Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-11 Thread Peter Zoeller
Hi Steve: I agree that shell scripts are simplistic and not meant for fancy programs although it could be done, just not productive. But the nice thing is shell scripting is simplistic easy to learn and understand. Sure beats the days when I wrote code in Assembler, Cobol, Fortran, PL1, RPG,

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-11 Thread Peter Zoeller
Hi: I might be able to help here as well. I have some teaching notes somewhere when I taught system security at my college. Peter On 09/10/14 05:03 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2014 21:59:12 Charlie wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:54:48 +0200 lee sent: I still have a very good

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread Peter Zoeller
wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:16:23PM -0400, James Ensor wrote: Please reply to the list and not directly to me. On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:39 AM, PETER ZOELLER wrote: Hi: I'm sorry but I shouldn't have to remove systemd but be given a choice as to which one I want at the time

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread PETER ZOELLER
site for this system. On Friday, October 10, 2014 12:16 PM, James Ensor wrote: Please reply to the list and not directly to me. On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:39 AM, PETER ZOELLER wrote: > Hi: > > I'm sorry but I shouldn't have to remove systemd but be given a choice as

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread PETER ZOELLER
This is really ticking me off. We are becoming just like Microsoft that one size fits all. Linux has always been about choice and modularity and reconfigurability where a user or admin can choose that what suits him/her and the type of system they want. You want sysvinit you use Debian or Sla

Software Version Issue

2014-10-06 Thread PETER ZOELLER
Hi: I have been using Debian for sometime and am happy with the distribution. However I recently experienced a problem with the Gimp supplied by Debian and contacted the Gimp organization with the issue I was having. I subsequently discovered through this contact that the version of Gimp s

Software version issue

2014-10-06 Thread PETER ZOELLER
Hi: I have been using Debian for sometime and am happy with the distribution. However I recently experienced a problem with the Gimp supplied by Debian and contacted the Gimp organization with the issue I was having. I subsequently discovered through this contact that the version of Gimp s