[SLUG] Solaris-GNU/Linux Sysadmin position

Hey all, I've put this position up on the Linux jobs list (http://www.linux.org.au/jobs/). For some reason, it never showed up, and I never got any return from my emails asking about it. So I'll post it here myself. I would kindly ask for whoever is interested to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and

[SLUG] job advert repost

Sluggers, sorry about the re-post a few minutes ago. There has been some confusion here on whether this went through or not. I just came to know this got sent to the jobs list by another staff member here. My bad. -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

All in all, if you have Ruby installed, you can always use the builtin GUI for lsof. Just run: $ ruby -rtk -e 'r=TkRoot.new{title"LSOF GUI"};t=TkText.new(r);t.pack;u=Thread.start{loop{t.value=`sudo lsof`;sleep 2}};Tk.mainloop' In a single line, of course. Happy new year. f/p On 12/29/06, Pe

Re: [SLUG] Wireless PCI card

I bought a D-Link AirPlus DWL-G520 wireless PCI card, and it worked "out of the box" with 32 bit Edgy. Quotes since I installed network manager first (I had another card I was trying to get to work before), then got the card installed. So I'd assume you need it as well. On 2/18/07, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [SLUG] Lightweight message passing infrastructure?

IMHO, I would use Jabber. There's A LOT of Jabber APIs for every kind of language, and they all seem quite simple to be used. In case anyone asks: yes, it's purpose goes beyond instant messaging. And if you're feeling smart, it's very easy to modify the messaging system to implement nice features s

Re: [SLUG] SSH "Attack"

In the worst, somebody is trying to brute force you servers, which is virtually impossible via Internet if you do enforce relatively strong passwords. And in the less, it's just some random attempts. However, if you're pretty sure somebody is trying to obtain access to your servers, you could insta

Re: [SLUG] ".pub" files on linux

In one of the the issues PHP Architect (I think December 2003 or so) there is a very simple way to parse PDF files and write them using standard IO. I had begun porting the functions to perl, but then I gave back the magazine to the owner and never finished it. I would recommend it as a very nice s

Re: [SLUG] Newbie - Networking etc

If I understood correctly, you have a Windows gateway. 1) ver heard about someone using a Windows device from a GNU/Linux via network, and I don't even think it's possible. You modem is probably being used by your gateway, and the other machines using the gateway don't have to know about it's exi

[SLUG] number prediction

Hello. Is anyone aware of any application/lib (any lang) suitable for guessing numbers? I'm trying to build one who takes three number sequences, like for example: 18402049 18032149 18429401 And then it tries to guess the next possibilities. It works like a keygen. Thanks a lot. -- Julio C. Ody

Re: [SLUG] Userdirs and Apache

AFAIK, the only way to do it is to have a mod_rewrite rule in the scene. You can do it like this (in your httpd.conf or .htaccess): RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/users/(.+) /~$1 That means, anytime an URL looks like http://example.com/users/johndoe, the actual request will get rewritten to http:

[SLUG] live cd creation

Hi all, I'll need to put together in the next few days a live cd custom distro that will run some of the applications created by my company, but I'm not willing to create anything from scratch (timing/functionality issues). I wanted to know what packages would be recommended in this case. I took a

[SLUG] powerpoint parsing/converting

Hi all, is anybody aware of an open source (preferably PHP) tool for parsing and converting Powerpoint (.ppt) files into other formats, such as for example, SWF? I would be happy in having just the parser because I believe I can build the SWF creator using ming. Cheers. -- Julio C. Ody http://ro

Re: [SLUG] powerpoint parsing/converting

gt; Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > is anybody aware of an open source (preferably PHP) tool for parsing > > and converting Powerpoint (.ppt) files into other formats, such as for > > example, SWF? > > I would be happy in having just the parser b

[SLUG] fetching POSTed file

Hello all, I'm coding a PHP script that is supposed to present an HTML form to the user, where he can upload a file. However, the form target is a webpage outside of my domain (I really don't have access to it). On normal usage, the uploaded file is processed by this remote script (the form target

