UFS Snapshots and iowait

2010-11-10 Thread Chris St Denis
I have started using mount -u -o snapshot as part of my backup process in order to have a week worth of local differential backups to allow quick and easy recovery of lost/overwritten/etc files. The snapshot of the partition (~250G and 2.3 million inodes used. ~10GB of data change per day)

ipfw: install_state: entry already present, done

2009-09-24 Thread Chris St Denis
(not that that should matter) network card: em0 -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 --- Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-05 Thread Chris St Denis
Steve Bertrand wrote: Chris St Denis wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: What type of device is em1 attached to? Is it a switch or a hub? Is it possible to upgrade this? You should upgrade it to 100 (or 1000) anyways. Does this device show any collisions? This is a dedicated

named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-02 Thread Chris St Denis
for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 999635 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 276104 calls to protocol drain routines How do I fix this? -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 --- Smart Internet

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-02 Thread Chris St Denis
list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 --- Smart Internet Solutions

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-02 Thread Chris St Denis
Steve Bertrand wrote: Chris St Denis wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: possible reasons - your firewall rules are the cause - check it. Nope eureka# ipfw list - your network card produce problems (REALLY i have that case) I have had this kind of error

Bug in tcp wrappers?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris St Denis
libwrap (more or less) in sync with the main one, or is it completely separate? -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 --- Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses

Re: make doesn't know how to make KERNCONF

2008-11-14 Thread Chris St Denis
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 command i run is: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=MIO where MIO is my

Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Chris St Denis
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: Hi, My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t

Re: Filesystem, RAID questions

2008-10-29 Thread Chris St Denis
At 1TB the drive will take very long to fsck if the server ever crashes or looses power. If this is a problem you should look into using gjournal(8) Not sure off hand why it would be so slow, but keep in mind raid5 isn't particularly fast for writes Rich Fairbanks wrote: Hi, I'm new to

Re: A gmirror question.

2008-10-28 Thread Chris St Denis
Stefan Moro wrote: Hi! I've got a question regarding the way that gmirror identifies what components (if that is the right term) are included in a mirror. I recently created a mirror over two disks, ad2 and ad4. After some bios changes (activating PATA) these devices were changed to ad6 and

Re: Fix corrupted terminal output

2008-09-24 Thread Chris St Denis
Andreas Davour wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Chris St Denis wrote: Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't know if this will make it through the mail cleanly) E ??? ?? ?. 2

Fix corrupted terminal output

2008-09-23 Thread Chris St Denis
Occasionally, I accidentially cat a binary file or a directory casing the terminal output to be corrupted with text looking like (don't know if this will make it through the mail cleanly) E ??? ?? ?. 2# To fix this normally I just close the window and open a new ssh

Re: x3550 ServeRAID-8k and FBSD 7, group limit

2008-09-16 Thread Chris St Denis
completed successfully. ^C the output of command is correct but don't exit and I must press control^C. I want exit without press control^C, have you suggestions to resolve this problem ? Bye Gian Paolo On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Chris St Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Voras

Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang

2008-09-16 Thread Chris St Denis
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gian Paolo Buono [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have on a server ibm 3650 FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE and the proccess that running are nagios-3.0.2, apache-2.2.8 and heartbeat-1.2.5_3; random after some day machine becomes semi-dead, the ping respond but any stack (ssh,http)

Re: Multiple installation of one ports

2008-09-16 Thread Chris St Denis
Matthew Seaman wrote: FreeBSD wrote: Hi everyone, I've been asked by a customer to install Drupal on one server to manage a new site. No problem yet. But, he also asked if it would be possible to install it for other sites. I know that there is a warning if you want to install a port that

Re: Wireshark

2008-09-12 Thread Chris St Denis
Grant Peel wrote: Hi CHris, Just attempting to install the port. Something I noticed when the install crapped out was that it wanted me to use the Force Package Register for the OpenSSL_Overwrite_Base port. That port was already installed, what would be the correct method to deal with

Re: Wireshark

2008-09-12 Thread Chris St Denis
the port won't kill my connection or cause general weirdness to people using https? -Grant - Original Message - From: Chris St Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Christopher Cowart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12

Re: Script To Execute command via mail

2008-09-02 Thread Chris St Denis
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Courier maildrop should do what you need. it's in ports/mail/maildrop. It can have a mysql backend if you compile it WITH_AUTHLIB=yes -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com

Re: messagebus user

2008-08-27 Thread Chris St Denis
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 27), jef moskot said: We just upgraded to a new server (FreeBSD 7.0) and in our passwd file is the user messagebus (there's also a group). What's this for and can the UID be changed? It's got the same number as one of our oldest users and we're

Re: Turn off serial console on boot

2008-08-26 Thread Chris St Denis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some servers with IPMI that allow me to have a serial console. I have setup a serial console config on my servers and it seems to work reasonably well in remote emergencies, but causes serious problems if I ever have to use the real console. It means that I

Re: Issues while trying to access an Ext3 partition successfully mounted on FreeBSD 7

2008-08-26 Thread Chris St Denis
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3 (amd64). I've two ext3 partitions on my disk which I want to be able to access (read-only) from my FreeBSD installation. But I can only access one of them (with no issues), though I'm able to mount both of them fine in my

Turn off serial console on boot

2008-08-25 Thread Chris St Denis
I have some servers with IPMI that allow me to have a serial console. I have setup a serial console config on my servers and it seems to work reasonably well in remote emergencies, but causes serious problems if I ever have to use the real console. It means that I can't use single user mode

Recommended newfs settings for 600GB mail (maildir) store?

2008-08-19 Thread Chris St Denis
I recently created a new mail server with a 600GB raid5 partition to store maildirs. When I created it, I used a newfs -i 4096 but when I had recent hardware problems the background FSCK took a very long time, and I'm concerned that the -i 4096 may have made that a lot worse. So I ask. What

Re: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster

2008-08-06 Thread Chris St Denis
this is and/or really if it's what your looking for. ~Paul ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also see man carp -- Chris St Denis

Re: FreeBSD for webserver?

2008-07-22 Thread Chris St Denis
the port's makefile will do it for you? -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 --- Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD source code

2008-07-20 Thread Chris St Denis
Madana wrote: Dear sir/madam.. I am a student studying computers and would like to build unix operating systems later on so i was browsing through your website for the source code but could not find it so it would be very very nice if you could give me the url of the page where i can get

Re: Enabling root login without an administrator account

2008-07-10 Thread Chris St Denis
Veronica Labarca wrote: Hi, I have inherited a FreeBSD server and need to change the apache configuration, but cannot log in to the server. I have the root password (and know how to change it if needed in any case). The problem is that root login is disabled. There are various administrative

Re: Enabling root login without an administrator account

2008-07-10 Thread Chris St Denis
, Thanks for your quick response. No. I mean root login at the console is dissallowed. Why??? Beats me! I got it that way. Viqui -Original Message- From: Chris St Denis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:24 PM To: Veronica Labarca Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Jails and IP Aliasing

2008-07-08 Thread Chris St Denis
Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello, * Something like a loopback address inside the jail. It may be 127.0.0.2 instead of 127.0.0.1 but most software can be persuaded to use it for loopback style things. * The ability to map several IPs onto the jailed system by use of NAT and

Re: FreeBSD and Bacula

2008-07-03 Thread Chris St Denis
Ivaylo Bonev wrote: I want to use FreeBSD 7.0 for Backup server. After little searching, my decision was to use Bacula (because of Windows client). After installation of latest version (Bacula 2.4.0) and active googling, reading very carefuly Onlamp article of Bacula server on FreeBSD

Re: how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses using ipfw?

2008-06-24 Thread Chris St Denis
in that list. -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph: 604-473-9700 Ext. 200 --- Smart Internet Solutions For Businesses ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSD as VOIP PBX

2008-06-20 Thread Chris St Denis
be greatly appreciated. Shane ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Chris St Denis Programmer SmarttNet (www.smartt.com) Ph

Re: 6.3 to 7.0 STABLE upgrade buildworld failures

2008-06-05 Thread Chris St Denis
. Casey - Chris St Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Casey Scott wrote: Can we no longer use make buildworld to upgrade from source builds? Everytime I've tried, I get build errors. I've gotten the impression from a few things I've read that freebsd

Re: 7.0-R freezes with: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj

2008-06-04 Thread Chris St Denis
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Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?

2008-05-16 Thread Chris St Denis
Robert Jesacher wrote: On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel

Re: AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?

2008-05-16 Thread Chris St Denis
wrote: In the last episode (May 16), Robert Jesacher said: On 06.05.2008, at 22:02, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:44:02PM -0700, Chris St Denis wrote: I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice

AAC driver. No kernel error messages for failed raid5?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris St Denis
I recently setup a new FreeBSD 7.0 AMD64 server with an IBM ServeRAID-8k configured with a raid5 for data and raid1 for OS. I pulled out one of the raid5 drives to test the functionality and noticed that FreeBSD didn't seem to notice the disk failure at all. I was expecting kernel messages

Re: changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?

2008-04-01 Thread Chris St Denis
but sendmail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] test.msg will work. If anyone knows how to get around this? In your .mc file define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES', `true') Dan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris St Denis Sent: 31 mars 2008 16:29 To: freebsd

changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-31 Thread Chris St Denis
I've setup a new web server hostname doremi.ctgameinfo.com. When I try to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it tries to deliver it locally instead of to the mx server mx1.ctgameinfo.com. In previous versions this seems to work correctly. Why would it be trying to deliver locally this time? I'm

Re: changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-31 Thread Chris St Denis
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:29:28 -0700, Chris St Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've setup a new web server hostname doremi.ctgameinfo.com. When I try to send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it tries to deliver it locally instead of to the mx server mx1.ctgameinfo.com

Re: make installkernel doesn't work?

2006-03-14 Thread Chris St Denis
I don't have physical access to the server at the moment to try the loader prompt but... I tried mv /boot/kernel /root/ mv /boot/kernel.old /root/ make installkernel the folder and its files reappear in /boot but a reboot still shows the custom config. I also tried shutting down the

RE: RELENG_6 upgrade from RELENG_5

2005-09-17 Thread Chris St Denis
Would be real nice to be able to remove mass groups of options with one nooptions nooptions scsi or nooptionsgroup scsi -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Strauser Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:44 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: What does an * in master.passwd (not passwd) mean?

2005-09-17 Thread Chris St Denis
It means an account that can not be logged in to. The in the hash algorithm used in master.password nothing encrypts to * so no possible password will ever match the encrypted value * thus locking out the account from login. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Web forum tools -recomendations please

2005-09-12 Thread Chris St Denis
Pre 2.0 has some major security problems that have no patches available. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Virus Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 10:26 AM To: Vizion; freebsd Subject: Re: Web forum tools -recomendations please Vizion

RE: /usr/ports/www/phpbb --? Makefile query

2005-09-09 Thread Chris St Denis
I've used phpBB with php5 just fine. If you want alternative forums software, take a look at http://fudforum.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vizion Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:51 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc:

RE: 5.4-rel Bootloader Wedgie on Supermicro 5013C-MT

2005-09-09 Thread Chris St Denis
I think I've had this problem with a similar supermicro system. The solution for me was to turn off the onboard ide raid controller. I see SCSI in those server specs. If you are using all SCSI try disabeling all the ata and sata in the bios. Also, try turning off raid features of the SCSI if

RE: A few quick questions, one on daily reports and one on Raid 5...

2005-09-09 Thread Chris St Denis
There should be no problem creating a filesystem on a raid 5 (hardware or software) and mounting that as /var or /var/log or whatever. As for the daily reports, take a look at /etc/mail/aliases I think you can alias root to multiple email addresses (unsure, never tried) -Original

RE: awstats for a single directory

2005-09-09 Thread Chris St Denis
This isn't the awstats mailing list but. There is probably a better way, but you could just filter your log through a grep just_this_directory before (0r while) feeding them into awstats -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Redmond

RE: Can't access db with pgaccess

2005-09-09 Thread Chris St Denis
If pgaccess is a client on another computer you'll need to edit pg_hba.conf This is better asked on a pgsql mailing list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of stan Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 12:09 PM To: Free BSD Questions list Subject:

RE: and the winner is...

2005-09-08 Thread Chris St Denis
a. I am hoping to see this fixed in 6.x b. This I agree with. As a desktop client FreeBSD still needs work. c. sysutils/portaudit -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott W Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

RE: php --with apache error log

2005-09-08 Thread Chris St Denis
Looks like you are mixing debug and non-debug builds of php. Do a port update to make sure your makefile is clean. Deinstall php and all of the modules. Reinstall php Reinstall the modules. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vizion Sent:

RE: Odd SU output?

2005-09-08 Thread Chris St Denis
Which config file is this in? I didn't see any otp stuff in /etc/pam.d/ -Original Message- From: Igor Robul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 12:53 AM To: Chris St Denis; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd SU output? Chris St Denis wrote: While

RE: FreeBSD v6

2005-09-07 Thread Chris St Denis
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10951 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Seibert Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 5:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD v6 I

Odd SU output?

2005-09-07 Thread Chris St Denis
While being away from work for a week, some odd output appeared on my su comment. %su otp-md5 497 pe2119 ext Password: Has my server been rooted or something? Or did I (or somebody else) just change some configuration variable? ___

RE: anonymous ssh forwarding

2005-08-25 Thread Chris St Denis
Something like this may be what you want. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/ssh-tunnels.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Toomas Laasik Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 3:21 PM To: Jonathan Glaschke; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Illegal access attempt - FreeBSD 5.4 Release - please advise

2005-08-24 Thread Chris St Denis
How can I easily auto deny after x failed attempts? Is this an sshd setting? I could find it. Is there something in ports that will firewall off somebody who is brute forcing? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Maddox Sent: Tuesday,

Corrupt entries in /var/log/messages?

2005-08-24 Thread Chris St Denis
Occasionally I get entries like this in my log. It looks like more than one process is logging at the same time. Shouldn't syslogd be thread/SMP/concurrency safe from this kind of thing? Aug 24 05:29:44 sakura kernel: 66ppiidd 119942486 9( (hthttptdpd)),, uiudi d 808:0 :e xeixtietde do no ns

RE: Calculating the load average in the freebsd kernel

2005-08-20 Thread Chris St Denis
This may help http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/ldavg1.shtml -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kannan Varadhan Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 12:08 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Calculating the load average in the

RE: How can i monitor my server?

2005-08-13 Thread Chris St Denis
Monit is also a good choice. Much simplier than Nagios. Not as powerful, but sometimes simplicity is better. http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of martin hudec Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 4:15 AM To:

RE: threading - good, bad, ugly?

2005-08-13 Thread Chris St Denis
So, what is better in 5.x? LinuxThreads or native threads? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:04 PM To: Aaron Peterson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: threading - good, bad, ugly? On Wed,

RE: swap file using gmirror?

2005-08-13 Thread Chris St Denis
As far as I understand, Swapoff=Yes doesn't disable the swapfile, it just purges it on shutdown or something. I'm not quite sure of the need of this with mirroring but I do see it in the gmirror doc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob