Re: screen session remember

2024-03-27 Thread Robin Lee Powell
tmux + https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect + https://github.com/tmux-plugins/tmux-continuum is how I handle that. Which isn't really an answer to the question, but there it is. :) On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 08:46:30PM +0100, aotto wrote: > hi, thank you for providing the "screen"

Re: installation

2023-11-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 10:27:23AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:59:12AM -0400, Brielle Tilson wrote: > > Yes we have an IT guy that installs programs on the school > > computer as us grad students don’t have root privileges. Do I ne

Re: installation

2023-11-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Nov 03, 2023 at 08:59:12AM -0400, Brielle Tilson wrote: > Yes we have an IT guy that installs programs on the school > computer as us grad students don’t have root privileges. Do I need > to have screen installed on both the school computer and my home > computer? > > Yes I know that

Re: prevent filter excluded files from being deleted

2023-03-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 01:16:07PM +0100, Heiko Schlittermann via rsync wrote: > Robin Lee Powell via rsync (Di 07 Mär 2023 07:07:01 > CET): > > Read the "PER-DIRECTORY RULES AND DELETE" of the man page. (And > > don't feel bad, it took me a while to figur

Re: prevent filter excluded files from being deleted

2023-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
Read the "PER-DIRECTORY RULES AND DELETE" of the man page. (And don't feel bad, it took me a while to figure it out myself). Short version: per-directory rules only apply on the side they're *specified on*, but you need the exclusion to apply to *both* sides. The following works, for the

Re: Trying to diagnose incomplete file transfer

2023-03-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
Oh, yeah, I missed that part. Yeah, don't do that; it's easy to add a lock file to a shell script. On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 12:30:16PM +0100, Hardy via rsync wrote: > I second Francis here. You don't need to diagnose incomplete file transfers > as long as you have racing conditions as you

Re: Trying to diagnose incomplete file transfer

2023-03-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
I think it's very hard to be sure what's going on with --remove-source-files ; I think you should drop that option, look for whether the problem continues, and if you need the files to be cleaned up, do so in a separate step. In particular as someone else suggested, are you *sure* the original

Re: Does rsync verify its writes?

2023-02-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
That's not the same as a read-back write verification. I believe that in general, rsync assumes that the disk actually wrote whatever it was told to write. However, a second pass with --checksum will, in fact, read the entirety of both files; if a --checksum run doesn't actually transfer

Re: Can rsync write to a FIFO?

2023-02-11 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
Yeah, I was thinking tar, but it's effectively the same thing. On Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 07:14:57PM +0100, Hardy via rsync wrote: > If this helps, in old days I used to use cpio for a similar thing. > > I do not want to spam you with my whole script, but willing to share if you > want. I think

Re: Cannot reattach - asking for password

2022-12-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
You've basically got two options here that I can think of: 1. Your screen socket, or the directory it's in, is owned by a different user; go looking at ownership. "root" or "nobody" seem likely options. 2. SELinux is getting involved. While you should *not* run like this long

Re: [Puppet Users] Resource default values from site.pp not applied

2022-10-31 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I don't think we're going to be able to help further without a fully-working minimal example. On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 02:32:21PM +, 'Dirk Heinrichs' via Puppet Users wrote: > Am Montag, dem 31.10.2022 um 15:29 +0100 schrieb Martin Alfke: > > How do you declare some_resource type? > Are you

Re: quick question: --rsh="ssh -l root"

2022-08-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
No. On Sun, Aug 07, 2022 at 06:49:45AM +0200, Fourhundred Thecat via rsync wrote: > Hello, > > is there any difference/advantage between these two commands? > > rsync --rsh="ssh -l root" my-host.com > rsync r...@my-host.com > > thank you, > > -- > Please use

Re: rsync slowness

2022-08-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
I've definitely not seen that. If you can produce a working example and tar it up for us to look at, that might be interesting/useful. Just to check, though: you do not have --checksum/-c on, right? On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 05:54:12PM +, Gregory Heytings via rsync wrote: > > I finally take

Re: Is there a better way to transfer data that doesn't use so much cache?

