Re: Heimdal 0.6.3 in FreeBSD 7.1

scr heimdal-1.0.1 A popular BSD-licensed implementation of Kerberos 5 Long description : Sources : Changes : Download Maintained by: sh...@freebsd.org Also listed in: ipv6 Requires: libtool-1.5.26 HTH, DA+ -- David Robillard UNIX team leader & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE, SCSA &

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

ontact.php. I believe you should talk to Dan Langille on the BSDCan commitee http://www.bsdcan.org/2008/committee.php Good luck and have fun! Your project seems quite interesting :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Ad

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

You might want to talk to the author of this: http://www.bsdcan.org/2007/schedule/events/6.en.html "Reflections on Building a High-performance Computing Cluster Using FreeBSD" by Brooks Davis. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE &

Re: how to simulate a user's crontab?

latforms. If you're looking for the same type of "Remember everything" functionality as Yojimbo, but platform independent, then you might want to take a look at http://www.evernote.com. It's web based (but .Mac free) plus it also has a MacOS X and a Windows client if you need the

Re: Problem in checking machine architecture.

tried it successfully on various versions of FreeBSD, RedHat Enterprise Linux & Ubuntu Linux. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0

Re: Would ZFS and gmirror work well together in a two-node failover cluster?

Now if we come back to the problem at hand, mainly using zfs under gmirror. I've never heard of anyone using this. It does sound a bit strange to me since both zfs and gmirror will do mirroring. I would advise to test and retest very carefully before you go into production with such a s

Re: Ldap NSS PAM Samba

ll use NSS to know where to check in order to find out who is this bob user (will it be in the local passwd file or in the LDAP directory?) Once it finds where bob is stored (if he exists) then it will compare the passwd string (or the Kerberos ticket if our example) and use PAM to locate which module it

Re: Amanda port update

install from the > source tarball? Thanks. Did you try to contact the port maintainer? You probably want to check with him/her before you update the port no? In any case, it's a good idea to update the port because we're going to need it here too! Good luck, David -- Dav

Re: to scsi or not to scsi

from "Linux Administration Handbook, 2nd ed" from Nemeth, Snyder, Hein & al at Prentice Hall publishing. Or http://www.scsi-planet.com/vs/ Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1

Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

I don't want to have newsyslog(8) to write anything in the Apache logs. Why? Because it confuses our Apache log file analyzers. That's all. I mean, I know the reasons why the logs are rotated and I know that it's newsyslog(8) that did it (I should know, I'm the one who configured it

Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

Of course, YMMV. Yes, of course :) > regards, > Ruben Cheers, DA+ -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Vsftpd rotate logs with newsyslog...

VirtualHosts. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Reverse proxy recommendation

uld be addressed to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. WWW: http://www.varnish-cache.org/ And from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varnish_cache I've never used it myself, but looks interesting since it's been created by Poul-Henning Kamp which is a major FreeBSD developer. HTH, David --

Re: Large filesystems help/ideas

ed backup volume and OpenPGP to encrypt the tapes. For VMWare images, we use sysutils/rdiff-backup. It works very well for 100+ mixed FreeBSD, RedHat, Ubuntu and AIX hosts. If you need any help with the backup setup and all, just ask, I'll send you the howto. Have fun, DA+ -- David Robillard UNI

Re: OpenLDAP/FreeBSD: How to implement attribute HOST without STRUCTURAL account?

> On Wednesday 30 April 2008 16:43, David Robillard wrote: > > > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 11:00, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > [ --- 8< --- SNIP! --- 8< --- ] > > > > That sounds very interesting Jonathan. Could you please share with us > > t

Re: OpenLDAP/FreeBSD: How to implement attribute HOST without STRUCTURAL account?

ry: /nfs/home/test.user # Link this user to it's group. dn: cn=test, ou=groups, dc=domain, dc=com objectClass: top objectClass: posixGroup cn: test gidNumber: memberUid: test.user # EOF Many thanks, DA+ -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE &

Re: Support for Stallion Serial Controllers in FreeBSD 7

up the console server with both the Digi board and the Stallion cards, check http://wiki.zerocatastrophe.com/wiki/UNIX/FreeBSD/ConsoleServer HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 __

Re: Openldap server install failure - openldap client conflict

> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 10:37 -0400, David Robillard wrote: > > > I'm trying to install OpenLDAP as a server to "attempt" to try it out > > > for our network. The problem is the openldap client is already installed > > > for other apps as php, ap

Re: Openldap server install failure - openldap client conflict

when either OpenLDAP or BDB changes versions. Using rsync, rdist WANT_OPENLDAP_VER= 24 WITH_BDB_VER= 46 Good luck with OpenLDAP. Should you need help with it, SASL and Kerberos integration, feel free to contact me. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP,

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

ave no idea about the HBA multipath support? Anyway, if you do have more specific questions, please feel free to send them to me. I'd forward them to my friend or hook you two together. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Ce

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

ed howto and the important encrypted password files on a USB stick in case the data center fails and we loose our wiki and the file server. If anyone is interested in the exact configuration of this backup setup, we have it all in a wiki, so it's easy to share it. Hope that can help an

Re: Sudo Commands on New 6.2 System Cause Last Login Message.

essage. If you don't need it, comment out the... session include system ... line in ${LOCALBASE}/etc/pam.d/sudo to get rid of this behavior. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security

Re: VMWare Tools for FreeBSD

I'd really like to see VMWare Server and Player certified for FreeBSD i386 and amd64. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-q

Re: compiling kernel with PAE

chitecture. Therefore if your Intel Xeon is in the 3000-sequence, 5000-sequence or 7000-sequence, then you can use FreeBSD/amd64 and use the memory above 4Gb. IMHO it should be more simple and efficient than compiling a kernel with PAE support. HTH, David -- David Robi

Re: How backup huge pgsql ?

pre-production and test environments without any impact on your production systems. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Sun Fire X4600 Server & FreeBSD

you to try before you buy. In this way you can use the FreeBSD/amd64 install CD and perform a real life test of the x4600. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 __

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

3 and > UFS2. What filesystem(s) meet(s) my needs in this case? NFS would probably do it. You can use either OS as the NFS server and use which ever file system you desire. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrat

Re: How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment?

ng out those nasty hacks by > myself :) Say Steve, If you make it out alive and everything works as planned, may I suggest you post your solution online so that the entire FreeBSD community can benefit from your efforts? Good luck & Have fun! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems adm

Re: Issues configuring cyrus-imapd

apd_flags="-d" # Flags to imapd program. saslauthd_enable="YES" # Enable saslauthd(8) (or NO). If you need more detailed info, I can send you my cyrus.conf(5) and imap.conf(5) files. As you can see, it's quite a lot more complicated then wit

Re: named.conf - unable to set control bit

o, then you're good to go. Otherwise, fix whatever problem is displayed. In your case, you need to remove one semi-colomn (";") to fix your problem. Here's what your control statement should look like: controls { inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 allow { 127.0.0.1;10.202.77

Re: Does anyone know how to get the required downloads from Sun to build Java?

ations to the FreeBSD Foundation that supported hardware, developer costs, and legal fees." Here's the direct link: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE &am

Re: syslog time resolution

g-ng-admin-guide_en.html/bk01-toc.html Should you like to check out other syslogd replacements, check the Library at http://www.loganalysis.org/ Have fun! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 51

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

On Oct 29, 2007 10:45 AM, Andrew Wasilczuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:08:12AM -0400, David Robillard wrote: > > > > We run FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on several IBM x3550 machines with the > > onboard RAID controller using the aac(4) driver. We h

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

avoided. We run FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on several IBM x3550 machines with the onboard RAID controller using the aac(4) driver. We haven't had any problems, the machines are stable and backed by IBM Professional Services. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CI

Re: Recommended servers for FreeBSD.

nk of it, I have one here in the lab. I'll see if I can spare a few minutes to test the hot-swap. I'll let you know how it turns out. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administra

Re: Backup Solution

MWare machine files. It works very well. Check it out at http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ Let me know if you need help on the setup. On the other hand, if you prefer to backup the VMWare machines as if they were physical ones, then I suggest rsnapshot. Of course, this will only work with UNIX VMs. More in

Re: named-bind-9

> I am having problems with my zone file... > There used to be a command to run and check zone files/Named files.. > > I can't seem to locate it...?? See named-checkzone(8) and named-checkconf(8) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP,

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

hn H. Terpstra & Benjamin Coles from Prentice Hall PTR. Contrary to the other books, this one is not yet published (as you can see from http://www.amazon.ca/OpenLDAP-Example-Practical-Exercises-Deployment/dp/0131488732/ref=wl_itt_dp/702-7398595-5616835?ie=UTF8&coliid=I1YEUBXAR8YIE3&col

Re: Best practice for SMTP relay with user authentication.

why of Submission is described in the "UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass & Hein. Check it out at http://www.admin.com. It's a must read for all UNIX systems administrators. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems admini

Re: scponly chroot doesn?t work FB6.2

instead of shells/scponly. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/shells/rssh/pkg-descr I'm not sure it does exactly what you're looking for, but it has similar features as scponly. HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun

Re: RSA SecurID Pam Module Support?

only use an RSA supported OS to run their module. Because otherwise you won't receive any help from them if they know you're running this under FreeBSD. Sad, but unfortunately true. Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Se

Re: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

eeBSD Bugs http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs FreeBSD ACPI http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi FreeBSD Hardware http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware Good luck ! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, R

Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

;t resist :) Let me know if you need any help with this setup. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Locking SSH Users to $HOME

ask=view&id=51&Itemid=1 Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Monitoring tool for Compaq Smart Array 5300

rg/~jcagle/ David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: remote logging with syslogd

syslog.conf(5) configurations are good by using IP addresses. Don't forget to restart syslogd(8) of course. That will help you find out if your configurations are good. Now that should not prevent you from fixing your DNS :) Have fun. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & O

Re: remote logging with syslogd

our rc.conf(5) syslog_flags line to enable other non-standard syslog ports. Try something like this: syslogd_flags="-b myhostname.intranet -a *.intranet:*" Since you're using names instead of IP addresses in your configuration, make sure your DNS resolves both A and PTR records for

Re: Serial Port Problems (Solved)

tab default entry from: default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%h (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:\ :if=/etc/issue: To: default:\ :cb:ce:ck:lc:fd#1000:im=\r\n%h (%t)\r\n\r\n:sp#1200:\ :if=/etc/issue:de=2: And restarted (not sure if a reboot is necessary here?). I had to fiddle

Re: mirror without destroying existing contents

8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#GEOM-MIRROR Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: remote install of 6.2

e usefull: http://www.daemonology.net/depenguinator/ HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: remote install of 6.2

o, I'll send something on the list. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

300Gb, I > don't think this is a problem at all. > > Of course, YMMV so check your own needs and do the math. > > Cheers, > > David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

all your Apache logs. Considering today's disk drive sizes are well beyond the 300Gb, I don't think this is a problem at all. Of course, YMMV so check your own needs and do the math. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certif

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

how much logs you keep (i.e. 5 in the example above). HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

just like ArchLinux. Yes, I agree with Danny. Arch Linux is as close to FreeBSD that you can get with Linux. I don't run any core business services on it, but a friend does run his webservers on it and so far he's happy. Again, my 0.02 on this topic :) David -- David Robillard UNIX syst

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

then extend your configuration to your other VirtualHosts. Talking about logs, you might want to send them to syslog. Here's a quick article on this topic: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator &am

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

e and protect it with a simple .htpasswd. Easy. BTW, may I suggest you also include the freebsd-questions list in Cc when you write back? Some people might be interested by what we're talking about. In fact, ideally we should only 'talk' via the list, but that's ok with me. Ch

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

on''. It's available from the USENIX website at http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-12/pdfs/kanies.pdf HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 __

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

number This optional field specifies the signal number that will be sent to the daemon process (or to all processes in a process group, if the U flag was specified). If this field is not present, then a SIGHUP signal will be sent. Cheers, David

Re: mysql50-server on FreeBSD 6.2 w/ LINUX_THREADS?

