Re: [techtalk] network speeds...

2000-05-17 Thread Melissa Plunkett
will help to illustrate how everything is related. Top is good because it if your load is high you'll want to see what is causing it so you can find a solution to bring it down and increase system performance. Hope that helps :) Melissa Plunkett Walt wrote: > > At 01:53 AM 5/17/00

Re: [techtalk] a good perl book

2000-05-18 Thread Melissa Plunkett
found learning by example is one of the best ways so try going to places such as the http://www.cgi-resources.com/ where there are tons of perl CGI's for you to tinker with. Have fun :) Melissa Plunkett Clair Mooza wrote: > > I don't know the first thing about Perl and am very ne

Re: [techtalk] perl modules

2000-05-20 Thread Melissa Plunkett
g documentation: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/perl/CPAN.html Enjoy! Melissa Plunkett Jeff Frasca wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 20 May 2000, Lori wrote: > > > Can some of you perl ppl out there point me in the right di

[techtalk] Helpful security program

2000-05-22 Thread Melissa Plunkett
Hello all, I thought I'd share a really kewl program with all of you that I first tried out a few months ago. It's a program called Bastille Linux (http://bastille-linux.sourceforge.net/) and helps you to secure your Red Hat 6.0 box. The reason I am posting this is that if you are setting up y

Re: [techtalk] Security techniques ( Redhat 6.2 question)

2000-05-28 Thread Melissa Plunkett
Sorry to reply to this a bit late, I'm a tad behind in email reading. There is one other rather good automated security measure that I use and believe is related to this discussion, esp since logcheck was mentioned. The software is portsentry and is available by the same people that wrote logchec

Re: [techtalk] Security techniques ( Redhat 6.2 question)

2000-05-28 Thread Melissa Plunkett
was a home box this would help to keep out the prying eyes and help to keep the original posters mind at ease. -Melissa Jamie Walker wrote: > > Melissa Plunkett wrote: > > > configurable, for example you can handle port scans by > > using the feature that adds the offen

Re: [techtalk] DNS & Linux

2000-06-02 Thread Melissa Plunkett
I think I can help a bit with the nsswitch.conf vs hosts.conf question. I run NIS and NFS on IRIX so it's a little different but not too much. A quick explaination of NIS (Network Information System)...NIS is a service that allows you to make important information available to other servers/work

[Fwd: Re: [techtalk] Learning more about Linux ...]

2000-06-19 Thread Melissa Plunkett
Doh! I sent it to Jeff only, sorry Jeff...let's try this again... Jeff Frasca wrote: *snip* > > > What good resources are there that describe things like the above? Are > > > there any books that anyone can recommend? > > Once you've gone through a book that gets you started, or if you have a

Re: [techtalk] mount: RPC: Program not registered message

2000-06-19 Thread Melissa Plunkett
Davida Schiff wrote: > > Hi, > > I have 2 PC's running RH 6.1 hooked to our network. Yesterday both were able > to mount a (NFS) server named Mango. Today after a reboot the NFS automount > fails. Also I can't manually mount it with the following command: mount > /mnt/mango when I do I get this

Re: [techtalk] Apache Question

2001-03-21 Thread Melissa Plunkett
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[techtalk] [Fwd: ALERT - A DANGEROUS NEW WORM IS SPREADING ON THE INTERNET]

2001-03-23 Thread Melissa Plunkett
of Neohapsis > > Matt Fearnow > SANS GIAC Incident Handler > > If you have additional data on this worm or a critical quetsion please > email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (BSD/OS) > Comment: For inf

Re: [techtalk] FTP server

2001-03-29 Thread Melissa Plunkett
ahoo.com/?.refer=text > > > > _______ > > techtalk mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk > > -- > /* > /* Melissa Plunkett

Re: [techtalk] port purposes...

2001-04-03 Thread Melissa Plunkett
; > -~ > > Genius is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent > perspiration. > Thomas Alva Edison > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/te

Re: [techtalk] tracking multiple admin logins?

2001-04-04 Thread Melissa Plunkett
t; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jenn Vesperman http://www.simegen.com/~jenn/ > > _______ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk -- /* /* Melissa Plunket

Re: [techtalk] Slightly OT: My dopey sysadmin strikes again!

2001-04-04 Thread Melissa Plunkett
gt; > > > > ______ > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at > http://webmail.netscape.com/ > > > > ___ >

Re: [techtalk] Redhat Linux 7 Crashes

2001-04-12 Thread Melissa Plunkett
boot directly to X/Gnome > with Redhat 7 whereas I was booting to console with Redhat 6. Are you getting any messages in the system log (/var/adm/messages) when this occurs? This will help all of us provide a better answer. -Melissa -- /* /* Melissa Plunkett

Re: [techtalk] Seeming inconsistency between /etc/passwd and "real" password data

2001-04-12 Thread Melissa Plunkett
t email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk -- /* /* Melissa Plunkett /* System/Network Administrat

Re: [techtalk] Backup strategy

2001-04-24 Thread Melissa Plunkett
ys it can only support up to 4 GB). I couldn't find a howto on > backups. Can anyone point to better references? Or suggest some backup > packages? > > Thanks! > > Jen > > _______ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROT

Re: [techtalk] Eric Raymond, MS security, and open source..

2001-05-14 Thread Melissa Plunkett
p://www.eeye.com/html/Research/Advisories/AD20010501.html> > > (Re-distribute and publish freely.) > -- > http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond > > "The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the > individual asserts both his social power and his participation in > politics as a responsible moral being...&

Re: [techtalk] message to all

2001-05-16 Thread Melissa Plunkett
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Re: [techtalk] vmware

2001-05-17 Thread Melissa Plunkett
n says something about his open > source baby freetds.org, awww! > > Rose > > ___ > techtalk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk -- /* /* Melissa Pl