Re: [lopsa-tech] Good Linux VPS to host personal domain with IMAPS?

IMAPd instance on a Linode for ages. I couldn't be happier - they are great and performance is solid. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us/>

Re: [lopsa-tech] filesystem feature flags

ld? i.e. Do filesystem developers "bless" backup > software as > being GNU tar has supported POSIX ACLs [--acls], extended attributes [- -xattrs], and SELINUX contexts [--selinux] for quite awhile. I've tested it - it works; nothing beats just testing. -- Adam Tauno Willi

Re: [lopsa-tech] Directory Server for Apple and Unix Environment

4 is not Samba3, so the search space is polluted. Google is not your friend. Yes, early 4.0 had some real thorns. > On that note, any consultants to recommend, or has everyone gone it > alone on their installs? I've just done it. I actually spend very little time looking at

Re: [lopsa-tech] Directory Server for Apple and Unix Environment

’ve got a short list of: > - Samba 4 +1 Samba4: Works great, easy to setup, lots of tools. And documentation for Active Directory generally applies 99.44% so a low obscurity factor. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer <

Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for good link for Label making software

.glabels.org/> -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us/> ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This

Re: [lopsa-tech] favorite (or hated) MPLS provider?

complaints other than getting technicians who speak understandable English - which has only been an issue at site turn-up as otherwise I haven't had much cause to talk to techs. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator,

Re: [lopsa-tech] SOHO printer advice requested

ur price point - which is where you need to be for anything that just-always-works. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us/> ___ Tech mailing list Tech@

Re: [lopsa-tech] Question on purchasing a Computer for a Toddler

On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 12:59 -0700, Yves Dorfsman wrote: > On 2013-11-11 10:41, john boris wrote: > > I have a question for the list. I am looking for some advice on what type of > > machine would be the best purchase for a 1st/2nd grader for use at home. > > When > > It does not matter. Kids just

Re: [lopsa-tech] Question on purchasing a Computer for a Toddler

On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 20:13 +, Will Dennis wrote: > Hey, and they got to learn awk and sed sometime... ;-P > Something like Linux Mint would do nicely, I think. If GNOME3 / GNOME Shell is there preference than openSUSE is probably a better choice; it is more GNOME friendly [Ubuntu likes to br

Re: [lopsa-tech] [tachyon] large scale storage - medium bandwidth

On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 07:39 -0700, Andrew Hume wrote: > it doesn't because it doesn't address that issue at all. > this is simply an issue of how does one store the data reliably > when its barely all you can do to store it once. > now that erasure codes have freed us from the tyranny of RAID, > f

Re: [lopsa-tech] [tachyon] large scale storage - medium bandwidth

On Sun, 2013-09-15 at 07:39 -0700, Andrew Hume wrote: > it doesn't because it doesn't address that issue at all. > this is simply an issue of how does one store the data reliably > when its barely all you can do to store it once. > now that erasure codes have freed us from the tyranny of RAID, > fo

Re: [lopsa-tech] wSDL primer?

On Mon, 2013-04-08 at 22:22 -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote: > I have never done much of anything with WSDL and really don't know much > about it. Can anyone recommend a good primer on it? I need to get up to > speed on it so I can write some code to interface with an inventory > system. I've "us

Re: [lopsa-tech] Wifi

On Sat, 2013-04-06 at 00:36 +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > > On Behalf Of Brian Gold > > I would > > HIGHLY recommend setting up radius authentication if you have > > a centralized ldap system (Active Directory

Re: [lopsa-tech] Wifi

[consistently]. > controllers. I would HIGHLY recommend setting up radius > authentication if you have a centralized ldap system (Active > Directory, OpenLDAP, etc). +1 RADIUS <http://wmmi.net/documents/WirelessEAPRADIUS.pdf> -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95E

Re: [lopsa-tech] nagios / cacti / spiceworks / zabbix / munin / zenoss

ect data. How long ago was this? -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 OpenGroupware Developer ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/

Re: [lopsa-tech] nagios / cacti / spiceworks / zabbix / munin / zenoss

ect data. How long ago was this? -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League

Re: [lopsa-tech] nfs hard links

y "NFS system". If you mean local NFS mount, then yes. If you mean between two NFS mounts on the save local host, then no. Hard links cannot traverse file-systems. And your remote host [the NFS server] has to support and allow hard-links. Which is probably true, but not necessarily tr

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux and networking

On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 17:22 -0700, Andrew Hume wrote: > screwed by linux again. sigh. > so apparently i am overloading my pathetic linux system with too much > tcp/ip traffic. What makes this "apparent"? > is there any way to detect this while (or before or after) it is > happening? The "ss" c

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux and swapping

On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 11:49 -0700, Nathan Hruby wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:03:36PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> Ditto, this is the life of the System Administrator: here is the box, > >>

Re: [lopsa-tech] linux and swapping

On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 07:31 -0400, Michael C Tiernan wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)" > > If you have an application that requires more ram than you physically > > have in the system... > However, now I'm going to switch back to our primary discussion a

Re: [lopsa-tech] Job/Process Profiling

> To add to the list above, I would love to see I/O statistics as well. > Any suggestions on a command line profiling tool for linux that will > do this? While most of my users are savy enough to use the command > line, I would like to see something where you don't have to understand > a whole lo

[lopsa-tech] Local Update Publisher

erhead and cost-effective way to manage third-party deployments they should check out LUP. <http://www.localupdatepublisher.com/> On of my co-workers wrote an article about deploying LUP. <http://mi-pc-sos.blogspot.com/2012/04/useing-local-update-publisher-on-nt4.html&

Re: [lopsa-tech] How to find files in use by NFS or SAMBA (CIFS)?

On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 16:33 -0400, Will Dennis wrote: > Thanks, Tom. That explains the lack of NFS results... > I did do a: sudo /usr/sbin/lsof | grep "\/home" << and got a nice list > of what files and dir's were in use from smbd. > So, with NFS (v3) there's *no* way to tell who's using what from

Re: [lopsa-tech] tcp/ip overhead

way, IMHO.) -- System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ] <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware Developer <http://www.opengroupware.us> Adam Tauno Williams ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.

Re: [lopsa-tech] Integrated User and Group Management

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Re: [lopsa-tech] Integrated User and Group Management

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Re: [lopsa-tech] Speaking of software RAID...

LVM (sda3 + sdb3) VG/LV: / VG/LV: /home ...etc... Some people feel that avoiding LVM for swap gives a modicrum of performance improvement - but unless you are tearing up the I/O you won't notice. -- System & Network Administrator [ LPI & NCLA ] <http://www.whitemiceconsultin

Re: [lopsa-tech] Free PDF Creator

On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 12:08 -0400, John BORIS wrote: > I am searching for a free pdf creator as I lost the cd to my adobe > acrobat and I am away and need to create a pdf. I had pdfForge but that > thing seems to have a trojan hores in it as it set off all of my > security apps. I am running XP on

Re: [lopsa-tech] X server for Windows 7

On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 11:35 -0400, J Broome wrote: > On Jul 7, 2011, at 11:16, Jeremy Charles wrote: > > I’m interested in any positive or negative experiences that you’ve > > had with particular X servers under Windows 7. > Xming works for me on win 7 64 bit. +1 Xming I've never had an issue

Re: [lopsa-tech] Unix Group Weirdness

On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 11:33 -0400, Patrick Cable wrote: > This one's probably pretty simple -- but the exact phrase to google > for is, well, elusive to me. > So, when I 'su' or 'su -' to a user's account, all his groups show up. > [root@user ~]# su - juser > user:/home/juser> groups > stapusr whee

Re: [lopsa-tech] Anybody wanna chat? - Internal chat server advice

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 22:15 -0400, Nick Silkey wrote: > Used mu atop jabberd2 at an old gig. Dont think mu on any XMPP > implementation alone will meet your requirements. > Seriously look at Openfire. It likely does. If I could do old gigs > real time collab over again, I would do that. +1 OpenF

Re: [lopsa-tech] amount of swap

om playing with the /proc/sys/vm/swappiness value. -- Adam Tauno Williams LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists

Re: [lopsa-tech] IPv6 and Firewall traversal

On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 03:59 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2011-03-30 at 14:34 -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Dan Foster wrote: > > > To summarize Derek's position: IPv4 NAT fails safe, IPv6 -- not so much. > > It's also a defense in depth, the NAT and the firewall on IPV6 ea

Re: [lopsa-tech] IPv6 and Firewall traversal

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 12:30 -0400, Derek J. Balling wrote: > On Mar 30, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >> about security. People have come to rely on their IPv4 NAT as a form > >> of inbound packet filter. > > Incorrectly, yes. Because they don't

Re: [lopsa-tech] IPv6 and Firewall traversal

On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 10:02 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > As I recall from previous discussion here and on other lists... > One of the barriers to widespread deployment of IPv6 is fear Yes, fear, much in relation to FURFI (fear and uncertainly resulting from ignorance). > about security. Pe

Re: [lopsa-tech] tapes getting old?

n > causing it fits. > Apart from that one incident, I've had incredible reliability from my > lto tapes. Multiple brands, overwritten dozens+ times. +1 LTO's have been nearly indestructible in my experience. -- Adam Tauno Williams LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemicec

Re: [lopsa-tech] Current state of tech for mailservers?

On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 12:22 -0500, Doug Hughes wrote: > I'm going through this [painful] exercise right now actually. After > running my own mail server for many years on my own domain, I went > through conversion from an ADSL setup with some static IPs to FIOS with > a single dynamic IP, mostl

Re: [lopsa-tech] Current state of tech for mailservers?

> I suspect that dovecot is the way I'll go, Cyrus IMAP is the way to go . ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional Sys

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Recommendations

On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 08:56 -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > > On Behalf Of Adam Tauno Williams > > > > > Most recently we've used the Sun x4170 with the Nehalem processors, > > &g

Re: [lopsa-tech] Server Recommendations

> Most recently we've used the Sun x4170 with the Nehalem processors, > and I'm probably looking for something similar (although perhaps with > Westmere now). I'll probably consider Dell and HP, but I will also > look at 'white box' vendors. I seem to remember hearing good things > about Silicon

Re: [lopsa-tech] Has fedora moved to Desktop only?

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:43 -0500, Allan West wrote: > On 12/16/10 1:15 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:35 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: > >> Yes, please do yourself, the next sysadmin, and the whole IT industry > >> a favor and use a serv

Re: [lopsa-tech] Has fedora moved to Desktop only?

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 12:35 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: > Yes, please do yourself, the next sysadmin, and the whole IT industry > a favor and use a server-centric distro. +1 Use CentOS > Fedora and Ubuntu are nice > for the desktop, but running a server is not just a simple matter of > getting

Re: [lopsa-tech] Fiber or copper between Switches

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 13:01 -0500, John BORIS wrote: > that Jack wasn't used from the beginning. Now I am back on the LAN. My > question is this. The copper connection is 100 mbps while the fiber is > 1gb. Both switches are 3COM 3300 Switches so the speed drops to 100 mbps > once it gets to the N

Re: [lopsa-tech] Breaking a combination laptop lock (without breaking the laptop)?

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 11:20 -0500, Nick Anderson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > On 11/02/2010 11:14 AM, Gilbert Wilson wrote: > > A client of mine has "forgotten" the combination to their laptop cable > > lock. This particular lock does not have a key option as a fai

Re: [lopsa-tech] ATA over Ethernet experience...

t in *many* *many* enterprises. An iSCSI SAN seems almost the default way to deploy virtualization [VMware]. If you are worried about stability and support - go with iSCSI. AOE is a pretty fringe solution. -- Adam Tauno Williams LPIC-1, Novell CLA <

Re: [lopsa-tech] What is the IPv6 equivalent to an octet?

or citing an authoritative-seeming source. :-) -- Adam Tauno Williams LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org http://lists.lopsa.org/