Re: Locked accounts

2000-12-13 Thread Robert Davies
> This is the way I do it, may not be the best but it works. All disabled > accounts start with '!' in the encrypted password, so if you do a > 'radius:/etc# cat shadow |grep :!' in your path of your shadow file it will > show accounts that are disabled. egrep ':![^!]' /etc/shadow That's : fol

Re: ppp-admin tools in debian

2000-11-24 Thread Robert Davies
> I am looking for file sever. I think that debian with big ide disk is the best > solution. I plan to use lvm for home and pub partition. > But I am looking for bigest ide disk available which can be used with > linux. Do you have any experience with big disk with linux I know that > is a hardwar

Re: IDE DAT Drive?

2000-11-23 Thread Robert Davies
On 2000-11-23 09:20, Robert Davies wrote: > Do you REALLY have 300G of things that need to be backed up? > If so the solution is a DLT robot. But most people who think that they have >that much data to backup aren't doing things effectively. I sure do, I wish I hadn't and

Re: IDE DAT Drive?

2000-11-23 Thread Robert Davies
> From: "Russell Coker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Peter Billson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 3:03 PM > Subject: Re: IDE DAT Drive? > > On 2000-11-22 11:44, Peter Billson wrote: > >Can anyone offer any info about IDE DAT Backup tape drives for use

Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s)

2000-11-19 Thread Robert Davies
> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:47:54 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes: > >On Friday 17 November 2000, at 9 h 25, the keyboard of Debian Ghost > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I was wondering if there were any debian tools used for working with Cisco > >> routers and/or other Cisco gear. > > > >Ev

Re: OT: working with cisco gear (Re: CISCO --> debian tool(s))

2000-11-19 Thread Robert Davies
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 06:30:59PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:18:31 +0100, Dariush Pietrzak writes: > > >> which are useful unless you have to manage lots of those boxes, > > > > >I wouldn't know. > > >but isn't that what OpenView is for? and is unbeatable in that fi

Re: w/c RAID on a SQL box

2000-11-16 Thread Robert Davies
> Raid 1 is faster than a single drive for reads, but about the same for > writes. To get more speed, use raid 0+1, striping plus mirroring. That > wastes a lot of disk, but is faster than level 5 for writes. Keep in > mind, RAID 1 is only mirroring using two disks (typical). > > Raid 5 is slow

Re: Unidentified subject!

2000-10-27 Thread Robert Davies
This is very possible and indeed desirable. As you only have a T1 (T3+ would be different), I doubt you really have a lot to worry about, indeed I wonder if more than 2 servers is necessary, but anyway I use a similar setup to that you propose for WWW servers, which access backend DataBase

Re: sendmail or bind problems

2000-10-24 Thread Robert Davies
Check! Are you a victim of linuxconf? It has used different tables to the standard sendmail distribution generated configuration. It's left me configuring the files in multiple files in /etc/mail. Perhaps you've done your config, in a file you're not using. Have you tried using the IP address,

Selectign best Web Server to serve a Browser Client

2000-10-15 Thread Robert Davies
Any tools, techniques or tips, to help select the optimum web server network to serve a client browser. http://www.solidspeed.net/solution/index.html claim to do this, with their web caching service. Ideally the selection would not require the site user to do anything, it should just happen. It

Re: PCI IDE controllers

2000-10-09 Thread Robert Davies
I think you'll find the Promise controllers fit the bill. You can choose a H/W RAID version if you wish. The ATA-100 & ATA-66 are supported by Andre Hedrick's IDE patch. I use it for the |BP6 HPT366 controller, which was less well liked. Think www.ide.org publishes a press release about ATA-100

Re: High Availability.. (SQL server)

2000-10-07 Thread Robert Davies
Yes, we've faced this problem and are planning a solution. We've not coded anything yet, but have plans for a couple of months. Maybe it could be an Open Source project if there's nothing pre-existing. I'd want the daemon interfaces to be DB independant. Basic idea is to seperate the Queries fr

Re: Benchmarking for Remote to Remote Host: How-to?

2000-09-27 Thread Robert Davies
> It seems like a reasonable idea to try to evaluate a backbone ISP from a > traffic speed perspective, from a random sample of my customers (94% of > whom have dedicated, high-speed connections) to the nearest hub of the > ISP. I need no services from the ISP other than basic throughput, my web >

Re: Benchmarking for Remote to Remote Host: How-to?

2000-09-27 Thread Robert Davies
> It seems like a reasonable idea to try to evaluate a backbone ISP from a > traffic speed perspective, from a random sample of my customers (94% of > whom have dedicated, high-speed connections) to the nearest hub of the > ISP. I need no services from the ISP other than basic throughput, my web >

Re: Benchmarking for Remote to Remote Host: How-to?

2000-09-24 Thread Robert Davies
Take a look at www.webperf.net, they discuss this. Perhaps the ISPs are already rated on there and have a track record. IIRC they us ab from Apache for benchmarking, which is derived from code, developed to test the zeus web server. > What is the best method for benchmarking potential ISPs for a

Re: Benchmarking for Remote to Remote Host: How-to?

2000-09-24 Thread Robert Davies
Take a look at www.webperf.net, they discuss this. Perhaps the ISPs are already rated on there and have a track record. IIRC they us ab from Apache for benchmarking, which is derived from code, developed to test the zeus web server. > What is the best method for benchmarking potential ISPs for

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Robert Davies
My workplace used php3 + mysql, then php3 + oracle, now looking at a combination of php3 + local mysql + master oracle db (the local mysql db's would act as caches for fast answers to most page queries). This is for scalability and availability reasons. php most commonly used with mysql, told by

Re: MySQL vs. Postgres

2000-08-30 Thread Robert Davies
My workplace used php3 + mysql, then php3 + oracle, now looking at a combination of php3 + local mysql + master oracle db (the local mysql db's would act as caches for fast answers to most page queries). This is for scalability and availability reasons. php most commonly used with mysql, told b

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Robert Davies
> Thanks for all the reponses. From most of the replies, can I gather that > I'll have to observe my how much is being swapped to determine whether I > should immediately "up" the RAM back to 128MB? (and pester the tight-wad > suits who'll approve the requesition) Why wait? Run the command vmstat

Re: what is sufficient free memory?

2000-08-29 Thread Robert Davies
> Thanks for all the reponses. From most of the replies, can I gather that > I'll have to observe my how much is being swapped to determine whether I > should immediately "up" the RAM back to 128MB? (and pester the tight-wad > suits who'll approve the requesition) Why wait? Run the command vmsta

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-19 Thread Robert Davies
> he's probably better off using squid on the linux box as an http > accelerator. much easier to configure, just set it up to accelerate for > virtual domains and that's it. > > squid is also a lot faster and avoids the delays inherent in sending a > redirect (browser queries apache, apache sends r

Re: Inherited ISP host configuration nightmare

2000-08-19 Thread Robert Davies
> he's probably better off using squid on the linux box as an http > accelerator. much easier to configure, just set it up to accelerate for > virtual domains and that's it. > > squid is also a lot faster and avoids the delays inherent in sending a > redirect (browser queries apache, apache sends