Perl clean-up in freebsd

Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7 server and I just updated perl from 5.8 to 5.8.2 with the ports-upgrade. I have a mess with all theses perls(no pun intended). Webmin(ver 1.21) perl module shows 5.8 at the top instead of 5.8.2 and there are 3 of the same modules listed for every perl module (5.0053, 5

Hardware Raid question

Hello, I have a 5.2 FBSD system with a highpoint ATA raid controller and 2 x WD 200 ATA HD's. I created a Raid 1 array in the HP bios. dmesg output: ad4: 194481MB [395136/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA133 GEOM: create disk ad6 dp=0xc485b860 ad6: 194481MB [395136/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA133 GEOM:

Re: Hardware Raid question

Mike Woods said: > Jason Lieurance wrote: > >> I installed everything on 'ad4' but it I think I wanted to install it to >> 'ar0'. >> Am I right? Thanks. > > Yep, ar is the Atapi Raid driver, ad is just the individual disk :) > > -

Syncing 3 Freebsd servers' accounts Question

Hello, I have 3 freebsd servers(4.7,4.9,5.3) and would like to have 1 set of user/group accounts instead of 3. I don't know very much about NIS or LDAP which come up when I researched the topic. So what is the easiest, cheapest(free), and best way to accomplish this??? Thanks. -- Jason _

Update of Perl causing error

Hello, I just updated my FreeBSD 4.9 perl to 5.8.4 from source. Now I get these errors when I try to add any perl modules: Executing make install .. mkdir /usr/bin/man: File exists at /usr/bin/lib/perl5/5.8.4/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 112 *** Error code 255 Anyone have any ideas? Thanks. -- Ja

Nightly cron message question

Hello, Late couple days on our Freebsd 4.7 email/web server I've got this message in the nightly cron jobs: Checking setuid files and devices: Checking for uids of 0: root 0 toor 0 I've searched and some said it had to do with an incomplete dmesg or something like that. There are some errors:

Replicate FreeBSD server

Hello, I know this has been asked before but I can't find the answer I'm looking for. Anyway, we have a FreeBSD 4.7 email (qmail, courier imap) and web (php, Mysql) server. I want to have a failover server offsite so if the master goes down the backup will kick in. The backup server needs to have

FreeBSD 4.7 make question

Hi, I didn't keep our 4.7 up to date and now 'make' errors out whenever you try to update ports or install any software. How do I fix this issue? Thanks in advance, J. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

Hello, Our file server is a compaq proliant 320DL 1U w/ 512MB ram, 18GB 320 scsi, 73GB 320 scsi, P3 1 Ghz, running FreeBSD 4.9, samba 3.0.5. HAd it for about 16 months, been running great. About 3 months ago it rebooted with nothing in the logs or any track of a problem. I chalked it up to isol

Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work

Kris Kennaway said: > Check power supply, CPU cooling, try putting it behind a UPS in case > your AC power is dropping out (e.g. due to increased load from > something kicking in every 9 hours, etc). I will check PS and cooling. It's on a good apc ups so that's not it. Also, forget 9 hrs, it jus

Which freebsd for newer server?

Hello, I have a dell poweredge 1425sc 1U server that's a few months old. It has dual zeons w/HT. I tried at the time to install freebsd 5.3 and 5.4 on it but it would have a fatal error with both randomly while running. I posted here and of the very few responses to fix my problem, someone said

FreeBSD 5.4 SMP

Hello, I have a new Dell PowerEdge Dual Xeon 2.8 server and the freebsd install 'sees' 1 cpu. It loads the HT right but doesn't see the 2nd cpu at all. I went to rebuild kernel and 'options smp' is not even a choice. I add it along with the others that are mentioned for smp and when I run config

FreeBSD 5.4 EM64T question

HEllo, I just realized my cpu's in my server are xeon em64t's but I used the i386 iso's to install FSD 5.4. Do I have to use the amd64 iso's??? I realized this after running 'portsbd -Uu' and the system dumped in the middle of the operation saying something about the scsi bus reset. -- Jason

