Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-12 Thread Eva Fenrich
Hi! On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:05:09PM +0100, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > As a practical suggestion for the future, there is a way to have a > java client sitting on a machine which gives you a terminal prompt. > You can set it up, then browse from another machine, point the > browser at the java client

Re: [techtalk] OT: This takes the cake

2001-04-12 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 11:48:02AM -0400 or thereabouts, Kath wrote: > Out of boredom, I take a little ride, going past my school. Guess > what I see? They are putting new windows in the area where the T1 > line enters our school building. They UNHOOKED the T1 line and left > it dangling from

[techtalk] Re: Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-12 Thread Tom E. Turner
Tami, Maybe www.austinfree.net can help you? Austin Free-Net Logo signifying a public transit station, along with Welcome! How-To..? AFN Projects Community Resources Search Calendar of Events

Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-12 Thread David Merrill
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:45:00PM -0500, Julie wrote: > From: David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > FYI, at least here in the States, `fag' isn't considered good usage > > even in gay circles. Some folks use `queer' because they are happy to > > identify as being outside the mainstream and/or a b

[techtalk] Thanks for FTP help

2001-04-12 Thread Keith Barringer
My second time trying this, sometimes yahoo doesn't like my mail lists or the mail lists do not like yahoo. :) Thank you all for the help with the FTP server. I went with proftpd and after a strange quirk with KDE, it is up and running locally. I did have trouble after putting it into the DMZ,

Re: [techtalk] Redhat Linux 7 Crashes

2001-04-12 Thread Melissa Plunkett
Lothan wrote: > > I'm at my wits end trying to figure out a bizarre problem with Redhat 7 and > hope someone can offer some guidance. I originally installed Redhat 7 from > scratch (reformatting the entire drive with pure Linux partitions) and it > ran for about three months pretty much continuo

[techtalk] Hard drive fatality (was OT: This takes the cake)

2001-04-12 Thread jenn
Telsa Gwynne wrote: > I > presume the heads jumped and then did the dive into the disk that > produces the nasty score marks on dead disks that crop up on pictures > on the net. > > This is a weird question, I know, but if anyone has experience of > seeing/hearing this happen -- what happens? Ca

[techtalk] Seeming inconsistency between /etc/passwd and "real" password data

2001-04-12 Thread Seageraves Caren
I have noticed something strange on my system. I no longer have an enty in the file /etc/passwd for my usual login. I am able to log out and log back in using this login name. So,it seems as though the data in the passwd file is present somewhere, but it is not visible in the passwd file.

Re: [techtalk] Seeming inconsistency between /etc/passwd and "real" password data

2001-04-12 Thread Melissa Plunkett
I'm not positive of what you are saying but I think you are saying that you had an entry in your passwd file and now you do not (and you are sure it was there at some point). You would most likely still be getting the info from the /etc/shadow file. Linux uses a shadow password system. What t

Re: [techtalk] why debian essay..

2001-04-12 Thread Akkana
Curious writes: > Whee.. I wrote an essay on why I use debian... > feel free to email comments about my first draft: > http://www.curious.org/whydebian.html Good essay, and a lot of the points are well taken. (I use mostly Redhat because that's what we support at work and I don't have time to pla

Re: Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-12 Thread Tami Friedman
>Actually isn't putty an ssh client? If so, she could have avoided the whole >mess by truthfully answering that she was not running telnet. Also, if she >ran it from the floppy, then she wasn't installing anything on the machine. Putty can do ssh but the machine I telnet into uses kerberos or

Re: [techtalk] Seeming inconsistency between /etc/passwd and "real" password data

2001-04-12 Thread James A . Sutherland
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 15:56:31 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >I have noticed something strange on my system. > >I no longer have an enty in the file /etc/passwd for >my usual login. I am able to log out and log back in >using this login name. So,it seems as though the data >in the passwd file is pre