Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-03 Thread Greg McCarroll
* jo walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > hello > > you may have noticed how penderel aka london.pm.org has been down all day. > we wuz r00ted, was their evidence beyond that of the long sequences (overruns) on rpc statd in the logs? Greg -- Greg McCarroll htt

Re: Movie rant

2001-10-03 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 08:43:52PM +, Redvers Davies wrote: > > was stupid. Oh, and the plot at the end was too. But the teddy! > > The Teddy factor wins again. It seems that crap movies can be made > clean by adding a teddy! > > "The Avengers" took it too far. They knew it was a crap film

Re: Movie rant

2001-10-03 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 05:15:34PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > Simon Wilcox sent the following bits through the ether: > > > What the hell was Steven Spielberg on and can he pass it round ? > > I kind of liked AI. I had to feature a teddy in my summary. Greg and I > both think the teddy is the

Re: Movie rant

2001-10-03 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 11:03:36PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: > > > I kind of liked AI. I had to feature a teddy in my summary. Greg and I > > both think the teddy is the cutest part of the film and can't wait to > > get one. > > I saw Enigma this e

Re: Firewall info, was Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 01:16:01AM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: > [2] Of course firewalls don't help you in the end if you start exposing > services. Which is kinda what you have to do with boxen like > london.pm.org if they're going to be useful...oh well. Yeeesss.. but it can be mitigated drastic

Firewall info, was Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-03 Thread Mark Fowler
Robin said: > my home network has: I don't think I've actually said this on list, and probably should. This weekend I productively replaced my win2k box that was on the outside (ouch!) with a box built out of spare parts running smoothwall[0].. If I'd been running reasonable modern hardware th

Re: Advanced mail management

2001-10-03 Thread Redvers Davies
> message-id's -- anyone seen/done this?). Anyone played with/heard > about putting mail itself in RDBMS? That way you could create virtual > folders etc. Pronto does this. You can optionally put all emails and headers into the database. Mails can appear in multiple folders. When you perform a

Re: outage, explanation

2001-10-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:55:28PM +0100, jo walsh wrote: > hfb aka mail.pm.org has been acting as backup mx, and afaik has just been > sending everything @london.pm.org straight to davorg, so i don't think That's not a backup MX, that's a misconfigured MX! Backup MXs should attempt to send the m

Re: Movie rant

2001-10-03 Thread Redvers Davies
> was stupid. Oh, and the plot at the end was too. But the teddy! The Teddy factor wins again. It seems that crap movies can be made clean by adding a teddy! "The Avengers" took it too far. They knew it was a crap film so they got BIG teddies, LOTS of BIG teddies AND PURPLE BIG teddies!!1

outage, explanation

2001-10-03 Thread jo walsh
hello you may have noticed how penderel aka london.pm.org has been down all day. we wuz r00ted, basically. i don't really want to go into the details here. blech aka paul mison very generously donated today's CFT to reinstalling and sorting everything out, and is still CPANning as i write. bloo

Re: i wonder if this will work

2001-10-03 Thread Neil Ford
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:36:54PM +0100, jo walsh wrote: > > > Yep it worked :-) A BIG "Thank You" I think are due to Paul and Jo for getting the box back so quickly. Beers are in order I think. Neil.

i wonder if this will work

2001-10-03 Thread jo walsh