Re: [Eug-lug]Linux security

2003-01-07 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Timothy Bolz wrote: I had a person who is a Cisco certified network guy tell me unix boxes are easier to get into than windows. He's very knowledgeable and says he's one of 5000 certified in the world. Not to be dismissive, but if I had a quarter for every yarn I heard

Re: [Eug-lug]Lovearth Network Hacked Down

2003-01-05 Thread Po Petz
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Dexter Graphic wrote: I thought this was interesting because of the Linux technical implications. Is it really possible that some group of secret government operatives are forcing 1000+ Linux web sites down? Sure it's possible, but why bother? Just get some crooked

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Po Petz
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Horst wrote: Any hints? --for either cure or diagnostic ? (I am willing to dig through long logs of ngrep or ethereal *if* needed) Wild stabs: What kind of ethernet card are you using? What does ifconfig have to say about your nic? Any RX/TX errors or drops? Have you

Re: [Eug-lug]Newbie scsi tape and tar problems

2002-11-05 Thread Po Petz
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Robert Albano wrote: When I give the following command mt -f /dev/st0 rewind I get the following message ...device or resource busy On Friday Nov 1 the samba server was not responding so the office manager powercycled the machine. The samba server is

Re: [Eug-lug]Too Hot (baby)?

2002-10-27 Thread Po Petz
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Beaker (aka Jeff W.) wrote: I've got a hardware question: how hot is too hot WRT hard drives? The Fujitsu 4 GB UltraSCSI drive I just did an install on is a little loud and seems to run hot, though no errors were experienced during the install. I stuck an digital

Antenna height - was RE: [Eug-lug]Internet Access..

2002-10-22 Thread Po Petz
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know the maximum height an antenna pole can be without violating building codes nor requiring a special license? -po On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Linux Rocks wrote: so uhh... what is your aprox location? maybe I can rig up an antenna :) Jamie At 01:42 PM 10/22/02

[Eug-lug].kwd file won't open in KWord 1.1.1

2002-10-19 Thread Po Petz
This file may very well have been trashed in-transit (it was emailed from a library, to a Mac user whose mail client BinHex'd it before sending it to me - aaargh). After passing through hexbin(L), file(1) just says data. KWord 1.1.1 on RH7.3 won't read it. There's a mime-type header saying it's

Re: [Eug-lug]unfamiliar web attack?

2002-10-09 Thread Po Petz
On 9 Oct 2002, Ben Barrett wrote: Here is the request made of my server: CONNECT maila.microsoft.com:25 and here is the complete log entry, IP address xx'ed out: 216.xx.xx.xx - - [09/Oct/2002:05:55:25 -0700] CONNECT maila.microsoft.com:25 / HTTP/1.0 400 370 - - Any clues? I'm assuming

Re: [Eug-lug]ls and groups

2002-10-07 Thread Po Petz
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:28:45AM +, Bob Crandell wrote: Along with this, how do you tell how much space a given directory tree takes up? $ du -sk $ du -ck all together now! for each in `ls -1`; do if [ -d $each ] ; then du -sk $each | tr