Re: [SLUG] Monitoring web servers from Australia?
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'd like to monitor uptime and accessibility of a web server hosted in Sydney. I use Pingdom for now, but it doesn't have probes in Australia so it might be too sensitive to network issue I don't care so much about (for now the website targets Australian audiences). Is anyone aware of a good, cheap (free?) monitor a-la Pingdom with Australia-based probes? After a quick Google around: http://monitive.com/help/monitoring-basics/monitoring-network-checking-location I've not used them, but they have Sydney probes. - GS -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Looking for a Linux Systems Administrator
Hi All, As the SLUG jobs list is gone, I understand I can post this in the SLUG list. Apologies if this is not the case! Job Description --- Sirca is expanding and to help us manage our growing workload, we are currently seeking an talented System Administrator (Linux) to join our Infrastructure team on a permanent basis. Reporting directly to the Infrastructure Manager this role will suit someone who is technically focused and is able to assess and solve problems quickly and efficiently. As a Linux Systems Administrator, you will be responsible for providing specialist technical advice and support of the entire ICT infrastructure supported by the Infrastructure team to ensure the stability, integrity and efficient operation of our information systems. Desired Skills Experience - To be successful in this role, you will have: - A minimum of 4+ years' experience as a Systems Administrator in a Software Development environment. - Proven experience using NASand SAN technology, especiallyNetapp. - Experience with System Management utilities like Puppet. - Experience with KVM virtualisation. - Strong scripting skills in Bash, Perl or Python. - Experience with open source software. - Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking. - Experience installing, configuring and maintaining Linux servers. - Demonstrated ability to conceive deploy technology change into a production environment. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. - Self-motivated, customer driven with a can do attitude. Highly Desirable: - Experience with Amazon web services i.e deploying managing software within AWS. - Experience in managing, configuring and tuning Cassandra Clusters. - Strong knowledge of networking switches and firewalls. - Recognised degree in Computer Science or equivalent. - Understanding of SDLC. - Exposure to software project management. - Understanding of highly available systems operations in a commercial environment. Company Description --- Sirca is an independent and leading provider of online services to support finance and other big data research conducted by universities, regulators and financial market participant's worldwide. We deliver convenient on-line access to the world's largest integrated financial market databases and associated search and analytic tools. We are a not-for-profit company that services both public and private interests. To apply, please send your cover letter and resume to care...@sirca.org.au. Best regards, Gonzalo -- 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] Bar Code scanners
I think the OP wants to scan actual books, not barcodes? This might help: http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/564/ - Gonzalo On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Menno Schaaf amano.gi...@gmail.comwrote: You could us an app with a camera, but you'll find it generally slow and not so reliable. Most barcode scanners act as normal input devices so work fine in Linux. Have a look at www.dealextreme.com for barcode readers. I have this one - http://www.dealextreme.com/p/acan-8100-short-range-handheld-usb-barcode-scanner-210cm-cable-length-25058?item=37which works fine on book barcodes, but you'll find laser ones for cheaper now on there. Shipping does take a while from them though, so if you're in a rush not ideal. Contact me off list if you want to discuss borrowing mine. Menno On 16 April 2012 12:38, Christopher Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Or a web cam. There's quite a few apps for pc (maybe even linux) that will scan all types of barcodes. Sent from my Android - Reply message - From: David Gillies da...@dorja.com To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 12:05 pm On 16/04/12 11:45, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: Hi all, I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of hundred at least) and was wondering if anyone has any experience with those that do/don't work with Linux or know of another way I can scan the books? If you've got a smart phone (android, ios) with a camera in it, there's tonnes of apps that scan barcodes. -- 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 -- 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] Bar Code scanners
Yeah, good point. I was looking at the original email and the first reply from David, then it switched to barcode scanning so it confused me a bit. - Gonzalo On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not sure about that. The subject of the original post seems to suggest Patrick is interested in scanning bar codes as opposed to whole books. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote: I think the OP wants to scan actual books, not barcodes? This might help: http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/564/ - Gonzalo On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Menno Schaaf amano.gi...@gmail.com wrote: You could us an app with a camera, but you'll find it generally slow and not so reliable. Most barcode scanners act as normal input devices so work fine in Linux. Have a look at www.dealextreme.com for barcode readers. I have this one - http://www.dealextreme.com/p/acan-8100-short-range-handheld-usb-barcode-scanner-210cm-cable-length-25058?item=37which works fine on book barcodes, but you'll find laser ones for cheaper now on there. Shipping does take a while from them though, so if you're in a rush not ideal. Contact me off list if you want to discuss borrowing mine. Menno On 16 April 2012 12:38, Christopher Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Or a web cam. There's quite a few apps for pc (maybe even linux) that will scan all types of barcodes. Sent from my Android - Reply message - From: David Gillies da...@dorja.com To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Bar Code scanners Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 12:05 pm On 16/04/12 11:45, Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: Hi all, I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of hundred at least) and was wondering if anyone has any experience with those that do/don't work with Linux or know of another way I can scan the books? If you've got a smart phone (android, ios) with a camera in it, there's tonnes of apps that scan barcodes. -- 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 -- 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 -- Kind Regards, Christopher Barnes e. chris.p.bar...@gmail.com -- 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: [Linux-aus] Australian distributor product page for Raspberry Pi (Model B)
There isn't. I called them today and they are expecting to ship again by the end of April. - Gonzalo On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au wrote: http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspberry-pi-model-b/dp/2081185 Hi Jeff, Do you know if there is actual stocked product behind that page? Cheers, Glen -- 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] For those wondering about the benefits of rooting your phone
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote: On 01/12/11 12:57, scott wrote: Not only can you get rid of the apps the manufacturer and providers puts on your phone ... Perhaps I need to do that with the Huawei deuce u8520 android phone I demonstrated at a Slug meeting. The phone reboots itself at random and has been in for repair for several weeks: http://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/**09/huawei-deuce-u8520-dual-** sim-android.htmlhttp://blog.tomw.net.au/2011/09/huawei-deuce-u8520-dual-sim-android.html I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 and my biggest fear, as with anyone doing the procedure I guess, is bricking the phone. Has anyone done this sort of thing? I want to upgrade to Android 2.3.4 as it comes with some important bug fixes, particularly around battery life, but it hasn't been released yet by my carrier and I'm not sure when it will be, so I'm getting impatient! - Gonzalo -- 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: [Jobs] Systems Admin - Build Engineer
Hi Mark, I had the exact same thoughts when reading this ad. Thankfully I'm not in the market at the moment, but I always read job ads just to see what people are asking for and offering, but I was surprised to see such a low salary range on offer for a role that requires a fair bit of experience. It certainly seems like a Uni grad with 1-2 years experience type salary with mid/senior Linux Sysadmin requirements. David, your email certainly surprised me. I have had calls (recent ones too) in the last few months for Linux sysadmin roles and they were all at least 80K (or at least $500/day for contract roles) so it does surprise me to read your story. I hope it's just bad timing and things will pick up and you'll get what you're worth. Best regards, Gonzalo On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Mark Walkom markwal...@gmail.com wrote: On a more general note, cause it's always nice to see what the market thinks, I noticed this advertised this morning on the jobs list and I was curious; How many sysadmins would have enough programming experience to fulfil this job, or programmers with sysadmin experience. And more importantly, of those, who would want to work for such a low wage - at least, it's low for Sydney for such a strong skill set? My experience would put that salary at a high level helpdesk person, with what they are asking more towards the 80-100K range. Or am I being somewhat ambitious with my views? On 23 May 2011 10:55, Steve Wang ste...@bigworldtech.com wrote: *Systems Admin - Build Engineer* *About BigWorld:* BigWorld is an Australian company that creates leading middleware MMO technology using Linux mission critical servers and Windows based 3D clients. We are interested in hiring staff that have the required technical abilities, are passionate about the games industry and enjoy thinking and solving technical and design challenges creatively. BigWorld Technology is developed by a creative, dynamic and innovative team working in an environment that is challenging, exciting and constantly evolving. * * *The Role:* We are looking for an experienced and resourceful Systems Admin / Build Engineer with a strong technical mind and programming ability to administer our internal network. In this varied role you will assist in maintaining and improving our small Linux and Windows mixed network used by our developers, administering and trouble shooting our network including firewalls, SSL and ftp, email, backup and recovery processes, web connectivity, web products such as MediaWiki and PHPBB and providing the dev team with support for software and hardware issues. As an integral part of the development team you will be responsible for expanding and maintaining the software development build environment. Working with the latest technology you will implement and maintain continuous build and unit testing and release infrastructure, and deploy Bigworld Technology builds to new licensees. This role is ideal for someone with sound Sys Admin and technical skills looking to extend their skillset further in scripting and programming. *The Requirements:* · Qualifications in computer science or software engineering as well as experience in a commercial software development environment · Scripting or Programming Experience (eg. Python, Perl, PHP, Awk, Shell, C, C++) · An understanding of the software development process · Previous experience setting-up build frameworks and infrastructure. · Strong Linux experience · An intermediate level in Linux administration that includes basic Linux (LAMP) server administration tasks (MySQL, FTP, HTTP, SMB, automated tasks, automated backups) · Basic Windows administration skills · Demonstrate a good understanding of server security issues, and network/web protocols · Extensive Networking Experience (configuring/managing switches and firewalls) · Ability to troubleshoot and solve all day to day issues associated with the Network, Internet link, PCs, Printers and Phones · Self-motivated and able to work well both independently and as part of a project team · Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills · Highly organised with excellent time management and an ability to deliver on deadlines with multiple tasks · Demonstrated ability to quickly and effectively develop a good working knowledge of new technologies *Desirable skills and knowledge:* · Competent with C++ programming · Automated build/continuous integration tool administration
Re: [SLUG] evolution error log?
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.auwrote: Hi Sluggers, Does Evolution have an error log? Where is it kept? Do I have to do something magic to see it? Does this help? http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#How_can_I_see_what_my_filters_are_doing.3F Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] fun with bash
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 4:36 PM, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: this is something I do all the time and it works perfectly, but I'm sure there is a more elegant way to do it: $ for i in *.tif ; convert $i $i.jpg; done $ for i in $i.jpg ; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/.tif//`; done Apart from specific examples, where do I look in the bash book for a better way to remove the .tif part of the output filename, or other such substitutions? This is one way: $ for i in *.tif; do convert $i `basename $i .tif`.jpg; done - Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Writing a little utility to help me on something but having trouble.
Why does f stay blank?
d...@lin4:test$ echo foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }' | while
read s; do echo $s; f=$s; done; echo '$f'
foo
bar
''
As I understand it (only just looked this up), it's to do with the
fact that you're subshelling[1] by piping output to the while loop,
which makes the $f variable only visible in the subshell and not the
parent process. After the while loop ends, it returns control to the
parent process where the $f variable can't be seen. This works:
while read s; do
echo $s;
f=$s;
done (echo foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }')
echo '$f'
HTH,
- Gonzalo
[1] http://fvue.nl/wiki/Bash:_Piped_`while-read'_loop_starts_subshell
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Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help
2009/9/19 Rodolfo Martínez rmt...@gmail.com:
'while' continues until read fails, there is a 3rd 'read' (when it
fails) that clears 'f'
[mar...@amartir01 ~]$ set -x ; echo -n foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{
print $1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f ; done ; echo f=$f
+ set -x
+ awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }'
+ read s == First read
+ echo -n 'foo|bar'
+ f=foo
+ echo f=foo
f=foo
+ read s == Second read
+ f=bar
+ echo f=bar
f=bar
+ read s == Third read, the one that clears 'f'
+ echo f=
f=
++ echo -ne '\033]0;mar...@amartir01:~'
Yep, however, he is concerned with the variable 'f' being blank, not 's'.
- Gonzalo
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Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help
2009/9/19 Rodolfo Martínez rmt...@gmail.com:
Yes, but the last instruction is doing f=$s
Right, but f should be set to 'bar' since it won't go into the while
loop after the 2nd read (as it's a non true value). Well, it won't be
set to 'bar' in the OP's script because of the subshell.
About the sub-shelling stuff... in this case that is not why 'f' is blank
The 'while' is executed in the same shell
[mar...@amartir01 ~]$ echo $$ ; echo -n foo|bar | awk
'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print $1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f ;
echo $$ ; done ; echo f=$f
5997 == Same shell
f=foo
5997 == Same shell
f=bar
5997 == Same shell
f=
I believe $$ gives the pid of the parent pid. Quoting:
Within a script, inside a subshell, $$ returns the PID of the script,
not the subshell.
You could replace $$ with $BASH_SUBSHELL (boolean indicating if you're
in a subshell). Output:
$ echo $BASH_SUBSHELL ; echo -n foo|bar | awk 'BEGIN{RS=|}{ print
$1 }' | while read s; do f=$s ; echo f=$f; echo $BASH_SUBSHELL;
done; echo f=$f
0
f=foo
1
f=bar
1
f=
- Gonzalo
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Re: [SLUG] shell scripting help
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Gonzalo Servat gser...@gmail.com wrote: You could replace $$ with $BASH_SUBSHELL (boolean indicating if you're in a subshell). Output: Err, sorry, $BASH_SUBSHELL indicates the level of subshell (0 = parent, 1 = first subshell, etc), not a boolean. - Gonzalo -- 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 VPS to get an Australia IP address desktop
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Richard Hayes n...@nada.com.au wrote: Richard Hayes n...@nada.com.au http://us.mc252.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=n...@nada.com.au writes: I am setting up a VPS with RDesktop. Does anyone know of a good guide? Do you mean that you want to use the Windows RDP protocol to provide access to a Linux GUI? Otherwise, you probably want to clarify what you are trying to do. Sorry, I was not clearer. I need to have a remote user in China obtain an Australia IP address for their desktop. It is needed as local auction sites are not allowing overseas IPs to trade on the Australian sites. [..snip..] If that's all you need it for, wouldn't it be better/faster to set him up a proxy server on this end and have him point to the proxy when he wants to go on aussie auction sites? - Gonzalo -- 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 VPS to get an Australia IP address desktop
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.netwrote: [..snip..] Yup. The OP probably better find an Australian proxy to handle mail service, as well, and ensure that payment options don't trace back to China. Most online auction sites, like other businesses that face routine fraud attempts, take an extremely dim view of this sort of activity. Personally, I wouldn't touch the situation with a very long stick, but to each their own. I agree, but I was focusing on the technical aspect of the problem. Besides, we don't know the circumstances well enough to judge. - Gonzalo -- 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] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Andre Kolodochka kol...@gmail.com wrote: Given that my Lacie Ethernet disk just died, I was thinking of solid backup solutions for my personal files (20-30Gb). Since I have already Linux hosting with way more disk space than I need, I thought it will be great if I could sync a folder on my local drive to a folder on that Linux box... somewhere there. The problem is my local box running Windows, otherwise rsync would do wonders. Anybody knows of a good tool I could use to sync Windows folders to Linux ones? And the one that will work over Internet, not just LAN. There's also a port of Rsync for Windowshttp://www.itefix.no/i2/node/10650. Have you tried it? I've been using rsync on a Windows box and it works pretty well. There are probably Windows native tools to do this kinda thing, would be good to hear what others have to say on the subject. Cheers, Gonzalo -- 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] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Owen Townend owen.town...@gmail.comwrote: One 'Microsoft' way would be to use SyncToy[0]. To use it you would only have to mount a samba share from the linux box as a network drive. Another one that just popped into my head is Bacula, although it's a full-on backup solution and not as simple as rsync. It does run on Windows. Cheers, Gonzalo. -- 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] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: [..snip..] Actually, out of curiosity, and since I want to get rid of Asterisk and replace it with something (anything, so help me, anything at all) else. FreeSWITCH is popular at the moment; the only other convincing option I have run across is yate. So, dear lazyweb, can you tell me: Have you actually used FreeSWITCH or YATE in a small SIP-only environment? Did it work well, reliably and with minimal maintenance? Yes. It works reliably and I haven't touched it for weeks. Did it work effectively as an answering machine for home? That's how I'm using it right now and it does everything I need. I coded the IVR in Lua since it doesn't have a made up language like the AEL (eeek). Instead, you can code your IVR in Javascript, Lua, Python, Perl, etc. It does have a bit of a learning curve, but it's worth it. Check out #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net. - Gonzalo -- 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] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: [..snip..] Yes. It works reliably and I haven't touched it for weeks. Thanks. How difficult was the initial configuration, and does that include ENUM or other policy routing? Well, like I said, there is an initial learning curve (as you would expect with something as powerful as PBX) but as with what most/all people that use the software say about it: it's worth it. Yes, it has an enum module. It does have a bit of a learning curve, but it's worth it. M. Is there an out of the box solution to that need, or just the ability to build one? I can, I suppose, put one together, but something that just worked(tm) would be nice... Again, if you just want it to ring a couple of phones when a call comes in then it shouldn't be hard at all to do. However, if you want to build an IVR then you will probably have to code it up in one of the supported languages that I mentioned. Check out #freeswitch on irc.freenode.net. I appreciate the suggestion, but it is lacks much appeal for me; I strongly dislike IRC as a mechanism for technical discussion. That's a shame. A lot of projects use IRC as a medium for real-time discussion including FreeSWITCH. Is IRC considered the standard mechanism for FreeSWITCH support? There is a mailing list, as with most projects, as well as IRC support for those that required something a little more real-time. - Gonzalo -- 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] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony
(Oops, this was meant to go out to the list ...) On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au wrote: [..snip..] Interesting you should use the term PBXhow well does it cope with VoIP - ie logical phones (identified by internal extensions/owner) that are location (city, country etc) independent? I think it shouldn't be hard to do. I've not had the need to do something like this apart from being able to connect to FreeSWITCH from home remote, but it sounds trivial. And what is its reporting billing function like? I haven't had the need to do any billing with it, but as far as I know it has a mod_xml_cdr module which basically spits out all the data you need to do reporting in XML format so you can code your own app to process that data. I believe work is being done to integrate existing billing platforms with FreeSWITCH (ASTPP?). - Gonzalo -- 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] Ask SLUG - IP Telephony
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.comwrote: [..snip..] I have done a few installs with asterisk based soft/hardware. Expect some teething troubles. Get a dedicated adsl line if you are heavy internet users, QOS hasn't been much of a problem for most installs however. Run separate networks for voice and data. I use grandstream for the physical phones they seem pretty good, perhaps a little fragile physically (they reset if you bash them, moral of the story, don't bash them). Do NOT use cisco phones, that way lies madness. don't bother trying to run a hybrid between your new and old systems. Run in parallel for a bit if you can with all outbound calls on the new system. Then dump the old and go full IP. If you want some help with setup and demo drop me a line Another suggestion: check out FreeSWITCH. It's an alternative to Asterisk and I would personally never go back to Asterisk unless I absolutely had to (ie. gun to my head). - Gonzalo -- 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] Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, As promised here are the backup notes from my talk at SLUG on 28 Nov. Materials related to this talk are at http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/Presentations/SLUG2008/ (including a version of these notes). A note about style: this is a set of recommendations purely based on the fact that I have both backed my home data up AND recovered it. And having some working backup regime is better than none. I don't claim this is the One Best Way, merely One of the Adequate Ways That Isn't Entirely Maddening. [..snip..] Hi Mary, Thanks for sharing this with us. I had purchased a 500GB drive with an external SATA connector just for this purpose. I installed Bacula and started configuring it, then left it not-fully-setup and basically the drive had been sitting there for some time, simply because Bacula is awesome but it's a little too much for my needs. I think rdiff-backup is what I want. Just wondering: while I was running rdiff-backup, I noticed a lot of files were backed up that I could either delete or exclude from the next backup. Can I just simply go into my /media/disk and delete them? I guess I should get rid of any incremental files, if they exist. The idea was to backup a windows laptop too so I'll see how I go doing that. There is a native Win32 version of rsync-backup so I'm going to give that a shot. Failing that I'm going to try backing up via samba (using smbmount). Cheers Gonzalo -- 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] perl parsing
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[..snip..]
I have two gauges, so they output like so:
---
a1566b0c203d1477e0f205g
where 156.6 is the depth of tank1 in cm, 0 is the temperature sign bit,
20.3 is the air temperature at tank 1 in C, etc.
---
I've tried
$gotit =~ /a(\d+)b\dc(\d+)d(\d+)e\df(\d+)/;
and
$gotit =~ /a(\d+)b\dc(\d+)d(\d+)e\df(\d+)g/;
but I'm not getting it
Works for me:
my $str = 'a1566b0c203d1477e0f205g';
if( $str =~ /a(\d+)b\dc(\d+)d(\d+)e\df(\d+)g/ ) {
printf( DEPTH: %.1f\n, $1/10 );
printf( AIR TEMP: %.1f\n, $2/10 );
}
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Re: [SLUG] Linux client for Citrix Access Gateway?
(sorry Sridhar, replied to you directly instead of the list) On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're trying to deploy a Linux server into an all-Windows company. Our client is actually quite happy with this solution, but we were informed a couple of days ago that they have a Citrix Access Gateway VPN server that we must go through in order to interact with their network. I can't seem to find any clear information on how to connect to the VPN with our Linux server. The client Citrix refers to appears to be for remote desktop use through a Web browser, and is hence useless for a server. I don't know much about Citrix so I could be suggesting something silly, but I searched a bit of Google and found references to some Linux ICA Client that apparently connects to the Citrix Access Gateway. Have you used it? Is this the software they currently use on Windows desktops to connect to the access gateway? Failing that, maybe the Citrix Access Gateway VPN Server can be configured to allow other protocols? (like IPSec, and use something like FreeS/WAN to connect) Just throwing some ideas. - Gonzalo -- 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] Perl Question
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Peter Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[..snip..]
if ( $_ =~ m/^Box(\d) ([A-Z]+(\. | ?)[A-Z]* ?[A-Z]*).*?(\d).*?(\d\d\.\d
\d).*?(\d*\.\d\d)L/) {
$box = $1;
$name = $2;
$name =~ s/\.//;
$place = $4;
$time = $5;
$margin = $6;
}
Undoubtedly something simple that a self taught dummy has failed to
grasp.
Hi Peter,
I'm not too sure about this, but I believe when you do $name =~, you're
effectively starting a new regular expression which means it clears $1, $2,
$3, $4, etc (unless you use brackets inside the new regular expression).
Maybe someone else can explain it better than me? :-)
HTH!
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Re: [SLUG] migrating mail server Maildirs, howto copy ?
On Nov 8, 2007 10:21 AM, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] James, Dave, thanks between the time I copy it, and, the mail server is transferred, there are bound to be emails deleted/removed from main server, (as well as new ones added), I've done a few mail server migrations in the past and a bit of DNS trickery helps in not loosing mail. What I would do is set the TTL really low ( 10 mins) for the domain I was transferring (so that all records change their TTL for that domain) 2 or 3 days before the actual migration. On migration day, I would forward ports 25,110,143 (SMTPS, POPS and IMAPS (if you use them) to the new mail server to ensure any new mail is forwarded straight onto the new mail server. You would need to actually resend packets with the source address changed to be the old mail server so that packets are routed back through the old mail server (otherwise it wouldn't work ... A (client) - B (old mail server) - C (new mail server) - A (client) .. it needs to be A (client) - B (old mail server) - C (new mail server) - B (old mail server) - A (client) ), which means any emails will generate traffic for both, your old new mail server but since it's only for a period of 48 hours, for me it was never an issue. I would then copy all mail over (using whichever method you prefer .. as suggested by Jeff David). At this point it's probably a good idea to update the MX record (or the A record, if you want to keep the MX record it points to) so that it points at the new mail server. After 24-48 hours, I would turn off the port forward and monitor the logs to ensure no legitimate email is being received. Hope this helps. Good luck! - Gonzalo -- 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] migrating mail server Maildirs, howto copy ?
On Nov 8, 2007 10:51 AM, Gonzalo Servat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] I've done a few mail server migrations in the past and a bit of DNS trickery helps in not loosing mail. What I would do is set the TTL really low ( 10 mins) for the domain I was transferring (so that all records change their TTL for that domain) [..snip..] Sorry, I meant to say that you'd have to change the TTL for all domains hosted on the mail server. I confused myself (and possibly others) between migrating one domain and an entire mail server for a second. - Gonzalo -- 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] Can someone get this to work...
On 5/21/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or tell me where I am going wrong: svn co http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/team/group/res_config_ldap Try: svn co http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/team/group/res_config_ldap /view/ is specifically to view (web-based) the contents of the SVN repository. HTH, Gonzalo. -- 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] Perl/SSH Problem
On 11/3/06, Scott Ragen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why Choose not to use ssh keys. The default is to both allow passwords, and/or keys. I use SSH keys on many servers, but there are a bunch in this group where the admins have *blocked* use of SSH keys and thus I would like to have a system that works for ALL servers, and the only way I can see that happening is by letting the script send the password when prompted for it. You don't need root access to create a passwordless login (providing the admin's haven't explicitly changed the default). I know, but imagine asking a server admin in a company where there are lots of policies, bla bla, if I can have a passwordless login on an account with special sudo privileges :) Now the reason I suggested that is Net::SSH (Which cannot use passwords for login) uses Filehandles for reading and writing, so expect should just work(tm). Well, Net::SSH might not be able to, but Net::Telnet should be able to by creating the pseudo controlling terminal as the manpage clearly states (with an example and all) but for some reason the PTY is not catching the password prompt. Thanks for your reply. Gonzalo -- 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] Perl/SSH Problem
On 11/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] Passwdless login is infinitly better than passwd infact on my system: PermitRootLogin without-password with say 1024bit key and say 10^6 tries per second lets see ... 1024 log (2) / 10^6 is say 10^300 years to crack! Much better than any 10 char passwd. The weak link is storing YOUR private key. The rest is secure. Infact I'll TELL you my root passwd and you still can't get in I appreciate the suggestions, but I would still like to know why it doesn't work on my system. Putting aside that keys are better, passwordless logins are better, etc etc, I would like to know why it doesn't work on the 2 systems I've tried. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Perl/SSH Problem
Hi All, Here's a tough one, at least it has been for me! As you can see, I've almost given up. Here's the situation: I manage a lot of servers at my work. They are all *NIX and so I've decided to write a bunch of Perl scripts to handle a lot of the repetitive tasks I have to do on said servers. I started using Net::SSH::Perl and that worked great. Turns out some servers only allow Telnet (no, I'm not root on the servers, only manage accounts with limited sudo access otherwise I'd kick Telnet out in favour of SSH) so I turned the structured programs into an OOP one which worked well. Had SSH and Telnet now working. Here comes the hard part. I decided it was time to manage some interactive programs on said servers (say, passwd as an example) and so I started looking into the Expect module for Perl. Since Expect needs to either spawn a program or access a FH, Net::SSH::Perl no longer suited my needs. I started to look into spawning SSH from Net::Telnet, then using Expect on the Net::Telnet object. After looking at the man page for Net::Telnet, I found the SSH example. I copied and pasted exactly how it is and it was impossible to get it to work. It would connect to the remote server, but the program could never get the password prompt. It would see the permission denied messages, but NOT the password prompt. After some more reading tonight I discovered that, for security reasons, SSH writes to the controlling TTY, but with the Net::Telnet SSH example it should work as it is creating a PTY to do just that. Anyway, I did some more researching and found this excellent resource: http://www.modperl.com/perl_networking/sample/ch6.html Once again, I copied and pasted the code exactly as it is there, ran it and same problem. It can't see the password prompt that the SSH program is sending to the TTY! I'm pretty damn sure it is the fact that SSH is sending the password prompt to the TTY and Perl's PTY is not receiving it. Why? I don't know !! BTW, I'm not using SSH keys because of some limitations I have with a bunch of servers. The safest bet is for the script to send the password when it is prompted to do so, as this works on all the servers whereas public keys don't (again, I'm not root on them, so I can't fix it myself). Besides, it's far more entertaining finding the solution to the problem I'm having :-) If anyone has any thoughts, ideas, etc... I'd really appreciate it. Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] Gnucash v 2.0.0
Hi Leslie, On 7/14/06, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologise in advance for my phraseology, since I understand practically nothing of what I'm doing here. I installed the subject application, having formerly used v 1.8.12. With the old version, I was able to download share prices using a Perl module called Finance Quote (Finance::Quote?). To use the new version, an application that comes with Gnucash told me that I must get an additional Perl module called Crypt::SSLeay. I tried to find an appropriate RPM (I use Fedora), but couldn't. [..snip..] Try installing the openssl-devel RPM and try to install Crypt::SSLeay again. If it still doesn't find an OpenSSL installation, try entering /usr/include/openssl as the path. HTH, Gonzalo. -- 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] Faster boot times
On 5/27/06, Charles Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] I just tried to install it.. In my noobness :( now ubuntu wont boot... It gets to a point where it says: -runit: leave stage: /etc/runit/1 -runit: enter stage: /etc/runit/2 And there it waits :( Looks like another reinstall :( You don't have to re-install. Try editing the boot line from within the GRUB boot manager and get rid of the init=/sbin/rinit bit and see if it boots with /sbin/init. Failing that, you can boot off a Linux CD, mount the partition and remove the rinit changes you just made so it uses init again, or you can try and fix rinit. Cheers, Gonzalo. -- 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] mail alias problem
On 5/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Bit off topic but here goes: It is? [..snip..] I have a mail alias set up on one mail server (mailserver1) that sends mail for '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' When I send an email to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' directly I get the right stuff happening on mailserver2, namely in the maillog (on mailserver2) I see the mail is received and replied to (autoreply functionality) However when I send to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' I see the mail being received in the logs (on mailserver2) but not replied to. [..snipped some more..] The recipe for employment in the mentioned .procmailrc (on mailserver2) looks like this: :0: * ^TO_employment |/usr/local/foo/bin/progThatResponds Why isn't the mail to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' processed correctly? TO_ looks at Original-, Resent-, To/Cc/Bcc, X-Envelope and Apparently(-Resent)-To containing a specific address. I think the problem here is that the To address is still [EMAIL PROTECTED] and therefore doesn't match. What the mail server does is deliver the mail exactly as is to its new recipient employment. You probably want to have something like: :0: * ^TO_employment|jobs | /usr/local/foo/bin/progThatResponds Actually, come to think of it, try this and see if it works: :0: * ^TO employment | /usr/local/foo/bin/progThatResponds (note the removal of the underscore after TO). Let me know if that works. The difference between ^TO and ^TO_ is that ^TO_ looks at specific addresses, while ^TO looks at words. Hope this helps. Cheers, Gonzalo. -- 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] Invalid credentials error code 49
On 4/20/06, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I made my judgement based on the facts presented by Selim. The appearance of dc=example,dc=org in the DN has no bearing on DNS or network. It is merely an identifier within the LDAP directory itself. I will not wait for outcome when I can see that your misdirections will only lead them to waste their time. Jamie is right, the fact that Selim is using dc=example,dc=org is not the cause of the problem. As you can imagine, if there was any relation between the base DN and a real internet domain name, then the slapd.conf wouldn't include dc=example,dc=org as the default, they would make it dc=CHANGEME,dc=NOW and a big warning around it, don't you think? Selim: just for kicks, try generating a new password like: slappasswd -s foo and, obviously, paste it in the rootpw line, restart slapd and try to bind again. Any luck? Cheers, Gonzalo. -- 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] Invalid credentials error code 49
On 4/20/06, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, how will you explain the fact that the setup which I have just illustrated generates exactly the same error as the OP ? I can't explain something that you've done. What I *can* show you, to prove my point (and Jamies', while we're at it) is that the base dn has no relation to DNS whatsoever. See for yourself: (relevant parts from slapd.conf): suffix dc=slug,dc=org,dc=au rootdn cn=Manager,dc=slug,dc=org,dc=au # ldapsearch -x -W -D 'cn=Manager,dc=slug,dc=org,dc=au' Enter LDAP Password: # extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 etc ... To further prove my point, a tcpdump on port 53 revealed no activity when doing an ldapsearch or restarting LDAP, so I'm not sure at which point you seem to think some part of LDAP executes a DNS query to check the existance of the domain defined as the base DN. Cheers, Gonzalo. -- 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] Invalid credentials error code 49
On 4/20/06, Selim Jahangir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I have changed the password by typing following, still having invalid credentials 49. [..snip..] slappasswd -s foo rootpass [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# vi rootpass [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat rootpass/etc/openldap/slapd.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# Selim, That's not right. You put the root password on it's own line in slapd.conf. Edit slapd.conf, remove the line which contains the password on it's own, edit the rootpw line and paste the password generated by slappasswd. Alternatively, if you really want to do it from command line, remove the rootpw line altogether then save slapd.conf, and type something like the following in: # echo -e 'rootpw\t\t' `slappasswd -s foo` /etc/openldap/slapd.conf service ldap restart Cheers, Gonzalo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Warning impending flamewar (was: Re: [SLUG] Invalid credentials error code 49)
On 4/20/06, Asbestos Benno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to interrupt this currently scheduled thread to alert the list that this thread is about to become a *flamewar*. In the interests of not boring the entire list to death and scaring off a whole bunch of newbies, I implore those involved to please take any followups of list, or if you must just take it to slug-chat@ (and taking it to slug-chat@, doesn't mean CC-ing slug@ at the same time!). Thank you all for your time and understand, No worries Benno. I wasn't intending on replying any further as it will turn into a I prove this, and I prove that type discussion which can sometimes lead to interesting stuff, but I don't think it will be in this case. So end of thread. Cheers, Gonzalo. -- 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] Invalid credentials error code 49
On 4/20/06, Selim Jahangir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gonzalo Thank you so much. You have done the great work. Actually your command # echo -e 'rootpw\t\t' `slappasswd -s foo` /etc/openldap/slapd.conf Solved the problem. I have understood that the password I generated using slappasswd -s foo /etc/rootpass and then cat it to /etc/openldap/slapd.conf did not work because it adds some extra character , I realized now. You're welcome. Glad to hear it works now. Cheers, Gonzalo. -- 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] gzip from perl script
On 9/22/05, Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] do I simply add like: system(gzip $backuppath/$arr[1]-$year$month$day.sql); (and change the 'rm' line extension?) ? http://search.cpan.org Look for the GZIP module, nicer way of doing it. Also, you probably want to use unlink instead of that system rm command. There's probably even a MySQL module to do the MySQL dump. Usually it's best using those as it allows to look at return codes and it generally looks much neater in the code. HTH. Cheers, Gonzalo -- 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] Technical Help Required
On 9/9/05, Bill Greville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone and thanks for your replies. I have some more information in this on-going saga... I connected my laptop directly to the server via a cross-over cable. Tried to move a 1Gb file (laptop -- server) and the problem occurred again. I guess this excuses anything to do with cabling and the switch. Just a suggestion. To determine whether it's something to do with Samba or not, how about sticking a FTP daemon on the server and uploading the big file through FTP? Would be interesting to see if it works fine, then at least you'll know where the problem is. HTH, Gonzalo -- 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] Asterisk Open Source PABX software
On 8/24/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, if you are going to run it over broadband then make sure that it is symmetrical at all connect points. I wouldn't say make sure, I'd say it's probably better to have a symmetrical connection at all Asterisk points, however if you're using a low-bandwidth codec, you can get away with asymmetrical just fine (and traffic shaping if it's a busy network). I connect my Asterisk box on a asymmetrical connection to another Asterisk box with the same type of connection (512/128 - each box in different continents) and I don't experience major problems, granted I do VoIP packet prioritizing but it just proves the [a]symmetrical aspect is not an issue. That is, at least, in my experience. Also, the dialplan is not THAT hard to work out, just takes a little reading of how it works, reading how other people's dialplans work and experimenting. Great source of info is the popular: http://www.voip-info.org I started experimenting with Asterisk way before I got my hands on a ISDN card. Back then I started playing with dialplans, how to make menu's, wake-up call service (that I still use today!) and stuff like that. It's good fun. If you know Perl, writing AGI scripts provides endless posibilities. From what I've heard, the new Asterisk to be released in the near future provides a complete rewrite of the dialplan system and it's supposed to be much better, together with many new features. HTH. Cheers, Gonz -- 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] Asterisk Open Source PABX software
On 8/24/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I should have phrased that better. I use GSM as the codec and that is a bandwidth hog. The problem is that the really tight codecs are all proprietory. Yep, like G729, however I think GSM together with iLBC are 2 of the better ones to use as they are low bandwidth consumption, but I could be wrong. I am playing with PSTN cards and that is harder, mainly because of the echo. Yes, I too have a wake up call service using call scripts. Yeah, been there done that with PSTN cards and echo. I can't even remember how I sorted out my echo problems, but I had them with PSTN and the ISDN too. I remember reading a big long boring document about it since they always say it's important to understand how and where echo is generated. Haven't heard about the rewrite - I will check that out. I don't subscribe to the Asterisk mailing list because it's just too noisy, which is a strong indication of the interest, but there are a lot of posts from ppl who have plainly not RTFM... I idle in #asterisk on irc.freenode.net, that's where you hear about a lot of the latest developments with Asterisk as people like Brian West idle there too (occasionally Mark pops in, too). I remember being told by somebody the new dialplan is gonna rock. As for the noisy Asterisk mailing list, that's why Gmail was invented (at least for me!). I use it for personal mail and mailing lists (like SLUG). That way I read posts that capture my interest and then they are neatly tucked away in one of my labels out of my sight :-) Cheers, Gonz -- 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] E Commerce
On 7/13/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] 1. Fully hosted service ( would have to be linux based and a couple of them advertise that they are) using their online/offline shop configuration systems and payment gateways. Some of these seem to eliminate the need to be a credit card merchant but transaction fees are high. Yep, you'll probably loose some of your income if you use one of these. You did mention small craft shop so you're probably better off asking clients to use direct deposit, money order or if you want to accept credit card payments: PayPal/Paymate. 2. Build a system, probably using php and mysql, possibly based on one of the sourceforge Ecommerce projects and either link to one of the payment gateways and host it at any isp providing php. Yep, good option. I suggest something like osCommerce (at least it's the best I've found that is open source) 3. Although the bandwidth would be low, reliability concerns would seem to emiminate the option of self hosting at the end of an ADSL connection. If you're real low on budget, then yeah, why not. I'd avoid this like the plague though when you can get hosting from as little as $10/month. As for your cost effective way to receive credit card payments, look into Paypal/Paymate. If you do your own credit card processing, it will cost you a monthly fee even if you don't make any transactions, not to mention hassles with credit card fraud. Getting approved by banks as a merchant is not the easiest of things either. Hope this helps. Good luck! Regards, Gonzalo -- 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: Control Panel's on linux similar to that of say Plesk
On 7/13/05, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [.. snip ..] http://www.vhcs.net From having a quick look at the demo (purely from a UI perspective) it seems like the most user-friendly and feature-ful free control panel I've tried (not that there's a great variety). You'll (probably) never find a control panel with all the features the average web host needs, but it's probably a good base to start with and add wanted features to. The only other free control panel I tried, once upon a time, was ISPMan. Seems to have gone a long way since, maybe worth a look: http://www.ispman.net Cheers, Gonzalo -- 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] basic VoIP home/small office system
On 6/7/05, Julio Cesar Ody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Another option you have is to get ISDN (2 lines) and the AVM Fritz!PCI Card which *is* A-Tick certified. Only problem is it costs about 400% more than the real cost of the card, since it has the glorious A-Tick stamp on the card. Last time I checked they were going for AU$300 odd. Check: http://www.avm.de/en/partners/distributors/AUS/index.php You said they're not A-Tick certified and therefore not legal to be used in Australia. So that means to say I cannot have my standard phone line calls over IP just by signing up with a provider and having my own asterisk server configured to route them? (stardard hard lines == PSTN ?) I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. I'll explain what I meant by this: If you want to plug in your standard PSTN line into your system to receive and make landline calls through Asterisk, you will need a FXO card and the Digium card, at least, is not A-Tick certified (last time I checked anyway). If you just want to make calls through VoIP, you can just use a VoIP provider like Freshtel and receive calls through VoIP via a DID provider and you'll have no need for a FXO card at all. There are providers around, such as www.atp.org.au, that offer flat rate local and STD calls as well as DID numbers for a low cost, making the need for a FXO card unnecessary, more so if you're just experimenting. Thanks for your time. I'll dig into the sources you pointed. Most helpful. You're welcome. Good luck! Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] basic VoIP home/small office system
On 6/8/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..snip..] You can buy Digium cards in AU at http://www.austechpartnerships.com/atp/ If you are referring to this news item: ...The Digium TE110P has now been fully certified (A-ticked) for connection to the PSTN. (quoted from the site pasted above) The TE110P card, as far as I know, is only for connecting to a ISDN 10-30 service, not plain PSTN (FXO). The TE110P is advertised for $670 by ATP. The FXO module on the ATP site says This module is undergoing A-Tick certification. If the FXO module only (for the TDM400P) is advertised for $123 now, I would imagine it'll jump to over $300 once it is A-Tick certified, though there's been rumours the FXO would get A-Tick certified for over a year. I wouldn't hold my breath. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] basic VoIP home/small office system
On 6/7/05, Julio Cesar Ody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm thinking about doing a few VoIP experiments. I know I need an analog telephone adaptor if I have any plans to connect my current telephone lines to my Linux box: [... snip ...] Another great source of VoIP info is (funnily enough): http://www.voip-info.org It really depends on what you want to achieve. If you just want to experiment and see how it works, you can get away with using a software VoIP client, like iaxComm (for Linux/Win/others), X-Ten's X-Lite (www.xten.com), Firefly, and of course there are many more floating around. The Digium cards will help you if you want to receive and make calls through your PSTN line (I'm talking about the FXO cards here), however, they are not A-Tick certified so you couldn't use them in Australia (legally). You will also find a bunch of VoIP providers around Australia that will give you a direct indial number for a low monthly fee (such as $10/month) so you can receive calls to a number provided by them to your Asterisk server. This is pretty cool and costs less than the monthly rental from [insert telco]! There is also the #asterisk IRC channel on irc.freenode.net where you can occasionally get some good help from the guys. Always check the voip-info.org wiki, lots of good info on there. Good luck and hope this helps! Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] Postfix HELO host
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:27:17 -0700 (MST), Dennis M. Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how Postfix determines the host to use when sending a HELO to a remote SMTP server? Is there any way I can control that? I believe it uses whatever is set in $myhostname (which, unless set manually, uses gethostname()). I'm not sure this can be changed with some main.cf directive (google?), however, you *can* change the value of $myhostname which will change your HELO greeting, obviously. HTH, Gonzalo -- 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] Backup-web-server
On 22/07/2004 11:14 AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2004, Trevor Tregoweth wrote: Hi All after my last post, which i think wasn't quite to the point, i would like to find out how to have a web-backup server, and how to configure them, so that when one goes down the other takes affect. Thanks for you help and suggestions [..snip..] FWIW, I've setup a high availability/load balancing cluster using TurboLinux (which uses LVS). The way I did it was to have a 3rd server that had all the static content on it. If any changes were to be made to the web content, it would be done on this 3rd server. Whenever the user logged out of FTP, it would run rsync to copy the web content onto the front end web servers. If anyone tried to FTP to any of the front end web servers, it would forward the connection to the 3rd server. I guess the only problem with this setup is the single point of failure on the 3rd server, but since it's only holding content, if it goes down it simply means changes can't be made to the web content but at least the web servers can still answer requests on the content they already have. If you're using sessions and/or SSL, remember to maintain the connection to whichever front end server they connect to, OR ensure you share the session files across the web servers (we used file-based sessions and shared the directory over NFS for this). All in all, it worked reasonably well. Further to a high availability web server, if you also want to have mail on load balancing, it gets tricky unless you split users over multiple servers, and have a LDAP database or something that tells it which mail server the user is on. I found a program back when I was involved in this project that allowed you to connect to this IMAP/POP proxy daemon and it used LDAP to determine what server the user is on, and connected the client to it. Anyway, hope this helps. Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] Stop X from Blanking screen after inactivity
On 22/07/2004 1:29 PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have built a PVR, and running twm. Now the thing is that I would like to stop X in going into powersave mode, can anyone one assist? Hi Kevin, Don't know if this will help, but try man xset; specifically the xset dpms command. Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] Kernel exploit for all kernels 2.4.18
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 00:16 +1000, Paul Robinson wrote: Evening Sluggers, Saw this on overclockers.com.au tonight : http://reviewed.homelinux.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/ and a lil googling showed : http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/403593 Certainly looks nasty. Any one heard more on this? Here's a URL explaining it a bit further in detail: http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html Pretty nasty indeed. Scary to think a bug this serious didn't get picked up :) Regards, Gonzalo -- 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 being used to relay emails
On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 11:32, Jared Pritchard wrote: Hi - Got a little problem. =) We are getting reports back from other servers on the net saying our message from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] was rejected because of an attached virus. [..snip..] Has anyone got ANY idea on what could be happening? Has our linux server got a virus? (!?!!?!!) Is someone using our machine as an open relay? (I did take steps to stop that, and abuse.net reports our server as fine) Are our WinXP machines infected regardless of our anti-virus software? [..snip..] Anyone can forge a From address, so its possible that someone you've contacted by email before has a virus and it's setting the from address as random chars@yourdomain.com.au. To the untrained eye they would immediately complain to whatever the domain is shown on the From address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but if you look closely at the headers, it would normally indicate which server was used to SPAM through. You should probably also check your mail server thoroughly to ensure it does not relay emails from strangers. You can do this by telnet'ing to relay-test.mail-abuse.org, make sure you do this from the mail server in question as it will telnet back to you on port 25 and perform a series of tests. HTH. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] e100: eth0: e100_wait_exec_simple: failed
Hi All, My gateway has been running healthy for a long time. As of a few days ago, I noticed I was loosing connection to the network every night (my gateway acts as the DHCP server, so when it dies all computers on the network are affected). After looking at the logs on the server, I noticed the eepro100 driver was having problems (unfortunately I don't have the exact error message for the eepro100 driver). The only way I could get the server to work again was by rebooting it. I decided to try the latest e100 driver to see if that fixes it. Same sort of result, only with a slighty different error message: e100: eth0: e100_wait_exec_simple: failed (repeated many, many, many times) I've consulted Google on this error but didn't find much in the way of solutions. I've checked cron and there are no cron jobs at all for any user on the system. I figured since I've only noticed this behaviour at night, maybe there's something in cron causing this but there isn't. The gateway is running RedHat 7.3 kernel 2.4.19. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] squid reverse proxy
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:47, ksaenz wrote: I have been searching high and low, I was wondering if squid is capable of doing reverse proxy? Yup, it sure is. The following straight forward document should help: http://www.ngogeeks.com/node/view/272 Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] squid reverse proxy
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 12:02, Gonzalo Servat wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:47, ksaenz wrote: I have been searching high and low, I was wondering if squid is capable of doing reverse proxy? Yup, it sure is. The following straight forward document should help: http://www.ngogeeks.com/node/view/272 Actually, forget that. This is much better (which, incidentally, is linked off the above link): http://squid.visolve.com/white_papers/reverseproxy.htm Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] Mail Server Software...Which One???
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 11:36, Terry Denovan wrote: Hi, I want to be able to setup a Linux based Mail Server which will be able to replace my current Exchange Server 5.5. I need to be able to have all the mail, calendars, notes etcstored on the server so Outlook 2000 or 2002, will be able to access it all like it does with Exchange Server. Would you like any fries with that? :-) Seriously, as far as I know there are no Linux based solutions that will completely replace an Exchange server (not even commercial ones). You can do the mail server + webmail + imap/pop bit quite easily, but shared calendaring (not to mention shared notes) is the tricky bit. There are a few commercial solutions out there that could manage *most* of your requirements. Have a look at: http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/openexchange/ The above is the most affordable solution I found at the time when I was researching. It uses Cyrus as the IMAP/POP server and it has a web interface to manage it all. Can do shared calendaring, shared mail folders and it has an Outlook connector. As for open source solutions, try: http://www.opengroupware.org HTH and Good luck. Regards, Gonzalo -- 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] \setlength{\parsep}{15mm}
On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 12:40, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:33:58PM +1100, Terry Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Mary Gardiner wrote: [snip] Yes, thank you. That fixed it. Muchos Gracious (sp?) mucho gracias. Going OT now, but it's muchas gracias :) Gonz. -- 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] Asterisk VoIP usage and technical questions for australian conditions!
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:34, Del wrote: David Uzzell wrote: I sent an email to the Asterisk mailling list and got few and varied responses. I would be intrested in finding out if there are SLUG members using or deploying asterisk in australia? No, but I'm about to. Me too. Would also be intrested in sucess/failure stories on deployment of ISDN cards to run with asterisk? The one you're supposed to use is the new one from Digium, the TE410P. Apparently it works fine in Australia. It may be overkill if you don't need 4 ISDN ports but it works and it's not super expensive(*). Theoretically the E100P should work as well but I've heard of problems with it. This is just of the various Asterisk mailing lists. I've heard success stories also with the AVM!FritzCard (Austel Approved) which is worth approximately $350 (last time I was quoted). I've been told (check the Asterisk mailing list archives) that the NetJet ISDN cards (about half the price of the AVM!FritzCard) have some echo problems and don't have CAPI support, so I'm leaning towards getting the AVM. As for phones, I'm looking at getting a hardware SIP phone from http://www.chagres.net/products/voip/phones.html or I'll just use the X-Lite/X-Pro client from Xten (www.xten.com). I've been researching and testing Asterisk for the last week so the above is just some outcome of the research I conducted. HTH. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] work apparently available yet no-one seems interested
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I refer to the job set out below, which I found on JobNet. It has appeared repeatedly over the last few weeks and I am surprised the advertisers haven't been killed in the rush. Does anyone know why the job is still there? [..snip..] Please forward your resume to Nathan Holt :- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [..snip..] .au2 ?? Cool! and there I was thinking we only had one Australia! Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Testing Slug List
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 18:01, Stuart Guthrie wrote: This is test. I've posted to the list twice today and the posts are not appearing. I've received your DSPAM vs SpamAssassin post. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] OT: Affordable modems that work well with Vgetty
Hi Slugs, Sorry for the off-topic post. I'm looking for recommendations on any type of voice modem available in Australia that is affordable and works well with Vgetty. Maybe even someone selling one second hand? :) Thanks in advance. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Vgetty
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 17:24, Dave Kempe wrote: I haven't successfully setup vgetty, but I would be willing to bet the modems you tried are the same rockwell chipset. If I recall from my research (about 1 year ago), the rockwell chipset was support, but there was something about it that made it suck a bit. It did work tho. have you tried the VoCP people? Yeah, I'm pretty sure they are the same Rockwell chipset. I haven't tried them yet, simply because they only provide a frontend to Vgetty and I would have expected them to, in their own right, tell me to go elsewhere for help on getting Vgetty working. I suppose it can't hurt to try. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Opera leaking lots of memory...
Hi All, We now have water restrictions... now if only there was memory leak restrictions. /bad joke Every single day Opera seems to take approximately ~8 hours to leak enough memory to make this system lag beyond hope. Occasionally I get the chance to open an Xterm (after waiting half an hour) and kill Opera (another half hour) which brings things back to normal, but more often than not I give up after waiting long enough and reboot the box. I go to sleep and almost always wake up to a frozen screen, which makes sense as sleeping takes ~8 hours. Then it freezes again at ~5PM, which also makes sense. I'm using Opera 7.11 which is the latest stable version running on RedHat 9 kernel 2.4.20-19.7. Any ideas what may be causing it? Thanks in advance. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Vgetty
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:48, Grant Parnell wrote:
Works just fine with my Dynalink VQE1456 (model No from memory). Perhaps
lookup the manufacturer's site to see if you can find a technical manual
that lists the supported commands, particularly the voice ones and use a
terminal program such as minicom to just try them out manually - at the
very least it should tell you what it can and can't do.
I tried this. I fought long and hard to find a manual for this X-Link. I
went to www.xlink.com.au and the website has broken links galore so I
whois'ed the domain and called the owners and they barely know who
X-Link are and I got a name from them and he wasn't around, etc... I
rather get this Webexcel working though instead of the X-Link but at
this point any of the two will do.
One thing... sometimes the default output device doesen't make sense, when
using the 'vm' command eg 'vm play'. Actually, the 'vm' command is
completely independent of the vgetty binary, it just uses the config to
find out which modem to talk to which is probably how the test suite uses
it.
Yeah, I tried a few different output devices... internal mic/speaker,
dialup line + {int,ext} mic/speaker, etc... none worked. The modem
errored on the init commands every time for every modem.
Of course... have you tried something basic like getting the modem to
dialup something?
Yep, dialout as a regular modem is fine. I've not tested any of its
voice capabilities yet.
Thanks for your reply Grant.
Regards,
Gonzalo
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[SLUG] Vgetty
Hi All, Been trying to get vgetty working with a couple of voice modems. I have a WebExcel Voice/Fax/Data V.90/K56Flex and a X-Link 56k Voice/Fax/Data modem. Essentially I don't know which modem to use from the list of vgetty supported modems. There is a script called 'vgetty-test.pl' that comes with the VoCP package (it's a frontend to vgetty) which basically tries to play a sound file on every supported vgetty modem. In my case, the tests fail on both modems. Has anyone successfully setup vgetty and can point me in the right direction to determine whether either of these modems will work with it? Also, I've tried emailing the mgetty list but it's fairly inactive so I thought I'd try SLUG. Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] kill procesname, how ?
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:42, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm trying to kill a process by it's name, not by pid, but, can not figure out how to specify the process name to kill; [...] Look how simple it is: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enie=ISO-8859-1q=kill+processes+by+name+linuxbtnG=Google+Search The very first hit is the man page for killall which is the answer to your question. SLUG is a mailing list to help users with Linux questions. In future, it would be nice if you showed you researched a little before shooting off an email to the SLUG ML. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] CUPS Printing Garbage
Hi All, I'm running CUPS on a RedHat 7.3 box. The printer in question is a HP OfficeJet Pro 1150 Colour (non-postscript printer). I've setup 2 queues. One is a Raw queue (for Windows printing via IPP) and another queue using a PPD file for Linux printing. The Windows printing by IPP works fine, however the Linux printing doesn't. If I type: # echo foo | lpr .. then it prints to the Raw queue and that comes out OK. Of course sending a postscript file to the Raw queue prints out the postscript raw data. If I then type: # echo foo | a2ps -P HPOJ1150C_DRV .. it prints out garbage. Not postscript data but actual garbage for many many pages. I'm using CUPS version 1.1.17-13. Before I installed foomatic, I had a different problem where I would send the driver queue a print job and it wouldn't print and /var/log/cups/error_log reported Exec format error. I've since installed foomatic and at least it prints, but it's nothing but garbage as per the above description. Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: CUPS Printing Garbage
Replying to my own message... :) There are two possible drivers you can use with CUPS for my printer; cdj850 or cdj550. I kept using the 850 one. I just tried the 550 and it worked fine so all is well. Thanks anyway :) Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Server 'up'; but 'down' from external viewers...
On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 02:53, Jared Pritchard wrote: [...] Our main machine has two major websites stored on it. One is our ISPs, the other is the main website for the other business the boss runs. The ISP website is working fine. The Main website is not. Is this an httpd.conf error? maybe it started up wrong? (or an apache)... how can I restart those? When you say it's not working... what exactly do you mean? Connection timeout? Regardless, it's probably worthwile checking apache's access_log to see if Apache received the request. Other things to check are the error_log, and I would do a tcpdump to ensure the packet is arriving. Try and telnet from external yourself to port 80 and type: GET / HTTP/1.0 (provided it's an IP-based website, not name-based) Are you running a firewall on this server? I presume there's a firewall in between, though you can access the ISPs website and unless they aren't hosted on the same IP it's probably not the problem. I think it's something like 'apachelt restart now'that we use instead of httpd restart... where should I execute this? apachectl restart. Try and find where apachectl is: # updatedb # locate apachectl .. or simply: # find / -type f -name apachectl HTH, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Vendor demonstrations at SLUG meetings - what do yout hink?
On 28/08/2003 6:04 PM +1000, Rowling, Jill wrote: [...] Examples: (some of these obviously would have to be a graphical presentation rather than a demo) The Beowulf cluster of Sony Playstations; Sun LX50s (or whatever is replacing them); IBM mainframes running lots of Linux images Software vendors who are keen to announce the port of their application to Linux; Cyclades devices; Firewalls - in - a - box (running Linux) How about Email/Groupware Collaboration solutions aimed at replacing or providing an alternative to Exchange? such as Bynari, Samsung Contact, etc. Maybe vendors could pay a fee to demonstrate their product at SLUG meetings? (of course this would go towards the SLUG bank account) Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] SquirelMail without IMAP ? POP ? /Maildir ?
On 28/08/2003 6:35 PM +, Voytek wrote:
I'm hoping someone here can help:
I must introduce you to www.google.com{.au}. It is an extremely good search
engine and has the answers to a lot of your questions. :)
can SquirelMail run with only Postfix and /Maildir, no IMAP, no POP, like,
accessing mail from /Maildir ...?
Well, if you wanted to access Maildir directories directly it would require
the web server to have access to everyone's mailboxes. Not very secure is
it. I'm not sure if there are other reasons, but this alone is a good
reason not to implement such functionality.
I do not have IMAP, and, aim to install POP, but, at this time don't have
POP either
Why is installing an IMAP server such a problem?
must I have IMAP or POP before I can use it ?
Yes, you need IMAP. There is a POP3 plugin for Squirrelmail but I think
it's only for fetching mail from other POP3 servers once you are logged in.
the /etc/squirelmail config seems to only have setting for IMAP,
but not for POP, can it work with POP ?
See above.
sorry for asking lot of perhaps trivial Qs, BUT, I have been trying to
look up docs on SquirellMail, but, can't get on, it seems the
squirrelmail.org server is devoid of some files at this point:
Squirrelmail.org is down, yes, but Google isn't. :)
Regards,
Gonzalo.
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Re: [SLUG] /home/user permissions Q
On 26/08/2003 4:55 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote:
ahem, how I wrap it in a 'do for' loop
do for i in /home/* ..?
You could add regexp's to this but if you want the Maildirs created for all
the dirs in /home then:
for i in `ls /home/`; do
cd /home/$i
maildirmake Maildir
cd ..
chown -R $i $i
done
(presuming your users are named the same as your directories)
If you don't have the maildirmake utility, you can search google for it or
alternatively change that command to create the Maildir/{tmp,new,cur}
directories manually.
Gonzalo
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Re: [SLUG] /home/user permissions Q
On 25/08/2003 11:53 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote:
--
/home/sbt.net.au
drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Aug 6 22:22 sbt.net.au
---
should I chmod it to rwxrwxr-x ? or ?
I think you'll find the Maildir directory has to be owned by the user. So:
# cd /home/sbt.net.au
# chmod 700 Maildir
# cd Maildir find . -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
# find . -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \;
# cd ..
# chown -R user Maildir
Where user is the person who will be logging in to check sbt.net.au's
mailbox.
Best regards,
Gonzalo
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Re: [SLUG] simple graphic utility ?
On 25/08/2003 10:46 AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what's a good simple graphic tool for basics stuff such as resizing, croping etc ? GIMP Best regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- NOT SOLVED (grrrr)
The first word that comes to mind is rage. I left my machine alone for a while and when I came back I tried to move the mouse. The pointer would not move. I look at the clock, the clock did not increase count. I look down at the case, the hard disk activity light is permanently on. Oh no, the freezes are back. As usual, nothing in the logs to give me a clue of where the problem is. It did last the entire weekend (since I last posted a SOLVED email to Slug (that should teach me for posting too early)) but it's back. Any other suggestions? It has one other defect where you sometimes have to press the reset button a number of times before you actually get video output which leads me to believe maybe it is the motherboard. Thanks guys. Sorry about the hassle. Regards, Gonzalo On 9/08/2003 7:24 PM +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: Hi All, Thanks very much to everyone who had their input on my problem. The problem was indeed the power supply. It's been running for 1 day and 6 hours so far without a crash so I'm pretty certain (touch wood) that it's fixed. I learnt a few things from this problem: 1. It's not good to be a tight arse when it comes to hardware. Instead of buying a 400W PSU, I went for the 320W because it was cheaper and I thought it should be plenty. So what happened was I had to return the 320W but of course after a week you can't take it back (refund policy) so I now have a 400W and a 320W... and you know where I can stick the 320W? Good thing I had a box with a missing PSU so it's not such a waste. 2. The amazing effect a PSU without enough power can have on a system. It's scary to think that if nobody mentioned it could be the PSU I would have never figured it out. I wonder how somebody came to the conclusion that it's the PSU. 3. Athlons (in combination with this GA-7N400-L1 mobo) love power. I think that's about it. :) Again, thanks to all that replied. Lookout uptime, I'm back! Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes
On 7/08/2003 10:44 AM +1000, John McQuillen wrote: It's a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1 Your motherboard uses the NForce2 chipset, support for which, I believe, is best gained from the NVIDIA binary drivers available here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux.html I hope this helps, Thanks John. The drivers provided by nVidia are for the onboard ethernet (which I'm already using) and for the onboard audio. Best regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes
On 8/08/2003 9:59 AM +1000, John Clarke wrote: Power supply. I had a system which would randomly fall over with no apparent cause. I replaced the RAM, video and network cards, motherboard and CPU but nothing changed. Then one day, it wouldn't power up so I replaced the power supply and it's run perfectly ever since. This is the first thing I changed. I went out and bought a 320W PSU. It ran without a freeze for a few days but then it started the daily freezes again. Best regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes -- SOLVED (so far so good)
Hi All, Thanks very much to everyone who had their input on my problem. The problem was indeed the power supply. It's been running for 1 day and 6 hours so far without a crash so I'm pretty certain (touch wood) that it's fixed. I learnt a few things from this problem: 1. It's not good to be a tight arse when it comes to hardware. Instead of buying a 400W PSU, I went for the 320W because it was cheaper and I thought it should be plenty. So what happened was I had to return the 320W but of course after a week you can't take it back (refund policy) so I now have a 400W and a 320W... and you know where I can stick the 320W? Good thing I had a box with a missing PSU so it's not such a waste. 2. The amazing effect a PSU without enough power can have on a system. It's scary to think that if nobody mentioned it could be the PSU I would have never figured it out. I wonder how somebody came to the conclusion that it's the PSU. 3. Athlons (in combination with this GA-7N400-L1 mobo) love power. I think that's about it. :) Again, thanks to all that replied. Lookout uptime, I'm back! Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create
On 6/08/2003 12:40 AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: Install gcc-c++ RPM thanks, Gonzalo. I d/l the rp, but, it says: # rpm -i gcc-c++-2.96-113.i386.rpm package gcc-c++-2.96-113 is already installed tried 'F' # rpm -F gcc-c++-2.96-113.i386.rpm but it still fails with $ ./configure checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot eate executables See `config.log' for more details. What does config.log say? Usually that error means you don't have gcc-c++ installed but you evidently do. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot create
On 6/08/2003 5:10 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Gonzalo Servat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:45:34 +1000 What does config.log say? Usually that error means you don't have gcc-c++ installed but you evidently do. thanks, Gonzalo, Jeff. log This file contains any messages produced by compilers while running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake. It was created by configure, which was generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57. Invocation command line was [..snip..] configure:1589: checking for C compiler default output configure:1592: gccconftest.c 5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:1595: $? = 1 configure: failed program was: [..snip..] See Voytek? Sometimes it's a good thing to do what the computer suggests. See config.log for details and there was your problem. As you can see, it can't find crt1.o which is part of the glibc-devel RPM. Install it and you should be good to go. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes
On 7/08/2003 10:29 AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
Gonzalo Servat wrote:
FWIW, the system is running Gentoo kernel 2.4.19,
dons asbestos suit {:-) that is obviously your problem. One of your
libaries needs a recompile /asbestos suit
:-)
Did you say new CPU mobo?
But you didn't list your mobo.
It's a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L1
HW freeze up problem solving 101.
(a)The easy 1 on 1 method.
Replace each and every hardware item one at a time for a period, say 24
hours (a week sounds better in your case since it only happens once a
day), until you replace the item that is broke = your system no longer
has that fault.
Yeah, but as I said it only started happening after the upgrade to a new
mobo/CPU/RAM. What I should do is stick the old motherboard back in for a
week and see if happens again. If it doesn't, at least I'll know it's
something in the new combo.
Have you done the basic cable/chip wiggle test? (remove+replace),3, *
every cable and chip[1].
Sorry Terry, I don't follow this (remove+replace),3,* process?
Checked error/message logs?. A faulty CD drive/HD on the way out can do
this (timeout messages)
Sure did. Absolutely nothing that would indicate a fault in the logs.
Regards,
Gonzalo
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Re: [SLUG] swiftel?
On 11/08/2003 1:59 PM +1000, Del wrote: Hi, So who here uses swiftel DSL? Their pricing looks pretty good and since my normal providers don't do a reasonably priced 512/512 I'm considering switching a few customer sites over to them that need that sort of plan. $6/GB for excess traffic is fairly cheap. I'm on the Swiftel 1.5/256 10GB plan... so far, so good. I switched to them from iiNet as iiNet was really unstable for me (it was either Telstra or iiNet's fault (or both)) but since I've switched to Swiftel, no dramas. PPPoE easy to set up or not for their network? I have one site requiring a fairly tricky set of route entries (complex back end network including wireless links to other sites with their own DSL connections) so I need to use a standard Linux box and custom build the route tables. I'm using PPPoE on a Linux box and yep, no problem at all (using rp-pppoe) HTH, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes
On 7/08/2003 9:40 PM +1000, Patrick Lesslie wrote: I have a very similar system, (Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550 dualhead) and apparently the same problem. I have heard that Athlons like this suffer from overheating, so I assumed it was that. It freezes sometimes when there is a lot of system activity, so I put in more fans. While it hasn't helped much, I haven't ruled out overheating. But I've never tried ACPI modules. It sounds good to me I've tried removing the G400 too just incase it was the video card overheating (I replaced it with a PCI S3) but it froze too (rather quickly I might add). I also ran lm-sensors overnight and left it as sticky on my desktop and on the upper layer, so that if it freezes I'll see what temperature it last recorded. It was 0C degrees when it crashed last night. I've had acpid running with the relevant ACPI modules installed for processor, system, etc since last night but it still froze overnight. As I said in a previous email, I'm downloading Knoppix now to try and rule out whether it could be the OS doing it. As you can see, I'm going to all lengths to stop this annoyance :) Best regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Random System Freezes
Hi All, I'm experiencing complete (and random) system freezes every day or two. I've not found a pattern yet, it happens at random. System specs as follows: Athlon 1800+ CPU 256MB DDR Matrox G400 Dualhead 2 x HDD 2 x SCSI CDROM 1 x FDD First I thought it was maybe overheating so I installed lm-sensors. It didn't seem to be overheating, so I left it running for a while and the levels continued to look OK. It was then suggested to me that maybe my PSU was either not powerful enough or dodgy. It was only a 200W so I went out and bought a 320W PSU. It looked promising as it didn't crash for *gasp* 4 days! but it froze on me twice last night. Since then, I've been running memtest. 8 hours 46 passes later with no errors, I'm thinking it's not the RAM (the CPU, mobo and RAM are all brand new). My system was fine before I upgraded to a new mobo/CPU. FWIW, the system is running Gentoo kernel 2.4.19, and also when I say system freeze I mean the system just locks up. Can't press CTRL-ALT-F1, can't ping it, etc. As you can imagine it's really annoying so I was hoping someone could shed some light on this. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes
On 8/08/2003 10:26 AM +1000, David wrote: On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Gonzalo Servat wrote: On 7/08/2003 9:40 PM +1000, Patrick Lesslie wrote: I have a very similar system, (Athlon 1800+, Matrox G550 dualhead) and apparently the same problem. I have heard that Athlons like this suffer from overheating, so I assumed it was that. It freezes sometimes when there is a lot of system activity, so I put in more fans. While it hasn't helped much, I haven't ruled out overheating. But I've never tried ACPI modules. It sounds good to me I've tried removing the G400 too just incase it was the video card overheating (I replaced it with a PCI S3) but it froze too (rather quickly I might add). I also ran lm-sensors overnight and left it as sticky on my desktop and on the upper layer, so that if it freezes I'll see what temperature it last recorded. It was 0C degrees when it crashed last night. ^^ zero centigrade? no wonder it froze! (sorry... I couldn't resist) On a more serious note, isn't there a lower temp limit as well as a high one? Where I live, low temperatures are never a problem, and I've never heard of machines dying from low temps., but presumably it's possible. Lower temp limit is +20C and max is +60C so you could be right. At the moment it's sitting on -29C (so it says anyway).. but it's not freezing, yet.. I had another freeze this morning.. ggr! Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes
On 7/08/2003 7:21 PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Gonzalo, Try removing everything that is *not* absolutely needed in the computer. Ie all the cards that are not needed. Could be one of those causing the problem. Remove *one* of the memory chips if possible and leave the other in. then change it over. some systems will allow this. remove CDROM temporarily if not needed etc. Also unplug/replug in everything a few times as mentioned in another post. check that there are no bent pins on devices too. swap keyboard and mouse, monitor if things start to get desperate. I've had them cause computer hiccups in the past. take an image of the machine that you can restore later with imaging software and install the operating system again. if it falls over again it's most likely hardware... perhaps... you know... try different stuff... I'm going to try the SCSI card next, although unlikely to be causing any problems. Unfortunately it's one 256MB DDR stick so I can't remove half as you suggested. What I'm going to try after removing the SCSI card is running Knoppix on it for a few days just to be absolutely certain that it's not the OS. Thanks to all who replied and keep the suggestions coming :) Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes
On 7/08/2003 11:14 AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you run a complete memory test over the system. Quite often these sort of things are a dud memory chip. Yeah, I ran memtest for 8 hours overnight with no problems. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] compiling courier imap, compiler cannot createexecutables
On 5/08/2003 11:26 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: [..snip..] what am i missing ? Install gcc-c++ RPM Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: BIND zone file Re: [SLUG] vhost HTTPD.CONF: hostname-less webserver, can I have a
On 28/07/2003 3:09 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: [..snip..] what do I need here: zone file has: @ IN SOA wombat.sbt.net.au. admin.sbt.net.au. ( 0010 ; Serial number for this data (yymmdd##) ..stuff removed... ; IN NS wombat.sbt.net.au. IN NS echidna.sbt.net.au. ; IN MX 10 echidna.sbt.net.au. ; localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 www IN CNAME web.sbt.net.au. ; I tried ww2 IN CNAME koala.sbt.net.au. domainname.org.au. IN CNAME koala.sbt.net.au. www2.domainname.org.au worked OK domainname.org.au did NOT work what have I forgot ? Change the last line to: @IN CNAME koala.sbt.net.au. Since the zone you are editing is domainname.org.au, you use @ to reference the domain name on it's own. Regards, Gonzalo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Quiet keyboards
On 29/07/2003 12:49 PM +1000, Andrew Monkhouse wrote: Not quite Linux I know, but SWMBO is complaining about the noise I am making while typing. I do have a noisy keyboard, and I type fast, which makes for a lot of fast loud clicks, which gets her heart racing. So I am looking for a very quiet keyboard. Must be compatible with Linux (cannot imagine any problems with that though). Anyone have any suggestions? Instead of getting a new quiet keyboard, how about a new quiet SWMBO?? :-) Only joking... :) I'm using an A4Tech el-cheapo Wireless mouse/keyboard and it's not too bad in terms of noise. I doubt it'll still be in one piece in 6 months time. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] vhost HTTPD.CONF: hostname-less web server, can I havea single vhost config ?
On 28/07/2003 1:58 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: to have a webserver www.mydomain.com anwser as BOTH: http://www.mydomain.com/ and http://mydomain.com/ what do I need: DNS A record: mydomain.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Plus, of course, your www.mydomain.com. entry like: www.mydomain.com. IN CNAME mydomain.com. in httpd.conf, can I have BOTH entries in a single vhost entry like this ? VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/mydomain.com/www ServerName www.mydomain.com ServerName mydomain.com ErrorLog path/to/log CustomLog path/to/log /VirtualHost *if* I need two VHost sets, can I have SAME log in both ? You can have it all in one. Instead of: ServerName mydomain.com .. change that to: ServerAlias mydomain.com You can add more aliases after the mydomain.com. eg: ServerAlias mydomain.com somethingelse.mydomain.com hisdomain.com HTH, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] vhost HTTPD.CONF: hostname-less web server, can I have asingle vhost config ?
On 28/07/2003 1:58 PM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: to have a webserver www.mydomain.com anwser as BOTH: http://www.mydomain.com/ and http://mydomain.com/ what do I need: DNS A record: mydomain.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Plus, of course, your www.mydomain.com. record like: www.mydomain.com. IN CNAME mydomain.com. OR www.mydomain.com. IN A same IP as mydomain.com points to in httpd.conf, can I have BOTH entries in a single vhost entry like this ? VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80 ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /home/mydomain.com/www ServerName www.mydomain.com ServerName mydomain.com ErrorLog path/to/log CustomLog path/to/log /VirtualHost *if* I need two VHost sets, can I have SAME log in both ? You can have it all in one VirtualHost entry. Instead of: ServerName mydomain.com .. change that to: ServerAlias mydomain.com You can add more aliases after the mydomain.com too. eg: ServerAlias mydomain.com somethingelse.mydomain.com hisdomain.com HTH, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Shared calendar apps
On 21/07/2003 3:47 PM +1000, Daniel Harper wrote: Hi, Are there any decent shared calendar applications that'll run over a WAN, allow each user to have a local calendar (possibly synced with a PDA), and allow selected events to be synched with a shared (web accessible) calendar? It's also got to be reasonably easy to interface with Windows apps that'd otherwise be talking to Exchange, and to other apps that use the Ical format. Hmmm, until you mentioned the ICal bit I was thinking SuSE OpenExchange. It's not free, but it can do a lot of that. It has some PALM Syncing support, and the calendar is web-based as well as a Windows app to replicate tasks/calendar/contacts to the server. It's not the most rock-solid Windows app, but it's getting there. You'll find it at: http://www.suse.com HTH and regards, Gonzalo. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] httpd dead but subsys locked ?
On 20/07/2003 1:43 AM +, Voytek Eymont wrote: what does one do with this ?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd status httpd dead but subsys locked [..snip..] Try: # killall httpd # rm -f /var/lock/subsys/httpd .. then: # service httpd start [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd reload Reloading httpd: [FAILED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd stop Stopping httpd:[FAILED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]# /sbin/service httpd start Starting httpd: Processing config directory: /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/*.conf Processing config file: /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/sbt.net.au.conf Processing config file: /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/vhost.conf [FAILED] I'd try running apache manually to see if outputs a little more information on why it failed. Try: # httpd .. or: # apachectl start (presuming the above 2 commands are in the path) HTH, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Take 1.5 hrs to learn why linux sucks. ;)
On 11/07/2003 12:44 AM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 76958435 YAHOO: blindman01_2000 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: captain nemo 200 IRC: irc.awesomechat.net: IRCNICK: blindman CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld #audiofile #mauisun Hey Shaun, have you considered listing all the mailing lists you're subscribed to as well?!? Bus stops? The roads you frequently drive on? The list goes on! Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildir structure
Hi All, Does anyone know of a way to convert Courier-IMAP Maildirs (including folders) to Cyrus Maildir? Cyrus uses numbers for each message (ie 1. 2. 3.) so renaming them is trivial, but does Cyrus then simply scan the folder for all emails when a user logs in or do you have to run some command to re-write the Cyrus index files for that folder? I guess converting folders and the rest wouldn't be too hard either using Perl. I'm trying to switch to Cyrus without causing any disruption (eg, I don't want emails to appear as 'new' next time the user logs in) Thanks in advance. Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildirstructure
On 9/07/2003 4:50 PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: If you have a mail client talking to both the old and new servers at once, it might be as easy to just move the messages from one folder to another using that client. The mail would all have to move through the client, but it might be faster than writing a script. IF you can do it with a mail client on the mail server then that stands in for your script pretty well. If it was for only one client, sure (even though not many mail clients copy a bunch of folders across IMAP servers) but we're talking 200+ users here :) Regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Converting courier-imap Maildir to Cyrus Maildirstructure
On 9/07/2003 3:14 PM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi Slightly differnt question, can I create cyrus mail boxes just by creating the directories or do I have to use the cyrus-adm prog. Looking to try and sync cyrus with getent passwd AFAIK, you need to use the cyradm utility. Best regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] request tracker -- worth it?
On 7/07/2003 8:55 PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been looking for issue/problem/request tracking software, and have send RT (request tracker) (http://bestpractical.com) recommended in many places. Well spotted. :) I've had a go at installing it but I must say it is _the_ most difficult program I have had to install from source in over 10 years. It seems extraordinarily sensitive to versions in all it's bits (perl, perl modules, mysql, apache modules), and even if I do get it running I suspect it's going to be hell to maintain/fix. Yes, it does need about 5384384343 perl modules. It does come with a script to find all its dependencies and install them for you using CPAN. I had no trouble doing it this way. To my question ... is it worth it? Is it really so much better than other request/issue/problem trackers? e.g. scarab.tigris.org for instance? Does anyone have any other suggestions? IMHO, it is worth it - specially for version 3. It's a huge improvement over version 2. It does take a little bit of reading to get used to it's permissions system but once you get the hang of it you'll love it. HTH and regards, Gonzalo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
