securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Paul Beard
Monkeying with IPv6, I discovered that globally routable addresses are what it says on the tin, so hiding behind a network appliance is not longer viable for me. An nmap scan showed the port 3306 was hanging out for all to see but I couldn't figure out how to close it off. The

maybe not truly freebsd related

2012-05-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
by possibly someone can help. I want to use FreeBSD as timeshared server with some amount of X terminal (basically for free with old computers, netboot, running just Xorg -query and xdm on server). There is usable software that have the commonly required uselessness (called desktop

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/05/2012 14:49, Paul Beard wrote: Monkeying with IPv6, I discovered that globally routable addresses are what it says on the tin, so hiding behind a network appliance is not longer viable for me. An nmap scan showed the port 3306 was hanging out for all to see but I couldn't figure out

Re: maybe not truly freebsd related

2012-05-08 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue May 8 09:31:02 2012 Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 16:28:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: maybe not truly freebsd related by possibly someone can help. I want to use

Re: maybe not truly freebsd related

2012-05-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
But yet - what graphical mail program can you recommend that have such simple basic functionality of local mail support in Maildir format? Did you try googling for 'X mail client FreeBSD'? A mere 14+ million hits. true. and none usable. all outdated etc. did YOU checked them before

synproxy definition in pfctl -si

2012-05-08 Thread krad
Hi, I am looking to track the number of syn packets coming into a system, as the box in question has pf running and using the synproxy attribute on tcp services, I hope to be able to use the synproxy field in pfctl -si. However I cant find a definitive definition of the variable, Ive looking in

Re: maybe not truly freebsd related

2012-05-08 Thread Robert Bonomi
From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Subject: Re: maybe not truly freebsd related But yet - what graphical mail program can you recommend that have such simple basic functionality of local mail support in Maildir format? Did you try googling for 'X mail client FreeBSD'?

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/05/08 06:49:01 -0700 Paul Beard paulbe...@gmail.com = To FreeBSD-questions : PB Monkeying with IPv6, I discovered that globally routable addresses are what it says on the tin, so hiding behind a network appliance is not longer viable for me. An nmap scan showed the port 3306 was

Re: USA Anonymous CVS

2012-05-08 Thread Ted Sun
I have similar issue earlier today. Then I make it by login first and checkout next. cvs -d :pserver:anon...@anoncvs.tw.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs login cvs co src -rRELENG_8_3_0_RELEASE Best regards, Ted -- View this message in context:

Video not view-able

2012-05-08 Thread Carmel
I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fbsrc=spcomm_ref=false There is a video there that displays perfectly in MS Windows in

Re: Video not view-able

2012-05-08 Thread Craig Butler
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 15:09 -0400, Carmel wrote: I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fbsrc=spcomm_ref=false There is a

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk about moving from the usual BSD-ish /var/db/mysql/my.cnf to /usr/local/etc/my.cnf (no doubt under some

Re: Video not view-able

2012-05-08 Thread RW
On Tue, 8 May 2012 15:09:26 -0400 Carmel wrote: I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fbsrc=spcomm_ref=false There is a

Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Clarke
I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable GIMP plugin support in graphics/xsane Is there any way of forcing portmaster to

Re: Video not view-able

2012-05-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
On 08/05/2012 20:09, Carmel wrote: I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fbsrc=spcomm_ref=false There is a video there that

Re: Video not view-able

2012-05-08 Thread Carmel
On Tue, 8 May 2012 21:14:23 +0100 RW articulated: On Tue, 8 May 2012 15:09:26 -0400 Carmel wrote: I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example:

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/05/2012 20:55, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk about moving from the usual BSD-ish /var/db/mysql/my.cnf to

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Andre Goree
On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:55:36 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk about moving from the usual

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 9:33:59 PM +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable

Re: securing MySQL: easiest/best ways?

2012-05-08 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 08 May 2012 21:51:49 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: On 08/05/2012 20:55, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2012 15:34:02 +0100 Matthew Seaman articulated: Sounds almost as if the my.cnf you've been editing is not the my.cnf that your mysql instance is using. IIRC there was some talk

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: Would this work for you?  From the manpage:      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always compiled instead of being installed from packages the PT_NO_INSTALL_PACKAGE vari- able can be defined in the make(1) environment, perhaps

Re: Video not view-able

2012-05-08 Thread RW
On Tue, 8 May 2012 16:51:06 -0400 Carmel wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2012 21:14:23 +0100 RW articulated: It's a bit anecdotal, but I've had fewer problems with flash video since upgrading to modern hardware a year ago. Define modern hardware. The Windows machine is actually older then the

Re: maybe not truly freebsd related

2012-05-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 May 2012 16:28:08 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: But yet - what graphical mail program can you recommend that have such simple basic functionality of local mail support in Maildir format? I'm using Sylpheed here. It requires Gtk 2 (which should be fine when you're using Gnome

error: libm.so.4 needed by libspeex may conflict w libm.so.5

2012-05-08 Thread David Banning
while attempting to build and install mplayer under FreeBSD Release 8.2 I get the error; /usr/local/bin/ld: warning: libm.so.4, needed by /usr/local/lib/libspeex.so, may conflict with libm.so.5 /usr/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined reference to `XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent'

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 10:51:16 PM +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: Would this work for you?  From the manpage:      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always compiled instead of being installed from packages

Re: error: libm.so.4 needed by libspeex may conflict w libm.so.5

2012-05-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 May 2012 21:04:18 -0400, David Banning wrote: If it's libspeex / libm.so.4 that is causing the error (thats what it looks like to me) I wonder how to find out what libspeex is being used for - or for that matter what libm.so.4 is needed for. I see you start exploring the joy of