Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:09:38AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:51:49PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'd recommend running spamc, using spamassassin in client/server mode. This cuts the rougly one-second overhead per message of spamassasin's startup

Re: process limits (was: Spamassain question, whitelist?)

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:51:26AM -0800, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 19:46]: on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:44:04PM -0800, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 16:52]: For performance

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
to depend on the existence and/or contents of ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? I'm no one to be trifled with. That is all you ever need know. - Princess Bride pgp0

Re: Kernel 2.4.23

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
/sid/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? NPR: Radio for between the ears: http://www.npr.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Chroot install (was Re: making a floppy for essential modules)

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
(that is: bootable on removeable media), _or_ a previously installed GNU/Linux system. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried

Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:29:30PM -0800, Tom Ballard, former Microsoft employee, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:19:45PM -0800, Tom Ballard, former Microsoft employee, wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 05:31:12PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: IIRC, it was a prior

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
. - There's no discussion of how messages that others send you are distinguished from viral breeding mail. Magick? Nice try, but ultimately deficient. However, it does exist. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:40:16AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Perhaps their recently introduced virus filtering service

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:48:19AM -0800, Tom Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please don't use my real name: I've told you why I don't want it used. Would you prefer I used a handle ? Interesting what truths people are uncomfortable with. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Email disclaimers (was Re: debian rebooting randomly)

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Nothing at all, intoned Marvin dismally, not an electronic sausage. -- HHGTG pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:07:20AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:54:26AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:48:19AM -0800, Tom Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please don't use my real name: I've told you why I don't want it used

Re: Urgent apt-problem

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
of you have to help us help you. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheny '04: BU__SH__! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
*and* write access to the raw disk device itself. This is a really good way to utterly destroy your data. 'cdrom' by contrast is generally read-only. Far less harm possible. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
for. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:47:39AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:19:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:12:05AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm setting up Spamassain, and I can't seem to find out how to create

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:59:01PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: As does DocBook and man. Deprecating man in favor of Info is _not_ acceptable. Period. Nor does it meet Debian policy. The latter isn't

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
generates 1 million passwords, and checks to see how many are unique. I typically see 98.7% using pronounceable passwords, far better when using fully random ones or longer keys. The pronounceable passwords are relatively memorable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
, 2003 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Go through his clothes and look for loose change. - Princess Bride pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:44:04PM -0800, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 16:52]: For performance reasons, I also have in /etc/security/limits: mailhardnproc 30 ...to avoid runaway conditions when

Re: Urgent apt-problem

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
/files grep plptools-kde /install/files | less then rm (every instance in less). Then maybe you can reinstall. No guarantee thou. Um. What exactly is the 'find' supposed to do? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: keep old files

2003-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
the setting. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? At the sound of the toner, boycott Lexmark: trade restraint via DMCA. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Definitely. Like in every big software-project one must assume there are (severe) bugs going undetected. IIRC, it was a prior nonproductive thread with Tom which pointed out seeding and metrics as a way of estimating such bug counts. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: error

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
. BTW, that's a Dallas/Plano, TX number. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [DSA-403-1] Kernel update?

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
eliminate an entire class of potential attacks right there. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: The last vote you'll ever have to cast. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Exim default interface

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
? Check your routing rules. What's your default gateway? Are you sure? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Vote Bush in '04: Because dictatorship is easier pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 09:23:26AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:05:25AM +0600, Satyajit Das ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@spnetctg.com) wrote: 2) I'm using mutt and postfix. My From field said : [EMAIL PROTECTED]@spnetctg.com (Satyajit Das

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
that reporting received Swen tends to keep counts down (~60-65 per day, vs. 250+ if not reported). I've created a few scripts for this (some assembly required): http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/reportSwen http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/fqdn2domain Peace. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:21:02AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: More significantly: get a Knoppix disk. Use it to identify the HW on the system. The 'lshw' command is useful, as is my own system-info script: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
this behavior elsewhere? I'm seeing a sequence of AOL posts originating from AOL MXs. Most spammers spoof origins. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux partitioning: http