2022-08-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 02:04:22PM -0400, Rob Campbell via rsync wrote: > I've created a script that syncs (and removes) data from as many as 4 > places and puts them all in one of 2 directories. The commands are: > > rsync -avt --progress --remove-source-files --info=progress2 -f'+ *.nef' >

Re: Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
That's completely different; that's scrolling through screen's internal buffer, not the terminal's buffer. I find it extremely useful because I can copy and paste without reaching for the mouse, but that's just me. (Also I've moved to tmux, largely because of better support for that system.) On

Re: Screen and scrolling

2022-07-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 11:29:08AM -0600, Luveh Keraph wrote: > While this is probably not screen's doing, maybe somebody in this forum has > the necessary expertise to suggest courses of action that I am not aware of. > > I am running Slackware 15.0. If I invoke xterm I have the capability

Re: do I always have to use either --checksum or --times ?

2022-07-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
that only exist on one end or are different in sizes yet it > does. Just try doing an rsync of a huge tree to an empty dir. You won't run > out of space. You will get tired of waiting for it to do something and > abort it. > > On 7/15/22 02:57, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > --c

Re: do I always have to use either --checksum or --times ?

2022-07-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
--checksum is only slower than re-copying if your network connection between the hosts is similar in speed (or faster than) each host's local disk access. If local disk access is 10x your network link, it is definitely not slower than re-copying. Having said that, it really is *very* slow, and

Re: Merging three slightly different directories

2022-06-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
tps://windirstat.net/ , there are various equivalents on Linux (including just using du). On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 09:42:27AM -0400, hputn3 wrote: > On Thu, 09 Jun 2022 02:20:02 -0400 Robin Lee Powell > <mailto:robinleepow...@gmail.com> wrote > > > > > It would help if you

Re: Merging three slightly different directories

2022-06-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
It would help if you gave us an example of what you'd *want* to have happen in different situations, but what about the -b option? This will do nothing with identical files but keep both versions of non-identical ones. On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 12:24:16AM +, hput via rsync wrote: > I want to

Re: screen - bash history

2021-11-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Well, the normal shell history stuff. As far as screen goes, you can dump the scrollback and search for your shell prompt, but that's about it. On Sun, Nov 07, 2021 at 09:29:12AM +0400, Vishal Priyatham wrote: > Hi team, > > We are using screen utility on linux server for one of our projects. >

Re: suppress message: is uptodate

2021-08-14 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 07:03:18AM +0200, Fourhundred Thecat via rsync wrote: > Hello, > > is there a way to suppress this message when syncing files? > >is uptodate > > I would like to see only files that have been synced. > > The internet forums are full of people asking how to get

Jira (PUP-8892) puppet reporting fails on Fedora, Errors(Could not write/send report: undefined method `split' for :ensure:Symbol)

2018-07-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell (JIRA)
Title: Message Title Robin Lee Powell

Jira (PUP-1123) make it possible to use notify{} without puppet agent return 2

2016-01-12 Thread Robin Lee Powell (JIRA)
Title: Message Title Robin Lee Powell commented on PUP-1123

Jira (PUP-1123) make it possible to use notify{} without puppet agent return 2

2016-01-11 Thread Robin Lee Powell (JIRA)
Title: Message Title Robin Lee Powell commented on PUP-1123

Jira (PUP-4055) Support DNF package manager (yum successor)

2015-06-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell (JIRA)
Title: Message Title Robin Lee Powell commented on PUP-4055

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet, inventory, and single sources of truth.

2014-10-29 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 02:09:25AM -0700, Gavin Williams wrote: Sounds like The Foreman [1] might be a good option if you want to manage 'should', not 'is'... [1] http://theforeman.org/ *nod* Thanks, I should look at that again; it's been a while. Unfortunately our internal abstraction

Re: [Puppet Users] Puppet, inventory, and single sources of truth.

2014-10-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 06:09:08PM -0700, Garrett Honeycutt wrote: On 10/26/14 4:46 PM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: So I've been using puppet for a long time, and the one thing I've never solved to my satisfaction is a way to have a single source of truth that acts as both instructions

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Puppet, inventory, and single sources of truth.

2014-10-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
(Copying my response to the other branch of this thread). I want to store data about what's *supposed* to be true about our systems, not what is *actually* true. i.e. host X is supposed to be up and in subnet Y, even if it's never actually been turned on. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 08:47:14AM

[Puppet Users] Puppet, inventory, and single sources of truth.

2014-10-26 Thread Robin Lee Powell
So I've been using puppet for a long time, and the one thing I've never solved to my satisfaction is a way to have a single source of truth that acts as both instructions to puppet *and* as a system inventory that I can use for general opertaions (i.e. how many tomcat hosts do we have?). When

[Puppet Users] How to make puppet *fail* on Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue ?

2014-09-23 Thread Robin Lee Powell
So right now, puppet is doing this because of DNS issues: Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue: Warning: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Error: /File[/var/lib/puppet/facts.d]: Failed to generate

Re: [Puppet Users] How to make puppet *fail* on Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue ?

2014-09-23 Thread Robin Lee Powell
at 08:26:22AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: So right now, puppet is doing this because of DNS issues: Warning: Unable to fetch my node definition, but the agent run will continue: Warning: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Error

Jira (PUP-2145) No permanent link for Fedora repo

2014-04-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell (JIRA)
Title: Message Title Robin Lee Powell created an issue

Re: [Puppet Users] firewallchain issues w/ 1.0.0 release

2013-10-01 Thread Robin Lee Powell
It turns out that it has to be :filter:, not :FILTER: as the docs state. -Robin On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 01:23:36PM -0500, oogs wrote: Hi, Yes, I did! I can create rules at will, the problem is that I can't create chains using firewallchain. Here's another snippet from my class:

Re: UP 2/3 status

2013-09-27 Thread Robin Lee Powell
How many server elements does the backend have? That sounds like 2 out of 3 of my servers are up to me. -Robin On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 03:37:43AM +0200, Mark Ruys wrote: Hi, I'm using a Nagios plugin to monitor the HAProxy status. Now and then, HAProxy reports UP 2/3 as a backend status

Re: [Puppet Users] PuppetDB + PuppetMaster with Passanger

2013-09-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 05:16:51PM +0300, Nikola Petrov wrote: Hi everyone, I am trying to configure a puppet master with a puppetdb for storeconfigs backend. I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and the packages from puppetlabs repository. The option I chose for the master is to use passanger as I am

Re: [Puppet Users] 3.3.0 bug? Could not prefetch package provider/UTF-8

2013-09-21 Thread Robin Lee Powell
17, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote: As of upgrading master and clients to 3.3.0, some of my servers are saying: Error: Could not prefetch package provider 'yum': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 Error: Could not prefetch package provider 'rpm

Re: [Puppet Users] Fail/stop after a step fails?

2013-09-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:35:15PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: Is it possible to get puppet to just *give up* if a particular step fails? Thousands upon thousands of Skipping because of failed dependencies gets really old. Or, indeed, have it stop after a particular step *succeeds* would

[Puppet Users] Fail/stop after a step fails?

2013-09-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Is it possible to get puppet to just *give up* if a particular step fails? Thousands upon thousands of Skipping because of failed dependencies gets really old. -Robin -- http://intelligence.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. .i ko na cpedu lo nu stidi vau loi jbopre .i danfu

[Puppet Users] 3.3.0 bug? Could not prefetch package provider/UTF-8

2013-09-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
As of upgrading master and clients to 3.3.0, some of my servers are saying: Error: Could not prefetch package provider 'yum': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 Error: Could not prefetch package provider 'rpm': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 I can't tell whether this actually stops them from

[Puppet Users] Puppet3's Facter on ipv6 only system gets ipaddress catastrophically wrong

2013-08-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I think this speaks for itself pretty well: [rlpowell@harvard01 ~]$ /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.8.7-p371\@puppet3/ruby /usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p371\@puppet3/bin/facter -v 1.7.2 [rlpowell@harvard01 ~]$ /usr/local/rvm/wrappers/ruby-1.8.7-p371\@puppet3/ruby

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Control directory mode only on creation?

2013-06-21 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Yeah, that's what I thought; I just hate execs. :) Thanks! On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:03:54PM -0700, Michael Dodwell wrote: exec { command = mkdir /somedir; chown newuser /somedir, unless = test -d /somedir } On Friday, June 21, 2013 8:24:59 AM UTC+10, Robin Powell wrote: Is

[Puppet Users] Control directory mode only on creation?

2013-06-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Is there a way to make a directory and set its owner and mode and so on only if it didn't exist? That is: I don't want to *reset* the owner and mode if it's already there. -Robin -- http://intelligence.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. .i ko na cpedu lo nu stidi vau loi

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Accessing other parts of the Hiera tree

2013-06-18 Thread Robin Lee Powell
You might find it convenient and logical to structure it as one large, complex, nested value, from which the individual components would select the pieces they need. For example, a hash with VM hostnames as keys, and hashes of VM names to VM parameter hashes as values (i.e. a

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Accessing other parts of the Hiera tree

2013-06-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
[snipped heavily, hopefully nothing important] On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 09:48:48AM -0700, jcbollinger wrote: On Monday, June 17, 2013 12:28:18 AM UTC-5, Robin Powell wrote: Doing this via storeconfigs rather defeats the purpose of my Hiera tree, which is to be the single source of truth.

[Puppet Users] Accessing other parts of the Hiera tree

2013-06-16 Thread Robin Lee Powell
This seems to come up for me a lot. As an example, my Hiera data includes both hypervisors and the VMs that they contain. It would be very useful to have the VMs say I'm a VM on host X and, in templates in host X, be able to say What are all my VMs?. Doing this via storeconfigs rather defeats

Re: [Puppet Users] how to customize hiera lookups per node?

2013-03-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:39:38AM +, Darryl Wisneski wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 12:11:09PM -0800, James Ralston wrote: At this point, all of the modules we have written use parameterized classes. That way, when we call the module from the host's node.pp file, we can override

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: What's your hiera tree look like?

2013-03-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 04:22:19PM -0700, Aaron Mills wrote: The biggest pain point for us is that having hiera + puppet in the same repo feels like extra work. If they're going to live together, why even use hiera? Why not just set variables at the node level? For me, here are some reasons

Re: Please help to configure Haproxy with SSL support

2013-03-21 Thread Robin Lee Powell
As a starting point, the short version is: have an haproxy that supports ssl like so: [rlpowell@mtsinai01 ~]$ /opt/haproxy/usr/local/sbin/haproxy -vv | grep -i ssl OPTIONS = USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_PCRE=1 Built with OpenSSL version : OpenSSL 1.0.1c 10 May 2012 OpenSSL library supports TLS extensions

Re: Please help to configure Haproxy with SSL support

2013-03-21 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 08:02:03PM +0100, Baptiste wrote: I actually started with http://blog.exceliance.fr/2012/09/10/how-to-get-ssl-with-haproxy-getting-rid-of-stunnel-stud-nginx-or-pound/ , but that's out of date; the sni options have changed. Hi Robin I fixed the article today.

Re: Default certificate wrongly delivered.

2013-02-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Are you *only* selecting based on SNI? I ask because our setup uses cookies as well, specifically to get around SNI issues (we store the cookie on normal HTTP as well as HTTPS, and use it as a fallback if SNI fails). If you have other things going on besides SNI, that could explain that

Re: installing SSL, and backend communication is non-ssl

2013-02-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:54:56AM -0500, S Ahmed wrote: Is it hard to install SSL with haproxy? I want all incoming connections to use SSL, but when haproxy communicates with the backends I don't want them to be ssl based. ANy tutorials on setting this up? With 1.5-dev17 (or whatever's

Re: Backend Configuration Templating

2013-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
This is what we do, using puppet's erb templating system: % haproxy_https_servers.keys.each do |server| % % haproxy_https_servers[server].each do |subserver| % % extra_conditions='' if subserver.has_key?('extra_conditions')

Trick: Sneaky workaround for SNI

2013-01-31 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Just something I thought the rest of the interwebs might find useful. If you can get your users to first connect to an http:// address, and then have that URL redirect them to https://, you can work around a lack of SNI support on the client end like so: # content switching based on host name

Re: Problems with sni and big connections.

2013-01-11 Thread Robin Lee Powell
[reordered] On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:14:05PM +0100, Lukas Tribus wrote: If you are running -dev, its probably a good idea to follow the mailing list closely and eventually read the commit message on git. It's hard because I only give one day a week to this company, but I'll see what I can

Re: Problems with sni and big connections.

2013-01-11 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:36:43PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: Hi Robin, On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:10:06AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: [reordered] On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:14:05PM +0100, Lukas Tribus wrote: If you are running -dev, its probably a good idea to follow

Re: Problems with sni and big connections.

2013-01-11 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:36:43PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: Indeed, there were multiple bugs with the POST issue, each one hiding another. For Sander (the reporter), the problem was very reproducible, while I could never get it. I suspect you're hitting the same one. Note that the fix

Problems with sni and big connections.

2013-01-10 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Context: SSL stuff, haproxy HA-Proxy version 1.5-dev15 2012/12/12 ; complete haproxy info at the bottom. Our app does large file uploads via an ancillary java applet thingy; these look like so: 0009:https.accept(0006)=000f from [64.236.139.254:35763] 0009:https.clireq[000f:]: POST

Disabling A records for IPv6?

2012-12-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
So I've got some IPv6-only VMs set up that need to talk to the general internet for things like downloading packages. As you can imagine, this requires that they have NAT64 and DNS64, because lots and lots of things are IPv4 only. The problem is that many things do *stupid shit* when given both

Re: Disabling A records for IPv6?

2012-12-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 07:57:24PM +, Phil Mayers wrote: Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@cytobank.org wrote: So I've got some IPv6-only VMs set up that need to talk to the general internet for things like downloading packages. As you can imagine, this requires that they have NAT64 and DNS64

Re: Disabling A records for IPv6?

2012-12-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Here's the digging my ISP did: [root@dvs-node01 ~]# node var dns = require('dns') undefined dns.resolve('github.com', function(e, h) { console.log(JSON.stringify(h)) } ) { oncomplete: [Function: onanswer] } [207.97.227.239] undefined dns.resolve6('github.com', function(e, h) {

Re: Disabling A records for IPv6?

2012-12-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Ah, it's ... a lot worse than I thought; here's the relevant node.js bug: https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/4168 I knew node.js was made by twelve year olds, but even so... Words fail me. -Robin On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 12:53:51AM +, Phil Mayers wrote: [Grumble stupid mobile devices

Re: wiki macro page expansion (was Re: The wiki lies about macros and tags.)

2012-07-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
If no-one comments further, I'm going to see if I have perms to change the wiki page with this tutorial. -Robin On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:58:34PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:55:07AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:48:03AM -0700, Robin

The wiki lies about macros and tags.

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
The section about tags in http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/Macros is flat-out wrong in 1.5.21 and 1.5.20, as far as I can tell, and should be entirely removed or cordoned off. I tried, and I cannot replicate the old behaviour at all. Does anyone know when this behaviour changed? -Robin --

Re: The wiki lies about macros and tags.

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:30:42AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: The section about tags in http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/Macros is flat-out wrong in 1.5.21 and 1.5.20, as far as I can tell, and should be entirely removed or cordoned off. 1.5.18, too. -Robin

Re: The wiki lies about macros and tags.

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:44:31PM -0500, David Champion wrote: * On 19 Jul 2012, Robin Lee Powell wrote: The section about tags in http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/Macros is flat-out wrong in 1.5.21 and 1.5.20, as far as I can tell, and In what way, specifically? The statements appear

Re: The wiki lies about macros and tags.

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:48:03AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:44:31PM -0500, David Champion wrote: * On 19 Jul 2012, Robin Lee Powell wrote: The section about tags in http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/Macros is flat-out wrong in 1.5.21 and 1.5.20, as far

wiki macro page expansion (was Re: The wiki lies about macros and tags.)

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:55:07AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:48:03AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:44:31PM -0500, David Champion wrote: * On 19 Jul 2012, Robin Lee Powell wrote: The section about tags in http

Re: The wiki lies about macros and tags.

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:04:23PM -0500, David Champion wrote: * On 19 Jul 2012, Robin Lee Powell wrote: If you define a macro to work with a single entry, then it can not be applied to tagged entries just by using tag-prefixmacro-key!!! is flat-out false in every version of mutt I have

Re: archive messages in gmail

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:56:19PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: I have used gmail from mutt occasionally using the attached rc file. Today I decided to clean my gmail account, deleting some messages and saving others in their corresponding folders under, for example =here or =there (under

Re: archive messages in gmail

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:38:21PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:56:19PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: I have used gmail from mutt occasionally using the attached rc file. Today I decided to clean my gmail account, deleting some messages and saving others

Re: archive messages in gmail

2012-07-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:15:49PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:38:21PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 06:56:19PM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: I have used gmail from mutt occasionally using the attached rc file. Today I decided to clean my

