[PLUG] Peek at CentOS Stream 10 container

2024-08-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
e versions) released yet. I will steadfastly ignore anyone who's reply is something to the effect of "that's a cr@p distro. use XXX instead." -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Email question: incoming message to one domain blocked

2024-08-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
ains has a different configuration than the other. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] High Brightness LED outdoor monitor (?)

2024-07-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
me a mouse pad (!!) with that quotation on it. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Remember WordPerfect?

2024-07-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
n memory while using the shell menu to, say, start a DOS shell or whatever. The WP process just hung around waiting to be brought to the foreground. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Tannenbaum (and the Monolithic Kernel)

2024-06-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
-2FmPHuRvEgKTmk3rFPEQ09g-3D-3D The award is well deserved. I've never used MINIX, but I was aware of its significance from almost the first minute I started using Linux. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] An IT question

2024-06-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
kware may offer * a newer set of SSL libraries that provide acceptable crypto algorithms and/or TLS protocols, and/or * a newer JavaScript (or ECMAScript) implementation that correctly renders the site's content. Again, these are just WAGs. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] a side note on browsers

2024-06-01 Thread Paul Blattner
edded > almost 2K of hex code per bookmark? > > Has there been any feedback from the browser companies, as to what they > are doing with book marks and why things are running slower than every > before? > > Randall > > > -- Paul Blattner

Re: [PLUG] question on locale change (with no notification)

2024-05-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
ome): export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" export LC_COLLATE="C" -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released

2024-04-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 25 Apr 2024, Paul Heinlein wrote: https://u35970666.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.6Dgli3a5-2FDN4jL9NBXBO-2FaRTtgndBr5bC5o2-2BEv1MnV6I-2BpTCuZHue6YBUpqjW-2B7qGJbqGU5yZDa5s7AS5z2UW7pL6xlCL2ZDaEboE8cTLVyfZX1zaXpjKn40QoIcPueqSgdmZx2K0oekKvlKHgAIoKHbRDMqYz4D3cu

[PLUG] Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released

2024-04-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
-2FEtrpNcrR08CP50hIfvZ19ifAtckuND8F2YQcn2EiBS7zICvW5kaBIA9or5HoDlmj6CdS4g0v1nkt4C-2Bs4Tmc2gOFkxqW6hlHCE9V6UnX-2FREeY0Ot5Ja3nudjkdnQ-3D-3D I have done no testing yet, so this is merely passing on the announcement. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Radio silence since Apr 16

2024-04-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, Russell Senior wrote: Welfare check, accomplished! :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Radio silence since Apr 16

2024-04-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
clear the hall the fastest. Keillor one time told the story of the ushers from Lake Wobegon Lutheran traveling to the national ushering competition; maybe they did so well they hire themselves out for conventions. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Radio silence since Apr 16

2024-04-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, Dick Steffens wrote: On 4/23/24 10:02, Paul Heinlein wrote: Is this list dead? Neither my inbox nor the online archives show any traffic since April 16. I don't see anything after April 16 either. Maybe it's just been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon? Indee

[PLUG] Radio silence since Apr 16

2024-04-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
Is this list dead? Neither my inbox nor the online archives show any traffic since April 16. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Comcast to Ziply fiber migration, plus Ooma phone

2024-04-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
to "maddeningly bad" was steep and quick. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Secure shell from/to laptop [RESOLVED--Partially]

2024-04-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
configuration files. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Linux man pages and documentation?

2024-03-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
e to hook into? And not every executable is worthy of its own manual page? And the Linux kernel team makes the decision on how exes are documented or if documented? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Linux man pages and documentation?

2024-03-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
e program? Other program suites like sudo include, e.g., /usr/libexec/sudo/sesh, which I can only imagine to be some sort of helper program for the main sudo application, but sesh is otherwise undocumented. The same is true of the grcat and pwcat utilities distributed with gawk. The dovecot i

Re: [PLUG] something I am considering doing...

2024-03-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 24 Mar 2024, American Citizen wrote: Paul: Thanks for your post. Exactly what would you consider a valid statement for locating the executables? Finding executable files is not, to my mind, the same as find executable files for which I'd expect a man page. I'd suppos

Re: [PLUG] something I am considering doing...

2024-03-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sat, 23 Mar 2024, American Citizen wrote: Paul: Good question from you. for executables I used $ find . -executable -print This is not a query I would expect to return accurate results because it will include files I would not consider candidates for man pages, including: * basic

Re: [PLUG] something I am considering doing...

2024-03-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
ere might be a bit limiting, but "rpm -qd" can be quite verbose for some packages. Season to taste. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Backup Solutions

2024-02-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
bout where to store your files: a second hard drive, a removable hard drive kept in a secure location, a local off-site venue, an out-of-region venue. What is the timeframe of failure you want to guard against? A day? A week? Month? Year? Longer? Do you need your backups stored in multiple

Re: [PLUG] SSL/TSL only for web sites?

2024-01-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
al Postfix MTA, are these security layers necessary or needed? If you're sending via Postfix, no, you don't need them for SMTP stuff. Postfix itself can be configured to use SSL/TLS, but that's completely separate from what you're trying to accomplish. -- Paul Heinlein h

Re: [PLUG] 'Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm' - ArsTechnica

2024-01-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
stanza to sshd_config, e.g., # most of sshd_config here, then at the end, altering the # cidr block as necessary PasswordAuthentication no PermitRootLogin no Match Address 192.168.30.0/24 PasswordAuthentication yes PermitRootLogin yes -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Email services

2024-01-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
#x27;t get a direct SMTP notice. I've had to log into sendgrid's web interface to inspect and/or empty that list. Until you remove the address from that online list, you can't send mail to it again. (This is an issue for me at work, for reasons I don't care to explain here.)

Re: [PLUG] Run crontab script using sudo

2024-01-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Heinlein wrote: The Linux distributions I use all have an /etc/cron.d directory that allows you to run scripts under any UID, no sudo required. Paul, Yes, Slackware has an /etc/cron.d directory. The modified crontab

Re: [PLUG] Run crontab script using sudo

2024-01-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
umented in the crontab(5) man page, at least on my systems. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] email issues

2024-01-01 Thread Paul Heinlein
lacklisted or marked as spam. But that's all I've got. Your testing is otherwise very thorough and exactly what I would have done. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Restoring MS Backup QIC and BKF files via Samba?

2023-11-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
host, boot the VM, and all necessary files are accessible in your virtual D:\. Unburdened by any recent experience with these ancient Windows releases, I'd suggest the same thing. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Simultaneously horrifying and amazing!

2023-10-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
Camel. I'd say it's the opposite, more like putting Model T engine in a Formula One chassis. :-) Of course, most IPMI controllers emulate serial communications over ethernet (serial-over-LAN), because out-of-band serial connections are ever-so helpful, even (especially?) today. -

Re: [PLUG] Remote work on downed server ( Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting: Anatomy of a Mailing List Meltdown )

2023-02-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
vely time rich. Keeping cash on hand can justify the owner's need to spend extra time keeping a fragile set of systems working. I say "can," not "will" or "must," but I think the point is reasonable. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Remote work on downed server ( Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: March PLUG Meeting: Anatomy of a Mailing List Meltdown )

2023-02-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
ustomer's overall risk profile. So Ted is perfectly right: the best gear fits a certain risk assessment. Perhaps an experienced consultant understands what the owner will only see at a later date. Perhaps. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Testing the new OSUOSL hosted mailman set up

2023-02-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
! _ __ / | | | | | || |__ ___ ___ _ __ ___| | | || '_ \ / _ \/ _ \ '__/ __| | | || | | | __/ __/ | \__ \_| \_|_| |_|\___|\___|_| |___(_) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: Swap Files

2023-02-20 Thread Paul Goins
r RAM. Disk space is usually cheap and so having a swap file "just in case" is often a good bet. If you run out of RAM and swap, oomkiller will pay you a visit, which typically isn't nice. - Paul On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 05:10 Jake Bottero wrote: > Running RHEL on a virtual (clou

Re: LO Writer not converting M$ Outlook .msg file

2023-02-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
ers. In the past, Outlook e-mail files could be extracted using a command-line utility called tnef. A quick Internet search suggests that Slackware has a package for it. Caveat: in my experience, Outlook files end with .dat, not .msg, so my recommendation may be way off base. -- Paul Heinlein heinl

Re: [PLUG] Is it dead, Jim?

2023-02-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> Has the PLUG mailing list died? > > Evidently not! Huzzah. The SMTP path of this message is interesting. I'm using the timestamps provided by each server, so you'll need to take

Re: [PLUG] Is it dead, Jim?

2023-02-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 9 Feb 2023, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Has the PLUG mailing list died? Evidently not! Huzzah. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45?22'48" N, 122?35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 22.04.1, firefox snap, alternatives?

2022-08-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
ernate versions available are visible via the "dnf module" family of commands, e.g., dnf module list php dnf module info php -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Temperature recorder

2022-08-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
mall quantities, and I still had to keep the garage door open for anything more than a single batch -- even during the Colorado winters. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Direct access to web page from alpine message

2022-07-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
x27;s settings -> preferred appications the browser is set to Brave and the email clent is set to alpine. The "url-viewers" setting in .pinerc is what you want, probably something like url-viewers="/usr/bin/brave _URL_" -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] Did PLUG Mailman change?

2022-07-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, wes wrote: it's complicated, but the short version is that I would call it intentional, yes. Thank you for the confirmation! - Paul -wes On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 3:09 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: I'm seeing new List-Id headers in the PLUG-TALK traffic. They

Re: [PLUG] Did PLUG Mailman change?

2022-07-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2022, Paul Heinlein wrote: I'm seeing new List-Id headers in the PLUG-TALK traffic. They were and have become . Was that change planned? I only ask because I key on those headers for shuffling PLUG messages to a certain inbox.

[PLUG] Did PLUG Mailman change?

2022-07-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
I'm seeing new List-Id headers in the PLUG-TALK traffic. They were and have become . Was that change planned? I only ask because I key on those headers for shuffling PLUG messages to a certain inbox. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W

Re: [PLUG] a question on "mv" command

2017-10-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
quot;mv *" would not behave the same in those two cases. Everything would end up in 'd' in the first case, in 'E' in the second. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] ISP near Gresham

2017-10-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Russell Senior wrote: "Paul" == Paul Heinlein writes: Paul> On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Dick Steffens wrote: On 10/03/2017 07:43 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: I'll note that if you rent a cable modem from Comcast, but would rather use your own routing and/or wire

Re: [PLUG] a question on "mv" command

2017-10-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
requirement. Can anyone explain why this would work? Or is this an undocumented side-effect for "mv"? It's a side effect of shell globbing. In your case, the shell expands mv * to mv a b c So 'c' becomes the destination for 'a' and 'b'. -

Re: [PLUG] ISP near Gresham

2017-10-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Dick Steffens wrote: On 10/03/2017 07:43 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: I'll note that if you rent a cable modem from Comcast, but would rather use your own routing and/or wireless gear, you can ask the installer to disable wifi and use bridging mode. The tech may look a

Re: [PLUG] ISP near Gresham

2017-10-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
r own routing and/or wireless gear, you can ask the installer to disable wifi and use bridging mode. The tech may look at you funny, but s/he'll do it for you. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLU

Re: [PLUG] Suppressing shell script output to screen

2017-09-19 Thread Paul Heinlein
u've asked cron to e-mail you the output by setting the MAILTO variable. If you don't want sa-learn to emit anything, ever, then just tell it so: sa-learn --spam /path/to/folder >/dev/null 2>&1 -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___

Re: [PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

2017-09-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Michael wrote: Paul, Russel, Both of you have used relative terms in describing sizes. What is small-ish? What is VERY LARGE? Please describe in terms file count, aggregate size of data, or other metrics. The big caveat is that said metrics are somewhat hardware

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, Paul Heinlein wrote: ping salmo Paul, I should have mentioned in my original post that ping returns the expected packages. I just rebooted the portable; ping works. Second, check that you can reach 22/tcp (or whatever port

Re: [PLUG] Troubleshooting ssh

2017-09-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
hat you can reach 22/tcp (or whatever port you use for ssh) on salmo from your other machine: nmap -p 22 salmo If not, try running 'iptables -L' or 'iptables-save' from the console on salmo to ensure there's no firewall blocking inbound SSH. Third, try running ssh from s

Re: [PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

2017-09-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
-av /home/yourdir your.new.host:/home Of course, that just muddies the water of your original question. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] usb to ethernet printer

2017-08-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
Ethernet? I use an older HP JetDirect 175x which does exactly what you want. You can find them on eBay for ca. $15. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.o

Re: [PLUG] The joy of refactoring

2017-08-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
t the process, unless the latter is very obscure or ungoogleable. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Alpine issue after upgrade

2017-08-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Paul Heinlein wrote: My first suggestion -- and perhaps you've already tried it -- is to move your standard .pinerc out of the way and let alpine create a new one. Then add the minimum configuration bits you need to read

Re: [PLUG] Alpine issue after upgrade

2017-08-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
0 not seen in the 20 years I've > uses pine/alpine as my MUA. When I forward a message (such as a spam report) > the Subject: line is blank. I need to manually copy it from the original > message to the forwarded one. I've no idea where to look for the cause. > > Perha

Re: [PLUG] ENU,Inc R.I.P.

2017-08-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
compared to most brick+mortar stores. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> https://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Operation Status

2017-08-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
tter than I >> expected. > > Excellent, Alan! Hope you quickly heal and feel young again. Agreed! -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> https://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Libre Office Writer Version: 5.1.6.2 and curly quotes

2017-08-07 Thread Paul DeStefano
nted, and exported a .bib file...bingo, my LaTeX paper had a reference list. I've looked into Zotero and it creeps me out. Go the OSS way, try calibre. Calibre is also supposed to work with ebook readers like Nook, Fire, Kindle, and Kobo, although I have had trouble with that on Linux.

Re: [PLUG] A useful emacs function: wc emulation

2017-08-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
> Hope that someone, sometime finds this useful, too. In vim, to check the entire document: :%!wc u The trailing 'u' is to undo the change. :-) -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> https://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG ma

Re: [PLUG] Question about header on sent e-mail message

2017-07-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
past 20 years (first in pine, > now in alpine.) Rich, Do you have an smtp-server setting in your .pinerc (or in a role)? Or is it blank? If blank, then the message is submitted to your local MTA (Postfix, in your case) and subject to its rules. BTW: I can't see that 'on behalf of&

Re: [PLUG] happy 1.5 billion seconds since unix epoch!

2017-07-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
hat's the right way to say it! > > [user@personal ~]$ date --date=@15 > Thu Jul 13 19:40:00 PDT 2017 Whimsy, FTW! Soon to come: epoch seconds catches up to and passes number of McDonald's burgers sold. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> https://www.ma

Re: [PLUG] ssh vs vpn

2017-06-25 Thread Paul Mullen
g at localhost:12345. No need to setup a new tunnel for each protocol you wish to secure, nor is there a need for a proxy server on the remote host. "man ssh" for details. -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Tracing mail sent via postfix

2017-06-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
nsaction itself, and not after it's accepted delivery. If you send mail to madboa.com that gets marked as spam, for instance, you'll get a bounce message very quickly (and I'll never see the message). Finally, the remote user may have trained their spam filter aggressively -- and sh

Re: [PLUG] I hate Acronis...

2017-06-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
dudes, I am running Linux. Running Clonezilla from an external HD or thumb drive has always worked fine for me. http://clonezilla.org -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> https://www.madboa.com/___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxli

Re: [PLUG] Emulating scroll wheel and middle button on Trackman Marble

2017-05-29 Thread Paul Mullen
in. E.g., as root: # service xdm restart -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Make RPM

2017-05-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
ing him to existing web resources was what I considered the shortest route to him finding his answer. > Tomas > On Sun, 2017-05-21 at 09:05 -0700, Galen Seitz wrote: >> On 05/20/17 19:13, Tom wrote: >>> Would you be willing to share your filling Google form education >>>

Re: [PLUG] Make RPM

2017-05-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
remember the details. > > What's the latest and best way to package software as an RPM? With no irony or rancor, I offer you this URL: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=build+rpm There is a LOT of documentation on building RPMs on the Internet. If you encounter a specific obstacle, then PLUG may

Re: [PLUG] strange behavior of a file label on a flash memory USB stick

2017-05-11 Thread Paul Mullen
fference between "make_Home_categories.txt" and "make_home_categories.txt", but it will keep the file name as you typed it. -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Recommended SMTP Smart Hosts?

2017-04-27 Thread Paul Mullen
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:52:45PM -0700, Paul Mullen wrote: > Which smart host providers do PLUGgers endorse? Or are there any > alternatives to paying someone to handle outbount mail? Thanks to everyone that offered recommendations. A few appear to offer full e-mail hosting only (inbou

Re: [PLUG] Recommended SMTP Smart Hosts?

2017-04-27 Thread Paul Mullen
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:35:07PM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > I dunno. Other than a brief period of time after someone hacked a weak > non-root account (my daughter, who should have known better) and did a spam > run -- I haven't had trouble using my Digital Ocean VPS to relay ma

Re: [PLUG] Recommended SMTP Smart Hosts?

2017-04-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Paul Mullen wrote: The 800 lb. Internet Gorillas are making it increasingly more difficult for the Little Guys to run their own mail servers. Even if all of the various spam-fighting techologies are in place (DKIM, SPF, DMARC), if your server is located in an IP block

[PLUG] Recommended SMTP Smart Hosts?

2017-04-25 Thread Paul Mullen
service these days—messages still end up classified as spam, or in some cases, silently dropped. Which smart host providers do PLUGgers endorse? Or are there any alternatives to paying someone to handle outbount mail? -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] 'tree' output not in US-ASCII character set

2017-04-20 Thread Paul Mullen
wing characters included? Perhaps. Have you tried opening another urxvt window and pasting into that to see if the problem continues? -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] 'tree' output not in US-ASCII character set

2017-04-20 Thread Paul Mullen
pine, or urxvt, or something else? Just to review... You run `tree` in your terminal and it looks normal. Then you cut and paste into another terminal window and end up with a lot of control sequence gibberish. When you sent the above-quoted message, did

Re: [PLUG] 'tree' output not in US-ASCII character set

2017-04-18 Thread Paul Mullen
tput in a Latin character set. Do you have any unusual LANG or LC_* environment variable settings? -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Public SSH server configs

2017-04-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
it's an interesting idea; I just don't have time to experiment right now. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Reality collides with Linux worldview

2017-04-11 Thread Paul Mullen
t auto,exec,rw,flush,uid=YOUR_UID_HERE,gid=YOUR_GID_HERE,dmask=022,fmask=133 0 0 It's probably safe to remove the "exec" and "flush" options, unless you have specific reasons to include them. The mount manpage has all of the details on the various options. Search fo

Re: [PLUG] Roundcube as an alternative...

2017-04-11 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017, Michael Christopher Robinson wrote: > Frustrated with Horde Webmail, I switched to RoundCube. > Unfortunately, I am using in the clear port 25 smtp and in the clear > port 143 imap. Can't figure out how to configure postfix and dovecot > otherwise. I don't use postfix, but

Re: [PLUG] Tarnished chromium

2017-04-10 Thread Paul Mullen
age for all websites using Symantec certificates that were issued on or after June 1, 2016 (including from Symantec-owned brands like Thawte and GeoTrust). www.key.com also uses Symantec certificates. -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Tarnished chromium

2017-04-10 Thread Paul Mullen
fox, by design. That's a feature, not a bug. If it were my money on the line, I'd want to get to the bottom of this. For what it's worth, I don't get any errors when loading https://www.key.com/ from here. -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG

Re: [PLUG] Tarnished chromium

2017-04-10 Thread Paul Mullen
ttps://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/security-panel Firefox has a similar tool, under the *Tools->Web Developer->Network* menu (or ctrl-shift-q). -- Paul ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Public SSH server configs

2017-04-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
invocations change: ssh -p my.host scp -P foo.txt my.host:/var/tmp rsync -e 'ssh -p ' /some/dir/ my.host:/that/dir/ For a lot of command-line work, you can hide the port definition in your ~/.ssh/config file: # ${HOME}/.ssh/config Host my.host Port 9999 #

Re: [PLUG] Public SSH server configs

2017-04-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> I've thought about moving it to an alternate port, and may someday >> do so, but in the meantime I've tried to keep up with best >> practices for sshd configura

[PLUG] Public SSH server configs

2017-04-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
environment -- but you may find it worthwhile raising the bar on the KexAlgorithm, Ciphers, and MACs in your sshd_config, especially if your SSH daemon is exposed to the world at large. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/

Re: [PLUG] New vim highlight problem

2017-04-06 Thread Paul Mullen
On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 01:14:23PM -0400, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Give the tastefully named Paul Mullen a cigar! That did it. Many > thanks! All in a day's work, sir! -- Paul Mullen ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlin

Re: [PLUG] New vim highlight problem

2017-04-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Paul Mullen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:50:58PM -0400, Paul Heinlein wrote: >> Regardless of the 'filetype' or 'syntax' setting of the editing >> window (e.g., dosini, perl, puppet, sh), I'm getting stray >>

Re: [PLUG] New vim highlight problem

2017-04-05 Thread Paul Mullen
On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:50:58PM -0400, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Regardless of the 'filetype' or 'syntax' setting of the editing > window (e.g., dosini, perl, puppet, sh), I'm getting stray > highlighting on strings that match this regex: > >=.*$ Have

[PLUG] New vim highlight problem

2017-04-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
me symptoms. If I ssh in the same terminal window to another host and run vim remotely, I don't see the same problem. I've logged out and rebooted and the problem has persisted. Any ideas as to the culprit? Anyone wishing to suggest emacs or another editor as a solution can sen

Re: [PLUG] Awk script repositories?

2017-03-31 Thread Paul Heinlein
wk script I've written. The input was a CSV file that had been exported from Excel and run through dos2unix; the invocation was gawk -f myprog.awk -F, datafile.csv > myout.ics FWIW. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ #!/usr/bin/awk # #

Re: [PLUG] Using ssh-agent and ssh-add

2017-03-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017, Paul Heinlein wrote: > >> This, IMO, is the way to do this. Wrap your entire X session in >> ssh-agent. Even the Mac exports ssh-agent to all its terminals. > > Paul, > > What is the difference b

Re: [PLUG] Using ssh-agent and ssh-add

2017-03-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
nection is cat5 on the LAN. > > Thanks, > > Rich > ___ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Anyone Have a Corsair H60, H110i or H100i Liquid Cooler?

2017-03-30 Thread Paul DeStefano
#x27;s, but what is ENU? -- Paul DeStefano ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

[PLUG] Anyone Have a Corsair H60, H110i or H100i Liquid Cooler?

2017-03-29 Thread Paul DeStefano
ble around town (i.e Fry's & ENU). -- Paul DeStefano ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] CentOS 6.x to CentOS 7.x

2017-03-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
. To list active services allowed through the firewall: firewall-cmd --list-services To print a list of the ports/protocols involved: for S in $(firewall-cmd --list-services); do printf "%-15s %9s\n" \ "$S" \ $(firewall-cmd --service=$S --permanent --get-por

Re: [PLUG] Open v.t. for running process [UPDATE]

2017-03-13 Thread Paul Mullen
> I see references to running screen, but those are for ssh or vpn > sessions where the running process is on another host. I want to > recover the process on the same host. screen (and tmux) work just as well locally as they do on remote systems. -- Paul ___

Re: [PLUG] Guide(s?) to backup philosophies

2017-03-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
ugh good things about "The Practice of System and Network Administration" by Limoncelli, Hogan, et al: http://the-sysadmin-book.com I have the first edition, and it's quite well worn. Like I said, it's probably not aimed at your needs, but I'll plug it anyway. :-) -

Re: [PLUG] Embedded Linux Conference comes to Portland on Feb 21-23

2017-02-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 6 Feb 2017, a...@clueserver.org wrote: > perl -pe 's/^\s+//g' *.py -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] (OT) Backup Software Suggestions

2017-01-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
;ll give you a sense of what it can do. There are plenty of open-source products that will back up your systems, and this recommendation is no knock on them. CloudBerry saved me a lot of time, and that was my big priority when I implemented it. -- Paul Heinlein <> heinl.

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