[X-Unix] ps -e

Stroller MacMonster at myrealbox.com
Tue Aug 3 14:21:21 PDT 2004


That sounds really interesting. I think there'd be a lot of demand for 
your spare copy, however it's copiously & cheaply available from 
Amazon's second-hand section. You need to search for "Cookoo's Egg" 
with the apostrophe.

HTH,

Stroller.



On Aug 3, 2004, at 12:25 pm, Lewis, Benjamin (Ben) wrote:
>
> Cliff Stoll is a sysadmin at Berkely who tracked down a German cracker 
> working for the KGB. The "Cuckoos Egg" is a book he wrote about the 
> case. It's a great story (and all true). One of the clues that leads 
> to the guy is that he keeps using ps -ef on BSD based systems, this 
> makes Stoll believe the intruder is on the east coast of the US (where 
> thanks to AT&T, Sys V machines were at the time predominant). I have a 
> spare copy but I think thats a bit too far to send. It's worth 
> checking out, a couple of people I've spoken to here read it at 
> university as part of their network security classes.



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