[SLUG] Best of breed LDAP/directory servers in 2008?

Hello, Does anyone have any recent experience with LDAP deployments across reasonably large environments (we have 1000+ hosts)?We use LDAP for traditional Unix host authentication/authorization, as well as various other web apps. We currently use Fedora Directory Server but are having many

Re: [SLUG] Re: search engine for company network (OT)

rich wrote: Hello all, Richard here - been lurking for a while, first post. Seb, If you only have a few users to deal with then I concur with the Rev, Google Desktop is a great solution; it's simple and it will meet your users needs. There are alternatives, I actually use one called Copernic

Re: [SLUG] SIM cards as cheap data storage?

Peter Howard wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 15:44 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: It looks to me that the Octopus card still requires a connection back to a remote server somewhere to run the transaction. It's also geared more as an ID device rather than a data storage medium. Nope, it can be

Re: [SLUG] SIM cards as cheap data storage?

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I am looking for a cheap data storage solution for many people. The requirements are as follows: How many is many? That can really affects the cost issue quite a bit. Are we talking a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, what? --Jeremy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Oracle 9i database and samba

Joel Heenan wrote: Network filesystems are not normally used for database files. I work for an ASP that has all of its Oracle databases (hundreds of them) mounted via NFS. It works just fine. The database servers are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, and the NFS mount points are

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:52 +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness. Don't use 'man find' - 'info find' is better. And if you don't like the emacs-y navigation/keybindings of info - checkout the pinfo client

Re: [SLUG] Domain Name Servers

Rick Phillips wrote: I have always thought that DNS servers for a domain may reside totally outside the domain. i.e. server.main.domain has no dns server running but has DNS servers other.server.com and another.server.com act authoritatively for server.main.domain. That is correct. We have

Re: [SLUG] Quick and dirty mail/spam server

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=James Gray Here, here. itym hear, hear... Or are you referring to the previous poster as a dog? ;-) Heel, heel? ;-) --Jeremy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Renting Dell servers for benchmarks?

Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, We'd like to try to assess our hardware requirements for a network server and for this need access to a large-ish configuration (lots of RAM, lots of disks, strong CPU's). We are a small ISV and so I though that maybe Dell (with whom our hosting provider in the US

Re: [SLUG] tip: how to renumbber screens in gnu screen

Simon Wong wrote: The hardest thing about finding tip for screen is that typing screen into Google is not exactly definitive! I've found that using GNU screen in quotes is useful when Googling. This only finds hits where people have used that terminology, but Sonia did above, indicating

Re: [SLUG] unwired and linux

Christopher Vance wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 3:20 PM, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does unwired know who you are if it is using dhcp? do they want your MAC address? Unless things have changed since a friend got rid of his, the Unwired modem is your dhcp server. I've used unwired

Re: [SLUG] restoring scren handling in terminal ?

.) Hope this helps, Jeremy Portzer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] installing 'file': edit Makefile.am or Makefile.in

, /usr/local should be positioned before /usr/bin in your PATH (if not, you should fix this). Hope this helps, Jeremy Portzer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] installing 'file': edit Makefile.am or Makefile.in ?

Voytek Eymont wrote: thanks, Matthew so where do I identify changelog /url for RH73 'file' ? You mean Red Hat Linux (RHL) 7.3, right? To get the changelog of the currently installed version, you can run rpm -q --changelog file this is the same as the previously-mentioned command, but

Re: [SLUG] Aust Govt Netalert - Not for Linux

bill wrote: Just received the Aust Govt booklet Netalert- protecting Australian Families OnLine. Checked out their comparison table of internet filters. (http://www.netalert.gov.au/filters/Compare_internet_content_filters.html#Comparisontable) Gotta love how the Safe Eyes (Mac version) is

Re: [SLUG] X-client software.

Hasnain wrote: Hi, Is there anyone knows about any x-client software like humminbird exceed for free to use x11 under ssh tunnelling. i used to use any gui to run on putty setting the display into localhost and exceed used to pipe those displays into local computers. Hello, I assume since

[SLUG] Newlines - was Re: Comsec behaving badly

Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Jeremy Portzer wrote: Common confusion/misconception is that \n refers to LF only. This is not always the case-usually it refers to the portable newline that gets expanded to the proper characters depending on platform or context. Over the wire, it is just newline

Re: [SLUG] Comsec behaving badly, how to talk to a big business

Amos Shapira wrote: On 07/10/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:09:50AM +, Amos Shapira wrote: DATA: malformed address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]\n may not follow [EMAIL PROTECTED] : failing address in To: header is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It might be

Re: [SLUG] fun with sed

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 September 2007 10:00:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man doesn't mention delimiter options, but info does. looks like I need to get familiar with info man is easy to use. info is abominable. In fact I have done 'info info' more times than 'info

Re: [SLUG] Re. Changes to cdrecord (etc.) ..

Adam Bogacki wrote: Got it ! It's working. Sometimes the act of writing down ( sending) the problems gives me the answer. Can you explain the fix please, for the benefit of the list membership and the archives? Thanks, JP -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Printer

Glen Turner wrote: There are a lot of personal laser printers out there, the BW models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy. You are looking at about $100 to $200. Toner is about $90 -- I use one a year in a household with three people printing uni and school assignments. Beware that

Re: [SLUG] undocumented null cipher for ssh?

Scott Ragen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 20/09/2007 01:10:02 PM: Someone mentioned on list a while ago about using an undocumented feature of ssh that allows a null cipher (in order to speed up large file transfers). Does anyone remember the option? The cipher name is none. Regards,

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

Zhasper wrote: Or, change your log level so they don't get logged. Or, have logrotate gzip your archives (which it probably does anyway) so that logging repeated patterns like that takes insignificant amounts of space. Or use the logwatch utility to read your logs which can summarize these

Re: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

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Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?

, though counterintuitive at first. --Jeremy -- /-\ | Jeremy Portzer[EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92