[uug] HPC Sysadmin Job

2013-11-19 Thread Lloyd Brown
://yjobs.byu.edu/postings/2365 Thanks, Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS

Re: [uug] New Freshman BYU Tips?

2013-08-07 Thread Lloyd Brown
basically given the impression that there is (nearly) no difference in their research areas, etc. Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu On 08/06/2013 07:24 PM, Matt Gardner wrote: > If you like biology, you might also talk to

Re: [uug] New Freshman BYU Tips?

2013-08-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
ng motivation toward the status quo. Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu On 08/06/2013 10:43 AM, Bryan Murdock wrote: > It sounds like EE and CS are collaborating on more classes now than > when I was there, which i

Re: [uug] New Freshman BYU Tips?

2013-08-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
specific if you all want, but it might take me a little bit to make sure I don't turn it into a "stupid user" rant. They're good at what they do and everything. It's just surprising sometimes when you see the gaps in their understanding, and have to go back and ex

Re: [uug] New Freshman BYU Tips?

2013-08-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
rself into thinking you're an IT guy. Much more of a business degree than anything else. Did I miss anything? Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu On 08/06/2013 09:31 AM, Bryan Murdock wrote: > This is where I

[uug] [OT] Google Fiber (probably) coming to Provo

2013-04-17 Thread Lloyd Brown
Just in case anyone didn't hear about this: https://fiber.google.com/cities/provo/ http://provomayor.blogspot.com/2013/04/google-fiber-provo-epic.html Note that it still has to be approved by the city council, etc. Almost makes me want to move back to Provo, though. -- Lloyd Brown Sy

Re: [uug] New UUG Leadership

2013-02-11 Thread Lloyd Brown
ign the demonstration to avoid a lot of these problems, etc. Just be careful, make sure you document everything, get appropriate approvals, etc. Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu On 02/11/2013 04:38 PM, Jacob Adams wrote: &g

Re: [uug] Fusion-io jobs

2012-09-11 Thread Lloyd Brown
And maybe PLUG (http://www.plug.org/). I don't know how active SLLUG is, but maybe there too. Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu On 09/11/2012 03:14 PM, Clint Savage wrote: > You may also wish to forward this o

Re: [uug] tcsh line number output

2011-09-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
On 9/22/11 6:13 PM, Stuart Jansen wrote: > Friends don't let friends use tcsh. It's not by choice. I was debugging a script for work, written by a commercial software company. It was either debug it, or re-write it in something else (bash, python, whatever). As frustrating as tcsh is to me pers

[uug] tcsh line number output

2011-09-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
Does anyone know the easiest way to output the line number from a tcsh shell script? Something similar to Bash's $LINENO or C's __LINE__ would be great, but I can't find anything yet, and it would be extremely helpful for a script I'm debugging for someone. -- Lloyd Brown S

Re: [uug] PC Laptop with Mac-like trackpad?

2011-01-21 Thread Lloyd Brown
On 1/21/11 8:51 AM, Jon Jensen wrote: > Really, it would take you more than 30 seconds to disable that on your > phone? > Honestly, I'm really not sure. I can type pretty fast on a full keyboard, though. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab

Re: [uug] PC Laptop with Mac-like trackpad?

2011-01-21 Thread Lloyd Brown
On 1/21/11 8:47 AM, Jon Jensen wrote: > I expect it would've been faster to turn it off that to write that reply. Only if I were writing it on my phone. My nice ergo keyboard at work? Not so much. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young Univers

Re: [uug] PC Laptop with Mac-like trackpad?

2011-01-21 Thread Lloyd Brown
don't send email from my phone very often. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility

Re: [uug] PC Laptop with Mac-like trackpad?

2011-01-20 Thread Lloyd Brown
On 1/20/11 1:57 PM, RT Hatfield wrote: > Apple sells the Magic Trackpad as a standalone peripheral. I'm pretty sure > it's USB. My boss has one. I'm pretty sure it's Bluetooth, not USB. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Bri

Re: [uug] simple automatic folder sync recommendation?

2010-10-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
into it again, and do some comparisons. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. Th

Re: [uug] TCP/IP

2010-10-07 Thread Lloyd Brown
nfig --list". Something like this: chkconfig --list | grep -i smc I'm not sure what the script would be called, or even if there is an init script. I'm just guessing here. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://mary

Re: [uug] TCP/IP

2010-10-07 Thread Lloyd Brown
ly there's someone else on this list that's more familiar with Tivoli, and can verify whether or not I remember the process name correctly. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu BYU Un

Re: [uug] LVM migration

2010-09-09 Thread Lloyd Brown
On 9/9/10 9:04 AM, Michael Torrie wrote: > Of course you don't get the speed increase from > striping, but I don't need that. You also lose data when a hard drive fails. Its up to you whether or not you're okay with that. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fult

Re: [uug] Using ACLs to share a directory among multiple users.

2010-08-31 Thread Lloyd Brown
dirs vs the files using setfacl alone. It might take a "find" like Stuart was recommending. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The

Re: [uug] Using ACLs to share a directory among multiple users.

2010-08-31 Thread Lloyd Brown
Although his example doesn't actually require it, I'm assuming that he's after POSIX ACLs, like the kind that you view/manipulate using getfacl and setfacl. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu --

Re: [uug] Using ACLs to share a directory among multiple users.

2010-08-31 Thread Lloyd Brown
r james setfacl --recursive -m d:u:james:rw /home/shared Is that roughly what you were after? -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expresse

Re: [uug] Need an open source alternative

2010-08-17 Thread Lloyd Brown
boot this user's computer from the SAN.[2] Then, all you have to do is rollback and reboot off the network again. And the client computer doesn't even need a hard drive.[3] You probably wanted something simpler than that. Lloyd Brown [1] Linux with LVM and IET will do this. Fr

Re: [uug] Satisfy BYU IT's mechanisms without Windows?

2010-04-27 Thread Lloyd Brown
> The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list &

Re: [uug] New student interested in joining.

2010-04-20 Thread Lloyd Brown
iables, but a lot of the time, I just don't care enough. Of course the revision control is usually either CVS or SVN, depending on the project, but that's a completely different "discussion". Again, it's a matter of works-well-enough-for-my-purposes coupled with d

Re: [uug] New student interested in joining.

2010-04-20 Thread Lloyd Brown
ind that, while vocal, the people involved in these long email threads, are still a minority. They just seem to enjoy arguing. [1] Sorry for the rush of perspective, guys. I know I'm spoiling your fun. I'll shut up now. :-) Lloyd [1] http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20

Re: [uug] New student interested in joining.

2010-04-20 Thread Lloyd Brown
eck, even my phone has a pretty decent ARM7 processor in it now, so maybe it is becoming moot. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions e

Re: [uug] Local IP address via VPN

2010-04-16 Thread Lloyd Brown
bscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > I can't speak to whether or not OpenSSL or OpenSwan do this, but my co-worker uses OpenVPN for this quite a bit, and it works pretty well. I'm not sure how it's set up, though. Thankfully he's on this li

Re: [uug] sandisk hatred

2009-11-28 Thread Lloyd Brown
regex inside vim to get it done. I'm sure there's a more elegant solution that uses Amarok or something. Media hasn't been my biggest priority, I guess. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.e

Re: [uug] Meeting on 10/15: LaTeX

2009-10-07 Thread Lloyd Brown
y there's some stuff that each department gets to decide, and there were some inconsistencies between the example template, and the document itself. Fun, huh? Just something to be aware of. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http:

Re: [uug] LVN Help

2009-09-17 Thread Lloyd Brown
Lloyd Brown wrote: > > lvremove /dev/vg/opt - to remove the unused LV > lvdisplay- to check if all 1755 extents are now free > lvextend -l 1000 /dev/vg/var- to allocate 1000 of the 1755 > extents, leaving 755 in reserve, just in case you need

Re: [uug] LVN Help

2009-09-17 Thread Lloyd Brown
l 1755 extents are now free lvextend -l 1000 /dev/vg/var- to allocate 1000 of the 1755 extents, leaving 755 in reserve, just in case you need them elsewhere lvdisplay - to check the new size of /dev/vg/var At this point you can resize your filesystem, but how you do that

Re: [uug] LVN Help

2009-09-17 Thread Lloyd Brown
I can see, there is no free space in the volume group, but there may be a logical volume that's created, but not mounted. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu BYU Unix Users Group http:

Re: [uug] Upcoming Meeting: CDs and DVDs are so 1990s

2009-06-16 Thread Lloyd Brown
Lloyd Brown wrote: > > Then again, before we had the cool bittorrent-based installer at work, > we were still able to install up to 50 or 60 nodes at a time, just off > the head node's 2 7200 RPM SCSI hard drives in a hardware RAID-1. So > you're right; it shouldn'

Re: [uug] Upcoming Meeting: CDs and DVDs are so 1990s

2009-06-16 Thread Lloyd Brown
Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 04:45:50PM -0600, Lloyd Brown wrote: > >> I've often thought that someone should bring a machine with a few >> distros' locally mirrored to the installfest, set up DHCP/PXE, etc., and >> put the installfest network

Re: [uug] Upcoming Meeting: CDs and DVDs are so 1990s

2009-06-15 Thread Lloyd Brown
;m not sure how much load it'd put on the hard drives. I imagine that for just a handful at a time, it wouldn't be that bad. Just a guess, though. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu --

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Lloyd Brown
I guess. What I am a little worried about is what happens if the charter doesn't include any amendment provisions. Then what do we do? Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu BYU Unix Users G

Re: [uug] Elections

2009-04-11 Thread Lloyd Brown
I > think we > should let them. > Um. Doesn't the charter have to be changed *before* we do something like this? It's been a while since I read the charter, but presumably there's some procedure for changing it, built into the charter itself. Speaking of which, where

Re: [uug] Install fest?

2009-03-26 Thread Lloyd Brown
hat things like OpenOffice worked, even with foreign language support. I didn't have to do anything special beyond getting the alt install cd. Since xubuntu is ubuntu with the lightweight xfce desktop, it's pretty well integrated still. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton S

Re: [uug] sponsorship

2009-01-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
kay with sponsoring of specific events (like AST has done) like meetings or installfests. I'm not sure if I like a wholesale sponsoring of the club as an organization, though. Then again, I have no leadership role with the club, so take it for what its worth. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Sy

Re: [uug] Meeting in the Crabtree tonight?

2008-10-16 Thread Lloyd Brown
Sorry. I think it's just in the CTB lobby. I don't know if it has a room number or not. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu Ryan Johnson wrote: > Do you know the ro

Re: [uug] Meeting in the Crabtree tonight?

2008-10-16 Thread Lloyd Brown
partment, and put it on a projector, since it's on Versus, which we don't get on campus. If it were pretty-much any other game in the schedule, it'd be on Mtn, which we get on campus, potentially via IPTV/IGMP, but no such luck. I don't know if there's any websit

Re: [uug] Program to annotate photos - newbie question

2008-10-15 Thread Lloyd Brown
If you're in KDE environment, you could try Krita. I like it. The thing is that it has close to the same feature set as gimp, especially for simple things. The UI isn't as overwhelmingly complex, though. I guess the real question is what was overwhelming? The UI? The feature set? Something e

Re: [uug] anaconda-ks.cfg on HP Server

2008-10-10 Thread Lloyd Brown
Jeff Anderson wrote: > Lloyd Brown wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> This may seem like a really random question, but does anyone have the >> RedHat/CentOS/Fedora "/root/anaconda-ks.cfg" file (or any kickstart file >> for that matter) for an HP server th

[uug] anaconda-ks.cfg on HP Server

2008-10-10 Thread Lloyd Brown
e when the HP disk controller uses a separate directory under /dev for it's naming. I like the way the HP names their devices (eg. c0d0p1 is controller 0, disk 0, partition 1), but I just don't know how to integrate here. Thanks, Lloyd Brown -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator

Re: [uug] VGA to S-video adaptor

2008-09-19 Thread Lloyd Brown
I've seen them more often for VGA->Component than I have from VGA->SVideo, though. Many computer video cards have SVideo output, though. If your source is a computer, you might consider that option. Lloyd -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young

Re: [uug] ZFS

2008-08-19 Thread Lloyd Brown
Lloyd Brown wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote: > >> Lloyd Brown wrote: >> >> >>> The guy that was hired away wasn't hired to work on lustre, was he? I >>> ask because it's supposed to be a great parallel FS, and I've heard that >

Re: [uug] ZFS

2008-08-19 Thread Lloyd Brown
Michael Torrie wrote: > Lloyd Brown wrote: > >> The guy that was hired away wasn't hired to work on lustre, was he? I >> ask because it's supposed to be a great parallel FS, and I've heard that >> they're integrating ZFS code into it, but since lu

Re: [uug] ZFS

2008-08-19 Thread Lloyd Brown
out it at Supercomputing Conference last year, and nobody gave me a straight answer. I suppose they could use ZFS code in Lustre if it were GPLd, or it could stay in CDDL as long as it was in user space. Just some thoughts. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Br

Re: [uug] ZFS

2008-08-19 Thread Lloyd Brown
d be okay. ZFS is licensed under the CDDL license, which is (apparently deliberately) incompatible with GPL. That means that CDDL code and GPL code cannot be linked together in any form, kernel or otherwise. There is a user-space implementation of ZFS being developed using the FUSE framework.

Re: [uug] PKI, Public Keys, secrets, and obscurity

2008-07-31 Thread Lloyd Brown
A guy I know who works in telecommunications (layer 1 stuff, mostly) has a similar saying. It goes something like this: There's no firewall as good as an open circuit. -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.ed

Re: [uug] File System Web Interface

2008-07-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
's why for anything non-anonymous, FTP is not a good idea. SFTP might work, and it usually just uses the same server as SCP and SSH, namely OpenSSH (usually, anyway). I'm not sure about the ubiquity of clients, though. I haven't used an open-access lab on campus for a long tim

Re: [uug] BYU Calendar

2008-06-16 Thread Lloyd Brown
make sure it gets updated, though, since it still seems to be just the next month's events. Maybe it's just doing a rolling month by default. Is that what you're looking for? -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator BYU Supercomputing Lab http://marylou.byu.edu B

Re: [uug] UUG governing documents

2008-06-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
t clear what types of decisions should and shouldn't require a vote. Oh, and in light of the elections, section 3.3.2 is pretty interesting. Oh, and 3.3.6 too. Section 2.1 probably needs adjusting to include alumni. When changes are made, though, we need to make sure we follow section

Re: [uug] ads

2008-06-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
ever the domain was. Now that it's disabled, everything goes through immediately. Now, it might be one of the several DNS servers between me and the campus edge, or it might be one of the OIT security settings [1], or something, so I don't know we need to blame that on the ad compan

[uug] BYU Supercomputing Student Jobs

2008-06-05 Thread Lloyd Brown
igher, or lower, depending on experience. Application Instructions: send resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator BYU Supercomputing Lab BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this

Re: [uug] ads (Andrew McNabb)

2008-06-05 Thread Lloyd Brown
ttps://home.byu.edu/ry/webapp/handbook-web/content/Complete/Policies/Students/BYU_Student,_Faculty,_and_Staff_Clubs,_Associations,_and_Honor_Societies.pdf, page 2 You'll have to log in via RouteY to see it. I'm operating under the assumption that the UUG is classified as a "S

Re: [uug] ads

2008-06-05 Thread Lloyd Brown
that, like it or not, there's likely a financial/legal implication to having ads of any kind on a site hosted and sponsored by BYU. Has anyone checked with the CS Department (as our club's sponsor) to see what they think? If it weren't associated with BYU,

Re: [uug] Polls

2008-06-03 Thread Lloyd Brown
his point. CS does have some people on the system, but the biggest users are people/depts like Life Sciences, Physics, Math, Statistics, Engineering, etc. It's actually pretty interesting to see the diversity of people that come on. Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http

Re: [uug] Polls

2008-06-02 Thread Lloyd Brown
nd small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri." (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Chapter_15) -- Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in t

Re: [uug] Journald File Systems

2008-01-30 Thread Lloyd Brown
and is pretty stable. Some of the others have performance advantages with specific operations, or types of files, etc., but for most things, I doubt anyone would notice. Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the res

[uug] who do we report website problems to?

2007-10-25 Thread Lloyd Brown
So, I haven't been paying attention the last year or so, so please forgive me for this. Who is the current UUG webmaster? In particular, who do we report website problems to? Thanks, Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in

Re: [uug] Live mirrored filesystems over network on Linux

2007-10-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
I've never actually used it, but you might look into DRBD (http://www.drbd.org/). My understanding is that it mirrors over the network at the block device level. I've been told, though, that you have to be careful, especially when the amount of I/O ops is pretty high. Again, I'm completely in

Re: [uug] Distributed Filesystems was Linux virtualization

2007-10-10 Thread Lloyd Brown
Andrew McNabb wrote: > Laziness is great, but a versioning file system wouldn't be a general > replacement for version control. The problem is that branching and > commit messages just wouldn't happen. Also, you would find that lots of > things would get committed that you don't want to. For exa

Re: [uug] Distributed Filesystems was Linux virtualization

2007-10-10 Thread Lloyd Brown
Lloyd Brown wrote: > > > > You're right. That's a tall order. But, while we're fantasizing, can I > add that it must do inherent version control on the files? I'd love to > be able to open a file with [EMAIL PROTECTED]/time, and suddenly see an &g

Re: [uug] Distributed Filesystems was Linux virtualization

2007-10-10 Thread Lloyd Brown
Michael L Torrie wrote: > > I am still looking for a file system that can connect to multiple > machines at once, is distributed (disks come from many machines), and is > redundant, so if many nodes failed, the shared file system would keep on > chugging. Also it would be very nice if, at the file

Re: [uug] Distributed Filesystems was Linux virtualization

2007-10-10 Thread Lloyd Brown
systems I know of that support that are Coda and (I think) Intermezzo. I've never succeeded in getting either to work, and Intermezzo at least is an abandoned project. I think most of the Intermezzo developers ended up in the Lustre project. I don't know the current status of

Re: [uug] Extremely cool job opportunity for Linux, Python and Javascript gurus.

2007-07-17 Thread Lloyd Brown
t for using Linux as a desktop, I guess. I tried playing with the user-agent string to see if it was just some artificial limitation, but it tried to install something locally, so I guess not. Lloyd Brown Jaron Jones wrote: > I have a couple of job openings for Linux, Python and Javascript gu

Re: [uug] Installfest!

2007-06-24 Thread Lloyd Brown
ling tiles), and desks and chairs from faculty offices, etc. Lloyd Brown Peter McNabb said: > Yes, we are having an Installfest on Saturday the 30th! We'll meet at > the Crabtree lobby (as usual) from 11-2. We'll have plenty of Ubuntu > 7.04 (and Kubuntu and Edubuntu) copies, as

[uug] naming your computers

2007-04-25 Thread Lloyd Brown
I know this has come up before, but I'm just curious again to see if anybody has any clever ways of choosing names/hostnames for their computers and other devices. For example, I always liked mythology, and so I thought I was being *really* creative when I named my computers things like "artemis"

Re: [uug] sed question

2007-04-16 Thread Lloyd Brown
in an editor most often. Sed isn't really my area of expertise. As always, if you want to edit the file in place, saving changes, instead of just outputting the changed data to stdout, just add the "-i" parameter to sed. Lloyd Brown Eduardo Sanz Garcia said: > I have a f

Re: [uug] Solution: Printing to BYU printers via LPD

2007-03-29 Thread Lloyd Brown
else's username. The worst that could happen is that their job sits there for whatever the time frame is before it expires and gets deleted. Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their au

Re: [uug] 'file', where have you been all my life?

2007-03-23 Thread Lloyd Brown
Phillip Hellewell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:41:11PM -0600, Lloyd Brown wrote: >> I remember thinking something similar a few years ago when I *finally* >> understood how regular expressions worked. Changed my life. Don't know >> how I *ever* wrote a script wi

Re: [uug] 'file', where have you been all my life?

2007-03-21 Thread Lloyd Brown
I remember thinking something similar a few years ago when I *finally* understood how regular expressions worked. Changed my life. Don't know how I *ever* wrote a script without them. Especially in Perl. Lloyd Brown Topher Fischer wrote: > I don't understand how I've lived i

Re: [uug] bash: /bin/mv: Argument list too long

2007-03-20 Thread Lloyd Brown
t have to put quotes around the {}, if you have some text files that have spaces in the name, etc. Maybe I'm not understanding the problem, though. Lloyd Brown Eduardo Sanz Garcia wrote: > >>>> You can also use a bash for loop: >>>> >>>> for

Re: [uug] Disk imaging utilities

2007-02-23 Thread Lloyd Brown
meone else here will have a better suggestion, but it's possible to make something like this work. It just takes some work. Lloyd Brown David B Darrough wrote: > I have a couple of computers that I will be flattening and reinstalling > Windows (yesI know) for my apartment comple

[uug] config file parsing library

2007-02-09 Thread Lloyd Brown
give it a path, and get a bunch of name/value pairs back, or something. Thanks, Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed

Re: [uug] Crontab Issues

2007-02-05 Thread Lloyd Brown
ified paths for the executables. Since the $PATH variable is often different for the login environment and the environment your crons are in, it's generally a good idea to do things like "/bin/chmod" instead of just "chmod", etc. Just my $.02, Lloyd Brown -

Re: [uug] RHEL and ldconfig on bootup

2007-01-25 Thread Lloyd Brown
expect that > behavior since usually that is the only time changes to the library usually > happen. Can the script be modified to call ldconfig? Why does it need to > happen at boot time? > > Robert > > > On 1/25/07 11:52 AM, "Lloyd Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[uug] RHEL and ldconfig on bootup

2007-01-25 Thread Lloyd Brown
otup, whether it be /etc/rc.local, or something similar, or perhaps an /etc/init.d/ script. I just can't find it anywhere, including on my Ubuntu laptop and my FC6 workstation. If anyone can shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Lloyd Brown BYU Unix U

[uug] movie night this thursday?

2007-01-16 Thread Lloyd Brown
to make an announcement, or anything? Especially including details of location and time? Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department

Re: [uug] Run X program remotely, not forwarded

2007-01-04 Thread Lloyd Brown
rk, unless something is weird. Lloyd Brown Robert LeBlanc wrote: > Anyone know how to run an X program remotely to a current running X session? > I'm not talking about forwarding the session through SSH or anything, just > popping up an application on a machine that might only have a

Re: [uug] Connect to CAEDM vpn with *nix

2006-11-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
ng over ssh. Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. __

Re: [uug] - No Klingon in Unicode

2006-10-12 Thread Lloyd Brown
34% I'm a little torn. Should I be disturbed that it *was* this high, or relieved it was *only* this high? Lloyd Jacob Albretsen wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2006 09:44, Lloyd Brown wrote: >> Apparently it was rejected. I can't imagine why. >> >> "A pr

Re: [uug] See the funny chars [Fwd: 答复: Make d jango run on top of twisted]

2006-10-12 Thread Lloyd Brown
Apparently it was rejected. I can't imagine why. "A proposal[3] to add support for Klingon to Unicode was rejected[4]." <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#Language> Lloyd Brown Jacob Albretsen wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 11:19, Scott Paul Robe

Re: [uug] Makefile mishap

2006-10-11 Thread Lloyd Brown
To do that, I think you'll have to either hard code, or do some preprocessing. AFAIK, make doesn't really have any facilities for determining dependencies or how to resolve them, unless you tell it what they are. You might have to go back to using the "-MM" output of gcc/g++.

Re: [uug] Unicode

2006-10-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
; by default. I can even cut and paste the Cyrillic characters in your last email into my Konsole session. I can't get the keystrokes to work, though. Does anyone know if KDE does something different for typing unicode on a US keyboard? Thanks, Lloyd Brown Andrew McNabb wrote: > Oops. T

Re: [uug] Makefile mishap

2006-10-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
ot; and not "obj/%.cpp" in the target's dependencies? Well, whatever works for you. I just want to understand more about Makefiles, and how people use them. Lloyd Brown Daniel Dilts wrote: > Well, that was a much better way of doing things. > > obj/%.o : obj/%.

Re: [uug] Makefile mishap

2006-10-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
-c -o $@ $< You'll probably then just have to use the "obj/somefile.o" as the target instead of just "somefile.o". I hope that I both understood the question, and that this helps. If not, let the list know, and we can try again. Let us know if it works too. Thanks, and good

[uug] linux and joysticks

2006-09-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
with this before? Any recommendations? Thanks, Lloyd Brown BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department

Re: [uug] WAN filesharing

2006-06-27 Thread Lloyd Brown
the increased data to be transmitted, when compared to NFS. FWIW, I don't know all the steps involved in setting up Kerberos, but it's a pretty neat protocol, and especially impressive in that it's done entirely with symmetric keys. Good luck, Lloyd Brown

Re: [uug] acl, default umask, setgid dir, etc.

2006-06-12 Thread Lloyd Brown
hough, just the ones created within that directory. Lloyd Brown Lloyd Brown wrote: > > > Hey all, > > Is there anyone around that knows a lot about modifying file behavior in > a directory? Specifically, I have two things I'm trying to do: > > - In a specific dire

Re: [uug] Re: [OT] Movie Night Next Thursday

2006-06-08 Thread Lloyd Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael L Torrie wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 08:21 -0600, Lloyd Brown wrote: > >>P.S. I like "The Last Starfighter". Robert Preston is one of the >>greatest actors ever. > > > There's only so much

Re: [uug] Movie Night Next Thursday

2006-06-08 Thread Lloyd Brown
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, just to verify, since it doesn't seem to be on the webpage calendar, this is Thursday, June 15? What time? Lloyd Brown P.S. I like "The Last Starfighter". Robert Preston is one of the greatest actors ever. Scott Paul Robert

[uug] acl, default umask, setgid dir, etc.

2006-06-06 Thread Lloyd Brown
t the directory owner (or root, of course). I think I'm just missing some ACL that I need to add to restore that functionality, but could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Lloyd Brown -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG wit

[uug] ethernet bonding

2006-04-04 Thread Lloyd Brown
ase of use, perspective on various modes, etc. Thanks, Lloyd Brown -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEM0FB1M8MAg+dNDERAhx6AJ9wFLIF1OuXpmraPTrxl4OOFgImOgCfclKx 2LlFUYgrHRioLB4WGq87cps= =ih3B -END PGP

Re: [uug] fragfest

2006-04-03 Thread Lloyd Brown
That's fine with me. I have a senior project presentation the next morning anyway. Just (whoever wins) let me know when you want me to present. I'll be here most of the summer. Fall too (grad school, you see). Lloyd Brown Erin Sharmahd wrote: > That sounds like it'd pr

Re: [uug] fragfest

2006-04-02 Thread Lloyd Brown
I know that it would mean a lower attendance, but I'm willing to put my load balancing presentation off for a few weeks, maybe sometime this summer. I realize this is short notice, but if you all want to do so, I'm game. I'll probably still be here. It's up to you guys

Re: [uug] How can I find out what kind of *nix box it is

2006-03-08 Thread Lloyd Brown
-UX says "HP-UX"; etc. If the output is not clear enough, I usually try the "-a" parameter. If that doesn't help, post again, and we can probably help. Lloyd Brown Michael Moore wrote: > Hi, > > At work I test this product on a bunch of types of servers. Many of &g

[uug] Student Job Opportunity

2006-01-27 Thread Lloyd Brown
nt below is from the official job listing. Thanks, Lloyd Brown Job Description: This position will perform general system administration of BYU supercomputers. This will include: - system monitoring, user management, software installations, troubleshooting - contact and work with technical

[uug] disconnected network file systems

2006-01-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
just about every OS known to man, but I can't figure out if it can handle disconnected operation well or not. Both Coda and InterMezzo seem to handle disconnected operation, but both have a reputation for being a little unstable. If anyone could shed some light here, I'd appreciate it. Than

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