Re: Gutman Method on Empty Space
Hi there, Check out /usr/ports/security/wipe/ - It should meet your requirements. Cheers, Marc On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:10:02AM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: Can anyone recommend a utility for the secure overwriting of unused disc space? I am a satisfied customer of Eraser for Windows. I'm looking for the same thing for FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gutman Method on Empty Space
Hi there, On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:22:33AM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Or always 'rm -P' :-) Nice... never knew about this. That said, this won't satisfy the Gutmann requirement as far as I understand it and overwriting a file three times is not considered a true secure wipe of data. This data would still be theoretically recoverable. Cheers, Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gutman Method on Empty Space
Hi there, On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 09:43:46AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: how? even single write is enough Not according to the paper that Gutmann wrote: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/ In short, he says that if you know how the data itself was overwritten it can be recovered. If I recall, the DoD standard for the deletion of data is to overwrite it 3 times. Obviously it all comes down to how important the data is that you're removing, but a single write is not enough if the data needs to be disposed of 'securely'. Cheers, Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Switching username using SFTP
Hi there, You can simply enter a command such as: $ sftp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Marc On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:38:21AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I ssh into a system which has different login name from the system I'm on I use this syntax: ssh -l host.domain.com. How does one do this with SFTP on the command line? The -l switch doesn't work. The man pages on SFTP makes no mention of this. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unable to unmount idle filesystem on 6.2
Hi there, Strange problem. The only thing I could possibly think of is to try and install lsof from the ports tree and see if that can identify what may be using this particular mount. Short of that, dropping to single user mode/rebooting may be your only other option as far as I am aware. Cheers, Marc On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:18:46PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote: I'm unable to unmount an idle filesystem (or even drop it to read-only): # mount /dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local, noatime) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/da0s1d on /var (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates) /dev/da0s1e on /usr (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates) /dev/da0s1fp1 on /usr/obj (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime) /dev/da0s1fp2 on /usr/ports (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s1fp3 on /usr/src (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/da0s2d on /data (ufs, local, noatime, soft-updates) # fstat -f /usr/ports USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W # umount /usr/ports umount: unmount of /usr/ports failed: Device busy # umount -f /usr/ports umount: unmount of /usr/ports failed: Device busy # mount -o ro /usr/ports mount: /dev/da0s1fp2: Operation not permitted # uname -r 6.2-RELEASE-p8 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Light up the Darkness. - Bob Marley ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Simplifying FreeBSD Installation
Hi there, I understand what you're getting at, but I think that you may be overlooking one important fact: FreeBSD is developed by people with a passion for the operating system, who want nothing more than to make it the best they can. They volunteer their time to the project, foregoing financial renumeration and accolades, simply because they see potential in a project grown from the ground up by people who love it. You compare FreeBSD to Microsoft, but they're fundamentally different operating systems. I agree with you that perhaps the installation procedure should be more user friendly, but there are other areas where FreeBSD is MUCH stronger than Windows. I have yet to see a Windows machine outperform any of my FreeBSD servers under load... That said, if you believe that FreeBSD needs work, why not get involved and help to make it better? I have no doubt that there are other people interested in improving the same areas as you, so why not lend a hand and improve FreeBSD, so that everyone can benefit? :) That's _my_ 2c, Marc -Original Message- From: Gerard Seibert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 3:05 PM To: freebsd-questions Subject: Simplifying FreeBSD Installation I have read a few posting regarding the FreeBSD installation procedure. I thought that I might as well weigh in with my own comments since I am fairly new to FreBSD, although I have been using computers since 1984 (good old DOS). 1) The installation procedure is not as polished as say that of WinXP, but that is to be expected. It has been pointed out by others that while the routine does offer many useful configuration options, it fail to fully explain them to the user. The often-stated remark Read the Directions or words to that effect are not truly germane to this issue. The average user simply wants to plunk a disc into his computer and install an OS with minimum input. 2) While network support is robust, it is not easily configured within the OS. There are few if any wizards to guide the user. I have a simple home networking system. Three computers - 2 = WinXP 1 = FreeBSD 5.2.1 - up and running. They are connected via a hub and then to a router connected to a cable modem. It is not the most modern setup I agree, but it is functional. Just to get FreeBSD to do a correct DHCP took a custom script for the dhclient.conf file that someone was kind enough to give me. Then getting the three computers to actually network together is another story. Say what you want about networking, but since MS is the most used OS available today, it would behoove FreeBSD to have in place a system to routinely network with MS and not have to install additional software and then be forced to reconfigure all of the computers to work with it. I can attest to the fact that most individuals do not have the time or inclination to go about that chore. 3) From what I have been able to deduce, the packages available from FreeBSD are not as current as the ports collection. Downloading something like Open Office or the complete KDE 3.2 suite and then installing it from ports is not something most users would envy. It is a time consuming and possible tedious venture. The packages should be kept as current as the ports. 4) The installation procedure should offer the user a method of starting KDE, Gnome or whatever automatically upon boot-up. Having to do it all manually, whether adding the commands to the proper files or simply using the command line is not good enough. The average user has little time or patience to read through the XFree86 literature in addition to the KDE or Gnome paraphernalia then go through the configuration process which requires him/her to know specific monitor, and video card settings, etc to get the system up and running. This does not even include the additional effort of getting a 'wheel mouse' or 'optical mouse' properly configured. As we are all too well aware of, such problems rarely occur in the Microsoft OS. In any case, at least the latest versions. 5) Most non-Microsoft operating systems are three to five years, if not more, behind in PNP technology. It is something that all non Microsoft OS vendors should place greater effort on improving. 6) Greater effort should be put into getting the operating systems more fully aware of various ACPI procedures used by various vendors. I have seen when FreeBSD fails to use ACPI on several models of Compaq computers even though MS has no such deficiency. The often-stated remark that MS is simply working around a bug in the code is a cop-out by the developers. If MS can work around a bug, so can other vendors. 7) The bottom line is that if FreeBSD or any other OS vendor wants to become truly mainline, they have to get their products to work on the same platform and perform as easily as Microsoft's operating system does.
