Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12 May 2010 01:17, Micha Feigin wrote: > Lets start with the problem that Microsoft encourages all users to be set as > administrators by default. It's almost impossible to be a regular user usually > and just switch momentary to administrator for small administration tasks ... > I thought tha

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12 May 2010 08:45, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > UBUNTU does have a process where you can sync the packages installed on one > computer with another. You do it by listing the status of all packages to a > file, input the file to the package manager on the other computer and then > tell it to inst

Client recovery of NFS mount

2010-05-12 Thread Tom Rosenfeld
Hi Guys, Is there a way in RHEL 5 for NFS clients to recover automatically after a server reboot? Every time my server goes down, even for just a few minutes the clients get stuck with STALE nfshandles and the only way for me to recover is to umount and then mount again. Isn't there some mount opt

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12 May 2010 10:16, geoffrey mendelson wrote: >> I've never heard of that! Going through the manpage, it looks like you >> might be referring to "get-selections". Is that it? If not, can you >> give some more details? Thanks! >> > > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261366 > Nice, than

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 08:45:39AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On May 12, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> >> Though, I doubt that the OP will care if he's installing Linux from a >> single LiveCD or from an installation DVD. (I would assume that if >> he's >> talking about mult

Re: Client recovery of NFS mount

2010-05-12 Thread Ehud Karni
On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:28:13 Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > > Is there a way in RHEL 5 for NFS clients to recover automatically after a > server reboot? There is the "hard" (and "intr" that can go with it) option for NFS mounts: hard If an NFS file operation has a major timeout then report "server no

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 08:09:30 Ori Idan wrote: > 2010/5/12 Elazar Leibovich > > > I think you have to make a distinction between older MS software (such as > > XP) and newer ones (such as 7). For example you defenitely don't run as > > administrator in Windows 7, and you've got a built-in sudo

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 08:53:02 Baruch Even wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 May 2010 16:04:29 Amos Shapira wrote: > > > On 11 May 2010 22:01, geoffrey mendelson > > > > wrote: > > > > On May 11, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > >> Ubuntu

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Diego Iastrubni
On יום רביעי 12 מאי 2010 21:40:30 Shlomi Fish wrote: > Anyway, I believe that the problem in Debian would have been exhibited even > if I wanted to install exim in addition to postfix, or sendmail in > addition to postfix etc. because they all supplied a /usr/sbin/sendmail > file which was not a sy

Re: Client recovery of NFS mount

2010-05-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 12 בMay 2010 13:55:51 Ehud Karni wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2010 10:28:13 Tom Rosenfeld wrote: > > Is there a way in RHEL 5 for NFS clients to recover automatically after a > > server reboot? > > There is the "hard" (and "intr" that can go with it) option for NFS mounts: > ... Beside t

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 12 May 2010 23:27:41 Diego Iastrubni wrote: > On יום רביעי 12 מאי 2010 21:40:30 Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Anyway, I believe that the problem in Debian would have been exhibited > > even if I wanted to install exim in addition to postfix, or sendmail in > > addition to postfix etc. because

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 13, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote: Just to protect myself against accusations of spreading "FUD": I wasn't referring to what Debian has presently (which may be very different from what existed back then) - I was referring to its past condition. I don't know what the presen

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
geoffrey mendelson writes: > Wait a minute. Having more than one MTA installed would be a > disaster. Any sane packager would make postfix, qmail, sendmail, > exim, etc all mutually exclusive. "Installed at the same time" and "operational at the same time" are not the same thing. This is one of

Re: Common problems with Ubuntu

2010-05-12 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On May 13, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: "Installed at the same time" and "operational at the same time" are not the same thing. This is one of the things that "alternatives" helps to achieve - you switch between MTAs with a single command (assuming they are all properly configured,