Re: [cobalt-security] Re: RaQ4-All-Security Release 1.0.2-5-9769

["Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael!

> Sorry, but the thought of "why so complicated" comes to mind when I
see that.
> ;o)

Because I'm still learning.  :)

> Put that all in one line and make sure that the directory
> /home/sites/home/web/statsall exists before you run this command
from the
> shell for the first time.

Thanks so much, I'll give this a try and see what turns up.

> As for your other IP-chains related question: Installation of
ipchains itself
> is very easy. Just grab the RPM for RedHat 6.2 (works fine with
RaQ3&4),
> upload it to your server and install it:

I was able to install it just fine, it was configuring the ruleset
that was getting me. My lack of knowledge made the IPChains-How-To
pages indecipherable. :)
I just installed PMFirewall though, thanks to Rev. wRy, and it seems
to be working quite well - trying to find a remote machine to give it
a good test, as I'm on a static IP and have given myself full access
so I can't do any testing from here.

Now that I have a ruleset for my machine, I'll really be able to learn
this a LOT better, and hopefully explain it in newbie terms for others
like me. None of the instructions that I could find out there ever had
something like "configure lines x-z for *your* particular IP address"
etc. etc.; they all had the generic stuff as if everyone would
automatically know what to change and what not to change. That's what
kept getting me.

I love rpmfind too! Especially since it works so well with Lynx.  ;)

CarrieB