Hi,
Thanks for all the responses.
I'll try and get to one of the pub meetings in May or June (work/travel
permitting) and will be intermittently lurking on IRC, with the imaginative
handle of ewan_s
Cheers,
Ewan
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> From: mick <mbm(a)rlogin.net>
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> On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:58:09 +0100
> Brett Parker <iDunno(a)sommitrealweird.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
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> > On 19 Apr 15:43, Ewan Slater wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just joined the list and I was wondering if and when there are
> > > any face - to - face meetings of the group, and/or key - signing
> > > sessions?
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> > The usual monthly meetings are as per the website:
> > http://www.alug.org.uk/
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> > Basically, 2nd Thursday in Norwich and 3rd Monday in Ipswich.
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> Hi Ewan and welcome.
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> As far as key signing goes, you can probably do that at a pub meeting.
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> Mick
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The binary that works is in the home directory.
The one that does not is in usr/local/bin.
The Qt5 libs are in /opt.
The error message from running sigil is this:
error while loading shared libraries: libQt5Widgets.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I am guessing that somehow the path of the sigil command is wrongly set and so it cannot see the file, which is really there?
But the other thing I can't understand is why the compile and installer should have …
[View More]apparently installed binaries in /home? Or is the installation process first to compile, and then to move the bits into the right places, and this has not happened?
On the other hand, the sigil binaries are where they should be, so the qt5 libs should be also.
What the world needs is a Debian maintainer for sigil! Any volunteers?
Al
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----- Forwarded message from mick <mbm(a)rlogin.net> -----
Hi Ewan and welcome.
As far as key signing goes, you can probably do that at a pub meeting.
Mick
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Welcome to ALUG, Ewan.
As Mick said, key signing does indeed happen occasionally at pubmeets so come down to one some time. We're generally very unorganised though and have to go look up how to do key signing every time :)
We're all experts, honest.
It's also worth getting onto IRC at some …
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Steve
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Hi,
I've just joined the list and I was wondering if and when there are any
face - to - face meetings of the group, and/or key - signing sessions?
Also, is anyone based in the Halesworth area?
Cheers,
Ewan
OK, finally solved the problem with QT5, though without being really clear what worked or why. It did finally compile and installed itself politely in /opt.
Now there is another puzzle. The problem was to install and run sigil. Which is a very nice package indeed if you want to edit epub books.Very nice. Unfortunately you have to compile it from source. They do not do binaries, and if they have as hard a time as me with it, I can understand why.
The problem is that entering the command …
[View More]sigil in a terminal produces an error to the effect that libQt5 widgets is not found.
However, the binary is installed in my home directory in a sigil folder, and if I execute this binary it works just fine.
If I look in the /opt sigil directory, qt5widgets is indeed there.
So how do I change the command so that it calls the binary that works? There must be a file someplace that has all these commands in it, but where?
Al
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On 18 April 2013 10:16, Mark Rogers <mark(a)more-solutions.co.uk> wrote:
> I need a way to do a DNS lookup of an IP address that returns the IP
> address.
I have managed to solve this in two ways, in case anyone is interested.
First:
$ dig @8.8.8.8 192.168.1.1 +short
$ dig @192.168.100.5 192.168.1.1 +short
192.168.1.1
It turns out that Google's DNS doesn't give an answer when queried for
an IP address, but my own office DNS (dnsmasq) does. So controlling
the DNS server gives me a …
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Secondly though: I found a way to bypass the braindead behaviour in
the unit, and although it's messy it works, so none of the rest of
this matters any more!
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Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450
Registered in England (0456 0902) @ 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG
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I'm working with a brain dead system, so bear with me...
I need a way to do a DNS lookup of an IP address that returns the IP
address. I can control the DNS server, and/or possibly apply a suffix
to the IP address.
The reason is that I have an industrial unit that will accept a
hostname (for FTP purposes) but if I enter an IP address it fails, and
this appears to be because its DNS lookup of that address is failing.
The unit should have Internet access and I can set the DNS server to
whatever …
[View More]I like, so one option would may to run my own DNS server that
when queried for "192.168.1.1" returns the IP address "192.168.1.1".
That pre-supposes that the unit isn't already detecting that
"192.168.1.1" is an IP address, not doing a DNS lookup, but then
failing for some other reason (where it does not fail if I use a name
which looks up to that IP).
A "better" solution is probably to apply a suffix, so instead of
entering "192.168.1.1" I enter "192.168.1.1.example.com" [1] where the
DNS for "example.com" will return the IP address. That way I know that
the unit will be forced to go through a DNS lookup and is more likely
to just work. I'd just need some guidance on setting up BIND or some
other DNS to achieve this.
Any ideas?
The "best" option would be to get the manufacturer to fix their
product but it turns out that the best options aren't always available
:-(
[1] Just for clarity: the user enters the IP address and I have no
control over what address they'll enter. In my code I then detect that
it's an IP address rather than a hostname (probably just checking
whether the last character is numeric would suffice), and appending
".example.com" before passing to the FTP handling code.
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Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0844 251 1450
Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER
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