new sys/nlm since 6.4

Hi List, some of the highlights of 6.4 (and I cite the announcement): New and much-improved NFS Lock Manager (NLM) client. Sounds great. My old nfs-box serving pxe clients is still at 6.3. Clients run 7.x and 8. On the clients run postfix, but having installed 8.0 on the nfs-server, postfix

syslogd looks up dns only once

Hi, migrating a syslogd server to another box this morning and updated the dns zonefile, all syslog clients continue to use the old box. Is this 'I only resolve at boot' syslogd behaviour intentional ? Now I manually need to HUP them all... quite silly. Regards, Robert

Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

Hi, Which of these does FreebSD run well under? It runs okay under virtualbox. Cheers, Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

silly Q: any script running before make install /w ports ?

Hi, I have a standard umask of 0077 on a box. I grabbed irssi from ports, but he doesn't connect to any irc server... running it as root will. Now I suspect that umask setting of mine. That leaves me with a silly question: is there any script running before I enter 'make install' ? I cannot

Re: silly Q: any script running before make install /w ports ?

Hi, IRC-ing as root is a bad idea. Yeah, I know. But I really had to doublecheck. As a normal user, does irssi start? It does start, but it's unable to connect. If not, what are the errors? 14:59 -!- Irssi: Looking up irc.xs4all.nl 14:59 -!- Irssi: Connecting to irc.xs4all.nl

Re: FreeBSD in VMWare box

Hi, If one installs FreeBSD 7.0 in a VMWare box, the answer/choicde for 'install boot manager' is this: Standard MBR ? Yes, or choos not to install a boot manager. Both worked with freebsd 6.x and ESX 2.5x Should one configure Ethernet then. If yes, what static IP parameters must one

upcoming version 7.0 live disc

Hi list, a friend visited my place yesterday bringing his HP netserver LH3 with him, 3 9GB's scsi discs in it. Dual pentium II 450. 512 RAM. No hardware raid though. Given the fact 7.0 is near including ZFS. Given the fact, as I understand, freebsd can boot of ZFS I wanna make raid1 on/with

Re: Help with a new port?

Hi, I have a new port which I feel should be included in the FreeBSD accessibility category, if only because I noticed its absence in searching for it. Have you read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html yet ? I don't use ports myself and never

Re: Copying binaries to new server

Hi, Is there any reason I shouldn't just copy all of /usr and /var from the old server, or do I really need to compile everything anew and sort out any simlinks to other file systems? why not just a dump/restore of the file systems in question? He could also fire up nfsd, mount /usr/src and

Re: Which FreeBSD version, release shoult i use?

Hi, I tried to find s STABLE release but couldnt find one A stable ? Read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html . I would opt for 6. Hth. Regards, Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup

Hi, 1- Is this a viable solution, I mean by that, Is it Like this big ISP are set up ? Not quite likely, but it's possible ofcourse. 2- Is there a better way to replicate data than RSYNC (without going to san of expensive hardware) ? If not, is there a hotsync feature (I mean by that as

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

Hi Khaled, Affected package: php5-5.1.6 Type of problem: php -- _ecalloc Integer Overflow Vulnerability. http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/e329550b-54f7-11db-a5ae-00508d6a62df.html how can i fix this Compile php from source after applying

Re: 6.1 and NFS

Hi, That's interesting. Are you getting a could not lock the passwd file: EOPNOTSUPP failure with rpc.lockd not enabled? Negative, I rebuild the kernel on one box today, commented out rpc.lockd=YES in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted into single user mode and remounted / rw. I then ran

Re: 6.1 and NFS

Hi, Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still able to run adduser and so on ? Safely? No. But then, flock() doesn't work via NFS even if rpc.lockd is running, so you aren't any worse off. flock() .. hmm yeah, I discoverd trouble with sendmail as well, it

Re: 6.1 and NFS

Hi, I observed running a pxe client running fbsd 5.[45] being served by nfs-box running 5 (and 4 nowadays because of asr0 trouble due to geom) having disabled rpc.lockd the box doens't let me run adduser, but with rpc.lockd enabled it's fine with 'em. Is that strange or am I missing

Re: 6.1 and NFS

Hi, rpc.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical. Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still able to run adduser and so on ? Regards, Robert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 6.1 and NFS

Hi Kris, rpc.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical. Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still able to run adduser and so on ? Use the nolockd option to mount_nfs, nolockd, aha. Okay, I'll look at that, thx. Regards, Robert