Re: [Fwd: SOT: Evolution and gpg signature verification (was: Re: updating gpg keys)]

2002-10-11 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, mike ledoux hath spake thusly: gpg --keyserver keyserver.kjsl.com --send-key your-key-id This key server now also seems to be rejecting connections... - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID

Re: 2.5.41: wups!

2002-10-10 Thread Derek D. Martin
? Or should I at all? Might 2.5.41 have known IDE issues? For reporting bugs, see this URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html Don't run development kernels on machines that you care about! =8^) - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D

Re: [Fwd: SOT: Evolution and gpg signature verification (was: Re: updating gpg keys)]

2002-10-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: gpg: BAD signature from Derek D. Martin (for signing software) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is the warning message about the deprecated --honor-http-proxy option Maybe... Easiest way to find

Re: [Fwd: SOT: Evolution and gpg signature verification (was: Re: updating gpg keys)]

2002-10-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: gpg: BAD signature from Derek D. Martin (for signing software) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is the warning message about the deprecated --honor-http-proxy option Maybe... Easiest way

Re: [Fwd: SOT: Evolution and gpg signature verification (was: Re: updating gpg keys)]

2002-10-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly: gpg --keyserver keyserver.kjsl.com --send-key your-key-id I just did this. You may want to try it again. =8^) It didn't help me... when I update my own key, I still get an invalid

Re: RH 8.0 Question

2002-10-07 Thread Derek D. Martin
doing away with it. There is no mechanism provided by GNOME 2 to change your window manager. Additionally, many, many of the things which previously WERE configurable, no longer are. I'm no longer a GNOME user... - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D

Re: Complexity and user confusion (was: Red Hat's Bluecurve)

2002-10-07 Thread Derek D. Martin
. Corporations are the ones that make software sales profitable, by and large, so the actual users of the software suffer. - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

Re: Anyone ran into this? Domain disabled by Verisign claiming lack of payment...

2002-09-27 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Randy Edwards hath spake thusly: I'm loathe to use Verisign for anything... I concur wholeheartedly. Those slimy #*(@%! bastards held one of my domains hostage (offline) for over a month telling me the only way they

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: ssh pll@system-b -L 8110:pop-server:110 fetchmail --protocol POP3 --port 8110 localhost Is this supposed to be a single command line, or 2 separate ones? Two. I would guess 2

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Neal Richardson hath spake thusly: I have swapped out motherboards using windows me and after several ok like 10 reboots it did in fact work fine. I've done this with win98 as well, but with varying success. It /usually/

Re: Sniffer detectors for Linux?

2002-09-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ken Ambrose hath spake thusly: On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Michael O'Donnell wrote: The article mentioned below indicates (to me, anyway) that it might be harder than you think to detect all sniffers:

Re: Sniffer detectors for Linux?

2002-09-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Thomas Charron hath spake thusly: Quoting Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm. Valid point. I know a fair bit about low-level ethernet stuff, so: wouldn't it be possible to set up a MAC:IP table of some sort

Re: init scripts, redhat, console use

2002-09-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, at 9:39am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always just used the read built-in for this. Doesn't seem to work with init scripts. Hmmm. One of the things Red

[OT] Harvest Moon

2002-09-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For astronomy lovers, some interesting tidbits about an event this weekend: Weekend Of The Harvest Moon And The Autumnal Equinox http://www.miamisci.org:8080/ramgen/stargazer/SG0238.rm This is from Jack Horkiemer's website (which really could

Re: Syslog and LOG_LOCALn?

2002-09-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
At some point hitherto, Mark Polhamus hath spake thusly: Are there any conventions for the use of syslog facility codes LOG_LOCAL0 thru LOG_LOCAL7? That depends on how you define convention; those facilities are used as generic syslog facilities, allowing for the ability of the system

Re: Problems printing from RH-7.3 and OpenOffice-1.0.1

2002-09-16 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Steven W. Orr hath spake thusly: I posted this to the OO list and didn't get any help except to confirm that other people's files work as badly for me as my own files do. I don't know what to think: I suspect this is a

Re: SSH can't do menage a trois?

2002-09-10 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: I can hack around this in a number of ways (like issuing two separate scp commands with the files temporarily residing on C's disk, or by spawning a tar on L and one on R and pushing

Re: NIS, automounting, Solaris and headaches

2002-09-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 12:28:32PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote: A few more questions. I'm getting closer to something that may work. We did this at MCL. I'm a bit fuzzy about

Re: web browser protocols (specifically telnet)

2002-08-26 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: Except that telnet://server isn't a mime type, it's a URL, which is different. Mime types are used for handling attachements, URLs are for protocols. I'm aware of that... the point

Re: File sizes

2002-08-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: Samba and NFS(v2) don't like 2GB file sizes. http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html That page is a bit outdated. It talks about RH 6.2 as being current, and doesn't mention ext3 at all. I

Re: sorting pathnames by basename

2002-08-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: 1. Perl seems to favor supporting a variety of features with obscure, meaningless, two-character variables that might be clearer with flags or arguments to functions that make use of it.

Re: Perl

2002-08-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: Hmmm, if you don't like $|, as Kevin already pointed out, you can: Use English; $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH = 1; which I actually find far more readable and understandable than

Re: Perl

2002-08-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Erik Price hath spake thusly: there is no meaning inherent in $! Right. Just like there is no meaning inherent in #! but we all know what it means when it comes at the top of a script. Yes, but again, it is not that

Re: Perl (or Unix vs. MS, actually)

2002-08-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: Yet you complain about Perl being hard to learn and use, for the same reasons, and not just for you, but for everyone? I absolutely said no such thing. Let's make this even simpler.

Re: suggestion for the restricted ssh shell

2002-08-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, John Abreau hath spake thusly: Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Feel free to have a look. http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/ I took a look at it, and found you've hit on one of my pet peeves: when you untar

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: For example, if I have a RH 6.2 system, I might well upgrade the sh-utils package to that which shipped with 7.3. Does uname now report that I'm using 7.3 or 6.2? How does it

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, mike ledoux hath spake thusly: I disagree. The solution is to provide a package specific to each distribution. Of course, your system admin has to pay attention... It would need to be named differently on each release

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:26:12PM -0400, Derek D. Martin wrote: At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: Which most security-concious admins still remove or zero

suspend on laptops with GeForce2go chips

2002-08-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anyone have experience getting a laptop with an NVidia GeForce to suspend to disk? IIRC last time I tried this, it caused problems that caused the laptop to lock up and not recover. OTOH, I could just be remembering badly. It's rough getting

Re: sorting pathnames by basename

2002-08-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kevin D. Clark hath spake thusly: BTW, this is actually a fairly good example of why my immune system always concludes that I'm in physical danger when perl code is visible... I would point out that it's just as

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: I wouldn't worry about it. I would summarily ignore the 'uname -o' functionality (if it can even be called that). Someone just pointed out 'lsb_release -d' to me. Using 'lsb_release -a'

Re: restricting ssh to scp and/or sftp only

2002-08-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, at 5:21pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: If you should find this sort of thing useful, you can find it here: http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/ Cool. Have not had

Re: uname output ?

2002-08-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: Now, last I checked, Stallman wanted to call the entire system GNU/Linux because so much of the environment is built upon GNU software. However, in the context of 'uname' would operating

Re: Rack Mount Servers

2002-08-12 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: Did Compaq have 1u or 2u rackmount server? They have both. The Proliant DL320 is an IDE-based 1u, and the DL360 is a SCSI-based 1u. The DL380 is a really sweet 2u that can hold 6 SCSI