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How the hell was I supposed to know that?

BTW, for you LNO people: I'm at the password stage, too. I've just been following this thread on LJR instead ;)

Errr, yes. So instead of trying to make an entire distro, why don't we just develop a suite of frontends, and then try to get some mainstream distro (like Mandrake or RedHat) to package them with...

Well, you could try:


set signature="echo \"common line stuff\";fortune file|"

Not tested, though.

Just a question... anybody know how to get python to pause until the user presses a key? (ala "press any key to continue" prompt)

Right now I'm just using a raw_input that ignores what it's told;...

Heh, I could put that error in, it just prints random ones whenever something goes wrong :)

I just have one problem with your script running in cron: that wastes a heck of a lot of CPU cycles, plus if you send more than one email in less than 1 minute, you get duplicated sigs.

This is...

Hey all,

I'm in the process of writing a python script that basically simulates (simulate, not emulate) a DOS environment.

In other words, I think you could actually say I'm writing a shell for...

I think the problem is that he is using a graphical frontend to chmod, and is seeing 9 boxes, and does not understand what 666 means in relation to those 9 boxes.

I recommend you use the...

In blackbox it's known as the "slit". I can't remember what KDE calls it. I think that's what he's talking about. Does that help you?

P.S., I'd also like to know how to put apps there. Right now...

mattn, what you need to do is very simple:

What you want to do is make sure that the file permissions on any files that users are not allowed to see do not let them see it... probably read the man...

You could try using ANSI escape codes to color the terminal white on black... or any color on any other color...

I'm not sure if that would affect the entire terminal or just where there is text,...

Nope, hardware hasn't changed since the day I installed linux, 3 or 4 months ago.

Well, the only thing I can think of is when I changed the port that Apache was listening on (got tired of logs...

I'm having this weird problem...

When I try to boot my computet (Mandrake 8), it will get to the point where it says "bringing up lo", and then it will pause. It just gets stuck there, it won't go...

You could run an ftp server... or of you were really paranoid about security you could go with scp...

The "free" in free software means that the source code is free from it's creators, but the product itself is not necessarily free from money.

So, it is possible to see free software that you have...

Well, I'm officially stumped, but I have a question.

Why are you only blocking incoming SYN packets? This opens you up to FIN, NULL, and XMAS scans... Take out the "--syn" from the second rule,...

Oh, and a bit more specifically - can I create the illusion that samba is in fact windows filesharing that's ready and waiting to be exploited, and make it looks like these exploits are working, but...

Well, what I meant was, would it be hard or easy to tell the difference between samba on linux with iptables, and filesharing on windows with no firewall whatsoever? And if it is easy, can I make it...

I wouldn't mind seeing the script :)

It couldn't hurt anything, at least.

The & makes the command go to the background, so that further commands can be executed. If you didn't have that &, then when you tried to start x, it would launch one app, wait for it to close, then...

Oh, and just a note on iptables:

If *all* you want to do is allow access out but not access in, then these two rules are all you really need:

iptables -A INPUT -m state --state...

My guess would be to take the space out from between the "," and "RELATED".

You might also try making "input" uppercase, because I'm under the impression that that's important... :)

I don't know much about apache, but it probably wouldn't be very hard to write a script that goes through all the directories and renames everything to lower case, and then goes through all the html...

Hey, now why didn't I ever think of that? :D

I think you'd loose too much quality when you were scanning it back in, though.

Uh, a decent firewall?