Re: [SLUG] Monitoring web servers from Australia?

2014-01-22 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: 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

[SLUG] Looking for a Linux Systems Administrator

2013-07-24 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, As the SLUG jobs list is gone, I understand I can post this in the SLUG list. Apologies if this is not the case! Job Description --- Sirca is expanding and to help us manage our growing workload, we are currently seeking an talented System Administrator (Linux) to

Re: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners

2012-04-15 Thread Gonzalo Servat
I think the OP wants to scan actual books, not barcodes? This might help: http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/564/ - Gonzalo On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Menno Schaaf amano.gi...@gmail.comwrote: You could us an app with a camera, but you'll find it generally slow and not so

Re: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners

2012-04-15 Thread Gonzalo Servat
seems to suggest Patrick is interested in scanning bar codes as opposed to whole books. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote: I think the OP wants to scan actual books, not barcodes? This might help: http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/564

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] Australian distributor product page for Raspberry Pi (Model B)

2012-03-01 Thread Gonzalo Servat
There isn't. I called them today and they are expecting to ship again by the end of April. - Gonzalo On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au wrote: http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspberry-pi-model-b/dp/2081185 Hi Jeff, Do you know if there

Re: [SLUG] For those wondering about the benefits of rooting your phone

2011-12-01 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: On 01/12/11 12:57, scott wrote: Not only can you get rid of the apps the manufacturer and providers puts on your phone ... Perhaps I need to do that with the Huawei deuce u8520 android phone I

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

2011-05-23 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi Mark, I had the exact same thoughts when reading this ad. Thankfully I'm not in the market at the moment, but I always read job ads just to see what people are asking for and offering, but I was surprised to see such a low salary range on offer for a role that requires a fair bit of

Re: [SLUG] evolution error log?

2010-07-21 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.auwrote: Hi Sluggers, Does Evolution have an error log? Where is it kept? Do I have to do something magic to see it? Does this help? http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_see_what_my_filters_are_doing.3F Regards,

Re: [SLUG] fun with bash

2009-12-13 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:36 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: this is something I do all the time and it works perfectly, but I'm sure there is a more elegant way to do it: $ for i in *.tif ; convert $i $i.jpg; done $ for i in $i.jpg ; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/.tif//`; done Apart from

Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help

2009-09-18 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com 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=|}{ print $1 }' | while read s; do echo $s; f=$s; done; echo '$f' foo bar

Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help

2009-09-18 Thread Gonzalo Servat
2009/9/19 Rodolfo Martínez rmt...@gmail.com: 'while' continues until read fails, there is a 3rd 'read' (when it fails) that clears 'f' [mar...@amartir01 ~]$ set -x ; echo -n foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f ; done ; echo f=$f + set -x + awk

Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help

2009-09-18 Thread Gonzalo Servat
2009/9/19 Rodolfo Martínez rmt...@gmail.com: Yes, but the last instruction is doing f=$s Right, but f should be set to 'bar' since it won't go into the while loop after the 2nd read (as it's a non true value). Well, it won't be set to 'bar' in the OP's script because of the subshell. About the

Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help

2009-09-18 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote: You could replace $$ with $BASH_SUBSHELL (boolean indicating if you're in a subshell). Output: Err, sorry, $BASH_SUBSHELL indicates the level of subshell (0 = parent, 1 = first subshell, etc), not a boolean. - Gonzalo

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

2009-07-21 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Richard Hayes n...@nada.com.au wrote: Richard Hayes n...@nada.com.au http://us.mc252.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=n...@nada.com.au writes: I am setting up a VPS with RDesktop. Does anyone know of a good guide? Do you mean that you want to use the Windows

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

2009-07-21 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.netwrote: [..snip..] Yup. The OP probably better find an Australian proxy to handle mail service, as well, and ensure that payment options don't trace back to China. Most online auction sites, like other businesses that

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux

2009-05-25 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Andre Kolodochka kol...@gmail.com wrote: Given that my Lacie Ethernet disk just died, I was thinking of solid backup solutions for my personal files (20-30Gb). Since I have already Linux hosting with way more disk space than I need, I thought it will be great

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux

2009-05-25 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Owen Townend owen.town...@gmail.comwrote: One 'Microsoft' way would be to use SyncToy[0]. To use it you would only have to mount a samba share from the linux box as a network drive. Another one that just popped into my head is Bacula, although it's a full-on

Re: [SLUG] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony

2009-02-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: [..snip..] Actually, out of curiosity, and since I want to get rid of Asterisk and replace it with something (anything, so help me, anything at all) else. FreeSWITCH is popular at the moment; the only other

Re: [SLUG] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony

2009-02-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: [..snip..] Yes. It works reliably and I haven't touched it for weeks. Thanks. How difficult was the initial configuration, and does that include ENUM or other policy routing? Well, like I said, there is an initial

Re: [SLUG] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony

2009-02-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
(Oops, this was meant to go out to the list ...) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au wrote: [..snip..] Interesting you should use the term PBXhow well does it cope with VoIP - ie logical phones (identified by internal extensions/owner) that are

Re: [SLUG] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony

2009-02-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.comwrote: [..snip..] I have done a few installs with asterisk based soft/hardware. Expect some teething troubles. Get a dedicated adsl line if you are heavy internet users, QOS hasn't been much of a problem for most installs

Re: [SLUG] Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

2008-11-29 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, As promised here are the backup notes from my talk at SLUG on 28 Nov. Materials related to this talk are at http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/Presentations/SLUG2008/ (including a version of these notes). A

Re: [SLUG] perl parsing

2008-06-24 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] I have two gauges, so they output like so: --- a1566b0c203d1477e0f205g where 156.6 is the depth of tank1 in cm, 0 is the temperature sign bit, 20.3 is the air temperature at tank 1 in C, etc. --- I've

Re: [SLUG] Linux client for Citrix Access Gateway?

2008-06-01 Thread Gonzalo Servat
(sorry Sridhar, replied to you directly instead of the list) On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're trying to deploy a Linux server into an all-Windows company. Our client is actually quite happy with this solution, but we were informed a couple

Re: [SLUG] Perl Question

2008-04-01 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Peter Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] if ( $_ =~ m/^Box(\d) ([A-Z]+(\. | ?)[A-Z]* ?[A-Z]*).*?(\d).*?(\d\d\.\d \d).*?(\d*\.\d\d)L/) { $box = $1; $name = $2; $name =~ s/\.//; $place = $4;

Re: [SLUG] migrating mail server Maildirs, howto copy ?

2007-11-08 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Nov 8, 2007 10:21 AM, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] James, Dave, thanks between the time I copy it, and, the mail server is transferred, there are bound to be emails deleted/removed from main server, (as well as new ones added), I've done a few mail server

Re: [SLUG] migrating mail server Maildirs, howto copy ?

2007-11-08 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Nov 8, 2007 10:51 AM, Gonzalo Servat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] I've done a few mail server migrations in the past and a bit of DNS trickery helps in not loosing mail. What I would do is set the TTL really low ( 10 mins) for the domain I was transferring (so that all records

Re: [SLUG] Can someone get this to work...

2007-05-22 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 5/21/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or tell me where I am going wrong: svn co http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/team/group/res_config_ldap Try: svn co http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/team/group/res_config_ldap /view/ is specifically to view (web-based) the contents

Re: [SLUG] Perl/SSH Problem

2006-11-03 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 11/3/06, Scott Ragen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why Choose not to use ssh keys. The default is to both allow passwords, and/or keys. I use SSH keys on many servers, but there are a bunch in this group where the admins have *blocked* use of SSH keys and thus I would like to have a system that

Re: [SLUG] Perl/SSH Problem

2006-11-03 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 11/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] Passwdless login is infinitly better than passwd infact on my system: PermitRootLogin without-password with say 1024bit key and say 10^6 tries per second lets see ... 1024 log (2) / 10^6 is say 10^300 years to crack! Much

[SLUG] Perl/SSH Problem

2006-11-02 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, Here's a tough one, at least it has been for me! As you can see, I've almost given up. Here's the situation: I manage a lot of servers at my work. They are all *NIX and so I've decided to write a bunch of Perl scripts to handle a lot of the repetitive tasks I have to do on said

Re: [SLUG] Gnucash v 2.0.0

2006-07-13 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi Leslie, On 7/14/06, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologise in advance for my phraseology, since I understand practically nothing of what I'm doing here. I installed the subject application, having formerly used v 1.8.12. With the old version, I was able to download share prices

Re: [SLUG] Faster boot times

2006-05-26 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 5/27/06, Charles Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] I just tried to install it.. In my noobness :( now ubuntu wont boot... It gets to a point where it says: -runit: leave stage: /etc/runit/1 -runit: enter stage: /etc/runit/2 And there it waits :( Looks like another reinstall

Re: [SLUG] mail alias problem

2006-05-12 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 5/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Bit off topic but here goes: It is? [..snip..] I have a mail alias set up on one mail server (mailserver1) that sends mail for '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' When I send an email to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' directly I get

Re: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49

2006-04-19 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 4/20/06, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I made my judgement based on the facts presented by Selim. The appearance of dc=example,dc=org in the DN has no bearing on DNS or network. It is merely an identifier within the LDAP directory itself. I will not

Re: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49

2006-04-19 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 4/20/06, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, how will you explain the fact that the setup which I have just illustrated generates exactly the same error as the OP ? I can't explain something that you've done. What I *can* show you, to prove my point (and Jamies', while we're at it) is

Re: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49

2006-04-19 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 4/20/06, Selim Jahangir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I have changed the password by typing following, still having invalid credentials 49. [..snip..] slappasswd -s foo rootpass [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# vi rootpass [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat rootpass/etc/openldap/slapd.conf [EMAIL

Re: Warning impending flamewar (was: Re: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49)

2006-04-19 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 4/20/06, Asbestos Benno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to interrupt this currently scheduled thread to alert the list that this thread is about to become a *flamewar*. In the interests of not boring the entire list to death and scaring off a whole bunch of newbies, I implore those

Re: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49

2006-04-19 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 4/20/06, Selim Jahangir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gonzalo Thank you so much. You have done the great work. Actually your command # echo -e 'rootpw\t\t' `slappasswd -s foo` /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Solved the problem. I have understood that the password I generated using slappasswd -s

Re: [SLUG] gzip from perl script

2005-09-21 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 9/22/05, Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] do I simply add like: system(gzip $backuppath/$arr[1]-$year$month$day.sql); (and change the 'rm' line extension?) ? http://search.cpan.org Look for the GZIP module, nicer way of doing it. Also, you probably want to use unlink instead of

Re: [SLUG] Technical Help Required

2005-09-08 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 9/9/05, Bill Greville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone and thanks for your replies. I have some more information in this on-going saga... I connected my laptop directly to the server via a cross-over cable. Tried to move a 1Gb file (laptop -- server) and the problem occurred again.

Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

2005-08-24 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 8/24/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, if you are going to run it over broadband then make sure that it is symmetrical at all connect points. I wouldn't say make sure, I'd say it's probably better to have a symmetrical connection at all Asterisk points, however if you're using

Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

2005-08-24 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 8/24/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I should have phrased that better. I use GSM as the codec and that is a bandwidth hog. The problem is that the really tight codecs are all proprietory. Yep, like G729, however I think GSM together with iLBC are 2 of the better ones to

Re: [SLUG] E Commerce

2005-07-12 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] 1. Fully hosted service ( would have to be linux based and a couple of them advertise that they are) using their online/offline shop configuration systems and payment gateways. Some of these seem to eliminate the need to be a

Re: [SLUG] re: Control Panel's on linux similar to that of say Plesk

2005-07-12 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/13/05, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [.. snip ..] http://www.vhcs.net From having a quick look at the demo (purely from a UI perspective) it seems like the most user-friendly and feature-ful free control panel I've tried (not that there's a great variety). You'll (probably) never

Re: [SLUG] basic VoIP home/small office system

2005-06-07 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 6/7/05, Julio Cesar Ody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Another option you have is to get ISDN (2 lines) and the AVM Fritz!PCI Card which *is* A-Tick certified. Only problem is it costs about 400% more than the real cost of the card, since it has the glorious A-Tick stamp on the card.

