[SLUG] New ubuntu user documentation

2011-05-19 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
For your consideration: http://divajutta.com/doctormo/ubunchu/c1.html -- 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] Upgrading OS RAID

2011-01-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 9 January 2011 15:42, 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] Virtualisation and DRBD

2010-08-25 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 24 August 2010 19:46, Nigel Allen d...@edrs.com.au wrote: Any input (as ever) gratefully accepted. You should take a look at ganeti: http://code.google.com/p/ganeti/ which is a virtualisation management system that includes DRBD backed storage. Even if you don't use it, you can get some

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Call me crazy! s/(|?)pg=[^]*/\1/ (correct escaping of and ? left as an exercise for someone actually using this :) On 27 July 2010 08:03, Martin Barry ma...@supine.com wrote: Sorry to bring up an old thread but I just had to comment on this... $quoted_author = Jamie Wilkinson ; Try

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-16 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 16 July 2010 17:15, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com writes: On 15/07/10 16:14, Daniel Pittman wrote: [...] We cant be the first people to come across this branch office scenario. Nope. Lots of people have, and wished there was a good

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-15 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 14 July 2010 23:14, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Sadly, I can't right now advise a better solution than these, however, since it is the main problem I face in trying to bridge two data-centers and provide coherent and sensible file access. I think you're going to be out of

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
The equivalent on MacOS is Time Machine, as I understand it (which is not very much as I don't understand Macs at all), but I'm not aware of any Linux application that does this either. I like Peter's idea of using inotify though, you could whip up a 10 liner with the python language bindings to

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Try: /pg=[^]*/ match zero or more of the character class that is not an ampersand. On 13 July 2010 17:21, Peter Rundle pe...@aerodonetix.com.au wrote: Hi Sluggers, I'm sure some of you genii have a real quick solution to this. I'm trying to find and replace and argument in a url. The url

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
the substitute operator, or split on the pattern, iterate through the array, and join again? Lindsay On 14 July 2010 10:30, Jamie Wilkinson j...@spacepants.org wrote: Try: /pg=[^]*/ match zero or more of the character class that is not an ampersand. On 13 July 2010 17:21, Peter Rundle

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
I don't see the problem with my approach; the match will terminate when it sees the second ampersand, without consuming it. On 13 July 2010 19:01, Ken Foskey kfos...@tpg.com.au wrote: /pg=.*/ But also I think is a special char (no?) that means put the matched bit back, though is that

Re: [SLUG] Re: Time Pedantry

2010-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 8 April 2010 12:39, Steve Allen sla29...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 7, 7:03 pm, Jamie Wilkinson j...@spacepants.org wrote: If time_t was defined as a representation of TAI instead of UTC, it'd be harder to get it wrong. Except that TAI is not available until next month and the BIPM

Re: [SLUG] Re: Time Pedantry

2010-04-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 8 April 2010 10:56, Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 11:57 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: On 3 April 2010 12:51, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: Pity that unix time_t ignores leap seconds :-) And the corollary that anyone using ntpd or other time

Re: Time Pedantry (was Re: [SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?)

2010-04-06 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 1 April 2010 16:56, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net writes: On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 03:39:00PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: If it was my call, I would probably do the same thing.  Way too many developers get simple things like this day has no

Re: Time Pedantry (was Re: [SLUG] Which bank doesn't use Linux servers?)

2010-04-06 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 1 April 2010 17:11, Peter Hardy pe...@hardy.dropbear.id.au wrote: None of this would be a problem if we'd just switch to decimal time in a single timezone and call it a day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Re: Time Pedantry

2010-04-06 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 3 April 2010 12:51, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 01:33:03PM +1100, Jake Anderson wrote: We should all just use unix timestamp for all date/time communications and be done with it. Pity that unix time_t ignores leap seconds :-) And the corollary that

Re: [SLUG] Looking for distributed packet logger

2009-09-21 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
There's a tool called pmacct that sits on a regular network interface and sniffs packets; it includes a netflow, an sflow, and plain old pcap based traffic flow sniffing. It dumps to mysql, postgreqsl, in memory tables, and can be pretty fast and is pretty robust. 2009/9/19 Mada R Perdhana

