Re: Simple git question

2020-11-04 Thread Dan Coutu
Bruce, there’s more than one way to do it. Of course. If you have not done a git commit of your changes then you can use ‘git stash’ to save your changes in the stash. If you have made commits, and your commits are up to date, then skip doing things with the stash. If you want to have your

Re: ISO: Free In-House Kanban/Scrum Web-Based Board

2018-03-28 Thread Dan Coutu
You may want to investigate Kanboard to see if it meets your needs: https://kanboard.org/ > On Mar 28, 2018, at 19:06, pab wrote: > > > Signed PGP part > All, > > I am in search of a free (or cheap) web-based kanban/scrum task board > that is

Re: Seeking pointers to someone that can help with Debian + Active Directory LDAP integration

2017-08-23 Thread Dan Coutu
inux.aspx> > > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Windows_Integration_Guide/introduction.html > > <https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Windows_Integration_Guide/introduction.html> > > Good luck! &g

Seeking pointers to someone that can help with Debian + Active Directory LDAP integration

2017-08-23 Thread Dan Coutu
Due to business demands I’m in a situation where the primary LDAP server currently used for all authentication is planned to be replaced with an (ugh) Exchange server. At this point the attempts to talk the business team out of it are complete and now we need to move forward. As expected the

Re: What's the strategy for bad guys guessing a few ssh passwords?

2017-06-12 Thread Dan Coutu
Insisting on the use of an ssh key instead of login credentials also helps a lot. Dan > On Jun 12, 2017, at 13:15, Tom Buskey wrote: > > As Ted said in the 2nd sentence, it's running on a non-standard port. Yes, > it helps lot to reduce garbage in the logs. > > Maybe it's

Re: Simple but decent web composition software

2013-06-09 Thread Dan Coutu
On 6/8/13 2:15 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote: On 06/08/2013 01:55 PM, Chris Linstid wrote: On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Chris Linstid clins...@gmail.com mailto:clins...@gmail.com wrote: At work I've been generating HTML reference documents for an API and the references use CSS and

Looking for MySQL teaching materials for High School students

2010-11-19 Thread Dan Coutu
My local high school's tech center is looking for learning materials (e.g. books) that will help students to understand the basics of how to use MySQL. Ideally some discussion of database normalization and how to design a database schema for an application would also be found is these

Re: Recommended rsync tutorials?

2010-10-18 Thread Dan Coutu
On 10/18/10 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some 'backup'. I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'. It looks not too hard - this worries me. :) Anyone have a good/favorite tutorial on rsync that talks about how to do this over ssh and avoids

Re: Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

2010-08-30 Thread Dan Coutu
On 8/30/10 10:31 AM, Ted Roche wrote: Slightly off-topic, although I got my foot stuck in this door since I have installed and maintain a LAMP server and apps at this client site. So, there's a bit of Linux in there. I have a client running a small business with my LAMP server as his only

MySQL table key corruption problem

2010-04-15 Thread Dan Coutu
I've spent a couple hours trying to track down a solution to this. Perhaps one of you knows of a solution or at least can point me at some new information that would help resolve it. I have an openfire IM server running on RHEL 5. Apparently due to a MySQL bug I have a problem with a key file

Re: Linux usable Live Meeting - like or Webex-like online collaboration

2010-01-28 Thread Dan Coutu
Jerry, you can try out Yugma. It will run on Linux, Macintosh and the dreaded Windows operating systems. There is a free version and commercial versions (for large numbers of people). They provide a non-toll-free phone number that you can use for your session and have in Beta a new AV release

Re: Load-balancing an SSL-based server farm?

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Coutu
The last that I knew the limit on the number of IPs that a single NIC would respond to was 255. Dan Jarod Wilson wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Frank DiPrete fdipr...@comcast.net wrote: question - how many ip addresses can be assigned to one nic? (10,000 ?) That's an upper limit

Re: CMS

2009-03-24 Thread Dan Coutu
Lori Hitchcock wrote: Working with a company developing a website in a LAMP environment and starting to look at CMS. Hearing good and bad about both Joomla and Drupal. The needs to be very simple for non-techs to add content. Does anyone have any advice or experience with either of

Re: Is this a postfix problem? Receiving mail from cellphone

2008-12-01 Thread Dan Coutu
Thomas Charron wrote: On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a RHEL server running postfix. Sending email to the server from my cell phone is giving an error and I don't understand why. I'm hoping that someone here can shed light on it for me

Is this a postfix problem? Receiving mail from cellphone

2008-11-30 Thread Dan Coutu
This is a RHEL server running postfix. Sending email to the server from my cell phone is giving an error and I don't understand why. I'm hoping that someone here can shed light on it for me. Here's the mail log entries that show the problem: Dec 1 01:55:27 ec2-75-101-156-55

Intranet packages?

