INFO-VAX Fri, 16 Feb 2007 Volume 2007 : Issue 93 Contents: Re: Alpha to Integrity porting workshops - who's been? Re: Checking backup (and other batch jobs) Re: Finding the IP of some device on the LAN ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:06:39 -0500 From: BobH Subject: Re: Alpha to Integrity porting workshops - who's been? Message-ID: <45D4BD4F.9040004@x.y> Paul Sture wrote: > In article <45D34EE3.4070803@x.y>, BobH wrote: > > >>Larry Kilgallen wrote: >> >>>In article <1171408658.736753.22030@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, >>>"johnhreinhardt@yahoo.com" writes: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Try here: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/catalog-hpintegrity.asp >>>>It's a configurator. >>> >>> >>>That page does not work when Javascript is not enabled. >>> >>>Please mention security-weakening restrictions when posting URLs. >> >>So Larry, anyone posting a link is expected to fully analyze the target >>first? (I would think they would need to look at more than just the >>linked page - maybe everything linked to from it?) >> > > > It doesn't take much analysis at all. Simply run your normal browser > with Javascript turned off. If you get a blank page or something which > doesn't function, you know it's reliant on Javascript without even > giving it a thought. > > Please take a look at > > http://noscript.net/ > > "There's a browser safer than Firefox... > ...it is Firefox, with NoScript! > > NoScript provides extra protection for your Mozilla/Firefox or Flock > browser: this extension allows JavaScript and Java execution only for > trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site)." > > There are good reasons that someone came up with that effort. > I am not sure if Larry would agree that turning off Javascript was sufficient to satisfy his request to "mention security-weakening restrictions". If it was I think he would have said it that way. It may be that there are other security-weakening restrictions that he also wishes everyone to identify and that was one of the reasons for my posting. The point of course is that I can't see expecting everyone to make whatever tests like that are required, on every link they are going to post. Getting everyone to do ANYTHING on the Internet is exceedingly unlikely... :-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:41:51 GMT From: "John Vottero" Subject: Re: Checking backup (and other batch jobs) Message-ID: <3I2Bh.19191$ji1.8250@newssvr12.news.prodigy.net> "Andrew Black (delete obvious bit)" wrote in message news:Xns98D761BAFC4CEandrewblack1orguk@193.111.200.94... >I would like a program to run that checks on the status of batch jobs (eg > backups). I would like a mail sent with different subject line for > - job ran successfully > - job generated errors > - job appear not to have run > > I started to write something using a mixture of SEARCH -e- etc and MAIL > but was starting to think someone must have written this better than I > can do quickly > > Any suggestions > JAMS can do most of this just by installing it and configuring the e-mail addresses. If that's all you need it to do, the free license will work just fine. Go to http://www.mvpsi.com for details. The part that it might not be able to do is the "job appear not to have run". We can send you e-mail if a job doesn't start within x minutes of it's scheduled time, is that what you're looking for? If so, that would require some configuration, you would have to define the jobs and their "stalled time". ------------------------------ Date: 15 Feb 2007 11:02:20 -0800 From: "Doug Phillips" Subject: Re: Finding the IP of some device on the LAN ? Message-ID: <1171566140.102073.212460@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> On Feb 14, 10:43 am, JF Mezei wrote: > Say I plug in some unknown gizmo (without user interface) on my lan. > If I didn't know what the gizmo was, I sure as hell wouldn't plug it into my lan. > What would be the way to find out its IP address that it thinks it has ? > First, find out what the gizmo is, then RTFM. I've never seen a useful device that has no way to access its settings. > Are there reverse ARP commands where you give it the ethernet address of a > device, it sends a broadcast asking that device to identify itself and you > then know what IP it has ? > > If this device is configured with an IP that is not in the same subnet, > does it implicitely mean that arp tables on that lan's host will not > include that response from the gizmo even though they may have physically > received it ? So, how do you find out the IP address of any other device on a network? What happens if it has the same IP as some other device -- like your router or server? If the device isn't in the same subnet, and your routing doesn't include that net, then anything the device says is ignored. Maybe try a sniffer if you really think it's saying something? ------------------------------ End of INFO-VAX 2007.093 ************************