Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Adam Thornton wrote: On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:54 PM, Dominic Coulombe wrote: Is there a reason to use SSH without encryption over telnet? Just wondering. X11 port forwarding, when you know the environment's reasonably trustworthy, comes to mind immediately. you can also forward arbitrary

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Post, Mark K wrote: From what I've seen, a lot of that information is usually kept in the user's browser via cookies or session cookies. For things that aren't, mirroring the data on separate physical devices, on separate controllers, etc., etc., provides the redundancy needed. The whole point

Re: NFS and symbolic links in the mounted directory

2006-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
James Melin wrote: Greetings everyone. I'm up to strangeness again. I'm trying to do something where I expose a collection of files in a directory that are symbolic links via NFS. The NFS mount works, but the files then try to be symbolic links on the local file system where I mount the

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Mark Perry wrote: - Start Original Message - Sent: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:35:26 +0200 From: Rob van der Heij [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Bad Linux backups SNIP I would hope that anything that prevents the flashcopy from starting could be reported for

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Dominic Coulombe wrote: Yes, you're right, I posted this a little quick... What I was thinking was more like : All of your machines share the same /usr disk, then you take the master down, clone his /usr disk, apply patches to the new disk and then do a little testing on the results. If

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Rick Troth wrote: As an example, the 1B0 disk is bootable and has three partitions: /boot, /usr, and /opt. (The DASD driver only supports up to three partitions. The boot disk must be partitioned to save room for the IPL text in the first track.) The 1B1 disk a copy of MAINT 1B1, with

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-29 Thread John Summerfield
Dominic Coulombe wrote: Is there a reason to use SSH without encryption over telnet? Just wondering. The primary reason _I_ use ssh is its simplicity compared with using telnet. Mostly, I use it over trusted (I control it all) or already-encrypted channels (VPN). I often use it's X

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-07-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 28, 2006, at 8:46 PM, John Summerfield wrote: but that's not what you should be editing these days. See /etc/mail/sendmail.mc I somehow don't think that putting a thick coat of M4-flavored makeup on the pig actually makes the pig much more attractive. Adam

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Sad, 2006-07-29 am 14:54 -0700, ysgrifennodd Adam Thornton: I somehow don't think that putting a thick coat of M4-flavored makeup on the pig actually makes the pig much more attractive. Why not ? It works for mustard. It certainly makes it a lot simpler to generate new configuration files.

Re: Bad Linux backups

2006-07-29 Thread Alan Cox
Ar Sad, 2006-07-29 am 11:08 +0800, ysgrifennodd John Summerfield: Aside from users' aversion to cookies, their correct use isn't any easier than good backups;-) I reckon a lot of application authors trust the data held cookies, saying we provided that so we know it's okay. It is possible to

Re: Small Mail Transport Agent

2006-07-29 Thread Adam Thornton
On Jul 29, 2006, at 4:17 PM, Alan Cox wrote: Ar Sad, 2006-07-29 am 14:54 -0700, ysgrifennodd Adam Thornton: I somehow don't think that putting a thick coat of M4-flavored makeup on the pig actually makes the pig much more attractive. Why not ? It works for mustard. It certainly makes it a

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-29 Thread Dominic Coulombe
/var should not be shared, as there are a lot of critical files in there, see /var/lock . The sharing thing is more complicated that I tought... On 28-Jul-2006, at 23:19, John Summerfield wrote: /var might be okay, for example, but I don't know that it's defined to be so.

Re: Shared common Directories

2006-07-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Saturday, 07/29/2006 at 11:28 AST, Dominic Coulombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var should not be shared, as there are a lot of critical files in there, see /var/lock . The sharing thing is more complicated that I tought... Remember our discussion of live backups? Live sharing is another

Re: MDISK vs DEDICATED DASD

2006-07-29 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 07/28/2006 at 11:28 AST, Kenneth Libutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there is any benefit to using dedicated DASD vs minidisk with 5.2 on a z/890 ( No IOASSIST available)? With dedicated dasd, CCW translation is marginally faster. But if memory serves, you will lose minidisk caching