Re: Does anybody know a PeerGuardian like app?

2010-12-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
Polytropon writes: Is this what you had in mind? I think a big component of what the OP asked for is and has frequently updated lists If there was such a list available then it would be possible to integrate it with one of the firewals available in FreeBSD. __

Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected

2010-12-27 Thread Francisco Reyes
I was doing some exercises to get familiar with diff/patch. Tried: cd mkdir tmp cd tmp mkdir original mkdir changed echo Line1 > original/File1 echo Line2 >>original/File1 echo Line4 >>original/File1 echo Line1 > changed/File1 echo Line2 >>changed/File1 echo Line3 >>changed/File1 echo Line4 >>ch

portsnap2.freebsd.org corrupt files

2010-09-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap2.freebsd.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata... done. Updating from Mon Sep 20 21:17:39 EDT 2010 to Tue Sep 21 10:05:03 EDT 2010. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-09 Thread Francisco Reyes
krad writes: In my experience dedup requires a fairly large amount of juice so if your backups are large I hope you machines are big on ram The way tarsnap does it is not that intensive. I have used in an old 900Mhz machine with less than 640MB of RAM and it worked well. I think the program c

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

2010-07-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
bsd writes: I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers (7) based on two operating systems : Depending on how much data you are trying to backup and whether an internet backup solution would work, you may want to take a look at tarsnap: http://www.tarsnap.co

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
Adam Vande More writes: Yes, you might be able to edit an existing image or use 'make release' to build your own. Or with pxe you can just put it on NFS. I was thinking of something perhaps even simpler. Mount a second CD image with just install.cfg. Will try that and see how it works. If

Re: Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
Adam Vande More writes: I'm not sure that floppies are still working in this fashion, but even if they are it may be easier for you to do this via pxe or optical media. You mean to create a CD image and put the install.cfg instead of using a floppy image? ___

Floppies on VMware workstation FreeBSD guest

2010-06-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
Any has had any success with getting floppies to work on VMware desktop 7 on a FreeBSD guest? Did the following to prepare the floppy #Create empty floppy image dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1440 of=/data/tmp/boot.flp #create md0 and point it to floppy mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /data/tmp/boot.flp

Re: Disk Cloning

2009-10-03 Thread Francisco Reyes
krad writes: On a side note. Anyone building new systems manually from the shell I would recommend using GPT labels if you can. Apart from not having the 8 fs limit (128 iirc) gpart is a dam sight nicer to use than bsdlabel, and scripting it Any links on GPT on 8? Found this tutorial for 7 htt

Torrent for 8.0 RC1?

2009-10-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Looking for 8.0 RC1 torrents and so far only found this one http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=28d9970704ce aedddec8873d21b34d57cbb0b58d Are RCs not officially distributed through torrents? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Install fails, but newfs worked

2008-05-18 Thread Francisco Reyes
Trying to install FreeBSD in a machine with Adaptec 2120 SCSI controller. Newfs finished without errors, but when the installer tried to write the different parts it fails with "write failure". Have tried it twice. Wouldn't any/most errors have been caught by newfs? ___

Which FTPs are most used by ports?

2008-05-12 Thread Francisco Reyes
I am about to install FreeBSD at a new job. They block ftp, along with most other ports. I may be able to get a whole open for the freebsd server to be able to ftp from some specific machines. Any suggestions what machines I should add to the list? For programs I know about I plan to do "mak

Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-12 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that installs a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made. For example I want all employees to have uids starting at 5000, but I would like too port installed uids to be 2000 and up. After I add some users (ie say last user i

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Norberto Meijome writes: I do not have Windows on any of my machines but I have heard that Win4BSD is really good. It is not free! I believe it is about $45. $45 is far cheaper than EMC's VMWare workstation edition. Does it support Vista now? interesting..you can also try QEMu, on which Win4B

Re: best way to run vista inside freebsd

2007-10-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Frank Jahnke writes: VMs in general are a problem on Free. There is an effort to port the most recent VMware Workstation by a very good man. VMware employee? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Cross compiling to amd64 in a i386 machine?

