Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 14:43:14 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: remaining goal.. . Message-ID: <20110402214312.GA3848@thought.org>
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excuse the lowercase but my shoulder really is damaged beyond repair. --last tuesday my new modem =quit= and my even newer wheelchair motor [right wheel] =quit=. --i'll spare the details about getting a tech here because it would fill at least 5 pages. dunno when the shop will get me a loaner; at least 12 da for the new motor. [[the modem is from china; no idea about the motor. but you can guess my opinion of such manufacturers]] okay: last november i had trouble getting my dns to work upon reboot. the msg was only to stdout and mumbled something about how /etc/namedb/named.conf could not be found. i am using scripts i cobbled together to even be able to ping anyone. essentially kill -9 the old named pid; and another to run a new instantiation of named. i've got ==everything== on my ups. display, modem, three servers. so it will be months++ before i have to reboot. ---well unless the big-one hits seattle .... i just upgraded my 7.3 i386 last october. if i upgrade to 7.4 should this named fault go away. i pretty much do leave my server alone, but it is time get on the stick. i'm sure that i bragged about all the ways i've dived into saving energy. reducing my carbon footprint. my one remaining 1998 hp kayak that sucks 100+ watts/hour can be replaced by the dedicated processor and 1.0gig of memory. this "kit" draw 4watt/hour. i have zero knowledge about howto replace the kayak with this kit ... but since it is my last energy-saving goal, i'm willing to pay whatever it costs somebody in the metro seattle area to do it. i do have some kind of .xml file to upgrade the configuration. given that, i figure my computers should hum along until solid state drives are worth buying. 3, 5 years... i asked the seattle group of linux users if somebody could help me transfer pfsense from computer to this kit; they pointed out that pfsense was a bsd invention.... tia, for any help. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org ethic Coming soon to http://transfinite.thought.org: On_Suicide
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