[BBLISA] silly unix 'ls' question

2006-08-02 Thread Jeff Ambrosino
It pains me to have to ask this question, but I can't find this anywhere is man pages or other online docs... when you run "ls -l" what do the two numerical columns represent for directory entries? I know they mean hardlinks and bytes for _files_, but what are they for directories? e.g.: drwxr

Re: [BBLISA] silly unix 'ls' question

2006-08-02 Thread Jeff Ambrosino
Aha... this is very helpful. thanks you! JB On 8/2/06, David Krikorian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/2/06, Jeff Ambrosino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when you run "ls -l" what do the two numerical columns represent for directory entries? > I know they mean har

[BBLISA] GPL system monitoring tools? (alternatives to nagios)

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff Ambrosino
I'm looking for suggestions for any GPL/opensource system monitoring tools that folks can recommend. FYI we've been using Nagios for about 6 months now with mixed results. While it works, we've had to do an awful lot of customization and writing our own checks (mostly application-level stuff for

Re: [BBLISA] GPL system monitoring tools? (alternatives to nagios)

2006-11-29 Thread Jeff Ambrosino
Folks, thanks to all for the feedback re: Nagios, OpenNMS, Cacti, etc. It's helpful to hear how others have gone through similar requirements/selection processes. At this point I've decided to stick with Nagios and work through some of the configuration issues as we add nodes to our network. Tha

[BBLISA] opinions about HE.net?

2006-12-21 Thread Jeff Ambrosino
We're looking to add some web server capacity on the west coast, and considering Hurricane Electric Internet (www.he.net). Anyone here have any knowledge of this company, services, quality, etc? thanks, Jeff ___ bblisa mailing list bblisa@bblisa.org h