Re: [techtalk] .htaccess problem

2001-05-26 Thread terry
Almut Behrens wrote: > > ... not meant to be a RTFM (M = message, here ;), but what's the > error_log saying? It says: /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/.htaccess: AuthName not allowed here I tried moving the .htaccess file into a subdirectory - still get same error on that directory. > > At first si

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:57:21AM -0700 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Kai MacTane thought: > >help here: if you do have a lot of mail traffic, attachments are probably > >a large part of that. Check first, though: do your users NEED attachments > >for anything? If so, you'll need to make some

Re: [techtalk] Delurk/Getting started

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:21:46AM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Ruhiel thought: > > Thank you again for the info :) We actually have bits and pieces for a > linux box, but I think i'd rather run it from this machine. It saves > desk space. :) I did find a handy page: > http://enterpris

Re: [techtalk] Re: rpms r bad? (was Linux-Mandrake)

2001-05-26 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:42:41PM -0400 or thereabouts, coldfire wrote: > > > Two things, for me. One is that when you compile from source, you > > > can set compile-time options, change the default install directory, > > > things like that. With an RPM, all of that gets decided for you. >

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:13:53PM +1200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Penguina thought: > > Why not write a script to put each users' web access cache list > (from the squid cache) up on an intranet web site--viewable by > their line supervisor--you know, the one who approved the account > i

Re: [techtalk] Re: rpms r not-so-good and Linux-Mandrake

2001-05-26 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:04:28PM -0700 or thereabouts, Stacy Brock wrote: > > Methinks there is a significant amount of > > Debian snobbishness floating around, not too unlike > > the Gnome vs. KDE desktop wars. Why a distro has to > > be un-user friendly to be cool is beyond me, and that > > c

Re: [techtalk] Re: Linux-Mandrake

2001-05-26 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:54:22AM -0500 or thereabouts, piglet wrote: > > I notice that no one ever mentions Corel as a newbie distroI'm > surrounded by RH folks, and I work on RH boxen at work, but it's always been > confusing to me. Now that I'm running linux on my normal workbox, I opted

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > Why not write a script to put each users' web access cache list > (from the squid cache) up on an intranet web site--viewable by > their line supervisor--you know, the one who approved the account > in the first place. Liese said in her e-mail she couldn't

Re: [techtalk] Re: rpms r bad?

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 05:31:00PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thought: > I understand some of the problems that can lead to "RPM hell", mainly > because Red Hat has changed the rpm database structure over time. Also, it > is entirely possible to get effectively conf

Re: [techtalk] .htaccess problem

2001-05-26 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:07:47AM -0700, terry wrote: > Almut Behrens wrote: > > ... not meant to be a RTFM (M = message, here ;), but what's the > > error_log saying? > > It says: > /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/.htaccess: AuthName not allowed here hmm, this is strange -- I thought you had "AllowOv

Re: [techtalk] Re: rpms r bad?

2001-05-26 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:24:40AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote: > The thing that gets me with rpm is the way I cannot query an uninstalled > package to see what's there... > isn't installed, do an rpm -ql package-0.1.3.9-i386.rpm and I get back > "pagkage is not installed" I KNOW it'

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Neale Green
- Original Message - From: "James Sutherland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Penguina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Liese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > >

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Neale Green wrote: > From: "James Sutherland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, 26 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > > > > > Why not write a script to put each users' web access cache list > > > (from the squid cache) up on an intranet web site--viewable by > > > their line supervisor

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Neale Green
> > Actually, James, the squid cache is very different from the content of any sessions, it's merely a list of the sites visited. > > The squid CACHE is a great deal more than that; it actually contains a copy of most of what was downloaded. Presumably you're talking about the log files, which lis

Re: [techtalk] yellow dog linux

2001-05-26 Thread JLG
I'm not sure about yellowdog's distro but mac/linux dual boot can definetely be done. I was a total virgin to linux on a mac before i bought my titanium, and I thought osx was a little limiting. Additionally I didn't want to lose the functionality of the dvd player (can't get this to work with

[techtalk] Bad surfing habbits part two

2001-05-26 Thread Liese
Hi, Thanks to everybody for your replies. I've bundled some of the things, but its still long.. sorry for that.. Mark wrote : "Get each user to read, and sign, a computer usage agreement contract. This says that work facilities will only be used for work purposes, and though reasonable allow

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Liese
> > What I do in private cannot reasonably be held as harassment by anyone: by >definition, they aren't involved. If anyone is offended by the contents of >my PC, the only person liable for anything is that person: they are >criminally liable for unauthorised access to my data. I don't agree wit

Re: [techtalk] Re: rpms r bad?

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:45:09PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Telsa Gwynne thought: > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 10:24:40AM +0100 or thereabouts, Conor Daly wrote: > > The thing that gets me with rpm is the way I cannot query an uninstalled > > package to see what's there... > > > isn't

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread anne_forker
Hi Liese, On Fri, 25 May 2001, Liese wrote: [...] > And thats just http. Include email in the picture and it will become > apparent how desperate i really am.. The shit that is send by email is > unbelievable. Porn, jokes, virusses, hoaxes, ... Hm, well, you don't have a limitation regarding th

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread anne_forker
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Penguina wrote: > Why not write a script to put each users' web access cache list > (from the squid cache) up on an intranet web site--viewable by > their line supervisor--you know, the one who approved the account > in the first place. > > Then leave it up to them to figur

Re: [techtalk] Re: rpms r bad?

2001-05-26 Thread Walt
Conor wrote: >I don't know *how* many times I've read through rpm --help without >spotting that! > >Thanks Telsa. Dittos, indeed: that really is a useful tip! Walt -~ The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his

[techtalk] hardening firewalls (was Re: hdparm and DMA "not permitted")

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:22:11AM +1200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Penguina thought: > > > On Wed, 23 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > > Sure thing, glad to help. Now I just gotta go install 2.4 in place of the > > 2.2.16 that's currently running. RH7.1 time? > > > > Conor > > You might

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:51:19PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Liese thought: > > > > What I do in private cannot reasonably be held as harassment by anyone: by > >definition, they aren't involved. If anyone is offended by the contents of > >my PC, the only person liable for anything

Re: [techtalk] .htaccess problem

2001-05-26 Thread terry
Thank you Almut and Elizabeth - You got me to thinking and I discovered that my mistake was one of those really dumb, right under your nose kind of things. I was not restarting the webserver, so the changes to httpd.conf were having no effect. Reminds me of programming - "I've tried A! I've tr

Re: [techtalk] Sick of surf and porn addicts

2001-05-26 Thread Penguina
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Conor Daly wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 03:13:53PM +1200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Penguina thought: > > > > Why not write a script to put each users' web access cache list > > (from the squid cache) up on an intranet web site--viewable by > > their line superv