Re: [PLUG] mailx question

2013-06-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 20 May 2013, Paul Heinlein wrote: The tool I'd normally reach for in this situation is m4. If, for instance, you were able to loop through a list of subscribers and assign $NAME and $ADDRESS, then m4 -D GREETING=$NAME newsletter.m4 | mail -s

Re: [PLUG] any Linux install W8 gotchas

2013-05-31 Thread Paul Heinlein
(or an equivlent) to store a full-drive image in a safe place. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [CentOS] Failed to create /dev/loop0p* entries for partitions inside loopback devices

2013-05-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
the actual invocation would be mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/loop0p1 You can also use partprobe instead of kpartx, but I'm not as familiar with its operation. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server disk encryption

2013-05-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
(we've made promises to other organizations concerning confidentiality) and set up encrypted partitions for those directories. Manual intervention is required to mount those partitions. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ Tech

Re: [PLUG] mailx question

2013-05-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
and $ADDRESS, then m4 -D GREETING=$NAME newsletter.m4 | mail -s Subject $ADDRESS The newletter.m4 would contain the GREETING token which would get replaced with $NAME. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [lopsa-tech] Backup Reliability

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
moved MySQL to SSDs, and it's much much much speedier now. I've deployed rdiff-backup at home, and on a much smaller scale, but I've never done anything but test restores with it. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ Tech

Re: [lopsa-tech] Version controlling permission sensitive files

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
at a time. Add cfengine to that list. It'll do as little as you ask. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League

Re: [CentOS] virsh migrate

2013-04-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
to be forthcoming. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] welcome to the new server

2013-04-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
replying from thunderbird should stop being so annoying :-). Thanks, Joe! Add my thanks to the chorus! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [PLUG] PLUG MAILING LIST MOVE: WHAT LISTS DO YOU WANT TO KEEP

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
flammable discussion PLUG-test Test posts here PLUG-webwww.pdxlinux.org related discussion Absolutely keep PLUG-talk. It is essential. +1 plug and plug-talk are the only PLUG lists I frequent. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [lopsa-tech] Searching for Student /Tuition Billing System

2013-03-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
and Fees. If you haven't already, you might try poking around the EDUCAUSE discussion groups: http://www.educause.edu/discuss -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu suspend/wake issue

2013-03-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
NetworkManager and the xfce4 power manager are dueling with each other? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [CentOS] looking for sssd basics and simple config with existing ldap centos 6.3

2013-02-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
is run against it. In fact, we do that at kickstart time, e.g., %post # import CA certificate and rehash it for LDAP/TLS curl http://www.blah.com/ca/ca.blah.com.pem \ -s -o /etc/openldap/cacerts/ca.blah.com.pem /usr/sbin/cacertdir_rehash /etc/openldap/cacerts -- Paul Heinlein heinl

Re: [CentOS] Bind - built in root hints?

2013-02-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
in the source code tree. So are the hints built in here? See /var/named/named.ca (also visible in /var/named/chroot/var/named). -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Overdue upgrade of bind

2013-02-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
]# ls -1i /etc/named.conf /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf 3538955 /etc/named.conf 3538955 /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf All the bind mounts are managed via /etc/init.d/named; see the mount_chroot_conf() function for the action. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [PLUG] Dot Name Domains

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
within the com., org., or whatever namespace. It's up to the owners of the domains (you.com) to manage its namespace (portland.you.com, seattle.you.com). -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Dot Name Domains

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013, wes wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote: It's up to the owners of the domains (you.com) to manage its namespace ( portland.you.com, seattle.you.com). .name is the exception to this. source: I used to work at a registrar

Re: [pfSense] OpenVPN for iOS - Finally Available!

2013-01-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Jim Pingle wrote: On 1/17/2013 3:54 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: I'm not the original poster, but my experience so far with this app and a pfSense-hosted OpenVPN server has been good. I ditched separate files entirely, using the unified config format: When I tried

Re: [CentOS] Sluggish server with big array

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
daemon help? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [lopsa-tech] SOLVED: IE 9 not sending digest auth info

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
The solution was unexpected; see below. On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: I migrated our internal wiki server last week, and some IE users aren't able to authenticate. The service is hosted by Apache using Digest authentication. It migrated from Apache 2.2.9 (Debian 5) to Apache

Re: [CentOS] IE 9 not sending digest auth info

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
The solution was unexpected. See below. On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: I migrated our internal wiki server last week, and some IE users aren't able to authenticate. The service is hosted by Apache using Digest authentication. It migrated from Apache 2.2.9 (Debian 5) to Apache

Re: [PLUG] Text Reformatting

2012-12-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, wes wrote: if it were me, I would feed each entry to the date command with the proper formatting options for both the input and output. +1 E.g., date -d '08-04/2004' +%Y-%m-%d -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [PLUG] Disk usage

2012-12-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Marvin Kosmal wrote: How do I find out the uuid # on the partition I just created so I can make the right entry in /etc/fstab? tune2fs -l /dev/... | grep UUID -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] RHEL selinux-policy packages

2012-12-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
in a directory typed as user_home_t, as ~/maildir is. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Proposal: A PLUG Code of Conduct

2012-12-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
of spectators, they go home. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Proposal: A PLUG Code of Conduct

2012-12-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Michael Dexter wrote: And try not to be a jerk. As it's said in the future, http://www.snorgtees.com/be-excellent-to-each-other -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Are standard security procedures an oxymoron?

2012-11-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
messages, service behavior, and even social interactions are the difference between a well-administered network and a secure network. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [CentOS] s3 as mysql directory

2012-10-01 Thread Paul Heinlein
to me, but it's always a possibility). -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[pfSense] OpenVPN CRL live update

2012-09-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
the openvpn binary? Thanks! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list

Re: [pfSense] OpenVPN CRL live update

2012-09-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
file will need to change during day-to-day operations. Any other change (certificate, basic configuration, etc.) would necessitate a restart. Again, if I'm missing something, I'd be more than happy to be set straight! -- Paul Heinlein Galois, Inc. Systems Administrator

Re: [pfSense] OpenVPN CRL live update

2012-09-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Jim Pingle wrote: On 9/27/2012 5:06 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: My guess is that, in most deployments, only the *.crl-verify file will need to change during day-to-day operations. Any other change (certificate, basic configuration, etc.) would necessitate a restart. Again

Re: [CentOS] self-encrypting drives

2012-09-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
as passwords though. I have used drive (un)locking with hdparm on USB drives so (un)locking an external SED should be possible. Interesting. I'd never investigated hdparm as a drive-password interface. I'll certainly keep that in mind. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail log entries

2012-09-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
mail rejected - see http://www.spamhaus.org/ Aug 19 11:45:02 myserv sendmail[16804]: q7JIj1pM016804: ill90.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [79.190.37.90]: possible SMTP attack: command=HELO/EHLO, count=3 -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [CentOS] self-encrypting drives

2012-09-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
the key has been encrypted, the drive cannot be accessed unless connected directly to, say, the system's SATA bus. I haven't seen any mechanisms by which the key can be unlocked via things like external USB adapters. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [PLUG] Graceful sudo recovery

2012-08-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, chris (fool) mccraw wrote: YY: Aug 23 15:41:46 : ZZ : user NOT in sudoers ; TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/home/ZZ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=make me a sandwich Randall Munroe should be proud. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [PLUG] PLUG Logo original?

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Michael Dexter wrote: What are your thoughts on this variation? http://pdxlinux.org/portland-linux-unix-group.jpg I like it! A mug of coffee in the left hand might be appropriate. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [PLUG] Debian netinst.iso vs Wifi hot spot

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
as to what's happening. You might have luck in a smaller, self-managed venue like a neighborhood coffee shop, but it's going to be a hit-or-miss proposition. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org

Re: [PLUG] Flier feedback from the meeting

2012-07-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, D. Cooper Stevenson wrote: I have a photo of Portland should you choose to put one in the brochure: http://500px.com/photo/9154201 Very nice! I like the blue highlights on the Hawthorne bridge towers. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [PLUG] Flier feedback from the meeting

2012-07-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
shades of gray! :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

2012-07-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
the launchctl(1), launchd.plist(5), and launchd(8) man pages. OS X has a concept of daemons that are system-wide and/or per-user. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman

Re: [PLUG] Mac OS X for Linux admin -- server

2012-07-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
system that can track dependencies and do parallel starts is the way Linux heading, so getting a handle on Mac's launchd system will get your mindset ready for Linux' future. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Question about storage for virtualisation

2012-06-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
that my experience is far from universal, I haven't seen a production Linux box that remote-mounts /usr in a decade. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

[CentOS] Excellent 6.3 QA Status Updates

2012-06-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
Jeff Sheltren has been providing timely and clear updates about the status of the 6.3 release: http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/ They're much appreciated! Thank you very, very much. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS

Re: [PLUG] Comcast DHCP Address changing

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012, Russell Johnson wrote: Mine has not changed in over a year and a half. Mine has similarly remained very stable. I've had to update my DNS configuration perhaps three times over the past five years. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [CentOS] portmap/NIS mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Paul Heinlein
the same approach to forward NFS mounts to a private NFS server on the same private network - and that works like a charm which actually makes it even more mysterious, IMO. I'll note that access to portmap can be manipulated via /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}, just in case that's an issue here. -- Paul

Re: [CentOS] Request for CentOS stats

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
impossible to produce, it might be worth your while to let the rest of us know the concerns prompting your request. It may be that there are ways to address those concerns in ways that don't involve unavailable data. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat5 with Oracle/Sun jdk on CentOS 5.8

2012-05-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
. http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi Note that Tomcat 5 reaches EOL later this year. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Installation of CentOS 6 on KVM - Hangs

2012-05-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Tim Nelson wrote: Surely *someone* has installed CentOS 6 in a KVM VM and gotten it to work? :) Time after time after time. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[PLUG] TW Telecon

2012-05-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
We're investigating TW Telecon for data (not voice) service at work. Anyone got an assessment of its products or services to share? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] TW Telecon

2012-05-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
[] Thanks, Chris. That was just the sort of feedback I was seeking. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [Full-disclosure] The story of the Linux kernel 3.x...

2012-05-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
:# CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is not set -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/

Re: [CentOS] How to prevent virtual machines running twice on the disk images?

2012-05-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
, e.g., virsh migrate --live myvm remote://host-b virsh undefine myvm The CentOS 6 version of virsh allows those operations to be combined: virsh migrate --live --persistent --undefinesource myvm ... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [PLUG] Browsers, Numeric IPs, and apache Virtual Hosts

2012-05-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
on that machine? /etc/hosts -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Last Call! The PLUG AT speaker can't make it. Options?

2012-04-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
? (That *is* the state in question, right?) ducks/ -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] New RFC 6540, IPv6 no longer optional

2012-04-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
feasible. Source: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6540 -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Last Call! The PLUG AT speaker can't make it. Options?

2012-04-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
way. Voting while drunk is unlikely to impact you personally to any significant degree. Doing taxes while drunk could end with a severe financial penalty. But feel free! Experiment! :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] SOLVED Re: Package management genius needed

2012-04-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012, John Jason Jordan wrote: My next question to the list will be where to get brain help. The nearest espresso machine is a great starting point. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Network Attached Storage

2012-04-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
mandatory. (Linus himself will arrest you if you forget.) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [CentOS] Need to split long lines in mail archives

2012-04-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
be unintended consequences. Testing suggested. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] Using QEMU-KVM to Host Another OS

2012-04-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
--os-variant=winxp \ --disk=path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/winguest.img,size=20 \ --cdrom=/usr/local/src/winxp-sp2.iso \ --vnc --hvm --accelerate The virt-manager tool also has some facilities for installing VMs, but I've always used virt-install. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38

Re: [lopsa-tech] how to handle 'vacation' coverage for a small shop?

2012-03-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
coverage. :-) The relationship between the backup admins and your documentation needs to be kept very tight. Pose what if scenarios (or, better, have heavy network users pose them) and see what resources your backup admins need. Ideally, they'll be able to answer there's a doc for that. -- Paul

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.8 update

2012-03-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Sorin Srbu wrote: Another smooth update. Thanks CentOS-team! +1 I'll note that I didn't start the updates until earlier this morning, so I went straight to the 2.6.18-308.1.1.el5 kernel. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6

Re: [PLUG] Linux certifications

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
-restart smartd.service If you've got hardware capable of it, another good avenue to investigate is KVM and native Linux virtualization. I use CentOS 6 with KVM to host several Debian, CentOS, Fedora, and even Windows virtual machines. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http

Re: [PLUG] SOHO router

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
not. Again, just a guess. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] USB3 external drive - wicked fast!

2012-03-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
is wicked fast. [] I love hardware reports like this. Thanks, Keith! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Manually stop a shell script

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
I like the second form because it makes me think about the signal I really want to send. It's easier to transpose digits, rending -9 as something unwanted. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [CentOS] QEMU configuration not persistent

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
. virsh edit $DOM 6. virsh start $DOM --console And then see if things get better. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] QEMU configuration not persistent

2012-02-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
that I need either to run virsh define $DOM.xml and then start the new domain or run virsh create $DOM.xml and then, once it's running, make a trivial change (usually adding an XML comment) to the configuration via virsh edit $DOM to get things to stick. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] Mac Cost

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
at all if the various Linux distributions catch up in terms of mobile stability, but my observation is that they aren't there yet. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

[PLUG] LWN hiring an editor

2012-01-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
If you're looking to work in the Linux world while staying at home, this Linux Weekly News editorial position might intrigue you: http://lwn.net/Articles/471250/ -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Alpine Oops!

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
create an alpine nickname? In .pinerc, it's set via the incoming-folders directive, e.g., PLUG {mail.you.com/user=yourusername/ssl}mailinglists.plug Where PLUG is the nickname. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG

Re: [CentOS] selinux context for mm-handler?

2012-01-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 01/04/2012 05:37 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: I've got a Mailman installation running on CentOS 4 that I'd like to migrate to a CentOS 6 box. My big obstacle at present is getting Mailman's mm-handler Perl script to run as a Sendmail local mailer

Re: [CentOS] selinux context for mm-handler?

2012-01-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
is the lesser of the two evils: * let mailman_mail_t access usr_t files, or * let sendmail_t access mailman_data_t files? I'm leaning toward the latter. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] local repositories

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
need to be run in the latter case. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] KVM guests failed to start after 6.2 upgrade

2011-12-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
' .../ /interface memballoon address type='pci' .../ /memballoon /devices All the VMs started without any issue after that, though I'll admit have haven't tried re-starting them since the fix. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 release: a thank you

2011-12-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Louis Lagendijk wrote: I would like to express my appreciation for the unbelievably quick release of Centos 6.2. Thanks a million! You managed to release 6.2 some 10 days after 6.1. Johnny, you are not that ugly after all :-). +1 -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] odd mdadm behavior

2011-12-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
out the disk, I thought to leave it for later. I'm interested to know if you used mdadm to fail and remove the bad disk from the array when it first started acting up. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] odd mdadm behavior

2011-12-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
the point is that I've seen bad drives go good again, at least for short periods of time. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[PLUG] Linux RAID hotswap

2011-12-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
Running install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf... succeeded Done. Et voila! The system never had to come down, and it never was terribly inconvenienced except for the I/O load during resync. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

[CentOS] yum - sqlite SIGSEVG

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
. The problem is limited to this VM. Other VMs on the same host have no such difficulties. Anyone have a clue? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] When will 6.2 be released.

2011-12-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
, but the best defense is a good offense, no? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] Hardware question from fly-over country

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
-party manufacturers of Latitude batteries; I tend to buy them from Dell these days. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
@tmomail.net * Verizon: phone number@vtext.com Where phone number is your 10-digit number. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] serial console oddities with CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)

2011-11-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
=ttyS0,9600n8 I've always edited out the rhgb option when I depend on a serial console, but I honestly haven't checked whether it makes any difference in CentOS 6.0. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [PLUG] Linux Clinic

2011-11-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
, and that seems to have caused problems. loud-applause/ Brilliant! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] chmod Question

2011-11-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] chmod Question

2011-11-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
option -- p find: illegal option -- e find: f: No such file or directory -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] A Plug for System 76

2011-11-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Tim Wescott wrote: this for a laptop that's been out of warranty for far longer than it's been in existence. Just how long before the laptop came into existence did the warranty expire? :-) ducks/ -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
account required pam_access.so Also, I assume that your system can access your netgroups properly, i.e., getent can see them: getent netgroup $groupname -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [PLUG] Bash question . . .

2011-11-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
it out. Pretty sure most of you guys are . . . GNU date will format the output pretty much any way you want. In this case, YESTERDAY=$(date -d yesterday +%b %e %T) Search for FORMAT in the date(1) man page for other output options. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http

Re: [CentOS] Archive mail format?

2011-11-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
to deal with that too. I've never used OfflineIMAP, offlineimap.org, but it looks like an interesting tool for maintaining a set of Maildir folders. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] NSS ldap problems

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Heinlein
? Are there any SELinux warnings in your audit log? (Unlikely, but possible.) If you run tcpdump on the LDAP server, can you see any traffic whatsoever from the CentOS 6 box? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Local server reseller

2011-10-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011, Martin A. Brown wrote: What is it about the appeal of Portland? The rain! It grows on you. (Mostly moss, but the occasional mushroom as well.) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Setting Up Secure Web/ftp Server

2011-10-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
of documentation and difficulty depend on your distro--I forgot what you usually run. Aaron gets his PLUG membership revoked for not remembering that Rich runs Slackware. He only mentions it three or four times a week! :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] What happened to 6.1

2011-10-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
the difficulties actually are. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] Patient records on Live CD

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
providers * I don't need to know anything about computers * It fits better with other filed medical records * I don't have to remember a password My opinions are my own, of course. I don't pretend to be speaking for others. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] Bluetooth mouse dies after kernel upgrade

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
not die as long as I am using it. [] I have no hard data to support my intuition, but my suspicion is that Fedora's new kernel is being a bit too agressive about power management. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] nscd

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
! shudder.), Even on machines I manage that rely on nscd, I don't use it to cache DNS results. I'd rather setup a caching nameserver. Use aptitude to search for dnsmasq, a lightweight DSN forwarder. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] Solaris Uptime

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
had to reboot Solaris to solve an application-level problem. I suspect truss or dtrace can identify the source of the latency, if it actually is caused by Solaris. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Temp directory weirdness

2011-10-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
Any chance there's an SELinux policy involved? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

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