Re: pkgng questions

2012-08-30 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet
--- On Thu, 8/30/12, Matt Burke wrote: > From: Matt Burke > Subject: Re: pkgng questions > To: "Mark Felder" > Cc: po...@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, August 30, 2012, 7:44 AM > On 08/30/12 13:01, Mark Felder > wrote: > > I think you're very confused about what pkgng is for. > At this time, p

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-04 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
;>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Da Rock wrote: >>>> >>>> On 01/03/12 22:10, Jerry wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000 >>>>>> Da Rock articulated: >>&g

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:44:30 +1000 >>>>> Da Rock articulated: >>>>> >>>>> On 01/03/12 11:15, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> Don't ndis(4) ndi

Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-03 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
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Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
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Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?

2012-01-02 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
I have a Toshiba Satellite U505-S2950 laptop with a Realtek RTL8191SEvB wireless card built in. FreeBSD doesn't recognize this card and can't use it, but Ubuntu does. Would it be possible to go glom a Linux driver off the web someplace and install it in my FreeBSD and get the wireless to work? I

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 395, Issue 10

2012-01-01 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <4efed70a.8080...@infracaninophile.co.uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On 31/12/2011 04:12, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: > > I bought into FreeBSD with a DVD of PC-BSD. It's great, bu

Re: axe(4) and Plugable USB2-E1000 (or: general USB Ethernet advice)

2012-01-01 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Rotate 13 wrote: > I am looking for a USB ethernet adapter which works with very stable > driver in FreeBSD. To effect this end, I went through section 4 man > pages, and made list of drivers for USB ethernet chips. The problem > is, many are apparently not wide

Re: sour grapes .. was FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-01 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:41 PM, doug wrote: > I wish someone with some FreeBSD weight would make this request, but I > think this thread got a little off topic. > Oh buddy... > > The main thrust of the FreeBSD project seems to be making the best server > OS possible. That I think they do that

very small "workgroup" network

2011-12-29 Thread Jeffrey McFadden
I feel really inferior to the community here, but I have to ask because I simply don't know: What do I need to do to create a small (3 PC-BSD) home network? I could do this in no time in Windows, but I don't know how to find, configure, and enable the files necessary to make these machines talk

Upgrading

2011-07-29 Thread Jeffrey Everling
Dear sir/madam On my work I have a system which uses FreeBSD 6.3 as platform. Now we want to upgrade to 8.2 but do we need to upgrade to 7.x first? The update manual to 8.2 on the site does not mention 6.x -- Kindly Regards, Jeffrey Everling SURFnet

You have 1 new message from Jeffrey!

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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 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 tha

Re: Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
that as far as I know. 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/mai

Re: Q: recommendation for external USB disk

2010-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
d to a kernel 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.goldma

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
the defaults to "NO" and include a pkg-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 loo

Re: spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
w. Thank you both for your help on getting me to maintain my system better. 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...@freebsd.org"

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 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

spamassassin Y2010 bug

2010-01-01 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
discussion on the SA 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 Goldbe

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 fo

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
. I prefer 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/l

Re: named issue

2009-09-25 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ilservers are making 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 Goldbe

Re: What should be backed up?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
es with rsync. 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...@freebsd.org"

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 cr

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
ers on desktops that were 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.

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
probably move away from having your private network be .lan. Instead use .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

Re: Sendmail Masqurading and root mails

2009-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ur mail .mc file. 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...@freebsd.org"

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

2009-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
nsive comments in the code should make it clear what 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: feedback, comments on this php-delimiter scrubbing program?

2009-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
really take the pointers from 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&

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 "" ... the example i added to my test file was simply the 2 bytes "<" and "?". so if you have a stray " Back in the days when

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I still have 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 &qu

Re: Secure unsalted or fixed salt symmetric encryption?

2009-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
o be the target of attack. 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 &q

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

2009-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
27; mailer 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

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: mergemaster -U overwriting modified files

2009-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ad just assumed 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 Goldberghtt

Re: ntp problem

2009-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
about this pool 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/freeb

Re: portupgrade question

2009-04-07 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
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-questions@freebs

Re: Quirk with latex-suite]

2009-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
e it a try). If you don't get 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 Goldberg

Re: Can stock syslog do hostA -> fileA?

2009-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
MONTH/$DAY/$FACILITY-$YEAR$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 Goldberghtt

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: sendmail not listening on port 465

2009-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
You can (and should) simply 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 u

Wierd Port Problem

2009-01-24 Thread Jeffrey R. Hellem
I aborted a make now it will not make php5-dba [r...@server /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba]# make ===> PHPizing for php5-dba-5.2.8 cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba/work/php-5.2.8/ext/dba *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/databases/php5-dba. the work direc

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

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: 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 u

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 __

bash versus sh test builtin

2009-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
mount-rsnap]$ 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.

Re: Portsnap "Not Found" Issues

2009-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
or two before trying 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 t

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 /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.c

Firewalls using a DNSbl (and distributed ssh attacks)

2008-12-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
; from another IP followed by an attempt 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.freebs

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 (us

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 2.1

HW recommendations for light weight server

2008-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ing with an amd64 architecture would make 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 Goldberg

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
emaster.rc. 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/ ___

Re: Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
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/listinfo

Re: Complex text layout

2008-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
with something like within the HEAD portion of the document. The LANG and DIR attributes are documented at http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/attrs.html#lang though that is more of a reference document than a "how to". Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg

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 system

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ould serve me bet 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 Goldberghtt

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

2008-08-22 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
nmap (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

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 wro

Re: How to use dig with an ip list

2008-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
to do 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 Goldberg

Re: How to use dig with an ip list

2008-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
cleaner output. -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: 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 h

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, then

Re: shutdown/reboot suggestion

2008-08-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
if they could be modified to require 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 Goldberg

Re: email disclaimer

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
ed" a 7-STABLE 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 Goldberg

Re: /var full

2008-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
tion of that of the mysql 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
grok this work out 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-ques

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 'diver

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 system.

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 rebo

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 l

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.

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
looking at this very 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

Re: FreeBSD and User Security

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
How to think about security" 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/list

Re: generating random passwords

2008-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
hings like kwallet or other Unixish password management systems. But once again, I recommend that everyone use a proper password management system. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-ques

Re: no reverse DNS causing connectivity problems

2008-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
it a reasonable policy to disallow ssh 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 h

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 {} \+ -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 ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials

2008-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
like the old BSDie, use it. If you like the new logo, 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 mail

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, th

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-29 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
n mind the next 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://w

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 486-pent

Re: FreeBSD based router ...

2008-05-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
th using 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 l

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 perfectl

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

2008-05-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ut of this situation. 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

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 yo

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: living with freebsd

2008-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
re tempted to keep closer 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-ques

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 did

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

2008-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
would you 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.o

Problems mounting by label

2008-04-28 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
e to how 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-ques

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
ere some day. If I can deal 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 Goldberg

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
sted, have 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/listin

USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
nd that this has already been done by people who are smarter and more experienced than I am. So recommendations please. -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
eport 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 a

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