Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

2008-06-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:29:13AM -0400, David Robillard typed: > >> Well, i take this opportunity also to ask about Apache toowhich signal > >> should i send? > > > > A HUP signal should work for apache. > > Actually, the Apache documentation says that one must use USR1 instead > of HUP to s

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Charles Trevor
+1 for JC. The tech support and availability is unparalleled. Satisfied customer for over three years. +2 for JohnCompanies. Excellent support and good prices for VPS. I intend to have several more VPS with them over the next few months. HTH Charlie __

Re: ImageMagick 6.4.1.5 tests fail on FBSD-7.0

2008-06-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:23:20PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >I sent a query to ImageMagick port maintainers about this. > > > >I'm getting errors while trying to upgrade to > >ImageMagick 6.4.1.5 on FreeBSD 7.0-release. > > > >Below are the error messages and my

Re: [Ports] How to find where a port is located?

2008-06-19 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:45:37 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://www.secnetix.de/tools/porgle/ Thanks guys for the suggestions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

RE: "Fixing" a RAID

2008-06-19 Thread Daniel Eriksson
Ryan Coleman wrote: > Jun 4 23:02:28 testserver kernel: ar0: 715425MB RAID5 (stripe 64 KB)> status: READY > Jun 4 23:02:28 testserver kernel: ar0: disk0 READY using ad13 at ata6-slave > Jun 4 23:02:28 testserver kernel: ar0: disk1 READY using ad16 at ata8-master > Jun 4 23:02:28 testserver ke

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Patrick C
I can, as usual, highly recommend M5 Hosting. Mike (the owner) is VERY helpful and he is very knowledgeable in *BSD - a lot of hosts will install it, but few know how to use it. His hardware is good and he uses AMCC (3Ware) cards for RAID. The network rocks. I can also say I have had decent luck w

Process management in FreeBSD 7

2008-06-19 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi All, I'm trying to find the equivilents for Linux's schedule() and set_task_state(TASK_RUNNING). Does anybody have a tip? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Robert Huff
Steve Bertrand writes: > I am not in any which way certain changing major revision numbers > will affect the file system in any which way. I am also not very > knowledgeable in regards to inodes, but I do know that they can > run out before disk space does. It is my understanding tha

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Steve Bertrand
> > Steve Bertrand writes: > >> I am not in any which way certain changing major revision numbers >> will affect the file system in any which way. I am also not very >> knowledgeable in regards to inodes, but I do know that they can >> run out before disk space does. > > It is my understa

Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

2008-06-19 Thread David Robillard
> Well yes, this is precisely the reason why we use a SIGHUP (equivalent to > "apachectl restart") instead of a SIGUSR1 (apachectl graceful). We don't > really care about a few broken client connections since the logs are rotated > at a quiet time. > > Of course, YMMV. Yes, of course :) > regards

SAMBA 3.0.28a and CVE-2008-1105

2008-06-19 Thread O. Hartmann
We still have Samba R3.0.28a in the ports but regarding to CVE-2008-1105 shouldn't it be R3.0.30? Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Cross platform building best practices (building 6 on 7)

2008-06-19 Thread Alexander Sack
Hello Folks: I've done a lot of Googling and scouring the lists about this particular subject so I apologize for rehashing it. However, I'm still confused on what's the best way to perform BSD cross platform builds. Ideally what I want to have is an environment whereby I can build a 6.1-RELEASE

Re: Process management in FreeBSD 7

2008-06-19 Thread Alexander Sack
Mr Y wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to find the equivilents for Linux's schedule() and > set_task_state(TASK_RUNNING). > > Does anybody have a tip? > I would start perhaps in kern/kern_sync.c and mi_switch() which will request that a new process be scheduled (sched_switch in either 4BSD

Re: [Ports] How to find where a port is located?

2008-06-19 Thread The MadDaemon
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gilles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Currently, to find where a software is located under /usr/ports/, I > > rune the "find" command. Is there a database that I could query > > instead so that it gives out the whole pa

Re: ImageMagick 6.4.1.5 tests fail on FBSD-7.0 => perl: signal 11

2008-06-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:41:01AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:23:20PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > >I sent a query to ImageMagick port maintainers about this. > > > > > >I'm getting errors while trying to upgrade to > > >ImageMa

Re: "Fixing" a RAID

2008-06-19 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H
> > I recently had this happen to me on an 8 x 1 TB RAID-5 array on a > Highpoint RocketRAID 2340 controller. For some unknown reason two drives > developed unreadable sectors within hours of each other. To make a long > story short, the way I "fixed" this was to: > Not FreeBSD related, s

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, June 19, 2008 02:28:31 -0400 Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: --On June 18, 2008 11:59:49 PM -0400 Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, what is the output of 'df -i /var'? # df -i /var/ Filesystem 1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity

Off topic: Online article DIY - kernel module

2008-06-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear newsgroup, I accidentally stumbled over an article that allegedly describes how to make your own kernel module for FreeBSD7 and felt an urge to share this. The article can be found and downloaded at www.freesoftwaremagazine.com. /Roger ___ fre

Re: Off topic: Online article DIY - kernel module

2008-06-19 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, Roger Olofsson: Dear newsgroup, I accidentally stumbled over an article that allegedly describes how to make your own kernel module for FreeBSD7 and felt an urge to share this. The article talks about ULE scheduler. Would you recommend using it against SCHED_4BSD in this context:

perl WITH_THREADS= yes or no?

2008-06-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Should I build ports/lang/perl5.8 WITH_THREADS=yes ? I run FreeBSD-7.0-stable on old compaq armada1700 laptop. I don't use perl myself much, but many ports I use rely on it. How will this affect performance of perl on my laptop? More to the point, are there any ports which require perl with thre

Re: perl WITH_THREADS= yes or no?

2008-06-19 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi Anton. I'm no expert here, but I found that installing perl without threads works for the vast majority of ports. In one occasion I needed to recompile perl with thread because another port required so. Also, I remember that using WITH_THREADS=yes came together with a warning that it could b

clone a drive, no raid involved

2008-06-19 Thread Brad Mettee
I'm setting up a pair of machines with almost identical OS config, and completely identical hardware. One is a primary DNS server, the other is secondary. NS1 will also serve web, NS2 will be a mail server. Both are low volume/loads. It looks like I can use DD to copy an entire drive, but it's

Re: Off topic: Online article DIY - kernel module

2008-06-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Zbigniew Szalbot skrev: Hi there, Roger Olofsson: Dear newsgroup, I accidentally stumbled over an article that allegedly describes how to make your own kernel module for FreeBSD7 and felt an urge to share this. The article talks about ULE scheduler. Would you recommend using it against

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote: As you can see from the df -i I posted (to which you responded), inode exhaustion is not an issue. You are probably right about that, but could you also post the result of sudo tunefs -p /var That won't tell us what is in use, but it will co

Re: clone a drive, no raid involved

2008-06-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
that's going to take a really long time (especially since it's brand new with no data besides base OS). My question: Is there a better way to duplicate a drive including boot info? make same partitions, same newfs, copy files and then bsdlabel -B disk Brad Mettee PC HotShots,

Re: clone a drive, no raid involved

2008-06-19 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:08:34PM -0400, Brad Mettee wrote: > I'm setting up a pair of machines with almost identical OS config, and > completely identical hardware. One is a primary DNS server, the other > is secondary. NS1 will also serve web, NS2 will be a mail server. Both > are low volume/loa

How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]

2008-06-19 Thread George Hartzell
Sahil Tandon writes: > Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive > > experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it > > was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news. > > +1 for JC. The tech

Re: clone a drive, no raid involved

2008-06-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:08:34PM -0400, Brad Mettee wrote: > I'm setting up a pair of machines with almost identical OS config, and > completely identical hardware. One is a primary DNS server, the other is > secondary. NS1 will also serve web, NS2 will be a mail server. Both are low > volume

Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]

2008-06-19 Thread OutBackDingo
the libvirt stuff might be a clue, a while back I designed a virtual system using libvirt and some ported linux code, which basiclaly acted as an enhanced chroot for apache, ftp, mail, pop3, imap. also NTT has a derivitive version of FreeBSD with hints at virtualization, im waiting for our Verio to

JohnCompanies and RootBSD (was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?)

2008-06-19 Thread thomas
* Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-18 22:37:13+]: > Is anyone here using RootBSD? I am using both RootBSD and JohnCompanies. > I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive > experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it > was supposed to be

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:09:57 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Paul Schmehl wrote: As you can see from the df -i I posted (to which you responded), inode exhaustion is not an issue. You are probably right about that, but could you also p

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Peter Boosten
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm leaning toward some sort of bug in mysql version 5.0.51 which creates a temporary file (in the wrong place) and then doesn't release it until it exhausts the space on the drive. In any case, I'm going to report it to the mysql folks as such and hope they can figure out

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-19 Thread prad
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:23:26 -0400 John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have PF installed? pftop is a quick way to see what's > happening on the network interface. > thanks john that's a good utility! also, thanks bill for the explanation of the ssh problem. we've found the problem

Re: How do they do their VPS product? [was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?]

2008-06-19 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:29 PM, George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sahil Tandon writes: > > Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive > > > experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it

Frets on Fire from ports (short and sweet)

2008-06-19 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
in short: has anybody been able to get it working from ports? in here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -srm FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # cd /usr/ports/games/fretsonfire [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/games/fretsonfire # make install clean ===> Installing for fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 ===

Re: JohnCompanies and RootBSD (was Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?)

2008-06-19 Thread OutBackDingo
It might be nice if the RootBSD people answered their email inquiries, i know they have lost customers, me for one for not answering a simple email On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 13:35 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Maxim Khitrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-18 22:37:13+]: > > Is anyone here using

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, June 19, 2008 20:02:59 +0200 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm leaning toward some sort of bug in mysql version 5.0.51 which creates a temporary file (in the wrong place) and then doesn't release it until it exhausts the space on the drive. In

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Peter Boosten
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, June 19, 2008 20:02:59 +0200 Peter Boosten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm leaning toward some sort of bug in mysql version 5.0.51 which creates a temporary file (in the wrong place) and then doesn't release it until it exhausts the s

Re: Frets on Fire from ports (short and sweet)

2008-06-19 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-06-19, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in short: has anybody been able to get it working from ports? > > in here: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -srm > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # cd /usr/ports/games/fretsonfire > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/games/fretsonfi

Re: clone a drive, no raid involved

2008-06-19 Thread Alexander Motin
Brad Mettee wrote: I'm setting up a pair of machines with almost identical OS config, and completely identical hardware. One is a primary DNS server, the other is secondary. NS1 will also serve web, NS2 will be a mail server. Both are low volume/loads. It looks like I can use DD to copy an en

Re: Dual NIC routing (?) problem

2008-06-19 Thread The MadDaemon
(Sorry, I replied to Yuri only by mistake) On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:49 AM, The MadDaemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Yuri Pankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The MadDaemon wrote: >>> >>> List, >>> >>> I'm having a problem with a dual-homed host running 7.0-RELE

Jail problem while starting

2008-06-19 Thread Jo Pesko
Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 7.0 version and expecting some problems with jail. /etc/rc.d/jail script hangs when it try to map jail's interface to alias address of my nic. Script successfully starting if i removing alias address from rc.conf(or manually via ifconfig). Any info will be helpful. Thank

Re: Frets on Fire from ports (short and sweet)

2008-06-19 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Thursday 19 June 2008 16:07:48 Jona Joachim wrote: > On 2008-06-19, Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in short: has anybody been able to get it working from ports? > > > > in here: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -srm > > FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # cd /usr/

Re: clone a drive, no raid involved

2008-06-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Brad Mettee wrote: I'm setting up a pair of machines with almost identical OS config, and completely identical hardware. One is a primary DNS server, the other is secondary. NS1 will also serve web, NS2 will be a mail server. Both are low volume/loads. It looks like I ca

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Seeing the question: > Is anyone here using RootBSD? At 10:55 AM +0700 6/19/08, OutBackDingo wrote: I was going to go with them for their XEN based hosting, but i sent them an email, asking a couple questions, they never replied, so went with Verio instead I notice the rootbsd guys did a m

Re: FreeBSD based web hosting?

2008-06-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:37 PM -0400 6/18/08, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:27 PM, cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:31:31 +1000 Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for somebody to host some web sites for me. Ideally I'd like a complete machine

Re: ImageMagick 6.4.1.5 tests fail on FBSD-7.0

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:23:20PM +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I sent a query to ImageMagick port maintainers about this. I'm getting errors while trying to upgrade to ImageMagick 6.4.1.5 on FreeBSD 7.0-release. Below are the error messag

Re: FreeBSD and Greek support

2008-06-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:51:40 +0300, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Good point. I'm too sleepy right now (the coffee hasn't started kicking >> in yet from a very early wake up), but it would be nice if we also added >> a note to the article saying that it is important to have the cor

g4u

2008-06-19 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
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Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

2008-06-19 Thread Agus
2008/6/19 David Robillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well yes, this is precisely the reason why we use a SIGHUP (equivalent to > > "apachectl restart") instead of a SIGUSR1 (apachectl graceful). We don't > > really care about a few broken client connections since the logs are > rotated > > at a quie

Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

2008-06-19 Thread Agus
2008/6/20 Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/6/19 David Robillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > Well yes, this is precisely the reason why we use a SIGHUP (equivalent >> to >> > "apachectl restart") instead of a SIGUSR1 (apachectl graceful). We don't >> > really care about a few broken client connecti

Re: SAMBA 3.0.28a and CVE-2008-1105

2008-06-19 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, O. Hartmann wrote: We still have Samba R3.0.28a in the ports but regarding to CVE-2008-1105 shouldn't it be R3.0.30? As far as I know the mentioned security patch gets applied when building Samba from ports. Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettinge