To: avalon@caligula.anu.edu.au, pauls@utdallas.edu
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:26:10 +0200
> Whereas if they were using, say, NetBSD with IPFilter and turned
> the securelevel to be >= 2, you cannot turn off or otherwise change
> ipf's configuration without a reboot.
>
> Of course this then leads back to the problem of having all the
> requisite bootup files immutable to prevent trojan'ing and that
> can make things harder to administer than it is worth the effort.
Actually, the main effect is that you NOTICE. Usually, you monitor
your systems, and a reboot will show up, which will cause you to
take a look.
Which raises the bar for the attacker from "not being noticed by
the OS" to "not being noticed by the admin looking for something
that's wrong".
Re:SOLVVED vinum crashes the Box... WRONG POSTING ...vinum crashes the Box by using more then ten disks on ... > With this configuration vinum crashes the Machine with this Message: ... > I'm going to enable the kernel debugger now... ... >> while devfs rules works for those, but they vanish on reboot.... (freebsd-stable)
Re: Lost files after using "Last Known Good Configuration" ...reboot would have placed this as your Last Known Good Configuration. ... Last Known Good Configuration was prior to the password change, hence, your ... > When coming out of hibernation mode I was asked to by Windows to change my ... > I purchased a copy of Recover Lost Data 2005 from StompSoft at my local ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Lost files after using "Last Known Good Configuration" ... "Using Last Known Good Configuration... > reboot would have placed this as your Last Known Good Configuration. ... you went into hibernation without rebooting. ... >> I purchased a copy of Recover Lost Data 2005 from StompSoft at my local ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: TOT computer hassle ... But this afternoon when I went back to the machine after lunch, having used it all morning, as soon as I moved the mouse it froze, and could not be rebooted by Cont Alt Del. ... When it came back on it got half way thro loading Windows and froze, so I rebooted it, and this time it came up with a DOS message which included the option to adopt the 'last configuration that worked normally'. ... This is a known bug that affects a small number of systems - they get stuck in a reboot cycle.... You may currently have it set to not change networks and hence it is stuck looking for the caravan club one. ... (uk.tech.digital-tv)
Re: How often should I reboot Solaris and LynxOS ... For most *nix systems on ... the kernel or you need to swap hardware.... Another post remarked that it might be worth it to do a reboot if a boot ...configuration changes on a development machine. ... (comp.unix.solaris)
