<RANT>
Yes, you and everyone else who is hacking on me for having a winblows box in
my house is correct. Anything Sam Spade can do I can do at the command line
on my LINUX server.
However, the reality of my life is that all my work is on an NT box (at
work) except for some very special things residing on Solaris/IRIX/HPUX
(depending on the machine)... For me to maintain compatibility with those
things, & to give my wife something she is capable of using, I must have a
windows box in my house.
No matter how much I like LINUX, and most of the apps that are available on
it, the fact is that I must keep the windows box as the prominant machine.
Now, I routinely pipe X apps back to this box, and I routinely log in & work
at the command prompt with TeraTerm SSH, but with the windows box being the
dominant machine, certain things happen:
1) all log checks are mailed to my ISP (instead of remaining on the server
where a successful hacker could delete the logs & spoof me)
2) Since the MS machine is the dominant machine, I (of course) receive my
mail through a windows program (Sometimes Netscape, sometimes Outlook)
3) Since I am already on a MS box, it makes the most sense for me to use a
windows program to do my reverse lookups, etc.
I'm sure I'm not the only person on this list in this (or a similar)
situation.
</RANT>
Yes, Sam Spade is essentially a bunch of scripts that do the same things
that I can do at the command line. However, it is nce to have them all
bound together under a single GUI that is fairly easy to operate. It also
has some things built in that I don't know how to do, such as checking smtp
daemons for open relays (which is the reason I picked it up in the 1st
place)...
It also has the nice bit that when I do a lookup, I can also click on any IP
or name that is presented in the window, & do a further lookup on that
machine simply by pointing and clicking again.
In other words, what would take me 15-20 minutes at the command line, I can
do in less than 5 using this tool.
And, isn't the whole point of a tool to make life easier? This one
certainly does that, regardless of the platform it's on...
Sorry, I guess I'm in a pissy mood today...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Kindley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:34 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: I'd say this is someone trying to find an expolit
>
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Burke, Thomas G.
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:18 PM
> >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> >Subject: RE: I'd say this is someone trying to find an expolit
> >
> >
> >Actually, I've found a _VERY_ nice tool for MS boxes called "Sam
> >Spade"
> >
> >Does all sortsa neat stuff... If you have a Windoze box on your
> >network, I'd look in to getting this, especially since it's free.
>
> Hummmm..........then I'll leave that option for people who choose to
> use a Microsoft OS for their server needs. As for me, well I only use
> Linux for my server. Although I do use an NT workstation client at home
> and at IUPUI for school matters I prefer an open source alternative.
> And since IUPUI gave me my NT and Office software I tolerate it, for
> now.
>
> And I'll bet whatever this "Sam Spade" thingy does can already be done
> in some way on a Linux machine anyway ( I must confess I havn't looked
> up this software to be certain ) but I just don't see "Sam Spade" in my
> future.
>
> That being said I do thank you for your time and suggestion.
>
> - -----
> Scott Kindley
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