Re: [SLUG] BWOI: Hi

2008-01-31 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 11:09:33AM +1100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: You telling me you were able to parse that post? Sure, he was saying hello, giving a bit of personal computing history, and telling us how he uses Linux now. In a quite entertaining albeit idiosyncratic way. Matt -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] measuring traffic

2008-01-08 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:48:21AM +1100, david wrote: If I understand all this properly, I have two sane choices: * put a dumb hub between the router and network switch, plug a promiscuous box into it and run something like ethereal on it Or pmacct (promiscuous mode ip accounting)

Re: [SLUG] Instant Messaging Howto

2008-01-07 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 02:01:15PM +1030, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: If you don't have a Hotmail address, you'll have to register for one or just an MSN 'passport' account. No, You can do it with a google address too. Dont get a hotmail account 0-: On the other hand, you

Re: [SLUG] Tv Tuner

2008-01-03 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:01:46PM +1100, Chris Allen wrote: I want to try watching TV via my PC (Ubuntu LTS) I have seen a USB TV tuner (ASUS 3000U mini) for $89.00 It is allegedly Linux compatible. Drivers for your favorite OS are loaded from the web. Has any one tried using this? Not

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:34:02AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: Jeff Waugh wrote: Does it have to be in shell? :-) No sir! But shell usually wins. On my 1 GHz / 1 GB powerbook, the python one-liner I just submitted runs 5 x faster than the original. But what does 'shell' really mean?

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:50:55PM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote: [ C version ] Here's one in lex; ripped off from the flex info page. I'd be interested in its performance compared to straight C. No doubt worse, just curious how much worse. $ cat count.l cat count.l int num_commas = 0; %% ,

Re: [SLUG] Question: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/share/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm]

2007-12-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:13:06PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Any idea why I'm getting these, and how to stop them?: Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ -d /var/lib/php5 ] find /var/lib/php5/ -type f -cmin +$(/usr/share/php5/maxlifetime) -print0 | xargs -r -0 rm /bin/sh:

Re: [SLUG] Java and Fedora Core 8

2007-12-04 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Here's redhat's bugzilla ref https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=301691 For what it's worth, Sun HAVE ack'd it as a java bug and have a fix in an upcoming release. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 30 November

2007-11-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Some enterprising person might put this stuff about parking on the wiki. I had a look but it didn't even mention Atlassian yet so I couldn't bring myself to register. Feeling a lack of motivation today, Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Anyone have access to machines with IPv6?

2007-11-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:44:19PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: I didn't get around to actually use IPv6 but how about configuring the standard bind server on your system (and the kernel) to support ipv6 and start querying it, Problem is that its not normal

Re: Sharing files between guests and hosts (Was: Re: [SLUG]virtualisation and wine on ubuntu gutsey for adobe photoshop flashpremier etc)

2007-11-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:09:38PM +0900, Kevin Shackleton wrote: I wonder if the list is clear about the difference between VMWare Server and VMWare Workstation - what can / can't be done in each environment? I know I'm not - and I have a licenced copy of Workstation at some cost. Is there a

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 30 November

2007-11-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:23:35PM +1100, Ben wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 4:58 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where: Atlassian[1], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) any recommendations for convenient and vaguely affordable parking in

Re: [SLUG] replacing rpm app with source app /usr/bin /usr/local/bin

2007-11-15 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:51:58AM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm trying to install a ruby on rails application; I need ruby, gems and the like the Centos system had ruby installed in /usr/bin the original ruby was too back level; I've installed new ruby source and installed 'as is'

Re: [SLUG] terminal via email

2007-11-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 08:08:44AM +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: It's pretty dangerous unless you've got a secure email (eg PGP signed encrypted) but consider this:- There's a package in debian which can do this more or less safely because it uses gpg singed mail or similar. I'm afraid the

Re: [SLUG] tip: how to renumbber screens in gnu screen

2007-11-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:22:31AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: The hardest thing about finding tip for screen is that typing screen into Google is not exactly definitive! Indeed. Maybe we can agitate to have them cahnge the name to vscreen or something more googleable. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] terminal via email

2007-11-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 12:19:11PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: I'm afraid the name of the package escapes me at this moment. Debianites? Pronto. $ apt-cache search gpg mail command grunt - Secure remote execution via UUCP or e-mail using GPG Ah-hah! Now why couldn't I remember that?

Re: [SLUG] clam/amavis changing owner on /var/log OK ?

2007-10-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 01:26:00PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:03:00PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: For that to work the log would have to be group-writeable. Is it? doesn't seem to be: Also check for selinux violations (/var/log/audit/audit.log) if

Re: [SLUG] Formatting problem.

2007-10-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:08:34AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Amos Shapira Is there a common format that can be used, even if it's less than optimal for either system? FAT32 is the most widely compatible disk format to use on pretty much any device. What about

Re: [SLUG] clam/amavis changing owner on /var/log OK ?

2007-10-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 10:54:29PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: Did you get amavis and clamav from the standard Fedora/Redhat repos? If so you should raise a bug with them or mention on their mailing lists. it seems yes, but I'll need to check the logs though Better check before we go

[SLUG] rpmfusion

2007-10-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 12:48:59PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: There is no one right answer for this. If it was me, other things being equal I'd install the latest fedora or ubuntu, because Redhat/Centos just doesn't have clamav and amavis as core packages (apparently) Something worth

Re: [SLUG] clam/amavis changing owner on /var/log OK ?

2007-10-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 05:03:00PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: BUT, on my old server, log is clamav's and it works; I've added also clam to amavis and amavis to clam (just to be sure) but it didn't help: # grep amavis /etc/group clamav:x:101:clamav,amavis amavis:x:102:clamav For that to

Re: [SLUG] raid1 mdadm or lvm mirror's

2007-10-17 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:47:35PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: [ ...] I have some data that I don't really care if it dies/get lost. I can't do that on a lv by lv basis with my original setup. I haven't had much experience with lvm mirrors, should I stick with my original setup or go

Re: [SLUG] raid1 mdadm or lvm mirror's

2007-10-17 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:08:25AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: but how stable is lvm mirror any one using this in production I dunno. I'm taking the fact that it's standard in major distros as an indication that it's pretty mature and reliable. I could be wrong! Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Moving o/s' around

2007-10-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:22:15AM +1000, John wrote: Hi list, I'd like to change my os of choice to Ubuntu again (long story) but retain the Winxp setup that I have by running it as a VMware image on Ubuntu. This would seem to be possible using a live linux CD, create an iso file of a

Re: [SLUG] installing 'file': edit Makefile.am or Makefile.in ?

2007-10-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:31:39AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I saw on the amavis list that my present file had vulnerability, so I How do you know that for sure? e.g. the vulnerabilities list says that 4.10 has a vulnerability, but many (most? all?) distros backport security fixes to older

Re: [SLUG] installing 'file': edit Makefile.am or Makefile.in ?

2007-10-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 11:57:57AM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: [latest file from centos] As expected, it does have security fixes backported, namely CVE-2007-2799 file integer overflow CVE-2007-1536 heap overflow also: checking with cve.mitre.org shows only these two this year

Re: [SLUG] installing 'file': edit Makefile.am or Makefile.in ?

2007-10-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 01:17:41PM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: so where do I identify changelog /url for RH73 'file' ? http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ stopped ages ago; you're on your own. You might be able to get the source rpm from a later fedora or redhat distro, apply a source patch, then

Re: [SLUG] Newlines - was Re: Comsec behaving badly

2007-10-08 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Common confusion/misconception is that \n refers to LF only. [ .. ] On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:12:35PM +1000, Jeremy Portzer wrote: As I stated, \n (or newline) and LF (ASCII 10) are NOT precisely the same thing. [ .. ] You appear to be in violent agreement. --

Re: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

2007-09-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:25:43PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: So for example you could use clusterssh or distributed ssh; dsh or cssh packages in Debian, for example, which are quite sweet for doing the same interactive thing on a bunch of machines (with the caveat that if your machines

Re: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

2007-09-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 03:42:54PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: http://code.google.com/p/exscript/ Exscript is a scripting language for automating network connections over protocols such as Telnet or SSH. It is in some ways comparable to Expect, but has some unique

Re: [SLUG] perl - setting output field separator and output record separator?

2007-09-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:35:44PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm doing this using awk and getting correct results: $ dirs -v | awk 'BEGIN { OFS=:; ORS= ; } ; { print $1,$2 }' 0:/home 1:/etc 2:~ I'm trying to do this using Perl (as gnu awk not available on target system), and getting

Re: [SLUG] fun with sed

2007-09-26 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:11:32PM +0800, Deeþan Chakravarthy wrote: $sed -e s|foo|/bar|g foo The above command works fine. You can use any character as delimiter. I chose to use | . My favourite alternative to / is comma, it doesn't need you to hit shift and you are not often searching for

Re: [SLUG] expect - more modern tool available?

2007-09-24 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:07:40AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm starting to learn expect [1][2] to help me automate some programs that prompt for input. Expect dates from the early 90s - is it the right way to go or is there now a better shinier tool/language that I should be learning?

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]]

2007-09-20 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Crikey, that's a dramatic solution! strace is certainly available for FC7: yum install strace Did you mention it was on Fedora before? If I'd noticed I would have suggested you check the selinux log. selinux failures also put up a warning on the gui (you might need particular rpms installed)

Re: [SLUG] Recommendation for a VPN for linux

2007-09-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:06:21PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote: Ian Brown wrote: Hi, - Can anybody recommend on a free VPN for linux ? There is no other choice aside from OpenVPN IMHO :) That's what I've heard. But for the sake of completeness, has anyone tried LogMeIn / hamachi?

Re: [SLUG] permission oddity

2007-07-02 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 12:45:37PM +1000, david wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 12:38 +1000, Scott Ragen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/07/2007 11:05:17 AM: Something new every day! A bunch of .NEF files downloaded from my Nikon Camera appeared as mod 700 I did:

Re: [SLUG] Locking network interface number to specific MAC address

2007-05-30 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:06:57PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Yeah, what Simon meant was that these are hardware-specific things that are set during install/use, which make an Ubuntu install harder to 'port' to different hardware... one of the things that has traditionally been a great

Re: [SLUG] photo/graphics processing SIG anyone?

2007-05-30 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:12:06PM +1000, Simon Pascal Klein wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:48 +1000, david wrote: Is anyone interesting in a photo/graphics SIG? I'm presently using UFraw, dcraw, rawstudio, gimp, cinepaint and anything else I can get my hands on and I'm starting to get

Re: [SLUG] Symbolic links

2007-05-08 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:31:16PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: What about find -L -samefile give-target? e.g. $ touch target $ ln -s target link-to-target $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx ... link-to-target - target -rw-r--r-- ... target $ find -L -samefile target ./target

Re: [SLUG] Amaya

2007-04-17 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:06:12PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: I'm running Debian Sid and trying to install Amaya. Well, easy to install, of course, but when I try to run it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ amaya 12:59:19: Deleted stale lock file '/home/alant/.amaya-alant'. Xlib: extension GLX

Re: [SLUG] Query re Firefox

2007-02-28 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:30:27PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: Matthew Hannigan wrote: Didn't you say you're using firefox 2.0.0.2? That's not standard on any released fedora that I know of. If you installed it yourself from source, or from an alternative rpm repo, then I suspect

Re: [SLUG] Query re Firefox

2007-02-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:54:37PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: I'm using Fedora, rather than Ubuntu. Following ApplicationsPreferencesMore Preferences, I get to Preferred Applications. When I click on it, I get a window with a number of tabs, one of which is called Web Browser. On that

Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
You might try dstat - http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ -- 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] Fedora access and securtiy

2007-01-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:27:03AM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This *is* the simple method. Once you've installed shorewall, you'll only have to edit a few files in /etc/shorewall - probably these: I dont doubt that

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:14:39PM +1100, John wrote: Hi list, I've just had someone try and send me an e-mail with a .zip file attached containing a .exe file. Are you sure it was someone and not some spammer pretending to be someone? This happens to me all the time; I've even had zip

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Someone recommended dspam -- but www.dspam.org is old and been claimed by some squatter/exploiter. Time to laugh or cry... -- 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] Spamassassin effectiveness

2007-01-17 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:18:30AM +1100, Phil Scarratt wrote: Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Scott Ragen wrote: IMHO its better for a sender to get Your Mail has been rejected due to suspected spam, then the email getting lost in the spam box never to be seen.

Re: wrong date blocking ? was: Blocking wang attachments with postfix [Was: [SLUG] Spam again]

2007-01-11 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:17:56AM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: what do you for date checks ? I have something like this, but, it requires altering every 365 days... header_checks ... /^Date:.*[a-z][a-z][a-z] 200[0-4]/ REJECT Your email has a .. /^Date:.*[a-z][a-z][a-z]

Re: [SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

2006-12-28 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:24:23AM +1100, bill wrote: What I'm looking for - if it exists - is a GUI for LSOF that updates in real-time. Under Winblows ( some time ago now) I had such a tool - one that showed connected IP, port and program name. Don't remember what it was called. Is

Re: [SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

2006-12-28 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 03:13:13PM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 29/12/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 11:24:23AM +1100, bill wrote: What I'm looking for - if it exists - is a GUI for LSOF that updates in real-time. Under Winblows ( some time ago now) I

Re: [SLUG] yum, Centos, rpms etc

2006-12-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 09:36:28AM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: on my RH7.3 when I installed some 'additions' these often came as RPMs from dag.wieers.com; so, I would look on dag.wieers.com pages to find desired revision/distribution, then 'wget somefile' then 'rpm somefile' etc, etc I'm

Re: [SLUG] Fedora 6 movies

2006-12-25 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 12:52:01PM +1100, john gibbons wrote: I am having no luck trying to download and install libdvdcss2. Anyone done any better? What have you tried? libdvdcss is in livna, and as far as I can tell, that's the same thing as libdvdcss2 rpm -ivh

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i add a drive beyond 2 the system gets screwed up. Screwed up how? Error messages / details please! I am not sure if it is

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:53:26AM +1000, Gerald wrote: On Thursday December 14 2006 21:47, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:54:35PM +1100, David Gillies wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). When he ssh's to you: ssh -R :localhost:22 your

Re: [SLUG] Video: DET considers Linux on the desktop

2006-12-06 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:52:01PM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is clearly an industry trend.

Re: [SLUG] Obtaining Ubuntu DVD

2006-12-04 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:28:51PM +1100, Dimitri Koussa wrote: I was hoping it wouldn't come to that. I have to pay ~5.5 cents/Mb here at USyd so that's $175 for the DVD...I guess I'll start emailing my friends asking if they've got some bandwidth they can spare. That's astonishing, surely

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:23:37AM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 23/11/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to tail -f the syslog file but I only want to see what I want to see and I don't want to see what I don't what to see. The idea is to tail follow through a filter. Is that

Re: [SLUG] USB to Serial Converter that supports break

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:27:43PM +1100, Greg Cockburn wrote: Hi Sluggers, After upgrading my laptop, I now don't have a serial port. I need this to talk to the odd Sun machine when it breaks, and therefore I need the converter to support the break command. You can get Suns to accept

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:30:50PM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 23/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:23:37AM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 23/11/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to tail -f the syslog file but I only want to see what I want

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:28:24PM +1100, Zhasper wrote: On 11/23/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:30:50PM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 23/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:23:37AM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 23/11

Re: [SLUG] tailing, following and filtering

2006-11-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:10:14PM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 23/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't get the output in as timely a fashion; it comes with spurts as the buffer is filled up then written out. What buffer? tail's manual doesn't mention anything about buffers

Re: [SLUG] Postgrey/FairUCE

2006-11-13 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:34:40PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...and you trust Google not to sell the email addresses of those with whom you correspond?... I certainly do, at least, I trust them slightly more than the average ISP. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 03:06:28PM +1100, Eddie F wrote: Hi all, I've been ask the question by a friend about what alternatives to cpio there might be, for backing up to a tape drive and keeping symbolic links preserved. Had a bit of a dig around on Google, but haven't had much luck... Any

Re: Relevance of dump (was: Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.)

2006-11-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:12:10PM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 13/11/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much everything keeps symlinks, cpio, tar, dump. Just taking this opportunity to try to satisfy my curiosity. I was wondering what's the state of dump(8) in the current

Re: [SLUG] Backups keeping symbolic links.

2006-11-12 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:21:30PM +1100, Eddie F wrote: I meant that we'd like to keep symlinks and restore them as they where, rather than replacing the symlink with the original file or loosing them all together. Then you don't have to do anything special. matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] PDA/phone/linux

2006-11-09 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:23:36PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I think most people would be better off with a separate phone and a PDA. Having a slim/small phone is good, and being a PDA is incompatible with slim. I disagree - I used to have a Nokia and an Palm Pilot - having 2 sets

Re: [SLUG] Trying to get FuzzyOcr going...

2006-11-09 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:12:45PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...I am getting the following log messages: [2006-11-10 16:05:29] Debug mode: Starting FuzzyOcr... [2006-11-10 16:05:29] Debug mode: Attempting to load personal wordlist... [2006-11-10 16:05:29] Debug mode: No personal wordlist

Re: [SLUG] Trying to get FuzzyOcr going...

2006-11-09 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:47:53PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: root all round and executable But check for selinux denies, assuming you're running selinux. tail -100 /var/log/audit/auditlog | audit2allow -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] SA FuzzzyOCR rejection Q

2006-11-08 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:35:47PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: The spammers must be monitoring this channel. I don't think so, when they could just be subscribed to, say the spamassassin mailing list. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/11/msg00127.html I have just got one

Re: [SLUG] Backing up to dvd

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:32:28PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: Luke Kilborn wrote: Mondo resuce is very good for a disaster recovery backup, and i would suggest you use it for that situation. For a day to day backup, try using tar or cpio. Thanks for taking the trouble to reply, Luke, and

Re: [SLUG] Some Thoughts Regarding Spam

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:10:55AM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Thorsby wrote: I'm sure everybody has noticed the massive upsurge in spam over the last two-three weeks. This increase in volume seems to have begun at about the end of the NSW school

Re: [SLUG] Some Thoughts Regarding Spam

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:51PM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote: The only ones spamassassin has missed for me lately is a bunch of stock scam image based ones with random text. I heartily recommend the FuzzyOcr [1] plugin, which passes images through gocr and picks out scam words. I've noticed

Re: [SLUG] PDA/phone/linux

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +1100, david wrote: I've been asked to get a PDA phone for my wife, about which I know zilch. I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether you really need a pda phone :-). I think most people would be better off with a separate phone and a PDA. Having a

[SLUG] Re: Backing up to dvd

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:36:46PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: I made five .isos, each the size of one cd. I tried to create a single .iso out of the five by using cat, as I'd seen I dunno how that'd work, but I guess it's possible! Where I read the suggestion (unless, of course, I

Re: [SLUG] PDA/phone/linux

2006-11-05 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:36:11PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Hal Ashburner Jeff Waugh wrote: You will deserve all flavours of pain and misery if you give your wife a device that does not run Palm OS. :-) Oh really? What's wrong with my search engine skills?

Re: [SLUG] Removing unwanted thumbnail files

2006-10-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:06:53AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote: Leslie == Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Leslie Michael Chesterton wrote: Leslie When I look at the man page for find, I see that -atime Leslie /n/ means file was last accessed /n/*24 hours ago, while Leslie -ctime /n/

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:47:45AM +1000, James Gray wrote: # Make any generated files only readable by moi umask 077 MAILROOT=~/Mail TMP=/tmp/mail-addresses.tmp ... egrep .$TMP This is sorta off topic, but setting umask is not enough. Someone else could have a file of the

Re: [SLUG] email address farming

2006-10-18 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 12:06:23PM +1000, Roger Barnes wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:47:45AM +1000, James Gray wrote: # Make any generated files only readable by moi umask 077 MAILROOT=~/Mail TMP=/tmp/mail-addresses.tmp ... egrep .$TMP This is sorta

Re: [SLUG] New St George HTML based online banking interface

2006-10-17 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:31:08PM +1000, CaT wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:03:49PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: I can't remember EVER getting St George ones, although they've warned about them before. You're just not popular enough with the right crowd :) 165 N + Apr 14 St. George

Re: [SLUG] New St George HTML based online banking interface

2006-10-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:24:10AM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: Ditto. I for one loved the Java web banking site. I felt something of a mild sense of security in that it was the only site that couldn't be trivially screen-scraped. (although I did discover a way later on to emulate the

Re: [SLUG] Recruiter blacklist: Sapphire Technologies

2006-10-10 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:03:36AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: I applied for a job advertised by these recruit-scum. Turns out they're flogging training, not jobs. I didn't hear from them, and saw the same ads getting posted day after day so I assumed there was something odd about

Re: [SLUG] database schema tools

2006-10-02 Thread Matthew Hannigan
ashley maher wrote: I'm working on a large database. I have the schema. Does anybody know a good FOSS tool to take the schema text file (mysql) and produce a nice diagramme from it? Ashley, You might try http://savage.net.au/Ron/html/graphing-database-schema.html There's some good links

Re: [SLUG] d/l illicit files: wget, curl, what else ?

2006-09-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:40:38AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: [ .. ] if I remove or rename wget/curl/lynx/links from my server, apart from ocassional inconvience to me, that won't cause me issues ? Its goes such a small way to solving the problem that its probably not worth it.

Re: [SLUG] d/l illicit files: wget, curl, what else ?

2006-09-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 11:45:17AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: You can add yourself the overhead of Xen for a shared hosting environment, but it's not necessary when you take the time to use a simple privilege separation technique, e.g. mod_suexec. Speaking of mods,

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] QOS - VOIP]

2006-08-27 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:49:48PM +1000, Phill O'Flynn wrote: Thanks Oscar I will check that out. I have clients that download engineering drawings but do it using webdav with apache. so another option i will look is using bandwidth throttling there ( if there is one - i haven't

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:34:38AM +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: port forwarding. on the nat router, look under the games/applications menu (assuming its an appliance type router) Dean Alan L Tyree wrote: The recent Ubuntu stuffup with xorg meant that I had to ssh to a friends computer

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to a computer behind a NAT router

2006-08-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 10:05:57AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The magic of ssh applies: The remote person sshs to you from somewhere either to your static or (quick phone call: victory = 10c/min to USA!) your dynamic address them: ssh -R 1200:localhost:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] me: ssh

Re: [SLUG] How to force which device is eth0?

2006-08-20 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:55:26AM +1000, O Plameras wrote: I'm using Fedora, and I use the file /etc/modprobe.conf to say, e.g., alias eth0 tulip alias eth1 e100 alias eth2 3c59x That says that eth0 uses the tulip driver, but I'm not sure it says that the one that requires tulip is

Re: [SLUG] DHCP client vs sendmail

2006-08-09 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:58:45AM +1000, Peter Miller wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 11:22 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:14:40AM +1000, Peter Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there any elegant way to have a laptop DHCP client have its sendmail

Re: [SLUG] bind files

2006-07-31 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:38:08PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:38:54PM +1000, ashley maher wrote: I'd prefer something working with bind9, database backended, able to handle many hundreds of zone files, and multiple dns servers, web interface. [ .. ] I

Re: [SLUG] hosts.allow question

2006-07-25 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 04:42:07PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: On 25 Jul 2006, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand it, you can either enter IP addresses or hosts into hosts.allow to access services {I've got ALL:ALL in hosts.deny} So sshd:203.1.1.1 You can also restrict

Re: [SLUG] bind files

2006-07-25 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 12:38:54PM +1000, ashley maher wrote: I've come to the conclusion the way I manage bind really isn't the way to go. So I've done some googling this morning and found some interesting results. Care to share? But I've learned the hard way what looks good can often

Re: [SLUG] apache2 https

2006-07-24 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:47:01PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: I read the apache2 working mostly but I am having trouble with ssl: [Mon Jul 24 19:41:28 2006] [error] [client 192.168.2.1] Invalid method in request \x80U\x01\x03 Pretty clearly it's getting ssl but not expecting it. It's hard

Re: [SLUG] 80GB IDE BIOS setup translation issue ?

2006-07-23 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:01:23AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: as far as I recall, it's 'IDE : Two Ultra DMA66 ports' what limitations does that pose ? I think that it should be ok; there's some old kernels can't handle bigger than 33.something Gb. The next problem occurs at 137Gb for some

Re: [SLUG] RE: [chat] Howdy all

2006-07-23 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 02:25:38PM +1000, Christopher Martin wrote: I don't know if you can present a Linux block device back out a SCSI controller... the closest thing I know of that you can do this with is i-scsi, i.e. present the block device over the network. I haven't actually done

Re: [SLUG] Running squid on a laptop. Silly?

2006-07-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 04:21:24PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Saturday 22 July 2006 16:01, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem I'm trying to solve is that I get network access in a couple of different places. Some places I have direct access to the net and

Re: [SLUG] WAN simulation

2006-07-19 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:05:25AM +1000, Gavin Carr wrote: Hi sluggers, Quick question - I'm wanting to do some lab-based WAN simulation i.e. have an ethernet link set up between two boxes that has wan-like latencies on it. I was thinking I could maybe just insert a linux

Re: [SLUG] Cross Platform FOSS Project Management Software

2006-07-19 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:45:26AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, At work we need to get hold of some project mamagement software and would prefer something FOSS and cross platform (ie both *nix and windows clients). The requirements from the person looking is: I'm

Re: [SLUG] rpm no key warning

2006-07-16 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 08:03:20AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Mon, July 17, 2006 12:27 am, Martin Visser wrote: Looking up on the MIT keyserver with http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=dag+wieersop=index Type bits /keyIDDate User ID pub 1024D/6B8D79E6 2003/08/24

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