sudo allows non-superusers to do superuser things without knowing the superuser password.

betka@somehost betka $ sudo /etc/init.d/dhcp restart
Password:
 * Stopping dhcpd...                             [ ok ]
 * Starting dhcpd...                             [ ok ]

Sasser has made it to campus. This is just what we need during the last week of classes. Hard to believe this many people are missing a patch released almost a month ago. Microsoft has an advisory on sasser.

Update (5/03/04): I’m just as much a loser as everyone else. I had 16 machines (out of about 1000) that were unpatched. Thirty lashes with a wet noodle for me.

Why am I up at 2:19 am on a Saturday morning? No, I’m not drunk. I’ve got a whole laundry list of things to do at work.

This is too damn much work.

Windows 2000:

MS04-011 supercedes:

	MS00-027

	MS00-032

	MS00-070

	MS02-051

	MS02-071

	MS03-007

	MS03-013

	MS03-025

	MS03-027

	MS03-045

	MS04-007
MS04-012 supercedes:

	MS00-066

	MS03-010

	MS03-026

	MS03-039
MS04-014 supercedes:

	None
Windows NT 4.0:
MS04-011 supercedes:

	MS99-023

	MS02-050

	MS02-071

	MS03-013

	MS03-041

	MS03-045

	MS04-007
MS04-012 supercedes:

	MS98-014

	MS01-048

	MS03-026

	MS03-039
MS04-014 supercedes:

	None

New MS security updates yesterday, get yourself patched. Windows Update was a little pokey this morning, but that’s almost to be expected.

On an unrelated note, I got to drive the wife’s Camaro Z/28 to Danville last night. Driving the 97 Accord four banger (peppy, but front wheel drive and geared a little odd) and the Dakota v-8 (uh, it’s a 4×4, no speed demon here) all the time, I sometimes forget how much fun interstate on/off ramps really CAN be. Made for a pretty good birthday present.

That’s it. No more production RedHat boxes in Housing.

Updated:
And, by the way, having this setting on a ‘fake’ relay is important:

local_recipient_maps= 

Well, I guess I shouldn’t really fault VirusScan, this is more of a Microsoft Installer issue than anything.
A little background: We run the campus site licensed VirusScan Enterprise on all our lab machines (and all of the admin machines as well). We started the year with version 7.0, then 7.1 came out. This is when things got wacky.
First, I built a custom install package with Installation Designer that had the same settings as we used before. Some workstations got the settings again, some defaulted back to the defaults (update weekly, Friday 5 pm), and a few even lost the scanner service completely!
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Oh my:

hello
my connector was blocked by u
i don’t understand
why did u block my connector?
i was change my computer system
i was receive an E-mail from ******, *****
so i installed virus program(the name is V3)
why you are block my connect?
as soon as coule u open my connector?