Re: Sendmail Configuration...

2003-01-10 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Christopher J Phillips wrote: > Hi, > > I have some FreeBSD boxes that I'd like to configure sendmail on. > > I have no experience I'm afraid. > > I have a mail server that is all set up as I'd like it, see www.inty.net > > I would like the FreeBSD boxes to send/forward mail out to that host

Re: Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Jan 7 Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 12:00:02AM +0100, Andrew Prewett wrote: > > Today Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I have a VERY, VERY old laptop

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Jan 7 Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > > Today Mike Meyer wrote: >

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Ed Hall wrote: > > Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron > (/var/backups), > > > > so maybe no need to

Re: Older versions

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Nathan Kinkade wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a VERY, VERY old laptop (1.9 Megs of memory IBM), and I was > > wondering if I could get FreeBSD 1 for it. If so, where? Thanks! > > > > lattera > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL P

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Normally the master.passwd is bac

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mike Meyer wrote: > [Context lost to top posting.] > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Yes, that worked, but now I can't sshd to it anymore. > > looking in the auth.log file, it sais " Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed > > address already in use. > > so I edit th

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-01-07T17:35:49Z, Andrew Prewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Normally the master.passwd is backed up regularly by cron (/var/backups), > > so maybe no need to backup it again. > > Were you joking? Surely you'r

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Prewett ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > Today Mike Meyer wrote: > > > [Context lost to top posting.] > > > > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >t

Re: permissions issue help ?!?!

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Brent Bailey wrote: > Hello, Im using FBSD 4.6 R i recently installed something (i dont > know what ) that changed the permissions on my /tmp directory.making > things like mysql & php and other programs not function correctly. > > as things are now on the broken box the permissions a

Re: Deleted VAR

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Kenzo wrote: > Help, I accidently deleted everything in the /var dir. ( fat fingered ). > Is there a way to retrive it? or do i have to reinstall. > I'm now getting alot of error message since it's also a mail server. well > not anymore. You can restore the directory structure -- at least

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mark wrote: > I believe I have found a security vulnerability in dump, which, under the > right conditions, allows any user with shell-access to gain root-privileges. > > When dumping to a file, dump writes this file chmod 644. When the > root-partition is being backed-up, this leaves the du

Re: security vulnerability in dump

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mark wrote: > I believe I have found a security vulnerability in dump, which, under the > right conditions, allows any user with shell-access to gain root-privileges. > > When dumping to a file, dump writes this file chmod 644. When the > root-partition is being backed-up, this leaves the du

Re: tcpdump problem

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Jan 8 Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > I am running FreeBSD 3.4 with the GENERIC kernel which has > the line "pseudo-device bpfilter 1" uncommented in the config. I also > re-built and re-installed GENERIC just to be sure. > > /dev/bpf0 has "rw" permissions for the owner (root). There are no other >

Re: flush?

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Jan 6 Mark wrote: > Nope, "sync" won't do it. ;) I can sync all I want, but df (and dd, > effectively, by adding the "deleted" size to its image) keeps reporting the > added size (which is considerable: about 4 G extra) to the partition, and > only falls back to the true value after a while. Be

Re: POP Server with Secure Password Authentication

2003-01-06 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:23:49PM -0800, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andrew Prewett > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:33:16PM -0800, Kory Hamzeh wrote

Re: POP Server with Secure Password Authentication

2003-01-06 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 06:33:16PM -0800, Kory Hamzeh wrote: > > I need to setup a POP Server that supports Secure Password Authentication. I > have some MicroSoft Outlook users that need to pull their mail, but they are > coming in over the internet. I looked through the ports collection, and > d

Re: fvwm2 mouse questions

2003-01-04 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today dick hoogendijk wrote: > In KDE and Windowmaker atc you can set the acceleration and threshold > for the mousepointer. I need this set, 'cause otherwise my pointer moves > way too slow ;-( > > I want to play a little with fvwm2 (heardsome great things about it) but > can't find the place to

Re: how can I filter on subject with sendmail 8.12.6?

2003-01-03 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Jan 3 Fuzzy wrote: > > we're having a problem with some cracker using addresses > harvested from whois and the "abuse/www/webmaster" with > domains they get from the database. The mail appears to > come from us but it cannot as the addresses are oneway incoming > only. > > the subject is always

Re: /etc/ftpchroot

2003-01-02 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Wayne Swart wrote: > lo everyone > > is there a wildcdard type you can specify for /etc/ftpchroot ? joe*, doe[0-9], etc. won't work > this is on bsd 4.7 using ftpd This is from ftpd(8): ... 5. If the user name appears in the file /etc/ftpchroot, or the user is a member of a group w

Re: ttyv3 cons2511

2002-12-30 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > In my /etc/ttys is a line which mentions ttyv3 as a cons2511 on secure > resulting in a strange message when I log in on this tty. The console is > not supported? Strange, as I never changed this file, so it is the one > that came w/ the 4.7-release. I changed ttyv3

Re: procmail security question

2002-12-30 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Maybe a silly question but still, security has to be as high as > possible, so, here it is: > > I installed procmail and got the fbsd warning about the program running > with set user and group ID (root/mail) known as a security risk. > What about this message? Procm

Re: APM

2002-12-29 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Dec 28 Adam Weinberger wrote: > >> (12.28.2002 @ 2157 PST): Derision said, in 0.4K: << > > What is the correct line in the kernel config for > > making halt -p work? > > > > Mine is currently > > device apm0 > > > > (FreeBSD 4.7) > >> end of "APM" from Derision << > > Make sure you

Re: off topic .. interpretation of tcpdump

2002-12-28 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > This is my festive season question. > I was having some problems with my SMTP mail connection to my ISP. > So I tcpdump'ed the ethernet ADSL connection. > I think I know what most of it means, but can anyone tell me what > the following messages, every 2 sec

Re: What are the SMTP rules for sending mail to FreeBSD

2002-12-28 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Harry Tabak wrote: > Mail sent from my main server, gatehouse.quadtelecom.com (66.45.116.138) > gets rejected. >_450_Client_host_rejected:_cannot_find_your_hostname,_[66.45.116.138] If 450 is some error code, then it's only a _temporary_ error/failure (RFC 1893). Maybe the DNS servers

RE: sshd and passwordauthentication

2002-12-28 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Dec 27 Didier Wiroth wrote: > I'm using a windows client, putty where I didn't find that kind of option, > here is the output of "ssh -v" from linux test machine: > > OpenSSH_2.9.9p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f > debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config > debug1: Ap

RE: Problems with a C application that changes users and run 'screen-x'

2002-12-27 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Dec 20 Paul Everlund wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Paul Everlund wrote: > > Found an error in my reply... > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Aaron Burke wrote: > > > [big snip] > > > I think execlp is writing over your current process. So first your > > process is exchanged with ppp, then ppp is exchan

Re: ATX power down

2002-12-25 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Paulo Roberto wrote: > --- "Denis N. Peplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know why some ATX systems can't. I'm tested "halt -p" on > > FreeBSD 5.0 and all work fine. > > It is strange, since I got Linux also on this machine, and "halt" > powers down properly, but not on FreeBSD. >

Re: Adding to standard include path (GCC)

2002-12-25 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a starter to programming in FreeBSD after a few years in Visual C++ and > would like to delve deeper into it. But I have a few questions which I need > answers. I hope it wouldn't be too much a burden to you. > > I have two gccs installed, 2.

Re: ATX power down

2002-12-25 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Paulo Roberto wrote: > --- "Denis N. Peplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # halt -p > > The system halts, but still no power down. Is there a sysctl for this > thing or maybe a compile option in the kernel? 1) `device apm' in the kernel config 2) `apm_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf > BTW

RE: Refusing Connections

2002-12-22 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Dec 22 Jimi Thompson wrote: > This is a strange one. Here's the deal. The traffic doesn't even appear to > be making it as far as the Apache process. That's why I was looking for > something in the OS that would be blocking it (like the firewall). > > # > # Listen: Allows you to bind Apache

Re: Refusing Connections

2002-12-22 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Dec 21 Jimi Thompson wrote: > OS - 5.0 RC2 > Apache - 2.0.43 > OpenSSL - 0.9.6g > > I'm having a rather odd problem and I can't quite put my finger on it. I > can verify that the apache httpd is running but I am unable to connect to > the box on port 80. - Check if apache really listening on

Re: Question about Apache with ssl.

2002-12-06 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mark-Nathaniel Weisman wrote: > I've replaced the original httpd executable with a new improved > apachectl, apachectl is only a wrapper script to start, stop, restart apache (httpd)... > and of course need the startssl to fire up my ssl installed > Web Server. When the web server fires up

Re: quotas

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Mark wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Rick Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:06 PM > Subject: Re: quotas > > > > > every mount point with quota enabled will create a quota.user and > > or q

Re: run command on logfile before it's rotated

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Akifyev Sergey wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 01:02, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:51:43PM +0100, Thomas von Hassel wrote: > > > I've got my system set up to rotate the maillog every day at midnight. > > > What do i do if i want to run a command on the logfile just bef

Re: Cant find /etc/resolv.conf

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Tiago Andre wrote: > > Hello there... > > I've the last version of freebsd... > But i cant find the file > /etc/resolv.conf > Why? Why??? Who knows? Maybe it's simply not there. But you can create one if you have write access to the /etc dir. It's nothing special with this file, i.e: names

Re: Sendmail and localhost

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Andrey Nepomnyaschih wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got some problems with sendmail. Going through logs I've found that > sendmail identifies itself as localhost.. where I would expect > it should be just [localhost]. > > Dec 5 13:09:00 watchdog sm-msp-queue[339]: gB5A016S000321: > to=x

Re: hi there =)

2002-12-05 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Miguel haber wrote: > Hi > I just have a problem... > I'm behind an http proxy, it's 10.1.1.1 port 8080.. this is the scan of the proxy: > > bash-2.05b$ nmap -P0 10.1.1.1 > Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) > Interesting ports on (10.1.1.1): > (The 1585 ports scanned but not

Re: Opera

2002-12-03 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Dec 3 Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:11:29PM -0700, Peter Milne wrote: > > Opera was working fine. I now try to load a page and it crashes and closes. >Every page, every site. I installed it from ports. > > > > How do I get rid of it all or how do I fix it? > > I had the

Re: is there a "replace command" ?

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > On 02-Dec-2002 Malik Bülent wrote: > > On Freebsd4.x > > I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones > > For example a file > > touch /var/qmail/1 > > touch /var/qmail/2 > > touch /var/qmail/3 > > touch /var/qmail/4 > > touch /var/qmail/5 >

Re: is there a "replace command" ?

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew Prewett
Today Malik Bülent wrote: > On Freebsd4.x > I have a file. I want to change some expressions with new ones > For example a file > touch /var/qmail/1 > touch /var/qmail/2 > touch /var/qmail/3 > touch /var/qmail/4 > touch /var/qmail/5 > touch /var/qmail/6 > I want to change "touch" with "rm" >

Re: Run as owner

2002-12-01 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Nov 30 Kirk Bailey wrote: > This script is not perl, it is in python. So far the python community has > failed in the search for clue, possibly this one can assist? > Python or not python is irrevelant here. As last resort, if you don't want to use su, sudo or ksu, you can use a setuid/setgid

Re: Run as owner

2002-11-30 Thread Andrew Prewett
On Nov 29 Kirk Bailey wrote: > OK, man says to get a script to run as the owner, turn on the 4000 bit. If you execute a script, and the first line begins with `#!/usr/bin/perl -w' (in case of a perl script) and the sript is marked executable then the kernel executes it like: exec("/usr/bin/perl