[SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

2008-03-31 Thread Bruce Bruen
Greets, env: PCLinuxOS 2007. For some reason that I cannot fathom, ntp is setting the time as if DST was over, i.e. its an hour ago. I am using au.pool.ntp.org as the ntp pool and the problem is independent of the actual host used. Any clues? Web searches have brought no enlightnment.

Re: [SLUG] DST Changes (Debian/PHP?)

2008-03-31 Thread Greg Cockburn
David, Excellent! Thanks for that. Greg. On 31/03/2008, David Gillies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Greg, Greg Cockburn wrote: Main applications that seem to have problems: mythweb (mythtv) nagiosQL I got this from the mythtv-users list and it worked for me (with mythweb

Re: [SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

2008-03-31 Thread Tony Sceats
you may have UTC wrong try: date -u and make sure it's the correct time in UTC.. you can try zdump -v Australia/Sydney | grep 2008 to check if the dates are correct for the change On 3/31/08, Bruce Bruen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greets, env: PCLinuxOS 2007. For some reason that I

Re: [SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

2008-03-31 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use ntp.nml.csiro.au and time.esec.com.au as my time servers and all seems to work well. DST is not yet ended. I'll know more on Sunday! My system is ubuntu 7.10. Heracles Bruce Bruen wrote: | Greets, | | env: PCLinuxOS 2007. | | For some reason

Re: [SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

2008-03-31 Thread Martin Visser
On 3/31/08, Bruce Bruen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greets, env: PCLinuxOS 2007. For some reason that I cannot fathom, ntp is setting the time as if DST was over, i.e. its an hour ago. Yes, that's the symptom you would have if you haven't updated tzdata I am using

[SLUG] 2008 SLUG Election Results

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Moor
Hi All, Please find below the results of the 2008/2009 SLUG Committee Elections, held at the 2008 SLUG Annual General Meeting on Friday 28 March 2008. Congratulations to the new committee, and thank you to the outgoing 2007/2008 Committee. Special thanks to Mary Gardiner, our Returning

[SLUG] (Correction) Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] 2008 SLUG Election Results

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Moor
Hi All, The post I made earlier this evening of the 2008 SLUG Election Results contained an error. Sonia Hamilton's nomination did in fact have a second, Erik de Castro Lopo. The corrected text should have read: Sonia Hamilton (N: Self, S: Erik de Castro Lopo, Accepted) Regards, Matt Moor

Re: [SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

2008-03-31 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
The problem is that the Europe (GMT/UTC) and US changed to Summer time on Sunday so, the relative time is wrong. There should only be 11 hours difference next sunday there will be 12. Marghanita Bruce Bruen wrote: Greets, env: PCLinuxOS 2007. For some reason that I cannot fathom, ntp is

[SLUG] Linux on Iphone

2008-03-31 Thread Deepan
Hi All, I am wondering if anyone has managed to install linux on iphone? I am aware of ipodlinux, for ipod. Not sure if someone has hacked into iphone. Openmoko is a nice alternative though. Regards Deepan Sudoku Solver: http://www.sudoku-solver.net/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread Peter Miller
Dear Lazy Web, I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a lot of round trips like this: 1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot 2. netboot and install Linux, when that reboots 3. notice the reboot, hit DEL, enable disk boot 4. shiny new linux boots, not perfect, figure

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread david . lyon
Hi Peter, have you tried install-mbr ? eg: install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/hda Quoting Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Lazy Web, I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a lot of round trips like this: 1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot 2. netboot

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread John Ferlito
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:58:21AM +1100, Peter Miller wrote: The bios doesn't have a Press F12 to enter boot menu which would be particularly useful, because I could then leave disk boot enabled. So, dear reader, if you have got this far, how hard is it to add a Whack Master Boot Record to

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 09:58 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: Dear Lazy Web, I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a lot of round trips like this: 1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot 2. netboot and install Linux, when that reboots 3. notice the reboot, hit DEL,

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:58:21AM +1100, Peter Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Dear Lazy Web, [snip] So, dear reader, if you have got this far, how hard is it to add a Whack Master Boot Record to the *grub* boot menu, alongside memtest86, which would overwrite the MBR with all zero?

Re: [SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

2008-03-31 Thread Martin Visser
Wrong!!! UTC never changes for daylight saving - however localtime in UK and Europe may well do. On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the Europe (GMT/UTC) and US changed to Summer time on Sunday so, the relative time is wrong.

Re: [SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

2008-03-31 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Martin Visser wrote: Wrong!!! UTC never changes for daylight saving - however localtime in UK and Europe may well do. Thanks...that the UTC bit dawned on me just after I sent the post :-( On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that the

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu repository components and what they mean

2008-03-31 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:39:55 +1100, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Post-release, that archive is never touched. It means that users get to choose how much damage they're willing to accept: Jeff this explanation is too nice, to clear - could you obfuscate it a bit? :-) Thanks for a great

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Lazy Web, I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a lot of round trips like this: If you don't need to test directly on your hardware you could run the PXE install in a VM with either

Re: [SLUG] Linux on Iphone

2008-03-31 Thread James Dumay
Deepan, As far as I am aware Linux cannot be run on the iPhone (Im not sure why you would want to either). James On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Deepan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am wondering if anyone has managed to install linux on iphone? I am aware of ipodlinux, for ipod. Not

Re: [SLUG] DST changes - my problem is the other way up

2008-03-31 Thread Martin Visser
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks...that the UTC bit dawned on me just after I sent the post :-( Was that a daylight saving dawn or a standard dawn? Sorry, couldn't resist ;-) (I'm sure the brain creates unintended puns just because of

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread Peter Miller
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 12:40 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a lot of round trips like this: If you don't need to test directly on your hardware you could run the PXE install in a VM with either VMware or KVM. I've done