I have a problem with my firewall. When booting freebsd i get the message
that pf is enabling, but there are syntax errors in the /etc/pf.conf file
and that no IP adresses were found for sk0 network. What should i change
here?
I took the conf file from
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#sec

Ivan
On 3/30/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 07:21:32PM +0200, Ivan Zenzerović wrote:
> >Try xvidtune.
>
> Thanks, I'll try. I knew of that program, but with time I forgot it's
name.
>
> I must say that freebsd works very well as a workstation, there are no
> viruses (am I right?),

As good as right. There have been proof-of-concept viruses for UNIX, but
AFAIK no one has ever been found in the wild. And most of them rely on
the operator doing something stupid (like running an un-trusted binary
as root).

That doesn't mean FreeBSD is invulnerable though. If you're running a
workstation there are several things you should do IMHO.

1) Enable one of the firewalls that are available on FreeBSD (I like
   pf). This firewall should be set up to block incoming connections.
2) Do not enable any services that you don't need.
3) Disable all logins that don't come from the local machine.

See http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#sec
You might find the rest of this page usefull as well.

> But, let me ask something. When I was configuring the mounting of usb
memory
> sticks, I had to create the /etc/devfs.rules file and write something in
it.
> (
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html)
> and I did it. Everything works fine, but is it ok to create files like
this
> if they are not already created by the system. I just followed the
hanbook,
> but the only difference was that I had to create that file.

It is fine to create those files. It is just not used by default.

Roland
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