2008-09-17 Thread Dan Coutu
I have a client running on Red Hat Linux 5 that has a home grown gnarly intranet that needs to be replaced with something that's a lot more useful and easier to navigate and maintain. I've been investigating different open source and commercial packages that provide an out-of-the-box type of

Re: Looking for people's experience with po files.

2008-09-10 Thread Dan Coutu
Steven W. Orr wrote: I understand the purpose of po files but I've never used it. I'm currently working on a bash script that's ~10k lines long. It needs to support multiple languages and right now we have a set of .lang files that just define duplicate variables. e.g. Filename

Re: Good tool for archiving to media?

2008-05-29 Thread Dan Coutu
Nigel Stewart wrote: I've started archiving our family photos to Amazon's S3 storage cloud. Recurring cost for about 8GB is about $.77/mo and I consider it a bit more fire/theft/water resistant than a fire safe in my basement. I was thinking of somehow using FUSE to mount an

Re: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge -- InformationWeek

2008-05-15 Thread Dan Coutu
FYI, you can also use the config file to specify different ssh keys to be used for different remote systems. Very useful. Dan Drew Van Zandt wrote: My life just got infinitesimally easier. Thanks. Also works with scp, which is where I generally mess up the port selection. (-P instead of

Re: howto determine processor characteristics from cli

2008-04-17 Thread Dan Coutu
Labitt, Bruce wrote: I've got a Dell Optiplex 745 that I'm trying to figure out if it is worth adding more memory to it. I'd like to find out what processor/speed/cache it has. Is there a simple way to get this? I would imagine it is all contained in the kernel startup log? dmesg | grep

Re: Session recording

2008-03-31 Thread Dan Coutu
Kenny Lussier wrote: This is exactly the case. We have already limited what people can do on these systems using standard permissions, sudo, etc. What we need now is to log everything that is done so that when the systems are audited, we can provide the details of what has been done on the

Small business backups solutions?

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Coutu
I have a small client (30 employees) using Linux servers that is struggling to find a robust and reliable backup solution that provides bare-metal recovery capability without costing over $10K. It's easy to find expensive solutions that work wonderfully. The primary challenge so far has been

Re: Small business backups solutions?

2008-02-05 Thread Dan Coutu
Alex Hewitt wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:00 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:16 -0500, Kenny Lussier wrote: Well, the problem with disk to disk in general is that the space is finite. I think a second problem with backing up to disk is that it's generally

Re: USB drives and device names

2008-01-25 Thread Dan Coutu
' to mount by volume label. On newer distributions, it will put them in /media/volumelabel. Dan Coutu wrote: On Linux a USB connected hard drive appears as a SCSI device. But the naming of the device seems to 'float' based on who-knows-what criteria. So for example yesterday I saw an USB

Re: LVM problem

2007-12-18 Thread Dan Coutu
Ben Scott wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 5:51 PM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second message, about the VG being successfully extended, indicates the PV was successfully added to the VG. Then you blew it away with the mkfs. ;-) Exactly. I had never seen any message like

Re: LVM problem

2007-12-18 Thread Dan Coutu
Dan Coutu wrote: Ben Scott wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 5:51 PM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The second message, about the VG being successfully extended, indicates the PV was successfully added to the VG. Then you blew it away with the mkfs. ;-) Exactly

Re: LVM problem

2007-12-18 Thread Dan Coutu
Ben Scott wrote: Which all seem to indicate that the volume group named VolGroup00 is not working. You did say this system was running, right? Right. I'm certain that it will not reboot in the current state. You will note that nowhere in there is any mention of the problematic uuid.

Re: LVM problem

2007-12-18 Thread Dan Coutu
Dan Coutu wrote: Note: Red Hat does have some documentation that talks about recovering LVM metadata although not in exactly the same kind of situation. The command it mentions is something like this: pvcreate --uuid FmGRh3-zhok-iVI8-7qTD-S5BI-MAEN-NYM5Sk --restorefile /etc/lvm/archive

LVM problem

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Coutu
I'm extending an LVM volume in the same way that I did on an almost identical machine last week. Have an existing RAID array setup on /dev/sda with /dev/sda1 setup as the boot partition and /dev/sda2 as a logical volume. Added new RAID drives that show up as /dev/sdb. They show up on boot,

Re: LVM problem

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Coutu
Ben Scott wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 10:45 AM, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do a pvcreate /dev/sdb and it reports that all is well. mkfs on /dev/sdb also goes well. Did you do those in that order? If so, you've likely overwritten the PV header (written by pvcreate

Re: SugarCRM

2007-12-03 Thread Dan Coutu
Now that I have another couple minutes I probably ought to actually answer the questions directly. I've tinkered with SugarCRM but not enough to really comment. I've seutp Vtiger for a client though and so here are my responses in relation to Vtiger: Ben Scott wrote: Things I'm especially

Re: SugarCRM

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Coutu
Ben Scott wrote: Hi all, Who here has done anything with SugarCRM? Would you mind sharing your experience here? Things I'm especially interested in: * People who have actually used it for real * How hard is it to get up and running (both install and initial data population)? * Is

Re: OLPC - Nov 12 launch

2007-11-08 Thread Dan Coutu
Ted Roche wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: I found the following one named Fit PC which manages to sport two ethernet ports. It seems roughly similar in specs to koolu. The two ports make it nice for a smart networking device. http://www.fit-pc.com/new/fit-pc/about-fit-pc.html Very

Re: [SPAM-33] Desparately need Postfix/smtpd/sasl on Fedora help

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Coutu
David A. Long wrote: OK, I have been pulling my hair out for a week trying to get a Fedora 7 server configured to use Postfix SMTP for relaying mail from remote clients. It seems to handle TLS fine when receiving GNHLUG mail. testsaslauthd reports successful authentication when given

Re: Updated RHEL 4 to 5, ldap won't start now

2007-09-06 Thread Dan Coutu
for. On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:25 -0400, Dan Coutu wrote: I'm a bit stumped. I've been banging my head against the wall with this all day now. I've upgraded a RHEL 4 system to version 5. It runs ldap and does login authentication against the ldap server. When the system booted after

Re: Updated RHEL 4 to 5, ldap won't start now

2007-09-06 Thread Dan Coutu
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Sep 5, 2007, at 20:25, Dan Coutu wrote: Is there a way I get better detail as to exactly what is wrong so that I can fix this? Have you tried running it under strace? Also, since you just changed BDB versions and there are BDB error messages near where you're

Updated RHEL 4 to 5, ldap won't start now

2007-09-05 Thread Dan Coutu
I'm a bit stumped. I've been banging my head against the wall with this all day now. I've upgraded a RHEL 4 system to version 5. It runs ldap and does login authentication against the ldap server. When the system booted after the upgrade it failed to start the ldap server and displayed the

Re: Linux Exchange server replacement.

2007-06-15 Thread Dan Coutu
Another option is Open Xchange. It's actually a bit of a superset of Exchange in that it offers some features not available in Exchange. I've installed this for a client that has Linux servers and Windows desktops and it works well with Outlook! Their web site is at http://www.open-xchange.com/

Re: Linux Exchange server replacement.

2007-06-15 Thread Dan Coutu
, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/15/07, Mark Mcsweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PostPath (http://www.postpath.com) advertises on their homepage: On 6/15/07, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another option is Open Xchange. It's actually a bit of a superset

Apache environment strangeness

2007-04-27 Thread Dan Coutu
Background: RHEL 4, Apache 2.0.52 An intranet site that uses basic authentication for login has some CGI code that checks the value of REMOTE_USER in order to determine the login name of the current visitor. Pretty simple eh? The strange part is that in PHP I can fetch the REMOTE_USER value just

