setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-11 Thread Adam Olsen
, which is not so good. I've also figured out that the period in [a-z0-9.] is pointless, as * matches any character, not a multiple of what's on it's left. So my question: how do I set this up properly? -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-11 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:49:32AM +, Jim Breton wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:38:10AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: So my question: how do I set this up properly? Not with sudo. ;) chgrp adm /var/log/syslog # change group of file to "adm" adduser (yourself) adm # pu

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-12 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:43:18AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:10:17AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: And for the record, is there any way to get sudo working? No, not really. What you would have to do would be write a wrapper script which verifies that all

Re: Got root?

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Olsen
binary 80 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 22 /usr/local/openssh/sshd 21 /usr/local/anonftpd/ftpd -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Got root?

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Olsen
as a whole a few points for security. And if spontaneously making authbind required for various packages doesn't appeal, it could be done with making it only used if it exists, and just put it in a Recomends line. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

a FISH?!?!

2001-06-03 Thread Adam Olsen
, does anybody know of a program that might have caused it? ps I don't think it was xfishtank, which I have installed, because it was only a single fish and there was no background colour. Thanks, - Dazed and Confused -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: a FISH?!?!

2001-06-03 Thread Adam Olsen
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 08:27:10AM +, Jim Breton wrote: On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 07:44:00AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: So here I was playing around with some stuff in Quakeforge, and I see a FISH swim across my root windows. Not surprisingly, my first thought was HUH?! Second

Re: pop3

2001-07-29 Thread Adam Olsen
? Probably because mutt uses an external editor, in my case vim. You have to add something like these lines to your ~/.vimrc for it to wrap automatically: augroup muttmail au! autocmd BufRead /tmp/mutt-* set textwidth=70 augroup END -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Adam Olsen
currently get an annoying warning if sleep returns before fetchmail finishes). There does seem to be such an option though :/ -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firewall

2001-09-10 Thread Adam Olsen
/init.d/proftpd start to start it :) -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is ident secure?

2001-10-24 Thread Adam Olsen
) ... is anyone else seeing this replay? I saw two posts myself. After looked at the headers, I think somebody's mailer was broken and backlogged the replies, and is only now clearing the backlog. Or perhaps it's something else, but unless they continue it doesn't really matter. -- Adam Olsen, aka

setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-11 Thread Adam Olsen
, which is not so good. I've also figured out that the period in [a-z0-9.] is pointless, as * matches any character, not a multiple of what's on it's left. So my question: how do I set this up properly? -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-11 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:49:32AM +, Jim Breton wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:38:10AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: So my question: how do I set this up properly? Not with sudo. ;) chgrp adm /var/log/syslog # change group of file to adm adduser (yourself) adm # put yourself

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-12 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 12:43:18AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:10:17AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: And for the record, is there any way to get sudo working? No, not really. What you would have to do would be write a wrapper script which verifies that all

Re: setting up sudo for tail

2001-04-12 Thread Adam Olsen
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 02:55:58AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 01:10:17AM +, Adam Olsen wrote: What's /dev/xconsole though? It's where console log messages get redirected if you run xconsole. *tries it* Is it just me, or is that *exactly* what I'm looking

Re: Got root?

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Olsen
binary 80 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd 22 /usr/local/openssh/sshd 21 /usr/local/anonftpd/ftpd -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

Re: Got root?

2001-05-01 Thread Adam Olsen
as a whole a few points for security. And if spontaneously making authbind required for various packages doesn't appeal, it could be done with making it only used if it exists, and just put it in a Recomends line. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

Re: pop3

2001-07-29 Thread Adam Olsen
? Probably because mutt uses an external editor, in my case vim. You have to add something like these lines to your ~/.vimrc for it to wrap automatically: augroup muttmail au! autocmd BufRead /tmp/mutt-* set textwidth=70 augroup END -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

Re: pop3

2001-07-30 Thread Adam Olsen
closing (you currently get an annoying warning if sleep returns before fetchmail finishes). There does seem to be such an option though :/ -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

Re: firewall

2001-09-10 Thread Adam Olsen
this with proftpd, but when I upgrade the install scripts restart it. Is there a proper way way to deal with this? Is there some debian policy relating to it? -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

Re: firewall

2001-09-10 Thread Adam Olsen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:36:50PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 07:38:10PM +0100, Tim Haynes wrote: Adam Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It should be sufficient to do update-rc.d -f portmap remove update-rc.d -f lpd remove

Re: firewall

2001-09-10 Thread Adam Olsen
/proftpd start to start it :) -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

Re: Is ident secure?

2001-10-24 Thread Adam Olsen
) ... is anyone else seeing this replay? I saw two posts myself. After looked at the headers, I think somebody's mailer was broken and backlogged the replies, and is only now clearing the backlog. Or perhaps it's something else, but unless they continue it doesn't really matter. -- Adam Olsen, aka

Re: linux random capabilities ...

2002-07-31 Thread Adam Olsen
devices (based on radio activity readings, or diods based devices or whatever), is there anyone with some experience with those ? -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus

Re: linux random capabilities ...

2002-07-31 Thread Adam Olsen
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 10:26:36AM -0500, Orlando wrote: On Wednesday 31 July 2002 06:08, Adam Olsen wrote: Short answer: Linux mainly uses interrupt timings as an entropy source, from devices that are fairly unpredictable. Assuming those are secure, the entropy pool is protected

Re: Closing ports...

2002-09-15 Thread Adam Olsen
-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 *:6565 *:* LISTEN 8078/junkbuster But I have configured junkbuster to listen only to my network: deny 0.0.0.0/0 permit 192.168.42.0/24 What do I understand wrong here ? TIA ! -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus