Jeff Golas on 24 Oct 2016 12:00:01 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] TIPS ON GETTING MEETUPS STARTED


There is also an AWS meetup but it doesn't look very busy (lots of members, not a lot of meets):

https://www.meetup.com/Philadelphia-Wilmington-AWS-Cloud-Meetup/


Jeff

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Connection through proxy stopped working after 16.04 ?
      16.10 upgrade (K.S. Bhaskar)
   2. Re: TIPS ON GETTING MEETUPS STARTED (Will)
   3. Re: TIPS ON GETTING MEETUPS STARTED (ac)
   4. Open source router (Ken Smith)
   5. Postscreen (another tool for helping to minimize the effect
      of spam) (Keith C. Perry)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:50:00 -0400
From: "K.S. Bhaskar" <bhaskar@bhaskars.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
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Subject: Re: [PLUG] Connection through proxy stopped working after
16.04 ? 16.10 upgrade
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Also, non-proxy access (to internal servers) worked perfectly on 16.10 - it was only access through the proxy server that didn't work.

Regards
-- Bhaskar

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:46 PM, K.S. Bhaskar <bhaskar@bhaskars.com> wrote:

> I have so far upgraded three Ubuntu 16.04 laptops to 16.10. Two of
> them were personal machines, and one a work machine which I upgraded
> at home over the weekend. In all three cases, the upgrade itself went
> smoothly (as I have come to expect of Ubuntu upgrades) with the only
> artifact being on my work laptop where 16.10 rendered the fonts
> bigger, which I addressed by backing the sizes down.
>
> At work, machines get to the outside world via a proxy server that
> requires authentication, which I implement on my laptop in two ways:
> cntlm for desktop use, and with /etc/apt/apt.conf for apt (they use
> different accounts). Neither worked. A browser configured to use cntlm
> reported that cntlm could not reach the proxy server, and apt reported
> that it could not resolve the name of the proxy server. However,
> nslookup of the proxy server name reported its IP address.
>
> After booting the laptop into the 16.04 partition, both ways of going
> through the proxy server work perfectly, with no configuration change.
> [As I have described in another thread, any machine I setup has two
> bootable partitions, and when I upgrade, I leave the original root
> partition untouched so I can go back and forth as needed.]
>
> I am at a loss as to where to begin troubleshooting. It's as if
> something in 16.10 is preventing processes from using a proxy service,
> but that makes no sense: firstly why would it do that, and secondly, how could it do it?
>
> Googling does not find anything relevant. Thanks in advance for any
> suggestions.
>
> Regards
> -- Bhaskar
>
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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:07:47 -0400
From: Will <staticphantom@gmail.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
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Subject: Re: [PLUG] TIPS ON GETTING MEETUPS STARTED
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If you want to give AWS talks or hear about it, go to Philly Devops. That topic is brought up frequently.

-Will C

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 12:20 PM, ac <ac@main.me> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:56:08 -0400
> Eric Lucas <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> > Ditto
> > Also, AWS talks at PLUG are fine by me.  Isn't AWS built on Linux?
> >
> +1
>
> Yeah, that would be cool... I would have to download it tho as I will
>
> be in Nigeria this Saturday :)
>
> and only back in the US next March/April
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Tom Haines <hainest@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I would love an AWS meetup. The closer to center city, the better
> > > for me.
> > >
> > > On Monday, October 24, 2016, ac <ac@main.me> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:15:04 -0400 Chris Knowles
> > >> <cknowles2112@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > While PLUG may not mesh with AWS specifically, Many of us are
> > >> > also playing/working in the AWS area as well, so if this does
> > >> > get started, I (and I wager others here) would love to know
> > >> > about it.
> > >> >
> > >> I know nothing much about aws, so would appreciate any
> > >> discussions (where I can learn something) as well, I would be
> > >> keen on knowing differences between aws and IBM, azure, oracle,
> > >> etc. also, is aws tech based on anything (openstack, etc) - this is not that far OT?
> > >> I mean if we can discuss sodas we can also discuss private
> > >> companies and proprietary offerings? - I am also keen to know
> > >> what aws topics are and why it is specific to aws, etc.
> > >>
> > >> Andre
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:48:36 +0200
From: ac <ac@main.me>
To: Will <staticphantom@gmail.com>
Cc: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] TIPS ON GETTING MEETUPS STARTED
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On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 13:07:47 -0400
Will <staticphantom@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you want to give AWS talks or hear about it, go to Philly Devops.
> That topic is brought up frequently.
>
thanks, I found this: http://www.meetup.com/PhillyDevOps/

Andre


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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:46:07 -0400
From: Ken Smith <ruttsmith@gmail.com>
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Subject: [PLUG] Open source router
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This sounds interesting

http://www.nic.cz/#

Ken
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:47:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith C. Perry" <kperry@daotechnologies.com>
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List
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Subject: [PLUG] Postscreen (another tool for helping to minimize the
effect of spam)
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For what its worth, Zimbra 8.7 has built in Postscreen functionality (since it is part of Postfix) and they have nice write up on it at:

https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_Collaboration_Postscreen

The main, Postfix man page is here:

http://www.postfix.org/postscreen.8.html


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