2007-06-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
is there a way to cross compile to amd64 from i386? I see that "as" support a "--64" target but when I try to compile a program with that target it gives the error Fatal error: No compiled in support for x86_64 I am trying to cross compile FreePascal from i386 to amd64. _

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-06-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Moran writes: Check with the vendors, though. Many drive manufacturers have utilities you can download specifically to check their drives. If the drives are somewhat recent you can try using SMART to check them. In particular you can use the smartmontools port. You may need to enable SMA

Re: 6.2 SCSI RAID controllers

2007-06-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Josef Grosch writes: What is the best SCSI/SATA/SAS RAID controller to use with 6.x? We have tried LSI for SAS and we are not that impressed with it. Catching up with the list.. and did not see an answer to your question. Have you tried adaptect? We have a couple of SCSI machines with it and

Re: "Realtime File System Replication On FreeBSD" How reliable is it?

2007-06-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Steve Bertrand writes: I have used vinum for quite a while, never, ever had a problem. In fact, in RAID-1, I had a motherboard and a disk fail simultaneously. I popped He is not asking about disk RAID. I found this site with instructions to setup what is basically a network RAID-1: http://p

Re: How to prevent a filesystem from getting checked by fsck?

2007-01-10 Thread Francisco Reyes
Sahil Tandon writes: Francisco Reyes wrote: Have a server with 3 large filesystems. I would like to have only one checked by fsck and mounted. The other two I want to fsck and mount manually. Is it enough to change options to "rw,noauto" and pass to 0 for the two I don't

How to prevent a filesystem from getting checked by fsck?

2007-01-09 Thread Francisco Reyes
Have a server with 3 large filesystems. I would like to have only one checked by fsck and mounted. The other two I want to fsck and mount manually. Is it enough to change options to "rw,noauto" and pass to 0 for the two I don't want mounted or fscked? This is so in case of a crash, like we ha

Making world doesn't change all ownerships?

2007-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have a test machine where some users changed a number of directories to be owned by "www:www" by mistake. The machine was unusable. After rebuilding from sources the machine was usable, but I noticed that a number of files still were owned by "www". In particular I saw files in /usr/sbin, /u

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-10-04 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Moran writes: Have you tried contacting the Foundation? http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ It's my understanding that they coordinate most of this money -> developers stuff ... I think I explored that route. It's been a month or so now.. but if memory serves me well that was not a viable

Re: 6.1 and NFS

2006-10-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Kris Kennaway writes: There are a number of PRs I filed, but those aren't all of the problems. It will require fairly major work to fix - the best hope would be if someone was funded to work on it. A couple of months back the place I work for had a number of issues with NFS. We tried to find

Status of bigdisk support?

2006-08-24 Thread Francisco Reyes
Is the page http://www.freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk/ up to date with regards to bigdisk support in FreeBSD? That page mentions issues with filesystems over 1TB, but I have several machines with 5.X and 6.X that can see and work fine with 1TB+ filesystems. Currently going to setup soon a machine

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Paul Chvostek writes: Apache logs daily). NFS seems to go away for a few seconds (the filer is unpingable), then return. I see this in 6.X too. Despite the 5.x branch's known problems, I had attributed this to the fact that I'm using bge NICs. Our problems seem to occur with other cards

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: I don't remember general complaints about nfs in the 6.x series here in the list. Checkt he stable list. :-) Locking issues on server during heavy load. Background fsck + NFSD locking issues Clients freeze if server goes away.. soft mount option doesn help.

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable? Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the client. You might have more luck with 6.1-RELEASE Really? Were changes introduced to 6.1 Stable that made NFS less stable than 6.1 Rele

Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable? Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the client. From what I read on the stable list others are having simmilar problems, but don't see any mention of fixes. I need to downgrade a number of machines from 6.1 Stable to

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Nikolas Britton writes: Dont get me wrong.. I can get approval to go SCSI since our machines need at least 1T+ (the storage machines) err.. should have say "can't get approval" to go SCSI.. We are using SATA. Why? 1TB and up is a SATA niche. Correct.. that is what we use. You can buy 3

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: The other selling point for me on HP was the 2.5" SAS drives ... our new servers have 4x72G SAS drives in a 1U space, which means I can do RAID1+0 How do those drives perform? They are too small for where I work. :-( At least for our "storage" servers.. Are those 10K

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: the problem is that none of the Tier 1 hardware manufacturer's support FreeBSD, and a growing number of places (ie. Adaptec / Intel) appear to be dropping support for it as well ... But companies like 3Ware and Areca are supporting it and from what I see on the lists

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: You have no guarentee that any piece of hardware you buy will be supported on any future revision of FreeBSD, or even Windows for that matter. True. I have lots of Intel gear in my basement that was supported on various Windows versions in the past, which cannot run

