Re: SSH persistent sessions without screen?

* Chris Telting christopher...@telting.org [2011-03-31 09:00:02-0700]: Something like the screen utility. But I don't want to use screen, I'm looking for something more automated. tmux can do this, and unlike GNU screen, can be easily scripted. Check it out, we started using it at $work early

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

* Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-14 17:32:34+]: depends on how they do their installs, i know of a couple hosting companies doing it already Hey! Which ones? Chiming in another rec for RootBSD as well. I've been a customer of theirs for a few months now and very pleased with

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

* Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-17 14:47:00+]: I've not seen any problems with the clock on my RootBSD Xen system. I do run the ntpd in base and on average, my clock is usually only about 15ms away from true UTC. That's interesting. Can you post your `ntpq -p` output here?

Re: FreeBSD not stable enough for Xen environments?

* Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-11-17 12:08:49+]: Intersting, I see the same in my logs, but the frequency seems to be much less than yours, e.g. for the month of November: What time counter source does this box have available? kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(-100) i8254(0)

Re: Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0

* Snorre D. ?verb? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-07 15:29:11+]: When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear on the screen. ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=0055347 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR

Re: git

repositories and see if you can replicate this error? I built my git from ports and IIRC, it seemed to clone and pull the xorg tree fine (but that was about 3 weeks ago). Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: git

it a try. Debian has nice list of git repositories available for cloning: http://git.debian.org/ Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Need to build a new mail server

* Patrick Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-29 13:35:27-0400]: I'm interested in both suggestions for hardware and mail servers that would make for the best FreeBSD based mail server. A third vote for Postfix + Dovecot here. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me

Re: lockfile -- posix compliant?

* Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-17 02:25:11+0100]: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:03:29PM -0500, N.J. Thomas wrote: Can someone tell me if lockfile(1) is a POSIX-defined utility? Considering that lockfile(1) is usually installed as part of procmail Ah, gotcha. Coincidently, the RHEL

lockfile -- posix compliant?

-APR-02.html doesn't list it, so I am inclined to say that it is not, but I wanted to be sure. thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: ntpd configuration file changes

and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d system (PDF) here, it is an excellent read: http://www.mewburn.net/luke/bibliography.html Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

this out of my larger config file which had other servers non-essentials listed in there, I should have removed the prefer tags before giving it to OP. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

server /etc/ntp.conf? Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

.pool.ntp.org prefer server 2.pool.ntp.org prefer That should work well. See http://www.pool.ntp.org/ for more info. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Now it is ntpd that can't find anything

* jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-30 17:12:19 -0800]: I set up ntpd on FreeBSD 6.2 and am getting complaints from ntpd that there is no route to such and such address. Please post the output of ntpq -p. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: Windows SSH client?

a completely unrelated function. Most editors (Vi, Emacs, etc.) will give you that info, but can you explain why need it as necessary component for an SSH client? Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd

Re: postfix problem

* Bill Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-18 10:44:56 -0400]: Im installing postfix on a server. It accept mail from my own network but not from the outside. It said relay access denied. Any clue. Please post the output of postconf -n. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit

vim undo (was Re: remote [ssh] Backspace] key gives me ^?)

/forwawrd in time in the buffer (e.g. :earlier 10m goes to the text as it was ten minutes earlier). hth, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Service providers using Quagga

, and found slides that he gave for the same talk at BSDCan here: http://www.bsdcan.org/2006/papers/BackToTheFuture.pdf It contains info that you may find useful. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd

Re: mail server setup questions

site for configuring it as it would be done in FreeBSD? The Postfix documentation is very thorough and complete, and that is all you should need. Their website has some links to various HOWTOs: http://www.postfix.org/docs.html Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me

ifconfig up hanging on 6.1

We have some Dell PowerEdge 1950 1u rack servers with GigE NICs on them running FreeBSD 6.1. The NICs are connected to a Cisco 24 port 10/100 switch. The interfaces are down when the programs that are running on them are dormant, and whenever they receive a job, they bring the interface up. (The

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

to and then they are surprised when a fork bomb takes down their mail infrastructure hth, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Backing up FREEBSD

check out rsnapshot, it's in /usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot, and their site is here: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Working with DocBook on FreeBSD nothing but problems

into the build scripts worked out nicely. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: how does cron exec jobs?

what is wrong. Usually it is just a PATH issue, but sometimes it may be some missing envariable that you didn't even realize existed (that your script depended on it). Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: vsftpd uploading rate problem

the same results? Try scp'ing a large file to and from your laptop. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Converting DocBook into PDF

, libxslt, fop, docbook-xml, and docbook-xsl in ports. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: sudoedit, restricting to particular folder

/named/zone2 However, if your users need to be able to create/modify/rename files under /var/named (as you mentioned in your OP), then you will need a properly written wrapper script. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: sudoedit, restricting to particular folder

wrapper script (which shouldn't be terribly hard) I don't know how to solve the original problem of restricting sudoedit to a particular directly using sudo alone. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: sudoedit, restricting to particular folder

1.6.8p12, FreeBSD 5.4) hth, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Sharing /usr/local/www

it, poorly. (Apologies to H. Spencer.) Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: upload-only ftp server

* User Gandalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-24 16:32:55 +0200]: I looked at the ports tree and I found many ftp servers. I cannot choose between them. Can you recommend one for me? Second the recommendation for vsftpd. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso

Re: pam_userdb.so: Where is it?

