Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-11 Thread Daniel Mahoney
Damon L. Chesser wrote: I keep coming up against a wall "Solid scripting experience required" in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one scripting language to learn? Though I find Python to be clearer and easier to write, Perl would probably be a good choice. There

High IOWAIT

2007-11-20 Thread Daniel Mahoney
I'm running Plesk 7.5 on a Debian Sarge box. It has been running just fine for the last few months, but for the last week or two users have been complaining about slow mail delivery. Mail messages appear to be received just fine, but don't get written into the target Maildirs for anywhere from

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Daniel Mahoney
Chris Parker wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know of a good cobol compiler and gui development enviroment? I have seen open-cobol as a compiler, but was wondering if anyone has any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris That's about the only freeware Cobol compiler I've seen. I'd like to see

Re: Can I schede a command to be run when I have log out?

2007-10-23 Thread Daniel Mahoney
Serena Cantor wrote: I use sarge and crontab. If I log out, what happen to the program I started ? Since you mentioned crontab, I'll assume that's the method you're interested in. Once you've defined a job in crontab, that job doesn't care whether you're logged in. Crontab itself is contro

Re: NFS and quotas

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Mahoney
Quotas for NFS shares are enforced on the server end. You would use the usrquota and grpquota flags in fstab *on the server* for the filesystem it's exporting. Hopefully your NAS appliance supports quotas and offers a way to turn them on in whatever configuration interface it has. Ah - so I

Re: i am looking to turn on some security monitoring on debian..can anyone help!

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
How about snort, or zabbix, or zenoss? Michael Habashy wrote: I am looking to turn on some security monitoring in debian. Something to alert me that the someone is trying a ton of different passwords. Or too many tcpip requests. Our too much disk activity. Or if my apache webserver is being

Re: Debian in the Enterprise?

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
mack stout wrote: As silly as these questions are... I'm trying to convince upper-management at my company to use Debian in our retail environment on thin-clients, registers, and servers. I was wondering if there's a list of companies (if not, maybe I could set one up) that use debian, or if o

Re: NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
MRH wrote: Dnia 03/10/07 20:42,Daniel Mahoney napisaƂ: I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" an

NFS and quotas

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Mahoney
I've got a Debian Sarge machine that is mounting it's user directories via NFS from a NAS appliance. Id' really like to get quotas running but I'm not having a lot of luck. I've tried adding "quota" and "usrquota" to the fstab flags for the NFS-mounted directory, but "mount" complains about those