Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] test, if module was loaded with module option?
On 12/29/2008 02:32 PM, Marc Blumentritt wrote: is there a general way to test, if a kernel module was loaded with a module option and which module options were used? There is at least /sys/module/modulname/parameters/parametername If there is nothing else, one could at least compare each parameter to its default value or something like that. Attention, not everything in /sys/module _is_ a module, seems more like everything that is or _could_ be a module is there. If the moduleoption was set when booting, one could of course use /proc/cmdline, but I think that might be not exactly what you want. -cf signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Awesome vs Xmonad
On 12/17/2008 05:51 AM, Man Shankar wrote: I want to try out the tiling window managers. If you're not already fixed to Awesome or Xmonad you might also want to have a look at ion. [1] I am using it on my notebook which has a relatively small screen resolution of 1024x768, so most time I was rearranging windows to see two or more at once. Since I use ion3 there (which I learned to use very fast) work was sped up considerably. -cf [1] http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...
On 12/03/2008 09:02 PM, Steve wrote: I've recently discovered a curious pattern emerging in my system log with failed login attempts via ssh. I'm not particularly concerned - since I'm confident that all my users have strong passwords... but it strikes me that this data identifies a bot-net that is clearly malicious attempting to break passwords. Sure, I could use IPtables to block all these bad ports... or... I could disable password authentication entirely... but I keep thinking that there has to be something better I can do... any suggestions? Is there a simple way to integrate a block-list of known-compromised hosts into IPtables - rather like my postfix is configured to drop connections from known spam sources from the sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org DNS block list, for example. I just don't see what blocking ssh-bruteforce attempts should be good for, at least on a server where few _users_ are active. The chance that security of a well configured system will be compromised by that is next to zero, and on recent systems it is also impossible to cause significant load with ssh-login-attempts. Also, things like fail2ban add new attack-possibilities to a system, I remember the old DoS for fail2ban, resulting from a wrong regex in log file parsing, but I think at least this is fixed now. Regards, Christian Franke signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] udevinfo - where is it
On 10/23/2008 12:29 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I have a recent GenToo system (udev-130-r1) but I cannot find the utility 'udevinfo' Which package contains it? With my udev-124-r1 it is in the udev package. But /usr/bin/udevinfo is just a symlink to /sbin/udevadm, so maybe you should look for the latter. Add: Just built 130-r1. In the messages for it is: If you build an initramfs including udev, then please make sure that the /sbin/udevadm binary gets included, and your scripts changed to use it, as it replaces the old helper apps udevinfo, udevtrigger, ... Regards, Christian Franke signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.
On 09/12/2008 12:55 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:42:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote: Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I think. Use Gmail rather. It's cheaper - can't get cheaper than free - and just works better. I second the Gmail suggestion, though Yahoo does provide free POP access as it happens (I have it). I use Yahoo (with POP) only because I do not want my email address to change. What has to be added about this: getting a POP or SMTP connection with SSL as transport is kind of gambling on Yahoo's servers, at least in Germany. My logic for seconding the suggestion is I have recently experienced e-mails from my server going missing after entering the Yahoo system. They are the ONLY email provider where this has happened to me. This comes from Yahoo's spam policies and their idea of defending spam. They send '451 Message temporarily deferred' to all not white-listed mail servers, which results either in a very long time for delivery or in the mail not being delivered at all. [1,2,Personal Experience] To put it in a nutshell, I would prefer gmail over Yahoo-mail, even if there are some discussions about privacy issues with gmail. [1] http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/postmaster-25.html [2] http://www.ahfx.net/weblog.php?article=107 Best Regards, Christian Franke signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
