Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/02/2012 05:43, shanib.k.k wrote: Hi am a Ruby on rails developer. I have done a project in ROR and currently its hosted in Ubuntu.Now the requires it to be changed to FreeBSD. As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. The best place

Re: FreeBsd Beginner

2012-02-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:13:41 +0530, shanib.k.k wrote: As am entirely fresh to FreeBSD i would like to know more about how can configure or install it. The basic documentation on how to install and configure the system can be found in The FreeBSD Handbook and the FAQ available from the main web

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Laszlo Nagy
The address 192.168.0.11 must be assigned to a interface in the host FreeBSD. You can do it before starting the jail, or when the jail is being started. To assign the address before starting the jail do somthing like this: # ifconfig lnc0 alias 192.168.0.11/24 where lnc0 is the name of nic in

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Boris Samorodov
Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com writes: I do not want to expose my jail's private IP address to the internet. Use loopback interface and 127.x.x.x address. -- WBR, bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
I really think that it should be corrected to: cd /usr/src make distribution DESTDIR=$D That's almost certainly correct, but it notes: Notes [1] This step is not required on FreeBSD 6.0 and later. But then I get this error in syslog: bind: Can't assign requested address That's a

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Svobodin
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:09:32AM +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Great. Here is what I did: sorb# mkdir -p /usr/jails/vm1 sorb# cd /usr/src sorb# setenv D /usr/jails/vm1 sorb# make installworld DESTDIR=$D sorb# make distribution DESTDIR=$D sorb# cat /etc/rc.conf jail_enable=YES

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com writes: I'm experimenting with jails. I have installed a 7.2 stable FreeBSD inside vmware. Then I have created two jails, using the method written in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/jails-build.html The only thing

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Laszlo Nagy
No, I think you added the '/' before 'etc', which isn't in the web page. Gotcha. Is the problem perhaps in your /etc/rc.d/vm1 script? Normally you would use /etc/rc.d/jail. Yes, I'm. Sorry - it was a typo. I used this: /etc/rc.d/jail start vm1 Are those addresses already assigned

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Svobodin
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:41:14PM +0430, Laszlo Nagy wrote: My computer is a windows machine, with address 192.168.0.X Then the FreeBSD host is actually a guest os running in wvmare. It has address 192.168.37.133 And finally, the vm1 jail should have 192.168.0.11 I don't know why

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i could do this kwik and dirty, and type in/fix any anomalies later, but it would be nice to know. I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip. % sed -e 1,/CENTER/d junk.in junk.out -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i could do this kwik and dirty, and type in/fix any anomalies later, but it would be nice to know. I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip.

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:32:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip. % sed -e 1,/CENTER/d junk.in

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i could do this kwik and dirty, and type in/fix any anomalies later, but it would be nice to know. I've already tried 1, /CENTER d and a other such. zip.

Re: another beginner-type question.

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:13:53PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 01:32:57PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:09:46PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:51:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've already tried 1, /CENTER d

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. I forgot one more important thing. Subscribe to this list -- FreeBSD-questions and probably at least FreeBSD-announce and maybe FreeBSD-newbies and read through all the discussions. Some

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Connie, I'm beginner, too. On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:47 -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. I guess you need first to have a look at Documentation's section on FreeBSD WWW site. Here is the link: http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html In my case, actually I need to

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. What are your specific goals? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Mel
On Friday 12 October 2007 17:47:17 Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/getting-started.html Connie Webb Montgomery County Courts Helpdesk Specialist :D -- Mel

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:47:17 -0400 Connie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. No problems. what would you like to do? :) silliness aside, if u mean 'being with freebsd', you should start with the Handbook, which you can find online @ freebsd.org, under

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On 10/12/07, Connie Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. It is not clear from your email what do you want to do and what you have done up to know. If you do not have FreeBSD already installed you can start from Installing FreeBSD chapter in the

Re: a beginner

2007-10-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:47:17AM -0400, Connie Webb wrote: Please help as I don't know where to begin. Presuming what you want to begin is learning and using FreeBSD, the first thing is to start studying the extensive documentation that is available. See:

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Michael S
The open ports are simply port-forwarded from the router to my internal network (NAT). And I only have one public IP. For me the more important issue is whether DNS would work with private IP addresses. On 7/5/06, David Stanford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/5/06, Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
Yes DNS will work with your port forwarding assuming you have it set up correctly on your router. Are you trying to be the authoritative DNS for your domain? If you are you will still need a secondary DNS. -Derek At 05:56 AM 7/6/2006, Michael S wrote: The open ports are simply

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Michael S
Derek, Actually my domain is a subdomain (e.g. mysubdomain.domain.com), and obviously the domain server for domain.com points correctly to my site. What I want to have (mostly for the sake of configuring DNS) is something like www.mysubdomain.domain.com, and ftp.mysubdomain.domain.com. Can my

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
You need a second IP for the secondary server. With a single public IP and port forwarding, you get only one destination. All you need is to add entries to DNS maps for the other host records you want. I assume your DNS is being hosted elseware now, so just have them add the two additional

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:06:39PM -0400, Michael S wrote: Hi all. I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168). If DNS, FTP and web

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:30:16AM +1200, I wrote: [ some totally irrelevant stuff ] Please disregard my last post. I must learn to read before answering. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Michael S
No problem. Thanks anyway. On 7/6/06, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 07:30:16AM +1200, I wrote: [ some totally irrelevant stuff ] Please disregard my last post. I must learn to read before answering. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Michael, I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168). If DNS, FTP and web ports in the router are open, will I be able to set up the

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-05 Thread David Stanford
On 7/5/06, Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168). If DNS, FTP and web ports in the

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
I have used a single 256MB mfs on FreeBSD for months without any problem. I was not doing heavy IO on it, it was used in a /tmp fashion and most of the time was swapped out, going down to 8MB resident size at times. softdeps in NetBSD is very buggy. putting very high load like deleting huge

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have used a single 256MB mfs on FreeBSD for months without any problem. I was not doing heavy IO on it, it was used in a /tmp fashion and most of the time was swapped out, going down to 8MB resident size at times. does FreeBSD deallocate pages that are unused. NetBSD does not. if you create

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
does FreeBSD deallocate pages that are unused. NetBSD does not. if you create 100MB file on mfs and delete it, VM size of mfs is still over 100MB. while it will get swapped out it's a kind of nonsense IMHO FreeBSD tries to swap out idle pages. That means that you'll have more physical memory

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Mike Hogsett
Wojciech Puchar wrote: my questions: Start here : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-) my questions: 1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:30:10PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing to file almost

RE: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced) [snip] my questions: 1) what is Buf and Cache in top exactly? why buf on 96MB

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread epilogue
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:30:10 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing

RE: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced).

2004-07-15 Thread Julien Gabel
2) can i compile kernel with -march=pentium,pentium[234] -O2 optimization? in NetBSD 2.0 doing -march=pentium produces kernel that doesn't boot at all, just resets. 2.0 is always under develpoment and not yet released. I don't see the problem with 1.6.2. 4) is IPv6 working well? (i mean no

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-) while high performance is always cool, stable performance