Gerard wrote:
On October 24, 2007 at 02:11PM Sean Murphy wrote:
2) Use CPANPLUS to install the module.
Unless the user has the time, knowledge and motivation to do the first, the
second approach is usually superior.
What does CPANPLUS do that CPAN doesn't that makes this a better
soluti
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
You could possibly also put "bash -l && exit" in your .shrc, which would
exit if bash exited successfully. I haven't tested it, but it should
work.
or 'exec bash -l' which will replace the existing shell with bash in
memory, rather than run it from it as a subprocess.
I have a FreeBSD 8.2 server at home with 4 2TB drives in it running ZFS
with a raidz pool. Some time ago, I had a disk fail. Initially it wasn't
totally obvious the disk had failed so I ran a 'zpool scrub' on the
pool, which threw up a lot of errors, and also produced a lot of sense
errors, making
On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
> I'm the one...using Linux since '99 (SuSE, Gentoo,Arch) and moved to
> PCBSD-9.0 some months ago. I'm *very* happy and cannot believe how
> little time I spend doing admin work 'cause the OS 'just works'.
>
> Otoh, Linux was saga with *constant* twe
On 18/07/2011 19:18, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Howard Jones <mailto:ho...@thingy.com>> wrote:
On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote:
Interesting - I'm in the process of switching our FreeBSD servers to
Linux (Debian and CentOS
On 21/07/2011 09:25, Jos Chrispijn wrote:
> Can someone recommend me a text driven maintenance (re)port that
> informs me about the health of my FreeBSD system?
> I currently use the standard BSD report information, but like to get
> more information out of my partitions, OS etc.
> This program sho
On 11/08/2011 12:37, Daniel Staal wrote:
>
> (Well, ok, given the current release structure having an update today
> means you are in a supported branch, and that supported branch will
> continue to get updates for the foreseeable future. But that still
> does not tell me when the branch is likely
On 22/10/2011 15:37, Bruce Cran wrote:
> If you run some sort of shell server, or where many people need to
> login using ssh, you'll have a bit of a support problem telling people
> to select the non-default port. Also, some might consider it security
> through obscurity, which is often said to be
On 22/12/2011 22:53, William Brown wrote:
Again, git wins here. It has good support on windows, as well as with
graphical tools on windows.
Is there a git equivalent of TortoiseSVN then? That's the best VC
integration I've seen on any platform...
One small but cosmetic thing with git vs svn: y
On 4 Sep 2006, at 05:35, Gary Kline wrote:
How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers?
If what you want is a backup to the disk on a remote system (rather
than a tape drive or whatever), then have a look at rdiff-backup:
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup
Jeff Mohler wrote:
I can use MRTG, and have MRTG do what I want it to do.
Id like to try cacti, but..am I alone in finding that it's a PITA?
Im not trying to be negative, just looking for a reality check.
I like the simplicity of mrtg, but I like the "go back in time" of
cacti to view perform
perikillo wrote:
> Hi people.
>
>Look we have some applications at work, that use scanners Manufacture by
> Symbol. Those applications were created in Access, but i want to create
> those app for a Web browser, my doubt is:
>
>Does someone here has a app running from the browser that use
Oliver Hansen wrote:
I'm looking to eventually upgrade my home network to all gigabit so
I'm going to start by purchasing a few NICs for some old servers I
just received. I know there are quite a few supported by FreeBSD6
which I found (
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html#
Dwight Smith wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> My name is Dwight Smith, and I only had a question or two in terms of
> the future useability of FreeBSD. I have used it on and off and found
> it to be a great UNIX operating system for servers, but my only major
> concern was the amount of time it takes to
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through
telnet and without telneting to some user and then su -
?
with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success.
once again - can someone answer my question instead of giving very
"intelligent" commen
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
so generalizing that "telnet and rsh is bad" is as stupid as telling
that oxygen is bad as it makes fires.
Well, that's true, but if you have the choice, there are better choices.
You *can* hammer in nails with the butt of a gun, but there's a chance
you'll somehow shoot
Jonathan Horne wrote:
currently, my email server is just a single box, accepting and sending emails
from and to the internet. spamassassin and sendmail, and so far, it works
satisfactory.
i would like to change it up, so that i have a pair of servers doing MX from the
internet, which then passe
Andrew Falanga wrote:
Another question for everyone. Are there any programs, hopefully
available in the ports, that one can use to print source code files to
a printer (or create as a postscript file)?
I'd like something that I can feed a C++ program, have it parse
through the code, print line
David Banning wrote:
> I have a standard mailbox with around 40 messages. I want to be able
> to just send them all to someone, the same person, not as an
> attachment but as individual emails. I want to do something like;
>
> cat /var/mail/frank | someprogram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> So that Frank ca
From: "stan"
> Subject: Software inventory management
>
>
> :
> : Sudenly there is an improved desire to keep up to date on the latest
> : security fixes at work. I've got about 50 machines that I manage. OpenBSD,
> : FreeBSD, Linux, Solairs, and HP-UX.
> :
> : I am looking for recomendations for a
Hi,
I'm looking around for any articles/docs regarding techniques for
managing groups of FreeBSD servers - things like running a local package
mirror or build server, standardised installs, update management - all
the usual boring stuff. I know that people like Yahoo use thousands of
*BSD systems,
Nejc Škoberne wrote:
> Any ideas how to prevent such situations in the future? (I would like
> to do it on the server side, not on the "user side".)
Get a switch that runs Spanning Tree Protocol. I don't think there's
much you can do on the server about a problem in the switch.
Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via
> PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-(
> Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed
> this, I'd like to hear about it.
This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I
Jay Chandler wrote:
> I've been trying to script an install for FreeBSD since I just had a
> bunch of servers dropped on me-- may I ask how you did yours?
Roughly speaking, I started with this document:
http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml
and this document:
http://people.
Nikolas Britton wrote
Well that's just it... No way we could afford full rates, If we could
we would hire someone off the street to program x, y, and z to are
liking. I was talking about supporting someone who is already working
on x, y, and z because they have an itch to scratch... To help them
Gable Barber wrote:
Hello all,
I have been poking around the 'Net a bit looking for an easy to use
backup solution for our Mac's (1 mini, 1 powerbook, more in the
future).
Basically there is a server, offsite (FBSD 6.2) with 2 RAID 5 arrays.
I would like to be able to set the 2 (for now) clients
Paul Kostick III wrote:
I am trying to jumpstart install an IBM x336 server with a intel Pro100 nic
with freebsd 6.2. I have successfully done this install with freebsd 5.3
and 6.0 on the same machine. The sysinstall boot menu comes up from PXE.
But when I put in the NFS path to the files, it w
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> The FreeBSD server operators don't pay a dime for bandwidth and
> if the bandwidth supplier for freebsd.org made the slightest complaint
> about the bandwidth they are donating, there's a passel of ISP's and
> networks that would fight each other for the chance of the feat
Ewald Jenisch wrote:
> To further track this down I changed the above line in syslog.conf to
> read
>
> +myrouter
> local7.*/var/log/cisco-syslog
> +*
>
What I did to get this working was (in syslog.conf):
+printserver
!*
*.* /usr/log/printserver.log
AND in /
Dan Nelson wrote:
> If that's all you need, there's an even easier way: "tar tvf mycd.iso",
> since libarchive understands the iso9660 filesystem format :)
>
That's a useful trick!
Is there an equivalent for ufs filesystems? I'd like to be able to
extract files from a floppy image without need
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> After my last cacti upgrade, I seen it totaly lost it's images and sounds like
> it also lost it's css...
> The strange... I mean _STRANGE_ thing is when analysing the HTML source... the
> images are not even called!!!
>
> No anywhere
>
Is it possible that the por
Philip Hallstrom wrote:
I have two disks; one is the fbsd system drive, the other is for backup
purposes.
I'm in doubt about what to use: dump or rsync
I guess I can do something like:
mount /dev/ad1s3a /backup/root
mount /dev/ad1s3d /backup/var
mount /dev/ad1s3f /backup/usr
/usr/local/bin/rsyn
Pablo Mora wrote:
how i can limit bandwidth when i using 'make fetch' (make install in
Ports)?
You can change the command-line parameters for fetch in the
/usr/ports/Mk/ somewhere (grep for FETCH).
Or you could try the 'trickle' port, which allows you to apply bandwidth
limits to more or less
I've been experimenting with PXE-driven installations in preparation for
the arrival of a pile of new servers, and I had a mostly-working setup
for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE when 6.1 was announced this week.
I've upgraded to 6.1 on my build system, and have it serving install
data and an mfsroot wit
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
I thought that's what "-p" was supposed to mean in the boot flags...
Hmmm. It's intended to be auto-detecting the keyboard or switching to a
serial console as appropriate. Somewhere my -P has become a -p.
Thanks for the pointer :-)
_
Moving on with my automated installs, I want to build some additional
packages into the FTP area of my install server, which was seeded from
the 6.1-RELEASE ISOs.
The "FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Software Packages"
document on the FreeBSD website says that the release-building
Maan Jee wrote:
Can someone explane that at which filesystem is my "/home" directory
located?
Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a50763055002 412018 12%/
devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev
/dev/ad0s1e5
Jason Lixfeld wrote:
Well, I managed to sort it out. The grey area was that the Dell BMC
just needed an IP, username and password configured on it. I was
under the mistaken impression that the OpenIPMI needed to be installed
to speak the BMC, but ipmitools does that just fine. Between the BM
Gunter Wambaugh wrote:
The sad thing is that I read somewhere (probably on this list) that
*forcing* 100 would
_increase_ performance because there wouldn't be any auto
negotiating. I added it to
my rc.conf, but later I decided that it didn't help any so I ran
ifconfig fxp0 media autoselect
Imran Imtiaz wrote:
i've seen the following log in my messages can any body tell me what does it
mean?
May 21 02:50:29 darkstar sm-mta[55021]: k4KLoTeq055021: localhost [127.0.0.1]
did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA
Do you run something like Nagios or BigBrother on y
Fabian Keil wrote:
While I didn't read the spec, I heard that explanation before and
I think it's entirely correct to assume that the file size value
is unsigned. This has nothing to do with embracing standards.
Just for another datapoint, Nero Burning ROM (onWindows) also limits
files on an
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Hey all,
I've got a file that I just synced from a major RBL, and I'd like to
just use it to globally deny access to my system. Is there an easy
way to do this within ipfw -- the file is about 3 *million* lines, and
is from cbl.abuseat.org.
I do similar thin
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Kyrre Nygard wrote:
I'm curious whether there's a tool out there that will scan through
audio files looking for patterns that resemble skips and other nonos
in the world of music.
I have MD5 checksums for all my MP3 files, but that doesn't
guarantee that they were fine befor
I'm trying to use Dummynet+IPFW and bridging to make a packet shaper
that runs across multiple VLANs. So my intended set up is:
[users]->[Aggregate Switch]=>[FreeBSD]=>[Upstream Switch (with IP
interfaces for each vlan)]->The World
where -> is a single VLAN, and => is a tagged dot1q trunk. The ai
Hi,
Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right
direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing
fancier.
I have a set of brand new 1TB drives, a Sil3124 SATA card and a FreeBSD
7.1-p4 system.
I created a RAID 5 set with gvinum:
drive d0 device /dev/a
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> you are right. you can't be happy of warm house without getting really
> cold some time :)
>
> that's why it's excellent that ZFS (and few other things) is included
> in FreeBSD but it's COMPLETELY optional.
>
Well, I switched from the heater that doesn't work and is poorly
I have an old dual-P3 server with an internal SCSI backplane. I also
have an external firewire drive attached to it as cheap, 'disposable'
storage. It all works swimmingly apart from one thing: When the system
boots, it loads the kernel from the SCSI drive OK, then at some stage it
changes it's
Jerlique Bahn wrote:
Actually mrtg is used to graph the results of the program that I am looking
for.
So to clarify my initial request, what I am seeking recommendations for is
the program that collects the information, such as server load, temperature,
open tcp connections etc of the freebsd
Chris T. wrote:
I"m toying with the idea of setting up a mini-itx server so I can move
the dns and firewall daemons off of the fileserver so I can turn it
off. I'm thinking I want to get a flashrom ide adaptor so that I can
swap setups on the thing by swapping cards. I don't see myself using
Gary Kline wrote:
Guys,
Can aanybody spot what I'm doing wrong in this tiny awk scripy::
Using awk is what you are doing wrong ;-) Assuming that this is all you
are doing with the list, anyway...
From the grep manpage:
" -l, --files-with-matches
Suppress
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> The uniqueness is a combination of IP+hostname ... again, as one pointed
> out with PCBSD, this isn't always necessarily the case, but, IMHO, that
> is a flaw of PCBSD having all hosts on the same network using the same
> hostname ...
That's the nice thing with the 'ifco
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Right, and the bad thing is if yu alias another IP on that device, the
> hash totally changes, so we see that one host now as being two different
> ones :) That's why we disqualified using ifconfig right at the
> beginning ...
But didn't you say that you effectively wip
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote:
--Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's
onto one Very long-playing disk.
That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read
in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know ho
Gary Kline wrote:
> Well, if/when you *do* try, please clue me in. --I'm too new to
> DVD's and tooo che--er, thrifty to buy a ten pack of blanks. I'm
> not sure that I have three hours of "favorites"; probably, but no
> more. Most of my favorite tunes are on tape--pre-re
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If your DVD player can't play mp3s, then it can't play DVDs. ;)
> Remember, mp3s are the audio layer of mpegs. And DVD videos consist of
> mpegs.
For a DVD-Video disc, the audio formats are PCM (plain old wav,
effectively), AC-3 (dolby digital) and MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
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