[brlug-general] Why is RPM still a pain in the neck?

[John Hebert]

Hello,

I've started using Linux (CentOS 6) in preparation to take the RHCSA
Exam 200. I was previously running WinXP (the dreaded FPS monkey had
me) and only ran Linux in VMs or a dual-boot config for learning. I
work in a big iron AIX environment, so I get my UNIX jollies that way.

The first thing that struck me was that RPM is still the same elephant
in the room no one mentions, just three years older. Is it just me? Am
I missing some magic tool out there?

I get my hopes up every time I see the message "Resolving
dependencies..." only to have them dashed again and again, with the
response "Errors: this rpm requires that rpm and this other one too,
and while you're at it, you should probably get this one as well, even
though its name has nothing to do with the rpm you want". And the
insanity repeats itself, but now I am Googling for other rpms located
on sites with more ads than good search results.

It would be more truthful if the Package Installer's response was "Sit
and wait while I tell you how you have failed me. It's your fault. You
should have known what I need and where to get it." And then it gives
you the silent treatment. You try again a few more times, but the
effort is usually more than the reward. In the end, nothing gets
resolved. You tell yourself you don't need that rpm, that you can live
without it and move on. But it's just a lie.

Yum seems to have stricter standards for package distribution and the
local databases are cool, but it still seems I don't have right repos
setup. Is there some master site listing the yum repos and the
packages available there?

RPM based package management is a muddled, mish-mash misnomer. I want
something like Gentoo's portage, or OpenBSD's ports tree. Ok, there
are not as many software packages available, but you KNOW that up
front, and not after going through many gyrations of the "Resolving
dependencies ..." madness. The time and frustration spent in
attempting to manually resolve rpms could have been better spent in
compiling code form source, which to me is a lot of fun and a chance
to learn something.

Frustrated in San Antonio.

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[brlug-general] stupid blog and social media questions

[John Hebert]

How the heck do I post to the blog site? I registered for an account
and can login successfully, but I'm seeing any links or forms to send
posts. Dagnabit fancy innernets.

John
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[brlug-general] cloud + crap

[John Hebert]

cloud + crap = clap


Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:26:12 -0600
From: Ryan McCain 
To: "'general@brlug.net'" 
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Google CR-48 Laptop
Message-ID:
   <43f590f51fdb044f81a4bfdb905ab957030d44c...@mailmbx10.mail.la.gov>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
cloud = crap
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[brlug-general] IT'S A TRAP!!! Re: General Digest, Vol 83, Issue 5

[John Hebert]

>
> From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On
> Behalf Of Jarred White
> Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 4:44 PM
> To: general@brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] I wouldn't.
>
>
> Star Wars is a little too geeky for me though. Also why is Leia marrying
> Ackbar? Dare I say it? Is it a trap?
>
>
 http://www.dayofthejedi.com/articles/2008/05/images/motivators/b/037.jpg
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Re: [brlug-general] FW: [ale] Suicide Linux (Dustin Puryear)

[John Hebert]

Better yet, ignite explosives mounted in the case.


> From: "Dustin Puryear" 

Subject: Re: [brlug-general] FW: [ale] Suicide Linux


> It would be great if, somehow someway, Suicide Linux could then make a
> little *poof* cloud of smoke come up after you messed up and it rm -rf /
> your disk.
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[brlug-general] Geek Convention Finder

[John Hebert]

I was looking for a reason to justify taking an Amtrak trip to L.A. and
found this site:

http://containment.greententacles.com/

John
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[brlug-general] moving Police to get more access to your data? to polit...@brlug.net

[John Hebert]

To subscribe to polit...@brlug.net, see http://www.brlug.net/lists.php3.

John
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Re: [brlug-general] Police to get more access to your data?

[John Hebert]

My thoughts:

1) Use Freenet (http://freenetproject.org/) to store and share your data, as
well as to chat and browse anonymously on an encrypted peer-to-peer network.
Sure, it still depends on keeping your passphrase private, but how far would
the FBI go to force someone to give their passphrase? Start practicing
holding your breath underwater.

2) The article  is misleadingly titled "Police want backdoor to Web users'
private data" (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html?tag=digg2),
but it is about the results of a survey of some law enforcement officers. I
was more worried about David Duke's poll surveys than this yellow journalism
by Declan McCullagh. Shame, shame, SHAME on you Dustin for even mentioning
this article on the mailing list. Oh, wait. It is your mailing list...

3) Law enforcement can and do use actual investigative techniques to find
those who create child pornography (i.e.; photography of people less than 18
years of age performing sexual activity). A well-designed and secured
network for law enforcement to do their jobs is a good thing. Think about
this: law enforcement officials are using email now to exchange information
about investigations. (!!!)

 It seems kinda ass-backwards for some law enforcement officials to take
away the 5th Amendment for all US citizens because some citizens keep a
collection of certain bits on the computers when there are cases of actual
sexual abuse of children (again, under 18 years) within this country, not to
mention other countries. Those US citizens who vote with their cable TV
remotes and support taking away the 5th may not want to visit certain other
countries. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent. Look for the big
black spot on the map.

4) Stupid border guards don't know the difference between child pornography
and hentai.

Extra bonus points for comments on the philosophical problems involved with
enforcing pornography laws perceived with analog interfaces.

John
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Re: [brlug-general] General Digest, Vol 77, Issue 1

[John Hebert]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:00 PM,  wrote:

>   1. md5sum and diff? (Brad Bendily)
>   2. Re: md5sum and diff? (William Anderson)
> --
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:23:16 -0600
> From: William Anderson 
>
> You should be able to just copy the md5sum from a website into a text
> file and just let md5sum do a check:
>
>  $ md5sum testfile
>  68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940  testfile
>  $ md5sum testfile  > testfile.md5
>  $ md5sum -c testfile.md5
>  testfile: OK
>
> The format for the check file is the md5sum, two spaces, and the file
> name.  You can also specify multiple files, one per line, and check
> several files at once (e.g. if your installing a piece of software and
> serveral dependencies, you can just download all the tar balls, copy the
> md5sum for each into a single file and let md5sum check them all).
>
>
>
Nifty. Didn't know about the "-c" flag. I think you missed a file arg in
there though?
md5sum -c testfile testfile.md5
testfile: OK

I'm trying to figure out something even lazier.

$ md5sum pcmciafloppy.img | sed 's/*/ /' > local.md5; curl
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/pcmciafloppy.img.md5.txt>
remote.md5; diff local.md5 remote.md5
$

How could I use i/o redirection to make it simpler? The diff man page says
it can read from the input line, but I'm not sure how to make that work.

John
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Re: [brlug-general] UNIX password sync

[John Hebert]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 12:00 PM,  wrote:
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:54:53 -0500
> From: "Dustin Puryear" 
> Subject: [brlug-general] UNIX password sync
>
> Hi everyone-
>
> We have a UNIX network of 50+ Linux servers plus a few Solaris boxes. We
> need to keep user accounts and passwords synchronized.
>
> This would be easy enough with NIS, NIS+, LDAP, or AD, but there is a
> requirement that no central directory or database be used. The solution
> has to be distributed across the servers in question.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution, commercial or open source, that can do
> this?
>

[Distributed peer-to-peer authentication | decentralized trust management]
is a Flying Dutchman. Search Google for it; lots of scholarly papers, no
implementations.

You _could_ disguise one tiny Linux box as a paperweight, make it the
Kerberos master KDC, the rest of the boxes slave KDCs and sync the auth DB
every so often with a cron job, but that's just silly.

John


Brak says "Postlethwaite & Netterville! Postlethwaite &
Netterville! Postlethwaite & Netterville!"
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Re: [brlug-general] versioning system (for different OSs)

[John Hebert]

Hey Mat!

Try http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ for the Windows client.

I've read good things (unless you work on the Linux kernel ;) ) over the
years about http://subversion.tigris.org/ for the backend.

And here are other clients for Subversion:
http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html#all-clients.

Hope this helps!


> From: mat branyon 
> Subject: [brlug-general] versioning system
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been tasked with setting up a versioning system for my dev team.  We
> are a small group, and while I use linux for everything, they use windows
> for the most part (and this might be extended to a couple people running
> osx).
>
> I need a versioning system that has a good windows client, as well as
> linux.  SVN seemed to fail miserably when someone tried to dl my repository
> onto windows (I think due to the fact that there were some symlinks in it).
> Git doesn't seem to have a decent interface for either linux or windows (I
> don't mind doing command line, but I'm the only one).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
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[brlug-general] The Matrix Ctrl-Alt-Del

[John Hebert]

The Matrix... On WinXP 
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Re: [brlug-general] E16 finally has serious competiton

[John Hebert]

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:46:55 -0600
> From: Will Hill 
>
> http://boycottnovell.com/2009/02/13/video-elive-e17/
>

If Steve Ballmer grabbed his breast while demoing Vista, would you like it
more?


> While Windows 7 tries to catch up to KDE and Mac, free software is leaving
> them that many more years in the past.  Well, it's not entirely free.


*snorts milk through nose*


> It's got non commercial clauses.  That's a shame and it will cause delays
> between when they get things done and when the rest of the world will have
> it
> as free software.  Take what it gives.
>

WTF? But ... you said ... software freedom ... ?!?



Just kidding, Will. Don't flame me, bro. :)

John
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Re: [brlug-general] looking for SNMP info

[John Hebert]

>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:55:16 -0600 (CST)
> From: Brad Bendily 
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Using SSH to set up a VPN
>
> Curious, exactly what kind of info are you looking for on SNMP?
>

I am an SNMP newbie. I've started a project at work to monitor availability
of services on a server. These services support SNMP v1, but the docs are
pretty slim.

I've been playing around with Net-SNMP and can do a simple SNMP get from my
workstation for the server's name and so on, so I know SNMP works on
it. However, I can't figure out how to receive a trap from the app's agent
on the server. There are too many factors with that configuration to mention
now, so I'd like to pose a simple question.

What is the simplest demonstration of a trap (both sending and receiving)
using the Net-SNMP (http://www.net-snmp.org) tools? Can this be done using
only Net-SNMP tools? I'm using Net-SNMP as it is cross-platform. And yes, it
is open source. ;)

Thanks!
John
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Re: [brlug-general] Using SSH to set up a VPN

[John Hebert]

>
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:23:31 -0600
> From: Petri Laihonen 
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Using SSH to set up a VPN
> To: general@brlug.net
> Cc: no...@nolug.org
> Message-ID: <496a00e3.4060...@weblizards.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> Interesting
> While I do not have time to make any comparisons, I still wonder which
> one would be simpler (or perhaps same amount of effort)
> OpenVPN (also uses TUN) or SSH like explaned below.
>
> Petr


I like learning how to solve larger IT problems with a smaller set of
generic tools, like SSH and other common UNIX utilities. It helps me broaden
my knowledge of IT in general.

Nice write-up Joey! I'd like to see more short articles and howtos like this
on the list. Anybody have any nifty SNMP info to share?

John
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[brlug-general] maybe Midway Is? Re: JOB POSTING: IT job in Hawaii

[John Hebert]

Good point. Probably Midway Island (pop. 40 according to wikipedia). Big
difference, but would still be an interesting place to work.

Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:05:31 -0600
> From: "Joe Fruchey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] JOB POSTING: IT job in Hawaii,
>desktop/LAN install/maint, 5 yrs exp ~$45K
> To: general@brlug.net
> Message-ID:
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Actually, it says "on an island in the Mid-Pacific." The state is
> listed as Hawaii, but methinks that's just because that's what matched
> the closest. So, what, American Samoa?
>
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[brlug-general] JOB POSTING: IT job in Hawaii, desktop/LAN install/maint, 5 yrs exp ~$45K

[John Hebert]

IT geeks dream job. HAWAII!
Check this out. You will work for a military contractor and get all expenses
paid; car, food, housing, relocation, etc.

You need an Assoc. Degree and 5yrs IT experience with desktop/LAN/WIFI
installs and maint. Pays about $45K.
http://www.thinkenergygroup.com/think.nsf/J/73816?OpenDocument&campaign=search&frm=G01

Wish I was young again...

Send pics if you go.
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Re: [brlug-general] Running a network on 12V

[John Hebert]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:20 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:18:00 -0500
> From: Edmund Cramp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [brlug-general] Running a  network on 12V
> To: "'general@brlug.net'" 
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
> This storm got me thinking - it looks like the phone system (mostly) stayed
> up ... at least until the CO batteries and generators died.  But when we
> lost AC power at home my UPS running the DSL modem, wifi and firewall
> started to complain after half an hour... I disconnected the PC running the
> firewall (Pfsense) and wifi and stayed on the DSL modem with my laptop via a
> wire for another hour before the UPS finally died.
>
> So what I need I think is a 12V battery and a setup that runs the modem,
> firewall, wifi and switch all directly off 12V - this has got to be a better
> solution than buying a bigger UPS.
>

12V connected to DC to AC inverter (
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WGYNAA) to power your DSL modem and a
Linksys WRT54G variant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series)
that has been flashed with one of the Linux distros like http://openwrt.org
 or http://www.sveasoft.com for the WRT54Gs. Most of these inverters will
plug into your car/truck of course.

Hope this helps!

John
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[brlug-general] JOB POSTING Fwd: Contract PC Technician Located Metairie

[John Hebert]

Thought somebody might be interested.
John

-- Forwarded message --
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Contract PC Technician Located Metairie



09/10/2008

Greetings

My name is Vivian Mensah and I'm a Technical Recruiter at Info
Technologies. We currently have consulting opportunites located in *Ste
3250-Metairie* at *LA. *Our records show that you are an experienced
professional with experience in * ENTER* *SKILLS . *


The positions is for a PC Field Maintenance Technician (IT) to Performs
general maintenance tasks, troubleshoots and repairs computer systems and
peripheral equipment throughout the organization
- Develop and update a procedural manual for the configuration and
installation of personal computers
- Experience with research and procurement of construction
materials/facilities systems components and coordinating/performing
maintenance repair work, alterations, remodeling, minor construction,
checkout installation and servicing of mechanical and electrical equipment
and building systems
- Includes installing, diagnosing, repairing, maintaining, and upgrading all
hardware and equipment while ensuring optimal workstation performance
- Identifies, researches and resolves technical problems
- Work with Management and third party hardware/software vendors to ensure
equipment and software effective solutions are best to meet the customer
requirements
Bachelor's degree or one-three years related experience and/or training; or
equivalent combination of education and experience
Training and/or license in applying mechanical/electrical
systems/distribution equipment/communication systems technology or higher
3 - 5 years of experience successfully performing utility systems/component
repair and maintenance
3 - 5 years of construction project development, coordination, determining
material quantity and cost estimates
Minimum 2 years experience networking in the TCP/IP LAN/WAN environment
desired
Proficient in Microsoft Office products, including but not limited to Word,
Excel, and Outlook.

If you are qualified, available, interested, or planning to make a change,
please call me ASAP at 732-222-1250 x 14. Please do forward a MS Word copy
of your resume to me.
Also if you know of anyone that might be intersted please do forward this
email to them.

If you do not wish to receive any further please emails please do let me
know.

 Thank you,

VivianMensah
Senior Technical Recruiter
Info Technologies, Inc.
(212) 710-5529 Ext.5529
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.infotechnologiesinc.com
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Re: [brlug-general] General Digest, Vol 63, Issue 2

[John Hebert]

On 9/3/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 09:59:23 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "c.a. weisheit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> is anybody out there? Is there power to the  or the mail system?
> how many of you are back online?


Power back on at Hwy 30 in Gonzales about 9:30am this morning. Demco is my
electricity provider. Checked my Eatel Internet connection about 2pm and it
was working.

John
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Re: [brlug-general] General Digest, Vol 62, Issue 33

[John Hebert]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:25 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] OS Poll Time.
>
> Now I know why you are so grumpy.
>
> On Friday 29 August 2008, Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> > Home: Vista 64
> > Work: XP
>

Reading this list is like watching that movie "Groundhog's Day". ;)

John
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[brlug-general] job post Fwd: #09276-PC Technician

[John Hebert]

-- Forwarded message --
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:24 PM
Subject: #09276-PC Technician

08/26/2008

Dear Candidate,

  My name is David and I'm an IT recruiter at Algomod Technologies
Corporation. Our records show that you are an experienced IT professional
with experience in PC support. This experience is relevant to one of my
current openings.

It is located in Baton Rouge, LA.
*
PC Technician - HW/SW/Networking
Baton Rouge, LA
3 Month Contract
*
Hourly Rate: $15/hr

*Job Description:*

Guided responsibilities for installing, maintaining and repairing company
and multi-vendor systems which include hardware, software and networking
products as well as operating systems. Installs and optimizes 1294 product
and configurations at customer sites. Ensures customer satisfaction by
advising customers on preventative maintenance and configurations which may
impact product performance. Takes responsibility for potential or desired
follow-up services (Sales/Systems Engineering) or problem escalation.
Supports and observes installations being performed by experienced
field-engineers. Entry level position. Responsible for installing,
maintaining and repairing company and multi-vendor systems which include
hardware, software and networking products as well as operating systems.
Installs and optimizes HW/SW/Networking product and configurations at
customer sites. May diagnose and resolve product performance problems.
Ensures customer satisfaction by advising customers on preventative
maintenance and configurations which may impact product performance. Takes
responsibility for potential or desired follow-up services (Sales/Systems
Engineering) or problem escalation. Maintains a functional understanding of
company service solutions. Job Requirements:

Start date: ASAP

Work hours: 8-5

Full time or part time: Full time

Days worked (mon-fri, sat-sun etc):Mon-Fri

Length of assignment:26 weeks

Pysical Address: LUPINE AVE

City State and zip code: BATON ROUGE, LA 7080500

County:USA

True Job Description including soft skills:

May include same work in the Geismar , LA location.

