Re: [SLUG] Network Testing
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Terry Collins wrote: > Curiosity question. > > everyone seems to be only using pings to test network connectivity. > what do people do when they need to test a service? > telnet IP PORT? nagios. http://www.nagios.org cheers, Anth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] data recovery from raid
Howzit, One of our raid arrays kicked the bucket over night - 6 drives in a raid 0+1 array, 2 of which have bitten the dust. Can anyone recommend a data recovery company anywhere in Australia who may be able (somehow) to take the disks, work some magic, and recover data from the array? Thanks in advance. cheers, Anth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] data recovery from raid
Hey Ben, > very unusual for two drives to go at the same time. > have you gone into the raid card bios at startup and tried to switch the > drives from offline to on again. > you can with some cards software and you may get one of them up again. > might work in a desperate situation and allow data to be pulled off. Yup, we tried this, and while it came online and the array could be mounted, ls'd, etc, attempts to copy data off resulted in io errors. cheers, Anth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] data recovery from raid
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:29:34 +1000, Rowling, Jill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And your tape backups are ...? (silly question) Yup, especially silly q as I wasn't asking for a lecture on tape backups, but for data recovery company recommendations. I'm aware of the need for tape backups - in this case I'm just picking up the pieces. For reference (and possible help to someone else), we've gone with Forensic Data who get good reviews and who also are based in Sydney which is convenient for us - most companies seem to be Melb or Bris based. I'll update the list with the succes/failure of the operation for further reference. Thanks to everyone who emailed on-list and off-list with a recommendation. cheers, Anth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] temperature monitoring
Hey guys, I'm after a temperature monitoring device that is suitable for monitoring a small office server room. Something which is reasonably cheap and which I can hook into a box (serial/ethernet) and then write some dirty scripts to graph results would be more than sufficent. Does anyone have any hardware suggestions from experience? I'd prefer something external to the server (i.e not built-in temp sensors). cheers, Anth --- Anth Courtney - unix sysadmin - iTouch Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.itouch.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] temperature monitoring
Hello John, > If you're handy with a soldering iron, kit K145 from Ozitronics will do > what you're after: > >http://www.ozitronics.com/ > > Look under "Data Acquisition & Control". It can handle up to four > temperature sensors. I built one a few months ago; it took me about ten > minutes. $34.50 including one sensor, $12.00 for each additional > sensor. Yup, this has been suggested by a couple of people and looks very much the goods. > None of the software I found did exactly what I wanted, so I've written > a daemon which logs the output to an RRD database and/or to text files. > I've been running it at home for a month or two now and all that's > really missing is documentation. It'll appear on my web site (and be > announced on the mailing list) when I've finished, but if you want it > sooner, let me know and I'll give you the source (or an rpm if you > prefer). Excellent. I'm more than happy to roll my own solution for this but by all means I look forward to seeing your daemon when it's available and putting it to use. cheers for your help Anth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] pop3 + maildir for rhel3
Hey guys, We currently have an app which has a component which uses smtp to process incoming messages into an mbox format and then uses pop3 to retrieve these messages before firing them off to a different component of the application. It deals with a high volume of messages per second/minute. As part of some ongoing changes and improvements to this application, we're migrating from mbox to maildir, and at the same time looking to replace the pop3 server that was being used. The app has been running on an RH 7.3 box for quite sometime and was for some crazy reason using the ipop3 service running out of xinetd. The app is now being moved to a server running RHEL3, so I'm looking for recommendations on a maildir compatible pop3 server. It doesn't require any special features like bulletins or the like, but needs to be lightweight, efficient and extremely reliable. In the past in an ISP environment I've used qmail-pop3d, qpopper and cucipop (for mbox) with varying success. I'd welcome some more current day suggestions though if there is anything newer or more community accepted. Any recommendations/steer-clear-of's appreciated. cheers, Anth -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] fwd: Black Duck seminar in Sydney
On 9/11/06, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: why it would be of significant relevance to a Linux forum, which mostly doesn't have a software licence compliance problem anyway, I fail to see... I think it's relevant, especially for the increasing number of companies who develop commercial software intended to be deployed into a linux/unix environment, but which utilise/ships with third-party libraries which may or may not be appropriately licensed. cheers, Anth Pia Waugh wrote: > Hi all, > > thought this might be of interest for a few people. > > Cheers, > Pia > > PS - For the record, Waugh Partners is helping with this seminar and product > launch. > > - Forwarded message from Con Fiamegos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > How well do you know your software? How can you be sure it is all actually > yours? Do you need help managing multiple software licences within the one > product? > > Imagine being able to test your source code for anything that shouldn't be > there, giving you and your users peace of mind. > > Event: Software compliance - avoiding the next SCO > Date: September 20th - 8am till 11am > Catering: Breakfast provided > Venue: Level 1, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, 2000 > Phone: 02 9266 9001 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Intended Audience: Software developers, Open Source companies, lawyers, > researchers, Government, IP specialists > Cost: Free > > Seating is limited - register now! You could win a tasty Treo 650 door prize. > > http://www.ocs.au.com/news.php?page=newsEvents > > Open Channel Solutions presents Black Duck to the Australian market. Black Duck > provide a world class Software Compliance Management service. Software > Compliance Management is a new discipline that focuses on the intellectual > property aspect of software development. Best practices in Software Compliance > Management involve developers, marketers, and lawyers working together to > govern software assets without bogging down development or limiting > possibilities. Black Duck allows companies to proactively and confidently > combine homegrown, third party, and open source software to build applications > that meet internal or market needs - without putting them or their customers at > risk. > > This short seminar includes presenters from Black Duck to talk about this > problem space and how they can help you deal with it. They will be talking > through real world examples of software compliancy issues, as well as giving a > live demo running source code through their product. > > Event Agenda: > > 8:00Breakfast and registration > > 8:20Welcome and introduction by Con Fiamegos (Open Channel > Solutions) > > 8:30Software compliance: What's the problem? Chander Khanna (Black > Duck) Chander will discuss why software compliance is so important > at the moment and the risks businesses face. > > 9:00Introducing Black Duck by Chander Khanna (Black Duck) > Black Duck and how can they help? > > 9:30Tea Break > > 9:45The Australian Open Source Ecosystem and Software Compliance > by Pia Waugh (Waugh Partners) > > 9:55Case Studies by Ronan Fagan (Black Duck) > Ronan will cover real case studies of businesses who had > compliancy issues with their software, and how these problems > were overcome. > > 10:25 Source code compliance demonstration by Ronan Fagan (Black Duck) > Bring some source code of your own to test in this demo. Ronan will > show how the Black Duck product, ProtexIP can scan your source > code and deliver comprehensive reports including how the code is > licenced and where it comes from. > > 11:00 Close and prize drawn by Con Fiamegos (Open Channel Solutions) > > - End forwarded message - > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people <http://lannetlinux.com> When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Secondary MX record - To have or not
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Matt Hyne wrote: > There seems to be two camps here - those that do not believe that they > are needed (and thus don't provide them) and those that believe that > they are a mandatory part of a redundant mail system. > > I am sitting on the fence (I can see some merits to both sides of the > argument) Out of interest, I'd be interested in hearing some of the arguments for why they're not needed - personally, I wouldn't live without one. cheers, Anth -- anth courtney - sysadmin - pnc - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Next door there's an old man who lived into his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry I know that's a strange way to tell you that we belong." - Ben Folds, "The Luckiest". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Secondary MX record - To have or not
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > In the event that a remote mail server is not immediately contactable, > mail generally just stays on the queue at the sender's end for up to a few > days until it can be delivered. So If your mail server is offline for a > while then mail's going to get through when your server is back on line > unless you're out of action for several days. I guess that's fine if the server listed as your primary mx is the final destination server for your email (and assuming that the mail is spool'ed for a sufficient period). In cases though where your primary mx is a gateway which routes email through to your delivery server, then I'd have a secondary mx record for the sake of redundancy and efficiency - if the primary gateway is down, the secondary can do the same job and without the mail needed to be spooled / delayed unnecessarily. cheers, Anth -- anth courtney - sysadmin - pnc - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Next door there's an old man who lived into his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry I know that's a strange way to tell you that we belong." - Ben Folds, "The Luckiest". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] TV cards and software
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Andrewd wrote: > Leadtek TV tuner card @$135 I picked up the leadtek tv 2000 xp deluxe from the computer markets the other day for only $93 (it was $120 elsewhere online). The picture / options are fine, however I've found that the sound is majorly scratchy - I bought it to put into a dedicated HTPC, so I'm now on the lookout for an alternative because the sound isn't up a sufficient quality for everyday use. cheers, Anth -- anth courtney - sysadmin - pnc - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Next door there's an old man who lived into his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry I know that's a strange way to tell you that we belong." - Ben Folds, "The Luckiest". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] terminal emulator
Peter, > Is there a free terminal emulator available so as to allow the students > access to the Linux server from Windows workstations? putty. supports both telnet and ssh. http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty -- anth "sanchez" courtney - sysadmin - pnc - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Linux or BSD for Webhosting?
I'd certainly recommend FreeBSD for this purpose, but if you want to do some reading (and question asking), you might want to check out the forums at http://www.webhostingtalk.com and http://www.webhostingtalk.com.au (for an Aus perspective) and see what the opinions are of people whose primary business is webhosting, day-in, day-out. cheers, AnthOn 10/17/05, pesoy misak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi allI just got a request from my friend to build a webhosting system for his business but i don't know whatis the best distro for it.Any suggestion is welcome either BSD or Linux or anyother OS but not ms*** please since it costly many thanks in advance__Yahoo! Music UnlimitedAccess over 1 million songs. Try it free.http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ --SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
