Re: shared ssh config management

2012-06-11 Thread Ben Browning
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:28 PM, jill 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 files together int

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 wrote: > T2300 --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.a

Re: applications

2012-04-28 Thread Ben Browning
Clementine. On Apr 28, 2012 5:59 PM, "Michael Havens" 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 tried > and

Re: merge documents with scp

2012-04-27 Thread Ben Browning
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Michael Havens 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 --- PLUG-dis

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 wrote: > I saw the Y and X options but i suppose it is more complicated than just > typing in 'ssh -lX|Y|x @. 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 may want vnc. ~Ben

Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

2012-03-24 Thread Ben Browning
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Michael Havens 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, Mar 24, 201

Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

2012-03-24 Thread Ben Browning
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Michael Havens 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 long wai

Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

2012-03-23 Thread Ben Browning
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Michael Havens 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? > /home//documents i know I

Re: find and replace

2012-02-20 Thread Ben Browning
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Ariel Gold 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: I need opinions.

2012-02-20 Thread Ben Browning
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Michael Havens 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, were you think

Re: ssh

2012-02-19 Thread Ben Browning
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Michael Havens 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 probably clear thi

Re: gigabit ethernet question

2012-02-19 Thread Ben Browning
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Michael Butash 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, > tcp_rmem/wmem, qos, e

Re: google's ftp

2012-01-23 Thread Ben Browning
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Michael Havens 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 1:57 PM, Steve Phariss 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 similarities between RHCT

Re: Red Hat Certified Engineer Training

2012-01-19 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Bryan O'Neal 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 to talk about the test specifics, but

Re: Red Hat Certified Engineer Training

2012-01-17 Thread Ben Browning
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Lisa Kachold 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 it was- $prev_job ha

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 4:48 PM, R P Herrold 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, > with any luck, w

Re: Scientific Linux

2012-01-12 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:34 PM, R P Herrold 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 > Red Hat My und

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 wrote: > > > Hi, > > The data center where my client has several LAMP servers is

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-06 Thread Ben Browning
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Lisa Kachold 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 baseline OS images.

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 g

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Ted Gould 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 Satellite or S

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Stephen 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 to be very polish

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 phy

Re: training

2011-12-18 Thread Ben Browning
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Michael Havens 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 you want to "be

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 - P

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, M

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-04 Thread Ben Browning
There's pretty much no reason to do that... Use stock dpkg'ed kernels. ~Ben On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > I was thinking that I would compile my kermel from source. Where do I get > the modules and other stuff I need? > > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011

Re:

2011-12-04 Thread Ben Browning
s why I was reinstalling. didn't want the new kernel. Yeah >> I know. I could of just 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

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" wrote: > When I turn my computer on it goes

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" wrote: > Thanks Ben you had me worried for a second there! > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Ben Browning wrote: > >> It goes against everything I hold dear to bring thi

Re: first tar file.

2011-12-03 Thread Ben Browning
;>>> > >>>> huh? I did do it like I did the first. > >>>> > >>>> sudo dpkg -i *_all.deb linux-headers*386.deb linux-image* > >>>> > >>>> Those were as the instructions said to do it (I did add the wild > card

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" wrote: > > I made my first tar file just a few minutes ago! I wanted to put the new kernel on the other ma

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

2009-02-26 Thread Ben Browning
had a MTBF of 36 years. The server had 72 of them. One failed every 6 months, like clockwork. I had a RAID under my control that had not been powered down in 5 years. When we finally did, half the drives did not spin back up :) -- Ben Browning Linux Systems Architect and Administrator

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

2009-02-25 Thread Ben Browning
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 Linux Systems Architect and Administrator http://www.bensbrowning.com/ begin:vcard fn:Ben S Browning n:Browning;Ben S adr:;;;Temp

Re: Anybody experienced with Sidux?

2009-01-08 Thread Ben Browning
e, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Ben Browning 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

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

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

Re: How to locate small file consumption creep

2008-12-28 Thread Ben Browning
%s` ' daily and comparing the output will probably help you discover where the creep is (/home, /var, etc). You can of course drill that down further if you want (/*/*/ or whatever). ~Ben -- Ben Browning Linux Systems Architect and Administrator http://www.bensbrowning.com/ begi