Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Pratt
On Oct 13, 2008, at 11:39 PM, Manish Jain wrote: Hi, I am poor at networking and need a little bit of help. My dad has a Windows 2000 machine with a network card but does not have a connection to the internet. My freebsd 6.2 box is connected to the internet and has 2 network cards, rl0

Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Pratt
Hi, For years I've been upgrading by building a temp server, transferring a production function to it and temporarily decommissioning the one server while I upgrade and rebuild it. I was thinking of trying a different approach since having tried out gvinum in the last couple of years. The

Re: Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Pratt
On Oct 18, 2008, at 7:03 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2008, Chris Pratt wrote: 1. Is this an appropriate way to deal with this? It could be. However if the new disks are not the same size as the failing ... it. Worst case you end up booting from a single drive and have

cvsup to 7.0 from 5.5?

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Pratt
How risky is it to jump directly to 7.0 on a 5.5 system? Upgrade would be by cvsup. I expect mergemaster issues anyway but this system is relatively vanilla in it's configuration. It's duty is just rsyncing other servers. The kernel is GENERIC minus drivers plus ipfw and there are no kldloads.

Re: cvsup to 7.0 from 5.5?

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Pratt
On Oct 22, 2008, at 1:06 AM, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: On 10/22/08, Chris Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How risky is it to jump directly to 7.0 on a 5.5 system? Upgrade would be by cvsup. I expect mergemaster issues anyway but this system is relatively vanilla in it's configuration. It's

Boot device question

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Pratt
I have a server with 6 hot-swap SATA slots. It was delivered with the first slot empty and 5 drives set up as /dev/ad4 through /dev/ad12. I'd never paid attention to this until I wanted to add a 6th, now 4 years later. When I popped it in, I realized the empty bay was not 6 but rather bay 1, and

Re: Boot device question

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Pratt
On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:12:38AM -0700, Chris Pratt wrote: I have a server with 6 hot-swap SATA slots. It was delivered ... I was thinking a right approach would be to change fstab to reference ad2 for all the system disk file systems

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 9, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Ian wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:10:46 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 01:40:51AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a FreeBSD server that has about 10,500 subdirectories within a single directory. This number will keep rising and I

128 Bucket Failures?

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Pratt
I have asked this before a couple of years ago but received no replies. I assumed that's because it's a somewhat obscure question. I'm still interested and thought I might try again in case someone new is watching this list who might know. A vmstat -z on my highest traffic server always shows

Re: 128 Bucket Failures?

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 13, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: Chris Pratt wrote: I have asked this before a couple of years ago but received no replies. I assumed that's because it's a somewhat obscure question. I'm still interested and thought I might try again in case someone new is watching this list who

Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

2008-11-16 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 16, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Gerardo Paredes wrote: From: Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, November 15, 2008, 8:46 AM On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:23:50 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

2008-11-16 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 16, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Mel wrote: On Friday 14 November 2008 20:31:28 Gerardo Paredes wrote: Hello, i have a problem compiling a custom kernel on a AMD 850 MHZ Processor, however on the last stage it fails with the following message: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF the

Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:21 AM, David Horn wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Derek Ragona No error message, it just stopped writing at 1 Gb. I was doing this using scp. Whoa, hopefully you just made a few typos here, or we are going down the wrong path of investigation. Did you

Re: Suggestions for PII 400 boot failure

2008-11-20 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Vinny wrote: Hi, A friend of mine is trying out FreeBSD and ran into a booting problem. Here is his message: Well, that's discouraging. I have put together an old PII 400 with three 20GB drives and a CDROM that I'd like to run BSD on. Half a GB of RAM I

Re: IPFW Rule

2008-11-22 Thread Chris Pratt
On Nov 22, 2008, at 5:43 AM, Tom Marchand wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am trying to add a IPFW rule to forward traffic but I keep getting the message ipfw: getsockopt(IP_FW_ADD): Invalid argument. The rule I am trying to add looks like this: ipfw add

Re: Multiple if_bridge devices

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Pratt
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IP alias/routing question

2008-07-25 Thread Chris Pratt
This strikes me as a noob question but in 10 years of freebsd, I've never wrapped my brain around it and it seems to be causing me problems this time. I have many aliases on many servers. Some services listening on an alias address seem to return the packets out the alias address as shown in

Re: IP alias/routing question

2008-07-25 Thread Chris Pratt
On Jul 25, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Chris Pratt wrote: I'm now setting up a bind server in which the third alias is the address for incoming DNS queries. It appears it's responding but even though the queries come in on the third alias, they go out through the primary address

Re: IP alias/routing question

2008-07-25 Thread Chris Pratt
On Jul 25, 2008, at 4:05 PM, David Allen wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Pratt wrote: I'm now setting up a bind server in which the third alias is the address for incoming DNS queries. It appears it's responding but even though

Re: Spam sent to me from my own mail server ?

2008-08-27 Thread Chris Pratt
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hello, for some time now I keep receiving spam mails from my own (small) mail server, some of them with faked usernames some of them even with my own ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Matthew's message beat me to the response but I had typed one. There are some great tools

Re: Sendmail become open relay

2008-09-08 Thread Chris Pratt
On Sep 8, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: This might be more general advice than a specific help, but i've found most bad mail originating from me comes from php driven forum sites. After originally patching the php src to log sitenames that send mail, i found enabling MAILHEAD

Re: Flooded with emails to root -- URGG

2008-09-25 Thread Chris Pratt
On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:34 AM, David Southwell wrote: Hi I am running postfix. Am receiving a flood of emails that appear to emanate from Servers who have received spam that has masqueraded [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the email source. Could anyone please suggest the best way of dealing with

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread Chris Pratt
I am just about to dive into Google in search of a solution, but thought I would fire off a quick request, in case there is an obvious solution that everyone uses. If there is, a name or URL will do. I'll figure out the rest. Any hints much appreciated. Not going home until this is

Re: handling mysql binlog data

2008-05-02 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 2, 2008, at 5:27 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Following a recent thread I would like to ask if it is safe to remove old binlog data. From the below I understand that the current binlog is mysql-bin.07 and the previous ones (from 01-06) are not written to any

Re: handling mysql binlog data

2008-05-02 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 2, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: The procedure for this is here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/purge-master-logs.html for 5.1 and here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/purge-master-logs.html for 5.0 Thanks a lot! It did help me get rid of a few files in a

Re: handling mysql binlog data

2008-05-02 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 2, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hi Chris, Chris Pratt pisze: Thank you anyway - this was very helpful and I instantly saved a lot of space on a shrinking /var partition! I find it most comfortable to do this manually so I can check my backups first

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 20, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threads, and the loads goes way above 15. However

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 21, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Chris Pratt wrote: On May 20, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache