Re: Houston, I May Have a Problem (chkrootkit Results)

2004-08-29 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 08:56:19PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > Since I have been having occasional problems getting verious packages > installed or uninstalled, I decided to do a chkrootkit. The results > look rather disturbing. Is there anyway short of starting from scratch > to fix the problems

Re: Houston, I May Have a Problem (chkrootkit Results)

2004-08-29 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 11:04:18AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I can only guess that they got in because I screwed up while doing a > few little experiments and forgot to turn the firewall back on. > > The couple other systems that are currently active on my network are > running 98

Re: Houston, I May Have a Problem (chkrootkit Results)

2004-08-29 Thread Bradley M Alexander
ot too usable at that point. That said, you have to strike a best balance between security and your intended use for the box. -- --Brad Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst

Re: Houston, I May Have a Problem (chkrootkit Results)

2004-08-28 Thread Bradley M Alexander
lation, I would definitely rebuild from scratch, doing your build and securing from behind a firewall. --Brad ============ Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [at] tux.org D

Re: backups Re: Have I been sniffed?

2004-08-27 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:25:21PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > hi ya > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Bradley M Alexander wrote: > > > Depends. I have wireless, and three things I do, from least to most > > draconian: > > > > 1. Turn off SSID broadcasting.

Re: Have I been sniffed?

2004-08-27 Thread Bradley M Alexander
he odd backup server Good idea, the only problem is that most breaches are not detected within 2 days, so it is likely that both backup servers are going to be compromised if one is. Of course, if you are running a host-bsased IDS, you will know exactly when the breach occurred, and which backup

Re: 2.6.7 questions

2004-07-13 Thread Bradley M Alexander
I will try the same with SCSI. - -- - --Brad ======== Bradley M. Alexander| SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer

Re: X problem

2004-02-01 Thread Bradley M Alexander
got a fix for this? Could this be an Athlon-specific problem? I opened a support request with nVidia, but based on their generic response email, I don't expect a whole lot of help out of them. -- --Brad ============ Bradley M. A

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-30 Thread Bradley M Alexander
- 1.0.4496-7 NVIDIA binary kernel module common files ii nvidia-kernel- 1.0.4496-10NVIDIA binary kernel module source -- --Brad Bradley M. Alexander| gTLD Sys

X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-29 Thread Bradley M Alexander
though. Any ideas? Thanks, -- --Brad ============ Bradley M. Alexander| gTLD SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [at] tux.org Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-10-15 Thread Bradley M Alexander
NSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- --Brad Bradley M. Alexander

Re: Libranet-2.7-classic -> Pure Debian/sid kde broken

2003-09-03 Thread Bradley M Alexander
gt; to install "kde" from stable and the updating to unstable?... Just a thought, but > please keep me posted, I'm thinking of trying Libranet and the synching to Debian > unstable so your experience is of interest to me. > > Good luck... -- --Brad ======

Libranet-2.7-classic -> Pure Debian/sid kde broken

2003-09-03 Thread Bradley M Alexander
KDE Print ii kdesktop 3.1.3-1KDE Desktop ii kdewallpapers 3.1.3-1wallpapers released with KDE ii libkdenetwork2 3.1.3-1KDE Network (common libraries) What am I missing here? -- --Brad ========

Re: Unkillable processes?

2003-07-17 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:51:18PM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > Assuming that everything else works, I'd think it's dud memory. Try running > memtest86 for some time. That's the only thing that made my always-on boxes > misbehave up to now. You know, I rebooted last night (it felt very MCSE-i

Unkillable processes?

2003-07-16 Thread Bradley M Alexander
My firewall is running sarge, which I upgraded from woody about a month and a half ago, but this problem appears to be an ongoing issue that carried over. I have noticed that my firewall seems to only be able to run for days at a time. This bothered me, but I haven't had much chance to dig into it

Re: X lockups

2003-07-09 Thread Bradley M Alexander
t night, left the system running with two eterms, evo > > and dvdrip windows open. Got up this morning and clicked evo's > > send/received and the Xserver reset itself. > > > > Anybody know any best practices for getting rid of gnome? > > > > -- > >

Re: X lockups

2003-07-07 Thread Bradley M Alexander
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:10:13PM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > * Bradley M Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-07-2003 20:03]: > > In the past month or so, I have noticed that at random intervals, > > X will lock up, kick me out, and xdm will restart. > > > > I

X lockups

2003-07-07 Thread Bradley M Alexander
208 R 97.8 2.7 257:24.74 XFree86 I am running unstable on other boxes, and have not seen this problem. Ideas? -- --Brad ======== Bradley M. Alexander| gTLD SysAdmin, Security Engineer| storm [a

Re: Burning DVD onto CD

2003-06-18 Thread Bradley M Alexander
y several different formats, (S)VCD, MPEG, AVI, etc etc. So hopefully we are approaching the days when this will become standard. -- --Brad ============ Bradley M. Alexander| gTLD SysAdmin, Security Engineer

Re: Cheap high resolution (1600x1200) video card for debian

2003-05-29 Thread Bradley M Alexander
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Re: CRASHING HARD DRIVE

2003-02-06 Thread Bradley M Alexander
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Re: Debian as a Personal Video Recorder??

2003-01-13 Thread Bradley M Alexander
sed (php) listings, scheduled recording capabilities, favorites, and many other features. -- --Brad ============ Bradley M. Alexander| Debian Developer, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.or

Re: OT--firewall help

2003-01-10 Thread Bradley M Alexander
o do a range of ports, e.g. --dport -. -- --Brad ============ Bradley M. Alexander| Debian Developer, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer

apt-question

2001-02-27 Thread Bradley M Alexander
ea what is causing this? Regards, -- --Brad ======== Bradley M. Alexander, CISSP | Co-Chairman, Beowulf System Admin/Security Specialist |NoVALUG/DCLUG Security SIG Winstar Telecom

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-06 Thread Bradley M Alexander
hat drive access will be considerably slower. -- --Brad ======== Bradley M. Alexander, CISSP | Co-Chairman, Beowulf System Admin/Security Specialist |NoVALUG/DCLUG Security SIG Winstar Telecom

Blocked high ports (fwd)

2000-01-24 Thread Bradley M Alexander
Hello all, Got a problem that is driving me nuts. Sorry to have sent to both lists, but it is affecting both my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT) and my desktop (K6-2/450) machine. I installed Debian/Slink afresh on defiant (the desktop) over the weekend, and immediately upgraded it to Potato.