Novell nsure audit 1.0.3 with netware 6.5

I had some difficulty making nsure audit 1.0.3 work on Novell Netware 6.5 No service packs. I found that after I upgraded to SP5 nsure audit worked without needing any special incantations.

performing a database check against mysql on novell netware

I had an issue where I needed to issue where I needed to perform a check against a mysql database in novell netware 6.5

resolution: myisamchk -e :path/to/mysqlDbFile.MYI

performing a recovery was done in a similar fashion

myisamchk -o :path/to/mysqlDbFile.MYI

How to find out a mysql table type

I had an issue as to how to identify a mysql table type without doing the mysqldump command.

Resolution: if you issue the command
show create table it will spit that out and the mysql table type will be at the end

Navigating to a file on novell netware 6.5

Browing the file system is kind of problemmatic things like ls or dir don't work. In this case I used remote manager which is a web app that is on port 8009. This allows you to navigate through the file system as to identify the file that you wanted.

Searching packetstormsecurity.org

I found that the search funcctionon paketstormsecurity.org worked ok, but I wanted to be able to see the last 1000 files. After applying google to the problem I found.
I was very happy to find http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/dirtree.html while looking around one day :D