Re: How efficient is mounting /usr ro?

2003-10-20 Thread David Wright
running linux off readonly media (hardware-locked) is borderline on-topic. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: How efficient is mounting /usr ro?

2003-10-20 Thread David Wright
linux off readonly media (hardware-locked) is borderline on-topic. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not sign

Re: services installed and running "out of the box"

2003-09-26 Thread David Wright
s (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN ... Where does one go from here? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 15

Re: services installed and running "out of the box"

2003-09-26 Thread David Wright
s (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN ... Where does one go from here? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 15

Re: How to reduce sid security

2003-08-14 Thread David Wright
display > ..." message. /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc contains -nolisten tcp in the default Debian configuration which prevents port 6000 (or is it 6001, it's so long ago...) from being opened. netstat should confirm this. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739

Re: How to reduce sid security

2003-08-07 Thread David Wright
display > ..." message. /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc contains -nolisten tcp in the default Debian configuration which prevents port 6000 (or is it 6001, it's so long ago...) from being opened. netstat should confirm this. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739

Re: Why is proftpd always started when one update it?

2003-06-30 Thread David Wright
s nothing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either

Re: Why is proftpd always started when one update it?

2003-06-30 Thread David Wright
s nothing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either

Re: Fwd: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 11.01.02: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Abuse

2002-11-04 Thread David Wright
l 27 17:34 /usr/bin/xaos) ^ Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stati

Re: Fwd: iDEFENSE Security Advisory 11.01.02: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Abuse

2002-11-04 Thread David Wright
l 27 17:34 /usr/bin/xaos) ^ Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stati

Re: Why do I get mail for root of sunbird.aimcomm.com?

2002-02-15 Thread David Wright
From: root etc. etc. where I put spaces to prevent your email client from splitting this quotation at the <- line. AIUI something somewhere should have put a > in front of that "From". Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: D

Re: Why do I get mail for root of sunbird.aimcomm.com?

2002-02-15 Thread David Wright
root etc. etc. where I put spaces to prevent your email client from splitting this quotation at the <- line. AIUI something somewhere should have put a > in front of that "From". Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: D

Re: mounting /tmp noexec

2002-01-07 Thread David Wright
/mnt/flip: total 4 -rw-r--r--1 root root 3705 Apr 6 1999 cfile I hope my intentions, and those of the developers, are clearer now. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England,

Re: mounting /tmp noexec

2002-01-07 Thread David Wright
/mnt/flip: total 4 -rw-r--r--1 root root 3705 Apr 6 1999 cfile I hope my intentions, and those of the developers, are clearer now. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England,

Re: mounting /tmp noexec

2002-01-03 Thread David Wright
0 ñÎ× 3 08:47 /tmp/a > [terrapin] 08:47:21 ~$ /tmp/a > bash: /tmp/a: Permission denied > [terrapin] 08:47:25 ~$ Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: mounting /tmp noexec

2002-01-03 Thread David Wright
0 ñÎ× 3 08:47 /tmp/a > [terrapin] 08:47:21 ~$ /tmp/a > bash: /tmp/a: Permission denied > [terrapin] 08:47:25 ~$ Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Discla

Re: mounting /tmp noexec

2002-01-02 Thread David Wright
el: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: mounting /tmp noexec

2002-01-02 Thread David Wright
el: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Which ssh should I have?

2001-11-07 Thread David Wright
-get may ignore them. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Which ssh should I have?

2001-11-07 Thread David Wright
-get may ignore them. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here

Re: read-write to stdin-stdout or to a file?

2001-07-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pedro Zorzenon Neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:42:13PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > Do you mean this package? > > > > "Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrolers that uses PC parallel port > > Yes. > > > If so, I'

Re: read-write to stdin-stdout or to a file?

2001-07-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pedro Zorzenon Neto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 12:42:13PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > Do you mean this package? > > > > "Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrolers that uses PC parallel port > > Yes. > > > If so, I'

Re: read-write to stdin-stdout or to a file?

2001-07-20 Thread David Wright
yourself (and any others) into somegroup. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Vie

Re: read-write to stdin-stdout or to a file?

2001-07-20 Thread David Wright
yourself (and any others) into somegroup. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Vie

Re: Server reboots

2001-03-14 Thread David Wright
icrosoft .asp or clicking between windows > with a flash animation in one or both of them. I can probably reproduce > it doing other tasks as well, but I haven't tried it. You might want to test your memory (memtest). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +

Re: Server reboots

2001-03-14 Thread David Wright
icrosoft .asp or clicking between windows > with a flash animation in one or both of them. I can probably reproduce > it doing other tasks as well, but I haven't tried it. You might want to test your memory (memtest). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739

Re: Kernel 2.2.15 hole ?

2001-03-05 Thread David Wright
e > concerned that a search on Debians archives did not show this > as a security issue. Perhaps it's at http://www.uk.debian.org/security/2000/2612 ? i.e. 2.2.15-3 is patched. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wrigh

Re: Kernel 2.2.15 hole ?

2001-03-05 Thread David Wright
e > concerned that a search on Debians archives did not show this > as a security issue. Perhaps it's at http://www.uk.debian.org/security/2000/2612 ? i.e. 2.2.15-3 is patched. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wrigh

Re: Suspending services

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
e > (/etc/runlevel.conf). Put a '#' in front of lines in /etc/runlevel.conf. Why not just mangle the name of /etc/init.d/whatever, e.g. /etc/init.d/whatever-hidden. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Sc

Re: Suspending services

2001-01-29 Thread David Wright
e > (/etc/runlevel.conf). Put a '#' in front of lines in /etc/runlevel.conf. Why not just mangle the name of /etc/init.d/whatever, e.g. /etc/init.d/whatever-hidden. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Sc

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-27 Thread David Wright
eir own address. What is the latter intended to do? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify officia

Re: Debian audititing tool?

2000-12-27 Thread David Wright
is the latter intended to do? Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expres

Portmap removal, was Re: [RFC] Network Security Policy

2000-09-26 Thread David Wright
TED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Portmap removal, was Re: [RFC] Network Security Policy

2000-09-26 Thread David Wright
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Re: Have I misunderstood an ipchains concept?

2000-09-25 Thread David Wright
received by the NIC. It should pass along the wire past all the other interfaces and be absorbed by the termination at each end of the cable. If by any chance it *is* received because of faults elsewhere, it gets dropped in net/ipv4/route.c . Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908

Re: Have I misunderstood an ipchains concept?

2000-09-25 Thread David Wright
that host. For example, a mis-configured router, a missing termination, ... Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.

Re: Have I misunderstood an ipchains concept?

2000-09-25 Thread David Wright
be received by the NIC. It should pass along the wire past all the other interfaces and be absorbed by the termination at each end of the cable. If by any chance it *is* received because of faults elsewhere, it gets dropped in net/ipv4/route.c . Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +

Re: Have I misunderstood an ipchains concept?

2000-09-25 Thread David Wright
r example, a mis-configured router, a missing termination, ... Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not sign