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|2000/2/22-23 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17587 Activity:moderate
2/22 Is it possible for Soda to create a web mail interface similar to http://mail.yahoo.com to access emails on soda? \_ No. Soda is a computer and has not yet achieved sentience. Use POP or IMAP or forward your mail to luser@@yahoo.com. \_ Soda still allows POP and IMAP? I thought that the whole point of turning off telnet/ftp/etc was to prevent some twinks from sending their passwords in clear text over the net. So, what's the point of turning off telnet and ftp if POP and IMAP are still running? \_ There is no point, only trolls. \_ You may email your request to the entity known as "Soda". \_ I was looking at something called 'mailman' a while ago. It'd require nothing more than a few cgi scripts and a cron job that copies your mail into a directory off your public_html/. They started charging for mail man, though, and I haven't had time for it since. Mail me if interested. -John \_ there are at least a dozen different mail->web gateways listed on http://freshmeat.net \_The OCF got acmemail up and running in a few hours -jones \_http://secure.OCF.Berkeley.EDU/cgi-bin/acme/acmemail.cgi
|2000/2/15 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17514 Activity:kinda low
2/14 Wierd ps output on soda: $ /bin/ps auwxx | grep xxxx xxxx yyyyy 0.0 0.2 864 540 Rd ww 4:30PM 0:00.31 -bash (bash) xxxx zzzzz 0.0 0.2 864 540 Rd ww 31Dec69 0:00.00 -bash (bash) xxxx aaaaa 0.0 0.2 864 540 Rd ww 16Aug95 0:00.00 -bash (bash) Whats's the deal with the date's? \_ Y2K BUG!!!! EEEEEK!
|2000/2/14-15 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17513 Activity:nil
2/14 Where on the web is a good place to learn sed and awk? I don't want to buy another OReilly book. Thanks. \_ If someone's put the EECS Instructional Guide to UNIX up on the web somewhere, that would be a good place. \_ <DEAD>www-inst.eecs/usr/pub//html/Users.Guide<DEAD>
|2000/2/14 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17503 Activity:very high
2/13 Tweakers suck. --sky \_ Define "tweaker", please. Your 3reet vocab is too much for me. \_ Tweaking occurs after one has been up for 5-14 days or so without sleep on meth. You start habitually picking your skin (hi seano!), taking shit apart and putting it back together, fine tuning your registry settings, whatever. Tweakers is the general name given to meth addicts. -sky \_ a person who habitually abuses methamphetamines \_ People who respond to motd trolls. Like me. --tweaker \_ I already said, "Tweaker: see 'sky'". Why repeat? \_ Tweaker: see 'sky' \_ My best friend from high school has a kitten named Tweaker \_ My best friend from HS has a kitten named Sky \_ I want to fuck sky's girlfriend. I'm not kidding, here! \_ I want to fuck sky. I'm not kidding, here! \_ Do the same http GET that sky did. He's never met that \_ Do the same http GET that sky did. He's never met that guy in his life. You, too, can have the guy of your girl in his life. You, too, can have the girl of your dreams thanks to the wonders of the WWW! "Save As" and put a link to it on your homepage the same as sky did. life, or get a girl of your own. Player hating \_ your lame attempts at slander do not phase me. you are coo to. Your knowledge of the inner workings of the 31337++ HTTP protocol impress us all. Get a on his girlfriend? Fake too? life, or get a guy of your own. Player hating will get you nowhere in life. -sky \_ You think that was the inner workings of http? That's like saying I know how the telecommunication system works globally because I know how to use the you use HTTPd to get a girl to call you and act like a TV remote control. You're plain stupid. \_ What about the story that he supposedly got into a fight outside a nightclub in Korea because someone was hitting on him? Fake too? \_ Can you spell gullible? \_ Yeah, and the scars that occured are just cheap halloween makeup --sky \_ Dude, like you are so kewel!! \_ Use photoshop to add your self to the pic so that people won't know that you did a http GET. \_ Yeah, and the phone calls were faked too. Sky, how do you use HTTPd to get a guy to call you and act like a jealous bitch? -mlee \_ That's a real big plus. Where can I get my own psycho jealous gf if I can't use netscape without some el8 help?
|2000/2/13-15 [Computer/SW/Unix, Finance/Investment] UID:17501 Activity:high
2/13 Brokerage gave me several times more money than I deposited. While I'm telling them about it, what can the brokerage do if I neglect to tell them (not checking account status for a year for example, and not realizing it.) \_ try it and see \_ Use it to buy some hot stocks and pocket the earnings. \_ even if you didn't tell them about it, someone out there would be missing that money that they tried to put into their account so this mistake wouldn't go unnoticed for too long \_ Generally what has happened in the past is they figure it out and pull the money from your account. If the money is gone, you owe them the money and they will pursue you for it. They have the law on their side on this one. I suggest leaving it there for now unless it was so much money it would be worth cashing out and fleeing the country. \_ I wonder what they'll do if the money is invested in a hot stock, it goes up a decent amount. Will they take out only what was put in? Or will \_ Cool!! Which brokerage was it? \_ Call 60 Minutes re: your situation they take any gains which were achieved by using that money? \_ Just the money put in minus the interest, not the value you increased it by. This is an interesting hypothetical but I wouldn't do it. \_ My account had $4000 too much in it once. I left it in there and about two weeks later they fixed the error and sent me a letter explaining that they were withdrawing money and why. --dim \_ A similar thing happened to me. I didnt realize it until 3 months later, since I never check my statements (as long as its close, i dont care). I still have the money. Closed the account with them 6 years after. I purchased a used Lexus with it about 8 years ago while still in college. \_ Man, I feel for you. Fuck off. \_ You should not tell them about it, just let them discover it themselves. The last time I told payroll about double income deposited, they deducted twice the amount. Till this day I could not recover my 401k portion - lost in some bureaucratic maze. \_ That's what the ping of death is for! Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?Are we there yet? emacs user was here \_ not this again... cat user was here sed user was here yermom was here angband user was here
|2000/2/10-11 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17478 Activity:low
2/9 What exactly is HTTP Keep-Alive Connection? \_ HTTP1.0 made a TCP connection for every http file received. HTTP1.1 can use a keep-alive extension to the protocol to use the same TCP connection to grab more than one file. How do you tell a browser to extend it's normal request timeout, like when e-commerce servers process a credit card transaction? I am going to invoke something in my Java servlet that takes forever. \_ Wrong. 1.0 has keep-alive in the spec; 1.1 formalized it \_ Wrong. Keep-alive was NOT in the 1.0 spec, it was added on by netscape & picked up by others before 1.1 was finalized.
|2000/2/9-10 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17474 Activity:nil
2/9 Is there a free NFS client out there for WinNT or Win2k? \_ It's probably easier to just serve the NFS drives with samba as well. --dbushong
|2000/2/7-8 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17447 Activity:high
2/7 POP-3 Question: I want to run a popd at home (such as qpopper) so that my parents can check thier mail without having to login to the mail server at home. From what I can tell from the RFC's POP seems to be an insecure protocol, in that it sends passwords as plain-text. Is it possible to run a secure POP server, or can I at least have the POP passwds in a file other than /etc/passwd (like .htaccess)? \_ Use APOP or ssh port forwarding. Using APOP would be probably less hassle for non-*nix users. You still need to send a clear text password, however, it is not the same as a user's unix password. If a user is using *nix, fetchmail + ssh port forwarding is the way to go. -akop \_ the APOP password is not clear-text; it's MD5 encoded I believe. -tom \_ Couldn't get APOP to work correctly in the released version of qpopper. Besides it looked like APOP didn't work with Netscape. \_ APOP does not work with Netscape. But it does work fine with qpopper. -tom \_ "My parents use *nix!" \_ My mom has been a Unix user/hacker since the PDP-11 was a new machine. Its not a user issue, I'm just trying to minimize logins to the mail server (also the firewall/nat box). \_ Then maybe you should be asking yermom for advice. \_ I would ask my mom (not yermom) for advice, but she is currently out of the country. \_ Then she doesn't need her email right now, does she? I don't release any GPL'd code until my mom has QA'd, debugged, and approved the release. \_ http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Secure-POP+SSH.html also, fetchmail can do APOP (but not netscape mail) \_ Go for IMAP+SSL - then they can use netscrape or MS LookOut! \_ Which server should I try? From just looking at the homepages for Cyrus (CMU) and Imapd (WU) I couldn't tell if either supported SSL. \_ Use either with the SSL wrapper from the ssl toolkit.
|2000/2/7-8 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17446 Activity:high
2/7 Campus unix-sysadmin position open: /csua/pub/jobs/DECF contact jones for info \_ Bwahahahaha! Bwahahaha. --dbushong \_ Mwuhahahahaha! Mwuhahahahaha. -dans \_ What is so funny about this? -not-devin \_ I don't know the Prof, but this is a good campus student job. Not at all a bad place to get for wannabe sysadmins. \_ one word. d_A_vin. \_ Who is Davin, and why is he evil? \_ he's devin's evil twin \_ less of an evil twin, and more of an evil overlord
|2000/2/5-6 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17430 Activity:low
2/4 In C, how do I tell how much memory/CPU time used/stats/etc another process is using? Do I have to be a root process? \_ In unix it's OS dependent but usually found somewhere under the /proc filesystem. \_ /proc is for pansies \_ First off, the C language doesn't facilitate such things. What you want to know is machine-dependant. \_ On UNIX, install top; on NT, use Ctrl-Shift-Esc; on Win95/98, go get the "kernel powertoys" at the ms site. \_ BTW, where is Ctrl-Shift-ESC on NT documented? I use the key sequence everyday, but I don't even remember where I found it from. \_ It's in the MS docs such as they are. I've seen it.
|2000/2/2-3 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17409 Activity:nil
2/2 telnet <DEAD>bbs.splorg.org<DEAD> !!!
|2000/1/28-29 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17358 Activity:kinda low
1/27 Looking for a unix command-line util that will allow me to pass it a key and an arbitrary string and will give back the DES-CBC encrypted version of that string. (and it's gotta be able to run on either Digital Unix 4.0D or Solaris 7.) Any ideas? -icrew \_ there's bdes.. not sure if there's a port for dec/solaris \_ compile openssl suite (ex ssleay). It does everything and more. See http://www.openssl.org for info.
|2000/1/27-28 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17353 Activity:moderate
1/27 What's the current market like for Java developers and UNIX sys admin? I can do both, but I need to chose ONE when I graduate -junior \_ always varible it is with this one, happiness choose \_ Why do you need to choose? Apply for both types of positions. Take the one that you like the best. \_ duh. it's a fucking troll you idiot. \_ a troll is someone posting just for attention, right? \_ Ask everyone you know about what their life is like as a Java developer and as a UNIX sys admin. The closer their real-life job is/was to what you're going to get, the better. Ask them what they think you should do. Obviously you're not going to get great help on the motd.
|2000/1/27 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:17343 Activity:low
1/26 Can somebody with a copy of DeCSS -- the DVD cracking program put up a copy on soda? Or a pointer to it? Thanks. \_ Trying to get soda confiscated as evidence? No thanks. \_ http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~seidl has a copy on it. \_ thank you so much matt! \_ Criminals. I can't believe anyone in the CSUA or alums would promote this sort of theft. It's no different than all the wAReZ!1 kids stealing on the net swapping software they never purchased. \_ I'll just call this a troll now. Note that CSS does NOTHING to prevent bootlegging of DVDs since you can just do a bit by bit copy. \_ http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33922,00.html Just grab a copy of the source code and build your own decoder.
|2000/1/24-25 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17312 Activity:high
1/25 Hi I am relatively new to Unix and I am running Red Hat 6.1 I would like to be able for others to ftp to my machine and don't know how to get started. Is there an ftp server program out there? \_ Install wu-ftpd package which is part of distribution, then make sure that ftp entry in /etc/inetd.conf is not commented out. Also install anonftp package if you want to run anonymous ftp server and don't want/know how to set it up by hand. \_ Think about installing ncftpd, since wu-ftpd has a few known security holes in it (ncftpd is free if you're on .edu). -John \_ If you are running a reasonably up-to-date version of wu-ftpd (eg. the one in distribution + patches if any) there shouldn't be any security concerns. \_ wuftpd's recent history of security holes should say say something about its general tendencies. Who knows how many are still not discovered? \_ Triple ditto what the above said about wu-ftpd's security history. You could have said the same thing 3+ years ago and still been wrong. I'd never run wu-ftpd. There's no reason to. It's like the "microsoft" of ftpd's. Please slap self with box of noodles and post your wu-ftpd box's IP address. \_ As a frequent Apache admin, I like proftpd. It hasn't had a terribly bad history, security-wise, and the configuration looks a lot like httpd.conf. \_ Two things to keep in mind: 1) if this is anonymous ftp and you are behind a real domain name, and you have a public upload area, you will get used for warez whether you like it or not, and 100% of your upstream pipe will _disappear_ 2) if it isn't anonymous ftp (i.e. you're letting users log in), then you should reallly have them set up s/key like on soda so they aren't typing cleartext login passwords over the public internet, and getting you hacked in short order (particularly if they're coming in from "dirty" net, like a university) \_ if it's anonymous FTP, you should be using HTTP instead. if it's non-anonymous FTP, you should be using SCP. -tom \_ You have any idea how hard it is to get a partner corp to use ssh of any sort for anything? Getting them to figure out ftp is hard enough. And no, don't tell me I need new partner corps. I don't need to RIDE BIKE. \_ You need new partner corps. You need to RIDE BIKE. \_ Thanks for the tip.
|2000/1/24-25 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17307 Activity:high
1/22 I have a script in csh. In it, I have "source ~/bin/setclass.csh 118". However, it seems that I can't pass the argument 118 to setclass.csh, in a csh script. Why is that? \_ You can't pass in command-line arguments using the source command \_ source is _sort of_ like #include.. it's like "include this stuff and run it in the same context as where i'm currently working" What you can do is just set a csh/environment variable, then unset it in the sourced file: set arg=118 source ~/bin/setclass.csh (and at the end of setclass.csh, you have:) unset arg=118 \_ How dare you put a useful reply on the motd! \_ Mistakes were made. Villages bombed.
|2000/1/24 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17306 Activity:nil
1/23 Are there any Unix programs that can resize the dimensions of a gif or jpeg through the command line?
|2000/1/17-20 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17259 Activity:nil
1/17 Sr Unix Sysadmin job available at Active Software. See /csua/pub/jobs/Activesoftware for details. -smurf
|2000/1/14-17 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17242 Activity:nil
1/14 So how long was soda's uptime during that last run? \_ 26 Aug 99 - 14 Jan 00. RIP. <sniff>
|2000/1/11-13 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17215 Activity:high
1/10 I'm a non-tech major but would like to be a sys admin. Are there local classes (e.g. @CSU, Santa Clara, etc) that I can take to perform basic, entry-level sys admin tasks? \_ never took any but found it better to learn by doing; install linux or fbsd or nt or solaris on a home pc and play. \_ You'll be unhappy if you're doing this just for the money. \_ This is such a bullshit response. You'll be just as unhappy working some scut job for $30K. working as a sys admin may bore you, but twice the cash will make the rest of your life that much better \_ Ask Tom. \_ Isn't this true of many a worker-bee? \_ Yup. Frankly, the "you'll be unhappy working only for money" thing is a bit hackneyed. How happy are you going to be at 70 with no cash and a pile of medical bills? Maybe the illegal they have at the home will roll you over once a week if you're nice to her and haven't shit on your- self too much. \_ You can be a BOFH, but I'm sure they don't teach that in any sysadmin "class". \_ Nice in theory. In the RW you get fired. Why you'd want this in the first place is a mystery. \_ I'd like to have a BOFH more than I'd like to have the nimrod in IS who thought that my problem could be solved by upgrading to the latest version of Eudora for my (Solaris!) desktop. I'd get just as much help from the BOFH, but I'd be more entertained. \_ Why would you want either? It's like trying to choose between getting run over by a red or a blue SUV. \_ In my world, there are no BOFHs, nimrods, or SUVs (red, blue, or otherwise); everyone rides bike, uses Linux, and does their own admin (unless you're part of the 3l33t overclass; then the admins are h0t ch1x!!1! who also happen to have more UNIX clue than any currently living human. I, of course, lead the overclass). \_ Enjoyed your nap? Now back to work, slave! \_ http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cert/unix.html \_ Well, that depends, you can oftentimes make little (or even not-so-little) projects for yourself to liven up the daily routine. Other than that I don't think there's any way that sysadminning can't be boring. \_ I get paid to surf. But I get paid a lot more than the other people at work with jobs even more boring and tedious. -sysadmin \_ sure. tom will teach you how to properly swap a backup tape. \_ AND INITIAL THE TAPE LOGS, DAMN IT! \_ UC Santa Cruz Extension offers a bunch of evening programs for this sort of thing. \_ Gotta retrain all those secretaries from the typing pool to install win95. \_ I would suggest learning the UNIX basics from a friend, then take the UNIX Sys Admin Architecture and other more advanced classes later.
|2000/1/8 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17192 Activity:moderate
1/7 On a linux box, what would this command do...? tar -c /dev/hda0 \_ It will backup that disk. though sending it to standard output is kind of stupid \_ Most unix tars dump to the default tape device if no output is specified, gnu tar included.
|2000/1/7 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17186 Activity:high
1/6 Ring noise purged. Summary: don't be a cheap bastard, you won't miss the few $k in 20 years but she'll miss not having a nice rock. Don't kid yourselves about taking a vacation instead. The ring is forever. \_ until the dumb broad loses it. \_ Uh... ya. One, you insured the ring, right? Two, that's \_ Is a replacement really the same? \_ It is if you feel it is. Is a lost ring and tears forever better than a replacement? I'll take the replacement. your wife. If the troll married a dummy, he deserves what he gets. Also, sometimes shit just happens when you're wearing a 4 figure rock on a finger. \_ funny, I still have MY ring. - male \_ So uhm your point is what? Or is this just some out of context factoid for the round file? \_ Aspo trolling for anti-aspo comment purged. Nice try, though.
|2000/1/7-8 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17181 Activity:nil
1/6 I'm presently a General Sys. Admin. who has just begun doing a lot more Unix stuff (which i enjoy a lot). My boss has offered me the junior DBA position (+ some unix admin stuff on the side) with the advantage of being able to get out of the telcom area (which i stupidly got myself mixed up in). Unfortunately I don't have a firm grasp on what a DBA even DOES, let alone if i would like it. Any Advice? -email@example.com \_ DBA's are thos guys that quit their jobs after a week after realizing how amazingly boring it is. There's a reason why you get paid a lot and it's not because of your wonderful skills. It's about the most boring job in the world and I would suggest you look somewhere else. \_ they get paid A LOT. What is your point? $ = motivation. \_ If you can stand the boredom and the responsibility, go for it. As the junior guy, they'll teach you the basics, so don't worry about that. They understand you know nothing. The hard part is that if you break the DB, everyone will know it instantly and the whole company could be fucked even if you've been doing backups. \_ true. even shorter summary: If you can live being as anal about change control as the NSA is about security, its a good thing. Otherwise, move on when you get the chance.
|2000/1/6-7 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17179 Activity:high
1/6 tar -cX directory.tar exclude_file /directory doesn't seem to work on my Sun Solaris 7 box. (Though that is the way the man page seems to say to write it). tar -cvX exclude_file directory.tar /directory lists the right files to be tared + tries to include directory.tar in the tar. Someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong. This has taken me far too long to figure out one friggin' command. \_ You're forgetting the "f" flag: tar -cfX directory.tar exclude_file /directory \_ Thanks. I'm an idiot. \_ And you're a moron for not removing your entry. \_ Which of course makes you twice the moron for not removing it either. \_ I hope you never breed.
|2000/1/5-7 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17163 Activity:low
1.5 I read that there's an OBDC driver for Perl called win32::obdc . However, I have vague knowledge on the subject after doing a little research on it. My impression is that it's exclusively used for the windows operating system; however, the FAQ on it alo comes off as implying that it's available for Unix/Linux systems as well. I know that OBDC has an interface to Oracle and a few other databases; my work's database seems to be stored on a FreeBSD Unix system (I could be wrong). Anyway, my boss was talking about attempting to use Java for it's OBDC interface because it's supposdly pretty fast. This leads me to further believe that the OBDC system works for Unix/Linux. Yet according to the FAQ on the win32::obdc module, the OBDC drivers seem only to exist for the windows operating system. Either way, I'm really confused regarding the issue. - keithyw \_ All the win32:: stuff is windows only. Unix perl modules have been written that can talk everything except ODBC. There's freetds which is currently at version 0.50 which can maybe do some simple queries but I haven't used it and the authors say the odbc parts are little more than a skeleton of features. You need a windows side client for real odbc, or the unix side can almost certainly talk in your unix database's "natural" language be it Oracle, Sybase, or whatever. Others may have better answers. I've already scoured the net for my own unix/odbc needs and freetds was the best I found. Hopefully someone else knows better. -reiffin \_ Not sure if this answers your q's, but... It does not matter which OS your DB resides in (WinNT, Unix, OS/390, etc.), if the if there is an ODBC driver for your DB, you can talk to it. Most drivers that conform to the ODBC API exist for Windows, but there are ODBC drivers for Unix for Oracle and DB/2 (and probably others). \_ Free and mostly functional odbc drivers for unix? URL?? Please! \_ they exist. they are not free. no url handy. \_ Cheap is ok too. Got a name so I can find it myself? Even a "sounds like XYZ" will do.
|2000/1/2-5 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17148 Activity:nil
01/02 tcsh 6.09 (plus histcycle patch) installed as ntcsh; bugs to mconst.
|1999/12/28-30 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17113 Activity:high
12/28 Url for restriced shell for linux? \_ Yes. \_ Yes what? \_ No. \_ "Yes" as in "Yes, there is a URL for restricted shells. "No" they aren't for "linux". -tired of linux = unix \_ I find it hard to believe this code won't port to linux. How 'bout FreeBSD \_ You're not getting it. Nevermind. \_ That was too subtle for you? You are dense. \_ You're still not getting it.... \_ bash -r ? \_doesn't seem to work on the linux box (nor does bsh -r)
|1999/12/28-29 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17111 Activity:nil
12/28 I want to serve Java applets off a web site. I also want to compile and run a daemon that listens to a TCP port for special clients. What's a good ISP that can provide web space and also let me telnet in and do these things? Thanks. (Is dragging in a DSL line and having the actual web server here a reasonable idea?) \_ You probably won't find an ISP that'll let you have your own TCP port on their server. So yes, dragging in DSL is reasonable.
|1999/12/21-24 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17081 Activity:nil
12/21 'man' works, man -k (apropos) doesn't ("/usr/share/man/windex: No such file or directory"). What do i need to do? \_ unsetenv MANPATH \_ use catman -w \_ Read the man page for man of course
|1999/12/18 [Computer/SW/WWW/Browsers, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17065 Activity:nil
12/17 http://www.fox.com is now netscape for unix compliant(tm)
|1999/12/8-9 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:17027 Activity:moderate
12/7 Hi what is the Unix command line utility or is there such an utility that can invoke a command process on a remote machine (Lets say a NT system) \_ you were doing fine until you mentioned NT... \_ I know it's almost impossible but it's probable. \_ It isn't anything even close to impossible. It just matters what you're trying to actually do and how important security is and a few other things. Keep reading. This is all covered below. Why reply until you've read what others have to say? \_ you can invoke remote processes on other unix machines with rsh or ssh. If you want to invoke processes on NT with something command-line-ish, install a telnet daemon on the NT machine and activate the commands through an expect script. Or see if you can find unix-like rsh commands for NT. -ERic \_ MKS makes unix tools for NT. http://www.mks.com \_ Or you can run perl and have it listen on a socket and then... oh it makes me shudder. I've considered this but never actually done due to the annoyance, security issues, etc. \_ Exceed comes with a telnet server. It works on 95, probably for NT, also. It gives you a dos prompt, and will even launch a GUI on the remote machine (but you won't be able to interact with the GUI, unless there's a trick). \_ It's no better than a million other NT telnet servers. It's just telnet, people. It isn't hard. It *is* insecure. \_ Exceed telnetd is a ridiculously broken hack. For one thing, it can't even do terminal control properly, so occasionally ends up disallowing more than 25 lines of input in one telnet session. -pissed off \_ Slnet from seatle labs is ok but still not perfect. Much better than the exceed crap. \_ BO.
|1999/11/30 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16970 Activity:moderate
11/30 how do program a matrix? (use a sparse matrix) ie: i want to track and keep track of a person as to where they are in solving something (like following an specified path)- where they are at in a path, the path can have many entry points to the main road (or trunk of a tree). any ideas? thanks \_ Learn English and pick on an assignment your own size. -- ilyas \_ Well, this is such an unclear question, I can't even begin to answer it (I could guess what you mean, but why?). Try asking the question using more words in a newsgroup. \_ Unfortunately, no one can be told what the matrix is, they must see it for themself... \_ Batman. \_ I did that once and all that happened was they made this weird movie that bugged mothers because it had trench coats in it. Dunno.
|1999/11/28-12/1 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16961 Activity:high
11/27 Question of the day: Does anyone know what will happen if I do: tar cvf - big_file | tar xvf - Will file get corrupt? This is solaris tar btw. \_ Uh. Gee. You could test it. \_ use linux. ride bike. problem solved. \_ U53 W1ND0Z3 MAN. W1N98 15 50 KRAD. 1T CAN RUN 3V3RYTH1N6 THAT L1NUX CANT MAN. SO USE W1ND0Z3 CUZ 1T5 C00L \_ Yes. \_ I've heard you can screw up and tar over stuff in that way and it will be fine as long as you let the tar finish without interrupting it. -ax \_ you heard wrong \_ I just tried it and didn't have a problem on Solaris 5.7 -ax \_ Did you try with a big enough file? Just wondering. -- yuen \_ What's "big enough"? It's nondeterministic. \_ The file I used was 1.2 megs -ax \_ Why would you want to?
|1999/11/27-12/1 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16959 Activity:nil
11/27 SAS gurus - what the SAS-UNIX command to increase the total memory allocated to SAS while it processes a job? Am without access to my local SAS guru this weekend. -fab \_ use linux. ride bike. problem solved. \_ U53 W1ND0Z3 MAN. W1N98 15 50 KRAD. 1T CAN RUN 3V3RYTH1N6 THAT L1NUX CANT MAN. SO USE W1ND0Z3 CUZ 1T5 C00L
|1999/11/24-26 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16949 Activity:high
11/23 How do I count the number of times a single character occurs in a text file? \_ tr -dc '*' <sky | wc -c # count the stars in the sky \_ Much appreciated. \_ very poetic. i like it. _/ \_ so a girl must have written it. yet at the same time, only a guy would try to pack different unix shell functionality onto a single line. so who's the author? \_ an effeminate sodan (and how rare are those?) \_ Males aren't creative? Females can't use unix? You're an idiot. It happens to be an old line. \_ Therefore, it had to be written by a guy, since there are no (ancient) female unix programmers. :-) \_ Uh yeah... Even if so (it's not), being old means even someone new could know it. So it *must* be a hermaphrodite. Uh yeah. That's it. :-) \_ I meant "written by", in the sense of 'FIRST written by' \_ Oh. In that case it isn't funny. It was funny the other way. \_ while ((c=getchar()) != EOF) { if c=yourchar ... \_ perl -e '..... \_ Can't ED do this quite easily?
|1999/11/23-26 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16942 Activity:high
11/23 In linux, how do you prevent non-wheel users from su'ing to root. This seems to be default in most unixes. \_ If you want the fascist BSD behavior, hack the GNU 'su' source; GNU 'su' from sh-utils doesn't support 'wheel' because RMS doesn't believe in group 'wheel'. (Read the documentation if you don't believe me...) Or, install the shadow password suite from ftp://ftp.ists.pwr.wroc.pl/pub/linux/shadow/, which may be more your style. -brg \_ RMS is a freak. The spread of the internet worm in the late 80s was partly a result of his idiotic rms:rms account:pw bullshit. \_ Geeze.. install a real unix, not a "unix-like" OS. If you want unix power, install it. Don't try to pervert your toy into it. Or you could do what all the fanatics are talking about: you have the source; rewrite it. That's the point of Linux, isn't it? \_ http://www.openbsd.org says .. The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. So *BSD is not real unix either. ^^^^^^^^^ We all should get a copy of sysvr4 to run real unix :p \_ That's only a legalism. openbsd is the real thing. Linux is a wannabe. \_ What defines something a real UNIX and something not a real UNIX? \_ OpenBSD has to say that because legally, only an OS certified by The Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org can be called UNIX(tm). \_ But OpenBSD, like all BSD's, actually have a real ancestral roots in ATT Unix. Even though they now are now unencumbered from ATT source (gogo USL lawsuit) the heritage is there. Notice that you can buy a personal Unix license which lets you get a copy of all the Unix source including earlier BSD's from McKusick. \_ Many real UNIX'es don't restrict who can su root - it's a BSDism that SysV didn't pick up. The real answer - don't give them the root password and they can't su. \_ Fuck SysV. I always hated SysV. SysV is lamer unix. \_ "chgrp wheel /bin/su;chmod 4750 /bin/su"? \_ Hey, an answer to the question, amazing. As for the guy who said "don't giv them the password," Remind me not to put you in charge of security on my network. Brute force works awfully well on these new uber-fast computers. \_ If you think su blocking will keep them out, you shouldn't be in charge of security anywhere. If you ignore the thousands of "su failed" messages that a brute force would display, it's your fault. \_ not to mention if you pick a real root password noone is going to brute force it. Especially because su almost definatly includes a delay if the person typed in the password wrong. \_ That delay is really going to slow me down with my N su's all running in parallel. \_ yes it is. Are you really this dumb? \_ Process limits are easy to get around. Or did you have somthing else in mind? What protects you is chosing a strong password, not some silly one-second delay. \_ 1) What part of "real root password" don't you understand? \_ No such thing. Anything can be brute forced. \_ Assume the root password changes once every 5 years. Remember the assumption is the root password is not one that a nice crack heuristic can guess. The problem. password space is BIG. 2) Running out of machine resources on the other hand is not easy to get around. \_ You know that the pw failed as soon as su doesn't give you a prompt. So SIGKILL it then. No delay, no resource limit, no problem. The point is that su's delay doesn't get you any benefit in and of itself. You can get it down to where it takes hardly any more resources than it would without the delay. \_ actually they do the delay even if you choose the right password. But even if they didn't you would a significant amount of time (compared to the amount of time a crack takes) just to know the test had failed. Even if it was a few mircoseconds that adds up QUICK. OH and umm, starting up that new su process is EXPENSIVE compared to the password check. Do you have any idea how many attempts you need to do to brute force a password? \_ Doesn't matter. Got time. Some OS's even let me read the pw file. I can copy it elsewhere. If I have physical access to anything, you're totally doomed. \_ this person wasn't asking about shadow passwords. The issue was su being a security hole. Not /etc/passwd. And a few more points... If you are so stupid you think anyone being able to su as root is a security hole cause they can use it to crack root by a brute force attack, well guess what, they can jsut brute force the account of someone who has wheel and then brute force the root password from that account. You obviously are some pathetic fool who knows only enough to be dangerous. The dangers of letting anyone su to root are along the lines of person x knows the root password somehow. (Either was told, looked over someone's shoulder, sniffed it cause some fool used the root password over an insecure net, etc.) It gives you a minor level of security in those cases. However there are much more dangerous things to worry about. \_ If someone can brute force the password, why would he even bother to su to root? He'll just simply login as root. \_ not if remote root logins are disabled. \_ I don't let my users login. \_ *cheer*! --BOFH \_ I figure it's safest that way. I print their email and leave it in their inbox via in-house courier/mailboy. They use the phone to call anyone back. WebTV for browsing. \_ Take it to a fucking security newsgroup.
|1999/11/20-22 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16927 Activity:moderate
11/18 /var/mail at 100%. Got mail? Get rid of it.. \_ Root is evil! Buy more disk! Ride bike! Linux wouldn't have run out of disk with the new beta3 of the mail compressing file system, mcfs!!! \_ we need philfs \_ We already have philcompress. root can just use that on /var/mail. -- ilyas \_ philfs would use philcompress automatically though, and there's no telling what other nifty features Phillip would include.
|1999/11/19-22 [Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16924 Activity:nil
11/18 I'm trying to test out smbclient with a friend of mine but I keep getting this error message: $ echo hello | smbclient -M my.friends.ip Added interface ip=192.168.8.5 bcast=192.168.8.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 session request failed Does the other computer have to be in the same subnet for samba to work? \_ I've never got -M to work. Try -L to list his shares. No it will cross subnets, routers, switches, hubs, gateways, etc, no problem. Check the samba docs for the 'official' way to test a connection. \_ naw, it did the same thing. But it did at least give out an IP address this time. \_ Firewalls? Can you ping? Is he exporting any shares? Does he have the "Server" service running on the 'd0ze side? \_ no, no firewalls. he and his roomate have a multiple ip dsl line and they both can see each other's windoze services. i can't for some reason. i'm behind a linux firewall though. \_ Turn off firewall and try again. \_ http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/DIAGNOSIS.txt is real useful whenever I'm trying to find out what I've done wrong \_ That's the thing I was refering to earlier but was too lazy to find. "the official way to test a connection". Anyway, since we haven't heard back, he either gave up or it was the firewall. \_ Well, I tried it from the gateway itself (no natd or IP masq) and turned off all the firewall rules and I got the same error messages. So yes, I did give up. \_ smbclient -L HIS.IP.ADDRESS doesn't give a password prompt after saying session failed? It sounds like there's something really simple going on. Minor config error.
|1999/11/17 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16913 Activity:nil
11/17 How come almost all of the dirs in /ftp/pub are now owned by root? I can't put or delete files in the dir that I created a long time ago. \_ The permissions got reset by mistake a while back. If you would like ownership of your directory back, mail root and we'll fix it.
|1999/11/14-16 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16871 Activity:high
11/14 I know they're generally a pretty lame alternative, but how would people/root/politburo feel about running a webmail server on soda for folks who'd like to check their mail by browser? Mind you, I'm not suggesting a public free mail server, but currently I have nothing but proxied http net access, and I wasn't about to suggest port-redirecting http on scotch to ssh the way mconst did with telnet (yay!) I have been playing with MailMan from http://www.endymion.com with the idea of having cron move my mail to a restricted directory so I could read it via shell account as well as browser. Has anyone ever considered an https server on scotch/soda so http passwords wouldn't be sent in cleartext? Just some thoughts... -John \_ I'd prefer to respond to this over mail. --root \_ in my personal experience, root usually replies something and then just delete my mail. fuck root. \_ YOU NO CONJUGATING VERB MUST LIKING VERY MUCH ON \_ What do these acronymns stand for? BOAT GETTING GO TO BACK WHERE YOU COME FROM LEARNED ENGLISH SO MANY DIFFICULT! -(fucker) \_ Go home, fuckered, stop blabbering on the motd. \_ At least (fucker) is funny. What have you contributed recently? \_ Fuck you. FOAD --Jon \_ What does this acronymn stand for? \_ Heyyyy, take that back. meanness to roots is not tolerated. you must write with respect. --Consumer Affairs Department \_ .forward \_ Have you thought of getting non-proxy net access? \_ I currently forward my mail from soda, and I have a mail address and non-proxy net access with a provider. I was simply playing around with ways to get my mail off soda through a firewall for the fun of it, and thought that maybe, perhaps, possibly, people might be interested in having me invest some time to set it up. Obviously not, since I haven't gotten any feedback except from the usual too-chickenshit-to-sign-your-name peanut gallery. -John \_ I never sign my name but I didn't add anything to this thread until now. --too-chickenshit-to-sign-my-name-monkey \_ install IMAP & TWIG on a machine with APACHE-SSL
|1999/11/2-4 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16813 Activity:low
11/2 How often does xntpd on soda sync the system clock with the server? I'm trying to sync my clock with soda's clock, and I want to see at what time soda's clock is supposed to be most accurate. Thx. -- yuen \_ Soda's clock has been inaccurate recently, and xntpd has not been very successful at keeping it in sync. If you want to synchronize your clock with something, use <DEAD>ntp1.berkeley.edu<DEAD>. If you just want to see the correct time, run "nc ntp1 daytime". \_ you are implying that there is some kind of saw-tooth divergence in the clocks. w/ xntpd the clock drift is a converging process, and the most accurate clock value is not necessarily right after a single sample.
|1999/11/2-4 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/Unix/WindowManager] UID:16812 Activity:kinda low
11/1 Does Redhat not allow for .login and .cshrc files in the user directory to be executed automagically? \_ No it works fine if you use it properly. (Are you sure your shell is csh or tcsh? Are they owned by the user?) \_ It works fine from a virtual console, but for some reason when you log in at runlevel 5 your .login isn't sourced. Not sure if this is from gdm, gnome, or what. If you find out let me know; I got bored looking for the answer. --mogul \_ When you login in at runlevel 5 it runs your .profile or your autoexec or some such file depending on your window manager. You can call your .login from there. Also when you start a xterm by clicking on an icon your window manager is probably not starting the xterm with the right options. If you want the xterm to be a "login shell" and source .login you need to do xterm -ls or xterm +ls (I don't remember which). Hope that helps. --emin \_ Solaris 7/CDE is good about this because it does source the .login when you login; and xterms that you create don't re-source the .login but do inherit env vars. Why Linux/KDE doesn't do it automagically I'm wondering also. \_ You know why. \_ yes, i do \_ Then let's leave it at that before the fanatics 'get it' and go balistic and wipe the motd or something.
|1999/11/2 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16809 Activity:moderate
11/1 Just heard of Phat Linux [<DEAD>www.phatlinux.com]<DEAD> from a non-techie friend, read up on it, and the whole idea seems pretty damn ridiculuous. Anyone have any experience? For one thing, do they actually emulate *nixish file permissions on FAT partitions? \_ Why should they emulate anything? It's all just bits on disk, who cares where they store them? \_ Emulating Unix file permissions on top of FAT is an old concept. It's been available on Linux for some years; I recall that it was an _install option_ (UMSDOS) in the first version of Slackware I tried. There are various caveats about diminished performance and so forth. You can store a real Unix filesystem as a file within a DOS filesystem (mounted through the loopback interface) if you so desire -- thus avoiding repartitioning and still giving you a full-fledged Unix fs. This also has performance problems, and requires you to mount the DOS fs normally first, which would require the use of an initial ramdisk if you wanted to use it as a root fs for Linux. In general, a Linux install on top of a Windows system without repartitioning (and sometimes without the need to reboot for the install process) is a growing trend, because it's "kinder, gentler" to Windows users. -- schoen \_ If you read the URL, you'd see they're not doing UMSDOS or screwing around with loopbacks or single files. They are using the FAT filesystem as is without the UMSDOS shenannigans. This is a bit more impressive than the silly UMSDOS method and also easier and less scary for the low tech folks who simply want to try out a semi-real OS. Performance isn't an issue since any *nix will outperform their win98 crap on the same hardware. They don't know the performance could be even higher and that isn't important. \_ it wouldn't take too much to implement writeable rockridge extensions. the "rockridge" extensions are what give you unix permissions on a CDROM disk for example with extra hidden files that contain the unix filesystem meta-data. the dos-style filnames act kind of like inodes.
|1999/10/30-31 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16798 Activity:very high
10/30 I accidentally posted my hostname and root password to usenet. Help! \_ how stupid are you? change the password, and get on with life. \_ I DID! It was posted again! I think I have a virus! Help! \_ I DID! It was posted again! I think I have a virus! Help! \_ how stupid are you to respond to him? \_ Help! I'm stuck under a bridge and can't get out! ACK!
|1999/10/25-27 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16765 Activity:very high
10/24 alumni.eecs is down again. Could someonw with root powers check it out? thanks! \_ mail email@example.com. heh. \_ tried that before. no one checks root email there. \_ I was joking. \_ email@example.com, http://ucb.org.ucsee \_ actually, the machine itself is up (it's ping-able) but the telnet service isn't. Been seeing some weird things with alumni/ucsee machines today. :-( \_ Time for a three-finger salute? \_ REBOOT! REBOOT! REBOOT IS THE STANDARD! \_ Hmm... single-user mode perhaps? \_ Then a single-finger salute is in order. \_ OK it's up, but old mail still needs to be delivered. Dunno whose responsibility that is. |__ Hey jon, feeling a bit tense about alumni.eecs? \_ FOAD --jon \_ PLUR --jon \_ I'd help you but I quit for reasons that anybody, who has typed uname on alumni, can figure out. The other sysadmins have graduated. Given that you have a csua account, one wonders why you would even want your alumni account back up. But if I have any spare time from cs 152 I'll see if I can get it going again. --jeff \_ how about replacing alumni? would anyone be willing to do it if I donate an old sparc lx? \_ You really think a $50 computer will help? \_ it's better than the current alumni. \_ email jon@soda; he may be willing. \_ I hate that machine. I don't know why I bother with it. Fuck ultrix, fuck clueless users who think they are entitled to services, and fuck flaky hardware. --jon *just* enough crochety and cluess alums (who don't seem to understand that the machine is run by student volunteers rather than paid admins) to make life as a sysadmin there awfully annoying. \_ what? are you mocking that bad ass DEC Station 3100 running Ultrix, the best OS ever? running Ultrix? running Ultrix, the best OS ever? \_ PLUR --jon \_ FOAD --jon \_ Well (speaking from some personal experience), not only does alumni.EECS have the DS/Ultrix thing going against it, but it also has a user base with *just* enough crochety and clueless alums (who don't seem to understand that the machine is run by student volunteers rather than paid admins) to make life as a sysadmin there incredibly annoying. I appreciate having the "@alumni.EECS.Berkeley" mailing address, and would be more than willing to throw in my share of cash for a replacement machine, but can understand why the current caretakers would want to throw in the towel. Maybe the dept. should take over the hostname for some kind of mail-forwarding arrangement, or some competent alum volunteers should step forward to take a share of root-type responsibilities . . . -- former email@example.com person \_ Nonononono, as a crotchety clueless alum, I insist we stand by tradition and have students continue trying to support dead hardware running a badly b0rken bsd clone from 10 years ago. I'll tell ya, Back In My Day, we were lucky to have \_ FOAD --jon a 4 meg sun 3/50 with swap mounted remotely on another sun over a 10mbit shared networked. You youngin's today... whine whine whine.... \_ PLUR --jon --- clueless crotchety alum PLUR an acronym for? \_ FOAD --jon \_ pardon my cluelessness but what is FOAD an acronym for? \_ you left out "and sharing the same swap server with 20 other machines was a small price to pay..." \_ I thought of that but didn't want to re-edit to add it in. Any other clueless \_ FOAD --jon crotchety alum would've known what I was talking about. still time! (Oh yeah, and FOAD.) \_ I volunteered less ancient h/w before, but no one reads root email on alumni. I think alums should volunteer h/w, but sysadmin should \_ PLUR --jon be a student service for someone who wants to learn sysadmin stuff. still time! (Oh yeah, and PLUR.) \_ Its still down for some reason after a brief uptime... \_ FOAD --jon \_ Because it's an ancient piece of crap. \_ It's back up now, so move your files off of it while there's still time! (Oh yeah, and FOAD.) \_ As an alum, I definitely wouldn't mind making donations of cash, or hardware to keep alumni alive. This should be an organized effort, though. Something that is sanctioned and kept alive from generation to generation. \_ Too late. The powers that be are talking about making a subscription mail forwarding $ervice. \_ <DEAD>alumni.csua.berkeley.edu<DEAD> mail forward?
|1999/10/25 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16762 Activity:nil
10/24 So i expand a tar archive as root and find that the files are owned by various users on my system. It doesn't seem like that is a good idea. Why is it? What can i do about it? \_ It's a fine idea. Suppose you wanted to move several people's accounts from one disk to another. If you used cp, you'd risk having symbolic links copied entire, and the result would be owned by root. Tar preserves ownership. It's very useful. For the rest of your answer I refer you to the manpage for tar, and for "chown". --PeterM
|1999/10/25-26 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16761 Activity:high
10/24 Can anyone tell me why slocal might silently fail, so that I can fix it? --PeterM; \_ I switched to procmail. Was it working and then suddenly stopped or never worked? \_ It worked before an OS reinstall and won't work now. --PM \_ Pulling from ancient memory I think slocal has some sort of debugging option that will print out what it's doing. mail -v firstname.lastname@example.com might be revealing as well. \_ My manpage is too lame to describe any options. know what it might be? Mail -v won't help me because I use slocal via exmh. It goes into the normal mailbox. --PeterM
|1999/10/24-25 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16757 Activity:nil
10/21 Lesson request: I'm on a slow network of MS computers, with a huge backup running and sucking up all the bandwidth. When i try computer one to to large copy a file from Windows another it is very slow, but if i use FTP, it is very fast. What up? (I'm hoping for something a little more technical than "MS sucks"). \_ NetBEUI! \_ ED! ED! ED is the STANDARD! Network Backup Tool. \_ SMB sucks. \_ Just as an aside, isn't it called CIFS now (Common Internet File System)? Only M$ would believe that a piece of crap like SMB would make the perfect file sharing protocol over the internet. As if we don't have enough crap congesting the network. I just wish that Sun and IBM would get thier act together and squash M$. \_ HAHAHAHA -IBM couldn't squash M$ when it was an 8 man company. WHat are they goning to do now that M$ has more money (and manpower) than GOD? \_ MS is nothing. They're a dead struggling company holding on to their last threads. Not long from now, MS will be nothing but a footnote in IBM's historical notes. \_ Yeah, like most microsoft originated networking protocols, SMB is a piece of shit. FTP is going to be much faster. \_ but we want a protocol that saturates a 100bT network so that nobody else can use it. We must monopolize the network as well as the market. \_ SMB is a Cisco plot to sell higher end hardware. \_ I guess rsync doesn't exist for Winblows, huh. How about faking it with a Samba box so you can use rsync? :-) -John \_ This will let you use MSBackup. You need to go the other way and export nfs from your 'd0ze boxes. Either way, NT and Bill Gates both suck my hot throbbing cock. \_ is there a free Pc implementation of NFS? \_ Yes there is one, but I don't recall its name. However, all NT NFS setups I've seen were buggy, slow kludges. Your best bet, if you need real network services as well as all of the NT SMB crap, is *BSD/Linux running Samba and Sharity. -John \_ yes. it's called freebsd and linux.
|1999/10/21-22 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16749 Activity:nil
10/21 Can someone recommend an easy/free way to download an entire web-tree for off-line viewing? \_ Yes. \_ wget is your friend.
|1999/10/20-21 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16739 Activity:nil
10/20 http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom /bin/ps meets DOOM. Really _kill_ those errant processes.
|1999/10/18-19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16726 Activity:moderate
10/17 Is there a tcsh alias that will prepend/append a directory to my $CLASSPATH? alias addpath 'setenv CLASSPATH \!*:$CLASSPATH' doesn't work. \_ alias a 'setenv BLAH \!{*}:$BLAH' ... You're welcome. The man pages cover the use of {} around variables in cases like this. \_ Embrace the man page!
|1999/10/17-19 [Computer/HW, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16725 Activity:high
10/17 I'm on a linux box, logged into another linux box on the same network and want to run x-windows on the remote box in a way that will display on my local terminal. Is it possible? How? \_ xhost or ssh's X11 display forwarding. And sign your name. -John \_ As in on local computer: xhost + remotecomputer on remote computer: setenv DISPLAY localcomputer:0 (in tcsh) or DISPLAY=localcomputer:0; export DISPLAY (in (ba)sh) or easier yet, just ssh -C and everything will fix itself. \_ <snip rant about xhost + being insecure; xhost + a single host has no serious consequences whatsoever> \-clearly a sloda new comer :-) --psb \_ uh, it does if anyone else can log on to that computer. \_ well, alright, within bounds of common sense, that is \- i havent looked at the x internals in a while but as of 3-4 years ago there was a sneaky way once you did a xhost + to not let a later xhost - work ... this really isnt a good idea. it's not a matter common sense but ignorance of what is under the hood. --psb \_ There's also the fun "xhost -" which will prevent further "xhost +" commands from working since you've also killed localhost. Please restart X or reboot to fix. Depending on X config, logging out and in again won't necessarily 'fix' the xhost settings. \_ Idiot. DNS can be spoofed, moron. I *know* you don't work at my company. You'd never have gotten hired babbling stupidities like "'xhost + host' has no serious consequences whatsoever". You're a complete and utter fool. Do they still not teach any sort of computer security class at Cal? \_ Grad level only unfortunately. \_ Only people who hang out with CSUA geeks ever learn about this stuff by the time they graduate. BS/BA != clue. \_ The "it's harmless" person isn't spending enough time with CSUA geeks then. It doubly pisses me off that this ignorant jerk went so far as to actually delete my completely true and correct comments about not doing this and was stupid enough to refer to said comments as merely ranting. I'm certain this fool has graduated yet, I'm certain this fool hasn't graduated yet, so maybe there's still some slim hope, but I doubt it.
|1999/10/17 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16724 Activity:nil
10/15 nsplit <file> <n> #!/bin/csh -f if ($#argv != 2) then echo "Usage: `basename $0` <file> <number>" exit 1 else set SPLITFILE = $1 set FILECOUNT = $2 endif if !(-e ${SPLITFILE} && ${FILECOUNT} > 0) then echo "Bad arguments." exit 2 endif set linetotal = `cat ${SPLITFILE} | wc -l` set linecount = `expr ${linetotal} / ${FILECOUNT} + 1` split -$linecount $splitfile \_ Why is this in the motd?
|1999/10/15-17 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:29932 Activity:kinda low
10/14 /var/mail is full; clean up your crap! top ten mail hosers: jenlam 7488 jam 7832 tonytung 7968 alvinwoo 8232 ramses 8496 moraleda 8720 robin 8832 klee 9680 suzuki 12032 rico 12160 \_ Hey root, why don't you move these hozer's mail spools to their home directories? \_ root would rather have users police themselves. fucker. \_ the various root users know that sometimes when they try to deal with sloppy users' mail for them they sometimes get "rm" confused with "mv".
|1999/10/15-17 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:29930 Activity:nil
10/14 I am on my laptop on a (someone elses) network behind a proxy, trying to control my PC (not behind a proxy). I can telnet, but P.C. anywhere does not seem to work. Do you think i'd have better luck with back-orafice or some other similar non-commercial software? \No, you would not. I believe the problem is with your proxy. You need t\ o contact your sysadmin and make sure that the appropriate port that PC Anywhere\ uses to communicate through TCP/IP is open. Either that or configure your PC An\ ywhere to try to use the telnet port (believe it's 23). \_ Dunno about PCA, but certainly back orifice can let you change the ports it uses. Make it run over telnet port and you'll be fine.
|1999/10/14-17 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16711 Activity:nil
10/14 Re: free http proxy server. Where can I find squid? I couldn't find it on the gnu ftp sites or on http://download.com. Thanks. \_ /usr/ports/net(?)/squid. \_ http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid
|1999/10/14-17 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16709 Activity:nil
10/14 Free/shareware NFS client or server available for NT4? Searched but only found somewhat pricey commercial overkill products. I just want to get my unix and NT machines talking both directions without using smbclient on the unix side. Thanks. \_ how about using samba and doing serving from the unix side and native smb mounts on the NT side? \_ what if I want to give users access to their data stored on an NFS mountable drive when they are working at an NT? \_ Make the nfs mountable drive also samba mountable. SMB is 'nfs for windows' since microsoft always needs to have their 'own standard'. \_ [grr at whoever deleted my reply] I've got samba running but it's painfully slow for some reason. I've used samba many times before but never had this problem. Also, I'm not running Linux. I don't have native smbfs support. \_ I recall reading something once about tuning problems many people have when they don't turn off one of the link following options. Get the docs directory that comes with the source and poke through that, there is a pretty good fine-tuning section. Also, install SWAT, its online help for the various parameters is pretty good. And sign your name. -John \_ The two products we use are Samba, which we've found to have excellent performance (esp with new 2.0 version), and Sharity http://www.obdev.at/Products/Sharity.html. Samba lets you see NFS mounted file systems on NT machines, and Sharity lets you see SMB mounted (NT) file systems on Unix machines. Good luck. \_ There is also sharity light (free), which is nice for occasional use, but doesn't do encrypted passwords and can fall down when left alone for a long time. Forget url, look in FreeBSD ports collection. -John \_ Sharity. Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
|1999/10/14-17 [Computer/SW/Unix/WindowManager, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16707 Activity:moderate
10/13 hola, is there s "standard" unix untility that will split a file into n "equal" size pieces ... like split but it take # subfiles instead of #lines/subfile. I realize this is easy to write but that isnt the question. --psb \_ You want a split that split split multiple files to the same length? \_ no, something like pslit 10 file. split file into 10 pieces. \_ You want a split that splits multiple files to the same length? \_ no, something like split 10 file. split file into 10 pieces. \_ This works. It isn't pretty but you didn't pay for pretty: % split -l `perl -e 'while (<>) { $count++; }; $count = int($count /10)+1 ;print\ "$count\n";' < FILE_TO_SPLIT` FILE_TO_SPLIT OUTPUT_FILENAME \_ You have demonstrated some perl fu while proving your lack of English fu \-ok so we all agree there is no standard unix utility to do this, right? --psb \_ Hey, it does what he said he wanted. It makes 10 equal sized split files. Where did my English fu lack? In not making the '10' an optional parameter? I'm not paid enough for that part. I even tested it which is more than can be said for half the code I write for my job. \_ Ponder this question, then: do you have a public file that lists your passwords? \_ Of course not. It's a security risk beyond common stupidity. What's that have to do with splitting an input file? Oh Great Master! Please grant a tiny speck of enlightenment and knowledge to this undeserving student! You'd be happy if instead of hard coding the '10' it was $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[1] for the file name? I'm still not getting it.
|1999/10/13-14 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16699 Activity:nil
10/13 Using purely free solutions, is MacNFS + Samba on a UNIX server the best way to share files on a heterogenous network? \_ I use netatalk+asun patches (free), which supports mac's afs over tcp, so you dont' have to install nfs clients on your macs, and you dont' have to run appletalk on your network. Works great for me.
|1999/10/13-14 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16698 Activity:low
10/13 Anybody know of a free proxy server out there? I just need something very very simple no fancy features. Thanks. \_ natd. much more transparent than using a proxy server. \_ wingate or winroute. \_ What type of Proxy? HTTP only? If so, Squid, Apache, & CERN (listed in order of proxy-studliness - don't bother with CERN anymore - apache's overkill for just a proxy, squid kicks ass) \_ squid kicks its own ass. The only reason it stays up is because the start script is basically ' while true; do squid ; done' \_ is Squid GNU software? I couldn't find it on the gnu sites. where can I find it? Thanks. Password Thief Ransacks AOL 3:00 a.m. Password-stealing emails slip into AOL accounts and make off with user passwords by the thousands, according to the email service used to launch the attacks. Critics says it's the latest in a pattern of neglect by AOL. By Chris Oakes. \_ Thank you Wired News! \_ "Password-stealing emails"? Is this social engineering, or some K-RAD N3W PASSWURD ST3AL1NG HACK1NG V1RUZ????/??? \_ Standard "click on idiot.exe" in html email to send your password to random account bullshit. The only fault AOL has is having a browser available to it's customers that allows them to run an .EXE from a hyper link.
|1999/10/12-14 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16694 Activity:moderate
10/12 How do I make less clear the screen and return to the prompt after it exits? \_ alias less 'less \!* && clear' \_ I meant bring you back to the old prompt. \_ I meant bring you back to the old prompt, as if I never did the less. I think it has something to do with your terminal setttings. I'm using an xterm by the way \_ alias less 'xterm -e less \!*' \_ man xterm and search for the titeInhibit resource string
|1999/10/11-13 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16692 Activity:high
10/11 Does anyone know the secret algorithm behind http://www.google.com It is quite good. I'm very impressed. I want to know HOW they did it. \_ a bunch of shell scripts -- awk, sed, grep, and pipe. \_ My understanding is it's a popularity based results engine. The more people who choose a particular result for a particular query the higher that result will be displayed for similar future queries. I don't work at google but we did a similar thing at the search engine company I did work for. \-maybe PCI. there are a lot of ways to do this kind of thing. there are linear algebra approaches and statistical/baysian approaches, depending on problem size and nature of prob. --psb \_ I've read a couple of articles that have mentioned it, which said that they base their scoring on how many other pages link to a particular page, rather than number of times it's chosen on their site. http://www.google.com/why_use.html seems to support this. -niloc \_ number of links to a page determine importance. they sort according to relevance and important. i know what i'm talking about. -ali \_ relevance is only determined by what people actually choose out of the links returned from the search. the second factor is accuracy, which is the "drift" from relevance. accuracy is the perennial problem, since almost all search engines start suffering around 5 to 10% of the first links offered. \_ Ali is correct. The stanford prof of the grad students who developed google comercially came to Soda a few weeks ago and said exactly that - it's click throughs and links to that determine ranking -jones \_ It has to be more complex than this or Yahoo would show up as the #1 hit for every query. #2 would be Microsoft. They *must* take into account the query itself (seems obvious, no?) in some way before doing a most-linked sort on the results. So, no, I don't think you know what you're talking about. Are there any CSUA'ers on their architecture design, engineering or database staff? If so, please come forward. Ali having had coffee with someone's secretary at \_ was this after the mindblasting sex? google doesn't impress. \_ Eat your words, blasphemer! The only person I trust more than ali is bh. \_ I think they use a variant of the clusterfuck algorithm. \_ Algorithm, Heuristic, BAH! They don't interest me and are trolls. \_ You are a faggoty bitch.
|1999/10/10-11 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16685 Activity:kinda low
10/10 Does anyone happen to know of a way *in windoze 95* to run a program with a list of arguments > 1024 chars long? I'm trying to link, and it's chopping off the line in the bat file at this length. Thanks. \_ Why are you trying to do anything beyond hello.c on a win95 box? You do understand that it's just a dos box with a gui on it? You're lucky M$ upped a line length to 1024. Earlier versions had 128. \_ There is no good reason for the shell to look at only the first 32 characters after #! in UNIX. -- ilyas \_ Isn't there some funky thing you can do with an @FOO.TXT argument which takes the rest of the arguments from a file? I don't know that it's standard, but I've seen a lot of programs that supported something like that. Barring that, if you just have a lot of object files, couldn't you just do the windoze equivalent of ld -x -r -o onehalf.o <half my object files> ld -x -r -o otherhalf.o <my other object files> gcc -o myprog onehalf.o otherhalf.o -lfoo -lbar etc.? -brg
|1999/10/10-13 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16684 Activity:high
10/10 Stupid Linux question: I just installed linux on my computer and I try to do some *SIMPLE* programming (i.e. 15 line code). Using the makefile I stolen from CS60b, I changed it, and compiled it fine. But when I try to execute the compiled code myProg, it said "Command not found." Is this even an linux question? or I used wrong g++ options? because I don't see any .o files split out. Thanks in advance -kngharv \_ maybe because . isn't in your environment path. modify your .cshrc \_ yeah I'd echo $PATH and see if . is in there. If not PATH=.:$PATH. You're mostly likely running sh (echo $SHELL) also. ohmigod i feel like wssg \_ what makes you so sure it 'compiled it fine' ? Lack of .o files \_ in that you're giving stupid and dangerous advice? \_ Everyone on soda should do this, then cd /tmp and run ls \_ well that was exciting \_ Dummyhead. If you must have a . in your path, it goes at the end. Sheesh! \_ I read somewhere it's a security issue to have . in your path. Why is that? Oh well, I have it in my path anyway. \_ Anyone can write an evil program and name it /tmp/mroe. Then, if you cd /tmp and mistype "more", you'll end up running their evil program. It's even worse if you have . at the beginning of your path -- then the evil program could be named "more" and you don't even have \_ Stupid linux user doesn't have or doesn't know what . in the path means. to make a typo! The right thing to do is to leave . out of your path entirely; it's easy to type ./program when you want to run a program from the current directory. This also saves you from silly mistakes when you (say) write a program called "test"; if you have . at the end of your path, it'll run /bin/test instead of your program, but if you type ./test it'll work as you expect. \_ what makes you so sure make 'compiled it fine' ? Lack of .o files is a good sign that it did not. \_ Shouldn't this be referred to as a 'stupid linux user question', since its clearly not linux being stupid here. \_ The problem is not linux specific. It is specific to the stupidity of the user who obviously has not bothered to divine the meaning of the error message "Command not found." That this guy is talking about cs_60_b should be a telling statement. \_ telling what? That he's forgotten UNIX in the 4+ years it must have been since he took the class? \_ Yeah, back in the day when we ate potstickers and downed bad vodka with BH whiling away the hours adding more and more kool features to our scheme adventure game on the vax 11/780. If only I'd learned mips/java/oops, I'd have skills that will be good forever instead of outdated in 6 months like everyone who came before me.
|1999/10/4-5 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16660 Activity:high
10/4 does anyone know how to script the password for rsync over ssh? \_ Don't. Instead use RSA rhosts, that is: on the target machine (the one you'll be sshing _to_), put the hostname and username you'll be sshing from into the file ~/.shosts (man rhosts for format). Then make sure you ssh at least once from the target machine and the target account _back_ to the machine you'll be normally running rsync on to get its host key in place. Then your script won't need to type a password, but it's much much more secure than a real .rhosts file. Yadda yadda.. security risk since you don't need to type a password as that user yadda yadda. --dbushong \_ huh? No, use the authorized_keys file, to avoid spoofing. \_ This is the approach I've used. --PeterM
|1999/10/4-5 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16657 Activity:very high
10/4 Do "dir *1.*" and "dir *2.*" mean anything special in NT Command Prompt? I tried them and the output contain some filenames that don't even contain '1' or '2'. Thanks. \_ NT doesn't do full regexp's on the command line the way unix does. Try 4dos/4nt/4os/4whatever from http://jpsoft.com if you want that. \_ This is not the problem. And unix (sic) doesn't do full regexp's (sic) on the command line (sic) either. --pld \_ Idiot. There isn't a correct spelling for "regexp". It's not a real word. "unix" is the correct spelling for the word unless you're talking about AT&T UNIX(TM) which we're not and the word "line" was correctly spelled. And no shit unix doesn't do full regexp's on the command line but it does do *1.* which is all the person cared about. You're a fucking pedantic twink and you added zero content. \_ Here's your content: (sic) doesn't mean "misspelled". I'd have deleted the answer for being incorrect and misleading, but some twink like you would have re-added it. See below for a correct response. --pld \_ Worse than being stupid is being stupid and thinking you're right. "sic" means "spelling incorrect". You are beyond stupid. The answer lies in the shell being unable to do what s/he wants. http://jpsoft.com can do that. Saying, "win95 has long file names!!!" is worthless. How'd you sneak into Cal? Or have standards really dropped so low that they now socially promote morons straight into what used to be top notch universities? \_ Worse than that is adamantly promoting error. "sic" does *not* mean "spelling incorrect"--it is from latin, and means "thus". It is typically used when quoting text to roughly mean "I'm quoting this guy exactly, so please don't tell me I've made a mistake--it was his mistake." In this case, I assume it was used because "Unix" is usually capitalized (and is a trademark of AT&T, right?). Furthermore, you usually \_ Unix hasn't been a trademark of AT&T for about a decade, since they spun off USL, which they later sold to Novell, who gave the trademark to X/Open (now part of The Open Group) to use with their standards. Any OS meeting the X/Open requirements can now call itself "Unix (TM)" (or a more specific term like "Unix95", "Unix98 Desktop", "Unix98 Server"). don't put apostrophe-s at the end of a word to make it plural (though it is acceptable usage for acronymns, etc. so is probably okay for "regexp"). \_ No, no, no. When you're quoting another and you're quoting *their* mincorrectly spelled text, you use "sic" to state that you're aware the spelling is incorrect and you're just quoting it that way. "thus"? No. That makes no sense. It's a journalism thing in modern English. No matter what the original latin intended. \_ You are correct in stating correct usage for [sic] but the etimology of the word is indeed Latin. -- ilyas \_ I'm not denying a latin origin. I'm saying it doesn't matter. Looking in one's Latin 10 Latin->English dictionary won't yield the correct modern/journalism usage. That's all. \_ etimology[sic]. You mean etymology. --dim \- 1. sic is indeed latin. reasonable translations are "thus" or "so, but the most natural obviously depends on the context. 2. i will make a wager with anyone who claims it only means "a mis- spelling inthe original". it can be used as a "disclaimer" about spelling errors, grammatical errors, factual errors...whatever. this is a pretty funny "classic soda" thread. sic vos non vobis, --psb \_ remember Win95 long filenames kluge? Therein lies your answer. \_ Sorry, I don't know about that in Win95 either. Can you please elaborate? Thanks. \_ Long filenames show up in dos 8.3 format as something like "filena~1.txt" -- that is, filenames are truncated, with a "~" char and a number to disambiguate. Hence any file with more than 8 chars before the extension or more than one dot will end in "~#". So the pattern above can match *a lot* of files. \_ Unless you grab one of the command line replacements from http://jpsoft.com which handles this as you'd expect with out using the odd 8.3 LFN kludge as you'd not expect.
|1999/10/4-5 [Reference/Celebration, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16656 Activity:high
10/4 HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANDRA ALIEN HOBAG BIOTCH \_ Alien hobag biotch? Is this an inside joke? \_ No. She really is an alien hobag biotch. --pld \_ To wit: soda> finger -mp alien Login: alien Name: Sandra Alien Hobag Biotch Directory: /home/digital/alien Shell: /usr/local/bin/tcsh HTH. HAND.
|1999/9/28 [Computer/SW/Apps, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16609 Activity:nil
9/27 Is there any sort of "acroread" that will display a pdf file on a tty terminal? \_ ghostscript can read PDF's - maybe it has a crude pdf2ascii like the ps2ascii \_ why not just pipe it through a pdf2ps | ps2ascii
|1999/9/26-28 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/WWW/Server, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16602 Activity:nil
9/26 I have followed all the instructions in "INSTALL.REDHAT" to install php3 on my linux box. However, when i run a "httpd -l" it does not display mod_php.c. Can anyone tell me or point me to docs which tell me how to find and install the correct binary? Thanks. -crebbs \_ Was it a dynamic module? I don't have the "INSTALL.REDHAT" file you're talking about (I don't use Linux for web service) so I have NFC what sorts of steps you went through. If this is in fact a shared module, then did you activate it? The solution to your problem isn't straightforward with the information you've provided. --sowings \_ Fdisk, reinstall. Run an operating system you're capable of dealing with.
|1999/9/22-24 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16564 Activity:high
9/21 What is a journaling file system (e.g. BeOS?) ? \_ I work on one (VxFS), if you want you can mail me. --aaron \_ If you know anything about databases, it's just a transaction log. (inodes, directory structures, etc.). Some versions log all changes to all blocks on disks, others just to the filesystem structure (inodes, directory structures, etc.). Either way, no more fsck'ing. \_ But isn't that a Log file system? Whats the diff between a journaling FS and a Log FS? \_ Jargon. \_ Different companies, different products, same concept. \_ A journalling file system *contains* a log that it can use (like databases) to recover after crashes. A log- structured file system *is* a log -- it doesn't actually store your files anywhere except the log. This means read performance is often significantly worse than with an ordinary filesystem. Journalling file systems are in wide commercial use; log-structured file systems are a (dead, AFAIK) research area. \_ log-structured file systems are useful for media like flash memory which are have high erase/overwrite overhead.
|1999/9/18-21 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16547 Activity:kinda low 77%like:16544
9/16 How do I pipe to an rsh? Say I want to do sort file | rsh machine -l user cat > file.sort \_ Exactly like that. If it doesn't work for you, what error message do you get? \_ Wanna get rid of 20 lbs of ugly fat real fast? Go in for a decapitation. \_ You might want to make sure you can rsh commands first. I generally \_ Use ssh instead of rsh. test with something llightweight like 'rsh remotemachine -l remoteuser whoami' first. -ERic \_ so your answer is? Just do plain exercise and hope that the fat around your abs goes away? \_ s/rsh/ssh/g \_ Assuming you have rsh set up properly do something like sort file | rsh machine -l user "cat > file.sort" or sort file | rsh machine -l user dd of=file.sort -ERic
|1999/9/18 [Computer/Theory, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16544 Activity:nil 77%like:16547
9/16 How do I pipe to an rsh? I want to do something like sort file | rsh foo -l user cat >> bar ?
|1999/9/15-17 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16526 Activity:moderate
09/15 how would u transfer email addresses from an access database to a majordomo listserver every day? - turin (ie: ftp? or something else kewl i am missing?) \_ how do you automatically upload a file without being prompted with username and password via ftp? \_ .netrc . I wouldn't recommend it, though. --dim \_ pirate. way to go!! \_ The Man is watching. \_ scp.
|1999/9/9-10 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:16486 Activity:moderate
9/8 Looking for a job at an internet startup. See http://csua.berkeley.edu/~jules/resume.txt \_ Look at all those obsolete OS'es - Domain/OS, AIX 3, Ultrix. This guy must be ancient. \_ OK, let's stop this! At my job, C/C++ is considered outdated by java \_ Can you read? He graduated in 95. That means he's about 25 or 26. If you had clue, you'd know those aren't obsolete OS's. They're older unix variants which are 98% the same as any unix you'll use today. Idiot. -not jules \_ I graduated in 99, and I'm 26. Don't assume too much. (And Domain/OS is definetly nowhere near 98% the same as any other OS - it's a world all it's own.) -alan- \_ Not my fault you took so long. D/OS is still a unix variant. It's 98% like every other unix. What? You think it's so radically different from other unixes that it deserves it's own category? Get real. Unix is as unix does. \_ Do you have any experience with Domain OS? It's not UNIX. It's an OS based on Multics, written in Pascal with a mostly-UNIX-compatible layer on top. Most of the OS is very non-UNIX. -alan- (Domain/OS user since 1990 and still have an Apollo workstation at home) \_ Yup. It's not unix in the same way linux isn't unix. Thanks for the history lesson. \_ Linux is much closer to Unix than Domain/OS. Domain has a completely different set of commands and APIs, even it's GUI is nothing like X Windows. \_ X != unix. So you're trying to claim that D/OS isn't a unix because it's got a few differences from [your unix here]? That's silly. It's just a unix variant. It isn't unique. It isn't MacOS. It isn't Windows. It isn't vms/cms/*ms. It's just a unix variant. Get over it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm beginning to wonder whether the speaker _/ has ever used DOMAIN/OS. \_ The speaker has definitely never used anything in /com. People should get clued before arguing with alanc. is not UNIX. By the way, CMS is not -not alan- \_ Did you actually read alan's comment above? He said D/OS is a Multics variant, not a UNIX variant. Multics is not UNIX. \_ He can say anything he wants. D/OS is a unix variant. He can say anything he wants about anything. His saying so doesn't make it true. \_ Join the MNU Software Foundation Today! say "Manure" \- say "laser" Go join OCF and you can learn about D/OS on their Apollo machines. By the way, CMS is not \_ Not any more. OCF got rid of all the Apollos. an OS. It's a shell on top of VM which is an OS. -- yuen (VM/CMS user) \_ It's not unix in the same way NT is not UNIX. Both can be made to act mostly like UNIX, but are vastly different underneath. \_ D/OS = unix. NT != unix. Thanks for caring. \_ NT with cygwin is actually a useable UNIX variant. DomainOS/Aegis was Apollo OS that was given a Unix-Like wrapper. \_ If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck... \_ Don't be so quick to flame - the original post wasn't based on ignorance, just on giving julian a hard time. \_ Even worse.
|1999/9/7 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16479 Activity:nil
9/7 The politburo should be publically flogged for failing to recognize June 20, 1999 as the perfect excuse for a "Soda.berkeley.edu 10th Anniversary Beer Bash/BBQ" \_ feh. if only such a date were in the logs books. \_ It's in one of them and on the web page. -alanc-
|1999/9/3 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16456 Activity:high
9/2 Root decided to turn off ~lwall/bin/mail.pl without notice. E-mail root and let them know that you are opposed to this change! \_ it's a great idea. shut up, nickkral -tom
|1999/9/1 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16444 Activity:nil
8/30 Thanks to the allknowing motd re:namebased virtual hosting. Next question (: i can no longer telnet to port 25 on my linux (and thus mail to/from any other machine no longer works) I can still send between accounts on the same machine, but that is all. The only think i can think might have caused it is the additon of ipfwadm -F -p masq (for netword address translation). Any ideas? \_ that just looks bad. there must be a -S 192.168.1.0/24 in there somewhere. i don't know what security risks there are in that. can you telnet into any other service you're running? maybe you just don't have sendmail running. "/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail status" or "psu -axu | grep sendmail". i would strongly discourage running any mta however since they are security hazards to begin with. if you do you should run qmail instead. \_ run qmail only if you don't mind not being able use .forward files and basically every other thing you're used to using with mail. \_ If you can telnet port 25 on 'localhost' but not from outside its a firewall rule problem. If you can't even hit it from localhost are you not running a 'sendmail -bd' ? \_ Yeah. Idea: do your own testing before wasting motd time. Like gee did you try turning off NAT and then seeing if telnet works?
|1999/8/31 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16436 Activity:high
8/30 Sun guru needed for basic installs, NFS/NIS and X setup on some Ultras. Mail sly for info. \_ dont need a sun "guru" for that. why not just send the details to jobs@csua or something \_ I think the idea is they don't want some clueless fuckwit to use them as a paid training opportunity. \_ dont want to think they want to hire someone for fuckwit wages either ....
|1999/8/28 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16415 Activity:nil
8/27 Can I use ssh port forwarding to FTP to soda? What port do I need connect to at soda? \_ Yes, but you'll still need to login using S/Key \_ if you do it right, you do not need s/key \_How do I do it Right?
|1999/8/21-24 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16366 Activity:moderate
8/21 Can Sun's Disk Suite mirror the root filesystem? I know that Veritas Volume Manager can... \-yes \_ yes.. there's docs explaining exactly how to do it -shac \_ Any pointers to where in the docs this is? the only thing that I was able to find said specifically that metadisks could NOT be used on /, /var, /usr, or any other partition that was used to boot the system. The docs also said that mirrors were comprised of metadisks.... Thanks for any help. \-if you say so ... look in the ODS package area [in /usr/opt,probably] and the CD for docs. --psb /dev/md/dsk/d4 771110 124853 592280 18% / /dev/md/dsk/d3 2108986 623245 1422472 31% /usr /dev/md/dsk/d2 1603526 270107 1285314 18% /var \_ You sure you're not looking in old docs? Older versions of disksuite couldn't mirror /, /usr, etc. but that restriction was lifted around Disksuite 3.0 or 4.0 (Solaris 2.4/2.5 timeframe) \-you know mirroring the boot disks might not be a good idea if you really are not reasonably familiar with disksuite. --psb \_ Well, I'm trying to BECOME familiar with it, so that I can effectively use it. That's why I'm looking for the docs. \_ http://docs.sun.com --jon \_ even when set up correctly, it can have some nasty side effects. I had that set up once and in a weird situation, i had filesystem corruption on one disk. this was mirrored on the second disk. barring that, it also saved my ass when a disk died and I had a 4 day cpu job running. -jon
|1999/8/21-24 [Computer/SW/Languages/Perl, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16365 Activity:low
8/19 If you have to ask questions about how to accomplish things in sed/awk/shell, you should be doing it in perl. \_ perl. \_ perl. \_ BIKE! \_ RIDE PERL! USE BIKE!
|1999/8/19-21 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16346 Activity:high
8/19 Shell script gurus please help. I need to strip the first 10 lines and the last 3 lines off a whole bunch of files. Is there an easy way to use sed to do this? Thanks. \_ Sounds like a trivial job for head and tail. \_ It is: cat foo | tail -n +10 | tail -r | tail +4 | tail -r \_ Not completely trivial. You'd need a wc in there somewhere. head needs a +<number> functionality. \_ Suppose you also have GNU tac: head +10 | tac | head +3 | tac \_ Why the wc? head -n 10, tail -3? --dim should work. -- schoen \_ perl. \-there is a fairly evil way to do it in sed [first 10 lines is easy] last 3 is somewhat evil. not a good idea to do in sed unless like at least a 3rd level sed user. if you explain better what you \_ I still need 23 exp to make 3rd level. want i can probably five you the incantation ... do you want to SEE the first 10 and last 3 or do you want to delete them and write the file back with the first 10 gone and the bottom 3 gone. also, if you are operating on a bunch of files, the sed line count will continue across files ... so you have to operate on them one at a time. using tac is even more begging the question than saying "ues perl". using head/tail is cheeseball, just like "cut" is cheeseball [i use cut a lot but i at least know it is cheeseball.]. this is actually probably something you want to do inperl because writing the "error checks" [what if it is a 5 line file] is simpler in pl. --psb, 18th level sed mage. \_ sed, yucky. awk, yucky. perl, good. \-Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've compiled. The abilities of perl are insignificant next to the power of Emacs. --parth vader deathstar.lbl.gov. 43200 A 126.96.36.199 \_ Oh yeah? Let's see you grab the first 10 and last 3 lines of a list of files in emacs from the command line. \_ I need the files without the first 10 lines and the last 3 lines. BTW, "head +3" doesn't work. head does NOT take "+" parameters. Thanks a lot mighty psb. \_ perl.
|1999/8/19-21 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16343 Activity:low
8/19 Shell quoting question. How do I combine shell variable expansion with regulr expression for $ with sed or awk? Like if i want to append a string to the end of every line in a file? set a = fubar, sed 's/$/$a/' ??? If I pick single quotes the $a does not expand. If I pick double quotes, then the $ for the regular expression gives me an error. \_ sed -e "s/\$/${a}/" would be one way \- i dont think that will work udner tcsh. anyone try it? or ... \_ or use perl, this is exactly why it's better. \_ Exactly. Beat me to it. aside from understandign shell quoting there are some special tricks for awk. i dont remember if they work for sed. rather than take up space here see the shell faq. --psb or -e s/'$'/"${a}/" \_ perl.
|1999/8/19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16342 Activity:nil
8/19 Anyone else get into the asheron call beta? Is it worth a 57 meg ftp to try it out? Did it break your computer?
|1999/8/19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16340 Activity:nil
8/19 What port is the s/key server on? If I telnet directly to soda, it doesn't give me a "challenge" code. Which port do I telnet to? \_ Need to run initkey. The instruction on the soda web is not very newbie friendly. Nothing on soda is.
|1999/8/18 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16333 Activity:nil
8/18 How to run finger so that it launches a finger at a second machine to finger some user at a third machine? \_ finger foo@bar@baz
|1999/8/13-14 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW] UID:16306 Activity:nil
8/12 Web Wackos of the Week Winner: http://www.newamerica.org \_ Web Sickos of the Week: Tie between http://www.necrobabes.com and \_ www.csua/~aspolito http://www.geek.org/ucsc-archive/ROOT/offensive/vomit
|1999/8/11 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris, Computer/SW/SpamAssassin, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16287 Activity:high
8/10 Anyone know where slocal on EECS instructional is located (or procmail)? \_ Anyone who reads the help docs on www-inst.eecs or in /usr/pub does. \_ Tried that. /usr/pub/email.help said to look at man pages and man pages say slocal is located in /usr/lib/mh which it's not. \_ pasteur is a solaris machine, read the man pages on one \_ You don't need a path for your .forward - it will find it on it's list of allowed binaries and run from that path. \_ No, that just gives you: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- sh: .slocal: not found 554 | slocal... unknown mailer error 1 \_ Did you remember the quotes? \_ yup, tried that too. \_ Incidentally, does anyone find it weird that torus.cs and pasteur.eecs both have MX records pointing to each other? \_ Not anyone who understands what the MX records mean (think failover and redundancy)
|1999/8/8 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16269 Activity:very high
8/8 How do I get whois info on .to addresses? unix command line is preferred. Thanks in advance! \_ rwhois (referral whois) might help; do a websearch for it \_ What country is .to? use the -a, d, p, or r switch to specify continent/group. \_ Tonga. The switches didn't come up with things that resolved to various .to names. You can telnet to blah.to and nslookup on blah.to but can't whois it with any of the switches as far as I can figure. \_ Tonga? Where the hell is that?
|1999/8/6 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16264 Activity:high
8/6 After <DEAD>www.windows2000test.com<DEAD> has gone down 3 times <DEAD>crack.linuxppc.org<DEAD> has yet to do so nor has it been cracked. For any of you intrested, the root password is linuxppc. [not any more it aint] Give it a shot and win a free computer. \_ lemme guess. set up by the same schmuck that put up a target at defcon, running OFF A CDROM DRIVE. If I wasn't too busy,I'm tempted to nail the damn thing myself. But then again, where the hell can I get a "normal" linuxppc account to compile stuff? \_ on your mac \_ Exactly. How many LinuxPPC users out there? Also, I was under the impression that the PPC code was not open source. Is that correct? \_ It can't include Linux kernel sources if it's not "open source" (GPL'ed) \_ Gee, my computer might go down too if STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. \_ Somebody did a traceroute and found that all of the routes up until the machine was still operational. Microsoft claimed that the router failed. It's summer, the weather's good
|1999/8/4 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16247 Activity:nil
8/3 For those who thought Unix was written to provide an environment for C & C++, a history lesson from the creators: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/~dmr/primevalC.html http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/hist.html http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm
|1999/8/1-2 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16219 Activity:very high
8/1 http://istpub.berkeley.edu:4201/bcc/Sept_Oct99/avc.students.html IS&T once again tries to catch up to what student groups have provided for the last 10 years, and only manages to see part of the picture. (Last time, they decided all students needed was e-mail and we got UCLink. Just imagine how screwed up this new file server will be.) \_ soda [21] wc -l /etc/passwd 2501 /etc/passwd Think of how disasterous that would be to provide 30,000 traditional style login acounts on a single computer (not to mention how expensive the hard disk space would be). The fact is that most majors don't require a unix shell account but it would be nice for the common Berkeley student to have some unix experience. Unfortunately costs and needs don't always coincide. \_ Utterly lame! If i'm making $20+/hr being a paralegal or a doctor I don't have the time or the inclination to fiddle around with unix man pages. I am more productive using 1. an interface I'm used to (since I'm not a programmer what do I care about software development) and 2. an interface that supports applications ALL MY COLLEGUES IN _MY_ (not YOUR) FIELD USE. I'd rather spend my time ski-ing or outdoors than fiddling around with .conf files. \_ That's funny. I have time to do my regular school work, fiddle with .conf files, read the fucking man pages, and go skiing. And unix is VERY useful for people not in the CS major. Go ask the people at LBL what they use for physics simulations. \_ dear God, is the bigotry so deep within you that you fail to see the point? The point is that I AM NOT YOU. I DO NOT WANT TO BE LIKE YOU. What if i said I was a pre med student who spend time commuting to various hospitals in the area? That's more than just regular school work. Tell me, is unix helpful in my anatomy class? Is it useful for LabView? is it useful in my philosophy class? Is it useful when I call my girlfriend up and see what time she'd be ready to go see the opera? Climb out of your cubicle, man. \_ idiocy deleted. \_ fascist nazi. What gives you the right to delete people's opinions at your whim? What's next after your ssh tactics? rm -rf people you don't like? my time with my friends or girlfriend than fiddling around with .conf files. - Publius \_ uh, so why do you care if people who are *not* idiots have Unix shell access? You can diddle around with Netscape all you want, regardless. -tom \_ It's about the oppurtunity to do what you want. \_ Why use a single computer? The OCF provided 12,000+ login accounts 5 years ago on a cluster of 1989-era machines (Motorola 68030 & 040 based apollos). As for disk space, that's what IS&T is proposing to do. \_ providing shell access to uclink4, for example, would lower CPU usage (POP is very expensive) and support costs. The support cost argument is bullshit; if you look at the total cost picture, having shell access is much cheaper. What IST means when they say "it costs less" is "it costs US less". -tom \_ IS&T has a history of ignoring reality, tom. you should know that. \_ Support costs go up when idiots start wanting to use shells. \_ I would say, rather, that they ignore campus concerns in favor of doing things which are convenient for them. -tom \_ They should buy a NetApp. \_ NetApp's suck. EMC, dude. \_ lets take this to http://ucb.computing.announce (ucb.computing.discussion would be better but there is no such group ... yet) --jon \_ hence, mail root@agate \_ hence the "... yet" --jon \_ Okay, now lets take this to http://ucb.computing.discussion --jon
|1999/7/22-23 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16184 Activity:nil
7/22 How do you log off those people how are still using a telnet session since the pre-ssh enforcement period? \_ The ban is on cleartext passwords. Using telnet is fine.
|1999/7/19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16156 Activity:high
7/19 Anyone know how to FTP through this goddamn SSH? \_ easy! ssh to soda. run keyinit and key with the appropriate arguments to generate a list of keys for use with s/key. when you try to ftp into soda next time, it will ask you for a key correspongind for a key corresponding to the appropriate sequence number, enter it, and you're in. \_ thanks for the info but i'm still confuzed. i did keyinit and obtained a sequence of 4 letter (all caps) words. when I cuteFTP in, what password do i use? secred word or Unix password or the 4 cap letter words? i want to be able to upload stuff from my win 95 PC to my soda account.
|1999/7/18 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16154 Activity:nil
7/17 I just found out about this after doing some research on my own. Several hours after http://ebay.com went down Microsoft released a quite lengthy report attributing the failure to Sun Microsystem's stupidity claiming things like "system boards are not hot-swapable under Suns". But doing a telnet into ebay I found this: # telnet http://www.ebay.com http Trying 126.96.36.199... Connected to http://pages.ebay.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/3.0 Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 02:55:54 GMT Content-Type: text/html Accept-Ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 02:45:02 GMT Content-Length: 15585 Connection closed by foreign host. does anyone find it odd that Microsoft is criticizing ebay who is running their own web server? http://www.microsoft.com/technet/avail/ebay.htm
|1999/7/17 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16150 Activity:insanely high
17/07 Can a general meeting overturn the ssh only decision? If yes, it should be put up for vote next time. Concerning ftp, a nice solution is to allow people to cp files somewhere into anon ftp area. Can I do it now? Yes, I am aware that I could put files under my public_html -muchandr \_ The constitution is linked from the CSUA web page. Why not read it? \_ It's a policy decision. I don't think the constitution allows for that. You *could* call a meeting and impeach the VP, install your own puppet VP and get the policy changed... \_ WAREZ!!! D000EWDE!!! I KANT WAIT 4 AWL THE KIDZ 2 START Y00ZING D CSY00A FOR WAREZ!11 THAN I KAN JUST KOPY IT 2 MY AKOUNT INSTED OF B-ING A B1G LEETCH!!!11 M00CHANDAR Y00 R K-RAD!111 \_ The CSUA already has anonymous ftp. What did you think have to break down _ask_, like everyone else. Take a look at http://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu was? If you want a directory there, you'll have to break down and _ask_, like everyone else. Take a look at /csua/adm/doc/policies/ftp before you ask, to make sure you can handle the regulations. -mikeh
|1999/7/16 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16149 Activity:high
7/15 Abstraction barrier. I don't wanna know how s/key works. I just want a WinNT FTP client that supports it. URL? \_ s/key works by using an MD4 algorithm. If you don't want to know how things work I suggest you pick a different major other than engineering or computer science. \_ You need to run keyinit on soda. You'll need some luck to find a GUI FTP client that hides S/Key details from you.
|1999/7/15-16 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16143 Activity:moderate
07/15 How do you use s/key to ftp? Thanks \_ same way as you do with telnet. it challenges you answer. see man skey(1). -aaron \_ great s/key howto: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/skey.html \_ keyinit SUCKS, documentation-wise. It asks for "6 english words". It should say 'the 6 english words generated by "key"'
|1999/7/15-16 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16138 Activity:high
7/14 S/Key is neat-o. It works even if you don't have ssh. \_ S/Key is useful, but understand that it only protects your _soda_ password. If you connect to soda using telnet and s/key, then telnet somewhere else and type your ordinary password for that place, it can be sniffed. ssh is not an annoying frivolity, it is a good thing; use it if you can. --dbushong \_ Question (not necessarily rhetorical)- Is giving your password to a web-based java applet really an improvement over telnet? \_ Yes, because your password is encrypted before leaving the machine. (Of course, the csua should put it on an ssl httpd for the truly paranoid.) Yeah, yeah, Java is secure, but aren't there ways around that too? \_ so download the applet, and install it on your own server. Then worse case, it could only communicate back to THAT server. And/or just set your security settings to disallow applets from making ANY net connections. \_ So wouldn't it be nice to have an authorized s/key applet on soda? \_ http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/skey
|1999/7/15-8/5 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16137 Activity:nil
07/15 As announced, ordinary plaintext password telnet & rlogin sessions are now disallowed, unfortunately, due to unforeseen complications involving unique soda brokenness, you get to use s/key for ftp too! We apologize for any inconvenience, but know our users understand the goal is to maintain a safe and secure user community. -root A Java SSH Client and S/Key Calculator are online at: <DEAD>www.csua/ssh<DEAD> and <DEAD>www.csua/skey<DEAD> respectively
|1999/7/14-16 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16128 Activity:nil
7/14 So it's almost 7/15. What's the word on S/Key or telnet alternatives? \_ man skey is higher-level \_ S/Key is supported; see "man keyinit" for what to set up on soda and http://msri.org/local/computing/skey for what to set up on your local machine. --mconst
|1999/7/9 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16093 Activity:nil
07/09 While we're talking about Windoze, does anyone know a POP3 mailer that stores e-mails in the same pure-text as it's stored in /var/mail? I'm going nuts with these proprietary .mbx, .idx, and .eml files that MS Outlook uses. \_ You might have some luck looking into PC-hosted UUCP-style mailers; from what I've seen of them, they tend to understand mbox format pretty well. -brg \_ If you find some Eudora resouces on the web, you'll see that Eudora's .mbx format _is_ in the standard unix format.
|1999/7/6 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16083 Activity:high
7/6 This is a pretty dead horse, but since telnet will be gone soon, why can't sshd be set to listen to the now defunct port 23 for those of us behind lame-o firewalls? Maybe I'm missing something... but it seems like a no-brainer solution. \_ that would keep people from using S/Key \_ your firewall isnt nearly as lames as those that only allow the telnet _protocol_ by use of annoying proxies.
|1999/6/30-7/1 [Computer/SW/Unix/WindowManager, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16048 Activity:high
6/30 If I decide to change to bash insted of tcsh on soda do I simply chsh or do I have add my own .bash* files, or does soda automatilly do the right thing? \_ chsh \_ What do you consider "the right thing"? You want it to make soda customised .bash files for you? \_ the default soda shell is tcsh for which all the dotfiles are set up, as far as enviroment settings. But when I changed to bash one day I noticed that a bunch of stuff wasn't right like my path, and I was simply wondering if there were any preconfigured .bash* files I could copy, or if I had to port all the settings myself. \_ Most machines usually have default files stored in /etc/skel but csua apparently doesn't have that. \_ That's because most machines DON'T have /etc/skel you moron. That's a SysVR4-ism. What soda has is /csua/share/doc/FAQ which tells you where the default dotfiles are. \_ the FAQ sez to look in /usr/share/skel but see NO .bash* files. How do other bash users configure their env for soda? \_ Look at dot.shrc & dot.profile bozo \_ There's only a dozen other bash users and presumably they all knew what they were doing before changing their shell. Maybe you should try that. \_ The CSUA is not here to hold your hand on the path to Unix enlightenment. We've created reasonable defaults to get you on your feet. You are more than welcome to diverge from the beaten path, but do not expect a personal guide; The idea behind this is that you might actually learn something by doing it on your own.
|1999/6/30-7/1 [Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16046 Activity:nil
6/30 This may seem a bit unconventional but since csua is disabling telnet and people are complaining about firewall restrictions is it possible to have sshd also listen to port 23 since most firewall admins don't block that? --non-alum \_ It makes more sense to have it on the rlogin port, since ssh emulates that stuff securely. And yes, it works through a firewall that way, if it passes port 512. Or it would work on the telnet port too. However, some firewalls require use of PROXIES, to stop exactly this kind of shennanigans.
|1999/6/25 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/Languages/Perl] UID:16018 Activity:high
6/25 Using perls LWP it's trivial to 'download' html file and parse it, but what if I want to download something like a *.gif file where I dont want to capture standardout like with HTML. In other words I just want the file. Any pointers? \_ getright. http://www.getright.com \_ hint: the gif files on a web page have unique urls. good luck. \_ more specifically I was looking for the right functions of LPW to download as an object. \_ Jeez. why use a crane to pick up a bowling ball? you can use "wget" or other executables compiled for "Get this http file". Or if you insist doing it in perl, then just use the http get routines. Or open up the socket, send "GET /file HTTP 1.0", and ignore everything until the first empty line.
|1999/6/25 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:16015 Activity:low
6/24 anyone have a list of the %? escapes used by netscape's application customization settings? when you add an external viewer, what's the escape for the local filename or stream url? i was trying to help a computer-phobic set up mpg123 as an app... i'm not able to plumb their horrid online docs for such useful info. --karlcz \_ mpg123 %s \_ what? \_ the "preferences" menus for navigator lead to a section where you can add apps to view media types defined by file extension, eg .mp3 the existing app entries i saw are for telnet etc. and have command-lines "telnet %h %p". i tried the obvious "mpg123 %f" for mp3 files, but it didn't work. similarly, "gimp %f" for viewing RGB files didn't work. it started gimp, but didn't pass the web-image as input. is there a better way to do this? --karlcz
|1999/6/18-19 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15985 Activity:very high
6/18 How much for a life account on soda? \_ soda account and having a life are mutually exclusive. \_ u must FIRST bring back root a SHRUBBERY! \_ namely marijuana \_ or MDMA \_ dissociatives are bad for you. \_ It's all bad for you. \_ is this what you learned from government sanctioned propaganda and programs like D.A.R.E ? You're the kind that they like, follow directions, don't question authority and you'll do fine. \_ No, child, this is what I learned from watching my girlfriend destroy her life. You're a prick. Little wannabe druggy fucks all think they're so smart and anti- government-conspiracy and all that bullshit. Well, clue time. You're just a dumb shit moron burning out your brain and body. I'm not a child of the DARE generation. I'm a child of the been-there-knows-that- first-hand generation. _/ Then someone of your OBVIOUS wisdom, and intelect would surely refrain from generalizing comments like, "it's all bad" I bow before you unending insight and wisdom, but clearly you can't be serious about comparing your crack-whore gf to an occasional pot smoker or social drinker. \_ You're a prick. Please dope up and drive off a cliff and drown to death. The world will be a better place. \_ First you must get a life. Life accounts are only awarded to those who graduate with all 5 life points.
