Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

2003-10-06 Thread Camillo Särs
Olaf Dietsche wrote: If you go to daylight savings, the clock jumps from 2am to 3am. No it doesn't. The clock ticks along as it always has done, in UTC. The timezone simply changes, which should be no big deal for timezone-aware applications. The reverse happens, when you go back from

Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

2003-10-06 Thread Roland Mas
Billy Naylor, 2003-10-06 00:10:14 +0200 : It appears that cronjobs running between 2am and 3am sunday morning seem to not have been run, i'm in New Zealand which went into summer daylight savings over the weekend. That's strange, because last time I looked, Debian had a specially patched cron

logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi I've got a rather wierd problem. Since this morning, I cannot connect anymore to a pop mail server using ssl, evolution complains about a bad signature of the certificate. This is since I've booted my machine today. At the same time, one minute before I got the after-startup report from

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:31:05PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: Hmmm, so what? Are these problems somehow tied together? Furthermore, what is the probability that the system has really been cracked, and the logcheck message is not a false positive? I wonder, because it's not a server machine, it

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Micah Anderson
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: You don't have much evidence that it's a security issue at this point. Logcheck's active system attack messages rarely indicate such a thing. Don't do anything drastic like reinstall the system until you've got better evidence that you've been

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: I hope you've got some more ideas. I'm strictly following all the security updates, and have a light mix of woody and sid packages. run 'shutdown -rF now' See if the problem persists after the fsck. If it does, check the files

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Noah Thanks a lot for your fast answer! On Montag, 06-Okt-03 at 17:58:10, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:31:05PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: Hmmm, so what? Are these problems somehow tied together? Furthermore, what is the probability that the system has really been

Re: Can anyone help me ID who is trying to hack my system?

2003-10-06 Thread Fabricio Cannini Flores
Can anyone help me ID who is trying to hack my system? This is no hacking, 'cause a true hacker wouldn't spend his time on it. I know that i may sound trollish and off-topic and will be cursed to the buffer overflow hell, but this is the kind of thing that the $#!t-head ppl of press loves to

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Noah Thanks again for your answer!! On Montag, 06-Okt-03 at 22:13:32, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: I hope you've got some more ideas. I'm strictly following all the security updates, and have a light mix of woody and sid packages.

Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Billy Naylor said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:04:37AM +1300: Hi It appears that cronjobs running between 2am and 3am sunday morning seem to not have been run, i'm in New Zealand which went into summer daylight savings over the weekend. Has anyone else seen this problem? I think this only

Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

2003-10-06 Thread Billy Naylor
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 12:09, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Billy Naylor said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:04:37AM +1300: Hi It appears that cronjobs running between 2am and 3am sunday morning seem to not have been run, i'm in New Zealand which went into summer daylight savings over the weekend.

Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

2003-10-06 Thread Camillo Särs
Olaf Dietsche wrote: If you go to daylight savings, the clock jumps from 2am to 3am. No it doesn't. The clock ticks along as it always has done, in UTC. The timezone simply changes, which should be no big deal for timezone-aware applications. The reverse happens, when you go back from

Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

2003-10-06 Thread Roland Mas
Billy Naylor, 2003-10-06 00:10:14 +0200 : It appears that cronjobs running between 2am and 3am sunday morning seem to not have been run, i'm in New Zealand which went into summer daylight savings over the weekend. That's strange, because last time I looked, Debian had a specially patched cron

logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi I've got a rather wierd problem. Since this morning, I cannot connect anymore to a pop mail server using ssl, evolution complains about a bad signature of the certificate. This is since I've booted my machine today. At the same time, one minute before I got the after-startup report from

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:31:05PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: Hmmm, so what? Are these problems somehow tied together? Furthermore, what is the probability that the system has really been cracked, and the logcheck message is not a false positive? I wonder, because it's not a server machine, it

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Micah Anderson
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: You don't have much evidence that it's a security issue at this point. Logcheck's active system attack messages rarely indicate such a thing. Don't do anything drastic like reinstall the system until you've got better evidence that you've been

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: I hope you've got some more ideas. I'm strictly following all the security updates, and have a light mix of woody and sid packages. run 'shutdown -rF now' See if the problem persists after the fsck. If it does, check the files

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Noah Thanks a lot for your fast answer! On Montag, 06-Okt-03 at 17:58:10, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:31:05PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: Hmmm, so what? Are these problems somehow tied together? Furthermore, what is the probability that the system has really been

Re: logcheck thinks that system is under attack, related to ssl problem?

2003-10-06 Thread Andreas Wüst
Hi Noah Thanks again for your answer!! On Montag, 06-Okt-03 at 22:13:32, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:07:23PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote: I hope you've got some more ideas. I'm strictly following all the security updates, and have a light mix of woody and sid packages.

Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Billy Naylor said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:04:37AM +1300: Hi It appears that cronjobs running between 2am and 3am sunday morning seem to not have been run, i'm in New Zealand which went into summer daylight savings over the weekend. Has anyone else seen this problem? I think this only

Re: crontab failure for daylight savings

2003-10-06 Thread Billy Naylor
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 12:09, Mark Ferlatte wrote: Billy Naylor said on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:04:37AM +1300: Hi It appears that cronjobs running between 2am and 3am sunday morning seem to not have been run, i'm in New Zealand which went into summer daylight savings over the weekend.