kclark wrote:
makewhatis is a shell script that does all sorts of hokey stuff
with shell redirection, like opening its own fds for stderr
Yeah - what HE said. FYI, depending on your purposes,
it's possible that executing makewhatis via the
script program could help you capture the info you
Just a tip to fellow Debian users out there: check out
apt-spy - it benchmarks connection speeds from your
site to various Debian mirrors (many of which you're
unlikely to have heard about) and can find you some
truly zippy ones. I've just done a fairly ponderous
'apt-get dist-upgrade' at work
a tad faster than the 150kB/S I'd been seeing from
some of the better known mirrors.
For what it's worth (which is very little, I'm quite sure), S
is the SI abbreviation for the siemens, which is the SI unit for
electrical conductance. Presumably you're talking about seconds,
which
I've heard that Lycoris has a distro designed by former Microsoft
employees. Does anyone know if it looks or operates much like
Windows XP? Is there a link available for an eval copy?
I don't know much about Lycoris but you could
check out www.lycoris.com. One thing they don't
make
As another shot-in-the-dark you could try saying:
strace yourArchivingApp yourNormalCommandLineOptions
...and then (stand back!) watch the blizzard of
syscalls (and their return values) fly by, which might
yield a clue as to whether the app is submitting a
bogus request to the system or the
I [have] a fairly secure home network (protected by [A] a firewall
and [B] the total absence of Microsoft products ...
A word of advice: As a professional admin and security annalist
Historian, right? ;-
who works with both Microsoft and FOSS products, I find your
attitude toward
I should have foreseen that this thread would turn out
to be more organizational/political than technical -
sorry 'bout that, and thanks for all the feedback.
I guess I'll choose to believe that the fundamental
problem here is that the people who hired me promised
me things they were not
Crap. I accepted my current job with the
understanding that I had a fairly secure home network
(protected by [A] a firewall and [B] the total
absence of Microsoft products) to which I expected
to have access from work via SSH, and I was told
no problem. Two days after I started, though,
the
A simplistic move could be to try using tcp port 443.
Already tried it.
As a worst case, you could consider changing to ssh-over-icmp, and
all of you packets suddenly start looking like pings. There are
other wrappers that might work too.
They've been blocking ICMP forever.
All of
I know you are upset because there is something you want to do and
the IT group is blocking you,
No. I'm upset because terms of an agreement are
being violated. One's opinion of those terms is
irrelevant - the agreement was made under no duress
by supposedly competent adults acting as
I don't truly understand the email header issue
but I know that others have been unhappy when it
periodically appears on this main GNHLUG channel,
so I propose that the forum for the email header
discussion be:
http://www.quicktopic.com/19/H/9cm3uCUFHWuzg
...where I have posted a copy of
This is going to happen; it is only a question of when.
Considering this list is public, archived, and searchable via
Google, I now give it a week or two until someone sees this and
combines it with perl's MIME::Lite and Email::Simple modules ;)
Although I (think I) get Ben's general
Something that might be kind of fun would be to 'sort of break'
a linux installation (mis-configure something, 'degrade' a needed
library, etc.) and then have folks 'try to figure it out'.
Just the experience of watching folks go through the various
possibilities and applying their
http://www.infoworld.com/infoworld/article/04/01/30/05FElinux_1.html
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Has anyone every had an experience w/the above System / Motherboard
freezing at the BIOS Screen only when there's Linux partitions on the
Hard Drive? If there's any other partition or none at all, then the
system makes it past the BIOS screen with no problem.
I don't think Linux cares how
The boot process does not even make it as far as to even try
the floppy or CD. It simply sits at the boot screen and hangs,
no even allowing you to press F2 for BIOS Setup. If I wipe the
partitions clean then it works fine.
Maybe I should have been clearer - I meant that you
should
Since it's rude to inflict your non-Linux-related
views on this captive audience (gathered here because
we value this channel's blessedly high *LINUX-RELATED*
S/N ratio) and since there are eleventy-bazillion
other channels (USENET, email lists, blogs, barrooms,
etc) where election-talk *is*
I can send a large email message to myself (like,
a msg with a large attachment) and retrieve it by
hand if I telnet to the ComCast POP server and do
the POP conversation myself, so I'm confident that
the server isn't truncating my msgs. Unfortunately,
it appears that fetchmail is unable or
c) re-install _all_ their files (I have a backup of all config data,
so it's not like I'd be starting from scratch).
If your currently installed packages list is valid, what about just
something like:
dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 | xargs apt-get install --reinstall
I was thinking of
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/12/031204074828.htm
Excerpt:
Faster, Better, Cheaper: Open-source Practices May Help Improve
Software Engineering
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Walt Scacchi of the University of California,
Irvine, and his colleagues are conducting formal studies of the
kclark wrote:
I guess that I'm going under the assumption that mod's shell isn't
doing anything non-obvious with pathname expansion, nullglob
is not set, GLOBIGNORE isn't set, etc. I consider this to be
extremely unlikely.
blush
Err, umm, that's kind of you but your confidence
is
Some people on this channel might find it to be of
morbid interest that the most recent version of bash
apparently has a bug (that I have already reported)
in the handling of '?' characters in the expansion of
environment variables. In the log below you can see
that any env var (or combination
I wrote:
Some people on this channel might find it to be of
morbid interest that the most recent version of bash
apparently has a bug (that I have already reported)
in the handling of '?' characters in the expansion of
environment variables. In the log below you can see
that any env var (or
'?' is a shell metacharacter.
You need to put it inside single quotes
I don't think so. Given the example I supplied,
I'll claim that only double quotes will do the trick,
and that there's no way that single quotes can work,
because they also prevent the desired expansion of the
environment
Belkin personnel reportedly confirm that their
routers periodically do *intentionally* redirect
your HTTP traffic to their SPAMvertising site...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/33858.html
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I've always just lucked out in the past and never
had to think about configuring sound support -
it's either already been working on the machines
where I've needed it or else I didn't need it when I
was configuring machines from scratch. But now I'm
configuring a Debian desktop box and I've
Ben wrote:
OpenSSH (the most popular SSH implementation on modern free
Unixes) does not, to my knowledge, use a /etc/default/ssh file.
See the manual pages, FILES sections, for ssh(1) and sshd(8)
for details.
On my Debian box I'm running this:
ssh 3.6.1p2-9 Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp
It occurs to me that I've been sloppy (if not outright
incorrect) with my terminology so maybe (an attempt at)
some clarification is in order.
Let's call Dan's desktop machine (with the X server)
machineX - this is the machine where Dan wants to
initiate the SSH connection from and which has
If anybody asks, I might deny having said this,
but the leftovers from Mission Critical Linux
(those which haven't yet been auctioned) are
being disposed of and it's probably a good
scavenging opportunity.
I was helping with the cleanout this morning and
was personally responsible for tossing
I've received SPAM where my contact info has been
stored in a string encoded in (what I believe to be)
some simple-minded format that I'd like to decode.
I have reason to believe that this format is on the
order of rot13, or uuencoding, or base64, or some
other relatively straightforward
The encoded string is:
MTA2NDIwL21vZEB3b3JsZC5zdGQuY29tLy8
It's base64. The decoded string is:
106420/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTH!
It does help - thanks! For the benefit of those here
gathered, please reveal your methods; how did you decode
it? Is there a simple filter already existing
I wrote:
The encoded string is:
MTA2NDIwL21vZEB3b3JsZC5zdGQuY29tLy8
It's base64. The decoded string is:
106420/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTH!
It does help - thanks! For the benefit of those here
gathered, please reveal your methods; how did you decode
it? Is there a simple filter already
Use the following procedure to enable them.
1. Add rlogin and rsh to /etc/securetty:
# echo rlogin /etc/securetty
# echo rsh /etc/securetty
That securetty file is only intended to be a list of
devices from which secure logins are allowed, so I think
it's likely that step #1 of your
That securetty file is only intended to be a list of
devices from which secure logins are allowed, so I think
it's likely that step #1 of your instructions is incorrect
since rlogin and ssh are services rather than devices.
On my RH8 system I did steps 23 first. Alone they did not work.
P.S. If you can arrange for my email address to NOT
appear in (the bodies of) your responses when
broadcast to the world, I'd be much obliged,
[...]
This would be a lot easier to comply with if you'd include a
real name field in your ^From: line. Without one, most sane MUAs
DEAR SIR/MADAM:
I AM MR. DARL MCBRIDE CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT AND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SCO GROUP, FORMERLY KNOWN AS
CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, IN LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOUR BECAUSE WE HAVE
HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS
Is there a way I can find out what processes are 'sitting' in
a directory? For example a program that has used chdir to get to
a particular directory?
I thought lsof would be able give me that info, but I am unable
to find the correct option if it can.
for every PID of interest
do
Plenty of excellent material flies by on the GNHLUG
list that is not immediately applicable, but I've
always assumed that I'd be able to retrieve any given
msg from the archives if necessary. I'd therefore be
disappointed to learn that GNHLUG postings are not
being properly archived. It's
I think that a better solution would be to find a way to strip the e-mail
addresses. I don't know how many times I have found solutions by running
a google search and coming up with a solution in a mailing list archive.
This is esp. true with linux related materials.
Just be careful that any
SCO has been banned from both Cambridge and Boston by order of RMS.
It's strange what random thought sequences flit
through one's head at times. Upon reading that msg
I thought, Maybe such a restrictive ban should be
expected from someone whose initials normally denote
Root Mean Square,
SCO has been banned from both Cambridge and Boston by order of RMS.
It's strange what random thought sequences flit
through one's head at times. Upon reading that msg
I thought, Maybe such a restrictive ban should be
expected from someone whose initials normally denote
Root Mean Square,
If you're set up to build your own kernels you could
make menuconfig
and select Processor Type and Features where you can rig
your kernel such that it's better able to recognize your
particular processor. It's possible that your distribution
ships with its kernels in some
Does anyone know of any Database user groups in the greater Boston area?
NEDMA - New England Direct Marketing Association - http://www.nedma.com/
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