Re: System Intrustion Detection

2006-05-09 Thread Ean Kingston
M, There are several choices you can make to deal with this. First, be sure your root password is 'strong'. Generally 'strong' means that it is a combination of upper case, lower case, and numbers with a decent lenght. I personally go with at least 12 characters and throw in some punctuation as

Re: How to Stop Bruit Force ssh Attempts?

2006-04-12 Thread Ean Kingston
though. -Jonathan -- Ean Kingston, BSc, CISSP, ARO Computer Security and Privacy Consulting PGP KeyID: CBC5D6BB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Firefox with mplayer-plugin won't play

2006-04-07 Thread Ean Kingston
I can't seam to get mplayerplug-in to work with firefox. The plugin appears to load fine. The video box shows up in the browser, the media appears to download (buffering) and then the thing stops (stopped displayed). When I tell it to play it just goes back to stopped. Oddly, if I use mplayer

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-06 Thread Ean Kingston
and then a kldload ipfw.ko should do it, but I don't want to risk doing something incorrect while I am trying to debug my current problem. On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: You neglected to include the 'add' in your first fwcmd. You may want to try something simple to start with. I haven't

Re: Using Macromedia flash with native firefox

2006-04-06 Thread Ean Kingston
.freebsd-questions Look at how I had to change MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH (towards the end). Perhaps this will do the trick for you too. Good luck. Chandan Ean Kingston wrote: I've been trying to get Macromedia Flash 6 (linux-flashplayer6) to work with native firefox (1.5) on FreeBSD 6.0 and running

Using Macromedia flash with native firefox

2006-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
-flashplugin6/libflashplayer.so libpthread.so.0 - /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash6.so So, how do I get this to work without the messy file copy? -- Ean Kingston, BSc, CISSP, ARO ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: ipfw and ssh

2006-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston, BSc, CISSP, ARO ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: top and ps fail on 6.0-BETA5

2005-09-23 Thread Ean Kingston
recompile lib/libpmc(3) and usr.sbin/{pmcstat,pmccontrol} I've googled the lists but have found nothing on this. I must be doing something wrong. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system

Re: Challenge: LTO2 autoloader with freebsd?!

2005-09-22 Thread Ean Kingston
in the drive is much better and Amanda works well with those. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly

Re: Turning PC speaker on and off

2005-09-20 Thread Ean Kingston
to change cases. I think it cost me all of 25 cents for a switch at the electronics store. Thanks, Rem -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me

Looking for media system reccomendations

2005-09-20 Thread Ean Kingston
be good hardware for this project and from what I can tell the hardware list is a bit vague on the details of exactly what mini-itx boards work well with freebsd. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system

Re: (no subject)

2005-09-19 Thread Ean Kingston
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Re: FreeBSD 5.4 Custom CD making...

2005-09-16 Thread Ean Kingston
@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please

Re: setting a network printer

2005-08-29 Thread Ean Kingston
. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to use Bochs?

2005-08-11 Thread Ean Kingston
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free

Re: Obtaining portsmanager meta package for alternate OS

2005-07-15 Thread Ean Kingston
a way to keep your ports tree current and a way to get the current distfiles. If you can do these two things somehow then just drop the current distfiles into /usr/ports/distfiles and update your ports tree and portmanager should run OK. -Mike -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL

Re: FreeBSD 5.x raid...

2005-07-15 Thread Ean Kingston
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Re: DHCP Server Offline.

2005-07-15 Thread Ean Kingston
at @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Ean Kingston
that it causes the abnormality as above(?). I have checked KCalc on Mandrake Linux 10.1 (different version of KDE) and it gives correct result. I just checked it on FreeBSD 5.4 and it gives the correct answer. KCalc 1.8 compiled from port. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL

Re: Whats up with KCalc?

2005-07-12 Thread Ean Kingston
On July 12, 2005 10:23 am, Igor Robul wrote: Ean Kingston wrote: I just checked it on FreeBSD 5.4 and it gives the correct answer. KCalc 1.8 compiled from port. 5.4-RELEASE? or 5-STABLE? on 5-STABLE with KCalc 1.8.1 (KDE 3.4.1) it gives correct results up to 44+1 than it gives wrong

Re: adding unused disk space for FreeBSD

2005-07-09 Thread Ean Kingston
(to change type to FreeBSD)-W(to save the changes)... Label-choose the disk and start creating partitions-be sure to make the new slices for newfs -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system

Re: adding unused disk space for FreeBSD

2005-07-09 Thread Ean Kingston
. Carlo. -- Original-Nachricht -- From: Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:52:20 -0400 Subject: Re: adding unused disk space for FreeBSD On July 9, 2005 09:04 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a FreeBSD slice (/dev/ad4s3

Re: postfix vs. qmail?

2005-06-29 Thread Ean Kingston
on. You have just opened up a big can of worms (similar to the Linux vs BSD debate). Go with what you want. Like the others I prefer Postfix (but I've never used Qmail so I can't really help you). -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking

Re: Using unix mail with maildir format

2005-06-29 Thread Ean Kingston
a shortcut to have It read maildir format… There is no shortcut. You would have to modify it yourself. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me

Re: Software RAID-1 on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-29 Thread Ean Kingston
trying to use RAID with this configuration ? Not with gmirror. Dunno about ccd. Last time I tried ccd it would work fine on dissimilar drives so long as the partitions (not slices) that are used for the mirroring were exactly the same size. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org

Re: firewall on freebsd

2005-06-24 Thread Ean Kingston
filtering language. I have not found a sufficiently good technical reason for choosing one over the other. For anyone who wants to start the in-kernel vs user-land NAT argument, I've already been through it and there are valid arguments for both sides. So, I won't get into it again. -- Ean Kingston

Re: FreeBSD L2TP client

2005-06-22 Thread Ean Kingston
Internet Access since 1994 [EMAIL PROTECTED], (http://www.tancsa.com) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail

Re: Xorg installation fails

2005-06-22 Thread Ean Kingston
... Best regards, Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http

Re: cloning with nfs?

2005-06-22 Thread Ean Kingston
copies of the same message delivered. Thanks for any advice. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly

Re: Using FreeBSD to examine/work on a Solaris disk

2005-06-22 Thread Ean Kingston
that this is about the level of a semester project for an undergraduate programmer... -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly

Re: 4.x - 5.x

2005-06-20 Thread Ean Kingston
. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: any ipf wizards out there?

2005-06-20 Thread Ean Kingston
in please? Probably not without more detail. If you provided your rules someone might be able to help you debug them a bit. A description of your network would probably help too. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you

Re: Still looking for w finger who commnds don't give info.

2005-06-20 Thread Ean Kingston
back sessreg if you wanted X logins to be recorded as well? -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly

Re: Still looking for w finger who commnds don't give info.

2005-06-20 Thread Ean Kingston
to the mailing list. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ean Kingston Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:52 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Still looking for w finger who commnds don't give info. On June 20, 2005 12

Re: FreeBSD/UNIX backups to DVD+RW

2005-06-17 Thread Ean Kingston
/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly

Re: df: root partition at 108% capacity! Can't find why...

2005-06-16 Thread Ean Kingston
), uid 0 on /: file system full pid 8967 (cp), uid 0 on /: file system full -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly

Re: Remote server warnings

2005-06-16 Thread Ean Kingston
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Re: Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Ean Kingston
/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly

Re: Postfix on BSD

2005-06-16 Thread Ean Kingston
On June 16, 2005 12:06 pm, Bart Silverstrim wrote: On Jun 16, 2005, at 12:00 PM, Ean Kingston wrote: On June 16, 2005 11:54 am, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Probably off-topic, but it's a sysadmin question that maybe someone on the list could send a quick blurb answer about :-/ I'm trying

Re: Outsourcing a modem pool for dialup? Any advice?

2005-06-09 Thread Ean Kingston
/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean

Re: help! Strange traffic

2005-06-09 Thread Ean Kingston
detailed sniffing of the traffic to see exactly what that http session is doing. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ I am currently looking for work. If you need competent system/network administration please feel free to contact me directly

kernel panic with unmount: dangling vnode on boot

2005-06-01 Thread Ean Kingston
Hi all, I just updated my 5.3 system to 5.4p1 from source and ran into a serious problem. During boot, when the filesystems are being mounted, the system goes into a kernel panic and reports panic unmount: dangling vnode it then reboots. I have found PR 79665 which appears to be related. I

Re: mounting /tmp with noexec

2005-04-08 Thread Ean Kingston
and async. Sometimes after a system crash I have to rebuild /tmp because of the async but the systems just don't crash that often. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org

Re: gvinum - gmirror

2005-04-08 Thread Ean Kingston
/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: (LONG) ATA Benchmark: 5.x Reads Slower than Writes

2005-04-08 Thread Ean Kingston
if something fishy is going on. Suggestions? Ideas? I'm fresh out, at the moment. My suspicion is that something in 5.x is out-of-tune!? Thanks a lot. Sincerely, -danny -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org

Re: suspending login

2005-04-07 Thread Ean Kingston
Ean Kingston wrote: If you change the password entry then, when you want to enable the user again, the user has to enter a new password. This way, the user keeps his/her old password. Note, the question asked for suspend, not remove. I read suspend as implying that the account may be used

Re: suspending login

2005-04-06 Thread Ean Kingston
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 18:50 -0400, Ean Kingston wrote: On April 5, 2005 06:42 pm, Bob Ababurko wrote: Hello all- I am trying to figure out how to suspend a login for a user. Do I have to do this with password aging or is there an easier(read brute force) way to disallow a user from

Re: Domainname

2005-04-06 Thread Ean Kingston
is NIS/YP, which isn't my problem. Any hints? Have a look at /etc/rc.conf (the hostname setting). -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: vinum trouble on 5.3-Stable

2005-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
to upgrade my main server to 5.x. Now that I got a good handle (I think on bind 9). -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: suspending login

2005-04-05 Thread Ean Kingston
and the home directory to /nonexistant in your auth system. The latter is especially needed if you allow ssh for remote login since the public-key authentication mechanisms sometimes bypass the normal login restrictions. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org

Re: *attaching* a file to /usr/bin/mail message

2005-04-04 Thread Ean Kingston
/to/file [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID

Re: Outgoing port 113 connections

2005-04-04 Thread Ean Kingston
#Authentication Service auth113/udpident tap#Authentication Service You may also try sockstat, netstat, and tcpdump. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org

Re: mksnap_ffs woes

2005-04-01 Thread Ean Kingston
before mine; just without any RAID and/or backup facility. These data are vital to that business. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Firewall questions

2005-04-01 Thread Ean Kingston
. Wow, I stand corrected. The last time I talked to Darren (years ago) he said IPFilter would never run on Linux. I guess the Linux folks fixed whatever was vexing him about their architecture. On Mar 23, 2005 1:03 PM, Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been looking for a great firewall

Re: ATAPI/CAM not working.

2005-03-28 Thread Ean Kingston
could be wrong here? What does 'camcontrol devlist' show? And, of course, the obligatory silly questions: 1 Did you build your new kernel? 2 Did you install your new kernel? 3 Are you sure you installed your new kernel (ie uname -a show right info)? -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org

Re: Vinum Problem

2005-03-28 Thread Ean Kingston
On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 16:59, Ean Kingston wrote: On March 27, 2005 10:35 am, Robert Slade wrote: Hi, I have managed to setup a vinum volume using 2 striped disks, the volume is created and I can do newfs on it and mount it. However, when I set start_vinum=YES in rc.conf, vinum

Re: Vinum Problem

2005-03-27 Thread Ean Kingston
. Althought this is documented, it is not what I would call 'well documented' yet. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: mount error.

2005-03-24 Thread Ean Kingston
. Anybody know what's causing this and how to get past this? double check to make sure your /etc/fstab is configured correctly. Make sure that the device (/dev/*) and the mount point (*/usr) actually exist before the filesystem gets mounted. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org

Re: dual-boot troubles; /usr won't mount

2005-03-23 Thread Ean Kingston
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Acroread7

2005-03-23 Thread Ean Kingston
system. You may need to do a make clean or a make distclean in the port directory after doing a cvsup. I've found that some ports don't realize that things have changed after a cvsup and so continue to try and build with half built old code. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP

Re: Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread Ean Kingston
recomple (it's explained in the handbook and isn't nearly as scary as it sounds). All are about a complicated to configure/manage. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org

RE: Firewall questions

2005-03-23 Thread Ean Kingston
to check your sources again. My Linksys hardware firewalls do a good job of providing statefull packet inspection. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Ean Kingston
. Works like a charm. I use RealVNC all the time. Both ways. I've even used it through SSH port forwarding. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Accessing Windows XP Desktop (Home Edition) remotely

2005-03-22 Thread Ean Kingston
implementation (both client and server) for Win32 that runs on XP. I know the cygwin implementation works (but the original poster may not want that much added to the XP system). http://www.cygwin.com/ and http://www.openssh.org/ -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID

How do I get growfs to work on a gvinum mirror?

2005-03-21 Thread Ean Kingston
GB 12 subdisks: ... S export.p1.s0 State: up D: bSize: 16 GB S export.p0.s0 State: up D: aSize: 16 GB S export.p0.s1 State: up D: aSize: 16 GB S export.p1.s1 State: up D: bSize: 16 GB -- Ean

[OT] Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Ean Kingston
. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org

FreeBSD 5.3 gvinum and growfs

2005-03-18 Thread Ean Kingston
Hi, How do I make growfs actually grow a gvinum disk on FreeBSD 5.3? I've read the man pages, the Handbook, and done some searching with no luck. To help understand what I'm trying to accomplish here, I've created a filesystem that mounts to /export on a gvinum volume. The volume is configured

Re: firefox share profile in freebsd and windows!

2005-03-15 Thread Ean Kingston
Ean Kingston said the following on 03/15/05 11:01: On March 14, 2005 08:55 pm, heccj wrote: Ean Kingston said the following on 03/15/05 02:43: Perhaps this is not proper site to place this question,but i just meet this problem! I want to share my firefox 1.0.1 profile in windows xp

Re: The options when you install a port!

2005-03-14 Thread Ean Kingston
specific wishes # and preferences. # You can activate a knob by typing something like # make -DKNOB or make KNOB=yes instead of just make # It then goes on to explain what all the 'KNOB's are. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http

Re: firefox share profile in freebsd and windows!

2005-03-14 Thread Ean Kingston
the extensions directories separate while keeping the rest of the preferences the same it should work. At the worst, you could export your bookmarks from one and import them into the other. Then you would just have to go through the preferences and make sure the settings are the same otherwise. -- Ean

Re: firefox share profile in freebsd and windows!

2005-03-14 Thread Ean Kingston
On March 14, 2005 08:55 pm, heccj wrote: Ean Kingston said the following on 03/15/05 02:43: Perhaps this is not proper site to place this question,but i just meet this problem! I want to share my firefox 1.0.1 profile in windows xp and freebsd 5.3,i can run with:firefox -safe-mode

Re: copying cron files between computers

2005-03-11 Thread Ean Kingston
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Re: WebDAV on Freebsd

2005-03-10 Thread Ean Kingston
Virtual Server: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#virtualhost Dav module for Apache: http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/ FreeBSD Jail: http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http

Re: Configuring xdm

2005-03-09 Thread Ean Kingston
don't work post a copy of your .xsession and .xsession-errors and I'll have a look. Also, if you have fiddled with any of the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm post those a well. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org

Re: feedback on a good DNS server

2005-03-09 Thread Ean Kingston
, YMMV. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Size of FreeBSD

2005-03-08 Thread Ean Kingston
had a 4.x system running as a firewall on a single 540MB hard drive. It included proxies for e-mail, http, and dns (inbound and outbound) as well as local logging of ipfw and natd. I stripped the base OS down to about 80MB on that system. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Ean Kingston
'.xsession'. Put 'exec /usr/local/bin/startkde' at the top of that that file and save it. Then, log out and log back in again. That got the job done. Now the fun part is figuring out what else you can do . That is where a lot of the other advice is going to come in handy. -- Ean Kingston E

Re: gmirror / gstripe

2005-03-06 Thread Ean Kingston
On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 04:55 PM, John Pettitt wrote: I'm considering making a raid0+1 array out of 4 x 250GB USB drives using gmirror and gstripe on a FreeBSD 5.3 box. Questions: 1) Has anybody done this? What should I watch our for? I haven't done this on FreeBSD or with USB drives (but

Re: CGI script executing and Apache help (2nd try important)

2005-03-06 Thread Ean Kingston
On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 05:19 PM, Shawn B wrote: I am running FreeBSD-4.8 with Apache 1.3 installed. I changed the htdocs directory in httpd.conf to /home/user1/public_html/ and I added a /cgi-bin/ in the same user directory. Scripts will not execute from the cgi-bin, as the scripts contents

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Kingston
with the mv command. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org PGP KeyID: 1024D/CBC5D6BB URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: natd, ipfw problem

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Kingston
It's been a while but I'll see if I can help out. On Friday, March 4, 2005, at 06:52 PM, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! Tell me if I should post this otherwhere. Given two network cards sis0 (external) and vr0 (internal) I'm trying to give my girlfriend access to the web. Her ip is 192.168.0.2,

Re: questions on file formats

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Kingston
On Friday, March 4, 2005, at 07:35 PM, Dave Pesner wrote: Does FreeBSD support the .DMG file format? I need to know this because I'm looking for a free alternative for an OS X emulator and a liscensed copy of OS X(isn't open source software great) for my next computer. If BSD does support OS X

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Ean Kingston
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Re: apachectl startssl at boot time ?

2005-03-03 Thread Ean Kingston
-eq 1 ]; then echo $0 $ARG: httpd (pid $PID) already running continue fi if $HTTPD -DSSL; then echo $0 $ARG: httpd started So, if you do what I said above, your web server will start up with ssl support. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Ean Kingston
to development tools? http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5WP031535U.html How current is this? The article appears to be dated 2001. Are there still buffer-overflow issues with /proc? If you use securelevels you can a sigificantly improve security. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org

Re: gvinum question

2005-03-01 Thread Ean Kingston
, I'm at a loss... Any suggestions? Would vinum detach work? I know gvinum will work with disks configured using vinum so maybe the vinum command will detach things properly. That is good to know. Now I need to figure out how to get my 5.3 system to use vinum again instead of gvinum. -- Ean

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Ean Kingston
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Re: recovering root password, was Help!Help!Help!

2005-03-01 Thread Ean Kingston
On Tuesday, March 1, 2005, at 09:50 PM, Replies wrote: Hi, I have just spent over the last two years developing a unique classified ads service which was online and had Free BSD as the security on it. We ended up with a very aggressive and belligerent programmer who left us but left us some

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Raid

2005-02-27 Thread Ean Kingston
setting up a seconds FreeBSD partition on each of your two new disks so that you can fiddle with RAID and figure out how to recover from a disk failure. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Need IMAP Server Selection Advice

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Kingston
software I use; I just need to be able to hit it for mail via IMAP with Thunderbird or Mozilla. IMAP-UW is the easiest. It is not the most robust or feature rich. Thanks in advance! Best Regards, Jmaes -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org

Re: How can I start a GUI application through SSH

2005-02-21 Thread Ean Kingston
basics. Why do you want to do this anyway? -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: webdav and mozilla calendar

2005-02-19 Thread Ean Kingston
still have the DAV server running so I could install mozilla and test it out again if you need some more help. Ean Kingston wrote: On February 18, 2005 08:45 pm, synrat wrote: has anyone been able to get mozilla calendar publishing to work with webdav/apache2 ( freebsd 5.3 ) I got

Re: Deinstalling perl module installed using CPAN

2005-02-18 Thread Ean Kingston
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Re: webdav and mozilla calendar

2005-02-18 Thread Ean Kingston
On February 18, 2005 08:45 pm, synrat wrote: has anyone been able to get mozilla calendar publishing to work with webdav/apache2 ( freebsd 5.3 ) I got it to work with Webdav/apach1.3 but haven't tried 2. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org

Re: Apache modules

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
installed? What can I do? Thank you in advance. I found that if you build the PHP port after installing apache+mod_ssl, it will happily use the apache that is already installed and not require that apache be built. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org URL: http://www.hedron.org

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
). I will also have moderate network i/o on the pci bus (obviously). -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: vinum vs. DPT smartcacheIV raid

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:58:17AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: I have a box with DPT PM2044 SmartCacheIV UW-SCSI PCI cards which can do RAID-5 in hardware, but I'd have to use the DOS volume manager to set up the array. I have heard reports that vinum woudl be faster than using

Re: moving files from bad sectors

2005-02-16 Thread Ean Kingston
, are there any tools that I can use with fsck that would mark the sector as bad so its not reused? -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean_AT_hedron_DOT_org URL: http://www.hedron.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Diskless NFS mounts weirdness

2005-02-15 Thread Ean Kingston
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Re: X on a server Re: Freebsd vs. linux

2005-02-13 Thread Ean Kingston
desktop (set to update once a minute. It lets me keep an eye on the general health of the servers during the day. Asside from that I haven't found a truely useful GUI app for servers. -- Ean Kingston E-Mail: ean AT hedron DOT org URL: http://www.hedron.org

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