[SLUG] Bandwith Shaping/Throttling
Hi All, The phb's have blessed me with the task of working how to simulate a 256k/512k connection between two servers. In that latter stages of the project, one server will placed in a server farm with a 256k (eventually upgarded to 512k) connection. Hence they need a proof of concept that there won't be problems with data transfer restricted to 512k. I know there is hardware that can do this but I wondered if a linux box could be used instead (and show to certain management types that Linux is wonderful). I've found rshaper which may do what I want it do. I have a Linux box doing nothing with two NICs installed. My theory is using rshaper on one NIC (which would be connected to the server that would be at 512k in real life) I can give them what they want. Has anyone used rshaper and if so, would my scenario work? Cheers, Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Squid From Startup
Dear One and all, Been bashing my head against the proverbial brick wall trying to get Squid (version 2.3 Stable1) starting automatically from the startup script. I've read the FAQs and docos (though it is possible that I may have missed something) but from what I understand "/usr/local/squid/bin/squid" added into rc.local should work. It doesn't for some reason. The other piece of information is that squid will only start under the "squid" user. I am thinking that it may be some user/permission problem but not sure exactly what. Anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Squid From Startup
Quoting Daron Barndon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Try using > /usr/local/squid/bin/RunCache & > in /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > I assume you have gone through the /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf > file... :-) The Runcache didn't seem to work either. In the end, thanks to a mate, a script was written that would start squid with user squid and placed in /etc/rc.d/init.d. A smylink to this was placed in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and it seems to be working fine. But thanks to those with the suggestions. Greatly appreciated. And if we have the ip masquerading done correctly, we'll have a transparent proxy being the first linux box on out Micro$oft dominated network. Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: Slug M 0.8
> No doubt a comprehensive list of changes is on the mozilla site. But mozilla > 0.8 is more useful than ever! I have to adjust myself to a less-buggy > mail client ;) 0.8 doesn't crash when trying to access http://www.smh.com.au which 0.7 did (well at least for me). Still not liking to having download the Java thingy (sorry for the technical terminology-I can't remember what it is called). I'm impatient at the moment. I click cancel and hope teh website doesn't cause it to crash. It is better than 0.7 and far superior to Netscape 6. Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Re: Slug M 0.8
> My problem is I can't *send* mail using it which worked with 0.7. I > can read my Imap mail just fine, but it refuses to send a message. Sure > it lets me fill in all the data but when I send it it comes back > with a dialog error message send failed. Even changed my outgoing > smtp server but no luck, and no useful error on the terminal window, > I'm using mozilla 0.8 for mail and have had no problems. If Ximian's Evolution works out then I may switch to that. Trouble is with Evoltion 0.7 and 0.8 I have never been able to play with it.I've always had god awful trouble just getting the additional packages to play nice with each other and have given up in frustration. Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Introducing Linux/Open Source Into The Coporate World
G'day Y'all, If the PHBs pull their proverbial out of their proverbial I soon will be working on a project of removing all our old windozw boxes (200 odd machines) and "upgrading' to Windows 2000. No before you say "What does this have to do with Linux?" let me continue (and I hope this is appropriate for the list as it is more of an advocacy issue rather than software/hardware). As an intellectual exercise I asked myself "Could we dump windows all together and move straight over to Linux?" which leads to another questions which is "How does one introduce Linux into a Microsoft dominated network?" Regarding the first question, the answer I came up with is that it could be done. But it wouldn't be easy and almost not worthwhile. Our users use Novell 5 (with Zenworks 2), Notes for email, require AS/400 connectivity and use various closed source software for banking etc. The basic desktop could be replaced by linux. Run Notes under Wine, use xt5250 for AS/400 and Linux can talk to Novell (at least I had a linux box happily running under the old Netware 3.1). Where everything falls down is that we have a large number of third party solutions that are Microsoft (accounting, business intelligence etc). And this is were I see the problem for introducing Linux into a corporate environment. It is rare to find and IT Manager that is "Linux Friendly." Part of the reason is that Microsoft orientated solutions are dominant. The other factor is ignorance obviously is related to the first factor. So there is this problem. To be honest, with the current setup, I can't see us moving over to Linux on the desktop anytime soon. This is not about whether KDE/Gnome is ready but that to do so would require major changes in the network infrastructure to give our users to same level of services as they have now. The solution I feel is in introducing linux as a backend solution first while at the same time suggesting open source/linux solutions as an alternative for problems/needs that subsequently arrive. Recently we moved our proxy server from Microsoft to Squid and thus was created the first linux server on out network. Also, I've introduced MRTG as a network monitoring tool (and if the network admin will admit there is a problem on the switch with SNMP maybe I can get it up and running). I am also considering putting VNC on some of the servers. Sometimes, when advocating linux, the answers to introducing linux to the workplace are a tad glib. Yes Gnome and KDE