Re: [eug-lug]Locking down a server

2003-09-17 Thread Brad Davidson
Cory Petkovsek wrote: /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -s $LOOPNET -j logdrop /usr/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -d $LOOPNET -j logdrop 127.0.0.0/8 is not on eth0. It is on lo. These two lines do nothing. Righto, good catch. Either way, he's got a lot of useless rules in here. echo Redirect

Re: [eug-lug]Locking down a server

2003-09-17 Thread Brad Davidson
I used to hang out on the LARTC list, so here's my analysis. Quite possibly flawed. You may want to ask the LARTC guys, they eat stuff like this for breakfast. Bob Crandell wrote: Here is rc.iptables: #=== #/bin/sh LOOPNET=127.0.0.0/8 LOCALNET=216.239.175.0/24 echo

[eug-lug]Verisign wildcarding of COM and NET zones

2003-09-17 Thread Brad Davidson
I'm sure everyone has heard about this already on sites like slashdot, but recently Verisign added a wildcard A record to the .NET and .COM domains, matching all unassigned domain names. Example: #nslookup adsnklasdnjkasdnjk.com Server: some.server.dom Address: x.x.x.x Non-authoritative

Re: [eug-lug]Locking down a server

2003-09-18 Thread Brad Davidson
Cory Petkovsek wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:13:48AM -0700, Brad Davidson wrote: #everything else is logged and then dropped iptables -A sort -j LOG --log-level info iptables -A sort -j DROP This has a similar problem as Bob's original script. Logging without limits. Yes... He's still free

Re: [eug-lug]Coffee

2003-09-18 Thread Brad Davidson
In the same vein, so does the Cornucopia bottle market near 11th and Monroe. No real limits on it, it's just a Netgear WAP somewhere in the back of the store, connected to a cable modem. SSID 'Wireless', DHCP enabled. Oh, and for the curious... http://wifimon:[EMAIL

Re: [eug-lug]Coffee

2003-09-19 Thread Brad Davidson
That was generated by GPSMap, a nifty little util that comes with the Kismet (the open-source wardriving util). If you have a GPS reciever connected while you're wardriving, it logs GPS data when it detects a packet. This is all saved to a big XML file, that GPSMap parses out, and displayes on a

Re: [eug-lug]Coffee (and wireless)

2003-09-19 Thread Brad Davidson
Here's another, closer view at the Chase Village, McKenna Estates, etc area: http://wifimon:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/~kiloman/gpsmap/chasevillage_med.png There's a few different sources for maps, including the TerraServer 3-meter sattelite photo database. Those look really cool :) I suppose all of

Re: [eug-lug]Coffee

2003-09-19 Thread Brad Davidson
I'm running Gentoo on my Pismo powerbook. I was doing most of my wardriving with a borrowed Orinoco card, and a HyperGain +8db antenna with a magnetic base. I got myself a Garmin eTrex Legend GPS, comes with a serial connector, and has a built-in DGPS patch antenna. Since the Pismo doesn't

Re: [eug-lug]Solaris Question

2003-09-19 Thread Brad Davidson
I'd say that your term is screwed up, and is wrapping chars back to the beginning of the line. If it's an xterm, try resizing the window, or closing it an opening a new one. If it's a straight console terminal... try one of the other virtual terminals, see if it does it there. I've seen this

Re: [eug-lug]Coffee

2003-09-19 Thread Brad Davidson
Oh yeah. There's 2 versions of the Senao card - one with a built-in antenna and plug on the side for an optional external antenna. The one I got has no internal antenna, and 2 MMCX plugs for external antennas (for recieve diversity). As always, the Orinoco cards have awesome Linunx support,

Re: [eug-lug]Solaris Question

2003-09-20 Thread Brad Davidson
Since you were mucking about with your profile... did you change anything in there that might impact line length? Try renaming and then logging in again, so that you go back to the default profile, see if it does anything different. Garl Grigsby wrote: I thought the same thing. I was

Re: [eug-lug]Coffee, 200mw wifi

2003-09-22 Thread Brad Davidson
I wanted the card mostly to be able to play with HostAP, and as I live quite close to quite a few friends (8 within 100 yards), the extra power to punch through walls and trees is appreciated. When I'm using the card in my laptop it will be completely passive (Kismet is monitor-only), and the

Re: [eug-lug] mailing list issues

2003-09-24 Thread Brad Davidson
Hey, at least you're better off than poor Larry - his post took almost 34 years to make it through! -Brad Ben Barrett wrote: I think the list is still having problems. I've never gotten a list-post back in less than 10 minutes, IIRC, but this took ~ 14 hrs, 20 minutes to be received by the list

