On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 12:47:35 AM Toby Corkindale via luv-main wrote:
> d) Linux netdev mailing list pretty much ignored my attempts to get this
> sorted out, so I gave up, and will just quietly keep patching my own
> kernels.
Disappointed to hear that.. :-(
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On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:08:50 AM Tony Langdon via luv-main wrote:
> Same result here. Only Craig's posts don't allow me to reply to all.
> This function worked properly with your post just now, Erik.
That seems to be a Thunderbird bug, it works fine for both Craig and Eriks
emails when I reply-a
Hi folks,
I tried emailing the committee, but that just got moderated and I've not heard
anything since, so I was wondering are was any progress on fix the LUV mailing
list to not rewrite the From: header?
thanks,
Chris
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On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:57:23 PM Brian May via luv-main wrote:
> First you need to convince the list administor to change it back.
This is the *only* email list I'm that has this crazy setup. I can't believe
it's required. Even the Beowulf list that I run, with over 1,500 members,
doesn't need i
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 01:26:18 PM Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote:
> This is the *only* email list I'm that has this crazy setup.
Actually I need to retract that bit, I've remembered that both comet reporting
lists I'm on are hosted at Yahoo and they do this to. Frustrat
On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:06:10 PM Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote:
> I'm not grokking the benefit of doing the rsync _and_ a "cp -al". I just
> include -aH in my rsync options, the -H to preserve hard links. Seems to
> work.
The idea is to have snapshots over time, rather than a single snapsho
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 05:05:39 PM Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
> it wasn't exactly a discussion, either. an announcement was
> made and a few people (including myself) objected.
It was? When was that?
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On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 07:22:35 PM Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> We are in the process of making other hosting arrangements. One issue that
> is yet to be discussed is where to host the lists, in the past Linux
> Australia offered to host lists for us and we may take them up on that
> offer i
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:25:29 AM Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote:
> Or see btrfs/ZFS snapshots. These operate per block rather than per
> inode, so should be more effective and less failure-prone in edge cases
> (hint, there's an upper limit on hard link count).
Yeah, I use both rsnapshot backup
On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 04:04:45 PM Anders Holmström via luv-main wrote:
> As mentioned it was on luv-talk.
That's fine for changes to luv-talk, but IMHO changes to luv-main should have
been discussed on luv-main, where the actual subscribers are.
Thanks for the clarification, I went back and reali
/* No systemd religious wars please - thank you */
Hi folks,
I'm trying to get Slurm working on a RHEL7.2 system and I've hit an issue where
systemd is already using the cpuacct cgroup hierarchy and that prevents Slurm
from using it as it seems to be the one case where it can only be in use once.
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 03:50:54 PM Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> Don't claim that there's something wrong with the LUV server though.
I'm not, RFC-2822 "Internet Message Format" is (IMHO):
# [...] The "From:" field specifies the author(s) of the message,
# that is, the mailbox(es) of the p
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 06:59:24 PM Clinton Roy via luv-main wrote:
> Might do what you need?
An interesting idea.
> This doesn't stop systmed from mounting the cgroups, it just tells slurm
> where they're already mounted.
To be honest on an HPC node it's the batch system that should be controlling
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 02:52:04 PM Jason White via luv-main wrote:
> While this doesn't directly answer your question, does anything on the
> following page provide a clue?
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Slurm
Hmm, don't trust any page that links to the LLNL docs, they're really old & no
lo
On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 07:38:15 AM Robin Humble via luv-main wrote:
> I suspect if slurm mounted the cgroup as cpu,cpuacct then it would
> work. but it's because it's trying just cpuacct that it's failing.
> that's the sort of behaviour I've seen before.
>
> the OS appears to bind mount them if they
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:25:31 AM Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> No mail has been rejected due to changes to the From: field.
Great, so that change will be reverted to make it RFC compliant once more?
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On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 05:17:12 PM Julien Goodwin via luv-main wrote:
> SMR/Archive is something to avoid unless you're going to use the drives
> like tape given the ~200MB block size for writes.
...and if you do want to use an SMR drive you need to avoid kernels between
3.18.21 and 4.4.0-rc3, see
On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 08:51:19 PM Joel W. Shea via luv-main wrote:
> Are there any minutes taken/published for committee meetings?
It's a legal requirement of the act that governs associations in Victoria for
there to be minutes of committee meetings.
Members have a right to request to see such m
On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 11:23:29 AM Jason White via luv-main wrote:
> I agree. I'll simply state that I have added a DMARC policy to my own
> domain, whilst configuring SPF and DKIM. I want mailing lists to respect
> this and therefore not to break the SPF, DKIM signature or DMARC alignment.
> If they
On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:16:27 PM Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> BTRFS doesn't support duplicate data blocks (in any normal or desirable
> configuration) unlike ZFS which has the copies= configuration.
David Sterba just released btrfs-progs 4.4 which has a new feature:
# * mkfs.btrfs --data d
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:15:00 PM Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
> that's weird because the list munges the From: address, so a reply
> should go to the list.
On the other hand Reply-To: is set back to the original poster.
So I guess it depends whether your MUA prefers List-Post: over Reply-To:
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 10:12:12 AM Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote:
> The server is a VM on a host server that also provides http / mysql
> services. The host server runs cron jobs to poll the email server
> (importing data from mail boxes into the CRM) so - to clutch at straws -
> I am not sure if
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:56:20 PM Morrie Wyatt via luv-main wrote:
> I agree with Jason here. Bringing people toward best practices should be
> by education and encouragement, not by blunt instrument.
I agree, if a prospective users first attempt to find out about Linux results
in
"I wanted to l
On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 04:22:41 PM Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
>
> Apple's Thunderbolt uses the same connectors as MiniDisplayPort and USB-C.
> Is that going to matter to us? Are there going to be situations in which
> things can physic
On Sat, 6 Feb 2016 12:36:02 AM James Harper via luv-main wrote:
> I’m trying to set up a PXE server under Debian, but can’t see any packages
> that support the DHCP part of the PXE protocol.
Does this blog post help?
http://danielboca.blogspot.cz/2012/02/boot-linux-from-network-using-pxe-and.htm
On Friday, 1 April 2016 10:22:40 PM AEDT Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> Is there a good way of stopping such spam with Postfix and SpamAssassin?
You can match on the display-name in "header" tests with SpamAssassin using
the :name suffix according to the docs:
http://spamassassin.apache.or
On Saturday, 9 April 2016 4:39:06 PM AEST Brian May via luv-main wrote:
> Has anybody had any recent experience talking to smart power meters via
> ZigBee, preferably on Linux? e.g. what hardware? what software?
Still not here, because Ausnet Services horrible Flash based
MyHomeEnergy.com.au web
On Saturday, 9 April 2016 9:56:03 PM AEST Ashley Baumann via luv-main wrote:
> I have a Raven USB stick from Rainforest Automation plugged into a raspberry
> pi, talking to my smartmeter.
That's what I've bought, though of course I can't use it until Ausnet decide
to allow customers to bind ZigB
On Saturday, 9 April 2016 9:41:05 PM AEST Allan Duncan via luv-main wrote:
> Richard Keech gave a talk in August 2014 and I thought he had a kludge
> to access the data.
I'm pretty sure Richard was on a different supply network who offered a
service so you could provide your ZigBee devices HW a
On Saturday, 9 April 2016 6:49:45 PM AEST Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote:
> Still not here, because Ausnet Services horrible Flash based
> MyHomeEnergy.com.au website still says for ZigBee Devices:
>
> # ZigBee management is currently under pilot and is not currently availabl
On Saturday, 9 April 2016 10:38:41 PM AEST Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote:
> So I guess we've got some time to wait still...
I prodded them via their Zendesk support site and got this response:
# At this point of time, AusNet Services does not support the customer
# binding of ZigBee
Hi folks,
Given the ongoing crypto discussion I thought this post on LWN "The prospect
of a crypto monoculture" from a few weeks back (publicly available now) might
be of interest:
https://lwn.net/Articles/681615/
It's a discussion of Peter Gutmann's post to comp.encryption.general entitled
"
On Friday, 15 April 2016 9:46:40 AM AEST Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote:
> There is an interesting rebuttal of the fanboyism remark in the LWN article
> in one of the comments here:
Grr... hit the shortcut to send once, got a popup dialog saying that this
shortcut can lead to accide
On Friday, 15 April 2016 5:08:15 PM AEST Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote:
> I think that part matters even for mains-powered Skylake systems.
Apparently not, the article says:
# (Edit to add: this issue is restricted to the mobile SKUs.
# Desktop parts have very different power management behav
On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 3:09:22 PM AEST Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote:
> I'm using postgrey still because my postfix is f'ing ancient.
I started off using postgrey but switched to sqlgrey as it is (or at least was
then) pretty clever in learning about systems that retry correctly.
http://s
On Thursday, 28 April 2016 10:46:31 AM AEST Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> but "ping -M want -s 1400 8.8.8.8" works without any problems
I usually use "-M do" for that sort of testing.
The "tracepath" program will also show you the MTU along the route (as long as
UDP isn't being blocked).
Hi folks,
Anybody got any clues about what to do when the sole message you get regarding
a problem when starting up Percona XtraDB Cluster (basically MySQL with Galera
clustering built in) is just this?
Jun 8 11:43:58 hostname mysqld: 160608 11:43:58 [ERROR] Aborting
It's preceded by lots of lo
Hi folks,
In case you're not aware the Gmane admin Lars has shut down the web interface
for Gmane as he's too overloaded to keep it going:
https://lwn.net/Articles/695695/
Originally it was going to be the NNTP side as well, but he's now said he's
going to keep that up for now.
Lars original
On Wednesday, 3 August 2016 1:10:05 PM AEST Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> What system do you recommend for creating such images? Puppet? Chef?
We've been using Puppet for infrastructure VMs but now migrating to using Salt
instead. https://saltstack.com/
Our clusters continue to use xC
On Friday, 12 August 2016 5:21:43 PM AEST Erik Christiansen wrote:
> Is the article perhaps a furphy?
The attack is quite real, LWN has a nice little summary here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/696868/
It's subscriber content only until Thursday (from memory) but LWN is an
awesome website and they
On Saturday, 13 August 2016 11:50:27 AM AEST Chris Samuel via luv-main wrote:
[quoting LWN]
> # The fix has not made it to the stable kernels yet,
There is also this comment on the article:
https://lwn.net/Articles/697130/
# The patches addressing CVE-2016-5696 are available in the pub
On Monday, 15 August 2016 9:38:00 PM AEST Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
> And I just learnt that the flash used in most SSDs is pretty much
> equivalent these days; however, Samsung has the best firmware/management
> of the flash -- so it is the one to go for.
Sam McLeod (who did the aweso
On Monday, 29 August 2016 12:27:08 PM AEST Paul van den Bergen wrote:
> IIUC, someone recently released the golden key that is part of the security
> system underpinning UEFI anyway... the inherent danger of golden keys
> etc...
It wasn't a key that leaked.
http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44223.html
On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:03:31 AM AEST Tim Connors via luv-main wrote:
> I yearn for the days when computers didn't suck.
They always have, they've just found different ways to express it these days.
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Hi folks,
For those who've been following the GMANE shutdown it turns out that it was
acquired by Yomura (the parent company of Delimiter) in mid-August and is
going through a rebuild.
About page which mentions Yomura & Delimiter:
http://gmane.org/about/
Blog with some information about the
On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 2:40:28 AM AEST Toby Corkindale via luv-main
wrote:
> Am I doing it wrong? Or is it possible that the framebuffer device for this
> video device just doesn't let you change the resolution?
Does this help?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Se
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 1:23:34 AM AEST Anthony via luv-main wrote:
> This is primarily for "in home displays", but presumably there's gotta be a
> device that's linux friendly out there that talks Zigbee Power v1?
This is what Richard Keech recommended to me:
https://rainforestautomation
On Sunday, 18 September 2016 10:54:06 AM AEST h via luv-main wrote:
> I am NOT looking for specific answers to these problems, but rather
> some teaching / groundwork information about relational databases /
> sql / postgis concepts.
I've seen this recommended as an introduction to PostGIS:
http
On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 9:00:08 AM AEST Piers Rowan via luv-main wrote:
> The only thing left to do is set up vacation emails - any suggestions?
> Preferably with a way for users to manage them themselves (bearing in mind
> the Dovecot / SASL / MySQL thingo)
Never tried it, but I just found
On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 9:40:53 PM AEST Erik Christiansen via luv-main
wrote:
> On debian, there is also:
>
> $ apt-cache search vacation
Fedora/RHEL use the port of the 386bsd vacation program, the maintainer of
which you may be familiar with (not that I've had to do much maintenance
On Friday, 23 September 2016 4:48:47 PM AEST Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> I've configured BOINC to only use 40% of RAM and increased swap size.
I've got to ask - what's the rationale for running BOINC on the LUV server?
Thanks for the outage report.
All the best,
Chris
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On Friday, 23 September 2016 1:59:16 PM AEST Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> Is there a good free orbital simulator for Linux?
>
> I don't want a game like KSP but a simulation of orbits without much need
> for fancy graphics.
How about this?
http://gmatcentral.org/
# Do you want to go to
On Friday, 23 September 2016 6:48:35 PM AEST Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
> The LUV server is not running BOINC.
>
> The LUV server is a VM hosted on a system that runs BOINC among other
> things.
Ahh, thanks for the explanation. Odd that services on one VM can kill another.
cheers,
Chris
On Thursday, 29 September 2016 5:00:39 PM AEST Andrew Pam wrote:
> I miss TECO. Oh no, wait, no I don't.
Grin, I think I missed that one, instead having to use FRED on a Honeywell L66
running GCOS-3 (from memory). That was a pure line editor, because the L66
only had a line input mode as ther
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