Re: Need to download FreeBSD

2008-05-07 Thread Bill Moran
downloads ... that's the _reason_ checksums are provided, to detect corrupted downloads. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: rsync as root for mail servers?

2008-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
rsync should be very fast so you'll have little downtime. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Compiling in Debugging Flags

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Moran
kern.corefile to be /usr/local/corefiles/%N.%P.core. I can then ensure that directory exists and that all users have write access to it (probably not the best idea on a production server, however) From there, you should be getting usable coredumps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Compiling in Debugging Flags

2008-05-02 Thread Bill Moran
going to get anywhere in this business ... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ask for information

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Moran
in this email should be answerable on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/hardware-i386.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Running PostgreSQL 7 8 Simultaneously

2008-04-29 Thread Bill Moran
other's shared memory, and enable SYSV SHM for jails (via sysctl) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Syncing Mail After Cut Over

2008-04-28 Thread Bill Campbell
their old $HOME directories to the new server. It's a completely different kettle of fish if the mail stores are in single files such as the standard BSD/Unix mail stores, U.W. IMAP's binary format, etc. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http

Re: Off topic - plea for help

2008-04-22 Thread Bill Moran
probably get good work. The town she is moving to is only 90 miles from Pittsburgh, PA and it looks like there are plenty of computer programming jobs available there. Why don't you post a resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Filesystem full......

2008-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: openvpn server in a jail

2008-04-21 Thread Bill Moran
out a way to pull it off ... I'd be interested to know about it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: This is a test, please ignore it.

2008-04-20 Thread Bill Moran
Jie Ouyang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Test Please use the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list for testing. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: file/directory names with space in between

2008-04-14 Thread Bill Campbell
option to xargs as in: find something -print0 | xargs -0 command Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232

Re: rpc.lockd leaking memory on 6.3

2008-04-10 Thread Bill Moran
have applications that rely on locking for actual shared file access. As far as the actual issue ... sounds like you should open a PR. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: requesting 'QA' assistance

2008-04-08 Thread Bill Moran
to tick a lot of people off ;) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A silent UPS - (A little OT, I know...)

2008-04-08 Thread Bill Moran
doesn't work then the answer is going to be specific to the brand/model of UPS you have. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Temperature Monitoring on PowerEdge 1950

2008-04-03 Thread Bill Moran
option and that did not work. We've been able to do this using IPMI. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: QueryRegardingWTMPLog

2008-04-01 Thread Bill Moran
-specific. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD crashes

2008-04-01 Thread Bill Moran
running things like cpuburn and memtest to see if you can reproduce it? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: FreeBSD crashes

2008-04-01 Thread Bill Moran
can help you more effectively. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Moran
uses fsync after each commit to ensure you're data can not be lost. From there, it's up to the hardware, so ensure you have quality disks that don't lie about caching, and you'll probably want a battery-backed RAID controller and some sort of disk redundancy (i.e. RAID-10) -- Bill Moran http

Re: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Moran
) The right tool for the job, I'd say. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: junk in remote mutt

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Campbell
ncurses, and if it is not built correctly, that could also cause problems. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676

Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Moran
. Simple website / control panel design is ofcourse a plus. None of that cpanel bullshit though, I prefer to meddle around with simple text files the way it's meant to be done. So, layeredtech.com? rackspace.com? pair.com ? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Email processing in Python

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Campbell
'' and ``imaplib'' modules make accessing POP and IMAP servers pretty easy as well. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676

Re: [Fwd: Re: List replies]

2008-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:30:28 -0400 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fair enough, but is it necessary on all the lists for freebsd? http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html That is one man's point

Re: OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

2008-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
PostgreSQL and use it instead, or use InnoDB tables. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fork bomb immune to limits for user.

2008-03-23 Thread Bill Moran
can't reproduce the problem. I compiled your program and ran it and I was still able to use the system just fine as it was scrolling numbers past. I was also able to CTRL-C the program from the terminal and it stopped without any problems. Nor did I see any unusual memory usage. -- Bill Moran http

Re: [Fwd: Re: List replies]

2008-03-22 Thread Bill Moran
Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fair enough, but is it necessary on all the lists for freebsd? http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread Bill Moran
, enable sshd and add some users. You could argue that it's a secure file transfer server (load up WinSCP on a Windows box and show off just how 133t your are) The handbook is going to be your best guide initially: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ -- Bill Moran http

Re: Any software that can do X windows screen capture (with mouse cursor)

2008-03-18 Thread Bill Campbell
to me that one would have to use some kind of video screen capture from which one could select frames showing the cursor as needed from working sessions. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Bill Moran
on your BSD system. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Urgent: filesystem full, though space is available

2008-03-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In the last episode (Mar 17), Bill Moran said: In response to Armando Cambra [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or try to find the culprit with lsof (can't remember the options). You will see some processes using files you don't have -- kill

Re: Scanners, emulators and VueScan

2008-03-17 Thread Bill Campbell
using were no longer available (let's not go into backups shall we :-). The support has been good, and it does what I need. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186

Re: That age old question again

2008-03-16 Thread Bill Moran
for production systems. You only want STABLE or CURRENT if you're testing the next version, assisting with development, or need a feature before it's officially released. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/22/29/ -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:52:38AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Luigi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Maybe it's a simple question but i'm a newbie lost in my new BSDworld. I've installed PC-BSD but when I want

Re: Superuser password lost

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
Because I don't think it's appropriate to drag this conversation on and on, I'm going to try to answer all the responses in a single email. Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:27:36AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: [snip] No. The term superuser is a made-up

Re: starting a program at boot time

2008-03-11 Thread Bill Moran
is to add a startup script in /usr/local/rc.d/ Just for the sanity of the OP: that directory is /usr/local/etc/rc.d -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: how to respond to possible attacks

2008-03-08 Thread Bill Campbell
of the name servers. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 We'll show the world we are prosperous, even if we have to go

Re: excange server features

2008-03-07 Thread Bill Moran
the best known. iCal stuff can be enabled by adding a WebDAV enabled web server. Apache can do this. You can create shared email folders using IMAP. The logistics of this depend on the specific IMAP server you're using. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: some simple Questions

2008-03-06 Thread Bill Moran
difference between packages and ports? Packages are precompiled. Ports are not. Ports can be made into packages, the reverse is not true. See the above link. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

starting a program at boot time

2008-03-05 Thread Bill Banks
how do i start a program at boot time? -- --- Bill Banks 508-829-2005 Wachusett Programming Ourweb http://www.ourweb.net http://www.ourwebtemplates.com ___ freebsd

Re: faster booting

2008-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
as to what's slowing it down. Are you sure it's not a slow BIOS? Many of the Dell systems we have take several minutes with BIOS self-checks before the OS even starts to boot. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: faster booting

2008-03-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Daniel Feenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Daniel Feenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have several network services hosted on a FreeBSD system, and want it to come up quickly, so that these services (dhcp, nameservice, nis, tftp

Re: Maximum number established TCP connection

2008-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
as it has enough CPU power and memory? The FreeBSD limit on the number of open TCP connections is significantly higher than the Apache limit on the number of concurrent HTTP sessions. I believe Apache has a hard limit of 256. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Maximum number established TCP connection

2008-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Patrick Dung [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello I would like if there is a (countable) limit for the max TCP connection of a Apache web server. Suppose: 1. An apache web server serves a very big iso file

Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

2008-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
/duplex? Wouldn't be the first time I saw a switch negotiate a different speed/ duplex than the NIC on the other end. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Hardware compatability.

2008-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
mostly good experiences with Dell's servers. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: Did Microsoft give up?

2008-02-21 Thread Bill Campbell
more computer time on their iron. The army of ``systems engineers'' required to feed the beasts also benefit from the unnecessary complexity. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX

Re: what is the meaning of optimization changed from TIME to SPACE

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
are creating files there. Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Brian : ivan dimitrov wrote: After upgrading from freebsd-5.5-R to 6.3-R, I get the following message in dmesg: /storage/pub/www/ram: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE I use a ram disk via the md

Re: security of a new installation / steps to take

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:02:22 +0100 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a matter of weeks we will be moving our office server replacing it with a dedicated server machine functioning at an ISP's location. I have spoken to them and they use Fedora so they won't be able to help me much

Re: Is there any print enabled graphic design software?

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Moran
Scribus suit your needs? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what is the meaning of optimization changed from TIME to SPACE

2008-02-19 Thread Bill Moran
is, This is happening because your partition is too close to full. It's not an error, but you should clean up some files or add space. It also has nothing to do with the difference between 5.5 and 6.3. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

2008-02-18 Thread Bill Moran
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Re: (no subject)

2008-02-16 Thread Bill Moran
unexpected. Did you build a kernel without shared memory? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: mailq takes 25 sec to respond

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Moran
25, so it's likely that you've blocked something else that it needs ... DNS perhaps? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: two ntpd

2008-02-15 Thread Bill Moran
processes is normal operation for it. Of course, from ports it installs in /usr/local/sbin and gets its config from /usr/local/etc. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: problem installing FreeBSD 6.3 on Virtual PC 2007

2008-02-12 Thread Bill Allen
Has anyone been able to install FreeBSD version 6.3 successfully on Virtual PC 2007? Does anyone know how to get past the install hanging at Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0? Thanks, wallenpb On 2/11/08, Bill Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.3 on Virtual

problem installing FreeBSD 6.3 on Virtual PC 2007

2008-02-11 Thread Bill Allen
I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.3 on Virtual PC 2007. I get boot from the CD just fine, but get to a point where it says: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 The install stops at this point and is stalled. What should I do? Thanks, wallenpb ___

Re: A non FreeBSD question.

2008-02-08 Thread Bill Moran
/Cucumber/ I mean, it's kinda tough to answer the phone under those circumstances ... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: df du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firefox only runs with 'sudo'

2008-02-01 Thread Bill Moran
at, do you think? I'm going to guess that your ~/.mozilla directory has incorrect ownership. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: This has begun to annoy me...

2008-02-01 Thread Bill Moran
controller). -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: This has begun to annoy me...

2008-02-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 1, 2008 11:46 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been getting this in my daily security email from one of my boxes for quite a while, and have been ignoring it, because

Re: MAGIC: /usr/local/bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied

2008-01-29 Thread Bill Campbell
is that the directory is in a mounted file system with ``noexec'' as a security measure. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 We'll

Re: Next steps

2008-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
, which is a topic too large for an email. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: name server

2008-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
, that's still 200,000 names it has cached. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to backup the users

2008-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
recommend you back up the entire system and restore selectively. Do you have, for example, a database in /usr/local/pgsql? If you're asking this question, you're probably better off safe than sorry. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd

Re: How to backup the users

2008-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
the host keys in /etc/ssh -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VM Options

2008-01-23 Thread Bill Moran
really slow. Down the list are a number of technologies in various stages of development, such as Xen. I don't recommend any of them at this time unless you want to help with development. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: are we CRIMINALS?

2008-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
. Oh my, this is so ridiculous... no it is EXACTLY like that! http://www.potentialtech.com/cms/node/59 -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: are we CRIMINALS?

