On 4/10/2007 at 11:55 AM Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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|I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ...
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|Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to
a
|server
|*after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that
On 1/28/2006 at 3:16 AM Jozef Baum wrote:
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Use what you're comfortable with, no one is forcing you to use FreeBSD.
I, as a FreeBSD newbie, was able to find FreeBSD quite useful on the
desktop. Your mileage may vary.
_
On 7/28/2005 at 11:57 AM Bob Johnson wrote:
|Microsoft used to claim that NTFS doesn't need defragmentation.
|Compared to MSDOSFS, that's a reasonably accurate statement, but
|if you push it hard enough, it will still become fragmented.
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The process of installing Windows on a cle
On 7/27/2005 at 7:30 PM Mike Jeays wrote:
|This is one of the things I find really hard to get Windows users to
|understand. They just won't believe that a company like Microsoft
would
|still be using a filesystem that needs defragmenting if it were
possible
|to design one that didn't. I often w
On 6/29/2005 at 8:48 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|For one who wants to host email accounts for multiple domains, which
is
|better? I've started installing and configuring qmail according to the
|tutorial on qmailrocks.org but i'm wondering if i should stop and
consider
|postfix before pressing on.
On 6/18/2005 at 7:58 PM Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
|Kirk Strauser wrote:
|
|>My choice is Postfix. It's still under active development and
|>isn't hampered by bizarre licensing and enormous egos.
|>
|>
|Active development has to be the killer argument. Who wants to
|rely on software that no-one ca
On 6/5/2005 at 6:43 PM Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna wrote:
|Hi,
|
|I'm looking for FreeBSD co-located servers on united states or any
other
|country that have good internet connections, for a secondary backup of
|data and web host for the company I work to, sorry for this OT
message,
|but could any o
On 5/28/2005 at 8:33 PM Gerard Seibert wrote:
|My cable company wants $25. a month just for a static IP address.
|Personally, I think that is ridiculous.
|
|I have been looking for a solution. One I found was TZO,
|< http://www.tzo.com >. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with
|them?
On 5/28/2005 at 8:33 PM Gerard Seibert wrote:
|My cable company wants $25. a month just for a static IP address.
|Personally, I think that is ridiculous.
|
|I have been looking for a solution. One I found was TZO,
|< http://www.tzo.com >. I was wondering if anyone had any experience with
|them?
On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote:
|A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR).
|Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that
|could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily
|include a 'typical home user' HOWTO rather then tricking the user
On 3/8/2005 at 10:06 AM Grant Peel wrote:
|Hello all,
|
|I have a number of simple FreeBSD Hosting boxes running FBSD 4.x and have
|had a request to add a Java Server to one of them.
|
|I am not experienced with JAVA at all.
|
|My Boxes run simple Apache 1.3.36, EXim, ProFTP vmpop3d, and are tune
On 2/12/2005 at 8:30 AM Napper wrote:
|Enough already.
|
|Please take *all* the off-topic postings to freebsd-chat.
|
|Thanks,
=
Good suggestion. For a moment this morning I thought I had stumbled into
the -advocacy or -chat group in error
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On 1/2/2005 at 2:36 PM Adam Fabian wrote:
|On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:20:51PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote:
|> have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail
|> experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious
|> security issues.
|
|sendmail is also bundled wit
On 10/23/2004 at 5:22 PM Stefan [Swebase AB] wrote:
|The person i'm trying to convince is a hardcore MS fan so i
| need real evidence of why BSD is better than MS products in
| server environments.
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Hardcore MS fan? Do you really think that any "hardcore fan" will be open
to a di
On 10/2/2004 at 10:50 PM Dave Vollenweider wrote:
| I came across this page:
| http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/8/13/131727/462 and
| I'm overwhelmed by the sheer amount of knowledge I'd have to gain.
=
That page is ridiculous. You do not need to know all those items. You may
On 9/29/2004 at 11:27 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|I'll post some numbers after trying it. But its pretty frightening to
|think that one release has such major changes. Sounds like (yet another)
|crapshoot. ...
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If you had taken the time to read and understand the release notes you
On 9/22/2004 at 11:58 AM alden.pierre wrote:
|MikeM wrote:
|
|>On 9/22/2004 at 11:19 AM alden.pierre wrote:
|>
|>|/etc/rc.conf contains the following:
|>|
|>|ntpdate_enable="YES"
|>|ntpdate_flags="timex.cs.columbia.edu"
|>|xntpd_enable="YES"
On 9/22/2004 at 11:58 AM alden.pierre wrote:
|MikeM wrote:
|
|>On 9/22/2004 at 11:19 AM alden.pierre wrote:
|>
|>|/etc/rc.conf contains the following:
|>|
|>|ntpdate_enable="YES"
|>|ntpdate_flags="timex.cs.columbia.edu"
|>|xntpd_enable="YES"
On 9/22/2004 at 11:19 AM alden.pierre wrote:
|/etc/rc.conf contains the following:
|
|ntpdate_enable="YES"
|ntpdate_flags="timex.cs.columbia.edu"
|xntpd_enable="YES"# Run ntpd Network Time Protocol
|
|/etc/ntpd.conf contains the following:
|
|driftfile/etc/ntp/drift
|server 65.211.109.
On 7/9/2004 at 9:20 AM Joshua Lewis wrote:
|Does anyone know of an e-mail client that supports importing an outlook
|.PST file.
|
|If I can move my old e-mail onto my new machine then I can be done with
|Microsoft.
|
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I used Eudora (I believe there is a no-charge version) to conver
On 6/13/2004 at 5:02 PM Edward Hendrie wrote:
|
|Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP. They use characters dressed in
|harmless butterfly costumes.
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Looks more like a mosquito to me.
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On 4/14/2004 at 11:36 AM Peter Leftwich wrote:
|I thought I would post this as something of a warning. Using
|FreeBSD as a primary, non-dual-boot OS means sacrificing. Here is a
|partial list of sacrifices, as compared to Microsoft Windows XP:
|
|* webcam ball
|* flatbed scanner
|* color printer
Since I reload the firewall rules remotely, I need the -q option on the
ipfw command, e.g.:
ipfw -q /etc/ipfw.conf
otherwise I lose my ssh connection to the box.
See man ipfw(8) for details on -q
On 3/10/2004 at 8:27 PM Thomas Vogt wrote:
|Hi
|
|ipfw flush # deletes all
|ipfw /etc/ipfw.co
On 2/25/2004 at 3:11 PM Henning, Brian wrote:
|ntpq -c peer
|
| remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset
|jitter
|
|==
|+time.nist.gov .ACTS. 1 u 26 64 377 51.856 -41.364
|2
On 12/27/2003 at 7:40 PM Joachim Dagerot wrote:
|As you with good memories know, I lost 3000 pictures of my first sons
|first year this month. I did have a RAID-5 system with fresh disks,
|however, shit happens and I have a feeling that this could have been
|avoided if I read my log files better.
On 12/27/2003 at 2:10 PM Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
|On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:59:49PM -0800, Evan Sayer wrote:
|> FreeBSD-
|> I would like to know how to make my server running 4.9 update my
|> networks Dynamic Ip address on my domains DNS servers. My ip is
|> always changing because
On 12/19/03 at 12:24 PM Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote:
|Hi Everybody ,
Hi.
| My mind is every Admin need too many OS for his job kind but I new
|with FreeBSD , but I really like it I don'T want to lost it
So long as there are people who are more concerned about getting the job
done than with
On 8/30/2003 at 7:13 PM Denis Troshin wrote:
|Hi!
Hi.
|Looking at the field MAILER of e-mails' headers, I see that there a
|lot of people here who are using mail programs like Outlook, Eudora,
|Mozillafor win32. This means that they run windows systems. So
|I'm asking why still a
On 8/22/03 at 10:13 AM Steve Warwick wrote:
...
|
|This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it
|down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse.
|
|Has anyone seen this before?
|
|Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety?
|
|Should
On 6/4/03 at 3:44 PM MikeM wrote:
|On 6/4/03 at 3:37 PM Constantine wrote:
|!
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||I am running FreeBSD 4.8. How can I synchronise my clock with some NTP
||server? The time on my server right now is 4 minutes fast, and I do not
||like that... Can I set up a script that would automatically
On 6/4/03 at 3:37 PM Constantine wrote:
!
|
|I am running FreeBSD 4.8. How can I synchronise my clock with some NTP
|server? The time on my server right now is 4 minutes fast, and I do not
|like that... Can I set up a script that would automatically synchronise
|the time with some available serv
Last week I sent an email off to the Sales team at 3Ware asking them about
support for their IDE RAID controllers on FreeBSD. Today I received the
following reply:
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Mike, FreeBSD is not currently supported by 3ware directly. However I did
contact our Product Man
On 3/22/2003 at 2:17 PM Bruce Campbell wrote:
|Some more test results:
|
|22 Mar 2003 - test with RAID 5 with 4 * WD 200GB with Write Cache disabled
|*succeeded*. Write Cache can be disabled through the 3ware BIOS, or the
|3ware
|web management tool. Raw write performance to the array dropped fr
Jim King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Which tells me that all of the work in the last year has been
>maintenance related to changes within FreeBSD itself, and not any
>updates for 3Ware functionality, e.g no support for firmware 7.5.x
>on the 7000 series controllers, and no support for the 8000
On 1/9/03 at 7:09 PM Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote:
|Hello all,
|
|I've installed Postfix MTA on my machine and I'm have a few questions
|pertinent to it.
[snip]
=
The Postfix users mailing list is a very helpful place for problems and
questions such as your.
http://www.postfix.org/li
On 1/7/03 at 1:04 PM Thomas von Hassel wrote:
|Anybody recommend a good/simple tool to load/stress test an apache
|webserver ? (or any other webserver for that matter)
=
If you have a windoze box available, this tool is very good:
http://www.opensta.org/
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On 1/6/03 at 6:33 PM Kory Hamzeh wrote:
|I need to setup a POP Server that supports Secure Password
|Authentication. I have some MicroSoft Outlook users that need to
|pull their mail, but they are coming in over the internet. I looked
|through the ports collection, and didn't notice anything. Is
On 1/4/2003 at 8:39 PM Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
|On 2003-01-04 09:04, MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> The upgrade to 4.7 went very smoothly.
|> [...]
|> When I tried to "tar -yxf" the freedb archive, the server became
|> unresponsive.
|> [...]
|> The serv
On 1/3/2003 at 9:25 AM MikeM wrote:
| [snip]
|
|To you and others who have helped me, here's what I'm doing.
|
|- tomorrow I am upgrading from 4.5 to 4.7
|- once that proves stable, I'll increase the DIRHASH value appropriately.
|- once that proves stable, I'll "tunefs -
On 1/3/03 at 6:45 AM Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
|On 2003-01-02 09:01, MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org
|> lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling
|> block. The
On 1/2/03 at 11:38 AM Dan Nelson wrote:
|In the last episode (Jan 02), MikeM said:
|> Is there anything I can do so that the file system works faster with
|> such a large number of files? I'm looking for an increase in the
|> area of 5 to 1. For example, the command "rm -r
On 1/2/03 at 8:58 AM Mikko Työläjärvi wrote:
|On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, MikeM wrote:
|
|> On 1/2/03 at 3:13 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote:
|>
|> |# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500:
|> |> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the
|> |>
On 1/2/03 at 3:13 PM Roman Neuhauser wrote:
|# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-02 09:01:27 -0500:
|> I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org
|> lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling
|> block. The server app requires over 250,000 files
I'm considering setting up my server as a mirror site for the freedb.org
lookup database. Unfortunately, I've seem to have run into a stumbling
block. The server app requires over 250,000 files in a single directory.
Each file is about 2k in size.
It was a surprise to me (but probably not to tho
On 12/22/2002 at 3:05 PM Gary D Kline wrote:
| I'm trying to switch from ipfilter to ipfw. With the former,
| things work. When I comment out the ipf* lines in /etc/rc.conf
| and enable the ipfw lines (and reboot) not even ping works.
| I've tried pining ns1.thought.org
On 12/15/2002 at 4:26 AM Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
|DNS servers that your local named will query for all domains it
|doesn't know about. Queries for the local domains are served from the
|local zone files. All other queries go through a different procedure
|which usually requires sending queries
On 10/30/02 at 9:38 AM Rotaru Razvan wrote:
|I am looking for a lightweight web server with php support to set up |on
my FreeBSD system.
|It is very likely that the only use for that web server will be
|phpMyAdmin so it should be multithreading and all that stuff. I want
|something small and very
On 10/29/02 at 8:03 AM Matt Delaine wrote:
|We are running FreeBSD 4.6 on a PIII 600 with 256 Meg RAM as our mail
|server. At what point (how many users) will we start running into trouble
|(have problems allowing us to send and receive email?) Thanks.
=
Mail servers tend to be mor
On 10/22/02 at 12:00 PM Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote:
|
|Thanks for your suggestions! Webmin is now installed and it does
|exactly what I was looking for!
=
Make sure you activate the SSL option of Webmin.
Details here: http://www.webmin.com/ssl.html
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On 10/17/2002 at 7:14 PM Robert Warning wrote:
|Hello all. Staring about 6 months ago I began to leave the Windows world
|and explore the world of Unix. My first stop was Linux (mainly because
|it was the only Unix os for ix86 I heard of) and while I indeed enjoyed
|Linux a great deal I want to
On 10/16/02 at 6:53 AM Carlos Carnero wrote:
|Hi,
|
|I can't send email to the FreeBSD lists because my DNS
|configuration is hosed--the bit from my ISP, not my
|own bind :)
|
|Anyway, is there a site that could tell me what the
|nameservers "outside" my network see for my domain?
=
On 10/15/02 at 8:57 PM budsz wrote:
|Hi,
|
|I've already read some manual ipfw, firewall etc, but I can't found
|explanation some variable in /etc/rc.firewall for example:
|
|case ${firewall_type} in
|[Oo][Pp][Ee][Nn]
|Some rule
|;;
|*)
|Some rule
|;;
|esac
|
|
On 9/29/2002 at 12:03 AM Carl-Johan Kihlbom wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I'm replacing Sendmail with Postfix on my FreeBSD server, but I'm
quite
>a newbie when it comes to mailservers.
>
>Do you have any good books or urls to tutorials/good pages on
>mailservers in general and Postfix in particular. I'm also
On 9/20/2002 at 5:28 PM Len Conrad wrote:
>> >>I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate.
Try
>> >
>> ># rm /etc/localtime
>> ># ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
>> ># ntpdate time.nist.gov
>> >20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244
On 9/20/02 at 9:15 AM Len Conrad wrote:
>>I think the problem could be the -d (debug) option to ntpdate. Try
>
># rm /etc/localtime
># ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago /etc/localtime
># ntpdate time.nist.gov
>20 Sep 08:42:52 ntpdate[71492]: step time server 192.43.244.18 offset
>1784.2
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