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embedded linux hw question
by Trevor Cordes 12 May '16

12 May '16

I'm still working on that embedded linux print server I've mentioned before. I've gotten it to power on, fans spin, nic blinks, hdd spins, hdd light blinks (but not as much as I'd like). But it doesn't talk on the network at all. I'm flying blind and it would be really handy if I could find a port on this thing to get serial console or vga out. Unfortunately, this thing is super proprietary and I can't get any google hits on relevant pcb part numbers. Maybe there's some standard pin naming someone out there knows? Here's the connectors I can find that look promising: 10-pin ISPJTAG (google says it's for flash programming) 10-pin SX (no idea, but I tried putting a serial on it, nada) 14-pin P1 (no pins, just holes) 34-pin unlabelled there are also a few 2-pin jumper connectors: ICEBOOT MFG0 MFG1 SMBUS (no pins) RST Are any of these remotely useful for getting console or vga? It really seems like I'm getting somewhere but linux isn't booting completely, that's my guess. Looks like it's embedded Intel CPUs. The company that made the PCB is "Electronics for Imaging", from 2001. (It goes with a very expensive printer.)

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Get The Edge
by North Forge 11 May '16

11 May '16

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Humble Bundle - only until noon today!
by Trevor Cordes 11 May '16

11 May '16

(Or maybe 1pm...) As discussed at the meeting last night, the No Starch Press 13-book ebook name-your-own-price Humble "Hacking" Bundle is available here: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/no-starch-hacking-books And I wanted to drop a note to let everyone know that if you're interested, you must act *now* because the deal ends at around noon today (May 11). All the details are at the web site above. (Aside: Maybe these bundles are a good idea for publishers/charities; this one has grossed almost $1M US so far!)

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IPv6 in Manitoba
by Vijay Sankar 03 May '16

03 May '16

I have had an IPv6 tunnel working through Hurricane Electric since 2011 or so but increasingly it is not usable due to changes in security stances at the destination sites. Ideally I would like to have a /48 subnet with addresses that allow use of DNS etc.. Checked with tech support at MTS and Shaw but both said IPv6 is not available through them. So I am wondering what others are doing. Really appreciate any advice or suggestions about IPv6 providers in Winnipeg. Thank you very much, Vijay -- Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng. ForeTell Technologies Limited vsankar(a)foretell.ca

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MUUG Meeting, May 10, 7:30pm -- Double Daemon Dash
by Gilbert Detillieux 03 May '16

03 May '16

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, May 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Now in 3-D! (Double Daemon Dash) In this case we mean that this meeting will feature a Double Daemon Dash (DDD) instead of one DD and one regular presentation: In Wyatt's Daemon-Dash segment he will be presenting the Squid caching proxy server daemon. Squid is a full featured proxy daemon with support for http, https, and ftp. Wyatt will show the quickest way to have Squid up and running on a new server, and how to keep it secure. Paul Sierks will present on DavMail. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ****************************************************************** Please note our *NEW* meeting location for this month: *Room 3M60* (3rd floor) Manitoba Hall, University of Winnipeg, entrance on Ellice Ave. between Spence St. and Balmoral St. Parking is available on the surrounding streets and in the lots on nearby streets. Look for signage once you're at the building, or ask a security guard. ****************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board: http://www.muug.mb.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Manitoba UNIX User Group E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> c/o Gilbert E. Detillieux Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

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Re: [RndTbl] Roundtable Digest, Vol 137, Issue 1
by Vijay Sankar 01 May '16

01 May '16

Quoting roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca: > Send Roundtable mailing list submissions to > roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > roundtable-owner(a)muug.mb.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Roundtable digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. IPv6 in Manitoba (Vijay Sankar) > 2. Re: IPv6 in Manitoba (Robert Keizer) > 3. Re: IPv6 in Manitoba (Adam Thompson) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 10:55:51 -0500 > From: Vijay Sankar <vsankar(a)foretell.ca> > To: roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > Subject: [RndTbl] IPv6 in Manitoba > Message-ID: > <20160501105551.Horde.74GXIMIcwaEZgxNlNJBLU4-(a)server3.foretell.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"; > DelSp="Yes" > > I have had an IPv6 tunnel working through Hurricane Electric since 2011 or > so but increasingly it is not usable due to changes in security stances at > the destination sites. Ideally I would like to have a /48 subnet with > addresses that allow use of DNS etc.. Checked with tech support at MTS and > Shaw but both said IPv6 is not available through them. > > So I am wondering what others are doing. Really appreciate any advice or > suggestions about IPv6 providers in Winnipeg. > > Thank you very much, > > Vijay > -- > Vijay Sankar, M.Eng., P.Eng. > ForeTell Technologies Limited > vsankar(a)foretell.ca >

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process accouting, fields meaning?
by Grigory Shamov 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Hi All, Following up on the Adam's old presentation on Linux process accounting. Does anyone know the meaning of fields in the pacct file? The utility dump-acct dumps it in a plaintext lines separated by | . Like this: sh | 0.0| 0.0| 11.0| 0| 0|107328.0| 19284 3258|Tue Apr 26 04:17:07 2016 First three floats are runtimes, then UID|GID; last is the date it ended. Googling brought me "memory" and "io" for the two other fields but I am still at loss. What is memory here? And why io is two numbers (read/write? Which is which?) Does anyone know? (I am trying to avoid reading the sources of dump-acct or system headers). Thanks! -- Grigory Shamov Westgrid/ComputeCanada Site Lead University of Manitoba E2-588 EITC Building, (204) 474-9625

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web access abuse of lisa
by Trevor Cordes 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

I noticed stomething strange. Lisa's web hits (as per access logs) were through the roof since around the site changeover date. Weird. I glanced at them and noticed we're getting tons of hits from just 1 user: 216.98.56.20 - - [24/Apr/2016:05:20:11 -0500] "GET /pub/epel/6/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml HTTP/1.1" 301 332 "-" "urlgrabber/3.9.1 yum/3.2.29" All the same! Of 8434659 total current access.log hits, 8243763 (97.7%) were this same guy! Many per second! For a couple of weeks now (but not before that!). An ip lookup says this is Ubisoft in Montreal. Looks like someone has a misconfig on their box. Should we contact them about fixing this? If have added that IP to an iptables DROP rule on lisa. I just did this now and they sent 49 more hits and then stopped. Their runaway ps must have been looking for success before continuing. I guess I'll leave it in for a while then we can take it out? Looks like this IP has hit the new server but only a few times; i.e. normal looking access. Perhaps when the switchover occurred and the redirects were put in place it made their client go mental... Maybe it never dropped its http connection this whole time! Lastly, fail2ban-server is often in the top 5 ps's in top on lisa, but I don't see any fail2ban rule in iptables? Does it only create a rule once it gets something to put in? I thought it made a blank table that it filled up as needed, not no table at all. Maybe it's not working?

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Re: [RndTbl] [Board] muug.ca hostname?
by Trevor Cordes 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

> On April 16, 2016 12:50:43 AM CDT, Trevor Cordes > <trevor(a)tecnopolis.ca> wrote: > >on muug.ca (new server): > > > >#hostname > >muug > > > >This valid? Done for a reason? Should it be muug.ca? On 2016-04-16 Adam Thompson wrote: > Hostname is - and always has - been specified as the bare name, not > the FQDN. Hmm, that's opposite to what I've understood for 25 years, and what I've done on every machine I've ever been responsible for (all of which that have "worked"). But you made me think about it a bit, and why I do it this way. Thinking back I distinctly recall that my personal AIX box in '95 would freak out (like not boot, or take forever to boot) when the hostname wasn't FQDN. Back then it was tricky because I didn't actually own a domain name to use, so I had to make something up. I've done it this way ever since. Thinking more about what is right/wrong *now*, I find: http://serverfault.com/questions/331936/setting-the-hostname-fqdn-or-short-… Which basically hints that it's a) vendor specific (i.e. RH vs Deb), and b) personal preference. No consensus (there or elsewhere) by a mile, but it appears there is a bias towards hostname NOT being FQDN. For me, being an all-Fedora guy, if "RHEL deployment guide" says use FQDN, then that's a good enough excuse for me! And I've never had any issues... I would do a survey of machines I can access, but all I can access are ones I've built, along with lisa.muug.mb.ca, and lisa says: #hostname lisa.muug.mb.ca I'd be interested to see how the computers at, say, the U of M answer that question... (Strangely, much of my computing preference to this very day stems from interesting quirks of U of M's setup from my long days as a student.) > YP/NIS domain, not DNS. Any apps that break this way are broken, > period. The reason I brought it up is that apache on new muug.ca was guessing its host/domainname wrong and doing wonky things with rewrites until I added a ServerName directive to make it explicit. But that might have been a red herring with regards to this whole question. Final note, maybe the One Systemd To Rule Them All will settle this once and for all, as I'm pretty sure hostname is now under systemd purview (gobbled up like everything else)...

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Fwd: [MBIX-Members] MBIX AGM May 4th, 2016
by Adam Thompson 16 Apr '16

16 Apr '16

FYI. -Adam (one of the outgoing directors) -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [MBIX-Members] MBIX AGM May 4th, 2016 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 21:12:56 -0500 From: Bill Reid <billreid(a)shaw.ca> Reply-To: MBIX Members <members(a)lists.mbix.ca> To: members(a)lists.mbix.ca <members(a)lists.mbix.ca> *Manitoba Internet Exchange Annual General Meeting* Wednesday May 4^th , 2016 4 to 6 p.m. AGM to start at 4:30 p.m. King's Head Pub <http://www.kingshead.ca/> Open to all interested in IXs MBIX will be holding its 4^th AGM next month. There are 4 Board of Director positions open for election. Jacques Latour from CIRA will give an update on Canadian IXs. We will have a social time before and after the meeting. Drinks and snacks will be provided by CIRA and MBIX. Look forward to seeing you on May 4^th , Bill

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