Re: [SLUG] Ports needed for linux repositories
Depends what protocol you're using - http, https, ftp, rsync. On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:15:43 +1100, Joshua Rasnier jrasn...@gmail.com said: Hi Guys, Just got a question. What ports are needed to download from linux repositories, port 80 and 443 only? Regards, Joshua Rasnier -- 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] Ports needed for linux repositories
Wireshark/tcpdump are your friends in these cases. http://www.wireshark.org/ http://www.tcpdump.org/tcpdump_man.html Sonia. On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:25:03 +1100, Joshua Rasnier jrasn...@gmail.com said: Sorry I figured out the issue. What I was having trouble with was a simple yum update through RHEL 5. What I had was to allow 443 between host and https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com, which redhat documentation and redhat costumer service told me that was all I needed. But I found that communication also needed to be allowed from host to https://deploy.akamaitechnologies.com. Regards, Joshua Rasnier On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net wrote: Depends what protocol you're using - http, https, ftp, rsync. On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:15:43 +1100, Joshua Rasnier jrasn...@gmail.com said: Hi Guys, Just got a question. What ports are needed to download from linux repositories, port 80 and 443 only? Regards, Joshua Rasnier -- 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] gnome: folder shortcut on gpanel?
Hmmm... the first option works but is ugly, the second option only allows you to create links to files not directories. But combining the two options you get a solution: create a launcher with location file:///tmp. Or even easier - just drag a folder (eg /tmp) from Nautilus onto gnome-panel - duh! Right clicking on gnome-panel is inconsistent - I might lodge a bug. * Kyle k...@attitia.com [2011-10-21 09:03:44 +1100]: Could you not create the link in terminal and then either from file browser, drag it to the panel? Or create via whatever menu right click option there is? On 20/10/11 2:23 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: How do you put a link to a folder on gnome-panel? For example, in Nautilus I can create a link to a folder (/tmp say) in the Side Pane. Then when I click on the /tmp link, Nautilus opens up a view on /tmp. (A link to /tmp also appears in Places). How do a put a similar link directly on gnome-panel? ie so I don't have to go via places? I've been googling and reading pages like http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/GNOME.html but not much luck... -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] gnome: folder shortcut on gpanel?
How do you put a link to a folder on gnome-panel? For example, in Nautilus I can create a link to a folder (/tmp say) in the Side Pane. Then when I click on the /tmp link, Nautilus opens up a view on /tmp. (A link to /tmp also appears in Places). How do a put a similar link directly on gnome-panel? ie so I don't have to go via places? I've been googling and reading pages like http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/GNOME.html but not much luck... -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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: SUSE 11.4 failsage boot only after a first update (Joseph Buk)
* James Linder j...@tigger.ws [2011-09-25 10:44:47 +0800]: my words will generate hows of anguish from the slug-cognoscii, but your questions show that you are a new user so... , this is what I'd do: .. Never turn on automatic updates. What for? They all too often break things, despite the hype don't do anything for you. cough if you going to take this path, at least install security patches. For example in Ubuntu, Install Security Updates without Confirmation. -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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] Mounting a shared folder from one Mint PC on another Mint PC
* Jon Jermey jonjer...@gmail.com [2011-09-21 14:12:21 +1000]: The only help I can find with Google is horrendously complicated. Can anyone provide a simple solution or point me to a straightforward set of instructions? Jon, for simple sharing you could try using ssh sharing instead of smb. 1. check you can ssh between the machines. If not, do this on both machines: sudo apt-get install openssh-server sudo service ssh restart (you may want to later setup ssh keys and tighten security by only allowing key-based authentication if the boxes are exposed to the internet, but that's another email) 2. install sshfs and mount the remote home directory: sudo apt-get install sshfs cd ~ mkdir mnt sshfs target_servers_ip_or_hostname mnt cd mnt ls I tend to use sshf for quick and dirty sharing, and nfs/smb (samba) for longer term or higher bandwidth sharing. HTH, -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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] Mounting a shared folder from one Mint PC on another Mint PC
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:08:54 +0800, James Linder j...@tigger.ws said: I tend to use sshf for quick and dirty sharing, and nfs/smb (samba) for longer term or higher bandwidth sharing. Although I do agree with Sonia, I find this even easier 1) put your public key on the other box [ ssh-keygen ssh-copyid otherbox ] 2) Use nautilus to 'connect to remote server' The other file system is just visible Oh yes, the GUI... :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mail follow ups
* Michael Chesterton che...@chesterton.id.au [2011-08-29 09:15:17 +1000]: To be fair, Sonia, you haven't told our mail clients how you want followups to be handled. Had you done so, this message would not have gone directly to you. Google mail followup to. Well, I did a little more looking and it appears you do sometimes use mail followup to header, but it was missing in the message I replied to. Oh well. At least my message might help someone new to lists, if not you. Peace, love and mung beans. Thanks, and no worries! I've explicitly set the options in my ~/.muttrc, though they default to yes anyway: set followup_to=yes set honor_followup_to=yes Always good to learn something :-) -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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: Was 'kernel panic', now '/usr/sbin/: Not found.'
Hi Adam, Please don't direct emails to me directly - that's what the slug email list is for :-) Thanks, Sonia. On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:10:45 +1200, adam.bogacki adam.boga...@clear.net.nz said: I am trying to reinstall GNU GRUB 1.97~beta4 on an Ubuntu WattOS RC1 (/dev/sda) / Debian 6 (/dev/sdb) dual-boot system. sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0001 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 23572 189342058+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 23573 24321 60163125 Extended /dev/sda5 23573 24321 6016311 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sdb: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00060463 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 38127 306246656 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 38127 38914 63221775 Extended /dev/sdb5 I mount dev, proc, sys, and usr on /dev/sda (aka w1), and guest@guest:~$ sudo chroot /mnt/w1 /bin/bash root@guest:/# update-grub2 root@guest:/# grub-install /dev/sda /usr/sbin/: Not found. I'm stumped. I have previously done root@guest:/# grub-install /dev/sda1 getting ... init[1]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp bfd65e44 error 4 kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init ! Pid: 1 comm: init Not tainted 2.6.31-23-generic # 75-Ubuntu .. but have since become aware I should not specify partition number. Inspecting files on the WattOSRC1 drive (w1), it seems I have two GRUB folders guest@guest:/mnt/w1$ ls bindebootstrap grubinitrd.img.old man1 openbox proc sbin sys var boot dev homelib media opt resolv.conf selinux tmp vmlinuz cdrom etc initrd.img lost+found mntopt1 root srv usr vmlinuz.old and guest@guest:/mnt/w1/boot$ ls bindebootstrap grubinitrd.img.old man1 openbox proc sbin sys var boot dev homelib media opt resolv.conf selinux tmp vmlinuz cdrom etc initrd.img lost+found mntopt1 root srv usr vmlinuz.old The best way to get a working dual-boot GRUB2 seems to be to delete one of the grub folders, and tell GRUB2 where the kernel and root fs are. I have been messing around with rescue prompt boot instructions and have been able to boot into the debian drive, initially in graphic (with stationary mouse) and later in text mode, but it seems a bit hit and miss, lately mostly miss. Dunno why .. maybe too many changes. I'd appreciate any constructive advice as I am about to move house and will be off-line for a while. I'm starting to appreciate Live-CDs. Cheers, Adam Bogacki, adam.boga...@clear.net.nz -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ssh key-based auth not working Ubuntu without GUI (X) login??
