Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-03 Thread Martin Foster
Chris, I've dreamed of a uniform system for managing and tracking system configurations. Agreed that configuration management is no problem with a few systems, but grow the list to 100+, and there's many a potential management problem brewing. I currently use some batching scripts to distribu

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread Marcel Hicking
--Tuesday, December 02, 2003 17:18:05 -0500 Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On December 2, 2003 10:46 am, David Zejda wrote: > >> what do you prefer for authoritative dns? >> experiences/stability...? >> i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. To throw into something different: PowerDNS wor

RE: /etc/lilo.conf and system.map mismatches

2003-12-03 Thread Petrisor Eddy
Try putting the map=... Line in the specific to kernel section. " map=/boot/map " Is this the way it looks in your lilo.conf file? Hope this does the trick. Eddy Petrisor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-03 Thread Jamie Baddeley
If you want something to build on, then maybe IRM might do it. php/mysql. We've hacked it too met our needs - it seems ok. It's a debian package too. jamie On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 06:35, Chris G. wrote: > Well it's finally hit the point where we have a few machines where we have > no idea what's

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread David Zejda
thanks for reply! i only guess, as well as your dns depends on some database (RDBMS or LDAP or something else), it increases the danger of attacks, especially DoS (db is down -> dns respectively). flat files can't be "down". wouldn't be better to generate flat files from the backend db to avoid suc

Watching and restarting processes - best tool?

2003-12-03 Thread listbot
Hi, what is the best tool for watching and restarting processes automatically? Thanks for your attention! Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Watching and restarting processes - best tool?

2003-12-03 Thread Pete S.
Daemontools is quite useful. they can be found at: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html --Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, what is the best tool for watching and restarting processes automatically? Thanks for your attention! Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Tool for changing ips in all needed config files...

2003-12-03 Thread listbot
Hi, is there a tool to change all occurences of a servers ip-address? I am trying to sync some servers and want to use ONE basic configuration for all. Only difference now is the ip in some files in /etc, that somehow complicates the simple concept of rsyncing all servers from a master server.

Re: Tool for changing ips in all needed config files...

2003-12-03 Thread Michael Loftis
cfengine is a tool built for this sort of thing. It allows you to apply and configure systems while still maintaining their identities. It's a very complicated tool though FYI. --On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 21:24 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a tool to change all occurences

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread Fraser Campbell
On December 3, 2003 04:04 pm, David Zejda wrote: > thanks for reply! > i only guess, as well as your dns depends on some database (RDBMS or LDAP > or something else), it increases the danger of attacks, especially DoS (db > is down -> dns respectively). flat files can't be "down". wouldn't be > be

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread Marcel Hicking
--Tuesday, December 02, 2003 17:18:05 -0500 Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On December 2, 2003 10:46 am, David Zejda wrote: > >> what do you prefer for authoritative dns? >> experiences/stability...? >> i have no verbose bind knowledge yet. To throw into something different: PowerDNS wor

RE: /etc/lilo.conf and system.map mismatches

2003-12-03 Thread Petrisor Eddy
Try putting the map=... Line in the specific to kernel section. " map=/boot/map " Is this the way it looks in your lilo.conf file? Hope this does the trick. Eddy Petrisor

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-03 Thread Jamie Baddeley
If you want something to build on, then maybe IRM might do it. php/mysql. We've hacked it too met our needs - it seems ok. It's a debian package too. jamie On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 06:35, Chris G. wrote: > Well it's finally hit the point where we have a few machines where we have > no idea what's

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread David Zejda
thanks for reply! i only guess, as well as your dns depends on some database (RDBMS or LDAP or something else), it increases the danger of attacks, especially DoS (db is down -> dns respectively). flat files can't be "down". wouldn't be better to generate flat files from the backend db to avoid suc

Re: System Hardware Tracking

2003-12-03 Thread Martin Foster
Chris, I've dreamed of a uniform system for managing and tracking system configurations. Agreed that configuration management is no problem with a few systems, but grow the list to 100+, and there's many a potential management problem brewing. I currently use some batching scripts to distribu

Tool for changing ips in all needed config files...

2003-12-03 Thread listbot
Hi, is there a tool to change all occurences of a servers ip-address? I am trying to sync some servers and want to use ONE basic configuration for all. Only difference now is the ip in some files in /etc, that somehow complicates the simple concept of rsyncing all servers from a master server.

Re: Watching and restarting processes - best tool?

2003-12-03 Thread Pete S.
Daemontools is quite useful. they can be found at: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html --Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, what is the best tool for watching and restarting processes automatically? Thanks for your attention! Peter

Re: bind9 vs tinydns vs others

2003-12-03 Thread Fraser Campbell
On December 3, 2003 04:04 pm, David Zejda wrote: > thanks for reply! > i only guess, as well as your dns depends on some database (RDBMS or LDAP > or something else), it increases the danger of attacks, especially DoS (db > is down -> dns respectively). flat files can't be "down". wouldn't be > be

Watching and restarting processes - best tool?

2003-12-03 Thread listbot
Hi, what is the best tool for watching and restarting processes automatically? Thanks for your attention! Peter

Re: Tool for changing ips in all needed config files...

2003-12-03 Thread Michael Loftis
cfengine is a tool built for this sort of thing. It allows you to apply and configure systems while still maintaining their identities. It's a very complicated tool though FYI. --On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 21:24 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a tool to change all occurences o