|1999/6/16-19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15964 Activity:nil
6/16 JOB: Part-time UNIX sysadmin for MechE Dept in Etcheverry needed ASAP. see /csua/pub/jobs/UCB_MechE_Dept -jeffwong
|1999/6/11 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15945 Activity:high
6/10 What the hell was up with soda around 4:20??? It was slow as hell. root, any explanations? Oh yea, uptime reported around 40 load \_ Check the top of the motd.official. \_ So what was the squishee doing? \_ it was smoking a fattie! long live 420!! \_ He won't do WHAT again? \_ What was it that he did, just so us idiots won't try the same thing? \_ 420!! It was smoking a big fat blunt, explaining the slowness. \_ Whats all these references to 420 as some drug? what? \_ where have you been for the last 10 years? \_ Is this some kind of snoop doggy dogg kind of thing? \_ dumbasses... \_ Seriously. Smell up and smell the ganja, people! \_ Everybody must get stoned. \_ http://caliban.sf.ca.us/img/420.jpg \_ Hail! \_ http://420.com
|1999/6/7-9 [Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15915 Activity:high
6/7 My Solaris 2.6 Ultra 5 machine is in a weird state. It's out of sockets! I do a netstat and there are 32,000+ sockets, most of them from a port on localhost to another port one on localhost. And most of them are in the TIME_WAIT state. But they are not being reclaimed. lsof doesn't help. The TIME_WAIT ports don't show up. Any ideas on how I candiagnose this? Is the TIME_WAIT timeout configurable? Can I turn on more logging? I've shut down all major user processes and the sockets are still not being reclaimed. Any help would be appreciated. I don't want to reboot until I've learned as much as I can. Thanks. -- azarm \-do you know what client programis causing this [it isnt ldap by any chance is it?] if this is a machine you are root on, i might know how to deal with it [which is slightly different than fix it]. will let you know if i can remember the exact ndd magic. --psb \_ ummm. also make sure you check the recommended patch list for 2.6 before you start jumping through hoops like the overworked stunt animal that you are :) \_ Sounds like a classic half-open attack. Remote machine sends all sorts of spoofed 127.0.0.1 connections, and most OS's don't see that you can't have 127.0.0.1 stuff coming in the Ethernet interface. Solution: do a deny on 127.0.0.1 on your incoming router, or block it with natd or ipfilter or something. \_ I did more research. 14000 of the sockets are to a port that's snmpdx is using (an SNMP daemon process). 1000 are ftp sockets to a known machine and another 1000 are sendmail sockets to another known machine. I have nightly script to mail and ftp. The scripts work fine (without socket leakage) on other machines. \_ Checked your patch level lately? \_ tcp sockets to a snmp port? UH, no -- SNMP runs on UDP. -ERic \_ TIME_WAIT sockets don't count against the 1024 limit. -ausman
|1999/5/23-25 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15862 Activity:high
5/23 Did you hear that Ari and Christine are married? \_ "If you need to ask, you don't know." \_ Why should we care? \_ How many times have we heard about this? \_ Which Christine? (Which login?) \_ the one with 3 different logins because she can't make up her mind. \_ The one that's been living with ari for years. If you don't know her login, you don't know her and don't need to know. (Hint: If you pay any attention to walls, you know who.) \_ Why does anyone care? Just shut up. It's not like, "Did you hear Ari and Christine are tag team serial killers?" \_ This is outrageous. There is no evidence that Christine has help Ari with any of his crimes, especially not serial killing. \_ there's a website out there of her holding down twaung while ari rapes him \_ http://www.networkgen.com/~twaung/images/bean1.jpg \_ Damn! I got 403 Forbidden. \_ what kind of lamer puts an image in his PUBLIC HTML "images directory, then revokes view privilege for it? Either have it there, or not. sheesh. \_ I thought it was Ari holding him down while xtine raped him. \_ I just want to check out her pics if she has a home page, to see how lucky/unlucky Ari is. \_ Ari is filthy rich, Christine is a lot hotter than your hand, you just lose in comparison. \_ I dunno dood....My hand is pretty good looking. \_ ~chris \_ Boy-child, luck has nothing to do with it. The sooner you get over that idea, the sooner you'll be making love to a woman instead of your hand. \_ And if you're Ari, this will include cheating too. \_ What? Do tell! \_ That was what I thought until I have this hot babe fall from the sky. \_ What'd she weigh? Or did you let her bounce a few times first?
|1999/5/22 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15856 Activity:moderate
5/21 Beside ftp, what other network services don't work behind firewalls and why? \_ Please don't delete this. I'm planning on setting up a firewall myself. \_ Er, depends on the firewall and its configuration. And as for why: they're blocked on the firewall. -John \_ Not just blocked services but there are services (like ftp) that won't allow machines behind a firewall to use that service due to implementation reasons. \_ As for ftp, you can always use pftp (passive mode). If you don't have pftp, just do what Real Men do, telnet into the ftp server on port 21 and issue the PASV command. \_ Any process which has a callback mechanism. For example: Quake, IRC, Real Audio, cuseeme, ftp. -- nickkral \_ Don't forget ICQ! I just love my firewall since it keeps the grubbing interns from chatting with thier friends on company time! \_ AIM! AIM! \_ It all depends on the firewall and it's configuration. Some setups will let any & all of the above work.
|1999/5/20-21 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15847 Activity:high
5/20 We're receiving around a thousand bug reports per day about our software, but we really only have 1 person to deal with them. What software is available to process and organize these reports to make them more manageable? \_ Don't do anything about them an call your company Microsoft. \_ use GNU gnats. \_ jitterbug is supposed to be good \_ Forget about fixing them. Quit this company. Obviously, this software is shit. \_ We have 45 million users. 1k complaints/day isn't a big deal. Obviously, you're talking out your ass. \_ You have 45 million users and only 1 person to deal with bugs? Is your management crazy?
|1999/5/19-20 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15840 Activity:high
5/19 Dear root It would be really cool if you could remove all the old job listings from /csua/pub/jobs, I'd be more than happy to do it myself but my BSD security compromising fu is lacking. You see I need to find a job so I can afford an NT license, I can't get any work done without that wonderfull paperclip helping me along the way. Thank you very much and may god love you for ever. job-less on CSUA \_ find a headhunter. try http://dice.com \_ Wired is hiring. http://www.hotwired.com/jobs good luck. \_ ls -l will tell you when a company's job listing was last fiddled with. Old listings' job openings probably don't exist, but the company probably still does. If the company sounds interesting, try their website.
|1999/5/17-18 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15822 Activity:kinda low
5/17 PLEASE clean up your old crap in the /csua/pub/job dir! \_ I'd like to, but all the files and dirs I put there before are now owned by root. Darth Maul kills Qui-Gon. \_ root would be happy to help you with this problem.
|1999/5/15 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15815 Activity:high
5/15 It's the "Message Of The Day", not "Messages Of Last Week". If you don't want it nuked, start something fresh. \_ It's also not the standard root-only motd. You want it wiped once a day, petition root to make a cron job. Since you obviously don't "get it", just use a .hushlogin and leave the rest of us alone. \_ I don't want it wiped once a day, I want it to not be full of stupid trollfests from a week ago that keep getting replaced by the original trollers. \_ Dumbshit, nothing on the motd was more than 48 hours old. Get a fucking calendar. \_ maybe ERic should stop rcsing the motd. That is how poeple get old copies to replace it with. \_ No it isn't. It is actually possible to save a copy yourself. This may come as a stunning revelation to you, but the cp command isn't root only.
|1999/5/11-12 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15790 Activity:nil
5/10 /tmp/q3test_1_05.exe \_ and /tmp/gamespyinstaller210std.exe to actually find net games \_ Please, please please don't put large files in /tmp. It's a memoryfs mounted filesystem. (translation: fill it up and you fill up memory on soda) Put large files in /csua/tmp
|1999/4/28 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15717 Activity:nil
4/28 problem running a file on unix, get no such file or directory the file is a script file , first line is #/bin/csh. a few comment lines then an echo statment.. when i run the file the echo statement never appears, just get above error, logged in as root and file permissions are rwx (777) any ideas? \_ You mean #!/bin/csh or #/bin/csh ? Have you tried sourcing? \_ Make sure csh is in that directory.... \_ yes #!/bin/csh and csh is in there.. :( \_ Have you tried looking at whether it has invisible characters? Try " /bin/ls -al | od -c | more " \_ nope. no invis chars C S H \n \_ I think you want ./filename because . isn't in your path. --dim \_ it is in path :( \_ i created a small test file: contains #!/bin/csh test # echo " hello" exit 0 ran it with test, returns nothing , ran it with ./test gets permission denied. \_ if you didn't specify ./test, odds are you ran /bin/test by accident. 'test' is not a good name for a test script.
|1999/4/5 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15698 Activity:high
4/4 If you haven't seen it yet, this makes good reading: http://www.opencode.org/h2o -brg \_ What is the G in Gnu's Not Unix? Every recursion has a base case right? \_ Not all recursion has a base case. Try, e.g., (define (foo) (foo)) Or, more to the point, (define (gnu) (cons (gnu) '(is not unix))) Every example of recursion _that terminates_ has a base case, but recursion need not terminate. See Hofstadter's _Godel, Escher, Bach_ for some discussion of infinite or non-terminating recursion, including in acronyms. -- schoen \_ Every correct recursive function has a base case. The solution to Alan Turing's Halting problem is that if you wrote the program correctly it should eventually terminate IMHO. \_ How is that a solution to the halting problem? The halting problem is trying to figure out a way to know if you wrote your program "correctly" (your terminology)? Your "solution" does not tell you how you know if you wrote your program correctly. \_ I thought the halting problem was if your program would eventually finish. \_ The Halting Problem is how you can _tell_. It happens to be equivalent to one form of program correctness testing, but it's usually stated in terms of the decision problem for programs' halting. \_ What do you mean by a "correct recursive function"?
|1999/4/1 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15681 Activity:nil
3/31 ~danh/public_html/finger/* \_ Is this why we get so many spams? \_ turn this crap off. this is ridiculous. this is the only account I have that doesn't (yet) get spam and I want to keep it that way.
|1999/3/31-4/2 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15675 Activity:low
3/31 Requiem demo #2 available on http://www.3do.com (can I set a mirror on csua? ftp is hurting at 3do...) -daryl \_ 3do is a bunch of commies. \_ my bro says that Warzone 2100 is the next sleeper hit RTS. After playing about 20 missions he says he can never go back to C&C, TA, SC, Myth2, every other RTS - try the demo what do ya think? \_ the demo was interesting. The unit AI still needs some work, and path finding as always, but definit promise. A game I'll look to pick up used or bargin bin. - seidl
|1999/3/23-24 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15635 Activity:high
3/22 Please help! I ftp into soda, login successfully, but can't 'get' any files because it just hangs. ls/dir hangs. Example: ftp> bin 200 Type set to I. ftp> get file.tar.Z 200 PORT command successful. 425 Can't build data connection: Operation timed out. ftp> This happens consistently. Help, help, help! \_ try passive mode, at your ftp prompt, type "passive". You're behind a firewall that won't let the ftp server create the data socket back to your machine. \_ Sigh... my crummy ftp client doesn't do passive mode. Getting a better one. Thanks for the info!
|1999/3/17-18 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15605 Activity:high
3/17 How do you create a list of quotes for fortune. I notice that they have to be separated by a % but how can you get the accompanying .dat file ? \_ strfile fortunefile create fortunefile.dat. It should be documented in the fortune manpage though it isnt --jon \_ to be safe, strfile file file.dat \_ Where is the fortune program located on soda? \_ There really needs to be a motd.public FAQ % whereis fortune fortune: /csua/bin/fortune /usr/ports/shells/tcsh/work/tcsh- 6.07.02/config/fortune \_ Go stick your head in a pig. \_ Found it! /usr/games/fortune \_ which unfortunately consists of one single line: echo "Go stick your head in a pig."
|1999/3/8-10 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15558 Activity:high
3/8 Some older accounts have incomplete manpaths, they should be: "/usr/man:/csua/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11/man" If you don't have this, man www, etc. won't work. \_ No, actually, you should just not have a MANPATH. Remove any line that says setenv MANPATH in your .cshrc or MANPATH= in your .profile/.bashrc. --dbushong \_ how does man know where to look for pages, then? \_ we told it where to look (read 'man manpath') -- root \_ does this apply to path as well? \_ The default system man search path is in /etc/manpath.config The "default" csh path for you is probably what got copied into your .cshrc file from /usr/share/skel/dot.cshrc (if you have a new account) or something funky otherwise. A good setting is: (. ~/bin /csua/bin /usr/local/bin /usr/bin /bin) \_ NOT! Drop the dot! \_ if you insist on having . in your path, you should at least put it at the end. --dbushong \_ UM.. I did ___NOT___ put "." in the path when I made that post. Please do not edit other people's posts, especially when they are signed. --dbushong \_ I did *NOT* post this. --dbushong \_ PGP signed motd entries again, anyone?
|1999/3/2-3 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15510 Activity:high
3/1 In tcsh, how do you make a shell variable display in your prompt? \_ setenv FOO bar set prompt=$FOO % __ / \ / ..|\ (_\ |_) / \@' / \ _ / ` | \\/ \ | _\ \ /_ || \\_ \____)|_) \_) \____)|_) \_) \_ is this another one of those fetish things? \_ didn't figlet also did dogs.
|1999/2/27-3/30 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15491 Activity:nil
2/26 Check out: telnet 184.108.40.206, login world (then type your name) comments to bfeaster@csua (80x25 vt100/color emulation required)
|1999/2/25-3/30 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15483 Activity:high
2/25 In MS-DOS, I can do "prompt $E[7m$p$g$E[0m" to get an inverse command prompt. Is there a way to do the same thing for NT command prompt? Thanks. \_ http://www.jpsoft.com 4NT \_ tcsh for NT. \_ tcsh != MS-DOS. The jpsoft stuff is as good or better than tcsh for personalization mods like this and they're also written specifically to upgrade DOS-heads to tcsh-like power without having to relearn everything from scratch and rewrite a zillion batch files. \_ 4NT != MS-DOS. More apropos, NT command prompt != 4NT. Bonehead. \_ Idiot. He wants to set his prompt. Read the fucking message. 4NT will give him exactly what he wants \_ Pay? Who paid for it? tcsh for personalization mods like this and they're also written specifically to upgrade DOS-heads to tcsh-like power without having to relearn everything from scratch and rewrite a zillion batch files. without learning anything new except for the new prompt command nor requiring him to rewrite any batch files. You, Sir, are a moron. \_ Setting a prompt is worth paying for a new shell? \_ Pay? Who paid for it? There's a reason it hasn't had a new version in years. Just download and use it. If you want to get into a debate about the ethics of stealing trialware, go for it, but 4NT is still a perfectly good answer. Go start a new thread if you want to flame me for lack of ethics.
|1999/2/24 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15468 Activity:moderate
2/23 Why is it that when I use tin to post a message, it gets posted as if its from <DEAD>host.berkeley.edu<DEAD> even though I am on <DEAD>host.cs.berkeley.edu<DEAD> and there is no <DEAD>host.berkeley.edu<DEAD>? I'm using /usr/sww/bin/tin and its version: tin 1.3 950824BETA PL0 [UNIX] (c) Copyright 1991-94 Iain Lea. \_ perhaps you should ask the people who run the machine(s) on which you are having this problem, dumbass. \_ I have seen the same problem with other machines and other people. So unless diff sysadmins in the dept are making the same mistakes, this might be a tin problem. Thats why I posted to the motd, dumbass. \_ /usr/sww is built by one group of sysadmins and shared with the entire dept, so if the problem's there, it doesn't matter who your sysadmin is dumbass. \_ Then I'd contact SWW sysadmin, not "the people who run the machine(s) on which you are having this problem", right, stupid dumbfuck? \_ wow you people are \_ The problem with sww is that it isn't maintained in a consistent and serious way for the last few years. Good luck with sww admins.
|1999/2/22-24 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15461 Activity:high
2/22 Is there an equivalent to the UNIX command '| more' in VMS? \_ Besides the Soviet Doomsday machine, who the hell uses VMS? \_ On older systems, you can $ DEFINE SYS$OUTPUT STUFF.TXT $ <commands producing lots of output> $ DEASSIGN SYS$OUTPUT $ TYPE/PAGE=SAVE STUFF.TXT on new (v7.1ish systems) you can $ MORE :== TYPE/PAGE=SAVE SYS$INPUT $ PIPE <commands producing lots of output> | MORE You can put the assignment of MORE in your http://LOGIN.COM, so it will be there every time you log in. Or you could just use the POSIX command interpreter and forget about all this nonsense. -brg \_ Holy shit.... And I thought a lot of unix stuff was arcane.
|1999/2/20-21 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15452 Activity:kinda low
2/19 How long does the typical UNIX system administrator stay at his job? It's been 8 months for me, and I'm getting itchy! \_ you're an idiot. If you want to be jumping around, then go sign up with Taos or some other consulting firm. \_ That's twice as long as i stayed \_ My jobs have been 4 years and 1 year, but those have been both SA and Network Engineer. -ERic \_ The typical UNIX sysadmin stays at his/her job as long as he is happy with the job, the coworkers, the salary, etc. If your job is crap, 8 months is too long - if it's great then stay for years.
|1999/2/18 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15436 Activity:moderate
2/17 running slackware linux V 2, I can ftp as anonymous but NOT as a user. I can telnet in as a user but, once in, if i type "login" and the SAME username and password it won't let me in, but I CAN "rlogin." WTF?? \_ Your shell isn't listed in /etc/shells --dbushong \_ Oh, they are listed. (Shells plural since none of the users can ftp or "login" regardless of what shell they are using). \_ Also, some ftpd's have their own shells file. This may not apply in your case, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
|1999/2/11 [Recreation/Food, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15398 Activity:insanely high
2/10 What's the optimal path to get from San Ramon to good sushi, taking both distance and quality into account? \_ I'm asking for recommendations of sushi places. Statement of question was intended to be humorous. Would you seriously try raw fish at a random restaurant? --tsang \_ anonymous coward deleted. -tom \-eibisu in SF. --psb \_ a hamilton path. you want to make sure you visit every single street corner first. \_ use greedy algorithm \_ variation of Kruskal \_ yellow pages + yahoo maps = not having to ask stupid questions on motd \_ yellow pages + yahoo maps = not having to ask stupid q's on motd \_ uhh, yellow page and yahoo maps doesnt tell you if a sushi place is good or not \_ I'm asking for recommendations of sushi places. Statement of question was intended to be humorous. Would you seriously try raw fish at a random restaurant? --tsang \_ if it's on the web, it must be good! -tom \_ eibisu in SF. --psb 19990210JUSTTWODAYSTOBERKELEYCRITICALMASS \_ is it enough better than more local restaurants to justify the long drive from San Ramon? --tsang \_ ebisu in SF, has > 2hr waits, and no reservations... \_ might try Kirala in Berkeley \_ He said "good" sushi. \_ House of Sake in Walnut Creek. --chris
|1999/2/9-10 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15383 Activity:low
2/9 What's the standard Unix way to multithread programs in C? \_ The most portable way is POSIX threads; see pthread(3) or pthreads(3), depending on your system. \_ If you are interested in NT portability in the future, I would suggest using ACE: http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html I know its not C, but it does give you a high level of portability. \_ so does perl \_ I have not seen any thread functions in perl. What module are you using? \_ use Thread; (surprise surprise) -tom \_ NT is POSIX and supports pthread. \_ Do you live in Redmond? The POSIX subsystem in NT is a joke. The performance penalty for using it is worse than if you chose to use Java's green threads.
|1999/2/8-9 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15374 Activity:low
2/8 RIP my #1 whiteboy, my Ace, Malcom Russell Hart. Maybe someone can explain to me God's plan on this one. --maxmcc \_ Who? \_ Cal student killed in an avalanche; see the Daily Cal \_ No, but maybe you can make a memorial web page so other people can find out about him. \_ That is a good idea. I am no web designer, but I will put up some stuff, and try to scan some pictures later today or tomorrow. It will be at http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~maxmcc/malcolm
|1999/2/1-2 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15341 Activity:high
2/1 finger firstname.lastname@example.com [soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU] finger: tawei: no such user \_ Is tawei currently under Soda's witness protection program? \_ Yes. "man finger" for information on how to join.
|1999/2/1-2 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:15335 Activity:kinda low
2/1 I found plenty of offline browsers for the PC at http://www.shareware.com but NONE for unix. Anybody know of an offline browser that d/ls an entire web site on your HD for solaris? \_ wget is your friend
|1999/1/30-2/1 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15326 Activity:moderate
1/30 Is there a way to prevent someone, or if it's easier an entire domain, from seeing your finger information if you're logged in or not? \_ ask root to disable fingerd. its a stupid 'service' anyway. \_ What's the account that you want to exclude from? \_ from the finger manpage -- If the file ``.nofinger'' exists in the user's home directory, finger be- haves as if the user in question does not exist. \_ I meant just a specific user, not blocking out everyone. \_ No, because you have no way of knowing where the finger really comes from (many versions of finger allow 'forwarding' connections, i.e. 'finger joe@csua@uclink' looks like it's coming from uclink, not the real user). \_ This behavior is deprecated and may gradually start to go away, though. Some fancy fingerds like cfingerd do what the original person asked for... and I think GNU fingerd lets users change the output of fingering their accounts.
|1999/1/29 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15323 Activity:nil
1/28 Since when did Tawei start logging in regularly? tawei ttyx7 126.96.36.199 Thu Jan 28 16:31 - 16:41 (00:10) tawei ftp 188.8.131.52 Thu Jan 28 16:28 - 16:29 (00:00) tawei ftp 220.127.116.11 Thu Jan 28 16:26 - 16:27 (00:00) ... tawei ttyR7 126.96.36.199 Sun Jan 10 10:07 - 10:07 (00:00) tawei ttyP9 220.127.116.11 Sat Jan 9 15:08 - 15:10 (00:01)
|1999/1/28-29 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15308 Activity:nil
1/27 Is it possible to automate password cracking on an NT network, aka crack on a UNIX network? I ask because I am allowing SMB access to our unix backbone, but I want to make sure they haven't picked bad passwords (and for political reasons, cant force them to use their unix passwords for the SMB server). Any other thoughts on this matter are appreciated. -- NT clueless \_ "password cracking on an NT network, also known as crack on a UNIX network" you really are clueless to our unix backbone, but I want to make sure they haven't picked bad passwords (and for political reasons, cant force them to use their unix passwords for the SMB server). Any other thoughts on this matter are appreciated. -- NT clueless \_ only the best: http://www.l0pht.com/l0phtcrack
|1999/1/21-23 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15270 Activity:kinda low
1/21 How do I easily add symbolic link like /etc/rc.d/rc0.d/K15httpd, into all the rc1 through rc6 directories? \_ sounds like a job for a simple foreach loop \_ bash foreach i (`ls /etc/rc.d/ | grep rc`) ? ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd /etc/rc.d/$i/K15httpd ? end --jeff \_ By the way, if you're using RedHat Linux there's tksysv which will do this for you. ~jefe/pub/tksysv \_ (t)csh syntax is exactly the same, except of course, you can do the foreach as 'foreach i (/etc/rc.d/rc[1-6])' -ERic \_ fyi: The Solaris standard is a hard link. (ln, not ln -s) -ax \_ FYI: Sun is schizophrenic. S89bdconfig, comes with the OS, is a soft link. All the Symon and SDS rc scripts are soft links. \_ I didn't say Sun followed their own standards! :) -ax
|1999/1/19-21 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15253 Activity:high
1/18 Is there any serious consequence of changing my root shell from the default /bin/bash to /bin/tcsh? \_ No. -tom (presuming you mean linux; consequences otherwise vary but probably are minor). \_ do root shellscripts that run as "#" and not "#/some/shell" run as your default shell? \_ Only if you run them from your default shell. If you're referring to /etc/rc.d/*, etc. no. -tom \_ This is a bad idea, some of the init scripts assume that you are running /bin/sh. You need to make sure that all your scripts have a #!/bin/sh at the beginning. \_ thanks, I'll just leave root as bash and learn stupid bash \_ bash is great, you'll be happy you did. --aaron \_ EXPLANAVUE, aaron? \_ None of the init scripts assume you are running /bin/sh when they're run at boot. When you run them yourself, you can run them with "sh script". -tom
|1999/1/16-18 [Computer/SW/Mail, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15243 Activity:high
1/15 When I try to run pgp5, it says: Invoked with unknown symlink. ??? \_ and I cannot ask elm to use pgp5 for that reason. \_ ls -l `which pgp`; ls -l ~/.pgp check to make sure that any symbolic links aren't broken. \_ I played around and realize that pgp5 checks under which symbolic name it was invoked to perform the approriate function, unlike pgp ver. 2. However, this makes it impossible for elm to use it, and thus I cannot use DSS key with elm. Any solution? \_ use mutt \_ Does the mutt on soda support PGP5? \_ Does mutt on soda support PGP5? It does not seem so. \_ Well, you could try creating the symlinks to the pgp binary yourself. If you need to, you could always create them in ~yourhome/bin and add that to your path to make them easy to get at. If the pgp binary expects to be invoked through a symlink, then why not let it? \_ Well, I think elm invokes pgp using options rather than symlink. pgp2 and pgp5 command formats are not compatiable.
|1999/1/6-7 [Computer/Networking, Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15181 Activity:nil
1/6 Let's say I do a "netstat -a" and see someone is hogging up a port that I need (ie. I'm running a MUD server). As a root, how do I delete the process that is associated with that port? Thanks. \_ use lsof to get the pid of the process that is using the port.
|1999/1/6-7 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15179 Activity:high
1/5 Where can I grab kerberos for an irix machine? \_ this question shows a lack of conceptual understanding. \_ Then pray tell, oh enlightened one, where did I stray from my path? \_ where you decided what you need instead of telling us what you're trying to accomplish \_ Twit. Obviously he wants to install kerberos on an SGI. \_ Last I checked, no one had ported kerberos to SGI. No client, no server. Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero. Unlike other people, I understand why you might want to install kerberos on an SGI to work in a pre-existing kerberos environment. Maybe in the last year or so someone has done it, but I wouldn't bet money on it. Good luck on this one. I was told it was a non-trivial port. \_ Get krb5. I have it compiled on our SGI's running Irix 6.2 and it seems to work. Stay away from krb4. -marc
|1999/1/6-7 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15172 Activity:nil
1/4 hi. i dont really know quite how to compile this program that i found this morning. here are the first 7 lines (out of 15 output) that im getting when i compile (the rest of output is in ~/hahnak/mmv/errors): % make -f Makefile cc -o mmv -O -pipe mmv.c mmv.c:115: conflicting types for `lseek' /usr/include/sys/types.h:161: previous declaration of `lseek' mmv.c:365: conflicting types for `memmove' /usr/include/string.h:55: previous declaration of `memmove' mmv.c: In function `init': can anybody point me to a particular man page or a web page or simply tell me what i need to do to compile this? thanks, hahnak (still learning) \_ pick up a C book or man lseek and memmove(for the first 2 errors at least). BTW, permission of the log file isnt set up correctly either.
|1998/12/30-31 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15143 Activity:nil
12.29 Does anyone know a good automatic spelling corrector for UNIX? -jnat \_ There is no such thing as an "automatic spelling corrector" - computers can spot words that it doesn't know, but not how they should really be spelled. If you want a spell checker, try ispell. \_ Sure there is. The accuracy is just kinda low. What, you don't believe in AI? Surely we can automate automation! \_ philspell \_ if phil<whatever> is so great, shouldn't every phil program just be one program? like phildoit. word processor? phildoit. email? phildoit. quake2? phildoit. webbrowsing? phildoit. \_ No, but PhilOS is currently under development. \_ uh, phillip writes for Unix, not Winblows. -tom \_ Tom, the original writer was looking for a UNIX program. Where did you see "Windows" or "not UNIX" in there? Maybe quake2 confused you? I don't see why phil can't port quake2 in a few minutes with philport. \_ Only MS (and to an extent Netscape) thinks that putting everything in to one enormous package is a good idea. -tom \_ *bzzt!* Take a closer look at HP-UX and try again. Monolithic kernel, and something like a half-dozen utilities (with nine zillion hard links to them) that decide what they are at runtime by checking arg[0]. If you've got access to the sources, get some Pepto Bismal in you before reading. \_ Only? Well well, The Tom Hath Spoken, Thus It Shall Be! All Hail The All Knowing Tom! \_What's the FTP site? \_ ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/phillip
|1998/12/22 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15140 Activity:nil
12/21 Hello, why does my secure shell client (SecureCRT) constantly drop its connection, even though I enabled a 55 second send of a space bar key press. Any experience with more reliable winnt ssh clients? \_ That's not SecureCRT necessarily, it's probably either a) you have autologout unwittingly set in tcsh; add unset autologout to your .cshrc b) you're logging into a *?$#*$ linux box which logs you out every 10 minutes.. i cannot figure out for the life of me why some systems do this c) your firewall kills connections every n minutes and has a bad algorithm to determine why --dbushong
|1998/12/22 [Computer/SW/Unix, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:15135 Activity:nil
12/21 I Need A GOOD calander/schedule program for a company of a little over a hundred people (but growing fast). We are willing (as it seems like it will be necessary) to change our mail server to whatever the Calandering program needs. We have Unix, NT and even MAC servers I am open to any suggestions, but none of our Sys. Admins. (least of all me) have a huge amount of time to devote to getting it running. Any suggestions? Thanks. -crebbs \_ i've never tried it myself but ical (for unix) seems to be growing in popularity. plus, i heard it works with palm pilots. if you can get something for tcl/tk or possibly java that would solve your multiple platform problems. \_ Get Exchange Server. -completely clueless idiot \_ Corporate Time <DEAD>www.cst.ca<DEAD> seems OK. And you don't need to change your mail program. -tom \_ I believe both the netscape "groupware" stuff has some sort of calender support. But the "best" IMO is the lotus stuff. (ccmail->notes->domino) \_ ccmail is a piece of shit. -tom \_ true. but it does haev a non-m$ calendar prog, that is semi-decent. And the upgraded one in notes is actually pretty good.
|1998/12/19-20 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:15129 Activity:moderate
12/18 in an .rhosts file how do you give access to your account for multiple computers on the same subdomain (like all the computers that end with http://cs.berkeley.edu without having the specifiy every computer in soda hall) \_ Don't be stupid. This is painfully wrong. Do not do this. Use ssh and setup an authorized keys file. \_ The voice of root intones, "Please read /csua/adm/doc/ssh-howto" \_ You feel foolish! \_ Setting *.cs or *.eecs in a .rhosts would be a really bad idea even if you could do it. (Think about this: I install linux or *BSD on my laptop, take it down to the second floor labs, plug it into one of the net connections there, create an account matching yours on my machine and login as you. There's also dozens of *.cs/*.eecs computers you don't have accounts on that people you don't want to have access to your account have root on. Many students have root on many research machines.) \_ PS. This is also why chmod is pointless on the EECS-inst cluster. Anyone can read any file on any NFS-exported filesystem, and write any file on any filesystem exported writable. Have fun editing your final grades! (Too bad Secure NFS isn't available on HP-SUX 10.20) \_ Really? Just because they have an open net as described above or is there something additionally stupid about the *.cs/*.eecs setup? -alum without *.cs to check it out the *.cs/*.eecs setup? -alum (no *.cs account) \_ Because they use NFS on an open net. \_ Because anyone with a UNIX laptop can create an account with any UID they want and non-secure NFS trusts the client to be who they say. (If they dumped the non-Solaris machines they could use Secure NFS which requires a valid kerberos ticket or NIS+ credentials to prove identity.) In short - NFS sucks. \_ If you really want to setup .rhosts to be able to rsh from any of your account, type '+' in your .rhosts file. \_ The EECS-Inst machines have cops set up to detect and disable stupid rhosts. (But it may take a week before it runs and tells you how stupid you are.)