[EUG-LUG:1597] ssh (?from EFN?)

2002-02-11 Thread Horst
reading the man pages and did ssh-keygen, since I saw the hint to the identity file, but that didn't show an effect. - Horst, please cc directly since I am digest'ing. garcia$ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -v -v OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090600f debug1: Seeded RNG with 29 bytes from

[EUG-LUG:1604] Re: ssh (?from EFN?)

2002-02-12 Thread Horst
by portsentry's settings. Analytical as I am I still try to understand what efn's error message really means: debug1: unknown identity file /home/members/hpl/.ssh/identity debug1: identity file /home/members/hpl/.ssh/identity type -1 , given that I just created 'identity' on efn . Horst

[EUG-LUG:1606] Re: ssh (?from EFN?)

2002-02-12 Thread Horst
) I just tried ssh'ing back to my workstation from garcia and it sez connection refused which is what I expect... NOW I AM PUZZLED --why do you expect this? - Horst. garcia$ ssh -v -v -l horst 12.225.128.123 OpenSSH_2.5.2p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090600f debug1: Seeded RNG

[EUG-LUG:1610] Re: ssh (?from EFN?)

2002-02-12 Thread Horst
Thanks Jacob -- what you wrote about v1/v2 issues as well as ssh-keygen options, as well as the 2.9.x problem, as well as the compatibility with already trustes hosts at upgrades, are good pointers and will keep me busy(and quiet) for the near future ... Horst On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Jacob

[EUG-LUG:1638] clip fromwebsite redesign (part 2)

2002-02-13 Thread Horst
Rob, yes NS 4.7 on Win98 crashed 3 times in a row while loading the new page. That's the environment I have to use in the morning. If the page is not just for Eug-LUG but for the intire www this should be a consideration . Horst. CLIP FROM THE MAIL ARCHIVE: From: Rob

[EUG-LUG:1679] Re: Mixing Perl and Python?

2002-02-19 Thread Horst
) . Horst. On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Bob Miller wrote: Anybody have any experience with calling Perl from Python or vice versa? Can it be done? -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EUG-LUG:1714] Re: the GIMP

2002-02-21 Thread Horst
!) - Horst. On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Linux Rocks ! wrote: So... The gimp rocks... I always love goofing around with it, but yesterday I made an animated gif with it, and it was so easy! (it used to be fairly complicated), but now you treat each frame like a layer put all the layers together

[EUG-LUG:1813] UO/CS talk Open S* related, 3/7/02 (fwd)

2002-03-01 Thread Horst
Here is an announcement of a talk in a series of UO Faculty Recruitment presentations. See also Bio of speaker at the bottom . Horst. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:00:00 -0800 From: Cheri Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

[EUG-LUG:1852] Linux for the German government!

2002-03-06 Thread Horst
Here is a clip from a weekly newsletter I have subscribed to. Horst (-: _ Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:03:02 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: German Information Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wk_03_01_02 The Week in Germany March 1, 2002

[EUG-LUG:1887] Re: Folding: Python vs. Perl// long vs. int

2002-03-08 Thread Horst
integer implementation, so sum, sum2 = 0L, 0L might be safer in general .. Horst. def variance(self): if len(self) == 0: return 0 sum, sum2 = 0, 0 for d in self: sum += d sum2 += d * d return (sum2 - (sum

[EUG-LUG:2168] ZIP 100 disks for sale / plus was Revolution OS

2002-04-02 Thread Horst
.. Horst Our illustrious VP, Mr. Crandell, has a couple of VHS copies of the movie, Revolution OS. He wants to lend/give them to anybody who wants to watch them. He will have them at this Thursday's clinic.

[EUG-LUG:2176] conf sendmail for INBOUND traffic ???

2002-04-03 Thread Horst
Horst. problem summary: Redhat 7.2, fresh installation. sendmail user1 to user2 on local machine works. sendmail outbound to remote machine works replying(or from scratch) from remote fails (see clip from efn) (all real names

[EUG-LUG:2195] Re: conf sendmail for INBOUND traffic ??? - RH 7.2(!?)

2002-04-04 Thread Horst
') in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc which you have to disable and than reinstall m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc /etc/sendmail.cf - Horst. ### ### On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Horst wrote: Any pointer is appreciated

[EUG-LUG:2238] Re: why? could be ipv6 - howto de-ref?

2002-04-07 Thread Horst
points to the same I-node ? ... except touching one and making a global find for that exact mtime (pretty goofy) . Horst On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Larry Price wrote: On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 02:16:26AM -0800, Larry Price wrote

[EUG-LUG:2239] Re: EFN grand opening party?

2002-04-07 Thread Horst
Sorry I missed it -- being on digest... It would be nice to have an Anouncement list for that sort of things. - Horst On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Seth Cohn wrote: 5:30-8pm tonight 43 West Broadway, efn's new digs. Live Music, party food, and more... I recommend parking in the overpark 1

[EUG-LUG:2247] Re: [Fwd: How to get started]

2002-04-08 Thread Horst
distros on one HD, and decide later on what you like best, or later on mount that extra space to you favorite installation. Linux is very flexible. I hope that helps ... Horst. On 6 Apr 2002, Rob Hudson wrote: -Forwarded Message- From: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED

[EUG-LUG:2279] mysqld and logrotate (or why not?)

2002-04-11 Thread Horst
, cannot RESET MASTER 'SOLUTION': The only cure is '.../mysqld restart' - currently run 1hr after logrotate. But that's not a 'solution' I am proud of... Anybody an idea? ... Horst. MYSQL: === [root@plutobin]# cat /etc/logrotate.d/mysqld /var

[EUG-LUG:2336] more Revolution!

2002-04-17 Thread Horst
I finally got a 2nd VCR to make a copy from that tape (see below)). So, I just returned Bob's and an additional copy I made to the EFN office(Seth), for others to check out ... Horst. Subject: [EUG-LUG:2168] ... / plus was Revolution OS ... Our illustrious VP, Mr. Crandell, has a couple

[EUG-LUG:2424] asynchronous file access: ? use chattr +S ?

2002-04-25 Thread Horst
hesitate to simply 'try it' I am more interested in a general clarification than a work-around for the mv command, a) because it is a general issue b) because the script logic depends on the presence of the two files involved. - Horst P.S. This is on a running, remote system where modification

[EUG-LUG:2425] Subject: Re: kword crashes before it loads

2002-04-25 Thread Horst
creating a new user and copying your old data and documents to the new account. Good luck .. Horst CLIPPED FROM ARCHIVES: = On Thursday 25 April 2002 15:11, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:57:18PM -0700, Mark Bigler wrote

[EUG-LUG:2514] Re: LTSP meeting EUGLUG meeting

2002-05-02 Thread Horst
talked a bit with him, and then he talked to Bob (VP) and gave him his card. I thought Chris had some good ideas, and if it wouldn't be for the David Basarmian talk today at the same time I would be at EFN Horst. From: Edward Craig Subject: [EUG

[EUG-LUG:2564] Re: How does MandrakeUpdate work?

2002-05-06 Thread Horst
Mandrake disto (only reinstalled) since everybody told me it doesn't work as promised -- I would love to hear that's not the case anymore? - Horst Upgrade: To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package(s) from one of our FTP

[EUG-LUG:2834] spec'ing a server -- dual processors ?

2002-06-04 Thread Horst
processor machine for this. I have little experience with dual processor machines and am wondering how much one can gain in a scenario like that ??? , and what other potential issues I'll have to deal with with dual processors (it will be most likely a RH installation; 7.2?) - Horst

[EUG-LUG:3032] Re: change of pace

2002-06-20 Thread Horst
to address issues other than just installations on the machines people brought in -- I remember the evening Ralph shared with me a number of neat tricks on the console. - Horst, on digest (i.e. 1/2 a day behind) On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Larry Price wrote: On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Cory Petkovsek wrote

[EUG-LUG:3106] Tonight / summer Wednesdays(?) -- programming (python) chat ?

2002-06-26 Thread Horst
at all. I'll be at the meeting (EFN, tonight -right?) -- and/or reply either directly or to all, whatever suitable .. Horst.

[EUG-LUG:3266] Re: Dexter's boot troubles

2002-07-03 Thread Horst
? (e.g. swap operations) If the HD is going bad there is no point in wasting time on a detailed analysis. My 5c Horst (on digest). On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Dexter Graphic wrote: My Mandrake 8.2 system recently stopped

[EUG-LUG:3496] more 'nix machines at Walmart

2002-07-19 Thread Horst
It seems like Walmart is really taking on the 'dark site' (there was a short piece on NPR recently about Walmart vs. Microsoft in reference to Lindows). Here comes the clip: Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 22:49:16 +0200 (CEST) From: Mandrake Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mandrake Linux Community

[EUG-LUG:3551] getting serial# from any NS ?

2002-07-22 Thread Horst
1) How do I get the serial number that an arbitrary NS has cached for a specific domainname ? 2) What is this different if the 'arbitrary' NS is actually the Primary for that domain ? (except that 'cached' wouldn't be the right term?) Thanks, -- Horst

[EUG-LUG:3557] Re: getting serial# from any NS ?

2002-07-22 Thread Horst
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 07:24:23PM -0700, Horst wrote: 1) How do I get the serial number that an arbitrary NS has cached for a specific domainname ? 2) How is this different if the 'arbitrary' NS is actually the Primary for that domain ? (except that 'cached' wouldn't be the right term

[EUG-LUG:3750] Re: Fwd: spamming

2002-08-19 Thread Horst
://www.abuse.net/relay.html I used a perl script to test the site accused of spamming from another domain. The script comes with documentation and can be searched/downloaded as 'rlytest' -- though I am not sure if that's the latestgreatest, but it worked for me a couple of months ago Horst ((and yes

[EUG-LUG:3766] Re: ISO 300-500' of CAT5e

2002-08-21 Thread Horst
cable gets just squeezed in-between the blades w/o cutting the insulation. ((However, with male RJ-45 it can be harder to crimp 8 solid cables, but there are not many cases where that's needed anyhow)) - Horst On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Jim Darrough wrote: Use PVC and make sure you glue the joints

[Eug-lug]ODD (hacker?) entires in apache error_log

2002-09-03 Thread Horst
) ??? (the access log shows nothing related) The STRANGE thing is the LACK of time stamp and requesting URL !?! (the first line in example below shows the format of a regular error) Is that an exploit that looks familiar to any one ? - Horst [Tue Sep 3 14:28:55 2002] [error] [client 204.234.x.y] File does

[Eug-lug]Euglug clinic TODAY plus compiling ?

2002-09-19 Thread Horst
toggle the old and new libssl.so (plus httpd restart) to test my changes. Reasonable approach ? Anybody up for this tonight ? .. Horst source: mod_ssl-2.8.10-1.3.26.tar.gz apache_1.3.26.tar.gz On Wed, 18 Sep

Re: [Eug-lug]mail strippers -- in python

2002-09-19 Thread Horst
in ( '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', ...); Maybe that's overkill for what you need; and as I said it's from my early python days (so I won't embarrass myself in public) -but lemme know if interested (python 2.x required) .. Horst. On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mike O wrote: Okay, no wisecracks or stupid

Re: [Eug-lug]Looking for other Linux novices

2002-10-25 Thread Horst
article. (of course, it's all in the mail archives, but how many people will go through 1 MB/month of data?) - Horst On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Cory Petkovsek wrote: Master O Planet, The point of the euglug thursday clinics are supposed to provide you with exactly what you are seeking. Hopefully

Re: [Eug-lug]network monitoring tool

2002-11-19 Thread Horst
request, but below is Cory's summary of tool. (most of those are obviously not the answer, but since Cory did such a great job putting that all together someone else may bennefit from having this information posted once) .. Horst Troubleshooting and Admin utilities

Re: [Eug-lug]Spirited Away -- and 'spirit' afterwards ?

2002-12-05 Thread Horst
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Re: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive (all partitions and the MBR)

2002-12-13 Thread Horst
the funny stuff in /proc is handled by dd ? (which you don't need to worry about if the drive is not mounted/active) Good luck, and let us know .. Horst ... ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin

Re: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive ... # /proc/*

2002-12-13 Thread Horst
in mind, as a warning, if you try to backup your entire installation: tar -cfz proc.tgz /proc not only fails but also garbles up the filename of the broken tar file )-: To handle that you need to look at tar options to ex/include the un/-wanted directories. - Horst

Re: [Eug-lug]Use perl to monitor webserver?

2002-12-13 Thread Horst
help with the diagnostics (but don't let it grow out of control) - Horst On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Tim Howe wrote: I have a heavily used web server that has been deciding to simply stop serving pages for up to 20 minutes at a time... I have already tried all manner of Apache and OS tweeks to stop

Re: [Eug-lug]Use perl to monitor webserver?

2002-12-13 Thread Horst
with ... I forgot to mention to look at the other cron jobs cron.daily, etc. included, and start the diagnostics a minute AFTER those. That way you see which processes hog which resources. cron.daily can get quiet busy. Horst ___ Eug

Re: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive (all partitions and the MBR)

2002-12-13 Thread Horst
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Re: [Eug-lug]Use perl to monitor webserver?

2002-12-13 Thread Horst
pstree $yourChoice echo ~~~ $yourChoice ps -Afl $yourChoice echo ~~~ $yourChoice top -b -n 1 $yourChoice echo ~~~ $yourChoice ...etc would help with the diagnostics (but don't let it grow out of control) - Horst

Re: [Eug-lug]Mirroring a drive ... bad sectors

2002-12-13 Thread Horst
this if it arrises: check using df, or fdisk, or cfdisk to see current status. And ja, do a fs check after the transfer and see what ends up in lost+found .. Horst ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin

RE: [Eug-lug]Dan's text based computer system // actual more general.

2002-12-15 Thread Horst
, is there a 'distro', as .tgz, on CD, ...your choice that fits such people's needs --to some extend out of the box? (GUI being a NoNo on a P155) - Horst On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Dexter Graphic wrote: Ben I will forward your offer to Dan. Maybe he'll let you take the computer home for a few days while you

Re: [Eug-lug]Dexter's dd block size speed test

2002-12-15 Thread Horst
' but 'n blocks + xyz bytes in/out' -- the prog knows 'xyx' (so that's easy to implement), and such output would provide the user with exact information w/o further doubts) - Horst On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Dexter Graphic wrote: Purpose: I wanted to find out what effect changing the block size (bs

Re: [Eug-lug]cron

2002-12-17 Thread Horst
file(s) and start them with crontab [-u root] crontabFileName (the -u option was suggested on older systems when you su into root as another user... it just became a habbit) ... Horst On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Rob Hudson wrote: Ah, so I don't need the user to run as in a user specific

[Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-17 Thread Horst
) - Horst (*) the funny thing on RH 8.0 is that DHCP client doesn't seem to be able to get a hostname from ATT, thus using the entire MAC address of eth0 plus other crap as my host name in the command line prompt (leaving only 50% for me to type commands... until I manually set hostname) THe following

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
? - Horst ~ On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Linux Rocks ! wrote: Yet another reason to not use RedScat. so... do you think att is optimized for win98? maybe they trhottle base on uname -r ? Jamie On Tuesday 17 December 2002 09:57 pm, Horst wrote

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Po Petz wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Horst wrote: Any hints? --for either cure or diagnostic ? (I am willing to dig through long logs of ngrep or ethereal *if* needed) Wild stabs: What kind of ethernet card are you using? What does ifconfig have to say about

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem connection on 'nix

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:14:09AM -0800, Horst wrote: ... kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html Did you read that? Now I did. Wow, if even the *author* of the kernel module says the following I may have to go NIC shopping: PCI

Re: [Eug-lug]slooow cable modem... end-of-story

2002-12-18 Thread Horst
under win98 with the old NIC for my 70MB download test, and w/o a single error or collision: xyz.sql.zip 100% |**| 69311 KB05:31 - Horst (still with some academic Qs below) On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Bob Miller wrote: Here's somebody on the web who had a very

[Eug-lug]Movie Thread: Bowling for Columbine

2002-12-23 Thread Horst
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Re: [Eug-lug]Deleted? // topic bind/sendmail grub

2002-12-24 Thread Horst
Horst On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 05:28:30AM +, Bob Crandell wrote: ;; ANSWERS: ocicat.crandell.net. 7146CNAME sd1.mailbank.com. sd1.mailbank.com. 1426A 64.15.175.5 It looks like ocicat and sd1 are the same

Re: [Eug-lug]] dma errors on dd // swap Qs

2002-12-31 Thread Horst
relevant these days (old style being limited to 128MB usable space) -- I made a 500 MB swap partition for my 265MB RAM, and top shows it all as avail. -so I'm assuming I config'ed and use the new style ? cat /proc/cpuinfo didn't tell me any more either . Horst On Tue, 31 Dec 2002

Re: [Eug-lug]] dma errors on dd // swap Qs

2002-12-31 Thread Horst
2.2.4 25 March 1999 MKSWAP(8) On Tuesday 31 December 2002 12:27 pm, Horst wrote: ... : Q to all: is the old vs. new swap style issue still relevant these days : (old style being limited to 128MB usable space) -- I made a 500 MB swap : partition for my

Re: [Eug-lug]] dma errors on dd // swap Qs // how to report?

2003-01-02 Thread Horst
my swap is implemented as 'new' type. - Horst ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]] dma ... // swap Qs -- closing remarks

2003-01-04 Thread Horst
trick yourself if you have used older 3rd-party tools like PartitionMagic (e.g. V4.0) on that drive along time ago: In that case even a recent distro installs itself w/o giving you a hint that old style swap is used Horst # On Fri

[Eug-lug]Mandrake 8.2 hangup (? in X11/KDE ?)

2003-01-10 Thread Horst
? .. Horst == ps -ef = UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD ... root 1924 1 0 00:03 vc/5 00:00:00 login -- horxx root 1925 1 0 00:03 vc/6 00:00:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6 root 1928 1920 0 00:03 vc/1 00:00:00 -bash horxx

Re: [Eug-lug]uh-oh disk drive crash?

2003-01-12 Thread Horst
you do this; i.e. the drive started failing while it was at cosy operating temperature = cool down before attempting (A) --one of those magic things that sometimes work... - Horst So I wasn't that far off with: 2) Is the situation caused by a software problem (crash) or a hardware problem (HD

[Eug-lug]Mandrake 8.2 hangup (?in? X11 / KDE 2.2.2)

2003-01-14 Thread Horst
? .. Horst (I looked at the Mandrake archives where someone posted an *unanswered* message regarding memory leak under X, almost a year ago... doesn't fit exactly my situation (as far as I understand the post)... hard to imagine I am the only one since that distro came out

Re: [Eug-lug]Mandrake 8.2 hangup (?in? X11 / KDE 2.2.2)

2003-01-14 Thread Horst
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Linux Rocks ! wrote: Horst, Id suggest trying different ram in the computer for a few days and see if the errors continue. often ram can seem fine, but actualy be bad, and cause weird errors like you are seeing. Hhm, to me there seems to be too much

Mdk 9.0 // was Re: [Eug-lug]Mandrake 8.2 hangup ....

2003-01-15 Thread Horst
Dave, that would be great! If you could drop them off at EFN I'd return to you - yes in a timely manner (address and more details off the list) I will also make copy for Jamie. If there is a meeting tonight I'll pick them up there, if not by Thu. night Horst On Wed, 15

[Eug-lug]UO Colloquium, Thursday, January 30 (fwd)

2003-01-30 Thread Horst
Maybe interesting to some us. Sorry for the short notice ... Horst -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:37:58 -0800 From: Cheri Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UO

Re: [Eug-lug] archive option(?) / Free Wireless

2003-02-02 Thread Horst
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[Eug-lug]mail to root under postfix ?

2003-02-03 Thread Horst
user, e.g. 'rootx' . 2) set that in 'aliases' 3) point mail program's INBOX to /var/spool/mail/rootx Am I missing something? --how do others handle this less clunky ? - Horst ~~~ from the /etc/postfix/aliases ~ ... # For various security reasons, postfix WILL NOT deliver mail as root

Re: [Eug-lug]mail to root under postfix ?

2003-02-03 Thread Horst
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Bob Miller wrote: Horst wrote: I noticed in postfix's alias file that mail to root will be only delivered to a regular user (see clips below) ... Am I missing something? --how do others handle this less clunky ? Don't you want root's mail delivered to your own

Re: [Eug-lug]mail to root under postfix ?

2003-02-04 Thread Horst
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Darren Shepard wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:24:46PM -0800, Horst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... | | ~~~ from the /etc/postfix/aliases ~ | ... | # For various security reasons, postfix WILL NOT deliver mail as root, so | # ensure that the root alias

Re: [Eug-lug]Naked on the Net (you guys already KNEW this!)

2003-02-04 Thread Horst
And to add another aspect... Maybe your privacy is less threatened by individuals such as the one attempting step (1)-(4) than BigBrother himself: See quote below from http://www.google-watch.org/krane.html They ask some reasonable questions: - Why does google need a cookie that doesn't

Re: [Eug-lug]mail to root under postfix ?

