guitarlynn wrote:
> 
> I put a dachsrein beta firewall up last week at the house, it works
> great.  My wife got into an apparent ongoing battle in which
> several people in a yahoo chat room were hit with a buffer over-
> flow (affecting windows client) in the chat program. The room
> was actually being monitored by a level 2 government employee
> that was assigned to the room to monitor for script-kiddies, and
> she got one of them. Unfortunately, the kiddie got my ip addy and
> DDoS'ed it (from what I dug out of the logs before they filled). This
> was fine (lol), except I cannot find any info in auth.log and
> user.log. 

Do you mean that they are empty?  Do you have sshd running?
It leaves a message in auth.log when sshd is started.

> I am assuming the box has been cracked, 

Why?  Because two log files are empty?
Do you have a strong password for root?
Are you using DF's standard ipchains rules?
If the answers are yes, I'm not convinced.
It's not called Dachstein "Firewall" for
nothing. 


> probably
> root kitted and they erased the two log files. The box is still up
> and the gov official (and maybe Charles or someone else) would
> like an image of the Ram disk to analyze....particularly for a foot-
> print of the attacker.
> 
> My question, how do I make an image of the RAM disk???
> Can I simply back up the entire disk and send it, or is there another
>  way???

Copy the whole ramdisk?  Probably run mount to see what the
devices are called and then backup /dev/ram0 and the like,
the way David mentioned.

Good Luck,
Matthew

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