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| 25 new of 222 responses total. |
mcnally
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response 175 of 222:
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Jun 13 23:17 UTC 2000 |
Lab-anon? Is that that support group for those who want to kick their
technical and scientfic habits?
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keesan
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response 176 of 222:
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Jun 14 11:23 UTC 2000 |
What is the yes program?
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davel
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response 177 of 222:
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Jun 14 12:06 UTC 2000 |
Try "man yes" to see.
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janc
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response 178 of 222:
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Jun 14 17:11 UTC 2000 |
I just did "man yes" on my Linux system. It says:
NAME
yes - output a string repeatedly until killed
SYNOPSIS
yes [OPTION]... [STRING]...
DESCRIPTION
Repeatedly output a line with all specified STRING(s), or `y'.
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for yes is maintained as a Texinfo
manual. If the info and yes programs are properly
installed at your site, the command
info yes
should give you access to the complete manual.
Note that the "full documentation" in "info" is shorter than the
instructions to look in "info" for full documentation. Gnu software is
a wonderful thing, but sometimes I think the authors would benefit from
electroshock treatments.
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remmers
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response 179 of 222:
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Jun 14 17:55 UTC 2000 |
Well, I'd expect a silly program to have silly documentation.
(The last paragraph of the man page was probably auto-generated
from a template that's used for all GNU software. Major GNU
programs do tend to have more extensive info documentation than
man documentation.)
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krj
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response 180 of 222:
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Jun 14 19:52 UTC 2000 |
Any ideas why the queue to log in to Grex has soared this week?
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steve
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response 181 of 222:
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Jun 14 20:30 UTC 2000 |
M-Net's being down? I think thats it. I've seen a slew of new logins and I
kinda
get the feeling that we're handing more mail than we usually do, too.
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krj
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response 182 of 222:
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Jun 14 20:35 UTC 2000 |
I thought of the M-net outage too, but the queue surge has just been in
the last couple of days.
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willard
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response 183 of 222:
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Jun 14 20:52 UTC 2000 |
Trying 204.212.46.130...
telnet: connect to address 204.212.46.130: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
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scg
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response 184 of 222:
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Jun 14 21:05 UTC 2000 |
inetd was dead. I just restarted it.
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cconroy
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response 185 of 222:
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Jun 14 21:33 UTC 2000 |
Is there any legitimate use for the "yes" command (other than for
filling a disk)?
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janc
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response 186 of 222:
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Jun 15 00:04 UTC 2000 |
Long long ago, some Unix admins would flick a switch that made "rm" ask "do
you really want to delete this file?" everytime you did "rm file". This was
really annoying because there was then no way to turn the prompt off, so when
you did "rm *" in a directory with 1000 files, you had to type "y" 1000 times.
So someone wrote "yes". "yes | rm *" worked. These days you can turn on the
prompt in "rm" without making it impossible to turn off, so I haven't seen
anyone do "yes | rm *" for about 17 years now. I presume "yes" is still there
for backwards compatibility. Lots of unix systems don't have it anymore.
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mcnally
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response 187 of 222:
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Jun 15 00:21 UTC 2000 |
Basically it's a program to pipe stupid answers to programs that
ask stupid questions.. I've used it on occasion on certain installer
programs when I knew in advance that everything which was going to be
asked would take the same answer.
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willard
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response 188 of 222:
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Jun 15 14:14 UTC 2000 |
It's also funny to use in party... "if ur from bangalore and u like
american girls with big booms, type !yes now"
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dpc
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response 189 of 222:
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Jun 16 14:21 UTC 2000 |
When I tried to retrieve my mail just now here is what happened:
Ok: !mail
/tmp: write failed, file system is full
panic: Message temporary file corrupted
/tmp: write failed, file system is full
terminated: IOT
Should I panic? Could someone check this out? Thanx!
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goose
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response 190 of 222:
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Jun 16 15:25 UTC 2000 |
when I logged in just now, it took my login and passwd, started to log me in
and then before giving me a prompt it went back to the login prompt complete
with beep and I had to log in again. In light of recent events should I be
worried about another passwd sniffer?
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iggy
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response 191 of 222:
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Jun 16 15:45 UTC 2000 |
only if it is around your crotch...
hahaha
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janc
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response 192 of 222:
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Jun 16 16:10 UTC 2000 |
Dave: Sounds like /tmp filled up. This shouldn't have caused you to
lose any mail.
Chris: I don't know what caused that, but it wouldn't have been a
password sniffer. I think those just monitor packets on the network,
without interupting their flow. A password sniffer would normally not
be noticable.
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goose
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response 193 of 222:
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Jun 17 03:30 UTC 2000 |
Yeah, bad choice of word, I was thinking more of a passwd "grabber".
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janc
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response 194 of 222:
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Jun 17 03:47 UTC 2000 |
Trojan horse, that pretends to be the login program, but instead grabs
your password, saves it, prints a "password incorrect" message, and
drops you to the real login prompt so you'll never guess what happened.
I haven't heard of this being done on a modern Unix system. Normally
telnetd won't allocate a pseudo-tty to a new person connecting in if
there are still any processes open on it, so for as long as the Trojan
hangs around, nobody else would connect to that pseudo tty so nothing
would happen. You'd probably have to do something clever like exploit a
race condition to get the Trojan in on a pseudotty that was actually
connected to someone. I don't know enough about this stuff to say it
can't be done, but I'd be surprised.
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gelinas
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response 195 of 222:
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Jun 17 05:02 UTC 2000 |
An easier way: modify .login to mimic the prompt a second time. An easy
way to promulgate the modified .login is with a message like "for a great
time, telnet to trojan-source.com and login as sucker with the password
gotcha."
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jazz
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response 196 of 222:
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Jun 17 16:13 UTC 2000 |
I've seen programs that closely mimic the NT login screen and xlockmore
being used to troll for student passwords (and occsasionally, for the bold,
lab administrator passwords), before.
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gull
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response 197 of 222:
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Jun 17 23:50 UTC 2000 |
Is this why you're supposed to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del before logging into NT?
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keesan
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response 198 of 222:
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Jun 18 01:34 UTC 2000 |
What is the proper procedure for someone who changed their password but
apparently typed it wrong to obtain the correct spelling? Our friend read
the book and typed in trouble at the login prompt, Wednesday, and says nobody
has gotten back to her to help, or if they have, they emailed and she cannot
read her mail. (I emailed staff to send me her password or phone her).
Does anyone else have to dial three times on average to connect rather than
getting 'no carrier'?
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twinkie
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response 199 of 222:
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Jun 18 03:38 UTC 2000 |
re: 197 -- Yes.
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