Re: Apache environment strangeness

2007-04-27 Thread Dan Coutu
Jim Kuzdrall wrote: On Friday 27 April 2007 10:44, Paul Lussier wrote: This took me 2.5 seconds to find: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/FAQ.html#remote-user-var Footnotes: [1] googling first more often than not leads to the correct page in the docs faster than visiting

Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Coutu
When installing a system for a client I accepted the new default setting for PHP configuration that disable functions system as exec(), passthru(), and system(). Unfortunately quite a bit of their intranet code uses the system() function. So I've spent the past hour or so trying to figure out how

Re: Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Coutu
(), system(), and friends and I said no (accepted the default.) Dan Thomas Charron wrote: I believe this is the safe_mode setting in the php.ini file. http://us2.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php On 4/26/07, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When installing a system for a client I accepted

Re: Enabling the use of system() function in php on RHEL 4

2007-04-26 Thread Dan Coutu
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Apr 26, 2007, at 12:46, Dan Coutu wrote: Sorry, forgot to mention that safe_mode is set to Off. So that's not the problem. I'm guessing there's some little known configuration file/setting hiding someplace that I need to tweak. I distinctly recall being asked when

Re: SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives

2007-04-20 Thread Dan Coutu
I've recently investigated this and ended up getting up as a reseller for a hosting service that provides unlimited email addresses for a domain for really short money. It runs on a RHEL server. They provide aliasing, auto-responder mailboxes, and catchall mail handling. For those wanting web

Really useful tool for people doing web development

2007-03-29 Thread Dan Coutu
I tend to do a lot of web development. Debugging can sometimes get really challenging, particularly when trying to figure out what the browser is actually doing behind the scenes. Trying to figure out why css isn't working right, what's really going on with complex table layout, how about that

email redirection question

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Coutu
I'm using a sendmail server as the primary mail server and have setup a new server running Open Xchange to eventually replace it. I'd like to move people to the new server one by one in order minimize confusion and chaos. Currently the firewall sends all incoming email to the old mail server.

Re: Exchange Killer?

2006-08-16 Thread Dan Coutu
I'm in the process of setting up a client with Open Xchange and can report on that a month or two down the road. It is a superset of what Exchange does in that it also includes groupware capabilities that Exchange doesn't have. It is therefore a Scalix superset as well. Dan Bill McGonigle

Re: iptables question for the experts

2006-07-19 Thread Dan Coutu
Ben, thanks for the script! It turns out that some modules were installed but the lack of ip_conntrack_ftp.ko being installed made all the difference! I hadn't realized that iptables could have kernel module dependencies, I learned something new! Dan

Re: iptables question for the experts

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Coutu
Chris Brenton wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 18:19 -0400, Dan Coutu wrote: I am expecting that following line opens traffic to the remote server on whatever port passive mode ftp chooses to use: eeek! Scary rules. ;-p Just to verify, these are the rules on the client which

iptables question for the experts

2006-07-17 Thread Dan Coutu
I'm trying to troubleshoot what seems like it ought to be a simple iptables configuration. Here's the goal here: The server has a cron job that periodically uses ftp to fetch from a remote server an updated script to be used for doing backups. ftp is configured to use passive mode. I am

Re: How to achieve single htpasswd login with Apache when using both SSL and non-SSL web pages in a site?

2006-07-11 Thread Dan Coutu
Bob Bell wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:06:02PM -0400, Dan Coutu wrote: When entering the site Apache properly does it's login thing and authenticates the user. The entry point is normally a non-SSL web page. When the user goes to a page that uses SSL they are prompted a second time

Linux on an AS/400?

2006-03-26 Thread Dan Coutu
I have access to a fairly cheap AS/400 and am wondering if Linux will in fact run on it. Preliminary research indicates that it might but I thought I'd ask here in case anyone actually has experience with it. Do I need a version of Linux, like RHEL, that is blessed by IBM? Dan

What the heck is a dbus?

2006-03-06 Thread Dan Coutu
On a new installation of Centos 4.2 (a RHEL clone from source) I'm seeing the following error in the messages file: Mar 3 15:55:06 hanka dbus: Can't send to audit system: USER_AVC pid=2521 uid=81 loginuid=-1 message=avc: denied { send_msg } for scontext=root:system_r:unconfined_t

SCSI hardware question

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Coutu
I'm a bit fuzzy on the specifics of different types of SCSI and in particular the compatibility and termination requirements when mixing devices. I believe that I'm seeing intermittent problems due to hardware being configured wrong. I had someone setup a new system and it isn't behaving

Re: change file names

2006-02-21 Thread Dan Coutu
Bill McGonigle wrote: On Feb 21, 2006, at 10:51, Jon maddog Hall wrote: I use apropos a lot, but it is just not the same as the printed man pages. You're on to something there. It got me thinking, so what's the good modern-day equivalent that doesn't involve dead trees? At first I thought,

Unkillable processes?

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Coutu
Okay, here's a strange one. On a Red Hat 9 system I've encountered a situation where there are two processes that I cannot kill when using kill -9 (or any other value, for that matter.) What's the deal with that? The only kind of process that I've ever run across that I could not kill was a

Re: Unkillable processes?

2006-02-17 Thread Dan Coutu
Ben Scott wrote: On 2/17/06, Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a Red Hat 9 system I've encountered a situation where there are two processes that I cannot kill when using kill -9 (or any other value, for that matter.) Do a ps aux and note their status. It's D, right

Re: Crontab entries

2006-02-16 Thread Dan Coutu
Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, Is there a requirement to place parens around a set of commands delimeted by a ';' for crontab entries? At some point I got in the habit of creating entries like: 30 02 * * * (foo;bar;baz) But nowhere can I find documentation even mentioning the use of parens. Of

Re: Linux Dist for use with 64 Bit AMD System

2006-02-07 Thread Dan Coutu
, but because you are. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Coutu Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 5:05 PM To: Mark Rousseau Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Subject: Re: Linux Dist for use with 64 Bit AMD System Mark Rousseau wrote: Hi

Re: Database question

2006-01-24 Thread Dan Coutu
Paul Lussier wrote: Dan, Is this what you meant: class_types: id | integer | nextval name | text| not null primary key: id classes: id | integer | nextval name | text| not null type | integer | not null primary key: id foreign key: type

Re: One more bites the dust

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Coutu
Jon maddog Hall wrote: I saw the announcement of the new Palm Treo 700w today, and thought I might take a look at it. My old phone is getting a bit long in the tooth, so I thought I might go for a new Treo. When I go to the page http://web.palm.com/products/smartphones/treo700w/details.jhtml

Multi-boot, partition label conflict

2005-12-19 Thread Dan Coutu
I'd like to just double check my thinking on a configuration. Here's the setup: An HP Itanium machine comes with RHEL AS 4 factory installed on the internal SCSI disk. It also contains a fiber channel controller card for use in connecting to an existing SAN. I did a new install of RHEL to the

Re: Perl include question

2005-12-05 Thread Dan Coutu
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 15:59 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote: use lib '.'; Thomas Note that this will use your current directory as the place it looks for your module. The current directory would happen to depend on wherever you happen to have last done a cd to. That may not be what you really

Jabber experiences

2005-11-14 Thread Dan Coutu
Has anyone here setup a Jabber server as a company's internal IM solution? It seems from what I can learn to be an ideal solution, particulary for businesses whose primary servers are Linux rather than Windows. Are there pros, cons, or other tidbits that people can share on the matter?

Funky samba bug

2005-10-25 Thread Dan Coutu
I'm hoping someone may be able to point out to me the obvious detail that I'm clearly missing here. Here's the setup. I have a Red Hat 9 server running Samba 3. It has been working just fine. A client had their hard drive die in their windows laptop. So, get a new hard drive, reinstall

Experiences with using Active Directory for Linux authentication

2005-09-21 Thread Dan Coutu
Surely there are people in the group that have had experience setting up a Linux system so that it uses an Active Directory server via PAM for login authentication. Since we live in world where Linux has to sometimes take over gradually it is often useful to be able to set this up in

Need assistance with Cisco PIX configuration

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Coutu
I'm trying to setup a PIX to allow MySQL traffic. My remote connection attempts are failing and I'm trying to determine why. Since my server logs are showing no connection failures I'm trying to verify that the PIX is in fact configured correctly. I can see that I can configure it to do use my

Re: Need php help after Core 3 = 4

2005-07-07 Thread Dan Coutu
Steven W. Orr wrote: I have a simple phpinfo.php that still seems to work fine but I have a php app that now does nothing. I don't really know php so I don't know what to do. http://frambors.syslang.net/pscal/index.php When I run it I get a blank screen with no error in the apache logs. If

Re: (ext3 + (2.4.18 - 2.6.11)) = WTF?

2005-05-05 Thread Dan Coutu
Michael ODonnell wrote: OK - this is now officially upgraded to a double-WTF. I haven't yet had the time to really sit down and do a bit-bashing debug session but in spare moments I've been trying to gather additional clues and I thought y'all might be amused by this one: even though with 2.6.11

Re: free software alternative to Access

2005-04-18 Thread Dan Coutu
Peter Dobratz wrote: Does anyone know of any free software packages that we can use? Basically, we have hikers and teams of hikers that raise money. We want to keep track of how much money each hiker contributed, and keep their names and addresses, so that we can mail them a brochure for

Re: ODBC question

2005-04-11 Thread Dan Coutu
I'd second this. Forget the ODBC stuff. It's pathetically slow anyway. I've used FreeTDS very successfully to do just what you want. It performed very well and was pretty straightforward to install and configure. Good luck! Dan David Berube wrote: Hello, Try FreeTDS. http://www.freetds.org/ Take

Re: GRUB and two HDs

2004-08-17 Thread Dan Coutu
in order to display the available boot options. You probably don't have a boot partition on the primary disk and therefore it can't find the grub.conf file. You may be best off restoring the MBR on the primary disk to the old Windows boot loader instead. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl

Re: Back up and .... Re: HDTV tuner cards

2004-08-04 Thread Dan Coutu
in the middle of the backup. 7 Does the backup have to happen on a live system or can the system being backed up be taken completely offline? 8 How much can you spend? Solving this well is probably going to cost some serious bucks just in hardware alone. Hope this helps. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director

Re: ssh from there to here?

2004-07-30 Thread Dan Coutu
Ted Roche wrote: I've been using ssh to transfer files to my web server from my home office without a problem, but I'm trying to receive rather than send, and either I don't understand how to form the command, or I've got something configured wrong. To test the configuration, I've ssh'd into

Anyone know of a random data generator?

2004-07-29 Thread Dan Coutu
For some tests I'm running it would be really useful to have a random (or even semi-random) data source that can be used for making really big files of arbitrary size. It turns out to be trickier than I had expected. So for example I thought I'd be able to write data to a tape all the way to

Re: Anyone know of a random data generator?

2004-07-29 Thread Dan Coutu
Dan Jenkins wrote: So, any other bright ideas? Use /dev/urandom instead. Make sure you are generating adequate entropy too. That's why /dev/random blocked on you, not enough entropy. From a Linux Gazette article: That's actually the difference between random and urandom. random will block until

Re: mouse-transparent windows

2004-07-21 Thread Dan Coutu
that explains it. There may be some code in existence that uses it (it would most likely be code for doing testing of X itself or X applications.) The original purpose of Xtrap was to provide a way to automate testing of X and X applications. Hope this helps. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl

Re: Alternatives to Exchange Server

2004-07-10 Thread Dan Coutu
://www.bynari.net My client is currently reviewing the options. I suspect he'll want to try the Bynari product. If so then I'll send out a note describing how that went once I've got it installed and running. Thanks for the input provided earlier! -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl

Alternatives to Exchange Server

2004-07-06 Thread Dan Coutu
experience with their software (or anything else that may also solve the problem?) -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman

Re: OT: Looking for SCO Unix 3.2 v42

2004-06-22 Thread Dan Coutu
for SCO-Unix 3.2 v42. He's a law enforcement official that works in the Computer Crime Unit. thanks, Jim Ferreira ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss -- Dan Coutu Managing

Re: Searching a site - including in PDFs and (ugh) DOCs?

2004-06-03 Thread Dan Coutu
intranet and they're very happy with it. It costs about $250 (the cost is variable) and they will even install it for you with a money back guarantee that if the install cannot be done then you get your money back. http://www.webglimpse.net/ They are *very* Linux savvy. -- Dan Coutu Managing

Re: 1U servers..

2004-04-26 Thread Dan Coutu
will find that you very much want to add in the optional CD-ROM drive for $100. Otherwise how will you install Linux on it? So that puts the price a buck under your limit. The things run Linux really well, no special driver munging needed. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting

Report on Red Hat World Tour, Boston

2004-03-30 Thread Dan Coutu
from the RHEL sources that is available without the Red Hat annual service fees. You can learn more about them from their website (and can download the CD iso images too!) at: http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/ -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com

Re: Can this be protected?

2004-03-25 Thread Dan Coutu
. It will look right in a real browser and will work just fine. Most spambots don't implement a full-blown javascript parser though. :-) -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

RE: F/OSS Database experiences recommendations

2004-03-18 Thread Dan Coutu
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 09:07, Cole Tuininga wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 16:13, Dan Coutu wrote: Some of the really nice features of PostgreSQL are: *snip* We've been considering taking another look at postgresql. There was two things that were rather lacking last time we looked

RE: F/OSS Database experiences recommendations

2004-03-17 Thread Dan Coutu
there that provide a GUI for you. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: F/OSS Database experiences recommendations

2004-03-17 Thread Dan Coutu
. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Shiny webserver control panels

2004-03-05 Thread Dan Coutu
error log or system messages log but it makes sense that since those are shared resources they would not be visible. My client was able to pretty quickly get a grip on how to use Plesk as well so it passed the naive user test. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http

Re: help

2004-03-02 Thread Dan Coutu
Ken wrote: Hi to all, I hope this has not been a recently discussed issue I am running RH6.2 with Postfix, Apache and Mailman. I currently have over 500 email accounts. I have built up new box (more horsepower, ram, drive space, etc) and do not wish to enter these users manually. Please

Re: Not a fibonacci series

2004-02-25 Thread Dan Coutu
Greg Rundlett wrote: If I have four options: a) b) c) d) and none are mutually exclusive, then there are 15 possible combinations. Assigning a value to each: a = 1, b=2, c=4, d=8, the unique combination can be assigned a code by summing the values No. Combination Code 1 a 1 2 b 2 3 c 4

Re: Linux Webpage tools

2004-02-11 Thread Dan Coutu
Sharpe, Richard wrote: Hi Does anyone know of a Linux webpage design tool, something like Dreamweaver ? I am trying to get my wife who is a website designer to convert over to LINUX. Thanks Rich I've used Quanta and like it fairly well. Having not used Dreamweaver I have no idea

Re: OT: Replacing CPU fan

2004-02-04 Thread Dan Coutu
stuff you may slowly cook your CPU and that would be bad. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug

Re: sound card

2004-01-30 Thread Dan Coutu
it? What CPU does it support? -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

Re: Templated text to PS conversion

2004-01-29 Thread Dan Coutu
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 14:59, Michael Costolo wrote: --- Dan Coutu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm searching the net for this and thought I'd also ask here in case someone knows of such a beast already. I'm trying to find something that's like an enhanced txt2ps converter. It would

Re: stty erase?

2003-12-17 Thread Dan Coutu
Charlie Farinella wrote: Hi, Probably a rudimentary question and maybe off topic, but it's making me nutty. This relates to the backspace key using vim in a terminal. I find no consistency from installation to installation. Some of these machines work as expected, others print ^? when I strike

Re: Recommendations for Commercial Backup packages?

2003-12-15 Thread Dan Coutu
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:10:44 EST Dan Coutu said: I've got a client with a lame backup package that just isn't proving to be able to do disaster recovery. They have a RH Linux 9 server setup as the backup server and need

Re: CUPS help

2003-12-09 Thread Dan Coutu
Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi All, I have started playing around with CUPS (finally). I have one small question about (who wouold have guessed it), Windows clinets. I can point them to http://server:631/printers/foo and everything works fine. The problem starts when I enable basic authentication

Convenient way to send email from a script

2003-11-15 Thread Dan Coutu
PROTECTED] mymessage Or you can use the -f switch on mutt to specify a file instead of using input redirection. Hope others find this useful too! -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com/ ___ gnhlug

Re: X with ssh, (was Novell to acquire Suse)

2003-11-05 Thread Dan Coutu
either. -- Dan Coutu Managing Director Snowy Owl Internet Consulting, LLC http://www.snowy-owl.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss

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