Hoschie's Blog » Operating Systems http://hoschie.org What has this world come to .. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:30:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 iPhone Ping! Application Squid Configuration http://hoschie.org/2010/03/iphone-ping-application-squid-configuration/ http://hoschie.org/2010/03/iphone-ping-application-squid-configuration/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:27:31 +0000 Hoschie http://hoschie.org/?p=133 Ping Logo
I am using a Squid Proxy in my home network to filter outbound access. The WLAN configuration in my iPhone is using this proxy too, but since there is no ‘exclude from proxy’ option there, everything on any ports gets thrown at this Squid Proxy. The Ping Tool is also using a specific port to receive it’s messages. I also sent a mail to the developer, telling him to consider a more friendly port (80,443) for his app so people could use this app also behind firewalls, proxies which you have … at least in a corporate environments.

No answer so far. So here is the solution, at least to get it to work if you have access to your Squid Proxy.


acl http proto http
acl iphone_push dstdomain push.emailmii.net
acl iphone_push_port port 1919
always_direct allow iphone_push
http_access allow CONNECT iphone_push_port iphone_push
http_access allow http iphone_push_port iphone_push

make sure its BEFORE those entries:

http_access deny !Safe_ports
http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
http_access deny all

]]> http://hoschie.org/2010/03/iphone-ping-application-squid-configuration/feed/ 0 upnp server mediatomb for divx, xvid and mkv playback on PS3 . http://hoschie.org/2008/03/upnp-server-mediatomb-for-divx-xvid-and-mkv-playback-on-ps3/ http://hoschie.org/2008/03/upnp-server-mediatomb-for-divx-xvid-and-mkv-playback-on-ps3/#comments Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:57:36 +0000 Hoschie http://hoschie.org/wordpress/?p=64
  • Update 27 December 09 - minor changes due to new blog system
  • Update 01 May 09 Referring to the “ffmpegthumbnailer” .. it is not a script. It is a real tool which can be found in gentoo portage or here :)
  • Update 09 December 08 As there still people coming to this page, i posted my recent WORKING settings to allow for mkv playback as well as the missing bash script.
  • Update 15 Oktober 08 mediatomb.cc got a nice wiki which has alot more details howto setup different kinds of transcodings. Please check them out.
  • Update 28 July 08 Sony Firmware 2.35 finally fixed that problem.

    • It took a while, but the software (mediatomb) as well as the client (ps3) are finally able to talk to each other. It works almost out of the box with the recent 0.11.0 release for xvid and divx playback on the PS3.

    Mediatomb has now the ability to transcode in realtime, allowing you to play other files like matroska .mkv files as well. Mediatomb can forward the file to play to external applications based on mimetype.

    A fine howto to get this stuff going under Gentoo can be found That includes a few external scripts for this transcoding stuff. I am using the ffmpeg version (video) for matroska files.

    my config.xml looks like this:>

    <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>

    <config version=”1″ xmlns=”http://mediatomb.cc/config/1″ xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://mediatomb.cc/config/1 http://mediatomb.cc/config/1.xsd”>
    <server>
    <ui enabled=”yes”>
    <accounts enabled=”no” session-timeout=”30″>
    <account user=”mediatomb” password=”mediatomb”/>
    </accounts>
    </ui>
    <name>MediaTomb</name>
    <udn>uuid:eef9e7bf-b63f-4248-8add-a33086ac49d8</udn>
    <home>/etc/mediatomb</home>
    <webroot>/usr/local/share/mediatomb/web</webroot>
    <storage>
    <sqlite3 enabled=”no”>
    <database-file>mediatomb.db</database-file>
    </sqlite3>
    <mysql enabled=”yes”>
    <host>localhost</host>
    <username>mediatomb</username>
    <database>mediatomb</database>
    <password>YOURPASSWORDHERE</password>
    </mysql>
    </storage>
    <protocolInfo extend=”yes”/><!– For PS3 support change to “yes” –>
    <!–
    Uncomment the lines below to get rid of jerky avi playback on the
    DSM320 or to enable subtitles support on the DSM units
    –>
    <!–
    <custom-http-headers>
    <add header=”X-User-Agent: redsonic”/>
    </custom-http-headers>
    <manufacturerURL>redsonic.com</manufacturerURL>
    <modelNumber>105</modelNumber>
    –>
    <!– Uncomment the line below if you have a Telegent TG100 –>
    <!–
    <upnp-string-limit>101</upnp-string-limit>
    –>
    </server>
    <import hidden-files=”no”>
    <scripting script-charset=”UTF-8″>
    <virtual-layout type=”builtin”/>
    </scripting>
    <mappings>
    <extension-mimetype ignore-unknown=”no”>
    <map from=”mp3″ to=”audio/mpeg”/>
    <map from=”ogg” to=”application/ogg”/>
    <map from=”asf” to=”video/x-ms-asf”/>
    <map from=”asx” to=”video/x-ms-asf”/>
    <map from=”wma” to=”audio/x-ms-wma”/>
    <map from=”wax” to=”audio/x-ms-wax”/>
    <map from=”wmv” to=”video/x-ms-wmv”/>
    <map from=”wvx” to=”video/x-ms-wvx”/>
    <map from=”wm” to=”video/x-ms-wm”/>
    <map from=”wmx” to=”video/x-ms-wmx”/>
    <map from=”m3u” to=”audio/x-mpegurl”/>
    <map from=”pls” to=”audio/x-scpls”/>
    <map from=”flv” to=”video/x-flv”/>
    <!– Uncomment the line below for PS3 divx support –>
    <map from=”avi” to=”video/x-divx”/>
    <map from=”divx” to=”video/x-divx”/>
    <map from=”mkv” to=”video/x-matroska”/>
    <map from=”mov” to=”video/quicktime”/>
    <map from=”qt” to=”video/quicktime”/>
    <map from=”mpg” to=”video/mpeg”/>
    <map from=”mpeg” to=”video/mpeg”/>
    <!– Uncomment the line below for D-Link DSM / ZyXEL DMA-1000 –>
    <!– <map from=”avi” to=”video/avi”/> –>
    </extension-mimetype>
    <mimetype-upnpclass>
    <map from=”audio/*” to=”object.item.audioItem.musicTrack”/>
    <map from=”video/*” to=”object.item.videoItem”/>
    <map from=”image/*” to=”object.item.imageItem”/>
    </mimetype-upnpclass>
    <mimetype-contenttype>
    <treat mimetype=”audio/mpeg” as=”mp3″/>
    <treat mimetype=”application/ogg” as=”ogg”/>
    <treat mimetype=”audio/x-flac” as=”flac”/>
    <treat mimetype=”image/jpeg” as=”jpg”/>
    <treat mimetype=”audio/x-mpegurl” as=”playlist”/>
    <treat mimetype=”audio/x-scpls” as=”playlist”/>
    <treat mimetype=”audio/x-wav” as=”pcm”/>
    <treat mimetype=”audio/L16″ as=”pcm”/>
    <treat mimetype=”video/x-msvideo” as=”avi”/>
    <treat mimetype=”video/mp4″ as=”mp4″/>
    <treat mimetype=”audio/mp4″ as=”mp4″/>
    <treat mimetype=”video/x-divx” as=”avi”/>
    </mimetype-contenttype>
    </mappings>
    </import>
    <transcoding enabled=”yes”>
    <mimetype-profile-mappings>
    <transcode mimetype=”video/x-flv” using=”vlcmpeg”/>
    <transcode mimetype=”application/ogg” using=”vlcmpeg”/>
    <transcode mimetype=”application/ogg” using=”oggflac2raw”/>
    <transcode mimetype=”audio/x-flac” using=”audio-common”/>
    <transcode mimetype=”video/x-divx” using=”video-common”/>
    <transcode mimetype=”video/x-matroska” using=”video-common”/>
    <transcode mimetype=”video/quicktime” using=”video-common”/>
    </mimetype-profile-mappings>
    <profiles>
    <profile name=”oggflac2raw” enabled=”yes” type=”external”>
    <mimetype>audio/L16</mimetype>
    <accept-url>no</accept-url>
    <first-resource>yes</first-resource>
    <accept-ogg-theora>no</accept-ogg-theora>
    <agent command=”ogg123″ arguments=”-d raw -f %out %in”/>
    <buffer size=”1048576″ chunk-size=”131072″ fill-size=”262144″/>
    </profile>
    <profile name=”vlcmpeg” enabled=”yes” type=”external”>
    <mimetype>video/mpeg</mimetype>
    <accept-url>yes</accept-url>
    <first-resource>yes</first-resource>
    <accept-ogg-theora>yes</accept-ogg-theora>
    <agent command=”vlc” arguments=”-I dummy %in –sout #transcode{venc=ffmpeg,vcodec=mp2v,vb=4096,fps=25,aenc=ffmpeg,acodec=mpga,ab=192,samplerate=44100,channels=2}:standard{access=file,mux=ps,dst=%out} vlc:quit”/>
    <buffer size=”14400000″ chunk-size=”512000″ fill-size=”120000″/>
    </profile>
    <profile name=”audio-common” enabled=”yes” type=”external”>
    <mimetype>audio/x-wav</mimetype>
    <accept-url>yes</accept-url>
    <first-resource>yes</first-resource>
    <accept-ogg-theora>no</accept-ogg-theora>
    <agent command=”mediatomb-transcode-audio” arguments=”%in %out”/>
    <buffer size=”1048576″ chunk-size=”131072″ fill-size=”262144″/>
    </profile>
    <profile name=”video-common” enabled=”yes” type=”external”>
    <mimetype>video/mpeg</mimetype>
    <accept-url>yes</accept-url>
    <first-resource>yes</first-resource>
    <accept-ogg-theora>yes</accept-ogg-theora>
    <agent command=”mediatomb-transcode-video-ffmpeg” arguments=”%in %out”/>
    <buffer size=”14400000″ chunk-size=”512000″ fill-size=”120000″/>
    </profile>
    </profiles>
    </transcoding>
    </config>


    # cat /usr/bin/mediatomb-transcode-video-ffmpeg
    INPUT="$1"
    OUTPUT="$2"
    VIDEO_CODEC="mpeg2video"
    VIDEO_BITRATE="4096k"
    AUDIO_CODEC="mp2"
    AUDIO_BITRATE="192k"
    AUDIO_SAMPLERATE="48000"
    AUDIO_CHANNELS="2"
    FORMAT="dvd"
    exec /usr/bin/ffmpeg -threads 2 -i "${INPUT}" -vcodec ${VIDEO_CODEC} -b ${VIDEO_BITRATE} \
    -acodec ${AUDIO_CODEC} -ab ${AUDIO_BITRATE} -ar ${AUDIO_SAMPLERATE} -ac ${AUDIO_CHANNELS} \
    -f ${FORMAT} - > "${OUTPUT}" #2>/dev/null

    Hope that helps you guys out there :)

    ]]>     http://hoschie.org/2008/03/upnp-server-mediatomb-for-divx-xvid-and-mkv-playback-on-ps3/feed/ 1     Clear Qmail Queue with qmail-remove http://hoschie.org/2007/08/clear-qmail-queue-with-qmail-remove/ http://hoschie.org/2007/08/clear-qmail-queue-with-qmail-remove/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:48:43 +0000 Hoschie http://hoschie.org/wordpress/?p=59 LinuxMagic has some fine tool that helps you manage your Qmail Queue.

    In my case, whenever my mailserver is reaching it’s thresholds for SPAM, i’ll clear the Queue, NOT by deleting messages, but by giving them more age. Whatever fits best for you and your customers, but in my case, i have to clear all the MAILER-DEMON messages from time to time because they stack up in the Queue because the FAKE-SENDER-HOST isn’t reachable.


    #stop the qmail-send process
    svc -d /service/qmail-send

    #make sure no more qmail-remote are running
    ps -ax|grep qmail-remote

    #give all Mailer Demon Notices a high age.
    #Results in a LAST delivery attempt on qmailside.
    qmail-remove -i -p "MAILER-DAEMON" -X 0

    #startup qmail
    svc -u /service/qmail-send

    #See the logfiles for the magic to happen
    2007-08-13 15:55:52.069062500 delivery 911: failure: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection.
    _(#4.4.1)/I'm_not_going_to_try_again;
    _this_message_has_been_in_the_queue_too_long./

    cheers, good stuff!

    ]]>     http://hoschie.org/2007/08/clear-qmail-queue-with-qmail-remove/feed/ 0     Back to the roots.. Linux ISDN Dialin http://hoschie.org/2007/03/back-to-the-roots-linux-isdn-dialin/ http://hoschie.org/2007/03/back-to-the-roots-linux-isdn-dialin/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:47:14 +0000 Hoschie http://hoschie.org/wordpress/?p=57 Since 2 weeks i had to call my ISP like 6 or 7 times to get my DSL link fixed. As i use my gentoo box at home via VPN for all kinds of Webdav, email etc. solutions i was looking for a backup to get INTO that router once the connection fails due the DSL being broken again.

    Time to bring my old AVM ISDN card into the game again. I wanted a solution that allows me to DIAL IN to my router via my PowerBook via mobile, getting a proper IP connection to it, mainly for SSH to fix the DSL or whenever necessary to SURF over this connection.

    After a lot of searching (this topic seems to be outdated with all this DSL, UMTS around) i finally came up with this configuration:

    /etc/ppp/peers/dialin

    nodefaultroute
    10.50.50.1:
    ms-dns 192.168.100.1
    noipx
    proxyarp
    sync
    plugin capiplugin.so
    msn 123456 #change to local msn
    protocol hdlc
    cli 123456 #change to dialing number
    login
    mp
    nodefaultroute
    unit 5
    auth +pap

    The authentication uses /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and expects something like this:

    #username localhostname password ip_for_dialing_host
    dude router blub 10.50.50.2

    /etc/inittab

    #in order to have the card LISTENING all the time.
    p0:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd call dialin

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