Re: setgid on /home

On Tuesday 03 April 2001 17:58, Joey Hess wrote: > Scott E. Graves wrote: > > what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set? I was contemplating setting home setgid so all users would create files/dirs with the same gid in their respective home dir, for security reasons. I wa

setgid on /home

what is the benefit of /home having the setgid bit set?

Unable to open various sites.

I have been unable to connect to various web sites from one Debian machine on our network. It seems that when attemplting to connect to sites, such as www.dogpile.com, the user is receiving connection refused. All machines are identical and no firewalling rules have been enabled. This problem

Re: Kernel Compile Fails

Subject: Fw: Kernel Compile Fails > >Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:27:33 -0700 > > > > > >- Original Message - > > From: "Scott E. Graves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: "eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday,

Re: Kernel Compile Fails

On Wednesday 28 March 2001 02:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:55:38AM -0600, Scott E. Graves wrote: > > When doing a make install in /usr/src/linux for kernel 2.4.2 I receive: > > > > make[1]: Entering directory > > `/usr/src/kernel-source-

Kernel Compile Fails

When doing a make install in /usr/src/linux for kernel 2.4.2 I receive: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.2/arch/i386/boot' ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext 0x0 -s -oformat binary bbootsect.o -o bbootsect ld: cannot open binary: No such file or directory

Default user umask in X

How can I change the default user umask in X? I'm running XDM by default. Editing /etc/profile has no effect. Thanks, Scott

Scripting help

If I had a list containing redundant entries, what command could I use suppress the duplications. Here's an example list: man man ls df find find find This would be obtaining using `sa -u | grep scottg | awk '{print $8}' ` to list all programs executed by user scottg. I need to condense the lis

SCSI boot and loopback device

Why is it necessary to have the loopback device in order to boot Linux from a SCSI controller? I've been searching for the answer, but can't seem to find any information. Scott

XDM and Chooser

The only way that the XDMCP Host Chooser is active is when I execute: X -indirect host.myhost.com :0 Is there a way to configure a local/remote server in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers which will allow me to use the chooser? I would like to have the choice to login to the local machine as well as all re

How to determins total system up-time.

I would like to know where to find how long the server has been running (Days, Hours, Minutes) Thanks, Scott