@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX Error /var/spool/asterisk/cache is not writeable:

These commands assume that you are logged in as root. If you are not, be sure to prepend with sudo.

Or use root like a man, it'll put hair on your chest, even if you're a woman... so watch out I guess.

@NerdyDad said in Changing NICs in virtual servers:

Here is the actual code in a more searchable context, sterilized for general use.

Very useful! Thanks!

@G-I-Jones I like Windows 7 a lot, but since the things are moving forward we all will use something new instead very soon. Just remember how people wanted to stay on Windows XP, but finally updated their OS. The same will happen with Windows 7 and most of users will move on Windows 10 or will choose another option 😉

@maximus
I believe you can take as a basis the script, published in this article: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/resource-library/starwind-virtual-san-gentle-shutdown-with-powerchute
I hope it will be useful for you 🙂
Merry Christmas!

Dealing with A Small Orange scams right now. They have a racket going where they send invoices to old accounts, claim accounts were not cancelled years later, but have the accounts deactivated so that you cannot log in, you can't even do a password reset. But they claim that they cannot cancel the account (which didn't even exist) without us giving them a credit card and setting up the account again! Nice racket. If you go to their website and go to "Contact Us", that's exclusively for customers. So if you have an account issue, screw you.

So their system is designed around slamming. They fake an account, and then claim you don't have authorization to cancel it. Very convenient.

@huzefa22 said in Same subdomain name internal and external i have an issue with the DNS, specifically emails:

@Dashrender when i ping mail.abc.xyz.com i don't get a reply, the SOA is the primary and the secondary domain on the local domain. i don't know if this is what you were asking.

Regards,
Huzefa

Never test DNS with ping. Test with nslookup. Whether you can ping or not is a factor of many things, DNS just one of them and only sometimes. nslookup tests DNS and nothing else.

@StorageNinja said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

@Dashrender said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

The question is - why is the quality so bad? Isn't the process supposed to catch bad quality?

Their process is consider the windows insider group (extreme power users) to be a good enough replacement for proper QE teams, and writing automated build tests.

Right, the new process isn't to catch bad things, it's actually to see bad things as "not all that bad." Presumably because a shift from viewing their products as being for business to being for entertainment. Remember when Windows 95 was a key tool for businesses, but by Windows 98 they had made sure to put a "for entertainment purposes only" label on the product to make sure no one confused it with something that was intended for business use?

I feel like that's where they are now. At least internally, no one is really thinking of this as a business tool.

@magicmarker

Why dont they create one giant hazardous label to fit all the products, and make it generic as possible.

Like this product contains hazardous chemicals.

it is not like someone actual reads that small fine print.

Another problem solved...

@notverypunny

hehehe based on ubuntu 10 years, that came days after IBM purchased RedHat so it was more like Mark wanted to get attention. you really should not have added it to your factors.

That said anything with XFCE is good for me for desktops and LXDE for small form factors computers like Pi or thin clients.

Its actually Upload default server core, when the terminal has gotten stuck for me, I have cleared the core and then upload the default server core to get it to work again properly without rebooting the machine.

Clearing the core gets only General, Events and Console tabs and loading the default loads all the rest.

Screenshot from 2018-12-22 13-03-12.png

Maybe it helps in this case as well.

@Pete-S said in PFsense hardware ?:

Yes, it makes sense. Ubiquity and pfsense are not really the same thing though. Ubiquity is a router like any consumer Asus or whatever but with a much better OS. Pfsense is a freebsd computer with a web gui. They are good for slightly different things.

You could say the same thing about Cisco or whatever. All router hardware below five figures is kind of the same. Ubiquiti is definitely built better than any consumer gear I've seen, but the basics are the same. I've seen pfSense on the same kind of hardware.

EdgeOS is Vyatta based, though. Purpose built to be a router. pfSense is putting a router on top of something desired for general use. I've never seen a pfSense setup that I'd consider ready for production use. Most I've seen are worse than consumer gear because it's either unsupported consumer gear rebranded, or just old PCs without maintenance.

I don't see how softphone would be any different than "hard"-phone.

Are you conflating headset with non-headset? Or wireless versus stationary?

@Donahue said in Nginx questions:

looks like the NC thing might be a bug with just iOS and using a reverse proxy
https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/11464

yep, the "old method" indeed did work.

@wrx7m said in Clients on the private side of a jump box:

@scottalanmiller said in Clients on the private side of a jump box:

Speaking of which, I need to go build a new jump box at a client site. MeshCentral makes our jump boxes more flexible.

I was following your thread on MC vs SC. What about MC makes it more flexible for your scenario?

Cost, speed, development, support, etc.

We've already gotten better support for smaller issues in MC than SC provides when you pay an arm and a leg and it is show stopping stuff!

MC will save us something like $1600 a year, and provides some really nice features that we like. And seems to have a bright future. SC has appeared to have gotten worse, not better, in the last two years. That's not good when you are paying so much.

But we really like the insanely fast "in browser" connections in MC. SC causes so much delay that it is frustrating. Only a few seconds, but when you are trying to work, unnecessary stopping and waiting makes people frustrated.

@JasGot said in Exchange connectors:

I need some help sorting out the exchange connectors on a server.

We were called in to figure out a spam problem. It's not severe and during our exam, we are trying to check the configuration of Exchange and get mail test tools to be happy.

Right now we are getting: Reverse DNS does not match SMTP Banner from mxtoolbox.

This is a simple MS Exchange setup; One Exchange server on a domain, people connecting with MS outlook from inside the building on the domain and from outside the building using Ms Outlook, and two copiers that can send e-mail.

The issue is all the receive connectors. It's not clear to me which one mxtoolbox is seeing.

They are:
Client Frontend EXCHANGE
Client Proxy EXCHANGE
Default EXCHANGE
Default Frontend EXCHANGE
Outbound Proxy Frontend EXCHANGE
Scan2EMail

I'd like to know what each one represents. ie; I presume Frontend mean Internet facing, but I'm not sure. Also, do internal MS Outlook users connect to a receive or send connector? (or both?)

Thanks.

You should change the ELHO name on all of them so it matches your external URL (Which in turn needs to match your Reverse DNS name).

The Outlook clients connect to the Exchange server and Exchange sends the emails they do not connect to the connectors.

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

@coliver said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

@DustinB3403 said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

@Dashrender said in Fedora WS: (simultaneous) install on multiple pc's:

You could deploy an image using FOG

While this was my initial thought as well, he has asked about doing this simultaneously. Which fog generally isn't "all at once go".

It kind of is...I was using FOG to do multicast imaging 7 years ago. We're talking 30-60 machines at a clip.

Sure it can do it but that doesn't mean that you should do it. It's about network performance and if you're not setup for it you'll encounter massive slowdowns

Mutlicast is the way to go. You can even do it over broadcast domains. It sounds like you didn't have multicast configured correctly? Even doing 60 machines we didn't see any network slowness associated with imaging.

@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@dave_c said in Finding the Best Open Source Email Solutions:

@scottalanmiller
My Open Source solution of choice is Mailcow.

I'm looking into MailCow now with the holidays approaching (a little more free time... hahaha, not really) and it looks really slick.

Free time? What is a "free time?

The time I'm sitting waiting for Comcast networking to catch up 😉

ah yes, comcast time. That is coincidentally the same time that is used for when you make an appointment. between 8 and 2

@scottalanmiller I was just about to ask if its a php setting that needed to be changed.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11AyoZGllxZ5tenyMQ2_b1DDo7c2-Znhc?usp=sharing

YOu can also do a free test from Qualys
https://www.qualys.com/free-services/
https://www.qualys.com/community-edition/