Server Reboot

2007-10-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, This is the first time in 10 years I have seen this. I have a Dell PE750 (vintage 2004), running FreeBSD 6.2 that had been up and running for about 30 days without any issues. The server somehow rebooted last night, apparently, all by itself. The last log file line I can find waqs a

Re: Server Reboot

2007-10-07 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Gary Kline To: Garrett Cooper Cc: Grant Peel ; FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 10:15 PM Subject: Re: Server Reboot On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:19:12AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Grant Peel wrote: > &

php4 to php5 upgrade

2007-10-13 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Does anyone know where there might be some clear documentation the discribes the complete removal of php4 and its extentions, then how to build php5 extentions. I want to use ports if possible. -Grant P.S. one thing I have always tripped over is weather to build php first, then, ru

Re: php4 to php5 upgrade

2007-10-13 Thread Grant Peel
tedious. Thanks for the reply, I thought deinstall and install should do the trick will let you know how I make out. -Grant - Original Message - From: Kevin Kinsey To: Grant Peel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 9:48 PM Subject: Re: php4

gtn bot ?

2007-10-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Checking my mrtg and trafshow this morning I seem to have an ircd bot running on one of my servers. Does anyone know where I might find some info on 'gtn'?? ps -ax: 62067 1 www Wed Oct 17 20:49:47 2007 gtn (perl5.8.8)35990 1 www Wed Oct 17 18:15:59 2007 [eg

Re: gtn bot ?

2007-10-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I missed one to. I have never seen this process befor, any ideas? 6313 1 Mon Oct 15 19:34:39 2007 0:02.71 [prox] - Original Message - From: Grant Peel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 7:53 AM Subject: gtn bot ? Hi all

Re: Why 7.0 is so late ?

2007-10-18 Thread Grant Peel
DItto DItto Ditto! -also- I wait another two years if it means I can 'upgrade' from 6.2 to 7.0 (CVS?) without having to restage the whole system!!! -Grant - Original Message - From: Jerry McAllister To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jerry McAllister Sent: Thursday, Oct

trafshow and IPFW

2007-10-20 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, If I write a rule to block irc ports (6669), and I see them being blocked in ipfw, will I still see the connection attemps in trafshow? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

OpenSSL Upgrades from ports.

2007-10-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I need to upgrade (FreeBSD 6.2) OpenSSL due to some security concerns. I would like to do so from ports. If anyone cares to give me a simple how to I would be greatful. make deinstall make install clean ??? Are the any 'gotchas' upgrading OpenSSL I should watch for? -Grant _

OpenSSL upgrade.

2007-10-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hiall, Due to a security issue, I need to upgrade my OpenSSL version. What is the correct method? ports? package? a CVSUP of the whole server source? Here is the version I have now (on freebsd 6.2) const# openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 const# TIA, -Grant ___

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD

2007-10-30 Thread Grant Peel
All, We have been using Dell since early 2001. in fact, I have one comming up on two years uptime. (FreeBSD 4.4, Yeah, I know, but I just can't bring myself to shut it down to upgrade). Raid works well, new SAS systems work well, no burn CPUs or Memory. Lots of great online and on phone support

5.2.1 to 6.2 Migration.

2007-11-03 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I thought I would ask the question before I do it the hard way 1. Can FreeBSD be upgraded from 5.2.1 to 6.2 ? if so ... 2. Can it be done through an ssh connection, or MUST I make the trip to the farm and do it from the console? -Grant ___

IPFW or ProFTPD

2007-11-12 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am getting lots of brute force attacks on my proftpd server and was wondering if anyone knows of a way for IPFW to check incomming connections and automagicaly block an IP for a period of time when too many connections are made on a port, or if any Proftpd gurus out there know if the

Re: Open Source softwares in FreeBSD for web hosting platform

2007-11-26 Thread Grant Peel
We, and many hundreds of other hosts use Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin. It is free, It is robust, There are tons of third party mods to use, Learning how to create your own mods is easy, It is secure. www.webmin.com -Grant - Original Message - From: Tek Bahadur Limbu To: Ovi Cc:

PHP Auth

2003-11-22 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Two questions I have been reading as much as I can find on paswwd, master.passwd, shadow, crypt etc etc etc. and am Still stuck on one point. If the encrypted password is normally aslways different, due to 'salt', then how does one get a match?? Does anyone have posession of

Block IP

2003-11-25 Thread Grant Peel
Can I block a certain IP address at the machine or interface level using freebsd? (No at the Apache or Sendmail level). CyberLaert monioting one of my hosts at the rate of 1.2 GB oer day! (no firewall installed currently). -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Disklabel

2003-12-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi, I had a crash tonight. Server rebooted and everything seemed to restart OK. Interesting disklabel output though. Should I be worried about all the "*"s? : If this helps, the disk below is a 10,000 spin RAID 5 Dell Perc DC/L (3 Fujitu disks). enterprise# disklabel /dev/amrd0 # /dev/amrd0: typ

Disklabel again

2003-12-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi, I am reposting this in hopes poeple who have disklabel and RAID perc 3DCL / SCSI experience see it tonight. Hi, I had a crash tonight. Server rebooted and everything seemed to restart OK. Interesting disklabel output though. Should I be worried about all the "*"s? : If this helps, the disk b

Wireshark

2008-09-11 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I recently became aware of a utility called Wireshark (apparently formerly 'EtherReal"), and was showing a running copy on Windoze. It apprears that it would be awsome for diagnosing network issues (such as DoS attacks, Email bombs etc. My question is: Does the version in /usr/port

Re: Wireshark

2008-09-11 Thread Grant Peel
? -Grant - Original Message - From: "Christopher Cowart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:18 PM Subject: Re: Wireshark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: Wireshark

2008-09-12 Thread Grant Peel
s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; "Christopher Cowart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 2:46 PM Subject: Re: Wireshark Grant Peel wrote: Hi CHris, Just attempting to install the port. Something I notice

Mystical Server Shutdown.

2008-09-17 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I started getting watchmouse errors about on pf my servers not responding. There is a DRAC on the machine, and the sensor data was all good. When I got the machine back up and running, I seen this in lastlog: client1 ftp hostname1here Wed Sep 17 17:02 - shutdown (00:46)

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown.

2008-09-18 Thread Grant Peel
05) reboot ~ Thu Sep 18 04:08 ringette ftp CPE001310e9a482 Thu Sep 18 00:10 - 00:11 (00:00) -Grant - Original Message - From: "H.fazaeli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 18,

Re: Mystical Server Shutdown

2008-09-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I had instigated all.log, and here is what happened at 04:08 EDT this morning...any clues you see here? ... Sep 18 04:04:08 defiant named[601]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 'examplewhole.com/NS/IN': 192.168.0.3#53 Sep 18 04:08:14 defiant syslogd: restart Sep 18 04:08:14 defiant

Upgrading

2008-09-20 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am preparing to upgrade all servers from FBSD 6.2 to 6.3 in preperation for 6.4, and some day 7.x One thing I have always found a little confusing is what tag to specify in the supfile. If a machine is running 6.2, and I want to upgrade to the latest production release, would I u

Re: Dealing with portscans

2008-09-22 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "David Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 4:06 PM Subject: Re: Dealing with portscans On 9/22/08, Greg Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Allen wrote: Over the last few weeks I've been getting numerous ports scans, each fr

Server - Linux Compat

2008-09-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, When I was young, many many moons ago, and I installed FreeBSD 4.4 for the first time, I enabled linux compatability ... Each build since, I have enabled it ... So not I am at the point of asking myself why? All I run is webservers and namesrvers, you know, Bind, Apache, Mysql, vmpo

Updating and Ports

2008-10-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have heard people chattering occasionally about /etc/make.conf. In a few days, I will be updating from 6.2, and 6.3, to RELENGE_6_3 and am curious how I can use / modufy /etc/make.conf so that I dont need to install all my ports again. Which leads to the question: I just installed

Logrotate

2008-10-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have recently started using logrotate to rotate all the logs in the users home directories. These are all apache logs files. /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.0.gz /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.1.gz /home/domain.com/logsaccess_log.2.gz I have a proble

Bruteblocker

2008-10-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been tinkering with bruteblock all night, and was wondering if anyone else on this list has used it. I can't seem to get proftpd.conf, syslog.conf setup correclty to log the ips to table one (in ipfw). Any assistance would be appreciated. -grant

Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am not a fan of cross posting, but, I have to make a exception in this case as I can't seem to nail down whether its the software or OS causing me the problem. Software: Apache 2.2, Python 2.5, Mailmain 2.1.11 OS: FreeBSD 6.2 Release #0 Apache and Python were built from ports, Mail

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks Chuck, Tried all that several times. My browser accepts cookies from many different (tested today and yesterday) sites. -Grant - Original Message - From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Th

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-09 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry, I tried a few times to build it from source but since I am using Apache+Suexec, I was stuck on how to 'make' it and pass the parms needed to set the user and home directory, i.e. I needed the install directory to be set to /home/mailmain when the ports version insisted on setting it to

Re Apache + Mailman

2008-10-09 Thread Grant Peel
Cool Paul, How about the rest of these: '--prefix=/home/mailman' '--with-username=mailman' '--with-mail-gid=mailman' '--with-cgi-gid=mailman' And do you think it would make a difference to the cookies issue I am having? -Grant ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-12 Thread Grant Peel
Jeff, are you running apache with Suexec? If so I would realy like to expand in this with you. -Grant - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Odhiambo Washington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Grant Peel" <[E

FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE installing php-imap

2008-10-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a script that required php-imap extension installed but I keep running into a 2 snags when 'making' the port (mail/php-imap)... First, I have to use the -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER so openssl_overwtite_base won't kill the make, which seems to work, and, most importantly, when the m

gzip and dump

2008-11-21 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I lost my Hard Drive and all my many tens of thousands of emails. Thus, my excellent repository of answers from this list were sent to oblivion. I make dumps using gzip and forget the command line to restore files from the zipped dump. I use the command line like: dump 0 -h0 -uaLf - /

Netwroked Storage

2009-09-29 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, For the past few months I have been researching methods to create a storage enclosure, perferably with out spending many 10s of k's of $'s. The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house users home directo

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-29 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Mauro Rezzonico" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 9:46 PM Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage Grant Peel wrote: The intent here is to connect about 10 Web servers, each of them hosting about 200 domains, to a central storage system to house

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-09-30 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Adam Vande More" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 9:07 AM Subject: Re: Netwroked Storage On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, For the past few months I have been researching methods

Re: Netwroked Storage

2009-10-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I now have a quote from Dell, for a 4 TB, RAID5 NX3000 NAS. It comes pre configured with Windows Storage Server 2008 Standard Edition. Dell support assures me it will be compatable with NFS on FreeBSD, but if we are not happy with it we can wipe it and install whatever software we want

"Out of mbuf address space!"

2009-10-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have an older RAID 5 machine running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and am using it as a backup storage unit. Yesterday morning, we noticed the the NFS mounts on the clients to this machine we not available, which sent a bunch of cronjobs spinning out of control etc. We also became unable to connect

Ion-cube FreeBSD 8

2009-12-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am in the middle of setting up a new FreeBSD 8.0 server, and need to load the ioncube loader. I have been to the ioncube site and they do not have a release for FBSD8 yet. I was wondering if anyone on this list has setup FreeBSD 8.0 (Php 5.2, Apache 2.2) using a previous version

Re: interactive stop on boot

2008-03-14 Thread Grant Peel
Yeah, what CHris said. Also, there is an option you can put in fstab to allow the automount, and background the NFS mounts ... so that if the mount fails the boot will continue. Again, as mentioned, this will only work if the OS and your connection method (ssh daemon?) are not dependant on the

Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a machine that has be up now for a little over two years: voyager ROOT /var/log > w 10:15AM up 741 days, 2:42, 1 user, load averages: 1.06, 1.02, 1.00 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT p0 10:08AM - w and as

Re: Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Grant Peel
Ivan, Checked top, it does not have the 'S' option. Guess its time to upgrade ... (???) -Grant - Original Message - From: "Ivan Voras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:31 PM Subject: Re: Load Averages ___ freebsd-

Re: Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Grant Peel
The only thing I see in dmesg is: Too many dynamic rules (from ipfw). Maybe I should try removing the keep-state statements? I only want to reboot as a last resort :-) -Grant - Original Message - From: "Patrick C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel&qu

Re: Load Averages

2008-03-15 Thread Grant Peel
Patric, No the system seemed as responsive as ever: the name daemon was processing requests, and logging in was quick and painless. -Grant - Original Message - From: "Patrick C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; "

Ports Question

2008-04-26 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, What is the proper method to pass configure arguments when installing a port? example, I am trying to build exim with mysql and spf support make -D "WITH_SPF=YES" -D "WITH_MYSQL=YES" Please help, been struggling with this for what seems like forever. -Grant _

Re: simple network traffic query tool

2008-04-28 Thread Grant Peel
Take a look at ipa. -Grant - Original Message - From: "beni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Tobias Kirschstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:00 PM Subject: Re: simple network traffic query tool On Thursday 24 April 2008 18:10:40 Tobias Kirschstein wrote: hi,

Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid)

2011-06-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hello Everyone, I am researching how to run PHP as CGI with Apache's Suexec module. Up to this point we have been using PHP as an Apache mod, but are looking to move to the more secure solution. I am not sure this is exactly the right list top post to so if anyone knows a better one please let m

Re: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod_fcgid)

2011-06-29 Thread Grant Peel
you don't mind me asking) ? Mark -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Grant Peel Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2011 2:13 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Apache 2.2 + PHP5 + SuExec + (fast-cgi or mod

FreeBSD 8.0 -> PHP 5.3.x

2011-10-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Short of upgrading the OS, what is the safest way to upgrade a FreeBSD server to PHP 5.3.x from 5.2.11 ? I am assuming downloading the ports tarball and rebuilding and reinstalling will do it? Any advice, samples would be appreciated, -Grant ___

gpart

2013-03-31 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am in the midst of setting up the framework for new servers using FreeBSD 9.1. I used the bsdinstall and Manual`` option when setting up the disk geometry using GPT - graphical setup. The idea will be to eventually dump the 4 file systems, (/, /usr /var and /home) and restore them

RE: gpart

2013-04-01 Thread Grant Peel
-Original Message- From: Erich Dollansky [mailto:erichsfreebsdl...@alogt.com] Sent: March-31-13 9:55 PM To: Grant Peel Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gpart Hi, On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:28:40 -0400 "Grant Peel" wrote: > I am in the midst of setting up the

Restaging from scratch

2013-04-03 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have now completed creating a new server from scratch using FreeBSD 9.1 and ports. The new setup uses: /, /usr, /var and /home. These filesystems have been dumped to a memory stick (root.dump, var.dump etc). The plan now is to completely zero out the drives on the other s

Lost Root Pasword.

2006-01-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Here is a particularly embarrasing statement and question. S: While working on a FreeBSD 4.4 dev box, changed the root password, but now, cant su. the password I used is > 12 chars long, and was made intentionally cryptic. I know all the chars used in the password (yes I have it wr

Dell DRAC QUestion

2006-01-21 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have three servers with Dell remote access cards. One of them work fine. It is running FBSD5.4, and when I log onto the DRAC card I can acces the console fine. The other two, I can only access the console up untill the point that the login: prompt appears. After that, I can't. I

DRAC 4 - ugen

2006-01-22 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, A little more on the ongoing saga to get my dracs working. It seems the the PE1850 with the DRAC 4 wants to use an (internal) USB connection to the keyboard-console. Through some investigation, when I start the remote session I see this in my messages log: Jan 22 15:24:27 s1 kernel

Re: Dell DRAC QUestion

2006-01-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have no problems (knock on my wooden head for saying that!), and no issues at the current time, but am sending this email so it will go into the archives and perhaps help someone (maybe me LOL) in the future. I will use lots of keywords below to assist in the search archive proces

Make Distribution

2006-01-28 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Since about yr 2000, we have been writing many hundreds of scripts and things specific to our (server) needs. We are at the point now, where we would like to make a rapid deployment disk, prefereably of FreeBSD 6.0. This deployment set would be based on on a system that is currenly

FBSD 6.0 locking up.

2006-02-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a production server that has been online for a few months now running FreeBSD 6.0. Until now it has been performing flawlessly. It is on a brand new Dell PE1850. A few days back, at a clients request I opened port 3306 to allow remote access to mysql. 3 times today I had to

Desperate

2006-02-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am getting server 'freeze ups". 4 in the past 3 days, on a very new server with no apparent hardware issues. There is nothing showing in any log anywhere. The sytem just stops responding. Can anyone help me with understanding how to setup crash dumps and how to get to them and ro

Re: Desperate

2006-02-24 Thread Grant Peel
ounted ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, rule-based forwarding disabled, default to deny, logging disabled ukbd0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ukbd0: detached ukbd0: Dell DRAC4, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ----- Original Message - From: Derek Ragona To: Grant Peel

Re: Desperate - FreeBSD 6.0 Freezing

2006-02-26 Thread Grant Peel
roperly dismounted ipfw2 (+ipv6) initialized, divert loadable, rule-based forwarding disabled, default to deny, logging disabled ukbd0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ukbd0: detached ukbd0: Dell DRAC4, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 - Original Message - From: Derek Ragona

MySQL - FBSD 6.0 Freezing server.

2006-03-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I been getting server freezups the past two weeks, but have determined it is happening when connecting to mysql port 3306 remotely. I have a firewall, so I am only one whe can connect to port 3306. I connected this morning, and sure enough the server frooze. It frooze during the conn

disklabel output

2006-03-03 Thread Grant Peel
This drive is a SCSI 74 GIG drive. The machine has been freezing on me lately, out of the blue, with no log errors enetered. No crash dumps created. The only fix is to cold boot. Here is the disklabel output Should I be worried? root on s1# disklabel /dev/da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: 8 partitions: #

php4 extensions

2006-03-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, IU ran the php4-extensions a while back, but now a client is asking for curl to be installed. When I run php4-extensions, it says that it (php4-extensions) is already installed. How to I reconfigure it to load the GUI so I can install curl? Als0, I presume after that php4 will hav

System Freezing -Again

2006-03-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been pestering everyone who will listen on this, and have yet to find a solution ... so here goes again! I have a FreeBSD system on a Dell PE 1850 that has been randomly freezing up from time to time in the past two weeks. Firewall is enabled, but is very solid as I am using

Re: System Freezing -Again

2006-03-09 Thread Grant Peel
adable, rule-based forwarding disabled, default to deny, logging disabled root on s1# - Original Message - From: Derek Ragona To: Grant Peel ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:19 PM Subject: Re: System Freezing -Again A freeze like you describe,

Re: System Freezing -Again

2006-03-10 Thread Grant Peel
oard fan, power supply etc.. appeared to be that of a running machine. Even the NICs werer connected and blinking. Perhaps I should reinstall the GENERIC kernel? -Grant - Original Message - From: Grant Peel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ; Derek Ragona Sent: Thursday, March 09, 20

dd - cloning a disk.

2006-03-11 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely operational fully setup FreeBSD with all the trimmings, and the other blank, or perhaps loaded but no longer usable, is 'dd' and appropriate tool

Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Grant Peel
Sorry, I forgpt to add this, I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what happens if one 'dd's a small, say 36 GM disk to a larger one, say 73 GB. Can the newly made disk be resized so as not to loose 1/2 of it? -GRant - Original Message - Fr

Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part!

2006-03-11 Thread Grant Peel
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "freebsd-questions" Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:39 AM Subject: Re: Fw: dd - cloning a disk. Second Part! Grant Peel wrote: I the answer is yes to the first question (original question), then, what happens

FreeBSD 6.0 lockups again.

2006-03-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, As stated many times befor, I am getting completely un-logged (not logged anywhere, whith everything pretty well on verbose or debug) lockups on a server of mine. One thing I have been noticeing is lots of log entries like this, from ipfw and kernel. Has anyone seen these befor? Are

System Still Freezing

2006-03-16 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Another chapter in the life (and death), of my Dell PE 1850. As you may be aware, I have a PE 1850 that has started to intermitantly freeze (this all started Feb 23rd). SOmetimes, it will run for 2 days, then freeze, sometimes it can run as long as 5 days. All logs and everything tur

More Server Crash Saga

2006-03-16 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Still getting crashing today ... FreeBSD 6.0 PE 1850 Does the output of vmstat -i for fove seconds show a problem? Interupt storm? I have been searching, trying to find out what the 'rate' means and what should it be? interrupt total rate irq0: clk

Re: More Server Crash Saga

2006-03-17 Thread Grant Peel
Reg Pointer | 0x01 | ok root on s1# - Original Message - From: Derek Ragona To: Grant Peel ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:45 PM Subject: Re: More Server Crash Saga Grant, That is a one unit rack mount server, which makes it

Building a virgin.

2006-03-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, As some of you know I have been expierncing random freezing of a PE 1850. Since there is no real answer (lots of opinions), I have decided to build a new server for my client. I have a PE 750 that has been running a year now as a devel server. All that was needed was to upgrade the H

Re: Building a virgin.

2006-03-18 Thread Grant Peel
changeover time comes -Grant - Original Message - From: "Riemer Palstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 6:53 PM Subject: Re: Building a virg

Ongoing Saga Dell PE1850 - FreeBSD 6.0 Release Freezups.

2006-03-20 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have been having freezups of my PE 1850 and FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE. since about Feb 23. 1 about every three days. Sometimes twice a day. As far as everything (diagnostics) shows, no hardware issues (See text below ... BMC sensor data, first froup while server is down, second group righ

Re: Ongoing Saga Dell PE1850 - FreeBSD 6.0 Release Freezups.

2006-03-22 Thread Grant Peel
It is a single processor, duel core Xenon. Hyperthreading has been turned off in the BIOS after about the thrird crash. APCI has been disabled in FBSD as well. - Original Message - From: "Riemer Palstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PRO

Continuing Server Crash Saga!

2006-03-22 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Re: my Dell PE 1850 crashes (freezes). After scouring the Buglists, I have found a few others who have servers that were exhibiting exactly the same issues as mine. Random crashes on reliable hardware, with not OS (FreeBSD 6.0) logs showing any issues. In FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE, there s

ipfw - ipa

2006-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I use IPFW and IPA to do IP accounting on all my systems. I was wondering if anyone has any opinions on how often the rules, or just the bytecounters should be zero'd/flushed when using ipfw? My rulesets consists of anywhere between 100-300 rules, most consisting of counters (used by

kernel optimization

2006-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
Hello, I have several different Dell PowerEdge servers running various branches of FReeBSD ranging from 4.4 (nameserver only), to 6.0. I have had excellent success compiling kernels and am quite comfortable with the process. I was wondering what strategy people use to 'KNOW' which drivers a

Re: em device on 4.x: ifconfig alias issue

2006-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
Hi Marc, I don't pretend to know anything about Address Resolution and Routing, but one thing I know (through many hours of frustration), is that an aliased address (in your case, somehting like em0:23), IF the ip address being aliases, belongs in the same subnet as anotherone on the same mach

Deleting Kernel conpile directory

2006-03-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am running a little low on disk space in /usr Can I delete the /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel directory? If so, which method is best: a: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/compile rm -rf mykernel or b: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel make clean Thanks all, -Grant

NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Happy belated Canada day to all my Cunuk bros :-) and an early happy 4th of July all as well! I have recently decided to use some extra disk space on one of my servers as backup space. I have NF client and Servers running OK, but was wondering how secure it really is. In the nfsd setup,

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-03 Thread Grant Peel
So, If I set the exports so that it used 192.168.x.x, and, my managed switch is only set to alow members of my vlan to use those IPs, I should be OK in that case? -Grant - Original Message - From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[

Re: NFS and Backups

2004-07-04 Thread Grant Peel
Hmm, Perhaps a complete layout and network explanations is in order here - I have a total of 5 servers, all running freebsd. - All servers have two NICS, 1 LAN and 1 WAN, all are hardwired to my switch. (No wireless involved. - The switch IS configured to allow WAN access to WAN ports only, an

IPFW

2004-12-18 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, One of our mid-aged servers is running FBSD-4.7 RELEASE. It is a productive server, with lots of clients on it. I have recently activated ipfw, using Webmin as the front end to admin it. Ipfw is up and running, seems OK, BUT I am getting many many of these logs: /kernel: OUCH! cannot remove

ipfw and Webmin.

2004-12-19 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, If anyone out there uses Webmin Firewall module to admin a FreeBSD module, I could use a hint on something. In the FreeBSD handbook, it says one must put the "IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT" option in the kernel, OR make sure allow rules are present to avoid being locked out. IF anyone i

NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I can't boot my machine with out using the noauto switch on my nfs mount, presumeably, because ipfw has'nt set up a tule to allow lo0 access. I have read some things about nfs_mount and wonder if the -i -s switch can be used in fstab on the nfs mount, or if there exists a switch that can

Re: NFS fstab and ipfw

2004-12-24 Thread Grant Peel
ounts normally take place. Are there any background or timeout switches that can be used on nfs mounts in the fstab? -Grant - Original Message - From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, Decem

fstab -b

2004-12-25 Thread Grant Peel
I have been reading in man fstab that the bg switch is depriciated, but I am not sure i understand the correct usage of the -b switch .. anyone? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

New IPFW Setup.

2004-12-29 Thread Grant Peel
Good morning all, Appologies for sending to both lists, I am hoping to root out the IPFW gurus ! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas I have recentory activated ipfw on 5 of my productive server. All servers are Apache, Exim or Sendmail, MySQL, vm-pop3d, ProFTPD enabled. All serves have mult

DNS - FreeBSD

2005-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am sending this question to this list only thinking FreeBSD users may be the best source of info regarding networking on FreeBSD. I understand if many think I would be better serverd sending to some Bind or DNS list... That having been said I have: - one managed switch, the Gigaby

JAVA Server

2005-03-08 Thread Grant Peel
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 tuned and running well. I am looking for advise on what

sFTP nologin

2005-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Going blind again. Is there a quick - secure way to allow the sshd sFTP subsystem to allows sftp connections without allowing shell accounts? If so, I will keep searching but I have not found it yet. -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: sFTP nologin

2005-03-25 Thread Grant Peel
Yes, been trying that all morning. sbin/nologin kills the connection after it prints the message. i have been tring scponly it has been less that workable so far too. -GRant - Original Message - From: "Eric McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <

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