Re: q re transferring mysql db from redhat to debian

2004-07-27 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
ence tables, which we manage ourselves. This is in line with postgres and oracle's use of sequence tables, and makes porting easier. We don't bother with ensuring that the next ID is higher than all previous ones - as long as they're unique, that's sufficient, any references

crontab GMT query

2002-03-14 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
Heya, I've got a couple of debian boxes under my care now - they're running woody, fairly up-to-date. But the crontab on each of them seems to be operating on GMT, instead of local time - jobs execute on that basis, and logging to syslog timestamps with GMT timestamp for cron (whereas it's local

Re: Traffic monitoring/logging question

2002-03-01 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 21:00, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On 01 Mar 2002 14:22:43 +1100, Kevin Littlejohn writes: > >Be aware that on-the-wire counting will give you traffic counts > >inclusive of packet overhead, whereas counting in squid will give you > >only the size of

Re: Traffic monitoring/logging question

2002-03-01 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 21:00, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On 01 Mar 2002 14:22:43 +1100, Kevin Littlejohn writes: > >Be aware that on-the-wire counting will give you traffic counts > >inclusive of packet overhead, whereas counting in squid will give you > >only the size of

Re: Traffic monitoring/logging question

2002-02-28 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
Be aware that on-the-wire counting will give you traffic counts inclusive of packet overhead, whereas counting in squid will give you only the size of the content in question. Don't do math on these things, as one rather large provider used to do ;) Be aware of media-specific packet wrapping size

Re: Traffic monitoring/logging question

2002-02-28 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
Be aware that on-the-wire counting will give you traffic counts inclusive of packet overhead, whereas counting in squid will give you only the size of the content in question. Don't do math on these things, as one rather large provider used to do ;) Be aware of media-specific packet wrapping siz

Re: Vserver / was 100MB

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 03:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Quoting Kevin Littlejohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > "debbootstrap" package - > > I used it to build a fake server environment for a vserver > > - using http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/mi

Re: Vserver / was 100MB

2002-02-14 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 03:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Quoting Kevin Littlejohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > "debbootstrap" package - > > I used it to build a fake server environment for a vserver > > - using http://www.solucorp.qc.c

Re: Squid and FTP

2002-02-06 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:35:51AM +0200, Craigsc wrote: > Hi All > > Can someone explain to me how I can use Squid > to proxy / cache FTP requests. I need to be > able to restrict FTP downloads and it would > be preferable to do it though Squid as I see > it has the support in the config file. >

Re: Squid and FTP

2002-02-05 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:35:51AM +0200, Craigsc wrote: > Hi All > > Can someone explain to me how I can use Squid > to proxy / cache FTP requests. I need to be > able to restrict FTP downloads and it would > be preferable to do it though Squid as I see > it has the support in the config file. >

Re: Debian in 100 MB ?

2002-01-31 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
As was pointed out to me, really helpfully, check out the "debbootstrap" package - it'll give you a decent starting point, probably. I used it to build a fake server environment for a vserver setup - using http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:13:34AM -0500, P

Re: EXIM, LDAP and some pop3 stuff?

2002-01-12 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 00:18, Florian Bantner wrote: > On Sam, 12 Jan 2002, Kevin Littlejohn wrote: > > Seems to me so, too. > > I wonder if this problem is so far of that there are no > 'standard' ways of doing it. Every MTA has it's way, every > IMAP/POP3 MD

Re: EXIM, LDAP and some pop3 stuff?

2002-01-12 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 00:18, Florian Bantner wrote: > On Sam, 12 Jan 2002, Kevin Littlejohn wrote: > > Seems to me so, too. > > I wonder if this problem is so far of that there are no > 'standard' ways of doing it. Every MTA has it's way, every > IMAP/PO

chroot debian environments

2002-01-06 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
Heya, I've got a project coming up to create a chroot'ed environment, using the grsecurity patches for added security, that provides a separate encapsulated "virtual machine" for each user or group of users. I want to build the environment the users get chroot'ed into using debian package tools.

chroot debian environments

2002-01-06 Thread Kevin Littlejohn
Heya, I've got a project coming up to create a chroot'ed environment, using the grsecurity patches for added security, that provides a separate encapsulated "virtual machine" for each user or group of users. I want to build the environment the users get chroot'ed into using debian package tools.