[CLUE-Talk] Red Hat NOT going out of business...

[Grant Johnson]

Red Hat is doing better than expected due to expanding demand.

BTW, MS is doing worse than expected due to soft demand for Win 2K and 
Office 2K.  If they had used accepted and legal accounting methods last 
year, they would have posted a $2Bil loss rather than a $7Bil 
profit.  Their not acounting for stock options as an expense when used to 
compensate employees is illegal, as well as their "cookie jar" accounting 
practices.  Let's not let anyone in the Linux sector try this stuff.  If 
they do, make sure that we call them on it.  We need continued realism to 
make the long haul.  Financial troubles at the competition, and results 
better than expected at the Linux firms can only be the beginning of the 
end for the concept of closed API's.  There are times when closed source 
may make commercial sense, but closed API's and intentionally not working 
with competitor's software can never be good in the longer term.

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/12/15/001215hnredloss.xml


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Hi,

I am working on my hosts.deny / hosts.allow configs.  According to the man 
pages, I should be able to add a third field ( : ) that executes a /bin/sh 
script.

when i add something like ...

in.telnetd: ALL except .ghpcpa.com : /bin/mail -s intruder_alert davep

to the hosts.deny file,  the denial occurs fine when i come in from 
outside, but the mail message is never sent (?) any ideas?


aloha,

dave price - davep at support-one.com - 303-378-9053