Hi,

You could also use port knocking to cloak your VNC sevrer from the hackers.

http://www.portknocking.org/

Tamas


On 5/1/07, Rolf <learr@rogers.com> wrote:
>
> What Pete and Jake said... but... I don't know why they did not also
> mention "curl".
>
> It's funny how people (me) get set in their ways. I know that wget is
> well established, but I simply prefer 'curl'.
>
> curl -O http://example.com/foo.iso
>
>
> See this page:
> http://curl.haxx.se/docs/comparison-table.html
>
> Just a heads up that, as usual, there is more than one way to do
> things....
>
> Rolf
>
> pete@petertodd.ca wrote:
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> > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:54:08AM +0100, pic@gavin-egan.com wrote:
> >
> > I do that all the time myself.
> >
> > Another program to look up with nohup, short for no hangup. For instance
> > to get some really big iso file:
> >
> > wget http://example.com/foo.iso
> >
> > Works fine, but when you close that telnet, wget recieves the "hangup"
> > signal and quits.
> >
> > nohup wget http://example.com/foo.iso > foo.iso.log &
> >
> > With nohup the nohup "wrapper" traps any hangup signal, so the program
> > will run even without a terminal. The & detaches the command from the
> > terminal so you can do other things. Output is then logged to
> > foo.iso.log
> >
> > Run tail -f foo.iso.log, the -f stands for follow, and you can even see
> > a constantly updating record of what wget is doing.
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