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This item is for system problems. If something on Grex isn't working right (line noise on a modem, weird behavior from a program, etc.), this is the place to announce it. Except for security holes. If you find a hole in system security, mail information about it to "staff".
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Grex's version of "w" is retarded. I can't even order the output by idle time.
(I realize that's not a system problem for most of you)
You're fat.
Re #1: You don't know how to use "sort"?
I don't know if this is expected behavior or not, but as I hadn't logged on grex regularly in some time, I figured I'd report it. I probably haven't logged on interactively (ssh/telnet) in over a year, but when I just attempted to do so, ssh rejected my password. I finally tried telnet and found that my password had expired so it required me to change it. Now, if grex at some point drops telnet (as I'm sure is eventually bound to happen, though probably not remotely soon), this could be a problem. I guess that apache doesn't prompt you and actually lets you login with an expired password, and telnet tells you it's been expired, but ssh is oblivious. Anyway, I'm just reporting that issue.
It's known; I think it's a limit in ssh, itself.
The load average was up to 168 a few minutes ago, but it seems to be dropping now. 9:01am up 26 days, 14:09, 27 users, load average: 158.47, 159.66, 155.52 Also, this may be related, but Backtalk was just prompting me endlessly for a password.
Currently: 9:37am up 26 days, 14:45, 28 users, load average: 18.75, 33.39, 66.41 but Grex is still extremely slow.
settled down now ... 1:08pm up 26 days, 18:16, 44 users, load average: 5.09, 4.11, 3.69 on the m-b0x late last night there was cgi mailbomb process running that ran load into the high 100s also.
apache often will not authenticate properly when the load is too high. I'm not sure if the password files lock or what, but it happens.
grex has been very, VERY s-l--o---w this afternoon........
No shit.
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Geez.
Uh, right. When did you become a Grex staffer, Todd?
krj is a hacker!
Why is grex denying logins?
hmm.... You logged in to enter your response, no? So maybe the problem was fixed?
BACKTALK!
I'm surprised that it makes a difference.
(I was surprised that it made a difference as well, but it did.) (on the bright side, whatever "vandal maintenance" took place appears to have worked. Grex is humming along right now.)
What was the vandal Maintance STeve?
Its 10:10am on Jan. 1st, and when i connect to grex and login, it disconnects me. What kind of System Maintance is now happening?
10:15am up 14 mins, 2 users, load average: 1.80, 1.85, 1.55 0 waiting, 2 remote + 1 local users; 72 max remote users
Login Name TTY Idle Login Time Location Work Phone noot Scott Helmke's Root p1 Jan 1 10:14 root Operator p0 Jan 1 10:13
resp:20: If the webserver is up, you should be able to login and use backtalk. If logins are disabled, you just can't login, likely because someone is working to clear up whatever was causing the problems that made them reboot grex. They'd want to make sure those scripts are gone, logins are disabled, and possibly networks are blocked so they can prevent the person from coming right back and starting again.
Valerie Comeing to Save GREX!!!!!! Login Name TTY Idle Login Time Location Work Phone noot Scott Helmke's Root p1 Jan 1 10:14 valerie Valerie Mates *s0 Jan 1 10:21 Happy Everything!
The Webserver is Obviously up, Or how would i be entering items, or how would people read them.
Really nasty vandal - but I think we've managed to deal with it.
grex is up at 10:54 appeared to be another attack early this morning!!!!!
While grex is preventing Vandals, Mnet is letting them on their systems, after the mailbombing cgi script Login: kap Name: kap de kuk Directory: /home/guest/kap Shell: /bin/bash On since Wed Jan 1 10:48 (EST) on ttypk, idle 0:08, from 203.111.194.11 No Mail. Plan: Alternate Email: neuro@pula.com bash- 2.05a$
Thanks, Scott.
I'm not sure if the user kap is still allowed to log on. Finger information shows up even if the user is splatted.
resp:33 READ CLOSER On since Wed Jan 1 10:48 (EST) on ttypk, idle 0:08, from 203.111.194.11
In the past day or so I have received five (5) copies of happy.scr from azhar.rajput@sympatico.ca. If other people have been receiving these, can the filter be set to reject mail from this idiot? Is happy.scr the screensaver it claims to be or some virus on another machine? The mails are 47K and I have to empty my mailbox regularly to keep it functional.
Can someone explain again, in detail, how to use procmail. I just got a sixth copy of the above spam, all 49K with header and message.
Would it work to create a file in my home directory called .procmailrc and put into it the lines :0 * ^From:azhar.rajput* /dev/null (These are three separate lines but I cannot type a line starting with a colon into bbs.)
RE:37 You might have to put something in your .forward to make it work. You can also put a space before the gate prompt if you are entering special characters, like: ! :
So what is .forward supposed to look like? I think procmail should be included in something like the CHANGE program so that all we beginners can use it more easily. Any volunteers to do this? I put those lines in a file .procmailrc (also * before the from address since it comes as azhar rajput <azhar.rajput.....> and at least it is not blocking normal mail (I sent myself a test mail). The man page for procmail also said to put -m somewhere, but I could not understand most of it.
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