Re: About the login shell

2002-08-20 Thread Jason Dagit
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Sean Neakums wrote: > That came from the Orange Book security guidelines, I believe. The > idea is that the SAS (secure attention sequence) is not overrideable > and thus the user can be sure that once the sequence has been entered > he is communicating with the OS and not

Re: About the login shell

2002-08-19 Thread Jason Dagit
Marcus these are my feelings exactly. I think having to type login to login is redundant. Just like win2k where you type ctrl-alt-del (which according to MS improves security), before you login. I think the normal case is logining, and that is someone wants to use some other feature with out log

Re: Installation report

2002-08-09 Thread Jason Dagit
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:27:32AM -0700, James Morrison wrote: > > >> The only a bit tricky thing I had to do is download the packages that > >> are one alpha.gnu.org, but required by cross-install, by hand, and put > >> them in partial/ > > > I

Re: apt-get install emacs21 hangs machine

2002-07-31 Thread Jason Dagit
Hey Russ, I see you on plug a lot. I think there is something on the debian site that says apt disagrees with some harddrives. If I recall the fix was to delete the cache for apt and basically restart the apt-get again from scratch. Look at the debian site and you should be able to find exact de

Re: Which packages should I use?

2002-07-24 Thread Jason Dagit
My long running theory about this is that people crave a shorter colloquial(sp?) term for talking about both linux and hurd. If I were talking about them in the official sense I would try to use GNU/Hurd, or GNU/Linux, but in conversations it seems awkward. And how many non-GNU versions of linux

Re: Advice

2002-07-23 Thread Jason Dagit
I have some questions similar to K. Bradford's questions. I, too am new to hurd. Currently is there any documentation available specifically for people new to the hurd? I feel like I should read some sort of intro to hurd development. I have found a little bit of documentation on the subject, b