Hi:
I previously wrote about buildworld failure, it turns out to be flacky
hardware. Since then I have tried to reboot on every failure and start
building againg. It compiles fine for a 3-5 hours, then fails at
different places.
It seems that a new make buildworld does not pickup from where
Hi:
I'm trying to upgrade to 8.2, just updated source, cleaned up any
leftovers from previous build, but make buildworld fails. I have,
alpha# uname -a
FreeBSD alpha 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 2 20:34:13 CEST
2010 root@alpha:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/GENERIC i386
On 08/03/2011 12:21, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
Contents of your make.conf ?
You never know...
LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT= YES
#SUP_UPDATE=
#SUP=/usr/bin/csup
#SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2
SUPHOST=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
SUPFILE=/usr/local/src/standard-supfile
PORTSSUPFILE=
On 08/03/2011 12:22, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Something -- just what is unknown -- triggered an *INTERNAL*COMPILER*ERROR*
doing a 'makedep'.
Dig through the mailing-list archives for the last week or two. There was
another report of the compiler choking. As I recall, there was a follow-
up to
On 08/03/2011 12:49, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
Can you try with the release tag RELENG_8_2 ?
I just nuked src and obj and did a fresh checkout of RELENG_8_2, but the
problem persist :(
--
stage 1.1: legacy release compatibility
On 08/03/2011 15:52, Greg Larkin wrote:
A segfault might be indicative of hardware problems, you may want to
check your ram chips ?
Reference: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
Hi, thanks. Did a clean up again, reboot, fsck, reboot again and now
it's building.
Probably time for an upgrade,
On 08/03/2011 21:16, Michael J. Kearney wrote:
Would anyone agree that it us possible the hardware console... logging in from
a remote terminal has corrected my own segfaults on substandard hardware...
Depends on the hardware I guess. I am building everything remotely. I do
know however
On 28/11/10 18.51, bluethundr wrote:
Yes the hostname is in the CN of the cert file. So I agree that -h is
not the issue. :)
[r...@vircent03:~]#ldapsearch -h ldap -b dc=summitnjhome,dc=com -Z
-D cn=Manager,dc=summitnjhome,dc=com (objectclass=sudoRole) -W
Maybe I didn't make myself clear: the
On 25/11/10 17.26, bluethundr wrote:
I have setup the certificate chain in my slapd.conf like so:
[r...@lbsd2:/usr/home/bluethundr]#grep -i tls
/usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf## TLS options for slapd
TLSCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:+SSLv2
TLSCertificateFile
On 21/11/10 23.20, bluethundr wrote:
I am attempting to setup SSL/TLS support on my openLDAP 2.4 server on FreeBSD.
...
[r...@virtcent08:/etc/openldap/cacerts]#openssl s_client -connect
ldap.summitnjhome.com:389 -showcerts -CAfile gd_bundle.crt
CONNECTED(0003)
3156:error:140790E5:SSL
Hi:
I am trying to set up racoon, but have a number of error messages that I
have no reference to their meaning or solution, like
ERROR: Cannot record event: event queue overflow
ERROR: no policy found
ERROR: failed to get proposal from responder
ERROR: unknown Informational exchange received
On 22/10/10 12.32, Erik Norgaard wrote:
ERROR: Cannot record event: event queue overflow
ERROR: no policy found
ERROR: failed to get proposal from responder
ERROR: unknown Informational exchange received
and:
ERROR: policy found, but no IPsec requried
Erik
On 18/10/10 21.53, Maile Halatuituia wrote:
Anybody have a hint how to implement software as an internet hotspot.
OpenBSD based.
This is usually a question of:
- providing an interface that is reasonable user friendly for users to
authenticate against, some sort of web interface, apache and
Hi:
I'm up against configuring a number of different systems with host-host
IPSec AH-only. The systems use different versions of racoon.
Questions:
- Must the key lifetime be the same in both ends?
- Can key lifetime be configured per host-host connection?
Thanks, Erik
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On 15/08/10 13.57, pe...@vfemail.net wrote:
Assume, as Mr. Bonomi suggests, that some bad guy has installed some type of
additional mailer on the machine or another machine that's allowed to relay
mail. How would I go about locating that other mailer?
