VPS FreeBSD Hosting
I gave up maintaining my own hardware for providing cloud computing services about 10 years ago and have been using several dedicated server services with root-access FreeBSD since about 6.0. with good results. At the time VPS looked like too many problems. Now, however, it looks like there are quite a number of mature VPS hosting services that are FreeBSD-centric at very attractive prices. Most offer KVM or VPS-instance access to allow rebooting and reinstallation. Can anyone comment on the providers and the technology in the context of having used them specifically for FreeBSD in the last few years? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Fairly modest duty - spam filtering, mailboxes, websites, storage, reverse proxy and the like. Oh yeah, some development. Thanks ___ 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: ipfw pipe show
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:53:55 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote > > answer but there is one thing that is still a puzzle. > > > > I have a pipe configured as: > > > > ipfw pipe 2 config bw 768Kbit/s queue 20Kbytes > > > > When I use `ipfw -s 4 pipe 2 show, one bucket is shown: > > > > 2: 768.000 Kbit/s0 ms 20 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail > >mask: 0x00 0x/0x -> 0x/0x > > BKT Prot ___Source IP/port Dest. IP/port Tot_pkt/bytes Pkt/Byte Drp > > 0 tcp 12.###.##.77/80 88.###.##.175/2200 10565 8421549 00 > > 103 > > > > I understand that there is only one bucket but how are the source and > > destination ip addresses and ports chosen to be displayed from all that are > > yes. use queues through this pipe for implementing smart traffic > control > (best of a kind i must say). I'll get to queues eventually. Right now I precede this pipe with a pipe that reports overall statistics for tcp/udp/other and one that develops statistics and applies 128kbps bw limits on a per source host basis. All pipes are sequential. > > > > > While I'm at it this pipe has a 768 Kbps bw limit and is currently running > > at > > what kind of traffic is it? single or lots of tcp connections? looks > like a single connection Traffic is multiple simultaneous connections (outbound http from 20 to 30 webservers). > > > less than 250 Kbps. Why are packets still being dropped at the rate of > > about > > 1%, fairly consistently? > > turn off the pipe and check the traffic again. it looks like your > pipe is setup correctly. Yes, when I do this with an 8 sec delay to reading, I sometimes catch a dropped packet. Calculated bw is ~200kbps. After some minutes it goes to the 1% level and stays there. > > are other rules ok? Yes, everything seems to be consistent and counts match closely. It's not so much a problem but that I am curious. And, I still don't understand the significance of the ip addresses/ports shown in the single bucket pipe? Thanks for the response. -- Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
ipfw pipe show
I'm struggling to understand pipes. Most of it I get or know how to find the answer but there is one thing that is still a puzzle. I have a pipe configured as: ipfw pipe 2 config bw 768Kbit/s queue 20Kbytes When I use `ipfw -s 4 pipe 2 show, one bucket is shown: 2: 768.000 Kbit/s0 ms 20 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail mask: 0x00 0x/0x -> 0x/0x BKT Prot ___Source IP/port Dest. IP/port Tot_pkt/bytes Pkt/Byte Drp 0 tcp 12.###.##.77/80 88.###.##.175/2200 10565 8421549 00 103 I understand that there is only one bucket but how are the source and destination ip addresses and ports chosen to be displayed from all that are routed to the pipe? Do they have any significance? While I'm at it this pipe has a 768 Kbps bw limit and is currently running at less than 250 Kbps. Why are packets still being dropped at the rate of about 1%, fairly consistently? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mysql Unlinked Files
mysql-server stop removes unreferenced files and links, however, mysql-server start just creates them again (of course with higher inodes). The link count does go down some over time (now at 54). Must be something in the startup routine. Just thought someone might have run into it before and figured it out. Thanks for responding. On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:49:06 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote > On Mar 21, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Jim Flowers wrote: > > On startup of mysql-server 5.0.12 on FBSD 5.4-RELEASE my server > > always has 3 > > 0-size unreferenced files with 69 links reported by lsof +L1. > > > > 23 groups of: > > mysqld 6179 mysql6u VREG 4,170 09 /var (/ > > dev/aacd0s1d) > > mysqld 6179 mysql7u VREG 4,170 0 23 /var (/ > > dev/aacd0s1d) > > mysqld 6179 mysql 11u VREG 4,170 0 24 /var (/ > > dev/aacd0s1d) > > > > This doesn't cause problems but I am curious as to what is causing > > it and if I > > could do anything to fix it? > > Do they go away if you kill mysqld? If not, consider rebooting to > single-user mode or off of a CD, and running fsck by hand on /var... > > -- > -Chuck > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. -- Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Mysql Unlinked Files
On startup of mysql-server 5.0.12 on FBSD 5.4-RELEASE my server always has 3 0-size unreferenced files with 69 links reported by lsof +L1. 23 groups of: mysqld 6179 mysql6u VREG 4,170 09 /var (/dev/aacd0s1d) mysqld 6179 mysql7u VREG 4,170 0 23 /var (/dev/aacd0s1d) mysqld 6179 mysql 11u VREG 4,170 0 24 /var (/dev/aacd0s1d) This doesn't cause problems but I am curious as to what is causing it and if I could do anything to fix it? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: milter-ahead on 5.4-RELEASE
Worked like a charm. Many thinks. Didn't think to remove -fvolatile from the lib configure as well as that ran without complaint. -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Original Message --- From: Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jim Flowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, 18 May 2005 21:19:30 -0400 Subject: Re: milter-ahead on 5.4-RELEASE > On Wed, 18 May 2005 13:53:11 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions > you wrote: > > >I am trying to install milter-ahead but having trouble getting it to > >./configure on 5.4 or 5.3 due to problems with gcc. Works OK on 4.9. > > > >Has anybody done this that will give me a push in the right direction? > > Here is what I did to get it to compile > > Download > http://www.snert.com/Software/download/libsnert-1.40.tgz > http://www.snert.com/Software/download/milter-ahead-0.8.tgz > > tar -xzpf each > > cd com/snert/src/lib/ > /usr/bin/sed -i.bak "s,-fvolatile,," configure > ./configure > make > cd ../milter-ahead > /usr/bin/sed -i.bak "s,-fvolatile,," configure > ./configure > make > make install > > ---Mike > > Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net > Providing Internet Access since 1994 > [EMAIL PROTECTED], (http://www.tancsa.com) --- End of Original Message --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
milter-ahead on 5.4-RELEASE
I am trying to install milter-ahead but having trouble getting it to ./configure on 5.4 or 5.3 due to problems with gcc. Works OK on 4.9. Has anybody done this that will give me a push in the right direction? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
php4-cli with mod_php4
I would like to have a cli php as well as mod_php4 with apache2. I installed php4-cli but then had to deinstall it when mod_php4 complained about it using the same install locations. It seems like maybe use a different prefix (/usr/local/php4?) but I don't know. Is there a correct way to do this? Thanks -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Update module ports after Perl upgrade?
I just upgraded to perl-5.8.1 on my FreeBSD 4.9R system (5.8.0 threw an error on shared.bs) but after I had installed mysql-server which builds p5-DBI-137- 1.37 and p5-DBD-mysql-2.1026_1 as dependencies. In the past I have uninstalled perl modules and reinstalled them to get them in the right place to use with the upgraded perl version but it seems a bit hit-or-miss on establishing the new dependencies. What is the right, or at least preferred, way to do this? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
make makesum build deinstall reinstall ???
I read this in somebody's post (thank you) in regard to using the sendmail port to upgrade to 8.12.10 after changing the version in the Makefile. It worked great but now I would like to know more about this method. Are these targets documented somewhere? Are there limitations/dangers/gotchas to watch out for? I like to use the latest stable version of applications but the port is often 1 or more versions back. Thanks -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
jftpgw port and seteuid not permitted
Would like to evaluate this ftp proxy on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE but although it makes cleanly, when I go to run it I get a logged error message: Aug 21 13:16:32 [67924]: Could not change the EUID to 65534: Operation not permitted and the program quits. The program is: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 117644 Aug 21 12:43 /usr/local/sbin/jftpgw and it is started by root then switched to nobody/nogroup. Any way I can get around this? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
no arp who-has replys
I have a network that depends on a Cisco router, not running any routing protocol and not under my control, getting responses to arp who-has messages for routing. I just configured a 4.8-STABLE box as a router and I don't think it is working correctly. My understanding is that when a router knows a route to an ip address, it is supposed to respond to arp who-has messages with an arp reply message giving its own mac address. The fbsd router is not responding even though it has a correct route, has ip forwarding enabled and is seeing the arp who-has messages. Shouldn't it be? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Mail/mail and sendmail port
Dumb and dumber: So that's what /usr/etc/mailer.conf is for. It's in the trailer displayed during install. I just installed the sendmail 12.8.6 port on a fbsd-4.0R system and for the most part, it works fine. What doesn't work is mail/Mail from the sendmail host. I start up a local 12.8.6 version using: /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30 or /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -q30m -C /etc/mail/submit.cf but when I use mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get two messages indicating that mail/Mail is using it's own copy of sendmail with the default (previous) cf file: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 187: readcf: map ednsbl: class dns not available Warning: .cf version level (10) exceeds sendmail version 8.11.6 functionality (9) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Mail/mail and sendmail port
I just installed the sendmail 12.8.6 port on a fbsd-4.0R system and for the most part, it works fine. What doesn't work is mail/Mail from the sendmail host. I start up a local 12.8.6 version using: /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30 or /usr/local/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -q30m -C /etc/mail/submit.cf but when I use mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get two messages indicating that mail/Mail is using it's own copy of sendmail with the default (previous) cf file: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 187: readcf: map ednsbl: class dns not available Warning: .cf version level (10) exceeds sendmail version 8.11.6 functionality (9) Could someone tell me what is going on and how I get around this? Nothing in the man pages or mail list that I could find. Please copy me by email. Thanks. -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
HDD Crashing?
My main email server has just started crashing periodically with the following messages: Oct 21 16:06:12 myserver /kernel: dev = #ad/0x20014, block = 18648, fs = /usr3 Oct 21 16:06:12 myserver /kernel: panic: ffs_blkfree: freeing free block Can anyone give me an idea of what is happening? Is this a disk controller or a hard disk problem? FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE ad2: 19092MB [38792/16/63] at ata1-master UDMA33 /dev/ad2s1e 18949334 2413806 1501958214%/usr3 Thanks. -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Sendmail Upgrade Problems (dirrm)
I am trying to install the sendmail 8.12.6 port on a 4.4-stable system. I think I did this before with 8.12.3 successfully but on this one I get an error: "dirrm share/sendmail: not found:. Can someone tell me what's going on? Also, I seem to remember that the port installed everything but you could run a script which I can't find to change between the base sendmail and the port sendmail and back. Is this still available and what is it called? Thanks. -- Jim Flowers<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
