Off Topic. DNS, Android.
Hello. I am sorry if the following 2 questions could sound too stupid. a) Normally any Domain name registered has to have 2 Nameservers. Some registry like the one responsible for .ORG requires 2 at least to propagate the domain. In teh case of .COM that is not a requirement, one nameserver could work. If for some reason I have 2 of them and one is configured to point to SERVER A , and the other to SERVER B. Differenet places, same configuration. Is there any preference over what is PRIMARY NAMESERVER or SECONDARY NAMESERVER? I mean, Primary is the one used mainly? b) I am looking for good list like this one for people developing, learning about Android Development. Any suggestion ? I am trying to setup a Freebsd machine for developing for Android, if possible. Thanks in advance. JB ___ 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
Firewall, blocking POP3
Hello all. I am sorry if the question is too basic. I have a personal small machine running FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #0: It runs as my web and email server for a cuple of domains. NO clients no other users have access to it. Is there any , easy/faster way to stop POP3 from being working. I am running qpopper to be able to download emailes. I decided to use sendmail since only a few accounts are there and I do not need more but in the last days the server has been under a big attack where people is trying to guess users and passwords. I am using a strong schema of passwords so no problem on that but I rather to be sure . I was thinking on the following options. - Stopping the service, port 110 to respond and open it everytime I want to download email. - Install a firewall and block all the IP's but they are trying from a lot different ones. - Maybe changing the port for pop3 and change all my devices to use another port? In case I need to start from zero and install a newer version I can do it, no problem at all but I am not sure if that helps to do things a easier way. Maybe install a complete different schema of sending receiving email (perhaps do not use sendmail to send , change to postfix and use IMAP instead of pop3. Would that help? Thank in advance for all your comments and help. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Firewall, blocking POP3
Hello. Thanks a lot!. Simple an elegant solution. I just did that and of course it worked I just was wondering... what if I need to have the service working BUT want to block those break attemps? IN this and other services. ? My guess is that it is a never ending process? I mean, block one, block another, another, etc? What the people who has big servers running for hosting services are doing? Or you just have a policy of strng passworrds, server up-todate and let the attemps to try forever? Thanks for the solution Mr Robert. Jorge Biquez At 01:32 p.m. 30/05/2012, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed May 30 13:16:37 2012 Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:08:30 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx Cc: Subject: Firewall, blocking POP3 Hello all. I am sorry if the question is too basic. I have a personal small machine running FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #0: It runs as my web and email server for a cuple of domains. NO clients no other users have access to it. Is there any , easy/faster way to stop POP3 from being working. I am running qpopper to be able to download emailes. I decided to use sendmail since only a few accounts are there and I do not need more but in the last days the server has been under a big attack where people is trying to guess users and passwords. I am using a strong schema of passwords so no problem on that but I rather to be sure . The mail -server- you use is irrelevant to how users retrieve mail. you can use sendmail and qpopper, or sendmail and an IMAP server, or sendmail and webmail app, or postix and qpopper, or exim and qpopper, etc. All you have to do to disable qpopper is edit comment out the line in /etc/inetd.conf, and SIGHUP inetd. To re-enable when you need it, uncomment the line, and SIGHUP inetd again. ___ 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
Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?
Hello all. I am sorry if this is kind OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. Please let me know if this question should be moved to FREEBSD-CHAT list. As I have mentioned before I am helping a school , non profit with their IT issues. As always there are some experts that controls everything and do not let you change anything because is their kingdom. Anyway, there we have Internet service from a cable company and they have some cisco routers to receive the access and from there some Cisco Switches. In the classrooms we have very old PCs running XP. In some of my classes I am using Freebsd and Ubuntu running on a USB. So each student have one USB and they work that way booting from their 4GB USB stick. (it is slow but it has worked until now). One of the managers asked me for help to block some web sites were some students in the other lab and people that helps there waste bandwithd seeing videos, movies (youtube, cuevana, serieid, etc) and spend lot of time on facebook also. Our bandwidth is only 4Mb and you understand that with a few that are seeing movies and videos the rest of us can not work at all. Thing is that other manager (you know how those things are sometimes) do not want us to do that since his guru and expert is the one that controls all the Network. So the best we could get until now is that we can do all we can without touching the Cisco routers and until now not administrative password for change anything on the PCs (that could change one we prove that we can have the solution and show it to the board of people that runs the place). The Internet provider gives the DNS servers to use and one of the routers gives the DHCP service. First thing I thought was to change the DNS servers and use the one from my small office (running Freebsd 7.3) using Bind there and simply block there pointing the sites to nothing in the Apache configuration. It does not work. Once changed the DNS values the PC does not resolve anything. It was a quick test but that does not work. Not sure if Internet provider is blocking in some way that we can not use other DNS server but theirs. Other solution I was thinking while coming home was to convert one machine there to a freebsd server and use it as a router (if they let me) so that way I can control from there and do filtering. Issue is that maybe they do not let me but connect the server as an extra machine without replacing the main router so in that case I would have 2 DHCP servers doing the same service in the same lan and could be conflicts I guess. Another solution a friend suggested was to buy one small router (from my money for sure) and let that small router to receive the internet (RJ45) and from that with the small 4 port switch included to provide the internet to the switches to feed the labs , library and administrative offices. I have never use one of those and I am short on money so I would like to explore other alternatives before if possible. Finally another solution would be to install in each PC a kind of Nanny software but only if free, otherwise is not a solution (I do not know of any yet but will do searching the following hours). I know all can be solved if the guru-expert guy would let me have passwords from PC's, router, etc but that won't be an option since they think we would try to take the control of those services (we do not want that) so the burocracy could be a problem there. He have told them that to block is not possible (they have been working that way for years). So, in this kind of schema. Do you think FreeBSD (even linux) could be of help if we do not have access to routers, switches and can not install new software on the PCs( the ones running XP)? Any comments you have that could help me to solve this challenge? Thanks in advance for your time and comments. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Kind OFF Topic. FreeBSD for Blocking URLS? Nanny?
Hello. Yes I know and we ill do our best to solve it... but if that does not work, then I still will try to solve it technically in some way if possible. Jorge Biquez At 10:42 p.m. 09/04/2012, Robert Huff wrote: Jorge Biquez writes: Any comments you have that could help me to solve this challenge? Yes. You do not have a technical problem. You have a management problem. Fix that, and the technical issues will be (comparatively) trivial. Robert Huff ___ 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: Software Development using Freebsd.
Hello all. I have been reading in detail all your comments and advice. Thank you very much for your time. I have clear vision now of what do I need to do. I comment today to my students the help we were getting and all of them send you a BIG THANK YOU VERY MUCH comment. I hope that wieth your help and comments I could help them more. Thanks again to all. Have a nice day/night. Jorge Biquez At 06:23 p.m. 07/02/2012, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 6, 2012 6:13 PM, C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Now we will try to have a graphical mode in Freebsd. With that we would like to be able to develop graphical applications for Windows (we all know that's the market and here some companies is what they are looking), so maybe sound crazy but I am looking to develop applications for Windows without using WIndows or Microsofot products at least. Go for Qt. It is a great cross-platform C++ GUI framework, with plugins to SQL databases, networking and everything you would typically need. There's even PyQt, if you want Python bindings. Check out the examples in the Qt distribution too to get an idea: http://developer.qt.nokia.com/doc/qt-4.8/all-examples.html I agree Qt is a great solution however you are probably going to want to ship static binaries to windows clients (only), especially to non-techical end users... otherwise it gets kind of insane, much more challenging than distributing java based apps IMHO. But the IDE is fantastic plus you get a nice integration with webkit. if I remember (been awhile) the license terms are a little different for static, would have to re-read carefully. I don't know about licensing issues w.r.t. static binaries; but you're absolutely right: it's definitely worth looking into. Another cross-platform GUI is wxWidgets (C++, but has Python bindings too). It's not as rich a library as Qt IMHO, but quite nice too. You may want to combine wxWidgets with Poco though (all of this is in ports, btw). -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ 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
Software Development using Freebsd.
Hello all. This is kind of off topic. My apologies in advance. I am helping a non profit organization and giving some classes to prepare students so they can be prepared and try to get a job (they are students also and have the basics concepts already) Anyway, I am interested in teach them to develop some simple applications. From simple ones to destktop ones that access a database, desktop ones that use internet to connect to a remote database and web based ones with a database behind. We have 6 months and the idea is to work a lot remotely. Thin is that I do not want to use any kind of Microsoft products. Some of them do not have modern machines but until now, in previous classs, we could install Freebsd, text mode, and work from there. Now we will try to have a graphical mode in Freebsd. With that we would like to be able to develop graphical applications for Windows (we all know that's the market and here some companies is what they are looking), so maybe sound crazy but I am looking to develop applications for Windows without using WIndows or Microsofot products at least. I have been looking for this for months. First case using Windows but not Microsoft products. I found some options BUT they all were expensive on the deployment. The runtimes were not free and the amount of money to pay was not a good option. Others provide real free excutables for runtimes but the products were expensive. I am now trying to, If possible, have FreeBSD running graphically and then use open source software to develop graphical windows applications. Maybe I am wrong but until now I think my only option is to use Phyton. Is that correct? For what I have searched Python will let me create executables and will let me create Graphical solutions even for other platforms (Mac or LInux or whatever runs Python). Talking with friend, he believes that my best bet is to teach them C or C++ and use some of the options for developing graphically ( I am not a C or C++ expert but I can learn alone). I was wondering if you could give some advie and comments on this. Are you developing commercial applications (including Windows ones) using FreeBsd as your platform? Or Maybe any Linux Distribution? Would you do that with Python or something else? Any extra advice is more than welcomed. Thanks in advanced. Jorge Biquez ___ 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
OFF Topic. FreeBSD SAP Oracle Financials.
Hello all. I am sorry if this is OFF Topic. I am looking for help from more experienced people in these areas. I am looking for a job and one company is looking for people to create a test team (part of the quality assurance team). Their projects is based on SAP and Oracle Financials systems. I used SAP and Oracle Financials some years ago and I do not have a chance to create a lab for me to study them because of the nature of those products. I thought that could help me a lot to try to emulate a lab installing Oracle as a database under my Freebsd personal server . That way maybe I can at least recreate the database schema (if I get it) and try to understand how it works and maybe , as part of the study , try to run reports and populate the database in some way (maybe PHP or Ruby?). Questions. - IS there any version of Oracle that I could install under FreeBSD (actually on 7.3)? - Since I am in the process of learning to be more prepared for new projects as an Independent IT consultant, I would like to be able to learn tools that help me in the projects/job search. So IN this case, assuming that I can recreate someway with Oracle or MySQl or Postgresql the tables I need to study and assuming also previous experience on programming How would you see to use Ruby for a crash course on accessing and web publishing the information on those tables? (actually I continue the process of learning Python but I am not ready , yet, for the web part). If You think Ruby could be faster , any resources you point me to are really appreciated. - Finally . If you know of places of where I can get information, free if possible, about the actual version of Oracle Financials and SAP. Technical manual and the operational , administrative ones. I would love to hear where. I have tried of course the companies for SAP and Oracle financials but at least from here I can not access anything if I am not a consultant certified by them. Any suggestions? I know this could sound as a waste of time project (trying to emulate the operation of SAP and Oracle in some part) but for sure I can not have access to a real application and besides with the Ruby learning I guess I could be in better position for future projects. As always thanks in advance for your help and comments. Jorge Biquez ___ 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
OFF Topic. FreeBSD and Android Development
Hello all. First of all a great year to all. My best wishes. I was wondering if you can give your advice and comments about the following. I am interested in learning about Android Development. I am searching information on the web, documentation about how to start learning about Android Development. Any links or tips to look at are more than welcomed. Talking with a friend he told me he is learning using some tools he found but he is running them under Ubuntu. If any of you is developing for Android using Freebsd as your platform. Can you tell me about your experience? Tips and advice on what to use to start are welcome. I am not sure if this kind of off topic could be of interested to the list so please feel free to answer me directly . Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Solution for school lab just a thought
Hello all. Sergio. Would you mind to contact me offline (maybe some people in the list won't be interested) I help communities and non profit (very poor) organizations here and would like to know more about your schema and results. Here also we get donattions of hardware. The old 386 and so, computers that big companies do not use anymore and with that we have to work. We are also trying to giving the kids a chance to learn something else so they can compete in a hard job market. Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx At 04:09 p.m. 31/10/2011, Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 31 October 2011 10:56:44 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: You should look into the Freebsd port qjail. At our school lab all the pcs have ms/windows on the hard drive with the putty client installed. Students use putty to get logged into a jail on a single Freebsd system. Each student can practice installing ports, packages, or one of the desktop window environments in their private jail. The goal being to teach students to be system administrators. Humm Interesting... In my case the computers runs FreeBSD (diskless) and they need do access windows system. In a public school, where the $$$ is the main problem, I think this is the solution. Here the school has computers (a lot) that receives from donation, projects... from time to time the problem is the software... What to teach to children??? word, exel, powerpoint, msn??? is this teaching??? I think that children (and teenagers too), must face problems and resolve them. the world belongs tho those that work in group. those who can get answers, so an account in a desktop environment (in my case: gnome) with several program languages, internet access, text composing (libreoffice), postscript printing (cups), some IDE (anjuta, eclipse), multimedia (ffmpeg, avidemux2, openshot, dvdstyler) can make the difference. They can download small videos from their phones, and produce digital media, share it on DVDs... the home lesson is send via email (everyone has email).. One problem is hand-witten... no one wants to hand write now... Those who foresee the future, can learn how to code GUI interface, and so produce software for the community. They can learn how to install admin FreeBSD servers, share files in the network, use webdav to share files in internet... and so on... There is a need for people with this knowledge... The society will buy from the students as long as they produce good software.. What is the other alternative??? finish high school and than look for a job??? XXI century there is no jobs, there will be working people... Those who can succeed working for himself will rule.. That is what I teach to my boys... They worked hard (12 years)... and now they rule.. Do you really think that this world crisis will end in 10 years??? Just a thought... Sergio Picture an arrow whistling through the wind, undisturbed, and hitting the bullseye dead in its perfect center, That's what your thought is to me, Sergio. +10 ! Thank you. -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) ___ 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 ___ 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: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI
Hello all. Thanks for you comments and advice. Jorge Biquez At 10:55 p.m. 12/10/2011, Carl Johnson wrote: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mxwrote: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have any other ? (I do not know what could be). This is one of those ask a hundred different people get 100 different answers. I prefer KDE which would work well for you because both KDE and VirtualBox are built on QT4, a rather large system. KDE isn't really that heavy though relatively speaking. VirtualBox runs great for me and does all you indicated. What do you think is the best option to save hardware resources and accomplish this task ? Something important is that this lab machine will be connected directly with the ISP (public IP's) and I will need to connect remotely to control the server and the other OS's. You will probably want a CPU and chipset that has hardware assist for virtualization, and plenty of RAM for both host and guests. Disk choice should reflect your data capacity, redundancy, and speed needs. A good quality Intel NIC is always nice. If the OP is going to run a 64-bit OS, then hardware vitualization assist is *required* for VirtualBox to handle it. It is not required when VirtualBox is running a 32-bit OS. Just another minor detail to consider. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ 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 ___ 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
Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI
Hello all. I hope this question does not sound too stupid. I am sorry in advance if you think so. Since version 2.x and until now all I have been using FreeBsd as a server, helping a small ISP company of a friend , basic web services, email, dns etc. All I have been doing has been done in the text interface, the pure shell. In fact, I have to confess that I have never tried any of the GUIs available. For some reasons not important to mention I need to have a server that can virtualize some other OS's (Linux, Freebsd and Windows). This will be used as a lab for some personal projects. Of course I thought to have as the base FreeBsd Version 8.2 and have the virtual machines running inside, was wondering if Virtualbox runs fine there. The virtual machines need to be used with their graphical interface (Gnome , Kde and windows). So I guess that the best and need is to have a graphical interface also running with the base (FreeBsd 8.2). Is that correct? If so, here are some questions: It is better to install KDE or GNOME as the base GUI or it is better to have any other ? (I do not know what could be). What do you think is the best option to save hardware resources and accomplish this task ? Something important is that this lab machine will be connected directly with the ISP (public IP's) and I will need to connect remotely to control the server and the other OS's. If I do not need necessarily a GUI running with FreeBSD, what do you suggest to use? I have to mention that I have done the first phase of my testing using XP and inside of it running VirtualBox with FreeBsd and Linux distros without problems... BUT... OF COURSE even with the firewall, antivirus , latest patches and all the protection schema, yesterday the antivirus start telling the machine has virus and seems it was comprmised, of course I can not continue using it and it was not the idea to have that, but for the 3 dyas of testing what I need to do was enough. By the way the hardware I will use I guess it is enough since it is for testing only and I won't be connected remotely all the time. The machine is an old Pentium Core 2 Duo, 2GB of ram (its maximum) and a hard disk of 500gb, also it has an Nvdia card 256Mb (can use the one with the motherboard if that is a problem) The motherboard is an INtel one. It runs perectly FreeBSD using it in text mode. As a curios information something in the motherboard maybe is not compatible with UBuntu . As always thanks in advance for your comments and your time. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: two networks in one server?
Hello all. Another solution I have seen some clients use... a router that accepts different ISP's in this case ADSL. The equipment does the job and integrates all the internet services so the internal network see them as only one). I guess there are equipments of 24-8 and 16 connections. I hope this helps. At 06:38 a.m. 09/10/2011, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 09/10/2011 10:36, pepe wrote: I'm just asking before trying if it possible to use two network uplinks in one server so other would be just backup way in? I have currently connection from two ISPs and server is up with one connection. Is it possible to add another nic and wire that to connection from another isp? So isp 1 would be in normal use in/out, but isp 2 could be used connecting in? This is a very commonly asked question around the Internet. The answer is -- it's a lot harder to do properly than you might think. Requires understanding Internet routing protocols like BGP and you will need the cooperation of both ISPs to make it all work. However there is a light version which might work for you. Keywords here are policy based routing. In this case you can use firewall software to forward packets by an alternate gateway. This only affects the outward path from your system: no good at all if all the incoming traffic is using an uplink that fails, but you can use it to load balance across multiple links. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matt...@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW ___ 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: A quality operating system
Hello. Very interesting... let's see the answers from the experts By the way maybe answer me off topic... so then what was your choice of OS? Jorge Biquez At 11:47 p.m. 19/08/2011, you wrote: Hi, I make decisions about hardware and software for those who work with me. Talking with my second in command this morning, we reached a quandary. Ron is completely pro-Linux and pro-Windows, and against FreeBSD. What is odd about this is that he's the biggest UNIX fanatic I know, not only all types of UNIX (dating back quite some time) but also all Unix-like OSen. I told him I was considering FreeBSD because of greater stability and security. He asked me a question that stopped me dead: What is a quality operating system? In his view, and now mine, a quality operating system is reliable, streamlined and clearly organized. Over the past few years, FreeBSD has drifted off-course in this department, in his view. Let me share the points he made that I consider valid (I have deleted two as trivial, and added one of my own): (1) Lack of direction. FreeBSD is still not sure whether it is a desktop OS, or a server OS. It is easy for the developers to say well, it's whatever you want, but this makes the configuration process more involved. This works against people who have to use these operating systems to get anything done. In his view, a crucial metric here is the ability to estimate time required for any task. It may be a wide window, but it should not be as wide as anywhere from 30 minutes to 96 hours. In his experience, FreeBSD varies widely on this front because in the name of keeping options open, standardization of interface and process has been deprecated. (2) Geek culture. Geek culture is the oldest clique on the internet. Their goal is to make friends with no one who is not like them. As a result, they specialize in the arcane, disorganized and ambiguous. This forces people to go through the same hoops they went through. This makes them happy, and drives away people who need to use operating systems to achieve real-world results. They reduce a community to hobbyists only. (3) Horrible documentation. This is my specialty and has been since the early 1980s. The FreeBSD documentation is wordy, disorganized, inconsistent and highly selective in what it mentions. It is not the product of professionals but it also not the product of volunteers with a focus on communication. It seems pro-forma, as in, it's in the documentation, so don't bother me. The web site compounds this error by pointing us in multiple directions instead of to a singular resource. It is bad enough that man pages are separate from your main documentation tree, but now you have doubled or trebled the workload required of you without any benefit to the end user. (4) Elitism. To a developer, looking at some inconsistent or buggy interface and thinking, If they can't do this, they don't belong using FreeBSD anyway is too easy of a thought. Yet it looks to me like this happens quite a bit, and this is for the elite has become the default orientation. This is problematic in that there are people out there who are every bit as smart as you, or smarter, but are not specialized in computers. They want to use computers to achieve results; you may want to play around with your computer as an activity, but that is not so for everyone. (5) Hostile community. For the last several weeks, I have been observing the FreeBSD community. Two things stand out: many legitimate questions go ignored, and for others, response is hostile resulting in either incorrect answers, haughty snubs, and in many cases, a refusal to admit when the problem is FreeBSD and not the user. In particular, the community is oblivious to interfaces and chunks of code that have illogical or inconsistent interfaces, are buggy, or whose function does not correspond to what is documented (even in the manpages). (6) Selective fixes. I am guilty of this too, sometimes, but when you hope to build an operating system, it is a poor idea. Programmers work on what they want to work on. This leaves much of the unexciting stuff in a literal non-working state, and the entire community oblivious to it or uncaring. As Ron detailed, huge parts of FreeBSD are like buried land mines just waiting to detonate. They are details that can invoke that 30 minute to 96 hour time period instantly, usually right before you need to get something done. (7) Disorganized website. The part of the FreeBSD project that should set the tone for the community, the FreeBSD website, reflects every one of these criticisms. It is inconsistent and often disorganized; there is no clear path; resources are duplicated and squirreled away instead of organized and made into a process for others to follow. It is arcane, nuanced and cryptic for the purpose of keeping the community elitist, hobbyist and hostile to outsiders. In addition, huge portions of it break on a regular basis and seem to go
Re: A quality operating system
Hello. ;=) Thanks for the comments.. :=) No, I am curious what they decided to use that covers all the points , at least better that FreeBSD. Seriously I would like to see or hear about the comparison chart between all OSs. And a question arrive to my mind... if for some reason, I know it is impossible, but if for some reason FreeBSD would stop existing... serious users of FreeBSD, what would be your next OS? Why? Take care all JB At 09:09 p.m. 20/08/2011, Ryan Coleman wrote: I use FreeBSD 9, 8.2 and 8.1. OS X 10.7 (Lion) Windows 7 Professional (64-bit), Windows Vista Ultimate (64-bit) and Windows XP Professional (32-bit). iOS 4, Blackberry 6 and Android 2.2.2. Oh, you weren't asking me. Sorry. :-p On Aug 20, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. I insist Can we know what was the OS you all decided to use ? Thanks Jorge Biquez ___ 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 ___ 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
Disable or limit email in root?
