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Did anybody make it to the meeting last night?
by Tim Keller 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

I hope somebody showed up! -- Sent from my mobile device I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Unable to make it tonight...
by Tim Keller 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hey Gang, Unfortunately I have had something come up and I'll be unable to make it... Sorry for the short notice. Thanks, Tim.

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Seeking volunteer to help with local non-profit's website
by Mike Peckar 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Literacy Volunteers of Greater Worcester, lvgw.org, is seeking a volunteer for a one-off project to refresh their website. This is not an ongoing commitment. Not sure if the backend tools the use for site management are linux-based, but I suspect they are not. Their goals are: 1. Updating LVGW's website to make it more user friendly, interactive and functional 2. The current website needs some work to make it easier to use and update. This person would also mentor a staff member about these issues Please contact me offline if you are interested. They are also separately looking for a volunteer archivist to create an online database of their historical and research data. Hope you don't think this crosses the line of fair use of this list, but it is for a good cause. Mike

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Are we having a meeting on the 10th?
by Tim Keller 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Hey Gang, I presume we're actually going to have a WLUG meeting this month? Would anybody like to step forward and give a talk? Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Release cycle for RHEL / CentOS 6
by Eric Martin 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hi All, The subversion server at my office is on a CentOS 6 server, and a software developer wrote a hook in python for it. The hook requires python 2.7, but CentOS 6 only has 2.6.6 (python-2.6.6-36.el6 to be exact). I grabbed python-2.7.2-5.2.fc16.src.rpm from Fedora 16 and am trying to roll my own via instructions I found on the CentOS wiki. All is good except that it requires db4.8, and that's not out for RHEL6 either. >From where I stand, it looks like my options are: 1) wait this out until either Python or a dependency are pushed up, but when is that? 2) rebuild this package with the deps, but I'm not quite sure how to roll a -devel package 3) roll my own package from scratch 4) install python 2.7 in an alternate location and point to it for this script Since this is a production server, I'd rather no do any hacks on this. Does anybody know how the release schedule works, or have any other advice? Thanks in advance, -- Eric Martin

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new to Worcester UNIX community
by Arjan van der Velde 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hi all, I'm new to the Worcester area and I would like to know how active the UNIX community is around here and possibly contribute. I am particularly interested in the BSDs but also Linux. -- Arjan

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InfoSec position opening at WPI
by Frank Sweetser 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hey all, just wanted to share a position that opened up here at WPI. The short version is the position will oriented around security analysis, with a mix of small to medium programming projects and system administration (all heavily linux based, of course!). Anyone interested can view the full details, as well as submit an application, on our HR jobs site: https://careers.wpi.edu/postings/739 -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken

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Did anybody show up last night?
by Tim Keller 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Did anybody show up to last night meeting? Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".

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Announce: Today's WLUG Meeting is canceled
by Chuck Anderson 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

Hi folks, Sorry for the late notice. I will not be available this evening, so I'm canceling the WLUG meeting tonight. Are people interested in having a WLUG BBQ this year? If so, we should start planning for June or July or August. Chuck

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spamd
by brad 20 May '13

20 May '13

Hi All, i've been getting more spam over the last couple of days. It appears spamd is not running on my ubuntu 10.04 server; however the headers of the spam messages have X-Spam-* flags. I'm not sure what might be adding the spam headers, perhaps its upstream (or clamav). I wanted to start using spam assassin, but that appears to crash when i run the following, which i dug out from the init scripts, sudo /usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs \ --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir --pidfile=/var/run/spamd.pid This line results in the following output: May 19 17:50:03.557 [8665] info: rules: meta test T_SUBJ_BRKN_WORDNUMS has dependency 'DKIM_SIGNED' with a zero score May 19 17:50:03.626 [8665] info: collectd: Insecure dependency in connect while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl/5.10/IO/Socket.pm line 114. May 19 17:50:03.726 [8665] info: spamd: server started on port 783/tcp (running version 3.3.1) May 19 17:50:03.726 [8665] info: spamd: server pid: 8665 May 19 17:50:03.729 [8665] info: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 8743 May 19 17:50:03.733 [8665] info: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 8744 May 19 17:50:03.736 [8665] info: prefork: child states: IS May 19 17:50:03.736 [8665] info: prefork: child states: II [1] 8665 alarm sudo /usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/sbin/spamd --create-prefs --max-children 5 I'm not sure what 'alarm' means. I tried running it with debugging messages, none of which seemed useful. Below are the relavent heads from one spam message, X-Virus-Scanned: Ubuntu Server Edition amavisd-new at ithryn.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 3.25 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.25 required=3.5 tests=[BAYES_50=0.8, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG=0.377, MIME_HTML_ONLY=0.723, RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT=1.449, SPF_PASS=-0.1] autolearn=no Anyone have advice to get spamd running correctly? thanks, - brad

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