Re: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2

2002-07-02 Thread Jeff Macdonald
If you happen to have a Rackspace box and use rackspace's RPMS, upgrade PAM to, as the openssh rpm adds a new security module that isn't in place with older PAMs. Whatever you do, do not log off your system until you are sure you can log into it! Trust me, I know! :-) On Tue, 2002-07-02 at

need help: M$ Active Directory and Linux

2002-06-10 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Does anybody have an example of how to bind to and Active Directory server and how to search such a beast? I'm trying with ldapsearch and GQ with absolutely no luck. I can't find any good references on the web either! Thanks in advance! **

Re: Completely OT

2002-06-03 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 10:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've heard that the coolpix went downhill from the 990 to the 995, Where did you hear that? I've read some nice reviews of the 995. I'm looking to use it with my Meade LX50.

Compaq compile farm

2002-05-16 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Didn't Compaq have a bunch of machine available on the net that one could try the systems out and compile stuff on? Do they have an Itanium system available? * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: streams, block devices, and buffering, oh my...

2002-04-30 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, what you're saying is that setvbuf and f*sync have nothing to do > with each other? That setvbuf only controls buffering between the > app and the stream/file it's writing to, whereas f*sync is essentially > an OS buffer control mech

Re: streams, block devices, and buffering, oh my...

2002-04-30 Thread Jeff Macdonald
> My understanding of "the way things are" by default, is that the OS > will buffer all writes until a certain point, then sync to disk. > So, first I started playing around with fsync() and fdatasync(). > These are supposed to be 2 different functions, with fdatasync() > supposedly being the f

Re: Books

2002-04-25 Thread Jeff Macdonald
> > I'm just generally interested in learning about network programming, > and hoping to find something I use in there to sharpen my C skills > (which are just barely sharp enough to cut my way out of a very wet > paper bag with :) Pick up a copy of the GNU C Library reference while you at it.

Re: Paul Lussier's mail is messed up

2002-03-12 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Can't your MUA set the sender address? On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 13:02, Paul Lussier wrote: > In a message dated: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:59:07 EST > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > >I suspect you're logging in as user 'pll' instead of user 'plussier'. Ergo (I > >think), you should use sendmail's virtual u

Re: More span discussion

2002-03-11 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Paul Iadonisi stated: The point I was trying to make is that our ISP actually does provide secondary MX service to some of its customers. This means that anybody needs to be allowed to relay through those machines to the domains they MX for. They don't need to be WIDE open, but they do need to

RE: x86 Assembly resources

2002-01-09 Thread Jeff Macdonald
There's a linux book on assembly - Linux Assembly Language Programming - Bob Neveln If you can find it, Peter Norton had a book on learning assembly. Uses DOS and debug for some of the book. I read this book many moons ago. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: xinetd and custom programs

2001-12-09 Thread Jeff Macdonald
blocking this? I'm guessing > it's stopping it on the client side; you might try, from the "server", > doing a > telnet 127.0.0.1 666 > and see what happens. If that works, it's time to work over your firewall > config. > > -Ken > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2

xinetd and custom programs

2001-12-08 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Hi, Anybody runnig their own program out of xinetd? I can't get event simple stuff to work like ls: service unlisted { type= UNLISTED protocol= tcp socket_type = stream wait= yes user= root server

Re: using Procmail to sort IMAP mailboxes

2001-06-08 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Add something like this to the end of your reciepes will help sort out your spam. Above that reciepe are rules for all the lists you belong to. It filters out a good amount of spam for me! :0: * !^TO_jeff.*@(virtualbuilder|migratus)\.com spam ***

Re: Sendmail / MTA Wars (Was Re: Nashua Tomorrow)

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Macdonald
> I know he's on the list. He really does know it well, and gave a great > presentation on the many features of Sendmail, and answered questions on > how to configure for various situations. A couple of comments /ideas that stood > out: Thanks, the presenter was me, Jeff Ma

Re: Apache not responding???

2001-03-27 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Do you have any firewall stuff in your startup scripts? Does lynx localhost work but not lynx hostname? ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of th

When is the March meeting for AA in Nashua?

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff Macdonald
If it was tonight, I won the Battle of the MTA's (sendmail) as no one else was there. This was 7pm, checking out upstairs and the area where geeks eat before hand. I have to complain. There's no meeting scheduled on the calendar. In fact I hate the calendar, you can't just glance at it and see wh

RE: Next GNHLUG Meetng

2001-03-10 Thread Jeff Macdonald
That would be me. My first meeting was the quarterly meeting. My main responsibilities involve inbound/outbound mail. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Paul Lussier > Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:58 AM > To: Kurth Bemis > Cc: [EMAIL

autotools was Re: Encryption questions

2001-02-22 Thread Jeff Macdonald
I just started doing auto tools stuff for the last 4 months, after looking at it over a year ago and failing to understand it. The 'Goat' book does a decent job of explaining things, but an additional book that follows the 'Perl Cookbook' would be even better. One thing that the autotools highligh

Re: Sendmail Training

2001-02-15 Thread Jeff Macdonald
I've been to Harker's training (about 3 years ago, maybe longer). It's worth the money. They use to include lunch too. ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the s

Re: MEBDALUG Meeting in March?

2001-02-08 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Shouldn't the meeting be moved a little further south, to Incredibew? That way while we discuss Linux, our beer could be brewing :-) On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Paul Lussier wrote: > In a message dated: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 09:43:11 EST > Jerry Kubeck said: > > >Has a, um, great ring to it Paul. Rolls

Battle of the MTA's

2001-02-07 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Hi, Well, the March meeting is coming up. I somehow volunteered to talk about sendmail and was wondering if there is any desired format for this? I have yet to make it to the Nashua meetings, so I don't know what tools we have at our disposal. Projectors? Whiteboards? Paper? Fellow member's backs?

Re: newbie sendmail question

2001-01-08 Thread Jeff Macdonald
do a grep -e "^K" /etc/mail/sendmail.cf Is there a generics db defined? On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Mark Glassberg wrote: > When I try to send mail, sendmail leaves it in the queue with the following > explanation: rewrite: map generics not found > > I can send the mail using "sendmail -q", but the ap

RE: While we're talking Sendmail...

2001-01-04 Thread Jeff Macdonald
I agree. Also, if your local mailer is procmail, you could have procmail run the perl script. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Bruce Dawson > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 6:39 PM > To: Ken D'Ambrosio > Cc: Greater NH Linux Users'

RE: Sendmail vs. qmail vs. postfix vs. ???

2000-12-27 Thread Jeff Macdonald
How about sendmail guru in training. I'll volunteer, what day was this and where? Nashua? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Paul Lussier > Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 10:17 AM > To: Jeff Macdonald > Cc

RE: [nnhlug] MTA Religious War (Was Re: proftp)

2000-12-24 Thread Jeff Macdonald
wrote: > > In a message dated: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 21:19:27 EST > > "Jeff Macdonald" said: > > >I always thought that if one understood perl code and regular > expressions, > > >one should be able to handle sendmail's cf file. > > > > That's k

RE: Sendmail vs. qmail vs. postfix vs. ???

2000-12-24 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Shouldn't sendmail be represented to? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Dan Jenkins > Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 11:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Groups > Subject: Re: Sendmail vs. qmail v

RE: [nnhlug] MTA Religious War (Was Re: proftp)

2000-12-21 Thread Jeff Macdonald
I always thought that if one understood perl code and regular expressions, one should be able to handle sendmail's cf file. As for qmail being faster, I haven't seen anyone claim above 70k/hour, which is what I'm getting with sendmail at the moment. *

SourceForge in-house?

2000-08-04 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Is anybody using this in-house? What I mean has anyone taken the source that makes up SourceForge, and use it inside their own company for managing projects? -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA ** To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Redhat 7.0

2000-08-04 Thread Jeff Macdonald
ere's some option to do that. At 10:55 PM 7/31/00 -0400, Derek Martin wrote: >On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Jeff Macdonald wrote: > > > As far as I know, it always needed the full path > >Nope... RH 6.1's version doesn't, and IIRC it's supposed to search your >pa

Re: Redhat 7.0

2000-07-31 Thread Jeff Macdonald
inutes. > >Cole Tuininga >Network Admin >Code Energy, Inc >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >(603) 766-2208 > >** >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the >*body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: &g

Re: Sym Links to apache

2000-06-26 Thread Jeff Macdonald
l Sign - N1TYW >PGP key available - http://www.usaexpress.net/kurth/pgp > >Fight Weak Encryption! Donate your wasted CPU cycles to Distributed.net >(http://www.distributed.net) > > >****** >

Re: Paul makes a darned good point..

2000-06-23 Thread Jeff Macdonald
x27;s broken. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >** >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the >*body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: >unsubscribe gnhlug >

How about sysadmin rates?

2000-05-23 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Things like firewalling, NAT, email, etc? ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug

Re: Need help restoring first 1.44 bytes of hda1

2000-05-08 Thread Jeff Macdonald
y one had some words of wisdom. After I recover, I think I will send a patch to the 'dd' maintainers. The patch would ask 'Do you really want to overwrite that device? (Yes/No)' by default, and have a 'don't ask' option for batch programs. Benjamin Scott wrote

Need help restoring first 1.44 bytes of hda1

2000-05-05 Thread Jeff Macdonald
suggestions? And no, I don't have a backup. -- Jeff Macdonald Virtual Builder [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the l

Re: system compromised

2000-04-23 Thread Jeff Macdonald
I've been cracked via bind 4 times over the past year. Each bind was a different version. The last time was my workstation on a LAN at work. Yes, the LAN should of been firewalled, but more important is to not run services that you don't really need. For workstations, use the workstation insta

Re: tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Jeff Macdonald
are you referring to my scheme? >I'm still not sure about this, although I haven't tried it yet... Could you >please give it a try and tell us about the result? I am really wondering about >this because I read somewhere that it is possible. >Ferenc > >

tcp wrappers and net/mask

2000-02-24 Thread Jeff Macdonald
It's been a while since I've done net/mask stuff. I want tcp wrappers to allow the following hosts: 206.84.220.65 - 206.84.220.94 65 -> 0100 0001 94 -> 0101 1110 95 -> 0101 160 -> 1010 206.84.220.160/255.255.255.95 ? **

wtmp

2000-02-22 Thread Jeff Macdonald
Anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this system file that doesn't involve rebooting the system? Mine is showing me junk... ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not*

Re: odd file

2000-02-19 Thread Jeff Macdonald
try using viewfax to view the file (you need X). At 07:34 PM 2/19/00 -0500, you wrote: >On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote: > > > i found this today. what is it? > > > > usa:/virtual/test/usr/bin# file Bonnie.20727 > > Bonnie.20727: raw G3 data, byte-padded > > usa:/virtual/test/usr/bin# > >Y