Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
gt; > In general I'd prefer a window manager that avoids these sorts of things > (i.e., only does what I ask it to). If that's really a major goal then look into ion3 or ratpoison. I've been using ion3 for quite a while now and I'm happy. (you probably w

Re: Window Manager Recommendations

2006-09-08 Thread Darrin Chandler
Windows) > > > > I prefer XFCE4 > > Darrin - if possible, could you provide screenshots? http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ is the ion3 home page, with some screenshots toward the bottom. It's somewhat spartan, but if you want something that stays out of your way then it&#

Re: sshd brute force attempts?

2006-09-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
e actual use, compared with the session key. Anyone who knows better please correct me. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
d disabled incoming, but allow submit, etc. You can also firewall off incoming instead or in addition. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freeb

Re: replacing ^M with emacs

2006-10-27 Thread Darrin Chandler
l work for odd characters when you don't know what they are. For simple things like ^M you can always use ^Q^M to produce an actual ^M when doing the query-replace stuff. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http:

Re: Im new to FreeBSD

2006-06-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" If you don't want to be subscribed to this list then see the above line starting with "To unsubscribe" -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix

Re: wikipedia article

2006-06-12 Thread Darrin Chandler
ticular application. If the wikipedia article helps people determine suitability for a purpose then it's worthwhile. The history is already out there, and can be included or merely linked to. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http:/

Re: pf + ftp throughput

2006-06-16 Thread Darrin Chandler
ous > as to why this is the case? Since modulate state substitues its own high quality random sequence for the TCP stream in both directions, a wimpy CPU or similar problem could easily cause this, I think. Still, I'm surprised to see a 50% hit from using modulate state. -- Darrin Chand

Re: pf + ftp throughput

2006-06-16 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:13:00PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > At 02:10 PM 6/16/2006, Darrin Chandler wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:59:01PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: > >> For example...moving a 50MB file: > >> > >> 'keep state' = 11-12MB/sec o

Re: pf + ftp throughput

2006-06-18 Thread Darrin Chandler
rtunately I didn't see any followups or further problem reports. Are you also doing nat/rdr on this box? Have you run tcpdump on the pflog interface to make sure you're matching the rules you think? I'd like to track this down, so please feel free to send me any info you think pertai

Re: smoke and mirrors - any way to trick an app into thinking I'm running linux?

2006-06-18 Thread Darrin Chandler
y sort of "free" license then you can always release a portable fork. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: pf on freebsd 6.1 on DMZ in m0n0wall question

2006-07-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
faq at www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/ that explains a lot and has a few ruleset examples. If you learn your way on a test box it'll be a snap to put it in production... -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin

Re: sshd not working

2006-07-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
g it should show up there. Also check syslog to see if something funky happened on the server side. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions

Re: sshd not working

2006-07-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
t so it could be bad I suppose. If you want to investigate it might be worth it. Check ifconfig output and compare to other cards of the same make. Check duplex settings, etc. Swap cards and see if problems follow the card or stay with the machine... Glad you found the problem, anyway. -- Darrin

Re: dumping net traffic to log file

2006-07-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
ump works nicely for this. :) -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: dumping net traffic to log file

2006-07-25 Thread Darrin Chandler
iliar with filter expressions, which may appear at the end of the tcpdump command: "tcpdump <...> host 192.168.10.100 and port 999" would only show traffic for port 999 to or from 192.168.10.11, for instance. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL P

Re: pf firewall for a server

2006-07-25 Thread Darrin Chandler
g on $if1 inet proto tcp to ($if1) port $allowed_svc \ keep state - That is something you can start with. BUT, you need to understand what the rules do! Do read the handbook, faq, and man pages. See if you can find anything wrong with the above ruleset. -- Darrin Chandler|

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
ood attempt at showing how well vendors are working with the open source / free software community. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-question

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
XP and you want people up to speed fairly quickly then I think KDE is a pretty good choice. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
tever platform. And ported. And if there's a problem it can be fixed. This even turns out to benefit people who don't give a hoot about whether something is "free" or "open" or not. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoen

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
trolling your ability to use their product, and that's the real problem. It's consumer-hostile, unless you fit their perfect picture of "consumer." You don't, so you're left in the cold. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD U

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-27 Thread Darrin Chandler
believe they would welcome any updates or info on companies that they don't have. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-28 Thread Darrin Chandler
t from their competitors because of their policies. Bonus points if the competitor has been nipping at their heels lately. ;) -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |

August PhxBUG Meeting, Tuesday August 1st

2006-07-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
eatures an efficient and secure design, coupled with a clean and readable rule syntax. Last month we missed some of the usual crowd but had a few new faces attend. I hope we can get the best of both this month, and I hope to see you there. -- Darrin Chandler Phoenix BSD Users Group (PhxBUG) [EMAIL

Re: newbee to freebsd, unix, etc...

2006-07-29 Thread Darrin Chandler
t. > > any help is greatly appreciated. The handbook is a great resource that covers almost all aspects of running and configuring your system. It'll be a great help. Also, if you weren't aware, there's a user group in Tucson! I don't recall the URL just now, but if you

Re: pf states

2006-07-30 Thread Darrin Chandler
wn. Google for Transmission Control Protocol and you should find what you're looking for (and WAY more). -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | __

Re: pflog0 question

2006-08-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
an address for pflog0 (if needed) ? I'm using 6.1-STABLE. You can't have an address on pflog0, and shouldn't be trying. It is just a pseudo device to let you use tcpdump in real time (or close to it) on what is logged by pflogd. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BS

Re: Confused on how to properly set /etc/hosts

2006-08-06 Thread Darrin Chandler
with localhost only until and unless you have a reason to add more to /etc/hosts. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: BSDstats Project v2.0 ...

2006-08-11 Thread Darrin Chandler
racking into anyone's box. The suggestion to use a 128-bit random as an ID is a good one. Further, the stats server should have a public key and data sent to it should be encrypted. Or submissions could be over SSL. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users

Re: Web server requirements

2006-08-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
rly as high. Spend money on RAM. Big payoff, and it's pretty cheap. Spend money on a good disk (SCSI, SAS, High-End SATA) with a good controller and you'll get your money in performance. Buy a decent network card! These things will pay off more than processor speed for a web server, usual

Re: user level

2006-08-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
and it covers most all of the things you'll need to know. Second, see if there are local user groups for FreeBSD or *BSD. Third, you've come to the right place to ask questions. What, exactly, are the problems you're having with DHCP and sbcglobal, and what sort of connection do yo

Re: How to prevent users from receiving email

2006-08-19 Thread Darrin Chandler
> > > Do not forget to run newaliases ;-) > > Hmm ... > > That works, but it would be nice to have it reject the mail instead. > Otherwise, someone could hog a lot of my bandwidth sending mails to > the bit-bucket. virtusertable allows you to do that, like: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: BSDstats: Just added - Vendor Stats

2006-08-26 Thread Darrin Chandler
here's some hope about ATI after the AMD deal. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

2006-08-30 Thread Darrin Chandler
daemons, being that they are not started the same way regarding login class or whatnot. But normally this won't be a problem. -- Darrin Chandler| Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | ___