Heya --
Quoth Phil:
> This is one of those little annoying things that have been bugging me
> lately. Using Mandrake 7.2 I find that ftp takes at least 15 to 20
> seconds after connect to get the prompt going into the box. Does
> anyone have any idea as to why and where I may make changes?
Heya --
Quoth Harry:
> I highly recommend using OpenBSD as your firewall... it has never
> had a remote root exploit, was build and auditied with security in
> mind, doesn't take much to run on and ipf (the firewall utility)
> allows for stateful firewalling which should be really important to
Heya --
> I want something which clearly states that I know it's not
> necessarily something they *want* to learn. Like I don't want
> motor-mechanics-for-the-novice because I'm not intending to be
> a motor mechanic.
[tongue-in-cheek] Perhaps "for the Unwilling Beginner"?
>> so maybe s
Heya --
Quoth Michelle:
> I'm trying to solve a mystery, and at the same time, figure out good
> metrics to determine our server speed, network speed, capacity, etc.
Hoo boy. Good idea, but these are three separate issues, so
you're going to have to troubleshoot and benchmark each one sepa
Heya --
Lots of networking questions today!
Quoth Davida:
> I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem:
> When my phone service carrier was Pacific Bell I could connect to my
> ISP at speeds between 46k & 50k. However, when I changed my carrier
> to Cox Communications the
Heya --
Lots of networking questions today!
Quoth Davida:
> I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this problem:
> When my phone service carrier was Pacific Bell I could connect to my
> ISP at speeds between 46k & 50k. However, when I changed my carrier
> to Cox Communications the
Heya --
>> "So what sort of presentation software are you using?"
>> "Ummm, vi."
>> "Oh. Is there a conversion program for that? I can't read
>> these files in NT. Maybe you should use Windows."
>> -- a recent conversation with our new technical management
>
> Heh. Ignorance, hmm?
Yu
Heya --
Quoth prettyphysicslady:
> First to the person who thought that it was foolish to have security
> set at medium on a linux box. rtfm. That is where security should
> be set for a client machine on line. High and paranoid are only for
> servers and render the box useless for everythin
Heya --
Quoth Coldfire:
> i was just curious what the window manager of choice is on this
> list :) .. i'm a die hard windowmaker fan...
I'm a big fan of KDE. It's all about kpanel. [grin] The rest of
the utilites are nice, but that panel just makes for the easiest
navigation.
Cheers,
R
Heya --
> I'm not disputing the negativity concerning RPMS,
> as I've had my annoyances with them, occassionally.
> (Mostly when I first started working with RedHat.)
> However, I would like to understand some of the
> criticism they get. What is it that makes compiling
> from source better than
Heya --
> I was wondering if this is an attempt at break in or just a scan?
> This person has run this on two separate occasions. Looks like they
> are trying to do something to an NT server. Doesn't do them much
good
> on a Linux box;)
>
> oz:/var/log# grep /scripts/ httpd/*
> httpd/access_l
Heya --
Quoth Walt:
> Thank you, I had wondered about the compiling vs. RPMS thing for some
> time and it seems that a lot (/. as well as people on here) of folks
> prefer apt- get to rpm so I figured there must be reasons.
Fixing your dependency problems is really the reason to love
apt-ge
Heya --
Quoth Jason:
> Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could tell me (or point me to a
> site) about the main configuration files for setting up my
> NIC's/firewall etc. I know that there's netconf and linuxconf, but
> I'd like to have more control over what they are really doing:
> setting up
Heya --
Quoth Brian:
> I'm getting the following in my logs for a few different machines:
>
> sshd[8683]: channel 3: rcvd big packet 2908, maxpack 2048
> sshd[8683]: channel 3: rcvd big packet 2940, maxpack 2048
Ssh only accepts packets that are 2048 bytes or smaller in size
(maxpack 2048)
Heya --
> I've found mandrake-update works incredibly well, and is almost
> always up. It too, makes things very, very simple.
I haven't used it myself, but have also heard many pleased
murmurings about it from friends.
> You know, I have to chuckle at the folks who are calling Mandrake a
Heya --
> Some debianite will have to correct me, but as I understand, debian
> has a package managing tool (dpkg). apt-get is basically a front-end
> with all that cool functionality...
Yep, that's right. Using raw dpkg is just ugly. If you get
really technical, apt is the front end, an
Heya --
Quoth Brian:
> The other day whilst I was on vacation, another sys admin noticed
> that check-packages on a machine had been altered, and on that day a
> login via telnet from an unknown ip was detected. This made him
> worry, so I checked it out today, and found this in the logs:
>
> r
Heya --
It could be easy, or not.
After you make any config changes to exim, you have to killall
-HUP exim to have it reread exim.conf. So if you forgot to do this
after setting up exim, that could be your problem.
> The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was
> r
Heya --
Quoth wildgrass:
> I have a simple question on technical training. How much is your
> company's technical training budget for each person per year?
> Mine is US$1500 per person, per year. Most courses cost more than
> that. Which means I rely a lot on self-teaching.
In my experience
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