Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-14 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On 2024-07-14 22:15:34, "Alan D. Salewski" spake thus: [...] The user's umask value would matter less if the default perms of user $HOME directories were 077 s/were/were from a umask of/

Re: umask - default user settings?

2024-07-14 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On 2024-07-14 19:38:26, Hans spake thus: Hi Greg, yes, did already change it. However, this looks like a security hole for me, as I believe, not many people or admins are changing this. I suspect that most people /do/ change it, once they become aware of it, for the very reason stated in th

Re: Ever heard of Brief?

2004-03-21 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:39:06PM -0600, Anil Gupte spake thus: > Once upon a time, long, long ago there was an editor called BRIEF (by > Underware). Yes, they were an Aussie firm. Anyway, this was my favorite > editor for the longest time in DOS - I am dating myself here aren't I? One > pa

Re: (OT) What books would give better insight into networks

2004-01-11 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Benedict Verheyen spake thus: > Hi, > > i'm interested in learning more on how DNS works (mx records and the like) > and about networking in general. It's not that i do not have a basic grasp > but i want to know exactely what goes on in networking without

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-14 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:14:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson spake thus: > On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 01:05, Alan D. Salewski wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:22:14PM +, Doug MacFarlane spake thus: > > > On 04 Oct 2002, 00:22:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > sa

Re: Debian on SunBlade 100? Forget about it.....

2002-10-07 Thread Alan D. Salewski
--JYK4vJDZwFMowpUq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 01:22:14PM +, Doug MacFarlane spake thus: > On 04 Oct 2002, 00:22:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > same for one of my freebsd boxes(my liv

Re: Too many open files

2002-10-07 Thread Alan D. Salewski
--T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:17:26PM +0200, Fred spake thus: > Hi, >=20 > It 's the third time my debian is complaining, just > after booting, with a "too many open

Re: A Better XTerm?

2002-09-29 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 07:56:49PM -0700, Josh Rehman spake thus: > I'm looking for a better XTerm. I'm using Konsole right now (the one > that KDE uses by default). > > The thing that I really want is the ability to horizontally scroll. The > commands "top" and "ps -aux" often create very wide

Re: cdrecord -scanbus examples, please.

2002-09-22 Thread Alan D. Salewski
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:03:01PM -0500, DvB spake thus: > Jesus Climent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi > > > > I am packaging a tool (phaser) to use cdrecord from the conseole. I want > > to show the user list of different scsi devices (through ide-scsi) to > > select the one for writer