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Atom Powers writes: Yes. All the servers I'm installing this year will have SATA drives (and 3ware RAID controllers). The Western Digital Raptor drives are every bit as good as the SCSI drives I used to get. Perhaps as the ones you used to get, but not as good as you can get. Dont get me wron

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: settled on HP Proliant servers . The problem with HP, as I see it, is that they "officially" do not support freebsd.. I even sent an email to ask.. and the categorically stated that it is not supported. I would not want to standarize on something which is not guar

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: b. are ppl actually using/promoting SATA drives in a server environment? I think for a small company there is little choice if you need serious capacity on a budget. 300GB SATA.. in the $150 and lower 300GB 10K RPM SCSI $650 and up $500 difference per drive. 2U wit

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-06-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: So, my question above, and a public call to -core, or anyone else: What can we, as a community, due to improve this situation? How about buying from vendors that specifically support FreeBSD. http://freebsdsystems.com http://ixsystems.com and surely others. __

Re: Motherboards

2006-04-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Andrew Pantyukhin writes: Well, I've heard that Google builds their newest servers almost exclusively on Opteron/Supermicro. Any public reference to that? What was the source? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Motherboards

2006-04-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Andrew Pantyukhin writes: Supermicro are also very good, but IMO they come second after Tyan. Coming late, ok way late :-), into the thread, but someone was mentioning that Supermicro motherboards had issues with Opterons. Anyone has experienced/read/heard about this? _

How to increase memory for an application?

2006-04-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
While trying to do a quiery in the postgresql client got an error "out of memory for query result". After checking the postgresql list I got this reply "Process memory allowed to the client; this is not a server-side error." How would I crease the memory allowed to a specific program? I look

b column in vmstat includes NFS?

2006-04-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
The 'b' column of vmstat shows pending transactions that require disk I/O. Does that include NFS connections? Have a machine with very high numbers in that column, yet when I do top and select 'm' to show disk activity, the numbers in top are fairly small. Wondering if the issue is the commun

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Kris Kennaway writes: Well there you go then..you're trying to access a file that is larger than RAM, so naturally you won't be able to fit it all in RAM, and with 1GB less RAM in your system you'll spend much more time reading bits of it from disk and later throwing them away. Not to mention

Re: Postfix inside a jail

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Vaaf writes: I'm trying to get FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE, postfix-2.1.6,1 and mysql-5.0.16 working. I have a couple of postfix setups inside jails. The one thing you have to watch for is that, as far as I can tell, there is no 127.0.0.1.. inside the jail so you need to configure your filters to l

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Moran writes: One advantage of Maildir over mbox and the Cyrus db (that, for some reason, I seldom see touted) is that you can make a safe backup of a Maildir without shutting down the SMTP, POP, or IMAP server. For a small/simple setup I think Maildir is most definitely the way to go. Fr

Re: OT - Scalable email server solution needed

2006-04-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Duane Whitty writes: My appologies in advance for the OT post. This probably more appropriately belongs on ISP@ but there doesn't seem to be much traffic there. Although there isn't much traffic, people to read it, and so far the advice I have gotten from that list is pretty good. business

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d not running for jail

2006-03-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
Philip Hallstrom writes: Put the following into the jail's /etc/rc.conf: early_late_divider="NETWORKING" Thanks! That worked. That worked for me. My memory is this isn't a *real* solution, but that it does the trick (going off some posts I found on the issue when this happened to me) It

/usr/local/etc/rc.d not running for jail

2006-03-08 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have a jail, running in FreeBSD 6, which starts sshd and syslogd, but doesn't start any of the programs from /usr/local/etc/rc.d All the appropriate variables are in /etc/rc.conf for the various programs (postfix, spamd, clamsmtp, freshclam). I am able to run the programs manually by going t

Re: atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-05 Thread Francisco Reyes
Mike Tancsa writes: Sorry for the delay.. ever since my HD crashed last weekend.. have been having problems with my home courier-imap setup. :-( On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 22:40:32 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: How does one do "atacontrol status" for a 3ware card in FreeBS

atacontrol status for 3ware?

2006-03-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
How does one do "atacontrol status" for a 3ware card in FreeBSD 6? Tried atacontrol status 0 (like in previous versions) atacontrol status twe0 atacontrol status twed0 I rebuild an array and saw the controller display messages at the start of the rebuild and it showed "twe0" as the name of th

Zombie jail?

2006-02-24 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have a jail that after running /etc/rc.d/jail seems to stay around. jls 1 but if I do "pgrep -lfj 1" nothing is listed. I am able to enter the jail by "jexec 1 chs", but once inside it doesn't seem like anything is working. Is this basically a Zombie jail? ie an entry claimi

Re: /etc/rc.d/jail can't stop jail

2006-02-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
Thanks to Valerio daelli for pointing out that the names I had in my rc.conf needed to be changed to match the actual jail name. The jail now starts, however trying to kill it still doesn't work. There is no error and running /etc/rc.d/jail mail stop shows Stopping jails: mail12. However the

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Campbell writes: Thanks much for sharing the info This server is the primary NFS server with 2GB of RAM, with dual 3GhZ Pentium IVs. While not a truly low-end box, it probably cost about $1,500USD. Ok... so 1 NFS server. This system as one publically accessible MX server that handles

/etc/rc.d/jail can't stop jail

2006-02-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Doing my first jail. I am able to start the jail manually using the jail command and using /etc/rc.d/jail start, however I am unable to stop the jail using /etc/rc.d jail. I get the error Stopping jails:cannot stop jail mail. No jail id in /var/run The name of the jail is "mail". I also trie

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: I'm not sure what's the peak traffic like, but we were using a standard P3 800Mhz server h/w w/ 1GB RAM, and SCSI drives. How many of those? Also is that your front-end (ie POP/IMAP) machine or your storage (NFS server) machine?

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: Specifically my mail server combo was: FreeBSD 4.1 + Qmail + Courier IMAP + MySQL 3.22 How many clients did each front end machine handled? What was the hardware of the front-end machines? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Foo Ji-Haw writes: I've been using FreeBSD + courier IMAP + MySQL (for user authentication). It's hardly a load issue for more than 200,000 users, and that was years ago. Would you mind sharing some info on the setup? First time I read about a courier setup of that size. __

Re: Large imap server.

2006-02-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bill Campbell writes: Cyrus scaling? We currently user Courier and so far I am far from impressed with it's scalability. We have NFS servers for the storage and then front end machines for the POP/IMAP connections. The footprint per connection is about 3MB to 5MB on the client. On a mach

Re: Cacti (Was: Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?)

2006-01-02 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: You can setup "Graph Trees", so you can group Graphs together .. ie. all the CPU Usage graphs for all (or groups of) servers, so that you can compare them ... Great report. Have you seen anything yet about disk performance? That would be very usefull too... specially

Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?

2006-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: I just installed cacti, which seems fairly useful for 'long term views' of how a server is doing Have not played with it, but have read good/favorable comments about it. I would be nice if you did a mini report of your early impressions later.. In particular I think

Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?

2006-01-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: For all the technology, I was kinda hoping for some 'scientific formula' :) There are.. Now, I really hate to ask, but how do you use vmstat to get a feel for how busy the disk subsystem is? For me, reading "Absolute BSD" by Michael Lucas was very helpfull. In part

Re: "Load Balancing": How Busy are the servers?

2005-12-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier writes: 1. What variables on a server should be monitored to determine how busy a server is? I am a fairly new sysadmin.. who inheritted nearly 20 machines, so take my comments with a gain of salt. Before that the most I ever had was 7, mostly DB, FreeBSD machines :-) .. a

Script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d doesn't run

2005-12-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have one script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that doesn't run. Any ideas why? It is marked as executable ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 441B Dec 30 20:36 start-program.sh The script is just: #!/bin/sh log="/var/log/program.log" echo ->>$log /bin/date >>$log

How to build package without installing it?

2005-12-10 Thread Francisco Reyes
What parameter(s) one needs to use to make a package without installing it? I have some ports I installed on one machine and want to make packages to install in others. The default "make package" tries to install. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Bootloader Freezes with timer. Ok if press enter

2005-12-04 Thread Francisco Reyes
My first 6.0 machine destined for production (not to worry.. will test thoroughly before it goes live ;-) and it freezes on the initial boot screen. If I press enter right away upon the boot menu appearing the machine boots fine. However, if I let the countdown start it freezes when there are

Re: Upgrading to pgsql 8.1 via ports

2005-11-25 Thread Francisco Reyes
Pat Maddox writes: Should I use postgresql81-server now instead? Yes. What do I need to do in order to upgrade my system to use pgsql 8.1? I believe you need to go a pg_dumpall all to copy data. Also keep a copy of your postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf If you don't have any dependenci

Re: MX freebsd

2005-11-25 Thread Francisco Reyes
dick hoogendijk writes: Any idea how long it takes until the MX freebsd mailservers know that my mail relay has changed? It's three days ago now that I changed my MX records and still mail for nagual.st is routed to my old mx mailservers. dig nagual.st mx ;;; QUESTION SECTION: ;nagual.st.

