gmirror 6.2 - 7.1
Hello everyone, Do you think the following way to upgrade gmirror 6.2 - 7.1 is safe for the average person? (The server is in a remote data center without physical console access.) 1. Backup 2. Remove one of the two SCSI HDDs from the gmirror 3. Install 7.1 on the removed HDD 4. Instruct the boot loader to boot from the 7.1 HDD 5. Reboot 6. Copy data 7. Clean the 6.2 HDD 8. Apply gmirror on 7.1 and add the former 6.2 HDD Thank you, Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM
We are getting a new web server - Singe Dual Core Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM It will have - 2 x 250 GB SATA gmirror RAID 1 We will run - - Apache 2.x - PHP 5.x - PostgreSQL 8.x - Postfix 2.x We have a couple of questions- If we are more interested in stability than in features and performance - a) Is FreeBSD 8.0 the right for us, or shall we rather go for FreeBSD 7.x? b) Is i386 or amd64 the right way? Thanks! Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM
Thank you all for the consistent advice. Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
best firewall for a web server
We will be running a web server - - FreeBSD 8.x - Apache 2.x - php 5.x - PostgreSQL 8.x - Postfix 2.x - The server will run nearly 98% of the time below 25% load (no high performance firewall is needed). - Access to the server will be done only via ssh w/ key (there will be no public ftp, etc.). I read several threads on FreeBSD Questions and checked the Handbook, and my conclusion is that PF seems the most straightforward for such classic situation. Am I right? Thanks, Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: best firewall for a web server
Thank you all for your help. Two for PF and one for IPFILTER - I'll have to do some math now :) All best, Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD in a cloud
Does anyone know a place to host FreeBSD in a cloud? Rackspace offer quite interesting cloud servers via www.mosso.com - but they claim they run only Linux. We have had FreeBSD with Rackspace for over 5 years (though they refuse to officially support it) and I cannot understand if they cannot or do not want to run it in the cloud. Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
accessing iostat -x %b with a scripting language
Is there a standard way to access, with a scripting language (php, perl, etc.) the output of - iostat -x I am particularly interested in the %b column (HDD utilization). I am not sure if reading the output and regex-ing the Nth column is the right approach, or there is a more intelligent one. Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: accessing iostat -x %b with a scripting language
Johan Dowdy wrote:
What do you mean by access?
I mean read, sorry for the unclear question.
A simple way to get the output would be(presuming the 8th column has the
data you want):
iostat -x | awk '{ print $8 }'
This could be redirected to a file or processed ins a shell script etc.
What is it that you want to do' with the output?
I want to add performance monitoring functionality to a web applications.
I look for bottlenecks on each request.
For this I want to read several OS status indicators such as %b of
iostat -x.
What I was not sure about, was - what is the correct way to read the
output of iostat -x (and of other similar commands, such as top, etc.).
But from the posts, so far, it seems that the correct way is indeed to
parse the output, which the command would normally send to the
terminal, and to find my values in this output, relying that the
command will always output the values in the given order/format.
This -
iostat -x | awk '{ print $8 }'
returns multi-row answer.
This (suggested in another post) -
iostat -x | grep ad0 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 8
grep to pick the drive in question
tr to cleanup the line
cut to extract the value
returns exactly the value of the %b.
Thank you all,
Iv
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Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0
Just did some tests and found out the same - csup freezes when the Free memory ends (the virtual machine has 512 MB RAM). Is this a known issue, and is there a workaround? Thank you, Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0
Hello all, I have the following configuration - FreeBSD 6.2 (minimal install) Running in VMware 6.x Windows VISTA BUSINESS 64-bit guest (core duo 3 GHz, 4 GB RAM) supfile-stable is edited just with the domain (cvs.at) and the version (6_3 or 7_0). csup with this supfile runs for some time, then the virtual machine freezes and the host shows 100% CPU use. After restarting the 6.2 host 2-3 times and csup again, eventually csup completes. Could somebody advice me what might be going wrong? Thank you, Iv -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0
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Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0
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is it possible to install FreeBSD 6.2
Hello everybody, I am trying to build a VMware twin of an existing production server running FreeBSD 6.2. I have a 6.2 boot only ISO. The installation from FTP works well, but I have some strange issues - (i. e. csup when pulling the 6.3 sources freezes the OS and completes after two restarts, make buildworld crashes, etc.). I normally I move with the RELEASE versions and I have never had such problems the last 2-4 years. Could it be that I am doing something wrong, or simply versions outside of RELEASE are to be treated differently? Thank you, Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD way of installing old version from ports tree
Simon Jolle wrote: What is the FreeBSD way to install this old version integrated in the rest of the system? If 1.6.12 was already installed, I would use portdowngrade. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freeBSD
Huu Daud wrote: Hello, Greetings, Iam new to this forum and to the Unix.My interest is to install and configure freeBSD on my desktop computer.I have downloaded the iso for i386. and burn on the CD and DVD.My problem is when I boot from the CD or DVD ,it didnt send me to the screen for selection options as it is shown on the web.Instead, it sends me to the A drive prompt(DOS).Is it possible to install from the DOS?.How then. Thank you for your help huu Did you burn the ISO on the CD/DVD as a file, or did you instruct the burning program to use it as a disk image? Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: csup freezes on updating src to upgrade 6.2 to 6.3 or 7.0 SOLVED
Iv Ray wrote: Hello all, I have the following configuration - FreeBSD 6.2 (minimal install) Running in VMware 6.x Windows VISTA BUSINESS 64-bit guest (core duo 3 GHz, 4 GB RAM) supfile-stable is edited just with the domain (cvs.at) and the version (6_3 or 7_0). csup with this supfile runs for some time, then the virtual machine freezes and the host shows 100% CPU use. After restarting the 6.2 host 2-3 times and csup again, eventually csup completes. Could somebody advice me what might be going wrong? Thank you, Iv -- The virtual machine had 2 CPUs. After switching it to one CPU all works OK. Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
Hello everyone, I have been using FreeBSD since 4.x for web related applications (php, Apache, PostgreSQL, Postfix, Cyrus IMAP, etc.), and while I am not an expert, I feel quite comfortable. Lately I find myself in situations where I have I have to take care of legacy Oracle (10g on Windows) and Interbase (6 on Linux) databases and sometimes legacy OS which need to be run for some time in a virtual machine, and I have difficulties to accomplish this with FreeBSD - no Oracle port, no Interbase port and only VirtualBox support, which is a bit unclear to me. What is the recommended parallel way for a person, who feels comfortable with FreeBSD, when FreeBSD cannot do the job? - i. e. is it a good idea to go towards Solaris, instead of Linux? Or rather go towards some sort of Linux? Thank you, Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
What virtulization system to use? Personnally I use ESXi from vmware This was a great tip, thank you. I wasn't aware that ESXi is a bare metal and free. What OS to use instead of FreeBSD? It depends on what is recommended for your application, what resources you have available around you, etc. For a similar problem I choosed Ubuntu because Ubuntu was well supported by the application and some colleagues had a decent knwoledge of ubuntu. I am not fanatic about FreeBSD, but I feel very comfortable with it and I resist change. However your ESXi tip would allow me to run ESXi on bare metal and virtualize simple installations of the unpleasant legacy OSes without making my fingers too dirty. Thank you very much, Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
On 07.07.2010, at 23:24, Henrik Hudson wrote: One caveat is that ESX / ESXi are very picky about their hardware and pretty much won't run on anything but server class devices (mobo, NICs and CPU are the big ones). Yes, I'm aware of that. We have entry level, but ESXi compatible, HP and IBM servers. VMware still has their VMware Server (software) solution, but it's slowly being phased out. Also, it's against the EULA to use ESXi for commercial / reseller purposes and ESX isn't cheap. Oh, wasn't aware about the ESXi EULA... will check, thank you. Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: what to do when FreeBSD cannot do something?
On 08.07.2010, at 03:04, Olivier Nicole wrote: That's the idea: bare metal and free, proxmox has something based on... I don't remember. I opted for vmware becuase it seems to be more wide spread. Yes, that's what I think, too. You will have to make your fingers dirty, because once you are installing any OS on a virtual machine, it is as dirty as installing on a bare hardware: you need to learn how to install, tune and secure that new OS... Good luck, Right. It's rather the comfort that I can have the right for every case (i. e. Oracle, Interbase) without asking for budget for a physical machine and having to take care of one more physical machine. Thank you for your thoughts, Iv___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
