Re: [PLUG] Setting laptop network for new router configuration

2017-11-14 Thread Jim Garrison
a) It's not necessarily the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. Sometimes it's 192.168.0.0/24, you have to check the documentation that came with the router, or look on the manufacturer's website. b) The router address isn't necessarily .1, it could be .254 c) It should come with DHCP enabled and

Re: [PLUG] Mail server question

2018-05-07 Thread Jim Garrison
On 5/7/2018 1:38 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >   I've installed both spf opendkim and they're up and running. But, when I > send a verification message to port25.com the return message shows only spf > as passing. Can I assume that opendkim is also working and can be seen by > recipients who examine

Re: [PLUG] NAS vs multi-bay USB external drives

2018-06-07 Thread Jim Garrison
things up into TCP/IP packets slows things down, even if you have 1Gbps ethernet. Take your two choices and find out what the sustained read and write speeds are. -- Jim Garrison ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Cloning a mirror raid

2018-06-01 Thread Jim Garrison
On 6/1/2018 6:14 AM, Scott Howard wrote: > I need to clone a mirror raid on a linux box to one drive. Any software > suggestions other than clonezilla. Hardware RAID card or software RAID? Why can't you just use dd? ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Mail log reporting differences

2018-05-03 Thread Jim Garrison
On 5/3/2018 6:05 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >   This is not a problem needing a solution, rather a situation which I > would > like to understand. Even though I've looked at the two scripts (logwatch is > a perl script, pflogsumm a bash script) I don't see why they report > different results from the

Re: [PLUG] Domain dead; Mailman sends monthly reminders

2018-02-03 Thread Jim Garrison
On 2/1/2018 6:47 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >   A curios situation. The SQL Ledger fork, ledger123, died some time in the [snip] > >   'whois' shows: > > Updated Date: 2018-01-22T01:04:39Z > Creation Date: 2011-01-19T01:36:38Z > Registry Expiry Date: 2019-01-19T01:36:38Z There is absolutely zero

[PLUG] Ticket Received response from Web Africa after posting to PLUG

2018-02-03 Thread Jim Garrison
On 2/1/2018 8:05 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: > I believe it was Rich Shepard who asked about this. Now I am too. > > Why do I get a message from supp...@webafrica.freshdesk.com after > sending a message to PLUG? Same here, posted in response to Rich's thread on ledger123.org and I immediately

[PLUG] WebAfrica tickets

2018-07-25 Thread Jim Garrison
On 7/25/2018 2:17 PM, Alfred Van der Rheede wrote: > image > > Dear Client > > Thank you for your email, > > We will be closing this ticket and please let us know if we can assist > with any Webafrica related services. > > Thank you for your patience. > > Kind Regards, > > The Webafrica

Re: [PLUG] Gmail shaming smtp clients???

2018-08-20 Thread Jim Garrison
On 8/20/2018 6:36 PM, mich...@robinson-west.com wrote: > I am setting up postfix and dovecot on a virtual private server running > CentOS 7 remotely. What do I have to implement so that gmail won't flag email > from my server as insecure? I've been through this in the last year even though my

Re: [PLUG] Friend's email has modified reply-to field

2018-08-23 Thread Jim Garrison
On 8/23/2018 9:04 AM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I have no idea how the spammer managed > to change her reply-to field It is trivially easy to forge/modify headers except those added by servers traversed after the message leaves the sending mail transfer agent. When reading headers they are in

Re: [PLUG] Frontier FiOS Installation

2018-07-20 Thread Jim Garrison
On 7/20/2018 1:23 PM, Russell Johnson wrote: > I've had FiOS since before Verizon sold them. They set mine up slightly > differently. > > The OTN converts to coax, and that is converted to ethernet with a > transceiver inside the house. That transceiver has a very small amount of > memory. If

[PLUG] Frontier FiOS Installation

2018-07-20 Thread Jim Garrison
Back in April I asked the following question: > I'm considering dumping Comcast and going with Frontier FiOS. > I have a couple of questions for anyone who's using FiOS in the > Hillsboro, OR area. > > 1) Do they bring fiber all the way to the modem or is there >an interface outside that

Re: [PLUG] Hardware recommendations

2018-09-10 Thread Jim Garrison
the clock and custom settings when you replace the battery. The jumper shorts the capacitor and battery across a resistor to completely remove power from the CMOS and force it back to factory defaults. >   Another new experience where I could not use prior knowledge to

Re: [PLUG] Hardware recommendations

2018-09-10 Thread Jim Garrison
On 9/10/2018 1:21 PM, Dave Lien - W7DAL wrote: > Good work Jim. Having built up many computers over the decades I watched > this thread with interest. Thanks. I built my first PC in 1988 and have never bought a pre-built machine. It's nice to build exactly what I want and spend my budget to

Re: [PLUG] Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-04 Thread Jim Garrison
who post, masquerading as emails to the list. Do you have the ability to save raw emails including all headers to a file? If you accumulate several SPAMs and send me a tarball or zip file to p...@jhmg.net (a throwaway address) I can take a look to see if I can identify a sender. -- Jim

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Spammers on the plug list

2018-07-05 Thread Jim Garrison
On 7/5/2018 11:51 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: >> Hello Dick, Thank you for contacting ServerMania. The mentioned domain >> is not hosted from our end and it is not related to any of our >> servers. Kind regards, >> -- Dino S. Support Technician Server Mania Tell them you beg to differ: Location

Re: [PLUG] Confusing SMTP error message

2018-03-11 Thread Jim Garrison
On 3/11/2018 5:46 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 10 Mar 2018, Jim Garrison wrote: > >> What do you see in the SMTP server log? > > Jim, > >   I should have written that I found nothing in the mail log when checking > for 'not sent'  and 'Sending'. Try to mat

Re: [PLUG] Confusing SMTP error message

2018-03-10 Thread Jim Garrison
On 3/10/2018 2:10 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >   Tried to send a message and got this error: > > Mail not sent. Sending error: 250 2.0.0 Ok > >   Looking at SMPT error codes showed me that 250 2.0.0 means the message > was > accepted for delivery, so why might be the reason it was not sent?

[PLUG] Frontier FiOS questions

2018-04-08 Thread Jim Garrison
I'm considering dumping Comcast and going with Frontier FiOS. I have a couple of questions for anyone who's using FiOS in the Hillsboro, OR area. 1) Do they bring fiber all the way to the modem or is there an interface outside that converts to coax for the internal connections? 2) Can you

Re: [PLUG] A "spider" or "other"?

2018-03-05 Thread Jim Garrison
On 3/5/2018 2:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > On two fora I've posted this question, appropriately phrased to be > explicitly *on topic*. > > Did not receive any nibles much less bytes. (YEPP bad puns) > > Am I asking the "right" question? > > Any suggestions gleefully accepted ;/ > TIA > >> By

Re: [PLUG] Indecipherable rsync error message

2018-09-29 Thread Jim Garrison
iles, dirs (code 3) at util.c(1056) [Receiver=3.1.1] What is in the file /media/jjj/Movies/rsync_exclusions ? Did you make a change to that file recently? Are all the paths in that file valid? -- Jim Garrison ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://

Re: [PLUG] AWS EFS Infrequent Access Question

2019-02-19 Thread Jim Garrison
you move it back to Standard manually. This could be a costly gotcha if you have a bursty access pattern with long delays (over 30 days) between large bursts. You could incur really hefty access charges in the long run if you're not careful about monitoring