Archive for the ‘SuSE Linux’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/26
Thanks to the wonderful people at the opensuse forums (especially Knurpht and wolfi323) for helping me out with opensuse 12.2: yast “System Services (Runlevel): Services” very slow: how to investigate.
The solution is to install openldap2, then reboot.
The easiest way is to perform this under sudo:
zypper install openldap2
Somehow in opensuse 12.2 yast, sendmail and apache depend on it (though the yast/zypper software installer don’t recognize the dependency).
Without the reboot, yast was still slow. Not sure why yet.
I will need to check this out in the most current opensuse release.
–jeroen
via: opensuse 12.2: yast “System Services (Runlevel): Services” very slow: how to investigate.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/20
Earlier this week: MINIX 3.3.0 is now available – Google Groups:
Hi all,
We are pleased to present the MINIX 3.3.0 stable release. The major new features & improvements of this release include:
New features
- The first release with ARM support, three Beagle targets are supported
- Experimental USB support for the Beaglebones (hubs & mass storage)
- Cross-compiling for both ARM and x86 – the buildsystem is very portable
Improvements
- Big source code cleanup – cleaner C types in messages, improved NetBSD compatibility, all minix-specific code moved to a top-level minix/ folder
- Updated packages overall – a big set is built now; and they are dynamically linked now
- Improved driver modularity
The full release notes can be found at http://wiki.minix3.org/Releases/3.3.0
To find out more about this and older releases, please see http://wiki.minix3.org/Releases.
You can grab the ISO image from the download page http://www.minix3.org/download
For instructions on the ARM build, see http://wiki.minix3.org/DevelopersGuide/MinixOnARM
Join us! See http://www.minix3.org/community/
We’re conducting a survey to find out about our audience. Please take our survey linked to the green box at the top of the minix3.org page. Thanks!
On behalf of the MINIX team
Andy Tanenbaum
–jeroen
via: http://bit.ly/minix330
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/15
Ever wanted to put all your Windows installs on a bootable USB stick, but also add some Linux functionality?
It looks like YUMI can do just that.
On my research list (:
–jeroen
via: YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator (Windows) | USB Pen Drive Linux.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/10
After having recorded quite a few broadcastings to USB from my Samsung UE40C6800 TV with the T.VALDEUC 3011.0 firmware, I wanted to copy them over to either a Windows or Linux based machine for post editing.
Then I found out the USB device had been reformatted into XFS, probably because of its Guaranteed-rate I/O.
The first post I came across (SettoreZero: XFS filesystem and Samsung LEDTVs) indicated XFS is supported under Linux, but not under Windows (it appears the latter might be true).
So I went collecting useful links on which I will start doing deeper research in a few categories.
As it looks now, most of it will probably lead to various Linux shell scripts based on SamyGO.
General info:
XFS documentation:
Limux support:
Windows support:
SamyGO (selected with this particular TV in mind):
SamyGO forum:
–jeroen
via XFS – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/25
Applies to many Linux distros and explains a lot about sudo, su and their parameters: sudo – How to run a command as a user whose login is disabled? – Ask Ubuntu.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/08/21
Just in case I need this again:
None of the mutt ones worked for me. It was thinking the email address was part of the attachemnt. Had to do:
echo “This is the message body” | mutt -a “/path/to/file.to.attach” -s “subject of message” — recipient@domain.com
Thanks Alexander Bird for noticing the double-dash, rynop for the modified answer and Chris N for the original answer.
From mutt(1): Mutt Mail User Agent – Linux man page: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/25
I’ve succesfully woken up these machines:
- HP XW6600 running ESXi 5.1
- ThinkPad W701U running Windows 7
I still need to try to wake up a Mac Mini Server running OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
MacBook Air on 10.7 (Lion) and Retina on 10.8 (Mountain Lion) won’t work as they are WiFi only, and WOL does not work over WiFi.
On 10.7 and up it might not work on a Mac Mini Server either, as Apple Introduced Dark Wake.
I used these tools to send WOL packets: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/21
Thanks to Using inotify-wait to check filesystem events I got pointed to How to use inotify-tools to trigger scripts on filesystem events which is now on my research list.
–jeroen
Note that Kristian later on commented this:
The solution shown in the article has race conditions and should not be used.
It is based on
while :
do
inotifywait $options && run-backup
done
and that means that while the backup runs, the directory in question is unmonitored. When the backup finishes, new changes may have been accumulating during backup run, but without being picked up by the backup.
A proper solution would do something like
inotifywait -m $options | while read line
do
do-something-that-logs-multile-changes-and-triggers-backup-once
done
The important thing is that “inotifywait -m” does not terminate and hence no changes will be lost. It is wrong to run the backup once in full for each change, though.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/07/18
Interesting for people that do not trust Cloud Storage providers: BitTorrent Labs’ BitTorrent Sync.
I’ve tried an early version, and it works “OK”. Not yet as well-integrated like for instance DropBox, but stable and fast enough.
Important thing for me: works on *nix, OS X and Windows. Hopefully mobile devices will follow soon.
At the time of writing (May 2013), it is the only cross platform freeware entry in Comparison of file synchronization software – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In the mean time, Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch)wrote a nice blog post with background information on this: Bittorrent Sync, a secure DropBox alternative » twm’s blog.
–jeroen
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