Re: [Scottish] RHCE
On (16:28 12/12/10), Julian Gibson wrote: All I'm thinking of doing the RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) exam as part of a process to get a job where I spend less of my time using MS and more on what I've been using at home for over 10 years. Anyone got any hints, tips, war stories, gotchas, whatever from having done this or considered and rejected the idea that they'd be willing to share? I realise that this is not what you asked, however... I decided to do an LPI cert rather than RH or Novell, for the simple reason that it didn't seem to make sense as an open source advocate to go and do a vendor certification. Most, if not all vendors can't help but try and lock you in, and I wasn't interested in learning about a particular vendor's Linux value add proposition and the associated proprietary bits. I mean I'm sure they teach you a bunch of transferable skills, but why bother if there is a largely distro agnostic alternative? (that may be much cheaper too) That said I appreciate that we do live in a world where $SHINY wins-out and marketing hyperbole counts for something, sadly. So, it may be that you'd get more mileage out of a vendor cert. It'll almost certainly make dealings with the mind brokers less painful, as they're programmed to respond to brands and product names and prefer not to concern themselves with precisely what is is that their stock in trade actually does. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back a...@smokebelch.org ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Introduction
On (08:56 14/08/09), james tobin wrote: Hello List, I'm an open source talent acquisition consultant working with customers in Scotland that are looking to recruit MySQL DBA's and *nix systems administrators.? I'm also an open source advocate too with experience of running multiple distros and some development experience. Are there many different distros of NetBSD? A. -- Andrew Back a...@smokebelch.org ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, William Anderson wrote: Matt Causey wrote: [snip] This is when I learned that Tiscali does -not- support PPPoE, but rather PPPoA. O'course, my Cisco PIX only supports the more flexible PPPoE method. Grr. Is this the case with all ISPs here in the UK? Anyone have an old Cisco ATM device sitting around? :) Welcome to the UK, and Scotland in particular :) Sorry, pretty much all UK ADSL uses PPPoA, and the ATM part is for the actual backhaul out of the exchanges. You won't need any ATM CPE gear to connect. That's what I thought, I.e. that you might only get PPPoE when an ISP has say taken advantage of LLU. But I have now been told by two different people that PPPoE can work, and a quick Google seems to reinforce this: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/1381-pppoe-authentication-in-final-pilot-to-providers.html http://m0n0.ch/wall/list/showmsg.php?id=185/81 You would of course need an ADSL presentation (E.g. G.DMT) and I'm guessing PPPoE might not work on all exchanges. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Openmoko FreeRunner
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Sean Anderson wrote: SNIP Yes, but of course you must remember that cellphones were originally invented to allow the CIA, the NSA, or indeed the masons (because they're the same thing, really) to keep track of the population; why do you think phones became so cheap and easy to come by? The government controls the airwaves. The government controls your phone. Never forget this. Yes, that is why I wrap my mobile in baking foil and never use the same SIM more than once. Andrew (or am I...) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] LDAP migration help
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Phillip Bennett wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am trying to migrate our NIS services (users, autofs etc) to an LDAP
server. I have found the Migration Tools from PADL (www.padl.com) and I am
having a few weird problems.
When running the migrate_all_nis_online.sh script, I recieve the following
error:
adding new entry uid=clare,ou=People,dc=mve,dc=com
ldap_add: Invalid syntax (21)
additional info: objectClass: value #6 invalid per syntax
The data in question from the created ldif file is as follows:
dn: uid=clare,ou=People,dc=mve,dc=com
uid: clare
cn: Clare Bond
givenName: Clare
sn: Bond
mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailRoutingAddress: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailHost: islay.mve.com
objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: top
objectClass: kerberosSecurityObject
userPassword: {crypt}snip!
krbName: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
loginShell: /bin/tcsh
uidNumber: 2049
gidNumber: 20
homeDirectory: /homes/clare
gecos: Clare Bond
I'm not sure exactly which value is giving the error, but after removing all
the mail ones, it looks like it's one of the objectClass values. There is no
white space, and the values all look right to me.
All the howtos I have read so far indicate that the USE_EXTENDED_SCHEMA
VALUE SHOULD BE SET TO 1. However, if I set it to 0, the LDIF file gives the
following data:
dn: uid=clare,ou=People,dc=mve,dc=com
uid: clare
cn: Clare Bond
objectClass: account
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: top
userPassword: {crypt}snip!
loginShell: /bin/tcsh
uidNumber: 2049
gidNumber: 20
homeDirectory: /homes/clare
gecos: Clare Bond
Then, the resulting LDIF file works properly (after a bout of deleting
duplicate service informatoin) and I have an LDAP database. So the question
becomes, Do I need the extended schema?
Depends if your applications need it, e.g. pam_ldap, Samba and so on. The
2nd stripped-down LDIF looks possibly a bit thin to me, so I'm guessing
they may.
Check that all the attributes and object classes required by the 1st LDIF
are in the DSA core or included schema. If not all are find some extra
schema to include that gives you what you need.
And hope that you don't require to add an extra syntax type to the DSA as
from what I remember it isn't fun - with most DSAs syntax are not
generally configurable via text-based config and requires
modification/extension to the code. The DSA could be moaning about
included schema if it doesn't understand a syntax type used for an
attribute... But if this is the case it may be you can subsititute for
one it does know about.
Andrew
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Re: [Scottish] For comparing VM technologies: VMKNOPPIX released
But where is Linux/390 running under VM on hercules on Linux? :oP A. Andrew Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Dan Shearer wrote: Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:56:02 +0900 (JST) From: Kuniyasu Suzaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Qemu-devel] VMKNOPPIX is released To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Dear, We released VMKNOPPIX. It was called Xenoppix but renamed to VMKNOPPIX because it became a collection of Virtual Machine Softwares. http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/index-en.html VMKNOPPIX includes Xen3.0.4(DomainU HVM Domain), KVM14, VirtualBox, GPLed KQEMU, and normal QEMU. There are many techniques of Virtual Machine, para-virtualization, full-virtualization with virtualization instruction(IntelVT or AMD-V), dynamic translation etc. The VM softwares runs with OS images offered by some sites(For instance OSZoo's QEMU images).Have fun with the techniques! OSZoo's QEMU images http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Operating_System_Images VMKNOPPIX includes OS Circular environment. OS Circular enables to boot OSes on Xen with a globalized virtual disk HTTP-FUSE CLOOP. VMKNOPPIX includes benchmark sotwares. We compared the results. (See below) Pi calculation for CPU benchmark http://h2np.net/pi/pi_quick_start.tar.gz dbench for IO benchmark tbench for Network benchmark Xengine for Graphic Benchmark VMKNOPPIX includes xenoprifle to take profile of HVM Domain OS. VMKNOPPIX is optimized by LCAT for fast CD boot. http://www.alpha.co.jp/biz/rdg/ac-knoppix/index_en.html * *** Virtual Machine Uages * Xen Boot with the first option KNOPPIX/Xen3.0.4-0 of GRUB. To run DomainU with KNOPPPIX. # knoppixU To run HVM Domain with KNOPPPIX on IntelVT or AMD-V. # knoppixHVM Caution) Add nofirewire kernel option at GRUB Menu for Intel MAC. * OS Circular Boot with the first option KNOPPIX/Xen3.0.4-0 of GRUB on IntelVT or AMD-V. # pump -i eth0 # /etc/inint.d/xend start # httpfuse-hvm.sh Selection Menu will be appeared. Select a near site. Contents Menu will be appeared. Select your favorite image. The OS will be appeared. Current Debian Etch has accounts, root/http-fuse or http-fuse/http-fuse. Caution) Add nofirewire kernel option at GRUB Menu for Intel MAC. Caution) The console must be wider than 80x24to run httpfuse-hvm.sh, because dialog requires wide console. If the console is small, the message httpstoraged is ready ... will continue. The technical detail was presented Virtualization Miniconf at LinuxConfAu07. http://virtminiconf.linux.hp.com/program/os-circulation-environment-201ctrusted-http-fuse-xenoppix201d Slide PDF http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/20070118-LCA-HTTP-FUSE.pdf * VirtualBox Boot with the second option KNOPPIX(normal kernel) on GRUB. # modprobe vboxdrv # VBoxSVC # VirtualBox After that, setup VM environment interactively. The CD-Drive is setup at the main menu after Interactive setup. * kqemu/KVM/QEMU Boot with the second option KNOPPIX(normal kernel) on GRUB. Script qemu-knoppix.sh prepares network environment, shared memory for KQEMU, and drivers for KVM or KQEMU. The priority is as follows. 1) If kvm drivers effective, kvm runs. 2) If kqemu is effective, kqemu runs. 3) If kvm and kqemu aren't available, qemu runs. qemu-knoppix.sh aslo accepts the follwing options. -no-kvm : disable KVM kernel module usage -no-kqemu : disable KQEMU kernel module usage -no-module: disable all kernel module usage For examples, the following command runs kqemu. # qemu-knoppix.sh -no-kvm *** Benchmarks * pi calculation # time /opt/pi_quick_start/pi 300 * dbench (Read /usr/share/dbench.client.txt) # dbench 1 * tbench (Read /usr/share/dbench.client.txt via network) On Host # tbench_srv On Guest # tbench -t 60 1 HostIP. Example 10.0.2.2 on VirtualBox,KVM, KQEMU, QEMU * xengine # xengine *** Benchmark Results * Pi calculation | sec |Remarks ---+---+- Native| 14.67 | Core2 Duo T7200 kvm-14| 19.26 | kvm-12| 17.90 |(Sample. CD doesn't include) qemu(kqemu)| 24.87 | -kernel-kqemu is not used qemu|227.1 | -no-kqemu VirtualBox| 17.56 | Xen(DomU)| 14.68 | Xen(HVM)| 15.99 | ---+---+- * dbench | MB/s |Remarks ---+---+- Native| 341.0 | Core2 Duo T7200 kvm-14| 206.1 | kqemu| 36.20| -kernel-kqemu is not used qemu| 29.17| -no-kqemu VirtualBox| 223.9 | Xen(DomU)| 283.1 | Xen(HVM)| 203.3 | ---+---+- * tbehch between Host
Re: [Scottish] For comparing VM technologies: VMKNOPPIX released
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Dan Shearer wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:31:52AM +, Andrew Back wrote: But where is Linux/390 running under VM on hercules on Linux? :oP Can't help with the VM bit (for most people licensing is a problem there) but I'll happily help people who want to add Linux/390 native under Hercules on this image. It's less difficult than the strangeness of it would seem to indicate. You really don't have to worry about the fact that a 390 (or, more like, a 64-bit zSeries) doesn't have a bus in the normal sense. Or what the 31-bit name in the 390 architecture means. Mostly it is just Linux with a funny looking main machine console, and you can get a kick out of goingcat /proc/cpuinfo :-) Yes, I think I was just being silly. You can get hold of a really old VM, from days before IBM copyrighted software. But requires hercules to act as a System/370 and presents 370-like VMs which are 24 bits IIRC, and thus have no Linux support. Comments: - all the others in the image are high-performance, or claim to be (Hercules isn't particularly efficient despite being very solid, and besides all the others are implemented in a like-on-like manner to maximise performance I doubt anyone would want to use hercules in production. Maybe they do... - on the other hand, Hercules implements up to 4CPUs, which the others can't, so perhaps people would find this useful for testing. Not sure how that fits with the goals for VMoppix. If that matters. - anyway, it's fun It is indeed. Although I seem to be currently obsessed with running ye olde VM and equally antique MVS under it at the moment (all on hercules). Which it has to be said there is little point to... Well, aside from marvelling at MVS revelations such as bsppilot has terminated due to an abend. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] For comparing VM technologies: VMKNOPPIX released
On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Dan Shearer wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:41:44PM +, Andrew Back wrote: Never heard of DIPOS, does it run under simh by any chance? Not that I know of. It ran on a Siemens-Nixdorf device called a TCU, complete with 70Mb full-height 5 1/4 MFM hard drive, a processor card the size of an opened telephone book, and accompanying comms cards of the same size. Each comms card could drive up to 4 terminals on a serial based 4-wire LAN, where terminals were hooked up in paralell, and with two terminating resistors at the end. Terminals were Siemens PCs with a HDLC adapter for the LAN and some kind of terminal emulation. You could toggle between one screen where your current app ran, and another where you could 'load segments into partitions'. The only other thing I remember is you booted and built the TCU from tapes, and had to edit a dataset to change it's X.25 address (used in communicating back to a central mainframe after you turned a key on the front to the 'overnight processing' position). British Gas had one in every shop around 1993, and I had the dubious pleasure of building and installing over about 70 of the 250+. I think DIPOS meant DIn Point-of-sale Operating System. Yes, DIN as in standards, well it was German. I'd actually quite like one just because it was so ridiculous. But then I am currently searching for an IBM 3270 terminal and 3174 controller... Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Windows Vista Business value thingy
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, ed wrote: One things Vista will do is preload favourite apps for quicker load when you want them, don't know if that has any performance impact or how that works for non-MS apps. Something OpenVMS has been able to do for (probably 20) years: http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/83final/6048/6048pro_033.html#index_x_872 And J2EE app servers do as a matter of course. But will also slow down the startup... And it's not like Windows is the speediest OS to boot hence the startup tweaks you can do to put off starting services and the likes. Umm, I won a Dell 820D laptop. It claimed on the notce that it was top of the line, but the spec seemed fairly mid to low to me, aprt from the 256MG Graphics card, which may be necessry given the flash in Vista. Don't have my hands on it yet, they have to preload Vista and Office 2007 on it, but I don't think the MS top man was too chuffed when I asked if Lunix had all the drivers for the laptop's kit. So I may not get it after all, or get some dog that is barely running. Send back the media and license agreement and see if you can get a cash refund :o) Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [BGSpam]Re: [Scottish] Linux apparell in Glasgow
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, ed wrote: SNIP If it was an independent event that MS happened to be at then sure, since it is organised and paid for by MS and my work happens to be their guests I think that would be a bit dodgy for what little remains of my career prospects. At least I got linux onto our network, thanks to SAMBA, but we need more on the system Just as the anarchist approach to society has not resulted in a utopian state, neither will 'Linux anarchy' result in a similarly utopian OSS based computing estate across organisations. Rise above I say, as agressive behaviour generally tends to make business folk wary, and thus be counterproductive. Of course if the intention is purely to irritate then thats a different matter. In my opinion a carrot is better than a stick. You could always ask MS what they have in mind for the resultant Novell fork of Linux if it is ruled Novell are not allowed to use future Linux versions :o) A. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Drive performance...
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Kyle Gordon wrote: What configuration gives 120GB from 80 + 60? Is it not multiples of the smallest drive? Like (n-1)x, n being number of drives and x being the capacity of the smallest drive? RAID 0 (striped) would give 140G but you'd lose all your data if a drive failed. RAID 1 (mirrored) would give 60G as you only get up to the size of the smallest drive. RAID 5 isn't possible with less than 3 drives. I think that settles it then... SCSI it is :-) They may be old, but still more advanced. On the plus side, it frees up some drives for use in other machines :-) Unless the perfomance gap due to difference in age is sufficiently large, or ATA has advanced to include command queueing... Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] processors
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Gordon JC Pearce wrote: I believe RSX-11M may speak DECNet over a serial port. DDCMP perhaps: http://telecom.tbi.net/ddcmp.htm Andrew PS. A loving home can be found for any surplus Q-Bus goodness :o) ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] fwd: [glasgow-freecycle] OFFER: Monitor (approx. 21
DEC VR320 monitors are 19 Sony (but not Trinitron, think that was 'VRT') fixed-frequency (I think there were a number of variants, at least 66Hz and 72Hz). Used with VAXstations (VMS ULTRIX), maybe Alpha too, and might work on Sun, dunno. IIRC need a special video card to work with a PC. And yes, very heavy. Andrew Harry F Doherty said: Hi As seen on freecycle, thought this was more the demographic. H. - Forwarded message from flyght_of_fantasy valerie ixnay onway ethay atway flyght-of-fantasy.co.uk - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Yahoo Groups Message Poster From: flyght_of_fantasy valerie ixnay onway ethay atway flyght-of-fantasy.co.uk Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 23:17:56 - Subject: [glasgow-freecycle] OFFER: Monitor (approx. 21 inches), Paisley Great big 'digital' monitor, model VR320. Has seperate R, G and B connectors on the back so not going to work with standard graphics cards (think it used to be on an old Solaris system). About 21 inches in size (i.e., huge and heavy). About 8 years old at a guess but supports decent resolutions from what I understand (i.e., at least 1024x768). Used to be used regularly but not been on in three years so can't guaruntee it works (and have no way to test). Evening/weekend or on-time lunchtime pickups only :) Craig Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/glasgow-freecycle/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ - End forwarded message - -- there is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] LDAP
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Miah Gregory wrote: Hi all, I'd like to set up LDAP to: - replace NIS/AutoFS; - provide addressbook storage for evolution. Does anyone have any experience with doing the above, know of good resources to look at etc? LDAP seems to be a real pain to make work in any useful sense. It can be a pain developing a schema that will meet all your (application) requirements. I did NIS LDAP a few years ago. I'd just Google around. There are broker apps that will do LDAP - NIS. And am sure by now plenty of folk will have done this. The only valuable advice I can offer is to spend a good amount of time working out the directory schema and DIT structure in advance, taking into account any potential future applications and/or changes in company structure (departments, offices, units etc). Can save you going mad later trying to make things fit or having to move big trees of entries.. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Re: [edlug] Linux training, Chateau projects
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Tim Day wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 14:04, Magnus Lawrie wrote: Currently there are several recycled machines running Ubuntu. There is a DHCP server (floppy distro) and a broadband connection. I want to develop things further: introduce a web server, DMZ, maybe some greater network transparency and at least one machine running video editing software. A wireless node would also be a good addition. What kind of broadband connection were you planning on getting ? If it's ADSL you'll probably have ~250Kbit/s upsteam maximum (don't know about cable). If you're going to have your users putting videos they've created on your web server and inviting the rest of the world to view them... well, the rest of the world may find itself waiting a long time for your stuff to download. A better option IMHO might be to rent an offsite (virtual) server which will have much better connectivity. Maybe you can get a good deal for a community/charity/non-profit type organization (seem to remember some previous discussion on the list mentioning a local ISP) ? Your right it's ADSL, so not that much bandwidth outbound, and I don't think Magnus has any plans to distribute video via the link. They have access to (external) streaming servers so they can farm out redistribution if they stream. A DMZ for them would be good for, * Learning setting up/hosting of services * Hosting content with low bandwidth requirements, for which ~250Kbps will be more than enough, it's not that long since people ran servers off similar sized or smaller kilostream/frame services at great cost. This would be fine for low access stuff (home pages and the likes). * An 'extranet'. Giving access to application resources at the chateau from remote locations, e.g. wiki, forums, mailing lists, project management apps. And if they do want to host media files this could prove costly in terms of transfer charges at a colo, so may have no option other than DSL-hosting. Of course if someone can offer free/cheap external hosting that would be great. Regarding wireless they have, http://www.soekris.com/net4521.htm And just need it loading with Linux/LEAF/FreeBSD/monowall/.. Well, plus a WLAN card pigtail making and possibly PoE injector. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] 2 way pagers
