[SunHELP] Re: Load balancing on intel server having solaris 7 & 8 respectively
sameer khanha
sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Wed Dec 12 10:44:09 CST 2001
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>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:00:13 -0600 (CST)
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>Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: solaris 8 install (Kevin Stevens)
> 2. RE: solaris 8 install (Brian Dunbar)
> 3. Re: utime /dev/fd/1 (Nicholas Dronen)
> 4. Printing selection from terminal emulator (David Baldwin)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 06:48:44 -0800 (PST)
>From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens at pursued-with.net>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] solaris 8 install
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Will Yardley wrote:
>
> > Kevin Stevens wrote:
> > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Will Yardley wrote:
> > >
> > > > i know that's not a lot to go on, but any guesses as to where things
> > > > are going wrong?
> > >
> > > Uh, I'm guessing right about the point where you "rename a bunch of
> > > init scripts"?!
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but why not do a nice
> > > clean install and reboot the system before starting to muck around
> > > with the startup procedure?
> >
> > well i've done about 6 nice clean installs. however the 'nice clean
> > install' leaves a craload of unecessary and / or insecure services
> > running.
> >
> > i'm not just randomly renaming stuff; all the stuff i've renamed is
> > stuff that i'm pretty sure isn't needed.
>
>Ok. The way you phrased it sounded a lot more random than that.
>
> > obviously i've probably renamed one service that's needed somewhere....
> > since the exact same thing has happened to me with each install. next
> > time i will definitely try to make fewer changes at once and reboot more
> > frequently. on such a slow machine it's really time consuming to do
> > this all the time, though (and really frustrating when it breaks each
> > time).
>
>There are some good web pages on hardening Solaris out there. I'm on a
>slow link and don't have the luxury of browsing right now; but here are
>some references:
>
>- There's a page off of the www.sunhelp.org site that goes into gory
>detail about hardening.
>
>- Sun has a white paper, except they call them something else, about
>securing a workstation. Search on the sun site. There's also a utility,
>"arm" if I recall correctly which is unlikely, that lets you preview/set
>different security levels.
>
>- The Solaris 8 Security book has an excellent section on security and how
>to disable unnecessary services and protocols. Recommended.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>KeS
>
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>Message: 2
>From: Brian Dunbar <Brian.Dunbar at Plexus.com>
>To: "'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'" <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: RE: [SunHELP] solaris 8 install
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:24:17 -0800
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
> > There are some good web pages on hardening Solaris out there. I'm on a
>slow link and don't have the luxury of browsing right now; but here are
>some references: <
>
>If I could add one more - Lance Spitzner's guide is helpfull in this
>regard.
>He's talking about creating a firewall, but the principles apply:
>
>Armoring Solaris - Preparing solaris for a firewall
>http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/armoring.html
>
>Brian
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:05:42 -0700
>From: Nicholas Dronen <ndronen at frii.com>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [SunHELP] utime /dev/fd/1
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:15:20AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
> > i am using the pkg-get script to install stuff from the solaris freeware
> > site, and i'm getting the following error (during the part where it uses
> > 'wget' to retrieve the files:
> >
> > utime(/dev/fd/1): Operation not applicable
>
>utimes(2) is a system call for altering the file access,
>modification (and, indirectly, inode change) times;
>/dev/fd/1 is a character device file the access and
>modification times of which cannot be set using utimes(2),
>which is why utimes sets errno to ENOSYS ("Unsupported file
>system operation").
>
>$ cat utime.c
>#include <stdlib.h>
>#include <unistd.h>
>#include <errno.h>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <sys/types.h>
>#include <utime.h>
>
>int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>{
> int rc = utimes("/dev/fd/1", NULL);
> if (rc == -1) {
> fprintf(stderr, "utimes: %d; %s\n",
> errno, strerror(errno));
> exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> }
> exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
>}
>
>$ make utime
>cc utime.c -o utime
>$ ./utime
>utimes: 89; Operation not applicable
>$ grep 89 /usr/include/sys/errno.h | grep define
>#define ENOSYS 89 /* Unsupported file system operation */
>
>Perhaps someone else can answer your security question.
>
>Regards,
>
>Nicholas Dronen
>
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>Message: 4
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:44:02 -0800
>From: "David Baldwin" <dbaldwin at networkinsight.com>
>To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [SunHELP] Printing selection from terminal emulator
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Has anyone used a term emulator in X windows that works similar to
>SecureCRT that allows you to select text then print the selected text
>only?
>
>TIA,
>
>Dave Baldwin
>RHCE, SCSA
>NOC Engineer
>Network Insight, LLC
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