Re: best way to install/update software and firewall choice

2009-11-01 Thread Guy Marcenac
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best way to install/update software and firewall choice

2009-10-31 Thread Guy Marcenac
Hi, I am an old debian user and I am looking at freebsd for security reasons * I am very interested in the jail concept * I have to relearn iptables syntax each time I want to add a rule I am testing the system in vmware virtual machine. There is a point I don't fully understand. There are

Re: best way to install/update software and firewall choice

2009-10-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Guy Marcenac wrote: Hi, I am an old debian user and I am looking at freebsd for security reasons * I am very interested in the jail concept * I have to relearn iptables syntax each time I want to add a rule Don't we all :) I am testing the system in vmware virtual machine. There is a

Re: best way to install/update software and firewall choice

2009-10-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Guy Marcenac wrote: Hi, I am an old debian user and I am looking at freebsd for security reasons * I am very interested in the jail concept * I have to relearn iptables syntax each time I want to add a rule I am testing the system in vmware virtual machine. There is a point I don't fully

Re: best way to install/update software and firewall choice

2009-10-31 Thread phantomcircuit
freebsd-update works fine in a jail so long as you symlink the kernel file to /dev/null Manolis Kiagias wrote: Guy Marcenac wrote: Hi, I am an old debian user and I am looking at freebsd for security reasons * I am very interested in the jail concept * I have to relearn iptables syntax

Re: best way to install/update software and firewall choice

2009-10-31 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/31/09, phantomcircuit phantomcirc...@covertinferno.org wrote: freebsd-update works fine in a jail so long as you symlink the kernel file to /dev/null I've never needed to do that. I run lots of jails and i just run freebsd-update like normal. I don't install the kern sets in the jails