Re: [lopsa-tech] Email spoofing

2016-12-08 Thread Jonathan
These are the headers my ISP's anti-spam inserts Sender: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org Errors-To: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org X-Message-Linecount: 157 X-Connected-IP: 64.34.197.29:55449 X-Body-Linecount: 12 X-Message-Size: 9498 X-Body-Size: 656 X-Received-Count: 12 X-Re

Re: [lopsa-tech] Email spoofing

2016-12-08 Thread Jonathan
.197.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework#FAIL_and_forwarding Kind regards Jonathan. On 07/12/16 11:46, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: Does anyone know why my posts to this list say "This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear to be?"

Re: [lopsa-tech] 19,000 person company passwords stolen via HTTPS

2015-10-09 Thread Jonathan Billings
learning curve for the general user. -- Jonathan Billings ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] 19,000 person company passwords stolen via HTTPS

2015-10-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
how Kerberos works. Maybe a better understanding might help improve your product? -- Jonathan Billings ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional Sy

Re: [lopsa-tech] 19,000 person company passwords stolen via HTTPS

2015-10-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
nd SPNEGO rather than a unimplemented (and, frankly, untested) concept solution? BTW, Chrome and Firefox both support SPNEGO. -- Jonathan Billings ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This

Re: [lopsa-tech] Directory Server for Apple and Unix Environment

2015-03-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
> another chance… The Active Directory "protocol" that you'd be using is just Kerberos, LDAP, and DNS (with some SMB thrown in sometimes). Everything else is windows-specific policy/configuration. -- Jonathan Billings ___ Tech mailin

Re: [lopsa-tech] Directory Server for Apple and Unix Environment

2015-03-23 Thread Jonathan Billings
#x27;ll support your macs, BSD and Linux systems natively. Just Kerberos and LDAP. It has a comprehensive web interface too. Check out the Demo page: https://www.freeipa.org/page/Demo -- Jonathan Billings ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org ht

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-12-10 Thread Jonathan
On 22/10/14 11:58, Jonathan wrote: Hi, I'm delighted to see that the latest patch for ESX 5.5 U2 (released October 15th), includes support for the 6,1 MacPro. At the moment we are interposing an NFS server between our Fibre Channel storage and our Mac Minis running ESX, which works

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-10-22 Thread Jonathan
On 25/03/14 13:03, Stephen Potter wrote: On 3/25/2014 7:57 AM, Jonathan wrote: I realise that no currently-produced Apple kit is on the vSphere HCL. My question is whether you have any experience of the new Mac Pro with vSphere, including multiple NICs and FC connections. The response from

Re: [lopsa-tech] [lopsa-discuss] CBcrypt - problems with bcrypt and scrypt

2014-03-25 Thread Jonathan Nicol
Everyone, pretty-please stop double-posting to both lists. Sorry if this is somehow out-of-line, but my inbox is full enough :) thanks, Jonathan ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This

Re: [lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Jonathan
tioned. Thanks! Jonathan. ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

[lopsa-tech] Macs and vSphere

2014-03-25 Thread Jonathan
uding multiple NICs and FC connections. The response from our local suppliers has been "let us know how you get on". Thanks, Jonathan. ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list

Re: [lopsa-tech] SOHO printer advice requested

2014-02-10 Thread Jonathan
ed a hard-wired network connection, but settled for wireless and USB in the end (saving some money) as I couldn't justify my gut reaction that hard-wired was best. My previous Pixma MP150 (very many years old) is now a hand-me-down and doing sterling service at my mum's. Jonathan. On

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan
or the NIC. Finally, if you have access to the machine, you could install an extra NIC if you have a spare slot, or replace the NC105 if it's not on the motherboard. I've had good luck with Intel cards. Jonathan. On 06/02/14 21:41, John Stoffel wrote: john> sudo mii-tool -v -F 1000base

Re: [lopsa-tech] Change NIC settings on HP dl180G5 NC105 Card under ubuntu 10.04

2014-02-06 Thread Jonathan
Hi If the NOC is friendly, can they fix the problem at their end? If they can set the switch port to AUTO at 1Gbps only, your HP NIC will likely sort itself out. Jonathan. On 06/02/14 20:31, john boris wrote: First thanks for the reply. Where the server sits the NOC had an upgrade and they

Re: [lopsa-tech] Need ideas/suggestions for bringing several VMs back online after an outage

2013-10-31 Thread Jonathan
and worry about the consequences later (like a disk block being owned by multiple files). But some of us remember Sixth Edition Unix, with icheck, ncheck and dcheck, along with 14-character file names :) -- Jonathan ___ Tech mailing list Tech@l

Re: [lopsa-tech] Need ideas/suggestions for bringing several VMs back online after an outage

2013-10-30 Thread Jonathan
oage networking) fails - or even just runs slowly - it can appear that the disk has completely disappeared. So you cannot write the data to an alternative block and carry on. You can (and should) increase the kernel SCSI timeouts, and in the case of VMware, the VM tools do t

Re: [lopsa-tech] Need ideas/suggestions for bringing several VMs back online after an outage

2013-10-29 Thread Jonathan
If the SAN was just short-term overloaded, the system will likely come straight back up. If the SAN is unavailable, the system will be unable to boot, but a downed host is easier to spot than one with a random volume in read-only mode. Jonathan. ___

Re: [lopsa-tech] Need ideas/suggestions for bringing several VMs back online after an outage

2013-10-29 Thread Jonathan
s we change the fstab mount option from onerror=readonly to onerror=panic. In the event of a SAN error, affected VMs reboot and because the file system wasn't cleanly unmounted, it gets checked on the way back up. This is all just sticking plaster, of course, but at least it

Re: [lopsa-tech] What to use for 200TB of Dev/QA storage?

2013-01-25 Thread Jonathan
Tier 1 we use EMC VNX/VPLEX. Good luck, Jonathan. On 25/01/13 14:07, Craig Cook wrote: We have around 200TB of dev/QA storage that is across 3 SAN's. (EMC VMAX and IBM XIV's) Servers are AIX, Solaris and VMware. We are looking to replace it with cheaper storage. I would be intereste

Re: [lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-24 Thread Jonathan
On 19/12/12 14:16, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan For many years we have run stratum 2 NTP servers on some of our mail gateways. The primary purpose is to provide an NTP service to assorted

[lopsa-tech] NTP stratum 2 hardware

2012-12-18 Thread Jonathan
ments are clear. Many thanks, Jonathan. ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] Google wants images of my passport, driver's license, bank statement, etc.

2012-08-22 Thread Jonathan Nicol
https://support.google.com/wallet/bin/request.py?contact_type=wallet_general "To give us a call directly, please call 1-855-492-5538. " That wasn't very hard to find... Quoting lopser : From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Josh Smift l> Googl

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux disk device question

2012-07-18 Thread Jonathan
built-into most linuxes nowadays would be gfs. (Not to be confused with google GFS. A clustered file system would probably use (i)SCSI reservations (or the FC equivalent) to ensure a host has exclusive access before updating meta-data on the shared disk.

Re: [lopsa-tech] Ancient SCO Xenix system troubleshooting - advice/resources?

2012-06-22 Thread Jonathan
Hi, If the bootable Linux CD could see the tape drive, then it would be worth checking if cpio or tar can read the old backups. I believe SCO Xenix came with cpio. Jonathan. On 22/06/12 11:49, Pamela Lynn Howell wrote: > [...] > They do have an old tape backup which might have &qu

Re: [lopsa-tech] error while installing openmpi-1.4.3 on RHEL 5.5

2012-06-20 Thread Jonathan Billings
there's an OpenMPI package in RHEL5, version 1.4. Wouldn't it be easier to just use that? Or did you want a version compiled with the Intel compiler? If so, you probably need to fix your build so it is using the compiler and not gcc. -- Jonathan Billin

Re: [lopsa-tech] Date function seems assume 30-day month

2012-05-31 Thread Jonathan
"Thirty days hath September, April, June and November..." There is no 31st April. $ date -d '-1 month' Tue May 1 15:28:44 BST 2012 $ date -d '-2 month' Sat Mar 31 15:28:52 BST 2012 Jonathan. On 31/05/12 15:22, Frank Bulk wrote: I noticed a daily script was gi

Re: [lopsa-tech] Talking of Kerberos...

2012-05-02 Thread Jonathan
need a Solaris solution too. Thanks again, Jonathan. On 02/05/2012 03:53, Anton Cohen wrote: On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Jonathan <mailto:lo...@redigloo.org>> wrote: SSSD seems to hold a lot of promise. I just can't get my head around the documentation. If you are tr

[lopsa-tech] Talking of Kerberos...

2012-05-01 Thread Jonathan
hema extensions.) Any assistance greatly appreciated. -- Jonathan ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] How to problematically identify the root volume.

2012-04-13 Thread Jonathan
Hi, stat --format='%D' / will give you the major & minor device of the root file system, if that is what you need. Jonathan On 13/04/12 13:56, Skylar Thompson wrote: On 04/12/12 08:18, Michael C Tiernan wrote: I am working on a small project and I have the need to ide

[lopsa-tech] Open source solutions for Exchange Journaling discovery

2012-02-13 Thread Jonathan
open source edition, they state (https://knowledge.mailarchiva.com/knowledge) /"The OSE is capable of archiving Envelope Journalled Messages, but cannot display or index Envelope Journalled Messages."/ I'm hoping my Google skills have let me down. Ki

Re: [lopsa-tech] Nagios scaling solved with mod_gearman

2012-02-03 Thread Jonathan Billings
I wonder if the Distributed Nagios Executor would work in a similar fashion, without needing the additional complexity of running a gearman server? http://dnx.sourceforge.net/ I've been looking at testing it, has anyone else tried it? -- Jonathan Billings College of Engineering - CAEN -

Re: [lopsa-tech] NAS Recommendations

2011-06-23 Thread Jonathan Rozes
'd be > another step to figure out the path to the snapshot. FYI, there's a global setting to make snapshots visible under subdirectories: SnapshotIQ > Settings > View advanced settings > Subdirectories accessible Regards, Jonathan Jonathan Rozes director, information techn

Re: [lopsa-tech] NAS Recommendations

2011-06-21 Thread Jonathan Rozes
oduction cluster doesn't try to run its scheduled replication before you complete your reverse sync. Ours runs nightly, so it isn't much of a problem. Somebody with a more frequent schedule would have to be a bit more careful though. Regards, Jonathan Jonathan Rozes director, informatio

Re: [lopsa-tech] Open Source Monitoring and Reporting system ?

2011-05-04 Thread Jonathan Angliss
en a long term user of Nagios, so I'm biased, and I use it for more than just simple state stuff (service is running, and memory is > than X and # of recs in DB > y - auto-restart service). It has been a while (6+ years) since I've used it, but Zabbix was/is pretty easy to se

Re: [lopsa-tech] tapes getting old?

2011-03-07 Thread Jonathan Angliss
ks that don't like those things). Another odd issue we had when we first started using it was the drive didn't like sharing a SCSI controller, we had to put in an additional card. See if the manufacturer of your drive has diagnostic utilities, grab a blank tape, and let it run. -- Jo

Re: [lopsa-tech] Openfiler support - how good is it?

2011-03-04 Thread Jonathan
R/BCP if we lose a data centre. The sites are around 10 miles apart. The Lefthand solution looks nice, because the failover is automatic, and because they support using a third site for a quorum server, to resolve split-brain issues. I'd be interested to hear your experiences. Jonathan.

Re: [lopsa-tech] small monitor for home server?

2011-02-05 Thread Jonathan
#x27;ll go smaller or larger for cheaper. Needs a > VGA or DVI input. > > Thanks for any recommendations. > > --tep I have found that passive VGA over UTP, and USB 1.1 over UTP adaptors are cheap (though perhaps not great for high res video). So I route my home server to my

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Recommendations

2011-02-04 Thread Jonathan Nicol
We're running ESXi 3.5 and 4.1, no problems to report. If you need a RAID card make sure you get a compatible one, I think VMware still doesn't support 3ware. Jonathan On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Roy McMorran wrote: > On 1/17/11 8:51 AM, Roy McMorran wrote: >> >&g

Re: [lopsa-tech] Email appliances

2011-01-14 Thread Jonathan
sysreq.jsp?pcid=pcat_security&pvid=1721_1 I presume this is a Linux or BSD image, with a standard MTA. I'd be interested to hear people's experience. Thanks. -- Jonathan ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux I/O scheduler choice can make a big, big difference

2010-12-16 Thread Jonathan Nicol
on your workload. Most of my tests have focused on MySQL. You can add "elevator=noop" to your kernel boot options to make it the default. Jonathan On Dec 16, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Ski Kacoroski wrote: > Hi, > > We have a communigate pro email server. For some time now we have had

Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan
On 03/11/10 15:31, Jonathan wrote: Hi, Are any of you running the HP/Lefthand Virtual SAN Appliance with VMware VSphere and iSCSI? We are considering inter-site replication over dark fibre, with VSphere servers at several sites (for business continuity purposes) and would love to hear (on

[lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-03 Thread Jonathan
been down this route. Many thanks, Jonathan. ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/