RE: re:make world
Tell IPFW that you want to allow packets. You'll probably want something like: # ipfw add 00100 allow ip from any to any This will allow ALL packets, so it's not really acting as a well configured firewall, but it should fix your immediate problem. Check out rc.firewall and rc.conf for info on choosing something that may be better suited to your needs, and take a look at the BSD handbook for more information about firewalling in general. Cheers, Marc -Original Message- From: RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re:re:make world Firstly thanks for your reply, contents of /etc/resolv.conf are as follows. search computerking.ca nameserver 192.168.0.202 nameserver 24.71.223.144 nameserver 24.71.223.144 If i am not mistaken my server (192.168.0.202 or computerking.ca) that runs FreeBSD as well provides that information through the dhcpd? I do not have named running on that machine but instead on the fore mentioned server. ipfw show outputs the following line what the ??? 65535 0 0 deny ip from any to any that doesn't look right does it??? can you help me fix this??? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
RE: Mail on FreeBSD
Hi, You should take a look at IMP (http://www.horde.org/imp/) or Squirrelmail, both of which are webmail solutions, and both can be found in the ports tree. They do however, require either a POP3 or IMAP server, and a server with PHP and a few other minor dependencies. Alternatively, you could try neomail, which can access local mailspool files using just perl. Good luck. Cheers, Marc -Original Message- From: somatic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 1:51 PM To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Mail on FreeBSD Hi, I was wondering if there was a web based system to check mail on a freebsd system.I wanted to setup a mail system for all users on the intranet.I have successfully installed sendmail and can send and receive mail on the system.(using pine).But how do i go about setting up a system for external lan users without them telnetting into the system?.Would i need a pop3 server? Thanks, akshay. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: pkgs managing
On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:23:50PM +0300, flux wrote: How do I know what package does the file belong? If you have portupgrade installed (/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade) you can use the pkg_which(1) command. For example: 14:32 (5) pkg_which /usr/local/bin/animate ImageMagick-5.5.7.15_1 Cheers, Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RSYNC Question; date/time restriction
Hi there, On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:43:39PM +0100, Boris K?ster wrote: I have setup a little mirror of about 15 gig about linux/freebsd software and my problem is that I only want to get the files dated after january 2003 with rsync after getting the whole bunch of software. Is this possible? I believe that the find(1) command can do what you want by using the 'mtime' flag. You can also use the 'delete' flag once you're sure it's getting the right files directories, etc. Something like: '/usr/bin/find /your/mirror/dir -mtime +15 -delete' Would delete all files that are older than fifteen days iirc (this is all from memory) Just 'man find' and that should give you what you want. Good luck, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: removing all users
Hi there, On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 02:31:55PM -0900, Jon Reynolds wrote: Probably a stupid question but I have a lot of users on a freebsd box and I want to remove them all at once. Is there any problem with just issueing this command in the /home directory: 'rm -i *'. Or is there a better way to do this? Thanks for any suggestions, You could try something like: cd /home/ for i in * ; do /usr/sbin/rmuser -y $i ; done That should do what you're asking for, and will do a lot more than just remove the directories. Man rmuser(8) for more info on what it does if you're interested. :) - Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Buildworld Failing
Kris, On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:20:04AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: You actually want 'make cleandir' What is the technical difference between 'make clean' and 'make cleandir'...? Perhaps you can clear this up for me? - Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Buildworld Failing
Hi there, Did you clean out /usr/obj before you started the 'make buildworld'?? If you have previously compiled buildworld, then this is something you should do. To do this: cd /usr/obj chflags -R noschg * rm -fr /usr/obj/usr Then, 'make clean' in /usr/src and start again. Hopefully that'll fix it. - Marc On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 12:37:24AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.7 p2 box, and Im trying to upgrade to p3. I just did a fresh cvsup, and cd to /usr/src Execute make buildworld, and its failing at - cc -O -pipe -DINFODIR=\/usr/share/info:/usr/local/info:/usr/X11R6/info:.\ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/share/locale\ -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info/../../../../contrib/texinfo -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info/../../../../contrib/texinfo/lib -D__FBSDID=__RCSID -static -o info dir.o display.o doc.o dribble.o echo-area.o filesys.o footnotes.o gc.o indices.o info-utils.o info.o infodoc.o infomap.o m-x.o man.o nodemenu.o nodes.o search.o session.o signals.o terminal.o tilde.o variables.o window.o -ltermcap /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info/../libtxi/libtxi.a /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -ltermcap *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/info. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. gatekeeper# Any ideas what I can do to recitify this problem. Thanks. -- Gerard Samuel http://www.trini0.org:81/ http://dev.trini0.org:81/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Upgrading kde with ports
Hi there, You could use /usr/ports/sysytils/portupgrade to do this... and as far as I know it can use packages instead of source... :) Good luck, Marc On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:42:08PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: If I want to upgrade kde 3.0.3 to 3.0.5 using the packages, rather than compiling from ports, what is the best way to do it? I've cvsup'ed my ports tree last night and downloaded all the packages from ftp.kde Is there some way to upgrade to the new packages and all their dependencies in the same way that the ports system would upgrade dependencies automatically? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: PostNuke running slow on FreeBSD
Hi there, Out of interest, why are you using IPv6 support? Are you actually using it? I've personally had no experience with this, but perhaps that's the problem? A few things I would check: 1) See what the value for HostnameLookups is in httpd.conf -- I would suggest setting this to Off, as leaving it on can cause issues if your DNS server cannot resolve fast enough/at all. Does /usr/local/sbin/apachectl configtest show anything odd? 2) Try running a tcpdump to see if traffic is actually flowing freely... who knows, maybe you'll notice something odd. 3) What's the httpd process doing when it's supposed to be serving this page? Is something using lots of CPU/RAM while you're waiting for the page to load? Perhaps look at using truss to find out? 4) Have you looked at MySQL during this time? Try outputting MySQL's output/queries to a log file (--with-log=/tmp/mysql.log for eg iirc) and see what's going on there. 'show status' within MySQL can sometimes also provide good information. Hope this helps in some way. - Marc On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 12:59:18PM +0200, Janine C. Buorditez wrote: Hi. I'm running PostNuke 0.72, Apache+IPv6 1.3.26, MySQL 3.23.49 and mod_php4 4.2.3. My machine is a Pentium 120 with 16 MB RAM, so I don't expect much from it. However I would expect it to take less than 15-20 minutes to serve me a website, in this case PostNuke (http://www.terrabionic.com/nma). I do not know what it is, nor does the PostNuke community. The installation went fair and fast enough. Once it was complete and I wanted to access it, I had to wait 16 minutes for just the topic to appear. tail /var/log/httpd-error.log [snip] I haven't done much to configure Apache, MySQL or PHP. That should result in this should it? Thanks --janine To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Connecting to mysqld
Hi there, On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:15:28PM +0200, Carl-Johan Kihlbom wrote: It worked when i specified the host, as in: GRANT ALL ON *.* to kihlbom@localhost. So now the user kihlbom can connect from localhost. But I would prefer it if that user could connect from any host. How do I do that? This is a bit risky from a security standpoint, but you could do this like so (for eg): grant select on dbname.* to username@% identified by password; OR grant select on dbname.* to username@%.myisp.net identified by password; Hope this helps, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: port scanner found my SMTP / SSH is up and I didn't put them there!!!!
Hi there, On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 05:46:25AM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote: I used a port scanner on my server just to check things out. I wasn't expecting this. Port 22 (ssh) and port (25) SMTP are up. I looked in /etc/inetd.conf and SMTP is comented out. SMTP is not controlled via /etc/inetd.conf. See /etc/rc.conf (and /etc/defaults/rc.conf) for more information on how to disable this. You can also disable ssh via this method. I created a webmailer and sure enough, all my e-mail was recieved but not sent out. If this isn't a default set up i've been compramised. :( I don't even know how to use ssh yet. The only reason I noticed this is because I was setting up my firewall using IPFW. These services usually run by default on newly installed FreeBSD machines. Did you specifically disable them, or is this a newly installed machine which you've now noticed has open ports? :) If it's just a new install you have nothing to worry about, since these run by default on most installations. - Marc -- Marc Silver - Systems Developer http://www.easynet.net/ Phone: +44 20 7032 2064 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: MySQL Installation
Hi there, You can install this with ease using the FreeBSD ports tree. Simply cd into /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server and type make install that'll install it all for you... :) Good luck. You'll need to consult the MySQL documentation for information on adding/creating databases etc, but this will install the actual server binaries etc for you. - Marc On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:28:37AM -0400, MET wrote: I was wondering if someone could be so kind as to write up directions for installing MySQL that makes sense. I've read all of the documentation from their site that I can handle, and can take no more. Simply put I'm a Unix newbie, and their directions are definitely for someone with more knowledge than I. I've just installed FreeBSD 4.6, clean install, without any GUI interface, CLI strictly. The purpose of MySQL is for nothing more than a mere web database (I've been doing PHP + MySQL for years and figured I'd give server technology a try). Thank yous to the daring. - Matthew Metnetsky To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