Not sure what application mandates use of a two way pager over a GSM SMS/GPRS based solution. But if you want something that is not GSM based then the only alternative I know of in the UK is the 'Mobitex' based network operated by Transcomm (unless you can afford an Inmarsat terminal or are a licensed radio amateur and can justify use of 'packet radio' for the app). Mobitex is a technology that has been around for some time and provides two way data comms over a packet switched network (a la X.25 and GPRS), it's pretty slow but reliable. IIRC service engineers from DEC (-- Compaq -- HP, sadly..) used to have rugged field terminals that used this network. http://www.transcomm.uk.com/ http://www.mobitex.com/ http://www.mobitex.org Andrew Andrew Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Chris Binnie wrote: It's true about pagers becoming almost entirely outdated. We have a pager that our Duty Engineer has used when really poor mobile reception was expected. In the last couple of months we've received notice that the service is being discontinued as it's no longer economically viable due to the low volume of use. It's annoying as it was sold around six years ago as a 'lifetime service' where you just purchased the pager and the telecoms companies made their money out of the people that sent messages to it. Chris -- Below Zero 38 Montgomery Street Edinburgh EH7 5JY [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0845 1300 505 http://belowzero.biz Pagers have been pretty much superseded by SMS now. I think the only people still using them do so for very specialised legacy reasons - certainly all the engineers at work use mobile phone/PDA combinations. I haven't even seen pagers for sale for *years*. Gordon. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Do my homework for me please
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. *** Hi folks I'm applying for a job supporting an office that has an AS400 file/Database store, PCs using Terminal emulation and Peer to peer networking. Queries etc are done purely on the client, perhaps using Excel as the client interface Now they know they have to replace this stuff, and I'm pretty sure a Linux box with Samba would handle the file storage, and I'd investigate transferring data to MySQL if possible, with more server side processing. The data entry interface would have to be looked at, my usual default for that is web based so hello Apache and some form of ASP or CGI, But any advice on the networking side? Don't use token ring? Sorry, couldn't resist. I dunno, I guess the PCs are on an ethernet LAN running IP for P2P file-sharing so would support your web application and samba shares. What other networking do you anticipate? I suppose you might want to setup a mail server and the likes and they could currently use some horrible AS/400 based mail system. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Searching for an old Solaris/SunOs set up.
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Will Partain wrote: John Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... SunOS Release 4.1.3 and that equates to Solaris 2.5.1 ... Uh.. nooo 4.1.3 was the end of the Berkeley Unix line (except for a patch release 4.1.4), and Solaris 2.x (including 2.0) was a big jump to Something Else. That sounds right to me. I have SunOS 4.1.x pre-Solaris days and Solaris 1.1 (Also SunOS 4.1.x) on CD somewhere, hopefully not at my folks in England. Will check tonight. I'm not saying you can't coax some 4.1.x stuff to life on a 2.x box, but ... IIRC kernel got rewritten for 2, went SYS V, modular etc. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre
On Mon, 17 May 2004, William Anderson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] not if the 20 quid was being donated to something (and i'm not sure the beer fund counts for that one, but that's something someone else should figure out) £20 would buy a few CDs or DVDs. Could be used to put distros on for donations to organisations having a spare monitor (or one to use if they're short) is surely more useful than CDs which people can burn and donate themselves? Perhaps we could all burn a wide range of distros and tools (knoppix, debian, slack, fedora, open CD, open office, maybe even some bsden), put them all together at the next slug meet and put them in a box to give to the centre? Anyone else know of any similar sites which would benefit from such a service? 'The Chateau', a shared space/building in the city centre inhabited by artists. They are keen to build a 'media lab' out of redundant/donated equipment and promote use of Open Source software solutions. And also to participate in community wireless, for which their location and easy access to roof space makes them a prime candidate for a routing node. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] GNU/linux cd's wanted for social centre
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Andrew Calverley wrote: Do you have any contact details for the folk wanting the equipment at the Chateau? Magnus Lawrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let me know if you don't have any luck as I know Magnus will soon be out of the country for a month. In the first instance they are getting DSL and wanting to get a basic network up (wired and/or wireless). Then there is the hope of a media lab for general computing services etc. And I've discussed the possibility of streaming, as they have artists who work with video/audio. Cheers, Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Streaming / webcast solution provider.
