Hi Roland,
many thanks for the response!!! :-)
I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do..
In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult
to understand!!!
I now have a test machine setup which I built nano and Bind 9.6.1 from
the ports
Just to give a quick overview of what is being used currently:
test# du -sch etc
1.7Metc
1.7Mtotal
test# du -sch var
1.0Mvar
1.0Mtotal
test# du -sch tmp
10Ktmp
10Ktotal
test# du -sch usr
1.0Gusr
1.0Gtotal
I think I could get away with 500MB for /var and /tmp and
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:41:04PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi Roland,
many thanks for the response!!! :-)
You're welcome!
I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do..
In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult
to understand!!!
If
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:49:31PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi guys,
I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently
installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I
tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx command (read the
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com
Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal
are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to
check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by
device ID.
Alex de Kruijff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to
check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
It is really appreciated!
Sorry haven't snipped more stuff into this mail but things are a bit
hectic here but what I will say is this; in a few hours once the BSD 8
DVD ISO comes
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
How I'd slice up the disk:
2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Kaya Saman wrote:
How I'd slice up the disk:
2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB for /usr
Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to have
/var and /usr filesystems separate??
It's not required, it's just nice to do if the disk space
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
It is really appreciated!
...
I reckon the proposed disk usage spec from the FreeBSD hand book should
suffice
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
Many thanks again for all suggestions! :-)
[...]
For my desktop, with around 450 ports installed, I have the following lay-out;
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a484M 93M353M21%/
/dev/ad4s1g.eli373G168G175G49%
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
It is really appreciated!
...
I reckon
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:06:09PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
lot's of different pieces of advice rolling in now!
I guess what I will do as I have a small hard disk for what I want to do
which is to get rid of my music and few movies which are stored on my
laptop currently, is create
Roland:
If you can afford it, and if your laptop has a USB port, buy one of those
external harddisks. Plenty of room for music and movies... Also great for
backups!
Can't afford :-( I have many disks like that where I bought really cool
enclosures and the drives separately but currently
Hi guys,
first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much
mileage with the OS as of yet!
Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas and New Year
also since we are in that period :-)
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com
wrote:
Hi guys,
first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much mileage
with the OS as of yet!
Secondly I just wanted
Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and
hal are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html
I'm sure I started them as this doc is exactly what I followed.. I
think if I recall
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
I know how strong UFS v.1 is as I use it with Solaris 9, but how about UFS
v.2 which is what FreeBSD runs?? When compared with ext3 from a
performance/reliability perspective which one comes on top?
I would say ufs2
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:42, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal
are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html
I'm sure I started them
I would say ufs2 easily wins, but remember this is the
freebsd-questions list ;) There are some differences though, ufs2
uses softupdates, not journaling(journaling is available and easy to
implement via gjournal). Softupdates I believe are a little faster
than journaling, but it's
I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a
lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I
have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit
much. Once I installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 with a 'make
config-recursive' then
On Monday 28 December 2009 22:49:31 Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi guys,
first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much
mileage with the OS as of yet!
Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a
lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I
have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit
much. Once I
The most common cause is that either hald (sysutils/hal) or dbus (devel/dbus)
isn't running. Xorg needs them both to detect mouse and keyboard. Add
dbus_enable=YES and hald_enable=YES to rc.conf to get them to start
automatically.
We'll see what the issue actually is - as I mentioned I
Kurt Buff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
I see I didn't completely read your original message. Indulge me a
moment while I ramble here, and probably expose my ignorance...
Xorg/X11 Gnome
Gnome runs on Xorg: Xorg/Xfree runs X11
Xfree
Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman kayasa...@optiplex-networks.com
wrote:
Hi guys,
I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently
installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I
tried to start X from the CLI using
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:23, Kaya Saman samank...@netscape.net wrote:
snip
So, given what you've written below, you probably know more about this
stuff than I do. Cool. I will echo the advice already given, however:
add
dbus_enable=YES
hald_enable=YES
to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most
[...]
add
dbus_enable=YES
hald_enable=YES
to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem.
[...]
I will give this a go soon :-)
That's what I do with mine under FreeBSD, for both servers and workstations.
Having both servers and workstations is cool as both of
Hi all,
Two questions for the Web hosting types out there:
1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two brand new
Dell PE R200s and was considering using them as ns1 and ns2. What version of
FBSD would one use (I am thinking 6.3 Rel, but us there any compelling
reason to
Celerin is probably fine, I assume you don't have a lot of DNS
traffic. Usually NS2 is on another network...
If its a 64-bit Xeon, AMD would be the right choice. Last gen Xeons
and before... I386. 7.0 has a lot of SMP improvements besides all the
other fixes, features and improvements...
Also, a true dual-core Xeon is 64-bit. hyperthreaded really has one
core and is 32.
-Patrick
On Jun 23, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Two questions for the Web hosting types out there:
1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two brand
Hello to all,
BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built.
I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags:
First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when
testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for the Maildir/ config
Zachary Welch wrote:
Hello to all,
BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built.
I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags:
First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when
testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:42:21 -0500
Zachary Welch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built.
I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some
snags:
First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work
when
Greetings,
I am considering modifying my web/email server by adding DHCP server
duties to it. Any problems with this idea ? I can reboot the server if
I need to without screwing up the clients that already have IP assigned,
can't I ?
thanks,
Darryl
On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Darryl Hoar wrote:
I am considering modifying my web/email server by adding DHCP server
duties to it. Any problems with this idea ? I can reboot the
server if
I need to without screwing up the clients that already have IP
assigned,
can't I ?
No, the DHCP
-Original Message-
From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:28 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: DHCP server questions
On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Darryl Hoar wrote:
I am considering modifying my web
Darryl Hoar wrote:
Thanks Chuck. I do grok that rebooting is only really needed for new
kernel
installs. Just making network design decisions and want to avoid those
Oh, crap moments.
-Darryl
I haven't found too many mutually exclusive services on Unix. In
theory, if we did away with
I want to set up a FreeBSD file server and want to choose the
appropriate method. The filesytems must be mounted on the client,
always available, and transparent to the user.
Thanks
===
NFS for *nix to *nix only
NIS for better management of NFS
Can OSX mount and respond to NFS/NIS?
What
From: Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. Setup a webmail solution. I'm currently using Squirrelmail for users
that exist in /etc/passwd (not very many!), and am considering a
migration to Horde/IMP. Near as I can tell though it's not the webmail
client that matters, but the imap
Hi all,
I've got a mail setup doing virtualhosts as described at
http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/exim_virtualhosting.html
My users can pull their mail down with POP, but have to use their ISP's
SMTP server for outgoing mail.
I'd like to do two things at this stage, and I'd
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:11:24PM -0700, Brent Wiese wrote:
Is there a way to make the backup MX server understand that some mail is
ultimately destined for it and try to deliver it locally?
Here would be an example:
Mydomain.com is MX'd to mail.mydomin.com, which handles email for all
On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote:
Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue
whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just
behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's
on
That's the hard part. The Secondary MX'ing part is fairly easy. All
you do is get your friend to add an MX record to the DNS
'yourfriend.com' zone listing your server as a high numbered MXer:
$ORIGIN yourfriend.com.
@ INMX 0 smtp.yourfriend.com.
Hi Bill,
When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish idiots.
When black mode is on, I just want to get them all. ;-)
When I arrange fallback MX for people/organisations, they expect their
mail to be handled in a delicate, perhaps even 'professional' manner. No
mail may be
Nico Meijer wrote:
Hey Bill,
Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
has been delayed?
Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
On a technical level, I totally disagree with myself. On a practical,
day-to-day operations level I have to admit I'd rather
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote:
Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue
whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just
behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on
your plate at dinner? ;-) I do, maybe you too,
Nico Meijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Bill,
Black mode is on, here. ;-)
I'm not familiar with that metaphor.
Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
has been delayed?
Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
On a technical level, I totally
Hi Doug,
Point taken. Wrong example, imho, but point taken. ;-)
They will have no problem
convincing Joe Sub-Average juror (of which there will be more than
enough to go around) that you were the cause of Joe Average computer
users' loss of his entire retirement savings.
I have just enough
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote:
snip
When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish
idiots.
This is excellent. It should be on a bumper sticker or something.
snip
Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers
to
Hello list,
I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
servers out there. ;)
One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the
Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello list,
I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
servers out there. ;)
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:19:56PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
servers out
Eric Crist wrote:
[ ... ]
One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the even their connection
goes down. How do I go about setting it up so that his user base (about
80 users) will not see any problems in mail transmission and reception
if their primary servers go offline. I would like mine
Greetings,
Here's the situation.
1. I have a LAN behind a freebsd firewall. The firewall is also doing
nat, as my internal LAN is 192.168.1.*
2. I have dns running on my internal LAN using a dsn name that is
registered by not used outside of our private LAN.
3. I have a freebsd (4-7
Hi Darryl,
--On Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:25:33 AM -0500 Darryl Hoar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. I have a LAN behind a freebsd firewall. The firewall is also doing
nat, as my internal LAN is 192.168.1.*
2. I have dns running on my internal LAN using a dsn name that is
registered by
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