Quoting Bill Broadley (b...@broadley.org):
> Do you really think lugod's new mail server should be some weird
> conglomoration of upstream source,
> and out of tree patches?
>
> That's batshit insane in my book.
Fortunately, I nowhere suggested that. Not intending to complain, and I
gladly ack
Quoting Bill Broadley (b...@broadley.org):
> I hear this line of thought, and am always puzzled by it. My recipe is:
> 1) run a current OS with a current spam assassin, like the newest ubuntu LTS
> or
>newest debian stable.
> 2) run postfix and whatever glue you like (mail filter, amavis, an
Quoting Timothy D Thatcher (daniel.thatc...@gmail.com):
> What happened was that I discovered earlier today that ClamAV had
> apparently been misbehaving and had tanked mail/listserv service
> entirely, and for a few days, it turned out. I also actually ran an
> apt update/upgrade and rebooted the
Bob Scofield (scofi...@omsoft.com) wrote:
> The problem with my computer started after I updated to the latest
> version of ESET antivirus for Linux. The only thing I had not done
> to get my re-install finished was to re-install ESET. So this
> morning I did. And after the install the problem
Seems to have been intended to be posted, rather than sent just to me in
private mail.
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From: Bob Scofield
To: Rick Moen
Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Linux Computer Infected
Since Rick expresses skepticism for
Quoting Timothy D Thatcher (daniel.thatc...@gmail.com):
> Hah, I'm glad it was nothing as nefarious as some weird malware or
> rootkit, or as irritating/potentially expensive as an actual hardware
> failure. Great work, and thanks, Rick.
One more comment (and yes, as can be seen on
http://linuxma
Quoting Bob Scofield (scofi...@omsoft.com):
> I've got an infected Linux desktop and I don't have the technical
> expertise to fix it.
So, I just wanted to explore the notion of 'infected' in general,
concerning Linux computers. (In no way is this intended as a criticism
of Bob.)
It is freque
Quoting Timothy D Thatcher (daniel.thatc...@gmail.com):
> Hah, I'm glad it was nothing as nefarious as some weird malware or
> rootkit, or as irritating/potentially expensive as an actual hardware
> failure. Great work, and thanks, Rick.
Just one more thing about that:
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick
Quoting Bob Scofield (scofi...@omsoft.com):
> I've got it fixed. But first thanks to Brian, Tim, Rod, and Rick.
Congratulations, Bob! Good work.
When you're feeling in a mood to geek out and get to know some
old-school Unix command-line tools, here are some related to memory and
processes:
Quoting Rod Roark (r...@sunsetsystems.com):
> Sounds more like a hardware problem. Open it up and vacuum out the
> dust, especially from the CPU fan. Then run a memory test (probably
> available at the boot screen).
Definitely could be.
One way to test this hypothesis is by booting and using a d
Quoting Bob Scofield (scofi...@omsoft.com):
> I've got an infected Linux desktop and I don't have the technical
> expertise to fix it.
FYI, nothing you said in either of your posts would suggest malware.
(Also, IMO: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#virus)
Your system has a Linux Mint installati
Quoting Richard S. Crawford (rich...@underpope.com):
> I found the offending code, buried deep in the actual database. The code
> has been eliminated, and all passwords have been changed.
>
> Whack-a-mole.
Congratulations.
Now, the harder question beckons: How did it get there?
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Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> I outsource to Wordpress.com, just pay the $15 a year to use a custom
> domain. I figure if the main vendor behind the software can't keep it
> patched and safe, no one can.
Quoting from Marcus Ranum's[1] 'The Six Dumbest Idea
Quoting Richard S. Crawford (rich...@underpope.com):
> That's what I was afraid of. Unfortunately I can't find the malware itself.
https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-step-step-guide-fixing-hacked-wordpress-site/
https://sucuri.ne
Quoting Bob Scofield (scofi...@omsoft.com):
> How important is it to have a separate partition for /tmp? I've
> got 2G on the desktop I'm using right now. The partition for / is
> 15G. I vaguely recall a discussion here years ago and people
> saying that /tmp is on a separate partition to preve
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> Ironically, floppies made longer ago seem to last longer.
> Floppies (mostly 3.5") seem to have been made more cheaply / lest robust.
Part of it is: Greater data density was achieved through use of finer
magnetic particles. Those inherently are more lik
Quoting Bill Broadley (b...@broadley.org):
> Ha, looking at your link and found:
> Because the download integrity for all of these packages is abysmal
Yes, I was intending to point out that bit to you in particular, but
couldn't find it on the November 16th blog post -- but I see it's on the
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Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> My problem was that the subject lines were all the same: a generic
> message telling me something got auto-discarded.
Just to be clear, I wasn't referring to the '(n) messages were
discarded' advisories.
In the model where non-subscriber postings get hel
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> Well, this wasn't clearing of Mailman's queue, but of my inbox.
> (Technically, a mailbox that slurps up all of the mailman administrative
> noise, via a good ol' procmail filter)
I do sympathise.
Personally, I've gotten really quick at quick-scanning an
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> I did not bother having posts held ("HOLD" option, vs "DISCARD"), since it
> was a very rare occurrence. These days, since the mailing list volume is
> extremely low (but the spammers still try sending messages to the list
> address), almost ALL discarded
Quoting Dr. Larry Ozeran (loze...@clinicalinformatics.com):
> Thanks Rick.
>
> This is why I have such great respect for the members of this list.
> You have such valuable experiences that you are willing to share. I
> regret that I have had the experience of server issues occurring at
> bad time
Quoting Dr. Larry Ozeran (loze...@clinicalinformatics.com):
> Rick, thanks again for your insights.
You are most welcome.
> You are, of course, correct that we would not redesign our software
> without a significant and deep assessment of benefits and costs
> (money, time, resources, etc.). Mos
Quoting Dr. Larry Ozeran (loze...@clinicalinformatics.com):
> Since we are serving data that can change every few minutes, we
> can't move to static pages. Since we are providing that data to
> users from multiple originating sources, we pretty much have to be
> internet-facing. We have put securi
Quoting Bill Broadley (b...@broadley.org):
> >Does anyone know any downsides to using the webtatic PHP packages on
> >CentOS 6?
>
> I've seen many machines with ugly configurations related to cpanel,
> custom php installs (sometimes more than one), and fragile very hard
> to reproduce apache conf
Quoting Mark's tech help (markinda...@hush.com):
> Reason: I'm running my usual, minimalist distro! (Busybox does too
> many things on this.) You.. you lucky, decked-out full-installation
> people, you! But really, mmv looks great-- will have to install it.
> Thanks for the tip.
Yr. welcome.
Quoting Mark's tech help (markinda...@hush.com):
> I'm a tad baffled by the usage of perl here. Some part of a learning
> exercise for perl, or could one not just come up with a line of bash
> commands.. a combination of mv and sed with a pipe &/or redirect?
I think this is yet another case, a
Quoting Richard Harke (paleopeng...@gmail.com):
> Thanks for all the suggestions. I wasn't able to get the import
> function in thunderbird to work. What I finally did is: open
> thunderbird and create the folders (empty, of course) Then I exited
> thunderbird and, one folder at a time, I deleted
Quoting Susan Baur (su...@cdl.edu):
> Hi Richard,
>
> Did you see this stackoverflow article?
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4780441/how-to-import-mails-into-thunderbird-from-maildir-format
Despite the URL and title, the question posed (and I'll get to the two
answers in a moment) invol
Quoting Richard Harke (paleopeng...@gmail.com):
> The kmail versions are 4.14.2 on my old machine and 4.14.1 on my new
> macine. I'm not entirely sure of what format mail files they use but
> I looked at a few of the files and those appeared to contain a single
> email message each. So I guess th
Quoting Richard Harke (paleopeng...@gmail.com):
> Rod's link included the suggestion to make the conversion on the old
> machine which I'm going to try as kmail is still working there.
It's good that KMail is still working there, but you will need to
consider what you're going to _do_ with KMail
Quoting Richard Harke (paleopeng...@gmail.com):
> I did install Thunderbird (icedove) but I'm stuck ay impoting my
> existing emails. I created a folder to match one from kmailm planning
> to import one folder at a time.
I believe you mistyped 'Ah, thank you for calling attention to my
omitting a
Quoting Rod Roark (r...@sunsetsystems.com):
> I liked the efficiency and small footprint of Claws, but keep coming
> back to Thunderbird (Icedove in Debian) as having the features I need to
> work with my clients and the least amount of bugs that get in my way.
I made Thunderbird (Icedove) work w
Quoting Richard Harke (paleopeng...@gmail.com):
> Does any one do email anymore (as opposed to webmail) ?
http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/?page=misc#outlook
> I have used kmail for years but now it is badly broken.
I'm guessing you have a preferance for very featureful graphical mail
clients (M
Quoting James Nessen (ness...@jimsoffice.org):
> I would go the VPS route. Super easy to do and most offerings today
> will fit within your budget. I have used both DigitalOcean and Linode
> (currently with Linode). The cheapest VPS on DigitalOcean is 5.00 per
> month and gives you 512mb of ram
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> Here ya go!
First of all, really good job! It's legible, clear, and nothing stands
out immediately as 'should be fixed.' Looks like an exemplary
professional job. I'm used to seeing ones that make my eyeballs ache
and the ghost of Jon Postel weep. ;->
prove.
I've done a lot of DNS profesionally for a long time, FWIW.
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Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> Brian came over, I did the song & dance to gain access to the
> account at domaindiscover aka tierra.net, and we fiddled with things.
>
> How's it looking now?
Would you consider posting the new zonefile so it can be seen in its
entirety? Understandably
s in your filesystems, too,
and report back in a few years. Hey, what harm can a bunch of indirect
reference do? ;->
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Quoting Brian E. Lavender (br...@brie.com):
> Mark,
>
> I really think you have put twisted words out here. I really don't
> want to hear a debate that is going to take away from the depth of the
> presentation on systemd.
FWIW, prior ot Alison's delivery of the talk at SVLUG, some ranting by
ov
Quoting Nick Schmalenberger (n...@schmalenberger.us):
> Wow man, nice job hijacking a thread to spout close minded
> insults about an upcoming talk that is explicitly meant to show
> why its not as bad as people say it is.
Yes, Mark, that was a little uncool. Entirely new threads are best
_not_
Quoting Brian E. Lavender (br...@brie.com):
> Hey, so word is that some can't send email to the lugod lists because the
> mailserver the MX record is a CNAME rather than an A record?
That is known to be a common problem. I hear there are a number of
MTAs that refuse to deliver to RFC-noncomplian
Quoting Thomas Johnston (trjohns...@ucdavis.edu):
> I primarily use Linux for my personal endeavors; however, there
> situations/applications for my work where I am forced to use Windows. And
> although I could run Windows in a virtual environment, I don't know how
> well that would work when I ne
Note: I will not be addressing the specific use case the original
poster had in mind of a dual-boot workstation -- and instead detail
a Linux server scheme. Personally, I think virtual machine solutions
(VirtualBox, VMWare) are almost always far better than dual booting, and
I would urge consider
Just seeing what insights might be gleaned from this.
Quoting Richard Harke (paleopeng...@gmail.com):
> I may have screwed up. I opened a GIF that I received in an email using
> ImageMagick.
This implies that you were doing so as your regular userID, not as root
or any other privileged user.
>
Quoting Peter Salzman (p...@dirac.org):
> Nice catch, Rod!
>
> Boy, though... what an unfortunately named process!
Because no rootkit would ever try to hide itself, right? ;->
{sigh} So much misinformation.
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2012q4/009651.html
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Quoting Bill Broadley (b...@broadley.org):
What you said.
> * Authoritative only servers don't cache
Well, yeah, authoritative-ONLY servers would have no use for caching by
definition, as they aren't accepting data from elsewhere.
DNSSEC is definitely quite worthwhile. I just am mostly wary of
Quoting Tony Cratz (cr...@hematite.com):
> > This prevents hackers from injecting false information (aka DNS cache
> > 'poisoning'), in an attempt to re-direct people trying to access a real
> > website to a fake, phishing or criminal site.
>
> I will attempt to answer you question by givin
Quoting Tony Cratz (cr...@hematite.com):
> > ksplice.
>
> At first glance this did not really help. But on one of the
> pages I found what I was looking for. Kexec is the command
> I wanted.
ksplice and kexec are both ways to replace one running kernel with
another running kernel without a full
Quoting Tony Cratz (cr...@hematite.com):
> Before my friend Hugh Daniels passed away he mention there was a
> way to fork/exec/chain a new kernel to replace the current
> running kernel. Due to his passing, I never did learn how.
ksplice.
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Quoting Hai Yi (yihai2...@gmail.com):
> thanks but nope, tried those 3 commands - it didn't work.
I strongly recommend quoting the entire relevant portion of your
command sessions when seeking help like this, including the command
prompts and return text. You can use /usr/bin/script to log the
s
Quoting Brian Lavender (br...@brie.com):
> I would think that writing zeros to the disk would make the data
> unavailable in many cases and is relatively fast. IIRC, DBAN takes
> multiple passes with pseudorandom data.
> What if the fact that a melted disk leaked information?
Yeah, you go tell
Quoting Darth Borehd (darth.bor...@gmail.com):
> How secure is a single pass zero-fill? As secure as that.
http://www.dban.org/node/50
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Quoting Darth Borehd (darth.bor...@gmail.com):
> We need a fast way to securely wipe hard drives.
_How_ secure? LLNL actually melts the platters on hard drives retired
from their security-sensitive computing vaults.
Commercial operations generally consider DBAN good enough.
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Quoting Bob Scofield (scofi...@omsoft.com):
> Rick,
>
> What's the matter with GRUB 2?
More than a bit baroque and overengineered for my taste, when something
a lot simpler will do the job and (used correctly) be far more
foolproof.
I mean, good grief, they now have not just a conffile but an e
Quoting Brian Lavender (br...@brie.com):
> Any thoughts on grub 2?
lilo still works -- and elilo if you have EFI-based hardware.
> I see that Debian squeeze is using grub 2.
Default configurations were made to be fixed, nei? ;->
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Quoting Brian Lavender (br...@brie.com):
> It seems taht spammers have gotten keen to the Bag O Words Bayes
> analysis and now pump out some unrelated paragraph before they put in
> their spam.
Nah, that's a really _old_ spammer trick. That's why you should never
leave a Bayesian classifier set
Quoting Gandalf Parker (gand...@community.net):
> But I am going to save it. If all a person knows is PHP I can see where it
> might be the shortest route.
The PHP interpreter can also be used locally (e.g., via phpsh) without
involving a Web server at all.
(It was more than a little unclear wh
Quoting Peter Salzman (p...@dirac.org):
[Bedework:]
> Sigh. It does look like a conquer the
> world type application though. Very impressive, but you hit the nail
> squarely on the head with the above paragraph.
Even a broken clock's right twice a day. ;-> (Seriously, I'd rather
have a good
Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> You are aware of http://www.lugod.org/calendar/lugod-only.ics
> Other options on:
> http://www.lugod.org/calendar/
I'm curious: How is that data generated and maintained? And how is the
RSS+XML generated? Is the code available?
I have my own
I wrote:
> 1. Rapid standards churn. iCAL, xCal, iTIP, iMIP, vCalendar, vCard,
> BEEP, CAP, WebDAV, CalDAV Seems like CalDAV has become the
> surviving commodity standard, but those of us who watched the standards
> squabble over the yeard got a bit lost in all of the alphabet soup, and
>
Quoting Peter Salzman (p...@dirac.org):
> I can't figure out why calDAV isn't more utilized.
I'll speculate:
1. Rapid standards churn. iCAL, xCal, iTIP, iMIP, vCalendar, vCard,
BEEP, CAP, WebDAV, CalDAV Seems like CalDAV has become the
surviving commodity standard, but those of us who wa
Quoting Peter Salzman (p...@dirac.org):
> Actually, this looks absolutely fantastic. I can't figure out why
> it's not practically an industry standard. The main design goal is
> interoperability with all calendaring clients, is BSD licensed, and it
> looks very polished. Thanks for mentioning
Quoting Shwaine (shwa...@shwaine.com):
> So wait, this whole argument is because I clarified that all the advice
> given by you, and added upon by myself, rests on the assumption that the
> OP meant a carriage return instead of literally a "\r" string?
No. That is doubly mistaken, both in pars
Quoting Shwaine (shwa...@shwaine.com):
> And nothing about my reply contradicted this. In fact, my reply was just
> clarifying that the old Mac file format is just carriage return (\r) and
> not carriage return-line feed (\r\n) like the Windows format. This means
> that the vim substitution com
Quoting Shwaine (shwa...@shwaine.com):
> Assuming that the \r is actually carriage return (and not a literal string
> consisting of backslash and the letter r) and that this was originally an
> older Mac formated file, you probably don't want to remove \r.
I actually meant exactly what I typed,
Quoting Eric Lin (notapplicable.h...@gmail.com):
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 03:43:54PM -0700, Cam Ellison wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile a firmware flashing app (I have a MultiTech modem
> > with a motorboating problem, and the firmware upgrade is said to be the
> > answer) and keep running int
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> Related, for a laugh: http://xkcd.com/327/
One of the classics, although most of us don't know the URL on sight the
way we do http://xkcd.com/386/ . Still, for a lot of people, just
mentioning 'little Bobby Tables' will get fits of laughter.
Quoting Dr. Denny Scronek (pasze...@yahoo.com):
> OK.
Ah, you don't regret that perception, then (that you're impliedly
calling the lot of us flakes). Too bad.
> Let's end this.
Easily done.
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Quoting Dr. Denny Scronek (pasze...@yahoo.com):
> Flaky is "you promise to show up ... repeatedly ... and you don't."
> That's flaky ... in any profession, when you're dating a lady, you
> name it. I stand by my words.
A fair reading of the wording of your prior post seemed to be that a
good algo
Quoting Dr. Denny Scronek (pasze...@yahoo.com):
> Have other things to do than just my ailing beast so I'm exercising
> more patience this time ... didn't realize finding a non-flaky Linux
> person would be such a hassle but that's education (mine) for ya.
There's a huge difference between 'unwil
Quoting Dr. Denny Scronek (pasze...@yahoo.com):
> "Can I ssh to it?" Doesn't compute. Try again please.
To translate, Bill was asking if you're set up so he can remotely login
to the command line of your machine rather than needing to visit your
house physically just in order to help you solve yo
Quoting Bob Scofield (scofi...@omsoft.com):
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 06:07 -0700, Dr. Denny Scronek wrote:
> > This is my second shot at this. Posting, that is. My laptop is caught
> > in an infinite login loop ...won't except my password. Not a wrong
> > password/CAPSLOCK problem that I can see. A
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> Since this topic has come up, and Rick's is a very thorough post on the
> topic... From CABAL mailing list, via SF-LUG mailing list.
Hi, Bill. I am truly flattered.
Sometimes, I post something like that after hours of careful research
and write-up, he
y' because log level 10 chews up disk space at an
impressive clip.
(Disclaimer: Haven't had occasion to admin Samba since 1999, so the above
is all I'm likely to usefully offer.)
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Quoting Brian Lavender (br...@brie.com):
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:56:02PM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> >/etc/lsb-release
>
> Cool. I never knew about that file.
My own 2006 attempt to cover arbitrary Linux (and other Unix) distros:
'Release Files' on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Admin/
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Quoting Jim Stockford (j...@well.com):
> how do you know online petitions are not worth...?
> if i were in charge of a company or department, i'd
> make sure y group was attentive to incoming electronic
> info. i'd at least try to ensure that the filters were
> sufficiently granular an
that on Linux/BSD was just beginning to flower.
You will notice separate entries in the knowledgebase index for
'Databases, SQL' and 'Databases, xBase'. I divided out the original
'Databases' page into three parts, because it struck me that those types
serv
Quoting Ken Bloom (kbl...@gmail.com):
> A correct solution that covers all of the corner cases would be to
> replace the glob with
>
> find -path './.*' -maxdepth 1
Elegant. I like this a lot.
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Quoting Tony Cratz (cr...@hematite.com):
> I'm in a position again to set-up an FTP server. I'm looking for a
> good server which will support anonymous connections but limit what
> they can do. Both Pureftp and Proftp can solve this problem.
>
> I'm looking for arguments why I should choose one
Quoting Cam Ellison (c...@ellisonet.ca):
> With regard to the rest of your email (snipped out), I'll try that if
> nothing comes from CTCS. Two halts five weeks apart doesn't give me
> much to work with.
Yes. One of the Bad Words that one doesn't really want to hear when
performing diagnosis
wapping in known-good
components, and seeing if the problem suddenly vanishes with one such
swap-in. The pain-in-the-ass requisite is, of course, having a bunch of
known-good parts sitting around for this purpose, which one only rarely
has. Sorry, I don't know any easy way around that.
Quoting Cam Ellison (c...@ellisonet.ca):
> This is my only machine, and it's a production machine, so I'm not sure
> about taking it out of service to run ctcs2 (thanks Rick!).
You're very welcome. I have notes here, which I recommend, because
Cerberus is rather peculiar software that takes a l
Quoting Brian Lavender (br...@brie.com):
> Check the system event logs in the motherboard bios. Sometimes listed
> under SEL. Otherwise, I would stress test the machine. I used to run ctcs
> to burn in systems for a cluster I worked on for LLNL. It does memory,
> io, and cpu stress tests.
>
> htt
Quoting Bill Kendrick (n...@sonic.net):
> Tsk tsk, this is off-topic for a Linux group! ;)
You know, that's actually something I've until now understood to be
(idiosyncratically to LUGOD) not the case, because of the way the
mailing list was chartered. (Please note, I'm not challenging what
you'
Quoting Bill Broadley (b...@broadley.org):
> While technically true, often eSATA is combined with a multidisk chassis
> and has a lame/broken chip that multiplexes a single SATA connection to
> multiple drives. Said lame/broken chip often hides the SMART data.
Yes, definitely don't buy those.
>
Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> Ha, turns out I did get a case with eSata, didn't realize it until I
> started shopping for another case and went "That looks familiar"...
> Just need to find a cable now to try it. I'll let you know how it goes.
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/P
Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> Good Call, I did look a little at finding a drive case that was both
> eSata and usb. The drive case was the cheapest part by far but esata/usb
> isn't so common. I'm not sure if the board in between would still be an
> issue. If I happen to come
Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> The big downside I realized today, you can't get any HD stats on an
> external USB drive(smartmontools). So I've got no health monitoring of
> the disk.
Thanks for posting. Fascinating stuff.
I realise you won't want to re-do the design -- whi
Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> I don't really know either, the only time I've had to mess with RAID was
> on a clunky old workstation with 3 drives and a terrible RAID BIOS.
Doesn't seem a big deal.
In my case, I'll need to muck about with /sbin/fdisk for a bit, because
the
Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> I was going to go with RAID 1 using 2 TB drives. Got a line on 2TB
> externals with longer than 1 year warranties (since buying drives
> themselves comes with 3). At a cost difference of $150(Sheeva is about
> $100, the ReadyNAS is $250) I don't
Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> Anyone have any thoughts on connecting something like the following as
> an external usb 2 drive hardware RAID?
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182144
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121060
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Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
> How do you RAID 2 external USB enclosures as a network drive, or are you
> talking software raid with both plugged in to a computer?
The latter.
With a Sheevaplug, NSLU2, or similar (not to mention more-conventional
hardware), doing Linux md
Quoting Alex Mandel (tech_...@wildintellect.com):
[Interesting details about hardware options you're considering:]
> Note to self: For some reason I'd never really thought about the fact
> that you should put such a device on a UPS. In hindsight, this is
> probably what killed my previous NAS dri
Quoting Tony Cratz (cr...@hematite.com):
> While I understand that Lightning is really Sunbird it is
> not a standalone client. It requires having Thunderbird up
> and running.
>
> I really want a true standalone client which does not require
> any Internet connection, this is where Sunbird was a
Quoting Scott Miller (scottli...@gmail.com):
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/download.html
>
> Yeah looks like sunbird is not in development anymore. Their site says
>
> "This is the last public Sunbird release by the Calendar Project.
> We recommend upgrading to Thunderbird 3
Quoting Chanoch (Ken) Bloom (kbl...@gmail.com):
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 09:50:56AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Quoting Chanoch (Ken) Bloom (kbl...@gmail.com):
> >
> > > The best thing to do is probably to install a lightweight non-daemon
> > > mailer like esmtp-
be useful
nonetheless. I maintain a list of similar software, here:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Mail/nullmailers.html
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r...@linuxmafia.com And I can't recall the last time my program didn't fail;
McQ! (4x
ime, on account of its extremely Apache-inspired
boa.conf conffile. (You presumably wouldn't like the fact that it was
last updated in 2005. I'm unsure what I'd pick today, but quite probably
Lighty.)
Anyway, cited URL provides about twenty options in this area.
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