My swap used to be 30MB+
I increased from 256MB to 384MB.
For several days swap usage was zero. Then I saw it increase to a few
hundred Kbs.. and now it's up to 10MB.
I am wondering if it's because swap is not going down or there is now that
many more programs running (which I doubt).
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks
of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process
owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back into RAM), so at
some point the system paged out 30MB of
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, K. Greenwood wrote:
Perhaps /sysutils/lsof? Desc. as follows.
Checked both lsof and fstat. Neither lists programs that are using the
swap.
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used
blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until
the process owning them exits
Have not found any program to see what programs are using the swap, but as
I think about it, the
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said:
How wonder how the current method affects performance. Basically if
there is a surge of memory usage and processes start that use the
swap and these processes are long lived.. I wonder if performance
Have a crontab
14 22 * * * /usr/home/hank/bin/tozoraida.sh
which is not running
When I try to research it the only thing I see is an error in maillog
postfix/sendmail[36590]: fatal:
No recipient addresses found in message
header
Have setup crontab on several other machines and never had any
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote:
For the archives.
Problem was crontab failing.
first thing I noticed was
postfix/sendmail[36590]: fatal:
No recipient addresses found in message
header
In /var/log/maillog
Then someone suggested to look at /var/log/cron
There I saw errors like
Doing a set of packages so when building new machines can do the whole
ports installations through packages.
When I did pkg_add mc-4.6.0_15 got the warning
requires 'gettext-0.14.1', but 'gettext-0.14.5' is installed
Is it safe to ignore these type of errors?
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Erik N??rgaard wrote:
In my case I added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d a script with
/sbin/atacontrol mode 1 udma66 pio4
Basically slowing down the channel to the drive.. the pio4 is for the
CDrom and that was it's normal speed.
Thanks! Well, I wish that I had
Besides the AllowUsers parameter in sshd_config is there is anything else
that would allow certain users, but not others to ssh to a machine?
Have a machine that one id can connect to, but not a second one..
I inherited the setup (about 20 machines) so don't know yet what setups
each machine
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, The WRS wrote:
Thanks for the feedback
Check /var/log/auth.log and perhaps
sshd[28883]: error: PAM: authentication error for fran from my machine
/var/log/messages for hints on why
Same error on that file.
/etc/hosts.allow may be the culprit
The machines were
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, B. Bonev wrote:
I think that Squid have a internal DNS server. Now, as understand I must
have configure Squid for HTTP req, and BIND or another DNS cache server
for DNS req...
As others have mentioned perhaps you are missunderstanding what those
programs do. It will help
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, The WRS wrote:
Hmm, are the password fields in /etc/master.passwd using the same hash type?
They should ALL either start with
$1 - md5
$2 - blowfish
They are all the same $1
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For the archives.
Found the problem the rights for the .ssh directory were wrong.
They need to be 700. Given that I used adduser to create that account I
think umask or something else for the root user may be wrong or perhaps
the adduser script.
The other point worth mentioning for anyone
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
yea.. that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get it
to boot all the way. and it's a laptop.
is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd?
Other than mounting the drive on another machine to see how much you can
read, not
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote:
can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine?
No. Another poster sent you comments on that. You need to get a Kit.
Should not cost much though. Basically some mounting brackets and a
cable... although for your case probably just the cable
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Dennis Koegel wrote:
find /foo/bar -type f -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm -n100
Although xargs is the most versatile solution for when having too many
items listed, for just deleting find itself can do it..
find /foo/bar -n mask -delete
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On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Laszlo Antal wrote:
Where is the best place to install DNS??
Depends.
Does it have to be on a separate computer,
No.
or can I install it on the same machine with the web and ftp server?
You can.
Depending on the machine (ie CPU, Memory) and how much combined usage you
have
Have a new machine that I installed 5.3 release.
Has been working for a week. Yesterday it started to loose network
connectivity.
ifconfig -u shows the interface as active, but ping to any other machine
in the subnet fails.
Looked at /var/log and did not see any errors or messages to hint what
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Duane Winner wrote:
We have an outsider who we want to allow to ssh into this server and do some
work.
Althougth I have never done it, you could search documentation on doin
jails in FreeBSD.
I believe Bash has a restricted shell of some sort.
I also have seen restricted
Anyone got Cyrus IMAP working from installing the ports?
After 3 days trying.. I am leaning towards possible problems with the
ports options. For example upon installation the cyrus-sasl-2.1.20_1 port
there are errors in /var/log/auth.log
May 16 23:47:39 testpompa saslpasswd2: setpass succeeded
On Tue, 17 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Francisco Reyes wrote:
Anyone got Cyrus IMAP working from installing the ports?
Are you running both sasl AND sasl2 ports at the same time?
No.
sasldblistusers2 is from sasl2 and saslpasswd is from sasl.
If that was just a typo,
Yup.
check
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Roger Merritt wrote:
/usr/ports/UPDATING. Does anyone have any gotchas I should be aware of?
You running 4.X or 5.X
One FreeBSD gotach I recall was the need to have
samba_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf
As for Samba... I think there was one (maybe two) options in smb.conf
which
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Olivier Nicole wrote:
I build apache13-modssl with:
# nice make WITH_APACHE_SUEXEC=yes APACHE_SUEXEC_CALLER=httpd
APACHE_SUEXEC_DOCROOT=/usr/local/apache/sites
APACHE_SUEXEC_UIDMIN=80 APACHE_SUEXEC_GIDMIN=30 PREFIX=/usr/local
PORTDIR=/usr/local
Did you do a make install
No
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Carolyn Taft wrote:
Will this program allow me create password access to websites?
Can you rephrase that?
Can I copy program from internet to my computer and burn CD (internal
burning)?
Yes. FreeBSD is an operating system. You can install it in your machine.
Check
On Wed, 18 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I have...on several hosts. Can you confirm that the setup does not
in fact work?
Compiled using the settings you gave me. The error still appears, but it
does seem to be working.
Also discovered there is a problem with the imapd.conf I was using
On Wed, 18 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I have...on several hosts. Can you confirm that the setup does not
in fact work?
Found the problem line.
virtdomains: yes
I do want to have virtual domains, but adding that line changes how I need
to connect to cyradm --user cyrus@domain
I also
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Daniel S. Wilkerson wrote:
I have a rather strange legal question that I'm not sure who to ask of; it
I am no Lawyer, but my understanding of GPL vs BSD is more or less..
GPL - You can change the code, but have to give back your changes
BSD - You can take the code and do as
On Thu, 19 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Francisco Reyes wrote:
BSD - You can take the code and do as you please. No need to even give back
the changes you made.
Although you DO need to carry the accreditation.
Wasn't that restriction later removed too
Today I was reading the great book BSD Hacks, by Dru Lavigne.
One of the hacks talks about bindkey which I find great.. it also mentions
Although it is possible to bind keys to numerical escape sequences, I
don't find that very convenient.
Looking at the output of bindkeys I see a number of
On Thu, 19 May 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not absolutely certain of this but I thought virtual domain support
on cyrus was rough until 2.2x. I've got at least one box that hosts
multiple domains but it's running 2.2x not 2.1x.
I am running 2.2.12
Anyway, it looks like you're trying to use
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Wisut Ponpattana wrote:
Look back at my configuration file. Sure enough, at the bottom are
options IPFIREWALL
options IPDIVERT
How about /etc/rc.conf?
firewall_enable=YES
firewall_logging=YES # Set to YES to enable events logging
firewall_quiet=NO
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote:
There are two ways you could do this. The first is like so:
I believe there may be a third way.
Have not done it in a while, but some FTP servers allow you to specify a
tar file from a directory.
To be honest I don't recall syntax, but it was
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Chris wrote:
5. (and my favorite) If running IPFW, use something like this if you
don't need ssh open to the whole of the internet. narrow it down to a
range of IP's you need.
6. Don't use passwords at all, but use keys. Not always possible though,
but possibly one of
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote:
Is there an effective way to manage that list? I mean, it seems to me that
you'd be adding mass routes to /etc/rc.conf. How are you going about this.
See
http://public.natserv.net/blackholing.tar.bz2
I put a shell script, an awk file and a mini
On Mon, 23 May 2005, fbsd_user wrote:
These manual routes are stored in memory.
Can you tell how much memory is used by your 300+ list?
I don't know, but it probably is comparable to what it would take to
put them in the firewall rules.
Is there some command to display these user added
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, fbsd_user wrote:
I am running ipfilter firewall and I ran test to see who gets access
to the packet first (IE: firewall or route command). Normally I have
inbound FTP port 21 denied in my firewall. I changed that rule to
allow and log so I could see all the packets flow
Looking at the man page for find I see several ways to look for files
exactly N days old or newer than N days, but did not see a flag for files
older than N number of days.. like files older than 90 days... Did I miss
it?
I actually have a perl script I wrote a while back but was wondering if
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Paul Schmehl wrote:
Use negation.
find ! -n 10 blah
Could not get it to work with anything like that syntax.
For starters I don't see -n. I see newer but that seems to compare to
another file.. Is this something you have done in the past?
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
find . -mtime +5 , or find . -mtime +5d, depending on whether you
want 5 days as of the next midnight, or 5 days as of when find was
started.
How do those flags work?
+5 = changed during last five days?
-5 = newer than five days?
I ran it on a directory
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
I ran it on a directory and was surprised to find that both -5 AND +5
listed a file from February. :-(
-5 definitely should not, and doesn't on my system. It should be
interpreted as less than 5 days from midnight tonight.
I think I found a bug in
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote:
find . -mtime -5d -ls
Shows correctly files modified less than 5 days old.
in the wrong place - you can get all files in the system printed or none
rather than just what you want. Possibly the man page needs to be
updated to make the effect of
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
OPERATORS
The primaries may be combined using the following operators. The
operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence.
[...]
expression -and expression
expression expression
The -and operator is the logical AND
Is the page http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ up to date with regards
to bigdisk support in FreeBSD?
That page mentions issues with filesystems over 1TB, but I have several
machines with 5.X and 6.X that can see and work fine with 1TB+ filesystems.
Currently going to setup soon a
Kris Kennaway writes:
There are a number of PRs I filed, but those aren't all of the
problems. It will require fairly major work to fix - the best hope
would be if someone was funded to work on it.
A couple of months back the place I work for had a number of issues with
NFS. We tried to
Bill Moran writes:
Have you tried contacting the Foundation?
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/
It's my understanding that they coordinate most of this money -
developers stuff ...
I think I explored that route. It's been a month or so now.. but if memory
serves me well that was not a viable
portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Mon Sep 20 21:17:39 EDT 2010 to Tue Sep 21 10:05:03 EDT 2010.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata
I was doing some exercises to get familiar with diff/patch.
Tried:
cd
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
mkdir original
mkdir changed
echo Line1 original/File1
echo Line2 original/File1
echo Line4 original/File1
echo Line1 changed/File1
echo Line2 changed/File1
echo Line3 changed/File1
echo Line4 changed/File1
Polytropon writes:
Is this what you had in mind?
I think a big component of what the OP asked for is
and has frequently updated lists
If there was such a list available then it would be possible to integrate it
with one of the firewals available in FreeBSD.
Frank Jahnke writes:
VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the
most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man.
VMware employee?
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Norberto Meijome writes:
I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that
Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about
$45.
$45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation edition. Does it support Vista
now? interesting..you can also try QEMu, on which
I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that installs
a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made.
For example I want all employees to have uids starting at 5000, but I would
like too port installed uids to be 2000 and up. After I add some users (ie
say last user
Steve Bertrand writes:
I have used vinum for quite a while, never, ever had a problem. In fact,
in RAID-1, I had a motherboard and a disk fail simultaneously. I popped
He is not asking about disk RAID.
I found this site with instructions to setup what is basically a
network RAID-1:
Josef Grosch writes:
What is the best SCSI/SATA/SAS RAID controller to use with 6.x? We have
tried LSI for SAS and we are not that impressed with it.
Catching up with the list.. and did not see an answer to your question.
Have you tried adaptect?
We have a couple of SCSI machines with it
Bill Moran writes:
Check with the vendors, though. Many drive manufacturers have utilities
you can download specifically to check their drives.
If the drives are somewhat recent you can try using SMART to check them.
In particular you can use the smartmontools port.
You may need to enable
is there a way to cross compile to amd64 from i386?
I see that as support a --64 target but when I try to compile a program
with that target it gives the error
Fatal error: No compiled in support for x86_64
I am trying to cross compile FreePascal from i386 to amd64.
Marc G. Fournier writes:
So, my question above, and a public call to -core, or anyone else:
What can we, as a community, due to improve this situation?
How about buying from vendors that specifically support FreeBSD.
http://freebsdsystems.com
http://ixsystems.com
and surely others.
Marc G. Fournier writes:
b. are ppl actually using/promoting SATA drives in a server environment?
I think for a small company there is little choice if you need serious
capacity on a budget.
300GB SATA.. in the $150 and lower
300GB 10K RPM SCSI $650 and up
$500 difference per drive.
2U
Marc G. Fournier writes:
settled on HP Proliant servers .
The problem with HP, as I see it, is that they officially do not support
freebsd.. I even sent an email to ask.. and the categorically stated that it
is not supported.
I would not want to standarize on something which is not
Atom Powers writes:
Yes. All the servers I'm installing this year will have SATA drives
(and 3ware RAID controllers). The Western Digital Raptor drives are
every bit as good as the SCSI drives I used to get.
Perhaps as the ones you used to get, but not as good as you can get.
Dont get me
Ted Mittelstaedt writes:
You have no guarentee that any piece of hardware you buy will be
supported on any future revision of FreeBSD, or even Windows
for that matter.
True.
I have lots of Intel gear in my basement that was
supported on various Windows versions in the past, which cannot
Marc G. Fournier writes:
the problem is that none of the Tier 1 hardware manufacturer's support
FreeBSD, and a growing number of places (ie. Adaptec / Intel) appear to be
dropping support for it as well ...
But companies like 3Ware and Areca are supporting it and from what I see on
the
Marc G. Fournier writes:
The other selling point for me on HP was the 2.5 SAS drives ... our new
servers have 4x72G SAS drives in a 1U space, which means I can do RAID1+0
How do those drives perform?
