On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 00:22, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:24, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:30:11 +0200, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > > However, from everything I > > > know about bit torrent (I don't use it myself) I had thought that it > > > would only establish connections WHILE you were downloading something. > > > > > > Any ideas/suggestions? > > > > Pull the plug. (I mean the Ethernet cable.) Seriously, you mean there's a > > process running which ifup's eth0? That requires root permissions. What > > process would that be? > > The only thing that he runs that runs setuid anything that I know of is > GDM and I believe X. (If I'm not mistaken X runs suid root?) But that's > it. He's logged in as himself, not as root, and he doesn't run any > programs as root. All he really uses the computer for is email, chat, > web browsing, and downloading. I know evolution doesn't run suid, I know > gaim doesn't run suid, I know galeon doesn't run suid, I know bit > torrent and gtk-gnutella don't run suid, so I'm rather lost. Okay, I'm WAY, WAY behind in the mailing list at the moment (over 1400 messages unread :O ) but I think I see what might be part of the bandwidth problem - gtk-gnutella - if someone outside is calling in and grabbing stuff from his system, and particularly perchance he may have a half-duplex ethernet card, that could be a bottleneck right there. Beyond that, it appears that eth0 interface is likely being launched on demand by something (anything) on the local machine - possibly even something as simple as ntp or evolution checking a mail server not on that box. -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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