Re: [SLUG] script to analyse syslog in realtime

If you want something light for ad-hoc checks I use a bit of perl like this that uses a dumb match of part of the date-time string as a key into a hash of counts: #!/usr/bin/perl # # use strict; use warnings; my %events_per_minute; while(<>) { chomp; if (m,to s

Re: [SLUG] updated kernel causing problems

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:02:14PM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: > > > > > > Hi Thanks all. Much appreciated. > > > > > > For future reference in the archives I did the following... > > > > > > rpm -qa | grep kernel Fwiw (not much :-) this lists the kernels a bit less typing and a more accurate r

Re: [SLUG] Linux drivers for Inno3D GF GTX 570

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:17:44AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: > Thanks Dion, > > ok now where is "download drivers"? I've searched everywhere... looks > like a Gnome desktop so perhaps I don't have the "download drivers" > package installed? I've gone through all the menu's. > > Is there a comma

Re: [SLUG] Traffic control

youtube was less dynamic or I was just lucky. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 09:19:05PM +1100, Jake Anderson wrote: > keep in mind that without mucking with it / addons squid wont proxy > youtube (style) videos. > > On 02/27/2012 11:56 AM, Matthew Hannigan wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 a

Re: [SLUG] Traffic control

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:29:48PM +1100, Jim Donovan wrote: > Recently my ISP discontinued the ADSL plan I was on and put me on another > plan with three times the bandwidth. This is fine however one of the kids > likes watching YouTube and can now chew up a month's data in a few days. [ .. ]

Re: [SLUG] mkdir

Grant Street gave the answer previously, chmod 2755 topdir which sets the setgid (the 2) and relaxed perms (the 755) But this didnt fix the existing dirs group ownership. Also you might want 775 instead of 755. See below for my take. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:44:41PM +1030, Glen Turne

Re: [SLUG] Wiki software

If you're considering a git backed wiki like others have suggested you could do worse than use the one that github uses; gollum. https://github.com/github/gollum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailing

Re: [SLUG] Was 'kernel panic', now '/usr/sbin/: Not found.'

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:10:45AM +1200, adam.bogacki wrote: > I mount dev, proc, sys, and usr on /dev/sda (aka w1), and What does df or mount show at this point > guest@guest:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/w1 /bin/bash and this point -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org

Re: [SLUG] How do I add a file (zip) to a package without compressing it

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 09:11:20AM +1000, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > >pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > > > >>zip -0 file.epub mimetype > >> > >>-0 says don't compress. It's a zero, not an `oh'. > >> > > > > > >Thanks - looks like the command I was looking for. > > >

Re: [SLUG] Hacked email

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 09:23:14AM +1000, david wrote: [ .. ] > I'm on Darren's address book, so I got the scam request for cash > from his account. It looked perfectly genuine at first although the > return address was dagibbs@Ymail instead of gmail. This is the thing. Surely all a gmail users c

Re: [SLUG] Tape Backups and Scripting

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 06:25:29PM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: > [ .. ] > I have looked at Bacula (a pain to install on CentOS 5.6) and had a amanda and bacula are available for centos -- bacula is in EPEL I would strongly suggest you use an existing backup system rather than roll your own If

Re: [SLUG] Linux in Australia in 2012 - trends..

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:50:47AM +1000, David Lyon wrote: > [ .. ] > Yes Ubuntu is nice, but Android is surely set to be a competitor ? ChromeOS is the more direct competitor. The big selling point is no admin necessary and safer browsing (probably) and more virus resistant. (possibly) Of c

Re: [SLUG] Android ssh, nix.tools?

Yep connect bot is what I use. Read the docs though, keys like control and meta are a hassle. And differ a little depending on your device. I like Netcounter for data usage; free and open source. http://www.jaqpot.net/netcounter/ by Cyril Jaquier but of course available on the Market. VNC I th

Re: [SLUG] Help with files that have "identical" filenames

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:50:37AM +1000, Scott Finneran wrote: [ .. ] > this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are some non-printable > characters in the filename. ls -d doesn't show any however. You want ls -b -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] solr jetty on ubuntu

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:44:02AM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:16:35PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > > > > I have installed solr Jetty on Ubuntu and when it starts in jetty with > > 'java -jar start.jar it responds and has a solr dir

Re: [SLUG] solr jetty on ubuntu

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:16:35PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > > I have installed solr Jetty on Ubuntu and when it starts in jetty with > 'java -jar start.jar it responds and has a solr directory. Does not > work cleanly because it cannot find javac. Do you have the jdk installed? -- SLUG - S

[SLUG] Sun Ultra II dual 400MHz, SGI Indy

Hi, I have two oldish ^W classic bits of Sun and SGI hardware to give away. 1. an SGI Indy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy This is a bit of internet and computing history, as it's the type of machine that Mosaic was written on (forerunner of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator the

Re: [SLUG] How do I create same IP address in "Local Address" and "Foreign Address" in netstat ?

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 05:26:24PM +1100, Minh Van Le wrote: > How do I establish a connection where the localhost IP are both in the > "Local Address" and "Foreign Address" columns of netstat ? You might try the -b flag to telnet or the -s flag to nc (netcat). Haven't tried this, myself :-o -- S

Re: XecureBrowser - looks like snake oil to me. (was Re: [SLUG] Browsers for banking)

You might even want to as far as creating another user to run the bancking browser as. I'd trust OS enforced separation a little more than application level separation. You can use other levels of isolation as well -- e.g. selinux sandbox, VMs (virtualbox or other) etc. Sometimes it's all to

Re: [SLUG] Long lines in /var/log/httpd/access_log

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:25:34AM +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Jim Donovan wrote: > > >GET /documents/url(data:image > > At a glance, this is a request for a data: URI > > > There are exploits involving this rarely used URI scheme. >

Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.

ame function and keys. > > My kids used to use it to watch DVDs until we got a TV from through > Freecycle. > > Regards, > > Patrick > > -- > www.techfriend.com.au > Home computer software training and hardware assistance > > www.mercuryvideos.com.au

Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:49:51PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > > Matthew Hannigan > > Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:56:36 +1100 > > Fun fact: it has a tiny embedded linux on it just for > > playing dvds so you don't have to boot into Windows > > to play dvds. &

Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.

Here's my feeble contribution; an item on hackernews, (since it's recent) Ask HN: Best Developer Linux Laptop? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786930 Laptops generally, you might consider Samsung as well as the usual IBM/Lenovo, Dell, HP. I'm quite happy with my oldish R50 even though I do

Re: Subject: [SLUG] change to linux and google chrome

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 08:40:06PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Martin Visser writes: > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Brett Mahar wrote: > > > >> You might like to check out SW Iron instead of Chrome, it is the same > >> thing but without the many Google tracking devices built-in: > >> > >>

Re: [SLUG] live distro for Acer netbook

I'd just get the latest Fedora or Ubuntu Maybe wait till Ubuntu 10.10 or Fedora 14 are released (real soon now) -- 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] Learning Linux

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 05:27:07PM +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > On 22/09/2010, at 4:53 PM, Lee Isaacson wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > What would be the best Distro to learn linux. > > > > Fedora or Ubuntu. > > yes. Agreed, the more the merrier. Start with Ubuntu or Fedora; they're fin

Re: [SLUG] Accounting and business software

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:41:49AM +1000, david wrote: > > Ben Donohue wrote: > > Hi, > > > >do you have a URL for LSMB? > > http://www.ledgersmb.org/ Domain has expired :-( In the meantime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LedgerSMB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.

Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

It is supposed to work with more recent kernels. The eeebuntu and fedora info says it works -- now. And this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-backports-modules-2.6.32/+bug/521967 suggests it works for more recent ubuntu or one of the PPA kernels mentioned there. Maybe you just

Re: [SLUG] Multiple server roles on one box

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:28:23PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > dave b writes: > >>> soon. /me mutters something about OH MY THEY ESCAPED FROM THE JVM. > >> > >> Do you have a reference for that? > > > > Here is a recent example :) > > http://blog.cr0.org/2009/05/write-once-own-everyone.html > >

Re: [SLUG] Multiple server roles on one box

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:04:05PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: [ ] > How about a DNS, squid and web server with multiple name based > virtual domains on the same box? > > Is doing the above really dangerous on a fully patched and up to > date system? As others have said it's inadvisable. Even f

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:06:17PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > > You could do this with inotify, with `just a few' scripts around it. Related: http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ drives rsyncing with inotify. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Parametric EQ to silence the vuvuzela

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:30:41AM +0800, james wrote: > On Wednesday 16 June 2010 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: > > So I watch telly through MythTV and apparently you can silence the terrible > > drone on the World Cup broadcasts with some simple parametric EQ filters. > > Any ideas ho

Re: [SLUG] LVM

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 06:14:15PM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > Hi Guy's, > I am a PCLinuxos user and I have seen references to LVM here ( at SLUG) > I have 3 drives LVM'd to give me 1.3TB of storage space on my server. > The first drive of this set has died. > I was wondering if any of you Gur

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club History

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 07:51:19AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > > Yes, that was an amazing meeting. IIRC, we'd expected maybe a dozen > people, and got closer to fifty.We had far too few chairs, and > almost no refreshments. > [ ... ] I have a photo of that meeting! Unfortunately I can't fin

Re: [SLUG] Net send for linux

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:37:18PM +1000, Daryl Thompson wrote: > Is there a Linux equivalent network messaging command like 'NET SEND' in > windows > That is i want to be able to send messages to all and individual > computers on the local network. I'm sure smbclient with the apprirate options ha

Re: [SLUG] A little script help

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:56:54PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: > I find password generated like that to be too hard to remember. Yeah, same I like http://www.multicians.org/thvv/gpw-js.html The source is available also, in C and java versions. So with a bit of coding you can adjust the length an

Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: > > Greetings > > I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm > looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. > > Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a > fairly busy machine

Re: [SLUG] Ldd report from rkhunter - Update

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:37:53PM -0600, Rodolfo Martínez wrote: > Hi Matt, > > rkhunter creates a database (MD5SUM's) of some files, if they change > for any reason, like a system upgrade/update, it will complain about > it. rkhunter should be run again to get the new MD5SUM's. This applies > fo

Re: [SLUG] Send EOF to Browser from LAMP stack.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:28:30PM +0100, justin randell wrote: > hi, > > 2010/1/21 Peter Rundle : > > I said it might take a few seconds, I didn't say it was computationally > > heavy. > > fair enough, but still worth questioning, i think. for a typical app, > i'd be concerned if a fat apache ch

Re: [SLUG] Ldd report from rkhunter - Update

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:20:46AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:54:01 -0600 > Rodolfo Martínez wrote: > > > Hi Alan, > > > > You can find what package provides the ldd program, and then verify > > the integrity of the package. If it really changed I think you should > > lo

Re: [SLUG] Copying HDD

Use rysnc -a or cp -a dd just brings in issues you don't need to deal with. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:00:49PM +1100, Mike Andy wrote: > I've been thus far unable to do to - maybe you can explain how. > > for example, if i do a dd from a 120Gb to a 150Gb and then enter into > something like

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:39:32PM +1100, Mike Andy wrote: > this is completely off topic but you'd know if you used facebook that > when those changes went through the users were prompted upon login > that security settings were changed. For the users that clicked > through those prompts without r

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:29:20PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Thanks for the news. > > It's in repository for Debian: > > deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main > > Dmitry. For Fedora-ists, you can install Chrome from yum (see the official download page) or install it's op

Re: [SLUG] Re: Wanted : Cisco Router for CCNA

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:38:57PM +1100, Bernie Pannell wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Tony "H.G" Candito > > wrote: > > > I'm after a Cisco (1600/2500?) etc model for my recent Cisco study > > Hi tony, have you tried using a simulator? > http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cisco+simu

Re: [SLUG] quiet computer

If it's mostly the 2am noise that bothers you, the first thing you might try is turn off whatever is scheduled at that time. Popular offenders are prelinking and manpage indexing but there are many other possibilities. Turn them off or move them to say 10am in the morning when no one is around.

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

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:46:01PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > We have a few PowerEdge 860's which I mostly converted from our > previous-generation Windows based system to Xen hosts for development > on top of CentOS 5 (the production system is now mostly hosted > abroad). > > These

Re: [SLUG] web based firewall config tool wanted

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:21:27PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:38:07PM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: > > I'm finding it difficult to believe there's no simple web based firewall > > configuration tool. I'm going to be runni

Re: [SLUG] web based firewall config tool wanted

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:38:07PM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: > I'm finding it difficult to believe there's no simple web based firewall > configuration tool. I'm going to be running a cut-down Ubuntu-Hardy off ... It's killing me because I came across something like this just recently but it ha

Re: [SLUG] upgrading php to 5.2 or 5.3 latest version so as to use phpmyadmin

I see that you've fixed your problem but my info might be useful On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:13:45PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi all, > > I"m trying to install phpmydmin but going into it, it says it requires > php 5.3+ I'd just install from EPEL - it's in there! (phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5) > pro

[SLUG] Re: [coders] Query about Kurobox or similar

You might try one of the NASs that can be debianized. cc'd to slug not coders On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:01:05AM +1000, db wrote: > If you really want a kurobox then you can order one online. Otherwise > you may still be able to pick up an linkstation pro (basically a > kurobox minus a few thi

Re: [SLUG] Re: 40 Years of Unix

Shell is a generic term for user interface, as well as a specific term, for e.g. unix cmomand line shells or the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Shell Speaking of shells has anyone used rc or es for any length of time on a non-plan9 machine? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc_shell) --

Re: [SLUG] ftp client recomendations ?

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:03:25AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > On Thu, August 20, 2009 10:37 am, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:18:48AM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > >>> /etc/sysconfig/iptables > >>> > >&

Re: [SLUG] ftp client recomendations ?

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:18:48AM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: . . . > > /etc/sysconfig/iptables > > H. Does it have the nf_nat_ftp and nf_conntrack_ftp modules loaded, too? Voytek, Look in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config for that. > [...] > > >>> Command:PASV > >>> Response:227 E

Re: [SLUG] Chinese intruder yesterday

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 07:05:15AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Jim Donovan wrote: > > > I had port 22 open for a few hours yesterday but closed it when I > > noticed the following. > > An open port 22 can be made safe. There are numerous articles available > on the net like the following:

Re: [SLUG] Taxes on sending servers to the US

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:08:43PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone here has experience sending servers (e.g. Dell PowerEdge > 860 rack-mounted) TO the US? > > I'm going to visit our office overseas soon and we were wondering how > much would it cost (tax-wise) to just pack a c

Re: [SLUG] GPS data logger

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:22:08PM +1000, Simon Males wrote: > > I use cotoGPS on the Palm which does all that, logging at user defined > > frequency, it also has a java desktop component that allows to do various > > stuff with the data, including KMLs > > I actually have a Android phone and ran

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:22:19AM +1000, Simon Rumble wrote: > [ ... ] > Yep, I want something that mimics the old WinAmp. Dumb, just plays the > bloody music files I point it at. No bells, no whistles. If you want winamp-ish, then perhaps Zinf is for you (Zinf is not freeamp, freeamp is not w

Re: [SLUG] HTTPD Authenticated User extraction

[ passing on REMOTE_USER or other user var to tomcat from apache ] On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:32:00AM +1000, Kyle wrote: > Big thanks to John & Daniel, > > I'll give that a go. Be aware that you'll need to isolate tomcat so that no-one can go to it directly. Otherwise people can 'fake' their own

Re: [SLUG] Did anybody notice this?

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:15:30AM +1000, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: > Was sent this article from the Wall Street Journal. > > Has there been any comment on it? Crikey, a .pdf within a outlook? .msg. Here's the article at the source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.

Re: [SLUG] detach attachements from cli, how ?

mutt does nicely if you don't mind interactive curses type 'console' v to show attachments s to save (from memory) On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:35:37PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I can't recall how to detach email attachements from prompt... > > is it metamail ? mencode ? > don't see

Re: [SLUG] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:24:43AM +1000, Andre Kolodochka wrote: > Is there something not necessarily based on rsync? ftp, for example? > > Andre. Well, do you want just to do backups or are you looking for something fancier? Your original mail mentioned only backups in the body (as I recall) b

Re: [SLUG] security monitor with webcam

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:46:15PM +1000, Phil Manuel wrote: > [ ... ] > use this package at work, it is not an easy install with some USB > camera's although it has improved with later releases and kernels. Indeed; my camera (logitech sphere af) has only become painless with very recent version

Re: [SLUG] security monitor with webcam

I run 'motion'. It's in Fedora and I am sure Ubuntu and/or Debian. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Re: XBitHack

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:28:26PM +1000, david wrote: >> >> I was pointing out that XBitHack is part of mod_ssi, not mod_include. > > Is it??? > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_include.html > seems to suggest mod_include ... although I'm often wrong and I might be this > time. Ah you're

Re: [SLUG] Re: XBitHack

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:25:13PM +1000, david wrote: > > > Matthew Hannigan wrote: >> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:13:39PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: >>> On 8 May 2009, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: >>>> I've got this snippet in apache config: >&g

Re: [SLUG] Re: XBitHack

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:13:39PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On 8 May 2009, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: > > I've got this snippet in apache config: > > > > > > Options +Includes XBitHack full IncludesNOEXEC > > > > > > da...@david:/etc/apache2$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > > Syntax error on

Re: [SLUG] Apache reverse proxying with MS

You might try ProxyPreserveHost http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypreservehost -- 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] MySQL

Yeah but ... is there any reason it wouldn't show up in the gui? On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:45:03PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > apt-get install mysql-server > > > Dean > > Chris Allen wrote: >> I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and want to teach myself MySQL. >> >> I thought it would be simple enough t

Re: [SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:52:38PM +1100, Bruce wrote: > You might like to try a live distro, such as PCLINUXOS, with which I have no > problems mounting "foreign" drives. Basically, the live distro runs from the > CD and you muck around with mount arguments (someone else may have a more > stru

Re: [SLUG] NAS device for home?

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:33:48AM +0900, jam wrote: > Seagate published this > http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf > > It says multiple drives in close mechanical proximity WILL fail ! > > Like This: > Drive1 seeks to track > That m

Re: [SLUG] AU Online Bookstores

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:39:35PM +1100, Kelvin Nicholson wrote: > Howdy Slug: > > Being from out of the country, I'm not familiar with the best AU-based > places to buy (hopefully used) IT books. Besides shipping books from > Amazon, does anybody have any place (online or brick) they would > r

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netbook experiences?

Not done yet! Firmly on my todo list though. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:02:48PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > How'd you go with it Matt? > > Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > >> I have a 701 (well, t

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netbook experiences?

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: > I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I > installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen > is small, and the keyboard is small, but it is > also very light and quick to start/shut-down. It > certainly does the job we

Re: [SLUG] Just sharing a gotcha with "rsync" that caused me big trouble ...extra

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:34:10PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:38:10PM +1100, R.G.Salisbury wrote: > > Like the deal with the trailing slash . which can cause issues --- > > (often put there by bashs tab completion). > > I like putting a "*" after a trailing slash

Re: [SLUG] windows drivers

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:33:29AM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am faced with the fun job of rebuilding several Generic WindowsXP > computers. > > Does anybody know of a FOSS tool I can put onto each computer to give me > a report on all the d

Re: [SLUG] set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:59:45PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > jam wrote: > > > > Regardless of which distro or distro version you are using, replacing > > > the distro installed package with something you compile yourself is > > > almost always a bad idea, especially when you are downgrad

Re: [SLUG] Logical Volume Management.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:02:07AM +1100, Chris Allen wrote: > For me, this is a new although I gather it has been around for a few years. > > I recently upgraded Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04. > Before the upgrade I kept getting messages that there was not enough space > (much to my surprise). I deleted ol

Re: [SLUG] Uptime logging

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: > > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > Even better, install collectd and use its ping plugin -- now you can do > > > the > > > same thing, but with beautiful (and *SIMPLE*) graph output. :-) > > > > > > > > Or you could use Nagios and have the

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft and Email Protocols

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:27:21PM +1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: > [ .. ] > > The cure is to charge for sending email, but > > for most that cure is worse than the disease. > > No, no, no! You may as well say, "Let it be under the control and It's not that clear what you're saying no to here. >

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft and Email Protocols

Did you CC or BCC all your friends? If you CC a lot of people, that can be taken as an indicator of spam. As for standards, well email-wise we're living in a swamp, and the recommended practice in many instances is to ignore the standard (e.g. not bouncing mis-addressed mail) or exploring the

Re: [SLUG] Performance Tuning

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 09:54:13AM +1000, Kyle wrote: > Can somebody recommend a reasonably comprehensive but straightforward > performance tuning article/HowTo/PDF/site I could read pls? > > Specifically, I am looking to perf-tune a dual-CPU RAID5 box used as a > backup server. Are you backin

Re: [SLUG] Adobe Illustrator program for Linux

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:01:31PM +1000, Daryl Thompson wrote: > Hi all > > I am looking fro an similar to Adobe Illustrator program for Linux. > That is one with similar features and be able to save / export to an > "ai" format. > Has any one got some ideas please Try inkscape, its FAQ says it

Re: [SLUG] Missing Dependency

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:44:27PM +1000, Daryl Thompson wrote: > [ .. ] > gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.7-2.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving > problems [ .. ] gstreamer-plugins-bad is not from the standard repos AFAIK. You're always chancing when you include non standard yum repos. That said,

Re: [SLUG] mutt Reply-To:

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:01:25PM +1000, david wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:16 +1000, John Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:07:50 +1000, david wrote: > > > > > I'm using mutt in a script to send out emails. > > > > > > $ mutt -s "subject" -a file [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /de

Re: [SLUG] Outputing progress counters with PHP/HTML

> > > > You do a select before every insert?! Is the table indexed? > > If not that might explain the slowdown; a select WILL take > > longer the bigger the table. > > Perhaps better to put a unique index on the appropriate column(s), then > just do an insert and throw away the error if the data

Re: [SLUG] Outputing progress counters with PHP/HTML

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:08:50PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I'm sorry, I should have been more specific on this. > > It's PHP5 and the input is a text file from a data logger which means that > I have to find the data records then decompose each into the individual > data elements to insert

Re: [SLUG] SIM cards as cheap data storage?

How about storing the data on normal paper as barcodes. -- 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] restricting ssh private key to access sftp only

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:12:49PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > [ ... ] > I should probably also chroot that user to prevent it from being able > to snoop around but for now I'll stop here (no time). Have a look at rssh: http://rssh.sourceforge.net/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

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

I don't know whether it would suit you at all, but I'll mention http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe for the simple reason it looks interesting and it only just announced version 1.0 RC's mention of Ceph jogged my memory on this. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:

Re: [SLUG] managing .bashrc in subversion?

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:04:59PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > A "process" rather than "technical" question about subversion. > > My personal subversion repo is setup, works ok, etc. But I notice that > subversion only lets you checkout a directory, not a file. > > I want to manage (for exampl

Re: [SLUG] Perl Question

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:09:44PM +1100, Peter Abbott wrote: > Can anyone with greater knowledge than myself explain this regex > behaviour. > [ ... ] > if ( $_ =~ m/^Box(\d) ([A-Z]+(\. | ?)[A-Z]* ?[A-Z]*).*?(\d).*?(\d\d\.\d > \d).*?(\d*\.\d\d)L/) { > $box = $1; > $nam

Re: [SLUG] Tricky ssh question

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:59:23PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > "jam" == jam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jam> Hi Somewhere on the internet is my father-in-law > > jam> and get the dreaded ssh_exchange_identification: Connection > jam> closed by remote host > > So if you start ssh

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:43:56PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > I call shenanigans! > > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:22 +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > Don't stop there! > > > > You probably mean bits not b(ytes) and mebi not mega, > > so it's > &g

Re: [SLUG] hard drive failure, back-up, and other unhappiness

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:57:13PM +1100, Craig Dibble wrote: > Quoting david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> I've had a back-up hard drive fail today (just the backup drive, not the >> original) >> >> Worse still, my son's hard drive failed and then his back-up drive also >> failed, so he is in deep doo

Re: [SLUG] hard drive failure, back-up, and other unhappiness

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:05:49PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its a case of horse for courses. My setup. I have 3 server, 2 at my > > place. 1 primary file server, files copied over to the second server. > > The second

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)

Don't stop there! You probably mean bits not b(ytes) and mebi not mega, so it's 108 Mibit/s See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:50:54PM +1100, xorprime wrote: > Oh well, make it Mb/s then ;-) > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Peter Miller <[EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] EEE-PC and Eeedora where Ferora meets the Eee-PC

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 01:02:36AM +1100, Daryl Thompson wrote: > Hi all > EEE-PC users new old and thing > > I got home tonight and had a email from Red Hat that says > " SNAP! I d/l'd it yesterday and mean to install this w/e. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://s

Re: [SLUG] Oracle 9i database and samba

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:03:22AM +1100, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > Joel Heenan wrote: >> Network >> filesystems are not normally used for database files. >> > > I work for an ASP that has all of its Oracle databases (hundreds of them) > mounted via NFS. It works just fine. The database servers ar

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

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:54:11PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > >So just > >rsync -av /home.orig/ /home/ > >is good > > > > > >Note for rsync newbs; > >rsync -av /home.orig /home/ >

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

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 to exceed to command line length. It's sufficient to

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