Re: Package management and security

2007-06-08 Thread Mark Lanett
You want to use a combination of these commands at different times: apt-get -qq update # necessary, no email desired apt-get -dy upgrade # download minor updates, do not install, send email apt-get -yupgrade # install minor updates, send email apt-get -qqdy dist-upgrade #

Re: Security Updates Sources

2002-06-04 Thread Mark Lanett
You mean deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security woody/updates main right? ~mark From: "Tuyen DINH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What about this line : deb http://security.debian.org/woody/updates main ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Security Updates Sources

2002-06-04 Thread Mark Lanett
You mean deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security woody/updates main right? ~mark From: "Tuyen DINH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What about this line : deb http://security.debian.org/woody/updates main ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: syn flood attacked?

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Lanett
/etc/init.d/networking takes care of it but the option is set by default to "no" in /etc/network/options ~mark - Original Message - From: "Greg Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:46 PM Subject: Re: syn flood attacked? > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookie

Re: syn flood attacked?

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Lanett
/etc/init.d/networking takes care of it but the option is set by default to "no" in /etc/network/options ~mark - Original Message - From: "Greg Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 12:46 PM Subject: Re: syn flood attacked? > echo 1 > /proc/sys/ne

Re: Can a daemon listen only on some interfaces?

2001-12-08 Thread Mark Lanett
Postfix is configurable as to which interfaces it listens to. So are samba, courier-imap, apache. The only problem is that each one has its own completely different kind of configuration file. The new vserver patch (for 2.4.16) can be used to force processes to use only one interface. ~mark

Re: Can a daemon listen only on some interfaces?

2001-12-08 Thread Mark Lanett
Postfix is configurable as to which interfaces it listens to. So are samba, courier-imap, apache. The only problem is that each one has its own completely different kind of configuration file. The new vserver patch (for 2.4.16) can be used to force processes to use only one interface. ~mark -

Re: Hard Disk Organization

2001-11-08 Thread Mark Lanett
The deal with RAID is that it only protects you from hardware failure, not software failure. If you accidentally delete a file or someone hacks your machine, the data will be erased from both sides of the mirror. Personally I think software failure is more likely than hardware (unless you have tho

Re: Hard Disk Organization

2001-11-08 Thread Mark Lanett
The deal with RAID is that it only protects you from hardware failure, not software failure. If you accidentally delete a file or someone hacks your machine, the data will be erased from both sides of the mirror. Personally I think software failure is more likely than hardware (unless you have th