Re: [Unattended] no serial console after making bootdisk

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Mathis
Hi John, Serial console support is built in to linux, all you need to do is turn it on. It's not very involved, just a few changes to config files in /etc. Here are links to a few pages explaining the process: http://www.znark.com/tech/serialconsole.html

Re: [Unattended] Firefox and thunderbird?

2005-02-07 Thread Brian Mathis
Jonathan Pauli wrote: Has anyone been able to get firefox or thunderbird silent installs working with unattended? Thanks in advance! You can find msi packages for both in the nightly builds area for both FF and TB. http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

Re: [Unattended] creating a backup server using cp command??

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Mathis
the new machine and use the cp command to copy the files update any new or updated files from a crontab regularly daily at 3am or so. Sounds like a job for rsync. rsync will only copy things that have changed, so it will save you a lot of time and bandwidth. http://rsync.samba.org/ -- Brian Mathis

Re: [Unattended] pxe boot/install control

2004-08-03 Thread Brian Mathis
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Re: [Unattended] CVS from behind a firewall

2004-07-28 Thread Brian Mathis
, and that combined with their proxy means I am having problems Can anybody point me at a resource that will help me get through this from a Linux box at my end? TIA Kevin Lawry -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA

Re: [Unattended] Linux and samba issues.

2004-03-03 Thread Brian Mathis
and dropping them onto to server. That worked fine. Why does pscp corrupt the files? Are there any switches that will fix this? If anyone has experience with this let me know. -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- SF.Net is sponsored

Re: [Unattended] Disk/Partition imaging tools to run alongside Unattended

2003-11-12 Thread Brian Mathis
of data, you can end up with a compressed file of around 1Gb, rather than a bit-for-bit copy of the whole 10Gb. Anyone got any ideas? JMB -- Brian Mathis http://directedge.com/b/ --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-14 Thread Brian Mathis
requires them to have logon rights to the remote machine. A poor NT group/security scheme is a much bigger problem in this case than unencrypted traffic. lloyd wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: You don't need to buy rsh to do this. There is a freeware tool from sysinternals.com called psexec

Re: [Unattended] remote upgrades?

2003-08-11 Thread Brian Mathis
You don't need to buy rsh to do this. There is a freeware tool from sysinternals.com called psexec that allows you to remotely run a command on any machine without first installing a service on it. You only need rights to log in to that machine. It can be found here: