- WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] invincible processes

by Bill Mills-Curran

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:56:34AM -0400, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > I just had some strange stuff happen to my SuSE 8.2 installation - it's > stalling when I try to copy files and run some programs. If I try to kill > the process, it doesn't go away (kill -9 pid, as root), and the machine > won't shut down because stuff is still running. > > This coincidentally happened the same day that I started to prepare a > replacement hard drive, so it's not on a critical installation (in fact, > it's going to be wiped), but I'd still like to know what's going on. Note > that I totally disconnected this drive when I was installing on the new > one, just to make sure I didn't do anything to hurt it. > > Any ideas on what this could be or where to look would be appreciated. > > Greg Greg, Could you have disk space issues? I know when /tmp is full, strange things happen. Bill

July 18, 2004

invincible processes

by Gregory Avedissian

I just had some strange stuff happen to my SuSE 8.2 installation - it's stalling when I try to copy files and run some programs. If I try to kill the process, it doesn't go away (kill -9 pid, as root), and the machine won't shut down because stuff is still running. This coincidentally happened the same day that I started to prepare a replacement hard drive, so it's not on a critical installation (in fact, it's going to be wiped), but I'd still like to know what's going on. Note that I totally disconnected this drive when I was installing on the new one, just to make sure I didn't do anything to hurt it. Any ideas on what this could be or where to look would be appreciated. Greg

July 18, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Flowchart software

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 July 2004 10:28 am, Chuck Haines wrote: > Yea but open office draw doesn't have the flowchart "stencils," which > means I'd have to create all the basic flowchart types myself. Xfig > kinda falls under the same category. I'm really looking for something > that does flowcharting out of the box and I've yet to find it. This > is one of the few things that keeps me rebooting into my windows > partition. > > Chuck xfig can handle symbol libraries. There is a library for flowcharting symbols. Check it out, it might suit your needs. Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA+UxCHl0iXDssISsRAuKHAJ4jGxUePdDDLjw9PkgtmRa8yIUaYQCbBbmZ PxsFEYFTtrpmcPL4aAVk/RM= =25Xs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

July 17, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Flowchart software

by Chuck Haines

Yea but open office draw doesn't have the flowchart "stencils," which means I'd have to create all the basic flowchart types myself. Xfig kinda falls under the same category. I'm really looking for something that does flowcharting out of the box and I've yet to find it. This is one of the few things that keeps me rebooting into my windows partition. Chuck On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:58:32 -0400, Brett Russ <icycle(a)charter.net> wrote: > Chuck Haines wrote: > > >Does anyone know of any decent flow chart software for linux besides > >Dia or Kivio. Kivio is nice, however it's inability to export to a > >png or to be copy and pasted into star office makes it useless for me. > > Dia just doesn't cut it. Anyone know of anything? > > > > > > xfig ;-) > OpenOffice Draw > > HTH, > BR > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- Chuck Haines chaines(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------- Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity WPI Class of 2005 ------------------------------------------- AIM: CyberGrex YIM: CyberGrex_27 ICQ: 3707881 -------------------------------------------

July 17, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Encrypted USB pen drive

by Chuck Haines

Yea, I ended up following the loop-aes and it work beautifully. The only problem is that the mount it root:root and can't be changed. However I was able to create a directory that is owned by my user and use that directory underneath just fine. It's actually really neat to have and was easier than I thought with Fedora Core 2. Chuck On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:43:28 -0400, Chuck Homic <chuck(a)vvisions.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:08:09AM -0400, Chuck Haines wrote: > > Has anyone configured an encrypted usb pen drive under linux? I'm not > > talking about encrypting single files, but being able to mount the pen > > drive as an encrypted device? I've look at loop-aes, but I'm curious > > is anyone has done this before and might give some pointers. > > loop-aes is way easy if you follow the instructions EXACTLY. > > As for tips, here you go: > > If you want to be able to use the device on Windows, you have to leave the > FAT filesystem on there. Your encrypted filesystem will just be a large > file on that filesystem that you'll mount loopback-style. You won't be > able to read the encrypted stuff in Windows, but you can use the free > space to do things, which is handy sometimes. > > Umm... that's it for tips. > > Now I have a question for someone. When I plug in my USB thingy, I get > some pseudo-random SCSI ID for the device (depending upon whether I was cd > burning, or I installed a different USB media). Is there any easy way to > figure out the mapping between the USB device and the SCSI ID? (So I can > improve my magic scripts...) > > Thanks. > > -Chuck (Homic) > > Confidentiality Notice: > > This message, including any attachments, may contain confidential > information. If you have received this message by mistake, please notify > the sender immediately, delete all copies, and do not distribute or use > this information. Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- Chuck Haines chaines(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------- Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity WPI Class of 2005 ------------------------------------------- AIM: CyberGrex YIM: CyberGrex_27 ICQ: 3707881 -------------------------------------------

