Re: [expert] mounting "win2000" ntfs partitions

2002-07-27 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, civileme uttered these words of wisdom: >To all of your others out there, it is no kidding DEADLY to install >windows second. My recovery here was not for the faint of heart--23 >partitions on two hdds were thoroughly scrambled by XP renumbering. I >had to rescue boot and

Re: [expert] Diagnosing server problems and screwing up threads...

2002-07-27 Thread g
greetings hop along, Hopper wrote: > > Regarding Samba and Winbind again: I've killed my server. you have also distorted an e-mail post thread. email contains what is called a 'header'. in header, along with all that is in an email header, is what is know as 'references:'. 'references:' does j

[expert] lsb dependency on wu-ftpd

2002-07-27 Thread David Relson
Greetigns, Out of curiosity, I started to install the lsb package and discovered that it is dependent on wu-ftpd. I have proftpd installed as my preferred daemon and don't want wu-ftpd. Can the requirement for an ftp daemon be made more flexible? Thanks. David -

[expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Guntner
Hi, This morning, I ran chkrootkit on my ML 8.2 system, and everything turned up with the usual "nothing found" message, except the last one. It came up: Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} and {time} (The "{time}" is just me saving myself some typing -

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread civileme
David Guntner wrote: >Hi, > >This morning, I ran chkrootkit on my ML 8.2 system, and everything turned >up with the usual "nothing found" message, except the last one. It came >up: > >Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} >and {time} > >(The "{time}" is jus

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
David Guntner wrote: > > Hi, > > This morning, I ran chkrootkit on my ML 8.2 system, and everything turned > up with the usual "nothing found" message, except the last one. It came > up: > > Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} > and {time} > > (The "{time

[expert] how to acknowledge changes to msec

2002-07-27 Thread gikoreno
Hello everyone! This is a repost from the newbie list, so sorry about that, but I haven't had any replies to this yet. When I look into /var/log/messages I get various of the following: "Security Warning: There are modifications for port listening on your machine :" "Security Warning: These pa

[expert] Quota on XFS problems

2002-07-27 Thread gikoreno
Hello everyone, This is a repost from the newbie list, so sorry about that, I haven't had a reply yet. I am running LM 8.2, and all my partitions are XFS. I am also running the system with msec level 5. The machine's Kernel is : kernel-secure-2.4.18.8 Today I setup quotas for my users. I added

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Guntner
civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner wrote: > > > >Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} > >and {time} > > > >Question: Based on this, is my system likely to have been compromised or > >not? For that matter, what's wted? > > wted -- wtm

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Oberbeck
On Saturday 27 July 2002 14:18, David Guntner Wrote Thusly: > civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > David Guntner wrote: > > >Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between > > > {time} and {time} > > > > > >Question: Based on this, is my system likely to have been compro

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Guntner
David Oberbeck grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Saturday 27 July 2002 14:18, David Guntner Wrote Thusly: >> >> Any other thoughts on the subject? Or is it just time to "push the >> button, Max?" (Probably no one will get the joke, but I'm sure you >> understand the meaning... :) > > Up Ma

[expert] KDE:(re)starting artsd gracefully: How?

2002-07-27 Thread Chuck Shirley
Hi Experts, I have some important software that I use that is un-aware of the arts, (Okay, I admit, it's games, sue me... :^) )so to use it with KDE3, I have a script linked to a desktop Icon to stop the artsd if it is running, and start it if it is not running. Is there an official way to s

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread civileme
David Guntner wrote: >civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >>David Guntner wrote: >> >>>Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} >>>and {time} >>> >>>Question: Based on this, is my system likely to have been compromised or >>>not? For that matter, what's w

Re: [expert] KDE:(re)starting artsd gracefully: How?

2002-07-27 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:10:13 -0400 Chuck Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Experts, > > I have some important software that I use that is un-aware of the > arts, (Okay, I admit, it's games, sue me... :^) )so to use it with > KDE3, I have a script linked to a desktop Icon to stop the arts

Re: Maxtor 4G120J6 okay? (was: Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB

2002-07-27 Thread dfox
> I think it meant the diskdrives die soon if they are in a power-on state > for more than eight hours a day. That is what I have heard at least, Well, my IBM Deskstar has been in such a state since about October of 2000. :) I suppose the advisory only applies to newer drives, then. > -Chuck

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread James Sparenberg
David If you find Tripwire a bit much to install you might look at Snort (from freshmeat) it's a little less of a hassle to install and is on par with the free version of TripWire. James On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:52:00 -0700 (PDT) "David Guntner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Oberbeck

Re: [expert] how to acknowledge changes to msec

2002-07-27 Thread Todd Lyons
gikoreno wrote on Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 03:50:43PM -0400 : > > When I look into /var/log/messages I get various of the following: > "Security Warning: There are modifications for port listening on your machine :" A system that is under some load will list false listening ports because some proces

Re: [expert] how to acknowledge changes to msec

2002-07-27 Thread gikoreno
Thanks Todd, I'll keep that in mind (hadn't thought about it). gikoreno --- On Sun 07/28, Todd Lyons < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Todd Lyons [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 23:33:29 -0700 Subject: Re: [expert] how to acknowledge changes to msec

[expert] quota patch in kernel?

2002-07-27 Thread gikoreno
Hi everyone: I looked in the XFS (SGI) mailing lists and found the following links to be useful: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=101697728801467&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=101701227031491&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=101701969005112&w=2 http://

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Guntner
civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > Well, you noted I was very terse in my message. I hate to be the bearer > of bad news. But first try > Put in CD#1 > cd /mnt/cdrom > rpm -ivh --force basesystem-8.2-1mdk.i586.rpm > > This will generally blow away anything done to /bin /sbin or /lib >