Re: [SLUG] w3c-libwww rpm

eems the last work was in Dec-06. If the rpm is no joy, you could check it out of the CVS server and compile perhaps: http://www.w3.org/Library/cvs.html#Releases Although the ubuntu package is using 5.4.0 (~2003) and the latest is 5.4.1 (2006). Might be safer to go with 5.4.0. But I'm not a

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

;) More seriously, none of the free Flash replacements worked correctly outside of the Firefox environment when I last tested them, which was very disappointing. Regards, Daniel -- 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] 64 bit flash

ed — it has some minor rough edges. Generally speaking, keeping up to date with the latest release of nspluginwrapper if you are updating your plugins is a good plan. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Opera have used it for years, and it works extremely well. Flash crashing never peturb

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

fos...@tpg.com.au writes: > Quoting Daniel Pittman : > >> More seriously, none of the free Flash replacements worked correctly >> outside of the Firefox environment when I last tested them, which was >> very disappointing. > > Flash crashes in Firefox occasionally an

Re: [SLUG] Burn .ISO to install USB

an based. Um, no. Ubuntu and Debian (naturally) are Debian based. OpenSUSE is RPM based, and Gentoo is ... source based, I guess. Regards, Daniel -- 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] recovering xfs

new to lvm though. I think you have to install the alternate ubuntu cd to get lvm right? (unless you are using the server install instead of the desktop). -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- 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] LVM

2009/5/15 > Quoting Daniel Bush : > > > 2009/5/15 > > > > - LVM is really cool and well worth the time to rad up on it. I > > > am now going to LVM my home system. > > > > > > > > I'm planning to do this as well. > > I

Re: [SLUG] LVM

d run initramfs) > > 9. chroot to the hard disk partition > 10. "apt-get install lvm2" again on the hard disk. > > That's more or less it. > > That sounds fraught. Are you sure I can't just go with the alternate cd which will walk me thru lvm and still give me a desktop kernel/system? -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- 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] LVM

2009/5/15 Daniel Bush > > > 2009/5/15 > >> Quoting Daniel Bush : >> >> > 2009/5/15 >> >> > > - LVM is really cool and well worth the time to rad up on it. I >> > > am now going to LVM my home system. >> > > >

Re: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives

ould be hotplug suitable and just work(tm). Meanwhile, eSATA is just a wiring standard on top of stock SATA, more or less, so it doesn't have much to do with AHCI, or vice-versa. [...] > I am no expert on this stuff, but this is from what I've read and done > with my own drives via E

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

y unreliable with some, you know, evidence? I am curious to know, you see, because I have tens of terabytes of data sitting on LVM[1] across a wide range of machines, scaling from single-disk workstations through software-RAID servers to serious bulk-storage systems with hardware RAID. We have ...

Re: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives

t; presented to the drive before logic is connected (ground first). This > is why the +12v, +5v and GND pins are usually extended about 8mm > before the rest of the pins are connected. FWIW, SATA devices are hot-swap and the are ... a little less than 8mm of coverage for those connections

Re: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives

d become unresponsive then knowing that you can pull it without warning can save you (literally, in some cases) hours of waiting for it to not-ever-get-through the sync process. Regards, Daniel -- 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] hot swapping hard drives

event to the driver. The driver needs to handle the event sanely. > (obviously I'm referring only to on the hot un-plug side, the hot-plug > side obviously involves a different sequence of events, or is that > what you're referring to with 'not sufficient'?) No, I me

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - "Internals of the sync/umount call"

GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (Intel) How do I go > about finding out if it's safe to hot-swap? Did you try the libata status report page I posted the link to a while back? That should confirm that your ICH7 supports hotplug. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydn

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - "Internals of the sync/umount call"

Grahame Kelly writes: >> From: Daniel Pittman >> Grahame Kelly writes: [...] >> That only handles the hot *UN*-plug side of things, and can cause >> significant grief to you if the driver doesn't cope: anything from >> several minutes in which *all* disks

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - "Internals of the sync/umount call"

Likewise, Linux was a lot more troublesome. The OP has recent enough hardware that his life is fine, if he is using the ICH7 in AHCI mode though. Lucky him, and lucky the rest of us now that hotplug is pretty much a standard feature. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...well, in fairness, a

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - "Internals of the sync/umount call"

david writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> david writes: >>>>> (Admittedly, the last is only on really bad hardware, but hey, that >>>>> hardware is out there and still within the reasonable life of machines >>>>> for home users.) >>&g

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - back to the OP ;-)

david writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> david writes: >>> Daniel Pittman wrote: >>>> david writes: [...] >>> ChipDriver NCQ DMA++ hotplug PMP >>> ICH7 family ata_piix, ahci AHCIAHCIAHCI

Re: [SLUG] HTTP server recommendations?

o some backend http app servers..However I'm looking at apache again for doing this sort of stuff as well. I should add that I haven't really been researching or trying anything new lately so my views may be a little out of date on these things. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.a

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - back to the OP ;-)

david writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> david writes: >>> Daniel Pittman wrote: >>>> david writes: >>>>> Daniel Pittman wrote: >>>>>> david writes: [...] >>> Nothing in dmesg. As far as I can see, nothing in BIOS :( &g

Re: [SLUG] HTTP server recommendations?

e level as Apache.[1] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/01/16/january_2009_web_server_survey.html Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Not popular enough to list as a distinct entry in the NetCraft surveys, however. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://sl

Re: [SLUG] Backup theory

equired to get it booting, but the basic process is more or less the same. I don't know where Fedora sits, but I presume they have also moved more to the Debian new-style "ship all the drivers in initramfs, detect the hardware" strategy than the older RHEL "ship exa

Re: [SLUG] Backup theory

(tm) on the new hardware, because it identifies what to mount based on the filesystem, not the hardware it happens to be sitting on top of. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] I prefer the later, because the chance of a conflict is zero, while the former is pretty high — especially w

Re: [SLUG] Backup theory

david writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> david writes: >> >>> I've got the following: >>> >>> 2 x servers - single small hard drives in each >>> 1 x desktop - four hard drives including one removeable drive in a caddy >>> intended

[SLUG] microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

t it's horrible - too much gain or something. But at least this tells me it's working in some shape or form. There are lots of posts from people, some with the similar card/chip (intel HDA Sigmatel STAC9228), saying how they solved mic/skype probs but it's not working for

Re: [SLUG] microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

2009/5/18 david > > > Daniel Bush wrote: > >> Please, can anyone help. I can't get my microphone to work in skype. >> >> It's driving me nuts; i've spent the last couple of hours twiddling knobs >> like crazy and making repeated calls to the t

Re: [SLUG] Re: microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

d. I'm screwed if it's skype's fault and they don't update; I'm potentially less screwed if it is ubuntu. Nuking pulseaudio didn't do anything. Installing all of that junk above didn't do anything. Game over. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- 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] Sound in Ubuntu 9.04

but I truly have no idea and I think I might just try what you said > > It would seem that either pulseaudio or ubuntu-desktop interferes with > sound. I would like to know which it is but if I install either, the > other installs automatically. > > So it would seem that, on m

Re: [SLUG] Sound in Ubuntu 9.04

2009/5/19 Daniel Bush > > > 2009/5/19 Heracles > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Just a short note relating to my earlier post about my "Sound Blaster >> Live!" problem in Flash on my x86_64 install. >> &g

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 9.04 performance [Was: Sound in Ubuntu 9.04]

cs and sound. I can just about live with the sluggishness (I'm not sure if it is a lot different to 8.04 or not to be honest) but I need to talk on skype. I'm prepared to try to debug or troubleshoot if it will improve ubuntu but I'm a complete novice plus I seem to be a bit of an isolat

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 9.04 performance [Was: Sound in Ubuntu 9.04]

rs I recommend going back to 8.10 for now. > Easiest > way around it, sadly. > > Your audio issue I'm not so sure about (Skype works okay here whether I > have > pulseaudio running or not, so, hrm). > > It does seize up just momentarily on menus and dropdowns as well as

