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  1. tomh009

    Extending a slice -- possible?

    Thanks -- finally got a chance to do this (needed to schedule this to minimize risk). Using fdisk to resize the slice to the full disk worked fine; I then followed that up with a bsdlabel, and then needed to reboot in order for growfs (or probably some underlying subsystem) to fully recognize...
  2. tomh009

    Extending a slice -- possible?

    I have a question that may have a very simple answer: is there a way to safely modify the size of a slice (fdisk partition)? I have a system running on a local RAID array that I have extended from 1 TB to 2 TB, and I would like to have a 1.5 TB file system on it. I'm willing to delete the last...
  3. tomh009

    ipfilter (now pf) for dummies

    After figuring out that the pf and pflog modules are not loaded by default (used kldload for now, and added to loader.conf for the future), I got it running. The script worked great, no trouble there. And within a few minutes ... montecarlo 95 # tcpdump -n -r /var/log/pflog reading...
  4. tomh009

    Best email software to use if you are new to BSD?

    Basic sendmail configuration really is not very hard at all any more -- you could run it out of the box or just add some access rules. (In the olden days of hand-editing .cf files it was quite different!) However, if you do want to integrate plug-ins (milters) it can indeed get much more fiddly.
  5. tomh009

    ipfilter (now pf) for dummies

    Ah -- last-match rather than first-match. Good to know! :) So using that principle, and opening things up some more, I'm thinking that this might possibly work -- what do you think? ext_if="bge0" block in all # Allow traffic to/from localhost pass in quick on lo0 all pass out quick on lo0...
  6. tomh009

    ipfilter (now pf) for dummies

    All right ... that's the trouble with so many tools, never know which one is the best! So trying to adapt to the pf.conf syntax (not so much different), does this look reasonable? pass out from any to any pass in proto tcp from any to any port < 25 pass in proto tcp from any to any port > 25...
  7. tomh009

    ipfilter (now pf) for dummies

    Should I use ipfw instead of ipf? It wasn't clear to me which would be the most appropriate tool for this. Thanks for the suggestion on at(1).
  8. tomh009

    ipfilter (now pf) for dummies

    Our mail setup uses Postini to handle spam and viruses. It costs money but does a decent job, with no admin required (anyway, changing that isn't an option at the moment). The trouble is with the spammers who ignore MX and scan for open SMTP ports, and thus bypass Postini. Having just...
  9. tomh009

    Is FreeBSD ONLY for servers?

    Yes, this is essentially the issue. Win32 includes the whole set of tools, so almost everyone uses it. Really? Apart from little skinned applets (MSN Messenger, ThinkVantage tools) the core Windows apps I use tend to be fairly consistent. But of course I only use a small subset of what's...
  10. tomh009

    Is FreeBSD ONLY for servers?

    There is no doubt that X works and is stable, and on modern hardware it can even be fast. But as Pushrod implied, one of the big problems is that "X" doesn't define enough: it's only the windowing, not the environment or the application look and feel, which is instead defined by the toolkit...
  11. tomh009

    Which shell do you use?

    I recognize those random letters from my documents, too! That's why I try to have as many common tools across platforms as possible, and ksh and vi are an easy choice for that.
  12. tomh009

    Video-card is necessary?

    If you haven't bought your system yet, I would suggest doing as djn suggests and get a board with integrated video. The vga(4) driver will give you a text console to do the install, and after that you can use ssh to connect to it. I just picked up a Phenom X4 9650 as well, at a very nice...
  13. tomh009

    Which shell do you use?

    Hmm, not many ksh users out there, it seems. After spending my early years with csh and tcsh, I switched about 20 years ago to ksh, as I could have the same shell on Windows (with MKS Toolkit), and I haven't switched since. I use pdksh, as none of the ksh93 features seem compelling to me...
  14. tomh009

    vBulletin ~What does FreeBSD have.

    vBulletin runs on FreeBSD ... it's all PHP and MySQL. It costs money, but it really is the most robust option out there.
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    Licensed based Forum software ?

    And that's exactly what VB does ...
  16. tomh009

    Mounting ext2-on-LVM

    I am planning to migrate our remaining Linux server to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE in the coming week. However, I do need to get the data over. mount_ext2fs seems to be the right tool for reading a Linux filesystem within a disk partition. However ... the current system's ext2 filesystem is...
  17. tomh009

    how do you think to use PostgreSQL in the FreeBSD?

    If all you have is a hammer, everything tends to look like a nail. There are countless applications for a relational database, and saying that any single database is the "best" for them all demonstrates either naiveté or a devotion on par with religion. Understand your application, and...
  18. tomh009

    Why does this remind me of FreeBSD...

    I just don't see the similarity to the (unimpressive) Pepsi logo, other than the fact that they are both round ...
  19. tomh009

    Please Suggest FreeBSD Compatible AMD 64 MotherBoard

    Most of our servers are using Tyan's lovely industrial-quality mobos (typically with eight memory slots), but we also have several ASUS ones -- unfortunately I think the latest one is an M8N-E, which is now out of production. If you do want to do RAID, I strongly encourage you to buy a proper...
  20. tomh009

    6.3 or 7.0 is easier for a newb?

    The rehash is a legacy of the original csh, which would scan the path for executables at startup. Helped with performance in the days of 4BSD running on a VAX with maybe 256 KB of memory, but really not necessary today. Neither ksh (my personal preference) nor bash has this behaviour. I do...
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