stable/secure mini-distros

2002-05-10 Thread Jeff
From: Tim Uckun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] What is needed is a distro based on debian, following the same rules of safety as debian, using the same packages etc. Everything is the same except that apt-sources points to a list which contains a smaller set of platform specific packages.

Re: html spam

2002-05-10 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occassionally it would

Re: stable/secure mini-distros

2002-05-10 Thread Tim Uckun
We may be willing to put effort where mouth is, as the current situation is far from ideal, and twood be a sad day if Debian were to continue to fade into the shadows of outdated package obscurity, so, 0)Is this even possible? Why not? given enough time and money anything is possible! 1)

off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)

2002-05-10 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week

Ncurses - warning off topic

2002-05-10 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
- this is not the list for these kind of questions, but i will giv it a try. What is the full name of the libncurses you need to install in order to use make menuconfig. i have run apt-get install ncurses* and non of them works - i still get You need to have Ncurses installed when trying

Re: Ncurses - warning off topic

2002-05-10 Thread Adam Spickler
You need to install the development stuff, I believe, so that you can use make menuconfig. Thanks, Adam - Adam Spickler Whaddu LLC. http://www.whaddu.com WebHosting and Design/Development Unlimited -

Re: Ncurses - warning off topic

2002-05-10 Thread Kevin
libncurses5-dev - this is not the list for these kind of questions, but i will giv it a try. What is the full name of the libncurses you need to install in order to use make menuconfig. i have run apt-get install ncurses* and non of them works - i still get You need to have Ncurses

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2002-05-10 Thread Richard Harvey
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Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:35:58PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Kovacs Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.05.09.1621 +0200]: I screwed up file system privileges, issuing a chmod -R in the wrong (/ -- where else?) directory :-( Is there a way to fix this? yes, if you have a

Spamassassin (was Re: off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam))

2002-05-10 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:53:29 -0700, Christian G Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was runoured to have said: On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is

Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:08:24PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: You can do something like apt-get install --reinstall $(dpgk --get-selections|cut -f1) You may have to grep out some packages that aren't available anymore from your get-selections output, but that should get most stuff. You

is this an attack on my sendmail?

2002-05-10 Thread Csar Augusto Seronni Filho
hi guys in my maillog I am receiving many strange message on sendmail like that: May 10 18:52:50 xserver sendmail[]: g4AIRfa02119: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=one of my user mail (638/45), delay=03:25:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=607606, relay=company.com., dsn=4.0.0,

Re: is this an attack on my sendmail?

2002-05-10 Thread Greg Hunt
It looks like one of your users (the ctladdr= one) is trying to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] company.com doesn't appear to be online right now, which is why the connection is timing out. For the SYN_SENT when doing a netstat, it's likely that your mail server is trying to connect to those mail

Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.05.10.2333 +0200]: Err, I guess you would need get-selections|grep 'install$'|cut -f1 why not dpkg --get-selections|grep -v 'deinstall$'|cut -f1 you want to save status, and since 'install$' matches lines ending in 'deinstall' as well ;^ --

Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:21:19AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.05.10.2333 +0200]: Err, I guess you would need get-selections|grep 'install$'|cut -f1 why not dpkg --get-selections|grep -v 'deinstall$'|cut -f1 you want to save

kernel patches - lsm vs. grsecurity

2002-05-10 Thread Hubert Chan
I'm starting to experiment with the security kernel patches, and I was wondering if anyone could comment on the lsm (kernel-patch-2.4-lsm) and grsecurity (kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity) set of patches, and their relative advantages/disadvantages. I just set up the grsecurity patch on my machine

stable/secure mini-distros

2002-05-10 Thread Jeff
From: Tim Uckun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What is needed is a distro based on debian, following the same rules of safety as debian, using the same packages etc. Everything is the same except that apt-sources points to a list which contains a smaller set of platform specific packages.

