Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:19:57 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters

Re: Gnome FreeBSD

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:11:39 -1000, NetOpsCenter wrote: You may want to look at XFCE which many of the FreeBSD people use as a GUI. Lean and efective. I'm a big fan of Blackbox - it's not as 'pretty' as XFCE but is easy to use and lean. All your graphical apps will still work fine in it,

Re: Installation problem

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:46:44 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Rakhesh is correct. SATA / PATA drives show up under ad[m]s[n][l], where m is the disk number (zero based), n is the slice, aka partition number in the non-BSD (/Solaris?) world, number (zero based), and l is the respective letter

Re: Xorg build problem - font-misc-misc

Hi, I have solved this issue. Turned out that font-util wasn't properly installed. Although I followed the steps in UPDATING, it appears that a lot of my ports didn't cleanly/properly upgrade - what I found I had to do was to repeatedly portupgrade -a, identify which ports stopped on 'you should

Re: SMTP stupid question

the right file cheers, -- Joel Hatton -- Infrastructure Manager | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The University of Queensland| WWW: www.auscert.org.au Qld 4072 Australia | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

and is, in fact, the opposite of your description above. I've been caught by this before... regards -- Joel Hatton -- Infrastructure Manager | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The University of Queensland| WWW: www.auscert.org.au

Re: Sendmail patch; brings up a questions about buildworld

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:15:14 -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: question: if i choose Patch Solution 1 from http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:17.sendmail.asc, do i need to build a new kernel to go with this, or can i just build the world and be done with it? The phrase Upgrade

portmanager install from packages (please)

. Extending portmanager to perform this function seems logical. cheers, -- Joel Hatton -- Infrastructure Manager | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The University of Queensland| WWW: www.auscert.org.au Qld 4072

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

Alex Zbyslaw said: cvsup won't delete things you add, but I believe portsnap does. Thanks, Alex. I'll have to experiment with portsnap. cheers, -- Joel Hatton -- Infrastructure Manager | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031

cvsup question - use just one supfile?

tag=RELENG_5_4 *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix this can't be the correct syntax, but is this practicable? thanks, -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031

How does FreeBSD handle devices under /compat/linux?

and with devfs in operation? thanks, joel -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The University of Queensland| WWW: www.auscert.org.au Qld 4072 Australia | Email

Which linux_base port to use?

as some linux_base* are more minimal than others, but I'd like to pick the one that is most regularly maintained and least likely to cause me issues down the track. Any suggestions? thanks, -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's

securelevel doc?

to point someone to this information) cheers, -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The University of Queensland| WWW: www.auscert.org.au Qld 4072 Australia | Email

Environment setting for make

my inexperience and just plain old sounding foolish, how does this method of setting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX differ from: setenv MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX /somewhere/obj Also, in the example above, is the backquote '`' intended, or is that for compatibility for something like tex? thanks, -- Joel Hatton

Creating a package by hand with pkg_create

options for declaring where the files reside and are destined to not allow me to do what I want here, so it must be something I'm not following correctly. thanks, -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7

Re: Environment setting for make

Joel Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # E.g. use `env MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somewhere/obj make' However, and at this risk of exposing my inexperience and just plain old sounding foolish, how does this method of setting MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX differ from: setenv

cvsup multiple RELENGs?

I be doing this properly and checking out a complete CVS tree? thanks, -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The University of Queensland| WWW: www.auscert.org.au Qld 4072

RELENG_6 upgrade from RELENG_5

Hi, Before I go crazy and change my RELENG_5 to 6 and resync my sources, can someone point me at a README/UPDATING for upgraders? I'm sure I'll find one _after_ I cvsup, but I'd like to read it first. thanks -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT

Re: Tripwire Policy File and 5.4

/usr/ports/security/tripwire/files/twpol.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 20891 Aug 10 17:46 /usr/ports/security/tripwire/files/twpol.txt I've updated, but unfortunately my two main complaints - that of not being about to package it, and no interactive updates - remain. cheers, -- Joel Hatton

compiling other options into sshd

Hi, I'd like to compile support for FreeBSD OPIE into sshd. Presently I have to use PAM to achieve one-time password support. On a 4.x system I have in /etc/ssh/sshd_config ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes and in /etc/pam.conf sshdauthsufficient pam_opie.so no_fake_prompts

Re: Tripwire Policy File and 5.4

and periodic script to run with output in the daily security email - I'm happy to post these if anyone is interested. cheers, joel -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The University

How to tell if /usr/obj is up to date?

, if this new revision has already been built and hence is now in the object tree or do I have to do it all over again to be sure? In this case, if I run make -n in /usr/src/lib/libz/ should this report differently depending on whether /usr/obj is up to date or not? thanks, joel -- Joel Hatton

How to tell if /usr/obj is up to date?

and hence is now in the object tree or do I have to do it all over again to be sure? In this case, if I run make -n in /usr/src/lib/libz/ should this report differently depending on whether /usr/obj is up to date or not? thanks, joel -- Joel Hatton -- Security Analyst| Hotline