RE: [cobalt-developers] For newbies to Linux/Cobalt(WAS: RE: (no subject)

["Michael J. Cannon" <mcannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just an FYI, since many are seeming to feel they must apologize to the list
for asking questions they feel are 'for newbies.'
<RANT>
1.  It's what we're here for. (it's also one of the pleasures of learning
something.  Keep in mind that some of the 'gurus' who reply on this and
other listservs are 12 or 13 years old.
2.  Don't forget the admin interface for the list. (HINT:  It's the link at
the bottom of every message sent) Use it to unsubscribe or edit your
preferences.  You can also search the archives from there.
3.  PLEASE don't post in MIME or HTML.  Check your mail agent (the thing you
get mail in, like HotMail, Yahoo, or the Outlook/Outlook Express, NetScape
or Eudora mail program you use).  Set it for something like 'plain text' or
'in-line plain text.'
4.  Edit your replies to remove the threads and previous messages
(ESPECIALLY if you normally subscribe to the digest version.)
5.  Now for the meat:  For those of you who have moved to Linux/UNIX hosting
from Windows NT/2000 Administrator status, or are just WIN NT/95/98/2000
users/webmins/developers Mark Minasi and Craig Hunt have a new book out
called "Linux for Windows Nt/2000 Administrators : The Secret Decoder Ring"
(Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0782127304/o/qid=979254033/sr=8-3/ref
=aps_sr_b_1_3/107-4678226-3476526 , FatBrain page:
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0782127304&vm= ).
Given that Cobalt says their market is the end users of the systems, not
experienced UNIX sysadmins, and that "...we have to cater to systems with
low levels of security (e.g. Windows95, NT) that don't support secure
methods of authentication," this book should be included in every product
Cobalt sells (and, no, I don't work for the authors or their publisher) with
the following notice, in screaming capital letters:  "READING THIS BOOK WILL
NOT MAKE YOU A SYSADMIN.  IT WILL MAKE YOU MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE.  KNOWLEDGE IS
NOT WISDOM.  BE CAREFUL!"  The book has many shortfalls and misses the point
entirely quite often (as well as having some flat just wrong or misleading
information.  EXAMPLE:  The total ignorance on the authors' part of the
existence of PERL as a scripting language for MS/ASP and ChiliSoft ASP).  It
also doesn't say NEARLY enough about the security tools available or how to
install s'ware on a Linux box. Be that as it may, it serves as a decent
bridge for those struggling to administer/use RAQs and QUBEs and turn them
into something useful.  'Nuff said.
</RANT>

Michael J. Cannon

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 4:32 PM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] (no subject)


Yes, I checked and root does own the file.  Why are files owned by root
restricted despite the rwxr-x-r-x permissions? Who should I chown the file
to for it to be accessible?  Sorry, I'm still new to this.

Also this does not seem to be a problem outside the cgi-bin.  What special
characteristics does a directory named 'cgi-bin' have as opposed to any
other directory (I always thought that 'cgi-bin' was just a naming
convention).

Thank you.
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