Re: [lopsa-tech] DMARC issue, Yahoo and beyond

2014-05-16 Thread Steve VanDevender
David Lang writes: > On Fri, 16 May 2014, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > Have you looked into who's behind creating DMARC? AOL, Google, > > Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Comcast, and others. > > This isn't the first anti-spam creation those companies have created. > > Just because it

Re: [lopsa-tech] Help with bash or find or grep or something

2014-09-13 Thread Steve VanDevender
Robert Hajime Lanning writes: > On 09/13/14 11:51, Doug Hughes wrote: > > FWIW: this is a perfect use case for xargs instead of exec. You'll save > > a lot of fork/clone system calls and simplify your find. Brandon pointed > > out the main problem, but consider this alternative: > > > > fi

Re: [lopsa-tech] weird ssh issue on AWS

2014-10-06 Thread Steve VanDevender
Yves Dorfsman writes: > Yes, DEBUG3. > > The trace from a working client and a non-working client are identical, > except > that the non-working one stops when it gets to the point of waiting to > receive > the key from the client. > > ssh - on the client sides hangs at "key sent".

Re: [lopsa-tech] weird ssh issue on AWS

2014-10-06 Thread Steve VanDevender
s. > On 2014-10-06 11:56, Steve VanDevender wrote: > > Yves Dorfsman writes: > > > Yes, DEBUG3. > > > > > > The trace from a working client and a non-working client are identical, > > except > > > that the non-working one stops when it

Re: [lopsa-tech] Puppet, Chef, Etc

2014-11-12 Thread Steve VanDevender
Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) writes: > The obstacle that has always held me back from automating is the lack > of demand for identical systems, *and* the requirement to have > essentially written a copy & pastable procedure as prerequisite > before you could automate. So far what I'm seeing toda

Re: [lopsa-tech] Puppet, Chef, Etc

2014-11-12 Thread Steve VanDevender
Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) writes: > > From: Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) > > > > The obstacle that has always held me back from automating is the lack of > > demand for identical systems, *and* the requirement to have essentially > > written a copy & pastable procedure as prerequisite before

Re: [lopsa-tech] Data on longevity of powered off disk drives?

2014-12-04 Thread Steve VanDevender
Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) writes: > So print the entire contents of every backup on paper and store the > paper offsite in a waterproof, fireproof box. ;-) If you don't spring for the more expensive acid-free paper, though, you'll just end up opening a box full of yellowish-brown dust. ___

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-11 Thread Steve VanDevender
Brandon Allbery writes: >On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Matt Lawrence > wrote: > > Ok. I guess my biggest concern is how to migrate my inbox. > Hopefully the Dovecot and/or the Cyrus documentation will give me > some clues. Like I said, I haven't touched a mail se

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-23 Thread Steve VanDevender
Josh Smift writes: > TC> I do this. I run a Virtual Host at Dreamhost (Although it could be one > TC> a digitalocean, prgmr.com or whatever virtual hosting provider you > TC> prefer) that acts as an inbound and outbound mail relay for the > TC> IMAP/SMTP server I run at home. > > Ja, so this

Re: [lopsa-tech] Yahoo deletes bounce messages

2015-09-10 Thread Steve VanDevender
Yves Dorfsman writes: > On 2015-09-10 05:43, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > I cannot believe my eyes, and I'm not finding anybody complaining about > > this > > on the internet, so can somebody please confirm you see the same behavior? > > > > When you send email from yahoo, and the

Re: [lopsa-tech] Yahoo deletes bounce messages

2015-09-12 Thread Steve VanDevender
Yves Dorfsman writes: > On 2015-09-10 05:43, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > I cannot believe my eyes, and I'm not finding anybody complaining about > > this > > on the internet, so can somebody please confirm you see the same behavior? > > > > When you send email from yahoo, and the

Re: [lopsa-tech] backing up your VMs

2015-10-28 Thread Steve VanDevender
Adam Levin writes: > This is a very interesting discussion for me, and probably warrants > some more research and testing.  I readily admit that I've always > worked under the operating assumption that pulling the plug *could* > lead to corruption, even after "upgrading" from ufs to xfs those m

[lopsa-tech] Living inside your editor (vim or emacs)?

2015-10-29 Thread Steve VanDevender
Yves Dorfsman writes: > For people spending a lot of time in a terminal/shell (bash, csh etc...) do > you work from the shell or from an editor? > > The joke goes that people using emacs live inside emacs, and I have indeed > seen developers working from a simple window and sending chunk of c

Re: [lopsa-tech] Living inside your editor (vim or emacs)?

2015-10-29 Thread Steve VanDevender
John Stoffel writes: > I had a boss who lived inside emails, ran shell mode all the time. > I've tried, but can't stand it. Cut'n'paste from an xterm has been > all I've needed if I wanted to grab some screen output and then edit > it. I tend to prefer to use a terminal window with a shell

Re: [lopsa-tech] Living inside your editor (vim or emacs)?

2015-10-30 Thread Steve VanDevender
Ross Lonstein writes: > I used to live in Emacs/XEmacs but a few things changed over time: > * my role, which requires me to use MSOffice quite a bit > * prevalence of html mail and attachments, so Thunderbird VM handles attachments very nicely, and I've found emacs-w3m does a pretty decent j

Re: [lopsa-tech] ansible regex help

2015-11-07 Thread Steve VanDevender
Brandon Allbery writes: > On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Josh Smift wrote: > > Cfengine and probably Puppet too (I've forgotten > whether Puppet, at the time I was using it, could edit files like this). > > I think it eventually did sprout that capability although they strongly >

Re: [lopsa-tech] scripting: What do you use if not bash?

2016-05-13 Thread Steve VanDevender
Mark McCullough writes: > ksh has supported non-global vars for some time using typeset inside a > function declaration (using a different function declaration syntax than used > by old sh to avoid confusion). Support for much more complex structures has > been there for quite some years now,

Re: [lopsa-tech] scripting: What do you use if not bash?

2016-05-13 Thread Steve VanDevender
Yves Dorfsman writes: > Once you've used any other prog language, bash seems to be inside out > (variable global by default, ignoring all errors by default, etc...) Let's just remember that 1. bash is primarily meant to be an interactive shell, and the programming features are primarily or