Re: Backup Solution

2007-09-27 Thread David Robillard
MWare machine files. It works very well. Check it out at http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ Let me know if you need help on the setup. On the other hand, if you prefer to backup the VMWare machines as if they were physical ones, then I suggest rsnapshot. Of course, this will only work with UNIX VMs. More in

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-10-29 Thread David Robillard
nk of it, I have one here in the lab. I'll see if I can spare a few minutes to test the hot-swap. I'll let you know how it turns out. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administra

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-10-29 Thread David Robillard
avoided. We run FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on several IBM x3550 machines with the onboard RAID controller using the aac(4) driver. We haven't had any problems, the machines are stable and backed by IBM Professional Services. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CI

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

2007-11-07 Thread David Robillard
On Oct 29, 2007 10:45 AM, Andrew Wasilczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:08:12AM -0400, David Robillard wrote: > > > > We run FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on several IBM x3550 machines with the > > onboard RAID controller using the aac(4) driver. We h

Re: syslog time resolution

2007-11-08 Thread David Robillard
g-ng-admin-guide_en.html/bk01-toc.html Should you like to check out other syslogd replacements, check the Library at http://www.loganalysis.org/ Have fun! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 51

Re: Does anyone know how to get the required downloads from Sun to build Java?

2007-11-23 Thread David Robillard
ations to the FreeBSD Foundation that supported hardware, developer costs, and legal fees." Here's the direct link: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE &am

Re: named.conf - unable to set control bit

2007-11-30 Thread David Robillard
o, then you're good to go. Otherwise, fix whatever problem is displayed. In your case, you need to remove one semi-colomn (";") to fix your problem. Here's what your control statement should look like: controls { inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 allow { 127.0.0.1;10.202.77

Re: Issues configuring cyrus-imapd

2007-12-03 Thread David Robillard
apd_flags="-d" # Flags to imapd program. saslauthd_enable="YES" # Enable saslauthd(8) (or NO). If you need more detailed info, I can send you my cyrus.conf(5) and imap.conf(5) files. As you can see, it's quite a lot more complicated then wit

Re: How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment?

2007-12-13 Thread David Robillard
ng out those nasty hacks by > myself :) Say Steve, If you make it out alive and everything works as planned, may I suggest you post your solution online so that the entire FreeBSD community can benefit from your efforts? Good luck & Have fun! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems adm

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread David Robillard
You might want to talk to the author of this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/6.en.html "Reflections on Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" by Brooks Davis. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE &

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread David Robillard
ontact.php. I believe you should talk to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Ad

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

2008-03-18 Thread David Robillard
I'd really like to see VMWare Server and Player certified for FreeBSD i386 and amd64. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-q

Re: Sudo Commands on New 6.2 System Cause Last Login Message.

2008-04-03 Thread David Robillard
essage. If you don't need it, comment out the... session include system ... line in ${LOCALBASE}/etc/pam.d/sudo to get rid of this behavior. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread David Robillard
ed howto and the important encrypted password files on a USB stick in case the data center fails and we loose our wiki and the file server. If anyone is interested in the exact configuration of this backup setup, we have it all in a wiki, so it's easy to share it. Hope that can help an

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

2008-04-04 Thread David Robillard
ave no idea about the HBA multipath support? Anyway, if you do have more specific questions, please feel free to send them to me. I'd forward them to my friend or hook you two together. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Ce

Re: Openldap server install failure - openldap client conflict

2008-04-16 Thread David Robillard
when either OpenLDAP or BDB changes versions. Using rsync, rdist WANT_OPENLDAP_VER= 24 WITH_BDB_VER= 46 Good luck with OpenLDAP. Should you need help with it, SASL and Kerberos integration, feel free to contact me. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP,

Re: Openldap server install failure - openldap client conflict

2008-04-17 Thread David Robillard
> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 10:37 -0400, David Robillard wrote: > > > I'm trying to install OpenLDAP as a server to "attempt" to try it out > > > for our network. The problem is the openldap client is already installed > > > for other apps as php, ap

Re: Support for Stallion Serial Controllers in FreeBSD 7

2008-04-18 Thread David Robillard
up the console server with both the Digi board and the Stallion cards, check http://wiki.zerocatastrophe.com/wiki/UNIX/FreeBSD/ConsoleServer HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 __

Re: OpenLDAP/FreeBSD: How to implement attribute HOST without STRUCTURAL account?

2008-04-30 Thread David Robillard
ry: /nfs/home/test.user # Link this user to it's group. dn: cn=test, ou=groups, dc=domain, dc=com objectClass: top objectClass: posixGroup cn: test gidNumber: memberUid: test.user # EOF Many thanks, DA+ -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE &

Re: OpenLDAP/FreeBSD: How to implement attribute HOST without STRUCTURAL account?

2008-05-01 Thread David Robillard
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008 16:43, David Robillard wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 11:00, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > [ --- 8< --- SNIP! --- 8< --- ] > > > > That sounds very interesting Jonathan. Could you please share with us > > t

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

2008-05-21 Thread David Robillard
ed backup volume and OpenPGP to encrypt the tapes. For VMWare images, we use sysutils/rdiff-backup. It works very well for 100+ mixed FreeBSD, RedHat, Ubuntu and AIX hosts. If you need any help with the backup setup and all, just ask, I'll send you the howto. Have fun, DA+ -- David Robillard UNI

Re: Reverse proxy recommendation

2008-06-02 Thread David Robillard
uld be addressed to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. WWW: http://www.varnish-cache.org/ And from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_cache I've never used it myself, but looks interesting since it's been created by Poul-Henning Kamp which is a major FreeBSD developer. HTH, David --

Local portaudit server.

2006-03-10 Thread David Robillard
portaudit server. This server would fetch the vulnerabilty file and all the rest of our servers would fetch it from the local portaudit server. Has anyone done this setup? Any help/pointers would be great. Thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Sendmail and Jails

2006-03-27 Thread David Robillard
# SENDMAIL_WITH_CYRUSLOOKUP=no \ SENDMAIL_WITH_PICKY_HELO_CHECK=yes \ SENDMAIL_WITH_SHARED_MILTER=yes .endif cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail sudo make install sudo make mailer.conf sudo make clean Check if you're using the right one: sendmail -bt -d0.1 < /dev/null Let me know if you need more a

Re: Java and tomcat

2006-03-30 Thread David Robillard
; http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/java-tomcat/ > > -- > Martin > > On 3/22/06, Aguiar Magalhaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi list, > > > > I´d like to install java (virtual machine) and > tomcat > > on the freebsd

Help clarify the '-l' option of ls(1).

2006-04-12 Thread David Robillard
Hello everyone, I'd like to have an explication about the '-l' (minus L) option of the ls(1) command. What exactly is the signification of the second column in the display? The man page states that it is 'the number of links'. But what does it mean exactly? The man page states: -l (The

Unattended 5.3 install post-configuration problem.

2005-01-21 Thread David Robillard
all.cfg: # command=/stand/post_install.sh system # From /stand/post_install.sh # cat <<- "END" > /tmp/a # rc.conf # # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/

Re: Kernel problems on 5.3.

2005-03-03 Thread David Robillard
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile for # more information. # # David Robillard, December 9th, 2004 # Host from which files are fetched. # # *default host=cvsup.ca.freebsd.org *default host=cvsup4.freebsd.org # *default host=cvsup.ch.freebsd.org # Directory where CVSup stores info about it'

Re: suspending login

2005-04-06 Thread David Robillard
er. Do I > have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute > force) way to disallow a user from logging in? -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notarius (TSIN) Inc. 465, rue St-Jean, suite 200 Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2R6 Tel. : +1 514 966 0122 Fa

Donating to FreeBSD.

2005-04-06 Thread David Robillard
? And for those of you who donated to the FreeBSD project. May I ask how much did you decided to give? I'm just looking for ball park figures, just for curiosity's sake. Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Notarius (TSIN) Inc. 465, r

Re: live mirroring

2005-02-14 Thread David Robillard
tead of having to log on to each machines to change the configs (which is error prone, not to mention long and painfull), you simply change the file on the master and let it distribute itself. It's relatively easy to setup and works very well. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX system

Re: I'm looking for school of freebsd in montreal.

2005-12-13 Thread David Robillard
I realy hope #to go Berkeley University (California) to learn more about it. #I hope at the same time to give the hand to Arnold Waterstachi #Tanx for your help #Eric Royal -- David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-q

Re: need a restricted shell

2006-09-07 Thread David Robillard
nd section 14.6 of the FreeBSD Handbook for info on how to set this up. Alright, if you have any questions, please be my guest and send them up to me. Cheers! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified S

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

2006-09-07 Thread David Robillard
r LVM volume via NFS and then mount it on your FreeBSD machine? All what FreeBSD will see is an NFS volume which we all know work very well. Just an idea, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1

Re: trouble with a pair of bind9 servers

2006-09-08 Thread David Robillard
would check the ISC's BIND mailing list archives to see if you can come up with something. Good luck, David ive been dinking around with this for a few hours now, and im about to pull what little hair i have left out. can someone shed light on this for me please? any help at all would be

jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).

2006-09-12 Thread David Robillard
<http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html> Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 __

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

2006-09-18 Thread David Robillard
company at http://www.freebsdsystems.com/. By their name, one would think that the hardware they push should work fine with FreeBSD. I never dealt with them, so I really have no idea if they're good? Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Cert

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-19 Thread David Robillard
#x27;ve tried version 2.0 while at another company and it was already pretty good. They're at version 3.5 now, so one could think it's better now. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Secur

Re: Does mpd (multi-link PPP daemon) support IPv6?

2006-09-28 Thread David Robillard
://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)

2006-10-10 Thread David Robillard
client. Make sure the DNS you're using can resolve both forward and reverse for the client and the server. Then your ssh session will be fast and free of this error. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administr

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

2006-10-25 Thread David Robillard
wrote this is co-author of "Programming Perl" from O'Reilly. So, Garret, if you need help with this, I have a /bin/sh version of the script you're trying to do. Just drop me a line and I'll send it to you. Just my two cents :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrato

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

2006-10-26 Thread David Robillard
-Ellie-Quigley/dp/013147572X/sr=1-1/qid=1161886975/ref=sr_1_1/701-2925611-9451566?ie=UTF8&s=books Otherwise, you can always Google around for "unix shell script" and such. There are a lot of sites on the topic. I would select one from a University. Have fun! David -- David Robillar

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread David Robillard
to my server's serial consoles via a USB-to-Serial adapter from Keyspan with ZTerm. You also have access to a ports-like environement on MacOS X via http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.darwinports.com/. It works great. My two cents. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator &a

Fwd: solutions for web hosting server

2006-11-17 Thread David Robillard
you can chroot your users into the root of their public_html site. So that when they connect to you FTP daemon, they will se the root directory as their files. Also enable FTP over SSL to prevent clear-text passwords from going unencrypted on the web. Have fun, David -- David Robilla

Re: Building Sendmail from ports

2006-11-22 Thread David Robillard
l/cf or /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf. To work around this, you can edit /etc/mail/Makefile or use the following at the top of your sendmail.mc files: dnl include. dnl Use the following m4 macro file. dnl include(`/usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl That's it. If you need any hel

Re: Best practice for SMTP relay with user authentication.

2007-08-13 Thread David Robillard
why of Submission is described in the "UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass & Hein. Check it out at http://www.admin.com. It's a must read for all UNIX systems administrators. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems admini

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-23 Thread David Robillard
hn H. Terpstra & Benjamin Coles from Prentice Hall PTR. Contrary to the other books, this one is not yet published (as you can see from http://www.amazon.ca/OpenLDAP-Example-Practical-Exercises-Deployment/dp/0131488732/ref=wl_itt_dp/702-7398595-5616835?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1YEUBXAR8YIE3&col

Re: named-bind-9

2007-09-17 Thread David Robillard
> I am having problems with my zone file... > There used to be a command to run and check zone files/Named files.. > > I can't seem to locate it...?? See named-checkzone(8) and named-checkconf(8) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP,

Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-15 Thread David Robillard
're looking for: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=10118/sam0703b/0703b.htm HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-02-15 Thread David Robillard
/var/run/httpd.pid /home/vhostname2/log/error.log root:www640 10 1048576 * Z /var/run/httpd.pid Check the man pages for newsyslog(8) and newsyslog.conf(8) for more information. I've been using this for more then two years now and it works like a charm. HTH, David -- David Robillard

Re: Ksh Shell script security question.

2007-02-15 Thread David Robillard
ypted file eslwhere on your machine. You can then setup code that will check the md5 sum of the password file and use something like OpenSSL or GPG to encrypt/decrypt the file. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun C

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

2007-02-26 Thread David Robillard
n in worst case scenarios. RCS is also present under a whole bunch of different UNIX flavors like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, RedHat, SuSE, Solaris, AIX, IRIX and HP-UX. So you're never lost because it's always the same :) Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator &

Re: mysql50-server on FreeBSD 6.2 w/ LINUX_THREADS?

2007-02-28 Thread David Robillard
est to you: Linux vs FreeBSD using mysql and sysbench http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/5705.html Aside from a potential holy flame war from FreeBSD vs Linux, this article does present you with an interesting my.cnf configuration file. Maybe that could interest you? Have fun, David -- David R

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-02-28 Thread David Robillard
number This optional field specifies the signal number that will be sent to the daemon process (or to all processes in a process group, if the U flag was specified). If this field is not present, then a SIGHUP signal will be sent. Cheers, David

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

2007-02-28 Thread David Robillard
on''. It's available from the USENIX website at http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-12/pdfs/kanies.pdf HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 __

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-02 Thread David Robillard
e and protect it with a simple .htpasswd. Easy. BTW, may I suggest you also include the freebsd-questions list in Cc when you write back? Some people might be interested by what we're talking about. In fact, ideally we should only 'talk' via the list, but that's ok with me. Ch

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-03 Thread David Robillard
then extend your configuration to your other VirtualHosts. Talking about logs, you might want to send them to syslog. Here's a quick article on this topic: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator &am

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-03 Thread David Robillard
just like ArchLinux. Yes, I agree with Danny. Arch Linux is as close to FreeBSD that you can get with Linux. I don't run any core business services on it, but a friend does run his webservers on it and so far he's happy. Again, my 0.02 on this topic :) David -- David Robillard UNIX syst

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
how much logs you keep (i.e. 5 in the example above). HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
all your Apache logs. Considering today's disk drive sizes are well beyond the 300Gb, I don't think this is a problem at all. Of course, YMMV so check your own needs and do the math. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certif

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-05 Thread David Robillard
300Gb, I > don't think this is a problem at all. > > Of course, YMMV so check your own needs and do the math. > > Cheers, > > David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread David Robillard
o, I'll send something on the list. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: remote install of 6.2

2007-03-09 Thread David Robillard
e usefull: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

2007-03-13 Thread David Robillard
8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#GEOM-MIRROR Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Serial Port Problems (Solved)

2007-03-16 Thread David Robillard
tab default entry from: default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%h (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:\ :if=/etc/issue: To: default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%h (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:\ :if=/etc/issue:de=2: And restarted (not sure if a reboot is necessary here?). I had to fiddle

Re: remote logging with syslogd

2007-03-22 Thread David Robillard
our rc.conf(5) syslog_flags line to enable other non-standard syslog ports. Try something like this: syslogd_flags="-b myhostname.intranet -a *.intranet:*" Since you're using names instead of IP addresses in your configuration, make sure your DNS resolves both A and PTR records for

Re: remote logging with syslogd

2007-03-23 Thread David Robillard
syslog.conf(5) configurations are good by using IP addresses. Don't forget to restart syslogd(8) of course. That will help you find out if your configurations are good. Now that should not prevent you from fixing your DNS :) Have fun. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & O

Re: Monitoring tool for Compaq Smart Array 5300

2007-04-05 Thread David Robillard
rg/~jcagle/ David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Locking SSH Users to $HOME

2007-04-11 Thread David Robillard
ask=view&id=51&Itemid=1 Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-18 Thread David Robillard
;t resist :) Let me know if you need any help with this setup. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-19 Thread David Robillard
eeBSD Bugs http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs FreeBSD ACPI http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi FreeBSD Hardware http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware Good luck ! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, R

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread David Robillard
n, you can also check the sysutils/nut port which also has a USB driver. More info on the project's website at http://www.networkupstools.org/. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrat

Re: Configuring DNS (BIND) in isolation

2006-12-04 Thread David Robillard
e time or expertise to setup your own DNS machine. Then have a look at the appliances from the author of "DNS & BIND" Cricket Liu's company called Infoblox at http://www.infoblox.com. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CIS

Re: Looking for a cookbook on Oracle clients...

2006-12-05 Thread David Robillard
ation/workbench/index.html Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Which live CD for recovery

2006-12-06 Thread David Robillard
fter all, there probably was a virus on this box. Are you sure you want to take chances? Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___

Re: Which live CD for recovery

2006-12-06 Thread David Robillard
that you upload those backup onto another Windows machine and have your user double-check to see if you have everything. Better be safe than sorry. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1

Re: remote syslog to specific file

2006-12-14 Thread David Robillard
5). Finally, make sure you edit newsyslog.conf(5) with something like this to keep your /var file system from filling up. /var/log/sonic.logwww:wheel 640 7 100 * J man newsyslog.conf for more on newsyslog.conf(5)'s syntax. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems adm

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD.

2006-12-15 Thread David Robillard
I am running Legato on a sun server. I have a server running freeBSD that needs the legato backup client installed. Is there a working legato client for freeBSD ?? Have you tried this? ftp://ftp.legato.com/pub/Unsupported/FreeBSD_Client David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD.

2006-12-16 Thread David Robillard
good, but does it work?) Good luck! DA+ On 12/15/06, Phillip Upchurch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David - No - as a matter of fact - I haven't tried > ftp://ftp.legato.com/pub/Unsupported/FreeBSD_Client That would be doing things the easy way - dont ya think ? ;-) Appreci

IBM ServeRAID-8k SAS controller support in FreeBSD/i386 6.1-RELEASE.

2006-12-21 Thread David Robillard
ut nothing about the ServeRAID-8k SAS one. Nothing in the mailing lists also. Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-que

Re: Sun Fire x2100

2007-01-04 Thread David Robillard
aster UDMA33 ad4: 76319MB at ata2-master SATA150 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: cvsup'dating several machines

2007-01-12 Thread David Robillard
of our CVS and porteasy(8) updates. It also permits you to delegate the cvsup(1) of the machines to other admins without giving them the root password. If you're interested, I can send you the documentation. Have fun! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CI

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

2007-01-26 Thread David Robillard
th either IBM or HP for FreeBSD systems. With them, you get quality hardware and real support. Of course it might be a bit more expensive. But it's worth it. Well, you get what you pay for don't you? YMMV of course. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle

Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-06 Thread David Robillard
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Re: Question:encryption tool.

2007-02-06 Thread David Robillard
hnology/products/secure-backup/pdf/FAQ.pdf HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Anyone running FreeBSD 6.x on HP DL320 G5?

2007-02-08 Thread David Robillard
If anyone is running FreeBSD 6.x on a HP DL320 G5 ? The following URL contains good information on running FreeBSD on Compaq/HP systems. http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/ HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Admin

Re: RSA SecurID Pam Module Support?

2007-05-04 Thread David Robillard
only use an RSA supported OS to run their module. Because otherwise you won't receive any help from them if they know you're running this under FreeBSD. Sad, but unfortunately true. Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Se

Re: scponly chroot doesn?t work FB6.2

2007-05-10 Thread David Robillard
instead of shells/scponly. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/shells/rssh/pkg-descr I'm not sure it does exactly what you're looking for, but it has similar features as scponly. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun

Difference between `mod_auth_mysql' and `mod_auth_mysql_another'.

2005-04-20 Thread David Robillard
-one comparison. So far, I understand that `mod_auth_mysql_another' understands more encryption methods then `mod_auth_mysql'. But what are the other differences? Could someone please point me in the right direction? Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator davi

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-17 Thread David Robillard
3 and > UFS2. What filesystem(s) meet(s) my needs in this case? NFS would probably do it. You can use either OS as the NFS server and use which ever file system you desire. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrat

Re: Sun Fire X4600 Server & FreeBSD

2008-01-04 Thread David Robillard
you to try before you buy. In this way you can use the FreeBSD/amd64 install CD and perform a real life test of the x4600. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 __

Re: How backup huge pgsql ?

2008-01-14 Thread David Robillard
pre-production and test environments without any impact on your production systems. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-qu

Re: compiling kernel with PAE

2008-01-21 Thread David Robillard
chitecture. Therefore if your Intel Xeon is in the 3000-sequence, 5000-sequence or 7000-sequence, then you can use FreeBSD/amd64 and use the memory above 4Gb. IMHO it should be more simple and efficient than compiling a kernel with PAE support. HTH, David -- David Robi

How to link CPAN to FreeBSD ports perl modules?

2006-04-19 Thread David Robillard
for " ^p5-HTTP " will return all perl modules which names start with p5-HTTP. But the above CPAN module does not exist. Does this means that the CPAN module is not in the ports? Or is there another way to link CPAN modules to the ports collection? Any help would be appreciated. Chee

Re: BIND inside a jail on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-05-01 Thread David Robillard
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 _

Re: Software RAID guidance

2006-05-05 Thread David Robillard
;apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.0-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Broken Compaq ML530 G1 ACPI.

2006-05-09 Thread David Robillard
You may change this name. But again it failed miserably. Can anyone give me a hand with this problem? I am not a member of the freebsd-acpi mailing list, so please reply to me at this address. Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montr

Re: securing beyond the handbook.

2006-05-10 Thread David Robillard
/www.syslog.org/Content-5-4.phtml Oh, and don't forget to backup regularly. It's also part of your security. Have fun! David Thanks, -Jim -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator, CISSP Montréal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: Keyspan USB2Serial

2006-05-19 Thread David Robillard
it just to make sure it behaves as intended. Assuming you do have a Mac or a Win machine handy of course. FYI: I use this adapter on MacOS X laptop to access the console of FreeBSD, RedHat and Sun Microsystems machine. It works like a charm. Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems ad

Re: Setting up NIS questions?

2006-05-23 Thread David Robillard
l setup, feel free to email me off the list. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator CISSP Sun Certified Security Administrator Sun Certified Systems Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

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