Re: Sad news, Philip Sbrogna
On Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:53:07 AM Ted Roche wrote: I'm sorry to pass on the sad news that Philip Sbrogna, recently the coordinator of the MonadLUG group, has passed away. Philip was an IT specialist in the Peterborough area, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon's Computer Science department, and a veteran of the U.S. Navy Submarine Service. I attended several of his presentations at MonadLUG, and he spoke at CentraLUG as well. He had a particular interest in gaming on Linux using WINE. He will be missed. I was contacted by his sister this morning who asked that I let the group know as Philip often spoke about the group with enthusiasm. I don't yet have any details on services. I'm stunned. Thanks for letting us know. --charlie -- Charles Farinella, Systems Administrator Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) cfarine...@appropriatesolutions.com voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] - Recovery of data from DVD-R
- Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: May be Linux related, if anyone can suggest Linux tools to use. :-) A friend has a DVD-R which contains sentimental documents from her mother father who passed away recently. The DVD is unreadable. The DVD-R was burned April 2008 and was stored since then in a bubble-wrap envelope and, by the appearance, squeezed under a pile or between books. The surface of the DVD has an imprint of the bubble wrap on the surface, which several cleaning passes (DVD cleaner alcohol with a microfiber cloth from a DVD cleaning kit) did not completely remove. The disk simply fails to read anything. Any suggestions? Including data recovery services who might be able to help. Thanks. Did you try copy the disk? dd if=/dev/dvd of=/somethingelse This has *sometimes* worked for me with unreadable or damaged media. good luck. -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Anybody (else) get ping'ed by Comcast about Port 25 emailing?
On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Bayard Coolidge wrote: I got a nastygram from Comcast in my normal e-mail inbox this morning, warning me that I was considered a spammer and/or that I had a security problem caused by a virus/bot. The recommended fix apparently is to move my outbound SMTP to Port 587, which I have now done. But, considering that I'm running openSUSE 11.0 and Thunderbird, download my e-mail using POP, and don't use any of the traditional Unix/Linux mail systems, I'm wondering what their real agenda is... Or is this an artifact of the Port 25 stuff that was so heavily discussed here during the summer? Maybe I've been too prolific in forwarding .wmv's and other fun stuff to friends and relatives? Thanks, Bayard I had the same thing happen to me. In my case they blocked outgoing mail from my wife's account only, even though all of my computers go out through the same router. I also followed their instructions and have her sending to port 587. She has no virus infection, maybe someone can tell me how to check for a bot on an XP machine. My accounts are unaffected. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: ps line buffer
On Thursday 17 July 2008, Kenny Lussier wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know how I can circumvent to 4096 character buffer limit in the ps command? We have an extremely long java command and when they developers do a ps auxww, it truncates the command at 4096 characters. They want to see the entire thing... TIA, Kenny I had the same exact problem yesterday and took the easy way out by dumping the ps output to a file. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: need Openvpn routing help
On Friday 13 June 2008, Ben Scott wrote: Suggested course of action: Use the route command to review the routing tables on the two computers. Just issue the command route with no arguments, and it should print the routing table. Or maybe route -n to prevent the system from wasting time trying to look up names for things. If you're not sure how to interpret the output, post the output (for each computer, identifying which is which), and we can check your work. Ok thank you, here we go, I hope I can explain it well enough for people to understand. Server -- CentOS 5.1 10.8.8.1 Client1 -- WinXP 10.8.8.10 Client2 -- OpenBSD 10.8.8.6 Client1 and Client2 are on different subnets, 192.168.24.0 and 192.168.25.0. I need to create a route from an XP client to 10.10.0.42 on the OpenBSD client. Attempting to set route add 10.10.0.0 mask 255.255.255.0 10.8.8.6 if 3 results in failure, either the interface index is wrong ( interface index 3 is the TAP-Win adapter ) or the gateway does not lie on the same network as the interface. 10.8.8.6 is pingable from this machine and traceroute shows it as one hop, I can ssh in, etc. I get similar error messages (SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable) if I try to set it up on a Linux client. I don't understand how I have to set the gateway, or perhaps I'm misunderstanding what the gateway should be. OpenVPN server: == Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.8.8.2* 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 tun0 63.131.36.0 *255.255.255.224 U 0 00 eth0 10.8.8.0 10.8.8.2 255.255.255.0 UG0 00 tun0 default 63.131.36.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 == Client1 running XP: == Active Routes: Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.24.254 192.168.24.214 20 10.8.8.0255.255.255.0 10.8.8.9 10.8.8.10 1 10.8.8.8 255.255.255.25210.8.8.10 10.8.8.10 30 10.8.8.10 255.255.255.255127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 30 10.255.255.255 255.255.255.25510.8.8.10 10.8.8.10 30 127.0.0.0255.0.0.0127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1 192.168.24.0255.255.255.0 192.168.24.214 192.168.24.214 20 192.168.24.214 255.255.255.255127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 20 192.168.24.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.24.214 192.168.24.214 20 224.0.0.0240.0.0.010.8.8.10 10.8.8.10 30 224.0.0.0240.0.0.0 192.168.24.214 192.168.24.214 20 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.25510.8.8.10 10.8.8.10 1 255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.24.214 192.168.24.214 1 Default Gateway:192.168.24.254 == Client2 running OpenBSD: == Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway FlagsRefs UseMtu Interface default 192.168.25.254 UGS 0 2307 - fxp0 10.8.8/24 10.8.8.5 UGS 0 405 - tun0 10.8.8.5 10.8.8.6 UH 02 - tun0 10.10.0/24 link#1 UC 00 - xl0 10.10.0.42 00:08:da:61:5c:68 UHLc03 - xl0 loopbacklocalhost.corp.app UGRS00 33224 lo0 localhost.corp.app localhost.corp.app UH 00 33224 lo0 192.168.25/24 link#2 UC 00 - fxp0 192.168.25.25 link#2 UHLc0 411 - fxp0 192.168.25.25400:0e:2e:b1:1e:da UHLc 00 - fxp0 BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST localhost.corp.app URS 00 33224 lo0 == thanks, --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: need Openvpn routing help
On Monday 16 June 2008, Thomas Charron wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Charlie Farinella 10.8.8.6 is pingable from this machine and traceroute shows it as one hop, I can ssh in, etc. I get similar error messages (SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable) if I try to set it up on a Linux client. I don't understand how I have to set the gateway, or perhaps I'm misunderstanding what the gateway should be. Hrm. Do you have the --client-to-client option anyplace? Can you connect in a way BESIDES ping to the other machines, like, ssh, or telnet to port 22? This is an excerpt from the man pages regarding the --client-to-client. Remember, OpenVPN doesn't just dump packets, it manages them. These two options are important for what your wish to do: = From man openvpn:: The --iroute directive also has an important interaction with --push route --iroute essentially defines a subnet which is owned by a particular client (we will call this client A). If you would like other clients to be able to reach A's subnet, you can use --push route ... together with --client-to-client to effect this. I had set the iroute directive earlier and was able to ping through to the secondary interface from the server, but not from the other clients. Pushing the route has now allowed the other clients to see the interface as well. Thank you. :-) My last remaining obstacle is allowing the packets to be forwarded through OpenBSD's packet filter. I will do some reading and hopefully will have this up and running soon. Thanks to everyone, you guys are it. :-) --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
need Openvpn routing help
I have 2 Openvpn clients. MachineA (10.8.0.6) MachineB (10.8.0.10) MachineA has 2 physical ethernet cards: 192.168.x.1 10.10.0.10 I need to add a route from MachineB (10.8.0.10) to the second ethernet interface on MachineA (10.10.0.10). My clients can see and connect to each other. I have set route add -net 10.10.0.10 -netmask 255.255.255.0 10.8.0.6, but cannot ping the address and running traceroute doesn't show it using 10.8.0.6 as the gateway. I have tried various permutations of the above with no luck and feel like I am missing an important part of this puzzle. If someone is good with Openvpn, I could use some help. thanks, --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: need Openvpn routing help
On Friday 13 June 2008, Thomas Charron wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Charlie Farinella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 Openvpn clients. MachineA (10.8.0.6) MachineB (10.8.0.10) MachineA has 2 physical ethernet cards: 192.168.x.1 10.10.0.10 I need to add a route from MachineB (10.8.0.10) to the second ethernet interface on MachineA (10.10.0.10). My clients can see and connect to each other. I have set route add -net 10.10.0.10 -netmask 255.255.255.0 10.8.0.6, but cannot ping the address and running traceroute doesn't show it using 10.8.0.6 as the gateway. I have tried various permutations of the above with no luck and feel like I am missing an important part of this puzzle. 10.10.0.10 is the IP address, NOT the network address. Based on your netmask, shouldn't you be using 10.10.0.0 as the address in the route? Typo. I am in fact using 10.10.0.0 in the route. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: need Openvpn routing help
On Friday 13 June 2008, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: This doesn't sound like an OpenVPN thing at all. Does MachineB know that it's supposed to route traffic between it's 10.8.0/24 network and it's 10.10.0/24 network? If it knows that much, then OpenVPN doesn't have to be involved at all and you just add the route as you specified. -N You're the second person to phrase it that way, does the machine know that it's supposed to route traffic. Showing my ignorance I will ask how do I make sure it knows to do this. I thought running the route command did that, but apparently there's more. thanks, --charlie On Friday 13 June 2008 13:03, Charlie Farinella wrote: I have 2 Openvpn clients. MachineA (10.8.0.6) MachineB (10.8.0.10) MachineA has 2 physical ethernet cards: 192.168.x.1 10.10.0.10 I need to add a route from MachineB (10.8.0.10) to the second ethernet interface on MachineA (10.10.0.10). My clients can see and connect to each other. I have set route add -net 10.10.0.10 -netmask 255.255.255.0 10.8.0.6, but cannot ping the address and running traceroute doesn't show it using 10.8.0.6 as the gateway. I have tried various permutations of the above with no luck and feel like I am missing an important part of this puzzle. If someone is good with Openvpn, I could use some help. thanks, --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Ricoh card reader
