From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Feb 1 1:54:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe14.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.18.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2B237B402 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:54:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:54:46 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [4.41.157.155] From: "Shawn Halloran" To: "Matt H" , "Christian Nelson" Cc: Subject: Re: Question Regarding IENTD Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:58:46 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MSN Explorer 7.00.0021.1702 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AAC3.FBF88F40" Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Feb 2002 09:54:46.0157 (UTC) FILETIME=[7ACE2BD0:01C1AB06] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AAC3.FBF88F40 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well, I'm a newbie and I'll respond to newbieism. I tried my first install last night and it failed. I'll try again this we= ek end with a different partition (slice) structure. I don't know whether= I should send out an SOS or sink into the abyss alone. I know I'll be ab= le to learn this OS, but it's been a long time since I've experienced suc= h confusion when sitting at a keyboard. Whether anybody gives a s@$% or n= ot, my motivations to learn FreeBSD include a) a desire to provide web se= rvices to small businesses b) a free OS used by 60% of the servers on the= web, , b) Apache Server (open-source software) and, c) no licensing rest= rictions. Any suggestions? I'm getting the feeling I need to approach this project = with a lot of optimism. =20 Shawn H ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt H Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:44 AM To: Christian Nelson Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question Regarding IENTD =20 On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:46:04 -0800 "Christian Nelson" wrote: > Hi..I'm new to the mailing lists.so give me a break here..and let me > know if I'm doing this totally wrong. yeah, you should direct questions to freebsd-questions and not newbies newbies is for, well, people to discuss what it's like being a newbie and= I've never seen any traffic in here regarding newbieism butI do see plen= ty of mis-directed questions... > (http/ssh/ssh2/ftp all work fine) except that for some reason I cannot > get IDENTD to work. I had it running before it was behind the router > fine and it worked great. Once they dig around a bit most people dump inetd as it's not a great pie= ce of software. Apparently it leaks memory (bad thing) and can be insecur= e (badder thing) the alternatives usually recommended are xinetd, tcpwrapeprs or tcpserver I use tcpserver because that's what gets installed when you replace sendm= ail with qmail you might get different and possibly better advice from freebsd-questions= though M To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the messageGet more fro= m the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------=_NextPart_001_0003_01C1AAC3.FBF88F40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Well, I'm a ne= wbie and I'll respond to newbieism.

I tried = my first install last night and it failed. I'll try again this week end w= ith a different partition (slice) structure. I don't know whether I shoul= d send out an SOS or sink into the abyss alone. I know I'll be able to le= arn this OS, but it's been a long time since I've experienced such confus= ion when sitting at a keyboard. Whether anybody gives a s@$% or not, my motivations to learn FreeBSD include a) a desi= re to provide web services to small businesses b) a free OS used by = 60% of the servers on the web, , b) Apache Server (open-source software) = and, c) no licensing restrictions.

Any sugge= stions? I'm getting the feeling I need to approach this project = ;with a lot of optimism.

Shawn H

----- Original Message -----

From: Matt H
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Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:= 44 AM

To: Christian Nelson
Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.O= RG

Subject: Re: Question Reg= arding IENTD

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:46:04 -0800"Christian Nelson" <freshzive@charter.net> wrote:

> Hi..= I'm new to the mailing lists.so give me a break here..and let me
> = know if I'm doing this totally wrong.

yeah, you should direct ques= tions to freebsd-questions and not newbies

newbies is for, well, p= eople to discuss what it's like being a newbie and I've never seen any tr= affic in here regarding newbieism butI do see plenty of mis-directed ques= tions...

> (http/ssh/ssh2/ftp all work fine) except that fo= r some reason I cannot
> get IDENTD to work. I had it running befor= e it was behind the router
> fine and it worked great.

Once = they dig around a bit most people dump inetd as it's not a great piece of= software. Apparently it leaks memory (bad thing) and can be insecure (ba= dder thing)

the alternatives usually recommended are xinetd, tcpwr= apeprs or tcpserver

I use tcpserver because that's what gets insta= lled when you replace sendmail with qmail

you might get different = and possibly better advice from freebsd-questions though

M

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