2 Aug
2022
2 Aug
'22
3:58 p.m.
I'm throwing out the system drive. I bought a new drive for $50. The
data for my VM's is on a separate raid disk(s). I'll check that out
after I set up the new system disk, which may take awhile due to other
commitments.
My old system is turning into George Washington's axe.
-Gary
On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 07:21:55AM -0600, Linus Sphinx wrote:
"Evil cannot be uninstalled".
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 5:09 PM <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
> Before I powered down, while looking through the system logs on my poor
> hacked computer, I noticed it was running chronyd, because it
> complained. It is an old Fedora 13 system. It runs ntpd. That's bad.
>
> But, on the VM and different box I am on on now, running Fedora 33, I
> get:
>
> [gary@entertain Mail]$ man -k date
> date: nothing appropriate.
> [gary@entertain Mail]$ man date
> [gary@entertain Mail]$ man man
>
> Where man date returns a man page. And according to the man page for
> man:
>
> man -k printf
> Search the short descriptions and manual page names for the keyword
> printf as regular expression. Print out any matches. Equivalent
> to apropos printf.
>
> Obviously man -k doesn't work.
>
> I've been noticing more and more cruft like this. All kinds of things,
> especially at the command line, where you can see, are broken.
>
> I'm temporarily working from my entertainment system.
>
> In reading so far, it looks like this is some kind of SSH key attack.
> Makes me wonder why the default permissions in .ssh are what they are.
> I must be missing somehting because the articles seem to call the .pub
> file the private key. One even had a graphic with xxx.pub circled, to
> show me where the private key is.
>
> -Gary
>
>
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