May 2013 - luv-main - example.com

Korean before the meeting tonight?
by Chris Samuel 07 May '13

07 May '13

Hi folks, sorry for the late notice, busy day.. If anyone is interested I'm meeting Brian and maybe one or two others for Korean at 5:30pm. It's Big Mama's on Swanston St just up from Victoria St, opposite the old CUB brewery site. Say if you are thinking of coming along so I know how big a table to get.. :-) cheers! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC

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My nut-snmp has forgotten how to speak IETF RFC1628!
by Trent W. Buck 07 May '13

07 May '13

Has anyone seen this before? I'm almost 100% certain I tested this nut correctly detected OB LB in the past, but when I happened to look at it today, I see it refusing to work -- apparently because the NUT client knows how to ask for RFC1628 OIDs, but not what to do with the responses. WTF! # /lib/nut/snmp-ups -a GE-EP3000 -DDDDDDDDD Network UPS Tools - Generic SNMP UPS driver 0.47 (2.4.3) 0.000000 debug level is '9' 0.001846 SNMP UPS driver : entering upsdrv_initups() 0.001860 SNMP UPS driver : entering nut_snmp_init(snmp-ups, ups, v1, public) 0.030096 SNMP UPS driver : entering load_mib2nut(ietf) 0.030123 load_mib2nut: trying ietf mib 0.030132 nut_snmp_get(1.3.6.1.2.1.33.1.1.1.0) 0.032006 [GE-EP3000] unhandled ASN 0x5 recieved from 1.3.6.1.2.1.33.1.1.1.0 0.032019 Unknown mibs value: ietf If I leave out mibs=ietf, I get the same, only it tries other MIBs first, and the last line changes to 0.051158 No supported device detected Here's my config, which I'm almost certain worked before. AFAIK nobody has fiddled with the UPS settings, either. Is the problem in nut or in the UPS? (Looks like nut to me.) Has anybody seen this before? A naïve "apt-get --reinstall install nut nut-snmp" didn't help. I'm using version 2.4.3-1ubuntu3.2 on Ubuntu 10.04. /etc/nut# grep ^ * nut.conf:MODE=standalone ups.conf:[GE-EP3000] ups.conf:driver = snmp-ups ups.conf:port = ups ups.conf:mibs = ietf upsd.conf:LISTEN 127.0.0.1 3493 upsd.users:[local_mon] upsd.users: password = UNPRINTABLE upsd.users: upsmon master upsd.users: upsmon.conf:MONITOR GE-EP3000@localhost 1 local_mon UNPRINTABLE master upsmon.conf:POWERDOWNFLAG /etc/killpower upsmon.conf:SHUTDOWNCMD "/sbin/shutdown -h now" upssched.conf:CMDSCRIPT /upssched-cmd

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Re: Fwd: Mail "commentary"
by Petros 06 May '13

06 May '13

Quoting "Lev Lafayette" <lev(a)levlafayette.com> > Read every email once. Either act on it or delete it. > > Act or ignore. Yes, that's true. > Don't store > thinking "Hmm.. this is interesting, I'll get back to that", except in the > case when the storage is the action (e.g., you're writing a book or paper > on the subject). Well, there is sometimes not the right time to look after something en detail, so it has to be later. (And yes, as a newsletter editor I have to collect too). There is also information scattered in several e-mails of a thread. E.g. a cmp for the kid: - one contains date and time - a second a correction - a third one a payment information - a forth one a health form .. They do not have to be in the same thread.. If I would have a pin wall, I could make a "school camp" entry, and the related e-mails are pointed to and the arrows say: "payment info", "date and time" etc. After the camp, there may be another event, and what was the phone number of the camp organiser? Somewhere in the mail.. Folders aren't good enough, I think. I am missing a visual way of help to find things. I will look at http://notmuchmail.org. Thanks Peter

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setterm
by Russell Coker 03 May '13

