On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:16:05PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote:
Jacob Meuser wrote:
Why would /home be needed for boot?
Hum, I guess I was just thinking of it [boot] as pre-userland. You'd
need /home to get into userland...
Unless you set the user home directories to exist elsewhere!
In this month's Crypto-Gram, Bruce Schneier's lead story is about the
UPnP vulnerability in Windows XP. Here's his concluding paragraph.
Honestly, security experts don't pick on Microsoft because we have
some fundamental dislike for the company. Indeed, Microsoft's poor
products are one of
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:39:46AM -0800, Bob Miller wrote:
Q1. Perl has CPAN, a hugeamongous repository of useful libraries.
What's the Python equivalent?
There is also, I forgot to mention, Ciphon, which is in early development,
which is meant to be an exact replacement for the CPAN
Okay, I was playing with nmap and nmapfe, and it drew my attention away
from practical affairs to challenge me.
A few questions arise:
When a process starts that uses a port, say apache httpd, and then it
bombs out badly or quits unexpectedly, how can one recover the locked
port(s)?
And in
Ben Barrett wrote:
When a process starts that uses a port, say apache httpd, and then it
bombs out badly or quits unexpectedly, how can one recover the locked
port(s)?
The kernel cleans up automatically. When the process exits
(voluntarily or not), the kernel closes all its descriptors.
Bob Miller wrote:
Ben Barrett wrote:
When a process starts that uses a port, say apache httpd, and then it
bombs out badly or quits unexpectedly, how can one recover the locked
port(s)?
The kernel cleans up automatically. When the process exits
(voluntarily or not), the kernel closes all
Forwarded from the Entrepreneurs list. FYI and all that. I shan't be
there -- 7:30 is about 4 hours before I get out of bed. (-:
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