Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-30 Thread Marc Christensen
Hans Fugal wrote: > Byron Clark wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:52:26PM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: >>> Any recommendations for a backup script? I'm just about to revisit >>> the one I wrote and thought, "someone has already done this *and* done >>> a better job of it then me." [snip] >>

Re: Speaking serial out RJ-45 jack

2009-03-30 Thread Dave Smith
Nicholas Leippe wrote: On Mon Mar 30 2009 10:40:41 Dave Smith wrote: Nicholas Leippe wrote: However, in theory I can just tell my computer to speak serial out my ethernet port. No, in theory and in practice, you can't. They are totally different electrical specifications.

Re: Speaking serial out RJ-45 jack

2009-03-30 Thread Nicholas Leippe
On Mon Mar 30 2009 10:40:41 Dave Smith wrote: > Nicholas Leippe wrote: > >> However, in theory I can just tell my computer to speak serial out my > >> ethernet port. > > > > No, in theory and in practice, you can't. They are totally different > > electrical specifications. > > Just to clarify, the

Re: Speaking serial out RJ-45 jack

2009-03-30 Thread Dave Smith
Nicholas Leippe wrote: However, in theory I can just tell my computer to speak serial out my ethernet port. No, in theory and in practice, you can't. They are totally different electrical specifications. Just to clarify, the reason Nicholas is right is because of the Ethernet MAC and

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-30 Thread Kimball Larsen
On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Stuart Jansen wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:07 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: rsnapshot looks nice. Can anyone comment on using it to back up hosts that are sporadically available, like my laptop? Ideally it would be able to use nmblookup to find the host, but if not

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-30 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 09:07 -0600, Hans Fugal wrote: > rsnapshot looks nice. Can anyone comment on using it to back up hosts > that are sporadically available, like my laptop? Ideally it would be > able to use nmblookup to find the host, but if not I can always set up > some kind of dynamic dns. r

Re: Backup scripts

2009-03-30 Thread Hans Fugal
Byron Clark wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:52:26PM -0600, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: >> Any recommendations for a backup script? I'm just about to revisit >> the one I wrote and thought, "someone has already done this *and* done >> a better job of it then me." >> >> My needs are not that differ

Re: LDAP acl n00b question

2009-03-30 Thread Corey Edwards
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 21:33 -0600, Mike Lovell wrote: > So I am setting up an LDAP for some user authentication and am working > on some access control lists. Right now, I have just the rootdn that was > set up when I installed slapd on my Debian Lenny box and that is > currently the only accoun