Re: securing sshd

2010-03-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
On 21/03/10 02:27, Peter wrote: On the same line, portknocking with pf: Port knocking suck: If you have to knock a single time on the secret port you might just have no added security at all, could be that the port scanner first knocked on the secret port then on the ssh port. If you

Re: Copying mirrored partitions - will this work?

2010-03-21 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 21 March 2010, Modulok wrote: On 3/20/10, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: [snip] I have two 500GB disks, /dev/ad4 and /dev/ad8, each partitioned into 4 slices of 88, 88, 42 and 259GB. My system is installed on the first slices (ad4s1 and ad8s1) which are mirrored

OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Frank Shute
Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem attached. I thought my power supply must have died so I got another, screwed

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Ross Cameron
The easiest way to check if its the power switch is detach the PWR switch connector from the mobo and briefly short the two pins. If the machine turns on its ure switch, however that is probably unlikely - Ive never seen it before at least. Check ure mobo for popped caps,... remove ure ram

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-21 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 23:45:37 you wrote: On 03/07/2010 12:29, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 10:53:29 Anselm Strauss wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 15:52:30 Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 08:13:53 Elias Chrysoheris wrote: On Sunday 07 of March 2010 15:56:15

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Frank Shute wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem attached. I thought my power supply must have died so I

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:23:34AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Frank Shute wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk writes: When I hit the power button I get nothing. None of the fans spin up and there's no sign of life. Well, that's not a *good* sign... ;-) I'm beginning to think that I might be in for a new motherboard anyway :( I think you can safely conclude it isn't an

Re: AMD 64 X2 - Dual Core?

2010-03-21 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 4:35 PM, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: I totally disagree with using the 32bit unless you have a specific need or potentially if you are running it as a desktop. 64 everytime for servers for loads of reasons. If you are running less than 4 gig their is a fair chance

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On March 21, 2010 08:24:15 am Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:23:34AM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Frank Shute wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using

sftp server with speed throttling

2010-03-21 Thread Dan Naumov
What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp) in base does not support this directly, so I would have to either use a custom kernel with ALTQ (and I would really rather stick to GENERIC so I can use freebsd-update)

Re: shell script to cap first letter?

2010-03-21 Thread b. f.
i'm wondering if there is a script that i could run my plaintext files thru that would capitalize thef first letter of each sentence [[ assuming the character wasn't already a cap!]] more and more, in recent years, i have posted questions or written things that have been sloppily or casually

Re: sftp server with speed throttling

2010-03-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/03/2010 13:53:16, Dan Naumov wrote: What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp) in base does not support this directly, so I would have to either use a custom kernel with ALTQ (and I would really rather

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:08:44AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk writes: When I hit the power button I get nothing. None of the fans spin up and there's no sign of life. Well, that's not a *good* sign... ;-) I'm beginning to think that I might be in for

Re: sftp server with speed throttling

2010-03-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 21/03/2010 13:53, Dan Naumov wrote: What are my options if I want to run an sftp server with speed throttling? My understanding is that openssh (which includes sftp) in base does not support this directly, so I would have to either use a custom kernel with ALTQ (and I would really rather

Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-21 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello all. I have been talking with a Linux guy (you know the never ending kind of war, my Linuxreligion is better than your Freebsdreligion, easier to install , upgrade blah blah blah). Anyway, talking about the best option for filtering spam and having an email solution for personal

Re: shell script to cap first letter?

2010-03-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 10:16:22AM -0400, b. f. wrote: i'm wondering if there is a script that i could run my plaintext files thru that would capitalize thef first letter of each sentence [[ assuming the character wasn't already a cap!]] more and more, in recent years, i have posted

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 21 Mar 2010 at 11:26:55 PDT Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 09:08:44AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Murphy never said anything about *when* things go wrong... But the swine said they *would* go wrong...;) Hey, don't shoot the messenger! On second thought, perhaps that

Wireless access point rc.conf syntax in FreeBSD 8?

