Re: [PLUG] wifi security

2009-02-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
the Internet). DNS, mail, web -- everything travels encrypted between your laptop and home VPN server before being routed to its final destination. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] login weirdness

2009-03-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
ulnkey to make sure your system and user keys aren't predictable ala CVE-2008-0166: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571 -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> www.madboa.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org h

Re: [PLUG] Rumors that Windows 7 will kill Linux...

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
rking bottleneck. Unless my bedroom, plane seat, remote conference room, and all places in between have reliable, fast internetworking connections, I'm going to rely on local applications, not cloud apps. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ _

Re: [PLUG] Rumors that Windows 7 will kill Linux...

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
ble for OS X, and RDP is a reasonable remote-access solution. Regardless of its usability or features, iWork is the embodiment of vendor-lock-in and only has a place in a Mac-only shop. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___

Re: [PLUG] Rumors that Windows 7 will kill Linux...

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
adsheets with multiple windows and dependencies, tend to be tool- and platform-tied. Still, I think it's the way forward. Users determine their own efficiency and comfort level, and they interact with shared digital assets via open protocols. Here, anyway, it's not utopia; it&#

Re: [PLUG] Going back to Hardy

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
PostScript NIS LDAP In some cases, the Chevy is good enough. In other cases, the Jaguar is the only tool for the job. De gustibus non disputatum est. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ __

Re: [PLUG] Going back to Hardy

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
t is when the choice is colored by unproductive assessments like choosing one product because it's more fashionable (i.e., people will think I'm cooler if I work with Tool A instead of Tool B) rather than because it's better for the workflow at hand. -- Paul Heinlein <>

Re: [PLUG] Possible Causes of Cron Inconsistencies

2009-04-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
hey wouldn't run on Debian. Wierd. Third, some versions of run-parts can be run from the command line in a test mode and report what programs it thinks it should run, e.g., run-parts --test /etc/cron.daily Fourth, you can always try putting a bunch of "print STDERR ..."

Re: [PLUG] Could this be you?

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
is applicable to more than just software: Be conservative in what you do; Be liberal in what you accept from others. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Which new distro?

2009-04-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
ct of your system, the more software that's potentially vulnerable. The thing is, there's no solid rule here. Some vulnerabilities are exploitable under fairly limited conditions -- but you're the only one who's able to assess whether your system is

[PLUG] WRT suggestions

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Heinlein
es does it offer that make it more appealing for you? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] WRT suggestions

2009-05-01 Thread Paul Heinlein
Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback. I'm hoping to flash and configure the device this weekend, but that's pretty tentative since child rearing, housework, and band practice are higher on the priority list. :-) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com &

Re: [PLUG] WRT suggestions

2009-05-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
py customer. I like being able to ssh into my router. I also like being able to poll it via SNMP. As I have time, I'll probably end up moving some services from a server at home to the Linksys: OpenVPN, DNS, DHCP. Thanks again for all the suggestions and feedback! -- Paul Heinlein &l

Re: [PLUG] Second drive visibility - Was Damned Small USB or better

2009-06-01 Thread Paul Heinlein
nnot reliably authenticate against a Samba server. It can, however, mount drive shares, if that's all you need. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] sendmail question - sending null ORCPT

2009-06-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
;1...@2.3> NOTIFY=FAILURE ORCPT=rfc822;<1...@2.3> > > I'm not entirely certain whether the <>s are supposed to be present > in the ORCPT command, but in any case, there's nothing there. > > Any idea where I can start to look for why it's blank? There wouldn&#

[PLUG] Google Developers Favor vi over emacs

2009-06-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
OK, the Subject header is flame bait, but I accidentally discovered vi-esque shortcuts in Google Calendar today. In any view (day, week, month), you can navigate to the next time unit using j or n or to the previous time unit using k or p. I find that hilarious. -- Paul Heinlein <>

Re: [PLUG] Google Developers Favor vi over emacs

2009-06-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
! Like you, I still use Alpine. I resort to Thunderbird only for testing... -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Google Developers Favor vi over emacs

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Aaron Baer wrote: > Check out keyboard bindings for Google Search > http://www.google.com/experimental/ Very, very nice. Now if there were a shortcut for going to the next page of results... -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> htt

Re: [PLUG] Google Developers Favor vi over emacs

2009-06-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Aaron Baer wrote: > >> Check out keyboard bindings for Google Search >> http://www.google.com/experimental/ > > Very, very nice. Now if there were a shortcut for going to the next > page of results... So

Re: [PLUG] Upgrading BerkeleyDB

2009-08-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
po 2) Create a new svn repo that uses the "fsfs" backend (no BDB) 3) Import the dump into the new repo Otherwise, it's easy to create a non-BDB subversion repository: svnadmin create $SVNROOT --fs-type fsfs (As I mentioned, I think fsfs is now the default.) You can ba

Re: [PLUG] X is messed up (RESOLVED)

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Heinlein
nf: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079054.html The whole thread may be of interest to you: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-July/079046.html > The only clue I could see was a reference to "kinit." kinit is a Kerberos utility. I doubt it's an issue for yo

Re: [PLUG] Portable Scanner

2009-10-01 Thread Paul Heinlein
ility. Also, the S500 line has a different document feeder than the S300s. I will say, however, that S500s are very good at scanning documents. Our legal and and contracts folks, who use them frequently, give them high marks. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.c

[PLUG] Mobile broadband experiences?

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
, in other metro areas across the country. Thanks! -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Reinstall, yet save everything

2009-10-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
, or whatever. Plus, you can always chroot yourself into the old environment to do things like query your old apt database or see what library versions are used by your old binaries. If the new hard drive is considerably larger than the old one, you can even dd the old drive to a file on your n

Re: [PLUG] Laptop as Server?

2009-10-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
asons; otherwise, I'd still be using it. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Linux RAID1 question

2009-11-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
gt; tar/rsync/cp, etc. so you really need to know what you're doing. E.g., http://djlab.com/2009/05/convert-single-disk-to-raid-on-live-linux-server/ -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] Low-cost Notebooks

2009-11-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, drew wymore wrote: > I should think in terms of compatibility that the 2 most common > issues would be the video and wireless. ... and power management. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> www.madboa.com __

Re: [PLUG] DisplayPort

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
.) It'd be cool if the machine's hardware allowed audio i/o over DisplayPort/HDMI, but that's not a widespread feature yet. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Discussion topic - Choosing to run Gentoo vs Debian or Red Hat

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
kages were far more common in Gentoo than in other distributions. That may have changed, but I grew to dread updates. In short, my assessment is that the time required to build, test, and deploy Gentoo packages wasn't worth the mild speed gains and packaging flexibility it could provi

Re: [PLUG] I bought an iBook

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
> install disk, to create a second vm. I am finding that it hangs > shortly after asking for the repository link. > > There are Mac specific user groups, for a fee. So, I thought I would > ask for suggestions here first. OS X lives on a Unix base, so fire away! -- P

Re: [PLUG] spamassassin bug

2010-01-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
--- > > No time to do much more with that; if someone else wants to track this > down, see how prevalent it is, submit a bug report, etc. that would > help us all. I've got about 8 days of unanswered emails to deal with! I usually just allow sa-update to han

Re: [PLUG] Pine

2010-01-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
has UTF-8 support so you can read your spam in the original Russian! :-) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Pine

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Jeme A Brelin wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> Also -- are you still running Pine or have you switched to Alpine? >> The latter is the currently supported version -- and it has UTF-8 >> support so you can read your spam

Re: [PLUG] Step away from the PHP

2010-01-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
s 3. Install and learn cabal 4. Decode the Happstack API Sort of reminds me of Steve Martin's "You can be a millionaire and never pay taxes" routine. First step: "get a million dollars." :-) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

Re: [PLUG] Appropriate LANG locale

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
to use? I usually do LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C" I get the old-fashioned ASCII sort ordering, can still get unicode in terminal windows, etc. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Appropriate LANG locale

2010-02-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
anks, >> >> Rich > > I believe the answer is Neither. It should be utf8. Hmm. I thought the official designation for the charmap in question was UTF-8. In any event, I'm just going by what Red Hat and Debian set as their default (for en_US environments). -- Paul Heinlei

Re: [PLUG] Destroying media - *BEST* practice!

2010-02-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Ah, data destruction competition, eh? You all make it sound so hard... 1. Install Windows 2. Attach machine to internet 3. Use IE to visit URLs you've accumulated in overnight spam Your hard drive will be toast in 10 to 15 minutes.

Re: [PLUG] Selecting a Distribution (was: Solved: New Computer)

2010-03-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
ware? 4. Sysadmin skillset. Who's maintaining this system and what administrative tools are in their comfort zone? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > Greetings from Fedora 12.. > > Anyone else run this?? I've got a 64-bit Fedora 12 VM (on a CentOS 5 host). I like the deltarpm stuff. I'm interested to see if that makes the jump to RHEL and CentOS. -- Paul Heinlein <> he

Re: [PLUG] random question: how do you think newbies select their distributions?

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
platform needs a proprietary application on a different platform -- or local VMs can be used if licensing isn't an issue. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org ht

[PLUG] spamassassin or spamass-milter exploit

2010-03-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
pplication misparsed the piped e-mail addresses and executed them. I saw the attack again this morning, but by then I'd cleaned things up and gotten SELinux back into Enforcing mode, which prevented the exploit from working again. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http:

Re: [PLUG] spamassassin or spamass-milter exploit

2010-03-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Galen Seitz wrote: > Paul Heinlein wrote: >> This is a heads-up that there might be an actively exploited >> vulnerability in either the spamassassin or spamass-milter package. >> I'm still unsure where the problem lies, but here's what I know

Re: [PLUG] Open SSH - Signing on at root

2010-03-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
e client host) that can be run with that key, e.g., from="trusted.yourdom.com",command="/bin/ls" ssh-rsa The trick is that doing scp that way is hard. rsync is easier to configure as a forced command: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html -- Paul Heinle

Re: [PLUG] SCO loses again

2010-03-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Galen Seitz wrote: > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100330152829622 yay! now we wait to see if there's anyone who'll fund an appeal. my bet is no, but some people just can't stay away from courtrooms. -- Paul Heinlein <> hei

Re: [PLUG] resources for configuring WinXP clients on a Samba server

2010-04-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
a? If the latter, how is authentication being done? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Lucid Lynx - preview

2010-04-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
ve to (a) go to GRUB 2 or (b) start to maintain the legacy code themselves. I suspect that, in the longer term, going with decision (a) is a no-brainer. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG m

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
pressed collections of several files, aren't they? I wonder if the problem is that you're not working on that file directly, but on its contents. That would jibe with being able to do straight text editing with gedit while being unable to use C

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 5.x/Fedora 12, Connect to Server, OOo read-only files

2010-04-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
on the remote mount point. I don't use OpenOffice.org, so I don't really know all that much about its requirements, but if it wants a real filesystem, use NFS or CIFS. You can use either one over an OpenVPN tunnel, although you'll probably be somewhat bothered by the latency

Re: [PLUG] Sorta OT -- Good book on web site positioning

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
re are my best suggestions: 1. Choose page titles that encorporate search keywords 2. Choose subheadings and page text likewise. 3. Run your HTML though tidy or some other syntax checker. 4. Don't rely on images to convey content without corresponding text. 5. Get other sites to link to yours.

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
but if you're commited to Xen, Red Hat is definitely not the way to go. Debian stable (lenny) has good Xen support, and it's likely to be around for a while. I suspect the LTS versions of Ubuntu are in the same boat. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> www.ma

Re: [PLUG] VPN security questions for laptops

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
but some shops use ipsec or other technologies. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
full blown linux install. Is that not true? In my experience, the real-world performance difference approaches zero for anything but a highly loaded server. In fact, if I was pushing a VM hard enough and often enough for the differences to matter, I wouldn't be running a VM. :-) --

Re: [PLUG] getting the quote right

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
y servers to please customers, not to be aligned with Google, Yahoo!, or Amazon. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] getting the quote right

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> While I hope it's obvious that I have similar partisan sympathies, >> I'll just note that people deploy servers to provide application >> services, not operating s

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo T410?

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
rt representatives wanted to blame me every time I called. Lenovo's reps have all wanted to help. On one occasion, despite a next-business-day warranty, I had to wait several days for a part shipment. Otherwise, Lenovo service has been snappy. --

[PLUG] Using Debian testing packages in stable

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
"5.0*";' to /etc/apt/apt.conf. Now I want to do "aptitude -t testing install pkg1 pkg2 pkgN". Is that the best practice for such things? I've read a bit about doing pinning in /etc/apt/preferences, but that didn't seem to provide the right package set when I ran

Re: [PLUG] Using Debian testing packages in stable

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
that. When I do stuff like this, I > commonly just download and install the necessary .debs manually, but > they probably have swankier ways to handle dependencies. Thanks for the link. I looked in lenny-backports for the packages I need, but they're still below the minimum ver

Re: [PLUG] Using tar command with --exclude=

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
t;> If I use this command: >> tar --exclude=._* -cvfj oldemail.tbz bzip2 >> >> tar creates an archive named >> j >> -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] pdxlinux.org site remodel online for comments and review

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
s were willing to do things like summarize problem-solved threads on the mailing list as articles and post them to the site, then a full WP implementation becomes worthwhile. My only warning is that few things scream "rot and decay" like a blog with no article newer than s

Re: [PLUG] Roots closes - need new venue for AT

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
cond location not mentioned on the > web site? Their original location is in Garden Home. And Multnomah is under construction for a while. It's an un-fun bike ride from the Village to Beaverton right now... -- Paul Heinlein <> hei

Re: [PLUG] Higher speed for hill-country? Your recs?

2010-07-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
inbound traffic * as comcast thrives, the provider market shrinks Comcast wants you to be a bandwidth consumer, not a service provider. There are currently no blocks on, say, inbound ssh traffic, but Comcast's terms of service don't rule out such a block in the future. -- Pau

Re: [PLUG] OSCON Expo Reminder

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
? It > doesn't sit well with me. Just think of it a MS refunding the "Windows tax" on computers sold to Linux users... -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] KVM

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
k representations: * they're easy to rsync to other hosts and/or backup * i haven't noticed any significant performance difference -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Missing guests in virsh

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
ferent output if you don't include the -c option? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Changing from Wireless to Wired Networking

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
is described in the interfaces(5) man page. Assuming that your wired interface is eth0, you'll probably want a couple lines in that file: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ _

Re: [PLUG] Changing from Wireless to Wired Networking

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
e the second line to reflect that. It'd look something like iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.2 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

Re: [PLUG] debug running process

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
eedn't restart a process to use strace/truss. Just point it at an existing PID: strace -p $PID It's more difficult, of course, if the parent process starts up multiple long-lived forks or threads, but a single-threaded process won't pose any difficulty. -- Paul Heinlein &

Re: [PLUG] debug running process

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
ne's CPU or I/O subsystem is already overloaded, you shouldn't have much trouble writing to a file. Keep an eye on file size -- strace dumps can be large -- and you should be just fine. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___

Re: [PLUG] Isolating httpd Applications

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
ain web server * want to ensure that the application can't monopolize CPU or IO resources the main web server needs to have * the application requires resources or versions you don't want on your main web server -- Paul Heinlein <> hei

Re: [PLUG] CentOS upgrade trouble...

2010-09-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
orted. "Isn't supported" is a very mild way of communicating what the denizens on the CentOS mailing list would say, which would be more along the lines of "DON'T!" -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> www.madboa.com_

Re: [PLUG] CentOS upgrade trouble...

2010-09-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
ck of a time troubleshooting it. Two random debugging thoughts: 1. If SELinux is enabled, do "ausearch -m avc" to get a look at what's being denied 2. Bump the debug level of your web server. If you're usinng Apache, try "LogLevel debug" -- Paul Heinlein <&

Re: [PLUG] too many identical md5sums - is this normal?

2010-09-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
If the inode number is the same, that's the answer. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> www.madboa.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] setting up a local linux repository question

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
ype of > software maintenance. A lot depends on the distribution(s) you're hoping to mirror. Without knowing that, any response I give would be tentative. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mail

Re: [PLUG] tentative answer

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
allation. Debian takes a bit longer because it lacks a kickstart facility, but it's still a relatively quick process. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] network conditional bash script, sharing and feedback request

2010-09-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
ith "umount /media/net". So, assuming you added my suggested /etc/fstab entry, my short version of your script would be #!/bin/sh MAC=$(ip neighbor show | grep 'XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX REACHABLE' | wc -l) if [ "$MAC" -eq 1 ]; then case "$2" in up)

Re: [PLUG] Bash Scripting Question

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
mplish this? for F in *; do test -x "$F" && "./$F" done -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Basic Web App Knowledge

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
s always a great start: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#loglevel I'll emphasize the "temporarily": debug-level logs are large and full of details you may not want leaked. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ _

Re: [PLUG] Basic Web App Knowledge

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> Temporarily bumping the LogLevel up to "debug" is always a great start: > > Done. > > What I see in /var/log/httpd/ is: > > [Mon Sep 27 10:58:44 2010] [error

Re: [PLUG] How To Remove "Ghost" Files?

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
does not exist. > > Your thoughts and suggestions on how to clean this up are wanted. You might try deleting it by inode number: # get the file's inode (e.g., 123456) ls -i # delete file by inode number find . -inum 123456 -exec rm {} \; -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl

Re: [PLUG] How To Remove "Ghost" Files?

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: > You might try deleting it by inode number: > > # get the file's inode (e.g., 123456) > ls -i > # delete file by inode number > find . -inum 123456 -exec rm {} \; Or, if the file has bizarre characters in its name that confuse rm,

Re: [PLUG] Is anyone running Linux on an IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42?

2010-10-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
I'll be interested to hear about any experiences > and problems. Until my T41's fan died recently, I'd run both CentOS and Ubuntu on it with no real problems. I never used the modem, so I don't know whether it works under Linux or not. Power management was ok but n

Re: [PLUG] upgrading a redhat 7 kernel

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
d run the latest 2.4 kernel release (2.4.37.10) if you have access to the .config file used to build the Red Hat kernel. Red Hat's kernels were often highly patched, however, so it wouldn't surprise me to discover that some bit of functionality is missing when you build a stock kernel.

Re: [PLUG] memtest86: Help Needed

2010-11-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
on > the silicon. > > Should I swap these for a new pair? IMO, even a single memory error means the underlying DIMM (or whatever) should be swapped out. memtest86+ should run completely clean. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] memtest86: Help Needed

2010-11-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
ards are pushing bits like mad, and CPU instructions are queued in a long line. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] (SOLVED) Removing OOo with yum ... or?

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
ection, the bash(1) man page even makes a special point of calling out this circumstance: "The command substitution $(cat file) can be replaced by the equivalent but faster $(< file)." -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Accessing Wireless Router/AP

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
uch security you actually want. If your goal is simply to keep honest people off your network, WEP or the older WPA will do fine, but either can be broken quickly by anyone who so desires. If you actually want something resembling security, go with WPA2 and a long (> 15 character) shared

Re: [PLUG] ddclient strangeness

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, frankhunt wrote: > Anyone using zoneedit.com and ddclient? I know that zoneedit.com recently updated its web site. Did its ddclient interface change as well? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http:/

Re: [PLUG] How to move files from debian host to ubuntu vm in vmplayer?

2010-12-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
NFS-export a directory from your host machine to the VM. Are you familiar with NFS? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] How to move files from debian host to ubuntu vm in vmplayer?

2010-12-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Galen Seitz wrote: > Mark Phillips wrote: >> >> Is there a good NFS help page for use with vms? > > So am I the only one that initially read this as NFS for DEC VMS? > I guess my age is showing. What was it like when dirt was a novelty? :-) --

Re: [PLUG] ls listing with apt package column

2010-12-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
x27;t surprise me to see non-package stuff lost in there -- though it'd be sort of interesting to find out. Anyway, be careful where you look... -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mail

Re: [PLUG] Buying your own cable modem...

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
offerings but will prevent you from moving to the "wideband" (50 Mb/s) speeds in the future. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] startssl (was firefox updates and certs)

2010-12-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
put the certificate into the /usr/share/ca-certificates hierarchy, edit /etc/ca-certificates.conf accordingly, and run /usr/sbin/update-ca-certificates. (Easier is just to drop the certificate into /etc/ssl/certs and run "/usr/bin/c_rehash /etc/ssl/certs".) RHEL/CentOS: add the certificat

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Apache modules for better security

2011-01-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
(or, on Debian-esque systems, apache2ctl) can run a syntax check that will warn you when an unknown runtime directive is encountered. (If a module isn't loaded, Apache won't know about its runtime directives.) So, 1. Make a working copy of your apache config 2. Comment out a module o

Re: [PLUG] Who are the top 10 interesting entrepreneur + open source companies in PDX?

2011-01-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
have released and maintain several useful Haskell libraries: http://code.galois.com/cgi-bin/gitweb Late last year, Galois also released HaLVM, a port of the Haskell runtime for barebones Xen, allowing Haskell programs written for the HaLVM run natively on Xen, without any intervening operati

Re: [PLUG] UPS is beeping sporadically

2011-01-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
s Plus outlets in town will probably have what you need. You can search for nearby locations at http://www.batteriesplus.com. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org htt

Re: [PLUG] Bash file test for multiple files

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Alex Young wrote: > Here's what I use: > > > DIRTOTAL=`ls $PATH | grep [^*$] -c` > if [ $DIRTOTAL -ne 0 ]; then if test $(find $DIR -type f | wc -l) -gt 0; then # whatever fi -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.co

Re: [PLUG] Is Linux only for nerds?

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
percentage of the American population would apply that term to someone who builds PCs from scratch. :-) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] yum update, exclude single files?

2011-03-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
--scripts"; the rpm man page details the funkiness. I don't think that yum has that level of subtlety, however, so if you're committed to it, then you'll have to find a more manual workaround. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.c

Re: [PLUG] 32-bit vs. 64-bit: Decision Criteria

2011-03-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
, but I haven't had a use-every-day Linux workstation in several years (though that will change within the next three months). -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] 32-bit vs. 64-bit: Decision Criteria

2011-03-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
fication. Installing a 32-bit Linux in a virtual server container has a lower bar for justification. Unfortunately, our Windows servers are still 32-bit because the application vendors with whom we do business still recommend them. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> h

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