Cron question

2008-04-24 Thread John Almberg
I have recently switched from Linux to FreeBSD for my web server. Absolutely love it, but am having one difficulty that is driving me bats... I wouldn't think that cron would run differently on BSD than Linux, but it seemingly does. I have a user crontab that runs a PHP script once a

Estimating bandwidth requirements for web/mail server

2008-04-16 Thread John Almberg
I have a FreeBSD web/mail server in a colocation facility. They offer many fixed and burstable bandwidth options. I am currently using 512Kbits fixed, which limits data transfer to around 64K up and down, simultaneously. This works okay at the moment, but I'm wondering how this will hold

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. I

Tinydns configuration... works, but no reverse dns

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
I am using tinydns on my FreeBSD server. Normal DNS lookups work fine, but I can't get reverse DNS to work. My colocation provider says they have delegated DNS to my name servers. If there is a way to independently verify this, I don't know how to do it, so I am taking their word for it.

Fwd: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
Little did I know, when I posted this question, that I would receive such a wealth of information. I'm deeply appreciative of the community's willingness to share information and thank each and every one of your for your contributions. Now I have some reading to do. :-) I think

Re: Tinydns configuration... works, but no reverse dns

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
freesparky# dig +trace -x 66.111.0.194 That *is* handy. which does bring up the issue of why you refer to ns0 and ns1 in your question and your provider delegates to ns1, ns2, and ns3, the last of which doesn't appear to have an A record anywhere useful. Ah, ha... I gave my provider

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread John Almberg
Bon dia, Rui (my wife is Brazillian) That is t he case of economics. In the logic of freesoftware I want make programs to fill that vacuum. Well, some of it. What I want to do are economic model ba sed simulators. I could do it in a spreadsheet, but I would rather make a n ice

Fwd: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread John Almberg
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Re: No spam???

2008-01-16 Thread John Almberg
2008-01-14 09:30:37.074087500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72121: 451 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67 Just one comment, in my installation of SpamAssassin, it reports in syslog as spamd, not at rblsmtpd. This looks like logs from the rblsmtpd program that is not SpamAssasin. As

Re: No spam???

2008-01-15 Thread John Almberg
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No spam???

2008-01-14 Thread John Almberg
Last week I set up a brand new mail server with a combination of pf/ spamassassin/maildrop for spam filtering... Everything seems to work great. All real mail seems to be getting through. I monitored the spamd and maildrop logs during the first few days to make sure my very conservative

How to add proxy modules to Apache22 on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-01-10 Thread John Almberg
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