Set up and install pc's and laptops. Install all software. Install and
config applications, setup outlook, use Ghost, backup and restore client
data.

Install pc at deskside and confirm all s/w is working.

 If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change, or
know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest,
please email me with a copy of your latest resume, even if we have spoken
recently about a different position. If you do respond via e-mail please
include a daytime phone number so I can reach you.  In considering
candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.  Thank you.

  Sincerely yours,
  David Aeschbacher
  Algomod Technologies Corp.


Note: Please allow me to reiterate that I chose to contact you either
because your resume had been posted to one of the internet job sites to
which we subscribe, or you had previously submitted your resume to Algomod.
I assumed that you are either looking for a new employment opportunity, or
you are interested in investigating the current job market.

If you are not currently seeking employment, or if you would prefer I
contact you at some later date, please indicate your date of availability so
that I may honor your request. In any event, I respectfully recommend you
continue to avail yourself to the employment options and job market
information we provide with our e-mail notices.

Thanks again.

David Aeschbacher
Algomod Technologies Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

For more job opportunities: www.algomod.com
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[brlug-general] job postings to list?

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

Returning to the list after a long hiatus.

Is it okay to post BR job openings here? Have a few that some subscribers
might be interested in.

John Hebert
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[brlug-general] cheapest used Cisco IOS capable device? Do I need one?

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

I'm studying for the CCNA certification. What would be the cheapest used Cisco 
device I should look for on Ebay? Or do I even need one and just buy a book or 
two and study Cisco's training info on-line?

Thanks for your recommendations,
John Hebert




  

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[brlug-general] Recommendations for DNS and website hosting provider?

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

I am looking for recommendations for a DNS and website hosting provider for a 
small start-up business. The domain name is already registered.

Requirements needed are DNS, mail forwarding and website hosting for a low 
usage site. No scripting languages or DBs needed at this time. It would be 
helpful if the services could be managed by a non-geek.

Thank in advance,
John Hebert





  

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Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] df breaks scripts

[John Hebert]

Alvaro,

'df -P' makes the output of 'df' conform to POSIX standards, where devices with 
long (>20 chars) names are printed on one line. It also changes the column 
lables. See 'info df' for details.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Alvaro Zuniga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general@brlug.net
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 4:01:53 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] df breaks scripts


Now 
I 
am 
really 
confused 
here, 
-P 
deals 
with 
the 
512-byte 
block 
right?
so 
what 
happened 
to 
the 
formatting 
problem? 
So 
I 
am 
really, 
really 
confused 
now. 
Must 
be 
some 
kind 
of 
sysadmin 
talk. 


On 
Mon, 
Feb 
04, 
2008 
at 
02:59:02PM 
-0600, 
Dustin 
Puryear 
wrote:
> 
This 
may 
be 
true: 
"People 
who 
shortened 
device 
to 
dev 
might 
not 
think 
> 
that 
'/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00' 
is 
a 
sane 
device 
name." 
However, 
> 
that's 
a 
default 
that 
Red 
Hat/CentOS 
uses 
when 
doing 
LVM 
so 
it 
would 
be 
> 
nice 
if 
the 
df 
on 
Red 
Hat/CentOS 
handled 
it 
well. 
:)
> 
> 
The 
problem 
with 
Filesys::DiskSpace 
is 
that 
it 
doesn't 
address 
the 
core 
> 
issue 
here: 
Most 
existing 
scripts 
expect 
df 
to 
act 
in 
a 
certain 
way..
> 
> 
So 
far, 
the 
only 
solution 
we've 
been 
able 
to 
come 
up 
with 
is 
a 
wrapper 
> 
for 
df 
that 
forces 
-P.
> 
> 
--
> 
Puryear 
Information 
Technology, 
LLC
> 
Baton 
Rouge, 
LA 
* 
225-706-8414
> 
http://www.puryear-it.com
> 
> 
Author, 
"Best 
Practices 
for 
Managing 
Linux 
and 
UNIX 
Servers"
>  
  
http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
> 
> 
Identity 
Management, 
LDAP, 
and 
Linux 
Integration
> 
> 
> 
willhill 
wrote:
> 
> 
People 
who 
shortened 
device 
to 
dev 
might 
not 
think 
> 
> 
that 
"/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00" 
is 
a 
sane 
device 
name.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
Have 
you 
looked 
at 
perl's 
Filesys::DiskSpace?  
I 
ran 
into 
it 
here:
> 
> 
> 
> 
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-write-perl-script-to-monitor-disk-space.html
> 
> 
> 
> 
A 
similar 
dissaster 
happened 
to 
g77, 
where 
the 
print 
output 
was 
automatically 
> 
> 
line 
broken 
to 
80 
columns.  
This 
broke 
every 
loop 
formated 
code.  
I'm 
not 
> 
> 
sure 
how 
that 
one 
turned 
out 
because 
I've 
done 
everything 
in 
C 
since.
> 
> 
> 
> 
On 
Monday 
04 
February 
2008 
10:43 
am, 
Dustin 
Puryear 
wrote:
> 
>> 
But 
I 
think 
you're 
missing 
the 
point. 
Since 
days 
of 
yore, 
people 
have
> 
>> 
generally 
used 
'df' 
with 
the 
assumption 
that 
it 
had 
sane 
output 
by
> 
>> 
default. 
;)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] df breaks scripts

[John Hebert]

Why not just put "alias df='df -P'" in your scripts instead of a wrapper?

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general@brlug.net
Sent: Monday, February 4, 2008 2:59:02 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] df breaks scripts


This 
may 
be 
true: 
"People 
who 
shortened 
device 
to 
dev 
might 
not 
think 
that 
'/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00' 
is 
a 
sane 
device 
name." 
However, 
that's 
a 
default 
that 
Red 
Hat/CentOS 
uses 
when 
doing 
LVM 
so 
it 
would 
be 
nice 
if 
the 
df 
on 
Red 
Hat/CentOS 
handled 
it 
well. 
:)

The 
problem 
with 
Filesys::DiskSpace 
is 
that 
it 
doesn't 
address 
the 
core 
issue 
here: 
Most 
existing 
scripts 
expect 
df 
to 
act 
in 
a 
certain 
way..

So 
far, 
the 
only 
solution 
we've 
been 
able 
to 
come 
up 
with 
is 
a 
wrapper 
for 
df 
that 
forces 
-P.

--
Puryear 
Information 
Technology, 
LLC
Baton 
Rouge, 
LA 
* 
225-706-8414
http://www.puryear-it.com

Author, 
"Best 
Practices 
for 
Managing 
Linux 
and 
UNIX 
Servers"
  
 
http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices

Identity 
Management, 
LDAP, 
and 
Linux 
Integration


willhill 
wrote:
> 
People 
who 
shortened 
device 
to 
dev 
might 
not 
think 
> 
that 
"/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00" 
is 
a 
sane 
device 
name.  
> 
> 
Have 
you 
looked 
at 
perl's 
Filesys::DiskSpace?  
I 
ran 
into 
it 
here:
> 
> 
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-write-perl-script-to-monitor-disk-space.html
> 
> 
A 
similar 
dissaster 
happened 
to 
g77, 
where 
the 
print 
output 
was 
automatically 
> 
line 
broken 
to 
80 
columns.  
This 
broke 
every 
loop 
formated 
code.  
I'm 
not 
> 
sure 
how 
that 
one 
turned 
out 
because 
I've 
done 
everything 
in 
C 
since.
> 
> 
On 
Monday 
04 
February 
2008 
10:43 
am, 
Dustin 
Puryear 
wrote:
>> 
But 
I 
think 
you're 
missing 
the 
point. 
Since 
days 
of 
yore, 
people 
have
>> 
generally 
used 
'df' 
with 
the 
assumption 
that 
it 
had 
sane 
output 
by
>> 
default. 
;)
> 
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[brlug-general] EventSentry Re: open source tools for centralized logging?

[John Hebert]

Thanks for the info.

Turns out we own EventSentry (http://www.eventsentry.com/features/SYSLOG) which 
will do the job.. I appreciate the replies as it helped me to think about our 
requirements.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general@brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:41:03 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?


This is what I'd do John to keep it simple:

1. Bring up a log aggregator like Splunk (free for 500MB/day) or an
 open 
source one.

2. Point all UNIX syslog at all.

3. Install EventLog2Syslog on your Windows boxen. Point at server.

4. Install file2syslog on your Linux boxes. Point your Tomcat etc logs 
to localhost which routes to Splunk.

That should catch 80% of what you need. The rest is the fun part.







  

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Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?

[John Hebert]

The more I google around and read your replies, the more I realize I need to 
define some hard requirements for this project. :)

We don't run too many apps on the UNIX boxes other than Tomcat and a few 
others, so redirecting those logs won't be much work. I hope.

All of the Tomcat installs are the same, so that won't be too much work. The 
Solaris and CentOS boxes are pretty much identical, respectively.

"Iceberg? Foolish man, this is the Titanic!" :)

John Hebert


- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general@brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:58:01 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?


AND you need something that can read the million more log files that 
don't get pumped into syslog or Event Log. One way to mitigate that 
though is to get a file2syslog tool and pump those into syslog.

The thing is, 99% of the interesting stuff is not in /var/log/messages 
or Event Log. It's in $apphome/logs/error.log.

John, you've debugged a Tomcat app before. You know what I mean. :)


Scott Harney wrote:
> Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> Seriously, if you have more than just UNIX syslog logging needs,
 just 
>> doing a syslog server via Cygwin isn't going to get you very far.
>>   
> Right. you need something that will export Windows Event viewer
 "events" 
> to syslog messages that can be shipped to a local (Cygwin) or remote 
> (linux) syslog server.






  

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Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?

[John Hebert]

Hmmm. Getting emails out of order.

In any case, I meant to say that we want to collect Windows and UNIX logs and 
SNMP events to one server.

I forgot that we have Cacti installed (http://www.cacti.net) though it isn't 
used much. It already gathers SNMP events to MySQL and there is a plugin to 
display syslog data from MySQL

The only unknown is how well syslog-ng runs under Cygwin.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general@brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:22:38 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?


Yeah, you don't want JUST an SNMP server. That's just a small piece of 
the puzzle. Splunk is good, like Ronnie said.

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John Hebert wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> We have a mixed UNIX and Microsoft Windows environment. We would like
 to centralize logging for all servers (and hopefully SNMP) on one
 server. However, there is only one UNIX admin (me) with a few servers for a
 small group and four Windows admins handling many servers for the
 entire network, so it makes more sense to use a Windows server for keeping
 these logs.
> 
> Does anyone know or use a good open source application for
 centralized logging that runs on (*gasp*) Windows?
> 
> It would be great if syslog-ng ran on Windows, but it does not. :(
  There is a forwarding agent for syslog-ng that runs on Windows, but that
 does not fit our requirements.
> 
> Thanks,
> John Hebert
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?

[John Hebert]

Woot! Thanks!

Will try to configure it over the next few days and will the list know how it 
works.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general@brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 1:48:39 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?


Cygwin to the rescue!

http://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin/release/syslog-ng/

Looks like there is a recent tarball there dated 1/14/08.


On Jan 17, 2008 12:46 PM, John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Howdy,

We have a mixed UNIX and Microsoft Windows environment. We would like to 
centralize logging for all servers (and hopefully SNMP) on one server. However, 
there is only one UNIX admin (me) with a few servers for a small group and four 
Windows admins handling many servers for the entire network, so it makes more 
sense to use a Windows server for keeping these logs.


Does anyone know or use a good open source application for centralized logging 
that runs on (*gasp*) Windows?

It would be great if syslog-ng ran on Windows, but it does not. :(  There is a 
forwarding agent for syslog-ng that runs on Windows, but that does not fit our 
requirements.


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[brlug-general] open source tools for centralized logging?

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

We have a mixed UNIX and Microsoft Windows environment. We would like to 
centralize logging for all servers (and hopefully SNMP) on one server. However, 
there is only one UNIX admin (me) with a few servers for a small group and four 
Windows admins handling many servers for the entire network, so it makes more 
sense to use a Windows server for keeping these logs.

Does anyone know or use a good open source application for centralized logging 
that runs on (*gasp*) Windows?

It would be great if syslog-ng ran on Windows, but it does not. :(  There is a 
forwarding agent for syslog-ng that runs on Windows, but that does not fit our 
requirements.

Thanks,
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Re: [brlug-general] Solaris: 'fsck /dev/rmt/0'?

[John Hebert]

Fernando,

Thanks for the reply and info. Don't worry about finding those links for me, 
I'll look them up.

My reason for the email was just to find out more about using tapes for 
backups. I have plenty of new tapes, so I just replaced it.

John

- Original Message 
From: Fernando Vilas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general@brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:02:11 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Solaris: 'fsck /dev/rmt/0'?


On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:42:14 John Hebert wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I am testing ufsdump for use in backups on a Solaris 10 box. Testing
 was
> going fine, then I get this:
>
> bash-2.05# ufsdump 0c /dev/rmt/0 /tmp
>   DUMP: Warning - block 16 is beyond the end of `/dev/rmt/0'
>   DUMP: Warning - super-block on device `/dev/rmt/0' is corrupt - run
 fsck
>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
>
> Seems kinda weird to run fsck on a tape device, but UNIX elevates
 one's
> understanding of weirdness to a higher level.
>
> I rewound the tape ('mt rewind') and retried the above command a
 couple of
> times, but get the same result.
>
> Should I just run 'fsck /dev/rmt/0'? Should I just erase the entire
 tape
> ('mt erase')? Is the tape just fubar and not usable?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> John Hebert
>

My only experience with ufsdump is with the old way of migrating to
 zfs.  
Sol10u5 is rumored to be in beta Feb 11, with zfs boot, if you can wait
 for 
it.  There have been several people who backup zfs to some storage
 device, 
and then store snapshots on something else for incrementals.  I could
 find 
those links for you if that's the way you want to go.

If you have a need to run ufsdump / ufsrestore for your backups for
 another 
reason, that's a different story.

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[brlug-general] Solaris: 'fsck /dev/rmt/0'?

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

I am testing ufsdump for use in backups on a Solaris 10 box. Testing was going 
fine, then I get this:

bash-2.05# ufsdump 0c /dev/rmt/0 /tmp
  DUMP: Warning - block 16 is beyond the end of `/dev/rmt/0'
  DUMP: Warning - super-block on device `/dev/rmt/0' is corrupt - run fsck
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

Seems kinda weird to run fsck on a tape device, but UNIX elevates one's 
understanding of weirdness to a higher level.

I rewound the tape ('mt rewind') and retried the above command a couple of 
times, but get the same result.

Should I just run 'fsck /dev/rmt/0'? Should I just erase the entire tape ('mt 
erase')? Is the tape just fubar and not usable?

Thanks for your help.

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Re: [brlug-general] Cox and P2P

[John Hebert]

Facts? We don't need no steeenking facts!

- Original Message 
From: Tim Fournet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
...
I don't agree with ANY ISP blocking or altering traffic fraudulently. 
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[brlug-general] Clusters

[John Hebert]

http://www.mosix.org/


MOSIX is a management system targeted for high performance computing
on Linux clusters and multi-clusters.


In MOSIX there is no need to modify or link applications
with any library, copy files or login to remote nodes, or even assign
processes to different nodes.
It is all done automatically, similar to a single computer with multiple
processors - just  fork and forget.



- Original Message 
From: B. Estrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 11:01:51 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Clusters


Just have him connect a bunch of old pcs onto a cheap switch.

You can also tell him that he just missed this (well, by a few months
 :):

http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1673024.html

...so, there's a lot going on in his own backyard.

Brett

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:52:41AM -0600, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> They have build scripts for Beowulf. If I were him, I'd bring up Xen
 or
> VMWare and have at it.
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> CM Banker wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Anyone got access to a cluster and/or care to do a walk
 through/demo of
> > it?  
> > 
> > 
> > Yesterday, my son asked me if I knew what a "Be-Oh-Wolf" was.   I
 didn't
> > realize what he was talking about until I had him spell it.   He
 and a
> > buddy are interested in setting up a cluster "just because"
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> > 
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[brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?

[John Hebert]

Ray,

You are right, I was wrong. Once more, I should have researched before mouthing 
off. :)

SSL _is_ PKI. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security)

Thanks,
John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: -ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 12:16:54 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?



Unless you want to run back to the safe for every single HTTPS 
connection, then your web server needs the private key file.

The SSL certificate, in simplest terms is your public key.  It also 
contains your Certificate Authority (CA) info.  After verifying your 
certificate and CA, the client can then encrypt data using your public 
key, and send it to the webserver.  In order to decrypt said data, the 
webserver *needs* the private key.

Of course SSL is much more complicated, but the encryption part is 
basically public/private key encryption.  If you have data encrypted
 with 
the public key, you need the private key to decrypt it.

