OT: Linux tip

[Fairlight]

Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
At about Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:58:37PM -0700,
Bill Campbell blabbed on about:
> It could very easily be modified to do the scanning by reading
> the directory entries, which is what I do with most of the python
> scripts I'm writing now.  It currently depends on the ``file''
> command, but I think there's a perl module for that as well.

I have a perl recursive traversal routine that is part of flpaa.  It
handles symlinks properly as well.  Wrote my own, no module.

> Fairlight mentioned greping for LISTEN, but I've often found that the IRC
> bots aren't listening for general connections.  They make connections back
> to a master controller, then are run from that machine.

IRC bots won't listen, they'll be connected to the server.  What I check
LISTEN for are custom ssh/telnet/other daemons that may have set up shoppe.
In some cases, whole irc servers have been secretly installed.  Or an
employee decided the production machine was a good place for a MUD.
*eyeroll*

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