--- Stephen Cravey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First, you should probably be using snort 1.9.0. Read the handbook
section
on cvsup to learn how to update your ports collection.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
Second, the file you're looking for should
i'm following the, How to setup and secure Snort, MySQL and Acid on
FreeBSD 4.6 Release off of the snort.org website.
in the documentation it says snort should be installed through the
following:
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make -DWITH_MYSQL -DWITH_FLEXRESP ; make install
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later it says to do the
with last hour, cvsup current, rebuild everything,... immediately
after kernel mount msg for /
kernel cranks out msg
Be nice to each other, mmmkay?
system otherwise fine. Is this a known prank?
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In general I know how to reinstall an updated port, but what about
if I installed KDE from the original FreeBSD 4.7 CD-Rom install at
the same time as I was installing the OS?
In this case, does make deinstall work? Or is there a better way?
I want to install the new KDE 3.1 from ports in its
--- Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you retry it with newer sources?
the sources are updated every night.
the problem is this... my putty session times out after a certain amount
of time. how can i prevent this?
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I'd love to start using KDE 3.1 as soon as possible on my FreeBSD 4.7 box.
How will I know when/if it's ready to install from ports?
What's the recommended method? Just 'cvsup' and see if it's there?
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Hello,
I couldn't find any answers to this in groups.google.com, so I thought
I'd ask here. Installing FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a new system via FTP,
everything downloads fine, except for the ports distribution. I know I
can always get it via cvsup after-the-fact, but was curious as to why
i'm having huge problems with localizing the messages sent to my FreeBSD
box by my router and my firewall appliance. all the messages seem to be
congregating in /var/log/messages, when i don't want them to.
i'm thinking that, the following might be an issue.
There is actually a typo in the patch file for the jasper port. I've
already email the maintainer about it (Don't know if he's emailed me
back, as I've been having email issues since).
Edit
ports/graphics/jasper/files/patch-src-libjasper-include-jasper-jas_types.h
and change:
+typedef log long
Hi all.
I have successfully configured a tunnel from a BSD box to a Cisco router
using the gif device to implement the BSD end of the tunnel.
The Cisco Technician doing the far end of the config said that the protocol
of choice for the job is GRE (protocol 47 according to /etc/protocols
Redmond Militante writes:
hi all
this gateway box is an dell optiplex gx150 pIII 930 mhz
with 128 mb of ram, 2 nics
i would like this gateway box to protect our webserver,
our mysql server, and possibly another webserver.
our webserver is a dual xeon dell poweredge 1650 with 2 gig of ram,
--- Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See 'man syslog.conf'. You need to edit /etc/syslog.conf to tell syslogd
to route all messages from a host to separate files. They will appear
in /var/log, just like your 'regular' logs from syslog (ie
/var/log/messages,
/var/log/security etc).
i have,
--- Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try the above and let me know, it will be helpful for me as well :)
BTW, for testing, check out logger(1) -- you can use it to send test
messages to syslogd (and thus across the network).
--Stijn
okay... i tried it.
when i re-ran syslogd i was
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Hi all!
I have my NTP server running on BSD - great!
My Question: Any suggestions for a simple, light, free NTP client that
will run on Win2k Workstations?
As usual, thanks for the quick responses :) I've decided to use automachron
(it was real nice 'n easy
i finally was able to get configuration on my Cisco 806 to allow for a
hole though my reflexive access lists.
anwyays, that's not really important now.
what i need to know is how i enable syslog to log messages from my
sonicwall security appliance?
the sonicawall is set to communicate with a
--- Stijn Hoop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
syslogd_flags=-a 1.2.3.4/32 in /etc/rc.conf should work according to
the manpage.
Maybe even syslogd_flags= is enough, but by default syslogd_flags
is -s which doesn't allow peer logging.
See /etc/defaults/rc.conf and man syslogd.
i've done this,
Hi all!
I have my NTP server running on BSD - great!
My Question: Any suggestions for a simple, light, free NTP client that will
run on Win2k Workstations?
Since this is somewhat Off-Topic, you may prefer to reply directly to me
than adding more OT traffic to the list...
Regards,
Patrick
Anyone know if the /usr/ports/www/frontpage port works with the apache 2
port?
thanks
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unfortunately, there is no FreeBSD port for the Sparc32 machines, so I'm
stuck with using NetBSD.
since, i've been having problems with booting from CD, i am going to try
to install the OS by using TFTP.
in order for my to do this though, i need to be able to have my FreeBSD
box act as an RARP
I was told by my UNIX instructor that freebsd had hardware recognition
trouble. Is this true and if so has it been fixed?
I find the OPPOSITE to be true!
Hell if Windows isn't recognizing some ethernet card, video card, sound card,
I stick it in my FreeBSD machine where it's instantly
what do I have to consider when buying a flat bed scanner for a
FreeBSD-CURRENT box?
I have to piggyback on his question:
Is there any tutorial out there for how to do a USB scan -
how to scan a page on a USB scanner into Gimp or something?
I've got one here I want to try, but don't know how
i was reading a thread where someone recommeded this product as an
intrusion prevention device.
does anyone have any experience? they have something that was targeted
towards FreeBSD 4.5, will there be any problems integrating this with 4.7?
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i've setup my webramp700s to send logs to my freebsd machine daily.
however, it says that it cannot send the mail.
i really don't know much about sendmail, but these two processes are
running:
root 85 0.0 0.3 2884 1592 ?? Ss 22Oct02 9:05.25 sendmail:
accepting connections
i know there is something you can put on the socket to measure how much
current is being drawn... but i was wondering if there was some utility
that i could install on my server to measure the power usage for the
server? i'd like to make a chart to see if this device is really
impacting the
Is a PCI sound blaster card supported?
I've found that FreeBSD 4.7 so far has supported every odd sound card I've thrown its
way.
Even (especially!) those on-board sound things built into motherboards and laptops
these days. FreeBSD supports them all (and Windows usually doesn't without the
FreeBSD box A
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v
HOME FIREWALL
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internet
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WORK FIREWALL
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V
FreeBSD box B
Can you copy files from box A to box B?
Box A can SSH into Work Firewall.
Work Firewall can SSH into Box B.
Box B can SSH into Home Firewall.
Home Firewall can SSH into Box A.
So - I can SEE the files I
Sorry: new to FreeBSD (was an OpenBSD guy before this).
I'm impressed with how fast FreeBSD puts new releases into its ports tree.
Now that PHP 4.3 is out, I'm dying to use its new features, so I'm
wondering if anyone knows a guesstimate on how long it should take for
PHP 4.3 to be in the
Hi all,
I am usiung expr in a shell script and need to pad it's output to
always be 3 characters. An example will explain thing better:
% expr 007 + 1
Output is 8
I need the output to be 008
I checked the expr man page, but nothing there solves my problem.
Anyone out there got one?
Thanks
i am planning on have a subdomain, mail.mydomain.net, to allow web-based
email for family and some friends. someone mentioned how an email box
setup imporperly can cause all sorts of problems.
i want to know if i make my freebsd box an email-based mail server, if the
open relay problems will
--- Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure you meant to write what you did, but I'm not 100% I
understand. But yes, latency isn't an issue. Even if it is, switches
still win.
My point is that generic switches are not faster than hubs, because of the
added latency
this is what the comment says...
// If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter
// its IP address here, and enable the line below. This will make you
// benefit from its cache, thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the
Internet.
/*
forwarders
Hi guys,
Just tried the following and it doesn't seem to work.. any explanations?
%echo first line \\n second line
Output is:
first line \n second line
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance...
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I made a change to this file:
/usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools/work/cdrtools-1.11/cdda2wav/cdda2wav.c
and I want my change to the source file to stick when building the port.
Seems if I do a make clean install it kills my change to the source file.
Do I need to add my diff change to a patch file
Alright, this is what I want to do...
I have a cable connection that uses DHCP, giving me a lease for about 2
minutes. Usually the address stays the same, but at times it does change.
I want to host two domain names to start. I also would like to have the
possiblity to host more. I will
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--- Marc Perisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
if you mean the eToken from www.eladdin.com - no, there is no device
drivers for them yet build.
I mailed to them and asked them if they had plans to port the software
to FreeBSD/*NIX or let some help them with it.
They answered, that
i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group... but i
was wondering if it was possible to physically mount a former FreeBSD disk
on a winxp box.
i know someone would suggest that i mount the drive on the FreeBSD box and
get the files i need that way... however, this is not an
Have a small network here of FreeBSD machines (-stable and -current). I
have on my production FreeBSD machine setup an rsyncd via xinetd, and
would like to rsync /usr/ports across to the other FreeBSD machines so I
wouldn't have to crontab cvsup on all of them (thus putting more load on
my limited
THANKS to everyone for all the help.
I got an HP LaserJet 1200 PostScript ready printer for $375 USD.
Installed /usr/ports/print/apsfilter
Answered some basic setup questions - and it works great!
If you use apsfilter, you don't even need to do the basic /etc/printcap
settings from the
moving my
servers to FreeBSD as they got REALLY popular (50,000 unique users a day, on a dynamic
MySQL-driven site.) Still I'm glad I started with OpenBSD, and I still use it for
everything else.
In my opinion, OpenBSD is a better BEGINNER BSD because it's just pre-configured for
most things
moving my
servers to FreeBSD as they got REALLY popular (50,000 unique users a day, on a
dynamic MySQL-driven site.) Still I'm glad I started with OpenBSD, and I still use
it for everything else.
In my opinion, OpenBSD is a better BEGINNER BSD because it's just pre-configured
for most things
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a good non-interactive aiff to mp3 encoder for
batch emcoding mp3's via a shell script...
Many thanks and warm regards to all
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I was reading a bit about this and it seems pretty sweet. Does FreeBSD
have anything like this? And how do the two compare?
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Nevermind. I just tried a couple of jail setups with a base and a couple
of mount_union'd directories. My machine promptly locked up on loggin into
them with ssh. Bleh. And mount_null doesn't seem to be what I want, as I
want write access without affecting the lower layer. O'well.
On Tue, 26 Nov
And, the most important of all, check the hardware compatibility list of
printers suitable for FreeBSD.
Ah! That's what I was looking for! Saw no mention of it in the FreeBSD
Handbook or the hardware compatibility link from freebsd.org
I did find this:
Hey all,
I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.0-DP2 to get myself familiar with the
upcoming ACLs present in -CURRENT before the release itself. I've setup a
test machine with one 45gb ide drive with one slice and two partitions (/
and swap) and installed FreeBSD on it.
dumpfs / shows that root is
Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?
I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week.
Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible?
or is there some spec I need to look for?
I assume parallel port is still the way to go
or is USB really ready on FreeBSD?
Main thing
i'm looking for a simple to use and simple to configure tool that will
record my sonicawall soho's log messages.
anyone have any recommendations? i rather not have something overwhelming
though. it should be simple to configure and understand and operate.
I'm having problems with my system because of this file. Where do I get
it? I've looked in the ports. I thought it was in /ports/misc but then i
read it was in /ports/sysutils. However, I can't find it in either
location.
My refuse file doesn't include anything that would exclude it from the
--- david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Afaik it has been removed from the ports tree. They use pkg_create now.
okay, what do i do now? portupgrade depends on this package.
-Sameer
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i've been running through some tutorials on how to convert the passwords
from md5 to blowfish.
there's mention of the following to actually do the conversion:
cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
however, i don't see the conversion. the tutorial mentions that the
password should start with $2$, but
I ran portupgrade with the -a option and everything seems to have run w/o
incident. however, in the end, I got the following notices:
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(snip)
--- Backing up the old version
env: /usr/local/sbin/pkg_tarup: No such file or directory
** Backup failed.
(snip)
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Hi all,
I have just started recently using mutt and love it. I know there are
heaps of sites that have sample .muttrc configuration files but I am
looking for one specifically for use with this listanyone willing to
share theirs?
-Thanks in advance
Hi all,
I have just started recently using mutt and love it. I know there are
heaps of sites that have sample .muttrc configuration files but I am
looking for one specifically for use with this listanyone willing to
share theirs?
-Thanks in advance
Hi all,
Does anyone have a quick and easy way to concatenate two or more MBOX
format mailbox files? I tried:
cat mboxfile1 mboxfile2 newfile
but it didn't really work...
Thanks..
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Hi all,
We are just trialing apache2 built from the ports collection) on a 4.7-
R box. Can't seem to get SSL going though. IS SSL supported in apache2?
Does anyone know of quick HOWTO?
Thanks
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Hi all,
I have a system running multiple jails.Anyone know of a good (ie
fast, non-risky) proceedure to upgrade the host system and all the
jails it runs
Thanks.
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Hi all,
Does anyone know of a good sendmail replacement with POP3/SMTP/IMAP
support and which has it's own user/password list rather than using the
system user/password list...
Thanks in advance..
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On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Earl Larsen wrote:
I am on dial up. And I just got done downloading all 4 CDs. However I
downloaded 4.6.2. And I do not want to wait forever to re down load the
installation CD for FreeBSD. I was wondering if their is a way to down load
an ISO upgrade file. If I down
i was looking at the handbook section on ssh tunneling. to try it out i
figured i'd try to connect to my 806.
i entered the following command:
ssh -2 -N -f -L 5023:localhost:23 (router's ip address)
and I received this error message:
ssh: connect to address (router's ip address) port 22:
--- Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't want to start a Linux/FreeBSD flamewar, but I do need some info
I have an associate who will be making major changes to their network
and want my help/advice. He intends to have a something like this:
i'm getting the following error and it says that this should be reported
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but before i do that, i wanted some input to see if i could resolve this
issue in a relatively simply way.
is this an issue with how i installed apache... should i reinstall if with
the --with-apxs2
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, John Wards wrote:
Right I am compleatly new at installing things on FreeBSD
I need to install Apache/MySQL and PHP on to my server. Are these things in
Ports? and what are the commands to install these things?
Yes. They are.
ports/databases/mysql323-server
i was changing the login shell from sh to bash... but i entered the wrong
location. now, i cannot login to the system using that account, which is
the only accout that i can su to root from.
does anyone know how i can resolve this issue w/o taking the system out of
the garage, booting into
--- DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people' [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have a passwd for toor?
KDK
no... i don't...
as for the -m option...
i tried it but it doesn't work.
-m Leave the environment unmodified. The invoked shell is your
login shell, and no directory
--- Morten Grunnet Buhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have local access to the machine? if so cant you just log in as
root? Or have I misunderstood this question completely?
no you have it right... this is an option, although i'd like to keep it a
last option... disconnecing the machine and
i'm following a pretty decent IBM tutorial on how to setup a samba PDC.
in the tutorial the following command is mentioned:
passwd -l
this is what someone pulled from the RedHat man page for the '-l' option
in RedHat:
-l This option is used to lock the specified account
:53AM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
i'm following a pretty decent IBM tutorial on how to setup a samba
PDC.
in the tutorial the following command is mentioned:
passwd -l
pw lock [user]
Check the pw manpage.
Ceri
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you can't see when light's so strong
you can't see when
i have problems installing apache.
i'm getting the following errors eventhough i have expat-1.95.4 installed.
--
=== Installing for expat-1.95.4
=== expat-1.95.4 is already installed - perhaps an older version?
If so, you may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install
this
--- Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:01:09PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
i have problems installing apache.
i'm getting the following errors eventhough i have expat-1.95.4
installed.
--
=== Installing for expat-1.95.4
=== expat
--- Nathan Kinkade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...snip...
Well, does library expat.4 actually exist? If not, then what version
is the expat2 port installing? Assuming that expat2 installs a newer
version of the library, you might be able to simply create a link named
expat.4 and point it to
I was wondering if anyone could help me. I would like to know how to
compress a cd-r to fit more data on it. There is a cd called the Devil's
Own XP cd that was made on freebsd, it's a 700 mb cd with 4 gigs of
information on it. They must of used a compression tool to compress the
cd-r but
Hi all,
I have tried this on several different machines and several different
networks but keeping getting hit with the same error. I configure a PXE
(jumpstart installation) server (NFS, TFTP, DHCP) as per the FreeBSD
Jumpstart docs in the FreeBSD handbook and then try a PXE (Intel NIC)
Hi all,
I have tried this on several different machines and several different
networks but keeping getting hit with the same error. I configure a PXE
server (NFS, TFTP, DHCP) and then try a PXE (Intel NIC) client. It all
works fine, the client gets an IP address connect via tftp, BTX loader
has anyone had any experience with this product? they say it's free for
home users.
is it good... is it bad?
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Hi all,
I run several FreeBSD/IPF based firewalls. I would really like to get
some sort of basic visual representation as to what the firewall is
doing without actually logging in and tailing logs. My idea is to have
the HDD LED (red) light up when IPF blocks packets with an ipf block
rule and
--- Jim Durham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'pw' has different arguments based on the first argument. If you say
'pw useradd' then -M is not valid. You'll see this if you carefully
read the man page.
i have, this is why i noted that there was no -M option for the
useradd argument under pw
this happens intermittantly.
i don't know why, but when i connect to my FreeBSD box using putty, there
is an extremely long pause for the following:
1. the login prompt to come up
2. the password prompt to come up after i type in the username
3. the connection to be established after i enter
--- Kevin Oberman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. the login prompt to come up
2. the password prompt to come up after i type in the username
3. the connection to be established after i enter the password
can anyone let me know how i can aleviate this pause problem?
It's almost
i'm setting up samba on my FreeBSD box. the goal is to make it a PDC.
i'm following the directions from Samba Unleased by SAMS.
in the instructions, there's mention that each machine needs to have a
user account on the server.
it gives the following command to setup a machine account:
Yes! I've got a great method I can recommend for mpg123.
My BSD box has no monitor, no XFree, but it has 80 gigs of MP3s
and a great set of speakers hooked up to it.
I ssh into it from whatever room in the house I'm in and use
one of these commands. (Aliased from ~/.bashrc)
# MP3
alias play
Hi all,
Is there any quick and easy way to make BIND (the version shipped with
4.5-R and later) listen only the the loopback interface address (ie
127.0.0.1) instead of all available addresses?
Thanks in advance.
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