Restaging from scratch

2013-04-03 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have now completed creating a new server from scratch using FreeBSD 9.1 and ports. The new setup uses: /, /usr, /var and /home. These filesystems have been dumped to a memory stick (root.dump, var.dump etc). The plan now is to completely zero out the drives on the other

RE: gpart

2013-04-01 Thread Grant Peel
-Original Message- From: Erich Dollansky [mailto:erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com] Sent: March-31-13 9:55 PM To: Grant Peel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:28:40 -0400 Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: I am in the midst of setting up

gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am in the midst of setting up the framework for new servers using FreeBSD 9.1. I used the bsdinstall and Manual`` option when setting up the disk geometry using GPT - graphical setup. The idea will be to eventually dump the 4 file systems, (/, /usr /var and /home) and restore

FreeBSD 8.0 - PHP 5.3.x

2011-10-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Short of upgrading the OS, what is the safest way to upgrade a FreeBSD server to PHP 5.3.x from 5.2.11 ? I am assuming downloading the ports tarball and rebuilding and reinstalling will do it? Any advice, samples would be appreciated, -Grant

Re: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid)

2011-06-29 Thread Grant Peel
) ? Mark -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Grant Peel Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2011 2:13 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid) Hello Everyone, I am

Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid)

2011-06-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hello Everyone, I am researching how to run PHP as CGI with Apache's Suexec module. Up to this point we have been using PHP as an Apache mod, but are looking to move to the more secure solution. I am not sure this is exactly the right list top post to so if anyone knows a better one please let

Logrotate

2011-01-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Not sure if there is a better list to ask this, so here goes. I use logrotate to rotate the apache log files within each domains log directory. They are in the home directory as such: /home/domain1.com/logs/access_log /home/domain2.com/logs/access_log

Updating.

2010-12-26 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Up to this point I have always updated (within a branch), by dropping to single user mode for everything. After running cvsup to obtain the new source, is it generally considered OK to run the maike buildworld in multiuser mode, or, are the dangers to doing this? Of course, after that

Updating 1 single port.

2010-12-10 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I suspect I have an issue with Proftpd and need to update it quickly. At Christmas break we will be apdating all ports and src, but for now, I would like to get the latest version of Proftpd up. What is the best / quickest method of getting 1 single port updated? (Proftpd 1.3.3c) -G

Re: Runaway ProFTP?

2010-12-10 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Jerry Bell je...@nrdx.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 4:47 PM Subject: Re: Runaway ProFTP? I have been having this happen a few times per week for the past few weeks. I believe it is caused by someone attacking proftpd.

Re: Console Messages

2010-11-29 Thread Grant Peel
Original Message- From: per...@pluto.rain.com Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 10:03 PM To: gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console Messages Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: ... You may need to go

Re: Web mail for not local domains.

2010-11-28 Thread Grant Peel
Openwebmail 1.53 -Grant -Original Message- From: Jim Pazarena Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 2:42 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Web mail for not local domains. On 2010-11-28 9:36 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. I was wondering if you can suggest the best

Re: Console Messages

2010-11-28 Thread Grant Peel
-Original Message- From: Lowell Gilbert Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 10:23 AM To: Grant Peel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console Messages Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com writes: I am using FreeBSD 8.0 and am getting lots of these: negative sbsize for uid = 0

Console Messages

2010-11-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am using FreeBSD 8.0 and am getting lots of these: negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 +negative sbsize for uid = 0 any ideas what it means or how to cure it? -Grant

IPFW at startup.

2010-11-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I seem to have one server that does not flush the /etc/rc.firewall rules when the script taken from firewall_type starts up. That is to say when I boot the machine, 3 rules seem to be still in the list when I do an ipfw -a list. Those three rules appear to be from the

Re: FreeBSD - POP3 timeouts

2010-11-05 Thread Grant Peel
Please see below. - Original Message - From: Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 2:12 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD - POP3 timeouts On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Grant Peel gp

FreeBSD - POP3 timeouts

2010-11-03 Thread Grant Peel
Hello all, I have serveral servers setup with FreeBSD 8.0. Each of these servers are running vm-pop3d, which has worked well for many years now. Since installing FreeBSD 8.0, the number of timeouts on port 110 have skyrocketed on all the servers. Some clients connecting (checking thier

ipfw

2010-08-26 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am running FreeBSD 8, and am assuming I am using ipfw2 How does one find the current version of IPFW being used? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

IPFW and ipa

2010-08-26 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Since FreeBSD 4.4, I have been using ipa(1.3.6) to do bandwidth accounting. Since upgrading to FreeBSD 8, I now get log messages saying that the ipfw rules do not exist: Example (one example of hundreds doing the same thing): Aug 26 07:32:59 constellation ipa[2940]: rule

Re: Why am I getting mail rejects?

