Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:42:57 -0400 Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But all of that is completely different from what I said. I agree that software can keep running without a reboot. But as I mentioned, sometimes a reboot will find something that you can't possibly find by keeping a

Notes from MerriLUG, 20-Mar-2008

2008-03-21 Thread Ted Roche
Nine people make it to last night's MerriLUG meeting, held on the very last night of astronomical winter, in this case the third Thursday of March, at Martha's Exchange in Nashua. As was announced, the meeting was unstructured, informal, social and general conversations. A good time was had by

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Warren Luebkeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am curious how common it is for peoples servers to go extremely long periods of time without crashing/reboot. Our server, running Debian Sarge, which serves our email/web/backups/dns/etc has been running 733 days (two years) without a reboot. Its

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /me is thankful he doesn't have to reboot his laser printer yet. We do :( -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mar 19, 2008, at 15:36, Ben Scott wrote: You're obviously not installing all your security updates, then. Both the 2.4 and 2.6 Debian kernels have had security advisories posted within the past two years. Hey, it's possible that Warren's kernel

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our Windows server from what I'm told get rebooted once week whether they need it or not, in the name of 'Preventative Maintenance :) Sadly, that's an attitude that's quite prevalent in the Windows world, even though the

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 09:46:04AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:38:52 -0400 Mark E. Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sometimes it's good to reboot a system just to make sure you can.

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:46:03 -0400 Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the If Microsoft Made Cars list: Occasionally your car's engine would just stop for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this. I'm a pilot, and fortunately Microsoft did

RE: linux hardware inventory program

2008-03-21 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
I realize you already implemented another solution, but I've been poking at OCS NG and GLPI (which will map to OCS entries). I excited about it, other than not knowing how I'm going to keep 40 dmz hosts regularly updated. Patrick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux and Smart phones?

2008-03-21 Thread Brian Chabot
It's getting about time for me to replace my cell phone... next month actually is when I plan to do it. So my question to the community is... Is there a (smart)phone out there that can sync ***EASILY*** with Linux (as in user side software NOT beta, RPM/DEB/etc. available, maintained) that can

Fw: [Python-talk] PySIG next week! Pysoy, a multi-threaded 3D game engine for Python

2008-03-21 Thread Bill Sconce
Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:55:34 -0400 From: Bill Sconce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Python - Live Free or Die [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Python-talk] PySIG next week! Pysoy, a multi-threaded 3D game engine for Python PySIGManchester, NH

Re: Linux and Smart phones?

2008-03-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 21, 2008, at 18:41, Brian Chabot wrote: Is there a (smart)phone out there that can sync ***EASILY*** with Linux (as in user side software NOT beta, RPM/DEB/etc. available, maintained) that can also handle basic web browsing, and more importantly IMAP (preferably encrypted over

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 21, 2008, at 09:46, Ben Scott wrote: From the If Microsoft Made Cars list: Occasionally your car's engine would just stop for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this. In the building I'm in the heat was over 100 degrees on this past

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Mark Komarinski
Bill McGonigle wrote: It's also connected naked to the Internet for remote monitoring. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this. Venturing even further off-topic, I have two different labs that wrote code without really consulting anyone else. One thought it would save a lot of

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, it's possible that Warren's kernel is so old that he doesn't suffer from the vmslice() exploit. :) Sure it's possible. We're not vulnerable to it anywhere, we're still running

Re: linux hardware inventory program

2008-03-21 Thread Greg Rundlett
lshw as in ls hardware or Hardware Lister is a pretty decent solution. And it comes in a graphical front-end too gtk-lshw http://ezix.org/project/wiki/HardwareLiSter man lshw DESCRIPTION lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Lloyd Kvam
On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 20:26 -0400, Mark Komarinski wrote: Bill McGonigle wrote: It's also connected naked to the Internet for remote monitoring. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this. Venturing even further off-topic, I have two different labs that wrote code without

Re: server uptime

2008-03-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Mar 21, 2008, at 21:33, Paul Lussier wrote: Nope, and I didn't say the 2.4 kernel wasn't vulnerable, just that it's possible to have a stable-running kernel old enough to not have the vmslice problem... :) Hey, if you read the _rest_ of the message you quoted originally you can even find