y low level (or could before they became controlled by on-board
computer networks), I don't want to for every day use.
Linux on the desktop is great for people who like to get under the hood and
tweak (or who have a tame Linux Geek to do it for them), but not so much
for people who just wa
It just keeps on printing, although I did
spend about $200 last year to have it serviced and new rollers
installed.
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bigger, it's bigger nevertheless, and every buck counts).
>The fact they don't do it shows that they find it hard to maintain their code
>for a Linux platform. And that is a consequence of bad design and/or
>implementation of their software, not lack of market.
See above.
give her a Mac Mini for her birthday to wean her away from her
Windows system. I told her this was a present that was as much for me as
for her, and she wouldn't have to listen to me curse every time I had to
deal with her old Windows box (now I only curse when Microsoft Office 2008
for Mac ha
expensive too.
http://www.falconstor.com/
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http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlrd
A google search on ``python excel reader'' came up with quite a
few hits.
Of course there are easy python dbi interfaces to mysql, postgresql, and
other SQL databases as well.
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that works with the iPad.
As for webmin, we do have clients using it, but only restricted
to the internal LAN, and specified hosts on that LAN as I have
found some rather evil bugs (e.g. removing /home when doing user
maintenance after accepting /home as a user's home directory).
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hacked a python implementation of that module. These all write
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read to test for stale jobs if the original job didn't properly
remove its lock file.
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amazing how many times I learn something useful that I never
would have seen on a restricted list (e.g. I learned about the
Mac RSS reader NetNewsWire on a local Linux group list).
If a topic is uninteresting, ctrl-d with mutt on the thread nukes
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inux usage and geography. Off
topic items have ranged from who makes the hottest chili to the
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nd password. It is extra stuff I would prefer not to do though.
>
>OpenVPN can do that (see their commercial solution as well).
We use OpenVPN for most things, and pptp (poptop) for connections
where the OpenVPN client's aren't available (e.g. iPad, iPhone,
iPod Touch).
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>
>> We use OpenVPN for most things, and pptp (poptop) for connections
>> where the OpenVPN client's aren't available (e.g. iPad, iPhone,
>> iPod Touch).
>
>Is there any
ATH variable or replace this with:
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby
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That's what we use with iPad and iPod Touches. I would prefer to
use OpenVPN if it ever becomes available for the iP[ao]ds.
I have never been able to get IPSec and OpenVPN to play together
on the same Linux server.
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reading the configuration, not properly handling log
files, or both. Thus the restart should always work while reload
may not depending on the application.
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not work unless
their output log file(s) exist when they start.
The GNU shtool also provides log rotate functions which can be
used in cron jobs and such.
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es it hard to fix the fstab, so ...???
This command will remount the root file system read-write so you
can edit things.
mount -n -oremount,rw /
When you're done this will remount read-only.
mount -n -oremount,ro /
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ange the font size.
An easier way to handle this is to create a $HOME/XTerm file
which will be used each time an xterm is started. I'm including
mine which sets a large font and several other options I like.
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ll trying to figure out why this was
happening.
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Liberty don't
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 04, 2008, nate wrote:
>>Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>>
>>> Any ideas why this is happening?
>>
>>Try looking at this?
>>http://www.clintoneast.com/articles/multihomed.php
>>
>>In general I try
* host==alexis;type:=link;fs:=/home/${key} \
host!=alexis;type:=nfs;rhost:=alexis;rfs:=/home/${key}
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are all on our Macs which seem to have far better FW
support than Linux.
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y program that would detect blank cards, selecting them to
the alternate hopper making it easy to recover the blanks that
people left lying around the key punches (there was a period
during the 1970s when punch cards got very expensive and in
rather short supply).
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008, William L. Maltby wrote:
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>On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 17:27 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>
>> I still have a Tandy 4000, 386-16 no cache, that is used occassionally to
>> program EPROMS. This same machine ran Xenix for years before being abused
&g
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I still have a Tandy 4000, 386-16 no cache, that is used occassionally to
quently use the gnu shtool program for this sort of thing unless the
job is very simple, and I really want to edit the file in place.
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7;' editor and *roff text processing tools.
The Apple Lisa came with a 5MB drive, and also ran Xenix,
although I never could figure out where they would put any data.
The Kaypro-10 was a real bargain in 1984 or so, selling for
$2,500 including a hard drive, around 10MB if I remember. It ran
r versions used 16bit realmode IO
>> components from MSDOS).
>
>Anyone ever see wabi running win3.1 under Linux?? THAT was a show
>stopper. It came with Caldera's releases. Mighty nifty it was. Ric
I don't think I ever ran Wabi on Caldera, but did on SCO
OpenServer 5.0.x.
ht I'd ask here if anybody run into
> similar problems.
I would try running the new version under strace to see where
it's dying.
We are running rsync-3.0.3 from the OpenPKG portable package
management system under CentOS with no problems.
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Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any o
ar more difficult to screw
the pooch using virtual machines, and one can always make snapshots
before upgrades or major changes making it easy to undo the
changes and try again. I find this invaluable when testing major
software installations.
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for the feedback.
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exec /path/to/real/script
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The trade of governing has always
iminals for drop boxes to further their crimes.
As large as it is, AOL does a very good job of dealing with
complaints and handling spam. They are also quite active in the
anti-spam/anti-phishing community.
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more general lists to those that have very tight
charters as I learn quite a bit when I see threads with
interesting subjects that I might not see otherwise.
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smbpasswd -a username
The -a option tells smbpasswd that the user is in the system
/etc/passwd file. You will still need to type the password.
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read messages where I know they
are likely to be HTML and have long links to click, but GUIs are
far too slow and cumbersome to deal with hundreds of messages a
day, particularly in my postmaster and security folders which may
go to thousands of messages in the morning.
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D, etc. just to make life interesting.
As I said before, I scan the subjects of new threaded messages looking for
things that look interesting, deleting far more than I read (hint to
newbies -- make subjects meaninful, not just ``help'').
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reason these programs don't run after a root
exploit is that the cracker has replaced them with binaries from
another distribution and the binaries are looking for shared
libraries that are not on the cracked system.
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s good but dovecot will regenerate them anyway.
A somewhat more sophisticated approach might be to clean out old
files using find. This would remove everything over 30 days old
from username's Maildir.
find ~usrname/Maildir/ -type f -mtime +30 | xargs rm
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comm -13 /tmp/find.mirror1 /tmp/find.mirror2 > /tmp/missingfrom1
# This will give a list of files in mirror1 not in mirror2
comm -23 /tmp/find.mirror1 /tmp/find.mirror2 > /tmp/missingfrom2
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008, MHR wrote:
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>> A somewhat cleaner way of doing this is to use the ``comm''
>> command as it generates a straight list as opposed to diff which
>> requi
s where standard FORTRAN only permitted 6 (it was amazing how
many of the variable names differed only in the 7th character).
While this would be relatively easy to deal with today, it was a
bitch when all programs were on 80-column punch cards.
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similar that did not conflict.
Perl also has options to do in-place replacements, and can make
backups of the files, which is also a nice feature.
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sites at a regional ISP. I had one Raq here for a while. The most benefit
I got out of it was digging into its Apache configuration files to learn
about mod_rewrite and such.
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. Thus if the starting value was greater than
the terminating value nothing in the loop would be executed.
+ Free form input from cards (e.g. one could have ``PI=3.14159'' and it
would do the reasonable thing.
+ Free form output.
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It's not
quiring major
updgrades to support it. IBM never wrote a line of code that
was not designed to sell more hardware.
Bringing this back to Linux, at that time IBM occupied the place
of honor that Microsoft has now with an effective monopoly, a
cumbersome and inefficient system requiring an army of
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, David G. Mackay wrote:
>On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50.
>> The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of
>> 20 jobs in the mix, and didn&#
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, David G. Mackay wrote:
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>On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
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>> My first Burroughs experience was on the B-5500, and it had some
>> ``interesting'' quirks. Using Burroughs extended ALGOL, one could do what
>>
still be able
>to login.
I'm not sure that is true. I know if I attempt an ssh login to
an account with authorized_keys where no account has been set for
the user, the login fails (e.g. accounts created by kickstart for
which no password is assigned during installation).
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Fair is the
nd python modules that work reasonably well too.
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Many citizens
;if I
>should" but how the xfs support in CentOS compares to jfs. It seems to
>me that xfs is a bit more up-to-date.
I have not tried either of these on CentOS, but have on SuSE
Enterprise Linux. I have lost data on both jfs and xfs on SuSE
so now use ext3 for everything as it's t
them to consider OpenVPN.
I wrote a couple of scripts to automatically generate the OpenVPN
certificates for clients making it easy for unsophisticated
clients to install them on their Windows and Macs machines, and
they now are much happier than the were with PPTP.
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> suppose it won't hurt (in this case) to set the x for the files, but I
> want some consistancy.
find . -type d | xargs chmod 755
Or if the directories may have whitespace
find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
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You should also notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] about these attempts from their
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008, Chris Boyd wrote:
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>On Dec 9, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> Once the cracker finds an account with a guessable password, they
>> may well
>> be able to get access to your system as that user via ssh, webmin,
>> usermin
ho get access via
weak passwords found by imap/pop probes as you described.
It's been my experience in the 15 years we have been doing
support for regional ISPs that well over 50% of their user's
passwords are easily cracked, and that getting the users to use
good passwords is dif
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008, John R Pierce wrote:
>Ned Slider wrote:
>> Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> Your IP address, 70.62.90.185, is listed on zen.spamhaus.org, and
>>> you can probably go to their web site to see why it's listed.
>>>
>&g
nd 0.50 (a 4-year old SLES 9.2
system with a single Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 2GB RAM
with 7,200 RPM Seagate Barracuda SATA drives, hardly a high
performance machine compared to what we're building today.
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& away it went.
>
>why change software just because one configuration line is different?
I've spent almost 20 years avoiding sendmail :-).
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here that I'm preparing to deliver to a customer which have them.
http://www.siliconmechanics.com/
You may be able to find Supermicro parts on eBay as well. I have
a 2U server here that I got on eBay which is working nicely.
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sort -u > /tmp/critpackages
Then a quick check for changed files. This doesn't show the
package names, but that's easy to find with ``rpm -qf fname''.
rpm -V `cat /tmp/critpackages`
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ss without having to deal with multiple server components.
The OpenVPN clients for Windows and OS X are simple to set up,
well within the capabilities of the average web developer (which
often aren't extensive :-).
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much malware is running on top of
the Microsoft virus, Windows. It's very easy to revoke authorized_keys or
OpenVPN access for a lost or stolen laptop. Allowing password access by
any means opens up a large can of worms.
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On Wed, Dec 24, 2008, jk...@kinz.org wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 09:43:19AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008, jk...@kinz.org wrote:
>> >Top posting to ask a question regarding the article below:
>> > Summary: Enable ssh to allow login from a
he freebsd lists on zfs that give me the impression
that zfs on freebsd is not really ready for prime time.
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og/messages
pcregrep '^\s*word\b' /var/log/messages
awk '$1 == "word"{print}' /var/log/messages
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w-level system calls that I previously had to do with
compiled ``C'' programs.
I have switched all of my new development primarily to python which I find
far cleaner than perl, and easier to use for large projects. Python uses
perl regular expression syntax so the transition was
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>> I used to some pretty complex shell and awk scripts before learning perl
>> about 20 years ago. Perl allowed me to do most things in a single language
>> including fairly low-level system calls that
On Tue, Jan 06, 2009, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>com>
>
>Bill Campbell wrote on Mon, 5 Jan 2009 16:02:29 -0800:
>
>> (which we are running for Zope compatibility
>> as the version of Zope we're running doesn't work with python-2.5.x.
>
>you did realize that
lly use
courier-imap with Maildir storage, and our own server-side filtering and
routing before delivery.
