Re: Bootlog daemon hanging machine?

2003-12-18 Thread Bob McElrath
Miquel van Smoorenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Bob McElrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >After upgrading a few packages (that pulled in an unstable init and > >sysvinit scripts) my machine hangs on bootup right after the line:

Bootlog daemon hanging machine?

2003-12-18 Thread Bob McElrath
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Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Bob McElrath
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bob McElrath said: > > Darn, I was hoping (aren't we all) for a way to reject it before the > > whole thing is sent. You know...it wouldn't be hard to scan the input > > for the EXE header and close the connection as

Re: how to | to /dev/null?

2003-09-25 Thread Bob McElrath
uot;>" option. It's time to start sending the > 400 some odd #!$@ swen messages/day I'm getting straight to /dev/null, I > don't even want to see them in my SPAM folder anymore. Just pipe to any command which ignores its input such as /bin/false. Cheers, Bob M

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Bob McElrath
Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Bob McElrath said: > > Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I guess that's as effective for reducing the bulk of your inbox as > >> sending > >> "550 executables not accepted", especially if

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Bob McElrath
pient if you found a virus in it. The 'sender' and 'reciever' in > the From: and To: headers are almost definatly forged. Agreed. Cheers, Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics] "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who m

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Bob McElrath
ooded! > Its very disturbing. I'd love to get my hands on the person responsible for > this! I hit 150MB this morning before setting up some rules to drop these mails in /dev/null. Are they targetting mailing lists exclusively? Why are other people not getting bombed? Cheers, Bob

Re: zope?

2003-09-19 Thread Bob McElrath
p_ SetHandler fastcgi-script ScriptAlias /misc_ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/Zope/misc_ SetHandler fastcgi-script I say it doesn't work perfectly yet because not everything in Zope realizes that the base URL is http://mcelrath.org/Notes/ and not http://mcelrat

Re: rsyncing via cron

2003-09-17 Thread Bob McElrath
let me know and I'll write it again. If ssh-agent is running, and you have the proper keys in the proper places, you simply need to set the SSH_AGENT_PID and SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variables. Make sure to use the [EMAIL PROTECTED]: syntax because the cron job may be running

Re: Evolving Debian from Red Hat

2003-09-12 Thread Bob McElrath
Due to rpm dependencies though, this is a horrible nightmare. Cheers, Bob McElrath [Univ. of California at Davis, Department of Physics] "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge g

finding upstream

2003-08-14 Thread Bob McElrath
heers, Bob McElrath [Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics] "Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the me