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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Changes with the Debian Linux Upgrade http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/85 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Floppy and CD-ROM access http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1092059964 During the last [1]last [2]kernelupgrade, we installed [3]supermount on our [4]Linux workstations. You wont need to mount your floppys and CD-ROMs any longer. Just insert the media and go to the directory /floppy/ or /cdrom/. References 1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1090564301/index_html 2. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1091686492/index_html 3. http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/ 4. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/workstations/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Readme http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/1 Antispam at ETHZ http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/149 How to automatically forward Email http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/81 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 08 Aug '04

08 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Printing with CUPS (MacOS X) http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Linux kernel bug http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1091686492 Paul Starzetz discovered a [1]collection of problems ([2]CAN-2004-0415) in the current 2.4 and 2.6 [3]Linux kernels. Marcelo Tosatti included the fixes in [4]2.4.27rc5 and [5]announced 2.4.27 for the next days. We need to patch and reboot all [6]servers and [7]workstations running Linux: Thu Aug 5, 17:00 [8]Student- and [9]seminarworkstations (done) Thu Aug 5, 20:00 [10]Servers Wed Aug 11, 06:00 [11]ITP, [12]Astro, [13]IPP and [14]Solid workstations References 1. http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0016-procleaks.txt 2. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0415 3. http://www.kernel.org/ 4. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.27.log 5. http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3578 6. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/ 7. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/workstations/ 8. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/bb/physstud/physstud.html 9. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/bb/physsem/physsem.html 10. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/ 11. http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/ 12. http://www.exp-astro.phys.ethz.ch/ 13. http://www.ipp.phys.ethz.ch/ 14. http://www.solid.phys.ethz.ch/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 03 Aug '04

03 Aug '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Critical Internet Explorer Security Update http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1091448051 On Friday night [1]Microsoft has released the critical [2]MS04-025 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer Run [3]Windows Update (with Internet Explorer) on all the Windows workstations and servers to install this security update. References 1. http://www.microsoft.com/ 2. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-025.mspx 3. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 31 Jul '04

31 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ System Administrator Appreciation Day http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1091167601 The last Friday in July is the [1]System Administrator Appreciation Day. A day to think about those people who are looking for your computers, files, mails, networks and phones to work. References 1. http://www.sysadminday.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes Understanding authentication in Panther http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/86 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virus in your mailbox http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1090856384 During this day, several exemplars of [1]Mydoom.M or [2]Mydoom.O passed our Virus filter. McAfee and Symantec don't reconise this virus for now. Please don't open any attachements you don't expect. References 1. http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_126621.htm 2. http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_127033.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Definite problems in Internet Explorer http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1088415044 After the [1]rumors from friday about bugs in the base system, new [2]storys about [3]Internet Explorer appears. Short description: don't use IE. Read on for the long description. Update: There is now (Friday afternoon) a [4]patch from Microsoft which closes one of thoses problems. Please visit [5]Windowsupdate! Update 2: The fix is not perfect, see [6]BUGTRAQ. References 1. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1088144702/index_html 2. http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/27/1436213.shtml?tid=126&tid=154&tid=172… 3. http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ 4. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=870669 5. http://windowupdate.microsoft.com/ 6. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/367878/2004-07-02/2004-07-08/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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ISG Newsletter
by ISG Department Physik 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Linux Kernel Security Update http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1090602229 In the Linux kernel some [1]security holes have been found and [2]updates are available. This security hole applies to our setup as well, so we will need to reboot all client workstations on Monday morning, July 26. References 1. http://www.osvdb.org/7357 2. http://www.suse.de/de/security/2004_20_kernel.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yet another Linux kernel problem http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/news/1090564301 [1]SuSE discovered a [2]problem in the [3]chown() system call of the [4]Linux [5]kernel. While all kernels of the [6]2.6 line are affected and should be upgraded, only kernels from the [7]2.4 line running the [8]kernel-nfs-server could be exploited. The fixes are in [9]2.6.7 and [10]2.4.27-rc3. We will reboot our [11]servers during weekend and the [12]workstations on monday morning. References 1. http://www.suse.com/ 2. http://www.osvdb.org/7357 3. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/man2html/usr/share/man/man2/chown.2.gz 4. http://www.linux.ch/ 5. http://www.kernel.org/ 6. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ 7. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ 8. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/cgi-bin/man2html?nfsd 9. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.7 10. http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3399 11. http://bb.phys.ethz.ch/ 12. http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/service/workstations/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New or updated readmes How to Use Email http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/14 How to Use Student Computers http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/25 How to use your Tapedrive under Linux http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/80 How to use D-PHYS2-Computers http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/readme/97 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISG News Mailinglist Go to https://webmail.phys.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/isg-news to unsubscribe or change your settings. ISG Department Physik <isg(a)phys.ethz.ch>

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