BaseSeed

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:10:28PM +0800, John wrote:
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>>Rather than risk the community's ire by hacking on the wiki, I'll pick 
>>the argument here:-)
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>>eject s/b essential. Try removing a CD from a Mac without it.
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>That's why it's installed by default, even on a minimal system (that's what
>BaseSeed is).  "Essential", on the other hand, means that you are not
>allowed to remove it, which isn't appropriate for eject.
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>>lynx I use links, w3m but I use this more. It's good for getting URLS 
>>and headers. See below for headers.
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>We thought it important to have _one_ text-mode browser in base, and decided
>on w3m as the preferred option.  I don't think there is anything you could
>do with lynx that you cannot do with w3m, and w3m is significantly more
>capable in some respects.
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How else do you do this?
summer at Dolphin:~$ time lynx -dump  http://www.x.com/ | tail
  30. http://www.ebay.com/
  31. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr
  32. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/fdic-outside
  33. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/privacy-outside
  34. http://www.bbbonline.org/cks.asp?id=20111061155818568


I regularly want a list of URLs for some reason, often to get a list of 
files to download with wget or (sometimes) with curl.

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>>nmap network diagnosis. More useful than netcat:-)
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>I flatly disagree with the latter statement.  As to nmap's suitability for
>base, I'm unconvinced.  It's rather large compared to the other diagnostic
>tools we provide, and the only additional diagnostic feature that it
>provides is OS guessing.
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O often use OS guessing, mostly to see how good it is:-) Most often 
though what is really important to me is to see what ports are open. 
When I install U, it will get portscanned.

So far this is the best new system I've seen:
summer at Dolphin:~$ nmap 192.168.9.130

Starting nmap 3.55 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-09-09 04:46 WST
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, 
try -P0
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 24.191 seconds
summer at Dolphin:~$  nmap -P0 192.168.9.130

Starting nmap 3.55 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2004-09-09 04:48 WST
Interesting ports on Nabarlek.demo.room (192.168.9.130):
(The 1658 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered)
PORT    STATE  SERVICE
22/tcp  open   ssh
113/tcp closed auth

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 264.438 seconds
summer at Dolphin:~$