Re: How do I chroot rsync like I chroot ftp ?

2005-11-10 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, user wrote: scponly is another restricted shell like rssh. It is under more active development, and seems to have more features. It's in the ports tree under shells. I was looking for it under security. Will try it this weekend.. Have you tried it yet? I am also leanin

Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...

2005-10-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
Jack T wrote: RE:Performance, it seems to perform fine enough for me. YMMV. How many machines do you have connected using it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Backing up postgresql data

2005-10-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Pat Maddox wrote: I've got postgresql 8 running on my system, and want to do nightly backups of the database. I recommend 1- Nightly dumpall 2- More frequent backup of databases that change often. You can setup a script like: #!/bin/sh PGUSER= PGPASSWORD= export PGUSER export PGPASSWORD /usr

Re: OpenAFS for FreeBSD...

2005-10-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
Jack T wrote: On 10/23/05, Jack T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's broken only for the reason that it overwrites files from security/heimdal. Otherwise, I believe it works just fine on FreeBSD 5.4. Is this something that needs to be fixed in the port? How stable is it? How about perf

Re: possible breakin attempt?

2005-10-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
dawnshade wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 21:19, Anthony Philipp wrote: see man ssd_config for directive UseDNS or just block tcp/22 from not trusted hosts. Another helpfull thing to do is to limit what users can connect through SSH using the AllowUsers directive. In your /etc/sshd_co

Re: Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
Daniel Pittman wrote: It looks to me like either ipf or ipfilter are equally good, and have about the same capabilities, While you are getting started and to test rules you could use /etc/hosts.allow also. You may already be familiar with it from other OSs.. We use to keep a list of what IP

Re: If I want to hook FreeBSD to a SAN ...

2005-10-16 Thread Francisco Reyes
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Pointers to any web pages that are good for this sort of thing, especially as concerns FreeBSD, would be greatly appreciated ... Not sure if is along the lines of what you need, but but a few years back I found a company that allowed multiple machines to connec to a

Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote: can i just hook up a laptop hdd in a desktop machine? No. Another poster sent you comments on that. You need to get a Kit. Should not cost much though. Basically some mounting brackets and a cable... although for your case probably just the cable an

Re: RAED_DMA timed out crap

2005-08-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, kalin mintchev wrote: yea.. that was my thought too but it's only one drive and i can't get it to boot all the way. and it's a laptop. is there a way to mount remotely a laptop hdd? Other than mounting the drive on another machine to see how much you can read, not mu

(Solved) SSH not working for particular user

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
For the archives. Found the problem the rights for the .ssh directory were wrong. They need to be "700". Given that I used adduser to create that account I think umask or something else for the root user may be wrong or perhaps the adduser script. The other point worth mentioning for anyone h

Re: SSH not working for particular user

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, The WRS wrote: Hmm, are the password fields in /etc/master.passwd using the same hash type? They should ALL either start with $1 - md5 $2 - blowfish They are all the same $1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Fw: DNS caching: Squid, BIND or anything else?

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, B. Bonev wrote: I think that Squid have a internal DNS server. Now, as understand I must have configure Squid for HTTP req, and BIND or another DNS cache server for DNS req... As others have mentioned perhaps you are missunderstanding what those programs do. It will help

Re: SSH not working for particular user

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, The WRS wrote: Thanks for the feedback Check /var/log/auth.log and perhaps sshd[28883]: error: PAM: authentication error for fran from /var/log/messages for hints on why Same error on that file. /etc/hosts.allow may be the culprit The machines were setup with hos

SSH not working for particular user

2005-08-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
Besides the AllowUsers parameter in sshd_config is there is anything else that would allow certain users, but not others to ssh to a machine? Have a machine that one id can connect to, but not a second one.. I "inherited" the setup (about 20 machines) so don't know yet what setups each machine

RE: Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure

2005-08-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Erik N??rgaard wrote: In my case I added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d a script with /sbin/atacontrol mode 1 udma66 pio4 Basically slowing down the channel to the drive.. the pio4 is for the CDrom and that was it's normal speed. Thanks! Well, I wish that I had known

Requires 'gettext-0.14.1', but 'gettext-0.14.5' is installed

2005-07-31 Thread Francisco Reyes
Doing a set of packages so when building new machines can do the whole ports installations through packages. When I did pkg_add mc-4.6.0_15 got the warning requires 'gettext-0.14.1', but 'gettext-0.14.5' is installed Is it safe to ignore these type of errors? ___

