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FW: the fix is in....
by Keller, Tim Oct. 26, 2005

Oct. 26, 2005

I don't generally forward stuff to the list, but I thought that this is something that is of importance to those of use who live in the Commonwealth... Tim. -----Original Message----- From: discuss-bounces(a)blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces@blu.org] On Behalf Of Bill Bogstad Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:12 AM To: discuss(a)blu.org Subject: the fix is in.... A Boston Globe article http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/10/25/galvin_att acks_software_proposal/ says that the Massachussetts Secretary of State William Galvin and a number of state senators are opposed to the idea of going to OpenDocument formats. You can contact Secreatary Galvin's office at cis(a)sec.state.ma.us if you have any thoughts on this matter. Check the article for other politicians you might want to contact as well. Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss(a)blu.org http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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Re: Attach File(s) problem
by Ken Jones Oct. 25, 2005

Oct. 25, 2005

Thank you all!! re: mozilla-mail Attach File(s) hung up my Fedora 3 machine. The culprit was gamin as Chuck Anderson had suggested. 'yum info' told me that there is a more recent version for Fedora 3. 'yum upgrade' installed that more recent version. The problem seems to have disappeared. Ain't open source grande! Chuck, how did you know about gam_server? Ken Jones

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Andy I have a question...
by Ken Jones Oct. 24, 2005

Oct. 24, 2005

I am embarrassed to admit that I do not know how to figure this out. I am having a problem with both mozilla-mail and evolution-mail mozilla-mail and evolution-mail both use the same process to "Attach file(s)". When I try to attach a file my Fedora Core 3 machine is toooo slow. It ties up the machine for minutes at a time. If I try to move the GUI is smears. "top" does not indicate lack of memory or lack of cpu cycles. I have not had any luck googling for others who have seen this before me. Do any of you WLUGers have a suggestion. My Fedora Core 4 works very quickly. Ken Jones

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Re: automounting
by Carlton C. Stedman II Oct. 21, 2005

Oct. 21, 2005

> I'm interested in the automounter. I would be very nice to have my jumpdrive mount when I plug it in. Also, if anybody knows udev... I managed to just set up automounting on my gentoo box, via some udev rules, HAL, D-BUS and a neat little app called ivman. Ivman will detect when new devices are plugged in and create a new entry in fstab if there isn't already an acceptable one (it'll remove the entry when the device is not connected); it can also be set up to do some more interesting things, such as integration to say start up your burning program when a blank CD-R is put in, etc. Using some udev rules (this is a great reference http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html) isn't *that* hard. You can use the program udevinfo to find out information about your plugged in devices to write appropriate rules. For example, I have a rule to link the device to a node /dev/nikon for my nikon camera, whenever it is plugged in. Then, I have an entry in /etc/fstab to mount /dev/nikon at /media/nikon, and lvman takes care of that (detects when that node is linked, reads fstab and mounts appropriately - if I didn't have that entry in fstab it would create one to mount at like /media/usbdevice01 or something). It even (usually) unmounts the device without issue (figuring out why it doesn't always). Since the serial number for each device is specific, my rule just uses that, so it looks like: SYSFS{serial}="SERIAL OF MY NIKON", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="nikon" to link node /dev/nikon to my camera. I had to use mknod to create that node initially (just a simply character device, I believe, can't remember the major/minor numbers off the top of my head). Of course you need to make sure you have hotplug installed and enabled in your kernel, as well as usb_storage and the SCSI modules (needed for the usb-storage module to work, according to kernel documentation). -- Carlton C. Stedman II, sageman(a)wpi.edu "To iterate is human, to recurse, divine." -- L. Peter Deutch

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November talk topics
by Jeff Moyer Oct. 21, 2005

Oct. 21, 2005

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I just recently got back from Germany, where I gave two talks at this year's Linux Kongress. One talk focuses on the state of the automounter, and the other discusses the netpoll API. You can find abstracts at the Linux Kongress website: http://www.linux-kongress.org/2005/abstracts.html If the group is interested in either of these, I'd be more than happy to present. I could also give a quick run-down of what the conference was like, who to go out drinking with, etc. Slides for these talks are available on my people page: http://people.redhat.com/jmoyer/index.html#presentations If there's no interest in these topics, it won't hurt my feelings. Honest. ;) - -Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFDWQN3H/inyh944bQRAvDWAKCjgzHar2HHSf2/hwlRcWMLp4rKmACfWpoR X0VUV6CwwRi6Hnd+L6jVMio= =D3Z8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Disabling eth0 upon bootup
by Cretella, Michael A Oct. 21, 2005

