Portsentry is for monitoring port scans. It's not a firewall, per se. You can
find out more about it by reading the docs in...
/usr/share/doc/portsentry-1.0/
M.
On Sunday 11 February 2001 01:46, Joseph wrote:
> 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
> > > HYPER PC
> > > Tel/Fax +356 - 451979
> > > Mobile +356 - 79 - 451979
> > > http://markhamj.freeyellow.com/
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Michael O'Henly
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