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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:01:50 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List Info <fbsd@vta.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux -vs-FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20010123210150.A1409@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <200101231656.LAA78845@mailhub.vta.com>; from fbsd@vta.com on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:56:43AM -0500
References:  <200101231656.LAA78845@mailhub.vta.com>

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Do you not think your abusive disdain for Linux users is better
kept to yourself ?
Many people, including myself, happily use both, and this
sort of mindless nastiness is completely unecessary in this list.

Cliff

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:56:43AM -0500, FreeBSD Mailing List Info wrote:
> 
> 
> Yep, from copious use of UTSL[ 1 ], the rpc.statd(8) manpage, the red-hat-weenie 
> web site (www.redhat.com/support/erratta/RHSA-2000-043-03.html), the particle 
> physics guys ( www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-17.html), and an old usenet-
> archived message from  one of our own highly esteemed community, 
> ( archives.neohapsis.com/freebsd/2000-08/0163.html), I sort-of came to
> the conclusion that my portmapper and rpc ports should be monitored for
> a while.  Thus  I'm pretty sure that's what's filling up the logs. 
> 
> The FreeBSD art I'd like to see is Chuck roasting Tux on the end of
> the pitchfork, over a stack of burining $Msoft cd-roms and red hats.
> Hmm, dinner, roast pengin-kabob , then back to work. [ 2 ]. 
> 
> [ 1 ]. Use The Source, Luke.
> [ 2 ]. Although, I have to admit, some of the tiny embedded Linux solutions
> seem to pretty good, so maybe Chuck doesn't eat the hors d'ouvres. 
> 
> >
> >On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:48:50AM -0500, FreeBSD Mailing List Info wrote:
> >> One big diffrence I have discovered is that SUSE and Debian users 
> >> appear to be much smarter that the Red Hat weenies, who apparently haven't 
> >> figured out that this rpc.statd exploit, which will make many Red Hat machines 
> >> wide open to being rooted, just doesn't work on FreeBSD. I have yet to point 
> >> Netcraft ( or other methods ) back at one of these silly bastards and not find 
> >> out that they are Red Hat propeller-heads. 
> >[...]
> >> Jan 23 01:06:33 not_a_linux_weenie /kernel: ipfw: X000 Count TCP 204.185.158.217:4808 XXX.XXX.XXX.X:111 in via mx0
> >
> >Is that what all the recent activity has been about on port 111? Of late
> >I'm getting hit on 111 more often than even 27374.
> >
> >--
> >David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm)
> >======================================================================
> >The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
> >capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
> >
> 
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