are great desktops but corporate environments are far more complex than a home users PC. Of course I could be wrong.:-)There may have been instances where a company has made the switch from Windows to Linux on the desktop succesfully. Of course with enlightened managers and clueful network/sys admins it could work. In the real world the variables are complex. Due to Microsoft's dominance I don't see linux becoming part of the corporate desktop soon other than isolated instances. However I am not preaching doom and gloom. I think that there will be a time when it will be a viable alternative. They way I see it happening is to first break Microsoft's stranglehold as the prefered OS for third party solution. Adopting open source/linux solutions is the key here. Show the PHBs how it works, impliment and get the servers away from Microsoft. While I am more or less thinking out loud any comments are welcome. Cheers, Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Introducing Linux/Open Source Into The Coporate World
> We need to hire another IT guy here just to help us figure out MS's > licencing scheme. Good thing for us, most of our back-end servers > are now Linux. And that's how we infiltrated the corp. We would > bring up the new servers running Linux/Samba, and *not* pay MS. > We get kudos all around: users like it because it stays up! > management likes it because it saves money. That would be the way to go where I work. I can see a samba server being the next linux server to come in. Though my boss is a windows man he seems open to trying linux which is good. Not sure about the network admin though. > As to the desktop, We just started to infultrate this year. mainly > with QA and with some of our brighter interns. The reason: they > get the older boxen that are less stable. The boxen are almost > unusable with MS, but not with Linux. One reason we are upgrading is that the boxen we have can't hack what every departmental manager wants to throw at them. While linux would be great here I still have the original problem. We have too many apps that would need to ported from Windows. As wonderful as Wine is I don't think it is the right answer for a corporate environment. Then again infiltration/subversion is a wonderful tool. If I do get a shiny new laptop you can bet that it will be a dual boot machine. > At every turn, we hammer home the fact that Linux saves our Corp > money... Well I am hoping the Linux Expo this week will have some good ideas. Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Constructing a url to get through a proxy,
Hi Mehmet, At work we used to have MSProxy (now we use squid;-) and I got lynx authenticate through it fine. If you have already done this then ignore me but make sure that in /etc/lynx.cfg you have told lynx that you are using a proxy. In the lynx.cfg there is a section that will have something like: #http_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/ #https_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/ #ftp_proxy:http://some.server.dom:port/ Remove the # for http and put in the address of your proxy server. When lynx goes through it was ask you to authenticate. Hope this helps. Shaun > Hello, > > At work we have an MSPROXY server that expects authentication. > > While this isn't a problem in netscape, lynx is problematic, > > Now I'm wondering is it possible to construct a url that will send all > that info in the request. > > eg: > > http://user:pass@proxy:8080/www.ibm.com > > where this would be username, password, proxy server and destination. > > Upgrading lynx isn't an option, I use it just as an example. > > Any help appreciated. > > Mehmet ozdemir -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Fun with Debian
..or finaly, a good use for that windows partition. At Linux Expo I picked up the Debian disks from Everything Linux and took 'em home. Now my home machine is a Dell Inspiron 3500 Laptop which run Redhat nicely and contained a 1.4Gb windows partition. And with a an evil grin I realized that I had finally found a use for that partition. So I installed Debian. The install went well. PCMCIA worked like a treat which, given a previous Slug thread on Debian, laptops and PCMCIA, had me worried. THe firt problem was that I stuffed Lilo up. Promises of beer elicited help from my roommate to fix that issue. The biggest problem was in getting X Wndows to work. First problem was that the font paths in XF8Config were screwed. I bit of digging around on Google got me the answer. All I had to do was copy the paths from another file (xfs config IIRC.My memory is gone here) and I had Afterstep running. Of course the mouse refused to cooperate then. Checking Redhat, the XF86Config seemed happy with PS-2 as the mouse yet Debian did not like this. So with a wild guess I edited Debian's XF86Config mouse to "Microsoft" and things were sweet. Hey, it works. As PCMCIA was working it was easy to get it onto the network at work and use apt-get to download and install gnome. All very slick and quite easy. So it is running nicely. I will be staying with Redhat mainly because I have spent a lot of time getting the it just the way I want it. When I get another desktop though, Debian will get much more attention (though I intend to play with it on the laptop of course). Apt-get is sweet and was so easy to use. I'm impressed. I must admit, even with the trouble I had, the whole process was quite fun. Two questions for the deb heads. One: Browser reccomendations? I use Mozilla on Redhat but would like to explore the alternatives. Two: Has anyone tried Evolution on Debian? Thanks, Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Linux Sound Editor
Hi Everybody, I'm looking for a sound editor(s) that can do the following: Record a selection from a CD (through the soundcard) and then slow it down without altering the pitch. Reason here is that I play guitar and slowing down riffs to learn them is much easier than having to decipher them at full speed. I have been looking around http://sound.condorow.net/one-page.html but still haven't quite found what I'm after. Just wondering if anyone has any good suggestions as I search around. Cheers, Shaun -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