Hello all. Is it possible that the root user can be limited to send email only for activities realetd to the server and only locally? or limit the amount of root user can send. I have a 7.3 small server working as secondary dns, 3 domains for http and email. very few traffic. Using sendmail, the default one. IN some way a spammer could tell root to send LOT emailes. I detect it , I guess when they started.I did not know how they did it, apparently with a program injection or similar strategy since it seems they do not enter the server, for what I have checked until now. Can be restricted the root user? ON the side of the OS or the sendmail. Suggestions on how to avoid this again. The password for root was VERY strong. I do not think they access it. I guess when I configured the email and server let something open so root was forced to do that. Thanks in advance Jorge BIquez ___ 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: Disable or limit email in root?
Hello. I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of address... JB At 11:07 p.m. 26/05/2011, you wrote: I don't remember for sendmail but if you install postfix root cannot receive any email Le 27/05/2011 05:03, Jorge Biquez a écrit : Hello all. Is it possible that the root user can be limited to send email only for activities realetd to the server and only locally? or limit the amount of root user can send. I have a 7.3 small server working as secondary dns, 3 domains for http and email. very few traffic. Using sendmail, the default one. IN some way a spammer could tell root to send LOT emailes. I detect it , I guess when they started.I did not know how they did it, apparently with a program injection or similar strategy since it seems they do not enter the server, for what I have checked until now. Can be restricted the root user? ON the side of the OS or the sendmail. Suggestions on how to avoid this again. The password for root was VERY strong. I do not think they access it. I guess when I configured the email and server let something open so root was forced to do that. Thanks in advance Jorge BIquez ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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: Disable or limit email in root?
At 11:27 p.m. 26/05/2011, Jon Radel wrote: On 5/27/11 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello. I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of address... And what does it say in the logs? We'll help you interpret them if you wish, but right now I've heard nothing but speculation and I've heard nothing to distinguish between: 1) Somebody sent e-mail with root@ as the return address, or 2) Somebody generated e-mail with a process running as root, or 3) both. Your sendmail log should tell you where sendmail thinks the e-mail came from and where it thinks it sent it. Or you could start by telling us HOW you detected this problem. --Jon Radel j...@radel.com Hello 1) Somebody sent e-mail with root@ as the return address, or - They send it from the machine, a big queue has to be deleted before processing. 2) Somebody generated e-mail with a process running as root, or Yes, I guess that happened, the emailes where in the queue waiting to be sent... thing is the server has only 4 account for email users... all strong passwords using the last -10 command showed only the last 10 times I logged in. No new users were created apparently. I changed passwords and restricted that only my user can have ssh login and my user can the su to root. root can not login using ssh... I tested again at this moment Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Disable or limit email in root?
At 11:25 p.m. 26/05/2011, you wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: I am trying to find if sendmail was the problem or what... thing is not that root receive email but that root was used to send email to a list of address... Was the root account on the box actually used, or did someone spoof email coming from root on the box? Did you receive a spam report about email coming from the IP address of the box? Do you have the header of the email/s in question? Is sendmail running locally, or is it running SMTP on an open port? Yes the user root was actually used. I noticed becasue since the machine is too small (an old pentium III) the mail queue grows too much and the service for nomal email was very slow. When I logged to the server the mail queue was big and all the emailes were sent by the root user. I have not received, yet, spam reports but I sure will do, I guess a least some thousand of emailes were sent. Sendmail is running on port 587 and 25 At the end a small part of the log (all the entries the same), when I logged in and disabled bind (I thought that could help to stop the emailes. I killed sendmail processes but the system was too slow and there were too many snedmail process running that it took a while to stop them all. May 26 18:22:42 krusty sendmail[36370]: p4P5EjU0070745: to=superlet...@yahoo.com.mx, delay=1+18:06:12, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1290845, relay=l.mx.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: l.mx.mail.yahoo.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:42 krusty sendmail[69923]: p4PK75tT069923: to=tuempresacr...@yahoo.com, delay=00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=32151, relay=l.mx.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: l.mx.mail.yahoo.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:43 krusty sendmail[58754]: p4P7Y2SC035537: to=inamex...@infosel.net.mx, delay=1+15:18:04, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1380845, relay=mx.vmx.terra.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: mx.vmx.terra.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:43 krusty sendmail[67814]: p4P6wdj8025797: to=consen...@infosel.com.mx, delay=1+16:18:24, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1650845, relay=mx.terra.com.br., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: mx.terra.com.br.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:43 krusty sendmail[25300]: p4P7R0qe033668: to=fferna...@infosel.net.mx, delay=1+15:19:29, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=930845, relay=mx.vmx.terra.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: mx.vmx.terra.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:43 krusty sendmail[63747]: p4P9v9sg074187: to=claudian...@yahoo.com.mx, delay=1+13:13:37, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1560845, relay=h.mx.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: h.mx.mail.yahoo.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:43 krusty sendmail[17900]: p4P9MGns065419: to=eballeste...@terra.com.mx, delay=1+13:57:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=210846, relay=mx.vmx.terra.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: mx.vmx.terra.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:46 krusty sendmail[41317]: p4P8BXIs045878: to=juliorte...@yahoo.com.mx, delay=1+14:38:56, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1470845, relay=b.mx.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: b.mx.mail.yahoo.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:47 krusty sendmail[4586]: p4P3wNVF036046: to=albertnov...@yahoo.com.mx, delay=1+19:23:15, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=570846, relay=e.mx.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: e.mx.mail.yahoo.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:47 krusty sendmail[87746]: p4P6vbd5025549: to=andrealte...@yahoo.com.mx, delay=1+16:07:29, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=390846, relay=j.mx.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: j.mx.mail.yahoo.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:47 krusty sendmail[41819]: p4P9YOFb068525: to=conimazz...@yahoo.com.mx, delay=1+13:45:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=1650845, relay=k.mx.mail.yahoo.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Name server: k.mx.mail.yahoo.com.: host name lookup failure May 26 18:22:47 krusty sendmail[66017]: p4PJ75P2066017: to=tuempresacr...@yahoo.com, delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=32151, ___ 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: Disable or limit email in root?
Thanks for your comments, tomorow morning will check it again, now is normal . I was thinking on shutting it down but I guess it is better to leave it running and even with the risk , the server will have problems soon but I guess is better to tr to find how they did it will go to sleep a few hours.. jb ___ 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
Kind of OFF Topic. Advise pls.
Hello All. These could sound off topic, I am sorry in advance. I am upgrading an old machine from 7.3 to the latest 8.x release branch. I want to use that machine for 1) catalago/shopping cart solution only, nothing complicated not many users , something simple, personal project to learn and try to sell products. Nothing big. 2) I also want to have a couple of sites running a CMS software. The same, not big one, not millions of users expected, some close to a few clients and my relation with them. 3) To have a customer relationship, tickets, help center etc. Nothing big. My company is small now... just me Based onyour experiecne, what ar the best options to chosse that will run the best on Freebsd (yea I now lot of external factors, security etc). Maybe if you tell me what are you using it is enough . I have read aboiut the difrrence and I like all. From the following: Content Management Drupal Geeklog Joomla 1.5 Joomla Mambo PHP-Nuke phpWCMS phpWebSite Siteframe TYPO3 Xoops Zikula E-Commerce CubeCart OS Commerce Zen Cart Customer Relationship Crafty Syntax Live Help Help Center Live osTicket PerlDesk PHP Support Tickets Support Logic Helpdesk Support Services Manage Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Simplest way to deny access to a class C
I wonder why nobodies mentioned a quite simple method with tcpwrappers and hosts.allow / hosts.deny also Hello. I guess something simple could work For some reason, don ask me why becasue I did not find why, the: Order Deny, Allow Deny IP Allow all under httpd.conf and outsite as .htaccess does not work but for now teh thing is simple, to block a class C, those guys are stupiod and programmed bad an application (I guess) and are pointing to one of my domains... since 4 weeks ago I am receiving this kind of access: 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:43:48 -0600] OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1 200 - - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:43:48 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1 301 323 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:43:48 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1 200 40833 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:13 -0600] OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1 200 - - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:13 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1 301 323 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:13 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1 200 40833 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:19 -0600] OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1 200 - - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:19 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1 301 323 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:19 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1 200 40833 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:34 -0600] OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1 200 - - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:34 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1 301 323 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:44:34 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1 200 40833 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:45:06 -0600] OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1 200 - - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:45:06 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios HTTP/1.1 301 323 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 189.254.19.93 - - [04/Mar/2011:19:45:06 -0600] PROPFIND /Backup-usuarios/ HTTP/1.1 200 40833 - Microsoft-WebDAV-MiniRedir/5.1.2600 They change IP's , from the same Class C. No trying to do anything else, hack or send email So I decided to block the Class C. I guess that with the deny, allow directives under Apache would be enough but they do not work. I am under Apache 1.3x and all works fine but that directives do not. I tried , read and not be able to make them work so that's why I decided to block them and block others, those yes are trying to hack, the simplest way. anyway I will see if the: hosts.allow / hosts.deny would help. If needed I would upgrade to latest version of FreeBSD Apache or whatever needed. Even when they do not do anything my server, a 386 that has been running Freebsd the last 13 years since Freebsd 3.x is supporting this extra load and besides they are wasting my bandwidth. I can not do anything and no problem but I'd like to solve this and continue learning Freebsd. Thanks for your time. Jorge Biquez ___ 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
Simplest way to deny access to a class C
Hello all. I am sorry in advance if this question sounds too stupid. I have a small server for personal use of webpages running: 7.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #0 it is working fine , no problem very stable. I just need to block some IP class C address that are always trying to discover directories or applications under the web server. They do not do and can not do anything since this server has nothing installed but i am tired of seeing in the logs all the intents they do every 2-3 seconds. I have not installed any kind of firewall yet. What do you think is the best way to accomplish this task? If possible the easiest one. I do not want to do anything else but just bloc IP's, at this moment at least. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Simplest way to deny access to a class C
Thank you all for your time and comments. I guess that I will install a firewall, that way I can also block those Class C's from sending tons of emails to non existing accounts I will read the website to see the best options. Any suggestion is more than welcome. Jorge Biquez At 06:02 p.m. 03/03/2011, you wrote: Be careful of automated responses. What if someone spoofs IP's of legit users / customers / whatever and your automated response blocks them? Not good. I thought about blockingwell, never mind - might pi$$ someone off and attract unwanted attention... -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Gibson Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:58 PM To: Jorge Biquez Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simplest way to deny access to a class C You might consider mod_security (/usr/ports/www/mod_security) which can be set up to ban hosts based on behaviour or characteristics. Or fail2ban (/usr/ports/security/py-fail2ban) is really great, too, in that it scans whatever logs you want, and can trigger a block in your firewall if enough violating log entries are found within a particular period of time. Everything is totally configurable, and there are plenty of examples that come with it. Patrick On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. I am sorry in advance if this question sounds too stupid. I have a small server for personal use of webpages running: 7.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #0 it is working fine , no problem very stable. I just need to block some IP class C address that are always trying to discover directories or applications under the web server. They do not do and can not do anything since this server has nothing installed but i am tired of seeing in the logs all the intents they do every 2-3 seconds. I have not installed any kind of firewall yet. What do you think is the best way to accomplish this task? If possible the easiest one. I do not want to do anything else but just bloc IP's, at this moment at least. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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 ___ 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 font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font ___ 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 ___ 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: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?
