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Date:      Sun, 19 Sep 1999 23:49:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Marty Poulin <mpoulin@honk.org>
To:        gregory kinney <mycotropic@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GOT it!!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.990919234305.1173A-100000@spectre>
In-Reply-To: <19990919212310.71615.qmail@hotmail.com>

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Congratulations!  From your brief description you have certainly
accomplished a lot of complicated stuff!

As for security, I would recommend disabling any service that you don't
absolutely need, and read up on TCP Wrappers.

Good luck with the rest!

M

On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, gregory kinney wrote:

> Dear all;
> 
> after much heartache, raising of my voice and copious valerian caplets;
> it WORKS!!
> 
> We finished installing 3.2, from CD on an ancient IBM Aptiva, 486/66, 16 
> megs of ram, two 500 meg HDs and 2 3com 3c509 cards(one net is static IP and 
> the other is DHCP).
> 
> we did this to provide file sharing across 2 subnets that could otherwise 
> not see each other...in one LITTLE BITTY office.
> 
> Anyway, it now has Samba up and running and Apache serving serving a local 
> instruction page!
> 
> I had copious help from a Linux freak i know, but i feel really great and 
> about 1000 miles down the road towards understanding this stuff!
> 
> Thanks a LOT to this list(and various specific folks hearon) for providing 
> solice and precise help on a NUMBER of problems!
> 
> greg kinney
> 
> ps - what sort of security problems should i look out for by the way?
> i know about the logs becoming TRUELY enormious(since i have destinct size 
> constraints - i chose to set up a cron to delete the apache and samba logs 
> at the end of each week) is that a logical thing to do - i figure i'd catch 
> problems as they arise, but i have never been a sysadmin before - am i full 
> of sh*t?
> 
> pps thanks again everyone!
> 
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