Fixed (Cron fails. Error in /var/log/maillog: No recipient)

2005-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: For the archives. Problem was crontab failing. first thing I noticed was postfix/sendmail[36590]: fatal: No recipient addresses found in message header In /var/log/maillog Then someone suggested to look at /var/log/cron There I saw errors like

Cron fails. Error in /var/log/maillog: No recipient

2005-06-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
Have a crontab 14 22 * * * /usr/home/hank/bin/tozoraida.sh which is not running When I try to research it the only thing I see is an error in maillog postfix/sendmail[36590]: fatal: No recipient addresses found in message header Have setup crontab on several other machines and never had any pr

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: How wonder how the current method affects performance. Basically if there is a surge of memory usage and processes start that use the swap and these processes are long lived.. I wonder if performance

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits Have not found any program to see what programs are using the swap, but as I think about it, the

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, K. Greenwood wrote: Perhaps /sysutils/lsof? Desc. as follows. Checked both lsof and fstat. Neither lists programs that are using the swap. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back into RAM), so at some point the system paged out 30MB of memory,

When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
My swap used to be 30MB+ I increased from 256MB to 384MB. For several days swap usage was zero. Then I saw it increase to a few hundred Kbs.. and now it's up to 10MB. I am wondering if it's because swap is not going down or there is now that many more programs running (which I doubt). Before

Re: Looking for files older than n number of days?

2005-06-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: OPERATORS The primaries may be combined using the following operators. The operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence. [...] expression -and expression expression expression The -and operator is the logical AND operator.

Re: Looking for files older than n number of days?

2005-06-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote: find . -mtime -5d -ls Shows correctly files modified less than 5 days old. in the wrong place - you can get all files in the system printed or none rather than just what you want. Possibly the man page needs to be updated to make the effect of para

Re: Looking for files older than n number of days?

2005-06-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: I ran it on a directory and was surprised to find that both -5 AND +5 listed a file from February. :-( -5 definitely should not, and doesn't on my system. It should be interpreted as "less than 5 days from midnight tonight". I think I found a bug in fin

Re: Looking for files older than n number of days?

2005-06-05 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: "find . -mtime +5" , or "find . -mtime +5d", depending on whether you want 5 days as of the next midnight, or 5 days as of when find was started. How do those flags work? +5 = changed during last five days? -5 = newer than five days? I ran it on a directo

Re: Looking for files older than n number of days?

2005-06-05 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Paul Schmehl wrote: Use negation. find ! -n 10 blah Could not get it to work with anything like that syntax. For starters I don't see "-n". I see newer but that seems to compare to another file.. Is this something you have done in the past? ___

Looking for files older than n number of days?

2005-06-05 Thread Francisco Reyes
Looking at the man page for find I see several ways to look for files exactly N days old or newer than N days, but did not see a flag for files older than N number of days.. like files older than 90 days... Did I miss it? I actually have a perl script I wrote a while back but was wondering if

RE: securing SSH, FBSD systems

2005-06-03 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, fbsd_user wrote: I am running ipfilter firewall and I ran test to see who gets access to the packet first (IE: firewall or route command). Normally I have inbound FTP port 21 denied in my firewall. I changed that rule to allow and log so I could see all the packets flow throu

RE: securing SSH, FBSD systems

2005-05-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 23 May 2005, fbsd_user wrote: These manual routes are stored in memory. Can you tell how much memory is used by your 300+ list? I don't know, but it probably is comparable to what it would take to put them in the firewall rules. Is there some command to display these user added rou

Re: securing SSH, FBSD systems

2005-05-23 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 23 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote: Is there an effective way to manage that list? I mean, it seems to me that you'd be adding mass routes to /etc/rc.conf. How are you going about this. See http://public.natserv.net/blackholing.tar.bz2 I put a shell script, an awk file and a mini read

Re: securing SSH, FBSD systems

2005-05-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Chris wrote: 5. (and my favorite) If running IPFW, use something like this if you don't need ssh open to the whole of the internet. narrow it down to a range of IP's you need. 6. Don't use passwords at all, but use keys. Not always possible though, but possibly one of the

Re: downloading entire directories

2005-05-21 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Tony Shadwick wrote: There are two ways you could do this. The first is like so: I believe there may be a third way. Have not done it in a while, but some FTP servers allow you to specify a tar file from a directory. To be honest I don't recall syntax, but it was somet

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