Re: localhost dns

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Marlon Martin wrote: im running localhost dns(127.0.0.1), it works fine but my question is, is there any logs where i can check if it really caches remote ip addresses, like the website IP address im visiting like hotmail.com cnn google freebsd.org. thanks Use rndc(8) to du

Re: Restricting ICMP

log icmp from any to any man ipfw says: uid user Match all TCP or UDP packets sent by or received for a user. A user may be matched by name or identification number. ..which sort of implies it wont work for icmp. Why would you want this policy? -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Restricting ICMP

on of ping. Make your users aware that abusing ping (and other net resources) will get them kicked and banned from your system. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/

Re: 5.1 system refuses to change slice via label

tion shouldve been asked). disklabel it manually (disklabel -e) -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: fsck -F

Uhm, man fsck. fsck already runs at boot. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: fsck -F

utdown -f touches /fastboot). The rc scripts check this and add appropriate > flags to the invocation of fsck (or in the case of /fastboot don't invoke it). You must be talking about another OS. FreeBSD's shutdown doesnt have -F or -f flag. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] An

Re: Restricting ICMP

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Re: dd syntax

lace ad2 with the harddrive and issue the command > dd if=freebsd5.1.bin of=/dev/ad2 > > Both harddrives are exactly the same, so hopefully the following steps should work, > correct? Yep, thats exactly what you do. Add a 'bs=64k' to the dd command line for better copying effici

Re: marking bad blocks on a hard disk drive

around the 6gig mark on mine. The bad section was about 20-30MB long. Knowing this, I can now setup partitions around the bad bit. I created a 5.5 gig partition 1, a 1 gig partition 2 (the bad bits), and 1.5 gig partition 3. Hope that helps. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas

Re: Is it possible to read BIOS setting?

process, so that I dont have to be > physically present at the box Sheesh. Use a hardware RAID controller. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ___ [EMA

Re: Terminal emulation with DOS

main advantage of this setup is the fact that FreeBSD has virtual consoles, so you can telnet to different machines in different windows. Its a great job for an otherwise useless piece of equipment. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speedne

Re: ctrl+alt+del & shutdown/reboot

e 'man keymap' for more info. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Ask about BSD's history.

websites/bsdtree.html/ > > http://www.asandler.com/jokes/computer/c.shtml/ $PAGER /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ _

Re: fscking remotely

ck command in the /etc/rc script somewhere before it starts mounting disks, and reboot. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

Re: Startup scripts not running on 4.8

this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log console.info/var/log/console.log Don't forget to: # touch /var/log/console.log # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administr

Re: strange messages in /var/log and all logins refused ...

51 mas02 last message repeated 30 times > Jul 3 20:15:00 mas02 /usr/sbin/cron[14546]: login_getclass: > retrieving class information: Device not configured Your disk has died and the kernel has turned it off. This is bad because it seems to be your root disk. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] A

Re: Loading the system from a nonstandard (not s1a) partition?

to > take to make the partition bootable. Take a look at `man loader` - there are lots of knobs for tweaking root things. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/

RE: During Boot - error after mounting root

then ok? Does it happen if you switch to a different virtual screen? I bet you have a broken keyboard (zapped during the power outage). -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ___

Re: How to find memory size of a running machine?

? sysctl hw.physmem -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: FreeBSD in VMware?

t into the virtual machine in order to boot normally. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: Question about background FSCK

o currently > take it to single-user because if I let it background fsck, the damn > thing will hang (still process packets through the NATd but you can't > type at all or login for example) a few moments after the login: prompt > shows up. > > Thanks, > John Straiton > [EM

RE: Make buildworld fails for 5.0

ny processes running. Do 'ps aux' and check the %MEM column for memory pigs.. Workaround: drop to single-user mode and try buildworld again. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: s

Re: Make buildworld fails for 5.0

; > insn-attrtab.c > Killed > *** Error code 137 > Sounds like you're out of memory/swap or hit some other process limit. what does 'limits' and/or 'swapinfo' say? Anything in the logfiles? -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrato

Re: shutdown now probs

ter, enter" smees to work but I never see when exactly. > > Something does not go right I suppose, but WHAT ?? > My system: FreeBSD-4.7R > Make sure you are viewing virtual console 0 by pressning . -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speed

Re: Floppy installalation - But

all of directory base/ to get a minimal 5.0 system. You'll need about 190 floppy disks. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: systat like statistics to a flat file ?

), vmstat(8) -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: fsck problem

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I type, the server is in single user mode. The fsck commands > result in: > CAN NOT READ: BLK 16 > Try starting vinum. -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communic

Re: errors building ports INDEX

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