[SLUG] pax

Hello list, Does anybody know a download link for pax (the archiving system, source code or slackware package)? I found paxutils on GNU project page, but it doesn't contain the software itself. Cheers. -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 G

Re: [SLUG] pax

preciated. Cheers. On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 21:52:05 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:54:30PM +1100, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Does anybody know a download link for pax (the archiving system, > > sou

[SLUG] browser "follow me"

Hi all, I'm creating a browser based "follow me" feature for a system, which allows a user (higher privileges, let's call it master) to navigate on the web, and the remaining users in the same session (less privileges, slaves) are "dragged" to the same webpages. So far I tried to create a 1px fram

[SLUG] java - jooconverter issues

Hi all, this is for the java programmers. I've set up a basic java program based on frontline's Test converter (http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=64417&highlight=documentfor mat#64417) to perform document format conversions using jooconverter. Here's my current code: import net.sf.

[SLUG] OO.org export issues - printer driver

Hi list, I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.4 Linux (Slackware 10.0) for converting powerpoint presentations into Flash through a software using OO as backend. However, the fonts in the output file get VERY small every time, and a little bit screwed (bad appearance, incorrect spacing between chars, etc). I

[SLUG] ISP recomendation

Hi list, the company where I work now, for reasons beyond mention, is willing to change it's network provider. Since we work mostly with video conference software, we do need a reliable low-latency and high bandwidth connection. Which ISPs based in Sydney would you guys recommend for that? We're i

Re: [SLUG] finding a file

You could run $ slocate -U /home/domain with this command you create a database of file locations, which later can be used through $ slocate localconf.php The database needs to be updated once in a while, in case you move files around often. Maybe you could put the first command above in a dai

Re: [SLUG] finding a file

A little bit lazy to figure how to get full paths, but clean and simple: $ ls -RShl just the size and filename: $ ls -Shl | awk '{print $5 " " $8}' no directories, just the size and filename: $ ls -RShl | grep -v '^d' | awk '{print $5 " " $8}' there's probably easier ways to do it, but t

[SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

I tried to run a few GUI (X11) applications to run through my webserver, but no success so far. They simply don't run, and no error appear in any of my logs. Does anybody know how to do it? I tried to do it through a PHP script, installed as an Apache module. I'm pretty sure my Apache user has the

Re: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

tried to run it from a clean enviroment via shell, and it worked just fine, but I'm still considering the possibility. Any help is appreciated. On 5/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:57:46PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > > I t

Re: [SLUG] running X11 app through Apache

/usr/sbin/envvars; then . /usr/sbin/envvars fi / And I don't have /usr/bin/envvars. So it was probably not picking up anything. Anyway, thanks for everything. ps: still, it's odd. On 5/3/05, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:27:10AM

Re: [SLUG] updating Perl modules, how ?

I hate to blew up the play but... # /usr/bin/perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install(CPAN::Shell->r)' Issuing the "r" command in CPAN shell gets the list of packages that are outdated compared with the versions available in CPAN. Passing this list as an argument to the install command updates these

Re: [SLUG] updating Perl modules, how ?

Hmm, > Issuing the "r" command in CPAN shell gets the list of packages that > are outdated compared with the versions available in CPAN. Passing > this list as an argument to the install command updates these modules. Just type "r" when using the CPAN shell, interactive mode =) # perl -MCPAN -

Re: [SLUG] GD with php and apache

Kind of... "Call to undefined function" means PHP is not loading the extension at all. So we can start here. Can't you run phpinfo()? I found a typo on your example down there. > phpinfo(); > ?> Should be: If phpinfo() doesn't do anything, it's more serious than just GD not running

Re: [SLUG] Script Help

> Why is the following script ripping out every directory rather than just > those in 'studentfile' You mean "studentlist"? Anyway, you could try: $ for dirname in `cat studentlist`; do rm -rf $dirname/*; done Will remove everything inside each folder listed in a file called studentlist, locate

Re: [SLUG] Script Help

Yeah, I replied, but not to the list. It follows: // begin reply // Still, the previous reply makes an interesting point that I overlooked. Using star in "rm -r" is reckless, in general. But by issuing a "rm -rf $name" will remove the directory along with it's contents, whereas "rm -rf $name/*"

Re: [SLUG] Cp -R skipping some directories

Well, that depends on what we're talking about. In a script context, you could have an "ignore list", and by checking if "folder1" is in it, the script would that folder and move on. (insert your favorite shell hack here) But strictly as a command, you have regexes available. By copying "ma*" rec

[SLUG] basic VoIP home/small office system

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: I was reading this guide, who mentions Cisco ATA186 as the device I need to do the job. http://asterisk.net.au/ But th

[SLUG] stolen laptop

Sorry to use the list for this kind of things, but considering the context, it may be suitable. My laptop got stolen 3 days ago from my home (around Ultimo). It's a small silver Twinhead (don't quite remember the model right now), with 2 operating systems running on it (LILO: Slackware Linux and W

Re: [SLUG] stolen laptop

dy for this type of theft. > > I'll make a scan of it if anyone is interested. > > Good luck! > > Lindsay > > Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > > >Sorry to use the list for this kind of things, but considering the > >context, it may be suitable. > > > &

[SLUG] snapshot file systems

Hi all, has anyone got any experience with GNU/Linux snapshot file systems? I googled around and found these: http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/snapfs/ http://sourcefrog.net/projects/snapfs/ Didn't get any of them installed yet because I won't put my hands (root) on any GNU/Linu

[SLUG] Asterisk PBX not outputting sound

Hi all, This post went to asterisk-users, at digium mailing lists, but either my question is too dumb or those guys are too busy to help these days =) I'm having issues in getting any sound using a fresh asterisk install and a SJPhone to connect to it. I went by the instructions pointed at the "

Re: [SLUG] Pros & Cons of Unix databases

my 2c, MySQL supports transactions. Supports everything needed even for large scale projects, unless you plan to start a new Yahoo.com, *maybe*. Oh, and last time I heard (which may not be accurate by now), Yahoo Finance was using it. It supports replication. If you're wise, you'll put the write

[SLUG] replicating Lilo across OS installations

I'm willing to create a single image which I can use to make multiple installations of my current GNU/Linux operating system. So that's why plan to do: # bzip2 -lc < /dev/hda > mysys.bz2 So I should be getting the entire content of the disk (which will be partitionless, and I'll use a file as swa

[SLUG] Re: replicating Lilo across OS installations

As per murphy law, the solution came up soon as I sent the email. "dd" copies everything including MBR and partition scheme. That's good enough for me. Still, if anyone is willing to share any other methods, let the thread go on. On 7/25/05, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [SLUG] South Coast LUG meeting: Podcasting

Just curious about something, if you don't mind me asking: I came across abook about podcasting recently. As I was checking it out, it seemed to me podcasting consists basically in serving a XML file that contains, among text information, a link to an audio file. So the software browsing this XML f

Re: [SLUG] Switching a website to ssl

The whole application to be accessed via SSL? If yes, then the steps are: - create the certificates. - make sure your apache installation was compiled with SSL support, then enable SSL on a given virtualhost (since you're just switching, probably the virtualhost has the same name as the host itse

Re: [SLUG] Using Xterms in Shell Scripts

> What if $USER doesn't have [X|K|G|*]dialog? or has moved or nuked it? > [$USER is capable of _anything_.] He's likely to have xmessage. The man page illustrates some of the stuff you can do using buttons and some other widgets. Never used these other widgets though... On 8/17/05, Robert Tho

[SLUG] central point for offers

Is there a known central point for companies to offer commercial Unix/Linux related services here in Australia? Googled for it, but I couldn't find anything specific, if there is such thing... -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:/

Re: [SLUG] central point for offers

005 2:10 PM > > To: Slug List > > Subject: [SPAM - FORGED HEADERS >> ] - Re: [SLUG] central > > point for offers - Email found in subject > > > > You might want to check out http://linux.org.au/vendors. > > > > There's contact information at t

