[OT][ANN] BarCamp Christhchurch
On Friday 7th September there is a BarCamp at 200 Armagh Street. from the wiki : BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. The goal of it is to be completely self-organising, with as little preparation as possible. For details see: http://barcamp.org/BarCampChristchurch Presenters wanted and encouraged so even if you only have something to say for 15mins come along. Cheers, Isaac
Re: ==>>> July Meeting 10 July 2007 <<<==
Hi All, First off thanks for your concerns and wishes for Bens improvement. I will be at the meeting tonight to let you know how he is going and to answer a *small* amount of questions - preferably when in a group :). I probably won't be on time @ 7.30 - probably closer to eight. Thanks, Isaac Devine P.S. I'm bens brother. On 7/8/07, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings to the List. The next meeting is on Tuesday 10th July. That's this very next Tuesday in just a couple of days. Zane Gilmore is going to be expounding on connecting a PostgreSQL database to a web server. Zane might care to expand the cryptic one liner in a follow-up posting We also need to discuss the desirability or otherwise of putting on an Installfest during the so-called 'Software Freedom Day' which IIRC is Sept 15th. We have a tentative booking for the St. Albans hall for the afternoon on that day. We need to confirm or decline the booking as the case may be. It has been suggested that we buy Ben a large get well card and put lots of signatures on it. I will be buying and bringing the card. This is the last date with a defined subject, thus I am seeking volunteers to speak on Linuxy subjects dear to their hearts. Personally I would very much like to hear a talk about source code version control, e.g. git, subversion, monotone, mercurial, etc., etc. Cue MJG perhaps? Pretty Please. Here are the formal details:- There will be a meeting of the Canterbury Linux Users' Group on Tuesday, 10 July 2007 at: The St. Albans Resource Centre Hall 1047 Columbo Street. Starting at 7:30pm. Gated Car Parking is available behind the hall with access from Caledonian Road. It's suggested that you make use of the facility. A light supper consisting of a cup or tea or instant coffee and a biscuit will be available. See: http://www.zoomin.co.nz/?search/address/1047+Columbo+Street+St+Albans+christchurch Some of us have a pre-meeting meal starting at about 6:00pm at the Caledonian Hotel on the corner of Holly and Caledonian Roads. Please feel free to join us. The food and drink is both cheap and cheerful, but distinctly edible. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
Re: Linux device
iPAQ's generally can be flashed to have a version of Linux on them. Don't know about Lotus Notes though. On 4/10/07, chris bayley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a quick query, as I embark down the path of looking at PDA/smartphone type devices. Is anyone aware of a Linux powered PDA or smart phone that will calender/contact sync with Lotus Notes ? Me: linux nut, current employer Lotus user. Tying to to sort out summin useful. : ) Chris
Re: ISP choice
On 12/3/06, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 02/12/06, Christopher D Maher wrote: > Hi, > > Who does everyone use as their ISP and what plabs, download limit is > everyone else on. Personally I'm with Xtra and on the new GoLarge. > Just curious to see what everyone else uses. Orcon. Slowest (cheapest!) speed with "ZeroShock" traffic option. "ZeroShock" means no extra usage charges, but p2p is shaped. Reasonable use of 20GB. Yuri worldexchange. free national 2Mbps/128k international 10GB limit. (international only). $39/mo Very good service. If you want to switch email me off-list and I'll give you a referral link. ;-P Thanks, Isaac
Re: Reminder: CLUG meeting - photo handling
On 9/12/06, Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Isaac Devine wrote re: >> > Tonight 19:30 >> > http://clug.org.nz/index.php/MeetingSchedule >> >> at which, the Software Freedom Day http://www.softwarefreedomday.org >> T-shirts are available ($20), as are still places on our local team. > What does SFD entail? 12-4pm this Sat & Sun, South Learning Centre: http://www.library.christchurch.org.nz/South/ Sweet as. Do you have to be there both days? I'm busy on sat. Mostly it's answering questions from bemused people who haven't seen *nix before, so it's about the easiest job to do around the LUG. We have advertised "installation help", but have no way of knowing how much demand there'll be - people on hand to call on for this is important. Some one-on-one instruction at a PC may assist some attendees. Hand out CDs (plenty free Ubuntu). Otherwise, sit back & watch the DVDs: 'RevOS v.Extended' & 'The Code'. Have fun & chat with people you do/not know, about *nix. All good. :-) Tea/coffee there. > Also: > > Alan is your modem issue fixed? > > thanks, > Isaac Cheers -- Rik
Re: Reminder: CLUG meeting - photo handling
On 9/12/06, Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cheers Volker. Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > Tonight 19:30 > http://clug.org.nz/index.php/MeetingSchedule at which, the Software Freedom Day http://www.softwarefreedomday.org T-shirts are available ($20), as are still places on our local team. What does SFD entail? Also: Alan is your modem issue fixed? thanks, Isaac
Re: OT - the noise
On 9/12/06, Paul Swafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roger Searle wrote: > totally ot... > > wtf? everyone heard it? what was it? > > > Meteor / Sonic Boom from same .. happy landings! Paul Someone at work just said it was over Rangiora
Re: OT - the noise
On 9/12/06, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: totally ot... wtf? everyone heard it? what was it? Yeah I'm in ferrymead atm. Where are you?
Re: Hello, and annoying kernel issue...
On 9/4/06, Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Relying to myself the first day back on the list. Nothing changes... Just an FYI, moving the test box to etch fixed my problems, and the ATA card works with the stock 2.6.15 kernel as well, so I don't have to worry about the custom kernel at this stage... Now to install some bits on it to make sure my scripts from hell will work on etch... I'm a bit late now but make-kpkg has a makeinitrd option floating about somewhere - you probably want to try that... Cheers, Me. On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 23:06 +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: > 'Ay, I've already got one etch box, but this one has quite a bit of > script stuff I'm nervous about breaking, but I really need the extra > space that I'll get from the extra four ATA channels, my cup runneth > over... > > Anyway, I'll do a dist-upgrade to test it out and go from there. > > Cheers, Me. > > On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 22:09 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > I think you're in an unsupportable position - you're running the latest kernel under sarge. I expect you're going to need to go to testing to get the tools you need. > > > > I haven't had any problems running production servers under testing, so you should be ok there. > > > > Steve > > > >
Re: Meeting
On 8/31/06, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the reply Nick, my main concern was that it was suggested I bring my computer along, and I did not want to take someone away from anything they had planned. If I bring it along with me how much should I bring just the box or should I bring the likes of the screen,keyboard,mouse etc Alan Bring the whole thing. Don't worry about taking me from anything :-) Nick - absolutely, winmodems are a PIA.
Re: commands
Ok sweet as. Are you able to go to the Clug meeting on the 12th sept? I'm really busy next week/weekend and won't be watching the list. Bring the pc phone cables etc then and I'll have a look/fix it for you. HTH, Isaac On 8/31/06, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Isaac, well I had a little play this morning and finished up getting myself totally confused so decided to turn it off and get back for another go possibly this evening. I am using Mepis 6 ISP is Ihug Phone is 087300777 I did try clicking on Intialize Modem and it seemed to do something but printed nothing on the screen. Trying to read thru the information there does appear to be a lot of possible options that can be used but as I said after going thru them I was totally confused as to what should be used and what shouldnt Alan
Re: commands
On 8/31/06, Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:50:57 +1200 > Rik Tindall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> >>> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 14:41, Isaac Devine wrote: >>> >>>> When is the next workshop meeting? Should Alan just bring his pc there? >>>> >>> I'm sure Alan would be very welcome to bring his machine to the next meeting. >>> That's the purpose of booking the St. Albans Resource Centre which has more >>> than one room. >>> >>> Tuesday 12 September. >>> >> Monday September 4th, actually - 7.30pm, Sydenham Community Centre, 25 >> Hutcheson Street. >> >> > > Actually I think Isaac was looking for a clug workshop evening. We accept klug fixup jobs too. We even hear all input on how they should be fixed :) The offer's there. pp Freenix Community Network workshop http://www.hackstop.org/index.php/Current_events -- Rik I can't make it on monday, when is the next clug evening? (1st/2nd tues?) I can help you (alan) out then. Minicom is a bit misleading (the Initializating modem dialog always appears - even if you don't have a modem). Btw - can we use the phonelines at St albans? P.S. I know it's frustrating to leave something broken, it will just be a lot easier to fix when I have access to the pc. P.P.S What distro do you (alan) run? Who are you trying to connect to? (an isp - give me phone num if you can) Have you been typing 'zero' in /dev/ttyLM0? (that's what you are supposed to type)
Re: IEs4linux - a nice utility
Dlink routers send malformed dns packets when you request an IPv6 address( record) from DNS using IPv4. What does ifconfig report? On 8/30/06, Roy Britten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30/08/06 16:29, Roger Searle wrote: > I'll admit to not knowing what to do here - I can report that everything else > "appears" to be fine on the network and internet here - apart from very slow > email service from ihug for most of the day... If your internet connection is very congested you may find that DNS requests (being UDP) are lost and you get a "host not found" response. Don't know about malformed packets though. Roy.
Re: commands
When is the next workshop meeting? Should Alan just bring his pc there? On 8/30/06, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:07:42 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 13:49, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:20:29 +1200 > > > > Alan wrote: > > > I am trying to install minicom at present. now I have had a look at > > > the dpkg info and I am sorry tosay I am a little confused as to what I > > > should actually be using. > > > I tried dpkg -i /minicom* > > > > this will only work if minicom is installed in the / directory (which it > > shouldn't be) > > > > go to the directory where the minicom deb file is stored and type: > > > > dpkg -i minic > > > > then hit the tab key, you may need to hit it more than once, it will > > complete the file name (assuming you don't have more than one filename > > starting with the letters "minic" > > > > > also the full minicom file name and it > > > wouldnt take it so gess I was either doing something wrong there or is > > > it that it is a .deb file that I sould actually be doing something else?? > > > > No it is exactly the same as when you last installed a .deb file. > > He should be the root user, I wonder if he is? He doesn't say. > > -- > CS Without Alan waking up to the fact that he needs to tell us the actual ouptut from his commands, and someone teaching him how to either redirect the output, or cut and paste it to a file and then into an email message, we are not likely to be able to diagnose much more. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Modem Strings
On 8/28/06, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 28 August 2006 17:10, Alan wrote: > I have verified that the correct name and password are in both > pap-secrest and chap-secrets. > also retyped the password in when trying with kppp. > The lcp intrerval is currently set at 60 and failure set at 6 > I have changed it to chap/pap in the options and am wondering now is I > should > have a + in front of that as now immediately after connect it dies with > error 2 No, it should not have a plus. I posted the pppd pap options in a mail at 11:07 this morning. Please read the manual page as per that message. > I aslso tried with wvdial and attached is what came thru while trying to > connect. Please could you use wvdial over again but as the root user this time. All the linux dialing programs do the same thing - dial the modem and then "hand off" to pppd. From the sent logs it seems that the modem is connecting fine and that pppd isn't getting replies to the data it is sending. This could be the case with some computers you connect to : they expect you to login to the computer before you start pppd. So can you please install (if you don't have it) the 'minicom' program and follow these steps (on the command line (as root)): 1. run 'minicom -s' - this is the linux equivalent of windows' hyperterminal application 2. use the arrow keys to select 'Serial Port Setup' 3. hit 4. press 'A' 5. delete the contents there and replace it with '/dev/ttyLTM0' 8. hit 9. hit so you see the menu where you selected 'Serial Port Setup' 10. select 'save setup as dfl' 11. Hit enter 12. Press arrow keys to select 'Exit from Minicom' 13. Hit enter Congratulations! you have now configured minicom! (to use your modem) :-) Now we need to run minicom again (we quit because minicom is useless at reloading configuration at runtime) 1. run minicom You should see a 'AT mumbo jumbo' displayed and an 'OK' on a seperate line after it. 2. Press and 'A' at the same time and then press L 3. hit enter to prompt saying minicom.cap (We want a log of what happens) 2. Type ATD and press enter The modem should dial and connect. 3. Quit minicom by pressing 'A' followed by 'X' 4. Email the minicom.cap file to the list :) (it will be in the same directory as you run minicom - typically your home directory) Sorry for the horrible instructions, I don't know how to script minicom as I've only used for diagnostic purposes. With the results from this we can see if there is a ppp daemon on the other and rule out actual modem issues and turn to pppd configuration issues. HTH, Isaac
CLUG is dying
Hi all, What has happened to clug? Where is all the nitty-gritty tech debate? (the hard stuff) Do we just answer (RTFMable) modem/printer/wifi configuration/compilation questions now? WTF is with all the OT posts - most of which aren't even labelled OT. Is clug dying? Are we poisoned? Isaac
Re: August Meeting.
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:32:31 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone can put up with my appalling presentation skills, I could > do one on systems administration if anyone's interested??? Anything particular in mind? (Configuration Management is one of my fav's) After all System Administration is a pretty big topic. :-) Thanks, Isaac > > On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:28:35 +1200 > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Greets CLUG Listers, > > > > Volker is unable to present the second half of his mini-series on > > images and graphics until September. Therefore the August meeting > > slot is open for other subjects. I had thought that a Dapper Drake > > fixups evening might be in order, but the list has been silent > > completely silent on the subject so I take it that the Ubuntu folks > > have done such a superior job that nobody needs help to get their > > install to work? > > Thus we need a subject and speaker for August. > > > > Volunteers please. > > ( Political Pamphleteers and Ranters need not apply :-) > > > > -- > > CS
Re: USB serial.
On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:58:55 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 17:32:54 +1200 (NZST) > John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > > > > I've got this lead, no idea where it came from, but it's got USB > > > on > > one end, and 9 pin serial at the other end. > > > > lsusb will tell you more, so will dmesg > > > > Do both and post the relavent bits of the output and we can make > > some more guesses. > > > > > > John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 > > Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 > > PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand > > > > Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. > > > > "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly > > wrong later." > > > > From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced. > > lsusb > Bus 003 Device 002: ID 091e:0003 Garmin International GPSmap 60C / > GPS 18 / Vista C Bus 003 Device 001: ID : > Bus 002 Device 001: ID : > Bus 001 Device 001: ID : > ...so nothing there. modprobe ftdi_sio and magic will happen. HTH, Isaac
Re: Cnet modem using 536ep chip set
On Wed, 31 May 2006 04:17:00 + (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After lots of google and research, I eventually got my > modem to dial under Suse 9.1 (couldn't get box suse 10). > The problem is that in a short period of time, my whole machine > just locks up which doesn't occur until modem is activated. > My guess is irq conflict, currently using irq 16 which is same > as what video is using, I have tried switching to a different > pci slot but same problem occurs. Tried deactivating irq3 and irq 4 > in bios, still no effect. I suspect that if I can force the modem to > use irq 3 or 4 that the problem will go away, is this possible? > I have checked the log and wrote down the bit I thought might be > relevant which was > > Unable to handle kernel null pointer dereference at virtual address > > does this mean that the kernel module is basically stuffed for the > modem? From memory it won't compile against any kernel > 2.6.8 HTH, Isaac
Re: CUJ Gone
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:30:47 +1300 (NZDT) John Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A rock in the Universe has Gone. > > The C/C++ User Journal is no more. It has melted into Dr Dobbs. > > I'm shocked. > > Strange, neither website seems to admit it yet. > CUJ is now focusing on electronic content now I believe.I got a letter last month about it.
Re: Filesystem comparison was: Re: Wasted hard drive space on new format
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:59:31 +1300 Wesley Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:50, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 11:56, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > > Um, Well. JFS is a time tested filesystem. > > > > See:- > > > > http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > > > It's been an IBM product for many years, was available for O/S2 > > > > > > And it has been pointed out that just because jfs has been > > > available for mainframes on hardware xyz for donkeys years does > > > not imply in any way that its completely new port to Linux on x86 > > > is as reliable or as well tested. > > > > JFS was first implemented for use in/on AIX, the IBM version of > > unix. Then ported to OS/2 on the Intel x86 platform during 1995. > > The OS/2 version was apparently a second version, a rewrite of the > AIX one. The Linux port was of the OS/2 version. > > > > The first release of JFS on Linux was just on six years ago, and > > considered 'production ready' about a year later. Personally, I > > would not call that a "completely new port". > > I personally suspect the reason why it failed on me several times was > that it was not supposed to be used in conjunction with other file > systems. Linux has the VFS for this reason. A combination of FSs should not cause a particular one to fail. If that happenened you would get a kernel panic and probably data corruption/loss across both filesystems. > > > > For the full story, and a pretty decent review of filesystems > > generally please see:- > > > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=69 > > > > It's "Informative +5" imho. > > > > All that said, note that I have been running Reiser4 on my lappie, > > and am very satisfied with it and don't intend to change. > > I would rate reiserfs as the best file system I've used, and ext3 as > the second best. One thing it's useful to know is that they work > well together. > > Wesley Parish
Filesystem comparison was: Re: Wasted hard drive space on new format
On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:15:24 +1300
Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > files). I use JFS on my Kanotix install, seems quite nice.
>
> What's so nice about it? I mean, what the other filesystems don't do?
NOTE: This is all about file writing. I haven't done read tests on
these filesystems.
reiserfs:
affected by partition load (from 20%)
handles files between 5 - 10k very badly (slowly)
can squeeze more space if tail packing is enabled.
metadata journaling
ext2/3:
* flushes to disk every 5s
* journals data and metadata as well (configurable). Corruption
still possible if data is added to a middle of a file.
* hugely affected by partition load(from 15%)
jfs:
* very low cpu overhead (lowest)
* file writing unaffected by partition load
* flushes to disk when the IO scheduler tells it to
(see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt under io vm
heading)(/proc/sys/vm/
xfs:
* low cpu overhead (second lowest)
* very efficient disk usage (best) (caches heaps)
* has option to make a partition a *realtime* partition -
specifically designed for streaming video (I can't find how to
set this up however)
* flushes to disk based on IO scheduler and it's own
"scheduler" (see filesystems/xfs.txt)
In Summary:
ext3 for data integrity.
jfs for low cpu overhead
xfs for high throughput (Nick should use this)
reiserfs for *very* small files (<3k)
thanks,
Isaac Devine
P.S.
To speed up performance check hdparm and make sure the you have
multisect enabled (hdparm -m xx $driv) use hdparm -i $driv and set it
the value of MaxMultiSect. Turn off disk spindown (hdparm -S 0 $driv)
and power management (hdparm -B 255 $driv). Read man hdparm first
however.
Re: Eclipse, anyone?
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:36:38 +1300 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyone out there who's well versed in the (black) art of > using the eclipse ide? I've never been a great fan of them, but it > seems that it's the only way of getting a half decent language > sensitive editor for php ( using xored trustudio ). I personally use eclipse for Java,Ruby,C++ and to a limited extent shell-scripts (when they are part of a larger project). Eclipse beats hands-down any other ide for Java and is one of the best for C++. Your eclipse experience is mainly determined by the quality of the plugins you choose. In my case the Ruby plugin is fairly mediocore and the eclipse-darcs(a SCM) plugin is far from finished. I haven't heard of either good or bad experiences for php however. HTH, Isaac
spamassasin and sylpheed-claws-gtk2
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has had any luck in setting up spamassassin for use with sylpheed-claws-gtk2? I have installed the debian package but I can't seem to see where to set it up. I am running Debian etch. thanks, Isaac
Re: modem
On 11/9/05, Matthew Whiting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've worked through the suggested docs > (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WinModemLucent) and got up to > > sudo modprobe -v ltserial > > but result is 'FATAL: Module ltserial not found'. 1. I'm pretty sure it is lt_serial ;-) 2. cd to whereever you put the module /lib/modules/`uname -r`/other occuring to those instructions 3. try insmod lt_serial and then insmod lt_modem HTH, Isaac *** BEWARE GMAIL HEADER ***
Re: Tip of the day. Don't clobber your files.
On 10/14/05, Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:16 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > > Dunno about that - baz-ng is looking pretty interesting. > > > > http://www.bazaar-ng.org/ > > > > Obviously very early stages of development though. > > I was evaluating the systems to determine which should be used by the > third-year students, so the criteria included good documentation, > stability, and the ability to work with firewalls. While Bazaar looks > really nice, it may need to mature a bit :) > > -- > Michael JasonSmithhttp://ldots.org/ > > Did you have a look at darcs? (www.darcs.net) It's fanastic! Isaac
Re: Read this before trying control-alt-backspace
On 9/29/05, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last night I was using my laptop ssh-ed into my new home server. I was > > setting up NFS, and needed to restart the networking stuff on the > > server. Hey! why did my ssh session suddenly freeze? > > Strange, I am routinely logged into some box via ssh and do a rcnetwork > restart. I've never had a problem, other than of course when I stuffed > up the networking and the network interface doesn't come up again... > > > On a side note, port 22 of the server, which is open to the internet > > through the firewall, had nearly 5000 breakin attempts last night. > > After less than 2 days open. I'm using the default ssh-server install. > > I hope it's secure enough. > > Should be fine, assuming you keep sshd very up-to-date, disable ssh 1 > protocol, and have good passwords on all accounts. Configure sshd to not > allow logins on accounts for which you don't need it. In fact, make a > positive list. Running sshd on a port other than 22 doesn't increase > security, but cuts the zombie traffic. You can use the firewall to do > this - forward external:someport to internalserver:22. Also have a look at key-only authenication - no passwords to guess.
Re: Mail address labels
On 9/3/05, Paul Parkyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, are there any good programs for printing mail address labels. I have tried > using the label function in Openoffice but results are poor. I am trying to > print using fan fold tractor feed labels in a Dot Matrix printer the labels > are 95mm wide by 25mm high. > > Regards Paul > Try glabels - http://glabels.sourceforge.net/ ( I haven't used it myself)
Re: Comms program
On 9/3/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 14:57 +1200, Paul Parkyn wrote: > > On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 14:02, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > > I have been trying to compile a program for some time now but have given > > > > up the driver part will not compile. The 2.6 tty layer has started to have some major rework done on it lately. Would drivers/kernel-version are you using? You could try an earlier kernel version - something like 2.6.8 (highest aval. on deb stable). > > > > > > What driver are you trying to compile? > > > The linux kernel has drivers for (almost) every network card in common > > > use. > > Hi CS the driver is for a pty device. What I have is a Ethernet to serial > > adapter the driver allows me to create a virtual serial port for use in any > > comms program. The serial device is connected to a Building Management > > computer which has its own monitor program which we access through a serial > > port. Trying to get this to work so I can access it from any computer on the > > network. > > I am not sufficiently adept at C programming to fix the problems. > > > > Thanks for your input Regards Paul > > What is the driver you are trying to compile? (Or is it something closed > source that you are not able to share?) > > I am struggling a little to understand what it is you are trying to do. > pty devices are already in the kernel. OTOH maybe I don't understand > enough about pty devices :) Real Quick Guide to the Linux serial and tty subsystem/layer: ttys are just serial ports with some extra(character) handling on top - stuff like escape character handling etc. On linux serial ports and ttys are treated pretty much the same. ie. : System calls for handling serial ports are the same as those for tty devices. A serial port is just a file - /dev/ttyS* etc. ptys are user-emulated tty's - things like gnome-terminal, xterm etc. create these. (I'm not too sure how completely they emulate them tho). I think Paul meant a fake serial(tty) device? HTH, Isaac *** BEWARE GMAIL HEADER ***
serial-port nonblocking io
Hi, Does anyone know how to use a serial port in a non-blocking fashion without having to call tcdrain to flush the write buffer? Or know where I should go to find out?:P Slightly clearer explaination: In my test program I loop continually calling write. After calling write enough times I start getting the (expected) EAGAIN errors. However under no circumstances does it seem to be flushing the write buffer unless I start calling tcdrain. The behaviour I want to have is for the kernel or whatever to flush the write buffer periodically. Any ideas or workarounds? Using the dse XH8290 usb-serial adapter (kernel 2.4 driver is ftdi-sio) on debian sarge. thanks, Isaac
Anyone have Suse Desktop 9.3 CD's or DVD?
Hi, Does I anyone have a copy of Suse I could copy or borrow? thanks, Isaac
Re: Gentoo Installfest (in Robert's garage)
Would I be able to come along? Done an install before( 2004.0) , changed to ubuntu want to switch back, rate-limited atm and willing to help others. system specs : amd64 3000 1gb ram 2x 120gb ata hdd radeon x800 thanks, Isaac ** BEWARE GMAIL HEADER **
HOWTO: Make cd always use pushd to keep dir history
Adding this to .bashrc:
#call pushd on every cd
function cd() {
oldir=`pwd`
builtin cd "$@" || return $?
newdir=`pwd`
builtin cd "$oldir"
pushd "$newdir" > /dev/null
}
always calls pushd with cd so you always get the benefit of using popd
to go back up the directory changes.
Any questions/suggestions/improvements welcome :)
Isaac
* beware gmail header *
Re: Automatically running a program/script on incoming mail? (exim+procmail+debian)
thanks all. looked through the procmail log and I found this: /home/faxemail/scripts/test: cat: command not found so I changed it to full path names. (in the script). Any ideas on getting around that? (so it uses the user's path?) On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:06:57 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool, an on-topic post ;) > > > I looked through the exim config and it looked like procmail should be > > working. However their is no content placed into ~/logfile it is > > zero-length. > > Add a VERBOSE=yes to your procmailrc. The procmail log file is your > first port of call for procmail debugging. In sendmail and postfix, > procmail has to be explicitly configured as LDA (local delivery agent), > for exim it's probably the same. I bet it's not, and therefore isn't > called at all. In that case the procmail logfile should be empty. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. >
Automatically running a program/script on incoming mail? (exim+procmail+debian)
hi, I am trying to get exim+procmail on fresh install of debian(woody) to to run the following (testing) script whenever the user recieves an email with the subject consisting soley of numbers:. ~/.procmailrc: PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:$HOME/scripts MAILDIR=$HOME/.mailspool DEFAULT=$HOME/.mailspool/default LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log SHELL=/bin/bash :0: * ^Subject: [0123456789]+ | test ~/scripts/test: #!/bin/bash cat >> ~/logfile I looked through the exim config and it looked like procmail should be working. However their is no content placed into ~/logfile it is zero-length. thanks, Isaac P.s the test script does have the user execute flag set.
Lucent winmodem on ubuntu
hey, I have tried an ubuntu live cd in one of friends machines and followed this guide: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/DialupModemHowto however this failed to work. Has anyone had any luck with this modem without compiling drivers? If no would someone be able to do so for me as I only have 64-bit at home. (catch-22 because he cannot access the net to download the compiler and headers to make the modem driver). thanks, Isaac *** BEWARE THE GMAIL HEADER ***
Re: Opinions re choice of CPU; marginally on topic
I'm on amd64 with about the requirements you specify. It is a very solid machine and really snappy too:) The only problem with it is that some apps aren't natively(64bit) built or stable on it yet (openoffice is one) - though the 32bit versions will still run faster and comparably on the amd64 to a pentium4. Not sure about scanner support however. Most mobos also come with really decent inbuilt sound now as well. Just make sure you get a althon-64 distro. I've heard ubuntu is nice and should be suited for the tasks you are talking about. On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:48:36 +1300, Andrew Packer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Our old PII-266 box is no longer meeting my wife's needs. Time for a > new box. Her imminent requirements include editing hi-res scans of > photographs and complex graphics, using the GIMP, and working on > documents in OpenOffice.org. We are not gamers and are not interested > in editing video (nor in watching videos on her PC). > > I am not impressed by the offerings of mass-market electronics/appliance > houses. I have envisioned an AMD-64 machine with 1G or more of RAM, a > modest video card (enough video RAM to hold one or two screens) and > sound card and lots of disk space. Trouble is, the only local assembler > I'd trust builds only with Intel chips. I don't think waiting for Intel > to come out with their version of the Athlon 64 is an option. > > Do you recommend sticking with the Pentium series and the local > assembler (who tell me they're happy to build specifically for Linux), > or forging ahead with Athlon-64 from some place like Quay Computers (I'm > more familiar with Wellington than with Christchurch)? If the latter, > is there a shop or shops in Christchurch that you particularly recommend > above all others? > > TIA for your advice, > > =Andrew > >
Re: On Topic: Recommended Logical Volume Management?
