On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the difference between No address associated with name
and Unknown host:
The former means there is no A record in the DNS for the hostname,
but there is a DNS record for the domain and that it answered the
question as such. The
On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Beni wrote:
Is there an easy and fast way to find out what computers got an ip
from the
dhcp daemon running on my Linksys WAG54G ?
I know I can log onto the adsl gateway and check it via the
webinterface and
see in realtime how many addresses are distributed to
On Dec 4, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Beni wrote:
Every day, Charly Root sends me an email with the Daily Run Output.
In it is a
section Network interface status who regroups per interface the
traffic.
What do i launch (manually) to get those results (not especially by
mail but
on screen is fine)
On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:30 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance but I believe my symlink is not working,
how can I
verify a symlink?
Most people use ls -l to see where the link is pointing; software
generally uses lstat(2).
And Yes I am a newbie in the BSD / open source
On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Kris Anderson wrote:
Darn the system time strayed over night. One thing I
failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a
virtual machine.
Sigh-- you're right, you should have mentioned this before.
One should not attempt to change the clock from within a virtual
On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
I wanted to have the /var/spool/exim/ subdirecotries (scan , input db,
msglog) run in the /usr slice (as it has ample space)
So I MOVED exim to /usr/var2 and ran
ln -s /var/spool/exim /usr/var2/exim
but I don't think that's right
Yep.
On Dec 1, 2006, at 1:03 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote:
I have a need to make my own DNS system on an isolated network.
Years ago,
I administered DNS for a couple of different companies, but that
was quite a
while ago and since I've turned to programming I haven't done much
in the
way of
On Dec 1, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
I have read up on soft updates and have some questions.
The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow
file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the
system. This will allow fsck to run in the background to
On Dec 1, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Sean Murphy wrote:
Thank you for your knowledge on this issue. I have a few
questions that I need your help to clarify.
You are welcome, although knowledge can be a tricky thing. :-)
Snapshots are taken via mksnap_ffs; some other tools like fsck or
dump also
On Nov 29, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
We updated to 6.1 this weekend and added 3 300gb drives to the
external raid cabinet, they were to go on a seprate controller but
the server happens to have a few other boxes on top making it
impossible at that time, so we put the 3x300
On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Wasp King wrote:
1. How do I stop others from port scanning a server?
Marcus Ranum suggests using wirecutters on the ethernet cable.
If the server is internet-reachable, then it can be port-scanned.
Less drastic measures than removing it from the network entirely
On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:02 AM, doug wrote:
In updating FreeBSD to a 5.5 resting place on the way to 6.2,
sendmail went from 8.12.11 -- 8.13.6. Three users could not
connect without deleting or tinkering with their client profile to
force the client side to reenter the password. One was only
On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Kris Anderson wrote:
I first ran ntpdate from /etc/rc.d/ntpdate and that
set the date and time.
Good. That should have gotten your clock reasonably sync'ed.
Then I ran /etc/rc.d/ntpd and that started up fine.
The followind day I find that the system still
On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
That seems like a pretty crazy drop in performance, more than one
would expect. The machine is busy but not busy enough to warrant
this.. Imo.. Is there a way to test to confirm?
Using dd is a trivial benchmark, and not especially
On Nov 30, 2006, at 11:54 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Wasp King wrote:
1. How do I stop others from port scanning a server?
Marcus Ranum suggests using wirecutters on the ethernet cable.
If the server is internet-reachable, then it can be port
On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Kris Anderson wrote:
Here's the output from ntpq.
webdev# ntpq -p
remote refid st t when poll reach
delay offset jitter
==
time-a.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u
On Nov 30, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Kris Anderson wrote:
Your clock is off by a little over an hour; while
ntpd can correct very large offsets, doing so takes a long time.
Kill ntpd, re-run ntpdate -b, double-check that your clock is sane,
and then re-start ntpd.
Off by an hour? Let's see the date
On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Grant Peel wrote:
Could not get anywhere with fsck. Kept Saying 'rerun fsck manually'
which I did.
Got the thing up anmd running using the SCSI verify media Utility
in the bios. showned one error when it ran, maked the block as bad.
fsck shows all f/s clean
On Nov 29, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
zsh is a pretty good interactive shell (it finally weaned me off
tcsh),
as well as supporting a full range of redirection and control
constructs. You should look at that, in particular the
set -o sharehistory
option (which does half
On Nov 28, 2006, at 12:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried this at plr's from 0.002 up to 0.47, and did the math:
ping is
failing exactly (allowing for statistical variation) 1.500 times more
than expected. This is too unlikely to be chance, so I figure the
nice
round fraction of
vittorio wrote:
I have two FreeBSD 6.1 boxes one of which (IP 10.0.0.1) is an NFS server and
the other one (IP 10.0.0.2) is, among other things, an NFS client sharing
directories with the NFS server.
It all works correctly and I can mount_nfs all the directories from the
server.
BUT, I'm now
Darrel wrote:
With OpenBSD securelevel=2 I can install a kernel, make build, and
install programs which are compiled using Systrace.
What is the highest securelevel that I can configure on RELENG_6_2
which will not affect compiling and installing; e.g., perhaps not
much local difference but
On Nov 16, 2006, at 2:46 PM, VeeJay wrote:
Could you guys advise that
1. What should be the minimum / (Root) Partition Size? (So, I don't
waste
lot of space just for Root)
It would help to mention which version of the OS you have:
128MB is probably a reasonable minimum, I tend to use
Jonathan Horne wrote:
i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its
single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then
use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the way to go?
if so, could someone advise on its proper
Simon Gao wrote:
I am trying to enable a new feature, greet_pause, with Sendmail 8.13.x
on FreeBSD 4.7.
You should update to FreeBSD 4.11 or later, which will give you a newer
sendmail in the base system, which will probably fix the /etc/mail make magic
which builds config files. Otherwise,
Simon Gao wrote:
If I use portupgrade to update sendmail, can I downgrade sendmail later
to the previous version if things do not work out?
Sure-- take a backup of the system. Although you can simply build sendmail
from the sources directly on FreeBSD just fine, instead, if you're having
Thierry Lacoste wrote:
On one of my servers running 6.1-RELEASE-p10 I cannot keep the clok
synchronized using ntpd. AFAICS this is certainly because the clock
is running way too fast (about one second per minute).
After I run ntpdate then ntpd the clock is drifting and /var/db/ntp.drift
On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:33 AM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
This constraint makes the problem impossible to solve. Either you
are interested in the impossible, or you aren't really looking to
solve the problem using standard Unix mechanisms...
Actually, I am really not looking for 'old
On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote:
Situation:
- git running on fbsd 5.3.
- 4 people work on the same project
- git is used over ssh (aka git+ssh://)
- when new objects are created, they belong to the creating user
- normal umask is 077 (we are all
On Oct 20, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Efren Bravo wrote:
Accidentally I've created a file called -exclude
and now I cann't delete it.
Try:
rm -- -exclude
--
-Chuck
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freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
On Oct 20, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
Is anyone aware of a tunnel between FreeBSD and Cisco that
can go through a NAT on the Cisco side?
If you update the Cisco firmware with the latest IOS+VPN version, you
ought to gain proper NAT-T support which will work with
On Oct 20, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Brian Hawk wrote:
No, you are wrong. Packet will be forwarded to default gateway
through the interface which is on same network with it. You need
some kind of policy routing. I'm not very familiar with ipf but
with pf you can do:
Unfortunately it doesn't go
On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Robe wrote:
I wanna know if there's available the full documentation of the
Kernel API.
I need it in digital format.
Certainly. Use the source, Luke:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/
--
-Chuck
___
On Oct 19, 2006, at 8:24 AM, ke han wrote:
So my desire is two things:
1 - good event handling for knowing which sockets have new data. I
assume kqueue is the way to go here?
kqueue would be a fine choice, otherwise the typical mechanism
involves using select().
2 - I need to know what
On Oct 19, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
I will appreciate your advice. Is it possible and *safe* to allow
two different processes (dovecot and exim) to write to one log?
Better not do it? I would like to have both data in one log but...
don't want to cause problems. I don't
On Oct 19, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
You can override MX prioritization by using a mailertable.
But you will need to list IP addresses in square brackets to disable
MX lookups and force other MX hosts to relay mail to where-ever you
want. Therefore, the simple answer is to make sure
On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FreeBSD uses another malloc alternative where the data and the
informations are splitted into two lists. The informations on sizes
are stored in a page direcory list. Entries of that list point to
their corresponding page with the data.
On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
This misconfiguration will also cause your ntpd to generate excessive
numbers of queries, rather than syncing up and reducing the NTP
polling
interval from minpoll to maxpoll. [1]
Remove that line and restart ntpd.
That means that anyone
On Oct 18, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Robin Becker wrote:
I have a number of servers which don't have console access, but I
would like to have apache started automatically if the server is
rebooted. However, it seems that if https is used then I need to
type in a secret at boot time (on the
On Oct 18, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
This would work [or ought to!]; right now, all my mail e[x]change
entries are equi-valued at 50. But this seems like a back door
way of dealing with sendmail. I'm the first to admit that it's a
less tha[n] optimal
On Oct 17, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
My ntp.conf file looks like that:
server 2.pl.pool.ntp.org prefer
server 1.europe.pool.ntp.org
server 0.europe.pool.ntp.org
restrict default ignore
driftfile /var/db/ntp.drift
Unless you've got additional restrict lines which permit some
On Oct 16, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Simon Gao wrote:
I have a few FreeBSD machine from 4.x to 5.x. I have asked people
how to
upgrade them to latest version 6.x cleanly. All I was told is that I
need to wipe them out and reinstall. However, this is not the case
with
Gentoo Linux.
It's not the
On Oct 13, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Richard McIntyre wrote:
I'm having a similar problem,
Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=181778119
Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA
status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
On Oct 12, 2006, at 1:48 PM, Aaron P. Martinez wrote:
I am trying to compile a program called gyachi on my freebsd 6.1
machine and am having a ton of problems. I consulted the gyachi
forums but most people there are running on one flavor of linux or
another, nobody has it on freebsd that i
On Oct 11, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Rob wrote:
I don't plan on allowing anyone to connect to my machine or use it as
a NTPD server. I see that OpenNTPD (OpenBSD's version) by default
doesn't listen on any IP/port and seems a little more secure.
OpenNTPD doesn't work-- ie, synchronize your clock--
On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:58 AM, runlevel 3 wrote:
hello, i'm new to this freebsd, my office has 16 public IP and
divide to 4
branch, each branch has 3 public ip's.
my problem is, I want to make all branch connect to the main office's
router, but what I found is, all branch is showed by the
On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:55 PM, martinko wrote:
[ ... ]
The thing is that if I just simply create an rc script to achieve
this,
the script is run under root and ssh cannot make use of public key
authentication which is set up now for a user running it manually.
Or is there a way to change
On Oct 5, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
On 05/10/06, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 4, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
Why are none of the manual pages of FreeBSD say anything about why
Intel Wireless devices do not work by default?
http
On Oct 6, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
Does anybody know what this notation is called? Does an
explanation of the algorithm exist in public so one can convert the
strings that are part of the call manager output in to the unsigned
ints that actually carry the right values?
On Oct 6, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:
My thanks to you and to one other individual who have
written responses to my questions.
You're welcome.
I will talk to the people who extracted the file and see
if there is a possibility we got the wrong data in that
On Oct 6, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Noah wrote:
any clues why ssh is hanging before a prompt is provided from the
server side. this prompt stalling behavior is only happening when I
am coming from my OSX ssh client. Any clues on this? I have never
see this betwe.
Looks like your SSH keypair has
On Oct 4, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
My acquaintance with Unix started with FreeBSD, which I used for quite
a while before discovering OpenBSD. I now mostly use OpenBSD, and I
was wondering of how many FreeBSD users are aware about the licensing
restrictions of Intel Pro
On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:29 AM, Paul Lathrop wrote:
That's really good to know. Unfortunately, nobody seems to have
written
down WHICH tunables need to be adjusted besides the one mentioned
above,
nor is there any information on what reasonable value means!
Can anyone point me at a resource
On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote:
You're supposed to tune the appropriate values considering the
workload
the machine is going to handle. man tuning has some additional
information, but without describing what kind of tasks you plan to do
with this machine with 14GB of RAM,
On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:13 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote:
I intend to deploy this system as a database server running Postgresql
8.1. The database is huge (30-40Gb) and can easily grow (it has
gone as
high as 100Gb).
Oh, yes, one more thought-- your specific application, i.e. a large
database, is
On Oct 5, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Paul Lathrop wrote:
Many thanks for your advice.
Well, you are most welcome.
Is this information gleaned from experience
or is there an information resource out there that I might utilize in
the future when I deploy other applications?
Yes, this information is
On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:32 AM, perikillo wrote:
My kernel file is this:
machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
You should also list cpu I586_CPU, otherwise you will not include
some optimizations intended for Pentium or higher processors.
ident BACULA
maxusers 10
On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:44 PM, Marwan Sultan wrote:
Do you recommend any good switch product and model number which has
port enable.disable
feature ? other than cisco, in a good price?
You're looking for managed switches; the HP Procurve lineup, and
the 3com SuperStack III models are also
On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:46 PM, DeadMan Xia wrote:
I compile the kernel with normal IPFIREWALL, IPFIREWALL_FORWARD. I
got some
power with my power, every night my UPS batteries get discharged
and my
system shutdown hard. its about 4 to 6 times my system get Hard
Shut in 2
days. although
Bob wrote:
It became obvious after a short while, that I had too little physical memory
(1GB), and I was using swap often. While swapping, things slowed down. So, I
added an additional 1GB of swap space (via swap file) on the secondary file
system. I did this as per the manual.
I now have
Chris Hill wrote:
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Rob wrote:
Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about
networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the
'basics' but would like to dig in a little deeper.
For me, the old standby is TCP/IP Network
Michael Dreiding wrote:
I have downloaded the AMD64 version 6.1
Every time I start with the boot disk loader, I get a
menu with 7 options. Whenever I select 1 through 5
(Boot FreeBSD . . .) my laptop shuts down.
I am running on a Laptop AMD64 3400+
What do I need to do to get this to install?
Laurence Sanford wrote:
Anyone got any ideas on this?
[EMAIL PROTECTED](~)$ ping 127.0.0.1
PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
ping: sendto: Can't assign
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ ... ]
For example:
int socket(int domain, int type, int protocol);
int bind(int s, const struct sockaddr *addr, socklen_t addrlen);
Browsing through your WWW CVS repository I'm just finding sources for MAN pages in directory / src / lib / libc / sys:
Gerard Seibert wrote:
What could cause Postfix/Dovecot to suddenly start failing to deliver
mail and issue this error message in the /var/log/maillog:
Sep 30 09:45:24 scorpio postfix/local[1439]: 80E65C613: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
st.seibercom.net, relay=local, delay=6.5, delays=6.4/0.01/0/0.03,
Bill Moran wrote:
[ ... ]
I hate to be a whiner, but shouldn't this respect the moused_enable
setting in rc.conf? I find this a violation of POLA.
I would agree that a USB mouse should respect moused_enable; I gather this
means the USB daemon needs to become smarter...
--
-Chuck
PS: Is
Jim Borland wrote:
Hi,
Is there any kind of systems administration tool on freebsd to enable
the configuration of such things as printers and users?
Certainly. You can run sysinstall again and do post-installation
configuration with that tool, or you can run adduser or other tools directly.
Marty Landman wrote:
I've got a new FBSD 5.3 release install on an old Compaq pII-233 w/ 128M
ram. What I get when the boot fails is
tx underrun -- using store and forward mode
repeating infinitely.
Now that a reboot has succeeded here's what dmesg shows for dc0:
dc0: 82c169 PNIC
Paul Schmehl wrote:
I've been reading about device polling. I'm wondering if it's worth
doing on a busy website (4,000,000+ hits/month, 45GB+ bandwidth use). I
understand what polling is and how it queues traffic as opposed to the
old-fashioned interrupt method, but do you really gain
On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Robert Joosten wrote:
Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then
still
able to run adduser and so on ?
Safely? No. But then, flock() doesn't work via NFS even if
rpc.lockd is running, so you aren't any worse off.
flock() .. hmm yeah, I
On Sep 21, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Michael Conlen wrote:
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:21:08PM -0400, Michael Conlen wrote:
I recall that FreeBSD 6.1 had some NFS lockd issues that were a
show stopper at one time for me however I'm having trouble finding
information on the current state of NFS. Anyone
On Sep 21, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Robert Joosten wrote:
rpc.lockd remains unreliable; avoid using it if practical.
Hmmm, is there a way to run pxe-boxes without rpc.lockd and then still
able to run adduser and so on ?
Safely? No. But then, flock() doesn't work via NFS even if
rpc.lockd is
On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:19 AM, eoghan wrote:
Just a general question about the ports for freebsd. I am now
running 6.1 on amd64. Got most of what I need, but noticed that
some ports are only i386 - like the flock browser and skype.
Obviously I can live without these but was just wondering if
On Sep 19, 2006, at 3:38 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote:
I think this isn't needed, and is somewhat silly. Like all (decent)
implementations of pubkey, the key is only used to authenticate and
exchange a symetric session key. So the pubkey sees little actual use,
compared with the session key.
On Sep 15, 2006, at 10:29 AM, George Allan wrote:
I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't
install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box.
I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos
programs
that are all in flash and others that use it for
On Sep 15, 2006, at 12:50 PM, Don Munyak wrote:
A message states Don't forget to rebuild any statically linked ports
to use the updated libraries after you install them.
what does this mean and how do I [ac]complish rebuilding statically
linked ports?
Most software is dynamicly linked, and
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Fred C! wrote:
As I told you in my previews emails all the python tests went with
no errors.
Yes. This probably means the problem is not with the basic Python
installation and may not be specific to FreeBSD. In other words, you
might obtain better results
On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote:
Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your
friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.
Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads?
I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't
On Sep 13, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
Unfortunately, Mac OS games just don't run on anything but Mac OS
itself. Many Linux games and some windows ones run flawlessly on
FreeBSD, though, with no or subtle performance penalties.
For commercial game software, Andrew is certainly
On Sep 13, 2006, at 2:16 PM, felix.schalck wrote:
Do you think the interest that mac developpers pay on freebsd-
stable is a good thing for FreeBSD ? I mean: for further
developpement and general supporting of the OS ?
Sure. But the effect is better observed by noticing which parts of
one
On Sep 13, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Fred C! wrote:
Hello I have a problem with Python + sqlite3. My main machine is a
FreeBSD 6.1 I have also try on an old machine running FreeBSD 5.5
and it doesn't work either. I join to this email some information.
I can also provide a core file if someone is
On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Bill Moran wrote:
Is there some way to get the FreeBSD system to log machines using
port 25 without interfering with the FreeBSD machine's filtering of
email function? Or at least make the traffic visible to sniffing
with tcpdump or wireshark or ethereal?
Off the
On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
Better to use something like:
ipfw add 1 log tcp from any to me 25 setup
If Bart would like to use tcpdump for the same purpose, consider
running something like:
tcpdump -nt 'port 25 and (tcp[tcpflags] tcp-syn != 0)'
On Sep 11, 2006, at 5:27 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote:
This is a general FreeBSD source related question, and I am posting it
here, as it did not fit in any other FreeBSD lists...
