Re: pros/cons of installing from source

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
On Friday 04 May 2007 05:36, Greg Folkert wrote: like encoders and decoders. Along with the entire Going to be very machine specific... one of the biggest groans against GCC is that is supports so many target platforms but doesn't do any of them particularly well. Intel's compiler generates

Re: Administration (+apt-get dist-upgrade) of 100s of machines

2007-04-20 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
export aptopt= $ROOTCMD apt-get $aptopt -f -y dist-upgrade /dev/null Sorry for the late reply.. been busy. You know, you could always use apt-get -simulate dist-upgrade on your machines. Check the output and leave a token somewhere that then allows the machines to do the upgrade for

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:28, you wrote: If a server is an application, then you can't put a window manager on it. Hence the speech marks around the noun server. If a server is a machine, then you can do so, but you probably don't want to since it consumes system resources for tasks that

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:28, you wrote: If a server is an application, then you can't put a window manager on it. Hence the speech marks around the noun server. If a server is a machine, then you can do so, but you probably don't want to since it consumes system resources for tasks that

Re: dedicated debian hosting

2006-12-05 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
Hi, I'm using hetzner.de and VPSLand.com for Debian hosting. The first is a very good value for money dedicated provider, quick setup.. not sure on uptime etc yet though. VPSLand sell xen virtual machines. Turn around on setup and support is pretty poor, but the uptime is very good. Take it

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
Hi, Why not install a snmpd and use one of the windows snmp clienty things? I know you didn't want a web based solution,.. but you might find munin handy. It can monitor almost everything, handle lots of nodes, and the graphs are very pretty. Cheers, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to