[techtalk] Re: [issues] Standards?? PHOOEY!!!

2000-06-30 Thread Julie
ft is the standards authority for Windows > protocols (OLE, ActiveX controls). Methinks she is referring to people with guns and clubs who have the authority to make you use certain programs and protocols. And no, Bill Gates hasn't bought the US Army yet. Next week, maybe. But so far he hasn't. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] RE: mass useradd

2000-07-06 Thread Julie
e pretty neat stuff when you batch changes), but it does give you access to all the user and group configuration options. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] Hi and Intro

2000-07-07 Thread Julie
I guess I wasn't sure about the protocol of this list. Having seen a number of "Hi!"'s, I suppose I should do an intro ... My name is Julie Haugh. Some of my work that you may be familiar with includes the Shadow Password Suite, which is distributed with many Linux d

Re: [techtalk] Hi and Intro

2000-07-07 Thread Julie
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hey Julie, > Welcome to list list, and thanks for useradd! No probs! I'll have to see if I can dig up xuseradd and the rest of the Motif things I wrote zillions of years ago. -- Julie. ___ techtalk ma

Re: [techtalk] /dev/null settings

2000-08-26 Thread Julie
-- 1 root sys1, 3 Jul 17 1994 null No. /dev/null must be read-write for everyone. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] converting DBM files

2000-08-28 Thread Julie
ng a package "dbmtools" in the UNIX source archives from ftp.uu.net. I suspect it will have something to do what you are looking for. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-26 Thread Julie
s a kernel limit. > Are there any other recommended tools to search through such large list of > files? find . -type f -print | xargs grep /dev/null -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-27 Thread Julie
From: Lotta Loytonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 06:59:49AM -0500, Julie wrote: > > You're exceeding the longest argument list which can be passed > > to a command via the exec() call. This is NCARGS_MAX. > > > > > What is the file argu

Re: [techtalk] Limits of grep?

2000-09-27 Thread Julie
grep command line and this forces the output to always include the filename. Some of us really =are= that old ;-) -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Gnome question

2000-10-15 Thread Julie
you enter su - as root (then you can su to ANY user). This may or may not buy you anything, depending on whether or not you're using something like Kerberos and a secure distributed filesystem. If not, crypto filesystems are another solution. -- Julie.

Re: [techtalk] Testing (Was: Re: Technical issues)

2000-11-22 Thread Julie
se I write novels. Dittos on the code I write. One friend, upon first reading some software I'd written remarked that it read like a story. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Multiple passwd lists ?

2000-12-01 Thread Julie
e shadow-related files to create DBM files. Other than performance there is no technical reason why you couldn't have 10,000 entries in your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Smoking kills!

2000-12-12 Thread Julie
man who was the systems administrator there used to put keyboards in the dishwasher (honest!) to clean out all of the coffee, sugar and cigarette ashes and whatnot. Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn't. For the heaviest of the coffee drinkers and cigarette smokers it usually didn't

Re: [techtalk] default umask

2000-12-28 Thread Julie
of other users. But then you have the problem of "sue" creating files which are sharable, so perhaps it then makes sense (if users have to be able to share ...) for all of the users to be in additional shared groups. Then they can change the group ID of files they wish to share wit

Re: [techtalk] FTP server

2001-03-31 Thread Julie
like wuftp is that they have vulnerabilities because they are being used and maintained. For my $0.02 I'd rather go with something like wuftp that is being maintained and poked and prodded than with something I've never heard of (and I'd never heard of oftpd before just now ...) -

Re: [techtalk] More XP vs UML

2001-04-03 Thread Julie
ss without little more than changing a very small number of routines. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Any good HTML editors for Linux?

2001-04-03 Thread Julie
vi to fool you into believing it's vi. Then it does something completely weird and my brain overloads. -- Julie (proud vi user for 4 presidential administrations). ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Any good HTML editors for Linux?

2001-04-04 Thread Julie
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Julie wrote (in reverse order): > > > (proud vi user for 4 presidential administrations) > > I've only been using it for about six years. I really have to admit I came > to UNIX late in my career, and Linux even later. I originally

Re: [techtalk] Almost arrested for using telnet

2001-04-11 Thread Julie
"fag", probably for exactly the same reason some femme lesbians are fond of "dyke" (which has historically been a butch-only thing). On the other paw, I recently ran into a number of "faggot-identified dykes", which was interesting.

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

2001-04-16 Thread Julie
sswords the author of the Linux Shadow Password Suite is a subscriber to this list ... -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Julie
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Telsa Gwynne wrote: > > > >> Has anyone here actually tried using something like CVS to track /etc?? > > > > I'm sure I was talking to someone who kept a lot of their configuration > > files in CVS. I shall track them down and find out what exactly it was. > > Dancer an

Re: [techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system...(was: [techtalk] New here)

2001-04-29 Thread Julie
From: Eric R. Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Julie wrote: > > I used to use SCCS (to the point that when IBM legal asked me to > > prove I own Shadow I offered to bring in the SCCS files going back > > to 1987) all the time. How does CVS compare to

Re: [techtalk] Re: techtalk digest, Vol 1 #447 - 11 msgs

2001-05-12 Thread Julie
er login, and "lilo" provides enough information that you could have found out about passwords with a very small number of trips to the man pages. > Who are these back doors built in for? Clearly not the users or there would > be documentation. I resent that. -- Julie. ___

Re: [techtalk] Internet Connection Sharing

2001-05-17 Thread Julie
7;m connected?!? The machine I was supposed to be getting in to run all this stuff isn't going to be ready until next week, so this machine needs to stay running Windows until then. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Internet Connection Sharing

2001-05-17 Thread Julie
From: Mark Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > www.zonelabs.com > > They do one of the better free ones. Thanks. Because the free one I just tried kept my machine from booting ;-( -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-18 Thread Julie
ve it boot to /dev/hda1 (I think that's right) andfor Linux it boots to /dev/hdb3. No hay problema. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] newbie

2001-05-18 Thread Julie
t wasn't the first machine I installed it on, my 486/50 was. Monday I'll try installing it on a dual P3/933. I'm sure I'll then be pestering everyone for advice ... -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Julie
ifference, except that large file moves > will be slower. Not to be the mistress of understatement, but I found a big difference between double-digit nets (16Mb token ring) and triple digit nets (220Mb glass). If possible, as in, Conor is wiring

[techtalk] New E-mail addy

2001-05-20 Thread Julie
Greets, For those of you who care, my new e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please update your address book. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Yet Another Installation Question

2001-05-20 Thread Julie
From: Conor Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:38:20PM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Julie thought: > > Not to be the mistress of understatement, but I found a big > > difference between double-digit nets (16Mb token ring) and > >

[techtalk] SMP kernels and ISO images ...

2001-05-23 Thread Julie
hing a bit more modern. My question is, where do I find ISO images of bootable Linux install CDs and are there different images for SMP boxen? -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] SMP kernels and ISO images ...

2001-05-23 Thread Julie
mmm. Something we don't know about you?!? -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] SMP kernels and ISO images ...

2001-05-24 Thread Julie
ently has a bad disk, so they should be putting a new drive in it. When it comes home and has been re-Julie-ified I'll install Linux on a big chunk of disk. Then I get to pester y'all about VMWare ;-) -- Julie. ___ techtalk maili

[techtalk] samba help

2001-05-31 Thread Julie
"Incorrect password". I can't find any documentation in the manpages on an "IPC$" resource. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] samba help

2001-05-31 Thread Julie
er = samba_user1 > samba_user2 samba_userx" I found that it's apparently not using the /etc/samba/smbusers file. I had an entry "jfh = julie". My Win98 machine was sending "julie" to my Linux box and Samba insisted that "julie" didn't exist. I finall

Re: [techtalk] samba help

2001-05-31 Thread Julie
From: Paul Hardacre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At 16:15 31/05/2001, Julie wrote: > > >From: Paul Hardacre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > One thing to check with Windows connecting to samba is that it uses the > > > username from the Client for Microsoft Network

Re: [techtalk] samba help

2001-05-31 Thread Julie
From: Paul Hardacre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Apologies if you've checked this.. But, I did notice in my smb.conf that the > ># Unix users can map to different SMB User names >; username map = /etc/samba/smbusers Thanks!

