Re: ftp slow w/ proftpd# Samba fast
by Excalibur Xcalibur
Please read below:
On 8/4/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson(a)georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>
> At 9:14 PM +0100 8/4/07, Alan Cox wrote:
> >On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:37:16 -0400
> >"Excalibur Xcalibur" <excalibur.xcalibur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> vsftpd simply rocks. Even wu-ftpd works fast. That proftpd seems to be
> a
> >> piece of sh*t!
> >>
> >> Security is one thing. Annoying users is another. What good is it to
> have a
> >> super secure system when my users spend hours to download or upload
> files?
> >> I'm pretty sure vsftpd can be configure or patched.
> >
> >You can make vsftpd do a lot of things, and as it was written for
> >security first its extremely well designed.
>
> It does, however, allow unlimited password cracking attempts, while
> Proftpd
> can be configured to prevent, with the help of some iptables rules.
> (Ignore what that dolt Excalibur Xcalibur will say in response -- PEBKAC.)
>
Blockhosts v2.05 can take care of that. Although Alan Cox is right if we
want to configure it the *not-so-easy* way. ;)
It has support for vsftpd. So it can limit the number of attempts.
http://www.aczoom.com/cms/blockhosts
http://optics.csufresno.edu/~kriehn/fedora/fedora_files/f7/howto/blockhos...
Greg!)
Also vsftpd can be configured to limit login per IP address.
Check this: http://vsftpd.beasts.org/#performance (Well seriously I do
believe them and can confirm it!)
I tried WU-ftpd and it works faster than proftpd on my box, but according to
download times, the fastest is vsftpd.
vsftpd>WU-ftpd>proftpd.
PS: It is easy to write "PEBKAC" even to all the postings in this list and
try to appear smarter than the rest. But you fail to realize that the true
smart ones who really know what they are doing will actually use their
brains to help others out and be humble about it.
--
Peter "Excalibur"
16 years, 9 months
Yum Ex...
by Mike Chalmers
Do I need Yum Extender or do I only need the software update feature?
If so, how do I get Yum Extender?
Thanks,
Mike
16 years, 9 months
RE: Installation of VMware-server
by Jack Byers
Jack Byers byersj(a)hotmail.com
sizo nsibande" <ooziss(a)gmail.com> wrote
| This is the message that
|vmware-any-any-update gives me and has me ultimately stuck:
|###############################################################
|What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
running
|kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
you might need just a simple variation on that general vmware suggested
location.
e.g. on my fc5 on vmplayer (not vmserver)
i think i successfully responded with
/usr/src/kernels/2.6.17-1.2174_FC5-i686/include
HTH
Jack
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http://liveearth.msn.com
16 years, 9 months
FC6 display resolution too hi
by Barry Yu
I set my desired display resolution, however every tim when reboot the system, FC6 started the start up process (in GUI mode before log in with user name and password), the display resolution is very hi - image too small, until I input the user name and the password, log into desktop, then my desired display setting will come to effect. How to resolve this issue?
16 years, 9 months
boot loader options...
by Mike Chalmers
Is there a way to change how many seconds before the os boots at the
boot loader screen? Thanks.
16 years, 9 months
Cups problem with root access
by david walcroft
I cannot get cups to accept a root login on the web page,it keeps
resurfacing
for a login after entering the root password.Where does cups store its
passwords
so I can delete the password and enter a new one.
Is there another way around this problem.
Thanks david
16 years, 9 months
Remote X11 Connection
by Tony Crouch
Hi All,
Just a curious question regarding connection to remote X11 machines
through ssh.
Today, I was wanting to edit some remote files on my university's data
server. I used the following command to connect:
ssh -Y ...
I noticed though on connecting and using emacs to open the required file
the GUI of the server (which uses KDE) was loaded not my local GUI (Gnome)
with the data of the file imported.
I was wondering if anyone knew how to configure ssh or X11 so that my
local GUI is loaded and remote data is imported.
Thanks for all your help.
All the best.
Cheers,
Tony Crouch
16 years, 9 months
Encoding in nroff and man
by Yevgeniy Makarov
Hello,
I am using FC7, and I discovered an apparent inconsistency in handling
encodings by nroff and man. If there is another place where I should
address this question, I would appreciate if you let me know.
I noticed the issue of encoding in man because I am using Midnight
Commander which is apparently only able to use 8-bit encodings for
output. As a result, I had some garbage where single quotation marks
should have been when I viewed man pages in MC (using M-! key). The
reason was that these single quotation marks were Unicode characters
taking more than one byte.
Looking at /etc/man.config, I saw that man uses
/usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc 2>/dev/null
command to process man files. Since the man page for nroff says that
it accepts the option -T<encoding>, I thought I would add the option
"-Tlatin1", but it did not make any difference. Looking inside nroff,
which is a shell script, it seems that it ignores the -T option:
case $1 in
...
-[eq] | -s* | -u* | -T* )
# ignore these options
;;
Further, there seems to be only one place where the nroff script
determines the value of charset_out variable, and that is from the
"locale charmap" command, even though nroff man page says that it also
tries LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG, and LESSCHARSET environment variables.
When I replaced the nroff command with groff, the -Tlatin1 option
worked and I was able to obtain the man page in latin1 encoding.
Of course, I can set LC_ALL to en_US.iso88591, but I may want to have
Unicode in Xterm when I am not running MC, and, secondly, this does
not eliminate the mismatch between the nroff man page and the actual
behavior of nroff.
I would appreciate any thoughts on this.
Evgeny
16 years, 9 months
weird characters in wine after upgrade
by Gianluca Cecchi
After about 20 days away from home, I switched on the pc and, besides other
packages, I upgraded wine from 0.9.39-1.fc7 to 0.9.42-1.fc7 and kernel
from 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 to 2.6.22.1-41.fc7, as proposed by yum.
After rebooting with the new kernel, in all wine applications I see weird
unreadable characters.
In particular, also inside winecfg window.
It seems it does not depend on the kernel upgrade, because if I create a new
user and run winecfg or other wine applications (tried notepad) as that
user, I can correctly see the characters.
So I presume it depends on pre-existing profile "import" phase by the
upgraded wine...
Any hint? I have many applications under this user and I wouldn't like to
wipe out all config...
The system is fc7 x86_64.
Thanks in advance.
Gianluca
16 years, 9 months
