Customized Install CD

I'm looking at trying to build my own customized FreeBSD install CD. The purpose of this is to be able to install FreeBSD with customized kernel, certain packages installed and some added scripts of my own. Being that I have no idea how to do this I have two questions. 1. Is this feasible? 2.

FreeBSD Source Upgrade

Currently running FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0 on a development server and attempted to update source via cvsup to 6.1-STABLE. Went through the same procedures that I have always used in the past and the server stated to still be running 6.0-stable. The following are the procedures that I use. I

Port marked as IGNORE

I was updating the ports on one of my servers and received this error: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 68 packages found (-1 +1) (...). done] ** Port marked as IGNORE: graphics/php4-ming: is marked as broken: doesn't work with new version of ming library What

Portupgrad Problem

Using FreeBSD 5.4-Stable #0. Trying to update my ports using portsnap, pkg_version, and portupgrade. All goes well until I get to portupgrade -arR. All my ports update except for of them. Here is the message I get: # portupgrade -arR cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/archivers/pear-Archive_Tar cd:

FreeBSD 6.X Updating Source

running FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0. I'm using the RELENG_6 tag, and it was to my understanding that this only followed 6-stable. Is a prerelease considered stable, or am I doing something wrong? Cody Holland Network Engineer Redmoon Broadband, Inc. 972-599-3926 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Autoconf Issues

Running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and trying to install Apache 2.0.x and getting: autoconf: not found buildconf: autoconf not found. You need autoconf version 2.13 or newer installed to build Apache from CVS. ./buildconf failed for apr *** Error code 1 I have

BSD vs Linux Threads

Ok, I know this has come up before but I cannot find any good documentation on BSD vs Linux threads using 5.4 or 6.0. This will basically be for a multi-processor mysql 5 server. What are your recommendations? Thanks, Cody ___

RE: BSD vs Linux Threads

, 2005 at 02:14:05PM -0600, Cody Holland wrote: Ok, I know this has come up before but I cannot find any good documentation on BSD vs Linux threads using 5.4 or 6.0. This will basically be for a multi-processor mysql 5 server. What are your recommendations? What are your questions

Apache::DBI Problems

I'm having some major issues with perl site I'm trying to get working. I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 stable using Apache 2.0.55 and perl 5.8.7. The error I'm getting is: Can't locate object method connect_on_init via package Apache::DBI (perhaps you forgot to load Apache::DBI?) I do have LoadModule

Patch vs. Upgrade

I'm still pretty new to the BSD world and wanted to throw out a question to see what kind of responses I get. What is everyones take on what to do when security vulnerabities are discovered. Do you upgrade your source (not always the easiest thing to do) or patch. What are the pros and cons of

RE: Patch vs. Upgrade

On 10/12/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If things are not too tight on your hard drive, consider the cvsup way. It's very easy - and very clearly described in the handbook. I've seen many people say this, but I suspect they haven't tried looking for information on patching using

Server Crash

Ok, I'm having some problemsdue to the fact that I'm pretty new and have no idea on how to do this. We had a server crash, hardware related, and I want to take my dump backups and restore them on another system. The dump files are located on a remote ftp server. So basically what I'm trying

RE: Server Crash

. It seemed to be too easy. Anyone ever restored like this, and if so had any issues I can look out for? Cody -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cody Holland Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 8:21 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Restore System

I'm pretty new to the BSD and NIX world, and have never had to perform a system recovery or restore. I did a full backup of a server with tar using the following command: tar cpzf servername`date +%m%d%y`.tgz / I'm trying to restore it on another server with the following command: tar -xzpf

RE: Restore System

Thanks for all the help. I've added the -X option to tar and have a file containing all directories and files I don't wish to backup. Cody -Original Message- From: Gayn Winters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:06 PM To: Cody Holland; freebsd-questions

BSD Updates

I just signed up and started using http://bsdupdates.com on a development server to see how it worked. Haven't had any issues yet, but wanted to know if anyone else out there is using it and your opinions. Thanks, Cody ___

Port Scan

Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:49386 flags:0x02 Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:49386 flags:0x02 Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:49386 flags:0x02 Connection attempt to UDP 206.123.80.170:137 from 82.104.59.45:1027 Cody Holland

Multi-Volume Backup

I'm trying to do a multi-volume backup to hard drive via gnu tar. It works with the following command: gtar -c -L 681574400 -f /usr/local/backup/dev1.tgz -f /usr/local/backup/dev2.tgz -f /usr/local/backup/dev3.tgz / But I really, really need this compressed. If I put a -z in the command it

Backup Question

Ok, I'm trying to do a simple tar+gzip backup for my file system. I can do this no problem. The backup is a little less than 2Gb. What I would like to do is chop this up into 650Mb pieces that I can ftp over to a server with a cd-r and burn them. Does anyone know a good utility that can do

Use older port

I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 with my ports pretty much up-to-date. I have a graphing software that required rrdtool 1.0.x and I'm running 1.2.x. How do I install an older version of this via ports or packages? Cody ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Adding PHP Plugin

How would I go about adding a pluggin to php4-extension. I've already installed in, but need to add support for pcntl. Do I need to remove extensions all together and reinstall them from scratch, or is there an easier way?? Cody Holland Field Engineer Redmoon Broadband, Inc. 972-599-3900x26

Cvsup problems

I'm having cvsup update issues right now. When I try to update I get: Cannot connect to cvsupxx.us.freebsd.org: Connection refused Will retry at xx:xx:xx No matter which server I try. Also when I try to run fastest_cvsup -c us I get timeouts on everyserver. Any ideas? Cody

Kernel Log Message

I keep getting the following kernel log messages in my daily security run output. xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx kernel log messages: Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec Limiting closed port RST response from 235 to 200

Cvsup Source

I've been using cvsup to upgrade the ports on my Freebsd box, and it works great. My question is how often should you cvsup the src and do a buildworld? Thanks Cody ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Updating Ports

After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the following error. Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..gnustep-slideshow-0.3: /usr/ports/graphics/slideshowkit non-existent -- dependency list incomplete === graphics/gnustep-slideshow failed *** Error code 1 1

Automake Problem

I'm a newbie to FreeBSD, so please be patient with me. I'm running 5.3 adn am trying to install php4-extensions through the ports collection and getting: === Installing for php4-extensions-1.0 === php4-extensions-1.0 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found ===