Re: resident memory limit

In response to "Brad Penoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Brad Penoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In response to "Brad Penoff" <[EMA

Re: resident memory limit

and breaks once it gets ENOMEM (doing another > while(1) so it doesn't exit); this application's memory size in top > always matches the kern.maxdsiz setting, however it has a very low > resident memory number, according to top. Have a look at /etc/log

Re: Lenovo ThinkPad -- good as IBM?

novo T61. It runs FreeBSD 7 pretty well. The only problem I've had so far is that FreeBSD is unable to put it to sleep, but my understanding is that's not a Thinkpad-specific problem. So far I've been very happy with all aspects of it. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: Need to download FreeBSD

it wrong. Checksum problems occur sometimes during 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.o

Re: Underscores in host names

this discussion with some colleagues a short time back. Our conclusion (based on some research and experimentation): 1) Underscores are not valid in domain names. 2) _most_ DNS systems will work with them anyway. 3) Just enough DNS systems don't work with _,

Re: rsync as root for mail servers?

active machine and rsync again. This second 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

Re: Compiling in Debugging Flags

to learn important things like this if you're 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: Compiling in Debugging Flags

ever it's trying to dump to. Personally, I prefer to tweak 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,

Re: Running PostgreSQL 7 & 8 Simultaneously

you have to change the UID of the pgsql user in each jail so they don't overwrite each other's shared memory, and enable SYSV SHM for jails (via sysctl) -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Ask for information

a SWEEX PU103 with a Sil3512 chipset. Does > FreeBSD 7.0 > support this chipset ? Well, between the top posting and the ambiguous reply quoting, I'm not sure what your original question actually was. However, all the questions in this email should be answerable on this page: http://w

Re: Syncing Mail After Cut Over

, then rsync over 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

Re: Off topic - plea for help

there is no way I can afford that move. If I > could get there I could 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

Re: openvpn server in a jail

re clever than I may have figured 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

Re: Filesystem full......

ably some stuff you can clean out to make room. Do you have a /boot/kernel.old file that would free up some space if removed? -- 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 is a test, please ignore it.

"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/ma

Re: file/directory names with space in between

characters using the -print0 option to find, and -0 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

Re: rpc.lockd leaking memory on 6.3

rking acceptably for us for a while. I expect it will work for you unless you 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

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

op. If for some incomprehensible reason a laptop 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.fr

Re: requesting 'QA' assistance

sking folks to look at it and provide feedback. Yes, a 466K shar file posted to the mailing list is going 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: Temperature Monitoring on PowerEdge 1950

I have also tried > lmmon with the -i 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/fre

Re: FreeBSD crashes

x27;t help you, it will provide details that you can post with your question so that people 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: FreeBSD crashes

c/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Based purely on the symptom that the crashes started occurring unrelated to any other activity, I would guess that you've got a hardware issue. Have you tried running things like cpuburn and memtest to see if you can reproduce it?

Re: QueryRegardingWTMPLog

pect your question is Suse-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: making FreeBSD phone home via SSH

N clients, and your local machine is a VPN server) 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: OT: (Way OT) PHP and MySQL concurrency control using MyISAM tables

your data is safely on disk, but I can say that PostgreSQL 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 contro

Re: junk in remote mutt

encountering this issue, then from >there using SSH to get back to the local machine, and opened mutt inside >this contrived SSH loop. Still no problem. Thus, whatever the problem >is seems to be particular to the remote machine. > What is your TERM environment variable setti

Re: Email processing in Python

ch the same as the perl Mail::Internet modules (I've written a wrapper for python's email library that basically implements the perl API to make porting my old perl routines to python :-). The ``poplib'' and ``imaplib'' modules make accessing POP and IMAP serve

Re: Where to rent the best dedicated servers?

an IRC > server as well as an internet radio channel. > > 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?

Re: Fork bomb immune to limits for user.

oot) in fBSD ? Can't help you much here because I 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.

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

at a workaround. The correct solution is to use the correct tool for the job. Either install PostgreSQL and use it instead, or use InnoDB tables. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: [Fwd: Re: List replies]

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? > > &

Re: [Fwd: Re: List replies]

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 ma

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

via Google. Another, possibly even easier, option is to set up a shell server. Just install the OS, 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

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

entire screen. It seems 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;

Re: Scanners, emulators and VueScan

Mac Mini and the HP drivers I had been 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. M

Re: Urgent: filesystem "full", though space is available

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). > >

Re: Urgent: filesystem "full", though space is available

stat if you don't wan to install Linux software 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: That age old question again

o keep this version updated ?? You want RELENG_7_0 for bugfixes/security fixes 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.potential

Re: Superuser password lost

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] > &g

Re: Superuser password lost

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'

Re: Superuser password lost

munity lists, including a support list. Have you tried asking there?: http://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: starting a program at boot time

> > @reboot command > > in crontab > > Not really. > > The more proper way 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

Re: how to respond to possible attacks

ould be to attempt to contact the owners 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

Re: excange server features

tiple webmail ports: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/mail.html Horde/IMP and Squirrelmail are probably 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

Re: some simple Questions

w.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/ > main 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 ___ fr

Re: faster booting

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 > >

Re: faster booting

your hardware. I'm not buying this, however. My laptop boots in ~30 seconds with a mostly stock kernel. Please provide specific details as to what's slowing it down. Are you sure it's not a slow BIOS? Many of the Dell systems we have

starting a program at boot time

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: Maximum number established TCP connection

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 > >> o

Re: Maximum number established TCP connection

at FreeBSD could handle 'unlimited' established TCP > connections as long 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

Re: FreeBSD SAMBA file server performance - strange behaviour

thernet settings are correct? If the interface is set to autoneg, can you verify that both ends (the FreeBSD machine and the switch itself) have negotiated the same speed/duplex? Wouldn't be the first time I saw a switch negotiate a different speed/ duplex than the NIC on the other end. --

Re: FW: Did Microsoft give up?

essed it up, it required 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 82

Re: Hardware compatability.

vers and processors please? We've had 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: Is there any print enabled graphic design software?

printing to pdf means the final image size is an > A4 and god knows what dpi. > > Anything better out there? Might 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: security of a new installation / steps to take

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

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

taking up an unexpected 3.0M of space, you could enable audit and track what programs 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 fol

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

e to full, FreeBSD automatically switches to "space optimization" which doesn't waste any space, but doesn't perform as well. The short answer is, "This is happening because your partition is too close to full. It's not an error, but you should clean up

Re: 32 bit and 64 bit freebsd binary compatiblty

32's installed ? > > > > bye > > Norman > > > > > > > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: (no subject)

> > Looks like the problem is that somewhere within there it's expected that > the home directory isn't /usr/home/hana, it's /usr/home/hanka > > Have you checked /etc/master.passwd to make sure that there's no > mis-entry in there? Or just try creatin

Re: two ntpd

tpd.drift Did you somehow replace the system ntpd with OpenNTPD? OpenNTPD uses privilege separation, and thus two 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 _

Re: mailq takes 25 sec to respond

onds, which is a common timeout value for network operations. sendmail needs to communicate on more ports than just 25, so it's likely that you've blocked something else that it needs ... DNS perhaps? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: problem installing FreeBSD 6.3 on Virtual PC 2007

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

problem installing FreeBSD 6.3 on Virtual PC 2007

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 ___ fr

Re: A non FreeBSD question.

ery hour -- at least any > spouses in a good marriage relationship. Bah. It means he's kayaking: http://www.potentialtech.com/Cucumber/ I mean, it's kinda tough to answer the phone under those circumstances ... -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com __

Re: df & du showing different usages for /var

tat with a list of files that you were deleting. You might then be able to free up the space simply by restarting a single program: possibly Apache or qmail. -- 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...

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 e

Re: This has begun to annoy me...

etting backups and get a new drive on order. If it's always done this, it could also be faulty or non-standard hardware (such as the SATA 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: firefox only runs with 'sudo'

> up fine. Where should I start fixing permissions 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://list

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

, or root account - it works. > >what's up? My SWAG 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 Wa

Re: Next steps

n this case. Next logical step would be hardening the machine, 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

tually needs. Even if you figure 1K per entry, 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

> /etc/master.passwd He's running an ssh server, so he's going to want to back up 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: How to backup the users

;s probably because there is a lot of important data there. But /var can be large with a lot of stuff that you may not want to back up. Do you need /var/log, for example? Frankly, if you have enough space to back up, I recommend you back up the entire system and restore selectively. Do you h

Re: VM Options

sadvantage to qemu is that it's 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 ___

Re: are we CRIMINALS?

the tools themselves are criminal in nature. I think most everyone, me included, is concerned about that possible side-effect. As far as the cracker, I hope he gets the chair. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: are we CRIMINALS?

t; walking around the house naked and then suing an innocent passer-by > > for seeing them naked. > > > > 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 _

Re: Gutman Method on Empty Space

securing the device, or with HDD encryption (via geli or similar). If this is an isolated incident (i.e. you accidentally put a sensitive file 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.poten

Re: db performance

upgraded the memory, I guess I'll get PAE in the kernel > and switch the RAID, should provide quite a difference, yes? Some 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

Re: db performance

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 > &

Re: db performance

is the bottleneck? Are the Amavis machines timing out, or is the PostgreSQL server too slow? If I understand your description, it sounds like 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 caus

Re: Limit on number of groups a user can join

s back.. As I recall I added another line to the group file using the same group number and that fixed 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: How manu swap ?

to slow down instead of kill processes. * Disk space is cheap. 16G of swap costs what? 15G of 15,000 RPM SCSI hard drive space costs $40 -- not much for piece of mind. * Of course, the crash dumps that are mentioned. I agree, though, that swap isn

Re: some help please

reebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html > I also need to now 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/co

Re: Unable to unmount idle filesystem on 6.2

sary options compiled into the kernel. I'll >build a kernel with the KDB and DDB options and hope the problem >recurs. Have you tried ``lsof /usr/ports''? to see what process(es) are using that device? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC

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

;fi Another way might be #!/bin/sh # basename $filename .gz returns $filename unless it has a .gz # suffix. [ `basename $filename .gz` = $filename ] || { echo $filename has a .gz suffix } Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celes

Re: Users login configuration

to a specific IP and use either routing or packet 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-question

Are 8K sector sizes sane for geli devices?

arger 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

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

sktop machine. It is convenient, IMHO worth the risk. > If my desktop gets hacked, I have worse problems to worry about than this. Personally, I recommend creating a ~/bin directory and adding that to your search path. You're much less likely to accidentally download a trojan

Re: Opsware

do their own research. Best I 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 li

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

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 &g

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

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

Re: FreeBSD question

love to have some instructors 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: Howcome mail deletion time varies?

ike it is from your post) then you never know when an incoming email via postfix has something locked, 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 i

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

u selected a "minimal" install when you installed, which 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

ting. The above works on every system I've done it to (which 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 ___

Re: Server crashes

S and kernel is one of the best ways to find bad memory :-(. It puts a stress on the machine that few other things will. Someone else asked if you could ping 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 every

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

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

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

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:

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

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 tha

Re: timekeeping on jail servers

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

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