Re: Permissions on /tmp

2013-05-23 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Joshua Judson Rosen writes: Not that I'm objecting, but more for my own edification: are there actually systems out there that don't set the sticky bit on /tmp? That just seems... insane I can't recall a standard, multi-user Unix-flavored system on which /tmp didn't have the sticky-bit

Re: Permissions on /tmp

2013-05-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
A subdir in /tmp can certainly have my ownership and permissions. And I guess they can't delete the directory because it isn't empty, but with permissions on the parent directory, can't they move it? Picky, picky, picky. Well, for completeness I suppose we should mention the deleted file

Ethernet - WiFi bridge

2013-05-23 Thread Bill Freeman
It occurs to me (as I wait for the replacement fror my laptop's WiFi/BT module *) that there may be a use for that WRT54GL of mine with the blown WAN port. (mod - you had one too, right?) Assuming that I can get the radio to connect to the local AP router as a client (rather than as a peer or

Re: Permissions on /tmp

2013-05-23 Thread Bill Freeman
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: A subdir in /tmp can certainly have my ownership and permissions. And I guess they can't delete the directory because it isn't empty, but with permissions on the parent directory, can't they move it?

Re: Ethernet - WiFi bridge

2013-05-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
It occurs to me (as I wait for the replacement fror my laptop's WiFi/BT module *) that there may be a use for that WRT54GL of mine with the blown WAN port. (mod - you had one too, right?) Yah, the WAN port on mine failed, as well. I believe there's nothing special about the port marked WAN

Re: Ethernet - WiFi bridge

2013-05-23 Thread Michael ODonnell
there may be a use for that WRT54GL of mine with the blown WAN port. (mod - you had one too, right?) Yah, the WAN port on mine failed, as well. Hey, wait a minute! ;- I think the one you have *IS* my old one - I offered it on this channel back in 2009 after the WAN port failed and didn't

Re: Ethernet - WiFi bridge

2013-05-23 Thread Bill Freeman
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net wrote: there may be a use for that WRT54GL of mine with the blown WAN port. (mod - you had one too, right?) Yah, the WAN port on mine failed, as well. Hey, wait a minute! ;- I think the one you have *IS*

Re: Mother of all xterms?

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Buskey
Back in the day, running telnet inside emacs was faster than in xterm because of emacs' terminal optimization. Important when you shared a 56k link. Or 2400 baud modems. Honestly, I'm at the point I just want low ram use, scroll back lots of lines, emulate vt100 with line drawing and

Re: Mother of all xterms?

2013-05-23 Thread Bill Freeman
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Back in the day, running telnet inside emacs was faster than in xterm because of emacs' terminal optimization. Important when you shared a 56k link. Or 2400 baud modems. Honestly, I'm at the point I just want low ram use,

Re: Permissions on /tmp

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote: Has /proc become POSIX, or are we drifting into the Linux specific here? /proc is in Solaris for processes but not anything else. I'd imagine there's still a way to do this in non-Linux though. Heck, I remember hitting

Re: Ethernet - WiFi bridge

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Buskey
FWIW - I recently got a Buffalo that ships with dd-wrt, slightly modified by Buffalo. It does b/a/g/n too. It definitely can be flashed. They have some other models that don't. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:38 AM,

Re: Mother of all xterms?

2013-05-23 Thread Tom Buskey
I think this is the 1st time I ever saw Low Ram use and emacs (Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping) in the same paragraph. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Bill Freeman ke1g...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: Back in the day,

Re: Mother of all xterms?

2013-05-23 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
On 2013-05-23 16:36, Tom Buskey wrote: I think this is the 1st time I ever saw Low Ram use and emacs (Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping) in the same paragraph. From the JOKES file (or http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html), one of my favorites: