Re: remote attack?

on the attack go to www.securityfocus.com and do a search on statd. HTH, Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333

Re: inetd questions

. Anyone know of a complete list of which are acceptable/unacceptable? Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333

Re: instalation manual

On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Tom wrote: My computer is 586 IBM CyrixInstead. Which Intall manual (in the page http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/#new-inst of the Debian page) do I use ? -Intel x86 This one. (For all practical purposes, x={3,4,5,6,...} and Intel={Intel,AMD,Cyrix} Damian

Re: OT: port scan

is probably just some idiot who mistyped an IP address Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--

Re: PPP keeps on acting *strangely* ...

/.. You might want to try setting yours to be less verbose so it says CONNECT instead of CONNECT 115200. Just a wild guess. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038

teTeX path question

this included in the search path. I've got a feeling it has something to do with the ls-R file, but don't know exactly what I'm doing there and don't want to mess things up. Could anyone provide any hints? Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: teTeX path question

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Damian Menscher wrote: I just upgraded my version of teTeX to 1.0.6, and discovered it no longer seems to follow the TEXINPUTS environment variable to find various style files, etc. I need to get this to read in a revtex.cls file that I've added in, but don't know how

Re: Using PuTTY with an SSH Server

:0 Keep in mind that these connections do NOT got through ssh, so anything you send through them can be sniffed! Therefore, don't open an xterm and su or ssh into another machine if you do things this way! Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: more than one .sty file in a tex document!?

bibliography styles to allow for a Bachelor's thesis. Just keep in mind that TeX really is a different language from LaTeX and you'll be fine Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217

Re: how to keep portmap from running?

to go. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--

Re: Adding users

as tar or cat, you know. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--

Re: Help with cron settings?

some help here? man crontab You're supposed to use the crontab command to modify cron settings. Updating files by hand won't work. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038

Re: What is NAVIDAD.exe

for detection and removal instructions: - http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=1956 Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110

Re: /usr/tmp instead of /tmp

- chmod in what you wrote, you're pretty close. The permissions _should_ be 1777, not just 777. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green

Re: Quick way to tell if online for use in cron script?

you in the case you're dialed up but the ntp server is unreachable for some reason, too. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana

Re: i am hacked atm.. what's better thing to do?

in the same way. If so, notify the owner. If not, then this is the hacker's home box and you should contact his ISP (or the authorities). Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038

RE: Exec CGI

Internet Applications Capitol College mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Fear the Penguin. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Damian Menscher

Re: weird rpc.statd messages on potato

. Otherwise reinstall and apt-get the security updates this time. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--

Re: MD5 Check (was Re: i am hacked atm.. what's better thing to do?)

that! Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--

Re: weird rpc.statd messages on potato

rpc.statd attempts to log to syslog(), which of course runs as root. More information can be found at www.securityfocus.com by clicking on Vulnerabilities and searching for keyword statd. Damian On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 10:29:04PM -0600, Damian Menscher wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Rob wrote

Re: sticky bit, powersaving hdd spindown

this, but if so, then just copy the binary to a ramdisk and run it from there. Just an idea, I don't know how to do it or even if it can be done. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038

Re: hard drive error?

and power cables from your drive, wait 5 secs, then plug back in. The computer will do an IDE bus reset, and then continue on where it left off. Worked for me once YMMV Note: I'm not responsible if suggestion 2 fries anything, including you! Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin

Re: sed question (bibtex problem)

pull off what you're looking for. Or not. I haven't tested this. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

to have as little on your path as possible (to avoid trojans, etc). It is questionable whether /usr/local/bin should be there at all. Another argument is you don't want to have path problems in the event /usr/local fails to mount properly and you are forced to fix the problem as root. Damian

Re: /usr/bin before /usr/local/bin?

behave in this manner anyway. A compromised user account is destined to become a compromised root account. There are too many local root exploits to ignore the danger. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu

Re: /bin/false (was Re: security questions)

if the compiler whines about it, the source is only 17 bytes long. How many (kilo)bytes would be necessary to write that in BASIC? :) Save a byte: main(){exit(1);} But we're pretty far off topic here Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: Any help before I go and spend $49.99 on a Book with the disks?

set. If you've got a nice network connection, you might be able to upgrade by setting your sources list to the appropriate places and doing an apt-get update apt-get upgrade But I'm not an expert, so it would be good if someone who is could comment. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys

Re: How to test HDD thoroughly? (Debian Linux unstable 2.2.16 k ernel)

recommendations on hardware testing appreciated. I agree badblocks is probably the best, but you could also try bonnie and bonnie++. If you want to check the health of sectors already occupied by files, I suppose a dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null wouldn't hurt. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad

Re: setup xwindows with com1 mouse

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Nick wrote: what /dev would i use to accomplish this? /dev/ttyS0 (capital s, number zero) Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics

Re: GREP

more straightforward, but I'm not sure about differences in processing time, when the first match would be found, etc. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics

Re: GREP

are in... and probably some other more or less dirty tricks... ^^ Look in the grep manpage for the -l option ;) Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher

Re: Debian box sick... hda lost interrupt Unknown vector 67

all the selections I'd made and restart the install, I unplugged both power and data cables to the IDE drive, waited 5 seconds, then plugged them back in. It did an IDE bus reset and completed the install. Machine works fine. Disclaimer -= kids, don't try this at home! Damian Menscher

Re: Password Change Machine

, but hopefully you can figure those out from this basic idea. Good luck. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--

Keyboard wierdness

a second keyboard, still nothing. Rebooting shows the keyboards work fine while the system is booting, but when it gets into X they stop. Finally, I just booted into single user mode, and the keyboard is fine. Ideas??? Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana

Re: Keyboard wierdness

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: Damian Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel. I had everything working fine. I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried it over to new location, and turn it back on. When it comes

Re: Keyboard wierdness

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Steve Juranich wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Damian Menscher wrote: Ok, this is *really* strange: I have a fairly new setup: woody + 2.4.0-test9 kernel. I had everything working fine. I wanted to move my computer, so I shut it down, carried it over to new

Re: URGENT! Sendmail question (Redhat conversion) HELP!

: mcgeecorp.com SMTP:[192.168.0.6] BTW: if you're relaying for an entire domain, then you might want to put a dot (.) in front of mcgeecorp.com. See the README in the cf directory for details. HTH, Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Re: Encrypt a file

On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: Damian Menscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Brian May wrote: While there are pros and cons in both methods, I have to wonder what you need to encrypt files for. For most applications, asymmetric encryption is better

Re: ipchains

understanding, perhaps if I had some examples of UDP+masq with ipchains.. Go to linuxdoc.org and look for a howto on ipchains. I think they gave an example of UDP masquerading in there. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL

Re: netscape crashes

soon enough and kill it, I'm fine. But if I wait a minute, it hogs so many resources the only option is a reboot. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics

Re: Encrypt a file

symmetric encryption. Or, if you want *extremely* weak security (but enough to confuse your kid sister) then check out the unix command crypt. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038

Re: Simulating a mouse

, but that usually affects all directions of movement. Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Ofc:(217)333-0038 ##==-- --==## Physics Dept, 1110 W Green, Urbana IL 61801 Fax:(217)333-9819 ##==--

Re: 2.2.4pre9 and modules

to be sure, did you remember to do a make modules make modules_install ? Once the modules are there in /lib/modules/release/ check that they are listed in your /etc/modules file. HTH, Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL

2.4.0-test kernels?

all sorts of grief since the one in Woody depends on libc6, etc. And I've been unable (so far) to find any source .deb's. BTW: what's up with #debian being an invite-only channel? Damian Menscher -- --==## Grad. student Sys. Admin. @ U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ##==-- --==## [EMAIL PROTECTED