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:04:44PM -0500, Adam Garside ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 07:08:53AM +0800, csj wrote: On 5. December 2003 at 8:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL

Re: uhoh - bind on unstable (repost)

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
to be broken. Ordinarially, content lines of a single '.' are doubled to prevent SMTP end-of-data interpretation. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Rodents of unusual size? I don't think they exist

Re: xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
binaries. Don't do that. ...so presumably this will go away as I get my system updated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Data corrupts. Absolute data corrupts absolutely. -- Ed Self's

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:49:51PM -0800, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:48:48PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I do about 50% comprehension of written German when I try reading it. That looked _vaguely_ technical when I read it in the wee hours /me

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
, and what should I do to fix it? What's wrong? Info Sucks And Must Die. Old but good: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/InfoVsManpage Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? sniff Iocane powder! - Princess

xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
a personal response is considered preferable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Over a billion Whoppers served. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: (was: irc equivalent to linux.debian.user?)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
with, BTW. See above. Sane. Useful. Less inane than alternatives. From a former BitchX / XChat user. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Apocalypse Now! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: unable to generate core file

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
to not get generated ? Filesystem permissions in the directory you're running the application from. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? George W. Bush: Leadership without a doubt pgp0.pgp Description

Re: forwarding mail with exim

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
/ the .forward or exim.conf files? You'll find a Shift key at left an right of your keyboard. Instruct yourself on their use. /etc/alaises Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? GNU/Linux web browsing mini review

Re: How do I temporally disable gdm? (or is it gpm)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
is the console mouse driver. Anyway, I'm hoping that there is a line in a file I can comment out. There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
. You need a valid email address in your from line. Possibly: my_hdr From: Satyajit Das [EMAIL PROTECTED]@spnetctg.com ...in your .muttrc what I need to edit ? (Still I'm not edit my .muttrc file ) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:00:10PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RTFL. It's not just the reader. It's the document structure. I read

Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:28:29PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Es geschah am Freitag, 5. Dezember 2003 17:51 als Karsten M. Self schrieb: on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:59:55PM +0100, Christian Schoenebeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2

Re: fetchmail problem (maybe bug)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 07:49:40PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:51:37AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: I'm using fetchmail 5.9.11-6.2 from woody since a while without any problems, but now mail retrieval fails with the following error messages

Re: xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:12:25PM -0800, Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:29:33AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: description of xscreensaver hacks displaying help messages deleted No Google hits, strace doesn't help much. Sounds like someone got

Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
preference), as mentioned above. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? With Ahnold as gropenator, we've once again got a Kennedy in office. And when he says Ich bin ein Berliner, you'll know he means

Opposed: (was Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user)

2003-12-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
, and harmful. I oppose it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again

Re: FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:17:52PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self said on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:15:29AM -0800: See, variously, the FHS, and my own partitioning guidelines: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning Good page. I should have

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
memory space. That's stuff in ring 0, running with full system privs. You do the math. See BugTraq for more info. http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/346180/2003-12-01/2003-12-07/0 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/346175/2003-12-01/2003-12-07/2 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL

Re: No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:11:28AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self writes: s/servers being down/developer access being restricted/ The access restrictions are irrelevant. Developers can do anonymous uploads. I did one last night. ...which means that updates

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
/data/details/main?q=url=www.lists.debian.org Vielen Dank. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Charming man, he said. I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one ... -- HHGTG

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:08:40AM -0800, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:00:28AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Thomas: Fragen Sie bitte auf englisch an diese Liste, oder frage an den debian-user-de Liste Karsten, you realise what you replied to was spam

/usr/local Debian Policy (was Re: Rationale)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
'. ...but existence of /usr/local files and subdirs cannot be assumed. Ownership is root.staff 2775 per policy. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Windows Refund Day II: fight for your right to refund http

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. SCO vs IBM Linux lawsuit info: http://sco.iwethey.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

2.4.23 kernel build problems

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
, but nothing's turned up publicly that I'm aware. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Spam loads (was Re: How to post to linux.debian.user)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
ISPs are offering mail filtering, most have pretty broken tools. SMTP-time rejection + teergrubing is highly preferred. Newcomers to the 'Net have some very serious issues to deal with. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt

Re: No updates to unstable since the security breach?

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
within the week. klecker's still being rebuilt, though. Wichert Akkerman's site http://www.wiggy.net/debian/ ...for updates. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed

Re: My machine compromised?

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
machine compromised? How to fix this? 12 hidden processes is more than I've typically seen (4). # chkrootkit -v lkm ...for more verbose diagnostics. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Integrity

wl/bl/sl maintenance scripts (was: Re: Newsreader-like killfiling in email?)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
-add are the equivalent spam/blacklist commands. wl-ck tests whether an address is already on the whitelist. Etc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Of the top 24 industrialized nations, only Turkey

LILO and bootloaders (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
as a minimal OS which has the basic function of falling on its own sword for the good of the Emperor Penguin (or other sundry OSs as you may have on your system). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Reject EU

FHS and other things Mark should have read with comprehension (was Re: unchecked 31 times)

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
al. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
Again, if more info is needed, I'll be happy to Cut'n'Paste the relevant parts. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/1201.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: http

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
is turning into a bitch. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? GNU/Linux web browsing mini review: Galeon. Kicks ass. http://galeon.sourceforge.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems accessing http://people.debian.org

2003-12-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
words of your post answer your question. http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031121 Some Debian Project machines compromised November 21st, 2003 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? You don't

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
/local/(s)bin, you should be OK. The usual justification is that your locally defined commands superscede system commands. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Those who would give up essential Liberty

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:16:56PM -0500, Malcolm Ferguson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote Or you could just give yourself One Big Partition and deal with the attendant problems. I'm trying to get as close

Slasdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
an axe to grind. Or not. The mainstream media have gross factual errors in about 30-50% of stories. Without, as noted here, the instant feedback offered by Slashdot and other online sites. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:21:24PM +0100, Miernik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On 2003-11-30, Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recommend making it far larger than in the Debian security doc though. On my servers I have /boot and /usr read-only, and I've been You can leave /boot

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
. /boot seperated makes for slightly easier management of this. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Life, said Marvin, don't talk to me about life. -- HHGTG pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
gross ignorance of this topic. Inform yourself before you seek to inform others. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Reject EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:33:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:13:46AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote The one thing you *don't* say is how much space you've got on the disk. Sorry, approx 40 gigs. My A machine is 433mhz, 128 megs RAM

Re: OK, I want to join the PGP World, but need help.

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
Take a look at it: $ gpg --listkeys pecondon *SELF SIGN YOUR KEY*. Key ID is the 8 character block, e.g.: pub 1024D/8DE4D38E 2003-06-11 Karsten M. Self (Primary permanent ... ...my key ID is 8DE4D83E. It's a substring from your full key fingerprint. $ gpg --sign-key Key ID

Re: freebsd - Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 02:08:37AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 01:54:38AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 12:19:43AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip everybody] I have this belief that for any arbitrary large block

Re: icewm and windowmaker

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? What doesn't kill you makes you stranger. -- Karsten M. Self, misreading as usual, San Marcos Pass Rd., 1988 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: shopping

2003-11-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Can you remember anything at all? My theory is it was the olives. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty

Linux security vs. foo (was Re: recommended Virus Scanner?)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:57:18AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:39:05AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Thanks for the excellent answers. ...you don't need to worry about viruses for GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux has a security profile. It's generally

Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
providing specs and/or support, and is among the NIC vendors who've had comprehension difficulties regarding obligations attending use of GPL'd software (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/35103). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: Experiment: Neophyte versus Windows XP Debian Woody

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
/opt installs in /usr/local. Personally I prefer thet first. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? SCO is the thief who puts a gun to his own head and says give me your money or I'll shoot

