PostgreSQL 8.0.3 + FreeBSD + TCP/IP
Hi, I'm having a difficulty getting PostgreSQL to accept TCP/IP connections on FreeBSD 5.3. I have edited 'postgresql.conf' in my postgres data directory to set the listen_address (and uncommented it) and have the port line uncommented and set to the default 5432. I then restarted the postmaster and tried to connect. I get: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host xx.xxx.xx.xxx and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? I can connect from localhost just fine. Is there anything that needs to be set in /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/hosts.allow? I have postgresql_enable=YES in my /etc/rc.conf file, but have not rebooted since I added that. If that's the problem, is there a good way to load that value without rebooting? Is it just an environmental variable? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 + FreeBSD + TCP/IP
Hi, I'm having a difficulty getting PostgreSQL to accept TCP/IP connections on FreeBSD 5.3. I have edited 'postgresql.conf' in my postgres data directory to set the listen_address (and uncommented it) and have the port line uncommented and set to the default 5432. I then restarted the postmaster and tried to connect. I get: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host xx.xxx.xx.xxx and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? I can connect from localhost just fine. Is there anything that needs to be set in /etc/inetd.conf or /etc/hosts.allow? I have postgresql_enable=YES in my /etc/rc.conf file, but have not rebooted since I added that. If that's the problem, is there a good way to load that value without rebooting? Is it just an environmental variable? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- see pg_hba.conf in $PGDATA directory. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess I should have specified that I have already added the appropriate entries into pg_hba.conf. I thought that the error message would be enough to indicate it was not an authentication problem, as that generates an error stating there is not an entry in pg_hba for that host. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 + FreeBSD + TCP/IP
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0500, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: Hi, I'm having a difficulty getting PostgreSQL to accept TCP/IP connections on FreeBSD 5.3. I have edited 'postgresql.conf' in my postgres data directory to set the listen_address (and uncommented it) and have the port line uncommented and set to the default 5432. I then restarted the postmaster and tried to connect. I get: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host xx.xxx.xx.xxx and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? I can connect from localhost just fine. You need to set listen_addresses, like it says in the comments: listen_addresses = '*' This will allow Postgresql connections from all interfaces. I have already tried setting the listen_addresses to * and the actual IP. Neither of which has worked. I restarted the postmaster both times using the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, and by using pg_ctl. Even tried starting postmaster with pg_ctl -i. Nothing seems to be working. I have double-checked all of my pg_hba.conf settings, even though the error doesn't indicate that is the problem at all. Anyone else have any ideas at all? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 + FreeBSD + TCP/IP
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 03:14 pm, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0500, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: Hi, I'm having a difficulty getting PostgreSQL to accept TCP/IP connections on FreeBSD 5.3. I have edited 'postgresql.conf' in my postgres data directory to set the listen_address (and uncommented it) and have the port line uncommented and set to the default 5432. I then restarted the postmaster and tried to connect. I get: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host xx.xxx.xx.xxx and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5432? I can connect from localhost just fine. You need to set listen_addresses, like it says in the comments: listen_addresses = '*' This will allow Postgresql connections from all interfaces. I have already tried setting the listen_addresses to * and the actual IP. Neither of which has worked. I restarted the postmaster both times using the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/, and by using pg_ctl. Even tried starting postmaster with pg_ctl -i. Nothing seems to be working. I have double-checked all of my pg_hba.conf settings, even though the error doesn't indicate that is the problem at all. Anyone else have any ideas at all? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 Have you checked the firewall settings on both computers to ensure that port 5432 is open? Andrew Gould I'm guessing that opening the port is part of what placing postgresql_enable=YES in the rc.conf file does, correct? If so, that's probably the problem as I have not rebooted since adding that. Is there a way to safely force that to run without rebooting? There is a hardware firewall in front of the server that I have ensured is allowing that port through. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PostgreSQL 8.0.3 + FreeBSD + TCP/IP (Solved)
On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: I'm guessing that opening the port is part of what placing postgresql_enable=YES in the rc.conf file does, correct? If so, that's probably the problem as I have not rebooted since adding that. Is there a way to safely force that to run without rebooting? There is a hardware firewall in front of the server that I have ensured is allowing that port through. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:42af4251253444259514897! Hi Joe, You can confirm whether or not port 5432 is opened by typing netstat -na | grep 5432 on your database server. You should not have to reboot for the port to be opened. When PostgreSQL starts, (either by starting it manually, or then the machine boots) it will open the port. IIt definitely sounds like the firewall could be your problem. I'd try connecting to the database server's port 5432 via telnet from an outside location, so that your packets have to pass thru the firewall in question. Thanks, Ken Ebling Ideal Internet, Inc. 561-963-4501 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks to Ken and everyone who sent in recommendations - looks like it was an issue of a network admin who assured me the firewall was open when it really wasn't... Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD + Apache2 + PHP + MySQL ?
