Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:03:57PM -0700, K Anderson wrote: Good luck. All it takes is a user to port, transfere, compile, copy, move or hack in a ping command of their own. Any languages could be used, PERL, PHP, Python and much more. Well, it takes that along with making their copy SUID

Re: format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Rich Morin
At 5:23 PM -0400 7/3/03, Paul Chvostek wrote: The /etc/crontab is largely self-documenting. It is similar to the format of the other crontab files, and includes a comment line: #minute hourmdaymonth wdaywho command What further information do you need? None, in the file itself,

Re: Disable PING command

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 03:02:22PM -0700, K Anderson wrote: Well, all I have to do then as a user who can't run ping is get it from someplace else and just do ./ping in my home directory. Correct? Or even use a perl script to do it. If that's possible. No. Normal users can't create the raw

Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Not being entirely satisfied with the stock ftpd (i'm running 4.6/4.7-REL) I'm interested in hearing some opinions on alternatives. Access is for clients editing webpages, no anonymous. Number of users is low so authorization through passwd is fine. Stability and security is what I'm

Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 00:17:05 +0200 Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Not being entirely satisfied with the stock ftpd (i'm running 4.6/4.7-REL) I'm interested in hearing some opinions on alternatives. Access is for clients editing webpages, no anonymous. Number of users

Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Nathan Nieblas wrote: The standard ftp server that comes with FreeBSD is more than adequate for your needs. It's very stable, very secure and provides ftpchroot capabilities. Why aren't you satisfied with it? Can't really ask for anything more. Well, I guess I should be content with the stock ftpd

Re: OT Re: mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Matt Bettinger
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:53:43 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mozilla will hang for a few minutes when I enter a url in the location bar. If I fire it up and click on the link that are already there it's fine. The moment I try to type a new URL in the bar it just

Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Nathan Nieblas wrote: Maybe upgrading to 4.8-stable and rebuilding world would help? Sorry to say, I have never ran into any of the problems you're experiencing. Maybe, but these systems are in production and there are other issues the keeps us from doing what you suggest, ie

Fwd: Newbie Right of Passage -- Kernel Compilation Problems :-)

2003-07-03 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hello all, I have forwarded a message that's about two weeks old from the -newbies list. As you'll see, the problem is related to kernel compilation. One bit of update to this old message: I got wise to it (slightly), and decided that despite the fact that I didn't have an ISA card, it might

Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists? - SOLVED

2003-07-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: Paul Chvostek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 2:48 PM Subject: Re: Procmail Recipie For FreeBSD Lists? On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:26:49PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: :0 * ^List-Id:[^]+freebsd-\/[^.]+

pcm on 5.1

2003-07-03 Thread Laszlo Vagner
I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard support to the kernel.? in 4.8 i just added 'device pcm' in my kernel config and recompiled but 5.1 is different and i dont want to do something to mess things up. dmesg follows. amd2000# dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD

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2003-07-03 Thread esayer1
FreeBSD- I have a question related to the case on my computer. I have a Aspire X-Sonic shown at the link below. I was wondering if it would be possible to replace all the 5.25 CD-ROM size plastic pieces with one piece that would conceal all the drives behind it. The piece would

Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Adam
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 18:17, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Not being entirely satisfied with the stock ftpd (i'm running 4.6/4.7-REL) I'm interested in hearing some opinions on alternatives. Access is for clients editing webpages, no anonymous. Number of users is low so authorization through

Re: pcm on 5.1

2003-07-03 Thread Kenneth Culver
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:58 PM, Laszlo Vagner wrote: I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard support to the kernel.? in 4.8 i just added 'device pcm' in my kernel config and recompiled but 5.1 is different and i dont want to do something to mess things up.

Re: OT Re: mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Wayne Lubin
--- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0500, Matthew BeBettingerrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: I'vevead a recurring issue with MoMozilland FiFirebirdwas Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly non-deterministic

Re: OT Re: mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Wayne Lubin
--- Wayne Lubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0500, Matthew BeBettingerrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: I'vevead a recurring issue with MoMozilland FiFirebirdwas Phoenix): The

Re: OT Re: mozilla stalls

2003-07-03 Thread Wayne Lubin
--- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:50:12AM -0500, Matthew Bettinger wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 10:44 am, Matt Heath wrote: I've had a recurring issue with Mozilla and Firebird (was Phoenix): The browsers will stall in a seemingly

E-mail with links, sorry about the other one

2003-07-03 Thread esayer
FreeBSD- I have a question related to the case on my computer. I have a Aspire X-Sonic shown at the link below. I was wondering if it would be possible to replace all the 5.25 CD-ROM size plastic pieces with one piece that would conceal all the drives behind it. The piece would

caching nameserver with local domain

2003-07-03 Thread Andrew Thomson
just wanted to verify this is kind of right.. do i have to do anything special with my fake internal domain?? acl localnet { 192.168.1.0/24; }; options { directory /etc/namedb; pid-file /var/run/named/pid; forward only; allow-query {

Does Bill Gates own any of those Linux distributions firma?

