aye I used SUSE for yearsbut it`s not updated often enough, and I found that the security updates always crashed samba (something to do with their YAST tool, because the updates hardly ever concerned samba) to the point of the machine having to be rebooted
new install has been up for 16 days.. so far so good :)
(new install has been up for 16 days.. so far so good :)
Reckless_Rik,
Mon 27 Jun 2005, 16:45,
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Trying to install nVidia drivers on Ubuntugave me an amusing white flashing screen problem requiring a hasty reinstall... But given its no games machine i'm happy enough to leave them off. SuSE just seemed to want to break my monitor by running it at as high a refresh rate as possible.
Any tips or handy web-links about making the machine secure? I have a handy router that can be set to forward port 80 traffic only specifically to the PC in question...
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Mon 27 Jun 2005, 16:52,
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Any tips or handy web-links about making the machine secure? I have a handy router that can be set to forward port 80 traffic only specifically to the PC in question...
ermm the nvidia.. *thinks*from what I remember you need to apt-get nvidia-[something]; you then run the nvida-config tool or whatever it`s called, and it`ll generate all your X11 configs automatically - it`s devilishly simple
definitely use the router to keep naughty traffic out, maybe keep an X11 session running over VNC with synaptic, so you can connect every evening and check for any updates (also subscribe to their security mailing list - very low volume of e-mails) and then have a look at maybe bastille for locking stuff down, and possibly chkrootkit in a cron job to check for other nasties
(definitely use the router to keep naughty traffic out, maybe keep an X11 session running over VNC with synaptic, so you can connect every evening and check for any updates (also subscribe to their security mailing list - very low volume of e-mails) and then have a look at maybe bastille for locking stuff down, and possibly chkrootkit in a cron job to check for other nasties
Reckless_Rik,
Mon 27 Jun 2005, 16:58,
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Cheers guys...I'll check all that out. Happy bedtime reading!
The nvidia thing *shrugs* from what i read apt-get nvidia-whatever is the long and short of it; just didn't seem to like my set-up/card/face. Not really bothered - runs at 1280x1024 with just what ever standard drivers are part of the distro. Good enough for me.
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Mon 27 Jun 2005, 17:06,
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The nvidia thing *shrugs* from what i read apt-get nvidia-whatever is the long and short of it; just didn't seem to like my set-up/card/face. Not really bothered - runs at 1280x1024 with just what ever standard drivers are part of the distro. Good enough for me.
