IPFW and IP Statistics.

Hello, I am currently using ipfm (IP FLow Meter) as a way of measuring bandwidth per IP. I am not too happy with it as it has some major limitations. Is there a way to configure IPFW in FreeBSD so that all it does is monitor bandwidth per IP and writes simple stats to seperate files? I am

Turn off user email

Hi all, Other than setting a /var/mail quota to 0 for a user, how does one turn off mail for a UNIX user without affecting ftp or shell access? -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Disklabel again

Hi, I am reposting this in hopes poeple who have disklabel and RAID perc 3DCL / SCSI experience see it tonight. Hi, I had a crash tonight. Server rebooted and everything seemed to restart OK. Interesting disklabel output though. Should I be worried about all the *s? : If this helps, the disk

Disklabel

Hi, I had a crash tonight. Server rebooted and everything seemed to restart OK. Interesting disklabel output though. Should I be worried about all the *s? : If this helps, the disk below is a 10,000 spin RAID 5 Dell Perc DC/L (3 Fujitu disks). enterprise# disklabel /dev/amrd0 # /dev/amrd0:

Block IP

Can I block a certain IP address at the machine or interface level using freebsd? (No at the Apache or Sendmail level). CyberLaert monioting one of my hosts at the rate of 1.2 GB oer day! (no firewall installed currently). -Grant ___ [EMAIL

PHP Auth

Hi all, Two questions I have been reading as much as I can find on paswwd, master.passwd, shadow, crypt etc etc etc. and am Still stuck on one point. If the encrypted password is normally aslways different, due to 'salt', then how does one get a match?? Does anyone have posession of

Ftp changing times of files.

Hello all, The default ftp client from one of my servers, seems to be changing the time and datestamps of files it gets from other servers. All my servers are set to the same time (within a minute) and set to the same timezone (EDT | EST). I have gone completely cross-eyed trying to troubleshoot

all

Hi all, I have 1 server, that when files are ftp'd to it (my backups) from another server that is about 5' away, it shows the timestamp of the written file is 4 hours or so earlier. Example here is the dir showing when the last mod was done (from the backups write) drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel

Bad Super Block Count

Hello all, One of my Dell servers has rebooted itself twice in the past week. No panics or anything showing in any log. No overheating noted in mbmon. I don't know if the diskstuff below is related. Dell called me and told me I had to do a PERC III ROM flash, so I went to the POP and did that.

Cold Boot

Hi all, We have been running a Dell SC1400 with about 250 domains on it for about 2 years now. I have never questioned the integrity of the hardware before today. When I checked the server this morning I noted named was not running. When I went through the logs, I noticed that the machine had

MAC address change?

Hi all, My colo location has recently done some software upgrades on thier routers and switches. Would this cause the following messages in my /var/log/messages file? Aug 27 05:48:17 enterprise /kernel: arp: 65.39.193.154 moved from 00:0a:41:07:94:80 to 00:06:5b:ee:40:32 on fxp0 TIA, -Grant

Re: Kernel - maxusers, NMBCLUSTERS etc.

Kewl, Thanks for all the help thus far. On both my productive machines, I have set maxopenfiles to 8192 for the short term. (Kernel rebuilding wiats until 0300 AM :-). I found maxusers is read only and can only be set at boot time. Now, One machine is FBSD 4.4 and the other is 4.8. I can't

Re: Jails

Laforet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 9:26 AM Subject: Re: Jails On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:15:36 -0400 Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have read all the docs on the FreeBSD site regarding jails and have one

Kernel - maxusers, NMBCLUSTERS etc.

Hi all, I have one maching that is an internet server, it is fairly new and has maxusers set to 132. This morning for the first time, I noticed 'Too many open files in system' on this machine for the first time. As far as I can tell, cron was the only process that crapped out and dumped. I have

Jails

Hello all, I have read all the docs on the FreeBSD site regarding jails and have one working jail setup on my devbox. Are there any experts who would like to discuss on or off list, as I still have a number of questions. -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com

Jails

Hi all, I have recently completed a clean install of FreeBSD 5.1. I have followed the instructions to the letter for creating a jail. (see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=jailapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-RELEASEformat=html) The jail seems to start alright, I can see it with

ifconfig

Is there any reason ifconfig will re-order the names of aliases IPs? Example, in my rc.conf. I have all IPs grouped by network, sorted by IP. WHen I add them using ifconfig, they wind up in a different order (jumbled). Everything still works fine, its just screwing my scripts up. -Grant Grant

ifconfig and Postoffice

Hi all. A number of days back I had asked a question about IPaliasing and ifconfig. One of the answers I got was correct, but took a while for me to prove it out. The question was: If I have multiple IPs from a different network, should I be using the new netmask, or the book value of

dd

Hi all, I am about to make the trip to shutdown one of our servers and 'dd' the first SCSI drive to the second. from what I have read, and what some of you have kindly offered, I just kick into single user mode, with only root mounted on the primary drive, and away we go... dd if=/dev/da0

Disk Copy

Does anyone know if there exists a complete disk copying tool for FreeBSD akin to the Windown Norton ghost program? -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the

dd

Hi again all, Are there any 'dd' experts out there who would be willig to talk of list. Of course, I would post final answers on list for all to see :-) -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Clone

Hi all, I know there are a few options, but wanted to get some opinions on what is the simplest | mod reliable way to get a clone of a disk (FreeBSD 4.7) Our virtual server system is almost completed and I am wanting to make a copy or two, operating system and all, of the disk. rsync? dump?

Upgrade

Hi all, Is there any experts who are willing to talk with me off list about upgrading? (4.4 - 4.7 or 5.0) -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Updated Port

There are a small number of ports that I want to update in my ports directory example: net/ipfm-0.10.4 to net/ipfm-0.14.4 How do I update a port one at a time? I remember reading make update or something like that. Any ideas? -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bootable

Hi all, I have, what I hope to be, a simple question. I have a server with two hard drives. SCSI. Using driver da. When I originaly installed FreeBSD (4.7). I am sure I made bot disks bootable. I rsync the forst drive to the second every time I update the OS. My question is: Is there a way,

Re: Sendmail Question

You are on the right track. Sendmail may have used sendmail.cw which was the predecesor of local- host-names. Check wich file it is looking for by searching through sendmail.cf Then create whatever file it is and add the name of the host that is giving you the dreaded loops-back error. No

ipfw

Hi all, I am in a quandry with my colo providers. They have an interface to mrtg, but that only shows me the bandwidth for all servers on my connection. Does anyone know how to setup ipfw to monitor, and show bandwidth statistics for individaul ip s on one machine? I am reading the man page,

Hard Drive

Hi, I am suppoed to have 1 RPM SCSIs on this box, but when I do a disklable, it ells me 3600 RPM. Should I be worried? - # disklabel -r /dev/da0s1 type: SCSI disk: da0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065

Perl Upgrade

Does anyone know a way to upgrade perl (from 5.00503) to 5.8.0 without loosing all currently install modules? -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Second Drive Bootable.

Hi all, I have a frsh install of freebsd 4.7. I have a second drive exactly the same geometry as the first. I have dumped and restored all the filesystems from the first to the second. Is there a way, short of rebooting, that I can check and see if the second drive is bootable? (I am looking

Bootable CD

Hi all, I am going blind again. What is the easiest way to make a bootable FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE CD-ROM? -Grant To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Ooops

Hi again all, I am having reverse DNS issues so I am posting from another server. I am astounded at the bandwidth created by my little oops. Something that does make some sence to me is the . and .. directories. that had never occured to me. Anyways, the commands I used are quite fresh in my

Perl

Hi All, I am now blind looking for the answers... How does one upgrade perl (FreeBSD 4.4) from one version (5.00503) to a new version (5.8.0) without loosing all the currently installed modules? (I have lots). -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com To

Root Servers - Nameserver Update.

Hi all, I will be moving our servers this weekend to a new POP. The move includes our nameservers, also, all our IPs will change. 1) Does anyone KNOW when the root servers update DNS for hosts (NS's)? 2) We were planning to change the DNS about 11:00 P.M. this Saturday, Taking the machines to

Local IPs and Subnets

Hi all, I have three servers. Each server has two NICs. One NIC on each server (fxp0) will be used for the Internet, and I have a seperate switch and the IPs Subnets etc from the ISP so all is well. The other NIC on each machine will be used to connect to a seperate switch to LAN them

Tweo SCSI drives.

OK, While I am asking truely basic questions. I have two drive sa0 and sa1 Both have freebsd loaded on them (on the same machine of course) I want to mirror the first drive to the second one each night. 1) How do I 'see' the contents of the second drive? 2) Does anyone know where to find

2 networks, six NICs, 3 Servers, 1 switch.

Hi all, I am about to move our 2 servers, and add a third, to a new colo. On each of the three servers there will be two NICs. 1 NIC on each box is to be dedicated to the internet. 1 1 NIC in each box is to be dedicated to local. (192.168.0.1-3). Can I plug all three NIC s into one switch

Changing Colocation site. help: ifconfig

Hello all, We have been colocating at our current site since 2001, and will be changing colo sites in late January. When we set up the current site, the colo admin set up ifconfig for us. He will not be available to set up at the new colo site :-) I have been reading the man

Default Quotas and Regex Searches

Hi all, A while back I set something somewhere so that when I add a new user, the OS (FreeBSD 4.4) sets a default user quota for that new user. I have since decided to give users more space, but can;t remember where I set up the default *sigh*. Does anyone know where new user default quotas

DUMP + RAID 5

Hi all, Over the past few weeks I have been setting up and tweaking DUMP to dump each of my 4 main filesystems (/ /var /home /usr). Progress is going well (currently set to do full dump 1x per week and do a level 1 each night). I still have a couple of questions. First, I am dumping all

SCSI -RAID 5 again

Sorry all, the previous mail was sent prematurely... Hi all, Over the past few weeks I have been setting up and tweaking DUMP to dump each of my 4 main filesystems (/ /var /home /usr). Progress is going well (currently set to do full dump 1x per week and do a level 1 each night). I still

Re: Shopping Cart

Hi, We have used several shooping cart programs and the best one we have found so far is xcart. It has a ton of options, including skins Site admin, reseller admin. It requires PHP, MySQL and Apache. It also handles using a seperate SSL site in case the customer is to cheap or unable to get

dscheck, negative b_blkno, Hard Drive Panic?

Good Morning all, I have been setting up a some cronjobs this week to do dumps. Currently my server is partitioned as such: Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/amrd0s1a 484M95M 351M21%/ /dev/amrd0s1h 7.6G 2.5G 4.5G36%/home /dev/amrd0s1g

DUMP

Hi All, Can anyone explain how the DUMP levels work? I understand that 0 is a full FS dumo, but what does 1, 2, 3, 4 etc etc etc stand for? Is it possible to use dump to clone a filesystem from one PC to another? -Grant To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Remove Multiple Boot

Hi all, I have recently converted another PC to FreeBSD and no longer need FreeBSD on my usual workstation. I am running Windows XP on the workstation, and need to remove the (Easy Boot) boot manager and have the conputer return to just automaticly booting to woindows. Does anyone know how to

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