While I am familar with what a LART is I have yet to experience being LARTed which happens when lartd runs, typically from xinetd. The lartd daemon stimulates the fight half of the fight or flight response center in the human brain which usually results in enhanced response times and increased strength in the human attached to said brain. Being that lartd usually results in blunt trama to one or more lusers it is almost always used as a last resort, the last resort being postald which has different dependencies that are usually not allowed in the typical workplace. Ok, ok, so Ben isn't the only idiot allowed to post to the list. -----Original Message----- From: jima [mailto:jima at gimp.damnation.net] On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Mark Browne wrote: > This is all going like the last 3 minutes of most any TV show; things are > turning out well after all. Indeed it is. > One last item to sort out - what is this L.A.R.T. business? LART stands for Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool (luser being a combination of "loser" and "user," from my understanding). It's a device typically used by BOFHs (Bastard Operators From Hell[1]) to (ahem) *persuade* people to see things from their point of view. One of my usual LARTs is a nice 2x2 piece of wood, about 30 inches long. Steve knows this, which is why he seemed confident that I could handle security for a calm little installfest. Jima [1] see: http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/index.html _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list