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

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Jinks
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 information ought not be called speech; -- Anonymous, How to decrypt a DVD

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

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Jinks
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 # Enterprise Networks Systems Administration # UofC Reader! Think not that technical information ought not be called

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

2003-03-26 Thread Michael Jinks
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/borken.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCPd question

2003-03-23 Thread Michael Jinks
NIC anyhow so that you aren't serving 10.* addresses out to the outside world. ;) HTH, -mrj -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks Systems Administration # UofC Reader! Think not that technical information ought not be called speech; -- Anonymous, How to decrypt a DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mice in Xfree

2003-03-20 Thread Michael Jinks
becomes unnecessary. HTH, -mrj -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks Systems Administration # UofC Reader! Think not that technical information ought not be called speech; -- Anonymous, How to decrypt a DVD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2003-03-18 Thread Michael Jinks
. 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 ought

Re: [gentoo-user] rpm??

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Jinks
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 installed. HTH, -mrj -- Michael Jinks, IB # Enterprise Networks Systems Administration # UofC

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 instead of

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

2003-02-18 Thread Michael Jinks
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 ought not be called speech; -- Anonymous, How to decrypt a DVD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

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

2003-02-17 Thread Michael Jinks
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, -- # Michael Jinks, IB # JFI

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 Chicago # Reader