Re: chown static html's to nobody.nobody

2002-10-13 Thread Eric Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it standard to use -755 nobody.nobody as ownr.group for all their .html's on their web page ? No, it's bad, because the nobody account is for use by services that support anonymous users, and the *last* thing you'd ever want is for an anonymous user to modify your

GNU software and info documentation format

1998-06-01 Thread Eric Smith
Rich Kulawiec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want something to worry about, worry about GNU software still using the idiosyncratic "info" format instead of switching to HTML years ago. I don't think this is anything to worry about. They use texinfo, which can be compiled into info, HTML,

Re: News on HotWire - RH 5.0

1998-06-01 Thread Eric Smith
"Shawn McMahon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the main difference is the fact that the USR Courier V.Everything is a Class 1 and Class 2.0 modem, not Class 2. This doesn't bode well for using it with a V.Everything... Class 2 was never released as a standard. It was only a draft, and

Re: kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-17 Thread Eric Smith
I wrote: I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge bloated inefficient pig of a kernel as compared to Linux. They do wacky things like Peter Mutsaers [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Eric Smith
"Peter Chen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't find a qmail SRPM or RPM package. Moreover, since I don't have much experience with qmail, I don't want to lose my job and Linux's reputation as well. But I might switch to qmail after the mail server is up and running. Hmmm... I couldn't ever

Re: PPP login method using modified user name

1998-05-13 Thread Eric Smith
Mike Blatchley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I'm aware that mgetty will do "Auto PPP", but all authentication is solely via PAP. There's something about requiring the normal Login/Password procedure that makes me feel better. I'm not sure why it makes you feel better. I prefer CHAP

Re: The Corel Report

1998-05-13 Thread Eric Smith
Dave Wreski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some points of the NetWinder: 300 MHZ Dec StrongARM, delivering ~250-260 MIPS Uhhm... that's an Intel StrongARM. Unfortunately :-( Still sounds like a nice box though. I've been waiting for a cheap box based on the DEC StrongArm NC reference

Re: Iomega Jaz Drives..

1998-05-13 Thread Eric Smith
Chris Fishwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone out there got any experience with the Iomega Jaz drives?? Yes. I've got five Jaz drives, and I'd be delighted to sell all of them and get some of my money back. They all seemed to work at first, but over a period of a four to eight months,

Re: Host Adapter SCSI ID change?

1998-05-13 Thread Eric Smith
"Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of changing my Host Adapters SCSI ID to ID 15 so that I can free up SCSI ID 7 for use by another device.. will this cause problems under Linux? Will I need to make any changes/ re-install or will it happily cope with

Re: Qmail Filtering

1998-05-13 Thread Eric Smith
Chris Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: want to filter incoming mail say for example from [EMAIL PROTECTED] into the mailbox ~/mail/IN.linux-admin. Currently I do this with procmail, I don't mean how do I call procmail from qmail as thats how its currently done. Arguably calling procmail from

Re: simple procmail question

1998-05-13 Thread Eric Smith
Matt Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I'd rather have procmail just deposit the mail (by default) back into /var/spool/mail/matt (my system box) where I can read it with any mail tool without customization. However, I fear this will confuse procmail and send it in an infinite loop. The

Re: why shouldn't rmail be in /bin

1998-05-02 Thread Eric Smith
Dave Wreski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm.. Don't exactly know why the man page states that, but typically binaries that the superuser uses are stored in /bin. Normal users use /usr/bin, which is where that should go. Not quite. Executables intended primarily for the superuser go in /sbin

Re: Dual boot NT and linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Eric Smith
Thomas Hubbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will something like System Commander make the dual-boot Linux/NT ordeal any easier? PowerBoot will make it easier, and at $25 is less expensive than System Commander. http://www.blueskyinnovations.com/ Cheers, Eric -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #484

1998-03-22 Thread Eric Smith
George Toft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would invite you to do the math: 115,200 baud with one start bit, one stop bit and eight data bits (total of 10) means the computer has to pump out 11,520 bytes per second to the serial port. I think if a 386 at 25Mhz can handle a hard drive and move

Re: ftpd and/or telnetd on multihomed machine

1998-03-17 Thread Eric Smith
I wrote: And if I want to run different daemons on the same port number of different IP addresses? Or the same daemon but with different command-line arguments? I don't know any way to use ipfwadm to do that, and it was my primary objective. "John D. Hardin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Use

Re: ftpd and/or telnetd on multihomed machine

1998-03-17 Thread Eric Smith
Dave Wreski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about my inetd patches: They never got included for a good reason. This functionality is already available by using ipfwadm to block access to ports to wish to restrict. And if I want to run different daemons on the same port number of different IP

Re: ftpd and/or telnetd on multihomed machine

1998-03-16 Thread Eric Smith
Brian Landers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to configure telnetd and/or ftpd to listen only on a specific interface on a machine with multiple interfaces? I want to be able to ftp/telnet into IP address 'foo' but not into address 'baz' (both on the same RedHat 5.0 box). I

Re: DVD in Linux

1998-03-13 Thread Eric Smith
Thomas Hubbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Can you use a DVD-ROM drive with Linux? [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: Yes, you can use it. DVD is pretty fast and all but it doesn't have support for reading burned disks which is pain the *ss. If you already have a decently fast CD-ROM don't buy DVD

Re: Multiple IP addresses/hostnames?

1998-03-06 Thread Eric Smith
"Jeremy Domingue" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up my server so that when someone telnets into it, the IP address they telnet to is the IP that they are "binded" to (i.e, if they get on IRC they show up as the IP they have telneted to, NOT the main IP address The easiest way I