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USB / MiFi Mobile broadband devices and CentOS 5 (32-bit)
by Robert Heller 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Has anyone had any experience with the NetZero Stick? The NetZero site says that it is 'Linux' compatible, but gives no detailed information (eg distributations, kernel version, driver name/version, etc.). I am running a stock CentOS 5.11 kernel (2.6.18-398.el5) on my 32-bit laptop (IBM Thinkpad X31, with a non-PAE processor, so upgrading to CentOS 6 is not an option, and no, I don't want to install Ubuntu on this machine). I don't have any flavor of MS-Windows installed. My other options are the NetZero Hotspot (a MiFi device) or Virgin Mobile's Netgear Mingle Mobile Hotspot (another MiFi device). NetZero does not list Linux as a supported O/S, nor does Virgin Mobile -- I am not sure what that means, since the MiFi device are pretty much just like a typical (wired) wireless router, except instead of a Ethernet uplink (eg to a DSL or Cable Modem or something like that) it has a celluar uplink. I am *presuming* that these MiFi devices are configured via a web interface (eg http://192.168.1.1/ or some such with some default username/password). -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services heller(a)deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services

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Re: [CentOS] Bounced email processing
by Les Mikesell 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:06 AM, <m.roth(a)5-cent.us> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:55 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh(a)forsoft.com> >> wrote: > <snip> >> Are there still servers that accept undeliverable mail and generate >> messages later? That behavior makes them an easy target for spammers >> who send the real target address as the From: entry and will likely >> get them blacklisted. > <snip> > Huh. Given that my email address was harvested by someone(s), and the last > year or less, I'll suddenly get a bunch of bounces from Australia, or > Italy, or Estonia... now you've got me wondering if someone's just using > my email, or is attacking me, personally.... I once ran qmail as shipped in SME server (before they replaced the receiving component) and it would routinely get hit by dictionary attacks - which it would accept and then fall over as it filled its outbound queue with bounces. That list of 'accepted' email addresses must have been sold and reused for years because the affected domain continued to get about 50k/day of emails to those non-existing users until the domain name was retired (for other reasons). I switched it to sendmail with a virtual user table for the few real user names so it was able to reject the bad names almost instantly. So, based on that, I'd guess you are on some of those lists that still get used. > Btw, when Karanbir first banned me, he wrote me one email. I responded... > and he didn't, nor has he contacted me in any way. In that email, btw, he > said that he'd talked to me before about my "behavior". Now, other than > the arguments about nixspam, I can't remember any such thing, and now, > even though I was saying he was wrongheaded about using them, I feel as > though he took it as a personal attack, and that my banning is personal, > on "his" (as opposed to "our") list.... Well, you did mention something that could be construed as violent - by someone with a complete lack of a sense of humor. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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CentOS-7 re-install
by James B. Byrne 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I have booted the system from a live cd. I am looking at a 1.1GB volume that I presume is the /boot partition I created in the installer. Inside I see this: config-3.10.0-123.el.x86_64 /grub /grub2 initramfs-0-rescue-[md5. . .].img initramfs-3.10.0-123.el.x86_64 initrd-plymouth.img symvers-3.10.0-123.el.x86_64 System-map-3.10.0-123.el.x86_64 vmlinuz-0-rescue-[md5 as above] vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.el.x86_64 /grub contains: splash.xpm.gz /grub2 contains: /themes /grub2/themes contains: /system /grub2/themes/system contains: nothing at all So, what does CentOS-7 boot from? I take it that this is not normal? So where are the boot configuration files? Note, that I have only been working on this system through the GUI and I I did was install, update, played around with Gnome3, installed KDE, shutdown and re-installed over the original. So, whatever happened it is not because of anything one can only screw up from the cli. Since the re-install I have not been able to boot from the HDD. Seeing as there are no boot configuration files I can see why booting is a problem. But, how does the installer operate such that these critical files were not provided? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL
by Jim Perrin 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

If you use the EPEL repository, please read https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/epel-announce/2014-November/00003… TL;DR: There are a large number of orphaned/unmaintained packages in EPEL across the 5, 6, and 7 trees. These packages will be removed from EPEL unless they are picked up by a packager. Packages that *depend* on an orphaned package will be removed as well to ensure repo-closure. Please review the package lists to see if something you use is impacted. If you're impacted and you have the required skills, please consider taking over ownership of the package. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77

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CentOS-7 re-install
by James B. Byrne 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

Ok, how is this supposed to work? I have re-installed CentOS-7 over the first install. On the "Installation Destination" (JHC can they make these name any more pretentious? What happened to boot disk?) I have exactly one ATA WD5000. I chose 'I will configure partitioning'. On the Manual Partitioning page I see the previous installation file-system. I select each of the mount points and delete them using the (-) button (said metaphor also lifted directly from Apple OSX). This gives me the entire disk back. I then add mount points for /. /swap, /var/log, /tmp (probably unnecessarily but force of habit will out), and /var/spool (no users so no /home). Now when I reboot I get nothing but a flashing underscore in the top left hand corner of the monitor. Nothing else. What gives? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Making a bootable Win7 DVD from an ISO
by James B. Byrne 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

I would like to create a bootable DVD containing Win7 from an official Microsoft ISO that I have on a CentOS-6.5 box. Is this even possible? If so then how is it done using CentOS? If I must create a Win7 repair disk on a Windows machine then this will be possible, but somewhat logistically challenging. I would much rather just get it done with the tools I have to hand. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Re: [CentOS] Bounced email processing
by Hugh E Cruickshank 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

From: Reindl Harald Sent: November 5, 2014 01:22 > Am 05.11.2014 um 02:07 schrieb Hugh E Cruickshank: > > From: John R Pierce Sent: November 4, 2014 16:53 > >> On 11/4/2014 4:49 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > >>> We are looking for a way to automate the handling of > bounced emails. > >> > >> what do you want to do DO with these bounced mails? > > > > Our application software generates emails on behalf of our clients. > > Currently I have to manually processes any bounce messages > which is a > > real waste of my time. I would like to be able to intercept > the bounce > > messages and provide a summary of these to our application > which could > > then notify the appropriate client (or at the very least > make a note of > > the bounce) > > just parse the *maillog* instead That would only be effective for bounce messages that were generated by our mail server (in the case of messages that were immediately rejected by the foreign mail server when our mail server attempted to hand the messages off). It would not work for messages that were initially accepted for delivery but were subsequently returned as being non-deliverable. It is on my list of "things to do" to extract the maillog entries for any application generated emails. We currently log the dialog between our application and our email server when delivery of the message is initiated however we are missing the handoff from our mail server to the foreign mail server. The maillog information would then be recorded in our database for use by our support staff and possibly client staff (although the client access part is still under consideration). Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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Bounced email processing
by Hugh E Cruickshank 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

CentOS 6.5 Hi All: We are looking for a way to automate the handling of bounced emails. I have spend some time looking an scan find one open source package, bounceHammer, and one commercial package, BoogieTools. Does any comments on the effectiveness of either package? Any suggestions on other packages? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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Making a bootable Win7 DVD from an ISO
by James B. Byrne 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

On 11/05/2014 04:35 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > Doing a bit of highjacking, how to create the ISO from the > original DVD? Would dd do the trick? I need to make a bootable usb > with Win7. No. You just need a high-speed internet connection. Microsoft provides official ISO downloads. Check the url below for windos7. The same forum I believe provides links to all the other Windows versions as well. http://www.w7forums.com/threads/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-image-downloads.… -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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centos-7 reinstall
by James B. Byrne 05 Nov '14

05 Nov '14

On Wed Nov 5 17:30:19 UTC 2014, anax anax at ayni.com wrote: > If fisxed IP Addresses are to bo set up, I usually do it in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-interfacename. This file, > on a Centos 7 installation, looks like this: Once the system is up and running then one has several options. What I wanted to do, and what the installer apparently will not permit, is to set a static address during the install. The GUI installer seemingly will not allow this. I wish to know if this is by design, a bug, or I am just not doing something right. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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