Re: Configuring an older server for speed...

2008-06-30 Thread prad
going with 6.3? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions

second pre-emptive raid: stripes and the os

2008-06-29 Thread prad
way to look at it. should we be directing our thoughts to striping across partitions that we create over various drives after the os has been installed on a small part of the first drive? is raid only for data or does the os get raided too? -- In friendship, prad

first pre-emptive raid

2008-06-28 Thread prad
#20.5.2 Redundant Data Storage has me scratching my head! if there is complete mirroring, wouldn't the disk space be cut in half as with raid1? this is all very interesting and very new to us. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom

Re: first pre-emptive raid

2008-06-28 Thread prad
do they show 2 parity blocks though for disk3 and disk4? why would you ever have more than 1 for any single disk? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration

to scsi or not to scsi

2008-06-26 Thread prad
i've heard scsi hard drives are really good. i've also seen at least one site which claims that ide easily outperform scsi. for the server we got (dual P3 1GHz 2M which will use raid), is one preferable over the other? and what about sata? -- In friendship, prad

Re: to scsi or not to scsi

2008-06-26 Thread prad
. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: to scsi or not to scsi

2008-06-26 Thread prad
seagate in there should be one of these. therefore, the system will support any ultra3 scsi. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site

why an old operating system

2008-06-25 Thread prad
with freebsd 5.4 why would a new system such as this be supplied with such an old os? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site

Re: SSHD Config questions

2008-06-24 Thread prad
be for the server. something you can do though is to log on several times even from one machine (or several - just coordinate it) and see if there is any difference. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-19 Thread prad
the assistance here is very much appreciated! -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread prad
we had no problems like this. also, would there be such sporadic issues? shouldn't a reverse dns problem be consistently problematic? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread prad
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:16:09 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Prad, once you _are_ logged in, is the server responsive? Or does the sluggishness persist? there is no problem once we are in - the cpu is idle 95% and you can move around and do stuff without any slowdown at all. right

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-18 Thread prad
part of the reason for setting up our home servers was to gain an education about this stuff. i really appreciate the interest you've shown in our little problem and will follow through on your earlier suggestions as well as any others you may have. -- In friendship, prad

Re: internet slowdown

2008-06-17 Thread prad
been no problems for 2+ days, but we are going to follow through on this anyways and be prepared. thank you for your ideas bill and i'll let you know if we learn anything. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http

internet slowdown

2008-06-16 Thread prad
please? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-16 Thread prad
. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-16 Thread prad
and have their business fail. absolutely! they are masochistically engaged in self-flashalation. :D -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site

Re: ssh Public Keys Suddenly Stopped working for one account.

2008-06-14 Thread prad
. it wouldn't work - and apparently all the permissions were set correctly at both ends. so we did the whole thing from scratch again - and this time it worked. conclusion: the system is picky about the rsa key. :D :D -- In friendship, prad ... with you

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-13 Thread prad
using ion for about a year having tried and liked kde, gnome, fluxbox, even plwm and many others. rather than merely playing with some personal options here and there to customize it, you can actually make your desktop choice to the way you work -- In friendship, prad

Re: Is FreeBSD suitable for my thinkpad T61 ?

2008-06-13 Thread prad
world offers a lot more. if some people don't want this and prefer to pay for propriety, more limited software then they can certainly find what they are looking for with xp, vista and whatever else is conjured up. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your

Re: list files in FreeBSD ports tree package

2008-06-05 Thread prad
correctly. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-04 Thread prad
it was a joke. evidently, some people don't know the difference between a daemon and the demon. no doubt they are already possessed. thanks for the background, ted. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http

Re: Errors with pkg_add

2008-06-04 Thread prad
matters that requires root access. i don't know if there is a way around it. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-03 Thread prad
it appeared even on the older versions of netbsd and openbsd. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-29 Thread prad
, understandable and easy to configure for virtual hosts. (i found sendmail to be awkward and exim incomprehensible though i possibly should have tried harder :D ) -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com

freebsd7 on older machines

2008-05-09 Thread prad
with the mbr and be unable to boot? 3. are there any other ideas for install? -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's

living with freebsd

2008-05-04 Thread prad
? the handbook tells you what you can do, but i'd like to know what is actually done and why. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information, Inspiration, Imagination - truly a site for soaring I's

Re: [CRON] Recommended FTP client to download and upload files?

2008-05-03 Thread prad
On Sat, 03 May 2008 16:46:27 +0200 Gilles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What command-line FTP client would you recommend for this? i like lftp the best. you can script it and everything has always worked smoothly for me using it. -- In friendship, prad

Re: Help

2008-04-30 Thread prad
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:23:48 +0500 Farooq Hussain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me how i will configure PHP with apache. does anyone know why php package doesn't run from apache and you need to install it from ports (selecting the apache option)? -- In friendship, prad

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread prad
backups elsewhere. i looked at some of the others (amanda, cpio i think) too and they looked involved to me (admittedly this was several years ago so i don't know if things have changed more recently). -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards

Re: useradd adduser

2008-04-19 Thread prad
in saying that freebsd is one of the best documented systems ever!! just man pw and you'll find useradd and all sorts of other goodies! -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http://www.towardsfreedom.com (website) Information

Re: Username groups

2008-04-19 Thread prad
own group? on slackware i recall users all went into the users group. one benefit i can see is that if a user has his own group then you can effectively give others access to certain files by adding them to that users group. are there other reasons? -- In friendship, prad

Re: CONTACT FEDEX DELIVERY COMPANY LTD.

2008-04-19 Thread prad
using greylisting to block much of this, but some still gets through. :( so i suppose that even though the spammers have gotten smarter, those writing for them haven't. -- In friendship, prad ... with you on your journey Towards Freedom http

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