Dear Mark,
Thanks for your reply.
I didn't know I had Portsentry in my system!!!! Any ideas how to
configure it would be welcome. Could I leave Guarddog as is and run Port
Sentry? Do they both work on ipchains?
Regards
Joseph
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Joseph,
>
> This might be stating the obvious, but I don't think the install of this
> program went the way the programmers intended. uninstall it and see if
> your system returns to normal and then resinstall the program by
> doing so on the command line so that you can see whats going on during the
> install. Put the package in a directory all by itself and then "cd" to
> that dir in a terminal window. Issue this command to install the package.
>
> rpm -ivh guarddog*.rpm
>
> That will at least give you some output as to what's going on as the
> package is being installed. You may also want to save yourself some
> headaches and just configure Portsentry that is already installed on your
> system and waiting for you to tell it what to do with it. It's very easy
> to configure and very effective. I use it myself along with IPchains and
> the two together afford me a wonderful and configurable layered security
> system for my PC.
>
> Feel free to email me privately if you're curious about my setup and I'd
> be more then happy to help you get setup.
>
> --
> Mark
>
> "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless,"
> "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
>
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Joseph Markham wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:45:31 +0100
> > From: Joseph Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] Guarddog RPM problems
> >
> > After installing the Guarddog RPM using the KDE RPM Manager on my LM7.2, my HDD
>went into a frenzy virtually locking up my PC. I waited for 15 minutes then did a
>reset as I could not get out of the process.
> >
> > Anybody has any ideas?
> >
> > Joseph Markham
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> >
