Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/8/2015 3:02 PM, Brian wrote: > > If you have resorted to using iptables you have lost it. A standard > Debian install doesn't need it. > > I disagree. iptables is a great tool for blocking unwanted connections. What do you have against it? Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Danny
> > You have completely failed to understand what fail2ban is telling you. > > > Anyway, I have decided to get new hardware and do a clean install of > > everything > > ... as many of you have suggested ... > > It was heading that way so it is probably best for you. > You sound like a heartles

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Danny
*me* < blushing > > Why? > > If you don't know anyone in China, don't pick up the phone. Why are > your services responding to them? > > You're not seriously telling us you're accepting user name and password > for ssh authentication from the Internet, are you? > Uhm ... yes ... (looking do

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Danny
> Blocking a country which is famous for producing chocolate and beer. > What is the world coming to? rofl :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/2015010

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Danny
So Many?? > For instance here is a list of the blocks for Belgium: > http://www.nirsoft.net/countryip/be.html > > -Joris > Feel sorry for iptables ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Danny
> If you want to inspect further, I would suggest you look at each of the > jobs being run. See if they are what you expect them to be. Also check > your /etc/crontab and /etc/anacrontab to see what is in them. I would love to investigate further but I am afraid I am not inclined towards forensi

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 10:53:45PM +0200, Danny wrote: > Hi guys, > > My apologies for replying a little late ... [cut] > > As you can see ... I am already DROPping some of these IP's ... I just need > something to block an ENTIRE country ... Install xtables-addons-dkms (which will build the mo

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Frédéric Marchal
ng, Belgium and Canada ... You cannot tell something is responding to that user name on your system based only on that fail2ban alert. On the contrary, the mail means fail2ban successfully thwarted that particular attempt. Attackers can't know what names are valid login names unless they can

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 9. Januar 2015, 00:24:06 schrieb Brian: > On Thu 08 Jan 2015 at 22:36:46 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2015, 14:20:27 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > > > Just ensure you're using good security practices - don't allow root > > > login, use long, random passwords,

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 08 Jan 2015 at 22:36:46 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2015, 14:20:27 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > > > Just ensure you're using good security practices - don't allow root > > login, use long, random passwords, etc. I also use a random character > > strings for the

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2015, 14:20:27 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > As for the attacks - I've seen a big uptake in the attacks over the last > couple of weeks. The worst I've seen is > 100 IP's locked out in one 24 > hour period. They are coming from all over the world, although since > there are a

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2015, 14:20:27 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > As for the attacks - I've seen a big uptake in the attacks over the last > couple of weeks. The worst I've seen is > 100 IP's locked out in one 24 > hour period. They are coming from all over the world, although since > there are a

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 08 Jan 2015 at 22:53:45 +0200, Danny wrote: > However, as soon as my network was up and running I got attacked ... > here is an excerpt of one of the fail2ban mails ... > > ### > The IP 204.12.2

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 02:20:27PM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Danny, > > If you want to inspect further, I would suggest you look at each of the > jobs being run. See if they are what you expect them to be. Also check > your /etc/crontab and /etc/anacrontab to see what is in them. > And if y

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Brian
On Thu 08 Jan 2015 at 11:30:46 -0800, Joris Bolsens wrote: > > > On 01/08/2015 12:53 PM, Danny wrote: > ### > > > > As you can see ... I am already DROPping some of these IP's ... I just need > > som

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Joe
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 22:53:45 +0200 Danny wrote: > > As you can see ... I am already DROPping some of these IP's ... I > just need something to block an ENTIRE country ... > Why? If you don't know anyone in China, don't pick up the phone. Why are your services responding to them? You're not s

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/8/2015 3:53 PM, Danny wrote: > Hi guys, > > My apologies for replying a little late ... > > It was an absolute struggle getting things to work just so that I can give > more > information about the intrusion. I narrowed it down to cron ... What would > happen is this ... After a boot the ne

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 01/08/2015 12:53 PM, Danny wrote: ### > > As you can see ... I am already DROPping some of these IP's ... I just need > something to block an ENTIRE country ... > > Thank you ... and thanks to eve

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Danny
Hi guys, My apologies for replying a little late ... It was an absolute struggle getting things to work just so that I can give more information about the intrusion. I narrowed it down to cron ... What would happen is this ... After a boot the network would work fine but would start degrading at

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-07 Thread Joel Rees
Some people on this list are treating this far too casually. 2015/01/07 1:06 "Danny" : > > Hi guys, > > A while ago I posted a question about SFTP (I think the thread name was "SFTP > Question") about attacks I got against my server after syslog warned me about an > attempted breakin. Too bad I'v

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-07 Thread Mart van de Wege
Brian writes: > On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 19:47:09 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 21:51:26 schrieb Danny: >> > Hi guys, >> > >> > I am afraid my happiness was short lived. To test if the deletion of the >> > file (and the effects thereof) would be permanent I rebo

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Will Ness
Hello!! While I am not an expert on the other issues on your machine, I would recomend a wipe and a clean reinstall. Those root files with the random characters are what an asian language font typing system rendered into the standard qwerty would look like (lots of experience). My quick gut instin

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/06/2015 11:42 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 20:04:56 schrieb Danny: Hi guys, Hi Danny! A while ago I posted a question about SFTP (I think the thread name was "SFTP Question") about attacks I got against my server after syslog warned me about an attempted b

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 20:28:04 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 19:20:20 schrieb Brian: > > On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 19:47:09 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 21:51:26 schrieb Danny: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > > I am afraid my hap

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 19:20:20 schrieb Brian: > On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 19:47:09 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 21:51:26 schrieb Danny: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I am afraid my happiness was short lived. To test if the deletion of the > > > file (and the ef

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 20:09:00 +0100, Hans wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 13:33:50 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > > > > One other suggestion I might make is rkhunter (apt-get install > > rkhunter). While not perfect (what is?), it does scan your system for a > > number of different compromises.

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Brian
On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 19:47:09 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 21:51:26 schrieb Danny: > > Hi guys, > > > > I am afraid my happiness was short lived. To test if the deletion of the > > file (and the effects thereof) would be permanent I rebooted the system and > >

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 13:33:50 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > On 1/6/2015 2:53 PM, Danny wrote: > >> A stab in the dark, but is it possible this machine has services exposed > >> to the internet, and you'd not applied fixes against the recent > >> shellshock bug?> > > Jip ... ssh, apache, postfix

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 1/6/2015 2:53 PM, Danny wrote: >> A stab in the dark, but is it possible this machine has services exposed to >> the internet, and you'd not applied fixes against the recent shellshock bug? >> > > Jip ... ssh, apache, postfix, popa3d ... come to think of it ... all the candy > is available ...

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 21:51:26 schrieb Danny: > Hi guys, > > I am afraid my happiness was short lived. To test if the deletion of the > file (and the effects thereof) would be permanent I rebooted the system and > consequently found another file (same size, same random lettering) booted > u

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Danny
> A stab in the dark, but is it possible this machine has services exposed to > the internet, and you'd not applied fixes against the recent shellshock bug? > Jip ... ssh, apache, postfix, popa3d ... come to think of it ... all the candy is available ... lol ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Danny
Hi guys, I am afraid my happiness was short lived. To test if the deletion of the file (and the effects thereof) would be permanent I rebooted the system and consequently found another file (same size, same random lettering) booted up with everything else. :( ... The culprit is well hidden and reg

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Glyn Astill
> From: Simon Brandmair >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 16:53 >Subject: Re: Have I been hacked? > > >On 01/06/2015 09:10 AM, Danny wrote: >[...] >> However, prior to this breakin, in early December 2014, I noticed my network &g

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Simon Brandmair
On 01/06/2015 09:10 AM, Danny wrote: [...] > However, prior to this breakin, in early December 2014, I noticed my network > behaving strangely especially through wireless connections. [...] I can't give you any input on your specific problem. But here is a pointer from the Securing Debian Manual (

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread berenger . morel
Le 06.01.2015 19:04, Danny a écrit : However, I have a few other weird looking files in the /boot directory. Can you guys please have a look at them and tell me if they are normal or not. # drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jan 6 19:35 . drw

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 20:04:56 schrieb Danny: > Hi guys, Hi Danny! > A while ago I posted a question about SFTP (I think the thread name was > "SFTP Question") about attacks I got against my server after syslog warned > me about an attempted breakin. > > Consequently I installed fail2ban

Have I been hacked?

2015-01-06 Thread Danny
Hi guys, A while ago I posted a question about SFTP (I think the thread name was "SFTP Question") about attacks I got against my server after syslog warned me about an attempted breakin. Consequently I installed fail2ban and did a few other things to let me sleep better at night. However, prior

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
put a "cron job" that rewrites my > .htaccess from time to time! :) > > Anyone else saw this problem? At the Google forum there's a link it can help you with this: http://www.mastermindblogger.com/2011/14-ways-to-prevent-your-wordpress-blog-from-being-hacked/ So I g

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-23 Thread Go Linux
--- On Thu, 8/23/12, shthead wrote: > From: shthead > Subject: Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 1:27 AM > On 23/08/2012 3:32 AM, Dr Beco > wrote: > > One of my sites,