The certificate is useless without the private key.


ray


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, John Hebert wrote:

> Er, are you keeping your SSL private key files on your server?
 Shouldn't 
> those be on an encrypted thumb drive and locked away in a safe?
>
> For SSL, you only need your private keys when generating/signing 
> certificates. Maybe you are thinking of PKI?
>
> Here's a handy analogy: Apps aren't supposed to touch your privates.
>
> John Hebert
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Dustin Puryear 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:16:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?
>
>
> Well, you can't put them on a shared drive unless you are very
 careful
> with perms on the .key files, no?
>
> John Hebert wrote:
>> 1. We keep our certs in an application-specific area
> (/app/tomcat/conf/ssl.*), but then hosting that app is all we do with
 our servers. If
> you have lots of apps on the server that need a cert, then put them
 in a
> central location like /usr/shared/ssl/certs like you said.
>>
>> If you have lots of certs, you would probably want to store them
> centrally and categorize them differently. Depends on the situation.
>>
>> BTW, you don't have to store certs for specific servers on the
 server
> itself. They could all be put in a shared drive somewhere, as long as
> your app knows where to find them.
>>
>> 2. Use a cert vendor that gives you better management tools for your
> certs. We use Entrust.com, but then we don't manage more than a few
> dozen certs for customers. Don't have much experience with the
 others.
>>
>> John Hebert
>>
>> - Original Message 
>> From: Dustin Puryear 
>> To: Sage Members ; general at brlug.net;
> nolug at nolug.org
>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:52:48 PM
>> Subject: [brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?
>>
>>
>> So, a little issue I see a lot is that SSL cert files seem to go
>> everywhere. I may see some under /var/shared/ssl/certs/, some under
>> application-specific directories (e.g., /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.*/,
>> /etc/ldap/), etc.
>>
>> What are your thoughts on:
>>
>> 1. Putting all certs under a standardized location, e.g.,
>> /usr/shared/ssl/certs/, and then just chown'ing and chmod'ing them
> for
>>  a
>> little more security.
>>
>> 2. Keeping them in application-specific areas.
>>
>> Also, how are you keeping track of cert expiration? We usually get
>> emails from the SSL cert vendor about renewals, but..
>>
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[brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?

[John Hebert]

Er, are you keeping your SSL private key files on your server? Shouldn't those 
be on an encrypted thumb drive and locked away in a safe?

For SSL, you only need your private keys when generating/signing certificates. 
Maybe you are thinking of PKI? 

Here's a handy analogy: Apps aren't supposed to touch your privates.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:16:45 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?


Well, you can't put them on a shared drive unless you are very careful
with perms on the .key files, no?

John Hebert wrote:
> 1. We keep our certs in an application-specific area
 (/app/tomcat/conf/ssl.*), but then hosting that app is all we do with our 
servers. If
 you have lots of apps on the server that need a cert, then put them in a
 central location like /usr/shared/ssl/certs like you said.
> 
> If you have lots of certs, you would probably want to store them
 centrally and categorize them differently. Depends on the situation.
> 
> BTW, you don't have to store certs for specific servers on the server
 itself. They could all be put in a shared drive somewhere, as long as
 your app knows where to find them.
> 
> 2. Use a cert vendor that gives you better management tools for your
 certs. We use Entrust.com, but then we don't manage more than a few
 dozen certs for customers. Don't have much experience with the others.
> 
> John Hebert
> 
> - Original Message 
> From: Dustin Puryear 
> To: Sage Members ; general at brlug.net;
 nolug at nolug.org
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:52:48 PM
> Subject: [brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?
> 
> 
> So, a little issue I see a lot is that SSL cert files seem to go
> everywhere. I may see some under /var/shared/ssl/certs/, some under
> application-specific directories (e.g., /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.*/,
> /etc/ldap/), etc.
> 
> What are your thoughts on:
> 
> 1. Putting all certs under a standardized location, e.g.,
> /usr/shared/ssl/certs/, and then just chown'ing and chmod'ing them
 for
>  a
> little more security.
> 
> 2. Keeping them in application-specific areas.
> 
> Also, how are you keeping track of cert expiration? We usually get
> emails from the SSL cert vendor about renewals, but..
> 

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[brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?

[John Hebert]

1. We keep our certs in an application-specific area (/app/tomcat/conf/ssl.*), 
but then hosting that app is all we do with our servers. If you have lots of 
apps on the server that need a cert, then put them in a central location like 
/usr/shared/ssl/certs like you said.

If you have lots of certs, you would probably want to store them centrally and 
categorize them differently. Depends on the situation.

BTW, you don't have to store certs for specific servers on the server itself. 
They could all be put in a shared drive somewhere, as long as your app knows 
where to find them.

2. Use a cert vendor that gives you better management tools for your certs. We 
use Entrust.com, but then we don't manage more than a few dozen certs for 
customers. Don't have much experience with the others.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Sage Members ; general at brlug.net; nolug at 
nolug.org
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 1:52:48 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] Where do you put your SSL files?


So, a little issue I see a lot is that SSL cert files seem to go
everywhere. I may see some under /var/shared/ssl/certs/, some under
application-specific directories (e.g., /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.*/,
/etc/ldap/), etc.

What are your thoughts on:

1. Putting all certs under a standardized location, e.g.,
/usr/shared/ssl/certs/, and then just chown'ing and chmod'ing them for
 a
little more security.

2. Keeping them in application-specific areas.

Also, how are you keeping track of cert expiration? We usually get
emails from the SSL cert vendor about renewals, but..

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[brlug-general] open source document management?

[John Hebert]

Did a little googling. I recommend either
http://plone.org (Zope/Python based) or
http://www.xinco.org (Java based).

Xinco seems to provide the features you specified:

* manages Documents / Files / Text / URLs /
Contacts...
* Full-Text Indexing and Search of Text, Adobe
PDF, MS Word, MS Excel, HTML, ...
* Graphical Search Query Builder
* tree-based Folder / Data Object Hierarchy
* native Support for organizing Multi-Language
Data
* direct preview / editing of Files, direct
opening of Websites in default browser, direct opening
of Contacts in default Email application
* Standalone Java Client (multi-language),
deployed via Java Web Start
* Massive Data Import Tool (Multiple Files +
Sub-Folders)
* Access Control Lists for Users and Groups
* FDA 21 CFR part 11 compliance (both XincoAdmin &
XincoExplorer)
* Checkin / Checkout, Version Control and
preservation of previous Revisions
* Data Commenting / Discussion
* XincoPublisher for accessing public data (e.g.
linking from external websites, browsing)
* periodic File Archiving to external storage
volumes
* Client / Server - Communications via SOAP Web
Services + SOAP with Attachments (SAAJ)
* scalable Server and Web Service Engine built on
Apache Axis
* open to third-party Clients and direct
Application Integration (Web Services + Open Source)
* fast and reliable MySQL or PostgreSQL database
backend
* Storage Location of Files and Search Index on
different volumes to optimize use of Network Storage
Devices (NAS, SAN)
*
* xinco DMS? is growing to be a feature-rich,
professional DMS for managing your critical Business
Information. 

--- Shannon Roddy  wrote:

> On Nov 19, 2007 8:11 PM, John Hebert
>  wrote:
> > Shannon,
> >
> > I've looked at a few open source Electronic
> Document
> > Management Systems a few years, but nothing was
> really
> > eye-catching then.
> >
> > A few questions:
> > 1. How many total users of the system?
> 
> Total possible users is ~500 if you count everyone,
> however I don't
> think everyone in the org will use it.  I can see
> maybe 20 people
> posting docs.
> 
> > 2. How many of those users will be using the
> system at
> > any one time?
> 
> probably max of about 20 possible, more likely only
> a couple - if that.
> 
> > 3. Do you have a rough estimate of the number of
> > documents you will be putting into the system over
> say
> > a month?
> 
> 20+?
> > 4. Any idea how large these documents will be on
> the
> > average?
> 
> Everything from a small text file, to word docs,
> ppt, and pdfs.
> 
> > 5. What kind of documents will you be storing?
> Images?
> > PDFs?
> 
> ^^^
> > 6. How will you be indexing the documents when put
> > them in the system? By hand? Automation?
> >
> 
> Hmm... probably just user entered metadata at time
> of posting.
> 
> > Windows implementation. I am not recommending to
> you
> > however, as it is $$$.
> 
> Yeah... this is a zero budget thing for a 501(c)3.
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[brlug-general] open source document management?

[John Hebert]

Shannon,

I've looked at a few open source Electronic Document
Management Systems a few years, but nothing was really
eye-catching then. 

A few questions:
1. How many total users of the system?
2. How many of those users will be using the system at
any one time?
3. Do you have a rough estimate of the number of
documents you will be putting into the system over say
a month?
4. Any idea how large these documents will be on the
average?
5. What kind of documents will you be storing? Images?
PDFs?
6. How will you be indexing the documents when put
them in the system? By hand? Automation?

What most organizations want in a document management
system is fast document retrieval performance combined
with metadata indexing for those documents. Normal
filesystems kinda suck when you have hundreds of
thousands of documents and a lot of users all trying
to access them at the same time, especially if there
is revision control.

I've managed FileNet (http://www.filenet.com) systems
in the past, while not open source, is used by large
corps and runs on UNIX, Linux and Windows. It was
originally written for UNIX, which can be seen in the
file structure and naming conventions, even on a
Windows implementation. I am not recommending to you
however, as it is $$$.

FileNet is fast and scalable because it provides a
custom filesystem (32GB "virtual platters", no blocks)
with flat file indexing for storing the location and
other file info (number of bytes in file, etc.) about
the documents. User metadata document searches are
handled via an RDBMS, which provides a document ID to
the row in the flat file DB.

Whatever you do, choose _very_ carefully, as
converting from one EDMS to another is painful and
slow.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

John Hebert



--- Shannon Roddy  wrote:

> I can't remember if this has come up before, but
> anyone know of a good
> open source document management package out there? 
> Hopefully with the
> ability to specify different access controls per
> file.  Yes, this
> would be running on Linux/Apache.  ;-)
> 
> While I am at it... any suggestions on web based
> calendaring?
> 
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[brlug-general] Geek Together

[John Hebert]

Using VMs on Xen for testing, learning, etc. Memory is cheap:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227139

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That brings up a question from me.  If we do a presentation, what topic
would ya'll want one on?  So far the requests are LDAP / AD.

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Alvaro Zuniga wrote:

  Nice talking to everyone. I agree about the location.

Also, if anyone has the same enthusiasm that Ronnie showed about giving a 
presentation I can book the presentation room at the LA Tech Park. We could 
have some fun. I would love to sit in an OpenLDAP/AD presentation. 

thanks and lets do this again!

On Thursday 08 November 2007 01:31:35 pm John Hebert wrote:
  
  
I could do once a month. I would like to suggest that we meet somewhere 

  
  where we could sit at bigger tables.
  
  
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To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 11:18:27 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Geek Together


Yeah. Same here. How often could we have a geek meeting?
Didn't we used to have monthly geek meetings?


Karthik


Brad Bendily wrote:


  yeah. very good time, excellent discussion.
good to meet everyone.
bb

On 11/8/07, CM Banker  wrote:
  
  
Folks,

I had fun at the geek together.  I hope you all did as well.   I

  

 hope


  
to repeat it again soon.


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[brlug-general] Geek Together

[John Hebert]

I could do once a month. I would like to suggest that we meet somewhere where 
we could sit at bigger tables.

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Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 11:18:27 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Geek Together


Yeah. Same here. How often could we have a geek meeting?
Didn't we used to have monthly geek meetings?


Karthik


Brad Bendily wrote:
> yeah. very good time, excellent discussion.
> good to meet everyone.
> bb
> 
> On 11/8/07, CM Banker  wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> I had fun at the geek together.  I hope you all did as well.   I
 hope
>> to repeat it again soon.
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[brlug-general] time, date, location for calendar Re: Geek get together ?

[John Hebert]

Tuesday, November 6th at 1800.
Himalayas
3851 S Sherwood Forest Blvd #7, Baton Rouge, LA
(225) 295-4490

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=himalayas&near=70809&ie=UTF8&ll=30.412706,-91.060696&spn=0.103629,0.160675&z=13&iwloc=A&om=1




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To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 9:49:46 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Geek get together ?


Okay. So someone tell me the exact time and place and I'll post it on
the site, thanks.

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Alvaro Zuniga wrote:
> I like 6:00PM as well. I won't have to justify to my boss the event's
 
> exceptional importance to the progress of our institution and be
 allowed to 
> get off work early without guilt ;-).
> 
> 
> On Sunday 04 November 2007 06:14:54 pm Brad Bendily wrote:
>> for me, 6 is easier/better.
>>
>>
>> On 11/4/07, Karthik Poobalasubramanian  wrote:
>>> cool. Lets decide on a time.
>>>
>>> 5:30? or 6:00?
>>>
>>> Karthik
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/4/07, Alvaro Zuniga  wrote:
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[brlug-general] Geek get together ?

[John Hebert]

I like Himalayas too. Seems we have a head count of 10 or so now.

What time on Tuesday? I can call and make a reservation if needed.

John Hebert

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yeah, himilayas will work...

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[brlug-general] Free to Good Home: ISA Fax Modem

[John Hebert]

You may want to donate this to the Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council 
(http://www.cacrc.com).

John Hebert

- Original Message 
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Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:44:01 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] Free to Good Home: ISA Fax Modem

This is a repeat of something I sent a while back on the 4sale list
but don't know if anyone really subscribes to that list.

"I have a Cardinal Connecta 3400 56K Fax Modem that I have had around
the house for years.  Having bought it on eBay when I first got into
Linux and computers in general, I really didn't know what I needed but
I certainly didn't need an ISA modem.  As far as I know, it is
compatible with a Linux system but I can't promise anything; I have
never tried it out on any of my older boxes."

-- 
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[brlug-general] IEM is Looking for UNIX/Linux system administrator who likes a challenge

[John Hebert]

Unix Administrator- Baton Rouge, LA
Job Location:

Baton Rouge, LA

Key Challenges:

Provide support for Web Puff and related servers.Provide on-call 
support for Web Puff and related projects.Work with developers to ascertain 
requirements for project.Work in a fast paced user-driven environment.Must be 
flexible and willing to provide support to users outside normal business hours. 

Required Skills:

Conversant with Solaris, Linux, and Windows Operating Systems. Able to 
manage and monitor servers. Good communication skills. Must be able to support 
users remotely, primarily by phone. Good network and software troubleshooting 
skills. Conversant with server hardware and server specifications. Conversant 
in network security. Prior experience with shell scripts, Java, PostgreSQL, 
Apache, OpenSSL, and certificates is a definite plus.

Qualifications:

Must be a US Citizen.BS Degree or equivalent required.Minimum of 2 
years experience in a Unix systems support position.Ability to Obtain a 
Security Clearance required.Additional certifications a plus.



My comment: Command line proficiency is a must. We do not use GUIs.

IEM is a _great_ to work; challenging, exciting, lots of new
 technologies to learn, lots of opportunities to get involved in new projects!

See our website at http://www.iem.com for more information and I would greatly 
appreciate it if you would contact me if you are interested.

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[brlug-general] Login server?

[John Hebert]

Here's a book you might want to check out, written by somebody you might know:

http://www.amazon.com/Integrate-Linux-Solutions-Windows-Network/dp/0761527915/ref=sr_1_1/103-8788001-9139810?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1182737330&sr=8-1

BTW, the basic Samba documentation covers basic examples of setting up a Linux 
box as a PDC with user logins and login scripts.

http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/FastStart.html#id323205


John

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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 8:04:16 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Login server?

Really? Wow. I knew Samba had way more functionality than I had ever used, but 
I had no idea.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Joe

On 6/24/07, Bret J. Esquivel
  wrote:Joe,


You can use Samba to do all of that. It can also act as your PDC so you
can use roaming profiles, logon scripts, etc.

There are tutorials everywhere to do such a setup.



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Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 1:16 AM
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Subject: [brlug-general] Login server?

Okay, guys, bear with me because I've never messed with anything like

this before.

I'd like to set up a server that will process user logins and map
network drives to user folders on the server. I know Windows can do
it, but surely we can do something like this with Linux, right?


I'd want it to process logins from Windows and Linux users. (I'm
saying 'users' like it's all big and bad, when in reality, I'm talking
about three or four users--this is for home.)


Like I said, I have no experience and no nothing about how something
like this would work.

Thanks.

Joe

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[brlug-general] BR ISPs

[John Hebert]

I have Eatel (East Ascension Telephone Network - http://www.eatel.net). Eatel's 
presence seems to be limited to where they had laid down copper a long time 
ago; East Ascension Parish.

I spoke with an Eatel rep at a tradeshow  about 2 months ago and she said that 
by law they were required to lay down _fiber_ in all the new subdivisions that 
are springing up in Ascension Parish. I was disappointed at the time because we 
had been on a waiting list for fiber for 2 years. However, about 2 weeks ago, a 
flyer showed up on our door that said fiber was being laid down in our 
neighborhood and a week later the trucks and orange tubing arrived!

I've used both Eatel DSL and Cox Cable Internet simultaneously in the past, and 
even though Cox was faster of course, their customer service was really bad. 
I've never had a problem with Eatel's customer service. For example, during a 
recent outage, they were honest and upfront with me and said they didn't know 
when the service would be back up. And they offered to call me when it was back 
up! It was up about 2 hours later, which wasn't a big deal for me.

If you live in Ascension Parish, definitely consider Eatel. They offer the 
whole package deal: VOIP, Internet, and TV.

John

- Original Message 
From: Edmund Cramp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "general at brlug.net" 
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 7:59:00 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] BR ISPs

Good point - but that really depends on where you're located.  We went for a 
good power source (first drop off a sub-station - in Millerville, on Old 
Hammond) but it's out of downtown Baton Rouge so our options were limited at 
the time.

I probably ought to revisit our options but Cox haven't pissed me off recently 
so it's a low priority at the moment.  Anyone moving here should consider what 
their options are at different locations - what's available in one place may 
not be available in another.

Edmund Cramp
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[brlug-general] OT: Pay-sites for MP3's

[John Hebert]

Emusic. Been around and legal for years:
http://www.emusic.com/help/index.html

And if you want free (as in free and open source) music (which BTW brings us 
back OT):
http://search.creativecommons.org

John

- Original Message 
From: "k5mke at bellsouth.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Cc: newbies at brlug.net
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:36:46 AM
Subject: [brlug-general] OT: Pay-sites for MP3's

Hi All,

This is some "off-topic", but I plan to use Fedora 6. I'm looking for a good 
MP3 website
that will allow me to legally download all kinds of music.  I know that one 
site is like
$15. a month, but 99? a song and since I'm an avid music collector, that would 
run into
MILLIONS of dollars.  I won't burn CD's except for myself to be played on the 
truck CD
player for my OWN enjoyment, when I'm not listening to my ham rig or 
police/fire/ems
scanners, LOL!

Before the R.I.A.A. got so nit-picky (Mafia run) and started sueing anyone who 
even 
THOUGHT about music, I had about 20 gigs of all kinds of music.  But, due to a 
darn
WINDBLOW$ crash of my dual-booted HD's, I lost everything. When I start 
collecting
again, EVERYTHING will go on the Fedora 6 drive and kept seperate from the WIN 
2K
drive.

I'm not willing to chance getting "popped' by La Costa Nostra.  One musician 
here, got
hit with a $4,800.oo lawsuit and was forced to pay or ELSE!

So, is anyone using a good site?  I see what appear to be good sites on the 
Web, but
I want to know which one's are honest and which one's are ripoff sites.

Thanks in advance.

Respectfully,

Don/K5-MKE


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[brlug-general] sharing a printer among multiple users sending contiguous jobs

[John Hebert]

Fernando,

Thanks for the reply.

Are you saying that multiple jobs from the same user are printed together? Or, 
are the jobs printed as they arrive?

My need is to let the users print multiple jobs as one set, then another set of 
multiple jobs, and so on.

I was thinking of training the users to set priorities for their jobs, but that 
would be a lot of mouse-clicking for each job.

John

- Original Message 
From: Fernando Vilas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:08:28 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] sharing a printer among multiple users sending 
contiguous jobs

El Thursday 19 April 2007 19:10:04 John Hebert escribi?:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm trying to solve a problem at work using open source.
>
> My employer wants to let multiple users print multiple jobs, or files, but
> these jobs have to printed as a contiguous group.
>
> For example, JoeUser wants to print out some accounting reports at the same
> time MaryUser wants to print out some source code. They both send multiple
> files, or jobs, to the same printer, but the end result is that the print
> output is a mixed stack of accounting reports and source code, which
> requires separating the jobs by hand.
>
> Surely this problem has been solved by software vendors out there, but I
> was wondering if anyone knew of an open source solution. If it requires
> CUPS on Linux, then I can go that route.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> John Hebert
>

I'm running 2 linux boxes here, with CUPS, but I've never had the issue of 
jumbled pages when printing simultaneously.

At work, we're using Trusted Solaris 8, and the printers have their own IP, 
but again, we have 30+ devs printing lots of files for review, and each job 
is printed individually, not jumbled.

I would have to recommend CUPS on your choice of *nix at this point, but I 
don't remember seeing that problem, even with a shared printer on MS 
software.

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com

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[brlug-general] sharing a printer among multiple users sending contiguous jobs

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

I'm trying to solve a problem at work using open source.

My employer wants to let multiple users print multiple jobs, or files, but 
these jobs have to printed as a contiguous group.

For example, JoeUser wants to print out some accounting reports at the same 
time MaryUser wants to print out some source code. They both send multiple 
files, or jobs, to the same printer, but the end result is that the print 
output is a mixed stack of accounting reports and source code, which requires 
separating the jobs by hand.

Surely this problem has been solved by software vendors out there, but I was 
wondering if anyone knew of an open source solution. If it requires CUPS on 
Linux, then I can go that route.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
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[brlug-general] Mono book Re: Free Linux eBooks?

[John Hebert]

Hey Andrew,

Lemme know if you want to borrow it (still legal to share the hard copy...). 
Very useful book with lots of example code. May be a bit dated now, though.

One thing I've been considering is cross-platform system management using Mono, 
since the same code will run on both Linux and Windows. Deployment tools like  
Ant/Nant could used to compile and deploy system changes to a mixed server 
environment. One code base, two operating systems. Kinda like Reese's Pieces.

John

- Original Message 
From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:32:20 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Free Linux eBooks?

I would be all over that book in a heartbeat.  Thanks, John.

Mono, and especially MonoDevelop now with drag-and-drop GTK# development, is 
finally becoming mature.  Cross Platform .Net here I come!!




On 4/18/07, Alvaro Zuniga  wrote:
What a shame. I would not dare to learn from that book :-)

John Hebert wrote:
> Looks like some of these books are copyrighted, and therefore, not "free".
>
> For example, I own this book: 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9878/Mono-A-Developer-Notebook, and I do not know of 
any _free_ digital versions of this book.
>
> If you examine the bottom of the page of that book, you will see that someone 
> downloaded it to a local filesystem, probably from O'Reilly's Safari (
http://safari.oreilly.com), and then uploaded it to the scribd.com site, in 
violation of their service agreement with Safari.
>
> John Hebert

>
> - Original Message 
> From: Dustin Puryear 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 10:55:50 PM

> Subject: [brlug-general] Free Linux eBooks?
>
> There are a few hundred it looks like:
>
> http://www.scribd.com/collection/41
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[brlug-general] Free Linux eBooks?

[John Hebert]

Looks like some of these books are copyrighted, and therefore, not "free".

For example, I own this book: 
http://www.scribd.com/doc/9878/Mono-A-Developer-Notebook, and I do not know of 
any _free_ digital versions of this book.

If you examine the bottom of the page of that book, you will see that someone 
downloaded it to a local filesystem, probably from O'Reilly's Safari 
(http://safari.oreilly.com), and then uploaded it to the scribd.com site, in 
violation of their service agreement with Safari.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 10:55:50 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] Free Linux eBooks?

There are a few hundred it looks like:

http://www.scribd.com/collection/41

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[brlug-general] apology

[John Hebert]

BRLUG members,

I want to apologize for my recent immature outburst against Adrew Baudoin. I 
have no excuse other than stress resulting from a number of recent personal 
problems. I snapped when Andrew made a joke about his force advantage due to my 
small size, which apparently I still have an issue with from my youth. Instead 
of choosing to respond with a joke, I took it way too seriously and implied 
violence against Andrew. This is not the way this LUG's community should work, 
and I apologize. This LUG should be used to exchange information we can use in 
our jobs and studies, and not implications of violence.

I obviously need a break from this community to sort out some personal issues, 
so I'll unsubscribe after this message. For those who want to keep in touch, 
please email me. I'll try to be saner soon.

Again, my sincere apologizes.
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[brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

[John Hebert]

Sorry for bothering the list with this matter. I'm taking it offline with 
Andrew himself.

Andrew, it is obvious that you have a personal beef with me on this list. In 
deference to the BRLUG members, let's agree to not communicate any further via 
this list, as it is apparent we can't do so in a friendly manner. I won't be 
responding to any more of your emails on this list from this point forward.

John

- Original Message 
From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2007 7:45:56 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

It's still funny, and even more funny now that you are throwing out 
profanity.

Obviously *someone* can't handle friendly jabs!

I'm down for whatever, mr 5'2" and 100 and nothing.

Andrew

John Hebert wrote:
> It was funny up till now. Exactly what the fuck is your problem, Andrew?
>
> If you want to back up your last statement, then let's arrange a meeting.
>
> Otherwise, STFU.
>
> John Hebert
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Andrew Baudouin 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 6:16:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
>
> I do.  I think you'd be on the receiving end of most of them given the 
> huge size disadvantage.
>
>
> John Hebert wrote:
>   
>> Sure! Hope you like wedgies!
>>
>> - Original Message 
>> From: Andrew Baudouin 
>> To: general at brlug.net
>> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 4:54:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
>>
>> Can .Net developers show up and heckle?
>>
>> On 3/1/07, *John Hebert* > <mailto:johnahebert at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Wow! Now that's something. I'll be there, if only to be
>> entertained by Matt Diez.
>>
>> Besides, I've been playing around with JBoss lately and falling in
>> love again with Java Servlet containers.
>>
>> John
>>
>> - Original Message 
>> From: Dustin Puryear > <mailto:dustin at puryear-it.com>>
>> To: general at brlug.net <mailto:general at brlug.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 3:42:59 PM
>> Subject: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
>>
>>
>>
>> This is a forwarded message
>> From: Matt Diez mailto:mattdiez at gmail.com>>
>> To: dpuryear at usa.net <mailto:dpuryear at usa.net>
>> Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 6:05:02 PM
>> Subject: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
>>
>> ===8<==Original message text===
>> Dustin, attached is the message.
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Matt Diez mailto:mattdiez at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Feb 28, 2007 10:26 AM
>> Subject: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
>> To: general at brjug.org <mailto:general at brjug.org>,
>> announce at brjug.org <mailto:announce at brjug.org>
>>
>>
>> To all:
>>
>>   Our first informal Baton Rouge Java User Group (BRJUG) Meetup will
>> be tomorrow, March 1, at 7:30,
>> at the Pastime Restaurant, located at 252 South Boulevard, Baton
>> Rouge, Louisiana.
>>
>>   You'll recognize us immediately as Java developers, I'm sure. (We'll
>> try to have a sign)
>>
>>This meeting will be mainly for meeting and greeting other people
>> involved in Java development in the Baton Rouge area, and will also
>> serve as a brainstorming session for future activities. If you'd like
>> to offer any ideas on the structure of the group, and the nature of
>> our activities, now would be the perfect time.
>>
>>   Moreover, we're looking to solicit ideas from others who have had
>> good experiences in other sorts of user groups, so as to determine
>> what would work for us.
>>
>>   Looking to hear from all of you, and, please, feel free to drag
>> along your coworkers, classmates, and associates!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matthew D. Diez
>> (225) 803-9991 if you need directions.
>>
>> ===8<===End of original message text===
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[brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

[John Hebert]

It was funny up till now. Exactly what the fuck is your problem, Andrew?

If you want to back up your last statement, then let's arrange a meeting.

Otherwise, STFU.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 6:16:39 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

I do.  I think you'd be on the receiving end of most of them given the 
huge size disadvantage.


John Hebert wrote:
> Sure! Hope you like wedgies!
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Andrew Baudouin 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 4:54:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
>
> Can .Net developers show up and heckle?
>
> On 3/1/07, *John Hebert*  <mailto:johnahebert at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
> Wow! Now that's something. I'll be there, if only to be
> entertained by Matt Diez.
>
> Besides, I've been playing around with JBoss lately and falling in
> love again with Java Servlet containers.
>
> John
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Dustin Puryear  <mailto:dustin at puryear-it.com>>
> To: general at brlug.net <mailto:general at brlug.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 3:42:59 PM
> Subject: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
>
>
>
> This is a forwarded message
> From: Matt Diez mailto:mattdiez at gmail.com>>
> To: dpuryear at usa.net <mailto:dpuryear at usa.net>
> Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 6:05:02 PM
> Subject: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
>
> ===8<==Original message text===
> Dustin, attached is the message.
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Matt Diez mailto:mattdiez at gmail.com>>
> Date: Feb 28, 2007 10:26 AM
> Subject: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
> To: general at brjug.org <mailto:general at brjug.org>,
> announce at brjug.org <mailto:announce at brjug.org>
>
>
> To all:
>
>   Our first informal Baton Rouge Java User Group (BRJUG) Meetup will
> be tomorrow, March 1, at 7:30,
> at the Pastime Restaurant, located at 252 South Boulevard, Baton
> Rouge, Louisiana.
>
>   You'll recognize us immediately as Java developers, I'm sure. (We'll
> try to have a sign)
>
>This meeting will be mainly for meeting and greeting other people
> involved in Java development in the Baton Rouge area, and will also
> serve as a brainstorming session for future activities. If you'd like
> to offer any ideas on the structure of the group, and the nature of
> our activities, now would be the perfect time.
>
>   Moreover, we're looking to solicit ideas from others who have had
> good experiences in other sorts of user groups, so as to determine
> what would work for us.
>
>   Looking to hear from all of you, and, please, feel free to drag
> along your coworkers, classmates, and associates!
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew D. Diez
> (225) 803-9991 if you need directions.
>
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[brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

[John Hebert]

Sure! Hope you like wedgies!

- Original Message 
From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 4:54:53 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

Can .Net developers show up and heckle?

On 3/1/07, John Hebert  wrote:
Wow! Now that's something. I'll be there, if only to be entertained by Matt 
Diez.

Besides, I've been playing around with JBoss lately and falling in love again 
with Java Servlet containers.

John


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From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 3:42:59 PM

Subject: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1



This is a forwarded message
From: Matt Diez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
dpuryear at usa.net
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 6:05:02 PM
Subject: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

===8<==Original message text===
Dustin, attached is the message.


-- Forwarded message --
From: Matt Diez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 28, 2007 10:26 AM
Subject: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
To: 
general at brjug.org, announce at brjug.org


To all:

  Our first informal Baton Rouge Java User Group (BRJUG) Meetup will
be tomorrow, March 1, at 7:30,
at the Pastime Restaurant, located at 252 South Boulevard, Baton

Rouge, Louisiana.

  You'll recognize us immediately as Java developers, I'm sure. (We'll
try to have a sign)

   This meeting will be mainly for meeting and greeting other people
involved in Java development in the Baton Rouge area, and will also

serve as a brainstorming session for future activities. If you'd like
to offer any ideas on the structure of the group, and the nature of
our activities, now would be the perfect time.

  Moreover, we're looking to solicit ideas from others who have had

good experiences in other sorts of user groups, so as to determine
what would work for us.

  Looking to hear from all of you, and, please, feel free to drag
along your coworkers, classmates, and associates!


Thanks,
Matthew D. Diez
(225) 803-9991 if you need directions.

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[brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

[John Hebert]

Wow! Now that's something. I'll be there, if only to be entertained by Matt 
Diez.

Besides, I've been playing around with JBoss lately and falling in love again 
with Java Servlet containers.

John

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Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2007 3:42:59 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] Fwd: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1



This is a forwarded message
From: Matt Diez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: dpuryear at usa.net
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 6:05:02 PM
Subject: Fwd: First BRJUG Meetup March 1

===8<==Original message text===
Dustin, attached is the message.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Matt Diez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Feb 28, 2007 10:26 AM
Subject: First BRJUG Meetup March 1
To: general at brjug.org, announce at brjug.org


To all:

  Our first informal Baton Rouge Java User Group (BRJUG) Meetup will
be tomorrow, March 1, at 7:30,
at the Pastime Restaurant, located at 252 South Boulevard, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.

  You'll recognize us immediately as Java developers, I'm sure. (We'll
try to have a sign)

   This meeting will be mainly for meeting and greeting other people
involved in Java development in the Baton Rouge area, and will also
serve as a brainstorming session for future activities. If you'd like
to offer any ideas on the structure of the group, and the nature of
our activities, now would be the perfect time.

  Moreover, we're looking to solicit ideas from others who have had
good experiences in other sorts of user groups, so as to determine
what would work for us.

  Looking to hear from all of you, and, please, feel free to drag
along your coworkers, classmates, and associates!

Thanks,
Matthew D. Diez
(225) 803-9991 if you need directions.

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[brlug-general] Geek-together?

[John Hebert]

I am. Where and when?

John

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Subject: [brlug-general] Geek-together?

Anyone up for some geek-together?
I can't even remember the last time we had one.

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[brlug-general] Go LSU..

[John Hebert]

Read the article, but the actual e-paper download by Prof. Kak costs $. I'll 
look for the issue when it comes out.

I'm a little skeptical of his claim, in spite of his obvious intelligence and 
achievement. I mean, I thought the basis of relativity was that there was no 
best reference frame. Kak's proof apparently depends on defining motion 
relative to distant stars.

I'm definitely interested in the debate that follows and will keep an eye on it.

John

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:01:22 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] Go LSU..

Did anyone read this?

http://www.physorg.com/news90697187.html

Does this mean LSU now owns Einstein?

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[brlug-general] DST changes and Linux

[John Hebert]

Government-dictated DST is an infringement on our rights to use our computers 
as we wish. I'm sure Microsoft has something to do with it.

The command 'ddate' has always worked for me!

;)

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Ronnie Gilkey 
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2007 4:01:52 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] DST changes and Linux

No. The law changed the DAYS when DST begins and ends. So Linux will
think DST starts on day x when it now starts on day y. So for a period
of time the Linux server will show the incorrect local time (adjusted
for DST--this doesn't affect the true internal time, which is still
correct since its GMT).

