November 2005 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Allowing users to start or stop a service

by Andrew Mellors

Yeah you can limit a sudoer execution to one script or program. This has the added benefit of being rather extensible, just by modifiying the sudoers file Happy T-day -Andy On 11/24/05, Mike Leo <mleo963(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > Greetings and happy thanksgiving to all! > > Now, down to business... > > We have a set of users who need the power to > stop/start their own particular service/daemon. > > I've tried granting user rights directly to the init > script, but that doesn't work. > > I am looking into sudo, but am not sure it can be > specific to only 1 service, and not all of them? > > let me know what ya'll think and THANKS! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- -Andy

Nov. 25, 2005

Allowing users to start or stop a service

by Mike Leo

Greetings and happy thanksgiving to all! Now, down to business... We have a set of users who need the power to stop/start their own particular service/daemon. I've tried granting user rights directly to the init script, but that doesn't work. I am looking into sudo, but am not sure it can be specific to only 1 service, and not all of them? let me know what ya'll think and THANKS!

Nov. 25, 2005

OPENING - Sr/Prin Linux Drivers Eng

by John Spencer

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Nov. 21, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Is the list down?

by Jared Greenwald

nope On 11/17/05, John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: > > Test of the list, is it down for good? > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Nov. 18, 2005

Is the list down?

by John Stoffel

Test of the list, is it down for good?

Nov. 17, 2005

Job opportunity at Red Hat in Westford, MA

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I was asked to forward this to the group by a representative from Red Hat. Please consult this URL if you have any interest in this position. Interested candidates can apply directly online. http://redhat.hrdpt.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=665 === Brief Description: Quality Assurance Engineer Test a variety of software packages in our Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution before they are distributed to customers. Responsibilities: * Test individual bug fixes and security updates to a wide variety of RHEL software packages in a fast paced environment. * Develop test cases and test plans for areas of ownership. * Write automated test cases. * Debug software problems and unresolved bugs. * Configure and install Red Hat Enterprise Linux. ...see the website for more info! === - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDe97vHl0iXDssISsRAmR5AJ9WF9hxeAVNxLdXFDBJRfXlkb/x6gCcDojV 2kYh2IO0aUUNlF4Y1JdNLQc= =I6Dr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Nov. 17, 2005

[Fwd: NOV 2005 User Group update from Publisher Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall--- BOOKS UPDATE]

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, This is the organization that donates books for us to review, and that you have been receiving during the raffles at the group meetings. Please note the 35% off offer if you order on one of their websites. Also, please note the URL for posting your book reviews. Later, Andy - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NOV 2005 User Group update from Publisher Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall--- BOOKS UPDATE Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:34:26 -0500 From: Fox, Heather <Heather_Fox(a)prenhall.com> To: Fox, Heather <Heather_Fox(a)prenhall.com> Hello Esteemed LUG Leaders! *_NEWSFLASH!_**_ _* *_2005 _**_YEAR-END COUPON DISCOUNT Offer for Your Members!_* *__* Be sure your members are receiving 35% off list price when they purchase books directly from the Addison-Wesley/ Prentice Hall/IBM Press websites! Visit: *_www.awprofessional.com_ *or *_www.phptr.com_* * or www.ibmpressbooks.com <http://www.ibmpressbooks.com> * Select the book(s) of your choice and enter COUPON CODE "*usergroup*" at Checkout Step #3 (Payment Method) -- OFFER EXPIRES 12/31/05 - -- PLEASE NOTE--- If you'd like to receive a PDF version of this coupon flyer, to distribute to your members and/or if you'd like the Publisher to ship you flyer copies for distribution at your YEAR-END meetings, please let me know! *_LATEST BOOK SHIPMENT FOR YOUR LUG!_**_ --- NOVEMBER, 2005_* Your November, 2005 books shipment from Publisher Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall/IBM PRESS include these titles: 1) */"/**/Apache Derby -- Off to the Races: Includes Details of IBM Cloudscape", /*authored by Paul Zikopoulos, Dan Scott, and George Baklarz; www.ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131855255 <http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131855255> *Book Summary: Master Apache Derby: the only open source, pure Java(tm), fully transactional, small-footprint RDBMS* 2) */Linux® Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques/*, authored by Steve Best; www.phptr.com/title/0131492470 <http://www.phptr.com/title/0131492470> ((part of the new Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series, including the new book, "The Linux Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC Architectures", authored by Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez, Gordon Fischer, and Steven Smolski)) *Book Summary: Learn Linux debugging and optimization-at kernel and application levels-hands-on!* To read the full version of the press release announcing the new Prentice Hall OSS Development Series, read the press release here at Linux Weekly Net: http://lwn.net/Articles/156911/ BONUS BOOK--- YOU NEED TO TELL ME IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE A REVIEW COPY OF THIS BOOK: *** November Bonus Book: */Service-Oriented Architecture Compass: Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap/*, authored by Norbert Bieberstein, Sanjay Bose, Marc Fiammante, Keith Jones, and Rawn Shah www.ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131870025 <http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131870025> *Book Summary: Maximize the business value and flexibility of your SOA deployment* _COMING DOWN THE PIKE......_ NEXT UP! IN DECEMBER, 2005---- Your group will receive a review copy of */Point & Click OpenOffice.org, /*authored by Robin "Roblimo" Miller *Book Summary:* *OpenOffice.org 2.0 made easy... /incredibly easy!/* http://www.phptr.com/title/0131879928 REVIEWS, REVIEWS Please encourage your LUG members to support their favorite books by submitting reviews of these November books-- or for any other books from previous mailings ((it's never too late!!))-- directly online at: www.awprofessional.com/review <http://www.awprofessional.com/review> OR www.phptr.com/review <http://www.phptr.com/review> OR www.ibmpressbooks.com/review <http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/review> <http://www.phptr.com/title/0131492470> _And/or, if your group hosts reviews on its own site or includes in your own listserv/newsletter, please send me the links! :}_ Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall/IBM Press is glad to be working with your User Group! Heather Fox ************************* Heather L. Fox,* *Senior Publicist & User Group Liaison * Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall PTR & IBM Press* (phone) 201.236.7139; (FAX); 201.236.7123 heather.fox(a)pearsoned.com www.awprofessional.com; www.phptr.com *Street Address: ** *c/o Pearson Education, 1 Lake St., #3K17, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 07458 USA ****************************************************************************** *This email may contain confidential material.* *If you were not an intended recipient, * *please notify the sender and delete all copies.* *We may monitor email to and from our network.* ****************************************************************************** - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDa+h1Hl0iXDssISsRAoYxAJ48UFuT3WoZhbBekKDbT7AX52poTQCeMgnV Sc38aqQMaE1VEkolCquIaQI= =uORW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Nov. 4, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Printing Photos - cropping in gimp 2.0

