[SLUG] auto get file out of email to folder then act on it

2009-11-14 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi all, So far I have not found a solution in Google but maybe I'm not looking for the correct thing...? A client of mine is getting a .zip file every day to his redhat postfix inbox. I need to automatically get the zip file from the email and put it in a folder on another machine, then

Re: [SLUG] auto get file out of email to folder then act on it

2009-11-14 Thread James Polley
I haven't read deeply, but searching teh interweb for 'postfix extract attachments' seems to give useful pointers. On 14/11/2009, at 22:22, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, So far I have not found a solution in Google but maybe I'm not looking for the correct

Re: [SLUG] auto get file out of email to folder then act on it

2009-11-14 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/14 Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au: Hi all, So far I have not found a solution in Google but maybe I'm not looking for the correct thing...? A client of mine is getting a .zip file every day to his redhat postfix inbox. I need to automatically get the zip file from the email and

Re: [SLUG] MythTV hardware advice sought

2009-11-14 Thread Jake Anderson
John Clarke wrote: The box will be both back and front end and will be in the lounge room in the cabinet with the amps, dvd player, etc, so it'll need to be fairly quiet, especially when idle, but I don't want to hear much when it's running either. It's going to be inside a cabinet so doesn't

[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe

2009-11-14 Thread John Nielsen
Hi Guyz Thanks for the feedback...yes I will be setting up printing and I downloaded a copy of mint from TAFE...I did as well look at E Live as it was in the same article that I read in APC Mag...I'll be starting my try outs later in the week. No I've yet to do research on the hardware and if

[SLUG] Iptables / Bridged

2009-11-14 Thread Andrew Hendrik Bootsma
Hi Guys; I recently setup a server with a main ip of x.x.x.x and a subnet which I have bridged to an internal qtap0 adapter. My current iptables setup however blocks all traffic of the subnet, and when I allow the subnet; iptables -I FORWARD -s 213.133.127.0/29 -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT -s

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
Oh my God I can't believe I didn't think of the video! I've been thinking it was the ram because i recently changed it, then changed it back when i noticed that it wouldn't work, what put me off though it that i can't boot into Memtest86+, it'll just reboot the computer! I haven't tried it again

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread Grant Parnell
Mike wrote: Ok I don't get this, I've got the same mobo on two machines and it'll work one but not the other. I've tried diff ram and hdds and still same result I try to boot into the live cd select English, then it will Load the glowing icon and dump me at a prompt that flashes, and it's

Re: [SLUG] Iptables / Bridged

2009-11-14 Thread Grant Parnell
Andrew Hendrik Bootsma wrote: Hi Guys; I recently setup a server with a main ip of x.x.x.x and a subnet which I have bridged to an internal qtap0 adapter. My current iptables setup however blocks all traffic of the subnet, and when I allow the subnet; iptables -I FORWARD -s 213.133.127.0/29

Re: [SLUG] The Beast

2009-11-14 Thread jam
On Saturday 14 November 2009 23:05:47 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: Has anybody tamed the grub2 beast? I uncovered a link joyrapture http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275 James Whatever the technical merit, the lack of even basic documentation is overwhelming. I'm trying to:

[SLUG] workspace switcher names not saving

2009-11-14 Thread Grant Parnell
On my Ubuntu 8.10 laptop I can set the names of the 8 workspaces I use by right clicking and selecting preferences. Apparently this is dependent on not having Compiz and among other things the video card driver, in my case Nvidia. The names of the workspaces only appear to last as long as the

Re: [SLUG] The Beast

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
This is something we're all going to be facing sooner or later. I'm a little shocked to find that the old menu.lst (grub.cfg) is not to be manually edited, though i'm also happy to find that the option has been replaced by adding custom entries (/etc/grub.d/40_custom) if i'm understanding

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread peter
Mike == Mike Andy beatbreake...@gmail.com writes: Mike Oh my God I can't believe I didn't think of the video! I've been Mike thinking it was the ram because i recently changed it, then Mike changed it back when i noticed that it wouldn't work, what put Mike me off though it that i can't boot

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
When I boot the LiveCD I get that flashing command line screen and I can't enter in anything so I'm unable to enter or read anything. I can't get to log files. Even if i try to go directly to an install it'll do the same thing. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:19 PM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread db
Try booting ubuntu with the safe graphics option. If you cannot find that, boot normally then push control alt f1, to get to a terminal. After doing that use an editor like nano to edit (nano) /etc/X11/xorg.conf and under (command sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf to edit this file). Section Device

[SLUG] Re: Newbie alert and Community Net cafe

2009-11-14 Thread Mike Andy
Thanks for the info Patrick, It's the first time i've heard of a distro asking for a donation too, though $10 really isn't that much I had mixed feelings about the approach too. That said, I guess it's a good way to get some contribution from people, I always intend on giving donations to the

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread Peter Chubb
Mike == Mike Andy beatbreake...@gmail.com writes: Mike When I boot the LiveCD I get that flashing Mike command line screen and I can't enter in anything so I'm unable Mike to enter or read anything. I can't get to log files. Even if i Mike try to go directly to an install it'll do the same

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-11-14 Thread Peter Chubb
Mike == Mike Andy beatbreake...@gmail.com writes: Mike When I boot the LiveCD I get that flashing command line screen Mike and I can't enter in anything so I'm unable to enter or read Mike anything. I can't get to log files. Even if i try to go directly Mike to an install it'll do the same

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG] MythTV hardware advice sought

2009-11-14 Thread John Clarke
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:19:29AM +0800, jam wrote: James, Thanks for your reply. I appreciate your input. Rather than 'saying you oughta ...' this is what I'd do and why ... a) I'd run back and front end of different machines I'd thought of doing that, but because the TV and aerial

Re: [SLUG] MythTV hardware advice sought

2009-11-14 Thread John Clarke
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 02:05:37AM +1100, Jake Anderson wrote: Jake, Thanks for your input, much appreciated. you probably want a silverstone case. They have some nice ones. They have some ugly ones too :-) I was thinking of buying an LC10-E. I want HDMI video to the TV (LCD, 1080p),