[SLUG] RE: Scarborough digest, Vol 1 #45 - 3 msgs

Wed Oct 30 14:08:12 GMT 2002

lol, definatly.

Jamie
Linux User with F*cked up System.

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> From: 	Mark Lyth @ Alphagraphics UK
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> Subject: 	[SLUG] RE: Scarborough digest, Vol 1 #45 - 3 msgs
> 
> So does that mean a game of Unreal Tournament is out of the Question
> tonight
> then?
> 
> :))
> 
> Mark the Windows 2000 User.
> 
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>    1. Re: FTP (Gavin Baker)
>    2. IRC MEET TONIGHT - 7.30 (Adams, Jamie)
>    3. If its not broken, dont (attempt to) fix it? (Adams, Jamie)
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> Message: 1
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] FTP
> From: Gavin Baker <gavbaker at ntlworld.com>
> To: scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: 29 Oct 2002 16:28:53 +0000
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> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 20:44, aardvark llama wrote:
> 
> > >(ps, the GSSAPI and KERBEROS_v4 are security extensions to the ftp
> > >protocol defined in rfc2228, not many ftp servers actually use them)
> > Sure. Whatever. It doesn't mean that you *have to* implement it!
> 
> No. It doesn't.
> 
> > (I was somewhat puzzled by it's inclusion as a package with Mandrake.
> > Although my ability to have my gast flabbered is probably rather low...)
> >
> > :)w
> >
> > _________________________________________________________________
> > Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access!
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> Regards,
> Gav
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> Message: 2
> From: "Adams, Jamie" <JAMIE.ADAMS at HOMEGROUP.ORG.UK>
> To: "'scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk'" <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:35:54 -0000
> Subject: [SLUG] IRC MEET TONIGHT - 7.30
> Reply-To: scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Server / Channel details:
> irc.lug.org.uk / scarboroughlug
> 
> My computer is knacked once again (see my next email titled "If its not
> broken, dont fix it", so it will probably be a bit later on that I am
> there,
> hopefully there should be someone in the channel from 7.30 ish.
> 
> Cya then...
> Jamie
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> From: "Adams, Jamie" <JAMIE.ADAMS at HOMEGROUP.ORG.UK>
> To: "'scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk'" <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:02:23 -0000
> Subject: [SLUG] If its not broken, dont (attempt to) fix it?
> Reply-To: scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk
> 
> Everything was going swimmingly last night. I got my sound card working,
> got
> my swirly debian logo at logon, and my loverly coloured file names (cheers
> gavin). It was all running perfectly.
> 
> Then everything went horribly wrong. Really horribly wrong.
> 
> Debian had a lot of services running at bootup that I didn't think I
> needed,
> such as leafnode and wwwoffle and other such things that I have never
> heard
> of. So I thought I would have a crack at getting rid of some of them.
> 
> It used to be a fairly painless process in Mandrake, you could do it
> through
> the control center. In Redhat I used to use the ksysv utility, which
> worked
> fine. I plumped for ksysv, told it that I was using Debian and started to
> remove the ones I didn't want. It all looked okay, so I saved my changes
> and
> skipped past the warning that doing it all wrong could bugger up my
> system.
> 
> On bootup I noticed that there was a lot (loads) more information than
> usual
> scrolling past, most of it said something about forcing loads and tainting
> the kernel. It looked like this was something to do with the USB modules
> so
> I used the modconf utility and removed them from the kernel. I dont use
> any
> USB stuff anyway.
> 
> Now all the other modules are complaining about forced loads and kernel
> tainting (whatever that is) and I have no mouse or keyboard in X....
> arrrrrgggggggggggg!!!!! If I did not have such a pretty case I would have
> kicked the bloody thing through the window!!
> 
> Anyway, it looks like it will be quicker to reinstall the whole thing than
> fixing it. I should be able to install it pretty quickly now that I know
> roughly what im doing, but its frustrating that I dont know what I did to
> create all these problems in the first place.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a foolproof was or removing the extra redundant
> services
> at startup? ksysv might not have been the problem, but I have vowed never
> to
> use it again!
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