Hi, I'm getting ready to begin moving sites from an old web server to a new one. I've been reading about Apache 2 and it looks like it offers some great new features, but I'm concerned about the stability of it. I've seen a number of issues with memory leaks, etc, which concerns me because this server will get a decent amount of traffic. There's about 200 web sites on it that total about 1.5 million hits per day. Has anyone had any experience with Apache 2, PHP, MySQL on FreeBSD 5.3 in a production environment? Any input would be appreciated. Please CC me on responses. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware or OS problem?
On 1/5/2005 at 09:14 Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: Hi, We have a system that is currently giving us some trouble. The system is FreeBSD 4.9. It's a 2 GHz system with 1MB RAM and (here's the kicker) 73GB RAID 1 ATA drives. The system serves as a web/database server dedicated to 1 site. Daily the system goes out and downloads real estate listings (via shell scripts and cURL) and processes them (via PHP into MySQL). Also, nightly the system downloads a zipped set of images (probably around 400-500) and processes them into thumbnails (PHP scripts calling ImageMagick). Over the last week or two, the system is crashing and rebooting into single user mode. It's not consistently during updates, or resizing of images, or anything like that. Yesterday, it crashed with 99% processor idle and load averages of 0.00 0.00 0.00 -- I was watching a 'top' when the machine died. When it boots into single user mode, an fsck must be run, which identified a few corrupt JPEG files -- however, the sysadmin who reboots it never tells me which files they are. The sysadmin is convinced it is a FreeBSD problem and says that Linux will not crash because of a corrupt file and if it does, will not boot into single user mode and he will be able to access it remotely to do the fsck. About 3-4 weeks ago, one of the drives in the mirror set crashed and had to be replaced. I'm not convinced that drives are not to blame for these issues. Is there any way to verify that? Is it possible a corrupt JPEG on the drive could cause the system to crash randomly? What can I do to correctly identify the problem so that we can fix it and not change the OS? Thanks, The sysadmin has no clue about either linux or freebsd! A corrupt JPEG cannot cause a crash of the OS, for any real OS. (If it does, it is a bug in the OS, but I doubt one exists) Real OS includes Windows XP, linux, and FreeBSD. However, an OS crash can cause a corrupt JPEG! Either linux or FreeBSD may boot into single user mode when the filesystem is corrupt.What your sysadmin means is that with one of the newer filesystems Linux uses journeling, which is much less likely to enter this situation, but it still can happen. With soft updates FreeBSD is in the same situation as linux, but softupdates is (generally, there are exceptions) better than journeling. There is softupdates in Freebsd 4.9, but I'm not sure how to enable it, or how good it is. (in 5.3 it is awesome!) I suspect hardware. I'd burn memtest to a CD, and run that for a few hours to see if something is identified. Memtest won't catch everything, but it does a pretty good job. Also look at other factors. Does the HVAC kick in when this happens? Is someone hitting the panic stop switch? Situations like that have happened, and they can take a while to debug. They are not likely, but don't rule them out. FreeBSD 4.9 is fairly old at this point. You should seriously consider upgrading to 4.11 (due out in a few weeks), or 5.3 (my recommendation, but a much more involved upgrade). In addition, to the original problem stated above, we are seeing a number of problems like ...in free(): warning: modified (page-) pointer and ...in free(): warning: chunk is already free. I have them admin running a memtest today, but wanted to make sure these errors were not indicative of something else going on. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hardware or OS problem? System Crashing...
On 1/5/2005 at 09:14 Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: Hi, We have a system that is currently giving us some trouble. The system is FreeBSD 4.9. It's a 2 GHz system with 1MB RAM and (here's the kicker) 73GB RAID 1 ATA drives. The system serves as a web/database server dedicated to 1 site. Daily the system goes out and downloads real estate listings (via shell scripts and cURL) and processes them (via PHP into MySQL). Also, nightly the system downloads a zipped set of images (probably around 400-500) and processes them into thumbnails (PHP scripts calling ImageMagick). Over the last week or two, the system is crashing and rebooting into single user mode. It's not consistently during updates, or resizing of images, or anything like that. Yesterday, it crashed with 99% processor idle and load averages of 0.00 0.00 0.00 -- I was watching a 'top' when the machine died. When it boots into single user mode, an fsck must be run, which identified a few corrupt JPEG files -- however, the sysadmin who reboots it never tells me which files they are. The sysadmin is convinced it is a FreeBSD problem and says that Linux will not crash because of a corrupt file and if it does, will not boot into single user mode and he will be able to access it remotely to do the fsck. About 3-4 weeks ago, one of the drives in the mirror set crashed and had to be replaced. I'm not convinced that drives are not to blame for these issues. Is there any way to verify that? Is it possible a corrupt JPEG on the drive could cause the system to crash randomly? What can I do to correctly identify the problem so that we can fix it and not change the OS? Thanks, The sysadmin has no clue about either linux or freebsd! A corrupt JPEG cannot cause a crash of the OS, for any real OS. (If it does, it is a bug in the OS, but I doubt one exists) Real OS includes Windows XP, linux, and FreeBSD. However, an OS crash can cause a corrupt JPEG! Either linux or FreeBSD may boot into single user mode when the filesystem is corrupt.What your sysadmin means is that with one of the newer filesystems Linux uses journeling, which is much less likely to enter this situation, but it still can happen. With soft updates FreeBSD is in the same situation as linux, but softupdates is (generally, there are exceptions) better than journeling. There is softupdates in Freebsd 4.9, but I'm not sure how to enable it, or how good it is. (in 5.3 it is awesome!) I suspect hardware. I'd burn memtest to a CD, and run that for a few hours to see if something is identified. Memtest won't catch everything, but it does a pretty good job. Also look at other factors. Does the HVAC kick in when this happens? Is someone hitting the panic stop switch? Situations like that have happened, and they can take a while to debug. They are not likely, but don't rule them out. FreeBSD 4.9 is fairly old at this point. You should seriously consider upgrading to 4.11 (due out in a few weeks), or 5.3 (my recommendation, but a much more involved upgrade). In addition, to the original problem stated above, we are seeing a number of problems like ...in free(): warning: modified (page-) pointer and ...in free(): warning: chunk is already free. I have them admin running a memtest today, but wanted to make sure these errors were not indicative of something else going on. Thanks, Well, the sysadmin tells me that memtest passed. Any one have any suggestions as to what could be causing the crashes? Thanks, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Remote upgrade possible?
I have a freebsd 4.9 system that I'd like to get upgraded to 4.10 and then soon to 4.11. However, the server is not physically in front of me, nor do I have physical access to it. Is it possible still to upgrade it, or do I need to physically get in front of the machine somehow? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hardware or OS problem?
Hi, We have a system that is currently giving us some trouble. The system is FreeBSD 4.9. It's a 2 GHz system with 1MB RAM and (here's the kicker) 73GB RAID 1 ATA drives. The system serves as a web/database server dedicated to 1 site. Daily the system goes out and downloads real estate listings (via shell scripts and cURL) and processes them (via PHP into MySQL). Also, nightly the system downloads a zipped set of images (probably around 400-500) and processes them into thumbnails (PHP scripts calling ImageMagick). Over the last week or two, the system is crashing and rebooting into single user mode. It's not consistently during updates, or resizing of images, or anything like that. Yesterday, it crashed with 99% processor idle and load averages of 0.00 0.00 0.00 -- I was watching a 'top' when the machine died. When it boots into single user mode, an fsck must be run, which identified a few corrupt JPEG files -- however, the sysadmin who reboots it never tells me which files they are. The sysadmin is convinced it is a FreeBSD problem and says that Linux will not crash because of a corrupt file and if it does, will not boot into single user mode and he will be able to access it remotely to do the fsck. About 3-4 weeks ago, one of the drives in the mirror set crashed and had to be replaced. I'm not convinced that drives are not to blame for these issues. Is there any way to verify that? Is it possible a corrupt JPEG on the drive could cause the system to crash randomly? What can I do to correctly identify the problem so that we can fix it and not change the OS? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone using FreeBSD 4.10 + Apache 2 + PHP 5 ?
Is anyone using FreeBSD 4.10 + Apache 2 + PHP 5 + MySQL/PostgreSQL? I'm building a new web server and will be migrating a number of site from a machine with FreeBSD 4.2 + Apache 1.3 + PHP 4 + MySQL/PostgreSQL and was wondering if Apache 2 was stable enough at this point or if I should stick with the 1.3 branch. Same goes for PHP 5. Curious if anyone out there is using the above combination and how it was working out. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMP on 4.10
So, what's the word with SMP on FreeBSD 4.10 these days? Is it stable (for production)? I have a DB server that will be running only MySQL and PostgreSQL. The box is a dual PIII 1.2 GHz and I'd love to make use of SMP if it's stable. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD + Dell PowerVault NAS
Hi, Has anyone used FreeBSD with a Dell PowerVault NAS (Windows-based)? We are considering moving some servers to a facility that uses PowerVault NAS machines with Windows to do backups. Is there any issue with this? I should be able to connect via NFS or SMB and just tar directly to the NAS machine, correct? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 5.2.1 + IBM ServeRAID + SMP?
Hello, I have an IMB xSeries 220 server with Dual 1.2 GHz P3's and an IBM ServeRAID card. Due to the ServeRAID card I need to install FreeBSD 5.x. The question is, how stable is 5.2.1 at this point? All I really need to install and run on the system is MySQL and PostgreSQL. PostgreSQL will only have 1 database and MySQL will have about 80. Is this a reasonably stable set-up? What about if I enable SMP to make use of the dual processors? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Hosting
Hi, I'm sure this question comes up, but I am looking at switching hosting companies and am considering going with a dedicated server or co-locating some servers somewhere. Regardless of which way I go, I want to make sure the hosting facility has technicians who have experience with FreeBSD, in especially with jails. If I go with a co-location set-up, I'd like to find somewhere that will manage security patches, OS updates, etc - whether it is through the hosting facility or through a 3rd party consultant. We are a small firm and do not have the time to effectively manage all aspects of the system, yet we are more than capable of handling the day-to-day basics of the system (installing software, supporting web, db, and e-mail, etc). I'd appreciate any recommendations anyone has on hosting facilities / consultants that would be able to effectively handle these issues for us. Thank you, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bandwidth Usage Report?
Is there a way to use netstat or something similar to see what our bandwidth usage peaks at throughout the day? We are considering moving to a different host that has less bandwidth, but I'm not sure where we peak, so it's difficult to say whether or not they have enough bandwidth for us. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade gone bad, please help
I have a system that was running FreeBSD 4.3. At the time I built the system, I compiled a custom kernel, but at this time, I do not need the modifications I made to the kernel. Turns out I never really did need them. So, I went to upgrade the machine to 4.9 using sysinstall. All went well, except when I rebooted, it says it can't find the kernel. It then boots up, but nothing works. I can log into the system at the physical machine, but no network connections work, even things such as top and ps give me 'Out of Memory' errors. The machine has 1 GB of RAM. I did make a complete backup of the system before upgrading. I also have my previous kernel. Will it help to reinstall the previous kernel? If so, how do I do that? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help
At this point, I have upgraded my src as it was out of date before I upgraded via sysinstall. The system is up and running, although far from stable. My question is, at this point, have I done enough damage to everything that using sysinstall to upgrade is out of the question, or can I reboot my old kernel and try the sysinstall since my src is now up to date? Thanks, Joe You should be able to hit the space bar at the appropriate time, drop to a prompt that consists of one word: ok then, type ? you'll see a list of options, among them unload...so type: unload kernel then type: load kernel.GENERIC and you should be able to complete a boot...OTOH, there are (probably?) many ways to do what you will need to do. BTW: did you copy the list on your reply to me? Its' a really good idea to do so, as it may be instructive for us all; and there may be a better way to do what your needs dictate; and someone may offer it. On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:51:01AM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: They are both there actually. However, my question is, what do I need to do to boot from them? I was able to get the network working on the machine, and someone on the list recommended doing a CVSup of my source, then build world, then build new kernel, as my source is most likely out of date (In fact, I'm sure it was). Does that sound reasonable? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrade from 4.3
Hi, I have a server running FreeBSD 4.3 that I need to upgrade to the current production release (4.9). Can I upgrade this with the normal upgrade process, or am I too far out of date to be able to do anything but backup, wipe the machine, and re-install? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1 processor vs. 2
I'm putting together a system that will host a relatively small database (around 20,000 records), as well as run Apache / PHP to search that database. I have the option in front of me to use a P III dual 1GHz machine with a SCSI Raid 5, or to use a single P4 2.8 GHz with a SCSI Raid 1. Both have 1GB RAM. I'm looking to use MySQL as the DB. The site that this machine will host gets about 2 million hits per months (yes, hits, not pageviews or visitors) from about 21,000 unique visitors. Does anyone have an opinion as to which machine will perform best under this scenario? Obviously, both would run FreeBSD. Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: disappearing email?