Re: [techtalk] Nt server with linux clients

2001-06-04 Thread Julie
u have to do a bit of dinking to get it set up correctly ... -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] (no subject)

2001-06-04 Thread Julie
om by autoboot.bat.But > none of it & other alternatives are wor Setting the subject line often helps ... If your computer supports CD-ROM boot, set whatever options are needed for it to boot from CD, then reboot. Assuming you have real bootable CD-ROMs it should boot into the installer.

Re: [techtalk] cable modem?

2001-06-10 Thread Julie
ains because someone is going to be trying to hack your machine in about 5 minutes ;-( -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] I am a lucky man!

2001-06-12 Thread Julie
Brian Sweeney wrote: > > Hey all- > > I realize this is COMPLETELY off topic for techtalk, but I'm throwing in a > couple places anyway; I guess this is my internet equivalent of "shouting it > from the hills". > > Which is to say... > > I'M ENGAGED Congratulations! > Which brings me to

Re: [techtalk] groupadd/useradd difficulties

2001-06-14 Thread Julie
very simple programs, but now that i'm > getting weird errors, i'm beginning to wonder. has anyone had any similar > trouble, or have any insights into how i might fix this? any help at all > would be much appreciated! I dunno how =you= quantify "simple", but I cons

[techtalk] DVD player?

2001-06-17 Thread Julie
Greets, I'm trying to get a DVD player running under Linux. I've looked at XINE and VIDEO4LINUX's "xawtv" and related programs. Nothing works!!! I'm running Redhat 7.1 with the 2.4.2smp kernel and an ATI All-In-Wonder card. XINE can't seem to read a DVD and xawtv doesn't know what to do with

Re: [techtalk] DVD player?

2001-06-18 Thread Julie
Mandi wrote: > > The guys at my LUG really like videolan > > they're at videolan.org. they have an nice screen shot > of princess mononoke running in gnome... ;) Thanks! I'm watching "The Matrix" as I type this ... -- Julie (as should be obvious from t

Re: [techtalk] password policy?

2001-06-19 Thread Julie
hecked into that. I always just did it as accounts got > created. I never had to do a mass conversion. Julie is on this list, and > she wrote the thing, so maybe she could answer the question better, but I > don't think chage accepts wildcards at all. A bash script for this > sho

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread Julie
. So how does one read raw data directly from the mouse? Curious minds, and all that. -- Julie. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-22 Thread Julie
that the problem is on the other side of the mouse/computer interface ... -- Julie (US Patent #5,963,195) -- 11:36pm up 1 day, 2:10, 3 users, load average: 1.51, 1.45, 1.37 ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] dead mouse

2001-06-23 Thread Julie
Daniel Manrique wrote: > > > > > No idea about USB mice, though - or how you get the input from mouse > > wheels. Anyone? > > they're on /dev/input/mice. Reading raw input works just as usual using > cat. > > Judging from the way you configure them in X, the wheel works just like an > extra pai

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

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

[techtalk] a really dumb "make" question

1999-11-15 Thread Julie Meloni
Ok, I've wracked my brain and now I'm just tired. I have compilers out the wazoo, BUT why does "make" (anything) return command not found? Issuing individual gcc commands on *.c files works. (slack 4.0) I can't possibly be this much of a dork...

[techtalk] Linux on a ThinkPad, and thx for help earlier

1999-11-29 Thread Julie Meloni
ely because I like the "Get Slack" bumper stickers. I'm a sucker for advertising. Anyway, yay Linux! :) - Julie /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Julie Melonii2i Interactive (east) Technical Director 703-813-5526 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [techtalk] need database recomendations

2000-01-04 Thread Julie Meloni
m/crash-me-choose.htmy (the "y" in ".htmly" is not a typo) - Julie /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Julie Melonii2i Interactive (east) Technical Director 703-813-5526 [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.i2ii.com /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\

[techtalk] Thanks to LinuxChix, a book was born!

2000-04-12 Thread Julie Meloni
ane User is reading the annotated manual at php.net and finds a bug in the description or a something obscure and system specific...and adds their two cents instantaneously and for the betterment of us all. You can do that, too. Try it, it's fun! - Julie +

installing MySQL (was: Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic)

2000-06-05 Thread Julie Meloni
ist) and I'll help you out. I've got a new book coming out in like 6 wks, that includes MySQL on a CD, so I've got a chapter already written that I can condense for you. - Julie ps I can't think of a better place to be lost and frustrated in than San Francisco. Plent

Re: [techtalk] Web programming and nomic

2000-06-05 Thread Julie Meloni
Sharon Souter wrote: > > (and no...she is not paying me to say this. > LOL!!!) > shoot, I should start! :) - julie +----+ | Julie Meloni | | Tech. Director, i2i Interactive (www.i2ii.com) | | e-

Re: [techtalk] friendly html/php editor on linux?

2000-06-06 Thread Julie Meloni
er stuff) and other > ease-of-use features. But my development platform is php/apache/mysql. > Does anyone know of a similar type editor for linux? There's a list at http://www.itworks.demon.co.uk/phpeditors.htm I can't vouch for any of 'em, because I just use Emacs. - juli

Re: [techtalk] know of a linux-friendly isp in la?

2000-06-07 Thread Julie Meloni
l utilities on the two boxes, but Earthlink's login sequence is nice and standardized, so it works like a charm. Hope that helps - julie +----+ | Julie Meloni | | Tech. Director, i2i

Re: [techtalk] friendly html/php editor on linux?

2000-06-07 Thread Julie Meloni
> Do you (or anyone else reading this) by chance know of an elisp package > that provides some kind of PHP mode? Another from my "can't vouch for it, but it's there" list... http://www.funq.org/turadg/software/ - julie +------

Re: [techtalk] log file settings on Apache/Linux

2000-06-13 Thread Julie Meloni
Try this: LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined CustomLog /path/logs/access_log combined HTH, Julie +----+ | Julie Meloni | | Te

Re: [techtalk] dialup problems RH 6.1, Corel, Caldera

2000-06-19 Thread Julie Meloni
and error. Most of the times I've had that error, I just had to specify "noauth" as a pppd flag. Yesterday, actually, on my Corel test install (gotta try 'em all!). It did the trick. ++ | Julie Meloni

Re: [techtalk] Servlets vs. PHP

2000-07-24 Thread Julie Meloni
uage to start with, the learning curve for PHP is a heck of a lot faster to get around than the learning curve for Java. I don't have any issues with either language; in fact, they're the only gonna-build-me-a-dynamic-web-site-what-should-I-use languages that I _don't_ have any sever

Re: [techtalk] Java

2001-05-17 Thread Julie Meloni
out... Check the manual. It's really simple. And a heck of a lot faster than Java, even if it is on Windows. - julie ++ | Julie Meloni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | |

Re: [techtalk] Java

2001-05-17 Thread Julie Meloni
looks like on the inside, just how to use it and what to expect back. execute it, then use mssql_result() or mssql_fetch_*() accordingly to do fun things with what you get back. Or, if you don't get anything back, then you're fine - just execute it. -- +--

Re: [techtalk] SSL certificates

2001-05-25 Thread Julie Meloni
hat may be relevant? Also, a nice little snippet of the ssl error log would also be helpful. This IS solvable, don't worry. :) - Julie +----+ | Julie Meloni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | || | "PHP Essential

Re: [techtalk] SSL certificates

2001-05-25 Thread Julie Meloni
om source. So, moving past that, let's look at your httpd.conf. What do you have inside any blocks? ++ | Julie Meloni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | || | "PHP Essentials&quo