If the messages are indeed relayed
On 15/08/10 21.38, Dan Strick wrote:
I can get rid of the message by removing the ssl option from the user
line but then fetchmail would not even try to use ssl. Why would the
old fetchmail be better able to verify the server's ssl certificate?
Has openssl changed? Where is the openssl
On 14/08/10 15.29, pe...@vfemail.net wrote:
I have a machine running FreeBSD, sendmail and majordomo. I have someone who
is on one of those majordomo lists complaining that they are receiving spam
from me. The complainer says I have an open mail relay that I need to fix.
When somebody
On 10/08/10 05.13, Matt Emmerton wrote:
I'm in the middle of dealing with a SSH brute force attack that is
relentless. I'm working on getting sshguard+ipfw in place to deal with it,
but in the meantime, my box is getting pegged because sshd is accepting some
connections which are getting stuck
On 28/07/10 19.48, DadAN wrote:
I wanna just ask if I really need setup nat? Because I think that it
will by enought with nat by wifi router (dlink) connected to second
nic ?
And setup routing between nic's?
In that setup, what you're looking for is bridging, take a look here:
On 28/07/10 22.43, Maile Halatuituia wrote:
If you will have a BSD Box you do not need to have that Dlink Router.
Co's DHCP, Router can handle by the FreeBSD in addition to Hotspot
Login.
Lots and lots of manual for that on the Google.
As I understand OP the DLink is required for the DSL
On 28/07/10 19.48, DadAN wrote:
Hello,
I wanna just ask if I really need setup nat? Because I think that it
will by enought with nat by wifi router (dlink) connected to second
nic ? And setup routing between nic's?
Sorry, I think I misread or misunderstood your question in my previous
reply.
On 23/07/10 18.58, alexus wrote:
i just did jail on public ip where i dont need to use ipnat, so
obviously that works fine no problem
not really what i wanted though but as a temporary fix its fine...
With all respect, I think you should start liking this solution, because
for all I
On 20/07/10 15.26, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or exim
on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up the DNS (A record
and MX record) we have been unable to send or receive mail. The client
has/had a working script for
On 20/07/10 18.02, alexus wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Erik Norgaardnorga...@locolomo.org wrote:
On 19/07/10 16.46, alexus wrote:
Can't help you more, really, you need to investigate where packets are
dropped, tcpdump is a great tool and the man-page is excelent, can't explain
it
On 20/07/10 18.37, alexus wrote:
You are running 2 different firewalls at the same time.
comment out
firewall_enable=YES
firewall_type=open
and reboot your system.
do you know that for a fact or you just guessing??
because first of all it worked before just fine with 2 firewalls
second i
On 20/07/10 20.07, alexus wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Erik Norgaardnorga...@locolomo.org wrote:
plan b is to run natd, but i'd rather run ipnat especially that ipnat
used to work before no problem!
Maybe move away from what used to work and towards what is working :)
Whichever
On 20/07/10 20.43, alexus wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Aizaaiz...@comclark.com wrote:
Just because 2 firewalls at same time didn't blow up in your face before,
sure don't mean they are working correctly. Thats one bad assumption to base
debugging on.
i never had any problem
On 19/07/10 16.46, alexus wrote:
Use tcpdump, you should see if your rdr/map rules work as expected. Also,
pfctl -ss and similar.
i don't know how to use tcpdump, can you provide exact syntax so i can run
it?
The man-page is excelent.
tried that, unfortunately not really sure what am i
On 16/07/10 02.56, alexus wrote:
su-3.2# cat /etc/ipnat.rules
map fxp0 lama -0/32
rdr fxp0 64.52.58.58 port ssh -lama port ssh tcp
What's that first rule supposed to do?
provides a NAT within jail
Just guessing, try to put the rdr rule first. Another thing, the
firewall/nat may
On 15/07/10 21.17, alexus wrote:
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:32 PM, alexusale...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't put my mind around it, before reboot I was able to ssh in from
outside to my jail and right now I can't!
What did you change?
su-3.2# cat /etc/ipnat.rules
map fxp0 lama - 0/32
rdr fxp0
On 21/06/10 20.06, pete wright wrote:
On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:28 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
I'm particuclary trying to implement some type of rate control as we are
getting hammered by spam.
I'd humbly suggest pf + spamd if you are concerned specifically about
stopping spam, both are
On 06/05/10 14.15, Frank Bonnet wrote:
It runs nicely but I want to add LDAPS service on the SAME server.
Is it possible ?
Yes in fact with OpenLDAP you can have ldap, ldaps and ldap TLS with
STARTTLS, the latter runs on the standard ldap port.
I have generated
cert.crt
cert.csr
cert.key
On 23/04/10 15:14, Onur Aslan wrote:
Do you have any idea?
Still haven't solved the problem?
I just looked over your dhclient.conf:
#prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
prepend domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.8.4;
#request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
#
Hi!
I'm running FreeBSD 8.0. Some times my network just go down without
leaving any errors behind, now this morning it went down but didn't cut
my ssh connection to the box and I got this error:
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
From what I have found this relates to protocols like
On 24/04/10 17:41, Peter Boosten wrote:
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.com;
option domain-name example.com;
A fqdn for a name server? That'll give you a chicken and egg problem,
don't you think?
No, the dhcpd server resolves the address and sends the ip to the clients.
Hi:
I need to create a user profile that works in different shells,
particularly bash, csh and ksh. It seems that these does not read the
same files and/or in the same order. So, how do I configure the shell
profiles without configuring each shell separately?
Also, I can't find information
On 21/04/10 21:59, Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC) wrote:
All:
The install.cfg mechanism is pretty wicked.
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a really efficient way
to provide new clients (or class of clients) an install.cfg
without rebuilding an MFSROOT image.
Possibly a
On 15/04/10 00:56, Steve Franks wrote:
I don't have bsdstats or similar that I'm aware of installed, so this
smells bad:
Firewall is showing repeated attempts from your FreeBSD machine to
connect to port 25 (standard SMTP mail port) on a server in Belgium. This
implies something on your system
Hi:
I want my syslog to log remote nodes, in particular my access point and
router, which authenticates users against my freeradius server.
In /etc/rc.conf I've got:
syslogd_flags=-C -a 192.168.0.0/23 -a 172.16.0.0/23 -vv
In /etc/syslog.conf I've got first the entries for the system, no
On 07/04/10 22:02, Modulok wrote:
List,
This might be a little off topic, but it still involves FreeBSD. I
figured this list has many a smart folk, so I'd ask here.
If I buy two of these Ubiquiti power station 2's, I can set them up to
provide a long distance ethernet link to my BSD box right?
On 05/04/10 01:35, Marcin Wisnicki wrote:
PasswordAuthentication is already disabled (by default).
I need to disable ChallengeResponseAuthentication however:
/etc/ssh/sshd_config line 131: Directive 'ChallengeResponseAuthentication'
is not allowed within a Match block
Same thing for
On 04/04/10 23:04, Marcin Wisnicki wrote:
Is it possible to configure sshd such that both conditions are met:
1. Root will be able to login only by using keys
2. Normal users will still be able to use pam/keyboard-interactive
Yes, you can create a Match block with the criteria User, something
Hi:
I have been searching for the appropriate perl mailing list, but no
avail. I'm trying to build a database with Berkeley DB and MLDBM for a
multi dimensional hash structure,
my $hdbm = tie %host, 'MLDBM', -Filename = $dbdir/host.db,
-Flags = DB_CREATE|O_RDWR
or die Cannot open
On 25/03/10 07:57, trevor who wrote:
Hi guy's,
I downloaded the DVD version freeBSD version 8 and went to unpack it
and got these messages from winrar.
! D:\FreeBSD\8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.gz: Unexpected end of archive
On 22/03/10 21:35, Mats Lindberg wrote:
I've tried to get my freebsd diskless system to get hold of some of the
dhcp-options.
E.g. my dhcp-server will always be the nfs-server as well. So I was hoping
to create the /etc/fstab with the the dhcpd's ip as the nfs server.
Thus not needing to have
On 21/03/10 02:27, Peter wrote:
On the same line, portknocking with pf:
Port knocking suck:
If you have to knock a single time on the secret port you might just
have no added security at all, could be that the port scanner first
knocked on the secret port then on the ssh port.
If you
On 20/03/10 14:18, Jamie Griffin wrote:
I've been reading up on securing sshd after being bombarded with attempted
logins.
Hi!
First step to ssh security is: Don't panic! Take your time to read the
logs and understand what's going on. So, you've got bombarded with login
attempts, but they
On 20/03/10 17:14, Jerry wrote:
Seriously, disabling password log-ins and using key authentication is
extremely secure. Do make sure that you password protect your keys
however. In any event, if you laptop or whatever is stolen, you have
more than just one problem to contend with anyway.
I
On 20/03/10 18:23, Jamie Griffin wrote:
The reason I went with that decision is because I only expect to be
logging in to the server from two locations: at home or from a
computer at my university
In that case, the best thing you can do is figure out the IP ranges of
either location.
On 20/03/10 23:17, Vadkan Jozsef wrote:
What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server]
what was logged on the logger?
I need to ban the ip on the router pc.
Take your time to think about if this is indeed the right solution.
1st: You need to decide which is the right
Hi:
I have a dual boot Windows/FreeBSD which I use for work, I just tried
today to create a virtual machine with vmware on windows to start up the
installed FreeBSD.
This works except for three problems:
- The disk device is renamed, I suppose I can just dublicate the entries
in the fstab,
On 17/03/10 21:40, Steve Polyack wrote:
On 03/17/10 16:34, Erik Norgaard wrote:
- I can't see the network devices from vmware
Do you mean you can't see a NIC from within FreeBSD on top of VMware?
You will have to choose Other (64-bit) for the OS type and/or choose
the e1000/Intel1000 device
On 17/03/10 23:06, Peter Steele wrote:
Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We have a
template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after the template is
closed. It would be useful to have a hostname generated randomly.
uuidgen?
this command may be used
On 17/03/10 23:06, Peter Steele wrote:
Is there any facility in FreeBSD for generating a random hostname? We have a
template with a fixed hostname that has to be changed after the template is
closed. It would be useful to have a hostname generated randomly.
uuidgen may do the job for you,
Hi:
I want to upgrade my BerkeleyDB, I have some 500MB in BDB 43.
- What is the latest stable version?
- Is there any way of determining if datafiles are compatible
across versions?
- Is there any tool for migrating between versions?
Thanks, Erik
--
Erik Nørgaard
Ph:
On 10/03/10 07:16, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
but logic tends to tell me that is I have no prior knowledge about
the person I am about to talk to, anybody (MIM) could pretend to
be that person.
True. Cryptography by it self does not solve the identity problem.
The pre-shared information
On 08/03/10 18:56, Jason Garrett wrote:
Much better, restrict the client access to certain ranges of IPs. The
different registries publish ip ranges assigned per country and you can
create a list blocking countries you are certain not to visit, you can use
my script:
On 07/03/10 21:41, dacoder wrote:
has anybody suggested having sshd listen on a high port?
Any number will do, think about it:
a. The attacker doesn't really care which host is compromised any will
do, and better yet someones home box as it is more difficult to trace
him. In that case he
On 05/03/10 13:54, John wrote:
My nightly security logs have thousands upon thousands of ssh probes
in them. One day, over 6500. This is enough that I can actually
feel it in my network performance. Other than changing ssh to
a non-standard port - is there a way to deal with these? Every
Hi:
I am trying to build a custom crunch file for pxeboot/jumpstart. I have
taken the make files from rescue as a template adding the extras I need.
But I have problem linking usr.bin/host in the crunch file, I can't
figure out what libraries to link with and include with CRUNCH_LIBS+=
on
On 19/02/10 20:42, Programmer In Training wrote:
Any clues or alternate ways of getting this done?
IIRC you first need to load the linux and linprocfs kernel modules and
mount linproc.
BR, Erik
--
Erik Nørgaard
Ph: +34.666334818/+34.915211157 http://www.locolomo.org
On 15/02/10 11:13, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
Hi. I have an up-to-date FreeBSD 7.2 box that has been compromised. Someone
aparently got in to an account with certain admin priveleges and has been
sending spam.
I disabled the account, shut off my MTA and used pf to block all traffic to
port
On 14/02/10 02:16, Derek Funk wrote:
My kernel is basiclly is the generic kernel just with some added options
and removed devices i don't have. I have built and installed many times
after installation. I play around with this machine a lot and just want
to be able to have my kernel installed at
On 13/02/10 04:08, Derek Funk wrote:
I am trying to find how to install a custom kernel at installation. I
have found an option in sysinstall to select a kernel. How do I add my
own to the options so I can select it?
I think the standard procedure is to install the generic kernel at
Hi:
I have a setup with diskless clients mounting /var/diskless/FreeBSD
read-only as root file system.
How do I configure cron/locate.rc to run on the server such that the
locate database is relative to the root for the diskless systems?
I could do a chroot and run it within this
Hi:
I was looking in /boot/loader.rc and found these lines:
\ Tests for password -- executes autoboot first if a password was defined
check-password
OK, great, so: How do I set this password? What does it protect? Didn't
find documentation in loader(8) and no man-page for loader.rc.
Thanks,
Hi:
I'm playing around with diskless operation. I'd like to be able to run
privileged commands when a user logins or logs out:
- on login, nfs mount the user's home directory (ok, not critical, I can
mount /home)
- on logout a system reboot to clean up any temporary files left from
the
Hi:
OK, I know I'm not doing this the easy way, don't try to convince me
about other ways :)
I'm doing PXE boot diskless, fetching the GENERIC kernel with TFTP.
Problem is that since the kernel is fetched with tftp, there is no nfs
root file system mounted when kernel finish loading.
On 27/01/10 19.05, John wrote:
Could someone point me in the direction of enlightenment with regard
to the value add of the group per user approach that adduser
uses? Is that a FreeBSD thing, or a *BSD thing, or a unix-like-universe
thing, or what?
Many systems do this AFAIK.
IIRC, the point
Doug Hardie wrote:
1. pf allows short cuts, but these also makes it more difficult to debug. I'd
separate NAT from filtering,
Ok. I guess you want some white space between them? Here it is with the white
space and comments:
ext_if=dc0
table blackhole persist file /etc/blackhole
Romain Garbage wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for a way to automate the configuration of my network
depending on its topology (don't know if it's the good word) : I
would like to check the wired interface to see if a cable is plugged
in (by looking at carrier status), if so, bring up the wired
Doug Hardie wrote:
This is quite interesting. I can't figure out the rules on my system.
Maybe try to simplify, clean up and structure your rules :)
Here is the pf.conf file with all comments removed:
table blackhole persist file /etc/blackhole
table spamd persist
table spamd-white
kalin m wrote:
tcp_in = { www, https }
ftp_in = { ftp }
udp = { domain, ntp }
ping = echoreq
set skip on lo
scrub in
antispoof for eth0 inet
block in all
pass out all keep state
pass proto udp to any port $udp
pass inet proto icmp all icmp-type $ping keep state
pass in inet proto tcp to any
Doug Hardie wrote:
On 22 January 2010, at 01:45, Erik Norgaard wrote:
To debug pf rules:
- always add direction to the rule, pass or block, add interface to all
rules except default policy, keep state on all pass rules
- group your rules per direction, then per interface
- add log to all
David Southwell wrote:
Examples from hosts.deniedssh
I seem to be on the receiving end of a concerted series of unsuccessful break
in attacks on one of our systems. One small part of the attack has resulted
in over 2000 entries in our hosts.deniedssh file in less than 1 hour.
I would be
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which
I get brute force ssh attacks.
This is a returning topic, search the archives. Anyway, the returning
answer:
- why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP
based that's the place to block.
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
- why not let your firewall do the blocking? If your blocking is IP
based that's the place to block.
I'm already under the University firewall. Only port 22 is let through.
But even that filles my logs.
What I meant was that if you want to block IPs or ranges of
Hi:
I have had this problem for a while, both on 7.x and now with 8.0:
I have a:
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 11 11:53:19 CET 2009
norga...@localhost:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: VIA Nehemiah (800.04-MHz 686-class CPU)
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Hi--
On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote:
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 11 11:53:19 CET 2009
norga...@localhost:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: VIA Nehemiah (800.04-MHz 686-class CPU
Mel Flynn wrote:
Turn down operating mode via atacontrol. If using dump(8) use the cache
feature and/or do the backup from live disk, so no other services are running
and disk isn't accessed other then by dump.
Thanks, is there a way to set UDMA mode at boot?
BR, Erik
--
Erik Nørgaard
Ph:
pete wright wrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote:
FreeBSD: ?
I can't think of a good reason why FreeBSD should get rid of it.
Saying that, it would be neat if it was taken out of base and replaced
with something minimal that could cope with the demands
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
So Sendmail is a pretty heavy-weight program, but it also supports a lot of
features.
