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Posts Made By: TheOgre
Forum: Shell Scripting Mar 14th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 543
Posted By TheOgre
Re: shell script to generate pdf

It looks like it only converts text files, according to the project page at http://www.hoopajoo.net/projects/ipdf.html

"Creates indexed pdf documents from text files. Designed to aid creating an...
Forum: Shell Scripting Mar 14th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 543
Posted By TheOgre
Re: shell script to generate pdf

You can use ipdf (not sure of the project page, but it's in the ports tree in FreeBSD.)

Here's how I use it in a bash script:


ipdf -o daily_report.pdf -m letter-p -f 11 -F Courier -s 'Daily user...
Forum: Network Security Mar 13th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 453
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Bandwidth management software

How many computers are involved? What type/make/model of router do you have? What firewall are you using?
Forum: Network Security Mar 13th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 412
Posted By TheOgre
Re: problem during snort installation

Have you looked at the configure.log to see what other errors might be reported? I've never come across that one in all the years I've been running Snort. Can you paste the stdout after you type...
Forum: Network Security Mar 13th, 2008
Replies: 5
Views: 570
Posted By TheOgre
Re: How to allow outside access to internal pc securely

If you're using Checkpoint, create a new VPN group, add a new user to that group, and only allow access to the specific node (machine) they need access to. You can also limit the dates/times they...
Forum: Network Security Mar 13th, 2008
Replies: 6
Views: 960
Posted By TheOgre
Re: protect shared folders with some users on LAN

I can think of a number of ways, depending on how much time and energy you want to put into the solution. If you only want to use the tools within XP, I suggest reading up on some Micro$oft KB...
Forum: Network Security Mar 13th, 2008
Replies: 4
Views: 464
Posted By TheOgre
Re: best open source for Alerts

Can you be a little more specific when you say "alerts"? What kind of alerts? What platform are you using? Alerts triggered by syslog/Windows Event entries? Are you using SNMP?

If you're talking...
Forum: Network Security Mar 13th, 2008
Replies: 111
Views: 116,585
Posted By TheOgre
Re: How do you bypass school/corporate internate filters

I think this thread has gone on far too long. It was questionable to begin with, and it's turned into "Why I can't wait to surf for pr0n until I get home from school."

If you're at school, and they...
Forum: Network Security Jan 28th, 2008
Replies: 7
Views: 8,392
Posted By TheOgre
Re: How to bypass safe eyes filter

I think all the conversations talking about bypassing proxies should be banned/removed/modded. But hey, that's just me.

(They're there for a reason, people!)
Forum: Domains and DNS Jan 28th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 1,034
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Windows DNS Server question

Create a new A record (www) and give it the IP of the webserver, and create a pointer record and it should resolve fine. You might have to force a dns flush on the clients to see f it works right...
Forum: Domains and DNS Jan 28th, 2008
Replies: 3
Views: 2,801
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Cannot ping by hostname

Did you join the replacement machine to the domain after removing the old machine from the domain?
Forum: *nix Software Jan 28th, 2008
Replies: 1
Views: 364
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Find command

What do you need to search *for*?
Forum: Web Browsers Jan 28th, 2008
Replies: 2
Views: 5,675
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Can't turn off proxy server in my connections setting

Is this a machine at home or at work?
Forum: *nix Software Jul 23rd, 2007
Replies: 43
Views: 10,505
Posted By TheOgre
Re: 500 internal server error

What does the Apache error log show?
Did you view the file on the server to make sure there's no "^M" characters at the end of each line?
Did you try one of my earlier suggestions to make sure the...
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 21st, 2006
Replies: 3
Views: 2,196
Posted By TheOgre
Re: proxy server/squid problem

http://www.squid-cache.org/

Google search for the thousands of HOWTOs available on the Net.
Forum: Network Security Nov 8th, 2006
Replies: 111
Views: 116,585
Posted By TheOgre
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Nov 7th, 2006
Replies: 3
Views: 2,196
Posted By TheOgre
Re: proxy server/squid problem

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq
Forum: Network Security Nov 7th, 2006
Replies: 16
Views: 10,998
Posted By TheOgre
Re: What is a proxy server and is it legal?

One thing to keep in mind - if you bypass your company's proxy server to gain access to unauthorized websites, you may be violating your company's network/security/Internet access policy, which in...
Forum: Network Security Nov 7th, 2006
Replies: 3
Views: 1,655
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Help locking down access to client data from "outside" hacking.

What kind of router are you using? Is it a cheapo LinkSys/D-Link/Netgear/etc or is it a more robust FIREWALL (Netopia/Cyberguard/etc.)? Do you have access controls in place? Do you allow VPN...
Forum: Network Security Nov 7th, 2006
Replies: 111
Views: 116,585
Posted By TheOgre
Re: How do you bypass school/corporate internate filters

Dan's Guardian
http://www.dansguardian.com

squidGuard
http://www.squidguard.org

I've had a lot of success using Dan's Guardian (with Squid) on FreeBSD for schools. Drives kids crazy :)
Forum: *nix Software May 29th, 2006
Replies: 6
Views: 2,547
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Assigning IPs to one NIC

You'd want to use the 'alias' command with ifconfig, as described in the FreeBSD Handbook. You set this in /etc/rc.conf

Example:


alias_fxp0="inet 10.0.3.4 netmask 255.255.255.0"
Forum: Network Security May 16th, 2006
Replies: 1
Views: 4,649
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Lost Username & Password

You can't. To sniff it would mean that someone else has the username/password, and you would sniff it out of the network traffic to the router. Since you don't KNOW what it is, you can't sniff it. ...
Forum: Network Security May 16th, 2006
Replies: 3
Views: 3,302
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Exchange files between 2 computers with 2 different internet connections

SSH (SCP, sFTP), password-protected webserver directory, rsync, cvs, stunnel, etc.

