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Again, the new machine comes with Red Hat, and after ascertaining that#

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:17:51 +0000

Again, the new machine comes with Red Hat, and after ascertaining that it boots using grub and an initrd I really don't fancy replacing it with Debian remotely. But nor, to be honest, do I want to continue depending on a probably-soon-to-be-unsupported Red Hat version for anything beyond a bare minimum set of services.

Some slightly cool URLs :

and another useless error message for the collection:

Jan 29 15:16:52 eval sshd[878]: PAM rejected by account configuration[9]: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info.

(In this case, it turns out to mean "when you renamed the user you're trying to ssh in as, you forgot to update the shadow file")

Most of my time lately has been wrestling with posix job control stuff, so that multithreaded SBCL behaves somewhat less than completely stupidly when two threads want to read from the same tty at once. Not incredibly exciting, although I might some time soon be persuaded to write a few words about the xterm -S option before I forget how it works again.