Re: [cobalt-users] FrontPage Extensions broken after DOS attack

[Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Please see my 2 cents below,

At 03:33 p.m. 15/03/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> Last week one of my servers was attacked (DOS attack) on port 80. After
> getting rid of the scum, we found that about 90% of our sites had broken
> FrontPage Extensions. So far, the only  fix is to go into each site settings
> and redo the extensions -this took two and half days! Does anyone know of a
> quicker fix from the command line or a script I can write that will go
> through each site and repair the extensions?
> Now we are finding that not all of the extensions are remaining fixed, we
> have to go back and redo them a second time.
> As for testing of broken extensions, we normally go to the site and click on
> the FrontPage icon in the browser and see if it asks for a
> Username/password, if not, then the extensions are broken .. any suggestions
> on a quicker way to test?


On the RaQ4s there appears to be a command for doing all of this via the 
command line, the Cobalt scripts call the command for installing but then 
modify the results afterward but it should give a basis to finding any 
problems.

Run the following command to check the extensions:
/usr/local/frontpage/currentversion/bin/fpsrvadm.exe -o check -p 
www.[domain]:80


If the command works as it should, you can probably use something like the 
following to test all of the sites on the RaQ (assuming the sites still 
have there frontpage config files intact):

for site in /usr/local/frontpage/*.cnf; do
  /usr/local/frontpage/currentversion/bin/fpsrvadm.exe -o check -p 
`basename $site .cnf`
done

Or for a one-liner:
for site in /usr/local/frontpage/*.cnf; 
do  /usr/local/frontpage/currentversion/bin/fpsrvadm.exe -o check -p 
`basename $site .cnf`; done


NOTE: I hate frontpage extensions, this seems to point out any broken 
extensions and attempts to fix them (it dosnt always work) but I cannot 
grantee that it will not react with the way the RaQ runs, I havnt 
personally seen it do anything bad. But I have to make the note.


--
Bruce
Customer Service
www.webfarm.co.nz
www.freeparking.co.nz