Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 February 2010 06:54, Gadi Cohen wrote: > I set up a VPS (virtual private server, i.e. your own linux system > running as a virtual machine, with root access) in Israel.  I found one > for $29/mo, but I didn't look around too much since this is a 1 month > experiment for me.  Of course being l

Re: Excluding a list of files from tar with spaces in filenames

2010-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 February 2010 00:24, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> OK, fair enough, but why do you need the 'dd' at the end?: >> > > Because I know nothing about shell scripting and I am learning by > google, trial and error. No worries. I still sometimes get a kick from showing off my shell/scripting/programming p

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> > This host is a 20$/month account, and is certainly not the cheapest. It > also doubles as my OpenVPN server. "This" == ?? > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's > tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best >

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:17:26PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Gadi, > I don't know from which company you took the VPS, but you really want to > make sure it's not sitting under something like OpenVZ which could make your > VPS sometimes unusable if your "neighbor" in that machine is hitting

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Gadi, I don't know from which company you took the VPS, but you really want to make sure it's not sitting under something like OpenVZ which could make your VPS sometimes unusable if your "neighbor" in that machine is hitting his VPS with huge CPU load. Thanks, Hetz On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:01

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Gadi Cohen
I should also add that since the box isn't used for much else, and encrypted routing is hardly resource intensive, its actually very feasible for a whole bunch of us to share something like this. The $29/mo on the package I found comes with 500GB/mo. And it's not difficult to give out static IPs

My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Gadi Cohen
Some of you may recall my occasional rants about ISPs in Israel. I'm quite a demanding user, and need good speeds and good access. Until now I've been jumping around between BezeqInt and Netvision. On some days I'm perfectly happy with either, on other days, I'm ready to tear my hear out. Today

Re: kernel level access

2010-02-05 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
ik wrote: > Hello list, > > I have heard of an old kernel module/patch that allow you to define > root permissions in a system (not allowing access for specific files > and directories). > I can't find any project for it today. Are there any existed projects > that provide such features today ? > Y

Re: Excluding a list of files from tar with spaces in filenames

2010-02-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
> OK, fair enough, but why do you need the 'dd' at the end?: > Because I know nothing about shell scripting and I am learning by google, trial and error. > tar -zcvf - --exclude-from $EXCLUDES * 2>STDERR | openssl des3 -salt > -k $1 > $(hostname)-$(date +%Y%m%d).tbz > > should output tar's stder

Re: Excluding a list of files from tar with spaces in filenames

2010-02-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 21:48:46 Baruch Siach wrote: > Hi Dotan, > > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:12:54PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > I hope there is a bash guru out there today. I need to script a backup > > plan which has a list of directories that should not be backed up. > > Some of these dire

kernel level access

2010-02-05 Thread ik
Hello list, I have heard of an old kernel module/patch that allow you to define root permissions in a system (not allowing access for specific files and directories). I can't find any project for it today. Are there any existed projects that provide such features today ? Thanks, Ido http://ik.ho

Re: Excluding a list of files from tar with spaces in filenames

2010-02-05 Thread Meir Kriheli
On 02/04/2010 11:11 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 4 February 2010 22:59, Meir Kriheli wrote: On 02/04/2010 09:12 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I hope there is a bash guru out there today. I need to script a backup plan which has a list of directories that should not be backed up. Some of these directori

Re: Excluding a list of files from tar with spaces in filenames

2010-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 5 February 2010 18:51, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Do >> >> tar -zcvf - *  --exclude-from $EXCLUDES > out.tar 2> tar.err >> >> to redirect stderr into a file. >> >> I just noticed that the way you specify the output tar file is not >> conventional. You tell it to use stdout then redirect it to a file

Re: OT: should I move my domain to GoDaddy?

2010-02-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Friday 05 Feb 2010 05:41:34 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > Sorry for the OT, but had no-one else to ask. > > My domain is currently registered with ENOM and I'm considering a move. > Does anyone here have experience (good or bad) with GoDaddy? > > And to make it a bit on topic, is the management inte

Re: should I move my domain to GoDaddy?

2010-02-05 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 5, 2010, at 10:58 AM, ronys wrote: My son has a domain registered with them, that expired (he missed the expiry warning due to not updating his e-mail address). A couple of months after expiration, they hold his $5/year domain name hostage for $80, that is, either pay them the mon

RE: should I move my domain to GoDaddy?

2010-02-05 Thread ronys
Hi, In addition to what others have written, here's my experience: My son has a domain registered with them, that expired (he missed the expiry warning due to not updating his e-mail address). A couple of months after expiration, they hold his $5/year domain name hostage for $80, that is, eithe