[SLUG] SIP/IAX testing...
Hi folks... we're moving to a temporary office and so forth in the next 14 days and we've decided to go voip for our phone services. I'm in the process of trialing several voip providers and in the course of doing so I've setup guest access to our Asterisk server meaning you can call us over the net using SIP or IAX protocols. We're on the following URI's for retail sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED] also sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] should go to our call redirector menu. Leave a message after hours just to say it worked if you like... won't cost ya much ;-) -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] HELP - need an ISDN card for our fax line
Been battling with our NetJet ISDN card and whilst it handles everything voice quite well the most I've gotten out of a fax is about 50mm of normal readable page followed by garbage. That's with mISDN, chan_misdn, asterisk, iaxmodem, spandsp and hylafax. I couldn't seem to get capi4hylafax working for it. Traverse tells me not to bother, the current software DSP's just don't work well enough and the card has no DSP. If anyone out there has SOMETHING which we could buy,beg,borrow or steal by Thursday 12th of July 2007 that'll co-exist with our existing ISDN card on the S-bus that can receive faxes I'll be most appreciative of it. Or tell me what to buy ;-) Currently it looks like avmfritz and hfcpci cards might be the go. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Attn Friends of Anthony Rumble
Anthony has a lot of friends from SLUG and you all deserve to know that he's been stuck in Intensive care since the 17th of March. Without going into a lot of detail his symptoms are much like severe pneumonia. He's been on a respirator and under sedation until yesterday morning and for a while we were very concerned about whether he'd make it or not. He's showed significant improvement but now's the time for words of encouragement or reminders of good times from friends. If you feel like sending get well cards they can go to PO Box 6262 Silverwater, NSW 1811 or you can email me a note and I'll make sure he gets them. If you want to help in another way, we've been finding it tough here at ELX and if you want to liberate our warehouse stock that's fine too. Be sure to check it's in stock, buying stuff that isn't just wouldn't help a lot. Company worries is one thing he could do without right now. We expect him to be off work for a good few weeks at least. Finally, I appreciate whomever decides to approve this email going to the announce list. If it helps, call it a favour for the Ex-president :-) -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ComputerBank Meeting Sat 20th?
Apologies if you receive this twice, I've bcc'd the LCA delegates mailing list. ComputerBank NSW and ComputerBank Sydney are two organisations in need of repair. Their purpose is to take old computers and either use environmentally friendly recycling or re-task them and give them to community organisations (or individuals) who would not otherwise be able to afford a computer. These organisations are suffering from lack of volunteers and a proper committee, funds, premises and general organisation. I have proposed a combined meeting for the 20th for both organisations. I originally thought there was still some LCA2007 activities happening on the Saturday morning. Now there's nothing. So I suggest we go somewhere central to all who'd like to attend. If you'd like to attend email me and/or update the LCA wiki http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ComputerBankSydney Needed to discuss are a) who's going to be treasurer (for CB NSW) and b) either paying rent for some warehouse space at ELX or taking over the lease or finding somewhere else. Roughly 1/3 of the donated equipment is in the ELX warehouse occupying roughly 10% of the floor space. ELX pays over $30K per annum for the warehouse rent and frankly NEEDS something to help pay the rent (other suggestions welcome in private emails). c) followup with meeting held at Penrith council on December 7th. SMS 0408 686 201 7am-10pm only (I use the phone for an alarm clock too). -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Asterisk with NetJetPCI success
Finally... managed to get the NetJetPCI ISDN card we sell to work with Asterisk 1.4 and chan_mISDN. I've spent the last few hours trying to understand asterisk's extensions.conf file and doing testing back and forth between our office & home asterisk servers, SIP devices, our PABX trunk ports (analogue) and such. Furthermore it plays nicely on the ISDN TA side with our existing Panasonic PABX still operating in parrallel. Goodnight! -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] making a single kernel module
I'm trying to re-discover how to build a single module. I once found a brilliant howto and can't find it again. I'm trying with Fedora Core 6 with 2.6.18. As near as I can tell it's something like this... pwd /usr/src/linux-unaltered ls arch CREDITSfs Kbuild Makefile REPORTING-BUGS usr blockcrypto include kernel mmscripts configs Documentation init lib net security COPYING driversipc MAINTAINERS READMEsound make -C /usr/src/linux-unaltered \ M=/usr/src/linux-unaltered/fs/ntfs/ modules make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-unaltered' WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-unaltered/Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions. Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST /bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 127 make: *** [modules] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-unaltered' BTW, I'm just using the ntfs module as an example any working example will do. Of pariticular interest for me is recompiling the capi and mISDN drivers with a patch I've got for the NetJet ISDN card. I keep retrying from scratch by copying the source tree from /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i386 Then copying in a .config file from either /boot/config-* or configs/ within the source tree. Then doing make oldconfig and make prepare. What am I missing here? I'm even happy to move it out of the kernel tree and follow the external module build but I think I'll hit the same problem. I wish I could find that howto again because it worked! -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Proposed ComputerBank's AGM
Hi, I'm doing my best to get all the people involved in ComputerBank in this state at least talking to each other. I know a lot of SLUG people have been interested in the past and it's the only reason I'm CCing that mailing list. Followups may be discussed off or on the SLUG list but I request you CC the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list too. To limit SPAM it's a members only posting thing but I'll approve relevant stuff. One of the things we badly need to do is organise an AGM for ComputerBank NSW and also ComputerBank Sydney. I am putting forward by way of suggestion some dates to hold these AGM's - Sunday the 24th of December or Saturday the 30th December or Sat/Sun 6 & 7th of January or perhaps after the close of LCA on the 20th of January at UNSW. Venues: My place at Concord for a BBQ, ELX Silverwater (as I have said I'll open up computerbank on 6th & 7th - but that's not yet confirmed). Other suggestions? Picnic venue, beaches, Clubs whatever. Geoff, hopefully I haven't overstepped here in organising this but I vaguely recall you suggesting I organise a time and a place for a meeting. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SQL join to most recent log table entry?
I've got a couple of tables itmmaster and suppstock. itmmaster contains products, suppstock contains log-like entries of product codes and stock availability and a datetime stamp. I want to do a join to select a bunch of products along with their most recent stock update entry and was wondering if that's possible to do in SQL. example itmmaster data (id) 'productA' 'productB' 'productC' example suppstock data (id),(stockavail),(lastupdated) 'productA','10','2006-09-01 12:00:00' 'productB','9','2006-05-01 12:00:00' 'productA','2','2006-10-01 12:00:00' 'productB','99','2006-11-01 12:00:00' 'productC','20','2006-04-28 12:00:00' 'productC','0','2006-10-01 12:00:00' 'productA','0','2006-10-10 12:00:00' 'productC','1','2006-11-05 12:00:00' example query idea select itmmaster.id,suppstock.stockavail,suppstock.lastupdated from itmmaster left join suppstock on itmmaster.id,suppstock.id where ??? group or order by something having stockavail>0; example result set 'productB','99','2006-11-01 12:00:00' 'productC','1','2006-11-05 12:00:00' Note that productA is missing only because of the having clause. If I had put stockavail>0 in the where clause that'd return the last time there was stock which is crap for me so don't suggest that. Sure, I can do this in the client app but that's inefficient. This crops up from time to time and I'd like to solve it properly. In this case I'm tring to identify products in stock with our suppliers last time we checked. I happen to be using MySQL 4.X if that makes any difference. Maybe I need a sub select or do a suppstock join to itself or possibly a stored procedure if we can upgrade to MySQL 5.X? -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Microtouch USB touch screen X/Y axis swapped
I just got some LCD touch screens in for a customer and unfortunately I didn't get the serial ones I was expecting, instead I have the USB ones. It's pretty cool how it works, just plug it in and start moving your finger round the display and it just works - Fedora Core 5. Only thing is the Axis are swapped around and it needs some sort of calibration. What I want to know is where to start looking to fix it. It appears that somehow the mtouchusb kernel module loads and this creates some stuff under /dev/input which ends up working in parrallel with the PS/2 mouse I already have plugged in. If somebody could explain how this multiple input stuff works, and can be configured, that would be useful too. The answer may possibly be in configuration of these bits. Kernels 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 (standard) and 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 (most recent update) make no difference. xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-8, xorg-x11-drv-microtouch-1.0.0.5-1.2, xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.0.4-1 are installed. The man page for the xorg microtouch driver is next to empty, says it needs to be written. If somebody has their Xorg source unpacked maybe see if there's anything more useful there but I doubt it. For the serial version I used the xorg 'microtouch' driver, this USB one works without modifying the xorg.conf file. I would be happy to modify the xorg.conf file if the USB version could be coaxed into looking like a serial port. cat /proc/bus/input/devices gives I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0596 Product=0001 Version=0400 N: Name="3M 3M USB Touchscreen - EX II" P: Phys=/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3 H: Handlers=mouse1 event3 B: EV=b B: KEY=400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: ABS=3 lsusb -v gives Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0596:0001 MicroTouch Systems, Inc. Touchscreen Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize064 idVendor 0x0596 MicroTouch Systems, Inc. idProduct 0x0001 Touchscreen bcdDevice4.00 iManufacturer 1 3M iProduct2 3M USB Touchscreen - EX II iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 25 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0xe0 Self Powered Remote Wakeup MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes3 Transfer TypeInterrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0020 1x 32 bytes bInterval 2 -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- 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 experts - ports 81,8000
I'm stumped at the moment and I've been doing firewalls and setting up squid for years. My client has an ISP firewall, their own firewall, a proxy on the DMZ and an internal firewall and wishes to access a couple of http based services on ports 81 and 8000. Not usually a problem. I have logged into the proxy server and successfully used the services with lynx so there really isn't a firewall issue as far as I can tell. When I set the http_proxy environment variable to http://127.0.0.1:3128/ lynx will use the proxy. When I try this:- lynx http://www.some.site:81/ it returns a 503 and I can see NO PACKETS going to the site with tcpdump. Exactly the same with port 8000. The error page returned by squid reports 503 and permission denied, as does the access.log I tried the same thing from our proxy server which is the exact same version and there's no problem leading me to think it's configuration of squid. I tried setting up squid from scratch again and no luck although I did not clear the existing cache (it's a busy proxy, don't want to do that). I will try moving the cache away after hours though. The response is so quick it's not even trying (as verified by packet dump). Any thoughts from other experts? access.log entry 1153800571.919164 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/503 1378 GET http://customer.xx.com:81/ - DIRECT/- text/html exact response (site censored) from squid below ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved (p1 of 2) ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved _ While trying to retrieve the URL: http://customer.xxx.com:81/ The following error was encountered: * Connection to Failed The system returned: (13) Permission denied The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again. Your cache administrator is root. _ ERROR: The requested URL could not be retrieved (p2 of 2) Generated Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:09:31 GMT by proxy.xx.nsw.edu.au (squid/2.5.STABLE13) -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] VIA EPIA EN15000 at Sunday's workshop
One of my supplier's has been kind enough to let me evaluate one of these boards and since I was kinda hoping to come along to the SLUG workshop on Sunday anyway I figured it'd be fun to bring it along. I'll fit it into another case so we can use a CDROM drive. BYO HDD if you want, it takes PATA and SATA. Here's a link to the motherboard info, we've got the 1.5GHz version. http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=399 Of interest are it's multimedia/TV features. For example it has a HDTV encoder (can also do regular definition composite video I presume). I don't have a HDTV myself or a set top box. It's also got gigabit ethernet and the whole unit it's in isn't much bigger than a white pages volume. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] anyone got eprom/flash programmer with PLCC socket
A customer of mine tried to re-flash their bios and it didn't work. The bios chip is a 39SF020A. If I source the image can I bring the chip to SLUG tomorrow with a self addressed envelope? Otherwise if you're anywhere near Silverwater/Concord I could drop by some time. Reply to sender thanks. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Fine tuning browser<->plugin response time
I have a need to improve the time taken to launch a video presentation from a web browser in the short term. The 100MB video file is local (ie on the hard drive of the machine running the browser. In fact I've tried putting a smaller 20MB video, the mplayer app, it's libraries, the plugin manager and it's libraries and the html all in a ramdisk. The sort of response I'm getting is after clicking the link to the video it's taking about 1 to 2 seconds to kick in. I am not sure if it's the browser itself or the plugin manager causing the delay, but if I replace mplaer with a shell script that logs the command line parameters the delay is between clicking the URL and the log entry appearing. Running mplayer directly gives excellent response, ie before the enter key lifts up. I've tried a few browsers and tried to try a few plugin managers with varying success (ie got it to run or didn't). It looks like the common theme is it seems to want to buffer the video when it probably shouldn't. Of course the long term plan would probably be to have somebody code up something that'll call mplayer or flashplayer or render a web page on cue. I've heard gstreamer might be able to do something like this but so far I thought it was used to process video, not display it. Also not sure if annodex could be used here - the presentations could be re-encoded. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Dell Perc 4/Di array expansion (afacli)
My client had 4 36GB drives in a raid-5 array giving 100GB of space on their server. I have gotten them to upgrade the drives and replace the 36GB units one by one and rebuild the array with no problems. Now we want to actually use the extra space.. Not sure if it was a good idea but I've turned the existing container into a multilevel container with 'container add_level 0' so it now looks like this:- AFA0> container list /all Executing: container list /all=TRUE Num Total Oth Chunk Scsi Partition Label Type Size Ctr Size Usage B:ID:L Offset:Size - -- -- --- -- --- -- - 0Volume 101GBOpen /dev/sda 63 RAID-5 101GB 32KB 0:00:0 64.0KB:33.8GB 0:01:0 64.0KB:33.8GB 0:02:0 64.0KB:33.8GB 0:03:0 64.0KB:33.8GB AFA0> disk list Executing: disk list B:ID:L Device Type BlocksBytes/Block UsageShared Rate -- -- - --- -- 0:00:0 Disk143374744 512 Initialized NO 160 0:01:0 Disk143374744 512 Initialized NO 160 0:02:0 Disk143374744 512 Initialized NO 160 0:03:0 Disk143374744 512 Initialized NO 160 AFA0> disk show space Executing: disk show space Scsi B:ID:L Usage Size --- -- - 0:00:0 Container 64.0KB:33.8GB 0:00:0 Free 33.8GB:34.4GB 0:01:0 Container 64.0KB:33.8GB 0:01:0 Free 33.8GB:34.4GB 0:02:0 Container 64.0KB:33.8GB 0:02:0 Free 33.8GB:34.4GB 0:03:0 Container 64.0KB:33.8GB 0:03:0 Free 33.8GB:34.4GB AFA0> Now I just can't get it to successfully carve out more space. Tips on best way to go appreciated, I don't care if under linux it comes up as /dev/sdb or whether I can just add another partition to /dev/sda. AFA0> container create raid5 ((0,0),100M) (0,1) (0,2) (0,3) Executing: container create raid5 ((BUS=0,ID=0),104,857,600 ) (BUS=0,ID=1) (BUS=0,ID=2) (BUS=0,ID=3) Command Error: container.> WTF am I doing wrong? Oh for a more descriptive error message! I also don't know how to undo the container add_level command! Of course I would rather not hear "Just backup, start from scratch and restore." I shouldn't have to do that but will if I absolutely have to. There seems to be various copies of the afacli command reference about the place and although fairly comprehensive it's a bit like trying to find the right man page and there's a lack of good examples. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- 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: Osirix software port required MacOS-X to Linux
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, QuantumG wrote: > Rick Welykochy wrote: > > > gcc handles Objective C. With a bit of work I'm sure this thing > > could be made to compile on Linux. Of course, all the GUI code will > > have to be ripped out and replaced. > > > gcc is what 99% of Mac developers use to compile Objective-C on OS X. > The GUI code is developed against a standard called OpenStep for which > there are free implementations, GNUStep being the most popular. So > probably only a small part of that code, the parts using proprietary > Apple extensions, will need to be replaced. Took me a while but I'm downloading an x86 zip file... no idea what's in it, the sourceforge site Oscar pointed out is a bit light on for documentation. [time passes] Hmm.. looks like some sort of Mac binary with no source - does have header files though still not much idea of what platform it's supposed to be for - x86 doesen't really narrow it down. Is it Windows, MacOSX-X86 or Linux or something else. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- 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: Osirix software port required MacOS-X to Linux
I've got a client that want's to port this software package from Mac OS-X to Linux and pay for it. I checked out 104MB of source code via CVS (I've attached the listing from /home/grant/packages/osirix) ... Not sure but it looks like some sort of C code but you compile it within this IDE http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/xcode/ I couldn't find anything resembling ./configure or a Makefile and the dev page isn't very helpful unless you're using xcode. http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/Index2.html My Gut feeling... probably cheaper to buy a Mac - except he wants to deploy many times over, thus if it costs a few grand it's OK. The alternative would be to buy a Mac and large high quality LCD and the commercial version of the software and the annual license for each site. This is less than satisfactory as my client wants some customisation done to it anyway plus the doctors usually would have multi-head PC's decked out with a stack of LCD's occupying significant desk space. Any pointers to who can do this or which company can do this or which mailing lists to consult appreciated. We can probably commission a feasability study seeing as it's such a large chunk of stuff. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au osirix.list.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] exporting contacts from Evolution 1.2.2-5
Firstly I have a customer who's developed a problem with this version of Evolution. -- quote -- COULD NOT CREATE COMPOSER WINDOW: UNABLE TO ACTIVATE HTML EDITOR COMPONENT. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE CORRECT VERSION OF GTKHTML AND LIBGTKHTML INSTALLED. THE ERROR FROM THE ACTIVATION SYSTEM IS: CHILD PROCESS DID NOT GIVE AN ERROR MESSAGE, UNKNOWN FAILURE OCCURED -- quote -- This is the same machine they've been using for years now and it's intermittent, they get this when they click on new/reply and before the message editor window pops up. So...I have a need to convert someones contact list to something like Squirrelmail or Thunderbird (assuming it'll run). The contact list seems to be stored in a Berkley DB version 7 format if that helps - vaguely remember some way of dumping it but can't find it. The system is a RedHat 9 box and unfortunately - I'm trying to organise an upgrade - would have been done sooner if it weren't for the Pulsar ADSL card in it. ... Just got off the phone... good they'll take the upgrade suggestion, still means I have to figuire out the export - it's probably easier if I copy the data to a Fedora Core 4 box running a later evolution and go from there just to do an export. I'm off the hook for tonight though This time round I'm going to setup Cyrus-IMAPd for the shared email access they need. Should be a lotta fun next week. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ISOC-AU hosts Radia Perlman Nov 29 (fwd)
Found this unread in my inbox... looks like it'd be a fun talk to go to. It's the Tuesday after the next SLUG meeting which is on the 25th - announcement coming about that soon! -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:25:40 +1100 (EST) From: David Purdue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ISOC-AU hosts Radia Perlman Nov 29 The Internet Society (Australian Chapter) is honoured to announce its next meeting, featuring: Radia Perlman, = Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories Topic: The Mythology and Folklore of Network Protocols This meeting is to be held in conjunction with: ISOC-AU - the Australian Chapter of the Internet Society AUUG - The Organisation of Unix, Linux and Open Source Professionals IEEE NSW - the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, NSW Section TSA NSW - the Telecommunications Society of Australia, NSW Branch When: Tuesday, 29th November, 5:45pm - 7pm Where: Optus Auditorium, Optus centre North Sydney, 101 Miller St North Sydney Cost: Free! ***Registration is essential for this event.*** Registration: by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject Perlman event registration. Members and guests are asked to report to Optus ground floor reception on arrival. Following the meeting attendees are invited to share dinner with Dr Perlman and members of the ISOC-AU Board of Directors at a North Sydney restaurant. The Mythology and Folklore of Network Protocols == It's natural to assume that network protocol design is a well-known science, where the designers of today's standards take care to understand the tricks and pitfalls learned from previous protocols. This talk dispels this and other myths. It is intended to be provocative, making people question the things people assume are true; instructive, giving hints as to how to avoid some of the problems in future protocols; and inspirational, convincing students that there are ample opportunities to make contributions. This talk discusses wrong turns that have been made, such as what necessitated the invention of bridges, and what caused IP multicast to be unimplementable. It also talks about how a protocol, even one "proven correct", can go horribly wrong, such as the unstable ARPANET protocol for distributing routing information. It talks about "obvious" tricks such as version numbers that even today protocol designers insist on misusing. And it covers some of the areas in which research is most needed. About Radia Perlman === Radia Perlman is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Her work on bridging (spanning tree algorithm) and routing (robust and scalable link state routing) is fundamental to today's networks. She has also made significant contributions to security, including credentials download, key management, authentication and authorization models, and assured delete. She is the author of "Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols", and coauthor of "Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World". Holding about 80 patents, she was named SVIPLA (Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association) 2004 Inventor of the Year. She has a PhD from MIT in computer science, and an honorary doctorate from KTH, Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology. Dr Perlman is visiting Australia for the IEEE Tencon Conference being held in Melbourne. -- Narelle Clark Vice President, ISOC-AU Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ auug-announce - announcements from AUUG Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.auug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/auug-announce -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Via EPIA MII 1.2GHz Nehemiah + SUSE 10 ssh compatability issue
Not sure if anyone else has used SuSE 9.3 or SuSE 10 on a Via EPIA MII
with 1.2GHZ CPU but we have a machine here that's segfaulting when running
ssh-keygen for example but runs fine otherwise. We have tried different
RAM and hard disk and done a memtest86 for days.
What I want to know is:-
A) if anyone's had similar issues with SuSE on our thin client machines
and what they did to fix it and
B) does anyone here hack code under SuSE
or
C) Would anyone like to try to fix it for a credit voucher at ELX?
Here's a matrix of
some of the things we've tried:-
SuSE 10, VIA 1.2GHz Nehemiah = ssh-keygen segfaults repeatedly
same HDD, Intel mobo + P4 = ssh-keygen works just fine
Fedora Core4, Via 1.2GHz Nehemia = Fedora's ssh-keygen works fine
Fedora Core4, Via 1.2GHz Nehemia = chrooted to suse disk, ssh-keygen fails
same as before
Ubuntu breezy, Via 1.2GHz Nehemia = ssh-keygen fine, sshd works
Ubuntu breezy, Via 1.2GHz Nehemia = chrooted to suse disk, ssh-keygen
fails
Its worthy to note that SuSE10 has a lot of i586/i686 optimised stuff
installe and Fedora and Ubuntu do not. The speed of the CPU is variable.
Under SuSE10 and Ubuntu cat /proc/cpuinfo reports 533MHz whilst under
Fedora it reports 1199MHz but this may be a red herring.
When ssh-keygen fails it does this mostly:-
-- quote --
gripzgw:/ # ssh-keygen -t dsa
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
Segmentation fault
-- /quote --
but occasionally (1 in 15?) this:-
-- quote --
Generating public/private dsa key pair.
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x80023030 ***
Aborted
-- /quote --
I've done strace under both SuSE and Fedora/Ubuntu using chrooted
environment and it's similar in each case. Therefore it doesen't seem to
be a kernel issue. My guess is either libraries or ssh-keygen itself.
Here's a couple of example strace outputs (large!), they're both pretty
similar except for the last bit:-
execve("/usr/bin/ssh-keygen", ["ssh-keygen", "-t", "dsa"], [/* 15 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="gripzgw", ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8001c000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=68041, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 68041, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f22000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libopensc.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0m\0\000"..., 512) =
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=357668, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 362084, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) =
0xb7ec9000
madvise(0xb7ec9000, 362084, MADV_SEQUENTIAL|0x1) = 0
old_mmap(0xb7f1d000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x53000) = 0xb7f1d000
old_mmap(0xb7f21000, 1636, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f21000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0 &\0\000"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=74650, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0xb7ec8000
old_mmap(NULL, 75956, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) =
0xb7eb5000
madvise(0xb7eb5000, 75956, MADV_SEQUENTIAL|0x1) = 0
old_mmap(0xb7ec4000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe000) = 0xb7ec4000
old_mmap(0xb7ec6000, 6324, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ec6000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\313"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=1027732, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1021988, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) =
0xb7dbb000
madvise(0xb7dbb000, 1021988, MADV_SEQUENTIAL|0x1) = 0
old_mmap(0xb7e9f000, 73728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe3000) = 0xb7e9f000
old_mmap(0xb7eb1000, 14372, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7eb1000
mprotect(0xbfb46000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC|PROT_GROWSDOWN) = 0
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libutil.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\f\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=13029, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 12432, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) =
0xb7db7000
madvise(0xb7db7000, 12432, MADV_SEQUENTIAL|0x1) = 0
old_mmap(0xb7db9000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0xb7db9000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0\27\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=
[SLUG] Short term Java work - Brookvale
ELX has a client in Brookvale that wants some Java work done and they want to be able to have face to face meetings. This would suit somebody located in the Northern Beaches region. We can discuss contracting arrangements & rates offline. We occasionally get requests for other Java work too. I don't have exact details of this job spec but will ask. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Lightspeed decommissioned
Testimony to Digital Electronics Corporation's engineering (AKA DEC, taken over by Compaq then taken over by Hewlett Packard). The server known as Lightspeed has given Anthony and the company approximately 10 years of service, during that time I can think of at least having the power supply and some drives replaced/added but the Alpha CPU and motherboard which is a 64-bit 533MHz platform sill has life in it yet. In the past it has been an image rendering machine, fileserver, CD burning machine and print server to name a few tasks. Until this morning it still had our only copy of a lot of stuff we use to make our CDR products. For quite some time now we've been saying we must get around to copying the files to a faster++ system so I finally bit the bullet and did that this morning. By faster I mean faster drives and gigabit ethernet, nothing wrong with it's internal I/O performance. We'll probably upgrade the old Redhat 7.1 operating system with the latest Debian Sarge sometime. It's not intel compatible and Debian's probably the only hope. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Debian ISO's wanted in exchange for stuff
EverythingLinux is a bit bandwidth challenged but would like CD ISO's of Debian 3.1. We only need ISO's 9-14 or if you have the DVD ISO that'll be fine as well. We'll accept on CDR/DVD or loan us a HDD or DDS2 tape or some other USB/Firewire media. In exchange we'll give you a free pressed set when we manage to produce them (est 2 weeks after we have ISO's) and a Debian T-Shirt. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] II Free Software International Conference in Mérida (Badajoz) - International Meeting about Free Knowledge (fwd)
Got this message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and figure it's of general interest. Anyone feel like a tax deductable holiday to Spain? After poking a bit I think this is the URL for the conference ... http://2conferencia.gnulinex.org Unfortunately they've only got the Spanish version up for the moment - maybe somebody could offer to help translate. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:01:48 +0200 From: II Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre y Conocimiento Libre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Undisclosed-Recipient: ; Subject: II Free Software International Conference in Mérida (Badajoz) - International Meeting about Free Knowledge Regional Government of Extremadura (Junta de Extremadura) will organize the II Free Software International Conference in Mérida (Badajoz) - International Meeting about Free Knowledge The Regional Governments of Extremadura (Junta de Extremadura) and AndalucÃa (Junta de AndalucÃa) will organize the II Free Software Internacional Conference in Mérida (Extremadura, Spain) during the days of October, 25th and 26th 2005 and this will continue in AndalucÃa througout the whole 2006. The aim of this Conference will try to show Free Software as a reality due to the fact that it has grown to currently become one of the most successful solutions because it's a solid, powerful and safety solution. And it's advisable to bet on it when we are building Information Systems of any organizations. In the framework of this II Free Software International Conference will receive the International Meeting about Free Knowledge where the main representatives of different projects and movements related to the share of knowledge worldwide will be. During this event, gnuLinEx'2005 will be launched (the brand-new edition of the Extremadura's Operative System) As well as, there will be loads and loads of activities steered to empower the relationships among the organizations who already firmly bet for Free Technologies. The support given throughout all this time to the use of this kind of software by the different organizations and institutions, emphasizing the role of Extremadura and AndalucÃa as pioneers in the adoption, support and devlopment of Free Software in the Public Administrations (Goverments) in Europe, has drawn it of the Scientific and Experimental Fields, putting it to the reach of the citizens. Further on the technic aspects, Free Software promotes an attitude above all, sharing knowledge, and it becomes in an ideal engine for innovation and development. >From that point of view, free software enhances a sort of well-known advantages, such as a support of investigation tool above all. So we can state that Free Software provides the advance of Science. In other aspects, free software favours and speeds up the innovation, due to the fact that its development never starts from zero, there's always generated knowledge around it that can be well-spent to generate a new knowledge or just to improve the existing yet favouring, hence, the innovation process. Extremadura, in the development of its Information Society Global Strategy, it's applying free software in all fields (Education, companies, citizens...) with the firm conviction that the use of this kind of software on behalf of the Public Administrations (Governments) it's a question of rational and efficient use of public funds more than anything, and it's a question of rights as well, since it guarantees the access of all the citizens to this technology, pure knowledge on equal terms. This is the Second Edition of this Intenational Conference who was launched last year in the andalusian city of Málaga where the audience was more than 4000 people. If you don't want to receive more e-mails about the II Free Software International Conference - International Meeting about Free Knowledge, please send a blank e-mail to: [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] IPSEC expert wanted
Need to get hold of someone who's experienced at setting up IPSEC, especially with Sonicwall firewalls. This is for a small job, and includes training me what's involved. The platform they'll be using is Debian and I'm suggesting using the latest release (as of this week) as soon as we've downloaded enough of it. We'll be selling CD/DVD boxes of it as soon as we can get the images and send it off to be pressed in bulk. Currently they have one Debian unstable on X86-64 which is causing grief with package dependencies so they'll re-image with the 32 bit. The other is a RedHat AS 2.1 box which they're reluctant to let us touch. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Crossover office 4 sale
I've got a client who is unfortunately not interested in using the crossover office licenses they bought. They have a letter from Codeweavers stating they can sell the licenses and Codeweavers will throw in 3 months support to the new licensee. If anyone's interested I can put you in touch with my client. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SQL Brain teaser...
I'm trying to do some metrics on how long it takes to process an order in our system based on time between printing the picking slip and bagging the goods for dispatch. The aim is to determin the maximum performance if we were to have one guy do nothing but pick & pack orders. At first glance you might think this would do select round(avg((unix_timestamp(docketdate) -unix_timestamp(pickslip_printed))/60)) as packmins from orders where pickslip_printed is not null But alas that's not the true picture because in reality the events overlap each other due to operators batching up the pick slips or puting some aside while issues are dealt with. Example data set.. select ordno,pickslip_printed,docketdate, round((unix_timestamp(docketdate) -unix_timestamp(pickslip_printed))/60) as packmins from orders where pickslip_printed is not null order by pickslip_printed; +---+-+-+--+ | ordno | pickslip_printed| docketdate | packmins | +---+-+-+--+ | ordno | 2005-06-01 14:32:16 | 2005-06-01 14:34:47 |3 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:12:27 | 2005-06-01 15:27:26 | 15 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:12:28 | 2005-06-01 15:30:25 | 18 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:12:29 | 2005-06-01 15:21:53 |9 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:41:29 | 2005-06-01 16:12:07 | 31 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:41:32 | 2005-06-01 16:11:45 | 30 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:41:33 | 2005-06-01 15:52:17 | 11 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:41:33 | 2005-06-01 15:49:15 |8 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:41:34 | 2005-06-01 15:48:30 |7 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:41:34 | 2005-06-01 15:45:56 |4 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:53:00 | 2005-06-01 15:57:57 |5 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:53:00 | 2005-06-01 16:01:33 |9 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 15:53:00 | 2005-06-01 16:00:24 |7 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 16:02:25 | 2005-06-01 16:04:00 |2 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 16:02:26 | 2005-06-01 16:08:09 |6 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 16:22:40 | 2005-06-01 16:34:49 | 12 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 16:22:41 | 2005-06-01 16:36:26 | 14 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 16:22:42 | 2005-06-01 16:37:52 | 15 | | ordno | 2005-06-01 16:22:42 | 2005-06-01 16:25:59 |3 | +---+-+-+--+ See what I mean, between 15:30 and 16:00 there were 9 orders started but the average will be 12.4 minutes per order by the previous query when in reality it's 9 orders in 30 minutes due to batching. Or to put it into perspective, if you add up the packing minutes it's 1.7 times the actual elapsed time :-( Anybody got any smart ideas for reporting purposes? I don't mind if performance sucks because I will do it on a replicated database. Essentially there needs to be a way of grouping orders with a similar pickslip_printed time. Maybe we could look at pickslip_printed in terms of 5 minute chunks. That doesen't quite work because more orders are started before all the others are finished. select from_unixtime(round(unix_timestamp(pickslip_printed)/300)*300) as fudgestart, avg(round((unix_timestamp(docketdate) -unix_timestamp(pickslip_printed))/60)) as packmins from orders where pickslip_printed is not null group by fudgestart order by fudgestart; For now the most practical thing I guess is to take the lesser of (max(docketdate)-min(pickslip_printed))/order_count or the first query I mentioned. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SLUG Meeting + CodeFest reminder
SLUG Meeting When: Tonight 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway, Building 2, Level 4, Room 11 What's on: Q & A session, experiences from CeBIT, Ubuntu Down Under Report, SLUGlets (Software Freedom Day?), SIG talk on the R environment for statistical computing CodeFest The CodeFest will be going ahead this weekend, however the venue and day are still being finalised. The preference is for a room at CSE organised by Benno for one or possibly both days. We have only just been notified of a room being available and are enquiring about who can be there to supervise. The alternative is the EverythingLinux warehouse at Silverwater on Saturday only. Grant can have a limited number of people between 10am and 9pm at Unit B6, 27-29 Fariola St Silverwater. Please call him on 0408686201 to confirm. There's plenty of parking and you can catch the 525 bus to Newington shops from either Burwood, Strathfield or Parramatta hourly. For projects, see the wiki here:- http://wiki.slug.org.au/wiki/EventCodefest/May2005 -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PHP web programmer wanted
EverythingLinux is looking for an enthusiastic PHP programmer to assist with developing specific aspects of our public website. You will need to demonstrate a good understanding of PHP and what a class is and speak fluent english and be able to travel to Silverwater in Sydney on a regular basis. We would prefer somebody local and who is comfortable with using a completely linux desktop and server environment. You would be working under instruction from the manager and should be able to adapt your coding style. Terms of employment / contract negotiable. Our systems use Redhat Enterprise 3, Apache 2.0, php-4, mysql 3.23. Fedora core 2 , Apache 2.0, php-4, mysql 3.23. Redhat 9, Apache 2.0, php-4, mysql 4.1 Redhat 9, Apache 2.0, php-4, mysql 4.1 -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] NEXT WEEK - "Open Computing in Government 2005" - Register today!
I've registered for this one myself, it's cheaper if you're already going to linux.conf.au and cheaper again if you're and AUUG member. --- cut --- ** News - NSW Department of Commerce to give perspective on Open Source ** Open Computing in Government 2005 is a unique opportunity to listen to, meet, and learn from the trendsetters and decision makers that are behind the rising tide of Open Source and Open Systems software within the public sector. The conference will take place at the same venue and with the cooperation of Linux.conf.au as a "co-conference" - but separate registration is required to attend. Presenters include: * Senator the Hon Eric Abetz Special Minister of State * Senator Stephen Conroy Deputy Leader of the Federal Labor Party in the Senate Shadow Minister for Communications & Information Technology * John Grant Acting Australian Government CIO Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) * Patrick Callioni Division Manager Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) * Dr Elizabeth Gordon-Werner Manager Strategic Projects Government Chief Information Office (GCIO), NSW Department of Commerce * Kevin Russell WA Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR) (OpenSource.wa.gov.au) * Stephen McInerney HealthInsite and the Federal Dept of Health * Mark Shuttleworth Founder of Thawte and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, and the first African in Space * Pia Smith Linux Australia * Paul Kangro Novell * Avi Miller Squiz.net * Brendan Scott Open Source Law * Ian Oi Blake Dawson Waldron * Tom Knapp CSC * Greg Stone National Technology Officer, Microsoft Australia * And many more ... The Senator the Hon Eric Abetz, Special Minister of State, will launch the much anticipated "Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies". And John Grant, Acting Australian Government CIO, AGIMO will be presenting the opening address. Learn more and register at http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg The conference will be held at the Manning Clark Centre at The Australian National University, Canberra, on 18 and 19 April 2005. No matter what aspect of IT in government interests you, you'll find a presentation to spark your interest. Plus, it's not all hard work! The Conference Cocktail Reception on the Monday evening will give you the chance to meet the speakers and other delegates. If you have any questions about the conference, please don't hesitate to contact AUUG. Register NOW at http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg = Proudly presented by - AUUG, the organisation for UNIX, Linux and Open Source professionals. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.auug.org.au/ Free Call 1800 625 655, T +61 (0)2 8824 9511, F +61 (0)2 8824 9522 ABN 15 645 981 718 = -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Managing incoming faxes
We at EverythingLinux receive faxes using Hylafax and until recently used to automatically print them on the laser printer. Now we're storing them in an incoming directory on our terminal server as TIF files. This has lead to a slight problem with some staff not coping with it, and part of that is just people being used to seeing them on paper and part is not having a solution that really covers everything we need to do. We're OK at this stage with the concept of manually routing faxes to relevant areas. IE we only have one fax number and we're not doing OCR, although we could use the fax ID strings people sometimes set in their machines. So far I've narrowed my application suite for dealing with faxes down to 3 applications, one in-house one that basically moves the fax file to an attachment directory for a given order in the system so we can view the faxes to do with an order by viewing the order in our system. The other two things are Nautilus/eog and Qfaxreader (called from in-house app as viewer). Nautilius (the file manager in Gnome) is a great graphical file manager and latest versions even show preview images of the faxes, once a fax is selected to view (eog) I haven't found a way to view anything other than the first page and it would be nice to see all the other fax attributes. Later versions thankfully allow rotation too. EOG also has a fantastic interactive zoom facility with the mouse scroll wheel - try with any image - very impressive. It's disadvantage is all these bells & whistles make it quite a big app and load time too long to call as a quick fax viewer. I should also check on bug reports. Qfaxreader is a pretty cool fax viewer, shows all the fax attributes, has sensible rotate buttons, can print although it can't seem to make sense of our printer queues and therefore can't select which printer to print to (thankfully prints to default printer). It's light weight & fast to load but I need to be able to move faxes from one directory to another which it doesen't do. I'll be filing a bug report or two on it. Does anyone have any suggestions on either file managers that do faxes well or fax viewers that do file management ok (copy, move, delete, send to email, print) - perhaps some perl/python/php libraries to read & display fax TIF files (or I can convert to PDF). I was reluctant, but will consider web based stuff - must be able to do rotate & zoom though and I feel a web interface isn't good for that. I might start exploring php script options (without using a web server) if I can find the time. I guess the next logical step is to be able to edit & re-send faxes - looking at xfax (about 2 years since last work done on it). EG please sign & fax back. -- -- ** ROOM FOR RENT $120pw (neg) near Newington Shops 525/401 buses ** Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Official SLUG T-Shirts now available for order
The SLUG committee has organised through ELX the manufacture of SLUG shirts made to order. Perfect for your next geek event or perhaps your next casual business meeting. Available in many sizes and choice of black, white or grey for $16.95 or $12.00 for financial members. If you're not a financial member, why not join up at the next SLUG meeting for only $25 for the year starting from April 1st (the AGM). Here's where you can get'em http://www.elx.com.au/item/tslug Or http://www.elx.com.au/item/tslug-members (proof of membership required) -- -- ** ROOM FOR RENT $120pw (neg) near Newington Shops 525/401 buses ** Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Adaptec 1210SA disc corruption?
Had a client that has been battling problems and it looks like it might be the the kernel module being buggy - no problem on Windows. It's a 2 port SATA RAID controller and so far it looks like a) either it didn't like the large partition or b) the read-ahead caching or c) the write-back caching. Setup was 2 drives in RAID-1 configuration on Red Hat 9 system. Somebody else put the drives in, be buggered if I can get the info on them from the command line.. seems like I should be using aaccli but I can't figure out the device string to put. If I try most things (eg "open shit") it reports device not of the correct type, but "open aac0" reports that it's missing. Tried loads of other combinations like "0:0:0" "aac0:0:0" "aac0:1:0" Bugger it... I'm going home. It's stable enough today, we'd just like to know "why?". -- -- ** ROOM FOR RENT $120pw (neg) near Newington Shops 525/401 buses ** Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Sun Regional Delegate Program for linux.conf.au 2005
I'm forwarding this as it may be of relevance to many SLUG people or people that know SLUG people ;-) -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:24:17 +1100 From: LCA 2005 Sun Regional Delegate Program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Announce] Sun Regional Delegate Program for linux.conf.au 2005 Hello all. As with previous LCAs, Sun Microsystems has kindly offered to sponsor the Regional Delegates Program (RDP) for LCA 2005. For the LCA 2005 RDP, there will be ten winners: one from each of the Australian states and territories; a national winner; and a winner representing New Zealand. Each of these winners will recieve: - transport to LCA 2005 - accomodation - professional registration at the conference (including all the normal things which come with that) - special recognition as a RDP winner Additionally, LCA provides an important mechanism for developers to network with each other, and the RDP winners will have excellent opportunities to further their open source projects. This is the first year that New Zealand has been included in the competition, which has prompted some changes in how the RDP is being run this year. The timetable for the RDP is as follows: - entrants should draft a 100 word or less description of how the open source community would benefit from their presence at LCA 2005 - these should be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including an indication of where the entrant lives by midnight, Friday the 18th of February 2005 [1]. - the winners will be announced by the end of February and travel will be arranged. - RDP winners attend the conference and have a great time If a winner has already registered for the conference, then a refund of that registration will be provided. We look forward to many interesting entries, The LCA 2005 team 1: The information about where you live will be used solely for judging the competition, and will then be destroyed. ___ announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/announce -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] GRIC Dialer for Linux - I made one (fwd)
Just thought other people might be interested in this if you're travelling the world with your Linux laptop. I've got a customer who regularly makes trips to random cities Europe and Asia and as such happened to get global roaming access through Telstra. What then happens is they refer you to this windows software called GRICdial which has 2 purposes. 1) has an updatable database of ISP's around the world you can login via and 2) to actually setup the connection. My customer is not technical and now uses a Linux desktop to VNC back to head office. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:13:33 +1000 (EST) From: Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GRIC Dialer for Linux - I made one Attention GRIC/GoRemote technical support staff, There is now a starting point for Linux and Linux-like users who wish to use your global roaming services. In response to a customer of mine who isn't very technical I've come up with simple system that can consult your database (like the Windows GRIC dialer does) and initiate a dialup connection to any of the ISP's around the world participating. The URL for the project is currently here:- http://www.linuxhelp.com.au/~grant The software is very generic and as such should work on most varieties of Linux whether using graphics or just text mode. It just uses ppp, ncurses, perl and dialog packages. It's also CPU architecture independant as it's just text and script files. Please consider adding this information to your technical FAQ at this web location:- http://www.goremote.com/pdfs/faqs_tech.pdf With a little further work it's probably worthy of including in your download section. Given a few screenshots and so forth it would be possible for ISP's helpdesks to understand how it works without actually having to run it, therefore it could be said that Linux is now a supported operating system. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OSIA talk at SLUG last night..
FWIW here it is online for those that weren't there http://www.linuxhelp.com.au/~grant/talks/osia/ And hey, Stuart, what happened mate? you promised to clap loudly and I didn't even see you there :-( -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- 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] sendmail to sendmail on same machine
On Sat, 29 May 2004, Keith Hopkins wrote: > Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: > > >The principle is this > >[inbound email to test@.com.au] > >| > >| 192.168.1.4:25 > >[sendmail.cf.listen.milter-sender] > >| > >| 127.0.0.1:25 > >[sendmail.cf.listen.kavscanner] > >| > >| lmtp > >[sendmail.cf.cyrus] > >| > >| cyrusv2 > >[/x/imap/t/user/test/*] > > > >Now... telnet to 127.0.0.1 port 25 and it works, does the virus scan and > >delivers to cyrus mailbox so that half's just fine. > >I've been frustrated for the last several hours trying to figure out ways > >of getting the sendmail daemon listening on ip 192.168.1.4 to forward > >succussful messages onto 'localhost'. > > > >Alternatives may be using another MTA that has the features of > >milter-sender, such as postfix. I haven't looked into that, I'd imagine it > >shouldn't be a problem to interface with cyrus but what I don't know is if > >it's going to be a similar problem. Alternately... I could use BOTH! > > > > > > > > Hi Grant, > > I've never tried doing this exact thing, but I'd like to help. What > exactly are you seeing happen when it tries to forward to localhost? > What config option are you using to tell it to do so? How are you > restricting each instance of sendmail to a specific interface? > > Suggestion: move the "localhost" sendmail instance up to a different > port. For instance, on my system, spamassassin sits up on port 10024, > and I feed it there, and it returns msgs back to a sendmail (well, > postfix actually) instance listening on port 10025. To restrict to the interface I wanted I set the IP in the DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA') in the sendmail.mc.listen.kavscanner file (this setting is the default for Fedora/RedHat). For the other instance I just changed the IP to the external interface. Hmm... maybe I'll just install spamassasin as well, can't hurt! FWIW I tried setting up the kavscanner/sendmail on port 250 but then I couldn't figure out how to get the other one to send to port 250. I even tried 'iptables -A OUTPUT -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp --dport 25 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 250' but that kept giving me 'invalid option' or something like that (ie I think REDIRECT doesen't work in the OUTPUT chain to spite the documentation). I tried setting smarthost even to localhost... that was a mistake. I found FEATURE(`nullclient',`localhost') sounds like it should do the job but doesen't. It just drops it into /var/spool/mail instead. I suspect the documentation on that feature was a bit off or not what I was trying to do. About the best I got so far was the sendmail on 192.168.1.4 trying to send to localhost and getting 'error mail loops back to me (MX problem?)' suggesting it was trying to send to an instance of itself rather than the other instance - oh and in no way does a DNS or /etc/hosts lookup for 'localhost' point to 192.168.1.4. Therefore I can't see how trying to get it to send to 'localhost' stuffs up unless it's hardcoded or something. I don't have control of their DNS.. but I might try installing my own and setting up MX records for localhost2 or something. It's all a bit academic at the moment, went to work on it today and they've changed the firewall on me. I'm on leave starting next week so it'll be 2 weeks before I get back to it. The server's not in production yet... their old one is still crawling along with a different mail setup entirely. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] sendmail to sendmail on same machine
The principle is this [inbound email to test@.com.au] | | 192.168.1.4:25 [sendmail.cf.listen.milter-sender] | | 127.0.0.1:25 [sendmail.cf.listen.kavscanner] | | lmtp [sendmail.cf.cyrus] | | cyrusv2 [/x/imap/t/user/test/*] Now... telnet to 127.0.0.1 port 25 and it works, does the virus scan and delivers to cyrus mailbox so that half's just fine. I've been frustrated for the last several hours trying to figure out ways of getting the sendmail daemon listening on ip 192.168.1.4 to forward succussful messages onto 'localhost'. Alternatives may be using another MTA that has the features of milter-sender, such as postfix. I haven't looked into that, I'd imagine it shouldn't be a problem to interface with cyrus but what I don't know is if it's going to be a similar problem. Alternately... I could use BOTH! -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Anyone got SuSE 7.1 CDs?
Had a guy ring up needing this specific version as the box set he has was in an unfortunate accident. The closest we'd have here is a 7.0 CDR. I suggested he contact SuSE in Germany to see if they'd have it. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or it's employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] wierd cron.daily clash AKA autorpm gotcha?
Just doing some post-crash detective work on our web server and have
attributed it to a possible race condition combined with not enough swap
space. The symptoms were the memory usage and load went through the roof
and eventually the kernel starts killing off processes at random to fix
the situation.
(avg 116 vs 0.4 normally) - nice of sendmail to report that in the logs
:-)
in /etc/cron.daily there's an 'rpm' and 'autorpm' job - autorpm is not
supplied with RedHat but's a standard add-on we typically use for keeping
systems up-to-date (instead of the official up2date utility - or apt-rpm).
cron.daily kicks off at the usual 4am and starts autorpm which has
# Start AutoRPM and tell it to wait up to 2 hours before actually
# looking for updates (backgrounds the process to avoid delaying
# other cron jobs)
/usr/sbin/autorpm --notty "auto --delay=7200" &
Now I looked in the code and to see what they mean by 'up to 2 hours' and
yeah, it's a random time between 0 and 2 hours effectively.
Also kicked off at 4am is the rpm job which has
rpm -qa --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n' 2>&1 \
| sort > /var/log/rpmpkgs
Now as you know... rpm doesen't like 2 things accessing it's database at
the same time (at least writing it)... which may possibly explain this
email:-
***
AutoRPM 3.3 on started Fri Feb 13 04:02:02 EST
2004
Delaying 4476 seconds...
Reading Auto-Ignore list... Done.
Comparing to locally installed RPMs
ERROR: rpm -qa is hanging! Running rpm --rebuilddb to fix...
I'm thinking maybe we'll just comment out the line in autorpm which calls
--rebuilddb and just deal with it manually if it ever occurs. Also, maybe
autorpm can possibly check if other things are accessing the rpm database
and/or by default delay a minimum of 10 minutes or something.
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[SLUG] Hyperscsi documentation anyone?
For about a week now I've been wondering what I'm doing wrong with hyperscsi and have been trying to access the documentation linked from the following URL:- http://hyperscsi.sourceforge.net/ Trouble is the bloody site's down. I'm not *that* good at reading C code - (thankfully I managed to find a source RPM!). Has anyone got a copy or some hs-client.conf and hs-server.conf files that work with IDE drives handy. Or even better, a copy of the documentation! -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/services We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Open Source Industry Australia - Mailing Lists Up | Web-Site In First Revision (fwd)
Since there's a lot of people on here trying to sell linux solutions to their clients I feel this post is of interest to some of SLUG and LCON subscribers. In fact this is kinda the next level up from a discussion started prior to the Brisbane LCA which resulted in the Linux Consulting BOF's and the LCON (linux consultants) mailing list. This mailing list supersedes the lcon mailing list and I'd encourage switching over. (I started the LCON list so no probs there). Other alternatives would be the Vendors mailing list of linux.org.au. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 08:30:07 +1030 From: David Lloyd Subject: Open Source Industry Australia - Mailing Lists Up | Web-Site In First Revision Hi There, We have the organisational foundations of a new national body to represent open source businesses to the community, the government (state or federal) and other businesses. The foundations are: a web-site and a discussion mailing list. We're now seeking more input on the web-site and into the running of the organisation. I'm sending you this e-mail because you wrote your name on a piece of paper at the meeting we held at Linux.Conf.Au 2004 on the Thursday evening (1). The web-site is currently hosted at: * http://osia.cyber.com.au/ Please visit: * http://osia.cyber.com.au/resources Instructions for joining the OSIA discussion list and the organisation are held in the second URL I posted. Please do join and participate - it's been Open Source Victoria's experience that the ability to say "OSV, an industry cluster of 100 companies..." is very effective when speaking to other businesses and the Victorian Government. David Lloyd (1) I am attempting to *not* sound like a Nigerian scammer :( -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wierd hardware / NFS issue?
Head scratching time for the technical gurus
Headline: NFS client locks when second NIC inserted but not even module
loaded.
I've got a test rig setup with 2 via EPIA V 5000 motherboards. These come
with an on-board nic and a PCI slot in which I'm inserting the second NIC.
The second nic has a crossover going to the other system which is exactly
the same, they're on 10.0.0.1 & 10.0.0.2. All other hosts on 192.168.1.x
LAN. I test with the following:-
# mount -t nfs -o ro lightspeed:/export/mirror /mnt/mirror
{fine always}
# ls /mnt/mirror
{fine first few times}
# ls /mnt/mirror/9/i386/(basically a lot of files)
{NFS times out in some situations - everything but NFS works fine}
Combo tried Result
no card insertedworks fine
2nd nic inserted, up, pings, main MTU lowered NFS hang
2nd nic inserted, up, pings, nfs rsize lowered NFS hang
2nd nic inserted, up, pings NFS hang
2nd nic inserted, module not loaded NFS hang
different type of 2nd nic inserted, module not loaded NFS hang
USB card inserted instead works fine
I can't find anything obvious in the BIOS settings. Happened with stock
RedHat9 kernel so I upgraded to kernel-2.4.20-28.9 and nfs-utils-1.0.1-3.9
with no difference. In each case where a card was inserted, the card works
fine too. Perhaps I'll try NFS through the 2nd NIC. I should point out
that whilst NFS is stuck, I can copy the directory off the same server
using ssh or rsync with ssh just fine. I get similar issues whilst PXE
booting redhat-rescue, gets up to the point of NFS.
If it's a hardware problem why does it only stuff up NFS? I get exactly
the same behaviour on either of the two machines.
Anyway... although it's annoying it's not critical to what I'm trying to
do. I am concerned that it might be a hardware issue and stuff me up later
on in this project.
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Re: [SLUG] Any test ICA/Citrix servers?
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 12:34, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: > > We have a need to test a thin client setup with a Citrix server for a > > client of ours. I was wondering if anybody knows of any internet > > accessable servers to test with, preferably free of charge. I can't seem > > to find any on www.citrix.com, have had miniscule success searching on > > Google - found companies offering their services to registered clients > > basically. > > MS Licensing dictates this: any client connecting will use up a > connection licence for a minimum of 6 months (IIRC). To run in internet > connector mode costs $$$. So, any company giving you a demo will > probably want the cost of purchasing an additional per device cal from > MS. Well that's interesting... I guess I've found the odd few rich ones or they're breaking the license agreement. Basically an hour or so after posting I found more 'test servers' but I'm not about to go blabbing about them. We might end up setting up office at our client's site just to get the task done. That's a real pain though because Anthony finds it hard to escape the office for more than a couple of hours at a time. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/services We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Any test ICA/Citrix servers?
We have a need to test a thin client setup with a Citrix server for a client of ours. I was wondering if anybody knows of any internet accessable servers to test with, preferably free of charge. I can't seem to find any on www.citrix.com, have had miniscule success searching on Google - found companies offering their services to registered clients basically. Alternately, if anyone running Citrix out there would be prepared to setup a demo account and punch our IP through the firewall that'd be really nice we could possibly do a bit of barter ;-) FWIW we know the client software works, we just need to tidy up the config stuff and repeatedly reboot & test the connection, we don't care too much about what apps are there. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/services We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux only ADSL service now available
We're effectively a Layer 2 ADSL provider from my understanding of it. We're not subject to telstra outages baring individual line & exchange faults. On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Oscar Plameras wrote: > > Does your service support Layer2 ADSL ? > > Oscar Plameras > http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html > > From: "Grant Parnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I'm only mentioning this because people have asked about it in the past. > > Yesterday EverythingLinux put on it's first paying ADSL customer with > > no hitches. We used a Pulsar ADSL PCI card which has binary-only drivers > > for certification reasons. I think we were lucky with the Telstra side > > taking about a fortnight from memory. > > > > As mentioned before we'll only support Linux servers plugged into the > > ADSL. It's for businesses that are sick of being told "Oh sorry we don't > > support Linux" when contacting their provider for help. Basically we can > > now do full end-to-end support of the service (barring physical line > > faults). Another useful option is the backup dialup service with the same > > login, password and same fixed IP address. > > > > -- > > -- > > Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, > > Linux Guru, SLUG/AUUG/Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, > > BMX rider, Walker, Raver & rave music lover, Big kid that refuses > > grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! > > Do people actually read these things? > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/services We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] pppX device name problem
I've often been frustrated when dealing with multiple ppp interfaces
knowing which is which and have decided to investigate. The following
applies to RedHat systems but probably can be adapted to others easily
enough.
The DEVNAME in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 file is the
key.
This translates to "/sbin/pppd linkname DEVNAME ipparam DEVNAME"
the linkname results in a file /var/run/ppp-DEVNAME.pid which
conveniently contains the process id and on the next line the device
actually used eg:
12950
ppp1
According to the pppd man page these files may turn up in /etc/ppp on some
systems.
So in a firewall script or something if you're set DEVNAME to LINE1
LINE1_IF=`cat /var/run/ppp-LINE1.pid|grep ppp`
LINE1_IP=`/sbin/ifconfig $LINE1_IF | awk '{print $2}' | awk -F: '{print
$2}'`
Now also the ipparam bit on pppd boils down to the $6 parameter in the
/etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down scripts.
rp-pppoe also writes /var/run/pppoe-adsl.pid, pppoe-adsl.pid.pppd,
pppoe-adsl.pid.pppoe, pppoe-adsl.pid.start and of course the pppX.pid
device file.
Of course if somebody could explain to me why you can't specify the actual
interface name such that you can arbitrarily bring up a single interface
'ppp9' for example with /sbin/ifup ppp9 I'd love to know.
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[SLUG] Automated secretary anyone?
Below's just some thoughts I had last night inspired by the fact I can spend a day at the office being really busy but can't remember where the time's gone and often forget important stuff. Like a lot of small businesses we can't afford a secretary to keep us in line. Does anybody have a clue if there's something like this already? It's not exactly something I can easily think up a search for. Although I tried and found mostly Windows stuff that wasn't really close enough to what I had in mind. Automatic time tracker / secretary == Keeping tabs on you --- * pops up and asks what you're doing every 15 mins to which you give a one or two word response EG "phoning Tom" * if no response checks least idle terminal every half hour & sends message to it * if terminal idle for 2 hours but email gets sent, send an email * email says "what are you up to?" to which you reply with a short explanation * if it can't find you, when you're back it asks "what were you up to between xx and yy time?" * perhaps impliment a jabber bot * perhaps in future provide an SMS gateway Reminding you - * things scheduled for certain times & dates should pop up when due and/or when the reminder time is set. * Frequency of reminders based on how responsive you appear (eg, no point telling you something's on in 5 minutes if you're not listening). Summaries - * Should provide you a timesheet of what's happened each day which should be filled in & returned. * Should provide weekly & monthly timesheet/reports Ingredients --- SQL database for schedules & event logs A reminder daemon - lets you know what's on A contact daemon - keeps track of the best way to contact you and provides a communication channel for other programs A command processor - when info comes back from the contact daemon it must be interpreted either in the context of a reply or a new command. EG You should be able to send an email to the secretary with something like "Schedule meeting 9am with Tom" and it will know that since it's 10am at time of writing you mean the next working day and the meeting's at your office. If it doesen't understand it can email you some examples and ask for clarification. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/services We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] My MySQL mistake & how I recovered
# mysql mysql
> update user set password=('hello') where user='root';
> quit
# mysqladmin reload
# mysql mysql --password=hello
ERROR 1044: Access denied for user: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
to database 'mysql'
At this point I pondered and worked out I should have used
password=password('hello'). The prospect of finding a password that
encrypts to the word 'hello' was now rather daunting. I had to find
another approach... I believe there is a way to reset the root password
with a special command but for some reason I decided to be a bit more
creative.
# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
# cd /var/lib/mysql
# cp -a mysql/user.* test/
# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
# mysql test
> update user set password=password('hello') where user='root';
> quit
# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
# cp -a test/user.* mysql
# rm -f test/user.*
# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
# mysql mysql --password=hello
> select * from user;
Whew! success. This relies on the fact that by default, under RedHat at
least, there's a table called 'test' which everybody has access to without
a password. I suppose this is something to consider if you need a bit more
security. Some would argue "once you've got root what else is there?".
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Re: [SLUG] RPM spec building... HELP!
It's weird how it says there's nothing to do for certain directories.
You're not using NFS for any of these directories are you? Have a peek in
the resulting BUILDS directory stuff. Also /usr/src/pc/BUILD? WTF? has
somebody messed with the spec file?
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, James Dumay wrote:
> I keep getting this error when I build some rpms from spec (using m4 as
> an example).
>
> + /usr//lib/rpm/brp-strip
> + /usr//lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
> Processing files: m4-1.4-1
> PreReq: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
> Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
> rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
> Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr//lib/rpm/check-files %{buildroot}
> warning: Could not canonicalize hostname: gir
> Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/m4-1.4-1.src.rpm
> Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/m4-1.4-1.i386.rpm
> Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /usr/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30955
>
> also, the RPM's that are built are empty (excluding the .src.rpm's)
>
> anyone? Im using rpm-4.1
>
> here is a full build log and spec file used is attached
>
>
> gir donespec # rpmbuild -ba m4-1.4.spec
> Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /usr/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.10650
> + umask 022
> + cd /usr//src/redhat/BUILD
> + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
> + rm -rf m4-1.4
> + /bin/gzip -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/m4-1.4.tar.gz
> + tar -xf -
> + STATUS=0
> + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
> + cd m4-1.4
> + exit 0
> Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /usr/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.10650
> + umask 022
> + cd /usr//src/redhat/BUILD
> + cd m4-1.4
> + ./configure --prefix=/usr
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for mawk... no
> checking for gawk... gawk
> checking for gcc... gcc -s
> checking whether we are using GNU C... yes
> checking whether gcc -s accepts -g... yes
> checking for a BSD compatible install... /bin/install -c
> checking whether make sets $MAKE... yes
> checking for ranlib... ranlib
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -s -E
> checking for AIX... no
> checking for POSIXized ISC... no
> checking for minix/config.h... no
> checking for gcc -s option to accept ANSI C...
> checking for function prototypes... yes
> checking for working const... yes
> checking for limits.h... yes
> checking for memory.h... yes
> checking for siginfo.h... no
> checking for string.h... yes
> checking for unistd.h... yes
> checking whether cross-compiling... no
> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
> checking return type of signal handlers... void
> checking for size_t... yes
> checking for mkstemp... yes
> checking for sigaction... yes
> checking for sigaltstack... yes
> checking for sigstack... yes
> checking for sigvec... yes
> checking for strerror... yes
> checking for tmpfile... yes
> checking for working alloca.h... yes
> checking for alloca... yes
> checking for vprintf... yes
> checking for strtol... yes
> checking ecvt declaration... yes
> checking if stack overflow is detectable... yes
> checking if changeword is wanted... no
> checking if malloc debugging is wanted... no
> updating cache ./config.cache
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> creating doc/Makefile
> creating lib/Makefile
> creating src/Makefile
> creating checks/Makefile
> creating examples/Makefile
> creating config.h
> + make
> for subdir in doc lib src checks examples; do \
> echo making all in $subdir; \
> (cd $subdir && make CC='gcc -s' CFLAGS='-g -O' LDFLAGS='' LIBS=''
> prefix='/usr' exec_prefix='/usr' bindir='/usr/bin' infodir='/usr/info'
> all) || exit 1; \
> done
> making all in doc
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/pc/BUILD/m4-1.4/doc'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pc/BUILD/m4-1.4/doc'
> making all in lib
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/pc/BUILD/m4-1.4/lib'
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -g -O regex.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -g -O getopt.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -g -O getopt1.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -g -O error.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -g -O obstack.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -g -O xmalloc.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -g -O xstrdup.c
> rm -f libm4.a
> ar cru libm4.a regex.o getopt.o getopt1.o error.o obstack.o xmalloc.o
> xstrdup.o
> ranlib libm4.a
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/pc/BUILD/m4-1.4/lib'
> making all in src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/pc/BUILD/m4-1.4/src'
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O m4.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O builtin.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O debug.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O eval.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O format.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O freeze.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O input.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O macro.c
> gcc -s -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -I. -I./../lib -g -O output.c
>
Re: [SLUG] Cron + CD-R wierdness
In addition to Tony's excellent suggestion... It's possible for certain things to go haywire when there's no terminal attached. It might help if you do this in the crontab entry 0 19 * * 1-5 /etc/cdbackup /tmp/log 2>&1 This isn't guaranteed though. Another gotcha is the lack of environment variables you might be expecting (eg PATH, HOME). Setup a simple cron job that does 'set>/tmp/envstuff' and compare with the result of 'set' from your command prompt. On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Craig Mead wrote: > G'day, > > Explanation > > Got a cron job which runs @ 7pm every week night to backup folders in > /home/shares (smb shares). > When run manually (/etc/cdbackup) everything works fine, and the CD burns > with the right datestamps on the tar files. > > The cron job does run, cause theres an eject /cdrom line at the end of the > script, and the CD does eject itself. > > However when left to its own devices it doesn't appear that nothing gets > written to the CD, even tho the output off the screen is the same as when > executed manually. > > Related files for reference are below > > TIA. > > > --- start /etc/cdbackup dump --- > > #!/bin/bash > > DOCOMPRESS=YES > DOIMAGE=YES > DOBURN=YES > > clear > echo -e " COMMENCING DAILY BACKUP =\n\n" > > cd /home/shares > rm -f *.cd > rm -f *.tar > touch `date +%a-%d%m`.cd > > if [ $DOCOMPRESS = "YES" ] > then > echo -e "Compressing " > echo -e "Store1 Data" > tar czf store1.tar store1/ > echo -e " Finished\n" > fi > > if [ $DOIMAGE = "YES" ] > then > echo -e "Deleting previous nights CD Image File" > rm -f cdimage.raw > echo -e "Creating CD Image File" > mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw *.tar > fi > > if [ $DOBURN = "YES" ] > then > echo -e "Writing CD" > cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 blank=fast dev=0,0,0 cdimage.raw > wait > umount /cdrom > eject /cdrom > fi > > echo -e " Finished\n" > echo -e "Backup Completed" > backup.log > date >> backup.log > > echo -e "=\n\n" > cd - > > --- end /etc/cdbackup dump --- > > > --- start /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root --- > > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. > # (/tmp/crontab.81mSF5 installed on Wed Jul 9 14:36:22 2003) > # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) > 0 19 * * 1-5 /etc/cdbackup > > --- end /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root --- > > > -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/services We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Win4Lin & MYOB - is it really this bad?
Just out of curiousity, are you using the vnet setup or the other one? I think for this situation the Win4Lin would probably benefit from having it's own IP address. At least it's something to try to benchmark. A quirky alternative might be to smbmount the relevant directory on the server itself but I'm thinking this won't help since it's the Window's locking behaviour you're trying to trigger but you never know till you try. On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > Just wondering if anyone else has a major performance issue with running > Win4Lin Server edition (within that MYOB Premier Accounts). > > I'm accessing a samba network drive from within the copy of win4lin so > that the MYOB data can be shared across a company. This works OK for > Win98 clients accessing the data, speed is OK. From Win4Lin, it sucks. > Performance is about 1/5 the speed or worse. > > Accessing MYOB data directly from Win4Lin to file on same Linux Box is as > fast as I could expect. Unfortunately, this will not allow the MYOB data file to be > shared with the other users. Only accessing via MS Networking will allow this and > that slows it down big time. > > I've also emailed support @ Netraverse but so far (ie 3 days ago) no response. > > As an alternative, has anyone tried crossover office with MYOB in Network 'file > share' mode? > > > Stu > > > > > -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/services We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] LDAP service startup problem
I've got a client who's got a SuSE server and basically the slapd daemon is running, no problems reported in the logs yet it is not listening on port 389. Has anyone had a similar problem on any platform or version of Linux? In this case the relevant errata for the SuSE product has been applied but it didn't change the outcome. Starting manually with /usr/lib/openldap/slapd -d 255 -h ldap://192.168.10.10 produces a lot of info, here's the relevant bit:- @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.1.4 (Mon Mar 24 14:47:47 UTC 2003) $ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/packages/BUILD/openldap-2.1.4/servers/slapd daemon_init: ldap:///192.168.10.10:389/ daemon_init: listen on ldap:///192.168.10.10:389/ daemon_init: 1 listeners to open... ldap_url_parse_ext(ldap:///192.168.10.10:389/) daemon: initialized ldap:///192.168.10.10:389/ daemon_init: 1 listeners opened slapd init: initiated server. slap_sasl_init: initialized! bdb_open: initialize BDB backend bdb_open: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.0.14: (October 16, 2002) reading config file /etc/openldap/slapd.conf It then goes on to parse the config file & do database stuff & so forth, I'm not sure I should be giving out all that info but it ends with:- slapd startup: initiated. bdb_db_open: dc=in,dc=artedomus,dc=com bdb_db_open: dbenv_open(/var/lib/ldap) Of course since I stared it in debug mode I had to kill it off from another terminal with a kill -9. -- -- Grant Parnell - senior consultant EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup & tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/services We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au. Phone 02 8752 6622 to book service or discuss your needs. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
