|
|
| Author |
Message |
| 25 new of 251 responses total. |
gull
|
|
response 221 of 251:
| 
Mar 10 03:32 UTC 2003 |
It hasn't been patched with the 'official' patch yet, at very least. So
it's probably vulnerable.
AFAIK there's no working exploit for this on SunOS (or any other OS)
yet, not that anyone should be reassured much by that.
|
jep
|
|
response 222 of 251:
|
Mar 10 17:34 UTC 2003 |
Backtalk isn't responding but telnet is working fine.
|
mynxcat
|
|
response 223 of 251:
|
Mar 10 19:50 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
|
remmers
|
|
response 224 of 251:
|
Mar 10 21:02 UTC 2003 |
Web server was probably down for some reason.
|
gull
|
|
response 225 of 251:
|
Mar 11 01:30 UTC 2003 |
Incidentally, if you haven't already, you might want to email staff about
the sendmail thing. They tend to read email a lot more often than they read
this item.
|
goose
|
|
response 226 of 251:
|
Mar 12 00:04 UTC 2003 |
I tried the Backtalk interface today, and could not get the Abelone(sp?)
one to work, it just sat there.
|
jhudson
|
|
response 227 of 251:
|
Mar 13 16:44 UTC 2003 |
They all just sit there for a while. Be patient. This screen took
2min to come up.
|
mynxcat
|
|
response 228 of 251:
|
Mar 13 18:59 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
|
russ
|
|
response 229 of 251:
|
Mar 14 02:44 UTC 2003 |
Re #228: That may not be Grex, it might be your browser (or web
proxy server) timing out more quickly than Grex responds.
|
mynxcat
|
|
response 230 of 251:
|
Mar 14 15:00 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
|
russ
|
|
response 231 of 251:
|
Mar 14 23:20 UTC 2003 |
Almost no mail has been delivered today. Something's wrong.
|
gull
|
|
response 232 of 251:
|
Mar 15 01:20 UTC 2003 |
I've gotten a fair amount of mail. About as much as I normally expect,
anyway.
|
davel
|
|
response 233 of 251:
|
Mar 15 01:35 UTC 2003 |
Same here.
|
krokus
|
|
response 234 of 251:
|
Mar 15 21:55 UTC 2003 |
The putty screen is still clearing, right after motd. Hence, I can't
ready motd, nor the new mail alert.
|
anderyn
|
|
response 235 of 251:
|
Mar 15 22:05 UTC 2003 |
No mail here today either.
|
gelinas
|
|
response 236 of 251:
|
Mar 16 00:11 UTC 2003 |
krokus, take a look at your termtype. I've seen something like that with
vs100, I think it is. I have to set my xterm's termtype to vt100 when
connecting to grex.
|
gull
|
|
response 237 of 251:
|
Mar 16 00:52 UTC 2003 |
My screen has always cleared after login.
|
remmers
|
|
response 238 of 251:
|
Mar 16 02:52 UTC 2003 |
One could make 'motd' the last line of one's .login or .profile.
|
krokus
|
|
response 239 of 251:
|
Mar 16 03:37 UTC 2003 |
re 236
I can't change the emulation, as such. PuTTY only allows you to change
certain aspects of the intereaction.
re 238
That was something I tried, but motd is displayed by the system, along
with the new mail status, prior to the .login or .profile. (I know,
it can be displayed again.)
|
russ
|
|
response 240 of 251:
|
Mar 16 04:20 UTC 2003 |
Re #234: I believe that some tset or other commands clear the screen;
check your .login file for things you don't need.
|
gull
|
|
response 241 of 251:
|
Mar 16 05:13 UTC 2003 |
I have .hushlogin set to prevent the motd from being displayed during
login. The reason is I have a script in my .profile that diffs the motd
against what it was last time I logged in and displays just the changes.
|
remmers
|
|
response 242 of 251:
|
Mar 16 13:31 UTC 2003 |
By the way, are you aware that the motd displayed by the system
on login, and by the motd command, displays more than just the
contents of the file /etc/motd?
|
gull
|
|
response 243 of 251:
|
Mar 16 17:27 UTC 2003 |
I wasn't. Why is that?
|
carson
|
|
response 244 of 251:
|
Mar 16 19:06 UTC 2003 |
(are you aware that, if using a ssh client, the system does *not*
display more than the contents of /etc/motd?) ;)
|
remmers
|
|
response 245 of 251:
|
Mar 16 21:25 UTC 2003 |
(Yeah, I recently became aware of that. I'm hoping that's
a problem that magically goes away when Grex moves to new
hardware and a modern, well-supported OS.)
Re #243: I imagine it's so that parts of the login message
can be generated automatically without collisions. For
example, the birthday part of the motd is in
/usr/local/lib/motd.birthday. This file is regenerated
daily by a program that scans the birthday database and
selects people whose birthday matches the current date.
It would be unfortunate if the program wrote directly to
/etc/motd at the same time somebody was editing /etc/motd
manually.
|