This list is a quite reasonable choice to ask such questions. :-)
While browsing through sources for different
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:14 PM, Leo Mrafko wrote:
/var/backups contains a few files you may need.
Yeah, really, thanks, I found there some backup. But I still
wonder, if
there is a possibily to reconstruct master passwd back from .db files,
e.g. in case this backup is not up-to-date. I think
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Discussions like these leave me lost for words...
Perhaps, although it seems you recovered quickly. :-)
Which is to say, apart from the occasional bug I really don't see
what the
problem is with sysinstall.
Credits: It's highly
On Sep 11, 2006, at 3:14 PM, Nestor Wheelock wrote:
I have searched all over the net for a good definition of what the
top state, kserel means. When I run mysql this is the state in
which it runs.
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU
COMMAND
2117 mysql
On Sep 7, 2006, at 10:34 AM, Tom Ierna wrote:
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.
It is perhaps reasonable to run a diskless webserver, especially if
it is serving mainly
On Sep 7, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Tom Ierna wrote:
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
On Sep 7, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Hair wrote:
Hello, the company I work for has decided to host web and mail
internally
instead of paying a hosting company. I have gotten freebsd set up and
postfix and squirrelmail up and running. Is there a way to migrate
saved
messages from the old server to
On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:58 PM, g wrote:
i'm sorry what is top posting?
Compare:
A: Putting the reply above the question.
Q: What is top posting?
...to:
Q: What is the preferred way to exchange email on the FreeBSD lists?
A: Quote what you reply to [1], then put your response or answer
On Sep 6, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Hilt, Ian wrote:
Basically, I want to know where the BIOS gets the hard drive
parameters
when the Drive Type is set to AUTO in the BIOS configuration. The
best
I've been able to come up with from the internet is an IDENTIFY
command that purportedly
On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Hilt, Ian wrote:
The hard disk has an on-board controller which answers the ATA
IDENTIFY DEVICE command with the hard drive parameters used by the
BIOS, assuming that the BIOS is operating in the legacy C/H/S mode
rather than the newer LBA mode which uses absolute
On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote:
I use FreeBSD as my primary Desktop. I have purchased an external
usb hard
drive to perform backups of my home directory. What type of
filesystem do
you recommend for this drive, ext2?, fat?...
If you are only using FreeBSD, formatting it
On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote:
I was thinking about using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups
and ext2 type filesystem, as I don't use windows at all. Ext2
because I sometimes switch to Linux. I don't know if FFS is
recognized by Linux.
I think modern flavors of
On Sep 5, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Jordi Carrillo wrote:
Just a doubt: FFS is not the same as UFS (unix filesystem)??? I
installed FreeBSD and let FreeBSD to partition my hard drive and in
fstab I have the partitions mounted as UFS.
FFS is an abbreviation for Berkeley Fast File System, and is the
NoIP (exemail) wrote:
[ ... ]
Seven computers I have tried with all three BSDs and not one of them
managed to produce a working network connection. The only thing I achieved
was that now I can almost visualise every screen from the installations.
I am baffled by how anyone is
Can Sar wrote:
[ ... ]
Would you consider it an error if the -p option does not fix
inconsistencies caused by a simple power failure, without any hardware
or software corruption?
You're asking an interesting question, but the issue of data integrity depends
not only on the software which
On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Brett Glass wrote:
A company for whom I do consulting has a FreeBSD mail server.
Because they're being deluged with connections from spammers (who
have responded to the increasing use of graylisting by ordering
their armies of bots to try again and again even
On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:50 PM, Nicholas Ink wrote:
The first problem I experienced was that there a host name lookup
failure for gmail.com, which I have subsequently corrected by adding
the line:
gmail.com smtp:[smtp.gmail.com]
to /etc/mail/mailertable.
This is wrong; you should be using
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