Re: [SLUG] script to analyse syslog in realtime
If you want something light for ad-hoc checks I use a bit of perl like this
that uses a dumb match of part of the date-time string as a key into a hash
of counts:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#
use strict;
use warnings;
my %events_per_minute;
while()
{
chomp;
if (m,to svrdmz:NTP/123 \(NTP/123\),) {
$events_per_minute{substr $_, 0, 12}++;
}
}
my $key;
foreach $key (keys %events_per_minute) {
print minute: $key count: $events_per_minute{$key}\n;
}
Of course you can improve this e.g. pass the event to match as an arg.
Pipe to the usual sort -rn | head to get the top minutes by number of
events.
Preceded it with the tool since to only apply to events since the last
time you checked.
For fancier setups, use the tools mentioned by others or the venerable
swatch
Regards,
Matt
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Chris Barnes chris.p.bar...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi everyone,
my firewall logs everything to a syslog server - new connections,
terminated connections, etc
basically what im trying to do is analyse the syslog in realtime looking
for a specific string which indicates a new connection has been
established, and to count the number of occurrences of that string to get
an idea of how many connections per minute im getting for a particular
internet service so that I can graph it.
An example of the significant line in syslog im looking for is:
Feb 14 11:42:52 10.1.1.1 : Feb 14 11:19:47 EDT: %PIX-session-6-302015:
Built inbound UDP connection 3523357 for Outside:124.178.41.91/123 (
124.178.41.91/123) to svrdmz:NTP/123 (NTP/123)
I can use the following to watch the log for the specific event
tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep to svrdmz:NTP/123 (NTP/123)
But I cant figure out a way to programatically count how many of these
events occur per minute.
any suggestions?
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Kind Regards,
Christopher Barnes
e. chris.p.bar...@gmail.com
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Re: [SLUG] updated kernel causing problems
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 08:02:14PM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: Hi Thanks all. Much appreciated. For future reference in the archives I did the following... rpm -qa | grep kernel Fwiw (not much :-) this lists the kernels a bit less typing and a more accurate result: rpm -qa kernel grepping might get you kernel-firmware, kernel-devel, kernel-blahblah I would think it was a bad download originally so I would retry the [...] Pretty unlikely; Centos rpms are hashed and signed. -- 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] Linux drivers for Inno3D GF GTX 570
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:17:44AM +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: Thanks Dion, ok now where is download drivers? I've searched everywhere... looks like a Gnome desktop so perhaps I don't have the download drivers package installed? I've gone through all the menu's. Is there a command line instruction or a yum package for this? Yes, though it's a long time I've used it. It worked pretty well for me when I did. It might lag a little behind the nvidia.com downloads. See http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia You'll probably have to enable rpmfusion first: http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration PS. If you see references to livna when searching for nvidia rpms, then take that to mean rpmfusion these days -- they fused. Matt -- 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] Traffic control
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 02:29:48PM +1100, Jim Donovan wrote: Recently my ISP discontinued the ADSL plan I was on and put me on another plan with three times the bandwidth. This is fine however one of the kids likes watching YouTube and can now chew up a month's data in a few days. [ .. ] Jim, I suggest using a caching proxy like squid. They're very effective because kids tend to watch the same vids over and over again. You can set all sorts of limits within squid, too like time of day restrictions. Matt -- 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] mkdir
Grant Street gra...@al.com.au gave the answer previously, chmod 2755 topdir which sets the setgid (the 2) and relaxed perms (the 755) But this didnt fix the existing dirs group ownership. Also you might want 775 instead of 755. See below for my take. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:44:41PM +1030, Glen Turner wrote: [ .. ] directory -- search for sticky bit on directory. Even that might not not sticky bit, setgid bit (common mistake) give the group access, it depends on the user's umask. The better couple of invocations are: chmod g+s topdir # set topdir setgid bit so group ownership is preserved chgrp -hR SOMEGRP topdir# repair group of existing files and dirs chmod -R g+rwX,o+rX topdir # to repair permissions for existing files and dirs I tend to use symbolic rather than octal, tends to be easier to remember and more precise/accurate. PS. exercise for the reader , find out what the -h and the capital X do (they're important!) Matt -- 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] Wiki software
If you're considering a git backed wiki like others have suggested you could do worse than use the one that github uses; gollum. https://github.com/github/gollum -- 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] Was 'kernel panic', now '/usr/sbin/: Not found.'
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:10:45AM +1200, adam.bogacki wrote: I mount dev, proc, sys, and usr on /dev/sda (aka w1), and What does df or mount show at this point guest@guest:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/w1 /bin/bash and this point -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I add a file (zip) to a package without compressing it
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 09:11:20AM +1000, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Marghanita da Cruz wrote: pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: snip zip -0 file.epub mimetype -0 says don't compress. It's a zero, not an `oh'. snip Thanks - looks like the command I was looking for. Any suggestions of how to fix this problem? ERROR: test6.epub: extra field length for first filename must be 0, but was 21 The requirements for the mimetype file are a)no LF or LF/CR at the end of the line in the file b)it must be the first file in the package I can't figure out how to check either of these or specify them, or whether they are relevent to the above error. Goog search reveals: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/epub-notes.html The Linux zip(1) command If you use the Linux zip(1) command to update or create EPUB files you must use the -X, --no-extra command-line option, if you do not the platform dependent extra fields will confuse epubcheck(1) which will emit errors like “extra field length for first filename must be 0, but was 28”. BTW, have you considered using http://calibre-ebook.com/ I think it's in most distros and on windows. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Hacked email
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 09:23:14AM +1000, david wrote: [ .. ] I'm on Darren's address book, so I got the scam request for cash from his account. It looked perfectly genuine at first although the return address was dagibbs@Ymail instead of gmail. This is the thing. Surely all a gmail users correspondents can vouch for the user. This should be enough for them. Particularly gmail correspondents who have archived mail. That can't be faked. Or would be very hard to fake. Matt, who knows someone similarly affected. -- 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] Tape Backups and Scripting
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 06:25:29PM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: [ .. ] I have looked at Bacula (a pain to install on CentOS 5.6) and had a amanda and bacula are available for centos -- bacula is in EPEL I would strongly suggest you use an existing backup system rather than roll your own If you use tar, at least set the blocking high to increase performance. There's a probably a million other details that are builtin knowledge to existing backup systems. -- 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] Linux in Australia in 2012 - trends..
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:50:47AM +1000, David Lyon wrote: [ .. ] Yes Ubuntu is nice, but Android is surely set to be a competitor ? ChromeOS is the more direct competitor. The big selling point is no admin necessary and safer browsing (probably) and more virus resistant. (possibly) Of course, TANSTAAFL. You pay in reduced privacy. -- 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] Android ssh, nix.tools?
Yep connect bot is what I use. Read the docs though, keys like control and meta are a hassle. And differ a little depending on your device. I like Netcounter for data usage; free and open source. http://www.jaqpot.net/netcounter/ by Cyril Jaquier but of course available on the Market. VNC I think is available but way too small a screen for me. There are various remote control apps, (e.g. gmote) they might be customisable for sysadmin type stuff. On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:23:38AM +1000, Mark Walkom wrote: ConnectBot seems to be the one to use. If you haven't already, root your phone! On 22 April 2011 07:00, Voytek Eymont voy...@sbt.net.au wrote: (Is Android slug or chat?) What's a good ssh client ? what other good tools are there (so I can pretend to be a sysop)? IMAP client? Data traffic logger? Voytek ___ Sent from my iPalm/A with SnapperMail ™® www.snappermail.com -- 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] Help with files that have identical filenames
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Re: [SLUG] solr jetty on ubuntu
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Re: [SLUG] solr jetty on ubuntu
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:44:02AM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:16:35PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I have installed solr Jetty on Ubuntu and when it starts in jetty with 'java -jar start.jar it responds and has a solr directory. Does not work cleanly because it cannot find javac. Do you have the jdk installed? To elaborate, do you have openjdk-6-jdk installed, not just openjdk-6-jre or other jre. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Sun Ultra II dual 400MHz, SGI Indy
Hi, I have two oldish ^W classic bits of Sun and SGI hardware to give away. 1. an SGI Indy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy This is a bit of internet and computing history, as it's the type of machine that Mosaic was written on (forerunner of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator then Firefox) See http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html I have an Indycam and everything! 2. Sun Ultra Enterprise 1 3. Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise#Ultra_workstation-derived_servers The 2 has dual 400 MHz cpus and I think 512 ram (maybe 1gb) The 1 has ... I dunno! There are also a bunch of Sun multipacks with some unknown number of 4gb and 9gb scsi disk inside. Plus appropriate scsi cables and whatnot. These are entirely as is but free -- if they don't work you get to keep them anyway. :-) They did work last time they were turned on, which is about 7 years ago in the case of the Indy and 5 years in the case of the Sun machines. I'd rather you picked them up but can deliver in Sydney metro area if bribed. Also, I'd like to get rid of them by the end of the weekend otherwise there's a chance they'll end up in a skip. Regards, Matt ps. Kuroneko has dibs as I think I mentioned these to him before and he expressed an interest. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I create same IP address in Local Address and Foreign Address in netstat ?
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 05:26:24PM +1100, Minh Van Le wrote: How do I establish a connection where the localhost IP are both in the Local Address and Foreign Address columns of netstat ? You might try the -b flag to telnet or the -s flag to nc (netcat). Haven't tried this, myself :-o -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: XecureBrowser - looks like snake oil to me. (was Re: [SLUG] Browsers for banking)
You might even want to as far as creating another user to run the bancking browser as. I'd trust OS enforced separation a little more than application level separation. You can use other levels of isolation as well -- e.g. selinux sandbox, VMs (virtualbox or other) etc. Sometimes it's all to nought though as the weakist link in the chain is people. -- 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] Long lines in /var/log/httpd/access_log
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 06:25:34AM +1000, Rick Welykochy wrote: Jim Donovan wrote: GET /documents/url(data:image At a glance, this is a request for a data: URI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme There are exploits involving this rarely used URI scheme. http://www.google.com.au/search?q=data+uri+exploit Do you recognise the requesting IP address? Jim, the ip belongs to Bell Canada -- their ISP business I guess. HTH -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:49:51PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: Matthew Hannigan m...@zip.com.au Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:56:36 +1100 Fun fact: it has a tiny embedded linux on it just for playing dvds so you don't have to boot into Windows to play dvds. Hi Matthew, My HP has exactly the same thing. The laptop even has buttons exclusively for this. Starts in about 6 seconds. Brilliant idea. I don't know why more laptops don't have it. Nice, what model is that? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.
Here's a CNET discussion which identifies the Linux (sidux - debian sid variant) and a source download link! http://forums.cnet.com/7723-7587_102-236544.html source code: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericSoftwareDownloadIndex?lc=encc=ussoftwareitem=ob-29445-1 It's not clear whether this is the same as Samsung's or Dell's equivalent, but I guess it is (or was) Samsung used to make Dell or HP laptops under contract. Apparently later laptops started using Windows based software for this non-boot dvd feature. On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:06:22PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Matthew, It's a HP DV14AP - it's not in front of me at the moment but I'm pretty sure that's the correct model etc. I bought it a few years ago, but I'd be surprised if the newer HPs didn't have the same function and keys. My kids used to use it to watch DVDs until we got a TV from through Freecycle. Regards, Patrick -- www.techfriend.com.au Home computer software training and hardware assistance www.mercuryvideos.com.au Stylishly edited DVDs of your photos and videos On 18/10/10 10:48, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Hi Matthew, My HP has exactly the same thing. The laptop even has buttons exclusively for this. Starts in about 6 seconds. Brilliant idea. I don't know why more laptops don't have it. Nice, what model is that? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.
Here's my feeble contribution; an item on hackernews, (since it's recent) Ask HN: Best Developer Linux Laptop? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786930 Laptops generally, you might consider Samsung as well as the usual IBM/Lenovo, Dell, HP. I'm quite happy with my oldish R50 even though I don't usually run Linux on it. Fun fact: it has a tiny embedded linux on it just for playing dvds so you don't have to boot into Windows to play dvds. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Subject: [SLUG] change to linux and google chrome
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 08:40:06PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: Martin Visser martinvisse...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Brett Mahar brett.ma...@gmail.com wrote: You might like to check out SW Iron instead of Chrome, it is the same thing but without the many Google tracking devices built-in: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php You just gotta love that SRware are obviously down on Google tracking yet are quite willing to take their money by offering Google Ads on both the side and bottom of their page. Yeah. FWIW, once you start to poke at that the whole thing ... aw, heck. Let me just add to this an excerpt from the Debian mailing lists when this same thing came up: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20t=50358 At the time SRWare also used a service provider that used pop-under advertising to make money. So, yeah. As far as I can see this is, in essence, an implementation of the principal that if you pander to paranoia then you can make money from ... the folks who care enough to worry about privacy, but not enough to actually do the research themselves. Ditto, when I tried it it had some annoying things about it. A better option these days would be the daily builds. Doesn't come with the update service though, so I turn flash and all the other crapola in it - if it has it. Tools-Preferences-Under the Hood-Content Settings-Disable Individual Plug-ins -- 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] live distro for Acer netbook
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Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 05:27:07PM +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: On 22/09/2010, at 4:53 PM, Lee Isaacson wrote: Hi all, What would be the best Distro to learn linux. Fedora or Ubuntu. yes. Agreed, the more the merrier. Start with Ubuntu or Fedora; they're fine if you want something moderately stable yet up to date. Then start running other distros in VMs or by double,triple, ... booting. Run Centos to get a feel for Redhat which is I think the most popular 'enterprise' linux. -- 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] Accounting and business software
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:41:49AM +1000, david wrote: Ben Donohue wrote: Hi, do you have a URL for LSMB? http://www.ledgersmb.org/ Domain has expired :-( In the meantime: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LedgerSMB -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?
It is supposed to work with more recent kernels. The eeebuntu and fedora info says it works -- now. And this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-backports-modules-2.6.32/+bug/521967 suggests it works for more recent ubuntu or one of the PPA kernels mentioned there. Maybe you just need an update? -- 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] Multiple server roles on one box
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 04:28:23PM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: dave b db.pub.m...@gmail.com writes: soon. /me mutters something about OH MY THEY ESCAPED FROM THE JVM. Do you have a reference for that? Here is a recent example :) http://blog.cr0.org/2009/05/write-once-own-everyone.html You can finder older examples as well :) Thanks. That saves me searching around to try and find the same information myself. :) I like this one that Dave gave me on irc: http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5YP381520Y.html It's not a breakout, but it's a way of compromising a server jvm, which then (at least potentially) lets you use the breakout techniques on that jvm. So yeah everything suggested here is incremental security and only gives brittle shells of isolation. Here's another measure: mod_security (http://www.modsecurity.org/) You should also follow recommendations such as give at the Open Web Application Security Project (http://www.owasp.org/) -- 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] Multiple server roles on one box
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 04:04:05PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: [ ] How about a DNS, squid and web server with multiple name based virtual domains on the same box? Is doing the above really dangerous on a fully patched and up to date system? As others have said it's inadvisable. Even fully patched servers can be are susceptible (so called zero day vulns might actually be months old) and the reality is you don't often have the time to fully patch every day anyway. *IF* you wanted to pursue this you can mitigate it with some sort of isolation be it chrooting, selinux, containers, vms. Or all of the above. The level of risk also depends on the webapp. I'd be more comfortable with java (especially with security manager on) which is after all another form of vm. With php (wordpress, drupal, moodle, or home grown) definitely not confortable. Matt -- 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] today's scary thought
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:06:17PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: You could do this with inotify, with `just a few' scripts around it. Related: http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ drives rsyncing with inotify. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Parametric EQ to silence the vuvuzela
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:30:41AM +0800, james wrote: On Wednesday 16 June 2010 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: So I watch telly through MythTV and apparently you can silence the terrible drone on the World Cup broadcasts with some simple parametric EQ filters. Any ideas how I'd do that on my Mythbuntu machine? Ideally without delving into Linux audio config file hell. (I've had enough of learning a completely new way to configure audio every 1.5 years. I think I've done that at least four times now.) http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-with-an-eq-filt er?skyline=trueamp;s=i All lightheared jests aside, I've got a vuvuzela, it is a plastic trumpet and the noise it makes is pretty white (broadband) so any attempt to equ it out is going to fail, more, or less, depending on the mic location for that TV session and hence the spectrum of noise broadcast. Of course you could equ out 20Hz to 10kHz smile The link above and other various links says that fiddling with EQ actually works quite well. A simple plastic horn can't have (that) many frequencies. -- 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] LVM
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 06:14:15PM +1000, Gerald C.Catling wrote: Hi Guy's, I am a PCLinuxos user and I have seen references to LVM here ( at SLUG) I have 3 drives LVM'd to give me 1.3TB of storage space on my server. The first drive of this set has died. I was wondering if any of you Guru's could suggest a method of getting any remaing data from the LVM drives, that is drive 2 and 3, that are left. I have tried rebuilding the set, wg0, but the system want to reformat the drive wg0, just created. Is this formatting going to format the real drives and rather that just the LVM component? Your help will be much appreciated. Gerald -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html lvscan might get you started. I've not done much recovery work with lvm under linux, so I'm not really willing to suggest things that might make it worse! You might want to do a dd level backup of the drives just in case. -- 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] Net send for linux
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 11:37:18PM +1000, Daryl Thompson wrote: Is there a Linux equivalent network messaging command like 'NET SEND' in windows That is i want to be able to send messages to all and individual computers on the local network. I'm sure smbclient with the apprirate options has worked for me in the past. But last time I tried would have been years ago so who knows. FWIW, 'net' is a command under linux too; part of the samba suite. But 'net send' doesn't seem to be one of the commands supported. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] A little script help
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:56:54PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: I find password generated like that to be too hard to remember. Yeah, same I like http://www.multicians.org/thvv/gpw-js.html The source is available also, in C and java versions. So with a bit of coding you can adjust the length and throw in numbers and punctuation if you like. -- 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] RAID and LVM
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly busy machine (mail server for 40+ users) I'd like to achieve: 1) Speed 2) Reliability 3) Ease of maintenance. Anyone care to take a punt at a layout? G3 has hardware RAID doesn't it? That has one big advantage over software RAID. Ease of maintenance if one fails - you just pull it out, stick in a same drive and it does recovery. Linux need not know anything has happened. So for 2 and 3 I'd go hardware RAID. For 1. (speed) software RAID might have a slight advantage. You also get greatly improve flexibility - you don't have to mirror everything, right now. -- 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] Ldd report from rkhunter - Update
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:20:46AM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:54:01 -0600 Rodolfo Martínez rmt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Alan, You can find what package provides the ldd program, and then verify the integrity of the package. If it really changed I think you should look for any suspicious activity in your server. I think you can find the package with dpkg -S $(which ldd) and you can check its integrity with debsum. ldd shouldn't change, unless you have updated your system. Just checking the Debian Security site ( http://www.debian.org/security/) I see that it was updated for the amd64 architecture. Thanks for the lesson on how to check out this sort of thing. Cheers, Alan So everything looks fine. I wonder why rkhunter complained. Doesn't coordinate with the packaging system? Anyway, this reminded me of an interesting article on ldd I read the other day: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution/ Fun Matt -- 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] Send EOF to Browser from LAMP stack.
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:28:30PM +0100, justin randell wrote: hi, 2010/1/21 Peter Rundle pe...@aerodonetix.com.au: I said it might take a few seconds, I didn't say it was computationally heavy. fair enough, but still worth questioning, i think. for a typical app, i'd be concerned if a fat apache child process was spending more than a quarter to a third of a second servicing a single request. We have a similar issue here at work, and for us it just creeped up on us. The code was written to deal with uploads and parse them / process them / stick bits into the database. As time goes by the uploads grow from kb to Mb and change from simple format to vast swathes of @#...@^ xml. The same job which used to take less than a few seconds now causes timeouts in apache which we've had to raise and/or the browser. Which we can't do much about. This is all in java so it's not too difficult to make it asynch wrt to the original http request. And leave the use perhaps with an ajaxy update page. I know next to nothing about PHP, but can't you spawn another thread unrelated to a client http request? Then you can finish this page, redirect them to another page which just waits for the result to come back - checking now and then via the db or some file on disk. Other respondents of cron fail (AFAICS) to satisfy the responsiveness that the original poster wants. Matt -- 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] Ldd report from rkhunter - Update
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 05:37:53PM -0600, Rodolfo Martínez wrote: Hi Matt, rkhunter creates a database (MD5SUM's) of some files, if they change for any reason, like a system upgrade/update, it will complain about it. rkhunter should be run again to get the new MD5SUM's. This applies for any Host Intruder Detection System (HIDS) (i.e. tripwire, AIDE, etc...). Ah, thought so, thanks.I think it would be worthwhile thing for systems like AIDE to remove dpkg/rpm checkable files from its checks. Perhaps as an option. Anyway, this reminded me of an interesting article on ldd I read the other day: I did read that article too, but who runs ldd as root? :P Well, me, until recently :-). But only with 'trusted' but bizarrely behaving apps on solaris. But running as root doesn't really matter. A malicious app could just stick an alias for say sudo in your .bashrc or any number of similar things - it's just the start of a possible penetration. Matt -- 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] Copying HDD
Use rysnc -a or cp -a dd just brings in issues you don't need to deal with. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:00:49PM +1100, Mike Andy wrote: I've been thus far unable to do to - maybe you can explain how. for example, if i do a dd from a 120Gb to a 150Gb and then enter into something like gparted or fdisk there seems to be no way i can simply expand the disk beyond the original 120Gb boundaries. If there was unformatted/unpartitioned space within that 120Gb then things can be moved around there but not outside the original disk boundaries. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com wrote: Mike Andy wrote: from my experience when you use dd you cannot resize after that because it's made an exact bit by bit clone of that hard drive which you then can resize with the numerous partition resizing tools out there. if you're concerned about how much you're downloading use parted magic, much smaller than ubuntu and includes both gparted and clonezilla all in one -- 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] Google Chrome for Linux !!!
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:39:32PM +1100, Mike Andy wrote: this is completely off topic but you'd know if you used facebook that when those changes went through the users were prompted upon login that security settings were changed. For the users that clicked through those prompts without reading or customizing anything, they got the defaults. it's not as if Facebook changed the settings without telling the users. I wouldn't normally side with Facebook but this isolated incident was totally pebkac Partly but not totally pebkac. You would expect that your settings not be changed - i.e the 'defaults' should have been the ones closest to your existing settings. It was pretty underhanded or at least lazy of facebook in my not so humble opinion. The facebook founder himself buggered it up and his profile was public for a while, which was ... nice :-) The details are all over the net. Matt -- 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] Google Chrome for Linux !!!
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:29:20PM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: Thanks for the news. It's in repository for Debian: deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free main Dmitry. For Fedora-ists, you can install Chrome from yum (see the official download page) or install it's open source cousin chromium by putting the following in a file /etc/yum.repos.d/chromium.repo [chromium] name=Chromium Test Packages baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 and running yum install chromium -- 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: Wanted : Cisco Router for CCNA
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:38:57PM +1100, Bernie Pannell wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Tony H.G Candito blindra...@gmail.comwrote: I'm after a Cisco (1600/2500?) etc model for my recent Cisco study Hi tony, have you tried using a simulator? http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cisco+simulator I was going to suggest the same thing. A popular one seems to be http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/index.php/Cisco_7200_Simulator with front-ends dynagen and/or dynamips. I'm curious to know how good it is. Caveat - requires genuine Cisco IOS -- 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] quiet computer
If it's mostly the 2am noise that bothers you, the first thing you might try is turn off whatever is scheduled at that time. Popular offenders are prelinking and manpage indexing but there are many other possibilities. Turn them off or move them to say 10am in the morning when no one is around. You can also try out powertop (from intel) which is intended to find things that use a lot of power. Those things also of course tend to make the cpu run hotter and start up the fans as well. If you do enough plus some power settings, you can even get to the point where the machine goes to sleep when not used. -- 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] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:46:01PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, We have a few PowerEdge 860's which I mostly converted from our previous-generation Windows based system to Xen hosts for development on top of CentOS 5 (the production system is now mostly hosted abroad). These servers have space for only two internal disks and I'd like to try to convert a couple of them into servers of shared storage. I'm thinking of just setting them up to sync their disks using DRBD and providing access to the rest of the network via iSCSI. I'm looking for a way to attach lots of disks to them. So far the only options I found are MD1000/3000 from Dell, which are a bit too expensive for such a side-project. Is there another economical (and sane, speed-wise) way to get lots of disks on these system's bus? Thanks, How sane does the speed have to be exactly? :-) If the answer is not completely insanse then you could add a lot of esata/usb disks externally. If you run out of sata or usb, add more via pci cards. You might not get sata speeds as you might saturate the pci bus well before hitting the sata limit. If you want a little more speed (well, lower latency perhaps) at the cost of reliability you could raid0 them. BTW, an alternative to iSCSI might be ATA over ethernet. -- 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] web based firewall config tool wanted
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:38:07PM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: I'm finding it difficult to believe there's no simple web based firewall configuration tool. I'm going to be running a cut-down Ubuntu-Hardy off ... It's killing me because I came across something like this just recently but it had a distinctly non evocative name so it's lost to my brain. I'll let you know in case it pops back in. It was something hydrid open source; gpl for iptables and pf but 'pro' /commercial version had cisco etc support. Not fwbuilder, something else, not listed in the usual wikipedia, delicious, dmoz etc lists. -- 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] web based firewall config tool wanted
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 06:21:27PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:38:07PM +1000, Grant Parnell wrote: I'm finding it difficult to believe there's no simple web based firewall configuration tool. I'm going to be running a cut-down Ubuntu-Hardy off ... It's killing me because I came across something like this just recently but it had a distinctly non evocative name so it's lost to my brain. I'll let you know in case it pops back in. It was something hydrid open source; gpl for iptables and pf but 'pro' /commercial version had cisco etc support. Not fwbuilder, something else, not listed in the usual wikipedia, delicious, dmoz etc lists. Woohoo found it. However, it's not open source; it merely supports open source firewalls. Minimum price US$4000! http://runplaybook.com/ (I told you it wasn't evocative) Courtesy of the firewall-wizards mailing list archive. http://seclists.org/firewall-wizards/2009/Jun/0034.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] upgrading php to 5.2 or 5.3 latest version so as to use phpmyadmin
I see that you've fixed your problem but my info might be useful On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 03:13:45PM +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi all, Im trying to install phpmydmin but going into it, it says it requires php 5.3+ I'd just install from EPEL - it's in there! (phpMyAdmin-2.11.9.5) problems there. And it's an old version. So I'm now trying to upgrade php with yum. I've removed php and the other dependencies and updated the repositories to point to remi-release-5.rpm and epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm I've installed it all to 5.3 however I get the error below when trying to upgrade php-mysql. [ ... ] (error below...) yum install php-mysql Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: ga13.files.bigpond.com:4040 * remi: iut-info.univ-reims.fr * epel-debuginfo: ga14.files.bigpond.com:4040 * updates: mirror.files.bigpond.com * base: mirror.files.bigpond.com * epel-source: ga13.files.bigpond.com:4040 * centosplus: mirror.files.bigpond.com * addons: mirror.files.bigpond.com * extras: mirror.files.bigpond.com I wouldn't touch remi, centosplus, addons, extras, if what you have is in epel; it just invites the sort of dependency problems you seem to be getting. Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package php-mysql.i386 0:5.3.1-0.2.RC1.el5.remi set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.16 for package: php-mysql -- Processing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.16(libmysqlclient_16) for package: php-mysql -- Running transaction check --- Package mysql-libs.i386 0:5.1.39-1.el5.remi set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved Package Arch Version Repository Size Installing: php-mysql i386 5.3.1-0.2.RC1.el5.remi remi-test 81 k Installing for dependencies: mysql-libs i386 5.1.39-1.el5.remi remi 2.1 M Transaction Summary Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total size: 2.2 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /etc/my.cnf from install of mysql-libs-5.1.39-1.el5.remi.i386 conflicts with file from package mysql-5.0.77-3.el5.i386 [ ... ] -- 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: 40 Years of Unix
Shell is a generic term for user interface, as well as a specific term, for e.g. unix cmomand line shells or the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Shell Speaking of shells has anyone used rc or es for any length of time on a non-plan9 machine? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc_shell) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [coders] Query about Kurobox or similar
You might try one of the NASs that can be debianized. cc'd to slug not coders On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:01:05AM +1000, db wrote: If you really want a kurobox then you can order one online. Otherwise you may still be able to pick up an linkstation pro (basically a kurobox minus a few things). The linkstation pro is essentially a kurobox, but with a hard drive -- $200ish i think you can get one in australia from ht.com.au However, you may want to buy something more powerful like a plugpc http://www.plugcomputer.org/ ($99USD) / get a atom :) http://www.nas-central.org/ 2009/8/22 高远 wolf0...@hotmail.com: Thank you Matthew. I'm looking at Kuro for its slim and fanless design. Do you have any recommondation for x86 alternatives with these pros available too? Also for the mailing list, would it be appropriate to cc this post to the main list or better for me to re-post the question over there? I am new to this so please bear with me on this. Thanks, Ryan Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:05:48 +1000 From: m...@zip.com.au To: wolf0...@hotmail.com CC: cod...@slug.org.au Subject: Re: [coders] Query about Kurobox or similar On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:28:34AM +0800, 高远 wrote: Hi all, Sorry if my last mail was corrupted. I will try send again with plain text format. I am new to this list and please tell me if I am going off topic here. I am considering getting a small box for Linux hacking. Considering revogear Kuro box because it's a fanless, small stuff and doesn't cost too much. Reference page http://www.revogear.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=KURO%2DBOX%2FHG%2DWRShow=TechSpecs Question is, is this stuff available anywhere in Sydney? And, is there a better choice with similar price tags (preferable w/ Atom CPU). Sorry if I send the wrong question here. This is more suitable for the main slug list. Many people who might be able to help you won't see it here. It doesn't seem a bad price. But what are you looking for? Does it have to be small? Because otherwise you might be better off getting a second hand x86 machine. _ 与任何您希望的人分享您的回忆。 http://www.microsoft.com/china/windows/windowslive/products/photos-share.aspx?tab=1 ___ coders mailing list cod...@slug.org.au http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/coders -- 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] ftp client recomendations ?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:03:25AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Thu, August 20, 2009 10:37 am, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:18:48AM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: /etc/sysconfig/iptables H. Does it have the nf_nat_ftp and nf_conntrack_ftp modules loaded, too? Look in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config for that. Matt, thanks, no modules specfied so I should add IPTABLES_MODULES=nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack_ftp yes, I think so, but if you use the gui and tick ftp it will do the needful for you. Bottom line, ftp is a pretty firewall un-friendly protocol. I'd recommend sftp (i.e. the module/feature of ssh) instead. but, if command line ftp client works with no issues, doesn't that exclude firewall on the server ? Maybe. Is the command line client ftp being done from the same machine? It also depends on whether it's using passive or not. The default might change from gui to cli - and even version to version each other. -- 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] ftp client recomendations ?
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:18:48AM +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: . . . /etc/sysconfig/iptables H. Does it have the nf_nat_ftp and nf_conntrack_ftp modules loaded, too? Voytek, Look in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config for that. [...] Command:PASV Response:227 Entering Passive Mode (116,197,145,51,175,75). At this point the server *should* be expecting a connection from the client, on TCP/44875, but I bet the firewall isn't letting that through. Check your firewall logs first, to see if you have a record of blocking that connection or not. what log to look at? I don't know, on RedHat. I think they had /var/log/firewall or something? They'll be in /var/log/messages Bottom line, ftp is a pretty firewall un-friendly protocol. I'd recommend sftp (i.e. the module/feature of ssh) instead. Matt -- 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] Chinese intruder yesterday
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 07:05:15AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Jim Donovan wrote: I had port 22 open for a few hours yesterday but closed it when I noticed the following. An open port 22 can be made safe. There are numerous articles available on the net like the following: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8759 http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/573 For the particular issue you had, probably the best option is to use the AllowGroups option in sshd_config to restrict ssh access to users of a specific group. On my machine I have AllowGroups sshlogin and then add any specific users to that group. Running SSH on a non standard port also helps. These are both good suggestions. If you like, you can do a similar thing for many services (not just ssh) with pam_access. BTW, I know where 'thx1138' comes from - it's one of George Lucas's first movies. Probably a fave amongst computer people. -- 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] Taxes on sending servers to the US
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 07:08:43PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, Does anyone here has experience sending servers (e.g. Dell PowerEdge 860 rack-mounted) TO the US? I'm going to visit our office overseas soon and we were wondering how much would it cost (tax-wise) to just pack a couple of them as a checked-in luggage. The sale closes soon so I need a quick answer. I'd be surprised if the cost and hassle of exporting + buying here exceeds the cost of just buying one there. Also, what about e.g. warranty? Sometimes they care where you bought it. I brought a simeple 3 year old desktop from Europe into Aus when I moved back here some time ago and (from memory) had to pay sales tax on it! Bloody stupid. BTW, more of a question for slug-chat. Matt -- 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] GPS data logger
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:22:08PM +1000, Simon Males wrote:
I use cotoGPS on the Palm which does all that, logging at user defined
frequency, it also has a java desktop component that allows to do various
stuff with the data, including KMLs
I actually have a Android phone and ran with that. There are a quite a
few GPS logging/mapping applications in the Android Marketplace. They
are all a lot of fun and its where I got the interest from.
Yes, I guess it's 'non-free' answer, but the 'My Tracks' app on android is
great.
You can upload your track to good spreadsheets or your own map collection ('My
Maps')
Though I don't like running with my/a phone.
Yes, it's a bit of a beast.
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Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:22:19AM +1000, Simon Rumble wrote: [ ... ] Yep, I want something that mimics the old WinAmp. Dumb, just plays the bloody music files I point it at. No bells, no whistles. If you want winamp-ish, then perhaps Zinf is for you (Zinf is not freeamp, freeamp is not winamp) vlc might also fit the bill. -- 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] HTTPD Authenticated User extraction
[ passing on REMOTE_USER or other user var to tomcat from apache ] On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 09:32:00AM +1000, Kyle wrote: Big thanks to John Daniel, I'll give that a go. Be aware that you'll need to isolate tomcat so that no-one can go to it directly. Otherwise people can 'fake' their own USER vars to get in. -- 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] Did anybody notice this?
