On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:13:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:16 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 18:46:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> >> > From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:09 AM >> >> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> >> > Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble >> >> > >> >> > Yesterday's update to ssh (openssh-5.1_p1-r1) is giving me trouble. >> > >> > I take it you did the obvious and restarted sshd after the upgrade? >> >> Yes. Indeed it was the next day that I encountered the failure. >> Brian's fix was what I needed. I must have changed the config last time >> and not left my usual >> # AJG: >> marker to alert me. I should have noticed the change to X11Forwarding >> when I did etc-update, but unfortunately did not. > > Yup, it's those pesky config files and the need to put stuff in them :-) > > Config files really should be more intelligent and know to do what you want > not what you say....
They also should be almost completely unreadable and stored in one big conglomerated mass from everything on the system. Just like that *other* OS! (I can't ever seem to break out of my lurking on a serious note.) -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy
