Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Dec 20, 2007, at 18:37, Kevin D. Clark wrote: How about: while inotifywait -e modify /file/you/are/interested/in; do lsof /file/you/are/interested/in /tmp/logfile date /tmp/logfile done If it were someone editing a file, that would be a

Re: Cell phone recommendations

2007-12-21 Thread Travis Roy
I'm thinking of upgrading my phone (currently with ATT) and am thinking of buying a Linux phone (if I can). About the only extra feature I am looking for is BT. I don't want GPS and could care less for internet on the phone, since I won't use that anyway. If the only extra feature you want

Re: Phone Hands free

2007-12-21 Thread Tom Buskey
On Dec 20, 2007 10:16 PM, Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read (do not have the citation handy) that there is wireless VGA available, so the matching eye piece would be quite possible. Then you could just carry a unit in a messenger bag or backpack and have access to your system.

VMware server locking up Fedora 7

2007-12-21 Thread Tom Buskey
When I start a VM, the screen, keyboard and mouse lockup. I have to hit the big red switch. It doesn't matter what is running in the VM. I'm running vmware-server 1.04 on Fedora 7 x86_64 kernel 2.6.23.8-34 Dell Optiplex 745 Core Duo ATI RV516 Radeon X1300 Pro ati driver fglrx 8.433

Re: Cell phone recommendations

2007-12-21 Thread Travis Roy
In addition to Dan's request, I am also thinking of upgrading in February. Currently my phone is a Treo650. I've been using a Palm for my PDA shortly after they first came out. The Nokia 810 seems to be a good fit, but I don't know that much about how it syncs with both Linux and Windows.

Re: Cell phone recommendations

2007-12-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:25:52 -0500 Dan Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading my phone (currently with ATT) and am thinking of buying a Linux phone (if I can). About the only extra feature I am looking for is BT. I don't want GPS and could care less for internet on the

Side-job opportunity

2007-12-21 Thread Drew Van Zandt
Hey all, My boss asked me to post this to the list, we're looking for people interested in doing some (probably LAMP) development on the side, i.e. about 20 hours a week, etc., in a somewhat unusual arrangement. Here's the PDF he gave me (which I won't post directly to the list out of love for

Re: Cell phone recommendations

2007-12-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:18:58 -0500 Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nokia 810 isn't a phone, so I don't think that would be a full replacement. I've seen the previous version of the device (the one with the little pop out camera) and I must say it's a very cool little toy. It runs

Re: Cell phone recommendations

2007-12-21 Thread Brian Karas
I've had my eye on the N810 for a while, and will probably get on soon. It's a lot of things, but it's not a phone... On 12/21/07 2:00 PM, Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:18:58 -0500 Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nokia 810 isn't a phone, so I don't

Re: Cell phone recommendations

2007-12-21 Thread Brian Karas
On 12/21/07 4:46 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a lot of things, but it's not a phone... Well, it has Skype. :) So does my Asus EEE Pc. Without a generally available carrier network, it's not much of a phone. Nokia does have the discounted wireless through Boingo

Re: Cell phone recommendations

2007-12-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 21, 2007, at 15:24, Brian Karas wrote: I've had my eye on the N810 for a while, and will probably get on soon. It's a lot of things, but it's not a phone... Well, it has Skype. :) -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home:

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 21, 2007, at 07:53, Bruce Dawson wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: If it were someone editing a file, that would be a great solution. In this particular case I'm trying to catch an unlink - my hunch is lsof woudn't show anything. How about monitoring the directory containing the file?

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-21 Thread Jeff Macdonald
On Dec 21, 2007 4:54 PM, Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 21, 2007, at 07:53, Bruce Dawson wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: If it were someone editing a file, that would be a great solution. In this particular case I'm trying to catch an unlink - my hunch is lsof woudn't show

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-21 Thread John Abreau
On Fri, December 21, 2007 4:54 pm, Bill McGonigle said: On Dec 21, 2007, at 07:53, Bruce Dawson wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: If it were someone editing a file, that would be a great solution. In this particular case I'm trying to catch an unlink - my hunch is lsof woudn't show anything.

USB automounting problem-resolved

2007-12-21 Thread Ed lawson
Awhile back I posted about a problem I had with automounting my USB drive. Using Debian Sid and Gnome. Turns out that the gparted program wrote a policy file prohibiting automounting in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/ when started and did not delete it when closed so it prevented automounting

Re: watching all activity on a file?

2007-12-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 21, 2007, at 19:34, Jeff Macdonald wrote: hmmm... could FUSE provide what you are looking for? Create a user based filesystem that layers itself over ext3 and intercepts unlinks? That might very well work (simply a matter of programming...) - I still don't know that filesystems get to