Re: Running vsftpd standalone vs inetd

2005-03-06 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi Pat, I wrote this to startup vsftpd. It is not the prettiest script and I am sure there is a way to do it better but it will give you a start. Place it in your /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory and make it executable. #!/bin/sh echo -n 'vsftpd' case $1 in start)

Re: FreeBSD for the organization

2005-03-08 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I do not know what to say. Your question is really vague, can you be more specific? I learned by reading the documentation at http://www.mysql.com Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: to my fellow peers; hello. i'm the board member of this organization. so far i'm using mysql databases for our forum and

cvsup'ing from 4.10 to 5.3.

2005-03-08 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I was curious as to if it is possible to cvsup from 4.10 to 5.3 (kernel and userland tools). Has anyone done this? Does it work well? Should I avoid doing this on a production box? Thank you. - Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: simple www forum software ?

2005-03-11 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I really like PunBB which can be found at http://www.punbb.org. It can store date in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite (which may be best for your needs). YaBB may be flat file. It can be located here: yabbforum.com Take care. Frank Bonnet wrote: Hi I'm searching for a simple www forum software

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I really doubt that it is possible. I would look at OpenExhange: http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/ Christian Tischler wrote: Hi, I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware virtual

How to avoid forkbomb?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi, After reading this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=308, I decided to give the forkbomb script a try which is below: #!/bin/sh $0 $0 The system was unresponsive for a couple minutes but then FreeBSD killed the script and the system was

Re: How to avoid forkbomb?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I apologize, I did not mention what version I was running. Here it is: 5.3-RELEASE-p5 Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Hi, After reading this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=308, I decided to give the forkbomb script a try which is below: #!/bin/sh $0 $0

Re: Failure with php4 and libgd support

2005-03-19 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi Alexander, PHP actually comes with libgd bundled now. Just use --with-gd (but you may not even have to do that). You do not need the external library. Alexander Chamandy wrote: I take it noone can help me with this? On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:27:54 -0500, Alexander Chamandy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
J.D. I really like the two following books: 1. Complete FreeBSD (ISBN: 0596005164) 2. Absolute BSD (ISBN: 1886411743) Regards, Ryan J.D. Bronson wrote: I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble locally. (My wife is looking

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Isn't it supposed to be ipv6_enable=NONE I could be wrong. andrew clarke wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote: To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6. I suppose it would be a

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Bill, These instructions have always worked for me: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/static/installation.html The important thing is to make sure you use gmake when compiling. Here is a quick install that I modified to work on BSD: ./configure gmake su gmake install pw useradd postgres mkdir

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Bill, These instructions have always worked for me: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/static/installation.html The important thing is to make sure you use gmake when compiling. Here is a quick install that I modified to work on BSD

Re: SCSI Hard drive MEDIUM ERROR

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Would the excesive FTP load cause this? I was downloading mp3's over LAN so I was getting 7 mbit speed. Would this cause the disks to do this? Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive

Re: SCSI Hard drive MEDIUM ERROR

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
. Is there anything else that I can do? Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive that is 75% full. (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:381b12 csi:ff,ff,ff,ff asc:11,1 (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Read retries

Re: SCSI Hard drive MEDIUM ERROR

2004-11-23 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
This is what produced the output: camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3 I ended up using the utility on my SCSI controller to remap the bad blocks. For the moment it is working fine. J.D. Bronson wrote: At 09:45 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote: In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said

Are there man pages for the C++ header files?

2004-11-29 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Are there man pages for the C++ header files? I found some but other do not work. man math - shows math.h man string - shows string.h man iostream - cannot be found Is there a better way to look at all of them? I guess that I am looking for a fuction table like document. I would also like to use

SSL Certificate generation for vsftpd on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-06 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
How can I generate a .pem certificate to use for SSL/TLS with vsftpd. This is all that I could find: puppy# cd /usr/share/ssl/certs puppy# make vsftpd.pem umask 77 ; \ PEM1=`/bin/mktemp /tmp/openssl.XX` ; \ PEM2=`/bin/mktemp /tmp/openssl.XX` ; \ /usr/bin/openssl req -newkey rsa:1024

Re: SSL Certificate generation for vsftpd on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-06 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Also ... What ports does FTPS need open? Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: How can I generate a .pem certificate to use for SSL/TLS with vsftpd. This is all that I could find: puppy# cd /usr/share/ssl/certs puppy# make vsftpd.pem umask 77 ; \ PEM1=`/bin/mktemp /tmp/openssl.XX` ; \ PEM2=`/bin/mktemp

BIND 9 on a dynamic ip address

2005-04-10 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am hoping to set up a DNS server for my home network just for the sake of learning BIND. Unfortunately, I have a PPPoE connects (wireless broadband) with a dynamic ip address. At the moment, I use dyndns just so I have a hostname and I would

Re: BIND 9 on a dynamic ip address

2005-04-10 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Thank you for the replies. Ash, can I use my dynamic dns hostname as the domain which actually points to my network? Would that still be trouble? Ash wrote: Andrew P. wrote: Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Hello, I am hoping to set up a DNS server for my home network just for the sake

Re: BIND 9 on a dynamic ip address

2005-04-10 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
the time to help me out. Ash wrote: Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Thank you for the replies. Ash, can I use my dynamic dns hostname as the domain which actually points to my network? Would that still be trouble? Ash wrote: You can use your dynamic host name as the domain, however I'm

Re: BIND 9 on a dynamic ip address

2005-04-10 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Sorry for the typo ... afters should be effects. Oops. :-P. Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: All I am really looking to do is learn DNS and BIND as well as host my own local DNS server for faster DNS lookups within my home network. Would using the invalid LAN domain have any negative afters on my web

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I would love to see a wiki for FreeBSD. I think that it would be really beneficial for the project. It would take some work to establish it but if there were enough participants, it could turn into a very robust documentation project. Some hard work would be required to make the wiki healthy and

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
MikeM wrote: On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote: |A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR). |Some parts are out of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that |could really help. For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily |include a 'typical home user' HOWTO rather

Re: OSDir.com Screenshots of your release

2005-05-13 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Jerry McAllister wrote: Congratulations on your latest release. We'd love to have this release listed in our screenshot gallery (http://shots.osdir.com). Posting your screenshots is an excellent way to promote your product, as submitting is free and our screenshots are seen by thousands of