[Puppet Users] puppetmasterd continuously consuming high CPU, with many interrupts

2012-07-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
So, I have a server at home that has four VMs running inside it. All are managed via puppet. The physical host runs puppetmasterd. I don't recall noticing this before, but puppetmasterd has decided to be kind of crazy. Here's the physical host with no puppetmasterd running: top - 11:36:15 up

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: puppetmasterd continuously consuming high CPU, with many interrupts

2012-07-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 12:06:19PM -0700, llow...@oreillyauto.com wrote: On Monday, July 2, 2012 1:42:37 PM UTC-5, Robin Powell wrote: So, I have a server at home that has four VMs running inside it. All are managed via puppet. The physical host runs puppetmasterd. I don't

[exim] Mixed mail deliver, or retrying 550 errors.

2012-06-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
So I have a small mail server that delivers a random collection of email from a random collection of domains; lots of different stuff. kli.org has a few mailing lists, lojban.org has a few mailing lists, various automated stuff, half a dozen users with personal mail accounts, etc. All being

Re: [exim] Mixed mail deliver, or retrying 550 errors.

2012-06-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 12:11:17PM +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote: On 2012-06-03 20:22, Robin Lee Powell wrote: So I have a small mail server that delivers a random collection of email from a random collection of domains; lots of different stuff. kli.org has a few mailing lists, lojban.org has

Re: [exim] Mixed mail deliver, or retrying 550 errors.

2012-06-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 06:28:29PM +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote: From time to time people ask how to retry 5xx responses. The answer is: don't. A 5xx response is permanent. If you deliberately retry you are likely to get even more pain from remote hosts as you will be in breach of the RFCs for

Re: [weblocks] BountyOSS site launched!

2012-05-30 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:01:44PM -0700, Scott L. Burson wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote: The first thing I want there is some way to get notified, ideally via email, when new projects are approved/added. I'm not the sort

[docbook-apps] So, no books? (was Re: [docbook-apps] Re: Future of XSL-FO)

2012-05-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Carlos Araya wrote: The people at lxml-dev will only get half the conversation but here it goes. XSL-FO is as complete as it needs to be, for the domain it is used in. People who have been in the standard bodies can confirm or deny this but I

[docbook-apps] DocBook - PDF paths that aren't hugely expensive?

2012-03-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I don't mind paying for software but I can't afford the thousands that XEP costs, for exmaple. I'm really wondering what paths exist these days for turning DocBook into something that you can actually send to a book publisher (which seems to mean PDF, and that's certainly my preference, but I'm

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook - PDF paths that aren't hugely expensive?

2012-03-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 08:48:55AM -0400, maxwell wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:11:37 -0700, Robin Lee Powell rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org wrote: - dblatex is hugely brittle (trust me on this) I guess I don't trust you on this. *chuckle* *That* was unexpected (not). :D We've been using

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook - PDF paths that aren't hugely expensive?

2012-03-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 01:57:18PM +, Jason Zech wrote: Hi Robin, I've had a lot of success with PrinceXML (http://www.princexml.com/) as a DocBook to PDF solution. Like Antenna House (which I haven't used), it allows you to control appearance via fairly robust CSS stylesheets. It's

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook - PDF paths that aren't hugely expensive?

2012-03-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
as to how to handle it. This article gives a nice overview of some of the book-specific capabilities they have: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom/ -Original Message- From: Robin Lee Powell [mailto:rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:39 PM To: Jason Zech

[Puppet Users] More complicated user management?

2012-03-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I feel like this should be way easier than it seems to be. -_- Let's say I have users alice, bob, carol, ... Different users get added on different servers. On all servers, any users *not* selected should be removed. So far, it seems like virtual resources handle this, and I've experimented

Re: [Puppet Users] More complicated user management?

