Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
On 7/01/2010 2:35 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:20:53PM +0800, Paul Shi wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! I haven't followed your whole thread, but is there a good reason you want to use such an old version of FreeBSD? You would be very seriously better off installing the latest version -- especially if you plan to use the system on the internet. There have been many many security fixes since 2.0.5 was around. It should not be difficult to have access to the latest version in Hong Kong. There may even be a mirror site there. I definitely second this - unless there's an old application that doesn't work any more, it would certainly be easier and more secure to use the 7.2 or 8.0 releases of FreeBSD. After all, Internet or Intranet, it only takes one loathsome, dispicable, contemptible miscreant to find a security hole, and your entire server is toast. There appears to be a mirror site for FreeBSD in Hong Kong at ftp://ftp.hk.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ Dave. -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security Mob: +61 412 135 513 Email: d...@pdconsec.net ___ 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
Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Paul Shi wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? As I recall for that vintage of FreeBSD, it was simply a matter of uncommenting the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf and (re)starting inetd -- there are no rc.subr scripts in a system that old, so to restart inetd, you'ld have to do something like: # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` To start it at all, just run: # /usr/sbin/inetd Enabling it to be automatically started on reboot is pretty much the same as nowadays: just stick inetd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. If you want to provide anonymous FTP, then I believe there were instructions in the ftpd(8) man page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
On Wednesday 06 of January 2010 12:20:53 Paul Shi wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ 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 See Chapter 29 section 8: 29.8 File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Contributed by Murray Stokely. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-ftp.html It worked for me so I don't thing that you are going to have problems if you follow these instructions. Elias ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:38:17 +, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: As I recall for that vintage of FreeBSD, it was simply a matter of uncommenting the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf [...] Which would be something like ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/ftpd ftpd -ll Note that I've appended ftpd -ll to enable extended logging which is often useful when running an FTP server, so you can check things if problems occur. To make this setting take effect, touch /var/log/ftpd.log and !ftpd *.* /var/log/ftpd.log to your /etc/syslog.conf. I'm not sure if all these mechanisms have already been present on 2.0.5, because I'm a FreeBSD user since 4.0. Did 2.0.5 already have sysinstall? I seem to remember that when enabling FTP, a little subtree was created in /var/ftp. But I think it was related to anonymous FTP. If you're not going to use it - I didn't say anything. :-) Enabling it to be automatically started on reboot is pretty much the same as nowadays: just stick inetd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. Hasn't there been ,,ftpd_enable=YES'' in 2.0.5's rc.conf already? Allthough I'm running FTP services, I've never used that setting (inetd is sufficient). If you want to provide anonymous FTP, then I believe there were instructions in the ftpd(8) man page. At least on my (7-S) system it is the case, but there should be similar information in earlier man pages. It describes the stuff sysinstall does, as I mentioned (guessed) before. For security considerations, keep an eye on /etc/ftpusers; the names ftp (stands for anonymous FTP account - if you don't want to provide that service) and of course root should be contained. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Dear Matthew and Everyone, Thank you so much for your response. I think I will just create a user named ftp to enable anonymous access since security is not our major concern so far. The thing concerns me is exact the question you asked in the first place: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? Because I cannot find any reference it. I am wondering if anyone in this mailing list has a answer to this question. And I am just curious to see how people made wireless network back in 1990s. It must be quite fun. Again, any comment on wireless networking under FreeBSD will be greatly appreciated! Thank all of you so much! Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Paul Shi wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? As I recall for that vintage of FreeBSD, it was simply a matter of uncommenting the appropriate line in /etc/inetd.conf and (re)starting inetd -- there are no rc.subr scripts in a system that old, so to restart inetd, you'ld have to do something like: # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid` To start it at all, just run: # /usr/sbin/inetd Enabling it to be automatically started on reboot is pretty much the same as nowadays: just stick inetd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf. If you want to provide anonymous FTP, then I believe there were instructions in the ftpd(8) man page. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Hello: The thing concerns me is exact the question you asked in the first place: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? Because I cannot find any reference it. I am wondering if anyone in this mailing list has a answer to this question. And I am just curious to see how people made wireless network back in 1990s. I believe the answer would be No.. The first mention I can find of wireless adapters in the release notes is for 3.3, in late 1998. 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Robert Huff wrote: Hello: The thing concerns me is exact the question you asked in the first place: Does FreeBSD 2.0.5 even have any support for wireless networking devices? Because I cannot find any reference it. I am wondering if anyone in this mailing list has a answer to this question. And I am just curious to see how people made wireless network back in 1990s. I believe the answer would be No.. The first mention I can find of wireless adapters in the release notes is for 3.3, in late 1998. Wireless networking in the mid-90's would have been a very new thing, at least as a consumer item. It's about then that the very first mobile phones came out -- those were as big a brick and had about an hour's battery life. Much of the computing world was running 10baseT thin-wire ethernet, and although 100baseT Cat5 kit was available, it was pretty expensive. The WWW had only just become popular -- it was around '93 that it started to make the big-time. Most home connectivity was via acoustically coupled modems running at 96Kbaud if you were lucky. 48Kbaud probably more common[*]. Oh, and 8 MB RAM or 1 GB Hard disk was considered quite big... Cheers, Matthew [*] The Beeb was still using that modem-handshaking sound clip as an aural clue that the subject of an item was 'computers' even up to a year or so ago. -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Paul Shi wrote: Dear Matthew and Everyone, Thank you so much for your response. I think I will just create a user named ftp to enable anonymous access since security is not our major concern so far. I should hope that security will never be your concern, given how many years of security related patches you're missing. -- --Jon Radel j...@radel.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Matthew Seaman writes: [*] The Beeb was still using that modem-handshaking sound clip as an aural clue that the subject of an item was 'computers' even up to a year or so ago. Which may be anachronistic, but is both audibly and conceptually distinct. Quickly - what's the sound of an OC3, or a web page loading? (I spent 1996 (I think) doing QA for a company building a remote access product. Got to the point I could name each phase of the modem handshake, and stood a good chance of being able to identify the speed and encryption method.) 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: Setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5?
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 06:20:53PM +0800, Paul Shi wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to find a way to setup a wireless network with a FreeBSD server machine running FTP service. The release of FreeBSD I intend to use is 2.0.5 but I could not find anything on how to setup FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5 in handbook. There are only howto on PPP and SLIP. Does anyone have a handbook on how to enable FTP service on FreeBSD 2.0.5? Millions thanks! The FreeBSD Handbook has information on using FTP. I haven't followed your whole thread, but is there a good reason you want to use such an old version of FreeBSD? You would be very seriously better off installing the latest version -- especially if you plan to use the system on the internet. There have been many many security fixes since 2.0.5 was around. It should not be difficult to have access to the latest version in Hong Kong. There may even be a mirror site there. jerry Your sincerely, Paul Shi Electronic and Communication Engineering Senior Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Hong Kong ___ 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
