Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu and NFS during boot

2017-03-17 Thread Smith, Cathy
No criticism intended, but cross mounting is not a good practice. You've experienced one of the issues. Ideally you'd want to get rid of all cross mounts. Practically, in a legacy environment, that may not be possible. You can consider making the mounts soft mounts or using automount. Cath

Re: [PLUG] Re-doing ssh key phrase and key type

2016-11-02 Thread Smith, Cathy
...@lists.pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 10:10 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: Re: [PLUG] Re-doing ssh key phrase and key type On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote: > Also the permissions on the .

Re: [PLUG] Re-doing ssh key phrase and key type

2016-11-02 Thread Smith, Cathy
Also the permissions on the .ssh directory must be 700. I apologize if this has already been mentioned, but have you tried to telnet to port 22 on the target box? That would answer any questions about connectivity. Cathy --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Ope

Re: [PLUG] Joy++

2016-09-26 Thread Smith, Cathy
Emacs got an update this month as well. --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the  U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax:       509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@lists.pdxli

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread Smith, Cathy
[mailto:plug-boun...@lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 8:24 AM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group Subject: Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Smith, Cathy wrote: > KrebsOnSecurity is still down this morning. So I noticed. &

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-23 Thread Smith, Cathy
KrebsOnSecurity is still down this morning. He posted this on Twitter late last night. It's looking likely that KrebsOnSecurity will be offline for a while. Akamai's kicking me off their network tonight. --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated b

Re: [PLUG] Web site URL points to localhost

2016-09-22 Thread Smith, Cathy
I'm not surprised. I was able to get to his site this morning, but not this afternoon. --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the  U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax:       509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -Or

Re: [PLUG] Universality of USB Cables

2016-05-19 Thread Smith, Cathy
Is this the article you are referring to? I finally understood why I seemed to go through cables. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/google-engineer-leaves-scathing-reviews-of-dodgy-usb-type-c-cables-on-amazon/?comments=1 Cathy --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest Nat

Re: [PLUG] Tool to test internet speed

2016-02-17 Thread Smith, Cathy
If you have "older" equipment, you might consider replacing it. When I was having problems, I took my very old modem to the Charter office. I didn't call. They replaced the modem with a new model and life improved considerably. Talking with tech support didn't help. --  Cathy L. Smith IT En

Re: [PLUG] I have no experience with installing Linux, can anyone help?

2015-09-16 Thread Smith, Cathy
You can use this to burn an iso to a USB as well: http://www.isotousb.com/ Cathy --  Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer, CISSP Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the  U.S. Department of Energy Phone: 509.375.2687 Fax:       509.375.4399 Email: cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov --

Re: [PLUG] Using less on a growing file

2014-09-25 Thread Smith, Cathy
You can also do a tail -f Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  509.375.2687 Fax:    509.375.2330 Email:  cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@lists.pdx

[PLUG] FW: [Merit Events] Learn SELinux in two evening sessions

2014-09-15 Thread Smith, Cathy
Folks Just passing this out as an fyi. This is an on-line, but not free, course, though the Unix of Michigan. I had Dr. Antonelli as an instructor before, and highly recommend him. His courses are well prepared. His examples and demos are useful learning tools and applicable to real-world

Re: [PLUG] Command to encrypt files

2014-08-17 Thread Smith, Cathy
There are lot of good references on-line for using GPG. Depending on what you want, you don't have to learn everything to just get started. The commands listed below are usually enough to get started. If you want some links, send me your email address and I'll include a few that I use. Cath

Re: [PLUG] AK-47?

2014-08-08 Thread Smith, Cathy
Do you have the link? > There was a recent news article that someone did this; all but the barrel, of course. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  509.375.2687 Fax:    509.375.2

Re: [PLUG] Q&A with Linus Torvalds RSVP Link!

2014-03-25 Thread Smith, Cathy
I'm willing to make the drive in, but since I'm not a regular attendee, I'd be at the bottom of the list for seating. So anything you can do would be much appreciated. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of En

Re: [PLUG] Q&A with Linus Torvalds RSVP Link!

2014-03-25 Thread Smith, Cathy
Is streaming going to work for remote viewers? The "should" concerns me a bit. Regards, Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  509.375.2687 Fax:    509.375.2330 Email:  cathy.sm...@p

Re: [PLUG] Needs some speakers have some of my own topics

2013-05-29 Thread Smith, Cathy
Hi I have some suggestions for speakers from ones I attended at LinuxFest if that would be of interest. I just lurk on the list as I'm out of town. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  50

[PLUG] need help with Apache HTTP_REFERER

2013-05-13 Thread Smith, Cathy
Hi I need to configure my Apache web server to redirect an incoming request if it¹s not from a specific web site. I¹ve been trying unsuccessfully to use the HTTP_REFERER to do this. Most of the discussion I¹ve found about this involves the prevention of hotlinking. My webserver a RHEL5 box

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: LinuxFest Northwest 2013 is nearing! Register Now!

2013-04-06 Thread Smith, Cathy
The lunch is prepared by the students at the culinary school at Bellingham Technical College. The food Is great. I've been going since 2007. I have found the talks to be good. This is a low-keyed conference that is much better than many that charge a lot of money. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith

Re: [PLUG] User limits in Linux

2013-02-28 Thread Smith, Cathy
What is a "little"? Can you or they be more specific? We set the user limits fairly high in /etc/security/limits.conf for the Oracle Fusion accounts - keep increasing it. Of course, the Fusion application servers have hefty amounts of CPU and memory. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pa

Re: [PLUG] How to copy files from one machine to another without having them owned by nobody

2013-01-28 Thread Smith, Cathy
Can you send the syntax you are using? --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  509.375.2687 Fax:    509.375.2330 Email:  cathy.sm...@pnnl.gov -Original Message- From: plug-boun...@li

Re: [PLUG] Tame Windows to permit Linux space - HOW?

2012-01-26 Thread Smith, Cathy
One option is to boot from an Ubuntu or Knoppix CD and have a running environment without installing anything. --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  509.375.2687 Fax:    509.375.2330 Email: 

Re: [PLUG] Solaris Uptime

2011-10-18 Thread Smith, Cathy
I've worked with Sun boxes for years and never heard of a "recommended" reboot cycle. Do you know what version of Solaris? --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  509.375.2687 Fax:    509.375.2330 E

Re: [PLUG] USENIX coming to Portland; anybody interested in Cfengine?

2011-05-18 Thread Smith, Cathy
Please let me know when this is confirmed so that I can schedule the time off. Thanks very much for doing this. Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  509.375.2687 Fax:    509.375.2330 Ema

Re: [PLUG] USENIX coming to Portland; anybody interested in Cfengine?

2011-05-16 Thread Smith, Cathy
Would this be appropriate for folks with no experience with Cfengine? Cathy --- Cathy L. Smith IT Engineer Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated by Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy Phone:  509.375.2687 Fax:    509.375.2330 Email: cathy.sm...@pnl.gov -Original Me

[PLUG] SANS Security Essentials Portland offering

2011-01-25 Thread Smith, Cathy
Folks SANS would be interested in offering the SANS Security Essentials course at the Community SANS Portland planned for April. Please contact Andrea Hogan at SANS for further information: Andrea Hogan Manager, Business Development Community SANS 403-929-1821 aho...@sans.org www.SANS.org/comm