Re: [SLUG] Apps hanging when writing to /dev/log

2009-02-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Is the syslog daemon logging into /var/log/syslog that it's out of connections? syslog can run out of file descriptors sometimes; if it's syslog-ng it'll write Number of allowed concurrent connections exceeded. 2009/1/29 Jeremy Visser jeremy.vis...@gmail.com: G'day, Since around the beginning

Re: [SLUG] comments in scripts and source code

2009-01-21 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Prefer factoring functions and methods out than using comments; the functoin name is a much better description of the code it contains than a leading comment on a block; e.g. # Get data from cache data = cache.get('foobar') versus def GetCacheData(): return cache.get('foobar') Not terribly

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

2009-01-02 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
I bought a Thecus N5200+ which holds 5 SATA disks and sits on the network (or can be USB storage if you want it to). Apart from a typically bad web management UI, it's pretty awesome. 2008/12/19 Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net: Can anyone recommend a NAS device for home? ie something for that

Re: [SLUG] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

2008-10-20 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
2008/10/17 Morgan Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is very real and very scary. http://nocleanfeed.com/ I am a parent and I don't think this enforced censorship and limitation should be forced upon us. Do as that site says and spam... err email a delegate. ITYM write a paper letter. -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] reasonable mail message size ?

2008-07-01 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
2008/6/26 Craig Dibble [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are plenty of other ways to transfer larger files these days. If FTP isn't an option there are any number of online sites that will allow you to move files around. Can't think of any of the names offhand but I'm sure a search engine will be your

Re: [SLUG] Re:[ot] Need small 'spreadsheet' on webpage

2008-07-01 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
2008/6/27 Richard Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Google docs ?... +1 to that, it's really easy to embed a google docs spreadsheet in your own page. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

On Systems Administrators who are Programmers (was: Re: [SLUG] composite multiple images command in imagemagick)

2008-07-01 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
2008/6/17 Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: 2008/6/12 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quote who=Rick Welykochy I've always pondered where to draw the line between sys admin and programmer /analyst. Wherever you draw it, draw if very firmly. Sysadmins should not write

Re: [SLUG] {Spam?} Anti spam software?

2008-06-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
2008/6/20 Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All, I am after a good Anti spam software program for Linux which is shell based. I am aware of Spam assassign. But I would like to know if there is anything else which is better? I had amazingly good results using only bogofilter, after about a

Re: [SLUG] Filesystem which allows online fsck?

2008-06-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
2008/6/12 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] : Hi all, Does anyone know of a Linux filesystem which allows online fsck on a disk that is currently mounted read/write? At LCA 2006 (the Canberra one) Ted T'so talked about performing nightly read-only fscks on ext3

Re: [SLUG] composite multiple images command in imagemagick

2008-06-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
2008/6/12 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quote who=Rick Welykochy I've always pondered where to draw the line between sys admin and programmer /analyst. Wherever you draw it, draw if very firmly. Sysadmins should not write code, Bollocks. coders should not administer systems. Heinous

Re: [SLUG] Minimum username length?

2008-05-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
I thought useradd(8) would enlighten me, I thought I remembered this being defined in either /etc/login.defs or /etc/security/limits.conf, but it's in neither. I honestly don't think there's a minimum username length limit. Feel free to be d@ ;) 2008/5/16 DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Folks.

Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

2008-05-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
If you're talking a network shared drive, then something simple like htdig gets you most of the way there. You can either crawl the disk like locate(8) does, or crawl the intranet webserver if that's how you're accessing your docs, then you call the hdig CGI and get back your results. Cheap,

Re: [SLUG] Re: looking for a command to composite sequentially numbered files

2008-04-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
On 16/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 15, 10:07 am, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Richard, Alex and all. If I try: for i in `seq 1 999`;do echo j=`printf %04d $i`; echo composite -compose atop bubbles.png 0*.png image$j.png; done | head

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Amos Shapira wrote: 1. You CAN'T mount a non-cluster-aware file system even read-only on the secondary node since the primary will change FS-structs under the feet of the read-only node and cause it to crash (because non-cluster-aware filesystems assume that they are

Re: [SLUG] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?

2008-04-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Crossfire wrote: Dave Kempe wrote: Crossfire wrote: I want to be able to set it up so /home (and maybe other filesystems) are replicated from one to the other, in both directions, in real time so they can run in an all-hot redundant cluster. The environment

Re: [SLUG] Weird DNS issues

2008-04-05 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I'm getting weird DNS timeouts. The /etc/resolv.conf file on my machine points to the ADSL modem, 192.168.1.1. machine host planet.linux.org.au 192.168.1.1 Using domain server: Name: 192.168.1.1 Address:

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-29 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 11:26 +1100, DaZZa wrote: You should patch it. There *is* an update for Microsoft products - provided, of course, you're not running anything later than

Re: [SLUG] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

2008-02-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ricky wrote: - first, you classify data Eg.engineering.doc is commercially sensitive or customer_creditcard.xls is personal privacy - setup rules in your DLP, likely to be an appliance box sitting behind the firewall - stops data from going out the LAN

Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

2008-02-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I never said otherwise. I referred to the trailing slash on the _target_ (i.e. the destination), not the source. ACK. Sridhar was also right, but I also always forget, so I hard code in my brain to always use a trailing slash on both of

Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

2008-02-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:57:30PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: rysnc -av /home.orig/* /home/ Using a * here will skip dotfiles in /home.orig. There's probably none there but you never know. Secondarily, anytime you use * you make it possible

Re: [SLUG] bigpond cable modem and any old DHCP client?

2008-02-06 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Barrie Hall wrote: Does anyone have experience with BigPond cable? Specifically, is it possible to use the SB-5101 modem and plug in a DHCP-client wireless router on the ethernet side, or does BigPond still require a custom login tool running on the client?

[SLUG] bigpond cable modem and any old DHCP client?

2008-02-04 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Hello list! Does anyone have experience with BigPond cable? Specifically, is it possible to use the SB-5101 modem and plug in a DHCP-client wireless router on the ethernet side, or does BigPond still require a custom login tool running on the client? The whirlpool forums are fuzzy at best, and

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-20 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:57:39PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Robert Thorsby sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m Something like the following might be close

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-20 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Norman Gaywood wrote: On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:46:51PM +1100, Scott Ragen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19/12/2007 11:34:30 AM: Norman Gaywood wrote: perl -00 -ne 'print tr/,//' input.txt I nominate the perl soln as the winner so far: runs like a bat

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-20 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jamie Wilkinson sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m Tuesday afternoon shell optimisation party! You want to count the total number of characters in a file, not including newlines, that are on lines that don't start

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-20 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ian Wienand wrote: I'd guess the Python version is spending that time doing some extra copying because it causes a lot of page faults is really cache unfriendly. Python Instructions retired per L1 data cache access: 11.03 Instructions retired per L2 data cache access:

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: Hi all, Here's a starting point. What's a more optimal way to perform this task? :-) sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m Tuesday afternoon shell optimisation party! You want to count the total number of characters in a file, not

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Robert Thorsby sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m Something like the following might be close: awk 'BEGIN{FS=,}{$0~,$:i=i+NF?i=i+NF-1}END{print(i)}' input.txt Close in what sense, the syntax error, the length, or the

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Peter Miller wrote: Cascade Premium, please. Zing! -- 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] https from script

2007-11-20 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Tue, November 20, 2007 2:29 pm, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: this works wget --no-check-certificate See the wget manpage. Directly below the information about the --no-check-certificate option is the option you want.

Re: [SLUG] tip: how to renumbber screens in gnu screen

2007-11-15 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:22:31AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: The hardest thing about finding tip for screen is that typing screen into Google is not exactly definitive! Indeed. Maybe we can agitate to have them cahnge the name to vscreen or

Re: [SLUG] terminal via email

2007-11-15 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Tony Green wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:58:02 +1100 (EST), Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: some time ago, I came across a utility that would process a terminal command in an email body, and, email back the output; but I don't recall what it was, anyone

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 30 November

2007-11-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
employment and careers in the FOSS world. ** Jamie Wilkinson - Linux authentication internals ** Well technically it's nameservice internals, but I'll cover the difference at the start :) Jamie Wilkinson will be treating you all to a relaxing jaunt through glibc's nameservice switch, or what

Re: [SLUG] linux in 1911

2007-10-26 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Amos Shapira wrote: Try the following: http://www.google.com.au/views?q=linux+view%3Atimelineie=UTF-8 (that's linux view:timeline in Google Search). I wonder what 2.6.11 would mean to a date parsing algorithm who had to deal with humans. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] clam/amavis changing owner on /var/log OK ?

