Re: [cobalt-users] Thanks Jay and Tim, another question...

[Tim Dunn <tdunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Sorry for being such a newby.

Don't be.  We all were there at one time.

> If there is anyone in the UK who would be able to help, or charge a small 
> fee to help, install SSH and Logcheck, please give me a call or email.

I'm a third of the world away, so I don't qualify.  However, I'd like to 
suggest you try it yourself.  Just 1) don't do anything in a hurry, and
2) note down what you did (such as where did you dl the package from, 
how did you install it, etc.)  Oh, and 3) make a backup of your sites
and other data before you start, just in case. =)

Installing pre-rolled packages is very easy.  Installing RPMs isn't that
much harder, if you don't run into revision/dependency problems.  Installing
from source is ... well hit-and-miss for me.  I think CobaltOS is still
running libc6 and much of the stuff out there is compiled for glibc.

> 'proficient in Unix'. God it seems daunting... 

It's not.  The daunting part is getting over the impression that it's 
daunting.  Here's the basic unix philosophy in a nutshell:

1) In the beginning there was the command line.

2) A program should report nothing on successful execution.

3) If a program is not given specific input file(s), it should 
   expect input from the STDIN filehandle (pipelines)

That's about it.  The rest is all chrome, but there's a lot of chrome. =)

> Why, even though I have email turned off for 'makingmymovie.com' do I still 
> receive spam/email for 'anythingat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'... 

Why do you get spam?  That's a question for someone else. =)

Seriously, why you get email for www.makingmymovie.com?  Without looking
at your mail configs, I probably can't tell you, but I can declare that
your sendmail port on that machine is still open, at least at time of
this writing:

prompt> telnet makingmymovie.com 25
Trying 64.40.109.76...
Connected to makingmymovie.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 www.makingmymovie.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 08:19:11 -0700

I'd suggest you ask whomever is in the UK who offers to help you with 
SSH about a quick primer on /etc/rc.d/init.d and how to enable/disable
the services that start up on reboot.

tim

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