Better still, do yourself a service and learn Linux and forget about
Wincrap.
Howard.
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LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Nelson N wrote:
> Hi, it is redhat 6.0 with sendmail 8.9.3 (i think). We ended up with a linux
> box, with nobody here who new anything about it because a linux cost us
> $1000 to get running while a winblows box would have cost $3000 (or so with
> lincensing etc), i was trying to convince them that winblows would be the
> better option in our situation but its all about the dollar, and the offical
> reason i got for going with linux "once its set up we wont need to touch
> it"... they are clueless. so... well i guess ill pass the responsibility
> back UP to management :)
>
> nelson
>
> >
> > You don't say what distribution of Linus you have installed. If it is
> > Redhat any earlier then the current 6.1 and if you have not disabled these
> > serb=vices which you do not want then you have a system that is wide open
> > to compromise, which you probably have already had done anyway.
> >
> > If you don't know how to run Linux then you should pay for expert
> > assistance before connecting it to the net. Linux is much stronger then
> > Windows but for the same reason it can be more dangerous in inexperienced
> > hands.
> >
> > Howard.
> > ______________________________________________________
> > LANNet Computing Associates <http://www.lannet.com.au>
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Nelson N wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, we've got a linux machine between our lan and the net which
> > is runnning
> > > all our services, ip masq and sendmail basically.. since i dont
> > know jack
> > > all about linux (yet) i hardly ever touch the machine. this
> > morning i logged
> > > on to be kindly notified that root account has new mail, 2400
> > odd emails in
> > > fact, all msg's from Mailer-Daemon with Subject "Returned mail: User
> > > unknown". there is a rather large amount of spam being
> > distributed via our
> > > server and bandwidth, naturally this is giving me shits esp
> > because i dont
> > > know how to stop it (besides the off switch) any quick fix would be
> > > appreciated till i get a chance to read up and fix it properly..
> > >
> > > thanx
> > > nelson
> > >
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