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I run a small mail server using Postfix as the MTA on FreeBSD. My boss was kind enough to allow me to create a special account for my woodworking group to use; basically, mail sent to it is then relayed to everyone in the group by way of the .forward file in the home directory. There's no way...

Thanks for the tip, @kpa. I'm certainly willing to try using it, but installing FUSE on my 8.2 amd64 box isn't going so well. While I got the sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs port to install, it needs sysutils/fusefs-kmod and that one will not install. Won't even compile in fact. I tried it with the...

A server running XP has a network share to install a specific piece of software off of. The share needs to be mapped to a drive letter on the client PC when the software is started. XP has a built-in hard-coded limit of 5 client machines total connected to shared drives as an incentive for...

Our local DSL provider lost the ability to provide us with static IPs, so I migrated to AT&T uverse. They installed it and I was able to work with one of their techs to get IP passthrough mode working on the Motorola NVG510 router/gateway and all the ports unblocked on their system. My mail...

For those interested, I wrote a script to extract the data and detect when the drive hits bad sectors. I was able to do manually what the RAID should've done automatically and managed to extract everything. :)

I recently had a problem when a drive that was part of a ZFS raidz1 failed and another had previously undetected bad sectors on it; ZFS isn't smart enough to continue on and kept restarting the resilvering process. Using the following script, I was able to extract everything off the bad RAID...

Preventing the drive from accessing certain sectors would have to be done on the drive firmware level. Don't know if it's possible using something like SMART or not... I implemented the first part of the above plan - connected ad8 and ad10 and began copying files using cp -v -R -p /home/Images...

Just FYI, there's a flaw in this forum software is that if your login session times out during the time you're composing a message, you're taken to the login page and the entire message is lost after you log in again. It's highly annoying to spend half an hour writing a long detailed message...

I realized that I had some adapters that will basically turn any SATA device into a huge USB flash drive. I plugged the original ad12 into it - the system gave it da0 just like it does any other flash drive, but ZFS did not recognize it as part of the pool. I was able to add a new drive to the...

Thanks for the reply Ralph. You raise some interesting points. I use dd in this manner all the time to replace drives that are in the process of failing and the OS usually just picks up the new drive automatically. Done it successfully with both linux a few times and windows more times than...

Using this excellent thread regarding a similar condition, I discovered that ad8 is failing on the same sector. However, the procedure described in that thread breaks down because fsdb cannot find a superblock it understands on ad8s3. Further, it refuses to operate on the ZFS pool/tank. Does...

I have a RAID-Z1 pool of three drives running ZFS on FreeBSD 8.4 which are experiencing hardware difficulties. I'm hopeful someone will be able to help me as I don't know how to proceed. The machine was set up with three one terabyte SATA hard drives, seen by the system as ad8, ad10, and ad12...

That's an excellent idea about UDP possibly being what's transferred. Next time this happens, I'll check to see what type of packets are being transferred. I appreciate the suggestion @bbzz, but I've never heard of HFSC and while I'm not opposed to learning new stuff, CBQ is in place and for...

I have a small mail server which also acts as a router for our public WiFi. For obvious reasons, I have traffic shaping enabled and it has allowed the two to co-exist peacefully, not allowing customers using WiFi to interfere with the operation of the mail server. Until today that is. Mail is...

Thanks for the tips guys. I knew that something like this had to exist! :) Going to look into the ports you mentioned and get something configured. Thanks again - you guys here are awesome.

I have a small mail server using Postfix 2.9.1. Many times since bringing it online, I've had machines from random places around the world try to guess passwords, my hunch is to use my server to spam. While I'm confident that they have not yet been able to break in, the server slows...

Thanks for the tips guys. I'm the only one with root access to the box, so I know it wasn't somebody executing a command to reboot it. I checked the logs and there's still nothing - goes from running fine to boot messages. It's got a UPS on it, but that doesn't mean something internally...

One of my FreeBSD servers rebooted earlier today. There's nothing in the messages or dmesg.today files in /var/log to indicate why, only the timestamp when it started booting up again. This server is located where people have bumped against it in the past - unfortunate, but really the only...

"I'll tell you when it's over, just keep flying you blasted bird!" :) :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47zgYQO-ow4

Did exactly as you suggested - created a CGI script that reads & spits out the HTML file but which checks for a .lock file before reading. I then modified the data parsing script to touch the .lock file before the mv and rm the .lock immediately afterward. Only problem that *could* pop up now...