RootBSD?
Hi, Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I'm looking to move an office-hosted machine's services to the cloud, and they seem to be one of the only VPS companies centered around BSD support instead of Linux. Thanks, -Tom___ 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: RootBSD?
On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Glen Barber wrote: Hi Tom, Tom Ierna wrote: Anyone have any experience with RootBSD.net? I've been using RootBSD for a few months now, and would give you nothing but positive feedback - however, your question isn't exactly specific. Is there anything in particular you need to know? I was non-specific on purpose; I'm looking for any stories. Also, if anyone has any other FreeBSD-friendly VPS companies they can recommend, that would be great. I've looked on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/isp.html Linux VPS vendors are a dime-a-dozen and I'm using a great one (Linode) for several servers that I don't need on FreeBSD. Basically, I'm looking for a FreeBSD VPS vendor that's as highly regarded as Linode. Thanks for your thoughts. ___ 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: mac arp moved from-to DOS?
On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Anuj Singh wrote: 4 03:23:19 fbsd7 kernel: arp: 10.139.7.15 moved from 00:22:19:ae:ea:0d to 00:22:19:ae:ea:0f on age0 Apr 4 03:23:19 fbsd7 kernel: arp: 10.139.7.15 moved from 00:22:19:ae:ea:0f to 00:22:19:ae:ea:0d on age0 10.139.7.15 is some windows machine... Does this Windows machine have two Ethernet cards plugged into the same network? It looks like your FreeBSD machine is seeing that IP address switch between two MAC addresses. This can be indicative of a network loop between the interfaces on the machine with that IP address, or a DHCP client fight. I've also seen this (harmlessly) manifest with certain FreeBSD firewalls in bridged mode. -Tom ___ 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: Can't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?
On Jun 1, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: To be able to mount your iPhone, you're going to have to essentially void the warranty and risk turning it into a pretty paperweight. It sucks, but that's the way it is. But at least you can charge your iPhone using FreeBSD. If using libgpod through gtkpod only requires the iPhone be jailbroken, the above is not true. Jailbreaking your iPhone does not void the warranty, and there is very little chance of bricking it by just jailbreaking it. Bricking used to be an issue when mucking with the radio firmware, but jailbreaking doesn't touch that stuff. To jailbreak an iPhone, check out http://ziphone.org/ You will need either a Windows or Mac to do the Jailbreak though. -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf
On Sep 12, 2007, at 3:23 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Everything is fine here. But I think now that the problem is not with apache but with php. It does not even matter if I do start or startssl. In both instances the httpd server dies. The reason I think it is php-related is that when I issue php -v I get: PHP 5.2.3 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2 (cli) (built: Sep 12 2007 08:59:52) Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies Segmentation fault (core dumped) pkg_info | grep php5 php5-5.2.3_1PHP Scripting Language (Apache Module and CLI) I do not really feel like upgrading apache (as suggested by someone else - thank you by the way) because it is just a home machine on which I do not need all the greatest and latest. If there's nothing obvious that comes to your mind I will try posting it on a php list. Can you make a copy of /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini and put an empty extensions.ini in it's place? This will turn off all of the PHP extensions. The last time I experienced core dumps in Apache after an upgrade of my PHP install was when some of my PHP Extensions didn't get rebuilt. If Apache starts with PHP working (but without extensions) then you can narrow down which extensions didn't get rebuilt when you upgraded to /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions. Best, -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lost password caused by drunk admin
On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Lewis Joshua wrote: Can anyone help me out? The unit has no reset buttons to reset it to defaults there is nothing online that I can find to bypass the unit. I did a port scan and it appears to only be listening on port 80. Any thoughts out there? Please. Here's a document describing how to reset the Admin password by first upgrading the firmware with a TFTP server, and then using a machine configured to spoof an IP from which the device will read a plaintext XML config file. http://www.sineapps.com/news.php?rssid=949 YMMV, HTH, HAND -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for something like an embedded ftp server
On Apr 11, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Derrill Guilbert wrote: What I would really prefer is some sort of BSD based simple FTP server setup. I've found several BSD based router/firewall/whatever servers out there, such as m0n0wall and pfsense, among others, and I would like something that simple for an FTP server. That is, I want to be able to install the server and then only have to configure users, no mess with hardening things and setting up pf or so ... What about FreeNAS(1): http://www.freenas.org/ 1) I've never tried this myself, so I don't know how easy just the FTP portion is... Regards, -Tom -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail Vpopmail From Ports
On Nov 18, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Rachel Florentine wrote: Well, going to that page led me to this as the authority for vpopmail: http://dev.qmailrocks.org/qmail/freebsd/vpopmail_std.htm I've installed qmail/vpopmail many ways - from source, using the instructions from qmailrocks and most recently using the instructions found here: http://www.tnpi.biz/internet/mail/toaster/install.shtml The toaster method seems to me to be the most comprehensive, and you can use (or not use) ports as you see fit. Installing over your current installation using the toaster instructions should work OK - the install scripts seem to try to do the right thing. Best of luck, -Tom -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Qmail Vpopmail From Ports