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:15:30AM +1000, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: Was sent this article from the Wall Street Journal. Has there been any comment on it? Crikey, a .pdf within a outlook? .msg. Here's the article at the source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124346723960760371.html Amusingly, your attachment has the name: Laptops with Linus have compatibility issues.pdf Anyway, the content is neither surprising or alarming. I also had problems with my powershot camera with linux the other day. Then a few kernels, and a distro upgrade later it started working. Indeed people should do the homework before they commit to linux as their main machine. Then again it can be argued that 'doing the homework' is an unreasonable imposition on a buyer and you should be able to assume things just work. Matt -- 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] detach attachements from cli, how ?
mutt does nicely if you don't mind interactive curses type 'console' v to show attachments s to save (from memory) On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:35:37PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I can't recall how to detach email attachements from prompt... is it metamail ? mencode ? don't seem to have either... googling hasent succeeded yet -- Voytek -- 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] Synchronizing from Windows to Linux
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 11:24:43AM +1000, Andre Kolodochka wrote: Is there something not necessarily based on rsync? ftp, for example? Andre. Well, do you want just to do backups or are you looking for something fancier? Your original mail mentioned only backups in the body (as I recall) but you use the synchronising in the subject line. -- 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] security monitor with webcam
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:46:15PM +1000, Phil Manuel wrote: [ ... ] use this package at work, it is not an easy install with some USB camera's although it has improved with later releases and kernels. Indeed; my camera (logitech sphere af) has only become painless with very recent versions of kernel and motion. Here's some dmesg lines for it: Linux video capture interface: v2.00 uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device unnamed (046d:0994) uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround. input: UVC Camera (046d:0994) as /devices/pci:00/:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/input/input5 -- 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] security monitor with webcam
I run 'motion'. It's in Fedora and I am sure Ubuntu and/or Debian. -- 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: XBitHack
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 02:25:13PM +1000, david wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:13:39PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: On 8 May 2009, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I've got this snippet in apache config: Directory /var/www/test/ Options +Includes XBitHack full IncludesNOEXEC /Directory da...@david:/etc/apache2$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload Syntax error on line 17 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default: Illegal option XBitHack ...fail! da...@david:/etc/apache2$ mod-include is enabled Are you /sure/? Innit mod_ssi ? I'm not sure what this should do.. I'm using Ubuntu/Debian which uses a2enmod to set up modules, followed by apache2 reload. Am I missing something? thanks... I was pointing out that XBitHack is part of mod_ssi, not mod_include. As for what it does; well what do you want it do do? I'd take it out if you're not sure. SSI (server side includes) can make the security of apache a little more fragile. Matt -- 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: XBitHack
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 06:28:26PM +1000, david wrote: I was pointing out that XBitHack is part of mod_ssi, not mod_include. Is it??? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_include.html seems to suggest mod_include ... although I'm often wrong and I might be this time. Ah you're right and I suck, As for what it does; well what do you want it do do? What I want to do is server side includes. I have another production site where this works perfectly, but uses the .shtml suffix and AddOutputFilter. It would be nicer if I could use XBitHack but for some reason the apache2 parser doesn't like it. By putting this line: AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .html on my test site's /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mime.conf the includes magically work as advertised, but that's not really what I want. The whole idea is to only parse for includes when required instead of every html page. I'd take it out if you're not sure. I'm sure what I want to do.. see above. SSI (server side includes) can make the security of apache a little more fragile. because??? Perhaps there is a good reason not to do it. I've got the IncludesNOEXEC option happening. because you're trusting (to a certain extent) client supplied data. But if you want it, you want it. No question. As for the answer, well without seeing your entire apache config, I'd _guess_ that it's disable in the build or something like that. -- 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: XBitHack
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:13:39PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: On 8 May 2009, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I've got this snippet in apache config: Directory /var/www/test/ Options +Includes XBitHack full IncludesNOEXEC /Directory da...@david:/etc/apache2$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload Syntax error on line 17 of /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default: Illegal option XBitHack ...fail! da...@david:/etc/apache2$ mod-include is enabled Are you /sure/? Innit mod_ssi ? -- 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] Apache reverse proxying with MS
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Re: [SLUG] How to get files off hard drive?
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:52:38PM +1100, Bruce wrote: You might like to try a live distro, such as PCLINUXOS, with which I have no problems mounting foreign drives. Basically, the live distro runs from the CD and you muck around with mount arguments (someone else may have a more structured approach here) until it can read the drives. Once you have that its pretty easy to copy precious stuff to a USB drive or etc. I have used this several times to do exactly that. It seems that the live distros are better placed to do this than installed systems. If you're going to use a live cd he might as well use the fedora live/rescue disk. Re lvm well I've found it it be pretty useful. It's not that complicated, and you can selectively mirror more fine-grainedly which I like. The issue here is lack of backups, not so much anything else. Sorry to be blunt, but I've had the same (actually worse) situation (lost about 8 months worth of baby photos) and have been cursing myself ever since. EVERYBODY BACK UP NOW. -- (but read Mary's note/presentation too) -- 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] MySQL
Yeah but ... is there any reason it wouldn't show up in the gui? On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:45:03PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: apt-get install mysql-server Dean Chris Allen wrote: I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and want to teach myself MySQL. I thought it would be simple enough to select it from the options Add/Remove Applications I can see option to install an administrator and a browser but not the server itself. Have I missed something or should I go elsewhere for that? Chris Allen -- 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] NAS device for home?
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:33:48AM +0900, jam wrote: Seagate published this http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf It says multiple drives in close mechanical proximity WILL fail ! Like This: Drive1 seeks to track That movement shakes Drive2 off track, so it corrects THAT movement shakes Drive1 off track so it corrects ... Here's a nice article and video on how vibration (in this case mere shouting) can affect disk performance. http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/unusual_disk_latency Nice demo of Sun's dtrace and fishworks too :-) Matt -- 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] AU Online Bookstores
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 06:39:35PM +1100, Kelvin Nicholson wrote: Howdy Slug: Being from out of the country, I'm not familiar with the best AU-based places to buy (hopefully used) IT books. Besides shipping books from Amazon, does anybody have any place (online or brick) they would recommend? http://www.bookware.com.au/ do online and shopfront. I do tend to use amazon or http://www.bookpool.com/ or O'Reilly direct though. In the past bookpool has been cheaper than amazon for some titles. -- 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: Netbook experiences?
Not done yet! Firmly on my todo list though. On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:02:48PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: How'd you go with it Matt? Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen is small, and the keyboard is small, but it is also very light and quick to start/shut-down. It certainly does the job we got it for. A larger keyboard and screen would be nice, but at the price it's hard to complain. I also have a 701. My only criticism is the battery which is too small and discharges even when the machine is off. The latter problem cannot be fixed with different battery. Maybe I need to do some hardware hacking. I'm also going to put eeebuntu or possibly the eee fedora distro on it. (downloading eeebuntu 8.10 right now in fact) Matt -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- 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] Just sharing a gotcha with rsync that caused me big trouble ...extra
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:34:10PM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:38:10PM +1100, R.G.Salisbury wrote: Like the deal with the trailing slash . which can cause issues --- (often put there by bashs tab completion). I like putting a * after a trailing slash as i find it more intuitive. The trailing slash or not option is handy once you know about it, but confusing until you do. It also makes a difference whether you put a * after the trailing slash or not, since the shell interpolates the * and doesn't include hidden files, which may be important for a home directory backup for example. Here's an idiom which has saved me thinking too hard; use . as the source: cd /whatever/source/ rsync -a . /some/destination/directory It will work the same whether source is just source or source/ It will fail nicely if /some/destination/directory doesn't exist It will work the same with the same sort of errors if you use cp -a instead of rsync -a. It picks up .files in source as well which rsync source/* /some/dest/ doesn't. Matt -- 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: Netbook experiences?
