RE: [cobalt-security] No telnet on saturdays??

[Mike King <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At the telnet command prompt, type in

ps ax

The resulting output is a process list

To find out more type

man ps

To find out more, buy a O'Reilly book on Unix

Have fun

Mike

At 10:02 PM 8/13/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> Kevin,
>
> Thanks for the tip, but what are ps and ax reports, and how can I access
> them.  Thanks for bearing with me, I'm barely getting the hand of all this.
>
> Best regards,
> Ervin Tarkhanian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-security-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-security-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin D
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 12:51 PM
> To: cobalt-security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] No telnet on saturdays??
>
> From: "Ervin Tarkhanian" <ervin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this before.
>
> Not yet.
>
> Log into your server on a weekend and compare ps ax reports with those on
> the weekdays. Check for fishy cron jobs. My suspicion is that you've been
> hacked. What result do you get when trying to connect to port 109 with
> telnet on a weekend?
>
> Kevin
>
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