PHP and PHP-Extensions

2008-12-17 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a somewhat broken installation of php 4.4.7 and the extensions and want to completely remove them and reinstall them. How does one conpletely remove php4 (from ports) and the extensions to ensure a clean install? -Grant ___ freebsd-que

Memory Usage

2009-01-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use mrtg to show memory and disk usage? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

pkg_info & php

2009-01-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am getting 'segmentation faults' when using php (apache module) on a server that recently had php 4 instlalled when php 5 was already there. /var/log/httpd-error.log: [Tue Jan 06 09:44:39 2009] [notice] child pid 8209 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Is there a way to completely

Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I currently have a SCSI drive that *may* be going bad on one of my production servers. I have lots of backups :-) Scenario: The drive that is showing the occasion error, is a 76 GB Seagate SCSI 10K spin drive. It is at the network center about 120 miles away. This drive is not using a

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry, Thanks a Tera for the concise reply. Please see the answers below. - Original Message - From: "Jerry McAllister" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Replace SCSI Drive On Wed, Ja

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
re as Jerry mentions below. 7. Remove the da1, reboot and hopefully, rejoyce. Comments please. -Grant - Original Message - From: "Jerry McAllister" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Replace S

Sysinstall

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is greatly in need of 'Death'. How would one do a fresh install of FBSD without it? Is there a replacement in the works? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Fixit vrs Live filesystem.

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am in the process of downloading the ISO Disk 1 and 2 for FreeBSD 6.4. Dare I ask how one gets to the Fixit Holographic Shell, or a live file system? Are they on Disk 1 or 2? Are they the same thing? (Does the fixit console still exist)? TIA, -Grant _

Re: Sysinstall

2009-01-07 Thread Grant Peel
ject: Re: Sysinstall On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 8:50:39 pm Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I keep reading in the man pages and elsewhere that 'sysinstall' is greatly in need of 'Death'. How would one do a fresh install of FBS

FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was bored earlier tonight and I decided to tinker a bit with FreeBSD 6.4 on my Windows XP SP3 box. In that machine, there is one SATA drive. On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. During the install, I opted to use the Fr

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
Can I use a windows install cd's "R" option to do the fdisk /mbr ? -Grant - Original Message - From: "Kurt Buff" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:23 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM,

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-08 Thread Grant Peel
;Kurt Buff" Cc: "Grant Peel" ; Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:33 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Grant Peel wrote: On that drive, there was about 100 GB of free space, so I decided to try putting FreeBSD 6.4 on it. Duri

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Grant Peel
manager again? THanks all, -Grant - Original Message - From: "Steve Bertrand" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: "Kurt Buff" ; Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:39 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager Grant Peel wrote: So then, IF we are able to restore the Wind

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-09 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Michael Copeland" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 9:44 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager why not just add loader or whatever to the windows boot loader.. unless you specifically need fbsd boot manager Grant Peel wrote:

Re: FreeBSD Boot Manager

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
, so I am in the process of getting the data moved to a backup drive. Indeed, I am writting this email through Konquerer! Thank god for live file systems. -Grant On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:30:53 -0500, Michael Copeland wrote > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 09:33:12P

gname

2009-01-10 Thread Grant Peel
Wow, After a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.4, (with Xorg) I tried installing Gnome, and I get a "stop" during build, Filesystem Full! Is Gname really that big? or did I miss doing something? Doing a du -h -d1 on /usr shows" ... 7.0G ports. 1.8G local df -h shows: ... /dev/ad8s1e 9.7G(total) 9

FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I have a couple of questions regarding the t

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC,

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Ricardo Jesus wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the

Flash for FreeBSD -> GNOME -> Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be used to view Flash content in Firefox? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

No Email or FTP

2004-02-20 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, In FreeBSD 4.4 and 4.7, is there a way to shut off email and or ftp privledges? (Other than using quota that is). Using sendmail. -Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Resote COmmand line

2004-03-09 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I recently had the opertunity to restore a clients mysql db as he had removed a bunch of needed data from his shopping cart. While the restore command worked OK I was wondering if there is a way to command line it a bit so as not to have to answer yes when asked about the file privledges

Restore command line options

2004-03-10 Thread Grant Peel
How about I post this again, without the typo's :-O Hi all, I recently had the opertunity to restore a clients mysql db as he had removed a bunch of needed data from his shopping cart. While the restore command worked OK I was wondering if there is a way to command line it a bit so as not to hav

6.x -> 7.1

2009-03-29 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, We have (finally) made the decision to move our server (10 -Dell) from Toronto to a newer data center closer to our office in London. Before I ask this question, I would like to ensure everyone I will be reading all the docs I can find, but since the upgrade will be much work, I thou

Security Consulting.

2009-03-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I originally posted this to the PHP mailing list with, so far, less than helpful results. I am not a fan of cross-posting, but I suspect there may be a few ISP support / server admins who may be interested in this offer. Good Morning / Afternoon, We run several of our own servers: -

Mysql6 or Mysql5

2009-05-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am asking thise here as I am aware there are many ISPs and Hosting farm admins on this list. I am in the process of setting up the next gen servers, and notice the Mysql6 is available in ports. Does anyone have any expierience with it? Is it solid? Fast? Are there any 'gotchas' when

Server Questions.

2008-06-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Two questions for the Web hosting types out there: 1. Does anyone use Celeron based nameservers? (i.e. I have two brand new Dell PE R200s and was considering using them as ns1 and ns2. What version of FBSD would one use (I am thinking 6.3 Rel, but us there any compelling reason to use

CPUs again.

2008-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I sort of asked this question previously, but am not sure I asked it correctly. What CPU type should I use for 64 bit Celerons, and 64 bit Xenons? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: CPUs again.

2008-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Understood, Does the default "GENERIC" kernel see them as i386 or amd64 when booting then?, or does using amd64 require a custom kernel? -Grant - Original Message - From: "Sean Cavanaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ghirai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: CPUs again.

2008-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
on motherboard Thx, -Grant - Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:03 PM Subject: Re: CPUs again. "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Unde

Cop[ying files from WIndows -> FreeBSD using Cruizer

2008-06-29 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have a USB sandisk cruiser 2 gig memory stick that I would like to use to copy some files from a Windows machine to a Free BSD (6.3). I findiing the handbook a little confusing on this topic, and was wondering if anyone would be willing outline a procedure for this. -G

Re: Cop[ying files from WIndows -> FreeBSD using Cruizer

2008-06-29 Thread Grant Peel
Thanks David, In my case I was getting a 'deprication' warning so I changed the command to: mount -t msdosfs /dev/da1s1 /usbstick (I already have a scsi device (SAS) connected). Thanks again, -Grant - Original Message - From: "David Gurvich" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-30 Thread Grant Peel
Lars, Thanks for the reply. I have installed many hundreds of ports, but an feeling a little nervouse about this one. Would you mind creating a simplified step by step for how to perform this one? If so, Please include the make lines ... Thanks a billion, -Grant - Original Message --

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-31 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Thanks to Lars I have come up with the following (to upgrade BIND for the DNS caching issue)...(short of updateing all source). Download the latest port BIND95.9.5.x (p2 I think), Extract it to the ports directory, make -DWITH_REPLACE_BASE make install make clean Is the above correc

rejected mail in periodic runs.

2006-06-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi All, I am running Exim as my MTA on several FreeBSD servers. I have several setups that insist on sending me the full rejectlog (rejected mail maillog) in my daily periodic runs. I have tried setting daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" in /etc/periodic.conf, but it still sends the full

CVSUP

2010-06-10 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Its been a while since I have used CVSup. I have a server with FreeBSD 8 RELEASE on it. It was built very shortly after 8.0 was released. I want to run CVSup on the source and ports before deploying it TO make sure that just ports and source are updated, what tag do I use in the sup

8.1-rc1

2010-06-21 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am updating all servers this comming July. Currently, I have a build of FreeBSD 8.0 and am wondering if anyone knows any showstoppers in it that should be fixed in 8.1-rc1. i.e shold I wait and update the build before deploying? Apache vm-pop3d mysql5 php5 Perl named exim ... -Gra

Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, What would be the prefered method of upgrading servers from freebsd 6.x to 8.x ? Fresh install and reload users data, rebuild ports etc? Upgrade direct from 6.x to 8.x? Upgrade sequentially from 6.x to 7.x to 8.x? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Updating

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
issues that are addressed in 8.1, making it worth wating for (when its released that is)? -Grant - Original Message - From: "Robert Huff" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 11:02 AM Subject: Updating Grant Peel writes: What would be th

FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty. What is the best way to get them back? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

2010-06-28 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Balázs Mátéffy" To: Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 2:42 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 p#3 Hi, Maybe "portsnap fetch extract" ? Maybe the tag in your supfile was wrong for the ports. MB. ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

FreBSD 8

2010-07-06 Thread Grant Peel
Hi again all, I have just installed FreeBSD 8 on my NFS server. The older machines (FreeBSD 6.x) are able to connect to the NFS exports fine. I have also installed FreeBSD 8 to two more machines, 1 is a Dell 1850, and the other an R200. Both of these machines had FreeBSD 6.x on them and were

Re: FreBSD 8

2010-07-06 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Grant Peel" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 1:07 PM Subject: FreBSD 8 Hi again all, I have just installed FreeBSD 8 on my NFS server. The older machines (FreeBSD 6.x) are able to connect to the NFS exports fine. I have also installed Fr

Ports PHP 4.4.9 - GD Extension

2010-07-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am attempting to insall the GD PHP extension on FreeBSD 8 and am getting this at build time. (I need to have a php4 and mysql 4 server for compatability reasons). It appears that the PNG version the port is trying to build has a security issue. How can I work arround this (I really n

Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-13 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller. This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory stick (da1s1) to the hard drive (Seagate 76 GIG SAS - da0s1). Can anyone tell me if they hav

Re: Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller. This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory stick (da1s1) to the hard drive (Seagate 76 GIG SAS - da0s1). Can anyone tell me if they hav

Re: Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Peel
I have seen some scuttlebutt white googling, about the SAS5/IR buuffer problems, but have not seen a resolution yet. I looked some more and it looks like that issue can also be caused by a faulty drive, maybe even a bad cable. Have you looked into that? -- Adam Vande More __

periodic sending mail rejects.

2010-07-23 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have added this to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=0 daily_status_mail_rejects_shorten="NO" and changed /etc/defaults/periodic.conf to: daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=3 daily_sta

Daily Periodic

2010-07-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi everyone, I asked this a few days ago, and did not get a response. I have this in my /etc/periodic.conf: constellation# more periodic.conf # 460.status-mail-rejects daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" # Check mail rejects daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=0

Why am I getting mail rejects?

2010-07-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hi everyone, I asked this a few days ago, and did not get a response. I have this in my /etc/periodic.conf: constellation# more periodic.conf # 460.status-mail-rejects daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" # Check mail rejects daily_status_mail_rejects_logs=0

Re: Why am I getting mail rejects?

2010-07-28 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Greg Larkin" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:40 PM Subject: Re: Why am I getting mail rejects? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Peel wrote: Hi everyone, I asked this a few days ago, and did no

Re: Why am I getting mail rejects?

2010-07-29 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: "Greg Larkin" To: "Grant Peel" Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Why am I getting mail rejects? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Peel wrote: - Original Message - From: "Greg Lark

ipfw

2010-08-26 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am running FreeBSD 8, and am assuming I am using ipfw2 How does one find the current version of IPFW being used? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

IPFW and ipa

2010-08-26 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Since FreeBSD 4.4, I have been using ipa(1.3.6) to do bandwidth accounting. Since upgrading to FreeBSD 8, I now get log messages saying that the ipfw rules do not exist: Example (one example of hundreds doing the same thing): Aug 26 07:32:59 constellation ipa[2940]: rule rulename.ipa

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