[OT] Nagios timeouts

Earlier this morning I was getting Nagios alerts about potential issues with my FreeBSD 6.1 servers. All the emails I got had this problem: Connection refused by host I did some digging around today and I didn't get anything definitive, but I did notice there was a time correlation between

gzipping multiple files w/o tarring

I'm sure this is easy but googling hasn't gotten me anywhere yet... I want to compress all the files in my directory that don't already have a .gz extension. I want them to be individual compressed files, not part of a single .tar.gz file. Can anyone point me to where I can find how to do

Load trends over time

I currently maintaining some systems that run Nagios clients and the server spews out socket timeout after 10s msgs on occasion even when nothing is wrong. Does anyone know of any kind of tool that saves system data over time and allows for people to trend for patterns? If not, what options

kernel upgrades

I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be something totally obvious to others... I know I can update ports by using portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well? How do I apply this new code? - Joe

Firefox won't start

I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I got firefox3 to compile with no errors. But now when I either select Firefox from the menu or start it from a terminal window nothing happens. Firefox does not start and there's no indication of any problems. When I use ps to see if

RE: Firefox won't start

You got it!!! I type in firefox3 in the terminal and the prompt comes right back. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Firefox won't start Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:22:59 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

I've got a server running FreeBSD7 and got MySQL 5.0.67 installed on it today. I ran mysql_install_db and then assigned the root password. I tried to get it running on boot (mysql_enable=YES) and by hand (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start) but I can't get the daemon to start. What else

RE: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

initially installed this from ports I didn't use any kind of extra parameters. Are they needed? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 10:56:48 -0800 CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67 On Monday 08 September 2008, Joe Tseng

RE: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

September 2008, Joe Tseng said: So I checked in that directory you suggested and I found this: 080908 13:35:05 mysqld started 080908 13:35:05 [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned value 18446744073709551615 adjusted to 4294967295 080908 13:35:05 [Warning] option 'max_join_size': unsigned

Mouse doesn't work in Gnome after install

I'm still a FreeBSD newbie so I'm still feeling my way around... Got two mouse problems: 1. I just installed FreeBSD 7 on a laptop and got Gnome running. The mouse works with the trackpad but not the USB mouse. 2. I just installed FreeBSD 7 as a VMWare Server guest and got Gnome running.