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checking for vuescan releases

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charlie
1 year, 10 months ago
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i find Ed Hamrick frequently updates useful additions to his most excellent software, Vuescan - but he provides no RSS feed,nor mailing list for these changes.

so i put this zsh horrible one-liner in my crontab.
please feel free to explain a better way of doing this…
sh: /usr/pkg/bin/states: not found Download this code: /code/vuescan.txt

wp 2.1 wins the day

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charlie
1 year, 10 months ago
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whoa i am back. habari sucked at such an early stage. i wish them luck.

ubuntu is really shitting me

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charlie
1 year, 11 months ago
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i mean, the whole idea, as i saw it, was to circumvent the stale debian packaging system. now, i agree it all got a little out of hand, with Sarge taking it’s sweet fucking time coming along - but every package i hesitate at installing on Ubuntu fails in more and more careless ways. here is my current issue today - getting a “real” VPN going instead of this SSL stuff I threw onto some machines.

Setting up racoon (0.6.5-4ubuntu1) ...
Generating /etc/default/racoon...
Loading IPSEC/crypto modules...
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-686/kernel/crypto/crc32c.ko': -1
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-686/kernel/net/ipv6/ipcomp6.ko':
IPSEC/crypto modules loaded.
Starting IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) server:
racoon: failed to parse configuration file.
racoon-tool: racoon did not start.
invoke-rc.d: initscript racoon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing racoon (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing: racoon
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
zsh: 12531 exit 100   apt-get install racoon
18:11 noodle:~#
749       if (!decrypt_status && link_socket_connection_oriented (c->c2.link_socket))
750     {
751       /* decryption errors are fatal in TCP mode */
752       c->sig->signal_received = SIGUSR1; /* SOFT-SIGUSR1 -- decryption error in TCP mode */
753       c->sig->signal_text = "decryption-error";
754       msg (D_STREAM_ERRORS, "Fatal decryption error (process_incoming_link), restarting");
755       goto done;
756     }

so, a quick Google and I can get back to my job - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipsec-tools/+bug/44246. sigh. i mean, really.

http://blog.moopsfc.com/37/2006/08/23/how-to-add-an-ipsec-connection-on-ubuntu-dapper/

This is the 3rd time that Linux has fucked me over today, and I can’t help but think that some 14 year old is to blame. I guess the real issue is, as Jim puts it, the stockholm syndrome you acquire with debian/apt..