Re: [Discuss] Local ISP Recommendations?

David Kramer writes: > I'm getting now. In researching it though, about half the articles > say it should be fine, and half the articles point out how it's super > dangerous and you can end up having your mail sent to someone else's > server if your IP address gets

Re: [Discuss] xargs guide

Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com writes: | xargs has advantages over -exec. + Can take multiple files per exec if supported, e.g. 'rm', massively reducing the exec() overhead. + can work with sources of filenames other than find You misunderstand. You are thinking of find -exec {} ;

Re: [Discuss] xargs guide

John Abreau abre...@gmail.com writes: When I use find(1) and xargs(1), by default I always use something like find . -xdev .. -print0 | xargs -0 Newer find programs directly support this idiom with find . -exec foo {} + ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Thin Provisioned LVM

ma...@mohawksoft.com writes: Again, like I said, these do not address the problems. Specifically, the post about sparse volumes says nothing about how to keep a ZFS pool from growing out of control on a sparse presented to it from a SAN. It merely says give ZFS whole disks, which is stupid.

Re: [Discuss] Using sftp without a shell account

First off: check that the sshd on the mac isn't crashing. OS-X will hide this because they (re)start sshd out of launchd. My sftp -vv trace against a mac keeps going after yours stops. More generally, ssh traces are most useful from the server side. See what you get for /usr/sbin/sshd -dd

Re: [Discuss] Rejecting vs. bouncing with postfix

Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com writes: Rich Braun wrote: relayhost = (redacted) This is your problem. relayhost is where Postfix forwards (relays) mail when the specified recipient isn't local (read: does not exist in any of your local maps). Good catch.

Re: [Discuss] Geoff Huston's talk at NANOG53

Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com writes: 1. I believe it was at the February BLU talk where I heard that http://www.blu.org/meetings/2013/02/201005-hagerty.pdf That actually looks to be the bblisa version of the talk from 2010. See http://www.linnaean.org/~hag/blug-ipv6-20130220.pdf, page

Re: [Discuss] Comcast's IPv6 deployment

Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com writes: Ah, perfect, those sides from Comcast's IPv6 Architect explains how the move to IPv6 was driven by their internal needs... I'll bet you'll find a lot of the glossed over bits in the slides expanded on in the audio recording:

Re: [Discuss] Home Routers

Typical wireless APs are built with a 6 port, vlan capable ethernet switch. One is the internet port, four are the internal LAN ports, and one connects the system on a chip, with two vlans to allow the SoC to access both the LAN and internet networks. The only traffic that's handled

Re: [Discuss] IPv6 Hardware

Chris O'Connell omegah...@gmail.com writes: I attended the BLU presentation this week. Really interesting topic, great presentation! One area that wasn't covered heavily was hardware. I'm curious, what hardware (switches, routers, wireless) are people using for their IPv6 in their home and

Re: [Discuss] nfs hard links

Edward Ned Harvey (blu) b...@nedharvey.com writes: Can you hard link a NFS mounted file to another NFS mounted file on the same NFS system? In general, the way to answer questions about capability with an RPC protocol is to find the .x file used by the RPC protocol compiler, rpcgen.

Re: [Discuss] nfs hard links

Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes: Which as of the 1995 version 3 RFC, clearly defines LINK and SYMLINK protocol commands. Unfortunately, it also documents that some servers might not support LINK or even SYMLINK and introduces a FSINFO command that a client can use to determine ahead

Re: [Discuss] Wake-inLAN

Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: (I changed the subject on this to specifically reply to Dan. My motherboard purportedly supports WOL but there is no indication in the BIOS. I was never was able to get it to work. I set up port 9 on my router to allow that to pass. It has been a couple of

Re: [Discuss] Home NAS redux

Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.com writes: (non-laptop) hardware? I know you can use hdparm for the disk spindown, but does Wake-On-Lan really work? Yes, it does; I have two machines I use it with on a regular basis. One is a mac, the other is a generic pc from 2005 or so. The mac in

Re: [Discuss] Getting OS/HW details?

Noah Friedman friedman aaat splode dawt com maintains a shell script that is basically GNU autoconf's hosttype detection logic, standalone. It doesn't need root, but in some obscure situations may require a C compiler. It is certainly thermonuclear overkill for your situation, but will

Re: [Discuss] I'm looking for a lightweight nntp client

Lightweight would be a shell script that uses netcat for the post. #!/bin/sh msgid=`date +%y%m%d-%h%...@linnaean.org` perl -pe 's/\n/\r\n/' _EOF_ | nc localhost 119 takethis $msgid Path: you!me Newsgroups: linnaean.test Message-ID: $msgid Date: `date +%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z` From: Daniel

Re: [Discuss] Some Java questions

Jerry Feldman gaf.li...@gmail.com writes: We have an important client-related Java issue. We are trying to reproduce a client's problem, but they are using a very large host (96GB/8CPU) and we just were able to upgrade a VM to 4CPUs and 64GB for this project. I would like to know if there are

Re: [Discuss] T-Mobile pre-paid plans

Tom Metro tmetro+...@gmail.com writes: Doug wrote: Our carrier is T-Mobile, using their pay-as-you-go, no data plan. ... In a year's time, we pay T-Mobile $400 for all our minutes (4x1000). If you don't use many voice minutes you can actually get by for as little as $100 per *year* per

Re: [Discuss] bash output buffering

John Abreau abre...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com wrote: A command inside of bash generates output every second (ping) redirected to a file. If you run the command on an interactive shell, then you can tail -f the file, and see the

Re: [Discuss] Any Postfix + ipv6 people out there?

Derek Atkins de...@ihtfp.com writes: In either case it is most likely a postfix configuration issue, but I'm at a loss for how to fix it. I added [fe80::]/10 to mynetworks, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to output more debugging to tell me exactly which rules are

Re: [Discuss] Any Postfix + ipv6 people out there?

Derek Atkins de...@ihtfp.com writes: Yes, I'm sure. I need this to work for a while during a transition phase. Right now my ipv6 address space is over a tunnel that I do not want to use for general traffic, which is why I don't want to just turn on v6 for everything. I'd be happy to somehow

Re: [Discuss] More Fun in ZFSland

Richard Pieri richard.pi...@gmail.com writes: I chose encrypted block devices. Once I made the decision to encrypt at all it was a simple jump to encrypt everything. It was a little more work for the initial setup than creating encrypted containers but it will be less work down the line to

Re: [Discuss] BTRFS

Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com writes: Anybody using btrfs in production? I know it says all over it, not ready for production and so forth. But it's like dangling a big piece of candy in front of a child with a sticker that says Do not eat. ;-) I've had a somewhat bad

Re: [Discuss] The RSA Keying links

Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com writes: Clearly, sometime after installing your OS, after the OS has gained entropy, you should generate new server ssh keys. (And re-generate any SSL/TLS keys that you may have previously created using openssl without sufficient entropy.) The question

Re: [Discuss] sed and ANSI sequences

David Kramer da...@thekramers.net writes: You see, the color variables are actually not inside the quotes. That part works fine. The problem I'm having is the ANSI color escape codes are being printed instead of interpreted. Your problem is that you aren't asking sed to print an

Re: [Discuss] Lost email?

Jack Coats j...@coats.org writes: But in the future you might configure a 'secondary email server'. [how to setup a secondary mail server. ] With a really important addition for modern mail servers: You must, must, must ensure that any mail the secondaries accepts will deliver,

Re: tcl/tk question

Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: tcl/tk script. All well and good. The one question I have is how can I detect in a script that an X server is running. Most people use putty from their Windows laptops, and I want the script to run in text mode if they have not run ssh -X (or if Exceed is

Re: IPv6 and Firewall traversal

Edward Ned Harvey b...@nedharvey.com writes: Second of all, the question I asked has no relation to NAT. Does anyone want to re-read the OP and reply about the firewall rules and allowing of inbound traffic on IPv6? I am aware of no such protocol effort in v6.

Re: IPv6 and Firewall traversal

Daniel Hagerty h...@linnaean.org writes: I am aware of no such protocol effort in v6. In the ietf, anyway. http://upnp.org/specs/gw/igd2/ has bits specifically directed towards ipv6. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http

Re: oracle xe question

Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org writes: We use oracle XE for some of our products. Normally, when XE is installed everything is installed in /usr/lib/oracle/xe. I want to be able to move the physical database (/usr/lib/oracle/xe/oradata/) to another HD. Certainly one way to do this is to simply