RE: hello once again and perl

2000-02-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Karl J. Runge writes: Does Perl on Win32 have the fork() call yet? If so, is it reasonably fast (as it is on Unix)? fork() is a nice, simple way to make a server (for example). $ uname -a Windows_NT CLARK2 4.0 17.5 i686 $ perl -v This is perl, version 5.004_04 built for cygwin32 Copyright

RE: hello once again and perl

2000-02-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
the interpeter and some thread-specific data as well. From reading the p5p list I infer that the details of this are still being worked out... --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | Will hack Perl for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | kdcNOSPAM@.alumni.unh.edu | fine food, good beer, Cabletron

Re: general scripting question

2000-02-09 Thread Kevin D. Clark
go: perl -0777 -ne 'print "$1\n\n" while(m/(^HCA.*(?:\nI[XY]\d{5}.*)+)/mg)' your-file-name I hope you find this to be useful, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | Will hack Perl for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | kdcNOSPAM@.alumni.unh.edu | fine food, good beer, Ca

Re: CurrentTime

2000-02-14 Thread Kevin D. Clark
ct had the misfortune of using the identifier "far" all over the place for variable names...) -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Cabletron Systems, Inc. | PGP Key Available| an

Re: MySQL dilemma

2000-02-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
ook, an embedded double-quote " $ Hope this helps, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | Will hack Perl for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | kdcNOSPAM@.alumni.unh.edu | fine food, good beer, Cabletron

Re: Library Management

2000-02-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
nvironment. This will work on most of the Unices that I am familiar with, with the notable exception of HP-UX, which, IIRC, uses the variable SHLIB_PATH instead. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Cabletron Sy

Re: Command-line mail program

2000-02-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am looking for a mail program for UNIX/Linux that works from the command line. I need to be able to specify recipients (or preferably a file containing a list of recipients), change the sender address, specify a file to get the body text from, and attach a

RE: Slash who?

2000-02-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Niall Kavanagh writes: In a message dated: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 07:21:08 EST Adam Wendt said: Somewhere in the past 24 hours my script that grabs slashdot headlines and puts them in my root menu Can I see this? :) Or check out http://www.newsclipper.com/ . --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark

Re: Heres something funny.

2000-02-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan writes: snmpset NTSERVER public interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifAdminStatus.1 i 2 If you don't know what this does, your nt sysadmins don't want you to play with this. All it does is bring the eth0 down on an NT box, but from outside, with snmp. And since this is the

Re: Samba Question

2000-03-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
work at all. If you need such functionality, please consider other vendor's offerings. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Cabletron Systems, Inc. | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham

Re: out-of-band data?

2000-03-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
e. I hope this helps, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Cabletron Systems, Inc. | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham,

Re: FTP ? ls more than the screen can hold

2000-03-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
to the directory that you're interested in, scroll around in the browser. Type something like "ls foo*" to filter out all of the cruft that you're not interested in. There you go, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTP ? ls more than the screen can hold

2000-03-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Karl J. Runge writes: (except to note the *file* listing trick: "get README |more" with no space between | and more) Sometimes this is useful as well: get README - Especially if you can read fast. (-: But this doesn't solve the original poster's problem. --kevin -

Re: Help!!!

2000-03-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
badly that I needed this information, but it's nice knowing that I have this information if I ever need it. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can

Re: Request for information about TTY line disciplines

2000-04-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
ng the BSD documentation and code might be your best bet for now. I hope this helps, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham,

Re: C question

2000-04-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
witch statments need to be integral constants. A character string in C doesn't really work here. My advice to you: just use strcmp(). It's straightforard to code and when you look at the code 6 months from now it'll be very understandable. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark |

Re: C question

2000-04-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jerry Feldman writes: Here is the generated code where strlen of a constant is evaluated at compile time. ... mov 6, $0 # load the strlen("abcdef") (This was for an Alpha, right?) Wow, this only further confirms my belief that

Re: Apache Perl question(s)

2000-04-06 Thread Kevin D. Clark
, etc.) BTW, just to confirm, you're aware that Perl's "-c" flag causes Perl to just to syntax checking, right? It won't run (most) of your program if you use this flag. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | Will hack Perl for [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: ssh X forwarding

2000-04-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
both systems? What does your $DISPLAY environment variable look like on the your remote(home) system? --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can mo

Re: tcpdump confusion

2000-04-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
? Is the machine running your application behind this firewall? A diagram...? How about typing: tcpdump 'port 80 || port 21459' or even: tcpdump 'ip host YOUR-HOSTNAME and ( port 80 || port 21459 )' What does this produce and what did you do to produce it? --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark

Re: Derek's been hacked

2000-04-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
(above). It doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me that your /bin/login is suid-root. If your /bin/sh is suid-root, then yes, freak out. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key

Re: ping and SUID (was: Derek's been hacked)

2000-04-26 Thread Kevin D. Clark
socket. I think that this *finally* changed around a year or so ago with some part of Winsock2. This made writing portable NMS programs that depended on ICMP/ping pretty painful. --kevin (former chicken farmer, and *no*, I never used antibiotics) -- Kevin D. Clark |

Re: executable .cgi directories

2000-04-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
. Make sure that you're thinking about security before you implement this! Hope this helps, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ADVERTISEMENT: On Sunday May 7th, I'm riding my bicycle 100 miles in the American Diabetes Association's Tour de Cure ride. If you're interested

Re: Why does vi put out a 'c'?

2000-04-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
. RH 6.1, updated (mostly) to 6.2. Ask the damn paperclip: http://www.red-bean.com/~joelh/vigor/ (-: --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move

let's torture and kill virus writers

2000-05-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me. /dev/null Obviously, since this is VB based, this only affects Windoze machines. But even if you're not using Windoze, you're going to get a lot of mail if your site is affected... I hope someone else finds this to be useful, --kevin -- Kevin D

Re: Bandwidth degredation on a socket..

2000-05-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
ata. Also, who is the manufacturer of the NAT box? --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham,

anybody need a 400gig raid7 array?

2000-05-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
See: https://www.nhptv.unh.edu/auction/spring00/s-15.shtml (this is an item from the NH Public TV auction) --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I

Re: Plea for help: The detriment of using Microsoft products

2000-05-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Jeffry Smith writes: Boeing jets are extremely complex, requiring hundreds of thousands, if not millions of parts, each of which must do its job correctly. The odds are that there are flaws in the jets. Yet, as recent actions involving the Boeing 737 show, Boeing is held legally and

Re: Plea for help: The detriment of using Microsoft products

2000-05-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
be taking a big risk in releasing a software product with any other kind of license. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham,

Re: Windows front end to a backup utility?

2000-05-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
to her once to update some info in her book but the address bounced. -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham, N.H. (USA

Re: not exactly a virus, but...

2000-05-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
quot;cat" will block in write(). Strange things will happen when "cat" becomes unblocked and attempts to read from "junk" again (after the file has been truncated). So there's a race condition going on here. I've kindof simplified what'

Re: Who's using that socket?

2000-05-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Rodent of Unusual Size writes: How can I turn a port number from netstat's output into a PID? I want to find out what non-obvious thing is listening on a particular port.. Use lsof. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Who's using that socket?

2000-05-31 Thread Kevin D. Clark
listening by default. There is supposed to be a way to tell x not to listen on that port, but my tries have been unsuccessful up to this point. Also try this: startx -- -nolisten tcp --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give

Re: Who's using that socket?

2000-05-31 Thread Kevin D. Clark
s to X (the X server). startx doesn't know what to do with the arguments "-nolisten" "tcp", but X does... So when you tried to invoke "startx" without the "--", startx gobbled up the "-nolisten" "tcp" arguments and never passed them onto the

Re: Who's using that socket?

2000-05-31 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Kevin D. Clark writes: In the case of startx, startx just passes these "extra" arguments to X (the X server). startx doesn't know what to do with the arguments "-nolisten" "tcp", but X does... Oops, I meant "xinit" and not "X". (Jeff Sm

Re: NFS submount question

2000-06-01 Thread Kevin D. Clark
) functionality isn't supported yet (last time I checked...). To sum up: you can't export "nested" directories with knfsd. Either stop using knfsd or else restructure your filesystems so that your exported directories aren't nested anymore. Hope this helps, --kevin -- Kevi

Re: NFS submount question

2000-06-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin writes: I haven't tried it, but can't you just export the subdirectory seperately, and mount it seperately, and have everything work? My understanding is "no". --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Time Protocal

2000-06-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
of the usual Linux package formats. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham, N.H. (USA

Re: MAC addresses

2000-06-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
begun the process of obtaining new OUIs. Ha ha. Only serious. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham, N.H. (USA

Re: real player?

2000-06-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Has anybody out there gotten a non-windows/non-mac version of the RealPlayer to work through a proxy/firewall? I'm specifically interested in versions that run under Linux or Solaris. I've never had any luck with this with the free versions that I've downloaded. Thanks, --kevin -- Kevin D

Re: real player?

2000-06-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ted Knupke writes: "Kevin D. Clark" wrote: Has anybody out there gotten a non-windows/non-mac version of the RealPlayer to work through a proxy/firewall? ... I am using a free version of RealPlayer 7 Maybe that's it then. The last time I checked (a few months ago), Re

Re: script telnet or ftp

2000-06-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
the user having to interact at all? Get Expect. (My opinion: Expect's usefulness outweighs TCL's hokey syntax. However, if you've run up against a brick wall with TCL, check out Perl's Expect module -- it works very well) --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark

Re: How do you.....

2000-06-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
n it dies the kernel sends the SIGHUP signal to the rest of the processes in that process group. But netscape isn't in the shell's process group -- it deliberately disassociated itself from that group and formed its own. That's why netscape doesn't die when you kill the shell. Regards, --kevi

Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

2000-06-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
such problem. And working with history/long lines is a pleasure to deal with in bash -- in ksh this is painful. Of course, if the problem is even moderately complicated, I'd prefer not to use a shell at all and instead use Perl. Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | |

Re: How do you.....

2000-06-16 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Kevin D. Clark writes: The key here seems to be that netscape (and a few other GUI programs that I've looked at) become their own process group leaders. It occured to me as I was biking home tonight that netscape isn't the thing that is "placing the netscape process in its own pr

Re: Net etiquette

2000-06-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Randy Edwards writes: So what I was wondering is what are the rules of net etiquette about port scans. In short, how do others perceive and react to them? What do you suppose happens after someone employs the following line of reasoning in a world-wide public forum consisting of

Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

2000-06-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
s a UI-independent tool for designing easy-to-use front-ends for things. The Tk interface for Perl is pretty nice as well. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | Will hack Perl for [EMAIL PROTECTED] | kdcNOSPAM@.alumni.unh.edu | fine food, good beer, Enterasys Networks

Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

2000-06-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin writes: No but you have equally obscure and meaningless keywords like car, cdr, and lambda etc. CAR and CDR refer to a register in the IBM 704. Lambda refers to the lambda calculus. Obscure? Maybe, although my (excellent) LISP teacher told me what CAR and CDR referred to on

procmail recipe

2000-06-21 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Yet another procmail recipe that you might find to be useful today: :0: * B ?? (^( )?The male and female stages of life|LIFE_STAGES.TXT.SHS) /dev/null See: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/2620/tc/computer_virus_2.html --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark

Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

2000-06-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
I know what I can do as root and I take the responsibility seriously. But, hell no, I'm never scared. Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Netwo

Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

2000-06-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
o out over the weekend. I'm telling you right now, if you call into question the trustworthiness of my friend, I'm going to be insulted. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key

Re: Strange modem problem

2000-06-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
(knock on wood...). --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham, N.H. (USA

Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

2000-06-22 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier writes: Sorry for the typo :) Yeah, I picked up on that instantly and knew what happened. (-: I'm amazed at the number of typos I make when I post to this list (especially minor spelling errors). Gee, you'd think I'd know how to type by now. No big deal. --kevin -- Kevin D

Re: Bashing sea shells and bash shell (was: How do you.....)

2000-06-19 Thread Kevin D. Clark
an engineer the root password causes more problems then it solves. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham, N.H. (USA

Re: Neighbour table overflow

2000-06-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
u show us your route table (IIRC, "netstat -nw")? Could you show us the output of "ifconfig -a"? What kernel version are you running? --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks

Re: Congratualtions to Mission Critical Linux!

2000-06-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin writes: Now, as to what the possible benefits of this might be in a world where everything is free? Je ne sais pas, mon ami. More little girls would probably be reading _A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer_, that's what. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark

Re: Wake On LAN

2000-06-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
this is really useful, but then again I'm biased: my systems are always on and they're always running cron jobs and they're nearly always busy doing something. Oh, and the systems that I use allow me to sensibly access them remotely... --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark

Re: Neighbour table overflow

2000-06-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
tion between the routing code and the ARP code going on here. Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks |

Re: Apache 1.3.11 NO SYM LINKS????????

2000-06-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
towards us helping you out. (if you've already done this, just ignore me) I hope this helps you solve your problem. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available|

RE: X init problem

2000-07-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
th "set +x") Now I can get back to coding . . . ugh. Hey, I *like* coding... (-: --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the wor

Re: SLUG meeting in Durham on Monday 7/10

2000-07-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
sym } } print "Hey look, a unique symbol: ", $_, "\n" while (($_ = gensym2) 140); That's all there is to it. IIRC, there's a discussion of why this works somewhere in _The Perl Cookbook_. Sorry I couldn't stay for the entire meeting; I had to get home. Thanks for

Re: Email on Linux

2000-07-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Kenny Donahue writes: I don't want to go back to the Pine/Elm/Emacs days since I've become spoiled with spell check, easy attachments etc I use Xemacs for mail (VM), web-surfing (W3), spell-check (ispell), "easy" attachments (VM handles MIME just fine -- I can even view JPEG/GIF/PBM

Re: Emacs and ange-ftp with ssh?

2000-07-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
ow how I'd ever live without them... --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Give me a decent UNIX Enterasys Networks | PGP Key Available| and I can move the world Durham,

Re: Today's date

2000-07-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Derek Martin writes: Well, I was mistaken apparently, but Lord Dimwit Flathead is the not so benevolent ruler in Zork et. al. Sorry Ben, dating myself I guess... A hollow voice utters ``Cretin!''. (-: --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark | | [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What ed. systems use Linux?

2000-07-24 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greenfield Community College. That's where I first got really interested in computers. I took some "computers for kids" class there. It was taught on Apple II's and Atari 400's. The thing that piqued my interest? The instructor showed a BASIC program that drew

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
file has the appropiate permissions (chmod 600 ~root/.rhosts). I would highly recommend doing this with ssh though. IP addresses can be spoofed --kevin (hey, long time no see...) -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me

Re: tulip.o

2000-10-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
. I had to go to Donald Becker's site and update them myself. Bleh. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Will hack Perl for Cetacean Networks, Inc.| fine food, good beer, Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | or fun. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
. Without public-key cryptography, you don't get that. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move the world [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP Key Available

Re: rsh as root to RED HAT kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ?

2000-10-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
~/.shosts file was set up correctly. To be honest, I hardly ever use this option. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move the world [EMAIL

Re: nfs woes

2000-10-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move the world [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP Key Available

Re: SUID root CGI programs

2000-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
, if you do this, you'd better know what you're doing. --kevin PS If you happen to implement this in Perl, taint checks are your friend. -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA

Re: SUID root CGI programs

2000-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hate being protected from myself! I find Perl's taint checks and other warning mechanisms to be much more helpful than harmful. Do what you think is best. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Will hack Perl for Cetacean Networks, Inc

RE: Help me push Linux

2000-10-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
tion would be to use them. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move the world [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP Key

Re: Anyone familiar CGI.pm ?

2000-10-17 Thread Kevin D. Clark
arguments. Try: @values = $query-param('foo'); $value = $query-param('foo'); --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Will hack Perl for Cetacean Networks, Inc.| fine food, good beer, Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | or fun. [EMAIL

Re: Help with Minicom

2000-10-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
the time; it works great for me. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move the world [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PGP Key Available

Re: mediaone and fetchmail

2000-10-25 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is asks for my passwd and I supply it then it returns error 2. it tells me something like username valid but ip address not existent (Im not at home right now) Please send us the relevant text from the fetchmail logfile. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL

RE: Brain-Computer Interface

2000-10-31 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I REALLY would like to know more about this aspect. It reminds me of the part of Matrix when they're having dinner...discussing how an AI could possibly know what chicken tastes like. Suggested readings: Plato's _Republic_, book 7) (specifically the allegory of

Re: Netscraft measures uptime

2000-11-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
to poll every N hours, where N9. The only other way I can think of to glean this information would be to poll MIB-II sysUpTime values, but it'd probably be safe to say that most hosts running serious web-servers aren't also running SNMP servers. So that rules this scheme out. --kevin -- Kevin D

Re: Netscraft measures uptime

2000-11-02 Thread Kevin D. Clark
'd be very compliant with RFC793 if you used completely random numbers all the time. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move the world [EMAIL PROTE

Re: MAC Address?

2000-11-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
(HWaddr) above? That's it. (sometimes the MAC is also printed on a sticky label on the outside of the card) --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move

Re: Zombie

2000-11-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
? Gosh, if they're using SNMP to configure this, and if they're using SNMPv1 (which I strongly suspect), I'll bet $100 that Todd can figure out the community string and the basic MIB structure. Hahahahah. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc

Re: Zombie

2000-11-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
cablemodem as well, so I can't exactly say what is going on in that space. Just because they're a standard doesn't mean everybody is following it... I've heard about enough misconfigurations of cablemodems so that checking this out might be fruitful. Or maybe not. YMMV. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark

Re: Zombie

2000-11-03 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So without an IP addr to point my pings (or SNMP traffic) at, is there any way to talk to (rather than through) our modems? Special raw Enet frames, maybe? I dunno. I'll ask around. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc

Re: What do you want to hear about? emacs

2000-11-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
and this will do what you want. For a beginning emacs user who wants to customize things, I highly recommend using XEmacs. The menu structure of XEmacs might make it possible for you to customize XEmacs to your needs without learning Lisp. --kevin Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks

Re: Debian package names (was Re: Debian flamewar)

2000-11-07 Thread Kevin D. Clark
. ;-) On a related note, I find rpmfind (http://rpmfind.net) to be useful for this task. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move the world [EMAIL

Re: TCP Timeout and RSH

2000-11-10 Thread Kevin D. Clark
t myself, I wouldn't tune my kernel in this manner. The TIME_WAIT state exists for good reason, and there's good reason to not muck with this value. Hope this helps, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.

Re: undelete files still open by a running process

2000-11-20 Thread Kevin D. Clark
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Re: VPNs (was: Connecting to a win firewall...)

2000-11-28 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: People said that about hand calculators 40 years ago... [this isn't addressed to Derek personally, instead more generally to those of you on this list who are furthering the argument that we should stay away from public key cryptosystems "for a few decades"] OK,

Re: decent distros

2000-11-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
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Re: sticky bit question

2000-11-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
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Re: 2.2.17 kernel compilation error ?

2000-12-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
\.cc?/.o/g'` ; gmake if I really need a parallel build, but in general I don't use them for important builds) --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | Cetacean Networks, Inc.| Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA) | and I can move

Re: Gnome crashes and I cant start X

2000-12-12 Thread Kevin D. Clark
/.Xauthority --kevin (who wishes he was at the GNHLUG meeting right now) -- Kevin D. Clark (cetaceannetworks.com!kclark) | Cetacean Networks, Inc. | Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA)| and I can move the world alumni.unh.edu!kdc (PGP Key

Re: Netscape/Mozilla font improvement

2000-12-13 Thread Kevin D. Clark
idn't hear this from me... (-: --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark (cetaceannetworks.com!kclark) | Cetacean Networks, Inc. | Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA)| and I can move the world alumni.unh.edu!kd

Re: sendmail rule debugging to syslog?

2000-12-27 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas? I've googled to no avail.. How about "sendmail -bD -v"? (or some variant) ^ Regards, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark (cetaceannetworks.com!kclark) | Cetacean Networks, Inc. | Give me a d

Re: While we're talking Sendmail...

2001-01-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
restricted shell. This shell will only allow you to run programs contained (or linked to) in the smrsh directory. Hope this helps, --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark (cetaceannetworks.com!kclark) | Cetacean Networks, Inc. | Give me a decent UNIX Portsmouth, N.H. (USA

Re: Looking for a passwd checker

2001-01-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone know of a decent password checker? I'm not looking for something to "check" encrypted strings, rather something that tells the person the password the *want* to use "is bad because...". IIRC, the pink camel book had one of these.

Re: While we're talking Sendmail...

2001-01-04 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ln -s /etc/smrsh/mailps2pdf.pl /tmp/mailps2pdf.pl Sorry, that should be: ln -s /tmp/mailps2pdf.pl /etc/smrsh/mailps2pdf.pl --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark (cetaceannetworks.com!kclark) | Cetacean Networks, Inc. | Give me a decent UNIX

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
(/([a-zA-Z]+|\d+)/g); I can think of convoluted ways to do this too, but I'm not sure that they're worth the effort. --kevin -- Kevin D. Clark (cetaceannetworks.com!kclark) | Will hack Perl for Cetacean Networks, Inc. | fine food, good beer, Portsmouth, N.H. (USA

Re: Perl regexp to split version numbers

2001-01-05 Thread Kevin D. Clark
strings. For example, it doesn't work with "21.1.12" or "6.86abc". Also, you could do something funky like replace the while loop with a for loop: for ($i = 0;$f = substr ($foo,$i,1);$i++) { push @foo,$f; } Same problem here too. Sorry. --kevi

Re: bash shell scripting questions

2001-01-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just finished writing a shell script. Well, not really cause it doesn't do what I want yet. Anyway: I have a pictures directory. in that directory are three more called disk1, disk2, and disk3. What the script is *supposed* to do is "ls $1*.jpg" but when I

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