Determining kernel?

I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running FreeBSD system to tell me what kernel is being used? _

Re: Determining kernel?

Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Patrick Baldwin wrote: I was reading through the handbook section on updating, as I'd like to update a FreeBSD 6.2 system. One of the things I noticed is that you need to specify what kernel you want in the KERNCONF line. Is there any way to get a running Fr

Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, but: webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount: /dev/da0s1 on /mnt/usbdrive: incorrect super block OK, it seemed a good chance the USB drive was formatted

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

Trix Farrar wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, but: webmail# mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount: /dev/da0s1 on

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

Drew Tomlinson wrote: On 12/12/2007 7:50 AM Patrick Baldwin said the following: Trix Farrar wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relat

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

Yi Wang wrote: Try mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt some usb disk doesn't have s1 postfix. I get: webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/usbdrive mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument I'm wondering if I need to format the USB drive for use with FreeBSD? On 12/12/07, Patrick Baldw

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

Tsetsbold Narantungalag wrote: Hi, have you tried this before: #mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb I hadn't initially, but I have now: # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument And dmesg: umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr

Need to build a new mail server

a few aliases I'd want to port over to a new server. Thanks, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

[freebsd-questions] USB drives?

Hi, I'm thinking of getting a couple USB drives to use in backing up my 6.2-RELEASE-p4 system. Any suggestions or warnings on brands of USB hard drives? Regards, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965

FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

hen I plug it in. I can get another USB drive and repurpose the one I've got right now, but before I put any more resources into this idea, I thought I'd bounce it off some experts. Any suggestions, links, etc. welcomed. Particularly for large capacity USB drives that won't cras

Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

. Great. What kind of drive? And have you actually had to do a restore? -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

[freebsd-questions] Can't build php5?

g about this the hard or the stupid way, please don't hesitate to tell me. It seemed like the easiest and fastest way to get a working install would be to install the package, but maybe I'm wrong. Regards, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrato

Re: [freebsd-questions] Can't build php5? - Builds now, but doesn't work due to gd.so

Beech Rintoul wrote: >> On Monday 21 May 2007, Patrick Baldwin said: >> > >>>>First, my apologies to Beech for replying off-list, I'm on a few >>>>others that work a bit differently, and I was a little quick with >>>>the send button.

[freebsd-questions] Can't build php5? - Now builds, but doesn't work.- Fixed

>Beech Rintoul wrote: > > >>> On Monday 21 May 2007, Patrick Baldwin said: >>> >> >>>>>First, my apologies to Beech for replying off-list, I'm on a few >>>>>others that work a bit differently, and I was a little quick with >&g

[freebsd-questions] Best way to add SSL to Apache 1.3.37

d to (tinkering with a Squirrelmail webmail server here), so any information on that would be more than welcome. Regards, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-ques

Re: [freebsd-questions] Best way to add SSL to Apache 1.3.37

Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:03:31 -0400 Patrick Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p4, and Apache 1.3.37. I'd like to add SSL support, but I'm not sure of the best way to go about it. may I ask why are you using A

Re: [freebsd-questions] Best way to add SSL to Apache 1.3.37

SSL. I guess now I need to hit Google and find out how to do this on FreeBSD, as it sounds just like what I want, thanks! Regards, -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower, Inc. 1087 Beacon St. Newton, MA 02459 1-617-965-7455 ___

Suitability question

be best of trying to built him a really locked-down, high security box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, and a little light word processing. What do people think of FreeBSD as the base OS for this idea? -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scan

Building a FreeBSD based mail server

.0-RELEASE, although I'm certainly open to sugegstions if people think a different version would serve better. -- Patrick Baldwin Systems Administrator Studsvik Scandpower 617-965-7455 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li