On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:41:04PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi Roland,
>
> many thanks for the response!!! :-)
You're welcome!
> I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do..
>
> In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult
> to understand!!
Just to give a quick overview of what is being used currently:
test# du -sch etc
1.7Metc
1.7Mtotal
test# du -sch var
1.0Mvar
1.0Mtotal
test# du -sch tmp
10Ktmp
10Ktotal
test# du -sch usr
1.0Gusr
1.0Gtotal
I think I could get away with 500MB for /var and /tmp and h
Hi Roland,
many thanks for the response!!! :-)
I waited until I had a test server setup and at least now I do..
In fact I think from my usage perspective FreeBSD is not that difficult
to understand!!!
I now have a test machine setup which I built nano and Bind 9.6.1 from
the ports colle
Roland:
If you can afford it, and if your laptop has a USB port, buy one of those
external harddisks. Plenty of room for music and movies... Also great for
backups!
Can't afford :-( I have many disks like that where I bought really cool
enclosures and the drives separately but currently am
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 09:06:09PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> lot's of different pieces of advice rolling in now!
>
> I guess what I will do as I have a small hard disk for what I want to do
> which is to get rid of my music and few movies which are stored on my
> laptop currently, is create sep
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:25:48PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> > >
> > > Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
> > > It is really appreciated!
> > > ...
>
Many thanks again for all suggestions! :-)
[...]
For my desktop, with around 450 ports installed, I have the following lay-out;
Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad4s1a484M 93M353M21%/
/dev/ad4s1g.eli373G168G175G49%/ho
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> [...]
> >
> >What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
> >
> ># ln -s /usr/home /home
> >
> >ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
> >the root partition.
> >
> >So the only slices you need are /, /usr,
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
> >
> > # ln -s /usr/home /home
> >
> > ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
> > the root partition.
> >
> > So the only slices you need are /, /
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:27:11PM +, Frank Shute wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> >
> > Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
> > It is really appreciated!
> > ...
> >
> > I reckon the proposed disk usage spec from the FreeBSD hand book should
>
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 06:37:25PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
> [...]
> >
> >What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
> >
> ># ln -s /usr/home /home
> >
> >ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
> >the root partition.
> >
> >So the only slices you need are /, /usr
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Kaya Saman wrote:
How I'd slice up the disk:
2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB for /usr
Ah so BSD is slightly different from Linux in the fact that it needs to have
/var and /usr filesystems separate??
It's not required, it's just nice to do if the disk space is
[...]
What is not unusual is to symlink /home e.g:
# ln -s /usr/home /home
ditto for /tmp. i.e you remove all the stuff that uses up space from
the root partition.
So the only slices you need are /, /usr, /var and swap.
How I'd slice up the disk:
2GB for /
2GB for swap
2GB for /var
34GB fo
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 05:19:54PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
>
> Many thanks guys for all the advice :-)
>
> It is really appreciated!
>
> Sorry haven't snipped more stuff into this mail but things are a bit
> hectic here but what I will say is this; in a few hours once the BSD 8
> DVD IS
Alex de Kruijff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to
check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by
devic
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:04:52PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> > Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to
> > check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by
> > device ID.
>
> Example af
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 04:20:10PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal
> are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:49:31PM +0200, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently
> installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I
> tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx command (read the
> docume
[...]
add
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem.
[...]
I will give this a go soon :-)
That's what I do with mine under FreeBSD, for both servers and workstations.
Having both servers and workstations is cool as both of
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 16:23, Kaya Saman wrote:
So, given what you've written below, you probably know more about this
stuff than I do. Cool. I will echo the advice already given, however:
add
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
to your /etc/rc.conf. That will most likely clear your problem.
Adam Vande More wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman > wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> I attempted an install of 7.2 stable on my laptop and subsequently
>> installed X11also. Now I didn't have any Xorg.conf file but each time I
>> tried to start X from the CLI using the normal startx com
Kurt Buff wrote:
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman wrote:
I see I didn't completely read your original message. Indulge me a
moment while I ramble here, and probably expose my ignorance...
Xorg/X11 <> Gnome
Gnome runs on Xorg: Xorg/Xfree runs X11
Xfree is now obsolete as Xor
The most common cause is that either hald (sysutils/hal) or dbus (devel/dbus)
isn't running. Xorg needs them both to detect mouse and keyboard. Add
dbus_enable="YES" and hald_enable="YES" to rc.conf to get them to start
automatically.
We'll see what the issue actually is - as I mentione
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 15:29, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
>> I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a
>> lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I
>> have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit
>> much. Once I installed /us
On Monday 28 December 2009 22:49:31 Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
> nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much
> mileage with the OS as of yet!
>
> Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy C
I can't speak to the rest, but WRT the GUI, I suspect you'll find it a
lot easier if you install a Window Manager to handle a lot of this. I
have found xfce4 to be a good one for me - gnome and kde were a bit
much. Once I installed /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 with a 'make
config-recursive' then chos
I would say ufs2 easily wins, but remember this is the
freebsd-questions list ;) There are some differences though, ufs2
uses softupdates, not journaling(journaling is available and easy to
implement via gjournal). Softupdates I believe are a little faster
than journaling, but it's drawba
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 14:42, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
>>
>> Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and hal
>> are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html
>
> I'm sure I started them as this doc
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> I know how strong UFS v.1 is as I use it with Solaris 9, but how about UFS
> v.2 which is what FreeBSD runs?? When compared with ext3 from a
> performance/reliability perspective which one comes on top?
>
I would say ufs2 easily wins, but reme
Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and
hal are started at boot. Follow the handbook for best results.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html
I'm sure I started them as this doc is exactly what I followed.. I
think if I recall correct
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
> nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much mileage
> with the OS as of yet!
>
> Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Ch
Hi guys,
first up I hope I am in the right place as my questions are of a generic
nature about FreeBSD as I consider myself a new user not having much
mileage with the OS as of yet!
Secondly I just wanted to wish everyone a happy Christmas and New Year
also since we are in that period :-)
Also, a true dual-core Xeon is 64-bit. "hyperthreaded" really has one
core and is 32.
-Patrick
On Jun 23, 2008, at 4:38 PM, "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
Two questions for the Web hosting types out there:
1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two bran
Celerin is probably fine, I assume you don't have a lot of DNS
traffic. Usually NS2 is on another network...
If its a 64-bit Xeon, AMD would be the right choice. Last gen Xeons
and before... I386. 7.0 has a lot of SMP improvements besides all the
other fixes, features and improvements... Wh
Hi all,
Two questions for the Web hosting types out there:
1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two brand new
Dell PE R200s and was considering using them as ns1 and ns2. What version of
FBSD would one use (I am thinking 6.3 Rel, but us there any compelling
reason to use
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:42:21 -0500
"Zachary Welch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built.
>
> I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some
> snags:
>
> First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work
>
Zachary Welch wrote:
Hello to all,
BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built.
I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags:
First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when
testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for t
Hello to all,
BSD newbie here, running 6.2 on a core 2 quad system I built.
I'm Trying to get a secure mail server going and running into some snags:
First things first - After installing postfix (which seems to work when
testing) and cyrus-sasl2, I opted for the Maildir/ config option
Darryl Hoar wrote:
Thanks Chuck. I do grok that rebooting is only really needed for new
kernel
installs. Just making network design decisions and want to avoid those
"Oh, crap" moments.
-Darryl
I haven't found too many mutually exclusive services on Unix. In
theory, if we did away with
> -Original Message-
> From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:28 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: DHCP server questions
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Darryl Hoar
On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Darryl Hoar wrote:
I am considering modifying my web/email server by adding DHCP server
duties to it. Any problems with this idea ? I can reboot the
server if
I need to without screwing up the clients that already have IP
assigned,
can't I ?
No, the DHCP ser
Greetings,
I am considering modifying my web/email server by adding DHCP server
duties to it. Any problems with this idea ? I can reboot the server if
I need to without screwing up the clients that already have IP assigned,
can't I ?
thanks,
Darryl
_
I want to set up a FreeBSD file server and want to choose the
appropriate method. The filesytems must be mounted on the client,
always available, and transparent to the user.
Thanks
===
NFS for *nix to *nix only
NIS for better management of NFS
Can OSX mount and respond to NFS/NIS?
What oth
> From: Wayne Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2. Setup a webmail solution. I'm currently using Squirrelmail for users
> that exist in /etc/passwd (not very many!), and am considering a
> migration to Horde/IMP. Near as I can tell though it's not the webmail
> client that matters, but the ima
Hi all,
I've got a mail setup doing virtualhosts as described at
http://www.penguinpowered.org/documentation/exim_virtualhosting.html
My users can pull their mail down with POP, but have to use their ISP's
SMTP server for outgoing mail.
I'd like to do two things at this stage, and I'd appreciat
On Sep 27, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Doug Hardie wrote:
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote:
Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue
whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just
behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's
on y
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:11:24PM -0700, Brent Wiese wrote:
> Is there a way to make the backup MX server understand that some mail is
> ultimately destined for it and try to deliver it locally?
>
> Here would be an example:
>
> Mydomain.com is MX'd to mail.mydomin.com, which handles email for
> That's the hard part. The Secondary MX'ing part is fairly easy. All
> you do is get your friend to add an MX record to the DNS
> 'yourfriend.com' zone listing your server as a high numbered MXer:
>
> $ORIGIN yourfriend.com.
>
> @ INMX 0 smtp.yourfriend.com.
>
Nico Meijer wrote:
> Hey Bill,
>> Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
>> has been delayed?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
>
> On a technical level, I totally disagree with myself. On a practical,
> day-to-day operations level I have to admit I'd
Hi Bill,
When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish idiots.
When black mode is on, I just want to get them all. ;-)
When I arrange fallback MX for people/organisations, they expect their
mail to be handled in a delicate, perhaps even 'professional' manner. No
mail may be l
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 01:38:15PM -0600, Bill Moran wrote:
>
>
>
> When I have a choice of punishing idiots or smart people, I punish
> idiots.
This is excellent. It should be on a bumper sticker or something.
>
>
> Look at the vehicle situation. If people would force stupid drivers
> to w
Hi Doug,
Point taken. Wrong example, imho, but point taken. ;-)
> They will have no problem
convincing Joe Sub-Average juror (of which there will be more than
enough to go around) that you were the cause of Joe Average computer
users' loss of his entire retirement savings.
I have just enough fait
Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey Bill,
>
> Black mode is on, here. ;-)
I'm not familiar with that metaphor.
> > Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
> > has been delayed?
>
> Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
>
> On a technical level, I
On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:39, Nico Meijer wrote:
Regular folks don't understand how mail works. They have no clue
whatsoever. They don't _want_ to have a clue either. They are just
behaving like consumers, again. Do you *really* want to know what's on
your plate at dinner? ;-) I do, maybe you too, bu
Eric Crist wrote:
[ ... ]
One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the even their connection
goes down. How do I go about setting it up so that his user base (about
80 users) will not see any problems in mail transmission and reception
if their primary servers go offline. I would like mine t
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 12:19:56PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
> mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
> don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
> servers out th
Eric Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
> mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
> don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
> servers out there. ;
Hello list,
I was wondering if anyone has any insight as to having a remote backup
mail server and the setup of such. I'm currently using sendmail, and I
don't want to change that, so please don't recommend any of the other
servers out there. ;)
One of my friends needs backup DNS/Mail in the e
Hi Darryl,
--On Thursday, October 02, 2003 10:25:33 AM -0500 Darryl Hoar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. I have a LAN behind a freebsd firewall. The firewall is also doing
nat, as my internal LAN is 192.168.1.*
2. I have dns running on my internal LAN using a dsn name that is
registered b
Greetings,
Here's the situation.
1. I have a LAN behind a freebsd firewall. The firewall is also doing
nat, as my internal LAN is 192.168.1.*
2. I have dns running on my internal LAN using a dsn name that is
registered by not used outside of our private LAN.
3. I have a freebsd (4-7 stable
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