On 2009 Mar 4, at 17:52, Atom Powers wrote:
I have a relatively small shop, about 30 servers in three locations,
and I need help finding a service monitor that can notify me when
something is amis, or about to go badly. Specifically I am looking
for a product that can send alerts when a serv
On 2009 Mar 12, at 14:33, Jason Foutz wrote:
I think you're mixing technical competence and ethics. Every
certification I'm aware of is a measure of technical knowledge. I
know doctors are expected to follow a code of ethics. I don't
believe they're formally tested for comprehensive knowledg
On Mar 13, 2009, at 13:17 , Richard Chycoski wrote:
> Licensing to ensure a minimum level of skill (like drivers' licences -
> look how well *that* works! :-) is a public safety issue.
Drivers' licensing is a joke; the public has spoken, any warm body
must be licensable, and there's hell to pay
On 2009 Mar 13, at 17:54, Luke S Crawford wrote:
da...@lang.hm writes:
except when it makes sense to have ssh root logins enabled (so that
central management tools can do root privilage required functions
on the
box for example)
I can't come up with a reasonable case for setting PermitRootL
On Apr 14, 2009, at 13:27 , Michael Tiernan wrote:
I have to ask you good folks something. I admit to not being nearly as
omniscient as I'd like so I have to ask others for some of my
education. I really don't understand the route this conversation has
gone down and I'm hoping that I'm not the on
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On May 4, 2009, at 19:21 , seph wrote:
> Cat Okita writes:
>>> They require that I use *nslookup*, and paste examples. host isn't
>>> good
>>> enough here. Let's hear it for lazy programming.
>>
>> What's lazy programming here? They're asking you t
On Aug 14, 2009, at 21:08 , da...@lang.hm wrote:
is there a way in shell scripts (primarily bash) to background some
tasks
and then wait for them to complete before doing another command?
I've got a nightly log analysis run that has lots of things in the
form
(greatly simplified for explina
On Aug 18, 2009, at 14:37 , Derek J. Balling wrote:
What are you using to come up with that 30-days value... the "rough
number" I get[1] for 345GB at GigE speeds is less than an hour.
Just copying files is likely to be fast. Moving messages via IMAP
protocol will be slow. If you can conver
On Nov 30, 2009, at 21:20 , Tom Limoncelli wrote:
This sounds like a job of sed but my sed fu is weak.
Not really; sed can be abused into that kind of conditionality, but
it's not simple. Redefine the spec so that an existing block is
deleted but the new block goes at the end always, and y
On Nov 30, 2009, at 22:16 , Tom Limoncelli wrote:
Ok, do it in awk :-)
This could be one-liner-ed if your awk is liberal about where a
pattern-action pair can occur (some require it to be at the beginning
of a line).
function go() {
print "# BEGIN project"
print "hi"
print "# END
On Nov 30, 2009, at 23:16 , Phil Pennock wrote:
See, you're editing a file. I do wonder why people fixate on stream
processing tools for editing a file, when there are command-line
interfaces available to script file-editing. And no, {sed -i} is
still
stream-orientated.
Agreed, but I took
On Nov 30, 2009, at 23:29 , Phil Pennock wrote:
PS: gratz on getting the new Netnews RFCs out!
Wrong Allbery :)
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system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineer
On Dec 1, 2009, at 16:14 , Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Randal L. Schwartz
wrote:
$ perl -ni -e 'print unless /^# BEGIN project/../^# END project/' /
etc/rc.machine
$ cat rc-addition >>/etc/rc.machine
Hi, Randal. This is very handy. What is the .. part cal
On Dec 6, 2009, at 10:30 , Tom Limoncelli wrote:
I've never been impressed by long surveys. The benchmark for these is
that "10% response rate" is considered extremely good. That's
depressing.
Someone needs to tell this to the faculty committee that just mandated
we send out surveys when
On Apr 21, 2010, at 06:51 , Tom Limoncelli wrote:
Multicast in IPv4 and IPv6 are about equal. On the LAN they were
really well. The problem is how to route them on the WAN. The
multicast routing protocols are still evolving. It turns out to be
more complicated than one would expect.
*blink*
On Apr 21, 2010, at 13:17 , Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I don't know. I never see any signs that multicast is used
anywhere. Why
not?
Pain in the butt to get working everywhere. That said, back before we
decided the RIAA made it too risky, we used to have multicast mp3
streams on campus
On May 22, 2010, at 11:45 , Yves Dorfsman wrote:
Has anybody done, or can point me to a *rational* comparison between
those
guys, or even one including commercial products?
