Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-02-01 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ruben de Groot wrote: # The GENERIC kernel in 8.0 comes with the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 option by default, so # the only thing you need to do is to install the misc/compat5x port. # # That is, if the executables weren't dependent on compat[2-4] options in the kernel on the old

How far to go with jailing?

2010-02-01 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Strikes me that setting up jails for bloody-well-every-other service might be 'fun' .. Jail the webserver; seems a logical break, and keep you honest for your partitioning. No more ~/public_html to access it I suppose, but much mroe secure for when people attack your wordpress etc.

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-31 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: # Not totally true. 5.4 was released in 2005 whereas newest motherboard with # which I faced personally problems booting from USB was from 2003. And it # actually declares that it can boot from USB. 5.4 seemed to actually have many issues

Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Hello my friends, I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was held back by very specific applications I had to support,

Re: telnet/sshd limited by user?

2005-08-07 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Benjamin Lutz wrote: # Is it possible to set things so that 'telnet' is allowed only to one # specific user, while everyone else needs sshd? ie: Obviously, nologin # can be used as a shell to not permit any logins (but makes 'su' break # too), but I'd like to allow

telnet/sshd limited by user?

2005-08-06 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Is it possible to set things so that 'telnet' is allowed only to one specific user, while everyone else needs sshd? ie: Obviously, nologin can be used as a shell to not permit any logins (but makes 'su' break too), but I'd like to allow telnet for one specific user only and keep everyone

Re: DVD burning..

2005-08-02 Thread Jeff Mitchell
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: # Is sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma set to 1? It looks like your system isn't # able Aha, that seems to be it; I had slapped that into my rc.local with some other sysctl's (before I found out about /etc/sysctl.conf), and that one is read-only by that

DVD burning..

2005-08-01 Thread Jeff Mitchell
So far I'm having no luck so thought I'd post and ask for help :) FreeBSD 5.4, BenQ DVD burner, using DVD-R media. GENERIC kernel with ATAPICAM added. Built an iso with mkisofs, and can burn it out with burncd to CDR no problem (if 700MB or less or so, of course.) For