Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:49:34 +1300 Richard Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris - Thanks for the advice and sorry for the delay. I've taken a look in /usr/ports/net/cvsupit but pkg-plist does not exist That's quite possibly why it failed to install in the first place :) so given all the other factors I think I will conclude that things are probably OK. Yes. I suppose one day I will crack this updating of FreeBSD machines. To date I have been using FreeBSD for three years and I have two different experiences (A) a machine I installed 3.x on three years ago have never touched since and it runs beautifully (still I worry about security holes), everything I could ask for. (B) two other machines I have installed 4.x on in the last 6 months (both, to some degree 'play' machines). On both have attempted to update sources etc via CVSUP and have never had anything but grief/pain/boredom. I'm sure there are people out there who do this all the time and it all works but I'm not one of them ! Maybe one day ! Maybe I got lucky, but I never had many great problems doing it... last time I did it, it went something like: - install cvsup-without-gui from package on CD using /stand/sysinstall - copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/src-supfile to /etc/cvsup/src-supfile - edit /etc/cvsup/src-supfile so that it reads like: *default host=cvsup5.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_4 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all - do similarly for ports-supfile and doc-supfile - edit /etc/make.conf like: SUP_UPDATE= yes SUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 SUPFILE=/etc/cvsup/src-supfile PORTSSUPFILE= /etc/cvsup/ports-supfile DOCSUPFILE= /etc/cvsup/doc-supfile - cd into /usr/src - run 'make update' - and that's all! thanks again for your advice. regards richard. No problem. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to list all packages in a given category?
Hi all, Apologies in advance if this is a stupid question, but I couldn't find anything relevant in the man pages or with Google: How can I list all the packages I have installed in a certain category? I'm thinking it should be something like 'pkg_info -C games', but AFAICT pkg_info doesn't have any such option like that. TIA, -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:31:52 -0600 Pratt, Benjamin E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello - I'm fairly new to FreeBSD and was wondering if there are any other programs out there for secure deletion. I know that you can use the -P flag with rm to overwrite files but you can't specify the iterations of overwriting. What I'm looking for is something similar to (or exactly like) shred for Linux. Is it out there?? Thanks, Ben Hi, The only programs I've seen like what you describe are 'obliterate' and 'srm'. /usr/ports/sysutils/obliterate /usr/ports/security/srm I'm not sure either of them does exactly what you want (specifying how many times to overwrite the file,) but they may be worth checking out. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:55:07 -0600 Pratt, Benjamin E. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris - It doesn't look like they do quite what I'd like. Here's the man page for shred (http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?shred+1). Shred is used in a shell script called Autoclave (http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/) to securely wipe a hard drive before getting rid of it. I've attached the autoclave.sh script (as long as attachments are allowed, ask me for it if you don't get the attachment). Ben Ben, My bad! Shred *does* indeed exist on FreeBSD; it's part of /usr/ports/sysutils/fileutils and it's installed as 'gshred' (because all the fileutils are prefixed with a 'g' to avoid collisions with BSD versions of the same tools.) You should be able to install the fileutils port, create a symbolic link from 'shred' to 'gshred', and run the autoclave script. HTH, -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Secure Deletion (Like shred for Linux)??
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:17:02 -0800 Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] You should be able to install the fileutils port, create a symbolic link from 'shred' to 'gshred', and run the autoclave script. OK, looking more closely at the script, that might not be possible either, since it looks like it rebuilds shred from its source (?) But you might be able to get around this by replacing all occurances of 'shred' with 'gshred' in the script, or modifying the fileutils port so that 'shred' is installed as 'shred', not 'gshred', or something... -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: comparison of files
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:31:22 -0500 (EST) Brent Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have been trying to write a shell script that will compare 2 files and generate a 3rd. i have a list of abusive IP's generated by our router. I want to compare it against a list of known abuse IPs ..and have it create a file of repeat offenders. ive tired to use comm to compare file1 against file2 doing something like comm -12i file1 file2 file3 however it doesnt seem to workany suggestions ? Are file1 and file2 sorted? -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: comparison of files
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:38:15 -0500 (EST) Brent Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes sorted in numerical order by IP -- Brent Bailey CCNA Bmyster LLC Computer Networking and Webhosting Network Engineer, Webmaster, President http://www.bmyster.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] 207-247-8330 On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:31:22 -0500 (EST) Brent Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have been trying to write a shell script that will compare 2 files and generate a 3rd. i have a list of abusive IP's generated by our router. I want to compare it against a list of known abuse IPs ..and have it create a file of repeat offenders. ive tired to use comm to compare file1 against file2 doing something like comm -12i file1 file2 file3 however it doesnt seem to workany suggestions ? Are file1 and file2 sorted? -Chris Sorry, it doesnt seem to work isn't a lot to go on. What output did you expect, and what output did you actually get? Have you tried different options to 'comm'? If the list contains only numeric IP addresses, the '-i' option isn't going to do you much good, for example. Have you tried 'diff file1 file2'? Do you get the output that seems reasonable from that? -Chris P.S. please keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC'ed, and please don't top-post. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:06:55 -0500 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz This points to the compressed file which contains the complete ports tree. you mis-understood my question, I do not say I was trying to find the single compressed file of the complete ports tree. Here is my question again When I use cvsup to download the ports config files (by category), it does not display the directory path it's using on the server. How can I find the directory path cvsup defaults to using? The implied meaning here is what is the cvsup program using for an directory path? How can I find out what it is? fbsd_user, I don't think you can discover that information in the general case, just like you can't discover what directory a web server is serving its files from. However, in FreeBSD's case, the configuration files for cvsupd, as it is run on FreeBSD servers, is available via cvsup, according to: http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#serversample You might be able to grab the FreeBSD project's config files for cvsupd using that, and extract from those files the information you're interested in. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why do I need sendmail
