[eug-lug] [tlarholm@pivx.com: January 15 is Personal Firewall Day, help the cause]

2004-01-15 Thread Hal Pomeranz
[For some reason, this just tickled my funny bone. Somehow I doubt that congress has officially endorsed Personal Firewall Day, so I don't think schools and post offices will be closing in honor of the event... --Hal] - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: January 15

Re: [eug-lug]Conditional Bash script

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Crandell
Actually, for this to work for what I wanted it to do, the 'if' statement needs to be: if [ $testvar -eq 1 ]; then This adds text to the file only if it isn't already there. Thanks guys. Garl Grigsby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With many tasks, it's better to do positive validation (i.e.

[eug-lug]Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 14

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Miller
- Forwarded message from Marsee Henon [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Marsee Henon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:06:06 -0800 Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 14 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] O'Reilly

[eug-lug]Re: [lug] Slides from my MWVLUG talk

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Miller
Hal Pomeranz wrote: Several people requested the slides from the talk I gave up in Corvallis last night. I'd like to hear more about your co-lo experience. I'm a little surprised you don't have physical access to your box there. What did you say your bandwidth cap is? I'm also curious how

Re: [eug-lug]Conditional Bash script

2004-01-15 Thread Jason
Aggh, you've just sparked an old suppressed memory. I had to build this huge BIND install and hardening script one time. I created a function for just about every task in the script and used a function like that to check return values. In each of the task functions, I'd set a variable for

[eug-lug]qmail battle

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi, This is for you guys that tried to help at a clinic recently. qmail is working. The problem was mostly typos. Did you know that if there is a space after a back-slash, it won't go to the next line like you're expecting? That was a hard lesson. The word 'any' has a 'y' at the end. Sigh.

Re: [eug-lug]Conditional Bash script

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Miller
Jason wrote: Aggh, you've just sparked an old suppressed memory. I had to build this huge BIND install and hardening script one time. I created a function for just about every task in the script and used a function like that to check return values. In each of the task functions, I'd set a

Re: [eug-lug]Conditional Bash script

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Crandell
The trouble is, I just barely have a grasp on shell programming and I can only spell piethon. Jason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Aggh, you've just sparked an old suppressed memory. I had to build this huge BIND install and hardening script one time. I created a function for just about every task

Re: [eug-lug]Re: [lug] Slides from my MWVLUG talk

2004-01-15 Thread Hal Pomeranz
I'd like to hear more about your co-lo experience. I'm a little surprised you don't have physical access to your box there. What did you say your bandwidth cap is? Actually, the co-lo I ended up choosing (the IP Services data center near Coburg/Beltline) does permit me to get physical access

Re: [eug-lug]Conditional Bash script

2004-01-15 Thread Ralph Zeller
That's pi-thon: 3. 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091

Re: [eug-lug]Conditional Bash script

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Crandell
Show off. Ralph Zeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: That's pi-thon: 3. 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196

[eug-lug]Mass bummer: less love for OSS?

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Barrett
Massachusetts has moved away from their OSS-preferential stance: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/14/212242mode=thread links in the article summary: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1436258,00.asp (backing down) http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/19/2114233 (previous

Re: [eug-lug]Mass bummer: less love for OSS?

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Barrett
Did this take over two hours from the posting time until it came through to others' mailboxen? sheesh... I'm such a whiner! Ben (writing this at around 3:20) On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:14:52 -0800 Some Idjit wrote: | Massachusetts has moved away from their OSS-preferential stance: | |

[eug-lug]zaurus sl-5600 pda on sale

2004-01-15 Thread Ben Barrett
$300 for a new (not refurb, AFAICT) one is a good deal: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B88EDE/102-7022357-8443330 (shipping is free) found via dealnews.com NOT AN ADVERT, just interesting linux-related hadrware market updates. flame on if you must = ) Ben PS - too bad

[eug-lug]Lying scripts

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Crandell
Hi, I'm looking at someone else's code: DD=`id $QS_USER 2/dev/null` if [ $? -ne 0 -o $DD = ]; then catEOF This is supposed to check to see if a user exists (it does) then moves on. In this case, it says said user doesn't and exits. I don't get it. Why is it lying to me like that?

Re: [eug-lug]Lying scripts

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Miller
Bob Crandell wrote: if [ $? -ne 0 -o $DD = ]; then Should be... if [ $? -ne 0 -o $DD == ]; then -- Bob Miller Kbob kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ EuG-LUG

[eug-lug]OSCON Call for Participation

2004-01-15 Thread David Mandel
I am appending O'Reilly's call for papers for next years conference. And of course PLUG is talking with O'Reilly about other ways of helping - like we did last year. Sincerely, David Mandel

[eug-lug]2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Planning Survey

2004-01-15 Thread David Mandel
I'm forwarding the following note from Marsee Henon [EMAIL PROTECTED] about the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention and a survey they would like people to complete. We really want to continue to have a major Open Source Conference in Portland, and O'Reilly treated us very good last year. So,

Re: [eug-lug]Lying scripts

2004-01-15 Thread Bob Crandell
Bob Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Bob Crandell wrote: if [ $? -ne 0 -o $DD = ]; then Should be... if [ $? -ne 0 -o $DD == ]; then [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug if [ $? -ne 0 -o $DD = ]; then Should be... if [ $? -ne 1 -o $DD == ]; then Thanks