Re: Squid or soemthing else

2000-08-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 02:31:23AM -0500, David Talkington wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | >Um, a thought. If you're envisaging putting squid between your server | >and the outside world, this is not going to work. Squid is not a web | >server in that sense. | | Is that not

Re: X 4.01 upgrade

2000-08-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
files. | Otherwise, XF86 4.0.1 is a major step forward, and IMO works much better | than 3.3.x. Aside from the internals, which sound much cleaner, how much nicer is it externally? (I sepak as one considering running it.) -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.z

Re: # symbols in a QUERY_STRING

2000-09-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
//blah/blah/thing.cgi?foo%23bah So this _really_ wasn't fixing at the client end. Any more info? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner

Re: leaving xterm open

2000-09-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
close when you say "exit" to a shell). Obviously any variant on "sleep 60" will do fine as well. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by peo

Re: Starting X in a second console

2000-09-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
t and the X server, and the -- distinguishes the options for the X server from what comes before (if anything). This is even (gasp!) described in the manual entry. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Team work is essential.

Re: [RedHat-List] Re: Starting X in a second console

2000-09-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
lked about in context of several things (in the bash man page) | but none that I can see that has anything explicity to do with : It has nothing to do with the ":1" and everything to do with which of the subsidiary programs is _handed_ the ":1". See the third paragraph of "man

Re: Forced chgrp?

2000-09-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
preserving their privacy which automatically doing the right thing in shared areas, which will be set up like your web areas want to be. Not a trivial change here, unfortunately. Lots of historical bad practice to fix... Does that make things any clearer? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743

Re: fgrep file limit? (actually option parsing bug)

2000-09-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
all names to start with the character ".", which doesn't look like an option. The classic example is "how do I remove a file whose name starts with '-'?" A generally useful trick, though not one you should have needed in this case :-( Cheers, -- Cameron Simpso

Re: count # files in directory

2000-09-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
lems - no file beginning with "." and if the directory is empty you'll get a "1" because the "*" is left on the command line untouched in that case. Of course, in most circumstances you'll be working with file in some application domain (MH mail files or sou

Re: cat infile | translate all occurences of "NOT NULL" to ""

2000-09-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
needed. Indeed, but drop the -n. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about some real money. - Senator Everett Dirksen ___ Redhat-list

Re: ps question

2000-09-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
by supplying a crude format string. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. I am a person. My life is my own. - The Prisoner ___

Re: /etc/resolv.conf **will not stick**

2000-09-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
. For example, some DHCP setups will rewrite resolv.conf. Could this be the case? Test: take careful not of size and modification time after edit, startup ppp, check, etc. Just guessing of course, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ A workable

Re: Symbolic link problem

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:36:18PM -0700, listmail wrote: | as if they are broken, but they seeom to otherwise be working normally. | Any idea what might be causing this? | sub That's incredibly vague. Got a transcript of what is actually going wrong? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[

Re: rsync server question

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
erver, the | transport would be rsh ? Is this correct ? No. You run an rsync in daemon mode. It has its own port number. Transport is plain TCP, just like web servers or whatever are - no rsh or ssh involved. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Don't put o

Re: rsync server question

2000-10-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
god! close that 514 firewall hole - rsh is as insecure as things get. Worse than telnet! Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ More computing sins have been committed in the name of performance, without necessariliy achieving it, than

Re: Very Basic shell logic question

2000-10-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
should win. (Where'd the 96k come from - is it just an arbirary big chunk or do you have something specific in mind?) -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I believe the difficulty is inversely proportional to the crotch-to-shoulder measu

Re: Question about this

2000-10-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
t;-le" in the cc line? Cc invokes ld for this phase. Make is expecting the link phase to want the "e" library, whatever that is. Maybe you should run back over your "configure" run (if there was one). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www

Re: Very Basic shell logic question

2000-10-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
calls [read(0,buf,512)] but the overhead probably isn't enormous. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ We would've believed it was an accidental shooting if he hadn't changed magazines ..TWICE - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: FHS directory question

2000-10-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
hat by having nobody else in that group a umask of 002 or 007 still gives them privacy for the files in their own account because group permissions there (where file gid == user primary gid) don't open up any access for others There's plenty of

Re: mail from script

2000-10-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
lly is meaningless to the recipient and often acquires the target domain during reception - generally undesirable). -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news- writer is a man without vi

Re: [RedHat-List] RE: umask is strange

2000-10-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
ust fine too. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Trust the computer... the computer is your friend. - Richard Dominelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 3D scripting language?

2000-10-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
level more specialized language. Kinda like a | gawk for 3D graphics. ;) Modern VRML has JavaScript ("Ecmascript"? Maybe. Same thing mostly.) support. I gather you can write behaviours and such with it. Get thee off to: http://www.vrml.org/ and have a read. -- Cameron S

Re: NFS

2000-10-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
would guess you have read permission but not search (x) permission on one of those two. It is a little known fact that the permissions on the mount point itself (the local dir) matter even after the mount, which is why such directories are usually 755 or 555 permissions. Cheers, -- Cameron Simps

Re: How to do port scan on your own machine

2000-10-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
, which can take a while. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ A motorcycle is like a toothbrush. Everyone should have their own. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: file with multi-owner?

2000-10-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
is group access. Is that what you had in mind? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare ___ Redhat-li

Re: DVD illusive dream

2000-10-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
little too fast and the video of poor quality. | | Anyone know if something is being worked on in this area? You've checked out the Livid project? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ ___ Redhat

Re: Why are files created with GMT?

2000-10-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
or arguments about hardware clocks etc. More questions: - is the filesystem local or remote? - is the filesystem some DOS-type one or a UNIX-ish ext2 one? I'm grasping at straws here, imagining weird remote clocks or filesystems which want to store local time (like DOS). -

Re: Some Info

2000-11-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
memory Extension I'd guess. I would also have expected 3.3.6 to have it. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Don't wrestle with a pig - you get muddy, and besides, the pig likes it. - Eric Breitenberger<[EM

Re: How to listen on ttyS0

2000-11-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
ch end; read the manual entries on mgetty and gettydefs for this. You might also want to look at installing agetty instead of mgetty as an alternative. I'm not recommending one as better than another, merely mentioning it. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need help with log entry (sendmail)

2000-11-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
ains: These messages have nothing to do with ipchains. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The most frightening thing about the American judicial system is the possibility of having one's fate decid

Re: jobs, fg, awk, oh, my

2000-11-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
. The shell running your script (a distinct shell from your command prompt) has no jobs! You need to put this in a shell function or an alias (ugh!) to have effect in your _current_ shell. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ This is not a bug. It's

Re: Non-existent shells

2000-02-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
if it actually exists. Why not just make the shell /bin/false? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ If you put three drops of poison into a 100 percent pure Java, you get ... Windows. If you put a few drops of Java into Windows, you still have Window

Re: ssh without r-services

2000-02-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
key files should be publicly readable (hmm, have you checked this on your /etc/ssh_known_hosts file?); you shouldn't need to be root to do these checks (obviously you want to be root to update the /etc/ssh_known_hosts file!) The /etc/ssh_known_hosts is generally for your intranet host keys; ext

Re: OT: csh to bash

2000-02-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
SI_LIC_PACK_DIR" <$rel_data` if [ $? = 0 ]; then I've taken the liberty of rewriting "cat $rel_data | egrep "^MSI_LIC_PACK_DIR"" to be shorter and more efficient, too. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/

Re: OT: csh to bash

2000-02-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
LIC_PACK_DIR/config/lp_lmenv_bash" | fi | | #Users may uncomment this code to enable a warning message | #if LM_LICENSE_FILE is not set | #if !($?NO_TEXT) then | # if !($?LM_LICENSE_FILE) then | # echo "" | # echo "msi_lic_cshrc: LM_LICENSE_FILE not set. " | #

Re: Net traffic monitoring

2000-02-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
add | bandwidth before it's 101% usage and gives timeouts. :) Check out MRTG. CHeers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. - Lord Halifax, Works -- To unsubs

Re: [RedHat-List] RE: DISPLAY

2000-02-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
ndividual users - more precise. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ It looked like documentation, so I threw it out.- unknown luser -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: [RedHat-List] named problem

2000-02-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
cause any overt problems other than the log entries? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I say we generate electricity by burning liberals. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Miller) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: filtering sites by URL

2000-02-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-15.html Even simpler is the ACL facility: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-10.html Be aware that this kind of thing is very approximate, and won't get you as far as you might think. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: new user acconts problem

2000-02-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
values. You're seeing the low order 16 bits of 14 used in the user_id field of the file record. Useradd _ought_ to check this but obviously doesn't. You'll have to restrict yourself to smaller numbers. Maybe start at 10000? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PRO

Re: [RedHat-List] Re: OT: C program problem, core dumps in linux but not unix.

2000-02-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
en copy it to the ISP then my linux system and | > work on it there. | | Sounds like you need cvs ;) Yep. And/or rsync, depending. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Gov't Employee-eseMeaning "We need to fast-track thi

Re: OT: C program problem, core dumps in linux but not unix.

2000-02-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
a Sun/Linux thing, it's an environment thing :) Bleah. No, it's a _classic_ example of unchecked calls. getenv() can always return NULL - there's NO excuse for not checking. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ A workable solution might be to only

Re: A script to update web site?

2000-02-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
for the underlying transport. We use rdist here with ssh for the transport. But for your need rsync is much better. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I remind myself that for every one opportunity for smiling there are 20 things that make you

Re: Confusion with pipes

2000-02-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
, but check for short reads anyway - since you can get one 0 or 1 you can treat 0 as "unexpected EOF" and abort tidily in some fashion. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any fo

Re: [RedHat-List] OT: csh to bash

2000-02-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
on.' echo "** " exit 1 fi echo -n "Enter location of CNX directory [default: $cnx_dir ]-> " read response if [ -n "$response" ]; then cnx_dir=`echo $response | sed -e 's/\/$//'` fi C

Re: [RedHat-List] Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array

2000-02-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
1; $value=$2; $_=$'; $line{$item}=$value; } # do something with %line here } Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ No one is completely worthless... they can always serve as a bad example. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: ifconfig info

2000-02-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 04:52:09PM -0600, Robert Canary wrote: | Dose anyone know where or how "ifconfig" gets it info? By directly consulting the networking devices. Details in the source. Perhaps you want a different question: what prompted this one? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743

Re: Networking problems (Was: cannot access Internet sites)]

2000-02-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
e of | my problem. But I can't find a way to change that behavior. I've checked and | double-checked the settings on both machines to ensure they are identical. | But something obviously isn't. However, I can't figure out what that is... Now I can't help you - h

Re: Prevent Two Instances

2000-01-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
greed-upon convention. Then you never invoke the program directly, just the wrapper. I do this for my mutt invocations, here's the wrapper: #!/bin/sh # # Shortcut to threaded mailbox. # - Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11oct99 # box=`basename "

Re: Web site filter

2000-01-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
primarily plays pinball. (No pinball for Linux available yet?) Kath's spent MANY hours playing xboing. It's not quite pinball, but... -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ 186,282 miles per second - Not just a good idea, It's the Law! --

Re: @Home & Port Scan Activity

2000-01-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
using"? Now, if they were hacking in on your system... Seriously folks, get a sense of scale. If they're bugging you, put a special case REJECT rule at the front of your firewall rules for them and forget it. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~c

Re: [RedHat-List] partition question

2000-03-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
just "hdd")? I'd have thought fdisk /dev/hdd would tell you that, too. It doesn't? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The mystery is why a proud people, descended from revolutionaries, is willing to submit, with good hum

Re: are my spam rules working?

2000-03-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
is necessary for the connection to occur for the rule to fire up. The check happens after the connection (since only then can it ask the socket where it comes from - pre-emptive blocking needs ipchains), but before any mail transfer happens. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]h

Re: Ques re firewall on Redhat 6.1

2000-03-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
for it; a DENY just drops the packet on the floor and TCP will just send another SYN because it's _designed_ for networks which drop occasional packets.o Unless you get flooded by something, sending rejections costs you nothing and is polite to others. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[

Re: Help!!!!!!!

2000-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
were the permission s in /tmp. Please press return every 70 chars or so, and put a little context in the Subject: line. Thanks. | Any ideas Change 'em back! What exact change did you make? | Do I have to reinstal Linux? Probably not. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Mount?

2000-03-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
filesystem (the top of the tree) Step back to the disc partitioning dialogue and check these things. You've run into a sanity check which is there to ensure linux installs itself on the _right_ partition, and doesn't trash come important data elsewhere on the disc. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743

Re: Perl question comparing lastModified time to now

2000-03-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
d to days. Why not just stat() the fine and compute on the mtime, which is in seconds since the epoch? It's also in the FM, under "stat". -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Success in software development depends on making a carefully

Re: Editing /etc/passwd

2000-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
he "vipw" command is what BSD used to use. See if your linux distribution has that - it serves the same purpose. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ CagerWager: "I bet this asshole in the Volvo is about to change lanes right into me

Re: Perl and Serial Devices

2000-03-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
things up for you. Ideas: 1: Try using sysread() instead of <>. 2: Write an alarm handler: $SIG{ALRM}=sub { die "SIGALRM received!" } Not so nice if you want to recover, of course... 3: Check out the expect module. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROT

Re: Is xrdb broken?

2000-03-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
d the .Xdefaults into the server for you, and that you've been relying on that. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ So this judge in Virginia rules that a lesbian wasn't fit to raise her own daughter because she might grow up to be

Re: what is runlevel 6 ?

