Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-02 Thread Sam Gentle
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 at 14:59, Jason Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not wishing to start an OS war, but I rarely if ever have seen a BSD or Sun box compromised. Is this due to sheer numbers of

Re: [SLUG] web/domain redirection ?

2008-01-25 Thread Sam Gentle
On Jan 25, 2008 7:21 PM, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how can I divert web/domain to a foreign server that I have no control over ? I have a domain.org.au, the web server pages for the domain now needs to be served from anotherdomain.com on a remote server I've tried to set a CNAME

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Sam Gentle
On Jan 22, 2008 12:59 AM, Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them I have 3 main goals to achaive

Re: [SLUG] linux filesystem

2008-01-01 Thread Sam Gentle
On Jan 2, 2008 2:35 PM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am going to be working on some large files (~5G) and I was in the process of making some room with lvm, did the formatting as ext3 and thought maybe there is a better fs for the job. These are video file that I will be working

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

2007-12-18 Thread Sam Gentle
On Dec 18, 2007 5:21 PM, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:09 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Here's a starting point. What's a more optimal way to perform this task? :-) sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m Tuesday afternoon shell optimisation party!