Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. It does support being pushed to over Mobile Me, but not on regular IMAP. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 28, 2010, at 3:49 PM, krad wrote: On 28 March 2010 21:38, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Mar 28), Ron said: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: IMAP, but not POP3, can be used to push, but the iPhone mail client doesn't support that [...] So how is Mobil

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
panic. This problem has been fixed, but I still am extra careful with my USB backup disks: (1) Power for the back-up disks should be on a UPS (2) umount the file systems on the back-up disk when not in use. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
-message that instructs people to add the enabling lines in /etc/periodic.conf.local I'm also wondering about the name of the port. This really is only one utility. Anyway, those are trivial concerns. The substance of your port all looks very good to me. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
mailing list, and it is likely that some fix will be in with the next batch of rule updates for those who use sa-update. But if you aren't willing to wait or you don't use sa-update, I recommend the above workaround. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 1, 2010, at 5:19 PM, RW wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:05:54 -0600 Jeffrey Goldberg jeff...@goldmark.org wrote: it is likely that some fix will be in with the next batch of rule updates for those who use sa-update. It's already available in sa-update. Great. How do I know if I

Re: usenet configuration

2009-10-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: Aflatoon Aflatooni said the following on 2009-10-01 19:17: What is needed in order to run nntp? INN https://www.isc.org/software/inn A faq for INN is at http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/inn.html Diablo gttp://www.openusenet.org/diablo A faq

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the milter as it allows you to reject mail early in the process. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: named issue

2009-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to the spamhaus blocking list. How many queries to the ZEN Spamhaus DNSBL are you making per day? If you exceed their non-commercial usage, they will cut you off. See http://www.spamhaus.org/organization/dnsblusage.html -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
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Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:33 PM, John Almberg wrote: I am currently using rsnapshot to back up these directories on a FreeBSD 7.2 webserver: /etc /usr/home /usr/local /var/cron These directories contain all the data and config files that I use... I think... Question: am I missing anything

Re: freebsd

2009-08-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
reading it. People may even be willing to comment on drafts (check to see whether that is alright with the person who assigned this project.) Best wishes with your assignment. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Cleaning email

2009-08-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
vulnerable to malicious HTML. mimedefang is also useful for blocking certain types of attachments as well. There may be better, special purpose tools that do what you want. You could also look at the mailman source (python) to see how it does its cleaning. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
has the EXPOSED_USER(`root') line lives at /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/generic.m4 Just make a copy of that file, call it beasie.m4, remove the EXPOSE_USER directive from your copy and then change DOMAIN(generic) to DOMAIN(beasie) in your mail .mc file. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
.private.mypublicdomain.com and set up a local (on your private network) nameserver for that private subdomain. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg and record states and decide based on the state, rather then inlined switch statements, if only for readability. Even for a very simple task, the logic of your code is very very hard to read. Clarify the logic (using the idea of a state) and you will find that this can

Re: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
is going on. Once you understand the concepts here it should be very easy to write code to do similar things in the future. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ gkline.c Description: Binary data

Re: flaw found [in my own program]

2009-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 8, 2009, at 7:15 PM, Gary Kline wrote: not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that tried to read past ? and ? ... the example i added to my test file was simply the 2 bytes and ?. so if you have a stray ? with a

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
in / etc/make.conf ? -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Secure unsalted or fixed salt symmetric encryption?

2009-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Meta: useless text/plain part [Was: Ethernet - Internet I/O]

2009-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
is broken in that it sends messages that claim to provide a text/plain alternative, but doesn't actually honor that claim. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Honey pot email address

2009-05-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 1, 2009, at 11:57 PM, Andrew wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on how to get on as many spammers mailing lists as possible? The single fastest way is to post to Usenet using that address as a from address. You should start seeing lots of spam within 48 hours of that. Then once

Re: ntp problem

2009-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
of NTP servers is available at http://www.pool.ntp.org/ -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that I'd been somehow careless when running mergemaster. But now it looks like a bug. I've been using -Ui for mergemaster for a while now, but only seem to have experienced this problem recently. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: portupgrade question

2009-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to portupgrade. Or use the -c option (as mentioned by someone else in this thread) to do all of the config questions up front. I didn't know about that one. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd

Re: Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
any useful help on the FreeBSD list, try joining https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vim-latex-devel Also the Usenet group comp.text.tex is remarkably helpful. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Can stock syslog do hostA - fileA?

2009-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
-$YEAR$MONTH $DAY owner(daemon) group(wheel) dir_owner(daemon) dir_group(wheel) perm(0640) dir_perm(0750) create_dirs(yes)); }; log { source(s_udp); destination(hosts); }; Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: sendmail not listening on port 465

2009-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
use TLS on the submission port, 587. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: off topic: reporting attempts to access computers

2009-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Andrew Gould wrote: What information should I send to an ab...@* address when reporting a break-in attempt? My logs show a dictionary attack of invalid user names against port 22. So source of these is almost always some other compromised Unix-like system.

Re: receiving mail

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: What's wrong? Why does this not work out of the box ?? Given the security history of sendmail, it's not prudent to enable sendmail by default. It's not just that, but people who don't

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later (but I will overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same and upgrading as root I will

Re: Launching Vim

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by vim Is this a path problem? The actual

bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
]$ if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi not root Does anyone have a recommendation of how to run this simple test in / bin/sh and how to write tests reasonably portably? -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:07 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: UID=$(id -u) if [ $UID -ne 0 ] ; then echo not root fi UID is not a variable set by /bin/sh, which is why the test fails. Ah. Thank you. I was, as you see, barking up the wrong tree. Thank you for setting me strait on this. Cheers, -j

Re: Portsnap Not Found Issues

2009-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
again. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: editing dhcpd.conf file

2008-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Pieter Donche wrote: Now, when someone already registered his laptop, and buys a new latop to replace the old (a different MAC address), can then omshell be used to record the change in the /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf file? Does omshell edit the

Firewalls using a DNSbl (and distributed ssh attacks)

2008-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
on fredrick from a third source and so on. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
stripped and only 35 not stripped. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-29 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 26, 2008, at 7:23 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: 1) Incoming SMTP (e.g. someIP:* -- yourIP:25) 2) Outbound SMTP (e.g. yourIP:* -- someIP:25) #2 has become prominent in the past few years, and is applied by ISPs because they want to curb their customers sending spam out onto the Internet

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 10, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Could you downgrade Mailman and see if the problem still persists? I run the combination you have (except Mailman is 2.1.9 and FreeBSD is 6.3) and I haven't had an issue. Might be a bug introduced in Mailman 2.1.11 I'm running mailman

HW recommendations for light weight server

2008-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the transition easier, since I might be able to use my current disk. So any thoughts or recommendations will be welcome. If people wish to email me off list, I'll provide a summary of responses. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: USB Drive Reliability

2008-09-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 19, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I have one system (7.0) which becomes extremely unstable if I have a USB drive connected. I usually get a system crash in 10 to 30 minutes after mounting the USB drive. It has never crashed

Re: alternatives to mergemaster

2008-09-06 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. AUTO_UPGRADE isn't documented in mergemaster(8). I guess it's time for me to submit my first documentation patch (unless someone beats me to it). Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd

Re: Complex text layout

2008-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
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Re: Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
you have edited the virtusertable file, you should run make maps in that directory. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 25, 2008, at 12:49 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: In the old days, if one MTA couldn't reach another it would hold stuff in its queue for four or five days. Now, most MTAs appear to be configured to give up after 24 hours. In which case those mail systems

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
in this instance. exim, postfix and sendmail are all good choices. I personally prefer exim, but I think that someone in your position would do best with postfix. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Security questions, seeing more then one dhcp client.

2008-08-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
(available from ports security/nmap) with something like nmap -O -sV IP-ADDRESS-OF-MYSTERY-DEVICE That should give you a fair amount of information about the device. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: How to use dig with an ip list

2008-08-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 18, 2008, at 10:25 PM, Fraser Tweedale wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:18:07PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: You'll want to change line four to echo $LINE `dig +short -x $LINE` for a cleaner output. The original works fine for me in ash. Definitely nothing wrong with yours

Re: USB Drive Reliability

2008-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Aug 17, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: I realize that this is primarily a tech support forum. I wasn't asking for a solution to the problem. I was asking for other peoples experiences. If the USB support in FreeBSD was spotty according to other people, as

Re: How to use dig with an ip list

2008-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to use dig with an ip list

2008-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
this? Easiest: $ for i in `cat ip-list`; do echo -n $i dig +short -x $i done Better might be to use something in p5-net-DNS so that you don't make N separate calls to dig. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Best SMTP Gateway Program and Reporting Tools

2008-08-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 12, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Josh Kidd wrote: I just wanted to pose this question to the list on people's opinions as to what the best SMTP Gateway program (ie. Sendmail, Postfix, etc) [...] Depending on the nature of the site and needs, my preferences tend to run exim, then postfix,

Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion

2008-08-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the hostname of the machine as their first argument, otherwise, they refuse to bring the machine down? shutdown -h now becomes: shutdown example.com -h now As others have pointed out, you can easily make scripts to do that. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: email disclaimer insert; remove and instert

2008-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jul 29, 2008, at 6:13 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I can tell you it is impossible. Why? While you can actually write a script to try to do it, you'll more likely end up breaking the e-mail format, because it will not be too easy to rightly guess the content-type/boundaries in replies.

Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports

2008-07-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
machine to 7-RELEASE, and discovered, among some other problems, that sudo failed with the same error you report. (I've now put a link to USE-THIS-SUPFiLE to stable-supfile in /usr/ local/etc/cvsup to avoid the blunder in the future.) -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
lists, but I don't follow the lists closely. (For the most part, I just go and clean out the mail folder they collect in every week or so.) Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/

Re: Enforce minimal file/ dir permissions

2008-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
a policy and rules that will do more good than harm? Yes, I've used google, but haven't yet come across what I need. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 12, 2008, at 8:19 AM, David Naylor wrote: I think this argument is rather mute, just because there are no programs exploiting security vulnerabilities does not been there are not vulnerabilities, But it is far from moot if you are interested in the actual threat against your

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 12, 2008, at 3:24 PM, David Naylor wrote: This is a general enquiry. What had sparked my interest in this subject is the above mentioned article. In this case it is a workstation used to access and manage account and cash flows. The threat would be anyone gaining access to

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
password management systems. But once again, I recommend that everyone use a proper password management system. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
essay: http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0204.html#1 -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
briefly. The people who come up with this stuff and do proper analysis are both smarter and more knowledgeable than I am. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:08 PM, cpghost wrote: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:45:51 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First it should consume memory. A very complete test of memory through a modified memtest should be able to detect whether system reported memory is accurate. What

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Andrew Berry wrote: Any idea what the name of the project for the Security framework is? I can't seem to find anything on Google. I'd love to be able to access keychains from OS X on other platforms, without resorting to dumping everything to plaintext. This

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 11, 2008, at 9:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:51:16PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: The next time I reboot the one server I've got with an SVM capable processor I'm going to disconnect the power (to make sure that I'm getting a real reboot instead

Re: no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems

2008-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
and telnet (and certainly mail) from hosts that don't have proper PTR records. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 8, 2008, at 5:50 PM, Raphael Becker wrote: find . -type -f -exec grep grepoptions text to search {} \+ -exec foo {} \+ behaves like xargs foo -exec foo {} \; exec foo for every file Way cool! I hadn't known that about find(1). Cheers, -j

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
, use that. If you want something else, you are free to roll your own. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Need to build a new mail server

2008-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 30, 2008, at 10:39 AM, DAve wrote: That so much time and effort is spent telling everyone how bad qmail is still amazes me. Is it still the case that qmail does not reject mail during SMTP transaction, but instead will do an accept and then later bounce? If this is still true,

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-29 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
time I need to build or recommend or purchase such a device. I wasn't aware that you could get NetBSD with enough usable tools on 2MB, but I see that now. Thank you, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall http://m0n0.ch/wall/ or pfsense http://www.pfsense.com/ both FreeBSD based. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 28, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: For small and medium sized enterprises that really just need firewall, NAT, static routing and are fine with 100Mb ether on the router, I've been happy with using soekris net48XX boxes using m0n0wall small but expensive. used

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 22, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client will be irritated that their images don't load

Re: Lock down the all-staff email list? sendmail, alias, majordomo?

