startup script not working

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Esquardez
Hello. I have been reading the docs but i can see what i'm doing wrong. I also was to read this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-starting-services.html but I am not running a service, just some command that need to be run on start up. I have a shell scr

Help with Difficult Startup Script

2006-01-02 Thread Mike Esquardez
Hello, I am trying to make a script that runs the following commands. This is difficult for me because I dont know how to switch users. Currently these are the commands that I am trying to script. # fetchmail –d 1000 & (this needs to be run as username mik) # su -l root # /home/mik/myfilter & (

Gnokii SMSD and Ports Help

2005-12-28 Thread Mike Esquardez
Hello everybody. I am trying to work out how to install SMSD from ports and not having much luck. I'm jut learning FreeBSD, so my knowledge of ports is not very good. When I make, make install, it only installs Gnokii. After looking around I found the file /usr/ports/comms/gnokii/files/patch-sm

Insecure Web App Hosting

2005-12-14 Thread Mike Esquardez
i have to install a server that will host a "test drive" of a web app on the internet. from my inital look at the app, it looks like it will be a target to be exploited. i am not involved with the code so fixing it is not an option. what i would like to try and do is host it in a manner where i