From bob.elzer at gmail.com Sat Jun 1 07:07:14 2019 From: bob.elzer at gmail.com (Bob Elzer) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 07:07:14 -0700 Subject: OT: html code to open a document in kwrite? In-Reply-To: <7568b28d1d46495284657b211cc7f2bd.squirrel@box945.bluehost.com> References: <229d270fc2485737b688770083fce7bd.squirrel@box945.bluehost.com> <661acd1a-ce94-1311-42c6-55f0588b9e68@SnapTek.com> <7568b28d1d46495284657b211cc7f2bd.squirrel@box945.bluehost.com> Message-ID: My 2 cents So it sounds you just don't want to type the command? Setting this up in a browser makes you open the browser and then open the page and then click on the link. I think the simplest solution would be to add an entry to the system menu or an icon to the panel or desktop. Depending on you distribution the steps will be different, but somewhat similar. If you right click on the desktop there should be an entry to create a launcher Give it a name, add the command you want and you can even customize the icon and save it. Now you can click on it and it will do what you want. You can also drag the icon to the panel or menu. On Fri, May 31, 2019, 3:51 PM Joe Lowder wrote: > Thanks for all comments and suggestions. > > ------------ > May 31, 2019 Brian Cluff wrote: > > Are you trying to make a list that can let you edit > > files on the local hard drive or are you trying to > > edit files on a server? > ------------ > > Just want to edit files on my local hard drive > something like this simple > > small menu test
> > Small menu test: The objective is simply to be able to
> tap to open each example file with the kwrite text editor
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> and upon save and close, go right back to the menu.

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  • open notes text file As I said the last time you posted this about a year ago: If you have an HTML file on your local disk opened with Konqueror, and that HTML file has a link like this, you can right-click on that link and get a KDE menu where one of the choices is "Open with". Kate and kwrite are choices available here. While this is not a single-click solution, it's a heck of a lot easier than almost anything else anyone has mentioned. On 2019-05-31 12:02, Michael Butash wrote: > Keep in mind, what you're asking to do (I think) is essentially > allowing html and hosted files to transcend the browser to open files > in the os and launch a file with a given application See above. When the HTML file and the files it's linking to are all on a local filesystem, as is the case here, the rules get relaxed. -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. From azlobo73 at gmail.com Wed Jun 5 09:34:27 2019 From: azlobo73 at gmail.com (azlobo73) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 09:34:27 -0700 Subject: OT: html code to open a document in kwrite? In-Reply-To: References: <229d270fc2485737b688770083fce7bd.squirrel@box945.bluehost.com> Message-ID: A related option that might work depending on the browser used is webdav, but actually it would need to call a local file manager to do the lifting: Here's an example setup via ownCloud and KDE / Dolphin (just as an example): https://doc.owncloud.com/server/user_manual/files/access_webdav.html#accessing-files-with-kde-and-dolphin-file-manager One would hope that the functionality would be wired into the protocol (webdav:// or webdavs://) so if a link is crafted with it, the appropriate file manager launches to handle it. --- Ben python -c "exec(\"import math\\nprint ''.join(map(lambda x: chr(x), ( (ord('a')-(3*5)), int(math.sqrt(math.pi*76)*5+2), int(math.ceil(math.e)*28), int(math.floor(math.e)*35), long(abs(4%3*35+3)*2))))\")" On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 11:29 AM Matt Graham wrote: > >>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:16 AM Joe Lowder > >>> wrote: > >>>> $ kwrite filename > >>>> But I would like to be able to do it by simply > >>>> clicking on an entry in a simple html menu. > >>>> > >>>> These attempts do not work: > >>>>
  • open notes text file > > As I said the last time you posted this about a year ago: If you have > an HTML file on your local disk opened with Konqueror, and that HTML > file has a link like this, you can > right-click on that link and get a KDE menu where one of the choices is > "Open with". Kate and kwrite are choices available here. While this is > not a single-click solution, it's a heck of a lot easier than almost > anything else anyone has mentioned. > > On 2019-05-31 12:02, Michael Butash wrote: > > Keep in mind, what you're asking to do (I think) is essentially > > allowing html and hosted files to transcend the browser to open files > > in the os and launch a file with a given application > > See above. When the HTML file and the files it's linking to are all on > a local filesystem, as is the case here, the rules get relaxed. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From azlobo73 at gmail.com Wed Jun 5 09:44:54 2019 From: azlobo73 at gmail.com (azlobo73) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 09:44:54 -0700 Subject: OT: html code to open a document in kwrite? In-Reply-To: References: <229d270fc2485737b688770083fce7bd.squirrel@box945.bluehost.com> Message-ID: PS: And of course, the server needs to support webdav / webdavs access.. On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:34 AM azlobo73 wrote: > A related option that might work depending on the browser used is webdav, > but actually it would need to call a local file manager to do the lifting: > > Here's an example setup via ownCloud and KDE / Dolphin (just as an > example): > > > https://doc.owncloud.com/server/user_manual/files/access_webdav.html#accessing-files-with-kde-and-dolphin-file-manager > > One would hope that the functionality would be wired into the protocol > (webdav:// or webdavs://) so if a link is crafted with it, the appropriate > file manager launches to handle it. > > --- > Ben > > python -c "exec(\"import math\\nprint ''.join(map(lambda x: chr(x), ( > (ord('a')-(3*5)), int(math.sqrt(math.pi*76)*5+2), > int(math.ceil(math.e)*28), int(math.floor(math.e)*35), > long(abs(4%3*35+3)*2))))\")" > > On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 11:29 AM Matt Graham wrote: > >> >>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:16 AM Joe Lowder >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> $ kwrite filename >> >>>> But I would like to be able to do it by simply >> >>>> clicking on an entry in a simple html menu. >> >>>> >> >>>> These attempts do not work: >> >>>>
  • open notes text file >> >> As I said the last time you posted this about a year ago: If you have >> an HTML file on your local disk opened with Konqueror, and that HTML >> file has a link like this, you can >> right-click on that link and get a KDE menu where one of the choices is >> "Open with". Kate and kwrite are choices available here. While this is >> not a single-click solution, it's a heck of a lot easier than almost >> anything else anyone has mentioned. >> >> On 2019-05-31 12:02, Michael Butash wrote: >> > Keep in mind, what you're asking to do (I think) is essentially >> > allowing html and hosted files to transcend the browser to open files >> > in the os and launch a file with a given application >> >> See above. When the HTML file and the files it's linking to are all on >> a local filesystem, as is the case here, the rules get relaxed. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- --- Ben python -c "exec(\"import math\\nprint ''.join(map(lambda x: chr(x), ( (ord('a')-(3*5)), int(math.sqrt(math.pi*76)*5+2), int(math.ceil(math.e)*28), int(math.floor(math.e)*35), long(abs(4%3*35+3)*2))))\")" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob.elzer at gmail.com Wed Jun 5 11:13:31 2019 From: bob.elzer at gmail.com (Bob Elzer) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:13:31 -0700 Subject: OT: html code to open a document in kwrite? In-Reply-To: References: <229d270fc2485737b688770083fce7bd.squirrel@box945.bluehost.com> Message-ID: I think we are getting into overkill, He said he just wanted to click on something to run the command. Desktop icon would be the fastest and easiest to do. On Wed, Jun 5, 2019, 9:34 AM azlobo73 wrote: > A related option that might work depending on the browser used is webdav, > but actually it would need to call a local file manager to do the lifting: > > Here's an example setup via ownCloud and KDE / Dolphin (just as an > example): > > > https://doc.owncloud.com/server/user_manual/files/access_webdav.html#accessing-files-with-kde-and-dolphin-file-manager > > One would hope that the functionality would be wired into the protocol > (webdav:// or webdavs://) so if a link is crafted with it, the appropriate > file manager launches to handle it. > > --- > Ben > > python -c "exec(\"import math\\nprint ''.join(map(lambda x: chr(x), ( > (ord('a')-(3*5)), int(math.sqrt(math.pi*76)*5+2), > int(math.ceil(math.e)*28), int(math.floor(math.e)*35), > long(abs(4%3*35+3)*2))))\")" > > On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 11:29 AM Matt Graham wrote: > >> >>> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:16 AM Joe Lowder >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> $ kwrite filename >> >>>> But I would like to be able to do it by simply >> >>>> clicking on an entry in a simple html menu. >> >>>> >> >>>> These attempts do not work: >> >>>>
  • open notes text file >> >> As I said the last time you posted this about a year ago: If you have >> an HTML file on your local disk opened with Konqueror, and that HTML >> file has a link like this, you can >> right-click on that link and get a KDE menu where one of the choices is >> "Open with". Kate and kwrite are choices available here. While this is >> not a single-click solution, it's a heck of a lot easier than almost >> anything else anyone has mentioned. >> >> On 2019-05-31 12:02, Michael Butash wrote: >> > Keep in mind, what you're asking to do (I think) is essentially >> > allowing html and hosted files to transcend the browser to open files >> > in the os and launch a file with a given application >> >> See above. When the HTML file and the files it's linking to are all on >> a local filesystem, as is the case here, the rules get relaxed. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joe at actionline.com Thu Jun 6 10:27:51 2019 From: joe at actionline.com (Joe Lowder) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:27:51 -0700 Subject: OT: html code to open a document in kwrite? SOLVED In-Reply-To: References: <229d270fc2485737b688770083fce7bd.squirrel@box945.bluehost.com> Message-ID: Thanks to all who responded with various alternative ideas that might have provided a different solution from the one that I am trying to achieve. Brian Cluff provided a script that will allow me to achieve my original objective, which is to access 'kwrite' to files (multiple different files individually) from a menu of those ... plus multiple additional menu options ... all with a single tap on each different menu option. Thanks again Brian! -------------- On Wed, June 5, 2019 at 11:13 am, Bob Elzer wrote: > I think we are getting into overkill, He said he > just wanted to click on something to run the command. > Desktop icon would be the fastest and easiest to do. --------------- > On Wed, Jun 5, 2019, 9:34 AM wrote: >> A related option that might work depending on the browser >> used is webdav, but actually it would need to call a local >> file manager to do the lifting: >> >> Here's an example setup via ownCloud and KDE / Dolphin >> (just as an example): >> >> https://doc.owncloud.com/server/user_manual/files/access_webdav.html#a >> ccessing-files-with-kde-and-dolphin-file-manager >> >> One would hope that the functionality would be wired into the protocol >> (webdav:// or webdavs://) so if a link is crafted with it, the >> appropriate file manager launches to handle it. --Ben >> >> python -c "exec(\"import math\\nprint ''.join(map(lambda x: chr(x), ( >> (ord('a')-(3*5)), int(math.sqrt(math.pi*76)*5+2), >> int(math.ceil(math.e)*28), int(math.floor(math.e)*35), >> long(abs(4%3*35+3)*2))))\")" From trent.shipley at gmail.com Sun Jun 9 21:13:09 2019 From: trent.shipley at gmail.com (trent shipley) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 21:13:09 -0700 Subject: Privacy on Public WiFi Message-ID: A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building was Terrible! It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable. How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it again. 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? 2) If not, how feasible is it? 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit coffee house, etc. and RFC? Trent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From retro64xyz at gmail.com Mon Jun 10 04:05:47 2019 From: retro64xyz at gmail.com (Aaron Jones) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:05:47 -0700 Subject: Privacy on Public WiFi In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <547F0823-BFD0-41AD-86CB-E9F80AF44896@gmail.com> Use a Raspberry Pi as a middle man and a reliable VPN. No cost for the library and 20x safer for you. Don’t plug stuff into your ports. > On Jun 9, 2019, at 9:13 PM, trent shipley wrote: > > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building was Terrible! > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable. > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it again. > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > Trent > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss From cryptworks at gmail.com Mon Jun 10 07:54:53 2019 From: cryptworks at gmail.com (Stephen Partington) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 07:54:53 -0700 Subject: Privacy on Public WiFi In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: This is exactly what VPN is designed for. The reason public wifi is insecure is that it is shared among everyone. Now if you could build your router to prevent anyone from talking to each other and just the outside world that would have your desired effect. Or maybe a partnership with a VPN provider. On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM trent shipley wrote: > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my > computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I > tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building > was Terrible! > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable. > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 > USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a > machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap > USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. > The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The > library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it > again. > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this > as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit > coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > Trent > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael at butash.net Mon Jun 10 10:02:06 2019 From: michael at butash.net (Michael Butash) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:02:06 -0700 Subject: Privacy on Public WiFi In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I don't see much of an issue with using public wifi so long as you know whatever you're doing that is important/sensitive is encrypted. I don't use any public wifi any more than absolutely required, but otherwise almost every *responsible* website or service uses tls for https traffic today anyways, or as stated - you use a vpn to ensure no one locally at least is sniffing your wifi session. If your websites or services aren't using https, you shouldn't use them, as even a vpn has to egress to regularly internet somewhere that has a government (or other) black box sniffing it too. I agree, it would be nice if there were a better method of getting public users encrypted, but without some unique key exchange per user, or at very least a white-list method (remember the wps buttons that generated a weak numerical pin?) to make strong, or at least random, it'll remain weak at best, and probably eventually exploitable. A hardware solution is a non-starter though. Where does a phone or tablet have a usb slot to get on? Certainly whoever made it wouldn't support linux, or a foss solution as it doesn't incentivise anyone to produce said hardware. Hand out yubikeys, but client software and use is still problematic even with u2f per os for something like wifi use. If you did hardware, I'd imagine nfc-based for mobiles, make them come up and swipe a token to get the pass of the day to get on, and it changes every day. PC's you just rotate a common key to give to customers every day and print/display for users inside the establishment every day. Even just use a one-time token generator with a numeric key held by *someone(s)*. I've seen medical offices handling guest wifi by changing keys daily for at least any guest ssid and just printing the daily guest wifi inside reception, which keeps persistent users from access outside the establishment doing probably nothing good. This can be done with any enterprise-ish wifi solution that supports Private-PSK functions, or many-to-one passwords for the same ssid. Aerohive, Cisco, Juniper/Mist, Aruba, etc all tend to do this, leverage otp generation via Duo, Google Authenticator, or other "app". Even once encrypted, do you still trust the internet source though, that their router isn't infected from running a 10yr old firmware? You shouldn't, again vpn, or at least ensuring who you're accessing is using tls, and you trust their cert. Interestingly enough being in Santa Monica CA on business. their public library gets swarmed daily with homeless that really love their free public wifi there (seems even homeless all have cell phones these days), that I can only imagine the cesspool of devices there that could be hijacked/man-in-the-middle'd easily on non-encrypted wifi. Even just build a fake public access ap to mitm, then infect... Being that I'm there doing work *for* the city, it's something I have mentioned to folks as a problem. -mb On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM trent shipley wrote: > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my > computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I > tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building > was Terrible! > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable. > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 > USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a > machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap > USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. > The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The > library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it > again. > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this > as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit > coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > Trent > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tnflyfisher at live.com Mon Jun 10 17:26:30 2019 From: tnflyfisher at live.com (Stephen Elliott) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:26:30 +0000 Subject: Raspberry Pi middle-man? Message-ID: Aaron, please explain this in more detail for the non-pros here. Thanks. Stephen On 6/10/19, 12:00 PM, "PLUG-discuss on behalf of plug-discuss-request at lists.phxlinux.org" wrote: Send PLUG-discuss mailing list submissions to plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060219780&sdata=aYnH1yYB9vEAE2NpvKbbPZ%2FWGSBFzSFdW7jCKWF0fIc%3D&reserved=0 or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to plug-discuss-request at lists.phxlinux.org You can reach the person managing the list at plug-discuss-owner at lists.phxlinux.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of PLUG-discuss digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Privacy on Public WiFi (trent shipley) 2. Re: Privacy on Public WiFi (Aaron Jones) 3. Re: Privacy on Public WiFi (Stephen Partington) 4. Re: Privacy on Public WiFi (Michael Butash) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 21:13:09 -0700 From: trent shipley To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Privacy on Public WiFi Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building was Terrible! It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable. How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it again. 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? 2) If not, how feasible is it? 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit coffee house, etc. and RFC? Trent -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:05:47 -0700 From: Aaron Jones To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Privacy on Public WiFi Message-ID: <547F0823-BFD0-41AD-86CB-E9F80AF44896 at gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Use a Raspberry Pi as a middle man and a reliable VPN. No cost for the library and 20x safer for you. Don’t plug stuff into your ports. > On Jun 9, 2019, at 9:13 PM, trent shipley wrote: > > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building was Terrible! > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable. > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it again. > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > Trent > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060219780&sdata=aYnH1yYB9vEAE2NpvKbbPZ%2FWGSBFzSFdW7jCKWF0fIc%3D&reserved=0 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 07:54:53 -0700 From: Stephen Partington To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Privacy on Public WiFi Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This is exactly what VPN is designed for. The reason public wifi is insecure is that it is shared among everyone. Now if you could build your router to prevent anyone from talking to each other and just the outside world that would have your desired effect. Or maybe a partnership with a VPN provider. On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM trent shipley wrote: > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my > computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I > tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building > was Terrible! > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable. > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 > USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a > machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap > USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. > The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The > library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it > again. > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this > as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit > coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > Trent > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060229785&sdata=l35B90p9HK1tBnXrNgsQJkRqI2tlu4B75o1QkSCqzFY%3D&reserved=0 -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:02:06 -0700 From: Michael Butash To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: Privacy on Public WiFi Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" I don't see much of an issue with using public wifi so long as you know whatever you're doing that is important/sensitive is encrypted. I don't use any public wifi any more than absolutely required, but otherwise almost every *responsible* website or service uses tls for https traffic today anyways, or as stated - you use a vpn to ensure no one locally at least is sniffing your wifi session. If your websites or services aren't using https, you shouldn't use them, as even a vpn has to egress to regularly internet somewhere that has a government (or other) black box sniffing it too. I agree, it would be nice if there were a better method of getting public users encrypted, but without some unique key exchange per user, or at very least a white-list method (remember the wps buttons that generated a weak numerical pin?) to make strong, or at least random, it'll remain weak at best, and probably eventually exploitable. A hardware solution is a non-starter though. Where does a phone or tablet have a usb slot to get on? Certainly whoever made it wouldn't support linux, or a foss solution as it doesn't incentivise anyone to produce said hardware. Hand out yubikeys, but client software and use is still problematic even with u2f per os for something like wifi use. If you did hardware, I'd imagine nfc-based for mobiles, make them come up and swipe a token to get the pass of the day to get on, and it changes every day. PC's you just rotate a common key to give to customers every day and print/display for users inside the establishment every day. Even just use a one-time token generator with a numeric key held by *someone(s)*. I've seen medical offices handling guest wifi by changing keys daily for at least any guest ssid and just printing the daily guest wifi inside reception, which keeps persistent users from access outside the establishment doing probably nothing good. This can be done with any enterprise-ish wifi solution that supports Private-PSK functions, or many-to-one passwords for the same ssid. Aerohive, Cisco, Juniper/Mist, Aruba, etc all tend to do this, leverage otp generation via Duo, Google Authenticator, or other "app". Even once encrypted, do you still trust the internet source though, that their router isn't infected from running a 10yr old firmware? You shouldn't, again vpn, or at least ensuring who you're accessing is using tls, and you trust their cert. Interestingly enough being in Santa Monica CA on business. their public library gets swarmed daily with homeless that really love their free public wifi there (seems even homeless all have cell phones these days), that I can only imagine the cesspool of devices there that could be hijacked/man-in-the-middle'd easily on non-encrypted wifi. Even just build a fake public access ap to mitm, then infect... Being that I'm there doing work *for* the city, it's something I have mentioned to folks as a problem. -mb On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM trent shipley wrote: > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my > computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I > tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building > was Terrible! > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be surmountable. > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or $2 > USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a > machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap > USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. > The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The > library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it > again. > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in this > as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, non-profit > coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > Trent > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060229785&sdata=l35B90p9HK1tBnXrNgsQJkRqI2tlu4B75o1QkSCqzFY%3D&reserved=0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It passes it to you internet provider till it get to where you wanted it to go. Imagine a second wifi access point/router with the same id and wifi password that is controlled by me. Your phone/laptop cannot tell the difference which one it is connecting to. now I just need to copy all your wifi traffic going though my access point/router I will know where you go what you did and any passwords you used and ever redirect you from where you wanted to go to where I want you to go and trick you into installing my software on your computer. VPN is a program that encrypts your traffic from A to B so that I cannot read it and is difficult or almost impossible to decrypt with out the keys. VPN's need a server and client to encrypt and decrypt on each side. many home routers have a built in vpn server and client programs are available for most any OS and most phones. I use a VPN both on my computers and phone for most of my work. I vpn to work (vpn Server) from home using my desktop as a client and when not at home I use a vpn to home vpn server on my laptop and phone clients. I find that most home router vpn server are a bit hard to figure out and may not be current technology so I recommend to new users and students to use a old pc 64 bit 512meg ram 10gig HDD will be more that enough and two network cards with IPFIRE or pfsence is a easy to use home server that includes openvpn servers and a great way to learn basic routing. we have built quite a few at the install-fest and would be happy to help anyone interested. the next one is Saturday at UAT 40th and baseline 10-4pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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He has used system from the earliest 8-bit microprocessors, through the PDP-11 and VAX, up to IBM mainframes, and has managed to write programs that did not crash on most of them. Mr. Lindley has been a GNU/Linux user since 1992 and has been free of proprietary software since 2001. Most recently he has been pleased to be an adjunct professor at Mesa Community College. *Rajendran Rathinasabapathy: In the crossroads of Agility, Microservices and Cloud computing* *Description*: Being a project manager for a while evolving along with the evolution in the IT landscape of agility, microservices and cloud computer, I see a pattern in the painful ordeal teams go through, especially when collaboration is needed more than ever to build systems. The topic is very relevant when highly individualistic opensource programmers work together. In this presentation, as the subject is vast, I layout a list of critical blind spots and pitfalls the teams can avoid while designing and developing larger applications. *Biography*: Working in IT for the past 20 years from being a developer to a portfolio manager. Currently involved in strategizing CI/CD for a sub-domain in info security. with varied tech stacks. I am a proponent of microservices and also a scrum master. In my free time, I learn to make digital an analogue circuits. I teach programming and robotics to kids and I am learning Jiu-Jitsu :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The meeting will start at 7pm at The Desert Breeze Substation. People start arriving as early as 6pm, so if you would like to help setup and/or chat for a while, arrive a little early. *Meeting Location*: Desert Breeze Substation 251 North Desert Breeze Blvd West Chandler, AZ 85226 The Desert Breeze Substation is on Chandler Blvd and Desert Breeze Blvd, which is half way between McClintock and Rural.  It is very close to both the south 202 and 101 freeways.  Public transportation is available into the late hours. For more information see the meeting information on our web site Contact PLUG: Email: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/email-lists.html IRC: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/chat.html Google+: https://plus.google.com/+PhxlinuxOrg Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Linux-Users-Group/ We will go for food (usually to BJs at the Chandler Fashion Center Mall) after the meeting so we can chat with each other comfortably. Please feel free to join us. Please come even if you aren't hungry, the food is not mandatory. 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For more information see: https://phxlinux.org/index.php/meetings/20-plug-security.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Aaron Jones: Introduction To Assembly - Part II** * *Description*: Introduction To Assembly Language is the second half to my reverse engineering course. This is part two of a multi part educational series on lower level software development and reverse engineering. Many developers and security experts are not familiar with assembly language or the lower levels of their hardware. This course is intended to begin familiarizing you with assembly language in order to build the foundation for future courses on reverse engineering. *Biography*: Aaron, the owner of Retro64XYZ, is a software developer who currently creates applications for law enforcement. He is also an AZ POST certified public speaker. He earned a B.Sc., in Computer Information Systems from Park University in 2013 and an M.A., in Intelligence Analysis with a focus in Cyber Security in 2014. During that period of his life he took a double course load and completed his Masters with a 3.695 GPA in a year. He has been the recipient of recognition from the El Paso Police Department, State Of Texas, Texas Military Forces, Chandler Police Department, and others. Aaron is also active in the community as the founder of the Phoenix Linux Users Group Cyber Security Meetup and regularly teaches members of the public a myriad of topics related to Cyber Security. His audience includes students, teachers, law enforcement, military, government officials, and concerned members of the public with a strong desire to learn what is going on in the world of technology. When Aaron isn’t teaching, working, or spending time with his family, he enjoys relaxing at the pond with a fishing pole while not catching fish, operating a pistol at the shooting range, or reading books. He owns a Sega Saturn and a Sega Dreamcast and his favorite video games are Panzer Dragoon, Road Rash, Phantasy Star Online 2, and Power Stone. He is currently engrossed in building content for his site and looking for more ways to reach the public. You should reach Aaron through his Mastodon or on Keybase. 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Thanks. > > Stephen > > On 6/10/19, 12:00 PM, "PLUG-discuss on behalf of > plug-discuss-request at lists.phxlinux.org" < > plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org on behalf of > plug-discuss-request at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > > Send PLUG-discuss mailing list submissions to > plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060219780&sdata=aYnH1yYB9vEAE2NpvKbbPZ%2FWGSBFzSFdW7jCKWF0fIc%3D&reserved=0 > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > plug-discuss-request at lists.phxlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > plug-discuss-owner at lists.phxlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of PLUG-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Privacy on Public WiFi (trent shipley) > 2. Re: Privacy on Public WiFi (Aaron Jones) > 3. Re: Privacy on Public WiFi (Stephen Partington) > 4. Re: Privacy on Public WiFi (Michael Butash) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2019 21:13:09 -0700 > From: trent shipley > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Privacy on Public WiFi > Message-ID: > < > CAEFLybLM7VYYy8LrD0gVBc1_e14hCqX0VZnKJyAb_ixHUotz+w at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my > computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I > tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the > building > was Terrible! > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be > surmountable. > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 or > $2 > USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a > machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the > cheap > USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public > WiFi. > The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good > for. > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The > library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it > again. > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in > this > as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, > non-profit > coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > Trent > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fpipermail%2Fplug-discuss%2Fattachments%2F20190609%2F43223bb7%2Fattachment-0001.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060219780&sdata=HN%2F%2F%2B1bvhtIb4n3NovAae6N2x2FwyYDmMc7NAsy0GVM%3D&reserved=0 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:05:47 -0700 > From: Aaron Jones > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Privacy on Public WiFi > Message-ID: <547F0823-BFD0-41AD-86CB-E9F80AF44896 at gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Use a Raspberry Pi as a middle man and a reliable VPN. No cost for the > library and 20x safer for you. > > Don’t plug stuff into your ports. > > > On Jun 9, 2019, at 9:13 PM, trent shipley > wrote: > > > > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my > computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to use. I > tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the building > was Terrible! > > > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be > surmountable. > > > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 > or $2 USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a > machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the cheap > USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public WiFi. > The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good for. > > > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The > library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends it > again. > > > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in > this as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, > non-profit coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > > > Trent > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060219780&sdata=aYnH1yYB9vEAE2NpvKbbPZ%2FWGSBFzSFdW7jCKWF0fIc%3D&reserved=0 > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 07:54:53 -0700 > From: Stephen Partington > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Privacy on Public WiFi > Message-ID: > < > CACS_G9wC4XnfBWMxO5WrudPvu8snzOx7wgpz0XPwvGjVuvWGUg at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > This is exactly what VPN is designed for. > > The reason public wifi is insecure is that it is shared among > everyone. Now > if you could build your router to prevent anyone from talking to each > other > and just the outside world that would have your desired effect. Or > maybe a > partnership with a VPN provider. > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM trent shipley > wrote: > > > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my > > computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to > use. I > > tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the > building > > was Terrible! > > > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be > surmountable. > > > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 > or $2 > > USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a > > machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the > cheap > > USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public > WiFi. > > The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good > for. > > > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The > > library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends > it > > again. > > > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in > this > > as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, > non-profit > > coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > > > Trent > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060229785&sdata=l35B90p9HK1tBnXrNgsQJkRqI2tlu4B75o1QkSCqzFY%3D&reserved=0 > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fpipermail%2Fplug-discuss%2Fattachments%2F20190610%2F680cacac%2Fattachment-0001.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060229785&sdata=ksjjZFJScFOAEU%2FBHezjykpGPat6X6eUWBcZxV2j5EE%3D&reserved=0 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:02:06 -0700 > From: Michael Butash > To: Main PLUG discussion list > Subject: Re: Privacy on Public WiFi > Message-ID: > p6Q at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I don't see much of an issue with using public wifi so long as you know > whatever you're doing that is important/sensitive is encrypted. I > don't > use any public wifi any more than absolutely required, but otherwise > almost > every *responsible* website or service uses tls for https traffic today > anyways, or as stated - you use a vpn to ensure no one locally at > least is > sniffing your wifi session. If your websites or services aren't using > https, you shouldn't use them, as even a vpn has to egress to regularly > internet somewhere that has a government (or other) black box sniffing > it > too. > > I agree, it would be nice if there were a better method of getting > public > users encrypted, but without some unique key exchange per user, or at > very > least a white-list method (remember the wps buttons that generated a > weak > numerical pin?) to make strong, or at least random, it'll remain weak > at > best, and probably eventually exploitable. > > A hardware solution is a non-starter though. Where does a phone or > tablet > have a usb slot to get on? Certainly whoever made it wouldn't support > linux, or a foss solution as it doesn't incentivise anyone to produce > said > hardware. Hand out yubikeys, but client software and use is still > problematic even with u2f per os for something like wifi use. > > If you did hardware, I'd imagine nfc-based for mobiles, make them come > up > and swipe a token to get the pass of the day to get on, and it changes > every day. PC's you just rotate a common key to give to customers > every > day and print/display for users inside the establishment every day. > Even > just use a one-time token generator with a numeric key held by > *someone(s)*. I've seen medical offices handling guest wifi by > changing > keys daily for at least any guest ssid and just printing the daily > guest > wifi inside reception, which keeps persistent users from access > outside the > establishment doing probably nothing good. > > This can be done with any enterprise-ish wifi solution that supports > Private-PSK functions, or many-to-one passwords for the same ssid. > Aerohive, Cisco, Juniper/Mist, Aruba, etc all tend to do this, > leverage otp > generation via Duo, Google Authenticator, or other "app". > > Even once encrypted, do you still trust the internet source though, > that > their router isn't infected from running a 10yr old firmware? You > shouldn't, again vpn, or at least ensuring who you're accessing is > using > tls, and you trust their cert. > > Interestingly enough being in Santa Monica CA on business. their public > library gets swarmed daily with homeless that really love their free > public > wifi there (seems even homeless all have cell phones these days), that > I > can only imagine the cesspool of devices there that could be > hijacked/man-in-the-middle'd easily on non-encrypted wifi. Even just > build > a fake public access ap to mitm, then infect... Being that I'm there > doing > work *for* the city, it's something I have mentioned to folks as a > problem. > > -mb > > > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:13 PM trent shipley > wrote: > > > A while ago I was at the downtown Scottsdale public library with my > > computer. They had open, public WiFi--which I was NOT going to > use. I > > tried to use my mobile phone data, but the reception inside the > building > > was Terrible! > > > > It seems like the problem of insecure public WiFi should be > surmountable. > > > > How hard would it be do develop technology that puts a key on a $1 > or $2 > > USB, that you buy (put a deposit on) at the reception desk (or from a > > machine). You also get an FOSS app. The app takes the key on the > cheap > > USB and securely logs you into the library's (or Starbucks) public > WiFi. > > The library determines how long the key(s) on the USB is (are) good > for. > > > > When you're done. You turn the little USB in for your deposit. The > > library wipes the usb clean, puts another key on the usb, and vends > it > > again. > > > > 1) Does this exist at "trivial" cost to the WiFi user? > > 2) If not, how feasible is it? > > 3) If it does not exist, and is feasible, who would be interested in > this > > as a project with a goal of a demo install at a local library, > non-profit > > coffee house, etc. and RFC? > > > > Trent > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060229785&sdata=l35B90p9HK1tBnXrNgsQJkRqI2tlu4B75o1QkSCqzFY%3D&reserved=0 > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fpipermail%2Fplug-discuss%2Fattachments%2F20190610%2Fae831f2c%2Fattachment-0001.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060229785&sdata=zessCihj8YyH8ohLnXQ8OZy0x1iTannv2nWgRXCnaEE%3D&reserved=0 > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.phxlinux.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fplug-discuss&data=02%7C01%7C%7C18286fbd325b4789400d08d6edd5d8f6%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636957900060229785&sdata=l35B90p9HK1tBnXrNgsQJkRqI2tlu4B75o1QkSCqzFY%3D&reserved=0 > > > ------------------------------ > > End of PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 168, Issue 5 > ******************************************** > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From slitt at troubleshooters.com Thu Jun 13 18:55:22 2019 From: slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 21:55:22 -0400 Subject: New Nginx documentation for beginners Message-ID: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> Hi all, I just put up several nginx documents helpful to those who don't yet have a complete knowledge of nginx. You can access them all from the following URL: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nginx/ Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive From PLUGd at LuftHans.com Thu Jun 13 20:43:45 2019 From: PLUGd at LuftHans.com (der.hans) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 03:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Subject: ClusterSSH in screen? Message-ID: moin moin, ClusterSSH allows you to open shells on multiple systems that are tied to a control window. From the control window you can enter commands on each of the systems at the same time. I need to do something like that in screen ( tmux can be an option ). I can split a screen into multiple windows and connect to multiple boxes, but still have to copy and paste or type seperately into each shell. Eventually, I will automate all this, but for now I need to simplify the copy pasta workflow. Features: * type one place, enact in many shells * see individual output in each of the shells * be able to see all the shells at the same time[0] * be able to also type directly into a single shell * works in an xterm * ssh from central server to clusters of servers * detach and attach * works on debian and CentOS * doesn't require actually popping up a bunch of xterms Any suggestions on how to make this work? [0] need to be able to screenshare with others using a different process[1] [1] being able to also share directly via screen/tmux would be cool ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org # Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on # your monitor, or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on # a web site, and you must change them very often. -- Unknown From retro64xyz at gmail.com Thu Jun 13 20:46:05 2019 From: retro64xyz at gmail.com (Aaron Jones) Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:46:05 -0700 Subject: ClusterSSH in screen? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4A8AF325-9282-457D-A9BE-32C2FE9C750D@gmail.com> https://github.com/peikk0/tmux-cssh Like this? > On Jun 13, 2019, at 8:43 PM, der.hans wrote: > > moin moin, > > ClusterSSH allows you to open shells on multiple systems that are tied to > a control window. From the control window you can enter commands on each > of the systems at the same time. > > I need to do something like that in screen ( tmux can be an option ). > > I can split a screen into multiple windows and connect to multiple > boxes, but still have to copy and paste or type seperately into each > shell. > > Eventually, I will automate all this, but for now I need to simplify the > copy pasta workflow. > > Features: > > * type one place, enact in many shells > * see individual output in each of the shells > * be able to see all the shells at the same time[0] > * be able to also type directly into a single shell > * works in an xterm > * ssh from central server to clusters of servers > * detach and attach > * works on debian and CentOS > * doesn't require actually popping up a bunch of xterms > > Any suggestions on how to make this work? > > [0] need to be able to screenshare with others using a different > process[1] > > [1] being able to also share directly via screen/tmux would be cool > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org > # Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on > # your monitor, or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on > # a web site, and you must change them very often. -- Unknown > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From PLUGd at LuftHans.com Thu Jun 13 21:02:21 2019 From: PLUGd at LuftHans.com (der.hans) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 04:02:21 +0000 (UTC) Subject: ClusterSSH in screen? In-Reply-To: <4A8AF325-9282-457D-A9BE-32C2FE9C750D@gmail.com> References: <4A8AF325-9282-457D-A9BE-32C2FE9C750D@gmail.com> Message-ID: Am 13. Jun, 2019 schwätzte Aaron Jones so: moin moin Aaron, > https://github.com/peikk0/tmux-cssh > > Like this? Looks good. And short enough to audit once I understand tmux :). danke, der.hans >> On Jun 13, 2019, at 8:43 PM, der.hans wrote: >> >> moin moin, >> >> ClusterSSH allows you to open shells on multiple systems that are tied to >> a control window. From the control window you can enter commands on each >> of the systems at the same time. >> >> I need to do something like that in screen ( tmux can be an option ). >> >> I can split a screen into multiple windows and connect to multiple >> boxes, but still have to copy and paste or type seperately into each >> shell. >> >> Eventually, I will automate all this, but for now I need to simplify the >> copy pasta workflow. >> >> Features: >> >> * type one place, enact in many shells >> * see individual output in each of the shells >> * be able to see all the shells at the same time[0] >> * be able to also type directly into a single shell >> * works in an xterm >> * ssh from central server to clusters of servers >> * detach and attach >> * works on debian and CentOS >> * doesn't require actually popping up a bunch of xterms >> >> Any suggestions on how to make this work? >> >> [0] need to be able to screenshare with others using a different >> process[1] >> >> [1] being able to also share directly via screen/tmux would be cool >> >> ciao, >> >> der.hans >> -- >> # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org >> # Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on >> # your monitor, or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on >> # a web site, and you must change them very often. -- Unknown >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org # If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then # you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and # I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have # two ideas. -- George Bernard Shaw From bmike1 at gmail.com Fri Jun 14 05:22:27 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:22:27 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I went to sound preferences -> Hardware and the HDMI device's profile is set to off and there is no on setting. On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 6:57 PM Michael wrote: > I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when > i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what > transpired: > > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio > E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse > 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio > E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse > 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio > > Would someone help me fix this? > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cryptworks at gmail.com Fri Jun 14 09:46:49 2019 From: cryptworks at gmail.com (Stephen Partington) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 09:46:49 -0700 Subject: New Nginx documentation for beginners In-Reply-To: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> References: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> Message-ID: Thanks. I have just started down the road of learning and using nginx On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 7:43 PM Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I just put up several nginx documents helpful to those who don't yet > have a complete knowledge of nginx. You can access them all from the > following URL: > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nginx/ > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:26 AM wrote: > Hello all: > I run my own DNS and email servers. > I have the SPF records properly set but I am having a crippling amount of > email spoofing by spammers, how can I prevent that? :( > Thanks > ET > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amit at amitnepal.com Fri Jun 14 12:12:57 2019 From: amit at amitnepal.com (Amit Nepal) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 12:12:57 -0700 Subject: How to stop email spoofing? In-Reply-To: References: <4A8AF325-9282-457D-A9BE-32C2FE9C750D@gmail.com> Message-ID: You can implement RBLs to fight spam too. Also like Stephen mentioned, if you don't already have SPF, DKIM and DMARC setup, this video may help you set them up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pld4ZQf9s4 Amit K Nepal (OSCP, CISM, CISSP, RHCE, CCENT, C|EH, C|HFI, GIAC ISO 27000 Specialist) On 6/14/2019 12:04 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Do you have DKIM and DMARC records as well? > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:26 AM > wrote: > > Hello all: > I run my own DNS and email servers. > I have the SPF records properly set but I am having a crippling > amount of > email spoofing by spammers, how can I prevent that?   :( > Thanks > ET > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Any one else here concerned to be using nginx now? -mb On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 9:47 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > Thanks. I have just started down the road of learning and using nginx > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 7:43 PM Steve Litt > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I just put up several nginx documents helpful to those who don't yet >> have a complete knowledge of nginx. You can access them all from the >> following URL: >> >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nginx/ >> >> Thanks, >> >> SteveT >> >> Steve Litt >> June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cryptworks at gmail.com Fri Jun 14 14:59:15 2019 From: cryptworks at gmail.com (Stephen Partington) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:59:15 -0700 Subject: New Nginx documentation for beginners In-Reply-To: References: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> Message-ID: https://www.nginx.com/blog/whats-difference-nginx-foss-nginx-plus/ they already have a long established Paid vs OS model going. and as such the community can fork the project and move in a direction that is not in line with any future shineneganry. On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 2:31 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Sort of off-topic, but curious our nginx user's thoughts on F5 purchasing > them now. I have customers that use nginx in place of expensive > adc/load-balancer products, like F5, and are now scared that F5 is going to > ruin it, or at least start charging for any/all features as steeply as they > do their mainstream appliance products. One associate's business uses and > pays for the Pro version of nginx prior to acquisition, and has already > begun investigating alternatives having moved from F5 already once, holding > no love for them in any way to want to deal with them again. > > I just joke with folks it could have been worse, oracle, hp, or ibm could > have bought them, but F5 isn't far behind in relic status imho. > > Any one else here concerned to be using nginx now? > > -mb > > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 9:47 AM Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Thanks. I have just started down the road of learning and using nginx >> >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 7:43 PM Steve Litt >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I just put up several nginx documents helpful to those who don't yet >>> have a complete knowledge of nginx. You can access them all from the >>> following URL: >>> >>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nginx/ >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> SteveT >>> >>> Steve Litt >>> June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times >>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. 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It appears you currently have it set to (There are too many quotes): kitepilot.com.          172436  IN      TXT     "v=spf1" "ip4:198.200.250.0/24" "-all" you should try setting it to: kitepilot.com.          172436  IN      TXT     "v=spf1 ip4:198.200.250.0/24 -all" If you're sending everything through your MX, you might want to consider: kitepilot.com.          172436  IN      TXT     "v=spf1 mx -all" Brian Cluff On 6/14/19 11:25 AM, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote: > Hello all: > I run my own DNS and email servers. > I have the SPF records properly set but I am having a crippling amount > of email spoofing by spammers, how can I prevent that?   :( > Thanks > ET > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss From slitt at troubleshooters.com Fri Jun 14 23:29:33 2019 From: slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:29:33 -0400 Subject: New Nginx documentation for beginners In-Reply-To: References: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> Message-ID: <20190615022933.278ef88b@mydesk.domain.cxm> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:08 -0700 Michael Butash wrote: > Sort of off-topic, but curious our nginx user's thoughts on F5 > purchasing them now. I have customers that use nginx in place of > expensive adc/load-balancer products, like F5, and are now scared > that F5 is going to ruin it, or at least start charging for any/all > features as steeply as they do their mainstream appliance products. > One associate's business uses and pays for the Pro version of nginx > prior to acquisition, and has already begun investigating > alternatives having moved from F5 already once, holding no love for > them in any way to want to deal with them again. I'm adopting a wait and see attitude, which is very different than if they'd been bought by Microsoft, Redhat or Oracle. One thing that does concern me, and please remind me of this from time to time, is that I need to grab their source code so if the project needs forking, I have the source (I'm not a good enough developer to actually fork it). SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive From slitt at troubleshooters.com Fri Jun 14 23:34:42 2019 From: slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:34:42 -0400 Subject: pfSense and Netgate: was New Nginx documentation for beginners In-Reply-To: References: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> Message-ID: <20190615023442.7a5f15a6@mydesk.domain.cxm> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:08 -0700 Michael Butash wrote: > Sort of off-topic, but curious our nginx user's thoughts on F5 > purchasing them now. I have customers that use nginx in place of > expensive adc/load-balancer products, like F5, and are now scared > that F5 is going to ruin it, or at least start charging for any/all > features as steeply as they do their mainstream appliance products. While we're on the subject, I've used pfSense for over a decade and recently upgraded at least two versions. The new version has all sorts of admonitions that you can't sell pfSense because it belongs to Netgate, and if you bought it from Netgate you have to do this and that, and you can't use their trademark, and go to this page to buy it, blah blah blah blah blah. I've been totally satisfied with pfSense for over a decade, but am now considering moving to a straight OpenBSD/pf setup, or pfSense's competitor OPNsense, or even switch to a Linux firewall with IPTables, which I've always thought to be a multi-acre field of sharply thorned brambles. Anyone else getting jittery about pfSense? SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive From chadonald at yahoo.com Sat Jun 15 06:43:51 2019 From: chadonald at yahoo.com (Donald Cha.) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:43:51 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Interesting References: <2110428454.1380914.1560606231087.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <2110428454.1380914.1560606231087@mail.yahoo.com> How To Test Drive 200+ Linux Distributions Without Ever Downloading Or Installing Them I’ve written about two fantastic tools that help people discover the ideal Linux distribution tailored to their needs and expectations, but a new tool just materialized on my radar and frankly, it’s blowing my mind. I just took Debian 9.9.0 Cinnamon, MX Linux 18.3 and Peppermint OS for a quick test drive. But I did so without downloading any ISOs, without flashing any images to a USB, and without even firing up VirtualBox. That’s thanks to DistroTest.net, a website that streams the experience right to your browser. DistroTest is the brainchild of Forster Tobias and Klemann Andy. It operates on the philosophy of every potential Linux user asking the “3 W’s” questions: - Which distribution is the best for me - Which graphical interface I want - Which configuration options I have DistroTest serves up a whopping 689 versions across 223 unique operating systems. This feels like a gargantuan undertaking for the site’s operators, but the end-user experience is seamless and dead simple. RELATED READING: 2 Awesome Tools To Find Your Perfect Linux OS Basically you browse or search for the Linux distro you want to test (you can also filter the site by the very newest releases) and then click Start. The equivalent of booting up the Live ISO or installer image is streamed to your browser in a separate window via NoVNC, but you can also connect to the system on a locally installed VNC client — the server’s IP address and port are provided after you start your session. 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URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Sat Jun 15 07:12:56 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:12:56 -0700 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere. -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept. > On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: > > I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when > i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what transpired: > > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio > E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse > 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio > E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse > 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio > > Would someone help me fix this? > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmike1 at gmail.com Sat Jun 15 10:31:27 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:31:27 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: what are they called. What do they look like? On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: > Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your > /var somewhere. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues > dept. > > > On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: > > I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when > i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what > transpired: > > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio > E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse > 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio > E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. > bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse > 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio > > Would someone help me fix this? > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmike1 at gmail.com Sat Jun 15 16:52:03 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:52:03 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: well, I found one file called asound.state.lock and I deleted it but upon reboot it came back and that did not help the sound.. On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 1:31 PM Michael wrote: > what are they called. What do they look like? > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: > >> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your >> /var somewhere. >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support >> issues dept. >> >> >> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: >> >> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what >> transpired: >> >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >> >> Would someone help me fix this? >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mhgraham at crow202.org Sun Jun 16 12:07:58 2019 From: mhgraham at crow202.org (Matt Graham) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:07:58 -0700 Subject: Lenovo E595: works with some fiddling Message-ID: <87f758a1132be158862b23b8618bd80a@crow202.org> I got a new Lenovo E595 laptop. Getting it working with Gentoo is a little more involved than I expected it to be. It's a relatively new machine, and the older kernel on the latest Gentoo live installation medium is not capable of running its graphics card properly. This isn't really covered very well in a lot of the things I found, and I had to piece together the proper steps from a number of disconnected web pages. No search engine seems to be capable of giving installation instructions if you search "Linux Lenovo E595"--thanks marketers and spammers. The most problematic part of the E595 is the Vega Picasso graphics card. This is a relatively new thing and requires firmware to run in anything but text mode. So, emerge linux-firmware or install whatever your distro uses as its firmware package. I had to compile the amdgpu module directly into the kernel, and build the "picasso" firmware files directly into the kernel as well. http://crow202.org/2019/5.1.10.config.gz for the config that I used for vanilla 5.1.10. Though /proc/cpuinfo reports 8 CPUs, don't pass -j8 to make. Compiling clang at some point causes multiple instances of the compiler to allocate over 1G, and this can hit OOM. Make a swap file and use -j7, and it'll work properly. Sound is slightly strange. The default output is not sane, and attempting to play/mpg123 anything resulted in segfaults. I had to put this into /etc/asound.conf , and then audio worked perfectly: defaults.pcm.!card Generic_1 defaults.pcm.!device 0 Booting: Turn Secure Boot off, then install and use rEFInd. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Refind I have not actually tried booting the 'Doze10 installation from this. I hope I won't have to use 'Doze10 for anything beyond shrinking its filesystem so that there was space for Linux. Also note that the wireless card for this uses the r8822be module, and that module is in "staging", so it may not be obvious where to look for the darn thing. Despite being in staging, the module has worked fine for me so far. Wired Ethernet, USB, keyboard, and mouse are all fine as-is. Now I just have to wait for KDE to finish building, and things should be just fine. -- Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress There is no Darkness in Eternity But only Light too dim for us to see. From cryptworks at gmail.com Sun Jun 16 12:16:25 2019 From: cryptworks at gmail.com (Stephen Partington) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:16:25 -0700 Subject: Lenovo E595: works with some fiddling In-Reply-To: <87f758a1132be158862b23b8618bd80a@crow202.org> References: <87f758a1132be158862b23b8618bd80a@crow202.org> Message-ID: https://amp.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/bzsy42/just_a_sneak_peek_of_my_linux_testing_on_e595/ This thread has some good links. And the review on level techs might be of use. On Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 12:00 PM Matt Graham wrote: > I got a new Lenovo E595 laptop. Getting it working with Gentoo is a > little more involved than I expected it to be. It's a relatively new > machine, and the older kernel on the latest Gentoo live installation > medium is not capable of running its graphics card properly. This isn't > really covered very well in a lot of the things I found, and I had to > piece together the proper steps from a number of disconnected web pages. > No search engine seems to be capable of giving installation instructions > if you search "Linux Lenovo E595"--thanks marketers and spammers. > > The most problematic part of the E595 is the Vega Picasso graphics > card. This is a relatively new thing and requires firmware to run in > anything but text mode. So, emerge linux-firmware or install whatever > your distro uses as its firmware package. I had to compile the amdgpu > module directly into the kernel, and build the "picasso" firmware files > directly into the kernel as well. > http://crow202.org/2019/5.1.10.config.gz for the config that I used for > vanilla 5.1.10. > > Though /proc/cpuinfo reports 8 CPUs, don't pass -j8 to make. Compiling > clang at some point causes multiple instances of the compiler to > allocate over 1G, and this can hit OOM. Make a swap file and use -j7, > and it'll work properly. > > Sound is slightly strange. The default output is not sane, and > attempting to play/mpg123 anything resulted in segfaults. I had to put > this into /etc/asound.conf , and then audio worked perfectly: > > defaults.pcm.!card Generic_1 > defaults.pcm.!device 0 > > Booting: Turn Secure Boot off, then install and use rEFInd. > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Refind I have not actually tried booting > the 'Doze10 installation from this. I hope I won't have to use 'Doze10 > for anything beyond shrinking its filesystem so that there was space for > Linux. > > Also note that the wireless card for this uses the r8822be module, and > that module is in "staging", so it may not be obvious where to look for > the darn thing. Despite being in staging, the module has worked fine for > me so far. Wired Ethernet, USB, keyboard, and mouse are all fine as-is. > Now I just have to wait for KDE to finish building, and things should be > just fine. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Sun Jun 16 13:54:24 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 13:54:24 -0700 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part of the filename. -Eric From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. > On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael wrote: > > what are they called. What do they look like? > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen > wrote: > Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept. > > >> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael > wrote: >> >> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what transpired: >> >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >> >> Would someone help me fix this? >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shawn at badger.pro Mon Jun 17 19:40:07 2019 From: shawn at badger.pro (Shawn Badger) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:40:07 -0700 Subject: pfSense and Netgate: was New Nginx documentation for beginners In-Reply-To: <20190615023442.7a5f15a6@mydesk.domain.cxm> References: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> <20190615023442.7a5f15a6@mydesk.domain.cxm> Message-ID: I have been using them for a while and I even have a support contract but I am nervous about this as well. After some deeper conversations with a sales person there who insisted "everyone is stealing their software" I informed them that the only reason I was using their system was because I was able to use it before I bought it and that it was open source. I really don't think that person understood the OSS concept at all. That being said, i have never had any issues calling their tech support and getting help on any issues I have come across regardless of if it was a bug or self imposed. I still recommend them for now, but if they start to crack down beyond the stupid warning I will be jumping ship and they will loose my business. This is just my 2 cents though. On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:22 AM Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:08 -0700 > Michael Butash wrote: > > > Sort of off-topic, but curious our nginx user's thoughts on F5 > > purchasing them now. I have customers that use nginx in place of > > expensive adc/load-balancer products, like F5, and are now scared > > that F5 is going to ruin it, or at least start charging for any/all > > features as steeply as they do their mainstream appliance products. > > While we're on the subject, I've used pfSense for over a decade and > recently upgraded at least two versions. The new version has all sorts > of admonitions that you can't sell pfSense because it belongs to > Netgate, and if you bought it from Netgate you have to do this and > that, and you can't use their trademark, and go to this page to buy it, > blah blah blah blah blah. I've been totally satisfied with pfSense for > over a decade, but am now considering moving to a straight OpenBSD/pf > setup, or pfSense's competitor OPNsense, or even switch to a Linux > firewall with IPTables, which I've always thought to be a multi-acre > field of sharply thorned brambles. > > Anyone else getting jittery about pfSense? > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmike1 at gmail.com Tue Jun 18 02:16:23 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:16:23 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> Message-ID: I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen wrote: > They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part > of the filename. > > -Eric > From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. > > On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael wrote: > > what are they called. What do they look like? > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: > >> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your >> /var somewhere. >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support >> issues dept. >> >> >> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: >> >> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what >> transpired: >> >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >> >> Would someone help me fix this? >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Tue Jun 18 05:58:04 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:58:04 -0700 Subject: pfSense and Netgate: was New Nginx documentation for beginners In-Reply-To: References: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> <20190615023442.7a5f15a6@mydesk.domain.cxm> Message-ID: <864CCA7C-3953-4A78-9454-D0F0E22C85A1@icloud.com> Well, Given the problems now being made apparent at F5/Netgate, it’s time to jump ship and start using OpenBSD and the PF firewall system. Btw, I have been using OpenBSD for a better part of 15 years and so far, my home lan has been well protected (except by the stupidity of the other appliance users here in the house). As for my own systems, I am on a separate subnet from the others and have made damned sure that my systems are malware free and fully firewall. Btw, I have used Linux OS boxes before as firewalls with some success (and a small bit of trouble too). The last Linux OS box I used got rooted about 2 months into it’s being strictly a firewall. I set that box aside for later analysis and went back to using the OpenBSD unit as the primary firewall. Since you are already familiar with PF Sense, it just makes sense to return to OpenBSD for fireballing your systems. I am thinking I need a serious upgrade in equipment soon. The old machine I am using for the firewall is about 12 years old and is getting long in the tooth. It’s performance isn’t exactly up to snuff when compared to more modern dedicated router hardware. These days, I am looking at the possibility of using a core i7 machine with 4 cores (don’t need any more than that), sufficient memory (about 4 GB) and a number of better quality Lan Cards and at least 3 Wi-Fi cards (with removable antennas) Between the cost of the machine and additional hardware, it’s almost as expensive as one of the top quality Cisco units, but with more capabilities. Last item on my agenda here at the house other than upgrading the old openbsd machine for a new one, upgrading the lan cable to cat 6+ and then trying to get power over ethernet setup as well. In any case, I have a lot of work I am planning and might need some help sourcing equipment at the cheapest possible cost (my budget is very slim these days.) -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Infrastructure support and development Dept. > On Jun 17, 2019, at 7:40 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: > > I have been using them for a while and I even have a support contract but I am nervous about this as well. After some deeper conversations with a sales person there who insisted "everyone is stealing their software" I informed them that the only reason I was using their system was because I was able to use it before I bought it and that it was open source. I really don't think that person understood the OSS concept at all. That being said, i have never had any issues calling their tech support and getting help on any issues I have come across regardless of if it was a bug or self imposed. I still recommend them for now, but if they start to crack down beyond the stupid warning I will be jumping ship and they will loose my business. This is just my 2 cents though. > > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:22 AM Steve Litt > wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:08 -0700 > Michael Butash > wrote: > > > Sort of off-topic, but curious our nginx user's thoughts on F5 > > purchasing them now. I have customers that use nginx in place of > > expensive adc/load-balancer products, like F5, and are now scared > > that F5 is going to ruin it, or at least start charging for any/all > > features as steeply as they do their mainstream appliance products. > > While we're on the subject, I've used pfSense for over a decade and > recently upgraded at least two versions. The new version has all sorts > of admonitions that you can't sell pfSense because it belongs to > Netgate, and if you bought it from Netgate you have to do this and > that, and you can't use their trademark, and go to this page to buy it, > blah blah blah blah blah. 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URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Tue Jun 18 06:09:39 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:09:39 -0700 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> Message-ID: <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management Dept. > On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael wrote: > > I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen > wrote: > They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part of the filename. > > -Eric > From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. > >> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael > wrote: >> >> what are they called. What do they look like? >> >> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen > wrote: >> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere. >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept. >> >> >>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael > wrote: >>> >>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what transpired: >>> >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>> >>> Would someone help me fix this? >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmike1 at gmail.com Tue Jun 18 06:11:05 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:11:05 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> Message-ID: now it seems youtube sound isn't working. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel > version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management Dept. > > > On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael wrote: > > I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. > > On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen wrote: > >> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part >> of the filename. >> >> -Eric >> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. >> >> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael wrote: >> >> what are they called. What do they look like? >> >> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in >>> your /var somewhere. >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support >>> issues dept. >>> >>> >>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what >>> transpired: >>> >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>> >>> Would someone help me fix this? >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Tue Jun 18 06:15:02 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:15:02 -0700 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> Message-ID: <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want to work. Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for sound playback of streaming content? -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services Dept. > On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael wrote: > > now it seems youtube sound isn't working. > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen > wrote: > Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management Dept. > > >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael > wrote: >> >> I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. >> >> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen > wrote: >> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part of the filename. >> >> -Eric >> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. >> >>> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael > wrote: >>> >>> what are they called. What do they look like? >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen > wrote: >>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere. >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept. >>> >>> >>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael > wrote: >>>> >>>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what transpired: >>>> >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>>> >>>> Would someone help me fix this? >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmike1 at gmail.com Tue Jun 18 06:20:35 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:20:35 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> Message-ID: I'm using chrome but I tried with firefox as well and the sound doesn't work with it either. As for extensions or plugins I never needed them before. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work > (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want > to work. > > Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it > usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser > you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for > sound playback of streaming content? > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services Dept. > > > On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael wrote: > > now it seems youtube sound isn't working. > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > >> Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel >> version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management Dept. >> >> >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael wrote: >> >> I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. >> >> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as >>> part of the filename. >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. >>> >>> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> what are they called. What do they look like? >>> >>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: >>> >>>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in >>>> your /var somewhere. >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support >>>> issues dept. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: >>>> >>>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what >>>> transpired: >>>> >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>>> >>>> Would someone help me fix this? >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Tue Jun 18 06:56:36 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:56:36 -0700 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> Message-ID: <5334E7A8-1651-4B68-B375-80C7D0CC5D01@icloud.com> Hmmmmm. Ok. So, 2 separate browsers, both display the same issue with sound playback. Well, lets see. 1. Permissions settings for the sound device? 2. Both Browsers part of your user group? Or group assigned to sound device? 3. Both browsers need updating? 4. Codec issues (mp3 audio not supported)? Btw, I just did a duckduckgo.com search for the terms “Linux OS no sound in Chrome or Firefox”. Some of the results are old, but may bear fruit in your case. Btw, I think VLC has a plugin that will work with either browser that can handle codecs and playback media that might not work natively in either of those browsers. Also, have you tried other sites than just Youtube for video/audio playback? If so, does the same issue present there as well? Try playing one of the videos from anime9.com or one of the other movie/tv/multimedia sites. If you get sound there, then it’s clearly an issue dealing with youtube and their handling of the audio portion of the video content. -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Multimedia Support Desk > On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Michael wrote: > > I'm using chrome but I tried with firefox as well and the sound doesn't work with it either. As for extensions or plugins I never needed them before. > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Oyen > wrote: > Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want to work. > > Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for sound playback of streaming content? > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services Dept. > > >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael > wrote: >> >> now it seems youtube sound isn't working. >> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen > wrote: >> Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management Dept. >> >> >>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael > wrote: >>> >>> I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen > wrote: >>> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part of the filename. >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. >>> >>>> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael > wrote: >>>> >>>> what are they called. What do they look like? >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen > wrote: >>>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere. >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept. >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael > wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>>>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what transpired: >>>>> >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>>>> >>>>> Would someone help me fix this? >>>>> -- >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmike1 at gmail.com Tue Jun 18 07:15:23 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:15:23 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: <5334E7A8-1651-4B68-B375-80C7D0CC5D01@icloud.com> References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> <5334E7A8-1651-4B68-B375-80C7D0CC5D01@icloud.com> Message-ID: cbs.com doesn't sound either. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:56 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > Hmmmmm. Ok. > > So, 2 separate browsers, both display the same issue with sound playback. > > Well, lets see. > 1. Permissions settings for the sound device? > 2. Both Browsers part of your user group? Or group assigned to sound > device? > 3. Both browsers need updating? > 4. Codec issues (mp3 audio not supported)? > > Btw, I just did a duckduckgo.com search for the terms “Linux OS no sound > in Chrome or Firefox”. Some of the results are old, but may bear fruit in > your case. > > Btw, I think VLC has a plugin that will work with either browser that can > handle codecs and playback media that might not work natively in either of > those browsers. Also, have you tried other sites than just Youtube for > video/audio playback? If so, does the same issue present there as well? Try > playing one of the videos from anime9.com or one of the other > movie/tv/multimedia sites. If you get sound there, then it’s clearly an > issue dealing with youtube and their handling of the audio portion of the > video content. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Multimedia Support Desk > > On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Michael wrote: > > I'm using chrome but I tried with firefox as well and the sound doesn't > work with it either. As for extensions or plugins I never needed them > before. > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > >> Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work >> (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want >> to work. >> >> Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it >> usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser >> you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for >> sound playback of streaming content? >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services Dept. >> >> >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael wrote: >> >> now it seems youtube sound isn't working. >> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel >>> version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management >>> Dept. >>> >>> >>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen wrote: >>> >>>> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as >>>> part of the filename. >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items >>>> dept. >>>> >>>> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael wrote: >>>> >>>> what are they called. What do they look like? >>>> >>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: >>>> >>>>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in >>>>> your /var somewhere. >>>>> >>>>> -Eric >>>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support >>>>> issues dept. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>>>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at >>>>> what transpired: >>>>> >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>>>> >>>>> Would someone help me fix this? >>>>> -- >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Tue Jun 18 08:13:15 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:13:15 -0700 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> <5334E7A8-1651-4B68-B375-80C7D0CC5D01@icloud.com> Message-ID: <67B1038F-0F59-4781-9C30-1E3DBCF8DBB4@icloud.com> Ok, This is going to require a bit more research. Btw, what sound system are you using in Linux? -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Research and Development Division. > On Jun 18, 2019, at 7:15 AM, Michael wrote: > > cbs.com doesn't sound either. > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:56 AM Eric Oyen > wrote: > Hmmmmm. Ok. > > So, 2 separate browsers, both display the same issue with sound playback. > > Well, lets see. > 1. Permissions settings for the sound device? > 2. Both Browsers part of your user group? Or group assigned to sound device? > 3. Both browsers need updating? > 4. Codec issues (mp3 audio not supported)? > > Btw, I just did a duckduckgo.com search for the terms “Linux OS no sound in Chrome or Firefox”. Some of the results are old, but may bear fruit in your case. > > Btw, I think VLC has a plugin that will work with either browser that can handle codecs and playback media that might not work natively in either of those browsers. Also, have you tried other sites than just Youtube for video/audio playback? If so, does the same issue present there as well? Try playing one of the videos from anime9.com or one of the other movie/tv/multimedia sites. If you get sound there, then it’s clearly an issue dealing with youtube and their handling of the audio portion of the video content. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Multimedia Support Desk > >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Michael > wrote: >> >> I'm using chrome but I tried with firefox as well and the sound doesn't work with it either. As for extensions or plugins I never needed them before. >> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Oyen > wrote: >> Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want to work. >> >> Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for sound playback of streaming content? >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services Dept. >> >> >>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael > wrote: >>> >>> now it seems youtube sound isn't working. >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen > wrote: >>> Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management Dept. >>> >>> >>>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael > wrote: >>>> >>>> I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen > wrote: >>>> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as part of the filename. >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items dept. >>>> >>>>> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael > wrote: >>>>> >>>>> what are they called. What do they look like? >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen > wrote: >>>>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in your /var somewhere. >>>>> >>>>> -Eric >>>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support issues dept. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael > wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>>>>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at what transpired: >>>>>> >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>>>>> >>>>>> Would someone help me fix this? >>>>>> -- >>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmike1 at gmail.com Tue Jun 18 08:41:27 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:41:27 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: <67B1038F-0F59-4781-9C30-1E3DBCF8DBB4@icloud.com> References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> <5334E7A8-1651-4B68-B375-80C7D0CC5D01@icloud.com> <67B1038F-0F59-4781-9C30-1E3DBCF8DBB4@icloud.com> Message-ID: the one that comes with Mint. Not trying to be a wise guy. I just don't know for sure. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:13 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > Ok, > This is going to require a bit more research. > > Btw, what sound system are you using in Linux? > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Research and Development > Division. > > > On Jun 18, 2019, at 7:15 AM, Michael wrote: > > cbs.com doesn't sound either. > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:56 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > >> Hmmmmm. Ok. >> >> So, 2 separate browsers, both display the same issue with sound playback. >> >> Well, lets see. >> 1. Permissions settings for the sound device? >> 2. Both Browsers part of your user group? Or group assigned to sound >> device? >> 3. Both browsers need updating? >> 4. Codec issues (mp3 audio not supported)? >> >> Btw, I just did a duckduckgo.com search for the terms “Linux OS no sound >> in Chrome or Firefox”. Some of the results are old, but may bear fruit in >> your case. >> >> Btw, I think VLC has a plugin that will work with either browser that can >> handle codecs and playback media that might not work natively in either of >> those browsers. Also, have you tried other sites than just Youtube for >> video/audio playback? If so, does the same issue present there as well? Try >> playing one of the videos from anime9.com or one of the other >> movie/tv/multimedia sites. If you get sound there, then it’s clearly an >> issue dealing with youtube and their handling of the audio portion of the >> video content. >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Multimedia Support Desk >> >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Michael wrote: >> >> I'm using chrome but I tried with firefox as well and the sound doesn't >> work with it either. As for extensions or plugins I never needed them >> before. >> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work >>> (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want >>> to work. >>> >>> Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it >>> usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser >>> you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for >>> sound playback of streaming content? >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services Dept. >>> >>> >>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> now it seems youtube sound isn't working. >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >>> >>>> Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check >>>> kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management >>>> Dept. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael wrote: >>>> >>>> I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. >>>> >>>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen wrote: >>>> >>>>> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as >>>>> part of the filename. >>>>> >>>>> -Eric >>>>> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items >>>>> dept. >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael wrote: >>>>> >>>>> what are they called. What do they look like? >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in >>>>>> your /var somewhere. >>>>>> >>>>>> -Eric >>>>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support >>>>>> issues dept. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>>>>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at >>>>>> what transpired: >>>>>> >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>>>>> >>>>>> Would someone help me fix this? >>>>>> -- >>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael at butash.net Tue Jun 18 10:20:14 2019 From: michael at butash.net (Michael Butash) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 10:20:14 -0700 Subject: pfSense and Netgate: was New Nginx documentation for beginners In-Reply-To: <864CCA7C-3953-4A78-9454-D0F0E22C85A1@icloud.com> References: <20190613215522.1d517fe3@mydesk.domain.cxm> <20190615023442.7a5f15a6@mydesk.domain.cxm> <864CCA7C-3953-4A78-9454-D0F0E22C85A1@icloud.com> Message-ID: Having watched companies go through acquisition for 20 years, seeing the before/after of each, something like big fish eating little fish always scares me. HP, Oracle, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, and many others all love to buy companies, bleed them dry of their IP, forget about the core product they bought, and later divest themselves of it after they've screwed it up irreconcilably. Anyone remember the last time F5 bought a software load-balancing company LineRate? Didn't think so. Has anyone heard of F5 sales ever selling anything other than F5 appliances, either hardware or software? Nope, and I don't expect that to change after the nginx acquisition. So what will come of it? Probably as Stephen mentioned, it'll get forked as something not-F5, or simply users will move to something else once it's in a death spiral itself. I just have learned not to expect much of a company like Cisco, HP, or F5 ever buying anything remotely open and keeping it as such. I just usually imagine a death knell and a date of expiration at hand. -mb On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 5:58 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > Well, > Given the problems now being made apparent at F5/Netgate, it’s time to > jump ship and start using OpenBSD and the PF firewall system. Btw, I have > been using OpenBSD for a better part of 15 years and so far, my home lan > has been well protected (except by the stupidity of the other appliance > users here in the house). As for my own systems, I am on a separate subnet > from the others and have made damned sure that my systems are malware free > and fully firewall. > > Btw, I have used Linux OS boxes before as firewalls with some success (and > a small bit of trouble too). The last Linux OS box I used got rooted about > 2 months into it’s being strictly a firewall. I set that box aside for > later analysis and went back to using the OpenBSD unit as the primary > firewall. > > Since you are already familiar with PF Sense, it just makes sense to > return to OpenBSD for fireballing your systems. > > I am thinking I need a serious upgrade in equipment soon. The old machine > I am using for the firewall is about 12 years old and is getting long in > the tooth. It’s performance isn’t exactly up to snuff when compared to more > modern dedicated router hardware. These days, I am looking at the > possibility of using a core i7 machine with 4 cores (don’t need any more > than that), sufficient memory (about 4 GB) and a number of better quality > Lan Cards and at least 3 Wi-Fi cards (with removable antennas) Between the > cost of the machine and additional hardware, it’s almost as expensive as > one of the top quality Cisco units, but with more capabilities. > > Last item on my agenda here at the house other than upgrading the old > openbsd machine for a new one, upgrading the lan cable to cat 6+ and then > trying to get power over ethernet setup as well. > > In any case, I have a lot of work I am planning and might need some help > sourcing equipment at the cheapest possible cost (my budget is very slim > these days.) > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Infrastructure support > and development Dept. > > On Jun 17, 2019, at 7:40 PM, Shawn Badger wrote: > > I have been using them for a while and I even have a support contract but > I am nervous about this as well. After some deeper conversations with a > sales person there who insisted "everyone is stealing their software" I > informed them that the only reason I was using their system was because I > was able to use it before I bought it and that it was open source. I really > don't think that person understood the OSS concept at all. That being > said, i have never had any issues calling their tech support and getting > help on any issues I have come across regardless of if it was a bug or self > imposed. I still recommend them for now, but if they start to crack down > beyond the stupid warning I will be jumping ship and they will loose my > business. This is just my 2 cents though. > > > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:22 AM Steve Litt > wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:31:08 -0700 >> Michael Butash wrote: >> >> > Sort of off-topic, but curious our nginx user's thoughts on F5 >> > purchasing them now. I have customers that use nginx in place of >> > expensive adc/load-balancer products, like F5, and are now scared >> > that F5 is going to ruin it, or at least start charging for any/all >> > features as steeply as they do their mainstream appliance products. >> >> While we're on the subject, I've used pfSense for over a decade and >> recently upgraded at least two versions. The new version has all sorts >> of admonitions that you can't sell pfSense because it belongs to >> Netgate, and if you bought it from Netgate you have to do this and >> that, and you can't use their trademark, and go to this page to buy it, >> blah blah blah blah blah. I've been totally satisfied with pfSense for >> over a decade, but am now considering moving to a straight OpenBSD/pf >> setup, or pfSense's competitor OPNsense, or even switch to a Linux >> firewall with IPTables, which I've always thought to be a multi-acre >> field of sharply thorned brambles. >> >> Anyone else getting jittery about pfSense? >> >> SteveT >> >> Steve Litt >> June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael at butash.net Tue Jun 18 11:31:37 2019 From: michael at butash.net (Michael Butash) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:31:37 -0700 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> <5334E7A8-1651-4B68-B375-80C7D0CC5D01@icloud.com> <67B1038F-0F59-4781-9C30-1E3DBCF8DBB4@icloud.com> Message-ID: Sounds like something is muting the apps, or pulse/alsa is broken all together. Install pulseaudio volume contorl (pavucontrol), it's the great equalizer. Most dist mixer apps are crap/overly simplistic, including mint, and hide stuff. In pavucontrol, the "playback" tab shows what apps are opening sound requests. Output Devices tab will show you just that, hardware such to output to speakers. When you launch youtube in a browser, you should see chromium show up in the playback with audio levels. You can control muting directly there as well, make sure they're not muted on either tab. Once you see audio db levels at the playback tab, pulse should route that to your output device, and again see a mirrored db level there for output device being played. You can disable hardware here too if you have anything unused. Sometimes the os will decide to use another output sink, so watching where your audio in and audio out is going helps. HTH! -mb On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:41 AM Michael wrote: > the one that comes with Mint. Not trying to be a wise guy. I just don't > know for sure. > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:13 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > >> Ok, >> This is going to require a bit more research. >> >> Btw, what sound system are you using in Linux? >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Research and >> Development Division. >> >> >> On Jun 18, 2019, at 7:15 AM, Michael wrote: >> >> cbs.com doesn't sound either. >> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:56 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> Hmmmmm. Ok. >>> >>> So, 2 separate browsers, both display the same issue with sound playback. >>> >>> Well, lets see. >>> 1. Permissions settings for the sound device? >>> 2. Both Browsers part of your user group? Or group assigned to sound >>> device? >>> 3. Both browsers need updating? >>> 4. Codec issues (mp3 audio not supported)? >>> >>> Btw, I just did a duckduckgo.com search for the terms “Linux OS no >>> sound in Chrome or Firefox”. Some of the results are old, but may bear >>> fruit in your case. >>> >>> Btw, I think VLC has a plugin that will work with either browser that >>> can handle codecs and playback media that might not work natively in either >>> of those browsers. Also, have you tried other sites than just Youtube for >>> video/audio playback? If so, does the same issue present there as well? Try >>> playing one of the videos from anime9.com or one of the other >>> movie/tv/multimedia sites. If you get sound there, then it’s clearly an >>> issue dealing with youtube and their handling of the audio portion of the >>> video content. >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Multimedia Support Desk >>> >>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> I'm using chrome but I tried with firefox as well and the sound doesn't >>> work with it either. As for extensions or plugins I never needed them >>> before. >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >>> >>>> Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work >>>> (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want >>>> to work. >>>> >>>> Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it >>>> usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser >>>> you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for >>>> sound playback of streaming content? >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services Dept. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael wrote: >>>> >>>> now it seems youtube sound isn't working. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check >>>>> kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) >>>>> >>>>> -Eric >>>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management >>>>> Dept. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as >>>>>> part of the filename. >>>>>> >>>>>> -Eric >>>>>> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items >>>>>> dept. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> what are they called. What do they look like? >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around in >>>>>>> your /var somewhere. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Eric >>>>>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support >>>>>>> issues dept. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>>>>>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at >>>>>>> what transpired: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>>>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>>>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Would someone help me fix this? >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmike1 at gmail.com Tue Jun 18 12:02:23 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:02:23 -0400 Subject: sound stopped working In-Reply-To: References: <2FF4ADCE-869E-4AB6-81D7-CC74489086EE@icloud.com> <6618DDAA-866D-464F-9C58-71999C27BB51@icloud.com> <257FF7F4-17E1-416B-A16C-5B5BF43D9203@icloud.com> <5334E7A8-1651-4B68-B375-80C7D0CC5D01@icloud.com> <67B1038F-0F59-4781-9C30-1E3DBCF8DBB4@icloud.com> Message-ID: Fixed it! I had installed pavucontrol and found out the application was accessing the wrong device. Thanks so much for the help. On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:31 PM Michael Butash wrote: > Sounds like something is muting the apps, or pulse/alsa is broken all > together. > > Install pulseaudio volume contorl (pavucontrol), it's the great > equalizer. Most dist mixer apps are crap/overly simplistic, including > mint, and hide stuff. > > In pavucontrol, the "playback" tab shows what apps are opening sound > requests. Output Devices tab will show you just that, hardware such to > output to speakers. When you launch youtube in a browser, you should see > chromium show up in the playback with audio levels. You can control muting > directly there as well, make sure they're not muted on either tab. Once > you see audio db levels at the playback tab, pulse should route that to > your output device, and again see a mirrored db level there for output > device being played. > > You can disable hardware here too if you have anything unused. Sometimes > the os will decide to use another output sink, so watching where your audio > in and audio out is going helps. > > HTH! > > -mb > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 8:41 AM Michael wrote: > >> the one that comes with Mint. Not trying to be a wise guy. I just don't >> know for sure. >> >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:13 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >> >>> Ok, >>> This is going to require a bit more research. >>> >>> Btw, what sound system are you using in Linux? >>> >>> -Eric >>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Research and >>> Development Division. >>> >>> >>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 7:15 AM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> cbs.com doesn't sound either. >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:56 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >>> >>>> Hmmmmm. Ok. >>>> >>>> So, 2 separate browsers, both display the same issue with sound >>>> playback. >>>> >>>> Well, lets see. >>>> 1. Permissions settings for the sound device? >>>> 2. Both Browsers part of your user group? Or group assigned to sound >>>> device? >>>> 3. Both browsers need updating? >>>> 4. Codec issues (mp3 audio not supported)? >>>> >>>> Btw, I just did a duckduckgo.com search for the terms “Linux OS no >>>> sound in Chrome or Firefox”. Some of the results are old, but may bear >>>> fruit in your case. >>>> >>>> Btw, I think VLC has a plugin that will work with either browser that >>>> can handle codecs and playback media that might not work natively in either >>>> of those browsers. Also, have you tried other sites than just Youtube for >>>> video/audio playback? If so, does the same issue present there as well? Try >>>> playing one of the videos from anime9.com or one of the other >>>> movie/tv/multimedia sites. If you get sound there, then it’s clearly an >>>> issue dealing with youtube and their handling of the audio portion of the >>>> video content. >>>> >>>> -Eric >>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Multimedia Support >>>> Desk >>>> >>>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:20 AM, Michael wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm using chrome but I tried with firefox as well and the sound doesn't >>>> work with it either. As for extensions or plugins I never needed them >>>> before. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:15 AM Eric Oyen wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ok, this is getting ridiculous. First system sounds don’t want to work >>>>> (turns out to be a kernel version issue) and now Youtube sound doesn’t want >>>>> to work. >>>>> >>>>> Well, considering I had similar issues with youtube in the past, it >>>>> usually turns out to be some browser or plugin issue. What is the browser >>>>> you are using and are there any plugins or extensions that are needed for >>>>> sound playback of streaming content? >>>>> >>>>> -Eric >>>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Support services >>>>> Dept. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 6:11 AM, Michael wrote: >>>>> >>>>> now it seems youtube sound isn't working. >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 9:09 AM Eric Oyen >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Ooooooops! That will definitely do it as well. Mental note, check >>>>>> kernel version if lock file issue doesn’t pan out. :) >>>>>> >>>>>> -Eric >>>>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Systems management >>>>>> Dept. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Jun 18, 2019, at 2:16 AM, Michael wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I solved it.... I am running an earlier kernel. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM Eric Oyen >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> They are usually named after the process and also contain the PID as >>>>>>> part of the filename. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -Eric >>>>>>> From the central offices of the Technomage guild, interesting items >>>>>>> dept. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Jun 15, 2019, at 10:31 AM, Michael wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> what are they called. What do they look like? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 10:13 Eric Oyen wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Check for a lock file. There is probably one still hanging around >>>>>>>> in your /var somewhere. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -Eric >>>>>>>> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Technical support >>>>>>>> issues dept. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I remember running pulseaudio once and that fixed it but when >>>>>>>> i ran it this time it complained about it already running. Look at >>>>>>>> what transpired: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>>>>> 2723 ? 00:00:08 pulseaudio >>>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ kill 2723 >>>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ pulseaudio >>>>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running. >>>>>>>> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed. >>>>>>>> bmike1 at MikesBeast:~$ ps -e |grep pulse >>>>>>>> 7063 ? 00:00:03 pulseaudio >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Would someone help me fix this? >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Come see where the conversation leads this time, it doesn't just stick exclusively with Free Software and Linux.  Us geeks are interested in all sorts of things, so the conversation always leads to a good time. If you have any problems, feel free to bring in your machine and we'll see what we can do to fix your problem... Boulders on Southern Located on the north side of Southern about 1/4 mile east of Alma School 1010 W Southern Ave (Map ) Mesa, Arizona 85210 Map to Boulder on Southern For more info Click Here : See you there, Brian Cluff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The jobs are downtown Phoenix with eventual options for telecommute after getting settled in. https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?t=lamp+php+developer&jk=7101495648e0d228&_ga=2.233114842.552987295.1558722433-1199379991.1558450764 Contact me offlist for referral to friend or apply directly with VMG. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org # "I have seen the enemy, and it is shiny." -- Benjy Feen, 22Jun2001 From bmike1 at gmail.com Wed Jun 19 17:57:12 2019 From: bmike1 at gmail.com (Michael) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 20:57:12 -0400 Subject: PHP gig downtown In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: that's PLUG for you... watching out for everyone! Thanks Hans. On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:43 PM der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > a friend of a friend is looking for a couple of LAMP/PHP developers. > > The jobs are downtown Phoenix with eventual options for telecommute after > getting settled in. > > > https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?t=lamp+php+developer&jk=7101495648e0d228&_ga=2.233114842.552987295.1558722433-1199379991.1558450764 > > Contact me offlist for referral to friend or apply directly with VMG. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # https://www.LuftHans.com https://www.PhxLinux.org > # "I have seen the enemy, and it is shiny." -- Benjy Feen, 22Jun2001 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mailinglists at mattcrews.com Wed Jun 19 21:09:27 2019 From: mailinglists at mattcrews.com (Matthew Crews) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 06:09:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: PSA: Ubuntu 19.10 to end x86 32-bit support Message-ID: <10d40fa9-f70b-e9ff-ae09-55e1f8b2dec9@mattcrews.com> For those that haven't seen it, Ubuntu 19.10 and derivatives are going to end official x86 32-bit support. This is not just the end of 32-bit ISOs though; they are also removing ALL 32-bit packages from their repos. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-June/000245.html This will have serious ramifications for those that use Ubuntu and want to use 32-bit software, device drivers, and the like. For now the best options appear to be: 1. Run your software in a VM, chroot, snap, or container 2. Stay on Ubuntu 18.04 or earlier and do not upgrade 3. Use a different OS altogether. 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On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:18 PM Matthew Crews wrote: > For those that haven't seen it, Ubuntu 19.10 and derivatives are going > to end official x86 32-bit support. This is not just the end of 32-bit > ISOs though; they are also removing ALL 32-bit packages from their repos. > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-June/000245.html > > This will have serious ramifications for those that use Ubuntu and want > to use 32-bit software, device drivers, and the like. > > For now the best options appear to be: > > 1. Run your software in a VM, chroot, snap, or container > 2. Stay on Ubuntu 18.04 or earlier and do not upgrade > 3. Use a different OS altogether. > > I'm opting to phase Ubuntu out completely personally. > > -Matt > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From slitt at troubleshooters.com Thu Jun 20 10:48:57 2019 From: slitt at troubleshooters.com (Steve Litt) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:48:57 -0400 Subject: PSA: Ubuntu 19.10 to end x86 32-bit support In-Reply-To: References: <10d40fa9-f70b-e9ff-ae09-55e1f8b2dec9@mattcrews.com> Message-ID: <20190620134857.5e6a7bd5@mydesk.domain.cxm> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:48:08 -0700 Stephen Partington wrote: > specifically. from the cited threads in the list. > > - Users who need support for i386 integrated natively into their OS > can use Ubuntu 18.04 with security support until April 2023. > - 18.04 can be run in a chroot or container on top of later Ubuntu > releases until 2023 with security support from Canonical, or beyond > that without. > - 32-bit software distributed as snaps built with an 18.04-derived > library runtime can reasonably[1] be expected to work on later > releases of Ubuntu for the foreseeable future > - Once we're past the point where security support is available for > the libraries anyway, maybe there's no advantage anymore to having > your 32-bit compat libraries managed via the packaging system either; > so maybe you just make /lib/i386-linux-gnu a straight unpacked > tarball of the libs you need, and no longer have to worry about the > version-lockstep constraints of multiarch. Does anybody know what percentage of computers still being used worldwide have 32 bit hardware? My research tells me the last 32 bit desktops were made around 2003, and 32 bit laptops around 2009. I know all my 32 bit hardware broke long ago: I have several circa 2008 computers still running, but they're 64 bit. My two 2006 laptops and one 2008 laptop are all 64bit. Are a lot of people in poorer areas of the world still using 32 bit equipment? Or is a 32 bit computer more like an antique thing now? SteveT Steve Litt June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive From cryptworks at gmail.com Thu Jun 20 13:51:29 2019 From: cryptworks at gmail.com (Stephen Partington) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:51:29 -0700 Subject: PSA: Ubuntu 19.10 to end x86 32-bit support In-Reply-To: <20190620134857.5e6a7bd5@mydesk.domain.cxm> References: <10d40fa9-f70b-e9ff-ae09-55e1f8b2dec9@mattcrews.com> <20190620134857.5e6a7bd5@mydesk.domain.cxm> Message-ID: I suspect it is lazy development teams using legacy/32 bit code to save time/money. IE ain't broke, dont need to change, Leave it. When I was doing system integration in 2006/2008 there were still people using TSX32 and looking for compatible hardware because they didn't want to recode for another OS. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:37 AM Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:48:08 -0700 > Stephen Partington wrote: > > > specifically. from the cited threads in the list. > > > > - Users who need support for i386 integrated natively into their OS > > can use Ubuntu 18.04 with security support until April 2023. > > - 18.04 can be run in a chroot or container on top of later Ubuntu > > releases until 2023 with security support from Canonical, or beyond > > that without. > > - 32-bit software distributed as snaps built with an 18.04-derived > > library runtime can reasonably[1] be expected to work on later > > releases of Ubuntu for the foreseeable future > > - Once we're past the point where security support is available for > > the libraries anyway, maybe there's no advantage anymore to having > > your 32-bit compat libraries managed via the packaging system either; > > so maybe you just make /lib/i386-linux-gnu a straight unpacked > > tarball of the libs you need, and no longer have to worry about the > > version-lockstep constraints of multiarch. > > Does anybody know what percentage of computers still being used > worldwide have 32 bit hardware? My research tells me the last 32 bit > desktops were made around 2003, and 32 bit laptops around 2009. I know > all my 32 bit hardware broke long ago: I have several circa 2008 > computers still running, but they're 64 bit. My two 2006 laptops and > one 2008 laptop are all 64bit. > > Are a lot of people in poorer areas of the world still using 32 bit > equipment? Or is a 32 bit computer more like an antique thing now? > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > June 2019 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times > http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mailinglists at mattcrews.com Thu Jun 20 16:32:47 2019 From: mailinglists at mattcrews.com (Matthew Crews) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 01:32:47 +0200 (CEST) Subject: PSA: Ubuntu 19.10 to end x86 32-bit support In-Reply-To: References: <10d40fa9-f70b-e9ff-ae09-55e1f8b2dec9@mattcrews.com> <20190620134857.5e6a7bd5@mydesk.domain.cxm> Message-ID: <1845233779.261659.1561073567930@ichabod.co-bxl> June 20, 2019 10:51:29 PM CEST Stephen Partington wrote: I suspect it is lazy development teams using legacy/32 bit code to save time/money. IE ain't broke, dont need to change, Leave it. When I was doing system integration in 2006/2008 there were still people using TSX32 and looking for compatible hardware because they didn't want to recode for another OS. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:37 AM Steve Litt wrote: Does anybody know what percentage of computers still being used worldwide have 32 bit hardware? My research tells me the last 32 bit desktops were made around 2003, and 32 bit laptops around 2009. I know all my 32 bit hardware broke long ago: I have several circa 2008 computers still running, but they're 64 bit. My two 2006 laptops and one 2008 laptop are all 64bit. Are a lot of people in poorer areas of the world still using 32 bit equipment? Or is a 32 bit computer more like an antique thing now?   Its actually more complicated than just lazy development teams, but it is a significant part of it. (Note, when I say 32-bit I am referring to x86, and 64-bit I am referring to amd64. ARM-based hardware is a different topic altogether) >From a hardware perspective, virtually everything made in the last 15 years is 64-bit, save for some Atom-based netbooks (do people still use these?). From that perspective it makes sense to drop 32-bit ISOs, as very little hardware still in use will need it. If you need a 32-bit OS, there are other distros besides Ubuntu that will continue to exist (Debian, Gentoo, Arch Linux 32, and the like). At least in the US, it is impossible to buy a brand new PC today that is NOT 64-bit. That said, this isn't about hardware. This is about software, and running 32-bit software in a 64-bit environment. A lot of legacy software was written, compiled, and released in 32-bit and not 64-bit, and has no chance of ever being ported to 64-bit. This is especially the case with older games. To run this software in 64-bit environments will require 32-bit libraries to make it work. A lot of *modern* software (software released within the last year or so) is also written and compiled in 32-bit, despite compilers allowing 64-bit support with a single button. A lot of modern middleware and software engines ONLY support 32-bit builds. Many device drivers (like Brother printer drivers) are 32-bit only, or depend on 32-bit libraries to function correctly (Nvidia drivers). Why *these* developers refuse to enter the 64-bit era is beyond me. What you can't deny is that, until now, shipping a 32-bit binary will reach the maximum audience possible. What the folks at Canonical are doing is removing the 32-bit compatibility libraries from the Ubuntu repos from Ubuntu 19.10 onwards, thus preventing future 64-bit Ubuntu installs from running 32-bit software at all. They are asking users to find other solutions. Hope this clears things up. (For open source software, this is mostly a non-issue, of course) -Matt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From techlists at phpcoderusa.com Thu Jun 20 18:00:22 2019 From: techlists at phpcoderusa.com (techlists at phpcoderusa.com) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:00:22 -0700 Subject: PSA: Ubuntu 19.10 to end x86 32-bit support In-Reply-To: <1845233779.261659.1561073567930@ichabod.co-bxl> References: <10d40fa9-f70b-e9ff-ae09-55e1f8b2dec9@mattcrews.com> <20190620134857.5e6a7bd5@mydesk.domain.cxm> <1845233779.261659.1561073567930@ichabod.co-bxl> Message-ID: <5a5f2c51519748fbac65654a9eeda929@phpcoderusa.com> Looks like Ubuntu 18.04lts will get hardware updates almost until mid 2020. Maintenance updates until 2023 and security updates until 2028 : https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle I don't see any reason personally not to stay with 18.04lts for a while. Who knows what a couple years might bring. On 2019-06-20 16:32, Matthew Crews wrote: > June 20, 2019 10:51:29 PM CEST Stephen Partington wrote: > > I suspect it is lazy development teams using legacy/32 bit code to save time/money. IE ain't broke, dont need to change, Leave it. When I was doing system integration in 2006/2008 there were still people using TSX32 and looking for compatible hardware because they didn't want to recode for another OS. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:37 AM Steve Litt wrote: > Does anybody know what percentage of computers still being used > worldwide have 32 bit hardware? My research tells me the last 32 bit > desktops were made around 2003, and 32 bit laptops around 2009. I know > all my 32 bit hardware broke long ago: I have several circa 2008 > computers still running, but they're 64 bit. My two 2006 laptops and > one 2008 laptop are all 64bit. > > Are a lot of people in poorer areas of the world still using 32 bit > equipment? Or is a 32 bit computer more like an antique thing now? Its actually more complicated than just lazy development teams, but it is a significant part of it. (Note, when I say 32-bit I am referring to x86, and 64-bit I am referring to amd64. ARM-based hardware is a different topic altogether) >From a hardware perspective, virtually everything made in the last 15 years is 64-bit, save for some Atom-based netbooks (do people still use these?). From that perspective it makes sense to drop 32-bit ISOs, as very little hardware still in use will need it. If you need a 32-bit OS, there are other distros besides Ubuntu that will continue to exist (Debian, Gentoo, Arch Linux 32, and the like). At least in the US, it is impossible to buy a brand new PC today that is NOT 64-bit. That said, this isn't about hardware. This is about software, and running 32-bit software in a 64-bit environment. A lot of legacy software was written, compiled, and released in 32-bit and not 64-bit, and has no chance of ever being ported to 64-bit. This is especially the case with older games. To run this software in 64-bit environments will require 32-bit libraries to make it work. A lot of *modern* software (software released within the last year or so) is also written and compiled in 32-bit, despite compilers allowing 64-bit support with a single button. A lot of modern middleware and software engines ONLY support 32-bit builds. Many device drivers (like Brother printer drivers) are 32-bit only, or depend on 32-bit libraries to function correctly (Nvidia drivers). Why *these* developers refuse to enter the 64-bit era is beyond me. What you can't deny is that, until now, shipping a 32-bit binary will reach the maximum audience possible. What the folks at Canonical are doing is removing the 32-bit compatibility libraries from the Ubuntu repos from Ubuntu 19.10 onwards, thus preventing future 64-bit Ubuntu installs from running 32-bit software at all. They are asking users to find other solutions. Hope this clears things up. (For open source software, this is mostly a non-issue, of course) -Matt --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From techlists at phpcoderusa.com Thu Jun 20 19:35:48 2019 From: techlists at phpcoderusa.com (techlists at phpcoderusa.com) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:35:48 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions Message-ID: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP install that runs stock Apache. I have an install of WordPress under /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html Here is my problem. I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do both. Not sure why. To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) * chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ * chmod -R 755 www/ To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress cannot modify files) * chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. Any help much appreciated. Thanks!! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmcphe at gmail.com Thu Jun 20 19:42:24 2019 From: jmcphe at gmail.com (James Mcphee) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:42:24 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions In-Reply-To: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> References: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> Message-ID: You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write to files. chmod -R 775 www/ Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole nother question. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM wrote: > > Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP > install that runs stock Apache. > > I have an install of WordPress under > /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html > > Here is my problem. > > I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do both. > Not sure why. > > To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) > > - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ > - chmod -R 755 www/ > > To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress cannot > modify files) > > - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ > > I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. > > Any help much appreciated. > > Thanks!! > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- James McPhee jmcphe at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmcphe at gmail.com Thu Jun 20 19:47:22 2019 From: jmcphe at gmail.com (James Mcphee) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 19:47:22 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions In-Reply-To: References: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> Message-ID: Also, you're going to want to add your user to the www-data group. Then check to see what perms a modified or added file has. If it's not something you can write to, you'll have to set some suids or default facls. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee wrote: > You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write > to files. chmod -R 775 www/ > Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole > nother question. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM wrote: > >> >> Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP >> install that runs stock Apache. >> >> I have an install of WordPress under >> /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html >> >> Here is my problem. >> >> I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do both. >> Not sure why. >> >> To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) >> >> - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ >> - chmod -R 755 www/ >> >> To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress cannot >> modify files) >> >> - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ >> >> I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. >> >> Any help much appreciated. >> >> Thanks!! >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe at gmail.com > -- James McPhee jmcphe at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From techlists at phpcoderusa.com Thu Jun 20 20:18:09 2019 From: techlists at phpcoderusa.com (techlists at phpcoderusa.com) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:18:09 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions In-Reply-To: References: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> Message-ID: Thanks!! Ownership is {my-user-name}:www-data Permissions is 775 I added {my-user-name} to the www-data group : usermod -a -G www-data {my-user-name} /etc/group has an entry www-data:x:33:{my-user-name} which I assume verifies {my-user-name} was added to the www-data group? I can SFTP and I can remote edit using my editor, however WordPress asks for FTP credentials when I try to remove a plugin. Any thoughts? Thanks!! On 2019-06-20 19:47, James Mcphee wrote: > Also, you're going to want to add your user to the www-data group. Then check to see what perms a modified or added file has. If it's not something you can write to, you'll have to set some suids or default facls. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee wrote: > You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write to files. chmod -R 775 www/ > Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole nother question. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM wrote: > > Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP install that runs stock Apache. > > I have an install of WordPress under /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html > > Here is my problem. > > I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do both. Not sure why. > > To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) > > * chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ > * chmod -R 755 www/ > > To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress cannot modify files) > > * chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ > > I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. > > Any help much appreciated. > > Thanks!! > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe at gmail.com -- James McPhee jmcphe at gmail.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael at butash.net Thu Jun 20 20:20:14 2019 From: michael at butash.net (Michael Butash) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:20:14 -0700 Subject: PSA: Ubuntu 19.10 to end x86 32-bit support In-Reply-To: <10d40fa9-f70b-e9ff-ae09-55e1f8b2dec9@mattcrews.com> References: <10d40fa9-f70b-e9ff-ae09-55e1f8b2dec9@mattcrews.com> Message-ID: I really rarely ever need 32bit libs for anything, most notably and weird: Steam. I heard even they are working on a 64bit client, fscking finally, and I really have ideal why this is even a thing in 2019. Installing steam and arch both require you to use the "runtime" version, that runs at 32bit, and for fsck's sake I cannot think of a good reason why this is. Everyone complains about it, and in 2019 it *is* still a thing. There are how-to's how to get Steam to run in "native" mode, but I've never gotten it to work. Ever. The 32bit version works fine, but gezus, why still I ask as it pulls in a ton of irrelevant 32bit libs with every install otherwise and Steam, despite their progressive linux support, still does not?! -mb On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:18 PM Matthew Crews wrote: > For those that haven't seen it, Ubuntu 19.10 and derivatives are going > to end official x86 32-bit support. This is not just the end of 32-bit > ISOs though; they are also removing ALL 32-bit packages from their repos. > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-June/000245.html > > This will have serious ramifications for those that use Ubuntu and want > to use 32-bit software, device drivers, and the like. > > For now the best options appear to be: > > 1. Run your software in a VM, chroot, snap, or container > 2. Stay on Ubuntu 18.04 or earlier and do not upgrade > 3. Use a different OS altogether. > > I'm opting to phase Ubuntu out completely personally. > > -Matt > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmcphe at gmail.com Thu Jun 20 20:34:52 2019 From: jmcphe at gmail.com (James Mcphee) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:34:52 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions In-Reply-To: References: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> Message-ID: does the wordpress service run as a user with membership in the www-data group? It should, but you never know. On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:18 PM wrote: > Thanks!! > > Ownership is {my-user-name}:www-data > > Permissions is 775 > > I added {my-user-name} to the www-data group : usermod -a -G www-data > {my-user-name} > > /etc/group has an entry www-data:x:33:{my-user-name} which I assume > verifies {my-user-name} was added to the www-data group? > > I can SFTP and I can remote edit using my editor, however WordPress asks > for FTP credentials when I try to remove a plugin. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks!! > > > > > > On 2019-06-20 19:47, James Mcphee wrote: > > Also, you're going to want to add your user to the www-data group. Then > check to see what perms a modified or added file has. If it's not > something you can write to, you'll have to set some suids or default facls. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee wrote: > >> You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write >> to files. chmod -R 775 www/ >> Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole >> nother question. >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP >>> install that runs stock Apache. >>> >>> I have an install of WordPress under >>> /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html >>> >>> Here is my problem. >>> >>> I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do >>> both. Not sure why. >>> >>> To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) >>> >>> - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ >>> - chmod -R 755 www/ >>> >>> To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress cannot >>> modify files) >>> >>> - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ >>> >>> I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. >>> >>> Any help much appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks!! >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> James McPhee >> jmcphe at gmail.com >> > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe at gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- James McPhee jmcphe at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmcphe at gmail.com Thu Jun 20 20:37:21 2019 From: jmcphe at gmail.com (James Mcphee) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 20:37:21 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions In-Reply-To: References: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> Message-ID: googling your problem shows some solutions that might help. i'm not a wordpress user myself, more of a general unix sysadmin. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987108/upload-or-delete-wp-plugins-without-a-ftp-account On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:34 PM James Mcphee wrote: > does the wordpress service run as a user with membership in the www-data > group? It should, but you never know. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:18 PM wrote: > >> Thanks!! >> >> Ownership is {my-user-name}:www-data >> >> Permissions is 775 >> >> I added {my-user-name} to the www-data group : usermod -a -G www-data >> {my-user-name} >> >> /etc/group has an entry www-data:x:33:{my-user-name} which I assume >> verifies {my-user-name} was added to the www-data group? >> >> I can SFTP and I can remote edit using my editor, however WordPress asks >> for FTP credentials when I try to remove a plugin. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks!! >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2019-06-20 19:47, James Mcphee wrote: >> >> Also, you're going to want to add your user to the www-data group. Then >> check to see what perms a modified or added file has. If it's not >> something you can write to, you'll have to set some suids or default facls. >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee wrote: >> >>> You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write >>> to files. chmod -R 775 www/ >>> Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole >>> nother question. >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock >>>> LAMP install that runs stock Apache. >>>> >>>> I have an install of WordPress under >>>> /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html >>>> >>>> Here is my problem. >>>> >>>> I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do >>>> both. Not sure why. >>>> >>>> To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) >>>> >>>> - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ >>>> - chmod -R 755 www/ >>>> >>>> To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress >>>> cannot modify files) >>>> >>>> - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ >>>> >>>> I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. >>>> >>>> Any help much appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks!! >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> James McPhee >>> jmcphe at gmail.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> James McPhee >> jmcphe at gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe at gmail.com > -- James McPhee jmcphe at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From azanorak at gmail.com Sun Jun 23 10:36:06 2019 From: azanorak at gmail.com (Jim) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 10:36:06 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads Message-ID: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> I'm looking to configure ktorrent for the fastest possible downloads.   I know there are many things that can affect how fast something downloads via bittorrent, but I'm looking to get the best speeds possible.  Any help will be appreciated.  Thanks From cryptworks at gmail.com Sun Jun 23 11:08:08 2019 From: cryptworks at gmail.com (Stephen Partington) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:08:08 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> Message-ID: http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Good_settings http://www.torrenttrackerlist.com/best-utorrent-settings/ Both of these touch on similar settings. Ktorrent can benefit from the same ones. On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 10:36 AM Jim wrote: > I'm looking to configure ktorrent for the fastest possible downloads. > I know there are many things that can affect how fast something > downloads via bittorrent, but I'm looking to get the best speeds > possible. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bob.elzer at gmail.com Sun Jun 23 11:18:20 2019 From: bob.elzer at gmail.com (Bob Elzer) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 11:18:20 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> Message-ID: sign up for gigabit download speeds actually that won't guarantee anything, what determines down speed is the upload speeds of the hosts. most of the settings are for telling ktorrent how many concurrent downloads you want and and how many connections to each torrent you want. make sure you have enough. after that it depends on how many seeders are offering the torrent and their uplod speeds if you have a torrent with one seeder then you are at his mercy if he is online or not there are settings in ktorrent to slow down transfers so you dont take up all your bandwidth, but those are off by default. On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 10:36 AM Jim wrote: > I'm looking to configure ktorrent for the fastest possible downloads. > I know there are many things that can affect how fast something > downloads via bittorrent, but I'm looking to get the best speeds > possible. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael at butash.net Sun Jun 23 14:24:48 2019 From: michael at butash.net (Michael Butash) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 14:24:48 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> Message-ID: I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) torrent peer(s). Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending if your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to rate limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. I find using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local peering, so things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise window up fast to max bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges bandwidth overages now, but their service (internet peering) is generally better quality. I don't like random surprise overages after watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL with no caps. You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just don't - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn service. This influences again how fast you are downloading, make sure your vpn gives you good speed too. Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to seed, your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long answer why, read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream rates in your torrent client/server to a respectable number is the short of this. Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections - make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen torrenting kill enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. Connection counts affect memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. I see this occasionally with customer "incidents" when doing network/security consulting, and finding someone doing something stupid like installing a torrent client on their work computer as they end up being a top-talker I find with simple source flow counts for *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my firewall doing this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no internet access ever again. I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I use a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through that as a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, laptop, phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up as from an eu country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite good for my purposes. -mb On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:18 AM Bob Elzer wrote: > sign up for gigabit download speeds > > actually that won't guarantee anything, what determines down speed is the > upload speeds of the hosts. > > most of the settings are for telling ktorrent how many concurrent > downloads you want and and how many connections to each torrent you want. > make sure you have enough. > > after that it depends on how many seeders are offering the torrent and > their uplod speeds > > if you have a torrent with one seeder then you are at his mercy if he is > online or not > > there are settings in ktorrent to slow down transfers so you dont take up > all your bandwidth, but those are off by default. > > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 10:36 AM Jim wrote: > >> I'm looking to configure ktorrent for the fastest possible downloads. >> I know there are many things that can affect how fast something >> downloads via bittorrent, but I'm looking to get the best speeds >> possible. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From azanorak at gmail.com Sun Jun 23 20:27:00 2019 From: azanorak at gmail.com (Jim) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:27:00 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> Message-ID: <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) > torrent peer(s). I know this.  I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up. > Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending > if your isp is hating on your torrenting.  Comcast has been known to > rate limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born.  > I find using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local > peering, so things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise > window up fast to max bandwidth if enough peers.  Cox charges > bandwidth overages now, but their service (internet peering) is > generally better quality.  I don't like random surprise overages after > watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL with no caps. How fast is your Century Link service?  Are you stuck with dsl or do they offer something faster?  I've heard that many ISPs are imposing data caps now so they can screw people out of more money. > You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP.  Just > don't - you are inviting problems.  Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn > service.  This influences again how fast you are downloading, make > sure your vpn gives you good speed too. I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty and listing the torrent in question.  I use a VPN now and get no more nasty emails from the isp. > > Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer > rates, meaning faster to download than upload.  Interesting thing with > cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your > downstream rates in bad ways.  If you are maxing out your upstream to > seed, your downloads are likely affected in some way.  It's a long > answer why, read up on docsis if interested.  Limit your upstream > rates in your torrent client/server to a respectable number is the > short of this. > > Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections  > - make sure your router/firewall can handle this.  I've seen > torrenting kill enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts.  > Connection counts affect memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router.  > I see this occasionally with customer "incidents" when doing > network/security consulting, and finding someone doing something > stupid like installing a torrent client on their work computer as they > end up being a top-talker I find with simple source flow counts for > *abnormal* traffic.  I've also had roommates kill my firewall doing > this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no internet access > ever again. I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet connection with his stupid online shoot em up games.  I couldn't download anything.  I'd connect to the router and see that he was downloading little but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been something to do with that docsis issue you mentioned.  I fixed the problem by setting a limit on his upload speed so he only got half of what was available.  He complained when implementing this change kicked him offline for a minute or so, but not after that > I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary.  I > use a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through > that as a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, > laptop, phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up > as from an eu country via my vpn service.  Above guidelines are quite > good for my purposes. > > -mb I use protonvpn.  It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty emials from my ISP.  Thanks for your reply and also thanks to everyone else who replied. From michael at butash.net Sun Jun 23 23:12:23 2019 From: michael at butash.net (Michael Butash) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 23:12:23 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> Message-ID: > How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do > they offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing > data caps now so they can screw people out of more money. I have dsl here 140mbps down, older peoria, so not graced with anything beyond such as fiber. My cousin a mile away can't even get the 140 in his area. Again cox is better/faster service, but I'm not for paying their random cap overages. I know people with their fiber, but with Centurylink's peering being visible poop and heavily oversubscribed (both dsl and fiber share this I presume), I can't imagine even at a gig it's that great to use. > I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty > emials from my ISP. I use PIA here, one of the oldest, most reliable, and hasn't showed up on the news for bad things (yet). -mb On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:27 PM Jim wrote: > > On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > > I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) > > torrent peer(s). > I know this. I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up. > > Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending > > if your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to > > rate limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. > > I find using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local > > peering, so things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise > > window up fast to max bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges > > bandwidth overages now, but their service (internet peering) is > > generally better quality. I don't like random surprise overages after > > watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL with no caps. > > How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do > they offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing > data caps now so they can screw people out of more money. > > > You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just > > don't - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn > > service. This influences again how fast you are downloading, make > > sure your vpn gives you good speed too. > I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty > and listing the torrent in question. I use a VPN now and get no more > nasty emails from the isp. > > > > Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer > > rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with > > cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your > > downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to > > seed, your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long > > answer why, read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream > > rates in your torrent client/server to a respectable number is the > > short of this. > > > > Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections > > - make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen > > torrenting kill enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. > > Connection counts affect memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. > > I see this occasionally with customer "incidents" when doing > > network/security consulting, and finding someone doing something > > stupid like installing a torrent client on their work computer as they > > end up being a top-talker I find with simple source flow counts for > > *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my firewall doing > > this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no internet access > > ever again. > > I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet > connection with his stupid online shoot em up games. I couldn't > download anything. I'd connect to the router and see that he was > downloading little but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been > something to do with that docsis issue you mentioned. I fixed the > problem by setting a limit on his upload speed so he only got half of > what was available. He complained when implementing this change kicked > him offline for a minute or so, but not after that > > > I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I > > use a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through > > that as a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, > > laptop, phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up > > as from an eu country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite > > good for my purposes. > > > > -mb > > I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty > emials from my ISP. Thanks for your reply and also thanks to everyone > else who replied. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From techlists at phpcoderusa.com Mon Jun 24 10:52:14 2019 From: techlists at phpcoderusa.com (techlists at phpcoderusa.com) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:52:14 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions In-Reply-To: References: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> Message-ID: <1a0f725927d57b857aa5d148fc0a22e2@phpcoderusa.com> How would I know what user WordPress runs as? And how would I know what groups that user is in? On 2019-06-20 20:34, James Mcphee wrote: > does the wordpress service run as a user with membership in the www-data group? It should, but you never know. > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:18 PM wrote: > > Thanks!! > > Ownership is {my-user-name}:www-data > > Permissions is 775 > > I added {my-user-name} to the www-data group : usermod -a -G www-data {my-user-name} > > /etc/group has an entry www-data:x:33:{my-user-name} which I assume verifies {my-user-name} was added to the www-data group? > > I can SFTP and I can remote edit using my editor, however WordPress asks for FTP credentials when I try to remove a plugin. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks!! > > On 2019-06-20 19:47, James Mcphee wrote: > Also, you're going to want to add your user to the www-data group. Then check to see what perms a modified or added file has. If it's not something you can write to, you'll have to set some suids or default facls. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee wrote: > You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write to files. chmod -R 775 www/ > Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole nother question. > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM wrote: > > Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock LAMP install that runs stock Apache. > > I have an install of WordPress under /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html > > Here is my problem. > > I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do both. Not sure why. > > To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) > > * chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ > * chmod -R 755 www/ > > To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress cannot modify files) > > * chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ > > I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. > > Any help much appreciated. > > Thanks!! > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe at gmail.com -- James McPhee jmcphe at gmail.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- James McPhee jmcphe at gmail.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cryptworks at gmail.com Mon Jun 24 11:32:06 2019 From: cryptworks at gmail.com (Stephen Partington) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:32:06 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> Message-ID: OK, this is actually kind of interesting. Helps you calculate torrent settings based on your available upload/download. http://infinite-source.de/az/az-calc.html On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 11:12 PM Michael Butash wrote: > > How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do > > they offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing > > data caps now so they can screw people out of more money. > > I have dsl here 140mbps down, older peoria, so not graced with anything > beyond such as fiber. My cousin a mile away can't even get the 140 in his > area. Again cox is better/faster service, but I'm not for paying their > random cap overages. > > I know people with their fiber, but with Centurylink's peering being > visible poop and heavily oversubscribed (both dsl and fiber share this I > presume), I can't imagine even at a gig it's that great to use. > > > I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty > > emials from my ISP. > > I use PIA here, one of the oldest, most reliable, and hasn't showed up on > the news for bad things (yet). > > -mb > > > On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:27 PM Jim wrote: > >> >> On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >> > I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) >> > torrent peer(s). >> I know this. I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up. >> > Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending >> > if your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to >> > rate limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. >> > I find using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local >> > peering, so things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise >> > window up fast to max bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges >> > bandwidth overages now, but their service (internet peering) is >> > generally better quality. I don't like random surprise overages after >> > watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL with no caps. >> >> How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do >> they offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing >> data caps now so they can screw people out of more money. >> >> > You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just >> > don't - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn >> > service. This influences again how fast you are downloading, make >> > sure your vpn gives you good speed too. >> I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty >> and listing the torrent in question. I use a VPN now and get no more >> nasty emails from the isp. >> > >> > Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer >> > rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with >> > cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your >> > downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to >> > seed, your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long >> > answer why, read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream >> > rates in your torrent client/server to a respectable number is the >> > short of this. >> > >> > Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections >> > - make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen >> > torrenting kill enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. >> > Connection counts affect memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. >> > I see this occasionally with customer "incidents" when doing >> > network/security consulting, and finding someone doing something >> > stupid like installing a torrent client on their work computer as they >> > end up being a top-talker I find with simple source flow counts for >> > *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my firewall doing >> > this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no internet access >> > ever again. >> >> I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet >> connection with his stupid online shoot em up games. I couldn't >> download anything. I'd connect to the router and see that he was >> downloading little but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been >> something to do with that docsis issue you mentioned. I fixed the >> problem by setting a limit on his upload speed so he only got half of >> what was available. He complained when implementing this change kicked >> him offline for a minute or so, but not after that >> >> > I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I >> > use a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through >> > that as a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, >> > laptop, phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up >> > as from an eu country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite >> > good for my purposes. >> > >> > -mb >> >> I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty >> emials from my ISP. Thanks for your reply and also thanks to everyone >> else who replied. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexander at snyderfamily.co Mon Jun 24 11:46:20 2019 From: alexander at snyderfamily.co (Snyder, Alexander J) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:46:20 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions In-Reply-To: <1a0f725927d57b857aa5d148fc0a22e2@phpcoderusa.com> References: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> <1a0f725927d57b857aa5d148fc0a22e2@phpcoderusa.com> Message-ID: You can check the PS output: ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep -Ei 'wordpress|apache|php' It's likely running as the apache user or the www user. Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Galaxy S10+ On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 10:53 wrote: > > > > How would I know what user WordPress runs as? And how would I know what > groups that user is in? > > > On 2019-06-20 20:34, James Mcphee wrote: > > does the wordpress service run as a user with membership in the www-data > group? It should, but you never know. > > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:18 PM wrote: > >> Thanks!! >> >> Ownership is {my-user-name}:www-data >> >> Permissions is 775 >> >> I added {my-user-name} to the www-data group : usermod -a -G www-data >> {my-user-name} >> >> /etc/group has an entry www-data:x:33:{my-user-name} which I assume >> verifies {my-user-name} was added to the www-data group? >> >> I can SFTP and I can remote edit using my editor, however WordPress asks >> for FTP credentials when I try to remove a plugin. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks!! >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2019-06-20 19:47, James Mcphee wrote: >> >> Also, you're going to want to add your user to the www-data group. Then >> check to see what perms a modified or added file has. If it's not >> something you can write to, you'll have to set some suids or default facls. >> >> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:42 PM James Mcphee wrote: >> >>> You need to give www-data write access for wordpress to be able to write >>> to files. chmod -R 775 www/ >>> Whether a web daemon SHOULD have access to edit its own files is a whole >>> nother question. >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 7:35 PM wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi I am running a local server running Ubunto 16.04LTS with a stock >>>> LAMP install that runs stock Apache. >>>> >>>> I have an install of WordPress under >>>> /var/www/vhost/{vhost-name}/public_html >>>> >>>> Here is my problem. >>>> >>>> I can either FTP or WordPress can edit / remove file. I cannot do >>>> both. Not sure why. >>>> >>>> To allow WordPress to modify files I must: (I cannot SFTP) >>>> >>>> - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ >>>> - chmod -R 755 www/ >>>> >>>> To allow me to SFTP I must change the file ownership: (WordPress >>>> cannot modify files) >>>> >>>> - chown -R {my-user-name}:www-data www/ >>>> >>>> I would like to be able to FTP and allow WordPress to modify files. >>>> >>>> Any help much appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks!! >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> James McPhee >>> jmcphe at gmail.com >>> >> >> >> -- >> James McPhee >> jmcphe at gmail.com >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe at gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Thu Jun 27 02:10:29 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 02:10:29 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> Message-ID: <5008C2AC-EF4F-4444-BE8F-F7DE3BA9ABF4@icloud.com> A slight addition, with regards to cox. I use the business class service here, which means that my bandwidth is not the ever present in residential “up to” speed, but is the advertised speed of 65 Mbits/sec. Also, I use a VPN for torrenting over simply because cox, like most other broadband providers) doesn’t like one using a method of file transfer that can be so incredibly abused by those sharing copyrighted content. Now, since I am only 1 of about 20 users on my node doing business service, instead of residential, I am not suck for bandwidth like all the residential users around me. I also don’t have to worry about overage charges (if you exceed 1 TB a month on residential, it can cost up to $10 per gigabyte over your limit. If you happen to be streaming 4k content via that connection, you will definitely go over by the 23rd day of that 30 day cycle, especially if you are like my room mate and leave the video stream on 24/7. Now, as for best settings for your torrent client, even the best settings still might not give you peak performance. A lot depends on the health of the swarm (number of seeds >2) and how many leechers there may be. Typically, if you have only a few seeds and a lot of leeches, you won’t be getting any performance out of your torrent client. Now, some of the best settings I have come up with over the years includes: Number of active torrents On Jun 23, 2019, at 8:27 PM, Jim wrote: > > > On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >> I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) torrent peer(s). > I know this. I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up. >> Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending if your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to rate limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. I find using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local peering, so things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise window up fast to max bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges bandwidth overages now, but their service (internet peering) is generally better quality. I don't like random surprise overages after watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL with no caps. > > How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do they offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing data caps now so they can screw people out of more money. > >> You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just don't - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn service. This influences again how fast you are downloading, make sure your vpn gives you good speed too. > I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty and listing the torrent in question. I use a VPN now and get no more nasty emails from the isp. >> >> Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to seed, your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long answer why, read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream rates in your torrent client/server to a respectable number is the short of this. >> >> Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections - make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen torrenting kill enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. Connection counts affect memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. I see this occasionally with customer "incidents" when doing network/security consulting, and finding someone doing something stupid like installing a torrent client on their work computer as they end up being a top-talker I find with simple source flow counts for *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my firewall doing this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no internet access ever again. > > I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet connection with his stupid online shoot em up games. I couldn't download anything. I'd connect to the router and see that he was downloading little but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been something to do with that docsis issue you mentioned. I fixed the problem by setting a limit on his upload speed so he only got half of what was available. He complained when implementing this change kicked him offline for a minute or so, but not after that > >> I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I use a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through that as a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, laptop, phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up as from an eu country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite good for my purposes. >> >> -mb > > I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty emials from my ISP. Thanks for your reply and also thanks to everyone else who replied. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael at butash.net Thu Jun 27 11:52:47 2019 From: michael at butash.net (Michael Butash) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:52:47 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: <5008C2AC-EF4F-4444-BE8F-F7DE3BA9ABF4@icloud.com> References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> <5008C2AC-EF4F-4444-BE8F-F7DE3BA9ABF4@icloud.com> Message-ID: Hi Eric, Curious what you're paying for that these days from Cox Business. I used to work for them some ~20yr ago, so had it for many years, but found it not worth the cost over time. I moved to residential, which was fine, other than the every 4 years or so I'd have to call them to come replace feeder cable to my house from cable suckage (heat/metal expansion/contraction, not literal), and have to wait a day to get a tech here. Upstream isn't so important unless you're trying to be the next piratebay top 10 seeder, so I'm all for cost savings, thus moving to centurylink the past year. Which by the way, I rather hate lec/telco's by nature, so this was difficult. My doing so was purely a financial decision. Shame Cox implemented data caps, I never minded paying a bit more for better service, but when randomly 10-20 dollars higher than normal, I got angry. Side note - business modem usage of RF spectrum isn't any different from residential users, you only get a different modem config file that allows things like tcp/25 and 80 ports, more synchronous bandwidth as mentioned, and that's really it. Coming from someone working with cable modems circa '99 pre-docsis, their hype isn't all that besides 24/7 physical support, more synchronous bandwidth, and better peering (ie. local peering vs. California egress, some ~20ms). Cox does however in general do a good job of managing bandwidth at the node level, residential or business, to keep things copacetic in either regard. -mb On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:10 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > A slight addition, with regards to cox. > > I use the business class service here, which means that my bandwidth is > not the ever present in residential “up to” speed, but is the advertised > speed of 65 Mbits/sec. Also, I use a VPN for torrenting over simply because > cox, like most other broadband providers) doesn’t like one using a method > of file transfer that can be so incredibly abused by those sharing > copyrighted content. > > Now, since I am only 1 of about 20 users on my node doing business > service, instead of residential, I am not suck for bandwidth like all the > residential users around me. I also don’t have to worry about overage > charges (if you exceed 1 TB a month on residential, it can cost up to $10 > per gigabyte over your limit. If you happen to be streaming 4k content via > that connection, you will definitely go over by the 23rd day of that 30 day > cycle, especially if you are like my room mate and leave the video stream > on 24/7. > > > Now, as for best settings for your torrent client, even the best settings > still might not give you peak performance. A lot depends on the health of > the swarm (number of seeds >2) and how many leechers there may be. > Typically, if you have only a few seeds and a lot of leeches, you won’t be > getting any performance out of your torrent client. > > Now, some of the best settings I have come up with over the years includes: > Number of active torrents less and the per torrent connections no higher than 200. Also, I tend to > limit both upload and download BW to about 70% of my overall available > bandwidth here. I have other reasons for that, including not causing a > problem with the video streaming > That the room mate enjoys. There might be some advanced settings in your > torrent client that may also improve performance, but overall, a lot still > depends on how many seeds and the level of bandwidth they can feed. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Dept of Quality of > Services. > > > On Jun 23, 2019, at 8:27 PM, Jim wrote: > > > On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > > I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) torrent > peer(s). > > I know this. I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up. > > Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending if > your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to rate > limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. I find > using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local peering, so > things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise window up fast to max > bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges bandwidth overages now, but their > service (internet peering) is generally better quality. I don't like > random surprise overages after watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL > with no caps. > > > How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do they > offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing data caps > now so they can screw people out of more money. > > You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just don't > - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn service. > This influences again how fast you are downloading, make sure your vpn > gives you good speed too. > > I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty > and listing the torrent in question. I use a VPN now and get no more nasty > emails from the isp. > > > Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer > rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with > cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your > downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to seed, > your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long answer why, > read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream rates in your torrent > client/server to a respectable number is the short of this. > > Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections - > make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen torrenting kill > enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. Connection counts affect > memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. I see this occasionally with > customer "incidents" when doing network/security consulting, and finding > someone doing something stupid like installing a torrent client on their > work computer as they end up being a top-talker I find with simple source > flow counts for *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my > firewall doing this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no > internet access ever again. > > > I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet > connection with his stupid online shoot em up games. I couldn't download > anything. I'd connect to the router and see that he was downloading little > but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been something to do with > that docsis issue you mentioned. I fixed the problem by setting a limit on > his upload speed so he only got half of what was available. He complained > when implementing this change kicked him offline for a minute or so, but > not after that > > I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I use > a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through that as > a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, laptop, > phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up as from an eu > country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite good for my > purposes. > > -mb > > > I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty > emials from my ISP. 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URL: From cryptworks at gmail.com Thu Jun 27 14:58:43 2019 From: cryptworks at gmail.com (Stephen Partington) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 14:58:43 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> <5008C2AC-EF4F-4444-BE8F-F7DE3BA9ABF4@icloud.com> Message-ID: I have had cox residential for years. (90's yo) and right now On the Fiber gigablast has been the best experience with any of their products I have ever had. even beyond the general squee of Gig up and down. And the only time port 80 mattered to me was that letsencrypt no longer allows https for verification. and I would like to have 25 open to learn how to run my own mail server. On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:53 AM Michael Butash wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Curious what you're paying for that these days from Cox Business. > > I used to work for them some ~20yr ago, so had it for many years, but > found it not worth the cost over time. I moved to residential, which was > fine, other than the every 4 years or so I'd have to call them to come > replace feeder cable to my house from cable suckage (heat/metal > expansion/contraction, not literal), and have to wait a day to get a tech > here. Upstream isn't so important unless you're trying to be the next > piratebay top 10 seeder, so I'm all for cost savings, thus moving to > centurylink the past year. > > Which by the way, I rather hate lec/telco's by nature, so this was > difficult. My doing so was purely a financial decision. Shame Cox > implemented data caps, I never minded paying a bit more for better service, > but when randomly 10-20 dollars higher than normal, I got angry. > > Side note - business modem usage of RF spectrum isn't any different from > residential users, you only get a different modem config file that allows > things like tcp/25 and 80 ports, more synchronous bandwidth as mentioned, > and that's really it. Coming from someone working with cable modems circa > '99 pre-docsis, their hype isn't all that besides 24/7 physical support, > more synchronous bandwidth, and better peering (ie. local peering vs. > California egress, some ~20ms). Cox does however in general do a good job > of managing bandwidth at the node level, residential or business, to keep > things copacetic in either regard. > > -mb > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:10 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > >> A slight addition, with regards to cox. >> >> I use the business class service here, which means that my bandwidth is >> not the ever present in residential “up to” speed, but is the advertised >> speed of 65 Mbits/sec. Also, I use a VPN for torrenting over simply because >> cox, like most other broadband providers) doesn’t like one using a method >> of file transfer that can be so incredibly abused by those sharing >> copyrighted content. >> >> Now, since I am only 1 of about 20 users on my node doing business >> service, instead of residential, I am not suck for bandwidth like all the >> residential users around me. I also don’t have to worry about overage >> charges (if you exceed 1 TB a month on residential, it can cost up to $10 >> per gigabyte over your limit. If you happen to be streaming 4k content via >> that connection, you will definitely go over by the 23rd day of that 30 day >> cycle, especially if you are like my room mate and leave the video stream >> on 24/7. >> >> >> Now, as for best settings for your torrent client, even the best settings >> still might not give you peak performance. A lot depends on the health of >> the swarm (number of seeds >2) and how many leechers there may be. >> Typically, if you have only a few seeds and a lot of leeches, you won’t be >> getting any performance out of your torrent client. >> >> Now, some of the best settings I have come up with over the years >> includes: >> Number of active torrents > less and the per torrent connections no higher than 200. Also, I tend to >> limit both upload and download BW to about 70% of my overall available >> bandwidth here. I have other reasons for that, including not causing a >> problem with the video streaming >> That the room mate enjoys. There might be some advanced settings in your >> torrent client that may also improve performance, but overall, a lot still >> depends on how many seeds and the level of bandwidth they can feed. >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Dept of Quality of >> Services. >> >> >> On Jun 23, 2019, at 8:27 PM, Jim wrote: >> >> >> On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >> >> I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) torrent >> peer(s). >> >> I know this. I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up. >> >> Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending if >> your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to rate >> limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. I find >> using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local peering, so >> things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise window up fast to max >> bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges bandwidth overages now, but their >> service (internet peering) is generally better quality. I don't like >> random surprise overages after watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL >> with no caps. >> >> >> How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do they >> offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing data caps >> now so they can screw people out of more money. >> >> You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just don't >> - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn service. >> This influences again how fast you are downloading, make sure your vpn >> gives you good speed too. >> >> I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty >> and listing the torrent in question. I use a VPN now and get no more nasty >> emails from the isp. >> >> >> Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer >> rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with >> cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your >> downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to seed, >> your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long answer why, >> read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream rates in your torrent >> client/server to a respectable number is the short of this. >> >> Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections - >> make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen torrenting kill >> enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. Connection counts affect >> memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. I see this occasionally with >> customer "incidents" when doing network/security consulting, and finding >> someone doing something stupid like installing a torrent client on their >> work computer as they end up being a top-talker I find with simple source >> flow counts for *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my >> firewall doing this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no >> internet access ever again. >> >> >> I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet >> connection with his stupid online shoot em up games. I couldn't download >> anything. I'd connect to the router and see that he was downloading little >> but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been something to do with >> that docsis issue you mentioned. I fixed the problem by setting a limit on >> his upload speed so he only got half of what was available. He complained >> when implementing this change kicked him offline for a minute or so, but >> not after that >> >> I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I use >> a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through that as >> a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, laptop, >> phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up as from an eu >> country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite good for my >> purposes. >> >> -mb >> >> >> I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty >> emials from my ISP. Thanks for your reply and also thanks to everyone else >> who replied. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From james.dugger at gmail.com Thu Jun 27 20:06:27 2019 From: james.dugger at gmail.com (James Dugger) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:06:27 -0700 Subject: WordPress file ownership and Permissions In-Reply-To: References: <083f904a943f55f2b4660337062c2141@phpcoderusa.com> <1a0f725927d57b857aa5d148fc0a22e2@phpcoderusa.com> Message-ID: As a point of further clarification, Apache is the soul user and manager (assuming it is the only thing listening on port 80) of the http(s) protocol requests being delivered to the server, As such it manages all requests to other system resources on behalf of the preprocessor, in this case WordPress in the form of PHP. As such WordPress and by extension PHP have no ownership on the system, they/it (PHP) passes the requests to Apache which does have a user on the this system. So in the context of WordPress, Drupal, Laravel ... [insert php framework here], when it comes to the user it is ALWAYS Apache. In The 2 major packaged builds of Apache in commercial use are Debian with user:group www-data, and RHEL which is apache:apache respectively. You should only be looking for www-data or apache depending on your system. Grep-ing for wordpress or some other name is a waste of time because I doubt you went in and altered Apache to use a different name ... cuz who would want that insanity. When it comes to ownership and permission management of the file system that is always the OS. While it is common to see the boiler plate apache ownership in the file system: Version 1 (CentOS) $ ls -la drwx-r-xr--x 1 apache apache 2034 Jun 27 04:43 wp-content (for a dir) -rw-r-xr--x 1 apache apache 2034 Jun 27 04:43 objectcache.php you are just as likely to see this on a production server: Version 2 (CentOS) $ ls - la drwx-r-xr--x 1 hosting hosting 2034 Jun 27 04:43 wp-content (for a dir) -rw-r-xr--x 1 hosting hosting 2034 Jun 27 04:43 objectcache.php Both of these permission and ownership versions of the same file/folder combo will return the same with the ps command $ ps -ef | egrep '(apache|httpd|www-data)' root 2492 1 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 2636 2492 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 2638 2492 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 2644 2492 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 2645 2492 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND apache 2648 2492 0 Jun27 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND Both versions work and both versions are valid. The difference is that in Version 2 Apache does not have write privileges to the files. So Why would you do that? Because unless your application needs to have Apache write to files it is a security risk to do so. Some PHP applications (Drupal) require apache to have write privileges but only to a certain directory. While WordPress does have proprietary plugins that require write privileges they are usually only needed during an upgrade or initial installation of the plugin. This is the biggest use case by far for WordPress needing write privileges. In this scenario we use a CICD pipeline application to temporarily change the permissions so Apache can write and then reset the restrictions once deployment and installation are complete. If the site needs constant write privileges we usually recommend switching to Drupal or another framework that has more robust security. If by some unfortunate circumstance we have to use WordPress and have to give it continuous write privileges we point the requirement to a folder (typically a separate file share) and try and lock down Apache with as much write limitations in the directive in the Apache conf file for the site as possible. We usually also do not setup SFTP in production. Again that is what a CICD workflow is for and that is usually done from a build agent (jenkins/bamboo server) that has password-less SSH access and/or OAuth support. Hosting companies do provide SFTP access to site accounts but it is usually dynamically instantiated at the time of the request and destroyed upon exit. Hope the helps or maybe it was just already understood. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.oyen at icloud.com Thu Jun 27 20:08:44 2019 From: eric.oyen at icloud.com (Eric Oyen) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:08:44 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> <5008C2AC-EF4F-4444-BE8F-F7DE3BA9ABF4@icloud.com> Message-ID: <95D17F04-583F-4561-8D56-2CBF7444146D@icloud.com> Well, I am paying about $86 monthly for my current cox business service. That includes modem rental, interior wire coverage, 4 hour priority call service, etc.. Believe me, I was paying more than 40% more for similar residential service and getting only about 1/2 of what I was paying for on average (according to sam knows). Now, as to how the cable is routed into the house here, it all comes in on the west wall from an underground conduit fed in from the pedastle at the street. We have had the cable replaced once in the last 5 years. The problem with the telco in this area, most of the phone lines are over 55 years old, have lots of half taps, capacitive crossovers, full taps, breaks, and various other issues. The last time I used telco lines here was in 1998 and QWEST had such abysmal service that I was down far more time than up. In fact, because of one consistent outage issue, I ended up filing a complaint with the Arizona Corporation Commission as well as a consumer complaint via the state attorney general’s office. The telco response was to accuse me of running an illegal file sharing server, during a period of time when I was in a documented service outage. That was in 1998 and I went to cox and never looked back. -Eric From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Customer retention Dept. > On Jun 27, 2019, at 11:52 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > Curious what you're paying for that these days from Cox Business. > > I used to work for them some ~20yr ago, so had it for many years, but found it not worth the cost over time. I moved to residential, which was fine, other than the every 4 years or so I'd have to call them to come replace feeder cable to my house from cable suckage (heat/metal expansion/contraction, not literal), and have to wait a day to get a tech here. Upstream isn't so important unless you're trying to be the next piratebay top 10 seeder, so I'm all for cost savings, thus moving to centurylink the past year. > > Which by the way, I rather hate lec/telco's by nature, so this was difficult. My doing so was purely a financial decision. Shame Cox implemented data caps, I never minded paying a bit more for better service, but when randomly 10-20 dollars higher than normal, I got angry. > > Side note - business modem usage of RF spectrum isn't any different from residential users, you only get a different modem config file that allows things like tcp/25 and 80 ports, more synchronous bandwidth as mentioned, and that's really it. Coming from someone working with cable modems circa '99 pre-docsis, their hype isn't all that besides 24/7 physical support, more synchronous bandwidth, and better peering (ie. local peering vs. California egress, some ~20ms). Cox does however in general do a good job of managing bandwidth at the node level, residential or business, to keep things copacetic in either regard. > > -mb > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:10 AM Eric Oyen > wrote: > A slight addition, with regards to cox. > > I use the business class service here, which means that my bandwidth is not the ever present in residential “up to” speed, but is the advertised speed of 65 Mbits/sec. Also, I use a VPN for torrenting over simply because cox, like most other broadband providers) doesn’t like one using a method of file transfer that can be so incredibly abused by those sharing copyrighted content. > > Now, since I am only 1 of about 20 users on my node doing business service, instead of residential, I am not suck for bandwidth like all the residential users around me. I also don’t have to worry about overage charges (if you exceed 1 TB a month on residential, it can cost up to $10 per gigabyte over your limit. If you happen to be streaming 4k content via that connection, you will definitely go over by the 23rd day of that 30 day cycle, especially if you are like my room mate and leave the video stream on 24/7. > > > Now, as for best settings for your torrent client, even the best settings still might not give you peak performance. A lot depends on the health of the swarm (number of seeds >2) and how many leechers there may be. Typically, if you have only a few seeds and a lot of leeches, you won’t be getting any performance out of your torrent client. > > Now, some of the best settings I have come up with over the years includes: > Number of active torrents That the room mate enjoys. There might be some advanced settings in your torrent client that may also improve performance, but overall, a lot still depends on how many seeds and the level of bandwidth they can feed. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Dept of Quality of Services. > > >> On Jun 23, 2019, at 8:27 PM, Jim > wrote: >> >> >> On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >>> I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) torrent peer(s). >> I know this. I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up. >>> Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending if your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to rate limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. I find using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local peering, so things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise window up fast to max bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges bandwidth overages now, but their service (internet peering) is generally better quality. I don't like random surprise overages after watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL with no caps. >> >> How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do they offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing data caps now so they can screw people out of more money. >> >>> You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just don't - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn service. This influences again how fast you are downloading, make sure your vpn gives you good speed too. >> I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty and listing the torrent in question. I use a VPN now and get no more nasty emails from the isp. >>> >>> Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to seed, your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long answer why, read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream rates in your torrent client/server to a respectable number is the short of this. >>> >>> Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections - make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen torrenting kill enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. Connection counts affect memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. I see this occasionally with customer "incidents" when doing network/security consulting, and finding someone doing something stupid like installing a torrent client on their work computer as they end up being a top-talker I find with simple source flow counts for *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my firewall doing this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no internet access ever again. >> >> I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet connection with his stupid online shoot em up games. I couldn't download anything. I'd connect to the router and see that he was downloading little but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been something to do with that docsis issue you mentioned. I fixed the problem by setting a limit on his upload speed so he only got half of what was available. He complained when implementing this change kicked him offline for a minute or so, but not after that >> >>> I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I use a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through that as a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, laptop, phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up as from an eu country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite good for my purposes. >>> >>> -mb >> >> I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty emials from my ISP. 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URL: From michael at butash.net Fri Jun 28 09:04:18 2019 From: michael at butash.net (Michael Butash) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:04:18 -0700 Subject: Configure ktorrent for fastest downloads In-Reply-To: <95D17F04-583F-4561-8D56-2CBF7444146D@icloud.com> References: <9d33dfef-e8ff-42e2-07e5-eb1090f38509@gmail.com> <6e99477b-f4d1-e322-fded-23c2defd0eff@gmail.com> <5008C2AC-EF4F-4444-BE8F-F7DE3BA9ABF4@icloud.com> <95D17F04-583F-4561-8D56-2CBF7444146D@icloud.com> Message-ID: Cox and CenturyLink are both _very_dependent where you live and performance expected. I'm old like Stephen in using cox since the 90's, and that was in the old Maryvale hood, where it worked rather well, but only because I was likely the only person using internet there in the 90's. It was absolute crap for a friend that lived a few miles away in aerial drops, just because the coax was generally maintained worse there. Working at Cox in 2002-2003, we had parts of town, particularly older area of town like old Tempe, or areas they bought from other local Cable companies that were just terribly designed RF plants. Where I've lived the past 20 years is newer parts of peoria (build '95), so it works fairly well here for both. We'll never see fiber though. You were probably in a "trouble" area, but got fixed at some point. Buying business services in a crap area sometimes makes them fix it. Sometimes not.. Cox has since replaced most old crap like that, just because they had to for docsis evolution. The do still maintain reasonable levels on nodes, so you don't have to worry too much about oversubscription. Their biggest issues have been staying ahead of capacity in general, both across the valley, and their peering with L3 in LA that all phoenix egresses (unless using business). CenturyLink DSL works ok for me since switching. I've only seen one outage so far, last friday, and overall the speed is good. I do notice they are _really_ oversubscribed in their peering to L3 too. This tends to cause things to load slowly at first, but most folks would find this imperceptible I think. I know because 20 years as an network engineer tell me things, and I know how the isp's are run. It's all what is most important to you I suppose - cash or performance. Cox is like Apple, CL is like some off-brand Chinese Android, but mostly do the same things. -mb On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 8:08 PM Eric Oyen wrote: > Well, > I am paying about $86 monthly for my current cox business service. That > includes modem rental, interior wire coverage, 4 hour priority call > service, etc.. Believe me, I was paying more than 40% more for similar > residential service and getting only about 1/2 of what I was paying for on > average (according to sam knows). > > Now, as to how the cable is routed into the house here, it all comes in on > the west wall from an underground conduit fed in from the pedastle at the > street. We have had the cable replaced once in the last 5 years. > > The problem with the telco in this area, most of the phone lines are over > 55 years old, have lots of half taps, capacitive crossovers, full taps, > breaks, and various other issues. The last time I used telco lines here was > in 1998 and QWEST had such abysmal service that I was down far more time > than up. In fact, because of one consistent outage issue, I ended up filing > a complaint with the Arizona Corporation Commission as well as a consumer > complaint via the state attorney general’s office. The telco response was > to accuse me of running an illegal file sharing server, during a period of > time when I was in a documented service outage. That was in 1998 and I went > to cox and never looked back. > > -Eric > From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Customer retention Dept. > > On Jun 27, 2019, at 11:52 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > Curious what you're paying for that these days from Cox Business. > > I used to work for them some ~20yr ago, so had it for many years, but > found it not worth the cost over time. I moved to residential, which was > fine, other than the every 4 years or so I'd have to call them to come > replace feeder cable to my house from cable suckage (heat/metal > expansion/contraction, not literal), and have to wait a day to get a tech > here. Upstream isn't so important unless you're trying to be the next > piratebay top 10 seeder, so I'm all for cost savings, thus moving to > centurylink the past year. > > Which by the way, I rather hate lec/telco's by nature, so this was > difficult. My doing so was purely a financial decision. Shame Cox > implemented data caps, I never minded paying a bit more for better service, > but when randomly 10-20 dollars higher than normal, I got angry. > > Side note - business modem usage of RF spectrum isn't any different from > residential users, you only get a different modem config file that allows > things like tcp/25 and 80 ports, more synchronous bandwidth as mentioned, > and that's really it. Coming from someone working with cable modems circa > '99 pre-docsis, their hype isn't all that besides 24/7 physical support, > more synchronous bandwidth, and better peering (ie. local peering vs. > California egress, some ~20ms). Cox does however in general do a good job > of managing bandwidth at the node level, residential or business, to keep > things copacetic in either regard. > > -mb > > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:10 AM Eric Oyen wrote: > >> A slight addition, with regards to cox. >> >> I use the business class service here, which means that my bandwidth is >> not the ever present in residential “up to” speed, but is the advertised >> speed of 65 Mbits/sec. Also, I use a VPN for torrenting over simply because >> cox, like most other broadband providers) doesn’t like one using a method >> of file transfer that can be so incredibly abused by those sharing >> copyrighted content. >> >> Now, since I am only 1 of about 20 users on my node doing business >> service, instead of residential, I am not suck for bandwidth like all the >> residential users around me. I also don’t have to worry about overage >> charges (if you exceed 1 TB a month on residential, it can cost up to $10 >> per gigabyte over your limit. If you happen to be streaming 4k content via >> that connection, you will definitely go over by the 23rd day of that 30 day >> cycle, especially if you are like my room mate and leave the video stream >> on 24/7. >> >> >> Now, as for best settings for your torrent client, even the best settings >> still might not give you peak performance. A lot depends on the health of >> the swarm (number of seeds >2) and how many leechers there may be. >> Typically, if you have only a few seeds and a lot of leeches, you won’t be >> getting any performance out of your torrent client. >> >> Now, some of the best settings I have come up with over the years >> includes: >> Number of active torrents > less and the per torrent connections no higher than 200. Also, I tend to >> limit both upload and download BW to about 70% of my overall available >> bandwidth here. I have other reasons for that, including not causing a >> problem with the video streaming >> That the room mate enjoys. There might be some advanced settings in your >> torrent client that may also improve performance, but overall, a lot still >> depends on how many seeds and the level of bandwidth they can feed. >> >> -Eric >> From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Dept of Quality of >> Services. >> >> >> On Jun 23, 2019, at 8:27 PM, Jim wrote: >> >> >> On 6/23/19 2:24 PM, Michael Butash wrote: >> >> I find you're only as fast as your 1) home isp connection and 2) torrent >> peer(s). >> >> I know this. I've got 10 Mbits down and 1 up. >> >> Sometimes your speed as only good as your isp, particularly depending if >> your isp is hating on your torrenting. Comcast has been known to rate >> limit torrents actively, thus net neutrality debates were born. I find >> using CenturyLink, it is always oversubscribed in their local peering, so >> things tend to be a bit slow at first, but otherwise window up fast to max >> bandwidth if enough peers. Cox charges bandwidth overages now, but their >> service (internet peering) is generally better quality. I don't like >> random surprise overages after watching some 4k movies, so I'm now with CL >> with no caps. >> >> >> How fast is your Century Link service? Are you stuck with dsl or do they >> offer something faster? I've heard that many ISPs are imposing data caps >> now so they can screw people out of more money. >> >> You should never, ever get torrents from your direct home IP. Just don't >> - you are inviting problems. Get a reliable, trustworthy vpn service. >> This influences again how fast you are downloading, make sure your vpn >> gives you good speed too. >> >> I got one of those threatening emails from AT&T saying I've been naughty >> and listing the torrent in question. I use a VPN now and get no more nasty >> emails from the isp. >> >> >> Almost any residential service, dsl or cable are asynchronous transfer >> rates, meaning faster to download than upload. Interesting thing with >> cable particularly, uploading at capacity tends to influence your >> downstream rates in bad ways. If you are maxing out your upstream to seed, >> your downloads are likely affected in some way. It's a long answer why, >> read up on docsis if interested. Limit your upstream rates in your torrent >> client/server to a respectable number is the short of this. >> >> Torrents tend to create a _lot_ of packet per seconds and connections - >> make sure your router/firewall can handle this. I've seen torrenting kill >> enterprise firewalls in session/pps counts. Connection counts affect >> memory, and might/will kill a cheapo router. I see this occasionally with >> customer "incidents" when doing network/security consulting, and finding >> someone doing something stupid like installing a torrent client on their >> work computer as they end up being a top-talker I find with simple source >> flow counts for *abnormal* traffic. I've also had roommates kill my >> firewall doing this, before I find, block, and threaten them with no >> internet access ever again. >> >> >> I used to have a roommate about 10 years ago who bogged down my internet >> connection with his stupid online shoot em up games. I couldn't download >> anything. I'd connect to the router and see that he was downloading little >> but maxing out the upload speed. It must have been something to do with >> that docsis issue you mentioned. I fixed the problem by setting a limit on >> his upload speed so he only got half of what was available. He complained >> when implementing this change kicked him offline for a minute or so, but >> not after that >> >> I don't find a lot of other optimization of clients are necessary. I use >> a transmission-remote server and otherwise feed everything through that as >> a server appliance from numerous clients on the lan (desktop, laptop, >> phone, sometimes remote), and all torrent collection show up as from an eu >> country via my vpn service. Above guidelines are quite good for my >> purposes. >> >> -mb >> >> >> I use protonvpn. It's cheap and it works, and i don't get anymore nasty >> emials from my ISP. 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