est to you: Linux vs FreeBSD using mysql and sysbench http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/5705.html Aside from a potential holy flame war from FreeBSD vs Linux, this article does present you with an interesting my.cnf configuration file. Maybe that could interest you? Have fun, David -- David R

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

n in worst case scenarios. RCS is also present under a whole bunch of different UNIX flavors like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, RedHat, SuSE, Solaris, AIX, IRIX and HP-UX. So you're never lost because it's always the same :) Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator &

Re: Ksh Shell script security question.

ypted file eslwhere on your machine. You can then setup code that will check the md5 sum of the password file and use something like OpenSSL or GPG to encrypt/decrypt the file. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun C

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

/var/run/httpd.pid /home/vhostname2/log/error.log root:www640 10 1048576 * Z /var/run/httpd.pid Check the man pages for newsyslog(8) and newsyslog.conf(8) for more information. I've been using this for more then two years now and it works like a charm. HTH, David -- David Robillard

Re: Question:encryption tool.

're looking for: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=10118/sam0703b/0703b.htm HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Anyone running FreeBSD 6.x on HP DL320 G5?

If anyone is running FreeBSD 6.x on a HP DL320 G5 ? The following URL contains good information on running FreeBSD on Compaq/HP systems. http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle/ HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Admin

Re: Question:encryption tool.

hnology/products/secure-backup/pdf/FAQ.pdf HTH, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Question:encryption tool.

David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...

th either IBM or HP for FreeBSD systems. With them, you get quality hardware and real support. Of course it might be a bit more expensive. But it's worth it. Well, you get what you pay for don't you? YMMV of course. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle

Re: cvsup'dating several machines

of our CVS and porteasy(8) updates. It also permits you to delegate the cvsup(1) of the machines to other admins without giving them the root password. If you're interested, I can send you the documentation. Have fun! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CI

Re: Sun Fire x2100

aster UDMA33 ad4: 76319MB at ata2-master SATA150 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

IBM ServeRAID-8k SAS controller support in FreeBSD/i386 6.1-RELEASE.

ut nothing about the ServeRAID-8k SAS one. Nothing in the mailing lists also. Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-que

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD.

good, but does it work?) Good luck! DA+ On 12/15/06, Phillip Upchurch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David - No - as a matter of fact - I haven't tried > ftp://ftp.legato.com/pub/Unsupported/FreeBSD_Client That would be doing things the easy way - dont ya think ? ;-) Appreci

Re: Legato Client for freeBSD.

I am running Legato on a sun server. I have a server running freeBSD that needs the legato backup client installed. Is there a working legato client for freeBSD ?? Have you tried this? ftp://ftp.legato.com/pub/Unsupported/FreeBSD_Client David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator

Re: remote syslog to specific file

5). Finally, make sure you edit newsyslog.conf(5) with something like this to keep your /var file system from filling up. /var/log/sonic.logwww:wheel 640 7 100 * J man newsyslog.conf for more on newsyslog.conf(5)'s syntax. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems adm

Re: Which live CD for recovery

that you upload those backup onto another Windows machine and have your user double-check to see if you have everything. Better be safe than sorry. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1

Re: Which live CD for recovery

fter all, there probably was a virus on this box. Are you sure you want to take chances? Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___

Re: Looking for a cookbook on Oracle clients...

ation/workbench/index.html Good luck, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: Configuring DNS (BIND) in isolation

e time or expertise to setup your own DNS machine. Then have a look at the appliances from the author of "DNS & BIND" Cricket Liu's company called Infoblox at http://www.infoblox.com. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CIS

Re: How to choose an UPS?

n, you can also check the sysutils/nut port which also has a USB driver. More info on the project's website at http://www.networkupstools.org/. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrat

Re: Building Sendmail from ports

l/cf or /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf. To work around this, you can edit /etc/mail/Makefile or use the following at the top of your sendmail.mc files: dnl include. dnl Use the following m4 macro file. dnl include(`/usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl That's it. If you need any hel

Fwd: solutions for web hosting server

you can chroot your users into the root of their public_html site. So that when they connect to you FTP daemon, they will se the root directory as their files. Also enable FTP over SSL to prevent clear-text passwords from going unencrypted on the web. Have fun, David -- David Robilla

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

to my server's serial consoles via a USB-to-Serial adapter from Keyspan with ZTerm. You also have access to a ports-like environement on MacOS X via http://www.macports.org/ and http://www.darwinports.com/. It works great. My two cents. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator &a

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

-Ellie-Quigley/dp/013147572X/sr=1-1/qid=1161886975/ref=sr_1_1/701-2925611-9451566?ie=UTF8&s=books Otherwise, you can always Google around for "unix shell script" and such. There are a lot of sites on the topic. I would select one from a University. Have fun! David -- David Robillar

Re: Bug with tcsh? : if evaluating true instead of false

wrote this is co-author of "Programming Perl" from O'Reilly. So, Garret, if you need help with this, I have a /bin/sh version of the script you're trying to do. Just drop me a line and I'll send it to you. Just my two cents :) David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrato

Re: problems ssh'ing debug1: An invalid name was supplied (OSX client)

client. Make sure the DNS you're using can resolve both forward and reverse for the client and the server. Then your ssh session will be fast and free of this error. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administr

Re: Does mpd (multi-link PPP daemon) support IPv6?

://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

#x27;ve tried version 2.0 while at another company and it was already pretty good. They're at version 3.5 now, so one could think it's better now. David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Secur

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

company at http://www.freebsdsystems.com/. By their name, one would think that the hardware they push should work fine with FreeBSD. I never dealt with them, so I really have no idea if they're good? Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Cert

jdk -- jar directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2005-1080).

<http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/18e5428f-ae7c-11d9-837d-000e0c2e438a.html> Many thanks, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 __

Re: trouble with a pair of bind9 servers

would check the ISC's BIND mailing list archives to see if you can come up with something. Good luck, David ive been dinking around with this for a few hours now, and im about to pull what little hair i have left out. can someone shed light on this for me please? any help at all would be

Re: LVM support in FreeBSD

r LVM volume via NFS and then mount it on your FreeBSD machine? All what FreeBSD will see is an NFS volume which we all know work very well. Just an idea, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1

Re: need a restricted shell

nd section 14.6 of the FreeBSD Handbook for info on how to set this up. Alright, if you have any questions, please be my guest and send them up to me. Cheers! David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified S

Re: what happed to mod_perl in 6.1?

Hi, my cgi scripts doesnt work in 6.1, and i dont see any entry about mod_perl in httpd.conf, how do i enable it? For Apache 1.3.x http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/www/mod_perl/pkg-descr For Apache 2.x http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/www/mod_perl2/pkg-descr David -- David

Re: MONOWALL WAN

.conf&sektion=5&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE - Jacek Artymiak's book "Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF, 2nd edition" http://www.artymiak.com/books/index.html Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Ora

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

ate if you could share your documentation with me. In case you're interested, I can offer you a space on my website should you want to have them online. Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Cert

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

ctorsize: 512 Mode: r1w1e1 State: ACTIVE Priority: 0 Flags: NONE GenID: 0 SyncID: 1 ID: 411377980 Cheers, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 _

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

ore powerfull volume management tools such as Veritas Volume Manager or Sun DiskSuite, then you need gvinum. Regards, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122

Re: "Hostile" vs. "Friendly" instances of Sendmail

onfigure sendmail. Check it out at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmailckbk/. Have fun, David -- David Robillard UNIX systems administrator & Oracle DBA CISSP, RHCE & Sun Certified Security Administrator Montreal: +1 514 966 0122 ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

eebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/security/osiris/pkg-descr. Of course, don't install osiris on a machine which you're not sure if it has been tampered with, it would defeat the purpose... You can also take a look at other integrity checking software such as Samhain, Tripwire or aide. R

Re: Linux-HA howto for FreeBSD.

you'll need to sync the data on all those nodes. For databases, consider MySQL real-time replication or Oracle Dataguard. For ftp and http data sets, take a look at net/rsync. For mail servers, it's a bit more tricky, but there is mail/maildirsync which I've never tried. David

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