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
/partition.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Data corrupts. Absolute data corrupts absolutely. -- Ed Self's corollary of Atkinson's Law. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

False-positive virus detection (was Re: antivirus recomendation?)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
://www.rfc-ignorant.org/). The irony that an email infrastructure which allows the transmission of auto-executing attached content resulting in one in which sites are incorrectly rejecting inline text out of paranoia Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: compromised servers

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
it before they took murphy down. Check the archives. Not necessarially. With a subscribership of over 27k, not all messages got out of queue before murphy was downed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:59:50PM -0800, Steve Lamb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: I think that many do. I think your fears are somewhat misplaced. The advice is still valid. I think why some of us have taken such exception to Paul's flippant reply is because

Re: installation to 137GB disk

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? user-agent considered harmful. Encourage W3M standards: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/UserContentString pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: http://lists.debian.org/

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
if this is the correct place, although I suspect it is. Could you look into this or advise me of the correct place to report it. lists.debian.org is among the hosts involved in a compromise of several Debian project servers: http://www.debian.org/News/2003/20031121 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
keep, say, no more than tree prior versions of a package, but I could see that being useful... Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http

KDE guillotines? (was Re: GNOME hangs.)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
account. The other interesting tidbit can be found under ~/.gnome2 which has: -rw---1 barikbarik 2 2003-11-26 21:30 .gnome-smproxy-1VDQeN -rw---1 barikbarik 2 2003-11-26 21:53 .gnome-smproxy-8aQJdd NFC. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications (was Re: communication structures crumbled)

2003-11-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
in a document distributed with Debian (say, Debian Policy or another document along the lines of What To Do In The Event Of A Debian Emergency, would be useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? I

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? ARM Computer: Customer Service Hell On Earth http://lists.svlug.org/pipermail/svlug/2001-November/038616.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Theoretical APT question

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:36:26PM +, Ken Gilmour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Replying to the message sent by Karsten M. Self ?on Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:51:35 -0800, received at 15:32:59 on 21/11/2003. Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Much of your objective could be attained via a reasonable

Re: OK, may be not a hoax... (was Re: Hoax: Re: What up with www.debian.org ?)

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
where I could. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? NPR: Radio for between the ears: http://www.npr.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Xresources Xdefaults documentation

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
does), the app's own manpage should list resources. The manpages for xterm, twm, xclock, and xload should provide some decent clues. There may be sample resource files in /etc/X11/Xresources/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: Joe-Jobbed, was [unsubscribe]

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
. I'm still seeing ~65 of these a day. ...confusing to the naive user though. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? TWikIWeThey: An experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 07:06:27AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: ... You might want to check that you're subscribed to debian-announce and/or debian-security-announce. Some notifications were posted to these lists before murphy went down, not all

Re: mutt and forwarded mail

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
of X-FC-AutoForward-By - From: :0 hfw * ^X-FC-AutoForward-By: | formail -i From -R X-FC-AutoForward-By From Second the latter. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Leave

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
with From. After you've looked for a while, do some research on Google, and then tell us one of the really annoying quirks of the mbox format. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? They were both

Re: hmm debian.org..?

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
messages signed by the same key. You don't need to trim the message or extract just the signed parts, gpg will work that out for you automatically. Peace. - -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? George W. Bush

Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:08:07AM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: Great to see you back. Was an interesting experience: PC's are nothing without Debian... Karsten M. Self writes: ...and vice-versa Not true. Debian runs on lots of non-pc

more details on the recent compromise of debian.org machines (was Re: (unofficial) Debian project list status)

2003-11-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
there too. The next day they used a password sniffed on master to login into gluck, got root there and installed suckit. ... ...for those wanting more information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Solution mystery: gpg unusable public key

2003-11-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
-downloading the key from my regular keyserver didn't work. - Alice's key wasn't trusted by me, and an untrusted key couldn't be used. Not true. Edited the trust value, didn't work either. - Alice's key wasn't self-signed. It was. Didn't work. - I needed an RSA encyrption subkey. I

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >