Isn't it rather OFF TOPIC? :)
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From: ghoti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2000 10:49
Subject: [SLUG] irc help.
>hi
>
>situation-
>Mandrake 7.1 behind a win98se ICS connection (i know i know.,)
>when running xchat i get this for pretty much ever server.
>i have heard stuff about this prob but i cant remember where.
>
>Connecting to irc.efnet.net (199.3.235.130) port 6667..
>--- Connected. Now logging in..
>--- AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
>--- AUTH :*** Checking Ident
>--- AUTH :*** No Ident response
>--- AUTH :*** Found your hostname
>--- Closing Link: 203.164.15.194 (You are not authorized to use this
server)
>--- Disconnected (Remote host closed socket).
>
>Is there any way around this..
>thanks
>alex
>
>
>
>btw i was just playing around with xscreensaver and there is one saver
caller
>sonar it plots lil planes on a sonar but one option is to set it to plot
pinged
>hosts but to do this i have to setuid it so it an acess raw ICMP funtions..
this
>may be a stupid Q but what does this actually do and how is it done. If i
man
>it i only get a programers refrence which talks about setting the effective
>userid of somthing but this seems to me to be such a gaping security flaw
it
>dosent make sence so it is not what i think it is..
>
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>
>When life is hard to stand try kneeling.
>
>I never met a calorie i didn't like ;-)
>
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