Re: [SLUG] OpenAustralia's first hackfest - Saturday 13 June

ould be good to put legislation under version control. Maybe mercurial or bazaar or even git :) Than you could tag releases that get passed; run diffs between older versions; new acts that amend existing acts would hold these changes as diff patches. It'd be crazy awesome. :) -- Daniel

[SLUG] Re: microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

2009/5/19 Daniel Bush > > > 2009/5/19 Steven Heimann > >> Skype also failed for me with Jaunty but I simply went to Skype main >> menu - options - sound devices and selected pulse. After that it seems >> to work. >> >> lspci lists sound card as Au

Re: [SLUG] webcam woes Jaunty

Which I am not running: No, but that change is just to suppress the warning; apparently the uvcvideo driver /should/ retry with a smaller request, so that *probably* isn't an actual problem. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Su

[SLUG] Re: [clug] Has anyone got a recent nVidia card working multi-resolution?

Hal Ashburner writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> Boyd writes: >> >>> if you are using Debian Lenny, this howto was invaluable for me to get X and >>> my nvidia card working: >> >> I suggest: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers [...] >

Re: [SLUG] Indexing under Linux

t. On the other hand, they run on all platforms ... and, heck, I have trouble imagining how Linux is particularly relevant anyway. I mean, does the software that generates an index from my source code, doxygen, count? How about OpenOffice, which includes indexing features? Regards, Da

Re: [SLUG] multiple "To:" addresses for postfix virtual aliases

. That supports multiple destination addresses just fine. Regards, Daniel -- 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] multiple "To:" addresses for postfix virtual aliases

david writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> david writes: >> >>> I want to redirect email from one postfix virtual mail address to two >>> different off-site addresses. >> >> use the Postfix 'virtual' table. man virtual(5), and curse Wietse

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

is: 1. IPSec in tunnel mode. 2. Routing IP traffic through the IPSec tunnel. > Open VPN is installed on the Linux box but from what I've read it's > talking about public/private key openSSL kinda stuff with a ca.key, > certificates etc, where as this setup is a pre-shared key > a

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

nd IPSec routing working, /then/ say it is the wrong tool. ;) More seriously, it isn't the tool for this job, because Juniper use IPSec, but it is a good general VPN solution where you control both ends of the deployment, or have a cooperative remote. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linu

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

uld not load /lib/modules/2.6.18-028stab060.8/modules.dep: No > such file or directory > > Hmmm, might be a long road ahead, sigh ...because your kernel is screwed. Try reinstalling that to get all the modules in place, then give IPSec a shot again. :) Regards, Daniel

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

e it seems that vpnc has some issues with the Juniper VPN implementation. If the ISP can provide a TUN interface, which isn't a security risk to them and is virtualized, as well as routing for the traffic types needed[1], then pipsecd should work just fine. Regards, Daniel Foo

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

Peter Rundle writes: > Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> Oh. This is a VE inside a Virtuozzo system? (The commercial version of >> OpenVZ, specifically, and a "containers" solution.) Your ISP response >> isn't terribly technically accurate, then. > [snip] &

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

hly rather than in bursts that tended to cause frame dropping. Sadly, given the figures that have shown up in the current per-BDI flushing work on the kernel it *still* looks like 2.6.30 has problems keeping a smooth dataflow on create — though that might finally change in the .31 or .32 timeframe. R

Re: [SLUG] wget a flash site ?

"Voytek Eymont" writes: > is there a way to wget an entire flash site ? > wget -m only gets me index and a .js No; flash is rich enough that it can obtain data from calculated URIs, making it impossible to know what all the data it uses is. Regards, Daniel -- SLU

Re: [SLUG] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

for clarity: cat blah | while read line ; do echo "loop: "; sed s/t/T/ ; done > Q2. what does the @ mean? > > da...@david:~$ date -d @1174306440 > Mon Mar 19 23:14:00 EST 2007 The value is in seconds since the epoch, but I can't find any documentation about the

Re: [SLUG] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

need to install 'info' on your system). It says that it is the number of seconds since an epoch which for unix systems is taken to be 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC . date -d @1 would be 1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC, My system is outputting as EST so it's more like 10am. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au http://github.com/danielbush -- 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] RAID1 issues

disk that failed almost immediately. If SMART reports everything as perfectly healthy, though, you might want to invest in replacing the cable just in case. I would swap the disk as well, though. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Either should work with 2.6.29, but I don't know whe