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-23 Thread shthead
On 23/08/2012 3:32 AM, Dr Beco wrote: One of my sites, that has joomla (and not wordpress) also got hacked (again). Is your Joomla along with all components/skins etc. up to date? Many of the hacked sites I look at are not up to date. " the sysadmin told me that there was a php s

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Dr Beco wrote: > For this system I don't have root access. It is managed abroad by a > "host farm". I already wrote to them to report the (second) problem. I suggest you take your business elsewhere. You don't want to risk your name/site/domain being associated with criminals

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-22 Thread Dr Beco
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:41:59 -0300: > > If you have root access, try to use chattr to mark that file as > immutable (chattr +i). > > But really, if they keep changing your .htaccess, it means they have > compromised the box, and will remain compromising it until you clean

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Dr Beco wrote: > Does anyone knows how to protect against unauthorized change of .htaccess? If you have root access, try to use chattr to mark that file as immutable (chattr +i). But really, if they keep changing your .htaccess, it means they have compromised the box, and wil

Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-22 Thread Dr Beco
Dear debianusers, Does anyone knows how to protect against unauthorized change of .htaccess? I googled the "htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9 redirect problem" and found out that a lot of sites (mainly using wordpress) got hacked and is redirected to a russian site. One of my sites

Re: Hacked e-mail account!

2012-02-06 Thread Camaleón
Marc Shapiro gmail.com> writes: > On 02/06/12 06:56, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:24 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >> It looks like my Yahoo mail got hacked. Several e-mails were sent out > >> earlier today from this account containing on

Re: Hacked e-mail account!

2012-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 02/06/12 06:56, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:24 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: It looks like my Yahoo mail got hacked. Several e-mails were sent out earlier today from this account containing only a single link as content. I have no idea what the link goes to, but do not click on

Re: Hacked e-mail account!

2012-02-06 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:24 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > It looks like my Yahoo mail got hacked.  Several e-mails were sent out > earlier today from this account containing only a single link as > content.  I have no idea what the link goes to, but do not click on it.  > Nothing good

Re: Hacked e-mail account!

2012-02-06 Thread hvw59601
Marc Shapiro wrote: It looks like my Yahoo mail got hacked. Several e-mails were sent out earlier today from this account containing only a single link as content. I have no idea what the link goes to, but do not click on it. Nothing good can come of it. I will be changing my password as

Re: SOLVED Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-31 Thread Richard
On Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:39:57 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 31 dec 11, 10:55:04, Richard wrote: > > > > > The upgrade does not leave the installed nvidia 290 intact NAUGHTY ! > > the proprietary Nvidia driver has to be reloaded. > > I'm guessing you are not using the Debian packaged nvi

Re: SOLVED Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 31 dec 11, 10:55:04, Richard wrote: > > > The upgrade does not leave the installed nvidia 290 intact NAUGHTY ! > the proprietary Nvidia driver has to be reloaded. I'm guessing you are not using the Debian packaged nvidia driver, otherwise you wouldn't get such issues. More generally, w

SOLVED Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-31 Thread Richard
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:05:16 + Richard wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:43:15 + > Joe wrote: > > > > > I upgraded from sid all of gnome to 3.2.1 , gnome-shell 3.2.1-8 > > > Now it runs in fall back mode only, has anyone else found this ? > > > I've tried looking in /var/log/gdm3, but it

Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-30 Thread Richard
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:43:15 + Joe wrote: > > I upgraded from sid all of gnome to 3.2.1 , gnome-shell 3.2.1-8 > > Now it runs in fall back mode only, has anyone else found this ? > > I've tried looking in /var/log/gdm3, but its like looking in a > > haystack for a needle. ideas please > > Y

Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-30 Thread Joe
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:04:27 + Richard wrote: > Hi > just got blasted by the list politzi for posting on deb-boot. > I re-enabled sid after a complete reload of wheezy to make sure my > ex-friend could load without problems all the Ham apps he uses. > After doing all the work for him , he sa

Re: getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-30 Thread hvw59601
Richard wrote: Hi just got blasted by the list politzi for posting on deb-boot. You posted to linux.debian.devel.boot on a subject that has nothing to do with Debian boot development and were told so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

getting very hacked off debian-nimby

2011-12-30 Thread Richard
Hi just got blasted by the list politzi for posting on deb-boot. I re-enabled sid after a complete reload of wheezy to make sure my ex-friend could load without problems all the Ham apps he uses. After doing all the work for him , he says he's read the debian is no good as it needs lots of patche

Re: is this result of keylogger? am i hacked?

2011-11-26 Thread Sergey Spiridonov
Hi 21.07.2010 14:39, Sergey Spiridonov пишет: > I found yesterday that some files in /etc/ (/etc/shells and > /etc/default/default/schroot) are changed. They contain data which I was > typing on keyboard. Strange enough, this files are not overwritten, but > contain data they should contain + some

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 09:13 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 05:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/04/2011 01:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we wouldn't be here using using computers and (whe

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On 04/04/2011 05:27 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/2011 01:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we >>> wouldn't be here using using computers and (where it's hot) availing >>> ourselve

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 01:46 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we wouldn't be here using using computers and (where it's hot) availing ourselves of air conditioning. ...what's air conditioning? Yeste

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On 04/03/2011 12:19 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > Any expanding civilization engages in Cultural Imperialism. W/o it, we > wouldn't be here using using computers and (where it's hot) availing > ourselves of air conditioning. ...what's air conditioning? Yesterday, it was 42°C and windy, I just opened

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Lisi, Am 2011-04-01 10:17:42, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > > > 04/01/11 ! > > What does the 4th of January have to do with it?? > Perhaps on an international list we should say the month names as Liam has > here. Otherwise one is playing guessing games to work out the upbringing o

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:05:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/2011 09:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: > A Spaniard would be vaguely familiar with the concept ;-) And I'd have to say that *sadly* (IMO, nothing to be proud about) yes, we do are ;-( >>> Any expanding civiliza

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/04/2011 09:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:19:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/03/2011 07:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: What part of "Cultural Imperialism" don't you understand??? :) A Spaniard would be vaguely familiar with the concept ;-) And I'd have to say that *sadl

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:19:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/03/2011 07:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: What part of "Cultural Imperialism" don't you understand??? :) >>> A Spaniard would be vaguely familiar with the concept ;-) >> >> And I'd have to say that *sadly* (IMO, nothi

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 12:35 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:10, Ron Johnson wrote: handwriting What's that? Something that some American schools still teach to children. -- "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people w

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:10, Ron Johnson wrote: > > handwriting What's that? Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/banlktinfdxr+2w

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 02:06, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Out of curiosity - I've attached a (tiny) screenscrape of how a post > appears in Thunderbird (yeah I know, but the rest of things are Debian). > I guess the date format on the left is from the list, and the one on the > right is from my syst

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 07:18 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:19:49 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-02, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: --- SNIP --- Here in Spain we celebrate it on December 28th instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Othe

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/03/2011 04:24 AM, Heddle Weaver wrote: [snip] The logical progression, in the English language and not the American dialect, is 'day' of the 'month' of the specified 'year'. dd/mm/yy. This is obvious. Only obvious if you've grown up that way. However, "3 Jan 2011" *slightly* reduces con

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:19:49 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-04-02, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/01/2011 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: > --- SNIP --- >>> Here in Spain we celebrate it on December 28th instead. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Other_prank_days_in_the_world >>

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 April 2011 10:06:39 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/04/11 16:54, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 03 April 2011 01:20:10 Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> I suspect Liam's response was made in jest :-) > > > > I'm sure it was - and a successful jest. But mine was not. In that > > case, context made

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 3 April 2011 19:06, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 03/04/11 16:54, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 03 April 2011 01:20:10 Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> I suspect Liam's response was made in jest :-) > > > > I'm sure it was - and a successful jest. But mine was not. In that > case, > > context made the dat

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-03 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/04/11 16:54, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2011 01:20:10 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> I suspect Liam's response was made in jest :-) > > I'm sure it was - and a successful jest. But mine was not. In that case, > context made the date's form redundant, but it _is_ a problem. Not major >

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 03 April 2011 01:20:10 Scott Ferguson wrote: > I suspect Liam's response was made in jest :-) I'm sure it was - and a successful jest. But mine was not. In that case, context made the date's form redundant, but it _is_ a problem. Not major one, a very minor one. But a problem - an

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/04/11 23:35, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:23:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Why not use the Debian standard?? ^ It *was* a question, and I *was* soliciting an answer. >> Reasoning - it's already been extensively debated *and* voted on, it's a >> system already

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 06:31 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In<4d96a8c3.9080...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) and *monumentally shortsighted* (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). What ma

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d96a8c3.9080...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck >says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) >and *monumentally shortsighted* >(did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). What makes you say this is UNIX time? The UNIX standard pro

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:23:31PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Why not use the Debian standard?? > Reasoning - it's already been extensively debated *and* voted on, it's a > system already in place, it's the "Debian" way. > > (Is there more than one (Debian standard)?) > > >From :- > http://www.