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Michael ODonnell wrote: Did you STFW? I did. Apparently not thoroughly enough. Thank you. :-) The first handful of hits here looked very promising: http://www.google.com/search?q=RL5c476+linux Particularly this one: http://hardware4linux.info/component/16545/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] MonadLUG 3/13/08: Wine
Who: Philip Sbrogna What: Wine Date: Thursday March 13, 2008 Time: 7:00PM Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MonadLUG Philip is currently the VP/IS for Kennedy Information (KI), Peterborough, NH. His background includes: 1988-1996: US Navy, Nuclear Power Program 1983-1984: Vax developer/administrator, DEC, Westminster, MA 1980-1988: satellite CS instructor (FPC), contract programmer, consultant, game developer in southern NH/northern MA He will present a Wine overview including installation and a few Windows applications. -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [GNHLUG] MonadLUG 3/13/08: Wine
I can't win, can I? I'll crawl back in my hole now. :-) On Monday 10 March 2008, Charles Farinella wrote: Hi Ben, Why do you always forward stuff I send to the list? I assume I am sending it incorrectly, but am unaware of what I'm doing wrong. Enlighten me please. thanks, --charlie Ben Scott wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Charlie Farinella [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:37 AM Who:Philip Sbrogna What: Wine Date: Thursday March 13, 2008 Time: 7:00PM Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MonadLUG Philip is currently the VP/IS for Kennedy Information (KI), Peterborough, NH. His background includes: 1988-1996: US Navy, Nuclear Power Program 1983-1984: Vax developer/administrator, DEC, Westminster, MA 1980-1988: satellite CS instructor (FPC), contract programmer, consultant, game developer in southern NH/northern MA He will present a Wine overview including installation and a few Windows applications. -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ -- Charlie Farinella 14 East Ridge Drive Peterborough, NH 03458 603.924.1977 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: can't telnet out port 25
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Ben Scott wrote: What happens when you try? Do you get an error message? Does it just sit forever waiting to connect? # telnet mail.appropriatesolutions.com 25 Trying 63.131.36.2... telnet: connect to address 63.131.36.2: No route to host telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host iptables -L -n -v --line # iptables -L -n -v --line Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 125745 4988K RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 10 0 RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 9963 packets, 1897K bytes) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) num pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 1 10 500 ACCEPT all -- lo * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 225735 4987K ACCEPT all -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 30 0 ACCEPT icmp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 255 40 0 ACCEPT esp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 50 0 ACCEPT ah -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 60 0 ACCEPT udp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:5353 70 0 ACCEPT udp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:631 80 0 ACCEPT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED 90 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:22 10 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:25 11 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:80 12 0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:443 13 0 0 REJECT all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited I don't know if they lied, but I suspect that they provided me with the wrong information. thanks, --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: can't telnet out port 25
On Thursday 15 November 2007, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: Can you pint that host? No route to host generally indicates you cannot even ping an address, due to having no connection to it. What happens when you telnet to a known mail server. For example, telnet mail.neilschelly.com 25 That should work and if it doesn't, it's GoDaddy. iptables -L -n -v --line It doesn't appear that anything is being blocked outgoing and all incoming packets that are part of a locally-generated connection are allowed, so iptables isn't interfering. -N It's just as I suspected, they must have outgoing traffic on port 25 blocked. I can ping fine, I can telnet to port 80 or 110 on other machines, including the ones in question, I just cannot telnet to 25 on *any* machine including mail.neilschelly.com. Thanks to all for the help, I'll take it up with GoDaddy. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
MonadLUG - Thursday, 11 Oct.
What: Introduction to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) Who: Ben Scott Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MonadLUG Date: Thur 11 Oct 2007 Time: 7:00 PM This Thursday, at MonadLUG in Peterborough, Ben Scott will be presenting on DNS, the Domain Name System. == About the presentation == This will be a technical presentation, but will assume little prior knowledge of DNS. Anyone interested is encouraged to attend, and as always, we welcome newcomers and old-hands alike. The presentation will be preceded by the usual informal dinner downstairs, and followed by the usual general chit-chat and QA. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a mechanism that lets computers on the Internet (including yours!) find each other. I intend to cover basic DNS concepts, including purpose, structure, and record types. I will then go over how name resolution actually works on a typical Linux system. Time permitting, I want to get into how one configures ISC BIND's named to be a DNS server. Audience feedback will determine the pacing, so if you have an interest or a problem to solve, please bring it with you. === About the speaker === Ben is a local Linux user, enthusiast, and advocate. He handles the care and feeding of the GNHLUG Internet server, and is a GNHLUG Bored^W Board Member. -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: postfix and header_checks
On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Paul Lussier wrote: Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Does anyone here use postfix's header_checks or body_checks maps as a spam-prevention mechanism? Actually, it strikes me that I don't necessarilly want header_checks, but rather to reject on empty and forged From addresses. Sigh. Guess I'll have to actually go dig out my postfix book from under all the clutter :) Does this help? ### Postfix Reject Rules!!! # strict_rfc821_envelopes = yes smtpd_delay_reject = yes smtpd_helo_required = yes smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, check_helo_access hash:/etc/postfix/helo_access, reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_invalid_hostname, permit --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Linux on Pentium era systems
On Thursday 16 August 2007, Warren Luebkeman wrote: I'm trying to install Linux on an old IBM laptop. Its got a Pentium 166mhz processor, and about 50 mb's of RAM. I installed Damn Small Linux on it, but the 2.4 kernel does not support my PCMCIA wireless card. So, I need to find a lightweight Linux distro with a modern Kernel. I have an old Compaq laptop, P150, 80MB RAM, 1GB HD. DSL didn't recognize the video adapter, so I ended up putting OpenBSD on it which works pretty well. I don't have a wireless card for it so I can't address that. It runs FVWM, but that's not enough to run Firefox. If you can't find anything else you might give it a shot. --charlie My objective is to turn this into a simple Internet browsing/IM computer. All I need is for my wireless card to work, and a basic window manager so I can run Firefox and Gaim. Do you guys have an recommendations/pointers on what distro I should try? I think my next option is to try Puppy Linux. Why am I doing this? Absolutely no good reason. I just think it would be hilarious to use this old, big, clunker laptop in an Internet cafe somewhere. It also has a nice keyboard and the battery works. Oh yeah, and it doesn't boot off the CDROM. I had to use a boot floppy to get it to boot Damn Small Linux. :-P warren l ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: MonadLUG Notes, 12-July-2007
On Thursday 19 July 2007, Flaherty, Patrick wrote: Charlie volunteered to do a future presentation on digitizing phonograph recordings Is this via IRENE (or IRENE like) software? I haven't heard of IRENE, I'll have to look into it. I've been recording to .wav with 'rec', and using Audacity to amplify, remove surface noise, scratches and pops. It generally provides me with listenable recordings and I'm pleased enough with the results. If I have to spend much more time than that, I'll just buy a commercial cd. I do have some irreplaceable music that I'll revisit when I'm a little more skilled. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] Monadlug - Thursday 12 July
Who: Group What: General Discussion Date: Thursday July 12, 2007 Time: 7:00PM Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MonadLUG This month we will be having a general discussion meeting. Bring problems, solutions, war stories, show and tell, whatever you happen to be into at the moment. See you there. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[GNHLUG] Monadlug - Thursday 14 June
Who: Ed Haynes, Wind River What: Real-Time Date: Thursday June 14, 2007 Time: 7:00PM Where: SAU 1 office, 106 Hancock Rd., Peterborough http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MonadLUG Linux is finding itself used in more applications that can be characterized as Real Time. What is a Real-Time system? What impact does it have to the Linux OS, and how has Linux evolved to better meet real-time challenges? What's the difference between soft and hard real-time? A live demonstration will be held to characterize the performance of difference linux kernels. Presenting will be Ed Haynes from Wind River. Ed currently serves as a technical resource for the New England Wind River region. He has 10 years experience as a software developer on embedded realtime systems and also led IPv6 development at Nortel. -- gnhlug-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Package management
On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Bill Sconce wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 13:01:32 -0400 Charlie Farinella [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only asked how other people handle this particular issue. I responded offline to Charlie, with some CCs. One of the CCs answered, I think this was one of the better answers. It's too bad you didn't post it to the list. A number of people replied off list, thanks to all for taking the time to respond. I guess I just wanted to make sure that everyone else didn't have some magic solution to this that I was unaware of. Now that I know, I can go forward. FWIW, we are distribution agnostic here, we just try to pick the simplest, most straightforward solution to each particular situation. Thanks again. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Package management
Here is a question I have never gotten a grip on, I hope someone can clue me in. I wish to use a distribution with a modern package management scheme, i.e. RPM, Yum, apt-get, ports, etc. Each of these systems come with certain versions of each software package, for instance I am now dealing with CentOS using Python 2.3.4, and our developers need 2.4. There is no upgrade path within the system to do this as 2.3.4 is current for this distro. To do it with RPM's I need to do about a dozen of them which means I have to find out which ones I need, etc. negating any advantage to the package management system. I could build it from source and either run the 2 versions of python simultaneously, or replace the installed python, but again I lose my auto update option. How does everyone else do this? Thanks, --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Package management
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: Then it seems your question is a disguised version of Which distro is best? I didn't ask anything at all about what is best, I only asked how other people handle this particular issue. Thanks again for the response. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
May MonadLUG Meeting
The next meeting of the Monadadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) will be this Thursday, May 10th, 7:00pm, at the SAU 1 Superintendent's Office behind South Meadow School in Peterborough. For directions and more details, please visit: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MonadLUG Agenda: 7:00: Announcements 7:05: Man Page of the Month -- Bill Freeman 7:20: QA 7:30: Seth Cohn on Drupal 8:30: Adjourn Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Monadlug cancelled
The Conval School District offices where we hold our meetings are closed today due to weather, so our meeting is cancelled. Our next meeting will be Thursday May 10 barring any more weirdness. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Monadlug April Meeting
The next meeting of the Monadadnock Linux User Group (MonadLUG) will be this Thursday, April 12, 7:00pm, at the SAU 1 Superintendent's Office behind South Meadow School in Peterborough. For directions and more details, please visit: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/MonadLUG Agenda: Announcements Man Page of the Month -- Bill Freeman QA Drupal -- Seth Cohn Adjourn --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: 603.924.6079 fax: 603.924.8668 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
stty erase?
Hi, Probably a rudimentary question and maybe off topic, but it's making me nutty. This relates to the backspace key using vim in a terminal. I find no consistency from installation to installation. Some of these machines work as expected, others print ^? when I strike the backspace key, but work if I hold down the shift key. One machine (Slackware) works ok when I login as a user using xterm or rxvt, but not if I su to root. If I use aterm then it doesn't work no matter who I am. Most of these are RedHat installations various versions, two Slackware, one OpenBSD. How is this controlled, and what do I need to set it to? --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Meeting on DNS, BIND, WHOIS, etc.? (was: Verizon email problems)
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Nov 2003, at 10:12am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe a meeting night that discusses basic Bind as well as how to use host and whois is in order? Some might find this helpful. I could prolly be talked into giving a presentation on the subject. And I would like very much to hear you do it. :-) --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Domain Registrar?
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:27, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: I've found godaddy.com to be inexpensive, AND... they even offer knowledgeable support. Twice, I've done Dumb Things(tm), and their tech support showed me the way to enlightenment both times. And I've never had a glitch with them yet. I like 'em. 2 recommendations for godaddy is good, but netcraft reports that they're running Windows and I'm having trouble with that. Should I care? --charlie $.02, -Ken Hi all, We need a new Domain Name Registrar since the one we've been using (Discount Domain Registry) must have ignored their Viagra spam and can't seem to stay up. Can anyone recommend someone to us? Reliable and cheap, please. --charlie -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Charles Farinella Appropriate Solutions, Inc. (www.AppropriateSolutions.com) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603.924.6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Spam works... and that's the crux of the problem
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 13:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Spam has been a recent topic, I thought I'd share this article about a business in Manchester that uses Spam: Wow. That is really bizarre. An honest state chess champion acting as the mastermind, his teenage sister filling the orders, and a former skinhead acting as the evildoing henchman, make up the backbone of the operation. I believe we have all the elements of a best-selling novel. I'll start writing tomorrow. ;-) Well now we know that spam works, the real mystery is does the *product* work? --charlie -Ken ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603-924-6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
System hanging at boot
I have a problem with a server here that is very important to us. It's a RH 7.2 system. I tried to restart the machine and it hangs at: Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k Searching the web leads to references to rebuilding the kernel, which I'd rather not do. What are the ramifications of running the RH 9 upgrade? We have a number of Perl apps running on it, custom Apache/mod_perl etc., I'm afraid a bunch of stuff will be broken. I could use some advice. thanks, --charlie -- Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603-924-6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: System hanging at boot
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:54, Michael O'Donnell wrote: I think it is quite possible that Charlie has lost his *root* disk, or part of it, such that when the kernel tries to read the contents of /sbin/init from the disk, it hangs. Maybe that init=/bin/bash trick from the kernel command line...? I am unfamiliar with this, can you explain? -- Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603-924-6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: System hanging at boot
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 15:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 May 2003, at 3:18pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to restart the machine and it hangs at: Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k What have you changed since you last successfully booted the machine? Nothing. You might try running a memory diagnostic. MemTest86 is very nice, and free. http://www.memtest86.com In progress, it takes awhile. Searching the web leads to references to rebuilding the kernel ... Rebuilding the kernel... for what reason? I haven't a clue, I just saw some references to it. What makes you think installing RHL 9 would solve the problem, anyway? Nothing really, I'm trying to line up my options. :-) thanks for the response. --charlie -- Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603-924-6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: System hanging at boot
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the login prompt I would type a username, hit enter, and the username would disappear. Over and over. I could not login, so I hit reset. Oops! Weird. H. I wonder if maybe the system's been hacked. It may be that an attacker tried to replace the kernel with a trojan'ed copy, but screwed something up. How might I tell, and what can I do about it? As to how long I let the 'Freeing unused memory' sit there, at least 20 minutes. It's hung. -- Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603-924-6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: System hanging at boot
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have suggested this earlier [forehead slap]: Dig out your Red Hat Linux install CDs, and try booting from the first disc. Give linux rescue at the SYSLINUX boot prompt. If your hardware is good, that should get you to a shell prompt where you can examine the system. I did that and found in /var/log/secure: Accepted password from news from 212.66.37.242 port 3112 ssh2 --charlie -- Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603-924-6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Sendmail woes
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:46, Bill Freeman wrote: I figured I'd express my ignorance here before bothering the official sendmail list, since this problem is new for me with RH9, so it may be of interest to other Linux users. Do you have a file called submit.cf? If so find the line that reads: D(MTAHost)[127.0.0.1] and change the 127 address to whatever your mailhost is. You also need to prevent the MTA daemon from starting. This is according to SysAdmin magazine. Let me know if it works. hth, --charlie -- Charlie Farinella, Appropriate Solutions, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 603-924-6079 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: OT: Require authentication on Apache proxy server?
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 16:07, Thomas Charron wrote:
Quoting Charles Farinella [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've been asked to require a username and password in order to access an
Apache proxy server. I can find no reference to this in the Apache
proxy
documentation. Does anyone know how this is done?
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/lib-proxy/howto/proxy/
An exmaple config is at:
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/security/lib-proxy/howto/proxy/
This appears to have worked, thank you. We're a little in the dark here
about how to do what we're trying to do. For testing purposes, we need
to require users within the building to provide a username and password
in order to access the internet. How is this commonly done?
--charlie
Basically, you setup the directory that is setup as the path to 'proxy', and
add a standard htpasswd file to it. Basically, the SAME way you configure a
normal virtualk directory to be password protected.
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