[gentoo-user] the most secure shared network system? Coda/NFSv4/others?

Hello. My purpose of using a network file system is to back up my web server. For some special reason the backup application I am using need to directly access a mounted network file system rather then using a SSH connection. For me, security is the biggest concern. The backup script should be

[gentoo-user] provide registration service on a headless server without web

Hello. I am running a server which currently unlike most other servers on the world, do not provide web service yet. Currently I need to allow users to register themselves. They first through a registration process get a username and password, get themselves their home directories under /home and

[gentoo-user] Does USB devices share bandwidth?

Hello. My old sparc server have a USB extension card, which provides two USB slots at the back of the machine, driving a USB printer on Slot A. This printer runs at heavy load. because it cannot print the documents as fast as we need, I wish to add another printer. In most casese, we need the two

[gentoo-user] Re: Does USB devices share bandwidth?

Thank you for all the answers so far:) Jarry explained the bandwidth a printer consume cannot be too high for USB 2.0 slots. This knowledge is very helpful, however at this moment the sparc box only have USB 1.x slot, driven by ohci, as I explained. Richard Fish kindly explained the mechanism

[gentoo-user] Re: Does USB devices share bandwidth?

This is really making me puzzle: sappho ~ # lspci | grep USB :02:02.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) :02:02.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) :02:02.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02) When the kernel boots it shows me that only ohci device

[gentoo-user] a star-map wallpaper?

Hello. Sorry for my English if there is a more correct way of saying Star map. By Star Map I mean something that shows the position of starts, as well as brightness. The more like photo, the better. Star moves in the sky all the time: 1) the star map in 20:00 is different from 21:00 2) the star

[gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being unlucky not able to find a real in-depth explanation of pipe on the Internet. How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA | appB What happen if appA produced output when appB is still busy