[thelist] [OT] Linux Virus Scanning

Burhan Khalid burhankhalid at members.evolt.org
Thu Jul 11 07:40:01 CDT 2002


Thanks for getting back, Jonathan :

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:48 am, Jonathan_A_McPherson at rl.gov wrote:

> That depends on what you need in a virus scanner. Are you installing Linux
> on your desktop, or server?

Desktop. I guess I'm just paranoid. I thought about it, and I have not known
anyone getting infected on a Linux home box.

> That depends, again, on what you want to do with your box. If it's a Web
> server, then only allowing HTTP is fine.

Well, at first I didn't install Apache, so I closed off HTTP connections
(along with FTP, telnet, and other stuff that I wasn't going to use). Just
yesterday I built Apache on my system, and now I am wresting with getting the
firewall to allow HTTP connections (if only by me, and not the outside
world). The applet that comes with RH 7.3 is lokkit (I've never heard of it,
its a RH thing). I'm going to wrestle with it and try and get it to work.
This is why I love Linux, everything is a learning experience.

> Do you have a router, or just a DSL modem?
>
> If you have a router, try having it start the DHCP daemon (dhcpcd) at
> bootup (after your ethernet interface, of course). dhcpcd does all kinds of
> work for you.
>
> If you just have a DSL modem, you will need to do more work. Good help
> here: http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/janou/pppoe.shtml

Thanks for all this information. I have a DSL modem that SBC sent me.
Currently, as long as I restore my session in X, it logs on to the net,
however, on bootup, It will not bring up ppp0 (it times out). Eth0 comes up
fine (I figured out how to get it to run ppp0 on load).

The RH website has a wealth of information, but not a good searching service.
After an hour and a half of trying, I gave up looking up information on it.

New question :

I've just updated my kernel. The way I have my system setup, it boots Linux
from a floppy disk (I choose not to install GRUB or LILO, since it didn't
seem to detect my NTFS volume). Is there a way I can configure the floppy to
load the newer kernel?

Thanks again for all your help,
Burhan




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