Re: [SLUG] Fedora vs RH Enterprise - consultants advising to change
Some factors to consider: 1: are you running any non free, binary only software on the boxes? If you are buying a product to run on linux I would say run it on one of the supported platforms for the product, which will be one of the commercial distributions. Otherwise you are not going to get support for the app you have purchased. 2: having a supported platform makes non techical managers happy. 3: A version RHEL *will* be supported longer and have less changes then fedora. RHEL keeps the same kernal version, just patches it. You have less chance of an upgrade causing a problem. If you are running open source software only and are comfortable fixing little breaks that *may* happen, I would advise you to stick with what you are using. A download only version of RHEL exist which is much cheaper. on Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:53:01AM +1100, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, AT the risk of starting a flamewar.I am being advised by consultants that I need to 'upgrade' my Fedora Core servers to RH Enterprise as it is 'more robust', 'better supported', 'easier to upgrade' etc etc. We are currently running them as our webserver (informational only - no transactions), mailserver and intranet webserver (this one is a bit slow, but just needs more RAM). I am unaware of any major differences in the products that would require us to change over and start paying for what we now do for free - maintenance has been trivial, yum runs regularly via cron, downtime has been non-existent. Any thoughts? OLMC Simon Bryan IT Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] LMB 14 North Parramatta Direct Number:88381200 SwitchBoard: 96833300 fax: 98901466 mobile: 0414238002 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Bevan Broun Systems Engineer THALES Services Division W: (02) 9562 2861 M: 0407 225 492 F: (02) 9562 2857 -- 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] VMware 5 Workstation + Linux = kernel panic?
Hi James You didnt say which version of vmware you are using, Im guessing 5.0. See: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/intro_hostreq_ws.html Your Kubuntu 2.6.12-9-686. is not supported. When you look on this page you will see the latest 2.6 kernal supported is 2.6.9. You can probably get everything working by downgrading to this kernel. vmware is (understandably) quite particular with the kernel and the compiler. Ive found it good to ensure that the compiler that was used to compile the kernel is the same as that used to compile the vmware modules. If you company requires you to do this perhaps it's a good idea to use a distribution supported by vmware. You may also find assistance in the vmware discussion forums. BB -- 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] Network Attached Storage (NAS)
You might like to look at the features of a NetApp filer. Particulary the snapshots and dual partity raid features. I recently evaluated some NAS systems. An essential requirement was for users to be able to restore their own files from snapshots. I would not do file serving to the average user group without it. (of course tape backup is still essential.) BB on Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:27:41PM +1000, Rajnish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, I would like to get your esteemed opinion on a number of queries concerning NAS. But first a background - our LAN accomodates a number of diff OSes, including Solaris, Linux, Win2K and WinXP. We would like to attach NAS device(s) on the LAN, and be able to access storage space from all the above OSes. In particular, it is important that NAS devices support NFS - to enable Un*x boxes to mount the space. The space is to be used both as permanent storage as well as overflow workspaces for our developers. Questions: 1) Is NAS a suitable solution for such an environment ? If a case is to be made for/against it, what are the ups and downs ? 2) More importantly, what are your experiences with dealing with these devices ? Do they support NFS ? 3) Your experiences with speed and reliability ? We have particularly large files (200MB-2GB) to deal with and compiles includes a large number of files. Any tips, suggestions, references will be appreciated. Thanking you all in anticipation. Please reply to NG for future reference. -- Regards, Rajnish -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Bevan Broun Systems Engineer THALES Services Division W: (02) 9562 2861 M: 0407 225 492 F: (02) 9562 2857 -- 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] Virtual hosting with VMWare
Hi Jill We have a few vmware servers but are really we still rampping up. I think you will want vmware esx which installs straight on your hardware. It costs a little more than gsx, an lots more than workstation, but is more efficient. vware's rule of thumb is 4 servers on gsx and 8 on esx. Using either server version allows mulitple admins to work at vmware, creating machines. You can control who stop's and start machines ... You will want a dual cpu system at least. You will probably want to buy the 'VIN' rather than straight esx. It will give you the ablity for your virtual machines to use both CPUs. It also allows some other stuff which is funky but you will need at least 2 vmware server to use it. You need to check vmware's SAN compatablity list. I just got hit with a nasty no linux virtual machines on NetApp cluster. Your ideal world is at list 2 vmware 'VIN's connected to a SAN with the virtual admin console so you can vmotion live machines between system. Have fun. BB on Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:47:19AM +1000, Rowling, Jill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am starting to design a virtual server system for internal work. The one piece of hardware would need to host a couple of RHEL4 virtual servers (one primary, one for application test development - mainly Apache), and possible a couple of Windows servers (for old applications). I'm thinking of using VMWare and not sure what the base host OS should be at this stage (could be RHEL3,4 or even Win2003 just to annoy me). The hardware would need to be able to connect to a FC SAN. I would imagine it would need to be maxed out for RAM to accommodate all the virtual hosts. Dell has some hardware which should be able to do this. Has anyone had any experience with doing something like this? If so, how did you organise installing patches and updates on the base host? On the virtual hosts? How did you find VMWare coped with the varying loads from the virtual hosts, compared with running separate physical hardware? Does adding a TOE (TCP Offload Engine) vastly improve the end-user response time? Happy to hear any comments, Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484, Fax: (02) 9667-3160 -- -- IMPORTANT NOTICES This email (including any documents referred to in, or attached, to this email) may contain information that is personal, confidential or the subject of copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties. This email is intended only for the named addressee. Any privacy, confidence, copyright or other proprietary rights in favour of Aristocrat, its affiliates or third parties, is not lost because this email was sent to you by mistake. If you received this email by mistake you should: (i) not copy, disclose, distribute or otherwise use it, or its contents, without the consent of Aristocrat or the owner of the relevant rights; (ii) let us know of the mistake by reply email or by telephone (+61 2 9413 6300); and (iii) delete it from your system and destroy all copies. Any personal information contained in this email must be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws. Electronic and internet communications can be interfered with or affected by viruses and other defects. As a result, such communications may not be successfully received or, if received, may cause interference with the integrity of receiving, processing or related systems (including hardware, software and data or information on, or using, that hardware or software). Aristocrat gives no assurances in relation to these matters. If you have any doubts about the veracity or integrity of any electronic communication we appear to have sent you, please call +61 2 9413 6300 for clarification. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Bevan Broun Systems Engineer THALES Services Division (an ADI company) W: (02) 9562 2861 M: 0407 225 492 F: ((02) 9562 2857 -- 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] Virtual hosting with VMWare
on Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:35:24AM +1000, QuantumG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: down to Workstation. It's a little known fact that VMWare actually writes their own kernel, specifically for running virtual machines. I Hi QuantumG Can you clarify this for me. is vmware esx it's own kernel or is it linux with vmware's custom modules (which is how it' appears to me)? BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] new laptop: bios cant see dvd/cd - so cant boot, so cant install linux.
Hi all I got myself a nice new laptop on the weekend. Dying to install linux on it but cant as the bios cant see the dvd/cdrom and so I cant boot ANY cd from this device. The laptop is badged pioneer but it is a mitac 8355 (athlon 64 bit, 1GB RAM). The bios is Insyde Mobile Pro Bios 4.00.05 (R1.01?). XP detects the dvd rw as teac dv-w22e. It is basically this: ttp://www.tuxmobile.org/xeron_sonic_pro_800mx.html Anybody see similar problems? Am I lookiing at a bios upgrade? Any ideas please. Thanks BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Xft2 library - where to find?
Can anyone point me to the source of Xft2. I need at least version 2.1.2 for the new release of WindowMaker :-) Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] email to stgeorge re internet banking browser problems
Well we called stgeorge on the weekend. not supported OS, not supported browser blah blah. Now we have an email address at stgeorge to send questions regarding this to and I want to get a good email drafted. Has anyone done this already? I dont want to waste time if someone else has a goodn. Can be build a good draft together? I dont want to get too technical but a little is ok. I know that I want to include references from security groups advisories for ditching IS for firefox. Thanks BB -- 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] Why can I remove a file owned by root:root ?
What are the permissions on the directory that contains the file? If the user has write access to the directory, they can remove anything it contains. BB on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:37:27PM +1000, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Im a bit confused. Prob something simple. -rw-r--r--1 root root 1968 Oct 27 15:25 report As mikel I can remove the file report. rm: remove write-protected regular file `report'? y done ! as its -rw-r--r-- I should not be able to write to it or remove it. Im missing some basic understanding. Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. -- 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] off topic: sendmail anti spam measures
Hi all Im using FEATURE(dnsbl,`spam.dnsrbl.net')dnl and also have published an spf record and are rejecting based on spf records. I notice Im still recieving mail from domains where the domain does resove but the MX records for the domain dont. Is there are way to reject these. Other good sendmail based anti-spam techniques? note: we have smart antispam filter further inside the network. The above is just for a border sendmail installation where I want reject as much spam based on unresolvable hosts and user named as much as possible. thanks BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] portable ogg players in .au?
Is anyone using a portable ogg player? Anyone know where they might be found? Thanks -- 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] Need to replace htdig for personal use.
on Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 12:46:52PM +1000, Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject is half the story. Basically I want a application that allows me to store, index and search email messages. Lets say something that would handle up to 5gb. Basically, my netscape messages are now 1.5Gb and neither Mozilla or Thunderbird can touch this lot. Sadly, they all barf on the size/number of folders/etc. I have always found mutt to be extreemly good at handling large number of messages. BB -- 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] Server being used to relay emails
on Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:32:01AM +1000, Jared Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - Got a little problem. =) We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an attached virus. We get tonnes of these. Spammers and virus' forge the from address and so the mail bounce, either unknown user or virus attached message, comes to you. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] squid authentication questions
Well, squid is running on linux! Currently we run squid-2.4 latest stable, but upgrading to 2.5 lastest stable is an option and from my reading so far this is probably needed. The current squid was compiled with --enable-auth-modules=SMB and we have a file on NT domain controller to limit Interent to those in a particular NT group (who have read access to the file). Now a request has come in to have another nt group access to a particular dstdomain - only no internet. Can anyone fast track me to the solution? I dont want to go down the path of placing the usernames into squid.conf Thanks BB -- 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] Web blocking software - anyone know of any good stuff?
There is a product ($$$) called ContentKeeper which I think is worth
looking at. They build there databases of what site is what automatically
with all the ContentKeeper devices out their contributing to a central
databases. I think this design makes some sense.
I think it is linux inside. Its just an appliance.
BB
on Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:57:36AM +1100, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks.
As part of my get Linux into the company by the backdoor sneakiness, I'm
looking for some web blocking software.
We have a pile of steaming dog faeces called Surf Control which runs on
WindoZe, but it's not even close to acceptable for us, so I'm sniffing at
alternatives.
What I want is a product which sits on the network in promiscuous mode,
sniffs out HTTP requests, and then kills the connection based on rules
which include content type, time, username etc etc.
Anyone know of a product for Linux which will do this? It needs an active
database {Surf Control's one redeeming feature is that they maintain a
large database of websites, and continually update it} and catagorise them
into stuff like adult/sexually related, computing and the internet and
other classes.
I know I'm asking a lot - Surf Control is a nice piece of software, except
for the fact that it doesn;t bloody work properly! I want the features,
I'd just like to do something similar on an open source platform.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] mozilla thunderbird, mime, and ms outhouse
Have you saved the offending attachment to disk and then run the file command against it? You may find that it is in TNEF - Transport neutral encapulated format (dont ask why such a thing exists). If so you can find software on freshmeat to decode it. BB on Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:23:04AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've migrated my Windows users to Mozilla Thunderbird running off a Linux imap server (with procmail/spamassassin filtering). Everything's working well, except for one thing - attachments aren't being displayed for some messages, and of course the culprits are messages sent from ms outhouse. The message just comes up as blank; when I look at the source I can see there's various content and attachments. I've got an idea that it has something to do with incorrect mime layout and/or 7/8 bit mime, and I want to clean all email using procmail, but I don't know what I should be looking for. I've googled - lots of stuff about defanging outhouse mime, but nothing I could find on converting it to a standards compliant format. Any ideas? Converting word documents using antiword isn't an option, as my users want the word documents. I've found stuff on stripping html http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/H/HI/HIGHTOWE/mime_strip.html_bodies.pl-1.4 and attachments http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/development/sanitizer/sanitizer.txt, but I'll deal with that next. Here's the headers for a mail that doesn't work (I've stripped the content to save space). I realise that this mail is probably spam anyway, but my users seem to read this sort of stuff ;-) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:46:51 +1000 From: xx Subject: Ford Truck To: xx Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=Boundary_(ID_Upv/Tdkwipyc8MNe8zJwog) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_Upv/Tdkwipyc8MNe8zJwog) Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Boundary_(ID_2KQBTOH/b1ZH5++8GtbiTg) --Boundary_(ID_2KQBTOH/b1ZH5++8GtbiTg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT --Boundary_(ID_2KQBTOH/b1ZH5++8GtbiTg) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD snip --Boundary_(ID_2KQBTOH/b1ZH5++8GtbiTg)-- --Boundary_(ID_Upv/Tdkwipyc8MNe8zJwog) Content-type: application/msword; name=Bobby Sue and the Truck.doc Content-transfer-encoding: base64 Content-disposition: attachment; filename=Bobby Sue and the Truck.doc snip --Boundary_(ID_Upv/Tdkwipyc8MNe8zJwog)-- --020602060403090607020704-- -- Sonia| Los principios elementales que animan .| al Proyecto se vinculan a las garantías GNU/Linux| básicas de un Estado democrático de derecho. Software Libre | Carta del DR. VILLANUEVA NUÑEZ. -- 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] Re: DSPAM vs SpamAssassin FYI
on Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:55:47AM +1100, Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As unfortunate as it is, I think the only way to combat spam is to make it expensive to send by default. ... Of course, with major email providers beginning to shift to blocking *all* list mail by default unless specifically whitelisted, the burden of running or belonging to a mailing list may soon be too high to justify. Pity. Well, I just happen to be looking at the spam problem myself! Although the economic method would work do you not think that the problem is really the simple in SMTP? I believe there is work going on to write a new mail protocol for then Internet and that this will go a long way to solving the SPAM problem. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] rpm for setclock for RH9?
the /usr/sbin/setclock command was part of the timeconfig rpm for RH8. There doesnt seem to be a corresponding rpm for RH9. Can anyone tell me what the RPM is for RH9 or point me to source to compile. Thanks BB -- 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] resizing batch images
the convert command from the ImageMagick collection. BB on Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:44:31PM +1100, Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, can anyone advise a command line that will allow me to duplicate, resize and change the name of the duplicate image? I think it would be something like app input_file -resize 50% new_file_name This is probably a little crude. TIA Kevin -- 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] Perl Array Scoping Problem
if ( $string = /,/ == 0 )
should be
if ( $string =~ /,/ )
BB
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:54:25PM +1100, Bernard Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am currently learning Perl. I have a problem that seems to be
related to the scoping of variables. Basically the program below
breaks a string up into an array. However, the array @words does
not seem to be accessible inside the code block starting with
if ( $string = /,/ == 0 )
Presumably it's some kind of scoping problem, but I don't seem to
be able to get a coherent answer from perldoc.
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my @words = ();
my $string=This,is,separated,by,commas;
if ( $string = /,/ == 0 ) {
@words=split(/,/,$string);
}
else {
@words=split(/ /,$string);
}
my $i;
for ($i=0;$i@words;$i++) {
print($i\n);
print(@words[$i]\n);
}
---
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
cheers,
Bernard Doyle
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Re: [SLUG] Problem with a graph.
on Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 05:22:11PM +1100, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GNUPlot is the coolest graphing program around. It will do absolutely anything. Half my marks at Uni I attribute to being able to drive GNUPlot to extremes. GNPplot is certainly excellent. xmgrace is also very good. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - Quick Survey
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:21:31PM +1100, Visser, Martin (Sydney) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So a quick survey among Red Hat SLUGgers. I'm a long time RH user currently with a few RH9 machines. So where are you going to go to? Ill be going Debian. Ive only ever used RH but but I tend to compile my most important apps myself so Im not too fussed. Ive noticed that most techie people seem to like Debian so Ive been meaning to look at this for some time. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Batch Convert *.tif to *.jpg
see the convert utility from the ImageMagick set of programs. if its installed you could probably just do for f in *.tif;do g=`echo $f | sed -e 's/.tif$/.jpg/'` convert $f $g done BB on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:46:27PM +1100, Lyle Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a script that will convert a directory of *.tif to *.jpg. cheers, Lyle Chapman Pre-Press Supervisor Torch Publishing Co. 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park 2200, NSW, Australia 612 9795 http://www.torchpublishing.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] de-duping history file, will I break anything
I dont think it quite does what you want but I have export HISTCONTROL=ignoredups in my bashrc. There are some other HIST* environment variables that you might like too. BB on Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:58:01AM +, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I try to look up 'what was that command I used last time' I get heaps of duplicates, I was planning on sorting then deduping the .history file can I just dedupe .bash_history with uniq, will I break anything if if I do? or, is there some way not to have multiple same entries in history stack ? Voytek Eymont -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] music composition
For typesetting sheet music you can use lilypond - it makes the best looking sheet music Ive seen from a computer. BB on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:16:40PM +1000, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm looking for music composition software that runs in linux any thoughts on this much apreaciated so far found UltiMusE-LX on freshmeat regards Russell --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Free Antivirus @ http://www.grisoft.com/ Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.514 / Virus Database: 312 - Release Date: 28/08/03 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Hard disk
When you install just make sure you make new file systems on your partitions - that will be enough. However - you need to determine how you got cracked else, unless you change something, you will get cracked again. BB on Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:44:51PM +1000, Dan Banyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Recently my linux box was hacked. I re-installed the OS but I am still having problems with the machine. At this stage I am unsure whether these problems are due a hardware or software issue. I would like to totally wipe the hard disk and start again just in case the hackers have left any files. There seems to be loads of disk wiping utilities for Windows but I cannot see a way in which I can totally wipe the disk. Does anyone know of a utility or command? Also does anyone know of a hardware checking facility? I am using SuSE 7.2. I am getting to the stage when I am considering junking the whole machine, but this seems a real waste. Comments from anyone who has been hacked on what they did? Thanks in advance. Dan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] terminal emulator
on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:45:25PM +, Peter Fenelon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm goning to be installing a Linux server on a primary school network so as to give year six students a bit of a play with something that is not Windows. My question is: Is there a free terminal emulator available so as to allow the students access to the Linux server from Windows workstations? Putty is a favorite of mine, free, single executable file and does both ssh and telnet. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] email attack?
Im seeing similar stuff. Some spammer has set the reply-to address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] BB on Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:25:01PM +1000, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm concerned that I'm being attacked in some way that I don't understand. I've checked my logs and found over 400 unknown user messages for [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Then I got the following MAILER-DAEMON email telling me the address is undeliverable. I can't figure out why I should suddenly get this one apparently inappropriate MAILER-DAEMON email. I am a legitimate relay for mydomain.com.au but user rjnr doesn't exist and never did. Their are also 2000 other unknown user messages for this particular domain in this week's log, so it looks like some spammer has targetted this domain. Am I worrying about nothing? [Woody/Postfix, btw] Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:50:56 +1000 (EST) From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender Parts/Attachments: 1 Shown 13 lines Text, Notification 2 Shown226 bytes Message, Delivery error report 3 Shown1.3 KB Message, Undelivered Message 3.1 Shown 22 lines Text This is the Postfix program at host fast.kenpro.com.au. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unknown user: rjnr [ Part 2: Delivery error report ] Reporting-MTA: dns; fast.kenpro.com.au Arrival-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:50:55 +1000 (EST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; unknown user: rjnr [ Part 2: Delivery error report ] Reporting-MTA: dns; fast.kenpro.com.au Arrival-Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:50:55 +1000 (EST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; unknown user: rjnr [ Part 3: Undelivered Message ] Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 15:55:28 -0700 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MAILER-DAEMON Returned mail: User unknown The original message was received at 6/9/2003 3:55:27 PM -0100 [218.79.218.34] - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (expanded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) - Transcript of session follows - mail.local: unknown Name: rjnr 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown Reporting-MTA: dns; mx1.mydomain.com.au Received-From-MTA: DNS; [218.79.218.34] Arrival-Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 01:14:32 -0600 Final-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Actual-Recipient: RFC822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.1.1 Last-Attempt-Date: 6/9/2003 3:55:27 PM -0100 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] calling C libs from perl
I can tell you it's in chapter 18 of the Advanced Perl Programming Oreilly book. There is some documentation at perl.com.au, C and Perl - the first two look like putting perl in C and the next calling C from perl. It would seem that it's worth while buying the Perl CD bookshelf. BB on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:31:35PM +1030, David Fitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok so slightly OT perhaps (it's on linux is my defence!) and no doubt obvious, but how exactly do you call functions in a C library from a perl script? (note: not system calls or standard C library calls but functions from my own C library) I can find plenty of examples the other way around but not this way. Either it's so easy/obvious it's not worth talking about or you can't/don't do it (and I can't believe that). So does someone want to enlighten me please... Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Squid / SMB / PAM
on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:01:11AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all We use Samba here (2.2.6) and Squid. Due to our high internet usage, I've had to block access for most people. I've been allowing access on an IP basis, however this isn't ideal (we use dhcp) and I'd like to be able to block/allow access on a user-level basis. Now, I understand that this can be done with PAM. Is winbind also required? Do you have a windows style domain controller? you can use the read permissions on a file contained on a smb share by compliling squid with: ./configure --enable-auth-modules=SMB There are some other auth modules withc may be better for you. Also squidguard might help. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Squid / SMB / PAM
on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:38:33AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Samba server is a PDC (internal machine). Squid runs on the gateway/firewall (seperate machine). Both are Mandrake 8.2 machines. Squid is installed via the squid-2.4.STABLE4-2mdk.rpm (from Mandrake). Is it possible to test if './configure --enable-auth-modules=SMB' was used. Not sure. Look for a file called smb_auth under the squid directory. It uses smbclient from the samba package to connect to an smb share (the netlogon share by default - browsing for a NT domain controller - but this can be changed) using supplied username/passwd and tries to read the contents of a file called proxyauth (which will contain a single word allow). Its the read access on the file that does the trick. If you havent got smbclient installed it wont work. The following lines from my squid.conf do the trick: authenticate_program /usr/local/squid/libexec/squid/smb_auth -W DOMAINNAME acl internetusers proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow internetusers Forgive my ignorance - what would squidguard provide? I havent used it but we do use a commercial webfilter, go to webpage www.squidguard.org. It says # limit the web access for some users to a list of accepted/well known web # servers and/or URLs only. # block access to some listed or blacklisted web servers and/or URLs for # some users. **) # block access to URLs matching a list of regular expressions or words for # some users. **) # enforce the use of domainnames/prohibit the use of IP address in URLs. # **) # redirect blocked URLs to an intelligent CGI based info page. **) # redirect unregistered user to a registration form. # redirect popular downloads like Netscape, MSIE etc. to local copies. # redirect banners to an empty GIF. **) # have different access rules based on time of day, day of the week, date # etc. # have different rules for different user groups. # and much more.. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Microsoft Tax
There are sites on the web that detail the best methods to use, one thing they say is do it all in writting. BB on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:55:42AM +1100, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Peter Domachuk My question to the forum is: What degree of sucess has anyone out there had with refunding the value of thier OEM copy of windows, be it from the manufacturer of Microsoft itself? Is Microsoft even approachable in this issue? I'm happy to hear any and all experiences, anything will help at this point. Morning Peter, long time no see, :-) Basically, what will happen is that Dell will direct you to Microsoft, and Microsoft will direct you to Dell. It is unclear whose responsibility the refunds are, and they use this to great effect. I have not heard of too many successful refund requests... If you think that SLUG can help out in any way, lend its name to your cause, whatever, please let us know. Thanks, - Jeff -- Boys will be boys, hackers will be hackers, geeks will be geeks, and cyberpunks will always just be ravers with Macintoshes. - Monkey Master, Crackmonkey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Microsoft Tax
on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 02:22:03PM +1100, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why take delivery of a box with the spam os on it? I bought my last two boxes without any software at all; and expect to continue purchasing that way Thats my thought too. If they wont sell you a box without and OS go else where. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] VMware on Redhat 8.0
Im running RH-8 and vmware 3.2 right now. I didnt seem to have much trouble getting it going. If anyone needs help getting it going email me - I think the only issue is the verion of gcc that is supplied (rh-8 moved from the infamous 2.96 to 3.2) BB on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:58:45AM +1100, Bruce Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:39, Howard Lowndes wrote: If anyone is running VMware 3.2 on Redhat 8.0 without getting a closing error message, could they contact me OL pse. I'm not sure what OL pse means (sorry), so I'll post here. The current version of VMWare is not supported in RH8, though there are some work-around options you can find using Google. The beta version of VMWare 4 *does* run on RH8 (I'm using it myself), but it's just a beta, of course. (BB hopes he doesn't get flamed for mentioning VMware 4 when the Howard *specifically* asked about VMWare 3.2 :-/ ) I got stuck with this too. I wanted RH8 for a particular reason, and then found VMWare would not fly. Ugh. You can get the VMWare 4 beta from here: http://www.vmware.com/download/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] recommend
Is it really worth doing? I picked up a PII-350 with 128MB, 3GB HD (no monitor, keyboard mouse) via this list for $135. (Thanks richard). With a low resource window manager and browser this sort of system would be quite usable for only a little outlay. The frustrations the 486 would give the end user are just not worth it. BB on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:15:19AM +1100, Andrewd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a copy of Linux that will run on a 486 dx 4/100 with 24mg ram and 600 mg HD (yes I know that I can get a command line only working but I need a gui frontend) Basically I nees it to run X (someone please rocommend an frontend that is lite but easy for someone to use), have a dial up connection with browser (I was thinking Opera) and wordprocessor and spreadsheet. Currently the computer is running Windowz 95. The computer is to be used as a desktop for my mum. Thanx Andrew D -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Errors when trying to reboot with RAID as root
I had similar problems, I could only get root on software raid if I did it during install time. I havent had a chance to work more on it. BB on Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 09:18:55AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all... I'm trying to mount of a software RAID drive as root. (Mandrake 8.2, GNU/Linux 2.4.18-6mdkenterprise) I'm using a custom built initial ramdisk. The error message I get during boot time follows: Mounting root filesystem EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock mount: error 22 mounting ext3 flags Freeing unused kernel memory: 264k freed kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. --- FWIW I checked out errno.h and 22 is EINV - invalid argument. I was really hoping to get the software RAID as root this morning, as I the server is live, and I don't have many other opportunities other than friday mornings to reboot. TIA! Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] offtopic - nntp traffic volume question for ISP admins
Can any ISP admins give me an idea of how much traffic is downloaded for the major top level groups. Ie how much will be downloading per day or week if we decide to bring in all of comp. and all of aus. TIA BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Base64 Decoder
on Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:03:01PM +1100, Andrew Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hay guys, If anyone can point me in the direction of a working base64 decoder i would be most appreciative. Prize : cookie The best ive found is uudeview. search freshmeat for it. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Compaq AIT35
We I installed a compaq machine with smart array controller and tape drive, the scsi adaptor part of the smar array controller wasnt supported by linux. I did notice that it now is but cant remember which kernel I saw it in - perhaps a 2.5 series. on Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:11:35PM +1100, Des Wass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sluggers, Has anyone had any experience getting a hot swap Compaq AIT35 tape drive to work? It is seen at boot time but cannot be accessed by any /dev/st*. Nothing can be found in any /proc files referencing it either. Details: - Compaq DL380 (drive is in bay 6) - SmartArray 5i Controller - Kernel 2.4.19 (at the moment) TIA, -- |Lanrex Computer Systems Pty Ltd Desmond Wass |http://www.lanrex.com.au 0411 056 027 |Phone: +61 2 9416 1100 |Fax: +61 2 9416 9633 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sed question
You will find the answer at the seder grab bag http://spazioinwind.libero.it/seders/ go to the tutorial and then the one liners. I think you want sed -n '/start/,/end/p' on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:40:02PM +1100, Andrew Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I hopefully have an easy sed question for the poor souls that have mastered sed. All i need is the sed command with paramaters that will pull out everyline between 2 points. I,e : i want to capture all the text between the word start and the word end even if it spans numerous lines. Thanks for your help guys ive had a bit of a study and couldnt come up with much. Regards Andrew Wilson, Netway Networks Pty Ltd (T) 8920 8877 (F) 8920 8866 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] rxvt, rh-8.0 and color in man pages
Im using my compiled rxvt (2.7.8 and 2.6.4) and have also tested with an rh-7.3 rpm. Where other termial programs (gnome-terminal and xterm) show color in man pages, rxvt shows control codes. Color for ls listing is working fine. Anybody else having this problem. Better still, anybody else solved this problem? BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Is my IRIX box i386 ? Can I put Linux on it ?
on Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:49:14AM +1000, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but if you need a donation O2 machine, i will swing the matter by my boss and see if he still wants it for some strange and obscure reason. if he doesnt need it, then i'll see what i can do :) Ill make a bid! BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A 'C' ly Question
on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:36:05AM +1000, Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sluggers, When I try to compile some 'C' code against the opendwg libraries using gcc mycode.c ar2.r -o myexe you ¨-lm¨ on your command line and #include maths.h in your source. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] xp wiped grub, how to get back
I installed xp afer linux and my grub is gone. Ive booted from the floppy, how do I get grub back on the HD? TIA BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: rh-8.0, X and laptop keyboard problem
fixed with an xmodmap on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:19:01PM +1000, Broun, Bevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im running rh-8.0 on a new compaq evo n1000c. Ive managed to get X up and running ok, gnome work fine - but I dont like gnome (or kde), Im a WindowMaker man. WindowMaker and at least one other app (rxvt) dont recognise my enter key correctly. Ive tried the WindowMaker I complied and the rpm included with the disto and they both have the same problem; Ive only tried my own complied rxvt. with rxvt, when logged in as myself I get an m showing on screen instead but when logged as root it looks like a backspace. Note that xterm and gnome-terminal do the right thing. I dont seem to have problems with console based apps but did until I removed some of my .*rc files. any ideas? BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] tarring dot files and directories only
on Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:40:04PM +1000, Colin Humphreys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar czvf filename.tar.gz .* tar czvf filename.tar.gz .??* that wont get a dot file with only 1 other letter .x ls -A |grep ^\. is a good way to get all dirs and files that start with . but not . and .. so tar czvf filename.tar.gz `ls -A |grep ^\.` BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] rh-8.0, X and laptop keyboard problem
Im running rh-8.0 on a new compaq evo n1000c. Ive managed to get X up and running ok, gnome work fine - but I dont like gnome (or kde), Im a WindowMaker man. WindowMaker and at least one other app (rxvt) dont recognise my enter key correctly. Ive tried the WindowMaker I complied and the rpm included with the disto and they both have the same problem; Ive only tried my own complied rxvt. with rxvt, when logged in as myself I get an m showing on screen instead but when logged as root it looks like a backspace. Note that xterm and gnome-terminal do the right thing. I dont seem to have problems with console based apps but did until I removed some of my .*rc files. any ideas? BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] continuous power up query
on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:43:24PM +1000, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** BUT do listen to the weather reports each evening. ** If a thunderstorm is predicted turn em off and disconnect the power I have heard of pcs being zapped down the telephone line, so modems should be pulled out also. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] How to patch a kernel
on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 11:38:33AM +1000, Wayne Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be wrong about this and someone can correct me if I am, but I believe that redhat make changes to the kernel source hence the -3 after the kernel number. This is correct. If you are going to use rpm kernels - stick with rpms. Otherwise use the the kernel.org (mirrored at http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/linux/kernel) BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] 1394 firewire
on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:33:38AM +1000, Lyle Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, Does anybody know if Red Hat 7.3 supports firewire, I had a look at RH's web site compatability list but they do not seem to list it. If anybody does use firewire on RH could they let me know of any mods or such they had to install. It's a kernel thing rather than a distro thing. Ive go 2.4.19 running and it's configuration contains a menu IEEE 1394 (EXPERIMENTAL). Do a kernel config and see if your device is listed there. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] which rpm will give me a daemon to anwser rdate calls
Im using RH-7.3. Does anyone know of the RPM that provides the server to anwser rdate requests? (timed) BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] sparc compile
on Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 02:37:43AM +1000, Chris Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi people, this might seem like a really stupid question but i'll ask anyway (coz i'm stupid). Is there anyway I could compile something for a sparc platform on an intel platform?? Yes you should be able to do this. You will need to compile gcc to be a cross compiler. A goole seach for gcc cross compiler intel sparc linux turns up: http://bytesex.org/cross-compiler.html and other stuff. And that is a much help as I can give :-) BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Perl path problem
What version of perl is your script using? It sounds like you have both 5.6 and 5.8 installed with the script using 5.6 but the version used to install the modules (and probably the first in your PATH) being 5.8, but this is just a guess. do type -a perl and then use full pathname with for perl with the --version option. If you use the full path name for perl when installing the modules they should land in the right path. I wouldnt use a symlink. BB on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 04:29:25PM +1000, Richard Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear list, Using RedHat 7.1 box I have a perl script with uses the perl modules DBI CTime through the @INC command. I did not have these modules included so I went to CPAN and got the latest perl with the modules. Unfortunately, it has install perl 5.8.0 in /usr/local/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 where I need them in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 Can I use a symbolic link to the directory to the 'right path'? Will this cause any problems? Any other suggestions? regards, Richard Hayes -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] a novel problem
I used to get this, then I compliled my own xscreensavers and used that instead of the RH version - problem solved. Now Im on RH-7.2 (with out my own xscreensavers) and also dont have the problem. on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:32:41AM +1000, Graeme Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning I turned my monitor on and was surprised with my first ever linux crash. That is to say the screensaver was screen-locked and I was unable to kill X or switch to other consoles. Also the disk activity lights for both my HDDs were lit up solid. I've been poking around in my log files to look for evidence of what caused this. The first time I rebooted I couldn't open a gnome-terminal without getting a segfault error though things are running sweetly now. Not wanting this to happen again can people point to where I should look to investigate this further? Ta. system=redhat7.1 with updates. -=-=-==-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Graeme Robinson - Graenet consulting www.graenet.com - internet solutions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==---=-=--=-=-= -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: Fw: [SLUG] ask a common question
how about make tmp.log or even make tmp.log 21 BB on Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:27:32AM +1000, Karun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could use the script command and run something like script tmp.log make exit Karun - Original Message - From: henry To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 7:10 PM Subject: [SLUG] ask a common question Dear List : Sometimes I make Makefile ,I get lots of error messages so that I cant look them in time. I try to make tmp.log , but it fail (I cant dump those error message into tmp.log). Could someone show a good solution ? BestRegards' Henry === This mail checked by Mcafee outbound getway in Zinwell. === -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer
on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:03:08AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Apr, Broun, Bevan wrote: Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96). Why not? It's the default version of gcc on RH7.2, and I did nothing special for building any of the 2 dozen or so kernels I've experimented with over the last few months, with no compiler-ish problems. (Just hardware, and scsi error handling problems.) Unless the kernel build is set up to use a special version of gcc squirrelled away specially for the purpose, by the makefiles? Version 2.96 of gcc was made by RH, not the gcc people. the 2.96 came out with version 7.0 of RH and at that time they also provided kgcc (or kcc) for kernel compiles, Im not sure this is needed for later series 7 releases. However, I always grab the latest 2.9 release of gcc and build that, though the 3.0 series seems to be doing fine for kernel compiles these days too. On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:56:24AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: As this is with Red Hat's version of gcc, I'm not sending this to the gcc folks. RPMs of gcc with this proble BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Help with backup tape
you would not normaly mount a tape (thought Im sure it can be done). Do you know the command that was used to do the backup? Assuming it was tar, the command you want is tar -xvf /dev/st0 while your current directory is some place with lots of space, perhaps an freshly made filesystem. BB on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:38:36PM +1000, Simon Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI all, Have had a major disk crash in one of our critical systems. It has been backing up nightly to a SCSI tape drive. Now I want to restore that tape to another system. Old system is RH7 new system is 7.2 I can't seem to get the tape drive to mount, i have tried mount /dev/st0 /mnt/tape and various other stx devices as well as sgx devices, each time I am told that the device is not a block device. Now I know it can be done because it was done on the system that is currently dead, but obviously I can't check to see what I did different. Any help appreciated _ Simon Bryan IT Manager - OLMC Parramatta ICQ#:137562751 http://www.olmc.nsw.edu.au _ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer
on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:04:28PM +1000, Matt Hyne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not suggest upgrading RH kernels using RPM. Honestly, I would download the latest kernel source from mirror.aarnet.edu.au (I am using 2.4.18 at the moment) and build my own - at least then you know what you are building into it. Just a note: make sure your dont compile with that RH gcc (2.96). BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Vim: copy into cmd line?
I dont think this can be done as vim doesnt have 'vi' command line editing, it's emacs style only. Ie, you can 'esc' and then $ to end of line or 0 to start of line ... on Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 04:44:47PM +1100, Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Afternoon, Can anyone help me with a vim technique for pasting a pattern into the command line. Specifically I'd like to yank a pattern and copy it in to a substitute command, e.g. :s/pattern/substitute/ I've searched the vim-tips db, and looked through the user manual in /usr/share/doc/vim/html. Any ideas? Thanks, Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] bind version
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:39:14PM +1030, David Fitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:52:36AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: it also gives an error when i do named -v it just gives the options. it's possibly running debian i think. uname doesn't give any clues just on this, I've found 'cat /etc/issue' to be helpful when you want to find out what distro or distro version a machine is. If you move /etc/named.conf is out the way, run named it will write it's version to /var/log/messages and exit (no named.conf) Mar 12 09:16:18 named: named startup succeeded Mar 12 09:16:18 /usr/local/sbin/named[533]: starting BIND 9.1.3 -u named BB Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: reiserfsprogs-3.x.1a.tar.gz
I also use reiserfs for my /home file system. Is anyone able to download or has reiserfsprogs-3.x.1a.tar.gz. I get (or dont get): ftp get reiserfsprogs-3.x.1a.tar.gz 502 Command not implemented If anyone has a reiserfsprogs-3.x.1* can you please send TIA BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A question for vi gurus
on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 02:14:04PM +0900, Antony Stace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please enlighten me on how to yank from mark a to mark b and place it in 1. the default no name buffer :'a,'by I didnt know it myself, :h y and :h range in vim gets the answer. 2. a named buffer left as an exercise. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] anyone used vlan (802.1Q)? Compile of vconfig problems
Has anyone used the virtual network interface feature that has been included in the kernel since 2.4.14? Turning on the feature and compiling the kernel is easy. Getting the vconfig program compiled is causing me headaches. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] C library implemting FTP?
A freshmeat search turns up ftp-utils, which looks like it will also give you want you want. BB on Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 09:32:12AM +1100, Michael Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Michael Still wrote: I am after a library that implements FTP in a manner which makes it accessible to C code. Specifically, it would be very cool if I could connect to an FTP server (providing user name and password), and download files and get directory listings. Well, I will reply to my own posting. After a pointer from Eric de Castro Lopo I got my hands on a 1994 posting to comp.sources.misc that implements the sort of library I am after. I have ported it so that it compiles on linux (not very hard), and it is now available at http://www.stillhq.com/cgi-bin/getpage?area=libftppage=index.htm if other people are interested. Cheers, Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) UMT+11hrs -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] fstab gone
on Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:47:16PM +1100, Rob B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow, I have managed to wipe out my /etc/fstab file. I have managed to mount / but I an unable to correct /etc/fstab, since I either appear unable to login as root, or the volume is mounted read-only. You probably have / mounted read only. You should fsck / and then mount -o remount / BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux and the Next Generation
on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 05:17:17PM +1100, Paul Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well there are now Linux stickers around my classroom and one machine will be a dual OS machine with Windows 98 and SuSE 7.3. The test will I think it might be better to have one machine setup as a linux login machine. That way a student who has an interest in linux/unix will be able to telnet/ssh into the machine from a windows box and read man pages and other fun thing like that. This machine could be without monitor/keyboard. B -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] CPU Restriction
on Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:57:56PM +1100, SH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sluggers, I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with restricting cpu/memory usage for users in a Solaris environment. I dont, but man ulimit might help. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] subracting dates from dates
on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:47:57AM +1100, George Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to subtract the number of days remaining from a date so I can report back 125 days remaining etc.. under linux/perl? I want to subtract it from a date which will be a special event etc.. Is there a date to interger conversion or something? This can be done using the C routines that are found in time.h. I found a very useful shell impleamentation of the C routines called mktime, you may have trouble finding this. This gives you a mktime command that you can run and you can do excactly what you want. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SAMBA + CUPS integration
Its been a while since I used cups. I had the some problems with printing = cups and used printing = lprng instead and then defined all the printing commands (full path). BB on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:25:02PM +1100, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, So, from reading the documentation for new versions of SAMBA, it sounds like you can simply put printing = cups into smb.conf and let SAMBA sort out which printers are available from CUPS. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working that way for me. Have I managed to read into the documentation too far? If anyone's using this feature successfully, I'd be interested to find out the differences in config, or if there's any trick to it. Thanks, - Jeff -- He'd never undressed a woman with his eyes. Perhaps army boots, school uniform, or a nightie, but never undressed. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A quota question
on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 06:32:55AM +1100, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I put /var/spool/mail on its own partition in order to impose user quotas on the the bulk of INBOXs, can I override those quotas for selected power users by symlink'ng their INBOX to somewhere else that is not quota controlled, or is the quota still enforced: ln -s /var/spool/mail/poweruser /some/where/else You can set the quotas (or not any set) on a user by user basis. ie poweruser can have his/her mail spool in /var/spool/mail without being affected by quotas BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] sed quiz
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:53:07PM +1100, Jonathan Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all you sed-heads, I was sure it was possible to get sed to match a line containing a re and the next n lines by doing something like /find text/,+3s/old text/new string/ The seder's grab-bag may help http://spazioweb.inwind.it/seders/ BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] [foster@dim.ucsd.edu: [SUN] Linux on Sun Sparc hardware]
This is a message from the sunmanagers mail list. Anyone able to help [EMAIL PROTECTED] with linux on sun hardware? The sun in question is a bit old now, linux may well be a good idea for it for the same reasons that it's good on older PCs. But I havent any linux on sparc experiance. BB - Forwarded message from David Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: David Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SUN] Linux on Sun Sparc hardware Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:02:10 -0800 (PST) I have a client who would like to put Linux on his Sun Ultra 1 (sun4u) system (NOT my recommendation). Can anyone share their experiences with this? I'm most familiar with Redhat, so that's probably what we'd use. But I would really like to convince him that he won't be happy with this combination. Dave Foster =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David FosterNational Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research Programmer/Analyst University of California, San Diego [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Neuroscience, Mail 0608 (858) 534-7968 http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ___ sunmanagers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers - End forwarded message - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)
on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 03:37:54AM +1100, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I should have RTFM man first. ls -lab show the file name to be \ \ so I have now answered my own question. Note that such file names are often used by crackers as a place to put stuff. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] RedHat 7.2
on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 01:35:50PM +1000, James Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have RedHat 7.2, and is it any good? I have been sorely disappointed with the two previous Red Hats, becuz they shipped with intermediate versions of GCC, my most important tool. Having an officially unsupported GCC is bad news for me, since when trying to compile Mach, GRUB, etc, they state the versions of GCC that came with those two previous RedHats were not supported. 7.2 comes with the infamous gcc 2.96. gcc is also my most important tool but as soon as I get installed I compile my own gcc(s) and never compile anything else with redhat's gcc again. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Filenames with spaces - and using a shell script.
You need to put quotes around your variables. This is from the advanced
bash scripting document that was posted to freshmeat.net a while ago, you
might find that a good download.
20 echo hello# Not a variable reference, just the string hello.
21
22 echo $hello
23 echo ${hello} #Identical to above.
24
25 echo $hello
26 echo ${hello}
27
28 # hello=A B C D
29 # Now, echo $hello and echo $hello give different results.
30 # Quoting variable preserves whitespace.
31
32 echo '$hello'
33 # Variable referencing disabled by single quotes,
34 #+ which causes the $ to be interpreted literally.
35
36 # Notice the effect of different types of quoting.
Anyone know how to get around this without renaming all the files (some 350).
That should be easy for a little script.
BB
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Re: [SLUG] NOW audio software for Linux
Any one seen any music transcription software for Linux - I'm hunting now. Im not sure what your after. Lilypond (Tex bases) creates great looking sheet music. BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] handy way to merge txt files?
on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:02:16PM -1000, cpaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi - i have two plaintext files i want to merge them, discarding duplicate lines is there an easy way ? cat file1 file2 | sort | uniq BB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
