Re: [debian-edu] Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Herman Robak
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:39, Conrad Newton wrote: > >From Bill Kendrick on Friday, 2004-12-03 at 15:20:04 -0800: > > Rick Moen put a pretty long article up about this subject: > > > > http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus > > Hi Bill, > > Thanks, I have seen this set of article

Re: Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Herman Robak
On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 00:52, Conrad Newton wrote: > >From Ben Higginbottom on Friday, 2004-12-03 at 23:29:37 +: > > Someone with root access to a box logged direcly > > into it as root, and then used evolution to read their > > emails and was infected. > > In other words, the user screwed up

Re: Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 02:33:30AM +0100, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:07:54AM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > > While it is clear that it is *much easier* to write viruses for Windows, > > it does not seem altogether *impossible* that it could be done for > > Linux, too. U

Re: Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:07:54AM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > While it is clear that it is *much easier* to write viruses for Windows, > it does not seem altogether *impossible* that it could be done for > Linux, too. Unfortunately, "much easier" is not easy to quantify, and > therefore open to

Re: Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Ralf Gesel|ensetter on Saturday, 2004-12-04 at 00:25:30 +0100: > Am Samstag, 4. Dezember 2004 00:07 schrieb Conrad Newton: > > This seems a little weak, but at least it is honest.  Many of the > > more detailed discussions are completely unusable. > > Hi there, > of course there are few exp

Re: Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Ben Higginbottom on Friday, 2004-12-03 at 23:29:37 +: > Conrad Newton wrote: > > > >Up to now, the only formulation that I find reasonably satisfing is the > >following: > > > > Ask a Linux user when he or she last had a virus, and you will > > encounter only confusion: although secu

Re: [debian-edu] Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Bill Kendrick on Friday, 2004-12-03 at 15:20:04 -0800: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:07:54AM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > > I suppose this is not really the right list for this question, but it is > > not really wrong either, because I am looking for an answer that is > > suitable for teacher

Re: Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Ben Higginbottom
Conrad Newton wrote: Up to now, the only formulation that I find reasonably satisfing is the following: Ask a Linux user when he or she last had a virus, and you will encounter only confusion: although security experts agree that Linux _could_ have viruses (in theory), in practice I have

Re: Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Samstag, 4. Dezember 2004 00:07 schrieb Conrad Newton: > This seems a little weak, but at least it is honest.  Many of the > more detailed discussions are completely unusable. Hi there, of course there are few exploits (namely: rootkits) that can dock to single servers. But what you should fo

Re: [debian-edu] Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:07:54AM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > I suppose this is not really the right list for this question, but it is > not really wrong either, because I am looking for an answer that is > suitable for teachers and students---not advanced computer professionals > like yourselve

Does Linux have viruses?

2004-12-03 Thread Conrad Newton
I suppose this is not really the right list for this question, but it is not really wrong either, because I am looking for an answer that is suitable for teachers and students---not advanced computer professionals like yourselves . . . I have been studying this problem, and trying to understand wh

Re: [slx-www-int] cvs_intro at http://www.skolelinux.org/portal

2004-12-03 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 3. Dezember 2004 21:03 schrieb Finn-Arne Johansen: > pointed him to cvs.skolelinux.no. > > Should the website be updated ? if this information is right, it must be altered. till now I am too cvsphobic to tell ;) cu Ralf

Re: Error testing net for thinclients

2004-12-03 Thread Ralf Gesel|ensetter
Am Freitag, 3. Dezember 2004 19:01 schrieb Axel Bojer: > * The diskettes should be OK too, they are booting. Hi Axel, if thin clients boot from floppy but not through LAN/PXE, then here must be the error. - Either the protocoll (PXE/Etherboot) is the wrong one - Or the PXE ROM-settings changed

cvs_intro at http://www.skolelinux.org/portal

2004-12-03 Thread Finn-Arne Johansen
Vagrant had trouble finding the debian-edu sources because http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/contribute/development/cvs_intro pointed him to cvs.skolelinux.no. Should the website be updated ? -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/

Re: Error testing net for thinclients

2004-12-03 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fredag 3. desember 2004, 20:26, skrev Conrad Newton: > Don't forget to include Axel in your reply, he is not on this list. > > Conrad Sorry Axel. Thanks Conrad. - -- Klaus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBsL7ih

Re: Error testing net for thinclients

2004-12-03 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Klaus Ade Johnstad on Friday, 2004-12-03 at 20:22:27 +0100: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > fredag 3. desember 2004, 19:01, skrev Axel Bojer: > > machine. What I get now is: > > "searching for server (DHCP)" > > And there it stops for days, and nothing more happens.

Re: Error testing net for thinclients

2004-12-03 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fredag 3. desember 2004, 19:01, skrev Axel Bojer: > machine. What I get now is: > "searching for server (DHCP)" > And there it stops for days, and nothing more happens. Plesase could you run a tail -f /var/log/syslog when you start your clients, le

Re: Error testing net for thinclients

2004-12-03 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, [ I'm cc'ing my reply to the skolelinux administrators group where a few more people might help out ] On Fri, 03 Dec 2004, Axel Bojer wrote: > I have tried to ask this on the norwegian list, but no one seemed to know: > I am having a Problem with our Skolelinux Server; it simply do not want

Re: Error testing net for thinclients

2004-12-03 Thread Klaus Ade Johnstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 fredag 3. desember 2004, 19:01, skrev Axel Bojer: > "searching for server (DHCP)" > And there it stops for days, and nothing more happens. Sound like to me that you might have run out of free ip. Try to increase the number of ip, change in the fil

Error testing net for thinclients

2004-12-03 Thread Axel Bojer
Hello! I have tried to ask this on the norwegian list, but no one seemed to know: I am having a Problem with our Skolelinux Server; it simply do not want to work over the thinclient net (eth1). I can ping to it, but the thinclients wont come up. The configuration ought to be OK because I have not

Re: description of benefits and limitations of debian-edu/skolelinux

2004-12-03 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Thursday 02 December 2004 23:58, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > i'd like to get a short description of the advantages (and weaknesses) > of a debian-edu/skolelinux network... > > i looked over these pages: > > http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/about/what > http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/about/why >

Re: description of benefits and limitations of debian-edu/skolelinux

2004-12-03 Thread Kurt
* Vagrant Cascadian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041202 23:58]: > i'd like to get a short description of the advantages (and weaknesses) > of a debian-edu/skolelinux network... > > i looked over these pages: > > http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/about/what > http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/about/why >

Re: description of benefits and limitations of debian-edu/skolelinux

2004-12-03 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Vagrant Cascadian on Thursday, 2004-12-02 at 14:58:50 -0800: > i'd like to get a short description of the advantages (and weaknesses) > of a debian-edu/skolelinux network... > > > > i am largely interested in diskless terminal technologies, but i imagine > there are other big advantages wit

Re: description of benefits and limitations of debian-edu/skolelinux

2004-12-03 Thread John Evans
on 02/12/2004 22:58, Vagrant Cascadian at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'd like to get a short description of the advantages (and weaknesses) > of a debian-edu/skolelinux network... > > i looked over these pages: > > http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/about/what > http://www.skolelinux.org/portal/ab