On Nov 18, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Rachel Florentine wrote: make test resulted in this: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed -- - t/Toaster.t1 256411 2.44% 22 t/toaster-watcher.t1 256231 4.35% 21 7 tests and 5 subtests skipped. Failed 2/24 test scripts, 91.67% okay. 2/364 subtests failed, 99.45% okay. *** Error code 255 Stop in /usr/local/Mail-Toaster-5.03. I'm toast. Rachel IIRC, when installing for the first time, there were make test errors, but they all worked themselves out once all installation and configuration was complete. -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rpc.lockd stalls
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:34:08PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Sporadically, there appear to be stalls on some locks with rpc.lockd. rpc.lockd is unreliable in all versions of FreeBSD (although it may be worse in 5.x), see the mailing list archives for extensive discussion of this. Try turning it off and using mount_nfs -L instead to fake the lock traffic (See the manpage). Kris, Is there a way to note -L via fstab? Since these machines are PXE booted, unmounting and re-mounting with -L will be problematic, and I'd like them to inherit this property at reboot. Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rpc.lockd stalls
Hello, list. For the purposes of ease of software and hardware management, I'm attempting to run a set of PXE-booted Client machines as web/db or mail servers. The NFS/DHCP/YP servers are running on a 5.4-STABLE Server. I mostly followed the PXE guide when building these systems. All of the disk (except for swap) sits on the master Server (which has a bunch of external drive sleds), and all of the Client machines boot via Gig-E. Client machines are running 5.4-STABLE as well, but it is not compiled with the same kernel configuration as the master Server, as the hardware is slightly different. Client machines share userland with the Server. At the moment I have one Client machine running about 40 domains of web and db, with reasonably low traffic (less than 3Mbit/sec total) and one Client machine booted from the master Server, but not doing anything. Resource utilization on the master Server seems pretty low. Sporadically, there appear to be stalls on some locks with rpc.lockd. These lock stalls exhibit interesting behavior on the Client machines: Slots will fill up on Apache in the W state. SSH login attempts to the client machine (passwd files get some user data via YP) will hang and timeout. when I find a file (via Apache's extended status) which appears to be one of the stalled locks, and I attempt to do anything with the file via a shell on the client machine, such as cat it, that shell will become unresponsive. Any process which is stalled on one of these files cannot be killled. On the server, the only symptom I've witnessed is that rpc.lockd starts using a bit more proc than it usually does. Normal utilization is 0.0, and when the problem is happening, proc might go up to 3.0 or so. cating a file on the Server which appears stalled on the Client, works fine. A stop and start of nfslocking on the server seems to clear things up. Apache on the client will recover on its own, I'm guessing after each stalled lock reaches a timeout. I usually gracefully restart Apache, which forces the recovery to happen faster. As far as timing, it doesn't appear to be consistently periodic. It doesn't appear to be load related - I suffered through a Digg of one of the sites, and while the client machine served more bandwidth that couple of days than it had in a month, this particular problem did not occur. Over the past three months or so, this issue has probably cropped up three or four times. What can I do to troubleshoot this? I would like to add more client machines, but I can't until this problem is resolved. Changing OS builds at this point, unless absolutely necessary, is not something I want to do. Thanks for any insight! -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rpc.lockd stalls
On Sep 7, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Trying to run a database server or mail server without a disk strikes me as a very bad idea. This is unfortunate - the client machines I have chosen have no front-panel disk sleds. Hardware administration will be a bear if they each have to have their own disks. Software-wise, I was hoping to have them all share a common Kernel and userland too, so I only have to update software in one place. I am surprised that rpc.lockd is holding up well enough to only go down about once a month; simply running the locking tests which come with sendmail used to be enough to cause rpc.lockd to crash... I will be using qmail, when I get to that stage. qmail is supposed to be rather safe, even over NFS. Best of luck, -- -Chuck Thanks, it sounds like you think I need it :) I'm open to suggestions on a better method of accomplishing my goals. Best, -Tom -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rpc.lockd stalls
On Sep 7, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:12:26PM -0400, Tom Ierna wrote: Is there a way to note -L via fstab? Since these machines are PXE booted, unmounting and re-mounting with -L will be problematic, and I'd like them to inherit this property at reboot. Yes, use the -o format, see the manpage. Under the man page for mount_nfs, I have the following: -o Options are specified with a -o flag followed by a comma sepa- rated string of options. See the mount(8) man page for possible options and their meanings. The following NFS specific options are also available: ... Historic -o Options ... lockd Same as not specifying -L. ... It doesn't have any other reference to -L. Are mounts specified in fstab automatically non-locking, or is the man page incorrect? Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Ierna President Shockergroup, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
