Kernel Panic help.

2008-08-22 Thread Eric Crist
Hey folks, First, please 'reply-all' as I'm not on the list. I've got a backup server that, every night, offloads things to a secondary, USB attached hard disk. We've got two of these disks, which we rotate so as to have a fairly recent off-site version, in the event of a disaster. One o

Re: Network monitoring program.

2008-01-10 Thread Eric Crist
tcpdump and pump that through ethereal? On Jan 10, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I need to monitor the network traffic from specific IP addresses. I need to be able to deduce the applications that are running that are generating the traffic. What software in the ports collec

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

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Crist
On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Steve Franks wrote: I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Crist
On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I have any problem usin

Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-28 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Mon Si wrote: Dear list, I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver port. The old version of the port can't be uninstalled during the portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. The port can't be deleted by "pkg_

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-17 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:36 AM, Jorn Argelo wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:20:50 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On 14:48:35 Dec 15, Jorn Argelo wrote: Greylisting only works so-so nowadays. There was a couple of months it was very effective, but that is long gone. Spa

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: sounds like everyone is sold on dovecot. Great!. I've a few questions. I went and looked it up on freshports.org and found the main web site. Can anyone explain to me what prob

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-11 Thread Eric Crist
Add gateway_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf. Make sure your other systems use the freebsd box in question as their default route. make sure your firewall, if you have one, is passing the traffic between the two networks. Use pf or some other means to nat outbound traffic. HTH On Dec 11,

Re: copying just / (not /tmp, /usr, etc) (rsync -x failed)

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:48 AM, Konstantinos Pachnis wrote: James Harrison wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 10:41 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:38:20PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I have / on one slice, and [usr,tmp,var] on others. I want to move just / to a new disk, w

Re: geom gmirror question

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 6, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I've bought my new hardware and want to give this another try. On the documentation sacttered around on the net I read that it's better to have 3 harddisks where one is for the main os and the other two are mirrored in stead of a situation

Re: Secure remote shell

2007-11-30 Thread Eric Crist
On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:37 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: [snip] A legitimate question: If I add user 'www' to 'sudoers' with the ability to run adduser, does that not give user 'www' to put the added user in a group, perhaps wheel? If said commands are passed via 'user' to web browser to web ser

Re: shell programming

2007-11-09 Thread Eric Crist
On Nov 9, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Bill Banks wrote: I'm writing a backup script. I need to get the day of the week into a variable. How can I do it? Well, it depends on what you're using. If you're using sh, see `man date`. If you're using perl, it's quite complicated. In short, with sh, si

Re: installing programs

2007-11-07 Thread Eric Crist
On Nov 7, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Marc Fromm wrote: I am new to the linux-type OS environment. For about a week now I have tried to do a task which I first thought would be simple-install a program like firefox. I did "sudo pkg_add -r firefox" as explained in chapter 4 of the handbook and receive

miniupnpd

2007-11-06 Thread Eric Crist
Has anyone used miniupnpd with pf and FreeBSD here successfully? I'm just looking for some pointers and to see if there are any 'gotchas'? Thanks! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hello, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 12:05 -0500, Eric Crist wrote: On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: How do HP servers compare to Dell? We're Dell fans here, but always willing to look at something better. I do not know

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-29 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 01:36 +, Andrew Wasilczuk wrote: [...] HP ProLiant servers are generally decent. The onboard RAID is usually supported by the ciss driver. I haven't dealt with HP yet, but I'm starting to seriously conside

Re: su: not running setuid

2007-10-22 Thread Eric Crist
If you executed the command you claim you did, you're system permissions are really screwed up. You've changed ownership of *EVERY* file on the system to uname:wheel. My best guess is that su is trying to run as uname (setuid) and it's not getting the permissions is needs. 4th and long

Re: postfix problem

2007-10-19 Thread Eric Crist
Yeah, just realized that... On Oct 18, 2007, at 11:17 AMOct 18, 2007, Bill Banks wrote: Do you know its postfix not sendmail? Eric Crist wrote: You need to tell your mail server what domains it needs to accept mail for. Edit /etc/mail/access.sample and add your domain per the template

Re: Mails undelivered

2007-10-18 Thread Eric Crist
I would start by reading the maillog file in /var/log. Also, you can try watching the file as mails get sent: # tail -F /var/log/maillog Watch for errors and rejections. Worst case, post some line from this logfile if you're unable to figure it out further. HTH Eric On Oct 18, 2007, a

Re: postfix problem

2007-10-18 Thread Eric Crist
You need to tell your mail server what domains it needs to accept mail for. Edit /etc/mail/access.sample and add your domain per the template, save as /etc/mail/access, then run make install restart from within the /etc/mail directory. Let me know if that works alright for you! Eric O

Re: any body has a tutorial of installing the openvpn on current versions of freebsd ?

2007-10-04 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 3, 2007, at 2:47 PMOct 3, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/10/2007, "Yong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sorry, I meant install openvpn in bridged mode - that will imply creating some devices, creating the config files that will permit to connect a test user something or somebody that

Re: Need help/advice with gmirror after server crash

2007-10-02 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:46 PMOct 2, 2007, Alexey A. Ukhov wrote: Hello all colleagues. I have the following problem. I had server with 2 SATA drives worked in gmirror. Recently we had crash of third (system) HDD. After FreeBSD reinstalation I see in dmesg: ad2: 238475MB at ata1-master UDMA100 a

Re: Is Apache rotatelogs efficienct for real world use?

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 1, 2007, at 2:43 PMOct 1, 2007, Bahman M. wrote: Hi all, Is Apache rotatelogs suitable for handling large volumes of access logs, i.e. around 50K requests per hour at _peak_ time which is 1.2M requests per day. According to Apache website (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/logs.html#rota

Re: Ports tree is already up to date.

2007-10-01 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 1, 2007, at 11:43 AMOct 1, 2007, Scott I. Remick wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:07:50 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hard to believe that as I have not fetched the updates for the last 2 (or 3) days and there are always a few new or updated ones. Coincidence or the portsnap server is wro

Re: troubles with ftp access via browser

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:27 PMSep 26, 2007, Walter wrote: Hi, I've placed some files on a FBSD 6.2 server using the standard ftpd to access them. The content in question is a video clip, but could be anything that I wanted to share with people unknown. I can access the file list with a browser o

Re: Dell Servers and FreeBSD

2007-09-26 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 26, 2007, at 1:01 PMSep 26, 2007, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Martin McCormick wrote: [snip] real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB) avail memory = 8291303424 (7907 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID:

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 24, 2007, at 1:00 PMSep 24, 2007, Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice? I'm not against something used i

Re: SMTP Error from my server?

2007-09-17 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 17, 2007, at 5:40 PMSep 17, 2007, Chris Maness wrote: I have not seen this error before. What does it mean? (I will change the actual e-mail to protect the address from spam bots). To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mail Administrator > Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail Date: Mon,

Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable

2007-09-14 Thread Eric Crist
It loads for me just fine. Eric Crist On Sep 14, 2007, at 3:53 PMSep 14, 2007, Steve Bertrand wrote: John Fitzgerald wrote: New York is down ICMP and telnet 80 are OK Still down for me. Not only HTTP, but ICMP and telnet. A trace hangs at the following for about 90 seconds: traceroute

Re: Question about syslog.conf

2007-09-14 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:45 AMSep 14, 2007, Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello, I have a question with syslog.conf. I don't find informations about this on man. What the utility of : !startslip *.* /var/log/slip.log !ppp *.* /var/log/ppp.log I don't understand ho

Re: Running process on startup as a user

2007-09-13 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 13, 2007, at 1:15 PMSep 13, 2007, Jack Barnett wrote: Using FreeBSD 6.2 x86. I have a script called: /home/foo/scripts/MyScript.sh The user is 'foo'. The password is 'bar'. What I'm trying to do is run the MyScript.sh command on startup (that way if the box reboots, then this users

Re: gmirror woes

2007-09-11 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 11, 2007, at 4:31 PMSep 11, 2007, Brian McCann wrote: I had a disk die in a gmirror set, and I'm trying to replace it, but I'm having a heck of a time. I can see the mirror set in gmirror list: [snip] [PLUG] Take at peek at https://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/ index.php/Gmirror [

Re: 550 5.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying denied

2007-09-11 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 11, 2007, at 11:46 AMSep 11, 2007, johan Hartono wrote: [ EDITED ] Dear all, I have been running on this problem for some days now. I tryto build an email server using FreeBSD 6.2, Postfix, and dovecot. Right now I have a problem relaying my email. Every time Isend email from a cl

Re: zone

2007-09-11 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 11, 2007, at 10:53 AMSep 11, 2007, User Iam wrote: Where are the zone files located?? I'm assuming you're referencing the BIND zone files for DNS. Unless you've changed it, they should be in /etc/namedb/master. The BIND config file is in /etc/namedb/named.conf HTH - Eric F

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 5, 2007, at 2:05 PMSep 5, 2007, Andrey Shuvikov wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up a home mailserver with imap/web access. But I was going to use exim. Several people mentioned postfix here, but nobody named exim. Is it a matter of personal preference or is exim not suitable for this task?

Re: temporary su login

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 5, 2007, at 10:37 AMSep 5, 2007, Robin Becker wrote: My collocation supplier is about to move our FreeBSD box and wants some way to shut it down cleanly. Is there a simple way to allow a non-root user to have shutdown rights without just giving them the world. At present I don't even

Re: questions on setting up a mail server

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:46 AMSep 5, 2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: All the authentication options you mention after plain text (which is the standard method built in to the protocol) require Cyrus SASL. This isn't as scary to set up as the docs make it sound. PLAIN and LOGIN can both use your exis

Re: Booting to root on gmirror with disk failure, is it even possible?

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:31 PMSep 4, 2007, Modulok wrote: Before I invest significantly more time into my current gmirror issues, I have but two simple questions for anyone out there: 1. Has anyone used gmirror for the root partition and been able to successfully boot with one failed (or un-plugged

Re: mail server setup questions

2007-09-04 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:03 PMSep 4, 2007, Jim Stapleton wrote: I need a mail server to take incoming mail, and provide a pop3 (or better yet, SSLed POP3) connection. I've tried akpop3d and qmail, but have had less than brilliant success getting them functional. Could you all suggest to me what you

Re: allowing non-root to "ipfw show" ?

2007-09-04 Thread Eric Crist
On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:55 AMSep 4, 2007, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Juri Mianovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Is there any way to allow a non-root user the ability to view firewall rules with: ipfw show I would really like to allow some non-root users to see certain "count" rules I have in pla

Re: OpenBSD administrator needed ASAP

2007-08-31 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:14 PMAug 31, 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: L Goodwin wrote: I was contacted today by someone in the Seattle area (East side) who is looking for someone to manage an OpenBSD server. I remember there being at least one person on this list who is based in that area. If you are a

Re: FreeBSD Cron Job to run (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up)

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Crist
ume if it won't run here then crontab won't run it either? Kind regards David Hingston ----- Original Message - From: "Eric Crist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hinkie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:30 AM Subject: Re: FreeBS

Re: FreeBSD Cron Job to run (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up)

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Crist
can tell I am learning this syntax! Can you help me further? With thanks David Hingston - Original Message - From: "Eric Crist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hinkie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:17 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cr

Re: FreeBSD Cron Job to run (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up)

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 29, 2007, at 1:54 PMAug 29, 2007, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-08-29 18:51, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: fragment from my test program (used for other thing but doesn't matter) /sbin/ping -i 0.5 -s 1450 -c 3 tested_host >/dev/null 2>/dev/null if [ $? != 0 ];then p

Re: FreeBSD Cron Job to run (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up)

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 29, 2007, at 8:03 AMAug 29, 2007, Hinkie wrote: Hi I want to run a cron job in /etc/crontab that runs (ifconfig em0 down; ifconfig em0 up) if my cables static ip gateway can't be pinged but I can't figure it out. I can't get the syntax that runs in the command window, to then put

quick pf source-based routing question

2007-08-28 Thread Eric Crist
Hey, We have a problem here at the office that I'd like to solve with pf and source-based routing. How would I write a rule with pf to route any traffic from 10.1.1.1 across a specific interface? Thanks! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks _

Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?

2007-08-25 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:26 PMAug 24, 2007, Noel Jones wrote: [snip] an easier way is to run spamassassin under the control of amavisd-new and let amavisd-new add address extensions such as user+spam and to let dovecot file the mail in a spam folder. Noel, Are you saying I just need amavisd-n

Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?

2007-08-24 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 24, 2007, at 9:05 AMAug 24, 2007, Gerard wrote: On August 24, 2007 at 09:32AM Eric Crist wrote: Is there anyone that can help me do some funky filtering with postfix and spamassassin? I'm a new Postfix convert, and my knowledge is lacking. Define "funky"! Before y

Re: Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?

2007-08-24 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 24, 2007, at 8:46 AMAug 24, 2007, Martin Hepworth wrote: Eric why not stick with an MTA you know? Martin, I've switched to postfix due to some of the features it supports. Thanks for your concern, though. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks

Postfix/SpamAssassin Guru?

2007-08-24 Thread Eric Crist
Hey, Is there anyone that can help me do some funky filtering with postfix and spamassassin? I'm a new Postfix convert, and my knowledge is lacking. TIA for any help! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:45 PMAug 23, 2007, Pollywog wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote: I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant part of it is loaded with te

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:20 PMAug 23, 2007, Rob wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: This is the internet. Spam is endemic. Short of encasing your computer in concrete, there's no way to avoid getting spam **even if you never post to a mailing list**. Either learn to deal with it or stop Bullshit.

Re: load script at bootup

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 1:48 PMAug 23, 2007, Narek Gharibyan wrote: #!/bin/sh Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 >>/root/stat && date >> / root/stat && echo "===" >> /root/stat I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to a group the stat

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:11 AMAug 23, 2007, fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the post gets sent to the list mem

Re: un-zipping pkzip files om fbsd

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:27 AMAug 23, 2007, fbsd2 wrote: I receive a pkzip file created under ms/windows. What can I use under fbsd to un-zip this file? Does unzip fail to un-zip the file? - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___ freebsd-que

Re: syslog redundancy

2007-08-22 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:29 PMAug 22, 2007, Sean Murphy wrote: Can syslogd provide failover redundancy to another box? Should I configure my devices to send to two different syslogd servers? (if the devices allow more then one syslogd box to log to. If not I would like to know if the first op

Re: Configuring mailman with web server different from mail server

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 21, 2007, at 11:45 AMAug 21, 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: I am trying to install mailman from the ports. I have different machine for the mail server and the web server and I am trying to figure if this configuration is workable. The MTA

Re: .rar files on K3b

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:23 AMAug 21, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs I've downloaded a .rar audio file other day but I don't get to fix it on K3b. My machine is amd64 and runs FreeBSD-6.1-Release amd64 RAR is a method of compression, not an audio format. T

Re: syslogd, exec and alarms

2007-08-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 20, 2007, at 8:11 PMAug 20, 2007, Darren Henderson wrote: I have a syslog.conf line that has a selector pointing to action that is a perl script. The script takes action based on the content of the line passed to it. Simple stuff. Works fine. Wanting to be resource sensitive, I wou

Re: freebsd 7 release date :)

2007-08-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:18 PMAug 20, 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: I'm not suggesting we lay out a strict timeline, as I'd much prefer the releases when they're ready, but simply a page saying, 'Hey, FreeBSD x.y release is coming soon, we're currently working on 'blah.'' Something more than what's

Re: freebsd 7 release date :)

2007-08-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:18 PMAug 20, 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: I'm not suggesting we lay out a strict timeline, as I'd much prefer the releases when they're ready, but simply a page saying, 'Hey, FreeBSD x.y release is coming soon, we're currently working on 'blah.'' Something more than what's

Re: freebsd 7 release date :)

2007-08-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:52 AMAug 20, 2007, Jerry McAllister wrote: [snip] As I said, we know and even newbies can learn, with considerate explanitory responses, that no absolute date can realistically be named - that there is justifiably more concern about quality than making a particular 'releas

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 box crashing

2007-08-20 Thread Eric Crist
Sorry to reply again so soon, but I failed to read through your attachment before sending my previous message. I notice that your system seems to have crashed at least a few times during the loading of PowerDNS. Immediately before, there's a warning about the variables in /etc/rc.conf:

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 box crashing

2007-08-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 20, 2007, at 7:10 AMAug 20, 2007, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 custom compiled kernel running on Intel Pentium 4 630 (AMD64 architecture). FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is the most stable release I've ever seen in my 3 years of BSD life. But for the fir

Re: IPv4 over IPV4 on the same network segment

2007-08-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:26 AMAug 20, 2007, Benjamin Close wrote: Hi Folks, I've got to route a network over an ipv4 tunnel between to machines which have their parent link on the same network segment. Everything works well except for people trying to access the external address of one of th

BIND $GENERATE & IPv6

2007-08-18 Thread Eric Crist
Hello list, I'm having a problem trying to develop a proper generate record for my IPv6 reverse zones. Can anyone point me to the correct FM in this case? Preferably something with some examples? Thanks! - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks

Re: Installing mysql 4.0

2007-08-17 Thread Eric Crist
Add mysql_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf file, and use the /usr/ local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server script to start the process as follows: % su root # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start HTH Eric Crist On Aug 17, 2007, at 9:01 AMAug 17, 2007, Fidel Garcia wrote: Hi I have been

Re: Swap size

2007-08-16 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:05 PMAug 16, 2007, Nicholas Wieland wrote: I was reading tuning(7), and I found that I should size my swap double the size of my physical memory. AFAIK that was true some years ago, when memory was not as cheap as now, and following that guideline I should set my swap t

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 16, 2007, at 2:37 PMAug 16, 2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: You need to create a VPN connection between your two offices. You can do this in a variety of ways, but probably the best solution would be to have static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware support for VPNs at

mysqldump/gzip shell scripting question...

2007-08-16 Thread Eric Crist
ldump -u $USER -p$PASS $DBHOST $DATABASE $TABLE | gzip > $TABLE.sql.gz Anyone have any good recommendations? Thanks! Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: What is my disk usage?

2007-08-08 Thread Eric Crist
7;t get it, what's wrong? Things look normal to me... Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: restart network without shutdown

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:11 PMAug 7, 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Eric Crist wrote: Install screen from ports, run it from within screen. You'll still get disconnected, but you should be able to reconnect after it's done. Screen will allow the script to complete, wherea

Re: restart network without shutdown

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Crist
Install screen from ports, run it from within screen. You'll still get disconnected, but you should be able to reconnect after it's done. Screen will allow the script to complete, whereas your ssh session is killing it half/part way through... HTH Eric Crist On Aug 7, 2007

Re: FreeBSD vs mysql50-server

2007-08-03 Thread Eric Crist
It should be in /var/db/mysql/my.cnf. HTH Eric Crist On Aug 1, 2007, at 11:04 PMAug 1, 2007, Hartleigh Burton wrote: Hi Guys, I have installed MySQL 5.0.45 server on a new FreeBSD 6.2 boxen, and having some problems restoring a 10GB database backup to the new server. The error I receive

Re: IPv6 Tunnel Brokers?

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 1, 2007, at 4:41 PMAug 1, 2007, Javier Henderson wrote: On Wed, August 1, 2007 16:12, Christopher Hilton wrote: Javier Henderson wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 09:52:45 -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Hey list, While my ISP is rather geeky and more than willing to give me an IPv6 tunnel to

Re: IPv6 Tunnel Brokers?

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Crist
majority of the IPv6 net. So, I ask two things really. 1) Does anyone know of an ISP that'll give me a /48 or /64 they'll route across a gif tunnel? 2) What could I do to help remedy this routing problem? Thanks! Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions

Re: semi OT: sh scripting problem

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Crist
k. No bash required. Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

IPv6 Tunnel Brokers?

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Crist
of an ISP that'll give me a /48 or /64 they'll route across a gif tunnel? 2) What could I do to help remedy this routing problem? Thanks! Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Cannot post because of spamassassin blocking my mail

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Crist
blically accessible email server as "possible spam source". That's what I'd do, for sure. Adam, I've been posting to the list through gmail for quite some time, without issue. I don't think that's the OP's problem. Eric Crist

Re: FQDN Hostnames, Sendmail and Spamassassin.

2007-07-30 Thread Eric Crist
blems, simply make an entry in the /etc/hosts file to map the local hostname to it's corresponding IP address. HTH. Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To un

Re: Root access loggin

2007-07-30 Thread Eric Crist
t give them root access. You could simply sit at the console with them while they work. IIRC, they're a contractor, not an employee. Your presence during such operations wouldn't be abnormal for a contractor. HTH Eric Crist ___ freebsd

Re: Sendmail question

2007-07-26 Thread Eric Crist
guration file, works well. Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Safely mount OS X UFS filesystem?

2007-07-07 Thread Eric Crist
that inodes 64 and 16384 are not dedicated to snapshots. I've mounted OS X formatted UFS file systems just fine for quite some time. I haven't been able to mount FreeBSD formatted UFS filesystems, however. Eric Crist ___ freebsd

Re: one server with two ip address

2007-07-07 Thread Eric Crist
fe1 192.168.0.100/24 Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: buildworld inquiry

2007-07-06 Thread Eric Crist
obj directories and installworld/kernel from there. We have ~30 similar FreeBSD systems and one build box. Kinda helps us stay consistent, etc. HTH Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: IPsec based on rfc 4303

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Crist
FAST_IPSEC into IPSEC, and getting rid of the current IPSEC - I'm not a coder, and I haven't read the RFC, but send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask them what's all included, and what changes have been made. This is going to roll into 6.3-RELEASE as well as 7.0-RELEAS

Re: how to find current cpu speed & utilization

2007-06-28 Thread Eric Crist
man top On Jun 28, 2007, at 3:17 PMJun 28, 2007, Steve Franks wrote: I've been playing with powerd, and my system seems mighty sluggish. I can't find anything in the manpages about how to get current metrics on the cpu. powerd is just a daemon, acpi and cpufreq are drivers, acpiconf just pu

Re: KDM at boot

2007-06-25 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 25, 2007, at 7:39 PMJun 25, 2007, Cyrus wrote: ive done this before with Slackware 11, but read up on freebsd on how to do it, and its completley different. How do I go about having KDM start automaticly on boot? Edit /etc/ttys and modify line 45 as follows: ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin

Re: IPv6 Setup...

2007-06-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:17 AMJun 23, 2007, Tilman Linneweh wrote: On Jun 23, 2007, at 04:36 , Eric Crist wrote: I have 5 servers on my quaint little network, and my primary firewall is configured with an IPv6 address, we'll say 1000:2000:1::6 and is connected to my ISP through a gif t

Re: IPv6 Setup...

2007-06-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:17 AMJun 23, 2007, Tilman Linneweh wrote: On Jun 23, 2007, at 04:36 , Eric Crist wrote: I have 5 servers on my quaint little network, and my primary firewall is configured with an IPv6 address, we'll say 1000:2000:1::6 and is connected to my ISP through a gif t

IPv6 Setup...

2007-06-22 Thread Eric Crist
Hello all, I've been toying with getting IPv6 installed and running for a while, and I've got only one hurdle remaining. I have 5 servers on my quaint little network, and my primary firewall is configured with an IPv6 address, we'll say 1000:2000:1::6 and is connected to my ISP through a

Re: Apache, php?

2007-06-20 Thread Eric Crist
build the port - it's not enabled by default. HTH Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:39 AMJun 20, 2007, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install li

Re: Does any verson of Freebsd includes the apache package?

2007-06-10 Thread Eric Crist
croll up a bit to catch them all. You can scroll up by pressing Scroll-Lock and then the up/down arrows. HTH Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: GEOM/GELI Boot Disk Encryption

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 7, 2007, at 9:54 AMJun 7, 2007, cpghost wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:00:44PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: You may wish to (at least) encrypt swap partitions, /tmp and /var/tmp, and probably /usr/tmp (if it's not a symlink to encrypted /var/tmp) in addition to /home. Most userland progr

Re: deleting old mails

2007-06-03 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 3, 2007, at 8:05 AMJun 3, 2007, Thierry Lacoste wrote: On Sunday 03 June 2007 14:01, Christopher Hilton wrote: Thierry Lacoste wrote: I'm running a postfix server on FreeBSD 6.1 and I'd like to have a cronjob which deletes old mails from mboxes in /var/mail. I tried mail/archivemail bu

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-09 Thread Eric Crist
On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Gary, Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard VGA output usually include at least one DVI-VGA adapter, an additional one could be purchased at most

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-09 Thread Eric Crist
clude at least one DVI-VGA adapter, an additional one could be purchased at most computer retailers or your local Radio Shack. HTH Eric Crist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: macbook pro support

2007-05-09 Thread Eric Crist
AFAIK, the Macbook information will work exactly the same on a Pro model. There's no real core-level differences between the Pro and non-Pro systems. On May 9, 2007, at 1:12 PMMay 9, 2007, George Iordanou wrote: I'm using an Apple MacBook Pro, and i was wondering if there's any howto on in

Re: A good server motherboard.

2007-05-01 Thread Eric Crist
On May 1, 2007, at 10:01 AMMay 1, 2007, Christopher Prance wrote: If you were to build a server using FreeBSD 6.2 , basically for home use, serving media files, small web server, basically a very small load, which motherboard would you recommend? Mid range as far as price is concerned. I

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