Re: [SLUG] trivial, but banging head on wall ...

2013-12-03 Thread Matt Hope
Random tips: - You can use find in one command, rather then loop over the file extensions find . -type f ! -name '*thumb*' \( -iname '*.tif' -o -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*.jpeg' -o -name '*.orf' -o -name '*.nef' \) - Might be a good idea to set IFS to '\0', combined with find's -print0 argument,

Re: [SLUG] Banning non Australian IP's from Aussie ecommerce site

2010-10-10 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 16:31, justin randell justin.rand...@gmail.com wrote: unless there's some really good reason not to, i'd strongly advise securing your ssh so that it's public-key only. i've seen too many places that rely on limiting the amount of ssh attempts get hacked to put any

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

2009-07-19 Thread Matt Hope
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 09:36, Amos Shapiraamos.shap...@gmail.com 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 like this be useful instead?

Re: [SLUG] Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

2008-04-21 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Background: my normal mail setup uses Postfix on my laptop to send outgoing mail. My university has blocked all outgoing ports except 80 (and they may have a transparent proxy in front of that) and 443 on their

Re: [SLUG] sudo vs su [WAS: Re: Lindows experience]

2005-08-20 Thread Matt Hope
On 8/20/05, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any information I can say in support of an Ubuntu-style sudo over standard su? From my experence, there are all kinds of advantages to using sudo over su - Auditability (commands are (by default) logged to syslog) -

Re: [SLUG] Lindows experience.

2005-08-20 Thread Matt Hope
On 8/17/05, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, it seems to me that later users have (by default) too few privileges, at least for use in a home environment. I'm not saying that is wrong, but in a home environment you probably want to allow secondary users to use the CD, connect

Re: [SLUG] LDAP config help sought (long post)

2005-07-14 Thread Matt Hope
On 7/14/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get somewhere with setting up an LDAP database. So your root is 'o=myhosting' If you want to create 'dc=example,dc=com,o=myhosting' I believe you'll need to create 'dc=com,o=myhosting' first. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] /dev/dsp in use by another program?

2005-07-14 Thread Matt Hope
On 7/12/05, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/12/05, Terry Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a CM8738 sound card that I am trying to get running under Debian stable(sarge) for the Gnome Music to play internet radio sources. The CD player works okay. The problem is that

[SLUG] (Sydney's) Debian Release Pool.

2005-05-30 Thread Matt Hope
Stealing an idea from Wouter Verhelst, I'll try and create a local version of his 'Release Pool'. (Wouter's Blog: http://grep.be/blog/en/computer/debian/release_pool) Summary: People vote on 'When will be the next Debian Release' - Specify a date and time - The exact date will be taken from

[SLUG] February DebSIG

2005-02-15 Thread Matt Hope
When: Wednesday, February 16, 6:30pm - 7:30pm (Note: This is earlier than usual) Where: James Squire Brewery ( http://debian.slug.org.au/events/jsb.html ) This month Russell Coker will be giving a talk on SE Linux as he passes briefly through Sydney. As Russell

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] DebSIG Keysigning

2004-06-07 Thread Matt Hope
My apologies, the keysigning is actually on Wednesday, 16th of June. On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 17:41, Matt Hope wrote: There will be a keysigning at the next Debian Interest Group meeting, on the 16th of June. If you would like to participate, please read the following page for instructions

[SLUG] DebSIG Keysigning

2004-05-28 Thread Matt Hope
] before June 11th. All are welcome to attend. When: June 19th, 7pm-8pm. Where: James Squire Brewery King St. Wharf -- Matt Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Debian 10th Aniversary Dinner and Mementos

2003-07-21 Thread Matt Hope
, so please reply if you are interested. (We need significant interest, or we wont be able to go ahead.) The expected prices will be about $30 for a bag, or about $9 for a mug. -- Matt Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

[SLUG] Re: Debian SIG (Sydney) [July 9th]: rdesktop (TOMORROW)

2003-07-08 Thread Matt Hope
On Tue, 08 Jul 2003, Matt Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... This month, Matt Chapman, author of rdesktop[1] will be talking about where rdeskop has come from, where it is going to, and the obstacles along the way. 1: http://www.rdesktop.org/ Don't forget to bring your GPG keys, keys

[SLUG] Debian SIG (Sydney) [July 9th]: rdesktop

2003-07-07 Thread Matt Hope
This month, Matt Chapman, author of rdesktop[1] will be talking about where rdeskop has come from, where it is going to, and the obstacles along the way. 1: http://www.rdesktop.org/ Don't forget to bring your GPG keys, keys are good and need signing. http://sydney.debian.net/

[SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Hope
There have been mumbings and some comments made about the current location for the Debian Interest Group meetings - currently, the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel. I'm interested if anyone has any comments about the current venue (good or bad), and any possible alternative suggestions. Currently, I

Re: [Debian-au] Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG Location..

2003-07-06 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 07 Jul 2003, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] ranted... - is accessable via public transport Short wander from Wynyard. - is in a fairly central location Short wander from Wynyard. ;-) I'd disagree here - its not exactly a short wander, and its not exactly safe (you have a

Re: [SLUG] Mutt Key ID dead end.

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Nick C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Morning, Sometimes in Mutt I press a wrong key, possible 'k', and get a dialog in the command area at the bottom: Please enter the key ID and nothing will get out of this dialog bar killing the process. Is there a better

Re: [SLUG] debian, missing unstable debs

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003, ramon buckland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Hi, Ive just installed a new system (see other email re: XBOX :-) and converting to unstable. Im getting a few 404's on some packages (namely GCC 3.2) from unstable. I've noticed this occurs from time to time. Is there a

Re: [SLUG] NFS home dirs across a network.

2003-06-09 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 09 Jun 2003, Steve Kowalik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... You should also check hosts.{allow,deny} for portmap. .. and make sure you have portmap installed and running. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Debian SIG (Sydney) [June 11th].

2003-06-07 Thread Matt Hope
This month, we are having a discussion about developer tools, such as using chroot environments for building and testing packages. Don't forget to bring your GPG keys, keys are good and need signing. http://sydney.debian.net/ Where: Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel - boardroom (upstairs)

[SLUG] Debian SIG [April 9th].

2003-04-03 Thread Matt Hope
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[SLUG] [Debian-au] DebSIG 12th Mar: CVS

2003-03-11 Thread Matt Hope
Okay... this is the OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! The (Sydney) Debian Special Interest Group (DebSIG) is on tonight. Pascal Hakim will be giving us a talk ``about what CVS is, how to use ut, and how people use it in Debian.'' We'll be meeting at the Wooloomooloo Bay Hotel (aka WBH) [1], which, for

Re: [SLUG] Avoiding debian dependancies

2003-02-23 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Ben Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... I just tried to apt-get install slapd (OpenLDAP server) on a debian production server. Debian then wants to install an xfree86-common, which I obviously don't want on a server. (slapd depends on libiodbc2 depends on xlibs.

Re: [SLUG] Avoiding debian dependancies

2003-02-23 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Ben Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... And how can I install equivs w/o install binutils, perl and other development tools :) Or can I run equivs on another machine to create the fake .debs ? Indeed you can. Or email me privately and I'll do it for you. Matt. -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Avoiding debian dependancies

2003-02-23 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Brett Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... get the deb for it. dpkg -i --ignore-depends=package package.deb where package in this instance would be the package you want to ignore xfree86-common for example. This will work in the short term, but may cause more problems

Re: [SLUG] Can't change root password in single user mode

2002-07-29 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Richard Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : We have lost the root password. I can boot into single user mode and run : passwd but I get an error saying pwdb - another process has locked : resource crital error. As I recall, this is related to the existance of the

Re: [SLUG] Debian package mass-downloads?

2002-07-27 Thread Matt Hope
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : Anyone know of a tool which, given a list of packages and the appropriate : apt metadata, will download all those packages and *all* their dependencies? : I can get close with apt-get -d install package list and then getting them :

Re: [SLUG] Debian SIG

2002-05-01 Thread Matt Hope
On Wed, 01 May 2002, Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] : This month we have Matt Hope delivering a talk on on Debian systems : administration relative to managing a bunch of similar servers and or : workstations with an emphasis on QA. Right. Umm... bugger. where did

Re: [SLUG] Window managers for PDA/embedded use

2002-04-28 Thread Matt Hope
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Karl Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : I use a window manager called fluxbox its based on blackbox, only its : constantly being updated, source can be obtained at : http://fluxbox.sf.net Fluxbox doesnt have keyboard-navigated menus yet. Its on the list of things getting

Re: [SLUG] Nomination for Secretary - Peter Hardy

2002-02-16 Thread Matt Hope
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : I would like to nominate Peter Hardy for the position of SLUG Secretary. Seconded. msg20305/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Swapping KDE for GNOME?

2001-11-13 Thread Matt Hope
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : The reason why it's complicated like this is because there are no task : packages anymore, just task definitions in the packages themselves. I have : no idea why this changed - it seems really backwards to me. Can someone : enlighten?

[SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

2001-10-30 Thread Matt Hope
I'm seeing some strange behavour on a laptop that I'm trying to get linux working on. So far I've installed a stock debian 2.2r3 on it. I havent had any luck getting the network card to work (sis900) yet, even though there is a 'sis900' module, and 'lspci' reports it is sis900. From a quick

fwd: Re: [SLUG] /etc/new-passwd creation

2001-10-30 Thread Matt Hope
Opps, sorry: hit the wrong button in reply. - Forwarded message from Matt Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Subject: Re: [SLUG] /etc/new-passwd creation From: Matt Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stuart Guthrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:35:37 +1100 On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Stuart

Re: [SLUG] automounters

2001-10-30 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] slured... : Gus (and others), which was the automounter you said you preferred on : Friday? amd or autofs? I dunno about Gus, but autofs has been much nicer to me than amd. I've been able to get amd to lock, gradually bringing down the system

Re: [SLUG] GUI file transfer using scp (gSCP)

2001-10-30 Thread Matt Hope
On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] slured... : ;) I'll keep an eye out, and ask around. Keep in mind that with many hosts : you can use sftp on the command line (no dragging stuff around though, it's : just like command line ftp). Shouldn't you be able to tell one of the

Re: [SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

2001-10-30 Thread Matt Hope
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Matt Hope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : I havent had any luck getting the network card to work (sis900) yet, even : though there is a 'sis900' module, and 'lspci' reports it is sis900. From : a quick browse of that module's source, it appears it is not possible to : specify

Re: [SLUG] strange behavour: sis900 network on a lapto

2001-10-30 Thread Matt Hope
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoketh... : Is this a PCMCIA network card? If so, do you have the pcmcia software set up : correctly? Thats a good point - it is an internal network card, but it may well be running from the PCMCIA bus. I didn't think this was the case, as

Re: [SLUG] Corrupt deb system.

2001-10-23 Thread Matt Hope
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors. : Dear debian, : : But I did do a apt-get install perl --reinstall.Still broken. Could be that file isnt provided by the package 'perl'. Try typing... dpkg -S

Re: [SLUG] Codefest?

2001-10-18 Thread Matt Hope
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : The Codefest is this weekend isn't it? : : Is there a reason I haven't seen any announcement with times, : locations etc? I think so - the rooms are booked at the University, but we haven't heard anything else about it

Re: [SLUG] kill user and print jobs script

2001-09-19 Thread Matt Hope
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Alister Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : I have the scripts done as I said, its how I can run them without being root : thats the issue. : : if I can't then root it is :) : I'm pretty sure somewhere along the line, you have to run it as root. I've seen sudo suggested -

[SLUG] Shared File Systems

2001-09-14 Thread Matt Hope
I've been looking at shared/distributed file systems, and to my current reconing, they all suck. I'm currently using NFS, but wouldn't mind moving away from it, but I can't seem to find anything better. I've read about (Open)AFS, CODA, PVFS, GFS.. The problem I'm having is that these are all

Re: [SLUG] hda status timeout

2001-09-14 Thread Matt Hope
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Xiaolu Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : quite often I got this error , any idea of what it means ? : : hda: status timeout: status=0xd0{busy} : hda: no DRQ after issuing write : ide0:reset : success : For me, that message usually means its about time to turf the old

Re: [SLUG] can't mount filesystem

2001-07-07 Thread Matt Hope
On Sat, 07 Jul 2001, Rob B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... : I have a disk with an ext2 filesystem that I want to mount onto a running : system. Trying mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb /export gives the error mount: : mount point /export does not exist You might like to create /export. Also, it might not

[SLUG] GnuPG keyfile fun

2001-07-02 Thread Matt Hope
So I've finally decided to join the masses, and organise myself a GnuPG keyfile / sig / whatever-the-hell-its-supposed-to-be-called. I've been through the documentation, and just have one query. I grab jdub's key (this is an example) gpg --keyserver www.pgp.net --recv-keys 565B38F9 Coolo, I

Re: [SLUG] mass verification of dpkgs on a system

2001-06-27 Thread Matt Hope
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Marshall, Joshua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... | Just mount the floppy to /var/blah and everything under that tree will be on | the floppy disk. That would more than just the md5sums... matth@rtfm:/var/lib/dpkg/info% du -sh . 12M . /dopey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] mass verification of dpkgs on a system

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Hope
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Andre Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... | is there a way to get apt-get/apt-cache/dpkg/magic-foo to verify whether | the files of a package are 'intact'? i suspect i have some bad sector | corruption, and i'm wondering if there's a way to do it en masse. have | done quick

Re: [SLUG] SCP on debian

2001-06-26 Thread Matt Hope
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... | | I have 'apt-cache search scp' and found nothing. | | what is the package name? | | Any tips on how I find it myself? | | This is so I can grab a file off my main box from my Deb FW box because | I cannot grab freeswan directly

Re: [SLUG] eth0 to use dhcp or static

2001-05-29 Thread Matt Hope
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Andre Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... | on this topic, have you (or anybody else) tried a program like | NetEnv, but is able to reconfigure your proxy servers etc. on | the fly, rather than at boot time? i usually suspend my laptop | when i leave home and take it to uni, so

Re: [SLUG] eth0 to use dhcp or static

2001-05-28 Thread Matt Hope
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Mehmet Ozdemir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... | Hello All, | | I was wondering is it possible to setup eth0 so that it get's it's ip | address via dhcp, or if dhcp server is unavailable use a static ip, | subnet, dns. | | I ask this as I have a notebook, and it's a pain

Re: [SLUG] Can't resolve outside sites after new Deb installation.

2001-04-11 Thread Matt Hope
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... | Bernhard Luder wrote: | it needs a default route and default gateway | route add default gw 192.168.0.1 eth0 | | OK thanks - working now. I did this but used the static IP address | assigned to my machine instead of the 192 one -