On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:
"The servers are available with either HP-UX 11 or
the Linux operating system ... "
One more architecture in the fold (PA-RISC). One more vendor on our
side.
FWIW, I went to H/P's web site, and read up about these machines. As near
as I can tell,
Alas, I can't help out, as I'm tied up this weekend. Hope it goes
well for everyone up there.
jeff smith
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pass it along..
It's always nice to make friends over email.. :-P
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On Wed, 10 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Security will most likely consist of:
- turning off all "r" services (actually commenting out
everything in /etc/inetd.conf)
Just a general sysadmin question:
If everything in /etc/inetd.conf is going to be commented out,
why run inetd at
It is hard for me to figure out why you would want in execuitable in your
e-mail. Possibly as some kind of an animated joke? And, if needed, what
ever happened to Java script? Can Java script escape the sandbox? I
hope everyone has their Word and Excel macros turned off so you will be
warned.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff, I'm not sure I understand it completely, but I thought Karl's use of
Samba was for communications with VMware not access to Windows
filesystems in general.
When I've used Samba to, for example, serve files from a Windows
diskette across that network from a
SATAN is out-dated and has been replaced by SAINT (in some peoples minds
;-). I've built both several times on different systems. However, I'm
not overly impressed by either. My personal favorite security auditing
tool is Nessus (http://www.nessus.org). It has a nice GTK front-end,
it's
The real question is, how much more secure is a non-root Linux session
compared to a non-Administrator NT or Win95 session? I haven't studied
the specifics in detail but intuitively I'd bet there's a significant
difference, and
that it would manifest in the default Netscape behavior.
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
a couple of decades of architectural evolution. Hence there are some big
differences between platforms, and I doubt very much that Netscape on
Linux would be able to wreak the widespread destruction that it can on Windoze,
"James R. Van Zandt" wrote:
Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Found this:
http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html
They tally the current (approximate) total at over 12,000 authors, 25
million lines of code. They only include RH 6.1, Linux 2.2.14,
cryptography code at a site, and 50% of
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce McCulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(BTW, that reminds me of another
question, about getting data in and out of a VMware app running on Linux, from
native Linux files and.or devices - anyone have insight into such a thing?)
I use samba to get data in/out of Vmware.
In a message dated 5/10/00 12:04:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
Security will most likely consist of:
- turning off all "r" services (actually commenting out
everything in /etc/inetd.conf)
Just a general sysadmin question:
If everything in /etc/inetd.conf is
People,
I found out that the state of New Hampshire,
Dept. Health and Human Services, will put out an RFP
(Request For Proposals) for web e-architecture.
A consulting company is helping them prepare the RFP
now. I haven't seen it, so I can mention it here. But, that
also means I don't have any
I know that there are several people on this list that disagree with me
about the ability for the recent virus(es) to infect systems even without
executing the VB program manually. Below is a message that I have received
from a reputable source that supports my assertions that in fact there is
a
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce McCulley wrote:
Jeff, I'm not sure I understand it completely, but I thought Karl's use of
Samba was for communications with VMware not access to Windows filesystems
in general.
VMware actually creates a true virtual machine to run Windows in. Your
system will
However, do we need to have some sort of virus package for our systems,
if so any recommendations on how it should operate, and perhaps even a
package worth looking at?
There's certainly the potential for GNU/Linux viruses out there. Not
really anything like that now, but sooner or
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jerry Eckert wrote:
Just a general sysadmin question:
If everything in /etc/inetd.conf is going to be commented out,
why run inetd at all?
Did anyone else not get the message Bob is replying to?
It was originally posted to the gnhlug-org list; I assume Bob posted his
Benjamin Scott wrote:
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Hartnett wrote:
[...snip...]
However, do we need to have some sort of virus package for our systems, if
so any recommendations on how it should operate, and perhaps even a
package worth looking at?
There are virus scanners for Unix
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Bruce McCulley wrote:
There are virus scanners for Unix available ...
Can anyone please supply a good pointer to sources for such products?
You have to go through Network Associates's sales division to get their Unix
virus scanner products. NAI is one of those
Derek Martin wrote:
snip lots of good stuff, including a shameless plug2excellent plug
for Mission Critical Linux/shameless plug2
I think the real question that people are asking is " Are there any
*COMMERCIAL* applications for Linux?" The answer to that one is a little
less favorable for
"Karl J. Runge" wrote:
Well, I claim once you have non-root on Linux you have root shortly there
after unless the system is kept meticulously up-to-date wrt security
patches for local root compromises.
I'm somewhat less pessimistic, if only because there is a much much stronger
likelihood
Did anyone else not get the message Bob is replying to?
Jerry
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Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 3:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Greater NH Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: Another name server
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1101051
Headline: HP launches entry-level Unix servers
from the story:
"The servers are available with either HP-UX 11 or
the Linux operating system, but the distribution of
Linux to be used with the servers is yet to be
announced."
One more architecture in the fold
I think the real question that people are asking is " Are there any
*COMMERCIAL* applications for Linux?" The answer to that one is a little
less favorable for those who are looking for assurances, unfortunately.
I think that's exactly the question for a lot of folks.
Many people
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Hartnett wrote:
Being newer to the Linux world the recent attention about the "ILOVEYOU"
virus has made me wonder about Linux. To my knowledge there is not much
going on with Linux and virus threats at this time.
A virus works by modifying program executables, such
When: May 17, 2000 7:00 p.m. (6:30PM QA)
Topic: Supercomputing with Beowulf Clusters
Presented by: Kurt Keville ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Location: MIT Building 3-133
Beowulf is a cluster computers running an OS like Linux or FreeBSD
interconnected on a high speed network. Instead of a single
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