Re: Remote terminal sharing solution

2009-04-24 Thread Joel Finlinson
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Shane Hathaway sh...@hathawaymix.orgwrote: Michael Torrie wrote: I'm looking for a solution like screen (maybe based on screen) for remote terminal sharing. But rather than logging into a remote machine where screen is already running and doing screen -x I

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Brian Simons
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:15 -0600, Kyle Waters wrote: You'll need to change that in the mysql conf files. You can set the server to listen on all interfaces (on a debian-based linux distro) by commenting out all 'bind-address' lines in the configuration file. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Jessie Morris
On Friday 24 April 2009 10:08:49 am Merrill Oveson wrote: I want to get mysql query browser to work. The host is remote. I can ping the host and I know the port is correct. I can ssh in to the host, then launch mysql using the username, passwords, etc. But when I put this info in mysql

Bulletproof router

2009-04-24 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
My router might be dying, but I am unsure. I have a WRTP54G router at home, with 2 phone ports. It's locked by Vonage, with whom I have VOIP. Here's my dilemma: I believe the router is dying, but I hate to toss it if it's just needing some TLC. I am hooked on VOIP, so I need something that

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Brian Simons
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:08 -0600, Merrill Oveson wrote: I get the MySQL Error Number 2003 Can't connect to MySQL server... Probable causes are that the server isn't listening on the right interface, there's a firewall in the way, etc. When things are set up correctly this command should

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread William Attwood
You may have port 3306 blocked for external connections. First, what OS are you running? Second, do you have an account on your MySQL server that allows connections from %, or, your specific host? On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Merrill Oveson move...@gmail.com wrote: I want to get mysql

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Kyle Waters
Merrill Oveson wrote: I get the MySQL Error Number 2003 Can't connect to MySQL server... Any ideas? There are two likely problems. The first has been mentioned. The second is that the dameon is not listening remotely. You can check this by running: netstat -ltp and seeing the

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Merrill Oveson
I change the bind in the my.cnf file, now I get the error Host is not allowed to connect.. So I guess I need to have a pin hole put into the firewall on the remote site allowing my host to connect. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Jessie Morris jes...@confettiantiques.com wrote: On

getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Merrill Oveson
I want to get mysql query browser to work. The host is remote. I can ping the host and I know the port is correct. I can ssh in to the host, then launch mysql using the username, passwords, etc. But when I put this info in mysql query browser - no go. I get the MySQL Error Number 2003 Can't

Re: Two or more webs at home - multiple SSL hosts

2009-04-24 Thread Kenneth Burgener
On 4/22/2009 5:26 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: One technique I use to provide SSL access for a couple of different virtual hosts is to use different ports. domain A would be https://A.domain:1443, domain B could be https://B.domain:2443. Not super clean, but it works pretty well, especially if

Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Kimball Larsen
Our company has grown to the size that we'd like to have offsite backup of all the computers in the office, and all the servers in our rack. We currently maintain backups locally, but want to know if there are cost-effective and efficient solutions for offsite backup for extra redundancy

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread William Attwood
I say two routes: 1) For desktops, other backups, use mozy.com 2) For servers, setup a 2nd colo mirroring the first, so if one goes down, the other takes over. -Will On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Kimball Larsen kimb...@kimballlarsen.comwrote: Our company has grown to the size that we'd

Re: getting mysql query browser to work

2009-04-24 Thread Spencer Gibb
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Merrill Oveson move...@gmail.com wrote: I change the bind in the my.cnf file, now I get the error Host is not allowed to connect.. So I guess I need to have a pin hole put into the firewall on the remote site allowing my host to connect. I would tunnel

Apple and CUPS

2009-04-24 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
Now that Apple owns CUPS, I'll bet I don't have this problem in a year or two, but until then, here is my hangup... I can't get OSX machines to automatically detect a CUPS server and its printers. It's running CentOS 4.2 with a pretty vanilla CUPS config. I've googled it and tried changing all

