Re: How do you test your router/firewall for security?

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Cook
Thanks for the responses. I feel much better after having done some testing over the weekend. The various test sites show that my Actiontec DSL modem/router responds that the ports are closed, although a few ports don't respond at all. These are ports 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 412, and 445,

Re: GNHLUG picnic on Sat, 23 Aug

2003-08-14 Thread K1VP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone interested in attending a GNHLUG picnic on Saturday 23 Aug? There's been next to no discussion so far! Gail and I were planning on coming. Gail would come anytime to see THE Horse. But I'm having problems coming up with activities to keep the geeks

OT: Fox Trot

2003-08-14 Thread Michael Costolo
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Re: bootp server

2003-08-14 Thread ken
But I don't want a whole directory, I just need one file.. I'm trying to follow this: http://www.freevix.org/docs/pxe.html but I can't run a DHCP server because it will conflict with my ISPs DHCP server.. It's been a while since I fooled 'round with bootp, so I -may- be mistaken... but we'll

Re: term program?

2003-08-14 Thread Tom Buskey
Tom Buskey wrote: I've always liked kermit (ckermit). It runs on *everything*. More systems then zip/unzip and almost as many as Hello, world!. Yep. I used Kermit quite extensively back in the day when I was dialing into various UNIX and mainframe hosts with a 2400bps modem on my Mac

Re: need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 15:47, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ls -l [0-9]*/cwd | grep dir of interest Two comments: 1: This gives false positives in the following scenario: /dir/of/interest /dir/of/interest/just/kidding/ha/ha ah,

RE: Mediabox dist?

2003-08-14 Thread Derek Doucette
It is the complete player. I messed around with it on a desktop because I was looking into making a media PC, but never put together the money for it. If you are looking for a small distro, check out www.freevix.org. It is a small distro designed to use with freevo. I haven't messed with that

RE: Spam works... and that's the crux of the problem

2003-08-14 Thread Stephen Ingham
Well now we know that spam works, the real mystery is does the *product* work? Does it really matter if it works or not? As long as people are willing to pay $50.00 for it? We are all going to get spammed again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But lsof -does- do it. For example: greenroom:/home/ken/Maildir/cur# pwd /home/ken/Maildir/cur greenroom:/home/ken/Maildir/cur# lsof | grep /home/ken/Maildir/cur lsof 12775 root [...] /home/ken/Maildir/cur grep 12776

RE: Mediabox dist?

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Roy
Yah, I was looking for something tiny. I have this nice little 750meg 2.5 drive that I pulled out of an old mac that works okay. Figured a nice small linux dist. and mount my big drive off the server for all the videos/mp3s that way I could fit it in a nice tiny case and keep it quiet. Is Freevo

[gnhlug-announce] SLUG meeting 8/11/03 at 7pm in Morse Hall room 301

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Anderson
The Topic is: Making Money With Open Source Software The next meeting is Monday 8/11/2003 at 7pm in Morse Hall room 301. Presenter: David J Berube (http://www.berubeconsulting.com) Free (as in speech) doesn't mean without profit; you can make money off open source software. Superior quality,

Re: Opinions on GSInet DSL and/or Actiontec DSL modem/router products

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Cook
FYI, I placed my order for GSInet DSL Wednesday, picked up the modem/router and signed the agreement Thursday, and Dunbarton Telephone was out today (Friday) to hook me up. All in less than 48 hours! Can Verizon even come close to that? As mentioned, static IP address and no reverse DNS. I

Re: gnome startup errors

2003-08-14 Thread Derek Doucette
While trying as you did to open a few apps from the command line that I could not using the gui I started to find some issues. One program I tried was gnome-background-properties. From the CL as root it opened fine, but not as my normal user. Here is the error I got, and i have seen some

Re: need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 11:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way I can find out what processes are 'sitting' in a directory? For example a program that has used chdir to get to a particular directory? I thought lsof would be able give me that info, but I am unable to find the

login ownership changes

2003-08-14 Thread tom fogal
Hey all, I've got a problem with permission changes on certain devices as I login. Generally, my problem is if a user logs in and there are no other users logged in at the time, a few devices in /dev become '-rw-- thatuser.users'. Specifically, the problems are /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer. When

Re: internationalization and localization

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Coutu
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:25, Derek Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anyone know of any /good/ references to i18n and the problems (and solutions) which lie therein? Let me state categorically that source code is NOT, IMO, a good reference to anything, other

Re: GNHLUG picnic on Sat, 23 Aug

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Sconce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone interested in attending a GNHLUG picnic on Saturday 23 Aug? There's been next to no discussion so far! Gail and I were planning on coming. Gail would come anytime to see THE Horse. But I'm having problems coming up with activities to keep the

Re: need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way I can find out what processes are 'sitting' in a directory? For example a program that has used chdir to get to a particular directory? I thought lsof would be able give me that info, but I am unable to find the correct option if it

GNHLUG picnic on Sat, 23 Aug

2003-08-14 Thread jbd
Is anyone interested in attending a GNHLUG picnic on Saturday 23 Aug? There's been next to no discussion so far! I'm trying to do planning for it, but have discovered that its enormously difficult to buy stuff for an undefined number of participants. So if you're planning on attending, please

Evolution 2

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Macdonald
There's a blog for it now at: http://codeblogs.ximian.com/blogs/evolution/ Of interest is this (note PGP stuff): Mail Jeff has implemented a new MIME parser in Camel which among other things can help us fix bug 17540 (i.e. add support for inline PGP). Michael has been cleaning up the mail

Maddog interview in eWeek

2003-08-14 Thread Greg Rundlett
Check out Maddog in this interview at eweek.com http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1212461,00.asp -Greg -- FREePHILE We are 'Open' for Business Free and Open Source Software http://www.freephile.com (978) 270-2425 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: Resources on reverse engineering?

2003-08-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
For figuring out what a linux program is/does, you'll use the following tools: * ldd - lists share libraries used by an executable * gdb - used to pick apart an executable at the assembly-language level * strings - used to extract the strings from a file. * nm - lists the symbols in a

Re: Spam works... and that's the crux of the problem

2003-08-14 Thread ken
Since Spam has been a recent topic, I thought I'd share this article about a business in Manchester that uses Spam: Wow. That is really bizarre. An honest state chess champion acting as the mastermind, his teenage sister filling the orders, and a former skinhead acting as the evildoing

Re: need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread ken
But lsof -does- do it. For example: greenroom:/home/ken/Maildir/cur# pwd /home/ken/Maildir/cur greenroom:/home/ken/Maildir/cur# lsof | grep /home/ken/Maildir/cur lsof 12775 root [...] /home/ken/Maildir/cur grep 12776 root [...] /home/ken/Maildir/cur lsof 12777 root [...]

need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Hi, Is there a way I can find out what processes are 'sitting' in a directory? For example a program that has used chdir to get to a particular directory? I thought lsof would be able give me that info, but I am unable to find the correct option if it can. TIA

Re: Comic Relief

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Andrew W. Gaunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/talent.asp Hey, I think I've worked with some of those guys! --kevin (who is still trying to get over the guy who, during an interview, asked to borrow my pen and then *started chewing on it*) --

Re: need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming you have permissions to see the files (try it as root to be sure), lsof should show you most everything. lsof -can- sometimes not work properly with, say, stale NFS handles, but that's when things start getting weird. Well, is a

Re: gnome startup errors

2003-08-14 Thread Derek Doucette
I came across some information after Dan gave me some ideas. It looks as though if I upgrade to the redhat 9 version of libgnomeui it will fix it, however if I want to do that I get stuck in some dependency hell. packages it wants are: Failed dependencies: GConf2 = 2.1.90 is needed by

Freevo/Freevix - Day one

2003-08-14 Thread Travis Roy
If you check out freevix, I would like to here how it worked out Okay! Well, it took me probably 5 hours to get from downloading to actually get it working. If I had more of a clue I probably would have had it working sooner. 1st problem was that I made the decision to do the network boot

GNU FTP server compromised

2003-08-14 Thread bscott
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 17:49:10 -0400 From: CERT Advisory [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CERT Advisory CA-2003-21 GNU Project FTP Server Compromise -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- CERT Advisory CA-2003-21 GNU Project FTP Server

How do you test your router/firewall for security?

2003-08-14 Thread Larry Cook
Now that I've moved to DSL, I was looking for ways to test the security of my router/firewall. I'm going to use ShieldsUp! (http://grc.com), but was wondering what other tools were available. When using a dialup connection, I felt pretty safe because of the seperation of my network and the

Re: internationalization and localization

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Coutu
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 11:25, Derek Martin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anyone know of any /good/ references to i18n and the problems (and solutions) which lie therein? A book that I've found very helpful is: Programming for the World by Sandra Martin O'Donnell --

Re: need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jeff Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ls -l [0-9]*/cwd | grep dir of interest Two comments: 1: This gives false positives in the following scenario: /dir/of/interest /dir/of/interest/just/kidding/ha/ha 2: Using lsof is more portable than using /proc directly. However,

Re: need help - processes and directories

2003-08-14 Thread michael . odonnell
Is there a way I can find out what processes are 'sitting' in a directory? For example a program that has used chdir to get to a particular directory? I thought lsof would be able give me that info, but I am unable to find the correct option if it can. for every PID of interest do

gnome startup errors

2003-08-14 Thread Derek Doucette
I have somehow broken something in gnome. Whenever I start X as gnome is loading gnome-panel, magicdev, metacity, and nautalis all segfault and then sometimes work again. I have noticed that some other programs will segfault as I try to start them, some only the first time I try to run them and

Re: gnome startup errors

2003-08-14 Thread Dan Coutu
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 00:34, Derek Doucette wrote: I have somehow broken something in gnome. Whenever I start X as gnome is loading gnome-panel, magicdev, metacity, and nautalis all segfault and then sometimes work again. I had this happen just a couple days ago after I used Ximian's

Re: How do you test your router/firewall for security?

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Brenton
Larry Cook wrote: Now that I've moved to DSL, I was looking for ways to test the security of my router/firewall. I'm going to use ShieldsUp! (http://grc.com), but was wondering what other tools were available. Tom's recommendation of having a friend poke your perimeter is probably your best

Re: How do you test your router/firewall for security?

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Stephenson
Pretty much what everyone else has said so far makes good sense to me. To paraphrase: 1) Do a nmap from outside your firewall to see what's open. 2) Even with dialup, you still need some kind of network protection. (After all, PPP, actually puts your machine on the 'net with its own, albeit

Re: Comic Relief

2003-08-14 Thread David Roberts
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Andrew W. Gaunt stated in their Email: Andrew From: Andrew W. Gaunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:09:55 -0400 Andrew Subject: Comic Relief Andrew Andrew Somehow this seems too real to be funny ;-) Andrew Andrew