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William

3:03 AM

@Braiam I like his new Sorry song.

What is an example where an infinite running and piping command completes something?

What is an example where of a piping command that runs infinitely completes something?

2 hours later…

Pandya

4:39 AM

@FaheemMitha Get information about vowels, constants and keyboard layouts from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari

Also see omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm

Once you get idea about Alphabet then you can easily type with Google Translate

You can also set different layout for typing:

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Faheem Mitha

6:32 AM

@Pandya Ok. Thank you.

6 hours later…

Elgoots

12:12 PM

hey guys, i have installed centos, httpd and changed apache to listen on port 8079. i can curl locally to read a html file but when i try and do it from a external server it times out. for testing i tried to disable iptables on a temp basis, made sure apache was set to listen on that port number etc.

Strange thing is, if i visit it in the web browser that url works. so its definetely something curl related on the server being blocked on apache. Any ideas what it might be?

for example, when i try to curl the server from a remote location it just times out:

root@server1 [~]# curl -i "http://ipaddresshere:8079/~user/monitor/xml.php?plugin=complete&json&callback=getData" -v

* About to connect() to ipaddresshere port 8079
* Trying ipaddresshere...

3 hours later…

Faheem Mitha

3:19 PM

Antony is one vote away from a good answer badge on:

A: RAIDing with LVM vs MDRAID - pros and cons?

How mature and featureful is LVM RAID? LVM-RAID is actually mdraid under the covers. It basically works by creating two logical volumes per RAID device (one for data, called "rimage"; one for metadata, called "rmeta"). It then passes those off to the existing mdraid drivers. So things like handl...

If anyone cares to do the honors.

Faheem Mitha

4:14 PM

No, the Good Answer badge is for >= 25. Which one am I thinking of?

Jenny D

@FaheemMitha Nice answer

Faheem Mitha

@JennyD Oh. Thanks.

Braiam

5:00 PM

@Elgoots is httpd listening on your other ip?

Faheem Mitha

5:56 PM

Does anyone here use emacs abbrevs systematically?

Just curious.

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Thomas W.

7:56 PM

crossposting across sites (both U&L and Ask Ubuntu) is bad right?

Faheem Mitha

@ThomasW. Yes. Don't do that.

Thomas W.

@FaheemMitha what's the response protocol

i.e. who gets sniped on which site for crossposting :P

Faheem Mitha

@ThomasW. I don't understand the question. You mean which site gets to object? I don't think there is any rule.

One of the sites will certainly close your question if they notice. Which one is indeterminate. Anyway, don't do that. If the site you post on doesn't yield any results, you can ask to move it.

Thomas W.

i'm not the one who crossposted :P

unix.stackexchange.com/questions/244191/…

Q: Ubuntu Live USB installation found corrupted file, yet disk md5 checks out

An attempt was made to install ubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64 on macbook pro-11,2 using a bootable USB flash drive, following the directions given here. Before the installation, I checked the disk for defects, result shows error being found in 1 file. To identify the source of error, I followed th...

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the first one was nuked by author :0

musta seen my "Don't crosspost, pick one site, and have patience for response" comment :)

Faheem Mitha

8:32 PM

@ThomasW. ok

Not cross-posting is fairly well publicized on SE. You don't have to be around very long to figure that out.

Faheem Mitha

8:53 PM

Wow, @derobert just posted a question, but hasn't been in here for a while.

1 hour later…

derobert

10:06 PM

Yeah, I've been busy. Most of my free time has gone to finishing up my new mail server.

Faheem Mitha

10:55 PM

@derobert For your personal use, or for work?

derobert

@FaheemMitha Personal

Faheem Mitha

11:16 PM

@derobert Ok. Setting a mail server is a business. What are you using? Exim or postfix?

derobert

exim as MTA, Dovecot as MDA and IMAP server

SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and a custom greylisting implementation for filtering

Faheem Mitha

@derobert Oh. It is working well? Spam is tricky. Or so I'm told.

derobert

Well... I'm hoping to get it in to production tonight or tomorrow. Then I'll find out...

Faheem Mitha

@derobert Ok. What were you using before this?

derobert

Much older version of Exim & SpamAssassin, with Courier for IMAP.

Faheem Mitha

11:18 PM

You don't use emacs, right? I'm trying to make sense of abbrev.

@derobert Oh, so an upgrade, then? Was it no longer working well for you?

derobert

No, emacs is for crazy people. MTA = mail transfer agent, the thing that talks SMTP to other mail servers. MDA = mail delivery agent, the thing that takes emails and puts them into local mailboxes

@FaheemMitha Yeah, the ancient SpamAssassin was letting through way too much spam. Also, the old setup didn't have the ability to reject spam, only to deliver it to spam boxes

Oh, also, Solr for mail searching.

Faheem Mitha

@derobert Rejecting spam sounds like a good idea. If you are sure.

Sounds like a fair amount of work. Did you follow tutorials, a book, or just make it up as you went along?

derobert

@FaheemMitha I'm planning on rejecting stuff that scores pretty high (over 12). That has a very low false-positive rate. Lower scored stuff, I greylist. Lower than that, I just accept.

@FaheemMitha Mostly from reading the Exim manual to look up (ok, remember) how to do specific things. I've done this a few times before.

Faheem Mitha

@derobert Sounds good. How many hours would you estimate ou have spent on it?

@derobert Ok. Did you buy the book?

derobert

@FaheemMitha Err... not sure. At least 30 or 40...

No, don't have the Exim book.

Faheem Mitha

11:24 PM

@derobert Oh, that could come in handy.

@derobert Oh, that's quite a lot.

derobert