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I'm not sure where else to ask about this, so please excuse me if this is the wrong forum. In trying to remove a 'nodump' flag on a directory with the 'chflags' command I have noticed that the 'nonodump' flag does not function. I see an open PR for the problem: o [2003/01/09] i386/46912 johan chflags nonodump fails I was wondering when this might be dealt with? Else is

Today I install FreeBSD release 4.8 on a machine for the first time. This is on a new machine so it could easily have as yet undetected hardware faults. I observe the 'dmesg' gives startup information not only for the latest boot but also information generated in a number of previous boots. I've not seen this with earlier FreeBSD realeases including 4.7. Is it normal for FreeBSD

Why there is a weekly script that rebuilds the locate database when: >>> WARNING >>> Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames >>> on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk. Is there a way to put dates on the periodic scripts report output for those who redirect the reports to files instead of mail messages? There is no easy

Hallo. I am new to FreeBSD and i wanted to ask something since systems security is what interests me the most. Does freebsd have an automated update system like redhat has ? Also where can i find a list with patches for all local - remote holes and bugs of FreeBSD 4.9 ? Thank you very much for your time ! Best Regards A. Stamatis

Just upgraded 4.7 to 4.8 stable. Hoped that timezone info will be up to date, but it still isn't though files in /usr/share/zoneinfo show new dates. For instance daylight saving time settings are outdated in Europe/Vilnius file. I'll try to recompile those files from sources got fom ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ but it would be nice to have updated info for the next release of freebsd or

Hello all, On my system, some users have expire day user settings. I write a (python) script then parse the: 7.th selection in the master.passwd blabla:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:1064005200:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx How can I conver the number like 1064005200 to human readable date format ? Or, there is a way to collect the information from a command interactively ? Regards, Murat Ustuntas

what the heck is # ls -li /usr/\@LongLink 3 ---------- 1 root wheel 111 Jan 1 1970 /usr/@LongLink randy

Hi, first i must tell you, that my english is not the best, i hav learned my english from manpages and documentation. Please excuse this. I have setted up a Box w/FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE for connecting to the w3 through an DSL/ATM-Connection. Now i know the stateful handling of firewall-rules under linux with iptables.In the second i have understand that FreeBSD comes with the netfilter-extensions.

Hello, I recently did a 'make world' to update my base system due to the realpath bug. After that finished, I noticed that I still had the following statically compiled binaries laying around that did not get updated during a 'make world'. I track 4-STABLE. /usr/bin/miniperl /sbin/mount_kernfs /sbin/mount_devfs /sbin/modunload /sbin/modload /sbin/ft /stand/boot_crunch /stand/find

Hey *, as I sweat through another day of crap dealing with an all-in-one box (firewall, IDS, AVS, report generating, soon to be a VPN server) I'm wondering if someone has started a project to put some freeware together in some semblance of sanity on a FBSD box. There's basically nothing that this box does that a combo of IPFW (or another bsd filter), snort, ntop, and some other freeware

Derek Ragona wrote: >> I tried to implement a similar scheme in my hosts.allow on a FreeBSD >> 5.2.1 server. But when I try to test it from an IP outside my LAN, it >> still allows ssh logins. I even put in a line in hosts.allow to >> explicitly deny the IP I was ssh'ing from, but it still let me in. >> The behavior gives the appearance that TCP wrappers

Hi, I have a 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD box apparently hacked! Yesterday I ran chkrootkit-0.41 and I don't like some of the outputs. Those are: chfn ... INFECTED chsh ... INFECTED date ... INFECTED ls ... INFECTED ps ... INFECTED But all the rest is NOT PROMISC, NOT INFECTED, NOTHING FOUND, NOTHING DELETED, or NOTHING DETECTED. I know by the FreeBSD-Security archives that

After 'make install', this appears: lqqqqqqqq samba configuration options qqqqqqqqqk x x x Please select desired options: x x lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk x x x [ ] syslog With syslog support x x x x [ ] ssl With ssl support x x x x [ ] ldap With LDAP2 support x x x x [ ]

I have a grown list of IPs that I am "deny ip from ###.### to any". Infected machines, hackers, etc.. Is there a way to have this list outside of rc.firewall and just read it in?

Why wasn't there a FreeBSD security alert for Kerberos 5? Does FreeBSD use the MIT implementation? I got an email from CERT about this. See the attached message below. -- Daniel Rudy >From - Sat Sep 04 03:22:15 2004 X-UIDL: a8f31551eb03ca144862bddc8ccce266 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-Apparently-To: dcrudy@pacbell.net via 206.190.37.79; Fri, 03 Sep 2004

I've used ssh as a secure telnet up to now but done little else with it. The FreeBSD machines I look after on our internet-facing network all have one account which I connect to for administration. I've set up /etc/hosts.allow on all the machines to only allow ssh from a limited internal network range. Now I want to create a new account on one machine which will be accessible from the

Just got a pointer to this via ACM "TechNews Alert" for today: http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2004-6/0818w.html#item2 Seems that "... French computer scientist Antoine Joux reported on Aug. 12 his discovery of a flaw in the MD5 algorithm, which is often used with digital signatures...." There's more in the article cited above. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill