the problem with my crontab. I tried to run a shell script which will fetch webpage and save it to a directory by using wget but after few minute I cannot see any file in such directory Below

Re: looking for online text editor

2007-12-04 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:14 PM 12/4/2007, David Banning wrote: running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? I

Re: rmuser

2007-12-03 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:28 PM 12/2/2007, Lubomír Matoušek wrote: Dear list, I have the following problem when when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2): Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes Remove user's home directory (/home/jakub/abcd)? yes Removing user (abcd):ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or

Re: SSH disconnects very troubling

2007-12-03 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:22 PM 12/3/2007, Anne Moore wrote: Hi All Whenever my users connect to my FreeBSD system, they are automatically disconnected after 1 minute of inactivity. This happens no matter if they are connected to our Oracle instance or SSH or Telnet, or anything. It's like the server hangs-up on

Re: Diagnosing an unstable machine

2007-12-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:42 AM 12/1/2007, Ross Penner wrote: I'm currently using FreeBSD 6.2 to run as a fileserver and gateway for my home. It's been incredibly unstable and I'm trying to figure out why. What can I do to try and figure out what is causing these crashes? Apparently the machine just rebooted 20min

Re: System Reboots with Bittorrent Use

2007-12-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:53 AM 12/1/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I have had this problem before, so let me narrate the history (quickly). I used to use the rtorrent port. However, when running rtorrent (never any other time) the system would spontaneously reboot. I couldn't figure out what exactly the

Re: named.conf - unable to set control bit

2007-11-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:15 AM 11/30/2007, Gelsema, P \(Patrick\) - FreeBSD wrote: Hi list, I have got the following issue. I have added the following settings in named.conf but am unable to get it working. If I read the man page it seems that what I have put in is completely correct. REason to put it in is that

Re: Dell PE4600 RAID5 server failing

2007-11-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:00 AM 11/14/2007, Barnaby Scott wrote: I suspect I already know the answer to this, which is that the trouble I am having is nothing to do with the OS at all, but I have to ask, because I am otherwise up against a total brick wall! I bought a second-hand Dell Poweredge 4600 and

RE: Dell PE4600 RAID5 server failing

2007-11-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:12 PM 11/14/2007, Tamouh H. wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:00 AM 11/14/2007, Barnaby Scott wrote: I suspect I already know the answer to this, which is that the trouble I am having is nothing to do with the OS at all, but I have to ask, because I am otherwise up against

Re: Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:21 PM 11/14/2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, My question has to do with how someone would find out if a call to socket(2) actually produced a socket. I know that the API works, I've programmed with it many times, but is there a way to find out if 's' returned by socket(2) is actually

Re: shell programming

2007-11-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:46 AM 11/9/2007, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? I do this in ksh, but it should work in sh too: DATE=/bin/date TODAY=`$DATE +%m-%d-%Y` TIME=`$DATE +%H:%M:%S` echo Backups started $TODAY at $TIME

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:26 AM 11/7/2007, Mario Lobo wrote: On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:39:55AM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: Hello; I'm running a qmailrocks install + DNS server here. Hosting 14 domains and their respective e-mail accounts. Everything seems

Re: Memory problem

2007-11-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:39 AM 11/7/2007, Mario Lobo wrote: Hello; I'm running a qmailrocks install + DNS server here. Hosting 14 domains and their respective e-mail accounts. Everything seems to be working fine. The machine is: -- FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Mon Sep 10

Re: 6.2 and random reboots

2007-11-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:37 AM 11/5/2007, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am trying to figure out why my freebsd 6.2 server has started randomly rebooting. I look at dmesg and see nothing out of the ordinary. Not sure if it is hardware or the OS. Ideas for troubleshooting greatly appreciated. -Darryl I

Re: Help Failing Disk Problem

2007-11-05 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:53 PM 11/5/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.2 Release box with a single ide that has user data and the FreeBSD OS on a hard disk that is failing. I need advice on the best way to clone the entire disk (or at least the data) onto a larger ide disk drive, then pull the failing

Re: 5.2.1 to 6.2 Migration.

2007-11-03 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:56 AM 11/3/2007, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I thought I would ask the question before I do it the hard way 1. Can FreeBSD be upgraded from 5.2.1 to 6.2 ? if so ... 2. Can it be done through an ssh connection, or MUST I make the trip to the farm and do it from the console? -Grant

Re: fsck failing

2007-11-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:33 AM 10/30/2007, Dudley wrote: Note: If there's a more appropriate mailing list, please let me know. I've been running a FreeBSD 4.11 installation for a couple of years without issue. Unfortunately, one of the drives on the 3Ware Escalada 8500 RAID array died leaving the array in a

Re: skip bad block in QIC-150 tar

2007-11-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:10 PM 11/1/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to recover some files from a 5 yr old tar on a QIC-150 tape. Unfortunately, there's a bad block on the tape; tar barfs and quits when it gets to it: tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format I managed to get

Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]

2007-10-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:45 PM 10/28/2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:34:22PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Sun Oct 28, 2007 [03:02:03 PM]: }At any rate, how do i as root, single user, cp -rp all of /var to }elsewhere (/storage) and rmdir /var, them

{Disarmed} Re: What's best way to copy a filesystem? [was: Re: slight emergency here...]

2007-10-28 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:02 PM 10/28/2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:54:54PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I think I've found the reason for the intermittent rashes. Part of /var is bad, and fsck cannot allocate inoinfo to repair the damage. At any rate,

Re: resolver problems

2007-10-28 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:47 PM 10/28/2007, jekillen wrote: Hello: I am still having resolver problems with my 6.2 system. It has shown up with trying to install ports from the ftp site. I discovered that there is no resolv.conf file, so I created one. The funny thing is if I ping one of my web sites with

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:23 AM 10/23/2007, Eric F Crist wrote: On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:51 PMOct 22, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: Hey folks, We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs (private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office for quite some time

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:24 PM 10/23/2007, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2007 22:24:54 schrieb Bill Moran: In response to cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:44:52 +0200 Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first one was for example the attached code: Why

Re: Linux samba server, Freebsd client

2007-10-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:37 PM 10/19/2007, Jason Dobyns wrote: Hello, My smb server is run from a linux CentOS 5 machine. When I mount the share in Freebsd all the files are owned by root SMB Server permissions -rwxrwxr-x 1 httpd httpd21868 Oct 17 22:06 index.php Freebsd Client Share permissions

Re: reverse DNS resolution...

2007-10-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:02 PM 10/22/2007, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey folks, We're trying to get reverse DNS resolution for a block of IPs (private). We've had the 10.x network working great at the office for quite some time now, but I'm having a problem getting the 172.30.x network to work. Typing 'host ip'

Re: Mails undelivered

2007-10-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:10 AM 10/18/2007, Joel Muia wrote: Dear Reader I have FreeBSD 5.5 installed and configured as a firewall and as mail server in my network. Unfortunately, a consultant installed and configured before I joined the company. I am the system administrator however I do not know on how to

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