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xrdp

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/06

I totally missed this the last 5 years. Where have I been (:

[WayBack] xrdp: An open source remote desktop protocol(rdp) server.

It runs on top of either Xvnc (which I have used) or X11rdp and should be usable with any RDP client (like the excellent Microsoft RDP for Mac OS X).

Related

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, VNC, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Workaround for “Nmap 7.8 Assertion failed: htn.toclock_running == true” · Issue #1764 · nmap/nmap · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/27

I got this on Windows 10, 8.1 and 7, MacOS and Linux:

C:\bin>nmap -sn 192.168.71.0/24
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-03-24 13:44 W. Europe Standard Time
Assertion failed: htn.toclock_running == true, file ..\Target.cc, line 503

Luckily [WayBack] Nmap 7.8 Assertion failed: htn.toclock_running == true · Issue #1764 · nmap/nmap · GitHub has a solution: add the --max-parallelism 100 parameter:

C:\bin>nmap -sn --max-parallelism 100 192.168.71.0/24
Starting Nmap 7.80 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2020-03-24 13:48 W. Europe Standard Time
Nmap scan report for 192.168.71.1
...
Host is up.
Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (50 hosts up) scanned in 54.07 seconds

The other workaround is to have at least one ARP request succeed.

Via [WayBack] “Assertion failed: htn.toclock_running == true, file ..\Target.cc, line 503” – Google Search

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, nmap, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Postfix for relaying SMTP, some info about my own configuration

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/20

I’ve a bunch of secondary MX servers using postfix (which I like a lot over sendmail). Basically all their configurations are very similar:

  1. To the file /etc/postfix/relay, add a list of domains to relay for, each ending with a space followed by OK as per
    [WayBack] Configure Postfix to relay mail to multiple internal mail servers w/different domains
  2. Run postmap /etc/postfix/relay to update the relay database file.
  3. Ensure that /etc/postfix/main.cf has these settings (note that the FQDN – in the example smtp3.example.org – isn’t always returned by hostname --fqdn, see below):
    1. inet_interfaces = all
    2. myhostname = smtp3.example.org
    3. smtpd_helo_required = yes
    4. smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_invalid_helo_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname, reject_unknown_helo_hostname
  4. rcpostfix restart && rcpostfix status

Check the functionality with journalctl -u postfix.

FQDN – how to get myhostname

This usually gives a good indication of your external FQDN, but depending on your network circumstances it might not at all be the FQDN of your machine:

dig +noall +answer +short -x `curl -s ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com` | sed 's/\.$//'

I got there through these StackExchange answers:

Testing with sendEmail

Then test with sendEmail from [WayBack] GitHub – mogaal/sendemail: lightweight, command line SMTP email client, with statements like these

  • sendEmail -o fqdn=sending.example.org -f sender@example.org -t recipient@example.com -u message-subjetc -s smtp3.example.org -m message-text
  • sendEmail -o fqdn=sending.example.org -f sender@example.org -t recipient@example.com -u message-subjetc -s smtp3.example.org -m message-text -v -v -v -v

If you get an error containing 450 4.7.1 … Helo command rejected: Host not found, then reject_unknown_helo_hostname works, but your -o fqdn= parameter contains an invalid hostname.

More sending examples are in the sendEmail documentation.

If you want to know more about fighting SPAM, then continue at [WayBack] Fighting Spam – What can I do as an: Email Administrator, Domain Owner, or User? – Server Fault

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, postfix, Power User, sendmail | Leave a Comment »

bash – How to add a progress bar to a shell script? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/17

From [WayBack] bash – How to add a progress bar to a shell script? – Stack Overflow (thanks Mitch Haile!):

You can implement this by overwriting a line. Use \r to go back to the beginning of the line without writing \n to the terminal.

Write \n when you’re done to advance the line.

Use echo -ne to:

  1. not print \n and
  2. to recognize escape sequences like \r.

Here’s a demo:

echo -ne '#####                     (33%)\r'
sleep 1
echo -ne '#############             (66%)\r'
sleep 1
echo -ne '#######################   (100%)\r'
echo -ne '\n'

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Mounting a Time Machine backup under Linux so you can send it to Backblaze using Restic…

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/16

[WayBack1/WayBack2] Memo to self: Ich will ein Time Machine Backup unter Linux mounten, um das “Latest” Verzeichnis mit Restic an Backblaze senden zu können. Schritt 1: Sp… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+:

Memo to self: Ich will ein Time Machine Backup unter Linux mounten, um das “Latest” Verzeichnis mit Restic an Backblaze senden zu können.

Schritt 1: Sparsebundle mounten

# ls -l /export/tm_kk/
total 8
drwx—— 3 kris users 4096 Oct 21 16:24 KK.sparsebundle

Geht mit

# git clone git://github.com/torarnv/sparsebundlefs.git
# cd sparsebundlefs; make
# mkdir -p /bundles/tm_kk
# sparsebundlefs /export/tm_kk/KK.sparsebundle /bundles/tm_kk
# ls -lh /bundles/tm_kk
total 0
-r——– 1 root nogroup 1.5T Oct 21 16:24 sparsebundle.dmg

Schritt 2: DMG loopmounten

# fdisk -l /bundles/tm_kk/sparsebundle.dmg
Disk /bundles/tm_kk/sparsebundle.dmg: 1.5 TiB, 1648462135296 bytes, 3219652608 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 15FCCBBD-49E4-42BB-B359-EF662F9916CF

Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/bundles/tm_kk/sparsebundle.dmg1 40 409639 409600 200M EFI System
/bundles/tm_kk/sparsebundle.dmg2 409640 3219390423 3218980784 1.5T Apple HFS/HFS+

# kpartx -a -v /bundles/tm_kk/sparsebundle.dmg
add map loop8p1 (253:1): 0 409600 linear 7:8 40
add map loop8p2 (253:19): 0 3218980784 linear 7:8 409640

# mkdir -p /hfs/tm_kk
# mount -o ro -t hfsplus /dev/mapper/loop8p2 /hfs/tm_kk
# b=$(readlink /hfs/tm_kk/Backups.backupdb/KK/Latest)
# ls -l /hfs/tm_kk/Backups.backupdb/KK/$b
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Oct 21 14:26 ‘Macintosh HD’

Schritt 3: tmfs mount

Ein Time Machine Backup enthält doofe Hardlinks auf Verzeichnisse. Das kann Linux so nicht, und man muß das noch einmal mit tmfs fusemounten. Seufz.

# apt-get install tmfs
# mkdir -p /tmfs/tm_kk
# tmfs /hfs/tm_kk /tmfs/tm_kk
# ls -l /tmfs/tm_kk/KK/Latest/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Oct 21 14:26 ‘Macintosh HD’

Das durchzulesen ist nicht mal langsam.

Schritt 4: Abbauen

# umount /tmfs/tm_kk
# umount /hfs/tm_kk/
# kpartx -d -v /bundles/tm_kk/sparsebundle.dmg
del devmap : loop8p1
del devmap : loop8p2
loop deleted : /dev/loop8
# umount /bundles/tm_kk

Schritt 5: Den Mist scripten

…

A few important comments from the WayBack2 link:

Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:

So your time machine data is on a Linux disk that you export from Linux to MacOS? (as otherwise, I don’t understand what /export/tm_kk/KK.sparsebundle is for)

Kristian Köhntopp:

Yes, I am running netatalk, SMB and NFS on an Ubuntu 18.04.

Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:

+Kristian Köhntopp Thanks. What do you envision as steps to restore a complete time machine?

Kristian Köhntopp:

We will see. I do not see that as normally necessary. Mostly I do not want to lose the work on my laptop, and am just to lazy to restrict the backup to that. In general, it should be possible to create this as a writeable setup so that I get the data back. I will probably never recreate a full runnable mac setup from this emergency offsite backup.

Tools used:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, Backup, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, Power User | Leave a Comment »

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