Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-22 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > If you trust floppies, I guess it's fine. Just write protect it. Or boot and remove it. Duplicates are cheap for those who are concerned with their impermanence. -- Cheers John Summerfield http://www2.ami.com.au/ for OS/2 & linux information. Configuration,

Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Petro
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 06:00:42AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > ipfwadm is the firewalling tool for Linux. > ipfwadm has not been the firewalling tool for Linux since kernel 2.2 came out > - just after RHL 5.2. Gah., You're right. I haven't used linux fo

Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-20 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > ipfwadm is the firewalling tool for Linux. ipfwadm has not been the firewalling tool for Linux since kernel 2.2 came out - just after RHL 5.2. > As for my opinion, again, if you are using this for a desktop > workstation, forget it. A firewall should be a machine t

Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-20 Thread John Summerfield
> Hi all. Finally found a reason to post after half lurking on the list. > =P > > Can anyone suggest to install and where I can learn about how to run it > A friend of mine suggested TCPwrapers and Tripwire. But I was wondering > if there were other things also I should look into

Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-20 Thread Chris Petro
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:58:45AM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: > On Wednesday 14 March 2001 16:45, you wrote: > > Hi all. Finally found a reason to post after half lurking on the list. > > Can anyone suggest to install and where I can learn about how to run it > > A friend of mine suggested

Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-20 Thread Mario Torre
On Wednesday 14 March 2001 16:45, you wrote: > Hi all. Finally found a reason to post after half lurking on the list. > =P > > Can anyone suggest to install and where I can learn about how to run it > A friend of mine suggested TCPwrapers and Tripwire. But I was wondering > if there w

Re: building a 'safer' box

2001-03-19 Thread Thornton Prime
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, vergel wrote: > I'm going to use PPPoE to connect to the net. And even on my win box > using Zone Alarm I get people randomly scanning ports and stuff Is > there something I can build on the Linux box that will keep me alerted about > stuff like that? What would be

building a 'safer' box

2001-03-19 Thread vergel
Hi all. Finally found a reason to post after half lurking on the list. =P Can anyone suggest to install and where I can learn about how to run it A friend of mine suggested TCPwrapers and Tripwire. But I was wondering if there were other things also I should look into.. I'm goin