Re: VPS FreeBSD Hosting

2012-11-26 Thread Jeremy Johnston

Hello,

  We at SmartServ Hosting, http://www.smart-serv.net/, have been 
offering VPS containers supporting FreeBSD for over a year and 
previously ran all our services from FreeBSD on bare metal before moving 
into our virtualization environment where we continue to use FreeBSD for 
our core services. We have hosts available in US and France currently.


On 11/25/2012 02:08 PM, Jim Flowers wrote:

I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing
services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server
services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At
the time VPS looked like too many problems.

Now, however, it looks like there are quite a number of mature VPS hosting
services that are FreeBSD-centric at very attractive prices. Most offer KVM
or VPS-instance access to allow rebooting and reinstallation.

Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of
having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years?  Good?
Bad? Indifferent?

Fairly modest duty - spam filtering, mailboxes, websites, storage, reverse
proxy and the like.

Oh yeah, some development.

Thanks
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Re: Root password not working on console

2012-08-31 Thread Jeremy Johnston

On 08/31/2012 03:37 PM, Walt Elam wrote:

I recently *accidentally* removed myself from the wheel group, so I was no
longer able to use su to root. To fix it, I hooked up a monitor and
keyboard to my FreeBSD 8.2 box so I could login as root, but it kept
rejecting my password. I restarted the machine in single-user mode, did the
following:

mount -u /
mount -a
passwd
exit

So it booted back in to multi-user mode. Once again, I tried to login as
root, but got the same Login incorrect message. Puzzled, I repeated the
previous steps using the password pass this time. However, I went ahead
and added my user account to the wheel group while in single-user mode.
Once in multi-user mode again, I still got Login incorrect (specifically,
pam_acct_mgmt(): authentication error) when logging in as root. I SSH'd to
the machine as my regular user, typed su, and entered pass which worked
just fine.

So, I have absolutely no clue why I am unable to login to my machine, on
the console, as root with pass, but it works when using su from a regular
user account. I tried searching around but almost all of the hits are about
resetting the root password in single-user mode. Does any one know what I'm
doing incorrectly?

Thanks for any help in advance,

-Walt


The only thing that comes to mind would be to check /etc/ttys and see if 
the console ttys are set to insecure, which would prevent root login.

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Re: KVM - FreeBSD Network Problem

2011-10-12 Thread Jeremy Johnston
On 10/07/11 01:01, Aydın Demirel wrote:
 Hi;

 I installed FreeBSD 8.2 on Centos 5.7 via KVM. KVM version is 8.3 and
 qemu version is 0.12.4

 We have network problem. I set guest freebsd network as bridge mode
 and Status seems active. Default gateway is defined..

 When I see network packets with tcpdump, packets are streaming (for 
 example: ARP, requested has 10.6.21.221 ...)

 But, Guest network doesn't go out.

 What can be the problem? Any suggestion?

 Regards


I have noticed odd behaviour when using Gentoo as the KVM host. I get
very intermitant connectivity. I have it setup as a bridge on the host.
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Re: need help with apache22 and libphp5.so

2010-06-07 Thread Jeremy Johnston
On 06/07/10 19:58, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:21:11PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
   
 i'v been having trouble upgrading stuff for the past n weeks.  i
 just noticed that my web server won't build.  or/when it does, it
 won't start.  i just fired off /usr/local/sbin/apachetl -k start
 and get:



 httpd: Syntax error on line 104 of
 /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Cannot load
 /usr/local/libexec/apache22/libphp5.so into server: Cannot open
 /usr/local/libexec/apache22/libphp5.so

 When i try to locate this file, i find it in apache/libphp5.so:


 r...@ethic:/usr/local/sbin# locate php5.so
 /usr/local/libexec/apache/libphp5.so

 Can anybody explain the recent changes?  i did read UPDATING, but
 didn't get that much out of it...

 
 {*}


   guys, i understand that it is 'improper' to reply to one's
   own post, esp'ly the first reply, but i have discovered more
   of what is ggoing on.  

   First, i tried to start apache22 with the script in
   /usr/local/etc/rc.d; same outcome, just same results are
   starting the binary directly.  nonetheless,  i edited the
   httpd.conf in /usr/local/etc/apache22.  i corrected the
   libphp.so directory to read 'apache' rather than 'apache22'.

   so the library is presumably loaded, then something else is
   missing.  i cannot find ap_user_id; neither locate nor a
   recursive grep finds this string.  

   when i exec the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 with 'configtest'
   as an arg i get this:


 Performing sanity check on apache22 configuration:
 httpd: Syntax error on line 104 of /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf: Cannot 
 load /usr/local/libexec/apache/libphp5.so into server: 
 /usr/local/libexec/apache/libphp5.so: Undefined symbol ap_user_id
 r...@ethic:/usr/local/etc/rc.d#   



   question number one, which port builds the apache php5
   library?  number two; is there one that will resolve the
   missing 'ap_user_id'?

   several months ago i built a friend's website; he is is
   contruction which is hurting; i figured having a website
   might give him an edge.  no ..  this was gratis.  not dime,
   dollar, nor favor is involved.  i would like to get apache up
   for myself and my friend.  gotta say that this port wasn't
   handled very well in /usr/ports/UPDATING.  OR, too, i may be
   the idiot de jour.  i only care that my webserver gets up
   again, so thanks for any clues!

   gary


   


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the lang/php5 (or lang/php52) port builds the apache module. you will
need to rebuild the php port.
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nss_ldap leaving sockets open

2008-09-03 Thread Jeremy Johnston
I seem to have encountered a rather annoying and puzzling problem, I am 
running nss_ldap on 7.0-STABLE with openldap-server 2.4.11 on the same 
server. I have nss_ldap configured to connect over a unix socket. This 
works great except for the fact it seems the connections are never being 
closed. When I checked earlier today with (netstat -n | grep -c 
slapd.sock) it reported 441 instances.


I have bind_policy set to soft and nss_connect_policy set to oneshot and 
this still seems to be occuring.


Any hints or clues on what may be causing this would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: K8N-VM CSM not seeing over 2240MB RAM

2008-03-10 Thread Jeremy Johnston

Wojciech Puchar wrote:

use PAE or (even better) 64-bit kernel


On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Jeremy Johnston wrote:


I have been trying to trouble shoot a problem where my 32bit kernel will
not see past 2240MB of RAM where as the BIOS reports it as 3GB. Windows
on the same machine sees all 3GB.

My dmesg can be found at http://www.smart-serv.net/~jeremy/dmesg.txt

Any suggestions on what could be the cause of this would be greatly
appreciated.


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I attempted PAE but it panics with some modules I require. And I would 
gladly go to 64bit if I didnt need the nvidia drivers.
But there is no reason the kernel should see less then 3GB when x86 can 
handle up to 4. Bit confused on this.


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K8N-VM CSM not seeing over 2240MB RAM

2008-03-09 Thread Jeremy Johnston
I have been trying to trouble shoot a problem where my 32bit kernel will
not see past 2240MB of RAM where as the BIOS reports it as 3GB. Windows
on the same machine sees all 3GB.

My dmesg can be found at http://www.smart-serv.net/~jeremy/dmesg.txt

Any suggestions on what could be the cause of this would be greatly
appreciated.


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Re: slightly OT. php5 breaks my hit-count....

2008-01-31 Thread Jeremy Johnston

Hi Gary,

I just tested this exact code on php 5.2.5 and I didn't receive any error.

For further help with this you are welcome to email me privately as this 
is more of a php code problem :)


Gary Kline wrote:

guys,

i need some help from any of you who is current with php5.
in '05 i wrote myown hit counter in php4 using the . operator
to write statements like:

$dir=countdir/; $filename= $file;

if (! (file_exists( ( $dir.$filename) )))
{
// the if fopen cannot open, echo Error and exit(1)
}

this did work.  with php5, however, i'm getting a divivde by
zero error on both lines.   thebest thing, or easiest, would be
	to compilr php4.   but i'd like to know some better ways.  


anybody clue me in?

thanks in advance,

gary



  




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installworld to an NFS mount

2006-11-04 Thread Jeremy Johnston

Greetings everyone,

I currently attempting to build and install a world from my AMD64 
machine to a i386 machine mounted via nfs on the build machine. I've 
searched the archives and could not come up with the problem I am 
having. I have built the world using make TARGET_ARCH=i386 buildworld 
and now I am attempting make TARGET_ARCH=i386 DESTDIR=/mnt/smartserv 
installworld and it is failing with the following error:


install -s -o root -g wheel -m 444   -fschg -S  libcrypt.so.3 
/mnt/smartserv/lib
install: rename: /mnt/smartserv/lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED] to 
/mnt/smartserv/lib/libcrypt.so.3: Input/output error

*** Error code 71

I currently have the following mounts regarding this particular build:

10.0.0.2:/ on /mnt/smartserv (nfs)
10.0.0.2:/usr on /mnt/smartserv/usr (nfs)
10.0.0.2:/var on /mnt/smartserv/var (nfs)

If you have any suggestions on what I could be doing wrong, or if I 
should be using a different method I would appreciate them.

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Re: installworld to an NFS mount

2006-11-04 Thread Jeremy Johnston

I have enabled locking and I am still seeing the same error.

Jeff Mohler wrote:
If you dont have locking..check it.  If you -cant- mount with -L 
option by hand.


On 11/4/06, Jeremy Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Greetings everyone,

I currently attempting to build and install a world from my AMD64
machine to a i386 machine mounted via nfs on the build machine. I've
searched the archives and could not come up with the problem I am
having. I have built the world using make TARGET_ARCH=i386 buildworld
and now I am attempting make TARGET_ARCH=i386 DESTDIR=/mnt/smartserv
installworld and it is failing with the following error:

install -s -o root -g wheel -m 444   -fschg -S  libcrypt.so.3
/mnt/smartserv/lib
install: rename: /mnt/smartserv/lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED] to
/mnt/smartserv/lib/libcrypt.so.3: Input/output error
*** Error code 71

I currently have the following mounts regarding this particular build:

10.0.0.2:/ on /mnt/smartserv (nfs)
10.0.0.2:/usr on /mnt/smartserv/usr (nfs)
10.0.0.2:/var on /mnt/smartserv/var (nfs)

If you have any suggestions on what I could be doing wrong, or if I
should be using a different method I would appreciate them.
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Re: simple locate question

2005-07-08 Thread Jeremy Johnston

Lowell Gilbert wrote:


Florian Hengstberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 


How to creata a second locate database for private use?
(mp3 database or so).
I have tried
$ locate -U dir_with_mp3s -o database.dtb

Searching in this database doent work
$ locate -d database.dtb somesong.mp3
gives no result.
The database exists and it looks ok, seems to be a simple
ascii format.
What am I doing wrong?
I guess its simple, isn't it!
   



I don't know; the standard locate program doesn't take a -U option,
and will give an error message accordingly if called the way you claim
you did.  Have you installed some other version of locate?

To use the standard locate, you use the locate.updatedb(8) script, as
the locate(1) manual will tell you.
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FCODES=database.dtb; SEARCHPATHS=dir_with_mp3s;
export FCODES; export SEARCHPATHS;
/usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

then of course using locate -d database.dtb somefile

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Re: Remote connection as root help

2005-07-07 Thread Jeremy Johnston
Well first off its not the best idea, to enable it you need to edit the 
PermitRootLogin

option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config then restart sshd (sh /etc/rc.d/sshd restart)

Efren Bravo wrote:


Hi,

Al last I could enter to freeBSD by SSH. After I erased all 
inetd_enable=YES instances except one. Also I downloaded the PuTTY 
client.
I had to create other user to connect myself to freeBSD because it 
doesn't leave me as root user.

How do I to connect myself to freeBSD by ssh as root?

Thanks...



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Re: Remote connection as root help

2005-07-07 Thread Jeremy Johnston

Efren Bravo wrote:


Hi,

Well first off its not the best idea, to enable it you need to edit 
the PermitRootLogin
option in /etc/ssh/sshd_config then restart sshd (sh /etc/rc.d/sshd 
restart)




Would be a better idea to enter as other member user of wheel group 
and then become this user as root by su command or the group wheel 
has special privileges?


Thanks..



Correct. And your username must be part of the wheel group to allow it 
to preform su


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