[SLUG] Ubuntu, 2.6.15 kernel, RAID and SATA and IDE

2006-07-30 Thread Luke Kendall
This relates to my attempt to move from my now too-long-in-the-tooth RH 7.2 system to something new. I picked Ubuntu and installed it without much trouble, highly impressed by how well it auto-detected and configured the network, sound, and graphics (to a point). It's basically just to sketch

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu, 2.6.15 kernel, RAID and SATA and IDE

2006-07-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Luke Kendall What I want to do is something that seems should be the norm, not something unusual: I want RAID mirroring. Easy to do straight off, from the (text mode, or alternate) installer. After making the filesystems, preparatory to doing the mirroring, I discover the Ubuntu

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu, 2.6.15 kernel, RAID and SATA and IDE

2006-07-30 Thread lukekendall
On 30 Jul, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Luke Kendall What I want to do is something that seems should be the norm, not something unusual: I want RAID mirroring. Easy to do straight off, from the (text mode, or alternate) installer. I can't handle the thousand kernel module config

[SLUG] OS or Linux equivalent of windows media streaming

2006-07-30 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Slugs, I'm after a Linux equivalent of windows media streaming or windows media services. Anyone have some ideas, success stories, whatever. I'm looking around and Slug input would be appreciated. Ben -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] OS or Linux equivalent of windows media streaming

2006-07-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ben Donohue I'm after a Linux equivalent of windows media streaming or windows media services. Anyone have some ideas, success stories, whatever. I'm looking around and Slug input would be appreciated. www.flumotion.net - Free Software, plus you can license beefier tools and

Re: [SLUG] OS or Linux equivalent of windows media streaming

2006-07-30 Thread Jan Schmidt
On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 20:35 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Slugs, I'm after a Linux equivalent of windows media streaming or windows media services. Even if I weren't a Fluendo employee, I'd point you to http://www.flumotion.com The Free (GPL) Flumotion server is focussed on

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu, 2.6.15 kernel, RAID and SATA and IDE

2006-07-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] What I want to do is something that seems should be the norm, not something unusual: I want RAID mirroring. Easy to do straight off, from the (text mode, or alternate) installer. I can't handle the thousand kernel module config questions of the text

Re: [SLUG] OS or Linux equivalent of windows media streaming

2006-07-30 Thread Morgan Storey
Another option http://www.videolan.org/streaming/ VLC is pretty good, pretty low on resources, does a whole heap of codecs. Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Slugs, I'm after a Linux equivalent of windows media streaming or windows media services. Anyone have some ideas, success stories, whatever. I'm

[SLUG] Adding RAID to Linux *after* installation?

2006-07-30 Thread lukekendall
Thanks to Jeff Waugh's advice, I now seem to have all the pieces in place to create a RAID array (using mdadm). (Thanks very much, Jeff!) Except that when I try: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hda7 /dev/sda7 it refuses, as /dev/hda7 (/) is mounted. I read the man

Re: [SLUG] Adding RAID to Linux *after* installation?

2006-07-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/hda7 /dev/sda7 it refuses, as /dev/hda7 (/) is mounted. Okay, so do this instead: mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda7 missing That will create a 2 device array with one missing

[SLUG] www question

2006-07-30 Thread jam
G'day my customer has said: --- When you have a minute can you please configure our apache server error pages to not list the webserver build and operating system as it is a security risk. For example if I go to

Re: [SLUG] www question

2006-07-30 Thread Michael Fox
On 31/07/2006, at 2:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day my customer has said: -- - When you have a minute can you please configure our apache server error pages to not list the webserver build and operating system

Re: [SLUG] www question

2006-07-30 Thread Robert Collins
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 12:34 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day my customer has said: --- When you have a minute can you please configure our apache server error pages to not list the webserver build and operating

Re: [SLUG] www question

2006-07-30 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; my customer has said: --- When you have a minute can you please configure our apache server error pages to not list the webserver build and operating system as it is a security

Re: [SLUG] www question

2006-07-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Am I naive, is there a risk letting the world know WHAT os and web server you run? Sure. It can be mild or very serious, depending on whether the product and version indicate the existence of particular exploits. For instance, if your webserver published that it was

Re: [SLUG] www question

2006-07-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
the absence of a number may encourage the person attacking to be more general in their approach. which increase server load etc. so if there is a version number, they may not bother. but as has been pointed out, the reliability of the dist info is questionable as it can be faked. also, most