2012-03-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 01:27:45AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: I feel like this should be way easier than it seems to be. -_- Let's say I have users alice, bob, carol, ... Different users get added on different servers. On all servers, any users *not* selected should be removed

Bug#607347: kernel fails to boot, others work fine

2012-01-25 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 06:02:46PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: I did get it running, but I've no idea how. I assume I just threw in a different kernel. Since you were running in a VM, maybe something near the fix to bug#588426 took care of it indeed. What

Bug#607347: kernel fails to boot, others work fine

2012-01-25 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 05:24:09PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Robin Lee Powell wrote: OK, grub2, can't boot with squeeze's 2.6 amd64. This machine is on openhosting.com, which significantly limits my ability to get screenshots, but I'll try to attach one in my next message

Bug#607347: kernel fails to boot, others work fine

2012-01-25 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 06:02:46PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: I did get it running, but I've no idea how. I assume I just threw in a different kernel. Since you were running in a VM, maybe something near the fix to bug#588426 took care of it indeed. What

Bug#607347: kernel fails to boot, others work fine

2012-01-25 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 05:24:09PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Hi, Robin Lee Powell wrote: OK, grub2, can't boot with squeeze's 2.6 amd64. This machine is on openhosting.com, which significantly limits my ability to get screenshots, but I'll try to attach one in my next message

Re: [tmux-users] Re: Please please please fix the buffering issue.

2011-12-23 Thread Robin Lee Powell
for BYTES_MAX is acceptable? If it doesn't help let me know, I have another diff to rate limit outgoing data that might help instead. Or if not that, there is other stuff we can try. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 04:47:12PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:04:28AM +

Re: [tmux-users] Re: Please please please fix the buffering issue.

2011-12-23 Thread Robin Lee Powell
So far, no problems. I actually left yes running in another window for 15+ minutes, and ctrl-c was caught in a second or so. No problems with interactive behaviour that I can see. \o/ Do you have a wishlist somewhere? :) -Robin On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:37:00PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell

Please please please fix the buffering issue.

2011-12-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I have literally been watching the output of perl -d:Trace for more than 10 minutes, waiting to be granted control of my terminal again. :( I can't do any tmux commands at all. -Robin -- http://singinst.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. Lojban (http://www.lojban.org/): The

Re: [tmux-users] Re: Please please please fix the buffering issue.

2011-12-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:20:29PM +, Nicholas Marriott wrote: This is actually quite a hard problem. ;( I thought it might be. Steal the code from screen? :D The issue is that it is difficult on a fast machine to rate limit vast, continuous amounts of data quickly enough and to a slow

Re: [docbook-apps] [ANN] The DoCookBook Project

2011-12-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 10:28:33AM +0100, Thomas Schraitle wrote: Hi DocBook lovers, browsed through a book, used your favorite search engine, or posted on LinkedIn, Xing, or the DocBook mailinglist to hunt for answers to your problems? As an additional alternative, I’m happy to announce

Re: [docbook-apps] PDF output: am I missing something?

2011-12-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 12:42:19PM -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: Hi Robin, It sounds like what you are missing is an XSL-FO processor that supports the table-layout=auto value for tables, which will size columns automatically to fit short data. Unfortunately, FOP does not support the auto

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook Stylesheets 2.0.3 released

2011-12-01 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:57:53PM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: Hello world, I've released a new version of my (developing) XSLT 2.0 stylesheets for DocBook. Are these intended to act as a replacement for the usual docbook - html XSLT that xmlto uses? Can xsltproc run them? (the github,

[docbook-apps] PDF output: am I missing something?

2011-12-01 Thread Robin Lee Powell
(I sent this a couple of weeks ago, but it never came through. Since then, I've managed to beat dblatex into submission more or less, but my basic this is surprisingly hard still stands, so here it is) I'm trying to generate both web pages and a print book (i.e. PDF, since that's the format

Re: [libvirt-users] Performance tuning questions for mail server

2011-10-10 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 05:52:28PM -0400, Alex wrote: Hi, I'm using deadline scheduler, the /var partition is mounted noatime, and the disk is mounted raw:     disk type='file' device='disk'       driver name='qemu' type='raw'/       source

Re: [libvirt-users] Performance tuning questions for mail server

2011-10-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 03:26:52PM -0400, Alex wrote:     disk type='file' device='disk'       driver name='qemu' type='raw'/       source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/mail02.img'/       target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/       address type='pci' domain='0x' bus='0x00' slot='0x05'

Re: [kvm] accessing a 'native' disk from KVM ?

2011-10-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:41:13AM -0700, Sujee Maniyam wrote: HI all Using KVM (qemu-kvm-0.12.1) on CentOS-6. how can I supply an entire disk for KVM to use? Is this correct snippet in kvm.xml ? disk type='block' device='disk' driver name='qemu' type='raw'/ source

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