Re: scripting mysql database backups

2014-07-07 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Hey Dave, Sounds like you're asking about mysqldump --all-databases, but to answer your scripting question: $ mysql -B -e 'show databases;' | grep -v -e '^Database$' -e '^information_schema$' | while read db; do mysqldump $db $db.sql; bzip2 $db.sql; done There is a mysqlshow command, but it

Re: FOSS alternative to Counterpoint?

2010-10-25 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
This is the only one I've heard of -- I've never used it. It's Web-based and written in Perl and looks pretty good. http://www.icdevgroup.org/ On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:10 PM, Richard Jeroloman jerolo...@hotmail.com wrote: Counterpoint is an old DOS based inventory control program for large

Re: the evolution of VAGUE (meeting Wed Sep 22)

2010-09-17 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Kevin Thorley elron8...@gmail.com wrote: As for the name, my wife refers to us as the Vermont Area Group of Unicorn Enthusiasts.  I think she'd be disappointed if we changed the acronym :) Awesome. Not to be confused with the yet-to-be-organized local Emacs

Re: FOSSVT

2010-04-09 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Any relation to the product IBM is suing TurboHercules over for so-called software patents? On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Paul Flint fl...@flint.com wrote: Dear Rubin, I am in Covington Kentucky learning about IBM VSE/ESA... It is a lot like learning to chew glass.

Re: IPcop -- load balancing?

2009-08-16 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
A link to the archives are on the UVM Vague Web site. http://www.uvm.org/vague/ PS. We're also on Gmane. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.unix.vague On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 11:48 AM, chris yargercpyar...@gmail.com wrote: if the archives are there may someone provide a link? and if

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-08 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, jonathan d p fergusonj...@sunforge.com wrote: Interesting. I am not aiming to start some war involving oven mits, but you seem to be responding to something I did not write. Maybe I'm missing your point: I did not say dependency handling I said the System

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-04 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Re: RPM vs DEB (was: melodrama at CentOS? To me, the most relevant distinction is the system policy of Dependency Checking in Debian. For the longest time, RPM based distros did no meaningful dependency checking (meaning that an RPM was just a glorified tar.gz file). Now RPMs have _started_

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-04 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
It really depends on who you ask. [...] It could be the case that more sysadmins use RPM-based distros. Another historical reason you could have mentioned is the likely scenario where people had to figure out the RPM tools because they wanted to install a package that wasn't available. My

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-04 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Forest Bondfor...@alittletooquiet.net wrote: Hi, I've created .debs and used dpkg extensively.  When you say cumbersome, I assume you are refering to the process of creating .debs.  dpkg works much like rpm for installing a single package with no

Re: Full Disk Backups

2009-06-19 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Amanda is good.  Coincidental you should ask this, dumphttp://dump.sf.net/ was just released the first time in 3 years the other day.  It supports the extfs of the Linux kernel directly -- as opposed to Amanda which accesses any type of file system via userspace.  Like Amanda, dump is

Re: Full Disk Backups

2009-06-19 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
I like dump's interface for recover -- it's also similar to Amanda's -- for choosing which backup you want. It's worth noting this: http://dump.sourceforge.net/isdumpdeprecated.html#problem It affects having a constantly in-production www directory, or worse with database files that are not

Re: Full Disk Backups

2009-06-19 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Rene Churchill r...@wherezit.com wrote: [...] However, your situation sounds a bit simpler and you may want to try using rsync and hard links for your incremental snapshots. Right, I'm pretty sure this is what rsnapshot, maybe others, tries to bundle up rather

The Web site is the Wiki, the Wiki is the Web site

2009-04-27 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
I finalized the move of the VAGUE Web site to the Wiki -- a process that Josh Sled and I started earlier in the year. The Web address for VAGUE is still http://www.uvm.org/vague/, but you'll notice it quickly redirects to the Wiki site. All old pages should redirect to the new site, too. I was

Re: Analyzing Files

2008-11-04 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Alvin ONeal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm using kdirstat, but it's rather inflexible and my boss wants more information than that can provide. I'm looking into making a tool in python that reads the information about the files into a sqlite database and

Fwd: K12Linux Release Candidate 1 Now Available!

2008-10-17 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
I haven't played with this, but I thought it might be of interest. I recall K12LTSP being a wholly separate distribution of GNU/Linux, but now they are integrating it into Fedora. -- Forwarded message -- From: Peter Scheie Date: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:38 PM Subject: K12Linux

Fwd: [GNU/FSF Press] FSF reboots its High Priority list with a grant and call for input

2008-10-03 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Saw the Open Street Maps project listed in the FSF's high priority list.See the link in the press release. Wish I had made last month's meeting. -- Forwarded message -- From: Joshua Gay Date: Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:10 PM Subject: [GNU/FSF Press] FSF reboots its High Priority

Re: mini-IDE adapter

2008-05-21 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:27 AM, sth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't remember if this is the brand we have (pretty sure it is), but we've found this to be amazingly useful: http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/SearchDetail.asp?productID=13779

Re: FOSS and Ubuntu at NPA in Burlington

2008-05-21 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Yeah, Dan's Guardian is pretty good -- for a censorship machine! I always feel strange endorsing one. There's something especially nice about having the code to these types of systems be free software rather than proprietary, though. Concerning Active Directory, I recall that Dan's has NTLM

RPM tricks

2008-05-01 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
There were previous discussions about RPM on this list awhile back. I added some RPM tricks to the Wiki. RPM in itself is a trick -- its benefits are grand, and building a working RPM is the work of chaos and magic. 8^) I've been putting undocumented tricks for getting things done with RPM that

April meeting (cont.)

2008-04-11 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
A lot of messages fly across the screen about the next VAGUE meeting, but was/is there any confirmation about what's going on? I scribbled something about the UVM presentation at http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/Future_events I'll use whatever's there to put on the VAGUE Web site, but I

Re: bash or dash

2008-02-27 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Tony Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I hear tell that the latest Ubuntu has abandoned using bash as its default shell in favor of dash, which is lighter and faster, but only supports POSIX shell commands and thus is not really fully compatible with

off-topic: memory DIMMs

2008-01-23 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Anybody have any spare 256MB modules of PC133 they're willing to part with? They're needed for some desktop machines running Windows 2000 at a struggling non-profit. I'm not a hardware head, so I wouldn't know if PC133 is too much to expect as a gift, but I know people on these lists have access

Verizon fodder (was: Palm Treo as Modem...

2007-12-13 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
For those with not enough reasons to curse Verizon already, apparently they're in legal trouble for violating the GNU GPL license by distributing -- without the source or an offer -- the BusyBox software that comes with the router bundled with their fibre optic service.

Re: Nov 28 2007 meeting report; next meeting in Jan?

2007-11-29 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
[...] We then retired to VPB and spoke of computers for all of 5 minutes. :) [...] Thanks for sending the meeting description last week. Unfortunately I was away on holiday and away from email for that week. With getting back and catching up, I wasn't able to find time to post the

ANN: VAGUE meeting 7:00pm, Tuesday, July 17

2007-07-12 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
VAGUE http://www.uvm.org/vague/ Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts 7:00pm, Tuesday, July 17, 2007 Mini-presentations and General Organizational Meeting Three short presentations will be given. Two about software development architectural styles and another about writing

Re: Network and Computer Support

2007-06-05 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
[At the risk of repeating myself for no one's benefit.] Another great use of the Vague Wiki would be to compile a list of Business services offered by members of the group--or otherwise--that offer support for free and non-free unices and their respective network environments, servers and

Re: [Fwd: Who can change the page...]

2007-05-11 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
Unfortunately, I'm moving this weekend and starting a new job on Monday, so I don't have time to do the Web development.[1] I'm tempted to, but I should stay on task. I did find time earlier this week to post the vague VAGUE meeting for Tuesday, however. If people would like to

Re: Job in Burlington

2007-04-16 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
The VAGUE Wiki has a Jobs section: http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/Jobs /a Quoting Chris Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Vaguers, I don't know if there is a central place to put local Linux/UNIX job postings so I thought I would just send a message to the mailing list. [...]

Re: (VAGUE) jobs (was: unix/linux sysadmin job

2006-06-01 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
With the increase of job opportunities making the mailing list, I've started experimenting with maintaining a list of them on the Wiki area of the VAGUE Web site. The Wiki never really took off for the group, but Job postings suit the Wiki well. http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/Jobs And

ANN: VAGUE monthly meeting

2006-01-09 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
VAGUE Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts 7:00pm, Thursday, January 19, 2006 Presentation and General Organizational Meeting Nada, will introduce writing queries in MySQL, a free software database management system (DBMS). It was popularized for its support of World Wide Web

Re: Jan 19th meeting

2006-01-05 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Josh Sled wrote: There was hear-say of a Thu Jan 19 meeting... 2 weeks from today. Mike, can we get a lab reserved for that evening? I'm working on this. I'll get out an announcement out when its confirmed. /a

scroogle

2005-12-28 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
[The srape google proxy server source code to Google services is now online.] http://www.scroogle.org/ Scraping and ad-stripping Google's results If done in the public interest and not for profit, it's legal. What's more, Google can't block you if they can't find you. Public Information

Re: meetings

2005-12-16 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
I liked Sam's proposal. I suggest we try to nail down a January meeting by the end of next week. We'll need a volunteer for presenting on January 19*, at 7pm, at UVM, unless there's a more preferrable date. Anyone? Meeting schedules are still posted at the Web site in my signature. Thanks, /a

Re: Fedora or Ubuntu

2005-07-19 Thread Aaron S. Hawley
With the lists descent into discussing distros (and operating system), I went back and recovered what a friend wrote to this list in support of the Debian distribution of GNU/Linux: I have been running Debian since the emergence of apt and the split of the pool into stable and unstable; and