Swen, again (was Re: spam microsoft)

2003-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
d/reportSwen http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/fqdn2domain Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Lies and videotape but no sex! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RUS-CERT: Several Debian hosts compromised, archive not affected

2003-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
the item to Slashdot. www.debian.org wasn't updated for a time after the compromise because it was among the affected servers. There's been a bit of talk about a disaster recovery plan, including fallback communications channels. Things were rather ad hoc this time around. Peace

Solution & mystery: gpg "unusable public key"

2003-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
ly pointed at the solution (hence this post). - Re-downloading the key from my regular keyserver didn't work. - Alice's key wasn't trusted by me, and an untrusted key couldn't be used. Not true. Edited the trust value, didn't work either. - Alice's key wa

Re: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; How do I see what is using that mount point? $ fuser -vm /mount/point Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? GNU/Linux web browsing mini review: Galeon. Kicks ass. http:

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
27;t remmember one > that did work. Any idea? Is the CDROM mounted noexec? 'mount' and look at the options for your CDROM device. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you underst

Re: cdrom

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
appropriate device file # ln -sf hdc cdrom # Or appropriate device file Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? George W. is deceptive to be sure. Dissembling, too. And le

Re: xterm title bars

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on of xemacs. > > ANyone know a way to handle this automatically? I've come across > various scripts (usually in csh!) that cna be executed from the > command line, but no solutions that change the window title > automatically. > > Is there any hope? Bash

(unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
ial, though I've had some dd's look over the bullet points above. Thought it would be useful to subscribers. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? GNU/Linux

Re: Diald Implementation.

2003-11-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
dark ages (1997/98) and never got it working satisfactorially. I largely use manually triggered pppd (pon/poff) now. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? What doesn't kil

RUS-CERT: Several Debian hosts compromised, archive not affected

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
dF6LY= =If2b -END PGP SIGNATURE- ---- Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.com/news/polit

Re: gv and filenames with spaces

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
> > I guess there's a configuration file somewhere in the debian package > that is missing some quotes. Does anybody happen to know what the fix is? > > I run Woody > $ gv -v > gv 3.5.8 (debian) If this is reproducible, mishandling filenames with spaces is

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:24:16AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:50:09 -0800 "Karsten M. Self" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > yeah, i was one

OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:30:36AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 01:07:20PM +0530, Raghavendra Bhat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Jerome posts: > > > > >> What happens to www.debian.org ? > > > > Someone has

Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ld uninstall all stuff > downloaded and installed in the past 2 days. Please do not apt-get > anything right now! Please wait till an `official' release happens! Hoax. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

Re: What is mmenu?

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
it. See above. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: http://www.kuro5hin.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: migration from RedHat to Debian, general question about Debian (dpkg, kernel, config)

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
els 2, 3, 4, and 5. If you *want* to set these differently, you can do so with the 'udate-rc.d' command. It's one of a set of admin tools matching update-*, take a look at this and the others. update-rc.d roughly corresponds to RH's chkconfig. If you want to start/stop an ins

Re: Question about Sarge GUI

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
g I > do affects the appearance of the fonts in the various windows. What am > I doing wrong? What should I look at to give more info? ~.gtkrc, or equivalent for Gtk2. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt"

Re: pasting into vi inserts many indents

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
; , but how can I stop the bug in the first place? > However, I can't get it to do it now for an example. :r ! cat ^D Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? M

Re: Workspace/desktop switching

2003-11-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
Sun CDE => fvwm => WindowMaker. I've tried pretty much all the currently available GNU/Linux desktops, like to see what's available / what they offer, am happy with what I use. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Pa

Re: sftp file creation mask

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
file for the username of the uploader, but it has no effect. Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. Hrm. Not positive, but try to set the sticky bit on the parent directory. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
ocity, he's elected to drag the battle to both the #debian IRC support channel, and now this mailing list. on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:03:03AM -0500, Greg Folkert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 23:50, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:48 +0800 > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:54:17 -0800, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09

Re: Theoretical APT question

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
root install or jail. Or a "system2" installation with a base set of security/recovery utilities (I've posted about same in recent past on list, with a pointer to my own packages list). Much of your objective could be attained via a reasonable partitioning scheme. The existing Debi

Re: Segfaulting WindowMaker

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
to restart, then it crashes when switching to workspace #1. Best I can tell, there are too many tiles for it to deal with gracefully. If I close some apps, I can generally get things squared away. This also appears to be resolution dependent -- the more screenspace you have, the more apps you can run. R

Re: Q about corrupt windoze filesystem

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
that I'd like to be able to recover. > > Does anyone have any guidance for me for making the filesystem > mountable and/or bootable? If I can mount it from Knoppix I know > that I can copy the data elsewhere before I restore the disk > image. Backups. Peace. -- Karsten M

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
IA NIC), and will be able to install directly via CDROM rather than hassling with network connections (though you'll almost certainly want these as well). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? True love is the greatest thing in the world. Except for a nice MLT... mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich - Princess Bride pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: X Broken

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
e config file. My hardware is listed in > my .sig. Try: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 In Knoppix: copy the XF86Config-4 file it uses, and diff it against your own. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&qu

Re: "Fix your date" error report

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
out (rmail, postfix) with any date other than > the system time? I seem to recall one post of yours which was two days postdated, though I must have deleted it. Looking better now. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Inconceivable! - Princess Bride pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: spam -- but no received: heders?

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
rouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Is there a way to turn this off, BTW? I find it somewhat annoying. I'd prefer just having spam tagged as such, without the extensive mods. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Permissions Issue

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
TP clients support this operation. Better for you: install ftp-ssl, or have your friend use sftp, ssh, or rsync-over-ssh, if possible. The last is especially neat over a slow link, as it only transfers the parts of files that have changed, for files that have changed. Peace. -- Karst

Re: unsubscribe

2003-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
359 X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Procmail virus recipies (was Re: Mimail Virus.)

2003-11-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
Train spamassassin :0c | sa-learn --spam --single :0: Virus/ } ---- Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:05:03AM -0800, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >SA has an "autolearn" feature, where mail scoring above 6, and below > >0.1, will be "autolearned" as spam and ham. That is, the Baysian >

Re: Another Clock for my Gnome?

2003-11-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
In my case, my ISP is based on the merger of several regional ISPs. I found a timeserver via a shell hack: $ for h in time.{netcom,mindspring,earthlink}.{net,com}; do host $h; done ...which turned up time.mindspring.com is an alias for brickbat0.mindspring.com. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: Suggestions for a window manager to replace Enlightenment

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
intrusive, yet with nice > features. Eye candy is good. The screenshots of openbox look good, > but I don't know if it has the features I want. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to install ?

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
nux+Windows-HOWTO/index.html Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SC

*plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:19:48AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:48:14 -0800, > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [...] > > > As several (in or out of the) closet anarchists have replied > > that self-control is apparently beyond their mein

*plonk* Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
ulation frustrates me endlessly. I'm offended both as a proponent of > the Liberal Arts *and* as one who believes in the importance of science > and technology; attacked on one side, flanked by disbelievers on the > other... > > -- > M. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: instaleren op 486 met 128 mb hd

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
h just the software & libs necessary for the printserver. - Use a more capable system. - Use a bootable distro (e.g.: LNX-BBC), though I suspect the memory requirements will kill this. - Use a netboot (e.g.: Linux Terminal Server Project) to boot a printserver. Peace. --

Re: virtual terminals become unusable when starting x on sid

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
eweb.com/) or Google (http://www.google.com/) will help set you on the road to resolving your problems. While others can offer suggestions, guidance, and experience, we cannot see into either your mind or your machine's state. This is very much a case of "you have to help

Re: Please, no GUI boot.

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
a graphic login. There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt"

References (was Re: *plonk* (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium))

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:11:18PM +0100, Nicos Gollan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:05:33 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > *plonk* > > Sadly, all that you'll get from plonking a participant of a hig

*plonk* (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
> > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] *plonk* -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you u

Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
the alltogether off-topic thread requesting they keep discussion on topic. If it continues past today, they'll find themselves killfiled by me, if not others. As several (in or out of the) closet anarchists have replied that self-control is apparently beyond their mein, I'l

Re: Sociological question about Debian, GNU, and Linux

2003-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
Siobhan O'Mahony's Stanford PhD dissertation: http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/omahony.pdf ...not exactly a page-turner, but there's some interesting stuff in there. Some of her follow-up articles have been more accessible. http://www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.ed

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
wadawful. > I'm not sure how much of this is true or how much matters right now. > > But it would be nice to know if I should disable devfs and move on, or > not. That's my suggestion. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.co

Updated fqdn2domain -- Re: Swen reporting scripts

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:54:25PM +, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:03:06AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've prepared a couple of scripts which I'm using to report swen headers > > and body to originating ISPs. > > > >

Re: internet

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ch as AlltheWeb (http://www.alltheweb.com/) or Google (http://www.google.com/) will help set you on the road to resolving your problems. While others can offer suggestions, guidance, and experience, we cannot see into either your mind or your machine's state. This is very much a case of "you hav

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:27:40PM +, Geoff Thurman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday 08 November 2003 3:17 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > ssh is highly valuable because it provides a secure, encrypted, > > authenticated, non-spoofable means of issueing commands or d

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:57:46AM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:16:33AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +, Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > I'm intrigued.

Cable modem configuration -- DHCP? (was Re: internet)

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ddresses. You'll need to install a dhcp client -- dhcp-client should work, though there are several others packaged for Debian. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Swen reporting scripts

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
dummy delivery line and uncomment the true delivery line. Otherwise you just get a report to stdout ;-) - There are several possible modifications suggested as well. - To run on a directory's worth of mail: $ reportSwen * - Direct any support questions to this list, not me.

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 08:00:55PM +0800, David Palmer. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:30:12 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:05:59PM -0500, Fraser Campbell > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wr

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
roach Progeny or Ian Murdoch directly on this. ...and if you find out what the scoop is, please share! Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Remember Ed Curry! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: window manager recomendation

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ps Again: Again: Multiple multiple desktops desktops? ...or is it that you just really want this feature? ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Windows Refund Day II: f

Re: unsubscribe

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 13:15:27 -0500 (CDT) Resent-Bcc: Thank you. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Software "piracy" loss numbers are a crock: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/piracy.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Preventing Forkbombs

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
estion. This can be particularly useful, say, for avoiding system thrash when innundated by thousands of viral mails all needing filtering by Spamassassin. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ssin, auto-train off most of the mail and explicitly train based on any false positives or negatives which slip through. Overall effectveness is quite high. Design is simple. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:04:57PM -0700, Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > echo "set ignoreeof" >> ~/.bashrc > > Oops! This would probably be what was intended. > > set -o ignoreeof Yep.

Re: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
hift keys, to the left and right of your main alphabet keyboard. Please instruct yourself on their proper use. There is also a key labled "enter" or "return". It also has a use in prose text. As for your Windows issues, GRUB has, and LILO may have, options to conceal one o

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
as a defense data management project in the 1970s which grew into a largish proprietary enterprise applications vendor headquartered at Redwood Shores. If I've got my stories straight. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/20/MN209661.DTL http://ww

Re: handling "broken packages"

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
ble. I'm not tracking it myself but have seen comments both on this list (recently by Colin Watson) and in the #debian IRC support channel. You may be able to address this by downloading the necessary version directly from a mirror site, or by pinning against the appropriate release.

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
ile > bash: cst: command not found > (middle click to paste a URL) > bash: http://www.two-stroke-diesels.org: No such file or directory > ^D > (xterm vanishes) > > Or am I the only one who does this? echo "set ignoreeof" >> ~/.bashrc Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
ur ISP's SMTP server as a smarthost. At least in the case of AOL mail. > They may not be accomodating, but can this be done in principle? Would > it overcome AOL's peculiar desire to block my address? AOL is blocking your SMTP connection at connect time based on IP address. P

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; Olkay, I see there's been plenty of discussion of the ins and outs of > > the self-locking one-shot root privilege thing. Neat idea, too; it's not > > something I ever thought of. > > > > OTOH I wonder about attacking the problem from a completely different > >

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
so the fish:// protocol (implemented in lftp, for example). ssh replaces telnet and rsh, for the most part transparently, both of which are highly insecure protocols. I'd strongly recommend you leave ssh installed. Could be most useful. Speaking of which, anyone know how to get lftp

Re: Some newbie questions

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
dialup. With a full set of ISOs, I can populate apt-proxy fully instead. My current configuration is seven systems running behind a 56k dialup line, with a local apt-proxy cache. New installs can now hit the proxy, essentially giving me local network speeds on an installation. And night

Re: how to make unicode mode default for all virtual consoles?

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
> bootup to make it work. Then my unicode keyboard works OK. > How to make it automatic? Check /etc/init.d/*console* scripts. Those *should* set up loadkeys on all consoles if I'm RTFMing properly. You likely need to add the '-u' flag. man loadkeys ...for more info.

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ki.iwethey.org/Main/UserAgentString The user-agent string has been the source of many of the Web's worst ills. It's strongly encouraged that it be done away with in a way that encourages better practices from site authors. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EM

Re: F-Prot and Amavis, exim

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
vis[441]: (00441-08) FRISK F-Prot Daemon: Can't > connect to INET socket 127.0.0.1:10204: Connection refused, retrying (15) Is the daemon open? Can you telnet to the port? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&qu

Re: fully removing a user?

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:49:39PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 at 04:31 GMT, Karsten M. Self penned: > > > > > > It's the residual files which are th epirmary reason *not* to blindly > > delete a user's /etc/pa

Re: Tracking packages without having them installed

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
Using it here, six systems behind a 56k dialup. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT - Documenting systems

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
se. You'll probably also want a hardware inventory system. Which is where you keep the information you collect. http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=inventory§ion=projects&x=9&y=6 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &q

Re: fully removing a user?

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
rmary reason *not* to blindly delete a user's /etc/passwd entry. Given a disabled account, the user *cannot* log into the system. However the system administrator *can* still identify files owned by that user, and move, change ownership, or delete these as necessary. Peace. -- Karsten M

Re: Looking for a good digital image manager

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
So what are the favorites out there? Editing: The GIMP. Managing / manipulating: ImageMagick (a tool suite). Creating galleries for online viewing: Gallery. GUI image management tools: Konqueror (as file manager), Nautilus. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://k

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
DROM distributions solve this problem by a number of means. One is to use a RAM filesystem for root, another is to use an immutable root but symlink /etc and parts of /dev elsewhere. The problem is addressable, but not entirely cleanly. Working implementations exist. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EM

Re: WindowMaker Attributes

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
section of the WPref tool. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Inconceivable! - Princess Bride signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: "Community-oriented" distros

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
esn't. Closest I see is the Fedora Users FAQ: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraUsersFAQ > Thanks for the opinions, guys. I'd suggest you focus more on facts than opinions. But draw your own conclusions. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kms

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:32:50PM +0100, Marco Cecconi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > >Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > >>Marco Cecconi wrote: > >> > >> > >>>It's actually Debian's fault! Every time I install it,

Re: df problem

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
c/mtab ...if necessary to ensure this. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The revolution will not be televised. You can apt-get it from the usual mirrors, however. http:/

Re: Any Debian package to manage Apache users ?

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
r this (many users and quite dynamic). That's about the depth of it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; writes the clock wrongly... Dammit! > :-) apt-get install ntp Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Yes you will," enthused Zaphod, "there's a whol

Re: a bit more info

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
Disclaimers such as the above are off-putting (if not legally ocntradictory) on public lists. If you can't strip the disclaimer, post through a personal account elsewhere. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

Re: Base files for Debian 3.0

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
in noted, dbootstrap is the updated method. I sorta like having a base tarball myself. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Of the top 24 industrialized nations, only Turkey

Re: galeon 1.3.x fuckwittedness -- 1.2.5 fork, anyone?

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
n. My own coding mojo is weak, but I know what I like in a browser: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers Interest, anyone? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the sound of the toner, boycott Lexmark: trade restraint via DMCA. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Backup Package names currently installed

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
and pinning options). However, one possible hint: $ dpkg-awk Package:.*libk[l-r].* Status:' installed' -- Package Version Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The revolu

Re: Apt-get error with package diff

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
t when I re-run apt-get the same error > apear > > Anybody know what can I do? > Pablo > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Karsten M. Self <

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:38:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:40:55AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +000

Re: Fighting Spam with procmail

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
of the above. Save the message to a file. procmail < file > Where msg.mbox contains all the emails, I would like to filter again, > and procmail_test_rc contains the rules to be tested. procmail handles one message at a time. mbox is a multi-message per file format. Peace. -- Ka

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > If you need to recover a snapshot (or file) from 12 months ago, a > > three-disk rotation isn't going to do much for

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:32:38AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:13, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:03:07AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hard disks are so big nowadays, is a separate

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
up systems. They're great. Until you outgrow capacity. At which point, adding additional capacity means breaking down your current array, losing history, and a day or more's backups downtime while working out the kinks. I'll recommend tape. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAI

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
.. ' Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? zIWETHEY: Provocative, super smart, and oh yeah, just a little sexy. http://z.iwethey.org/forums/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
boot and /)? I've been at shops which strongly prefer single partitions. I prefer splitting things out among /, /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home, possibly additional partitions: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ace you have, and setting/tuning configuration options appropriately. If you like living in a warehouse, by all means do. If you prefer not shitting in the open, give yourself a bathroom with a door. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wh

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
oogle.com/froogle http://www.pricewatch.com/ More info: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Of the top 24 industr

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:01:38PM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What is the gender of Unix? Or "eunuchs"? Is "neuter" a masculine or feminine in French? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wha

Re: Problem with exporting an X session

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
(it appears not to be). Run 'ssh -v -C ' for verbose debugging output. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "I repeat, all planet leave is cancelled. I'v

Re: Converting a chroot install into a real one

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
boot. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? NPR: Radio for between the ears: http://www.npr.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
however, it's possible to restart and continue from this point? At what point in the process can one simply restart? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Background

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