Re: term-type

2001-07-11 Thread Ed Robitaille
Mansur, Warren wrote Hi all, How do I set my default terminal type for when I telnet to other machines? If I telnet from my Redhat machine, it sends linux as the terminal type from X or from a console. If I telnet from my Debian machine in X, it sends Xterm-debian as my terminal type,

Re: term-type

2001-07-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
You can set the environment for telnet through the ~/.telnetrc file. However, you can just as easily set the term type after logging in: ksh, bash: export TERM=vt100 csh, tcsh setenv TERM vt100 I use SuSE 7.1, and when I use ssh to the BLU server, my termtype is set to vt100. Or here's another

RE: term-type

2001-07-11 Thread Mansur, Warren
Thanks all. I set term to vt220 on my local machine, and then whenever I telnet to other machines it uses vt220 unless I change it explicitly on the remote machine. I also suggest you use ssh whenever possible rather than telnet. I totally agree. Unfortunately the remote machines have no

Re: term-type

2001-07-11 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:05:35AM -0500, Mansur, Warren wrote: Thanks all. I set term to vt220 on my local machine, and then whenever I telnet to other machines it uses vt220 unless I change it explicitly on the remote machine. Both the Linux console and xterm are designed to be vt100

Re: Windows Viruses are FINALLY getting interesting!

2001-07-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rich C wrote: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32marijuana.html I've always said Windows users must be smoking something. ;-) -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent

Re: firewall feasibility question

2001-07-11 Thread Bobnhlinux
In a message dated 7/10/01 11:35:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then we had another idea. Create a lockable boot media (cdrom, jazz, orb, etc) with a minimal install (w/ strict fire wall rules in place). Once it boots have it set up a big RAM disk. Then it

Audio CD Text info

2001-07-11 Thread Alex Miller
I have successfully ripped and burned audio CD's from my CD-ROM to my DVD-ROM. (My questions are at the end) My comands were: To determine my scsi devices: cdrecord -scanbus To rip: cdda2wav -v255 -B -D1,0,0 -Owav To test the burn and determine speed: cdrecord -dummy speed=8 dev=1,1,0 -dao

Re: Security Quick Reference

2001-07-11 Thread Bob Bell
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 04:02:58PM -0400, Ed Robitaille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I pulled the attached from LinuxSecurity.com. Just a little info for any of us newbies lurking. Not viewable (or won't run?) for me. Do you have another format? Anyone else having difficulties. Error:

RE: Windows Viruses are FINALLY getting interesting!

2001-07-11 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
Only the happy ones -Lawrence -Original Message- From: Benjamin Scott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 12:06 PM To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group Subject: Re: Windows Viruses are FINALLY getting interesting! On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rich C wrote:

Re: Audio CD Text info

2001-07-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
Have you tried using the -useinfo option to cdrecord? It uses the .inf file associated with the .wav file. --Bruce Alex Miller wrote: ... However, I can't find any doc's on how make an audio CD from my own .wav files, adding the text. The .inf files that cdda2wav creates contains cddb

Re: Security Quick Reference

2001-07-11 Thread James R. Van Zandt
I can't read it using GSView 4.0 on Windows either. If someone CAN read it pls let us know and with what. For one thing, it has a big section with only carriage returns and no linefeeds. tr '\r' '\n' took care of that. However, it still wouldn't display. There are lots of lines ending in

Re: firewall feasibility question

2001-07-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Todd Littlefield wrote: Then we had another idea. Create a lockable boot media (cdrom, jazz, orb, etc) with a minimal install (w/ strict fire wall rules in place). A system based on read-only media will generally be much harder to compromise then one with writable

FW: Hosted vulnerability scanning

2001-07-11 Thread Brad Maxwell
looks convenient and somewhat topical. -Original Message- From: NW on Application Service Providers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hosted vulnerability scanning NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEB BOLDING on APPLICATION

Ecrix VXA tape drives - track record?

2001-07-11 Thread John Abreau
I'm trying to budget for a tape drive, and it appears that the Ecrix VXA may be my first choice. I seem to recall a question about them on one of these lists a long time ago, where there were very few replies, all positive, and the consensus at the time was that the VXA was too new to have a

Re: Ecrix VXA tape drives - track record?

2001-07-11 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, John Abreau wrote: ... the consensus at the time was that the VXA was too new to have a track record. And will remain too new for some time. The kind of track record we're talking about takes years to accrue. System admins tend to be a paranoid bunch. That being

Meeting tomorrow night

2001-07-11 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Hello, The meeting for Monadlug is tomorrow night everyone. We are going to be installing tools for programming on a members computer in preparation for the series on beginning programming starting with the August meeting. If anyone who atttended the meeting last month can email me with