Re: [Fwd: FW: The wonders of computers]

1999-08-17 Thread Or Sagi
(Vadim, since you don't follow linux-il, I won't apologise for the double post this time g)v Arrrgh. For the veteran among us, I would like to point out that this list actually had people with common sense (Which isn't common at all, btw). Vadim - This will be a *very* good time to

Re: [Fwd: FW: The wonders of computers]

1999-08-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Or Sagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will someone please explain to me how someone can be intelligent enough to read a web page, use a computer, write an email message, yet not be intelligent enough to actually UNDERSTAND that the mails about large messages apply to him as well ?! Isn't it

X auto start.

1999-08-17 Thread Shlomo Reches
Hi, I messed around with my X settings and the PC is stuck the moment X is started. The problem is that I have automatic start of X so I don't really have the chance to reconfigure my settings before the system is stuck. Is there something I can do to cancel the automatic X start while the

Re: X auto start.

1999-08-17 Thread Alon Altman
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Shlomo Reches wrote: Hi, I messed around with my X settings and the PC is stuck the moment X is started. The problem is that I have automatic start of X so I don't really have the chance to reconfigure my settings before the system is stuck. Is there something I

Re: sendmail questions

1999-08-17 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 01:08:21PM +0200, Adam Morrison wrote: As long as we're quoting Perl.gods, how about this one from Tom Christiansen's `Csh Programming Considered Harmful': An enlightening diatribe indeed. Tchrist's personal rule of thumb is that if it's the size that

Re: X auto start.

1999-08-17 Thread Gaal Yahas
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 04:08:49PM +0300, Shlomo Reches wrote: Is there something I can do to cancel the automatic X start while the system is in the booting process? perl -pi -e 's/^id:\d+/id:3/' /etc/inittab -- believing is seeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.forum2.org/gaal/

Re: 3 things

1999-08-17 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 02:36:20AM +0300, Eli Marmor wrote: 2. A question: My netscape shows instead of ' or " - it shows question marks (?) - any idea how to fix it? These signs are neither ' nor "; If you don't believe, check their ASCII code. These are special characters which in some

Re: VCD and linux

1999-08-17 Thread erez
Liran Zvibel wrote: Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just took a VCD (video-cd, mpeg-1) from the movie lib. putting it on windows98, I could access (read) the cd. mounting it under linux (iso9660 ?) gave me the directory tree, but when i tryed reading a file, I got atapi

Re: Encryption law in Israel

1999-08-17 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Nadav Har'El" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A system administrator told me today that he was required by Israeli law to use only the DES encryption option of ssh (the weakest ssh encryption, which is by default not compiled in because it's so weak), and that other encryptions supported by ssh

Re: Encryption law in Israel

1999-08-17 Thread Alon Altman
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nadav Har'El wrote: Hi guys! A system administrator told me today that he was required by Israeli law to use only the DES encryption option of ssh (the weakest ssh encryption, which is by default not compiled in because it's so weak), and that other encryptions

Re: Encryption law in Israel

1999-08-17 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Nadav Har'El wrote: Hi guys! A system administrator told me today that he was required by Israeli law to use only the DES encryption option of ssh (the weakest ssh encryption, which is by default not compiled in because it's so weak), and that other encryptions

Re: Encryption law in Israel

1999-08-17 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue Aug 17 18:21:13 1999, Aviram Jenik wrote about "Re: Encryption law in Israel": That's totally untrue. This law is rather new (from the 70s I think), and it's very much enforced. Every company that produces software that uses encryption of some kind has to obtain a special permit before

Re: Encryption law in Israel

1999-08-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AA As I've heard, the law does exist only for the reason that is AA was never cancelled. It's a mandatorical law (I wouldn't be AA surprised if it's still in english), and nowadays it is not AA enforced to any degree. I know that alot of respected systems in

Re: NFS and IP filters

1999-08-17 Thread Adam Morrison
Alex Shnitman wrote: I'm setting up IP filters on a firewall, and I need to add rules that allow NFS mounting to pass through (don't worry, not from outside, between two parts of the network here). What ports do I need to open? You usually can't tell. I inherited the firewall setup from

Re: NFS and IP filters

1999-08-17 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Adam Morrison wrote: If neither is available, you'll have to resort to non robust solutions, such as countingon the port number being the same across reboots, or opening up a port range. It just occured to me that one could run a script immediately after the portmapper

Re: NFS and IP filters

1999-08-17 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 08:02:00PM +0200, Adam Morrison wrote: The real solution is system dependent. Some versions of mountd allow you to set their port from the command line. Some will notice an entry for `mountd' in services(4) and use that. Some will do both. And conversely, some

Re: NFS and IP filters

1999-08-17 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Alex Shnitman wrote: We're using OpenBSD, so it randomizes ports. Its mountd also doesn't have an option for specifying the port number, and there's no entry for mountd in /etc/services. I guess it boils down to modifying mountd to use a fixed port here. Shouldn't be

Re: NFS and IP filters

1999-08-17 Thread Adam Morrison
Ariel Biener wrote: It just occured to me that one could run a script immediately after the portmapper and the rpc services are up to create a dynamic firewalls ruleset. [...] Now, assuming you have a static ruleset,

Re: NFS and IP filters

1999-08-17 Thread Ariel Biener
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Adam Morrison wrote: Of course this breaks if you don't rerun it whenever the portmapper or mountd is restarted. Of course. But then again, I assumed this was common knowledge. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work phone: 03-640608

Re: passwd group and shadow location

1999-08-17 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
M Is there a way to change the location of the passwd group and shadow M files to somewere else ? M in order to "hide" them :-) strace to any program using them will reveal them anyway. But if you believe everything is using PAM and aren't afraid to break some software - you may try to alter

Re: Encryption law in Israel

1999-08-17 Thread Doron Shikmoni
Nadav, Nadav Har'El wrote: I'm not a criminal, and I don't want any of my daily actions to be deemed illegal. I think that this is a basic right in a democracy. You are making a very good point, and a sad one, too. P.S. the URL quoted by someone in a previous message seems to imply that

XISP 2.6

1999-08-17 Thread Doron Shikmoni
I have recently mentioned XISP ; Here's LSM for a new version. Doorn Shikmoni Begin3 Title: X-ISP, an X11 visual interface to pppd/chat, ISP and phone company database manager; source and ix86-glibc2 binary distribution. Version:August 17 1999