Re: [SLUG] subversion
Peter Miller wrote: I'm trying to get a svn commit --non-interactive command to work automatically in the background from a script. But svn barfs, saying svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: Can't get password It doesn't fail when I run the script in the foreground. What is the correct way to do this? thats really strange, but have you tried to supply the username/password at the command line? there is an parameter for each of them and this should work. svn uses an authentication cache stored in the subdir ~/.subversion/auth/ in the users homedir. is there a corresponding cache file (usually in the dir svn.simple)? br, gottfried -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wireless VoIP emergency communications ..
Hmm .. it helps to have the resources of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD behind you in an emergency. Fyi, Adam Bogacki. - Forwarded message from UCSD University Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] - X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: UCSD University Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: San Diego Supercomputer Team Backs Firefighters in Recent To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: UCSD University Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] Horse The following news release and any accompanying images can be accessed on the web at http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/hpwren06.asp. 3 August 2006 Comment: Hans-Werner Braun, 760-788-6687 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank Vernon, 858-534-5537 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Media Contact: Paul K. Mueller, 858-534-8564 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Diego Supercomputer Team Backs Firefighters in Recent Horse Wildfires Firefighters facing fast-spreading wildfires, especially in remote areas where communications and other resources are scarce, can now add cyberinfrastructure to their firefighting arsenals. Such combined hardware and software proved useful in the recent Horse Fire in California's Cleveland National Forest, when experts from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, responded to the urgent request of state firefighters for quick and reliable wireless communication among widespread teams. That communication was speedily provided by the High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), a resource supported by the National Science Foundation and staffed by researchers at the SDSC, UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), and San Diego State University. Within a day, SDSC experts were on the scene, establishing high-speed wireless data links. HPWREN teams are no strangers to wildfires and catastrophes, but this was the first time that vital communication lifelines used Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) technology - allowing wireless links from the Horse Fire command post to the Internet and to deployed firefighting teams. Hans-Werner Braun, principal investigator on the program, and SIO seismologist Frank Vernon, co-principal investigator, lead the SDSC effort for HPWREN, and both recognize the value of cyberinfrastructure in responding to crises. Reliable communication is absolutely essential in emergencies and disasters, said Braun, especially when response teams may be spread over a wide area, where some forms of communication aren't available or won't work. The wireless links to the Internet we provide through the HPWREN collaboration can keep everybody talking and responding effectively - a practical, lifesaving application of our research that we find especially gratifying. Vernon agrees. Although our primary roles are research and education, very important in themselves, we never forget that the ultimate aim of science, scholarship and study is improving people's lives - sometimes even saving lives. To help support the firefighter's command post, the HPWREN team worked closely with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the U.S. Forest Service, Viejas tribal leaders, and the San Diego Sheriff's Department. The HPWREN team's contributions to the fire-fighting effort did not go unnoticed. The National Science Foundation featured the team on its news page, in a story titled Communication Team Erects Lifeline for Firefighters Battling California Wildfire (available here: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=107121org=OLPA), footage of the fire and its fighters has been broadcast regionally, and Braun has been interviewed by local television reporters about the participation of the SDSC and HPWREN staffers. Network connectivity, VoIP, and other technologies - backed up by the phenomenal computing resources available at the SDSC - give firefighters and other first responders fast, reliable tools in a crisis. High-performance wireless technology helps them work smarter and better - and that benefits everybody. UCSD news on the web at http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu. - End forwarded message - signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mirror.cse debian gpg key?
Hi all, Anyone else use the mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au Debian apt repository and getting WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! ? Any ideas where to get the GPG key for that repository? I've installed debian-archive-keyring to no avail. I know I could always just --allow-unauthenticated... Rgds, Ian. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] reading mail logs
I'm trying to understand some mail messages stuck in my Postfix mail queue; koala's mail scripts pick up a default sender as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', but, there is no such user or mail account on koala; is this what's happening here: during attempted delivery to server at mail3.y.com.au, y.com.au is doing a lookup on koala for user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', and, refuses to accept mail as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' doesn't exist ? - Aug 1 05:09:52 koala postfix/smtp[15877]: 746B02388A8: host mail3.y.com.au [202.83.176.16] said: 450 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sender address rejected: undeliverable address: host koala.sbt.net.au[203.42.34.54] said: 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table (in reply to RCPT TO command) (in reply to RCPT TO command) Aug 1 05:09:55 koala postfix/smtp[15877]: 746B02388A8: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED] .au, relay=mail2.y.com.au[202.83.176.13], delay=6, status=deferred (host mail2.y.com.au[202.83.176.13] said: 450 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sender address rejected: undeliverable address: host koala.sbt.net.au[203.42.34.54] said: 550 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual mailbox table (in reply to RCPT TO command) (in reply to RCPT TO command)) Aug 1 05:30:28 koala postfix/qmgr[12973]: 746B02388A8: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED] , size=9905, nrcpt=1 (queue active) - -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mirror.cse debian gpg key?
Ian Su wrote: Hi all, Anyone else use the mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au Debian apt repository and getting WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! No help, just a data point. I use it for debian sid and etch and don't have this problem. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mirror.cse debian gpg key?
Ian Su wrote: Hi all, Anyone else use the mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au I'm not, however ... Debian apt repository and getting WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! Any ideas where to get the GPG key for that repository? I've installed debian-archive-keyring to no avail. Did you do an apt-get update after installing debian-archive-keyring? This seems to be a necessary step. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ An older MS internal whitepaper from August 2000 on switching Hotmail, which MS acquired in 1997, from front-end servers running FreeBSD and back-end database servers running Solaris to a whole farm running Win2K, reads like a veritable sales brochure for UNIX -- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28226.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mirror.cse debian gpg key?
Erik de Castro Lopo said: Ian Su wrote: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! Any ideas where to get the GPG key for that repository? I've installed debian-archive-keyring to no avail. Did you do an apt-get update after installing debian-archive-keyring? This seems to be a necessary step. This worked! I feel stupid now. Thanks :) Ian. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [chat] Dual boot problem
Moving this to SLUG (where it should be...) When you install windows on the second hard drive, it will wipe grub off the MBR. You'll need to use a live cd to boot into linux to restore grub to the MBR. The only difference between the single hard drive and dual hard drive dual boot will be one letter (hdb instead of hda for windows) or one number in the case of grub (hd1, instead of hd0) It's all very simular. On 8/4/06, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend who has two hard drives. He has Ubuntu on the main one and wants to install Windows on the second. Question is: what does he need to do after installing Windows? What does he need to do to make sure that Grub recognises both systems so that he can choose on startup? Does anyone know a simple How-to for this? The dual boot how-tos that I have found all presume a single hard drive. Thanks for any help, Alan -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Menno Schaaf aka ginji irc.austnet.org #gentoo #linux-help -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Copy and Paste
All, I'm becoming increasingly frustrated at the copy and paste behaviour of my linux desktops. Sometimes I can press ctrl-v to paste, other times a middle-click will work, sometimes the two behaviours both work but do different things. I don't really see the pattern. I understand that this is because GTK and X use different copy and paste mechanisms. What I want to know is: Is there any way to make this behaviour more consistent? Can I disable one of (either of) these mechanisms, so that it works one way, all the time? Can I synchronise them? What's the best thing to do? Thanks, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [chat] Dual boot problem
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:02:25 +1000 Menno Schaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moving this to SLUG (where it should be...) I blame it on auto-completion in my mail client :) When you install windows on the second hard drive, it will wipe grub off the MBR. You'll need to use a live cd to boot into linux to restore grub to the MBR. The only difference between the single hard drive and dual hard drive dual boot will be one letter (hdb instead of hda for windows) or one number in the case of grub (hd1, instead of hd0) It's all very simular. Thanks Menno. Is there any trick to restoring grub? I haven't dual booted since god-knows-when and the friend I'm advising is no guru (to say the least). Anything I need to warn him about? On 8/4/06, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a friend who has two hard drives. He has Ubuntu on the main one and wants to install Windows on the second. Question is: what does he need to do after installing Windows? What does he need to do to make sure that Grub recognises both systems so that he can choose on startup? Does anyone know a simple How-to for this? The dual boot how-tos that I have found all presume a single hard drive. Thanks for any help, Alan -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Menno Schaaf aka ginji irc.austnet.org #gentoo #linux-help -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Copy and Paste
quote who=James Gregory I'm becoming increasingly frustrated at the copy and paste behaviour of my linux desktops. Sometimes I can press ctrl-v to paste, other times a middle-click will work, sometimes the two behaviours both work but do different things. I don't really see the pattern. I understand that this is because GTK and X use different copy and paste mechanisms. No, it's nothing between GTK+ and X - there *are* two copy and paste mechanisms in X, but some clients do things differently to others. So consistency has been pretty badly sabotaged from the start. What I want to know is: Is there any way to make this behaviour more consistent? Can I disable one of (either of) these mechanisms, so that it works one way, all the time? Can I synchronise them? What's the best thing to do? I'm not going to dive into all the technical hocus pocus of it, because invariably I'll get some reference slightly wrong, so I'll avoid the problem and explain it at a high level [1]. There's a copy action that involves just selecting text. What you know as select and middle click is this one. There's another copy action that works the same way as Windows does. It is usually invoked with Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V (and menu items to that effect). The problem lies in the storage of these two copy actions, and the way different clients make copies. Really annoying clients will use both at the same time, so if you Ctrl-C and then select some text, the selected text will be pasted by the next client. That is infuriating when it happens, and is difficult to figure out unless you know you're looking for exactly this inconsistency. Then there's the whole copy text and close program... paste to find nothing is there problem, which is the inspiration behind so many (really stupid) clipboard servers that grind your machine to a halt when you copy a 1 cell spreadsheet. Gar. - Jeff [1] What I'm explaining is the difference between the PRIMARY and SECONDARY selections and the CLIPBOARD. -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ I think we agnostics need a term for a holy war too. I feel all left out. - George Lebl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] reading mail logs
quote who=Voytek Eymont is this what's happening here: during attempted delivery to server at mail3.y.com.au, y.com.au is doing a lookup on koala for user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', and, refuses to accept mail as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' doesn't exist ? Yes, you've turned on sender address verification (SAV). Be careful with that. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Building a Kernel is a requirement for Securing Servers. - Oscar Plameras -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] reading mail logs
On Fri, August 4, 2006 1:53 pm, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Voytek Eymont during attempted delivery to server at mail3.y.com.au, y.com.au is doing a lookup on koala for user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', and, refuses to accept mail as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' doesn't exist ? Yes, you've turned on sender address verification (SAV). Be careful with that. no, my server is the the sender, it's the target sender that has SAV though, I guess your comment Be careful with that confirms what I thought. -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] reading mail logs
quote who=Voytek Eymont Yes, you've turned on sender address verification (SAV). Be careful with that. no, my server is the the sender, it's the target sender that has SAV though, I guess your comment Be careful with that confirms what I thought. Yeah, the SAV wooden spoon is sharp on *both* sides. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ What do you give a bird when it has a headache? Parakeetamol. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
