Wow, pretty full channel. Didn't expect that
:)
Oh no, who let the FBI in here?
My wlan card works great in Linux
That's awesome
hmm.  I run only about a GB a day through my external interface.  I'm paying for 6GB a day.  I wonder if I can farm out some sort of task to soak up the rest. :)
Why am I sitting in the living room, with my laptop in my knee, and watching Tyra Banks show?
RandalSchwartz: Save me :(
is she naked?
Unfortunately, no
then there's not much hope for you. :)
although, actually, she's past her prime now
You should get a table to rest the laptop on. That's your best bet.
lol
yes, don't take "laptop" literally :)
Hehe
I'm afraid our cats will eat the laptop if I put it on the table
They're kinda outnumbering me
The more you talk, the more problems you seem to have
So some of them can hold me while some of them trash my laptop
"but the cats are nothing compared to the damage caused by the flooding"
Haha :D
"of course, we don't notice the flooding so much, now with the troops marching nearby"
"so, back to tyra banks... save me!"
:D
hmm... There are 5 cats in thie room alone
Four of them are sleeping
:o
I can probably take them if I surprise them now
i've got two cats
bob^^: Fail :D
it all starts with just two cats. :)
:(
cats are great
Yeah they have
are*
(Wtf?)
Anyhow, that's why we're breeding them
:D
erg. I've figured out how to disable sendmail (127.0.0.1:25), yet just use the submit.cf (MSP) on Linux, but I can't get it to work on FreeBSD.
this way mail still flows out, but sendmail never binds to a port or IP.
cedwards: Do you want to disable sendmail on freebsd?
dxtr: I want to be able to send out daily reports, but I don't want sendmail bound to an IP or port.
roughly based on this: http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/sendmail.html
Hmm, okay
I've set it up on Linux, but it's not quite working on FreeBSD
right
ohh, man rc.sendmail looks like the right direction
hmm.. according to the documentation I've got it, but it's not working
sendmail is a black art
i normally install exim and modify the system to suit ;)
I just made the ugliest xsetroot hack ever :D
xsetroot -name "$(acpi -b|awk '{ printf "%s %s %s %s %s", $1,$3,$4,$5,$6 } { if ($7 != "") printf " %s", $7 }') | `date +"%R"`"
Can this be made any cleaner?
I'm thinking of piping to perl
awk!
yes - perl could probably do the whole thing
what is date +%R?
Print the time :)
is it reading anything?
you're piping to it
what are you piping to it, and what is it doing with that?
Oh - just a vertical bar
.D
what is acpi -b ?
Print battery stuff
And that's what I'm piping to awk
And I need the if because it has variable length depending on if I've connected the power cord or not
oh
So I think perl would be a better choice
But this works so far
Anyhow, how would one do it in perl? echo "drule" | perl -e "" <- How do I access what I piped to perl+
hi
was wondering if anyone could help me
awk is black magic
here is a link to my zone file -> http://pastebin.com/Kc0Ya1qq
nslookup doesn't work on my ns1 ns2 or root domain
i had it working before but started over from nothing because i thought i did something wrong when reverse dns wasn't working :/
now i can't figure out how i got it working before
cedwards: awk is beautiful ;)
The new wikipedia sucks :(
Nah.
This sounds like a great idea. My friend is starting a project with his friend. Their first problem was finding out if perl is a language or not
it's most definitely a language
... or is it?!
it's a religion, and a language, and a floor wax, and a dessert topping
They're starting coding project, have no advanced experience with computers (That is, nothing more than gaming and casual facebook browsing) and have no idea what a programming language is
lol
But I'm off now
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hi
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hi!
hi
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asl?
:P
yikes. I just built a new machine (amd64, 8.0 FreeBSD) and I'm getting a bunch of ACPI Exception errors.
ACPI Exception: AE_LIMIT, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] 20090512 evgpe-...
ACPI Error: Illegal I/O port address/length above 64K: 0x0x400020/4...
(this is on my own hardware, of course, but I'm wondering if anyone has run into something like that before)
up_the_irons: winnie cooper is hot.   that is all.