2008-05-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. You have already given the answer. Use a mailing list management system like majordomo. I recommend mailman. By the way, mailman is what is used for managing the FreeBSD mailing lists. The announce list is set up so that only certain individuals can post to it. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

Re: telnet to mail server from outside does not get 220, telnet from inside works

2008-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 12, 2008, at 9:04 AM, brad davison wrote: But if I try the same thing from 'outside' the firewall I get: %telnet email..com 25 Trying 67.x.x.x... Connected to email.xxx.com. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. Have you checked to see what

Re: living with freebsd

2008-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to GENERIC and use packages. But I only have FreeBSD servers on which I don't even run an X11 server. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Question about a recent installation

2008-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 5, 2008, at 6:17 PM, doug wrote: To give limited priviledges I think sudo (as in linux??) would be used. I concur that sudo is really a very good way of managing privileges. I don't even know the root passwords on the systems that I administer (OK, I do have them stored in a nice

Re: Installing PERL modules from CPAN (instead of ports)

2008-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 4, 2008, at 11:59 AM, Sahil Tandon wrote: Yes, making a new port is the easiest way to install something from CPAN. I do prefer to keep everything organized in ports, so I created my first port: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/123382 Let's hope I

Re: [CRON] Recommended FTP client to download and upload files?

2008-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
recommend for this? lftp in ports. It is very scriptable and has built in facilities to only copy newer files. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Problems mounting by label

2008-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
this should be done, but something is a bit off. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that back here. Good luck. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
am. So recommendations please. -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
you looked for any errors logged by imapd in your system logs? Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
with the security issue for the remote back-up this will be a perfect solution. If I can't I won't do remote back-up on the machine that is awkward to reach, I'll just have to re-arrange things. Thanks. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff

Re: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)

2008-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 24, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Patrick C wrote: Another option would be to dig out the associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail. What is used in pine (now alpine) is the c-client libraries already mentioned in another post. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

em0: watchdog timeout after move from 7-PreRelease to 7-RELENG

2008-03-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I just updated to 7-RELENG using csup and compiling from source a machine that had been happily running with a Intel PRO/1000 GigE card on 7-PRERELEASE Building went fine, but as soon as I booted multiuser, I had my network connection go up and down like a Yo-Yo. Here is an excerpt: Mar

Re: syslogd not reading messages from a remote machine

2008-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 11, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Andy Greenwood wrote: I have recently set up a Fortigate-60 to run as a firewall/vpn on my home network. I have a FreeBSD 7.0-prerelease machine sitting behind it in the DMZ which is running ssh/web/etc. I'm trying to get the FG to log to the BSD box's syslog.

Frequent DHCP requests from Wii

2008-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
This is particularly a FreeBSD question, but finding that there isn't a newsgroup for DHCP (and I am running dhcpd on FreeBSD), I'll ask here. We've got a Wii in the house, and I've got an entry for it in my dhcpd.conf host wii { hardware ethernet 00:19:1d:dd:66:d3; fixed-address

Re: Frequent DHCP requests from Wii

2008-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
is whether what I'm seeing is anything to worry about. The answer is apparently not. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: How to not start syslogd

2007-12-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 30, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Bill Moran wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Putting syslogd_enable=NO into /etc/rc.conf did not prevent it from starting. The above works on every system I've done it to (which is quite a few). I suspect you've either got a typo in your

Re: How to not start syslogd

2007-12-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 31, 2007, at 9:13 AM, DAve wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Yep. It was a typo. I should let this be a reminder to always copy and paste such things into email instead of retyping. Small hint shown to me many years ago when enabling things in rc.conf. If I want to startup ipfilter

How to not start syslogd

2007-12-30 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
remove /etc/rc.d/syslogd, but I would like to know if there is a recommended, easy to undo, and update resistant way of doing this. Thanks, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: syslog-ng not logging

2007-12-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
daemon /dev/console for console logging. Will log rotation preserve daemon ownership? Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: syslog-ng not logging

2007-12-27 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 27, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: Quoting Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any reason not to simply do a cd /var/log chown -R daemon . I think (but I'm not sure) that permissions will be reversed by mtree. This is the first I've heard of mtree. I just looked

hangs instead of reboots on HP s3220n

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. And if I didn't provide enough information, just let me know what y'all need. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: hangs instead of reboots on HP s3220n

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Dec 21, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I have an HP s3220n which will boot just fine, but won't reboot [...] I get a proper shutdown with the last line on the console saying Rebooting The power stays on, but the machine just hangs at that point. Never mind. It just takes

which cputype for Althon 64 X2 Dual Core

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
a list of alternatives? I didn't find anything in the NOTES files telling me what was available. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: which cputype for Althon 64 X2 Dual Core

2007-12-21 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
First of all, thank you very much for your response. I have some follow up questions below. On Dec 21, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 21, 2007, at 4:33 PM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: What optimizations should I make in make.conf? A reasonable starting point is no special

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