There are some programs and ways to secure your system.The program tiger scans your system for local holes. Just run tiger from your shell and check /var/log/tiger/security-? Bastille does about the same. Run it with InteractiveBastille from a shell.
Logcheck checks your logs for security messages
Here is a very good starter for Shorewall on Debian
http://www.cyberdogtech.com/firewalls/firewall/
Looks useful - thanks.
Yasir
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Andrei
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Wow - thanks for that!
Yasir
There are some programs and ways to secure your system.
The program "tiger" scans your system for local holes. Just run "tiger"
from your shell and check /var/log/tiger/security-?
Bastille does about the same. Run it with "InteractiveBastille" from a
shell.
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:40:57 +1100
Yasir Assam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suppose shorewall will be useful for monitoring/blocking outgoing
connections.
Outgoing? This is not windoze! Unless you get rooted there should be no concern
regarding the outgoing traffic. But having shorewall as a
Thanks for your feedback Andrei - I appreciate it. I think I'll invest
time in learning shorewall.
Yasir
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:40:57 +1100
Yasir Assam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suppose shorewall will be useful for monitoring/blocking outgoing connections.
Outgoing?
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:12:09 +1100
Yasir Assam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for your feedback Andrei - I appreciate it. I think I'll invest time
in learning shorewall.
Yasir
Here is a very good starter for Shorewall on Debian
http://www.cyberdogtech.com/firewalls/firewall/
Regards
Hi,
I have a requirement for a machine that will double-up as a server and a
workstation for me, and I'm not sure what to install on it.
I currently use a laptop. It's a dual-boot system, with Debian Testing
(I plan to upgrade to Unstable soon) and Windows XP. Most of the time I
work on
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 20:03 +1100, Yasir Assam wrote:
...
I know that for production servers only the Stable distribution is
recommended and as little software as possible should be installed. But
as a workstation, I'd like to install Unstable and a lot more software
on it than I would on a
Thanks Oliver.
I didn't know about shorewall, so it's good that you recommended it.
I should have mentioned that I already use a router, built in to my
ADSL modem, so as far as incoming connections go I have to explicitly
set up those ports on my ADSL modem/router (so I will have to forward
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