Re: Apple and CUPS

2009-04-24 Thread Hans Fugal
Gabriel Gunderson wrote: Now that Apple owns CUPS, I'll bet I don't have this problem in a year or two, but until then, here is my hangup... I can't get OSX machines to automatically detect a CUPS server and its printers. It's running CentOS 4.2 with a pretty vanilla CUPS config. I've

Re: Apple and CUPS

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Torrie
Gabriel Gunderson wrote: Now that Apple owns CUPS, I'll bet I don't have this problem in a year or two, but until then, here is my hangup... I can't get OSX machines to automatically detect a CUPS server and its printers. It's running CentOS 4.2 with a pretty vanilla CUPS config. I've

Re: Remote terminal sharing solution

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Torrie
Joel Finlinson wrote: For Windows or Mac machines, I like and use www.teamviewer.com or JoelOnSoftware's FogCreek https://www.copilot.com/ You guys are right, a Linux product/version would be great. No, I don't think this is what we're looking for. Already you can use VNC with the viewer in

try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Merrill Oveson
I've switched gears and I'm installing phpmyadmin. I've searched the web high and low. Here's my config.inc.php $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '#helloworld3'; No matter I do I get the following error. 1045 -

Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread William Attwood
Sometimes the encryption messes up in MySQL. head to your mysql.users table: select user, password, host from mysql.users; than select md5('#helloworld3') from dual; see if the 2 outputs for root are the same. -Will On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Merrill Oveson move...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Doran L. Barton
On Friday 24 April 2009 12:48:53 William Attwood wrote: Sometimes the encryption messes up in MySQL. head to your mysql.users table: select user, password, host from mysql.users; than select md5('#helloworld3') from dual; see if the 2 outputs for root are the same. This whole

Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread William Attwood
I agree, connecting as root isn't the best way to do things. grant all on *.* to u...@host identified by 'password'; than use that user to connect. almost the same thing, I suppose - might want to do a better grant.. --Will On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Doran L. Barton

Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Lonnie Olson
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Doran L. Barton f...@iodynamics.com wrote: This whole connecting-to-your-database-as-root business always makes me skittish. PostgreSQL FTW! Doran is right about being skittish about connecting-to-your-database-as-root. However, that is completely unrelated to

Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Kyle Waters
Lonnie Olson wrote: On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Doran L. Barton f...@iodynamics.com wrote: This whole connecting-to-your-database-as-root business always makes me skittish. PostgreSQL FTW! Doran is right about being skittish about connecting-to-your-database-as-root. However,

[OT] Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Torrie
Doran L. Barton wrote: This whole connecting-to-your-database-as-root business always makes me skittish. PostgreSQL FTW! Except that Postgresql's way of doing users and ACLs on the table is pretty primitive, or at least very coarse, compared to MySQL. In fact most internal installations I've

Re: [OT] Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 13:56 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: Has PostgreSQL improved the way that users, passwords, and rights are done? Last I checked it was essentially a combination of createuser and pg_hba.conf, The most recent Postresql release has progressed to the point of per-column ACLs.

Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Merrill Oveson
The outputs are not the same. Now what? On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:48 PM, William Attwood wattw...@gmail.comwrote: Sometimes the encryption messes up in MySQL. head to your mysql.users table: select user, password, host from mysql.users; than select md5('#helloworld3') from dual; see

Router upgrade??

2009-04-24 Thread Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant)
How about a suggestion UP to replace my WRTP54G? Scott /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */

Installing Arch without over-writing /home

2009-04-24 Thread Alex Esplin
Hey all, After an unpleasant experience with an Ubuntu upgrade yesterday I'm ready to switch back to something a little more user-configurable. This is on my work box, so as much as I like Gentoo, I'd rather not have to play the build-everything-from-source-every-time-anything-is-upgraded game,

Re: [OT] Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Jon Jensen
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Michael Torrie wrote: Has PostgreSQL improved the way that users, passwords, and rights are done? Last I checked it was essentially a combination of createuser and pg_hba.conf, pg_hba.conf is used to determine who can *connect*. Standard GRANT statements and object

