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gull
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response 225 of 251:
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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.
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goose
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response 226 of 251:
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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.
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jhudson
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response 227 of 251:
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Mar 13 16:44 UTC 2003 |
They all just sit there for a while. Be patient. This screen took
2min to come up.
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mynxcat
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response 228 of 251:
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Mar 13 18:59 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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russ
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response 229 of 251:
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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.
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mynxcat
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response 230 of 251:
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Mar 14 15:00 UTC 2003 |
This response has been erased.
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russ
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response 231 of 251:
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Mar 14 23:20 UTC 2003 |
Almost no mail has been delivered today. Something's wrong.
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gull
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response 232 of 251:
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Mar 15 01:20 UTC 2003 |
I've gotten a fair amount of mail. About as much as I normally expect,
anyway.
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davel
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response 233 of 251:
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Mar 15 01:35 UTC 2003 |
Same here.
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krokus
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response 234 of 251:
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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.
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anderyn
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response 235 of 251:
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Mar 15 22:05 UTC 2003 |
No mail here today either.
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gelinas
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response 236 of 251:
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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.
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gull
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response 237 of 251:
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Mar 16 00:52 UTC 2003 |
My screen has always cleared after login.
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remmers
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response 238 of 251:
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Mar 16 02:52 UTC 2003 |
One could make 'motd' the last line of one's .login or .profile.
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krokus
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response 239 of 251:
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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.)
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russ
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response 240 of 251:
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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.
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gull
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response 241 of 251:
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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.
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remmers
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response 242 of 251:
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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?
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gull
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response 243 of 251:
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Mar 16 17:27 UTC 2003 |
I wasn't. Why is that?
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carson
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response 244 of 251:
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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?) ;)
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remmers
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response 245 of 251:
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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.
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gull
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response 246 of 251:
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Mar 17 13:41 UTC 2003 |
For what it's worth, yesterday morning my IDS at work logged what
appeared to be an attempt to exploit the sendmail vulnerability
mentioned earlier in this message. Unfortunately I didn't have full
logging turned on, so I can't say whether it had any shellcode attached
or whether the goal was just to crash sendmail on vulnerable servers.
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keesan
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response 247 of 251:
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Mar 17 23:20 UTC 2003 |
I dialed in and was told (twice) Unable to find your tty (ttyu1) in uutmp
file. What does this mean and what stupid thing did I do that caused it?
Bbs works anyway.
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russ
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response 248 of 251:
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Mar 19 00:20 UTC 2003 |
Mail still cannot be sent from wwnet.com to Grex.
It appears that Grex is applying an unreasonably strict definition
of what constitutes "legitimate conduct". Shutting off spammers
is one thing; cutting ourselves off from major ISPs is quite another.
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goose
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response 249 of 251:
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Mar 21 15:49 UTC 2003 |
The ssh daemon must have died. I can telnet in, but not ssh.
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