Re: ipopd-ssl

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:05:32AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021218 03:35]: > > How do you rebuild the SSL certificates? > > I haven't used ipopd-ssl, but here's a few general ideas. > > http://google.com/searchq?openssl+certificate+generation minor correcti

Re: new key bindings?

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:51:33PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote: > Is there a way to map the, say, F1 key to some command like poff > or whatever else? I use enlightenment to change my keyboard functionality in X, and xmodmap to change the kebindings (I use the dvorak keyboard layout). The xmodma

Re: Install with no removable media

s boot media, fix it, and put it back. No fun at all. but there was something particularily satisying about doing a complete fresh installation of a new system without boot media... ;) -ben -- Ben Hartshorne benAThartshorneDOTnet http://ben.hartshorne.net PGP keyserver:pgp.dtype.org

Re: clearing the screen

t you want to do when > logging out. btw, 'clear' is the command you want to put in your logout file... .bash_logout<-- bash .ksh_logout <-- ksh .zsh_logout <-- zsh .logout <-- csh, tcsh but read the shell in question's man page (or e

Re: What to change for eth0 (Direct PC connection)

0.x.x.x directly, out eth0 4) send info for anything not yet covered to 12.0.0.1 which will relay it for me (yes, I'm using 12.x as my local network. No, this is not a good idea.) Have fun... -ben -- Ben Hartshorne benAThartshorneDOTnet http://ben.hartshorne.net PGP keyserver:pgp.dtype.org Please encrypt all communications msg17234/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where to view bootup info ? dmesg ??

at the end of the boot sequence. much nicer. Yay Debian!) You can then scroll back to see what went through the boot sequence (to a point, I don't know what it is...) by holding down Shift and pressing the PgUp key. Don't switch virtual consoles, or you will lose your scrollback bu

Re: bad error

ness card! http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ -ben -- Ben Hartshorne benAThartshorneDOTnet http://ben.hartshorne.net PGP keyserver:pgp.dtype.org Please encrypt all communications msg17035/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What is a 'path'?

eparate lists of varibles it knows about and variables it passes on to subshells? why? Could someone say exactly what the export PATH part does and under what conditions it's necessary? thanks, -ben -- Ben Hartshorne benAThartshorneDOTnet http://ben.hartshorne.net PGP keyserver:pgp.dtype.org Please encrypt all communications msg16999/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bounced Message but still sent to list

) > Mail-bounce looks for a return address in the following places and in > the following order: > > 1) Errors-To header; > 2) Return-Path header; > 3) Reply-To header; > 4) From header; > 5) Last Received: from header, first trying the sender, then the host > name, th

Re: xmms not openinng its windows

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:43:50PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0800, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. > > > > The symptom

Re: your mail

y at work... mmm fast machine...) -ben -- Ben Hartshorne benAThartshorneDOTnet http://ben.hartshorne.net PGP keyserver:pgp.dtype.org Please encrypt all communications msg16872/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: xmms not openinng its windows

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:43:50PM +, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0800, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > > > > Hi there, > > > > I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. > > > > The symptom

Re: xmms not openinng its windows

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:23:33PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Ben Hartshorne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021127 10:38]: > > I've got a strange problem that I'm having trouble tracking down. > > > > The symptom: > > I run xmms (either from the command line

xmms not openinng its windows

1.4.2-1Common files for GNOME core apps ii gnome-bin 1.4.2-8Miscellaneous binaries used by GNOME ii gnome-session 1.4.2-1The GNOME Session Manager Many thanks, -ben -- Ben Hartshorne benATharts

apt-get remove question

;m not subscribed anymore (too high traffic). TIA, -ben -- Ben Hartshorne benAThartshorneDOTnet http://ben.hartshorne.net PGP keyserver:pgp.dtype.org Please encrypt all communications pgpLJAV5Df5G2.pgp Description: PGP signature

compiling .debs for potato on woody

ok? Thanks for any advice, -ben p.s. My primary goal is just to get smtpd compiled. All the .deb stuff is mostly side benefits. My boss, understandably, is hoping I get this bug squashed quickly. p.p.s. The patch in question is on the web as well as the postfix-users mailing list. See www.pos

Re: new to the list - mail help

s (Mail User Agents) include pine, mutt, mail, mh, gnus, evolution, kmail, ... Take your pick. -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliv

Re: ssh without password for secvpn

ting from the woody box to the potato box, you need to run "ssh -1" in order to force it to use protocol v1.5. The other solution is to force both to use protocol v2, but then you need different key files. They're no longer identity, identity.pub, and authorized_keys, but I havn

woody and xhost

prefer to just tunnel everything through ssh, since then I don't need to worry about xhost at all, but the machines I'm connecting to can't run ssh. Don't ask. ::sigh:: -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that hel

Re: Virus warning on this mailing list

ent when I know someone's system may have been infected or comprimised. -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at

Re: Hiding init 1 safely

an entire system from local media and using the machine for an untraced attack. That's about as far as it went. Physical access is a losing battle, but you can make it annoyingly difficult. -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts

Re: Newbie comments & queries

> > and pstree gives a list of running processes, ordered by > which process is the parent of which other processes. > $ pstree > ps -f also prints processes in a tree of sorts (try ps af to get them all) But the trees don't quite seem to line up. Anybody know why? -ben

two+ kernel compilation questions

ch against the local root exploit mentioned on slashdot on october 19 (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/19/141229&mode=thread)? How would I find out? Where should I get the patch? What is the debian way to apply such a patch (patch < my_patch.diff?)? Thanks, -ben -- Ben Hartshor

Re: qmail -- supervise: fatal: unable to obtain lock

my resolution: apt-get --purge --force-yes remove qmail* ucspi-tcp* dot-forward fast-forward apt-get install postfix vi /etc/postfix/main.cf postfix reload -ben On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 09:20:29AM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am experiencing a problem mentioned man

test message, ignore me

this is a test, an earlier message I sent to debian-user has not appeared on the list, even though my logs say it was delivered successfully. Please delete and ignore this message. Thanks! -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that

qmail -- supervise: fatal: unable to obtain lock

-xr-x qmail-send -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send drwxr-xr-x qmail-smtpd -> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smptpd drwxr-xr-t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/ -rwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run drwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/ -rwxr-xr-x /var/qmail/supervise/qmail/sen

OT: Re: How to disable the `single' parameter when booting?

rive) and another machine to put them in for analysis Is it really possible to deny root in the first two cases? I'm nearly positive it's not possible in the second two, but I've never come across a really secure box. -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we

Re: JPEG or GIF background in fvwm?

if you want this one for reference, it's at http://ben.hartshorne.net/random_space.txt -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PG

Re: Where do I start looking for one hand typing?

s'. I recommend actually running 'loadkeys us' first, so that it's in your history and you can run it again by using the up arrow and your history, instead of blindly hunting for each letter. Frustrating. -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL

Re: Oops, forgot...

n > > standard incorrectly. > > It's not a standard, yet. > Strictly, I guess you're right. But then, MIME itself isn't a standard yet either. Nor are most of the "standards" we deal with on the 'net every day, it seems. My reference page was http://www.

Working with standards (was Re: Oops, forgot...)

i-M$ sentiment has led to a number of comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux, would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness is rarely very friendly. Of course, I'm pretty sure I moan and groan louder than most every time I encounter M$, so should probabl

postfix delivery options

for several months. This has only recently become a problem because I only recently switched to debian. When I was in redhat, this was not a problem, although I don't know exactly what was set how so that it didn't break things. Please ask for more information, and I would be happy wi

Re: Oops, forgot...

ht produce a compliant client. -ben p.s. This message is not signed so that Royce may read it without fear of opening an attachment. -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in

Re: another question

he screen before it gets reset, then you can use the PgUp button to scroll back. Warning! Do not switch virtual consoles! It will destroy the ability to scroll. -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben

Re: Forwarding X apps

n it's ok to use xhost, when it's ok to use telnet, so long as you know who else is on your network and what they might be doing. > > There are few absolutes, this is one of them. xhost is an obsolete, > insecure, spoofable, authentication protocol. which you shouldn&#

Re: Man

it often turns up the man page as one of the first few hits. Try, for example, "man chown" in either the normal google search (www.google.com) or the linux specific search (www.google.com/linux) (note no trailing slash). -ben -- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [

Re: short reference for Unix commands

vi regexp substitute commands, format it pretty easily for HTML too. :) -ben p.s. to get rid of the commands your system doesn't know anything about, throw a "| grep -v "nothing appropriate" in there before the less. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Email all users

eel embarassed by posting a much more beautiful script. At the very least, replace those sed lines with awk or something. It should be much easier to say "grab the first and third field split by :'s" than that ugly regexps above. :) -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

fonts in X and everybuddy

rticular package? In general, xfonts-scalable something useful? (yeah, I know you don't know what I do with my machine -- general laptop. write papers in emacs, surf the web in netscape, read mail in an xterm, ... normal stuff.) Thanks for any help, -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: emacs related

r) mode, so I leave that hook out of the 'C-mode-hook. -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the im

Re: mutt related

EMAIL PROTECTED] I type 'a' and it prompts me to enter a nickname: 'bie'. From then on, when I type 'bie' in the To: field, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' is substituted. -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Need help recovering system

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Re: strange '\' characters

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 06:53:14PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > * Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-09-28 18:43 +0200: > > A couple of days ago, a very strange thing started happening. Every > > now and then (I have tried, but really see no pattern), when I type a

dvorak / qwerty and netscape

e 22 = BackSpace So where should I go next? Thanks in advance, -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alo

strange '\' characters

another question sometime soon) I would love to give a more complete bug report (contents of interesting files, etc.) but I don't even know which ones might be of use. Any suggestions? -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Hartshorne ...Disc

Re: About a laptop

plicit command to sleep, either to disk or ram. I much prefer this behavior. -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver

Re: restarting a daemon

these settings. The commands you can give init.d scripts are start, stop, reload, and restart. (sometimes there are others.) To be absolutely positive that you've reloaded your changes, stop and then start the daemon instead of just issuing a reload. -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: deadlock

d sharing of resources. (Refer to your local operating systems book for more detail.) -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, [EMAIL PROTECTED] All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben

Re: Setting up a bunch of boxen at a small school.

alternatives are available. -ben On to his description of what you need: - Forwarded message from Shane Liebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:05:27 -0700 From: Shane Liebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ben Hartshorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Fwd: