Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or Why is the base system the way it is?)

2002-05-20 Thread Tim Uckun
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Re: Secure/hardened/minimal Debian (or Why is the base system the way it is?)

2002-05-19 Thread Tim Uckun
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Re: stable/secure mini-distros

2002-05-10 Thread Tim Uckun
be too many hoops to jump with that one. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stable/secure mini-distros

2002-05-10 Thread Tim Uckun
but there might be too many hoops to jump with that one. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-09 Thread Tim Uckun
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RE: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-09 Thread Tim Uckun
I agree with Tim Uckden's comments - we don't need bleeding edge, but we also don't need some-obscure-whizzo-package-on-104-obsolete-hardware-architectures.deb holding up basic things like Apache, PHP, Perl, Mod_Perl, MySQL etc. We would be over the moon to have a mini-stable that only

Re: possible hole in mozilla et al

2002-05-08 Thread Tim Uckun
the need to run testing. The situation right now is that for production you run an ancient system or cross your fingers, hold your breath and run unstable. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: MS Front page extensions for Linux

2002-03-12 Thread Tim Uckun
in this. So far I have stalled. I am tempted to install zope for the potential fp users because you can use it via webdav and you can also work right inside you browser. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: MS Front page extensions for Linux

2002-03-12 Thread Tim Uckun
in this. So far I have stalled. I am tempted to install zope for the potential fp users because you can use it via webdav and you can also work right inside you browser. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com/

Re: best way to create pop only accounts

2002-03-11 Thread Tim Uckun
The apache project has a full featured mail system called james. It's written in Java and seems very full featured. The specs are impressive but I haven't used it myself. You may want to check it out. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com

Re: best way to create pop only accounts

2002-03-11 Thread Tim Uckun
The apache project has a full featured mail system called james. It's written in Java and seems very full featured. The specs are impressive but I haven't used it myself. You may want to check it out. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com/

Re: These 'roots' are bugging me.

2002-01-30 Thread Tim Uckun
problem. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: These 'roots' are bugging me.

2002-01-30 Thread Tim Uckun
problem. :wq Tim Uckun US Investigations Services/Due Diligence http://www.diligence.com/

Re: protection against buffer overflows

2002-01-18 Thread Tim Uckun
Has anyone any interesting comments about theses methods ? There are also alternative languages like cyclone http://www.research.att.com/projects/cyclone/ (which is based on C) and of course you could use a high level anguage like pyton, perl, java, scheme etc. :wq Tim Uckun US

Re: protection against buffer overflows

2002-01-18 Thread Tim Uckun
Has anyone any interesting comments about theses methods ? There are also alternative languages like cyclone http://www.research.att.com/projects/cyclone/ (which is based on C) and of course you could use a high level anguage like pyton, perl, java, scheme etc. :wq Tim Uckun US

Re: red worm amusement

2001-07-21 Thread Tim Uckun
At 12:09 AM 7/21/2001 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:52:26PM -0700, Tim Uckun wrote: You really can not blame people for not hiring expensive unix sysadmins and letting some semi competent windows user run the NT network. oh? and whyever not? its this blatent

Re: red worm amusement

2001-07-21 Thread Tim Uckun
At 12:09 AM 7/21/2001 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 07:52:26PM -0700, Tim Uckun wrote: You really can not blame people for not hiring expensive unix sysadmins and letting some semi competent windows user run the NT network. oh? and whyever not? its this blatent

Re: red worm amusement

2001-07-20 Thread Tim Uckun
be better then the PROJECT run by volunteers. In other words I would expect linux to be much worse then windows alas it's the other way around. -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit

Re: Web Server firewall help

2001-06-07 Thread Tim Uckun
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Re: Web Server firewall help

2001-06-05 Thread Tim Uckun
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Re: Good secure FTP server

2001-06-01 Thread Tim Uckun
At 11:21 AM 5/31/2001 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:17:42PM +0200, Alex Snijder wrote: I'm looking for a good 'secure' FTP server...Does anyone know a good non anonymous I can use? Why not ZOPE? -- Tim Uckun

Re: Good secure FTP server

2001-05-31 Thread Tim Uckun
At 11:21 AM 5/31/2001 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 04:17:42PM +0200, Alex Snijder wrote: I'm looking for a good 'secure' FTP server...Does anyone know a good non anonymous I can use? Why not ZOPE? -- Tim Uckun

Re: detecting portscanning

2001-05-24 Thread Tim Uckun
portsentry can blackhole the scanner as soon as it detects it with an IP chains rule. Once the user starts a scan they will be immediately blackholed and will never even complete the scan. :wq Tim Uckun Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/Americas Background Investigation Expert

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Tim Uckun
to split strings into parts. If the goal of the DLLs was to encourage code reuse it failed, if it was to save disk space it also failed. I say there should be a firewall between the apps and the OS and between the apps themselves. Installing an app should not break the OS or other apps. :wq Tim

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Tim Uckun
on. Right now I have to manually compile the three most important parts of my system which makes apt less useful. :wq Tim Uckun Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/Americas Background Investigation Expert. If your company isn't doing background checks, maybe you haven't considered

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Tim Uckun
. :wq Tim Uckun Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/Americas Background Investigation Expert. If your company isn't doing background checks, maybe you haven't considered the risks of a bad hire.

