RE: 2 networks, six NICs, 3 Servers, 1 switch.

2002-12-30 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
I am about to move our 2 servers, and add a third, to a new colo. On each of the three servers there will be two NICs. 1 NIC on each box is to be dedicated to the internet. 1 1 NIC in each box is to be dedicated to local. (192.168.0.1-3). Can I plug all three NIC s into one switch (the

ASP on FreeBSD/Apache - most recent, stable and viable solution?

2003-07-18 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
This may be better posted to the Apache list, but that has been filling up with windows implementations as of late... Have recently been inundated with requests for ASP on our FreeBSD/Apache servers (probably because the Win2K solutions are incredibly unreliable/vulnerability prone). What is the

RE: Virtual FreeBSD

2003-07-18 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
I figured it was jail(8) or a suped up, customized jail. So where is everyone getting this exact same set of documentation? http://support.securesites.com/support/virtual/freebsd/ http://www.2kweb.net/support/virtual/freebsd/ http://iasweb.com/support/docs/virtual/freebsd.html

RE: ASP on FreeBSD/Apache - most recent, stable and viable solution?

2003-07-18 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:41:56AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] typed: This may be better posted to the Apache list, but that has been filling up with windows implementations as of late... Have recently been inundated with requests for ASP on our FreeBSD/Apache servers (probably because

RE: ASP on FreeBSD/Apache - most recent, stable and viable solution?

2003-07-18 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
Supposedly this product will work natively on FreeBSD. http://www.halcyonsoft.com/products.asp?s=1 will check it out I belive Chili!Soft ASP has been bought out by Sun and renamed Sun ONE, so you may want to look into that product. It runs on Linux so it might work with FreeBSD. Previous

file table is full - but not...?

2003-07-24 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
received the following from a logcheck; Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jul 24 23:11:50 web1 /kernel: le: table is full Jul 24 23:11:50 web1 /kernel: file: table is full Jul 24 23:14:00 web1 /kernel: le: table is full Jul 24 23:14:00 web1 /kernel: file: table is full Jul 24 23:14:00

shell scripting while if string length != 0

2003-07-31 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
for reasons best left unsaid, we need to pull in a file full of partial commands, and run them via a shell script on occasion, removing each command as we run it. Have managed to hack togetherthe following shell script, but and stumped on something simple because of my lack of shell knowledge;

RE: shell scripting while if string length != 0

2003-08-01 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
and http://tldp.org/LDP/lpg/node15.html for some info on these. Not really what I was thinking of, but may be a much more eloquent solution than an occasional cron run. Will definately check it out, thanks. Dave - Original Message - From: Dave [Hawk-Systems] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: shell

recommended book/guide for /bin/sh shell programming

2003-08-14 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
For multiple reasons I am moving away from doing everything in perl/php for server based tasks. Made sense at the time to do everything in the language we used for the web as well, but am finding I do less web work and more server admin work as time progreses, and there are some significant hits

RE: quickquestion

2003-08-14 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
Installed XFree86 using ports method: # cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 # make install clean now trying to run 'XFree86-configure' so i can configure it - but i can not locate the program anywhere! locate XFree86-configure or which XFree86-configure might be a good place to start On a larger

ran snort, now fxp1 stuck in promisc mode

2003-08-14 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
was experimenting with snort to try and track down the source of some hack attempts (which were futile but annoying). Before settling on the various flags that I indeed wanted to use, there were a number of failed snort starts, stops, etc... don't remember the specifics now as this was some time

failed root login with shared ssh key

2003-08-26 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
have several FreeBSD servers around all with varrying installs, 4.3 with a number of patches, up to a 4.7 that is relatively new. Some maintenance on the servers that requires root is run from a master server which connects to run the command(s) via SSH. The public key for [EMAIL PROTECTED] has

enable root login to remote system (was - failed root login withshared ssh key)

2003-08-27 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
Further test, which I missed earlier for some unknown reason, was to create an ssh key for a non-root user, copy to the target server, and try a key authenticated login with the non-root user... worked perfectly. As such, the problem does not appear to be with the ssh key login, but with the

RE: Chkrootkit anomaly

2003-08-27 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
Since there have already been a couple of questions on this I thought I'd see if anyone could shed some light on something I've noticed since I started running chkrootkit. It runs every 15 minutes (overkill? Nah.) in quiet mode to cut down on noise in the logs, and sporadically I get these

reverse makemap hash to get original text file

2003-06-06 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
we have a 0 length file, but a 4k db is there a way to reverse the db to get the original data (or close to) thanks Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

shell scripting - automating rotation of files in differentdirectories

2003-06-12 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
have looked at a couple of the ports for log rotation and such, but none seem to come close to the simplicity and complexity of what I am looking for. have user directories and log files in each directory... each user requests to have 1 day ro 30 days of logs made available for them to download

RE: daily /security run output via periodic - stopped

2003-07-04 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
we have 4 servers running, each sends daily and security run output email each day around 3am. Recently one of them stopped sending these messages. In looking at the periodic.conf and associated directories, I don't see any problems or changes that I am aware of. There are no enrties in cron

RE: daily /security run output via periodic - stopped

2003-07-04 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: we have 4 servers running, each sends daily and security run output email each day around 3am. Recently one of them stopped sending these messages. In looking at the periodic.conf and associated directories, I don't see any

RE: rpc.statd: invalid hostname to sm_stat

2003-07-06 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 02:37:36PM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: I received an answer to this before and it was that FreeBSD isn't vulnerable to this type of attack, but the log entries persist in varrying degrees of reoccurance. This is a FAQ. It's an attempt to exploit an old Linux

RE: (* chtoorkit)

2003-07-07 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
I found the following a day on our Mailserver (* chtoorkit) What means that? /usr/ports/security/chkrootkit does a batch of scans and comparisons to see if a root kit has been installed on your system. If you are using it, just a warning, that if you have a busy web server, you may get false

DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-25 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr partition. Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe dump to split or something then reverse the process with restore later? Working with what will be approximately a 6GB L0 dump so over 3x the size

RE: DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-26 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr partition. Hmm. I think the trick is to not be aware that there *is* a 2GB limit! Could be it there... using 4.3 stable with security patches and selected port upgrades only... I didn't think there was any change

RE: Mail Server Advice

2002-11-29 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
postfix on freebsd is apparently more efficient than qmail, though. no comment on that (lest we revive deep rooted animosity between the two camps)... If you are looking at the qmail solution, check out the following. Provides a complete package from a multiple domain mail solution... great

periodic output not being emailed

2002-12-15 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
little perplexed here... Looking at two servers... Server One - has .qmail-root alias directing mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - this is also the somedomain.com server we are retrieving mail from - we get daily, weekly, monthly and security output from this server in

RE: periodic output not being emailed

2002-12-15 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
In looking at the periodic files, it appears to simply call sendmail for all mailings. Why would the security output being sent through sendmail be any different? The security script is mailed separately. Look at /etc/periodic/daily/450.status-security. I did see that and understand that.

shell script to backup files with datestamp

2003-02-10 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
Without dumping to perl or another external language, would like to accomplish the following; prior to making changes in a file, backup incrementially the current file to create a record of changes ans versions. For example. we are about to make changes to file.conf and would like to make a

RE: shell script to backup files with datestamp

2003-02-10 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
From: Doug Poland Jack L. Stone said: At 11:19 AM 2.10.2003 -0500, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: Without dumping to perl or another external language, would like to accomplish the following; clip #cp /path/to/file.conf /path/to/file.conf.20030210 I almost want to say this could be done

transparent ipfw

2003-03-10 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
Been browsing for a bit (knowing I will get some rtfm responses from this) but havnt come across a solid answer for this. Most solutions involve NAT or some other non-routable ip block type of solution. Have the following (192.168.100.0/24 used in place of routable addresses) - Internet

apache exiting signal 11, high request period

2003-03-19 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
Following showed up in our morning security mailer Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 19 06:01:00 web1 /kernel: pid 62342 (httpd), uid 65534: exited on signal 11 Mar 19 06:01:00 web1 /kernel: pid 62343 (httpd), uid 65534: exited on signal 11 Mar 19 06:01:00 web1 /kernel: pid 62344

Block requests based on repeated failed httpd login attempts

2003-03-19 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
Had a situation with a user trying to gain access to an htaccess protected directory. [Sun Feb 23 06:31:00 2003] [error] [client 208.10.47.119] user cobras not found: /members/members.htm [Sun Feb 23 06:31:00 2003] [error] [client 208.10.47.119] user loredana not found: /members/members.htm [Sun

RE: apache exiting signal 11, high request period

2003-03-21 Thread Dave [Hawk-Systems]
no takers on this? -Original Message- clip Subject: apache exiting signal 11, high request period Following showed up in our morning security mailer Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mar 19 06:01:00 web1 /kernel: pid 62342 (httpd), uid 65534: exited on signal 11 Mar 19