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Planet ALUG
by Dave Briggs 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Would it be possible for whoever is currently looking after the planet to delete my old feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/davebriggs) and put my new one (http://davebriggs.wordpress.com/feed/) in? Thanks! -- Dave Briggs

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Annoying shell script problem - calling external binary
by samwise 05 Mar '07

05 Mar '07

Hi, Got an annoying shell script bug. I'm using GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release. Here's a testcase.sh shell script: #!/bin/bash -v myfiles="/home/samwise/Desktop/file\ with\ spaces.txt /tmp/otherfile.txt" echo binary --usethese $myfiles binary --usethese $myfiles Relevant output to console: $ ./testcase.sh #!/bin/bash -v myfiles="/home/samwise/Desktop/file\ with\ spaces.txt /tmp/otherfile.txt" echo binary --usethese $myfiles binary --usethese /home/samwise/Desktop/file\ with\ spaces.txt /tmp/otherfile.txt binary --usethese $myfiles $ I want to call an external binary with a parameter made of filenames which may contain spaces. If I run the output of the echo statement above (4th line of output) manually by cutting and pasting into the console, the scanner works fine. However, it always fails if the same command is manually called with quotes around the parameter value: WORKS: binary --usethis /home/samwise/Desktop/file\ with\ spaces.txt /tmp/otherfile.txt DOESN'T WORK: binary --usethis "/home/samwise/Desktop/file\ with\ spaces.txt /tmp/otherfile.txt" Now, despite me *not* putting in quotation marks in the shell script, it appears that the call on the third line is being interpreted as though I have used them ... and so the call fails. Anyone got any suggestions? Peter.

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Kit Meet?
by Mark Ridley 04 Mar '07

04 Mar '07

I delete all my emails (stupid habit) and the mailing list archive doesn't appear to be searchable, from a mobile browser anyway. So, is there a kit meet soon near or in Ipswich? I have a case with mobo and processor (old AMD), and an Atari ST. Someone (samwise/Peter) wanted one of them I'm sure. The meetings page on the webby was going on about 2006, plus this Treo is too fiddley to mention! :) Ta. -Mark (fed up of working in Switzerland) ----------------------------------------------------------- This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. This information is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any review, disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete or destroy any copy of this message.

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PC Disposal
by Ian bell 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

While we are discussing getting rid of old stuff, I saw on Look East a short while ago and article about a company in Norwich that recycles computer hardware inlcuding peripherals. I have Googleg but all I can find is companies that deal with corporate disposals rather than individuals. Is the dump the only alternative for individuals? Ian

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Firefox help - how it displays directories
by Eur Ing Chris Green 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Yesterday or the day before I saw in passing a web page that had a reference to how Firefox displays directories (i.e. when you open a directory with no index.html and you're allowed to). It had something about extra decorations and how to make things appear in the "Description" column. Can anyone give me a pointer to documentation on this? -- Chris Green

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Re: [ALUG] cups server broken after upgrade to etch
by Jenny Hopkins 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Fixed. And the problem was? Cupsys_1.2.7 package hadn't installed properly, which in turn meant cupsys-driver-gimpprint and cupsys-driver-gutenprint hadn't installed properly. I found and fixed this by: 1. removed the cupsys package and moved /etc/cups directory. 2. installed above packages. I tried all this yesterday and it was all a bit twitchy, but today it absolutely refused to install cupsys, as it couldn't read '/etc/cups/cupsd.conf'. I had a look, and this didn't exist, as it was part of the cupsys package itself. 3. I examined the package in /var/cache/apt/archives, and hand-copied the cupsd.conf to /etc/cups. 4. I re-ran the install command, and this time it installed, then gutenprint ran a whole bunch of useful, helpful stuff, which it definitely hadn't yesterday. 5. The printer was detected and a test page printed successfully. Hoorah! I wonder if this is a bug I ought to report. Perhaps the pre-inst and post-inst lines are muddled or something, or more likely it was my bad luck. Thanks for all the help. I can also use the hp-toolbox now as a result of the breakage. Jenny I

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cups server broken after upgrade to etch
by Jenny Hopkins 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Hullo there, I've just upgraded my debian amd64 server to etch. cups print server is now misbehaving. If I use the web interface on ipp 631, clicking on any of the links request I use https:blah, rather than http:blah, and offer the URL, but following that link causes the page to hang and cupsys to be restarted. Previously I would be asked for a login and password. If I try printing a test page from the web interface, I get the error "Printer not connected; will retry in 30 seconds". The error log on the server says: "D [01/Mar/2007:19:34:07 +0000] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided." I have a queue of daughters waiting to print homework, help! These are the packages I've been upgraded to: dpkg -l | grep cupsys ii cupsys 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cupsys-bsd 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman ii cupsys-client 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro ii cupsys-common 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common fil ii cupsys-driver-gimpprint 5.0.0-3 printer drivers for CUPS ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.0.0-3 printer drivers for CUPS ii libcupsys2 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs ii libcupsys2-gnutls10 1.2.7-4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - dummy libs Thanks, Jenny

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Re: SLED
by Eur Ing Chris Green 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:58:53AM -0000, Peter Onion wrote: > <AOL> Me Too </AOL> I just don't trust them not to do what ever M$ tells > them to do :( > > I've just removed SuSE 10.0 from the last of my machines, and I've gone all > retro, and put Gentoo on instead ;) It's almost as much fun as Slackware > used to be :) > It still is! :-) -- Chris Green

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SLED
by Greg Thomas 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

Yesterday, I received a presentation on SLED - http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/ Essentially, SUSE Linux + OpenOffice + Novell improvements. FWIW, I was dead impressed. OK, so underneath it all it's just another Linux distro, but it is really really nicely packaged. Yes, it's €47 pa (for support updates + support), but it's not aimed at the readers of this list - for the first time I really think there is a genuine enterprise ready alternative to Windows on the general user desktop. Greg

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My search for a CMS - some progress and conclusions
by Eur Ing Chris Green 02 Mar '07

02 Mar '07

You may or may not remember me asking about CMS here several weeks ago. Well I have come to some conclusions:- The 'front runners' like Joomla! and Drupal are not what I want, they are so strongly oriented towards dynamic sites with mostly blogs and news. There are a few CMS which are close to what I want, the best (for me) examples are ezPublish, and websitebaker. In fact I think I may still settle on websitebaker. Some Wikis are close to what I want but they don't quite hack it for a commercial/business site, they simply look too much like a Wiki! I am using TWiki on my home Linux box for personal and family stuff though Wikis do seem to be happier with mostly text. Finally, via the Wikis and thus markup languages I have come across another set of utilities for making web sites. These might be called web site 'compilers'. You maintain the web site in the markup language and then run the markup 'compiler' to create the site. This may range from doing it manually (or with your own script) to things like ikiwiki and webmake which wrap the building up for you. I'm currently playing with AsciiDoc which looks like it's ideal for some of my requirements. -- Chris Green

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