Re: [SLUG] assessing vps performance issues

David, You are either very good at guessing, or perhaps you are not guessing... David Bomba wrote: >Let me guess, > >Netregistry and their awesome support…. right? > >On 01/11/2013, at 9:56 PM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: > >> Thanks for the link, thanks for all the tips and advice, it's what >kept

Re: [SLUG] assessing vps performance issues

Jeremy, Yes, more than enough . But, If you wanted to ask 'so who is the real idiot?', well, the answer is clear it's me. In my defense, I've dealt with these people for well over 10 years, though not for hosting, and, the vps performed adequately for 1.5 years, with only 1 glitch I think.( t

Re: [SLUG] clone system to a vm?

Chris, Jake, thanks H, I might try a fresh centos instal, and, copy/setup Web site first of all, might be simpler, (just need to resolve some 'include' path issues) > >VM something like this. >http://digiassn.blogspot.com.au/2006/01/dd-over-netcat-for-cheap-ghost.html > >It'll take a while,

Re: [SLUG] Android phones

Ben Donohue wrote: >Also I'd like to be able to "ghost" or image the phone in case of >malware infection... something I do all the time with desktops. > >Anyone done this or any pointers/experiences? How to get a phone back >to >factory or original installation software? Titanium Backup wi

Re: [SLUG] flakky USB connection to Phone storage

Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > >:-( seems it wasn't the cable after all. > Talking cables, I'm using Milkshake? brand retractable with DUO? combo micro/mini USB, really great idea, micro is on 'sliding rail', I use it with probably all my USB micro our mini things. I'm not sure it charges my ol

Re: [SLUG] flakky USB connection to Phone storage

Tom Worthington wrote: >On 19/03/12 11:50, Voytek Eymont wrote: > >> ... on three or four occasions, my phone was plugged into charger >> overnight, but didn't charge ... trying to decide who to blame ... > >Sunspots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_maxim

Re: [SLUG] flakky USB connection to Phone storage

Marghanita da Cruz wrote: >One of the problems, I experienced with the U9 > and now with the Citrus >, is that the USB >connection, to the internal storage, is flaky. > >The phone does have a microSD s

[SLUG] Wozniak's aPhone, was: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

> (and all I need is USB Ethernet support), I want to put together a 'tech > toolkit' like Wozniak, I suspect many ppl here have that already ? I have Android tablet, when I connect a USB/Ethernet adapter, the adapter becomes 'eth0' and I can connect to the LAN, either with ifconfig or dhcp If I

Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any ,> drawbacks

Voytek Eymont wrote: >Just checked, after 8 hours, WiFi on, 3g off, 75 battery left >-- After 24h 30m: 40% left according to stats: screen on 10%, WiFi on, BT on, data transferred: 3 MB, 30MB - 3G, WiFi stats don't seem to show 3G on time, at a guess, probably 45 or 60 minutes

Re: Libraries, Interoperability of E-books and Apps was Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

Voytek Eymont wrote: >Pinch to zoom browser is really cute, but the browser is not getting >the proper URL, both of these just take me to slug menu page, not >correct page, like I said, Web browsing on these gadgets is nothing to >write home. Actually, it seems like it could be

Re: Libraries, Interoperability of E-books and Apps was Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > >PS With regard to your comment: >> If I was 30 years younger then Marghanita's evidence would have been >crucial. > >I assume you are referring to my posting on Dating > >rather than the one on Battery

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any ,> drawbacks

> >You should try it out. My experience is that >Safari is just purely dreadful. Others may beg to >differ. > Actually, another friend just got an iPhone 4, she asked me to backup her iPhone 3, so I told her if she had no use for 3 to give it to me, so maybe I'll have one... My personal PO

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

On Sun, February 12, 2012 9:36 pm, Rod Butcher wrote: > If I was 30 years younger then Marghanita's evidence would have been crucial. apparently there are some chemical compounds that can overcome certain aspects of the 30 years older syndrome - though I have no hard evidence to confirm -- Vo

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks

>> The friends who have iPhone 4's have complained about battery life but >> in many ways this is the consequence of these devices have such a large >> range of capabilities (web browsing, applications for games and sites, >> taking photos, listening to music or watching movies etc). For examle,

[SLUG] Wozniak's aPhone, was: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

so which apps does Steve Wozniak has, or should have ? I'm trying to collect all kind of valuable tools on my Android phone/tablet, for the purpose of troubleshhoting, etc. but so far most of time has been spent on flashing different OS builds, etc, and, some of the tools I have stumbled across ha

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

Voytek Eymont wrote: . > >(and, I'm not doing it add I must do out, I'm doing it as a learning >thing for me) And clearly I haven't mastered Swype as well as I should, judging by some of the auto corrections above. -- Swyped from my Motrix with K-9 Mail. Please excu

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

. Closest we got was some facts about > >techniques for extending battery life, which is important and relevant, > >but I still don't know how Android compares in this area to the >competition. I think it's extremely hard to assess, or find a reliable and trustworthy data. Every time I try, th

Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

Sorry, meant to send to the list -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Voytek Eymont wrote: >>> While this thread drifts OT the basic issue is tremendously >important for us as a group. >> So ... back to the important questions of whether A

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

Tom Worthington wrote: > >power, such as WiFi and GPS. Another option is to turn off the 3G and >use 2G if you are only making voice calls, as this uses less power. > On my phone, the '3G off use 2G' setting simply constraint data to edge/gprs transfer/speeds, when I wish to use for voice o

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

On Fri, February 3, 2012 10:24 am, Voytek Eymont wrote: > phone is OK, (but Gorilla Glass is no much for roadside gravel) oops, 'match' oh, yes, and, in spite of my prior moanings here, SIP VOIP over 3G now works on my phone, seems my issues were phone/Motorola releated rather

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

On Fri, February 3, 2012 10:02 am, Jake Anderson wrote: >> Thinking out loud, has anyone played with 4G(LTE) or dual/band >> smartphones - do such things exist? >> > I played with a HTC 4G device at a telstra shop yesterday in penrith, > speedtest gave me 20mbit down and 3mbit up. ping was 82ms.

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

On Thu, February 2, 2012 10:30 pm, Ken Foskey wrote: > I owned an IPhone for a number of years and recently got a android galaxy > II. I got my very first 'smart' phone about 6 month ago, Android, never had or used iPhone or any other 'smart' phone prior like my phone, Blur was OK, CM7 is good

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

On Fri, February 3, 2012 9:21 am, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Given the issues with Battery life, seems there is some scope for tuning > either customised/personal/individual or across the op system. I expect, > things like the WiFi are hungry and even leaving the OS running, while > you wait for

Re: [SLUG] monitoring aspx website, how ?

On Fri, December 9, 2011 3:42 pm, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Thus spake Voytek Eymont: > If it uses HTTP auth, then just pass the --http-user and --http-password > options to wget. > > If it requires that you log in via a form and assigns a cookie, that's a > little more invol

[SLUG] monitoring aspx website, how ?

I have userid/password to an aspx based website, what can I use to script a login and get info or monitor for new info on a page ? is wget the way to go for aspx site, or what's a good tool for that ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscriptio

Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

On Fri, November 25, 2011 12:57 pm, scott wrote: > On 11/24/2011 07:56 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: > That's what I would do.If it ends up that you can't put it on, you'll > just have to reroot. It's also possible that you end up with the same > problem after the in

Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

On Fri, November 25, 2011 12:57 pm, scott wrote: > On 11/24/2011 07:56 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: > That's what I would do.If it ends up that you can't put it on, you'll > just have to reroot. It's also possible that you end up with the same > problem after the in

Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

On Fri, November 25, 2011 12:57 pm, scott wrote: > On 11/24/2011 07:56 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: > That's what I would do.If it ends up that you can't put it on, you'll > just have to reroot. It's also possible that you end up with the same > problem after the in

Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

On Fri, November 25, 2011 10:32 am, scott wrote: > On 11/24/2011 01:42 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: > Sounds like permissions on su aren't set right. Try doing "adb shell > chmod 4755 /system/xbin/su". Then "adb shell ln -s /system/xbin/su > /system/bin/su".

Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

On Thu, November 24, 2011 5:17 am, Troy Rollo wrote: > On Thursday 24 November 2011 12:42:17 Voytek Eymont wrote: > Sounds like you could have aegisfs or some similar evil getting in your > way. Just in case, though, try "mount" to find out what's mounted, and > the

Re: [SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

On Thu, November 24, 2011 10:37 am, scott wrote: > On 11/23/2011 05:07 PM, Voytek Eymont wrote: > Download a terminal emulator and su into it. "chmod 755 /system/xbin" > should do it. Busybox was probably installed into /system/bin and not > /system/xbin. Maybe a newer ve

[SLUG] Android, CM7, mount r/w, howto?

I have Motrix phone with CM7, CM7 was installed with no issues about 8 weeks ago, all worked fine since then it has busybox by stericson sp?, that has fairly regular updates that get installed as they come BUT, the latest busybox update fails install with 'unable to mount xbin r/w' as I noticed

[SLUG] notebook Linux distro suggestion?

I have a user with Win7 notebook, I'm trying to encourage them to 'try a Linux', what Live USB/SD boot distro should I get them to try ? (hmmm, this HP notebook has some sort of QuickWeb distro 'built-in' already, wonder if that can be 'extended'?) -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Grou

[SLUG] Re: [chat] Re: video re-encoding to suit mobile device ?

On Fri, October 7, 2011 12:18 pm, elliott-brennan wrote: > It really depends on what type of video your devices can play and whether > you want to edit out the ads. > I'm back from hols in a few days and can send a more detailed reply then > if you'd like. Patrick, thanks for this project, the

Re: [SLUG] one entity with two tld domains web setup?

thanks, Chris, Peter, Stewart, Jeremy On Thu, October 6, 2011 8:18 am, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Your hunch is correct — there should be one canonical location for your > website. All auxiliary domains should redirect to the main one. sorry, I think I wasn't really clear in what I was asking, the a

[SLUG] one entity with two tld domains web setup?

I need to set up a web host for one entity that has same domain name in .com as well as .com.au, .com is meant to be the real one, .com.au is to prevent cyber squaters, what is the best way to set up web host? www.name.com is the web host, so, do I set a www.name.com.au host with permanent redirec

Re: [SLUG] IP cams behind NAT/ADSL

On Wed, August 31, 2011 4:48 pm, Martin Visser wrote: > I don't see from the above where the "cam10" application is mapped from > port 8010 to port 80 on the "cam10" device. That might be which nmap is > showing cam10 as filtered. Martin, thanks for your help. I had a couple of goes (two way be

Re: [SLUG] where does USB ethernet show up on insertion ?

On Fri, September 9, 2011 2:18 am, Jake Anderson wrote: > On 09/07/2011 08:27 AM, Jeremy Visser wrote: > >> On 07/09/2011, at 6:43 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: >> > further suggestion > > assuming you have tried plugging it in and it didn't all then "just wor

[SLUG] bluetooth text/plain transfer from Android ?

whenever I bt beam anything from Android phone/tablet, it arrives at target device as: bluetooth_contents_share.html, and, "hello" is; --- Hello --- is there any way to just send/receive text/plain ? it seems to independent of application that has the text, whether I use a notepad style app, o

Re: [SLUG] where does USB ethernet show up on insertion ?

> ifconfig? > lsusb? > > What distro is this running on? If you plug it into a PC running a > different distro where it works, what kernel module does it use? Jeremy, thanks I don't have a Linux system here, can't test how do I determine kernel module used ? > Does the other distro's kernel incl

[SLUG] where does USB ethernet show up on insertion ?

I came across a post how a user got USB/ethernet working on his tablet, and, I'm trying to follow this up, he had A3.2, I have A3.1, so not sure I have what's needed if I insert USB media, it shows in /dev/block, (sda, sda1, etc) where would ethernet show up insertion ? ethernet jack has LED, tha

Re: [SLUG] Addressbook and Calendar apps

On Fri, August 26, 2011 11:13 am, Peter Chubb wrote: > what are people using for TODO, address book and calendar now that > PalmOS > is just about dead? Peter, I'm curious what you'll come up with (I'm deferring any decision, I simply bought several Palms, so if need be, I can keep using Palm

[SLUG] Android text utility to output text/plain

id there a 'notepad' utility that will output text/plain text exported/beamed to some non-Android device ? every thing I tried so far, when I beam across to say my Palm, comes across as text/html with 10 or 12 lines of html around the actual text I wanted to enter a quick note or a couple of word

Re: [SLUG] Multifunction printers vs dedicated sheet-feed scanners?

On Mon, September 5, 2011 5:00 pm, Jon Jermey wrote: > My question is this: given that my printer cost $79, and a dedicated > sheet-feed scanner costs $400 and up, am I going to get a better success > rate if I purchase one of those rather than just buying a new cheap > printer? The price differe

Re: [SLUG] Re: IP cams behind NAT/ADSL

On Thu, September 1, 2011 1:38 pm, James Linder wrote: > Since this list is all about teaching bears of very little brain (me) > could somebody start at step zero and explain what 'a camera at > 192.168.1.102' means. > What application, what protocol, what streaming, how. Thanks it's an 'ip came

Re: [SLUG] IP cams behind NAT/ADSL

On Wed, August 31, 2011 8:50 am, Martin Visser wrote: > if your cameras are say 192.168.1.101, 192.168.1.102, 192.168.1.103 you > need to setup a separate port forward for each, or application. So you > might create WebCam1 with Protocol TCP, Port 80 and Map to Host port 8101, Martin, thanks,

[SLUG] IP cams behind NAT/ADSL

I have several IP cams behind NAT on 192.168.1.x LAN that I would like to access remotely using an app on Android or a browser, so I guess I need to forward port 80 from each IP, I've tried to do that in 2wire ADSL router, but haven't managed (probably doing it wrongly). I have a Linux machine on

[SLUG] codepages and webmails

I occasionally receive emails written in ISO Latin2 (at least I think they're or should be, they might some Microsoft equivalent of ISO L2) anyhow, they display correctly, all extended characters are fine using Chrome or FireFox on windoze with Squirrel BUT, when using Squirrel 'forward', in the

Re: [SLUG] script help with unexpected token/variable

On Mon, August 22, 2011 11:37 am, Chris Donovan wrote: >> for j in *@* > do >>  sudo -u#5000  archivemail -d90 $j >> done Chris, thanks all's working good -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] script help with unexpected token/variable

I have a short script (which I think? used to work on the old server...) that I'm having problems with: I want to run archivemail against all mailboxes in: /var/mail/vhosts/domain.tld/*@domain.tld this is what I need to run: :/var/mail/vhosts/aa.com.au# sudo -u#5000 archivemail -d90 r...@aa.com

[SLUG] dyndns address to CNAME ?

dumb DNS Q: what's a way to have a dyndns name mapped to a host within own domain.tld ? can I map a dyndns host to a CNAME as a hostname on mydomain.tld ? so, I have a machine at home with not-fixed ip, on dyndns, as 'myhomepc.dyndns.com' if I set a bind record as: myhomepc CNAME myhomep

Re: [SLUG] Android path/busybox executable location

On Mon, August 1, 2011 11:23 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > cd /system/bin mount -orw,remount /system ln -s /bin/busybox . mount > -oro,remount /system Peter, thanks, syntax was marginally different, but worked well once I figured that (order of options and target specifier) -- Voytek

[SLUG] Android path/busybox executable location

I have A2.3, busybox is in /bin su cd /bin ./busybox Busybox v.1.10.2 path is like: PATH=/data/local/bin:/sbin:/vendor/bin:/system/sbin:/system/bin:/system/xbin I tried appending '/bin' in /init.rc to the above, that seems overwritten on boot so what's a proper way to get busybox on an exe path

Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

On Fri, July 29, 2011 12:22 pm, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > I use adb pull (to get the file onto my laptop), adb remount (to > remount /system read-write) and then adb push (to put the file back). > > An alternative is to install busybox on the device, and use vi. > adb shell gets you some

Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

On Fri, July 29, 2011 6:34 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote: > any thoughts how to troubleshoot lack of 3g data ? calls work, on scanning > for cariers all I see 1x telstra and 1x vodafone after about 1 hour, my cell data is back up, weired -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

On Fri, July 29, 2011 5:02 pm, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > busybox vi and see what happens. 'applet not found' I need to do '/bin/busybox', what do I need to set 'on path' ? h, since about 4:30 I've lost all data...? the only thing I've done was install an SMS app that was supposed

Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

On Fri, July 29, 2011 12:22 pm, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > An alternative is to install busybox on the device, and use vi. Peter, thanks I have busybox in /bin/busybox, but, it doesn't seem to have 'vi' (not sure how to either screen scrape terminal or send output to mail from the phone

Re: [SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

On Fri, July 29, 2011 11:42 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Peter, thanks > I find them in the Notifications screen (drag down from the top of the I don't think these were there, but, I'll check again next time (these were like mssg from Sygic have trouble downloading) > Voytek> aus-specif

[SLUG] Android: re-reading transient mssg, recursive file search ? gps.conf

on my Android phone occasionally I get a 'transient' message pop up over lower display like 'unable to download /file/whatever' if it disappears before I managed to read all of it, how can I recall such messages or where do I find them ? in tethering screen t

Re: [SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

On Sat, July 23, 2011 6:07 pm, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Normally that should work fine. Sounds like a hardware problem to me. > Or, at the very least, hardware-specific. > Tried seeing if there is a BIOS update available? Jeremy, thanks yes, updater told me I have current BIOS (but this is an o

Re: [SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

On Fri, July 22, 2011 1:20 pm, DaZZa wrote: > On 22 July 2011 12:14, Voytek Eymont wrote: > Load the right modules? Are scsi_mod, ide_disk & ide_core loaded? Can > you load them if they're not? > > What does lsmod show you? lspci? Does the device (/dev/sdb) file even &

Re: [SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

On Wed, July 27, 2011 10:58 am, Clint Shumack wrote: > /dev/sdb could be the card reader. Did you try /dev/hda? Install the > graphical partition tool 'gparted' and see what drives it can find. Clint, thanks /dev/sda is the usb media I'm booting from I'll try later with a more featured Linux bo

[SLUG] usb boot only sees usb, not hd

I have an older Dell Inspiron 700m laptop, I made a Linux USB boot system, set BIOS to USB HD boot, Dell boots OK from USB, but, doesn't seem to see the built in HD: without USB present Dell boots XP from HD fdisk /dev/sda shows USB /dev/sdb says 'unable to open' how can I find the built in HD f

[SLUG] ot: android app for server monitoring ?

(it seems my virtual server self re-boot has been solved, it was 'caused' by 'quota checking' procedures, thanks for all the help suggestions) any good suggestions for an android app to server monitor/check ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Sub

Re: [SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

On Wed, June 8, 2011 10:02 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: >> "Ben" == Ben Donohue writes: > Ben> sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory > Also check the BIOS CMOS battery. If it's weak but not entirely > failed, it can cause bad reads from the CMOS. Ben, Peter,

Re: [SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

On Tue, June 7, 2011 10:07 pm, Ben Donohue wrote: > sounds like bios stuff... can you reset the bios to factory defaults? also > is there a second video card in there by any chance? Pull it out. > Sometimes the old proliants had a video on the MB and another on an > accessory card. either that or

[SLUG] Compaq Proliant fails to boot with agpgart error

I have a an old Compaq Proliant 2GB RAM DL380 server running Centos 4.x, just decommissioned, trying to start it it hangs with errors below and doesn't boot Linux agpgart interface v0.1 max main memory to use for agp 2170M unable to det aperture size agp backend initialize fail apgart serverworks

Re: [SLUG] self reboot solving ?

On Fri, May 27, 2011 12:13 pm, James Gray wrote: > On 27/05/2011, at 11:08 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I had a similar problem with a virtual linux server a while back. Turned > out that presenting it with multiple VCPUs was the culprit. Reducing it > back to a single VCPU fixed

[SLUG] self reboot solving ?

I have a virtual Ubuntu machine running MAP+Postfix in service few weeks; as of few days ago the system started self-rebooting once a day or so how to diagnose the reason ? ~# uname -a Linux 2.6.32-30-generic-pae #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 1 23:01:33 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux top - 11:07:30 up 10:38,

Re: [SLUG] ADSL download speed/settings.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 8:59 am, Ken Foskey wrote: > Yes your lead from socket to Adam is a huge problem. Removing a lead > like that made a huge difference for me Ken, I'll proceed with that as soon as I can find few metres of Telstra wire OK, another dumb Q: I have like streetMDF-subM

Re: [SLUG] ADSL download speed/settings.

On Wed, May 11, 2011 2:00 am, Jeremy Visser wrote: > gonzo01 said: >> Line Attentuation Upstream 31.5 >> Line Attenuation Downstream 44.0 >> Are these figures reasonable? Bigpond ADSL, I'm just outside the 1.5k exchange inner band TPG page says: Line of sight: 1630m. Possible cable dist.: 2295m.

Re: [SLUG] script permissions, etc

On Mon, May 9, 2011 11:18 pm, Ken Foskey wrote: > Seems to be trying to run the command as one thing. so a file named 'ccc > lots of spaces with your IP address'.How are you starting this and > are you quoting it? > > Exec takes an argument which is the filename to run and then extra args >

Re: [SLUG] script permissions, etc

On Mon, May 9, 2011 10:52 am, Peter Chubb wrote: >>>>>> "Voytek" == Voytek Eymont writes: > TMP="/var/tmp/`basename $0`$$" > mkdir -p "$TMP" cd "$TMP" trap 'cd /var/tmp; rm -rf "$TMP"' 0 > > to create

[SLUG] script permissions, etc

I'm trying to put together a basic script, it works fine when I run it as root, but, I'm having issues when I try to run as 'voytek' $ ls -al /usr/local/bin/ccc -rwxr-x--- 1 root voytek 1409 May 9 08:19 /usr/local/bin/ccc /usr/local/bin/ccc: line 16: ccc.txt: Permission denied mv: overwrite `cc

[SLUG] Android ssh, nix.tools?

(Is Android slug or chat?) What's a good ssh client ? what other good tools are there (so I can pretend to be a sysop)? IMAP client? Data traffic logger? Voytek ___ Sent from my iPalm/A with SnapperMail ™® www.snappermail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

On Fri, April 15, 2011 6:55 am, Amos Shapira wrote: > (I assume you meant "clan"->"cpan", right?) > Mixing CPAN and none-cpan packing is an invitation to a nightmare. Either > install EVERYTHING from cpan or nothing at all. > > A quick "apt-cache search BinHex" shows that there is a ubuntu packag

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

On Thu, April 14, 2011 9:31 am, John Clarke wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:55:59PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: >> amavis says error with MIME Decoder BinHex but perl says it's >> installed, > > Read the error message more closely: John, ooops, you'r

[SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

I'm trying to install amavisd-new on ubuntu, amavis says error with MIME Decoder BinHex but perl says it's installed, what's the best way forward ? # amavisd debug fetch_modules: error loading optional module MIME/Decoder/BinHex.pm: Can't locate Convert/BinHex.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc

[SLUG] brute force password testing?

I'd like to enforce 'reasonably secure'passwords on email, how can I brute force test email password for security, passwords are hashed stored in mysql table -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mai

[SLUG] SquirrelMail on Ubuntu, using source not Ubuntu package?

I've been using Squirrel on RedHat and Centos, using latest 1.5 build with never an issue; I'm setting up a new host, it came with Ubuntu, it included Squirrel 1.4; so, I jumped over to Squirrel to get a 1.5 build, now I see they seem to have 'special?' Ubuntu/Debian downloads for Squirrel.. sur

GID/UID ?Re: [SLUG] Dovecot mysql user setup troubles

On Fri, April 8, 2011 1:56 pm, K L wrote: > without being "explicitly" helpful to your question; it 'looks' like > dovecot isn't actually getting as far as mysql and is instead only > reading passwd. K L, thanks this is meant to be a virtual mail server for multiple domains oops, you're right

Re: [SLUG] Dovecot mysql user setup troubles

On Fri, April 8, 2011 1:32 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote: > I'm trying to setup Dovecot with MySQL/Postfix/Postfixadmin, with mail > users in mysql > > when I attempt to login to pop as *nix user 'voytek' with *nix password, > it works OK: > > mail log: Apr 8 13:24

[SLUG] Dovecot mysql user setup troubles

I'm trying to setup Dovecot with MySQL/Postfix/Postfixadmin, with mail users in mysql when I attempt to login to pop as *nix user 'voytek' with *nix password, it works OK: mail log: Apr 8 13:24:55 dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, ri p=zzz, lip=xxx when I try as mail user I fail

Re: [SLUG] remote x on windoze ?

On Sun, January 9, 2011 11:36 am, Michael Chesterton wrote: > You start Xming on your windows desktop, ssh to centos and run the java > app. I usually test first by running xeyes. That's boiled down in a > nutshell. The app runs on the centos box and the display runs on your > windows box. There'

Re: [SLUG] remote x on windoze ?

On Sun, January 9, 2011 11:36 am, Michael Chesterton wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: Amit, Michael, thanks > startx as root user is bad karma, and not the right step for Xming. I did try non-root 1st of all, after it told me I lacked ownership, I f

[SLUG] remote x on windoze ?

what are the best/simple options for casual access to a remote Linux host desktop ? what do I need to do on remote host to make it ready ? I have a java gui application I'd like to try, but, don't have a Linux machine here, so wanted to try it remotely I tried searching and found Xming, that sta

[SLUG] recovering raid0 nas volume ?

I have a QNAP NAS with 4 disks as a single "Striping Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 4 EXT4" couple of days ago, power failed, according to QNAP log, system was shutdown by UPS notification when I powered it up, I tried to do 'checkdisk' using web i/face, but, it keeps failing with: 23:23:37 System [St

[SLUG] restarting samba ?

I have a media box with ethernet, occasionally I don't seem to be able to access media on it from a windoze PC (as in '\\192.168.1.90'), but I can still ssh to it I'm guessing samba needs restarting ?? how to ? what else to look for ? # ps ax | grep samba 8720 root 1584 S N /tmp/package/sa

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

On Sun, November 14, 2010 4:17 pm, Ben Donohue wrote: > I'm not sure about NAS boxes... but HP raid stores the raid array config > on the disks themselves. Such that you could take out 4 disks of a raid > array and put them in another server and the raid would come up ok. And > this is on a diffe

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

On Sat, November 13, 2010 5:52 pm, David Balnaves wrote: > I'm not really sure what the best indicators are of a failing hard drive. > I've used smart on a lot of hard drives; I've seen undocumented smart > values and even hard drives function fine for a number of years when smart > reports th

Re: [SLUG] Re: detecting hard drive failure ?

On Sat, November 13, 2010 9:13 am, Richard Ibbotson wrote: >> Can you use SMART? >> > > Thinking was a bit fuzzy this morning. I was thinking that you might > be able to write a bash script using smartmon. Any bash script would have > to have something like this in it... > > smartctl -d ata -H /

Re: [SLUG] Re: detecting hard drive failure ?

On Sat, November 13, 2010 8:32 am, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: - what sort of tests or whatever can I run before I pull the unit down ? - what sort of utility can I run to 'detect and notify' should such failure occurs again ? > Can you use SMART? > Also, the main pr

Re: [SLUG] Re: detecting hard drive failure ?

On Thu, November 11, 2010 8:58 am, Richard Ibbotson wrote: >>> - what sort of tests or whatever can I run before I pull the unit >>> down ? >>> - what sort of utility can I run to 'detect and notify' should >>> such failure occurs again ? > > You might try these... one of more of these should tell

Re: [SLUG] Re: XecureBrowser - looks like snake oil to me.

On Thu, November 11, 2010 11:38 am, Daniel Pittman wrote: > It almost sounds like you are trying to disagree with me here, which > seems strange, given that the issue in the article was that it turns out > people with low levels of technical experience are vulnerable to social > manipulation. > >

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

On Thu, November 11, 2010 11:05 am, Daniel Pittman wrote: > I know that one of my huge security concerns, which a secure web browser > could help with, is that I might be subject to hypnosis or ATM card fraud! > Those > damn hackers and their hypnotic virus powers! > > > So, MRP: this looks convi

Re: [SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

On Thu, November 11, 2010 9:21 am, Andrew Cowie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 08:21 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 Andrew, thanks [/] # mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 00.90.03 Creation Time : Sat Jun 19 04:35:02 2010 Raid Level :

[SLUG] detecting hard drive failure ?

I have a brand new QNAP NAS with 4 SATA HD as 'Striping Disk Volume: Drive 1 2 3 4', installed couple of month ago when 1st installed, using QNAP web i/f, I've run SMART tests, all were 100%, etc yesterday, it seems HD3 suffered total failure, if says: - Summary HD3 Hard disk

Re: [SLUG] streaming video over ethernet ?

On Tue, November 9, 2010 10:27 am, DaZZa wrote: > On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: > >> I have a media player with tv tuner(Noontec) with ethernet, it runs on >> busybox, >> >> dumb question: can I stream a tv reception over blue cable to recei

Re: [SLUG] 'mc' on BusyBox media player ?

On Mon, November 8, 2010 11:28 pm, Jeremy Visser wrote: > Voytek Eymont said: > >> / # chroot >> BusyBox v1.1.3 (2009.12.18-04:22+) multi-call binary >> Usage: chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND...] >> Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT. > Yay! Jeremy, I

[SLUG] streaming video over ethernet ?

I have a media player with tv tuner(Noontec) with ethernet, it runs on busybox, dumb question: can I stream a tv reception over blue cable to receive it with vlc on a pc down the hall ? Venus login: root warning: cannot change to home directory BusyBox v1.1.3 (2009.12.18-04:22+)

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