2010-07-29 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Why am I getting mail rejects? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Peel wrote

Re: Why am I getting mail rejects?

2010-07-28 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:40 PM Subject: Re: Why am I getting mail rejects? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Grant Peel wrote: Hi

Daily Periodic

2010-07-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi everyone, I asked this a few days ago, and did not get a response. I have this in my /etc/periodic.conf: constellation# more periodic.conf # 460.status-mail-rejects daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO # Check mail rejects daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=0

Why am I getting mail rejects?

2010-07-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi everyone, I asked this a few days ago, and did not get a response. I have this in my /etc/periodic.conf: constellation# more periodic.conf # 460.status-mail-rejects daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO # Check mail rejects daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=0

periodic sending mail rejects.

2010-07-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have added this to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=0 daily_status_mail_rejects_shorten=NO and changed /etc/defaults/periodic.conf to: daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=3

Re: Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller. This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory stick (da1s1) to the hard drive (Seagate 76 GIG SAS - da0s1). Can anyone tell me if they

Re: Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Peel
I have seen some scuttlebutt white googling, about the SAS5/IR buuffer problems, but have not seen a resolution yet. I looked some more and it looks like that issue can also be caused by a faulty drive, maybe even a bad cable. Have you looked into that? -- Adam Vande More

Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller. This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory stick (da1s1) to the hard drive (Seagate 76 GIG SAS - da0s1). Can anyone tell me if they

Ports PHP 4.4.9 - GD Extension

2010-07-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am attempting to insall the GD PHP extension on FreeBSD 8 and am getting this at build time. (I need to have a php4 and mysql 4 server for compatability reasons). It appears that the PNG version the port is trying to build has a security issue. How can I work arround this (I really

FreBSD 8

2010-07-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi again all, I have just installed FreeBSD 8 on my NFS server. The older machines (FreeBSD 6.x) are able to connect to the NFS exports fine. I have also installed FreeBSD 8 to two more machines, 1 is a Dell 1850, and the other an R200. Both of these machines had FreeBSD 6.x on them and

Re: FreBSD 8

2010-07-06 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:07 PM Subject: FreBSD 8 Hi again all, I have just installed FreeBSD 8 on my NFS server. The older machines (FreeBSD 6.x) are able to connect to the NFS exports

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-28 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Balázs Mátéffy repcs...@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 2:42 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3 Hi, Maybe portsnap fetch extract ? Maybe the tag in your supfile was wrong for the ports. MB.

Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, What would be the prefered method of upgrading servers from freebsd 6.x to 8.x ? Fresh install and reload users data, rebuild ports etc? Upgrade direct from 6.x to 8.x? Upgrade sequentially from 6.x to 7.x to 8.x? -Grant ___

Re: Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
issues that are addressed in 8.1, making it worth wating for (when its released that is)? -Grant - Original Message - From: Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 11:02 AM Subject: Updating

FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty. What is the best way to get them back? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

8.1-rc1

2010-06-21 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am updating all servers this comming July. Currently, I have a build of FreeBSD 8.0 and am wondering if anyone knows any showstoppers in it that should be fixed in 8.1-rc1. i.e shold I wait and update the build before deploying? Apache vm-pop3d mysql5 php5 Perl named exim ...

CVSUP

2010-06-10 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Its been a while since I have used CVSup. I have a server with FreeBSD 8 RELEASE on it. It was built very shortly after 8.0 was released. I want to run CVSup on the source and ports before deploying it TO make sure that just ports and source are updated, what tag do I use in the

Re: Live Filesystem (Fixit Console) and NFS FreeBSD8

2010-05-10 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 7:39 PM Subject: Re: Live Filesystem (Fixit Console) and NFS FreeBSD8 Robert, Maybe I should rephrase the question: What

Live Filesystem (Fixit Console) and NFS FreeBSD8

2010-05-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I had a routine disk change that we required today, thought it would take me 2 hours, took close to 8. I am sure there is something I did'nt read, or do, if anyone can help me understand I would appreciate it. I have several machines connected to a NFS share on a local network.

Re: Live Filesystem (Fixit Console) and NFS FreeBSD8

2010-05-09 Thread Grant Peel
Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com To: gp...@thenetnow.com Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 6:27 PM Subject: Re: Live Filesystem (Fixit Console) and NFS FreeBSD8 From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sun May 9 15:49:35 2010 From: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date

NFS Mount FreeBSD 8.0

2010-04-15 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been running a backups storage server for many years on FreeBSD 5.2.1. It has been and still is working fine. Several 6.x machines are connected to it on the local network. Since installing FreeBSD 8.0 on two machines (they used to run 6.x and connected to the nfs mount

Re: NFS Mount FreeBSD 8.0

2010-04-15 Thread Grant Peel
192.168.0.0 - Original Message - From: Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 10:19 AM Subject: Re: NFS Mount FreeBSD 8.0 On 04/15/10 15:35, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have been running a backups

Ion-cube FreeBSD 8

2009-12-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am in the middle of setting up a new FreeBSD 8.0 server, and need to load the ioncube loader. I have been to the ioncube site and they do not have a release for FBSD8 yet. I was wondering if anyone on this list has setup FreeBSD 8.0 (Php 5.2, Apache 2.2) using a previous version

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-10-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I now have a quote from Dell, for a 4 TB, RAID5 NX3000 NAS. It comes pre configured with Windows Storage Server 2008 Standard Edition. Dell support assures me it will be compatable with NFS on FreeBSD, but if we are not happy with it we can wipe it and install whatever software we

Out of mbuf address space!

2009-10-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have an older RAID 5 machine running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and am using it as a backup storage unit. Yesterday morning, we noticed the the NFS mounts on the clients to this machine we not available, which sent a bunch of cronjobs spinning out of control etc. We also became unable to connect

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-30 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:07 AM Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi

Netwroked Storage

2009-09-29 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a storage enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of $'s. The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-29 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Mauro Rezzonico l...@ch23.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:46 PM Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage Grant Peel wrote: The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about 200 domains

Re: Bruteblock

2009-07-23 Thread Grant Peel
: Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:56 AM Subject: Re: Bruteblock On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:06:35PM -0400, Grant Peel typed: Hi all, I am trying to get Bruteblock working on FreeBSD 6.2 and hav e run

Bruteblock

2009-07-22 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am trying to get Bruteblock working on FreeBSD 6.2 and hav e run into a snag. It appears that Proftpd is not sending log detail to the auth or authpriv facility. I have a simple Proftpd setup, with the SysLog directive completely removed, and according to the man, it is supposed

Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-21 Thread Grant Peel
really need the versatility of the SAN at this point, or in the near future. I simply want a mass /home storage unit. -Grant - Original Message - From: Christopher J. Umina chris.um...@studsvikscandpower.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-21 Thread Grant Peel
: Christopher J. Umina chris.um...@studsvikscandpower.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:01 PM Subject: Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD Grant, DAS = Direct-Attached Storage, sorry to be confusing. I cannot personally speak to the performance

Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-20 Thread Grant Peel
/home data. Throug an NFS connection via fast (100m/b) ethernet. Each connecting server (6) contain about 200 domains? -Grant - Original Message - From: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:35 AM Subject: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

Re: NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-20 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks for the reply. I have not used/investigated the iSCSI thing yet The original question is can I just use an NFS mount to the storage's /home partition? -Grant - Original Message - From: mojo fms To: Grant Peel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, July

NFS- SAN - FreeBSD

2009-07-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Up to this point, all of our servers are standalone, i.e. all services and software required are installed on each local server. Apache, Exim, vm-pop3d, Mysql, etc etc. Each local server is connected to the Inet via a VLAN (WAN), to our colo's switch. Each server contains about

Port 6139 Wierdness

2009-07-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Not sure where else I could post this On one server, I am seeing massive numbers of connections from many different addresses to 2 different ips on port 6139. Odd thing, the CPS and Size of the data is very very small. Did many googles, found nothing. Anyone seen this before?

