Re: [lopsa-tech] Help with bash or find or grep or something

2014-09-13 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
On Sep 13, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Doug Hughes wrote: > FWIW: this is a perfect use case for xargs instead of exec. Or, something like ack (http://beyondgrep.com) and its scions (e.g. https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher). -- dNb ___ Tech m

[lopsa-tech] current hiring sources?

2014-02-06 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
Hi- It has been a couple of years since I last asked this so I thought I would check in and see what the current wisdom is on this question. Where do people think the best place to advertise for sysadmins these days (or to flip this, where do the cool people look for jobs)? Last time I checke

Re: [lopsa-tech] securing scp

2013-02-28 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
On Feb 28, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Andrew Hume wrote: > how do i do that for scp? One way is to use something like this: https://github.com/scponly/scponly/wiki -- dNb ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mai

Re: [lopsa-tech] home wifi

2012-04-19 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
On Apr 19, 2012, at 2:34 AM, da...@lang.hm wrote: > one note on the Apple products, I read something a few days ago that IPv6 is > being disabled on some of the newer access points, not the right direction to > be going nowdays. Quick point of information: all Apple networking products still ha

Re: [lopsa-tech] Redirection of program output to a file

2011-12-29 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
Hi John- I don't know if SCO has this available, but I suspect you are looking for the "script" command. If it doesn't, you might also be able to remotely connect to that machine using ssh or (sigh) rlogin/telnet. If remote access is possible, then there are a bunch of ways to capture the ses

Re: [lopsa-tech] hosting mailing lists for a K-8 school

2011-11-03 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
Hi Tom- On Nov 3, 2011, at 7:56 AM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > If you use Google Apps and enable the mailing lists then you can do > bigger bulk ads. Plus there is an API so you can write a script to > sync to the school database. Cool to know. But even w/GAfD doesn't every person on the list ne

Re: [lopsa-tech] hosting mailing lists for a K-8 school

2011-11-02 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
On Nov 2, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Tom Perrine wrote: > Why not try a hosted application solution (or SaaS in current > hype-speak)? I've got no direct experience, but something very basic > like simplelists.com or similar? Definitely a possibility. Does anyone have a service they can vouch for?

[lopsa-tech] hosting mailing lists for a K-8 school

2011-11-02 Thread David N . Blank-Edelman
Hi- I don't know how I get suckered into these things, but I've offered to help find a place that can host a couple of school-wide mailing lists for my son's K-8 school. I think each list would have somewhere between 500-1000 members. All people on this list have already given their consent via

Re: [lopsa-tech] IPv6 router for home?

2011-10-18 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:30 PM, Joshua Nichols wrote: > You know, for all those times where you need to reconfigure your home network > from your cellphone... So, I agree that sounds kinda strange and extraneous, but if you use MAC-based access control to determine who can associate with your wire

[lopsa-tech] experiences creating load-balanced/HA OpenLDAP clusters

2011-06-14 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
Hi- I'm in the process of building out our next revision of an OpenLDAP cluster (a master, several slaves, and a load balancer HA pair to distribute the workload to these servers). I was curious if anyone who has done a similar thing with open source software would be willing to share their exp