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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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Announcing OpenShift Origin Community Day June 9th.
by Daniel J Walsh 14 May '13

14 May '13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you are interested, I attended and presented at the Community Day in Portland, a few weeks ago. It is a pretty good event. https://openshiftboston-estw.eventbrite.com/# Learn about PAAS (Platform as a Service) and how you can influence and contribute to this event. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlGSkJoACgkQrlYvE4MpobNnigCgzJq79KYqbNOw5OSM45OV/5hG R+QAn0978PD+C+1q+10iNqQk4Ol3AvQ4 =WuUQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Scanning someone's head and printing it?
by John Stoffel 14 May '13

14 May '13

Guys, Anyone know of a hacker space or other place in the Worcester/Marlborough area where I can get someone's head scanned to be 3-d printed? I found this one place, http://www.teslaract.org, down in Webster Square, but they seem idle. Thanks, John

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Less than 1 week! (Prizes!) LOPSA-East 2013! (formerly PICC) May 3-4, 2013, New Brunswick, NJ
by LOPSA-East 2013 28 Apr '13

28 Apr '13

Less than one week left! http://lopsa-east.org Space still available! "The most talked about sysadmin community conference of the year! Don't miss it!" Next week is LOPSA-East 2013, May 3-4, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ. Register "at the door" or on-line. Some sessions filling fast: To be guaranteed your spot, register now! KEYNOTE: Marcus J. Ranum, Chief Security Officer, Tenable Network Security, Inc. will be presenting the opening keynote address on Friday night. His talk is titled "Wanted: Generalists (because the easy stuff is done)" Computer security has done a fairly good job of picking the "low hanging fruit" with knowledge-bases and engines to execute against them. But that's the easy stuff. Let's talk about what's next. PRIZES: Three giveaways during the event! Twelve lucky attendees will win a book from O'Reilly, three will go home with LISA tech session passes, and one will leave with a year membership to USENIX/LISA! You must be present to win, and must be registered to be eligible. So register now! http://lopsa-east.org/2013/registration/ TRAINING: Sessions on Linux, Windows, Puppet, Team Efficiency, WordPress, PowerShell, Virtualization, and much more! Follow us on Twitter! http://twitter.com/lopsaeast --------------------------------------- FRIDAY: An entire day of training offered by world class instructors. FRIDAY NIGHT: Dinner, Keynote and 'birds of a feather' sessions. SATURDAY: More training sessions plus 45 minute presentations from invited speakers, 5 minute lightning talks. Full schedule: http://lopsa-east.org/2013/schedule/ --------------------------------------- LOPSA-East (http://lopsa-east.org) is produced by The New Jersey chapter (http://lopsanj.org) of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA) (http://lopsa.org) This will be the 4th annual conference, being held May 3-4, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in New Brunswick, NJ.

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