[SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

2010-09-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'd like to send a link to an episode of Good News Week to a friend and I think I found it (http://ten.com.au/video-player.htm?vxSiteId=cb519624-44a2-4bf7-808b-3514d34e96e4&vxChannel=GNW%20CUTV) but I can't play the video on my Linux desktop (Ubunut 10.04 32 bit) with either Chromium 6.0.47

Re: [SLUG] copying binaries from one Centos to another?

2010-09-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18 September 2010 15:51, Voytek Eymont wrote: > > On Sat, September 18, 2010 1:55 pm, Dean Hamstead wrote: >> you can just force the older rpm to install > > Dean, thanks > > how do I prevent a future yum update from upgrading and 'overwriting' it > again ? Add an "exclude" clause on all versi

Re: [SLUG] monitor IP address

2010-09-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11 September 2010 15:45, james wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2010 13:20:18 you wrote: >> wget -q -O - http://whatismyip.org/ > > Amos thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for. > > I want to be able to access my server with it's new dynamic IP > Having opined recently that having a sta

Re: [SLUG] monitor IP address

2010-09-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11 September 2010 14:44, james wrote: > Hi > I've changed ISP to iinet and I now have a dynamic IP. > I use a router/adsl modem. > Just brainstorming in case I've missed the obvious. I need to monitor my IP > given to the router. What do you need it for? Maybe the context will let us give more

Re: [SLUG] Backups

2010-08-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23 August 2010 09:26, Dave Kempe wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "james" >> So the file created on day 2 backed up on day 3 is lost. >> Can anybody point to the boat (I've missed) or confirm my vision. > > Seems correct, and the primary reason why we moved to rdiff-backup and di

Re: [SLUG] how to find an alternative superblock

2010-08-12 Thread Amos Shapira
Can you give a hint which method did you use? On 12/08/2010 10:10 AM, "Ben Donohue" wrote: Ok, cancel that... found how to find an alternative superblock... running a fix now. On 12/08/2010 9:57 AM, Ben Donohue wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm running a virtual machine on vmware... -- SLUG - Syd

Re: [SLUG] NASA’s own Nebula cloud released under an Apache 2

2010-08-07 Thread Amos Shapira
It was announced by RackSpace 2-3 weeks ago. >From what I gather so far, it's not a new VM technology but a set of API's and tools to manage multiple VM's (sounds a bit like libvirt++ and virsh, only more "productised"). See http://www.openstack.org/ On 4 August 2010 21:54, Morgan Storey wrote:

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16 June 2010 16:26, Daniel Pittman wrote: > LVM, by default, is a boring old linear mapping, so he probably has two disks > worth of data ... starting a third (or whatever) of the way through the file > system.  So, no superblock on whatever. Why no superblock? The ext3 filesystem (and I guess

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2010-06-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16 June 2010 11:30, Gerald C.Catling wrote: > Many thanks to all that responded to try to solve this LVM problem. > I could not recover any data from the crashed system. I could not find any > method of mounting  drive 2 or 3 as individual drives and the system would not > create a volume group

Re: [SLUG] LD_PRELOAD

2010-06-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 June 2010 00:27, james wrote: > > I can't find any info on this, so it's prodly so obvious that only dumbkorfs > ask :-) > > I have a program using a web cam. All is perfect except that I need to > > export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so > > before running it. > > How can I compile

Re: [SLUG] Telstra USB wireless internet

2010-06-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 4 June 2010 09:49, Andrew Hendrik Bootsma wrote: > Hi; > > I used to use modeswitching, > "http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1147685"; however this failed to > work. > I have however, had to connect to the  Telstra USB and disable the Virtual > cdrom drive now, and it works almost flawle

Re: [SLUG] Serial write problem

2010-05-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22 May 2010 20:46, Jim Donovan wrote: > > I have been working with a single-board computer (TS-7250, using the built-in > linux) which, about three times per second, sends 8-byte messages out through > COM2 to another device. Very occasionally (it can go 20 hours without > failing) a message

