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Gnome context menu integration
by Mark Rogers 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

I'm sure a suitable Google would help me here but I'm not sure what to search for; a few random attempts got me close but not close enough. I have to work a lot with XLS files which need converting to CSV files (using a tab separator). At the moment I do this using OOo which is overkill. I could do this from the commandline using htmldoc/xls2csv but that's not all that convenient in the GUI environment either. So what I would like to do is right-click the file in Nautilus and click a "convert to TSV" menu option that I set up to use xls2csv, taking blah.xls to create blah.csv. Where do I start? There's lots of similar stuff I'm used to from Windows (eg using the context menu to create/extract zip/etc files) although I wouldn't know how to do it on Windows either - I'd rely on the relevant apps setting that up for me. -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

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Jaw-dropper ...
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi Folks, The following received this morning from the Seattle Linux List. (Still trying to recover from temporomadibular dislocation ... ). Ted. -----FW: <e35fe88f0812102328tbb31ac9m521c25f92fee2b10(a)mail.gmail.com>----- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:28:34 -0800 Sender: linux-list-bounces(a)lists2.linuxjournal.com From: Jerry Horvath <jerroldhorvath(a)gmail.com> To: Seattle Linux Users Group <linux-list(a)ssc.com> Subject: [SLL] What is taught to some Austin, Texas students "In an age where Windows and OS X reign supreme, it's no wonder that a local AISD middle school teacher became enraged after discovering one of her students distributing what she believed to be bootlegged copies of an operating system in class <http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/ignorant-teacher-linux-in-education.html>." *No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful.* <http://austinist.com/2008/12/10/aisd_teacher_throws_fit_over_studen.php> Regards, Jerry Horvath --------------End of forwarded message------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Dec-08 Time: 12:01:37 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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sshd configuration problem
by Chris G 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

By default I have sshd set up to disallow root logins, if I want to get to root from a remote login I login as myself (one password) and then su to root (another password). However I want to allow root login from one other system on the local LAN. To this end I added the following to the end of sshd_config:- PasswordAuthentication no AllowUsers root(a)192.168.1.7 However this, of course, prevents anyone logging in from anywhere except for root(a)192.168.1.7. How can I allow any non-root user from anywhere but root only from 192.168.1.7? -- Chris Green

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LAN addresses in /etc/hosts
by Chris G 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Having got dnsmasq working somewhate better (thank you Brett!) I now need some advice on what to put in /etc/hosts on the machine that is running dnsmasq. The machine's name on the local LAN is "isbd", to the outside world it is known as "home.isbd.net". It has a static IP address on the local LAN of 192.168.1.4. "As built" ubuntu puts "isbd" in the /etc/hosts file as follows:- 127.0.1.1 isbd However I need dnsmasq to tell other machines on the LAN that "isbd" is 192.168.1.4. Do I just remove the above line and add:- 192.168.1.4 isbd Is the "127.0.1.1 isbd" only necessary when isbd's address is obtained using DHCP and thus not fixed so it needs to point at localhost? -- Chris Green

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[ALUG Announce] 3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : McGintys, Northgate Street
by samwise 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting is back next week (Monday 15th December) at 20:00: P J McGinty & Sons 15 Northgate Street Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3BY Tel: 01473 251 515 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP1+3BY WWW: http://pjmcginty.moonfruit.com/ McGintys pub is in the centre of Ipswich, not far from our old haunt - The Milestone. It's directly opposite the town's central library and has a reputation for good Irish beer. All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to find the pack, look for those huddled around a laptop! Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. Hope to see you there, Peter. ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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I can't get dnsmasq to work at all, ideas please
by Chris G 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

I have installed dnsmasq on my xubuntu 8.10 system using the standard ubuntu apt-get which gives me version 2.45 of dnsmasq. It seems to have installed a reasonable default configuration and dnsmasq has been started up. However I can't get it to provide answers to any DNS requests. As I understand it dnsmasq should read the contents of /etc/hosts and give out local network IP addresses in response to DNS requests, only passing requests on the the external server(s) in /etc/resolv.conf if the address requested isn't a local one. I have dnsmasq running on 192.168.1.4 whose /etc/hosts has the following in it (after the standard default stuff):- # # # Local additions # 192.168.1.1 vigor 2820n 192.168.1.4 home.isbd.net isbd 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net chris.isbd.net 192.168.1.5 home 192.168.1.6 maxine 192.168.1.7 nas garage 192.168.1.44 hp7310 HPEDDBB7 HP000D9D068F7D 192.168.13.254 2wire BT2700HGV gateway.2wire.net I am attempting to use it from 192.168.1.7 which has no non-default additions to /etc/hosts and has the following in /etc/resolv.conf:- # Generated by NetworkManager 192.168.1.4 ... but if I do "host maxine" on 192.168.1.7 I just get:- ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached Sending signals to dnsmasq produces the expected responses in syslog so it is running and working, signal 1 reports "read /etc/hosts - 17 addresses". So it appears to have some addresses to respond with but the other systems on the LAN don't seem to be able to talk to it. Any ideas what might be wrong, or ways to diagnose it? -- Chris Green

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What FS might be on this CD?
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 12 Dec '08

12 Dec '08

Hi Folks, I have a CD which was burnt using Windows Media Player on Vista. It carries a couple of directories with many (mostly PDF) files. When accessed with Vista, its contents are visisble and the files can be accessed. However, Linux doesn't want to know! For example: # mount -t auto /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so and # dmesg | tail hdc: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown ATAPI device hdc: Error: Medium error -- (Sense key=0x03) Unrecovered read error -- (asc=0x11, ascq=0x00) The failed "Read 10" packet command was: "28 00 00 05 7c 80 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 " end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1438208 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 179776 UDF-fs: No fileset found Any ideas? With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-Dec-08 Time: 23:17:09 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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Re: [ALUG] What FS might be on this CD?
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

On 11-Dec-08 00:47:28, Ian Thompson-Bell wrote: > (Ted Harding) wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> I have a CD which was burnt using Windows Media Player on Vista. >> It carries a couple of directories with many (mostly PDF) files. >> >> When accessed with Vista, its contents are visisble and the files >> can be accessed. >> >> However, Linux doesn't want to know! > > I had this problem once before with A cd made by a friend with media > player under XP. It turned the disc had not be 'finalised' - I use the > term loosely - we put the disk back in the XP machine, ran media player > and did the finalizing and then linux could read it. > > HTH > Cheers > Ian I suspected that might be to root of the problem (given the error message). If so, though, how does one set about getting Windows (Vista) Media Player to "finalise" the disk as Ian describes? I can't find any option to get this to happen! (Sorry to bang on about such an unsavoury topic, but it's all for the sake of using Linux!) Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 11-Dec-08 Time: 09:16:33 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

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power problem mandriva solved
by Peter Alcibiades 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

It turns out that disabling 'cool and quiet' fixes it, in case anyone else encounters it. At least, it does on this machine. Peter

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Some python behind my apache server is *incredibly* slow
by Chris G 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

I have some python scripts which convert reStructuredText to HTML 'on the fly' when xxxx.rst files are browsed. When I look at the pages locally performance is acceptable but I have just tried remotely (from work) and it takes several minutes to display a new xxxx.rst page. Normal HTML and other stuff are shown at normal speed, I have some quite complex PHP (which I didn't write) being served by the same apache server and it's fine. The same rst to html conversion works fine on the old server system and I haven't changed the code significantly, my code is only a wrapper around some standard Docutils stuff anyway. Can anyone suggest any reason for remote access to this being so incredibly slow? It's probably some dire misconfiguration somewhere but I don't know where to start looking really. -- Chris Green

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