[SLUG] OT: Mac OSX upgrade and general housekeeping

[Voytek]

I was asked to help with 'no space on startup disk' issue, only to discover 
it's a Mac, I have no experience with Mac,

df showed 100% utilization on built in 500gb hard drive, 
I've transferred some user data to external drive, now have 97% 

What's a minimum hard disk free space one should maintain on a Mac?

This runs OSX 10 7 5,  to upgrade to Yosemite, is it just 'click and watch'? 
How much free space should I make before attempting upgrade?

Are there any good housekeeping utilities to use, going through some apps, I've 
found a photo app with over 1 gb of deleted photos.
(something like ccleaner ?) Any hard disk area to check for junk, like temp in 
windoze?

Thanks for any pointers

 Voytek
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Re: [SLUG] Mac Air advice

[Voytek]

On 24 March 2015 6:11:47 pm AEDT, Jeremy Visser  wrote:

Jeremy, Rachel, 
thanks for the info.

>after-the-fact because it is soldered to the motherboard

Thanks for pointing this out.

Is there any advantage in getting Apple optical drive over a third party 
optical drive?

>I had a choice between an Intel i5 or i7 when I bought mine, but I feel
>the i7 was a waste because the laptop overheats when doing anything
>CPU-intensive like encoding video, so the extra CPU grunt is not worth
>it in my opinion.
>
>But then again, you can't upgrade after-the-fact, so if you can afford
>the optional extra, go for it.
>
>Put it this way: I don't regret spending the extra money on the i7 even
>though I don't need it.  But I do massively regret not spending the
>extra money on the RAM because now it is too late.

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[SLUG] Mac Air advice

[Voytek]

Someone had asked me for Mac Air advice, know nothing about Mac, looking on 
Apple site, only choices I see is faster CPU, more RAM, more storage.

more RAM and more storage, yes, is it worthwhile for a faster CUP?

Can Photoshop be used on Air?
Anything else to get?

Thanks,
Voytek
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[SLUG] Sorry, the user's maildir has overdrawn hisdiskspace quota, please try again later

[Voytek]

I have Postfix/Dovecot with virtual domains, same setup unaltered since
server was set up quite a while ago on a vm

last month, added a new virtual domain, 'just like before'.

but, today noticed this in the queue/log 'overdrawn his diskspace quota'[1]:

user's Maildir cur has like 48,762,696 bytes (lot less than other users)

tried some searches, found similar probs, but, no solution as yet

any ideas ?

after physically removing some emails from this user's 'cur', I re-queued
'stuck' message, it was then accepted

# quota -g vmail
# quota -u vmail
#

[1]
# grep 719855FC42 /var/log/maillog

Mar 3 15:20:58 emu postfix/smtpd[18535]: 719855FC42:
client=mail-pa0-f51.google.com[209.85.220.51]

Mar 3 15:20:58 emu postfix/cleanup[18631]: 719855FC42:
message-id=<54f536ad.21da440a.6572.3...@mx.google.com>

Mar 3 15:21:01 emu postfix/qmgr[1906]: 719855FC42:
from=, size=5487190, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Mar 3 15:21:01 emu postfix/virtual[20248]: 719855FC42: to=,
relay=virtual, delay=3.5, delays=3.4/0/0/0.08, dsn=4.2.2, status=deferred
(maildir delivery failed: Sorry, the user's maildir has overdrawn his
diskspace quota, please try again later.)

Mar 3 15:27:53 emu postfix/qmgr[1906]: 719855FC42:
from=, size=5487190, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Mar 3 15:27:53 emu postfix/virtual[23352]: 719855FC42: to=,
relay=virtual, delay=415, delays=415/0.01/0/0.07, dsn=4.2.2,
status=deferred (maildir delivery failed: Sorry, the user's maildir has
overdrawn his diskspace quota, please try again later.)
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Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

[Voytek]

On 8 June 2014 11:19:11 am AEST, David Lyon  
wrote:
>And you might follow these old-timers:
>www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bulk-Lot-of-9-Windows-Desktop-PC-Workstations-HP-Compaq-Dell-Intel-AMD-/231246144371
>

Thanks...
(drive past that place sometimes, never realized there is such a treasure cove 
hidden there)

Meanwhile, looked at the problem at hand:

went through BIOS, Phoenix Award, DRAM clock timing:
Performance mode: disabled - boots

If I enable, doesn't boot, seems that might have been it.

So, is that 'aging RAM' problem, can no longer cope with performance mode?


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Re: [SLUG] can I delay script with sleep ?

[Voytek]

Jiri  wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Looks OK. Try testing with echo instead of mail; email delays can be
>easily more than 4 minutes, which could be confusing things. 
>
>

Jiri,

Thanks. script, the mail server and delivery mailbox are on one machine, and, I 
was looking at date stamps.

I'll get it to write to log before and after the sleep, to check, perhaps I did 
confuse time stamps, I just had  a single production run, wouldn't be the first 
time I confused myself...

Thanks for confirming it looks ok

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Re: [SLUG] cygwin script file name error

[Voytek]

kfos...@tpg.com.au wrote:
>This will be an unreadable character in your script.
>
>Cygwin has two modes Unix line ends and Windows line ends.The ? is 
>actually a \r
>
>In 'vi'   ':set ff=unix'':wq'  to switch line endings.
>
>if there is a \r showing go to it and press 'x' to delete it.

If I type in notepad? or in write? can I then copy and paste into vi?
Our will that cause problem?
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Re: [SLUG] cygwin script file name error

[Voytek]

kfos...@tpg.com.au wrote:
>This will be an unreadable character in your script.
>
>Cygwin has two modes Unix line ends and Windows line ends.The ? is 
>actually a \r
>
>In 'vi'   ':set ff=unix'':wq'  to switch line endings.
>
>if there is a \r showing go to it and press 'x' to delete it.
>

Thanks, I'll try that later.
(I might have used win write at some point, which probably is the root cause of 
my woes)
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Re: [SLUG] Script to retrieve/process email content?

[Voytek]

Maxim Zakharov  wrote:

>if mail comes through postfix, take a look at procmail, it's a mail
>processor which does its job as mail is delivered locally.

Maxim, thanks.

This is all virtual domains, I'm a mail user on a virtual domain, I had a vague 
recollection that procmail was for real users..?

>Though configuring procmail could be tricky for a novice.

That's me..


>On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Voytek  wrote:
>
>> I occasionally get an email that contains a link, I'd like to 'click'
>on
>> that link soon after the email arrives, I think... I could wget the
>link, I
>> think it could work, but I need some imap mail client? that could run
>on
>> the server to become aware of such email, parse it for link, and wget
>it..?
>>
>> Or is there a better way to do this? The email comes through
>> postfix/dovecot virtual domain if that matters
>>
>> Thanks, Voytek
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[SLUG] Script to retrieve/process email content?

[Voytek]

I occasionally get an email that contains a link, I'd like to 'click' on that 
link soon after the email arrives, I think... I could wget the link, I think it 
could work, but I need some imap mail client? that could run on the server to 
become aware of such email, parse it for link, and wget it..?

Or is there a better way to do this? The email comes through postfix/dovecot 
virtual domain if that matters

Thanks, Voytek
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Re: [SLUG] assessing vps performance issues

[Voytek Eymont]

David,

You are either very good at guessing, or perhaps you are not guessing...


David Bomba  wrote:
>Let me guess,
>
>Netregistry and their awesome support…. right?
>
>On 01/11/2013, at 9:56 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the link, thanks for all the tips and advice, it's what
>kept me
>> going through:
>> 
>> 'we can ping it, why do you think there is a problem?'
>> 'reboot it'
>> 'you need more memory'
>> 'don't you have a cron job every 5 minutes? that's the cause'
>> 
>> I now received this
>> --
>> Our System Administrators have reviewed Sar logs on his system and
>can see
>> that increase IOwait can be seen at times that are in line with
>storage
>> upgrade operation we have been conducting over the last few days.
>> 
>> It was expected that storage vmotion of VM's during these upgrades
>would
>> increase IO on the storage cluster however it was unanticipated that
>there
>> would be any noticeable affect to our clients.
>> 
>> We apologies for the interruption will process an SLA rebate for you
>as
>> per our terms and would like to advise that this storage upgrade
>activity
>> was completed Monday night.
>> 
>> If you notice any further issues, please create a new ticket with
>details
>> including output from Sar Logs indicating the time and date as well
>as the
>> load experienced.
>> --
>> 
>> It only took them one week of on/off outages to arrive at that, I
>guess
>> they must've been very thorough in reviewing it.
>> 
>> and, about an hour AFTER I got that email, senior idiot phoned me to
>tell
>> me I've loaded vps in excess of it,s capacity.
>> 
>> Thanks for both technical and mental support, guys.
>> 
>> {And, they still havent fixed it, last night vps again overloaded}
>> 
>> 
>> Amos Shapira  wrote:
>>> In addition to Michael's good advise, see
>>>
>http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-cpu-steal-time-when-should-you-be-worriedabout
>>> steal time.
>>> 
>> 
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Re: [SLUG] assessing vps performance issues

[Voytek Eymont]

Jeremy,

Yes, more than enough .

But, If you wanted to ask 'so who is the real idiot?', well, the answer is 
clear it's me.

In my defense, I've dealt with these people for well over 10 years, though not 
for hosting, and, the vps performed adequately for 1.5 years, with only 1 
glitch I think.( though the Win MS SQL server was a joke from day 1, I guess I 
should've learnt from that debacle)

Two weeks into this incident, today got this:
-
Please find attached our IR for the most recent issue we experienced with our 
infrastructure.
The issue experienced was directly related to maintenance work being conducted 
on the underlying storage.
As a result maintenance tasks have been reviewed to ensure the do not create 
excessive load that will be visible to the customer environment.
In addition it has also become clear that customers may also be able to 
generate high IO load in a similar manner to this maintenance with the 
potential to affect other clients systems. As a result we have now implemented 
hard IO limits on all VPS in the cluster (200IOPS) 

If you would like any further information please respond to this email.
VPS Service Desk
-

Thanks again to everyone


Jeremy Visser  wrote:
>On 01/11/13 21:56, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
>> It only took them one week of on/off outages to arrive at that, I
>guess
>> they must've been very thorough in reviewing it.
>> 
>> and, about an hour AFTER I got that email, senior idiot phoned me to
>tell
>> me I've loaded vps in excess of it,s capacity.
>
>So given all that, I think you have collected enough data to warrant
>changing providers.
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Re: [SLUG] clone system to a vm?

[Voytek Eymont]

Chris, Jake, thanks

H, I might try a fresh centos instal, and, copy/setup Web site first of 
all, might be simpler, (just need to resolve some 'include' path issues)


>
>VM something like this.
>http://digiassn.blogspot.com.au/2006/01/dd-over-netcat-for-cheap-ghost.html
>
>It'll take a while, consider also adding a file compression tool to the
>
>mix if you have lots of free space on the source disk (gzip with
>minimum 
>compression say) just to make sending all the zeros faster ;->

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Re: [SLUG] Android phones

[Voytek Eymont]

Ben Donohue  wrote:


>Also I'd like to be able to "ghost" or image the phone in case of 
>malware infection... something I do all the time with desktops.
>
>Anyone done this or any pointers/experiences? How to get a phone back
>to 
>factory or original installation software?


Titanium Backup will do that, and of course the phone has 'factory reset'.

With Xoom, you can d/l original factory builds from manufacturer, perhaps 
others do likewise?

android:/mnt/sdcard/a4 # ls -al M*
-rw-rw-r--1 root sdcard_rw127027187 Jan 16 15:29 
MZ601_H.6.1-38-9_Telstra_Australia.zip
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Re: [SLUG] flakky USB connection to Phone storage

[Voytek Eymont]

Marghanita da Cruz  wrote:

>
>:-( seems it wasn't the cable after all.
>
Talking cables, I'm using Milkshake? brand retractable with DUO? combo 
micro/mini USB, really great idea, micro is on 'sliding rail', I use it with 
probably all my USB micro our mini things.

I'm not sure it charges my old L2 Motorola, but charges everything else. 

>Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

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Re: [SLUG] flakky USB connection to Phone storage

[Voytek Eymont]

Tom Worthington  wrote:

>On 19/03/12 11:50, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>
>> ... on three or four occasions, my phone was plugged into charger
>> overnight, but didn't charge ... trying to decide who to blame ...
>
>Sunspots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_maximum#Predictions  ;-)
>

Ah...
Thanks.

And I thought it was tide related.
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Re: [SLUG] flakky USB connection to Phone storage

[Voytek Eymont]

Marghanita da Cruz  wrote:

>One of the problems, I experienced with the U9
> and now with the Citrus
>, is that the USB
>connection, to the internal storage, is flaky.
>
>The phone does have a microSD slot.
>
>Any suggestions of whether this could be due to the configuration,
>security setup or some other Linux feature/driver that I can address?
>

Marghanita, 

This is unlikely to be relevant, but:

Since I had my phone, over a period of about 9 month, on three or four 
occasions, my phone was plugged into charger overnight, but didn't charge. 
Micro USB was fully home, power point was 'on', phone not charged. Still trying 
to decide who to blame, Android, Motorola,CM7, or the USB Consortium.

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[SLUG] Wozniak's aPhone, was: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

[Voytek Eymont]

> (and all I need is USB Ethernet support), I want to put together a 'tech
> toolkit' like Wozniak, I suspect many ppl here have that already ?

I have Android tablet, when I connect a USB/Ethernet adapter, the adapter
becomes 'eth0' and I can connect to the LAN, either with ifconfig or dhcp

If I enable 'aircraft mode' that disables WiFi, then eth0 becomes sole i/f
(apart from lo)

that works from terminal, and some apps work, BUT, most apps complain of
'no data' or 'enable WiFi' or something like it (browser complains, but
works, email works, file utility complains, but works, most 'diag' tools
don't work

so it seems they expect a 'wlan0' and disregard 'eth0'

is there a way I can mimic or alias eth0 as wlan0 ?? or ??


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Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any ,> drawbacks

[Voytek Eymont]

Voytek Eymont  wrote:


>Just checked, after 8 hours, WiFi on, 3g off, 75 battery left
>-- 

After 24h 30m: 40% left
according to stats:
screen on 10%, WiFi on, BT on,
data transferred: 3 MB, 30MB - 3G, WiFi

stats don't seem to show 3G on time, at a guess, probably 45 or 60 minutes


So did you decide what phone to very yet?
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Re: Libraries, Interoperability of E-books and Apps was Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

[Voytek Eymont]

Voytek Eymont  wrote:


>Pinch to zoom browser is really cute, but the browser is not getting
>the proper URL, both of these just take me to slug menu page, not
>correct page, like I said, Web browsing on these gadgets is nothing to
>write home.


Actually, it seems like it could be mail client passing trailing character
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Re: Libraries, Interoperability of E-books and Apps was Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

[Voytek Eymont]

Marghanita da Cruz  wrote:


>
>PS With regard to your comment:
>> If I was 30 years younger then Marghanita's evidence would have been
>crucial. 
>
>I assume you are referring to my posting on Dating
>
>rather than the one on Battery Life
>
>-- 


Pinch to zoom browser is really cute, but the browser is not getting the proper 
URL, both of these just take me to slug menu page, not correct page, like I 
said, Web browsing on these gadgets is nothing to write home.

But I'm enjoying Swyping, I think if rather Swype than Graffiti's
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any ,> drawbacks

[Voytek Eymont]

>
>You should try it out. My experience is that 
>Safari is just purely dreadful. Others may beg to 
>differ.
>

Actually, another friend just got an iPhone 4, she asked me to backup her 
iPhone 3, so I told her if she had no use for 3 to give it to me, so maybe I'll 
have one...

My personal POV still is that Web browsing on small screen is nothing to write 
home about.

I've done a basic camera comparison between my 5MP versus iPhone 8 MP, clearly 
the iPhone photos were'better', though the iPhone owner preferred color in my 
photos, then again, since going with CM7, I don't have the original camera, do 
not really proper comparison (I also lost panorama shots, Motorola had that, CM 
7 doesn't).

Just checked, after 8 hours, WiFi on, 3g off, 75 battery left
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

[Voytek Eymont]

On Sun, February 12, 2012 9:36 pm, Rod Butcher wrote:

> If I was 30 years younger then Marghanita's evidence would have been
crucial.

apparently there are some chemical compounds that can overcome certain
aspects of the 30 years older syndrome - though I have no hard evidence to
confirm


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Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

[Voytek Eymont]

>> The friends who have iPhone 4's have complained about battery life but
>> in many ways this is the consequence of these devices have such a large
>> range of capabilities (web browsing, applications for games and sites,
>> taking photos, listening to music or watching movies etc). For examle,

above of course aplies not to just to Apple

speaking of Apple 4 battery life, I know two friends who have the new 4,
one is not very tech literate, she was complaining of battery life, BUT,
addmited she probably was playing with her brand new phone a lot,
following the s/w upgrade, she says battery life is now very good, asked
her again, still very happy with battery life after s/w u/g

my other friend is quite tech literate, he says his iPhone 4 battery life
is excellent

in my limited experience with Android, similar issues/resolutions appear
on Android:

Desire HD with poor battery life for the 1st 12 month, since HTC updates
few weeks ago, excellent battery life

Atrix, initially mediocre or poor battery, with CM7 and faux123 1.45G
kernel, excellent battery life

>> the  S2 really needs something like Juice Defender to improve it's
>> battery life, which is not great when compared to my Nokia N95. I can
>> get more than 24 hours if I stop all the automatic synching and endless
>> search for wireless networks. My N95 would give me a couple of days.

if I use 3G sporadically, I can easily get 48 hours from Atrix - again,
that depends very much on what op sys revision you have

in my experience, only 3G data enabled makes a significant battery drain,

this is my single biggest gripe with my phone, why does having 3g data
enabled should drain so much battery if my phone is set not to do all this
social networking stuff, etc. apparently, it can be overcome with like
Juice defender, etc, but, surely a smart phone could have data on and
'snooze it' till needed on demand

I think...? one of the CM7 builds was pretty close to puurffect in that
regards, problem is, once I was able to run the phone in excess of 24
hours on single charge, it became no longer so important to me, and, the
brag rights of having latest CM7 latest overclocked kernel took over


>> My experience of the browser on stock iPhones is that it's pretty much
>> dreadful. Highly inflexible and difficult to navigate. My theory about
>> the rise of apps in the iOS world is that the dreadful browser on the
>> iPhone has meant that you really do need a separate app to make
>> accessing information or services an imperative.

again, I have never used iPhone, so., can't comment there, BUT I really
think above applies to any device with circa 4" screen, most web pages
simply don't scale well to fit on 4" screen.

as much as personally I don't think that much of iPhone, that's what I'd
recommend to most people (if the were foolish to ask me, that is), as I
think the whole Apple thing is better for most lusers

but for any one who is into stuff, as Steve Wozniak said, Android is the
way to go
(though my friend with is into Cisco is very happy with his iPhone, has a
Cisco client that hooks him up to his Cisco VOIP switch)

meanwhile, I've managed to get Ethernet going on my Android tablet (using
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[SLUG] Wozniak's aPhone, was: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

[Voytek Eymont]

so which apps does Steve Wozniak has, or should have ?

I'm trying to collect all kind of valuable tools on my Android
phone/tablet, for the purpose of troubleshhoting, etc. but so far most of
time has been spent on flashing different OS builds, etc, and, some of the
tools I have stumbled across have been wiped out during flashing wipes

now that I have 'release level' Android 4 (EOS build) (and all I need is
USB Ethernet support), I want to put together a 'tech toolkit' like
Wozniak, I suspect many ppl here have that already ?

so, what are the must have Android tech tools ?

I have so far:
Fring
Net Info II
Ping & DNS
Terminal Emulator
WiFi Analyzer
ConnectBot
Network Discovery
Network Signal Info


> For a very subjective response to this, I would quote Steve Wozniak
> (remember him - Steve Jobs' partner?):

> My Android phone has a lot of techy aps on it, to allow me to ssh into
> the server or RDP into a Windoze box, run DNS & reverse lookups,
> traceroutes & pings, telnet, wireless network analyses, etc - all of which
> are invaluable for troubleshooting customer's network problems. And all of
> these aps are free (even if they are not OSS). I haven't checked the
> availability of these on the iPhone, as none of my techy friends have
> iPhones; however, I have heard that the Apple Ap Store has far fewer free
> aps than the Android market.


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Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

[Voytek Eymont]

Voytek Eymont  wrote:
.
>
>(and, I'm not doing it add I must do out, I'm doing it as a learning
>thing for me)

And clearly I haven't mastered Swype as well as I should, judging by some of 
the auto corrections above.
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

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. Closest we got was some facts about
>
>techniques for extending battery life, which is important and relevant,
>
>but I still don't know how Android compares in this area to the
>competition.


I think it's extremely hard to assess, or find a reliable and trustworthy data.

Every time I try, things go'wrong', people call for long time, exceeding my 
desired situation, etc, etc, etc.

To add to my woes,I'm now updating the OS weekly, on top of OS, I'm loading 
overclock kernels, etc etc, etc.

All I can day,I definitely get a better battery life than I used to, with the 
updates to the system.

(and, I'm not doing it add I must do out, I'm doing it as a learning thing for 
me)
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Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

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Sorry, meant to send to the list
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Voytek Eymont  wrote:




>>> While this thread drifts OT the basic issue is tremendously
>important for us as a group.
>> So ... back to the important questions of whether Android or IOS runs
>> more apps?
>>

Who cares as long as it can do whatever it is that you want to do?

I don't, many do.

Makes good stars,I guess.
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Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

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Tom Worthington  wrote:

>
>power, such as WiFi and GPS. Another option is to turn off the 3G and 
>use 2G if you are only making voice calls, as this uses less power.
>


On my phone, the '3G off use 2G' setting simply constraint data to edge/gprs 
transfer/speeds, when I wish to use for voice only, I just disable (all) data 
radios, rather than above, I use data enabler widget (or is it data disabler?) 
to toggle.

One thing that had been puzzling for me, how come I have a smart phone but I 
need to manually enable/disable data transfer, why can't data radio enable on 
demand? (and I don't use any background data, I've disabled whatever I could). 
Mind you, now that minimal data package offered exceeds what I use, being a 
data miser is becoming obsolete)

I'm currently using CM7 and faux123 1.45GHz overclocked kernel, toggling data 
doesn't have as big effect on power consumption add it did in the past, as 
observed on Battery Monitor Widget.
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Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

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On Fri, February 3, 2012 10:24 am, Voytek Eymont wrote:

> phone is OK, (but Gorilla Glass is no much for roadside gravel)

oops, 'match'

oh, yes, and, in spite of my prior moanings here, SIP VOIP over 3G now
works on my phone, seems my issues were phone/Motorola releated rather
than anything else


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Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

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On Fri, February 3, 2012 10:02 am, Jake Anderson wrote:

>> Thinking out loud, has anyone played with 4G(LTE) or dual/band
>> smartphones - do such things exist?
>>
> I played with a HTC 4G device at a telstra shop yesterday in penrith,
> speedtest gave me 20mbit down and 3mbit up. ping was 82ms. looking through

fwiw, my best ever on 3g Moto, Sydney metro, evening time:
8.3 down, 3.2 up, 70 ms




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Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

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On Thu, February 2, 2012 10:30 pm, Ken Foskey wrote:
> I owned an IPhone for a number of years and recently got a android galaxy
>  II.

I got my very first 'smart' phone about 6 month ago, Android, never had or
used iPhone or any other 'smart' phone prior

like my phone, Blur was OK, CM7 is good (probably better ?)

> First comment is that they are all slippery suckers.   16 year old has
> destroyed a number of phones just by dropping them out of his pockets.

yes, dropped my Moto from shallow pocket on 2nd day grrr

phone is OK, (but Gorilla Glass is no much for roadside gravel)

(only scored two or three minute gravel rashes on screen g...)

> Deep pockets are a must (that is literal)


if anyone cared to ask me what to get, if the person was into technical
things, I'd say get Android, if that person was not, I'd say get iPhone


> Android negatives.

on the positives: Swype I find good, better than Graffiti


> email is not as friendly.

I find K9 good

> Still have not figured out cut and paste.

when I first got phone, with Android... 2.2 ? prior to GB, yes, I couldn't
really figure c'n'p, that sort of stuff was pretty poor, IMHO

luckily for me, shortly after I got the phone, 2.3 ? or something ? came
out, few things, (like categories on desktop) and c'n'p got fixed

compared to my Palm, initially, I was quite dissapointed with quite a few
aspects, with the GB update, most of that was fixed

ymmv


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Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

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On Fri, February 3, 2012 9:21 am, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:

> Given the issues with Battery life, seems there is some scope for tuning
> either customised/personal/individual or across the op system. I expect,
> things like the WiFi are hungry and even leaving the OS running, while
> you wait for a phone call.

on the subject of battery life, I have been making some semi-scientific
(but not really) attempts at assessing battery life on my Motorola;

GPS on or off, WiFi on or off, BT  on or off makes very little difference
to battery, insignificant with my phone/usage.

3G radio **used** to make HUGE battery drain, in the past, with 3G ON, my
phone wouldn't last whole day (but I'm not sure whether I was on
MotoBlur.. or not..)

after loading CM7 Ba2TF, and, now, CM7 weeklies, my battery life is pretty
good, with 3G off, I get two+ days on single charge

when I 1st started obesrving battery discharge slope, enabling 3G made a
huge difference, at some point, with either CM7 Ba2TF or a weekly, 3G
radio ON made very small, just observable change in discharge slope, I was
able to leave 3G ON all day

(I'm currently out of data allowance, as soon as I get more, I'll re-test
usage with 3G radio ON)

another obseravtion:
HTC DesireHD:
initally, out of battery before day was over,
since latest s/w updates (just few weeks ago), all 'on', still on 50% by 8pm

fwiw, there is a nifty (y5 ?) utility that enables/disables WiFi based on
your location, for power saving, idea is great, in my expeirience, battery
drain for WiFi is si minimal, I don't use it)

for 3G, I use a data enabler widget to toggle as needed, though it seems
latest s/w build might make that need almost obsolete

as always, ymmv

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Re: [SLUG] monitoring aspx website, how ?

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On Fri, December 9, 2011 3:42 pm, Jeremy Visser wrote:
> Thus spake Voytek Eymont:

> If it uses HTTP auth, then just pass the --http-user and --http-password
> options to wget.
>
> If it requires that you log in via a form and assigns a cookie, that's a
> little more involved but certainly by no means impossible. Can't help you
> based on the spartan information you have provided, however (more details
> please!).


Jeremy, thanks

does this code from login box helps with more details:

==

Log In



User
Id:*



Password:*







Forgot your
password?


==


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[SLUG] monitoring aspx website, how ?

[Voytek Eymont]

I have userid/password to an aspx based website,
what can I use to script a login and get info or monitor for new info on a
page ?

is wget the way to go for aspx site, or what's a good tool for that ?


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Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

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On Fri, November 25, 2011 12:57 pm, scott wrote:
> On 11/24/2011 07:56 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote:

> That's what I would do.If it ends up that you can't put it on, you'll
> just have to reroot. It's also possible that you end up with the same
> problem after the installation, in which case you'll have to reroot.


Scott, thanks

dumb question: isn't the ROM/image I'm flashing already with root access ?

anyhow, it seems that a failed busybox update/install caused permission
(file system ? else ?) issues, I've re-flashed CM7 Ba2TH, and, all's well

so, it's all well again, thanks for all the tips and hints



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Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

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On Fri, November 25, 2011 12:57 pm, scott wrote:
> On 11/24/2011 07:56 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote:

> That's what I would do.If it ends up that you can't put it on, you'll
> just have to reroot. It's also possible that you end up with the same
> problem after the installation, in which case you'll have to reroot.


Scott, thanks

dumb question: isn't the ROM/image I'm fla
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Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

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On Fri, November 25, 2011 12:57 pm, scott wrote:
> On 11/24/2011 07:56 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote:

> That's what I would do.If it ends up that you can't put it on, you'll
> just have to reroot. It's also possible that you end up with the same
> problem after the installation, in which case you'll have to reroot.
>
> I did an update through an LG program on my phone after I rooted it
> because I needed to get to GB before I could flash the ROM I wanted. It
> wiped my recovery out of the bootloader, but I still had root. I rerooted
> to get my recovery back. It's quite possible I would've had the same
> problems as you had I not rerooted right away.

Scott,
thanks again

installed CM7 Ba2TF, when I first open terminal, I was able to run
whatever I've tried, then, tried updating busybox, and, it all wen
downhill from there, getting 'permission denied' everywhere... oh well, I
guess I'll try rooting again...




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Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

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On Fri, November 25, 2011 10:32 am, scott wrote:
> On 11/24/2011 01:42 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote:

> Sounds like permissions on su aren't set right. Try doing "adb shell
> chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su". Then "adb shell ln -s /system/xbin/su
> /system/bin/su". If that doesn't work, you may have to reroot the phone.

Scott, thanks for your help:

C:\motorola>adb shell chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su
chmod: permission denied

and:

C:\motorola>adb shell
# cd /system/xbin
cd /system/xbin
# ls
ls
ls: permission denied
# su --help
su --help
Usage: su [options] [LOGIN]

Options:
  -c, --command COMMAND pass COMMAND to the invoked shell
  -h, --helpdisplay this help message and exit
  -, -l, --loginmake the shell a login shell
  -s, --shell SHELL use SHELL instead of the default in passwd
  -v, --version display version number and exit
  -Vdisplay version code and exit. this is
used almost exclusively by Superuser.apk

# su --version
su --version
3.0
# su -v
su -v
3.0

> If you did an OTA update since it's been rooted, before you put CM7 on
> it, that's more than likely the problem.

I probably ? did, technically, not OTA as the phone didn't see it, but,
downloaded from Mot site, installed over USB, I guess 'same thing' in this
context ?

but CM7 and all stuff worked good, the problem really started couple days
ago. when certain things stopped working, like WiFi stopped connecting.

as it is, I can see there is a newer build of CM7, what's best path forward:

install the 'new' CM7 first, and start from there ?






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Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

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On Thu, November 24, 2011 5:17 am, Troy Rollo wrote:
> On Thursday 24 November 2011 12:42:17 Voytek Eymont wrote:

> Sounds like you could have aegisfs or some similar evil getting in your
> way. Just in case, though, try "mount" to find out what's mounted, and
> then use "mount --o remount,rw" on the affected mount points to try to
> persuade them to be read/write.

Troy, thanks

get 'permission denied' on mount...
it accepts 'su' in terminal, says ' Terminal Emulator has been granted
super user permission'


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Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

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On Thu, November 24, 2011 10:37 am, scott wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 05:07 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote:

> Download a terminal emulator and su into it. "chmod 755 /system/xbin"
> should do it. Busybox was probably installed into /system/bin and not
> /system/xbin. Maybe a newer version tried to install to xbin or looked
> for a symlink that might be missing.

Scott, thanks

I can 'su' OK
I can 'cd /system/bin' (or xbin) OK
I get permission denied on chmod
I get permission denied on ls
cd and pwd execute OK

BUT, using say 'ghost commander' I can enter /system/bin (or xbin) and can
see files there, BUT, when I try 'get info' on busysbox, I get 'permission
denied'

> Did you use adb to root  or a one-click method?

I think it was adb ? ..loaded su...? I think.. 'twas a while back,
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[SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

[Voytek Eymont]

I have Motrix phone with CM7, CM7 was installed with no issues about 8
weeks ago, all worked fine since then

it has busybox by stericson sp?, that has fairly regular updates that get
installed as they come

BUT, the latest busybox update fails install with 'unable to mount xbin r/w'

as I noticed there is now a newer build of CM7, Ba2TF, I aim to install
that, but before the sledhehammer approach, what steps can I take to try
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[SLUG] notebook Linux distro suggestion?

[Voytek Eymont]

I have a user with Win7 notebook, I'm trying to encourage them to 'try a
Linux', what Live USB/SD boot distro should I get them to try ?

(hmmm, this HP notebook has some sort of QuickWeb distro 'built-in'
already, wonder if that can be 'extended'?)


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[SLUG] Re: [chat] Re: video re-encoding to suit mobile device ?

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On Fri, October 7, 2011 12:18 pm, elliott-brennan wrote:

> It really depends on what type of video your devices can play and whether
>  you want to edit out the ads.
> I'm back from hols in a few days and can send a more detailed reply then
> if you'd like.

Patrick, thanks

for this project, there is no ads, so, no need, basically, I record a
couple of news broadcasts, and, am trying to 'improve useability', to
allow me to either copy the file(s) to an Android phone or tablet.

so basically I would like encode to whatever is an optimum format for
Android device playback; so far, using the recorded 'raw' file, I found
only one media player, 'Vital Player' that plays the 'raw' file, I
expected once I get that video to a 'more common' file encoding, any
Android player will do ?

also, I'd like to be able to stream to Android tablet or phone over WiFi,
but I'm not really sure what I need, is it just a file formatted for
streaming, or is it some daemon that I need to run to be able to stream..?

I'll wait till you get back, thanks again

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Re: [SLUG] one entity with two tld domains web setup?

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thanks, Chris, Peter, Stewart, Jeremy

On Thu, October 6, 2011 8:18 am, Jeremy Visser wrote:

> Your hunch is correct — there should be one canonical location for your
> website. All auxiliary domains should redirect to the main one.

sorry, I think I wasn't really clear in what I was asking, the answer
above is what I was seeking, thanks

> I'm assuming Apache? If so, two main ways to do it: use two VirtualHosts
> + Redirect, or use one VirtualHost + mod_rewrite.

yes, Apache, thanks for the code

any extra overhead penalty for either method ? (mind you, this is a
brochure site with low usage, so it won't make much difference)

I think I'll stick with redirect, that what was used in the other sites

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[SLUG] one entity with two tld domains web setup?

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I need to set up a web host for one entity that has same domain name in
.com as well as .com.au, .com is meant to be the real one, .com.au is to
prevent cyber squaters, what is the best way to set up web host?

www.name.com is the web host, so, do I set a www.name.com.au host with
permanent redirect ? or how ? (I used in the past httpd directive to point
both hosts at same http/path/to/index.html, though I'm not sure that is a
good idea ?)



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Re: [SLUG] IP cams behind NAT/ADSL

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On Wed, August 31, 2011 4:48 pm, Martin Visser wrote:

> I don't see from the above where the "cam10" application is mapped from
> port 8010 to port 80 on the "cam10" device. That might be which nmap is
> showing cam10 as filtered.

Martin,

thanks for your help. I had a couple of goes (two way bet thing, there is
two way to enter, let's try both), anyhow I wasn't getting 'desired
results' and left it for another day, as it was, I realized I had an old
WAG54G, so, I thought I'll try that, (WAG54 also has SNMP so I can feed
that to Cacti, fwiw)

anyhow, with WAG54 I succeeded with exposing desired devices (so far it
seems to work from internal browser using external address:port combo,
something I was not able to get with 2Wire)

so I'll give the WAG a try and see how it goes, next step is to replace
old phone wire with multiple connections + extension cord with new drop
from the MDF direct to router, be interesting if performance will improve

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Re: [SLUG] where does USB ethernet show up on insertion ?

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On Fri, September 9, 2011 2:18 am, Jake Anderson wrote:
> On 09/07/2011 08:27 AM, Jeremy Visser wrote:
>
>> On 07/09/2011, at 6:43 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote:
>>

> further suggestion
>
> assuming you have tried plugging it in and it didn't all then "just work"
> TM

Jake,

thanks, I'll try over weekend
also, I'll try to see on router if the device shows up after insertion
I'll also try to see if I get over to a Linux box to try that (I don't
have one where I am)
someone told me apparently Telstra is getting ready to ship A3.2 u/g, 3.2
was what the OP had, I have 3.1, so maybe that's what I need


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[SLUG] bluetooth text/plain transfer from Android ?

[Voytek Eymont]

whenever I bt beam anything from Android phone/tablet, it arrives at
target device as:  bluetooth_contents_share.html, and, "hello" is;

---
Hello
---

is there any way to just send/receive text/plain ?

it seems to independent of application that has the text, whether I use a
notepad style app, or screen scrape, similar html results



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Re: [SLUG] where does USB ethernet show up on insertion ?

[Voytek Eymont]

> ifconfig?
> lsusb?
>
> What distro is this running on? If you plug it into a PC running a
> different distro where it works, what kernel module does it use?

Jeremy, thanks

I don't have a Linux system here, can't test
how do I determine kernel module used ?

> Does the other distro's kernel include that module?

I got same USB/Ethernet as the OP (hopefully same chipset inside)
according to OP, the distro on (his 3.2) Xoom does have appropriate drivers.
he says, after disabling WiFi and 3G, ethernet gets DHCP and works
there is no way to configure i/f known to him at this point

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 22b8:2a70
# ifconfig

after USB 3 port hub inserted

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 22b8:2a70
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1a40:0101
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 9710:7830
#

#uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.36.3 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 14 18:05:24 CDT 2011
armv7l GNU/Linux



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[SLUG] where does USB ethernet show up on insertion ?

[Voytek Eymont]

I came across a post how a user got USB/ethernet working on his tablet,
and, I'm trying to follow this up, he had A3.2, I have A3.1, so not sure I
have what's needed

if I insert USB media, it shows in /dev/block, (sda, sda1, etc) where
would ethernet show up insertion ?

ethernet jack has LED, that blinks when valid LAN cable inserted, though
I'm not working as yet

a device like USB 'hub', that is, one USB to 3 USB sockets, would that
show up? as ?

it seems to work as far I can tell

mkdir /sdcard-ext/usb
mount -t vfat /dev/block/sda1 /sdcard-ext/usb

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Re: [SLUG] Addressbook and Calendar apps

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, August 26, 2011 11:13 am, Peter Chubb wrote:
> what are people using for TODO, address book and calendar  now that
> PalmOS
> is just about dead?

Peter,

I'm curious what you'll come up with

(I'm deferring any decision, I simply bought several Palms, so if need be,
I can keep using Palm for practically forever. I hooked up Pimlical
desktop/Google sync, and, am experimenting with that, eventually likely to
get Pimlical/Android)


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[SLUG] Android text utility to output text/plain

[Voytek Eymont]

id there a 'notepad' utility that will output text/plain text
exported/beamed to some non-Android device ?

every thing I tried so far, when I beam across to say my Palm, comes
across as text/html with 10 or 12 lines of html around the actual text

I wanted to enter a quick note or a couple of words, and later use on say
my Palm

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Re: [SLUG] Multifunction printers vs dedicated sheet-feed scanners?

[Voytek Eymont]

On Mon, September 5, 2011 5:00 pm, Jon Jermey wrote:

> My question is this: given that my printer cost $79, and a dedicated
> sheet-feed scanner costs $400 and up, am I going to get a better success
> rate if I purchase one of those rather than just buying a new cheap
> printer? The price difference leads me to believe I will, but I can't find
> any comparisons on the web between scanning success rates for
> multifunction printers and dedicated scanners. Is there any difference in
> the actual mechanics, and if so what?


Jon,

not sure how much I can help you, but, FWIW, many, many years ago I bought
a HP 2p (mono scanner), I think it was about... $1000 ? then, I bought a
HP doc feeder, I think it was also around $1000. I still use them today,
not that I am a huge scanner user, but, with the 'expensive' feeder I can
shove 25 or 30 pages, when I come back, just flip over (if need scanning
reverses), it just works

a year or two ago, I was walking past a second hand PC shop, saw same
HP2p+ doc in the window for about $100, so I bought it for a spare.

so, for many pages scanning, good doc feeders are important

of course, equipment the age of mine might just crumble from old age

(just noticed rubber legs on my HP LJ5 are melting..)

additionally, a while ago I picked from a dumped Fujitsu fi4120, brilliant
little addition, color, does both sides at once, again, it's good quality
device

so, my suggestion (based on old and potentially superseded experience:

if you find you good results (no jams, scan quality, skew) from cheap
device, keep use it;

otherwise get device with dedicated good quality feeder

I don't know what the Fujitsu FIs go for, but I'm very pleased with my FI
simultaneous 2 side scanner (except you cant' do small things or books,
pages only)

sorry if I added to confusion..

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Re: [SLUG] Re: IP cams behind NAT/ADSL

[Voytek Eymont]

On Thu, September 1, 2011 1:38 pm, James Linder wrote:

> Since this list is all about teaching bears of very little brain (me)
> could somebody start at step zero and explain what 'a camera at
> 192.168.1.102' means.
> What application, what protocol, what streaming, how. Thanks

it's an 'ip camera', meaning, a camera that outputs on ethernet rather
than video/audio or RF

the camera has a 'web server' so a web browser opening
http://192.168.1.102 gives a menu plus view of the camera

so, an access to http://192.168.1.102 'snaps an image' and sends to
browser (I think that's more or less what happens?)

the camera also sends captured images to a file server/PC/NAS

these 'ip cameras' differ from 'basic camera' that requires http access to
'snap image' to 'not so basic' that has 'stuff' running to push images to
a storage device, either over ethernet, or, media card in the camera

the camera I'm trying to access is from mobotix.com

so, in a nutshell, it bolis down to: I have a 'http server' at this IP
address, and, I wish to access it

please ask more, I'll try to explain

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Re: [SLUG] IP cams behind NAT/ADSL

[Voytek Eymont]

On Wed, August 31, 2011 8:50 am, Martin Visser wrote:

> if your cameras are say 192.168.1.101, 192.168.1.102, 192.168.1.103 you
> need to setup a separate port forward for each, or application. So you
> might create WebCam1 with Protocol TCP, Port 80 and Map to Host port 8101,


Martin,

thanks, one of my configs was incorrect (but the other one wasn't, [2wire,
2way bet]).

OK, 2wire shows:

Device  Allowed ApplicationsApplication Type Protocol Port Public IP
cacti   Web Server  -   TCP 80  111.222.333.444
SSH Server  -   TCP 22  111.222.333.444
cam10   cam10   -   TCP 8010111.222.333.444

do I need to do anything in Apache conf on cacti above ?

when I nmap I get:

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-08-31 14:57 EST
Interesting ports on 111.222.333.444:
Not shown: 995 closed ports
PORTSTATESERVICE
22/tcp  open ssh
80/tcp  open http
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
179/tcp filtered bgp
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 48.59 seconds

at one point whilst fiddling with different variants I noticed this:

---
Not shown: 994 closed ports
PORT STATESERVICE
22/tcp   open ssh
80/tcp   open http
139/tcp  filtered netbios-ssn
179/tcp  filtered bgp
445/tcp  filtered microsoft-ds
8010/tcp filtered xmpp
---

maybe.. whilst I was attempting to connect from browser..?


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[SLUG] IP cams behind NAT/ADSL

[Voytek Eymont]

I have several IP cams behind NAT on 192.168.1.x LAN that I would like to
access remotely using an app on Android or a browser, so I guess I need to
forward port 80 from each IP, I've tried to do that in 2wire ADSL router,
but haven't managed (probably doing it wrongly).  I have a Linux machine
on the LAN that I can ssh to, what the best way to achieve this? Port
forward cameras to Linux box and expose that through 2wire?




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[SLUG] codepages and webmails

[Voytek Eymont]

I occasionally receive emails written in ISO Latin2 (at least I think
they're or should be, they might some Microsoft equivalent of ISO L2)

anyhow, they display correctly, all extended characters are fine using
Chrome or FireFox on windoze with Squirrel

BUT, when using Squirrel 'forward', in the compose window, they 'toggle'
to gibberish.

Is there nay way to send 'foreign code page' text? do I need to set
browser to such code page ?

'Niektórzy dowiedzą się'

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Re: [SLUG] script help with unexpected token/variable

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On Mon, August 22, 2011 11:37 am, Chris Donovan wrote:
>> for j in *@*
> do
>>  sudo -u#5000  archivemail -d90 $j
>> done

Chris, thanks

all's working good







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[SLUG] script help with unexpected token/variable

[Voytek Eymont]

I have a short script (which I think? used to work on the old server...)
that I'm having problems with:

I want to run archivemail against all mailboxes in:
/var/mail/vhosts/domain.tld/*@domain.tld

this is what I need to run:

:/var/mail/vhosts/aa.com.au# sudo -u#5000  archivemail -d90 r...@aa.com.au


the script fails with

# archmail aa.com.au
/usr/local/bin/archmail: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `sudo'
/usr/local/bin/archmail: line 19: `  sudo -u#5000  archivemail -d90 $j '

script:
--
# cat /usr/local/bin/archmail
#!
 case $# in
  1)
  DOMAIN=$1
  ;;
  *)
echo "Usage: $0 " 1>&2
echo "this archives" $1 " Maildirs "
echo "all mail over 90 days is gzipped"
exit
;;
 esac

if [ -s /var/mail/vhosts/$1 ] ; then

cd /var/mail/vhosts/$1

for j in *@*
  sudo -u#5000  archivemail -d90 $j
done

exit
fi

echo "no such domain" $1
exit
---



(I should really know by now how to do this...)

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[SLUG] dyndns address to CNAME ?

[Voytek Eymont]

dumb DNS Q:

what's a way to have a dyndns name mapped to a host within own domain.tld ?

can I map a dyndns host to a CNAME as a hostname on mydomain.tld ?

so, I have a machine at home with not-fixed ip, on dyndns, as
'myhomepc.dyndns.com'

if I set a bind record as:

myhomepc CNAME   myhomepc.dyndns.com.

to have myhomepc.mydomain.tld

that works, BUT, will that work once ip changes, will that propagate to my
CNAME...?




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Re: [SLUG] Android path/busybox executable location

[Voytek Eymont]

On Mon, August 1, 2011 11:23 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:

> cd /system/bin mount -orw,remount /system ln -s /bin/busybox . mount
> -oro,remount /system

Peter,

thanks, syntax was marginally different, but worked well once I figured
that (order of options and target specifier)


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[SLUG] Android path/busybox executable location

[Voytek Eymont]

I have A2.3, busybox is in /bin

su
cd /bin
./busybox
Busybox v.1.10.2

path is like:
PATH=/data/local/bin:/sbin:/vendor/bin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin

I tried appending '/bin' in /init.rc to the above, that seems overwritten
on boot

so what's a proper way to get busybox on an exe path ?

copy executable to an existing path (/system/bin?)? make symlink ? (how?)
install another busybox from market ?




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Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, July 29, 2011 12:22 pm, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:

> I use adb pull (to get the file onto my laptop), adb remount (to
> remount /system read-write) and then adb push  (to put the file back).
>
> An alternative is to install busybox on the device, and use vi.
> adb shell gets you something you can type at from your laptop.

Peter, thanks

I've discovered since that both FileExpert and ES FileExplorer allow me to
edit these files in place (even making a backup)

I see there are several busybox apps on market, perhaps I need to install
one of these, perhaps they have more applets that what I currently have


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Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, July 29, 2011 6:34 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote:

> any thoughts how to troubleshoot lack of 3g data ? calls work, on scanning
> for cariers all I see 1x telstra and 1x vodafone


after about 1 hour, my cell data is back up, weired




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Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, July 29, 2011 5:02 pm, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:

> busybox vi and see what happens.

'applet not found'

I need to do '/bin/busybox', what do I need to set 'on path' ?


h, since about 4:30 I've lost all data...?

the only thing I've done was install an SMS app that was supposed to do
'flash sms', it didn't, so I uninstalled it, not sure if that caused any
issues ? I've rebooted phone, still no go. WiFi data is OK. weired...

any thoughts how to troubleshoot lack of 3g data ?
calls work, on scanning for cariers all I see 1x telstra and 1x vodafone


-
BusyBox v1.10.2 (2010-10-25 17:12:51 PDT) multi-call binary
...
Currently defined functions:
[, [[, basename, cat, chgrp, chmod,
chown, chroot, cksum, comm, cp,
cpio, cut, date, dd, df, dirname,
du, echo, egrep, env, expand, expr,
false, fgrep, find, fold, grep, head,
hostid, id, install, ln, logname, ls,
md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod,
mktemp, mv, nice, nohup, od, printenv,
printf, pwd, readlink, rm, rmdir, seq,
sha1sum, sleep, sort, split, stat,
stty, sum, sync, tac, tail, tee,
test, touch, tr, true, tty, uname,
unexpand, uniq, wc, who, whoami,
xargs, yes
-

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Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, July 29, 2011 12:22 pm, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:

> An alternative is to install busybox on the device, and use vi.