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
rted", have I?) Cheers, --Amos > > Phil > On 13/05/2010, at 10:19 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > >> On 13 May 2010 22:15, Phil Manuel wrote: >>> We successfully run kvm on CentOS 5.4 as well, running a mix of windows XP, >>> Ubuntu desktops, further CentOS 5.4

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 May 2010 22:15, Phil Manuel wrote: > We successfully run kvm on CentOS 5.4 as well, running a mix of windows XP, > Ubuntu desktops, further CentOS 5.4 instances. > Currently, we use virt-manager to manage the instances, but I'll be looking > at Convirture: Enterprise-class management for ope

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 May 2010 18:38, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Stay away from Xen as IBM and RedHat have both abandoned it in favour of > KVM. > Stay away from vmware as its closed source and only developed by vmware :) > > KVM is in centos 5.4 and every other distribution (debian etc). Centos > 4.8 supports virtio

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 May 2010 13:45, Jake Anderson wrote: > Amos Shapira wrote: > > We use Xen+CentOS 5+DRBD+Linux-HA to achieve similar goals. > We actually build each side of the cluster separately using automatic > deployment tools (puppet and some glue around it). > We use ext3 on the

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13 May 2010 11:45, Jake Anderson wrote: > Personally I'd go with the max memory setup you were talking about but I > wouldn't bother with the NAS. > With only 2 nodes DRBD is fairly easy to setup, it gives you complete > synchronisation of partitions, IE when you write in one place that write >

Re: [SLUG] Linux hosting providers - recommendations

2010-05-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10 May 2010 15:43, Ben Donohue wrote: > > Hi all, > > I know this has been asked before but I think it was a while ago and the > landscape changes often I think... > > Any shameless plugs or otherwise on Australian hosting providers? I host a web site with web24 and am pretty happy with them,

Re: [SLUG] WordPress & sessions [Was: WordPress, PHP]

2010-05-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8 May 2010 15:48, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > was it a desire to use a non-file based store and an aversion to using > > custom session handlers? was it a desire to control the strength of the > > cookie hash? Without getting into WordPress or the session storage options it provides - In princi

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Membership decline

2010-04-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 2 April 2010 23:59, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > James Polley writes: > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Heracles wrote: > > > >> Also, SLUG should consider producing a magazine for members filled with > >> articles from members including tutorials, reviews of open source software > >> and code

Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF

2010-03-21 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22 March 2010 15:15, Glen Turner wrote: > From: "Barrett-Bowen, Neil" > To: Glen Turner > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:47:47 + > Subject: RE: SILK IP License Request Thanks for following up on this, Glen. This looks like the way to get best answers. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Us

[SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF

2010-03-18 Thread Amos Shapira
What do people have to say about Skype open-sourcing and submitting their SILK codec to IETF as a proposed standard (http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2010/03/advances_in_audio.html)? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] A little script help

2010-03-16 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16 March 2010 18:18, Josh Smith wrote: > > > Hey everybody. > > > I am using this script at the moment. It a little password generator > script I was wondering if anyone could help me out. > > I would like the First letter to be a Capital and the last two to be any > digits? > > The one that I

Re: [SLUG] Search and replace question

2010-03-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 March 2010 14:42, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 6 March 2010 13:23, Rick Welykochy wrote: >> Try this: >> >> #/bin/bash >> >> cp "$2" TestResult >> >> export IFS=',' >> cat Mapping/$1-Mapping | while read replace search &g

Re: [SLUG] Search and replace question

2010-03-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 March 2010 13:23, Rick Welykochy wrote: > Try this: > > #/bin/bash > > cp "$2" TestResult > > export IFS=',' > cat Mapping/$1-Mapping | while read replace search > do >        perl -i -p -e "s/\Q$search/$replace/g" TestResult > done 12 points for this answer :). That's the proper way to do i

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

2010-03-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I know I'm late for the party but I don't see anyone mentioning aptitude's amazing "mark for auto remove" flag (set by pressing M). By marking packages you know you don't care about with this flag you automatically get them removed when nothing you care about depends on them. Also to get this f

Re: [SLUG] Perl Modules

2010-02-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24 February 2010 07:57, Rick Phillips wrote: > > 1. Which distro is it? > > CentOS 5.4 and yes, I have followed the recipe.  Strangely, on this > install, things haven't gone well > > > 2. Have you looked for distro packages for RT? > > Yes but they are older than I want/need i.e. they are

Re: [SLUG] Perl Modules

2010-02-23 Thread Amos Shapira
Yes it has a chance to work if you copy all the dependencies. You should also be able to copy the entire library to a separate directory, e.g. /home/rt/ and prepend it to perl's search path and so avoid messing the entire systems' perl module install. If you run RT under apache then pay attention t

Re: [SLUG] mount LVM from Ubuntu live CD

2010-02-19 Thread Amos Shapira
I've just installed a persistent 64 bit Ubuntu karmic koala on a USB memory stick using the built in live cd creator. I could then install additional packages like skype and flash player and still have them there after a reboot. (the purpose of all this exercise was to test Linux hardware support a

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-14 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15 February 2010 07:46, Peter Rundle wrote: > Has anyone suggested using setuid? > > Why don't you write a program to do the backup. Set ownership root, group > to "backup", chmod 770 and then setuid on the program and you can remote > login as the "backup" group and execute the program with r

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12 February 2010 17:35, james wrote: > "You were mugged on the train and lost your rdiff mem stick" illustrates the > foolhardy nature of your thinkings USB key can be encrypted. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12 February 2010 16:18, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Alternately, I would suggest using something like puppet which is designed to > do system management like this in an automated fashion; it is a completely > different approach, but one that will probably solve your underlying problem > without nee

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12 February 2010 15:37, Ken Foskey wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:24 +1100, James Gray wrote: need to sync a number of files between these servers and some require elevated (root) privileges at *both* ends.  Here lies the problem; we don't allow remote root logins (via SSH or any other met

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit.

2010-02-08 Thread Amos Shapira
I use 64 bit ubuntu 9.10 and haven't noticed anything wrong. The only thing that I suspect that doesn't work for me because of 64 bit, and I never got around to investigate, is the Yammer Adobe Air application. It installs and runs, but some parts don't work. From home on 32 bits it works well. I

Re: [SLUG] Further to the USB Modem installation.

2010-02-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 1 February 2010 20:46, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 28 January 2010 15:37, Peter Hardy wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:22 +1100, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: >>> ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1147685 >>> >>> which is headed "How to install mod

[SLUG] Rob Pike talks about "Go" in Sydney

2010-02-03 Thread Amos Shapira
I hope this is appropriate to forward here: Rob Pike (the one from *The UNIX Programming Environment*) will talk about the "Go" language at Google Sydney offices on February 17th. More details: http://groups.google.com/group/sydney-gtug/browse_thread/thread/d7510ac141a58424 Cheers, --Amos -- S

Re: [SLUG] Further to the USB Modem installation.

2010-02-01 Thread Amos Shapira
On 28 January 2010 15:37, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:22 +1100, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: >> ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1147685 >> >> which is headed "How to install modem ZTE MF626 HSDPA in Jaunty". >> >> It involves getting the latest modeswitch, installing same

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-24 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24 January 2010 10:44, Ben Sand wrote: > Missed the start of this, but, FWIW: > > I have: > > 100MB/month: Next G > Telstra Prepaid wireless running on Maxon BP3 USB Dongle >  + modem originally used with Bigpond) >  + it uses the prepaid phone system because the 100MB data blocks are > cheaper

Re: [SLUG] Push cron and system E-Mails to RSS (email2rss?)

2010-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23 January 2010 11:10, Jake Anderson wrote: > I believe redirect stdout to /dev/null but leave stderror > if something errors you get the error message, but normal output just goes > into the bit bucket That depends a lot on the programs actually behaving correctly, also you might want to log

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23 January 2010 10:55, Jake Anderson wrote: > Just a thought, being techy people these people are going to have mobiles > with data plans no? > If they need to use a laptop to do something why not just tether it? > > virgin has "bolt on" data $5 for 50mb and $10 for 300 $15 for 1gb > > keep in

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/1/22 Dean Hamstead : > > > the down side of pre-paid is that the data expires fairly quickly. > a few gigs typically only has a 30 day expiry. larger data blocks tend to > last longer (up to 90 days on optus) > > you can just whip out your credit card and buy a data block. > that may not sit w

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/1/22 Del : > Amos Shapira wrote: >> >> Since this became a discussion of broadband modems - I got an OK from >> my workplace to buy the Telstra Turbo USB pre-paid modem (currently >> costs $149) but so far Google, whirlpool and ubuntuforums failed to >> pr

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/1/21 Ben Donohue : > From memory you can get them in two general packages... time online or > monthly download. > > you really have to watch the downloads of these... Thanks for the warning but unless Telstra completely redefined the meaning of "pre-paid" I shouldn't be concerned about over-c

Re: [SLUG] Copying HDD

2010-01-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/1/20 Ken Foskey : > Simply create a new partition and copy  the contents.  Use cp -r /path > /mounted/new/path/ Preferably "cp -a" - which should preserve more of the original file's attributes. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info a

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband?

2010-01-20 Thread Amos Shapira
Since this became a discussion of broadband modems - I got an OK from my workplace to buy the Telstra Turbo USB pre-paid modem (currently costs $149) but so far Google, whirlpool and ubuntuforums failed to provide a positive answer about the hardware compatibility to linux (Ubuntu 9.10). Can anyon

Re: [SLUG] Send EOF to Browser from LAMP stack.

2010-01-20 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/1/21 Peter Rundle : > Cron jobs aren't the go, this is an event driven task that needs to happen > when the event occurs, not some minutes/hours later when the cron jobs wakes > up at the specified interval. Cron is not the only way to process things in the background. For instance - how abo

Re: [SLUG] NTP Issues

2010-01-20 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/1/21 SkoZombie : > On Thu, January 21, 2010 9:43 am, Kyle wrote: >> However, since then server loses time BIG time. Funny thing is, other >> server in same subnet (also NTP) keeps perfect time. Both running CentOS >> 5.x. >> >> Now, could be any number of issues, just looking for some guidance

Re: [SLUG] logrotate hourly

2010-01-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Upon re-reading the question, I just realised that you create the file hourly from cron. You can then either follow Steffens' advise or run "savelog" or your own mv (since Savelog is limited in its file naming options) at the end of the cron job. On 1/13/10, Steffen Schulz wrote: > On 100112 at 1

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-17 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/12/17 Dean Hamstead > I don't consider gut wtetching violence freedom of speech. > > I was interested in marches and so forth about wasting tax money on cisco > hardware... I mean filtering. > Now not only are they going to filter out unfavourable news, they are already starting to embed th

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

2009-12-13 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/12/14 Daniel Pittman : > Amos Shapira writes: > >> My main blocker against using it for now is that apparently it saves >> passwords in cleartext. > More seriously, apply regular Unix permissions to the file, so that it is only > readable to you.  (Better, apply

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

2009-12-13 Thread Amos Shapira
My main blocker against using it for now is that apparently it saves passwords in cleartext. -Amos On 12/13/09, Morgan Storey wrote: > I'd contest that last statement, yes it is faster than any other > browser at the initial loading from my experience with it on windows, > but a better net exper

Re: [SLUG] Brasero || K3B || growisofs creating coasters :(

2009-12-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/12/4 Ben Donohue : > Hi David, > > wasn't there some problem with LG burners a while ago? I seem to remember > something... > perhaps there is a firmware upgrade? Maybe you are referring to something revolving around Suse 9 bricking them? --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing L

Re: [SLUG] Brasero AND K3B both creating coasters :(

2009-12-02 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/12/3 david : > > > Amos Shapira wrote: >> >> 2009/12/3 david : >>> >>> I sent this message a couple of days ago,but I've now installed K3B with >>> the >>> same result. I've got two burners on the computer, one connected by

Re: [SLUG] Brasero AND K3B both creating coasters :(

2009-12-02 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/12/3 david : > I sent this message a couple of days ago,but I've now installed K3B with the > same result. I've got two burners on the computer, one connected by > firewire, the other internal (pata?) and it makes no difference which I use. Do you set the burning speed to lowest possible? Do

Re: [SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-02 Thread Amos Shapira
Do you run Skype? If so - turn off its "Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer level". Not that it's the only issue but maybe. --Amos 2009/12/3 Ken Foskey : > whenever I sign onto Ubuntu Karmic the sound level is zero and I have to > raise the volume.  This is an upgraded system, I cannot

Re: [SLUG] krap mailers

2009-11-28 Thread Amos Shapira
While still not perfect, I found thunderbird 3.0 (now at rc1) a huge improvement over the previous version. Might be worth your time to try it... Cheers, -Amos On 11/29/09, jam wrote: > She-who-must-be-obeyed has just become the club secretary and sends mail to > the committee most of whom ar

Re: [SLUG] Free DNS services ?

2009-11-24 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/25 Peter Chubb : >> "Morgan" == Morgan Storey writes: > > Morgan> zoneedit.com They do some pretty advanced stuff too which is > Morgan> nice, secondary DNS, redirect mail and redirected web > Morgan> (iframe), Fail-over mail (for a fee $10/year iirc), and allow > Morgan> you to have 5

Re: [SLUG] 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

2009-11-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/19 Richard Ibbotson : > On Thursday 19 Nov 2009 05:23:33 Amos Shapira wrote: >> I'm going to get a new desktop at work and was wondering whether >>  it's worth moving to 64-bit. >> What's the collective wisdom/experience on the list? Is it worth >&

[SLUG] 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

2009-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I'm going to get a new desktop at work and was wondering whether it's worth moving to 64-bit. It'll have 4Gb RAM, which should be enough for my work needs. Skype is an absolute must. I use the system for mostly browsing/ssh/thunderbird (managing a few dozens of remote CentOS 5 servers), I mi

Re: [SLUG] auto get file out of email to folder then act on it

2009-11-14 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/14 Ben Donohue : > Hi all, > > So far I have not found a solution in Google but maybe I'm not looking for > the correct thing...? > > A client of mine is getting a .zip file every day to his redhat postfix > inbox. > > I need to automatically get the zip file from the email and put it in a

Re: [SLUG] Windows XP Pro OEM EULA and VirtualBox

2009-11-12 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/12 Mark Walkom : > Well if you are a windows house primarily get them to get Technet! Second to that - it's a bit weird that they are primarily windows shop but without some form of an agreement for bulk licenses (not that I'm an MS licensing expert). Another option I heard is that people

Re: [SLUG] IPTables

2009-11-10 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/11 Dean Hamstead : > sshd for example, will stall for quite an annoying amount of time trying to > do a reverse lookup. unless you dont actually have name servers configured > at all. Correct. Though specifically with sshd you can turn off reverse-dns lookup with "UseDNS no" in /etc/ssh/ss

Re: [SLUG] advice on security compliance

2009-11-09 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/2 Daniel Bush : > I was following Rick's recent post about penetration testing with some > interest.  I'm looking at complying with anz e-gate for e-commerce > transactions.  ANZ has this declaration form for internet sites that you > have to sign.  One of the tick boxes says "Do you operat

Re: [SLUG] Pulse Audio

2009-11-09 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/2 Daniel Pittman > Heh. Let me assure you, the integration question wasn't FUD: it is firmly > grounded in fact. Well, at least, "was", in the sense that the first > Ubuntu > with PulseAudio *really* screwed up. > [deleted long description of what I may have been through myself too, wi

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Server LTS

2009-11-04 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/3 Steven Tucker : > Hi all, > > I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with some > Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been wary > of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it on a > server). > > Im now s

Re: LTS worth anything? (was: Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting)

2009-11-01 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/2 Del > One of the things that the stable distros tend to miss out on is having the > latest updated device drivers.  What it sounds like you're doing is trying to > get stuff working that while not bleeding-edge, probably does require updated > kernels and recent device drivers.  So it

Re: LTS worth anything? (was: Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting)

2009-11-01 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/11/1 Robert Collins : > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS > > To get the LTS updated a 'stable release update' is needed - SRU: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates. When an individual fix is > backported its called an SRU - see below for 'backports', which is a > whole other thing. Thank

Re: LTS worth anything? (was: Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting)

2009-10-31 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/31 Robert Collins : > On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:25 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: >> Speaking of Ubuntu LTS - does anyone see real value in sticking to it? > > So LTS is all about stable [e.g. nothing changed that doesn't have to be > changed]. It has the following: >

LTS worth anything? (was: Re: [SLUG] Announcement roundup from October meeting)

2009-10-31 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/31 Robert Collins > > A small note: if you have Hardy, the ISO won't help, you should upgrade > via update-manager -c -d (or wait 6 more months for Lucid which will be > a LTS release). Speaking of Ubuntu LTS - does anyone see real value in sticking to it? I tried to stick to Hardy becau

Re: [SLUG] Re: Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

2009-10-29 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/30 Daniel Pittman > Actually, there is a second reason for /boot on a separate partition: until > very, very, very recently grub1 shipped with most Linux distributions, and it > was a fairly stupid bit of software. Thanks for the heads up. That's the only reason I keep doing that (a few M

Re: [SLUG] sendmail falling under its own warning messages

2009-10-17 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/15 Aleksey Tsalolikhin : > Hi, Amos. > >  I cannot answer your question directly, but I would suggest tweaking > your RetryFactor so that retries in general have a lower priority > compared to new messages, that should keep things rolling along for > you: > > References: > > 1. http://www.s

Re: [SLUG] sendmail falling under its own warning messages

2009-10-17 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/15 Del : > Here is what I have in my sendmail macro file: > > define(`confDOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS', `null')dnl > define(`confDEAD_LETTER_DROP', `null')dnl > define(`LUSER_RELAY', `local:null')dnl Thanks, I'll try this. I'll also try to look into maintaining a separate queue for the spam sub

[SLUG] sendmail falling under its own warning messages

2009-10-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I have an old Fedora machine running sendmail 8.14.1 as a relay of spam reports from a large ISP to our system. It generally works fine but apparently the follow has happened in the last few days: 1. For one reason or another, it started falling behind on the backlog. 2. By the default co

Re: [SLUG] Invision phpBB Site Content ripping

2009-10-05 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/6 Kyle : > Hi Folks, > > how hard/easy would it be to get something written which could log onto one > IP.Board forum, crawl that site and download the content only, to import > into another IP.board db? > > So users, forums, threads, PM's, user galleries, etc. > > Assuming one doesn't have

[SLUG] DLNA and networked TV's

2009-10-05 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm writing this here since there was a related discussion about this a few weeks back and I wanted to share my findings. I was just looking at hooking up a new wall-mounted monitor at the office to slide-show network status (for now I'll use the "Tab Slideshow" Firefox extension) and lear

Re: [SLUG] VPS hosting

2009-10-01 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/1 Armin Marth : > I really recommend vpslink.com If services in the US are relevant for the OP then I'd second that. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

2009-09-29 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/29 Dean Hamstead : > >> These servers have space for only two internal disks and I'd like to >> try to convert a couple of them into servers of shared storage. >> I'm thinking of just setting them up to sync their disks using DRBD >> and providing access to the rest of the network via iSCSI.

[SLUG] Ping status with SIGQUIT

2009-09-29 Thread Amos Shapira
Something I just found and thought it might be good to share: http://blog.sqawasmi.com/index.php/2009/09/28/ping-tip-ctl-backslash/ Sending SIGQUIT (ctrl-\) to ping will make it print a status line and continue pinging. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscr

[SLUG] attaching lots of disks to PowerEdge 860?

2009-09-28 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, We have a few PowerEdge 860's which I mostly converted from our previous-generation Windows based system to Xen hosts for development on top of CentOS 5 (the production system is now mostly hosted abroad). These servers have space for only two internal disks and I'd like to try to convert

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Thou Shalt Make Backups

2009-09-22 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/9/22 Daniel Bush : > Found this courtesy of bing.com image search: > http://www.reverendfun.com/add_toon_info.php?date=2324&language=en Thanks. It's similar to the one I'm after, but not quite. The eleventh commandment in the version I'm looking for is written on its own tablet. Cheers,

[SLUG] [OT] Thou Shalt Make Backups

2009-09-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, This is NOT strictly linux related but still maybe some people here hang around long enough to remember this one and help me find it (and I have an excuse - it should be hung on top of every sysadmin's desk, IMHO). Back in the second half of the 80's we lost one of our VAX 750's 400Mb disks a

Re: [SLUG] Re: 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-27 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/27 Marghanita da Cruz > > Solaris, BSD, AIX, Ultrix (now apparently known as HPUX). "Ultrix" (aka "Ulcus" (Latin for "Ulcer")) was the UNIX version of Digital before they moved to OSF/1. HPUX (aka "H-Puke") is HP's version. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing Li

Re: [SLUG] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/21 Amos Shapira : > http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/414471 > > Will try to get around to watch it. As Firefox 3.5 says after it crashed - "Well, this is embarrasing" - whenever I manage to press the "Watch Program" button on that page, Firefox crashes.

Re: [SLUG] 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-21 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/22 Malcolm Johnston : > Ken Thompson, so the story goes, when asked in the late '70s or early '80s > what he would do differently if he had to re-invent UNIX replied: ``I'd spell > creat() with an ``-e''. An "e" which went missing because of memory constraints... Gives a hint of what kind

Re: [SLUG] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-20 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/21 bill : > Speaking of Windows - did anybody watch ABC1's "Web Warriors" last night? > Should be required viewing for the average PC (ie Windows) user. I missed it but it's available for viewing on iView for 14 days at http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/414471 Will try to get around to

Re: [SLUG] exclude commented lines from output ?

2009-08-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/20 Craig Ayliffe : > egrep -v "^#" /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config > > /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config_tmp A bit nicer way - to get rid of empty lines as well, is: egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config Or: egrep -v "^#" /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config | cat -s to remove multiple

Re: [SLUG] ftp client recomendations ?

2009-08-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/20 Voytek Eymont : >> Bottom line, ftp is a pretty firewall un-friendly protocol. >> I'd recommend sftp (i.e. the module/feature of ssh) instead. > > > but, if command line ftp client works with no issues, doesn't that exclude > firewall on the server ? > > the ftpd and fwall have been unmod

Re: [SLUG] setting up squid proxy

2009-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/18 Tony Sceats : > what you're trying to do is usually referred to as a transparent reverse > proxy.. you should be able to find heaps of info on this What's "transparent" about it? It's just "reverse proxy" as far as I know. And it's worth mentioning (or even iterating) - be careful not t

[SLUG] Taxes on sending servers to the US

2009-08-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Does anyone here has experience sending servers (e.g. Dell PowerEdge 860 rack-mounted) TO the US? I'm going to visit our office overseas soon and we were wondering how much would it cost (tax-wise) to just pack a couple of them as a checked-in luggage. The sale closes soon so I need a qui

Re: [SLUG] GPS data logger

2009-08-07 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/7 Voytek Eymont > > On Fri, August 7, 2009 12:14 pm, Simon Males wrote: > > I'm hoping to buy a GPS data logger that I can take running with me. Nokia S60 series phones with GPS (e.g. the E71) come with "SportsTracker" which can record your track with lots of data (altitude, speed, average

Re: [SLUG] Cheap 3G mobile internet broadband plans ... what they don't have!

2009-08-06 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/8/7 Voytek Eymont : > 'mydatausage' page is often days behind on actual usage, THOUGH, the > billing page is accurate, the 80% SMSs were often way behind as well, the > billing folks were quite willing (within reason) to anull/reduce charges > (BUT I'm talking about tiny data usage/tiny charge

Re: [SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

2009-07-24 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/7/25 Marty Richards : > However, you are doing this the hard way.  You don't need an ethernet hub if > you already know where the traffic is going. All you need to do is > investigate the traffic on your office uplink. Its possible that the device > you use for the uplink already might give yo

Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

2009-07-24 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/7/25 Geoffrey Cowling : >  2. I made a new directory and mounted the / partition on it. > (Accessing /etc meant that I could read fstab). > > 3. I mounted the other partitions to the directories under /   (I > realise now that vmlinuz was probably broken linked on / becaause > /boot was not mo

Re: [SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

2009-07-24 Thread Amos Shapira
have something else to try. My mobile is 0416 520 655. Thanks! --Amos 2009/7/24 Gavin Carr : > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:36:47AM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: >> I'm looking for an Ethernet hub to be used for network troubleshooting >> (trying to find which of our hosts is in

Re: [SLUG] Kogan Agora Netbooks

2009-07-23 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/7/23 Terry Dawson : > I find the keyboard quite comfortable to use, with the possible exception of > the '/' key being a little awkward to get to from some angles. The touchpad > works well, but again, from some angles I find that my thumbs sometime > accidentally stray onto it while I'm typin

Re: [SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

2009-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/7/19 Martin Visser : > Amos, > > Of course if you purely want to find out the "top talkers" by IP, probably > the "industry-standard" of way of doing is to in the longer term is to have > your router send netflow stats to a collection server. Pretty much any We have SonicWall TZ 190. So far I

Re: [SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

2009-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/7/19 Matt Hope > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:36, Amos Shapira wrote: > > I'm looking for an Ethernet hub to be used for network troubleshooting > > (trying to find which of our hosts is involved in the load on our > > office uplink). > > Would something li

[SLUG] where to get an Ethernet hub (NOT a switch)

2009-07-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm looking for an Ethernet hub to be used for network troubleshooting (trying to find which of our hosts is involved in the load on our office uplink). So far eBay came up with only one option in Australia (which is a modem, and therefore apparently there is more competition on it) and on

Re: [SLUG] petition for multi-platform etax software

2009-07-16 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/7/14 Danny Yee > > There's an online petition at >        http://www.petitiononline.com/FreeEtax/ > asking that the ATO produce cross-platform etax software. I just found the following Apple Users forum item about the subject: http://www.appleusers.org/news/where-is-e-tax-for-the-mac/ I su

Re: [SLUG] Server Monitoring: RAID6, VMs, disk usage

2009-07-06 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/6/22 Ben > > Hi Lindsay, > > Thanks for that comprehensive answer. > > So collectd runs on each system itself, but I assume Nagios is centralised > at some point, so where would be the most sensible place to do that? Is > there ultra reliable hosting built for just that purpose? I second Lin

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