Re: [SLUG] LDAP and keepalive errors
This one time, at band camp, Craig Dibble wrote: ...right up until I deployed our new LDAP servers to production. Now I find that I get intermittent failures from the keepalive script whereby it reports that some or all of the processes it is monitoring have died, tries to restart them, and fails. Immediately I am thinking that the problem is somewhere in NSS. Timeouts due to LDAP connection overheads, fd leaks in nss_ldap, nscd's very existence, all could be causing something to fail. Unlike Solaris, POSIX and Linux don't cater to temporary failure, so anything that explodes in the pipeline is going to return a failed lookup (and if you're using nscd, it'll cache that negative if you're really unlucky.) [1] As a temporary fix I have put a simple hook in the keepalive script to die if the returned process list is empty. This works ok for the moment but without knowing why it is behaving like this I can't help but feel all I might be doing is putting a bandaid on a bigger problem. Do you get an empty process list when you run it by hand? Is there a timeout on the process list command in the keepalive script? The first thing to try is to replicate the conditions in the script to get a repeatable failure of ps. Once you've done that, you'll have some idea as to where to look next. -- 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] bash question
hi all, after reading up on ssh config options, i've gone with some Host sections in ~/.ssh/config: Host glebe1 User johndoe Hostname xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx does what i want without any worries of 'doing it the csh way' ;-) cheers justin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OT domain name and company name
Hi all, It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a company or business name. Is this still the case as I've heard different responses. Also what if you have .com.au domain name and you close your company or business related to the domain name, do you lose the .com.au domain name? Or is it once you have the domain name, it's yours forever? (so long as you pay the yearly fee). TIA, Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OT domain name and company name
It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a company or business name. Is this still the case as I've heard different responses. Yes, almost you need to 'prove' that you are entitled to register the name. To quote the auDA policy: 1. To be eligible for a domain name in the com.au 2LD, registrants must be: a) an Australian registered company; or b) trading under a registered business name in any Australian State or Territory; or c) an Australian partnership or sole trader; d) a foreign company licensed to trade in Australia; or e) an owner of an Australian Registered Trade Mark; or f) an applicant for an Australian Registered Trade Mark ; or g) an association incorporated in any Australian State or Territory; or h) an Australian commercial statutory body. 2. Domain names in the com.au 2LD must: a) exactly match, acronym or abbreviation of the registrant’s company or trading name, organization or association name or trademark; or: b) be otherwise closely and substantially connected to the registrant. Also what if you have .com.au domain name and you close your company or business related to the domain name, do you lose the .com.au domain name? Or is it once you have the domain name, it's yours forever? (so long as you pay the yearly fee). Yes, for all practical purposes. There is no need to 'prove' continuing substantially connected to the registrant. regards Richard Hayes -- 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] OT domain name and company name
On 08/03/2007, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hayes wrote: It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a company or business name. Is this still the case as I've heard different responses. Yes, almost you need to 'prove' that you are entitled to register the name. To quote the auDA policy: 1. To be eligible for a domain name in the com.au 2LD, registrants must be: a) an Australian registered company; or b) trading under a registered business name in any Australian State or Territory; or c) an Australian partnership or sole trader; d) a foreign company licensed to trade in Australia; or e) an owner of an Australian Registered Trade Mark; or f) an applicant for an Australian Registered Trade Mark ; or g) an association incorporated in any Australian State or Territory; or h) an Australian commercial statutory body. 2. Domain names in the com.au 2LD must: a) exactly match, acronym or abbreviation of the registrant’s company or trading name, organization or association name or trademark; or: b) be otherwise closely and substantially connected to the registrant. Also what if you have .com.au domain name and you close your company or business related to the domain name, do you lose the .com.au domain name? Or is it once you have the domain name, it's yours forever? (so long as you pay the yearly fee). Yes, for all practical purposes. There is no need to 'prove' continuing substantially connected to the registrant. Don't rely on it. If the registrant eligibility is based on the company or business, and the company or business no longer exists, there is no eligibility to use the domain. -- 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] LDAP and keepalive errors
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Craig Dibble wrote: ...right up until I deployed our new LDAP servers to production. Now I find that I get intermittent failures from the keepalive script Immediately I am thinking that the problem is somewhere in NSS. Timeouts due to LDAP connection overheads, fd leaks in nss_ldap, nscd's very existence, all could be causing something to fail. This is my thinking too, but I'm at a loss as to how I might debug this. Unlike Solaris, POSIX and Linux don't cater to temporary failure, so anything that explodes in the pipeline is going to return a failed lookup (and if you're using nscd, it'll cache that negative if you're really unlucky.) Again, that's what I thought, but I still get it even with the caches cleared, disabled, or nscd stopped. [1] As a temporary fix I have put a simple hook in the keepalive script to die if the returned process list is empty. Is there a timeout on the process list command in the keepalive script? No, that would be my next step in tidying up the script. I'll probably do that today just so I can see if it is in fact timing out or if there is some other issue causing the failures. To be honest, I'd rather bin the script and start again but that won't help me understand why this is happening. Do you get an empty process list when you run it by hand? The first thing to try is to replicate the conditions in the script to get a repeatable failure of ps. Once you've done that, you'll have some idea as to where to look next. Like I said, it's intermittent so very hard to replicate. I haven't yet managed to figure out exactly what else may be occurring at the exact instant it fails, or indeed how/why it fails. As far as I have been able to ascertain simply running the ps command by hand does not seem to fail, but interestingly, with the quick fix I put in yesterday I put a backticked date command in the 'die' expression to print a timestamp to the log file (to compare against any potential further false positives). About 1/3 of the failures overnight in the log have no timestamp on them. The ps command itself is also contained in backticks. I'm not sure what that's telling me, but I think it's time to add some debugging to the script and see what is going on at each stage. Craig -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] data recovery specialists?
Hiya, Can anyone recommend any data recovery specialists, preferably in Sydney? We have a several boxes of ten year old DLTIII tapes, but have only been able to read the data we need off about half of them. Thanks, Jon -- Jon Wilson, Sydney, Australia Mob: +61 4 0549 9490, Yahoo: phuq_eu, Skype: jonwilson -- 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] OT domain name and company name
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 07:37 +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 08/03/2007, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hayes wrote: It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a company or business name. Is this still the case as I've heard different responses. Yes, almost you need to 'prove' that you are entitled to register the name. My experience is that once you have a name, it's unlikely to be taken from you. I have some legacy names that haven't been registered business names for years. OTOH, I wouldn't rely on that! If I registered a business name and then found that someone was illegally sitting on that domain name without authority, I would definitely take action and I'm sure any business person would. You have to quote some form of authority (ABN, business name registration etc) but I'm pretty sure it isn't checked. I may be wrong. Personally, I think it's silly to register a name you aren't entitled to. It's a recipe for trouble. I've even gone to the trouble of trademarking .com names in the USA if I thought it was really going to matter down the track. As I'm sure most of you know, the .com tld is set up specifically to maximise income for registrars. The Australian system is nominally better in my not so humble opinion. To quote the auDA policy: 1. To be eligible for a domain name in the com.au 2LD, registrants must be: a) an Australian registered company; or b) trading under a registered business name in any Australian State or Territory; or c) an Australian partnership or sole trader; d) a foreign company licensed to trade in Australia; or e) an owner of an Australian Registered Trade Mark; or f) an applicant for an Australian Registered Trade Mark ; or g) an association incorporated in any Australian State or Territory; or h) an Australian commercial statutory body. 2. Domain names in the com.au 2LD must: a) exactly match, acronym or abbreviation of the registrant’s company or trading name, organization or association name or trademark; or: b) be otherwise closely and substantially connected to the registrant. Also what if you have .com.au domain name and you close your company or business related to the domain name, do you lose the .com.au domain name? Or is it once you have the domain name, it's yours forever? (so long as you pay the yearly fee). Yes, for all practical purposes. There is no need to 'prove' continuing substantially connected to the registrant. Don't rely on it. If the registrant eligibility is based on the company or business, and the company or business no longer exists, there is no eligibility to use the domain. -- 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] A little annoying keyboard type issue...
On 06/03/07, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/07, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like Screen is confused about your terminal. What's the value of $TERM in the terminal before you launch screen? Can you show us the output of stty -a both inside of and outside of screen? As an interim workaround, see if ^H (ctrl+h) works as backspace inside screen. Another workaround - stty erase ctrl+vbackspace will probably fix backspace, but only for that one screen The output from stty -a in both a screen session and non screen session is exactly the same. Your suggestion of ctrl+h to see if that works, certainly does. Any chance we can figure out how to make this work on all sessions all the time. Put it in a .bashrc? I don't actually know. I find that it breaks for me on odd occasions - never consistently enough for me to look for a permanent fix. I just end up doing a stty erase ^v^h any time I notice it's a problem. I suspect it's a problem with the termcap for screen on older machines, but I'm not certain... If you could CC me on any replies directly that would be appreciated, as I am not on the list for the moment (will resign up again later on). Thanks -- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004 -- 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] data recovery specialists?
Jon Wilson wrote: Hiya, Can anyone recommend any data recovery specialists, preferably in Sydney? We have a several boxes of ten year old DLTIII tapes, but have only been able to read the data we need off about half of them. Payam have been good for us http://www.payam.com.au/ dave -- 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] OT domain name and company name
On 08/03/2007, at 11:37 AM, david wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 07:37 +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 08/03/2007, at 7:21 AM, Richard Hayes wrote: It used to be that to get a .com.au domain name you had to have a company or business name. Is this still the case as I've heard different responses. Yes, almost you need to 'prove' that you are entitled to register the name. My experience is that once you have a name, it's unlikely to be taken from you. I have some legacy names that haven't been registered business names for years. OTOH, I wouldn't rely on that! If I registered a business name and then found that someone was illegally sitting on that domain name without authority, I would definitely take action and I'm sure any business person would. You have to quote some form of authority (ABN, business name registration etc) but I'm pretty sure it isn't checked. I may be wrong. Personally, I think it's silly to register a name you aren't entitled to. It's a recipe for trouble. I think we can agree that like so many things, it's all around managing risk :-) -- 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] data recovery specialists?
David Kempe wrote: Jon Wilson wrote: Hiya, Can anyone recommend any data recovery specialists, preferably in Sydney? We have a several boxes of ten year old DLTIII tapes, but have only been able to read the data we need off about half of them. Payam have been good for us http://www.payam.com.au/ dave Apparently they don't do tape recovery :-( -- Jon Wilson, Sydney, Australia Mob: +61 4 0549 9490, Yahoo: phuq_eu, Skype: jonwilson -- 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] Firefox sux
Heracles wrote: Firefox for AMD64 has to be the worst piece of crap ever written; just use epiphany (if you run gnome) or konqueror (if you run KDE). I used to love firefox on my old system; it was fast and easy to use. The new version just uses up ALL my processor and memory as soon as it is started and brings the system to a standstill. I have to switch to a command line to stop it after which everything returns to normal. What happened to it between 1.5 and 2.0? My current version is 2.0.0.2 but the problem has existed since 2.0. I am now using epiphany and occasionally konqueror (without flash) and don't have the hassle. I don't know exactly but I have been experiencing strange things too. -E.G. flash plugin crashes the browser on several sites (something in a flash swf must cause this) -Browser freezes and dies unpredictably. I've gone back to using 1.5.0. This is on FC5 32bit. Kr. Luke. Heracles -- Luke Vanderfluit Analyst / Web Programmer e3Learning.com.au 08 8221 6422 -- 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] Firefox sux
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:40:40 +1030 Luke Vanderfluit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heracles wrote: Firefox for AMD64 has to be the worst piece of crap ever written; just use epiphany (if you run gnome) or konqueror (if you run KDE). I used to love firefox on my old system; it was fast and easy to use. The new version just uses up ALL my processor and memory as soon as it is started and brings the system to a standstill. I have to switch to a command line to stop it after which everything returns to normal. What happened to it between 1.5 and 2.0? My current version is 2.0.0.2 but the problem has existed since 2.0. I am now using epiphany and occasionally konqueror (without flash) and don't have the hassle. I don't know exactly but I have been experiencing strange things too. -E.G. flash plugin crashes the browser on several sites (something in a flash swf must cause this) -Browser freezes and dies unpredictably. I've gone back to using 1.5.0. This is on FC5 32bit. I'm using Iceweasel 2.0.0.2 on Debian testing (32 bit). No problems at all, at all. I have the flash plugin. Cheers, Alan Kr. Luke. Heracles -- Luke Vanderfluit Analyst / Web Programmer e3Learning.com.au 08 8221 6422 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