/lib/pam_permit.so Just to let you know that worked a treat hth, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FTPd recommendation?

there -- the speaker was testing out his talk on us before he gave it at some Usenix/SAGE conference. The ftp portion was a howto on securing wu-ftpd, but before he started, he said point blank that if you didn't need anonymous uploads, to just use vsftpd.) Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi

Re: NTP

and see if you get a connection succeeded message. Also, have you thought about using pool.ntp.org instead? Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

mysql backups (was Re: Remote backups, reading from and writing to the same file)

exactly what snapshotting features FreeBSD has...perhaps someone else could fill in this information. Also, you will have a short period of downtime during which the MySQL db is write locked. This may or may not be acceptable for you. hth, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL

Re: Help with panic: vm_fault

Before you do anything else, I strongly recommend you put in both of the new memory modules in and run memtest86+. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Help with panic: vm_fault

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Re: Uptimes, autoreboots, and package upgrades

download and install OS updates, and this has only caused problems for everyone involved. I don't know any moderately competent Windows user who doesn't turn this feature off right away. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

:06 0.05% 0.05% httpd 11885 nobody-1 0 149M 8348K nfsrcv 0:06 0.05% 0.05% httpd The state of all the httpd prcesses are nfsrcv. Does this mean the bottleneck is at the NFS server that hosts the htdocs (and PHP scripts) or just that the server is low on memory? Thomas -- N.J

Re: overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

* N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-12-01 14:38:13 -0500]: We have a website with moderately high traffic, load balanced among 3 webservers. During peak traffic times however (when the volume is higher than normal), the load shoots up to over a 100, and the site crawls to its knees. I

Re: overloaded webserver: nfs wait issue?

on. Will do...thanks for the suggestions. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

busy web server: logs on separate disks?

in degraded mode until it is replaced. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Which firewall?

explained in the handbook do you recommend? pf+altq Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: pam_userdb.so not found on FreeBSD

* N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-14 20:36:33 -0500]: vsftpd uses pam's pam_userdb.so module for this, but I can't find it on this machine. Is it called something else now? To answer my own question, I was just told that pam_userdb.so is part of Linux-PAM and not part of OpenPAM (which

pam_userdb.so not found on FreeBSD

I'm trying to get vsftpd running with virtual users on a FreeBSD 5.4 box. vsftpd uses pam's pam_userdb.so module for this, but I can't find it on this machine. Is it called something else now? Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: Crontab and GPG?

on your system) from cron and see what environment your script has. Then run your script manually and keep removing envariables until something breaks. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions

setting up X -- under VMWare?

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Re: setting up X -- under VMWare?

a knoppix live CD under vmware. The generated Xorg.conf is absolutely great. err except that I think the default X server for 4.x is still XF86 not x.org That's fine...we can figure the X.org to XF86 translation if it works correctly. Trying it now... Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL

interesting networking problem

-- I cannot ping them from any machine.) How can I debug this further? thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: interesting networking problem

/ (try: 2) = `index.html.1' Connecting to example.org|192.168.1.5|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers. Retrying. ^C Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me

programmatically getting mounts?

Short of grepping the output of mount or df, what is the best way to programmatically get a list of mounted filesystems? I glance at sysctl shows nothing, and mounting linprocfs doesn't give a very Linux-esque listing -- just processes. thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi

Re: Can't execute a script

(it usually is packaged with Vim) you can try od -x /root/bin/scripttest. xxd/od will show right away if there is anything funky on the shebang line that shouldn't be there. thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: Can't execute a script

exist. Use a utility like dos2unix or some a decent text editor to convert this to a Unix file format and you'll be good to go. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

perhaps? (I'm presuming the USB is intergrated into it. Under 4.11, can you use the USB ports successfully? Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

/rescue/vi doesn't work without /usr (no terminal db)

. In the meantime, how can I run /rescue/vi without /usr? thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: /rescue/vi doesn't work without /usr (no terminal db)

* Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-25 17:10:37 +0300]: On 2005-08-25 10:04, N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the meantime, how can I run /rescue/vi without /usr? I don't think you can. It only needs a read-only /usr though, so if /usr is a local filesystem you can

Re: /rescue/vi doesn't work without /usr (no terminal db)

tedious to work with than vi. But when things have gone so wrong that you actually have to use the tools in /rescue, you are generally not in the mood to deal with something as archaic as ed. =-) Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: firewall on FreeBSD

just as easy to understand. It depends on what you are doing, but for most people using NAT is as easy turning on ip forwarding via sysctl and adding a single line to your pf.conf configuration file (nat on $ext_if...). Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso

MIT Zephyr available on FreeBSD?

Does anyone know if the MIT Zephyr Notification System (which included the command zwrite), or some newer incarnation of it, is available on FreeBSD? A glance at ports didn't show anything. thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: Advice on backup scheme for FreeBSD 5.3 box

* steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-04-20 10:53:25 -0400]: So I'm trying to figure out a scheme to avoid more than a couple hours of downtime. Use rsnapshot: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ The closest thing to a NetApp backup that you will get, minus the US$50,000 price tag. Thomas -- N.J

firefox crashing on unknown files

* All types .* No How can I enable libnullplugin.so or else prevent this behavior? Stats: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p7 firefox-1.0.2 thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: Firefox won't start

case it was some gconf dirs.) hth, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

* Bob Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-03-23 22:00:58 -0500]: On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:16 pm, N.J. Thomas wrote: pkg_add -r foo. This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). By default, pkg_add uses the packages that were built

Re: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

for the tip. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

doing. I deleted all my packages. installed only the ones I absolutely needed (in my case: zsh, vim, and cvsup), upgraded ports, and then went from there. Thank for your help. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Re: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

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greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

in the FreeBSD equivalent of DLL Hell. Should I just blow my system away and start from scratch? Is that the best course of action to take at this point? thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo ___ freebsd