Re: [SLUG] Wiki suggestions?

I think there is an "edit source" option somewhere there, if you insist on text syntax. Personally I find its WYSIWYG interface pretty convenient, compared to the rare times that I find myself correct entries on Wikipedia. On 3 Oct 2015 6:09 pm, "James Gray" wrote: > I

Re: [SLUG] Website

I agree the site doesn't give a great shot of confidence in Linux as a web server, it doesn't render any page to completion for me. There is a link to "See the code" which points to https://github.com/sydney-linux-user-group/slug/commits/master, where the last commit happened over three years ago

Re: [SLUG] mailing list archives?

for? Ben On 10/06/15 13:05, Amos Shapira wrote: Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default Welcome to nginx! page. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] mailing list archives?

Hi, I'm trying to find the SLUG mailing list archive but any link other than the home page (e.g. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/) just gives the default Welcome to nginx! page. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

an MTU of 1492. Problem solved. Only some sites were affected, which made it confusing. I can't imagine why anyone would do this and not tell anybody. My reseller couldn't tell me who the upstream supplier is, except that it isn't TPG. Go figure. On 08/06/15 18:41, Amos Shapira wrote: You

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

On 8 June 2015 at 18:59, James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote: As for the weird connectivity, I know TPG for a long time ran transparent proxies without really making it widely known. I’ve seen similar behaviour to that which you describe when my local Squid cache get’s it’s panties in a

Re: [SLUG] the curious case of the inaccessible websites

You probably refer to the drop of support for NPAPI (e.g. article in http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/24/google-chrome-will-block-all-netscape-plugin-api-plugins-in-january-drop-support-completely-in-september/ about Chrome but Firefox is following cloesely behind). There are temporary work-around

[SLUG] CloudFormation chat before last night's SLUG talk

Hi, There was someone who talked to me about not having enough info about using AWS CloudFormation over pizza before the talk last night, but I didn't get her name before she left. If you see this - I can possibly provide you with some working examples I use at my workplace if you like. BTW -

Re: [SLUG] Recommendations for Australian Based VPS

1. Have you tried asking on Whirlpool forums? They got plenty of experienced people there. 2. I just started using Exigent for web hosting (not vps) and so far they are cheap and deliver. They also have VPS options. They got reports of improving over time on Whirlpool. --Amos On 25 March 2015 at

Re: [SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)

On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott redhowlingwol...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 05:32 PM, David Lyon wrote: Hi, I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I need to deploy Python Imaging Library to it, and it doesn't work. apt-get is for some reason broken.

Re: [SLUG] Fixing broken apt-get on Zentyal (Ubuntu)

, scott redhowlingwol...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 09:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: On 11 February 2015 at 11:39, scott redhowlingwol...@gmx.com wrote: On 02/10/2015 05:32 PM, David Lyon wrote: Hi, I have a working Zentyal server and everything is fine except that I need to deploy

Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of Chrome

Are you sure you got the youtube page open only once? No other tabs or windows? On 10 February 2015 at 17:25, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: On 10/02/15 17:08, scott wrote: On 02/10/2015 01:03 AM, Heracles wrote: When I look at a youtube video in chrome it seems to start the

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu unity slow

Sounds like you have correlation between Java and slowness. What's the Java configuration like? Do you tweaked the JVM settings to take advantage of the larger RAM, for instance? On 27 October 2014 09:08, Felix Sheldon dark...@internode.on.net wrote: Maybe it's Java that's slow? Try a

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

According to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze, regular security updates for squeeze were ended on May 31st 2014. LTS security updates are supposed to be released until 2016. LTS support is NOT provided by Debian security team. See the LTS announcement in

Re: [SLUG] BASH update for Debian 6?

, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: ahh thats the info i was looking for. Thanks Amos. You're right, upgrade is overdue. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: According to https://wiki.debian.org/DebianSqueeze, regular security updates

[SLUG] I was searching the SLUG meeting info...

see what Google suggested: http://imgur.com/QwP0iwE :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] dos2unix

tr -d '\r' infile outfile On 27 August 2014 20:47, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.com wrote: When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line ends converted When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned Tyrannosaus rex. Can anyone tell me what

Re: [SLUG] apt-get update GPG error

Could it be that the proxy has a corrupted cache? Try clearing it. On 22 Jul 2014 14:51, David da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: On 22/07/14 14:33, Lubos Rendek wrote: Hi David, does ignoring GPG with: # apt-get --allow-unauthenticated update helps at least temporarily..? Lubos Sadly not

Re: [SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

Which distribution is it? The method to set system timezone depends on the answer to this question. And BTW - what you are asking about is setting the time ZONE. Setting the correct time is usually a matter left to NTP. On 17 July 2014 10:51, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [SLUG] MySQL maintenance

Which storage engine and which version of Mysql? They were not all made equal. Otherwise, like others said, I'd look at hardware issues. On 28 Jun 2014 10:46, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I've been using MySQL for CMS and mail like for ever, on physical servers and vm servers with no problems that I

[SLUG] Silent 3.5 SATA HDD mounts, anyone?

Hi, I have a TowerRAID TRM5B (http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr5mb.html) without the caddies, and a Western Digital Red Caviear 2TB 3.5 disk. I'm looking into mounting the disk into the tower with some noise dampers. As far as I can tell, I need to attach some sort of a caddy to the disk

Re: [SLUG] Silent 3.5 SATA HDD mounts, anyone?

:09, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a TowerRAID TRM5B (http://www.sansdigital.com/towerraid/tr5mb.html) without the caddies, and a Western Digital Red Caviear 2TB 3.5 disk. I'm looking into mounting the disk into the tower with some noise dampers. As far as I can tell, I

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

I'd suspect environmental issues like temp, power brown/black out, dust accumulation. Lacking any more specifics I'd grep the logs for errors, but don't have much hope. On 7 Jun 2014 16:44, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a cacti

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

On 8 June 2014 09:52, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a must wait for next council cleanup so can pick up something more modern, I think If your reasons are economical then have you looked at how much power this server cost you?

Re: [SLUG] multiple grep conditions ?

line. See man grep. No need to quote or anything since it's not parsed through the shell. ? will I need any quotes in file 'pattern', or simply like: 07/2014 15/06/2014 20/06/2014 25/06/2014 thanks again V On Wed, May 21, 2014 7:24 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: It might be more

Re: [SLUG] Best (most efficient method) recursive dir DEL

On 22 May 2014 19:16, Darragh Bailey daragh.bai...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kyle, You might find it worth looking at the following invocation of find: find top_dir -name name_to_del -exec rm -rf {} \+ -prune the '+' will support expansion of arguments, thus it works exactly like xargs in

Re: [SLUG] Best (most efficient method) recursive dir DEL

Locate only indexes path names, not other attributes (like type, size, time etc) On 23 May 2014 06:11, Kyle k...@attitia.com wrote: Thanks to all for the responses. Interestingly, everyone has come back with find (followed by..) as the best option. Perhaps this is simply a reflection of

Re: [SLUG] multiple grep conditions ?

It might be more maintainable to keep the list of patterns in a variable (line per pattern) then pass it to grep using grep's -f/--file= argument: PATTERNS=15/06/2014 20/06/2014 25/06/2014 ... grep -q -f (echo $PATTERNS) file2 exit 0 Note the use of double quotes around the variable

Re: [SLUG] Best (most efficient method) recursive dir DEL

(Sorry I'm writing from the phone and can't test exact solution) What's the context of this question? Do you really want to keep all empty directories? -delete will fail on non-empty directories. Use -print0 -prune | xargs -0 rm -rf to stop find from scanning the doomed directory. On 22 May 2014

Re: [SLUG] stop processing with 'if grep exit' ?

If you want to grep for multiple strings in the same file, and exit if any of them is found, it is more efficient (and I think more maintainable) to specify them in one line: grep -q -e test2 -e test3 file2 exit 0 The -q is --quiet - just to suppress the output if you aren't interested in it

Re: [SLUG] connectivity test loop?

Testing for connectivity at the beginning is futile - the connection can be lost at any point even after getmail connected successfully and started downloading messages. You should look for a way to get getmail to handle the failure even in the middle of retrieving mails. For this - google about

Re: [SLUG] cygwin script file name error

BTW, in addition to the rest that was said, cat -tve is very useful in troubleshooting such issues. On 21 Feb 2014 15:24, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I've made a crude script under cygwin/XP, it was mainly working, but, after some edits, I'm getting a '?' appended to file name ? as so:

Re: [SLUG] cygwin script file name error

I don't see the ^M's that I was expecting. Is this file cleaned and working? Perhaps cat in Cygwin requires an additional option to show ^M's? On 21 February 2014 21:44, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Fri, February 21, 2014 8:05 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: BTW, in addition to the rest that was said

Re: [SLUG] Weird missing files.

Permissions? On 10 Feb 2014 13:45, Jeff Allison jeff.alli...@allygray.2y.net wrote: Hi all I've got a strange samba issue. I've a Centos 6.5 box with a 3.6 raid ext4 data drive on it, shared with samba. Now when I browse these folders on the console I can see the files. when I sftp on the

[SLUG] Monitoring web servers from Australia?

Hi, I'd like to monitor uptime and accessibility of a web server hosted in Sydney. I use Pingdom for now, but it doesn't have probes in Australia so it might be too sensitive to network issue I don't care so much about (for now the website targets Australian audiences). Is anyone aware of a

Re: [SLUG] Monitoring web servers from Australia?

Thanks. On 22 January 2014 19:14, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to monitor uptime and accessibility of a web server hosted in Sydney. I use Pingdom for now, but it doesn't have probes

Re: [SLUG] Working with PKCS7

Perhaps: openssl pkcs7 -text -noout -print_certs From: http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/ On 17 January 2014 19:05, Jiří Baum j...@baum.com.au wrote: Hello, Anyone have any hints for how to work with PKCS7 (.p7s) files? So far I've managed to find that openssl can create them, and

[SLUG] Where to look for a PHP developer?

Hi, My partner is looking to hire a PHP programmer to maintain a Symfony 1 web site (http://symfony.com/legacy, yes I know it's not the latest, but the web company which built it for her says that current Symfony 2 isn't ready yet). I was about to suggest her slug-jobs as a start but it seems to

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

17, 2013 4:33 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: So it's not a chroot thing. Please run lsof -p 5914 and paste the output, I don't trust grep's on pid numbers. # lsof -p 5914 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME clamd 5914 amavis cwdDIR 202,1

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

Try ls -l /proc/21905/root to show you the process's root directory. On 16 December 2013 14:28, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Mon, December 16, 2013 2:01 pm, Steve Kowalik wrote: Sounds like a chroot issue. As root, what does /proc/pid of clamd/cwd point to? Steve, thanks do you mean

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

So it's not a chroot thing. Please run lsof -p 5914 and paste the output, I don't trust grep's on pid numbers. On 17 December 2013 15:12, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Mon, December 16, 2013 10:23 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: Try ls -l /proc/21905/root to show you the process's root directory

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

I'm not an expert with this specific software but general knowledge of CentOS would lead me to: 1. I suspect your configuration switched from using unix-domain sockets to tcp sockets. 2. permission denied on TCP socket bind would point me to selinux issues or perhaps weird maximum, root-only port

Re: [SLUG] socket dissapears, how to t/s ?

lsof the clamd process On Mon, December 16, 2013 11:08 am, Amos Shapira wrote: Amos, thanks I'm not an expert with this specific software but general knowledge of CentOS would lead me to: 1. I suspect your configuration switched from using unix-domain sockets to tcp sockets. hmm

Re: [SLUG] assessing vps performance issues

In addition to Michael's good advise, see http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/07/25/understanding-cpu-steal-time-when-should-you-be-worriedabout steal time. On 30 October 2013 12:28, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.auwrote: show the support people your evidence of high IO wait. if

Re: [SLUG] making fgets fail during testing

use strace and friends I though I'd mention that friends should include the lesser known ltrace (http://linux.die.net/man/1/ltrace), which should allow you to find which user-space function is called, not just system calls. On 21 September 2013 23:07, Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au wrote: The

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Cool New Terminal Emulator for a modern look in Linux (David Lyon)

On 7 April 2013 09:38, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Apart from all the eye-candy in Terminology I found that it has one really useful command that helped me at work. It has commands called 'tyls' and 'tycat'. What theydo is list out files in a command line along with a

Re: [SLUG] 20 years of using Linux at Home

Yes it was ablast to be able to rub real Unix programs with ls and shell and fork(2) on 386 Ollivetti after years of having to rock up to a serial terminal connected to a Vax to enjoy them. But let me tell what I think about this discussion: http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

Re: [SLUG] script to analyse syslog in realtime

In addition to LogStash/Kibana, perhaps you want to look at something that just sends the events to statsd (https://github.com/etsy/statsd/) which then aggregates them into counters and ships the results to Graphite ( http://graphite.wikidot.com/). I have have yet to get personal experience with

Re: [SLUG] Local Debian 6.0.5 Repository

In addition to Ken's comprehensive response, the bottom line action I'd recommend is to follow the instructions for installation from the netinst image, especially if you have a reasonable access (e.g. any home ADSL connections is sufficient) On Aug 23, 2012 10:40 PM, Lee Isaacson

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

I was actually concentrating on the CONNECTION_REFUSED error before that, which means that nothing was listening on that port. On Aug 19, 2012 5:20 PM, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote: On 19/08/2012, at 9:50 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

Add a similar ssh tunnel on the new port (you can have as many as you like in parallel on the same SSH connection), and access it using explicit https: method. On Aug 19, 2012 9:51 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Fri, August 17, 2012 10:37 pm, Jeremy Visser wrote: On 17/08/12 07:08,

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

Look at SSH remote port forwarding (-r). On Aug 17, 2012 7:08 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I have tried installing HP management app on the old DL380 G2 server, Centos4, no monitor, no desktop when I tried running on ssh with 'links https://localhost:3128' (i might have 3128 incorrect, might

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

Sorry - local port forwarding (-l), forwarding from your local desktop to a remote server, then access the local port with your usual browser. On Aug 17, 2012 7:10 AM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Look at SSH remote port forwarding (-r). On Aug 17, 2012 7:08 AM, li...@sbt.net.au

Re: [SLUG] using desktop across lan ? fan speed control

Look for SSH on windows. Luckily for me I never had to use it but I heard about a cygwin port of openssh. There are also SSH implementations for Android. On Aug 17, 2012 7:16 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Fri, August 17, 2012 7:12 am, Amos Shapira wrote: Sorry - local port forwarding (-l

Re: [SLUG] Managing software across a cluster

Just get it all under puppet (puppetlabs.com). On Aug 14, 2012 9:55 PM, Steven Tucker tux...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Hi all, I have just rolled out a Scientific Linux (Redhat clone) cluster of 20 nodes plus controller that runs torque for batching and uses a lot of MPI. My problem is that I

Re: [SLUG] blank desktop / window management

Have you tried pointing your mouse at the screen corners or edges? It might trigger a dock to scroll in. On Aug 13, 2012 10:42 PM, ch.al...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I have just upgraded my old Dell dektop from Ubuntu 10.10 to 12.04 using Canonical's official disk. So far I am the only user .

Re: [SLUG] dns issues

More things to try: 1. Check that reverse DNS records point back correctly. 2. There are web sites to let you prob your DNS servers from a few dozens of servers around the world. Try using them to check availability. On Aug 11, 2012 12:28 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Sat, August 11, 2012 12:04

Re: [SLUG] sed to delete [??] ?

Hehe :) I didn't specify *where* I was sitting when I wrote that answer... On Jul 21, 2012 4:58 PM, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote: On 21/07/12 15:40, Amos Shapira wrote: (Writing from phone so can't test) It should be something like: sed -r -e 's/\[[0-9]{1,2}\]//g' Now that's

Re: [SLUG] sed to delete [??] ?

(Writing from phone sp can't test) It should be something like: sed -r -e 's/\[[0-9]{1,2}\]//g' On Jul 21, 2012 3:19 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I wget a page that ends up with multiple lines as below: Is there a sed expression, or other, to delete all '[??]' and '[?]' i.e, brackets with

Re: [SLUG] kernel update reboot ? deleting older versions

Ouch. You should have looked for the packages which contain these files (probably earlier versions of the kernel) using rpm -qf /boot/file.name and removed then using rpm. This would also automatically update the grub configuration. Try doing that now. On 12 July 2012 21:58, li...@sbt.net.au

Re: [SLUG] sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

It's a script and it's not owned by vmail so it can't be read by the shell. You have to allow it to be readable to the user you are trying to run it as. On Jul 12, 2012 10:22 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: Please copy the entire crontab entry here (no typing, I suspect you have typos). This

Re: [SLUG] bringing down runaway samba process ?

1. The leap second happened at the end of June, a week ago. He reports that it started earlier. 2. You don't need to reboot, it's possible to just re-set the clock, e.g. /etc/init.d/ntpd stop; date; date `date +”%m%d%H%M%C%y.%S”`; date; /etc/init.d/ntpd start (from

Re: [SLUG] sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

Please copy the entire crontab entry here (no typing, I suspect you have typos). This message reads a bit like something is looking for a binary called bin/sh /usr/local/bin/arch. On 5 July 2012 00:45, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: Don't use sudo in a script. You can set your cron job to run as a

Re: [SLUG] Agora Smart TV HDMI Dongle

I though it sounded neat too, until I read the less-than-enthusiastic comments on Ausdroid. Bottom line: according to the comments you can get exactly the same hardware at much lower cost from no-name brands and you should consider carefully whether it's really useful. On Jul 2, 2012 8:54 AM, Tom

Re: [SLUG] sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo

On 22 June 2012 09:59, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: lists == lists li...@sbt.net.au writes: lists (I'm going backwards in a hurry, first I can't telnet to lists localhost,) now, my script gives this: lists sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo Don't use sudo in a script. You

Re: [SLUG] Android phones

There is a huge and supportive community of Android hackers. Start with ausdroid forums for australia-centred news/discussions and dig up xda for lots more. On May 28, 2012 11:13 PM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Also I'd like to be able to

Re: [SLUG] Inverting network interfaces

What distro is it? I RH distros you can stick the MAC address on the interface configuration file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* On May 22, 2012 10:35 AM, Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au wrote: G'day, I have a rather weird problem. We've installed a router device

Re: [SLUG] updated kernel causing problems

/boot/grub/grub.cfg, from memory. On May 21, 2012 8:04 AM, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, Running centos 6.x After an update and reboot, the system hangs during startup mid way loading services... If I reboot again and get to grub I can select the previous kernel and

Re: [SLUG] Need to fix broken package in Ubuntu

You can tell aptitude to reinstall a package with aptitude reinstall libpopper13. In the test UI the key press is L. On May 17, 2012 4:26 PM, David da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I need to force apt to re-install a repository package that I have over-written with dpkg Problem: xpdf is broken

Re: [SLUG] Re: nostalgia

the person managing the list at slug-ow...@slug.org.au When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of slug digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: slashdot daily mailing list (Amos Shapira) -- Forwarded message -- From

Re: [SLUG] slashdot daily mailing list

Personally I was there when Slashdot began and left it for its vices many many years ago. I now get my fix from the h-online Grand Unified Feed ( http://www.h-online.com/newsfeeds/) and follow it through Google Reader on my mobile. The H online feels like what Slashdot used to be in the good old

Re: [SLUG] Solid State Disk Works Okay with Linux on Kogan Laptop

Back it up often, that's what id suggest from reading other's experience with SSD's. Ref: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html On Dec 12, 2011 9:27 AM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: I dropped my Kogan Agora 12 Inch laptop onto

Re: [SLUG] Cannot create static IP address for Ubuntu 10.4

My favourite way to achieve this is to assign a static DHCP lease on the modem (I.e. set it by the MAC address) that way it's also manageable for other kinds of devices, concentrated in one place and the dhcp server is aware of the address being in use. On Dec 10, 2011 12:22 PM, elliott-brennan

Re: [SLUG] monitoring aspx website, how ?

The quoted HTML is missing the form tag and looks like a partial copy/paste from a larger HTML page. The form tag is important in order to learn the URL to which the form is submitted. --Amos On 9 December 2011 16:03, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Fri, December 9, 2011 3:42 pm,

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

I hope it's OK to share this thread since I'm checking options for buying such a laptop too. My main additional features would be - low weight (as in - Apple Air light weight) and good battery life (e.g. work at least for half a day straight without a power cord). On 3 December 2011 17:23, David

Re: [SLUG] Wiki software

I like MediaWiki. 2011/11/21 Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au Any opinions on the good, bad, ugly Wiki software? I'm playing with PHPwiki (because it is tiny). Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz http://ramin.com.au Tel: 0414-869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Clustering weirdness

On 14 November 2011 23:53, Steven Tucker tux...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, got a problem with my cluster using OpenMPI + Torque+ Maui. I don't think OpenMPI is so common that you'll find many people with experience in this forum. You might have better luck in OpenMPI or Torque or Maui

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

On 18 October 2011 16:36, Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au wrote: Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With 11.10

Re: [SLUG] one entity with two tld domains web setup?

On 6 October 2011 15:46, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: + Redirect, or use one VirtualHost + mod_rewrite. I'm assuming Apache? If so, two main ways to do it: use two VirtualHosts yes, Apache, thanks for the code any extra overhead penalty for either method ? (mind you, this is a

Re: [SLUG] ssh key-based auth not working Ubuntu without GUI (X) login??

On 23 August 2011 11:24, Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au wrote: 1) I'd use ls -l to check the contents and permissions of /home/sonia/.ssh/authorized_keys you want sonia:sonia -rw--- This made me think about another option - do you use encrypted home directories? If so then maybe the

Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

On 26 July 2011 09:50, Simon Males s...@sime.net.au wrote: I have tried GNU ddrescue but the drive fails all to often. The block device disappears and I have not worked out a sure fire way of bringing it back online other then a reboot. Power cycling the device (attached via USB) or restarting

Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

On 25 July 2011 17:23, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net wrote: * Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com [2011-07-23 22:35:30 +1000]: +1 for ddrescue works well. On 07/23/2011 07:15 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad blocks. On Jul 22

Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

On 25 July 2011 17:57, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 July 2011 17:23, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net wrote: * Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com [2011-07-23 22:35:30 +1000]: +1 for ddrescue works well. On 07/23/2011 07:15 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: You should use

Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad blocks. On Jul 22, 2011 10:14 PM, Simon Males s...@sime.net.au wrote: Hi Slug, I'm trying to save a failing NTFS hard drive. It manages to mount and during copying the following error will appear in dmesg: Buffer I/O error

Re: [SLUG] ISP for web server in Camden (south-west Sydney)

This is the sort of a question which can be best answered through the whirlpool broadband database and forums... Good luck. On Jul 13, 2011 7:32 PM, grant_malcolm_bai...@westnet.com.au wrote: Hello, I'm new to SLUG and quite new to Linux so forgive me if this query has been wrongly directed.

Re: [SLUG] Hacked email

On 3 July 2011 16:31, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote: From what I've read, even if you *do* manage to convince Google you own the account, the hacker deletes all the mail in it anyway, and harvests the contacts before deleting them too - so you get nothing back anyway. That's why it might

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Jobs] Systems Admin - Build Engineer

On 24 May 2011 13:24, Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net wrote: Try to find companies that advertise direct. Whirlpool is a good place for that kind of thing. If Python is your thing, try finding out what big companies are doing Python in a big way in Sydney and contact them, and find others in

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

(I assume you meant clan-cpan, right?) Mixing CPAN and none-cpan packing is an invitation to a nightmare. Either install EVERYTHING from cpan or nothing at all. A quick apt-cache search BinHex shows that there is a ubuntu package for it: libconvert-binhex-perl. If you need a CPAN package which

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

, Amos Shapira wrote: (I assume you meant clan-cpan, right?) Mixing CPAN and none-cpan packing is an invitation to a nightmare. Either install EVERYTHING from cpan or nothing at all. A quick apt-cache search BinHex shows that there is a ubuntu package for it: libconvert-binhex-perl

Re: [SLUG] Upgrading OS RAID

On 10 January 2011 10:42, Kyle k...@attitia.com wrote:  My goal is to replace ALL the current 500GB disks with all new 1TB disks into a new RAID 1 array and yet maintain the entire machine's installation and configuration. I.e. If it were as simple as; 1. as suggested by Menno - install

Re: [SLUG] 1066MHz DDR2 Ram

I had excellent experience with upgradeable.com.au, many times every time. -Amos On 08/01/2011 7:09 PM, Jon and Hannah jnhhum...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know where I can get some good quality 1066 DDR2 ram? All I can find is the 800MHz stuff. It also needs to be a matched pair so

Re: [SLUG] dynamically creating a loop device MINOR numbers?

On 10 October 2010 14:24, Zenaan Harkness zen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.au wrote: The horrible, O(n) way is to just to loop over 0 .. n, see if it doesn't exist, if it doesn't then create and use it. It's slow, it's racy (ie, don't

Re: [SLUG] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?

On 7 October 2010 16:44, DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com wrote: Folks. I've got an idiot user who has created a file on a Linux filesystem named -.mxf I need to rename this file, but can't for the life of me remember how to escape the - character so mv doesn't regard it as an option identifier.

Re: [SLUG] Re: Listing local wifi access points?

On 6 October 2010 08:18, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Also if you're running OpenWRT or similar on your AP, you can get to a `site survey' under the `status' tab. While other platforms are also mentioned - I found WiFinder on an Android phone very useful to get such information too. --Amos

[SLUG] Hosting e-mail?

Hello, My wife's studio's web site is hosted with web24.com.au for a second year in a row and we are pretty happy with it, for the price it costs us. One thing we mistrust them with, however, is that e-mail to her domain seems to be flaky. Test messages that we send to it not always arrive to

Re: [SLUG] Hosting e-mail?

On 27 September 2010 15:03, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com writes: ...would the free Google Apps for Domains meet your needs?  It is limited to 50 mailboxes, and is separate from your current gmail account, but should give you equal reliability

Re: [SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

On 19 September 2010 17:25, Ken Foskey kfos...@tpg.com.au wrote: This is a guess... Have you tried vlc with the Mozilla plugin option? Didn't work. But just visiting this page now as I did before this time it plays. So maybe it was a problem on their side. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

On 20 September 2010 17:19, Brett Mahar brett.ma...@gmail.com wrote: This plays fine on for me with Flash (I have installed the flash plugin in ~/.mozilla/pluginsdownloaded from Adobe). Also if you use Mozilla you can install the plugin video downloadhelper. It will show 3 spinning balls

[SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

Hello, I'd like to send a link to an episode of Good News Week to a friend and I think I found it (http://ten.com.au/video-player.htm?vxSiteId=cb519624-44a2-4bf7-808b-3514d34e96e4vxChannel=GNW%20CUTV) but I can't play the video on my Linux desktop (Ubunut 10.04 32 bit) with either Chromium

Re: [SLUG] copying binaries from one Centos to another?

On 18 September 2010 15:51, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Sat, September 18, 2010 1:55 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote: you can just force the older rpm to install Dean, thanks how do I prevent a future yum update from upgrading and 'overwriting' it again ? Add an exclude clause on all

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