On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 21:10, Ian Mortimer wrote: > > However, many of us work and exist in environments where > > carrying around a CD doesn't scale. > > Not to mention the need to reboot every box to run off the CD and > then reboot again when done. Several days work there.
Yup. Not to mention that rebooting is a red flag to hackers. The idea here is to run diagnostics while trying to stay off their radar, else you risk losing the evidence (and possibly your filesystem). > > My suggestion can be quickly and > > easily performed on remote systems. > > The CD idea has merit though. You could put the application and all the > utilities it uses on a CD, mount the CD on one host and export it over NFS > to other hosts on the network. It's a good idea where you have a few systems, perhaps off-site, to visit and check. Exporting it via NFS brings up it's own mess of problems and potential exploits. -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