If they're Winblows boxen, your best bet might be stunnel.
Forum: Network Security May 16th, 2006
Replies: 1
Views: 1,169
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Download Security

That's an odd request. You can use a proxy or a number of different mechanisms for preventing users from downloading files, but why limit the downloaded file to 2MB?

If you're trying to understand...
Forum: Network Security May 16th, 2006
Replies: 1
Views: 3,382
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Fake ID

Which operating system? Are you actively preventing ARP spoofing or MAC spoofing? Are you running any IDS/IPS systems?

How about a bunch of details about your setup?
Forum: Network Security May 16th, 2006
Replies: 111
Views: 116,585
Posted By TheOgre
Re: How do you bypass school/corporate internate filters

http://unixfun.net/howto/bsd/proxy.html

If you allow traffic out on TCP 443, here's one way of bypassing your proxy. I've been doing this for awhile now. Of course, it's just a matter of finding...
Forum: IT Careers and Business Oct 24th, 2005
Replies: 2
Views: 1,954
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Answers to legal ISSUES

OK, what's the URL?
Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 3rd, 2005
Replies: 18
Views: 23,987
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Quick Reference for Linux Commands

cat /etc/fstab

will show the list of partitions/slices that are mountable on the system, along with their filesystem.

Example (from a FreeBSD system):


cat /etc/fstab

# Device ...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 19th, 2005
Replies: 20
Views: 5,666
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Slackware 10.0 wont read hdb

So what exactly is the problem? If you know all of this, which you claim, there isn't a problem. I've asked you repeatedly for information on your NIC, but rather than answer my questions, you just...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 18th, 2005
Replies: 20
Views: 5,666
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Slackware 10.0 wont read hdb

Here's a HOWTO I wrote for a DHCP server on FreeBSD. Read it and see how the server gets configured (this is only 1 way of many different ways to configure a DHCP server.)

...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 18th, 2005
Replies: 20
Views: 5,666
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Slackware 10.0 wont read hdb

I highly recommend bookmarking the Linux Documentation Project website for HOWTOs on networking, audio, drivers, etc. It will save you a lot of time and frustration if you learn how things work.
Forum: *nix Software Jan 18th, 2005
Replies: 20
Views: 5,666
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Slackware 10.0 wont read hdb

DHCP uses the MAC address for leases, NOT a domain. It can also be configured to use hostnames to assign the IP leases, such as MCHSI, but in situations like those, if the MAC address doesn't match...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 18th, 2005
Replies: 20
Views: 5,666
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Slackware 10.0 wont read hdb

1. What NIC do you have in the box?
2. If you run DHCP on a *real* DHCP server, you don't NEED a domain, since that's part of what gets provided by the DHCP server. If you don't know what to put...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 17th, 2005
Replies: 6
Views: 3,896
Posted By TheOgre
Forum: *nix Software Jan 17th, 2005
Replies: 20
Views: 5,666
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Slackware 10.0 wont read hdb

I was reffering to your other post about the networking issue that you responded to in this thread.

Nor did I ask you to. When I offered a solution, your comment was "I already know all that."...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 17th, 2005
Replies: 6
Views: 2,837
Posted By TheOgre
Re: help plzzzzzzzzzz

The locate command doesn't rewrite anything - it just tells you where xxx is located.

Try doing updatedb, followed by locate xxx to see where it is (like, /usr/local/bin or /usr/sbin or whatever...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 17th, 2005
Replies: 9
Views: 5,923
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Boot Linux after instaling windows

Boot to your Linux distro and run lilo. Lilo will rewrite the mbr to include the lilo boot menu screen that got overwritten when you reinstalled Windoze.

...provided you use lilo and not grub or...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 17th, 2005
Replies: 10
Views: 4,153
Posted By TheOgre
Re: More Firefocks vs IE Bullshit...

You seriously need to lower the volume on that music - that's just flat-out f****ng RUDE to have it that damn loud.

Or at the very least, include a slidebar with a volume control so people can...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 17th, 2005
Replies: 6
Views: 3,896
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Network Setup for linux selection.

A DHCP client is installed by default - it's dhclient. If you mean it doesn't locate your DHCP server, have you configured your NetGear box to be a DHCP server?


What setup disk? Configure...
Forum: *nix Software Jan 17th, 2005
Replies: 20
Views: 5,666
Posted By TheOgre
Re: Slackware 10.0 wont read hdb

It would help if you replied to the correct post, instead of cross-posting.

Since I don't know your level of experience with Linux, it's a little difficult for me to guess what you don't...
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