Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Del
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Del Someone asked me today, as they often ask me about things Linux, if I had a Linux replacement for their favourite journal app that they run on their (windows) PC. I asked what that journal app did, and was told: You can set it to track when you open files of

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Daniel Pittman
Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org writes: quote who=Del Someone asked me today, as they often ask me about things Linux, if I had a Linux replacement for their favourite journal app that they run on their (windows) PC. I asked what that journal app did, and was told: You can set it to track

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Chubb
Del == Del d...@babel.com.au writes: Del Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Del Someone asked me today, as they often ask me about things Linux, if I had a Linux replacement for their favourite journal app that they run on their (windows) PC. I asked what that journal app did, and was told:

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-14 Thread Nick Andrew
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:27:13PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: I don't really understand how the [^] followed by the * works but it does. any character which is not an ampersand repeated zero or more times. So it matches () () (a) (a) (aaa...) (aaa...) Where the stuff inside () is what's being

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-14 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 14/07/2010, at 13:27, Peter Rundle pe...@aerodonetix.com.au wrote: P.S I didn't understand Lindsay's question about doing the replace. I'm replacing the arg with nothing, I.E I just want to remove the pg= argument from the string. Didn't know what you were replacing your match with,

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
The equivalent on MacOS is Time Machine, as I understand it (which is not very much as I don't understand Macs at all), but I'm not aware of any Linux application that does this either. I like Peter's idea of using inotify though, you could whip up a 10 liner with the python language bindings to

Re: [SLUG] Adaptec RAID problems

2010-07-14 Thread Robert Barnett
Thanks for your persistence Ben, I reduced the size of the array to a 2Gb RAID 1 and experienced the same problem. I've worked out that I can load more recent firmware using a more recent version of Sun Common Array Manager. The firmware load failed in RHEL so I'll have to wait until Sun has

[SLUG] RE: Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-14 Thread Bill Donoghoe
I have found the following on-line tool useful for debugging regular expressions. The regular expression is applied to the content of the text box so you get feedback on what is being matched by each part of the expression. http://gskinner.com/RegExr/ To quote from the description of the tool

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 15 July 2010 02:10, Jamie Wilkinson j...@spacepants.org wrote: The equivalent on MacOS is Time Machine, as I understand it (which is not very much as I don't understand Macs at all), but I'm not aware of any Linux application that does this either.  I like Peter's idea of using inotify

Re: [SLUG] Adaptec RAID problems

2010-07-14 Thread Nick Andrew
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 05:53:13AM +0800, Robert Barnett wrote: Thanks for your persistence Ben, I reduced the size of the array to a 2Gb RAID 1 and experienced the same problem. I've worked out that I can load more recent firmware using a more recent version of Sun Common Array Manager.

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Rundle
Thanks Nick, What I didn't know was that ^ inside brackets [] means not. I was still reading ^ as beginning of string. That will be very very useful in future. Thanks Pete Nick Andrew wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:27:13PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: I don't really understand how the

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:06:17PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: You could do this with inotify, with `just a few' scripts around it. Related: http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ drives rsyncing with inotify. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Jake Anderson
On 15/07/10 14:10, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:06:17PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: You could do this with inotify, with `just a few' scripts around it. Related: http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ drives rsyncing with inotify. Actually that looks like a fairly

Re: [SLUG] Adaptec RAID problems

2010-07-14 Thread Robert Barnett
Hi Nick, Actually, I originally had 5x1Tb in a LVM group and that suited me fine. The HBA didn't support RAID for some reason. The only problem was that Fedora 11 udev tended to timeout when attempting to detect the individual disks. The only way to solve the problem was to plug in the SAS