Re: [PLUG] When mounted doesn't mean mounted

2009-06-24 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 20:27 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Joe Pruett j...@clean.q7.com dijo: ah, i was thinking an overnight unattended backup. can you cd to /media/whatever from the command line? the little bit i've played with ubuntu, it

Re: [PLUG] When mounted doesn't mean mounted

2009-06-24 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Keith Lofstromkei...@kl-ic.com wrote: The easiest way to differentiate a directory that will be used for a mount point, and a mounted partition on that directory, is to make the substructure different, and rely on that. Would it be possible to make /mnt (or

[PLUG] recruiting help/collaboration on a captive portal/node configurator

2009-06-24 Thread Russell Senior
I have been working on an OpenWrt-based firmware image to go into Personal Telco Project's new node captive portal/gateway router devices. I have a prototype that is functional. I'd like to solicit assistance and collaboration on some remaining problems, as well as on some configurator

Re: [PLUG] When mounted doesn't mean mounted

2009-06-24 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Joe Pruett j...@clean.q7.com dijo: The problem is, as Keith suspected, that rdiff-backup (or its GUI, pybackpack), helpfully creates folders if it doesn't see them. Worse, if the folder already exists it assumes I wouldn't want to overwrite it, and

[PLUG] Preventing writing to a mount point

2009-06-24 Thread Keith Lofstrom
And, 3) How do I make sure that it will back up to the disk in the Ultrabay and not to the mount point? Here's a kludge that will prevent root from making a directory, by setting the immutable bit on a file. There may be an easier way, but this will cause an error/fail rather than letting root

Re: [PLUG] Parallel port under Xen

2009-06-24 Thread Ronald Chmara
Reversing the problem, let's say I'm a vendor who (boo!) licenses software on a per-cpu basis. How would I prevent a Xen user from taking a one CPU license, and replicating it to 8 different DomU, single CPU, instances, all running off of the same dongle, on an 8 core machine? I'd probably bind