Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-14 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 03:58:14 +0100
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:

 On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
  
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
   Hi,
ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go
back to
   
   you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
  
  Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
  
   What, no comma!?

what the Playboy did to the German language ...

Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back
after decades of no comma in the tag line.
   
   
 do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the
   tag line?
   
  Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 Ouch.
 
 Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
 in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
 is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
 mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
 rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
 are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
 leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
 
 In the above example,
 
   Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 or better using a hyphen
 
   Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
 in a correct manner.
 
I have had to open playboy.de again. Just for the comma.

I think that it is a bit more complicated. Especially as Playboy is
here the brand

'Alles, was Maennern Spass macht' is the tag line and needs a comma
after alles.

Playboy does it now properly in the header of their site but wrongly in
the title. Your second line with the hyphen is there the best option if
there would be the comma after alles.

I never would have believed that Playboy becomes part of a serious
discussion which started with an sshd problem.

Ok, the world knows now the importance of Playboy for the IT world.

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:58:02 -0600 (CST)
Robert Bonomi wrote:


 In 'classic' English (as taught in the 60s and earlier), a comma was
 _required_ before a trailing 'and' in a list of 3 or more items, and
 forbidden if there were only two items.

Not really:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-is-the-oxford-comma

Perhaps is should be taken to chat, it has nothing to do with
FreeBSD.
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  Anyway, linux is 
  installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
  server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
  
  doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
  Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
  Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
  wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
 
 Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?

ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
tao to ethic.
 
 The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
 using and is very different among the Linusi.

rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.

 
 The FreeBSD equivalent would be something like
 
   # /etc/rc.d/sshd start
 
 or putting sshd_enable=YES into /etc/rc.conf to have this
 task at boot.
 
 Depending on what Linux you are using, this may be as easy as
 on FreeBSD... or overcomplicated, because nobody needs this
 anyway. :-)


no mo' energy.  I hear my bed singing sirens' songs:)

5 mins later: I ssh'd from tao to ethic then used the ssh-vvv
for debug.  Somewhere this string shoewd up.  as noted, this 
is from OBSD:

SSH2_MSG_IGNORE

so  if anybody running openbsd or fedora, or anybody who has stubbed
his toe this way, give a hollar.

S'All,

gary
 
 
 
 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   Anyway, linux is 
 installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
 server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
   
 doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
 Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
 Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
 wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
  
  Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
 
   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
   tao to ethic.

The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
specific service (that has to be enabled).



  The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
  using and is very different among the Linusi.
 
   rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
   trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.

There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
set up on Fedora:

http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH

Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.





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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   Anyway, linux is 
 installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
   *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
   back in.
   
 doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
 Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
   string like Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards
   or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
   OpenBSD.}
  
  Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
 
   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to

you wanted to say 'jawohl'?

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Anyway, linux is 
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
to my
server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
like
Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
   
   Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
  
  ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
  tao to ethic.
 
 The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
 the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
 FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
 and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
 specific service (that has to be enabled).


hmmm. that might be it.  my firewall is in a nice small, 4w netgear
box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
I never studied.  yuk.  

 
 
 
   The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
   using and is very different among the Linusi.
  
  rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
  trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
 
 There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
 set up on Fedora:
 
 http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
 
 Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
 also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
 


thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.

 
 
 
 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 03:10:33PM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 
  On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Anyway, linux is 
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
*out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
string like Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards
or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
OpenBSD.}
   
   Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
  
  ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
 
 you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
 
 Erich


Ha! yes!  I did not know it was one word, but should have remembered
the v should be a w ...



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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
  
  On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 Anyway, linux is 
   installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
 *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh
 back in.
 
   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
   Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a
 string like Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards
 or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from
 OpenBSD.}

Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
   
 ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
  
  you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
 
 Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
 
What, no comma!?

:)




 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
   Hi,
   
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800
   Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
   
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  Anyway, linux is 
  installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can
  ssh *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I
  cant ssh back in.
  
  doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an
  instant Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get
  a string like Connnection closed.  can any of you network
  wizards or setup wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff
  is from OpenBSD.}
 
 Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?

ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
   
   you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
  
  Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
  
   What, no comma!?

what the Playboy did to the German language ...

Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was obviously a
mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after decades of no
comma in the tag line.

You know, while in other countries man could say that they read Playboy
only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy only to check
on the comma.

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
  On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
   On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
Anyway, linux is 
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
to my
server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
like
Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
   
   Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
  
  ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
  tao to ethic.
 
 The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
 the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
 FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
 and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
 specific service (that has to be enabled).
 

and I believe you need to give the full path name; that's one of the 
things ii just did.

 
   The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
   using and is very different among the Linusi.
  
  rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
  trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
 
 There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
 set up on Fedora:
 
 http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
 
 Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
 also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
 

well, it works.  im not sure what I did, but no comp;laints!
I'm running pfSense in a netgear box.  before I rebooted, my
local IP ended in .114; after and now it moved to .113.  when 
I did an ssh 10.47.0.113, voila! the new tao requested my password.
and I was in.  and go ssh back and forth.  Whew!

thanks for the help, guys.  

gary

ps:  I'v got to figure out how to remove gnome and install kde, 
c, but  at least that should be easy.
 
 
 
 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 
  On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
   On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
Hi,
   ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to

you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
   
   Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
   
  What, no comma!?
 
 what the Playboy did to the German language ...
 
 Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was obviously a
 mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after decades of no
 comma in the tag line.


do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the tag line?

 
 You know, while in other countries man could say that they read Playboy
 only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy only to check
 on the comma.


:-) funny.  I, of course, =always= read playboy for the articles,
just like every other guy.  {that line goes back to the  early
1970s.  at least.}

gary

 
 Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

 On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
  
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 Hi,
  ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
 
 you wanted to say 'jawohl'?

Jawohl mein Herr! :-)

 What, no comma!?
  
  what the Playboy did to the German language ...
  
  Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
  obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after
  decades of no comma in the tag line.
 
 
   do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the tag
 line?
 
Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht

Playboy corrected this meanwhile as you can see on www.playboy.de.

Just on the side. Does playboy.com still mirror FreeBSD as they did
many years ago?

Erich
  
  You know, while in other countries man could say that they read
  Playboy only because of the articles, in Germany they read Playboy
  only to check on the comma.
 
 
   :-) funny.  I, of course, =always= read playboy for the
 articles, just like every other guy.  {that line goes back to the
 early 1970s.  at least.}
 
A brother-in-law does this for another professional reason. He does or
did those days plastic surgery and has had to see the results of other
people's work. Of course, he was also interested in the articles.

Listening to his comments was more fun than reading the humour page of
Playboy. 

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:50:40 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:08:12AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:57:21 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
   On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 06:39:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 Anyway, linux is 
   installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. 
 to my
   server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
 
   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
   Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string 
 like
   Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
   wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}

Have you checked that tao is actually running a SSH server?
   
 ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to comparing 
 tao to ethic.
  
  The dhclient is a client (just as the ssh program), while
  the system has to run some kind of SSH _server_ (sshd on
  FreeBSD for example). Additionally, network configuration
  and especially firewall has to _permit_ the access to that
  specific service (that has to be enabled).
 
 
   hmmm. that might be it.  my firewall is in a nice small, 4w netgear
   box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
   I never studied.  yuk.  

I assume your HW firewall protects you to the outside. Of
course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
the tao box _if_ you want it that way.

But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
that might block SSH connections to tao, no matter from
where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
matter if it's running.



The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
using and is very different among the Linusi.
   
 rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always had
 trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
  
  There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
  set up on Fedora:
  
  http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
  
  Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
  also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
  
 
 
   thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.

Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
mentions the built-in firewall that has to be configured
to allow connections to that server.

From my limited experience with Fedora (haven't used it for some
time), this looks like what you need to do.



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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Bernt Hansson

2012-11-13 06:22, Gary Kline skrev:


guys,

hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get ssh working
from an outside computer into my brand new tao that is running a
flavor of linux.  I just got my quad i5 box to replace the old, broken
tao.  this was the box with the busted USB. [!]  Anyway, linux is
installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.

doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}

anybody know what im NOT doing?


You have to start the ssh daemon (sshd)
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
 
  On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
   Hi,
   
   On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:00:07 -0800
   Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
   
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:12:55AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:33 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
 ja vohl.  futher dhclient is there.  I'll go back to
  
  you wanted to say 'jawohl'?
 
 Jawohl mein Herr! :-)
 
What, no comma!?
   
   what the Playboy did to the German language ...
   
   Playboy's German tag line missed out on a comma too. It was
   obviously a mistake. I have heard that they brought it back after
   decades of no comma in the tag line.
  
  
  do you mean that it was Play boy? or what? what was the tag
  line?
  
 Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht

Ouch.

Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
leave much space for individual preferences. :-)

In the above example,

Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht

or better using a hyphen

Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht

would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
in a correct manner.





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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 03:58:14AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 08:26:00 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
  Hi,
  
  On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:07:38 -0800
  Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
  
   On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:47:48AM +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
   
  Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 Ouch.
 
 Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
 in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
 is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
 mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
 rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
 are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
 leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
 
 In the above example,
 
   Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 or better using a hyphen
 
   Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
 in a correct manner.
 


So!  this explains a lot that I've noticed over the years.  
remember that im beyong =getting= old; I really Am  old.

before I started high school, the rules for commas were
almost set in concrete.  my english teacher took points off
if there was an incorrect comma.  it looks like in germany
language has remained very strict. {but then, that's why 
punctuation exists.}

I've noticed an easing of punctuation--esp'ly in the use of
commas--in how I was taught.  but let's face it: it's easier 
to text by slacking off.  :)

 
 
 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
  box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
  I never studied.  yuk.  
 
 I assume your HW firewall protects you to the outside. Of
 course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
 the tao box _if_ you want it that way.


my netgear and pfSense setup surprised me this afternoon.  the
initial setup listed my internal IP as

10.47.0.114,

but something I did changed the DHCP leases section to

10.47.0.113 .

after that, I could ssh out and then ssh back to tao.


 But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
 that might block SSH connections to tao, no matter from
 where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
 ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
 enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
 matter if it's running.
 

I havent used ipfw for many years.  the most recent firewall I 
ran was on FBSD 5.X and was {i think} pfw.  I got quite good
at it.  I should learn more about plain pf and pfSense.
do you know if pf/pfsense defaults to DENY incoming connections?
that would explain a Lot!

 
 The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
 using and is very different among the Linusi.

rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always 
had
trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.
   
   There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
   set up on Fedora:
   
   http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH
   
   Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
   also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.
   
  
  
  thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.
 
 Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
 It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
 mentions the built-in firewall that has to be configured
 to allow connections to that server.


the URL you had was fedora-13; what I installed fedora-17.
and just recently--maybe when I rebooted--i saw fedora-19[?]
not sure... .

 
 From my limited experience with Fedora (haven't used it for some
 time), this looks like what you need to do.
 

well, the deal is that my volunteer system admin worked for 
red hat for about 5 years.  I'm more used to ubuntu, but my
friend says that im on my own

anyway, things are starting to eork.  [!]


 
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC

On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Polytropon wrote:
 
 Ouch.
 
 Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
 in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
 is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
 mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
 rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
 are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
 leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
 
 In the above example,
 
   Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 or better using a hyphen
 
   Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
 
 would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
 in a correct manner.

To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma is not 
optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There are definite rules 
and it brings structure.   Unfortunately, lots of people forget (or don't pay 
attention to) these rules, or, they are casual with them in the casual forms of 
communication, like email.  (And there are some people who believe that the 
text language is English -- OMG, WTF, GR8, B4, LOL, etc -- 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_language )

Wie mit deutscher Sprache, man kann (mit englischer Sprache) vieles mit der 
Wortstellung machen.  Und dazu, ist, natürlich, die richtige Anwendung (und 
Verständnis) der Grammatik wichtig.
(Like with the German language, one can do a lot with word order (in English).  
 And for that, the proper use and understanding of Grammar is important)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

Und Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht ist 100% verständlich auf deutsch, 
da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz zu englischer Sprache.
(and playboy -- everything that is fun for men [in German] is 100% 
understandable in German, because there is a real dative case in German, unlike 
in english.)

Gruss aus Utah
Chad



Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 04:01:20AM +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote:
 2012-11-13 06:22, Gary Kline skrev:
 
  guys,
 
  hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get ssh working
  from an outside computer into my brand new tao that is running a
  flavor of linux.  I just got my quad i5 box to replace the old, broken
  tao.  this was the box with the busted USB. [!]  Anyway, linux is
  installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh *out*. to my
  server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back in.
 
  doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
  Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string like
  Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
  wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
 
  anybody know what im NOT doing?
 
 You have to start the ssh daemon (sshd)


this may have been what did the trick; also, you need the full 
path.
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:09:08 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
 On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 02:35:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
 box.  it's got a web interface and runs some flavor of firewall that 
 I never studied.  yuk.  
  
  I assume your HW firewall protects you to the outside. Of
  course it should allow SSH connections from the outside to
  the tao box _if_ you want it that way.
 
 
   my netgear and pfSense setup surprised me this afternoon.  the
   initial setup listed my internal IP as
 
   10.47.0.114,
 
   but something I did changed the DHCP leases section to
 
   10.47.0.113 .
 
   after that, I could ssh out and then ssh back to tao.

If you have the option of configuring the DHCP subsystem to
hand out IPs according to MAC addresses, that should make you
safe from reboots and _possible_ new IPs. (At least that's
how I've configured my home system so every device will get
the same IP, no matter how or when it requests one from the
DHCP server. It also includes certain port redirections so
a SSH request from external source will _always_ be directed
to the _correct_ machine on the LAN.)



  But I was thinking about the firewall run by the Fedora OS
  that might block SSH connections to tao, no matter from
  where they come, just as if you would have set up FreeBSD's
  ipfw with the default to deny connections: without explicitely
  enabling SSH connections the server cannot be reached, no
  matter if it's running.
  
 
   I havent used ipfw for many years.  the most recent firewall I 
   ran was on FBSD 5.X and was {i think} pfw.  I got quite good
   at it.  I should learn more about plain pf and pfSense.
   do you know if pf/pfsense defaults to DENY incoming connections?
   that would explain a Lot!

That depends on the pre-configuration of the firewall on the
Linux side. From reading the article I've mentioned, I got the
impression that the firewall would deny SSH connections per
default, and that _you_ would have to enable it if you wanted
to use that service. That is comparable to OpenBSD's service
disabled by default policy. I'm still not sure if this idea
will get much love or understanding in Linux land where an
do everything out of the box experience seems to be very
important among some distributions. :-)

On FreeBSD, ipfw can DEFAULT_TO_DENY or DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, and you
have to specify your rules usually according to the chosen paradigm.
Of course, there are rules to achieve the same effect, even if in
the opposite paradigm.



  The way _how_ to enable it depends on the distribution you're
  using and is very different among the Linusi.
 
   rt., and this is fedora, my least fav distro.  But I've always 
 had
   trouble   with ssh, even with FBSD.

There is a nice summary on how to get the OpenSSH server
set up on Fedora:

http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Configuring_Fedora_Linux_Remote_Access_using_SSH

Basically, it's about installing and enabling it. The article
also discusses how to enable configure the firewall properly.

   
   
 thank you.  I'll ck it out.  also google other stuff if I have to.
  
  Check if the Techotopia article matches your version of Fedora.
  It shows how to install and enable the SSH server and also
  mentions the built-in firewall that has to be configured
  to allow connections to that server.
 
 
   the URL you had was fedora-13; what I installed fedora-17.
   and just recently--maybe when I rebooted--i saw fedora-19[?]
   not sure... .

Then there's the possibility that things have changed. Even though
there should not be a massive or paradigm-wide shift in things, you
never know when using automated updating on Linux. Still the 
instructions should be usable at least to identify the steps
involved and the tools to be used.




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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:51 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
 
 On Nov 13, 2012, at 7:58 PM, Polytropon wrote:
  
  Ouch.
  
  Unlike in English, the comma in German is an important symbol
  in grammar. It brings structure to sentences. In English, there
  is the word order that achieves this goal, and a comma is
  mostly optional or left to preferences. In German, there are
  rules where to place a comma, and where not to. Those rules
  are relatively easy to understand, and luckily they do not
  leave much space for individual preferences. :-)
  
  In the above example,
  
  Playboy, alles was Maennern Spass macht
  
  or better using a hyphen
  
  Playboy - alles was Maennern Spass macht
  
  would have been correct, as it's shown on the current web page
  in a correct manner.
 
 To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma
 is not optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There
 are definite rules and it brings structure. 

That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
realitiy anymore. :-)

A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and
substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
comma infront of and:

He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.

In German, that would be

Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
und eine Nase.

There are in fact only two exceptions of comma prior to 'and'
in German. But I don't want to start a school lesson here. The
exceptions are closures and appended main clause. :-)



 Unfortunately, lots of people forget (or don't pay attention to)
 these rules, or, they are casual with them in the casual forms of
 communication, like email. 

Well, I don't think that the e-mail (as a medium) implies abandoning
rules for written language. Sure, it's sloppy very often, but it
should not mangle the languge in a way that the reader has to guess
or to ask for what the writer wanted to express. Proper spelling and
punctuation help a lot, and it should not be too much struggle to
get it right: children learn it in the early years in school, so why
should adults forget it?



 (And there are some people who believe that the text language
 is English -- OMG, WTF, GR8, B4, LOL, etc --
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_language )

There is also a transition of this written representation to spoken
language - some (young) people actually speaking like SMS.

I don't think that people actually confuse SMS text with the
actual english language. They could have done so almost 100 years
ago with Q groups and abbreviations used in amateur radio telegraphy
(and even in phone mode), ok dr om, hw? :-)

All those specific language deviations have their place and
are fully valid. It depends on context. For example, if you got
a business letter with every 3rd word spelled wrong and containing
SMS and L33T slang, would you take it as a serious information?
Form and content have to match. Nobody would accept a tax form
printed on toilet paper, even if it would be 100% correct in all
content and number details.



 Wie mit deutscher Sprache, man kann (mit englischer Sprache) vieles
 mit der Wortstellung machen.  Und dazu, ist, natürlich, die richtige
 Anwendung (und Verständnis) der Grammatik wichtig.

Sure it is, but it's not about an 1:1 translation. You need to think
in German if you want to get it fully right. Baumkuchen... :-)

Your sentence would have been:

In der deutschen Sprache kann man (wie in der englischen Sprache)
vieles mit der Wortstellung machen. Dazu ist natürlich die richtige
Anwendung (und das Verstaendnis) der Grammatik wichtig.

That is little difference, but it makes a big difference in
readability. Note that the structure of a sentence, aided by
punctuation, is an important part during the reading experience.
Sentences that do not show any structure are hard to read and
to understand, and a missing comma can decide about life or
death easily:

KILL HIM NOT WAIT UNTIL I ARRIVE

It's either kill him, not wait until I arrive or kill him not,
wait until I arrive, and this translation is not very good as
nicht ~= do not cannot be represented so nicely as in the
german equivalent sentence.

Er begann seinen Hut auf dem Kopf zu essen.

is another (famous) example of how a missing comma can confuse
the reader: He started eating the hat on his head is the first
interpretation, even if He started eating, (having) the hat on
his head, and the comma already makes this difference.



 (Like with the German language, one can do a lot with word order
 (in English).   And for that, the proper use and understanding of
 Grammar is important)
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eats,_Shoots_%26_Leaves

Haha, nice! :-)

But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
to mak punctation and les speeling errer's.

Funkzionier't auch in, Deutsch! :-)



 Und Playboy alles was 

Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC

On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Polytropon wrote:

 That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
 realitiy anymore. :-)
 
 A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and
 substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
 comma infront of and:
 
   He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.
 
 In German, that would be
 
   Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
   und eine Nase.


This is interesting, because the comma before the and in a list is much more 
understandable, because it is open to less interpretation.   This is where the 
eats shoots and leaves comes in, kind of.  There are similar examples where 
ambiguity arises from the lack of a comma before and in a list.   The comma 
before the and is traditional English.   There are, however, lots of people 
who advocate for the lack of a comma before the and in a list and that is 
taught in some classes in some schools.

I don't claim to be a great German speaker or writer.   I have not visited 
there in 12 years nor lived there in almost 20 years.  But people at least can 
understand me and I can get my point across.  :)

Most of my post was meant to support what you were saying, btw.   As well as 
give examples and interesting tidbits.  I agree that proper grammar is 
important in language, even when I don't always use it or do it; especially in 
informal speech like email lists, forums, etc.

 But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
 make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
 to mak punctation and les speeling errer's.
 
 Funkzionier't auch in, Deutsch! :-)


You must really be taking a conniption fit with the changes (Verbilligen -- 
cheapening --  though the exact words I was searching for have failed me 
tonight)  that have happened in German in the last 10 or so years ( striking of 
ß; to always be written with ss now, etc)...

