Re: [SLUG] Text to HTML?

2011-08-29 Thread Dave Kempe
- Original Message - From: DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com To: SLUG slug@slug.org.au Sent: Monday, 29 August, 2011 10:04:01 AM Subject: [SLUG] Text to HTML? Anyone know of such a beastie? It's be nice if it was CentOS compatible, since that's what I'm stuck with at work, but if it's

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
i checked strace already but it doesnt appear to tell me much. see below. i ran chmod -R 777 over /proc /sys and /dev same problem. as for SELinux, i couldnt find any selinux configs and according to ls -Z none of the files are labelled so it looks like its not running, however ive rebooted with

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Mark Walkom
Here's my strace, I just cut the parts around where you highlighted to save on the wall of text; stat64(/home/mark/.netrc, 0xbff3cb44) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 0) = 3 bind(3, {sa_family=AF_NETLINK, pid=0, groups=}, 12) = 0 getsockname(3,

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
Wasnt too sure what to check when it came to locales. echo ${LANG} returned blank so I set LANG=en_AU.iso88591 didnt make any difference to wget or what strace shows when running wget. but interestingly i ran strace with ifconfig and that shows a few interesting bits. not quite sure what it

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
Hi Peter, You're absolutely right. I was tired as hell when i posted the email last night and realised this morning in the shower the real error was the one you pointed out. I think you're right about it being an Android derived kernel as the installers provided by the Netbook manufacturer for

Re: [SLUG] Text to HTML?

2011-08-29 Thread DaZZa
On 29 August 2011 10:07, Andrew Hendrik Bootsma and...@ahbit.net wrote: Take a look at Graylog2 for a syslog server:) I just did an install of it on a centos box went fairly smoothly :) Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I decided to give Graylog a go, and while it was a PITA to make

[SLUG] mail follow ups

2011-08-29 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* 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

[SLUG] updating SUSE

2011-08-29 Thread Stewart Lawler
Hello List. It’s been a while. I’ve got a small matter with a Linode-hosted box I run. Set up last year as OpenSUSE 11.0 and at some point in the intervening time I did an upgrade to 11.1. That was a while ago, judging by the fact that the 11.1 repos seem to be invalid now: # uname -a Linux

Re: [SLUG] KDE gui package manger in Debian

2011-08-29 Thread onlyjob
Hi Steven, Sorry for this enormous delay with reply and thank you for detailed answer. I think you showing a brilliant example of good parenting - thoughtful and thorough. While I praise your attitude for introducing your son to GNU/Linux and games may I ask what games you consider to be your

Re: [SLUG] KDE gui package manger in Debian

2011-08-29 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 11:55 +1000, onlyjob wrote: Hi Steven, Sorry for this enormous delay with reply and thank you for detailed answer. Suse, RedHat, Debian and Ubuntu. I have used them all, all quite good and the code base is pretty much the same. What I prefer is different to what you

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Nick Andrew
Your problem is here: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:52:42PM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, failed: Permission denied.\n, 27) = 27 END INTERESTING SECTION My wget trace here shows:

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network [FIXED]

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
SUCCESS! regular users can see all info from /sbin/ifconfig, ping 127.0.0.1 gets replies, and wget no longer throws Permission denied. I had been trying to figure this problem out for months. I thought the only customisations made to the kernel were around the hardware - ARM SOC platforms,

Re: [SLUG] non-root users cant use network

2011-08-29 Thread Chris Barnes
Problem resolved. but for your amusement heres some info about the netbook and processor. It features a WonderMedia 8505 SOC which is an ARM926EJ-S rev 5 compatible proc. 174.48bogomips, features swp, half, thumb, fastmult, edsp, java From what I understand the thumb and java features mean it