From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Sep 3 22:41:09 2002 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:39 2004 Subject: [tech] mooneye Message-ID: Mooneye is back up (at least temporarily). /usr, which had bad sectors, is mounted read-only, with flame and mailman moved to /var and /var/local resp. I've also moved mooneye to rabbit's k6-2, at 450mhz and 256meg of RAM. Currently I'm working on installing a new mooneye on a new hard drive. The bad sectors may have resulted from proxy and I dropping mojarra on mooneye when we were mounting meito in the machine room last night. The drive is under warranty though, so we'll be taking it back and hopefully getting a replacement. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Treasurer http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From Peter.Dreisiger at dsto.defence.gov.au Wed Sep 4 16:05:43 2002 From: Peter.Dreisiger at dsto.defence.gov.au (Dreisiger, Peter) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:40 2004 Subject: [tech] Acquisition of the UCC's SGI O2 Message-ID: <6D2186253A1BD4118671009027B67591812C3C@stlex001.dsto.defence.gov.au> Hello, In June last year, I received the following reply to an earlier email... As I never did hear back from Anil (and erwin is still listed as inoperative on your web site), I was basically wondering what the status of the O2 is. I'm still interested in obtaining it, and as I'm trying to reduce the size of my computer collection, I now have the following items that I'm willing to trade for the O2 1 SGI Crimson (150MHz R4400, 112MB RAM, 2.4GB disk, IRIX 5.3 and 6.2 CDROMS) 1 DEC VAXstation 3100m38 (16MB RAM, ~340MB disk) 1 DEC VAXstation 3100m30 (16MB RAM, ~340MB disk) 1 DEC DECstation 5000/25 (w/ Ultrix CDROMs) 2 DEC Storage Expansion units 3 SUN SPARCstation ELC (16MB RAM, inbuilt 17" monitor, SUN 4 keyboard) 5 SUN SPARCstation SLC boards 1 Apple Macintosh LC with monitor 2 DLINK 10Mb Ethernet network bridges 1 11" IBM Colour VGA monitor As I am somewhat pressed for space, I would appreciate a reply letting me know whether the UCC is willing to trade the O2 for the above items. > -----Original Message----- > From: Anil Sharma > [mailto:maset@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au] > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:36 PM > To: Dreisiger, Peter > Cc: 'tech@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au' > Subject: Re: [tech] Acquisition of the UCC's SGI O2 > > > Hi Peter, > > Our O2 is currently being evaluated to see if we can repair it, and at > what cost. Hopefully this will be finished soon and we can > get back to you. > > Cheers, > Anil Sharma. > UCC President 2001-2002. > > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Dreisiger, Peter wrote: > > > > > Hello there, > > > > I'm writing about the O2 that the UCC has in store out at Shenton > > Park... Last year I talked to Mark Tearle (and one other member of > > the committee) about the O2, and whether it would be possible for > > me to acquire it. > > > > Currently, I have a (working) SGI Crimson with a 150MHz R4400 CPU, > > 112MB of RAM and about 2.4GB of internal disks, but as I've recently > > moved into a smaller house, the Crimson (same case size as an Onyx) > > is now a bit too unwieldy for my liking. If I remember correctly, > > the UCC's O2 has 64MB of RAM but doesn't power up at all. > > > > So, what I was wondering was if the UCC would be willing to do a > > trade. I'd even be happy to drop the Crimson off at Cameron Hall > > myself (and yes, it would be for my own personal use). Thanks, Peter ======================================================================== Peter Dreisiger Maritime Operations Division Defence Science & Technology Organisation Building A51, HMAS Stirling Rockingham, WA 6958 AUSTRALIA ph: +61 (08) 9553 3617 fax: +61 (08) 9553 3577 IMPORTANT: The contents of this email remain the property of the Australian Defence Organisation and are subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to contact the sender and delete the email. From nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Sep 4 16:36:51 2002 From: nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Nick Bannon) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:40 2004 Subject: [tech] Acquisition of the UCC's SGI O2 In-Reply-To: <6D2186253A1BD4118671009027B67591812C3C@stlex001.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <6D2186253A1BD4118671009027B67591812C3C@stlex001.dsto.defence.gov.au> Message-ID: <20020904163651.D35887@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> He's got a point... I think there was some talk of acquiring another O2 from somewhere and sticking erwin's AV board and RAM into it, but if we're not going to do it, perhaps we should give him the opportunity. The tradeable items may not be eye-popping, but I'd like to play with the IBM monitor, and hey, even some of the old crap in a working state could add some interest without relying on us slackers to set things up. Nick. On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 05:35:43PM +0930, Dreisiger, Peter wrote: > Hello, > > In June last year, I received the following reply to an earlier email... [...] -- Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because nick-sig@rcpt.to | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal http://linux.conf.au/ | Australian Linux Technical Conference, 2003 From coxy at literatureclassics.com Wed Sep 4 20:48:40 2002 From: coxy at literatureclassics.com (James Cox) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:40 2004 Subject: [tech] Nautilus Upgrade Message-ID: Hi everyone. As of today, Nautilus has a FireWire card in the middle PCI slot, and it works. In case you were wondering, DV may be a bit iffy, due to the old EIDE drive, and the fact that there's only about 300 MB free across both partitions (not even a minute of uncompressed DV...) Your iPod will, however, work fine. ;) ~Coxy From alastair at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Sep 8 19:48:19 2002 From: alastair at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Alastair Irvine) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:40 2004 Subject: Hard disks [was: Re: [tech] mooneye] In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20020908194819.A78233@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Hello, James. Not sure if you're aware, but Andrew W. donated two 2nd-hand hard disks for mooneye (one ATA, one SCSI), which need formattin* before use. I'm currently at the UCC (with the drives), for about another 20 minutes. PS -- Where's "jee" on a dvorak keyboard? -- _____________________________________________________________________ | | | -=*Alastair Irvine*=- | | C-monkey/Magic-player/RPGer/net-nut alastair@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au | |_____________________________________________________________________| From adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Sep 9 14:14:08 2002 From: adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Adrian Chadd) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:41 2004 Subject: [tech] [mhopkins@library.uwa.edu.au: [Tech-contacts] Free to good home] Message-ID: <20020909141408.D438327@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> .. snap it up? ----- Forwarded message from Michelle Hopkins ----- From: "Michelle Hopkins" To: "all-staff" , Subject: [Tech-contacts] Free to good home Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:28:42 +0800 LCD panel 7 years old. Sits on top of an overhead projector to display a computer screen is free to good home as it will be thrown out in the next couple of weeks. Thanks Michelle Michelle Hopkins Computer Support Officer Reid Library Ground Floor University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009 Australia Ph: +61 (08) 9380 1351 Fax: +61 (08) 9380 1012 Email: mhopkins@library.uwa.edu.au ----- End forwarded message ----- From bers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Wed Sep 11 13:41:42 2002 From: bers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Nick Rohrlach) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:41 2004 Subject: [tech] Re: [wheel] NetRegister letter contains INCORRECT INFORMATION - In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Chris Disspain wrote: > > As a registrant of a com.au domain name you may have recently received a > letter from "NetRegister" about Internet Name Group going out of > business. This letter contains statements that are inaccurate and may > mislead you. We have a .com.au domain? bers -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Nick "bers" Rohrlach [NRR] bers@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- From grahame at ucs.uwa.edu.au Thu Sep 12 12:58:14 2002 From: grahame at ucs.uwa.edu.au (Grahame Bowland) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:41 2004 Subject: [tech] AGS+ at UCC Message-ID: <200209121258.14677.grahame@ucs.uwa.edu.au> Hi guys, Could you please let me know the University Asset Number of the AGS+ we have lent you? We're going through an asset check. Cheers, Grahame -- Grahame Bowland Email: grahame@ucs.uwa.edu.au University Communications Services Phone: +61 8 9380 1175 The University of Western Australia Fax: +61 8 9380 1109 CRICOS: 00126G From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Fri Sep 13 15:15:56 2002 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:41 2004 Subject: [tech] Downtime and upgrade details Message-ID: Ok, here's what I plan to achieve this weekend: morwong: Upgrade to 5.0A, then 5.1A. Move /services to meito (if I have time) Move /tmp to the new 256meg domain I have ready for it mooneye: Reinstall onto Andrew's IDE drive, in Rabbit's K6-2 hydra: Add more RAM, upgrade to woody and a recent kernel Those are the primary targets. Secondary targets: meito: Make a yp slave, create homedir tree for mounting by insecure machines mussel: Set up samba to be a PDC for cybium dual pentium (was mooneye): Install onto Andrew's SCSI drive, make useful If you're interested in helping, please come along. In particular I'd like help getting mooneye's config correct (although we do have mooneye's current config to work from), and possibly installing SpamAssassin. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Treasurer http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From root at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Sep 15 16:02:45 2002 From: root at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (root) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:41 2004 Subject: [tech] oh spam, where for art thou? Message-ID: <200209150802.g8F82jKE019247@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> bing From mtearle at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Sep 15 16:04:46 2002 From: mtearle at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Mark Tearle) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:42 2004 Subject: [tech] oh spam, where for art thou? In-Reply-To: <200209150802.g8F82jKE019247@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, root wrote: > Subject: [tech] oh spam, where for art thou? > > bing > Hmm, it seems the lists are working again ! yay! Yours Mark -- Mark Tearle - mark@tearle.com "Happiness is not a lifestyle, happiness is" - greeting card linux.conf.au 2003 - The Australian Linux Technical Conference http://conf.linux.org.au/ 22nd - 25th January 2003 in Perth From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Sep 15 19:20:54 2002 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:42 2004 Subject: [tech] Downtime and upgrade details In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, James Andrewartha wrote: > Ok, here's what I plan to achieve this weekend: And here's a status report: > morwong: > Upgrade to 5.0A, then 5.1A. Done. Still need to install the latest release patch kit and the current security paches, which will require a reboot. I also can't compile a new kernel for it atm. > Move /services to meito (if I have time) Done, but not fully tested. > Move /tmp to the new 256meg domain I have ready for it Done. > mooneye: > Reinstall onto Andrew's IDE drive, in Rabbit's K6-2 Done. There were a few problems, mainly mail related. If anything's not working, email tech and I'll have a look. > hydra: > Add more RAM, upgrade to woody and a recent kernel More RAM: done. Upgrade to woody: in progress. A recent kernel: the stock debian kernel doesn't think hydra has PCI, which is a problem :-( > Those are the primary targets. Secondary targets: > > meito: > Make a yp slave, create homedir tree for mounting by insecure machines yp slave: done. hoemdir tree: will leave for later > mussel: > Set up samba to be a PDC for cybium Not done. Perhaps could install Win2k Single Sign-on on morwong instead for extra wackiness. > dual pentium (was mooneye): > Install onto Andrew's SCSI drive, make useful Trent was having a shot at this, didn't get very far. I might poke it later this evening. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Treasurer http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From grahame at azale.net Mon Sep 16 01:25:50 2002 From: grahame at azale.net (Grahame Bowland) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:42 2004 Subject: [tech] AGS+ at UCC In-Reply-To: <200209121258.14677.grahame@ucs.uwa.edu.au> References: <200209121258.14677.grahame@ucs.uwa.edu.au> Message-ID: <200209160125.50535.grahame@azale.net> On Thursday 12 September 2002 12:58, Grahame Bowland wrote: > Hi guys, > > Could you please let me know the University Asset Number of the AGS+ we > have lent you? We're going through an asset check. Thanks guys, We haven't unlisted it and it is down on the University register as having a value of $35,000 - reality differs. They don't need to come over and barcode it now that I have the number, however they can be a bit creepy! Grahame From mustang at morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Sep 16 13:51:50 2002 From: mustang at morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (David Manchester) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:43 2004 Subject: [tech] Downtime and upgrade details In-Reply-To: References:

Message-ID: <20020916135150.C5891@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Aha - I have a real mailreader again. > > Ok, here's what I plan to achieve this weekend: > And here's a status report: > > > morwong: > > Upgrade to 5.0A, then 5.1A. > Done. Still need to install the latest release patch kit and the current > security paches, which will require a reboot. I also can't compile a new > kernel for it atm. Cool - looks like it was smooth. You might want to convert the wtmp to the new format - it had me depicted as reading nick's mail yesterday.. > > Move /services to meito (if I have time) > Done, but not fully tested. See my mail on that subject. I fully expect Disksuite to go *boom* at some random time. > > Move /tmp to the new 256meg domain I have ready for it > Done. Good stuff. > > mooneye: > > Reinstall onto Andrew's IDE drive, in Rabbit's K6-2 > > Done. There were a few problems, mainly mail related. If anything's not > working, email tech and I'll have a look. Yeah - mail's still screwy but matt's on the case. > > hydra: > > Add more RAM, upgrade to woody and a recent kernel > More RAM: done. Upgrade to woody: in progress. A recent kernel: the stock > debian kernel doesn't think hydra has PCI, which is a problem :-( > > > Those are the primary targets. Secondary targets: > > > > meito: > > Make a yp slave, create homedir tree for mounting by insecure machines > yp slave: done. hoemdir tree: will leave for later > > > mussel: > > Set up samba to be a PDC for cybium > Not done. Perhaps could install Win2k Single Sign-on on morwong instead > for extra wackiness. You -are- keen :P Do we want to turn off some of the java/snmp cruft on Morwong? > > dual pentium (was mooneye): > > Install onto Andrew's SCSI drive, make useful > Trent was having a shot at this, didn't get very far. I might poke it > later this evening. Well done for your efforts so far. Do you need a hand with some of this - we inducted a whole bunch of wheel members who've been veeery quiet so far. D. -- " I don't get mad.... I get stabby. " - William "Fat Tony" Williams. From trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Thu Sep 19 09:36:02 2002 From: trs80 at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (James Andrewartha) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:43 2004 Subject: [tech] morwong Message-ID: Sorrt I broke morwong - I was fiddling with the network remotely (yes I know) and it died. The odd thing was that it required a reboot to get the interface working again - /usr/sbin/rcinet start didn't work. -- # TRS-80 trs80(a)ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au #/ "Otherwise Bub here will do \ # UCC Treasurer http://trs80.ucc.asn.au/ #| what squirrels do best | [ "There's nobody getting rich writing ]| -- Collect and hide your | [ software that I know of" -- Bill Gates, 1980 ]\ nuts." -- Acid Reflux #231 / From coxy at literatureclassics.com Thu Sep 19 12:35:37 2002 From: coxy at literatureclassics.com (coxy) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:44 2004 Subject: [tech] Mounds of Macs... Message-ID: <200209182135.AA162594936@literatureclassics.com> Thanks to the generosity of Arts Dept, we now have 5 603 Performas (5400s, a 5260 and a 5200) with 7.6.1, Bolo, Nifty Telnet, IE and Anarchie installed. These had displaced the Bolo/SSH rack outside. A 7300/200 which will be the new scanner machine (with a Color OneScanner 600/27) A LaserWriter Pro 16/600, which works and has toner. ('tungsten') A PowerBook 100 with a dead hard drive... Plus we've got a LC630 w/FPU and a LC580 w/o FPU to be thefted away. ~Coxy From mtearle at tearle.com Sun Sep 22 14:22:47 2002 From: mtearle at tearle.com (Mark Tearle) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:44 2004 Subject: [tech] Missing CRO Message-ID: Hi Who has the UCC CRO at the moment? Yours Mark -- Mark Tearle - mark@tearle.com "Happiness is not a lifestyle, happiness is" - greeting card linux.conf.au 2003 - The Australian Linux Technical Conference http://conf.linux.org.au/ 22nd - 25th January 2003 in Perth From matt at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Tue Sep 24 01:04:52 2002 From: matt at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Matt Johnston) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:44 2004 Subject: [tech] Spamassassin on mooneye Message-ID: <20020924010452.B36884@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> Hi All. I've installed spamassassin on mooneye to check all incoming mail, and add headers as appropriate. Spamass-milter is being used to interface with sendmail, see http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/spamass-milt Apart from adding headers, mail should be unaltered after passing through. If you notice anything unusual, please contact me. If you're using procmail to filter mail, the following lines in your .procmailrc will move spam-tagged mail to "spam" mailbox. :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes spam Spamassassin's per-user configuration isn't currently set up, I'll take a look and see how that could be implemented. Cheers, Matt From nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sat Sep 28 22:27:20 2002 From: nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Nick Bannon) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:45 2004 Subject: [tech] DVD burner working happily Message-ID: <20020928222720.L40333@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> In preparation for tomorrow's PLUG installfest I've just successfully burnt some DVDs on cybium. (namely Debian Woody) ( http://installfest.plug.linux.org.au/ ) I downloaded the jigdo templates at home - I'd put the finished images on meito, but due to a combination of 10Mbps ethernet and lack of space I'm not going to get to it tonight. On that front, we oughta set about improving the ethernet situation around here, and we should rearrange cybium a little. (I assume we can kill off the old cod installation on /dev/hda2, but we should repartition most of /dev/hdb to either FAT32 or 50/50 ext3/NTFS) I've been using "hdparm -c1 -d1" on HDDs and the burner, plus ; dvdrecord -dao -pad -v dev=0,1,0 speed=2 fs=64M driveropts=burnproof -eject filename.iso Just over 27 minutes per burn (4.2GB). A dummy run (-dummy) is recommended, but if you ^C the dummy run you must eject/reinsert the media before the drive will let you try again. Nick. -- Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because nick-sig@rcpt.to | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal http://linux.conf.au/ | Australian Linux Technical Conference, 2003 From nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Sep 29 18:43:38 2002 From: nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Nick Bannon) Date: Wed Oct 27 01:25:45 2004 Subject: [tech] mermaid rebooted Message-ID: <20020929184338.M40333@morwong.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> mermaid has been inaccessible today (which causes problems for coke & door!) due to network problems. It was up, and had a link light, but network access and root logins were just hanging. Trent and I rebooted it just now and it seems to have come back OK. Nick. -- Nick Bannon | "I made this letter longer than usual because nick-sig@rcpt.to | I lack the time to make it shorter." - Pascal http://linux.conf.au/ | Australian Linux Technical Conference, 2003