RE: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-03 Thread Wood, Russell

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 Sent: Friday, 4 May 2007 6:16 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less
polite?
 
 Hi,
 
 Recently I upgraded my Apache 1.3.33 webserver to Apache 2.2.4, and
 ever since, I noticed that it is acting in such a way that it often
 is VERY greedy with my server's resources.
 Quite often, when running top, a list that is as the one that
 appears at the bottom of this e-mail is shown: indeed pretty much
 solely httpd instances, that for extended periods of time almost
 continously pull the CPU to close to 100%, and that also consume a
 lot of the memory resources... Strangely enough, at other times the
 CPU load is just slightly above 0%, say 0.4% or so...
 
 Apart from the fact that it doesn't feel right to see the CPU for
 substantial amounts of time, almost constantly close to 100%, there
 is a further issue, being that sendmail rejects connections when the
 server load is (too) high. This is very annoying, as e-mail is also a
 crucial part of the server's functionality, and I don't want sendmail
 to reject connections, each and every time that Apache goes berserk.



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RE: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-03 Thread Wood, Russell

 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olaf Greve
 Sent: Friday, 4 May 2007 6:16 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less
polite?
 
 Hi,
 
 Recently I upgraded my Apache 1.3.33 webserver to Apache 2.2.4, and
 ever since, I noticed that it is acting in such a way that it often
 is VERY greedy with my server's resources.
 Quite often, when running top, a list that is as the one that
 appears at the bottom of this e-mail is shown: indeed pretty much
 solely httpd instances, that for extended periods of time almost
 continously pull the CPU to close to 100%, and that also consume a
 lot of the memory resources... Strangely enough, at other times the
 CPU load is just slightly above 0%, say 0.4% or so...
 
 Apart from the fact that it doesn't feel right to see the CPU for
 substantial amounts of time, almost constantly close to 100%, there
 is a further issue, being that sendmail rejects connections when the
 server load is (too) high. This is very annoying, as e-mail is also a
 crucial part of the server's functionality, and I don't want sendmail
 to reject connections, each and every time that Apache goes berserk.

Is there any reason you are using Apache over another HTTP Daemon?

Personally, I think Apache has gone down hill with regard to gluttony so
I stopped using it a while ago. My preference is now Lighttpd.

NB: Sorry about previous post. Outlook went crazy.

- Russell


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RE: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-23 Thread Wood, Russell

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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Marsh
 Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2007 8:21 AM
 To: L Goodwin
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers
 
 On 4/24/07, L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file
  server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1
  Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows
Vista
  Home Premium users as a Samba share.  I also plan to create system
 recovery
  disks (disk images) for the server and each Windows client.

I dump (man dump) my array to a spare 250GB disk within my server.

- Russell


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RE: route

2007-04-12 Thread Wood, Russell


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miguel Alcántara
 Sent: Friday, 13 April 2007 5:55 AM
 To: faqfreebsd
 Subject: route
 
 hello all the people, i want to configure a freebsd 6.2 as a router, in
 rc.conf added this line
 
 router_enable=YES
 
 it's ip is 192.168.1.33
 
 then i have two PCs, one with freebsd(10.0.0.15) and another with debian(
 192.168.1.34), but i can't realize if I must configure something in the
 others two  machines
  the pourpose of this is to get communicated the freebsd(10.0.0.15) with
 debian(192.168.1.34).
 
 thanks in advance for your help.
 
 
 --
 $ miguel_alcántara $

http://www.freebsddiary.org/gateway.php


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RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Wood, Russell
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie
 Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM
 To: Christian Walther
 Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions
 Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
 
 
 On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Christian Walther wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately:
 
  Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
  retry left) LBA=13554983
  Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
  retry left) LBA=35376691
 
 
 You also might want to give smartmontools a try. This can be found
 in the portscollection (sysutils/smartmontools). This will query
 the SMART tool built in most IDE drives. You can let the harddrive
 do a selfcheck. And gather some statistics from your drive.
 
 --
 Guido

When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you want to
do is use it. If you want additional confirmation (which I doubt you
need as what you have printed is ample) then try Seatools from Seagate.
It's free and runs of a CDROM.

- Russell


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RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-30 Thread Wood, Russell
 -Original Message-
 From: Guido Demmenie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:15 PM
 To: Wood, Russell
 Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions
 Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
 
 
 On Mar 30, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Wood, Russell wrote:
 
  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guido Demmenie
  Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 3:00 PM
  To: Christian Walther
  Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions
  Subject: Re: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
 
 
  On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Christian Walther wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately:
 
  Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
  retry left) LBA=13554983
  Mar 29 21:02:34 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
  retry left) LBA=35376691
 
 
  You also might want to give smartmontools a try. This can be found
  in the portscollection (sysutils/smartmontools). This will query
  the SMART tool built in most IDE drives. You can let the harddrive
  do a selfcheck. And gather some statistics from your drive.
 
  --
  Guido
 
  When you have a suspected faulty hard drive, the last thing you
  want to
  do is use it.
 
  - Russell
 
 Can you tell me why?
 
 --
 Guido

Sure. If you install software when your hard drive has bad sectors then
the software your installing may be written around those areas, possibly
won't run properly (if at all) and cause the system to become unstable
which would then result in further data loss. Also, bad sectors are like
a disease and continue to `spread' the more it's used.

- Russell


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RE: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?

2007-03-29 Thread Wood, Russell


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Walther
 Sent: Friday, 30 March 2007 5:21 AM
 To: FreeBSD Users Questions
 Subject: ad0: TIMEOUT - Is my disk dying?
 
 Hi,
 
 I'm seeing a lot of the following messages lately:
 
 Mar 29 21:02:01 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
 retry left) LBA=13554983
 ...
 Mar 29 21:52:59 pixie kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1
 retry left) LBA=4663
 
 
 Christian

You have bad sectors on your hard drive. Buy a new one now if your data
is of any importance.

- Russell


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RE: RAID failure with READ_DMA status=51 - how to avoid again?

2007-02-28 Thread Wood, Russell

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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Iberien
 Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2007 10:02 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: RAID failure with READ_DMA status=51 - how to avoid again?
 
 I would like to RAID my system but am wondering if I am asking for
 trouble,
 given that I got some kind of read failure error followed by file
system
 corruption the first time I did it. Would it be reasonable for me to
try
 RAIDing again, and if so, under what conditions? Details are as
follows:
 
 I moved my home FreeBSD 6.0 system, which had previously been on a
single
 IDE
 drive, onto two SATA drives (set to 3.0 G) in a RAID-1 array, with
 hardware
 raid (Nvidia) on the motherboard (ASUS A8N-E). I used dump as
instructed
 in
 the FreeBSD FAQ. This went okay.
 
 I then installed a third, large (400GB) SATA drive and backed up the
 system on
 the RAID (minus /proc, /tmp, and so on) to it using rdiff-backup. This
 seemed
 to go OK.
 
 Then, when I shut down immediately afterwards, I saw this:
 Feb 27 08:43:19 bsd kernel: ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA
 status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
 error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=146193935
 Feb 27 08:43:19 bsd kernel: ar0: WARNING - mirror protection lost.
RAID1
 array
 in DEGRADED mode
 Feb 27 08:43:19 bsd kernel: ar0: writing of nVidia MediaShield
metadata is
 NOT
 supported yet
 
 I rebooted, the message from the bios that the RAID was healthy came
up,
 but
 FreeBSD said the file system was not healthy, and I had to run fsck
about
 five times for it to come up clean. The system booted to desktop,
crashed
 after about ten seconds, rebooted, and turned up with a dirty
filesytem
 again.
 
 I have since dismantled RAID, removed one of the SATA drives, fsck'ed
 repeatedly, and then reinstalled KDE, figuring that that as it only
 crashed
 when it had finished loading the desktop, that something might be
amiss
 there. The system is running again.
 
 All the drives are brand new, as is the cabling. The drives show up in
 messages as SATA150 (is 3.0G not supported in FreeBSD?), although
the
 board
 supports 3.0G transfer rates. There is an errata sheet in the
motherboard
 manual with a matrix indicating on which drive, given multiple SATA
 drives,
 the OS should be installed. It's silent on why this is advised and on
the
 subject of the proper order if RAID is involved. Extended offline
SMART
 test
 on the current drive with smartctl completed without error and
overall-
 health
 self-assessment test result: PASSED. Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
 Oliver

I would suggest downloading FreeSBIE, booting from it and running a dd
on your drives to see if it picks up any bad sectors:

dd if=/dev/adN of=/dev/null bs=1m conv=noerror

Regards,
Russell Wood


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RE: Memory test

2007-02-05 Thread Wood, Russell
 -Original Message-
 Subject: Memory test
 
 I need to checkout memory on a remote machine. I see there is memtest
and
 memtest86 out there. Which one is appropriate for my situation?: CPU
is a
 dual cpu, dual core SMP Intel Xeon. Can I run either program while the
 machine is performing other tasks?**
 
 
 --
 Yudhvir Singh Sidhu

No, Memtest must be ran from the CD (e.g. boot of the CD) so that is not
a good solution for a remote test. I don't know of any that can be run
remotely.

Regards,
Russell Wood


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RE: Which version of Opera to use?

2007-01-28 Thread Wood, Russell
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg 'groggy' Lehey
 Sent: Monday, 29 January 2007 10:22 AM
 To: Gerard Seibert
 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: Which version of Opera to use?
 
 On Saturday, 27 January 2007 at  9:13:19 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
  I have been thinking of trying Opera in KDE to see if it works
better
  than Firefox. I have been having nothing but problems with Firefox
and
  Flash.
 
  Would I be better off trying Opera or Linux-Opera? Both are offered
in
  the ports.
 
 I'd recommend native Opera.  I've heard recently from people at Opera
 who are very keen to ensure that it works well on FreeBSD, so it makes
 sense to help them.
 
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I've always used the native version of Opera on FreeBSD and it's always
worked well.

Regards,
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RE: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Wood, Russell
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras
 Sent: Wednesday, 17 January 2007 7:04 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance
 
 Steven Lowry wrote:
 
  The main problem is my HD performance, it is approx 6x slower than
in
  windows XP, hopefully there is a solution. I have an LSI Megaraid 8x
 with
  four drives in a raid 5 configuration, in windows I was getting upto
 60MB/s
  transfer rates but in FBSD I am getting upto 9MB/s. I followed the

I have an LSI MegaRaid with three drives at RAID 5: works a
god-damn-treat. I don't know what my throughput is on RAID 5 but RAID 0
was fast (70MB/s+).

Were you doing these tests a few hours after initializing the array, by
any chance? If so, then the poor performance could be because the array
was `in build' while you were using it, and therefore you'd get very
poor performance.

Regards,
Russell Wood


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RE: Help

2006-12-28 Thread Wood, Russell
 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rythms1
 Sent: Friday, 29 December 2006 7:12 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Help
 
 I have try to make a desktop computer just to use BSD as a stand alone
 desktop ...I had a friend to help and even with his help we
 haven't manage to load up KDE or Gnome.it was partly
 load up at the begining but it was very slow even with GNome and could
 not find the host .like I call the computer OGUN , it
 had trouble finding the host,so I load hte system
again
 it is in a old AMD 700 with over 600 SDRAM memory and a old 16 megs
 NVIDIA video card.but it should work
 ...My friend Colin went into TTY to get X11 to
work
 but no luck it work but it took to long to load up as well as getting
 anything to run.at the end manage to get KDE to run
but
 again to slow and many of the programs didn't work at all still would
 not see the name of the computer OGUN ..so I went
to
 FREE BSD page had a look and saw what to do after I load the system
 again ..load everything I could, all the X11 just  to make
 sure...but since I only know very little comand line not
 like Colin knows lots and works with Debian Linux and makes its own OS
 out of Debian.he was a bit confuse.so how can I use the
keyboard
 to turn on
 
 ttyv8   /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon  xterm   off secure...
 everytime I try to type it in the keyboard it does something else so
is
 any way one has to work with the keyboard to type on for the X11R6
 to work.
 I just wanna use BSD so I can get use to it, and then use it on my
other
 boxes ,I got with Debian linux Colin say that BSD is more secure
 than Debian linux so I like to try it . Can you please give some hints
in
 how to make it work as a desktop at home and surf the net and burn
cd's
 that all I want to do and word as well
 but for now I only want the desktop running.
 
 
 Julio  :-(

This is the sort of post I'd expect from a Bigpond luser.