July 15, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Encrypted USB pen drive

by Brian Waite

What about looking at /proc/scsi/scsi? You can probably parse out the Vendor/Model to decide what ID you are. That is just off the top of my head tho. Thanks Brian > Now I have a question for someone. When I plug in my USB thingy, I get > some pseudo-random SCSI ID for the device (depending upon whether I was cd > burning, or I installed a different USB media). Is there any easy way to > figure out the mapping between the USB device and the SCSI ID? (So I can > improve my magic scripts...) > > Thanks. > > -Chuck (Homic) > > Confidentiality Notice: > > This message, including any attachments, may contain confidential > information. If you have received this message by mistake, please notify > the sender immediately, delete all copies, and do not distribute or use > this information. Thanks! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

July 15, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Encrypted USB pen drive

by Chuck Homic

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:08:09AM -0400, Chuck Haines wrote: > Has anyone configured an encrypted usb pen drive under linux? I'm not > talking about encrypting single files, but being able to mount the pen > drive as an encrypted device? I've look at loop-aes, but I'm curious > is anyone has done this before and might give some pointers. loop-aes is way easy if you follow the instructions EXACTLY. As for tips, here you go: If you want to be able to use the device on Windows, you have to leave the FAT filesystem on there. Your encrypted filesystem will just be a large file on that filesystem that you'll mount loopback-style. You won't be able to read the encrypted stuff in Windows, but you can use the free space to do things, which is handy sometimes. Umm... that's it for tips. Now I have a question for someone. When I plug in my USB thingy, I get some pseudo-random SCSI ID for the device (depending upon whether I was cd burning, or I installed a different USB media). Is there any easy way to figure out the mapping between the USB device and the SCSI ID? (So I can improve my magic scripts...) Thanks. -Chuck (Homic) Confidentiality Notice: This message, including any attachments, may contain confidential information. If you have received this message by mistake, please notify the sender immediately, delete all copies, and do not distribute or use this information. Thanks!

July 15, 2004

[OT] Introduction

by Brian Waite

Hi all. I wanted to quickly introduce myself. I just recently subscribed to the list and wanted to do a bit more than lurk. I hope to make a LUG meeting in the near future also. I don't want to waste too much bandwidth so I'll keep this short. If anyone is going up to the Ottawa Linux Symposium this month, maybe we can catch up and make some introductions, for everyone else, I look forward to meeting you all the LUG meeting. As I side note, I read the archives and wanted to second the idea for a "distro debate" LUG meeting. I think that would be really interesting to see what everyone runs and why. Thanks for the time Brian Waite

July 15, 2004

Encrypted USB pen drive

by Chuck Haines

Has anyone configured an encrypted usb pen drive under linux? I'm not talking about encrypting single files, but being able to mount the pen drive as an encrypted device? I've look at loop-aes, but I'm curious is anyone has done this before and might give some pointers. Chuck -- Chuck Haines chaines(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------- Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity WPI Class of 2005 ------------------------------------------- AIM: CyberGrex YIM: CyberGrex_27 ICQ: 3707881 -------------------------------------------

July 15, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Linux Technical Resource Kit from Novell

by doug waud

Hi Greg I tend to use old hardware and I have the same impression; SuSE 9/XFree 4.x is less forgiving.than SuSE 8/Xfree 3.x was. I also found the 9/4 did not like my new video board (forget the model; it was a problem with the card maker not letting vendors include their driver as open source although you can freely download it. SuSE still did not seem to want to deal with it; will have to go back to XFree 3.x when I get return to it.). doug Gregory Avedissian wrote: > Update: > > Micro Center had a deal I couldn't refuse on a dvd drive, so I took a > spare hard drive and installed SuSE 9.1 yesterday. The first install had > a bunch of errors and wouldn't boot. I saw a list of programs that > reported errors, and it was too large to even bother with. I got > prompted to start the installation process and went through it a second > time. > > I guess it didn't like my vid card. Unlike 8.2, this one doesn't come > with the xfree 3.x environment that lets me run the 3.x server for my > card with xfree 4.3. The entire installation process was done in console > version of yast, rather than yast2. This surprised me, since earlier > versions of SuSE gave me yast2 during installation, even with my funky > vid card. By the end of the installation, I couldn't see words on the > screen (choices) untill they got highlighted by tabbing. > > Second install turned out ok, except for being stuck with 640x480 > display. I wiped it out, and I'll try it on another machine when I get > a chance. > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

July 15, 2004