Re: Mini howto: Chain shutdown commands for OpenUPSmartd

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:31, you wrote: > Andrew Errington wrote: > > > > > > I have to ask, why not use 'nut' (Network UPS Tools)? > > `cos it doesn't talk the protocol... :( Hmm. It's curious that the OpenUPSmartd authors didn't make the driver compatible with nut, especially since they are aw

Re: Upstart - Ubuntu's new init

2006-09-05 Thread Hadley Rich
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 14:06, Ben Ford wrote: > I always really liked Archlinux's init sequence... loosely based on BSD I > believe and it's so fast!! Yeah, Arch Linux and Slackware both use BSD style init rather than SysV style init. I like the simplicity too. The boot sequence in Arch L

RE: Upstart - Ubuntu's new init

2006-09-05 Thread Ben Ford
I always really liked Archlinux's init sequence... loosely based on BSD I believe and it's so fast!! -Original Message- From: Hadley Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:49 p.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Upstart - Ubuntu's new init On

Re: Mini howto: Chain shutdown commands for OpenUPSmartd

2006-09-05 Thread Nick Rout
On 1:31 pm 09/06/06 Rex Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Errington wrote: > > > > > > > I have to ask, why not use 'nut' (Network UPS Tools)? > > `cos it doesn't talk the protocol... :( > > Rex May i suggest that your howto would be ideal in the wiki at http://www.clug.org.nz (not

Re: Mini howto: Chain shutdown commands for OpenUPSmartd

2006-09-05 Thread Rex Johnston
Andrew Errington wrote: I have to ask, why not use 'nut' (Network UPS Tools)? `cos it doesn't talk the protocol... :( Rex

Re: Mini howto: Chain shutdown commands for OpenUPSmartd

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew Errington
On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:11, you wrote: > Hi all, > > Had a fun time yesterday afternoon trying to make one machine supervise > the shutdown of another. > > The situation is this... > > UPS, serial connection to server A, has server A and server B connected > to power outlets. I have to ask, why no

Mini howto: Chain shutdown commands for OpenUPSmartd

2006-09-05 Thread Rex Johnston
Hi all, Had a fun time yesterday afternoon trying to make one machine supervise the shutdown of another. The situation is this... UPS, serial connection to server A, has server A and server B connected to power outlets. The UPS in question will only talk to OpenUPSmartd, which is a single ma

Re: Upstart - Ubuntu's new init

2006-09-05 Thread Hadley Rich
On Wednesday 06 September 2006 11:04, Dan Coe wrote: > Have you noticed a speed increase at boot? I just rebooted so I could have a look :) I didn't notice a speed up but I don't reboot that often so I'm not entirely sure I'd notice. I'm not all that surprised that the boot up process is a simil

Re: Upstart - Ubuntu's new init

2006-09-05 Thread Dan Coe
Something interesting happened on my Kubuntu Edgy system this morning as I apt-get dist-upgrade'd - sysvinit was removed and replaced with upstart. Yes - upstarts indeed!! They got a write up in distrowatch on monday as well. http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060904#news Have you no

Upstart - Ubuntu's new init

2006-09-05 Thread Hadley Rich
Hi all, Something interesting happened on my Kubuntu Edgy system this morning as I apt-get dist-upgrade'd - sysvinit was removed and replaced with upstart. Upstart is the new init system developed by the Ubuntu guys and looks like it will be an interesting step forward. Here is an article abou

Re: konqueror crashes constantly

2006-09-05 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:59, Julian Visch wrote: > Just recently konqueror stopped working on my suse 10.1 distribution, I > have included below the back trace for your reference if it helps, but > essentially what I want to know is what is the best way to fix the problem, > reinstall kde? T

Re: com port pinout

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew Errington
> Thanks Andrew, I just wanted to be sure before plugging it into the > motherboard. Serial ports are pretty well protected. Plugging the socket into the motherboard would cause absolutely no problem. If it was wired wrong, plugging a modem in would simply not work, no damage should actually o

Re: com port pinout

2006-09-05 Thread Alan
Andrew Errington wrote: On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:19, you wrote: can someone tell me if the following connection are the standard for the cable to 9 pin male connector please motherboard connector 1 3 5 7 91 2 3

Re: BSD Question - SMP kernel.

2006-09-05 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 19:06, Nick Rout wrote: > does this help? Indeed it does, after I found a suitable rodent :-) Many thanks! -- CS

konqueror crashes constantly

2006-09-05 Thread Julian Visch
Just recently konqueror stopped working on my suse 10.1 distribution, I have included below the back trace for your reference if it helps, but essentially what I want to know is what is the best way to fix the problem, reinstall kde? There are no updates relevant and looking on the bugs site did

Re: com port pinout

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew Errington
On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:19, you wrote: > can someone tell me if the following connection are the standard for the > cable to 9 pin male connector > please > motherboard connector > 1 3 5 7 91 2 3 4 5 > 2 4 6 8

Re: com port pinout

2006-09-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 20:19 +1200, Alan wrote: > can someone tell me if the following connection are the standard for the > cable to 9 pin male connector > please > motherboard connector > 1 3 5 7 91 2 3 4 5 > 2 4

com port pinout

2006-09-05 Thread Alan
can someone tell me if the following connection are the standard for the cable to 9 pin male connector please motherboard connector 1 3 5 7 91 2 3 4 5 2 4 6 86 7 8 9

Re: BSD Question - SMP kernel.

2006-09-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:01 +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > I have install PC-BSD into a dual P/III machine, but i don't think the PCBSD > installer installed the SPM kernel. uname -a suggests that to be the case. > > There is a tar.bz2 file which fairly obviously is the SMP kernel plus some