Oct. 21, 2005

Hey all- I'm running ubuntu 5.10, and trying to understand how the linux bootup process works.. Right now upon bootup I'd like to change two things: Not ifup eth0 Configure wpa_supplicant to boot up with the right parameters in order to configure itself to the wireless network here. I think I figured out how to get the wpa_supplicant to work-- I just edited /etc/init.d/wpasupplicant and changed $OPTIONS to the arguments I need in order for it to work. For disabling eth0 on bootup, I could modify /etc/init.d/networking and change the command "ifup -a" to "ifup wlan0" to just boot up my wlan0 on bootup, but I feel there might be an easier way to do this... Hope you can help! -Mike --------------------------- Michael A Cretella Worcester Polytechnic Institute Electrical Computer Engineering '07 cretella(a)wpi.edu (203)610-3618

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DELL 720 printer shared on SAMBA??
by Ken Jones Oct. 15, 2005

Oct. 15, 2005

I've unsuccessfully googled this problem. Maybe you folks know a solution. My wife received a freebie DEL 720 printer. It is really a relabeled Lexmark z600 type. By downloading a driver from Lexmark, I got the printer running on my FEDORA 4 machine. I want to share this printer using SAMBA. After installing the same driver on my FEDORA 3 machine its CUPS sees the remote printer and "installs" it. When I ask to print a test page it announces that it had sent the page. Nothing happens on the FEDORA 3 machine to which the printer is attached. It's CUPS says that nothing is in the printer's queue. Any ideas? Ken Jones

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RE: [Wlug] deleting a file named "--exclude"
by James Gray Oct. 14, 2005

Oct. 14, 2005

If the Unix shell doesn't like it then try something else... You could try something like: bash-2.05b$ python >>>import os >>>os.unlink('--exclude') >>><Control-Z (just to exit python)> Assuming you have python installed. I think this should be installed by default on most Linux systems. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org on behalf of dulsi(a)identicalsoftware.com Sent: Fri 10/14/2005 11:51 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] deleting a file named "--exclude" No. Unix shells expands everything on the command line before running the program. So "rm *exclude" and "rm ??exclude" expand to "rm --exclude". The program cannot tell that the "--exclude" was expanded from wildcard values. Quoting Jim Dibb <jimdibb(a)gmail.com>: > Doesn't rm ??exclude, or rm *exclude work, if you only have the one file > with exclude in it? _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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deleting a file named "--exclude"
by Karl Hiramoto Oct. 14, 2005

Oct. 14, 2005

hey guys, this would seem rather basic. How to delete a file, but i have a problem. I want to delete a file called "--exclude". Any ideas? # ls -la total 1648 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 642617 Sep 27 13:54 --exclude drwxr-xr-x 15 karl users 4096 Oct 13 20:16 . drwxr-xr-x 4 karl users 4096 Oct 11 18:17 .. drwxr-xr-x 7 karl users 4096 Sep 27 13:59 .svn # rm -i * rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for more information. # rm -f "--exclude" rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for more information. # rm -f \-\-exclude rm: unrecognized option `--exclude' Try `rm --help' for more information. -- -- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org>

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RE: [Wlug] Finding more detail defined settings.
by Keller, Tim Oct. 13, 2005

Oct. 13, 2005

I went to Google and entered in "Explanation of tcpip settings in /proc" and this was the first hit I got back, which has what I think you are looking for... http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.kernel.obscure.html Tim. -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Aramico Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:38 PM To: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: [Wlug] Finding more detail defined settings. All, can u please help me here..... Where can I get more detail about the description and function for configuration files placed at /proc/sys/net/ipv4 the directory contents of these bellow listed files dr-xr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_echo_ignore_all -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_ratelimit -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 icmp_ratemask -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 igmp_max_memberships -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_gc_maxtime -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_gc_mintime -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_maxttl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_minttl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 inet_peer_threshold -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_autoconfig -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_conntrack_max -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_default_ttl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_dynaddr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_forward -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ipfrag_high_thresh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ipfrag_low_thresh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ipfrag_time -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_local_port_range -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_nonlocal_bind -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 ip_no_pmtu_disc dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 neigh dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 route -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_abort_on_overflow -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_adv_win_scale -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_app_win -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_dsack -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_ecn -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_fack -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_fin_timeout -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_keepalive_intvl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_keepalive_probes -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_keepalive_time -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_max_orphans -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_max_syn_backlog -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_max_tw_buckets -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_mem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_orphan_retries -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_reordering -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_retrans_collapse -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_retries1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_retries2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_rfc1337 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_rmem -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_sack -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_stdurg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_synack_retries -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_syncookies -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_syn_retries -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_timestamps -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_tw_recycle -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_window_scaling -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 13 21:06 tcp_wmem thanks :) _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

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