Re: [SLUG] Wiki suggestions?
On 21 September 2015 at 13:59, James Gray <ja...@gray.net.au> wrote: > I wouldn't describe Confluence as a true wiki any more. They ripped out the > Wiki syntax for editing while ago. The wiki syntax is still supported for > creating documents via API. Confluence is probably best described as an > "Documentation Collaboration" product now. Don't get me wrong; it's still > bloody good at what it does but it isn't a wiki in the strictest sense. If > having the ability to edit plain text offline and be able to dump it into > Confluence and have it formatted nicely, then Confluence isn't the best > option (things may have changed and happy to be corrected here!). We've already got a Confluence instance for the "inside" - but I (the business) don't want to put that on the Internet, as it has a lot of very proprietary information on it -and we don;t want to pay for another one - hence the search for free version for the "outside" Wiki (which will be much less detailed and simpler). > I've always just ended up with MediaWIKI > (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki) but there are simpler options > obviously. I've actually got an instance of that up and running - but getting it talking to AD for authentication is proving problematic - and I don't have the resources to dig into it properly. I'll keep investigating - maybe I can find one which is point and click. :) Thanks for your input. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wiki suggestions?
Learned ones,. I'm looking for a Wiki to setup for the company to make available to contractors semi-private documents I don't mind if I have to pay a little for it, but open source would be most excellent. So, I'm looking for suggestions for some form of Wiki. I'd like 1) Secure - two levels of access (view/edit) 2) Lightweight 3) Linux (obviously, 'cause f**k paying Microsoft tax where I don't have to) It'd be nice if I could integrate it with AD (or at least LDAP query for usernames/passwords), but that's not critical. It'd also be nice if I could put some kind of skin or theme on it customised by the marketing nazi's to make it look all company-ie. Any suggestions? Thanks. DaZZa -- 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] the curious case of the inaccessible websites
What browser? Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and others like Silverlight) were unsecured, and the simply stopped allowing the plugins to work. Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of them, all being blamed on the firewall, or the network. I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm mobile, but try a different browser and see if that helps. DaZZa On 08/06/2015 3:24 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I have a business ethernet internet connection from a TPG reseller. Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible from local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser is waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get the same problem with different browsers. Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't tell what. Some google responses work and some don't. For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some such. I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I don't think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their suggestion I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody have any thoughts? David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.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] Speech recognition
Dragon is pretty much the industry benchmark. There's nothing ever that comes close - and believe me, the company I work for tries everything which comes on the market. It's not perfect - nothing is - but if you work at it, you *can* train it to probably 98% accuracy. They *do* have an SDK, from which you could *possibly* write something native for Linux - but it'd need to be developed on Windoze and ported, because everything native they have is designed for it. DaZZa On 29/01/2015 5:10 PM, William Bennett wrbennet...@gmail.com wrote: I was looking for some speech recognition software for use with Ubuntu. I was told not to overlook Dragon's package, running under WINE. Also one called palaver. And some others. Has anybody any experience of this type of software? William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.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] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's
On 12 November 2014 15:54, Patrick Shirkey pshir...@boosthardware.com wrote: Did you enable the M$ UEFI rootkit or are you using the normal/traditional BIOS? Couldn't get them to boot in legacy mode (they didn't see the storage as a disk), so I had to use UEFI mode. BTW, I installed Debian 7.0 on a NUC. It worked fine except for the wifi driver needing some personal care. That issue might have been fixed with a newer version of Debian 7.4 that has a more recent kernel. Yeah, I believe the latest version of CentOS will install as well - I just didn't have it, and downloading the desktop version of Ubuntu was smaller. :-) DaZZa -- 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] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's
On 13 November 2014 12:25, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: I’ve booted ubuntu, suse and arch on the atom, i3 and i5 versions. It’s easy but fiddly … First start with a blank disk. I dd if=/dev/zero because the efi partition is a bitch. I *have* dualbooted Win7 and linux but it is really not easy (I do the same install multiple times, it sometimes works) I’ve read, but not tried, that you must install from mem stick, cd rom will not work. The install wasn't really the problem (once I got a version of Linux and the BIOS updated) - just cloning it. I think it came down to the UEFI stuff not liking being cloned. Thanks DaZZa -- 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] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's
On 17 November 2014 12:22, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: The install wasn't really the problem (once I got a version of Linux and the BIOS updated) - just cloning it. I think it came down to the UEFI stuff not liking being cloned. I have dd’d A disk in and out succesfully but even 2 samsung 120G flash disks are not identical and dd did not work. The whole EFI business is tricky, try lots to get a solution or don’t be innovative. The EFI scheme is not the same across motherboards - my iMac, ASUS and NUCs all are different and need different care. caveat emptor. The dd worked fine - I could pull one storage device out, plug the other one in, and it booted no worries - it was just when I moved them between different NUC's (identical spec, down to BIOS version) that it failed. I was being lazy and trying to save myself doing another install - I ended up costing myself double the time it would have taken to install again in the first place. I have to admit, this is the first time I've come across a UEFI enabled device - live and learn. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's
Long time no post. So I got my hands on two Intel Nuc's for work (nice toys - small and quiet), and that other OS everyone seems to love didn't want to install on the USB disk which was stuck in them, the decision was made to go to Linux. A bit of research showed me that Ubuntu was about the only install which would painlessly go onto these things (after a BIOS upgrade), so despite my habitual distaste for Ubuntu, I downloaded a copy and installed it on the first one - all cool, boots up, able to customise it to do what I want, cool bananas. This is where is gets weird. I then proceeded to copy the USB key being used a disk using DD (to save having to customise the second one all over again). All apparently worked, both keys booted the box no worries - so I took one of them and stuck it into the second Nuc. And it flat out refused to boot. Nada. Get nicked. I thought I must have stuffed up the image - but both disks booted the first device fine. After scratching my head for a few hours and trying every BIOS option I could find, I decided to try a fresh install from the CD onto the new device - and stuff me if it didn't work. Now I'm at the point where one disk will boot on one device but not on the other. Has anyone come across this before? Is it something specific to Ubuntu, or is it the stupid SecureBoot crap (which was turned off, by the way) they put into the BIOS for these things doing *something* to the disk to make the second device not recognise it? Not really an issue, because I've fixed them so they both boot now - but I'm intensely curious as to *why* this happened. DaZZa -- veg·e·tar·i·an: Ancient tribal slang for the village idiot who can't hunt, fish or ride -- 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] Weird behaviour of Intel Nuc's
On 12 November 2014 15:25, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: On 12/11/14 15:13, DaZZa wrote: Has anyone come across this before? Is it something specific to Ubuntu, or is it the stupid SecureBoot crap (which was turned off, by the way) they put into the BIOS for these things doing *something* to the disk to make the second device not recognise it? Not really an issue, because I've fixed them so they both boot now - but I'm intensely curious as to *why* this happened. I have no idea aboot secure boot, it might be the problem, no idea. I have seen a linux appliance that wouldn't work after being dd'd because the mac address changed and the ethernet device became eth1, and the appliance had hard coded eth0 in it. I can't see how that would matter in this scenario, but thought I would mention it. It didn't even get as far as loading the NIC drivers - I coulda sorted that - it just wouldn't even see the disk as a valid boot device. It's just strange - I can't understand why it would boot off the disk' in one device but not the other when they are otherwise identical. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Bi-directional rsync?
Learned ones! To overcome some crappy web design (two servers, load balanced, no shared storage), I need to implement rsync to synchronise a directory between two servers. Trouble is, it's got to be a two way sync. I.E. File uploaded to web server 1 (don't ask - I told you it was crap web design) needs to be available to download from web server 2 if necessary for future sessions - I.E. I've got to copy the file from server 1 to server 2 in short order (sub 5 minutes). I've ALSO got to do the same from server 2 back to server 1 - so if the incoming upload goes to server 2, it's got to be copied back to server 1. Currently, I've got rsync running on both servers every 5 minutes and synchronising files from 1 to 2, and from 2 to 1. I'd like to just do this in once process - run rsync on server 1, have it connect to server 2 and pull/push all files until the directories match. I don't know if this is even possible with rsync - and if so, I don't know the options required to make it work. The current command being used is rsync -v -rlt directories Can anyone suggest a better option set which could make this a two way sync by just running on the one server? Thanks. DaZZa -- 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] Bi-directional rsync?
On 14 May 2013 09:34, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: rsync -v -rlt directories Can anyone suggest a better option set which could make this a two way sync by just running on the one server? You can run rsync twice on the one server rsync -options server1:/dir1 /dir1 rsync -options /dir1 server1:/dir1 You know, I never thought of that. Guess this shows how often I use rsync, huh? I didn't realise I could pull and push from the same machine. :-) Thanks - will investigate that too. DaZZa -- 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] 20 years of using Linux at home
On 6 April 2013 13:50, Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au wrote: By coincidence there is a Linux link to Annandale Anthony Rumble (St Aidan's Niches) http://ramin.com.au/annandale/history.shtml Vale, Anthony. Anthony was the one who first turned me on to Linux. I remember taking the piss out of him when I was still running my BBS on OS/2 and he was spruking Linux (geeze, must have been more than 20 years ago now). Couple of years later, when IBM cast OS/2 to the scrapheap, I thought I'll give this Linux stuff a try - can't quite recall if my first distro was Yggrdasil or an early Slackware. Those were the days. DaZZa -- 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] Importing new SNMP MIB's
On 19 March 2013 17:42, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: Use those options above, and if it works, then you might have a typo in the snmp config file, or maybe it's in the wrong location. strace -o /tmp/snmpwalk.out snmpwalk blah to see what config file it's trying to open. strace might give me some hints - I'll work on this when I have a bit more time. Thanks for the suggestion! DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Importing new SNMP MIB's
Folks. I've got a monitoring server (CentOS 5.9) that I want to add some vendor-specific MIB's to for SNMP to use. I've put the MIB's in /usr/share/snmp/mibs (which is where all the default ones are located) and modified (created) /etc/snmp/snmp.conf) to include the new MIB names, however I don't seem to be able to get snmpwalk (or net:snmp) to use them. Is there some magic I'm missing somewhere to get the system to recognise the new MIB's? Thanks. DaZZa -- I have to stop saying 'How stupid can you be? I think people are starting to take it as a challenge! -- 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] ISP Recommendation
On 7 February 2013 15:34, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: On 07/02/2013, at 9:00 AM, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: I can't speak highly enough of iinet - good support, not too expensive (although, to be honest, you need to bundle to get the most out of their plans), Aussie company. Well worth looking at. Dazza sorry to disagree with you again :-) Don't be sorry. The day my comments are accepted as gospel is the day I shall go out and top myself! :-) 3 times in the last 10 years my ISP has been bought by iinet and each time I've moved on ... iinet DO speak english they are aware eg they know linux exists they do provide good service but my phone battery has gone flat waiting for their help desk many times my monthly usage (over the years) has been double, 20-50G, instead of the 1-10G with every body else I can't comment on either of those - my usage has only ever gone over my monthly limit once (when I discovered the joys of torrenting, erm, excessive downloading), and I've never had to wait more than 5-10 minutes for support. I've dealt with many, many worse! DaZZa -- 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] ISP Recommendation
On 06/02/2013 1:47 PM, gonzo01 gonz...@fastmail.fm wrote: Experiences/recommendations appreciated. I can't speak highly enough of iinet - good support, not too expensive (although, to be honest, you need to bundle to get the most out of their plans), Aussie company. Well worth looking at. DaZZa -- 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] DIY Linux Supercomputer
[Deleted] 5 lines out quote, *35* lines of bullshit self-advertising and some whitespace for a *ONE WORD* response? Someone hit this guy repeatedly with the email netiquette clue stick, please! ! DaZZa - woken from list slumber in disbelief -- 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] bringing down runaway samba process ?
On 8 July 2012 16:37, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I have QNAP NAS running disk for security cameras, it was setup as snb access, it has been in service for over a year, no issues just had a look, it seems since about 2 weeks ago, it's running 100% cpu I've tried to 'kill 20450' but it's not killing it, what else can I do short of rebooting it ? kill -9 20450 You can also try kill -2 or kill -3 which is are *quite* so drastic - kill -9 should stop the process immediately, but you will lose unflushed data. Cheers. DaZZa -- I have to stop saying 'How stupid can you be? I think people are starting to take it as a challenge! -- 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] iTunes on linux
On 9 April 2012 09:52, David da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: My wife wants to ditch her iBook and go back to linux but she is tied to iTunes and the iPad/iPhone ecosystem. Is there an *effective* linux substitute for iTunes, including the ability to sync devices? Run it under WINE? http://www.ehow.com/how_5197743_download-itunes-linux-ubuntu.html Or have a look at this (rambles a bit, so I didn't go through it too much) http://www.ituneslinux.org/ DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Unit - (was [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10)
On 20 October 2011 19:10, Rod Butcher rbutc...@hyenainternet.com wrote: Me too.. worrying new trend in Linux - wreck the old reliable user interface that folks have rusted onto, without asking them their opinion, force them to adapt to better interfaces with superior funtionality, usability etc... the old interface is rumoured to still be possible, but nobody has managed to do it... this happens with commercial software for financial reasons which should not apply to opensource. Good heavens, anyone would think Microsoft had taken over Linux development! DaZZa -- 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] Reputable notebook repairer?
On 12 October 2011 14:36, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: I've used Safemode computers -- they pick up and deliver for free for most of Sydney. www.safemode.com.au But unless you have a really high-end laptop, it's probably cheaper to buy a new one. Keep an eye out on http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/shop/laptop-of-the-day/laptop-of-the-day until you see what you like. Yesterday they had 15.6 HP core-i3 laptops for under $500, and a repair will cost you at least $300, mostly in labour costs. I echo what Peter has said here - the price of laptops these days is so low that repairing anything but a serious, high-end business grade machine if it's not under warranty just isn't worth the effort. It's cheaper to buy a new one, and you get a new machine warranty to go with it. DaZZa -- 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] Using a Dual SIM Android Smart Phone
Yes. Dick Smith is advertising them (unlocked) in their latest catalogue for somewhere around $250. http://dicksmith.com.au/product/EM5006/huawei-deuce-android-dual-sim-unlocked-mobile or a cheaper, less bells-and-whistles model (doesn't run Android) http://dicksmith.com.au/product/E6830/huawei-g6600d-unlocked-dual-sim-mobile-phone DaZZa On 29 September 2011 12:28, David da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: Can these be used on australian networks? On 29/09/11 12:17, Tom Worthington wrote: I have volunteered to talk on Using a Dual SIM Android Smart Phone at the SLUG meeting this Friday, on: Using a Dual SIM Android Smart Phone by Tom Worthington FACS CP HLM One of the more unusual Google Android smart phones available is the Huawei Deuce U8520, which has provision for two SIM cards and so can be connected to two different mobile phone networks, with two different telephone numbers simultaneously. The benefits and limitations of this and other features will be discussed. See also: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/09/huawei-deuce-u8520-dual-sim-android.html -- David McQuire 0418 310312 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.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] Text to HTML?
On 29 August 2011 10:07, Andrew Hendrik Bootsma and...@ahbit.net wrote: Take a look at Graylog2 for a syslog server:) I just did an install of it on a centos box went fairly smoothly :) Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I decided to give Graylog a go, and while it was a PITA to make work I finally managed it. Of course, the devices being Cisco, and Cisco being Cisco, the message format they're sending is not completely compatible, and I can't (as yet) figure out how to tweak the Cisco config to make it work. If I can't manage to make this work properly, I'll chuck it int he too hard basket and leave it logging to text, then munge up something using text2html or similar. Thank god for VM's - at least I could do this in a pristine environment without risking anything else, and blow it away if I decide I've given it up as a bad joke! :-) DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Text to HTML?
Hi. I'm looking for something that can take a text file and convert it into HTML, possible with some highlighting. I've got some routers reporting to my syslog server on a Linux box, but I want to be able to do a quick scan for bad things without having to SSH to the box and scrolling through the text file. It'd be nice if the files could be put in some form of date order/heading for each tracking (in conjunction with logrotate, maybe) to ensure all that it in the link is one days worth of logs. Anyone know of such a beastie? It's be nice if it was CentOS compatible, since that's what I'm stuck with at work, but if it's source and needs to be compiled, so be it. Thanks. DaZZa -- 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] How do I add a file (zip) to a package without compressing it
2011/7/28 Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au: I looked at tar but couldn't figure out the option not to compress there either. Does Tar compress or not compress by default? Tar doesn't compress at all - if you want to compress a tar archive you have to pipe through gzip or something similar *prior* to writing out the archive, vis-a-vis tar -czf archive.tgz source1 source2 source3 creates a compressed version tar -cf archive.tgz source1 source2 source3 creates an uncompressed version So you could do something like this from memory, not checked, YMMV, if it don't work don't blame me, MAN is your friend etc etc tar -czf archive.tgz source1 source2 tar -Af archive.tgz source3 This'd add the first two files compressed, and the third uncompressed. The zip -0 method is easier. :-) DaZZa -- 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] Hacked email
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Matthew Hannigan m...@zip.com.au wrote: On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 09:23:14AM +1000, david wrote: [ .. ] I'm on Darren's address book, so I got the scam request for cash from his account. It looked perfectly genuine at first although the return address was dagibbs@Ymail instead of gmail. This is the thing. Surely all a gmail users correspondents can vouch for the user. This should be enough for them. Particularly gmail correspondents who have archived mail. That can't be faked. Or would be very hard to fake. Apparently, not in Google's books. Matt, who knows someone similarly affected. Your friend is like me - S.O.L. From what I've read, even if you *do* manage to convince Google you own the account, the hacker deletes all the mail in it anyway, and harvests the contacts before deleting them too - so you get nothing back anyway. DaZZa -- 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] Hacked email
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:55 PM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: well if not for those logic errors, I was close to sending money.. Jesus, I hope nobody else (especially not someone who barely knows me, like yourself, David!) got close to being caught. It's a plain scam. Please, please, please, ignore it (unless you're into scam-baiting). DaZZa -- 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] Hacked email
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au wrote: On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:17 PM, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote: My suggestion is to fill this form out ASAP. Any of your online accounts that use dagi...@gmail.com could reset your password at will. http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ara=1 Done that. Twice. Unfortunately, the brd who hacked the account changes all the password recovery questions - which means I am S.O.L - Google says We can't verify who you are - Christ, it's been 10 years since I started using Gmail, how am I supposed to remember the date? Or the invite time and date? I thought when you (or someone else) changes your recovery email address, you get sent an email to the old recovery address and can undo the changes from there? Apparently, not if you're Google. All you need to do is compromise someone's Gmail account, and you can change their recovery settings for *all* their Google services without any additional intervention. Interestingly, the message I'm replying to was flagged as forged by gmail, I found it in my spam bin. I didn't notice that - I know it had a dud reply-to header on it, but it appeared to come genuinely from Gmail for the ones my wife got. And to respond to Scotts post, putting a condom on after the baby is born is leaving it a bit late. I've done it now - and would have done it before if I'd known about it (yeah yeah, I know, mea culpa for not keeping up with the latest in Google world) - but yeah, it's shutting the gate after the horse has bolted. DaZZa -- 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] Hacked email
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote: On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:23:18 +1000, Darren Gibbs dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote: My old email account, dagi...@gmail.com, has been hacked and stolen - unfortunately, the mongrel who stole it also changed all the recovery information so I can't recover it. My suggestion is to fill this form out ASAP. Any of your online accounts that use dagi...@gmail.com could reset your password at will. http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ara=1 Done that. Twice. Unfortunately, the brd who hacked the account changes all the password recovery questions - which means I am S.O.L - Google says We can't verify who you are - Christ, it's been 10 years since I started using Gmail, how am I supposed to remember the date? Or the invite time and date? This is a common problem, apparently (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=448bef23d1e8f4f9hl=en), and Google's security measures, quite frankly, SUCK. You set a password recovery mechanism, and then let it be *changed* without the criteria being met - so if someone hacks your password, they can simply *change* everything which might identify you - and then they say We can't verify who you are, and you are 100% screwed. If Hotmail didn't suck so badly, I'd move to that. DaZZa -- 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] Re: ADSL download speed/settings
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:02 AM, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote: Jake Anderson said: A filter that blocks frequencies not used for voice could well improve the SNR as delivered to the ear. (The ear being quite able to hear frequencies outside the range of the PSTN). ADSL uses frequencies above 25 kHz. Human hearing can hear frequencies up to 20 kHz, while working its way down to 16 kHz with age. Can you hear ADSL? My answer to that is a qualified yes. Back in my early, early days of ADSL, I lived in a renter premises which had a wall-mounted Telstra phone. I had a tough time getting a filter for it, so I ran it without out (ADSL modem was on another socket). When I picked up the phone I could distinctly hear the data carrier - and the phone definitely interrupted any data based activity which was going on at the time. No idea if that's the case these days with ASDL2+ - I actually have a proper, working filter now. :-) DaZZa -- 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] Re: ADSL download speed/settings
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:04 PM, gonzo01 gonz...@fastmail.fm wrote: 6) Dazza's link http://www.adsl2exchanges.com.au Rim Information for Como shows that I am nowhere near a RIM. Telstra has ADSL 2+ enabled. I am about 900 m as the crow flies and actual about 1.6 Km from the exchange with an estimated max speed of 170,000 and am in Zone 1 --- If you're only 1.6 km cable distance from the exchange, you should be getting way better than you're quoting - I'm an estimated 2.22 km cable distance from the exchange, and I get on average 13 megabits per second on my ADSL2 link - and the cabling in this house purely sucks. Call your ISP and ask if they can check your line - but remove any extension cables first, because the first thing they'll ask you is if your modem is directly connected to the phone socket. DaZZa -- 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] ADSL download speed/settings.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:14 AM, gonzo01 gonz...@fastmail.fm wrote: I'm using Linux Mint 10.0 64 bit with a Billion ADSL 2+ modem/router on a gigabit network ( modem/router has Gigabit ports). Recently my ISP upgraded my plan from 1500/256 to 8000/354. My download speed has gone from around 150 KiBs to around 250 KiBs. the Modem stats show Upstream 384 Downstream 2368 SNR upstream 6.0 SNR Downstream 5.9 Line Attentuation Upstream 31.5 Line Attenuation Downstream 44.0 Ping ( according to Optus Speedtest) = 45 ms Are these figures reasonable? 2368 downstream is around a 60% increase but is at the bottom end of the range according to Optus Speedtest. Is there anything I can check/do to increase downstream speed? Havent found anything usefull by Googling. I'm aware that distance from exchange and quality of line isimportant. Depends how far you are from the exchange, as you've said. Hit the following web site http://www.adsl2exchanges.com.au and type your address into the Address lookup box on the left of the screen. I've found the estimates provided by this site to be reasonably accurate (plus or minus about 10%). If the suggested rate varies more than that from what you're seeing, you can try the following. 1) Remove ALL extension cables from your phone socket to your modem - get the line connection from your modem on as short a piece of cable as you can before it plugs into the actual modem. 2) Pay someone to re-terminate your phone socket from the boundary point - usually in the street - with new cable and socket. 3) Make sure your modem has the latest possible working firmware on it. 4) Call your ISP and see if they can help. DaZZa -- 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] Testing live streaming for tonight's SLUG
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Ken Wilson kenwi...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Video stream is very choppy. On Optus cable with 5-8 viewers indicated it streams for 5 seconds then cuts out. So a start but could be better. Working fine for me - iiNet ADSL2+ with 7 viewers subscribed at the time. No loss or intermittent video flow. ?where the bottleneck is Optus, just like it is with their pathetic 3G network. DaZZa -- 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] Server licences
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Jim Donovan j...@aptnsw.org.au wrote: A client who needs a server on which to run a Linux system. She reports that both Dell and HP in their quotes for supplying a suitable box insist that licences are required before the server can be connected to another computer. Apparently different licences are needed for terminal servers, whatever that may be, and virtualisation servers. In the case of HP, they're probably talking about ILO (Integrated Lights Out) licenses which aren't strictly necessary (despite HP telling you otherwise), and in the case of Dell it'll be OpenManage licenses which, again, aren't strictly necessary. Both are out of band management solutions which mean you can access the server even if the OS is fubar - but you don't *need* them - and, in HP's case, you get a basic license with the server anyway, which is good enough to get tot he O-O-B console and fix most problems. Your client needs, as other people have said, to clarify with the server vendor what these licenses' are for. DaZZa -- 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] Finding modules..
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Tony Sceats tony.sce...@gmail.com wrote: I know you found the answer already but ethtool -i interface can also work and is very simple Just thought I'd throw that in :) [root@dev-app01 ~]# ethtool -i seth0 Cannot get driver information: Operation not supported [root@dev-app01 ~]# :-) DaZZa (stupid bloody Microsoft!) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Finding modules..
Learned folks... Can someone shed some light for me on finding which kernel module is loaded/providing the eth0 interface? Scenario: I have a several virtual machines in a test/developement environment on a Microsoft HyperV (don't ask - just...don't!) server. One box (dev) is built on CentOS and has eth0 working fine. Developers and corporate standards demand that additional boxes for UAT be built on SLES Trouble is, the SLES install doesn't seem to auto-detect the NIC provided by the HyperV server. Can anyone suggest how I can use the CentOS server to find which module is laoded to provide eth0 so I can force-load it in the SLES server and make the virtual NIC work? To stave off the howls about the M$ abomination - I know it, it's only for development, UAT, and the production servers will be either proper VMWare or more likely physical boxes with decent Linux installations on them. :-) Cheers. DaZZa -- 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] Finding modules..
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Peter Chubb peter.ch...@nicta.com.au wrote: DaZZa == DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com writes: DaZZa Learned folks... Can someone shed some light for me on finding DaZZa which kernel module is loaded/providing the eth0 interface? as root, do lspci -v It'll tell you which driver module is associated with each PCI device. It would, but apparently it isn't presented as a PCI device. ifconfig shows me the following seth0 Link Encap: Ethernet HWAddr : 00:15:5d:5a:fe:06 etc etc. Interestingly, the HWAddr is *not* the address of the physical NIC in the box. So, what's an seth0 device, and how do I get one? :-) DaZZa -- 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] Finding modules..
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Peter Hardy pe...@hardy.dropbear.id.au wrote: And in case this hasn't been answered enough, yet, the kernel module itself should log the interfaces it's handling when it loads. That will turn up in the kernel logs (RH places kernel logs from the last boot in /var/log/dmesg , or it'll be in /var/log/messages , or just run `dmesg`); just grep for eth0. Bloody Microsoft can't do anything the easy way. :-) I found a Howto for centOS ahd RHEL, but it was ugly - install integration utilities, install kernel modules, recompile kernel - gave it up as a bad joke. I managed to work around it by telling HyperV to present a legacy network interface - which SuSE recognises as a Tulip card - good enough for the purpose. Thanks to those who made suggestions. DaZZa -- 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] restarting samba ?
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: 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 ? Find your init scripts and issue samba restart. On a SuSE 11.1 box, I just do this web7:~ # /etc/rc.d/smb restart Your locations for these scripts may vary depending on what distro your media box is based on. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SAMBA config experts?
Folks. I'm trying to setup a completely basic SAMBA server on a CentOS box which has been delivered for demonstration purposes. I want something dead simple - one directory, world writable to anyone who browses to it. I've put the following smb.conf file on the box [global] workgroup = demo server string = SAMBA Server load printers = no log file = /var/log/log.%m max log size = 0 security = share encrypt passwords = no unix password sync = no socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy= no host msdfs = no passdb backend = smbpasswd [transfer] comment = Export path = /home/demo/dirwatched/ read only = no public = yes browsable = yes writable = yes And I can start Samba, browse to the machine, but can NOT enter the directory transfer defined above - permission errors every time. What the heck am I doing wrong, and how do I fix it? I don't want to muck around with SMB passwords or users - just want the damn thing to be browsable and writable. Cluestick application appreciated. Thanks. DaZZa -- 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] SAMBA config experts?
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, dave b db.pub.m...@gmail.com wrote: put guest ok = yes (you may need global, guest account = nobody) You also need to not make typos in the damn directory path specified. Issue resolved, thanks to those who pointed me to the logs - the SAMBA log wasn't showing anything, but the system messages log was. In case anyone really wants to know what an idiot I was, the line path = /home/demo/dirwatched/ should have been path = /home/demo/dirwatcher/ along with the guest ok = yes Furrfu. Not my day! Thanks again folks. DaZZa -- 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] Replicating Server - Connectivity
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Nigel Allen d...@edrs.com.au wrote: Given that the current wiring in the place is ahem, less than perfect, I want to ensure that the comms between the two offices (only a matter of 10 - 12 metres) are as good and fast as possible. Currently there are around 30 piece of cable poked through a hole in the wall (data + phone) all with a variety of really crappy connections some of which fail intermittently. What I'm thinking of doing is to run a single cable from office A to office B which will handle all of the replication demands and also be a connection for wireless access points. So, the question becomes, rather than run one single network cable through the wall for replication and access point traffic, what should I consider that will provide me with sufficient bandwidth? I was thinking optic fibre but my knowledge of networking is limited to copper wire and switches and small LANs. I presume that to connect fibre to the existing 10/100/1000 network will require additional switching gear etc? Fibre optic cable will work, but requires some specialists to install and terminate it (you can buy pre-terminated cables, but they're pretty expensive), and more importantly you need fibre optic SFP's (or some form of fibre port) in your switches at each end. They cost. The advantage is if you put in the right grade of fibre, you can run 10 gig, and maybe 40/100 gig across it when they come about. this is nothing to sneeze at. On the other hand, a good, properly terminated CAT6 shielded copper cable (F/UTP or Foil-wrapped UTP) will run 10 gig for up to 100 metres and carry 1 gig easily. A normal Cat6 or Cat6a cable will run 10 gig for up to 50 metres, or 1 gig for up to 100 metres. Depends how much you want to spend - fibre is more delicate, and needs to be installed properly. If you install fibre (and install a multi-core cable), you have additional capacity for other services (as well as vastly more bandwidth available), but you'll be up for more money. On the other hand, 4 Cat6 or 6a copper cables running an LACP amalgamated link will give you 4 gig of link speed and redundancy, but be much cheaper. It all comes down to money. Copper is cheaper, but usually slower/shorter ranged. Fibre is more expensive, but way faster, and much less prone to electrical interference. DaZZa -- 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] streaming video over ethernet ?
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au 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 receive it with vlc on a pc down the hall ? Provided the stream is in the correct format, VLC can subscribe to it. Fire up VLC on your PC, select Open Network Stream, and enter the required fields - protocol type (the version I have supports http, https, mms, ftp, rtsp, rtp, udp rtmp), address and port, and away you should go. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Shell math/BASH question
Learned denizens
$POE runs a system which is extensively Linux, and part of the system
is a small script which monitors the free space various devices using
some third party software.
The software isn't the issue - doing the math to work out the
percentage free is.
We're inth e middle of installing a new system, and where the old
system had disk space measured in gigabytes, this one returns values
in terabytes - and therein lies the problem.
The results from the third party software query are assigned as
variables in the script and converted into round numbers as below
free='/external process'
total='external process'
free_var=$(free%.*);
total_var=$(total%.*);
per=$(($free_var*100/$total_var));
The per figure is the one I'm interested in - percentage free space.
Now, with the system which returns gigabytes, this gives a good enough
result from the first two variables to get close enough for the people
who are managing the system, vis-a-vis
web4:~ # echo $free
25.40G
web4:~ # echo $total
61.14G
web4:~ #
Which gives a good enough result of 40% free.
With the NEW system, the results are somewhat different
web4:~ # echo $free
2.47T
web4:~ # echo $total
2.70T
web4:~ # echo $free_var
2
web4:~ # echo $total_var
2
web4:~ # echo $per
100
web4:~ #
Which gives a figure of 100% free - not a good thing.
So, after this long and involved description, my question for those
with much greater nouse than myself is - is there any way to take
these operations
free_var=${free%.*};
total_var=${total%.*};
so it returns 2.4 and 2.7 respectively instead of 2 and 2?
Note that I didn't write the original script, so please, no comments
of 'You should have done this or This way is better' - I'm not in a
position to make wholesale changes to the script concerned to make it
better. I'm not modifying it at the moment - simply copying bits
from the script and pasting them into another terminal window to get
the output without changing the script itself.
Any advice regarding changing the math appreciated.
Thanks.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Shell math/BASH question
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:38 AM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
DaZZa == DaZZa dagi...@gmail.com writes:
DaZZa free='/external process' total='external process'
DaZZa free_var=$(free%.*); total_var=$(total%.*);
DaZZa per=$(($free_var*100/$total_var));
DaZZa The per figure is the one I'm interested in - percentage free
DaZZa space.
You need to do the calculation before rounding, and as shell arithmetic
works only in integers, that's a little problematic.
I'd be tempted to write a `normalise' function that converts to
gigabytes. This one assumes `disk' terabytes of 1000 gigabytes each.
normalise()
{
case $1 in
*.?T) # Terabytes, one dec place
echo $1 | sed -e 's/T$//' -e 's/\.\([0-9]\)/\100/'
;;
*.??T)# Terabytes, two dec place
echo $1 | sed -e 's/T$//' -e 's/\.\([0-9][0-9]\)/\10/'
;;
*G) # Gigabytes
echo $1 | sed 's/G$//'
;;
esac
}
Then do free_var=`normalise $free`
etc.
That worked perfectly Peter, thanks a million.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Chris Donovan alienreside...@gmail.com wrote: So the command could be mv ./-.mxf newname.mxf. Another way that you may find handy in the future when using system utilities is the -- argument eg: rm -- -filname. The example removes the file -filename. The argument -- often signifies end of arguments, and anything after that is translated as non-arguments to the command. It's used quite a bit in GNU tools, and I'd guess maybe more tools. Thanks to those who replied so promptly. Clue has been restored to mental processes, and perhaps most importantly, (l)user has been attacked with seriously large clue stick and told to not do it again! DaZZa -- 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] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Troy Rollo t...@parrycarroll.com.au wrote: On Friday 08 October 2010 08:03:32 DaZZa wrote: perhaps most importantly, (l)user has been attacked with seriously large clue stick and told to not do it again! Why? The only illegal characters in file names on a UNIX or Linux file system (including ext2 and ext3) are the forward slash (because it is the path separator) and NUL (because it is the string terminator). Everything else is perfectly legitimate to use (including having a file named -rf *, which would only catch a very careless remover of the file) Because the over-lying system which interacts with the Unix filesystem doesn't deal with filenames which begin with a -. it breaks essential functionality when manipulating the files from the higher layer program. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Escaping illegal characters in filenames - how?
Folks. I've got an idiot user who has created a file on a Linux filesystem named -.mxf I need to rename this file, but can't for the life of me remember how to escape the - character so mv doesn't regard it as an option identifier. Can someone apply the cluestick, please? DaZZa -- 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] Backups
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 4:54 PM, james j...@tigger.ws wrote: I've spent many hours with pencil and paper, I certain, but am asking in case someone older-n-wiser can offer sage words: If I want to backup a system for n days, and be able to recover any particular days files the only way that I can see is to have a daily backup for n days. Tower of Hanoi (for eg) says you can backup 2^^n-1 days with n tapes but i can break that. Simple EG starting with day 4 sequence ie backup: C A B A C A B A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme) On day 2 you create a file, which you remove on day 3. On day 6 you try to restore day 2 On day 6 you have: A from day 5 B from day 2 (or worse from day 6) C from day 4 So the file created on day 2 backed up on day 3 is lost. Can anybody point to the boat (I've missed) or confirm my vision. Yup, that's the biggest failings with most commercially acceptable backup regimes. It's an offset of cost (in tapes) against reliability. If you want to be 99% guaranteed[1] to be able to recover any file which was saved, your only option is to take a daily full backup. Any grandfather/father/son schema will eventually lead to the possibility for files going missing. The cost gets ridiculous if you want to keep your data for a long period - you need a new tape for each and every single day you backup - and you have to store them somewhere. Commercially, I usually make users aware that there is guaranteed recovery for XX days (a week), and then the possibility of loss if circumstances like you've outlined above occur (I.E. file saved at start of week, deleted in middle of week and not on weekly tape cycle.). I used to run 4 daily tapes (Mon-Thurs) and 6 weekly tapes (weeks 1-6) before going to monthly tapes - which means I could guarantee *any* file for a week, then *most* files for 6 weeks, then it was pot luck if the file was on the monthly tape. Last place I worked found this acceptable, some places (including current $POE) don't and wear the extra cost in tapes. And that can be a *lot* of cost if you're talking large amounts of data - LTO4 tapes run to about $50 a pop (maybe less if you buy in bulk), LTO5 is worse. DaZZa -- 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] Moving hard drives and data around
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:42 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: Finally for about $35 you can buy USB adapters for SATA + IDE so you can plug one of your new drives into the target computer and bypass the 1.5T backup drive. Sorry for slightly hijacking the thread.. but my experience of these gadgets has been universally bad (read: didn't work at all). Have they improved in the last year or so? I had one I used at my previous place of employment which we bought from Lindy - and it worked flawlessly - plug into HD, plug in power, plug into USB - bingo, external hard disk. PATA, SATA, even laptop drives - no difference. I used it frequently for quick data recovery jobs (from dead PC's without damage to the disk, for example) and for moving data around. I think the most data I moved using it was somewhere around the 280 gig mark. https://www.lindy.com.au/online/arrshop.exe?anonymous=truecat=f0 It's a bit more than $35 ($60 plus shipping) but I know from experience they work. Comes with power supply for the drive as well as the USB adapter. N.B. I must admit I only ever used it with WindoZe machines, not Linux boxen. The specifications say it's only compatible with 'Doze and Mac machines. but I see no reason why they wouldn't work with Linux machines as well. DaZZa -- 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] System admin graphing tools
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Ken Foskey kfos...@tpg.com.au wrote: We all know we should do it. Provide a monitoring system to see how our system loads are going. I have a couple of links that look interesting: [...] Any comments on the above and any others to add to the list? JFFNMS is pretty good - I've used it in a couple of installations, and it'll do stuff cacti (my other default favourite) won't do, like alert on excessive link utilisation etc. Works with routers/switches (Cisco mainly) and servers with SNMP MIB's (disk, CPU etc). http://www.jffnms.org DaZZa -- 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] deleting older files from /boot
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Mark Walkom markwal...@gmail.com wrote: You are better off using apt (or dpkg) to remove the packages, eg; Which part of CentOS did you miss? CentOS != Debian/Ubuntu, and doesn't use apt by default. It's an RPM based distribution. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] R.I.P. Grant Parnell
Pardon the off-top message - I'm not subscribed to slug-chat. Many of you will know Grant Parnell from his numerous contributions to SLUG, and Linux in general. Sadly, after a short fight, I am sad to inform that Grant Parnell passed away at 08:30 this morning, 1/1/10 with friends and loved ones by his side. Grant will be sorely missed by many, myself included. A memorial will be held at a time to be announced. Off-list contact for information, please. DaZZa -- 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] Switching Email outgoing gateways
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Daryl Thompson daryl.francis.thomp...@gmail.com wrote: I use WESTNET as my outgoing email gateway (SMTP) when at home, but when I use another network or my OPTUS 3G modem I need to temporarily change my outgoing SMTP to the network I am using. Is there a way I can set one outgoing email gateway (SMTP) that will work no mater what network or 3G modem I use, as changing these setting is geting monotonous. You're using a GMAIL address - just use Google's pop/imap/smtp facilities. Provided your ISP doesn't filter outbound SMTP, you should be laughing. I setup Thunderbird for a friend the other day to POP her mail from Gmail, and use Google's SMTP server for outbound. The details are all in the settings for POP via Gmail's web interface. DaZZa -- 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] borrowing/renting external box for an ATA drive
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know where can I borrow (or maybe rent?) a PATA-usb box to allow me to access the disks and salvage the data from them? Depending on how much you want to spend, Lindy sell a USB to ATA converter kit which does SATA PATA drives (including CD-DVD drives), including power supply, via a standard USB 2 port. They run to $60, and it is definitely the single best piece of kit I've bought for dealing with drives externally. I have to admit I don't know if it works with Linux, though. The Lindy part number is 42868, and you can find it on their web site (www.lindy.com.au) No, I'm not associated with them in any way, shape or form. DaZZa -- 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] ls lists numbers, not owner names
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to fix my failed clam install, and, just noticed, when I list certain files, I get owner/group not as names, but, as numbers; what is that trying to tell me ? # ls -al /var/log/clamav total 188 drwxr-xr-x 2 104 105 4096 Sep 3 02:31 . drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Oct 19 04:12 .. -rw-r- 1 104 105 3774 Jul 20 04:12 clamd.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 104 105 0 Jul 27 04:12 freshclam.log The username associated with the UID which created/owned those files is no longer listed in /etc/passwd. Nor the group in /etc/group. grep 104 /etc/passwd should return a line something like this clamav:x:104:106:User for clamav:/var/run/hal:/bin/false If it doesn't, then there's your issue. DaZZa -- 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] ls lists numbers, not owner names
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, October 23, 2008 10:55 am, DaZZa wrote: DaZZa, Daniel, thanks how to fix, can I recreate clam entry with 'mc' editor ? or do I need to 'adduser' ? Easiest way is to just use useradd. Editing /etc/passwd manually is not recommended in these days of shadow passwords, because you have to remember to edit /etc/shadow as well, and that's a bit tricky, especially when you have to muck around with crypt to get the encrypted password. :-) useradd -c ClamAV scann user -d /var/clamav -u 104 -s /bin/sh clamav and then passwd clamav should do it. You can add groups manually later. Of course, you should enter your own shell and home directory paths where the -s and -d options are above. DaZZa -- 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] TFTP server problems.
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
service tftp
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /srv/tftpboot -c -vv -u tftp -p -U 007
disable = no
per_source = 11
cps = 100 2
flags = IPv4
}
That seems to have been the issue. I was changing the user =
parameter in the tftp config file for xinetd - however, I had to set
that back to root and pass the -u parameter in the server args.
Once I did that, lo and behold, it worked.
Thanks for the push in the right direction.
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[SLUG] TFTP server problems.
Folks.
Distro is OpenSUSE 11, X64
I'm trying to get a box to allow inbound tftp connections. As far as I
can tell, the config is right for xinet.d. Config file is as follows
service tftp
{
socket_type = dgram
protocol= udp
wait= yes
user= jffnms
group = www
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /opt/jffnms/tftpd/
}
However, every time I try to connect to the tftp service, I get the
following error in my logs
Sep 24 09:18:03 fred in.tftpd[29931]: cannot set groups for user nobody
I think this means the service is trying to run as user nobody -
despite the config file telling it to run as another user.
Anyone got any clue why? Or can point out what I've stuffed up?
TIA
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should make sure you take the simple steps which *everyone* running wireless should do. 1) Disable SSID broadcast 2) Disable DHCP unless you absolutely *have* to use it. Already do the above two. SSID should only be used for public nets, I presume. And no DHCP. Only for nets you *want* to be open for potential unauthorised use. Even in public nets, I disable it, and require potential users to come ask for the SSID before connecting. 3) Make the Wireless subnet as small as you can possibly go for the number of machines you have. The one I use at home is set to 192.168.25.0 with a 255.255.255.252 netmask - leaving room for only the router's IP address, and the one machine I have running wireless. The cable LAN segment has a completely different range. Excellent advice. Thanks. I am completely statically addressed here with a number of machines. I'll partition the address space and separate out the cabled LAN. Would this suffice: LAN: 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.whatever WiFi: 192.168.50.0 255.255.255.252 Or better: LAN: 10.1.100.0 255.255.255.whatever WiFi: 192.168.50.0 255.255.255.252 Either will do - it's up to you what you use. I'd just go with 255.255.255.0 for your LAN (cabled) network. The point of using a 255.255.255.252 netmask is that it only allows two nodes in the network (plus the one network and one broadcast address), and leave much less wriggle room for people to get in via an unallocated IP address open in the subnet. 4) Use WPA or WPA2. WEP is badly broken, and was cracked years ago. Will do. It's long overdue. Laziness == !Secure. Yup. No argument with that one. Depending on your wireless AP, you can require authentication (if supported) before allowing a wireless connection. Yes indeed. I already require authentication. Then you're probably 99.9% secure from someone sniffing you out and hacking access. I am beginning to think that this icon I saw was someone's PC trying to get on the wireless but they failed. I've turned the wireless back on and they've vanished. Most likely someone just attempted a connect and failed, yes. But I will remain vigilant and implement as much security as possible. Constant vigilance! DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Minimum username length?
Folks. Anyone know if there is a default minimum username length for some (or all) current Linux distros? I have a vague recall from somewhere it's 4 characters minimum - but can't find any documentation to back this up. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux clustering - what are the options?
Learned folk. I have a fairly hefty Linux install used for high definition video capture and storage. Part of this system is a NAS server which advertises large storage arrays to the network via SMB (CIFS, whatever they're calling it these days). Owing to the nature of the application, there are two servers for this (redundancy), however the vendor insists that only one be turned on at a time, leaving a failover delay in the event of problems while someone attends the device, turns off the failed server, turns on the redundant one and fires up the relevant processes. Does the Linux world support the concept of active/passive (passive node takes over if active fails) clustering for this kind of situation? Or even active/active (both nodes answer requests depending on load)? If so, what direction should I look so I can, erm, encourage said vendor to investigate integrating this into their setup. These boxes are used for presenting fileshares, as well as running an FTP server and some tape library management software. Thanks. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?
OK guru's. :-) I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the same as the original. At this point (trial - only 15 to do), I've made an image of the disk using DD to a USB attached drive - which works, and gets the new boxes working, but takes 3+ hours to dump the image back to the new boxes. 3+ hours over 5000 machines is not really acceptable. :-) Is there a better way to do this? Something which will make a smaller image and dump back quicker - most of the disk is empty, there's only about 15 gig of actual data/setup on a 160 gig drive - and still maintain the partition setup/bootability like using DD does? Willing to listen to anyone who has a cluestick and is willing to apply it. Thanks. DaZZa -- 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] Debian question
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Jaime Tarrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 3) Another script that might be useful to automatically install proprietary ATI video drivers is here: http://techpatterns.com/forums/about933.html I have used it successfully on Debian machines with NVidia and ATI cards running Lenny or Unstable branches, although I haven't tested it with Etch. Still, if you have had no luck so far maybe it is worth a shot. TIP: You can only run the script from the console however (not from within X). Another possible option which I used when I felt particularly lazy or out of time to do it properly is to boot a live Ubuntu disk on the machine and copy the X config file from it to merge with the Debian one. Not an option on these boxes. No floppy disk. No CD. Solid-state HD. Suggestions have been received and are being looked into. As far as I know, we've updates the distribution with the latest patches using apt-get distro upgrade without success (once we removed the poxy HP repository from the sources list and actually GOT some upgrades), and are now trying to find/apply the latest ATI drivers to the video card. Damn thing is still refusing to do widescreen modes. :-( Won't even do 1600x1050 now. Thanks to all for suggestions. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Debian question
No, I'm not being converted (shaddup David!) I've been, erm, asked to work on a little embedded box that $POE is trialling for a POS graphical display terminal. Said device runs Debian - and has issues with running a graphics mode higher than 1024x768. Naturally, $POE want it at 1280x720 (widescreen 16:9 ratio) It's running a bastardised/modified Debian Etch, as far as I can tell. Now, for all you Debian lovers out there. 1) Is Etch recent, or behind the times? The box is from HP - model available if required. it runs an ATI embedded card - shared video graphics RAM with the motherboard, I believe 2) Is this mode even valid? 3) Anyone know the magic to get this working? TIA. DaZZa -- 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] DST in debain
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi for some reason my time is still daylight savings time ? hasn't change for DST last night. any one else having this problem ? That'll be because we're still in Daylight Savings Time - until NEXT Sunday. NSW law changed last year to bring the NSW Daylight Savings periods in line with other states like Vic, Tasmania and SA. Daylight savings is now from the FIRST Sunday in October until the FIRST Sunday in April. DaZZa -- 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] DST in debain
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:09:45AM +1100, DaZZa wrote: That'll be because we're still in Daylight Savings Time - until NEXT Sunday. NSW law changed last year to bring the NSW Daylight Savings periods in line with other states like Vic, Tasmania and SA. Daylight savings is now from the FIRST Sunday in October until the FIRST Sunday in April. bloody hell, got caught out by my phone :) told me there had been a daylight savings change So did about half the people I work with. :-) should have not listen my phone (windows mobile) You should patch it. There *is* an update for Microsoft products - provided, of course, you're not running anything later than XP. WIndows 2000 or earlier - forget it! DaZZa -- 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] DST in debain
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 11:26 +1100, DaZZa wrote: You should patch it. There *is* an update for Microsoft products - provided, of course, you're not running anything later than XP. WIndows 2000 or earlier - forget it! To be fair, there can't be many people running a version of Linux as old as Windows 2k. Though I don't think the DST methodology has changed in the 'nix environment in that time. I've got a SuSE 9.3 box that I can;t get an update to the zone file for. Not that it matters for this particular box, but 9.3 'aint that old. DaZZa -- 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] DST in debain
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote: I've got a SuSE 9.3 box that I can;t get an update to the zone file for. Not that it matters for this particular box, but 9.3 'aint that old. You could grab the tzdata from the source at ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ and overwrite your /usr/share/zoneinfo directory, or rebuild the suse RPM with this new source, or merely copy the zoneinfo file from a newer machine to your suse box. I could, but it's not worth the effort. The box in question is scheduled for rebuilding to 10.3 shortly (along with some new hardware), and the functions it's currently running aren't going to break in the week between now and the real end of DST. DaZZa -- 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] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection
On Feb 12, 2008 12:18 PM, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Adrian Chadd wrote: ideally you want your data security right down to the individual syscall level. Various products like what Cisco offer let you specify what access to what data various applications have, but i don't know how useful it is protecting people from copy/pasting data around. I know at least the secure versions of IRIX and Digital UNIX were doing useful things like tagging individual IPC data with security ACLs, preventing you from copy/pasting between high-low security contexts. That was fun to work inside. :) But the nice security vendor man installed a box on our network and gave me a certificate that promised we were secure! I have a bridge you can buy if you want, Simon. Going cheap! Great revenue possibilities! DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Thunderbird question
OK all you Thunderbird gurus. I have a number of message which have been exported from an, erm, lesser email program into a .eml file on an individual basis. I can open them in Thunderbird by browsing to the relevent folder and double clicking - however, I want to actually import them back into the inbox. Does anyone know how I can do this? It's driving me nuts! TIA DaZZa -- 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] Download Bandwidth Question
On Feb 5, 2008 5:11 PM, 5h4rk @ gmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a NAS at home with a FTP server, if I upload something from work, will I be spending my download bandwidth of my home connection? Assuming you mean if you upload something from work to your home NAS server, the answer is yes. The traffic is inbound into your link, ergo part of your downloads. DaZZa -- 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] USB to serial
On Dec 18, 2007 12:59 PM, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything that I need to look for in these USB to serial converters? Any special software needed? Be careful which one you buy. Some of the cheaper ones simply don't work. I have one from Lindy, and it's never let me down. Cost a bit more, but well worth it. WindoZe did need drivers for it, from memory, but they were a once only install - don't recall if Linux did, but I don't think so. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Quick and dirty mail/spam server
Folks.
I've had a hardware failure which has broken my place of employment's
blue-box spam/virus filter for mail.
Currently, I've by-passed it, but this is obviously not an acceptable solution.
The support organisation for the blue-box device wants circa $3k to
repair it - something I'm not willing to pay
I have the hardware to build a perfectly adequate Linux box which
would do the job.
What I'm looking for is the best/quickest way to build a box which
runs a mail server {postfix}, spam filter {spam assassin} and virus
checker {clamav?} on incoming email - blocks relaying except from
authorised nodes, and forwards incoming emails to the end mail server
once they've been scanned.
It'd be nice if I could configure it to do RBL lookups on incoming
connections as well.
I'm looking for suggestions as to the best/quickest way to do this.
Yes, I'll even install it on Debian if I have to {shut up, David!} :-)
Suggestions? Is there someone out there who does a distro which is
designed to do just this without mucking around? Or do I need to roll
my own?
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] feedback sought on rrd monitoring apps
On Nov 21, 2007 12:01 PM, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at installing something like 'mrtg' or some rrdtool based monitor to, well, monitor my clustered server(s) (currently monitoring 1 server, :) looking from rrdtool site I see apps like: monitorix, akkada, eluna, colectd and aware that all seem 'interesting'; if anyone has any opinions/suggestions on these or other suitable app to monitor a LAMP server, pls let me know jffnms works well for me - I use it to monitor both servers and network devices. http://www.jffnms.org/ Bit fiddly to set up, and needs a database backend, but once it's working, it gives me everything from disk/cpu utilisation to network card throughput, RTT and packet loss. Sends emails/pages when thresholds are exceeded, things go down etc. Web-based management/monitoring console. Does need SNMP, though, as well as rrdtool and either mysql or pgsql DaZZa -- 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] ADSL - UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD
On 11/2/07, Antonio Cosimo Costantino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! My Australian (digital) life is in danger... I have to change ISP!!! ahah!!! I'm looking for one unlimited and unshaped ADSL plan, and I found these: 1. http://oznet.net.au/oznet/dsl/adsl.home.htm and thenADSL Home Price 2. http://www.shiftreload.com.au/internet-access-pricing.asp the best option would be ADSL 512-UL I wonder if these companies, which are very cheap compared to the mainstream as Telstra, offer a reliable service. Could anyone tell me something more (bad and good experiences) than what is on their webpages? You won't find an unlimited and unshaped DSL plan anywhere in Australia. You'll either get one or the other. As for the two you've highlighted above - I have two words for you - rip and off. $65 a month for a 500 meg download allowance at 256/64 from one, and $34 a month for 1 gig a month at 256/64 from the other? I pay $70 a month for 60 gig a month of download allowance at ADSL2+ speeds. I suggest you head here http://bc.whirlpool.net.au Type in your phone number, and search plans from there. You can get way better deals than either of the places you've quoted - both faster *and* cheaper. If you're lucky enough to be on an ADSL2+ enabled exchange, you can get *much* faster. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ
The final death throes begin... http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/LAW12419092007-1.htm DaZZa -- 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] Distributing Linux CD/DVDs
On 9/2/07, Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try http://www.elx.com.au/ Ken But you'd better hurry, 'cause they're closing the retail side of the business down. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Fwd: Laptop repairs - anyone?
Second try - got a weird bounce from the first one! Folks. I've just been given a reasonably decent Toshiba laptop that'd be perfect to run Linux on, but it's got an issue with the screen. I know it's the screen because when I plug it into an external screen, the display is fine. Anyone got a decent place they go to for laptop repairs I can get a quote from to decide if this thing is worth fixing? DaZZa -- 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] Fwd: Laptop repairs - anyone?
On 8/22/07, Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried Fn-F4? Yes. I wasn't clear enough in my original post. I *know* the screen is broken - it half works, half doesn't - there's a band up the middle of the screen which is non-functional. Connecting an external screen works perfectly, which eliminates the video card as the source of the problem. DaZZa -- 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] how do I log startup or where do I find the log?
On 8/17/07, Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Martin Barry wrote:
$quoted_author = Marghanita da Cruz ;
My knoppix/grup startup reports a couple of errors, which I have been happy
to live with until now... however, I would like to look into them but am
not sure how to capture the error messages before they fly by and KDE
starts up.
/var/log/dmesg
keeps the most recent boot
dmesg | less
will show what would go to the console but has a limited buffer and may not
have the actual boot if the server has been up for some time
Thanks Dazza and Marty...checked that file, however, it seems I asked the
wrong
question. It seems I need the log of the next bit of the startup. Knoppix is
running on my laptop.
Any other suggestions?
Change the default run level so it doesn't boot into X but rather
remains in command line mode. Not sure what you need the run level to
be - never used that distro. It could be 2 or 3 to boot it to command
line mode, 5 to get to graphical mode.
Logon as root once the boot is finished, and you can scroll back up
through the boot process by holding SHIFT and PGUP.
Note that this ONLY works if you don't toggle VC's - once you switch
to a new VC {I.E. by hitting ALT F2, for example}, this buffer will be
lost.
Again, this is a limited buffer, so if what you need to see is too far
back you might not be able to find it.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] [OT/2] Dual layer DVD media?
On 7/13/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for a good place to buy Dual-Layer DVD media. I found some
places on the net but was wondering:
1. Whether anyone can recommend some place on the North Shore where I can
just walk in and buy good media in stead of having to order over the
Internet.
Officeworks. Last time I looked, a 5 pack of dual layer {verbatum}
media cost about $13 or $15 or so. There's one near Chatswood, from
memory, and also one at Brookvale.
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Re: [SLUG] [OT/2] Dual layer DVD media?
On 7/13/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 13/07/07, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Officeworks. Last time I looked, a 5 pack of dual layer {verbatum}
media cost about $13 or $15 or so. There's one near Chatswood, from
memory, and also one at Brookvale.
Thanks. I think I know which one you are talking about - there is one on
Pacific Highway and another one in the industrial area behind the RNS.
Yup, that's the area I was thinking of. I didn't know about the one
behind RNS, but there's definitely one on the Pacific Highway, near
the old ABC studios at Gore Hill.
Any personal experience on things to look for or is it a simple case of
create Data DVD and burn ISO in K3B?
You have to make sure the software specifically supports dual layer
burning - I'm not sure what version of cdrecord/dvdrecord (or whatever
the relevant utilities are for Linux these days)[1], but you need to
be extremely careful to check, or all you get is a coaster - and at $3
a disk, that's getting expensive.
But apart from that, provided the utilities support dual layer
burning, it should just be Create data DVD, and fill it to capacity.
DaZZa
[1] I don't actually have a DVD burner in my Linux box - cd burner
only - so I'm not 100% sure if the same utilities apply for DVD
writers as for CD writers.
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Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?
On 6/26/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I kept hearing that Samba 3 can join and do anything as a Windows Domain Controller even better than Windows itself. But now that I need it to replace a Backup Domain Controller (fka Secondary Domain Controller?) to a Windows 2003 Active Directory server I keep bumping into the following worrying FAQ: You need to get your terminology straight first. There's no such thing as a PDC or BDC in an Active Directory environment - especially a 2003 AD environment. There are PDC and BDC _emulator_ roles, which are only necessary if you're in a mixed-mode network - I.E. you have both AD (Win2000/2003,XP) and non-AD (NT 4) servers in your network. However, this quote from chapter 4 of the SAMBA-3-HOWTO would indicate you're out of luck === Samba ADS Domain Control Samba-3 is not, and cannot act as, an Active Directory server. It cannot truly function as an Active Directory PDC. The protocols for some of the functionality of Active Directory domain controllers has been partially implemented on an experimental only basis. Please do not expect Samba-3 to support these protocols. Do not depend on any such functionality either now or in the future. The Samba Team may remove these experimental features or may change their behavior. This is mentioned for the benefit of those who have discovered secret capabilities in Samba-3 and who have asked when this functionality will be completed. The answer is maybe someday or maybe never! To be sure, Samba-3 is designed to provide most of the functionality that Microsoft Windows NT4-style domain controllers have. Samba-3 does not have all the capabilities of Windows NT4, but it does have a number of features that Windows NT4 domain controllers do not have. In short, Samba-3 is not NT4 and it is not Windows Server 200x: it is not an Active Directory server. We hope this is plain and simple enough for all to understand. === My read on that is that while Samba can be an AD member server, it can't be a domain controller, or host any of the emulator roles provided by AD domain controllers. You'll need to install another WindoZe box and DCPROMO it to get the distributed domain controller functionality you want. DaZZa -- 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] A file transfer problem
On 6/22/07, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to transfer a large file from computer A to computer B using a null modem cable. The file is a compressed file which, when transferred, will allow me to install on computer B the distribution called Delilinux. I have no other way of getting the file onto computer B than via the cable. Preparatory to such a transfer, I've run a couple of installation floppy disks on computer B. They're supposed, among other things, to install pppd on computer B. In order to make it easy to transfer the file using pppd, you're prompted to do certain things after the installation on computer B of pppd. One is obviously to run pppd on computer A. However, computer B tells you, in effect, that computer A must have the address 192.168.0.1. I've run on computer A the command I'm told to, but no connection between the two computers is created. Computer A is behind a modem/router and already has the address 10.1.1.1. Is that likely to be the reason why no connection is created? Well, it may have something to do with it, however computer A probably has the IP address 10.1.1.1 on its network card, rather than on the ppp interface on the serial port. What is the result of the command /sbin/ifconfig if run on computer a after you've performed the pppd command as instructed? If so, is there a way to give 10.1.1.1 the alias of 192.168.0.2? You can - with an alias IP address - but that's not necessarily going to fix your problem - especially if you alias this interface on the network adapter rather than the ppp interface. If not, it seems that computer B has on it Telnet. Can I use that to transfer the file instead? Theoretically, if you had a file transfer protocol like sz on one end and rz on the other - but it would need some serious tweaking, and unless you get a valid network existing between the two machines, it's telnet is not going to work either. It'd be far easier to use ftp or scp to transfer the files from one machine to another, but this still relies on the ppp connection between computer a and computer b being established and working. Run ifconfig on both machines once you're attempted the pppd commands and see what you get - then post the results. DaZZa -- 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] ADSL ISP hosts
On 6/4/07, Nicholas Tomlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sluggers, Can anyone recommend a really good Linux hosted ISP for ADSL [2 is not available] at a reasonable cost. I think the term Linux hosted ISP is somewhat of a misnomer these days. With almost nobody offering shell access of any kind, and the xDSL hardware mostly resold from Telstra (unless you happen to be on an exchange which has a third-party ADSL2+ DSLAM installed), what does it matter what the backend machines run on? FWIW, iiNet runs Apache on its webservers - I strongly suspect they're mostly Linux boxes, since making Apache behave well on a 'Doze machine is problematical at best - but does it really matter? At the moment I am on dial up with up to 100 calls per month and a data xfer rate of 350mb down at max, that would change as speed becomes available [drivers, software, etc] Depending how you define reasonable cost, you can get a decent DSL plan with a much bigger download allowance for not a whole lot of money - hell, even the dreaded Telstra offers a 400 meg plan for something like $20 - but I wouldn't even think about recommending that. Head to http://bc.whirlpool.net.au , plug in your phone number and search for plans that suit you. There are literally hundreds of them. It also pays to surf the forums a bit to see if there is a lot of bad blood for a given ISP - Internode, for example, has just had a run of bad press because it's put in place price increases - in some cases massive increases - contrary to its previously stated policies and actions. Most ISP's offer mirrors or peering to mirrors whereby you can get Linux ISO's or repositories for low or no cost (in download allowance terms). DO a little research, and you will find the backend doesn't really matter. Personally, I would recommend avoiding Telstra and Optus like the plague, but that's my opinion only, and you are by no means bound to listen to it! DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Can php4 and php5 co-exist on the same box?
Greetings and salutations. I have a box whereon is installed php5. I have an application which one of my users wants to run which needs php4. Can I install php4 and php5 on the same box and have them peacefully co-exist, or am I going to run into massive problems? DaZZa -- 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] ls: colour codes/background colours
On 4/21/07, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me where the color coding for the ls command in Ubuntu is stored and defined? For example, I've got a directory with black lettering and a green background, but only for $ ls -l foo/ not for $ ls foo/ Most of these codes are obvious, but this one has me baffled and I would like to know where they are defined. (I suspect it has to do with being world writeable). The man page on my poor old SuSE 10.2 installation reads thus _By default, color is not used to distinguish types of files. That is equivalent to using --color=none. Using the --color option without the optional WHEN argument is equivalent to using --color=always. With --color=auto, color codes are output if standard output is connected to a terminal (tty). The environment variable LS_COLORS can influence the colors, and can be set easily by the dircolors command. So, at a guess, look at your environment set | grep LS_COLORS and look for the two conditions you're having troubles with. Or run dircolors --print-database | less to see how it's setup. Of course, this assumes that Debian stuff does something similar to poor old SuSE. :-) DaZZa -- 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] ls: colour codes/background colours
On 4/21/07, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, at a guess, look at your environment set | grep LS_COLORS and look for the two conditions you're having troubles with. Or run dircolors --print-database | less to see how it's setup. Of course, this assumes that Debian stuff does something similar to poor old SuSE. :-) replying to myself - first sign of madness I was going to add that I can't for the life of me find where the precompiled database mentioned used by default lives. It's gotten be in there somewhere, though. DaZZa -- 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] ZGV replacement?
On 4/14/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
quote who=DaZZa
Back in the Good Old Days [tm], I commonly installed and used a nifty
little program called ZGV - a GIF/JPG/PNG viewer for command [I.E. non-X]
installations.
Anyone know of anything that'll do the job? Failing that, anyone willing
to take a stab at the error messages {which I can email off-list} and
suggest what I have to do to compile ZGV again?
zgv still exists in Debian, using svgalib. You may want to check the source
packages to see if there are patches or newer upstream releases that resolve
the build issues you're seeing.
Thanks Jeff - short, to the point, and completely useless in context
of the problem.
About what I've come to expect from SLUG. If it's not Debian, then
it's not worth useful suggestions.
And no, I'm not switching to Debian. Thanks for the suggestion.
DaZZa
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[SLUG] ZGV replacement?
Folks.
Back in the Good Old Days [tm], I commonly installed and used a nifty
little program called ZGV - a GIF/JPG/PNG viewer for command [I.E.
non-X] installations.
It was quick, dirty and it just plain worked without having to be in X.
Now, being the old fashioned fella I am, I only use X if I absolutely
have to, so now that I've finally managed to rebuild my PC and get
SuSE 10.2 running on it, I thought I'd try and find and install ZGV
again.
No such luck. I found the source code, but it won't compile - masses
of warnings, then one final error which looks pretty terminal -
certainly beyond my extremely meagre C programming abilities to
diagnose. This is using SDL, because it seems SVGALIB isn't installed
anymore, and that's apparently another thing that won't compile
without a lot of fuss on the latest versions of C compilers etc.
So, to cut a long story short, I'm looking for something to replace
ZGV. Something that'll run from the command line, without X, and
display GIF/JPG images, with a thumbnail-based file list of files you
can scroll through to find what you're after.
Anyone know of anything that'll do the job? Failing that, anyone
willing to take a stab at the error messages {which I can email
off-list} and suggest what I have to do to compile ZGV again?
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] What app handles .DWG files?
On 4/7/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as per the subject AutoCad, or one of its variants. Good luck finding an open source replacement. That's one horrible format. DaZZa -- 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] On fitting an internal hard drive
On 2/20/07, William Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the opportunity to a) upgrade to Fedora 5 and b) buy a Seagate
160MB internal hard drive, hopefully to facilitate the Fedora.
It's a Fujitsu S Series Lifebook.
I've not done this before. Would the new hard drive fit the laptop and
would it give the BIOS a hard time?
You are aware that most notebooks don't use the regulation 3.5 inch disk, right?
Notebooks use a 2.5 inch {or sometimes smaller} disk specifically
designed for restricted space.
Depending on the model Lifebook, the default specifications indicate
they'll support up to a 120 gig drive from the factory - the BIOS will
usually support larger than the factory installed device, so I'd
tentatively say you'll be OK from a capacity point of view, however
depending on model, they might only support SATA drives - the current
market ones only do SATA - I don't know how old your lifebook is, so
there's no way of me knowing which ATA standard it uses.
Look here http://www.lifebook.com.au/?pageID=Categoryid=1 for specs, and
here http://www.lifebook.com.au/?pageID=Support for support. There are
BIOS updates for most models, but again without knowing which model it
is I'm not gonna say yours will specifically work.
Any help etc. I should point out that I'll take the Windows-laden hard
drive and store it elsewhere. I do have some standards.
You should encase it in lead and bury it. That way the world will be
safe from its contamination!
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Should I host my own domain?
On 2/17/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're being ripped off. A static IP costs me $5 per month. $0 per year - comes standard with the plan! [1] That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode www.linode.com. Yes, but Internode doesn't have an ADSL2+ DSLAM on my local exchange - iinet does. Which means I'm stuck with dynamic, 'cause I don't wanna go that much slower than the 15 meg download I get now. :-) I'll shaddup being off topic and get back in my box now. :-) DaZZa -- 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] Should I host my own domain?
On 2/17/07, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:57 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: That said, hosting stuff on ADSL is *insane*. Get a Linode www.linode.com. OK... I'll bite... WHY is hosting domestic stuff on ADSL insane? Consumer grade DSL services in Australia are notoriously unreliable. Mine drops out at least once a day, despite my router being set to always on, and traffic requests from OUTSIDE can't re-establish the link - there's got to be some interesting traffic from inside to force PPP to come up again. If 100% reliability is not a worry, then there's nothing wrong with it - if I can't get into my Linux box from work, I either wait until I get home and restart the link, or if it's really urgent I call the missus and get her to web browse something - anything - to kickstart the link again. Commercial grade DSL is another story. I run a remote site across a commercial grade sDSL service with almost 100% uptime - I think the link has gone down twice in the last 12 months, and one of those times was my fault. DaZZa DaZZa -- 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] OT: Phone number portability and ADSL.
On 1/8/07, Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Recently I put an order in with Exetel to get ADSL2+ on my phone number.
I received an email back from Exetel saying that Telstra has issued a
Telstra Rejection Advice Report on the phone number and it is not
portable from the Telstra network to Optus!
There are two things wrong with this.
1. I thought that numbers were supposed to be portable by law.
2. My number USED to be an Optus number originally but I changed over to
Telstra as a provider ages ago and kept the same (Optus) number.
It was not hard for Telstra to take ownership of the number from Optus
back then.
Just a general question for the list for any ideas/options on how I
tackle this?
One word.
TIO.
Although, I'd ask them {Telstra} for a technical reason behind the
rejection first.
Of course, you could always just change phone numbers.
DaZZa
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Re: [SLUG] Searching the list archives
On 1/6/07, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Welykochy wrote: Is it PEBCAK, PICNIC or a scripting error? A PICNIC being...? (couldn't find it any acronym dictionaries) PEBCAK = ID10T error = a layer 8 issue, I know :) PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. PICNIC = Problem In Chair, Not In Computer. HTH. DaZZa -- 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] DIY networking kit at Aldi.
On 1/4/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and a $12,000 fine for using it if you do an installation. Only if said installation connects to the PSTN. DaZZa - top posting sucks. -- 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] DIY networking kit at Aldi.
On 1/5/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ACMA fine for doing a network installation by an unlicenced person. Rubbish. From the AMCA's own brochure located at http://www.acma.gov.au/acmainterwr/telcomm/cabling/cabling_brochure/consumer%20brochure%20(2005).pdf Data Cabling. A registered cabler must install data cabling for computer networks that connect to the telecommunications network. If the network concerned doesn't connect to the PSTN in any way, shape or form, then you don't have to have a licenced cabler do anything, nor are you liable for squat in fines. DaZZa -- 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] access to internal web server
On 1/4/07, Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting to an internal web server which the outside
world can see.
I have an ADSL modem forwarding port 80 to an IPCOP firewall.
This firewall forwards port 80 to the webserver (Centos 4.4)
From outside the website comes up fine.
From internal I get the webpage of the ADSL modem rather than the website.
Is this because I have to split off internal DNS differently from
external DNS?
Are you trying to access it via the server's NAT'd address, or via the
IP address allocated to the modem?
If you want to access it internally, you need to use the RFC1918
address used by the web server, assuming you're using one. I.E.
instead of accessing it via the live IP address the modem/firewall
translates port 80 to, you need to use the 192.168.x.x {or whatever
RFC1918 range you're using} address.
I'd also look at the modem allowing access to its web interface via
the outside IP address if I were you - that's asking to be hacked.
DaZZa
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