Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

2009-12-10 Thread Tim Allen
On 10/12/09 15:07, Chris Dennis wrote: > > Thank you Tim and John. > > For some reason my little brain had got it all wrong: I was confusing > ddclient's IP-checking frequency (typically every few minutes) with its > DynDNS-updating frequency, which obviously only happens rarely, when the > IP

Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

2009-12-10 Thread Chris Dennis
John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > On 10/12/09 11:38, Tim Allen wrote: >> Re 28 day/30 day window: >> >> http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/readme.html#abuse >> > From reading that, my interpretation is that an "abusive" update is an > update containing the same IP address. "Dozens" of thes

Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

2009-12-10 Thread Tim Allen
On 10/12/09 12:33, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: > On 10/12/09 11:38, Tim Allen wrote: >> Re 28 day/30 day window: >> >> http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/readme.html#abuse >> > From reading that, my interpretation is that an "abusive" update is an > update containing the same IP address

Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

2009-12-10 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 10/12/09 11:38, Tim Allen wrote: > Re 28 day/30 day window: > > http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/readme.html#abuse > From reading that, my interpretation is that an "abusive" update is an update containing the same IP address. "Dozens" of these are allowed before an account is b

Re: [Dorset] Recommendation.

2009-12-10 Thread Tim Allen
On 07/12/09 18:51, Chris Dennis wrote: > Tim Allen wrote: >> On 07/12/09 15:41, Chris Dennis wrote: >>> Simon O'Riordan wrote: Couldn't make it last night; travelling back from Bristol was tiring and dangerous, so I didn't fancy another round. This morning I took delivery of my Home

Re: [Dorset] Editing grub menu config

2009-12-10 Thread John Cooper
On 10/12/09 09:32, Peter Merchant wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 18:50 +, Terry Coles wrote: >> On Wednesday 09 Dec 2009, Peter Merchant wrote: >>> >From the LUG meeting last week and the discussion about getting rid of >>> >>> obsolete versions and their partitions, it was suggested that I >>>

Re: [Dorset] Editing grub menu config

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Merchant
DON't Do IT! See below On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 18:50 +, Terry Coles wrote: > On Wednesday 09 Dec 2009, Peter Merchant wrote: > > >From the LUG meeting last week and the discussion about getting rid of > > > > obsolete versions and their partitions, it was suggested that I > > edit /boot/grub/