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Hi less /etc/services ? For what is established/listening now I use netstat -atpcevu in a root shell tcp listen port 9176 udp listen port 9176 (not in /etc/services) would be default's for valknut I just installed and know 0 about. hih

"I just wonder like iphitus if my system is really hacked." Me too. Assuming what I sugested in a previous post came up empty or clear I would attack that machine with a recent nessus. Also would get to know that machine intimately and not forget that a wipe is peace of mind. Hope you are enjoying this. Much better then tv I find.

"TypeError: system() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)" Single argument: os.system('mozilla http://www.google.com') python illeterate here. hih

From http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html One of his most briliant performance http://www.tarmo.fi/arc/monkeydance.mpeg

Hi crazyspongebob How about status/feedback, please!

Hi "I'm thinking of wiping the box clean and reinstalling Mandrake 10." Go for it for "best" peace of mind. "I just wonder if it is just the two affected users' accounts got compromised but not the whole system." As far as I know an updated firewalled linux is not trivial to break into. More checking and snooping before wiping? -rpm -V all shadow related installed packages (rpm -qa | grep -i shadow) -chkrootkit -q -rkhunter --checkall (HOMEPAGE="http://www.rootkit.org/") (new for me rootkit checker) -output of last and lastlog commands -files in /var/log/ -root's .bash_history -"compromised" users .bash_history Hope it's not a wipe but a fix and keep since I find it's much more fun!

Hi Did not check kernel parameters. /etc/limits (owned by shadow package here) in witch you may set per user limits... man limits also help ulimit (bash builtin command) more: grsecurity kernel patch at http://www.grsecurity.net/ bye Post subject: /etc/limits vs /etc/security/limits.conf http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=247431

sarah Hi ASAP go Linux. Malware(and $solutions$) about gone. The catch is you got to figure out your linux. But it's 100% configurable/documented/open-sourced/free, just like you wan't it I hope. AussieJohn "I do not use or need passwords on my computer in either root or my account" I do. I call it my idiot proofing for when I am not running on all neurons and at keyboard (been there some). It is superbly trivial to destroy my linux when root and waste time rebuilding while not doing what was initially intended. It is (99.9%)not possible to destroy my linux when I am user b. Hope you never are an idiot like I am sometimes. mtaylor57 If you mount the disk on other machine and if it's disk partitions are encrypted you have problems getting at it's content if you don't have the key unless you are a spook from some such as NSA i.e. huge resources and neurons required... Bottom line: Don't want it known, don't write it.

Hi "but my root is not able to connect o X server" Good. In X while root is risky/happy-sitting-duck! Don't do this!! (cut off www if unprotected &| paranoid) (then give root X permision) cp /home/$USER/.Xauthority /root as root check root $DISPLAY value (should be same as echo $USER when $USER) "so i cannot see the dialog box" Doe's this work? Alt/F2 kdialog --title test --msgbox test 0 problems here. I thought the idea was to run kdialog with non root priviledges! My little script work's here. (Maybe try it stanalone say as test.sh first) Please post your shell script. Maybe somebody will pick up something?

Hi Some way ... #build kdialog command file echo "#!/bin/sh" > /tmp/kdialog_cmd echo "/usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdialog --title test --msgbox test &" >> /tmp/kdialog_cmd chmod a+x /tmp/kdialog_cmd # run kdialog command file as some-user su - some-user -c /tmp/kdialog_cmd ... hih

Hi again Anyone here! Fallback posistion: minicom or xminicom(kinda-guied) work? serial link /dev/ttyS* confirgured/up/work? null modem cable check? Alternative: gtkterm-0.99.3 ok here but am not running mdk. compile source for your OS? A good many .devel packages (for header .h files) are required(mdk) if I rememeber correctly. How about more configuration/raw feedback. Browsed this ? http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Co...OWTO/index.html HIH

Hi about: bash: /etc/profile.d/java.sh: Permission denied I suspect /etc/profile.d/java.sh bash shell script is not set executable. As to why it is not auto-set-so? Probably stuff to investigate further.

Hi http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html

Hi minicom HOMEPAGE="http://www.netsonic.fi/~walker/minicom.html" gtkterm HOMEPAGE="http://www.jls-info.com/julien/linux/"

Hi xmms-shn DESCRIPTION="This input plugin allows xmms to play .shn compressed (lossless) files" HOMEPAGE="http://shnutils.etree.org/xmms-shn" SRC_URI="http://www.etree.org/shnutils/xmms-shn/source/.xmms-shn-2.2.8.tar.gz" I have no idea if it's available as a rpm file. hih