Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Rsnapshot Issues

2016-03-07 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
or selinux... On 6 March 2016 at 20:19, Alex Pilon wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 05:24:53PM -0500, Bruce wrote: > > I'm having trouble with the ssh login. > > > > debug3: hostkeys_foreach: reading file "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" > > Don't expect `ssh -vvv` to tell you everything. For security r

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] "git fetch" versus "git fetch --tags"?

2015-06-28 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
A normal "git fetch" will fetch tags that point to commits being fetched. So if you are fetching new histroy that has a tag pointing to it, that tag will be fetched with it. But by default, fetch only pulls "refs/heads/*" (branch namespace). Adding a "--tags" will make it fetch "refs/tags/*" too.

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] more git Q: lightweight vs annotated tags

2015-05-14 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
On May 14, 2015 6:18 PM, "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: ." > > i never knew this, but that makes it even *more* confusing as it > suggests there should be all 465 tag entries under .git/refs/tags/, > no? so how do i interpret those lonely three tag names in refs/tags? > Sort of like objects, tags a

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] next meeting? and free wireless routers

2014-12-31 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
Good news! I've been looking to replace my setup of hacked up aging WRT54GS/GL routers (ya, it's over 10 years old, high time to upgrade)... I'll have to pick up one and try. Apparently new openwrt is a lot nicer than my ancient version too! Am I good to assume any of the Archer C7 I'ld find n

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] multiboot liveCD isos on external HDD

2013-03-15 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
hen i made mine... But basically, it's a syslinux boot on USB, and it uses chain loading and grub chained to boot other things, like hard drives, or complete ISO images fond in a directory a. On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > I have a setup like that on a 16GB usb

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to programatically kill minicom without resetting it?

2013-03-13 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
'd rather do this the right way. anyone > know how to kill off a minicom session without resetting the modem > it's talking to? > > rday > > __**_ > Linux mailing list > Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mail

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] multiboot liveCD isos on external HDD

2013-03-13 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
wiki/index.php/The_Syslinux_Project> >> >> I'm already using pxelinux on my network to boot a number of >> distributions. >> >> Cheers, JN >>> >> >> slainte mhath, RGB >> >> -- >> Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\-- ~\

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Recommendations for home NAS

2013-01-07 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
TA and the network via NFS and CIFS Ya, nothing major ;-) a. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: > on -- Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god, ai...@highrise.ca command like

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for perl(?) script to convert list of URLs to PDF files

2012-09-26 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
I use it on a few pages (CGI outputs) regularly, but I'll admit to customizing my HTML to make it work well with HTML2ps. But, with that scheme, s/html2ps/$ANY_CONVERTER_OF_YOUR_CHOICE/ Like: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ a. -- Aidan Van Dyk

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] looking for perl(?) script to convert list of URLs to PDF files

2012-09-26 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
cheat: #!/bin/bash page=0 while read URL do page=$((page+1)) if [ "$page" ne "SKIP" ]; then html2ps -o - $URL | ps2pdf - $(printf page-%03d.pdf $page) fi done (warning, typed into an email client, not a shell script, so gotcha's not a

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] late delivery of oclug mail

2012-09-08 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
iling list > Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > -- Aidan Van Dyk Create like a god, ai...@highrise.ca command like a king, http://www.highrise.ca/

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a git (plumbing?) command to show all objects added by a commit?

2012-01-24 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Bart Trojanowski wrote: > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 13:32, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: >> >> >  does that sound about right?  and is there a single command that >> > would show all of that new content?  thanks. >> >> I think the

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] a git (plumbing?) command to show all objects added by a commit?

2012-01-24 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
ontent?  thanks. I think the easiest way would be to pack everything before you start, and then after your commit, just look at all the loose objects made. Or if you want to work backwards from 1st principles, you can work with cat-file to show them from the commits through the trees/files how th

[OCLUG-Tech] Fwd: Experience with Keynetz colocation?

2011-11-30 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
Sorry, forgot the list the 1st time... -- Forwarded message -- From: Aidan Van Dyk Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:55 AM Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Experience with Keynetz colocation? To: OddSox On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:36 AM, OddSox wrote: > Just recently read about >

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Ubuntu Kosmic Kola vs. VMware Server 2

2011-04-15 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
or maybe just (assuming you have access to KVM device) kvm -usbdevice table -hda /dev/sdc -vnc :1 a. -- Aidan Van Dyk                                             Create like a god, ai...@highrise.ca                                       command like a king, http://w

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] how to *start* computerizing several hundred CDs?

2011-03-10 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
(I'ld get a second and rsync it occasionally) is easily more convenient. -- Aidan Van Dyk                                             Create like a god, ai...@highrise.ca                                       command like a king, http://www.highrise.ca/              

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] privoxy or similar tunnel?

2010-12-27 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
x27;s VPN tunnel (ssh -L) has worked for temoprary things if I didn't have the normal ipsec VPN available. -- Aidan Van Dyk                                             Create like a god, ai...@highrise.ca                                       command like a king, http://w

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Linux platform differences

2010-10-27 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
a linux-specific tool to poke at network devices, so I actually would expect it to include linux/* headers directly. I wouldn't hold much hope of compiling that on windows. a. -- Aidan Van Dyk                                             Create like a god, ai...@highr

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] informing the masses of IPv6 [Was: Canadian domain registrar with IPv6 support]

2010-09-07 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
rse DNS for your /56, but well, let's hope that will come "soon" (Well, hopefully better than soon, since their definition of "soon" seems to be years, or at least that's how long I was told their IPv6 was coming "soon" before the beta was started). a. -- Ai