Re: Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-07 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:15:46AM +1000 or thereabouts, Mary Gardiner wrote: > > A tailor made solution for this kind of thing is the 'screen' utility. screen has to be one of the most underrated apps there is. So many people don't know about it. I prefer it over kterm's tabbed terminal windows

Re: [techtalk] Slack 8 & Realplayer 8 problem

2001-07-07 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 02:57:10PM -0400 or thereabouts, Jennifer Davis wrote: > I've been on this list for a week or so now and I haven't written anything > yet (sorry!). :) > I just purged my Slackware 7.0 and replaced it with Slackware 8.0. It has > been my easiest install ever of Slackware

Re: [techtalk] File sharing over the internet

2001-07-07 Thread Conor Daly
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 10:35:39AM +1000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thought: > kath wrote: > > > I was thinking CVS... but not keeping changes local is important (so noone > > is holding out on something important on accident). > > > > Would CVS be able to do this? I al

[techtalk] SELinux

2001-07-07 Thread Marcia Barrett Nice
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ Has anyone on this list looked into this? I'm slowly but surely working my way through the documentation (you know, in my free time at work usually) and I wondered what people whose opinions I (tend to) trust about this sort of thing think of it. Besides, it looked l

[techtalk] ipchains, iptables and 2.4.6

2001-07-07 Thread kath
Compiling a new kernel, finally... just worried about one thing...   I'm doing this on a remote machine (very stupid, I know) and there is an existing ipchains firewall.  Now will compiling and installing this kernel knock out the ipchains stuff, possibly rendering the server unreachable?  

Re: [techtalk] File sharing over the internet

2001-07-07 Thread Michelle Murrain
At 6:40 PM -0400 7/6/01, kath wrote: >I'm currently working on a large project (web based email). Well >its large for me, anyway. > >I'm working on it with another user (she is in two locations, on one >same machine, was at home and now at university). > >I am on 2 computers: Laptop I bring to

Re: [techtalk] File sharing over the internet

2001-07-07 Thread kath
> Is there an rsync client for Windoze? rsync is, I think the best bet > to synchronize files securely (you can use ssh) between unix boxen, > so I'd look for an rsync client, maybe. (If it doesn't exist, this > sounds like a cool project.) lol, I was just talking to my friend about this. I was

[techtalk] Security mailing lists

2001-07-07 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hey folks, The mention of SELinux reminded me - anyone have recommendations for a good, low-medium traffic e-mail list that focuses on security issues? *NIX focused, or general is fine. Thanks! Michelle -- Michelle Murrain [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Screen is your friend (was Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality)

2001-07-07 Thread Andrew Wendt
On July 7, 2001 04:47, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > screen has to be one of the most underrated apps there is. So many > people don't know about it. I prefer it over kterm's tabbed terminal > windows and powershell (gnome-terminal-based similar idea) because > it is all keyboard-driven and you don't nee

Re: [techtalk] SELinux

2001-07-07 Thread Julie
Marcia Barrett Nice wrote: > > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ > > Has anyone on this list looked into this? I'm slowly but surely working > my way through the documentation (you know, in my free time at work > usually) and I wondered what people whose opinions I (tend to) trust > about this sort o

Re: [techtalk] SELinux

2001-07-07 Thread Julie
Michael Carson wrote: > > Julie wrote: > > >Marcia Barrett Nice wrote: > > > >>http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ > >> > >>Has anyone on this list looked into this? I'm slowly but surely working > >>my way through the documentation (you know, in my free time at work > >>usually) and I wondered what pe

Re: [techtalk] SELinux

2001-07-07 Thread Julie
Michael Carson wrote: > > Julie wrote: > > >It wouldn't constitute a secure system on account of I have a > >small child living in the house and he knows how to boot from > >CD-ROM =and= use most of the tools in my toolbox ;-) > > >Oh dear. How wonderful and terrifying at the same time. :)

[techtalk] Icon Editor

2001-07-07 Thread Bek Oberin
ANybody know of a decent Icon Editor for Linux/X? I want to make some of those favicon.ico that IE likes to use when people bookmark my pages. bekj -- : Usual state: (e) None of the above. : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Life would be so much easier if we could

Re: [techtalk] SELinux

2001-07-07 Thread Caitlyn M. Martin
On Saturday 07 July 2001 08:26 am, Marcia Barrett Nice wrote: > http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ > > Has anyone on this list looked into this? Yes, in detail. I wrote the white paper for another federal Agency on this, recommending that they continue to monitor the progress of the project but tha

Re: [techtalk] File sharing over the internet

2001-07-07 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 09:38:15PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Conor Daly wrote: > > As a matter of interest, how does CVS cope when: > > 1. I checkout source and start editing. > > 2. You checkout the same source and start editing. > > 3. You finish editing and checkin your version. > > 4.

Re: [techtalk] Security mailing lists

2001-07-07 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 11:19:55AM -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote: > The mention of SELinux reminded me - anyone have recommendations for > a good, low-medium traffic e-mail list that focuses on security > issues? *NIX focused, or general is fine. Go to http://www.securityfocus.org and have a l

Re: [techtalk] Mutt functionality

2001-07-07 Thread Claudine
On Thursday, 05 July 2001, David Merrill wrote to techtalk, > > > 3. Can we cut and paste text within and between > > > emails with Mutt? > > You use your regular text editor, so you can do anything you would do > within it. Cutting & pasting between two emails is not made really > easy by mut