pbnj - nmap and amap related tool
Hey Guys, I have been working on a tool that is related to both nmap and amap. It takes the input from nmap and parses it to amap then stores the data in a csv file. Then if you like you can go and do another scan and the diff will be added to the csv file. If there is no diff then nothing is outputted. It's called pbnj. http://pbnj.sf.net Let me know if you have any comments, suggestions or ideas. Thanks, Josh Abraham ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
IT Manager Position
This is cross-posted on gnhlug-jobs and gnhlug-discuss. The position is in Andover, Ma. Please send resume in PDF format to [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Manager Description: We are looking for an individual contributor to play a key role in managing our IT infrastructure and network resources. The person will work closely with our engineering team to insure that the network resources and design tools that are critical to our product development efforts and customer support process are maintained and supported in a proactive way utilizing best practices for an organization our size and stage. They will also support other organizations in our company like marketing and finance and will be responsible for connectivity to several field offices. The person will play a key role in identifying and recommending new technologies for our organization and balancing budget resources to achieve the highest possible return for our investment. The individual we're looking for will have worked in a similar role/environment where they have provided hands-on support to a technical user base and must have a positive, pro-active customer service face to their customers. Requirements/Areas of Expertise: Hands-on expert with Linux workstations and networks Hands-on expert with Windows XP/2000 MS Exchange EMC Clariion filer Network Appliance Netapp 700 filer Cisco 3000 VPN concentrator IEEE 802.11 a/b/g Wireless Networking Packeteer 2500 Load balancer Firebox Firewall Barracuda Spam filter Source control - Clearcase, CVS, Subversion Synopsys and Magma design tools Microsoft Great Plains ERP system Background/Experience: BS Computer Science or equivalent 7-10 years experience in a diversified IT support role; some portion of experience as the lead person for an IT group, preferably as a manager Synopsys and Magma design tool administration a plus Source control administration (Clearcase, Subversion, CVS) a plus Start-up/early stage company experience a plus ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Domain Registrar Woes
On 11/16/05, Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 18:18 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:> Check this URL out!> http://www.aitsucks.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1132147323> They admitted it's their fault, thousands of .org domains went poof.That's not how I read that link. It could be that stuff was deleted in the meantime. The only postings now are from labrat reporting the samekind of problem and the aitsucks administrator fanning the flames. Yes, I misread alot of what was going on in cursory glance. But you're not alone in the number of .org domains thru AIT that have gone poofta off the net. It appears that your back up and online, but I'd be leery of any company that has a record like AIT. ANY smaller company that has THAT many employees THAT pissed at you means they've got employees that handle things like, o, say... Accidental domain deletions, talking to you. ;-) Even the run around they gave you turns me off. Did they ever update you with exactly what happened? Thomas
Re: HowsYourHealth.org removal from Root Servers
AIT made you pay? Guy, transfer it, ASAP.. LOL! Thomas On 11/16/05, Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was going to wait until I actually started living happily ever after,but decided I just couldn't wait that long. The root servers are not yet updated.
Reminder: LISA discounts expire tomorrow
LISA '05 Offers the Latest in System Administration Training and Cutting-Edge Practices. Join us in San Diego, CA, December 4-9, 2005, for the 19th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA '05). LISA is the meeting place of choice for system, network, database, storage, security, and all other computer-related administrators. This year's program includes training every day by industry experts such as Gerald Carter, and Richard Bejtlich; Keynote by Qi Lu of Yahoo! Inc.; New! Hit the Ground Running Track; invited talks by industry experts; refereed papers; Guru Is In sessions; a vendor exhibition; and more networking opportunities. Sponsored by USENIX and SAGE. Register by November 18 and save up to $300! http://www.usenix.org/lisa05/or ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Reminder: MerriLUG meeting tonight!
Just a friendly reminder; if you intend on eating, please RSVP so I can make the reservation accurate to within at least an order of magnitude. Thanks! -Ken Who: Ourselves What: A discussion of whatever gets discussed; see below Where: Martha's Exchange When: Thursday, November 17; 6:00 for grub, 7:30 for meeting How: Directions, etc., here: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PlaceMarthasExchange In an attempt to not draw people away from our "quarterly" meetings (eg., last week's seacoast meeting), this month's meeting will be more of a social event than a strict "meeting." General socializing, with some Q&A going, too. So bring yourselves, and bring your questions. Heck: if you're really stumped, bring your hardware, and we'll take a stab. Looking forward, December's meeting -- which falls on the 15th -- will bring us none other than Ben Scott to discuss DNS for those of us (*raises hand*) who need a refresher. [And, yes, this was pushed back a month.] I'll send out a reminder shortly before the 17th. Thanks, -Ken ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: SOHO Backups?
Jason Stephenson wrote: I have heard that you can burn a tar file raw to a CD-R and then treat it like a tape. I've never gotten that to work, so I assume this is an urban legend. You can burn *any* file to a CD-R, assuming it's small enough to fit. The problem is that you then don't have a filesystem on the CD-R, so you can't mount the disk like a normal CD; you need to read it back from the raw device the same way you wrote it. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: rpmbuild and %_topdir
Ben Scott writes: > On 11/16/05, Kevin D. Clark wrote: >> Is there a way to invoke rpmbuild such that %_topdir is specified? > > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch-customizing-rpm.html#id3034443 > > ... suggests that ... > > rpmbuild --define '_topdir /where/you/want' Cool. That is *exactly* what I was looking for. I've tested this and it seems to work well. > -- Ben "Docs are nice. *Complete* docs are even better." Scott Mailing lists where you can bounce questions off of knowledgable folks are great too. Regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E And the madness of the crowd alumni.unh.edu!kdc Is an epileptic fit -- Tom Waits ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
MerriLUG meeting -- books!
I just landed myself with a bunch o' books that someone was going to throw out(!!). These include some *nix classics; below is a sampling of the better-known titles. These will be raffled off this evening. The books are in good shape, with the former owner's initials being the most obvious "bad thing." O'Reilly: DNS and BIND NFS and NIS TCP/IP Network Administration System Performance Tuning And, by-and-large, everyone's favorite overall admin book: Unix System Administration Handbook [an older edition; not sure which, and the cover's a bit scuffed.] == original stuff Just a friendly reminder; if you intend on eating, please RSVP so I can make the reservation accurate to within at least an order of magnitude. Thanks! -Ken Who: Ourselves What: A discussion of whatever gets discussed; see below Where: Martha's Exchange When: Thursday, November 17; 6:00 for grub, 7:30 for meeting How: Directions, etc., here: http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PlaceMarthasExchange In an attempt to not draw people away from our "quarterly" meetings (eg., last week's seacoast meeting), this month's meeting will be more of a social event than a strict "meeting." General socializing, with some Q&A going, too. So bring yourselves, and bring your questions. Heck: if you're really stumped, bring your hardware, and we'll take a stab. Looking forward, December's meeting -- which falls on the 15th -- will bring us none other than Ben Scott to discuss DNS for those of us (*raises hand*) who need a refresher. [And, yes, this was pushed back a month.] I'll send out a reminder shortly before the 17th. Thanks, -Ken ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-announce mailing list gnhlug-announce@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-announce ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Domain Registrar Woes
The frustrating thing for me was getting beyond the people whose main job seems to be "keeping you in the dark". Wednesday, I got this message: >>> Lloyd, I left a message with John earlier this morning. AIT disagrees with PIR's assessment of the situation. The Registry claims to have received a notice from us asking that several hundred domains be deleted. That's not how AIT systems work; deletions are a manual process that cannot be executed en masse. I realize this does nothing to alleviate your issue, but I want you to have an understanding of what's going on. We have asked the Registry to restore the affected domains, but it refuses to admit wrongdoing and insists on restoration fees before doing so. Our fallback position is to register secondary domains that point to the main website so affected customers get relief. < Once they finally admitted that there was a money issue, I was able to get through to them that we *needed* to get the domain online and we could pay a fee to accomplish that. So we were left in limbo while they argued over who was responsible for footing the repair bill. On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 10:55 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: > On 11/16/05, Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 18:18 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: > > Check this URL out! > > http://www.aitsucks.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1132147323 > > They admitted it's their fault, thousands of .org domains > went poof. > That's not how I read that link. It could be that stuff was > deleted in > the meantime. The only postings now are from labrat reporting > the same > kind of problem and the aitsucks administrator fanning the > flames. > > > Yes, I misread alot of what was going on in cursory glance. But > you're not alone in the number of .org domains thru AIT that have gone > poofta off the net. It appears that your back up and online, but I'd > be leery of any company that has a record like AIT. > > ANY smaller company that has THAT many employees THAT pissed at you > means they've got employees that handle things like, o, say... > Accidental domain deletions, talking to you. ;-) > > Even the run around they gave you turns me off. Did they ever > update you with exactly what happened? > > Thomas > -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: MerriLUG meeting -- books!
> I just landed myself with a bunch o' books that someone was going to > throw out(!!). These include some *nix classics; below is a sampling of > the better-known titles. These will be raffled off this evening. The > books are in good shape, with the former owner's initials being the most > obvious "bad thing." > > O'Reilly: > DNS and BIND > NFS and NIS > TCP/IP Network Administration > System Performance Tuning > > And, by-and-large, everyone's favorite overall admin book: > Unix System Administration Handbook > [an older edition; not sure which, and the cover's a bit scuffed.] Those are some nice finds - I'm jealous especially since I still don't know what happened to my old copy of DNS and BIND. Alas, my current job doesn't let me make it to these meetings, but my new one in Nashua in a couple weeks ought to let me get away and start meeting some of you folk. Good luck, -Neil ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Domain Registrar Woes
On 11/17/05, Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The frustrating thing for me was getting beyond the people whose mainjob seems to be "keeping you in the dark". Wednesday, I got this message:on restoration fees before doing so. Our fallback position is to registersecondary domains that point to the main website so affected customers getrelief. Hehe, is the secondary domain something like 'yoursite.org.wedidntbreakittheydid.org' ? Thomas
[Fwd: Can I bother you with another Linux question?]
Hey all, Anybody got an answer? Take it easy, -- David Berube Berube Consulting [EMAIL PROTECTED] (603)-485-9622 http://www.berubeconsulting.com/ --- Begin Message --- David, Hi. It's Fletcher. Can I bother you for another Linux question? I hope it's really simple. We have a system at a customer site in Alabama that has several Windows machines and one Linux machine, Red Hat 9. We have been using pcAnywhere to get remote access from the office here to one of the Windows boxes and from there to the others. So from here we get complete access to all the Windows machines there. Recently we upgraded to pcAnywhere 11.5 which allows us to get into the Linux box. We tried it here with a mockup, got it to work, and now our technician is on site there and trying to do the same setup but it's failing. When we do pcAnywhere's Quick Deploy and Connect it apparently loads a "thin host" on the Linux to connect to. In the log I find the following error: /root/pcADeploy/thinhost: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So I poked around on the Linux box here that is working, and found the file libXm.so.3 in usr/X11R6/lib. I changed the file name temporarily and tried to connect and got exactly the same error in the log here. So I loaded the file over the wire to the system down there, in the same directory. Still we get the same error. Then I found that libXm.so.3 is a link to libXm.so.3.0.1 so I sent that down to Alabama. Still the error. On a Google search I found a forum where someone asked the guy with the problem - is usr/X11R6/lib in your etc/ld.so.conf file? From what I can gather that is a file that is like a PATH thing - telling you where you can find .so files? It is in the conf file here, and I see it in the conf file down there. So the question is - how is it that libXm.so.3 can't be found? The file is there and the path is in the conf file. Is there more that is needed that I don't know about? Any help appreciated for sure. Best wishes, Fletcher --- End Message ---
Re: [Fwd: Can I bother you with another Linux question?]
> > So the question is - how is it that libXm.so.3 can't be found? The > file is there and the path is in the conf file. Is there more that is > needed that I don't know about? 1) VNC would have been a better choice, but... 2) ld.conf doesn't get "propagated" automatically; you need to run the "ldconfig" command. Good luck! -Ken P.S. a really nifty thing that can help in situations like this is the "ldd" command; for example, babylon5:/mnt/babylon5/austin_cadence# ldd /bin/bash libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb7eae000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/libdl.so.2 (0xb7eaa000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0xb7d76000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7ef8000) This tells you all the library dependencies that bash has. Nifty. > > Any help appreciated for sure. > > Best wishes, > > Fletcher ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: MerriLUG meeting -- books!
> Just a friendly reminder; if you intend on eating, please RSVP... Count me in for din-din. > > In an attempt to not draw people away from our "quarterly" meetings > (eg., last week's seacoast meeting), this month's meeting will be > more of a social event than a strict "meeting." General socializing, > with some Q&A going, too. So bring yourselves, and bring your > questions. Heck: if you're really stumped, bring your hardware... I am going to bring a laptop that I haven't been able to tame. It supports APCI but won't go into standby properly. In Standby, the screen goes blank, but the backlight stays on. When the cover is closed the backlight goes off. (Probably a hidden mechanical switch.) I can get it into disk suspend (which I don't desire), in which case the backlight goes off. However, it locks the screen (which I don't want - or at least want to have a choice) and knocks out the sound. I assume this will be easy for someone who knows what they are doing - which isn't me. Jim Kuzdrall ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: Reminder: MerriLUG meeting tonight!
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: > Just a friendly reminder; if you intend on eating, please RSVP so I can > make the reservation accurate to within at least an order of magnitude. I know I'm way too late to have any effect on the most-likely already completed reservation, but just wanted to toss out that I will be there. -- Christopher Schmidt ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: in-situ conversion to FT disk config?
How I ended up creating my RAID1: Recall that hda1 and hdc1 are identically sized partitions on identical disks. hda1 was full of data that I wanted made redundant, hdc1 was empty. I first said: mdadm -v -C /dev/md0 -l 1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hdc1 missing ...which created the RAID1 device, named it md0, declared it to consist of two "real" devices, mentioning one of them (hdc1) while indicating that it was OK for the other one not to be present at the moment (a "degraded" array). mdadm said this: mdadm: /dev/hdc1 appears to contain a reiserfs file system size = 120053696K mdadm: size set to 120053632K ...and then /dev/md0 was immediately available for use. Interestingly, the entire reiserfs filesystem inside the RAID appeared to be mountable and usable, but fsck.resierfs was unhappy to discover that it could no longer see as far into that device as its superblock indicated it should. That's tantalizing; this indicates that if I had had the presence of mind (and courage) to use something like "parted" I could have done this with hda1 instead of hdc1, resized that reiserfs filesystem inside that now-slightly-smaller partition, shrinking it to fit and my original fantasy about an in-situ RAIDification probably could have been realized. Dang... The real story isn't nearly so thrilling, though - I ended up just rebuilding a reiserfs inside that new device (md0) and then mounted it and copied all the data over from hda1. After I had convinced myself all data had been copied intact, I threw The Big Switch by saying: mdadm -v -a /dev/md0 /dev/hda1 ...to which mdadm responded: mdadm: hot added /dev/hda1 ...and the md0_raid1 resync thread is now busily cloning hdc1 onto hda1, while md0 remains available and mounted. It would appear that all I have left to do is to use fdisk to change the partition-type cookies to 0xfd indicating "Linux raid auto" so they'll supposedly be noticed and activated at bootup. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: SOHO Backups?
John Abreau wrote: Jason Stephenson wrote: I have heard that you can burn a tar file raw to a CD-R and then treat it like a tape. I've never gotten that to work, so I assume this is an urban legend. You can burn *any* file to a CD-R, assuming it's small enough to fit. The problem is that you then don't have a filesystem on the CD-R, so you can't mount the disk like a normal CD; you need to read it back from the raw device the same way you wrote it. Yep, but I never got the untar bit to work, even with the same device name. Might try it again sometime. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: SOHO Backups?
Jason Stephenson wrote: John Abreau wrote: Jason Stephenson wrote: I have heard that you can burn a tar file raw to a CD-R and then treat it like a tape. I've never gotten that to work, so I assume this is an urban legend. You can burn *any* file to a CD-R, assuming it's small enough to fit. The problem is that you then don't have a filesystem on the CD-R, so you can't mount the disk like a normal CD; you need to read it back from the raw device the same way you wrote it. Yep, but I never got the untar bit to work, even with the same device name. Might try it again sometime. I once mistakenly burned a .mpg file onto a cd without making an iso image first. I noticed my error when I popped it into my dvd player and it didn't recognize it. When I stuck it back in my PC and ran "mplayer /dev/cdrom", it played just fine. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: [Fwd: Can I bother you with another Linux question?]
On 11/17/05, David J Berube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all,Anybody got an answer?Take it easy, When Ken said. Even then it may not work is there are missing dependencies on the part of THAT library as well. Why I hate rpm and love debian.. ;-) SuSE got RPM going pretty good, tho.. TCharron
FW: The Linux Executive Report from IBM
Title: The Linux Executive Report from IBM: November 17, 2005 I thought this might be of interest. Richard A Sharpe 8 Meadowview Lane Merrimack, NH 03054 "Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you, not because they are kind, but because you are." size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> From: Linux Executive Report [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:07 PM To: Richard Sharpe Subject: The Linux Executive Report from IBM The Linux Executive Report from IBM November 17, 2005 Welcome to The Linux Executive Report from IBM. The Linux Executive Report from IBM is a biweekly summary of important trends and market research, case studies and information about IBM's Linux initiatives of interest to senior management. If you would prefer not to receive this newsletter in the future, please scroll to the bottom of this message and follow the instructions. To subscribe, visit here. SPOTLIGHT • The County is Open INSIDE LINUX AT IBM • SUNY Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics Implements Linux • Business Needs Drive IT Innovation for GHY International LINUX INSIGHTS • Linux IP Legal Foundations Strengthened • Systems Running Linux Dominate Top Spots in the TOP500 • Moving Beyond Red Hat and Novell SUSE SPOTLIGHT The County is Open What began as an effort to upgrade and consolidate an existing eServer™ iSeries™ and pSeries® infrastructure supporting business-critical systems ultimately unveiled an open-source solution for the United Kingdom's Flintshire County Council in North East Wales. The council, which serves as the local authority for 147,000 inhabitants, has chosen the Linux operating system as its new supported platform, opening a range of possibilities. Kicking off the migration project last September, Flintshire upgraded to two eServer i5 570 systems. The i570s employ IBM POWER5™ microprocessors, the ninth generation of 64-bit processors from IBM. The POWER5 architecture represents a new approach to enterprise computing, enabling Linux, AIX® and i5/OS™ to run natively and share fractions of a processor. Go here. INSIDE LINUX AT IBM SUNY Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics Implements Linux The State University of New York has deployed a new parallel supercomputer comprised entirely of clustered blade servers rather than clustered rack-mounted servers. The blade supercomputer is at the SUNY Buffalo campus, which has a supercomputer center dedicated to science, visualization, and bioinformatics, and is used to study the structure of proteins in the hope of treating diseases and discovering new drugs. Built by IBM, the system is comprised of 266 two-way HS20 Xeon DP-based BladeCenter™ blade servers, each equipped with 2.8GHz processors and 1GB of main memory. The configuration also includes seven xSeries® 345 two-way Xeon DP servers and 5TB of FAStT700 storage arrays that act as a data repository that the blade supercomputer accesses as it performs its protein simulations. The IBM configuration will be rated at approximately 1.3 teraflops and runs Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1. For the rest of the story, go here. Business Need Drives IT Innovation for GHY International GHY International, a leading provider of international trade brokerage services, and one of Canada's leading brokers of trade services, faced a host of new requirements when the business environment changed after September 11, 2001. It needed to transform its business in order to more effectively operate in a dramatically changing, cross-border environment. In response, it re-engineered its IT architecture, consolidating a farm of 17 diverse servers into a highly virtualized environment on IBM eServer™ iSeries™. It leveraged an iSeries 820 with logical partitions (LPARs) to host Linux applications and delivered 14 different services, including imaging applications, a firewall, file-and-print serving and Web application serving. In the process, GHY cut its IT budget by 14 percent. Read the whole story here. LINUX INSIGHTS Linux IP Legal Foundations Strengthened The intellectual property foundation that underpins Linux has been strengthened considerably, according to an article in the November 16 issue of Business Week. The weekly business news magazine
Re: SOHO Backups?
For the record, I would *not* advise hot-swapping IDE drives on a 2.4 kernel. I tried this (using the bays from aforementioned shop in Manchester, specifically marked hot-swappable on the box) and hosed a filesystem. From what I have read, hot swap IDE is not supported b/c the kernel only flushes IDE buffers on shutdown. Maybe 2.6 is different--I haven't looked into it. ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: SOHO Backups?
> There is a little shop in Manchester that sells hot swap IDE > drive holders and trays for very little. They are plastic, but I think I know the shop you mean... in basement of that mill building, right? I'd offer one caveat regarding buying there: the cooling fans in those bays start to sing after about two months of use. There's no way I know of to either prolong their life or replace them. So if you don't feel like returning/exchanging your hot swap bays every two months, you'll be investing in cardboard and rubber shims as well. :) Dave P.S. Loose screws are a great way to make your computer run more quietly! ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss