Re: Syslog not logging remote host

2007-04-13 Thread Bill Moran
0.61.70.100, which is the > logging machine. > > What am I missing? Start with tcpdump on the receiving machine: tcpdump 'port 514' to see if you're even receiving messages from the monowall machine. If not, then double-check your config on the monowall machine. If so, ch

Re: Complete loss of network on 6_STABLE

2007-04-13 Thread Bill Moran
f /usr/obj > > make clean > > make buildworld ...etc - still no sockets. > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Complete loss of network on 6_STABLE

2007-04-13 Thread Bill Moran
Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/14/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > A little more on this, because now I am really stumped. I have taken > > known > > >

Re: how does one get portupgrade back

2007-04-13 Thread Bill Moran
directory? Read /usr/ports/UPDATING before doing ports maintenance in the future. In this case, ports tools have moved to a new category in /usr/ports/ports-mgmnt -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
uild login.conf.db. > > -- > Dan Nelson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > h

Re: test

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
the fix of your problem. Obviously those details, such as a copy of an offending message with fully headers, or a list of the steps you've tried to take in resolution of the problem, would only confused the technically adept people who could actually research and fix your problem. Leaving t

Re: Given this evidence, should I be worried that I may have been hacked

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
last night, compared to none over the course of several days. It's just a matter of how busy the botnet people are on any given day. You should install/run samhain or something similar to monitor activity so you know if something unauthorized has changed. That's

Re: Virally licensed code in FreeBSD kernel

2007-04-14 Thread Bill Moran
ZFS, you need > >to provide the source, thats it. > > > >greetigns, > >philipp > > _______ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: Syslog not logging remote host

2007-04-15 Thread Bill Moran
separated from the previous block by a program or hostname specification. A block will only log messages corresponding to the most recent program and hostname specifications given. Thus, with a block which selects `ppp' as the program, directly followed by a block that selects messages from t

Defending against SSH attacks with pf

2007-04-15 Thread Bill Moran
/node/16 -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Defending against SSH attacks with pf

2007-04-15 Thread Bill Moran
"Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/16/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There was some discussion on this list not too long ago, and someone > > asked if I was willing to make my pf config and the associated scripts &

Re: setting up ntp on 6.2 with jailed hosts

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Moran
> ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Moran
s all of the drive, so you might want to do a massive dd "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[rawDevice] bs=512 count=[#sectors]" as one possible example. Check with the vendors, though. Many drive manufacturers have utilities you can download specifically to check their drives. -- Bill Moran http:/

Re: pf message on dmesg

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
ce code is painfully devoid of comments, but it seems as if this message is issued when a table is no longer referenced by any rules. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
table, then having a secondary script update the table based on the output of sockstat or some other similar hack. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > >> We are in the process of setting up a bastion host. One of the > >> things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip > >> lay

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
Same machine running i386 is rock stable with no problems. My gut tells me that a lot of desktop apps and libraries aren't really mature from a 64-bit standpoint yet. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
just fine. I > am have moused_enable=NO in /etc/rc.conf so I am not sure why it > autostarts this anyway. This last one is the only one I know anything about. If you configure X to use /dev/sysmouse, it will pick up on the device that moused creates. This may allow it to start wor

Re: Chrooting Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 5

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
e and whatever else you wanted to install with it: http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/howtos/sshdinjail.html -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: dhcpd assign duplicated IP address

2007-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
r] on eth0 > > arping reply is different from arp cache. This host become accessible > the next day. Strange. Are these two problems related? You have something seriously wrong somewhere. They may be related but there's not enough information here to be sure. Consider installing arpwatch o

Re: random hangs/reboots with Dell servers

2007-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
ome in various configurations, I wonder if you're picking a specific hardware combination that FreeBSD has trouble with? Otherwise, you're on the right path with the crash dumps. Once you have more details, post them to this or the -hackers l

Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
"mato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote > > On 10/19/06, martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've been reading for some time about VMWare, Wine, Qemu, Bochs and some > > > others, but I'm still not sure which one would (best) fit my

Re: running windows applications and making use of existing ms windows installation

2006-11-28 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "mato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:40:43 -0500, Bill Moran wrote > > "mato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:09:50 +0200, albi albinootje wrote > > > > On 10/

Re: mouse ??

2006-11-29 Thread Bill Moran
onfig has some mistakes in it. I'm sure if you provide some details that folks will be able to assist. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Memory addressing ?

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
2-bit version with more than 4g, you have to rebuild the kernel with PAE. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: question on batch email sending

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
| someprogram [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So that Frank can just get it into his regular inbox. I realize that > I could just ask Frank to pop it off the server but then he would have > to setup for just one occasion. Is there a way to do what I want? fetchmail was designed for th

Re: stop a freebsd server from responding to pinging?

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Moran
secure my system from network attacks". The Q&D answer is: 1) only run network services that you really need 2) ensure those services are properly secured If you do those two, who cares if you get portscanned? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Bill Moran
Sean Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. > > The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file > systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. That's not the purpose. The purpose is to improve p

Re: cant able to telnet the freebsd system

2006-12-06 Thread Bill Moran
> /etc/rc.d/inetd restart > > and it get restarted > > but I couldnt able to telnet the server both locally or remote "sockstat -4" will show you whether it's listening or not. The actual error messages would be more helpful

Re: TCP parameters and interpreting tcpdump output

2006-12-06 Thread Bill Moran
Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found a couple more things that don't look right. > > 17 IP bsd.63743 > src.65001: . ack 52 win 65535 > 000107 IP bsd.63743 > src.65001: . ack 52 win 65535 > 12 IP bsd.63743 > src.65001: F 52:52(0) ack 52 win 65535 > 05 IP bsd.63743 > src.65001:

Re: network analyse tool? To debug IMAP related problems

2006-12-11 Thread Bill Moran
protocol debugging features built right in. There's basically a log window where you can watch the entire conversation occur. This doesn't help if you're trying to debug IMAP client problems, though. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _

shmmax tops out at 2G?

2006-12-11 Thread Bill Moran
to scale as well as would be expected on 64-bit arch. Is this a mistake, or intentional? I'm working with some big memory systems, and I sure would like to allocate more than 2G for PostgreSQL to use ... -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: Dummynet fragmenting packets

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
and whether or not PMTUD is in use, and whether something in dummynet or any related filtering rules is breaking it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: NFS question - which is the server

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
user box would be the NFS client? You're question is worded somewhat ambiguously. I'm unclear as to which server is doing what, however: * The server that _has_ the files will be the NFS server. * Any system that accesses those files across the network is an NFS client. Hope that helps

Re: Routing Question

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moran
FreeBSD machine as a bridging firewall will simplify the process, however, and is the approach I would recommend. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Shar question

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Moran
. The backticks cause the find command to be executed, and the output of find is given to shar. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Dell 2950 & 1950

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Moran
earches on my name and/or those topics on the stable@ list archives for more details. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: PowerEdge 6850 Install

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Moran
anium 2 CPU's. Attempting to boot > from the first ISO CD doesn't do anything. You want the amd64 version. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 412-422-3463x4023 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Dell 2950 & 1950

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Moran
isn't relevant to the problem, really. The x9xx series uses a newer RAID controller that doesn't use the same driver and is incompatible with megarc. My point is that there's no equiv at this time. > BTW, are you in Pittsburgh too? :) Yes. > On 12/14/06, Bill Moran <

Re: Dell 2950 & 1950

2006-12-14 Thread Bill Moran
Jay Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to "Peter Grigor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> I've just gotten some quotes on a few dell machines and I was wondering now > >> if freebsd 6.x is ab

Re: Process States Explanation

2006-12-18 Thread Bill Moran
at 80% of the time, a google on " freebsd" will produce enough information to satisfy you. The other 20% of the time, you'll either need to read the source code or find a helpful developer to explain. Don't hesitate to ask on this list if you come across a state you can&#x

Re: FreeBSD as VM host OS?

2006-12-18 Thread Bill Moran
n FreeBSD at this time. HTH -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
of you are capable of. Please don't feed this Troll. Not much would make me happier this holiday season that to see this jerk's rants fall on deaf ears. Happy Holidays. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
y add that to your failover process. Although, it may be worthwhile to investigate kerberos or LDAP if there's any chance at all that this might grow into a larger desire to replicate user accounts. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freeb

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-23 Thread Bill Moran
"Z. Wade Hampton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings to all, > I am attempting to run cvsup-without-gui on a Dell Inspiron 1501, with > amd64x2 > processor and 2GbRAM. > I am using the "ports-supfile" modified to suit location and RELENG_6_1. > > The process begins, and starts deleting the

Re: Problems with UBUNTU mounting NFS share from FreeBSD

2006-12-24 Thread Bill Moran
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got a 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD machine that I'd like to provide NFS > services to some UBUNTU 6.10 machines. I've put the following in > /etc/exports: > > /usr /usr/local/www/data/pictures -alldirs-maproot=0 all > > When I try to mount this, I get: > > [

Re: system failed, save tasks

2006-12-26 Thread Bill Moran
k network card that wasn't junk, and I seem to remember that they frequently reset themselves. The ad6 error could indicate that your HDD is near failure, or it could just be that your system got overloaded with work at one point and the HDD was having trouble ke

Re: No driver for NIC...

2006-12-28 Thread Bill Moran
. > > Got miibus? > > - From nve(4): > > To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines > in your kernel configuration file: > >device miibus >device nve If he'd left miibus out his kernel would never have compiled. --

Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
n NFS mount it. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sharing ports tree, possible?

2006-12-29 Thread Bill Moran
Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> Is it possible to share ports tree directory? If so, what's the procedure? > > > > Yes. You generally want to s

Re: What is involved in switching from i386 to AMD64?

2006-12-31 Thread Bill Moran
Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:05, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:40:37AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > What actually needs to be done when switching machine architectures? I am > > > facing a motherboard/CPU upg

Re: Clutz-Proof Logging

2007-01-02 Thread Bill Moran
Stan Halprin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 747478Hi; > I know I'm a clutz but I'm sick and tired of doing some stupid thing > that crashes my server, then trying to figure out what I did. Is there > something out there that could log everything I did so that I could > review it each time I shoot m

Re: Help Please !

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Mohamad Babaei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > why "suidperl" rises my CPU usage to 100% ??? > please help ! It's probably a result of the script that suidperl is running. Without knowing what that is, however, we can't help m

Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
some cash to get a better one written, or blackmails a developer in to doing it or something else, we still have what we have. I think the biggest problem is that the installer is "good enough" -- so nobody is particularly interested in rewriti

Re: OT: stupid sh scripting question

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
if [ ! -d "$linkdir" ]; then >warn "$_me: the directory $linkdir does not exist." >return 1 > fi The ; after the ] ? -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Stuck on win32-codecs compilation.

2007-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
"Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/4/07, Dak Ghatikachalam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Freebsd > > > > I was trying to make mplayer and it spat me on error, win32 -codecs, > > and went on trying the clean up the win32-codecs and try to make the codecs, > > it still error

Re: Help Please !

2007-01-04 Thread Bill Moran
nformation -- how about whatever it is that made you determine that "suidperl" was the problem in the first place ... what gave you that idea? Barring that, the output of "ps -axu | grep perl" would be helpful. > On 1/3/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: FreeRadius 1.1.3 segmentation problem in Freebsd

2007-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > Just today, I have installed FreeRadius 1.1.3 from FreeBSD 6.0 (i386) > ports. I am posting this question in FreeBSD mailing list. I am finding > it hard to run FreeRadius on my FreeBSD 6.0 machine. > > Could the following segmentati

Re: change port dependent...

2007-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
"Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > how can i change port dependent "again" ? i first make a change by doing > pkgdb -F and switched to another dependent, but now i want to change it > back, but since it's already been corrected, pkgdb -F didn't ask any > question, thanks!! I re

Re: /dev/null in a chroot

2007-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
"Michael Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I chrooted apache to /www. > > In order to run a java program from a web page, java needs a /dev/null > inside the chroot. > > I don't want to create another whole /dev/ dir with all the disk raw > devices there to be read for anyone who cracks root.

Re: stopping my server from spamming

2007-01-08 Thread Bill Moran
d windows boxes, but will that take care of it? Who knows. You first have to determine how the problem is occurring. The block you've implemented is a good idea -- I think everyone should do it as a matter of course, but there's no guarantee that it will fix your particul

Re: Nmap Scan from FreeBSD OS - Coding Question

2007-01-09 Thread Bill Moran
ing at 10am - may I know how > do I achieve that? I hope someone can show me a simple coding to invoke > nmap scan, thanks :) [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so] It seems to me that C would be overkill for such a task. You could easily use cron + a shell/perl/python/etc script to

Re: How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User?

2007-01-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello Friends > > How can we check that if a system is affected by a Bad User? http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/index.html It's in ports in various incarnations. -- Bill Moran Coll

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
aybe that's off base, it's > only what "i've heard" We're deploying a lot of 64 bit stuff around here. Our experience has been that the OS is as solid on amd64 as it is on i386. Server applications are the same. There are, however, a lot of desktop applications that ar

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:46, Jay Chandler wrote: > > > On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten > > past the "randomly decides not to reboot when told to" issue? > > Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes

Re: Please Help! How to STOP them...

2007-01-12 Thread Bill Moran
the attacker will then be unable to reach it. There are, however, less drastic workarounds. An exercise with google will turn up a number of programs that will reduce the problem to a manageable level. This topic comes up about once a week on this list alone. -- Bi

Re: [OT] advice on wikis and bulletin boards

2007-01-13 Thread Bill Moran
Andrew Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Strategic planning will be starting soon at my new place of employment, > and I'd like to setup a place on our intranet to facilitate discussions > and planning prior to meetings to reduce meeting times and make > meetings more productive. This would be

Re: advice on compiling a new kernel & upgrading to the latest sources

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [copious snippage] > > 2. Cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf which contains the file MYKERNEL > > No it doesn't. CVSup will delete the files it doesn't know about, so > you should *SAVE a copy* of your favorite kernel config file outside of > the source tree

Re: Mystery Spam Piling Up in Mqueue

2007-01-15 Thread Bill Moran
="l0DAbm7q007014.1168684668/mx1.highperformance.net" > > H??Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details > > H??Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure) > > . > > _______ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
d at those numbers. Please provide details of your testing methodology. While it's impossible to compare apples to apples when pitting Windows against FreeBSD, you at least want to be comparing two fruits -- not apples and buffalo steaks o

Re: Very Poor Raid Card Performance

2007-01-16 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Steven Lowry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, January 16, 2007 18:13, Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to "Steven Lowry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> I have been very impressed with my FreeBSD 6.2 install, I have n

Re: Balancing outgoing SMTP relay

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
alancing. > Anyone has a *working* idea for solving this apparently simple problem? > Thanks pf has the ability to do round-robin dispatching, which will sort of work like load-balancing: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-17 Thread Bill Moran
"Dak Ghatikachalam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , > > What do we mean by "top-posting" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > "Dak Ghatikachalam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , >

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
stion is very rare, which is why you're having trouble finding reference to it in Google searches. That's the first reference I've seen to a sysctl -- usually the recommendation is to rebuild the kernel. Google for PMAP_SHPGPERPROC and you'll find some other (albeit few) di

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In response to "peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > My freebsd box runs the apache httpd2.0 server, postgresql8.1server, > > Recently, I got the below info in /var/crash. > > “Dump header

Re: Mail etiquette

2007-01-19 Thread Bill Moran
y okay. You may have some special cases > in mind. I think there's a miscommunication here. I'm fairly certain that Greg is specifically referring to paragraphs that are one _long_ line ... as in scrolling off the right side of the screen, out the window and down the street. If you

Re: Enquiry on SAS in FreeBSD

2007-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
our or five 2950s deployed in various places. It uses the mfi driver. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: no pv entries: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc

2007-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
SpareServers of 5 is pretty low for a busy webserver. If the site is seeing a lot of traffic, or the traffic is erratic, you're forcing Apache to try to constantly tune itself to exactly what the load is. If this server is dedicated to webserving, you'd do better to raise MaxSpareServ

Re: rsync issues

2007-01-22 Thread Bill Moran
lem down to either network or not. *) fsck your disks? Hope some of this is helpful. Generally, when I have mystery errors, I start with ktrace. If you're not familiar with it, ktrace can be a bit overwhelming, but it's got lotsa useful information. Same can be said for gdb. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
x27;t see why we can't press for FreeBSD. I sent them a comment about how FreeBSD should be included. I think that if enough of us send in comments, they'll re-open the submission. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freeb

Re: BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bill Moran wrote: > > In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. > >> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm &

Re: BBC debate "Battle of the operating systems"

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Marco Muskus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007/1/25, Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OS

Re: how can i obtain a @freebsd.org mail address ?

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "i b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi > > i'm a freebsd user and i can see a lot of people who has a @freebsd.org mail > addr. (most are developers) > > how can I obtain an address like those ? Become a developer. @freebsd.org email address

Re: Messy ports, how to clean them up?

2007-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
essy ports collection? Like > portupgrade does, only the opposite way, not rebuilding/reinstalling a > rebuilt/upgraded port, looking for stale ports never used anymore by > another port? sysutils/pkg_cutleaves -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. __

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
The biggest benefit we noticed when moving from the x850 to the x950 systems is that the IPMI and DRAC cards perform much better. It's a shame that Dell decided to use ActiveX for the v5 DRAC :( -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:59:43AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ... > > > > We have 4 1950s and 3 2950s in use a

Re: thwarting repeated login attempts

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
you can probably tweak denyhosts to properly regex the ftp logs. A better solution (assuming you can't ditch ftp, which would be the _best_ choice) would be to set up your ftpd so it has different passwords than ssh/scp. There are a number of ftp servers out the

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Moran
often do you have to access the DRAC though? :) Just often enough to be annoyed by it. Keep in mind that we're still deploying them, which means we're installing kernels and testing things and moving them around -- a lot of rebooting that is occurring less and less as they near a

Re: I am unable to connect to my ftp server from anything other than the local host

2007-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
"Guillermo Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I try to ftp localhost I get this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ftp localhost > Trying ::1... > Connected to localhost. > 220- Welcome message goes here :D > 220 tester FTP server (Version 6.00LS) ready. > 331 Guest login ok, send your email a

Re: brand new server timing out for sshd connections

2007-01-27 Thread Bill Moran
"Jonathan Horne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have a brand new server i just configured, and most of the time the > inbound connection to sshd times out. (connection refused). a few times > tho, it works fine, but after a short while, it will kick me back off. > > system is based on nvidia c

Re: Command watching opened files by processes in FreeBSD

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello out there, > does FreeBSD has a nativ root-restricted facility watching opened files > of a process or process group (like lsof or filemon)? Is fstat what you're looking for? -- Bill

Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages

2007-02-02 Thread Bill Moran
e is a home desktop, but in the context of a server this is > completely unacceptable. > > Please copy me as I am not subscribed. I really think you're going to have to provide a _specific_ example. The behaviour you describe is neither intended nor expected. I don't

Re: question about BSD time

2007-02-05 Thread Bill Moran
orrectly. Is it possible that you have something running that is changing the time? (ntp, perhaps). What happened between the time you set the time and when it reset itself? Also, check your system's securelevel setting, which will prevent manual time changes (or limit them to 1s). See the

Re: Determining daylight savings changes on BSD

2007-02-05 Thread Bill Moran
will not touch /etc/localtime. Is there a good reason why FreeBSD copies the file instead of making a symlink? Doesn't seem like the best idea to me. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Question:encryption tool

2007-02-05 Thread Bill Moran
e environments. If you deploy Bacula as your backup system, it includes support for encrypted backups: http://www.bacula.org -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: memory above 4Gb ignored

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
> > Is there any easy solution? For a hoot, I installed SuSe 10.2 on my machine > and it recognized the full 4Gb; FreeBSD does not. Your searches didn't find this?: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html

Re: User Monitoring

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
t; > Can you share some easy to implement tricks to keep the worst from > happening to my Machine? Have a look at security/sudosh ... it won't prevent anything, but it will allow you to monitor what folks do. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. _

Re: question about BSD time

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Alaa Alomari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to Alaa Alomari : > > [Please wrap your lines around 72 characters or so] > > > Dear sir; > > I have a Unix BSD server, and i want to adjust the

Re: I'd like to do my bit to support FreeBSD

2007-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
t feedback and suggestions. There's also a dedicated mailing list for the documentation project: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc which was very helpful when I was doing my first submits. Thanks for stepping up to help out! -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___

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