Transferring dump files ASCII or BINARY

2009-07-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am attempting to restore a root filesystem I donwloaded this morning. I downloaded it in binary mode, and when I try to restore -rf /usbstick/root.dump I am getting: Tape is not a dump tape Should dumps be transfered in BINARY or ASCII mode? Any other insights welcome. Also,

Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have serveral machines that are running different versions of FreeBSD. Each machine only has 1 hard disk, but they all have a CD ROM and USB available. I have built a pristine system with all packages and ports installed that I need. I am now wanting to clone this to all the

Re: Cloning to different disks.

2009-07-01 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Cloning to different disks. Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have serveral machines that are running different versions

RegEx

2009-06-05 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Does anyone know of a current mailing list that discusses regular expressions? I have Googled a number of time, but everything I find is old. Specifically, I am looking for a modification to this per code: #!/usr/local/bin/perl ... my $iframeexp=[\IFRAMEiframe

Mysql6 or Mysql5

2009-05-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am asking thise here as I am aware there are many ISPs and Hosting farm admins on this list. I am in the process of setting up the next gen servers, and notice the Mysql6 is available in ports. Does anyone have any expierience with it? Is it solid? Fast? Are there any 'gotchas'

Security Consulting.

2009-03-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I originally posted this to the PHP mailing list with, so far, less than helpful results. I am not a fan of cross-posting, but I suspect there may be a few ISP support / server admins who may be interested in this offer. Good Morning / Afternoon, We run several of our own servers:

6.x - 7.1

2009-03-29 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, We have (finally) made the decision to move our server (10 -Dell) from Toronto to a newer data center closer to our office in London. Before I ask this question, I would like to ensure everyone I will be reading all the docs I can find, but since the upgrade will be much work, I

Flash for FreeBSD - GNOME - Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be used to view Flash content in Firefox? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I have a couple of questions regarding the

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: snip Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Ricardo Jesus wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? Maybe.But, MS software is notorious for not recognizing any other OSen nor being able to boot them So, use the FreeBSD fdisk which will plant the FreeBSD

gname

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a stop during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr shows ... 7.0G ports. 1.8G local df -h shows: ... /dev/ad8s1e 9.7G(total)

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Grant Peel
manager again? THanks all, -Grant - Original Message - From: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Grant Peel wrote

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Michael Copeland michael.copel...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you

FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive. On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. During the install, I opted to use the

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
Can I use a windows install cd's R option to do the fdisk /mbr ? -Grant - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com Cc: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:33 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: On that drive, there was about 100 GB

Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I currently have a SCSI drive that *may* be going bad on one of my production servers. I have lots of backups :-) Scenario: The drive that is showing the occasion error, is a 76 GB Seagate SCSI 10K spin drive. It is at the network center about 120 miles away. This drive is not using

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry, Thanks a Tera for the concise reply. Please see the answers below. - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: Re

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
. Remove the da1, reboot and hopefully, rejoyce. Comments please. -Grant - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu To: Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Replace SCSI

Sysinstall

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is greatly in need of 'Death'. How would one do a fresh install of FBSD without it? Is there a replacement in the works? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Fixit vrs Live filesystem.

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am in the process of downloading the ISO Disk 1 and 2 for FreeBSD 6.4. Dare I ask how one gets to the Fixit Holographic Shell, or a live file system? Are they on Disk 1 or 2? Are they the same thing? (Does the fixit console still exist)? TIA, -Grant

Re: Sysinstall

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:51 PM Subject: Re: Sysinstall On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is greatly in need of 'Death'. How

pkg_info php

2009-01-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am getting 'segmentation faults' when using php (apache module) on a server that recently had php 4 instlalled when php 5 was already there. /var/log/httpd-error.log: [Tue Jan 06 09:44:39 2009] [notice] child pid 8209 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Is there a way to completely

Memory Usage

2009-01-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use mrtg to show memory and disk usage? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

PHP and PHP-Extensions

2008-12-17 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a somewhat broken installation of php 4.4.7 and the extensions and want to completely remove them and reinstall them. How does one conpletely remove php4 (from ports) and the extensions to ensure a clean install? -Grant ___

gzip and dump

2008-11-21 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I lost my Hard Drive and all my many tens of thousands of emails. Thus, my excellent repository of answers from this list were sent to oblivion. I make dumps using gzip and forget the command line to restore files from the zipped dump. I use the command line like: dump 0 -h0 -uaLf -

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE installing php-imap

2008-10-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a script that required php-imap extension installed but I keep running into a 2 snags when 'making' the port (mail/php-imap)... First, I have to use the -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER so openssl_overwtite_base won't kill the make, which seems to work, and, most importantly, when the

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-12 Thread Grant Peel
Jeff, are you running apache with Suexec? If so I would realy like to expand in this with you. -Grant - Original Message - From: Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent

Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am not a fan of cross posting, but, I have to make a exception in this case as I can't seem to nail down whether its the software or OS causing me the problem. Software: Apache 2.2, Python 2.5, Mailmain 2.1.11 OS: FreeBSD 6.2 Release #0 Apache and Python were built from ports,

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks Chuck, Tried all that several times. My browser accepts cookies from many different (tested today and yesterday) sites. -Grant - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry, I tried a few times to build it from source but since I am using Apache+Suexec, I was stuck on how to 'make' it and pass the parms needed to set the user and home directory, i.e. I needed the install directory to be set to /home/mailmain when the ports version insisted on setting it to

Re Apache + Mailman

2008-10-09 Thread Grant Peel
Cool Paul, How about the rest of these: '--prefix=/home/mailman' '--with-username=mailman' '--with-mail-gid=mailman' '--with-cgi-gid=mailman' And do you think it would make a difference to the cookies issue I am having? -Grant ___

Updating and Ports

2008-10-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have heard people chattering occasionally about /etc/make.conf. In a few days, I will be updating from 6.2, and 6.3, to RELENGE_6_3 and am curious how I can use / modufy /etc/make.conf so that I dont need to install all my ports again. Which leads to the question: I just installed

Logrotate

2008-10-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have recently started using logrotate to rotate all the logs in the users home directories. These are all apache logs files. /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.0.gz /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.1.gz /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.2.gz I have a

Bruteblocker

2008-10-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been tinkering with bruteblock all night, and was wondering if anyone else on this list has used it. I can't seem to get proftpd.conf, syslog.conf setup correclty to log the ips to table one (in ipfw). Any assistance would be appreciated. -grant

Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind, Apache, Mysql,

Re: Dealing with portscans

2008-09-22 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: David Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 4:06 PM Subject: Re: Dealing with portscans On 9/22/08, Greg Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Allen wrote: Over the last few weeks I've been getting

Upgrading

2008-09-20 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am preparing to upgrade all servers from FBSD 6.2 to 6.3 in preperation for 6.4, and some day 7.x One thing I have always found a little confusing is what tag to specify in the supfile. If a machine is running 6.2, and I want to upgrade to the latest production release, would I

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown.

2008-09-18 Thread Grant Peel
~ Thu Sep 18 04:08 ringette ftp CPE001310e9a482 Thu Sep 18 00:10 - 00:11 (00:00) -Grant - Original Message - From: H.fazaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:31 AM Subject

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown

2008-09-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I had instigated all.log, and here is what happened at 04:08 EDT this morning...any clues you see here? ... Sep 18 04:04:08 defiant named[601]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 'examplewhole.com/NS/IN': 192.168.0.3#53 Sep 18 04:08:14 defiant syslogd: restart Sep 18 04:08:14 defiant

Mystical Server Shutdown.

2008-09-17 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I started getting watchmouse errors about on pf my servers not responding. There is a DRAC on the machine, and the sensor data was all good. When I got the machine back up and running, I seen this in lastlog: client1 ftp hostname1here Wed Sep 17 17:02 - shutdown

Re: Wireshark

2008-09-12 Thread Grant Peel
PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Christopher Cowart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:46 PM Subject: Re: Wireshark Grant Peel wrote: Hi CHris, Just attempting to install the port. Something I noticed when the install crapped out

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