April 2005 - KCLUG

Server Update
by Bill Cavalieri 21 Jun '05

21 Jun '05

We raised a total of $356, thanks all. Will order the controller and drives this friday. Should have enough left over to order a little ram off ebay.

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more google related goodness.
by Brian Kelsay 15 May '05

15 May '05

http://www.buzztracker.org/ is software that shows global "hotspots" based on the Google world news directory. Brian Kelsay

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RE: Extracting ALL of the attachments from a mailing list
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 04 May '05

04 May '05

>-----Original Message----- >From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] >On Behalf Of Jeremy Turner > > >On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:44 -0500, Gerald Combs wrote: >> Before I start rolling my own solution, does anyone know of >a utility or >> collection of utilities that will >> >> 1) Extract all of the MIME attachments from a mailing list archive, > >You might check out uudeview or mpack >http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview/ >No URL for mpack. In the Debian package, the author says of mpack says >to use uudeview. > >> 2) Extract the files from any archived (tar|zip|rar|...) >attachments, > >I assume once you extract the files from your mail archives and remove >any duplicates, it would be trivial to run a loop on all files you >extracted: > ><pseudo-code> >if $extension eq ".tar.gz" or $extension eq ".tgz" >then > tar xvfz $filename >else if $extension eq ".tar.bz2" or $extension eq ".tbz2" >then > tar xvfj $filename >else if $extension eq ".zip" >then > unzip $filename >end if ></pseudo-code> > >> 3) Move each extracted file to a specific directory, renaming it if >> there's a naming collision, and > >uudeview does this. > >> 4) Remove any duplicate files. > >Maybe an MD5sum hash table to check for duplicates? > >Jeremy > Wouldn't you want to check for dups. before you extract and mv to a dir? Or extract to dir., compare to final destination dir. And then mv file. You may want to compare filenames and dates to keep the newest or oldest file based on preference.

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RE: Commentary On Revenge of the Sith
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 04 May '05

04 May '05

>-----Original Message----- >From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] >On Behalf Of Jack > >I unfortunately will have to see it, just for the >completeness thing. Not like TLoR trilogy, which was >really very good and the extended versions are even >better. It would have been nice to have done the >Hobbit also. > >I'm still waiting for the rest of the Dune series to >come out. > >Which brings up the topic, was there a novel for Star >Wars story before the movie? Or was it just a script? >I assume Stevie choose to start in the middle for a >reason (like the beginning part was boring). > >Brian D. Stevie? You mean George? Yes, it was a script first and book later, as far as I know. The first 2 episodes didn't have to be boring, he let them be. What is next in the Dune series after Children of Dune?

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Re: Need help!
by Jack 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

--- "Matthew T. Eskes" wrote: > Jack wrote: > > >My internet server is being actively attacked. > >I now have a list of 130 addresses attempting to > >break into my server. Sometimes very aggressivley. > >I have many of these address blocked, but I am > >concerned > >with performance degrading of my server if I block > all > >of these addresses and continue to add more on a > >regular basis. Anyone have any suggestions? There's > >really nothing on the server worth attacking, but > it > >is my mail server. > > > > > > > I would get that box offline *now*, backup all the > info and reinstall. > Taking the box offline would take down my mail server. I use this yahoo account for kclug, but I get all my regular mail through accounts on my mail server. I didn't say the box has been compromised, I just want advice on blocking these attacks as much as possible. But I don't want to bring my box to a crawl to do it. Thanks, Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: Need help!
by Jack 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

--- Jack <quiet_celt(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > My internet server is being actively attacked. > I now have a list of 130 addresses attempting to > break into my server. Sometimes very aggressivley. > ... I forgot to mention, that somehow these attackers are using two real accounts on the machine. Perhaps one or more of the attackers was thev previous attacker. Or possibly, they got the user id from my mail server. I had a configuration that I forgot to shut off that would respond to requests for user mail accounts. That's been turned off. I may consider deleting those accounts and creating new ones. Thanks, Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Need help!
by Jack 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

My internet server is being actively attacked. I now have a list of 130 addresses attempting to break into my server. Sometimes very aggressivley. I have many of these address blocked, but I am concerned with performance degrading of my server if I block all of these addresses and continue to add more on a regular basis. Anyone have any suggestions? There's really nothing on the server worth attacking, but it is my mail server. Thanks, Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: local development server and mapping drives
by Jack 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

--- "D. Hageman" <dhageman(a)dracken.com> wrote: > > You could easily use any of the following to achieve > your goal: > > NFS > Samba > OpenAFS > > Each has its pros and cons. That was kind of my point in asking. Although I really hadn't given NFS serious thought. Last I remember NFS was a rootkit waiting to happen. I'm looking for something that is somewhat transparent, easy to manage, doesn't need babysitting, has the *nix approach to security. I'm not looking for a CVS. That is another beast entirely. I'm looking for something where, after cheking out the code I can store it on a machine dedicated to apache/<db of choice> so my desktop system doesn't need them running, and modify the code from my desktop and test the changes as I go. Then when I'm happy with it check it back into CVS. In the process my desktop never runs the code, never saves the code (except in cache memory) and never runs the CVS depository. Thanks for the input people, Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: local development server and mapping drives
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

Couldn't you specifically deny all outside access to the box from the big bad internet? I'd do that via Iptables on your firewall. You are using a Linux firewall, aren't you? >-----Original Message----- >From: kclug-bounces(a)kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] >On Behalf Of Jack >Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 1:54 PM >To: Kclug >Subject: Re: local development server and mapping drives > > >--- "D. Hageman" <dhageman(a)dracken.com> wrote: >> >> You could easily use any of the following to achieve >> your goal: >> >> NFS >> Samba >> OpenAFS >> >> Each has its pros and cons. >That was kind of my point in asking. >Although I really hadn't given NFS serious thought. >Last I remember NFS was a rootkit waiting to happen. > >I'm looking for something that is somewhat >transparent, >easy to manage, doesn't need babysitting, has the *nix >approach to security. I'm not looking for a CVS. That >is another beast entirely. I'm looking for something >where, after cheking out the code I can store it on a >machine dedicated to apache/<db of choice> so my >desktop system doesn't need them running, and modify >the code from my desktop and test the changes as I go. >Then when I'm happy with it check it back into CVS. >In the process my desktop never runs the code, never >saves the code (except in cache memory) and never runs >the CVS depository. > >Thanks for the input people, >Brian D. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com >_______________________________________________ >Kclug mailing list >Kclug(a)kclug.org >http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug >

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local development server and mapping drives
by Jack 29 Apr '05

29 Apr '05

I'm looking to add a headless server, in some out of the way location to make a webserver (intranet)/ db server. I want to use it for development of websites and database apps on, from my desktop. But, I want the ease of use of being able to read and write files without doing ftp, etc. I'd like to be able to point Quanta/Konquerer at it and have it look like a local filesystem. Is this a Samba project? Or is there another way to accomplish this, while still protecting the system from remote attacks should someone breach the firewall, or having the server inadvertantly expose itself beyond the firewall? Thanks, Brian D. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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