Re: [SLUG] basic VoIP home/small office system

2005-06-07 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 6/8/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] You can buy Digium cards in AU at http://www.austechpartnerships.com/atp/ If you are referring to this news item: ...The Digium TE110P has now been fully certified (A-ticked) for connection to the PSTN. (quoted from the site

[SLUG] basic VoIP home/small office system

2005-06-06 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 6/7/05, Julio Cesar Ody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm thinking about doing a few VoIP experiments. I know I need an analog telephone adaptor if I have any plans to connect my current telephone lines to my Linux box: [... snip ...] Another great source of VoIP info is (funnily

Re: [SLUG] Postfix HELO host

2005-03-23 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:27:17 -0700 (MST), Dennis M. Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how Postfix determines the host to use when sending a HELO to a remote SMTP server? Is there any way I can control that? I believe it uses whatever is set in $myhostname (which, unless set

Re: [SLUG] Backup-web-server

2004-07-21 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 22/07/2004 11:14 AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2004, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: Hi All after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so that when one goes down the other takes

Re: [SLUG] Stop X from Blanking screen after inactivity

2004-07-21 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 22/07/2004 1:29 PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have built a PVR, and running twm. Now the thing is that I would like to stop X in going into powersave mode, can anyone one assist? Hi Kevin, Don't know if this will help, but try man xset; specifically the xset dpms command. Regards, Gonzalo

Re: [SLUG] Kernel exploit for all kernels 2.4.18

2004-06-16 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 00:16 +1000, Paul Robinson wrote: Evening Sluggers, Saw this on overclockers.com.au tonight : http://reviewed.homelinux.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/ and a lil googling showed : http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/403593 Certainly looks

Re: [SLUG] Server being used to relay emails

2004-04-29 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:32, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - Got a little problem. =) We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an attached virus. [..snip..] Has anyone got ANY idea on what could

[SLUG] e100: eth0: e100_wait_exec_simple: failed

2004-04-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, My gateway has been running healthy for a long time. As of a few days ago, I noticed I was loosing connection to the network every night (my gateway acts as the DHCP server, so when it dies all computers on the network are affected). After looking at the logs on the server, I noticed the

Re: [SLUG] squid reverse proxy

2004-02-11 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:47, ksaenz wrote: I have been searching high and low, I was wondering if squid is capable of doing reverse proxy? Yup, it sure is. The following straight forward document should help: http://www.ngogeeks.com/node/view/272 Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] squid reverse proxy

2004-02-11 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 12:02, Gonzalo Servat wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:47, ksaenz wrote: I have been searching high and low, I was wondering if squid is capable of doing reverse proxy? Yup, it sure is. The following straight forward document should help: http://www.ngogeeks.com

Re: [SLUG] Mail Server Software...Which One???

2004-02-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:36, Terry Denovan wrote: Hi, I want to be able to setup a Linux based Mail Server which will be able to replace my current Exchange Server 5.5. I need to be able to have all the mail, calendars, notes etcstored on the server so Outlook 2000 or 2002, will be able to

Re: [SLUG] \setlength{\parsep}{15mm}

2004-02-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 12:40, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:33:58PM +1100, Terry Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Mary Gardiner wrote: [snip] Yes, thank you. That fixed it. Muchos Gracious (sp?) mucho gracias. Going OT now, but it's muchas gracias :) Gonz.

Re: [SLUG] Asterisk VoIP usage and technical questions for australian conditions!

2003-11-18 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:34, Del wrote: David Uzzell wrote: I sent an email to the Asterisk mailling list and got few and varied responses. I would be intrested in finding out if there are SLUG members using or deploying asterisk in australia? No, but I'm about to. Me too.

Re: [SLUG] work apparently available yet no-one seems interested

2003-11-12 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I refer to the job set out below, which I found on JobNet. It has appeared repeatedly over the last few weeks and I am surprised the advertisers haven't been killed in the rush. Does anyone know why the job is still there? [..snip..]

Re: [SLUG] Testing Slug List

2003-10-29 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:01, Stuart Guthrie wrote: This is test. I've posted to the list twice today and the posts are not appearing. I've received your DSPAM vs SpamAssassin post. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] OT: Affordable modems that work well with Vgetty

2003-10-28 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi Slugs, Sorry for the off-topic post. I'm looking for recommendations on any type of voice modem available in Australia that is affordable and works well with Vgetty. Maybe even someone selling one second hand? :) Thanks in advance. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] Vgetty

2003-10-01 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:24, Dave Kempe wrote: I haven't successfully setup vgetty, but I would be willing to bet the modems you tried are the same rockwell chipset. If I recall from my research (about 1 year ago), the rockwell chipset was support, but there was something about it that made it

[SLUG] Opera leaking lots of memory...

2003-10-01 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, We now have water restrictions... now if only there was memory leak restrictions. /bad joke Every single day Opera seems to take approximately ~8 hours to leak enough memory to make this system lag beyond hope. Occasionally I get the chance to open an Xterm (after waiting half an hour)

Re: [SLUG] Vgetty

2003-10-01 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:48, Grant Parnell wrote: Works just fine with my Dynalink VQE1456 (model No from memory). Perhaps lookup the manufacturer's site to see if you can find a technical manual that lists the supported commands, particularly the voice ones and use a terminal program such

[SLUG] Vgetty

2003-09-30 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, Been trying to get vgetty working with a couple of voice modems. I have a WebExcel Voice/Fax/Data V.90/K56Flex and a X-Link 56k Voice/Fax/Data modem. Essentially I don't know which modem to use from the list of vgetty supported modems. There is a script called 'vgetty-test.pl' that comes

Re: [SLUG] kill procesname, how ?

2003-09-22 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:42, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm trying to kill a process by it's name, not by pid, but, can not figure out how to specify the process name to kill; [...] Look how simple it is:

[SLUG] CUPS Printing Garbage

2003-09-16 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, I'm running CUPS on a RedHat 7.3 box. The printer in question is a HP OfficeJet Pro 1150 Colour (non-postscript printer). I've setup 2 queues. One is a Raw queue (for Windows printing via IPP) and another queue using a PPD file for Linux printing. The Windows printing by IPP works fine,

[SLUG] Re: CUPS Printing Garbage

2003-09-16 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Replying to my own message... :) There are two possible drivers you can use with CUPS for my printer; cdj850 or cdj550. I kept using the 850 one. I just tried the 550 and it worked fine so all is well. Thanks anyway :) Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Server 'up'; but 'down' from external viewers...

2003-09-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 02:53, Jared Pritchard wrote: [...] Our main machine has two major websites stored on it. One is our ISPs, the other is the main website for the other business the boss runs. The ISP website is working fine. The Main website is not. Is this an httpd.conf error? maybe it

RE: [SLUG] Vendor demonstrations at SLUG meetings - what do yout hink?

2003-08-28 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 28/08/2003 6:04 PM +1000, Rowling, Jill wrote: [...] Examples: (some of these obviously would have to be a graphical presentation rather than a demo) The Beowulf cluster of Sony Playstations; Sun LX50s (or whatever is replacing them); IBM mainframes running lots of Linux images Software

Re: [SLUG] SquirelMail without IMAP ? POP ? /Maildir ?

