Re: [SLUG] Linux video editors - any good ?
Hi Rod, Give a try to cinelerra. -- Rodolfo Martínez On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Rod Butcher rbutc...@hyenainternet.com wrote: I need to edit and format videos for uploading to UTube, on Linux, preferably using a free program (no budget !). I last tried this on Linux a few years ago and encountered so many bugs and limitations with Kino, Kdenlive and LIVES that I gave up and used a cheap proprietary Windows program. Is there any fully-usable free Linux editor yet ? thanks Rod -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Finding modules..
You can try to get the information from the sysfs.
[rmtzcx@armtzcx01 ~]$ ls -l /sys/class/net/{eth0,wlan0}/device/driver
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 14 19:54
/sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver - ../../../bus/pci/drivers/e1000e
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 14 19:02
/sys/class/net/wlan0/device/driver -
../../../../bus/pci/drivers/iwlagn
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 6:25 PM, DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Tony Sceats tony.sce...@gmail.com wrote:
I know you found the answer already but ethtool -i interface can also
work and is very simple
Just thought I'd throw that in :)
[root@dev-app01 ~]# ethtool -i seth0
Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported
[root@dev-app01 ~]#
:-)
DaZZa (stupid bloody Microsoft!)
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Re: [SLUG] sudo configuration question
Hi Jeff, Add this configuration to the sudores file, replace foo by the name of the account of the external users. Runas_Alias DB = oracle foo ALL = (DB) ALL -- Rodolfo On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Jeff Allison jeff.alli...@allygray.2y.net wrote: I've obviously missed something simple here, but how do you configure sudo to allow a user to open a shell as another user? ie sudo -s -u oracle I need to allow two external users access to the oracle account to set up a system but I don't want to tell them the password or change it as it's NIS... anyideas??? TIA -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] librt.so
It is not in the source package of glibc, it is in the -devel package. [rmt...@armtzcx01 ~]$ sudo yum provides --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=update \*/librt.so ... glibc-devel-2.5-49.el5_5.6.x86_64 : Object files for development using standard C libraries. Repo: updates Matched from: Filename: /usr/lib64/librt.so ... -- Rodolfo On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Jim Donovan j...@aptnsw.org.au wrote: All, Where can I find source of this shared object, please? I can not see it in the source RPM of glibc nor does Google have anything to say about it. If you compile something thus: gcc -o xyz xyz.c -lrt you invoke it. I need some way of setting the RTC on an ARM9 system which seems to rely on uclibc however that is a severely cut-down version of glibc. Jim Donovan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to get TightVNC to display remote desktop
Hi Richard, * Make sure VNC server is running in the remote host. * Find out on what port the VNC server is listening for incomming connections. You could find it out with netstat -ltnp. It will usually be listening in some port between 5900 - 5950. * Did you already set you VNC password in the remote server? * Make sure you can reach the listening port from your local computer. If you cannot reach it, maybe the port is blocked by a local firewall in the remote server or in your local computer (or in any other firewall between the computers), Type iptables-save or iptables -L in the remote server to see firewall rules. Anyway, if you have SSH access, you can use VNC over SSH (port forwarding). If you're trying from a *NIX box, login on the server as follow: ssh -L 59XX:localhost:59XX u...@remote_host Where 59XX is the listening port in the remote server, USER is your user account in the remote server, and REMOTE is the host name or ip of the remote server. If you are using PuTTY, forward the port using the Connection = SSH = Tunnels option in the left menu. Then try to connect with your VNC viewer to localhost:XX. Again, XX is the last 2 numbers of the listening port (if the listening port is between 5900 -5909, only use the last digit (0-9)). Rodolfo Martínez On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Richard Hayes n...@nada.com.au wrote: Dear list, I have installed TightVNC and desktop on a Slicehost using Ubuntu 10.4. I can SSH into the server but I can not get the login through VNC What I have I failed to setup? regards, Richard Hayes 0414 618 425 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debian Lenny HAL Config
Hi Chris, I am glad I could help. How do you remove the device? Do you unmount it and then physically remove it? or just physically remove it? If you only remove it, how would the OS know that you were going to remove it? You have to unmount it first, specially if you wrote or deleted files/dirs. Regards -- Rodolfo Martínez -- 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] Debian Lenny HAL Config
Hi Chris,
As with almost any other software, developers will ask you to test the
latest version. I think HAL reads the gconf configuration correctly
since 5.14. Anyway, don't spend too much time with HAL; it is
deprecated.
udev is a device manager. It creates the files (device nodes) in the
/dev/ directory and doesn't care what you do with the device. For
example, it creates the /dev/sdb* devices and that's it. With udev you
can setup the permission for the *device node*, but you cannot specify
how to mount the device.
hal is intermediate/extra layer between the physical devices (/dev/*)
and the applications that allows the applications to use the hardware
without knowing anything about the physical device.
This is how I would achieve what you want to do:
1. Create a udev rule to rename the block device.
2. Specify the mount options in the /etc/fstab using the new device name.
1. The udev rule:
Create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb.rules with the following lines:
KERNEL==sd?, BUS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==0220787042A168B4, NAME=toshiba
KERNEL==sd?1, BUS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==0220787042A168B4, NAME=toshiba1
2. The mount options:
Add the following line to the /etc/fstab file
/dev/toshiba1 /mnt/toshiba1 vfat
defaults,user,noauto,uid=1000,gid=1004,noatime 0 0
and create the directory /mnt/thoshiba1
From now on, it doesn't matter who mounts the device, it will be
mounted under /mnt/toshiba1 with the desired options.
BTW, what/why is there a difference between SUBSYSTEM and SUBSYSTEMS?
SUBSYSTEMS is plural :P
Not sure, I have never used SUBSYSTEMS.
[rmt...@amartir01 ~]$ grep SUBSYSTEMS /etc/udev/rules.d/*
[rmt...@amartir01 ~]$
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Re: [SLUG] Debian Lenny HAL Config
Hi Chris, The line should be: append key=volume.mount.valid_options type=strlistgid=/append Note the '=' after 'gid'. The '=' means that HAL accept any value for that key. And the gconf mount options should include 'gid=1004'. On a related but different topic, how do I force hal to always mount the usb card as me (chris). I am not the only user on the console, I have to play round robin and a game of chance for the card to be mounted under my uid. The only solution for this is to specify the mount options (uid, gid, etc.) in /etc/fstab. HAL will search for an entry that matches the device that will be mounted, if none matches, it will mount the device using the default values/options. The default is to mount the device on behalf of the user that invoked the mount petition. The problem is that the device block won't be always the same, it could be /dev/sdc1, /dev/sdd1 and so on, but this can be easy addressed with a udev rule, let me know if you need help with this. BTW, what version of HAL are you using? -- Rodolfo Martínez -- 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] Debian Lenny HAL Config
Hi Chris, The Changing default mount options section at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/hal.html may help. -- Rodolfo Martínez On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Chris Perry chris42pe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have used Debian for over a decade and can work most things out. But I have a problem. I use a usb memory card to take a rsync backup of my most important files every day. This used to work perfectly. I recently upgraded from etch to lenny. After ironing out some wrinkles I am left with one insoluble problem: The usb memory card is always auto mounted with group ownership of root at the mount point. This stops me from refreshing the cards contents. In etch ownership after auomount would be chris:perry This is as expected and worked fine. In lenny ownership after automount is chris:root This is the problem. My primary group is still perry, btw. I have googled and searched far and wide, I cannot find posts that describe adequately how hal and then udev get themselves sorted and apply some action to perform the mount. I cannot work out where the action is defined in the system config. I cannot work anything out, I've not been so stumped in a long time. I have determined the following work-around to use after automount has completed: umount /media/TOSHIBA mkdir /media/TOSHIBA mount -t vfat -o rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=1000,gid=1004 /dev/sdc1 /media/TOSHIBA I am not able to determine the output of mount for the same device in etch. My backup etch partition has passed on. If someone can point me at the right doco, or desribe how this works, I would appreciate it. Thanks and regards, Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync
Hi James,
Since remote root logins are not allowed, maybe you could consider to
backup the system to an external storage device. I have attached a
mini-howto. I hope you find it useful.
MINI-HOWTO backup data in a encrypted storage device
Author: Rodolfo Martinez rmt...@gmail.com
Objectives
--
* File system backups to an external storage device.
* The storage device has to be encrypted.
* Incremental backups.
* 7-day retention period.
Hardware requirements
-
* An external storage device, like a USB hard drive. The size will depend on
how much information you want to backup and the retention period.
Software requirements
-
* bash
* rsync
* cryptsetup-luks
http://clemens.endorphin.org/
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
A utility for setting up encrypted filesystems using Device Mapper and the
dm-crypt target. cryptsetup is usually part of any modern GNU/Linux
distribution.
Limitations
---
* For certain applications, like data bases, or any other application that
has its own cache handler (DIRECT_O), a file system backup is NOT an option.
Initialize the storage device with LUKS support
---
I will assume that your external storage device was recognised as /dev/sdb. Of
course you can configure udev to have the same device name always; for
example, /dev/backup.
IMPORTANT: Use a good password, you know what I mean, something like,
Mt9%I?!RnXE1_lL9O41j
NOTE: You can specify a specific cipher using the -c option; for example,
-c aes-cbc-essiv:sha256
cryptsetup -y -h sha512 -s 256 luksFormat /dev/sdb
Open the external storage device
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb encrypted
You will need to type the password that you used in the previous step.
Now, there should be a encrypted block device in the /dev/mapper directory.
Format the encrypted device
---
You can format your encrypted device with any file system format. I will use
ext3.
mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/encrypted
Mount the encrypted device
--
You can use any mount point for your encrypted device. I will use /mnt/encrypted
mkdir /mnt/encrypted
mount /dev/mapper/encrypted /mnt/encrypted
Unmount and close the encrypted device
---
umount /mnt/encrypted
cryptsetup luksClose encrypted
NOTE: Make sure the encrypted device in the /dev/mapper directory is gone.
Automate the backups
Save the script below in /root/bin/backup.sh and schedule a daily cron job. Set
the proper permissions and ownership to the script
chown -R root:root /root/bin
chmod 700 /root/bin
chmod 700 /root/bin/backup.sh
chattr +i /root/bin/backup.sh
NOTE: If you don't want to have the password embedded in the script, then you
will have to run the backups manually and type the password.
IMPORTANT: Make sure someone else knows the password in case you die.
#!/bin/bash
ECHO=/bin/echo;
CRYPTSETUP=/sbin/cryptsetup;
DEV=/dev/vgroot/lvtgtd;
MOUNT=/bin/mount;
UMOUNT=/bin/umount;
RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync;
SYNC=/bin/sync;
DATE=/bin/date;
function lastBackup() {
typeset -i lastBackup=$($DATE +%u)-1;
[ $lastBackup -eq 0 ] lastBackup=7;
$ECHO $lastBackup;
}
# Open the encrypted device
$ECHO 'Mt9%I?!RnXE1_lL9O41j' | $CRYPTSETUP luksOpen $DEV encrypted;
# Mount the encrypted device
$MOUNT /dev/mapper/encrypted /mnt/encrypted;
# Backup
$RSYNC --archive \
--partial \
--delete \
--delete-excluded \
--exclude=*~ \
--exclude=/dev \
--exclude=/media \
--exclude=/misc \
--exclude=/mnt \
--exclude=/proc \
--exclude=/sys \
--exclude=/tmp \
--exclude=/var/cache \
--exclude=/var/spool \
--exclude=/vat/tmp \
--link-dest=../$(lastBackup) \
/ \
/mnt/encrypted/$($DATE +%u);
# Sync before unmouting
$SYNC;
# Unmount the encrypted device
$UMOUNT /mnt/encrypted;
# Remove the encrypted device
$CRYPTSETUP luksClose encrypted;
Rodolfo Martínez
Socio director
Aleux Mexico
www.aleux.com
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:24 PM, James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote:
Hi All,
I've googled this one for a while and can't find any examples of people doing
*system* file sync with rsync. So I thought I'd throw it out to the
collective wisdom of SLUG. Here's the full story.
We have a SuSE-based production application/DB server pair and a
corresponding pair in a disaster recovery location (offsite, bandwidth
consumption needs to be minimised). We need to sync a number of files
between these servers and some require elevated (root) privileges at *both*
ends. Here lies the problem; we don't allow remote root logins (via SSH or
any other method either...sudo, console or nadda).
I want to use rsync because of it's ability
Re: [SLUG] shopping carts?
Hi, Have you tried osCommerce? http://www.oscommerce.com/ Regards Rodolfo Martínez Dirección de Proyectos Aleux México | http://www.aleux.com On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Dini des...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Hi, I'm going to run a shopping cart on my web site. Is there an Open Source Shopping Cart that is idoit friendly and is ok for Au banks? thanks. D Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. desinQ __ Yahoo!7: Catch-up on your favourite Channel 7 TV shows easily, legally, and for free at PLUS7. www.tv.yahoo.com.au/plus7 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] debugging dns resolution issues with RES_OPTIONS=debug
Hi Ben, You can debug most (all?) of the DNS client resolution issues with dig. You can test all the DNS client features, from a simple query to a full transfer zone. Regards Rodolfo Martínez Dirección de Proyectos Aleux México | http://www.aleux.com On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Ben Burke ben.bu...@internode.on.net wrote: Hello, This is my first post to slug - hopefully I've understood protocol from reading the list for a month or so. In the past, I've diagnosed dns client resolution issues using options debug in resolv.conf or setting the RES_OPTIONS environment variable as follows... export RES_OPTIONS=debug r...@aixbox:/ mailto:r...@toranim1:/ ping smh.com.au http://smh.com.au ;; res_setoptions(debug, env).. ;; debug ;; calling process id = 614598 ;; res_nquerydomain(smh.com.au http://smh.com.au, Nil, 1, 1) ;; res_query(smh.com.au http://smh.com.au, 1, 1) ;; res_nmkquery(QUERY, smh.com.au http://smh.com.au, IN, A) ;; res_send() ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 467 ;; flags: rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; smh.com.au http://smh.com.au, type = A, class = IN ;; Querying server (# 1) address = 10.201.4.8 ;; got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 467 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; smh.com.au http://smh.com.au, type = A, class = IN smh.com.au http://smh.com.au. 1m12s IN A 203.26.51.71 PING smh.com.au http://smh.com.au (203.26.51.71): 56 data bytes --- smh.com.au http://smh.com.au ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss This has provided a means of tracing dns resolution issues, which has proved to be valuable for me on many occasions - the environments have been AIX, Solaris and Tru64 I use and manage two linux distros - Ubuntu 9.04 and sUSE 11.1. Both these distros document the options debug in the man page for resolv.conf However, neither Ubuntu or sUSE yield any dns client trace where I'd expect them too. b...@sam:~$ uname -a Linux sam 2.6.28-17-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 1 18:57:07 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux b...@sam:~$ export RES_OPTIONS=debug b...@sam:~$ ping www.smh.com.au PING a1040.b.akamai.net (150.101.195.89) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 150.101.195.89: icmp_seq=1 ttl=61 time=30.9 ms Many moons ago, when I first read about options debug, I recall that gethostbyname could be built with or without various RES_OPTIONS. So, my questions are: 1) Is this the expected behaviour on various Linux distros or am I missing something? 2) Can anyone advise how to enable the debug capabilities in gethostbyname? Thanks in advance, Ben Burke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ldd report from rkhunter
Hi Alan, You can find what package provides the ldd program, and then verify the integrity of the package. If it really changed I think you should look for any suspicious activity in your server. I think you can find the package with dpkg -S $(which ldd) and you can check its integrity with debsum. ldd shouldn't change, unless you have updated your system. Rodolfo Martínez Dirección de Proyectos Aleux México | http://www.aleux.com On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au wrote: Dear SLUGGERS, I just got this report from rkhunter on my machine: Warning: The file properties have changed: File: /usr/bin/ldd Current inode: 331476 Stored inode: 17196 Current file modification time: 1263451668 Stored file modification time : 1231069314 I see that ldd prints the shared libraries required by each program, but I don't understand why it should have been changed or if I should be worried about it. I ran chkrootkit and it showed no warnings. System is Debian Lenny amd64. What does it all mean? Thanks for help. Alan -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Ldd report from rkhunter - Update
Hi Matt, rkhunter creates a database (MD5SUM's) of some files, if they change for any reason, like a system upgrade/update, it will complain about it. rkhunter should be run again to get the new MD5SUM's. This applies for any Host Intruder Detection System (HIDS) (i.e. tripwire, AIDE, etc...). Anyway, this reminded me of an interesting article on ldd I read the other day: I did read that article too, but who runs ldd as root? :P Rodolfo Martínez Dirección de Proyectos Aleux México | http://www.aleux.com 2010/1/21 Matthew Hannigan m...@zip.com.au: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:20:46AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:54:01 -0600 Rodolfo Martínez rmt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan, You can find what package provides the ldd program, and then verify the integrity of the package. If it really changed I think you should look for any suspicious activity in your server. I think you can find the package with dpkg -S $(which ldd) and you can check its integrity with debsum. ldd shouldn't change, unless you have updated your system. Just checking the Debian Security site ( http://www.debian.org/security/) I see that it was updated for the amd64 architecture. Thanks for the lesson on how to check out this sort of thing. Cheers, Alan So everything looks fine. I wonder why rkhunter complained. Doesn't coordinate with the packaging system? Anyway, this reminded me of an interesting article on ldd I read the other day: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution/ Fun Matt -- 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] Desktop publishing
Hi Heracles, Maybe Scribus (http://www.scribus.net) is a better option than OpenOffice. I haven't used it, but I have heard it is good and stable, and it is available for most of the Linux distributions (and other platforms). Have a nice day. Rodolfo Martínez Dirección de Proyectos | www.aleux.com | MSN: rodolfo.marti...@aleux.com On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I've recently taken back the job of creating the monthly magazine for a computer club I have been a member of since 1982. The person who gave me a couple of years rest used windows and word so I will have to recreate the templates from scratch probably. The magazine is 24 pages for which the format is fairly fixed. Page 1 is a cover with graphics and some text, Page 2 has an index (which obviously changes monthly) and other fixed text and page 24 is basically fixed with only a small part (Dates) of its text changing monthly. Pages 3 to 23 (where all the new content is placed) are set up as 2 columns with a footer but no header. I used to use Open Office and made it in four parts which I combined and created a pdf for the printer when I did it in the past but I was wondering if there might be a simpler way to set up a template for the whole magazine as one unit and just make the minor changes and drop in the new body text each month. Any recommendation would be appreciated. Heracles -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktOiK4ACgkQybPcBAs9CE85PACfafQ5gf7aoUHM6l1XVhoaLgeW oRUAnAyuf0bC8R6tRkj530irBDBfw6Ri =mOlx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Brasero || K3B || growisofs creating coasters :(
Hi David, Try adding these options to growisofs growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=brasero.iso -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-compat -speed=2 -overburn They probably fix your issue. Rodolfo Martínez On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:20 AM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: further to this increasingly annoying and boring conversation :( If I create an ISO, I can loop-mount it and read the entire contents. The last three files are still showing up in the DVD directory but are unreadable after burning the ISO using this command: $ growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/scd0=brasero.iso Maybe it's time to invest in a new pack of DVD's or a new burner or two. I was kinda hoping that the problem was me doing something inane. david wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: david == david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: david Ben Donohue wrote: Could it be the file size too large or the path limit being reached? what about burning a single small size file. david File size doesn't seem to matter. It seems to be a case of the david last files written fail - almost as if anything past 1 GB david doesn't work (the total usage is 1.2G) There is a known growisofs bug wherein it reports an error but exits with zero exit code, which could fool the GUI into thinking there's no problem when there has been one. Try using growisofs directly so you can see what's going on. using this command: growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/scd0 /path/to/files/ I get this output: Executing 'genisoimage DVD/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0' I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) 0.90% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 1.79% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 2.68% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 /dev/scd0: Current Write Speed is 4.1x1352KBps. 3.58% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:22:18 2009 snip 99.28% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:18:55 2009 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total directory bytes: 4242 Path table size(bytes): 38 Max brk space used 0 559041 extents written (1091 MB) builtin_dd: 559056*2KB out @ average 3.8x1352KBps /dev/scd0: flushing cache /dev/scd0: updating RMA /dev/scd0: closing disc No error messages that I can see there. When I do ls -l /cdrom/ all the files seem to be present and correct, but I can't copy or read the last three (large) files. The DVD's are LG brand and the burner is also LG brand! That may not mean anything I suppose. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Brasero || K3B || growisofs creating coasters :(
Sorry David, I had a similar problem and I fixed using a slower speed and the -overburn -use-the-force-luke=dao options Rodolfo Martínez 2009/12/4 david da...@kenpro.com.au: Rodolfo Martínez wrote: Hi David, Try adding these options to growisofs growisofs -Z /dev/scd0=brasero.iso -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-compat -speed=2 -overburn They probably fix your issue. Yet another coaster for my collection! thanks for the thought though. David. Rodolfo Martínez On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:20 AM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: further to this increasingly annoying and boring conversation :( If I create an ISO, I can loop-mount it and read the entire contents. The last three files are still showing up in the DVD directory but are unreadable after burning the ISO using this command: $ growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/scd0=brasero.iso Maybe it's time to invest in a new pack of DVD's or a new burner or two. I was kinda hoping that the problem was me doing something inane. david wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: david == david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: david Ben Donohue wrote: Could it be the file size too large or the path limit being reached? what about burning a single small size file. david File size doesn't seem to matter. It seems to be a case of the david last files written fail - almost as if anything past 1 GB david doesn't work (the total usage is 1.2G) There is a known growisofs bug wherein it reports an error but exits with zero exit code, which could fool the GUI into thinking there's no problem when there has been one. Try using growisofs directly so you can see what's going on. using this command: growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=1 -Z /dev/scd0 /path/to/files/ I get this output: Executing 'genisoimage DVD/ | builtin_dd of=/dev/scd0 obs=32k seek=0' I: -input-charset not specified, using utf-8 (detected in locale settings) 0.90% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 1.79% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 2.68% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:15:19 2009 /dev/scd0: Current Write Speed is 4.1x1352KBps. 3.58% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:22:18 2009 snip 99.28% done, estimate finish Fri Dec 4 17:18:55 2009 Total translation table size: 0 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0 Total directory bytes: 4242 Path table size(bytes): 38 Max brk space used 0 559041 extents written (1091 MB) builtin_dd: 559056*2KB out @ average 3.8x1352KBps /dev/scd0: flushing cache /dev/scd0: updating RMA /dev/scd0: closing disc No error messages that I can see there. When I do ls -l /cdrom/ all the files seem to be present and correct, but I can't copy or read the last three (large) files. The DVD's are LG brand and the burner is also LG brand! That may not mean anything I suppose. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Weird Word docs
Hi Peter, You can try catdoc instead of strings, you will get a nicer output. catdoc will try to recognise tables and give some format. unoconv seems to be a good option to convert doc[x] documents to some other format, but I think you will need more than 1 GB after installation since it pulls a lot of packages. How do you read .docx documents without OOo? Or you install OOo libraries and convert the document to other format? Rodolfo Martínez On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Peter Chubb pet...@gelato.unsw.edu.au wrote: Hi, Every now and then I get sent a Word document that I can't just ignore, or ask the sender to resend as plain text or PDF or something. Most of the time wvMime can translate the doc so I can read it and convert to LaTeX or something sensible. /usr/bin/strings doesa a reasonable job where formatting isn't important. Sometimes however, I get sent documents (usually full of tables) that purport to be in portrait orientation, but are actually Landscape --- wvMime (and abiWord on my one box with Gnome on it) attempt to display the doc on a portrait oriented a4 page, with all the text truncated at the right margin. How do other people deal with these weird documents? Is there an easy way to view or convert them (NOT using Gnome or OpenOffice or other heavyweight GUI tools)? -- Dr Peter Chubb www.nicta.com.au peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia From Imagination to Impact Imagining the (ICT) Future -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help
'while' continues until read fails, there is a 3rd 'read' (when it
fails) that clears 'f'
[mar...@amartir01 ~]$ set -x ; echo -n foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{
print $1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f ; done ; echo f=$f
+ set -x
+ awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }'
+ read s == First read
+ echo -n 'foo|bar'
+ f=foo
+ echo f=foo
f=foo
+ read s== Second read
+ f=bar
+ echo f=bar
f=bar
+ read s == Third read, the one that clears 'f'
+ echo f=
f=
++ echo -ne '\033]0;mar...@amartir01:~'
Rodolfo Martínez
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Writing a little utility to help me on something but having trouble.
Why does f stay blank?
d...@lin4:test$ echo foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }' | while
read s; do echo $s; f=$s; done; echo '$f'
foo
bar
''
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Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help
Yes, but the last instruction is doing f=$s
About the sub-shelling stuff... in this case that is not why 'f' is blank
The 'while' is executed in the same shell
[mar...@amartir01 ~]$ echo $$ ; echo -n foo|bar | awk
'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f ;
echo $$ ; done ; echo f=$f
5997 == Same shell
f=foo
5997 == Same shell
f=bar
5997 == Same shell
f=
If it was the reason, it could be fixed by exporting 'f' before the pipe
[mar...@amartir01 ~]$ export f= ; echo -n foo|bar | awk
'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f ;
done ; echo f=$f
f=foo
f=bar
f=
Regards
Rodolfo Martínez
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/19 Rodolfo Martínez rmt...@gmail.com:
'while' continues until read fails, there is a 3rd 'read' (when it
fails) that clears 'f'
[mar...@amartir01 ~]$ set -x ; echo -n foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{
print $1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f ; done ; echo f=$f
+ set -x
+ awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }'
+ read s == First read
+ echo -n 'foo|bar'
+ f=foo
+ echo f=foo
f=foo
+ read s == Second read
+ f=bar
+ echo f=bar
f=bar
+ read s == Third read, the one that clears 'f'
+ echo f=
f=
++ echo -ne '\033]0;mar...@amartir01:~'
Yep, however, he is concerned with the variable 'f' being blank, not 's'.
- Gonzalo
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Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help
Right, but f should be set to 'bar' since it won't go into the while
loop after the 2nd read (as it's a non true value). Well, it won't be
set to 'bar' in the OP's script because of the subshell.
TOTALLY agree with you, nice to have a good bash talk :)
BTW, exporting 'f' before the pipe, doesn't fix the issue either, it
makes the variable available to sub-shells, but the value is not
changed in the parent shell.
Rodolfo Martínez
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/9/19 Rodolfo Martínez rmt...@gmail.com:
Yes, but the last instruction is doing f=$s
About the sub-shelling stuff... in this case that is not why 'f' is blank
The 'while' is executed in the same shell
[mar...@amartir01 ~]$ echo $$ ; echo -n foo|bar | awk
'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f ;
echo $$ ; done ; echo f=$f
5997 == Same shell
f=foo
5997 == Same shell
f=bar
5997 == Same shell
f=
I believe $$ gives the pid of the parent pid. Quoting:
Within a script, inside a subshell, $$ returns the PID of the script,
not the subshell.
You could replace $$ with $BASH_SUBSHELL (boolean indicating if you're
in a subshell). Output:
$ echo $BASH_SUBSHELL ; echo -n foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print
$1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f; echo $BASH_SUBSHELL;
done; echo f=$f
0
f=foo
1
f=bar
1
f=
- Gonzalo
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Re: [SLUG] NIS problem - non-existent map
Hi Nigel, Add this line to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file in the client: shadow:files [NOTFOUND=return] The client will only look at the local shadow file, if the entry is not there, it will stop searching for it. Rodolfo Martínez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Sonia Hamiltonso...@snowfrog.net wrote: Nigel Allen wrote: Hi Running Centos 4 with one machine as YP server (ypserv 2.8) and one as a yp client. In the messages log of the server I constantly see messages like this: Aug 12 12:28:46 sydsrv12 ypserv[20413]: refused connect from 192.168.0.56:38230 to procedure ypproc_match (jgc,shadow.byname;-1) Aug 12 12:29:14 sydsrv12 ypserv[20413]: refused connect from 192.168.0.56:38230 to procedure ypproc_match (jgc,shadow.byname;-1) Aug 12 12:29:22 sydsrv12 ypserv[20413]: refused connect from 192.168.0.56:38230 to procedure ypproc_match (jgc,shadow.byname;-1) Aug 12 12:30:13 sydsrv12 ypserv[20413]: refused connect from 192.168.0.56:38230 to procedure ypproc_match (jgc,shadow.byname;-1) sydsrv56 is the client btw. How can I find what program is trying to access the shadow.byname map? I suspect (from the frequency) that it dovecot may be the culprit The server does not have that map and on the client there is no mention of shadow in the nsswitch.conf - all commented out. Any clues please? touch the file shadow.byname and use lsof + grep in a loop in a shell script? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] iptables error msg
Hi Adam, You are using an undefined variable on the lines below - ## FROM INTRANET ## $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ALL -i $INTERNAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -o $INTERNAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT - INTERNAL_DEVICE variable is not defined, it is commented at the beginning of the script #INTERNAL_DEVICE=eth1 # device for Intranet Rodolfo Martínez On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Adam Bogackia...@paradise.net.nz wrote: Hi, I keep getting Setting up IPtables rules Using intrapositioned negation (`--option ! this`) is deprecated in favor of extrapositioned (`! --option this`). Bad argument `ACCEPT' Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. Bad argument `ACCEPT' Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information. .. but 'ACCEPT' appears in many places in iptables. What would it be referring to ? I have attached my version of iptables (courtesy of Ekiga). Adam. #!/bin/sh echo Setting up IPtables rules IPTABLES=/sbin/iptables # where iptables binary lies # Setting up Forwarding echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # Setting up Dynamic IP for diald/masquerading echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr # Increase the binding time echo 3600 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_udp_timeout # Setting up IP spoofing protection if [ -e /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter ] then for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter do echo 1 $f done fi # Devices LOCAL_DEVICE=lo # device for localhost EXTERNAL_DEVICE=eth0 # device for Internet #INTERNAL_DEVICE=eth1 # device for Intranet HALFTRUST_NETS=192.168.1.0/8 KEEPSTATE=-m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED # Flush all Rules $IPTABLES -F $IPTABLES -X $IPTABLES -t nat -F $IPTABLES -t nat -X $IPTABLES -t mangle -F $IPTABLES -t mangle -X # Deny all by default $IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP $IPTABLES -P OUTPUT DROP $IPTABLES -P FORWARD ACCEPT $IPTABLES -N ALLOW_PORTS $IPTABLES -F ALLOW_PORTS ## TCP and UDP ports ## TCP_PORTS= for PORT in $TCP_PORTS; do $IPTABLES -A ALLOW_PORTS -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport $PORT -j ACCEPT done UDP_PORTS= for PORT in $UDP_PORTS; do $IPTABLES -A ALLOW_PORTS -m state --state NEW -p udp --dport $PORT -j ACCEPT done ## MASQUERADE ## $IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -d ! 192.168.1.0/24 -o $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -j MASQUERADE ## LOCALHOST ## $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ALL -i $LOCAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -o $LOCAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A FORWARD -p ALL -i $LOCAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT ## FROM INTRANET ## $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ALL -i $INTERNAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ALL -o $INTERNAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT ## ICMP ## $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ICMP -i $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ICMP -o $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p ICMP -s $HALFTRUST_NETS -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -p ICMP -d $HALFTRUST_NETS -j ACCEPT ## ALLOWED PORTS ## $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -s 0.0.0.0/0 -j ALLOW_PORTS ## ESTABLISHED MODE ## $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -o $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -p TCP $KEEPSTATE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -p TCP $KEEPSTATE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -o $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -p UDP $KEEPSTATE -j ACCEPT $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -p UDP $KEEPSTATE -j ACCEPT ## OUTPUT ## $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -o $EXTERNAL_DEVICE -p ALL -j ACCEPT -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