Re: [SLUG] Asterisk Open Source PABX software

My current job is to design servers for hosting Asterisk. From my experience, it's the best PBX software around. There's a bunch of alternatives such as sipX (www.sipfoundry.org/sipX/). Never used them, but since Asterisk such a big community already, I would advise you to stick with it. Developme

Re: [SLUG] wifi router

WRT54G+OpenWRT is probably not the best solution if all you want is a router+dhcp server, dns and firewall. The out-of-the-box solution will do it. Unless of course you want to do it yourself... The good thing about OpenWRT is that you can install it and use the hardware for something else than th

Re: [SLUG] wifi router

ipkg. I can tell it's stable for the scenarios I tested it (small office, 6 or 7 SIP phones, relatively complex dialplan). I never been through with it in larger deployments. So the answer for your question is yes. On 9/19/05, Gottfried Szing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again > > > The goo

Re: [SLUG] BASH oddity

Maybe you're not willing to use bc... but here it goes anyway. Use: OUR_UTC_MINS=$(echo $OUR_MINS - $OUR_TZ_OSET_MINS | bc) And it works. No idea on how to solve it with bash constructs though... ps: apart from using a regex and removing leading zeroes. On 9/20/05, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [SLUG] Gentoo

I'm a FreeBSD user/sysadmin/tweak-for-fun-guy. I used slackware until recently when I started to use Gentoo as my GNU/Linux system. Gentoo has a package management system that resembles the BSD ports system. If you take your time reading the Gentoo Handbook, you'll have enough knowledge to make it

Re: [SLUG] gzip from perl script

On 9/21/05, Voytek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > do I simply add like: > > system("gzip $backuppath/$arr[1]-$year$month$day.sql"); > (and change the 'rm' line extension?) Go for it. There's no reason to install the module when you can safely do it via system(). In fact, don't be afraid of usi

Re: [SLUG] C-Pointers vs Perl 6 - will this thread ever die?

On 10/3/05, Mark Johnathan Greenaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:42:17PM +1000, O Plameras wrote: > > Ok, I'd like to learn another High Level Language, specifically perl6. > > And I'd like to make a living from it. > > I'd like to write a Linux Version 2.6 kernel module

[SLUG] looking for ADIT 600 (pref) or equiv

Hi all, I'm willing to buy an Asterisk channel bank, but it seems to be quite hard to find it here in Australia. I'm looking for Adit 600, since I'll probably need more than 20 FXS/FXO ports in the same host. Does anybody in the list know a supplier? Thanks for any advice. ps: Yeah, I already l

Re: [SLUG] Asterisk and inbound CLID - partial success

Isn't that what you're looking for? http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+ZAP+channels Or did you already implement that and it didn't work anyway? CallerID detection works fine for me over X100P (and the likes), but I never managed to get it working with my Sipura SPA-3000 (I actually get the

Re: [SLUG] Asterisk and inbound CLID - partial success

235,146 > dring2context=default > dring3=296,275,266 > dring3context=default > useincomingcalleridonzaptransfer = yes > faxdetect = both > group = 1 > channel => 4 > > > Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > > Isn't that what you're looking for? > > > >

[SLUG] 2 def gateways

Hi all, This seems to be more of an Asterisk question than Linux networking. But since this same concept would apply to any other service, I guess anyone with more knowledge than I in the subject can help. I added a second gateway to handle VoIP to my network infrastructure. This gateway has to b

Re: [SLUG] Re: [ot] Asterisk suppliers / consultants

The company where I work also does PBX design and a whole bunch of tricks with calls and stuff like that. The web interface was developed by us as well. Users can control how their extension behaves independant of others, generate call logs, AJAX search, and some more. Give me a shout via email if

[SLUG] perl DBI special chars handling

Hi list. I tried emailing the perl monger list, but it seems no one got it. There's a certain function in a program I wrote which inserts data into a MySQL database using DBI. Here's a snippet: my $MYSQL_insert = "INSERT INTO $MYSQL_tablename (title, link, description, pubdate, source) VALUES (?,

Re: [SLUG] perl DBI special chars handling

ing a search, and that will have impact when, for example, somebody looks for "voila". I won't be returning any "voilá" as a search result. But thanks anyway =) On 1/12/06, Rene Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:57:38AM -0800, Ju

Re: [SLUG] Fedora vs RH Enterprise - consultants advising to change

Better supported: maybe yeah. But in that sense, there's always support available for Slackware, Gentoo, and other distros. I guess the point here is that you have a company behind that support when you buy RH, and that also means liability, which can useful for some companies. Easier to upgrade:

[SLUG] SMB network printer

Hi all, I'm looking into buying a networked printer, and I wanted to know if anyone can share some advice on a good one. It has to "work by itself", with a built-in printing server which is Windows compatible and usable by GNU/Linuxes via Samba. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- Julio C. Ody

Re: [SLUG] SMB network printer

ax price? Laser? Colour? etc etc > > The more details, the better the suggestions you will get. > > On 2/15/06, Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm looking into buying a networked printer, and I wanted to know if > > anyon

[SLUG] hard links over the net

Hi all, I have a backup server in my LAN that keeps some rsnapshot (www.rsnapshot.org) backups. For those of you who don't know the tool, rsnapshot works by taking incremental backups, hard linking the files that don't change from one backup to the next (thus, keeping the consecutive backups small

Re: [SLUG] Distribution with maintained 2.4 kernel

I wouldn't be saying this if it wasn't for the new LiveCD based installation, (which in fact I never layed an eye on), since most people find Gentoo to be too complicated to install. Get Gentoo (www.gentoo.org). Try the LiveCD (http://bouncer.gentoo.org/?product=gentoo-2006.0-livecd&os=x86). If I

Re: [SLUG] Re: Interesting view

Linux was born like Unix. The whole GNU heritage comes from that philosophy too. Unix is essentially a server system that was never built to satisfy the average home user (and until a few years ago there wasn't any effort to make GNU/Linux a desktop system). Can we make it become one? Sure. It'll j

Re: Distro names for consumers [Was: [SLUG] Re: Interesting view]

(not replying to poster, but to the conversation) Really, who cares about the name? Was the name Google that made it a success in the SE world? That's obvious enough. I feel silly by saying it. It's the "put out a decent desktop distro" bit that's not been achieved. Not the "best name". How can o

Re: Distro names for consumers [Was: [SLUG] Re: Interesting view]

lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > >(not replying to poster, but to the conversation) > > > >Really, who cares about the name? Was the name Google that made it a > >success in the SE world? That's obvious enough. I feel

[SLUG] software for screencasts

Hello all, does anyone has a recommendation for a software to make screencasts (for GNU/Linux)? What I want is the hability to "broadcast" my desktop via GAIM/MSN. Thanks in advance. -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org

Re: [SLUG] software for screencasts

ng VNC will be the way to go. I'll have people connecting a computer to mine using a client. For sound I can use GAIM I suppose. Thanks for the tips. On 4/11/06, Ian Wienand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:57:46PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > >

[SLUG] NTP problems

Hi all, I've set up some gentoo powered desktops in the network I administer with ntpd, so they keep their times sync with the "main application server". So basically, this main server's ntpd syncs with au.pool.ntp.org, and all the other ntpd servers in each of the desktops sync with the main se

Re: [SLUG] NTP problems

ED]> wrote: Hi Julio, On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:23:42PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > But in this machine, no matter how much I want, this is what I get: > > > # ntpq -p > remote refid

Re: [SLUG] NTP problems

ems the guy did a kernel upgrade and the problem vanished. I'll do the same and see what happens. On 5/3/06, Christopher Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:23:42PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: ># ntpq -p > remote refi

Re: [SLUG] NTP problems

ECTED]> wrote: >>>>> "Julio" == Julio Cesar Ody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Julio> But in this machine, no matter how much I want, this is what I Julio> get: Julio> # ntpq -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter Julio>