[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 11.04 Release Schedule Changed, Second Beta Announced

2011-02-10 Thread Marius Nestor
Ubuntu release team, through Kate Stewart, announced today (February 11th) that the release schedule for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system has been changed. Therefore, there will be no Release Candidate version! It was replaced with a Beta 2 release, scheduled for April

[ubuntu-in] [X Post] Canonical Releases World’s Largest Component Catalog for Linux

2011-02-10 Thread thereader
FYI Sent to you by thereader via Google Reader: Canonical Releases World’s Largest Component Catalog for Linux via Softpedia News - Linux by Softpedia News (Marius Nestor) on 2/10/11 Canonical announced a few minutes ago, February 10th, that it just made publicly available its entire database of

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall Rules and problems being reported by rkhunter & chkrootkit

2011-02-10 Thread Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್)
I am not a security expert but would like to give my suggestions. On 02/10/2011 06:07 AM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: Hi Some days back i posted a problem / warnings reported by chkrootkit A port 4000 came up with this error message Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 4000) You can check your sy

[ubuntu-in] GNUnify 2011 : 11th Feb & 12th Feb

2011-02-10 Thread Nandan Vaidya
Hey folks, Just a heads up, at SICSR in Pune, GNUnify '11 will be held tomorrow and day after, i.e. 11th Feb and 12th Feb. I am going to attend so I thought, I'd share ! http://gnunify.in/ Have a look at the talks: http://gnunify.in/11th-feb-2011 http://gnunify.in/12th-feb-2011 P.S. was going t

Re: [ubuntu-in] Firewall Rules and problems being reported by rkhunter & chkrootkit

2011-02-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > one suggestion i got was to deny inbound traffic > > how does one do that > > in firestarter it only provides options to allow inbound traffic not deny ?? > so i figured out firestarter and have these rules in place inbound allow bittorrent -

[ubuntu-in] Firewall Rules and problems being reported by rkhunter & chkrootkit

2011-02-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi Some days back i posted a problem / warnings reported by chkrootkit A port 4000 came up with this error message Checking `bindshell'... INFECTED (PORTS: 4000) I also ran rkhunter these were the "warnings" i got [11:03:54] /usr/sbin/unhide [ Warning ] [11:03:54] Warning: The file '/usr/sbin