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! > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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