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-20 Thread Tim Uckun
on. Right now I have to manually compile the three most important parts of my system which makes apt less useful. :wq Tim Uckun Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/Americas Background Investigation Expert. If your company isn't doing background checks, maybe you haven't considered

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-19 Thread Tim Uckun
a combination of apache/php/postgres all of which have newer versions. :wq Tim Uckun Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/Americas Background Investigation Expert. If your company isn't doing background checks, maybe you haven't considered the risks of a bad hire

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-19 Thread Tim Uckun
a combination of apache/php/postgres all of which have newer versions. :wq Tim Uckun Due Diligence Inc. http://www.diligence.com/Americas Background Investigation Expert. If your company isn't doing background checks, maybe you haven't considered the risks of a bad hire.

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-14 Thread Tim Uckun
cheduled programming. ------ Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- "There are some who call me TIM?" -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logging practices (and why does it suck in Debian?)

2001-04-14 Thread Tim Uckun
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port 111.

2001-04-09 Thread Tim Uckun
is if there is any legitimate reason for scanning or attempting to connect to port 111 or are these people really trying something funny on my system. This is just a personal web server doing nothing important. This happens a few times a day. -- Tim

Re: port 111.

2001-04-09 Thread Tim Uckun
something with it. Then perl could no longer see CPAN. Seems weird but I could not use it till I dropped them from the blackhole. -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- There are some who

port 111.

2001-04-08 Thread Tim Uckun
is if there is any legitimate reason for scanning or attempting to connect to port 111 or are these people really trying something funny on my system. This is just a personal web server doing nothing important. This happens a few times a day. -- Tim

Re: port 111.

2001-04-08 Thread Tim Uckun
something with it. Then perl could no longer see CPAN. Seems weird but I could not use it till I dropped them from the blackhole. -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- "There are som

UDP Port 1035

2001-04-07 Thread Tim Uckun
What service runs on UDP port 1035? I did not see it in /etc/services and netstat says that it's active along with tcp 1 and 6 (and others but I know those). Is this normal or should I be scared? -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence

UDP Port 1035

2001-04-07 Thread Tim Uckun
What service runs on UDP port 1035? I did not see it in /etc/services and netstat says that it's active along with tcp 1 and 6 (and others but I know those). Is this normal or should I be scared? -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence

Re: UDP Port 1035

2001-04-07 Thread Tim Uckun
. I have so much to learn it's not even funny. -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- There are some who call me TIM? --

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-25 Thread Tim Uckun
At 09:49 PM 3/24/2001 -0800, Tal Danzig wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:39:24PM -0800, Tim Uckun wrote: I do not seem to have dpkg-awk on my system do you know where I could get it? IIRC it's in the dpkg-dev package. Apt says I already have dpkg-dev installed but I still can't find apt

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-25 Thread Tim Uckun
At 10:11 PM 3/24/2001 -0800, Brian Frederick Kimball wrote: Tim Uckun wrote: I do not seem to have dpkg-awk on my system do you know where I could get it? Did you try apt-get install dpkg-awk? :-) DOH!. I didn't see it in dselect but apt-get install worked!. Apt is truly awsome

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-25 Thread Tim Uckun
of these. -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- There are some who call me TIM? --

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-24 Thread Tim Uckun
hat takes some time. I do find their command keys unintuitive (or at least contrary to current programming) and puzzling but I am not complaining or anything :). ---------- Tim Uckun

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-24 Thread Tim Uckun
ho $pkg purge ; done \ | dpkg --set-selections I do not seem to have dpkg-awk on my system do you know where I could get it? ------ Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- "There

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-24 Thread Tim Uckun
At 09:49 PM 3/24/2001 -0800, Tal Danzig wrote: On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 10:39:24PM -0800, Tim Uckun wrote: I do not seem to have dpkg-awk on my system do you know where I could get it? IIRC it's in the dpkg-dev package. Apt says I already have dpkg-dev installed but I still can't find apt

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-24 Thread Tim Uckun
has aliases! There are a TON of these. ---------- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- "There are some who call me TIM?" -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-24 Thread Tim Uckun
a few other problems as well. Would it be better to upgrade to woody? would that fix my database? -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- There are some who call me TIM? --

Re: Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-24 Thread Tim Uckun
-selections I do not seem to have dpkg-awk on my system do you know where I could get it? -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- There are some who call me TIM? --

Apt database screwed up.

2001-03-23 Thread Tim Uckun
a few other problems as well. Would it be better to upgrade to woody? would that fix my database? -- Tim Uckun Mobile Intelligence Unit. -- "There are some who call m