Re: html spam

2002-05-10 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week and it was very good at catching spam, but occassionally it would

Re: stable/secure mini-distros

2002-05-10 Thread Tim Uckun
We may be willing to put effort where mouth is, as the current situation is far from ideal, and twood be a sad day if Debian were to continue to fade into the shadows of outdated package obscurity, so, 0)Is this even possible? Why not? given enough time and money anything is possible!

off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)

2002-05-10 Thread Christian G. Warden
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is quite irritating, IMHO) i just want to add a warning about spamassassin. i had it setup for about a week

Ncurses - warning off topic

2002-05-10 Thread Lars Roland Kristiansen
- this is not the list for these kind of questions, but i will giv it a try. What is the full name of the libncurses you need to install in order to use make menuconfig. i have run apt-get install ncurses* and non of them works - i still get You need to have Ncurses installed when trying

Re: Ncurses - warning off topic

2002-05-10 Thread Adam Spickler
You need to install the development stuff, I believe, so that you can use make menuconfig. Thanks, Adam - Adam Spickler Whaddu LLC. http://www.whaddu.com WebHosting and Design/Development Unlimited -

Re: Ncurses - warning off topic

2002-05-10 Thread Kevin
libncurses5-dev - this is not the list for these kind of questions, but i will giv it a try. What is the full name of the libncurses you need to install in order to use make menuconfig. i have run apt-get install ncurses* and non of them works - i still get You need to have Ncurses

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2002-05-10 Thread Richard Harvey
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Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread Peter Cordes
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:35:58PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Kovacs Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.05.09.1621 +0200]: I screwed up file system privileges, issuing a chmod -R in the wrong (/ -- where else?) directory :-( Is there a way to fix this? yes, if you have a

Spamassassin (was Re: off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam))

2002-05-10 Thread Stelios Bounanos
On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:53:29 -0700, Christian G Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was runoured to have said: On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you please post your reply *below* the quoted text? Top-posting is

Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:08:24PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: You can do something like apt-get install --reinstall $(dpgk --get-selections|cut -f1) You may have to grep out some packages that aren't available anymore from your get-selections output, but that should get most stuff. You

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-10 Thread Daniel Rychlik
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Tofu (was: Spamassassin (was Re: off topic: quoting (was Re: html spam)))

2002-05-10 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * Stelios Bounanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-05-10 22:29]: On Fri, 10 May 2002 08:53:29 -0700, Christian G Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] was runoured to have said: On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 01:04:40PM +0300, Jussi Ekholm wrote: Christian G. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Could you

Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread Peter Cordes
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:31:24PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 04:08:24PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: You can do something like apt-get install --reinstall $(dpgk --get-selections|cut -f1) You may have to grep out some packages that aren't available anymore

is this an attack on my sendmail?

2002-05-10 Thread César Augusto Seronni Filho
hi guys in my maillog I am receiving many strange message on sendmail like that: May 10 18:52:50 xserver sendmail[]: g4AIRfa02119: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=one of my user mail (638/45), delay=03:25:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=607606, relay=company.com., dsn=4.0.0,

Re: is this an attack on my sendmail?

2002-05-10 Thread Greg Hunt
It looks like one of your users (the ctladdr= one) is trying to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] company.com doesn't appear to be online right now, which is why the connection is timing out. For the SYN_SENT when doing a netstat, it's likely that your mail server is trying to connect to those mail

Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.05.10.2333 +0200]: Err, I guess you would need get-selections|grep 'install$'|cut -f1 why not dpkg --get-selections|grep -v 'deinstall$'|cut -f1 you want to save status, and since 'install$' matches lines ending in 'deinstall' as well ;^ --

Re: Fixing file system privileges

2002-05-10 Thread Peter Cordes
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 01:21:19AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.05.10.2333 +0200]: Err, I guess you would need get-selections|grep 'install$'|cut -f1 why not dpkg --get-selections|grep -v 'deinstall$'|cut -f1 you want to save status,

kernel patches - lsm vs. grsecurity

2002-05-10 Thread Hubert Chan
I'm starting to experiment with the security kernel patches, and I was wondering if anyone could comment on the lsm (kernel-patch-2.4-lsm) and grsecurity (kernel-patch-2.4-grsecurity) set of patches, and their relative advantages/disadvantages. I just set up the grsecurity patch on my machine