Re: Bug tracking solution?

2012-10-06 Thread Paul Mooring
While neither are PHP based I really like Redmine (redmine.org) as a full blown project management solution and GitLab (gitlabhq.com) as an opensource GitHub alternative. -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com From: Daniel Stasinski dan

Re: wireless question

2012-09-21 Thread Paul Mooring
The ISP could not cause that problem. My guess is someone next door is using your wireless slowing down all connected clients. Check your router for any devices on your wireless that aren't yours. -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com -Original Message

Re: find and replace

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Mooring
/ # This is the string to replace the previous regex with '.jpg' -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.commailto:bmi...@gmail.com Reply-To: Main discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.usmailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Re: find and replace

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Mooring
to any file whose name ends in '*.JPG'. -- Paul Mooring Systems Engineer and Customer Advocate www.opscode.com From: Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.commailto:bmi...@gmail.com Reply-To: Main discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.usmailto:plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Tuesday

Re: need help with network

2012-02-22 Thread Paul Mooring
How are you trying to copy files and what are you authenticating against? I'm guessing from what you wrote you have 4 computers on the network: Mint, Ubuntu, XP, and IBM (UNIX or something?), and your trying to share resources using SMB. I would also probably assume XP is appending something

OT: Linux Admin job

2012-01-24 Thread Paul Mooring
The company I work for is looking to add a Linux admin: http://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/sad/2797623483.html we're looking for some one with some Linux experience, but if you can answer the screener questions on the job listing with out google, you probably have enough experience.

Re: no such partition~I hurt my machine!

2012-01-18 Thread Paul Mooring
I've usually had bad luck with 'grub-install', I would boot a live cd and run the grub command itself, then just run the install commands: # grub --no-floppy ... grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) This assumes your /boot/grub/menu.lst is already setup, /dev/sda1 is your root, and you

Re: Perl subroutines

2010-07-11 Thread Paul Mooring
I didn't necessarily mean that was a bad way to do it, just that I prefer other methods, but I suppose that's more my problem than perl's, for example I have a few ruby scripts that need to use openstruct, define a new object and pass that in to make command line options work. Perl doesn't need

Perl subroutines

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Mooring
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; } rather than sub

Re: Perl subroutines

2010-07-09 Thread Paul Mooring
It appears that is the closest possible syntax fro what I want to do, I suppose if I'm going to write in perl I'll just have to get over wanting to do things the way I like and embrace the way perl does things, although I'll likely never understand why anyone would rather have shorter code than

Re:

2010-02-21 Thread Paul Mooring
I'd just like to point out that ruby was originally intended to be a replacement for perl, primarily focused on being used for sys admin type scripting, not a web language. I for one love ruby and do essentially no web programming, I just can't live without the binding operator ( ~= ) and perl's

Re: PXE vs PXE

2010-02-12 Thread Paul Mooring
Another setup I think works pretty well is thinstation http://www.thinstation.org/ It's used to boot into a really minimal version of linux that connects directly to a remote server through rdp, vnc. ssh, ect On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: This has

File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
Just like the subject says, this... p...@paulbox:~ $ sudo tar cjpf /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2 /home/paul/Desktop/ ...gives me this... tar: /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Removing leading `/' from member

Re: File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Kevin Fries kfri...@gmail.com wrote: It sounds like it is not finding bzip2 for some reason.  Try creating the tar without compression first. Kevin Sent from my Nokia phone -Original Message- From: Paul Mooring Sent:  02/11/2010 1:16:37 PM Subject:  File not found

Re: File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
?  You are perming two actions, one is failing, which one?  Find out by doing the actions seperately.  It will allow you to narrow in on the problem. Kevin Sent from my Nokia phone -Original Message- From: Paul Mooring Sent:  02/11/2010 1:32:28 PM Subject:  Re: File not found

Re: File not found error creating tar.bz2 archive

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
/Desktop/ tar: /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory From: Paul Mooring drpppr...@gmail.com yes, like my reply above shows with or without the j I get an error saying /backups/bkup/2010-02-11.tar.bz2 is missing and which bzip2, correctly show /bin/bzip2 exists

Re: PXE booting

2010-02-11 Thread Paul Mooring
I've used this: http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php as a work around in the past to use a bootable CD or usb drive, to integrate with my pxe boot environments, it doesn't really add pxe boot because the system boots off of some other type of media, but it at least lets you use the hardware you

Re: Looking for a mentor/adviser

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Mooring
Some might disagree with me here, but I don't think there is a really good linux/UNIX alternative for SBS (mainly AD and Exchange), I've used samba + openldap for domain controllers for several clients and it does a great job for central authentication / file shares and permissions, but not

Re: network woes

2009-12-23 Thread Paul Mooring
Trent Shipley wrote: Eric Shubert wrote: Trent Shipley wrote: Somewhere my connection to the Internet is borken. Load times take forever. It doesn't seem to effect the wireless client routers, but I have had trouble on both the wired machines under Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows

Re: SOT: virtualization

2009-12-16 Thread Paul Mooring
Where I work we run Xen, VMware, and Virtualbox, and in my experience all 3 are good at different things. If you intended to use a workstation as the host (by that I mean you want to use X and a desktop environment on the linux host) I think virtualbox is the way to go it's really easy to use/set

Re: Linux Mint distro

2009-12-09 Thread Paul Mooring
Eric Shubert wrote: There was mention of Mint on the list back in August. I ran into someone tonight who said he really likes it. I see that it's moving up the distrowatch list and now sits at #3, above openSUSE(#4) and Mandriva(#5). Anyone here with any experience or insights about it that

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Mooring
for instance, now replaced with CentOs) with custom local portage server source, due to many issues. And from my experience, Gentoo admins simply don't patch update. Honestly, now, do you? Have you checked your source against the patch lists? Point made! On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Paul Mooring

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Mooring
lisakach...@obnosis.com Reply-to: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:09:39 -0700 On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Paul Mooring drpppr

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Mooring
while building metasploit toys/tools to prove their intelligence is worth a book deal or consulting company? On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Paul Mooring drpppr...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know as much about security as you do, but surely your not suggesting that distros like suse

Re: Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Mooring
:10 PM, Nathan England nat...@paysonlinux.org wrote: On Monday 19 October 2009 14:46:54 Paul Mooring wrote: I've been running linux routers using iproute2 and iptables for a while now, and openBSD just

Free alternative to TimeSlips

2009-10-20 Thread Paul Mooring
I'm looking for some Time/Billing software similar to what TimeSlips from Sage does. Hopefully something free (as in freedom), as I have to support it once it's put in place. I haven't been able to turn anything up on google, has anybody ever heard of a project similar to this? btw, the client

Linux vs OpenBSD as a router

2009-10-19 Thread Paul Mooring
I've been running linux routers using iproute2 and iptables for a while now, and openBSD just had a new release which has me considering switching my home setup to a BSD pf solution. Does anyone have any experience comparing the two? I guess I'm also concerned about other software I use on my

RegEx question

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Mooring
This is probably a really obvious question but how can I match everything up to a character not including that character with regex? For example: per...@email.tld = person m...@here.com = me --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: RegEx question

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Mooring
To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: RegEx question Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:55:13 -0700 ^([...@]+)@ On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Paul Mooring drpppr...@gmail.com wrote: This is probably a really obvious question but how can I match

Re: MySQL DBA

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Mooring
If you'll excuse the shameless plug the company I work for (http://www.aimitservices.com) does just that and I've never understood why outsourcing isn't more common for small and growing businesses. It allows a much larger and likely more experience staff the businesses those sizes would have

Kernel vulnerability

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Mooring
Anybody seen this? http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-08/0174.html and more importantly is there someone more knowledgable than me that can tell me a way to check if my system are affected by this? (I'm using mostly all custom compiled kernels).

OT: Cron for windows

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Mooring
I have a couple of vbscripts I'd like to run on a regular basis (like every 10 mins) on a windows server. The scripts are operating properly, but as far as I can tell windows doesn't allow scheduled jobs more often than once a day. Currently I'm considering using cron on a linux box with

Re: Best first programming language

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Mooring
I really like ruby as well but my experience has been if he's planning on pursuing some type of CS degree he'll definitely need to know java and C++ for 90% of the programming related classes, so that might be a better place to start. On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 08:21 -0700, Chris Gehlker wrote: On

Linux as a wireless AP

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Mooring
I've got a couple of old machines I use a routers around my house (gentoo based iptables routers) that I'd like to use an old pci wireless card to make my AP and get rid of my old WRT54G, does anyone know of a way to do this? Hopefully with a decent howto or guide, or else know of a reason why

Re: Linux as a wireless AP

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Mooring
-check too much. On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 09:48 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: Paul Mooring wrote: I've got a couple of old machines I use a routers around my house (gentoo based iptables routers) that I'd like to use an old pci wireless card to make my AP and get rid of my old WRT54G, does anyone

RE: Linux as a wireless AP

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Mooring
let us know how far you have gotten I am sure we can help further. -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Paul Mooring Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 10:33 AM To: Main PLUG discussion

RE: Linux as a wireless AP

2009-04-06 Thread Paul Mooring
? -Original Message- From: plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Paul Mooring Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:06 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Linux as a wireless AP I've got a couple of old machines I use

RE: decent non-embeded firewall (my worthless 2 cents)

2009-03-31 Thread Paul Mooring
OpenSuse has a limited gui in YaST for SuSE firewall that is essentially a frontend for iptables, it seemed fairly easy to use when I last played with it but I didn't care for the ruleset it generated, it seemed to be way too much, and made it nearly impossible to edit the rules manually through

Re: Usenet readers/binary downloaders for linux

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Mooring
SABnzbd+ is pretty good, it uses a web interface and checks your newzbin account for bookmarks automatically so there's no need to manually d/l the nzb files, it's got a pretty cool firefox plugin too. On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 09:46 -0700, Blake wrote: Gotta be gui... I've been using newsbin for

OT: Windows troubleshooting question

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Mooring
I know this is a linux mailing list but because I don't know of any good windows lists or forums I thought I'd ask my question here. I've got an application that keeps hanging on Windows XP and writes no useful info to the logs. I'd like to get some concrete info about what's going wrong, on

Gedit/text editor question

2008-11-07 Thread Paul Mooring
I've beening using emacs for java programming the last couple weeks and like being able to open multiple windows at once. I recently started using gedit mostly because it has a plugin the let's me embed a terminal window in the bottom pane that I can use for compiling/running reading error

Re: Easy to use firewall and invisible proxy?

2008-09-23 Thread Paul Mooring
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been using pfSense w/ OpenDNS for a while, it's got a pluging for a transparent squid proxy that supports content filtering, it's fairly automated to set up so it shouldn't be too difficult for them, although configuring it to work with content