2007-10-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: and, yes, as the logs rolled, they reverted, and, after I stopped , So there's a log rotator in there? What does its configuration tell you? Perhaps the log rotator is creating the new log file with the wrong ownership? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Comsec behaving badly, how to talk to a big business

2007-10-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeremy Portzer wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: On 07/10/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:09:50AM +, Amos Shapira wrote: DATA: malformed address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n may not follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : failing address in To:

Re: [SLUG] Backing up over a WAN connection

2007-10-04 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry to bother you all again. How does one do a backup over a WAN connection with latency for servers across the world and create an image of the entire system including SQL. What Linux free software will do the above for us. We have

Re: [SLUG] httpd load: dos attack ?

2007-10-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: I noticed my web server was kind off slow, and, saw this, is this some sort of dos attack ? how to control ? # service httpd status httpd (pid 10774 10773 10772 10771 10769 10768 10766 10754 10749 10746 10742 10741 10740 10739 10738 10737 10736

Re: [SLUG] httpd load: dos attack ?

2007-10-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: I noticed my web server was kind off slow, and, saw this, is this some sort of dos attack ? If you are using Apache, there is an Apache Status module that lets you see what is currently executing inside the server.

Re: [SLUG] what to backup on CentOS5 / EHEL5?

2007-10-02 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, We have a production CentOS 5 server which I need to be able to restore from scratch (naturally). I'm currently backing up /etc, our own program's directory and a dump of our databases on a daily basis. I'm considering adding /var/lib/rpm

Re: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

2007-09-30 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:25:43PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: So for example you could use clusterssh or distributed ssh; dsh or cssh packages in Debian, for example, which are quite sweet for doing the same interactive thing on a bunch

[SLUG] url openmoko third party wiki site mentioned at the talk?

2007-09-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Hi, Does anyone remember what the last URL in the OpenMoko talk was? I remember openmoko.org, openmoko.com, and then a wiki at openmoko.something.org. Thanks! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

2007-09-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm starting to learn expect [1][2] to help me automate some programs that prompt for input. Expect dates from the early 90s - is it the right way to go or is there now a better shinier tool/language that I should be learning? [1]

Re: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

2007-09-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:25:44 +1000, Robert Thorsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 2007.09.25 11:07 Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm starting to learn expect [1][2] to help me automate some programs that prompt for input. Expect dates from the early

Re: [SLUG] mdadm/fstab mismatch

2007-09-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, - Should the UUIDs match and if so, which one is wrong? - How do I fix it? - How the hell is it workin now? I'm going to make something up and suggest that the UUIDs you're seeing in mdadm.conf are the MD superblock UUIDs,

Re: [SLUG] url openmoko third party wiki site mentioned at the talk?

2007-09-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Mark Chandler wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Hi, Does anyone remember what the last URL in the OpenMoko talk was? I remember openmoko.org, openmoko.com, and then a wiki at openmoko.something.org. Thanks! I wasn't at the talk, so I could be wrong

Re: [SLUG] url openmoko third party wiki site mentioned at the talk?

2007-09-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone remember what the last URL in the OpenMoko talk was? I remember openmoko.org, openmoko.com, and then a wiki at openmoko.something.org. This one? http

Re: [SLUG] sh wrapper for cal to highlight today's date

2007-09-16 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Hi. I got tired of having to squint at cal to find today's date and wrote a little shell wrapper to highlight it. Screenshot and source code at: http://www.lifesurvives.com/tech/hcal.html That's pretty sweet. For extra points: 1) how

Re: [SLUG] iptables defualt policy

2007-09-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am just going through my firewall setup and I notice I can no longer do iptables -P INPUT REJECT when did this happen ? I could have sworn that is what I used to use as a default, yes I know I can drop and add a -A -j REJECT News to me.

Re: [SLUG] reported memory and actual memory

2007-07-29 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, I have a server which has 5GB memory in it. BIOS reports 5120GB and that's fine. Top in CentOS linux reports 3632188 total. Is that 5GB physical RAM? How big is your swap? Are you running a kernel that supports more than 4G of RAM? --

Re: [SLUG] LDAP and keepalive errors

2007-03-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Craig Dibble wrote: ...right up until I deployed our new LDAP servers to production. Now I find that I get intermittent failures from the keepalive script whereby it reports that some or all of the processes it is monitoring have died, tries to restart them, and fails.

Re: [SLUG] UUID / fstab

2007-02-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, david wrote: Edgy generates UUID's for partitions when installing, but if a new partition is created there is no UUID for it How do i create a UUID so that the system relates it to the new partition? Hours of googling hasn't hit the spot yet. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, John wrote: A signpost would be appreciated and any suggestions as to how I might achieve my desired configuration. Try setting up dspam in between your MTA and the delivery. www.dspam.org I haven't used it yet, but I was reading about it several months ago. It

Re: Was - RE:[SLUG] Is there a solution ?: Confusion corrected.

2007-01-04 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] After advice given here, but for other reasons too, I got a adsl-router rather than an adsl-bridge to tigger. What I've lost is name virtual hosts. My router (dlink 604T) does suitable virtual hosting,

Re: [SLUG] map index mashup

2006-11-15 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Peter Miller wrote: Does anyone know of a way to get the names of the various map sheets from the web, while looking at a map? E.g. a Google Maps mashup which shows the 1:1M, 1:250K, 1:100K and 1:50K map sheet names (and boundaries) under the cursor? Do you know of a

Re: Relevance of dump (was: Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.)

2006-11-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Penedo wrote: On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump. Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity. I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in the current world of multiple

Re: [SLUG] Convert HTML files to RSS feed

2006-10-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, James Gregory wrote: Dudes, I have a directory of HTML files (which will be updated periodically) that I need to publish as an RSS feed. I've looked around briefly, but can't see anything obvious. Does anyone know of such a tool? RSS is *fairly* trivial; if you can't

Re: [SLUG] dumb user check tool ?

2006-09-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: I have a LAMP server with several vhosts, some of the users now install/run their own CMSs, what sort of tools/checks are there I can use to attempt to protect the server ? (rather than, as I currently do, relay on sheer luck) What hosting company

Re: [SLUG] d/l illicit files: wget, curl, what else ?

2006-09-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Wed, September 27, 2006 9:15 pm, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: apart from wget and curl, what else can be used to download illicit files to a web server ? Python, Perl, Ruby, C, Haskell, Ocaml. In fact any programming language. Also programs

Re: [SLUG] d/l illicit files: wget, curl, what else ?

2006-09-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: thanks, Andrew unfortuantly, it seems my user does have vulnerable version of Joomla... clearly he is not following Mambo/Joomla advisories... If you allow your users to install their own versions of X, then your

Re: [SLUG] restarting a 'failed restart' Apache fails

2006-09-21 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm still having probs with this, I think I've now tried all suggestions posted here, but, obviously I'm missing something in my understanding (hardly unsual), and still not suceeding service httpd restart should forcibly fix the subsys locked

Re: [SLUG] session problems Ubuntu Dapper

2006-08-25 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: flamebait /flamebait flamebait goes on -chat. -- 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] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

2006-08-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Mary Gardiner wrote: Is there a canonical way of writing interface specific iptables scripts? At the moment, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts with this behaviour to put in /etc/network/if[action].d/: - when lo comes up, add an iptables rule - when lo comes

Re: [SLUG] Any chance of the list admin getting spamassassin running?

2006-08-16 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: Its rather easy to say 'there is heaps of spam getting through' without actually being able to compare with how much *isnt* getting through. I believe having subscriber only access has been discussed and rejected before. My 2c says go subscriber

Re: [SLUG] linux assignment

2006-08-15 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Carlo Sogono wrote: O Plameras wrote: Carlo Sogono wrote: True, actually not even man bash. If you execute the command you'll most likely get an error complaining about the file 1, create a file 1 and re-execute it and by using the magic commands ls and cat he'd

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

2006-08-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote: This doesn't sound very community-friendly. Are you legally allowed to give me a copy of this source? What's the license? I honestly don't remember. I assume I can becuse it's GPL :) I don't think non-registered owners can get to the

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

2006-08-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: I bought one because the brochure was glossy and it has words like ogg and reviews like works great. its the only dvd player profile, dvd and network media player. so meh. parse error. i would say that its very 'mother and father' compatible,