by John Stoffel

Hi All, this is followup to my original question posted way back in late September of 2004 about printing photos from Linux and finding a good tool crop photos. Gimp is good, gimp is great. It (version 2.2 lately) still sucks for locking down the aspect ratio and scaling the picture up/down to fit on the paper the way you like. But I did find a neat new piece of software, which isn't perfect, but does a pretty good job: photoprint-0.3.0 http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/PhotoPrint/About.shtml The other trick was that I went back to using 4x6 as my paper choice, not "Epson 4x6 Photo Paper", since I could *never* get gimp-print to work properly with it. All in all, it's been a bit frustrating trying to find a tool to allow me to crop photos and print them easily to the printer. John >>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)comcast.net> writes: Andy> I believe that the gimp-print plugin will do what you want. It Andy> should be accessible via the File...Print menu from Gimp. It Andy> shows a rather rough thumbnail image within boarders to give you Andy> a feel for where the image will be printed. Robert> I've been using this and I think it sucks. Mostly because the Robert> images are considered to be at a maximum scale when you goto the Robert> plugin, which makes it hard to scale up or down to crop it nicely. Robert> But I have to say, I'm still very happy it is there, since it's let Robert> me print some nice pictures on my Epson printer. Robert> The basic problem here is that the Print plugin isn't designed to crop Robert> at all. That's what we need to do with it. Robert> -- Robert> Robert Krawitz <rlk(a)alum.mit.edu> Robert> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Robert> Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf(a)uunet.uu.net Robert> Project lead for Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net Robert> "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." Robert> --Eric Crampton Robert> _______________________________________________ Robert> Wlug mailing list Robert> Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Robert> http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Nov. 4, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Heavy load app for linux

by John Stoffel

For a heavy load, I always like building a kernel with 'make -j bzImage modules' and watching it thrash like crazy. Make sure you have a big swap file as well. You'll really work the system.

Nov. 4, 2005

Re: [Wlug] code review / process flow tool?

by Karl Hiramoto

I recently started using Trac http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ with a subversion code repository. Not sure if it meets your needs, or if you can adapt to work with it. Bill Mills-Curran wrote: >My org at work would like to adopt some software tools to manage the >code review/approval work cycle. A web-based interface is our first >choice. We have both linux and windows web servers available. > >Any recommendations for existing tools? (We could write our own, but >that seems like a waste of time.) > >Thanks, >Bill >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > -- -- Karl Hiramoto karl(a)accusense.com Design Engineer www.accusense.com 978-425-2090

Nov. 4, 2005