 
 Und Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht ist 100% verständlich
 auf deutsch, da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz
 zu englischer Sprache.
 
 It may be 100% understandable, but it's not correct, because it's
 not a sentence or a grammatically valid construct. The translation
 would have been (quite literally, I admit):
 
   Playboy everything what men fun makes

Actually, no.   A more correct translation would be:Playboy everything that 
to men fun makes.

[Or, if you wanted the same mistake (lack of comma or hyphen) but proper 
English word order:   Playboy everything that is fun for men.]

Männern is dative case, which, when used without a preposition, is best 
translated as to something where something is written with dative case 
endings.

 
 Again, a hyphen after the 1st word would it much more readable.
 
 
 
 (and playboy -- everything that is fun for men [in German] is
 100% understandable in German, because there is a real dative case
 in German, unlike in english.)
 
 In _that_ translation, you've used the hyphen correctly (which was
 missing in the german version discussed).
 


Yes, my bad.  I was trying to write it the same but fixed it unconsciously.


regards
Chad



Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:27:37 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
 
 On Nov 13, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Polytropon wrote:
 
  That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
  realitiy anymore. :-)
  
  A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and
  substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
  comma infront of and:
  
  He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.
  
  In German, that would be
  
  Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
  und eine Nase.
 
 
 This is interesting, because the comma before the and in a list
 is much more understandable, because it is open to less interpretation. 

This is different to 'and' substitutes a comma, but makes
sense. For example, I prefer reading the english documentation
of FreeBSD (manpages, handbook, FAQ and articles) over their
often sloppily and quite mechanically done translations.
Good quality in documentation helps to raise the quality of
the complete product.



 This is where the eats shoots and leaves comes in, kind of.
 There are similar examples where ambiguity arises from the
 lack of a comma before and in a list.   The comma before
 the and is traditional English.

Interesting, thanks for this pointer. So modern English
is what makes the difference here...



 There are, however, lots of people who advocate for the lack
 of a comma before the and in a list and that is taught in
 some classes in some schools.

This kind of arbitraryness is not good. Whatever way is
preferred, it should be used consistently.



 I don't claim to be a great German speaker or writer.   I have
 not visited there in 12 years nor lived there in almost 20 years. 
 But people at least can understand me and I can get my point
 across.  :)

With enough mental variability, that shouldn't be a problem. :-)



 Most of my post was meant to support what you were saying, btw.  
 As well as give examples and interesting tidbits.  I agree that
 proper grammar is important in language, even when I don't always
 use it or do it; especially in informal speech like email lists,
 forums, etc.

Personally I do not make such differences. Proper spelling
is easier (at least for me) than artificially avoiding it,
like _not_ putting a comma where it belongs to, _not_ capitalizing
a word that is to be capitalized, or _not_ using the proper
spelling in favour of some variant. However, I'm not considered
normal so whatever I do does not imply anything. :-)



  But pleese pay atension too, the new englis orfograffy which
  make`s every thing easyer to under stand and, more freedems
  to mak punctation and les speeling errer's.
  
  Funkzionier't auch in, Deutsch! :-)
 
 
 You must really be taking a conniption fit with the changes
 (Verbilligen -- cheapening --  though the exact words I was
 searching for have failed me tonight)  that have happened in
 German in the last 10 or so years ( striking of ß; to always
 be written with ss now, etc)...

The Eszett has been abolished in Switzerland, not in Germany.
The new rule (historically: old, has been abolished after
about 100 years in use because too much prone to errors)
says something about short vs. long vowels which is nonsense
(as vowel length depends on dialect, not on spelling), so
some valid ß get turned into ss. Effect: Most valid ß get
turned into ss, and even some innocent s get turned into
ss, like Massband or Zeugniss. :-)

I'm still looking for a valid translation of bespaßen,
an accusative-passive construct of to entertain somebody. :-)



  Und Playboy alles was Maennern Spass macht ist 100% verständlich
  auf deutsch, da es einen richtigen Dativ Kasus gibt, im Gegensatz
  zu englischer Sprache.
  
  It may be 100% understandable, but it's not correct, because it's
  not a sentence or a grammatically valid construct. The translation
  would have been (quite literally, I admit):
  
  Playboy everything what men fun makes
 
 Actually, no.   A more correct translation would be:
Playboy everything that to men fun makes.

Yes, that's much more valid, that's why I wrote literally, which
means sloppy and possibly wrong, because I didn't find a proper
way to have the dative case encoding without adding additional
words, so it's even wronger. :-)



 [Or, if you wanted the same mistake (lack of comma or hyphen) but
 proper English word order:   Playboy everything that is fun for men.]

Whom is it fun for? +Dativ.
Whom is it fun to? +Dativ.

Sadly, I can't bring the Dativ joke here:
Ulli hat Dativ mitgebracht - für jedem einem.

Ulli has brought Dativ - one for everyone. Yes, the translation
isn't funny anymore. :-(



 Männern is dative case, which, when used without a preposition,
 is best translated as to something where something is written
 with dative case endings.

Case endings and clear preposition requirements are something
much stronger for example in the russian language. They are
represented even in spelling. Here we have to get them from
context.


Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-13 Thread Robert Bonomi

 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:48:48 +0100
 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de
 Subject: Re: well, try here first...

 On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:20:51 -0700, Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC wrote:
  
  To be fair, a lot of the same rules exist for English.  The comma
  is not optional or left to preferences in English, either.  There
  are definite rules and it brings structure. 

 That matches what I've learned in school, but it doesn't match
 realitiy anymore. :-)

 A famous thing is comma in lists: Unlike German, where and
 substitutes a comma, in English it seems to be valid to put a
 comma infront of and:

In 'classic' English (as taught in the 60s and earlier), a comma was
_required_ before a trailing 'and' in a list of 3 or more items, and forbidden
if there were only two items.

The famous eats roots, shoots... would parse as eating 3 objects, with the
comma before the 'and'.
for three actions, change the 'and' to 'then', comma before 'then'.
If eating two objects, eats roots AND shoots *comma* and... (emphasis added)

The accepted 'rules' changed about the time new math was foisted on the
world.  The most visible ones involved comma placement, and punctuation
inside trailing quotes.

  The password is frodo.
  It is 5 characters long.

  The password is frodo.
  It is 6 characters long.

BAH, HUMBUG!!! 

Make the first one:
  The password is frodo. 
and all the ambiguity goes away.*snarl*

   He bought a glass, a towel, a toothpick, and a nose.

 In German, that would be

   Er kaufte ein Glas, ein Handtuch, einen Zahnstocker
   und eine Nase.

how do you write:
The sandwich choices are: tuna salad, chicken, roast beef and
ham, and cheese.
*without* making the last option a '{2 meats} and cheese' sandwich ??
(the next-to-last has two types of meat on it)

*EVIL* grin

 Note that the structure of a sentence, aided by
 punctuation, is an important part during the reading experience.
 Sentences that do not show any structure are hard to read and
 to understand, and a missing comma can decide about life or
 death easily:

   KILL HIM NOT WAIT UNTIL I ARRIVE

the traditional one of these in English is:
Go kill Joe Brown
_who_ is to die depends on whether or not there is a comma after
the second word.  Ditto for who -does- the deed.


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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-12 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi,

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:22:00 -0800
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:

   hold your flame-throwers, because this is about how to get

you do not allow us some fun?

 ssh working from an outside computer into my brand new tao that is
 running a flavor of linux.  I just got my quad i5 box to replace the
 old, broken tao.  this was the box with the busted USB. [!]  Anyway,
 linux is installed; the box is on my internal IP net.  I can ssh
 *out*. to my server, vut from my server or wherever, I cant ssh back
 in.
 
   doing an % ssh 10.47.0.114  OR ssh tao gives me an instant
   Connection refused.  if I try an ssh -X tao I get a string
 like Connnection closed.  can any of you network wizards or setup
   wizards clue me in.  {FWIW:: the ssh stuff is from OpenBSD.}
 
   anybody know what im NOT doing?

Proper setup?
Firewall?
inetd?

It sounds like something very, very obvious. But I know how it feels if
one cannot see the tiny thing. 

Erich
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Re: well, try here first...

2012-11-12 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
On 2012.11.13 06:22, Gary Kline wrote:
   anybody know what im NOT doing?
running sshd ? :)
Have you installed it ? sshd is the server program, it is fairly
independent from ssh, the client program.
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