Text 10528, 121 rader
Skriven 2007-08-18 20:56:36 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
  Kommentar till text 10526 av Shawn Highfield (1:229/452.2)
Ärende: linux servers hacked...!
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Hey Shawn!

Aug 18 16:01 07, Shawn Highfield wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> Okay.  I regretted saying that after I sent it.

 SH>   Thanks. ;)

You're welcome but to be honest I wasn't looking for gratitude.  I just didn't
think it was a good thing to suggest.  As far as I am personally concerned
critique away but don't expect agreement from me.

 SH>   Never said it did.  Though I cheat and use vim for some extra 
 SH> features.

Me too.  At the moment I have it as part of the WeBeBashing script which will
add the binary parts to the outbound messages created by vim.  Probably could
get vim to do that part but I have yet to try that.  Thinking about it though.

 SH>   Okay at least your using shell scripts, the way I read your 
 SH> original message you were typing every single thing time and again.  
 SH> I'd still suggest a cron job for the major scripts but that's me. ;)

I don't use cron on anything.  Even the robotized stuff doesn't need it since
there is nothing scheduled that would benefit from cron.  In this particular
case either things are on or off and they tend to do things dynamically or
on-the-fly if you prefer.

 SH>   Okay.  I have everything as automatic as I can get it.

Depends what we're talking about.  On my workstation very little is automatic
as I need to test things, usually for targets, but lately for myself.  No icons
or simular things to fire anything up that is for sure.  I might build xorg
soon just to make sure I can but don't feel it is pressing that I do.  What I
do feel pressed about is getting the 486 up to speed but I still need to test
NAT with a new kernel before committing.  At the moment the 486 is doing a
fantastic job and don't feel the need to jump into anything just because.  Also
I am seriously thinking about putting the AMD64 machine to fill that role but
have to wait until the neighbour finishes building it a new wireless antenna. 
We have an evil demented plan involving wireless BBSing, as well as some other
things, and when that falls into place we'll use that idea to upgrade his Dell
server.  Both are booting more up to date ttylinux ramdisks off 40-pin 64M ide
flash disks and so far that works excellent although in their cases I had to
add wireless_tools to the scheme.  Other than that they are pretty much stock
ttylinuxes.

 MK>> None have GUI's btw.

 SH>   Neither do my servers.

They don't need them methinks.  The client should be providing those types of
things for themselves.

 SH> As for workstation don't currently have a 
 SH> Linux workstation so won't comment on that anymore,

Tsk, tsk.  My latest build is to die for!!!  I did a really good job from what
I see so far.  Multimedia, graphics, you name it.  No crappy, suspicious web
stuff though but I do have a text based web thingy going that supposedly does
local cgi.  Have only started checking that out so at this writing I am
reserving judgement.

 SH> but if I did I 
 SH> would be running a GUI.  Might as well take advantage of the millions 
 SH> of colours my 20" LCD can support. ;)

So am I.  No X needed.  I've got both a CRT and LCD working with 32-bit
graphics at the moment.  Personally I prefer the CRT but what the heck eh? 
Using a pci based Matrox dual head G450 as we speak.  Hust a sec ...

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root@sixtyfour ~ $ lspci -v -s 05:00.0
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400/G450 (rev 85)
(prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G450 32Mb Dual Head PCI
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 18
        Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Memory at 4b000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Memory at 4a800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M]
        Expansion ROM at 4b020000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0

[from dmesg]:

matroxfb: MTRR's turned on
matroxfb: 1024x768x32bpp (virtual: 1024x4096)
matroxfb: framebuffer at 0x48000000, mapped to 0xffffc20000600000, size
33554432
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: MATROX frame buffer device
matroxfb_crtc2: secondary head of fb0 was registered as fb1

root@sixtyfour ~ $ ls -al /dev/fb*
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 Aug 18 17:44 /dev/fb0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 1 Aug 18 17:44 /dev/fb1

root@sixtyfour ~ $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
mga_vid                17060  0

root@sixtyfour ~ $ ls -al /dev/mga_vid*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8 Aug 18 17:44 /dev/mga_vid -> mga_vid0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 83, 0 Aug 18 17:44 /dev/mga_vid0

[from /etc/lilo.conf];
append="video=matroxfb:vesa:0x118,fv:75"

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Works excellent without X.  In fact I'd say playing movies on the console works
best in comparison no matter which monitor although the CRT is much sharper and
cleaner.  The above settings work fine for both.

I don't need no stinkin' GUI!  <BEG>

Life is good,
Maurice

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