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 08:42:35PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: I have a 701 (well, the wife has it :)) on which I installed eeebuntu which works a treat. The screen is small, and the keyboard is small, but it is also very light and quick to start/shut-down. It certainly does the job we got it for. A larger keyboard and screen would be nice, but at the price it's hard to complain. I also have a 701. My only criticism is the battery which is too small and discharges even when the machine is off. The latter problem cannot be fixed with different battery. Maybe I need to do some hardware hacking. I'm also going to put eeebuntu or possibly the eee fedora distro on it. (downloading eeebuntu 8.10 right now in fact) Matt -- 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] windows drivers
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:33:29AM +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am faced with the fun job of rebuilding several Generic WindowsXP computers. Does anybody know of a FOSS tool I can put onto each computer to give me a report on all the drivers used by each computer? I have admin access to the Windows domain. If this tool could also give a report on all loaded applications then that would be a bonus. Thanks in advance to anybody with any help and - or suggestions. Regards, You might try http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org -- 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] set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:59:45PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: jam wrote: Regardless of which distro or distro version you are using, replacing the distro installed package with something you compile yourself is almost always a bad idea, especially when you are downgrading Do qualify your assertion (eg if you are utterly clueless then ...) because otherwise the advice is. well um, um, not useful The original poster has a very long history of asking questions on this mailing list. From that history I have been able to gauge his level of expertise and I adjusted my answer accordingly. Erik, your response WAS qualified and really could not be improved. -- 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] Logical Volume Management.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:02:07AM +1100, Chris Allen wrote: For me, this is a new although I gather it has been around for a few years. I recently upgraded Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04. Before the upgrade I kept getting messages that there was not enough space (much to my surprise). I deleted old junk and did the upgrade. NOW, I see the ALL my data is on just one partition of only 4GB. There are are 2 more (unused and empty) partitions of 4 and 57 GB that I would like to use. As I read up on the best way to bring them on board, I stumbled on the new concept of Logical Volume Management. Sounds very interesting. However every thing I have read about using it, assumes you are start with a fresh install. I have seen nothing about converting a current system to LVM. Can any one offer some advise or recommend good reading material? The redhat admin guides are pretty good You could also try http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html but that looks a little out of date to me. I can give you a quick overview: A volume group is made of one or more physical volumes. A volume group can be divided up into logical volumes. You create filesystems on these logical volumes. So: pvcreate /dev/the-partition-or-disk vgcreate some-volume-group /dev/the-partition-or-disk lvcreate --size 10g some-volume-group mkfs.ext3 /dev/some-volume-group/some-logical-volume then add that to /etc/fstab as well. Use lvdisplay and vgdisplay to show the config. -- 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] Uptime logging
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +1000, Rick Phillips wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: Even better, install collectd and use its ping plugin -- now you can do the same thing, but with beautiful (and *SIMPLE*) graph output. :-) Or you could use Nagios and have the alert notification send a form letter to the person concerned every time it went down.(probably not a great idea!). But seriously, it also comes with handy availability graphs, so you quote uptime/downtime figures in percentage terms easily. on ubuntu, apt-get install nagios will monitor your default gateway with ping out of the box. Thanks guys for the suggestions. I had forgotten about nagios and I have discovered two new options for me to use. I have modified Peter's simple script to output a tidy continuous report and have already identified a near 30 minute outage this evening. I will have a tinker with collectd and smokeping over the weekend. Thanks again, Rick Nagios, collectd, zenoss, and a bunch of others are all good for what you want. Matt, who is still trying (not very hard) to get nice graphs from collectd I installed collectd rrdtool plugin from fedora extras but I presume I have to fiddle with the collectd.conf. -- 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] Microsoft and Email Protocols
Did you CC or BCC all your friends? If you CC a lot of people, that can be taken as an indicator of spam. As for standards, well email-wise we're living in a swamp, and the recommended practice in many instances is to ignore the standard (e.g. not bouncing mis-addressed mail) or exploring the more interpretable edges of the standard (e.g. greylisting) The cure is to charge for sending email, but for most that cure is worse than the disease. Lastly, get your friends to dump hotmail and get gmail. They won't regret it. Matt -- 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] Microsoft and Email Protocols
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:27:21PM +1000, Robert Thorsby wrote: [ .. ] The cure is to charge for sending email, but for most that cure is worse than the disease. No, no, no! You may as well say, Let it be under the control and It's not that clear what you're saying no to here. administration of a government department. The only real cure is for Government control is the opposite end of the spectrum to a market solution, not the same end. those who administer MX servers to do so properly, which includes So how do you get 'those who administer MX servers to do so properly' ? You're begging the question (In the original meaning of that phrase) preventing spam from originating out of boxen under their administration. However, whilever the largest ISPs benefit from the sending of spam that will not occur. Followups - please feel free to change to slug-chat Matt -- 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] Performance Tuning
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 09:54:13AM +1000, Kyle wrote: Can somebody recommend a reasonably comprehensive but straightforward performance tuning article/HowTo/PDF/site I could read pls? Specifically, I am looking to perf-tune a dual-CPU RAID5 box used as a backup server. Are you backing up to disk or tape? -- 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] Adobe Illustrator program for Linux
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:01:31PM +1000, Daryl Thompson wrote: Hi all I am looking fro an similar to Adobe Illustrator program for Linux. That is one with similar features and be able to save / export to an ai format. Has any one got some ideas please Try inkscape, its FAQ says it can. Inkscape is awesome regardless. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_formats_can_Inkscape_import.2Fexport.3F The export seems to be imperfect though. You may be able to export in another format that AI could import (e.g. SVG) Matt -- 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] Missing Dependency
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:44:27PM +1000, Daryl Thompson wrote: [ .. ] gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.7-2.fc9.i386 from installed has depsolving problems [ .. ] gstreamer-plugins-bad is not from the standard repos AFAIK. You're always chancing when you include non standard yum repos. That said, it could be just a case of waiting for it to sort itself out. That can even happen with standard repos. -- 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] mutt Reply-To:
On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:01:25PM +1000, david wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:16 +1000, John Clarke wrote: On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:07:50 +1000, david wrote: I'm using mutt in a script to send out emails. $ mutt -s subject -a file [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Is there any way to add a Reply-To: header? I can't find it in google or This might work: mutt -s subject -a file -e 'my_hdr Reply-To [EMAIL PROTECTED]' /dev/null Thanks for the replies. This works fine. It also works if you drop the quoted -e argument into .muttrc $ mutt -e my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s subject line -a file [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null David. It's good you got a fix but I thought it must be possible to give the entire message like giving it to sendmail - because you can 'E' on a draft and see / edit the entire message inclding headers. The man page mentions: -H draft Specify a draft file which contains header and body to use to send a message. So that should work - if you know how to prepare a complete, sensible header and body. Matt -- 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] Outputing progress counters with PHP/HTML
You do a select before every insert?! Is the table indexed? If not that might explain the slowdown; a select WILL take longer the bigger the table. Perhaps better to put a unique index on the appropriate column(s), then just do an insert and throw away the error if the data is already there. Yes, even better! I was going to ask Howard whether it mattered whether the data was different or whether it just had to be one of them. -- 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] Outputing progress counters with PHP/HTML
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:08:50PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: I'm sorry, I should have been more specific on this. It's PHP5 and the input is a text file from a data logger which means that I have to find the data records then decompose each into the individual data elements to insert into the database, so it's not just a case of a simple .SQL file as input. The process is: Read a line from the file. Decompose the line into the data elements. For each data element, do a select on the database to see whether it ^^^ already exists, if not then do an insert into the database. Rinse and repeat... It certainly has the smell of being a PHP memory leak, but how I can work around it I am just not sure. You do a select before every insert?! Is the table indexed? If not that might explain the slowdown; a select WILL take longer the bigger the table. Matt -- 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] SIM cards as cheap data storage?
How about storing the data on normal paper as barcodes. -- 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] restricting ssh private key to access sftp only
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:12:49PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: [ ... ] I should probably also chroot that user to prevent it from being able to snoop around but for now I'll stop here (no time). Have a look at rssh: http://rssh.sourceforge.net/ -- 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] Network Real-Time Hot Filesystem Replication?
I don't know whether it would suit you at all, but I'll mention http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe for the simple reason it looks interesting and it only just announced version 1.0 RC's mention of Ceph jogged my memory on this. Matt -- 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] managing .bashrc in subversion?
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:04:59PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: A process rather than technical question about subversion. My personal subversion repo is setup, works ok, etc. But I notice that subversion only lets you checkout a directory, not a file. I want to manage (for example) my .bashrc file in subversion - how to do it? I could check in all of /home/sonia, but I'd have to setup heaps of exclusions - nasty. I could put .bashrc in /home/sonia/bin (for example) and link to it cd; ln -s bin/.bashrc .bashrc) - a hack. Any other suggestions? Some people put there entire home dir into version control. Seems excessive to me. Your hack is a popular hack and sounds pretty reasonable to me. I'd use, say, a dir called checkout or tree or svn rather than bin though. Matt -- 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 02, 2008 at 03:09:44PM +1100, Peter Abbott wrote:
Can anyone with greater knowledge than myself explain this regex
behaviour.
[ ... ]
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.
Doing s/// for $name there resets the $1, $2, .. counters
Matt
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Re: [SLUG] Tricky ssh question
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:59:23PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jam == jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jam Hi Somewhere on the internet is my father-in-law jam and get the dreaded ssh_exchange_identification: Connection jam closed by remote host So if you start sshd with -d -d -d and then try to connect, what happens? And what does his logs say? I've seen this message with tcp_wrappers denial. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:43:56PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: I call shenanigans! On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:22 +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Don't stop there! You probably mean bits not b(ytes) and mebi not mega, so it's 108 Mibit/s 1) It's mibi not mebi. I don't think so Mister! Your url disagrees with you! So there and also: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html 2) The same standard that defines mibi- as a prefix (IEEE 1541 [1]) specifies that b is the symbol for bits, and B should be used for bytes. In practical use, though, I tend to see either bits or B. -- Pete, who measures his traffic in gross nybbles to reduce confusion. per ..? fortnight? Who actually uses these prefixes in real actual speech? Not me, I'd feel a right wally. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem recommendations (with bridging)
Don't stop there! You probably mean bits not b(ytes) and mebi not mega, so it's 108 Mibit/s See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_rate_units On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:50:54PM +1100, xorprime wrote: Oh well, make it Mb/s then ;-) On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 09:52 +1100, xorprime wrote: 108mb wifi units-pedant-mode Wow, 0.108 bits per second, isn't that a bit slow? I thought only military submarines used that? Perhaps you meant 108Mb/s. /units-pedant-mode -- 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] hard drive failure, back-up, and other unhappiness
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 02:05:49PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its a case of horse for courses. My setup. I have 3 server, 2 at my place. 1 primary file server, files copied over to the second server. The second server copies its files over to the third server which is offsite. All disk space is raid1 (or better - used to use raid5) While discussing backup (and off-site backup) strategies, here is something that sounds like just what I'd like to suggest my workplace to use to keep the comapny's jewels at an even safer place: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg51032.html (Summary - use a simple script to store encypted incremental daily backups on Amazon's S3). Here's blog article listing a bunch of s3 backup tools. A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html You can even do it with linux fuse. In the comments there are some links to dedicated non-s3 backup services. Matt -- 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] hard drive failure, back-up, and other unhappiness
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:57:13PM +1100, Craig Dibble wrote: Quoting david [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've had a back-up hard drive fail today (just the backup drive, not the original) Worse still, my son's hard drive failed and then his back-up drive also failed, so he is in deep doo-doo. Fail = clicking noises, won't mount or mounts then won't read/write, etc. Whilst not an answer to your question, if you're fairly sure the drive is terminal it might be time to try a bit of percussive maintenance. I remember having similar problems with a drive many years ago and a sharp smack off the side of the desk did actually fix it. Whether the drive heads were stuck or what I don't know, but it was supremely satisfying nonetheless... File that under the Please don't try this at home category ;-) Craig FWIW, before you try percussive maintenance, I've had the clicking thing and sometimes it has been due to dodgy usb cable or cable insertion and once even rebooting linux fixed it - the usb driver had got into a funny state and was erroring no every connect. Rebooting fixed it. Matt -- 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] Oracle 9i database and samba
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:03:22AM +1100, Jeremy Portzer wrote: Joel Heenan wrote: Network filesystems are not normally used for database files. I work for an ASP that has all of its Oracle databases (hundreds of them) mounted via NFS. It works just fine. The database servers are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, and the NFS mount points are NetApp filers. I believe NetApps are specifically supported by Oracle but not NFS generally. (which you touch on later in this message) Even so this is just a convenience, it does nothing to 'share' the database unless you mean clustering. Access to the database is always by an Oracle protocol e.g. bequeath, sqlnet or something like jdbc, never by direct access to the files. Matt PS getting seriously off-topic here, I suggest following up to -chat -- 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] EEE-PC and Eeedora where Ferora meets the Eee-PC
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 01:02:36AM +1100, Daryl Thompson wrote: Hi all EEE-PC users new old and thing I got home tonight and had a email from Red Hat that says SNAP! I d/l'd it yesterday and mean to install this w/e. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 09:54:11PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: So just rsync -av /home.orig/ /home/ is good Note for rsync newbs; rsync -av /home.orig /home/ is different from rsync -av /home.orig/ /home/ The first will do what you want, the second will create /home/home.orig/ The other way around; ending with a trailing slash on both directories, as you said the first time, will always make the second directory mirror the first. Ooops, that was a typo; I should have stopped at the is good line. Thanks for the correction and sorry for the noise Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:57:30PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: rysnc -av /home.orig/* /home/ Using a * here will skip dotfiles in /home.orig. There's probably none there but you never know. Secondarily, anytime you use * you make it possible to exceed to command line length. It's sufficient to use a trailing / to get everything in /home.orig. So just rsync -av /home.orig/ /home/ is good Note for rsync newbs; rsync -av /home.orig /home/ is different from rsync -av /home.orig/ /home/ The first will do what you want, the second will create /home/home.orig/ Matt -- 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] BWOI: Hi
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 06:27:17PM +1100, Bruce Bruen wrote: but what I want to know is this Has anyone interest in VirtualBox? I have so much fun with it today that - oh damn I've run out of ex-whatitsnames, its' so good! But then again there's always questions. Has anyone surgically played with this? Thanks for the intro Bruce! To answer your question, no, since I bought vmware a while ago and it's very good too. But I'm looking forward to playing with VirtualBox. Regards, Matt -- 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] BWOI: Hi
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:27:38AM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Good grief! Is this output from some spam engine's scanning of the list or is it the effect of writing COBOL on a human being's brain? Not satisfied with being either rude or whiny, today you've gone both! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
