[ale] Ale Northwest meeting

Brian Conway conway_brian at bellsouth.net
Fri Apr 21 10:28:54 EDT 2006


Thanks for a great meeting Jerald.
I thought the information was good and the presentation well done.
I would be interested in seeing presentations on Security, Security
Monitoring, and VPN.
Also - I'm still fairly new to Linux, and was wondering if ALE still had the
deal with O'Reilly books.
I'm sure that I will need to be reading quite a bit, and would be willing to
write reviews...

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: telnet test ( Bj?rn Gustafsson )
   2. Re: Small Office Server Distro Recommendation (Bob Toxen)
   3. Re: (no subject) (Brian MacLeod)
   4. OT:  New kernel build of 2.6.16 (Christopher Fowler)
   5. flac -> ogg ? (Robert L. Harris)
   6. The presentation from ALE Northwest (Jerald Sheets)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:25:02 -0400
From: " Bj?rn Gustafsson " <bg-ale at bjorng.net>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] telnet test
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
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Very nice!  Substitute `read' for `cat' and you truly only use bash to do
the test:

bjorn at linux1:~$ read < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/23
bash: connect: Connection refused
bash: /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/21: Connection refused
bjorn at linux1:~$ echo $?
1
bjorn at linux1:~$ read < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22
bjorn at linux1:~$ echo $?
0

On 4/21/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> That's pretty slick! It will leave an open connection if there is a
> listening process, though. Maybe a fork and a timer with a close/kill
> would work.
>
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 21:32 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Don't count me out yet :)
> >
> > [cfowler at shuttle ~]$ cat </dev/tcp/192.168.2.103/23
> > bash: connect: No route to host
> > bash: /dev/tcp/192.168.2.103/23: No route to host
> > [cfowler at shuttle ~]$
> >
> > http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html
> >
> > All done avec bash!
>

--
Bj?rn Gustafsson     "GMail.com: Better living through wasted disk space."
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:02:31 -0400
From: Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Small Office Server Distro Recommendation
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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I would either go with one of the major Distros, such as Fedora or SuSE
and enable the automatic updates or go with Slackware as a smaller yet
well-maintained Distro.

An advantage with Fedora or SuSE is that any Linux person can take
care of them so you won't "own" the problem for the rest of your life.
An advantage of SuSE (if you buy the CDs) is that you get real support.
I'd definitely avoid BSD as not as good as Linux and not as easy or
friendly to deal with.

Bob Toxen
bob at verysecurelinux.com               [Please use for email to me]
http://www.verysecurelinux.com        [Network&Linux/Unix security
consulting]
http://www.realworldlinuxsecurity.com [My book:"Real World Linux Security
2/e"]
Quality Linux & UNIX security and SysAdmin & software consulting since 1990.

"Microsoft: Unsafe at any clock speed!"
   -- Bob Toxen 10/03/2002

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:05:29PM -0400, Patrick Bartkus wrote:
> I have a friend who has a small, 2 1/2 person office. They have 3 PCs, a
> laser printer, a color printer, and a laptop.
>
> He presently is running MS-Workgroup networking between the systems. He
> generally has the files on one system but sometimes he puts them on
another
> system. Sometimes he looses where he has put his files.
>
> I would like to suggest that he convert one of his outdated systems to a
> SaMBa file archive server and add a big disk or two. But I'm hesitant that
> administering it will be more than he can handle. He has a PhD but not in
> science :-). I would be willing to set it up for him but am not wanting to
> be his IT staff.
>
> Do you have a recommended distro that he can easily administer? I was
> thinking FC5 with WebMin for a SaMBa config util but just not sure.
>
> Patrick "Mr. Volunteer Tech Support"

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Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:05:43 -0400
From: "Brian MacLeod" <nym.bnm at gmail.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] (no subject)
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On 4/20/06, fostermail at bellsouth.net <fostermail at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> I'm going to post myself if no surveillance tape caught me sucking win2k
>


Good luck with that.  And they did catch you.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:09:31 -0400
From: Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] OT:  New kernel build of 2.6.16
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I'm amazed at the amount of space required just to build a new Linux
kernel.  1.7G ?




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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:33:47 -0400
From: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] flac -> ogg ?
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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I have some songs I ripped into flac which play fine at home but I want
to convert them to mp3 for my streaming player.  Other than using
something like the xmms diskwriter option, anyone know a commandline
util, preferably one I can pipe into an ogg encoder?


:wq!
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:14:57 -0400
From: Jerald Sheets <jsheets at yahoo.com>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] The presentation from ALE Northwest
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Fun had by all.
High winds and lightning outside, refreshments and linuxy goodness
inside
Refreshments were great
Conversation was better.

Here's my presentation from tonight.  Feel free to ask questions.

--Jerald

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