Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Eric Zimmerman
On Fri, January 30, 2009 11:37 am, drc...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync : http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html You should check out the rsnapshot port. it does what

Re: 6.3 to 7.0 STABLE upgrade buildworld failures

2008-06-06 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Can we no longer use make buildworld to upgrade from source builds? Everytime I've tried, I get build errors. I've gotten the impression from a few things I've read that freebsd-update is suppose to be used. I don't want a binary install/upgrade though. I've just sync

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-30 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Foo JH wrote: I like Qmail. It's not overly difficult to configure, and it's extensible. and requires 400 patches to do basic things =( heres some interesting reading about qmail... http://www.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html ___

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-29 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Patrick Baldwin wrote: Hi all, I've got an older Solaris system running Sendmail for my mail server right now. It's about time to replace it, and I'm thinking FreeBSD might be the best choice of OS for the replacement. However, it's been some time since I looked into options for mail servers.

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Eric Zimmerman
David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can do

Re: [SSHd] Limiting access from authorized IP's

2008-04-18 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Kurt Buff wrote: On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At any rate, locking down ssh access is one of my concerns, for sure, so this discussion is helpful. Wouldn't turning off password based logins and using public and private keys (with a strong

Re: start up scripts stopped working

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Jerry McAllister wrote: to rc.conf i see things getting evaluated, but nothing is launched. this forces someone to log in locally to the machine and start openssh so i can get to the box. Are there startup scripts for these things in rc.d? Putting something in rc.conf is only setting a flag

Re: start up scripts stopped working

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Frank Shute wrote: I spotted a couple of things with your rc.conf that could be causing you trouble: 1) There are a lot of unquoted YES's for enabling services. I don't know if that could screw thing's up but for form's sake, I'd try quoting them and rebooting. 2) You seem to have set your

Re: start up scripts stopped working

2008-04-14 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Eric Zimmerman wrote: Frank Shute wrote: I spotted a couple of things with your rc.conf that could be causing you trouble: 1) There are a lot of unquoted YES's for enabling services. I don't know if that could screw thing's up but for form's sake, I'd try quoting them and rebooting. 2) You

Server build config, what would you do?

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Hello, Can anyone recommend a solid motherboard for building a BSD server around? I would like at least a Core2Duo CPU, but would consider Xeon (single or dual CPU boards are fine). The server will be for file storage and general services like email, apache, etc. Not a ton of volume for

Re: Server build config, what would you do?

2008-04-09 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Wojciech Puchar wrote: would like at least a Core2Duo CPU, but would consider Xeon (single or dual CPU boards are fine). The server will be for file storage and general services like email, apache, etc. Not a ton of volume for either so why at least core2duo. for your case 50$ used

Re: Loading smbfs Module on Boot

2008-04-08 Thread Eric Zimmerman
Schiz0 wrote: I'm trying to mount a networked NTFS drive via smbfs. However, my kernel secure level is set to 2, so I cannot load the smbfs module while the system is running. How can I set the smbfs module to load on boot? I checked /boot/defaults/loader.conf, but didn't see anything in there

Supermicro motherboard compatibility/Server recommendation help

2008-04-08 Thread Eric Zimmerman
can anyone speak to successes with using the newed Supermicro server boards with FreeBSD? i was looking at things like this: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4U/7045/SYS-7045A-CT.cfm On-Board Devices Chipset * IntelĀ® 5100 (San Clemente) chipset * IntelĀ® ICH9R + PXH-V