Re: List Archive boo-boo

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

Welcome aboard Victor!

Good thoughts on the mirrors, we'll have to discuss this a little further but some
type of system that attempts to make proper placments of external comment into the
tree (that can be modified by a moderator) would be very valuble once working well.

I look forward to working with you.

Jason Pincin
"Fearless Leader" of the Linux Knowledge Base Org.



On Fri, Jul 09, 1999 at 12:03:42PM +0300, Victor STANESCU wrote:
> hello, everybody here..
> 
> as Aaron Turner sugested, i shall introduce myself to you. but first a few
> words about the messages i have read since i was subscribed. (there might
> be possible that this things have already been said, but i didn't have
> yet time to read the archive)
> 
> -first, an ideea it came to me about the mirrors of external information.
> i think it is possible to write a script which, after parsing some new
> page just downloaded from the original site, to suggest a category to
> which it belongs after some key words found in the file. as a simple
> example (things are more complex), if a text contains 50 times the word
> daemon, 20 times named and so on, it is possible to be something about
> configuring the name server. so, if we establish more precise rules (after
> studying a number of howtos and articles) we could find some words that
> indicate the destination of the document in the kb. tree. it still needs
> to be checked by the mirror manager, but if from 100 documents, 30 are
> correct located, it still is a good job. and the rules can be updated in
> time, after studying why some article was missplaced. in time, it could
> become a powerful tool.
> 
> -the second one is about patches. in the world are a lot of nice patches
> for the kernel, which do not go to the kernel source because the facility
> provided is not useful for the majority. for example, here, in my
> laboratory, the former netadmin made a patch which allows some programs
> like bind, apache, etc. which normaly run as root, to be run as a normal
> user from a special group (netgroup) which has the right to bind to
> reserved ports. this is great for me, and i have continued to update the
> patch for the 2.2. kernels, and i am happy that my www server and named
> are not running as root. and there are for sure a lot of patches of this
> kind, very useful, but hidden from the public. i think it should be a
> place for them in the knowledge base.
> 
> now about me:
> i am from Bucharest, Romania, student in the 2nd grade at the Computer
> Science Dep, at the Politehnica University. I am programming in C/C++ for
> 10 years, 3 years of perl and 3 of linux. not to bother you to much, i
> think this introduction is enough. if you want to find out more, it should
> be better to ask.
> 
> Victor STANESCU-network administrator
> The  Numerical  Methods  Laboratory,
> Politehnica  University of Bucharest
>