[gentoo-user] Compile Error: kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r2: emerge -uDv world

2005-02-16 Thread Mal Herring
Hi Gentoo-User, I am doing an emerge -uDv world and getting a failure at kdelibs-3.3.2-r2. I have checked the forums and not found much, I checked google groups and found a spanish post but i cant read spanish and nor can google's translator it would seem. I searched the Gentoo-User archives and f

[gentoo-user] Creating a email group...

2005-02-14 Thread Mal Herring
Hi Gentoo-User, I have a mail server which is using the Gentoo Virtual Mail Host guidelines. I have a requirement for a virtual domain to accept mail for an "Info" address and distribute to a number of virtual users (users collecting main from server via pop) so having looked around a little i can

RE: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Mal Herring
> You have two if's and only one then. What is the goal? > Do you want to execute the command if either page has the > string or only if both do? for background : I am running a transcoder for an online station transmitting @ 56k using shoutcast. I have set up another server to transcode the 56k

RE: [gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Mal Herring
> And I think you should add another "then" too : > > if lynx -dump page1 | grep -q -e "search string" > then > if lynx -dump page2 | grep -q -e "search string" > then > command > fi > fi as easy as that - wow... are there any good HOW-TO's about bash scripting - i would not mind learning more a

[gentoo-user] More scripting help please...

2005-02-06 Thread Mal Herring
Hi list, I have run into a little difficulty... I am writing a script that : Checks page 1 for text, then checks page2 for text then lauches a command - I have tried this : if lynx -dump page1 | grep -q -e "search string" if lynx -dump page2 | grep -q -e "search string" then command fi i have

RE: [gentoo-user] Help with a script please...

2005-02-04 Thread Mal Herring
> if lynx -dump URL | grep -q -e "expression" Wget causes the same previously posted error - lynx rocks ! Will continue - thanks all ! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Help with a script please...

2005-02-04 Thread Mal Herring
> wget -O - | grep I forgot to mention that the page is on an odd port - 9270, when trying the command I get : HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 17:45:21 ERROR -1: Malformed status line. Should I change something ? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Help with a script please...

2005-02-04 Thread Mal Herring
Hi List, I would like to write a script that somehow gets a text only output of a webpage - can lynx do this ? Then grep the output for a desired string of text - then somehow pass the result to an if command so that if the string is found - lauch this and if not then loop... Can this be done ? T

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: IPTables - A good place to start ?

2005-02-01 Thread Mal Herring
> Frankly, fwbuilder or guarddog would be a very nice front-end > for iptables/netfilter. AS you mentioned, you _don't_ really > want to know that much, so these programs would actually do > all the behind the scenes for you automatically. Thanks for the comments all - however I forgot to menti

[gentoo-user] IPTables - A good place to start ?

2005-01-31 Thread Mal Herring
Hi List, I have previously used FWBuilder to build a firewall script, however now I need a simple fw script to protect a single host that will not be behind a net or anything like that... Can someone point me in the direction of some easy scripts to reference or some material good for a n00b to ge

[gentoo-user] Rsnapshot question.

2005-01-24 Thread Mal Herring
Hi Gentoo-User, I'm looking to use rsnapshot to perform a FULL backup on a daily basis of a production server to another server off-site. My question is - Do I understand that rsnapshot can be used for this task ? And which directory's should I backup - I am not 100% sure which are must have's an

RE: [gentoo-user] Monitoring Recommendation.

2005-01-19 Thread Mal Herring
i've use nagios, and while it's pretty convoluted to setup, it's done this way because it's very powerful. it supports custom plugins, so what you monitor and what to do based on events is limited only by your own scripting skills. -- Scripting Skills - where can I buy those then... ;) I am not

[gentoo-user] Monitoring Recommendation.

2005-01-19 Thread Mal Herring
Morning/Afternoon/Evening List !   I was hoping for some advice, I need to monitor a Windows Web Server - Up/Down and speed if possible... then if a problem is detected fire a email/sms off to a device   Anyone use anything they can recommend ?   Have looked @ HotSaNIC and RDTool etc but th