[arch-general] simple iptabels question

2010-07-22 Thread aerospace1028
Hello, I have a question on iptables. On the arch wiki, the tutorial on a simple stateful firewall includes the creation of the following rule. # iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --syn -m state --state NEW -j OPEN-TCP Which, to my understanding, meant only pass new TCP streams with the syn flag (the

Re: [arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration

2010-07-09 Thread aerospace1028
Thank you to all who have replied. When i had read the man page I missed the part about bash sourcing ~/.bash_profile first for log-in shells only, I took it to be universal. some other responses interspersed below. >Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:12:06 -0500 >From: C Anthony Risinger >Subject: Re:

[arch-general] gnome-terminal configuration

2010-07-08 Thread aerospace1028
greetings, I noticed the other day that some of the settings I configured in my ~/.bash_profile aren't implimented when using the gnome-termianl. For the most-part, it's not too big a deal; some of it just aliases system admin stuff that I do from the text consoles (tty1-6) anyhow. Just for c

Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate speedup

2010-06-30 Thread aerospace1028
>Message: 9 >Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:48:37 +0200 >From: Philipp ?berbacher >Subject: Re: [arch-general] Bashification of initscripts for moderate >speedup >To: arch-general >Message-ID: <1277916464-sup-8...@eris> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > >Excerpts from Aaron Griffin's message

[arch-general] help unravelling dmesg

2010-06-30 Thread aerospace1028
I was wondering if someone might be able to explain this to me. I was reading the output from dmesg, and found the following entry. CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or sysctl net.netfilte

[arch-general] help with synce?

2010-06-12 Thread aerospace1028
Greetings, I recently migrated to archlinux and over-all find it quite good. I have had much success using the wiki to get my system set up and configured to my liking. So far, I only have one issue I can't resolve. I am trying to get SynCE working on my system so I can transfer material bet