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

2006-08-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:19:47 +1000 Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It runs embedded Linux on a StrongARM, but I suspect all the decoding is done in hardware on an MPEG decoder and one of those FPGA dudes programmed to do the OGG

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

2006-08-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote: Anyone have any experience with the Zensonic Z500? how hackable/reliable/flexible is it? I bought one because the brochure was glossy and it has words like ogg and reviews like works great. It reboots itself during the poweron phase,

Re: [SLUG] DHCP client vs sendmail

2006-08-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Peter Miller wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 11:22 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:14:40AM +1000, Peter Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there any elegant way to have a laptop DHCP client have its sendmail configured properly? In

Re: [SLUG] DHCP client vs sendmail

2006-08-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Steve Kowalik wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 12:12:37 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson uttered 2. find someone who can host a SMTP AUTH outbound on port 993 (SMTP+SSL) which probably won't get blocked by any of your ISPs outbound. Port 993 is POP3S, whereas SSMTP is port 465

Re: [SLUG] Adding RAID to Linux *after* installation?

2006-07-31 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I couldn't even find a howto for setting up a software raid (well, not one that talked about mdadm - only old ones talking about the older raidtools). http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/05/msg00374.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Howdy all

2006-07-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:25:38PM +1000, Christopher Martin wrote: Thanks, iSCSI may be a solution. While we're suggesting myriad ways to present block devices over the network, take a quick squiz at ATA over Ethernet -- I was pleasantly amazed

Re: [SLUG] hosts.allow question

2006-07-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote: Any clues accepted. Do you have the reverse DNS set up correctly? -- 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] hosts.allow question

2006-07-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:46 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote: Any clues accepted. Do you have the reverse DNS set up correctly? I thought reverse DNS only mattered when you're using the PARANOID wildcard

Re: [SLUG] WAN simulation

2006-07-19 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Gavin Carr wrote: Hi sluggers, Quick question - I'm wanting to do some lab-based WAN simulation i.e. have an ethernet link set up between two boxes that has wan-like latencies on it. I was thinking I could maybe just insert a linux router/forwarder into that link

Re: [SLUG] Re: Recommendations for a Document Management System?

2006-06-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Billy Kwong wrote: Did anyone mention KnowledgeTree? (http://www.ktdms.com/) No, they didn't! Thanks ;-) (Ok, it's in PHP, kick me.) Ok. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Re: Recommendations for a Document Management System?

2006-06-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Billy Kwong wrote: Did anyone mention KnowledgeTree? (http://www.ktdms.com/) No, they didn't! Thanks ;-) Thanks Michael, too, didn't see your post until after ;-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Recommendations for a Document Management System?

2006-06-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Bennetts wrote: It's hardly ideal, but MoinMoin wikis can have attachments and ACLs, and even versions pages (not sure about attachments, though). Probably not what you're after, but superficially it would more-or-less meet requirements :) Yeah, we discounted

Re: [SLUG] Deleting Files with Unknown Filetype

2006-06-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamshid Karimi wrote: My immediate task is to get the applications going. As an example apache fails to start since two config files have changed attributes and size. Here is one of them: Yesterday: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 368 Jul 19 2005

Re: [SLUG] Is there a truly upgradable Linux distro?

2006-06-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, a question for the Debian, Gentoo etc. users: have any of you have had a problem when you tried to get the system to upgrade itself from an older release (e.g. Debian 3.0 to 3.1)? Or does it always work perfectly smoothly? No it's never

[SLUG] Recommendations for a Document Management System?

2006-06-13 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Does anyone have any experience with, and can recommend, document management systems? We have a need for something that we can stick PDFs, Word docs, and other (binary or XML) formats in. It also needs to have some access controls, because the kinds of documents that will go in will include HR

Re: [SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-31 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Martin Visser wrote: I still do obfuscate my email address in my .signature when I use my work account, but I have to admit it probably doesn't make a heck of difference now. Basically if you are seeing 30 spams or say a day (which is what I max out on) your address

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-31 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, SLUG feeding spam to the world wrote: I don't apologise for laughing when techos start rabbitting on about community. It is such a hollow term especially when you've been around the SLUG community for over ten years. Wow, and to think I used to appreciate your

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