On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 12:41:12PM -0400, john boris wrote:
> I currently have a dual monitor setup. I had planned to use the laptop
> monitor as my third monitor and have two monitors connected to the two DVI
> ports. I quickly found out that the video card on the laptop only supported
> 2 monitor
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 10:28:51AM +0200, Conrad Wood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My trusted old mono laser has recently broken down and I am looking for
> a replacement. Did anyone purchase a mono laser for linux recently?
> I would like to avoid any/all binary proprietary software if possible.
> Not a big
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:08:07PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, Bill Bogstad wrote:
>
> There is almost always NO coordination between developers of filesystems and
> backup software. The one exception is that sometimes the developers of the
> filesystems create a low-level files
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 01:54:36PM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> As for documentation/query tools for multiple families of filesystems,
> I don't recall seeing anything.
It doesn't exist. I do not think it would be reasonable to have it exist.
btrfs RAID1 does not mean the same thing as LVM RAID1
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 07:37:09PM -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> I'm currently running BackupPC as a backup solution for my home network. I
> like the functionality, but it is slow, probably because of the Perl
> compression libraries. Any suggestion for a replacement with similar
> functionality
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 11:15:37AM -0700, Tom Perrine wrote:
> I've found Raspberry PI's to be OK for small-scale NTP servers, if not
> doing much else. The clocks aren't fantastic, but they track higher level
> stratum clocks quite well in my very limited experience.
>
> Hmmm, the screenly folks
On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 04:18:35PM +, Jeremy Charles wrote:
> I'm seeing all sort of documentation about how it's not a great idea to use a
> VM as an NTP server due to how sketchy time tracking is within a VM.
>
> My supervisor directed me to try it anyway. He feels that our existing NTP
>
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:46:53PM +1300, Simon Lyall wrote:
> I'm looking for a tool that might handle this nicely.
>
> I have some asterisk log files that are generated by daemontools'
> multilog. The problem is that daemontools rotates logs every few
> minutes at the volumes I do so a single ca
On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 07:55:33PM +0100, Guus Snijders wrote:
> Op 7 mrt. 2016 14:02 schreef "Jack Coats" :
> >
> > If that is the case, it should be great for 'i just erased my last weeks
> work' problem, but disaster recovery would be a issue (or for any non-flat
> file recovery, like databases
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 03:12:54PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> Suppose a company has a policy about permitted use of the company laptops and
> internet, but you have suspicion that some user(s) are using it for illicit
> purposes such as porn. You've already taken measures to preve
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 03:00:23PM -0500, john boris wrote:
> I will try 12.04 if that can be updated. I knew of this link but all of the
> latest files are torrent. 12.10 is no longer supported so I can'r do any
> upgrades. Hope 12.04 works.
>
Why don't you build them? Should be as easy as creat
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:58:46PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> In regular hard drives and SSD's, they have FEC chips or equivalent (forward
> error correction) so whenever the platters return a bit error, that error
> should be noticed and the corrupt data should not reach the OS.
On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 02:18:40AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> > From: Brandon Allbery [mailto:allber...@gmail.com]
> >
> > I'm thinking the problem is that it is allowing any character to match [^#]
> > ---
> > including newline, which you likely do not expect. Try [^#\n] instead.
On Wed, Feb 04, 2015 at 03:06:27PM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> I'm working in a mixed team of Sysadmins who are merging a bunch of
> subsidiaries into one central IT organization. I'm looking
> proactively for a better way to manage credentials and such and ran
> across this article
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:59:09AM -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> Since my mail server is working now, it's time to break my home
> network again, but in a different way.
>
> I'm currently using a Soekris net4801 (running CentOS 4) as a
> firewall/router/DHCP server for my home network and a WRT-54
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 12:25:28PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> Can anybody explain this behavior to me?
>
> I'm searching for files that contain the string "LockFile" in them. I know
> of one place where it exists already... But the following command only
> returns one result, w
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 09:39:25PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> > From: Dan Ritter [mailto:d...@randomstring.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 3:56 PM
> >
> > I can recommend OnSIP for this; they used to be called Junction
> > Networks. We
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 04:34:21PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> I'd like to get peoples' suggestions on hosted PBX services for business.
> I'd like a main number going to auto attendant, and I'd like individual
> people to have extensions & direct numbers, I'd like to have the fre
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 07:31:40PM -0400, john boris wrote:
> Thanks for the quick replies. Some more info. I am backing up 22 SCO boxes
> that have 9gb total space each. I also have 6+ LINUX servers with 75gb
> drives. The SCO Master backups are not 9GB total but more like 4GB since
> the system w
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 03:23:13PM -0400, john boris wrote:
> I have to rebuild my remote Backup Server (A place for my servers to backup
> to hard dirves). I currently have a LINUX system with a RAID 5 array of
> 300GB SAS drives (Total 1.5TB) which has to be increased to 4TB or larger
> (sorta de
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 09:26:18AM -0500, Kenton Brede wrote:
> Years ago when I started administering linux boxes, some of our boxes had
> sshd open to the world. So I devised kind of "poor person's" two-factor
> password authentication. It worked like this:
>
> admin1: could login to the syste
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 01:52:08PM -0800, Andrew Hume wrote:
> an almost counter-intuitive finding.
RAID will be a necessary part of the future, but not all of it.
Forgive the scattered thoughts; it's been a long day for me.
I think that the ZFS and btrfs implementations point the way: checksumm
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:03:12AM -0800, Andrew Hume wrote:
> we (i and a colleague) have a system where we probe a large number of
> IP addresses out there in the Internet. A probe consists of opening
> a http URL on that system and when we get back the (expected) 401
> response, we close the co
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:05:46AM -0500, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> On 2013-12-20 10:45 am, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> >Actually Switch is considered rather bad.
> >
> >>#Okay lets setup the school variable
> >>#For sanity lets make sure we got the correct variable from the
> >>script
> >>print "$ARGV[
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 12:41:24PM -0500, 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.
My second grade and fifth grade kids use Linux on a desktop in
the living room, and
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:57:11PM -0400, john boris wrote:
> Here at $work they have decide to get one server to handle 17+ of my
> current servers. I am doing this right now with two HP DL-160 G5. Stupid HP
> has some weird Memory configurations. Anyway those two HPs sound like Jet
> engines alth
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 05:39:19PM +, p...@paulgraydon.co.uk wrote:
>
> I ran that way at $job-1, separate email address, separate mail client (K9),
> separate ring tone as loud as it would go, and I still slept through them.
> If I received 100s in a 10 minute spell, there was a reasonable
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 07:55:52AM -0700, Paul Graydon wrote:
> I actually just got one for the first time in my life, seems to be the
> standard for most people on the team. Rather glad because I can easily sleep
> through my phone notifying me about emails. No way I can sleep through the
> pag
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:02:22PM -0400, Chuong Dao wrote:
> I am very new with fiber and I need help selecting transceivers for the HP
> 2910AL-48G. I don't really care what type of connection but whichever is
> better, then I will go with it.
> I am looking at this
> http://h18004.www1.hp.co
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 07:11:20PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> > From: Dan Ritter [mailto:d...@randomstring.org]
> >
> > Build a Debian Wheezy virtual machine. Run the Debian-supplied
> > RT package in that. Run apticron so you will get reminders as t
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:51:07PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> As an IT person, I deal with tech support from a lot of different companies.
> Whenever *they* do a good job, I notice, they're usually running on RT. (A
> good job in terms of managing a ticket, responding timely, no
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:46:14AM -0500, Matt Simmons wrote:
> Anyway, so given this really suboptimal arrangement, I want to be able to
> more easily identify a particular patch cable because, as you can imagine,
> tracing a wire is no fun right now.
>
> While everyone that I've talked to agrees
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:31:00PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
> I don't happen to have any NFS systems handy right now to test on.
>
> When I google around, everybody's answering the wrong question - I know you
> can't hard link local filesystem to a remote filesystem. I want to kn
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,
> here is the application, go... After doing this for 20+ years the
> sermons about proper development and design techniques get tired; it
> may all be true
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:43:16PM -0500, Jack Coats wrote:
> It would be nice if someone could update this allegory to modern
> machines, and include some SAN and/or NAS type access times,
> especially since we don't 'do tape' much anymore.
https://gist.github.com/2843375
Look at the 1 billion t
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 06:49:28AM -0700, Andrew Hume wrote:
> i have some colleagues who are being frustrated by the stupid way
> Linux measures swap space consumption (the high water mark
> of currently running processes).
>
> does anyone know of a way to measure how much swap space is actually
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