Re: shared ssh config management

2012-06-11 Thread Ben Browning
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:28 PM, jill li...@bespokess.com wrote: In lieu of being able to do ssh includes, a few people with the same idea seem to be doing things with ssh proxies that contain the more advanced configs, or running scripts in their bash profile that cat a bunch of disparate

Re: To 64 Bit or Not To 64 Bit

2012-06-07 Thread Ben Browning
32 bit chip = 32 bit OS. ~Ben On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: T2300 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: applications

2012-04-28 Thread Ben Browning
Clementine. On Apr 28, 2012 5:59 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: One thing I don't like about Ubuntu is that (so far) I have noticed that two of their default apps make things s-l--o---w. The first I noticed right away was their download manager. That was easy to fix, just make the

Re: merge documents with scp

2012-04-27 Thread Ben Browning
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: thanks. this is  takling a long time. how would I rsync just what has been modified? That's what rsync *does*. You are probably not specifying the correct remote path. ~Ben

Re: how do you use ssh to look at and control the other computers monitor?

2012-04-26 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I saw the Y and X options but i suppose it is more complicated than just typing in 'ssh -lX|Y|x user@ipaddress. The man page wasn't much help or maybe I'm just too tired. So what do you say? ssh does not do this. You

Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

2012-03-24 Thread Ben Browning
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: So which files are not transferring? The only thing I can think from the information given is:    readlink_stat(/home/bmike1/.gvfs Then I added the --checksum in the hopes that would tell me more information and after a

Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

2012-03-24 Thread Ben Browning
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I think I need to delete old home soon because sda1 (root with home) has 3 gig free and sda3 (/home) has 2.5 gig free. I need to delete old home (13 gig) and repartition to make space for new files on new home! On Sat,

Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

2012-03-23 Thread Ben Browning
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: well now I need to work on the other computer a little. I wanted to move the print server's /home to it's own partition but the partition i want to use is too small. So, my question is what do I need to copy?

Re: I need opinions.

2012-02-20 Thread Ben Browning
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for letting me know about this book. I got a copy  of it and as soon as I fix this superblock problem I'll get right to it and linux from scratch and Plone and its like I'm back in school! Mike,

Re: find and replace

2012-02-20 Thread Ben Browning
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Ariel Gold arielqg...@gmail.com wrote: Here's one way to do it: for f in *JPG ; do mv $f `basename $f JPG`jpg; done On machines with perls rename installed(usually Debian and Ubuntu), rename 's/\.JPG$/.jpg/' *.JPG will do it too. ~Ben

Re: gigabit ethernet question

2012-02-19 Thread Ben Browning
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Michael Butash mich...@butash.net wrote: Protocols vary widely for me.  NFS is faster than CIFS by at least 40%, ftp is fast when the disk being written to isn't io-locked.  Use the sysstat package and iostat to monitor disks.  Tweaking with schedulers,

Re: ssh

2012-02-19 Thread Ben Browning
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I got the ipaddress when I sshed from system rescue cd. Any ways, why won't it work with the word? The word is a hostname... I imagine your rescue CD is not resolving DNS properly. As always, the error message would

Re: google's ftp

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Browning
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to upload the beginnings of my first website but I don;t know googles ftp.  I better ask now so I don't have to do it later: You could Google it... I'm sure their site hosting help section has the info. ~Ben

Re: Red Hat Certified Engineer Training

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Bryan O'Neal bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com wrote: So back to the orginal idea of pooling our collective knowledge to create our own collective cram group. Other than Lisa and I who is in? Also, the RHCSA is required to get the RHCE. We aren't allowed

Re: Red Hat Certified Engineer Training

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Steve Phariss sphar...@gmail.com wrote: Ben,  do you know if the grandfathered RHCT cert is acceptable?  I need to get recerted soon, only good till RHEL 7 comes out and I believe it is in beta now. http://www.redhat.com/certification/faq/#three The

Re: Red Hat Certified Engineer Training

2012-01-17 Thread Ben Browning
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Where is the best Red Hat Certified Engineer Training here in town? Prices?  Schedule?  Test dates? I did the RHCE Fast Track at Interface. It was 4 intense days chased by two tests the last day. I don't know how much

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: If the patch cycle is as quick as Cent/RHEL, it may be prod-ready. net patch cycles have historically track out substantially identically; CentOS just completed a re-engineering cycle with the 6 major release which,

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread Ben Browning
Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters. EG not a prod OS, in my opinion. ~Ben On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 2:13 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, The data center where my client has several

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: It and CentOS are almost indistinguishable to a sysadmin who i not a distribution builder; the remaining principal of the distribution is: Connie Sieh, who is a friend.  the other long time member recently went to work at

Re: Bash script - for rsync to backup file server running samba.

2012-01-06 Thread Ben Browning
5 people? Forget all this MAC nonsense, just write a script that tries to connect to the SMB name twice a day (mid morn and mid afternoon) and then mounts and backs up if it can. If it succeeds in the AM, skip the PM one for a given PC. If they can actually be trusted/convinced to do it, you can

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-06 Thread Ben Browning
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Check out this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software Hey Lisa, That's all config management and software deployment- I need something that PXE boots and installs

OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Browning
Hey guys, I'm poking around looking for a solid system imaging solution for automated deployment/installation of new servers in a wide variety of datacenters across links of varying speeds and costs. I'm looking for something I can use on Linuxes, FreeBSD, and Windows, as well as something for

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: check out clonezilla that combined with drbl can do what you are thinking about. clonezilla.org Nope. I forgot to mention I looked at that one too. It doesn't do software raid stuff, which I need it to. It also doesn't seem

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Ted Gould t...@gould.cx wrote: I haven't used it, but I think that Orchestra does something like this. Not sure about the FreeBSD support, but I think it just works off of disk images, so it wouldn't care. Just took a look at it, and it is looking a lot like

Re: training

2011-12-18 Thread Ben Browning
Michael, For starters I would maybe take a class or get a programming for beginners book. That said... this is REALLY off topic for PLUG, and I would not count on folks wanting to debug entry-level programming. ~Ben --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: training

2011-12-18 Thread Ben Browning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: But Ben that is what I'm looking for: some direction on what I should do and for some resources I could use. Like I would like to know what you guys recomend I should do.Should I try to learn C first or another. If

Re: Networking Ubuntu11.10, Mint12, and XP

2011-12-10 Thread Ben Browning
Wirelessly is irrelevant in this case. What you need is CUPS and Samba. Once you get those up and get the printer shared, you should be able to add it on the other machines... There are lots of good Samba guides out there, google around and you'll find one. ~Ben On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:32 AM,

Re:

2011-12-04 Thread Ben Browning
reinstalled the old kernel but I'm tired and not thinking through things.. which soulnds like me when I'm not tired! On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com wrote: Press escape after it starts getting graphical and you should see where it us hanging... That will be more

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-04 Thread Ben Browning
, Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com wrote: You had me worried too so we are even :) -Ben On Dec 4, 2011 12:13 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ben you had me worried for a second there! On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com wrote: It goes

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-03 Thread Ben Browning
You should reinstall the second kernel like you did the first... The method you have used will not have modules and other things that you need. -Ben On Dec 3, 2011 6:48 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I made my first tar file just a few minutes ago! I wanted to put the new kernel on

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-03 Thread Ben Browning
cards). What else do I need to do to install the modules and other things? On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com wrote: thYou should reine manbstall the second kernel like you did the first... The method you have used will not have modules and other things

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-03 Thread Ben Browning
You had me worried too so we are even :) -Ben On Dec 4, 2011 12:13 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ben you had me worried for a second there! On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.comwrote: It goes against everything I hold dear to bring

Re:

2011-12-03 Thread Ben Browning
Press escape after it starts getting graphical and you should see where it us hanging... That will be more informative than it's black for you. Also, is this the box you just installed a new kernel on? -Ben On Dec 4, 2011 12:42 AM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: When I turn my computer

Re: OT:Exchange good? - And the flame wars begin (Was:Re:newhotness?)

2009-02-25 Thread Ben Browning
24, 2009 10:11 PM -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -- Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com Linux Systems Architect and Administrator http://www.bensbrowning.com

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-08 Thread Ben Browning
://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com Linux Systems Architect and Administrator http://www.bensbrowning.com/ begin:vcard fn:Ben S Browning n:Browning;Ben S adr:;;;Tempe;AZ;85282;United States of America email;internet:b...@bensbrowning.com tel;cell

Re: Linux Administration - Users in (any) database howto/why...

2009-01-01 Thread Ben Browning
DB. That said, LDAP is indeed the better option if you ever plan to scale a lot and/or add services. ~Ben -- Ben Browning b...@bensbrowning.com Linux Systems Architect and Administrator http://www.bensbrowning.com/ begin:vcard fn:Ben S Browning n:Browning;Ben S adr:;;;Tempe;AZ;85282