2010-03-21 Thread Modulok
I have a wireless network card. But I can't configure it. I read in UPDATING that this had to do with some split up of the wireless drivers into software/hardware interfaces? Something to do with me having to clone the interface before I can configure it? There was no mention of this in the

Re: ezjail

2010-03-21 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 3/21/2010 1:10 AM, Aiza wrote: I don't have sources installed on my system. Just use the binary Freebsd-update function. At new releases I do a clean install. I only have a single public IP address. Now I would like to play with jails. One for postfix, apache, and ftp. My reading of

Re: ezjail

2010-03-21 Thread Michael Powell
Mark Shroyer wrote: On 3/21/2010 1:10 AM, Aiza wrote: I don't have sources installed on my system. Just use the binary Freebsd-update function. At new releases I do a clean install. I only have a single public IP address. Now I would like to play with jails. One for postfix, apache, and

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Al Plant
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the

Re: ezjail

2010-03-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 21/03/2010 21:53, Mark Shroyer wrote: Until recently, the method for creating ezjail's basejail was to issue the ezjail-admin update command, which compiles the basejail from /usr/src. Just recently an ezjail-admin install command was added, which downloads binaries from a FreeBSD FTP

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jorge == Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com writes: Jorge I said that I am not sure but that even spamassin could be configured Jorge to run under send mail or if that does not work that to move from Jorge sendmail to another could be the solution and not so difficult, like Jorge postfix. Am I

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy way to replace it. Check if teh power on button is not stucked in the pushed position, it happens on old cases that the plastic get old and dusty and the

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy way to replace it. In the process of dis-assembling the machine and re-assembling is, you may want to use a rubber to clean the contacts on the RAM and

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
I said that I am not sure but that even spamassin could be configured to run under send mail or if that does not work that to move from sendmail to another could be the solution and not so difficult, like postfix. Of course it can. In the ports you have a thing called spammilter? that is

Re: ezjail

2010-03-21 Thread Aiza
Mark Shroyer wrote: On 3/21/2010 1:10 AM, Aiza wrote: I don't have sources installed on my system. Just use the binary Freebsd-update function. At new releases I do a clean install. I only have a single public IP address. Now I would like to play with jails. One for postfix, apache, and ftp.

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-21 Thread Jorge Biquez
I installed that spammilter, run without problems. Thanks Just curios I have a client that has a dedicated server using CPanel. I am just curios that they are using Exim as the MTA . I imagine that has an an advantage for using under CPanel. Thanks for you time At 06:05 p.m.

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Just curios I have a client that has a dedicated server using CPanel. I am just curios that they are using Exim as the MTA . I imagine that has an an advantage for using under CPanel. I never laid my hand on any Exim server, I don't even know what CPanel is. If it's a kind of GUI for Exim, I

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-21 Thread Jorge Biquez
Hello. CPANEL is an interface , graphical, pro administering services (jailed usually) in servers. That way users can do almost anything with is virtual server. It is kind of popular and for what I have used is good. You open another question I was going to ask in the list. If all of you

Re: OT: dead box

2010-03-21 Thread Jorge Biquez
No sounds (beeps) no cpu fan no lights? At 06:00 p.m. 21/03/2010, you wrote: Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy way to replace it. In the process of dis-assembling the machine and

Re: ezjail

2010-03-21 Thread Mark Shroyer
On 3/21/2010 8:21 PM, Aiza wrote: Does the ip address notation for the jail include the port number? Like 10.0.20.2:80 Nat port forwarding is the long way around just to get the correct port number to the jail ip address. Nope, jails are assigned one (or more) specific IP addresses, but not

HEADSUP: Call for FreeBSD Status Reports - 1Q/2010

2010-03-21 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Dear all, I would like to remind you that the next round of status reports covering the first quarter of 2010 is due on April 15th, 2010. This initiative is very welcome in our community. Therefore, I would like to ask you to submit your status reports as soon as possible, so that we can

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am deciding for a good text editor (suggestions? Your opening the pandora box of flame war :) Emacs with no doubt, because I have been using it for over 20 years, over 3 major operating systems (Multics, DOS/Windows, all possible Unix and the like). So yes, I feel very at ease with Emacs and

some qs

2010-03-21 Thread Márton Sztriha
Dear Developer, I have some questions regarding free BSD. Can I run open office cross platform on BSD? Does BSD run the .exe files? Does BSD recognise SATA drives? Thanks, m ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: some qs

2010-03-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Can I run open office cross platform on BSD? Yes. Does BSD run the .exe files? Some, via some emulators. If you install VMWare you can run a full Windows machine in FreeBSD. Does BSD recognise SATA drives? Of course. Olivier ___

some qs

2010-03-21 Thread Robert Huff
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E1rton_Sztriha?= beerkezopo...@gmail.com: I have some questions regarding free BSD. Can I run open office cross platform on BSD? /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 Does BSD run the .exe files? Only unde emulation. Does BSD recognise SATA drives?

Re: ezjail

2010-03-21 Thread Aiza
I found the man ezjail-admin has this format ezjail-admin install -h file:// Where -h file:// means get the binaries from the host system the jails are running on. Am I correct? Yes, according to the man page. I haven't tried it yet myself, since I set up my basejail before this option