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by Rodney Brown 22 Jul '26

22 Jul '26

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Re: [Linux-aus] Feedback requested: Linux Users Victoria vs Linux Victoria
by Russell Coker 12 Jul '26

12 Jul '26

On Sunday, 12 July 2026 14:04:38 AEST Andrew Pam via linux-aus wrote: > On 12/7/26 13:45, Linux Australia President via linux-aus wrote: > > It is currently not clear to the Linux Australia Council whether these > > are the same organisation, given not all of the membership appear not > > to know of a name change, nor has Linux Australia been officially > > notified of a name change. > > As a member of LUV, to the best of my knowledge Linux Victoria is an > additional name for the organisation and there is only one > organisation. The Linux Victoria elections were not announced on the luv.asn.au mailing lists (which Alexar was always capable of sending email to). Therefore LUV members were not invited to the meetings unless they had decided to sign up for Linux Victoria. The previous discussions on these lists show that there are more than a few people who are LUV members who are not members of Linux Victoria and were not aware of what it was doing. > Members who meet in person have continued to do so, but > it appears there are many members on the old mailing list who are not up > to date; this is not surprising, as the list was not functioning > correctly until very recently and while I was previously the primary > list moderator, the software kept kicking me out and eventually I The software was however working well enough for the Linux Victoria people who wanted to argue about whether unsolicited bulk email (UBE) is spam. https://www.luv.asn.au/ Linux Victoria has been transitioning to become a separate organisation to LUV over the course of years. If you look at the LUV web site (which I have recently restored to functionality) the last event listed is from 2024. That seems to be when Linux Victoria cut ties to LUV. I've attached an archive of the web page Alexar put on the LUV web site to redirect people to Linux Victoria over a year ago. When he did that he made a commitment to keep the Matrix server etc running which he broke by not renewing the domain. I don't think it would be in anyone's best interests to try and reunite Linux Victoria and LUV at this stage. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: [Linux-aus] Feedback requested: Linux Users Victoria vs Linux Victoria
by Phil'll Fix IT Mobile Computer Services 12 Jul '26

12 Jul '26

On 12/07/2026 2:04 pm, Andrew Pam via linux-aus wrote: > > On 12/7/26 13:45, Linux Australia President via linux-aus wrote: >> It is currently not clear to the Linux Australia Council whether >> these are the same organisation, given not all of the membership >> appear not to know of a name change, nor has Linux Australia been >> officially notified of a name change. > > > As a member of LUV, to the best of my knowledge Linux Victoria is an > additional name for the organisation and there is only one > organisation. Members who meet in person have continued to do so, but > it appears there are many members on the old mailing list who are not > up to date; this is not surprising, as the list was not functioning > correctly until very recently and while I was previously the primary > list moderator, the software kept kicking me out and eventually I > couldn't even log in to the web interface, so I gave up and ceased > both moderating and participating in the broken list. This was also > one of the primary motivations for setting up a new list, though the > original has since been upgraded to newer software and is apparently > functioning again. > > Regards, > Andrew > Hi All, Also a member/sysadmin of LUV i can confirm the above is correct. Cheers Phil in Sunny Mildura

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DNS routing and the luv.asn.au domain
by Russell Coker 03 Jul '26

03 Jul '26

DNS=144.76.186.21 Domains=luv.asn.au If you add the above 2 lines to the end of /etc/systemd/resolved.conf (or put them in a separate file in the /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/ directory) and run "sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved.service" you will have a separate DNS configuration for the luv.asn.au domain. Note that you can't have multiple separate DNS servers for different domains using the above, so this won't give what you want if you already have a private DNS server. After setting up the domain the command resolvectl should give output like the following: Global Protocols: +LLMNR -mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/unsupported resolv.conf mode: stub DNS Servers: 144.76.186.21 DNS Domain: luv.asn.au Link 2 (mb) Current Scopes: none Protocols: -DefaultRoute +LLMNR -mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/ unsupported Default Route: no Link 3 (wifi) Current Scopes: DNS LLMNR/IPv4 LLMNR/IPv6 Protocols: +DefaultRoute +LLMNR -mDNS -DNSOverTLS DNSSEC=no/ unsupported DNS Servers: 8.8.8.8 DNS Domain: coker.com.au Default Route: yes This shows that the "Default Route" for DNS is 8.8.8.8 while the route for luv.asn.au is 144.76.186.21 This will allow it to keep working for you until we get the domain renewed. NB Make sure you remove this after the renewal. The resolvectl command is supposed to be able to set this and I have done it in the past, but I can't work it out from the man page and the google hits haven't turned up anything useful. Anyone know how to use resolvectl to do this? Before anyone says "read the source", I have read quite a bit of systemd source and it is not easy for outsiders to understand. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: [Linux-aus] The luv.asn.au domain
by Russell Coker 02 Jul '26

02 Jul '26

On Sunday, 28 June 2026 21:04:56 AEST Max Benoiton via linux-aus wrote: > On 6/28/2026 2:54 PM, Lucas Symons via linux-aus wrote: > > Transfer will be locked until 2 weeks after expiry or after it's > > renewed so it can't be transfered out. We will need some one with > > access to the account if we want to keep it live. > > The whois isn't listing any locked statuses, so you might be able to > just transfer out to another registrar if you had to, but it usually > takes a week. > > Domain password can be recovered here: https://pw.auda.org.au/ > > They'll only send the details to the registrant contact: > president(a)linuxvictoria.org > > The technical contact is also showing: president(a)linuxvictoria.org Thanks for the information. It seems that Alexar has renewed the domain and also changed the tech contact. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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MLUG tomorrow! (in-person & online)
by Alexar Pendashteh 28 Jun '26

28 Jun '26

MUG's June meeting is tomorrow night, 7:30pm. Carlton North & Online on jitsi. Talks: *Amazon Linux on AWS* by Jerrome *Porting Debian 13 to loongarch* by Wencey Wang Location: 644 Rathdowne St (corner of Pigdon St), Carlton North VIC 3054 Online: https://meet.jit.si/mlug-au Starting at 7:30pm More details on MLUGs website: https://mlug-au.org/ + Alexar

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The luv.asn.au domain
by Russell Coker 28 Jun '26

28 Jun '26

The luv.asn.au domain is registered with webcentral. I'm listed as the technical contact in the whois but Webcentral denies me access regardless. The registrant contact is president(a)linuxvictoria.org and Alexar has done nothing about this for 3 months despite repeated reminders. The registrant is "LINUX AUSTRALIA INC." with ABN 56987117479. What can be done here? We have about 4 days before the domain expires. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Greetings from Gippsland; and looking for remote work
by luv＠tr.id.au 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

Hey everyone, Some of you already know me, and I hope you're doing well! As I'm currently between roles, Rodney suggested the LUV jobs service to me. However, it looks like the jobs mailing list was recently closed, so hopefully it's okay for me to put out some feelers on main instead :) I'm based in Loch Sport. I moved here last year under the impression I'd have 100% remote work forever after. Unfortunately, that was a bit premature and the remote work prospects seem to be drying up lately :P Oops. I do really love it here though, so any more remote work I can find soon would be awesome. Needing to sell up and relocate again would absolutely break my heart. I will even consider part time or junior work right now. Low-bureaucracy roles preferred, so I can keep using my custom workstations without worrying about ISO-27001 or IRAP style compliance checkboxing. Well, enough of the sob story. The real question on your mind is why should someone hire me? I'll send a CV on request, but in the meantime here are the elevator pitches: * Nearly ten years operating Ubuntu Server fleets for OpenStack and HPC. Most recently in so-called neo-clouds, I've got strong experience with most OpenStack services and their supporting infrastructure such as VLANs, Ceph, OVS, Mariadb/MySQL, Bind9, Prometheus, Grafana, NetBox, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Gerrit and GitHub Actions. I've dealt with a wide variety of hardware including Dell, SuperMicro, Asus, HPE and OctoMiner, with Mellanox cards and up to 8x NVIDIA cards at once, with NVLinks and SR-IOV. I've done plenty of deployments with MAAS and orchestrated the warranties of so much faulty hardware you just wouldn't believe. I can script IPMITool and Redfish. * I've been devoted to Linux since 2008, and have built up a deep knowledge of all the sysadmin "primitives" such as shell scripting, namespaces, OpenSSH, device manager, filesystems, IPtables, dnsmasq, iproute2, kernel memory management, Git, C programming, jq, LMod and the GNU ecosystem. I'm great at applying my knowledge of these primitives to engineer minimalistic, robust and reproducible systems and pipelines. I'm also an official GNU maintainer and, as an extra flex, everything in my SOHO (including my custom router) runs Gentoo BTW. * I'm a STEM/HASS jack-of-all-trades with a background in Mathematics & Statistics and a wide variety of side interests. I bust silos and learn fast. If you're wondering whether I can do something you have in mind, the real question is "when can I start?" * Awesome remote work setup: two redundant workstations so I can keep working in event of hardware failure, and business-tier 1000/400 fttp. Lots of experience with remote collaboration including Slack, Teams and Zoom. I never suffer the audio or video issues that plague basically everyone else in online calls. I also cultivate strong remote work cultures based on kind, clear and regular communication, and engineering discipline. * I've got an ABN so could do contract gigs if that's preferred. I hope you'll reach out if you want someone who will hit the ground running and start getting things done without any BS as soon as you add my ssh keys to your servers. If you added my ssh keys yesterday, I could have been deploying solutions to production today ;) I'm also open to meeting up with anyone around the Morwell/Traralgon/Sale/Bairnsdale area if you just feel like a coffee. I have daily fresh hot takes on AI as well as all your old time favorite holy wars! So ping me if you're around :) And feel free to connect on LinkedIn if that's how you roll: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-rice-45641329b/ Thanks for your patience with this email, hopefully it's not too much noise for this list! Kind regards, Tim Rice

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Re: Linux Town Hall at Kathleen Syme Library with special speaker Duncan from MLUG
by Duncan Roe 19 Jun '26

19 Jun '26

Hi everyone, small correction to Sophie's email: Tonight I'll be talking about bash *cd* history, a new thing (AFAIK) that I invented. bash history has been around forever. mluggers: see https://linuxvictoria.org/ and look for "Linux Town Hall". This is an improved version of the talk I gave at MLUG. Cheers ... Duncan. On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 10:58:03PM +1000, Linux Victoria wrote: > > A familiar face to many of us, Duncan Roe, who organises MLUG (Melbourne > Linux User Group) these days, will be talking about bash history.

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There is an MLUG meeting tomorrow Monday 25th
by Duncan Roe 24 May '26

24 May '26

Hi LUV people, The Melbourne Linux Users Group (MLUG) is having its monthly meeting tomorrow evening. Pre-meeting starts at 6PM, talks start at 7:30. 2 talks this month: 1. Danny Robson: Using HomeAssistant, mosquitto & Tasmota to automate mushroom growing 2. Jerrome: Amazon Linux on AWS This is a hybrid meeting, in-person and online. The online meeting is at <https://meet.jit.si/mlug-au>. We meet in-person at the Great Northern Hotel, 644 Rathdowne St, Carlton North, VIC, 3054, in the dining function room. The MLUG website is https://mlug-au.org. Hope to see some of you tomorrow, Cheers ... Duncan.

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