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-02 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 02 April 2011 12:18:03 Simon Hollenbach wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl > > wrote: > > It's neither a hack nor a joke.  See our announcement at > > http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110401 > > In my eyes that's the only thing you cant do on 1st April

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 12:45 AM, Doug wrote: On 04/02/2011 12:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) and *monumentally shortsighted* (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). OpenVMS does it one of the two R

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/02/2011 12:18 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/04/11 15:40, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 11:17 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson [snip] Why not use the Debian standard?? day-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-02 Thread Simon Hollenbach
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: > > It's neither a hack nor a joke.  See our announcement at > http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110401 > In my eyes that's the only thing you cant do on 1st April, state that your prank aint one. Followed up by a "Head of Executive

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-04-02, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/01/2011 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: --- SNIP --- >> Here in Spain we celebrate it on December 28th instead. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Other_prank_days_in_the_world >> > > What part of "Cultural Imperialism" don't you understand???

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Doug
On 04/02/2011 12:40 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: I've always thought that Unix Time is *incredibly stupid* (who the heck says "Fri Apr 1 23:27:41 CDT 2011"?) and *monumentally shortsighted* (did nothing happen before 01-Jan-1970?). OpenVMS does it one of the two Right Ways of displaying time (01

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/04/11 15:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/01/2011 11:17 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson > [snip] Why not use the Debian standard?? day-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss + >>> >>> Too verbose,

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 11:17 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson [snip] Why not use the Debian standard?? day-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss + Too verbose, not sortable Cheers, Kelly Clowers So... the RFC standards

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/04/11 14:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 02/04/11 13:50, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 07:12, green wrote: Aaron Toponce wrote at 2011-04-01 08:11 -0500: > For international mailing lists, if you stick with IS

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 04:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> Why not use the Debian standard?? >>day-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss + ISO format available. -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 20:23, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/04/11 13:50, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 07:12, green wrote: >>> Aaron Toponce wrote at 2011-04-01 08:11 -0500: For international mailing lists, if you stick with ISO 8601, there should be no ambiguity in the

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/04/11 13:50, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 07:12, green wrote: >> Aaron Toponce wrote at 2011-04-01 08:11 -0500: >>> For international mailing lists, if you stick with ISO 8601, there should >>> be no ambiguity in the date: >>> >>> 2011-04-01 or 20110401 is defined as Apr

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 07:12, green wrote: > Aaron Toponce wrote at 2011-04-01 08:11 -0500: >> For international mailing lists, if you stick with ISO 8601, there should >> be no ambiguity in the date: >> >>     2011-04-01 or 20110401 is defined as April 1, 2011, or truncated as >>     11-04-01 or

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 08:09 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On 04/01/2011 04:17 AM, Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-01, Freeman wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, right now, the Official Debian site seems hack

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > What part of "Cultural Imperialism" don't you understand? Yes. Those northern European can be pretty pushy, can't they? Good to see that the Spaniards have been able to hold to the old ways. (see the subject line for a hint). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On 04/01/2011 04:17 AM, Lisi wrote: > On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2011-04-01, Freeman wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 05:16:37AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >>>> Hello List, >>>> >>>> right n

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 02:18 PM, Freeman wrote: [snip] Well, ISO dates are the best. And *all* the cultures of the world are magnificent. No, not *all* of the cultures of the world are magnificent. In fact, there's pretty hard evidence that some of them really suck. But that's getting way

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 02/04/11 05:17, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110401_051637, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> right now, the Official Debian site seems hacked by The Canterbury >> Distribution. >> >> I guess it is a joke. > > Apparently not a joke. >

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 08:11 AM, Aaron Toponce wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:01:41PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 01/04/11 20:17, Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-04-01, Freeman wrote: 04/01/11 ! What does the 4th of January have to do with it??

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/01/2011 07:20 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 10:17:42 +0100, Lisi wrote: On Friday 01 April 2011 10:05:54 Liam O'Toole wrote: I guess it is a joke. 04/01/11 ! What does the 4th of January have to do with it?? Perhaps on an international list we should say the month n

Re: Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Luís Bandarra
Em 19:59, Nate Bargmann escreveu: > * On 2011 01 Apr 07:49 -0500, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> The community distributions have already worked close together and >> coordinated >> the solution of common issues, e.g., the top-level "/run" directory, see >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/de

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
tv.deb...@googlemail.com: > > On Sid: > > aptitude show cant > > Paquet : cant > État: non installé > Version : 0.8.15-1 > Priorité : supplémentaire > Section : admin > Responsable : Alexander Reichle-Schmehl This installs the following shell script as /usr/bin/cant: |#!/bin/bash | |args=(${@

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