Comments for Harsh but fair http://raetsel.wordpress.com Open source chicanery and the battle with my inner geek Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:11:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by S Baker http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-cisco-anytime-vpn/#comment-2471 S Baker Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:11:42 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-2471 raetsel, Thank you! I actually had to uninstall as well, but my company's VPN website wasn't letting me log in (for whatever reason). Luckily, I had kept a Disk Image (dmg) of the software and I installed it and everything worked! Thanks for the tip! raetsel,

Thank you! I actually had to uninstall as well, but my company’s VPN website wasn’t letting me log in (for whatever reason). Luckily, I had kept a Disk Image (dmg) of the software and I installed it and everything worked!

Thanks for the tip!

]]> Comment on Snmpd filling up /var/log/messages by Niels http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/snmpd-filling-up-varlogmessages/#comment-2470 Niels Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:18:19 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-2470 Had the same issue running CentOS 5.4. The above was helpful, but nothing matched exactly what is required, so here's a one-liner for thos in my shoes: <code>echo OPTIONS=\"-LS 5 d -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a\" > /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options && service snmpd restart</code> Note: snmpd no longer logs it's own startup when loglevel is 5. But if you set it to 6, you also get all the garbage... thanks, snmpd. Had the same issue running CentOS 5.4. The above was helpful, but nothing matched exactly what is required, so here’s a one-liner for thos in my shoes:

echo OPTIONS=\"-LS 5 d -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -a\" > /etc/sysconfig/snmpd.options && service snmpd restart

Note: snmpd no longer logs it’s own startup when loglevel is 5. But if you set it to 6, you also get all the garbage… thanks, snmpd.

]]> Comment on KDE4 Save Current Session – DBUS to the Rescue by Stef http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/kde4-save-current-session-dbus-to-the-rescue/#comment-2466 Stef Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:56:07 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=61#comment-2466 Hi, I stumbled upon your blog entry while trying to figure out how to save the KDE4 session. Now (KDE 4.3) they "solved" the bug, but to me it was still very unclear how to save the damned session. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182662 The option is "hidden" in the kickoff menu in the "LEAVE" tab. However, in lancelot (http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/main) - that I'm using - the option is not displayed. Also, I am a bit disappointed that this option is not displayed in the Session Management window... but still. Bye. Hi,

I stumbled upon your blog entry while trying to figure out how to save the KDE4 session. Now (KDE 4.3) they “solved” the bug, but to me it was still very unclear how to save the damned session.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182662

The option is “hidden” in the kickoff menu in the “LEAVE” tab. However, in lancelot (http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/main) – that I’m using – the option is not displayed. Also, I am a bit disappointed that this option is not displayed in the Session Management window… but still.

Bye.

]]> Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by raetsel http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-cisco-anytime-vpn/#comment-2465 raetsel Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:42:00 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-2465 Hi Michael, Had the VPN connection used to work before you upgraded to Snow Leopard or is it new? You need to check the configuration at the remote end has the correct policy in place for your account to allow you access to the server you want on the ports you need e.g. 25,110 or 993 for stmp, pop or IMAP ( 443 for exchange ) Try opening a terminal and see if you can ping the server without any fully qualified domain name, just the hostname. If not try using traceroute to see how far the connection is going. If you can ping the hostname try using telnet hostname 25 ( or 110 or whatever ) see if that gets a connection. If it does then it shows the remote end is ok and it is a problem with mail somehow, if not it suggests a remote VPN AnyConnect policy/access or firewall problem. HTH Simon Hi Michael,

Had the VPN connection used to work before you upgraded to Snow Leopard or is it new?

You need to check the configuration at the remote end has the correct policy in place for your account to allow you access to the server you want on the ports you need e.g. 25,110 or 993 for stmp, pop or IMAP ( 443 for exchange )

Try opening a terminal and see if you can ping the server without any fully qualified domain name, just the hostname. If not try using traceroute to see how far the connection is going.

If you can ping the hostname try using telnet hostname 25 ( or 110 or whatever ) see if that gets a connection. If it does then it shows the remote end is ok and it is a problem with mail somehow, if not it suggests a remote VPN AnyConnect policy/access or firewall problem.

HTH
Simon

]]> Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by Michael Brandeis http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-cisco-anytime-vpn/#comment-2464 Michael Brandeis Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:43:10 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-2464 I am using cisco anyconnect vpn so that I can use my apple mail program to send mail from a remote serve. However while connected to VPN the mail program does not get (downloads) any new messages. Any idea why and how to solve this. Thanks Michael I am using cisco anyconnect vpn so that I can use my apple mail program to send mail from a remote serve. However while connected to VPN the mail program does not get (downloads) any new messages. Any idea why and how to solve this.
Thanks

Michael

]]> Comment on Some Logic by spiderlama http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/some-logic/#comment-2463 spiderlama Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:24:33 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=67#comment-2463 !x flips everything in x, so && becomes || and x becomes !x. !(!a || !b) => !(!a) && !(!b) => a && b !x flips everything in x, so && becomes || and x becomes !x.

!(!a || !b) => !(!a) && !(!b) => a && b

]]> Comment on Samba Shares, Spaces and fstab (With a bit of Octal thrown in) by Bart van Deenen http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/samba-shares-spaces-and-fstab-with-a-bit-of-octal-thrown-in/#comment-2462 Bart van Deenen Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:30:08 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=54#comment-2462 Thanks for the posting. The dollar octal value 44 does work fine in fstab! Thanks for the posting. The dollar octal value 44 does work fine in fstab!

]]> Comment on Using Exclude Files in rsync – watch those spaces! by aj http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/using-exclude-files-in-rsync-watch-those-spaces/#comment-2460 aj Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:05:49 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=64#comment-2460 Thank you!!! I spent the past hour+ trying to figure out why my --exclude-from option wasn't working and this was it. Amazing. Thank you!!! I spent the past hour+ trying to figure out why my –exclude-from option wasn’t working and this was it. Amazing.

]]> Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by Rodney http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-cisco-anytime-vpn/#comment-2459 Rodney Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:53:08 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-2459 AWESOME.... Worked perfectly AWESOME…. Worked perfectly

]]> Comment on Mac OS X Snow Leopard & Cisco AnyConnect VPN by Aaron http://raetsel.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-cisco-anytime-vpn/#comment-2454 Aaron Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:50:21 +0000 http://raetsel.wordpress.com/?p=74#comment-2454 Thanks, that worked just great. I was just about to go to the beta version of AnyConnect. Thanks, that worked just great. I was just about to go to the beta version of AnyConnect.

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