Re: Root Terminal Security Question

From: Alan Connor (zzzzzz_at_xxx.yyy)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:42:29 GMT

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:41:48 GMT, Mark Adams <madams9@netscape.dotnet> wrote:
>
>
> Rob Warnock wrote:
>> [Note: The group's name is "comp.security.misc", *not* "comp.secutiry.misc".]
>
> Yeah, I hate the way Netscape handles cross posting.
>
>
>> Some people [including me, at times! (*blush*)] run an "xterm -C" to
>> capture the /dev/console output, to immediately see any critical kernel
>> or application messages instead of having to periodically look at
>> /var/log/messages. That's fine, except you have to be more aware of
>> the potential covert channel from a "syslog" message to your terminal
>> emulator.
>
> Ah, sounds like a neat tip. I'll try and remember it.
>

I run tail -f /var/log/syslog in a seperate window and have my window
manager configured to alert me if there's any activity in that window.

Very handy.

<snip>

Your signature is out of line, Mark. The limit is 4 lines by convention.
They are supposed to be unobtrusive. Signatures not billboards.

Don't expect me to respond to another one of your posts if you don't fix
it.

And I'm a *nice* guy for telling you this. Many people who value the
Usenet will just silently killfile you.

This is very effective in the long run. You don't see a lot of over-
sized signatures on the Usenet, do you?

My newsfilter tells me how long your sig is. If it's over-sized I
don't read your article. Or maybe I do. You'll have no way of knowing.

Having heard all of the juvenile name calling from the clueless jerks
who generally are the only ones with over-sized sigs, I am killfiling
this thread.

If you are just new to the Usenet and ignorant, I apologize.

AC

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