Re: X, drugs and violence

2001-09-19 Thread Michael O'Donnell
>> "X: cannot stat /etc/X11/X" >> >>What does it expect to find there? > >With XFree86, /etc/X11/X is usually a symlink to the specific >XServer for your hardware. Frex, on the box I'm using now: > > mwl@volta:~>ls -l /etc/X11/X > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Aug 27 16:06 /etc/X11/X -> ../../usr/

X, drugs and violence

2001-09-19 Thread Michael O'Donnell
The linuxbierwanderung notwithstanding, Linux and beer may not mix as successfully as one might hope. After a few Sam Adams I decided to upgrade my Debian distribution, so I modified my /etc/apt/sources.list on my Debian box to specify woody (instead of potato as it had previously mentioned) and

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2001-09-19 Thread Taylor, Chris
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Stopping infected systems from hitting your linux server

2001-09-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
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Re: Nimda worm/virus attacks Microsoft systems (was: What happened?)

2001-09-19 Thread Alex Hewitt USG
Microsoft has finally put an option into the latest version of Outlook Express (v6) to suppress the opening/saving of email attachments. One of my systems at home runs Win 2k Pro and we are constantly receiving emails from folks whose email handlers have mail forwarding setup to forward email as a

Nimda worm/virus attacks Microsoft systems (was: What happened?)

2001-09-19 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG wrote: > My concern today is that we have been at least partially affected by > this Code virus ... You mean the Nimda worm/virus? ("Admin" spelled backwards.) This one is great. It attacks vulnerabilities in MS Outlook, MS IE, and MS IIS. It mass-e

Re: What happened?

2001-09-19 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG
Well, we were down for a while on Friday due to a cluster upgrade here, and there were other, short outages here and there, but those weren't of any material length. The list has been fairly quiet from what I can see here at work. I'll check with Mark Gelinas and see if he has any comments. My c

Re: What happened?

2001-09-19 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
"Someone set up us the bomb!" Sorry, couldn't resist.. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "All right everyone! Step away from the glowing hamburger!" **