Re: /var/log/messages question

2004-03-17 Thread Mike Jackson
Danny Howard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mike Jackson wrote: > > >I pipe those, and other messages to a virtual terminal, like this: > > > >syslog.conf > >-- > >*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice/dev/ttyv3 > > > > > ... and then wha

Re: /var/log/messages question

2004-03-16 Thread Mike Jackson
Darryl Hoar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > I have a 4.4-stable box configured as my firewall > running IPFilter and doing nat and routing to > the internet. > > I keep getting: > > Mar 16 13:10:09 darryl /kernel: arplookup 10.2.2.2 failed: host is not on > local network > > in my /var

Re: store freebsd accounts in mysql ???

2004-03-16 Thread Mike Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi: > I am using freebsd5.2, because i have a large number of users counted by ten > thousand, use the passwd file to store user accounts and password lead to unbearable > delay. I want to know if freebsd support store accounts in places other t

Re: Server automatically Shuts down.

2004-03-15 Thread Mike Jackson
samy lancher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > The system just crashes. After nightly event, when i start the system I see a > message "Warning: / was not mounted properly" . It does not happen at the same time > every night. This box does not have anonymous FTP. > Hi, I once had a similar sit

Re: A laptop worth saving?

2004-03-10 Thread Mike Jackson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings all, I'm a long time unix/linux user but have been away from > FreeBSD for about a year or so and would like to solve that personal > fault. I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad T20) that once ran FreeBSD but > currently sits with out floppy, OS, and at last test no

Re: firewall rules for mail gateway

2004-03-09 Thread Mike Jackson
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > have something to do with it. If the machine > is running NAT/divert whatever, it might > well be diverting before blocking? But I'm > wrong so often it's not very funny ... and > I use ipfw instead of ipf. One last thing, I forgo

Re: firewall rules for mail gateway

2004-03-09 Thread Mike Jackson
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, you're using ipf or ipfilter, not > ipfw, as I take it from your syntax. # ipfilter logging ipmon_enable="yes" ipmon_flags="-D /var/log/ipflog" > I imagine the ipfilter gurus on the > list would like to see your entire > ruleset. I

firewall rules for mail gateway

2004-03-09 Thread Mike Jackson
wall/mail gw --- xl0 - public interface xl1 - private interface (gateway ip for LAN) 192.168.1.1 I tried something like: block out quick on xl1 proto tcp from any to any port = 25 with no effect, workstations could still get past it. Any help would be appreciated :-) Than

Re: chrooted ssh/scp

2004-02-02 Thread Mike Jackson
ext Luke Kearney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > excuse me if this seems off topic but a quick check over at ssh.com > revealed no obvious links to a downloadable version that would not > require a license. Pray tell where I might find the binaries. I would > like to give sshd2 a run and see if it

Re: 5.2.1 ?

2004-02-02 Thread Mike Jackson
l. Strangely enough, this problem doesn't exist at all on linux. It's a FreeBSD peculiarity. Anyway, I wouldn't consider using linux for my firewall/gateway. BR, -- Mike Jackson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: 5.2.1 ?

2004-02-01 Thread Mike Jackson
ext J.D. Bronson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I see there is a 5.2.1-RC1 ISO out already?? > > Is there anything that states what the difference is between 5.2 and this? > > I had thought 5.2 JUST came out ?? I was sort of surprised about this as well. I cvsup'ed my sources with the tag RELENG_5

Re: boot.config problem, can't boot

2004-02-01 Thread Mike Jackson
ext Sebastian Kutsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > if you have a bootebel CD-Rom installed you can get a live CD from > http://www.freesbie.org/ and boot with it. then you can mount your > root-FS and edit the boot.config file. Hey, I looked at that page and that sounds cool. Sort of like

Re: toor & root

2004-02-01 Thread Mike Jackson
ext Markus Kovero ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Toor is for security paranoid people? Dunno, its way to get more secure from > most "script kiddie"-r00t-kit things. Does it btw have superuser id? The "toor" user is nothing more than a backup root account, in case your "root" account happens to get

Re: df oddity (to a newbie)

2004-02-01 Thread Mike Jackson
ext Joshua Eckroth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a 80gig harddrive for /usr/home, but df has been consistently giving me > weird numbers: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad5s1d 75685352 24426308 4520421635%/usr/home > > what's with Used

boot.config problem, can't boot

2004-02-01 Thread Mike Jackson
last backup. Is there any way to recover from this situation, or is it "re-install" time? Thanks, -- Mike Jackson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Booting without keyboard.

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Jackson
ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p10 on a Intel SE7501WV2 board. I am > using a PS2 keyboard without mouse. It works fine. However, when i boot without the > keyboard plugged into the system, it is not able to accept the ke

Re: adding webmail

2003-10-05 Thread Mike Jackson
ext Timothy J. Luoma ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > To paraphrase a Mutt slogan, "All Webmail sucks" so the key is finding one > that sucks less. Hi, I'm a mutt user myself :-) And as for a webmail software that sucks the least, it's Sqwebmail. Only caveat is that your mailboxes need to be in m

Re: bridging multiple interfaces

2003-10-05 Thread Mike Jackson
ext Manuel Rabade (MiG) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > That's fine, but you must check the netmask of the interfaces and your computers > in the network, it should be 255.255.0.0. Aha, that could be the problem then. I'm using 255.255.255.0 currently. > How are you bridging the interfaces ?? i

Re: bridging multiple interfaces

2003-10-05 Thread Mike Jackson
ext Manuel Rabade (MiG) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:12:49AM +0300, Mike Jackson wrote: > > ext Manuel Rabade (MiG) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > You want to use the NAT of your ASDL router or that pc1 do the nat for xl0 > > > and wi0 ? &g

Re: bridging multiple interfaces

2003-10-04 Thread Mike Jackson
ext Manuel Rabade (MiG) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > You want to use the NAT of your ASDL router or that pc1 do the nat for xl0 > and wi0 ? I'm using the NAT on the ADSL router, because that's the only public IP that I have. -- mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

bridging multiple interfaces

2003-10-04 Thread Mike Jackson
Hi, I would like to ask for some advice on configuring my home network, with a FreeBSD 5.1 being the main player. In a nutshell, I want to route wired and wireless traffic through my FBSD box, do some ipfw, perhaps IPSec, and some bandwidth shaping, and finally send the traffic out to the internet