Re: [CentOS] Addressing outgoing connections to a specific interface
On 11/06/2010 10:29 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >Surely I am not the > first person who is connected to two separate LANs and needs to access > addresses on both of them. > No. You're just one of the first to want to do it with both sub-nets set up with THE SAME NETWORK ADDRESS. Move one. Both are adjustable. -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Addressing outgoing connections to a specific interface
On 11/06/2010 11:10 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 20:05, KevinO wrote: >> No. You're just one of the first to want to do it with both sub-nets set up >> with >> THE SAME NETWORK ADDRESS. >> >> Move one. Both are adjustable. >> > > I see! Is there no way to do specify which interface (eth0 / wlan0) to > use for the rest of a terminal session, without affecting other > running processes? The problem pretty much reduces to this. > It boils down to the routing table, which is based on IP address, and this table is system wide. -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Addressing outgoing connections to a specific interface
On 11/06/2010 11:10 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 20:05, KevinO wrote: >> No. You're just one of the first to want to do it with both sub-nets set up >> with >> THE SAME NETWORK ADDRESS. >> >> Move one. Both are adjustable. >> > > I see! Is there no way to do specify which interface (eth0 / wlan0) to > use for the rest of a terminal session, without affecting other > running processes? The problem pretty much reduces to this. > The only other solutions I can come up with involve adding another machine, either virtual or physical. -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] OT - simple CAD program to design electronic circuits with
On 02/06/2011 05:57 PM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Keith Roberts wrote: >> Is there an electronic circuit design CAD package available >> for Centos 5.5 please? > > http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit/ > > I haven't used it yet, so I don't really know what it's like. > I've been using xcircuit for years, and found it to be fast, fairly easy to learn, and quite useful. Not so great if what you're trying to do is capture to perform SPICE simulations, but a really great 2D drawing tool. There are additional parts libraries for it available online, and it's not hard to create your own, either. Output/working files are Postscript, so they're easily opened and converted in GIMP if needed. -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] flash and konqueror
On 06/01/2011 10:57 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I am stuck taking this stupid online training course from work. It just > sits there doing nothing with firefox, so I pulled up konqueror, and tell > it to lie and say it's IE. That works... until it gets to the content, > which some HR moron is *positive* desperately needs to be in flash. > > I've gone into konqi's configuration, and told it to scan the correct > directory for plugins, and yet a) I see no easy way to find out what > plugins are installed, and b) it can't seem to see libflashplayer.so. > > Clues for the poor? > You could try installing Prefbar for Firefox, then telling Firefox to lie that it is IE. http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org/ -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Eliminating duplicate photos
On 06/04/2011 05:49 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I've seen fslint and fdupes recommended for this in CentOS, > but neither seem to be available as packages. > Is anyone using either under CentOS-5.6? > > It seems that they are available in the rpmfusion-free repository, > but as far as I can see this is not functioning with CentOS at present. > gqview can find and delete duplicates. the epel repo has it -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Chicken and egg question: passwd and cronjob
On 06/22/2011 11:46 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > I mean at second 1 on the 90th day, which will run first? > - The cronjob to renew the password > - Or the password expiration, thus preventing the cronjob from running. > just setup the password renewing job to run one minute earlier or don't expire the root passwd -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SPAM on the List
On 07/16/2011 05:06 PM, Mark Weaver wrote: > you mean like the default settings of Mailman list software that the > CentOS list "doesn't" run on? I have five lists running on one of my > CentOS servers and crap like that doesn't ever make it to the list. > Mark take a careful look at the footers of each email. -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] what happened to rpmforge?
On 08/25/2011 04:23 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Even hard-working and very dedicated Centos people can occasionally > relax and have a joke among friends. Remember we are all part of the > same Centos team :-) > Paul, With all due respect, I count over 50 messages from you to this list in the last week, the vast majority of which weren't even intended to contribute useful information relating to CentOS. While you're 'always learning', perhaps you should work on learning to be more quiet. TIA -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos Firewall - router with virtual IP
On 11/03/2011 06:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/03/11 5:43 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: >> Now, I'm adding some virtual interface eth1:0, eth1:1... so on to >> accommodate new subnets created in the LAN. > > whats the point of having multiple subnets on the same physical LAN > segment ? if you want to isolate separate local networks, you really > should use separate physical adapters with separate switches... or VLAN > switching if you have a switch that supports VLAN trunking. > > anyways, whatever, yes, you can do it with iptables, but not all off the > shelf firewall script generators will support multiple LAN subnets. I > usually write my own iptables rulesets. > I can say first hand that fwbuilder easily handles managing scripts for multiple subnets and aliased addressing on NIC's. I use separate interface cards for each subnet, however. (5 NIC's, 4 internal subnets, 3 public IP's on the one external facing NIC) -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos Firewall - router with virtual IP
On 11/03/2011 08:03 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 10:15 AM, KevinO wrote: >>> anyways, whatever, yes, you can do it with iptables, but not all off the >>> shelf firewall script generators will support multiple LAN subnets. I >>> usually write my own iptables rulesets. >>> >> I can say first hand that fwbuilder easily handles managing scripts for >> multiple >> subnets and aliased addressing on NIC's. I use separate interface cards for >> each >> subnet, however. (5 NIC's, 4 internal subnets, 3 public IP's on the one >> external >> facing NIC) > > Hi Kevin, > Expanding my original question. > I have a need to open and close iptables rules based on particular > time, say 1 week later, 1 month later, etc. > Currently I have a simple script to do that: > - Create the rules. > - Create atd job to delete the rule based on the defined time. > - Log it. > It works, but not elegant :) > > Does fwbuilder have that function? I'm not sure, and I don't have time to fire it up and check right now. I don't have the latest version, anyway. I think there is an extensive manual on the project's website and that will give you all of the details. -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] t-bird, followup
On 03/13/2012 08:14 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Well, I updated my system late last week, and just thought to look: yes, > I'm on t-bird 10.0.1, and I pull up the search messages window, and click > on the dropdown... and there is NO OPTION to search the content of the > messages. > View => Toolbars => Quick Filter Bar will do what you want... Using T-Bird 10.0.2 here, clicking on the account name and then choosing "Search Messages" offers a pull-down entry for 'body', so I don't know what your issue is. ;-( -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Universal server hardware platform - which to choose?
On 06/26/2012 12:03 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> We've had a number of servers fail, and it *seems* to be related to the >> motherboard. > > I too have had bad experiences with SuperMicro motherboards; never had one > last more than three years. That runs counter to my experience; I've run several 24/7 for years and just retired one that was still running flawlessly after more than 12 years. Apparently, YMMV -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] printing from firefox
On 07/04/2014 03:11 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: > I need images. They are done in a way that I cannot copy easily. > You could use GIMP to grab a screenshot of the window, then save/edit/print it however you want. Note that FF has a setting to adjust the headers and footers under Print -> Options -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos7 - Terminal not blanking
On 08/06/2014 05:47 PM, david wrote: > Folks > > Apparently "new" in Centos 7 is that the terminal screen does not > blank after a period of time. This is a server configuration, and no > GUI is involved. Is there some magic setting I need to tweek? > Have you tried: # setterm -blank 5 ?? (I've often had to do the opposite to be able to view scrolling logs) -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Java plugin (icedtea-web) does not load
On 08/18/2014 06:05 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > I'm sorry if that offends anyone, the the BS nature of e-mail footers like > this one always offends my intelligence. As a recipient of e-mail I didn't > give my consent to be obliged to anything. whatever you sent me was at > your sole discretion. You want any obligations from the recipient of your > message, you should contact the recipient first and get him agree to be > obliged to anything you request. > > Who is the idiot lawyer who wrote it? He shouldn't even have layer degree > for incompetence! Even I, not lawyer, do understand that you can not make > the person obliged to do or not do anything by unilaterally doing > something (sending that person e-mail with idiotic footer). > +1 -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns
On 04/12/2014 01:19 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I would like the server with a dynamic IP address > to be accessible through a fixed name. > Setup an authoritative DNS server on the server that has a fixed IP address to host records for the site(s) on the server that has a dynamic IP address. Create a local scheme (such as a script, etc.) to periodically determine the current dynamic IP address and keep the records on the DNS server correct. You'll want to set the TTL (of the records) to a low value so caching name servers will update the information fairly often. -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns
On 04/13/2014 03:16 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > But would this "home" DNS server provide records accessible to others? > If in fact it is straightforward surely it must be set out > explicitly somewhere? > Yes. But, you have to set the name server entry with your domain registration. Requests for a look up will first go to your domain registrar to find out what name sever to query. (I presume you have been using dyndns for this...) -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mail Merge data to a pdf file by overlaying the data on the image
On 05/09/2014 02:27 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I am looking for a utility that I can use to do a mail merge of data to > a pdf image file. The image file does not have any active fields, but > will be just an image file. I would like to overlay names addresses > etc. > > We currently do this with a pcl file by just overlaying the data with > pcl print positions. However, in order to get the pcl file from an > original pdf file we have to use gimp to convert the pdf to pcl file, > and we always lose a little resolution. I was wondering if anyone knows > of a utility to perform this function without first converting the image > to a pcl file. > > Thanks, > This may seem like a round-a-bout way to do it; But, why not modify a Latex file with the changes, then use a bit of Bash script to do the tex -> ps -> pdf ? -- KevinO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
