Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:21:59 +0100 From: "Roel Kroes" <freebsd@Kroes.com> To: "Shawn Halloran" <SPHalloran2@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Question Regarding IENTD Message-ID: <004501c1ab0a$48e95b40$9b00000a@roelxp> References: <OE14vZ60nBsUum1nDS600022592@hotmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] The first time i installed FreeBSD it failed too and I had the same feeling. So, you are not alone out there. When i finally got it installed (after lots of coffee), i had to find all the .conf files and find out how everything is configured. Like Apache, MySQL and the lot. *Sigh* Someone suggested me to start with Webmin, a webbased configuration tool for all kinds of OS'es. Now THAT was easy. Configuring FreeBSD was a breeze after I installed webmin. It lets me edit something in my browser and review the changes in the conf files. So i even learned something from it. Webmin lets you administer Apache, MySQL, FTP services, users, mailinglists and more all from your web browser. I can also think of lots of disadvantages for using such a tool but you say that all you want is to provide web services to small businesses. Then this is what you want. Have a look at http://www.webmin.com/ Good luck. R. ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawn Halloran To: Matt H ; Christian Nelson Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Question Regarding IENTD Well, I'm a newbie and I'll respond to newbieism. I tried my first install last night and it failed. I'll try again this week end with a different partition (slice) structure. I don't know whether I should send out an SOS or sink into the abyss alone. I know I'll be able to learn this OS, but it's been a long time since I've experienced such confusion when sitting at a keyboard. Whether anybody gives a s@$% or not, my motivations to learn FreeBSD include a) a desire 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 suggestions? I'm getting the feeling I need to approach this project with a lot of optimism. 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 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 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 plenty 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 piece of software. Apparently it leaks memory (bad thing) and can be insecure (badder thing) the alternatives usually recommended are xinetd, tcpwrapeprs or tcpserver I use tcpserver because that's what gets installed when you replace sendmail 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 message ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; FONT: 10pt verdana; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>The first time i installed FreeBSD it failed too and I had the same feeling. So, you are not alone out there.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>When i finally got it installed (after lots of coffee), i had to find all the .conf files and find out how everything is configured. Like Apache, MySQL and the lot. *Sigh*</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Someone suggested me to start with Webmin, a webbased configuration tool for all kinds of OS'es. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Now THAT was easy. Configuring FreeBSD was a breeze after I installed webmin. It lets me edit something in my browser and review the changes in the conf files. So i even learned something from it. </FONT><FONT face=Arial>Webmin lets you administer Apache, MySQL, FTP services, users, mailinglists and more all from your web browser. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I can also think of lots of disadvantages for using such a tool but you say that all you want is to provide web services to small businesses. Then this is what you want.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Have a look at <A href="http://www.webmin.com/">http://www.webmin.com/</A> </FONT></DIV>; <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Good luck.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>R.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=SPHalloran2@hotmail.com href="mailto:SPHalloran2@hotmail.com">Shawn Halloran</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=matt@proweb.co.uk href="mailto:matt@proweb.co.uk">Matt H</A> ; <A title=freshzive@charter.net href="mailto:freshzive@charter.net">Christian Nelson</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG href="mailto:freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 01, 2002 10:58 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Question Regarding IENTD</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Well, I'm a newbie and I'll respond to newbieism.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I tried my first install last night and it failed. I'll try again this week 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 able to learn this OS, but it's been a long time since I've experienced such confusion when sitting at a keyboard. Whether anybody gives a <A href="mailto:s@$%">s@$%</A> or not, my motivations to learn FreeBSD include a) a desire 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.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any suggestions? I'm getting the feeling I need to approach this project with a lot of optimism. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Shawn H</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Matt H</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 01, 2002 1:44 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> Christian Nelson</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Cc:</B> freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Question Regarding IENTD</DIV> <DIV> </DIV>On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:46:04 -0800<BR>"Christian Nelson" <freshzive@charter.net> wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi..I'm new to the mailing lists.so give me a break here..and let me<BR>> know if I'm doing this totally wrong.<BR><BR>yeah, you should direct questions to freebsd-questions and not newbies<BR><BR>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 plenty of mis-directed questions...<BR><BR><BR>> (http/ssh/ssh2/ftp all work fine) except that for some reason I cannot<BR>> get IDENTD to work. I had it running before it was behind the router<BR>> fine and it worked great.<BR><BR>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 (badder thing)<BR><BR>the alternatives usually recommended are xinetd, tcpwrapeprs or tcpserver<BR><BR>I use tcpserver because that's what gets installed when you replace sendmail with qmail<BR><BR>you might get different and possibly better advice from freebsd-questions though<BR><BR>M<BR><BR>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org<BR>with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR clear=all> <HR> Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <A href="http://explorer.msn.com">http://explorer.msn.com</A><BR>; <P></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>home | help
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