2003-02-05 Thread Horst
organized and maintained. - Horst ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]Re: Freaky and Naked on the Net

2003-02-05 Thread Horst
, they are running an efficient business, and when they spend the money on collecting and storing all the client requests ever made together with all the client info they can get, one can only speculate what the business model for 'Google -- part II' may be like... - Horst On 5 Feb 2003, Ben_ wrote

nobody's shell // was Re: [Eug-lug]mail to root under postfix ?

2003-02-07 Thread Horst
:*:12069:0:9:7::: grep postfix /etc/passwd postfix:x:77:77:system user for postfix:/var/spool/postfix:/bin/false grep postfix /etc/shadow postfix:!!:12069:0:9:7::: - Horst On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Jacob Meuser wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:07:24AM -0800, P Casper wrote: It's

Re: [Eug-lug]James Gleick on Spam / (Limit to 4 email?)

2003-02-11 Thread Horst
wish the government would have left it all just up to you to deal with trespassers? ...Horst (*) even if SpamAssassin isn't the problem causing Limit to 4 email you are spending the time investigating it -- w/o the proliferation of spam you wouldn't have

Re: [Eug-lug]user webpages on my box

2003-02-15 Thread Horst
However, then you DO need some index.xxx xxx :: htm html shtml cgi or whatever is defined in httpd.conf (I think the presidence is alphabetical or defined in the conf file (?) - Horst ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Eug-lug]user webpages on my box // perms for directories

2003-02-15 Thread Horst
that perspective: x = use what's in it r = list what's in it w = change the listing, i.e. the name of a file in it (again directory perms are just a pre-filter -- the perms of the actual files in it decide).. Horst

Re: [Eug-lug]Mini Knoppix

2003-03-06 Thread Horst
as a tip to the presenters --you have about a week to practice :-) ... Horst On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Dave Wyatt wrote: I found this a while back. I never had the chance to download it but maybe it will be usefull to some of you. ftp://ftp.es.debian.org/pub/miniKnoppix

Re: [Eug-lug]binhex --via python :-)

2003-03-13 Thread Horst
hexbin('inName', 'outName') ~ Or you could also run it on the fly via command line... Horst python -c 'from binhex import hexbin; hexbin(inName,outName)' FROM THE DOCS: # 12.14 binhex -- Encode and decode binhex4 files

Re: [Eug-lug]tonight clinic / another(?) java ?

2003-03-27 Thread Horst
Jython as a way to port python programs to run on the JVM; worked OK(ignoring a couple of flaws) until I tried it on my Mdk 9.0 distro which comes with 'kaffe' instead of the real thing. I am sure I am missing something, and 'kaffe' could be trained, but why? Why re-inventing the wheel ? - Horst

[Eug-lug]external watchdog ?

2003-04-01 Thread Horst
(or forced reboot), controlled via serial port, NIC, __?__ , ... Maybe I'll just leave it at that point -- any ideas/experiences ? - Horst ___ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [Eug-lug]tonight clinic / another(?) java ?

2003-04-01 Thread Horst
program so that it can be run on *any* client's JRE. (*some* and *any* left intentionally vague) Unfortunately, that didn't go as far as I was hoping :-( - Horst On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, john fleming wrote: Horst wrote: I am sure I am missing something, and 'kaffe' could be trained, but why? Why re

[eug-lug]sign up soon / Python for Fun Syllabus

2003-06-19 Thread Horst
All -- those of you interested in Chris Meyers' class should sign up very sn. Should you have any questions feel free to contact Chris by email or by phone (see below) - Horst Course Information Python for Fun

Re: [eug-lug]sign up soon / Python for Fun Syllabus

2003-06-19 Thread Horst
and/or to get the amount. Horst On 20030619.1745, Horst said ... All -- those of you interested in Chris Meyers' class should sign up very sn. Should you have any questions feel free to contact Chris by email or by phone (see below) - Horst

Re: [eug-lug]little programming challenge

2003-06-19 Thread Horst
a,b --snap- turns out to be surprisingly difficult ;-) Cool :-) The convenience python offers here doesn't really come from the swap function, but from the transparent 'tupling' in-and-out -- at both sides of the assignment operator, and at the return. Horst (No, I

Re: [eug-lug]python2exe //Re: EuG-LUG Digest, Vol 3, Issue 46

2003-06-19 Thread Horst
, and the actual .exe files around 50kb. - Horst ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

wxPython // was Re: [eug-lug]python2exe

2003-06-21 Thread Horst
-argDict{}- optionally overwriting the defaults, and are passed down to all the sub-functions. Extremely convenient, not just for large GUI apps.. Horst On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Rob Hudson wrote: Speaking of wxWindows. Here's an interesting project: http://wxmozilla.sourceforge.net

