[BALUG-Admin] lot of really nice command-line tools to use in dumping and editing various pck databases

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):

> Ooooh, yes!  I'd be highly interested in such CLI tools/programs.
> Any particular pointers on what/where to look for such?
> (Debian packages or names or name pattern, or term to search on?)

Well, I don't remember, exactly.  Your better source would be asking
Marc Merlin <marc@merlins.org> .  But, that having been said, I _used_ 
to know something about that, and grabbed a bunch of those that Marc 
collected on the SVLUG mailing list server.  Thus, they are here on 
linuxmafia.com as part of my safety backup, ergo accessible to you:

/usr/local/src/rickstuff/svlug/var-local-scr/scr $ ls -al
total 244
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root  4096 Jul 31  2004 .
drwxr-sr-x 3 root rick  4096 May 28  2015 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  3152 Aug 25  2000 addsize
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   165 Feb 20  2002 base64dec
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   165 Feb 20  2002 base64enc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1406 Jul 27  1998 bz2grep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   301 Jul 27  1998 bzcat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1399 Jul 27  1998 bzgrep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   737 Oct 20  1998 catdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2814 May 23  1998 cdda2mp3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   559 Sep 24  2001 checkaliases
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   201 May 23  1998 clean
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1085 Jul 28  2000 cleanfile
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   364 Jan  8  1999 cleanss
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   605 Jul 27  1998 color_test
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   332 Jul 27  1998 color_test2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   211 Sep 27  1999 copyaudiocd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2594 Nov 12  2001 copysafe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   230 May 23  1998 count
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   541 Feb 14  2000 disp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   206 May 23  1998 dup2
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root root   884 Jul 31  2004 evim
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37200 Jun  6  2001 expn
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   926 May 23  1998 findcust
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   889 May 23  1998 findcustc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1010 May 23  1998 findman
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1148 Oct 18  1998 findstr
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   434 Jun  1  1999 gendnstables
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1013 Jul 27  1998 kall
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1063 Mar 14  2000 killanims
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    37 Jan 24  2000 listmp3tags
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   925 May 23  1998 lock
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   843 May 23  1998 mem
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  2432 May 23  1998 multidecode
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   174 Jul 27  1998 playau
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    59 Jul  4  1999 qpdecode
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    99 Jul  4  1999 qpencode
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   389 Jun 23  2000 recompress
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1017 Apr 13  1999 redocheckconfig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   588 May 23  1998 ren
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   341 Jun 13  1999 rename
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  3252 Aug  7  2001 rescanscsi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   687 Feb 13  1999 reset
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   371 Jul 27  1998 ro
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   179 Jul 27  1998 rot13
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   372 Jul 27  1998 rw
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   478 Jul 28  2000 savephoto
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  1627 Jul 28  2000 setmp3tag
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  5356 Jan 21  2000 ssh-ppp
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   446 May 30  2000 symbolsearch
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   352 May 23  1998 termreset
[rick@linuxmafia]
/usr/local/src/rickstuff/svlug/var-local-scr/scr

In fact, tell you what:

[rick@linuxmafia]
/usr/local/src/rickstuff/svlug/var-local-scr/scr $ cd ..
[rick@linuxmafia]
/usr/local/src/rickstuff/svlug/var-local-scr $ tar czf /tmp/scr.tar.gz scr
[rick@linuxmafia]
/usr/local/src/rickstuff/svlug/var-local-scr $

Attached.

> I've got nice web scraping bit (had a wee bit more time this A.M.),
> so now I can grab *all* the member data *except* for their password
> (and the relatively trivial bit that Mailman also saves their
> email as subscriber enters/submits it - which might contain
> uppercase letters - but Mailman canonicalizes it to lowercase
> and mostly or entirely uses that - though it does also save the original
> form).  At least I think that's *all* the data - I'll double-check that
> there's nothing else Mailman saves beyond that (at least of
> relevance/significance) that's not obtainable from the individual
> subscriber settings web pages.  That then also frees us up from
> trying to get that data from DreamHost.com (and them possibly mucking
> it up or saying "no" anyway).

More than good enough.  Nobody cares much about their Mailman
per-subscription passwords, fortunately.  If they bitch, just tell 'em
they can change them to suit.

It's the usual thing:  Optimise for the common case.
 
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