2003-08-28 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 28/08/2003 6:35 PM +, Voytek wrote: I'm hoping someone here can help: I must introduce you to www.google.com{.au}. It is an extremely good search engine and has the answers to a lot of your questions. :) can SquirelMail run with only Postfix and /Maildir, no IMAP, no POP, like, accessing

Re: [SLUG] /home/user permissions Q

2003-08-27 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 26/08/2003 4:55 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: ahem, how I wrap it in a 'do for' loop do for i in /home/* ..? You could add regexp's to this but if you want the Maildirs created for all the dirs in /home then: for i in `ls /home/`; do cd /home/$i maildirmake Maildir

Re: [SLUG] /home/user permissions Q

2003-08-25 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 25/08/2003 11:53 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: -- /home/sbt.net.au drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Aug 6 22:22 sbt.net.au --- should I chmod it to rwxrwxr-x ? or ? I think you'll find the Maildir directory has to be owned by the user. So: # cd /home/sbt.net.au # chmod 700

Re: [SLUG] simple graphic utility ?

2003-08-25 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 25/08/2003 10:46 AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's a good simple graphic tool for basics stuff such as resizing, croping etc ? GIMP Best regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- NOT SOLVED (grrrr)

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
The first word that comes to mind is rage. I left my machine alone for a while and when I came back I tried to move the mouse. The pointer would not move. I look at the clock, the clock did not increase count. I look down at the case, the hard disk activity light is permanently on. Oh no, the

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/08/2003 10:44 AM +1000, John McQuillen wrote: It's a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 Your motherboard uses the NForce2 chipset, support for which, I believe, is best gained from the NVIDIA binary drivers available here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html I hope this helps, Thanks John. The

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 8/08/2003 9:59 AM +1000, John Clarke wrote: Power supply. I had a system which would randomly fall over with no apparent cause. I replaced the RAM, video and network cards, motherboard and CPU but nothing changed. Then one day, it wouldn't power up so I replaced the power supply and it's

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- SOLVED (so far so good)

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, Thanks very much to everyone who had their input on my problem. The problem was indeed the power supply. It's been running for 1 day and 6 hours so far without a crash so I'm pretty certain (touch wood) that it's fixed. I learnt a few things from this problem: 1. It's not good to be

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 6/08/2003 12:40 AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: Install gcc-c++ RPM thanks, Gonzalo. I d/l the rp, but, it says: # rpm -i gcc-c++-2.96-113.i386.rpm package gcc-c++-2.96-113 is already installed tried 'F' # rpm -F gcc-c++-2.96-113.i386.rpm but it still fails with $ ./configure checking for

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 6/08/2003 5:10 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Gonzalo Servat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:45:34 +1000 What does config.log say? Usually that error means you don't have gcc-c++ installed but you evidently do. thanks, Gonzalo, Jeff. log This file contains

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/08/2003 10:29 AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Gonzalo Servat wrote: FWIW, the system is running Gentoo kernel 2.4.19, dons asbestos suit {:-) that is obviously your problem. One of your libaries needs a recompile /asbestos suit :-) Did you say new CPU mobo? But you didn't list your mobo

Re: [SLUG] swiftel?

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 11/08/2003 1:59 PM +1000, Del wrote: Hi, So who here uses swiftel DSL? Their pricing looks pretty good and since my normal providers don't do a reasonably priced 512/512 I'm considering switching a few customer sites over to them that need that sort of plan. $6/GB for excess traffic is

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/08/2003 9:40 PM +1000, Patrick Lesslie wrote: I have a very similar system, (Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550 dualhead) and apparently the same problem. I have heard that Athlons like this suffer from overheating, so I assumed it was that. It freezes sometimes when there is a lot of system

[SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, I'm experiencing complete (and random) system freezes every day or two. I've not found a pattern yet, it happens at random. System specs as follows: Athlon 1800+ CPU 256MB DDR Matrox G400 Dualhead 2 x HDD 2 x SCSI CDROM 1 x FDD First I thought it was maybe overheating so I installed

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 8/08/2003 10:26 AM +1000, David wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote: On 7/08/2003 9:40 PM +1000, Patrick Lesslie wrote: I have a very similar system, (Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550 dualhead) and apparently the same problem. I have heard that Athlons like this suffer from