Hello, Does anyone know of a streaming / webcast solution provider based in Scotland? Ideally one with infrastructure such as reflectors and with tried and tested technology, installed base etc. If not based here then 2nd choice would be located in Ireland. Cheers, Andrew Andrew Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting
Hmm, a tough one. I think Ray's reply was a tad harsh. I mean there will be people who would find that information useful, especially when you consider Scotland is hardly bursting a the seams with co-location facilities. I only knew of Scolocate and Telecity. Maybe it should have been tagged [OT] in the subject. Where do you draw the line? I mean nobody would complain if it was a job offer, or offer of free kit. However I for one would hate to see every co-lo, domain registrar and Linux book vendor posting adverts to the list. Andrew Andrew Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Chris Binnie wrote: Sorry to those that were offended by my mail. I'm a keen Linux/Solaris user and thought this would be of interest as it's such a bargain. I never have been (and hopefully never will be) be a salesman in a penguin suit. Chris -- Below Zero 44 Montgomery Street Edinburgh EH7 5JY [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0845 1300 505 http://belowzero.biz A blatant ad - aka spam Do we have a no advertising no, spam policy? If not can we please have one, and blacklist companies/individuals who offend. I am not against useful news and comment about supplies and services from genuine sluggers, just salesmen in penguin suits. -- ray ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Scottish Server Hosting
I really don't want to be responsible for making this thread go on forever, but.. On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Chris Binnie wrote: ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Like bandwidth charges and £40-£60 per hour for physical access. Again half the price of any physical access, not included in packages which we offer too for bigger customers, than any other provider in Scotland ! Really? I'm pretty sure when we had about 12 racks in Scolocate and I spent up to 4 days a week in there for months we didn't get charged a penny. Nobody appeared to be noting my hours, or those of Sun, HDS etc engineers. Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] SNMP
At a guess the enable options set whether you can access SNMP via the local network (private) and the Internet. So I'd guess you want to enable local SNMP. And you'd need to enable remote if the box running MRTG lives elsewhere on the Internet. The community options set a name that is required to access SNMP, in effect a password. SNMP isn't terribly secure.. The GET option is the community/password to be used for reading (metrics etc). The SET community is the one used for setting parameters. I'd set them both and to different strings. And then MRTG will need to be told what the string used for GET community is. Andrew Andrew Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Andrew Berry wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to setup MRTG on my Debian box but I'm not having much joy. I figured out it's the SNMP settings on my router. Via the web interface of my USR Broadband router I have the following options:- Enable SNMP - Local Enable SNMP - Remote Get Community Set Community Can anyone advise me what these settings should be? Thanks, Andrew ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Authentication methods
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Kyle Gordon wrote: hey all In a futile attempt to learn something worthwhile, I've decided to have a shot at an alternative authentication system. Now, I know there's NIS and LDAP, but which one is best and in what scenarios should they be used? Which is more complex to set up? And which will scale well and stay secure? I'd say LDAP, but I'm prone to saying that before someone has asked the question! LDAP is relatively easy to set up, not sure about NIS on Linux. Used NIS+ on Solaris, it took a while to get your head round it and the associated commands. And it often broke (database/map corruption) on the version of Solaris we ran (2.7 I think). You can get nsswitch libraries and pam modules for LDAP on most *NIX nowadays. Not sure if they all support LDAPS (with SSL/TLS), but if not you can probably use them with 'stunnel' or such. And if you want to try NIS I believe you can get LDAP NIS gateways that service NIS clients. If you want scaleability I know of LDAP directories with millions of entries. Not with OpenLDAP, although I'm sure it performs admiradbly. I'm pretty sure the client stuff will take more than one server IP for redundancy, or you could employ an IP load balancer. And setting up LDAP DB replication isn't very hard. One of the main benefits of LDAP is that other applications such as Apache can use it for authenticating users. Metadirectory tools exist to sync LDAP entries with RDBs, NT domains etc. And also you can store jpegs, X.509 certs, pgp keys etc (handy if you want to build corporate 'white pages' or a pgp keyserver). Andrew PS. Ensure nsswitch is configured to check 'files' for 'passwd' atleast. And that root and any other critical accounts have local entries so you can log-on if your LDAP service is down. PPS. Configure nscd to cache LDAP results so you don't hammer your DSA on directory listings etc. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] Ethernet kit up for grab.
Hello, Someone recently sent out an e-mail regarding ethernet kit up for grabs. Is it still available? I seem to have deleted the original e-mail and have a need for an 8 port switch/hub. Thanks, Andrew Andrew Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] WLAN source in Glasgow.
Hi, Does anyone know of anywhere in Glasgow that stocks Linksys WAP11 access points? Apparently PC world do usually but are out of stock. Or failing that if anyone can recommend an alternate basic, cheap 802.11b AP available locally. All it needs to do is bridge wireless - wired. Cheers, Andrew Andrew Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Good ISP for ADSL business and hosting?
I can recommend OneTel for DSL. I used the ADSL service when it was still owned by Iomart, before the sale to Centrica/OneTel. They were 2nd largest in terms of customer base, so no worries of them dissapearing. And the technical (infrastructure) guys were good, although I did work alongside them, so I'm biased.. I believe they were also planning SDSL trials and eventual roll-out. Good relationship with the BT wholesale folk, and better service than Openworld. I now use Pipex, whom I've also had no problems with. And they do some pretty good deals with regards static IPs. I get a 512K cct with 5 useable for 30 odd quid a month inc VAT. That said neither do SMTP inbound (delivery?), if thats what you meant. AFAIK Demon are the only folk who offer that over POP3. Andrew On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Tam McLaughlin wrote: Hi slug :-) Our company has gone through some major restructuring recently which has resulted in us having to scale down and cut costs on our Internet access and web site. Currently we access the Internet using a 128Kb/s leased line via 1 ISP and use another 2 ISPs for web hosting and domain name hosting. I am trying to consolidate all of this under the one ISP and redesign the web site now that it is under the control of IT and not marketing. What I require is an ISP that can 1) provide 2Mb/s ADSL connection 2) web hosting - small, low access site with php/perl 3) domain transfers 4) smtp delivery I have looked at a number of ISPs including ones suggested on this mailing list and from the guide at www.adslguide.org.uk but the only one that meets all the criteria at a reasonable cost is force9.net (plus.net). I use force9.net for my home account without any problems and they offer so much for a reasonable cost: 2 Mb/s ADSL £110/month Fax-2-e-mail, a unique fax number allowing you to receive faxes as e-mail CGI, MySQL, PHP, Perl shell, FP2k 500MB Web space + Web-based Database Admin Displays detailed graphical statistics about your Web site uncensored newsfeed No NAT If anyone can recommend another ISP that can provide the same functionality at a reasonable cost then I would be grateful. Force9.net may be good for home use but not for business. -- Tam McLaughlin IT Systems Administrator Scottish Legal Life Assurance Society Ltd ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
[Scottish] [OT]: Linux SA Job.
Hi All, Someone passed this on to me, thought someone here might be interested or know of someone who would be. LINUX ADMINISTRATOR TO 24K DEP ON EXPERIENCE http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/cw_br/jobdetails.asp?jobID=8283327 Cheers, Andrew PS. I am in no way connected with the hiring organisation, or recruitment 'company'. ___ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