Read: http://www.freebsd.org/

Regards,
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RE: acrobatviewer

2006-12-19 Thread Wood, Russell
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevan Tiefert
 Sent: Wednesday, 20 December 2006 3:43 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Cc: Nathan Vidican
 Subject: Re: acrobatviewer
 
 Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 19:33 schrieb Nathan Vidican:
  Stevan Tiefert wrote:
   Am Montag, 18. Dezember 2006 23:54 schrieb Wood, Russell:
   -Original Message-
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevan Tiefert
   Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2006 2:44 AM
   To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
   Subject: acrobatviewer
  
   Hello,
  
   I have installed acrobatviewer-1.1 and diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_1.
   Each time I want to use acrobatviewer, this message appears:
  
   $ AcrobatViewer
   expr: illegal option -- r
   usage: expr [-e] expression
   $ AcrobatViewer redbook.pdf
   expr: illegal option -- r
   usage: expr [-e] expression
   $
  
   An idea what is happening here?
  
   With regards
   Stevan Tiefert
  
   Have you tried xpdf?
  
   Regards,
   Russell Wood
  
  
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  KPDF (KDE's PDF Viewer) works great ;) - using amd64/6.2-RC1 and KDE
  from ports
 
  --
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 Hello,
 
 this thread is confusing me... An example: If I ever would have a
problem
 with
 the FreeBSD-Kernel you would suggest me to use a linux-kernel?
 
 I have a problem with acrobatviewer... I wanted maybe a hint or
solution
 with
 my problem and not alternatives.
 
 Regards.

Well, I have never used acrobatviewer so I'm not familiar with it's
failures. However, since I have only ever used xpdf - never had any
problems with it - I thought that maybe you'd never heard of it and
might want to give it a try.

Good luck.

Regards,
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RE: acrobatviewer

2006-12-18 Thread Wood, Russell
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevan Tiefert
 Sent: Tuesday, 19 December 2006 2:44 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: acrobatviewer
 
 Hello,
 
 I have installed acrobatviewer-1.1 and diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_1.
 Each time I want to use acrobatviewer, this message appears:
 
 $ AcrobatViewer
 expr: illegal option -- r
 usage: expr [-e] expression
 $ AcrobatViewer redbook.pdf
 expr: illegal option -- r
 usage: expr [-e] expression
 $
 
 An idea what is happening here?
 
 With regards
 Stevan Tiefert

Have you tried xpdf?

Regards,
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RE: mount USB-Device

2006-12-11 Thread Wood, Russell
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karl Sinn
 Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 8:29 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: mount USB-Device
 
 Hi,
 
 I would like to use one of my USB-MP3-Players.
 
 I plug it in and I can see with dmesg that the device is recognised by
the
 kernel.
 
 mount /dev/da0 /mnt  gives an error message: incorrect superblock.
 mount -t fat /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message that mount_fat is
not
 found
 
 in /usr/sbin I find only mout_* for nwfs, portalfs and smbfs.
 
 1) Where are the other filesystem mounts?
 2) do I have to give another device name like da0s1?
 3) Is there something like automount?
 
 Thanks
 Karl

Try:

mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt

Regards,
Russell Wood


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RE: onboard sound card on Intel D915GAG

2006-12-11 Thread Wood, Russell
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amed Miranda
 Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 9:18 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: onboard sound crard on intel D915GAG
 
 envienme los driver de la Intel d915GAG

I have no idea what you asked, but I'm assuming you'd like to get sound
working for that chipset. Try (from memory):

kldload sound

That'll load all sound drives and whichever attaches is the drive you
want.

Regards,
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RE: Makefile question... please help...

2006-12-05 Thread Wood, Russell

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 Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 8:39 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD-Questions
 Subject: Makefile question... please help...
 
 edit ports Makefile


Yes, you can. But when you update your Ports directory, your edited
Makefile will be overwritten.

Regards,
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RE: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

2006-12-05 Thread Wood, Russell
Business and Technology Solutions
The Royal Automobile Club of W.A.
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wasp King
 Sent: Wednesday, 6 December 2006 12:49 PM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?
 
 is there a way that one can specify a log place to see
 daily logs like you receive from [EMAIL PROTECTED], when
 sendmail is turned on?
 
 there must be a way to enable only local mail
 delivery...but I am not sure how..
 
 would like to shut down sendmail but want to see
 security logs.
 
 thanks.
 
 Zach
 using FreeBSD 4.2 and sendmail 8.x (maybe).

In you /etc/rc.conf.local file add:

sendmail_enable=no

This will only allow Sendmail accept and deliver local mail.

Regards,
Russell Wood


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RE: Xircom XE2000 card problem

2006-11-21 Thread Wood, Russell

Also do you know where the attach returned 6 message is generated?  I'm 
curious to know what condition causes it, but I can't find it in the source. 
 I assume it's in the device attach function but I'm not finding it.  Maybe 
I'm blind.

Google can answer your question, I'm sure.

Regards,
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RE: chpass -p dilema

2006-11-19 Thread Wood, Russell
 forgot root password

Are you able to login to Single User Mode? On a vanilla installation it
doesn't ask for the root password, so you should be able to mount the
system and run chpass again.

Regards,
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RE: Install

2006-11-19 Thread Wood, Russell
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ramesh Subrahmaniam
 Sent: Monday, 20 November 2006 1:33 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Install
 
 
 Hi
 
 Where should I  be  asking questions regarding install ?  If this is
the
 correct forum I have a Sis648-FX motherboard.
 I have two hard drives; one Hitachi and one Western Digital. I also
have a
 BTC DVD-ROM.
 
 In addtition to this I have two Sil 3112 SATA Controllers on which I
have
 four disks. Overall I have 6 disks. I would like to run Free BSD on it
 make it a NAS box.
 
 The 6.1 Production release bootonly.iso and the 6.2 RC1 bootonly.iso
have
 problems getting to install. When I try to install I cannot stop the
 screen from scrolling very very fast. It just seems like some
unhandled
 interrupt in a continuous loop. This happens as soon as I see the Boot
 from CD image. I cannot see anything meaningful.
 
 Other than removing the Silicon image controllers what should I do.
 Appreciate any ideas.
 
 Thanks
 Ramesh

I would recommend disabling as much as possible in the BIOS just so you
can get the installation done. Then one by one re-enabling everything to
look for the issue.

Regards,
Russell Wood


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RE: Xircom XE2000 card problem

2006-11-19 Thread Wood, Russell

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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Monday, 20 November 2006 12:08 AM
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Subject: Xircom XE2000 card problem
 
 
Asked this question a couple of days ago in freebsd-mobile, but
haven't heard anything.  I'm reposting here to, hopefully, a wider
audience...
 
I have an Inspiron 7000 laptop I've set up as a FreeBSD server
running
Version 6.1.  I have a Xircom XE2000 ethernet card I'd like to use.
It appears to be recognized by FreeBSD, but doesn't startup
correctly.  In searching I've seen references to it working with
FreeBSD, but indicate it should use the xe driver.
 
Here's what the dmesg says:
ed1: Xircom 10/100 Network PC Card at port 0x100-0x10f iomem
0x8800-0x88000fff irq 1
1 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
device_attach: ed1 attach returned 6
 
Looking at the hardware list it should be supported by the dc or xe
drivers, but not the ed driver.  Am I missing something easy, or is
this card not reallyl supported at all?
 
Thanks,
Joe.

If you have a closer look, it is using the ed (4):

ed1: Xircom 10/100 Network PC Card at port 0x100-0x10f iomem

Make sure you have the following devices compiled in your kernel:

device miibus
device ed

... also, you might need:

device pccard
device cardbus

Regards,
Russell Wood


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RE: FreeBSD Host

2006-11-16 Thread Wood, Russell
 - --On Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:37:03 -0900 Beech Rintoul
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I have a new client which I'm not going to host on my server (my
 bandwidth is
  getting a bit tight). Does anyone know of a good FreeBSD host with
 reasonable
  prices?
 
 Our clients seem to think we are priced reasonably ... we offer
vServers
 though, not shared hosting ... yet ...
 
 - 

Try http://johncompanies.com/



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RE: Shutting down as user

2006-11-15 Thread Wood, Russell
I didn't the proposed solution so if it's the same, I apologize. You
could always add the user to the Operators group, which would then grant
them permissions to shutdown/reboot.

Regards,
Russell

-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, 16 November 2006 1:02 PM
To: Rem P Roberti
Cc: FreeBSD
Subject: Re: Shutting down as user

in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Rem P Roberti thusly...

 I just installed 6.1 on an old laptop, and I am unable to shutdown
 as user.  I get a permission denied error message.

Other than already proposed solution, given that you are the only
person sitting near the machine  working power management, a press
of the power button should cleanly shut down the computer.

At least that is what happens on/with FreeBSD 6.x, with ACPI
enabled, on my IBM Thinkpad T42 when I am feeling lazy enough to
avoid typing shutdown -p now.


  - Parv

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