Re: FreeBSD Help again!!!

[Noah K Sematimba <ksemat at wawa.eahd.or.ug>]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, [iso-8859-1] henry chiti wrote:

>
>  Hello good afternoon
> Noah this is chiti again.  I have installed the FreeBSD system successfully although I have trouble configuring Ftp although I have managed to use Telnet.  Can you help me with the installation of software like squid, apache especially on how to rebuild from the distitribution list or on how to compile I seem not to have any info on that.
> I will appreciate your assistance again.
> My regards to you again.
> Chiti

You should NOT use telnet at all and ftp is jsut as bad since both
protocols send passwords and usernames in cleartext and as such your
communications can be intercepted.

FreeBSD comes with ssh installed by default in the base system and you
should use this to communicate. There are many free windows cients for
ssh. A popular one is putty from
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

The easiest way to install packages in FreeBSD is to use the ports.

For example for apache with modssl simply go to

#cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl
#make
#make install

This should download and install apache on your machine.  Similar thing
with squid which you can find in /usr/ports/www/squid24

You then edit the configuration files for these packages which you'll
probably find in /usr/local/etc/apache and /usr/local/etc/squid.conf

You can also do it from source like we did in the workshop. The notes are
up on the afnog.org website.

If you really want to use ftp it should be simply a matter of uncommenting
the entry in /etc/inetd.conf and restarting inetd with killall -HUP inetd


You should find a lot of this information and probably better explained at

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook


Noah.



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