I've come across an interesting feature on the later Ubuntu's - ssh key-based authentication to a target box doesn't appear to work, unless I've logged onto the target box through the GUI (X). Anyone come across this? Anyone know of a fix? Here's the target box: % cat /etc/issue.net Ubuntu 10.10 Here's me trying to logon to the target box, and I'm not logged on the GUI on the target box: % ssh -v cereza OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-1ubuntu3, OpenSSL 0.9.8o 01 Jun 2010 debug1: Reading configuration data /home/sonia/.ssh/config debug1: Applying options for cereza debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Applying options for * debug1: Connecting to cereza [10.68.206.77] port 22. debug1: fd 3 clearing O_NONBLOCK debug1: Connection established. debug1: identity file /home/sonia/.ssh/id_rsa type 1 debug1: Checking blacklist file /usr/share/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048 debug1: Checking blacklist file /etc/ssh/blacklist.RSA-2048 debug1: identity file /home/sonia/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/sonia/.ssh/id_dsa type 2 debug1: Checking blacklist file /usr/share/ssh/blacklist.DSA-1024 debug1: Checking blacklist file /etc/ssh/blacklist.DSA-1024 debug1: identity file /home/sonia/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1 debug1: identity file /home/sonia/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1 debug1: identity file /home/sonia/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1 debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-4ubuntu5 debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-4ubuntu5 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.8p1 Debian-1ubuntu3 debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: server-client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 z...@openssh.com debug1: kex: client-server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 z...@openssh.com debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(102410248192) sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY debug1: Server host key: RSA dc:f1:0d:ee:d0:56:b8:64:d5:64:c8:99:ef:00:3d:a7 debug1: Host 'cereza' is known and matches the RSA host key. debug1: Found key in /home/sonia/.ssh/known_hosts:148 debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: Roaming not allowed by server debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/sonia/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug1: Offering DSA public key: /home/sonia/.ssh/id_dsa debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password debug1: Trying private key: /home/sonia/.ssh/id_ecdsa debug1: Next authentication method: password sonia@cereza's password: Then I logon to the GUI of the target box, and hey presto ssh key-auth works from my source box: % ssh cereza Linux cereza 2.6.35-30-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 11 20:00:22 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.10 Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ New release 'natty' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it. Last login: Tue Aug 23 09:50:38 2011 from zapote.local -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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] ssh key-based auth not working Ubuntu without GUI (X) login??
* Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com [2011-08-23 13:11:47 +1000]: This made me think about another option - do you use encrypted home directories? * James Polley jamezpol...@gmail.com [2011-08-23 14:39:53 +1000]: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.comwrote: Depending on how much effort you want to put in to work around this, you could: - Turn off homedir encryption - Configure sshd to look for authorized_keys in another place - Use Kerberos auth, which doesn't need to read your homedir (nb: not a simple solution) Duh! It's encrypted home directories... Thanks guys! - Use signed SSH keys I'm not sure how signing my ssh key would help... could you explain a bit more? Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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 panic .. attempted to kill init !
* adam.bogacki adam.boga...@clear.net.nz [2011-08-23 14:12:52 +1200]: == resume: libcrypt version 1.4.4 init[1]: segfault at 0 ip Encrypted home directory?? -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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] search and replace multiple files?
* Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net [2011-08-02 15:44:02 +1000]:
If it's a problem with leaving the editor open with only changed files,
then I can suggest something like this:
vim -o $(git status --porcelain | awk ' /^ M/ { print $2 } ')
* Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com [2011-08-02 18:07:11 +1000]:
Assuming that you are keeping this in git, why not just do the
following:
a) Make sure everything has been commited.
b) Use sed/perl/python/whatever to do the changes on the command
line.
c) Use git with an external graphical diff program to review the
changes.
Thanks guys for your suggestions! I like the idea of combining
sed/git/vim:
git commit -m cleanup
sed 's/foo/bar' *
vi `git st -s | grep '^ M' | cut -c4-` # edit changed files
Eric, I'll also check out mgdiff.
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[SLUG] search and replace multiple files?
I'm looking for a GUI that allows me to search and replace in multiple files, then leaves open the files that have changed - any pointers? For example, I want to replace def fubar with def snafu across 50 files. I then want to close all the files that didn't have changes, so I can investigate the changed files in more detail (yes, I'm refactoring). PS I know about sed, and how to edit multiple files in vim [1]. [1] (http://blog.stevenocchipinti.com/2011/05/search-and-replace-in-multiple-files.html). -- Sonia. -- 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] search and replace multiple files?
* Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net [2011-08-02 12:23:43 +1000]: On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 10:29:44AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: For example, I want to replace def fubar with def snafu across 50 files. perl -p -i -e 's/def fubar/def snafu/g' * I said: PS I know about sed, and how to edit multiple files in vim [1]. Supplying a perl recipe therefore isn't very useful. Perhaps I should've said ditto for ruby, perl, python, If you are not using SCM (or git in particular), then you should be. http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com/tag/git/ Again, not the question I was asking... -- Sonia Hamilton -- 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] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks
* Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com [2011-07-23 22:35:30 +1000]: +1 for ddrescue works well. On 07/23/2011 07:15 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad blocks. On Jul 22, 2011 10:14 PM, Simon Maless...@sime.net.au wrote: I've found that myrescue is better than ddrescue, especially with corrupted devices. It has options for exponential backoff of corrupted sections, retries, etc sudo aptitude install myrescue -- Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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] ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04 upgrade
The old Ubuntu repos are kept under http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ eg a Gutsy (7.10) sources.list would look like: deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security main restricted deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security universe deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security multiverse Sonia. On Mon, 30 May 2011 13:51:11 +1000, david da...@kenpro.com.au said: I've been putting it off, but now the 9.04 repo has vanished, along with the upgrade-to-new-distribution button in synaptic. Are there any gotchas if I just change my sources list and do a dist-upgrade? This is a complicated desktop which would be a horror to rebuild, so I really would rather know any problems in advance Thanks David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux for seniors?
I'm investigating Linux for seniors, wondering if anyone has any pointers. One of my relatives is getting frail :-( and having more and more problems - randomly clicking/dragging stuff, destroying applications and the desktop, etc. A computer for them = email, ninemsn (ie web), and occasionally get photos from camera, print stuff. So far Ubuntu Remix looks good (big icons, simplified). Or maybe standard Ubuntu desktop and use Pessulus [1] to lock it down a bit. Any other suggestions? [1] http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/2.22/lockdown.html.en -- Thanks, Sonia. -- 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] website questionnaire software?
Thanks everyone for all your replies (both on and off list). You've given me lots of ideas to play around with :-) Sonia. On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:40:26 +1100, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net said: Can anyone recommend software for setting up website questionnaires? What I mean is a friend wants customers to be able to login to a website, answer a few questions, then get emailed the results. Whilst I could obviously setup a website and write each questionnaire in language de jour, I'm looking for something that easily allows a computer novice to design/modify their own questionnaires, have multiple questionnaires, enable/disable questionnaires, logins/passwords, etc, etc. BTW, by questionnaire I mean something like: Name:_ Fav colour: a) red b) blue c) green Choose 3 sports: * cricket * football * soccer * hockey * golf * tennis * other (specify) Thanks, Sonia. -- 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] website questionnaire software?
Can anyone recommend software for setting up website questionnaires? What I mean is a friend wants customers to be able to login to a website, answer a few questions, then get emailed the results. Whilst I could obviously setup a website and write each questionnaire in language de jour, I'm looking for something that easily allows a computer novice to design/modify their own questionnaires, have multiple questionnaires, enable/disable questionnaires, logins/passwords, etc, etc. BTW, by questionnaire I mean something like: Name:_ Fav colour: a) red b) blue c) green Choose 3 sports: * cricket * football * soccer * hockey * golf * tennis * other (specify) Thanks, Sonia. -- 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] [slightly OT] video upload site with API?
Thanks guys, I'll check out blip.tv. Also, there seems to be a few ruby api's for youtube around, I'll have a play with them. I like that blip.tv seems to have an ftp upload interface, too. Sonia. On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 14:39:24 +0930, Ryan Verner r...@uanywhere.com.au said: blip.tv - seems to have the best video API out there, have used it extensively for uploading/tagging/etc many videos programatically. Sample code in php/python/ruby if I remember correctly - http://blip.tv/about/api/ They offer a private video service as part of their Pro service ($8/month I think) which allows you to password videos / limit to particular users / etc. R On 05/09/2010, at 11:46 , Sonia Hamilton wrote: [slightly OT] Can anyone recommend a video upload site (like Youtube, DailyMotion) that has an easily scriptable API, for uploading a lot of videos, that also allows passwording of the videos? I've got a lot of small mp4 videos (about 5 mins in length) that add up to a couple of gigs. I'd like to share them with my friends, but protect the videos with a password. Most importantly, I'm looking for something that's easily scriptable (Perl, Python, Ruby, ...), so I can just start the upload overnight and forget about it... The videos are of martial arts competions, not pr000n :-) -- 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] [slightly OT] video upload site with API?
[slightly OT] Can anyone recommend a video upload site (like Youtube, DailyMotion) that has an easily scriptable API, for uploading a lot of videos, that also allows passwording of the videos? I've got a lot of small mp4 videos (about 5 mins in length) that add up to a couple of gigs. I'd like to share them with my friends, but protect the videos with a password. Most importantly, I'm looking for something that's easily scriptable (Perl, Python, Ruby, ...), so I can just start the upload overnight and forget about it... The videos are of martial arts competions, not pr000n :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] displaying file notes in Nautilus
(Ubuntu 9.04) Nautilus (the default file manager in Ubuntu) has a nice feature where you can attach notes to files (right-click, Properties, Notes). The icon for the file will then change to have a little yellow notepad on it. What I'd like to do is display these notes inline with the file in Nautilus, rather than having to right-click on the file and then select the notes tab. (I have a lot of video files I'm working on, and I'd like to attach and view explanatory notes). Anyone know a way of doing this? A plugin perhaps? A hack in Nautilus? PS I know about displaying notes using the side pane [1]. However this only seems to work for directories, not files :-( http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6o.htm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] squid ACL question
A question about Squid ACL's (from an existing config I'm working on). Let's say the config file defines (in this order) these ACL's and rules: acl foo src 1.2.3.4 acl bar url_regex -i .bar.com http_access allow foo http_access allow foo bar http_access deny all The second http_access line is redundant, isn't it? Or have I missed something here? Any request with a source address of 1.2.3.4 would match the first http_access rule and never get to the second rule. Quoting chapter and verse from O'Reilly: As with the algorithm for matching the values of an ACL, when Squid finds a matching rule in an access list, the search terminates. Thanks for any clue sticks, Sonia. -- 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] IPTables
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:06:50 +1000, Rick Phillips r...@greyheads.net said: I am not very good at IPTables and was seeking opinions as to whether this formula would work to fully block a connection from computer A to B but allow ssh and web only from B to A. The tables would reside on A. In addition to rate limiting, dns, ntp (which others have mentioned), you should also consider protecting against route spoofing and RFC1918 addresses (192.168, etc). You can write all the iptables rules yourselves, or better use something like Shorewall http://www.shorewall.net/ Sonia. -- 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] advice on security compliance
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:28:25 +1100, Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com said: have to sign. One of the tick boxes says Do you operate a firewall that is regularly updated? I have an iptables firewall which basically blocks all ip6 and all ip4 except for a couple of ports I expose to the internet. I don't see why I need to update it regularly. It's just a standard security checklist for Windoze blinkered admins - say 'yes'. And you do update your firewall regularly, via 'sudo apt-get update' (or similar) :-) -- 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: Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:04:12 +1100, Bill Donoghoe donogh...@gmail.com said: snip/ Thanks everyone for the advice. Following the KISS principle I am going to: 1. Live within the RAM can access now (just over 3Gb) 2. Use a single Linux partition (besides boot) on the larger drive I find it useful putting /home on a separate partition. Then if you totally hose your o/s, you can just reinstall and keep all your existing data and app preferences (though of course you'll need to reinstall any additional apps). Sonia. -- 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] NIS problem - non-existent map
Nigel Allen wrote: Hi Running Centos 4 with one machine as YP server (ypserv 2.8) and one as a yp client. In the messages log of the server I constantly see messages like this: Aug 12 12:28:46 sydsrv12 ypserv[20413]: refused connect from 192.168.0.56:38230 to procedure ypproc_match (jgc,shadow.byname;-1) Aug 12 12:29:14 sydsrv12 ypserv[20413]: refused connect from 192.168.0.56:38230 to procedure ypproc_match (jgc,shadow.byname;-1) Aug 12 12:29:22 sydsrv12 ypserv[20413]: refused connect from 192.168.0.56:38230 to procedure ypproc_match (jgc,shadow.byname;-1) Aug 12 12:30:13 sydsrv12 ypserv[20413]: refused connect from 192.168.0.56:38230 to procedure ypproc_match (jgc,shadow.byname;-1) sydsrv56 is the client btw. How can I find what program is trying to access the shadow.byname map? I suspect (from the frequency) that it dovecot may be the culprit The server does not have that map and on the client there is no mention of shadow in the nsswitch.conf - all commented out. Any clues please? touch the file shadow.byname and use lsof + grep in a loop in a shell script? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Git - merging individual diffs?
A git question: how do I merge just *some* diffs from branch A into branch B? ie I want to do a sort of combination of git cherrypick git add -i (patch mode) - pull in some of the diffs from some of the files from A revision x into B's HEAD. I could just make another clone into another directory, git reset to revision x, and use vimdiff. But that seems inelegant :-) -- Sonia.-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] mutt and imap folder hooks?
I'm trying to set mutt folder hooks on an IMAP folder, and I'm not having much luck. I haven't been able to google up any examples. For example: folder-hook . set from=so...@foo.com folder-hook imaps://my.mailserver.net/INBOX/blah set from=so...@bar.com Anyone got any ideas why this is wrong, or got a working example? Thanks, Sonia. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control
* Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au [2009-03-18 11:55:51 +1100]: Looking for some advice. I have used RCS version control for writing LaTeX documents for some time, but am looking at the advantages of using a distributed version control system. Is there any reason why you want to use a *distributed* VCS? For personal stuff it's probably overkill, and using a centralised VCS will make your life easier. In which case use Subversion. Sonia. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] virtualisation solutions?
* Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net [2009-03-19 10:22:50 +1100]: Respectfully, VMware server no longer really qualifies as simple given that the dependency list for basic management now includes Java, a Java application server, a Firefox plugin, binary-only components included in that plugin, an AJAX web application, and the basic server stuff. vmrun, vmware-cmd solves most of these problems. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mutt and imap folder hooks?
* Alex Samad a...@samad.com.au [2009-03-19 11:47:13 +1100]: folder-hook . set from=so...@foo.com folder-hook imaps://my.mailserver.net/INBOX/blah set from=so...@bar.com try folder-hook . set from=so...@foo.com folder-hook imaps://my.mailserver.net/INBOX/blah set from=so...@bar.com Legend! - I combined single quotes with a regex: folder-hook . 'set from=so...@foo.com' folder-hook '.*blah' 'set from=so...@bar.com' Sonia. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control
* Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net [2009-03-19 12:02:41 +1100]: On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 11:46 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there any reason why you want to use a *distributed* VCS? For personal stuff it's probably overkill, and using a centralised VCS will make your life easier. In which case use Subversion. Whoa there Tonto. Using *nearly* any DVCS is simpler for personal use than using a centralised client-server system like svn. Why? I'm still learning git, but one of the things I found annoying was that I need to commit to the local repo, then merge my changes up my central git repo, then commit my changes on the central git repo. (Maybe I'm doing it the wrong way, I'm only up to page 2 of the manual). Whereas with a centralised VCS check in only takes one step. However I can see the advantages mentioned by John Ferlito of better branching in DVCS's. And of course if you've regularly got limited connectivity, a DVCS is the only way to go. PS You might want to lookup what tonto means [1] before you go around calling people it. It was a term of disrespect for Amerindians on the US/Mexican border in the 1800's. At least be grammatically correct, and call me tonta :-p [1] http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/tonto signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [CTTE] Re: [activities] SLUG Committee elections: progress so far
* Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com [2009-03-16 20:24:39 +1100]: Good idea. I've updated the 2009 AGM wiki page: http://wiki.slug.org.au/2009agm Unless I missed something, I still need to be publicly seconded :) I second Sridhar Dhanapalan for President of SLUG. Sonia Hamilton. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NAS storage compatibility
* Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au [2009-03-14 08:04:44 +0900]: Any thoughts on multi-disc NAS devices, firmware capability and drive formats? Looking at a mirroring dual-drive device for reliability, but what happens if the box dies - are the drives ext2/vfat/proprietary? Are they all SMB/ftp or do some require Windows-only client software? Kevin, I asked a question on SLUG about this several months ago [1]. While not directly relevant to your question about firmware, I got some good replies, especially about a specialised NAS distro called http://www.freenas.org/. [1] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2009/01/msg00037.html Sonia signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?
(totally off topic) I'm doing lots of video stuff at the moment, and I'm wondering how to wipe/format mini DV video tapes. My camera doesn't have such a function, and at the moment I'm doing it by leaving the lense cap on and just leaving the video camera to record over the whole tape. Any ideas? Reason I ask - not for any secret squirrel stuff - it's just that at sports comps I tend to record lots of short scenes (3-5 mins), and sometimes review them immediately with my team mates, then record again, then Old and new stuff gets mixed up easily, and it gets kind of messy... -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?
Cool, I'll give that a go. S. * Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au [2009-03-12 20:13:04 +1100]: Kino has a function to write back to the tape, via the Export/IEEE1394 option. This might be marginally better than recording the inside of your lens cap. Marghanita Sonia Hamilton wrote: (totally off topic) I'm doing lots of video stuff at the moment, and I'm wondering how to wipe/format mini DV video tapes. My camera doesn't have such a function, and at the moment I'm doing it by leaving the lense cap on and just leaving the video camera to record over the whole tape. Any ideas? Reason I ask - not for any secret squirrel stuff - it's just that at sports comps I tend to record lots of short scenes (3-5 mins), and sometimes review them immediately with my team mates, then record again, then Old and new stuff gets mixed up easily, and it gets kind of messy... -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- 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 Ubuntu with CDs to save bandwidth?
Thanks everyone. I didn't realise the difference in the layout of the live and alt cd. I'll also check out aptoncd for future uses. Sonia Hamilton. Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Jeff Waugh quote who=Sonia Hamilton Last night I was trying to upgrade some Ubuntu machines using the Ubuntu CDs (rather than downloading all the packages), in order to save bandwidth. I couldn't get the upgrade to download packages off the CD; in the end I did clean installs - no big deal since /home was separate. I'm just wondering how you're supposed to do it, and more importantly, how a newbie would be supposed to do it. 8 ... snip ... 8 The only thing I can think of is that I was using the Live CDs - should I have used the Alternate CDs instead? Yes, stick an alternate CD in the drive and a dialogue will pop up asking if you'd like to use it as a source (and then upgrade). Salient point that I managed to skip: The alternate CD has packages on it, while the Live CD is just a great big compressed image of a filesystem... so it won't help with upgrades at all (yet [1]). - Jeff [1] Years ago there was some inspired brainstorming about ways to do this very cleverly, but I don't imagine it's on the agenda at the moment. Net connected upgrades are just so bloody convenient and simple (and ALL of the developers have fantastic net connections, of course). -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] upgrading Ubuntu with CDs to save bandwidth?
Last night I was trying to upgrade some Ubuntu machines using the Ubuntu CDs (rather than downloading all the packages), in order to save bandwidth. I couldn't get the upgrade to download packages off the CD; in the end I did clean installs - no big deal since /home was separate. I'm just wondering how you're supposed to do it, and more importantly, how a newbie would be supposed to do it. I tried doing it the GUI way - adding the CD via Software Sources, then upgrading via Update Manager I tried doing it via the shell - various combinations of `apt cd-rom add`, `apt-get update`, `apt-get upgrade`, `apt-get dist-upgrade`, editing /etc/apt/sources.list. The only thing I can think of is that I was using the Live CDs - should I have used the Alternate CDs instead? -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] SLUG Committee elections: progress so far
I second Melissa Draper. Sonia Hamilton. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Hi everybody, It's been over a week since nominations were opened for the SLUG Committee elections. So far we only have one person accept their position. There have been two other nominations, but they have not been seconded and so cannot be accepted yet. Here are the statuses of the current nominations: Sridhar Dhanapalan for President http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/activities/2009/03/msg1.html Status: requires seconding Melissa Draper for Secretary http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/activities/2009/02/msg00021.html Status: requires seconding Tim Ansell for Ordinary Committee Member http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/activities/2009/02/msg00022.html Status: accepted We are still in need of candidates to fill all seven positions. The means to nominate a candidate is simple: simply send an e-mail to activit...@slug.org.au in the manner shown in the links above. We also welcome self-nominations. For more detail on the process, see these pages: http://wiki.slug.org.au/2009agm (2009 AGM info) http://wiki.slug.org.au/agm_guide (general guide to the AGM) http://slug.org.au/participation (includes a summary of Committee responsibilities) http://www.slug.org.au/node/112 (Web announcement) http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/announce/2009/03/msg1.html (mail announcement) If you still have questions, feel free to raise them on the Activities list. -- 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 Ubuntu with CDs to save bandwidth?
Thanks for that, I'll give it a go on the next upgrade I do. But going back to the second part of my question, how would a non-technical user do it? For example, here's a hypothetical use case for a 3rd world country I've worked in: Juan-Carlos has been using Ubuntu for 12 months, and now wants to upgrade because he's heard that Network Manager will solve some networking issues he's having. He is currently sharing an expensive satellite link with several neighbours, and downloading 1G of files to upgrade is out of the question. He travels by bus into the district capital, and downloads and burns the next Ubuntu iso at an internet cafe. Upon getting home, he tries to upgrade using the CD but none of the menu items cause the files on the CD to be used. In disgust, he let's his neighbour reinstall a pirate copy of Window$ XP SP2 and solves his network problems. (It's Guatemala, and privatise everything has done wonders for the cost of utilities). Sonia Hamilton. Blindraven wrote: 2 Ways you can do that : Mount the ISO as a drive with a command like: sudo mount -o loop ~/Desktop/ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/cdrom0 or gksu sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade Regards, Harrison. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net wrote: Last night I was trying to upgrade some Ubuntu machines using the Ubuntu CDs (rather than downloading all the packages), in order to save bandwidth. I couldn't get the upgrade to download packages off the CD; in the end I did clean installs - no big deal since /home was separate. I'm just wondering how you're supposed to do it, and more importantly, how a newbie would be supposed to do it. I tried doing it the GUI way - adding the CD via Software Sources, then upgrading via Update Manager I tried doing it via the shell - various combinations of `apt cd-rom add`, `apt-get update`, `apt-get upgrade`, `apt-get dist-upgrade`, editing /etc/apt/sources.list. The only thing I can think of is that I was using the Live CDs - should I have used the Alternate CDs instead? -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -- 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: SLUG activities in March and April
Hi Oliver, I've forwarded your message to our main email list. Maybe others are aware of some upcoming activities. Sonia. Oliver Bechhold wrote: Hello, I stumbled over your mail address on the SLUG website and hope you're the right person to address my question to. Visiting Australia from mid March to mid April this year, I'd love to take the opportunity to mingle with members of SLUG. Unfortunately I'll most likely won't by in Sydney for the monthly meeting in March. Checking the events calender on the web site, I couldn't find any other scheduled activities for this period of time. Are you aware of any other upcoming events, which are likely to happen yet might not have made it on the calender? Or could you point me to another event where I could get in contact with SLUG members or people interested in Linux? I'm greatly appreciating your help. Kind regards Oliver Bechhold Pt! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] compress videos post Kino?
I've been using Kino to record videos of my BJJ training and competitions [1]. Kino's all working nicely but I've noticed that the videos (.avi version 2) are large - too large to record to dvd for backup. What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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: compress videos post Kino?
Richard Ibbotson wrote: On Sunday 01 March 2009 21:01:35 Sonia Hamilton wrote: What's the canonical way of compressing videos? Any tool people would recommend? This might not be the answer you want but have you thought about using Kino to produce .flv format ? The resulting video using broadband quality isn't all that good but it's good enough for YouTube and other video streaming sites. Thanks everyone for your replies - I'll try each of .flv format, avidemux, and mencoder. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjj Yes, done a lot of that Yeh, bjj, it should be called the geeks martial art - it's not called physical chess [2] for nothing :-) [2] http://clothing.cafepress.com/item/physical-chess-bjj-hooded-sweat-shirt/137870493 -- 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?
Ben wrote: I'm using a Gigabyte motherboard with 4x1TB SATA drives,and 2x 200MB IDE drives. I could give you the model number but it's out of date, so wouldn't be of any use. Thanks Ben, that's a wicked setup you've got. Someone mentioned http://www.freenas.org/ in a later post - I think I'll have a play with that, just expand an old mobo I've got lying around. Oh, and you misspelt pr0n. ;-) Thanks for the correction :-p Sonia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] NAS device for home?
Can anyone recommend a NAS device for home? ie something for that takes more than 2 large disks, does RAID5, does NFS and CIFS. (I've seen a few devices for home, but they were limited to 2 disks). I'm wondering if buying such a NAS device would be more expensive than buying a barebones mobo/cpu + case and putting Linux on. If so, any recommendations for a mobo that takes a large number of SATA drives (eg 6 or 8) and doesn't have some weird BIOS thing that requires Windoze to support said large number of drives? Thanks, Sonia, who has much p0rn to store (martial arts videos) :-) -- 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 training course for experienced Windows admin
Glen Turner wrote: Hi folks, Looking for a good Linux training course for someone with a deep background in PC hardware and Windows. Pref held in Sydney. Hi Glen, Many ppl recommend the LPI semester-long evening courses done by Geoffrey Robertson at Granville TAFE. Google for more details. Also, commercial training companies do courses do courses - eg Excom, New Horizons. Sonia. -- 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: hosted blogging account with open backend.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 14:10:24 -0800 (PST), Daniel Bush What hosted system will be easiest to extract the data from in the future (I'm happy trying to write code to talk to database APIs, but would prefer not trying to automate page scraping). I've got mine on wordpress.com; I can second other people's high opinions of it. Best part about not hosting it myself is not having to worry about security patches - they do them. I found the docs a bit confusing, but I've tested it using curl. eg for POSTing a new article (something very roughly like this): curl -H Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=$Auth \ -H Content-Type: application/atom+xml \ -d @example_post.xml \ https://www.blogger.com/feeds/$blog_id/posts/default Anyone know how to do the same for wordpress? Would be quite nice when travelling - write blog posts offline on netbook without time pressure, go to netcafe post to blog download email only pay for 5 minutes of usage :-) Sonia. Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] how to find if cpu is 32 or 64 bit
How do I find out if a cpu is 32 or 64 bit? (Notice: cpu, not kernel). Googling seems to suggest 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' and look for lm in the flags. Are there any other ways of doing this? Yes you can look at the model name, but this is only useful if you know from memory that model x is 32 bit and model y is 64 bit. Sonia. -- 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] Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex - annoying flashing in Firefox
jam wrote: On Monday 24 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex). I've noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of automagically going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Alt-Tab to flash nastily whenever Firefox is selected or passed over. Anyone having this problem? Anyone know of a fix? A quick fix seems to be to take Firefox to proper fullscreen and back to normal window mode using F11 F11. But after a while Firefox reverts to semi-fullscreen mode. url:about:config http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries I didit, but stuffed up other stuff, so no howto. James Thanks Jam. I didn't have time to work it out; I've had other annoyances with 8.04 8.10 that I haven't had time to fix so have reinstalled 7.10 - not too big a deal as I usually have /home as a separate partition on my desktops/laptops. Also, +1 for other comments about how annoying Network Manager is. What I find annoying (as others have mentioned) is that the internals aren't visible, the manpage sucks, and there's no text conf file (it uses some gconf nastiness, reminiscent of Windoze 95). Sonia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex - annoying flashing in Firefox
I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex). I've noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of automagically going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Alt-Tab to flash nastily whenever Firefox is selected or passed over. Anyone having this problem? Anyone know of a fix? A quick fix seems to be to take Firefox to proper fullscreen and back to normal window mode using F11 F11. But after a while Firefox reverts to semi-fullscreen mode. Sonia. -- 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] Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex - annoying flashing in Firefox
Peter Chubb wrote: Sonia == Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sonia I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex). I've Sonia noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of Sonia automagically going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Sonia Alt-Tab to flash nastily whenever Firefox is selected or passed Sonia over. Anyone having this problem? Anyone know of a fix? I think this may be devilspie. I removed it, because it made everything start in fullscreen mode, and go spontaneously into fullscreen mode whenever selected. You can try removing it, if you don;t need its features; or trying to configure it if you do. Thanks Peter, but devilspie isn't installed... -- 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] Steve Ballmer live rally Sydney November 6
Cibby Pulikkaseril wrote: I only hope that it's as high energy as this notorious performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc Ahhh, the monkey dance video - always good for a laugh. Makes you wonder what his white powder of choice is -- 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] en-AU Translation problem with Synaptic
http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/apt-translation-en_au/ (though my explanation deals with apt rather than synaptic) Murray Waldron wrote: G'day all, Each time I reload my package lists with Synaptic I keep getting the same error repeated and packages fail. The error I get is (from the list of upgraded packages): Failed Translation-en_AU http:// Translation-en_AU. Does anyone know how to remove this. It gave me great problems the last time I did a distro upgrade. Thanks in advance Murray. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OT: moving from Access to ...?
Others have raved about Django and mentioned Rails - I'll rave about Rails :-) I confess that in the mid 90's I was an Access programmer; I find programming in Rails to be almost as easy as Access programming, but giving you a web frontend on an open-source stack. When I was researching frameworks a few years ago, what tipped me towards Rails was that there was a lot more books available for Rails than Django, and this still seems to be the case. Pragmatic Programmers have a lot of Ruby/Rails books, but for a beginner I would recommend Build your own Ruby on Rails Web Applications, Lenz, published by Sitepoint. Sonia. Sebastian wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, this is a bit OT but as I want to do it at home on my linux box I thought I ask here for some guidance. For a bigger project at work I set up a access database a while ago - it does the job but I would like to get away from access. The database is basically a large list of past job/FEAdesigns for later reference. At some stage I wanted to import/export from and to out FEA software (a text file). I have to admit my knowledge in Access is not huge but I would be even more keen on learning something more open. I know a bit of VBA and HTML which is why I thought could there something be done with PHP and mySQL. I would prefer to have the reporting and data entry done in a web based format. Are there any simple good options? Thanks for any ideas. Cheers, Sebastian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFJE7hgMuBzgG5z7F8RAtHFAJ4obAQ+DCuETdbLcwxWUxEYDNYDhgCgtJh3 Uj3k4zmGELWKtwbGyDXhIUo= =Wg4A -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debian: How do I remove a package and all it's dependencies?
Michael Lake wrote: Hi all I have a Debian server and I wish to remove several dozen packages. How do I remove a package and it's dependencies? Perhaps use a tool like aptitude - it will find/display dependencies for you. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] postfix - moving queue to another server?
A question for the postfix gurus about moving the queue to another server ... I'm working on a system with n postfix mailservers behind load balancers. I want to take one of the the servers (say MTA2) off the load balancers for testing a new configuration (there's no test environment - duh!). I then want to move the existing queue onto another mailserver (MTA1), so that real emails don't get lost. What's the easiest way of doing this? I was thinking of changing the transport table on MTA2 to point everything at MTA1 and force flushing the queue - sound sane? % cat '* smtp:[mta1.example.com]' /etc/postfix/transport # rebuild map % postmap dbm:/etc/postfix/transport % postfix reload # flush queue % postqueue -f # watch contents of queue until empty % postqueue -p # start playing % la-la-la... -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] Is someone is snooping my wireless?
