[CentOS] OT: Strange message in root e-mail possiablly hacked!!! Not sure??

William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Mon Aug 17 12:55:54 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 07:33 -0500, Lee Perez wrote:
> Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> >> I didn't know that IPCOP could run on one that old.  I have one like 
> >> that up in the attic, time to bring it back down.  Before I upgraded to 
> >> 5.3, I was running 4.7 with FireStarter and did not have any troubles.  
> >> As soon as I get some sleep I will be looking in to setting it up.
> >>
> >>   
> >>     
> > If it is a pure firewall/nat box then you may want to give OpenBSD a 
> > try. Expand your horizons a bit. I ran OpenBSD headless on a Pentium too 
> > but with a bit more RAM and diskless too.
> >
> >   
> 
> Thanks Chan, I will look into it because that is exactly what it would 
> be.  I have been wanting to setup a home website, but I did not want to 
> run everything off of one server.  IIRC I have 384 megs of ram on that 
> PC, but I don't remember the mhz.  I think it might be a 133mhz, do you 
> think that would do?

Ought to. My backup/production is a 200MHz Pentium with 96MB. Works
fine. And I have a cable connect that gives decent download speed. The
degradation is really not that noticable when I take out the 380MHz AMD
K-6-II/256MB and put the Pentium unit in place.

> 
> Lee Perez
> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill




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