Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread Ben de Luca
BTW - I keep being surprised to hear even security experts advise to run chkrootkit (and I'm not a security expert or a paranoid user/admin) - if a machine was hacked then there is a good chance that chkrootkit would also be hacked to disguise the rootkit, wouldn't it? (it's not far fetched -

Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread O Plameras
Ben de Luca wrote: BTW - I keep being surprised to hear even security experts advise to run chkrootkit (and I'm not a security expert or a paranoid user/admin) - if a machine was hacked then there is a good chance that chkrootkit would also be hacked to disguise the rootkit, wouldn't it? (it's

[SLUG] wireless pci card netgear wg311

2005-02-24 Thread Linley Caetan
has anyone had some luck with this one? Running FC3 . -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Stupidest law of the year candidate! OT.!!!

2005-02-24 Thread Ben Donohue
Isn't this OFF TOPIC and shoud be relegated to SLUG-CHAT??? What has this LAW go to do with LINUX? Ben. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread amos
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:22:22 +1100, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ff. is a sample of positvie result showing possible Loadable Kernel Module (LKM) Trojan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chkrootkit-0.45]# ./chkrootkit .snipped. Searching for ESRK rootkit default files...

Re: [SLUG] wireless pci card netgear wg311

2005-02-24 Thread David Kempe
Linley Caetan wrote: has anyone had some luck with this one? Running FC3 . its shite even on windows. take it back and get a linksys dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread O Plameras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:22:22 +1100, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ff. is a sample of positvie result showing possible Loadable Kernel Module (LKM) Trojan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] chkrootkit-0.45]# ./chkrootkit .snipped. Searching for ESRK rootkit

[SLUG] Antigen found VIRUS= W32/Netsky-P (Sophos, CA(InoculateIT)) worm

2005-02-24 Thread Antigen_BARSBS1
Antigen for Exchange found message.scr infected with VIRUS= W32/Netsky-P (Sophos,CA(InoculateIT)) worm. The message is currently Purged. The message, Mail Delivery (failure [EMAIL PROTECTED]), was sent from slug@slug.org.au and was discovered in SMTP Messages\Inbound located at BARNETT/first

[SLUG] Mouse speed changes in command line

2005-02-24 Thread Elliott-Brennan
Hi, I gather that I can change the mouse speed using the command line (I want to change it to less that x 1.0, which is the lowest the GUI- Mandrake 10.0 - will let me). I have three questions: 1. I gather that I can type 'xset m 1/8/ 1/8' at the command line (for speed and acceleration) - is

Re: [SLUG] Mouse speed changes in command line

2005-02-24 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 08:52:10 +1100, Elliott-Brennan wrote: 1. I gather that I can type 'xset m 1/8/ 1/8' at the command line (for speed and acceleration) - is this correct? RTFM. From xset(1): m The m option controls the mouse parameters. The parameters

[SLUG] typo3 developer ?

2005-02-24 Thread Voytek Eymont
if there is anyone here familiar with typo3 cms, pls email me off list -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread Craige McWhirter
http://debian.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=176 When: Saturday, February 26, 10:00am - 11:59pm Where: Tranby Aboriginal College 13 Mansfield St Glebe (15 minute walk from Central or catch the 431 to the corner of Glebe Point and Wigram roads.) The beautiful surrounds of

Re: [SLUG] Weird login behaviour

2005-02-24 Thread Angus Lees
At Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:37:42 +1100, Oscar Plameras wrote: With my firewalls and other security critical servers, I require recompiling kernels by removing all UNUSED and REDUNDANT modules as part of the audit process so, when I got a problem such as the one illustrated above, I ONLY need to

[SLUG] Re: Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:43:23AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: (15 minute walk from Central or catch the 431 to the corner of Glebe Point and Wigram roads.) Which bus depot does the 431 run from? - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Re: Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread Rob Sharp
http://www.131500.info/publicTimetable.asp?TimetableKey=483420Direction=outboundDate=26%2F2%2F2005Vehicle=BusSector= HTH. Rob. On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:00:27 +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:43:23AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: (15 minute walk from

[SLUG] Finding .so's path from inside the .so at runtime?

2005-02-24 Thread amos
Hello, Is there a standard way for a .so file to find where it was loaded from? Background: I ported an ISAPI module from windows to Linux (to connect to Zeus web server). The original code on Windows relays on the .DLL's ability to find its path on the disk in order to lookup a configuration

[SLUG] Re: Re: Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:08:48AM +1100, Rob Sharp wrote: http://www.131500.info/publicTimetable.asp?TimetableKey=483420Direction=outboundDate=26%2F2%2F2005Vehicle=BusSector= Useful information out of the state government. Who woulda thunk it. Now all we need is error bars so we can usefully

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread Rob Sharp
Whats really impressive (and useful for a new sydneysider like myself) is the 'plan your trip' section which joins bus and trains together to create a journey - i.e. you can enter a source and a destination and it works out the best way to get there, using a combo of buses and trains.

Re: [SLUG] Finding .so's path from inside the .so at runtime?

2005-02-24 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:17:48AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a standard way for a .so file to find where it was loaded from? from man dl_iterate_phdr The info argument is a structure of the following type: struct dl_phdr_info { ElfW(Addr)dlpi_addr;

Re: [SLUG] Finding .so's path from inside the .so at runtime?

2005-02-24 Thread amos
Hi, Thanks. Looks like just what I was looking for. I'll probably iterate through the output and look for my .so's name in the dlpi_name base. It would probably be more accurate to look for a segment which contains the current function's address, but that'll require more investigation of the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:00 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:43:23AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: (15 minute walk from Central or catch the 431 to the corner of Glebe Point and Wigram roads.) Which bus depot does the 431 run from? Anywhere on George St (which includes

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread James Gray
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:25 am, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:08:48AM +1100, Rob Sharp wrote: http://www.131500.info/publicTimetable.asp?TimetableKey=483420Directio n=outboundDate=26%2F2%2F2005Vehicle=BusSector= Useful information out of the state government. Who woulda

[SLUG] Cron that can execute in different time zone

2005-02-24 Thread amos
Hello, I'd like to execute a program on a weekly basis (e.g. once a week, let's say at 3PM every Tuesday) but I want the timing to occur according to a completely different time zone (e.g. let's say the timezone in New York). I found something which might allow me to do this but lost its name

[SLUG] Re: Cron that can execute in different time zone

2005-02-24 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 03:05:05PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea is that I want the program to execute every Tuesday at 3PM according to the New York timezone, without having to take into account the differences from my system's timezone (which is different), daylight saving times

[SLUG] java - jooconverter issues

2005-02-24 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Hi all, this is for the java programmers. I've set up a basic java program based on frontline's Test converter (http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=64417highlight=documentfor mat#64417) to perform document format conversions using jooconverter. Here's my current code: import

Re: [SLUG] Re: Cron that can execute in different time zone

2005-02-24 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, Thanks - I'd consider this but how should I make it look at a different set of configuration files? I don't see a way to acheieve this. I'm on Debian Testing, x86 (not that I'm limited to debian packages, but that's the cron I have installed. If I'm going to compile and install a different

Re: [SLUG] Re: Cron that can execute in different time zone

2005-02-24 Thread amos
Hi, Thanks - I'd consider this but how should I make it look at a different set of configuration files? I don't see a way to acheieve this. I'm on Debian Testing, x86 (not that I'm limited to debian packages, but that's the cron I have installed. If I'm going to compile and install a different