Re: Deprecating base system ftpd?

2021-04-05 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 06:57:31PM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > On 05.04.2021 17:44, Cy Schubert wrote: > > > - remove ftp:// and http:// from libfetch. This is 2021 and we should all > > use https://. > Please, explain how to setup simple sever which allows upload and on-server > file manag

Re: possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

2021-03-30 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 05:54:03PM +0100, tech-lists wrote: > it just threw me that the thing-that-was-updated didn't update its > version information when queried. Absent sources, how can I tell it > was updated (apart from freebsd-version -u) ? Comparing what the SA patch says it is doing at ht

Re: possibly silly question regarding freebsd-update

2021-03-30 Thread Doug McIntyre
Like the patch referenced in the SA. https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-21:07/openssl-12.patch Again, it seems like confusion over what happens in RELEASE, STABLE and CURRENT.. On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 04:05:32PM +0200, Ruben via freebsd-stable wrote: > Hi, > > Did you mean 12.1-p5 or 12.

Re: Getting a new shell to work for the 'toor' user

2020-07-06 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 12:10:08PM -0700, Don Wilde wrote: > It works as an available shell in 'adduser', but when I tried to use it as a > recovery shell (see attached .odt), I ran into a problem. My fist pass was > to add /bin/stbash to the end of the toor line in master.passwd, but that > didn't

Re: Is it me or does FreeBSD (12.1 amd64) hang when I manually snapshot it in VSphere 6.7?

2020-05-21 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:31:29AM +0200, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: > subject says it all, basically. > > The system becomes totally unresponsive and has to be power-cycled. Not just you. Specificly, the behavior I see comes about only when Snapshot with a copy of the virtual machine's memo

Re: 11.3->12.1 upgrade, pwd db not rehashed after adding ntpd user?

2019-12-11 Thread Doug McIntyre
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:44:27PM -0800, Mel Pilgrim wrote: > I used freebsd-update to upgrade several 11.3-p5 systems to 12.1-p1. > The etc update process added the ntpd/ntpd user/group. It showed the > line changes in the plaintext passwd/group files, but the process > appears to omit the pw

Re: Crontab Question

2019-04-10 Thread Doug McIntyre
No. Your CWD can't be copied to a PATH variable. For cronjobs, assume nothing. Hard code all path names. Assume the only things in the PATH are /bin:/usr/bin, otherwise give full path names to the programs you want to run. Assume no environmental variables are set, assume you are on the most basic