Unknown IP address shows FreeBSD server MAC in arp cache

2013-04-24 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm experiencing a weird problem and I have no idea where to begin with this one! Basically what's happening is that I did a host scan from my NetBSD box running Cacti in order to 'Auto Discover' machines on my network; a php script on the Cacti server added an IP address xxx.xxx.1.52.

Fwd: Unknown IP address shows FreeBSD server MAC in arp cache

2013-04-24 Thread Kaya Saman
IP address shows FreeBSD server MAC in arp cache Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:52:21 +0100 From: Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hi, I'm experiencing a weird problem and I have no idea where to begin with this one! Basically what's happening is that I did

FreeBSD in finance sector

2012-09-07 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD? I have been instructed to research this for the firm I work at as I am trying to get the senior management to switch over from Linux as our current network is in shambles. Thanks for any responses. Regards, Kaya

Re: FreeBSD in finance sector

2012-09-07 Thread Kaya Saman
On 09/07/2012 07:17 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:55:49 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of any financial firms or banks that run FreeBSD? I have been instructed to research this for the firm I work at as I am trying to get the senior management to switch over from

Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I am trying to introduce FreeBSD into my office and it's been looked at with quite a bit of enthusiasm however, what makes it look bad is our companies 'security' policy to block FTP. At present they are running a whole bunch of CentOS based boxes and VM's which of course can be run through

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I am trying to introduce FreeBSD into my office and it's been looked at with quite a bit of enthusiasm however, what makes it look bad is our companies 'security

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:23:29 -0500, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to use ports specifically and not the pkg_add tool to get software. Getting the ports tree with csup/cvsup wouldn't use ftp. You could run

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Devin Teske devin.te...@fisglobal.com wrote: On Jul 12, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I am trying to introduce FreeBSD

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I am trying to introduce FreeBSD into my office and it's been looked at with quite a bit of enthusiasm however, what makes it look bad is our companies 'security' policy to block FTP. do you work FOR that

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org wrote: Hello. 2012/07/12 13:19:56 -0400 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org = To Kaya Saman : LG URLs as well as FTP. For ones that aren't, (and assuming the rather LG silly security policies won't

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
On 07/12/2012 07:54 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Hello. Why don't you use a portsnap? it's over http... 2012/07/12 19:01:15 +0100 Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com = To Peter Vereshagin : KS I will check it out however and see if that method is best, however KS CVSup would be the best way for us

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
On 07/12/2012 08:13 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 06:44:56PM +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: I do infact work for this company and additionally I am one of the administrators of the company. The information comes straight down from the IT director who will **not** change his

Re: Is there a way to run FreeBSD ports through port 80?

2012-07-12 Thread Kaya Saman
On 07/12/2012 09:46 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 12/07/2012 21:26, Kaya Saman wrote: My issues start coming into play when building the actual port itself. Ie. fetching the distfile, as you suggested above. As soon as I start running portmaster -a or a 'make install clean' on certain ports

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-25 Thread Kaya Saman
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl wrote: In the next episode: Modern home video with Betamax and LaserDisc ;) -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Omega-Zip-Drives-on-FreeBSD-8-tp5721532p5721678.html Sent from the

Could someone help me with Dovecot AD integration PAM setup?

2012-06-22 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm trying to authenticate Dovecot to Active Directory using the SAMBA/Winbind method and so far my setup seems that everything is working apart from the Dovecot authentication which I believe I have traced to PAM. I can login using an AD account using: wbinfo -K user # wbinfo -K user

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-21 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I think it is stable enough on FreeBSD. Someone actually posted quite a similar thread not a while ago.. Here'e a quick summary: For my various OpenSource projects, I have deployed a 36TB file system which is fine and stable running 24/7. Additionally at home I use 4TB (2x 2TB) + 8TB

Re: Is ZFS production ready?

2012-06-21 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] My one note to the above would be to advise against using it for swap - unless you have enough RAM to make sure you never swap. It doesn't do well in that role, in my experience. (Though that was under a slightly earlier version.) I remember on SXCE running on my test Sun E420r

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/04/2012 04:42 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100 Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/04/2012 08:34 AM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/03/12 20:59, Kaya Saman wrote: this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/04/2012 08:34 AM, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/03/12 20:59, Kaya Saman wrote: this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/04/2012 06:26 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I just offlined the system and took a look at the BIOS. The hard disk controller was set to ATA NATIVE, I attempted changing to AHCI and the system failed to boot thereafter. do you have ahci and ada drivers compiled in? Booting into my

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/05/2012 12:50 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:20:13 +0100 Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/04/2012 04:42 AM, Zane C. B-H. wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 02:06:57 +0100 Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: snip I've just tried this and lost my whole system.

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/05/2012 01:09 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:03:59 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote: I had a small issue at the bootloader prompt, my USB keyboard didn't work as in it seems the kernel modules weren't loaded in order for the keys to function. Not sure how to get round that one

Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-03 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out over

Re: Strange case of vanishing disk

2012-06-03 Thread Kaya Saman
this is a very strange issue but I guess will either be related to 2 things, PSU not being powerful enough or disk controller simply being crap. Here's what's going on. I have a little Chenbro 4 disk mini-ITX NAS server with 2x 2TB disks and 2x4TB disks as storage - all spread out over 2 ZFS

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Kaya Saman
and definitely do not use it if you will not have regular backups of all data, as in case of failures (yes they do happen) you will just have no chance to repair it. There is NO fsck_zfs! And ZFS is promoted as it doesn't need it. Assuming that filesystem doesn't need offline filesystem

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-06-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Additionally ZFS works directly at the block level of the HD meaning that it is slightly different to the 'normal' file systems in storing information and is also self healing.. doesn't other filesystem work on block level too? if no - then at what level? It was my impression that

Re: Hardware compatability question

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, it's not really about the machines but more the hardware. FreeBSD is quite diverse in what it can run on so best bet check the HCL's off the www.freebsd.org website as that would give you the best idea! Otherwise just install and see what works and doesn't. FreeBSD is pretty comprehensive

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
If this is any consellation I run a 36TB cluster using a self built server with a Promise DAS (VessJBOD 1840) using ZFS at home! to support my OpenSource projects and personal files. As for OS take your pick: NexentaStor, FreeBSD, Solaris 11 All capable, of course Solaris has latest version of

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
with both internal and external Mini-SAS ports. Instead of Promise we will use NetStor JBOD solutions as they work with 6Gbps drives and overall give better performance. Oscar Regards, Kaya On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com wrote: If this is any consellation

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against Linux + fuse ZFS. Yes I agree; as far as I understand ZFS in Linux is still in testing and in any case not part of the Linux kernel which means

Integrating FreeBSD with MS Active Directory in order to be able to Authenticate Dovecot IMAP server

2012-05-23 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm attempting to authenticate Dovecot to Active Directory, however, I'm failing quite badly. So far I have gone through the FreeBSD handbook on Kerberos authentication: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/kerberos5.html Additionally I have been through the Dovecot config:

RIP routing protocol implementation is FreeBSD?

2012-01-30 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi there, does anyone know if there's an implementation of the RIP version 2 routing protocol in FreeBSD??? I would like to use it to exchange routes with my Cisco 857W router as the BSD machine will provide routing for a virtual test network in VBox. I did check out the handbook for the

Re: RIP routing protocol implementation is FreeBSD?

2012-01-30 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/30/2012 06:47 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, does anyone know if there's an implementation of the RIP version 2 routing protocol in FreeBSD??? man routed The routed utility is a daemon invoked at boot

Re: RIP routing protocol implementation is FreeBSD?

2012-01-30 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/30/2012 06:53 PM, Eric Masson wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com writes: Hi, does anyone know if there's an implementation of the RIP version 2 routing protocol in FreeBSD??? man 8 routed I did check out the handbook for the enable_routerd=YES I'd try routed_enable = YES instead.

Re: RIP routing protocol implementation is FreeBSD?

2012-01-30 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/30/2012 07:11 PM, Eric Masson wrote: Eric Massone...@free.fr writes: Sorry, Followup to myself. I'd try routed_enable = YES instead. router_enable = YES as Michael stated in another post. Regards Éric Masson The generic syntax of rc.conf is like so (using mine as example):

Re: RIP routing protocol implementation is FreeBSD?

2012-01-30 Thread Kaya Saman
snip I'd try routed_enable = YES instead. Regards Éric Masson I have now setup a virtual instance of FreeBSD and another machine running Bind9 on OpenBSD. I can tell that the system is receiving RIP updates as netstat -r shows the routes advertised by my router however, it seems that

Re: Dual Booting Linux with FreeBSD 9.0 - Grub in MBR

2012-01-28 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/28/2012 08:54 AM, Bas Smeelen wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:32:10 + Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD 9.0 and Linux. I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR. FBSD9 installed as the new disk

FTP server for install link broken?

2012-01-27 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, am currently trying to install FreeBSD 9 on my Lenovo X220 and noticed that the link on this page in the FreeBSD Handbook is broken: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html with link provided here:

Re: FTP server for install link broken?

2012-01-27 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/27/2012 04:16 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Kaya Saman wrote: am currently trying to install FreeBSD 9 on my Lenovo X220 and noticed that the link on this page in the FreeBSD Handbook is broken: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html

Re: FTP server for install link broken?

2012-01-27 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/27/2012 07:22 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Kaya Saman wrote: On 01/27/2012 04:16 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Kaya Saman wrote: am currently trying to install FreeBSD 9 on my Lenovo X220 and noticed that the link on this page in the FreeBSD Handbook

Dual Booting Linux with FreeBSD 9.0 - Grub in MBR

2012-01-27 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, am just wondering if anyone has successfully managed to boot FreeBSD 9.0 and Linux. I run Fedora 16 x64 with Grub installed in my MBR. FBSD9 installed as the new disk scheme GPT. I think (I manually partitioned as my disk is quite crowded). Anyway I found this:

Re: FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-26 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/26/2012 01:57 AM, Da Rock wrote: Despite having similar hardware, you're only real best bet is to suck it and see. Try installing and seeing what you can get to work (dmesg, pciconf -lv, usbconfig, kldload modules, questions here, etc). I've had mixed success with laptops (they're just

FreeBSD 9 on Lenovo X200 what works?

2012-01-25 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I discovered this thread: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=25539 and am wondering what will and won't work on my Lenovo X220 I'm currently in the process in deciding between FreeBSD 9 and Fedora 15/16. I love FreeBSD on servers but unfortunately I haven't had much luck

Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I wrote a shell script to detect if the port of tomcat was in use or not then restart if the port wasn't online; due to tomcat segfaulting as my system hasn't got enough memory for it. This is the shell script: #!/usr/local/bin/bash ntstat=`netstat -ap tcp | grep 8180 | sed -n '1p'`

Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/07/2012 03:05 PM, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 02:21:51PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi, I wrote a shell script to detect if the port of tomcat was in use or not then restart if the port wasn't online; due to tomcat segfaulting as my system hasn't got enough memory

Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/07/2012 03:22 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:21:51 +0200 Kaya Saman wrote: The strange thing is that if I run this script manually /root/java_restart/java_restart.sh it works fine and does what it's supposed to do. The commonest reason for scripts that that work from a terminal

Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/07/2012 03:57 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:37:49 +0200 Kaya Saman wrote: n terms of paths this is what I'm doing: I'm in a FreeBSD jail logged in by - #jexecjail tcsh which gets me in as root. Crontab is being run as root so paths should be the same no? PATH is set at the top

Re: Having problems running shell script from crontab

2012-01-07 Thread Kaya Saman
On 01/07/2012 04:30 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 07/01/2012 13:57, RW wrote: On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:37:49 +0200 Kaya Saman wrote: n terms of paths this is what I'm doing: I'm in a FreeBSD jail logged in by - #jexecjail tcsh which gets me in as root. Crontab is being run as root so paths

Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I would like to know if there's a syslog alternative out there that will actually write my network equipments' logs to files. After having major issues with syslogd and attempting a thorough debug of which I posted to this mailing list and wasn't able to fix even with more experienced

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
[...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible with syslog but again something failed with that in order to write

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/29/2011 04:18 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: [...snip...] Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More Thanks for that. I have tested rsyslog which is backwards compatible

Syslog server not logging remote machines to file?

2011-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I've got a really strange problem which seems to either be a bug with the syslog server service or perhaps because I'm running jails on my system. I can log my router syslog information but somehow the syslog server doesn't put the information into the designated file; which should

Re: Syslog server not logging remote machines to file?

2011-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/19/2011 05:21 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've got a really strange problem which seems to either be a bug with the syslog server service or perhaps because I'm running jails on my system. I can log my router syslog information but somehow the

Re: Syslog server not logging remote machines to file?

2011-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
On 11/19/2011 06:52 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: From kayasa...@gmail.com Sat Nov 19 09:33:08 2011 Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:31:50 +0200 From: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com To: Robert Bonomibon...@mail.r-bonomi.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslog server not logging remote

Re: Syslog server not logging remote machines to file?

2011-11-19 Thread Kaya Saman
cvthname(192.168.1.1) validate: dgram from IP 192.168.1.1, port 59189, name router.domain; accepted in rule 0. logmsg: pri 275, flags 0, from cisco857w, msg 10048: 010035: Nov 19 10:33:48.037: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by admin on vty0 (192.168.1.120) If we take the 'priority'

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, just as I've been helping out already I did actually have this lot in my Wiki: http://wiki.optiplex-networks.com/xwiki/bin/view/FreeBSD/Installing_FreeBSD [quote] Please take note however that the *Buildworld* environment needs to have *all sources* installed into the system in

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-06 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] PS: I don't suppose anyone knows a real good simple blow by blow total newby dialog, as to how to realiably and correctly create and setup Jails on FreeBSD 8.0? All the man pages I've found so far, are way over my head. Good Reference material admittedly, but no good as an

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-05 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/05/2011 03:48 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: Did you apply any updates shortly before it started to fail? No updates! I did however, install unrar through ports. Intuitively, that seems unlikely to have triggered the problem.

Re: [direct] Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-05 Thread Kaya Saman
, and I'm now also under instruction to change the bed, when the cat's finished sleeping on it!!! Best Regards. Dave B. On 4 Jun 2011 at 21:35, Kaya Saman wrote: Subject:Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error [...] Hmmm Hard drives do not like heat! Check the PSU

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks for the response! On 06/04/2011 02:00 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Kaya Samankayasa...@gmail.com wrote: I have an ancient pre-HT PIV machine with500MB RAM. ... Everything was running fine until round about 2 days ago when the system started locking up on me? ... is there

Re: Strange system lockups - kernel saying disk error

2011-06-04 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] Hmmm Hard drives do not like heat! Check the PSU voltages with a meter, for accuracy and ripple. Failing SMPS's can do all sorts of odd things. Capacitor problems. Been there done that. They can be changed for very low cost, other than your time. DaveB You might guess by know, I

Setting up a a route in FreeBSD with NAT issues

2011-03-11 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi all, I'm trying to setup a gateway between an internal network using Vbox test machines of which one is a FreeBSD router/gateway. Being familiar with Cisco I know how easy this is to do but I think that I'm struggling a bit with the syntax. My setup is as so: Damn Small Linux (virtual

Setting up a a route in FreeBSD with NAT issues

2011-03-11 Thread Kaya Saman
Ok I've managed to make some headway however it still isn't working properly: /etc/ipnat.rules #map em1 10.100.100.0/26 - 0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 1:65000 map em1 10.100.100.0/26 - 0.0.0.0/32 map em1 10.100.100.0/26 - 0.0.0.0/32 auto I then added this addition to the end of the

Re: Setting up a a route in FreeBSD with NAT issues

2011-03-11 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks, Kaya On 03/11/2011 12:34 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: Ok I've managed to make some headway however it still isn't working properly: /etc/ipnat.rules #map em1 10.100.100.0/26 http://10.100.100.0/26 - 0.0.0.0/32 http://0.0.0.0/32 portmap tcp/udp 1:65000 map em1 10.100.100.0

syslogd not writing to file?

2010-12-05 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I've got a weird problem that might be a bug with the 64bit RELEASE edition of FreeBSD 8.0. The issue is this: I provisioned 2 servers on two separate networks; one a 32bit system and the other a 64bit in order to log information coming from Cisco network equipment. The 32bit build

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-10-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Many thanks for the responses! On 01/10/2010 02:52, Paul Wootton wrote: On 09/30/10 14:54, Kaya Saman wrote: On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp

Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'm planning on using FreeBSD 8.0 x64 RELEASE edition for a small primary/secondary DNS server setup. The system will run Bind9 and have some zone files and views for the few people I host for. I am considering using a dual Atom system board with 2GB RAM and for storage was thinking

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks very much Brian: On 30/09/2010 17:02, Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC) wrote: On 9/30/2010 4:11 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: I mean for a DNS server (all be it a small one) is it wise to use compact flash as storage?? For our GSLB DNS Slaves, we boot embedded/low power (or even VMs these days

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Kaya Saman
On 30/09/2010 17:54, Brent Bloxam wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether and use MFS (memory filesystem) like

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] Have you refreshed the ports tree(s) with csup using the same supfile to ensure the ports trees are up to date ( and therefore identical)? Since you are using portugrade, as I do, this is what I do to see what needs to be done: I cd to /usr/sup which is where I keep my supfiles and the

