Linux Job Opportunity (Let the flames begin)

2000-08-29 Thread Lori Hitchcock
Hi Everyone, I am desperately searching for a software performance engineer. Company is in Northern MA commutable to Nashua Manchester areas. They want LINUX background. 1st preference is Alpha Linux but they aren't hung up on it. Competitive salary great benes and its LINUX. Lori

Meeting tomorrow

2000-08-29 Thread jkubeck
Hello everyone, Don't forget tomorrow is 3rd Quarter GNHLUG meeting at Martha's Exchange at 7pm with dinner at 6 pm. Special drawing for dinner attendees. The presetntaion is on the latest Suite from ApplixWare and is being given by one of Applix's Corporate trainers. Taos, the Sys Admin

Re: open files, super-newbie-question

2000-08-29 Thread John Abreau
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Derek Martin wrote: It's more a philosophy/history thing... maybe 2 factors at work. On older Unix kernels you don't change parameters of a running system. Linux can do it quite easily but I think there's still a stigma which says if ya gotta muck with parameters, do it

Re: Possible DoS attack?

2000-08-29 Thread John Abreau
Turns out someone at their site was slamming our server, and the identd requests to their site were merely in response to that. Also, our site was down because one of our developers was running an rsync process from the old server to the new. When we made the DNS changes to switch over to the

Re: Linux Software Distribution.

2000-08-29 Thread Bruce McCulley
Sorry for the tardy reply, I've been off the 'net for 2 weeks vacationing in Austria. If a proprietary solution would be acceptable, check out my employer's offerings. I know that the products available from OpenService http://www.open.com/ include a "software push" capability, and I am

Re: PCMCIA Ethernet cards: wireless and X-jax

2000-08-29 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Donald Ball wrote: Donald Ball wrote: lucent wavelan/orinoco gold cards are the mac daddy if you've got the cash ($175 per?) - 11Mbs, IEEE802.11b compliant, 128-bit encryption Okey, I guess I'm sold on the WaveLAN Gold, then. I haven't heard anything bad about it, and lots of

Package Distribution

2000-08-29 Thread Greg Kettmann
I've a couple of questions (as usual), all related. I'm trying to find the best way to distribute a package to the greatest number of distribtutions. RPM seems to be the best choice but will it work on packages other than Red Hat and Mandrake? What exactly are TGZ files? I thought they were

Re: Package Distribution

2000-08-29 Thread Adam Wendt
If you want to keep everyone happy I suggest you package it 30 bazillion ways, .rpm, .deb, .tar.gz, .sh, etc, etc, etc = adam = - Adam Wendt Against boredom, even the gods themselves struggle in vain. ~

Re: Package Distribution

2000-08-29 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 14:16:03 EDT Greg Kettmann said: I've a couple of questions (as usual), all related. I'm trying to find the best way to distribute a package to the greatest number of distribtutions. Funny you should ask, as I just recently answered this question for

Automounter (amd) NIS Logins

2000-08-29 Thread Ingham,Stephen
Does anybody know how to configure "amd" to automount the home directory for a NIS login on a Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 system? ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the

Re: Automounter (amd) NIS Logins

2000-08-29 Thread Paul Lussier
In a message dated: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:43:23 PDT "Ingham,Stephen" said: Does anybody know how to configure "amd" to automount the home directory for a NIS login on a Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 system? Do you need to use amd? I would recommend using autofs, it's faster, and more reliable. amd

RE: Automounter (amd) NIS Logins

2000-08-29 Thread Ingham,Stephen
I've read the Automounter Mini-HowTo before. It covers "autofs" but not "amd" Caldera comes with "amd" only, I'd like to figure out how to use it. I try installing the autofs RPM at a last resort -Original Message- From: Paul Lussier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 29,