03 May '13

Is setterm expected to work in recent systems? On the Debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae kernel "setterm -blank poke" doesn't wake the screen up and "setterm -blank 0" doesn't stop it from blanking. This is on a fairly stock system without X installed. It's running systemd and I've run setterm from a ssh login. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Mail "commentary"
by Petros 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi all, I am getting overwhelmed by mail.. As a club comitee member, a newsletter editor,parent of kids etc. I am getting sh**loads of mails I have problems to process and.. to find things! There are a lot of "Me to!" mails, subjects get "re-used" for other discussions etc. When I'm at "yeah, there was a form someone sent me, I have to fill it and hand it to the school tomorrow", I just vaguely remember who send it, what the subject was etc .. and it is frustrating. Sometimes I wish I have a "pinboard" for "spheres" (school, club, family..) where I can pin mails and give them short description "School camp health check form, has to be handed in 15/5/13") and a link to the original mail. Does something like this exist? Or.. how to you deal with "information overflow"? Regards Peter

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Centos 6 rpm yum issues
by Andy Dean 03 May '13

03 May '13

Hi Has anyone come across a centos 6 64bit system where rpm and yum just return a prompt after entering them. Thanks Sent from my Note 2

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SMART self-test failed but drive still healthy
by James Harper 02 May '13

02 May '13

I have just had two drives failed in a server today. One is mostly part of a RAID0 set (which is in turn part of a DRBD, so we're still good) and a small partition that is part of a RAID1, which hasn't been failed (errors are about 1.3TB along a 2TB disk). The other is one I was testing, it wasn't particularly new and doesn't really matter. Both drives have logged read errors under Linux kernel, both report drive is healthy status (SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED), and both say "Completed: read failure" almost immediately when I do a SMART self test (short test or long). I don't really have any trouble with the fact that two drives have failed, but I'm really surprised that SMART still reports that the drive is good when it is clearly not... what's with that? James

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Ruxmon Intro Security Talk on Hooking / Tracing Binaries on Linux
by Andrew Worsley 01 May '13

01 May '13

Thought this might be of interest to Linux (often security talks are windows issues related) and other people needing to analyse strange binaries under Linux. Andrew ------- Ruxmon Melbourne is on this Friday. As usual, we will adjourn to the Oxford Scholar for a meal and a bit of a meet and greet. Ruxmon is a free monthly community security event organised and run by the Ruxmon team. We are currently looking for some new Ruxmon speakers. Please email me if you would like to speak on anything security related for between 10-30 minutes in front a small and non-intimidating audience. For more information please visit our website: http://www.ruxmon.com Presentations Introductory level hooking in Linux - Ryan Platt This talk will walk through methods of tracking execution of Linux binaries, including an example of a simple Linux Kernel Module hooking the system call table and usermode hooking by patching binaries on disk.Introductory level hooking in Linux. Introducing Daisho: an open source multi-protocol network tap - Dominic Spill Every communication technology should have a widely available network tap, preferably operating as close to the physical layer as possible. If we can't tap the comms, assessing their security is a much harder task. As we try to squeeze more bandwidth out of our links the problem gets even tougher. Our solution to this problem is project Daisho; an open source hardware and software project to build a device that can monitor high speed communication links and pass all of the data back to a host system for analysis. Daiso will include a modular, high bandwidth design that can be extended to monitor future technologies. The project will also produce the first open source USB 3.0 FPGA core, bringing high speed data transfer to any projects that build on the open platform. As a proof of concept at this early stage, Dominic will demonstrate monitoring of a low bandwidth RS-232 connection using our first round of hardware and discuss the challenges involved with the high speed targets that we will take on later this year. http://www.ruxmon.com/Melbourne/ Details Date: Friday, 26th April Time: 6:00PM Location: RMIT University, City Campus https://my.rmit.edu.au/portal/page/portal/RMITPortal/campusmaps?dsize=max Room 080.09.012 (Building 80, Level 9, Room 12) RMIT Building 80 entrance is off Swanston Street (just past Swanston and A'Beckett St) and next door to the Oxford Scholar Hotel. Please take the lift to Level 9 and make your way to Room 12.

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