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Allowing users to start or stop a service
by Mike Leo 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

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!

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Unknown binary file
by Michael Long 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hi all, As I was looking through my /usr/bin directory I came across a binary file "[". What is this? I am running Suse 9.3. Thanks, Mike

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OPENING - Sr/Prin Linux Drivers Eng
by John Spencer 21 Nov '05

21 Nov '05

Our client in MA (Please no recent college graduates) has a long-term contract opening (6+ months) for a Sr/Prin Linux Drivers engineer as follows: Responsibilities: As a senior/prin. member of the core routing platform group you will be responsible for developing forwarding engine device drivers for next generation enterprise products. Drivers will be developed in C on a Linux platform running on MAC and Layer 1 & 2 chipsets. Required Skills & Experiences: * Strong device driver development experience in C/Linux environments * Solid Ethernet and Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocol experience * Experience with either MAC or other Layer 1 & 2 chipsets highly desired Please send your confidential resume to jspencer(a)optimaleng.com Regards, John John Spencer (978) 256-1113 ext 108 jspencer(a)optimaleng.com OPTIMAL ENGINEERING PARTNERS "Your Optimal partner for real-time, embedded and systems development expertise" www.optimalengineering.com <http://www.optimalengineering.com/>

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Is the list down?
by John Stoffel 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Test of the list, is it down for good?

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Job opportunity at Red Hat in Westford, MA
by Andy Stewart 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

-----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-----

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[Fwd: NOV 2005 User Group update from Publisher Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall--- BOOKS UPDATE]
by Andy Stewart 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

-----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-----

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Printing Photos - cropping in gimp 2.0
by John Stoffel 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hi All, Thanks for the input I recieved here, I've bought an Epson R300 color printer for making photos. Once I figured out that the debian package for libcupsys has the permissions borked for the files in /usr/lib/cups/backend so that they aren't executable, all is well. I've been happily browsing images in 'gqview', then loading them into gimp 2.0, then printing them. But I'm having issues with scaling images. I have to guess how/where to crop the images so that I can get the maximum amount of the picture onto the paper. It's a real pain, with lots of back and forth. Is there a tool out there, or a gimp plugin, which allows me to take a picture, select a paper size and gives me a template to crop/scale the image to fit that paper size nicely? Any hints on what tools/packages I should be looking at for this type of work? For example, I've got a picture of my nephew and son which I wanted to print out. I also wanted to zoom in a bit (or crop the image down to get closer to them) so that when it printed, I maximized the use of the 4x6 stock. A real pain in gimp 2.0, but since I'm just using the standard Debian install, maybe there is a plugin to help with this? Thanks, John

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Heavy load app for linux
by Mike Leo 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Anyone have a app that would put a heavy load on cpu and memory for burn in/testing for linux? I have one called "heavy load" for windows that pushes cpu/memory/disk drives as hard as they will go. We just had an odd server issue and HP replaced random parts till it went away. Before using it, i would like to run it through some tests. thanks mike

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code review / process flow tool?
by Bill Mills-Curran 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

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

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System hang woes continue
by Andy Stewart 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, I think I somehow built the computer from Hell. Recall my dual Opteron box with SuSE 9.2 and 1 GB of memory. I removed every SATA device from my system, and now it doesn't hang as often, but it still hangs periodically. This time I got 10 days of uptime before it hung - a new world's record on this particular box. Strangely enough, I could demonstrate more uptime with the "old" SATA code than with libata - go figure. I am suspicious of the 2.6 kernel. We run dual Opteron servers at work with the 2.4 kernel series with no problems at all (on RedHat 7.3). I am wondering what would happen if I took SuSE 9.2 and replaced the 2.6 kernel with a 2.4 kernel. Am I asking for a heap of trouble? What specific issues would I encounter? I'm guessing that the kernel modules would be all fubar since I thought taht 2.4 and 2.6 did that quite differently. Perhaps I could bypass that with a monolithic kernel. I'm not sure what other problems I'd make for myself if I did this. Another thought - does somebody have a .config file for a Linux 2.6 kernel on an Opteron system that works really well? Thanks, Andy - -- 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 iD8DBQFDYCguHl0iXDssISsRAuxmAJ9we3ey7BSPStkpVxgCyskVTThBvQCfYFjQ MD3q5MG1aecc81+ZY6KiZW4= =eBAh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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