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Archive for August 10th, 2021

Auto connect SSH without autossh?

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/10

Hopefully an example ssh config will follow.

[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Would you mind sharing a trimmed down version of your ~/.ssh/config file? The bits from your posts are a bit fragmented now, so I’ve lost the overview (:”

–jeroen

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On my list of things to try: Amazon SES for outbound/inbound email handling

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/10

SES mail servers at the time of writing

*n*x:

# nslookup -type=TXT amazonses.com | grep "v=spf1"
amazonses.com   text = "v=spf1 ip4:199.255.192.0/22 ip4:199.127.232.0/22 ip4:54.240.0.0/18 ip4:69.169.224.0/20 ip4:76.223.180.0/23 ip4:76.223.188.0/24 ip4:76.223.189.0/24 ip4:76.223.190.0/24 -all"I

Windows

C:\>nslookup -type=TXT amazonses.com | find "v=spf1"
Non-authoritative answer:
        "v=spf1 ip4:199.255.192.0/22 ip4:199.127.232.0/22 ip4:54.240.0.0/18 ip4:69.169.224.0/20 ip4:76.223.180.0/23 ip4:76.223.188.0/24 ip4:76.223.189.0/24 ip4:76.223.190.0/24 -all"

These addresses use a compact CIDR notation to denote ranges of networks containing ranges of network IPv4 addresses.

CIRD processing to sendmail access file

(this is linux sendmail only)

Converting the nslookup outout to a CIDR based sendmail /etc/mail/access excerpt goes via a pipe sequence of multiple sed commands:

# nslookup -type=TXT amazonses.com | grep "v=spf1" | sed 's/\(^.*"v=spf1 ip4:\| -all"$\)//g' | sed 's/\ ip4:/\n/g' | xargs -I {} sh -c "prips {} | sed 's/$/\tRELAY/g'"
199.255.192.0   RELAY
199.255.192.1   RELAY
...
76.223.190.254  RELAY
76.223.190.255  RELAY

What happens here is this:

  1. Filter out only spf1 records using grep.
  2. Remove the head (.*v=spf1 ip4:) and tail ( -all") of the output, see [WayBack] use of alternation “|” in sed’s regex – Super User.
  3. Replaces all ip4: with newlines (so the output get split over multiple lines), see [WayBack] linux – splitting single line into multiple line in numbering format using awk – Stack Overflow.
  4. Convert the CIDR notation to individual IP addresses (as sendmail cannot handle CIDR),
    1. This uses a combination of xargs with the  sh trick to split the CIDR list into separate arguments, and prips (which prints the IP addresses for a CIDR); see:
    2. Alternatively, use
  5. Replaces all end-of-line anchor ($) with a tab followed by RELAY, see

You can append the output of this command to /etc/mail/access, then re-generate /etc/mail/access.db and restart sendmail; see for instance [WayBack] sendmail access.db by example | LinuxWebLog.com.

Without the xargs, the output would look like this:

# nslookup -type=TXT amazonses.com | grep "v=spf1" | sed 's/\(^.*"v=spf1 ip4:\| -all"$\)//g' | sed 's/\ ip4:/\n/g'
199.255.192.0/22
199.127.232.0/22
54.240.0.0/18
69.169.224.0/20
76.223.180.0/23
76.223.188.0/24
76.223.189.0/24
76.223.190.0/24

Via

–jeroen

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Delphi 10.2 Tokyo and up compiler issue: incompatible with Delphi 1.10.1 Berlin behaviour on unit path resolution

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/10

There is a very tricky compiler and IDE issue in Delphi 10.2 and up that on the compiler site behaves differently from Delphi 1.10.1 Berlin, and on the IDE side stays the same from Delphi 2005 on.

The issue baffled me, as lot’s features were not added in the Delphi compiler because of backward compatibility reasons.

The problem is that the compiler now favours the unit search path over the paths specified in the .dpr. This breaks compatibility with earlier versions and the IDE: the IDE still thinks pathnames in the .dpr files are the ones to follow.

There are some permutations on this problem, of which a few ones below.

Nonexisting unit in the project, but existing on the search path

  • .dpr file in a directory X
  • a unit inside a different directory A specified the .dpr file, but not on disk, and directory A not in the unit search path
  • a disk version of the unit in yet another directory B where directory B is in the unit search path

This results in Delphi 1..10.1 Berlin to error on compiling the project (because the unit is not found), but 10.2 and up succeeding (because the unit is found).

Existing unit in the project, but directory not on the search a path

Another permutation is this one:

  • .dpr file in a directory X
  • a unit inside a different directory A specified the .dpr file, and on disk, and directory A not in the unit search path

Two same named units, one on search path, other in project but not on search path

Yet another permutation:

  • .dpr file in a directory X
  • a unit inside a different directory A specified the .dpr file, on disk, and directory A not in the unit search path
  • a disk version of the unit in yet another directory B where directory B is in the unit search path
  • unit A and unit B have different content

This works the same in all versions of Delphi: the unit file referenced in the .dpr is compiled.

Via: [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Delphi 10.2 Tokyo and 10.3 Rio compilers break Delphi 1…10.1 Berlin behaviour. Still reproducing and researching the consequences. It for instance means stuff suddenly compiles when it should not, or breaks when it should not. Preliminary reproduction at “

[WayBack] wiert.me / public / delphi / DelphiConsoleProjectWithMissingProjectUnitThatIsOnTheSearchPath · GitLab

–jeroen

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