Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-21 Thread Jacques B.
I was able to inject a bit of humour into the thread in the process. Jacques B ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Jacques B.
geted) that resulted in a host.deny entry. But of course you can potentially lock yourself out (been there, done that) which is a p.i.t.a. You either have to wait until next day at the office to remove your ban, or try and get another IP from your ISP via disconnecting and reconnecting to your ISP. Ja

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread Jacques B.
nts. That is short of having some tool installed on the other person's home computer which again crosses that line. You obviously can't be at the home user's choke point because what lawful authority would you have to be sniffing on that subnet owned by his ISP? Jacques B. ___

Re: [CentOS] script help - '3rd last field'

2009-06-08 Thread Jacques B.
.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > I am pretty sure there is a way in awk to figure out how many fields you have, then take the total # of fields -3 each time to get the third last one. Just heading out the door and off hand can't remember how it would be done. Jacques B.

Re: [CentOS] script question

2009-06-04 Thread Jacques B.
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:11:37AM -0400, Jacques B. wrote: > >> head -n 188 your_script | tail -n 3 > >> That will output lines 186-188 so that you have some context (in case > > sed -n 186,188p your_script > &

Re: [CentOS] script question

2009-06-04 Thread Jacques B.
line before is causing grief for some reason as a result of a missing quote or some such thing). If indeed that is the offending line then copy/paste those lines to this group so that others can look at the exact syntax. Jacques B. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ping and traceroute...

2009-01-23 Thread Jacques B.
nly. Even if it included more than just your members (i.e. all pings from a particular ISP or geographical area) at least it would reduce your visibility thus reduce your vulnerability should it be an issue. Jacques B. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] init script question

2008-12-12 Thread Jacques B.
__ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Do you mean like $0? That gives you the current script name. Jacques B. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Unix/Linux Training Online

2008-09-17 Thread Jacques B.
ve been around Linux CLI for any amount of time. Unless you want/need the certificate, I'd simply look at the course description and do the one(s) that you feel you need. Jacques B. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Message size rejected

2008-07-06 Thread Jacques B.
orgiving as possible on file size and have her send it to that > account. Probably the easiest solution of all, "Honey, use this email > address instead: ". > > Jacques B. > Further to my last message, GigaSize.com allows up to 600 MB files on the free account. As for

Re: [CentOS] Re: Message size rejected

2008-07-06 Thread Jacques B.
ousendit.com? File size might still be an issue I guess as they limit it to 100 MB for their free account. There's another thought. Why not create yourself a gmail account or other such online account that is as forgiving as possible on file size and have her send it to that account. Probabl

Re: [CentOS] Re: command for brand of monitor

2008-07-03 Thread Jacques B.
__ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Wouldn't kudzu do that? Can't test it as I'm not near a Linux machine right now. -p will only probe and print to the screen (as you can also use kudzu to configurehardware according to the man pages). Jacques B. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-07-01 Thread Jacques B.
not likely to use because it's a manual, tedious process vs email shotgun approach). If your company does potentially do business with any part of the world, then this is obviously not a good solution. In addition to all this you will want to train your employees to recognize a potential s

Re: [CentOS] Copy of own messages

2008-06-29 Thread Jacques B.
my INBOX) until someone replies to it. Until then it's only in SENT ITEMS. Jacques B. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Strange behavior from grep

2008-03-28 Thread Jacques B.
estion now is, how do I get the word 'gamito' alone from the file > ? > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Warm Regards, > Mário Gamito I'm not a sed user but I believe that would do it for you. Someone else ca

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-26 Thread Jacques B.
the office PC from it. The inconvenience to you of having to first go through your home PC to get to the office PC would only apply when away from your ISP connection. Of course if you are on the road alot then this may not be an attractive option. Jacques B. ___

Re: [CentOS] md raid1 - no speed improvement

2008-03-23 Thread Jacques B.
olerance. If something crashed, your data is gone. And data recovery on a RAID where the data is stripped across drives is no easy task vs a standalone drive. So if redundancy is an important factor you will want a good backup system in lieu of ano

Re: [CentOS] bash - safely pass untrusted strings?

2008-02-27 Thread Jacques B.
Here's a little script that I have to play around with positional parameters. I'm pretty certain I did not author this one but got it either off the web or ina book. I added a line of comment in it but I don't believe I made any other contributions to it. Jacques B. #!/bin/ba

Re: [CentOS] bash - safely pass untrusted strings?

2008-02-26 Thread Jacques B.
state). If that's what you are looking at doing I'm sure someone here can fill in the blanks on that one. If not when I get to the office tomorrow I can have a look at some of my scripts where I had to do that and post sample code for you. Jacques B. __