[SLUG] OT: Optus cable problem?
I've just been off the net with a suspected Cable modem failure (Optus, 26 hrs). But it's just spontaneously started working again. Anyone else here experienced the same thing, or was it really just me? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] CHeck script
On 6 Jan, Simon Bryan wrote: Hi all, I am moving my users home directoires from one server to another and in the process standardising usernames such that about 300 need changing. Once I hav copied over the directories (cp -a) I will then need to rename some of the directories. I have a csv file with the format oldname,newname and a script to read it: #!/bin/bash while read name1 name2; do mv $name1 $name2 # done /home/OLMC/snap/rename.txt Um, apart from the already-mentioned problems, I see no error checking there at all. What do you do if the disc fills, or if names clash? I assume names have no white space. But there are probably dozens of things that could go wrong. IFS=,$IFS while read name1 name2 do [ -f $name2 ] echo $name2 is a file! exit 1 [ -d $name2 ] echo $name2 already taken! exit 1 mv $name1 $name2 || echo Bailing out at $name1 - $name2 exit 1 done /home/OLMC/snap/rename.txt But there are probably lots of other things that could go wrong. I hope you have complete and trustworthy backups? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OT: Optus cable problem?
if it's one of the motorola surfboards i had a similar thing happen about 6 months ago. my access speed would crap out. a powercycle would briefly resolve. then i was getting intermittant access before it finally died. On Friday 07 January 2005 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just been off the net with a suspected Cable modem failure (Optus, 26 hrs). But it's just spontaneously started working again. Anyone else here experienced the same thing, or was it really just me? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Local DNS Issue
are your clients windows? were you running samba? On 07/01/2005, at 10:57 AM, Adam W wrote: Hi, I used to be able to get access to my linux box (mandrake 10.1) by just calling it by its name. I have always been able to do this without any config on the clients or the box (well except for 'hostname blah') But now i cannot seem to do that. The clients dont know about the linux box's name. Why isnt the box broadcasting its name to the other puters now? It *was* working, then all of a sudden, the next day it wasnt... and i didnt change any settings and security isnt set real high on the box (mandrake security setting) Any ideas?? Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [gdesklets] Starterbar: not yet working!
Hello, Who have already tried to install gdesklets and got a bunch of errors? This is what I got: I have the gdesklets deamon running ok (gdesklets start). But any desklets (all) I tried to run gave me this error msg: [A sensor could not be found. This usually means that it has not been isntalled.] [Details 6 lines] Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/share/gdesklets/factory/SensorFactory.py, line 60, in create_sensor module = __import__(name) File ./StarterBar/__init__.py, line 2, in ? from IconSet import IconSet ImportError: cannot import name IconSet After some searchings I found out that I had to install some more packets in order to have those stuff to work. I had to do this: - emerge -av pyxdg (I read I was supposed to install packets with python-gnome2-extras, but I didnt find it on gentoos. So I installed the only one which had the 'extra' word with python and gnome stuff) - emerge -av gnome-gtkextra (emerge '='python-gtkextra-0.22) It solved me GoodWeather and XMMS desklets. But not yet the StarterBar trouble! Have anyone already solved it out? thkz. Rafael Xavier de Souza. icmc - USP Sao Carlos. = -- Rafael Xavier de Souza http://grad.icmc.usp.br/~xavier __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] cp -a no dot files
HI all, Is there a way to do 'cp -a' but not copy dot files? -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] cp -a no dot files - DON'WORRY
On Sat, January 8, 2005 10:12 am, Simon Bryan said: HI all, Is there a way to do 'cp -a' but not copy dot files? DOH - just copy the directory contents rather than the directory huh. eg cp -a /dir/path/*rather than cp -a /dir/path -- Simon Bryan IT Manager OLMC Parramatta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OT: Optus cable problem?
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:00 +1100, Brett Fenton wrote: if it's one of the motorola surfboards i had a similar thing happen about 6 months ago. my access speed would crap out. a powercycle would briefly resolve. then i was getting intermittant access before it finally died. On Friday 07 January 2005 17:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just been off the net with a suspected Cable modem failure (Optus, 26 hrs). But it's just spontaneously started working again. Anyone else here experienced the same thing, or was it really just me? Consider the heat of the day. I had a P100 box as a firewall and it would stop working during the day when it was extremely hot. Heat can expand things and open a dry solder joint or cause problems with computers not cooled correctly. I had a problem with the cable. The cable modem has an actual address that you can talk to to find out the signal strength of the cable. The joints of the cable up the pole corroded after a few years. They moved the connector and it was better. They ended up rerunning the cable into my house because it was not 100% reliable. Since then it is fine. -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
