Re: config error: mail loops back to me?

2003-05-27 Thread Phillip Smith (personal)
Since you don't give us real information, it's hard to fully understand (or investigate) what is going on. What information could I provide? p. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

NameVirutalHost on multiple IPs not working??

2003-03-28 Thread Phillip Smith
Hi, I'm having a challenge with my Apache NameVirtualHost config... I have my server connected to two networks, ATT and UUNET, the NIC is assigned a ATT IP and is aliased which several others, both ATT and UUNET. That part is working well. When a client requests a site, our DNS returns two IP

remote denial-of-service in XDR encoder/decoder

2003-03-20 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Hi, I'm reading through the latest FreeBSD Security Advisory and I'm left wondering how to proceed with the patch? The following has me a little confused: c) Recompile the operating system as described in URL:http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html. Note that any statically linked

rejected mail hosts?

2003-03-18 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
I've started getting an seemingly large amount of these... last week it was one or two a day, no this: Should I be concerned? Checking for rejected mail hosts: 8 21cn.com 4 xinhuanet.com 4 msa.hinet.net 4 19.com.cn 3 yahoo.com 2 wargameclub.com 2 tamil.com 2

right way to set-up SOA?

2003-03-13 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Hiya, I'm getting some interesting results from dnsreport's tools for checking my domain's SOA and MX related records... (mind you, everything is working well) I'm wondering how, given my scenario, I should set-up the MX record for my domain (and all the domains I host) I only have one

A couple of questions related to the sendmail patch, etc.

2003-03-04 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Hello, A couple of quick questions... I've downloaded the 8.11.6 patch from sendmail.org, and used the instructions they provided [patch -p0 /PATH/TO/sendmail.8.11.6.security.cr.patch], which then prompts me for 'which file to patch.' I'm not clear on which file I _need_ to patch? Or where it

hacking attempts?

2003-03-04 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
I found this in my logs and I'm wondering if this is a hacking attempt? Should I be concerned? Also, if/when I see these, I'd like to add them to a blocked list using /sbin/ipfw, but get the following message when trying this command: # /sbin/ipfw add 1 deny all from

Yikes, how can I get around this?

2003-02-24 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
I'm having a whole world of trouble with sendmail and apache, where previously I've had none. I added some new Mailman aliases to my /etc/aliases file and did 'make'. The process took a very long time. I restarted sendmail. The changes did not seem to take effect, so (stupidly) I remotely

Silly question re: Apache NameVitualHost directive

2003-02-13 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Hi, I'm wondering why/how I can get multiple NameVirtualHost IP addresses to answer? For example, I have one IP listed in the NameVirtualHost directive (e.g. 11.22.33.44), in my VitualHost 'containers' I use that IP like so: VirtualHost 11.22.33.44 etc. For some reason, I've never been able to

RE: (OT) fetchmail question

2003-02-11 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
There's two ways of starting fetchmail up that would suit: First, take a look at the documentation for '@reboot' in crontab(5). Copy that line into each user's crontab and you're all set. That was the ticket, thanks! : ) Cheers, phillip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

(OT) fetchmail question

2003-02-10 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Hiya, Just wondering if anyone has a suggestion for an elegant way to start fetchmail back up for any/all users (with a .fetchmailrc file in their home dir), after a system reboot? Would a script in rc.d/ be the way to go? FreeBSD 4.7 p. -- Phillip To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

arplookup messages? now what have I done?

2003-02-06 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
I recently added some aliases to my ipconfig and now I'm getting these system messages? Should I be concerned? (FreeBSD 4.6) Feb 3 02:24:23 freedom /kernel: arplookup XXX.XXX.XX.XX failed: host is not on local network Feb 3 00:17:35 freedom sm-mta[94]: gethostbyaddr(XXX.XXX.XX.XX) failed: 1

RE: arplookup messages? now what have I done?

2003-02-06 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Hi Michael, My network topology skills are limited... does this mean the following: - my default gateway is on a 255.255.255.240 subnet - so is my devices real address - there is another device listed there (de0), no problems (internal) So, if I change the aliased devices to 0xff0

RE: arplookup messages? now what have I done?

2003-02-06 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Hmmm, I'm confused If you want to have your aliases attached to the tl0 interface, you need to use addresses in that range. So, something like: ifconfig_tl0_alias3=inet XXX.82.15.210 netmask 0x That's what I have, and I'm getting those funny arplookup error messages. The

RE: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs?

2003-01-31 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
Much appreciated. : ) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Kevin Stevens Sent: January 29, 2003 3:55 PM To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs? On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lowell

FW: A question about umask, groups and classes

2003-01-31 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
** re-post ** Hi there, What I'm trying to accomplish is - to have a group of users called 'developers' - read/write access to all files created by any member of that group by each member of that group. I believe in the past I've accomplished this via a umask of 002, but I don't recall where I

RE: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs?

2003-01-29 Thread Phillip Smith (mailing list)
See reply below... To create a somewhat redundant network connection, my friend has connected to business level ADSL connections at his home (32 IPs each). So, he has two routers, on two different networks (ATT/UUNET) and what he's doing is multi-homing his NIC cards and via some

portsentry

2003-01-29 Thread Phillip Smith
Quick question... What's the best way to start portsentry on reboot? Many thanks, phillip. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

A question about umask, groups and classes

2003-01-27 Thread Phillip Smith
Hi there, What I'm trying to accomplish is - to have a group of users called 'developers' - read/write access to all files created by any member of that group I believe in the past I've accomplished this via a umask of 002, but I don't recall where I put that to have it

RE: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-09 Thread Phillip Smith
to 132, what else can I do? Perhaps I'll try one of these third-party programs? Or switch to ??? at the office for email? On Monday, 6 January 2003 at 8:45:25 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: On Saturday, 4 January 2003 at 20:30:52 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: on 1/4/03 6:50 PM, Stephen

RE: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-09 Thread Phillip Smith
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Phillip Smith Sent: January 9, 2003 10:23 AM To: 'Greg 'groggy' Lehey' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: help! Problems with TAR archives? [snip] What does tar t tell you on the FreeBSD side

RE: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-06 Thread Phillip Smith
On Saturday, 4 January 2003 at 20:30:52 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: on 1/4/03 6:50 PM, Stephen Hovey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote: Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? freedom# tar -xf www.tar tar: Skipping to next file header

help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-04 Thread Phillip Smith
Hi, Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? freedom# tar -xf www.tar tar: Skipping to next file header... tar: Unknown file type '' for —çÓîïæ8˟ܫ»ß[+î¯n·Ñ_}û†íÒMÂ2žð±çÕV´2¬£8(UvjÛu¾ßש¦…ä, extracted as normal file tar: Skipping to next file header... I don't understand

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-04 Thread Phillip Smith
this may have happened? Any way to test? p. on 1/4/03 6:50 PM, Stephen Hovey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: windows ftp defaults to ascii more, not binary, so its adds a \r to each \n - you might save your tar files if you upload ascii to get them stripped out again. On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip

HELP (or, now I've done it!) Vinum, RAID, and drivefailure...

2002-11-19 Thread Phillip Smith (3BAGSMEDIA)
Hoping that the gods are with me and that you knowledgeable people can assist me with this _really_ big screw up... FreeBSD4.6-stable I was setting up Vinum (rather successfully I might add) until last when I tried to configure a second mirror with two different drives... All I can tell you is