boa logging
Is there a way to tell boa not to log local connections? I use boa dwww quite heavily to browse local documentation and access_log gets filled with this stuff. I'd still like to log external connections but it seems that it's both or nothing.
Re: Is a cryptic password always necessary?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Hello, I have a home machine which I'm not too worried about security wise. If I don't go on-line as root, is a difficult to type and remember password really necessary? I think the time isn't that far away when everyone who wants to be online fulltime will be, like cablemodem and dsl users are now. So it wouldn't be a bad idea to get used to decent passwords. That's only part of the story though of course. An easy trick for making a password that's hard to guess but easy to remember is to use the first letter of each word in the first line of a song you know well. Maybe add your favorite number at the end or start. Course if you're a burnt-out 60's druggie then it's pretty easy to guess that the song is Stairway to Heaven :)
Re: Help installing Netscape
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Dear friends, I have hesitated to ask this simple question here, but after quite along time, my head is sore from banging it against the wall . . . Welcome to the wonderful world of Linux :) * I downloaded 16 MB from ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicaotr/english/4.72/unix/supported/linux20_glibc2/complete_install/ communicator-v472-export.x86-unknown-linuxglibc2.0.tar.gz * At least it was close to that! * I waited for it to ask me where it would put it, having read that it should go into /tmp. It didn't ask, just started coming at me, so I left it alone. All night. * Now I can't find it. I've tried locate with lots of permutations, The locate database must be updated. updatedb will do this for you. /etc/updatedb.conf has to be configged properly to not exclude the directory where communicator might have gone. Another way is to find / -name *communicator*. There is a communicator packaged for debian in non-free, yes? * I have read with interest the messages to newbies about using the help before writing messages like this, but I actually need more help before I can make us of the help. when I go to /usr/doc and do ls, I do see all the help, but I don't know how to open it. lynx might work well here. It's a text-based web browser but it's good for browsing local doc trees. You need a directory utility really. Some good ones are filerunner, gentoo, emelfm, mc (midnight commander clone). * I have installed Gnome/Enlightenment. Maybe. I have a terminal window glued to the upper left corner of the screen that I can't figure out how to minimize or banish. * There are almost no apps available. Do I need to install things like a word processor and a spreadsheet separately? They aren't part of Gnome? There is probably no shortcut; you've got tons of reading ahead of you to get comfortable with Debian, or any Linux really. Here are some things that I found helpful, http://www.debian.org/~elphick/ddp/manuals.html - lots of faqs and docs, tutorials http://www.linuxpress.com/debusered2.html - the book Debian Linux User's Guide http://www.penguinteam.org/debian/doc/debian-tutorial/ - Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html - Learning Debian GNU/Linux Hope that helps. Keep your pecker up; it's a lot of fun. rick
Re: generating changelog files
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I briefly looked at the man page for cvs-buildpackage and it does a lot of stuff! The only thing is that I am not interested in building debian packages but maybe in building source tarballs. Can cvs-buildpackage build source tarballs and manage the changelog generation ? Well, I've gone at this a little differently. debs are just archives. 'ar x' will split a deb to the source tarball and some control files. But learning how to make a deb would be overkill for what you want. What perl scripts were you talking about ? Yow. I assumed these were perl but they're shell scripts -- cvs-inject, cvs-co-upgrade and so on. Manoj is a glutton for punishment. A while back, I read on this list about some debian package(s) (wasn't cvs-buildpackage) that helped in generating and managing changelog files. But I can't recall the name of the package or track down the thread in the list archives. I've heard complaints about the mailing list search. -user and -devel are archived by dejanews as linux.debian.* . You might have more luck with your search there.
Re: FreeWWWeb
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I don't remember exactly what I did to get mine going, but I did wind up having to use minicom to figure out what was happening. Then I think I had to make an entry in pap-secrets for freewwweb (I can't currently access that box to look around at the moment, so I'm having to do this by (poor) memory). Thanks, but I don't know minicom that good to use PAP scripts. I cannot just let it call the number, and I get a login screen, but that rejects everything I try. pap-secrets has an entry in it for freewwweb, but still it doesn't work. I got my freewwweb account working using CHAP. I only have this for backup for my flakey @home account and haven't used it much since I set it up. @home went out the other night and I tried it and it no longer accepts my login. @home came back on before I farted around with it too much so I'm not sure what changed. I got signed off the deb-devel mailing list because of bounces to my freewwweb mail account, and I can only pop home my mail one time out of three (failed password) so I think they are going through some problems. Too bad because most of the other free services don't support Linux -- you have to run Windows/Mac and put up with the advertising bars. Oh well. Perhaps soon they'll get the wrinkles out of broadband over power lines.
Re: FreeWWWeb
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: ... Just fire up minicom, then type ATDTphonenumber; when asked for a username, enter [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever it is), then enter your password when prompted. If you get access, shut down minicom (Alt-X-Q maybe? I always forget and have to look in the help screen). Now you know that your username/password works, and you can try wvdial or pppconfig/pon, etc again. Notice that the username includes the @freewwweb.com part; is that insane or what?! I never could get fetchmail to work with the resultant address of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@freewwweb.com or any other combination I could think of. I mean, I don't mean to complain, but having a _username_ include the @... part is just STUPID. With a capitol STUPID on that STUPID. You probably know this but you can play with the following until you get something that works, telnet freewwweb.com 110 user yourusername pass yourpass Then you have to get fetchmail to play nice with the information. As I said in an early msg, I was getting through about 1 time in 3. This is one attempt after the other. I don't know what would cause that and don't much care any more. Free access is popping up all over the place, high speed in some places if you have the right profile.
