Re: [SLUG] Cp -R skipping some directories

2005-05-26 Thread tatz
From: "Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:08:37 +1000 > Is it possible to have cp skip some directories when using cp -R? mirrordir command can help you. -- SEKINE Tatsuo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http:/

Re: [SLUG] Telephone recording?

2005-05-26 Thread Luke Yelavich
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:19:43PM EST, James Gray wrote: > Dick Smith sell an analogue phone pickup (basically a purpose-built > microphone) that attaches to the hand piece and has a cable with monaural > 1/16" (IIRC) male plug on the other end. Plug the pickup into your sound > card's microp

Re: [SLUG] Cp -R skipping some directories

2005-05-26 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Well, that depends on what we're talking about. In a script context, you could have an "ignore list", and by checking if "folder1" is in it, the script would that folder and move on. (insert your favorite shell hack here) But strictly as a command, you have regexes available. By copying "ma*" rec

Re: [SLUG] Cp -R skipping some directories

2005-05-26 Thread Phil Scarratt
Simon wrote: HI all, Is it possible to have cp skip some directories when using cp -R? I don't think so. Looked into it just the other day. I think find is your friend or start copying from deeper down the tree? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscript

Re: [SLUG] Cp -R skipping some directories

2005-05-26 Thread Steve Kowalik
On Fri, 27 May 2005 14:08:37 +1000, Simon uttered > HI all, > Is it possible to have cp skip some directories when using cp -R? You can. Except just cp -R won't cut it. The one way that springs to mind is using find with -prune and -exec cp {} \; Cheers, --

Re: [SLUG] Telephone recording?

2005-05-26 Thread Martin
$quoted_author = "Jeff Waugh" ; > > What's the most sensible and reliable way to record a phone conversation, > assuming a standard phone, using Free Software (and probably a bit of > hardware)? i did this once. i took an old rotary phone, unscrewed the speaker in the handset, took the wires off

[SLUG] Cp -R skipping some directories

2005-05-26 Thread Simon
HI all, Is it possible to have cp skip some directories when using cp -R? OLMC Simon Bryan IT Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] LMB 14 North Parramatta tel: 96833300 fax: 98901466 mobile: 0414238002 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's G

Re: [SLUG] Telephone recording?

2005-05-26 Thread TongMaster
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 13:20 +0930, Ryan Verner wrote: > Glaringly obvious statement but also make sure to tell the person on the > other end that the phone conversation will be recorded at the start of > the phone call; privacy laws ahoy otherwise. Laws require a beep every 30 seconds or so. Ring

Re: [SLUG] Telephone recording?

2005-05-26 Thread Ryan Verner
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 13:19 +1000, James Gray wrote: > Dick Smith sell an analogue phone pickup (basically a purpose-built > microphone) that attaches to the hand piece and has a cable with monaural > 1/16" (IIRC) male plug on the other end. Plug the pickup into your sound > card's microphone

Re: [SLUG] Telephone recording?

2005-05-26 Thread James Gray
On Fri, 27 May 2005 01:04 pm, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Hey, > > So, I'm going to do some phone interviews that I want to record and publish > as audio files. It has to involve a phone, because they'll be > international, and I don't want force myself and the interviewees to muck > around with VoIP. > >

[SLUG] Telephone recording?

2005-05-26 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hey, So, I'm going to do some phone interviews that I want to record and publish as audio files. It has to involve a phone, because they'll be international, and I don't want force myself and the interviewees to muck around with VoIP. What's the most sensible and reliable way to record a phone co

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Meeting + CodeFest reminder

2005-05-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 09:43 +1000, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: > CodeFest > > The CodeFest will be going ahead this weekend, however the venue and day > are still being finalised. ... Pulling rabbits out of hats, we now have the ACS NSW meeting room for tomorrow from 10:30 am

[SLUG] SLUG Meeting + CodeFest reminder

2005-05-26 Thread Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux
SLUG Meeting When: Tonight 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway, Building 2, Level 4, Room 11 What's on: Q & A session, experiences from CeBIT, Ubuntu Down Under Report, SLUGlets (Software Freedom Day?), SIG talk on the R environment for statistical computing CodeFest The Co

[SLUG] code fest

2005-05-26 Thread ashley maher
SLUG has a room if you want for Saturday codefest ACS NSW Offices It is confirmed for 10.30am Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] 2nd June - Anti-circumvention Open Source Forum - PLEASE RSVP

2005-05-26 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, Just a reminder, the next Open Source Forum is on the 2nd of June, and is all about anti-circumvention and software development. We have both legal and practical experience from both sides of the coin as per the website, and a panel discussion afterwards. We have high profile speakers from

Re: [SLUG] Strange Mount behaviour

2005-05-26 Thread Phil Scarratt
Simon wrote: Hi all, We have bee running a simple backup strategy. I have a Fedora server remotely located in the school with various shares mounted, some via samba others NFS, then at midnight I do a cp -afu --reply=yes /mnt/backups/source/* /mnt/backups/destination/ .. /mnt/backups/destinat

[SLUG] Strange Mount behaviour

2005-05-26 Thread Simon
Hi all, We have bee running a simple backup strategy. I have a Fedora server remotely located in the school with various shares mounted, some via samba others NFS, then at midnight I do a cp -afu --reply=yes /mnt/backups/source/* /mnt/backups/destination/ .. /mnt/backups/destination is a second

[SLUG] Industry TechLink News

2005-05-26 Thread editor
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Re: [SLUG] evolution + optusnet mail account nightmare

2005-05-26 Thread Ken Wilson
My Optus cable is mail.optushome.com.au Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear slugger Is anyone in SLUG has experinence in configuring evolution with optusnet ADSL account. everytime I send the email seems like operation time out. here is the configuration of my email address mail.optusnet.com.a

Re: [SLUG] error processing ndtpd .. {& rampant syslog ?}

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Bogacki
Steve Kowalik wrote: >On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:13:10 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered > > >>I've attached the output below. I'm also getting a lot of syslog >>messages appearing in gnome-terminal together >>with beeping and a red light flashing on the midi-tower. >> >> >> >I daresay that syslog

Re: [SLUG] error processing ndtpd .. {& rampant syslog ?}

2005-05-26 Thread Adam Bogacki
On Thu, 26 May 2005 16:13:10 +1200, Adam Bogacki uttered >> I've attached the output below. I'm also getting a lot of syslog >> messages appearing in gnome-terminal together >> with beeping and a red light flashing on the midi-tower. >> I daresay that syslogd is badly miconfigured on your ma

[SLUG] Re: Stas Bekman - Author of mod_perl V2 Talk at Sydney Uni

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Deigan
Oh, and of course entries close Monday 30th (at 00:00). -Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Stas Bekman - Author of mod_perl V2 Talk at Sydney Uni

2005-05-26 Thread Chris Deigan
Ahoy SLUG'ers, SLUG has been offered 2 places for attending a talk being held at Sydney University on next Thursday (2nd of June) by Stas Bekman, author of mod_perl V2. For those interested in attending, please email SLUG committee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a short(!) paragraph of why you should