"more secure" 3rd-party file sharing?

2006-08-22 Thread Bill McGonigle
Problem: people misaddress e-mails, don't look at what their client is auto-completing for them, and generally send files to people who shouldn't get them. Solutions? discredited: making users care, making users cautious, replacing users' computers with dull pencils, forcing all users to use

Re: helpful amanda script

2006-08-22 Thread John Abreau
Paul Lussier wrote: There's likely lots of room for improvement here, not the least of which is to determine when (and how) to use a pager (more or less, etc.) based on the number of rows in current terminal vs. the number of rows of output. I'd certainly appreciate some feedback on this if any

helpful amanda script

2006-08-22 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Over the past (mumble) years, I've had quite a bit of time to play with amanda. Occassionally I like to keep tabs on it's progress and see what's it currently doing: - what file system is it dumping, - how many are left - what tapes have been dumped to and which one is it on now, et

Re: Tuning NFS (and Gbit Enet ?)

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Komarinski
Michael ODonnell wrote: > Using the old config files (which worked OK on the old HW) > on the new HW, we're seeing some depressing NFS throughput > numbers. For example, writes of large files from client to > server are down around ~450KB/S when /etc/{fstab,exports} > entries look, respectively, l

Tuning NFS (and Gbit Enet ?)

2006-08-22 Thread Michael ODonnell
We're upgrading an installation by bringing an existing config forward from some older, slower Dell boxes to some spiffy new Dell 690 boxes with integral Broadcom (BCM5752) NICs and a Dell PowerConnect 2616 (an unmanaged switch) connecting them, all supposedly capable of Gbit rates. The (smp) ke

Re: Automounting USB mini drive

2006-08-22 Thread Lloyd Kvam
I just learned about puppyos.com http://www.puppyos.com/ A small scale Linux distro designed for booting off USB flash devices. I am downloading it now and will see how well it works for me. On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 11:37 -0400, Python wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:41 -0400, Steven W. O