Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble

["Joshua Murphy" <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:13:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:58:16 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 18:46:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> >> At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince <bwince@redback.com>
> wrote:
>> >> >   -----Original Message-----
>> >> >   From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:gottlieb@nyu.edu]
>> >> >   Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:09 AM
>> >> >   To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>> >> >   Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble
>> >> >
>> >> >   Yesterday's update to ssh (openssh-5.1_p1-r1) is giving me trouble.
>> >
>> > I take it you did the obvious and restarted sshd after the upgrade?
>>
>> Yes.  Indeed it was the next day that I encountered the failure.
>> Brian's fix was what I needed.  I must have changed the config last time
>> and not left my usual
>> # AJG:
>> marker to alert me.  I should have noticed the change to X11Forwarding
>> when I did etc-update, but unfortunately did not.
>
> Yup, it's those pesky config files and the need to put stuff in them :-)
>
> Config files really should be more intelligent and know to do what you want
> not what you say....

They also should be almost completely unreadable and stored in one big
conglomerated mass from everything on the system. Just like that
*other* OS!

(I can't ever seem to break out of my lurking on a serious note.)

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Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy