Re: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-03 Thread Jerry A!
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 08:21:39PM +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: : : Also, the older commands are being killed off because they are fundamentally : insecure. I don't know anything about kermit security but, for example, rsh : (+ rlogin + telnet) is infamously insecure; ssh is a secure and far

Re: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-03 Thread Jerry A!
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 03:12:09PM +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: : Le Jeudi 3 Octobre 2002 14:20, Jerry A! a écrit : : It's not encouraging. It's a strongarm tactic. Unfortunately, you get : into the issue that in a heterogeneous environment, you need : compatibility. There are plenty of

Re: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-03 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:21:32AM -0400, Jerry A! wrote: But rsh isn't. How am I suppossed to integrate a Mandrake server into my PowerPassword cluster? What about installing Veritas NetBackup licenses? The list goes on-and-on. I can understand dumping the daemons, but the client's

[Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-02 Thread Palmer, Hilary
The desktop/user interface is looking real good for this version. But some of the good old faithful terminal utilities and documentation are not there anymore. A utility such as C-Kermit has no replacement for it, that I have found, included in the distro. The man pages seem to be missing

Re: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-02 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:49:01PM -0500, Palmer, Hilary wrote: The desktop/user interface is looking real good for this version. But some of the good old faithful terminal utilities and documentation are not there anymore. A utility such as C-Kermit has no replacement for it, that I

Re: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-02 Thread Alastair Scott
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 13:49:01 -0500 Palmer, Hilary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The desktop/user interface is looking real good for this version. But some of the good old faithful terminal utilities and documentation are not there anymore. A utility such as C-Kermit has no replacement for it,

Re: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-02 Thread Levi Ramsey
On Wed Oct 02 20:21 +0100, Alastair Scott wrote: Also, the older commands are being killed off because they are fundamentally insecure. I don't know anything about kermit security but, for example, rsh (+ rlogin + telnet) is infamously insecure; ssh is a secure and far superior replacement.

RE: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-02 Thread Palmer, Hilary
Can minicom handle TAP for sending messages to alphapagers? -Original Message- From: Ben Reser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:08 PM To: Mandrake Cooker (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Cooker] Not very happy. On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:49:01PM -0500, Palmer

Re: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-02 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:49:04PM -0500, Palmer, Hilary wrote: Can minicom handle TAP for sending messages to alphapagers? No idea. Don't all alphapagers have email gateways anymore anyway? -- Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who

Re: [Cooker] Not very happy.

2002-10-02 Thread Leon Brooks
On Thursday 03 October 2002 02:49 am, Palmer, Hilary wrote: some of the good old faithful terminal utilities and documentation are not there anymore. A utility such as C-Kermit has no replacement for it, that I have found, included in the distro. Fetch the SRPMs for 8.2, install, cd