Re: Running vsftpd standalone vs inetd

2005-03-06 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi Pat, I wrote this to startup vsftpd. It is not the prettiest script and I am sure there is a way to do it better but it will give you a start. Place it in your /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory and make it executable. #!/bin/sh echo -n 'vsftpd' case "$1" in start)

Re: FreeBSD for the organization

2005-03-08 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I do not know what to say. Your question is really vague, can you be more specific? I learned by reading the documentation at http://www.mysql.com Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: to my fellow peers; hello. i'm the board member of this organization. so far i'm using mysql databases for our forum and w

cvsup'ing from 4.10 to 5.3.

2005-03-08 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I was curious as to if it is possible to cvsup from 4.10 to 5.3 (kernel and userland tools). Has anyone done this? Does it work well? Should I avoid doing this on a production box? Thank you. - Ryan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: simple www forum software ?

2005-03-11 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I really like PunBB which can be found at http://www.punbb.org. It can store date in MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite (which may be best for your needs). YaBB may be flat file. It can be located here: yabbforum.com Take care. Frank Bonnet wrote: Hi I'm searching for a simple www forum software I've

Re: MS Exchange server on FreeBSD?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I really doubt that it is possible. I would look at OpenExhange: http://mirror.open-xchange.org/ox/EN/community/ Christian Tischler wrote: Hi, I would like to run an MS exchange server. But I am not at all willing to set up an MS box at all. As I know I could run something like VMware virtual s

How to avoid forkbomb?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi, After reading this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=308, I decided to give the forkbomb script a try which is below: #!/bin/sh $0 & $0 & The system was unresponsive for a couple minutes but then FreeBSD killed the script and the system was accessi

Re: How to avoid forkbomb?

2005-03-18 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I apologize, I did not mention what version I was running. Here it is: 5.3-RELEASE-p5 Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: Hi, After reading this article: http://www.securityfocus.com/cgi-bin/sfonline/columnists-item.pl?id=308, I decided to give the forkbomb script a try which is below: #!/bin/sh $0 &

Re: Failure with php4 and libgd support

2005-03-19 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Hi Alexander, PHP actually comes with libgd bundled now. Just use --with-gd (but you may not even have to do that). You do not need the external library. Alexander Chamandy wrote: I take it noone can help me with this? On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:27:54 -0500, Alexander Chamandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

BIND 9 on a dynamic ip address

2005-04-10 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am hoping to set up a DNS server for my home network just for the sake of learning BIND. Unfortunately, I have a PPPoE connects (wireless broadband) with a dynamic ip address. At the moment, I use dyndns just so I have a hostname and I would

Re: BIND 9 on a dynamic ip address

2005-04-10 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Thank you for the replies. Ash, can I use my dynamic dns hostname as the domain which actually points to my network? Would that still be trouble? Ash wrote: > Andrew P. wrote: > >> Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: >> >>> Hello, I am hoping to set up a DNS server for my ho

Re: BIND 9 on a dynamic ip address

2005-04-10 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
the time to help me out. Ash wrote: > Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: > >> Thank you for the replies. Ash, can I use my dynamic dns hostname as >> the domain which actually points to my network? Would that still be >> trouble? >> >> Ash wrote: >> > > &g

Re: BIND 9 on a dynamic ip address

2005-04-10 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Sorry for the typo ... "afters" should be "effects". Oops. :-P. Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: >All I am really looking to do is learn DNS and BIND as well as host my >own local DNS server for faster DNS lookups within my home network. >Would using the invalid LAN domai

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
I would love to see a wiki for FreeBSD. I think that it would be really beneficial for the project. It would take some work to establish it but if there were enough participants, it could turn into a very robust documentation project. Some hard work would be required to make the wiki healthy and to

Re: The FreeBSD Handbook, in Wiki form.

2005-05-04 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
MikeM wrote: > On 5/3/2005 at 5:29 PM Benjamin Keating wrote: > > |A wiki would eliminate that bottle neck (PR). |Some parts are out > of date. Others fail to mention FAQ , etc. that |could really help. > For instance, the NAT/DHCP articles could easily |include a > 'typical home user' HOWTO rathe

Re: OSDir.com Screenshots of your release

2005-05-13 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Jerry McAllister wrote: >>Congratulations on your latest release. We'd love to have this release >>listed in our screenshot gallery (http://shots.osdir.com). Posting your >>screenshots is an excellent way to promote your product, as submitting >>is free and our screenshots are seen by thousan

Re: book recommendation...?

2004-11-21 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
J.D. I really like the two following books: 1. Complete FreeBSD (ISBN: 0596005164) 2. Absolute BSD (ISBN: 1886411743) Regards, Ryan J.D. Bronson wrote: I am looking for a good FreeBSD book recomendation that would over the 5.x series and be available in Barnes/Noble locally. (My wife is looking for

Re: turning off IPv6 support in BSD

2004-11-21 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Isn't it supposed to be ipv6_enable="NONE" I could be wrong. andrew clarke wrote: On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:58:39AM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote: To get rid of IPv6 completely (why would you want this? :) ), you should definitely rebuild your kernel without INET6. I suppose it would be a

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Bill, These instructions have always worked for me: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/static/installation.html The important thing is to make sure you use gmake when compiling. Here is a quick install that I modified to work on BSD: ./configure gmake su gmake install pw useradd postgres mkdir /u

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: > Bill, > > These instructions have always worked for me: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/static/installation.html > > The important thing is to make sure you use gmake when compiling

SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive that is 75% full. (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:381b12 csi:ff,ff,ff,ff asc:11,1 (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Read retries exhausted actual retry count: 104 (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): READ(10

Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Would the excesive FTP load cause this? I was downloading mp3's over LAN so I was getting 7 mbit speed. Would this cause the disks to do this? Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive th

Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
anything else that I can do? Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive that is 75% full. (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:381b12 csi:ff,ff,ff,ff asc:11,1 (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Read retries

Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-23 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
This is what produced the output: "camcontrol modepage da1 -m 1 -e -P 3" I ended up using the utility on my SCSI controller to remap the bad blocks. For the moment it is working fine. J.D. Bronson wrote: At 09:45 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote: In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicc

Are there man pages for the C++ header files?

2004-11-29 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Are there man pages for the C++ header files? I found some but other do not work. man math -> shows math.h man string -> shows string.h man iostream -> cannot be found Is there a better way to look at all of them? I guess that I am looking for a fuction table like document. I would also like to u

SSL Certificate generation for vsftpd on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-06 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
How can I generate a .pem certificate to use for SSL/TLS with vsftpd. This is all that I could find: puppy# cd /usr/share/ssl/certs puppy# make vsftpd.pem umask 77 ; \ PEM1=`/bin/mktemp /tmp/openssl.XX` ; \ PEM2=`/bin/mktemp /tmp/openssl.XX` ; \ /usr/bin/openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout

Re: SSL Certificate generation for vsftpd on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-06 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Also ... What ports does FTPS need open? Ryan J. Cavicchioni wrote: How can I generate a .pem certificate to use for SSL/TLS with vsftpd. This is all that I could find: puppy# cd /usr/share/ssl/certs puppy# make vsftpd.pem umask 77 ; \ PEM1=`/bin/mktemp /tmp/openssl.XX` ; \ PEM2=`/bin/mktemp