Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian? - foo

2004-10-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Rishi wrote: > > don't buy ANY hardware untill you can answer those 6 basic questions > > OK. Will do that. add "what scsi chipset" to the list since you "like" that stuff > > or that the vendor says that it will guarantee that xxx-OS > > will work on foo hardware combinat

Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian?

2004-10-30 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Rishi wrote: > Thanks for the speedy response. This high-availability thing sounds > interesting. Can you point me to some documentation on the NET that HA stuff http://linux-ha.org/ # more reading http://www.itx-blades.net/HA/ > will help me achiv

Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian?

2004-10-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Rishi wrote: > > the server you buy, is herein "blessed/certified to work with debian" > > - see the incompatibility list as what was previously > > posted for what is known NOT to work > > joking apart. :-) .. really what I meant was once I tried to i

Re: Why are company's not certifying Debian?

2004-10-29 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Rishi wrote: > This is the response I got from IBM in India... Why are they not > certifying Debian GNU/Linux on their servers? they do atas their told, or they find they behinds on the other side of the ibm door > Is there something Debian as the organization can d

Re: [Help] IDE Raid

2002-08-13 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya axcheng there is not many hardware cards that is compatible with any linux version http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html - only one "real hardware raid" ... and that list probably needs to be updated too with megaraid as being acceptable hw raid ?? - those that ar

Re: Email Virus Scanner - listof um

2002-08-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya here's the collection of virus scanners.. http://www.Linux-Sec.net/Mail/antivirus.gwif.html c ya alvin On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Daniel J. Rychlik wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gentlemen, > > I am wanting to setup a good virus scanner for exim. I tried o

Re: [Question] RAID-0 with raidtools2

2002-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya i assume you are trying to make one big disk so that you can have huge files 100GB-sized files using four 40GB disks ?? - ie.. why do you use raid0 ??? if your /etc/raidtab... - change nr-raid-disk to say 4 since you have 4 disks - if any of the 4 disks dies... you lose

Re: [Question] Harddisk Error!!!

2002-04-14 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya axacheng > > fileserver:/# e2fsck -v -y /dev/hda > bash: /sbin/e2fsck: Input/output error you cannot run e2fsck on a "disk"... you need to run e2fsck on ext2 partitions e2fsck /dev/hda1 e2fsck /dev/hda2 ... NOTE... do NOT run e2sck on your mounted "root partition

Re: [HELP] RAID chunk-size - alternatives

2002-04-02 Thread Alvin Oga
, Dave Sherohman wrote: > Since I'm feeling bored at the moment... > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 02:29:28PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > typically a minimum of 2 disks used for raid0 or raid1... > > raid1(mirroring) protects against one disk failure > > ( one disk&

Re: [HELP] RAID chunk-size - alternatives

2002-04-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya russell On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:48, Alvin Oga wrote: > > chunk size does NOT matter for raid5... > > Chunk size does not matter for RAID-1, but does matter for other RAID levels. humm ..thought was the otehr way ... time for m

Re: [HELP] RAID chunk-size

2002-04-02 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya chunk size does NOT matter for raid5... if your disk was partitioned as... 2K bytes/inode... chunksize of 32 will allow you to write 64K of data in one "chunk" to disks chunksize of 128 will allow you to write 256K of data in one "chunk" to disks...

Re: [HELP] RAID5 IN DEBIAN

2002-04-01 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya apt-get install raidtools2 check /etc/raidtab ( aka /etc/raid5.conf ) - make sure your dvices is defined properly make sure your 2.4.x kernel has raid5 defined as modules or compiled in - think the last time we did a min debian install you will also need the "xor

Re: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

2002-02-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya if you were to use sendmail... ( i think it'd work with exim too?? donno ) have fun mailing alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net ... 1U stuff for p4/amd toys ... for virtual domains pop/imap servers... /etc/mail/local-host-names ( sendmail.cw ) domain_1.com pop.domain_1.com

Re: Multi-domain POP/IMAP server

2002-02-04 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya if you were to use sendmail... ( i think it'd work with exim too?? donno ) have fun mailing alvin http://www.Linux-1U.net ... 1U stuff for p4/amd toys ... for virtual domains pop/imap servers... /etc/mail/local-host-names ( sendmail.cw ) domain_1.com pop.domain_1.com

Re: Partition Help

2001-09-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya "information" there are varying schools of thought on partitions... - i like / to be as small as possible... - i like partitions for /, /tmp, /var, /usr, /opt and than worry about backups of /etc and /opt only ( /opt aka /home ) - "system stuff" i

Re: good ip traffic monitor recommendations (other than iptraf)

2001-04-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi robt what is your definition of "good alternative" ?? like another has already asked...what kind of monitoring are you trying to do ??? whats on eth0 - tcpdump see everything... learn to read fast - iptraf - netwatch cummulative history - trafshow shows to/from the two hosts

Re: good ip traffic monitor recommendations (other than iptraf)

2001-04-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi robt what is your definition of "good alternative" ?? like another has already asked...what kind of monitoring are you trying to do ??? whats on eth0 - tcpdump see everything... learn to read fast - iptraf - netwatch cummulative history - trafshow shows to/from the two hosts