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-09 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/08/2003 7:21 PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Gonzalo, Try removing everything that is *not* absolutely needed in the computer. Ie all the cards that are not needed. Could be one of those causing the problem. Remove *one* of the memory chips if possible and leave the other in. then change it

Re: Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-07 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/08/2003 11:14 AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you run a complete memory test over the system. Quite often these sort of things are a dud memory chip. Yeah, I ran memtest for 8 hours overnight with no problems. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot createexecutables

2003-08-05 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 5/08/2003 11:26 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: [..snip..] what am i missing ? Install gcc-c++ RPM Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: BIND zone file Re: [SLUG] vhost HTTPD.CONF: hostname-less webserver, can I have a

2003-07-28 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 28/07/2003 3:09 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: [..snip..] what do I need here: zone file has: @ IN SOA wombat.sbt.net.au. admin.sbt.net.au. ( 0010 ; Serial number for this data (yymmdd##) ..stuff removed... ;

Re: [SLUG] Quiet keyboards

2003-07-28 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 29/07/2003 12:49 PM +1000, Andrew Monkhouse wrote: Not quite Linux I know, but SWMBO is complaining about the noise I am making while typing. I do have a noisy keyboard, and I type fast, which makes for a lot of fast loud clicks, which gets her heart racing. So I am looking for a very

Re: [SLUG] vhost HTTPD.CONF: hostname-less web server, can I havea single vhost config ?

2003-07-27 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 28/07/2003 1:58 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: to have a webserver www.mydomain.com anwser as BOTH: http://www.mydomain.com/ and http://mydomain.com/ what do I need: DNS A record: mydomain.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Plus, of course, your www.mydomain.com. entry like:

Re: [SLUG] vhost HTTPD.CONF: hostname-less web server, can I have asingle vhost config ?

2003-07-27 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 28/07/2003 1:58 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: to have a webserver www.mydomain.com anwser as BOTH: http://www.mydomain.com/ and http://mydomain.com/ what do I need: DNS A record: mydomain.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Plus, of course, your www.mydomain.com. record like:

RE: [SLUG] Shared calendar apps

2003-07-20 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 21/07/2003 3:47 PM +1000, Daniel Harper wrote: Hi, Are there any decent shared calendar applications that'll run over a WAN, allow each user to have a local calendar (possibly synced with a PDA), and allow selected events to be synched with a shared (web accessible) calendar? It's

Re: [SLUG] httpd dead but subsys locked ?

2003-07-19 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 20/07/2003 1:43 AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what does one do with this ?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd status httpd dead but subsys locked [..snip..] Try: # killall httpd # rm -f /var/lock/subsys/httpd .. then: # service httpd start [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]#

Re: [SLUG] Take 1.5 hrs to learn why linux sucks. ;)

2003-07-10 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 11/07/2003 12:44 AM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC: irc.awesomechat.net: IRCNICK: blindman CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun Hey

[SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildir structure

2003-07-08 Thread Gonzalo Servat
Hi All, Does anyone know of a way to convert Courier-IMAP Maildirs (including folders) to Cyrus Maildir? Cyrus uses numbers for each message (ie 1. 2. 3.) so renaming them is trivial, but does Cyrus then simply scan the folder for all emails when a user logs in or do you have to run some

Re: [SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildirstructure

2003-07-08 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 9/07/2003 4:50 PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: If you have a mail client talking to both the old and new servers at once, it might be as easy to just move the messages from one folder to another using that client. The mail would all have to move through the client, but it might be faster

Re: [SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildirstructure

2003-07-08 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 9/07/2003 3:14 PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi Slightly differnt question, can I create cyrus mail boxes just by creating the directories or do I have to use the cyrus-adm prog. Looking to try and sync cyrus with getent passwd AFAIK, you need to use the cyradm utility. Best regards,

Re: [SLUG] request tracker -- worth it?

2003-07-07 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 7/07/2003 8:55 PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for issue/problem/request tracking software, and have send RT (request tracker) (http://bestpractical.com) recommended in many places. Well spotted. :) I've had a go at installing it but I must say it is _the_ most difficult

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