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi Jerry and Michael, thanks for all the advise and information!! I think I was confusing terminologies a little I was trying to imply that I have been building from ports all this time and *not* using pkg_add to obtain pre-built packages. I think mainly it's just that I've been using

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks Warren and Michael! :-) On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Kaya Saman wrote: The thing I don't quite understand though is that if the ports tree gets refreshed, do the packages get upgraded or will I need to rebuild them?? The ports tree is just build instructions, so updating it doesn't update

Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-11 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I have 2 servers one production and another test. The test machine's packages however, seem to be older then the production machines one's even though I built the production system a few months ago. I used the: portupgrade command in order to try to upgrade the ports nad re-install the

Re: system is under attack (what can I do more?)

2010-06-18 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] Look at ports/security/sshguard and ports/security/bruteblock. I use sshguard with ipfilter, but it works with pf and ipfw as well. It is very simple to set up and gets the job done. Jerry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: system is under attack (what can I do more?)

2010-06-18 Thread Kaya Saman
On 18/06/2010 18:48, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On 6/18/10 11:29 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: [...] Look at ports/security/sshguard and ports/security/bruteblock. I use sshguard with ipfilter, but it works with pf and ipfw as well. It is very simple to set up and gets the job done. Hi just wanted

Re: system is under attack (what can I do more?)

2010-06-18 Thread Kaya Saman
On 06/18/2010 06:59 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kaya Saman wrote: On 18/06/2010 18:48, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On 6/18/10 11:29 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: [...] Look at ports/security/sshguard and ports/security/bruteblock. I

Re: Squid not starting from rc in Jail, however works when run from root as command??

2010-06-01 Thread Kaya Saman
Kaya Saman wrote: Hi guys, I've just built a new BSD server running on a Mini-ITX NAS chassis and it's working beautifully :-) I also took the time to learn how to build jails too as this is only my second BSD build so am still really new to it although not to UNIX as I use Solaris

Squid not starting from rc in Jail, however works when run from root as command??

2010-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, I've just built a new BSD server running on a Mini-ITX NAS chassis and it's working beautifully :-) I also took the time to learn how to build jails too as this is only my second BSD build so am still really new to it although not to UNIX as I use Solaris and Linux frequently.

Postfix bad command startup??

2010-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, similar like I wrote before, to do with my migration from Solaris 9 to FreeBSD 8.0 x64 RELEASE. Postfix is being run in a BSD Jail and so far I have disabled as much as I could of sendmail which I did this to rc.conf within the jail: postfix_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NONE

Re: Postfix bad command startup??

2010-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
On 31/05/2010 22:07, Tim Judd wrote: On 5/31/10, Kaya Samansamank...@netscape.net wrote: Hi, similar like I wrote before, to do with my migration from Solaris 9 to FreeBSD 8.0 x64 RELEASE. Postfix is being run in a BSD Jail and so far I have disabled as much as I could of sendmail which

Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, after Google'ing around a bit I managed to stumble across this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php what I am trying to achieve is to upgrade the currently install Apache 1.3.x port over to the Apache22 port. The

Re: Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Kaya Saman
On 29/05/2010 23:52, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 23:23:10 +0300 Kaya Samansamank...@netscape.net articulated: Hi guys, after Google'ing around a bit I managed to stumble across this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html

Re: Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Kaya Saman
On 30/05/2010 02:01, Michael Powell wrote: Kaya Saman wrote: [snip] It seems to have worked I just go into the config and check it; only that part seems missing?? Maybe it's in a different place then /etc in FreeBSD and I haven't worked it out yet. Even apache22 daemon is not in /etc

NFS Emergency - RPC and NFSD online but no connection??

2010-05-23 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, this is a really interesting yet annoying issue I'm having. I had a fully working NFS setup until earlier today when I had a failed attempt at recovering an external hard disk that I fitted into my system internally. Now this disk has nothing to do with the system and is used

Re: NFS Emergency - RPC and NFSD online but no connection??

2010-05-23 Thread Kaya Saman
testing I will have more information to share, hopefully it will work. If that's the case I will look at limiting CPU horsepower per application so that my lowly system has some room left to compute other things too. On 05/24/2010 12:33 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Hi guys, this is a really

Re: NFS Emergency - RPC and NFSD online but no connection??

2010-05-23 Thread Kaya Saman
Ok :-) All is well... That was fast and quick thinking by myself I do say :-P Now to limit Darkice's load on the system?? On 05/24/2010 12:54 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Actually a bit more scanning shows Darkice is using 100% of the CPU for some reason? I've commented it out in /etc

Intel DG45FC Fly Creek LGA 775 Mini-ITX system board compatibility?

2010-05-17 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I'd just like to know if the Intel DG45FC Fly Creek LGA 775 Mini-ITX system board is compatible with FreeBSD and also if there is a PCIe SATA card recommendation too as I need more SATA ports?? I plan on building a Mini-ITX based NAS/Server using a Chenbro hot-swap chassis with FreeBSD

Re: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??

2010-03-30 Thread Kaya Saman
What is needed is the line just before the Vendor, with the card and chip IDs. Then compare it against the list of cards the FreeBSD msk driver supports: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mskapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASEformat=html Line goes as follows:

Re: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??

2010-03-29 Thread Kaya Saman
kernel panic with a complete system lockup. I'm not sure if I will be able to recover from this or if I will need a total re-install but so far BSD seems completely hosed on my machine :-( Regards, Kaya On 03/29/2010 07:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Thanks for the response Warren!! Does the card

Re: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??

2010-03-29 Thread Kaya Saman
On 03/29/2010 10:05 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Kaya Saman wrote: On 03/29/2010 07:20 AM, Kaya Saman wrote: Thanks for the response Warren!! Does the card show up in ifconfig? No. If not, do a 'pciconf -lv' to find out which particular hardware you have. pciconf -lv

Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??

2010-03-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi guys, I've just performed a clean install of FreeBSD 8.0 on my system which is a triple boot with Win 7 and Ubuntu Linux. I did a bit of Google'ing on this subject and found various people asking the same question only for much older versions of BSD. What I have found out so far is

Re: Marvell Yukon Driver for Hp notebook??

2010-03-28 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks for the response Warren!! Does the card show up in ifconfig? No. If not, do a 'pciconf -lv' to find out which particular hardware you have. pciconf -lv says Vendor: Marvell Semiconductor (Was Galileo Technology LTD) Class: Network Subclass: Ethernet -Warren Block * Rapid

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Kaya Saman
Many believe FreeBSD is Unix (and many would say that it really is, in all respects but its name, however that isn't the issue here). Moreover, I've got the impression lots of people truly believe Linux is just another name for Unix. And I do know for a fact that there are people who

Re: Server set up

2010-01-15 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi Kaya, Firstly, just for clarity, I do know all of that, and the original poster of this thread is the one you CC'ed. Secondly (also just for clarity, I guess), most of your post is OT, as it is basically a reply to my post, and my post was OT as it was simply a reaction to the

Crontab not working??

2010-01-13 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, I installed logwatch from ports only it didn't install a crontab for me like Linux or Solaris does so I ended up attempting to copy my Linux crontab into FreeBSD. It didn't work so I tried to cut down areas which I suspected might not work and ended up with the syntax below for root:

Re: Crontab not working??

2010-01-13 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks, I inputted the data as you suggested so now I will wait until the time specified to see if it ran or not! Regards, Kaya Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jan 13, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Kaya Saman wrote: It didn't work so I tried to cut down areas which I suspected might not work and ended

Re: Crontab not working logwatch.pl [FreeBSD 8 stable]

2010-01-13 Thread Kaya Saman
Glen Barber wrote: Rolf Nielsen wrote: On 2010-01-13 22:04, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: did a crontab -r, a a new crontab -e, using: * * * * * $HOME/.profile ; /bin/bash /var/log/auto_auth.sh * * * * * $HOME/.profile ; /usr/bin/perl /local/sbin/logwatch.pl In addition to the other

Re: Endianness

2010-01-12 Thread Kaya Saman
David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: I'm trying to create a port of an application which only works on little endian systems and I'm trying to figure out how to set ONLY_FOR_ARCHS. Wikipedia says PowerPC, Sparc, and IA64 are bi-endian and the OS

Re: denying spam hosts ssh access - good idea?

2010-01-11 Thread Kaya Saman
David Southwell wrote: I'm thinking of denying ssh access to host from which I get brute force ssh attacks. HOwever, I see in /etc/hosts.allow: # Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea, but if you # need to do it, here's how #sshd : .evil.cracker.example.com : deny Why is it not a good

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