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  • /bash/rm: argument list too long

    I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this complaint from the bash shell when trying to remove a bunch of files. In this case, I was trying to clear a directory where log rotating had run amuck and there was a 10 second lag in typing ls ∗.gz and seeing any output…. So, I did rm ∗.gz and got bash/rm: argument list too long in response…. So, then I though I could “surgically remove” some files and shrink the list a bit… rm ∗5∗3∗2∗.gz -f; rm ∗5∗3∗1∗.gz -f, etc, etc, etc after about 4 of these it became obvious I’d need to find another way because even some of THOSE gave the “argument list too long” error. (What’s more, it looked like I was going to have to deal with files matching ∗[1-5]∗[0-9]∗[0-9]∗gz – yuck…)

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  • Evolution email error MAIL FROM command failed: Unknown

    Some time back, I was teetering on the brink…. I’ve used Evolution as my linux mail client for ages (since I switched), because it had the calender integrated etc… However, Kontact has REALLY looked nice for some time, but I didn’t have time to mess with changing. Then one day, I was trying to send a message with Evolution and got a pop up box saying…….. “error while performing operation”, and “MAIL FROM command failed: Unknown” huh???

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  • Apache2 not starting because of ssl_scache file

    I mentioned this a while back, but I didn’t go into much detail on a long term solution. Let me re-set the situation. Linux server running apache2. It’s Mandrake (now Mandriva) (an older version.) When the system has suffered abrupt outage (power loss). Everything starts up normally with the exception of httpd2. It claims that it’s running but gives an error message. (For reference here’s the old article. Basically when you try to manually restart you see..

    Cannot allocate shared memory: (17)File exists apache

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  • Strange Novell Server error

    I ran into strange problems accessing a shared Novell Netware (5.0) folder. Everytime the folder was attempted to be accessed from multiple machines the window would freeze and if you waited long enough, there would be an error message along the lines of “Netware Alert Message”… NIOS.NLM

    Call to NIOS page unlock by module unknown failed Address 0x05650016, length 0x00700465 and then according to what I was told, ctrl-enter was instructed to clear the message and the machine rebooted.

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  • AVG – Cannot Launch AVG Internet Update

    Last week sometime I was doing maintenance on an OLD Windows 95 machine (yes there are some still out there….) and noticed the Antivirus had not updated in a good while. They were using Grisoft’s AVG and so I tried to force an update. I was greeted with an error message… “Cannot Launch AV internet update” Which was puzzling since we were online with no connectivity problems. On looking, this is known to be an issue with Grisoft AVG on Windows 95…..

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  • Outlook archive error message

    Saw this today…. “Error while aging folder “Inbox” in store “Personal Folders”. File access is
    denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file
    C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\archive.pst.”

    It was on an older Outlook 98/Windows 98 system, but it was something that might be applicable to others as well.

    Basically, this system has two different profiles, both of which are password protected.

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  • More Fake security sites

    More sites that claim to be windows security center or the like are popping up… a list:

    securitycaution(dot)com
    dnserror404(dot)com
    todaywarnings(dot)com
    updatesystempage(dot)com
    yoursecuritysystem(dot)com

    From sunbeltblog.

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  • Possible network printing problems with the unofficial WMF patch

    The Sunbelt Blog has picked up on a report of some network printing problems with the unofficial WMF exploit patch installed. The first report was on the fulldisclosure list. It is recommended that the patch be tested before rolling out. The variation of software configurations varies by environment…

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  • Moving from Evolution to Konqueror

    After several weeks of good behaviour from Evolution 2.4 since the Mandriva 2006 upgrade, I started getting a wierd error on sending messages *(Mail From response Error Unknown). Nothing within my settings for Evolution had changed since the night before when things worked… I tested with Kontact and was able to send mail, closed it, opened it, bonobo-slay’ed it… still getting the error, so… since I was on the fence as to whether or not I was going to migrate to Kontact, I went ahead with it. I’ve already covered moving the calendar and contact (addressbook) information in a previous post. So this will be on moving the messages.

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  • WMF exploit situation summary…

    Since there’s been quite a bit of flux the last couple of days I thought I’d try to “reset” the situation and give a general overview of where we stand now with regards to the recent WMF zero-day exploit.

    1st there is a vulnerability in the way Windows renders WMF (Windows MetaFile) image files that makes possible an exploitable buffer overflow allowing remote execution. There are at least two exploits for this vulnerability and it is not necessary for the wmf to have a name ending in .wmf (it could masquerade as jpg for instance.) The specially crafted WMF could be in a web page, email (html email), or other document. There are many possible vectors of entry for this.

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