Re: turning off exim on port 25

2001-05-24 Thread Jim Breton
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:33:40PM -0700, Eric N. Valor wrote: > > That pretty much turns off exim altogether. Actually the script in /etc/init.d/ will start exim in stand-alone mode if you disable the listener in inetd.conf. So you will still have it listening on 25/tcp. > While effective for

Re: pump: "no extra parameters are expected"

2001-01-21 Thread Jim Breton
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 06:32:47AM +, Jim Breton wrote: > In /var/log/daemon.log I see the following: > > cardmgr[163]: + /sbin/pump -i eth0 > /dev/null > cardmgr[163]: + pump: no extra parameters are expected > cardmgr[163]: start cmd exited with status 1 Well... I fou

Re: pump: "no extra parameters are expected"

2001-01-20 Thread Jim Breton
Please ignore, I was unaware of the debian-laptop list until just now; will re-post there. Thanks.

pump: "no extra parameters are expected"

2001-01-20 Thread Jim Breton
I've got potato 2.2r2 running on a Quantex laptop. Whenever I insert my ethernet card (Linksys PCMPC100), the drivers for it load successfully but pump fails to configure it. In /var/log/daemon.log I see the following: cardmgr[163]: + /sbin/pump -i eth0 > /dev/null cardmgr[163]: + pump: no extr

using "-nolisten tcp" with X

2000-11-03 Thread Jim Breton
I have been aliasing startx to "startx -nolisten tcp" in my local users' .bash_profiles in order to prevent X from listening on port 6000 on startup. However, display managers (at least gdm anyway) don't care about these aliases, and furthermore I would like to make this option the system-wide def

all .deb md5sums

2000-09-18 Thread Jim Breton
Is there someplace on debian.org from which I can get a file or files containing the md5sums of all the packages? Not the packages' contents, but the packages themselves. I have some ISOs I got from another site (linuxiso.org) and I would like to confirm the sums of all the packages before I use

Re: Editing and storing encrypted files

2000-09-06 Thread Jim Breton
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:22:44PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > I have some files that I would like to store encrypted. Of course I can See also PPDD: http://linux01.gwdg.de/~alatham/ppdd.html

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-13 Thread Jim Breton
I would if they weren't all in the same dir Plus lots of other useful things like chmod. OTOH, anyone who did manage to hack an account with a restricted shell wouldn't have any business running chmod, so I suppose you could get away with just taking /bin out of his path. But then I imagine

Re: chroot()ing a user's login

1999-12-13 Thread Jim Breton
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, William T Wilson wrote: > Giving a user a chrooted home won't be an easy task. You need to have a > fully functional system under there - that means the shell, libc, and all > that jazz. Are you sure you can't do what you want to do with a > restricted shell? I primarily wa