Re: Login.conf Limits not Applying for Postfix

2013-05-09 Thread Eric S Pulley
> Hey list, > > I have a pretty low resource usage for users on my system, thus I have > some low limits set in my /etc/login.conf. Particularly "openfiles," which > is set to 128 for the default class. However, I started getting errors > from Postfix saying it has hit this limit: > "postfix/proxy

Re: pkgng repositories

2013-05-01 Thread Eric S Pulley
___ Also if I remember right Xorg and KDE4 are included on the release DVD image. -- | _ ASCII Ribbon Eric S Pulley | ( ) Campaign Against http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Home WiFi Router with pfSense or m0n0wall?

2013-04-21 Thread Eric S Pulley
ok. I did that to an Acer I picked up cheap and added external antenna (not sure how much that mattered), works great all for under 300USD. I'm running OpenBSD on mine but should do any of the firewall/routers specific variants just fine. -- | _ ASCII Ribbon Eric S Pulley

Re: Soekris or .. ?

2013-03-01 Thread Eric S Pulley
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Julien Cigar wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking for a small Soekris-like (http://soekris.com/) box which >> support >> FreeBSD, any experience or brand to advise .. ? > > I'm using Soekris net4801 boxes with FreeBSD without problems > since many years as small r

Re: Unable to install xorg using pkg_add

2013-01-10 Thread Eric S Pulley
Read the 9.1 Release notes. This is the expected behavior. You'll need the DVD iso or build from ports to get xorg going in 9.1 right now. > Hello, I just installed FreeBSD last night using the bootonly image for > 9.0-RELEASE. I then updated to 9.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. > Everything > s

Re: How do you manage jails?

2012-11-30 Thread Eric S Pulley
> On 11/29/2012 13:34, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> Stay away from using vimage with production jails (vimage provides a >> network stack for each jail). Vimage is marked as experimental and use >> at your own risk. You have to compile it into your kernel to deploy it. >> > > FWIW we are using vimages for se

Re: Is FreeBSD 9 Production Ready?

2012-11-24 Thread Eric S Pulley
--On November 24, 2012 10:38:35 AM -0600 Tim Daneliuk wrote: I am currently running FBSD 8.3-STABLE on a production server that provides http, dns, smtp, and so on for a small domain. This is not a high arrival rate environment but it does need to be rock solid (which FBSD 4-8 have been).

Re: How is zfs file system known in fsck?

2012-11-18 Thread Eric S Pulley
--On November 18, 2012 10:38:43 AM -0500 Lynn Steven Killingsworth wrote: Hi FreeBSD - On my PC-BSD 9.1 RC3 I need to run fsck on my internal storage drive. I would like to use I think: fsck -y -F -t ufs /dev The question is what should I place for 'ufs' since I have zfs. My guesses j

Re: confessions of a FreeBSD purist

2012-11-17 Thread Eric S Pulley
On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:28:02 -0500 Matthew Pope wrote: > Dear FreeBSD community, > > It has been wonderful being a full-fledged member of this community, > an administrator running FreeBSD on bare hardware (in his basement) > for years. This is the coolest, hippiest, historically pure, and > mo

RE: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-13 Thread Eric S Pulley
--On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 08:54:23 AM -0800 Devin Teske wrote: We're seeing in 8.1-RELEASE that "nodev" is an invalid option for NFS mounts that causes your system to boot into single-user mode. Is this still the case in 9.0-RC2/3 or has the option been re-added? "nodev" was a valid

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-13 Thread Eric S Pulley
--On Tuesday, December 13, 2011 09:54:38 AM +1000 Da Rock wrote: On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will only fill up v

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-12 Thread Eric S Pulley
> > As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest > failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem > with bsd as logs will only fill up var, a user won't break it with > filling up usr, etc. And root always stays protected! Its saved my life > a n

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Eric S Pulley
Actually this looks like fairly normal white noise you can expect on a public facing ssh server. There are a lot of bots out there, looking for another box to own. If you're running PF put in something like the following. block in quick log from {} . . . pass in log on $ext_if proto tcp to ($e

Re: How to deny getting static ip address via pf ?

2011-07-26 Thread Eric S Pulley
On Tue, July 26, 2011 9:01 am, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:44 AM, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: >> I use pf on freebsd as packet filter. >> >> I have a wireless area. The users get to the internet using automatic ip >> from the dhcp server. >> I wish to deny to assign a static ip address by