Re: [TriLUG] Positions with Google in NC

...at the level somebody with a PhD in Electrical Engineering should get. Ah, so Home Depot is hiring again? [1] Alan [1] Not slamming on your room-mate in particular, but it's sad how hard the EE market is these days. I do know at least one working at Home Depot, and a few others who are

Re: [TriLUG] Interesting issue

IMHO,the crickets gives the user two possible answers: 1. The problem is too simple for anyone to bother answering. 2. The problem is too complex and no one knows the answer. Don't take it so personally. A lot of times it just means you asked the question at the wrong time... like when

Re: [TriLUG] Burger Drool [was: Positions with Google in NC]

As a vegan I am learning not to read certain threads. ^_^ What, they don't have burgers in Las Vegas? Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ :

Re: [TriLUG] Squirrel Mail Question

I am running into an issue with Squirrel mail that started 3 weekends ago. Squirrel does not seem to keep the connection between it and the mailserver. sometimes the screen won't even finish painting because the data has stopped coming from the mailserver. The mail server shows a disconnect

Re: [TriLUG] LaTeX revisited

Is there an emoticon for barf? I have always seen this --:-(*) Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ :

Re: [TriLUG] The new *ata options in the new kernels

I've seen a newer article than this, but this should answer your question. http://lwn.net/Articles/198344/ Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ :

Re: [TriLUG] dyndns and rr

Roy Vestal wrote: I'm running RR and have a machine on the net. I'm using dyndns and once a month, i have to update my hosts. Isn't there a way to have my linux server update this? ddclient +1 'ddclient' is a nice dyndns client that runs periodically, updating dyndns when necessary (and

Re: [TriLUG] Another seal broken... thinking of installing a C/R anti-spam system

Unfortunately, the only way to address spam is to make it unprofitable: I have been wondering whether we're spending too much effort on the delivery side of the equation, and not enough time on the money-changing-hands part of the equation. For example, if I had a 'bot that replied to

Re: [TriLUG] Another seal broken... thinking of installing a C/R anti-spam system

If you drop off mail at a private domain that then resends it as [EMAIL PROTECTED], then your private server will need to have sending info (name/password) in order to authenticate as you and send it out. This is similar to the way that Fetchmail works when it POP's public servers for a

Re: [TriLUG] On a lighter note maybe semi off-topic

Dave Sorenson wrote: I've been told I have some $ to spend on dead tree magazine subscriptions. If you had to choose, what linux/ sys admin related magazines would you not live without? Dave Alan Porter's Quarterly Guide to What's Cool in Linux (Abridged version) Send checks my way.

Re: [TriLUG] Another seal broken... thinking of installing a C/R anti-spam system

but when the mail you see in the end is still 3/4 spam, you still aren't totally happy, y'know? You need more friends... to send you the occasional ham. :-) Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ :

Re: [TriLUG] getting dd if=[flaky device] to ignore read errors

Try the noerror option to dd. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/

Re: [TriLUG] Access to remote linux files and folders...

If you're trying to ssh to a remote box to find a file, and then you're using scp to copy that file, you can combine these two steps using fish. On the local machine, open a konqueror browser window and type in the url fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]. It will open a file browser that uses SSH to

Re: [TriLUG] LDAP user password resets

Would that include nudging away from LDAP for authentication? It's a great tool for user metadata and other directory services but for authentication... KerberosV. Linux does support authentication by KerberosV mixed with directory services from LDAP. Works great. Once again, I'll

Re: [TriLUG] Fedora 6 and brp-java-repack-jars

cp: cannot stat `./package': No such file or directory cp: cannot stat `cache/org.snmp4j.agent.dep2': No such file or directory Looks like a space in the filename package cache and some script that needs quotes around it. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list:

[TriLUG] OT: 1/22 - IEEE-embedded meeting: Sun SPOT

The IEEE embedded systems group is having a presentation that might be of interest to LUG members. They don't run Linux, but they are pretty neat toys. Alan http://www.ieee-embedded.org 1/22 meeting - SUN SPOT 6:00pm - 8:00pm MCNC, Cornwallis Road in RTP/Durham On Monday January 22, 2007

Re: [TriLUG] Motorola Krzr (K1M) - verizon to linux transfer

What I learned was that verizon is notorious for crippling phones in order to protect you from malware. The common belief is that verizon actually does this to prevent you from uploading your own mp3 ringtones, wallpapers, etc. As someone who used to work for Ericsson, writing firmware for

Re: [TriLUG] openvms help

Keep your holidays straight Jason, it's the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Holiday(*) time of year, not Halloween! No need to scare people with talk of VMS. :) Aaron S. Joyner Don't blame Jason. Many computer people confuse Halloween and Christmas. It's because OCT 31 = DEC 25. pause

Re: [TriLUG] print queues work locally, but not over the network

but when you print to it on those printers it vanishes into thin air. New eco-friendly paper saving feature in Mandriva? Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services

[TriLUG] SSHD listen on external interface ONLY

I have a mail server at home, and I want to be able to listen to port 25 on another machine at a hosting facility. Currently, I use rinetd to forward connections from the hosted machine to my home machine. That works great, with a few quirks: - I have to open up a port on my home machine to

Re: [TriLUG] SSHD listen on external interface ONLY

AP - If my home address is not resolvable, or if my IP address APchanges, rinetd fails. [1] CP Have you tried using ddclient with a dynamic DNS service like dyndns? Yes, I have used ddclient and dyndns.org, and I highly recommend them. However, that is sort of tangential to my original

Re: [TriLUG] SSHD listen on external interface ONLY

JM ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 #address sshd listens on, ListenAddress is not the option I want to change. It tells the main sshd where to listen for ssh connections. I am trying to change the address where a tunnel's child sshd listens for port forwarding purposes. But this got me digging. It looks

Re: [TriLUG] SSHD listen on external interface ONLY

Since I am having this conversation with myself... It appears that the -R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport notation is new to openssh. My server is still running v3.8, so that feature is not there. The solution is to upgrade to a newer version of openssh. Thanks for the help. Alan --

Re: [TriLUG] Toddler games under linux: native or wine - browser

I've had a lot of good luck with flash-based games on the net. Most seem to work OK with Firefox under Win98 or Ubuntu. Noggin http://www.noggin.com/ is a good start. Then maybe http://www.pbskids.org/ and http://www.nickjr.com/. Alan -- TriLUG mailing list:

Re: [TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?

$SHELL gives (in the case of tcsh/csh/bash) the shell you opened the session with, not your current shell. Actually, $SHELL tells which shell should be used to interpret scripts that have no interpreter specified on the first line. In most cases, it is read from /etc/passwd. But it can be

Re: [TriLUG] to delete root, or not too?

Another interesting note, is that on most *BSD systems, the root user's shell is csh. This causes some pain for those people who aren't familiar with it, but since all the boot scripts are written in csh, and run with the root user's shell, you can't reasonably change it and then reboot the

Re: [TriLUG] Notebook pad type mice

It looks like there's an option for the Synaptics Touchpad in xorg.conf that turns off tap-to-click, called MaxTapTime: ... I didn't see anything specific to sensitivity though. Somewhere over the last year or two, I ran across some other options for the Synaptics touch pad. I am not

Re: [TriLUG] Question about wiring a new home with Cat6/e

...now if I can work on getting my home appliances cron'd to cook me breakfast ...we'd be good to go! www.tmio.com Keeping this on topic, I hear it runs Linux, too. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ :

Re: [TriLUG] Installing an ndiswrapper driver where a native one exists already?

Steve I indeed have an /etc/hotplug/blacklist. Dan the blacklist format for modprobe is... Steve, you want a file in /etc/modprobe.d/something that has a line that says blacklist rt2500. This tells the kernel not to load the rt2500 driver unless you ask it to explicitly using modprobe or

Re: [TriLUG] Computer Supply in Greensboro

matt1027 said the following: Can anyone recommend a computer supply store in Greensboro? Intrex has a branch there. Their Cary office has always taken good care of me, and they actively support TriLUG. Alan -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug

Re: [TriLUG] Determining distro via script

Me too, but I'm wondering if it's even relevant for Gentoo. The point is that the file exists and that the filename says I am a Gentoo box. It might as well also say Owner is an uber-geek. Beware.. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug

hijack: [TriLUG] PAM question(s)

Is it at all possible to authenticate users via http/.htaccess using their Windows AD (native mode) domain accounts without a local user account? Not trying to hijack your thread or anything, but I think authentication and PAM would make an excellent topic for a TriLUG meeting. Maybe those

Re: [TriLUG] Ubuntu: whats all the fuss?

In short, I like Debian because of the package management. But their ultra-pure free-as-in-speech attitude drives me nuts. A Debian SERVER system is easy to install and maintain, but you have to jump through hoops to install ATI or nVidia binary drivers, multimedia codecs, or apps that are free

Re: [TriLUG] Techno-Politics Talk on Trilug List (Was: FBI wants, blah, blah)

Fedora Core 4EVAH is at end-of-life. You should upgrade to Fedora Core 5EVAH. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/

Re: [TriLUG] vmware physiacal disk importing

What is the simplest way to import a physical disk into a vmware virtual machine? I don't see any software programs out there that does this easily. Boot your VM with Knoppix and 'dd' the disk image over the network. I have done this successfully to copy a Win98 partition from a laptop to

Re: [TriLUG] RHCE Opportunities

Israel J Pattison said the following: Dear Mr. Cich, I am an RHCE (Cert# 803004080512357) working near RTP. You may view my resume online at http://www.fanana.net/system/files/resume.pdf PS - Please don't tell my boss at Global Knowledge that I am looking for a new jog. grin -- TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] RHCE Opportunities

PS - Please don't tell my boss at Global Knowledge that I am looking for a new jog. And refreshed after jogging, I'm also looking for a new job. Geez, talk about botching up a perfectly lame joke! Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug

Re: [TriLUG] 1440x900 resolution in Dapper

I had a similar problem with a D505. It turns out that Dell has this crazy video BIOS that does not know about the widescreen resolutions. So when X starts up and probes the BIOS, it returns some standard resolution like 1024x768. The fix involves poking the desired resolution into some

Re: [TriLUG] OpenVPN for Home

does anyone consider openVPN (or any VPN solution) to be simple to set up? Yes, it's very simple. To me, the hardest part was deciding what IP's to use and what naming convention to use for my keys. The following is my how-to file (which I keep handy in /etc/openvpn/HOW-TO). While it

Re: [TriLUG] OpenVPN for Home

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im trying to set this up myself as well, and im getting lost with the ip addresses in this example.. i.e. which is the address that the client gets when he connects? which network is the server on? i.e. is the server interface thats listening for the vpn connections on

Re: [TriLUG] OpenVPN for Home

Is OpenVPN the best for setting up a VPN connection? Dunno. Is anyone using it to connect home for secure surfing and e-mail transfers? Yes. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/

Re: [TriLUG] The sys@ list and a Sysadmin Committee

Aaron S. Joyner said the following: I like the trilug mailing list, and want it to remain stable and continue delivering my daily dose of humor and trivia. Delivering your incoming AND OUTGOING doses, of course! Alan -- TriLUG mailing list:

Re: [TriLUG] loopback mount a gzipped file without decompressing beforehand?

If I've got a compressed filesystem image, say cd.iso.gz , is it possible to get mount to mount it without first decompressing it? Short answer is no. The loop driver is looking for an uncompressed file. It needs to be able to seek to a specific point in the file. Gzip is a stream

Re: [TriLUG] Detach/Reattach X-windows apps?

This is probably expecting too much, but I've been wondering if there's anything which works like screen, except for X-windows apps. VNC acts almost exactly like screen. In both cases, you have to remember to start the server before you run the application that you want to detach. In both

Re: [TriLUG] sendmail jujitsu with virtual hosts

Alternately, you could get even more amusing, and run apache as the user donotreply. :) This is as easy as changing the username in /etc/passwd and maybe an init script or two. :) I tried this on a Debian box last year and it blew up in my face. I wanted apache to run as a user named

Re: [TriLUG] sendmail jujitsu with virtual hosts

I don't think it's integrated too tightly into the code: ... But then again, this is apache1.3 not apache2. The first box I looked at was debian w/ user www-data running apache2. Perhaps it's something in the newer version? That seems unlike the apache software foundation, or any good

Re: [TriLUG] how to contact SC?

We thank the honorable gentleman for reminding us of his SC-credentials. I feel compelled to point out that it does not list Tanner Lovelace, Member Emeritus. I feel compelled to point out the opposite. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list:

Re: [TriLUG] missing packages help

ran yum list libodbcinst.so.1 and it didnt list anything. ran yum list lib* and it still didnt find anything... The second command did not list anything because the shell expands wildcards. The shell would look at lib* and replace that with the names of files in your current directory that

Re: [TriLUG] missing packages help

i was trying to to show all the files that begain with lib. i was looking to see if i could find something similar to the libobdcinst You were trying to show all of the PACKAGES that started with lib. You were not trying to show all of the FILES IN THE CURRENT DIRECTORY that started with

Re: [TriLUG] Re: postfix question/problem

You're locking out everyone outside of your own network. #-- # INCOMING SMTP AUTHENTICATION #-- # (MY USERS SENDING MAIL THROUGH ME) # (RANDOM MAIL SERVERS SENDING MAIL TO MY

Re: [TriLUG] a Ferrari in a traffic jam (was: why is it slow?)

initially, i thought it was because i uploaded all those pictures to the server and it needed to be defraged?? (can you defrag a linux harddrive? if so how) Under normal circumstances, you should never have to de-frag a Linux filesystem. Just Google for defrag Linux, and you'll get a lot of

Re: [TriLUG] need a small, lightweight read-only ssh host/squid box

I was thinking M0n0 BSD on a Soekris but m0n0.bsd was discontinued last month. Shoot. What are my other lightweight read-only Linux ssh/squid server options? Would this be a job for a NSLU2? Alan -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG

Re: [TriLUG] OT: 64-bit computing advice

My dad is asking me for advice on upgrading his P-III 750MHz Win98 desktop which is gradually grinding to a halt. If the machine is gradually getting slower, and he is running the same apps he always has, then this is a good sign that it's time to re-install Windows 98. Win98 machines

Re: [TriLUG] Phone/DSL wiring

inaccessible. It's not movable furniture. It's 2m tall and wide, weighs several hundred pounds, and is blocked in by other furniture. If your apartment does not provide an accessible phone outlet, then I think it would be reasonable to ask the apartment manager for: (1) a service man to

Re: [TriLUG] OT?: php anomaly

I have a hunch it has something to do with leap years. How about Daylight Savings Time? The change takes place on the last Sunday in October. That would explain the 23-hour advance. FIXING the problem is left as an exercise for the reader. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list:

Re: [TriLUG] it's all 9's !

99 box working fine as of 2 days ago. I had to shut it down to move it into another room and sweep the cruft; when I rebooted this happened. Ah, LILO error #9, insufficient cruft. Alan -- TriLUG mailing list:

Re: [TriLUG] AMD vs. Intel

JR it hurt like almighty sin last time i plugged into an outlet. JR now, i just plug my pc in :-) From an excellent Futurama episode (Hell is other Robots): Leela: Bender, why are you spending so much time in the bathroom? Are you jacking on in there? Bender: No! Don't come in! Alan

Re: [TriLUG] Debian vs. Fedora start-up

BH Now all I need to know is how to either get the BH eye-candy on a Debian system, or ... One word (or is it two)... Bootsplash. Maybe more eye candy than you're looking for. Alan -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ :

Re: [TriLUG] OT: shuttle launch need C-Band digital satellite downlink

I am looking for a way to get NASA TV directly. (1) internet - I watched the Opportunity land on Mars this way (2) cable TV - doesn't Raleigh cable show NASA TV from time to time? Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG

[TriLUG] acessing remote character devices

I am working on an application that needs to poll character devices that are physically located all over the place. Each device is attached to an embedded Linux system, and each is accessible through a character device in /dev. SERVER | +--+---+--+--+ | | | | BOX1

[TriLUG] email / DNS question

At work, we have several machines that need to send email to sysadmins, employees or customers. Recently, we are seeing some of these emails bounce because the sending machine name is not resolvable on the external internet. All of our machines are NAT-ed behind a single Linux box that runs

Re: [TriLUG] 98 to Ubuntu. How much for a full page add? Is trilug a non profit corp?

I always felt that this sort of thing was best accomplished one person at a time, face to face. Spend a few minutes telling them about you use Linux, give them a Ubuntu live/install CD, offer to help them convert. Sell them on free beer, keep 'em coming back for free speech. I would forget

Re: [TriLUG] anyone try google spreadsheets yet?

I like it. It's not Excel.. yet, but it is really nice. I continue to be amazed by how well these AJAX applications function cross-platfrom. Yess... just relax and let the benevolent Papa Google handle all of your numbers. Who'll be the first to try their new tax preparation software?

Re: [TriLUG] OT: Need a DSP Book

You might want to look at The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing by Steve Smith. The entire book is online at http://www.dspguide.com. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ :

Re: [TriLUG] Linux equivalent to Remote Desktop

If a trip to RTP is possible I'd be happy to show you a few of the methods we use here at Global Knowledge. I'm running Tarantella, Citrix, and NX clients from this very PC, as well as TSclient/Rdesktop. Seeing is believing, and I'd be happy to give you the side by side comparison. Ryan

Re: [TriLUG] A good Linux based backup program...

Take a look at rsback, a script that wraps around rsync. It's a pretty simple script that can PUSH or PULL, depending on which you need. At $WORK, I use backuppc. This is a slick backup (PULL) package that sits on a server and sucks files off of several client PC's, some Linux and some

Re: [TriLUG] Thanksfor all the responses to my backup question...

you need to run: /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 and this will convert your external hard drive from fat32 to ext3. Just a clarification... The word 'convert' is misleading here. There's no conversion about it. This command will overwrite your existing FAT filesystem. Alan -- TriLUG

[TriLUG] simple irssi question

How do I get irssi to automatically log me in to #trilug? I'm looking for either: - command-line options - a config file or 'autorun' script - something I /set and then /save so it runs again I'd like to be able to /quit and then re-run irssi and be re-joined to #trilug with my normal nickname

Re: [TriLUG] simple irssi question

channels = ( { name = #trilug; chatnet = FreeNode; autojoin = yes; }, ); servers = ( { address = irc.freenode.net; chatnet = FreeNode; port = 6667; autoconnect = yes; } ); Thanks, Matt. It still complains... - This nickname is owned by someone else - If this is your nickname, type

Re: [TriLUG] Newly generated gpg keys

gpg --send-keys yourkeyId will send it out to a key server where it will be passed around like the stomach virus in a kindergarten class to all the keyservers. I tried once from dargo and it failed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] porter]$ gpg --send-keys 57367482 gpg: can't connect to

Re: [TriLUG] Newly generated gpg keys

Let's back up one step... for the sake of the gpg-challenged (such as myself). We need to do two things: (1) upload our keys to a keyserver (2) sign other people's keys using the slips of paper that we traded and upload the result somewhere. #1 seems easy enough. gpg --send-keys --keyserver

Re: [TriLUG] Newly generated gpg keys

AP I have no idea how to do #2. I assume that I have to download AP someone else's public key from one of these random keyservers. AP Then I run some gpg magic, and then I send it back to some AP keyserver. Is that right? KO Right. That GPG magic is: KO KO $ gpg --fingerprint keyID I am

Re: [TriLUG] David Brendlinger would like to be considered for the Steering Committee.

While it is not strictly necessary in the current TriLUG ruleset, I beleve Robert's Rules of Order (who follows those anymore?) do require it. If I had a time machine, I would do the following three things: (1) Strangle that Robert guy. (2) Tell Ben Franklin that electrons should be

[TriLUG] job opening - Linux, perl, MySQL

A recruiter called me with the following job (the market must be warming up -- they're starting to call in the evenings and on weekends). If interested, contact the recruiter directly. Alan Developers work closely with each other, the team leader, product managers and others to set

[TriLUG] encrypted filesystems

Ever since I played with Knoppix 3.3, I have been fascinated with encrypted filesystems (Knoppix allows you to keep your persistent data on a USB pen drive, either in the clear or encrypted). If you have not played with encrypted filesystems, the magic is done by the 'loop' device, /dev/loop#.

Re: [TriLUG] MySQL Perl

Mark Freeze said the following: Does anyone have any experience using mysql perl scripts? I am using Ubuntu and when I try to install the DBI thru CPAN it fails repeatedly. Does anyone have any advice, good sites, or secrets to share? I have been using instructions found at

Re: [TriLUG] I nominate Jason Faulkner for the SC

According to Roberts Rule's Of Order, nominations do not need a second. I don't recall anyone nominating this Robert fellow. Alan -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services

[TriLUG] I nominate Cristobal Palmer

I'm not sure if it's necessary to re-nominate current board members or not... I nominate Cristobal Palmer. He's just now getting started on the steering committee, and I think he's still got lots to contribute to the group. Alan Porter . -- TriLUG mailing list: http

Re: [TriLUG] Grub help?

Um, you're thinking of Lilo. You don't have to run grub for the changes to take effect. Um, that being said, it does not hurt to re-run grub to make sure that the proper bootloader installed on the MBR. This might be necessary if you recently changed partitions around, or perhaps if you

Re: [TriLUG] Has anyone looked at gizmo?

Does Gizmo support sending tones? With Skype, I've had a problem using the dialer to send tones to phonebots and answering machines, whenever there's a Press one to leave a message situation. On a side note, when you send tones over a cellular phone, they don't actually run the DTMF

Re: [TriLUG] Disappearing mouse cursor

I have also seen the disappearing mouse trick under non-KDE Ubuntu (Breezy). I'm running an ATI video card. I can't recall if I was using the accelerated fglrx video driver or the open source radeon video driver. Like Rick says, it only happens once in a blue moon. I have not seen this

Re: [TriLUG] Kernel oops after upgrade in Debian

I'm not so sure about 'aptitude', but when using 'apt', you should do 'apt-get update' to get a fresh list of packages and then 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to upgrade your box. A simple 'apt-get upgrade' (instead of 'dist-upgrade') will update each package that you currently have installed, but it

Re: [TriLUG] Kerberos and Linux

Kevin Otte said the following: I have our systems set up to try pam_unix first, then pam_krb5. This way if you try a root login, the local is matched first. I then add use_first_pass as a parameter to pam_krb5, such that you do not get a second prompt. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat

Re: [TriLUG] sshd question

Blackburn, Marvin said the following: These are all great ideas; however, the application has to be able to login (with a password) to boxb. Unfortunately, I'm not looking for a work around. I've got to be able to allow this. What I want to do, though, is only allow that functionality between

Re: [TriLUG] sshd question

I typically do not permit root logins via ssh (PermitRootLogin no in sshd_config). However, I have an application that requires that I allow this from box a (rhel 7.2) to box b(linux 7.2). Is there a way that I can restrict root login to only box a? PermitRootLogins yes AllowUsers alan

Re: [TriLUG] hosts.deny question?

WA Brown wrote: Someone said that the server should use tcp wrappers. How can I find out if it does? There's no magic command for this. But this trick works. # strings -f yourbinaryfile | grep hosts_access If the binary has been compiled against libwrap.a, you'll see at least one line of

Re: [TriLUG] hosts.deny question?

I am new to this group and linux. I hope you tolerate another newbie. I have a server online at www.havenstead.net and am learning how to do things with it every day. I am running Redhat9 with an Apache 2.0 server. This is what I have in the hosts.deny file. What have I got wrong?

Re: [TriLUG] HOWTO: Create PDFs using Samba but not CUPS

David McDowell said the following: Ok, the relationship between %U abnd $2 makes sense now. I changed the _ to - and now I have filenames: -Feb27-160509.pdf so the _ was part of it, but I'm still not getting a username value. Variable names in bash can have underscores in them, so you

Re: [TriLUG] Bash Script in cron job

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you get sick of debugging yours, then I have one that I wrote over a year ago that seems to be doing a good job (on a Red Hat 7.2 -based system). The only reason I did not use DenyHosts on that machine is that I could not find a suitable version of

Re: [TriLUG] central bar-code database?

The short answer (unsurprisingly) is no. The long answer is somewhat more complicated. However, if you are simply talking about UPC bar codes, then you need to visit the Uniform Code Council's web site. They have a scheme where the digits are broken into three sections. From

Re: [TriLUG] rsyncd.conf

i missed the first part of this thread, but here's an example of one of my shares: Basically, the first part of the thread asked how to configure rsyncd.conf so it will back up /home/jtower/pr0n and /var/log without pulling in all of /home and /var. One interesting difference between the

Re: [TriLUG] rsyncd.conf

as for your original question, i don't know why it fails to work (i've only used rsyncd in a push mode, not pull). maybe the slash between var and log needs to be escaped? or perhaps you could symlink /log to /var/log on the target machine and put /log in the rsyncd.conf include? I think

[TriLUG] rsyncd.conf

I recently installed a BackupPC system at $WORK, and it seems to hum along nicely. It backs up our PC's, and it's got a nice web interface. See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ Now I am thinking about installing it at home. If I want to back up the entire PC's drive, it works great, but I am

Re: [TriLUG] rsyncd.conf

BackupPC will fetch files from the client PC's using one of three mechanisms: (1) Samba (2) rsync/ssh (3) rsync/rsyncd. I am using option #3. On the client PC, I installed rsync and set RSYNC_ENABLE=true in /etc/defaults/rsync. Might I suggest that you tell backuppc to use rsync as the

Re: [TriLUG] Re: 802.11 around the fairgrounds?

...since I don't have a Verizon cell phone (need GSM). I'm not sure how to read this sentence. It can go either way. So to clarify... Verizon is a CDMA carrier. Sprint is CDMA. Cingular (in NC) is GSM. EVDO is a CDMA standard. The GSM equivalent is GPRS. Alan -- TriLUG mailing

Re: [TriLUG] Stupid VI question

:%s/,/*nl*/g I just tried (in vim) :%s/,/CTRL-VCTRL-M/g The ctrl-V says that the next character is literal, and should not be interpreted. When you press ctrl-M, you'll see a blue colored ^M. That is, 10 keystrokes: : % s / , / ctrl-v ctrl-m / g I'm sure there's a dozen other ways

Re: [TriLUG] Re: 802.11 around the fairgrounds?

not sure about access right at fairgrounds. Dang, where's Aaron Joyner's mobile hot spot when you need it? Maybe there's an idea for a business! Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ :

Re: [TriLUG] Vim '#' character issues

Brian Weaver said the following: I need some sage advice from any VIM experts out there. I *once* knew how to prevent vim from reindenting lines that started with the '#' character. I've lost that small bit of knowledge and now it's driving me nuts. My ~/.vimrc is below. See the part in

Re: [TriLUG] Goelocation service suggestions?

This one put me in RTP when I'm on the NCSU campus... These services are not going to pinpoint you with a satellite picture of you working at your desk... they simply tell where your ISP is located. So RTP vs NCSU is pretty close. Look up someone's Blackberry IP and you'll get Ontario!

Re: [TriLUG] Changing case of files and folders

Or in bash... for x in * ; do y=`echo $x | tr a-z A-Z` echo mv $x $y done When you're done testing, remove the last echo. Alan . -- TriLUG mailing list: http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services

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