2003-07-03 Thread Niel
Does Bill Gates own any of those Linux distribution firms? Maybe under a cover name? I think it is interesting to know, as a lot of people do not want to support him, any more? Or, does anybody know ? I think, that it is reasonable to believe so! Thanks *friendly* :-) Another thought is, that a

Re: crontab same time execution order

2003-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Dave McCammon wrote: If two entries in the crontab are for the same time, which entry gets ran first? It's not deterministic, or if it happens to be so under FreeBSD, it's not on other platforms and you should not rely on a particular order. If you've got commands which depend on each other in

Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Access is for clients editing webpages, no anonymous. Number of users is low so authorization through passwd is fine. The FTP procotol sends passwords unencrypted: don't use FTP for real users if you can avoid it by using scp, sftp, rsync+ssh, or anything else. -Chuck

Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Jason Morefield
Or Setup skey and use that through FTP. Just my $0.02. Jason - Original Message - From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD-questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 5:49 PM Subject: Re: Opinions on ftp-server Per olof

Re: format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 03), Rich Morin said: None, in the file itself, but the crontab(5) man page should be tweaked. I have posted the following suggestion (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]): The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be ... --- In the case of

CD root FS FreeBSD 4.8 QWE

2003-07-03 Thread Anthony Wyatt
Hi Everyone, I want to use my bootable CD as my root FS, but I don't know how to do it. Does someone know what I have to put in my loader.conf to make it load automatically? At the momnet I have to type in cd9660:acd0 it get it to mount after the kernel loads. Thanks,

Sparc 64 version.

2003-07-03 Thread Curt Steger
I am attempting to get FreeBSD for Sparc64.. Since I only have a 56K moden, downloading the ISO images is out of the question. FreeBSD Mall does not carry the CD set for Sparc... Where does one find them? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Seting baclground color in fvwm95?

2003-07-03 Thread Robert Storey
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 13:58:47 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I set the background color for a session using fvwm95? xsetroot sets the color, but when the window manmager starts up, it overwrites that change. I fell certain it's a setting in the .fvwm95rc file, but I cna't find

Re: Sparc 64 version.

2003-07-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 03), Curt Steger said: I am attempting to get FreeBSD for Sparc64.. Since I only have a 56K moden, downloading the ISO images is out of the question. FreeBSD Mall does not carry the CD set for Sparc... Where does one find them? A network install of the base system

Re: pcm on 5.1

2003-07-03 Thread David Kelly
On Thursday 03 July 2003 07:01 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 07:58 PM, Laszlo Vagner wrote: I just updated to 5.1-r and was wondering how to add soundcard support to the kernel.? in 4.8 i just added 'device pcm' in my kernel config and recompiled but 5.1 is

Re: Samba passwords

2003-07-03 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 06:36:46PM -0300, Paiva, Gilson de wrote: And can your users changed their passwords with samba and fbsd sucessfully? I'm facing a problem with this combination ( 4.8-Stable and 2.2.8a ) that didn't exist before. Users get a message regarding the domain isn't availabe

Re: format of /etc/crontab?

2003-07-03 Thread Rich Morin
At 8:31 PM -0500 7/3/03, Dan Nelson wrote: It already does, a couple paragraphs above the stuff you quoted: The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, with a number of upward-compatible extensions. Each line has five time and date fields, followed by a user name

Re: boot hangs after install 4.8

2003-07-03 Thread Rob Lahaye
Toomas Aas wrote: From: Rob Lahaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have just installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a PC. Only FreeBSD, no other OS. The installation goes all well; I exit at the end and the PC boots. Immediately after the BIOS stuff, I get the first FreeBSD prompt: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1

RE: Newbie Right of Passage -- Kernel Compilation Problems :-)

2003-07-03 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Hello all, I have forwarded a message that's about two weeks old from the -newbies list. As you'll see, the problem is related to kernel compilation. One bit of update to this old message: I got wise to it (slightly), and decided that despite the fact that I didn't have an ISA

Re: Opinions on ftp-server

2003-07-03 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:01:48PM -0400, Adam wrote: Sounds like you want PureFTPd .. It's as secure as FTP can possibly be (without using extras like SSL/TSL), and is extremely stable. In fact, its the only popular FTPd that has NEVER had a root exploit. And, it supports privilege

Re: cvs co CVSROOT

2003-07-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
It has been a while, but when I did mine, if I remember correctly I didn't experience any problem with setting it up. Which FreeBSD server did you go to get the CVSROOT? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dear list i just tried to cvs co CVSROOT in order to try out setting up a CVS repository - the

Re: BSD Question

2003-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
Go here... http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsddoll-s?id=pqS7TiPemv_pc=56 Or perhaps here: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdbeanie?id=ZRVoy2NJmv_pc=66 or here: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/ ... At 06:20 PM 7/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: Hello, My place of

Re: IDE reboot after power outage problem

2003-07-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
Make sure the IDE disk entry in fstab has a 2 in the last field. Check with the fstab man page for more details.. Alex Teslik wrote: Hello, My system used to be an all SCSI system. After rare power outages the system would automatically fsck the disks and boot up. Recently I added an IDE drive

Re: system info

2003-07-03 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, /var/run/dmesg.boot is the file you need. Just go through the bootup messages in teh file. You will get all the details of your server. Regards SSR From: Morten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: system info Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:00:13 +0200 Hi

Recovering ext2fs partitions after crash

2003-07-03 Thread W. Sierke
Hi, My 4.8 box died (after 70+ days) for reasons as yet unknown. I couldn't log in remotely or at virtual consoles, main console was completely unresponsive and I couldn't ctrl-alt-del so I had to hit reset. I've got the box back up but I can't mount my 2 ext2fs partitions (had to comment them

Re: Which server-side programming should i choose.

2003-07-03 Thread Joel Rees
PHP!! All the way...easiest, free, likely to be more secure than Perl if used as Apache module than CGI. More secure, how so? Less arcane syntax to hide holes in, maybe? I'd have no problem with the assertion that newbies writing php are likely to produce less holes per thousand lines of

Re: Does Bill Gates own any of those Linux distributions firma?

2003-07-03 Thread Joachim Dagerot
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 01:31, Niel wrote: Does Bill Gates own any of those Linux distribution firms? Maybe under a cover name? I haven't heard such a thing, but as a conspiracy-lover it sounds not unreasonable. Another thought is, that a very simple help manual is needed, to learn using

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