AndrewBC: you didn't expect the channel to be full?  blasphemy!
win
jlgaddiis hit and ran
http://twitter.com/kdulzo/status/13989363912
I really wish I could get this sendmail thing figured out on FreeBSD.
works easily on Linux, but I can't get it to work the same on BSD
Sendmail eh?
up_the_irons, haha! I meant it as a compliment! Backhanded as it may be :P
AndrewBC: :)
cedwards: can't you just use sendmail to send an email w/o having it run as a daemon?
iirc the sendmail binary dumps it in the queue, it won't send directly
up_the_irons: that's what I've done on linux (define msp in submit.cf, disable service), but I can't get it to work on FreeBSD.
cedwards: if you're ALWAYS going to be delivering to another host, maybe ssmtp?
man rc.sendmail outlines how it should work, but it's not functioning the way I expect.
i didn't like to have to install postfix on all my machines, but at some point i realized it was worth it, b/c the queuing of mail to be sent is pretty important.  while most mail will be delivered immediately to the destination, on the rare occassion the MX host is down, then postfix will manage retrying, etc...  So basically, mail never gets lost
jdoe: ah ok
up_the_irons: there is a solution for that as well with this configuration, but I'm getting stumped.
jdoe: cedwards : yeah, i've used ssmtp for when i _always_ send to another host.  however, again, at some point, i just succumbed to using Postfix
I would just prefer my machines send-only (no MTA), no ip:port binding and relay through my mail server.
cedwards: right, but what if your mail server is down?  of course it is rare, but you don't want to worry about missing emails during that time
if my mail server is down I'm not getting my mail anyway. my mail server is down :)
postfix runs pretty thin as a "satellite" only host
I prefer postfix as an MTA, sure. It just seems like a lot of extra work to install and configure postfix on all these machines that default to sendmail-via-localhost already.
cedwards: yeah but when your mail server comes back up, hosts trying to send it mail will retry.  so while you are not getting mail when the mail server is down, it doesn't mean you've *lost* email
I don't see when I would lose mail. the sender should retry until a timeout (x days) or a successful reception.
for example, I have Postfix on the server that accepts orders.  If my mail server is down, I don't lose orders.  If I configured the host to send orders via smtp-only direct to my mail server, if the mail server is down, where is the order gonna go?  it'll time out and be lost
so whether my server is up or down, or my "clients" send via a localhost-bound sendmail or not, I'll still get the mail eventually.
cedwards: ok, i thought you were talking about an "send direct to this smtp host" setup
if you're queuing locally, then that won't be a problem
but queuing locally and then sending the mail is the same as postfix "satellite" setup, which is very easy to configure
http://tinychat.com/pugquit
yeah, I just don't want to go to all the work of installing and configuring postfix on all of our machines that already have functioning sendmail pre-installed.
all you really need is to forward port 25
put a socat command inside an inetd entry
so a local 25 connection forwards to a working smarthost
yeah but sendmail (the binary) doesn't do that, does it? I thought it dumped things directly in the local queue.
... where sendmail (the omgwtfmta) picks it up and has its filthy way with it.
right now I'm toying with this: http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/sendmail.html
using msp via submit.mc to send directly to the smarthost, without a daemon.
anyhow, time to ru
*run
sounds unpleasant.
anyone experienced with bacula?
nope... just rdiff-backup and duplicity.
er, and some ancient experience with amanda that I don't really remember anymore.
I managed to break backups tonite and I'm stuck on fixing them. thought it was worth a shot asking in here :)
step on a crack-up, break your brother's back-up :)
I've been using duplicity recently, with dump
Although I'm not really sure that I need to be using dump on the VPS.
How's everyone else doing backups?
I'm trying out zfs snapshots, and my good 'ol fashioned rsync
Actually I think the real issue is... i need a good restore procedure
awyeah: I always have a tough time choosing between duplicity and rdiff-backup.
duplicity encrypts, and that's awesome.
yeah that's what I'm using right now
rdiff-backup does rolling backups properly though, so it saves a ton of space
ah
is rdiff-backup the one that goes to S3?
duplicity does
cedwards: bigger difference is rdiff-backup does a single full backup with incremental diffs as far back as you want to go, duplicity does a full backup, then incrementals starting from that.
... so when you run out of space with rdiff-backup you just delete the oldest diffs. For duplicity you need to nuke a full backup plus the diffs, so you always want at least twice as much backup space as you have data to backup
I think that's called a "differential" backup and duplicity is an "incremental" backup
awyeah: dunno, I've heard them both called differential. I've certainly called both differential.
differential I think is where the first is a full, then each one after that is the diff between the full and the current system
whereas an incremental - the first is a full and then each subsequent one is the difference between the last one
or, whatever, heh
my data is so small it doesn't matter really
so get this an HR person from a small company that I interviewed with back in August emails me saying she'd like to catch up. This is after saying that she knows I bought and house and "love" my current job
info from my college buddy who works there, so not creepy, just odd
why is it so hard to find a decent html/css template?
most designs I find are way too flashy
"template"?
I realize next week'll be three years since I started a free software project that has a bit of a following.
I thought I'd "celebrate" by giving it an improved face, and not just notes and a link on a wiki.
so I thought I'd look for a simple template that i could edit and cleanup/organize the information.
and i'm horrible with css/design, so I don't even want to try it on my own.
cedwards: http://oswd.org, among others
ziyourenxiang: I've looked there.. i think.
just pick one then :-)
i need to