Re: [OT] Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Doran L. Fozz Barton
On Friday 24 April 2009 14:56:09 Jon Jensen wrote: pg_hba.conf is used to determine who can *connect*. HBA stands for Host-Based Access. So, yes, it's all about connectability. It doesn't control who can do what with what data in the database. -- f...@iodynamics.com is Doran L. Fozz Barton

Re: Installing Arch without over-writing /home

2009-04-24 Thread Jessie Morris
On Friday 24 April 2009 2:39:21 pm Alex Esplin wrote: Hey all, After an unpleasant experience with an Ubuntu upgrade yesterday I'm ready to switch back to something a little more user-configurable. This is on my work box, so as much as I like Gentoo, I'd rather not have to play the

Re: [OT] Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Torrie
Jon Jensen wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Michael Torrie wrote: Has PostgreSQL improved the way that users, passwords, and rights are done? Last I checked it was essentially a combination of createuser and pg_hba.conf, pg_hba.conf is used to determine who can *connect*. But why is this

Re: Installing Arch without over-writing /home

2009-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:39:21PM -0600, Alex Esplin wrote: Hey all, After an unpleasant experience with an Ubuntu upgrade yesterday I'm ready to switch back to something a little more user-configurable. This is on my work box, so as much as I like Gentoo, I'd rather not have to play the

Re: [OT] Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Jon Jensen
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Michael Torrie wrote: pg_hba.conf is used to determine who can *connect*. But why is this needed at all? MySQL lets me control all of this without ever having to touch the config file, which is kind of important in a hosted environment where the MySQL server is shared

Re: [OT] Re: try to get phpmyadmin to work

2009-04-24 Thread Merrill Oveson
I was able to get phpmyadmin up and running. I used cookies to auth rather than config - that way I don't have to store the user name and password in the config file. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Jon Jensen j...@endpoint.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Kimball Larsen
On Apr 24, 2009, at 10:52 AM, William Attwood wrote: I say two routes: 1) For desktops, other backups, use mozy.com 2) For servers, setup a 2nd colo mirroring the first, so if one goes down, the other takes over. -Will Hmm. Mozy looks kinda pricey, but may be the best solution for the

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread William Attwood
Check with Center 7 in Orem - they have a new facility in place. You could always do weekly snapshots of the systems and push those off-site; that way if anything fails, you don't have a total loss. On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Kimball Larsen kimb...@kimballlarsen.comwrote: On Apr 24,

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Kimball Larsen
Good thoughts - but I'm now in the Boise area. :) One other thing: We currently use backuppc for all our office computers, which stores things in such a way that pushing the backup archive off site is nearly impossible (lots of hard links, etc). I've read that amanda can be set up to

Re: Suggestion to replace a VOIP router

2009-04-24 Thread Jeremy Willden
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) scott.1jo...@ge.com To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, High Traffic plug@plug.org Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:23:19 -0400 Subject: Router upgrade?? How about a suggestion UP to replace my

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Thad Van Ry
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Kimball Larsen kimb...@kimballlarsen.com wrote: I suppose I could set up a colo to mirror, but that would be very expensive in this market - we checked into colo pricing before we built out our server room, and over the course of a year it was cheaper to build

Re: Bulletproof router

2009-04-24 Thread Mike Lovell
Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: My router might be dying, but I am unsure. I have a WRTP54G router at home, with 2 phone ports. It's locked by Vonage, with whom I have VOIP. Here's my dilemma: I believe the router is dying, but I hate to toss it if it's just needing some TLC. I

Re: Offsite Multi TB Backup Solution?

2009-04-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:32:38PM -0600, Kimball Larsen wrote: Good thoughts - but I'm now in the Boise area. :) I've read that amanda can be set up to store a copy of the backups on an AmazonS3 share. Does anyone here have any experience doing so? I have no idea whether Amanda can do