Looking for better Web Host for my FreeBSD based hosing needs!

[Lynette Tillner]

Hi, 

For the last year, we've had our company website hosted on a Virtual Private Server 
that runs on FreeBSD 4.8.  I've been having some problems getting support from that 
organization and want to look at moving to a different web host.  

There are many reasons why we use an external company for our webspace rather than 
doing it all internally.  I am now running a FreeBSD 4.10 machine in house for 
development purposes but will also use an external source for the actual production 
pages and database.  

My problem is that we are a very small organization and the cost for a dedicated 
server has been prohibitive in the past.  Also, we never really needed all the disk 
space and do-it-yourself headaches.  Since, for the past 3 years we were a 
one-person do-it-all IT department (that's changing as we grow, but we still have a 
long way to go!)  So, I need GOOD and RELIABLE SUPPORT, the common stuff for WEB 
Hosting pre-installed (FreeBSD, Apache (including Apache-ASP), CGI, MySQL, Perl, PHP, 
Sendmail, etc) and both SSH and Webmin access to the remote server.  

Any recommendations for a great Web Hosting Company that will provide outstanding 
service and support to a small, but very webcentric organization would be greatly 
appreciated! 

Thanks! 
Lynette
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Make Error? What is wrong?

[Lynette Tillner]

On my Web Server, which I have a Virtual Private Server account on a machine at an ISP 
with 2 gig of disk space running on FreeBSD 4.8

I used to cvsup to add a FEW ports  security and mail most importantly so I can add 
some spam and virus filtering to Sendmail.  

Now when I cd (as su) to /usr/ports/security/clamav
and then type make install at the prompt, 
I get the following error: 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] clamav]# make install
make: don't know how to make install. Stop

I can't seem to run any make command in any directory.  What do I need to do to get 
this to work?

when I enter make with nothing else, I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]  clamav]# make
make: no target to make.

What do I need to do to get this working?  (I'm a newbie BTW so any actual step by 
step instructions would help!)
Thanks!
Lynette
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Re: how do I suppress system messages?

[Lynette Tillner]

I did this, and even did a reboot of the server but the messages haven't
stopped.  Since this is a machine managed by my ISP (I don't have a full
dedicated server, just a Virtual Private Server with 2 gig of disk space)
could something be overriding my syslog.conf file?  I looked at rc.conf but
didn't see anything that I thought was appropriate to comment out.

Also, I can't switch to another tty because my only access is remote --- I
don't have console access.

Thanks!
Lynette

- Original Message - 
From: Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Kevin Glick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: 'Lynette Tillner' [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: how do I suppress system messages?

On Oct 13, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Kevin Glick wrote:

 Lynette,

 System messages print out to the console on tty0 only, by default.  If
 you
 want to use the console, switch to tty1 or above.  Do this by
 ALT+2(tty1),
 ALT+3(tty2), etc.
 When you're in Vi, and syslog prints across the screen, using CTRL+L
 will
 re-draw the screen, and remove the syslog messages.
 If you want to get rid of the messages altogether, look into disabling
 syslogd, via /etc/rc.conf.  (Man syslogd, or check
 /etc/defaults/rc.conf for
 syslogd.

 Kevin Glick
 ITS Manager
 Sterling Business Forms
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lynette Tillner
 Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 11:21 AM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: how do I suppress system messages?

 This is something that drives me crazy but I've not been able to find
 a way
 to stop it.

 When I log into my FreeBSD 4.6 Web Server as root, I get messages from
 sendmail that I can't suppress with dmesg.  They are a real pain
 because
 they even come across the screen when I'm using VI to edit files and
 then I
 can't figure out the line I was in the middle of editing, and end up
 doing a
 :q! and starting over, very frustrating because we get tons of mail
 and it
 seems like I can't do anything as root because of these messages.

 Is there a command that will suppress the messages?   I remember being
 able
 to do that when I was working on an HP-UX system but haven't figured
 it out
 under FreeBSD.

 Thanks for any help!

 Lynette


You can also disable this by editing the file /etc/syslog.conf and
commenting out the following line:

*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit  /dev/console

Simply put a # in front, save the file, and restart syslogd by doing
the following as root:
# killall -1 syslogd

HTH
-
Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks

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