2000-03-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
ystem reboot. | | Look at /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/ as well as /etc/inttab. Indeed, not just on redhat. It's an old sysvr4 (hmm, r3?) convention. Very widespread. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | That such a simple que

Re: default font size

2000-03-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
p://www.zip.com.au/~cs/answers/x11-cut-paste.txt which should be readily adapted to your desires. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I like to keep an open mind, but not so open my brains fall out. - New York Times Chairman Arthur S

Re: Finding the tty# associated with a ppp process?

2000-03-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
(15), which as it happens is the default signal the kill command sends. This lets the receiving process catch it, tidy up and _then_ exit. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy

Re: Finding the tty# associated with a ppp process?

2000-03-14 Thread Cameron Simpson
trap" | statement at the top of the script. did this actually do anything? Nope. The authors of the scripts were probably just idiots, unless SCO was Really Really Really Weird. The whole point of 9 is to be uncatchable, and thus always usable in times of desperation. -- Cameron Simpson

Re: Permissions Question

2000-03-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:31:29AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ok, brain-fart, I was trying-rnot -R Yah, an annoyance. Most commands want -r for recursion, but that is already in use for the symbolic mode to chmod. Ah well... -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: perl guru help please

2000-03-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
it! These people who never learn their ASCII control char names, I dunno... Go cat /usr/pub/ascii (checks on a redhat system; jeez - it doesn't have it! "man ascii" does the trick, but ugh!) -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I fit in my s

Re: Porting...

2000-03-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
usual issue used to be full regexps in tools which traditionally had the ed-style regexps. If HP-UX is SysVish (I forget its ancestry) you will find the GNU tools more BSD flavour, so things like echo 'blah\c' become echo -n blah and so forth. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#74

Re: Permissions Question

2000-03-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
he more common fnerk etc). So... When SysV adopted this behaviour they used the : as the delimiter, which is robust since it's also the delimiter in the passwd file and thus you can't specify login names containing colons. Other than that greater generality there's no difference.

Re: was OT: StarOffice Rant now .doc formats

2000-03-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/undblspc http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/pageif Tiny scripts, but handy. Now I just pipe msword attachments through vdoc from mutt. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I doubt that people abuse themselves

Re: What's the name of the screen capture prog?

2000-03-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 09:09:02AM +0200, Zoki wrote: | I don't remember even closely what it is caled. I know it's in one of | Xfce's menu's, but having customized them all... xwd does it for me. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com

Re: chown

2000-03-31 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 12:09:08AM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: | On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote: | > After looking at both the redhat archives, and freebsd, I guess I'm | > convinced that chown won't work, by default, for non-root users. Is there | > any way to change that def

Re: Renaming Users?

2000-04-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
s far as the box itself goes /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} basicly suffice. But the change always has wider ramifications :-( Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Once during a poker party, a 8 year old named Douglas was circulating around th

Re: Batch Deletion of Files with Embedded Spaces?

2000-04-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
Try: find /home/httpd/html -name \*nav_blueprnt010\* -exec rm {} ';' Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator.

Re: help on tar archive permissions

2000-04-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
is: ssh -l bhughes compaq2 'umask; env|sort' It may say something enlightening. | 2. what the heck is T anyway? "T" means "t" but that the underlying "x" bit isn't set. This is described in the manual for "ls", like you might expect.

Re: [RedHat-List] Re: Shorten Bash Script

2000-04-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
s that -o, it's perfectly legal or bash is very very very broken. But it would be unwise ... to drop the quotes. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: cp -af or scp ???

2000-04-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:25:32PM -0700, Steve Lee wrote: | does anyone know the commands | that are similar to the: | cp -af that I can invoke | using scp. | need to preserve ownership, permission, | the whole thing. rsync works well and will use ssh as a transport. -- Cameron Simpson

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-04-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
any of them? Those numbers are process ids. You don't want to remove them. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast. - Red Dwarf -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Autodelete 'core'

2000-04-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
have real space problems (we have had with out CAD users) you can run users' environments with the corelimit set low (or zero). -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Thomas) wrote: = Get a life. Even better, keep posti

Re: SSH ? (probably a BASH question)

2000-05-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
hostname1 'cat >>/home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys' Trivial. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless. Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop. - Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary -- To unsubscr

Re: SSH ? (probably a BASH question)

2000-05-03 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 10:03:30AM -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote: | On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 08:09:13PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:40:33AM -0700, Mike Lewis wrote: | > | Trying to setup passwordless login using rsync and ssh. | > | Suppose you have

Re: SSH ? (probably a BASH question)

2000-05-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
e I set Reply-To: on my outgoing email. Maybe the list software only adds one if its missing. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ But then, I'm only 50. Things may well get a bit much for me when I reach the gasping heights of senile decrepitude

Re: Netscape starting position ?

2000-05-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
086+0-0 This is really handy with a page full'o'links. Shift it to the right hand side (ctrl-shift-"->" for my setup :-) and middle-click on the links like mad. Very quick. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The road l

Re: Mirror / ssh ?

2000-05-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 12:05:44AM -0700, Mike Lewis wrote: | Is there a way to utilize ssh (scp) with Mirror ? Or perhaps an alternative | ? Rsync, using ssh for the transport. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Michael Atkinson proved himself

Re: [OT] email style hint

2000-05-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
im-for-content effort on the author's part get read with the D key. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ A motorcycle is like a toothbrush. Everyone should have their own. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: rsync: permission denied, unexpected EOF .. read_timeout

2000-05-30 Thread Cameron Simpson
f rsh altogether and install ssh. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ [...] look at yourself and, while you're at it, drag your eyes over some of your mates who also ride bikes. They are doers, are they not, and what of the rest of the popula

Re: tmp link in tmp

2000-06-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
You'd say: ln -s /path/to/realname /path/to/newname But if /path/to/newname is an already existing directory this will make a symlink _inside_ /path/to/newname called "realname". There are several variants on this kind of accident. Maybe one caused your /tmp link. Cheers, --

Re: No tail

2000-06-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
isappear? If so, it's part of the logfile. If not, tail really is doing something bizarre, and it's time to get out strace: strace tail -f logfile >/dev/null and watch for bogus accesses to font info. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.z

Re: Redirection in Bash

2000-06-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
st all of them) may legitimately complain and abort if writes to stdout fail (because it's closed). Also, programs which open files are given (by the OS) the first free descriptor. If some of 0,1,2 are closed, they will be handed out. Unexpected things can result from this. (From the OS's p

Re: Trimming Space

2000-06-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 07:16:23AM -0600, SoloCDM wrote: | How is it done with sed? sed 's/^ *//' or sed 's/ *$//' or sed 's/ */ /g' depending what you want to achieve. Read the sed and ed manual entries for details. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743

Re: CRON Question - Help Please

2000-06-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
m"). If you issue that same command from the command line, does it fail likewise? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: fvwm2

2000-06-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
http://yyy.fvwm.org/cgi-bin/fvwm-bug Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: NCD Explora Xterm and linux?

2000-06-13 Thread Cameron Simpson
your CPU. Most are (internally) small discless UNIX boxes. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I was driving in downtown Miami, which in itself shows very poor judgement because most Miami motorists graduated with honors from the Moammar Gadhafi Schoo

Re: killing a process in state 'D'

2000-06-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
x27;ve killed such a process (i.e. sent it the signal, not actually had it disappear yet) it's not going to be doing any more harm (or work for that matter), so unless it's stopping you unmounting a filesystem it doesn't really matter that its corpse is still littering your process table

remote tape (was: dd and tape)

2000-06-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
omehow (this is normally off, and for good reason). And tar may not be your preferred backup program. But you get the idea. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the

man lore Re: Mouse-keyboard config: followup

2000-07-16 Thread Cameron Simpson
recent systems don't supply it. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Great apes are ok. It's the mediocre apes and the baboons and especially the lemurs that are trouble. -Henry Troup (alt.folklore.urban) -- To unsubscribe: ma

Re: Installing cable, need to know about where to put the modem.

2000-07-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
he outside world). Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ "What the hell are we supposed to use, man -- harsh language?" "Flame units only." - _Aliens_ -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Sun MicroSystems Workstations.

2000-07-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
ons is that the price skyrockets in the last day or so as the keen bidders enter a frenzy. Something to bear in mind; an auction site is even less indicative of prices than a for-sale site unless you constrain your checks to items already sold. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shell Scripting ?

2000-07-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
c) and string them together with a shell script. Frankly, I often find a well written shell script far more reachable and maintainable than a monolithic perl script. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ ... and I say to them, `Where the hell were you

Re: cdrecord error

2000-08-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
i reboot it works fine. | but its getting old rebooting everytime. Low on swap space? Just a guess. See what top says when it happens and after the reboot when it works. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ The only way to deal with bureaucrats is

Re: Capturing output > doesn't work

2000-08-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
- GNU != UNIX Try to write portable things and you'll be happier in the long run when you try them on someone else's machine. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally

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