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My wife's office server was compromised today. It appears they ssh'ed in through account pcguest which was set up for Samba. (I don't remember setting up that account, but maybe I did.) At any rate, I found a bazillion "ftp_scanner" processes running. A killall finished them off quickly, I nuked the pcguest account, and switched ssh to a different port (which I normally do

What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server? Miark

What are your opinions on pcre vs regexp for header_, body_, and mime_checks in Postfix? I looked at the regexp_table and prce_table man pages, and see almost no difference other than the available flags. Miark

I have the firewall turned on my CentOS 5 box, but GRC is reporting that 631 is closed instead of stealthed. If the firewall isn't configured to allow that, then why might that be happening? Miark

Hi, I am trying to SSH to a remote server through R script. In other words, I would like to know how I can get a SSH connection to the remote server and then execute commands on that server with the R script. So in bash, I would normally type ssh -lusername remoteserver.com; press enter and then wait for the password prompt to key in my password. I have tried system("ssh

Hello everybody! First my setup: I connect from Debian Lenny to Ubuntu Karmic with a command like: user1 at localserver:$ rsync -rtcve ssh user1 at remoteserver:/.../ /local/.../ (using default versions of ssh and rsync in the vendor repos, ssh with password authentication) As far as I understand if localserver got compromised an attacker could read the password and then get full access to

Is CentOS pronounced as a word, or as cent-oh-es? Miark

Hi guys: I'm new to rsync. I have downloaded and read sevral how-to snippits, and the man pages. I got a little confused though trying to figure out how to do what I need. Can someone show me the syntax for doing the following:? Given: localserver = server that has data I want backed up, and I'm logged in as root on it remoteserver = server where the data is to go, into it's

Hello, I am using the following script to run an anova for numerous species in a table that I have: SiteSpp <-

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 11:14:07AM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: > ssh server.example.com /usr/bin/do/something > r=$? > if [ $r -eq 0 ] ; then > echo success > elif [ $r -eq 255 ] ; then > echo ssh failed > else > echo command failed > fi ssh remoteserver exit 255 Hmm :-) exit(-1) aka exit(255) is a pretty standard "generic failure code" for many

Hello, Is it possible to batch syncs of multiple mailboxes in a single dsync session? We?re transferring users between servers and want to use dsync to transfer the mail; ideally we?d like to avoid creating a separate TCP connection per user. Thank you! cheers, -Felipe Gasper

I've seen several references to running VMWare under CentOS, but does anybody know how well Parallels runs under CentOS? On a related note, now that Zen is as mature as it is, are commercial VMs really much better than Zen? Miark

Hi all, I want to copy files from a remote server to a local directory with ssh. I've some difficulties with that because on the Remoteserver I have a directory "/www/ftp" with a lot of subdirectories with each of them 4 other subdirectories. I want to sync only */data/* to the local machine without */images/* or */doc/* or */movies/* Any solution would be appreciated. regardsMac

Goodday, Currently using tinc 1.0.24 on Debian 8.x, OVH datacentre, two servers same VRACK (ie. internal ethernet bridge/switched together). I’m wanting to get a remote server connected to both the two OVH servers for fail-over reasons, but having access via both to the shared vRack segment as a switch mode. Thereby Essentially I’m creating a ethernet loop… ----------------------vRack |

Typical example: Here is some search & export for libsmbclient: adiant at ubuntu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ nm -D libsmbclient.so.0 |grep cli_rpc_pipe_open_noauth_transport <nothing> adiant at ubuntu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ nm -D libsmbclient.so.0 |grep cli_rpc_pipe_open U cli_rpc_pipe_open_noauth adiant at ubuntu:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu$ nm -D libsmbclient.so.0

Here's my command copied from a shell script:\ rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --recursive --times --perms --links \ /home/* trt@xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx:/remotebackups/ Here's some (a small part) of the output: jk/.recently-used 253 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "jk/.secpanel/.runfiles": Permission denied (2) stat

Hello My ssh terminal froze some times, and I was thinking it might be related to centos , but now I found that even ubuntu users experiencing the same problem. does ssh logs any where, and what do you suggest for finding the cause. Thanks

What I want: I get a normal http request containing a URL from a remote server. Instead of redirecting to that URL, I want to load it into an iframe on an existing page. I''ve tried a number of approaches with no success. Can anybody suggest a good way to do this? Alternatively, if you can say "this is bloody impossible, because....", that would be helpful, too. --Al Evans

Hello, where (in which file/object) would I invoke the startup of the DRb server to support a rails application? It wouldn''t be config/boot.rb ? How would I shut it down cleanly? Greetings Michael Kastner

I'm sure this should be an easy question, but from the ssh client manpage: EXIT STATUS ssh exits with the exit status of the remote command or with 255 if an error occurred. Let's say I'm using ssh server.example.com /usr/bin/do/something in (e.g.) a bash script. How can one differentiate between a failure of ssh to connect to the host and the command in question returning