They are too small for where I work. :-(
At least for our storage servers..
Are those 10K
Nikolas Britton writes:
Dont get me wrong.. I can get approval to go SCSI since our
machines need at least 1T+ (the storage machines)
err.. should have say can't get approval to go SCSI.. We are using SATA.
Why? 1TB and up is a SATA niche.
Correct.. that is what we use.
You can buy 3
How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable?
Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the client.
From what I read on the stable list others are having simmilar problems,
but don't see any mention of fixes.
I need to downgrade a number of machines from 6.1 Stable to
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable?
Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the
client.
You might have more luck with 6.1-RELEASE
Really?
Were changes introduced to 6.1 Stable that made NFS less stable than 6.1
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes:
I don't remember general complaints about nfs in the 6.x series here
in the list.
Checkt he stable list. :-)
Locking issues on server during heavy load.
Background fsck + NFSD locking issues
Clients freeze if server goes away.. soft mount option doesn
Paul Chvostek writes:
Apache logs daily). NFS seems to go away for a few seconds (the filer
is unpingable), then return.
I see this in 6.X too.
Despite the 5.x branch's known problems, I
had attributed this to the fact that I'm using cough bge NICs.
Our problems seem to occur with other
I have a test machine where some users changed a number of
directories to be owned by www:www by mistake. The machine was unusable.
After rebuilding from sources the machine was usable, but I noticed that
a number of files still were owned by www. In particular I saw files in
/usr/sbin,
Have a server with 3 large filesystems.
I would like to have only one checked by fsck and mounted.
The other two I want to fsck and mount manually.
Is it enough to change options to rw,noauto and pass to 0 for the two I
don't want mounted or fscked?
This is so in case of a crash, like we had
Sahil Tandon writes:
Francisco Reyes wrote:
Have a server with 3 large filesystems.
I would like to have only one checked by fsck and mounted.
The other two I want to fsck and mount manually.
Is it enough to change options to rw,noauto and pass to 0 for the two
I don't want mounted
I am about to install FreeBSD at a new job. They block ftp, along with most
other ports.
I may be able to get a whole open for the freebsd server to be able to ftp
from some specific machines. Any suggestions what machines I should add to
the list?
For programs I know about I plan to do
Trying to install FreeBSD in a machine with Adaptec 2120 SCSI controller.
Newfs finished without errors, but when the installer tried to write the
different parts it fails with write failure. Have tried it twice.
Wouldn't any/most errors have been caught by newfs?
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Pointers to any web pages that are good for this sort of thing,
especially as concerns FreeBSD, would be greatly appreciated ...
Not sure if is along the lines of what you need, but but a few years
back I found a company that allowed multiple machines to connec to
Daniel Pittman wrote:
It looks to me like either ipf or ipfilter are equally good, and have
about the same capabilities,
While you are getting started and to test rules you could use
/etc/hosts.allow also.
You may already be familiar with it from other OSs.. We use to keep a
list of what
dawnshade wrote:
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 21:19, Anthony Philipp wrote:
see man ssd_config for directive UseDNS or just block tcp/22 from not trusted
hosts.
Another helpfull thing to do is to limit what users can connect through
SSH using the AllowUsers directive.
In your
Looking for 8.0 RC1 torrents and so far only found this one
http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?page=torrent-detailsid=28d9970704ce
aedddec8873d21b34d57cbb0b58d
Are RCs not officially distributed through torrents?
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krad writes:
On a side note. Anyone building new systems manually from the shell I would
recommend using GPT labels if you can. Apart from not having the 8 fs limit
(128 iirc) gpart is a dam sight nicer to use than bsdlabel, and scripting it
Any links on GPT on 8?
Found this tutorial for 7
Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 on
a FreeBSD guest?
Did the following to prepare the floppy
#Create empty floppy image
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=/data/tmp/boot.flp
#create md0 and point it to floppy
mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /data/tmp/boot.flp
Adam Vande More writes:
I'm not sure that floppies are still working in this fashion, but even if
they are it may be easier for you to do this via pxe or optical media.
You mean to create a CD image and put the install.cfg instead of using a
floppy image?
Adam Vande More writes:
Yes, you might be able to edit an existing image or use 'make release' to
build your own. Or with pxe you can just put it on NFS.
I was thinking of something perhaps even simpler. Mount a second CD image
with just install.cfg. Will try that and see how it works.
bsd writes:
I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers (7) based on two operating systems :
Depending on how much data you are trying to backup and whether an internet
backup solution would work, you may want to take a look at tarsnap:
krad writes:
In my experience dedup requires a fairly large amount of juice so if your
backups are large I hope you machines are big on ram
The way tarsnap does it is not that intensive. I have used in an old 900Mhz
machine with less than 640MB of RAM and it worked well.
I think the program
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