IMO point 1 is yet another reason *not* to use emacs, but let's not start all that again (:
As for the ssh stuff - I thought it was just Lyttelton harbour that they were targetting (: Apart from the Arkansas Public School Computer Network, the 5000 hits in my logs are from China, Japan, India and Korea. My best cock-up lately was shutting down my lappie before going home, forgetting that I was actually ssh'd onto the corporate webserver in that particular terminal session! Oops! Steve On Thu, September 29, 2005 4:06 pm, Carl Cerecke wrote: > While we're admitting silly things we've done.... > > Last night I was using my laptop ssh-ed into my new home server. I was > setting up NFS, and needed to restart the networking stuff on the > server. Hey! why did my ssh session suddenly freeze? After a few > moments of confusion it suddenly dawned. ssh. network. There's a > dependency there... > > So, I created a new ssh session. But still couldn't connect to the > server! I had to go to the keyboard on the server, and futz around > trying to get ssh to work - maybe the networking restart stuffed > something up. But it seemed to working OK on the server. > > It turns out that, coincidentally, my laptop WiFi connection went poof > at the same time as I did the network restart on the server and I > hadn't noticed. > > removed the wifi module, and re-inserted it and I was away. > > On a side note, port 22 of the server, which is open to the internet > through the firewall, had nearly 5000 breakin attempts last night. > After less than 2 days open. I'm using the default ssh-server install. > I hope it's secure enough. Will check it tonight.... > > On 29/09/05, John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now that was singularly irritating. > > -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
