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Do I realyy have a trojan ?
by bsamuels＠beenthere-donethat.org.uk 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

I recently saw the following in a chkrootkit report: Feb 7th - Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for readdir command You have 1 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Checking earlier reports I see: Jan 19th - Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Jan 21st - Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Jan 23rd - Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Jan 25th - Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Jan 29th - Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Jan 31st - Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Feb 1st - Checking `lkm'... nothing detected Feb 3rd - Checking `lkm'... You have 1 process hidden for readdir command You have 1 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed Feb 5th - Checking `lkm'... nothing detected So although the first warning appears on Feb 3rd it does not show on Feb 5th but re-appears on Feb 7th. Because of that I'm assuming (hoping?) it may be a false alarm. Well it does say 'Possible'! I have only a standard dial-up connection and have PMFirewall installed and running when I'm connected to the internet. I run chkrootkit every other day. What do you think chaps? (Chaps is a generic term which includes chapesses). Barry Samuels

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Re: [Alug] Acrobat/Ghostscript printing
by MJ Ray 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

Ted Harding: > However, after 'ps2pdf' this PS file converts to a PDF file of size 40667 > bytes -- actually smaller than the original! (of course, there is > compression involved here; if I turn off compression I end up with 207810 I notice that ps.gz is missing from your figures? Anyway, PDF is a good idea poorly executed, I think. By introducing multiple incompatible versions of the format and making implementers have to play "chase the document trail" if they want to do a full version, they've pretty much guaranteed it's always going to cause pain. (The document trail comment is based on commend from the CL-PDF library authors, not personal experience.) Oh, remember that xpdf (or even pdf2ps and ps2ascii in some cases) recovers you the original text for editing. In many cases, xhtml is a better format for document interchange. -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] New Scientist Article
by Ricardo Campos 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

> No, this is something more - I think the concept is to make the multitrack > original available, which with modern editing/mixing tools can be altered, Sortof like mods? Mods have been around for a long time (anyone remember Octamed on the Amiga?), and you can download them, analyse how the sequence was put together AND the samples are included for your taking/altering. You can download loads of them at www.modarchive.com (and you can view/play them with www.soundtracker.org). The files themselves tend to be far smaller that the resulting MP3/OGG/WAV formats. Besides which, shouldn't we be thankful for any positive publicity, even if they don't get the licensing terms *exactly right*? It's funny how any attempt to get GNU/Linux (or Open Source Software or whatever) exposure to a wider audience always gets pooh-poohed. Maybe they should have printed the GPL and bored their readers to death? Now *that* REALLY would have helped! Ricardo _______________________________________________ "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [Alug] Isdn adaptors
by Ricardo Campos 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

> heh, reminds me that i will go and play with the alug wiki website (btw > /me likes wiki, already updated the FAQ once today!!) to point out that > ppl are in #alug during the week not just on Monday nights, we may not > always be talking but it could be useful for ppl to know. I never knew that.... And I look forward to running through the scripts on the ALUG site ;) > Anyhow maybe i should write up a home networking, fileserving, > firewalling, printing, etc. etc. HOW-TO at some point... I've got into a habit at work of writing HOWTO's for every awkward (or not so awkward) problem we've had. It's saved our bacon a few times! Ricardo _______________________________________________ "There are several codes, and I know several of them." -Mr. Precise. http://www.rscampos.net Check my online diary out: http://www.rscampos.net/blog.html -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Re: Perl plea for help
by Lucy McWilliam 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

Simon P wrote: > Now my problem is, for some reason, in my virtual user table, there are space > and tab's, how do I get the split to recognise the tab as well as the space > char? > > my @fields = split(" ", $_) || split("<ascii for tab?", $_); # As usual with perl, TMTOWTDI [0]. Your shortest option is below, where the delimiting character for the split is enclosed in forward slashes, $_ is the variable split my default and \s means whitespace (spaces and tabs). BTW, \t means tab. my @fields = split(/\s/); HTH, L. cam.pm.org [0] There's more than one way to do it ;-)

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Acrobat/Ghostscript printing
by tom potts 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

On of the problems appears to be with Acrobat itself. I've had lots of problems in W$ with PDF document printing. Probably best to regard PDF as a way of making small documents a lot bigger without having to use M$ Word! Thats what you get for re-inventing the wheel! 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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Directory help requested!
by MJ Ray 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

Hi all, As you know, part of the ALUG site is now in a wiki, which means that you too could be an ALUG web editor by using nothing but your browser. The three things that need most work are: 1. Decent page templates for viewed pages and editing pages. Send me some HTML, or put it online for us all to look at. 2. The Members Directory, for the all-important help decoding who everyone is on Monday evenings. 3. The Software Directory, which I was holding back from announcing until I'd written a sample review, but Ricardo beat me to it with a good review of Sylpheed. Crib from it. You can find it at http://www.alug.org.uk/contrib/ -- MJR

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Re: [Alug] Acrobat/Ghostscript printing problem
by Edenyard 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 19:57:26 +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Print to Postscript and use psselect from pstools. > Thanks for pointing that out - I'd never noticed those things lurking on my system! Seemed to work just right. I have an idea it's called 'psutils' though, just to be pedantic. > > Don't use PDF. ghostscript, xpdf and acroread have different problems with > them ;-) > I like that solution. Just one snag: I have all these IC data sheets sent to me, which I need to be able to read/print in order to be able to earn my crust. In the good old days, of course, manufacturers sent out real Data Books. Now all one gets is a CD-rom or an instruction to "go to www... and download the PDF". Either way it needs the use of GS/XPDF/AR. Unless, of course, you know differently....? Thanks for the input! Gerald.

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Perl plea for help....
by Simon 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

As promised in my last mail wanting help, I've been reading up on perl nd having a go and playing with a script sent to me by Raphael (Many thx) .... Now my problem is, for some reason, in my virtual user table, there are space and tab's, how do I get the split to recognise the tab as well as the space char? my @fields = split(" ", $_); # Break it down, this is the original and sees the space ok... my @fields = split(" ", $_) || split("<ascii for tab?", $_); # Break it down, is this anywhere close ? What I'm aiming for is a script that I can add/modify or delete entries in the virtual usertable..... I can get the entries added without any problems, but I will probably be posting again at some time to get help on modifying and deleteing them... #! /usr/bin/perl -w # make sure we get command line args if (not(defined($ARGV[0]))) { print "\n\n\nUsage: chk_alias <username>\n\n\n"; exit(1); } my $username = $ARGV[0]; # Get the username from commandline chomp($username); open(VUT, "</etc/mail/virtusertable")|| die "Cannot read virtusertable\n"; while (<VUT>) { # Read a line from /etc/mail/virtusertable my @fields = split(" ", $_); # Break it down my $alias = $fields[0]; my $user = $fields[1]; # User name chomp($user); next unless $user eq $username; print "Alias for $username is $alias\n"; } close VUT;

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Re: [Alug] Sendmail question.....
by MJ Ray 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

Simon: > [...] if I make any changes directly in the text file, do I have to do a > "makemap" to update a db file? I think so. Sendmail may try to do it itself if it notices: I can't remember if that was standard sendmail, or some FBSD tweak, though. > If so, can anyone help me out with the correct command please, [...] Sorry, I normally have to crib from the man page for makemap. -- MJR

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