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The VM runs only Zimbra, while everything else of interest runs
on the host machine.
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and have to migrate to something else.
The thing I would be concerned about is the future of Yahoo. If
it is finally absorbed by the Borg of Redmond, history says that
anything that competes with Windows will be dropped.
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but I am not sure what
>structure the ISP has. I mean, they may well have a NAT inside a NAT inside a
>NAT... However, I'll try it out to see if this kind of port-forwarding works
>in my case. :-)
That should not be a problem with OpenVPN connections initiated
from the Windows machines
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009, John R Pierce wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>> The real issue is how one would script this on the Windows side
>> as the OpenVPN client I've seen for Windows assumes GUI control.
>
>the Windows OpenVPN implementation supports pretty much the same c
: syntax error near unexpected token `}'
>
>How do I correctly issue the command with an option
>for -o file to output the data to a file.
Why aren't you using standard i/o redirection?
time { date ; } > file
OR to append to the file
time { date ; } >> file
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Or perhaps two rules
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/^Subject:.*/ REJECT
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the system.
I did a fresh install on the primary HD without touching the
external RAID drives, and, much to my surprise, the new Linux
found the RAID drives, asking if I wanted to mount them.
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th their home
system using OpenVPN, thus being able to access their systems
where they might otherwise be blocked.
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approved spam
that was forwarded to me for moderation). The only thing is to
remember the short version of the Serenity Prayer -- ``sh*t
happens''.
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On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, cen...@911networks.com wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:07:44 -0800
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>>
>> Some spam is going to get through to a mailing list regardless of
>> the anti-spam measures taken (I have accidentally approved spam
>> that w
r in the am-
utils package. Largely that's because that's what I know from my Caldera
and SuSE days, and we have it running on OS X and FreeBSD as well.
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cheat and plug both NICs into switch(es) that will provide
DHCP during installation, then sort out which is which once the
install is complete. It's easy here as our in-house install
server is on a public network, accessible via NAT from the
private NIC so looking at the IP address assigned
daptec AIC-8120 on a
X5DPL-TGM main board. It is working fine with CentOS 5.something,
at least as far as basic operations.
My question is whether there is anything similar to the 3ware
3dm2 management software for this under Linux?
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jbdns, but it was
at least 8 years ago. Other than a simple hack I did years ago
to have dnscache ignore CVS and RCS directories, it has been dead
solid with zero problems.
Bill
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etc/init.d/ipmievd
script, only /usr/share/ipmitool/ipmievd.init.redhat, and the
so sample of the /etc/sysconfig/ipmievd file).
Any suggestions on documentation covering configuration on CentOS
systems? I have no problems with RTFM, if only I know where to
find TFM.
Bill
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ly).
In the OpenPKG portable packaging system, which is RPM based, the
presence of any .rpmnew or .rpmsave configuration files will
prevent a package from starting, and warning messages will be
generated until the situation is resolved.
Bill
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>> locate rpmsave
>>>>> locate rpmnew
>>>> rpmsave is left from *un*installations, rpmnew is the *new* file, there is
>>>> no file overwritten. rpm
y loaded MX servers
(millions of e-mails a day) without having a service down for more than a
minute or two while dealing with configuration file changes.
Bill
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On Thu, Feb 12, 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>>> That sounds like the kiss of death for any critical service. Can't it
>>>> figure out ahead of time that this is going to happen and let the
>>>> service keep running
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:
>Bill Campbell wrote:
>>
>>>> Of course we don't do things that are likely to take a critical service
>>>> down without proper prior planning (often found out the hard way on our own
>>>> systems :-). If a
data which can be automated and therefore be to a large
>degree zero maintenance too.
Bill
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t place to look for hardware
compatibility?
http://linux-ata.org/driver-status.html
According to this there are no Adaptec SATA devices with ahci
capabilities. I am interested because we have a box with a
Supermicro X5DPL-TGM main board with on-board Adaptec AIC-8120
that I would like to be
-h /var/lib/rpm
Bill
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