2008-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
. As far as the cracker, I hope he gets the chair. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gutman Method on Empty Space

2008-01-18 Thread Bill Moran
on an insecure drive), I think you'll be fine if you overwrite it from /dev/random once or twice, then rm -P it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
a network problem to me ... i.e., machines not on the same gateway as the PG server are experience slow network response (or dropped packets?) that's causing amavis to time out while trying to talk to PG. I would suggest investigating there first. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:53 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I also have assumed in the past that db performance could be better if I get off the system RAID-5 and put it on 1+0

Re: db performance

2008-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
people have suggested the PAE drivers may not be stable with my hardware. I don't recommend PAE simply because amd64 works so well and PAE is a holdover hack. That being said, if your hardware is i386 only, you're stuck with PAE. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: some help please

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
how to configure the hostname and ip addresses like local ip and fixed ip to trait the local lan and I real lan in the same way.. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
agree, though, that swap isn't what it used to be. Nobody uses it as supplemental RAM any more as far as I can tell. It's pretty much just a safety net nowadays. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Limit on number of groups a user can join

2008-01-16 Thread Bill Vermillion
that problem. It may be worth a try. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unable to unmount idle filesystem on 6.2

2008-01-11 Thread Bill Campbell
) are using that device? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 If the government can take a man's money without his

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
recommend creating a ~/bin directory and adding that to your search path. You're much less likely to accidentally download a trojan script into ~/bin than you are to ~, and it serves to keep your stuff more organized. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Are 8K sector sizes sane for geli devices?

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
block sizes result in better performance, but make no mention of upper limits. The handbook specifically mentions 4K, which is why I backed down to that size: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html I suppose this could also be a UFS2 issue? -- Bill Moran

Re: Users login configuration

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
filtering to control who can get to which one. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
# suffix. [ `basename $filename .gz` = $filename ] || { echo $filename has a .gz suffix } Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820

Re: Opsware

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
can tell, you're looking for something ala cfengine or puppet? http://www.cfengine.org/ http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/ -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start figuring out why?? Have you checked /var/log/maillog? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start

Re: Howcome mail deletion time varies?

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
, or the drives are busy, etc. So, if your network investigations come up empty, you may want to investigate just what's going on with this machine and whether it may be more heavily loaded than you think. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd

Re: FreeBSD question

2008-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
in Poland. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I installed FreeBSD, but managed to completely fail at getting the man pages installed.

2007-12-31 Thread Bill Moran
doesn't include man pages. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to not start syslogd

2007-12-30 Thread Bill Moran
is quite a few). I suspect you've either got a typo in your rc.conf, or a corrupt/nonstandard /etc/rc.d/syslogd file, or some other oddity preventing it from working. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Server crashes

2007-12-23 Thread Bill Vermillion
the machine. I have found that even when a machine is literaly dead you can still ping it, as the NIC cards seem not to notice that everything else is dead. I don't consdier a returned ping to be a test of much of anything. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to shinny knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:02:12AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Michael W. Lucas : Been searching around without results: Has anyone come up with a decent way to do timekeeping on a jail server? ntpd(8) binds to all

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to shinny knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The reason that is not recommended is that it results in sudden steps of the clock. Occasionally, these steps

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:24:40 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On December 21, 2007 11:23:03 AM -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to shinny

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On Friday, December 21, 2007 13:51:29 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to John Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not generally suitable for cron because it can take longer to slew than it does for the next cron

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

2007-12-18 Thread Bill Moran
you're having trouble, Michael, but we use openntpd on all our systems, specifically because you can tell it what addresses to bind to. Hope that helps. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: SSH through port forwarding

2007-12-17 Thread Bill Campbell
Games or something like that. Forward port 22, ssh, to the internal IP and save the settings. Generally one should have a fixed internal IP for forwarding as DHCP assigned IP addresses may change. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http

Re: Question

2007-12-16 Thread Bill Moran
. ad0 is ad2 on the new hardware). In that case you have to fix the boot loader and /etc/fstab. If you have more difficulty than that, I'd be curious to hear about it, as it'd be news to me. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd

ksh - was: Re: csh progermming considered harmful

2007-12-15 Thread Bill Vermillion
for years, and I have it on all the *n*x systems I mainatain. Even though it's bigger then the pdksh [and I always compile my shells statically just in case] I'd be lost without it. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ freebsd-questions

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