Re: chrooting SSH users into their home directories

2005-09-02 Thread Ed Stover
On Fri, September 2, 2005 2:50 pm, Brian Kaczynski wrote: > I was wondering how you could lock a user into their home with chroot > when using SSH, similar to what the /etc/ftpchroot file does for FTP > users. The ssh server is sshd. > ___ > freebsd-quest

Re: mouse wheel problem

2005-09-01 Thread Ed Stover
On Thu, September 1, 2005 10:38 am, Dave McCammon wrote: > > > --- Alejandro Pulver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:57:18 -0500 >> "Efren Bravo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I've written on /etc/rc.conf : >> > >> > moused_port="/dev/psm0" >> > moused_flags

Re: problem with email...

2005-08-31 Thread Ed Stover
On Wed, August 31, 2005 10:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you in advance for your help. My name is Karen Donathan and I am > the Computer Science teacher at George Washington High School in > Charleston, WV. (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us). We have been running > FreeBSD on our

Re: start up command for mysql

2005-08-18 Thread Ed Stover
Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:53:13 -0700 > "Mick Wilcoxen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Ok, really new at this FreeBSD & Mysql stuff. >> >>Which file do i put the startup command and the location of this ? >> >>The startup command is as follows >> >>/usr/local/mysql/bin/

Re: screen grabs

2005-08-17 Thread Ed Stover
Randy Pratt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:34:44 +0100 > "Charles Smyth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I wondered if anyone can advise me about how to get screen shots / >>grabs of the FreeBSD installation screens as shown in the online >>manual, etc. I can use The Gimp’s resources t

Re: Aggregated bandwidth

2005-08-17 Thread Ed Stover
jason wrote: > David wrote: > >> Hello, I have an extra box laying around that I would like to experiment >> with aggregating cable modem bandwidth. I have 3 nics and 3 cable >> modems and >> I would to know if there any way or any app that I can use to combine >> all 3 >> modems into one 4.5 meg

Re: I need one command

2005-08-17 Thread Ed Stover
On Wed, August 17, 2005 2:27 pm, Carstea Catalin said: > I run squid on my freebsd box and i need to know the free memory. > In redhat exist a nice command #free to show the free memory. In > FreeBsd how can i get the same result? > > -- > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > regards, > Carstea

Re: two default routes

2005-07-20 Thread Ed Stover
Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Montag, 18. Juli 2005 05:25 CEST schrieb Jon Falconer: > >>I have two ISP connections, a 45Mb and a 6Mb. Depending on what block of >>local addresses a packet is coming from will determine which ISP I want >>to send the packet out. In essence the default route used for a

Re: I have found a pc on the side curb

2005-07-20 Thread Ed Stover
David Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:46:20AM -0400, Jason Stewart wrote: > >>There are ways to get into a machine without using the password but >>the only right thing to do in your case would be to reinstall FreeBSD >>and just use the box that way instead of trying to get at the >>pre-

Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-05-22 Thread Ed Stover
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Ed Stover wrote: > >> One of my personal favorite things to do is: >> move ssh to port 1001 >> >> > Is there a reason behind choosing port 1001? <1024; not registered to > anything else useful; reasonably memorable? Well as long as y

Re: illegal user root user failed login attempts

2005-05-19 Thread Ed Stover
Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 18. Mai 2005 22:56 schrieb Kirk Strauser: > >>On Tuesday 17 May 2005 09:36, Peter Kropholler wrote: >> >>>As things stand, ssh is designed so you can't get at people's >>>passwords and I am leaving it alone. Focussing instead on the task of >>>making sure my pa

Re: Main web site... & egg on my face

2005-05-19 Thread Ed Stover
Gavin R. Putland wrote: > Ahem... > > On Wed, 18 May 2005 04:41 pm, Tony Shadwick wrote: > >>Just out of curiousity... >> >>cat /etc/resolv.conf > > > That gives the local primary and secondary nameservers of > my ISP, as I believe it should. The problem was not likely > to be in my machine be

Re: Ethernet over FireWire: How?

2005-05-16 Thread Ed Stover
Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi Rob, > > >>Can someone give me a layman's answer to how I can >>use the firewire as the second ethernet card? >>The backside of the computer has a socket labeled >>'1394', but this is not a RJ-45 connector. Do I >>need a converter cable from firewire to RJ-45? Just drop

Re: Filesystem was not properly dismounted (5.4-RELEASE)

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
VnPenguin wrote: > Hi all, > On my FreeBSD 5.4 system, when I do "reboot" or "shutdown -h " and > reboot, there is always a warning at boot time: > > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > > and fbsd starts filesystem check over / partition (~5GB) :( > > Anyone could explain me why this ? Any

Re: Strange kernel messages

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Colin J. Raven wrote: > Hi all! > I occasionally get these in my daily security run output (which is > worrying in itself) > > Limiting closed port RST response from 1629 to 200 packets per second > > the number of these can range from one or two, to sometimes 25 - 30 > although the latter case i

Re: Slow DNS

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Xian wrote: > I have just set up a router and would like DNS caching on it. I have tried to > set it up an it kind of works, just computer using it as their nameserver > take ages on DNS queries, up to 4-5 seconds. > > To set up the DNS caching I added the ip of another DNS server > to /etc/res

Re: FreebSD 5.3

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Richard Verwayen wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 11.05.2005, 16:53 -0700 schrieb Dixit, Viraj: > >>Folks, >> >>I have accidentally changed the permissions to my directories on my test >>system. Now I cannot login either on console using root or any other login >>account. I simply cannot login, the per

Re: ps: bad namelist

2005-05-15 Thread Ed Stover
Jerry Bell wrote: > Typically this is caused by a kernel and utilities (like ps and w) being > out of sync. It sounds like you don't think that is the case, though. I > suppose it could be a problem with your procfs, but I'm not sure that > would cause this kind of symptom. My suspicion is still

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Stover
Chuck Swiger wrote: > Ed Stover wrote: > [ ... ] > >> I know some people that run big brother and are satisfied by it. >> http://www.bb4.org/ > > > I would second this recommendation. Big brother is relatively simple to > configure, although it is by design

Re: monitoring and alerting software ????

2005-05-14 Thread Ed Stover
Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005, Duane Winner wrote: > >> Does anybody have recommendations for a good solution to alert me >> while I am not at work if something goes wrong with my >> infrastucture/network/servers? >> In other words, if I am at home, I need to be alerted if one of my >>

Re: Box Mysteriously Rebooting?

2005-05-13 Thread Ed Stover
Jeff Bethke wrote: > Hi All, > I have a host that has been super relilable without issues. Then, I > had a power outage. After that, the host has stayed stable for anywhere > from 6 to 48 hours... Then the host mysteriously reboots itself. I > swapped out the power supply (figuring a fried po

Re: Box Mysteriously Rebooting?

2005-05-13 Thread Ed Stover
Subhro wrote: > On 5/13/2005 8:28, Jeff Bethke wrote: > >> Hi All, >> I have a host that has been super relilable without issues. Then, >> I had a power outage. After that, the host has stayed stable for >> anywhere from 6 to 48 hours... Then the host mysteriously reboots >> itself. I swappe

Re: heavy load proxy+nat server with ipfw ?

2005-05-10 Thread Ed Stover
Abu Khaled wrote: > On 5/10/05, Ed Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>S t i n g r a y wrote: >> >>>i want to replace my microsoft based firewall with a >>>freebsd based firewall + proxy + NAt server based on >>>ipfw , with internet users ap

Re: is 4.11 still a good idea?

2005-05-09 Thread Ed Stover
Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 06:26 PM 5/9/2005, Ed Stover wrote: > >> When, I am waiting to get the official release " none of this release >> candidate stuff" but they wont release the turd yet. I like 4.x but 5.4 >> is hopefully going to guide me into the new

Re: heavy load proxy+nat server with ipfw ?

2005-05-09 Thread Ed Stover
S t i n g r a y wrote: > i want to replace my microsoft based firewall with a > freebsd based firewall + proxy + NAt server based on > ipfw , with internet users approx upto 800-1000 > simaltanious . i already have the internet link + > hardware to support it , > do you guys think ipfw + squid wit

Re: OT how to register with google ?

2005-05-09 Thread Ed Stover
Fabian Keil wrote: > S t i n g r a y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Well i have a opensource softwares website which i use >>to promote open software such as freebsd in my region, >>i have registered with google so many time sine soo >>long time , stil > Google uses dmoz alot for it's spideri

Re: is 4.11 still a good idea?

2005-05-09 Thread Ed Stover
Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:02 PM +0800 5/9/05, Foo Ji-Haw wrote: > >> >> Can I get some feedback on whether development and/ or support >> on 4.11 is still active and updated? I've spent quite some time >> on the 4.x series, so I am quite comfortable with it. > > > Let me also mention that

Re: *_enable = "YES" for FreeBSD

2005-05-09 Thread Ed Stover
Foo Ji-Haw wrote: > Last time I used FreeBSD (4.3), I can start services with just > apache2.sh start. Now everything needs to be explicitly turned on via > rc.conf (apache2_enable="YES"). Is this rcNG as mentioned in the > handbook? Where can I find documentation for this? > > Is there any way I

Re: Spontaneous reboots

2005-05-08 Thread Ed Stover
Mac Mason wrote: > Have you considered hardware issues? Random reboots might be caused by cooling > issues, or other such things. > > --Mac > I have had a number FreeBSD servers do this when HD gets hot. Kinda strange when you see it even in the 4.x branch. ___

Re: dynamically limit ip connections to ports over time?

2005-05-05 Thread Ed Stover
Alex Teslik wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running a FreeBSD box for a few years. Over this time spammers > and other unfriendlies have found my box and have been attacking at a slowly > increasing rate. Every night the daily periodic scripts run and report to me > the number of rejected mai

Re: installing big qmail server ... where to start?

2005-05-05 Thread Ed Stover
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Hi all, > > I have to plan and setup a mail solution for about 50.000 users, here are > some key features requested by our customer: > > - self coded webfrontend w/ webmail and administration (filter, alias etc) > - 100MB quota per user > - autoresponder > -

Re: My BIND is tWisted!!!

2005-05-01 Thread Ed Stover
On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 05:32 -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > I haven't done anything out of the ordinary. > > /etc/rc.d/named reload (or stop or start) > > doesn't say anything weird. > > Thanks, > -- Fafa > > - Original Message - > From:

Re: My BIND is tWisted!!!

2005-04-30 Thread Ed Stover
On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 09:19 -0500, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > hey! > > My BIND just stopped working! > > 1) My domain is still registered > 2) My configuration hasn't changed since it stopped working. >prior to that, it has been running flawlessly for months. > > There is nothing in my /v

Re: Moving /var

2005-04-30 Thread Ed Stover
Hi On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 06:28 +0200, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Saturday 30 April 2005 01:59:01, Lisa Casey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I could have sworn I've seen some info on moving var onto it's own hard > > drive but I vcan't seem to find it now. > > > > Would anyone happen to know a url? > > >

Re: longest uptime

2005-04-29 Thread Ed Stover
Hi all, On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 22:26 +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: > Hi Stevan, > > > Question: Is there a possiblity to run the system inclusive patching > > it, without rebooting? Goal is to run a system maybe longer than a > > year!!! > > Short answer: no. > > Long answer: don't think like that. U

Re: building good custom kernel

2005-04-25 Thread Ed Stover
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 14:48 +0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hi , > i tried building the freebsd 5.3 kernel and it works > fine, but can u people give me some tips regarding > optimizing kernel during build, even saving a single > cpu cycle would mean a lot. i would like to have a >

Re: how to enable the root in telnet

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
um hi On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 18:53 +0800, kylin wrote: > thank u for your advise! but now i am in a very save local network > ,and the su return sorry in my telnet, > so is that mean i have to go to ssh? or can i chage some file to enable it > thank u and best wishes > > On 4/24/05, Roland Smith

Re: unclean filesystem refusing to salvage

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
Is this on one computer or across multiple machines running 5.4? My first thought is of a dying hard drive. Run low level disk repair tools from your hard drives' manufacturer. On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:28 +1000, Warren wrote: > im running FreeBSD 5.4 and have /var as well as all the other filesyst

Re: what kind of BBS software on freebsd work well

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
What ever happend to the old telnet style bb shells? I would much rather run one of those ;) On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:08 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > Graham Bentley wrote: > >>And has more security problems than Carter has liver pills > > > > > > If more people are using a project like phpBB sur

Re: 5.4-RC2: Unexpected reboots

2005-04-24 Thread Ed Stover
Hi On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 12:39 +0200, Erik NÃrgaard wrote: > Hi, > > I have had problems recently keeping my 5.3 up, then I upgraded to > 5.4-RC2. Things seemed stable, but then I just ran last: > > norgaard ttyp1charmSat 23 Apr 12:05 still > logged in > norgaard

RE: NATD server problem on 5.3 ?

2005-04-19 Thread Ed Stover
And I would like to add these questions to On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 07:44 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Saying it's not working is way to vague. > You need to post more details about what is not working. > Like can the 5.3 server ping the public internet? > Can it ping PCs on the LAN? > Can a win

Re: squid + antivirus plugin

2005-04-19 Thread Ed Stover
Hi, On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 19:01 +0400, Vyacheslav Druzhinin wrote: > Hello freebsd-questions, > > I have a problem to scan all http proxy traffic for a viruses. Does > exist some open source antivirus plugin for squid? I have been > checked the ports collection and I can't find any solution

Re: cd-rom sysinstall fixit utility

2005-04-18 Thread Ed Stover
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:05 -0400, Darrel wrote: > Having mistyped changes with the 'pw' command, giving my User and Root a > bad path to their shells might required a new installation. I can not log > in at all. > > Is there actually a way to change the shell of root while logged in with > the f

RE: How to interpret ipfw log?

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Stover
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 23:28 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your ipfw rule 2500 is denying those outbound packets > 192.168.0.200:65117 is your ip address: port number > 65.87.165.45:5800 is the remote target ip address and port number > and this is leaving your pc on NIC named tx0 > > > >

Re: too many illegal connection attempts through ssh

2005-04-13 Thread Ed Stover
Forgive the top posting (long message) ;) A quick way to make that crap go away is to run your ssh on a different port. quick, simple, effective. I used to have those "brute force" attacks every day and fill my logs and I would go in and create and entry that that entire Netmask in the ipfw and ho

Re: Which mail server is the best for me?

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Stover
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 11:09 +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I would like to setup a mail server but am a little confused about whether > to use sendmail, qmail, postfix or whatever. Basically my web server is a > simple one to be used for personal use with maybe no more than a 10-20 mail > accounts. >

Re: Can't control PostgreSQL with RC scripts

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Stover
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 10:59 +0300, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Pat Maddox wrote: > > I installed PostgreSQL 8.0.1 from ports, and now I'd like to control > > it with the RC scripts. I wasn't able to run initdb with the scripts, > > I had to do that manually with the regular initdb command. Now I'

Re: all ports open ?

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Stover
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 08:26 -0700, faisal gillani wrote: > Well i port scanned couple of internet websites & got > all ports open from that site , is that a security > measure ? > if yes how can i do that ? > > > :) > thanks > Faisal > > > *., ,.** Allah-hu-Akber*., ,.** >

Re: weird problem with ipfw and ftp

2005-04-12 Thread Ed Stover
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 09:05 +0200, Clement Twine wrote: > hi freebsd users, > > i have a problem with users accessing my ftp service from the > internet. everything was working well until i changed from > Linux/shorewall to freebsd/ipfw as my firewall. > > my setup is briefly as follows: > > FTP

Re: help

2005-04-11 Thread Ed Stover
On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 22:46 -0700, angelito munez wrote: > Hi,. > i have a quick question. i have a 4.9 box running as gateway. as well as > domain controller windows on the network. now can anybody help how i can see > the domain controller from remote desktop? thnks > > >

Re: Creating a socket file by hand

2005-04-11 Thread Ed Stover
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 15:03 -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: > Dear list, > > I am setting up a Mail Server with postfix and trying to add spam filtering > and anti virus filtering. The ClamAV program is trying to read > /var/run/clamav/clamd. The directory is there but the socket file is not. > How do

Re: Hyperthreading not working on my 5.3 FreeBSD

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
don't you need apic as well ? device apic# I/O APIC On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 13:42 +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > faisal gillani writes: > > > Well the output of my dmesg command is only showing 1 > > processor , HT is enabled in bios , & working on > > windows XP on the same

Re: Copying files off Samba Server - freezes/very slow

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
Let us take a look at you smbd.conf, that might help. On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:13 +0200, Gareth Bailey wrote: > I have just upgraded the hardware of our development server. I thought > that our file server used to be slow due to slow hardware, but now > that we have upgraded I am a bit puzzled. >

Re: question about mysql-server.sh

2005-04-05 Thread Ed Stover
rcsubr is the culprit, when you added the line in the rc.conf then all was well. You can add a line in the rc.conf and then run the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh start command with out having to reboot. Personally I really dislike rcsubr, makes me think that FreeBSD is drifting toward linux's

Re: sendmail

2005-04-04 Thread Ed Stover
Ok, you could try something like this ;) # # cat movie.mpg | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "This wont work ;)" # On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 02:47 +0200, Gert Cuykens wrote: > i want to send a movie to a friend ? How do you do that with sendmail > ? I know i know i read the man but its like this > [-

Trouble Compiling courier-authlib-0.55

2005-03-31 Thread Ed Stover
I can't get courier-authlib-0.55 from source package to compile on FreeBSD4.11 any have any pointers? Your time and help is appreciated. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --exec-prefix=/usr/local\ --with-authvchkpw --without-authldap --without-authmysql \ --disable-root-check --with-ssl \ --with-aut