[ILUG] Detecting a port scan attempt on my machine.

[Niall O Broin]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 06:07:07PM +0000, John P . Looney wrote:

>  True. Are questions like
> 
> Luser: "I typed 'cc' and it said "optional language product not installed"
> Kate:  "That's becase 'cc' is an optional language product. And it's not
>         installed."
> 
> Luser: "I had 20 disks in a RAID5 array. I pulled eight disks out to show
>         the boss how it'll stay up no matter what happens. How do I get
>         Oracle to recognise that the disks are gone ?"

and presumably the following dialogue went something like


Kate: "Can you do any queries with Oracle now ?"
Luser: "No, I can't"
Kate: "Well, Oracle has recognised that the disks are gone then."



>  Are these stupid questions, or stupid people ?

Stupid people although in fairness to the cc one, it was probably some poor
harried admin who'd been using Unices with C compilers for years, and
couldn't understand why he was getting an error  when he typed cc even if
the meaning of the English words was perfectly clear. I knew it was
happening with the transition from SunOS to Solaris, but I still couldn't
believe it :-)


Regards,



Niall