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Postfix dilivery to wrong place?
by James Taylor 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

Ok, I have a wierd problem here: System: Using postfix as the mail agent, I have a virtual table and an aliases table. Debian stable / unstable / extra bits Problem: Before two / three weeks ago some mail delivered to jt(a)imen.org.uk ended up in tola's. At this point, there where no entries for tola in any tables, and two for jt in the aliases. Nobody else on any domain or username was affected. To edit this, I changed the virtuals table to read as the below, ran the postmap restarted postfix etc, Now, no emails to tola(a)imen.org.uk are recieved at all - they all go to jt. I have tried swapping the ordering of the tola and jt lines in the Virtual file around with no success. Does anyone have any idea what is going on between us? (Again, no other users seem to be affected) Relevant entries in files follow: --------------------------------------------------------- The Virtual table has the ordering (only section relvant): imen.org.uk tola(a)imen.org.uk tola jt(a)imen.org.uk jt @imen.org.uk jt The Aliases has the ordering (all lines relevant to tola or jt): jamest: jt root: jt -- James Taylor [jt(a)imen.org.uk] Still time to enter the Alug Christmas Competition: One liner's to echo the first line of a file in 256 char's or less. http://www.moosecomputerservices.com/Competition

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 20 Dec '04

20 Dec '04

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Christmas competition.
by Paul 18 Dec '04

18 Dec '04

In response to a query on IRC, I offer a small competition for the festive season. A one liner in a scripting language of your choice to print the first line of a file - The winner will be judged on convolusion & inappropriate use of commands. The limit is 256 characters. To be judged by the gathered hordes on Dec. 26th. Regards, Paul. -- Pieces of seven, pieces of seven - A parroty error. "To err is human...to really f*** things up requires the root password." From a collection of quotes at http://www.indigo.org/quotes.html

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ALUG library online !!
by Wayne Stallwood 18 Dec '04

18 Dec '04

I have been experimenting with OpenDB tonight with a view to using it to manage the Alug library. As well as making the librarians life a bit easier it allows borrowers to check the loan status of books etc, post reservations and reviews/comments. You can check it out in my test area here http://cgi.digimatic.plus.com/opendb/login.php Use the "sign me up" link to request a login (may take some time as I have to respond to a mail to make the user active) There are still a few bugs to be ironed out (mainly because OpenDB is more geared towards lending entertainment media not books) and it still needs a general tidy up. I would appreciate some feedback as to whether this is useable by ALUG members, fedback on bugs etc. If deemed acceptable then I am happy to have a link on the ALUG site pointing to my hosting space, alternatively if MySQL and PHP are available wherever the ALUG main site is, it could be moved there when finished. Please note that the items currently in the database are merely samples to test the system with...booking one as a reservation does not mean that you will get it at present, in fact your reservations will probably get deleted so that others can play with it.

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For a bit of light hearted relief..
by Martyn Drake 17 Dec '04

17 Dec '04

http://rack911.com/149411289.swf (Requires sound) Indeed! Regards, Martyn

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Enumerating files with spaces
by Graham 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

Probably a simple one, but I can't figure it... I want to do some conversions on a set of files in a directory, such as for file in * do do_something_with $file done However, I want to do the files in date order, not alphabetically, so I tried for file in $(ls -tr) etc. But this only works if the files don't have spaces in their names; "for" breaks them up into space-delimited tokens, which is no use at all. How do I do this (apparently) simple thing? -- GT

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RE: [ALUG] ALUG library online !!
by Keith Watson 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

> From: David Reynolds Sent: 16 December 2004 10:27 > > Looks good to me. Beware of the orange theme though. > Obviously a theme > for people with poor sight... Who said that? :o)

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RE: [ALUG] ALUG library online !!
by Keith Watson 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

> From: Wayne Stallwood Sent: 16 December 2004 01:55 > > I have been experimenting with OpenDB tonight with a view to using it to > manage the Alug library. As well as making the librarians life a bit easier > it allows borrowers to check the loan status of books etc, post reservations > and reviews/comments. > > You can check it out in my test area here > http://cgi.digimatic.plus.com/opendb/login.php Looks very good. Basic functionality seems to be there and the I/F is reasonably intuitive (oh, and the horizontal theme seems to work ok). > Use the "sign me up" link to request a login (may take some > time as I have to respond to a mail to make the user active) > > There are still a few bugs to be ironed out (mainly because OpenDB is more > geared towards lending entertainment media not books) and it still needs a > general tidy up. > > I would appreciate some feedback as to whether this is useable by ALUG > members, fedback on bugs etc. > > If deemed acceptable then I am happy to have a link on the ALUG site pointing > to my hosting space, alternatively if MySQL and PHP are available wherever > the ALUG main site is, it could be moved there when finished. Personally, I'd go for it. Regards, Keith ____________ There is only one thing certain and that is nothing is certain. - G.K. Chesterton

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RE: [ALUG] For a bit of light hearted relief..
by Keith Watson 16 Dec '04

16 Dec '04

> From: Martyn Drake Sent: 15 December 2004 22:16 > > http://rack911.com/149411289.swf > > (Requires sound) > > Indeed! > > Regards, > > Martyn Muhahahahahaha!!!!

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Re: [ALUG] Urgent - kind new home required!
by Keith Watson 15 Dec '04

15 Dec '04

Only just caught up with this thread. Is it sorted now? or still unresolved? I'd like to help but can't for the next couple of months because of other commitments, but after that I'd be happy to take a stint. So that the task doesn't continually fall to one person maybe we can pass it around every 6 months or so? Incidentally does anyone know if other lugs operate their own library? and, if so, how they organize things? Be particularly interested to know if any of them have computerised it in any way or form. Regards, Keith ____________ Carpe Diem, quam minimum credula postero. - (Seize today, and put no trust in tomorrow.) - Horace

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