July 2015 - luv-main

Recording and displaying total internet traffic.
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Now I have 3G radio broadband, this is fast but its also expensive. I wish to be able to show the total amount of data thats travelled both ways on a particular interface, eg eth1 or ppp0. The idea being I can easily see how much data/dollars I have used to allow me to manage my internet usage better. It would not be chronically difficult to write a script to be run with poff that displayed total traffic as displayed by ifconfig. I wonder if there already is a way around this. Lindsay

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Re: Recording and displaying total internet traffic.
by Andrew Greig 13 Jul '15

13 Jul '15

Hi LindsayWhat modem are you using? 240v or rechargeable battery type? Some of the latter type report usage. Which network?Andrew Greig --Andrew GreigSent from my Samsung GALAXY S5 on the Telstra mobile network -------- Original message -------- From: zlinw(a)mcmedia.com.au Date: 13/07/2015 00:57 (GMT+10:00) To: luv-main(a)luv.asn.au Subject: Recording and displaying total internet traffic. Now I have 3G radio broadband, this is fast but its also expensive. I wish to be able to show the total amount of data thats travelled both ways on a particular interface, eg eth1 or ppp0. The idea being I can easily see how much data/dollars I have used to allow me to manage my internet usage better. It would not be chronically difficult to write a script to be run with poff that displayed total traffic as displayed by ifconfig. I wonder if there already is a way around this. Lindsay _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main(a)luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main

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mysql emulation layer for postgres
by James Harper 11 Jul '15

11 Jul '15

Is there any project to build a mysql emulation layer for postgres? All my searches come up with the April1 post from a few years ago. Would anyone else find such a thing useful? I have a few servers where I'm running mysql only because the application I am using demands it (wordpress, mainly). Thanks James

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SSL on luv.asn.au website
by James Harper 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

What's with SSL on the luv.asn.au website? The login form doesn't have SSL, which means you can't be sure that someone isn't sniffing your credentials, and also the credentials are going over the wire plaintext. And then when you go to the "my account" area, you do get redirected to SSL but the certificate expired 2 years ago. James

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Fail2ban activity.
by Daniel Jitnah 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hi Luvers, Just seeking an opinion from those using fail2ban. I am seeing a lot of fail2ban activity (ie banning of IP on ssh) on a particular server. This is far more than I am getting for other servers I am managing. What do people using fail2ban usually see on average. I am seeing new ips being banned pretty much every 10-15 mins on this server. Is this a lot or normal? Given that other servers may not see one for days. Cheers Daniel.

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ansible
by Brian May 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hello, The talk on Ansible yesterday made it look like the rules are Debian specific. If you have a mix of Redhat / Debian systems, is it possible to use Ansible? Is it possible to do this without duplicating rules for Debian systems and for Redhat systems? e.g. if you want a rule that installs vim, regardless of if apt-get or yum is used, what would this rule look like? Thanks

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NUMA swapping
by Tim Connors 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

I mentioned at the meeting that sometimes memory has to be shunted between NUMA nodes via swapping out to disk because.... brokenness. Stewart's post just handily came up and reminded me about this, and came with Citations Needed[TM]: https://www.flamingspork.com/blog/2015/07/08/the-sad-state-of-mysql-and-num… -- Tim Connors

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iview
by Russell Coker 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

$ ./iview-cli -p Sorry, iview is no longer available on this device: Sorry, iview is no longer available on this device (_video/endofservice_audio_650000.mp4) The above is from the Python iview client. Does anyone know a way around this? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Cisco VPN Client for Linux
by Peter Ross 06 Jul '15

06 Jul '15

Hi all, do you know a recent decent Cisco VPN client suitable for CentOS7? I assume it is anyconnect-linux-64-4.1.02011-k9.pkg found here https://software.cisco.com/download/release.html?mdfid=286281283&flowid=723… It asks for a contract. I want to connect to some Cisco firewalls with a valid support contract but I do not know whether it covers VPN client software. I try to figure out but look for alternatives to. I do not want to use the last free version (free as free in free beer) I found. The support for it ended in 2005.. Thanks for advice Peter

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PostScript printer problems - Fedora 21
by Terry Duell 04 Jul '15

04 Jul '15

Hello All, I have a Kyocera FS-1200 PS printer, which has been excellent for donkey's years. For a while now, can't be sure how long, maybe a year or so...the printer isn't used very much, the printer sometimes throws errors. I have spent the last couple of days trying to track down what is going on. When printing some pdf files from 'Document Viewer' in Fedora, and most pdf sent from a Win7 laptop (the printer is networked) it throws an error "ERROR: rangecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: filter STACK 120585 --nostringval--..." Pdf files that fail to print, from either Fedora Document Viewer or Win7, can be printed without error from Fedora via Xpdf. All test pages sent from the printer-config on Fedora throw the same error, the stack number varies. I have looked at the on board printer setup, and fiddled with the emulation (it can use PCL 6, KPDL 2 and others). Changes to emulation have no effect, and it always reverts to KPDL. Fedora printer-config provides a number of printer drivers for this device, and I have had it set to the recommended, and tried a few others...nothing seems to change the behaviour. Anyone have any thoughts on this? PS I did post a question on Linux Questions a few days ago but had no response, so thought it OK to ask here. Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell

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