Re: Bug tracking solution?

2012-10-06 Thread Paul Mooring
While neither are PHP based I really like Redmine (redmine.org) as a full blown project management solution and GitLab (gitlabhq.com) as an opensource GitHub alternative. -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com From: Daniel Stasinski mailto:dan

Re: wireless question

2012-09-21 Thread Paul Mooring
The ISP could not cause that problem. My guess is someone next door is using your wireless slowing down all connected clients. Check your router for any devices on your wireless that aren't yours. -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com -Original Me

Re: find and replace

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Mooring
nd to any file whose name ends in '*.JPG'. -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com From: Michael Havens mailto:bmi...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Main discussion list mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>> Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 1

Re: find and replace

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Mooring
line .jpg/ # This is the string to replace the previous regex with '.jpg' -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com From: Michael Havens mailto:bmi...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: Main discussion list mailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>> Date: Tu

Re: need help with network

2012-02-22 Thread Paul Mooring
How are you trying to copy files and what are you authenticating against? I'm guessing from what you wrote you have 4 computers on the network: Mint, Ubuntu, XP, and IBM (UNIX or something?), and your trying to share resources using SMB. I would also probably assume XP is appending something else

OT: Linux Admin job

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Mooring
The company I work for is looking to add a Linux admin: http://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/sad/2797623483.html we're looking for some one with some Linux experience, but if you can answer the screener questions on the job listing with out google, you probably have enough experience. --

Re: "no such partition"~I hurt my machine!

2012-01-18 Thread Paul Mooring
I've usually had bad luck with 'grub-install', I would boot a live cd and run the grub command itself, then just run the install commands: # grub --no-floppy ... grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) This assumes your /boot/grub/menu.lst is already setup, /dev/sda1 is your root, and you w

Re: Perl subroutines

2010-07-11 Thread Paul Mooring
I didn't necessarily mean that was a bad way to do it, just that I prefer other methods, but I suppose that's more my problem than perl's, for example I have a few ruby scripts that need to use openstruct, define a new object and pass that in to make command line options work. Perl doesn't need an

Re: Perl subroutines

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Mooring
It appears that is the closest possible syntax fro what I want to do, I suppose if I'm going to write in perl I'll just have to get over wanting to do things the way I like and embrace the way perl does things, although I'll likely never understand why anyone would rather have shorter code than mor

Perl subroutines

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Mooring
I'm working on a perl script, and I have a lot more experience in ruby than I do in perl. As far as I can tell there is no way to explicitly define arguments for a subroutine in perl, for example sub addNums(number1, number2) { sum = number1 + number2; return sum; } rather than sub addNums

Re:

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Mooring
I'd just like to point out that ruby was originally intended to be a replacement for perl, primarily focused on being used for sys admin type scripting, not a web language. I for one love ruby and do essentially no web programming, I just can't live without the binding operator ( ~= ) and perl's r

Re: PXE vs PXE

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Mooring
Another setup I think works pretty well is thinstation http://www.thinstation.org/ It's used to boot into a really minimal version of linux that connects directly to a remote server through rdp, vnc. ssh, ect On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > This has been a standard techniqu

Re: PXE booting

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
I've used this: http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php as a work around in the past to use a bootable CD or usb drive, to integrate with my pxe boot environments, it doesn't really add pxe boot because the system boots off of some other type of media, but it at least lets you use the hardware you have

Re: File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
gt;>>> /home/paul/Desktop/ >>>> tar: /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file >>>> or directory > From: Paul Mooring >> yes, like my reply above shows with or without the j I get an error >> saying /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2 i

Re: File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
are perming two actions, one is failing, > which one?  Find out by doing the actions seperately.  It will allow you to > narrow in on the problem. > > Kevin > > Sent from my Nokia phone > -Original Message----- > From: Paul Mooring > Sent:  02/11/2010 1:32:28 PM > S

Re: File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
ting now On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Kevin Fries wrote: > It sounds like it is not finding bzip2 for some reason.  Try creating the tar > without compression first. > > Kevin > > Sent from my Nokia phone > -Original Message- > From: Paul Mooring > Sent:  02

File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
Just like the subject says, this... p...@paulbox:~ $ sudo tar cjpf /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2 /home/paul/Desktop/ ...gives me this... tar: /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Removing leading `/' from member

Re: Looking for a mentor/adviser

2010-02-01 Thread Paul Mooring
Hopefully this can explain where the confusion with LDAP is coming from, here's 2 smb.conf files I use with clients (with any details changed obviously) the top one is the relevant part of global for a file server that is part of a windows domain, kerberos is needed but not LDAP because an external

Re: Looking for a mentor/adviser

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Mooring
Some might disagree with me here, but I don't think there is a really good linux/UNIX alternative for SBS (mainly AD and Exchange), I've used samba + openldap for domain controllers for several clients and it does a great job for central authentication / file shares and permissions, but not having

Re: network woes

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Mooring
Trent Shipley wrote: > Eric Shubert wrote: > > >> Trent Shipley wrote: >> >> >>> Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken. Load times take >>> forever. It doesn't seem to effect the wireless client routers, but I >>> have had trouble on both the wired machines under Ubuntu 9.1

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-16 Thread Paul Mooring
Where I work we run Xen, VMware, and Virtualbox, and in my experience all 3 are good at different things. If you intended to use a workstation as the host (by that I mean you want to use X and a desktop environment on the linux host) I think virtualbox is the way to go it's really easy to use/set

Re: Linux Mint distro

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Mooring
Eric Shubert wrote: > There was mention of Mint on the list back in August. I ran into someone > tonight who said he really likes it. I see that it's moving up the > distrowatch list and now sits at #3, above openSUSE(#4) and Mandriva(#5). > > Anyone here with any experience or insights about it

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Mooring
urce, due to many issues. And from my experience, Gentoo admins simply don't patch update. Honestly, now, do you? Have you checked your source against the patch lists? Point made! On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Paul Mooring wrote: I definately see what your saying and agree th

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Mooring
a book deal or consulting company? On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: I don't know as much about security as you do, but surely your not suggesting that distros like suse or ubuntu or more secure than openbsd. I thought the whole purpose behind openbs

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Mooring
Kachold Reply-to: Main PLUG discussion list To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:09:39 -0700 On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Paul Mooring wrote: I've been running linux routers using iproute2 and iptables for

Free alternative to TimeSlips

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Mooring
I'm looking for some Time/Billing software similar to what TimeSlips from Sage does. Hopefully something free (as in freedom), as I have to support it once it's put in place. I haven't been able to turn anything up on google, has anybody ever heard of a project similar to this? btw, the client en

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Mooring
n Monday 19 October 2009 14:46:54 Paul Mooring wrote: > I've been running linux routers using iproute2 and iptables for a while > now, and openBSD just had a new release which has me considering > switchi

Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Mooring
I've been running linux routers using iproute2 and iptables for a while now, and openBSD just had a new release which has me considering switching my home setup to a BSD pf solution. Does anyone have any experience comparing the two? I guess I'm also concerned about other software I use on my lin

Re: RegEx question

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Mooring
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:55:13 -0700 ^([...@]+)@ On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Paul Mooring wrote: This is probably a really obvious question but how can I match everything up to a character not including that character with regex? For example: per...@emai

RegEx question

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Mooring
This is probably a really obvious question but how can I match everything up to a character not including that character with regex? For example: per...@email.tld => person m...@here.com => me --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.ph

Re: MySQL DBA

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Mooring
If you'll excuse the shameless plug the company I work for (http://www.aimitservices.com) does just that and I've never understood why outsourcing isn't more common for small and growing businesses. It allows a much larger and likely more experience staff the businesses those sizes would have acce

Kernel vulnerability

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Mooring
Anybody seen this? http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-08/0174.html and more importantly is there someone more knowledgable than me that can tell me a way to check if my system are affected by this? (I'm using mostly all custom compiled kernels).

OT: Cron for windows

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Mooring
I have a couple of vbscripts I'd like to run on a regular basis (like every 10 mins) on a windows server. The scripts are operating properly, but as far as I can tell windows doesn't allow scheduled jobs more often than once a day. Currently I'm considering using cron on a linux box with freesshd

Re: Linux work in Tucson

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Mooring
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:14 -0700, JD Austin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Ryan Rix > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Paul > Mooring wrote: > > I'm looking for someone in Tucson to do some fairly minor > linux

Linux work in Tucson

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Mooring
I'm looking for someone in Tucson to do some fairly minor linux work, we have an old gateway server that needs a password reset and ssh turned on. Does anyone on this work for or know of a business or person in Tucson I could contact about this? ---

Re: Using fedora instead of ipcop

2009-06-05 Thread Paul Mooring
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 14:10 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: > Yes, any distro can certainly be configured as a firewall. > > The primary advantage I see in using a "firewall distro" is that it's > just plain easier, meaning that you don't need as high a level of > expertise in order to make it work.

Re: Using fedora instead of ipcop

2009-06-04 Thread Paul Mooring
Maybe most people would disagree with me on this but I don't think there's too many advantages to runnning IPcop over a standard linux distro in the first place if you're only looking to use it as a router. Any router or firewall distro is more or less an iptables frontend anyhow. To do it make sur

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Mooring
I really like ruby as well but my experience has been if he's planning on pursuing some type of CS degree he'll definitely need to know java and C++ for 90% of the programming related classes, so that might be a better place to start. On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 08:21 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: > On Ma

RE: Linux as a wireless AP

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Mooring
hock network, creating the route, etc.? If you let us know how far > you have gotten I am sure we can help further. > > -Original Message- > From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Paul > Moo

RE: Linux as a wireless AP

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Mooring
into ShoreWall yet? > > -Original Message- > From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Paul > Mooring > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:06 AM > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Linux as a w

Re: Linux as a wireless AP

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Mooring
d I'd miss glsa-check too much. On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 09:48 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: > Paul Mooring wrote: > > I've got a couple of old machines I use a routers around my house > > (gentoo based iptables routers) that I'd like to use an old pci wireless > > ca

Linux as a wireless AP

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Mooring
I've got a couple of old machines I use a routers around my house (gentoo based iptables routers) that I'd like to use an old pci wireless card to make my AP and get rid of my old WRT54G, does anyone know of a way to do this? Hopefully with a decent howto or guide, or else know of a reason why th

RE: decent non-embeded firewall (my worthless 2 cents)

2009-03-31 Thread Paul Mooring
OpenSuse has a limited gui in YaST for SuSE firewall that is essentially a frontend for iptables, it seemed fairly easy to use when I last played with it but I didn't care for the ruleset it generated, it seemed to be way too much, and made it nearly impossible to edit the rules manually through ip

Re: Usenet readers/binary downloaders for linux

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Mooring
SABnzbd+ is pretty good, it uses a web interface and checks your newzbin account for bookmarks automatically so there's no need to manually d/l the nzb files, it's got a pretty cool firefox plugin too. On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 09:46 -0700, Blake wrote: > Gotta be gui... I've been using newsbin for

Re: backtrack 3

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Mooring
Maybe I'm wrong but for "fix-it" usage I'd use knoppix or finnix rather than backtrack. backtrack has alot of pen-testing tools, fuzzers, aircrack-suite, port scanners ect. it's fun to play w/ but for general admin/support work I think 95% I find finnix way more useful. On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 17:00

OT: Windows troubleshooting question

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Mooring
I know this is a linux mailing list but because I don't know of any good windows lists or forums I thought I'd ask my question here. I've got an application that keeps hanging on Windows XP and writes no useful info to the logs. I'd like to get some concrete info about what's going wrong, on linu

Gedit/text editor question

2008-11-07 Thread Paul Mooring
I've beening using emacs for java programming the last couple weeks and like being able to open multiple windows at once. I recently started using gedit mostly because it has a plugin the let's me embed a terminal window in the bottom pane that I can use for compiling/running reading error messages

Re: Easy to use firewall and invisible proxy?

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Mooring
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been using pfSense w/ OpenDNS for a while, it's got a pluging for a transparent squid proxy that supports content filtering, it's fairly automated to set up so it shouldn't be too difficult for them, although configuring it to work with content fi