Re: System randomly not logging complete bi-directional traffic.

2011-10-23 Thread freebsd_user
Thanks for everyone's patients. In reply to Michael asking about the rule set used; the issue happens without ipfw. We temporarily employed ipfw to help and confirm whether traffic was in fact coming into port 80 and while randomly not being logged or seen by FreeBSD's syslogd, or by the web ser

System randomly not logging complete bi-directional traffic.

2011-10-09 Thread freebsd_user
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org # # # FreeBSD_7-4 RELEASE # Our hardware is pristine # # What is described herein are regular, yet random occurrences; we need help. We have already performed a reinstall of FreeBSD_7-4 RELEASE (and the daemons in question); the issue remains. Below, is part of a conv

Re: IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-15 Thread freebsd_user
Annotated below ... > Hi, > > On Tuesday 15 March 2011 07:00:30 freebsd_u...@guice.ath.cx wrote: >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >> Guidance with the following: >> >> We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant >> devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical o

IDE -- mount partitions for better performance

2011-03-14 Thread freebsd_user
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Guidance with the following: We are limited to Support for ATA-100/66/33 IDE and ATAPI compliant devices. With that said, we have our atapi/33 optical on a add in controller (PCI) and are seeking to place four HDD’s on the main boards controllers. Our dilemma is wh

Custom Kernel -- Module exclusion by association

2010-09-03 Thread freebsd_user
My meaning in the 'subject' is: Currently we want to: 'options QUOTA' in the kernel. We do not want to compile any modules that we don't have to (effort to save time). If adding support for 'QUOTA' doesn't require any module rebuilding, how do we specify/exclude 'all' module building using 'WITH

Upgrading from 6.3-p3 -to- 7.x-p4 -- SENDMAIL -- TECRA

2008-09-11 Thread freebsd_user
The short version of this: after the entire build and installworld process the base-SENDMAIL appeared to be fully running but was not functioning correctly, no incoming or outgoing mail --not from the local box to the Inet and nothing IN from the Inet until we => cd /etc/mail && make all && make i

Re: kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked^M -- TECRA

2008-09-10 Thread freebsd_user
Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Polytropon wrote: [snip] I'm sure you noticed the Ctrl-M (^M) at the ends of each line. This seems to be an MS-DOS-like line break (ASCII 0x13 + 0x10). UNIX (and so FreeBSD) use the NL or LF character 0x10. And 0x13 is the CR character which is equivalent

kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked^M -- TECRA

2008-09-09 Thread freebsd_user
# uname -a FreeBSD 6281.domain.net 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 04:45:4 5 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 ##---> cvsup the src # @(#)newvers.sh 8.1 (Berkeley) 4/20/94 # $FreeBSD: src/sys/conf/newvers.sh,v 1.72.2.5.2.8 2008/09/03 19:09:47 simo

Re: Starting and using services -- Single-user mode -- TECRA_A9-S9017

2008-09-05 Thread freebsd_user
Ivan Voras wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the need to start and use service while in single_user mode. To this point I'm not able to use 'top' or 'ps' respectively. In ps is in /bin, top is in /usr/bin ; unless you a) have your PATH wrong or b) commonly put /bin on separate file syst

Starting and using services -- Single-user mode -- TECRA_A9-S9017

2008-09-05 Thread freebsd_user
I have the need to start and use service while in single_user mode. To this point I'm not able to use 'top' or 'ps' respectively. In addition,from the CLI; when I attempt to start services such as 'portmap' and 'sshd' nothing is shown running via 'ps'. All I see are the headers when I issue

Re: TECRA_A9-S9017 -- /usr/src/UPDATING -- Machine is down.

2008-08-25 Thread freebsd_user
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:10:24PM +, Christopher Joyner wrote: > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Christopher Joyner < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:04:09AM -0400, David Gurvich wrote: > >> > A

Re: TECRA_A9-S9017 -- /usr/src/UPDATING -- Machine is down.

2008-08-25 Thread freebsd_user
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:04:09AM -0400, David Gurvich wrote: > Are you sure you've updated all of /etc, particularly the login? Initially "no" we didn't; because the plan was to do: 4.x -- 5.5 -- 6.3. However, once the machine failed to boot in to multi-user mode, we revisited mergemaster and ins

TECRA_A9-S9017 -- /usr/src/UPDATING -- Machine is down.

2008-08-25 Thread freebsd_user
The short version is, the machine will not enter multi-user mode after we followed the instructions or directions within /usr/src/UPDATING . the SECTION entitled: To upgrade in-place from 4.x-stable to 5.x - While we are able t

Re: buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, shutdow now, fsck -p -- NO WRITE ACCESS

2008-08-04 Thread freebsd_user
Daniel Bye wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:37:28PM -0400, email wrote: I thank you. In addition, I am quite sure the command we are referred to in "23.4.5 Drop to Single User Mode" is in fact 'shutdown now' and not 'shutdown -r now'. Yes. But that section relates to dropping to s

buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, shutdow now, fsck -p -- NO WRITE ACCESS

2008-08-04 Thread freebsd_user
I do not code in any way. With that being said, should you be able to help please do so with the knowledge that I can not code. I'm following the freebsd handbook when the following occurs. -- separate fresh 'dangerously dedicated' installs of both 7.0 and 6.3-RELEASE on the same machine, yi