Re: [SLUG] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

read captures the first line, sed processes the rest. Otherwise spot on, though, especially ... [...] > I don't understand why you didn't choose a direct file redirection > rather than a pipe: sed s/t/T/ < blah ... that. ;) Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Use

Re: [SLUG] The growing size of programs

nificantly in capabilities. You might find 'exmap' useful in tracking down the actual memory use on the machine, assuming you can get the kernel module built. Since it can see the page tables it can actually report the *real* cost of various applications. Regards, Daniel

Re: [SLUG] A "simple" Deb 501 install ..

ual/html_node/find.html#find The 'find' command, linked in the documentation above, will help with that. You can use that to locate your grub installation, along the lines of: find /boot/grub/menu.lst If you used a separate /boot partition, also: find /grub/menu.lst See the

Re: [SLUG] HTTPD Authenticated User extraction

tHeader set X-My-Auth-Id %{REMOTE_USER}e That should sort you right on out. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- 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] odd system loss

rew up. I don't know, but any unclean reboot /can/ cause nasty problems with the filesystem. Most of the time it should recover OK, but... Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] It may be you were thrashing, and that enough patience would have either the OOM killer kill the offending pr

Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

ncurrent activity that tried to update those, I suppose. > BTW building imagemagick from source cured the issue but both SuSE and > ubuntu did it I am curious to know what the specific change this made, and which addressed the issue, was? Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

m curious to know what the specific change this made, and which >> addressed the issue, was? > > Daniel I did not spend the time :-) I was using gallery2 on my www server. > Using imagemagick specifically 'identify' the attached file caused 100% du I > rebuilt the latest sta

[SLUG] kernel oops help

.26-2-686 #1) EIP: 0073:[] EFLAGS: 0216 CPU: 0 [ ... several more lines of debug guff ...] Is this an impending disk failure, power problem or have I been pwned? :( -- Daniel Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and

Re: [SLUG] remote desktop guide

n't have any reports of success from it. Otherwise, you probably want to clarify what you are trying to do. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100

Re: [SLUG] Using a VPS to get an Australia IP address desktop

service, as well, and ensure that payment options don't trace back to China. Most online auction sites, like other businesses that face routine fraud attempts, take an extremely dim view of this sort of activity. Personally, I wouldn't touch the situation with a very long stick, but to eac

Re: [SLUG] iptables error msg

hing obvious leaps out; perhaps you can find out by running: sh -x /path/to/script 2>&1 That should show you the commands before they are run, along with the error messages, and let you identify which command it was generated the error. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

ated... > 10. So did something corrupt the identification of the SATA disks? I > thought the point of ther ID was to label the disk unmistakably? The UUID is part of the *filesystem*, not the disk; they point is to be able to identify the content without reference to the physical lo

Re: [SLUG] can I make this recursive?

find . -type f | while read file; do dir=$(dirname "$file") name=$(basename "$file" | tr 'A-Z ' 'a-z_') test x"$file" = x"$dir/$name" || mv "$file" "$dir/$name" done Regards, Daniel --

Re: [SLUG] can I make this recursive?

Meryl writes: > Thank You Ben, Owen, Daniel and James for your responses :D > > For some reason (unbeknown to this wee brain) the perl script chucked a > wobbly: syntax error at line 4, near "0 rename" > > So I opted for Daniel's shell script instead. I'

Re: [SLUG] Slow booting from a degraded raid1

inute wait then you can be reasonably happy that the delay is in the early boot process. Finally, to remedy the problem (if I am correct), mark the missing device as failed, or remove it from the array. That will update the superblock so the system *knows* not to wait, because it knows that only

Re: [SLUG] Git - merging individual diffs?

x27;s HEAD. There isn't anything automatic; I would probably use cherrypick to grab the whole diff, then 'rebase -i' to go back and split it the way I wanted, but that is reasonably manual too. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61

Re: [SLUG] Chinese intruder yesterday

do want to open SSH inbound only if someone authenticates somewhere else first. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...or a security difference in favour of the non-"port knocking" solutions, since they have better tested, audited and validated code, or the scope to do mor

Re: [SLUG] ftp client recomendations ?

through. Check your firewall logs first, to see if you have a record of blocking that connection or not. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work?

