From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 1 18: 7: 1 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 1 18:06:59 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.mcs.net (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D89437B400 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:06:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tforrest@localhost) by mailbox.mcs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA82560; Mon, 1 Jan 2001 20:06:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from tforrest) Message-Id: <200101020206.UAA82560@mailbox.mcs.net> From: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" To: "Salvo Bartolotta" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 21:10:00 -0500 Reply-To: "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: BluePrint Software Works PMMail2000 with Bandit Tagger98 In-Reply-To: <20010102.1480000@bartequi.ottodomain.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Tag: Bandit Tagger98 - Registered to : KE4PYM Subject: Re: Writing firewall rules Sender: tforrest@mailbox.mcs.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Salvo -- Thanks, but I've already tried that. I do attempt to figure things out on my own before posting here. On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 01:48:00 GMT, Salvo Bartolotta wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > >On 1/1/01, 10:36:08 PM, "Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM" >wrote regarding Writing firewall rules: > > >> Hi folks. > >> I'm a little confused about writing firewall rules. Many of my rules >> are as follows > >> ipfw add 1001 deny tcp from any to any 161 > >> So I tried to do a little writing of my own. Specfically, I want to >> deny outside access (xl0) to port 901. So I tried: > >> ipfw add 1099 deny tcp from xl0 to xl0 901 > >> And it failed. Just got a screen full of ipfw fussing at my that I'd >> done the wront thing (tm). > > > >You may wish to have a look at ipfw(8), as well as browsing... the man >pages and the freebsd site (there is some material around), the >archives (-question, -security). > > > >> Also, why would the OS (4.0) report that a user has mail when, in >> real life, they start pine and find they have no mail? For example, >> as root, I get my daily output logs in my mail box. But when I >> delete them, log out and log back in I'm told I have mail, start pine >> and there is no mail. > > > >You may wish to have a look at /var/mail/ ... > >Best regards, >Salvo > > > > Tommy Forrest - KE4PYM - tforrest@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~tforrest And now, its time, for some useless, bandwidth wasting words of wisdom: Bill Gates made $6.3 Billion selling us MS-DOS? PGP Public Key Fingerprint: E1FD 1327 D9D6 3D9A 6D5E 21CF 902D 41FC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message