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> Shouldn't this be managed by the locale / tzconfig for the system?

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[brlug-general] Fwd: Re: [brlug-newbies] [CCCC-Linux] Thanks

[John Hebert]

Wow!

Ed, big thanks to you for taking over for the Linux SIG a long time ago. You 
are definitely doing a better job than I ever did!

Good to hear that it is growing and getter better.

BRLUGgers, please put the word out to any newbies or wanna-be newbies to 
checkout http://linuxsig.pbwiki.com for more info.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 1:00:52 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] Fwd: Re: [brlug-newbies] [-Linux] Thanks

Did everyone see this? Apparently things went well. :)

- Dustin

This is a forwarded message
From: EdsLinuxBox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: newbies at brlug.net
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2007, 5:57:07 PM
Subject: [brlug-newbies] [-Linux] Thanks

===8<==Original message text===
Hi Pete, 

I am glad that you enjoyed the InstallFest. They are always a lot of fun for 
me, although also a bit chaotic as well. The young man that helped you out is 
Maurice. He is, and will continue to be, a great asset to the SIG. His 
knowledge of Linux is astounding for a man of his so few years. 

I too would like to thank him. Joe, Will, Jean, Larry, Don, and everyone else 
that helped with the InstallFest because I am sure that I have overlooked 
someone, but rest assured it was not intentional. 

To say that the event was a success would be quite an understatement I think. 
I don't know how many installations we did last nite but it must have been at 
least 10. 

I think in the next workshop we are going to start off with a look at why 
Linux is not Windows, thanks to an article that Tommy Minton gave me. Then we 
will look at the multitude of features and capabilities of Xandros File 
Manager, the hallmark Xandros application and one of the things that set it 
apart from the other Linux distributions. If we have time, we may also do a 
brief overview of how to install software with a more indepth workshop on 
that in the near future. 

Our path forward is to have an InstallFest probably 3 times each year and then 
following each one we will "recycle" the workshops starting with the most 
fundamental things like using the file manager, software management, 
customizing the desktop, the Linux file system, etc and then moving on the 
how the use the myriad of Linux programs. 

I am excited with the progress that the SIG has made so far and am looking 
forward to great things in 2007. We have some really exciting plans for the 
future. 

Ed

On 02/06/2007 09:13 am, galikp wrote:
> I want to thank all of the people that help us to install Xandros on our
> computers. Also a special thanks to Ed, Joe and the 16 year old that helped
> me. Joe showed me how to move folders and files from windows to Xandros.
> This helped me to start exploring what looks like a system that is fun to
> work with.
>
> Pete

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[brlug-general] Learning the command line

[John Hebert]

It's called self-denigrating satire, Andrew. It helps to deflate inflated egos. 
Try it sometime.

- Original Message 
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To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 6:06:51 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Learning the command line

John Hebert wrote:
> . Embrace not knowing and you will know.
>
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[brlug-general] Learning the command line

[John Hebert]

The best way to learn is by doing. However, if you install fluxbox, you are 
still running a GUI, of course. ;)
If you really want a challenge, see http://www.linuxfromscratch.org.

Linux may seem infinite, but it isn't. It is only your mind that makes it seem 
so. In a GUI, you can click through menus to see what is available, which only 
gives you the illusion of knowing. Embrace not knowing and you will know.

;)

Zen Master John

- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 1:32:29 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Learning the command line

Yeah, I've used XFCE on this machine before... Xubuntu Dapper,
actually. But I want to learn the command-line-utilities anyway, and
the best way is to learn by doing, right?

So if I force myself into fluxbox, then I have to, right?






 

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[brlug-general] Learning the command line

[John Hebert]

Google to the rescue:

http://www.google.com/search?q=command+line+linux

LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell 
scripts.LinuxCommand.org is a web site devoted to helping users of legacy 
operating systems discover the power of Linux.
www.linuxcommand.org/ - 4k - Cached - Similar pages Introduction to Command 
Line LinuxThis is an introductory guide for people learning to use a Linux 
system. It focuses on command-line usage. This is not because everyone will be 
doing ...
www.physics.ubc.ca/mbelab/computer/linux-intro/html/ - 9k - Cached - Similar 
pages
 Linux Command Line TipsA linux command line cheat sheet. ... This is a list of 
linux commands for common operations. Note items marked with ? are valid/safe 
to paste without ...
www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html - 37k - Cached - Similar pages
 Linux commands MAN PageAn A-Z Index of the Linux BASH command line alias 
Create an alias apropos Search Help manual pages (man -k) awk Find and Replace 
text, ...
www.ss64.com/bash/ - 15k - Cached - Similar pages
 SS64.comCommand line reference for Oracle, Windows, Linux and OS X. Includes 
database commands, PL/SQL and the data dictionary.
www.ss64.com/ - 5k - Cached - Similar pages
 tuXfiles - Linux command line tutorials for newbiesAn introduction to the 
Linux command line and shell. A set of tutorials teaching how to use the most 
important Linux commands, wildcards, and input/output ...
www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/cli.html - 9k - Cached - Similar pages
 GNU/Linux Command Line Tools SummaryThis document is an attempt to provide a 
comprehensive summary of useful command line tools available to a GNU/Linux 
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- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Monday, February 5, 2007 8:23:48 AM
Subject: [brlug-general] Learning the command line

I have a 900MHz laptop with Fedora 6 installed. Gnome and KDE both
slog it down. Not the the point of unusability, mind you, but I like
things to be zippy.

So I installed fluxbox.

But I lost all my fancy gui-based Gnome config utils. It's okay,
though, because I know those are all just frontends for command line
utils. But how do I learn them?! In Gnome, if I wanted to change
something, I'd go to the system menu and look. But without a visual
reference, how would I know that xrandr changes the resolution?

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[brlug-general] Faster than gedit

[John Hebert]

Vi is a very mysterious and powerful editor and its mystery is exceeded only by 
its power.

- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, February 2, 2007 9:57:18 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Faster than gedit

Thank you, Michael. All the uber*-geeks are so condescending unless
you live in vi, or to a lesser extent, emacs. I'm reading O'Reilly's
_Fedora_Linux_ right now, and it has an entire chapter (okay, maybe
just a big section of one) devoted to vi. I'm thinking, /who wants to
learn vi?/

Joe

*My u would have an umlaut if someone could give me back my alt-codes
in Linux...

On 2/2/07, michael dolan  wrote:
> I use gedit mostly now, but it is annoyingly slow.  I used to use nano (got
> into that habit taking LSU CS classes).  I never got into the habit of using
> vi or emacs.  I don't know why, it's always been in the back of my mind.
> MD.
>
>
> On 2/2/07, Dustin Puryear < dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote:
> > It's been a long time since I used Linux as a desktop, so I'm rather
> > behind the curve on that. Ronnie or Mike may have an idea. That said,
> > isn't there an nedit for Linux? Wasn't it fast?
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> > > Howabout a gui editor? I never could get into vi, or even emacs. nano
> > > -icKx for me.
> >
> > > On 2/2/07, Dustin Puryear  wrote:
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> > >>
> > >> vi
> > >>
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> > >> > There's got to be something faster (albeit simpler) than gedit,
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[brlug-general] newbies group was Re: The size of the botnet

[John Hebert]

Phil,

You don't have to ask permission, you just have to get involved.

Could somebody remind me what the URL for Ed's Newbies wiki is? Dustin, could 
you update the list of Linux Users Groups on the Links page for www.brlug.net 
with that URL.

Also, when and what is the next event for the Newbies group?

Welcome aboard!

John

- Original Message 
From: Philip N Waring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 11:18:30 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] The size of the botnet

Confession:  I am just hitchhiking because i can't communicate in Linux. 
Should i ask to be in the newbies group?  Maybe that would help.  I get
the feeling the general group has more important business than my own
failings.

Phil

p.s.  You all have been gracious hosts.

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[brlug-general] The size of the botnet

[John Hebert]

Will, I agree with your argument (MS security sux) but I disagree with your 
methods (usually irrational conjecture).

The article you mentioned below was very interesting, and if Cerf's estimates 
are correct, very disturbing.

However, I believe in freedom and free market capitalism. I believe that 
Microsoft is dooming itself with efforts like Vista, and that alternatives like 
Mac OSX and Ubuntu will gain more market share as the drawbacks of Vista become 
apparent. I'm willing to let consumers come to their own conclusion that there 
may be better OSs than MS.

Finally, I know I kid you somewhat (ok, maybe a lot) here, but you need to 
realize that you are preaching to the choir (except for Andrew :) ). We already 
_know_ about alternatives to MS. We are all very technical users here, relative 
to the rest of the population, and sometimes your arguments become a bit 
pedantic. Your energy would be better used to help convert unknowing Windows 
users to Linux users. BTW, what's the status of the Newbies group?

Good luck!
John

- Original Message 
From: willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:57:01 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] The size of the botnet

Have you wrapped your head around this?

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070125-8707.html

According to Vint Cerf and others, one in four internet connected computers is 
part of someone's botnet.  That's 150,000,000 computers ready, willing and 
able to do whatever their remote owners want.

I would put the figure at 90% because I can't imagine what's protecting the 
other three from their neighbors.  

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:37, John Hebert wrote:
> My brain just assploded.
>
> - Original Message 
> From: willhill 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:28:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] The danger of SSH keys..
>
> That's an interesting physical security story but why bother breaking in
> when you could just send an email that installs a bot on the secretary's
> desktop? With that, is the user really the weak point?
>
> On Monday 22 January 2007 16:42, -ray wrote:
> > Always.  Users are always the weakest point.
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[brlug-general] ldap question

[John Hebert]

Some have even described Dustin as an "idiot savant".

- Original Message 
From: -ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: -ray 
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 1:57:43 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] ldap question


Dustin you're a genius!!  I think that's got it.  thanksForTheHelp :)

BTW this script is to keep the list members of a mailman mailing list in 
sync with LDAP.  The sync_members mailman command is pretty cool haha.

-ray

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> Everyone that has the attribute and a non-empty value for the
> attribute:
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[brlug-general] [SAGE] The danger of SSH keys..

[John Hebert]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=assplode

Your meta-rational logical argument caused an event of catastrophic proportions 
in my brain:

"That's an interesting physical security story but why bother breaking in when 
you could just send an email that installs a bot on the secretary's desktop?  
With that, is the user really the weak point?"

And obviously since the secretary drinks coffee in the same break room as the 
guy from the copy room who goes to the same LAN party that the network admin 
goes to, the hax0rs will break in and wreak havoc on the network.

John

- Original Message 
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To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:03:46 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] The danger of SSH keys..

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[brlug-general] Nobody should be liable

[John Hebert]

Puppies and kittens! You made baby Jebus cry!

- Original Message 
From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:02:46 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Nobody should be liable

See what you've done?   You woke up Will!

Yes, Will. Microsoft is to blame for all that is wrong with the world, and for 
killing puppies and kittens, too.  

On 1/23/07, 
Dustin Puryear  wrote:
First I've heard of it. I just looked and it appears to be a news
site. Is that right?

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> Although i am not really a linux user, i've liked reading some of y'all's
> emails.  What do others think about 
itwire.com?

> Perhaps i'm easily impressed.

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[brlug-general] [SAGE] The danger of SSH keys..

[John Hebert]

My brain just assploded.

- Original Message 
From: willhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:28:02 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] [SAGE] The danger of SSH keys..

That's an interesting physical security story but why bother breaking in when 
you could just send an email that installs a bot on the secretary's desktop?  
With that, is the user really the weak point?  

On Monday 22 January 2007 16:42, -ray wrote:
> Always.  Users are always the weakest point.

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[brlug-general] Nobody should be liable

[John Hebert]

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http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html

...
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
 "To talk of many things:
Of shoes ? and ships ? and sealing-wax ?
 Of cabbages-and kings ?
And why the sea is boiling hot ?
 And whether pigs have wings."
...

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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:47:25 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Nobody should be liable

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Saturday, January 20, 2007, 1:52:00 PM, you wrote:

> That looks like a politics discusion, but I'm happy to have it here.

> Microsoft's monopoly position, software ownership and gross negligence make it
> a just target as outrage over insecure software grows.  The trick will be
> making sure that "gross negligence" does not get turned into another 
> anti-competitive tool that harms free software and the industry in general.

> There's going to be more of this, and it's not going to depend on user action:

> http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/19/1824221.shtml

> If nothing changes, you and I will pay for it through banking fees, taxes and
> currency devaluation.  





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[brlug-general] Music Services.

[John Hebert]

Choppy,

Thanks for the info about ancient music. I like ancient music but it is hard to 
find online.

I like discovering new music on the Internet. The blog at 
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/ is one of my favorites, and archive.org has some 
good stuff in there if you want to dig around.

John Hebert

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From: Chopin Cusachs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2006 3:27:53 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Music Services.


I get classical and liturgical, from sites like Gothic and Liturgica
and some searches on Amazon for a specific title I can't find at
Barnes and Noble.  I've never enjoyed popular music, but am
gradually getting more fond of ancient music.  We have a fine
ancient music group in New Orleans, Musica da Camera which
gives free concerts several times a year in several locations.
They use period instruments, original or built to be like the old
ones.

Choppy

At 01:26 PM 12/7/2006, you wrote:
>Where do you get your music?


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[brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

[John Hebert]

Yeah, after thinking about it, I think you are correct. _Any_ service must be 
restarted when a change is made to its configuration file. Somebody correct me 
if that is not true.

However Joe, I think what you are referring to in your recent reply is "file 
locking" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking), which is not quite the 
same thing I meant.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 9:21:09 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

I was under the impression that nothing in Linux grabs hold of a file
like in Windows, that every file that's in use has a live copy in RAM
or swap, so it has no idea the changes were made until you tell it, by
restarting the service, app, or whatever.

No file in use errors though... nice.

On 11/10/06, John Hebert  wrote:
> Yes. Anytime you make a change to smb.conf, you have to restart the service, 
> as that configuration file is read when samba starts. That same procedure to 
> most of the configuration files in /etc.
>
> Anybody which services don't need restarting when a change is made to a 
> configuration file somewhere under /etc?
>
> John Hebert
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Joe Fruchey 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 5:22:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
>
> I can't believe I didn't read the beginning of the file... I was a bit
> confused by the double-character commenting scheme, but it makes sense
> to me now.
>
> I don't have vpn access at work, so I'll have to wait to test any of
> the settings until Monday. Some of those things i _did_ uncomment,
> with no effect. Unless... do I have to restart samba to reload the
> smb.conf? Well, of course I do, silly me.
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart should do the trick, right?
>
> On 11/10/06, John Hebert  wrote:
> > Joe,
> >
> > There is one thing you will learn about Linux: always read the docs, etc. ;)
> >
> > # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
> > # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
> > # for commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you
> > # may wish to enable
> >
> > ...
> >
> > ;[homes]
> > ;   comment = Home Directories
> > ;   browseable = yes
> > ...
> > ;   valid users = %S
> > ...
> > ;   writable = yes
> >
> > Take out the semi-colons and try again. There are lots of other settings 
> > you can enable in that file.
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > John Hebert
> >
> >
> > - Original Message 
> > From: Joe Fruchey 
> > To: general at brlug.net
> > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:31:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
> >
> > I'm good for tools... I've been using PuTTY from the get-go for SSH,
> > and I've been using WinSCP for SFTP today. I wish I had known about
> > that before...
> >
> > I'm attaching my smb.conf. Like I said, I got the configuration
> > instructions from some site, so I don't really know what I did...
> >
> > On 11/10/06, John Hebert  wrote:
> > > Good point, Petri.
> > >
> > > Another great little set of SSH tools is Putty:
> > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
> > >
> > > It provides the psftp.exe and pscp.exe command line tools, as well as a 
> > > nice little GUI SSH client. They do a great job, are small and require no 
> > > install.
> > >
> > > John Hebert
> > >
> > > - Original Message 
> > > From: Petri Laihonen 
> > > To: general at brlug.net
> > > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:45:15 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
> > >
> > > There is no need to install cygwin in order to get unix tools in windows.
> > > There are several packages of most needed ones ported to winblows.
> > >
> > > here is one package.
> > > http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
> > >
> > > www.sysinternals.com had a very good collection of unix tools. However
> > > it seems like they are not as easy to get anymore as microsoft bought
> > > the company and spread the collection into multiple single programs.
> > > (not convenient to acquire anymore)
> > >
> > > Petri
> > >
> > > John Hebert wrote:
>

[brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

[John Hebert]

Yes. Anytime you make a change to smb.conf, you have to restart the service, as 
that configuration file is read when samba starts. That same procedure to most 
of the configuration files in /etc.

Anybody which services don't need restarting when a change is made to a 
configuration file somewhere under /etc?

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 5:22:12 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

I can't believe I didn't read the beginning of the file... I was a bit
confused by the double-character commenting scheme, but it makes sense
to me now.

I don't have vpn access at work, so I'll have to wait to test any of
the settings until Monday. Some of those things i _did_ uncomment,
with no effect. Unless... do I have to restart samba to reload the
smb.conf? Well, of course I do, silly me.

sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart should do the trick, right?

On 11/10/06, John Hebert  wrote:
> Joe,
>
> There is one thing you will learn about Linux: always read the docs, etc. ;)
>
> # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash)
> # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
> # for commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you
> # may wish to enable
>
> ...
>
> ;[homes]
> ;   comment = Home Directories
> ;   browseable = yes
> ...
> ;   valid users = %S
> ...
> ;   writable = yes
>
> Take out the semi-colons and try again. There are lots of other settings you 
> can enable in that file.
>
> Good luck!
>
> John Hebert
>
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Joe Fruchey 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:31:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
>
> I'm good for tools... I've been using PuTTY from the get-go for SSH,
> and I've been using WinSCP for SFTP today. I wish I had known about
> that before...
>
> I'm attaching my smb.conf. Like I said, I got the configuration
> instructions from some site, so I don't really know what I did...
>
> On 11/10/06, John Hebert  wrote:
> > Good point, Petri.
> >
> > Another great little set of SSH tools is Putty:
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
> >
> > It provides the psftp.exe and pscp.exe command line tools, as well as a 
> > nice little GUI SSH client. They do a great job, are small and require no 
> > install.
> >
> > John Hebert
> >
> > - Original Message 
> > From: Petri Laihonen 
> > To: general at brlug.net
> > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:45:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
> >
> > There is no need to install cygwin in order to get unix tools in windows.
> > There are several packages of most needed ones ported to winblows.
> >
> > here is one package.
> > http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > www.sysinternals.com had a very good collection of unix tools. However
> > it seems like they are not as easy to get anymore as microsoft bought
> > the company and spread the collection into multiple single programs.
> > (not convenient to acquire anymore)
> >
> > Petri
> >
> > John Hebert wrote:
> > > You can also install CygWin (http://www.cygwin.com) to get Unix tools on 
> > > Windows.
> > >
> > > Send us your smb.conf if it is not too big so we can take a look at it.
> > >
> > > John Hebert
> > >
> > > - Original Message 
> > > From: Dustin Puryear 
> > > To: Joe Fruchey 
> > > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:45:49 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
> > >
> > > That's it.
> > >
> > > If you are using Windows at home use WinSCP. Otherwise, use scp or
> > > sftp from the Linux or UNIX command-line.
> > >
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> > > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
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> > >
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> > >   "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century"
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > Friday, November 10, 2006, 8:22:17 AM, you wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> Sorry...
> > >>
> &g

[brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

[John Hebert]

Joe,

There is one thing you will learn about Linux: always read the docs, etc. ;)

# Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) 
# is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a #
# for commentary and a ; for parts of the config file that you
# may wish to enable

...

;[homes]
;   comment = Home Directories
;   browseable = yes
...
;   valid users = %S
...
;   writable = yes

Take out the semi-colons and try again. There are lots of other settings you 
can enable in that file.

Good luck!

John Hebert


- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:31:53 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

I'm good for tools... I've been using PuTTY from the get-go for SSH,
and I've been using WinSCP for SFTP today. I wish I had known about
that before...

I'm attaching my smb.conf. Like I said, I got the configuration
instructions from some site, so I don't really know what I did...

On 11/10/06, John Hebert  wrote:
> Good point, Petri.
>
> Another great little set of SSH tools is Putty:
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
>
> It provides the psftp.exe and pscp.exe command line tools, as well as a nice 
> little GUI SSH client. They do a great job, are small and require no install.
>
> John Hebert
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Petri Laihonen 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:45:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
>
> There is no need to install cygwin in order to get unix tools in windows.
> There are several packages of most needed ones ported to winblows.
>
> here is one package.
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>
> www.sysinternals.com had a very good collection of unix tools. However
> it seems like they are not as easy to get anymore as microsoft bought
> the company and spread the collection into multiple single programs.
> (not convenient to acquire anymore)
>
> Petri
>
> John Hebert wrote:
> > You can also install CygWin (http://www.cygwin.com) to get Unix tools on 
> > Windows.
> >
> > Send us your smb.conf if it is not too big so we can take a look at it.
> >
> > John Hebert
> >
> > - Original Message 
> > From: Dustin Puryear 
> > To: Joe Fruchey 
> > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:45:49 AM
> > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
> >
> > That's it.
> >
> > If you are using Windows at home use WinSCP. Otherwise, use scp or
> > sftp from the Linux or UNIX command-line.
> >
> > ---
> > Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
> > http://www.puryear-it.com
> >
> > Author:
> >   "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
> >   "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century"
> >
> > Download your free copies:
> >   http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm
> >
> >
> > Friday, November 10, 2006, 8:22:17 AM, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Sorry...
> >>
> >
> >
> >> I *did* create a samba user, and I can log in with those credentials,
> >> I just don't see any shares after doing so.
> >>
> >
> >
> >> As for ftp, sftp sounds like the way to go. I have ssh running on the
> >> server, and I can login with it from home... what more do I need for
> >> sftp?
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 11/9/06, John Hebert  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Joe,
> >>>
> >>> I think you are leaving out a few important details.
> >>>
> >>> First, I assume you mean you have a Linux server at work, correct? And 
> >>> that you also have a Windows XP workstation at work that you use to 
> >>> connect to your Linux server at work. Do you have Windows XP Pro or 
> >>> Windows XP Home. They are different.
> >>>
> >>> Finally, you want to get to your Linux server from a PC at your home.
> >>>
> >>> Is this all correct?
> >>>
> >>> If this is true, then you also need to tell us if you are using a 
> >>> router/firewall in between your work and home computers and your 
> >>> respective Internet connections at each location. If not, you should be.
> >>>
> >>> I don't recommend that you use FTP over the Internet, as FTP sends 
> >

[brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

[John Hebert]

Good point, Petri.

Another great little set of SSH tools is Putty:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

It provides the psftp.exe and pscp.exe command line tools, as well as a nice 
little GUI SSH client. They do a great job, are small and require no install.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 10:45:15 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

There is no need to install cygwin in order to get unix tools in windows.
There are several packages of most needed ones ported to winblows.

here is one package.
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

www.sysinternals.com had a very good collection of unix tools. However 
it seems like they are not as easy to get anymore as microsoft bought 
the company and spread the collection into multiple single programs. 
(not convenient to acquire anymore)

Petri

John Hebert wrote:
> You can also install CygWin (http://www.cygwin.com) to get Unix tools on 
> Windows.
>
> Send us your smb.conf if it is not too big so we can take a look at it.
>
> John Hebert
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Dustin Puryear 
> To: Joe Fruchey 
> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:45:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
>
> That's it.
>
> If you are using Windows at home use WinSCP. Otherwise, use scp or
> sftp from the Linux or UNIX command-line.
>
> ---
> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
> http://www.puryear-it.com
>
> Author:
>   "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>   "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century"
>
> Download your free copies:
>   http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm
>
>
> Friday, November 10, 2006, 8:22:17 AM, you wrote:
>
>   
>> Sorry...
>> 
>
>   
>> I *did* create a samba user, and I can log in with those credentials,
>> I just don't see any shares after doing so.
>> 
>
>   
>> As for ftp, sftp sounds like the way to go. I have ssh running on the
>> server, and I can login with it from home... what more do I need for
>> sftp?
>> 
>
>   
>> Thanks.
>> 
>
>
>
>   
>> On 11/9/06, John Hebert  wrote:
>> 
>>> Joe,
>>>
>>> I think you are leaving out a few important details.
>>>
>>> First, I assume you mean you have a Linux server at work, correct? And that 
>>> you also have a Windows XP workstation at work that you use to connect to 
>>> your Linux server at work. Do you have Windows XP Pro or Windows XP Home. 
>>> They are different.
>>>
>>> Finally, you want to get to your Linux server from a PC at your home.
>>>
>>> Is this all correct?
>>>
>>> If this is true, then you also need to tell us if you are using a 
>>> router/firewall in between your work and home computers and your respective 
>>> Internet connections at each location. If not, you should be.
>>>
>>> I don't recommend that you use FTP over the Internet, as FTP sends 
>>> passwords in clear text and can be intercepted. It is more secure to use 
>>> SFTP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol).
>>>
>>> Also, concerning your Samba configuration; you probably just need to create 
>>> the Samba accounts. Samba has its own password database in addition to your 
>>> local server password database.
>>>
>>> Do this:
>>> 'smbpasswd -a username' where username is your Linux username and is also 
>>> the same username on your Windows XP workstation. You may need to create a 
>>> new user on your Linux server to match your Windows XP box. Make sure the 
>>> passwords match exactly.
>>>
>>> Then, restart samba, and try accessing your Linux server from your Windows 
>>> XP box again.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>> John Hebert
>>>
>>>
>>> - Original Message 
>>> From: Joe Fruchey 
>>> To: general at brlug.net
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006 9:14:47 PM
>>> Subject: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
>>>
>>> okay, I've done the following...
>>>
>>> aptitude install samba smbfs proftpd
>>>
>>> I edited the smb.conf like some site told me to to allow access to my
>>> home dir, but it didn't work. If I type \\wiki from my XP box at work,
>>> I get 

[brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

[John Hebert]

You can also install CygWin (http://www.cygwin.com) to get Unix tools on 
Windows.

Send us your smb.conf if it is not too big so we can take a look at it.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Joe Fruchey 
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 8:45:49 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

That's it.

If you are using Windows at home use WinSCP. Otherwise, use scp or
sftp from the Linux or UNIX command-line.

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Friday, November 10, 2006, 8:22:17 AM, you wrote:

> Sorry...

> I *did* create a samba user, and I can log in with those credentials,
> I just don't see any shares after doing so.

> As for ftp, sftp sounds like the way to go. I have ssh running on the
> server, and I can login with it from home... what more do I need for
> sftp?

> Thanks.



> On 11/9/06, John Hebert  wrote:
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> I think you are leaving out a few important details.
>>
>> First, I assume you mean you have a Linux server at work, correct? And that 
>> you also have a Windows XP workstation at work that you use to connect to 
>> your Linux server at work. Do you have Windows XP Pro or Windows XP Home. 
>> They are different.
>>
>> Finally, you want to get to your Linux server from a PC at your home.
>>
>> Is this all correct?
>>
>> If this is true, then you also need to tell us if you are using a 
>> router/firewall in between your work and home computers and your respective 
>> Internet connections at each location. If not, you should be.
>>
>> I don't recommend that you use FTP over the Internet, as FTP sends passwords 
>> in clear text and can be intercepted. It is more secure to use SFTP 
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol).
>>
>> Also, concerning your Samba configuration; you probably just need to create 
>> the Samba accounts. Samba has its own password database in addition to your 
>> local server password database.
>>
>> Do this:
>> 'smbpasswd -a username' where username is your Linux username and is also 
>> the same username on your Windows XP workstation. You may need to create a 
>> new user on your Linux server to match your Windows XP box. Make sure the 
>> passwords match exactly.
>>
>> Then, restart samba, and try accessing your Linux server from your Windows 
>> XP box again.
>>
>> Good luck!
>>
>> John Hebert
>>
>>
>> - Original Message 
>> From: Joe Fruchey 
>> To: general at brlug.net
>> Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006 9:14:47 PM
>> Subject: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba
>>
>> okay, I've done the following...
>>
>> aptitude install samba smbfs proftpd
>>
>> I edited the smb.conf like some site told me to to allow access to my
>> home dir, but it didn't work. If I type \\wiki from my XP box at work,
>> I get a login prompt, I log in, but all I see is a 'Printers and
>> Faxes' share. What gives?
>>
>> And while Samba is great for at work, I'd like ftp for when I'm at
>> home. What more do I have to do with proftpd beyond the install? If I
>> try to ftp from work, I get an 'unknown error,' and from home, I
>> get...
>>
>> Connected to wiki.lafourche.k12.la.us.
>> Connection closed by remote host.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Joe
>>
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[brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

[John Hebert]

Joe,

I think you are leaving out a few important details.

First, I assume you mean you have a Linux server at work, correct? And that you 
also have a Windows XP workstation at work that you use to connect to your 
Linux server at work. Do you have Windows XP Pro or Windows XP Home. They are 
different.

Finally, you want to get to your Linux server from a PC at your home.

Is this all correct?

If this is true, then you also need to tell us if you are using a 
router/firewall in between your work and home computers and your respective 
Internet connections at each location. If not, you should be.

I don't recommend that you use FTP over the Internet, as FTP sends passwords in 
clear text and can be intercepted. It is more secure to use SFTP 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol).

Also, concerning your Samba configuration; you probably just need to create the 
Samba accounts. Samba has its own password database in addition to your local 
server password database.

Do this:
'smbpasswd -a username' where username is your Linux username and is also the 
same username on your Windows XP workstation. You may need to create a new user 
on your Linux server to match your Windows XP box. Make sure the passwords 
match exactly.

Then, restart samba, and try accessing your Linux server from your Windows XP 
box again.

Good luck!

John Hebert


- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006 9:14:47 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] Help my Ubuntu LAMP server with FTP and Samba

okay, I've done the following...

aptitude install samba smbfs proftpd

I edited the smb.conf like some site told me to to allow access to my
home dir, but it didn't work. If I type \\wiki from my XP box at work,
I get a login prompt, I log in, but all I see is a 'Printers and
Faxes' share. What gives?

And while Samba is great for at work, I'd like ftp for when I'm at
home. What more do I have to do with proftpd beyond the install? If I
try to ftp from work, I get an 'unknown error,' and from home, I
get...

Connected to wiki.lafourche.k12.la.us.
Connection closed by remote host.

Any thoughts?

Joe

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[brlug-general] Samba winbind not working correctly with Active Directory

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

I successfully added a Linux server I am administrating to an Active Directory 
domain where I work. Samba works, I can see the shares, etc.

I know winbind and /etc/nsswitch.conf are configured correctly, because I can 
get a list of users ('wbinfo -u') and groups ('wbinfo -g') from Active 
Directory without a problem.

Here's my /etc/nsswitch.conf file:
passwd:   compat winbind
group: compat winbind
shadow: compat
hosts: files dns wins
networks: files dns
protocols: db files
services: db files
ethers: db files
rpc: db files

However, if I try to get info on a specific user ('getent passwd testuser') in 
the AD domain, I get nothing. If I run 'getent passwd', I basically get my 
/etc/passwd file.

Can somebody point me to some good info on how /etc/nsswitch.conf should be 
configured for a domain member if I want to do authentication against Active 
Directory?

I've been reading through The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide, but 
it is a lot to wade through. :P

Thanks!
John Hebert






 
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[brlug-general] I broke apt

[John Hebert]

Long shot:
Create a dummy file -
'touch /etc/dokuwiki/apache.conf'

and try apt again to see what happens.

Also, I think there is a way to tell the apt database of installed software to 
delete references to dokuwiki, but I don't remember the commands.

John

- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2006 3:51:50 PM
Subject: [brlug-general] I broke apt

I installed dokuwiki... Then I didn't want it, so I removed it. It
said it was gone, but the directory was still there, so I deleted it.
Big mistake. Every time I install anything with apt now, I get this:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 dokuwiki
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up dokuwiki (0.0.20050922-4ubuntu1) ...
Not replacing deleted config file /etc/dokuwiki/apache.conf
Could not set mode for /etc/dokuwiki/apache.conf at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/dokuwiki.postinst line 91,  line 2.
dpkg: error processing dokuwiki (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dokuwiki

What do I do?

-Joe

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[brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's smbd and nmbd?

[John Hebert]

Good info, thanks Ray.

I think I know what the problem is now. I _think_ the install is failing 
because the files and dirs under /etc have the immutable bit set. Too many root 
users spoil the server...

Will try to fix this tomorrow and try the install again.

Thanks for everyone's feedback.

John Hebert


- Original Message 
From: -ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2006 6:08:04 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's 
smbd and nmbd?


Whenever I want to see if an installed rpm package is messed up,
i use rpm -V.  For instance:

[root at norm home]# rpm -V setup
missing   c /etc/printcap
S.5T  c /etc/profile

Tells me the /etc/printcap file is missing, and some other stuff has 
changed with /etc/profile.  Here's what it looks for (from rpm manpage):


S file Size differs
M Mode differs (includes permissions and file type)
5 MD5 sum differs
D Device major/minor number mismatch
L readLink(2) path mismatch
U User ownership differs
G Group ownership differs
T mTime differs
C selinux Context differs

John, looks like it doesn't check file attributes, so it wouldn't have 
caught the immutable flag on your files.

ray



On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> Yeah, he *appears* to be missing samba.i386. samba-client and
> samba-common don't include the server functionality. That said, I
> don't know why /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb exists if samba isn't installed.
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>> John,
>> Did you do #yum install samba or #yum install samba-common  to install
>> samba?
>
>> Karthik
>> -Original Message-
>> From: John Hebert [mailto:johnahebert at yahoo.com]
>> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:30 AM
>> To: general at brlug.net
>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core
>> 5:where's smbd and nmbd?
>
>> Dustin,
>
>> Here are the results:
>
>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# service smb start
>> Syntax OK
>> Starting SMB services: /bin/bash: smbd: command not found
>>[FAILED]
>> Starting NMB services: /bin/bash: nmbd: command not found
>>[FAILED]
>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# smbclient -L //localhost -N
>> Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
>> Connection to localhost failed
>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]#
>
>
>> Like I mentioned, samba-common is installed, but the smbd and nmbd binaries
>> aren't there. ???
>
>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# yum list installed | grep samba
>> samba-client.x86_64  3.0.23c-1.fc5  installed
>> samba-common.i3863.0.23c-1.fc5  installed
>
>> This is Fedora Core 5 on a 64bit box:
>
>> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# uname -a
>> Linux houlnxfraud01.uclc.com 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 16:59:56
>> EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>> I can't imagine that the released rpm has a bug on it, so I am suspecting my
>> server has a software config problem.
>
>> Thanks,
>> John Hebert
>
>> - Original Message 
>> From: Dustin Puryear 
>> To: John Hebert 
>> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:46:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:
>> where's smbd and nmbd?
>
>> What happens when you do:
>
>> # service smb start
>> # netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
>> # netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
>> # smbclient -L //localhost -N
>
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>> Thursday, November 2, 2006, 9:13:31 PM, you wrote:
>
>>> Howdy,
>
>>> I'm trying

[brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's smbd and nmbd?

[John Hebert]

Dustin's right, I'm wrong. The samba and samba-common packages are different; 
my bad.

Will retry after lunch.

Think I found the problem: immutable bits set on files in /etc/sysconfig. 
That's what happens when you have multiple root users. :P

Thanks,
John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Karthik Poobalasubramanian 
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2006 10:55:38 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's 
smbd and nmbd?

Yeah, he *appears* to be missing samba.i386. samba-client and
samba-common don't include the server functionality. That said, I
don't know why /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb exists if samba isn't installed.

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Friday, November 3, 2006, 10:45:55 AM, you wrote:

> John,
> Did you do #yum install samba or #yum install samba-common  to install
> samba?

> Karthik
> -Original Message-
> From: John Hebert [mailto:johnahebert at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:30 AM
> To: general at brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core
> 5:where's smbd and nmbd?

> Dustin,

> Here are the results:

> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# service smb start
> Syntax OK
> Starting SMB services: /bin/bash: smbd: command not found
>[FAILED]
> Starting NMB services: /bin/bash: nmbd: command not found
>[FAILED]
> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# smbclient -L //localhost -N
> Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
> Connection to localhost failed
> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]#


> Like I mentioned, samba-common is installed, but the smbd and nmbd binaries
> aren't there. ???

> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# yum list installed | grep samba
> samba-client.x86_64  3.0.23c-1.fc5  installed
> samba-common.i3863.0.23c-1.fc5  installed

> This is Fedora Core 5 on a 64bit box:

> [root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# uname -a
> Linux houlnxfraud01.uclc.com 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 16:59:56
> EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

> I can't imagine that the released rpm has a bug on it, so I am suspecting my
> server has a software config problem.

> Thanks,
> John Hebert

> - Original Message 
> From: Dustin Puryear 
> To: John Hebert 
> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:46:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:
> where's smbd and nmbd?

> What happens when you do:

> # service smb start
> # netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
> # netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
> # smbclient -L //localhost -N

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> Thursday, November 2, 2006, 9:13:31 PM, you wrote:

>> Howdy,

>> I'm trying to install Samba on a FC5 server. Seems like it would be
>> very simple with yum ('yum install samba'), but although I get an
>> "Complete!" message, I can't find 'smbd' or 'nmbd'. I tried
>> 'updatedb' and 'locate smbd' and also 'find / | grep smbd' but still
>> no luck. I see that the /etc/samba dir and the init.d scripts were
> created.



>> I just tried another install using yum with debug and error reporting on:


>> 'yum -d 6 -e 1 install samba'


>> Here's a partial output from yum:
>> ...
>>   Installing: initscripts  # [2/3]
>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/console: cpio:
> lsetfilecon
>>   Installing: samba
>> [3/3]warning: /etc/logrotate.d/samba created as
> /etc/logrotate.d/samba.rpmnew
>>   Installing: samba
>> [3/3]warning: /etc/pam.d/samba created as /etc/pam.d/samba.rpmnew
>>   Installing: samba
>> [3/3]war

[brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's smbd and nmbd?

[John Hebert]

Actually tried it both ways, multiple times. Same result: no smbd or nmbd.

"yum install samba" installs samba-common and samba-client.
"yum install samba-common" just installs samba-common.

Hey Karthik! How ya been?

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Karthik Poobalasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2006 10:45:55 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:where's 
smbd and nmbd?

John,
Did you do #yum install samba or #yum install samba-common  to install
samba?

Karthik
-----Original Message-
From: John Hebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 9:30 AM
To: general at brlug.net
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core
5:where's smbd and nmbd?

Dustin,

Here are the results:

[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# service smb start
Syntax OK
Starting SMB services: /bin/bash: smbd: command not found
   [FAILED]
Starting NMB services: /bin/bash: nmbd: command not found
   [FAILED]
[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# smbclient -L //localhost -N
Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
Connection to localhost failed
[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]#


Like I mentioned, samba-common is installed, but the smbd and nmbd binaries
aren't there. ???

[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# yum list installed | grep samba
samba-client.x86_64  3.0.23c-1.fc5  installed
samba-common.i3863.0.23c-1.fc5  installed

This is Fedora Core 5 on a 64bit box:

[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# uname -a
Linux houlnxfraud01.uclc.com 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 16:59:56
EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I can't imagine that the released rpm has a bug on it, so I am suspecting my
server has a software config problem.

Thanks,
John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Hebert 
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:46:01 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5:
where's smbd and nmbd?

What happens when you do:

# service smb start
# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
# smbclient -L //localhost -N

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Thursday, November 2, 2006, 9:13:31 PM, you wrote:

> Howdy,

> I'm trying to install Samba on a FC5 server. Seems like it would be
> very simple with yum ('yum install samba'), but although I get an
> "Complete!" message, I can't find 'smbd' or 'nmbd'. I tried
> 'updatedb' and 'locate smbd' and also 'find / | grep smbd' but still
> no luck. I see that the /etc/samba dir and the init.d scripts were
created.



> I just tried another install using yum with debug and error reporting on:


> 'yum -d 6 -e 1 install samba'


> Here's a partial output from yum:
> ...
>   Installing: initscripts  # [2/3]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/console: cpio:
lsetfilecon
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/logrotate.d/samba created as
/etc/logrotate.d/samba.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/pam.d/samba created as /etc/pam.d/samba.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb saved as /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.rpmorig
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/samba/smbusers created as /etc/samba/smbusers.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba# [3/3]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /etc/sysconfig/samba;454ab1bd: cpio: open

> Installed: samba.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
> Dependency Installed: initscripts.x86_64 0:8.31.6-1
> samba-common.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
> Complete!


> I'm pretty sure the *.rpmnew files aren't a problem, but what about the
errors?

> Any ideas how I should approach debugging this?

> Thanks,
> John Hebert





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[brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5: where's smbd and nmbd?

[John Hebert]

Dustin,

Here are the results:

[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# service smb start
Syntax OK
Starting SMB services: /bin/bash: smbd: command not found
   [FAILED]
Starting NMB services: /bin/bash: nmbd: command not found
   [FAILED]
[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# smbclient -L //localhost -N
Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
Connection to localhost failed
[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]#


Like I mentioned, samba-common is installed, but the smbd and nmbd binaries 
aren't there. ???

[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# yum list installed | grep samba
samba-client.x86_64  3.0.23c-1.fc5  installed
samba-common.i3863.0.23c-1.fc5  installed

This is Fedora Core 5 on a 64bit box:

[root at houlnxfraud01 ~]# uname -a
Linux houlnxfraud01.uclc.com 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 #1 SMP Sat Oct 14 16:59:56 EDT 
2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I can't imagine that the released rpm has a bug on it, so I am suspecting my 
server has a software config problem.

Thanks,
John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Hebert 
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:46:01 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5: 
where's smbd and nmbd?

What happens when you do:

# service smb start
# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
# smbclient -L //localhost -N

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Thursday, November 2, 2006, 9:13:31 PM, you wrote:

> Howdy,

> I'm trying to install Samba on a FC5 server. Seems like it would be
> very simple with yum ('yum install samba'), but although I get an
> "Complete!" message, I can't find 'smbd' or 'nmbd'. I tried
> 'updatedb' and 'locate smbd' and also 'find / | grep smbd' but still
> no luck. I see that the /etc/samba dir and the init.d scripts were created.



> I just tried another install using yum with debug and error reporting on:


> 'yum -d 6 -e 1 install samba'


> Here's a partial output from yum:
> ...
>   Installing: initscripts  # [2/3]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/console: cpio: 
> lsetfilecon
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/logrotate.d/samba created as /etc/logrotate.d/samba.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/pam.d/samba created as /etc/pam.d/samba.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb saved as /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.rpmorig
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/samba/smbusers created as /etc/samba/smbusers.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba# [3/3]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /etc/sysconfig/samba;454ab1bd: cpio: open

> Installed: samba.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
> Dependency Installed: initscripts.x86_64 0:8.31.6-1
> samba-common.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
> Complete!


> I'm pretty sure the *.rpmnew files aren't a problem, but what about the 
> errors?

> Any ideas how I should approach debugging this?

> Thanks,
> John Hebert





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[brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5: where's smbd and nmbd?

[John Hebert]

Dustin,

Thanks for the reply.

Don't have time to run your suggested commands this morning, but I know that 
when I ran 'service smb start' before, it would fail stating that "smbd can't 
be found". Likewise for nmbd. Like I mentioned before, the smbd and nmbd 
binaries aren't being installed.

The smbclient binary would install just fine, but I didn't try running it. Will 
try when I get to work.

Any recommendations how I would debug the installation of the Samba package? Is 
yum just a front-end for rpm?

Thanks,
John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Hebert 
Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2006 10:46:01 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5: 
where's smbd and nmbd?

What happens when you do:

# service smb start
# netstat -nlpt | grep smbd
# netstat -nlpt | grep nmbd
# smbclient -L //localhost -N

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Thursday, November 2, 2006, 9:13:31 PM, you wrote:

> Howdy,

> I'm trying to install Samba on a FC5 server. Seems like it would be
> very simple with yum ('yum install samba'), but although I get an
> "Complete!" message, I can't find 'smbd' or 'nmbd'. I tried
> 'updatedb' and 'locate smbd' and also 'find / | grep smbd' but still
> no luck. I see that the /etc/samba dir and the init.d scripts were created.



> I just tried another install using yum with debug and error reporting on:


> 'yum -d 6 -e 1 install samba'


> Here's a partial output from yum:
> ...
>   Installing: initscripts  # [2/3]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/console: cpio: 
> lsetfilecon
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/logrotate.d/samba created as /etc/logrotate.d/samba.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/pam.d/samba created as /etc/pam.d/samba.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb saved as /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.rpmorig
>   Installing: samba
> [3/3]warning: /etc/samba/smbusers created as /etc/samba/smbusers.rpmnew
>   Installing: samba# [3/3]
> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /etc/sysconfig/samba;454ab1bd: cpio: open

> Installed: samba.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
> Dependency Installed: initscripts.x86_64 0:8.31.6-1
> samba-common.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
> Complete!


> I'm pretty sure the *.rpmnew files aren't a problem, but what about the 
> errors?

> Any ideas how I should approach debugging this?

> Thanks,
> John Hebert





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[brlug-general] problems installing Samba on Fedora Core 5: where's smbd and nmbd?

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

I'm trying to install Samba on a FC5 server. Seems like it would be very simple 
with yum ('yum install samba'), but although I get an "Complete!" message, I 
can't find 'smbd' or 'nmbd'. I tried 'updatedb' and 'locate smbd' and also 
'find / | grep smbd' but still no luck. I see that the /etc/samba dir and the 
init.d scripts were created.



I just tried another install using yum with debug and error reporting on:


'yum -d 6 -e 1 install samba'


Here's a partial output from yum:
...
  Installing: initscripts  # [2/3]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/console: cpio: 
lsetfilecon
  Installing: samba  
[3/3]warning: /etc/logrotate.d/samba created as /etc/logrotate.d/samba.rpmnew
  Installing: samba  
[3/3]warning: /etc/pam.d/samba created as /etc/pam.d/samba.rpmnew
  Installing: samba  
[3/3]warning: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb saved as /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb.rpmorig
  Installing: samba  
[3/3]warning: /etc/samba/smbusers created as /etc/samba/smbusers.rpmnew
  Installing: samba# [3/3]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /etc/sysconfig/samba;454ab1bd: cpio: 
open

Installed: samba.x86_64 0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
Dependency Installed: initscripts.x86_64 0:8.31.6-1 samba-common.x86_64 
0:3.0.23c-1.fc5
Complete!


I'm pretty sure the *.rpmnew files aren't a problem, but what about the errors?

Any ideas how I should approach debugging this?

Thanks,
John Hebert

[brlug-general] Linux penetration?

[John Hebert]

And we like the freedom to tinker under the hood.

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From: Shannon Roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:04:13 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Linux penetration?



On 10/26/06, Andrew Baudouin  wrote:
Could that be because we are cheap bastards?


Nope.  We just have more sense.

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[brlug-general] "unable to lock password file"

[John Hebert]

Yeah, he works for our company. We came to an understanding, he creates the 
policies, I implement them on the servers I admin. Much less confusion and 
gnashing of teeth that way.

- Original Message 
From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: John Hebert 
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:37:27 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] "unable to lock password file"

Does this guy work for your company? If not, what company was it? I'm
curious.

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Sunday, October 22, 2006, 6:54:53 AM, you wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Matt. I've poked around with 'lsattr' and it
> looks like he just did 'chattr -R +i /etc/*'.

> However, when I do 'lsattr /' in the root dir, I see a couple of
> dirs with an "I" attribute (/etc and /sbin). What does the "I"
> attribute mean exactly? I read the man page, and it was less than helpful. Or 
> I'm dense. ;)

>>From 'man chattr':



> The 'I' attribute is used by the htree code to indicate that a directory
> is behind indexed using hashed trees.  It may not be set or reset using
> chattr(1),

> although it can be displayed by
> lsattr(1).

> ???

> So does this mean the "I" attribute was there by default? Does the
> "I" attribute affect a file or folders permissions?

> Thanks.

> John Hebert

> - Original Message 
> From: Matthew Eastman 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:35:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] "unable to lock password file"

> You can take a look at which special attributes are set for files
> using lsattr. Hopefully that will help you find out which files he had
> fun with.

> Matt

> On 10/21/06, John Hebert  wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> A "security analyst" made some unknown changes with 'chattr' to a server I'm 
>> administrating (yeah, I know. I'm waiting on a detailed list of changes he 
>> made.) and now I can't add or del users from /etc/passwd. When I try, I get 
>> "unable to lock password file". Also, when I try to change a user's 
>> password, I get the error "passwd: Authentication token lock busy".
>>
>> I've removed the immutable bit from /etc/passwd* and /etc/shadow* with 
>> 'chattr -i ...' and it still didn't work. I even recursively removed the 
>> immutable bit for /etc/* and _still_ can't add or delete users.
>>
>> Anybody ever see anything like this? Where does the password lock file get 
>> created? I think PAM is failing, but I'm not sure why.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Hebert
>>
>>
>>
>>
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[brlug-general] "unable to lock password file"

[John Hebert]

Thanks for the reply Matt. I've poked around with 'lsattr' and it looks like he 
just did 'chattr -R +i /etc/*'.

However, when I do 'lsattr /' in the root dir, I see a couple of dirs with an 
"I" attribute (/etc and /sbin). What does the "I" attribute mean exactly? I 
read the man page, and it was less than helpful. Or I'm dense. ;)

[brlug-general] "unable to lock password file"

[John Hebert]

Howdy,

A "security analyst" made some unknown changes with 'chattr' to a server I'm 
administrating (yeah, I know. I'm waiting on a detailed list of changes he 
made.) and now I can't add or del users from /etc/passwd. When I try, I get 
"unable to lock password file". Also, when I try to change a user's password, I 
get the error "passwd: Authentication token lock busy".

I've removed the immutable bit from /etc/passwd* and /etc/shadow* with 'chattr 
-i ...' and it still didn't work. I even recursively removed the immutable bit 
for /etc/* and _still_ can't add or delete users.

Anybody ever see anything like this? Where does the password lock file get 
created? I think PAM is failing, but I'm not sure why.

Thanks,
John Hebert

[brlug-general] New LAMP server

[John Hebert]

Crap. I meant "package(s)" instead of lib(s). Still re-acclimating my brain to 
the Linux way after too long a hiatus... :)

- Original Message ----
From: John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:41:54 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

I think Scott is right; it is mentioned in the wikimedia URL referenced earlier:

"Also, be sure to enable LDAP authentication within PHP. Make sure that
you have installed the necessary packages for your distro. Currently,
Mediawiki does not complain about missing LDAP support for PHP - it
will just give you a blank screen after trying to log in."

Specifically, the "php-ldap" lib is needed, which I guess depends on the 
OpenLDAP client libs.

Joe, looks like you just need to 'apt-get install php-ldap' and do the steps 
mentioned in:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication_Configuration_Examples#Configuration_for_an_AD_server

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Scott Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:26:21 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server




  

John Hebert wrote:

  
  
  Andrew,

  

  I don't think Joe needs to install OpenLDAP on his LAMP server,
as he will just be using client-side LDAP auth via PHP. See 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication_Configuration_Examples#Introduction.
I think that's all he wants.

  

  


He still needs openldap client libraries installed to do this via the
php module.



I did this recently for TWiki authenticating of a Sun LDAP environment
using Apache Authenz:LDAP modules.  Once I got apache, the ldap module,
and openldap and all the dependencies compiled on solaris, setup was
relatively easy. (couldn't use native solaris ldap client libraries
with the apache module)








  
  

Joe, modifying PAM would be useful if you want local console logins on
your LAMP server to authenticate against AD. Good to know, but probably
overkill for what you need.