Re: [eug-lug]little programming challenge

2003-06-21 Thread Horst
-and-discipline-language.html Neil, are you sure this link addresses the above issue ? .. Horst ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

high- vs. low-level languages //Re: [eug-lug]little programmingchallenge

2003-06-21 Thread Horst
all the other overloaded constructors), destructor, overloading assigment and other operators, and on and on... But why worry -- memory leaks only happen in theory, right? - Horst As variation for illustration: ~~~ #!/usr/bin/python from sys import getrefcount def swap(a,b

Re: [eug-lug]java

2003-06-25 Thread Horst
that came with my Mandrake 9.x was not able to handle those. After I installed Sun's JDK / JRE it worked :-) ... Horst On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Rob Hudson wrote: What's a good JDK to install on Linux? I think there are different varieties (Sun's JDK, IBM's Kaffe?, etc.) snip

[eug-lug] Red Hat Group in the Celebration Parade // the true reason...

2003-09-27 Thread Horst
, and there should be penguins in it next year :-) - Horst ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

[eug-lug]SAO: November TBP, 3 jobs at ORCAS, OPN raffle (fwd)

2003-11-11 Thread Horst
I haven't seen this posted yet -- sorry in case Im duplicating . Horst -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 13:39:30 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SAO: November TBP, 3 jobs at ORCAS, OPN raffle Hello all, We have

[eug-lug]dd / partition table / and restore on different device // EuG-LUG Digest, Vol 9, Issue 35

2003-12-30 Thread Horst
of same_device - file transfer, but never across devices. Currently I have not enough room to test this in a safe way. Any feedback ? ... Horst ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug

Re: [eug-lug]getting dumped

2003-12-30 Thread Horst
with the DB engine, like mysqldump; maybe I'm just paranoid, but the idea of 'better safe than sorry' is worth that little extra time; it's scripted anyhow. - Horst ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug

Re: [eug-lug]dd / partition table / and restore on different device //

2004-01-06 Thread Horst
on different device // To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Horst wrote, Q1: is the stuff after the MBR and below 7E00 hex the partition table ? The partition table is in that area, near the beginning. You should find

[eug-lug]SAO: TBP, Date Clarification, Thursday 1/15 (fwd)

2004-01-13 Thread Horst
Sorry if I am duplicating, but I didn't see the post in the archives. The TechBrew is always a good opportunity to network (employment and contract), maybe learn something new, meet new people, and to socialize with friends you otherwise only see on email .. Horst

Re: [eug-lug]any mandrake users? // Re: EuG-LUG Digest, Vol 10, Issue 11

2004-01-13 Thread Horst
libc.so libc.so.6 This is just a note about the confusing 'ln' syntax; usually you execute cmd sourceFile targetFile but with ln that seem to be different. Larry knows... just one of the typos that slip in. - Horst ___ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL

Re:[eug-lug]any mandrake users? (from the web archive)

2004-01-13 Thread Horst
I insyalled a long time ago so I don't remember details. But here is what I found.. Horst [root root]# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002 [root root]# ls -ltr /lib/*libc

[eug-lug]Comcast DNS related

2004-01-13 Thread Horst
out some warnings I am not expanding on here. Did anyone else on 'nix notice such a move into the 24.x.y.z. IP block recently, or am I just experiencing a random and normal change, or am I just a bit paranoid ? Just checking . Horst

[eug-lug]Off topic -- EFN related only

2004-01-25 Thread horst
can, we will not have the capability to deliver it, and we do not know when we will be able to do it again. We apologize for any inconvenience, and we thank you for supporting community networking! -- ~~~ - Horst

Re: [eug-lug]Hello, The Windows Virus

2004-01-28 Thread horst
! --- Now, as for Win virus' I'd check first http://www.symantec.com/avcenter http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html - Horst ~ In reply to: Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:57:23 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Essig

Re: [eug-lug]new SCO DDOS virus

2004-01-28 Thread horst
ExitProcess RegCloseKey memset wsprintfA PK 0 document.scrPK *X sdf:~:$ # the end of PK zip files have the names of files zipped up... # ... here we see some potent Win32 .dll and more. Cheers . Horst On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:38:00 -0800 nyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

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