Shells? Vhosts?

[Maezr]

Could someone give me an explanation as to what these actually are..? I've seen references to them from time to time, but I'm not really sure, thanks..

 

[teknodude]

shell: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/shell.html

vhost is short for "virtual host". A quote from the Apache manual:

"The term Virtual Host refers to the practice of maintaining more than one server on one machine, as differentiated by their apparent hostname. For example, it is often desirable for companies sharing a web server to have their own domains, with web servers accessible as www.company1.com and www.company2.com, without requiring the user to know any extra path information."
(http://httpd.apache.org/docs/vhosts/)

Hope that helps 🙂

teknodude

 

[Maezr]

These were in reference to IRC, not webhosting... I think, anyway. They said FTP dump access was provided to 'shell providors'. Hm, thanks, though 😱

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Maezr
These were in reference to IRC, not webhosting... I think, anyway. They said FTP dump access was provided to 'shell providors'. Hm, thanks, though 😱

vhosts are similar to virtual domains. A machine is given multiple ip addresses and multiple fully qualified domain names (one per ip or so). You setup BitchX or whatever client you want to use (irssi, epic, ircii, bnc, etc) to use a specific vhost.

For example, a shell servers has 4 domain names:
eleet.myshellserver.com
llama.myshellserver.com
i.dont.know.how.to.use.google.myshellserver.com
i.need.a.life.other.than.the.one.i.have.on.myshellservers.com

For BitchX, you use something like:
export IRC_HOST=llama.myshellserver.com

From then on, when you connect to an irc server you get that host. hostmask example: n0c@llama.myshellserver.com


As far as shells, its a command interpriter. Some shells are guis (the gui shell on DOS for Win3.x-Win9x, lightstep or whatever, etc). Most are command line. Unix and Unix-like systems use them. I use the Korn Shell (ksh), but most people seem to use BASH. The other major shell is the C Shell (csh). google.com is your friend.

 

[jandaman]

This has to do with warez.
What the person wants are shell accounts in exchange for access to a ftp dump site with all the pirated software.
You obtain a shell account by either purchasing one [about $10/month] from a shell provider or by running a *nix box connected to the internet via broadband. Shells are used for a variety of purposes. Most likely the person wants to use the shell for either running a "bot" using eggdrop [ www.eggdrop.net ] to serve files or using the shell to move files between computers [ since most shells are connected on high speed lines ]

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: jandaman
This has to do with warez.

Not necessarily. shells are used for much more than just warez.

What the person wants are shell accounts in exchange for access to a ftp dump site with all the pirated software.
You obtain a shell account by either purchasing one [about $10/month] from a shell provider or by running a *nix box connected to the internet via broadband. Shells are used for a variety of purposes. Most likely the person wants to use the shell for either running a "bot" using eggdrop [ www.eggdrop.net ] or using the shell to move files between computers [ since most shells are connected on high speed lines ]
I used to have a few shell accounts I used to run bots. Usually bots are more for 'show' than any real use

You can do plenty with eggies.