Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

2011-09-14 Thread Stuart Sears
On 14/09/11 02:50, Mike Burrows wrote: > The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder, doesn't > have to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just > make the folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod > g+w /home/ftp Either UID or GID wri

Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

2011-09-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:06:19 +0100 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Hello James, > I have one of those. She puts a gold ring on my finger. It looks > harmless enough, but I am sure it forces me to say yes to everything! There is only The One Ring. ;-) -- Regards _ / ) "The

[Hampshire] BIOS infecting root kit

2011-09-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Hi, With the news today about the virus that infects the BIOS, it got me thinking about what would need to happen to fix this. 1) Detection The BIOS infection is quite easy to detect by just doing a checksum on the memory locations the BIOS occupies. 2) Virus vector Some older Motherboards require

Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

2011-09-14 Thread Mike Burrows
On 9/14/11 11:10 AM, Ian Grody wrote: On Wednesday 14 September 2011 02:50:48 Mike Burrows wrote: The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder, doesn't have to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just make the folder writeable to that group, chown :vsft

Re: [Hampshire] lurker archive broken

2011-09-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 01:59:49PM +0100, Tony Whitmore wrote: > On 08.09.2011 13:55, Andy Smith wrote: >> Not sure if whoever looks after it is aware, but >> http://www.hantslug.org.uk/lurker/list/hampshire.en.html seems a >> little broken (many links give an error) and isn't up to date.. > > Yeah

Re: [Hampshire] vsftpd confusion

2011-09-14 Thread Ian Grody
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 02:50:48 Mike Burrows wrote: > The owner or group ID of vsftp must be writeable to that folder, doesn't > have to be 666/777, but say vsftp user is vsftp and group is vsftp, just > make the folder writeable to that group, chown :vsftp /home/ftp; chmod > g+w /home/ftp

Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

2011-09-14 Thread Ian Grody
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 15:09:57 Ian Park wrote: > I've been running firewall distributions for a good few years now on an > old Compaq low profile box (Pentium III, 500 MHz) which I bought from > Jamie's. I started with Smoothwall v2.0, and added extra RAM when I > upgraded to Smoothwall v3

Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

2011-09-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 14 September 2011 16:59, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 14 September 2011 16:51:58 Ian Park wrote: >>  She Who Must Be Obeyed would get upset >> if we lost the internet connection while I changed over the existing box >> from IPCop to IPFire > > Doesn't she go out?? > > Lisi > I have one of those.

Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

2011-09-14 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 14 September 2011 16:51, Ian Park wrote: > On 14/09/11 16:33, WESEMEYER STEPHEN wrote: >> Hi Ian, >> >> >> On 14 September 2011 15:09, Ian Park > > wrote: >> >>     I've been running firewall distributions for a good few years now on an >>     old Compaq low prof

Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

2011-09-14 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 14 September 2011 16:51:58 Ian Park wrote: > She Who Must Be Obeyed would get upset > if we lost the internet connection while I changed over the existing box > from IPCop to IPFire Doesn't she go out?? Lisi -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mai

Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

2011-09-14 Thread Ian Park
On 14/09/11 16:33, WESEMEYER STEPHEN wrote: > Hi Ian, > > > On 14 September 2011 15:09, Ian Park > wrote: > > I've been running firewall distributions for a good few years now on an > old Compaq low profile box (Pentium III, 500 MHz) which I bought from >

Re: [Hampshire] Firewall distributions

2011-09-14 Thread WESEMEYER STEPHEN
Hi Ian, On 14 September 2011 15:09, Ian Park wrote: > I've been running firewall distributions for a good few years now on an > old Compaq low profile box (Pentium III, 500 MHz) which I bought from > Jamie's. I started with Smoothwall v2.0, and added extra RAM when I > upgraded to Smoothwall v3

[Hampshire] Firewall distributions

2011-09-14 Thread Ian Park
I've been running firewall distributions for a good few years now on an old Compaq low profile box (Pentium III, 500 MHz) which I bought from Jamie's. I started with Smoothwall v2.0, and added extra RAM when I upgraded to Smoothwall v3.0; it now has 512MB RAM and a 6.3GB HDD. About a year ago, an

Re: [Hampshire] extracting phrases from a file.

2011-09-14 Thread David Anderson
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:17:44 +0100 James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi. > > I have a large file that contains snips of http pages. > Each line is like this: > some junk. > > I want extract the "some url" bits. I.e. Remove the href. > You can probably do this quite easily in perl. > Are th