  

John Hebert

  

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Original Message 

From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: general at brlug.net

Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:19:07 AM

Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

  

You will need to make sure openLDAP gets set up with kerberos and all
that good stuff.  

  

You can go as far as modifying PAM to authenticate against AD with the
above on first logins.  Gentoo has great guides for setting up the
above.
  

  

  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Adding_a_Samba_Server_into_an_existing_AD_Domain

  

  

  On 10/11/06, John Hebert 
wrote:
  Hey,
I hear ya. We recently started using Linux for server stuff at my place
of employment which was exclusively a Windows-only shop and I'm the
Linux admin! So, no worries, mate. ;)



Like worms said, you could also use LDAP for authentication, but I
haven't messed around with doing that between a Linux app and a Windows
hosted AD, but from what I know, AD supports LDAP so somebody must have
solved that problem already.




Google returns lots of hits:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ldap+authentication+active+directory



G'luck!



John Hebert




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From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: general at brlug.net

Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:56:21 AM


Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server



because I *want* to run it on Linux. That's all.



I don't know anything about AD or anything like that under Windows

either, though.



On 10/11/06, John Hebert <
johnahebert at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Ok, prepare for a little blasphemy...

>

> Why not just run it on a Windows box? *ducks*

>

> In any case, it _may_ be possible to interface with your AD using
Samba. You will need to test it of course.


>

> John Hebert

>

> - Original Message 

> From: Joe Fruchey 

> To: general at brlug.net


> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:27:33 AM

> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

>

> Oh, I forgot the biggie...

>

> Would it be possible to get MediaWiki to interface with our
existing


> user database via ActiveDirectory (or something else?)

>

> On 10/11/06, worms  wrote:

> > We're running Media Wiki here and it's caught on very well.


> > We document everything from build processes to infrastructure
there.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > On 10/11/06, Mathew Branyon  wrote:

> > > I doubt you would notice a difference in either machine.

> > >

> > > I have used ubuntu as a server (simply because I had
install disks lying

> > > around), and it is very easy to use.  I specifically set
up lamp with


> > > drupal (content management), which was very 

[brlug-general] New LAMP server

[John Hebert]

I think Scott is right; it is mentioned in the wikimedia URL referenced earlier:

"Also, be sure to enable LDAP authentication within PHP. Make sure that
you have installed the necessary packages for your distro. Currently,
Mediawiki does not complain about missing LDAP support for PHP - it
will just give you a blank screen after trying to log in."

Specifically, the "php-ldap" lib is needed, which I guess depends on the 
OpenLDAP client libs.

Joe, looks like you just need to 'apt-get install php-ldap' and do the steps 
mentioned in:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication_Configuration_Examples#Configuration_for_an_AD_server

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Scott Harney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:26:21 PM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server




  

John Hebert wrote:

  
  
  Andrew,

  

  I don't think Joe needs to install OpenLDAP on his LAMP server,
as he will just be using client-side LDAP auth via PHP. See 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication_Configuration_Examples#Introduction.
I think that's all he wants.

  

  


He still needs openldap client libraries installed to do this via the
php module.



I did this recently for TWiki authenticating of a Sun LDAP environment
using Apache Authenz:LDAP modules.  Once I got apache, the ldap module,
and openldap and all the dependencies compiled on solaris, setup was
relatively easy. (couldn't use native solaris ldap client libraries
with the apache module)








  
  

Joe, modifying PAM would be useful if you want local console logins on
your LAMP server to authenticate against AD. Good to know, but probably
overkill for what you need.

  

John Hebert

  

  -
Original Message 

From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: general at brlug.net

Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:19:07 AM

Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

  

You will need to make sure openLDAP gets set up with kerberos and all
that good stuff.  

  

You can go as far as modifying PAM to authenticate against AD with the
above on first logins.  Gentoo has great guides for setting up the
above.
  

  

  http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Adding_a_Samba_Server_into_an_existing_AD_Domain

  

  

  On 10/11/06, John Hebert 
wrote:
  Hey,
I hear ya. We recently started using Linux for server stuff at my place
of employment which was exclusively a Windows-only shop and I'm the
Linux admin! So, no worries, mate. ;)



Like worms said, you could also use LDAP for authentication, but I
haven't messed around with doing that between a Linux app and a Windows
hosted AD, but from what I know, AD supports LDAP so somebody must have
solved that problem already.




Google returns lots of hits:

http://www.google.com/search?q=ldap+authentication+active+directory



G'luck!



John Hebert




- Original Message 

From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: general at brlug.net

Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:56:21 AM


Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server



because I *want* to run it on Linux. That's all.



I don't know anything about AD or anything like that under Windows

either, though.



On 10/11/06, John Hebert <
johnahebert at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Ok, prepare for a little blasphemy...

>

> Why not just run it on a Windows box? *ducks*

>

> In any case, it _may_ be possible to interface with your AD using
Samba. You will need to test it of course.


>

> John Hebert

>

> - Original Message 

> From: Joe Fruchey 

> To: general at brlug.net


> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:27:33 AM

> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

>

> Oh, I forgot the biggie...

>

> Would it be possible to get MediaWiki to interface with our
existing


> user database via ActiveDirectory (or something else?)

>

> On 10/11/06, worms  wrote:

> > We're running Media Wiki here and it's caught on very well.


> > We document everything from build processes to infrastructure
there.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > On 10/11/06, Mathew Branyon  wrote:

> > > I doubt you would notice a difference in either machine.

> > >

> > > I have used ubuntu as a server (simply because I had
install disks lying

> > > around), and it is very easy to use.  I specifically set
up lamp with


> > > drupal (content management), which was very straight
forward.

> > >

> > > As far as books, I've always found that the online
documentation has

> > > always been more than adequate (and if all else fails,
look at gentoo's


> > > online documentation).

> > >

> > > --mat

> > >

> &g

[brlug-general] New LAMP server

[John Hebert]

Andrew,

I don't think Joe needs to install OpenLDAP on his LAMP server, as he will just 
be using client-side LDAP auth via PHP. See 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LDAP_Authentication_Configuration_Examples#Introduction.
 I think that's all he wants.

Joe, modifying PAM would be useful if you want local console logins on your 
LAMP server to authenticate against AD. Good to know, but probably overkill for 
what you need.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 11:19:07 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

You will need to make sure openLDAP gets set up with kerberos and all that good 
stuff.  

You can go as far as modifying PAM to authenticate against AD with the above on 
first logins.  Gentoo has great guides for setting up the above.


http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Adding_a_Samba_Server_into_an_existing_AD_Domain


On 10/11/06, 
John Hebert  wrote:
Hey, I hear ya. We recently started using Linux for server stuff at my place of 
employment which was exclusively a Windows-only shop and I'm the Linux admin! 
So, no worries, mate. ;)

Like worms said, you could also use LDAP for authentication, but I haven't 
messed around with doing that between a Linux app and a Windows hosted AD, but 
from what I know, AD supports LDAP so somebody must have solved that problem 
already.


Google returns lots of hits:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ldap+authentication+active+directory

G'luck!

John Hebert


- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:56:21 AM

Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

because I *want* to run it on Linux. That's all.

I don't know anything about AD or anything like that under Windows
either, though.

On 10/11/06, John Hebert <
johnahebert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ok, prepare for a little blasphemy...
>
> Why not just run it on a Windows box? *ducks*
>
> In any case, it _may_ be possible to interface with your AD using Samba. You 
> will need to test it of course.

>
> John Hebert
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Joe Fruchey 
> To: general at brlug.net

> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:27:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server
>
> Oh, I forgot the biggie...
>
> Would it be possible to get MediaWiki to interface with our existing

> user database via ActiveDirectory (or something else?)
>
> On 10/11/06, worms  wrote:
> > We're running Media Wiki here and it's caught on very well.

> > We document everything from build processes to infrastructure there.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/11/06, Mathew Branyon  wrote:
> > > I doubt you would notice a difference in either machine.
> > >
> > > I have used ubuntu as a server (simply because I had install disks lying
> > > around), and it is very easy to use.  I specifically set up lamp with

> > > drupal (content management), which was very straight forward.
> > >
> > > As far as books, I've always found that the online documentation has
> > > always been more than adequate (and if all else fails, look at gentoo's

> > > online documentation).
> > >
> > > --mat
> > >
> > >
> > > Joe Fruchey wrote:
> > > > Wow, I'm excited!
> > > >

> > > > At work, we have this crappy helpdesk web app that hosts
> > > > text-file-based help documents. I set up MediaWiki on my hosted server
> > > > and whipped up a few articles to pitch the idea to my boss that we

> > > > really need something a lot more robust. He loved it!
> > > >
> > > > Problem is, all our servers are pretty much in constant use, so he'd
> > > > like to see a dedicated server for this purpose. I've been trying to

> > > > get *something* to run Linux at this MS-loving joint for years. Bingo!
> > > > LAMP server.
> > > >
> > > > I've been using desktop Linux for a while, but I've never done any

> > server admin.
> > > >
> > > > What type of machine should I use? My choices are pretty much limited
> > > > to a Dell Optiplex GX240 with a 2.6GHz P4 (and as much RAM as I want)

> > > > or a PowerEdge 1400SC server with dual 1GHz P3s and SCSI drives. The
> > > > sole purpose of this machine will be to run MediaWiki, so which one
> > > > would perform better? (I'd rather use the GX240)

> > > >
> > > > I know most server installs don't bother with X. But I was thinking...
> > > > 

[brlug-general] New LAMP server

[John Hebert]

Hey, I hear ya. We recently started using Linux for server stuff at my place of 
employment which was exclusively a Windows-only shop and I'm the Linux admin! 
So, no worries, mate. ;)

Like worms said, you could also use LDAP for authentication, but I haven't 
messed around with doing that between a Linux app and a Windows hosted AD, but 
from what I know, AD supports LDAP so somebody must have solved that problem 
already.

Google returns lots of hits:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ldap+authentication+active+directory

G'luck!

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:56:21 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

because I *want* to run it on Linux. That's all.

I don't know anything about AD or anything like that under Windows
either, though.

On 10/11/06, John Hebert  wrote:
> Ok, prepare for a little blasphemy...
>
> Why not just run it on a Windows box? *ducks*
>
> In any case, it _may_ be possible to interface with your AD using Samba. You 
> will need to test it of course.
>
> John Hebert
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Joe Fruchey 
> To: general at brlug.net
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:27:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server
>
> Oh, I forgot the biggie...
>
> Would it be possible to get MediaWiki to interface with our existing
> user database via ActiveDirectory (or something else?)
>
> On 10/11/06, worms  wrote:
> > We're running Media Wiki here and it's caught on very well.
> > We document everything from build processes to infrastructure there.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/11/06, Mathew Branyon  wrote:
> > > I doubt you would notice a difference in either machine.
> > >
> > > I have used ubuntu as a server (simply because I had install disks lying
> > > around), and it is very easy to use.  I specifically set up lamp with
> > > drupal (content management), which was very straight forward.
> > >
> > > As far as books, I've always found that the online documentation has
> > > always been more than adequate (and if all else fails, look at gentoo's
> > > online documentation).
> > >
> > > --mat
> > >
> > >
> > > Joe Fruchey wrote:
> > > > Wow, I'm excited!
> > > >
> > > > At work, we have this crappy helpdesk web app that hosts
> > > > text-file-based help documents. I set up MediaWiki on my hosted server
> > > > and whipped up a few articles to pitch the idea to my boss that we
> > > > really need something a lot more robust. He loved it!
> > > >
> > > > Problem is, all our servers are pretty much in constant use, so he'd
> > > > like to see a dedicated server for this purpose. I've been trying to
> > > > get *something* to run Linux at this MS-loving joint for years. Bingo!
> > > > LAMP server.
> > > >
> > > > I've been using desktop Linux for a while, but I've never done any
> > server admin.
> > > >
> > > > What type of machine should I use? My choices are pretty much limited
> > > > to a Dell Optiplex GX240 with a 2.6GHz P4 (and as much RAM as I want)
> > > > or a PowerEdge 1400SC server with dual 1GHz P3s and SCSI drives. The
> > > > sole purpose of this machine will be to run MediaWiki, so which one
> > > > would perform better? (I'd rather use the GX240)
> > > >
> > > > I know most server installs don't bother with X. But I was thinking...
> > > > I have this extra monitor on my desk, and I was thinking about playing
> > > > around with Synergy through maybe a dumb terminal... What do you
> > > > think?
> > > >
> > > > And the big question... What distro? I'm thinking Ubuntu Server, just
> > > > 'cause I've heard It's easy to set up a LAMP server on. Opinions
> > > > welcome.
> > > >
> > > > Book suggestions welcome as well, as I could probably get work to buy
> > them! =)
> > > >
> > > > Wish me luck!
> > > >
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[brlug-general] New LAMP server

[John Hebert]

Ok, prepare for a little blasphemy...

Why not just run it on a Windows box? *ducks*

In any case, it _may_ be possible to interface with your AD using Samba. You 
will need to test it of course.

John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Joe Fruchey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:27:33 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] New LAMP server

Oh, I forgot the biggie...

Would it be possible to get MediaWiki to interface with our existing
user database via ActiveDirectory (or something else?)

On 10/11/06, worms  wrote:
> We're running Media Wiki here and it's caught on very well.
> We document everything from build processes to infrastructure there.
>
>
>
>
> On 10/11/06, Mathew Branyon  wrote:
> > I doubt you would notice a difference in either machine.
> >
> > I have used ubuntu as a server (simply because I had install disks lying
> > around), and it is very easy to use.  I specifically set up lamp with
> > drupal (content management), which was very straight forward.
> >
> > As far as books, I've always found that the online documentation has
> > always been more than adequate (and if all else fails, look at gentoo's
> > online documentation).
> >
> > --mat
> >
> >
> > Joe Fruchey wrote:
> > > Wow, I'm excited!
> > >
> > > At work, we have this crappy helpdesk web app that hosts
> > > text-file-based help documents. I set up MediaWiki on my hosted server
> > > and whipped up a few articles to pitch the idea to my boss that we
> > > really need something a lot more robust. He loved it!
> > >
> > > Problem is, all our servers are pretty much in constant use, so he'd
> > > like to see a dedicated server for this purpose. I've been trying to
> > > get *something* to run Linux at this MS-loving joint for years. Bingo!
> > > LAMP server.
> > >
> > > I've been using desktop Linux for a while, but I've never done any
> server admin.
> > >
> > > What type of machine should I use? My choices are pretty much limited
> > > to a Dell Optiplex GX240 with a 2.6GHz P4 (and as much RAM as I want)
> > > or a PowerEdge 1400SC server with dual 1GHz P3s and SCSI drives. The
> > > sole purpose of this machine will be to run MediaWiki, so which one
> > > would perform better? (I'd rather use the GX240)
> > >
> > > I know most server installs don't bother with X. But I was thinking...
> > > I have this extra monitor on my desk, and I was thinking about playing
> > > around with Synergy through maybe a dumb terminal... What do you
> > > think?
> > >
> > > And the big question... What distro? I'm thinking Ubuntu Server, just
> > > 'cause I've heard It's easy to set up a LAMP server on. Opinions
> > > welcome.
> > >
> > > Book suggestions welcome as well, as I could probably get work to buy
> them! =)
> > >
> > > Wish me luck!
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
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[brlug-general] Backups for Linux..

[John Hebert]

Hey Tim,

Can you give me a rough estimate of how much ya'll paid for that CoRAID setup? 
I'd like to pitch CoRAID to my employer.

Thanks,
John Hebert

- Original Message 
From: Tim Fournet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: general at brlug.net
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:18:24 AM
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Backups for Linux..

We're loving BackupPC as well. I built a system using BackupPC and a 
server attached to a CoRAID EtherDrive filled with 15 750 gig SATA 
drives. This gives us a capacity of around 9 terabytes (after spares 
drives, etc) for backing up servers all across the country over VPN 
connections. Once you have your base setup, it's easy to add more backup 
clients to the system and see how they're all doing over the web interface

Dustin Puryear wrote:
> Hi, just wanted to make a quick note. For a long time we were using
> tar to tape for a lot of Linux and Unix backups at client sites.
> (That, or we used something like Lone-tar.) Recently, we've started
> using BackupPC for disk-based backups (BackupPC also created archives
> for off-site storage), and we love it. It works GREAT, has support for
> Windows, and has one of the most disk-efficient pooling schemes I've
> come across.
>
> ---
> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
> http://www.puryear-it.com
>
> Author:
>   "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>   "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century"
>
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[brlug-general] Introducing Dustin Cooper Thomas Puryear

[John Hebert]

I was thinking "child process". ;)

Congrats, Dustin.

--- Robert Leche  wrote:

> Dustin,
> congratulations, ya done good! So whats the chance
> that this little guy 
> turns out to be the most challenging software
> package to engineer, 
> install, configure, integrate, and manage that you
> will ever have?
> 
> Bob
> 
>  Puryear wrote:
> 
> >http://photos.yahoo.com/cooper_puryear
> >
> >---
> >Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> >Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
> >http://www.puryear-it.com
> >
> >Author:
> >  "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX
> Servers"
> >  "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st
> Century"
> >
> >Download your free copies:
> >  http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm
> >
> >
> >
>

> >
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