[nylug-talk] sysctl command

[Adrian Noland]

On 7/5/07, Y. Ph. <philolospher at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you very much for everyone's help on nmap and chkrootkit. It's
> really encouraging. I am learning the Ubuntu system by reading a couple of
> books about it, one of the books talked about Built-in Protection services
> in Linux kernel.  It says that "...These services can be enabled, disabled,
> or displayed using the sysctl command, or by echoing a value (usually a 1 or
> a 0 to turn a service on or off) to a kernel process file under the /proc
> directory". However, it doesn't go any further to explain the above
> statement in detail.
>
>
Further reading:
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/linux/locutus/archives/what-does-this-proc-directory-do-17379

and the two links from the article:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/ch-proc.html
http://www.freeos.com/articles/2879/