Peter, thanks

I have busybox in /bin/busybox, but, it doesn't seem to have 'vi'

(not sure how to either screen scrape terminal or send output to mail from
the phone, it list lots of stuff but not vi..)



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Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, July 29, 2011 11:42 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:

Peter, thanks

> I find them in the Notifications screen (drag down from the top of the

I don't think these were there, but, I'll check again next time
(these were like mssg from Sygic have trouble downloading)

> Voytek> aus-specific gps.conf: I have at&t gps.conf like below:

> You may want to change the SUPL host to something nearer too.
> supl.google.com works on port 7276.

OK, thanks

what's a good tool to edit such system files ?

I'm currently using a combination of FileExpert, terminal and some text
editor; copy to sdmedia, edit with some text editor, then use terminal to
rename, copy, etc, there has to be a simpler way... I probably should
start with learning FileExpert better, I might be able to do it all from
it..

(now that I have a bt keyboard it might get easier too)


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[SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

[Voytek Eymont]

on my Android phone occasionally I get a 'transient' message pop up over
lower display like 'unable to download /file/whatever'

if it disappears before I managed to read all of it, how can I recall such
messages or where do I find them ?



in tethering screen there is a 'help', when I select it, I get a fail with
'file:///android_asset/html/en/tethering_help.html'

do these html files live on the device, where do I find them ?

---

aus-specific gps.conf: I have at&t gps.conf like below:

is the ntp server (au.pool.ntp.org ?) the only value I should change ?

--
SUPL_HOST=h-slp.mnc410.mcc310.pub.3gppnetwork.org
SUPL_PORT=7275
NTP_SERVER=north-america.pool.ntp.org
XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin
XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin


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Re: [SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

[Voytek Eymont]

On Sat, July 23, 2011 6:07 pm, Jeremy Visser wrote:

> Normally that should work fine. Sounds like a hardware problem to me.
> Or, at the very least, hardware-specific.

> Tried seeing if there is a BIOS update available?

Jeremy, thanks

yes, updater told me I have current BIOS

(but this is an older machine, I needed to get an update to be able to
read SD media past 1GB, now it reads up to 2 or 4, so maybe it's some
hardware/BIOS limitation)

I'll come back to this later



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Re: [SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, July 22, 2011 1:20 pm, DaZZa wrote:
> On 22 July 2011 12:14, Voytek Eymont  wrote:

> Load the right modules? Are scsi_mod, ide_disk & ide_core loaded? Can
> you load them if they're not?
>
> What does lsmod show you? lspci? Does the device (/dev/sdb) file even
> exist? Does it have the correct major/minor parameters (should be something
> like 8,16)?

DaZZa, thanks

I'll try later with a more featured Linux boot system rather than the bare
bones one I was booting from, I can't find the network i/f either, so I'm
stand alone, and, output from lsmod/lspci is quite a few lines

what's a good usb-runnable live distro I should try ?


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Re: [SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

[Voytek Eymont]

On Wed, July 27, 2011 10:58 am, Clint Shumack wrote:
> /dev/sdb could be the card reader. Did you try /dev/hda? Install the
> graphical partition tool 'gparted' and see what drives it can find.

Clint, thanks

/dev/sda is the usb media I'm booting from

I'll try later with a more featured Linux boot system rather than the bare
bones one I was booting from





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[SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

[Voytek Eymont]

I have an older Dell Inspiron 700m laptop, I made a Linux USB boot system,
set BIOS to USB HD boot, Dell boots OK from USB, but, doesn't seem to see
the built in HD:

without USB present Dell boots XP from HD

fdisk /dev/sda shows USB
/dev/sdb says 'unable to open'

how can I find the built in HD from Linux boot ?




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[SLUG] ot: android app for server monitoring ?

[Voytek Eymont]

(it seems my virtual server self re-boot has been solved, it was 'caused'
by 'quota checking' procedures, thanks for all the help suggestions)

any good suggestions for an android app to server monitor/check ?


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Re: [SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

[Voytek Eymont]

On Wed, June 8, 2011 10:02 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
>>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Donohue  writes:

> Ben> sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory

> Also check the BIOS CMOS battery.  If it's weak but not entirely
> failed, it can cause bad reads from the CMOS.

Ben, Peter,

thanks

I've re-seated RAM modules and switched to backup BIOS, booted OK
now, switched back BIOS to original, boots OK



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Re: [SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

[Voytek Eymont]

On Tue, June 7, 2011 10:07 pm, Ben Donohue wrote:
> sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory defaults? also
> is there a second video card in there by any chance? Pull it out.
> Sometimes the old proliants had a video on the MB and another on an
> accessory card. either that or there is the old hidden EISA partition
> looking for an AGP card that is not there any more... (is it that old?) can
> you boot with the compaq eisa disk and reset it... I'm actually sure I've
> got one of those 51/4 inch (or 31/2 inch) floppies around here
> somewhere... if eisa card, pull it out and put it back in again.

Ben,
thanks.

It's a PCI/SCSI/3.5", no cards, m/b video, only plugged in items are 4 RAM
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[SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

[Voytek Eymont]

I have a an old Compaq Proliant 2GB RAM DL380 server running Centos 4.x,
just decommissioned, trying to start it it hangs with errors below and
doesn't boot

Linux agpgart interface v0.1
max main memory to use for agp 2170M
unable to det aperture size
agp backend initialize fail
apgart serverworks probe failed with error -22
detected serverworks CNB20HE chipset no AGP present

then it appears to hang (or stops for very long time)

googleing so far hasn't shown anything useful



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Re: [SLUG] self reboot solving ?

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 12:13 pm, James Gray wrote:

> On 27/05/2011, at 11:08 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote:

> I had a similar problem with a virtual linux server a while back.  Turned
> out that presenting it with multiple VCPUs was the culprit.  Reducing it
> back to a single VCPU fixed it.  As for how I figured that out - I went
> back through the change logs and found that another engineer decided it
> needed more CPU grunt and gave it another VCPU...not long after that we
> started getting random reboots about once every 24-36 hours.  Although we
> went through a lot of "what about this, what about that" before we
> thought of checking the VM configuration and hypervisor changes.
>
> My advice would be go back over what has changed on you virtual machine
> AND your hypervisor.  Sometimes the most inane changes can lead to odd
> behaviour.

James, thanks

I'm very new to this virtual host stuff

all I have access is the virtual host, this what you're suggesting needs
admin of the actual hardware, yes?



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[SLUG] self reboot solving ?

[Voytek Eymont]

I have a virtual Ubuntu machine running MAP+Postfix in service few weeks;

as of few days ago the system started self-rebooting once a day or so

how to diagnose the reason ?

~# uname -a
Linux 2.6.32-30-generic-pae #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 23:01:33 UTC 2011
i686 GNU/Linux

top - 11:07:30 up 10:38,  2 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.22, 0.29
Tasks: 154 total,   1 running, 153 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.7%us,  0.7%sy,  0.0%ni, 98.3%id,  0.3%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si, 
0.0%st
Mem:508864k total,   445384k used,63480k free,33108k buffers
Swap:   364536k total,   121620k used,   242916k free,   144904k cached



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Re: [SLUG] ADSL download speed/settings.

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On Wed, May 11, 2011 8:59 am, Ken Foskey wrote:
> Yes your lead from socket to Adam is a huge problem.  Removing a lead
> like that made a huge difference for me

Ken,

I'll proceed with that as soon as I can find few metres of Telstra wire

OK, another dumb Q:

I have like

streetMDF-subMDFTsocket
wiring is maybe 30/40 years old

recently we had a brand new 25 pair added between the MDFs, there is now
two cables:

MDF==25metres===subMDF

is it worth the effort to transfer my line between MDF to subMDF from
'old' cable to a pair on the brand new 25 pair cable ?

(things people will do...)


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Re: [SLUG] ADSL download speed/settings.

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On Wed, May 11, 2011 2:00 am, Jeremy Visser wrote:

> gonzo01 said:
>> Line Attentuation Upstream 31.5
>> Line Attenuation Downstream 44.0
>> Are these figures reasonable?

Bigpond ADSL, I'm just outside the 1.5k exchange inner band
TPG page says: Line of sight: 1630m. Possible cable dist.: 2295m.

I get:

DSL Connection Details
DSL Line (Wire Pair):   Line 1 (inner pair)
Protocol:   G.DMT2 Annex A
Downstream Rate:5630 kbps
Upstream Rate:  747 kbps
Channel:Interleaved
Current Noise Margin:   12.5 dB (Downstream) 16.5 dB (Upstream)
Current Attenuation:40.7 dB (Downstream) 22.3 dB (Upstream)
Current Output Power:   19.3 dBm (Downstream) 11.9 dBm (Upstream)

does that look reasonable ?

it all seems to work OK, no real problems

Question:

I use a 5 metre extension cord from wall subsocket to ADSL, and, the phone
sockets is perhaps 15 metres from Telstra 'sub' MDF

I've been tempted to hook up a (parallel) phone wire off the MDF to a
dedicated wall socket for ADSL

so, replace existing 15? meteres old wiring + 3 meters to subsocket off
original T socket+ 5 metre extension
with 4 meter dedicate ADSL socket from MDF

is it worth the effort, will I see real improvement?
(or just a warm fuzzy feeling that's it's done properly?)


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Re: [SLUG] script permissions, etc

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On Mon, May 9, 2011 11:18 pm, Ken Foskey wrote:

> Seems to be trying to run the command as one thing.  so a file named 'ccc
>  lots of spaces with your IP address'.How are you starting this and
> are you quoting it?
>
> Exec takes an argument which is the filename to run and then extra args
> for the program started.

Ken, thanks

ostiary

Ray from ostiary pointed out I was missing "#!/bin/bash" in my script

now that I added it, it executes fine, except I get a blank email,
when I execute from terminal, I get mail body OK
so the intermediate files are not created I guess


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Re: [SLUG] script permissions, etc

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On Mon, May 9, 2011 10:52 am, Peter Chubb wrote:
>>>>>> "Voytek" == Voytek Eymont  writes:

> TMP="/var/tmp/`basename $0`$$"
> mkdir -p "$TMP" cd "$TMP" trap 'cd /var/tmp; rm -rf "$TMP"' 0
>
> to create a place where you can work, that'll get cleaned up afterwards.
>


Peter, Ken, Chris, many thanks

this works good from terminal!

I'm trying to run this from 'ostiaryd'

what uid/gid to use, I'm '500'


# Format is:
# ACTION="secret","command (with path)",["uid"[,"gid"]]
# If uid,gid not set, will use defaults.
# Some samples.
# Note: uid & gid only allowed when ostiary runs as root
#ACTION="Trillions","/tmp/ostiary/uidtest","520","101"
ACTION="ccc","/usr/local/bin/ccc","500","500"

tried 500/500 but get:
May  9 11:21:48 waltoncr ostiaryd: Exec failed for command
'/usr/local/bin/ccc 192.168.1.65': Exec format error




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[SLUG] script permissions, etc

[Voytek Eymont]

I'm trying to put together a basic script, it works fine when I run it as
root, but, I'm having issues when I try to run as 'voytek'

$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/ccc
-rwxr-x--- 1 root voytek 1409 May  9 08:19 /usr/local/bin/ccc


/usr/local/bin/ccc: line 16: ccc.txt: Permission denied
mv: overwrite `ccc.old', overriding mode 0644?
rm: remove write-protected regular file `logout.html'?
rm: remove write-protected regular file `logout.html'?
logout.html: Permission denied


script fetches a html page, parses it several times, then emails some text
from it

when starting the script should I say 'cd /var/tmp' (to have temp files
in/var/tmp?)

should I prefix full path to intermediate files ( /var/tmp/body.txt?)

---
wget  http://dom.tld/main.htm
wget  ccc.html

echo "dump to text, get rid of blanks "
links -dump ccc.html > ccc.txt

## get rid of blank lines
awk '/Page/, /References/  { print }' ccc.txt  > ccc.bod

## Better remove all leading and trailing whitespace from end of each line:
sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//' ccc.bod > ccc.1

# delete lines matching pattern
sed '/INT/d' ccc.1 > ccc

mail -s "ccc list" voytek < ccc

mv ccc ccc.old
rm main.htm
rm logout.html
rm ccc.1
rm ccc.bod
rm ccc.html
rm logout.html
rm my-cookies

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[SLUG] Android ssh, nix.tools?

[Voytek Eymont]

(Is Android slug or chat?)

What's a good ssh client  ?

what other good tools are there (so I can pretend to be a sysop)?

IMAP client?
Data traffic logger?

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Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, April 15, 2011 6:55 am, Amos Shapira wrote:
> (I assume you meant "clan"->"cpan", right?)
> Mixing CPAN and none-cpan packing is an invitation to a nightmare. Either
>  install EVERYTHING from cpan or nothing at all.
>
> A quick "apt-cache search BinHex" shows that there is a ubuntu package
> for it: libconvert-binhex-perl.


Amos, thanks

I've done 'apt-get install libconvert-binhex-perl' m it's OK

BUT do I need to do anything about the previously done CPAN install ?

 perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan[1]> force install Convert::BinHex

cpan[1]> install Convert::BinHex
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20)
Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:29:14 GMT
CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.18)
Convert::BinHex is up to date (1.119).



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Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

[Voytek Eymont]

On Thu, April 14, 2011 9:31 am, John Clarke wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:55:59PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:

>> amavis says error with MIME Decoder BinHex but perl says it's
>> installed,
>
> Read the error message more closely:

John,

ooops, you're right, sorry


> MIME/Decoder/BinHex.pm won't start because it needs to load
> Convert/BinHex.pm, and perl can't find it.  You need to install
> Convert::BinHex.

I guess that's why:

"make test had returned bad status, won't install without force"

if I force install, is that a really bad thing to do ?

or what else ?



Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Convert::BinHex
Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determine
prerequisites
cp lib/Convert/BinHex.pm blib/lib/Convert/BinHex.pm
Manifying blib/man3/Convert::BinHex.3pm
  ERYQ/Convert-BinHex-1.119.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/comp2bin.t .. Can't locate package Exporter for @Checker::ISA at
t/comp2bin.t line 3.
Undefined subroutine &main::check called at t/comp2bin.t line 75.
t/comp2bin.t .. Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
Failed 9/9 subtests

Test Summary Report
---
t/comp2bin.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 255
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 9 tests but ran 0.
Files=1, Tests=0,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr  0.02 sys +  0.04 cusr 
0.03 csys =  0.15 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/1 test programs. 0/0 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  ERYQ/Convert-BinHex-1.119.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
  reports ERYQ/Convert-BinHex-1.119.tar.gz
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
 ERYQ/Convert-BinHex-1.119.tar.gz : make_test NO




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[SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

[Voytek Eymont]

I'm trying to install amavisd-new on ubuntu,

amavis says error with MIME Decoder BinHex but perl says it's installed,

what's the best way forward ?



# amavisd debug
fetch_modules: error loading optional module MIME/Decoder/BinHex.pm:
  Can't locate Convert/BinHex.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10
/usr/local/lib/site_perl) at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/MIME/Decoder/BinHex.pm line 43.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/MIME/Decoder/BinHex.pm line 43.
  Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 197.
Problem in Amavis::DB or Amavis::DB::SNMP code: Can't locate BerkeleyDB.pm
in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at (eval
86) line 19.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 86) line 19.


# perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9600)
Enter 'h' for help.


   cpan[1]>
install


MIME::Decoder::BinHex
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.20)
Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:29:43 GMT
CPAN: Module::CoreList loaded ok (v2.18)
MIME::Decoder::BinHex is up to date (5.502).





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[SLUG] brute force password testing?

[Voytek Eymont]

I'd like to enforce 'reasonably secure'passwords on email,

how can I brute force test email password for security, passwords are
hashed stored in mysql table


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[SLUG] SquirrelMail on Ubuntu, using source not Ubuntu package?

[Voytek Eymont]

I've been using Squirrel on RedHat and Centos, using latest 1.5 build with
never an issue;

I'm setting up a new host, it came with Ubuntu, it included Squirrel 1.4;
so, I jumped over to Squirrel to get a 1.5 build,

now I see they seem to have 'special?' Ubuntu/Debian downloads for Squirrel..

surely for a web app like Squirrel I'm not going to break anything by
downloading source Squirrel and installing that ??

or am I ?

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GID/UID ?Re: [SLUG] Dovecot mysql user setup troubles

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On Fri, April 8, 2011 1:56 pm, K L wrote:

> without being "explicitly" helpful to your question; it 'looks' like
> dovecot isn't actually getting as far as mysql and is instead only
> reading passwd.


K L,
thanks

this is meant to be a virtual mail server for multiple domains

oops, you're right, I notice I missed 'user database section' in conf

this is somewhat better now

say, what GID / UID should I use, in Postfix I have like:

virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
virtual_uid_maps = static:5000

so, I should use 5000/5000 in Dovecot query ?

user_query = SELECT '/../%d/%n@%d' as home, 'maildir:/../%d/%n@%d' as
mail, 5000 AS uid, 5000 AS gid, ...


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Re: [SLUG] Dovecot mysql user setup troubles

[Voytek Eymont]

On Fri, April 8, 2011 1:32 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I'm trying to setup Dovecot with MySQL/Postfix/Postfixadmin, with mail
> users in mysql
>
> when I attempt to login to pop as *nix user 'voytek' with *nix password,
> it works OK:
>
> mail log: Apr  8 13:24:55 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=,
> method=PLAIN, ri p=zzz, lip=xxx
>
> when I try as mail user I fail as follows:
>
> Apr  8 13:27:23 dovecot: auth(default): userdb(voy...@sbt.net.au,111):
> user not found from userdb passwd Apr  8 13:27:23 dovecot: pop3-login:
> Internal login failure (auth failed, 1
> attempts): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=111, lip=222

> how do I enable more details to figure this out ?

if I scrape and paste the sql query from mailog like so into mysql:

SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'voy...@sbt.net.au' AND
active = '1'

it returns like:

password
$1$268efff |
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

so I must have wrong ?? auth method ? crypt ?

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[SLUG] Dovecot mysql user setup troubles

[Voytek Eymont]

I'm trying to setup Dovecot with MySQL/Postfix/Postfixadmin, with mail
users in mysql

when I attempt to login to pop as *nix user 'voytek' with *nix password,
it works OK:

mail log:
Apr  8 13:24:55 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, ri
p=zzz, lip=xxx

when I try as mail user I fail as follows:

Apr  8 13:27:23 dovecot: auth(default): userdb(voy...@sbt.net.au,111):
user not found from userdb passwd
Apr  8 13:27:23 dovecot: pop3-login: Internal login failure (auth failed, 1
 attempts): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=111, lip=222


Q: does "user not found from userdb passwd" this mean it first does a
lookup on system users before doing sql lookup ?

how do I enable more details to figure this out ?




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Re: [SLUG] remote x on windoze ?

[Voytek Eymont]

On Sun, January 9, 2011 11:36 am, Michael Chesterton wrote:

> You start Xming on your windows desktop, ssh to centos and run the java
> app. I usually test first by running xeyes. That's boiled down in a
> nutshell. The app runs on the centos box and the display runs on your
> windows box. There's no display running on centos, so you don't run
> startx.

Michael,

thanks a lot for explanation, I got the java app running perfect over
Xming/ssh

> I like freenx though, (it might be easier to get the free commercial
> version from http://nomachine.com )

I d/l and installed, but, need to check config:

# /usr/NX/bin/nxserver --status
NX> 900 Connecting to server ...
NX> 204 Authentication to NX server failed.
NX> 110 NX Server is stopped.
NX> 999 Bye.



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Re: [SLUG] remote x on windoze ?

[Voytek Eymont]

On Sun, January 9, 2011 11:36 am, Michael Chesterton wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Voytek Eymont  wrote:


Amit, Michael, thanks


> startx as root user is bad karma, and not the right step for Xming.

I did try non-root 1st of all, after it told me I lacked ownership, I
figured, (obviously wrongly), that I should gain more authority..:

-
PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.
Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
-

> You start Xming on your windows desktop, ssh to centos and run the java
> app. I usually test first by running xeyes.

OK, I got the xeyes from Xming cli invocation

so, do I run in Xming like:

java  -classpath classpathstuffhere ?

> That's boiled down in a
> nutshell. The app runs on the centos box and the display runs on your
> windows box. There's no display running on centos, so you don't run
> startx.


> I like freenx though, (it might be easier to get the free commercial
> version from http://nomachine.com ). It works better over slower links
> than X.

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[SLUG] remote x on windoze ?

[Voytek Eymont]

what are the best/simple options for casual access to a remote Linux host
desktop ?

what do I need to do on remote host to make it ready ?

I have a java gui application I'd like to try, but, don't have a Linux
machine here, so wanted to try it remotely

I tried searching and found Xming, that start up command line and:

---xming window-
[r...@centos ~]# startx
hostname: Unknown host
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.16464


X Window System Version 7.1.1
Release Date: 12 May 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.18-53.el5 i686 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux centos.sbt.net.au 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 #1
SMP Mon
 Oct 25 15:51:07 EDT 2010 i686
Build Date: 17 November 2010
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-48.76.el5_5.2
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jan  9 10:36:36 2011
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:  Multiple symbols for level 1/group 1 on key 
>   Using XF86Sleep, ignoring XF86Standby
> Warning:  Symbol map for key  redefined
>   Using last definition for conflicting fields
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
localuser:root being added to access control list
No profile for user 'root' found
SESSION_MANAGER=local/centos.sbt.net.au:/tmp/.ICE-unix/16485

** (gnome-session:16485): WARNING **: Host name lookup failure on localhost.

** (eggcups:16560): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (eggcups:16560): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030

** (nm-applet:16590): WARNING **: No connections defined

** (nm-applet:16590): WARNING **: Invalid return value type:
GPtrArray_DBusGObje
ctPath_
Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension

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[SLUG] recovering raid0 nas volume ?

[Voytek Eymont]

I have a QNAP NAS with 4 disks as a single "Striping Disk Volume: Drive 1
2 3 4 EXT4"

couple of days ago, power failed, according to QNAP log, system was
shutdown by UPS notification

when I powered it up, I tried to do 'checkdisk' using web i/face, but, it
keeps failing with:

23:23:37 System [Strip Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 4] Start examination.
23:32:16 System [Strip Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 4] Examination failed.

what sort of test can I try from console to rectify ?

[~] # uname -a
Linux NAS01 2.6.33.2 #1 SMP Tue Sep 28 00:54:34 CST 2010 i686 unknown

[~] # df -h
FilesystemSize  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram124.0M109.7M 14.3M  88% /
tmpfs32.0M104.0k 31.9M   0% /tmp
/dev/sda4   310.0M160.5M149.5M  52% /mnt/ext
/dev/md9509.5M 40.9M468.5M   8% /mnt/HDA_ROOT
/dev/md0  3.6T426.9G  3.2T  12% /share/MD0_DATA

[~] # mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.03
  Creation Time : Sat Jun 19 04:35:02 2010
 Raid Level : raid0
 Array Size : 3900774400 (3720.07 GiB 3994.39 GB)
   Raid Devices : 4
  Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent
Update Time : Sat Jun 19 04:35:02 2010
  State : clean
 Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0
 Chunk Size : 64K
   UUID : 79e23cd2:b3f9618d:58a8936b:5e0d814b
 Events : 0.1

Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
   0   830  active sync   /dev/sda3
   1   8   191  active sync   /dev/sdb3
   2   8   352  active sync   /dev/sdc3
   3   8   513  active sync   /dev/sdd3


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[SLUG] restarting samba ?

[Voytek Eymont]

I have a media box with ethernet, occasionally I don't seem to be able to
access media on it from a windoze PC (as in '\\192.168.1.90'), but I can
still ssh to it

I'm guessing samba needs restarting ?? how to ? what else to look for ?

# ps ax | grep samba
 8720 root   1584 S N /tmp/package/samba/sbin/smbd -D
 8723 root   1012 S N /tmp/package/samba/sbin/nmbd -D
 8735 root   1560 S N /tmp/package/samba/sbin/smbd -D
13926 root304 S   grep samba

# ls  /tmp/package/samba/sbin/
nmbd   smbd   smbpasswd

# ls /etc
dvdplayer   init.d  ppscdn_config.ini
fstab   ld.so.cache profile
group   ld.so.conf  reexec_init
hostnamemtabresolv.conf
hosts   passwd  services
httpd.conf  passwd- system_svn_version
inetd.conf  ppp udhcpc.script

# ls /etc/init.d
S50inetdmount.rcS   rcS rcS1    syslog.rcS




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Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

[Voytek Eymont]

On Sun, November 14, 2010 4:17 pm, Ben Donohue wrote:

> I'm not sure about NAS boxes... but HP raid stores the raid array config
> on the disks themselves. Such that you could take out 4 disks of a raid
> array and put them in another server and the raid would come up ok. And
> this is on a different raid controller.
>
> So... if you have a backup of the data, have you tried to just take out
> the disks and put them back in the same NAS box in different places?
> Perhaps the connector is faulty. See whether the problem follows the
> disk or the problem follows the slot where the disk is.

Ben,

thanks

I pulled the unit down yesterday, pulled the drives out, starred hard at
the bare drives for a little while, then, pushed them back in (same slots)

started up, it all seemed to work

I wasn't quite sure what to run from console, so used the web i/f to
run smart tests on all drives, all OK

but, 'check disk' failed to run, and, on one of several power up (I was
also testing UPS shut down/restart)

so I reformatted to whole volume, and, now it seems OK

EXCEPT, LCD panel has message about HD4 ejected, and, googleing for HD
info (WDC WD1002FBYS-02A6B03.0) brought another QNAP user (Raid5)
reporting same drive failing after just few weeks from bnew...

anyhow, I think I'll see how it goes over next few days

-
[Strip Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 4] The file system is not clean. It is
suggested that you run "check disk".

20:19:02System  127.0.0.1   localhost   [Strip Disk Volume: 
Drive 1 2 3 4]
Examination failed.
20:04:03System  127.0.0.1   localhost   [Strip Disk Volume: 
Drive 1 2 3 4]
Start examination.
---

08:36:07System  127.0.0.1   localhost   [Strip Disk Volume: 
Drive 1 2 3 4]
Examination completed.
08:26:02System  127.0.0.1   localhost   [Strip Disk Volume: 
Drive 1 2 3 4]
Start examination.


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Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

[Voytek Eymont]

On Sat, November 13, 2010 5:52 pm, David Balnaves wrote:

> I'm not really sure what the best indicators are of a failing hard drive.
>  I've used smart on a lot of  hard drives; I've seen undocumented smart
> values and even hard drives function fine for a number of years when smart
>  reports they are "FAILING NOW'.  I've also seen some drives enter a
> state where they wont allow further smart tests (on/offline) to be run or
> aborted. This has lead me to believe that smart as an indicator needs to
> be considered on a per model basis and run carefully within the
> capabilities of the drive.  The whole process has given me more questions
> than answers.
>
> I try to detect a failure by monitoring huge changes in the smart
> attributes.  I've configured munin to monitor the smart attributes; It
> wouldn't be too hard to change the plugin to monitor these values on your
>  NAS (I imagine you can ssh/telnet to it).  You will notice some variance
> in things like temperature and ECC, but unless they start behaving
> erratically then I wouldn't worry.
>
> Hope this helps in 'detecting and notifying' potential failures.

David, thanks

yes, I can ssh to it

I'm not very familiar with the raid utilities (beyond knowing what the
acronym stand for...)

but I get:

# mdadm --detail /dev/md0
/dev/md0:
Version : 00.90.03
  Creation Time : Sat Jun 19 04:35:02 2010
 Raid Level : raid0
 Array Size : 3900774400 (3720.07 GiB 3994.39 GB)
   Raid Devices : 4
  Total Devices : 4
Preferred Minor : 0
Persistence : Superblock is persistent

Update Time : Sat Jun 19 04:35:02 2010
  State : clean
 Active Devices : 4
Working Devices : 4
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

 Chunk Size : 64K

   UUID : 79e23cd2:b3f9618d:58a8936b:5e0d814b
 Events : 0.1

Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
   0   830  active sync   /dev/sda3
   1   8   191  active sync   /dev/sdb3
   2   8   352  active sync   /dev/sdc3
   3   8   513  active sync   /dev/sdd3


 # mount
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,size=32M)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda4 on /mnt/ext type ext3 (rw)
/dev/md9 on /mnt/HDA_ROOT type ext3 (rw)
/dev/md0 on /share/MD0_DATA type ext4
(rw,usrjquota=aquota.user,jqfmt=vfsv0,user_xattr,data=ordered,nodelalloc)

# ls  /share/MD0_DATA
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Web: Input/output error
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Network Recycle Bin: Input/output error
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/lost+found: Input/output error
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Download: Input/output error
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/aquota.user: Input/output error
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Multimedia: Input/output error
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Usb: Input/output error
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Recordings: Input/output error
ls: /share/MD0_DATA/Public: Input/output error
cameras/



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