[eug-lug]WANTED: Powered external drive enclosure

2003-09-24 Thread Brad Davidson
I'm wondering if anyone has an old powered SCSI drive enclosure around that's collecting dust. You know the type.. ancient, biege, held 3-4 drives, had a Centronix port and some scsi-ID selection switches on the back, internal AT power supply, and loud as hell. If anyone has one they'd like to

Re: [eug-lug]WANTED: Powered external drive enclosure

2003-09-24 Thread Brad Davidson
5 drives would be awesome, as I'd probably start out with just 1 - 2 that I have on hand (My income isn't completely disposable, although I do tend to treat it that way. Power bill? What power bill?). Garl, if you're willing to part with it for 15 bucks, that would be wonderful. But if 20-25 bucks

Re: [eug-lug]WANTED: Powered external drive enclosure

2003-09-24 Thread Brad Davidson
I just realized that Garl said five inch drives, not five drives. How many does it hold? Unless I can dig up some rails / hotswap bays to go with it, I'm looking for something to put 3.5 drives in. -Brad Brad Davidson wrote: Grigsby, Garl wrote: Do you care how big it is? I have one

Re: [eug-lug]Perl Script question

2003-09-25 Thread Brad Davidson
with the CGI script. Looks like Text::CRLF is only currently available as part of Meta::Utils::Dos, but this guy wrote a standalone version. He's trying to get it on CPAN, I guess... -Brad Brad Davidson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan install Text::CRLF Let your perl do

Re: [eug-lug]A diff for the Foxtrot comic strip

2003-10-03 Thread Brad Davidson
I'm not so sure about that, actually. Traditionally, the 'X times on the blackboard' spec has not included newlines at the end of the statement - with sentances that don't take up the entire width, it's a waste of space. See Bart's example text on the blackboard, from the Simpsons intro:

Re: [eug-lug]where can I learn more about wait channel - wchan?

2003-10-07 Thread Brad Davidson
Cory Petkovsek wrote: Doing a google search on wchan only brings up man pages for ps (which I have on my system) or for the wchan command (which I don't have, but don't think I need). On Linux, the kernel gives me the english wchan value for a process: select, poll, wait4, unix_stream_data_wait,

Re: [eug-lug]where can I learn more about wait channel - wchan?

2003-10-07 Thread Brad Davidson
Jacob Meuser wrote: Perhaps if you really want to learn, you should install an OS that cares about documentation, where you will also find select(2), poll(2), wait(2), wait4(2) etc ... Sorry, couldn't resist. Maybe you should have. All of those exist on Linux as well, as part of the Linux

Re: [eug-lug]where can I learn more about wait channel - wchan?

2003-10-07 Thread Brad Davidson
Jacob Meuser wrote: But more to the point, why couldn't Cory find that info? Why didn't you point him to it? I guess I misread his level of familiarity with the subject at hand. The fact that he was looking for the 'wchan command' didn't give me much faith in the fact that he knew what he was

Re: [eug-lug]where can I learn more about wait channel - wchan?

2003-10-07 Thread Brad Davidson
Cory Petkovsek wrote: The wchan command, thus the mention that it wasn't on my system. I suppose it is also not on yours: http://ou800doc.caldera.com/SM_dump/wchan.html Not to pick nits, but that's not a command, it's a preprocessor macro from the kernel sources. Not really anything that could

Re: [eug-lug]Linux Brochure Project

2003-10-24 Thread Brad Davidson
I do the same thing all the time too. Notice that there's a link to the web site in each You're not on the list message. Follow that link as soon as you get the message, and hit the 'Cancel Posting button. Then re-send the message from the correct account. -Brad Linux Rocks ! wrote: Ken,

[eug-lug]Recent Spam

2003-10-24 Thread Brad Davidson
Wow, looks like the spammers finally figured out how to spam mailing lists by sending from the address of a subscriber. I wondered how long until they'd start doing that... They still have to learn how to forge 'recieved' headers though: Received: from 68.60.53.188

Re: [eug-lug] How do I put GIMP on Mac OS Panther?

2003-10-28 Thread Brad Davidson
Ask The Fink! http://fink.sourceforge.net/ -Brad Harald Sundt wrote: I wanna run my favorite Linux programs on my Mac. I am a perverse son of a bitch. Where do I get compatible apps...is their gonna be a nightmare matching supporting files? ___

Re: [eug-lug]Computerbase, other Eugene PC resellers?

2003-11-17 Thread Brad Davidson
PCPartsExpress used to be great. They have/had 'national warehouse' prices, and you could make an order and then just drive over and pick it up.. they're in Springfield, in the light industrial district between Gateway Mall and I-105. However, I guess they got tired of being a local retail

Re: [eug-lug]Computerbase, other Eugene PC resellers?

