[SLUG] Linux Conferences
I'm the editor for the dmoz.org category Linux Conferences' [1] - I'd be interested if anyone knows of any other conferences that I could add to the category. Yes, I know about LinuxConf in Canberra in a few weeks :-) Email me the links, or you can submit them directly at [1]. [1] http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Conferences/ Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Linux; a re-GNU-able resource. -- 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] Fwd: [LINK] unix time = 11111111111 about mid-day today.
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:56:33 +1100 Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while [ 0 ]; do clear; date; date +%s; sleep 1; done Here's another variation: while true; do printf %s\r $(date +%s); usleep 10; done The \r keeps the output on the same line. Adjust the usleep arg up or down according to how much cpu you want to burn. Matt ps. sorta surprised that while [0] ... works but there you go while [ 1 ] works the same. -- 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] Fwd: [LINK] unix time = 11111111111 about mid-day today.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. sorta surprised that while [0] ... works but there you go while [ 1 ] works the same. very counterintuitive, i know. an actual 'false' inside the brackets is a null or empty string, e.g. while [ ] does nothing -rick -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Blessed are the cracked for they let in the light. -- Spike Milligan -- 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] RIP LinMagAU
be sure to post a link some place Dean Simon Males wrote: We all know that LinMagAU stop publishing some time ago, and now the domain has been hijacked. Does anyone have the editions in one big tar ? I would really like to seem the articles appear online in one shape or form again, rather then mold away digitally. Ultimate goal would be to push it to the debain archives in the same way the Linux Gazette is. -- WWW: http://dean.bong.com.au LAN: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- 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] Sharing IMAP Folders
I'm setting up a couple of imap servers using dovecot myself, but on Debian sarge. You may have a problem here, because the last time I looked (IIRC) dovecot does not yet support shared folders. Having said that I would be delighted for both of us if someone could prove me wrong. David x22707 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edwin Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/03/2005 03:43 PM Please respond to edwin To: Sydney Linux User Group slug@slug.org.au cc: Fax to: Subject:[SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders *** This email message has been processed by MIMEsweeper *** We've been using Dovecot (on FC2) for a while as our IMAP server. But now we need to evolve to sharing some folders. We need to share some folders with one set of users, others with another set of users (overlapping wit the first set), and keep some folders as private. How do we do this? Regards, Edwin Humphries -- 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
Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders
On 21/03/2005, at 11:10 AM, David Fisher wrote: I'm setting up a couple of imap servers using dovecot myself, but on Debian sarge. You may have a problem here, because the last time I looked (IIRC) dovecot does not yet support shared folders. Having said that I would be delighted for both of us if someone could prove me wrong. I just did a quick test on my courier imap setup. You can symlink imap directories, though I can't give assurances of how well it works. Perhaps it may be worth looking at if you really need it and can't find any other way. TG -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Handling Berkeley databases
What sort of utilities are there for handling Berkeley databases other than the db_* range. db_dump -p gives me printable output but I still get the \0d\0a coming out as such rather than as a new line, and I can't seem to get a pipe into sed to fix it. -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates; Your Linux people http://www.lannetlinux.com -- When you just want a system that works, you choose Linux; when you want a system that just works, you choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; Get rid of the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Nomination acceptance
It occurred to me that I should actually formally accept the nomination for the SLUG Secretary in the upcomming election. I do accept. FWIW I don't think I did as good a job as Mary did (2003-2004) but at least I've eventually gotten things sorted out. There's lots of things I wanted to get done but didn't manage to do so. Therefor I'll publicly state my aims for SLUG in the coming year. * I want to get more youth involved because a) they have more time to do stuff and b) I like teaching stuff. * I'd like to hold monthly hands on workshops somewhere - Anyone got a club house with some storage available? * I'd like to see more audience participation at SLUG - debates? - quiz? - demos - training * I'd like to hold the committee meetings via IRC. -- ---GRiP--- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] external usb formatting
G'day, I have a nice shiney new external usb drive for my laptop. I intended to format the drive. Insertingthe external drive into the Gateway Solo laptop running Ubuntu gives the following ouput in /var/log/messages: Mar 21 14:44:20 solo scsi.agent[3962]: disk at /devices/pci:00/:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host0/0:0:0:0 Mar 21 14:44:20 solo kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Mar 21 14:44:20 solo kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Mar 21 14:46:00 solo kernel: usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using address 4 Mar 21 14:46:05 solo kernel: usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out Mar 21 14:46:10 solo kernel: usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 5 Mar 21 14:46:16 solo kernel: usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out Mar 21 14:46:21 solo kernel: usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out Mar 21 14:46:22 solo kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 6 Mar 21 14:46:27 solo kernel: usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out Mar 21 14:46:32 solo kernel: usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out Mar 21 14:58:55 solo -- MARK -- and dmesg | grep usb produces: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 2, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 3, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 4 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using address 4 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 4, error -110 usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 5 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 5, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 6 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 6, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 7 and dmesg | grep scsi scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices I'm finding it kinda difficult to format a drive I cann't see. Ideas appreciated. Regards, Ashley -- 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] external usb formatting
Ashley Maher wrote: Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off thats not meant to happen. seems like a dead disk. but could be cable, enclosure or something else. once it gets that right you need to partition it before you format it. cfdisk is probably most useful. does cfdisk /dev/sda help at all? thanks dave -- 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] external usb formatting
David Kempe wrote: Ashley Maher wrote: Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off thats not meant to happen. seems like a dead disk. but could be cable, enclosure or something else. once it gets that right you need to partition it before you format it. cfdisk is probably most useful. does cfdisk /dev/sda help at all? thanks dave Thanks David, Fatal error: Cannot open disk drive Press any key to exit cfdisk Regards Ashley -- 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] external usb formatting
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:46:43 +1100, Ashley Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Kempe wrote: Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 As pointed out, looks like dead disk. Try on another machine. I suspect it too will complain. Was this a case + drive you fitted, or a complete unit like those maxtor external drives. -- 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] Nomination acceptance
Grant Parnell wrote: * I want to get more youth involved because a) they have more time to do stuff and b) I like teaching stuff. Can I just mention another good reason to encourage kids who are interested in programming to start hacking on open source projects: kids have a better understanding of fun Maybe I'm just cynical but it always seems that so many hackers these days see working on open source as work. Maybe if we had more kids hacking on open source projects they could remind us of all the joy we get out of it. Trent -- 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] Repartitioning Dell Dimension 8300
On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 15:42 +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: I've just inherited a Dell Dimension 8300. It has a single 120Gb SATA drive, and I'd like to repartition with a view to dual-booting. It's got an OEM partition on the first 31 Mb of the drive. When I try to boot with the System Rescue CD (to use NTFSresize), I get an error message hda: host proected area = 1 and the boot hangs. I'm assuming that this refers to the OEM partition - is this right? How do I get the bootloader to ignore this partition? The host protected area is generally pretty large as it should contain all required to reinstall the original Windows OS (well, I haven't seen a Linux one). On my IBM ThinkPad it is actually at the end of the drive and not a partition at all just an area of the disk that contains data that the BIOS can read. I suspect some other problem. Does something else like Knoppix or the Ubuntu Live CD boot OK? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: external usb formatting
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:46:43PM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: David Kempe wrote: Ashley Maher wrote: Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=04 Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda : sense not available. Mar 21 14:46:11 solo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off thats not meant to happen. seems like a dead disk. but could be cable, enclosure or something else. once it gets that right you need to partition it before you format it. cfdisk is probably most useful. does cfdisk /dev/sda help at all? Fatal error: Cannot open disk drive Press any key to exit cfdisk That certainly smells like a DOA drive to me. Try plugging it into one of your desktop systems to see if it's a problem with the USB support on that particular machine. Or bring it over here -- I've got an IDE-miniIDE converter we can play with to see if we can isolate the problem to the drive or the enclosure or whatever. - Matt signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] external usb formatting
Michael Fox wrote: As pointed out, looks like dead disk. Try on another machine. Thanks. Tried Slackware 10 running 2.4 kernel, on a desktop. Found the device fdisk particioned it fine formatted ext3 fine. Plug back into Ubuntu on the laptop and: tail /var/log/messages: Mar 21 15:15:16 solo kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 7 Mar 21 15:15:17 solo kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Mar 21 15:15:17 solo kernel: Vendor: Genesys Model: USB to IDE Disk Rev: 0033 Mar 21 15:15:17 solo kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Mar 21 15:15:27 solo hal.hotplug[4523]: timout(1 ms) waiting for /devices/pci:00/:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0 Mar 21 15:15:27 solo hal.hotplug[4529]: timout(1 ms) waiting for /devices/pci:00/:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0 Mar 21 15:15:28 solo usb.agent[4546]: usb-storage: already loaded Mar 21 15:15:37 solo scsi.agent[4550]: Attribute /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0/type does not exist Mar 21 15:20:30 solo kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #0 link partner capability of 01e1. Mar 21 15:38:55 solo -- MARK -- Mar 21 15:58:55 solo -- MARK -- Mar 21 16:18:55 solo -- MARK -- Mar 21 16:38:55 solo -- MARK -- dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 2, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 3, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 4 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using address 4 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 4, error -110 usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 5 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 5, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 6 usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: control timeout on ep0out usb 1-2: device not accepting address 6, error -110 usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 7 dmesg | grep scsi scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Hmm this is getting interesting! The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. Ideas appreciated. Regards, Ashley -- 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] external usb formatting
Ashley Maher wrote: The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. the 2.6 kernel has some removable drive stuff broken if you ask me. have you tried mucking around with different drivers for your usb chipset? usb-storage is all you get with usb-removable drives. I reckon firewire support which works pretty much the same is badly broken in 2.6 so I stick to 2.4. You won't be able to get 2.4 to work nicely with Ubuntu (tho I am sure someone here might be able to help). maybe try debian testing on that laptop - you get debian anyway, just a bit more headache making it work. dave -- 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] external usb formatting
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:50:53 +1100, Ashley Maher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm this is getting interesting! The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. I don't believe you've stated what type of usb external case.. is this a laptop ide usb case? ie. bus powered unit? If so its possible the laptop usb ports can't power it. You might need to also plug in the other cable that draws current from ps2 port. It might be the lack of power to the drive causing it not to spin up, and thus been seen as offline. That would be my guess at this stage. -- 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] external usb formatting
Michael == Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:50:53 +1100, Ashley Maher Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm this is getting interesting! The laptop is realley what I want this for. Working on the desktop is loely (it proves it works) but not what i was looking for. What kernel are you running? There were some USB bugs preventing disk-like devices from working reliably that were fixed in late 2.6.11. Try 2.6.12-rc2 and see if you still have a problem. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
