1. Netcat - a version of "cat" that works across the network
Should have been around decades ago.

http://netcat.sourceforge.net/


2. Hard disk monitoring - a utility that moinitors & reports on your disks
"Sudies have shown that lowering disk temperatures by as little as 5�C significantly reduces failure rates"
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983

I installed the software in about a minute and found:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   085   085   060    Pre-fail  Always       -       6815934
....
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0002   122   122   000    Old_age   Always       -       45

I wondered what that clicking sound was about ...

gtoomey

"Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:2559935.Y8BubXJfXJ@gregs-web-hosting-and-pickle-farming...
> 1. Netcat - a version of "cat" that works across the network
> Should have been around decades ago.
>
> http://netcat.sourceforge.net/

I thought it was or is that a different 'netcat'

> 2. Hard disk monitoring - a utility that moinitors & reports on your disks
> "Sudies have shown that lowering disk temperatures by as little as
> 5�C significantly reduces failure rates"
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983

I assume you're referring to SMART.  I installed the software on one of
my systems and ran it with the -t option.  My disk became corrupted and
I ended up having to re-install my system from scratch.

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:25:30 +1000, W <still_@none.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> "Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:2559935.Y8BubXJfXJ@gregs-web-hosting-and-pickle-farming...
>> 1. Netcat - a version of "cat" that works across the network
>> Should have been around decades ago.
>>
>> http://netcat.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I thought it was or is that a different 'netcat'
> 
> 

Nope. The same ol' nc. Updated a bit but still an incredible tool.
What you can do with those 17.5kb is just amazing.

My ISP told me that only way I could delete mail on my POP server was
through an HTTP interface. They were wrong.

Now, with the help of a netcat script, I delete most of the spam on the
server before I even download my mail.



AC

Alan Connor wrote:
 > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:25:30 +1000, W <still_@none.com> wrote:
 >
 >>
 >> "Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
 >> news:2559935.Y8BubXJfXJ@gregs-web-hosting-and-pickle-farming...
 >>
 >>> 1. Netcat - a version of "cat" that works across the network
 >>> Should have been around decades ago.
 >>>
 >>> http://netcat.sourceforge.net/
 >>
 >> I thought it was or is that a different 'netcat'
 >>
 >>
 >
 >
 > Nope. The same ol' nc. Updated a bit but still an incredible tool.
 > What you can do with those 17.5kb is just amazing.
 >
 > My ISP told me that only way I could delete mail on my POP server was
 >  through an HTTP interface. They were wrong.
 >
 > Now, with the help of a netcat script, I delete most of the spam on
 > the server before I even download my mail.
 >
I just login (with ssh) to my ISP's mail server and rummage around there
with mutt, deleting most of the e-mail (spam and viri) up there before 
they download to my machine.

-- 
   .~.  Jean-David Beyer           Registered Linux User 85642.
   /V\                             Registered Machine    73926.
  /( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey     http://counter.li.org
  ^^-^^ 11:20pm up 9 days, 10:20, 4 users, load average: 2.10, 2.14, 2.11

It was a dark and stormy night, and Alan Connor managed to scribble:

> 
> Nope. The same ol' nc. Updated a bit but still an incredible tool.
> What you can do with those 17.5kb is just amazing.
> 

Well I must be asleep - the first time I heard about it was last month.

gtoomey

On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:24:34 -0500, Jean-David Beyer <j@d.b> wrote:
> 
> 
> Alan Connor wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 13:25:30 +1000, W <still_@none.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "Gregory Toomey" <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> >> news:2559935.Y8BubXJfXJ@gregs-web-hosting-and-pickle-farming...
> >>
> >>> 1. Netcat - a version of "cat" that works across the network
> >>> Should have been around decades ago.
> >>>
> >>> http://netcat.sourceforge.net/
> >>
> >> I thought it was or is that a different 'netcat'
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Nope. The same ol' nc. Updated a bit but still an incredible tool.
> > What you can do with those 17.5kb is just amazing.
> >
> > My ISP told me that only way I could delete mail on my POP server was
> >  through an HTTP interface. They were wrong.
> >
> > Now, with the help of a netcat script, I delete most of the spam on
> > the server before I even download my mail.
> >
> I just login (with ssh) to my ISP's mail server and rummage around there
> with mutt, deleting most of the e-mail (spam and viri) up there before 
> they download to my machine.
> 

Manually? Yow! I bring down the headers with a netcat script that runs them
through procmail using one procmailrc, which tags the mail by number,
yea or nay.

Then the script brings down the "yeas" and runs them through procmail again
with a different procmailrc and deletes the rest on the server.

AC

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 15:55:10 +1000, Gregory Toomey <nospam@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> It was a dark and stormy night, and Alan Connor managed to scribble:
> 
>> 
>> Nope. The same ol' nc. Updated a bit but still an incredible tool.
>> What you can do with those 17.5kb is just amazing.
>> 
> 
> Well I must be asleep - the first time I heard about it was last month.
> 
> gtoomey

Actually, I only learned about nc a few months ago. But it HAS been around
for quite a while. Much easier to write scripts for than telnet, and
faster by far.

Checked out the README? What you can do with it is just amazing.


AC

On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 03:58:38 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:

> Nope. The same ol' nc. Updated a bit but still an incredible tool. What
> you can do with those 17.5kb is just amazing.
> 
> My ISP told me that only way I could delete mail on my POP server was
> through an HTTP interface. They were wrong.
> 
> Now, with the help of a netcat script, I delete most of the spam on the
> server before I even download my mail.


With kshowmail you can list, delete and even read them directly on the
server. They are not downloaded to harddisk for reading - just held in the
memory. Very useful for those mails from e-lovers :-)

-- 

jabali

Please send e-mails to jabali@freeuk.com

Gregory Toomey wrote:

> 1. Netcat - a version of "cat" that works across the network
> Should have been around decades ago.
> 
> http://netcat.sourceforge.net/

Excellent tool - great for checking mail relay, and transferring files 
between anything through pretty much anything.

Also there is...
http://farm9.org/Cryptcat/

Cheers,
E.

E writes:
> Also there is... http://farm9.org/Cryptcat/

And socat:

Description: multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
 Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams
 and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes,
 devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw,
 UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging, and tracing, different
 modes for interprocess communication, and many more options.
 .
 It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon),
 as an external socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets,
 as an IPv6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, to redirect
 TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively
 secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell
 scripts inside network connections.

-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

In article <878ykosovb.fsf@toncho.dhh.gt.org>,
John Hasler  <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote:
>E writes:
>> Also there is... http://farm9.org/Cryptcat/
>
>And socat:
>
>Description: multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
> Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams
> and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes,
> devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw,
> UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging, and tracing, different
> modes for interprocess communication, and many more options.

Sounds interesting.  URL, please?

In aus.computers.linux Jean-David Beyer <j@d.b> wrote:

> I just login (with ssh) to my ISP's mail server and rummage around there
> with mutt, deleting most of the e-mail (spam and viri) up there before 
> they download to my machine.

If you use mutt with IMAP support then it loads up the headers for you
to browse and lets you delete / read / save on a message by message basis.
Combine this with spam-assassin running at the ISP side of things and
set mutt to sort the headers based on scoring -- the result is minimal
bandwidth wastage and easy spam removal.

	- Tel

"KM" == Kenny McCormack <gazelle@yin.interaccess.com>:
KM> >And socat:
KM> 
KM> Sounds interesting.  URL, please?


Socat home page http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/

-=-
This message was posted via two or more anonymous remailing services.