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stderr v. stdout
by Bill Mills-Curran May 9, 2002

May 9, 2002

I can't believe I'm revisiting this yet again... I'm struggling with identifying "standard practice" for deciding when to write to stdout v. stderr. In particular, I'm working with processes associated with software maintenance (building, copying, SCM, etc.). I'd love to find a definitive whitepaper on the subject. Does anyone have any pointers? TIA, Bill

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timezone
by Baris Hasdemir May 8, 2002

May 8, 2002

hi, I have a strange-for-me problem. I am one of those paranoid guys, who has added "ntpdate time.nist.gov" to the crontab to be executed every day. the problem is that, every night the system time is set 1 hour earlier of the actual time. i.e it is executed at 23:00 and is set to 22:00 after ntpdate, as far as I could observe. I am pretty confused about the subject. Tried different timezone names, etc, hence more confused. I also have a problem with the name of the timezone. which timezone name do you choose guys? US/Eastern? America/Newyork? GMT+5? EST? EDT? or any other? I am using slackware-current. set the timezone to America/New_York and whenever I send a mail, sylpheed shows my timezone as GMT-4 and #date shows my timezone as EDT. any comments. other than removing the crontab job? :) thanks, baris

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PowerMac CD-ROM
by Jeremy May 8, 2002

May 8, 2002

Does anyone have a SCSI cdrom that I can borrow/buy for an old 7500? My linux box is such a hackjob of software that I want to reinstall it with YDL. Low and behold I try it last week and the damn CDROM drive doesnt seem to work! Some files copy, some dont... I will just assume its the drive due to age/heat. So I was hoping someone (near WPI) had a CDROM drive i could borrow (external would be good). The drive i think would have to work in MacOS too (to install BOOTX files). Such a PITA some times. Beside CDROM, what other PPC install options still exisit? The boot floppies over network from linuxppc.org use to work but i am not sure they are still around. YDL seemed like a good choice for now. -Jeremy ===== - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

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nvidia drivers, re-visited and working
by Brad Noyes May 8, 2002

May 8, 2002

Hi All, You may remember that earlier this year i was having difficulty in getting the nvidia drivers to work with my TNT card. Today i figured out the problem. I needed to enable 'Assign IRQ to VGA' in my BIOS. Things seem to work, except some re-draws are slow for X-term, and konsole. --brad

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Cheap colo!
by Adam Keck May 7, 2002

May 7, 2002

It's not linux, but it is reasonable, finally. http://www.johncompanies.com/collocation/ -Adam "lingua machinationis creo, ergo sum" _____________________________________________ Adam Keck The Mathworks 508-647-7298 Natick, Ma www.mathworks.com FreeNIX/Backup/Unix Administrator _____________________________________________

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Bad NIC?
by Andy Stewart May 6, 2002

May 6, 2002

HI gang, I have a network interface on my firewall that is throwing receive errors at me. They are in the overrun and frame columns of the ifconfig printout for that interface. I tried to restart the interface and reload the kernel module to no avail. I also power cycled the Linksys switch and cabled to a different switch port. A different cable didn't help, either. I'd rather not reboot the machine with 135 days of uptime. I noticed that on a 100 Mbit ethernet segment, I'm getting a failure rate on approx. 25% of the packets. Reducing the MTU from 1500 to 768 helps the transfer rate but doesn't solve the problem. This is the only machine on my home network that shows any errors. Any thoughts? Is it a bad NIC or something I've missed? Thanks, Andy -- Andy Stewart Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org

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Advise Needed
by Michael Long May 2, 2002

May 2, 2002

It appears that my computer has been hacked into. The following services are run periodically throughout the day. How do I go about finding out what is starting and stopping them and more importantly prevent them from being run. I have a hardware firewall between the computer and isp. 17762 root sh -c (safe_finger -l @64.213.97.247 2>&1| /bin/mail -s "in.ftpd-64.213.97.247 unknown" root) & 17763 nobody safe_finger -l @64.213.97.247 17764 root /bin/mail -s in.ftpd-64.213.97.247 unknown root 17765 nobody finger -l 64.213.97.247 17768 root /usr/sbin/sshd 17770 root sh -c (safe_finger -l @::ffff:64.213.97.247 2>&1| /bin/mail -s "sshd-::ffff:64.213.97.247 unknown" root) & 17771 nobody safe_finger -l @::ffff:64.213.97.247 17772 root /bin/mail -s sshd-::ffff:64.213.97.247 unknown root 17773 nobody finger -l ::ffff:64.213.97.247 Thanks, Mike

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Advise Needed
by Michael Long May 1, 2002

May 1, 2002

It appears that my computer has been hacked into. The following services are run periodically throughout the day. How do I go about finding out what is starting and stopping them and more importantly prevent them from being run. I have a hardware firewall between the computer and isp. 17762 root sh -c (safe_finger -l @64.213.97.247 2>&1| /bin/mail -s "in.ftpd-64.213.97.247 unknown" root) & 17763 nobody safe_finger -l @64.213.97.247 17764 root /bin/mail -s in.ftpd-64.213.97.247 unknown root 17765 nobody finger -l 64.213.97.247 17768 root /usr/sbin/sshd 17770 root sh -c (safe_finger -l @::ffff:64.213.97.247 2>&1| /bin/mail -s "sshd-::ffff:64.213.97.247 unknown" root) & 17771 nobody safe_finger -l @::ffff:64.213.97.247 17772 root /bin/mail -s sshd-::ffff:64.213.97.247 unknown root 17773 nobody finger -l ::ffff:64.213.97.247 Thanks, Mike

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Returned mail: see transcript for details (fwd)
by Michelle Vadeboncoeur April 30, 2002

April 30, 2002

can anyone determine from the status codes what software the Reporting-MTA is? Maybe the reason is hidden in that code. Your mysterious non-delivery generated a Status: 5.0.0 for a comparison returned email, I send a test message to a friend's inactive hotmail account (disabled for lack of use). I sent it using Pine on a linux box running sendmail. sorry, I'm not on charter so I can't completely replicate things... besides the status codes being different, it's my server rejecting the email, and not a response from hotmail. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From MAILER-DAEMON(a)kluge.net Tue Apr 30 15:34:51 2002 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:23 -0400 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(a)kluge.net> To: mrv(a)eclectic.kluge.net Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 from mrv@localhost ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com> (reason: 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mx09.hotmail.com.: >>> RCPT To:<outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com> <<< 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive 550 5.1.1 <outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com>... User unknown [ Part 2: "Delivery Status" ] Reporting-MTA: dns; eclectic.kluge.net Arrival-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 Final-Recipient: RFC822; outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Remote-MTA: DNS; mx09.hotmail.com Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Requested action not taken:user account inactive Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:22 -0400 Return-Path: <mrv(a)eclectic.kluge.net> Received: from localhost (mrv@localhost) by eclectic.kluge.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3UJOL702343 for <outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:24:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Michelle Vadeboncoeur <mrv(a)eclectic.kluge.net> To: craig roberts <outlaweagle(a)hotmail.com> Subject: testing Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204301524100.27941-100000(a)eclectic.kluge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

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Mail delivery problems
by Bill Mills-Curran April 30, 2002

April 30, 2002

Sorry for the misleading initial description of the problem. Here's what hotmail has been sending me. Bill ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:50:33 -0700 From: postmaster(a)mail.hotmail.com To: subssn594(a)charter.net Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. kamikaze003(a)hotmail.com

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