Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:11:01 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Zenzerovi=E6?=" <zenzof1@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New to FreeBSD Message-ID: <640eadd40704020611r48fbd4dfnaa5be3fd389b232d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070330175841.GA3161@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <640eadd40703271436h799efba6nd44fd8c4a6586dec@mail.gmail.com> <640eadd40703280708s449a6667hc89c82626def4d74@mail.gmail.com> <20070328145337.GB49540@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <640eadd40703281043v35ae98daib3a34c44441abf49@mail.gmail.com> <20070328183003.GA23052@kobe.laptop> <640eadd40703292309m7408bf7di5ddc8a91a18e5ab0@mail.gmail.com> <20070330160211.GD59175@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20070330161651.GA97032@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <640eadd40703301021r5cc4006ds4e860f2c5041d34a@mail.gmail.com> <20070330175841.GA3161@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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I have a problem with my firewall. When booting freebsd i get the message that pf is enabling, but there are syntax errors in the /etc/pf.conf file and that no IP adresses were found for sk0 network. What should i change here? I took the conf file from http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#sec Ivan On 3/30/07, Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 07:21:32PM +0200, Ivan Zenzeroviæ wrote: > > >Try xvidtune. > > > > Thanks, I'll try. I knew of that program, but with time I forgot it's > name. > > > > I must say that freebsd works very well as a workstation, there are no > > viruses (am I right?), > > As good as right. There have been proof-of-concept viruses for UNIX, but > AFAIK no one has ever been found in the wild. And most of them rely on > the operator doing something stupid (like running an un-trusted binary > as root). > > That doesn't mean FreeBSD is invulnerable though. If you're running a > workstation there are several things you should do IMHO. > > 1) Enable one of the firewalls that are available on FreeBSD (I like > pf). This firewall should be set up to block incoming connections. > 2) Do not enable any services that you don't need. > 3) Disable all logins that don't come from the local machine. > > See http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/index.html#sec > You might find the rest of this page usefull as well. > > > But, let me ask something. When I was configuring the mounting of usb > memory > > sticks, I had to create the /etc/devfs.rules file and write something in > it. > > ( > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html) > > and I did it. Everything works fine, but is it ok to create files like > this > > if they are not already created by the system. I just followed the > hanbook, > > but the only difference was that I had to create that file. > > It is fine to create those files. It is just not used by default. > > Roland > -- > R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ > [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] > pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- "Correr, competir, eu levo isso no sangue, é parte da minha vida." - Ayrton Senna
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