At 11:06 p.m. 17/02/2011, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:23:57PM -0800, Charlie Kester wrote: Does it have to be new? The best deal might be to get a used laptop. Then it doesn't matter what it originally shipped with, all you care about is whether it's on the FreeBSD hardware compatibility list. Along these lines, I've seen many people recommending used ThinkPads. Might not be powerful enough for the latest Windows, but more than capable for running a BSD. Be very careful buying used laptops. There are a lot of refurbishers who are very shady, and a lot of private sellers online that are trying to make a fast buck off broken hardware. In fact, I wrote some code for a shady refurbisher last year to clean infections of their laptops -- infections that had worked its way into the images they used to clone drives for refurbished computers. I think thousands of their systems probably went out infected before they had me automate the virus-cleaning process for them. The short version is simply that I've seen how shady refurbishers work, up close and personal. Let the buyer beware. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Hello all. Thanks a lot for your comments. Just doing a little more research, you can not find powerful equipment, at least here, with other OS but Windows 7, and of course cost more. Here it does not matter if you say that I won't use Windows 7, you pay for it and no refund. All the powerful ones come with Windows 7 HP or Windows 7 Pro, No starter versions, so you pay for it if you want it or not. Last chance is to try Dell, will see later. I guess my best bet is top have a used one. Is not that it has to be new but I wanted to invest in something new that last some years, my last lap has 7 years but it is short on memory and won't accept more. I will use ebay I guess for used equipment and ask my friend to bring it if possible. If you have good suggestions for places to buy used equipment please let me know (on ebay I has bought in the past equipment that was dead already or that has problems immediately later). Of course sometimes I have bought very good equipment also. Thanks to all for the comments and your time. Jorge Biquez ___ 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
Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?
Hello all. I am evaluating to buy a new laptop for using it only with Freebsd. I know in the website mention some options. Thing is that here the most powerful ones (I3, I5 I7) are sold ONLY with Windows installed and that increase the value of the equipment. I want the best option at a nice price (could be Intel or AMD) the ide is to have it as my main machine and when I need Linux or Windows have them there running under VirtualBox. The use will be mainly for web development. My idea is to buy it with FreeDos or Linux installed or without operating system but here there is not an option for powerful equuipment unless you want one with Atom processor. The powerful one came ONLY with Windows installed. I am thinking to ask a friend that travels frequently to USA to buy one for me. Any suggestion of where and what equipment to buy, without OS (Windows) preinstalled? Of course at a good price and the most powerful one. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Manage Bind9 through the web, PowerDNS crash my system at startup
Hello. I am sorry if my comment sounds stupid... but It won't be WEBMIN an alternative for managing simple BIND operations? Jorge Biquez At 11:10 a.m. 07/01/2011, Sayed Nimer wrote: Hello, I was looking for a solution to manage Bind9 DNS server through a web so I can add/edit zone. I thought PowerDNS/PowerAdmin would be a good solution for my requirements. I successfully installed both PowerDNS/PowerAdmin and tested them was working fine. When I restart my box I found PowerDNS crash my system giving many errors can't find mysqlserver. Any suggestions for the requirement to manage Bind9 through the web, or the PowerDNS problem. Thanks and have a nice day. Have you tried making sure that the MySQL daemon is started /BEFORE/ PowerDNS and Apache is started? Hello, Thank you for your reply. I thought you put your hand in my exact problem. When I start PowerDNS from command line using /usr/local/etc/rc.d/pdns onestart its running smooth. To make auto startup I just put this line pdns_enable=YES to the end of /etc/rc.conf. Can you please highlight to me how and where to add the instruction for auto startup of PowerDNS to be sure it's starting after Mysql. Thank, and have a nice day. ___ 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 look at the require and provide lines of the rc scripts hello, this snap of my rc.conf sshd_enable=YES ntpdate_enable=YES apache22_enable=YES named_enable=NO mysql_enable=YES mysql_dbdir=/usr/local/etc/mysql sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO pdns_enable=YES Thanks ___ 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 ___ 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
Not affecting exactly FreeBSD but OpenBSD
Hello all. I found this interesting and wanted to share it here. I guess it has to do with a recently thread here Jorge Biquez -- By Doug Barney Editor in Chief, Redmond magazine dbar...@redmondmag.com FBI: THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INSTALLATION If WikiLeaks taught us anything, it's that our government (heck, pretty much all governments) does a lot of things behind our backs. Some of this is necessary and justified, and some seems just stupid and sometimes evil. Now an ex-consultant for the FBI says a decade ago the bureau modified OpenBSD (you can do that since it is open source). It didn't improve security or performance. Nah, the feds installed a backdoor so it could spy on U.S. attorneys who used the OS. http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650088:222349 The charges, made by Greg Perry, were denounced by an OpenBSD developer as poppycock. This is a bit different from WikiLeaks as Perry claims his charges were meant to be private and to serve as notice to get the OpenBSD code fully audited. It will, I think, take an audit to get the bottom of this fiasco. Do you trust our key pieces of software or suspect manipulation? Send your opinions to dbar...@redmondmag.com. We only publish first names so you needn't fear retribution. To comment, go here: http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650089:222349 ___ 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: Not affecting exactly FreeBSD but OpenBSD
At 10:22 p.m. 16/12/2010, Michael R. Rusch wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Jorge Biquez mailto:jbiq...@intranet.com.mxjbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. I found this interesting and wanted to share it here. I guess it has to do with a recently thread here Jorge Biquez -- By Doug Barney Editor in Chief, Redmond magazine mailto:dbar...@redmondmag.comdbar...@redmondmag.com FBI: THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INSTALLATION If WikiLeaks taught us anything, it's that our government (heck, pretty much all governments) does a lot of things behind our backs. Some of this is necessary and justified, and some seems just stupid and sometimes evil. Now an ex-consultant for the FBI says a decade ago the bureau modified OpenBSD (you can do that since it is open source). It didn't improve security or performance. Nah, the feds installed a backdoor so it could spy on U.S. attorneys who used the OS. http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650088:222349http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650088:222349 The charges, made by Greg Perry, were denounced by an OpenBSD developer as poppycock. This is a bit different from WikiLeaks as Perry claims his charges were meant to be private and to serve as notice to get the OpenBSD code fully audited. It will, I think, take an audit to get the bottom of this fiasco. Do you trust our key pieces of software or suspect manipulation? Send your opinions to mailto:dbar...@redmondmag.comdbar...@redmondmag.com. We only publish first names so you needn't fear retribution. To comment, go here: http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650089:222349http://www.1105newsletters.com/t.do?id=6650089:222349 ___ mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.orgfreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.orgfreebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Jorge: I appreciated your willingness to post information about the subject at hand, however I don't think the mailing list is the correct place for 'Redmond Magazine' propaganda. I would also like to point out as of yet, the existence of a backdoor has yet to be confirmed. Below are two link you may enjoying reading to update your knowledge of the matter at hand: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=129237675106730w=2http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=129237675106730w=2 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.bugtraq/45620 Michael -- Thanks, Michael Rusch New York Times mailto:rus...@gmail.comrus...@gmail.com twitter - @weeddude Hello. I am sorry. I thought could be of interest... I will follow the links. Thanks!. I'm sorry th eintention was not make propaganda to Redmon Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Creating clone of a HDD including boot partition
Hello. A couple of months I had the same issue to solve... with HDD of my laptop one of you guys, thanks, recommend to use clonezilla or clonezilia, it is in sourgeforce projects if I am not wrong. Woked like a charm, 1 bot sector, diferent OS partitions took some hours but worked perfectly I hope this helps Jorge Biquez At 11:10 a.m. 14/12/2010, you wrote: Put it in a USB enclosure, and run dd in=/dev/sourcedisk out=/dev/targetdisk bs=1M Drink coffee until done. On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:42:42 +0100 nagios nag...@todoo.biz wrote: Hello, I have setup a tailored made configuration (1 UFS partition + 1 swap + boot sectors) for some hardware that I am reselling and would like to clone one existing HDD (tailor made) and be able to dump to another new HDD. System is running pfSense with FreeBSD 7.2 and soon 8.x What would be your suggested method to achieve this goal. Thx. âââââââââââââââââââââââââââ â - Grégory Bernard Director - --- www.osnet.eu --- -- Your provider of OpenSource appliances -- âââââââââââââââââââââââââââ â OSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetOSnetO ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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: Kind of off topic.
At 03:08 a.m. 14/12/2010, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:21:06 -0600, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i snot possible. I remember that on the windows world there was a commercial software PCANywhere. He can have it but I am not sure if I would be able to connect to that from my Freebsd machine (of course not by ssh). What are you using for connecting to graphical interfaces of different OS's from FreeBSD? I tested some years ago a VNC software but did not work fine with MAC OSX (recently released by then). I know big security factors are involved for sure. Any suggestion on what to use, not to expensive or free? If the remote hosts are running FreeBSD, you can do almost *everything* through SSH. For example most of my FreeBSD-related testing work happens through SSH connections to virtual machines these days. If you really need to run a GUI application though there are a few options: - The most basic is to connect to the remote machine in *some* way, set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to a local X server that may accept incoming connections and fire up your GUI program. - You can SSH into the remote machine and use the -X or -Y options to set up 'X forwarding' back to the machine where the SSH connection has originated from. - You can use programs like the NX tools http://www.nomachine.com/ to set up a 'remotely accessible X desktop' on the target machine and then use nxclient to connect to it from anywhere. The fastest and simplest method is still a plain good old SSH connection though. It requires minimal setup (an sshd daemon on the remote side), it is accessible from anywhere in the world, it's secure against random eavesdroppers, it's fast to connect to, it's pretty light-weight on both the client and server systems, and you can do _everything_ on the remote host [even full system upgrades from source]. Hello. Thanks all for your time On Freebsd and Linux machines I have entered using SSH already and I amtrying to help (my linux knowledge is not so good). :=( Thing is to access the GUI, same screen they have with errors, on their windows and Mac machines (XP and OSX mainly). I am trying to setup one of the VNC solutions around. Just reading befores about security involved in each one. Take care all and have a great day. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Kind of off topic.
Exactly... some of the things I need to help them is an old application they are using developed in house for them... but that does not record teh errors logs... that's why I need to be seeing the actual user interface while they are working trying to reproduce the errors they have On Mac they are setting up and old version of Timbuktu and that will do the job I guess Thanks all. Jorge Biquez At 12:13 p.m. 14/12/2010, Gary Gatten wrote: It sounds like you're wanting a remote desktop to actually see the active users GUI session? If it's simply to see the error messages, I would recommend some sort of centralized logging. There are several tools that take Winblows events and turn them into syslog events. If you need remote desktop access, perhaps WebEx would help - or as others pointed out an RDP client for *nix should work as well. G -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Biquez Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:58 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kind of off topic. At 03:08 a.m. 14/12/2010, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:21:06 -0600, Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx wrote: Hello all. A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i snot possible. I remember that on the windows world there was a commercial software PCANywhere. He can have it but I am not sure if I would be able to connect to that from my Freebsd machine (of course not by ssh). What are you using for connecting to graphical interfaces of different OS's from FreeBSD? I tested some years ago a VNC software but did not work fine with MAC OSX (recently released by then). I know big security factors are involved for sure. Any suggestion on what to use, not to expensive or free? If the remote hosts are running FreeBSD, you can do almost *everything* through SSH. For example most of my FreeBSD-related testing work happens through SSH connections to virtual machines these days. If you really need to run a GUI application though there are a few options: - The most basic is to connect to the remote machine in *some* way, set the DISPLAY environment variable to point to a local X server that may accept incoming connections and fire up your GUI program. - You can SSH into the remote machine and use the -X or -Y options to set up 'X forwarding' back to the machine where the SSH connection has originated from. - You can use programs like the NX tools http://www.nomachine.com/ to set up a 'remotely accessible X desktop' on the target machine and then use nxclient to connect to it from anywhere. The fastest and simplest method is still a plain good old SSH connection though. It requires minimal setup (an sshd daemon on the remote side), it is accessible from anywhere in the world, it's secure against random eavesdroppers, it's fast to connect to, it's pretty light-weight on both the client and server systems, and you can do _everything_ on the remote host [even full system upgrades from source]. Hello. Thanks all for your time On Freebsd and Linux machines I have entered using SSH already and I amtrying to help (my linux knowledge is not so good). :=( Thing is to access the GUI, same screen they have with errors, on their windows and Mac machines (XP and OSX mainly). I am trying to setup one of the VNC solutions around. Just reading befores about security involved in each one. Take care all and have a great day. Jorge Biquez ___ 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 font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font ___ 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 ___ 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
Kind of off topic.
Hello all. A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i snot possible. I remember that on the windows world there was a commercial software PCANywhere. He can have it but I am not sure if I would be able to connect to that from my Freebsd machine (of course not by ssh). What are you using for connecting to graphical interfaces of different OS's from FreeBSD? I tested some years ago a VNC software but did not work fine with MAC OSX (recently released by then). I know big security factors are involved for sure. Any suggestion on what to use, not to expensive or free? Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Kind of off topic.
Hello. SSH in some of the servers is acting and working BUT I am assuming some servers won't have it... like some windows based machines The Mac's have it but the idea isto have the graphical interface since the errors of the problems they are having are presenting in their graphical applications Thanks a lot for you time. I will try to find a VNC that can be used in possible in all. Jorge Biquez At 05:27 p.m. 13/12/2010, you wrote: Ssh not possible? That's one of the most basic requirements and most easy to secure - typically XWindows of course, or numerous variants thereof. I'm not sure but I *think* most of them use the Xwindows protocol on the network. VNC may also work now. There are also several versions of it (TightVNC, RealVNC, et al) There's a native VNC protocol/client as well as Java/http - maybe https... There's probably someone that has written and httpd or Apache module that will simply pass I/O between a shell process on the box. Maybe search the ports tree or of course google. G -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Biquez Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 5:21 PM To: FreeBSD Subject: Kind of off topic. Hello all. A friend is asking me to help him to solve some problem he has in his servers. To some I would be able to connect using ssh, with other just it i snot possible. I remember that on the windows world there was a commercial software PCANywhere. He can have it but I am not sure if I would be able to connect to that from my Freebsd machine (of course not by ssh). What are you using for connecting to graphical interfaces of different OS's from FreeBSD? I tested some years ago a VNC software but did not work fine with MAC OSX (recently released by then). I know big security factors are involved for sure. Any suggestion on what to use, not to expensive or free? Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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 font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font ___ 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 ___ 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
Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?
Hello all. I would like to hear your advice, if possible, based on experience about what Shopping cart other than OSCommerce consider as an excellent choice to be run under FreeBSD. With a provider where I had a dedicated server, not running FreeBsd , the entire server was hacked and before leaving them, the tech support people said that the hacking was because of a problem with some libraries under PHP AND OSCOMMERCE. They never could prove that but I leave them since the entire server was hacked, not information stolen but ONLY that$ all web pages (.html, .php) pages where changed, all under different domains and account jailed (?) using CPANEL. Anyway. I am not sure how sensible is OSCCOmmerce to that since I know it is very popular but I would like to test something else. I know there are tons of options but would like to hear your comments about what are you using and what do you recommend me to try that have proved that runs fine under Freebsd. The idea is to have 4 domains running the same software (could be multiple instances) under different DOMAINS: If possible that would be multilangua or at least that support English and Spanish, free and it does not matter if uses PHP or something else. SOmething important is that my test machine is an old one running Freebsd 7.3, 2 processors 386 with 1 GB of RAM, once I have running all without problems will move to a newer one that will run Freebsd 8.1. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?
Hello all. Thanks for the time and rapid response Mr Chuck. Yes. Seems like the guilty one was OSCommerce. I am looking exactly for other option, as you say maybe not PHP ones and that's why asked for advice based on experinces of what people is using. I am looking for python option also. My needs are very simple, even a catalog of products without the shopping cart will be enough. I am also looking options that let you add modules. I want to continue using Freebsd, continue learning and also solve a personal need. Of course the idea is not to start a war between PHP lovers and any other language, but options and suggestions are very welcome. Anyway. I will continue searching. And when I find the solution will posted here , maybe could be of help to someone. By the way. It is great to receive advise from people like you all guys. I have been on the list for several years and I always learn something , always. Thanks to all Jorge Biquez At 03:01 p.m. 07/12/2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 7, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: With a provider where I had a dedicated server, not running FreeBsd , the entire server was hacked and before leaving them, the tech support people said that the hacking was because of a problem with some libraries under PHP AND OSCOMMERCE. They never could prove that but I leave them since the entire server was hacked, not information stolen but ONLY that$ all web pages (.html, .php) pages where changed, all under different domains and account jailed (?) using CPANEL. Anyway. I am not sure how sensible is OSCCOmmerce to that since I know it is very popular but I would like to test something else. 30 seconds with a Google search suggests that osCommerce has unpatched security vulnerabilities which do lead to compromise of admin and arbitrary PHP code execution: http://secunia.com/advisories/product/1308/ Affected By7 Secunia advisories 44 Vulnerabilities Unpatched 29% (2 of 7 Secunia advisories) Most Critical Unpatched The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting osCommerce 2.x, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Highly critical. http://secunia.com/advisories/33446/ 1) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. create additional administrator accounts by tricking an administrative user into visiting a malicious web site. 2) An error in the authentication mechanism can be exploited to bypass authentication checks and gain access to the administrative interface in the admin/ folder. Successful exploitation allows to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code e.g. via the file_manager.php script. In other words, your former site's tech support people were likely right-- the site was almost certainly hacked because of osCommerce. Find something else, preferably something which is not based upon PHP. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ 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 ___ 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: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?
At 04:04 p.m. 07/12/2010, you wrote: On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:32:06 -0600 Jorge Biquez jbiq...@intranet.com.mx articulated: At 03:01 p.m. 07/12/2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 7, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Jorge Biquez wrote: With a provider where I had a dedicated server, not running FreeBsd , the entire server was hacked and before leaving them, the tech support people said that the hacking was because of a problem with some libraries under PHP AND OSCOMMERCE. They never could prove that but I leave them since the entire server was hacked, not information stolen but ONLY that$ all web pages (.html, .php) pages where changed, all under different domains and account jailed (?) using CPANEL. Anyway. I am not sure how sensible is OSCCOmmerce to that since I know it is very popular but I would like to test something else. 30 seconds with a Google search suggests that osCommerce has unpatched security vulnerabilities which do lead to compromise of admin and arbitrary PHP code execution: http://secunia.com/advisories/product/1308/ Affected By7 Secunia advisories 44 Vulnerabilities Unpatched 29% (2 of 7 Secunia advisories) Most Critical Unpatched The most severe unpatched Secunia advisory affecting osCommerce 2.x, with all vendor patches applied, is rated Highly critical. http://secunia.com/advisories/33446/ 1) The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. create additional administrator accounts by tricking an administrative user into visiting a malicious web site. 2) An error in the authentication mechanism can be exploited to bypass authentication checks and gain access to the administrative interface in the admin/ folder. Successful exploitation allows to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code e.g. via the file_manager.php script. In other words, your former site's tech support people were likely right-- the site was almost certainly hacked because of osCommerce. Find something else, preferably something which is not based upon PHP. Thanks for the time and rapid response Mr Chuck. Yes. Seems like the guilty one was OSCommerce. I am looking exactly for other option, as you say maybe not PHP ones and that's why asked for advice based on experinces of what people is using. I am looking for python option also. My needs are very simple, even a catalog of products without the shopping cart will be enough. I am also looking options that let you add modules. I want to continue using Freebsd, continue learning and also solve a personal need. Of course the idea is not to start a war between PHP lovers and any other language, but options and suggestions are very welcome. Anyway. I will continue searching. And when I find the solution will posted here , maybe could be of help to someone. By the way. It is great to receive advise from people like you all guys. I have been on the list for several years and I always learn something , always. Seriously, have you tried Googling for a potential solution? I just spent a few minutes and found several candidates. -- Jerry â freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ Hello. I have found several already with Google just not sure what path to follow and that's why I wanted to know what suggestions other has on what are using actually under Freebsd. Of course there are several ones, some look very good and promising yes. Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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
Need to compile kernel for 2 or more processors?
Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I am sorry in advance. I am doing my guideline of the activities I need to do to change an old 2 processors INtel 386 machine with 1GB of ram and 30GB of hard disk. The machine is working fine but after more than 10 years of working will be replaced for a new machine (could be an i3, i7, or xeon maybe). This one will be honored and will continue working as our secondary DNS. Actually is running Freebsd version 7.3 PRERELEASE . I will updated to 7.3 RELEASE. This machine has 2 physical processors and I remember that on old version of FreeBSD I have to compile the kernel so the second processor could be seen. I still do not know aht processor will be but I am looking for the strongest and cheapest combination of motherboard and processor. Anyway, I was wondering, if it is only one physycal processor with 2-4 embedded (xeon by exmaple) I guess that actually we do not have to change the kernel so all processors can be seen? Am I right ? By the way, if you can suggest based on experience the best combination on price performance of motherboard/processor to follow (not necessary the latest one) please let me know. Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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
Web mail for not local domains.
Hello all. I was wondering if you can suggest the best application you consider for the following. I am supporting a non profit organization, so the budget is less than zero. They already have a freebsd server (8.1) and are using sendmail for about 20 accounts, not big traffic. In their pc's (windows xp) they are using eudora (free version) as a client without problems (POP). I would like to install them a webmail that let them access the local accounts in the server BUT that also let them access some other accounts with another providers. No gmail, hotmail or so, but POP3 accounts that are hosted under other domains with other ISP's . Actually no problem under they eudora mail client, but the idea is that when they out in conference or so they also can have access to the accounts under the freebsd server and the other provider. Thanks in advance for your comments. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?
hello all. Some times during the year this kind of threads generates a lot more answers and immediate responses like any other I like it! it makes me laugh and makes forget some real problems thanks a lot! Jorge Biquez At 07:16 p.m. 11/11/2010, you wrote: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Well, if nothing else this thread is proving to at least be good for a laugh! - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Thu Nov 11 19:09:34 2010 Subject: Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? LMFAO! I wish I had caught that. My muslins, OTOH, are jwrapped around my photo studio. On Nov 11, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Jos Silveira on Thursday, 11 November 2010: Why do you use a devil as a mascot? For me it is nonsense... It makes Christians, Jwishes and Muslins run away! José Silveira ___ 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 My muslins are staying where they are in the linen closet, and my jwishes are safe in the jwish jwawrer. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com ___ 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 font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system. /font ___ 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 ___ 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
OT. Duplicating Disk.
Hello all. This is kind off topic. U have and old laptopn, an Acer Travelmate 4670. It has a sata disk, 120Gb. It has been working fine in all these years. I have installed Freebsd with its boot manager and inside has Windows and a distro linux. I choose what OS to use depending on my needs every time I boot. I have decided to give it fresh air and I bought a disk of 500GB. Instead of installing everything again I would like to duplicate entire disk, as is, with its MBR and all partitions for all the different OS's. I bought an USB enclosure that is working fine. The machine recognice the new disk if I attach it as a USB disk (in all OS no problem on that). As a test also I decided to change disks and install somethig, no problem at all. My question is. What would be your advice on what tool to use to duplicate entire disk? (the adjust of size for the partitions of each different OS can be done later, no problem I guess). I was recommend to use DiskImageXML, booting alone and copy the disk but it does not work. Not yet. I guess the problem is that the original disk still has a 4Gb partition with all the Acer tools , the first partition, to recover teh Windows XP origibal system (type or partition EISA). Not sure on that but that program is not working. I receive an error when booting. On my desktop I used to use old Norton Ghost 2003 with my IDE disk and still work fine, but here does not work at all since the USB ports are not recognized. Do you know of a program tool that can be used that boot alone, free if possible or cheap, that let me copy entire disk, as is, that do the job? I am sorry for the kind of off topic and thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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
GUI Suggested?
Hello all. In all these years I have been working with FreeBSd under terminal/shell mode. Since all my needs to solve have been solved that way I have never tried any graphical interface. I was wondering if you can tell suggest me based on yoru experience on what path to follow? KDE? any other? I would like to test what you suggest is the best for you and if possible that it is not TOO complicated to setup. The idea is to use it as my desktop plattfor (documents, browser, email, etc) Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.
Hello. Thanks a lot for the advice. I have tried with spamassasin but for some reason can not having work correctly with sendmail. I am reading in detail documentation. I know this sounds like something stupid but I am starting my third try starting from zero, for some reason everything install correcly and at the end have a non receiving email installation (have checked port on inetd, under sendmail configuration, nothing). What I do not get is what components do I need. Just spamassasin or spamd only , anyway, learning and having fun with it until I can know how to do it. Otherwise instead of help that organization will be giving more problems besides the ones they have. I will try openwebmail. Thanks a lot. At 01:54 a.m. 08/08/2010, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hi.. For WebMail that has everything you want: www.opebwebmail.org For pop3 : qpopper For Spam: SpamAssassin Default sendmail is good. all the above is available from ports, I would recommend a manual install for openwebmail instead of ports so you can follow and know how things work. You can install spamassassin from ports, and follow the instructions. -Marwan Sultan Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:19:19 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jbiq...@icsmx.com Subject: Anti virus, anti spam step guide. Hello all. I am looking documentation for implementing, the easiest way anti virus and anti spam configuration for non tech users and out of the box after installing FreeBSD (actually using 7.3 Release). I have been working with it for some years but I am not an expert at all. I need to help some non-profit organizations that received some 2 year old computers as donation and they will use it for email services. They have not tech people, so the idea is that I can help them to implement that solution the easiest way so maybe one of the teacher there can try to replicate the solution. UNtil now I always have used Sendmail as it is installed, no filters besided the spamcop ones but that was enough for my personal use. I know some of you will tell that change to postfix or another MTA and that instead using POP3 that I have to use another tool (courier, fetchail, imap (any) etc etc). I ca do it for sur and I do not want to star a war , again, under what MTA is the best. I just would like to have the best and easiest solution for them. Once installed they only will be creating new accounts, changing paswords, deleting accounts. Nothing else. Ah, another thing if possible is to implement a webmail but that will be an extra gem if possible. Any resources? Any suggestions based in experience? (I have one machine of them that I will use for testing the solution). Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Anti virus, anti spam step guide.
Hello all. I am looking documentation for implementing, the easiest way anti virus and anti spam configuration for non tech users and out of the box after installing FreeBSD (actually using 7.3 Release). I have been working with it for some years but I am not an expert at all. I need to help some non-profit organizations that received some 2 year old computers as donation and they will use it for email services. They have not tech people, so the idea is that I can help them to implement that solution the easiest way so maybe one of the teacher there can try to replicate the solution. UNtil now I always have used Sendmail as it is installed, no filters besided the spamcop ones but that was enough for my personal use. I know some of you will tell that change to postfix or another MTA and that instead using POP3 that I have to use another tool (courier, fetchail, imap (any) etc etc). I ca do it for sur and I do not want to star a war , again, under what MTA is the best. I just would like to have the best and easiest solution for them. Once installed they only will be creating new accounts, changing paswords, deleting accounts. Nothing else. Ah, another thing if possible is to implement a webmail but that will be an extra gem if possible. Any resources? Any suggestions based in experience? (I have one machine of them that I will use for testing the solution). Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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
Sendmail and spam/antivirus
Hello all. I have a small machine with Freebsd 7.3, it is running sendmail for a few email accounts. I'd like to implement, the easiest and most secure way to do it since machine is on a remote place where I have not access, I'd like to implement a spam filter and an antivirus. I installed from ports spamd but seems like it is not doing anything. What would be your advice on what to install to have and anivirus and an anti spam in the server? Sendmail is working fine and there are just a few email accounts there so no need to change it, since some of the accounts have been public in the last years they are in LOT of spammers lists and the spam and messages with virus has increased a lot in the last weeks so if possible to filter some will help. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Installation queries
At 09:32 a.m. 24/04/2010, you wrote: On April 24, 2010 07:53:27 am Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Warren Liddell wrote: I have a Hard Drive presently running Win 7 which ironically i wish to remain souly a Win drive .. my question is, i have another drive im looking to put in while i take the windows 1 out and install FreeBSD onto it .. if later on i decide for some god unknown reason to put that drive back in and take the FreeBSD one out .. will there be any issues ? No, because they will be two separate disks. If you have only one attached at one time, each disk will contain its own MBR. Regards, I have always found disk caddies to be a much better solution than dual-boot. It guarantees no interference. I learned the hard way some years ago with an 'accident' with dd on a dual-boot disk... I would like to hear if possible your comments and advice on this taht's related .. What if you have a to have several OS and distros to study or give consulting and developing services. I have this scenario now and I guess I have this optios. - Extra disk(s) and install there the differnet os I need (FreeBSD and some Linux distros). - As mentioned have different small disk with real installations and change according to needs. - Change my slow machine and have a big one with a) have the windows needed (for some clients that have that, I am sorry) and under it run VMWARE or similar and have all the installations that I need. b) Have a big mac and do the same with virtualpc or similar (not sure of the name). Thinking that you are looking to continue learning and you are offering consulting services where clients have different instllations. What would you choose of the above, if any? Or what would you do? Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: [OT] Was: Disabling DNS
Hello all. My English is not perfect at all since it is not my native language. With that in mind I read the comments about the dummy word, interpreted as a basic task, simple task In th eeffort of learning... can you explain why you considered the comments unfriendly and non-professional? Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez At 12:30 p.m. 20/04/2010, you wrote: In response to Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com: I have a FreeBSD server that, among other things, used to provide DNS for a handful of domain names and a small network. All DNS is now provided by new machines. On the old machine, DNS starts when the machine boots, and bind continues to run lots of useless named and named-xfer processes throughout the day. How do I turn off the DNS processes on the old machine and stop it from starting every time the machine boots? Hi, FreeBSD has an excelent documentation. Just reading the manual you will know how to acomplish dummy sysadmin tasks like this. ^ Maybe you have a language problem, but this looks very much like inappropriate response. We do no call names on this list. It is unhelpful, unfriendly and non-professional. jerry When you give a specific answer, you are just giving that: one single answer. When you give the source of this answer instead, you are giving many answers at once. Now, it's obvious that the OP hasn't read the handbook ever and I think he didn't try, at least, a google search before asking this question. So, why is it inappropiate, unhelpful, unfriendly or non-professional my advise? Ain't it a tacit rule in every list to do some research before asking help? Just in case, I made a search of every word I used in a dictionary; and no offensive nor annoying meaning was found (OK, I misstyped accomplish, sorry about that. My native language is spanish). Please let me know if I'm missing something else. I suspect that jerry had a problem with the use of dummy, which is generally considered an insult when directed at a person. I.e. You're being a dummy. is an insult. Since your use of the term was associated with the task and not the individual, the whole thing enters a grey area of interpretation. Some might consider the sentence an insult, others might simply consider the use of dummy task as another way to say beginner task or basic task. In any event, it's my experience that if you spend time on the Internet, you will eventually end up offending someone. Just apologize for any misunderstanding and move on. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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 ___ 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: [OT] Was: Disabling DNS
Hello all. My English is not perfect at all since it is not my native language. With that in mind I read the comments about the dummy word, interpreted as a basic task, simple task In th eeffort of learning... can you explain why you considered the comments unfriendly and non-professional? Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez At 12:30 p.m. 20/04/2010, you wrote: In response to Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com: I have a FreeBSD server that, among other things, used to provide DNS for a handful of domain names and a small network. All DNS is now provided by new machines. On the old machine, DNS starts when the machine boots, and bind continues to run lots of useless named and named-xfer processes throughout the day. How do I turn off the DNS processes on the old machine and stop it from starting every time the machine boots? Hi, FreeBSD has an excelent documentation. Just reading the manual you will know how to acomplish dummy sysadmin tasks like this. ^ Maybe you have a language problem, but this looks very much like inappropriate response. We do no call names on this list. It is unhelpful, unfriendly and non-professional. jerry When you give a specific answer, you are just giving that: one single answer. When you give the source of this answer instead, you are giving many answers at once. Now, it's obvious that the OP hasn't read the handbook ever and I think he didn't try, at least, a google search before asking this question. So, why is it inappropiate, unhelpful, unfriendly or non-professional my advise? Ain't it a tacit rule in every list to do some research before asking help? Just in case, I made a search of every word I used in a dictionary; and no offensive nor annoying meaning was found (OK, I misstyped accomplish, sorry about that. My native language is spanish). Please let me know if I'm missing something else. I suspect that jerry had a problem with the use of dummy, which is generally considered an insult when directed at a person. I.e. You're being a dummy. is an insult. Since your use of the term was associated with the task and not the individual, the whole thing enters a grey area of interpretation. Some might consider the sentence an insult, others might simply consider the use of dummy task as another way to say beginner task or basic task. In any event, it's my experience that if you spend time on the Internet, you will eventually end up offending someone. Just apologize for any misunderstanding and move on. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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 ___ 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: [OT] Was: Disabling DNS
Hello Vincent and Tom. Understood. but I still guess that what he wanted to say was not with the intention of hurt or offend anyone anyway... let's forget and thanks for the lessons... let's continue learning FreeBSD (my case in the last years) and by the way if I ask something very basic I o not care if some of you use the dummy word if you help me. :=) At 04:56 p.m. 20/04/2010, you wrote: Hi Jorge, While the term dummy has been used in the sense of basic or beginner (for instance the for dummies series of books,) The most common context means stupid, or silly and has negative connotations for the person referred to. Vince On 20/04/2010 20:48, Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. My English is not perfect at all since it is not my native language. With that in mind I read the comments about the dummy word, interpreted as a basic task, simple task In th eeffort of learning... can you explain why you considered the comments unfriendly and non-professional? Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez At 12:30 p.m. 20/04/2010, you wrote: In response to Alberto Mijares amijar...@gmail.com: I have a FreeBSD server that, among other things, used to provide DNS for a handful of domain names and a small network. All DNS is now provided by new machines. On the old machine, DNS starts when the machine boots, and bind continues to run lots of useless named and named-xfer processes throughout the day. How do I turn off the DNS processes on the old machine and stop it from starting every time the machine boots? Hi, FreeBSD has an excelent documentation. Just reading the manual you will know how to acomplish dummy sysadmin tasks like this. ^ Maybe you have a language problem, but this looks very much like inappropriate response. We do no call names on this list. It is unhelpful, unfriendly and non-professional. jerry When you give a specific answer, you are just giving that: one single answer. When you give the source of this answer instead, you are giving many answers at once. Now, it's obvious that the OP hasn't read the handbook ever and I think he didn't try, at least, a google search before asking this question. So, why is it inappropiate, unhelpful, unfriendly or non-professional my advise? Ain't it a tacit rule in every list to do some research before asking help? Just in case, I made a search of every word I used in a dictionary; and no offensive nor annoying meaning was found (OK, I misstyped accomplish, sorry about that. My native language is spanish). Please let me know if I'm missing something else. I suspect that jerry had a problem with the use of dummy, which is generally considered an insult when directed at a person. I.e. You're being a dummy. is an insult. Since your use of the term was associated with the task and not the individual, the whole thing enters a grey area of interpretation. Some might consider the sentence an insult, others might simply consider the use of dummy task as another way to say beginner task or basic task. In any event, it's my experience that if you spend time on the Internet, you will eventually end up offending someone. Just apologize for any misunderstanding and move on. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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
Question. Multi Boot
Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on experience. I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I mentuioned in other post I installed FreeBSD 7.3 under a virtual machine using vmware. It works fine but seems it is too much for the machine since when I am running it the machine is very slow. I have that FB installation running without graphical interface since that's why I need then. Now I would like to have a graphical interface running to learn to use eclipse and continue with my PHP/Mysql development learning. I know that if I continue under VMware the windows machine will be even more slow so I decided that I would have this machine running with a multi boot schema and choose when to boot under FreeBSd, Windows and later with Linux (looking for a job and in some companies asked me to have the basics of any distribution). The most important is that I need to be able to continue having that actual windows partition without loosing anything or changing anything. What do you think, based on experince, is the safest way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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
Question. Multi Boot
Hello all. I hope this question does not sound so stupid. I have read archives and do gogled searches but would like , if possible, to hear comments based on experience. I have a machine, pentium D 2.4mhz 2gb RAM, 160DD HD XP Pro. As I mentuioned in other post I installed FreeBSD 7.3 under a virtual machine using vmware. It works fine but seems it is too much for the machine since when I am running it the machine is very slow. I have that FB installation running without graphical interface since that's why I need then. Now I would like to have a graphical interface running to learn to use eclipse and continue with my PHP/Mysql development learning. I know that if I continue under VMware the windows machine will be even more slow so I decided that I would have this machine running with a multi boot schema and choose when to boot under FreeBSd, Windows and later with Linux (looking for a job and in some companies asked me to have the basics of any distribution). The most important is that I need to be able to continue having that actual windows partition without loosing anything or changing anything. What do you think, based on experince, is the safest way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Question. Multi Boot
At 05:04 p.m. 18/04/2010, you wrote: On 4/18/10 12:50 PM, Kruppa, Peter Ulrich wrote: Since Windows isn't very cooperative with other operating systems, leave it where it is, buy a second hard disk and install FreeBSD (and Linux) on it. The FreeBSD bootmanager will be able to boot Windows but Windows will not boot any FreeBSD or Linux. I would agree that is the safest way to proceed, although the repartitioning of the hard disk as outlined by somebody else would certainly work. However, even here I would urge you to have a complete backup that you have verified is usable before you start. Makes that sinking feeling in your stomach when you realize you've just partitioned the wrong drive much less ugly. :-) --Jon Radel ___ Hello all. Thanks for your comments. The disk I have, actually has around 90GB of free space (more I guess). I will do repartition with Norton and will leave 2 partitions of 40GB for each extra OS. I then will install FB on the first one to have the boot manager there and later Linux on the other partition. I guess that could work. I hope so. Thanks for your time. JB ___ 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: mysql can't running
Hello. WHat version of Freebsd are you using? I hacve the same issue in a recnet installed and updated Freebsd 7.3 At 09:15 a.m. 23/03/2010, you wrote: Please help, mysql can't running i had installed it and using phpmyadmin when i check /etc/rc.d/mysql-server status it says mysql is not running when i tried /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe startting mysqld daemon with database from /var/db/mysql STOPPING server from pid file /var/db/mysql/myhost.pid 100323 22:09:46 mysqld ended -- -- Terima Kasih Muhammad Anis Teknik Informatika Institut Teknologi Bandung ___ 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 ___ 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
Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix
Hello all. I have been talking with a Linux guy (you know the never ending kind of war, my Linuxreligion is better than your Freebsdreligion, easier to install , upgrade blah blah blah). Anyway, talking about the best option for filtering spam and having an email solution for personal simple use (small office, 3-4 people) that sendmail could be the simples and the best option to follow, with some rules like spamcop, rbl , etc, could be fine. I said that I am not sure but that even spamassin could be configured to run under send mail or if that does not work that to move from sendmail to another could be the solution and not so difficult, like postfix. Am I wrong? could be that movement easy to do? I mean to move from sendmail to postfix to be able to have spamassasin run. Or it is better to have that solution (have mail server with spam filters) could be get with some other mix of software and tools? (of course my linux friend says that they have rpm's ready to solve that even when do not know how it works, not interested in that) Can you comment on your experience to accomplish this? Thank in advance and I am sorry if this sound too basic. Jorge Biquez ___ 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: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix
I installed that spammilter, run without problems. Thanks Just curios I have a client that has a dedicated server using CPanel. I am just curios that they are using Exim as the MTA . I imagine that has an an advantage for using under CPanel. Thanks for you time At 06:05 p.m. 21/03/2010, you wrote: I said that I am not sure but that even spamassin could be configured to run under send mail or if that does not work that to move from sendmail to another could be the solution C and not so difficult, like postfix. Of course it In the ports you have a thing called spammilter? that is just what you want. I beleive there are little things that you can do with POstfix that you coul dnot do with sendmail, only writting a filter for Postfix is way easier than writting a milter for sendmail, so that is why there are mor eready made Postfix filters than sendmail milters. Bests, Olivier ___ 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 ___ 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: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix
Hello. CPANEL is an interface , graphical, pro administering services (jailed usually) in servers. That way users can do almost anything with is virtual server. It is kind of popular and for what I have used is good. You open another question I was going to ask in the list. If all of you guys can comment the use of Freebsd in Graphical or text mode. In my case I have to confess that I do not know any GUI under Freebsd I have never installed one since version 2 since all the services I have used I guess do not need the GUI. With my latest installatio I was thinking on playing with X Windows but I decided for later. For general use what do you do? I know some of you use only or mainly FreeBSD. Always in text. I have done it for a while, I am not an expert like you at all but a few days could do my job only on text console. Now I am planing to return to my basics, developing and I am constructing a small machine for that . I will be doing simple thing, PHP, Python, Mysql and that's all. Still thinking what's more convenient if under text or GUI. (remember the good old days under HP300, fortran cobol, clipper, etc etc?) I am deciding for a good text editor (suggestions?) and maybe for testing will use and old PC with any flavor of Windows with any browser will be enoiough) Can some of you give me your comments and advice? Thanks Olivier and all for your time. Jorge Biquez At 07:07 p.m. 21/03/2010, you wrote: Just curios I have a client that has a dedicated server using CPanel. I am just curios that they are using Exim as the MTA . I imagine that has an an advantage for using under CPanel. I never laid my hand on any Exim server, I don't even know what CPanel is. If it's a kind of GUI for Exim, I never use GUI on my servers, I strictly stick to an all text files politics: - I have a consistent GUI for all files, my usual text editor; - even from the other side of the world, throught a very slow connection (talking like 12kbps) I can do some administration; - I feel I have much more control on what is doing what, and where is everything. Bests, Olivier ___ 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: OT: dead box
No sounds (beeps) no cpu fan no lights? At 06:00 p.m. 21/03/2010, you wrote: Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy way to replace it. In the process of dis-assembling the machine and re-assembling is, you may want to use a rubber to clean the contacts on the RAM and various boards. I use one of those white rubbers for pencil, remeber to remove the dust before you put the card in the machine. While assembling the CPU do not forget the thermo paste between the CPU and the heat skin, do not over use it, a thin layer is enough. You can check the CPU by shorting the light green and light blue wires from the main connector (that would be 2nd and 4th from one end; but colour are always light green 2nd and light blue 4th so far I have seen), see if the fan on the power unit turn on. Be carefull, while this is only 2 or 3 volts, your are delaing with a unit connected to the main power. paper clip is a good way to do the test. Good luck, Olivier ___ 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 ___ 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
POP3 , Inetd and Handbook.
Hello all. I'm sorry if this sounds too stupid or basic. I moved from 4.3 to latest version and it is working fine. On $.x I used to have inedt active since services are basic. On new system inedt did not active service immediately (not here at least) so I enable the service like ftpd on rc.conf POP3. I remember I read in the list that inetd is not so secure (am I wrong?) and that if possible should not be used but since I need services up I used that way. Now before studying what's the best way to do things I need to have a pop3 deamon running. I installed from ports popper but and qpopper but it does not work. What's the daemon for popper ? It will worlk if I enable it in rc.conf.? Inetdd. I want to learn all teh new features (left the path more than a year) so I do not want that you solve my problem, but if you can point me to where and what study to learn the changes done and the best way to have secure and working systems I would apreciate it. I am reading Handbook now. On Handbook. Is a PDF copy available?. Believe it or not sometime I can find access to the internet and I would like to be stuyding on those times also. Thanks in advance. Jorge Biquez ___ 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
FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine
Hello all. I have an old machine that has been running 4.11-Stable for some years. This week something weird happened when I tried to update to latest version on 4.x. Anyway, I thought that was a good idea to update to 5.x and after doing all the process finally I can not have it running corrcetly. Not a big problem since a secondary DNS an an email server for one domain. I am still trying to recover it downloading and installing the sae version it has but in case I can not fix I would like to install a mor erecent version. 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 more than 100 users with very low volume. That's all. Can you give me your opinions on what would you? - To re-install the version that it used to has from zero and let it work again for some other years. - Try a new version (maybe it is more secure or faster) and if so. which one? (in all these years even when the machine is on the Internet and LOT of people has tried to hacked it daily, in all these years we have never had a problem.) Thanks in advance for your advice. Jorge Biquez PS. By the way. I left these lists for almost a year as well as the OS (global crisis force us to look for survival jobs) anyway now that I am back I can see again that you guys in the list, the ones that develop and contribute with Freebsd are the best one in the quality of the technical messages. Keep working that way and thanks for letting us learn from you. ___ 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: vmware timekeeping
At 03:23 p.m. 06/06/2008, you wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2. My problem is that the clock keeps *gaining* time. I have the timesync option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. I used to have kern.hz=100 in loader.conf, but that caused the guest to gain time even faster. Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all. Here is something similar. Running 6.2 stable... but the clock lose around 6 hours each day JB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best Chat for Freebsd 4.x
Hello all. One client that's running Freebsd 4.11 Stable ask us to run a chat there. He has a small community of users. I know there are lot of options but wanted to ask you based on your personal experience. What's the open source best chat on your experience to run under Freebsd 4.x? Thanks in advance. JB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best Chat for Freebsd 4.x
At 02:15 p.m. 07/06/2007, Drew Sanford wrote: Jorge Biquez wrote: Hello all. One client that's running Freebsd 4.11 Stable ask us to run a chat there. He has a small community of users. I know there are lot of options but wanted to ask you based on your personal experience. What's the open source best chat on your experience to run under Freebsd 4.x? Thanks in advance. JB What kind of chat? Jabber (IM) like, or web chat, or MUSH chat? Hello. I am sorry. A web based chat. Thanks in advance. Jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Programming Book(s)
At 11:38 p.m. 07/01/2006 +0200, you wrote: On 2006-01-07 15:25, JD Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: --- Nicolas Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On January 2, 2006 04:52 pm, Sean wrote: Sean wrote: Looking for recommendations on any Unix programming books. I have been out of things for a while so I would put my skill level back to the beginning. I forgot to mention that I wish to work withC/C++ There's a free C++ book which is great: http://mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html You can also buy the hardcopy on Amazon. I'd recommend learning C before C++. In order to be an effective unix programmer you must master the C language, as you'll have to examine and modify code in C to do anything substantial. Virtually all major programs and kernels are 'C' based. I think, in general, this is wrong. I think, in general, this is right. And I think many professionals also feel that learning C++ is the way to go. If you just learning, you might as well start with C++. For many good reasons, see Stroustrup's answer himself: http://public.research.att.com/~bs/learn.html Which essentially boils down to learn C++ it's better and easier to learn. I very much disagree, but this is another flamewar, I guess. Danial is right that there are many large programs out there that are written in C, not C++. This means that just learning C++ and hoping to cope with it when an 11,000,000-line monster, written in plain C, comes along is just not going to cut it. Thus, learn both is a good answer, but I understand that this may be quite impossible some times. Hello all. Very interesting comments and suggestions. I hope my question does not seems too off topic. Do you think the path to follow for developing applications for the new PDA, Smartphones, Ipaq and similar devices it is the same? C or C++? I have some friends that said it is the only way but I am not sure of that. Any experiences or comments.? Take care JB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Devil Mascot
Hello all. We are proud of it. Period. At 08:33 a.m. 14/06/04 -0400, you wrote: On 13/06/04 17:02 -0700, Edward Hendrie wrote: Why do you have a Devil for a trademark mascot? From a marketing perspective, you are shooting yourselves in the foot. There are many people of various religious backgrounds who will be dissuaded from trying FreeBSD because they have religious objections to a product that is promoted by a devil. What a ridiculous statement. Tell me, Edward, who ever made you the mouthpiece for 'many people of various religious backgrounds'? The FreeBSD Daemon is a mascot, and that's all ; If FreeBSD is promoted by a devil, then Linux is promoted by a penguin. You may think that is a small issue, but when you are trying to create market awareness you need a mascot that evokes simplicity and goodwill, not one that evokes evil and deception. I suppose that the devil influenced the thousands of sysadmins who run large network installations to go over to the dark side and install FreeBSD. Look at how MSN is marketing its ISP. They use characters dressed in harmless butterfly costumes. Linux, has done the same with its pudgy cute penguin. You might want to rethink your mascot. I know that you are trolling, but I'm bored. If the butter fly costume is sucjh a great thing, then why don't you leave here and go buy one. Wear it to church and family reunions. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*OFF TOPIC Collocation Options Comments pls *
Hello all. In the last months some clients have been asking us about offering them collocation, web hosting, mail and in general all the services they can have from an ISP BUT outside Mexico. Some of them really do not care about what part of the world will be as well as the server is outside the country and the response, service, uptime and additional tools the get are the best. On this most of the clients contract us for administering all the site so a web interface, control panel, will be the best option but with work fine also to install the OS and that then accessing the shell I can configure everything. The idea if possible us to offer them all the tools we can, shopping, database, php, webmail, etc, etc. We would manage everything so a Control Panel would be nice as I mentioned. I was wondering if you can comment about what will be the best step to follow. Our idea is to start promoting these services more and more. We would like to start with a beginner plan if possible to test the services and performance and to see what would be the best option to offer , that's why we are considering to choose 3-5 companies and have the same services configured for 2-3 months. That way we can check for sure the best option. Once we decided the best one we would move most of our services there since here (Mexico city) the bandwidth is becoming VERY expensive. Just to give you and idea we are paying 4,000 USD for a 2 MB for an E1 (a little different than the T1 in USA). We are looking if possible for a company that offer us collocation providing the equipment. We would like to have FreeBSD or Linux and for some configurations we have we would like to have MAC OS X Server 10.2.8 or greater and OS X 10.3. Our needs on bandwidth are about 300GB per month to start. The idea also is to start offering services to clients at lower prices than we offer now. I was checking some providers like Valueweb. Their plans look fine but since this is my first contact on collocation I wanted to ask first here to see what are your experiences. We know there are lot of people offering solutions at VERY cheap prices (I have found some for 9.99!) but we would like to have the correct services for the correct price. So we are not interested in unreal solutions. I'm asking for your advice if possible: a) Maybe this one sounds stupid. If you are a reseller also. What companies could you recommend me to look for services? b) If you are a company that offer this services DIRECTLY. What can you offer me?. What are your prices, conditions and plans for resellers? c) If would be better for me to contract a rack and put my servers there, already configured by us exactly for what we want to offer? If you offer reseller plans or offer the service, please let me know all the convenient information about your services. Specially we would like to have information on plans and prices, conditions (if any) ,obligations (if any), benefits and this one is very important, contracts. The contract part is very important because we need to give the samples/templates of the contracts to our lawyers because we can not sign anything without their permission (a very bad experience with a foreign company a couple of year ago made us be cautious in all our new negotiations). I was wondering if some of you are interested in having another reseller. If so please send me all the convenient information about your services like prices,conditions,obligations,contracts, etc. Those interested answer me OFFLINE please :[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks in advance and please contact me offline. I don't want to waste the bandwidht of the list. Thanks again for your time in advance. LSCA. Jorge Enrique Biquez Alvarez Consultant http://www.biquez.com http://www.icsmx.com http://www.pc.com.mx http://www.software.com.mx [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homero 1610 PB Col. Los Morales Polanco CP 11510 (frente a Pabellon Polanco) Mexico DF MEXICO Tels. +52 55 5282-1012, +52 55 5282-0779, +52 55 5282-0289 Cel. 044-55-3132-0171 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spam removal
At 04:18 a.m. 16/02/04 -0500, you wrote:
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Olga Zenkova wrote:
Hi!
Some of my FreeBSD users get to much spam daily. What
tools can anybody advice to stop it? Now I have
sendmail with access.db, which is already used but I
think it is not very effective at all. May be other
mail daemon or some additional tools for sendmail?
Try some blacklists with sendmail.
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl.spamhaus.org', `550 Mail from $`'{client_addr}
refused - see http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/;')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org', `550 Mail from $`'{client_addr}
refused - see http://dsbl.org/;')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl',`bl.spamcop.net',`550 Mail from $`'{client_addr}
refused - see http://spamcop.net/;')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `cbl.abuseat.org',`550 Mail from $`'{client_addr}
refused - see http://cbl.abuseat.org/')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `psbl.surriel.com',`550 Mail from $`'{client_addr}
refused - see http://psbl.surriel.com/')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `dnsbl.sorbs.net', `550 Mail from $`'{client_addr}
refused - see http://dnsbl.sorbs.net/')dnl
you will smile with glee seeing each connection blocked.
oh yea do research into each one. i dont use them all atm.
also check spamassassin, razor2, dcc.
procmail too. or maildrop.
amavisd and the uvscan binary.
i wish i could explain more, but understand how to set
up all that crap and you could sell spam/virus solutions.
m
Thanks,
Olga
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Hello all.
I start using blacklists also with sendmail. The spam reduced A LOT . I
just wanted to ask where exactly do I have to put the rule in the
configuration file. Since I put the rule when my users send email their
mail client takes too long to send the email. If I take out the rules the
mail is sent immediately (testes with outlook, eudora).
Thanks in advance.
JB
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WhatchDog Error on a Lan Card.
Hello all. Today I started receiving this error on the lan card. r10: WATCHDOG TIMEOUT And seems like the TCP/IP services stop passing thought the card. The machine continues running without seeing the world but no other errors beside the above on the console. One thing I notices is that if I try to ping any machine I receive and overflow error. If I restart the machine everything works normally again. The machine is running 4.8 Stable, running on a PIII - 1.0 Ghz with 512 RAM and more than enough free space. The machine is running only Apache with some load. I changed the card with another of the same brand and type, its backup since I always buy 2 same cards for each equipment, just in case. After a few hours and under some load the machine send the same error. Any ideas on what could be causing the problem? Thanks in advance. JB ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
