Re: can't `make index` on 4.11-STABLE
I have a problem trying to `make index` on a machine running 4.11-STABLE after cvsup-ing the ports tree. Make sure you have cvsup'd your ports tree with the RELEASE_4_EOL tag Then as you are not planning on installing anything multimedia rm /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins/Makefile.common touch /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins/Makefile.common should allow you to make index. (worked for me anyways). -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with dump over SSH: Operation timed out
Thank you for those suggestions, it's appreciated. Although I get the same results with setting those values both on the server and on the client. SCP starts full speed, but at 20% of the 200 MB file it starts to stall. All ICMP traffic was open on both firewalls at that time. I had something similar to this happen to me once when I traded out low end Linksys router for an enterprise grade one. Large transfers were ok with the low end router, but died horribly with the good router. It was a FreeBSD4.11 server at the time, and in the end it turned out that the increase in bandwidth was directly related to the stall, putting qos on the traffic back down to the previous speeds made the stalling go away. I never did find out if it was a crappy NIC or crappy disk drives, or crappy cofiguration on the server. -- Kenny Dail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob
Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer Install Procmail to deliver messages in Maildir format (to users' home directories?) Install Courier IMAP as the IMAP server Have I got this about right? Do I really need 4 separate tools to do this? Have I overlooked something more obvious/elegant? Where are my big pitfalls going to be? For a new person, Sendmail and Procmail is a difficult mail system to learn (IMO). If you want to use Courier IMAP, you might look at using the full Courier suite it has the simplicity of doing everything in one package. I currently much prefer using Dovecot for IMAP, and Postfix for MTA. They are both quite easy to set up and customize to fit changing needs. -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam
I'm monitoring systems at the ISP I work at. No, it is not life or death if a feed goes down for 3 hours and a bunch of people cannot download their daily freebsd-questions mailing list fix. At least, I don't think so. But they do. And as their money that buys the ISP's product puts the bread on my table, I have to do what they want. And they want instant response if there is a problem in the ISP's systems. That won't happen if the monitoring system's e-mails that get sent out when there is a problem lie around in a mail queue for an hour waiting for a greylist at the cell company to let the messages through. I understand where you are coming from on this, of course email is not the right medium to use for notifying of email failures. We built an SMS gateway. -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anti Spam
I am posting this question here because I know there are alot of ISPs using FreeBSD (including me) and am hoping to get feedback, either directly to me or to the list. I work for an ISP with a mix of freeBSD and Linus servers. We are wrestling (as I am sure many are), with spam. Up until now we have been employing Spamassassin locally and using some 3rd party Anti-Spam servervices that are getting less and less reliable as the weeks go by. Isn't everyone? We are considering two hardware solutions, Easyantispam and Barracuda. Barracuda is very expensive, so the most likely candidate is Easyantispam. Does anyone out there have thought on either or both of these? Usability? Reliability? Total Cost of ownership? Integration issues? We've used Barracuda for nearly two years. It mostly worked. The main issues I had with them is that their setup is really not flexible, and we found greylisting to be more effective than their firewall. The appliance is designed for a business type setup and does that very well, but worked very poorly for an ISP setup. We found that it was considerably cheaper and more effective to run our own anti-spam setup. If you are interested in more specifics, feel free to contact me. -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help on picking an IMAP server
I have been using imap-uw for some time but now I would like to have an imap server that can have subfolders. Out with imap-uw.. I tried dovecot but I was unable to get it to create subfolders, although it seems some say you can, may people are having problems doing so, and I didn't like the fact that it changes the format of the folders from the mbox standard. How long ago did you try Dovecot? There have been a lot of fixes regarding mbox so far this year. Check the Dovecot list for details. any suggestions? Is mbox necessary? I would bet you'd be happier with a maildir backend. There are plenty of tools for converting. -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Importing a server setup.
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:47:27AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have a very good setup on a server that I would like to clone to a brand new server, and an existing server. My plan is dependant on two things, feel free to comment on them if I am missing something: 0. Make sure the machine to be cloned is using a generic kernel, and ensure the SAS driver is enabled. 1. I will take complete dumps of all the file systems (less swap and dev of course). These will be kept on a local machine that has filesharing setup (another freebsd box). 2. a. I will boot the new box using FreeBSD 6.1 or 6.2 CD. (How do I keep from entering sysinstall?) b.Setup the new filesystems, c. setup a local network IP and configure a network fileshare client so I can get to the dumps, (this is doable, right?) d. inport the stored data, and configure the machine specific details (hostname, IP etc etc etc), Am I missing antything here? Might be easier to use g4u http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sorta OT - Backup solutions Mac to FreeBSD
I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the future). Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays. I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients to automatically, incrementally backup certain directories, nightly. Something encrypted would be nice aswell. I like Bacula (www.bacula.org) easier to set up than Amanda IMHO, and works with FreeBSD, MacOS X, Windows, and Linux. Full, Differential, and incremental backups, plus encryption. -- Kenny Dail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ethernet port bondage
I'm running 6.1 Release, and I've been looking for information on how to bond multiple ethernet adaptors in one box so that if one card or connection fails or is disconnected I still have network connectivity. Thanks! -- Kenny Dail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ethernet port bondage
I'm running 6.1 Release, and I've been looking for information on how to bond multiple ethernet adaptors in one box so that if one card or connection fails or is disconnected I still have network connectivity. Have a look at carp(4). It's a failover solution and not a bonding one, but it sounds like that's more what you're after anyway. Thanks for that, but I would be interested in bonding, unless in the FreeBSD world that can't be achieved with failover. It's a fairly straight forward setup on my Linux servers, I was thinking it would be easy enough, but I haven't seen the docs for it anywhere. -- Kenny Dail ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