Which was the point, if the only process in base that requires some way
to dump output other than send to syslog, is cron, then Sendmail is
disproportionate solution for the
Ruben de Groot wrote:
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:55:20PM +0100, Erik Norgaard typed:
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
I don't argue for a replacement but for the elimination. Install a port
if you need an MTA, you're happy with that way for so many other
standard services.
Isn't this going a little
Jonathan McKeown wrote:
Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of the base
system, which MTA would you like to replace it with? Or are you suggesting
the system ship with no way to handle mail?
This thread moving of topic from OP, but it is always fair to debate
what
herbert langhans wrote:
Hi Daemons,
I need some basic information about Wifi routers - very little I know about it.
There is my FreeBSD-server (the other one is Linux) and some clients are
connected with a LAN-switch.
Now I want to add a Wifi Router to the network. I am not sure if I can set
Hi:
I have a setup like this:
LAN SRV
CLIENT --- FBSD --- GW/DSL Internet
Now, I'd like my client to connect to the DSL box to manage it, so I
have create the following rules in my pf.conf:
pass in log quick on $FBSD_LAN inet proto tcp from CLIENT to GW
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote:
Hi,
I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal users
(about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on other
discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested.
I am wondering if qmail is thought to be
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, O. Hartmann wrote:
I run into trouble with FreeBSD and LDAP on a regular basis!
Sometimes it is necessary to log in onto a bunch of servers with no
LDAP service responding, due to service, crash, eletrically
disconnetion, whatever. The problem is: I
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
This is one of the several reasons that I use rsync (via rsnapshot).
At each increment, it backs up the minimum that is need. With the
cost of having a complete backup which duplicates what you would find
in a reinstall, you have a complete system.
For binaries,
John Almberg wrote:
If you have any databases or ldap service, then you want to add
those as well, but it is recommended to dump these rather than
backup the files themselves.
I'm learning a lot from this thread. Thanks for all the suggestions.
The paragraph above raises one more
Maxim Khitrov wrote:
I'm setting up a firewall using FreeBSD 7.2 and thought that it may
not be a bad idea to have a continuous backup for important files like
pf and dnsmasq configurations. By continuous I mean some script that
would be triggered every few minutes from cron to automatically
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:33 PM, John Almberg wrote:
I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a
FreeBSD 7.2 webserver:
/etc
/usr/home
/usr/local
/var/cron
Here is my exclude list from my rsnapshot.conf
exclude /var/log
exclude
Roland Smith wrote:
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 09:59:32AM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
Thanks, I couldn't decipher these GEOM_LABEL messages, nice to know that
I can stop worrying. But for future incidents, the second question remains:
1. How do I best protect my system from disk errors in case
Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:30:15AM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote:
The problem is that I have no idea which files were affected.
So, now some questions:
First, how do I determine which files were corrupted? And how do I
recover these files?
From what you have shown
BONGANI MANGANYE wrote:
I know freebsd is free but i would like to know how much will I pay if I
need additional package like updates and other useful software,and can
you tell how secure it is how protected i will be if i use freebsd
FreeBSD is free, and any updates are free. Third party
Hi:
I woke op to a crash this morning after a powerfailure, and now dmesg
shows this:
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/442f8ac1c0db9af2 removed.
GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad6s1a is ufsid/442f8ac1c0db9af2.
GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/442f8ac5a7fa5dda removed.
Raisa Brokhshtut wrote:
My old desktop has FreeBSD that I have never used. One of the friends of my son
installed it long ago, but no one used that PC since then. Now I want to get
rid of this program and to install Windows. Every time when I boot this PC it
prompts for a user login which I
Nerius Landys wrote:
First, my choise of internal network IP addresses is 192.168.0.x. My
router machine's IP address will be 192.168.0.254 (that's the
interface facing the internal network). The IP addresses of the
machines behind the router will start at 192.168.0.2 and go up. I'm
wondering
Nerius Landys wrote:
Hi. I am attempting to secure some workstations in such a way that a
user would not be able gain full control of the computer (only user
access). However, they are able to see and touch the physical
workstation.
I assume that users cannot tingle with the hardware, take it
Unga wrote:
Hi all
I'm running FreeBSD 7.2 on Intel P4 computer.
The lmmon -i shows 21C and when go to BIOS shows 65C! BIOS reading seems to
be correct as the CPU heat pipe is very hot to the extent cannot touch.
How do I read the real BIOS temperature readings when FreeBSD is running to
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