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Re: [Alug] Weekly IRC reminder
by MJ Ray 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

> The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the > #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more > info on the openprojects network. I'm thinking that maybe we should move to a UK network, as OPN still only has one usable UK server and is developing in strange ways[1]. Anyone have strong feelings on this? [1] - For people who know about IRC: abolishing O-lines, disabling some useful commands, kicks that look like you did a /part, 4 million americans and thousands of brits banned from their help channel and many more. -- MJR

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Nessus
by Ricardo Campos 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

OK, so I've been playing around with that lovely security program Nessus (http://nessus.lug.org.uk/), scanning both my eth0 and pp0- for some reason the only kind of scan I can run is tcp connect() scan... I kinda thought the point of nessusd was that it ran as root so the others are possible. Do you think this is just a symptom of scanning the loopback address? Anyways, I'll be on IRC tonight, so if anyone wants to use up some of their CPU scanning my IP (nick: ConfuZed), feel free to do so, as long as you send me the report! ;) Ricardo "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 07 Jan '02

07 Jan '02

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Netscape 6.2 (Mail & News too)
by Ricardo Campos 06 Jan '02

06 Jan '02

Here we go again.... Anyone had problems with Netscape 6.2 not saving stuff like bookmarks, the default view you want (i.e. without "My sidebar" etc), or even forgetting mail/news accounts? I can set them up, and then darn it when I close Netscape and fire it up again, it doesn't save them! The permissions of ~/.mozilla imply that the owner (me) should have read/write permissions (and execute on some), so I don't really get it... Still running Mandrake 8.0 as Debian's still being a pig to get X up and running on... "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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RE: [Alug] mbox
by Ricardo Campos 06 Jan '02

06 Jan '02

Awww... you guys is great!!!! lol ;-) Well, I'm off to repair it using (my favourite text editor- maybe I'll need to put "no HTML e-mails" on my sig SO bulky in a txt editor). Luckily, however, I was able to retrieve the message by the help of Micro$oft... lmao I actually added the pop3 acct to my hotmail acct (linuxmail is blocked by the ISP due to spam) and retrieved it from there- seems Evolution (spit spit) didn't actually d/l the message, just fragged it's own mailbox... I've also got 1.2 MB of spurious Qmail weirdness sent to that mailbox too. you take these risks running beta software, but then someone's gotta do it, right? lol (well, it *does* put up a disclaimer when you run it) again, saved by the LUG... MUCH appreciated, Ricardo "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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mbox
by Ricardo Campos 05 Jan '02

05 Jan '02

Does anyone know of a way I can retrieve mails from an mbox file? Evolution successfully managed to trash my Inbox, and there's a message in there with really important info, which unfortunately cannot be resent. The error I get is: " The folder appears to be irrecoverably corrupted" ...which sounds quite ominous, but I am hoping is not true! eek! help! Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: Firewall security Testing
by tom potts 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

http://www.fish.com/satan/ is a nice thing to try on yourself! SATAN stands for Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks Tom __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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UK Govnmt Consultation on Free/Open software
by John Seago 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

The papers on this matter can be found at : http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/rfc/rfc_document.asp?docnum=429 http://www.govtalk.gov.uk/interoperability/egif_document.asp?docnum=430 those members who have an opinion on this mater now have an opportunity to make it known to the UK government. John Seago

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I'm Back!
by Brett Parker 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Well, after a spell of not being subscribed to alug (linuxfreemail.com cheerfully refusing mails from certain places) I'm back. Now using my sourceforge address (which redirects to the linuxfreemail.com one) that seems to get round the issue. I suppose I should go catch up on the archive at some point! Cheers. Brett Parker

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Re: [Alug] Firewall Rulesets Are Available
by Ricardo Campos 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

> Find a really dodgy IRC channel and say something like "I bet no one > can break into my box!", sit back and watch your logs fill 8). > Maybe I'll see Earl there... ;) lol (joke, mate) Can you imagine the paranoia... (is he a Fed?). I could troll as a 13 year old scriptkiddy.... > Failing that, get a mate to run nmap or nessus (which uses nmap) on your > IP address. If you let me know what it is, I'll do it for you. (Ma ha > ha ha) I'll try and lock it down a bit more, and I'll do just that! My ISP is demon so I always have the same IP anyway. Maybe if I can get my laptop's pcmcia network card working, I could do it from there, or even failing that, put the card in my housemates' Win98 laptop and run some poor quality scanners! ;) Ricardo ------------------ I must be a geek- I think TCP/IP is actually very interesting. -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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