Mail from ILUG-BOM list (Non-Digest Mode) _______________________________________________ On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 05:11:52PM +0530, Philip S Tellis wrote: > Sometime Today, Vicky assembled some asciibets to say: > > Hi, thanks for the tip, I'm sure it can be used for many purposes, but > there are two things - unrelated though - that I need to point out. > > > Hi I'm a new member of this list and counldnt think of anything to > > contribute which I wanted to so I have this really efficient trick I > > 1. Fix your line length. Currently, your entire paragraph comes on a > single line. In vi how do i do wrap to next line after a fixed number of chars per line??? > > > * ^From.*[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > | formail +1 -ds >> /root/mail/ilug-bom > > 2. Don't log in as root. It is dangerous. Create a separate user for > yourself, and work as that user only. Its cool I do Unix Security Consultation and a lot of TCP/IP programming I find it quicker to work as root since my programms need to bind to the privi. ports and suid'ing them I find that kinda triersome and unsecure. My filesystem is already encrypted using a loopback device and blowfish so I dont have to worry aboutmuch. > > Philip > > -- > College: > The fountains of knowledge, where everyone goes to drink. > > Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ > Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ > > > > --__--__-- _______________________________________________ Next Meet on 12th Nov 2000 at HBCSE Website: http://www.ilug-bom.org.in/ Linuxers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers CHAT: irc.ilug-bom.org.in