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:15:49 -0800 Cybertime Hostmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to note in Matthew's reply: that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. Two words at the end, or equivalent. You can run Courier, Exim, Mini Sendmail, Nullmailer, Postfix, Qmail, ZMailer, so on and so forth. All have advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I use Postfix, but that is because for my needs it is better. If you have trouble reducing sendmail down to your needs, look at the documentation on the others. One of them might suit you better. Your mileage may vary, so on and so forth. FWIW, you can also cause periodic(8) to log to a file instead of sending mail, by adding lines like the following to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output=/var/log/dialy.log weekly_output=/var/log/weekly.log monthly_output=/var/log/monthly.log Not sure if this eliminates the need for a local mailer, but it's sure to be the first step down that road. I can't think of anything else that sends automated e-mails, offhand, but whatever does can probably be configured to write its output to a file instead, in a similar way. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: grep, netstat, and bridging
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 08:19:53 -0800 (PST) Dave McCammon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I this a feature, bug, or just some logical thing that grep does( or perhaps netstat)? Scenario: IP addresses comp1=xx.xx.xx.1 comp2=xx.xx.xx.6 comp3=xx.xx.xx.12 comp1 and comp3 run FBSD 4.9 stable comp2 runs FBSD 5.1-RELEASE comp1 is a bridging firewall using ipfw A: comp2# netstat -n |grep xx.xx.xx.1 tcp4 0 0 xx.xx.xx.6.54953 xx.xx.xx.12.3551 TIME_WAIT tcp4 0 0 xx.xx.xx.6.54952 xx.xx.xx.12.3551 TIME_WAIT tcp4 0 0 xx.xx.xx.6.22xx.xx.xx.1.1233 ESTABLISHED B: comp2# netstat -n |grep xx.xx.xx.1. tcp4 0 0 xx.xx.xx.6.54954 xx.xx.xx.12.3551 TIME_WAIT tcp4 0 0 xx.xx.xx.6.54953 xx.xx.xx.12.3551 TIME_WAIT tcp4 0 0 xx.xx.xx.6.22xx.xx.xx.1.1233 ESTABLISHED C: comp2# netstat -n |grep xx.xx.xx.12 tcp4 0 0 xx.xx.xx.6.54957 xx.xx.xx.12.3551 TIME_WAIT tcp4 0 0 xx.xx.xx.6.54956 xx.xx.xx.12.3551 TIME_WAIT Actually..I see the same output on a cygwin machine behind the comp1 firewall. From the grep(1) man page: The period . matches any single character. Try fgrep(1) (or grep -F) instead and see if that helps? -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Does FreeBSD allow one to use the Floppy Drive on a SunBlade 100 ?
-Original Message- I am looking for a replacement OS that I can put on my SunBlade 100. Currently I am using Solaris 9. I have looked at Debian and OpenBSD and both OS's cannot use the floppy drive. I have Googled and I know that FreeBSD 4.9 cannot utilize the floppy drive as well as (I think) 5.0. Does 5.1 change this ? TIA Greg On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:05:40 -0500 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Googled and I know that FreeBSD 4.9 cannot utilize the floppy drive as well. You are complete wrong. I have been using FBSD since 4.2 and the floppy has been working for me. According to http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/hardware-sparc64.html, 1.44 Mbyte floppy drives are not supported. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-sparc64.html doesn't say anything about floppy drives that I could find, but it says that Sun Blade 100 is Fully Supported. I suppose can infer from that that floppy drive support on the Sun Blade 100 made it in between 5.0 and 5.1. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where Live CD ISO image?
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:21:53 + (GMT) Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I download a Live CD ISO? The only place I was able to find was http://www.freesbie.org, but that's basically some scripts on how to do an ISO from one's system. Was hopping to find something already made. Why not the images on this page?: http://www.freesbie.org/?section=ISO-en -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where Live CD ISO image?
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:35:54 -0800 Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:21:53 + (GMT) Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where can I download a Live CD ISO? The only place I was able to find was http://www.freesbie.org, but that's basically some scripts on how to do an ISO from one's system. Was hopping to find something already made. Why not the images on this page?: http://www.freesbie.org/?section=ISO-en Sorry, scratch that - apparently those links are broken. CC'ing this to the FreeSBIE mailing list in the hopes that they can be fixed :) -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone?
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:59:29 +1100 Gautam Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:53:52AM +, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, As root I can mount and read the CD fine.., checking for non-root user: exit ~ $ mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted ~ $ Attempting to mount to mount-point in user home dir: ~ $ cd ~ ~ $ pwd /home/stacey ~ $ ls -ltra cdrom total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 stacey stacey 512 Jan 3 23:50 ./ drwxr-xr-x 31 stacey stacey 2560 Jan 3 23:50 ../ ~ $ mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted ~ $ chmod +s /sbin/umount /sbin/mount works fine for me (without any other changes necessary). Don't know if it's the recommended procedure though. Gautam I worked around this a different way: I chown'd /dev/acd0c to the uid of the user. Probably *not* the recommended procedure :) -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS resources or toaster
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:30:41 -0500 Marius Kirschner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the task to set up a two DNS servers for my company, and while I have administered their DNS servers using BIND for a number of years I have never set them up from scratch. I have 2 boxes where FreeBSD 5.1 will be installed, and, to be honest, I'm not sure whether to use BIND or DJBDNS of which I've heard much good. Obviously either one will do the job.I guess it's just a matter of preferences..but I'm very tempted to go with DJBDNS this time. Anyway, anybody know of a good web page/site with some how-to for FreeBSD and DJBDNS? Thanks, ---Marius This one was helpful for my (admittedly modest) DNS needs, it might be a good place to start: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200210/ezdjbdns.html -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