thanks all, I'm using 2.6 so I'm going to go down the LVM2 route. FWIW I'm wanting to use LVM to allow creation (and snapshoting) on my primary machine for disk/partition 'images' for a ten-machine cluster I'm starting work on in mid-december. I also thought the other benefits(resize my partitions) for it on my own machine would be pleasing. However I'm going to need a hand setting up an initrd. On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 16:30:20 +1300, Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 2004-11-10T16:00:30+1300, Isaac Devine wrote: > > I have been looking at different LVM systems ( LVM1, LVM2 or EVMS > > http://evms.sourceforge.net/) and am wondering if any anyone has had > > any experience with them and specifically setting up a root partition > > on them. What do you recommend? (Using gentoo) > > It depends what kernel you're using. LVM2 is part of the kernel.org > tree now, so I recommend using that if you're running a 2.6 kernel. If > you're running something earlier, you'll probably need to apply patches > to get either LVM or EVMS; in this case, I suggest using LVM just > because it is fairly similar and compatible with LVM2, so you've got an > upgrade path and you can continue using your existing LVM knowledge. > > As nice as EVMS is, don't bother with it unless you have a very good > reason to. It didn't get accepted into the kernel.org tree when it was > submitted, and now that LVM2 is in and well maintained, it certainly > won't be going into the kernel.org tree in the near future. > > And, as always, make sure you have good backups. > > At 2004-11-10T16:10:43+1300, C. Falconer wrote: > > And, if you're concatenating a bunch of disks, you're increasing > > exponentially your risk to drive failure, which looses all data on all > > drives in the array. > > Agreed. Concatenating drives is a foolish move for 99.999% of people. > Don't do it. Volume management does not require or encourage this sort > of configuration, but it doesn't protect you from bad decisions either. > > > Frankly, it's a waste of time IMO. > > Volume management? Have you used it for a significant period of time? > It's incredibly useful, especially if your filesystem allows on-line > resizing. > > Cheers, > -mjg > -- > Matthew Gregan |/ > /|[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
On Topic: Recommended Logical Volume Management?
* beware gmail header ** Hey, I have been looking at different LVM systems ( LVM1, LVM2 or EVMS http://evms.sourceforge.net/) and am wondering if any anyone has had any experience with them and specifically setting up a root partition on them. What do you recommend? (Using gentoo) thanks, Isaac
Fwd: OT Gmail invites
-- Forwarded message -- From: Isaac Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:45:48 +1300 Subject: Re: OT Gmail invites To: yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ditto On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 11:51:06 +1300, yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And if Nick runs out, contact me. > > > > On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 10:23:28 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > I have some if anyone is interested. I might as well offer them to my > > friends here. Contact me OFFLIST. >
Re: X-WinCommander
*** Beware Gmail header *** X-WinCommander is discontinued. Try X File Explorer (based off XWinCommander). It also uses the latest stable FOX libraries http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ Isaac On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:42:42 +1300, Jim Cheetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The X-WinCommander file manager, which a few CLUGers are using, seems to > now be housed at SourceForge :- http://sourceforge.net/projects/xwc > > It's only available as an RPM, or sources that require an old "FOX" library. > > -jim >
Re: 1st CLUG AGM
--- Apologies for gmail header Rik, I always saw the CLUG as an online list of people with shared interests in Linux / OSS software. The meetings are the same: gatherings of like-minded linux oss geeks. Newbies are welcome because soon they become compenent users and so on, then we can all help other newbies. I believe clug doesn't need organisation besides the meetings. It's not like clug has any physical assets to manage - it is a collection of people and ideas nothing more - nothing less. Why are you trying to formalise everything? The CLUG is a *user group* not an advocacy group - Our focus is users not advocacy. On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:34:16 +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for your patience, > > Rik > > [Robert Fisher] > > It's running out though. > > I had sort-of hoped that my "motion" and the apparent support it got would > have curtailed this thread. Ditto
Re: Linux and Laptops.
> > What distro are you wanting to put on it? > Gentoo, Mandrake :) or both though SUSE 9.2 (when it's out) might be an for gentoo check out this amd64 page: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=221361 emerge these if u want to use a 32bit binary: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=emul-linux and for more 32bit stuff (if using a chroot) : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=231755
Re: Linux and Laptops.
> Also has any one had any experience with Athlon64 laptops or at least Athlon > based laptops also any experience with ATI based Mobility GPU's (9600, 9700) > and 3D under linux would be appreciated. The ati cards don't have *full* drivers for 64bit linux. Are you wanting to do/use any opengl (3d) stuff? What distro are you wanting to put on it?
Re: Strange Screen Settings in Slackware 8.0
thanks for that, I read the config file and found-out/rememberes I was running in framebuffer console-mode! The config said you can pass args to lilo to change the resolution so I passed the 800x600 one it worked perfectly. thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Isaac Tim Wright wrote: On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Isaac Devine wrote: I just installed Slackware, (thanx 4 all the help(pcmcia working fine)) and in the configuration part it asked me what screen resolution or something I use for the console. It said that it it also used for X and one is the safest. I chose 1024 x 1??? screen and I actually have a 800x600 screen. What is happening is that after boot when I login where I am tying is actually below the screen so I can't read it unless I hold down enter till it comes up. This behaviour is occuring in X also, I am only seeing the top of the screen. The machine is a toshiba satellite pro 470CDT 133Mhz 32Megs RAM. try pressing ctrl-alt-F1, logging into a text console, and editing the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (using emacs should be fine-it has a no X mode), and removing the 1024x1??? line to 800x600. Then it should be all good :) Tim Wright Assistant Lecturer Department of Computer Science University of Canterbury http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13
Strange Screen Settings in Slackware 8.0
I just installed Slackware, (thanx 4 all the help(pcmcia working fine)) and in the configuration part it asked me what screen resolution or something I use for the console. It said that it it also used for X and one is the safest. I chose 1024 x 1??? screen and I actually have a 800x600 screen. What is happening is that after boot when I login where I am tying is actually below the screen so I can't read it unless I hold down enter till it comes up. This behaviour is occuring in X also, I am only seeing the top of the screen. The machine is a toshiba satellite pro 470CDT 133Mhz 32Megs RAM. Isaac Devine, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCMCIA settings
hello all, I am wanting to replace redhat 7.3 on my laptop with Slackware 8 and I have prickly PCMCIA settings. Does anyone know where the pcmcia settings are kept so I can copy them over when slackware is installed. (i.e. put on floppy then put back on laptop). Also opinons on Slackware welcome. (mainly using for small size). No gentoo sorry , It's a P133 with 32 Mb Ram and 2 GB and 56k connection, aka not suitable. Isaac -- "Don't like someone? try dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda"
OT: OpenMosix and Gentoo Installation Fun
Wouldn't be interesting when you install Gentoo to build OpenMosix support with the kernel so when you are compiling things like X etc, the process would be put on a grunty machine on your network? Aka when installing Gentoo on a powerful machine add OpenMosix. when installing on your 486 add OpenMosix. when installing XFree on your 486 the gcc process will be 'placed/remoted' onto your powerhouse, giving similar build times. :) I see this as a good option when you are installing gentoo on a 'okay' machine (200Mhz and lower) and you have a beast(1Ghz+) on a network. You can then say in your posts well I just recompiled my system on my 486 in an hour, I don't see why yours is taking 3 weeks, did you do something wrong? - Isaac Devine
Re: Debian v3 r0 pppd help?
have you started pppd on boot? I set up mine up in bash and had to start it manually* until I added it to a startup script that starts in RedHat 7 after the rc ones. *if it is setup properly a $pppd should start it. Isaac Devine. Bjorn Nilsen wrote: I am just guessing here but have you actually turned on the connection? Just configuring it is probably not enough, try the command "pon connectionname". On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 23:34, Craig Molloy wrote: just switched my orignal Slackware 4 gateway to Debian version 3 revision 0 and i cant seem to make it dial on demand after ticking all the rithg boxes in pppconfig, even looked on the net for a bit of info but im obvisouly not looking in the right place. just after things that should be set up that i may have missed etc. //: The gateway is not dialing out after a external request for an ip, ive followed to the best part of my knowledge how it should be set up etc all this is running on a Compaq Deskpro 500mhz with 256ram No X as i cant get the Oxygen vx1 card to play nicely, but i can manually dial it with wvdial. any help is much appreacited, cheers
ot: SMTP and POP3 setup for user mail i.e /home/ijd/mail
Hi, How does one setup pop3 receiving and smtp sending for a user mail account? I want it to send to xtra's (my isp) smtp server in particular. thanks, --Isaac Devine
starting mozilla mail without Navigator
I have used this to start mail from xterm, Other (un)useful commands found with --help xterm$ mozilla --mail -- Isaac Devine "We are ready for any unforeseen event which may or may not happen." -Dubya
