Re: switching from linux to freebsd

On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:23, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:18, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > > I thought you wanted to know what the first question was (since I had > deleted that from my reply), if you had accidentially deleted OP. > > Obviously, I didn't answer it because

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Yuan, Jue wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:18, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Yuan, Jue wrote: What about the first question? curious too :-) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ is a good bookmark to have when you accidentially delete a post you later want to look at. Hi. Thanks

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 23:18, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > Yuan, Jue wrote: > > What about the first question? curious too :-) > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ > > is a good bookmark to have when you accidentially delete a post you > later want to look at. > Hi. Thanks for yo

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

On 01/08/06, Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you configure your server using LDAP or NIS for user management then you only need to mount the root file system rw when updating the base system or changing root password. Add the MAC and you will likely be able to protect further against

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

On 01/08/06, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On my system, "additional software" goes under the separate partition /usr. Or are we using different definitions of "additional"? /usr includes a large part of the base installation. /usr/local is the usual place for additional so

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Freminlins wrote: > You made the point with reference to security, not system recovery. That > is what I am contradicting. Security is often misunderstood to mean protecting against unauthorized access. But this is only part of information security. You need to protect your information assets su

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Freminlins writes: > Except for useful things like installing additional software. That is > something I do do regularly. On my system, "additional software" goes under the separate partition /usr. Or are we using different definitions of "additional"?

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

On 01/08/06, Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You usually don't patch up your system everyday. Remount rw do the patching and remount ro. The problem is more that some 3rd party applications assume that /usr is writeable. I found the problem more annoying with / whenever I need to change

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Freminlins wrote: > On 01/08/06, *Erik Norgaard* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > you may > even want to mount it read-only for security. (I think these are good > advises on any system). > > > I used to agree with this (specifically the mantra was "mou

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Yuan, Jue wrote: > What about the first question? curious too :-) http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/ is a good bookmark to have when you accidentially delete a post you later want to look at. Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org X.509 C

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

On 01/08/06, Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you may even want to mount it read-only for security. (I think these are good advises on any system). I used to agree with this (specifically the mantra was "mount /usr read only") - until I tried to patch anything! Then it's useless. Wh

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

What about the first question? curious too :-) On Tuesday 01 August 2006 14:51, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Tyler Spivey wrote: > > Hello. I'm interested in moving my server from linux to freeBSD, but > > have several questions: > > 2. Can Ufs handle crashes very well, or is a very long fsck needed lik

Re: switching from linux to freebsd

Tyler Spivey wrote: Hello. I'm interested in moving my server from linux to freeBSD, but have several questions: 2. Can Ufs handle crashes very well, or is a very long fsck needed like the old ext2 days? Usually fsck will run in the background after boot has finished. On very hard crashes you

switching from linux to freebsd

Hello. I'm interested in moving my server from linux to freeBSD, but have several questions: 1. What is the freebsd equivalent of lvm? I'd like to resize volumes, add/delete volumes, etc. Currently I have my linux root on LVM with ext3 as a filesystem, which I can grow/shrink when I want, if one pa

Re: Machine doesn't boot after switching from Linux to FreeBSD (solved)

On Dec 5, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: After fdisk, disklabel, and newfs for the disks and the rsync for the data I am left with a system that won't boot. When attempting to boot from the local disks I can't ping the system anymore, when net-booting back into rescue mode I see that n

Machine doesn't boot after switching from Linux to FreeBSD

I'm trying to switch a Linux system to FreeBSD. I have two existing FreeBSD boxes running on the same kind of hardware and my approach was to rsynch the disk contents from one of those existing configs and just change the IP configuration in /etc/rc.conf. After fdisk, disklabel, and newfs fo