Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
, these speed improvements are riddled with dozens of security flaws. Also, any reason why you're asking these questions of FreeBSD and not of the OpenSSL project? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd

Re: Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread Bill Moran
it's doing, but it's doing wrong by you. If you can find a setting to frob to get your MUA to display at text instead of thinking so hard, you'll be able to read Jon's emails. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: File Listing

2011-01-10 Thread Bill Moran
you have permissions to all the directories. You can add other options if you want to change the formatting of the output. You can also do 'find /', the output of which may be more appealing, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: freebsd and

2011-01-05 Thread Bill Moran
/passwd authentication -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: MySQL 5.5.7-5.5.8 instructions seem scary

2010-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
the version of MySQL you're currently using and copy your data over, then practice upgrading in the jail. Once you have the procedure figured out, you can execute it on the production system with a high level of confidence. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com

Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-17 Thread Bill Moran
of this? Thanks, Victor Lyapunov. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Bill Moran http

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:30:08 -0600 Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Could there be a ulimit issue as well? I think shared memory is unaffected by ulimits ... at least, I've never had trouble with ulimit preventing PostgreSQL from allocating gigs and gigs of shared memory, and I don't

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-09 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 12:31:04 +0100 Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com wrote: System is FreeBSD shopzeus.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Sun Oct 31 02:55:28 EDT 2010 amd64 It has two quad-core Xeon CPUs, 24GB memory, and a RAID 1+0 array with 10 disks + Areca 1680 controller with 2GB

Re: What is loading my server so much?

2010-12-09 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:15:14 +0100 Laszlo Nagy gand...@shopzeus.com wrote: First off, you have 24G of RAM available and PostgreSQL only seems to have access to 400M of it. Bump shared_buffers up to 2 or 3 G at least, and bump up work_mem to at least a few hundred meg, and

Re: Can MS Exchange play nice with the mailing lists?

2010-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: 32 or 64 bit as server ?

2010-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
be only go 32 bit if you _know_ there's something that won't work in 64 bit. I can speak personally that we have a multitude of servers running PHP and Apache 2.2 on 64 bit FreeBSD with no trouble. I don't use MySQL, but I have a hard time believing that it's not 64 bit clean. -- Bill Moran http

Re: How can I know how many packets were lost and resent on particular TCP connection?

2010-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Yuri y...@rawbw.com: Just curious if I can do this. netstat -s gives you system-wide stats. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Need Res Utility

2010-08-26 Thread Bill Moran
86/bsd/sys/compile/JUNIPER i386 This is not a FreeBSD system. You should probably contact tech support at Juniper with your question. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: nfs server /home not responding

2010-08-24 Thread Bill Moran
. If the NFS hangs occur and the mount never recovers (even after several minutes) then you probably have a different problem. Possibly a firewall is losing the state table and thus the connection is going bad? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: Installing wget

2010-08-09 Thread Bill Moran
And the make quits. How do I get rid of that. make config should allow you to unselect that option, which should allow the build to then succeed. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Bill Moran
is that Linux's filesystems _may_ be faster for short, bursty work. To someone technical who might be looking to investigate the results with an eye toward fixing them, it's useless. -- Bill Moran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: lightweight Chat client/server?

2010-08-03 Thread Bill Moran
of. Don't know if it could be considered lightweight, though, since it requires an SQL server on the backend. If you already have another SQL server in production, you could just install the DB there, as its DB usage is pretty light. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: Install Apache in qjail?

2010-07-22 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com: Gentlemen, Since the ONLY instance of Apache on this box will BE the one I'm installing in the jail, I should just be able to connect to it by its IP address...just like any other web server. Yes? No? Am I missing something? Yes. -- Bill

Re: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
of it. There's no schedule. Because, despite what MS would have PHB's believe, security problems are not found on any schedule, they're found whenever they're found. Thus, your best approach is to monitor and be proactive. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: Fwd: Staying up to date with security patches

2010-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
. Or...should you just get in the habit of syncing / updating after you install any particular release? http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd

Re: utility to all ALL strings?

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
periodic, this is already running on your system every night. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Midphase Hosting

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
if that TOS holds up in court. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Sluggish Apache Server

2010-06-03 Thread Bill Moran
priority to migrate off that system and onto a new one, then get that system into a dedicated testing setup to see if you can isolate any problems in the hardware. Whatever else you do, make sure you have good backups of any data on that system right away. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: help

2010-05-03 Thread Bill Moran
look in /dev I cannot see that device. When I try to ./MAKEDEV cdce0 it says command not found. I believe that you should use the cuaa# devices for dialout, regardless of which driver loads. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: [OT] Was: Disabling DNS

2010-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
spend time on the Internet, you will eventually end up offending someone. Just apologize for any misunderstanding and move on. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Wow! ixsystems.....

2010-03-15 Thread Bill Moran
with my ability to tweak FreeBSD :) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Is there a command to load all swap into the memory?

2010-02-23 Thread Bill Moran
all swap. Is there a command to do that for all swap? This will speed up immediate system response in the future. You could use swapoff, then swapon to readd the device. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: Is it possible to see memory over 3GB on 32-bit FreeBSD?

2010-02-17 Thread Bill Moran
would see less than that. amd64 is the way to go. If you _must_ stick with i386, you can try PAE in your kernel, but I don't know if that's even supported any more. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: creating htmls from a directory tree?

2010-02-10 Thread Bill Moran
was wondering if there is someting like this already available from ports. I couldn't find anything suitable. You could just turn on Apache's built-in directory listing capability and Apache will create those files on-demand. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-02 Thread Bill Moran
On 2/1/10 8:57 PM, Jeff Mitchell wrote: Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' .. Jail the webserver; seems a logical break, and keep you honest for your partitioning. No more ~/public_html to access it I suppose, but much mroe secure for when

Re: MRTG vs. character of traffic

2010-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
for a tool to tell me what KIND of traffic, not just the gross bit rate? I want to find that idiot that's causing all the bandwidth. ntop -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Force use of latest version of Apache

2010-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
On 1/16/10 7:52 AM, Carmel wrote: As a relatively new user of FreeBSD, I am confused about what to put in the '/etc/make.conf' file to force the use of Apache22+. I was thinking that perhaps: APACHE_PORT=www/apache22 might be correct. I was reading the bsd.apache.mk file and noticed

Re: Accessing Computer

2010-01-08 Thread Bill Moran
to use computer 1 via Putty to access computer 2, would they then be able to access computer 3? If so, how could I prevent it from happening? You could prevent ssh connections from 2 - 3 on port 22 via firewall. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bill Moran
is reduce the number of running programs. Go through /etc/ttys, for example, and disable all but one or two consoles, and edit /etc/rc.conf to disable anything that you don't need on the system (possible sendmail, syslog?, etc) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: FreeBSD versions

2010-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
and IA64 are not compatible at all. If you were talking about amd64, that's a different story. Most newer CPUs are amd64. All amd64 CPUs can also run a 32bit x86 OS. Some x86 32bit CPUs are also amd64 compat. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: alerts for stopped daemons

2009-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
/ reporting packages. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Bill Moran
) with a better record than that, I'd love to hear about it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
shipped with a more performant default setting, it would also be nice if mindless benchmark drones would quit assuming that every system ships pre-configured to perform optimally in their benchmarks. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com: Bill Moran writes: It's common knowledge that the default value for vfs.read_max is non- optimal for most hardware and that significant performance improvements can be made in most cases by raising it. Documentation/discussion

Re: Spammer data mining and www.freebsd.org

2009-11-26 Thread Bill Moran
where the email originated. That's someone who can actually do something about the problem. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: hdd voltage

2009-11-17 Thread Bill Moran
(or whatever voltage/freq you're supposed to get in your part of the world). Not a direct answer to your question, but hopefully some useful information to consider. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

2009-11-16 Thread Bill Moran
the video is done running). Been running Windows WP inside a Virtual Box on FreeBSD 7. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Moran
server. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Moran
not there, how are you going to send mail from things like cron? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

[OT] Service that provides security questions

2009-10-13 Thread Bill Moran
. I have a hard time believing each of these companies sets up such a system on their own, and I have a feeling that there's a 3rd party that compiles the data for them. Can anyone refer me to such a company? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: When is it worth enabling hyperthreading?

2009-10-08 Thread Bill Moran
by turning hyperthreading on. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: way to check an email without sending it??

2009-10-05 Thread Bill Moran
after the rcpt to: line, then you know the server will accept the mail and you can close the connection without completing the transaction. Note, that this is no guarantee. Some spam catching nonsense may accept the mail right up to end, then throw it away without delivering it. -- Bill Moran http

Re: Swap and memory optimization

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
. At least an additional 256M, I would think, but considering the price of RAM, you might as well just up it to 2G. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Swap and memory optimization

2009-10-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com: In the last episode (Oct 01), Bill Moran said: bsd b...@todoo.biz wrote: I have a FBSD 6.4p7 box that I use as a mail server - 1Go RAM - RAID1 Works quite well. As I plan to put 100 more mail accounts soon on the server I

Re: PHP5 and ldap

2009-09-18 Thread Bill Moran
seen cases where it's not listed correctly. You can check the output of php_info() to make sure PHP thinks it's there. Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
is admirable. It seems as if he doesn't have much patience, however, since he thinks that only 2 weeks is enough time to fix a security problem and QA the fix. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry ges...@yahoo.com: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:18:26 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Monday 14 September 2009 23:46:42 David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:13:54PM -0400, ill

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Moran
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:03:50 -0400 Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:13:31 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Jerry ges...@yahoo.com: I usually discover security problems with updates I receive from http://www.us-cert.gov/. Aren't

Re: About DHCP

2009-09-10 Thread Bill Moran
very quickly if the DHCP server is working properly and not overloaded. Even with a slow DHCP server, I've seldom seen it take longer than a few seconds. What is your usage case that this is such a concern? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: What is a good way to find out how memory is used? Have a 6.4 box where memory is used by something but I fail

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 01), Bill Moran said: In response to Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se: What is a good way to find out how

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Bill Moran
at all. A proper tool for analyzing memory usage live, this is a production box? I've always been able to get what I need from top. You can do -o res to sort by resident memory usage, which helps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Bill Moran
Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.comwrote: In response to Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Adam Vande

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.comwrote: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Adam Vande

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
how my system was broken into? Yes. Otherwise you'll probably just get a repeat once you've reinstalled. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com: --On Tuesday, August 25, 2009 07:26:04 -0500 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: I am currently killing the process with the following bash command while I decide what to do next: $ while x=1 ; do sudo killall -9 perl5.8.9

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com: --On Tuesday, August 25, 2009 08:30:17 -0500 Colin Brace c...@lim.nl wrote: Bill Moran wrote: You can add an ipfw rule to prevent the script from calling home, which will effectively render it neutered until you can track down

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.comwrote: In response to Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com: --On Tuesday, August 25, 2009 08:30:17 -0500 Colin Brace c...@lim.nl wrote: Bill Moran wrote

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.comwrote: In response to Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response

Re: duplex printing with OOo.

2009-08-19 Thread Bill Moran
to know what and where and why to change this in the OO config. It works for me, using 3 steps: 1) Use CUPS instead of lpd 2) Install a PPD for the printer that knows about duplex printing 3) Install OOo with CUPS support I don't know if it's possible to do through lpd, though. -- Bill

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
. If the drive is funky, get your data off it while you can. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-03 Thread Bill Moran
Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing something... You could just use apg ... it's in the ports. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: disk encryption with geli

2009-07-24 Thread Bill Moran
/ad0s2f.eli and not /dev/ad0s2f) and make sure you have all the geli startup config in /etc/rc.conf per the document you referenced. If that's not enough to help you, please provide your /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/fstab, along with copy/paste of the exact error message you're seeing. -- Bill Moran http

Re: SSO solution in ports?

2009-07-16 Thread Bill Moran
than enough for me, I was wondering if there are any SSO servers in ports that I can just install and use? A CAS solution would be the best, but I'll look at anything. The most widely supported I know of is LDAP, and OpenLDAP works pretty well. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Problems following PHP upgrade

2009-07-16 Thread Bill Moran
it ... all I can say is me too. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Hosting help

2009-07-16 Thread Bill Moran
.) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Bill Moran
xscreensaver and configuring it to lock the screen after a reasonable amount of inactivity. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-13 Thread Bill Moran
multiple busy web servers, it's probably a better idea to dedicate a machine to doing DNS caching. Of course, if your hosting provider already provides a set of fast caches for you to use, it's not really necessary for you to set up your own. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: is it safe to reboot while gmirror is rebuilding?

2009-07-08 Thread Bill Moran
will cause the overall time required to rebuild to take longer, but gmirror will continue to rebuild during normal system activities (such as disk writes and reboots). -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: question

2009-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to DJ Lawless jlawless...@aol.com: Do you need to become a member of freeBSD to get a freeBSD.org email address? Yes. if yes how do you become a member? Make enough contributions to the project that you get noticed and you'll be invited. -- Bill Moran http

Re: good afternoon to all

2009-07-06 Thread Bill Moran
/DSL) you'll get more reliable results installing packages from FTP. Or you can get one of the more complete images, such as the DVD image. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: processor concern

2009-07-06 Thread Bill Moran
architecture, depending on how the OS decides to use it. For a desktop system, you probably want to use i386. For a server, amd64 is probably better. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Strange startup behaviour.

2009-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
to attach your rc.conf file, as that's the most likely thing that's wrong, given the information you provided. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Dependency confusion

2009-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
to delete them if they're still used by other packages, and it will tell you which packages are using them. (You can probably do that second one with pkg_info as well, but I don't know the syntax off the top of my head) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
attempts are serious attack attempts, and not just some random, mindless bots. If you're doing proper security monitoring, then reducing that log load is worthwhile. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: Best practices for securing SSH server

2009-06-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Erik Norgaard norga...@locolomo.org: - dynamically updating firewall rules on the interface facing the Internet is not on my list of good practices. loading or flushing rules continuously

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
of. Again, make sure you keep this software up to date, so you have the latest bug fixes. Installing portaudit and making sure you get the nightly emails from it is a good idea. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
can't afford what it would cost to _really_ secure a system like that. And it's not justified if the information isn't sensitive anyway. So, yes. Keep looking over your shoulder. _Someone_ is sneaking up on you. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: backdoor threat

2009-06-19 Thread Bill Moran
instead of just dropping the syns). I invited the idiot to prove it by breaking in, which he never accomplished. Some people brag without being able to back it up. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: Automated Production of Web Pages

2009-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
it runs automatically at 3 A.M. and only took 15 seconds to run. That's why I love Unix. So, are there php-based or other packages that help automate this process? routers2 may fit your need: http://www.steveshipway.org/software/ -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: Compact Freebsd 'appliance'

2009-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
Geode -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: radio-buttons and PHP; may be a bit OT.

2009-06-18 Thread Bill Moran
another process that comes along and reads the file, and generates a different file with the statistics. Of course, this is even easier if you're using a database. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: fsck

2009-06-16 Thread Bill Moran
do that alone so it always boot, but without paying penalty of slow reboot in case of clean shutdown and restart ? fsck_y_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf See the man page for details. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Installation Manual

2009-06-12 Thread Bill Moran
-config.html Nowhere, indeed. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Advertising Inquiry

2009-06-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kate Werrett kwerr...@enticelabs.com: Are you the right person to talk to about advertising on www.freebsd.org? Thank you, Obviously, you didn't look at the site. There is no advertising on it. There is nobody to contact. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
word-stemming and all the other features of a full-blown search engine on steroids. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Moran
and the tech support folks are supposed to be covering it up, there's not much you can really say or do, and that's _really_ frustrating. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Getting old versions of FreeBSD

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Moran
your system. Instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html Use the RELENG_4_7, since p28 was the last patch on the 4.7 branch. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http

Re: {Classmates#889-142}read it immediately

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
with Classmates in any way. I suggest you go to the site you had signed in to and look for contact information there. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-04 Thread Bill Moran
user's group. There's probably a LUG in Cinci somewhere, and most LUGs I know are pretty friendly to BSD folks, and there will be someone in the LUG who's already done this research. How 'bout this: http://www.clug.org/ If you meet anyone there who recognizes my name, tell them I said Hi. -- Bill

Re: pcre

2009-06-02 Thread Bill Moran
. The documentation on installing/maintaining packages is here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-28 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 28 May 2009 14:52:05 -0500 Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Is this forum intended to ask specific type questions and hope to get specific and relevant answers? Or, is it a blog to generalize, theorize, banter, etc. about anything and everything? [snip] Stop whining. This

Re: What is this forum for?

2009-05-28 Thread Bill Moran
30 years of hearing doom and gloom predictions, I can't even take them seriously any more. When the news about swine flue first came out and the experts were predicting how many people would die, I just started laughing out loud. And I'm laughing at you right now. -- Bill Moran http

Re: issues with Intel Pro/1000 and 1000baseTX

2009-05-14 Thread Bill Moran
get a card that's just flaky. Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

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