2003-11-17 Thread Brad Davidson
Grigsby, Garl wrote: Are you sure that was PCPartsxpress and not edgemicro (formerly known as Computer X Press)? PCPartsxpress has a small shop right off Q Street (across the street from Safeway). Right you are. I didn't know them as Edge Micro, just Computer X Press. Edgemicro, has stopped

Re: [eug-lug]Re: WiFi Mapping Project

2003-11-19 Thread Brad Davidson
I've been through this with them already. Apparently (as of 3-4 months ago) they were evaluating possible ways to start securing the channel. I sent some nice e-mails back and forth with their IT manager Greg Cottriel after I intercepted some patient information from a database query floating

Re: [eug-lug]Re: WiFi Mapping Project

2003-11-19 Thread Brad Davidson
I'd definately like to see it secured as well. Just leave my name out of it... I got the feeling that if they started to not like what they heard I'd get a nice letter from the PeaceHealth legal department. I don't think any of us want to be used as the EFF's poster boy for wardriving. -Brad

Re: [eug-lug]Re: WiFi Mapping Project

2003-11-19 Thread Brad Davidson
I have a G3 laptop running Gentoo, a USB serial adapter, and a Garmin eTrex Legend. They work great with Kismet... I've got about 50 megs of GPS-tagged packet data that I'd be glad to throw in to a database. I've been using GPSMap to make static maps of the area, it'd be great to see about

Re: [eug-lug]rm -rf

2003-12-01 Thread Brad Davidson
I might also suggest a 'man find'. What you probably wanted is this: find / -iname *mozilla* -print which means: start at the root, find (ignoring case) anything with Mozilla in it, and print the matching filename to stdout. running updatedb (or locate.updatedb, or locate -d, etc) and then

Re: [eug-lug]make -d s foo

2003-12-02 Thread Brad Davidson
On Linux, try 'info make', it appears to have what you're looking for. Lots of documentation is moving over from man to info, although I personally prefer the linear structure of man pages. -Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Take a look* in /usr/share/doc/psd/ . Chapter 12 covers BSD 'make'. My

Re: [eug-lug]Miserable Failure

2003-12-10 Thread Brad Davidson
You are correct. Have you looked at the Google cache? http://66.102.11.104/search?q=cache:GPN6xA7xUV8J:www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html+%22miserable+failure%22hl=enie=UTF-8 At the top it says: These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: miserable failure Google's search

Re: [eug-lug]FileSystem.mount()

2003-12-11 Thread Brad Davidson
I gave LUFS/SSHFS a try a while ago. The project as a whole looked very hackish, and it crashed constantly on my laptop. Now my laptop is PPC so there may be some endianness bugs, but even so - it seemed very amateur to me. -Brad Larry Price wrote: So there is this project called LUFS (Linux

Re: [eug-lug]Linux at Lane CC

2003-12-11 Thread Brad Davidson
Heretic! Speak not of the death of Perl! -Brad Linux Rocks ! wrote: Congradulation! I realy wish they had them back when I went there ( and yes, I asked many times...) I asked for perl classes too.. have they doen that yet? (or is perl dead?) ___

Re: [eug-lug]FileSystem.mount()

2003-12-12 Thread Brad Davidson
Maybe 6 months or so? I don't recall exactly. I'm sure it's improved since then, but it had a 'cruft' flavor to it that I don't feel from a lot of startup projects. -Brad T. Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:33:45AM -0800, Brad Davidson wrote: I gave LUFS/SSHFS a try a while ago

Re: [eug-lug]bash command line - loop over a range

2003-12-16 Thread Brad Davidson
How do you figure? Unless that 'new math' they tought me back in grade school is coming back to haunt me, 2.05 2.03 Cory Petkovsek wrote: Recent bash extension? Did you read my versions? debuan linux: GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu) Solaris: GNU bash, version

Re: [eug-lug]euglug.org ranked # 40 in Google for linux training window

2004-02-05 Thread Brad Davidson
This message tripped my mental spam filter. Come on, she obviously didn't find EUGLUG on google. The keywords make no sense, they look like 3 random words. She also obviously doesn't know what EUGLUG does, how would she 'compete' with a mailing list/user group? I know it's nice to think that

Re: [eug-lug]euglug.org ranked # 40 in Google for linux training window

2004-02-05 Thread Brad Davidson
Hmm, guess I should finish reading the thread before I respond. Looks like Ben already pointed out that it's spam :) -Brad nyal wrote: It's nice to know she won't be stealing andy of EUGLUG's sales..What is she trying to steal? Nyal ___ EuG-LUG

Re: [eug-lug]near Eugene DSL questions

2004-02-10 Thread Brad Davidson
I've visited a friend who has one of these, it's NAT is about the worst I've seen of any of the modem/firewall devices I've seen on the market. It was having a hard time handling any more than 2 of us doing an in-game server scan at once. It would just start dropping connections a bit into the