Server setup

2008-09-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I am setting up a new server and have a question. This server has three 8GB SCSIs, and one 160 GB IDE. I was interested in striping the SCSIs, which I have done. After installing FreeBSD 7 on the IDE, I set up the stripe and moved /var over to it. So, my first question would be whether I shoul

removing phpMyAdmin

2005-01-31 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Well, I wanted to remove phpMyAdmin from my 5.3 server. Usually I would just go to the port location under /usr/ports/ and type make deinstall. However, phpMyAdmin apparently isn't here anymore. I don't even know exactly where it should be be but judging by freebsd's website, it should be under

removing phpMyAdmin

2005-01-27 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Well, I wanted to remove phpMyAdmin from my 5.3 server. Usually I would just go to the port location under /usr/ports/ and type make deinstall. However, phpMyAdmin apparently isn't here anymore. I don't even know exactly where it should be be but judging by freebsd's website, it should be under

removing phpMyAdmin

2005-01-26 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Well, I wanted to remove phpMyAdmin from my 5.3 server. Usually I would just go to the port location under /usr/ports/ and type make deinstall. However, phpMyAdmin apparently isn't here anymore. I don't even know exactly where it should be be but judging by freebsd's website, it should be under

removing phpMyAdmin

2005-01-26 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Well, I wanted to remove phpMyAdmin from my 5.3 server. Usually I would just go to the port location under /usr/ports/ and type make deinstall. However, phpMyAdmin apparently isn't here anymore. I don't even know exactly where it should be be but judging by freebsd's website, it should be under

postfix w/pam

2004-12-17 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Can anyone tell me whether I have to install/build postfix w/pam support (if I want it to use pam). Or can I just do a make install of postfix, as well as of pam_ldap and nss_ldap, edit the appropriate files in /etc/pam.d/ and it should work? I have installed map_ldap and nss_ldap and have edit

Re: Opening ports

2004-12-17 Thread Curtis Vaughan
mail by default, but in some cases it does listen on port 25 witout accepting connections. look at /etc/rc.conf and see what you have enabled. (firewall, courier and sendmail related variables) On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: On 17 Dec, 2004, at 09:24, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I rea

Re: Opening ports

2004-12-17 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 17 Dec, 2004, at 09:24, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I realized that apparently by default most all ports are closed on my 5.3-Release box. The reason I say this is because besides port 22, 80 and 1 no other port seems to be open (based on a port scan). I just installed postfix and courier-imap

Opening ports

2004-12-17 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I realized that apparently by default most all ports are closed on my 5.3-Release box. The reason I say this is because besides port 22, 80 and 1 no other port seems to be open (based on a port scan). I just installed postfix and courier-imap and wanted to test ports 25 and 110, but they do

CPU, RAM, information

2004-12-16 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Where do I find information in 5.3 about my cpu, ram, etc? Like under Linux I would go to /proc/ and look at files like cpuinfo and meminfo. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL o install kernel/world in single user mode # re

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
el. On 18 Nov, 2004, at 12:12, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So basically: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YO

Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So basically: o update from cvs # cd /usr/src # make update o build world/kernel in your normal or single-user mode # cd /usr/obj # rm -rf * # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL Adam! Sorry to bother you again, but I go

Fwd: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-17 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Begin forwarded message: From: Adam Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17 November, 2004 16:10:29 PST To: Curtis Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:50:03PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said: Thanks! You say, go to /usr/src a

How to reconfigure a port installation?

2004-11-15 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I was installing a port (make && make install) during which it asked me about some configuration information. Because I made a wrong choice at one point, the install failed. Now, I want to run make install again in order to chose the right options. Unfortunately, I can't just issue that command

Fwd: Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-15 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 08 Nov, 2004, at 17:38, Adam Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 04:49:42PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan said: Just want to be sure that I do the right thing. So, my version at present is 5.3-BETA1 and I want to install 5.3. I supposed I could just install 5.3 over my current version, but wouldn'

Upgrading 5.3-Beta1 to 5.3-RELEASE

2004-11-08 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Just want to be sure that I do the right thing. So, my version at present is 5.3-BETA1 and I want to install 5.3. I supposed I could just install 5.3 over my current version, but wouldn't an upgrade work just as well? Finally, want to make sure I have the procedure right:     go to: /usr/local/e

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Oh, I must have had Donald's letter go into my bit bucket as I only saw this message with his reply. (Donald, you reply, "Touché", as I was just joking.) Anyhow, I did do it Donald's "my way" and I just like this other way better for some reason. Sorry Curtis On 23 Sep, 2004, at 22:42, Günt

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Oh, I must have had Donald's letter go into my bit bucket as I only saw this message with his reply. (Donald, you reply, "Touché", as I was just joking.) Anyhow, I did do it Donald's "my way" and I just like this other way better for some reason. Sorry Curtis On 23 Sep, 2004, at 22:42, Günt

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
There might be something to be said for doing it "my way", after all, Frank Sinatra made a fortune in that manner... You could join in the FreeBSD tradition, though, and do it the Right Way(tm) ... http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html An excellent tutorial/article by Dr

Re: Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-21 Thread Curtis Vaughan
; succeeds port (port has 1.6.7.5) unzip-5.51 > succeeds port (port has 5.50_2) webmin-1.150_5 > succeeds port (port has 1.130_10) On 21 Sep, 2004, at 12:22, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 12:40 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: I just wa

Port upgrading - my way

2004-09-21 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I got a lot of feedback earlier about ways to do port upgrades and I really appreciate it. I know everyone has their own way. For now, I am doing it the following way. I just want to know whether there is any reason I shouldn't be doing it this way. In other words, by doing it this way is there

5.3 stable when?

2004-09-21 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Isn't 5.3 supposed to be going stable here soon? Any time line? Also, since I have 5.3-BETA1 and I see it's at 5.3-BETA5, should I worry about upgrading to BETA5 or just wait till it goes stable? Curtis ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

bandwidthd web access

2004-09-16 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So, I just installed bandwidthd on FreeBSD 5.3-Beta. I don't have Apache installed on this system, however, and maybe that's why I can't access the web page for this from another computer. I was thinking that it maybe provided it's own web engine as I would like to avoid installing apache on th

What to backup

2004-09-15 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I have a question about what exactly I should backup on my 5.3 FreeBSD Server. So far I have chosen the following directories for full backup. But perhaps some is overkill. /etc /boot /home /var/log /usr/ports /root /usr/local /usr/src Curtis ___ [EMA

Setting up pam_ldap & nss_ldap

2004-09-02 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 5.3-Beta I have installed pam_ldap and nss_ldap. Then I edited the following files: /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf files within /etc/pam.d particularly /etc/pam.d/ldap and ./sshd and ./su /usr/local/etc/nss_ldap.conf I think that's it. I can provide each of those files if necessar

Re: 5.1, 5.2, or 5.3???

2004-09-01 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 01 Sep, 2004, at 11:44, Charles Swiger wrote: On Sep 1, 2004, at 1:58 PM, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, I have been told that I shouldn't put 5.x on a production box, but on the other hand I need pam_ldap, nss_ldap support on my box, which I have also been told is only available in 5.x. I

5.1, 5.2, or 5.3???

2004-09-01 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So, I have been told that I shouldn't put 5.x on a production box, but on the other hand I need pam_ldap, nss_ldap support on my box, which I have also been told is only available in 5.x. Whereas this is to be a Postfix server, I would like to know, which version of 5.x should I install, or pe

5.x - which to install? (Was Re: LDAP, pam, nss)

2004-08-31 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 30 Aug, 2004, at 22:16, Konrad Heuer wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: In order to get centralized logins to work on my Linux Debian computers (authenticating of a RedHat Samba server), I have to: install libnss-ldap libpam-ldap. Perform some configuration on the of /etc

LDAP, pam, nss

2004-08-30 Thread Curtis Vaughan
In order to get centralized logins to work on my Linux Debian computers (authenticating of a RedHat Samba server), I have to: install libnss-ldap libpam-ldap. Perform some configuration on the of /etc/libnss-ldap.conf and /etc/pam-ldap.conf files. Edit the /etc/nnsswitch.conf file. Then I can c

Re: Messed up port updating (Was Re: Updated to 4.10, now portupgrade?)

2004-08-26 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 26 Aug, 2004, at 16:10, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok, first off I didn't follow the instructions above verbatim. What I did do is copy ports-supfile, edited it, and perform a cvsup using it. All it seemed to do, however, is delete everything in the

Messed up port updating (Was Re: Updated to 4.10, now portupgrade?)

2004-08-26 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 25 Aug, 2004, at 17:44, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 08:01 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So now that I'm running 4.10, I understand I need to do a portupgrade on all ports? and then I'll install the ports I want.

Updated to 4.10, now portupgrade?

2004-08-25 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So now that I'm running 4.10, I understand I need to do a portupgrade on all ports? and then I'll install the ports I want. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: 4.8 > 4.10 successful. Now > 5.x?

2004-08-25 Thread Curtis Vaughan
4.x is really a great unix. Very stable and plenty capable. If the software you're hoping to run REQUIRES features in 5.x, I recommend installing it directly. Meantime, I'd use mobile racks and install 4.x on one so I could learn more about maintaining FreeBSD, installing ports/packages, etc.

Re: 4.8 > 4.10 successful. Now > 5.x?

2004-08-25 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 25 Aug, 2004, at 12:11, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Curtis Vaughan wrote: Ok, it looks as though cvsup from 4.8 to 4.10 has been successful. Now, first off I want to say that I want this server to be a second Postfix / Courier IMAP server (our other is on a RedHat server, but that&#

4.8 > 4.10 successful. Now > 5.x?

2004-08-25 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Ok, it looks as though cvsup from 4.8 to 4.10 has been successful. Now, first off I want to say that I want this server to be a second Postfix / Courier IMAP server (our other is on a RedHat server, but that's irrelevant). I feel that I should go ahead and first upgrade to 5.x and then install

Re: cvsup

2004-08-25 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 25 Aug, 2004, at 06:39, Ilker OZUPAK wrote: On Wednesday 25 August 2004 02:49, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote: BTW! After updating to 4-STABLE do I then perform all the following steps? Go to /usr/src enter the command: make buildworld KERNCONF=yourkernelname in

Re: cvsup

2004-08-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 24 Aug, 2004, at 16:07, stheg olloydson wrote: it was said: Ok, just to be certain about this. I have 4.8 installed and am about to do a cvsup here is my stable-supfile *default host=cvsup1.us.freebsd.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4

cvsup

2004-08-24 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Ok, just to be certain about this. I have 4.8 installed and am about to do a cvsup here is my stable-supfile *default host=cvsup1.us.freebsd.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all And I put my refuse file

Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading

2004-08-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 23 Aug, 2004, at 13:16, Robert Huff wrote: Curtis Vaughan writes: Finally, while I'm reinstalling 4.8, I would like to know something about the following. It seems to me that cvsup is actually downloading the entire repository of packages for FreeBSD. Is that really what one has to

Reinstalling, then upgrading (Was Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error))

2004-08-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
like what you would need to do is merely upgrade those packages necessary for the latest kernel, then upgrade the kernel, then upgrade all installed packages. (Packages meaning ports, right?) Thanks again! Curtis On 23 Aug, 2004, at 11:10, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 01:58

Re: Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error)

2004-08-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 23 Aug, 2004, at 10:51, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Monday 23 August 2004 01:39 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and what I need to do? Or, should I just start over? Curtis On 21 Aug, 2004, at 17:06, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, it is my

Salvageable? (Was Re: make installworld error)

2004-08-23 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and what I need to do? Or, should I just start over? Curtis On 21 Aug, 2004, at 17:06, Curtis Vaughan wrote: So, it is my understanding that I did in fact do things right (or that is to say that The Complete FreeBSD had the right

Re: make installworld error

2004-08-21 Thread Curtis Vaughan
So, it is my understanding that I did in fact do things right (or that is to say that The Complete FreeBSD had the right directions. But that something else went wrong. BTW, I installed 4.8 from scratch. Then spent a couple of days preparing to do a cvsup making sure that I set everything up rig

Re: make installworld error

2004-08-20 Thread Curtis Vaughan
> Curtis Vaughan wrote: > >> After going through a cvsup >> make buildworld >> make kernel >> reboot >> >> I am now on make installworld >> > > A little too quickly, it seems. > >> I had to do a mergemaster -p in order to get make inst

Re: make installworld error

2004-08-20 Thread Curtis Vaughan
On 20 Aug, 2004, at 14:19, kstewart wrote: On Friday 20 August 2004 02:06 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote: After going through a cvsup make buildworld make kernel reboot I am now on make installworld I had to do a mergemaster -p in order to get make installworld to run, but finally after seemingly

make installworld error

2004-08-20 Thread Curtis Vaughan
After going through a cvsup make buildworld make kernel reboot I am now on make installworld I had to do a mergemaster -p in order to get make installworld to run, but finally after seemingly corrected all the changes wtih mergemaster, make installworld ran. Well, it ran for a good while but the

CVSup install

2004-08-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Made a big mistake today. I was reading in a book that I needed to install cvsup for doing updates. Good. So, I started installing it. Meanwhile I began perusing the FreeBSD website information about cvsup and there I read, if you not using a gui, then don't install cvsup, but cvsup-witho

CVSup install

2004-08-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Made a big mistake today. I was reading in a book that I needed to install cvsup for doing updates. Good. So, I started installing it. Meanwhile I began perusing the FreeBSD website information about cvsup and there I read, if you not using a gui, then don't install cvsup, but cvsup-without

using cvsup

2004-08-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
I'm a little confused about using cvsup. I'm referring to 2 resources (The Complete FreeBSD - 4th edition, and www,freebsd.org manual for cvsup). BTW, I currently have FreeBSD 4.8 installed. Ok, so, I know I need to edit a supfile and I have found all the examples. But it seems to me that it

cvsup install

2004-08-18 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Made a big mistake today. I was reading in a book that I needed to install cvsup for doing updates. Good. So, I started installing it. Meanwhile I began perusing the FreeBSD website information about cvsup and there I read, if you not using a gui, then don't install cvsup, but cvsup-without