Re: [gentoo-user] Can't shut down openldap

2003-04-04 Thread Michael Jinks
the init script tries to kill it? No matter what's causing the [ !! ] output, it's worth remembering that init scripts are only wrappers around the actual process, and when things aren't working the way you expect there's no substitute for ps, grep, kill, and reading your logs

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh, how secure?

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Jinks
our database, it might very well be easier (read: cheaper) for me to fly to your remote location and take a cutting torch to the locks on the doors rather than devoting massive computational resources to intercepting and then cracking your SSH sessions. HTH, -mrj -- Michael Jinks, IB # Ente

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Bash script help

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Jinks
get removed. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. There's probably a better way, but why not just use rmdir? It won't remove a directory with anything in it. -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks & Systems Administration # UofC Reader! Think not that technical

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Michael Jinks
I think this is coincidental. My authoritive source on these matters is > > the Jargon File; main site appears to be unreachable right now (I get a > > redirect to EFF's home page, for some reason) but here from a mirror: > > > > http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/b/

Re: [gentoo-user] jargon question...

2003-03-26 Thread Michael Jinks
n site appears to be unreachable right now (I get a redirect to EFF's home page, for some reason) but here from a mirror: http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/b/borken.html -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks & Systems Administration # UofC Reader! Think not that techni

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCPd question

2003-03-23 Thread Michael Jinks
is at the top of the dhcpd manpage). And if you must run dhcpd on your border system, you'll want to be sure to bind it to the right NIC anyhow so that you aren't serving 10.* addresses out to the outside world. ;) HTH, -mrj -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks & Systems

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree

2003-03-20 Thread Michael Jinks
ouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice"Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection In my case I have two mice; if you only have one, the "Mouse1" line above becomes unnecessary. HTH, -mr

Re: [gentoo-user] Meaning of mozilla use flags?

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Jinks
, at least on startup, and so far does all the things I've used Mozilla for. I don't know that I'd call it "lightweight"... lighter, though. -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks & Systems Administration # UofC Reader! Think not that technical informa

Re: [gentoo-user] Meaning of mozilla use flags?

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Jinks
ere. In such cases, one probably needs to know something about the guts of the particular package's build process in order to make changes. Just a guess. -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks & Systems Administration # UofC Reader! Think not that technical information

Re: [gentoo-user] rpm??

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Jinks
mucking up your main / and /usr. Of course, if they didn't compile their binaries to be relocatable you can give yourself new problems when you try to run the software. In that case the next thing I'd try would be to symlink the relevant files into the places where they expected to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo init system : was [Re: [gentoo-user] service parameter passing?]

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Jinks
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:39:51PM -0500, Phil Barnett wrote: > > > > Gentoo does not care for the whole linux community "larry the cow" was > > frustrated with the state of the current distributions (very possibly RH > > since as you noted it's majority) he found the functionality he wanted > > in

Re: [gentoo-user] Symmetrical Vs Asymmetrical GPG Encryption

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Jinks
to the same problem you had with keeping a key on a floppy, only now it's a script instead of a key. Or maybe I'm misunderstanding something. -- # Michael Jinks, IB # JFI/MRSEC/EFI Computing # University of Chicago # Reader! Think not that technical information o

Re: [gentoo-user] 19160 SCSI

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Jinks
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:55:40PM -0600, david wrote: > Any of you guys using an Adaptec 19160 card under gentoo? Yup. > If so are you using the AICXXX module? Yup. :) (was there more you wanted to know?) -- # Michael Jinks, IB # JFI/MRSEC/EFI Computing # University of C

Re: [gentoo-user] Sloppy installs and a FAQ or two

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Jinks
). Never one to take the easy way out (and with a visceral aversion to cutting anything that even looks like documentation out of my system), I tried the SGML fixup procedure. It appears to have worked; my upgrade is now clattering along well past the point where I had my last snag. Thanks much,

Re: [gentoo-user] mount /mnt/cdrom failing???

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Jinks
om iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 Well, first the obvious stuff -- Any chance you could have a bad CD? Have you tried others? How long has this been going on? In other words, did it ever work on this system? If so, what has changed recently? -mrj -- # Michael Jinks, IB # JFI/MRSE

[gentoo-user] Sloppy installs and a FAQ or two

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Jinks
generated. Or something. Is this a known issue? Thanks, -mrj -- # Michael Jinks, IB # JFI/MRSEC/EFI Computing # University of Chicago # Reader! Think not that technical information ought not be called speech; -- Anonymous, "How to decrypt a DVD" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list