Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
on Wed, May 29, 2002, Arthur Dent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. WindowMaker: wmppp, wmifs, wninet. Google doc apps warehouse for many more. Also can anyone advise me of a good book on installing debian woody and getting it set up as secure as possible for a beginner. The Debian Installation Guide at the Debian website: http://www.debian.org/ I dont care if at first I understand nothing of what is being said as long as I knew that I had my setup secured well BEFORE i begin trawling the net trying to find info. Because I am so new I find all the terminology daunting. I have downloaded several books from the debian site and printed them off and have brought a couple of huge volumes on linux. But for the moment I dont want to know every single console command, all I wish to get is a good general text on linux. i.e. Where are the alarmd logs kept? I've searched but cant find them. Not sure about alarmd (I don't use KDE), but in general, the first place to look for logs is /var/log. MAybe not trying hard enough but I only have so much time a day to dedicate to linux and I'd like to be able to know what should I be looking at /for and what is irrelevant at least for a while. A good beginners book? http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/linux-books.html Under Win2K I know where to look for log info etc and if I dont I know where to find out what I need to be looking for...as long as Bill wants me to know... Does linux have like index.dat files?? /etc -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/ pgpXuvoizFdBg.pgp Description: PGP signature
simple traffic monitor/firewalls
Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. Also can anyone advise me of a good book on installing debian woody and getting it set up as secure as possible for a beginner. I dont care if at first I understand nothing of what is being said as long as I knew that I had my setup secured well BEFORE i begin trawling the net trying to find info. Because I am so new I find all the terminology daunting. I have downloaded several books from the debian site and printed them off and have brought a couple of huge volumes on linux. But for the moment I dont want to know every single console command, all I wish to get is a good general text on linux. i.e. Where are the alarmd logs kept? I've searched but cant find them. MAybe not trying hard enough but I only have so much time a day to dedicate to linux and I'd like to be able to know what should I be looking at /for and what is irrelevant at least for a while. A good beginners book? Under Win2K I know where to look for log info etc and if I dont I know where to find out what I need to be looking for...as long as Bill wants me to know... Does linux have like index.dat files?? Any help appreciated. Mike _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
- Original Message - From: Arthur Dent [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 10:39 AM Subject: simple traffic monitor/firewalls Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. Hi, Use ntop - it's similar to top program, but instead of running processes it shows network interfaces' utilization. Bart Grzybicki network administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] MORLINY SA http://www.morliny.pl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. Use ntop - it's similar to top program, but instead of running processes it shows network interfaces' utilization. in gnome, there is an applet called 'NetLoad' that shows network activity in a small bypassing graph. it is in the package 'gnome-applets' greetz, Joris, who is proud of having deleted his windoze-partition yesterday :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
Arthur Dent wrote: Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. Also can anyone advise me of a good book on installing debian woody and getting it set up as secure as possible for a beginner. I dont care if at first I understand nothing of what is being said as long as I knew that I had my setup secured well BEFORE i begin trawling the net trying to find info. Because I am so new I find all the terminology daunting. I have downloaded several books from the debian site and printed them off and have brought a couple of huge volumes on linux. But for the moment I dont want to know every single console command, all I wish to get is a good general text on linux. i.e. Where are the alarmd logs kept? I've searched but cant find them. MAybe not trying hard enough but I only have so much time a day to dedicate to linux and I'd like to be able to know what should I be looking at /for and what is irrelevant at least for a while. A good beginners book? Under Win2K I know where to look for log info etc and if I dont I know where to find out what I need to be looking for...as long as Bill wants me to know... Does linux have like index.dat files?? Any help appreciated. Mike _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com HI.. Couple of the bset books I know...Running Linux 0'Reilly publisher and Linux cookbook by Stutz, Linux Journal publisher... Look at /var/log/messages for bootup messages. -- Regards Ted Wager Libranet Linux user -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:39:49PM +1200, Arthur Dent wrote: Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. If you use AfterStep (or some other wm that has wharf) you can get wmnet and have it dock in wharf. This shows incoming and outgoing usage, and a usage graph. Also can anyone advise me of a good book on installing debian woody and getting it set up as secure as possible for a beginner. I dont care if at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/index.en.html i.e. Where are the alarmd logs kept? I've searched but cant find them. What is alarmd? I've never heard of it before, and I didn't find it in an apt-cache search. Under Win2K I know where to look for log info etc and if I dont I know where to find out what I need to be looking for...as long as Bill wants me to know... /var/log under Linux. Does linux have like index.dat files?? What is that? -- Baloo pgpL9zrUWpLVp.pgp Description: PGP signature
simple traffic monitor/firewalls
Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. Hi, For X-Windows, I use a fast little manager called icewm, which by default shows your network link activity, and cpu usuage. You can customize it nicely too. (change colors etc) Cheers, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
On Tue, 28 May 2002 23:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Mike Egglestone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. For X-Windows, I use a fast little manager called icewm, which by default shows your network link activity, and cpu usuage. You can customize it nicely too. (change colors etc) There are any number of such utilities. A popular one is gkrellm, it can monitor a lot more than just a 'net connection. If you're not using the GNOME panel, you can't use its applets, but there are some simple ones there if you do. Otherwise, 'apt-cache search dockapp', pick and choose, play and poke. -- \ David B. Harris, Systems administrator | http://www.terrabox.com / / [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://eelf.ddts.net \ \==/ / Clan Barclay motto: Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.) \ pgplIrrVgdqhb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
Mike Egglestone, 2002-May-28 23:30 -0700: Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. Hi, For X-Windows, I use a fast little manager called icewm, which by default shows your network link activity, and cpu usuage. You can customize it nicely too. (change colors etc) I use gkrellm to monitor network activity along with CPU, Disk, APM, Memory and Swap usage. I highly recommend it. Very powerful yet light on the resources. jc -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
Mike writes: I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. pppstatus -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
* Arthur Dent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020529 01:42]: Under windows I had a little network picture which would show up in my system tray on the taskbar whenever I was on the internet. It showed 2 computers linked and whenever there was traffic either to of from my pc the small monitor screen icons would turn blue, indicating activity. Now I have no firewall under linux I would like to have some way of at least monitoring traffic throughput as I surf the net. Does anyone know if there is any small utility that can do this under woody. Have a look at gkrellm for a lot of little meter-type-things, including network load coming and going. Even better than just a simple blip, it'll show you a (fully customizable, of course) bar- or line-chart, so you get some context (i.e. you know that it's been high for the last minute, or just spliked this second, etc.) gkrellm also has monitors for damned-near everything else, including processor and disk loads, internal sensors (if you've got it in your kernel) the weather, your email box, and a bunch more. And it's pretty and theme-able. You can see what it looks like before installing it by checking out http://www.muhri.net/gkrellm/nav.php3?node=screenshots Also can anyone advise me of a good book on installing debian woody and getting it set up as secure as possible for a beginner. I dont care if at have a look at the Securing Debian Manual, for starters: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ i.e. Where are the alarmd logs kept? I've searched but cant find them. MAybe not trying hard enough but I only have so much time a day to dedicate to linux and I'd like to be able to know what should I be looking at /for and what is irrelevant at least for a while. A good beginners book? Under Win2K I know where to look for log info etc and if I dont I know Yeah, and you can spend hours pointing and clicking on log entries -- sorry events in the event viewer. Sorry. Anyway, any sane program (I'm not sure what alarmd is) will have logs appearing under /var/log somewhere. It may be under /var/log/alarmd , or just mixed in with /var/log/daemon.log or /var/log/syslog . grep around, you'll find it =) You won't be able to point at them, but at least you can always find what you want quickly and easily and do any other processing you want on them as well (i.e. send any log entries that (don't) match certain patterns in an email to root(see the logcheck pacakge), or whatever else your imagination comes up with.) where to find out what I need to be looking for...as long as Bill wants me to know... Does linux have like index.dat files?? well, you could make one by typing 'touch index.dat'[1] ... what are you looking for? My guess is that you are refering to indexing files used by windows' Find feature. the program 'locate' (or slocate) is an indexed filesystem searcher. It stores its index in /var/lib/locate/locatedb , though, and not anything/index.dat . Any help appreciated. I hope that did. good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume.shtml pgpnJZ04fScYH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 06:44 am, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] What is alarmd? I've never heard of it before, and I didn't find it in an apt-cache search. from the man page: alarmd is a KDE daemon to trigger alarms (such as sounds, dialog boxes, etc) as specified by the calendar. as for logging alarmd, don't know. iptraf is pretty handy for simple traffic monitoring. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: simple traffic monitor/firewalls
Paul Johnson wrote: Arthur Dent wrote: Does linux have like index.dat files?? What is that? index.dat (and user.dat, I believe) are registry files for Windows. Most of the configuration in Linux (system and applications) is done through config plain text files under /etc, but it varies from package to package (and distribution). Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