Re: [SLUG] ftp client recomendations ?

"Voytek Eymont" writes: > On Fri, August 14, 2009 12:54 pm, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> "Voytek Eymont" writes: > >> So, when the user tries to connect, what state are the relevant sockets >> at the client and server end? My guess is the client is trying

Re: [SLUG] Transferring iceape bookmarks

e home directory, put the one I want to import into place, then run Firefox. It is designed to upgrade an old profile to a new one and should transform bookmarks in the process. It sounds like that isn't what you want, though, so I bet on the import facilities. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Dan

[SLUG] firefox 3.5.2 on linux

Just curious, does anyone else use firefox 3.5.2 on linux? I followed the prompt recently and got upgraded only to discover it's a bit half-baked when it comes to handling css backgrounds and possibly other bits of css. I've filed a bug report at bugzilla.mozilla.org #510847. -- D

Re: [SLUG] firefox 3.5.2 on linux

2009/8/20 elliott-brennan > > Daniel Bush > > Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:20:39 +1000 > > > > Just curious, does anyone else use firefox 3.5.2 on linux? > > I followed the prompt recently and got upgraded only to discover it's a > bit > > half-baked w

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

doing more or less the same. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work? Love Perl? In Melbourne, Australia? We are hiring. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix

d found that windows would hang when booting up. Played around with it in safe mode etc... but lost patience and moved on. -- Daniel Bush 2009/8/21 Rick Phillips > BBC News is running a front page story about how Unix turns 40 this > month. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technol

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

gger when she updates a file in a specific directory, and automate the rsync process to transfer the files without user intervention to your server. Just like a cron-for-file-changes tool or something. :) Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

27;s... Maybe the command line will die when programmers (in general) no longer have to write words to get things done, but instead push coloured blobs around on the screen using a mouse. :) -- Daniel Bush -- 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] 40 Years of Unix

ows) or dosshell.exe (aptly named) as "shells". *nod* The final complexity, to which I referred elsewhere in this thread, is that shells are used to tie together other components in a simple programming system, either interactively or in a batch mode. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel P

Re: [SLUG] Disclosure agreements and open source

Unreasonable contracts don't like the light of written statements. ;) Regards, Daniel Then, look for another job where you are not stuck with such onerous terms. Footnotes: [1] Contractors, on the other hand, own the works even if they are commissioned by a client. Generally. [2] This is

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

up. It is hard to find solid supporting evidence for a contention that either the GUI or the command line is more efficient in specific tasks, and impossible to make such a sweeping assertion about the entire field. Finally, the value judgement: I don't have much to say here, except to re

[SLUG] tweet from bash using your fave editor...

posted a line!)" else echo "(might have been an error posting this line: $line)" fi ;; esac done; test "$testing" = "no" && (echo '-'; date; cat $file) >>$ARCHIVE else echo "NOT posting!" fi } send.reverse() { send reverse } ask() { echo '--' cat $1 echo '--' echo -n "Post to twitter? [y] " read r case "$r" in n*|N*) return 1;; *) return 0;; esac } test.send() { send test } test.send.dry() { send dry } test.send.reverse() { send test reverse } test.send.reverse.dry() { send dry reverse } test.entities() { echo "><" | $html_entities echo 'should be: ><' } -- end of file -- Daniel Bush -- 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] Nokia one-ups IBM on Linux marketing

the Xserver on the phone to access apps on beefier machines - some mention of nx enhancements to X for slow connections. (yes, I also know about rdp and vnc) -- Daniel Bush -- 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] Re: 40 Years of Unix

machine? > > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc_shell) I tried it for a while, but found that it didn't offer a compelling enough improvement over bash to pay back the effort to learn it. Likewise the couple of Perl based shells I tried. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

earning about couchdb or running mplayer in a particular way or administering a remote system or application etc etc.. In fact the way I'm using the shell at the moment is helping me to learn and handle lots of stuff in a way I'd have a hard time replicating in a gui without a commandline facility. -- Daniel Bush -- 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] Ubuntu Jaunty default folders - symlink to elsewhere?

ents on ext and other unixy file systems (ie case is important). > Bill > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Daniel Bush -- 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] Live migration from existing native partitions to LVM2 partitions

metadata at the start of the disk ... so you have to copy every block anyhow. Sorry, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work? Love Perl? In Melbourne, Australia?

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

at either interest in both these products, or security issues with both these products, have since dropped off, as they are no longer so routinely featured of bugtraq. Also, as I note, this is based on *TWO YEAR OLD* information. I don't know what Drupal and Joomla have done to systematically a

[SLUG] shell scripting help

Hi, Writing a little utility to help me on something but having trouble. Why does f stay blank? d...@lin4:test$ echo "foo|bar" | awk 'BEGIN{RS="|"}{ print $1 }' | while read s; do echo $s; f=$s; done; echo "'$f'" foo bar '' Regards

Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help

anked afaict. Rodolfo, when you did set -x, your output was different to mine. Anyway I think the subshell is the gotcha here. wow, we're all using gmail... Many Regards Daniel 2009/9/19 Rodolfo Martínez > Yes, but the last instruction is doing "f=$s" > > About the sub-s

Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help

e path, so I wasn't actually printing. I just isolated the problem down to that particular example. Since it is a cli utility I thought I could do it in shell rather than breaking out the big guns like ruby or perl... and that's how the story begins... whoa, way past my bedtime Che

Re: [SLUG] Looking for distributed packet logger

you want to use them for? Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work? Love Perl? In Melbourne, Australia? We are hiring. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mai

Re: [SLUG] saving without the bom (byte order mark)

efused to implement Unicode at all unless they were allowed a little-endian version of it, despite the standard being network byte order. So ... there isn't such an option. *Adding* a byte-order mark might be an option with some tools, but generally you just get UTF-8 if your tool saves to text

Re: [SLUG] saving without the bom (byte order mark)

n the web page. Well, my temptation would be to fire up vi or Emacs on it, and use that, but I don't know if either of them is likely to preserve it also. So, I Googled and found you this as penance for being ignorant: http://www.xs4all.nl/~mechiel/projects/bomstrip/ That should sort you

Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help

2009/9/19 Aleksey Tsalolikhin > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Daniel Bush wrote: > > Hi, > > Writing a little utility to help me on something but having trouble. > > Why does f stay blank? > > > > d...@lin4:test$ echo "foo|bar" | awk 'BEGIN{RS=

Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help

2009/9/19 Daniel Bush > > > 2009/9/19 Aleksey Tsalolikhin > >> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Daniel Bush wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Writing a little utility to help me on something but having trouble. >> > Why does f stay blank? >> > >>

Re: [SLUG] bash tips (tr, cut, loops, fields, records) Was: shell scripting help

ot;foo|bar" | tr '|' '\n' | while read S > You trying to make my awk look awkward? :) yeah, I do caps for important stuff but I like dropping to lower for loop and throw away variables. I sometimes also scope them by using 'local' within a bash function. Cheers, Daniel -- Daniel Bush -- 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] [OT] Thou Shalt Make Backups

; -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Daniel Bush -- 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] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

he level of reliability you want if you only have a half-dozen of those things, let alone less. It works, in part, because "designed to fail" is really good at a large scale, but not so great at small scale. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎

Re: [SLUG] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

t I can say that concerns about the protocol compared to iSCSI are less than compelling to me. Now, having only a single vendor, that might worry a body. Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent pos

Re: [SLUG] PVR/DVR software(open source)

le matter compared to finding the data itself. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons Looking for work? Love Perl? In Melbourne, Australia? We are hiring. -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Invision phpBB Site Content ripping

on, either through the XPath queries, or through the TreeParser per-instance objects. Daniel Footnotes: [1] http://search.cpan.org/~mirod/HTML-TreeBuilder-XPath-0.11/ -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent po

Re: [SLUG] django/rails

riting, the Django development community is working toward > introducing a schema evolution mechanism. > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Daniel Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

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