NFS tweaking (mount_nfs and fstab)

2005-02-02 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Hey FreeBSD community, Firstly - Whats the difference between freebsd-questions and freebsd-newbies? Just the level of detail / questions asked? Let me know if I should be posting somewhere besides this list. Ok, so I've been transferring large tar files (60gig+) to a nfs mount (both client and s

NFS tweaking (mount_nfs and fstab)

2005-02-02 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Hey FreeBSD community, Firstly - Whats the difference between freebsd-questions and freebsd-newbies? Just the level of detail / questions asked? Let me know if I should be posting somewhere besides this list. Ok, so I've been transferring large tar files (60gig+) to a nfs mount (both client and s

Re: Hard Disk failure

2004-10-08 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Hey Dean, Everything is a file in the UNIX world, so copying over file for file is no problem. be sure that you preserve permissions (aka 'archive mode') preseriving ownership and permissions is vital. '``cp'' should do everything you need in this case. Are you sure there are bad sectors? Can y

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-08 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
# After 10 unauthenticated connections, refuse 30% of the new ones, and # refuse any more than 60 total. MaxStartups 10:30:60 >From an old server of mine, looks related to solutions you're seeking (but I agree with Dennis, deny PasswordAuthentication is strongest. On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:24:54

simple documentation question (adding a disk)

2004-10-08 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
The 'Adding a Disk' page in the Handbook explains how to add disks to the system via /stand/sysinstall http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Im running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and followed the directions on the above link but fdisk gave me a heads up when trying to com

ports - MySQL/php/apache

2004-08-27 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Compiling the mod_php doesn't seem to have the same makefile as it once did. The dialog box that comes up does not give you MySQL, XML, etc. options as it once did. I had to modify it's makefile by hand. Any idea when this port will be fixed? If you could CC me that'd be great. Im not on the maili

Samba3 and NIS

2004-07-08 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
My goal here is to be able to migrate a list of existing system user accounts AND there samba credentials over to a brand new machine, which runs a newer version of samba (3.0.4). Im assuming I'll be able to have to vipw's open, side by side.. one of the old machine and the other on the new machin

5.2.1: Post Installation order

2004-06-28 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
My goal in this letter is to show you my post installation order to see what your thoughts and suggestions are, and additionally, I'd like to know your post installation order / style. Perhaps Im breaking down something that shouldn't be looked at with so much detail but I continually have problem

fsck'ing a Vinum RAID5 volume (and a stale drive)

2004-06-25 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
This is a good one. $ uname -a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 First I'll explain the stale/degraded issue. Then ask about fsck on a raid5 vinum. My goal is to have the vinum volume check out OK with

ReiserFS Support in FreeBSD?

2004-02-27 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Im planning on building a media storage server here at home this weekend. I already have several drives with data and they're ReiserFS... I skimmed the handbook but didn't find my answer; Does FreeBSD support ReiserFS? Im assuming is supports ext3. -Ben -- This message has been scanned for vir

Recovering Data from a reformatted drive

2004-02-26 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
[sry is this is a duplicate, I cannot find evidence that my first send made it to the mailing list] I have a hard drive that had lots of important data on it. It was reformatted and I have no backups (lesson learned). It was a ccd mirror of two 100gig drives. Once the reformat of this ccd compl

Re: Recovering Data from a reformatted drive

2004-02-26 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 27, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Benjamin P. Keating wrote: I have a hard drive that had lots of important data on it. It was reformatted and I have no backups (lesson learned). It was a ccd mirror of two 100gig drives. Once the reformat of this ccd completed the machine

directories to exclude for backups

2004-02-26 Thread Benjamin P. Keating
My Plan is to make a gzipped tarball of the entire machine, excluding directories that are not necessary. If however, there is a more sound solution then tarballing a machine for a backup, Im all ears. I know rsync is a possibility, but i'd like to have just a solid, non-active archive copy of