I seem to have found the answer to my own question. Apparently, when anyone is connected to AOL, AOL overrides any SMTP settings the user has. Below are headers from a client of mine that was sent to me using a pop account on our server, with the SMTP in OE set to our server: Return-Path: x Received: from jwebmedia.com (jwebmedia.com []) by mx02.gvl-priv.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9TI0n1g014654; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:00:49 -0500 Received: from rly-ip05.mx.aol.com (rly-ip05.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.9]) by jwebmedia.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9TI06wB022831; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:00:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from x) Received: from logs-ntc-tj.proxy.aol.com (logs-ntc-tj.proxy.aol.com [198.81.20.131]) by rly-ip05.mx.aol.com (v95.1) with ESMTP id RELAYIN2-33fa0003836e; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:00:24 2000 Received: from xxx (ACC7A07C.ipt.aol.com [172.199.160.124]) by logs-ntc-tj.proxy.aol.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id h9THuWfJ006805; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:56:34 GMT Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: xxx To: Joseph Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: xx Subject: server check Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:56:30 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary==_NextPart_000_0009_01C39E13.B09025F0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Apparently-From: xxx X-AOL-IP: 198.81.20.131 Status: Has anyone else seen this before? Thanks, Joe Koenig Production Manager jWeb New Media Design [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwebmedia.com/ 636.928.3162 From: Joseph Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:37:43 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: disappearing email? I have a client with a POP account on my server. Their main connection to the internet is via AOL. Some messages (not all) that they send out via this POP account (through my SMTP) never reach the server at all. They never bounce back, but never hit the server. I've sat in front the computer, checked the outlook settings, deleted and re-created the outlook settings, etc. That is all correct. The only thing I'm starting to notice is that if they send an e-mail with 1 address in the TO: line, it has better luck than if there are multiple addresses in the TO: line, however, that doesn't seem to affect things always. I had a client with this problem in the past - we took them off of AOL and moved them to a local dial-up provider. After that, there were no missing e-mails. I wondered if anyone else had encountered a similar problem, and if they ever found out what the culprit was. I hate telling my clients, Don't use AOL without a reason for the disappearing e-mail. Thanks, Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD SPAM
I know this is an issue that comes up a lot, but I wanted to get an opinion from some people on the list. We, along with everyone else, have TONS of SPAM hit our server. Unfortunately, we haven't found any good way to reduce it. We're using ORDB and SpamCop, but neither are really doing the job. We're a small small company (7 employees) with about 100 mailboxes on the server. We don't mind paying for a service that works, but we are certainly on a tight budget. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Currently, we're using Sendmail, although we're considering (and testing) a switch to PostFix. TIA for any advice, Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tape Drive Problems
Hi, I have a Dell PowerEdge server with a RAID 5 and a SCSI tape drive. For the past two years, the tape drive has worked fine. All of the sudden I get: DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jun 16 01:00:00 2003 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/aacd0s1a (/) to /dev/sa0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 297479 tape blocks. DUMP: Cannot open output /dev/sa0. DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. When doing a dump. mt status shows: server1# mt -f /dev/sa0 status mt: /dev/sa0: Input/output error Does this sound like a scsi bus problem, or perhaps a bad drive? Anything I can do to tell for sure what the problem is? Thanks, Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