Rick Welykochy wrote: A new icon I have never seen before for a PC connection to my wireless LAN has alerted me that someone the area is attempting to connect. The icon only indicates that it is a PC. No IP or any info like that. What I am after is intrusion detection software for a wireless LAN. * how can I get the IPs of the connected or trying to connect? * can I snort out those trying to break in with WEP cracks? Lots of replies to this - mac filtering, WPA2, limited ip range, etc. Whilst mac filtering and a limited ip range are passable, security is usually a layered approach, so use them in combination. Also, keep in mind that upgrading the firmware on your wireless router may give you new features (like ips of those trying to connect, or showing the DHCP lease table). In addition some products eg WRT54G have open source replacement firmware that give you tonnes of additional features that may help you here. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 27 June and Call for Speakers
=== Call for Speakers === SLUG is currently looking for speakers to fill our General and In-Depth Talk slots for this month's talks. Please contact the committee if you would like to talk - [EMAIL PROTECTED] == June SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement on the Web at http://www.slug.org.au/node/102 When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 27 June, 2008 We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18:00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building. Where: Atlassian[0], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the area and directions can be found here[1]. = Talks = General Talk: TBA In-Depth Talk: TBA SLUG-Lets: Sonia Hamilton - hard disks, partitioning and mounts We will release another announcement after we confirm our speakers. = Meeting Schedule = See here[2] for an explanation of the segments. * 18:15 : Open Doors * 18:30 : Announcements, News, Introductions * 18:45 : General Talk (see above) * 19:30 : Intermission * 19:45 : Split into two groups for * In-depth Talk (see above) * SLUGlets: Linux QA and other miscellany * 20:30 : Dinner Dinner is at Golden Harbour Restaurant, in Chinatown. We will be having the $24 Banquet[3], but we will be collecting $25 per head for ease of accounting and to cover a tip. We will be taking numbers during the break to confirm the reservation size. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), or if you would prefer to order separately, let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere :) We hope to see you there! [0] http://www.atlassian.com [1] http://tinyurl.com/35fxes [2] http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/meetingformat [3] http://www.goldenharbour.com.au/specials.html -- Sonia Hamilton Committe Member Sydney Linux Users Group http://www.slug.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ubuntu Hardy - Removeable Media - gconf-editor section?
I notice that in Ubuntu Hardy the configuration area for removeable media actions has moved from System - Preferences - Removeable Drives and Media to Nautilus - Edit - Preferences - Media. For DVD Video the dialog box gives me a choice of Movie Player or GXine; I want to use VLC. Two questions: * anyone know which branch of gconf I'd modify, using gconf-editor? * what options would I add for the launch command? ie the command would be /usr/bin/vlc ??? Thanks, Sonia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] easiest way to check if a .deb is installed?
What's the easiest accurate way to check if a .deb has been installed on a system, from a script? At the moment I'm using `dpkg -l | grep ...`, which is messy. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] easiest way to check if a .deb is installed?
* Michael Chesterton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-07 18:01:05 +1000]: What's the easiest accurate way to check if a .deb has been installed on a system, from a script? At the moment I'm using `dpkg -l | grep ...`, which is messy. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s bash /dev/null 21 echo installed installed [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s basha /dev/null 21 echo installed Thanks Lindsay Michael. Sonia. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: turning off blog comments
* Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-04 10:12:00 +1000]: A blog without comments is like posting to a list and not reading the followups. Who says I want your comments? I have a link to my contact form on my blog posts. If people want to talk to me, they can. Your conception of a blog is different to mine, clearly. I like comments on my blog - I learn stuff, people correct errors in my tech posts. I have three wordpress plugins for comment spam. Great, not one but three pieces of software to maintain. Then I get to moderate messages too. Not like I've got anything better to do. Outsource it. I now host mine on wordpress.com (for $free), they do all that boring stuff. About one spam comment every 2 months gets thru their filters. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs
jam wrote: First thanks to everyone who contributed to this interesting thread :-) Isn't it about time this opinionboring/opinion thread went onto slug-chat? :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] simple text formatting language
* Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-05-29 10:27:39 +1000]: Can anyone recommend a simple text formatting language/package? Thanks everyone for your suggestions - a lot to experiment with :-) Sonia. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] simple text formatting language
Can anyone recommend a simple text formatting language/package? To explain a bit more: I want a formatting language that's text based (so it's easier to keep track of diffs in source control, and editable in vim), for doing stuff you'd usually do in Open Office Word Processor - bullet points, bold/italic, tables, etc. I'd like output in pdf, so it's easily printable cross-platform. I've briefly thought about things like LaTeX, postscript and Docbook, but they all seem overkill for what I want to do, and will take too much time to learn. Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] Partitions
David Liell wrote: Two other questions: 1. How do I direct my console output to the Clipboard so that I can forward it? Currently I do a cut paste. ls foo.txt (create and overwrite file) ls foo.txt (append to file) 2. How do I print documentation like Intro to Linux which is in HTML format? At present using Firefox I only get a small part of a page printed in the middle. I would really like to read some of this excellent documentation. If you want to print stuff from TLDP, probably easier to download the pdf versions - look here http://tldp.org/guides.html -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] deletion and IMAP in Evolution
Ian Wienand wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice that when I delete email with IMAP accounts, the email gets marked as deleted rather than being moved to the Trash. That's the IMAP way, you have to explicitly expunge before the message gets deleted. Since moving consists of copy and delete, the old message hangs around until you expunge it. With one client it's fine, but put mutt or OWA into the mix and things become confusing... Anyone know if there's a way of changing Evolutions's behaviour ie so that when I delete a message it get's moved to the Trash? I recently struggled to make thunderbird do this; it requires fiddling with behind-the-scenes variables (expunge_after_delete in about:config). A quick google suggests the default for Evolution is to expunge on program exit or in response to ctrl-e, but nothing seemed to come up about automagically doing it. I think it's not common because it puts more load on the server. Odd that you say that - I thought I'd try Thunderbird again, and it has an option When I delete a message - Move it to the Trash. Seems to work too. It also has a nice option Expunge on Exit. So problem solved - I'll just use Evolution when I have to work with Exchange. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] Partitions
David Liell wrote: Thanks, Sonia but I don't follow. I know which partition has / and which has /home. What I don't understand is which one has the Ubuntu system and what is /home for? % mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw) snip In this case / contains the Ubuntu system and /home is sort of like My Documents in Windows. In Windows you can have multiple partitions on a hard drive, but they appear as c: d: e: etc. In Linux you can have multiple partitions on a hard drive, and they appear as folders underneath the top of the tree / - a cleaner system than Windows. Why divide up the system into different partitions like / and /home? One reason is that you can easily re-install the o/s in / and keep all of your stuff under /home untouched. Another reason is that you can have different settings for different partitions eg one partition optimised for small files (eg emails), another partition optimised for large files (eg movies), etc. Read more: http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_03_01.html#sect_03_01_02 http://tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] Partitions
Mary Gardiner wrote: However, the reported contents of his /home is rather odd. From his original mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ ls bindev initrd.img media root tmp vmlinuz.old boot etc initrd.img.old mntsbin usr cdrom homelib optsrv var david initrd lost+found proc sys vmlinuz That does rather look like somehow things that should be in / have been copied to or installed in /home. Yes, looks like someone has made a mistake installing/migrating a system. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
partitions (was Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 28, Issue 27)
On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 16:32 +1000, David Liell wrote: Hi Sluggers, Would someone fill me in on which partition my Ubuntu Hardy system is on. Is it / or /home? A list of both directories follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ ls bindev initrd.img media root tmp vmlinuz.old boot etc initrd.img.old mntsbin usr cdrom homelib optsrv var david initrd lost+found proc sys vmlinuz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls bin cdrom etc initrd lib media opt root srv tmp var boot devhome initrd.img lost+found mntproc sbin sys usr vmlinuz The 'mount' command will show you/us. E.g. on my machine: % mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw) snip -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] deletion and IMAP in Evolution
I'm using Evolution as my GUI email client at the moment (and mutt for text mode stuff). I notice that when I delete email with IMAP accounts, the email gets marked as deleted rather than being moved to the Trash. Anyone know if there's a way of changing Evolutions's behaviour ie so that when I delete a message it get's moved to the Trash? A setting I'm missing, or some sort of plugin, script, etc? Yes I know email client foo can do it, but the Exchange integration of Evol is useful... -- Sonia Hamilton. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Further to the deadly authentication.
On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 08:26 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Well, I did, although I like to know what I'm doing. The sudo etc I understand, but what's LANG= please? Did this then allow you to install the software without having to install software that was un-authenticated? If so, then the update grabbed the the digital signatures. The 'LANG=' clears the LANG environment variable. For some reason this helps but I've never seen this myself. HTH, Erik Clearing LANG seems to prevent all the errors caused by aptitude looking for localised package sources. This may be the right way to do things, or maybe the error messages are spurious and I should eat my laptop. Can any .deb gods comment? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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] Anyone else having problems with Ubuntu's latest openvpn?
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:39 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: I haven't tried OpenVPN yet, but a new security advisory came out this morning saying A regression was introduced in OpenVPN when using TLS Out of interest, what source are you using for your security advisories? -- 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! resetting nm-applet on Hardy Herron to make wireless work again
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 22:39 +1000, Jeremy Visser wrote: If it still doesn't work, go edit /etc/network/interfaces (I hope your distro has its config there), and delete every single line _except_ for the ones containing auto lo and iface lo inet loopback. Log out and log in to see if it worked. Out of interest, what is the canonical (vs Canonical) way of giving NM a kick when you've changed something, apart from logging out/in? In the olde days when manually editing /etc/network/interfaces I used to do /etc/init.d/network restart or ifdown eth0; ifup eth0, but NM often appears to ignore those. And where does NM actually store it's configuration? Sometimes I'd like to see what NM thinks all it's settings are. I've looked through files mentioned in dpkg -L, no dice. Started to look through the source code, got sidetracked. Sonia. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] The deadly authentication.
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:55 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm connected to the net and I log in, I'm told there are updates. All well and good. Just lately, I was told that a certain update (a CUPS job) was not authenticated and to install it would render my laptop liable to penetration by al-Queda and the leprosy bacterium and aliens. Having fallen into this trap before (and posted to the list about it), the solution usually seems to be to upgrade your package list: LANG= sudo apt-get 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] Telephone Call Logger?
Hi All I'm looking for a simple telephone cal logging system (or anything that can be simply modded to suit). Maybe a simple implementation of a crm system, like Sugar CRM? -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- 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 clustering - what are the options?
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 11:44 +1000, DaZZa wrote: Does the Linux world support the concept of active/passive (passive node takes over if active fails) clustering for this kind of situation? Or even active/active (both nodes answer requests depending on load)? http://www.linux-ha.org/ - Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OT Open Source CRM Package
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:41 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are looking for an Open Source CRM package that will take all e-mails from Microsoft Outlook and export the mail folders from them into the CRM package and have all the e-mails stored on the server so that all customer details will be on the server. On the CRM package there can be levels of security so that the md's data and the data for the staff are separate. Seems that you have 2 issues here: 1) getting the emails from Outlook 2) an Open Source CRM For 1), what details do want? Email address only? All email to that customer? Name? Is the email stored in .pst files on each user's workstation, or up on an Exchange server? If on an Exchange server, one way to access the emails would be to enable IMAP and get at the data via a perl script For 2) don't know. But I seem to remember Sridar posting about a package a few days ago. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- 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, 2008-04-30 at 12:30 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:08:50PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: 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. 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. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- 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 equivalent for cd $(dirname $0)?
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 22:05 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my bash scripts I often use this (to change to the directory where the script is): cd $(dirname $0) Is there an equivalent in perl? 1. Short answer: http://perldoc.perl.org/File/Basename.html, and $0 in perl works like in the shell. Thanks everyone for all your replies about this. 2. Longer answer: install the FF search engines for perldoc.perl.org and CPAN and you'll always be a simple search away from answers to all perl-related questions you'll ever have. The difficulty in solving problems in any new topic is often knowing what question to ask :-) I searched and searched (got the perl doco locally), but didn't know what to look for... -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Deleting a mailman list
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:21 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, How do I delete a mailman list (as far as being able to send new messages to it goes) but leave the archive website up? The documentation suggests rmlist list-name deletes the list but leaves the archives; but they've disappeared from the website too. From memory, an easier way is to delete the mailserver archive that forwards to mailman, rather than deleting the list within mailman. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- 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 Domains - Apache
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 05:05 +0530, Deepan wrote: Hi All, I am serving two domains from the same machine using Apache. I want www to be used in both of the domains, hence I redirect urls without www to appropriate urls with www. I have the following configuration in httpd.conf to achieve this. Setting up aliases in your dns is probably the way to do this: ie domaina.com is an alias for www.domaina.com. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Deleting a mailman list
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 10:02 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:21 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, How do I delete a mailman list (as far as being able to send new messages to it goes) but leave the archive website up? The documentation suggests rmlist list-name deletes the list but leaves the archives; but they've disappeared from the website too. From memory, an easier way is to delete the mailserver archive that forwards to mailman, rather than deleting the list within mailman. Duh! That should read delete the mailserver *alias* that forwards emails to mailman *for that list*, rather than deleting the list within mailman -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Deleting a mailman list
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:37 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: Sonia Duh! That should read delete the mailserver *alias* that Sonia forwards emails to mailman *for that list*, rather than Sonia deleting the list within mailman Thanks for the suggestion. Except there aren't any :-) My exim4.config has: mailman_director: driver = accept require_files = MAILMAN_HOME/lists/$local_part/config.pck local_part_suffix_optional local_part_suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \ -confirm+* : -join : -leave : \ -owner : -request : -admin transport = mailman_transport That's because Exim seems to be very sensible (I'm migrating away from Postfix, to get away from horrors like what Mary is dealing with). Last time I played with mailman it was on a qmail machine (doubleplus horror), where multiple .qmail files under /var/qmail/something were used for each mailman list eg .qmail-foo-join .qmail-foo-admin etc. Ergo remove them to stop the list working. -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://www.snowfrog.net http://training.snowfrog.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good - Samuel Johnson. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] uptime and multicore/multithreaded cpu's
A question about uptime. My understanding of the load average figures is that a figure less than 2.0 on a 2 CPU machine means the CPUs don't have more work than they can keep up with (on average). How is this figure (1 per CPU) affected on multicore CPUs? What about multi-threaded CPU's? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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 and multicore/multithreaded cpu's
Yes that was the example I found too. I'm still not sure about multi-threaded CPU's though On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 07:43 +1000, James Polley wrote: I was going to say something, but http://www.teamquest.com/resources/gunther/display/5/index.htm says it much better than I can, so I'll just go back to bed. On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: multiple cores are seen as multiple cpus. so there is no difference. i dont know how threads are implemented in the cpu. a load average of 2.0 on a dual cpu (or dual core) system is a 100% load average. accroding to man. Dean Sonia Hamilton wrote: A question about uptime. My understanding of the load average figures is that a figure less than 2.0 on a 2 CPU machine means the CPUs don't have more work than they can keep up with (on average). How is this figure (1 per CPU) affected on multicore CPUs? What about multi-threaded CPU's? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004 -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . I want to share something with you -- the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, Cover for me. Number two, Oh, good idea, boss. Number three, It was like that when I got here. -- Homer Simpson -- 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 equivalent for cd $(dirname $0)?
In my bash scripts I often use this (to change to the directory where the script is): cd $(dirname $0) Is there an equivalent in perl? -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . I want to share something with you -- the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, Cover for me. Number two, Oh, good idea, boss. Number three, It was like that when I got here. -- Homer Simpson -- 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: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 16:31 +1000, Mick Pollard wrote: To automate this 'script' you could build a simple smtp profile system. Grub allows you to pass extra info to it and this is made available to the init process in shell variable $CMDLINE. So would one access $CMDLINE in /etc/rc.local (Ubuntu), or elsewhere? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] installing moodle - .deb or from cvs?
I'm about to setup moodle [1] on a vps. I'd be interested to know from people who have worked with moodle if they recommend installing it from a .deb or via cvs [2] (to more easily keep up with security patches). This question comes from my experiences (bruises?) of maintaining a drupal site, where I eventually found it easier to keep up with security patches by using cvs (I even wrote a howto on this [3]). [1] http://moodle.org/ [2] http://docs.moodle.org/en/CVS_for_Administrators [3] http://howtoforge.com/multisite_drupal_installation_ubuntu -- Thanks, . Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton . I want to share something with you -- the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, Cover for me. Number two, Oh, good idea, boss. Number three, It was like that when I got here. -- Homer Simpson -- 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: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:37 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people
get their laptop to switch mail settings between inside horrible
network and normal operation than I am in specifically what their
inside-horrible-network settings are, because in this particular case I
can use the university's mail server to get mail out (and I also have an
SSH server on my own machine listening on 443, so if I couldn't I could
do various SSH tunneling). It's just annoying to have to remember to
re-configure my mail client (in this case, actually Postfix, but similar
problems apply to any client, whether full MTA or not) when I am located
at uni, and again when I leave.
Using postconf -e
An example script (probably broken) that I used to run on my laptop:
if (( `id -u` != 0 )); then { echo Sorry, must be root. Exiting...;
exit; } fi
postconf -e defer_transports =
postconf -e relayhost =
postconf -e transport_maps =
# check if eth0 not up - send email later (TODO: handle ppp0 for evdo)
myip=`ip a sh eth0 | grep 'inet\'`
if [ -z $myip ] ; then
postconf -e defer_transports = smtp
postfix reload
postfix flush
exit 0
fi
# if we're at home, send email instantly using sandia as relay
myip=`ip a sh eth0 | grep 'inet\' | awk '{print $2}'`
if [ $myip = 192.168.1.1/24 ] ; then
postconf -e relayhost = [192.168.1.254]:25
postfix reload
postfix flush
exit 0
fi
# if we're on didata staff network, relay POE email via
sydmta.POE.com.au
myip=`ip a sh eth0 | grep 'inet\'| awk '{print $2}' | awk -F. '{print
$1 . $2}'`
if [ $myip = 148.182 ] ; then
postconf -e relayhost = [sydmta.POE.com.au]:25
# TODO: work out bug in transport map combine with ssh tunnel
#postconf -e transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
postfix reload
postfix flush
exit 0
fi
# otherwise, just defer transport (until I implement ssh tunnel)
# including 10.172.x.y addresses (when on classroom net) - can't relay
via sydmta
postconf -e defer_transports = smtp
postfix reload
postfix flush
exit 0
# TODO bring up ssh tunnel
# otherwise, just use ssh tunnel
#postconf -e relayhost = [127.0.0.1]:2525
#postfix reload
#postfix flush
#exit 0
--
Thanks,
Sonia Hamilton
http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton
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Re: [SLUG] Bi-directional ssh
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 19:58 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Richard Heycock Is it possible to use ssh as a type of dynamic vpn so that when I connect to a remote machine the remote machine has access to the initiating machine? See the man page section for the -R option to map a remote port to a local port. It complements the -L option, which does the opposite. I don't believe there's a reverse analogue to the -D option though (SOCKS proxy through the remote end), so you're stuck with port mapping. You can also do sick stuff like ppp-over-ssh. Or sensible stuff like OpenVPN. For what you're trying to do, autossh would be useful - keeps a -L/-R tunnel alive permanently. I've used it with success to solve *cough* various firewall issues at POE's. $ sudo aptitude install autossh $ dpkg -L autossh | less -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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] Manipulating DNS
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 09:23 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: I never got around to check this but we use an internal domain company.local for the internal IP address, wouldn't it be possible to configure a DNS server (bind9) on the laptop to forward .company.local to the internal DNS server and the rest to the 'default' DNS server? It looks like the zone statement with type forward would achieve just that. Slightly OT question here: given that zeroconf now uses .local, is using .local for internal domains via bind the right way to do things, or should another name be used? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] working wvdial.conf file for Vodafone Huawei E220?
I've just bought a 3G Mobile Broadband plan from Vodafone. Anyone got a working wvdial.conf file? I'm running a recent kernel so the device is detecting ok: $ less /var/log/messages Apr 15 15:48:45 uva kernel: [12639.596000] option 5-2:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected Apr 15 15:48:45 uva kernel: [12639.596000] usb 5-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Apr 15 15:48:45 uva kernel: [12639.596000] option 5-2:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected Apr 15 15:48:45 uva kernel: [12639.596000] usb 5-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1 Apr 15 15:48:45 uva kernel: [12639.596000] usbcore: registered new interface driver option Apr 15 15:48:45 uva kernel: [12639.596000] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/usb/serial/option.c: USB Driver for GSM modems: v0.7.1 And the devices are being created ok I'm in the dip group: $ ls -al /dev/ttyUSB* crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 0 2008-04-15 16:34 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw-rw 1 root dialout 188, 1 2008-04-15 16:22 /dev/ttyUSB1 -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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, 2008-04-08 at 16:06 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: 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. You can get a single file using export: svn export svn://server/full/path/name.whatever I was thinking about that, but the advantage of having .*rc files under svn is easily keeping them in sync on multiple machines - exporting drops the file out of svn. -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] kernel code for client ephemeral port allocation?
When a tcp (or udp) connection is setup, the client is allocated a source port - a so-called ephemeral port (this can be seen in the Local Address column of netstat). Out of interest, I wouldn't mind looking at the code that pseudo-randomly allocates this port number. Can anyone point me in the direction of the directory (or even file) I should look at? I'm not very familiar with the layout of the kernel code. -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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 code for client ephemeral port allocation?
Thanks! S. On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:13 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: When a tcp (or udp) connection is setup, the client is allocated a source port - a so-called ephemeral port (this can be seen in the Local Address column of netstat). Out of interest, I wouldn't mind looking at the code that pseudo-randomly allocates this port number. Can anyone point me in the direction of the directory (or even file) I should look at? I'm not very familiar with the layout of the kernel code. LXR (Linux Cross Reference) is a really good resource: http://lxr.linux.no/linux Searching for ephemeral results in (among others): http://lxr.linux.no/linux/drivers/char/random.c#L1567 which I think may be what you are looking for. The hard way to do this of course would be just grab an unzip a source code tarball, cd into it and then: grep -r ephemeral . and see where that leads you. Have fun :-). Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. -- edsger dijkstra -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] managing .bashrc in subversion?
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? -- Thanks, Sonia Hamilton http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/soniahamilton -- 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 on Iphone
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:06:45 +1100, Morgan Storey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I can see if it had 3.5g a decent camera, real gps and ran Linux I would go for it... But there are linux Phones coming out that are more open, or run Linux by default these are the better options. So there's OpenMoko [1], Android [2], imcosys [3]. Any recommendations on one of these (or others) that I can buy right here right now? My Palm Treo 650 has been dropped one too many times and is getting a bit flaky. I want a phone/PDA that does Contacts/ToDo/Diary/Memos well, and sync's with Linux easily. I had a Linux based Zaurus for a while a few years ago and didn't think much of it - went back to Palm. [1] http://www.openmoko.org/ [2] http://code.google.com/android/ [3] http://www.imcosys.com/html/english.html Thanks, -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