FreeBSD 5.x problems with new dell server

Hello, I bought a new dell poweredge1425sc server. It's has dual 2.8 xeon's with HT, 1 Gb ram, Seagate u320 73GB HD, Adaptec u320 scsi controller, its all new stuff. FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4 install fine but then its trouble. It'll be running fine and I'll be doing whatever and then intermeantly

FreeBSD 5.x problems with new dell server

Hello, I bought a new dell poweredge1425sc server. It's has dual 2.8 xeon's with HT, 1 Gb ram, Seagate u320 73GB HD, Adaptec u320 scsi controller, its all new stuff. FreeBSD 5.3 and 5.4 install fine but then its trouble. It'll be running fine and I'll be doing whatever and then intermeantly i

FreeBSD 4.7: Perl Questions

Hello, I have Freebsd 4.7 and I have perl 5.00503 and I ran 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' Then at the cpan prompt I ran install bundle or something and it started loading a bunch of things but finally it had an error and couldn't finish. But now I have my original perl in /usr/bin and another perl in

vmstat question

Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.7 on a P3 933mhz, 18 GB U320 HD, Adaptec 29160 controller, and 512 MB DDR ram. When I ran vmstat -w 3 the b under processes shows a constant 10 forever. Is this a concern or is it nothing? Our system is a DNS, web, and email server. Thanks. -- Jason ___

vmstat question

Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.7 on a P3 933mhz, 18 GB U320 HD, Adaptec 29160 controller, and 512 MB DDR ram. When I ran vmstat -w 3 the b under processes shows a constant 10 forever and now today it's up to 12. Is this a concern or is it nothing? Our system is a DNS, web, and email server. Thanks. --

UDP port question

Hello, We have a FreeBSD 4.7 server that is an email, web, and dns server. I noticed for the first time today when running either sockstat -4 or netstat -na this enrty: udp4 0 0 *.* *.* I've never noticed that before and first, is it something to worry about? If so, how do I get ri

Chroot directory for user not working

Hello, I know I'm not doing this right. I want to have a user who uses windows xp login to my freebsd 4.7 server with winscp and just have access(chroot) to the home directory I specify for them. I tried it like so: /etc/passwd file user1:*:600:600:User for ssh ftp:/usr/home/./user1:/sbin/false

Hard drive performance question

Hello, I have FreeBSD 4.7 server running a qmail-imap-squirrelmail email server and a apache 1.3.27 web server hosting 6 virtual domains that don't get a lot of traffic. Hardware is: P3 933MHz CPU 512 DDR ram Fujitsu MAN3184MP 18.2 GB U160 10K rpm 8MB buffer 2.9 ms access Hard drive Adaptec 2916

Re: Hard drive performance question

isode (Aug 05), Jason Lieurance said: >> I have FreeBSD 4.7 server running a qmail-imap-squirrelmail email server and a >> apache 1.3.27 web server hosting 6 virtual domains that don't get a lot of >> traffic. >> >> Hardware is: >> >> P3 933MHz CPU >>

SSH login chroot'd to home dir problem

Hello, I have a FreeBSD 4.7 webserver and need some of the website owners to be chroot'd to their home dir when they login in with winscp. I've tried the openssh chroot patch 3.6 I believe to no avail. It always logs in anyone to the system root. Please help, I've been messing with this for months

Making a certain cron job

Hello, We use cronolog to rotate our apache log files so are log files look like so: 2003-09-07-error_log Now, I want to make a cron job to mail the log to our webmaster every day but I having terrible visualizing how to do it. If I do 'cat /var/log/http/2003-09-* | mail -s log [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making a certain cron job

Hello, Thank you for the response. Does the date part (Date=`date +"%Y-%m-%d"`) go as part of the cron job? Thanks again. -- Jason David Fleck said: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Jason Lieurance wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We use cronolog to rotate our apache log f