Re: [expert] mounting win2000 ntfs partitions

2002-07-27 Thread Michael Holt
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, civileme uttered these words of wisdom: To all of your others out there, it is no kidding DEADLY to install windows second. My recovery here was not for the faint of heart--23 partitions on two hdds were thoroughly scrambled by XP renumbering. I had to rescue boot and

Re: [expert] Diagnosing server problems and screwing up threads...

2002-07-27 Thread g
greetings hop along, Hopper wrote: Regarding Samba and Winbind again: I've killed my server. you have also distorted an e-mail post thread. email contains what is called a 'header'. in header, along with all that is in an email header, is what is know as 'references:'. 'references:' does

[expert] lsb dependency on wu-ftpd

2002-07-27 Thread David Relson
Greetigns, Out of curiosity, I started to install the lsb package and discovered that it is dependent on wu-ftpd. I have proftpd installed as my preferred daemon and don't want wu-ftpd. Can the requirement for an ftp daemon be made more flexible? Thanks. David

[expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Guntner
Hi, This morning, I ran chkrootkit on my ML 8.2 system, and everything turned up with the usual nothing found message, except the last one. It came up: Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} and {time} (The {time} is just me saving myself some typing -

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread civileme
David Guntner wrote: Hi, This morning, I ran chkrootkit on my ML 8.2 system, and everything turned up with the usual nothing found message, except the last one. It came up: Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} and {time} (The {time} is just me saving

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread J. Craig Woods
David Guntner wrote: Hi, This morning, I ran chkrootkit on my ML 8.2 system, and everything turned up with the usual nothing found message, except the last one. It came up: Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} and {time} (The {time} is just me

[expert] how to acknowledge changes to msec

2002-07-27 Thread gikoreno
Hello everyone! This is a repost from the newbie list, so sorry about that, but I haven't had any replies to this yet. When I look into /var/log/messages I get various of the following: "Security Warning: There are modifications for port listening on your machine :" "Security Warning: These

[expert] Quota on XFS problems

2002-07-27 Thread gikoreno
Hello everyone, This is a repost from the newbie list, so sorry about that, I haven't had a reply yet. I am running LM 8.2, and all my partitions are XFS. I am also running the system with msec level 5. The machine's Kernel is : kernel-secure-2.4.18.8 Today I setup quotas for my users. I added

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Guntner
civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} and {time} Question: Based on this, is my system likely to have been compromised or not? For that matter, what's wted? wted -- wtmp editor

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Oberbeck
On Saturday 27 July 2002 14:18, David Guntner Wrote Thusly: civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} and {time} Question: Based on this, is my system likely to have been compromised or

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread David Guntner
David Oberbeck grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Saturday 27 July 2002 14:18, David Guntner Wrote Thusly: Any other thoughts on the subject? Or is it just time to push the button, Max? (Probably no one will get the joke, but I'm sure you understand the meaning... :) Up Max,

[expert] KDE:(re)starting artsd gracefully: How?

2002-07-27 Thread Chuck Shirley
Hi Experts, I have some important software that I use that is un-aware of the arts, (Okay, I admit, it's games, sue me... :^) )so to use it with KDE3, I have a script linked to a desktop Icon to stop the artsd if it is running, and start it if it is not running. Is there an official way to

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread civileme
David Guntner wrote: civileme grabbed a keyboard and wrote: David Guntner wrote: Checking 'sniffer'... Checking 'wted'... 2 deletions found between {time} and {time} Question: Based on this, is my system likely to have been compromised or not? For that matter, what's wted? wted -- wtmp

Re: [expert] KDE:(re)starting artsd gracefully: How?

2002-07-27 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 21:10:13 -0400 Chuck Shirley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Experts, I have some important software that I use that is un-aware of the arts, (Okay, I admit, it's games, sue me... :^) )so to use it with KDE3, I have a script linked to a desktop Icon to stop the artsd if

Re: Maxtor 4G120J6 okay? (was: Re: [expert] Western Digital WD1200AB

2002-07-27 Thread dfox
I think it meant the diskdrives die soon if they are in a power-on state for more than eight hours a day. That is what I have heard at least, Well, my IBM Deskstar has been in such a state since about October of 2000. :) I suppose the advisory only applies to newer drives, then. -Chuck

Re: [expert] Hack attack or not?

2002-07-27 Thread James Sparenberg
David If you find Tripwire a bit much to install you might look at Snort (from freshmeat) it's a little less of a hassle to install and is on par with the free version of TripWire. James On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 16:52:00 -0700 (PDT) David Guntner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Oberbeck