Re: [Discuss] Looking for WiFi router with certain characteristics

2014-07-29 Thread markw
A couple notes. I NEVER, repeat, NEVER use stock software from the vendor of my wireless router. Sorry, I don't trust fill in company name here All my routers use DD-WRT. Once you make that jump, then you can just hop over to their website and look for compatible routers. The DD-WRT code has a

Re: [Discuss] access points

2014-07-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Michael Tiernan michael.tier...@gmail.com writes: On 7/28/14 5:48 PM, Tom Metro wrote: What goes into a consumer access point is nearly 100% the same hardware I use a Netgear router/wifi point here at home and I just found that there's a switch to put it into access point mode which I now

Re: [Discuss] Looking for WiFi router with certain characteristics

2014-07-29 Thread Derek Atkins
Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes: it can be put into: Wi-Fi Router, Access Point, and Range Extender modes. Which it is in depends on software configuration and how the Edimax physically connects to the rest of your network. It might be a good idea to verify that the device is

Re: [Discuss] Looking for WiFi router with certain characteristics

2014-07-29 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/29/2014 10:11 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: Okay, here's a dumb question: What's the difference between Access Point mode and Range Extender mode? Is RE mode using wireless as the backhaul, whereas AP mode uses wired as the backhaul? An access point is a standalone device. Wireless

Re: [Discuss] Looking for WiFi router with certain characteristics

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu wrote: Bill Bogstad bogs...@pobox.com writes: it can be put into: Wi-Fi Router, Access Point, and Range Extender modes. Which it is in depends on software configuration and how the Edimax physically connects to the rest of your

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Horne
On 7/28/2014 5:33 PM, Tom Metro wrote: Bill Horne wrote: No, they work on the old server, but fail on the new. I assume it's a permissions issue, but I can't figure out what might cause it. % strace entities Tom, Thanks for the suggestion. Here's a log snippet that may make this issue more

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-29 Thread Joe Polcari
It appears you're in a different directory. Try: strace /home/moder8/bin/entities -Original Message- From: discuss-bounces+joe=polcari@blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces+joe=polcari@blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Horne Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 3:41 PM To: BLU Discussion List Subject:

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Horne
On 7/29/2014 3:44 PM, Joe Polcari wrote: strace /home/moder8/bin/entities Joe, Thanks for your suggestion: here's the output. moder8@telecom:~$ strace /home/moder8/bin/entities /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 execve(/home/moder8/bin/entities,

[Discuss] I'm getting mail for nobody

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Horne
I just noticed that my new server is accepting mail for nobody. moder8@telecom:~$ ls -lh /var/mail total 4.0K -rw-rw 1 moder8 telecom0 Jul 26 19:10 moder8 -rw-rw 1 root root1.5K Jul 10 06:16 nobody moder8@telecom:~$ sudo less /var/mail/nobody moder8@telecom:~$ sudo emacs

Re: [Discuss] I'm getting mail for nobody

2014-07-29 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 04:39:03PM -0400, Bill Horne wrote: I just noticed that my new server is accepting mail for nobody. The question is, what do you expect to happen when mail is sent to nobody? Or is it that you didn't expect mail to be sent to nobody? There are at least a couple of ways

Re: [Discuss] I'm getting mail for nobody

2014-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: I just noticed that my new server is accepting mail for nobody. Which is probably not a good thing. ;-) You probably want to alias nobody to root or your designated admin user, if it is not already, so you can catch error messages that might end up there. I'm assuming your

Re: [Discuss] Seeking information on binaries called entities and fixup

2014-07-29 Thread Tom Metro
Bill Horne wrote: moder8@telecom:~/bin$ ls -lh /home/moder8/bin/entities -rwxrwxr-x 1 moder8 telecom 8.8K Jan 27 2012 /home/moder8/bin/entities moder8@telecom:~$ strace /home/moder8/bin/entities /var/www/html/archives/back.issues/recent.single.issues/I125 execve(/home/moder8/bin/entities,

[Discuss] Sync Revisited

2014-07-29 Thread Richard Pieri
At this point in time I've mostly given up on automated sync systems. Too many little problems for me to deal with. I dropped Dropbox a while back because, quite frankly, there's about zero security to it. Anything based on third-party cloud storage is automatically on my non-starter list these