On Nov 19, 2007 10:09 AM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A suggestion; in your original post, it would have helped had you stated > what you have already done to debug the problem. This will save > other's time as well by not suggesting what you have already tried.
You are right. Some things were done while I was waiting for replies. Will take care in future. > In your postings, you have not stated whether your pc is behind a NAT > router or it's NIC is bridged to the modem's WAN iface. In bridged > mode, nasty things can happen if you have not secured your OS and the > net apps. > A good sys admin practice would be to: Install aide or tripwire for > signatures of your files systems. Each time you upgrade/install > anything, get a fresh sig. db. and transfer it to a "safe" place. This > will give an audit trail of what/when things went wrong. Thanks for all this. I was looking to do some detective work to understand what caused the situation. Time to move on with some good practices in place. Chetan -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.