Re: Problem with creating home directories when creating users using pw under 5.2.1 Release i386

2004-11-25 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 03:37:24PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: > pw useradd testusr -g testgrp -s /bin/sh > No home directory gets created Give pw the -m option to instruct it to mkdir the home directory. - D. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://list

Re: /bin/rm: Argument list too long.

2004-11-19 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Mipam wrote: > I tried to delete all files from a dir, however I got this message: > /bin/rm: Argument list too long. You probably did "rm *", and * expanded to too many files. One way is to simply remove the directory completely (rm -r /foo/bar), but thi

Re: Transferring system to a new hard drive

2004-11-05 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:13:25AM -0600, CHris Rich wrote: > My original install of FreeBSD is on a 30 gig hard drive, I want to > move it to an 80 gig I now have, but i don't want to have to reinstall > everything since I've spent hours waiting for some ports to install. > [...] > If I do move it

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-25 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:32:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Because Juniper, for example [...] > > You do realize, don't you, that the interesting part of a Juniper > is the microcode in their DSP routing engine. FreeBSD is only used > to control the routing engine in a Juniper router,

Re: GPL vs BSD Licence

2004-10-25 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:44:36AM +0200, Philipp Huber wrote: > > But equally important is the ability to join back forks, when/if some > > group finds the right solution to a problem. And that's where the > > GPL comes in: you can really think of the whole license as nothing > > more than a re

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-11 Thread Dennis Koegel
On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 04:45:26PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote: > Isn't it hard (and sort of more insecure) to use the keys? Why that? Start an agent together with your login session, have it load the key(s) (after you've entered the holy passphrase(s), of course) and you're set to go. Simply 'ssh f

Re: Protecting SSH from brute force attacks

2004-10-08 Thread Dennis Koegel
Hi, On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 03:15:25PM -0700, Luke wrote: > There are several script kiddies out there hitting my SSH server every > day. Sometimes they attempt to brute-force their way in trying new > logins every second or so for hours at a time. Given enough time, I fear > they will eventuall