Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 16:27:22 -0700 From: Studded <DougGuy@dal.net> To: "Michael L. Farace" <mfarace@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to find out certain config info from FreeBSD Message-ID: <353FCE5A.9F67ED3@dal.net> References: <3.0.3.32.19980423011227.02fb3444@pop.mindspring.com>
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Michael L. Farace wrote: > > I need to find out a couple of things from my FreeBSD system that I can't > find the commands for: > > 1) How do I tell the exact version of named that is running? It is FreeBSD > 2.1.6. Whatever comes with that is what is running - but I don't know what > version that is. Look in /var/log/messages when the server starts up. I am 98% sure that the version of bind you have is too old to support the on line version query which is: dig @servername version.bind chaos txt > 2) Number of file descriptors compiled in kernel? Again, this is whatever is > default in FreeBSD 2.1.6, I just cant find that info. sysctl -a | grep files. If 2.1.6 is the same as 2.2 you're looking for kern.maxfiles. You should really consider upgrading FreeBSD, especially if your nameserver is answering queries on the internet. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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