Re: Restoring /etc

2004-08-06 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day, - Original Message - From: "Mark Bucciarelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2004 12:17 AM Subject: Restoring /etc > I screwed up my /etc directory bigtime. I wanted to put it under CVS to > maintain a history, but didn't realize that CVS

IIS worms and apache

2004-08-06 Thread Shannon R.
Is there a debian package wherein the app recognizes IIS worm attacks? Then blocks these IPs in real time? Would also be nice if it'll unblock those IPs after a certain amount of time. Thanks! Shannon __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoC

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2004-08-06 Thread adslsupport
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Can of Worms

2004-08-06 Thread Ross Goble
Hi I'm not an ISP but I keep getting this kind of activity on my modem: +--+ omni:~# tcpdump -i ppp0 | grep unreachable tcpdump: listening on ppp0 07:48:29.447038 211.26.118.133 > 211.26.122.178: icmp: 211.26.118.133 tcp port 135 unreachable [tos 0xc0] 07:48:29.459207 211.2

postfix, spamassassin and spam ~ blocking cable and adsl modems

2004-08-06 Thread Steven Jones
We seem to be, being hit with in excess of 12,000 spam emails per day from adsl and cable modems in the US alone. Then we get brute force attackedthe server at times gets somewhat stretched... What would ppl suggest it the most efficient way to block such addresses? I cannot simply block

Re: IDS

2004-08-06 Thread Chris Wagner
The only problem with tripwire is that u have to set up the snapshot file on write protected media to have true security. If somebody hacks ur box they can just reupdate tripwire themselves and u'll be none the wiser. This can be an administrative hassle to update the snapshot and move it to some

Re: IDS

2004-08-06 Thread Dan MacNeil
> I also want to use something like tripwire to set up file intregity. apt-cache search tripwire apt-cache show aide On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, Tinus Nijmeijers wrote: > I'm looking at securing a new server. > > i'll be using iptables to restrict acces and i want to install SNORT to >

Re: Restoring /etc

2004-08-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 00:17, Mark Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there some clever way I can recreate the /etc dir? (A dpkg-reconfigure > trick?) Or can I just copy the symbolic links from the working box over > to the non-working box? How about the following: tar cf /tmp/foo.tar `fin

Restoring /etc

2004-08-06 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
I screwed up my /etc directory bigtime. I wanted to put it under CVS to maintain a history, but didn't realize that CVS does not honor symbolic links. Of course, I didn't backup before rm -rf /etc; cvs co etc. Doh! I have another Debian stable box and I tried recreating the rc.? and alternat

IDS

2004-08-06 Thread Tinus Nijmeijers
I'm looking at securing a new server. i'll be using iptables to restrict acces and i want to install SNORT to watch the network. I also want to use something like tripwire to set up file intregity. however: tripwire seems OLD, last version (2.3.1) is from march 3, 2001 i've also seen AIDE ment