Re: [techtalk] mozilla problems
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:51:02PM -0500 or thereabouts, Anthony Russello wrote: > > Does anyone here know if mozilla is capable of viewing secure 128 bit > encrypted sites? > > I've been trying to use it to view certain sites, and I just get an error > statng that the connection was refused. Meanwhile, I can view those sites > in Netscape (blah). May depend what version of Mozilla you're using. Until a few months ago, it came with the capability, but you had to download and install PSM (personal security manager) separately (with debug->install PSM off the menu along the top). I found a nightly that worked perfectly for my needs almost all the time and stopped grabbing nightlies then. But I know that PSM now comes with Mozilla. With Mozilla and that PSM stuff, there used to be a couple of sites you could visit to check it was working. I would generally check by going to http://fortify.net and testing it worked on that; if then it started playing up on other sites, it was bugzilla time :) Telsa ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Debian
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 04:17:54PM -0500, Michelle Murrain wrote: > I thought that once a Debian distro was called "stable" there weren't really > any changes to it - whereas if it's "testing" or "unstable" newer versions of > packages are added until it freezes and becomes stable. So, I think that no > newer version of anything will ever become part of potato - you have to go to > woody or sid (the new name for unstable) to get newer versions. Security fixes seem to be applied to potato. Joey Hess added a new slrn to stable last week, for instance, to fix buffer overrun remote root exploits (which is pretty bad behaviour in a *newsreader*). Mary. -- Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key ID: 77625870 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 12:07:55PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Angela Nash thought: > I don't have xinetd on my RedHat 7 system anymore...but I did at one time. > I believe to use the server_args directive you have to also use the FLAGS > directive. Check the xinetd man page for more informationbut I remember > having to do that when I installed TCP wrappers. > > Jason > > >> I'm trying to use telnet with an rh7.0 box and xinetd and I'm having >> trouble. My /etc/xinetd.d/telnet is below. Using the default file (which >> I may have lost by now, when I try to telnet I get "connection refused". >> I tried to duplicate the line from /etc/inetd.conf from an RH6.2 box >> >> telnet stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd in.telnetd >> >> and when I telnet, I get a "connected" message but no login. tcpd sits >> there (presumably) waiting for the user to be authenticated. >> /var/log/messages shows nothing >> >> Any thoughts? > FIXED IT! Did an rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-i386.rpm UURRGH! Ever feel stupid? -- Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Domestic Sysadmin :-) - Faenor.cod.ie 2:48pm up 12 days, 1:23, 0 users, load average: 0.38, 0.15, 0.05 Hobbiton.cod.ie 1:52pm up 12 days, 2 min, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.06, 0.02 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:54:37PM +, Conor Daly wrote: > FIXED IT! Did an > > rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-i386.rpm > > UURRGH! Ever feel stupid? At the same time, sometimes this is like racking your brains for hours over why your car won't start. You're rooting about under the hood, checking everything, fearing an expensive repair job, when, on a lark, you look at the fuel tank and find it empty. You feel stupid, but it's kind of exhilarating, at the same time. =) Rick -- Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. :Albert Einstein ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0
Rick Scott wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:54:37PM +, Conor Daly wrote: > >> FIXED IT! Did an >> >> rpm -ivh telnet-server-0.17-i386.rpm >> >> UURRGH! Ever feel stupid? > > > At the same time, sometimes this is like racking your brains for > hours over why your car won't start. You're rooting about under > the hood, checking everything, fearing an expensive repair job, when, > on a lark, you look at the fuel tank and find it empty. You always find the solution in the last place you look Jenn V. -- "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jenn Vesperman http://www.simegen.com/~jenn/ ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Telnet trouble with RH7.0
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You always find the solution in the last place you look Well, yes... unless you're a complete idiot :) (Let's face it: you'd have to be pretty dumb to continue looking AFTER you've found the problem...) James. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
[techtalk] Random serious freezes
Hi Folks, I've got a laptop (HP Pavillion N5195) which I adore, and have been using as my do-everything plus development box. Once in a while (like once every 2 weeks, although it is random, so it might go for weeks w/o this, then do it 3 times in one week), always while I'm in X (I run KDE 2.0 at the moment), it will just freeze. The mouse sticks, can't go to different consoles, can't even ssh in. If I've got an ssh session going, I can sometimes go to that box and kill X, but it doesn't always help. If I'm not already logged in, I can't ssh in after the freeze. I generally have to unplug and yank out the battery - Control-Alt-Delete doesn't work, nor does the power switch. It's only annoying because I've gotten so used to rock-solid stability and never crashing, that it seems a pain (even though my non-linux boxes seem to always crash). I'm almost always either in netscape or K-Mail. It never happens when I'm looking at a console window, or in other programs. Mind you, probably, since this is my everyday machine, and the development I do is web development, I spend 60% of my time in one or another of those programs, so it might just be coincidence. Any thoughts? I'm going to upgrade to KDE 2.1 momentarily, and also go to Mozilla, or at least Netscape 6. I've also thought about trying Opera. Do you think this is a hardware problem, an XFree86 problem or a KDE problem? I don't spend enough time in other window managers to know whether it crashes using those - maybe that's something to try. I am running XFree 3.x rather than 4, because the driver I have for the laptop video card only works with 3.x - and 4 is supposed to have the drivers, but it doesn't work. Michelle -- Michelle Murrain, Ph.D. President Norwottuck Technology Resources [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.norwottuck.com ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Random serious freezes
Hi Michelle! You might want to try enabling "Magic Alt-SysRq" in your kernel. This will give you a couple of useful features you can use to recover from most crashes - kill all processes, unmount disks, reboot, dump current status, etc. Did you build your own kernel, or are you using a prebuilt one? See if you have a file /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq - if you do, write a 1 to it. Then read the documentation in the kernel source about the commands you can use. James. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
Re: [techtalk] Random serious freezes
FWIW, I had the exact same problem (also using KDE & XFree86 3.3)... after much twiddling I narrowed it down to being caused by leaving Netscape running for long periods of time (i.e. days) ... then I switched to Opera and have not had a freeze since. HTH, carie > Hi Folks, > > I've got a laptop (HP Pavillion N5195) which I adore, and have been using as > my do-everything plus development box. > > Once in a while (like once every 2 weeks, although it is random, so it might > go for weeks w/o this, then do it 3 times in one week), always while I'm in X > (I run KDE 2.0 at the moment), it will just freeze. The mouse sticks, can't > go to different consoles, can't even ssh in. If I've got an ssh session > going, I can sometimes go to that box and kill X, but it doesn't always help. > If I'm not already logged in, I can't ssh in after the freeze. I generally > have to unplug and yank out the battery - Control-Alt-Delete doesn't work, > nor does the power switch. > > It's only annoying because I've gotten so used to rock-solid stability and > never crashing, that it seems a pain (even though my non-linux boxes seem to > always crash). > > I'm almost always either in netscape or K-Mail. It never happens when I'm > looking at a console window, or in other programs. Mind you, probably, since > this is my everyday machine, and the development I do is web development, I > spend 60% of my time in one or another of those programs, so it might just be > coincidence. PGP signature
