Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2/13/25 7:39 PM, home user via users wrote: On 2/13/25 7:33 PM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 10:50 -0700, home user via users wrote: When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) regarding Is there a reason you feel the need to check for rootkits? I'm u

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 13 Feb 2025 at 20:39, home user via users wrote: Date sent: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:39:23 -0700 Subject:Re: security: wted? To: Community support for Fedora users Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users From:

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread home user via users
On 2/13/25 7:33 PM, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 10:50 -0700, home user via users wrote: When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) regarding Is there a reason you feel the need to check for rootkits? I'm under the impression that if you don't install th

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 10:50 -0700, home user via users wrote: > When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of > context) regarding Is there a reason you feel the need to check for rootkits? I'm under the impression that if you don't install things from outside of the repos,

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread home user via users
On 2/13/25 3:11 PM, home user via users wrote: On 2/13/25 2:40 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Feb 13, 2025, at 12:51, home user via users wrote: [snip] What is "wted", and is there a security problem? The “wted” function in the chkrootkit script runs “chwtmp -f /var/log/wtmp` (the execu

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread home user via users
On 2/13/25 2:40 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Feb 13, 2025, at 12:51, home user via users wrote: (f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago) When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) regarding "wted": - - - - - - [snip] Checking `w55808'... not infected Che

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread home user via users
On 2/13/25 1:15 PM, Barry wrote: On 13 Feb 2025, at 17:51, home user via users wrote: When I ran chkrootkit I cannot find evidence of this tool being maintained. But I did find people saying its reports contain false positives. Barry Thank-you, Barry. I "patch" weekly. dnf says this

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread home user via users
On 2/13/25 1:00 PM, Dave Close wrote: home user via users wrote: (f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago) When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) regarding "wted": - - - - - - [snip] Checking `w55808'... not infected Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) between T

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Feb 13, 2025, at 12:51, home user via users wrote: > > (f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago) > > When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) > regarding "wted": > - - - - - - > [snip] > Checking `w55808'... not infected > Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s)

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread Barry
> On 13 Feb 2025, at 17:51, home user via users > wrote: > > When I ran chkrootkit I cannot find evidence of this tool being maintained. But I did find people saying its reports contain false positives. Barry -- ___ users mailing list -- users@l

Re: security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread Dave Close
home user via users wrote: >(f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago) > >When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) >regarding "wted": >- - - - - - >[snip] >Checking `w55808'... not infected >Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) between Tue Jan 28 07:33:49 2025 and Tue

security: wted?

2025-02-13 Thread home user via users
(f40; gnome; last patched minutes ago) When I ran chkrootkit, I got the following (including a few lines of context) regarding "wted": - - - - - - [snip] Checking `w55808'... not infected Checking `wted'... 1 deletion(s) between Tue Jan 28 07:33:49 2025 and Tue Jan 28 07:36:08 2025 1 deletion(s

Re: thunderbird problem

2025-02-13 Thread richard emberson
Has been happening to me for a couple of years - multiple IMAP google accounts. Mostly, it happens when I delete a bunch of stuff from the Archives folders. Thunderbird would freeze. Using Wayland, after Thunderbird crashes, Wayland UI was frozen and I had to reboot. So, went back to X (xfce4); Th

Re: thunderbird problem

2025-02-13 Thread Ron Flory via users
On 2/13/2025 1:49 AM, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: It is me, the OP. To simplify the story. - start TB. OK - fetch POP3 mail. A few times in a few hours. All OK. - do a "Compact Folders". messages say it completed. The blue activity line remains wavy(*). TB is idle yet it shows 60-70% CPU

Re: thunderbird problem

2025-02-13 Thread fedora
On 13/2/25 20:38, Tim wrote: On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 18:49 +1100, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: It is me, the OP. To simplify the story. - start TB. OK - fetch POP3 mail. A few times in a few hours. All OK. - do a "Compact Folders". messages say it completed. The blue activity line remains

Re: thunderbird problem

2025-02-13 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2025-02-13 at 18:49 +1100, fed...@eyal.emu.id.au wrote: > It is me, the OP. To simplify the story. > - start TB. OK > - fetch POP3 mail. A few times in a few hours. All OK. > - do a "Compact Folders". > messages say it completed. The blue activity line remains wavy(*). > TB