Hi Gary,
Parts of the filesystem are written by all users - /tmp and /var/tmp.
Users don't often write files there deliberately, but many programs run
by the user do.
With a umask of 002, one user can modify another user's file in these
locations. (The sticky bit only protects against file
Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote:
If your program never frees any memory, then there is never
any garbage to collect.
Last I knew, garbage collection refers to tracking down and
reclaiming allocated memory to which no valid references exist.
The particular example given here is
I need to have ftp access to a machine. I've found pure-ftpd but it was
last updated 2007/02/03. I'm aware that it can function very well
despite that, but I would like the lists suggestion on what to choose to
make ftp access as secure as possible. It will be mainly windows clients
I have recently installed FreeBSD8.0 on my 5 year old HP laptop with
absolute 0 battery backup (behaviour same when batter removed).
Installation works fine but when I try to boot into FreeBSD I get to
the BTX loader screen, after having made any selection and it pauses
for about 15 secs and the
Hi,
I need to have ftp access to a machine. I've found pure-ftpd but it was
Hummm, you want the short answer? Don't enable ftp :)
Ftp only accepts plain text passwords (until you enable things like
kerebos, one time password, etc), so it is not, it cannot be, secure.
SFTP is there, working
I would suggest contacting various IT training facilities in you're
area and inquiring there.
Unfortunately FreeBSD isn't a corporation like Microsoft so
certified training facilities don't exist.
However the FreeBSD Handbook is a VERY good example of how a manual should look:
On 12 March 2010 08:27, Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote:
Hi,
I need to have ftp access to a machine. I've found pure-ftpd but it was
Hummm, you want the short answer? Don't enable ftp :)
Ftp only accepts plain text passwords (until you enable things like
kerebos, one
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On 11/03/2010 16:44:38, Ameed Imad wrote:
I would like to know from where can we get FreeBSD training to become able
to administrate FreeBSD servers.
Formal training courses in FreeBSD administration will be few and far
between. FreeBSD isn't
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:29:13 -0600, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com wrote:
It won't do anything else but a dns slave for maybe 100 domains, mail
and squirrel for 10 domain, not more than 100 users with very low
volume. That's all.
Can you give me your opinions on what would you?
- To
krad skrev 2010-03-12 11:07:
enable sftp in ssh and chroot all the users and make the sftp only accounts
I wrote this guide for work a year or so ago. It was for solaris but it was
using openssh so should work fine on bsd
1. Dont bother with sun ssh it wont work. Opensolaris and later
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On 12/03/2010 10:37:08, Leslie Jensen wrote:
Will Windows users be able to use an ftp client to connect? I've never
implemented ssh with ftp before so I want to clarify for my understanding.
No, they'll need a SSH/SFTP client to be able to connect.
I have the following line in my root cron:
5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org /dev/null
That must hourly adjust system time via NTP.
But I discover that it works from time to time: some days just once, some
days 5-6 times a day I receive e-mail with text like
12 Mar 12:05:05
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Mark Shroyer
subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com wrote:
Bear in mind that the added electricity costs will more than cover the
cost of a new Linksys (or equivalent) router in a few months.
If energy consumption is a concern, you might try one of these:
Антон Клесс skrev 2010-03-12 11:57:
I have the following line in my root cron:
5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org /dev/null
That must hourly adjust system time via NTP.
But I discover that it works from time to time: some days just once, some
days 5-6 times a day I receive e-mail
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@icsmx.com wrote:
The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors
with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB.
It won't do anything else but a dns slave for maybe 100 domains, mail and
squirrel for 10 domain, not
Have the 64bit drivers from nVidia been incorporated into the FreeBSD
ports system yet? I read awhile ago that they were being developed;
however, I have not found them present in the ports system.
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote:
Have the 64bit drivers from nVidia been incorporated into the FreeBSD
ports system yet? I read awhile ago that they were being developed;
however, I have not found them present in the ports system.
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I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely
with my hardware.
Devices are:
HP Ultrium 3-SCSI Q25W at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0)
HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 2.80 at scbus0 target 1 lun 1 (pass1,ch0)
connected
man ntpdate:
-s Divert logging output from the standard output (default) to the
system syslog(3) facility. This is designed primarily for
conve-
nience of cron(8) scripts.
Change your cron job to
5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -s ru.pool.ntp.org
This will
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -0500
Nathan Vidican nat...@vidican.com wrote:
or more specifically, if you don't want to leave ntpd running,
read-up on 'ntpd -q' which mimmicks the behavior of ntpdate but
allows you to use multiple ntp servers.
ntpdate supports multiple servers too, you just
So, while ru.pool.ntp.org is pool of several servers, I have to run it as
5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org
ru.pool.ntp.org /dev/null
to check 3 servers from pool?
2010/3/12 RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:07 -0500
Nathan Vidican
Vishal Kashyap vishal.vi...@gmail.com writes:
Respected Sir,
I am a MCA student. and i'd like to install FreeBSD for development purpose
on my system. But, I've no more information about hardware portion. So,
Please guide me about that. Here, I am sending you my System's hardware
profile;
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:06:45 +0300
Антон Клесс antoniok@gmail.com wrote:
So, while ru.pool.ntp.org is pool of several servers, I have to run
it as
5 * * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate ru.pool.ntp.org ru.pool.ntp.org
ru.pool.ntp.org /dev/null
to check 3 servers from pool?
You can different
In the last episode (Mar 12), Matthew Seaman said:
On 12/03/2010 10:37:08, Leslie Jensen wrote:
Will Windows users be able to use an ftp client to connect? I've never
implemented ssh with ftp before so I want to clarify for my
understanding.
No, they'll need a SSH/SFTP client to be able
Hello List,
I try to locate (potential) bottlenecks at a web server:
-
% uname -a
FreeBSD bbserver.ipt.ru 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #3 r203959: Sun Feb 21
11:53:57 MSK 2010 r...@bbserver.ipt.ru:/z/obj/z/src/sys/BBSERVER amd64
% top -jd1 | head -20
last pid: 47907; load averages:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell
richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote:
I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files
(including
many port/makefiles) have the wrong date.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Richard DeLaurell wrote:
I made a big mistake the upshot of which is that many of my files
(including
many port/makefiles) have the wrong date.
Which date, where? Modification date? What is
I just freshly installed gpodder from ports (which I updated on
Tuesday), but I get the following errors thrown at me when I try to
start it:
gpodder
Traceback (most recent call last):
File /usr/local/bin/gpodder, line 162, in module
from gpodder import gui
File
I am looking forward to engage in FreeBSD by implementing ext3-support
and a suspend to disk facility. If there would be any interest I also
ported my checkroot facility (http://www.elstel.com/checkroot/).
However all these little configuration issues like UTF-8 support are
out of the scope
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On 12.03.2010 17:07, Dennis Glatting wrote:
I have had problems with tapes under FreeBSD -- and other operating
systems. :) My suggestion is to make sure you are running a patched
kernel (i.e., RELENG_8) and to make sure there are no interface
Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like
Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD):
http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm
Is there a nice guide that explains how to install FreeBSD onto a
headless system (such as one of these small devices) via
Hi, Elmar--
On Mar 12, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Elmar Stellnberger wrote:
I am looking forward to engage in FreeBSD by implementing ext3-support
and a suspend to disk facility.
mount_ext2fs or fusefs ought to work with ext3 filesystems.
zzz or acpiconf -s 4 ought to address the suspend to disk
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com writes:
Is there a nice guide that explains how to install FreeBSD onto a
headless system (such as one of these small devices) via serial port?
It's documented in the installation chapter of the Handbook.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software
Does it make any difference if one adds packages to a new system
before or after using cvsup to bring the patch level up to date?
I ask this because it takes about half an hour to go
from nothing to a bootable system via a script but it can take
several hours for cvsub to update the
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like
Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD):
http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm
Is there a nice guide that explains how to
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:39:34 +
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com
wrote:
Have the 64bit drivers from nVidia been incorporated into the
FreeBSD ports system yet? I read awhile ago that they were being
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I'm considering to use puppet to manage about ~50 FreeBSD servers with about ~5
jails on each of them.
Is there any best practices/receipts/Howto's to do that?
I'm interested on something to have new jails auto deployed and configured with
some polices.
Thank you!
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:39:34 +
George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com articulated:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com
wrote:
Have the 64bit drivers from nVidia been incorporated into the
On 3/12/2010 2:39 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote:
Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like
Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD):
http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm
Is
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:44, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com wrote:
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wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 06:39, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.com
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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Carmel
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 16:37, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:44, George Liaskos geo.lias...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Jason Garrett kinged...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 06:39, George Liaskos
Does it make any difference if one adds packages to a new system
before or after using cvsup to bring the patch level up to date?
By bringing the patch level up to date I assume you mean a tag such
as this one:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0
in your standard-supfile file, and then
Does it make any difference if one adds packages to a new system
before or after using cvsup to bring the patch level up to date?
By bringing the patch level up to date I assume you mean a tag such
as this one:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0
in your standard-supfile file, and then
RW == RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes:
RW You can different servers like this:
RW 0.ru.pool.ntp.org
RW 1.ru.pool.ntp.org
RW 2.ru.pool.ntp.org
RW 3.ru.pool.ntp.org
But really, why are you using ntpdate and not just ntpd?
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On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:33:02 -0600
Richard DeLaurell richard.delaur...@gmail.com wrote:
I haven't tested it, but it may be that the error occurs only when
upgrading a port; make complains that the new port is older than
the existing.
In port building the terms older and newer usually refer
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To: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws
Cc: Mark Shroyer subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com;
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Replacing Home Router With PC
Yep!
Hello FreeBSD users,
The following link:
http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/support/resources/OS/OS_Comp_AMD_2.cfm
shows FreeBSD 7.0 compatibility with (IDE Drive). I would like to
use SATA drives. Have you tested new FreeBSD versions?
Thanks in advance!
Juan Carlos Sanchez-Leanos
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