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Any "expect" gurus out there?
by Andrew Wallis 07 May '02

07 May '02

I have a shell script which runs an expect script which, in turn, connects to my router and reboots it. I've had something very like it for ages but I've had a problem ever since a recent upgrade to RH7.2. Basically, the script works fine in the foreground; it works fine under "at now +1 minute"; it works fine under "batch" BUT it always fails when run under cron. The relevant output from failed jobs looks like: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spawn telnet my-router Trying 192.168.0.254... Connected to my-router. Escape character is '^]'. Password: Connection closed by foreign host. send: spawn id exp3 not open while executing "exp_send -s -- $arg" (procedure "send" line 3) invoked from within "send -- "X"" (file "/usr/local/sbin/reboot_router.exp" line 53) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- which seems to show that the telnet session is spawned OK and opens the connection (the "Password: " string comes from the router) but then as soon as expect tries to send the first character of the password, it finds that the telnet session has been closed! Any ideas, please? PS. Yes, I know all of the security risks in embedding passwords in scripts and in using telnet rather than ssh! Regards Andrew Wallis Fox Cottage Fox Hill St Cross South Elmham HARLESTON IP20 0NX UK tel: +44 (0)1986 782283 mobile: +44 (0)7860 217025 SMS via email: mailto: +447860217025(a)mmail.co.uk

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Allegro Install Howto
by Daniel Simpleman 06 May '02

06 May '02

I successfully installed Allegro in Windows and got it working just fine. The only problem is trying to install it for linux. Im getting problems when trying to compile the programs. Its like it cant find the libraries needed. A good tutorial might help me out... ...Daniel Simpleman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 06 May '02

06 May '02

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.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server uk.openprojects.net" or "/server eu.openprojects.net" 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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Re: [Alug] Javascript, perl script, anyscript help please....
by MJ Ray 06 May '02

06 May '02

> Thanks Mark, > The links were fine, but there was no scrolling, well not the type I'm > looking for.... Pages like the news stories work by scrolling a frame, I think, but it seems to be broken in Mozilla (again). Not sure if they're using window.scroll, but hey ho, it was an idea. -- MJR

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UEA on the 9th June - Talk on Visual Effects
by Martyn Drake 05 May '02

05 May '02

Hi, I'm able to make it to the UEA on June 9th to do this talk on Linux in the post-production and visual effects industry if we've got a room booked for that date (I seem to remember a room in the ARTS building has been reserved). Is this okay with everybody? Regards, Martyn

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SCSI Install probs
by Ricardo Campos 04 May '02

04 May '02

I'm trying to install Debian on a box with a SCSI HD. Unfortunately, I'm having a few problems... I'm having probs with the HD. I get these messages when I boot from the debian rescue floppy: (scsi0): detects card OK, then says:- scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card) scsi0 <Adaptec AHA-294x Ultra2 SCSI host adapter> scsi : 1 host. (gives correct details of HD) scsi: detected 1 SCSI disk in total. sda: Spinning up disk... not responding sda: READ CAPACITY failed Partition check: sda:SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 28000002 [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd08:00: sense Key Not Ready Additional sense indicates Logical unit not ready cause not reportable scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table. I have a few jumpers I have not set (i.e off), but could if needed. These are: MTR -RMT Start DLY: Start Delay SYN: Synchronous LED: LED Any ideas? -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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uea meeting room
by david casal 03 May '02

03 May '02

Hi all. Right, so I finally took a look at ARTS 2.08 (for the uea meeting). It isn't cluttered with terminals, but it is a bit out of the way, back in the teaching wing on the second floor. Lots of desks, not very big (maybe 20-25 people), projector, blackboard, etc. I could see at least a couple of network sockets. Thoughts? dc david casal --0+ --- d.casal(a)uea.ac.uk --9+ --- www.ariada.uea.ac.uk/~dcasal --)+

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ALUG Wiki
by Ricardo Campos 02 May '02

02 May '02

Doh, I'm not sure if it's just my browser or maybe my proxy, but now when I click on any of the links on the ALUG Contrib section of the site, it displays the ALUG Contrib index page again. I'm using Mozilla 0.96 and Internet Explorer 6 on WinNT (I'm at work). Happens on both. Dunno who sorts this out- Martyn? MJR? If it's just me, then just ignore this post! ;) Ricardo -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze

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Linux in Visual Effects Talk update
by Martyn Drake 02 May '02

02 May '02

Hi folks, I've been just been given approval by the director of engineering and the PR department of the company that I currently work for (The Moving Picture Company - see http://www.moving-picture.com) with regards to a talk about how we use Linux in our work (as well as painting an overall picture of how Linux is used in the post-production and visual effects industry). I'll hopefully will be bringing some goodies with me courtesy of PR, as well as a showreel of work that we've produced over the years. What's left to do now is to organise the time and place for me to give the talk ;) As I'm now living in Surrey - the UEA would be the best place for me to visit, but failing that Syleham is accessible as I remember doing that by taxi the last time I was there. Regards, Martyn

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SendMail
by DanI 02 May '02

02 May '02

Im Using Kmail to send out emails but Im finding sendmail is sending emails but they dont get recieved by the other user. Is thier anything I have to do or is Sendmail mainly used for internal emailing??? Daniel Simpleman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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