Re: iTWire - More proof of Oracle's disinterest in open source

2011-10-14 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 10/14/2011 10:17 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Oracle appears to be taking it's toll on VirtualBox.
> 
> http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/50348-more-proof-of-oracles-disinterest-in-open-source

Or maybe they just have bad coders.
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Re: On Demand VPN

2011-09-25 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 09/23/2011 09:17 AM, Kevin Fries wrote:
>   * When I am not in the office, and I try to go to a location (by name
> or IP) that is within a specified range, I want the VPN to activate, and
> route all traffic only for the office over it, while allowing all other
> traffic to go out via the normal, primary, connection.

You will want to turn on the "Use this connection only for resources not
on this network" option in the Routes... dialog box of your vpn config.

As far as the automatic activation of VPN, I am not sure how to do that,
it might be possible using some custom scripts in /etc/network/if*/*.
I've used an if-up.d script to disable the wireless radio and interface
if a wired connection is detected, for instance.
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Re: PHP Problem

2011-02-28 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 02/28/2011 11:57 AM, Nathan England wrote:
> I have a serious problem. I cannot run _anything_ php... 
> 
> I have an LFS system I use for running various test php things. I have
> done a fresh install of php 5.3.5 and apache 2.2.17. I created an
> index.php with 
> 
> 
> 
> and it returns as expected, all looks good. However, when I run the
> following I get a segmentation fault and I cannot figure this out after
> 3 days!
> This has to be s  stupidly simple I am over-looking something. What
> is wrong?

Is the script that does not work in the same directory as your index.php
file and does it have a file extension .php ?

What do your web server error logs say?



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Re: OT: Need help with mplayer

2011-02-27 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 02/27/2011 05:30 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am trying to convert a real player audio file to mp3 for my daughter's
> school project. From what I have read, I need to use mplayer to convert
> to .wav and then lame to convert to mp3. I tried the following:
> 
> mplayer -vo null -vc null -ao pcm:waveheader The_Zero_Hour_08_14_44.rm
> 
> on a 3.4 MB input file and all I get out is a 44 B .wav file.

Is mplayer able to play the realaudio file through your speakers with just
$ mplayer The_Zero_Hour_08_14_44.rm

If so, I'm not sure what's wrong as your command line looks ok. If not,
you might be missing the realaudio codecs. On ubuntu, you can install
w32codecs (32bit) or w64codecs (64bit) for realaudio support from the
medibuntu repositories. I'm not sure about other distros.



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OT: Re: Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

2011-02-25 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
> There are historical reasons why "NFS" expands to "Nightmare File System"...
> the thing is, it performs faster than Samba or Coda, so it gets used, even
> though it has a number of annoying problems.  Most of the kernel panics I've
> seen have been caused by flaky hardware--but NFS and "don't install this
> kernel module, it's not even beta yet" are tied for second.

To be fair, these were mostly problems in the Linux NFS implementation,
not the design of NFS itself. That said, I push huge amounts of data
over NFSv3 on Linux and haven't had any recent problems.



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Re: Need Help to Fix Stale NFS File Handle

2011-02-25 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 02/25/2011 08:23 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have two disks running in a Debian machine ( Linux version
> 2.6.26-1-686 (Debian 2.6.26-13lenny2) (da...@debian.org
> ) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease)
> (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Fri Mar 13 18:08:45 UTC 2009). One disk has
> the OS, the other disk has lots of photos and the program gallery3
> (http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3_begins) to display them on the
> web. The disk controller channel for the photo disk died, but the os
> kept on running. I replaced the controller card, and now both drives are
> running. However, I am getting some stale NFS file handles on some of
> the images on the photo drive. I don't use NFS on this machine, or any
> machine on my network. However, the pictures with the stale NFS file
> handles do not display when I run gallery.
> 
> How should I fix this problem? Delete and re-install the offending
> pictures? Run fsck on the photos drive? Stop taking so many pictures? ;-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Mark
> 
> These are the errors:
> 
> hammerhead:/home/mark# du -hs /backups
> du: cannot access `/backups/gallery3/var/resizes/11-01-2010/2010:11:01
> 08:11:50 295.JPG': Stale NFS file handle

This is strange - you shouldn't be getting these errors unless you are
an NFS client. Double check your /etc/fstab and /etc/exports files. If
that doesn't make sense post the output of these two commands to the list:

# grep nfs /etc/fstab
# egrep -v '^#' /etc/exports



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Re: Security-related question

2011-02-22 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 02/22/2011 09:06 AM, Jim March wrote:
> One other thing: on top of the Windows guest issue, I've got *something*
> in Linux that's also hitting the wire a lot.  Is there something similar
> to "top" that tracks Linux processes by network traffic impact?  I'd
> like to eliminate whatever that is before I start on the Windows issues.  

You can use ntop, but the tcpdump/wireshark combo should give you enough
information to determine the source.



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Re: Logwatch Filtering for Apache

2011-02-09 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 02/09/2011 12:20 PM, Tim Noeding wrote:

> I have servers that I monitor and was hoping to cut the apache sections
> of the logwatch down a bit. These servers have had website changes which
> leave links that people have made to images come up as failed access
> attempts in logwatch. Most of these are a known issue. I do not want to
> add these to the regex ignore file for logwatch, as they may become a
> real issue in the future. The one consistent bit of information that
> defines the true problems from the false positives is the number of
> times the problem happens. Generally, if the failure happens more than
> 100 times, I want to know about it. The rest I don't want in the e-mail.

Disclaimer: I don't use logwatch so I don't know if you can accomplish
what you want there or not. If I need to flag an event that involves a
certain number of errors in a certain amount of time I will usually use
the simple event correlator - http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net

There's a bit of a learning curve but it's a useful tool.



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Re: Adobe reader

2011-01-22 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 01/21/2011 09:29 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> My W-2s are online and the computer just told me I need to download it.
> How do I apt it?

You didn't mention what OS you are using. If you just want to view or
print a pdf the standard evince reader installed on Ubuntu will work
just fine. You really only need acrobat if you want to fill in pdf
forms. And even, then, you should sandbox any Adobe software in its own
virtual machine so it doesn't !@#$ up your main OS.



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Re: Good/secure wireless router?

2010-12-27 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 12/27/2010 10:05 AM, Steve Phariss wrote:
> Any specific reason for the Asus (not knocking it, just want to hear
> what made you change brands)

My favorite 3rd-party firmware is Tomato. I bought the Asus mostly based
on postive experiences from others on the tomatousb.org forum. The
RT-N16 has enough cpu, memory and flash to be able to do a lot of
interesting things (openvpn endpoint, upnp server, torrent client, etc)

One negative is that it does not have dual-band wireless (2.4/5 GHz),
but that feature seems to push devices that can use open firmware over
the $100 price point.

> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Jason Holtzapple  <mailto:m...@bitflip.net>> wrote:
> 
> On 12/26/2010 07:06 PM, Ariel Gold wrote:
> > Recommendations?
> >
> > Small network with 2 wired connections, and at least 1 wireless. Using
> > mac, windows, and linux
> >
> > I'd like to make it as secure as possible (if you can point me to any
> > special documentation to do so that'd be great).  Fast is good too.
> 
> My current favorite is the Asus RT-N16 which recently replaced my
> vintage Linksys WRT-54G. It can use 3rd party firmware like TomatoUSB or
> dd-wrt.



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Re: Good/secure wireless router?

2010-12-27 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 12/26/2010 07:06 PM, Ariel Gold wrote:
> Recommendations?
> 
> Small network with 2 wired connections, and at least 1 wireless. Using
> mac, windows, and linux
> 
> I'd like to make it as secure as possible (if you can point me to any
> special documentation to do so that'd be great).  Fast is good too.

My current favorite is the Asus RT-N16 which recently replaced my
vintage Linksys WRT-54G. It can use 3rd party firmware like TomatoUSB or
dd-wrt.

For security, just use WPA2 and a strong passphrase.




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Re: How to start a video from command line or menu?

2010-12-17 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 12/17/2010 02:24 PM, j...@actionline.com wrote:
> mplayer works fine, except it opens a huge terminal window with a log of
> lines of technical info scrolling while the video runs. Is there any way
> to make that terminal window not open (or resize it very small) while
> keeping the video window the main attraction?

I think the package you are looking for is gnome-mplayer.



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Re: Mounting Files across virtual machines

2010-12-10 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 12/10/2010 11:29 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
>> nfs feels like a graceful solution
> NOO!!!
> DON'T DO THAT TO YOURSELF!!!
> Use sshfs.
> If you can ssh, you can, mount.
> ET
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS

Why the NFS hate? It's a decent solution for this request.

That said, VMWare probably has a VirtualBox shared folder-like feature
that would be ideal for this.

> Stephen writes:
>> nfs feels like a graceful solution
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Mark Phillips
>>  wrote:
>>> I have a Debian testing amd64 running Ubuntu 9.04 as a virtual
>>> machine in
>>> VMPlayer. Is it possible to access a directory (read/write files) on my
>>> Debian host from the Ubuntu vm? How do I do it?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark



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Re: rsync help the gramma

2010-12-09 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
You might also check out the Déjà Dup tool. It also does incremental
backups correctly (it is a front-end to duplicity).

As long as you don't need some of the more advanced features of
duplicity, rsnapshot, rdiff-backup, etc, it works quite well on the desktop.



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Re: what is nagios 'SECURITY information'?

2010-11-30 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 11/30/2010 07:52 AM, Alex Dean wrote:
> 
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Jason Holtzapple wrote:
> 
>> On 11/29/2010 12:45 PM, Alex Dean wrote:
>>> I have Nagios running on a local server, and I occasionally get some emails 
>>> from it with the subject "*** SECURITY information for ***".  The 
>>> body of the message is just a few characters.  I've done some searching in 
>>> my Nagios logs and online, and I have no idea what these emails are or what 
>>> they mean.
>>>
>>> The latest instance was last night.  I had my local network torn apart for 
>>> a few hours, and when I reconnected everything, I had about 40 of these 
>>> emails waiting for me.
>>>
>>> The Nagios I'm using is from Ubuntu 9.10.  I'm using only a very few HTTP, 
>>> ssh, & ping monitors.  Nothing complex at all.
>>
>> sudo creates emails with subjects like that if there are security
>> issues, but the body of your mail is not typical of sudo. Do any of your
>> nagios checks use sudo as part of the check?
> 
> Nice fine.  My checks using check_ide_smart do use sudo.
> ... pruned...
> /etc/sudoers
>   nagios ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ide_smart
> 
> 
> For the example SECURITY email I sent (dated Nov 28, 21:29:59), 
> /var/log/auth.log has a record:
> Nov 28 21:29:59 artichoke sudo:   nagios : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; 
> COMMAND=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ide_smart -d 
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD6401AALS-_WD-WCASY7715793 -n
> 
> As far as I can tell, that looks normal.  The smartd checks were never in 
> error while my network was down.  I'm only using local passwd/group/shadow 
> files for authentication, no LDAP or yp or other external authentication 
> service.

This looks fine to me. The only thing I can think of is that sudo might
be complaining about permissions on /etc/sudoers (usually root:root,
perms 0440). But if that were the case you'd get an email every time the
check ran.

You might try becoming the nagios user and run the check from the
command line exactly as nagios would do it

$ /usr/bin/sudo /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ide_smart -d
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD6401AALS-_WD-WCASY7715793 -n

and see if you can learn anything interesting from the console output.



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Re: what is nagios 'SECURITY information'?

2010-11-29 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 11/29/2010 12:45 PM, Alex Dean wrote:
> I have Nagios running on a local server, and I occasionally get some emails 
> from it with the subject "*** SECURITY information for ***".  The 
> body of the message is just a few characters.  I've done some searching in my 
> Nagios logs and online, and I have no idea what these emails are or what they 
> mean.
> 
> The latest instance was last night.  I had my local network torn apart for a 
> few hours, and when I reconnected everything, I had about 40 of these emails 
> waiting for me.
> 
> The Nagios I'm using is from Ubuntu 9.10.  I'm using only a very few HTTP, 
> ssh, & ping monitors.  Nothing complex at all.

sudo creates emails with subjects like that if there are security
issues, but the body of your mail is not typical of sudo. Do any of your
nagios checks use sudo as part of the check?



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Re: How do I free swap

2010-11-05 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 11/04/2010 03:26 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> Please no debates on why I need to clear swap...
> 
> If I have a box with 20% free ram and 5% free swap but no paging
> activity - how do I force linux to release the allocated swap? I have
> ~ 2x as much allocated swap as free memory so simply turning swap off
> seems like a bad idea.

As far I know, you can't. Set up a maintenance window and terminate the
process, then make any system adjustments you need.



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Re: Need Recommendation for web photo album software

2010-10-23 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 10/23/2010 02:37 PM, AZ Pete wrote:
> It sounds like Gallery is exactly what your are looking for.
> Excellent application, highly customizable.
> http://gallery.menalto.com/
> 
> I built my photo site with Gallery and a standard template. If you want
> to check it out:
> www.sonoranphoto.com 
> 
> Peter

> Mark Phillips wrote:
>> I am looking for a simple web photo album app with the following
>> attributes:
>> * No database needed

Gallery is great, but all except the most ancient versions require a
database.
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Re: Need Recommendation for web photo album software

2010-10-23 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 10/23/2010 01:40 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I am looking for a simple web photo album app with the following attributes:
> 
> * Open source
> * Linux, Apache, Java or PHP or Python, or ...
> * File system/directory hierarchy
> * No database needed
> * Display thumbnails, click on thumb to see larger picture
> * Right click on image and download full size image
> * Users add comments and/or ratings
> * Clean user interface - no adds
> * Don't need a complicated admin page (probably don't need one at all!)
> command line OK
> * Rotate images (losslessly) for those pics that are sideways
> * Drop the pics in a directory and the app does all the work..(generate
> thumbs, etc)
> * Slide show mode
> * Search based on title or tags
> 
> If you have used something like this, please let me know. There are so
> many out there I am getting swamped by the endless choices!

Several years ago I went looking for software with similar features and
started using phpalbum. http://www.phpalbum.net/

I think it does most of what you want except lossless rotation and slide
shows.

Interface is sparse and a bit clunky, but my family is able to use it
without problems. It also hasn't been updated in a while. If you
discover something better please tell the list.
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Re: What's #...@$& wrong with X and/or VirtualBox? :(

2010-09-24 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 09/24/2010 09:22 AM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:

Just a guess, but the VirtualBox command is suid root and VBoxManage is
not, so that might account for your X forwarding issue.

I don't know what your workflow is, but that's not what I would do. I
would be using VBoxHeadless to start the vm and then use RDP (virtual
box calls it "remote display server") to connect to the virtual machine.
You can tunnel RDP with ssh if necessary.



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Re: Recommendations for SMB/CIFS file server configuration

2010-09-13 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 09/13/2010 08:13 PM, Stephen wrote:
> There is Ldap actually which is quite good, just need to determine how
> to set it up.

>  wrote:
>> Otherwise linux does not have (to the best of my knowledge)
>> easy central account management.

I think the key word here was "easy" for which LDAP doesn't qualify,
especially for someone new to Linux.



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Re: battery overcharging

2010-09-13 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 09/12/2010 06:55 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> It really is best to regularly run on battery and not just run
> continusly on AC with the battery in.  My HP battery life is down to
> seconds because I did that.
> 
> That said, I understand more modern systems have better charge control
> circuitry to reduce that effect.

I have an HP DV 6000 laptop from around 2007 and had issues with a
shorter battery life than was expected. When I contacted HP, their
official line for that model was to remove the battery when you are
plugged in to AC for 2 weeks or longer. I never saw this in the
documentation provided with the laptop. Perhaps they want to sell more
batteries.



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XBMC presentation slides

2010-09-11 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
I've posted the outline for the XBMC is not an XBox Media Center
presentation here:

http://bitflip.net/presentations

There is a little bit of information about some things I didn't get to
cover (remote controls, apps) and a link to a demo of the Mythbox MythTV
integration plugin.



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Re: Reverse Proxy

2010-09-10 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 09/10/2010 09:36 AM, Mike Ballon wrote:
> I have the need to setup a reverse proxy to front-end some websites for
> security reasons, but I can't decide whether to use Apache or Squid. The
> only real requirements are to having something "more secure" than your
> standard IP based firewall, something like an application proxy that
> supports load-balancing. 

If those are your only requirements, then Apache should be fine and I
use it for this purpose. Without knowing your setup it is hard to
recommend Squid, which might be overkill. There are also a few other
alternatives like Varnish or Nginx, but those are mostly used for
high-volume sites.



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Re: OT - (maybe) Recovering a Zip File

2010-08-30 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 08/30/2010 06:51 PM, Eric Cope wrote:
> I transferred a zip file off of an infected Windows machine via FTP.
> That file was determined to be corrupt (after I wiped the drive of
> course). I suspect the corruption took place because I transferred the
> file using ASCII mode, not binary mode. Is there anyway to "repair" a
> zip file, like search and replacing the "\n" with a "\r\n" or some other
> tool, Linux based or otherwise?

The fixgz program does exactly that.



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Re: OT: Alternatives to Tivo? Thanks.

2010-08-26 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 08/26/2010 01:23 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
> I have been watching this thread, but have not commented until now.
> 
> Has anyone tried XBMC as an alternative to Tivo?

XBMC has no recording capability. There is work ongoing that will allow
XBMC to drive a MythTV back end.



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Re: Changing sftp user's home directory

2010-08-17 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 08/17/2010 12:58 PM, keith smith wrote:
> I'm running centOS 5 something. I configure SFTP and removed FTP.  Now I
> need to add a user, lets say billybob.  By default his home directory
> would be /hone/billybob.  I need to remove that and give him access to
> only one directory within the docroot of a vhost.  Say the directory
> /home/someVhost/public_html/documents/

Unfortunately the version of openssh included in Centos 5 doesn't have
the functionality you need (specifically ChrootDirectory and friends).
One way to solve this by installing a newer copy of openssh and
disabling the old.



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Re: OT (slightly): SSL Requirement

2010-08-13 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 08/13/2010 01:51 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Is the following statement true or false?
> 
> "SSL requires a distinct outbound IP for every distinct certificate
> (different domain name)."

I believe this is still true for SSL. With TLS, there is an extension to
include the FQDN in the request. I am not sure of the current
browser/server support matrix though.



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Re: perl or sed s/// problem

2010-08-05 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 08/05/2010 10:44 AM, David wrote:
> 
> I'm having a problem with perl *and* sed with a particular replace line.  The 
> lines I'm trying to search for, and replace, both have "/" characters, which 
> is completely killing me.   
> 
> line="passwordrequisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3"
> newline="password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so minlen=8 
> dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 lcredit=0 minclass=3  retry=3"
> 
> I need to maintain whitespace, too.
> 
> perl -p -i -e s/"$line"/"$newline"/  file
> 
> That tosses out all kinds of errors, since perl believes the first "/lib" 
> line to be the next delimiter.  Even using the magical \Q and \E things 
> doesn't work.  AARRGGHH!!!   
> 
> Sed seems to have the same problem.   Anyone have any ideas on how I can get 
> this to work?  And yes, unfortunately, I need to use the variables.

Try something like

$ sed -e "s|$line|$newline|" file

You probably also want to define your variables like line='password ...'
so that the shell preserves the literal value of $.



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Re: Running Tar from a Shell Script.

2010-07-27 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 07/27/2010 01:54 PM, keith smith wrote:
> If I create a shell script with two lines, as follows:
> 
>   #!/bin/bash
> 
> /bin/tar -czf /backups/my-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d).tgz /work/dev/
> 
> 
> I get the following output:
> 
> : command not founde 2:
> /bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> /bin/tar: /work/dev/\r: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> /bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> : command not founde 4:

Just taking a guess from the "\r", but was the script created on a
Windows or Macintosh computer and transferred to the current machine?
Check that it has unix line endings (newline only).



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Re: Why is %#$& X11 failing to authorize this SSH connection? :(

2010-07-26 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 07/26/2010 04:27 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote:
> So I do:
> kitepi...@beechjet:~$ ssh -vvv -fCX ay...@turbocommander VirtualBox >
> /tmp/junkX11-VirtualBox.log 2>&1
> And I get my Virtual Box screen up and I can do whatever I want except
> to star a VM because:
> When I do this:
> kitepi...@beechjet:~$ ssh -vvv -fCX ay...@turbocommander 'VBoxManage
> startvm Unum' > /tmp/junkX11-VBoxManage.log 2>&1
> X11 fails to authorize!
> IT IS $%#!&* DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!   :(
> This has ALWAYS worked before, I just moved my machines to a different box.
> And *ANYTHING* else that I "ssh -fCX" works flawlessly
> beats me...   :(
> The logs can seen at:
> http://www.kitepilot.com/junkX11-VBoxManage.log
> http://www.kitepilot.com/junkX11-VirtualBox.log
> They are essentially identical until you hit the line:
> "debug1: confirm x11"

Make sure your disk on the remote side isn't full. Your .Xauthority file
should be permission 600 on the remote side. You might want to remove it
and let it be recreated. Also, I don't think VBoxManage is an X11
program so you might be able to run it without X forwarding turned on.



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Re: How to report Internet Abuse

2010-07-26 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 07/26/2010 12:10 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a server running a school newspaper site. I keep getting hit from
> a server in Belgrade with a bad request, which creates an error and
> causes my database to grow by 1MB/hit. I am trying to track down the bug
> in the database, so my question is really about getting the guy to stop
> hitting my server with this request.
> 
> The IP for the request is 212.95.54.48, and I think it is a spider as I
> get other requests from this IP for my site map, contacts page, etc. I
> looked up the IP and I got this from Whois:
> ...
> 
> What is the best way to handle this? Send an email to ab...@inferno.name
> , or am I just inviting more abuse? Is there
> a way for apache to block these addresses before it hits my site (apache
> is in front of a plone/zope combination)? I have a robots.txt file at
> the root of my site...

You can block this at your gateway router, your server's firewall
(iptables), or in apache's configuration file. See the Allow and Deny
directives: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_authz_host.html

Personally, I've never had much luck with abuse addresses except with
large reputable companies.



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Re: Syslog question

2010-07-12 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 07/12/2010 03:40 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
> # Don't log private authentication messages!
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none/var/log/messages

*.info is going to catch a lot of stuff. I don't have a redhat server
handy to check, but if it doesn't have advanced filtering capabilities,
you might need to replace *.info and break it into its individual
facilities - minus your local0-local7.

auth.info, cron.info, ... , etc - see the man page for the full list.



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Re: Syslog question

2010-07-12 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 07/12/2010 03:25 PM, Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I hope no one makes me hand in my linux geek card on this one but...
> I am setting up a remote syslog server to collect information from
> various routers across my network. I can prepped local0-7 to the
> syslog information and thus direct it to an appropriate log. However I
> have set up only one and I am having trouble. While it does go to
> /var/log/my.router.log all the information is also going to
> /var/log/messages
> 
> How do I stop the duplicate messages? This server is a "comprehensive"
>  monitoring server so I have a number of applications writing to
> var/log/messages and I don't want to have to hunt through a tun of
> router traffic if I have problems.

Please post your syslog.conf and flavor of syslog (rsyslog, syslog-ng, etc).



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Re: Perl subroutines

2010-07-09 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 07/09/2010 09:54 AM, Paul Mooring wrote:
> 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;
> }

perl does support prototypes for functions, probably more loosely than
you are used to though.

> sub addNums {
>   number1 = shift;
>   number2 = shift;
>   sum = number1 + number2;
> 
>   return sum;
> }
> 
> is there anyway to do this, and if not does anyone have some advice on
> a way to make this a bit more readable in perl?

You could write it like

sub addNums {
sum = $_[0] + $_[1];

return sum;
}

I'm not sure how much more readable that is. There are also ways to
raise an exception if you have the wrong number of arguments.



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Re: Rotating apache logs

2010-06-25 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 06/25/2010 04:03 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> It appears that there are 2 ways of rotating apache logs.
> 
> Logrotate can be used, in which case apache needs to be restarted after
> the logs are rotated.

Yes, but this is usually a graceful restart, at least.

> There is also a rotatelogs program included with apache that controls
> log rotation (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/rotatelogs.html).
> 
> Does anyone have a preference, or know which is considered to be best
> practice? I'm inclined to lean toward the later.

I've always used the system log rotator (logrotate, logadm, etc). If
you're concerned about the effects of a restart you could try
logrotate's copytruncate option.



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Re: how to reference bash variables inside perl script inside bash script?

2010-06-24 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
On 06/23/2010 09:44 PM, Steven A. DuChene wrote:

> My problem is I want to be able to pick up $2 from the command line invocation
> of my bash script for the desired password and then pass that into the one 
> line
> perl piece. But with all of the single quotes, double quotes, back ticks and
> etc. I am not able to get the password value in the $2 to be correctly passed
> into the perl one line part of the bash script.
> 
> The core part of the script I am having a problem with looks like:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> OPASS=$2
> 
> PASS=`perl -e 'print("userPassword: 
> {CRYPT}".crypt("$OPASS","frat-salt")."\n");'`

I'm sure there is some way to get the results that you want with a one
liner, but there's always the option of writing a separate perl script
that takes OPASS as the argument and outputs the encrypted string, which
you can then include in your bash script with command substitution.

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Re: How to shrink a windows partition to make more room for Linux?

2010-06-09 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
j...@actionline.com wrote:
> How can I shrink the ntfs file system /dev/sda5 shown in the following
> screen capture:
> 
> - - - http://upquick.com/linux/gparted1.png - - -
> 
> to make room to increase the size of my Linux home partition /dev/sda8 ?
> 
> I've used ntfsresize to reduce the size of the sda5 partition from 158 gig
> to 67 gig, but gparted will not allow me to shrink (resize) sda5.  The
> "Resize/Move" option in gparted is grayed out as shown in the screen
> capture.
> 
> So what else can I do to shrink sda5?

Have you booted from a gparted live cd? The only time I've seen locks
like that is when running gparted when there are mounted file systems.

--Jason



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Re: Routers

2010-01-28 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
Lisa Kachold wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Steve Phariss  wrote:
>> DD-WRT allows you to have more control over the OS and other features
>> of the router.  You can get a lot more stability and features over the stock
>> firmware.  Also, at least with Linksys, the bug fixes stop coming after a
>> while with the stock firmware.
>> Steve
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Lyle Tuttle  wrote:
>>> At 10:33 AM 1/28/2010, JD Austin
>>> Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Lyle Tuttle  wrote:
>>>
>>> I need a new wireless router.  any thoughts on the netgear WNR3500L ?
>>>
>>> lyle
>>>
> 
>>> I bought one of those awhile back, no issues.
>>> I immediately flashed it with the DD-WRT firmware though.
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Why, and where would I get it?
>>>
> 
> You can buy it from various places:
> 
> Newegg:  $`149.00
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833122334
> 
> You can also setup Tomato?
> 
> Tomato is a router firmware with a reputation for being super stable
> and useful.  It features an easy to navigate GUI, bandwidth monitoring
> features, as well as a whole host of other useful bits.  Read more
> about the Tomato firmware at the official site.
> 
> http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/14430/How-To-Install-Tomato-Firmware-on-NETGEAR-WNR3500L/
> 

+1 for Tomato. I've been using it for a few years after switching from
dd-wrt. It's also newly supported on the Asus RT-N16, another N router
that's about $50 cheaper than the Netgear. I haven't used either one
though so I can't comment on any hardware differences.



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Re: serial port 56k modem

2010-01-21 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
Technomage wrote:
> this is my 2nd e-mail to the list looking for one of these. does anyone 
> happen to have one in
> storage or just laying around? I am in need of one to setup a ppp server 
> for my lan so I can
> dial into my network from any phone anywhere.

I have one. It was working when I put it in a box 10 years ago but I
have no idea if it still works. You are welcome to have it if you can
pick it up or meet me at one of the east side PLUG events.
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Re: Cottonwood Question?

2009-07-28 Thread Jason Holtzapple 
mike havens wrote:
> that was probably a stupid quesxtion; is a cable modem a cable modem...
> meaning any of them will work on any system?

If cox is the provider, they have a supported list:

http://support.cox.com/sdccommon/asp/contentredirect.asp

I have and use a Motorola SB5101 and have no issues.

--Jason



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Re: instant messanger

2009-06-24 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Wed, 6/24/09, Lisa Kachold  wrote:

I prefer lmgtfy, although it is slightly more work on your part. :)

http://tinyurl.com/llhn5f

--Jason

> From: Lisa Kachold 
> Subject: Re: instant messanger
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" 
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 3:32 PM
> Sheesh!
> 
> 9/10's of success in life is "asking the right source":
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=Is+there+an+open+source+way+to+get+instant+messaging+onto+a+webpage&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
> 
> On 6/24/09, mike havens 
> wrote:
> > Is there an open source way to get instant messaging
> onto a webpage?
> >
> > --
> > :-)~MIKE~(-:
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> (503)754-4452 tribe.obnosis.com
> scientology.obnosis.com
> plug.obnosis.com
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Re: No root password in Ubuntu 9.04 after updating

2009-06-22 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Mon, 6/22/09, Clayton Stapleton  wrote:

> From: Clayton Stapleton 
> Subject: No root password in Ubuntu 9.04 after updating
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" 
> Date: Monday, June 22, 2009, 11:36 AM
> The Ubuntu 8.10 was working fine!
> Then along come Ubuntu 9.04 so I decided to use the latest.

I don't think root-system-bin is what you think it is. If you want a
root shell, use

$ sudo -s

or

$ sudo su -

for root's full environment

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Re: Using fedora instead of ipcop

2009-06-05 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Nadim Hoque  wrote:
> Btw my fedora box is pretty beefy
> with an athlon 64xe 4200+ and 2 gigs of ram and so it does
> cuda I also have a geforce 8600 gts. Also I have found an
> old computer that had 98 on it so I think I could use it.
> The reason I'm considering doing this is because my router I
> don't think can handle torrents b/c when I torrent internet
> is really slow even when the dl speed is around 400kBs and I
> do have cox and the dl speed is around 20 megs. 

Linksys WRT54GL + Tomato Firmware + QOS = Win

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Re: Can Firefox be updated without affecting the rest of my system?

2009-05-29 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Josef Lowder  wrote:
> Is it possible to upgrade Firefox
> without causing any effect on my operating system?
> And if the upgrade does not work, could I restore the old
> Firefox version?

Why not just download the current firefox tarball from mozilla.com and
run it out of your home directory?

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Re: One more question re: daily chron job...

2009-05-26 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Tue, 5/26/09, Jim March <1.jim.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Last time we wrestled with this, we learned that Zoneminder
> (camera
> monitor app) can do purges of older files.  Except it
> doesn't work.
> I've tried three times now, it still fills the disk, I'm
> flat sick and
> tired of it.
> 
> There has to be a way in Ubuntu (Jaunty) to do a daily
> purge chron job
> to the effect of:
> 
> ---
> sudo find /media/disk/* -mtime +45 -exec rm {} \;
> ---
> 
> That command works fine, executed manually.  It purges
> files older
> than 45 days on a particular hard disk formatted ReiserFS
> (due to the
> high number of small files).
> 
> Any way I can get it to kick off daily?

Do you see any cron errors in /var/log/syslog when the job starts?

If you're going to use sudo, you'll need to set up NOPASSWD or
something similar in your sudoers file. I'd skip that and just
add a job to your root user crontab:

0 0 * * * find /media/disk -type f -mtime +45 -exec rm -f {} \;

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Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Tue, 5/19/09, Dennis Kibbe  wrote:
> A friend who graduates from high school next week wants to
> take a summer course in programming. His goal is to become a
> business applications programmer.
  
> 
> He asked me what language he should start with. I'd guess
> the prgramming landscape is changing with more services
> going into the cloud.

With above emphasis, I think the first choice is Java.

--Jason

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Re: linksys WRT54G router

2009-05-14 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Thu, 5/14/09, mike havens  wrote:
> I think my router is broken how do I
> verify this? I plug the modem into the internet port of the
> router and the computer tries to connect to it but then says
> 'limited or no connectivity'. I tried the
> 192.168.1.1 thing (to look into the router settings), 
> though I doubt that it has anything to do with it, but have
> no idea  what the password or user name is (admin/admin
> didn't work). Will anyone help me with this?

You've got the password right, but the default user is [blank].

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Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions

2009-05-12 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Tue, 5/12/09, Mark Phillips  wrote:
>  No one mentioned a VM solution - boot
> Linux and run Windows with some form of vmware for ITunes.
> Am I looking at yet more expense for high end hardware (lots
> of RAM and dual core)? I have tried vmware on my P4 2 GHz
> laptop and it works but a little too slow.

I'd recommend Virtualbox 2.2 for a desktop VM solution. I run Windows
XP inside Ubuntu 9.04 with 256 MB allocation and it works great on my 1 GB 
laptop. All I really use it for is Outlook and Visio. I have found that USB
in the VM works for some devices and not others. I'm sure there would be
some iPod discussion in the virtualbox forums and it wouldn't be too
difficult to try it out for yourself.

--Jason
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Re: Grub problems

2009-05-09 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Sat, 5/9/09, Mike Hoy  wrote:

> From: Mike Hoy 
> Subject: Grub problems
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" 
> Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009, 11:10 AM
> I'm working on a relative's
> computer. It was dual booting at one point. Windows and
> Ubuntu. Then one day he decided to delete the Linux
> partition from inside Windows (through disk management) and
> reformatted it. He did so because he needed the hard drive
> space. It was fine until he rebooted the laptop. Now grub
> throws an error and we can't get into windows. 
> 
> 
> Ultimately I'd like to get Ubuntu back on it, but for
> now we just need to boot into windows again and use the data
> on the other partition.
> 
> Any suggestions for making grub work again? Or am I going
> about this the wrong way?

If you can find a Windows install CD and get to a command line
fdisk /mbr
should fix the boot loader.

--Jason
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Re: Need Advice on Routers

2009-04-27 Thread Jason Holtzapple 

--- On Mon, 4/27/09, Mark Phillips  wrote:

>  I am looking for suggestions for a
> replacement router. I never could get the VPN part of this
> router to work with Linux, and I would like to be able to
> get to my network from outside through a VPN. So that is
> important. Other than that, I just need 100 BaseT network
> speed and at least 4 ports - more would be better. I have a
> separate Linksys wireless access point/hub that I turn on
> when I need to be mobile, so I don't need more wireless
> gear. I have to admit, I leave the router on all the time,
> so it needs to be sturdy! The exact same router on Newegg
> costs $69, so my price point is under $100.
>  Thanks! Mark

You might want to consider the Linksys WRT54GL or one of the other
Linux-based access points. You can run alternate firmware like dd-wrt
or my favorite - tomato + openvpn gui.

You can turn off the wireless access point functionality when you don't
need it and sell your other access point.

--Jason
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