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Jian Guang Xu | 1 Nov 2004 01:02
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my /var is full when I pkg_add --r openoffice

Is there any way I could resize this partition? 
PEARLBSD# df
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s3a    253678  139846   93538    60%    /
devfs               1       1       0   100%    /dev
/dev/ad0s3e    253678     108  233276     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad0s3f  10275212 4797722 4655474    51%    /usr
/dev/ad0s3d    253678  195496   37888    84%    /var
linprocfs           4       4       0   100%    /usr/compat/linux/proc

PEARLBSD# pkg_add -r openoffice
Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.3-release/Latest/openoffice.tbz...
/var: write failed, filesystem is full
OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicudata.so.22.0: (null)

/var: write failed, filesystem is full
OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicui18n.so.22.0: (null)

/var: write failed, filesystem is full
OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicule.so.22.0: (null)

/var: write failed, filesystem is full
OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libicuuc.so.22.0: (null)

/var: write failed, filesystem is full
OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libj645fi_g.so: (null)

/var: write failed, filesystem is full
OpenOffice.org1.1.2/program/libjava_uno.so: (null)
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Eihab E. Ibrahim | 1 Nov 2004 01:03
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Re: FreeBSD box as a VOIP gateway for calling card co.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hadi Maleki-Baroogh" <hmalekib <at> hotmail.com>
To: <freebsd-questions <at> freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 1:39 AM
Subject: FreeBSD box as a VOIP gateway for calling card co.

> Hi,
> 
> Anyone have any howto pages or any web sites where I can find on setting up 
> a freebsd box as a voip gateway for a phone card co im looking into?

I'm not quiet sure, but I think you'll find Asterisk and SER interesting.
Check:
Asterisk: http://www.asteriskpbx.com
SER: http://www.iptel.org/ser/

They're both available in the ports collection:
ports/net/asterisk and ports/net/ser.

VOIP info http://www.voip-info.org can be very helpful as well.

Hope this helped.

Eihab E. Ibrahim

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H Boyer | 1 Nov 2004 01:09

Will this program work as a server program?

I am the president of the worlds smallist film and video online school.The Hirsute film Institute juet
recieved its 501c3 this year.Now I need to learn how to operate a server program and some revevant IT techie
stuff.The objective is to start putting up the schools actual web site then find students.How can you help
me to reach some of that objective.I have another small PC to start as a server.And I can increase the
gateway throughput on the Direcway dish that I have.Please contact me back at hboyer <at> direcway.com
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Eihab E. Ibrahim | 1 Nov 2004 01:17
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Re: Will this program work as a server program?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H Boyer" <hboyer <at> direcway.com>
To: <freebsd-questions <at> freebsd.org>
Cc: <hboyer <at> direcway.com>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 3:09 AM
Subject: Will this program work as a server program?

>I am the president of the worlds smallist film and video online 
>school.The Hirsute film Institute juet recieved its 501c3 this 
>year.Now I need to learn how to operate a server program and 
>some revevant IT techie stuff.The objective is to start putting up 
>the schools actual web site then find students.How can you help 
>me to reach some of that objective.I have another small PC to 
>start as a server.And I can increase the gateway throughput on 
>the Direcway dish that I have.Please contact me back at 
>hboyer <at> direcway.com

The FreeBSD Handbook is your friend.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/

It'll walk you through installing and configuring FreeBSD,
setting up Apache web server and much more.

You can find more books/articles on the FreeBSD
website http://www.freebsd.org.

Hope this helped.

Eihab E. Ibrahim
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Loren M. Lang | 1 Nov 2004 01:35

Is my computer under spec?

I have been having performance problems with my computer for months,
ever since I did a fresh install of freebsd 5.2.1.  I thought the
situation might change after debugging was turned off in RELENG_5 so I
upgraded a couple weeks ago to 5.3-BETA7, but only saw slight
improvements.  I'm running Xorg, fvwm 2.4, several xterms, vncviewer,
mozilla, xmms, and xine and my system was really running slow.  At some
point mozilla was killed because the system was out of swap space.  I
have a pentium celeron 3 600 MHz, with 128 megs of ram, 30 gig hd, 256
meg swap.  Is my system just under spec for freebsd 5.x or is something
else wrong?

I didn't really think this should push a system like this that hard.  I
might try running linux on it in a similar configuration to compare and
maybe think about some more ram if it also has problems.
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Bill Eccles | 1 Nov 2004 01:39

Re: ipfw configuration to intercept SMTP traffic

Actually, you bring up an interesting point that, yes, I'd forgotten about
natd. However, I realized after watching a tcpdump that the outgoing port is
a random port--only the destination port is 25 on the upstream box.

So, somehow I have to rig up something that listens for an SMTP connection
destined for any address from any port but to the upstream box's port 25. It
then must send it out to the aa.bb.cc.dd:25.

Any ideas, folks?

Thanks,
Bill

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> On Sunday 31 October 2004 21:39, Bill Eccles wrote:
>> Gentleones,
>> 
>> I have a commercial website/mail product running on a box. Unfortunately,
>> the product is not so smart and when it needs to bounce something, it
>> ignores the SMTP "Always Relay Via" setting and attempts to connect
>> directly to the mail exchanger for the domain it's bouncing to.
>> 
>> So what I figure I can do is redirect port 25 of "me" to any to port 25 of
>> the upstream server at aa.bb.cc.dd. That makes sense, right? So I'd
>> probably use:
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Gerard Samuel | 1 Nov 2004 01:40

Re: Determining original FBSD version

Jeremy Faulkner wrote:

>On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 18:59, Gerard Samuel wrote:
>  
>
>>jason wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Gerard Samuel wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I plan on making the move to 5.3 on boxes running 4.10
>>>>via a fresh install.
>>>>The thought came to me as to what was the original version of
>>>>FreeBSD did I install on those boxes.
>>>>Usually I upgrade the boxes via build/install world.
>>>>If there is way to find out, that it would be interesting to know.
>>>>If not, no big deal, as its an absent minded thought...
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>I think all you can do is know what version you have now(uname -a).  
>>>Other thatn that search for the oldest file on your computer. 
>>>      
>>>
>>That gave me an idea.  I looked at the date of kernel.GENERIC, and a few
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Tim Aslat | 1 Nov 2004 01:51
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Re: Is my computer under spec?

In the immortal words of "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl <at> alzatex.com>...
> I have been having performance problems with my computer for months,
> ever since I did a fresh install of freebsd 5.2.1.  I thought the
> situation might change after debugging was turned off in RELENG_5 so I
> upgraded a couple weeks ago to 5.3-BETA7, but only saw slight
> improvements.  I'm running Xorg, fvwm 2.4, several xterms, vncviewer,
> mozilla, xmms, and xine and my system was really running slow.  At
> some point mozilla was killed because the system was out of swap
> space.  I have a pentium celeron 3 600 MHz, with 128 megs of ram, 30
> gig hd, 256 meg swap.  Is my system just under spec for freebsd 5.x or
> is something else wrong?

First thing to check is how much ram is being used by the system.  the
Top command is your best friend in this case, check to see what kind of
memory usage each program has.  It will also show how much CPU usage
they are using.  

> I didn't really think this should push a system like this that hard. 
> I might try running linux on it in a similar configuration to compare
> and maybe think about some more ram if it also has problems.

I would be suspecting RAM is your main bottleneck.  Does your hard drive
seem to be constantly working?

I have 512Mb of ram installed and I'm still using some swap (33%) but I
also have quite a number of programs running continuously (firefox,
sylpheed-claws, several aterms, xmms,wmweather+, fluxbox-devel and a few
other odda & sods).  I could probably optimise this, but the actual swap
appears to be reasonably well managed and doesn't thrash my hard drives.
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Nikolas Britton | 1 Nov 2004 01:54

Re: Oracle 8i on FreeBSD 5.1

Jon Adams wrote:

>
> BTW: please do not tell me to try Oracle 9i, or that I should use 
> another version of FreeBSD, or something like that, I am locked in 
> this hardware and OS, so I need to get it to work with the current 
> setup as much as possible.
>
What about PostgreSQL? :-)
I had a hard enough time getting Oracle 9i2 installed and working with 
Redhat 7.3 for a Compiere ERP/CRM setup

http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml
Follow that guide and setup a test system using Redhat 7.x. Once you are 
comfortable with installing/setting up/running Oracle on this platform 
you can tranfer that knowledge into setting it up in Linux Compat Mode 
(which essentially is redhat 7.2) on FreeBSD. Thats the only advice I 
can offer.

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cpghost | 1 Nov 2004 01:57
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Re: Laptops as routers

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:54:33PM -0800, Luke wrote:
> To go off on a bit of a tangent here, I find the idea of replacing hard 
> drives with flash memory intriguing.  When I first heard someone talk 
> about doing this several years ago, the idea was quickly shot down by 
> people saying that flash memory has a very short lifetime when you write 
> to it.  Even a system as minimal as a firewall will require frequent write 
> operations if it does any logging at all.
> 
> Has this limitation been overcome in recent years?
> Google isn't turning up any recent articles on this subject for me.

No, the limited write cycles problem is still there, but not as bad as
you might imagine.

In most cases, all you need to do is to put /var and /tmp on a memory
filesystem, and archive only compressed logs either to flash or to 
a remote server every now and then, thus greatly reducing the write
access cycles to your flash card.

But this is not always a useful solution (e.g. if you want to run an
MTA like postfix which accesses the filesystem that holds the mail
queues quite frequently). Sometimes, a 2.5" harddisk (I don't know about
microdisks' durability) is your only recourse.

Cheers,
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