Part of the problem is that the most significant differences are
difficult to quantify: for (probably the biggest) e
On May 22, 2010, at 15:45 , Dana Quinn wrote:
This discussion makes me wonder - *why* isn't there a really good
commercial product? (and I do believe there isn't a good commercial
I'm under the strong impression that commercial offerings are either
(a) productized internal tools
(b) add-ons
On May 25, 2010, at 09:04 , Nick Silkey wrote:
Maybe Im being obtuse, but isnt ALL cfg mgmt inherently declarative?
I know that gets tossed around by the Puppet community as a unique win
for it over others in the space.
Ideally yes. (I still think Haskell should be a killer language for
CM,
On May 25, 2010, at 09:10 , Nick Silkey wrote:
This is a huge consideration, especially if youre a big edu with a
decade of dinosaurs. Modern ruby/gems, modern python, etc for Solaris
8, AIX, Tru64 ... kill me now. cf2 was easily built for our rainbow
Python 2.5 was one of the easier things t
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On Jun 3, 2010, at 15:36 , Adam Moskowitz wrote:
> (mke2fs), but here's the catch: I need to be able to do the equivalent
> of mkdir, cp, chown, chmod, and chgrp *WITHOUT MOUNTING THE IMAGE
> FILE*,
> and to be able to do all of this from a script.
On Jun 6, 2010, at 23:58 , Philip Brown wrote:
I'm not sure why exactly you think it deserves continued funding. He
You may have decided that he's been superannuated --- I have no
opinion on the matter --- but the above is, frankly, insulting,
--
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pu
On Jun 14, 2010, at 12:18 , Esther Schindler wrote:
Howdy, folks -- me again. I haven't posted here in a while because
I've been busy as editor in chief of ITExpertVoice.com -- which
until now has focused only on Windows 7. Happily the site has now
expanded, so I can publish more articles th
On Jun 14, 2010, at 13:18 , David Nolan wrote:
other industries where the terminology is well defined. A hospital
administrator looking to hire a new podiatrist doesn't have to make
sure that the candidates all really are foot doctors...
...but might have to make sure they don't specialize in
On Jun 16, 2010, at 05:37 , Trey Darley wrote:
Say you've got a simple ascii text file, say, 250,000 lines long.
Let's
say it's a logfile. Suppose that you wanted to access an arbitrary
range
of lines, say, lines 10,000 - 13,000. One way of doing this is:
sed -n 1,13000p foobar.txt
Tr
On Jun 17, 2010, at 09:04 , Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I've said before that I really like FiOS, partially because they
don't do any shenanigans with my traffic, the way RCN or Comcast did
when I used them. And here's an article supporting that claim. ;-)
...now if only they'd offer residen
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On 6/24/10 09:34 , Doug Hughes wrote:
> It's more than that. Negative references open you up to lawsuits for
> slander or libel (depending if written or spoken). Even if you are
> right, you end up in a costly court proceeding to prove it. On the oth
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On 7/2/10 17:05 , John BORIS wrote:
> As to the Web site he told them that he was going to give up the web
> site work in a month and since he wasn't compensated for the initials
> design work he wanted compensation. If he wasn't compensated he was
> p
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On 7/5/10 10:44 , Brian Mathis wrote:
> - they said they would pay him to do the updates (only payment for updates)
This is unclear; was the original "redesign" considered an "update", or not?
Certainly in ordinary speech it is often used that way.
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On 7/15/10 04:15 , Luke S Crawford wrote:
> You need to make it clear that there is no longer a script, and that
> their job is now, essentially, to figure things out.
+1
When I first got a job involving larger projects (with more severe
consequen
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One more comment: I see a number of respondents here despairing because
some people don't have the "run and find out" urge. I'd like to point out
that the in-built urge to do so is independent of the expertise to do so;
the former can't be taught, bu
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On 7/15/10 12:27 , Derek J. Balling wrote:
> I think there's certainly that fear. I mean, as I was a junior, I had a
> mentor who was very understanding about the "junior guy making mistakes"[1],
> but I've witnessed less understanding sysadmins bera
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On 8/24/10 16:50 , Tom Perrine wrote:
> What animal most exemplifies the System Administrator personality "type"?
>
> MIT uses the Beaver for Engineers, Lawyers are often referred to as sharks,
> etc.
>
> If you had to create a sysadmin logo (over a
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On 08/31/2010 11:36 PM, Jeff Falgout wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Tom Perrine
> wrote:
>> If you had to create a sysadmin logo (over and above the a.s.r
>> Etherkiller), what animal would you put on it?
>
> Goat, as in Scape Goat ye
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On 10/6/10 11:02 , Robert Brockway wrote:
> I switch between Linux & Solaris often. To me they feel like I'm speaking
> different dialects of the same language. If I forget something in one
> dialect $SEARCHENGINE will deliver the answer in seconds
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