Re: [Scottish] Computer recycling
Marcel Hecko wrote: > Where about do you live? > We recycle PC in Aberdeen, install Linux on them and give them to the > people in regeneration areas of the city. > Yeah, sorry, should have said. I live in Helensburgh. Can get stuff to Glasgow or maybe Edinburgh or Stirling area, since I'm taking some stuff to my folks in North-East England. Adam -- "I thought cars were the dominant species on your planet and I was just trying to introduce myself" Ford Prefect Use encrypted email! Get my GPG public key at www.conways.name ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Computer recycling
Hi, I'm about to move house, and looking to get rid of my ancient (P200!) desktop, which has been serving as a printer server only recently. If anyone wants it (OS free, since I'd wipe the disk before passing it on) then they're welcome to it (everything works except the bios battery!). If no-one does then I'll probably keep the hard disk and get rid of the rest and wondered if there was a computer recycling place anywhere I could take it to instead of the tip? Adam -- "I thought cars were the dominant species on your planet and I was just trying to introduce myself" Ford Prefect Use encrypted email! Get my GPG public key at www.conways.name ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Mobile phone internet connections
Hi, I'm involved with organising an event at the end of the month. I need to find a way to get a list of names from an office (an hour outside Glasgow) to a hall (in Glasgow). We'll need to do this maybe up to about six times, all on the one day. We haven't done this for a couple of years. We used to just fax the list to the wardens office in Glasgow, but we're using a different venue this year and that may not be an option. I don't have a large budget, but could spend a small amount. What I'd hoped was that I'd be able to get a pcmcia card which I could put my sim card in and make an old-fashioned, dial-up connection. (I'd set up a special email account for this purpose so I'd only be downloading what I need so connection speed really isn't an issue but I need to avoid getting in to any sort of ongoing contract!) My problem is that no-one seems interested anymore unless it's broadband! Also, I'd like to be able to do it all from Linux! (I do have an unused XP boot option on my laptop if I have to, but I'd like to stick with my nice Slackware system.) So, does anyone have any pointers? Has anyone ever got a pcmcia mobile phone based modem working on Linux? (Does anyone have an old one they've since upgraded to broadband which they'd be prepared to sell on? Long shot I know, but if you don't ask...) Adam -- "I thought cars were the dominant species on your planet and I was just trying to introduce myself" Ford Prefect Use encrypted email! Get my GPG public key at www.conways.name ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Advice needed about a Perl/Apache interaction
Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.2.1-0.dotdeb.1 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_perl/1.999.21 Perl/v5.8.4 And just so you know, that version of mod_perl is ancient (looks like it was released January 22, 2005). There were major changes that took place between mod_perl 1 and 2 so it probably wouldn't hurt to see if you can get that upgraded. Ignore that, just re-read that you were running it has a cgi script so mod_perl shouldn't affect anything. -Adam Batkin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Advice needed about a Perl/Apache interaction
Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/5.2.1-0.dotdeb.1 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_perl/1.999.21 Perl/v5.8.4 And just so you know, that version of mod_perl is ancient (looks like it was released January 22, 2005). There were major changes that took place between mod_perl 1 and 2 so it probably wouldn't hurt to see if you can get that upgraded. -Adam Batkin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] GPG problem
Hi, I have a file on my hard disk with passwords for various websites I manage, email lists, email addresses, etc. The file is encrypted with GPG. I use the built-in editor in KGPG to decrypt the file, view or edit it and then encrypt it again. Today I go to look up a password and it won't decrypt! All it says is "Decryption failed." and when I click for details it says "[GNUPG:] NODATA 3" If I try gpg --decrypt filename I get gpg: CRC error; ab4925 - cbb02b gpg: encrypted_mdc packet with unknown version 255 Now, I have two questions: 1) Is there anything I can do to restore the file? 2) How could it have got corrupted? I hadn't edited the file since I last used it and, to my untrained eye, it still looks like an encrypted file. (The only slightly odd thing is that one line halfway through the file is only 1/3 the length of all the others.) Any help gratefully received. I can't remember all the passwords and may be able to get them back but may not... Adam PS: In case it's relevant: Slackware 10 based system with 2.6.14 kernel. GnuPG v1.2.4 KGPG 1.1.2 KDE 3.5.1 -- "I thought cars were the dominant species on your planet and I was just trying to introduce myself" Ford Prefect Use encrypted email! Get my GPG public key at www.conways.name ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Rides from Glasgow to Eben Moglen lecture this evening
Anyone driving from the Glasgow area to Edinburgh for the lecture this evening? I'm planning on going but apparently the railways can't handle a little rain so I'm trying to avoid mass-transit. I'd be be happy to help pay for gas, etc... Thanks, -Adam Batkin ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: Fwd: rpmdb: DB.LOCK
If you don't have any valuable data on the disk, you can ask e2fsck to run the badblocks program to check for bad physical blocks on the filesystem. See man e2fsck for more information. The Fedora CDs have a pretty good rescue mode which should do the trick at least for doing filesystem checks. Don't forget to add -f to e2fsck since it might "think" the filesystem is clean and decide not to check any further. -Adam Batkin Peter George wrote: Bizarrely not seeing my own posts hitting either list, or anyone's replies. :-( Anyway, fsck from Kmoppix on /dev/sda1 & /dev/sda3 show OK. QTparted shows; /dev/sda /dev/sda1 ext3 101Mb /boot /dev/sda2 linux-swap 508Mb /dev/sda3 ext3 *Mb / I'm going to try another FC6 install, testing the media this time. What other disk testing/formatting tools can I try from Linux rescue disk or Knoppix? P On 08/03/07, Peter George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Funny, not seeing my own posts to the lists or any responses. Gmail. Thanks for the tips Dan, I got some ideas of things to try off #scotlug. Will post when fixed, citing what helped. On 08/03/07, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:45:22PM +, Peter George wrote: > > > Are my posts getting through to EdLug and ScotLug? (See below). > > Yep, saw them both (suggestion: pls Cc in future to help remind each > that the other exists.) > > You're best off dropping in to #scotlug and asking online. > > Personally I'd start the install and then verify the various steps > manually as they happen in another console. Definitely don't believe any > errors a GUI shows you -- but that's ok because we get access to quite a > bit of the guts anyway. I guess you ran an example rpm command > manually, what did it say? > > You have checked fundamental stuff have you? Like booting with a LiveCD > from the same distro and version number to see if there is a fundamental > no likee hardware. > > If any of these suggestions have helped please tell the lists so it gets > archived for other people (otherwise my writing is wasted :-) > > > How did you get on with Sarah? > > Well, in the sense that we don't hate each other, she's sure I can help > her in her business including at the earliest stages, and now she has to > decide if she's going to proceed and if so how. She's busy writing an > unrelated book for the next couple of weeks tho. > > Thanks for the intro, and I've already mentioned how at one level there > could be a tie in between what she'd like to do and what you've told me > you'd like to do. Eg giving you R&D ready-cooked for running courses. > > D > -- Peter George Net Resources Ltd 26 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, EH12 5AL, UK T: +44 (0)131 477 7127 F: +44 (0)131 477 7126 http://www.netresources.co.uk ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation
Robert Barbour wrote: > If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be > preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? > In my personal experience going from a .0 to a .1 or rc1 to rc2 etc seems to run smoothly but upgrading by a full number can go horribly wrong depending on your setup, probably best to take a backup of anything critical in case it goes pear shaped. Ive never used Mandrake again since that ill fated incident :o) Cheers Adam ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] USB memory sticks and SuSE 9.3
Colin McKinnon wrote: Hi Robert, On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:54, Robert Barbour wrote: The only indication I can find that the USB port is detected is when I go into system information and it tells me the name of the memory stick - presumably this is the 'volume label' allocated by the friend who provided the stick. So the physical hardware seems to be working OK. (on my SuSE 10 box, and IIRC SuSE 9.1, I can hot plug USB memory cards - the system automaticaly mounts them). What does mount show? What happens when you try to manually mount the disk (typically it will be mapped to the first free SCSI device - e.g. /dev/sda)? Try watching /var/log/messages while you plug it in (open a konsole window and type in su (your root password) tail -f /var/log/messages Can you access the disk from a different machine / a different operating system? Since your machine is detecting the disk, this rather suggests that it doesn't like the format of the disk (IIRC this came up on the list about a year ago - the poster resolved the problem by reformatting as a DOS disk). Mines uses fat32 and Ive yet to find a distro that wont read it, its been a while since I used Suse but on Fedora it automatically mounts in media and not in mnt. But if it isnt mounting it properly you can also try adding a line into /etc/fstab with the details and manually mounting it, I could explain a bit better but my head hurts too much from the new year ;o) Cheers Adam ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question
William Hamilton wrote: > Steve Logan wrote: > > >>After lurking for some years now it's time to come out of the closet... >> >>I've just set up my first serious Linux machine, a PIII 500 running >>SuSe Professional 9.1. Installation went OK and it's now up and >>running ready for me to play around with Apache/Tomcat (which is why I >>want it). >> >>Here's my question - >> >>I use WinXP for most of my development work and want an easy way of >>copying files to and from the SuSe box. I've correctly set up Samba >>client and server on the SuSe box, or at least I think I have. >> >>From the Suse box I can see my Win2003 network and copy files across. >>So that direction works fine. >> >>From my XP box I enter the IP address of the Suse box in 'My Computer' >>and I get back a list of things - 'groups', 'profiles', 'users' and >>'Printers and Faxes'. When I click on, say, users I'm asked to login. >>Here's where my problem starts. I enter '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' as the >>'User name' and enter my password (I have already set up an account on >>the SuSe box called steve and I can login fine at the Suse machine) >>but I'm not logged in. I've tried all sorts of permutations and >>combinations for the user name but I'm stumped. >> >>I presume I'm doing something daft. The suse box is called >>'cactuslinux' and there is an account called 'steve'. >> >>Help!? >> >>Thanks >> >>Steve >> > > Ah, you dont need to use the machine name when you login. > > Also, as far as I know you need to add a samba user for the Windows box > to authenticate against. > Unfortunatly I cannot be more helpful than this - I haven't used samba > in quite a while but i'm sure someone else will be able to help nps. > > Basically yes, your doing something daft but it's a common thing and one > that actually stumped me for a while when I first started using samba :) > > ___ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > > Time to stop lurking for me as well and maybe contribute, I had a similiar problem recently between Fedora and XP and all I done was edit my smb.cnf file to the windows workgroup and it worked fine but I also found that iptables was stopping incoming connections as well so it may be worth checking iptables or switching it off for the duration of testing if it is installed and running. Cheers Adam H ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Slightly OT: hardware problem
The problems with shut down happen when I mess around with the apm setting in the kernel - perhaps you don't have the best chipset chosen for your machine? On Sunday 19 Jan 2003 17:38, Paul Millar wrote: | On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, george wrote: | > The case has a 300w PSU. | | c.f. | http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20021021/ | ;^) | | > I am leaning towatd it being a problem with the HD. | | If you suspect your HD, try using SMART (insert oblig. pun ;) Have a look | at |http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ | | HTH | | Paul. | | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | -- Particle Physics (Theory & Experimental) GroupsDr Paul | Millar Department of Physics and Astronomy | [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Glasgow | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland | http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm +44 (0)141 330 4717A54C A9FC | 6A77 1664 2E4E 90E3 FFD2 704B BF0F 03E9 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- | | | ___ | Scottish mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
