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+++ Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri . [linux-india] <30/09/01 13:25 +0530>:
> This is an excerpt from my /var/log/messages;  what does it mean ?
> Sep 30 13:16:29 farzaan rpc.statd[387]: gethostbyname error for
> ^X���^X���^Y���^Y���^Z���^Z���^[���^[���%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%8x%236x%n%137
[snip]

Some idiot scanning for open sunrpc on your machine.  Shut down nfs, portmap
and other useless services (telnet, ftp etc) on your desktop (from ntsysv and
/etc/inetd.conf / xinetd)

        -suresh

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LOST #015        -**< Sub : Knowing contents of .tgz files >**-
To know the contents of a .tgz file without decompressing: 
$ tar -ztvf filename.tgz | less          
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