Hi,

On 27-Jul-2000 adrian.wells wrote:

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Got this from RM this morning, do you think that they may be playing with LINUX?

Yep. Netcraft says it's a Linux box. On the offchance I tried a telnet, an the telnet prompt reports kernel 2.0.33. They're running Apache on it as well.

2.0.33? Hopefully they've changed the prompt, when was 2.0.33 out? Then again, hopefully your telnet connection went to a completely different box that's sitting there waiting to catch potential hackers.

I won't probe further, but I rather think someone there needs a meaty application of the clue stick; an obviously unused web server is running with the default pages, and telnet is open. Betcha other stuff is open that shouldn't be....

OK, two courses of action: ONE - considering that RM is a target for all those disgrunted students of yours struggling with puberty / being a teenager / etc someone with access to RM support phone numbers and email addresses should have a word with RM *real soon*. TWO - Roger puts up a promise of a copy of SuSE 6.5 as the prize, first list subscriber to change the telnet prompt to "This host has been annexed by the SuSE Linux schools mailing list" wins :) -- f�rchten Sie den blauen Bildschirm des Todes Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net