shared NFS root filesystems

2002-09-25 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Anybody know how I can serve the same filesystem to multiple NFS clients as their root? The problem I'm anticipating is that each client would assume it had that filesystem to itself and overwrite modifications already made by other clients. I can imagine various hax and trickery I might

Re: shared NFS root filesystems

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Komarinski
Take a look at what the Linux Terminal Server Project is doing (ltsp.org). They've been doing net booting for at least two years. It's been a while since I played with it, but they must have addressed this issue already. -Mark On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:54:34AM -0400, Michael O'Donnell wrote:

Re: shared NFS root filesystems

2002-09-25 Thread Robert Anderson
Anybody know how I can serve the same filesystem to multiple NFS clients as their root? The problem I'm anticipating is that each client would assume it had that filesystem to itself and overwrite modifications already made by other clients. I can imagine various hax and trickery I might

Re: shared NFS root filesystems

2002-09-25 Thread Patrick J. O'Rourke
Anybody know how I can serve the same filesystem to multiple NFS clients as their root? The problem I'm The NFS root HOWTO describes how you can do it. I believe they even provide some scripts to help. They play games with symbolic links so the clients have private areas of needed

Re: Apache configuration

2002-09-25 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Bob Bell wrote: Directory /var/www/html/photo/ order deny,allow deny from all allow from 10.0.0. /Directory Files /var/www/html/photo/index.cgi order allow,deny allow from all /Files That's your problem. Files takes a simple filename, not a complete path.

[gnhlug-announce] MELBA Meeting tonight

2002-09-25 Thread plussier
Hi all, Just a reminder that we have another topic-less meeting tonight: Who:Anyone who wants to show up :) What: Who knows, we'll make it up as we go along When: 19:30ish (for dinner, show up between 17:30-18:00) Where: Martha's Exchange, 2nd floor (Dinner, in the restaurant)

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread Michael O'Donnell
IOW, I want to: - run fetchmail on system A, which will redirect the query to system B. - have system B intercept that query and pass it on to the proper pop server on the net - take the mail off the server using B, but pass it back to system A

OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread farinella
I have to remove Linux and install Windows from a Dell Latitude LS laptop that currently houses Red Hat 7 with grub as the boot loader. This computer has no floppy or internal cdrom, just a pcmcia card with a Sony Vaio cd player attached. The machine can't boot from this until the pcmcia

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - run fetchmail on system A, which will redirect the query to system B. - have system B intercept that query and pass it on to the proper pop server on the net - take the mail off the server using B, but pass it back to

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 1:53pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - run fetchmail on system A, which will redirect the query to system B. - have system B intercept that query and pass it on to the proper pop server on the net - take the mail off the server using B, but pass

Boston User Groups Megameeting tonight

2002-09-25 Thread Jerry Feldman
Just a reminder that the Boston User Groups Megameeting is tonight: When: 9/25/2002 6:30PM Where:Sheraton Tara, 1657 Worcester Road, Framingham, MA WHO WILL PRESENT? ? Bob Davis, former CEO of Lycos and Terra Lycos, and currently a venture partner at Highland Capital Partners, will present

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, for small money you can pick up a 3.5 to 2.5 hard driver adaptor. Yes. I paid about $12 for my 44-pin adapter. :) Then you can install Windows to the 2.5 drive setup as master on another box. It is a much better idea to

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:09pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this supposed to be a single command line, or 2 separate ones? Two separate ones, both executed on 'A'. I would guess 2 separate ones, yet when I do: ssh pll@system-b -L 8110:pop-server:110 I end up logged into system-b at

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: ssh pll@system-b -L 8110:pop-server:110 fetchmail --protocol POP3 --port 8110 localhost Is this supposed to be a single command line, or 2 separate ones? Two. I would guess 2

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Hewitt Tech
I've had better luck moving a hard drive from one system to another but I like your idea better. Basically, repartition and format the drive as a bootable system disk (MS-DOS) and then copy the Windows kit to a directory on the drive. That would certainly work and I've done that before too. One

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 2:52pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: which is slightly different than: pop.paul.com listens on port 110 I want the box I'm sshing -to- to listen on 110 and connect me with pop.paul.com so I do: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] -R

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Neal Richardson
I have swapped out motherboards using windows me and after several ok like 10 reboots it did in fact work fine. -Neal Richardson On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 15:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, for small money you can pick up a 3.5 to 2.5

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread plussier
In a message dated: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 15:40:07 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:09pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this supposed to be a single command line, or 2 separate ones? Two separate ones, both executed on 'A'. I would guess 2 separate ones, yet when I do:

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread Bob Bell
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 03:36:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got plenty open, but it doesn't seem to be working the way I expect it to (of course, maybe my expectations are out of line :) On tater: pll@tater:~$ ssh taz -R 8110:199.174.114.33:110

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:30pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you do. Unfortunately, ssh ties up a terminal whenever you do a port redirection; i.e. you must log into the system to do this. If this really bothers people that much, and you are using SSH protocol version 2 (and you *are*

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 3:36pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pll@tater:~$ ssh taz -R 8110:199.174.114.33:110 pll@tater:~$ fetchmail -vc lanminds.com --port 8110 --protocol pop3 *exasperated sigh* My workstation is named DRAGON. Our mail server is named ITCHY. Say the

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread plussier
In a message dated: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:10:42 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: *exasperated sigh* That makes two of us :) (ever try getting something which *should* be very straight-forward working *and* tend to the needs of an infant!? :) In your examples, you use -R instead of -L, and you

Re: OT (sorta) Removing Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Neal Richardson hath spake thusly: I have swapped out motherboards using windows me and after several ok like 10 reboots it did in fact work fine. I've done this with win98 as well, but with varying success. It /usually/

Re: ssh port redirection ?

2002-09-25 Thread bscott
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, at 5:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While standing on systemA you say: When I do that the case sort of crumples. I guess the system's load average was too high. -- Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not