Re: Bit Twister: Is this the dhclient-exit-hooks you were talking about?

Bit Twister <BitTwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:slrnehe9j0.u2.BitTwister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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Man, that gnome screenshot applet is neat-O, see it as the camera
icon on the bar at the top of the bar? It lets you take a screenshot
and will save it right to your public_html directory, ready to
publish if you want. See slrn running in the term window? If I put
the mouse anywhere on that window, I cannot copy or highlight
anything with it.

Ah, so, I have no need for that much gui in my way. :)
I lurk in 90+ news groups, and can hit c g n f keys faster than
playing with the mouse.
Gotta have the cut/paste accross terminal windows.

I run slrn in an xterm window

Chris got it right, mouse reporting on the window to allow mouse action in
slrn. I hold the shift key while highlighting with the mouse and now I can
copy text. So simple, who would've known? :)

Man I just posted a question about that.

Yea, saw that post.


I went from this:
-rw------- 1 root root 432K Sep 24 16:17 messages

To this:
-rw-rw---- 1 root ohmster 432K Sep 24 16:17 messages

No reason for you to have write access. 640 with your setup
would work.

Man I did change the permissions on the messages file to 755 and then had
to reboot. I was messing around with trying to get that cool xconsole to
open by itself with an xinitrc file and created a .xinitrc file in my home
dir. That killed xwindows, startx would not run x anymore. Had to delete
that and go look at the numlockx instructions again. This time I put the
line to start the xconsole in in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and boy did that
ever work A-OK! Now when I start x, I get the xconsole right at the top of
my screen all by itself. I can always click the x to close it if I don't
want it.

The instructions for putting stuff in xinitrc mentioned starting x with
gdm, so I ran gdm as root and got stuck in run level 5, I do not want to
stay in run level 5 and by killing the gdm process remotely with ssh, I
ended up with a blank screen. I then told the computer to reboot from the
ssh window and lost my term connection but the machine did not reboot. Had
to press the hard reset button. Thank God for the new journaling file
system. The machine booted just fine, I did tell the boot process to check
the file system and had not errors. Back in the old days, that would have
been a nightmare.

After rebooting, my messages file is now at 640 instead of the 660 that I
had set it at. Well that will be fine.

How do I make the system not change back the permissions on this file
with Fedora Core 3 if you know?

Nope, Redhat left the linux user community in the lurch awhile back
and went comercial with their linux. After awhile they figured out it
was a mistake to lose all the free testing and bug reporting they
received in excnange for their free release. They did apologize later
and started producing the FCx releases but it was too late.
Lots of people left and went to help other distributions.

Yeah, that was a shame. I really did like redhat. I started with slackware,
way back when, and I tell ya, it was a slow process to build everything
from scratch, took forever to build the kernel and just to get a working
Linux system was a big deal back then, never mind installing everything you
wanted. When redhat came along with rpm packages, now that was a dream come
true for me, especially with apt-get and yum to install new stuff and not
worry about dependancies.

As an oh by the way, Lots of security fixes missing on your FC3.
Usuall security rules would recommend only firewall application
runs on the firewall, other servers/users run on another box.

Cracker/criminals read about the exploits, and within days create
bots to hunt down systems the have not installed the update(s).
They are going after the apps behind the firewall.

Ugh. Well then it is time for me to *** and not get off the pot. I see
that there is a nice Western Digital 200Gb ATA100 drive at newegg for
$69.99. I am working on a friend's kickass SLI computer, her computer won't
even boot all the way anymore without shutting off so I ordered a new 500
watt power supply from newegg for her. I charge a hundred bucks to fix
computers but she is a very good friend, I will ask her for the hard drive
in exchange for doing her computer and give her $20 to make it half price.
She will go for that and then I can get on with the FC5 install that I
really need to do now. I cannot risk another script kiddie attack like I
got with running redhat 9 for two years past EOL. The script kiddies got in
through apache somehow and had my box churning out like 3,000 spam emails a
day. Had to shut it down for good and do the Fedora install to fix it. Next
up, Fedora Core 5 and coming soon. Here is the drive I am going to buy for
the linux box:
http://tinyurl.com/a6qge

I did load FC5 just to see it run but have not looked into what
happens in the /etc/cron.* directories.

I hear that FC5 is pretty nice. The distro does use new libraries that make
it incompatable with FC3 so I will not even try the upgrade path, fresh new
install on a new hard drive for me and then mount the old drive on the file
tree to pull my configs from. That will be a very good way to do it. Yep,
that is what I am going to do now.

So sad, newegg has a super kick-ass SATA 360Gb drive on sale now, sale ends
tomorrow, for $94.99. I want it so bad that I am freaking crying about it.
SATA will not work in the Linux box but it sure would kick *** in my XP
box. See link:
http://tinyurl.com/nxuvq

360Gb SATA for $95! Who wouldn't cry over not having the hundred bucks
right now? I went into CompUSA to use the bathroom one day and did not plan
to buy anything but I saw a 400Gb IDE drive on sale for like $200. I had to
buy it, on the spot, just because it was such an outrageous amount of
storage all for such a cheap price. I should just buy the 360Gb SATA drive,
put that in my XP box, and take out the 400Gb IDE drive and put that in the
Linux box. That would be the best of both worlds, but coming up with the
hundred dollars on such short notice is not something that I think I can
pull off right now. So sad. :(


Will check out the fonts later,

Some of the font names will require you to put quotes around
the names -fn "-font-name-here"

Don't need the fonts now, with the larger fonts that you showed me how to
do, the xconsole really looks nice and does not need any further
improvement. Thanks bit.
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