Re: [SLUG] Spellchecking

2015-02-19 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 16/02/15 17:15, William Bennett wrote: > Up to now, I've always felt that ispell was pretty good. > > But I thought I'd enquire. > > Has anybody experience with any others? > > William Bennett. I use ispell in irssi, and it's not that good at unravelling the noodliness of my mind and guessing w

Re: [SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's

2014-11-11 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 12/11/14 15:13, DaZZa wrote: > And it flat out refused to boot. Nada. Get nicked. > > I thought I must have stuffed up the image - but both disks booted the > first device fine. > > After scratching my head for a few hours and trying every BIOS option > I could find, I decided to try a fresh ins

Re: [SLUG] Weird nslookup problem - Apologies

2014-10-30 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 30/10/14 18:31, Ben Donohue wrote: > Also didn't know about the google groups either so thanks Michael. > Do we still post to SLUG or just go to google groups now? > Ben no no, I just posted it for the archives, you said you lost some slug mail. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Weird nslookup problem - Apologies

2014-10-29 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 30/10/14 07:15, Ben wrote: > Hi all, > > To anyone who responded, I'm really sorry if you replied to my last > email about a nslookup problem and it was not delivered due to my > mailbox running out of space. > > To anyone who took the time to respond with any solutions to try, > could you pleas

Re: [SLUG] Low Cost Linux Laptop for Learning

2014-10-20 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 21/10/14 11:17, Tom Worthington wrote: > I bought a $300 11.6" laptop and found Linux Mint and a $50 mSATA > 64GB drive improved it: > http://blog.tomw.net.au/2014/10/low-cost-linux-laptop-for-learning.html > > nice write up. thanks for that. laptops and SSDs are getting so cheap now. I recent

Re: [SLUG] BIND9 zone question

2014-08-14 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 14/08/14 09:44, Chris Barnes wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > So that works perfectly for Netflix because any part of that service that > cares about Geolocation is in the Netflix domain. > > Hulu on the other hand, has services that are outside of the Hulu domain > that take issue with my location

Re: [SLUG] apt-get update GPG error

2014-07-22 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 22/07/14 22:58, David wrote: > > On 22/07/14 18:13, Amos Shapira wrote: >> >> Could it be that the proxy has a corrupted cache? Try clearing it. >> > > Thanks.. .but > > At the risk of being ignorant how do I clear it short of removing the > /var/cache/apt-cacher/ directory? > I can't find a

Re: [SLUG] Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

2014-07-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 17/07/14 17:32, Amos Shapira wrote: > Which distribution is it? The method to set system timezone depends on the > answer to this question. > > And BTW - what you are asking about is setting the time ZONE. Setting the > correct time is usually a matter left to NTP. > > > > On 17 July 2014 10:51,

Re: [SLUG] shell script to parse html and date comp ?

2014-02-13 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 13/02/14 22:47, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: > Jiri, thanks that didn't seem to stick, I've now edited > "/etc/sysconfig/i18n" ,that seems to return correct LANG # set | grep > LC_ # set | grep LANG LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 BUT, using 'date' it still > wants m/d/y # date --date='20/03/2014' +"%s" date: inval

Re: [SLUG] Issues with Ubuntu 12.04 LTR

2014-02-07 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 07/02/14 22:01, Johannes Nielsen wrote: > Hi Ben > Thanks for your email...I have booted from an Open SUSE 12.1 CD that I have > it works well so in that case its the Ubuntu distro, so how do I go back to > the previous release? Did you install the 32 bit or 64 bit 12.04 LTS version? if you're

Re: [SLUG] ownCloud alternatives

2013-12-10 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi all, > > been watching this thread with interest. > > I have a client that needs something exactly like this. > > What does it run on? Linux I suppose? > The server runs on LAMP, so I guess WAMP and MAMP would work too, the clients work on

Re: [SLUG] apt-database

2013-11-08 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:21 PM, James Linder wrote: > Hi > I have a customer who has indulged in extreme stupid stuff. > > > root@bol04:/home/stm# dpkg -r x11vnc x11vncdata > > dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching x11vnc > > dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching x1

Re: [SLUG] Bogus PPPoE length ?

2013-11-06 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Jiří Baum wrote: > Hi, > Jiří: > >> Can anyone tell me what it means when I get the error message "Bogus > >> PPPoE length field (1502)" a few hundred times a day, usually in > >> bunches? Always the same number, 1502, never any other. > > Jeremy: > > Have you trie

Re: [SLUG] assessing vps performance issues

2013-10-29 Thread Michael Chesterton
ably watch that for mentions of their name. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:17 PM, wrote: > On Fri, October 25, 2013 1:36 pm, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > I know it's resolved, but look at the 6th column in the original post. > > 90+% iowait, 90% of the time, the cpu is wait

Re: [SLUG] assessing vps performance issues

2013-10-24 Thread Michael Chesterton
I know it's resolved, but look at the 6th column in the original post. 90+% iowait, 90% of the time, the cpu is waiting for IO. now what you should do is run the same command when everything is working normally so you'll know what the output looks like. Then when you have another problem, you can

Re: [SLUG] Happy 20th birthday Debian!

2013-08-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
Since we are being nostalgic, today (the 25th of August for those earthlings living in the past), 22 years ago, Linus sent a message to the minix newsgroup announcing a free OS that he had been working on since April. Linus today announced 3.11-rc7 as a homage to that famous message. Also Linux 3.

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Connection issues with Ubuntu 11.10

2013-07-19 Thread Michael Chesterton
hey On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Johannes Nielsen wrote: > Hi all at Micheals suggestion I went into terminal and ran IP AD and this > is what came up > IP AD > > johannes@Trinity:~$ ip ad > 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN > link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00

Re: [SLUG] Connection issues with Ubuntu 11.10

2013-07-18 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Johannes Nielsen wrote: > Hi all > I am having connection issues with Ubuntu 11.10 I have wireless signal and > a cable LAN and both say that there connected only I am unable to get a web > page to display or Skype to boot. > Hey Johannes, what do the commands

Re: [SLUG] TCP/IP over I2C

2013-06-01 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, David Lyon wrote: > > It's probably much easier to just use the network port that's already > available on the Raspberry-Pi. > or maybe rs232, then you can use ppp. > > You could buy a hub/switch and some RJ45 cable and it would be done in a > few minutes. > > On

Re: [SLUG] python in linux mint

2013-05-29 Thread Michael Chesterton
Have you looked at the raspberry pi? it's designed for the classroom to teach kids about programming and computers. The ipython shell is nicer than the plain python shell and I'm sure there are other GUI apps that I'm not aware of that do what you want, so stay tuned ;) -- http://www.linuxsuppor

Re: [SLUG] Bi-directional rsync?

2013-05-13 Thread Michael Chesterton
> rsync -v -rlt > > Can anyone suggest a better option set which could make this a two way > sync by just running on the one server? > You can run rsync twice on the one server rsync -options server1:/dir1 /dir1 rsync -options /dir1 server1:/dir1 with the rsync options, you probably want -u, -

Re: [SLUG] working around dependency failure

2013-05-09 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:27 PM, wrote: > I'm trying to install 'qshape' and get this(1): > > what's my best way forward, try uninstalling pflogsumm-1.1.0-2.noarch, > > > centos is good for somethings, but if you're going to add unsupported third party repositories you end up with the worst of bot

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Re: Smallest and Cheapest Linux Computer ?

2013-04-30 Thread Michael Chesterton
I use an odroid u2 as a server at home. It has the same problem as the pi with usb ethernet and disk. but it's fast enough to watch videos over wifi, so that's all I care about. there are pi like boards that have sata, but the one I saw around the same time I bought the odroid had only one sata po

Re: [SLUG] 20 years of using Linux at home

2013-04-05 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Heracles wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Ah! The early days! I must have started a little later than you - either > late 92 or early 93 - as my version was on 11 5 1/4 inch floppies. I had > to boot on disk 11 and then install using t

Re: [SLUG] Question: I gave a lightning talk 1 or 2 months ago. Are these still being posted, downloadable?

2013-03-31 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:59 AM, David Lyon wrote: > Not sure but it might be some time. > > I just checked the homepage at http://www.slug.org.au/ and it's been > recently updated to show a talk from 2010 ! > > (Maybe they are just testing new features - not sure) > I think it randomly selects

Re: [SLUG] Importing new SNMP MIB's

2013-03-18 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, wrote: > > "DaZZa" == DaZZa writes: > > DaZZa> Folks. I've got a monitoring server (CentOS 5.9) that I want > DaZZa> to add some vendor-specific MIB's to for SNMP to use. > > DaZZa> I've put the MIB's in /usr/share/snmp/mibs (which is where all > DaZZa> the

Re: [SLUG] Jobs list

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:42 AM, wrote: > > I just tried the j...@slug.org.au list for slug and it is not active. > Is this still working??? from what I've heard some old lists that weren't being used were disabled. so that means you're free to post your linux related job here, I guess. don't

Re: [SLUG] hosts bind order?

2013-03-05 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:36 PM, wrote: > On Wed, March 6, 2013 3:24 pm, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > > strace it to see what it's doing, post the output (maybe post a link to a > > Michael, thanks > is this correct, just used 'strace host' with no options

Re: [SLUG] hosts bind order?

2013-03-05 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:09 PM, wrote: > any other thoughts ? googleing just brings ppl with similar issue, but no > resolution so far. > it seems 'it doesn't work anymore like it used to' ? what command is not using /etc/hosts? strace it to see what it's doing, post the output (maybe post a l

Re: [SLUG] Restore laptop screen after use in Google Sydney seminarroom?

2012-12-05 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Tom Worthington wrote: > ps: Is there a small screen (about 11.6 inch display) low cost (under > $500) laptop replacement anyone could recommend? > I just bought a chromebook for $249 plus about $70 in reshipping. The battery lasts over 6 hours, you can hack it o

Re: [SLUG] Tuning Systems and Energy Use (Sys Admin Roles and Responsibilities)

2012-10-18 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:43 PM, David Lyon < david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com> wrote: > In fact, if anything, Sydney/NSW Governments are more adverse > to automation and programming than other countries (say the US, > Japan, Europe) and simply won't entertain having computer operated > systems su

Re: [SLUG] curious spawning of cron caused server crash

2012-07-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
> root 388 0.0 0.0 3480 764 ?D04:50 0:00 cp /var/www/html/sks.com/images/**backgrounds/8.jpg /var/www/html/sks.com/images/**backgroundimage.jpg Others have answered your question, I thou

Re: [SLUG] "GPS timing notes" and don't forget to add the leap second this weekend!

2012-07-01 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Mark Willis wrote: > This weekend there will be the first leap second insertion in > four and a half years, and the first mid year change for > fifteen years. > > Unlike the Australian banks needing to shut down for daylight > saving changes (discussions on SLUG),

Re: [SLUG] disabling ipv6 on centos? telnet localhost fails

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:19 AM, wrote: > On Thu, June 21, 2012 5:58 pm, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > > where 1.2.3.4 is your eth0/wlan0/whatever address. If you don't have a > > static ip, say a roaming laptop, use > > 127.0.1.1 my_hostname.my_domain my_host

Re: [SLUG] disabling ipv6 on centos? telnet localhost fails

2012-06-21 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 5:35 PM, wrote: > On Wed, June 20, 2012 3:34 pm, micha...@heimic.net wrote: > > What does hosts file look like on this client? > > Michael: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost.localdomain localhost4 > localhost4.localdomain4localhost m

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 12.04 wierdness

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Ashley wrote: > I am still having an odd problem with my setup. > When I start up my system (Athalon ii X4, 8GB, Ubuntu 12.04) it will > always connect to my modem/router but sometimes it refuses to connect > to the internet. > Two things to check. When it doesn'

Re: [SLUG] updated kernel causing problems

2012-05-21 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi Thanks all. Much appreciated. > > For future reference in the archives I did the following... > > rpm -qa | grep kernel > yum erase kernel-2.6.XX > then rebooted. All clean and nice. > Do another yum update to make sure the erased kern

Re: [SLUG] Job Management Apps

2012-05-08 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Nigel Allen wrote: > > Whatever we can come up with would ideally have an android client or at > least sync with Google calendar for appointments and / or follow ups. I > was looking at SugarCRM but I think that that is a little sledge hammer > / nut for this. > >

Re: [SLUG] FreeNAS share mount problem

2012-04-08 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 9:35 PM, elliott-brennan wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone much experience with FreeNAS? Nope. > I had to use USF as the file system as the manual says that ZFS can'/t be > used as I'm using only 2G of RAM. Wow, that's a lot of memory for a file system. > If I try: > >

Re: [SLUG] notebook Linux distro suggestion?

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Chesterton
2011/10/24 Marghanita da Cruz > There is also Lightweight Portable Security (LPS)-A Linux distro from the > US DOD. > LPS interests me, and from the very little I know about LPS and tiny core linux (TCL) they seem similar in that they have a file system blob that gets loaded into memory, so any

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Heracles wrote: > Has anyone made the mistake of moving to this unusable version? It seems > glued to unity which is the best argument for the demise of Ubuntu I have > ever seen. At least in 11.04 I was able to choose gnome as a desktop. With > 11.10 the only cho

Re: [SLUG] Reputable notebook repairer?

2011-10-11 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, DaZZa wrote: > On 12 October 2011 14:36, wrote: > > > But unless you have a really high-end laptop, it's probably cheaper to > > buy a new one. Keep an eye out on > > > http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/shop/laptop-of-the-day/laptop-of-the-day > > until you see

Re: [SLUG] Shared library not located

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 1:06 PM, elliott-brennan wrote: > > David L just suggested I try: > > aweather SET LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/ > > > Which works. So the next question is how I make it do this all by its > lonesome :) > Ah, I maybe you need to run ldconfig manually after adding libra

Re: [SLUG] Shared library not located

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:33 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: > > Just checked > > /etc/ld.so.conf > > The only thing it contains is the following: > > include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf > > Should I just add the text: > > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf > > to the file? > > Do I then need to restart something

Re: [SLUG] Shared library not located

2011-09-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:10 AM, elliott-brennan < m...@elliott-brennan.id.au> wrote: > $ aweather > aweather: error while loading shared libraries: libgrits.so.0: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > If I search for the missing library: > > $ locate libgrits.so.0 > /us

Re: [SLUG] Text to HTML?

2011-08-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:04 AM, DaZZa wrote: > I've got some routers reporting to my syslog server on a Linux box, > but I want to be able to do a quick scan for bad things without having > to SSH to the box and scrolling through the text file. > It's not what you asked for, but I like logchec

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

2011-08-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Chesterton wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > >> Hi Adam, >> >> Please don't direct emails to me directly - that's what the slug email >> list is for :-) >> > >

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

2011-08-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Please don't direct emails to me directly - that's what the slug email > list is for :-) > To be fair, Sonia, you haven't told our mail clients how you want followups to be handled. Had you done so, this message would not have

Re: [SLUG] ssh key-based auth not working Ubuntu without GUI (X) login??

2011-08-23 Thread Michael Chesterton
> * Amos Shapira [2011-08-23 13:11:47 +1000]: > > This made me think about another option - do you use encrypted home > > directories? > Brilliant, I never would have guessed, even though I have run into a similar situation with start up scripts running before home was ready. If it was me, I woul

Re: [SLUG] Hacked email

2011-07-02 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:17 PM, DaZZa wrote: > > My suggestion is to fill this form out ASAP. Any of your online accounts > > that use dagi...@gmail.com could reset your password at will. > > > > > > Done that. > > Twice. > > Unfortuna

Re: [SLUG] Libre Office

2011-06-26 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Heracles wrote: > > How do I get rid of this piece of crap and get Open Office back? I have > tried the Synaptic package manager but it converts my request from Open > Office to Libre Office. > You should file a bug with libreoffice. Oracle fired all the 100+ deve

Re: [SLUG] Tape Backups and Scripting

2011-06-07 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Troy Rollo wrote: > The approach here is to figure out what file system types need to be backed > up, > and exclude everything else. The trouble with that approach is the backup doesn't contain the mount points for the excluded file systems. So when you restore,

Re: [SLUG] IPv6 using ufw on Debian stable

2011-06-06 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:56 PM, miloska wrote: > You need a rule to allow packages for existing connections in - > something like this: > > $IPT6 -A INPUT -i $PUB_IF -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT > > I'm not sure if you need any special setup to tell to the kernel that > connecti

Re: [SLUG] libc6 depency issue

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 18:04 +1100, Steven McDonald wrote: > That said, you can override dependencies with dpkg if you really want > to, like this: > > cd /var/cache/apt/archives/ > sudo dpkg -i --force-depends mondo*.deb > > It's probably best to tab-complete the package name rather than > globb

Re: [SLUG] Slow Cable Internet Speed on Debian (Lenny)

2010-12-30 Thread Michael Chesterton
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 15:00 +1100, Gerard Blacklock wrote: > I will look into this tonight, you are right there are heaps of files, > any clues where to start? Not really, maybe that's not the best first step, anyway. Try playing with ping and mtr, change the size of the ping packets, A ping -s

Re: [SLUG] Slow Cable Internet Speed on Debian (Lenny)

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Chesterton
Hello On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Gerard Blacklock wrote: > Sluggers, > > > In a nutshell, I found that on the debian lenny machine I could get at best > the equiv. to ADSL 1500 speeds, this was confirmed using ozspeedtest.comand > downloading a iso file from > mirror.aarnet.edu.au. Now, h

Re: [SLUG] Greylisting Sendmail

2010-10-12 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 12/10/2010, at 4:04 PM, Nigel Allen wrote: > Hi All > > Customer of mine currently has their own in-house mail server. Machine > runs CentOS 4.8 with Sendmail, spamassassin and mimedefang. RBL's are > covered in sendmail.mc with spamhaus and SORBS. > > Can anyone think of any reason why this

Re: [SLUG] Banning non Australian IP's from Aussie ecommerce site

2010-10-10 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 11/10/2010, at 3:09 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: > Thanks all, > > I'm seeing mostly brute force password attacks on ssh. > > I've also found configserver firewall... > > Anyway still looking at what is around. I've configured my servers to only allow 3 ssh connections a minute. It stops most b

Re: [SLUG] Banning non Australian IP's from Aussie ecommerce site

2010-10-10 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 11/10/2010, at 1:29 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: > I'm running an ecommerce site and currently I only deal with Australian > shoppers. > > However there are many hacking attempts from non Aussie IP addresses. > > I'm looking at blocking everything that is non-Australian. > > Has anyone done this

Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Michael Chesterton
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. Take your time and learn both. I take it you're looking to get experience for work? Both are handy to know. If you have, say, a gig+ of ram, you can install

Re: [SLUG] Re: Using a DNS with Dynamic IP

2010-08-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 29/08/2010, at 8:02 AM, Mike Andy wrote: > I"m trying to stay away from dyndns because I've got to log in monthly > to keep it up to date. Also woudln't dns lookups be slow if i linked > from my new one back to dyndns>? > > I'm just hosting my own portal it's basically a good search page with

Re: [SLUG] Reply-to address on SLUG posts

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 27/07/2010, at 3:13 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > I do this filtering using procmail triggered by the List-Id. I hear you. I think it's possible, though, to filter direct mails into the list folder. Obviously not with the List-Id, but some other method (like your +slug address, for one e

Re: [SLUG] Reply-to address on SLUG posts

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 27/07/2010, at 2:08 PM, Jon Jermey wrote: > I've been caught by that a few times, mainly because this is the only mailing > list I currently subscribe to (out of a dozen or so) that doesn't > automatically set the reply-to address to the list. I have a vague memory of > this issue b

Re: [SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 30/06/2010, at 6:54 AM, Richard Ibbotson wrote: > Now I just have to work out why it is that web pages are so slow to > download from this box. Not sure what that's about. DNS configuration > seems to be okay and there is 2 Megabits of bandwidth on my home line. > Shouldn't be any proble

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 18/06/2010, at 2:15 AM, dave b wrote: > On 15 June 2010 22:08, Craig Warner wrote: >> I don't know whether this is correct or not but its working for now >> >> add to the following script >> >> /etc/network/if-up.d/mtu >> >> #!/bin/sh >> ifconfig eth0 mtu 1300 >> >> restart networking >>

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2010-06-14 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 15/06/2010, at 2:15 PM, Nick Andrew wrote: > Due to heat, or what? That paper seems to concern itself primarily with the > differences between PS (personal storage) drives and ES (enterprise storage), > in order to justify why the SCSI drives have so much higher cost per bit. > > The only ment

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-14 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 14/06/2010, at 6:35 PM, Craig Warner wrote: > An interesting problem I'm having with Ubuntu 10.04 in accessing > certain websites such as https sites and sending emails using > evolution. When using Fedora 13, there no problems connecting to > https sites and using email. > > Looking at the

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-20 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 19/02/2010, at 1:41 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Try booting the kernel with 'init=/bin/bash' on the command line, and then: > > ] mount / -o remount,rw > ] passwd root # ...and give it a good password > ] mount / -o remount,or > ] sync; sync; sync > # wait thirty seconds, because paranoia nev

Re: [SLUG] Testing glue records

2010-02-19 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 19/02/2010, at 11:12 PM, Ashley Glenday wrote: > What I'm after is any known way to test the glue records are in fact set up > properly and if they are, what else could I have missed? I find http://www.intodns.com/ handy for debugging dns issues. -- http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 12/12/2009, at 3:50 PM, Mike Andy wrote: > ok i'll try ssh, but i'm not sure if an SSH server will be set up on a > live cd boot Oh sorry, didn't realise you hadn't installed yet. In my case I was able to install but the first boot after failed. You could try the alternate iso instead of the

Re: [SLUG] *buntu won't start X

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 12/12/2009, at 3:29 PM, Mike Andy wrote: > ok so I've just got the time to try your ideas out and here's where > i'm at with booting into mythbuntu/ubuntu 9.10 > > still no good! > > as suggested i can't access /var/lib/Xorg.0.log because once the > screen starts flashing i can't input anyth

Re: [SLUG] apt-get purge aftger apt-get remove

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 28/10/2009, at 9:35 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au writes: I've done apt-get remove to get rid of some packages, but I should have done apt-get remove --purge. How do I get rid of the config file droppings all over my system? dpkg --list | grep ^rc # sudo dpk

Re: [SLUG] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-17 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 17/09/2009, at 1:16 PM, Kyle wrote: Thanks all for the suggestions. Meryl, he's 9. I.e. the attention span of a goldfish. I think we'll start with baby steps. I wonder if openoffice.org might have something, the word processor can save as html. If you search around, you might be able

Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 14/07/2009, at 2:42 AM, Geoffrey Cowling wrote: This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what to do about it would be very welcome. I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a x ... everything fr

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

2009-05-30 Thread Michael Chesterton
This time to the list :( Begin forwarded message: From: Michael Chesterton Date: 31 May 2009 3:53:41 PM To: Ken Wilson Subject: Re: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE On 30/05/2009, at 9:22 PM, Ken Wilson wrote: Jamnes and Jeffs talks recorded OK, are

Re: [SLUG] Videos and slides from Linux Conf?

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 11/05/2009, at 6:58 PM, Nick Urbanik wrote: Call me an idiot (Nick's a blind idiot!) but I haven't found the slides and videos from the last Linux Conf. Can someone point me there? I'm looking firstly for Peter Chub's "I Hate SPAM!" talk. http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2009/

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 05/05/2009, at 12:09 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: (Plus, the flashblock extension is your friend, so that you don't get a dozen competitive pages with flash at ones, but you probably already knew that. :) I used to run a plugin which i think was called aniblock, which gave you options of not

Re: [SLUG] Increasing RAM

2009-04-18 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 18/04/2009, at 10:02 PM, Kyle wrote: Hi Slug, I've decided to increase the RAM on my home CentOS server. As best I can recall, the accepted wisdom is to have SWAP approx.~ 2 x RAM. Or was that approx.~ 50% of RAM? Can someone point me in the direction of an explicit tutorial on how

Re: [SLUG] Downloading files with .asc extention.

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 10/03/2009, at 7:09 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I've got a pair of files on my website: http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/libsndfile-1.0.19.tar.gz http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/libsndfile-1.0.19.tar.gz.asc The second doesn't seem to want to download in Mozilla d

Re: [SLUG] A little SAMBA help, maybe?

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 10/03/2009, at 8:43 AM, Kyle wrote: Hi Dean, I have the 'write list' flag. The one diff between your share and mine is the 'read only' flag. But according to the man pages, that shouldn't matter. Unless order of params for the share makes a diff.? It's been a while since I look

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Hardy update weirdness?

2009-03-04 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 05/03/2009, at 6:43 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I've got an Ubuntu Hardy box that I update regularly, but when I went to update it today, apt wants to upgrade almost everything, a dowload of some 900Meg. Anyone else seeing this? Any idea whats happened? How are you updating i

Re: [SLUG] Need a lesson in routing [WAS: memory]

2009-02-20 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 21/02/2009, at 3:04 PM, Kyle wrote: Keeping it simple with HTTP (using Firefox), a site like smh.com.au (where I visit daily, so if there's any local caching going on, it's cached and I reckon internode would likely be caching smh.com.au) takes a minimum 11 secs to load and regularly 2

Re: [SLUG] useful bash tricks thread

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 06/02/2009, at 9:06 PM, Tony Sceats wrote: It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it would be fun :) Here's quickie. if you want to rename a file by appending, for example, a .txt to the end mv filename{,.txt} or to remove .txt mv filename{.txt,} -

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

2009-01-29 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 29/01/2009, at 11:24 PM, John Ferlito wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:49:09PM +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: `fuser -u /dev/log` reveals that indeed, syslogd listens on /dev/log. Funny thing is, if I restart syslogd, and do things that write to the log, it works fine. I can see the log entr

Re: [SLUG] Re: hosted blogging account with open backend.

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 08/12/2008, at 3:43 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I found the docs a bit confusing, but I've tested it using curl. eg for POSTing a new article (something very roughly like this): curl -H "Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$Auth" \ -H "Content-Type: application/atom+xml" \ -d "@example_post

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

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 29/11/2008, at 9:59 AM, Mary Gardiner wrote: On 2008-11-28, Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in whatever dir you want. before rdiff-backup i used to use rsync --backup --backup-dir=$date- based-dir Thanks fo

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

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 28/11/2008, at 11:56 PM, Mary Gardiner wrote: See http://jwz.livejournal.com/801607.html for someting similar (and the partial inspiration for the talk), although rsync doesn't save older data, which I definitely recommend. Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in

Re: [SLUG] Recovering data from failed hard drive

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 28/11/2008, at 8:02 PM, Ben Donohue wrote: hard drives very commonly won't spin up. if you can get them to spin up then they tend to allow you to get all the data off. The way to get it to spin up is to remove it from the computer, attach the cables, turn on the computer and rotate the

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

2008-11-20 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 21/11/2008, at 12:08 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I have figured out that I need to modprobe sata_via exit It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. Is there a step that

Re: [SLUG] Desktop integration with Google Calendar and Remember the Milk

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 17/11/2008, at 12:08 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: So, how does one have their head in the cloud without losing sight of the real world? LSD. Have you heard of CalDAV? It's all shiny and new, but google supports it, and there are linux aps out there. -- http://chesterton.id.au/blog/

Re: [SLUG] ssh certificate logins

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 10/10/2008, at 10:58 AM, Daniel Pittman wrote: Personally, I use fail2ban[1] which uses the cruder, but still effective, technique of reading your logs and blocking people who try to guess passwords via iptables. I use with great success an iptables rule to limit new ssh connections

Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP

2008-09-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 25/09/2008, at 6:03 PM, Blindraven wrote: I did take a peek at the LPI site the other day and found no indication of how it works, where I can sit the exam and what material I'd need to be studying in order to prepare myself. The site is very vague on this. Do you know of any yourself?

Re: [SLUG] dns test tools ?

2008-08-14 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 15/08/2008, at 8:02 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: can anyone recommended free dns online test tools ? http://www.intodns.com -- http://chesterton.id.au/blog/ http://barrang.com.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slu

Re: [SLUG] comparing domain registrar prices

2008-08-10 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 11/08/2008, at 12:27 PM, Peter Miller wrote: Dear Lazy Web, I did actually try to find this on my own, honest! Is there an equivalent to whirlpool.net.au for domain name registrars? I.e. a single site which allows me to compare pricing over all of the Australian domain name registrars? I

Re: VoIP adapter configuration was /Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird send problems

2008-07-26 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 26/07/2008, at 12:17 PM, elliott-brennan wrote: Now, one last question :)) In the DSL-502T, there is nothing that comments on MTU *but* there is a option to change the MRU' which is currently 1492 (when Columbus sailed the ocean blue)...are these related? Errr, not Columbus but MTU/MR

Re: VoIP adapter configuration was /Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird send problems

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 25/07/2008, at 10:19 PM, elliott-brennan wrote: MICHAEL IS THE MAN! :) For the more sensitive of our members, please accept my apologies for the loud noise. Thanks Michael. sudo ifconfig eth0 mtu 1464 was the sweet spot. My problem with uploading and sending large/ long e-mails is n

Re: VoIP adapter configuration was /Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird send problems

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 25/07/2008, at 5:54 PM, elliott-brennan wrote: Okay, so, without the VOIP adapter involved, I get: ping -s 472 google.com PING google.com (72.14.207.99) 472(500) bytes of data. 64 bytes from eh-in-f99.google.com (72.14.207.99): icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 (truncated) 64 bytes from eh-in-f99.goog

Re: VoIP adapter configuration was /Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird send problems

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 25/07/2008, at 5:45 PM, elliott-brennan wrote: Yes, should have at least tried to look first :) Given (as below) the current MTU is 1500 and you're suggesting changing this to 576, what are the consequences I should be aware of? It's just a temporary change, next reboot will reset it,

Re: VoIP adapter configuration was /Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird send problems

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
sorry, another brain fart it's ifconfig eth0 mtu 576 but try the pings, see if you can find the maximum size that gets through. Well, that's assuming it's an MTU problem. On 25/07/2008, at 5:10 PM, Michael Chesterton wrote: On 25/07/2008, at 5:02 PM, elliott-brennan wrot

Re: VoIP adapter configuration was /Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird send problems

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 25/07/2008, at 5:02 PM, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Michael, I would...but I'm not sure exactly what you are asking me to do! :) Sorry for my lack of understanding. Could you please provide me with a bit more information? PS. This problem exists on all three machines (desktop x2 and l

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