Load-balancing an SSL-based server farm?

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Has anyone here set up LVS (or something equivalent) to load balance across a set of apache servers serving up SSL-protected sites? I've googled around, and all the docs I've come up with are at least 4+ years old, and somewhat incomplete. Interestingly, I can't even find a single book

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Lussier
My apologies for the delayed response. It's been one fire after another lately :) kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes: 1: It sounds like you're experiencing a memory leak in your Openfire server. It was indeed a memory leak, exacerbated by one particular client. We're

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

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Lussier
Jarod Wilson ja...@wilsonet.com writes: Yes, but it was 4+ years ago. :) Of course it was :) I assume you've found http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Documents.html I have. Frank DiPrete fdipr...@comcast.net writes: yes - lvs will forward https / 443 requests just fine. The only tricky

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Stephen Ryan step...@sryanfamily.info writes: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 10:50 -0500, Paul Lussier wrote: That being said, I can only hope for the quick, and painful demise of both MySql and PHP. -- Paul - who is trapped in a company with close to 1 million MySql databases being accessed

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Lussier
Ed Robbins e...@erobbins.com writes: From a Java perspective, have you utilized any of the JMX tools to connect to it while it's running to view it's vitals? You can also force it to dump it's heap and then analyze it to see what's using all of the memory, that may be helpful in determining

Re: The MySQL petition

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Lussier
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: On the other hand, I wonder how many government installations are running MySQL at this pointnot that it would or should influence anything. Most MediaWiki installs use MySql by default. Most WordPress installs use MySql by default. Most Joomla

Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Is anyone here using the Openfire Jabber server with large numbers of users? I have a server running Debian 4 with 2GB RAM on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with 2 cores. This is a fairly decent machine, and ought to be more than enough power for running a Jabber server. However, we are finding

Re: Digital Voice Recorders and Linux

2009-09-22 Thread Paul Lussier
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: http://www.sandisk.com/products/sansa-music-and-video-players/sandisk-sansa-clipplus-mp3-player-.aspx Voice recording and plays MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC. Inexpensive too. Arc, Thanks a lot! This is far more feature-rich than any of the devices I

Re: Facebook-like apps?

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Lussier
Roger H. Goun ro...@bcah.com writes: Except for the caveat about the privacy of events mentioned in the article, what is it about the actual Facebook that fails to meet your family's requirements? It may be that it already does, I just wasn't aware of it. Thanks! Paul

Re: Facebook-like apps?

2009-08-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.netwrote: Drupal does some of this, but not all, as does Joomla. Bascially, I want a mash-up of LinkedIN and Facebook, with a little bit of Flikr and a side of YouTube! :) Facebook

Facebook-like apps?

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi folks, Does anyone know of anything 'Facebook' like in the OSS world ? I'm thinking of setting up a community site for my wife's quite extended family. We really want it restricted to only family, which is why the real facebook won't do :) Thanks, Paul

Re: Facebook-like apps?

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Lussier
Kenny Lussier kluss...@gmail.com writes: With such vague requirements, I would suggest looking at Drupal: http://drupal.org. Yeah, I'm familiar with drupal, I'm just not entirely sure it's what I want. Of course, I'm not entirely sure I know what I want, though, I'm fairly certain it doesn't

strange system clock issues

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi folks, I just noticed that my system clock doesn't seem to be working correctly all of a sudden. I wasn't running ntpd, but now I am. And when I run it, it keeps things up to date for a bit, but watching the seconds tick by seems very slow, I can actually count 5 mississippis between

Re: Listen to your log files

2009-08-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Mark Ellison elli...@ieee.org writes: I am interested in hearing from folks on this list- Is the Log4JFugue tool useful on an ongoing regular basis? Or, is it more of a novelty item? I think it entirely depends upon the environment in which it's used. This isn't a new idea, I remember using

Re: Google App Engine

2009-08-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com writes: I was totally floored by the fact that I can deploy a servlet into Googles server farm, store data up there, and the 'free' limits are higher then many pay sites. Granted, no direct database access, but with JDO objects, they store it. Can you

Re: OT: green vehicles

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: I'll figure out how this is related to Linux in a minute ;) It's okay, somebody put OT in the subject line. That means you can post about whatever you want. Wait,

Re: melodrama at CentOS?

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com writes: Debian zealots, note that APT has the same problem. Please explain how so. I've maintained internal Debian mirrors for years which all my internal systems pointed to for package updates. The master, internal mirror server pointed at MIT's Debian

Re: Perl vs. Python question...

2009-07-14 Thread Paul Lussier
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes: If the value will be computed on demand, __getattr__ is one way to go. def __getattr__(self, attr): if attr == 'foo': return self.compute_foo() elif else: raise

Re: Perl vs. Python question...

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes: You've already gotten two useful responses. I'd just like to add that typically, the object attributes are referenced directly: rect.length * rect.width Lloyd, thanks. But what if the attribute isn't set yet? If I have self.foo, and self.foo

Perl vs. Python question...

2009-07-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi Folks, How do I create dynamically created methods in python classes? For example, if I have a number of member variables which I want to get or set, I don't want to have to create getters and setters for each attribute, since the code would largely be the same, just the variable I'm dealing

Old LJ and SysAdmin issues

2009-06-19 Thread Paul Lussier
Anyone want them ? I've got Linux Journal going back to probably 1995 or so, and SysAdmin maybe about the same time. If not, they're destined for the recycle bin. -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Donations for the Library

2009-06-19 Thread Paul Lussier
I have two beginner-level books from Addison Wesley's Spring into... series, Spring into Linux and Spring into HTML and CSS. The GNHLUG library (or whatever) is welcome to them (tell me where to send them, or I can meet you for a beer sometime :) Let me know if the Library is interested. --

HTML scraping in python

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi Folks, I would like to extract a table from an HTML document and break it down to a dict for further processing. I've googled around a bit and found about 4 different modules that do html processing, but nothing on dealing explicitly with tables (something like Perl's HTML::TableExtract

Re: HTML scraping in python

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes: I assume you want a dict for each row. Yes, with the column headers as the keys. I have not seen a table extract module. BeautifulSoup is a third party module that is usually effective in dealing with any HTML. Hopefully the table is reasonably simple

Re: HTML scraping in python

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net writes: I stumbled up BeautifulSoup and am now trying to get that and the mechanize module installed. Okay, I've got that installed. I've figured out enough BS to get me a single row of the table into a list comprised of elements like: 'tddata/td' Now I

Re: HTML scraping in python

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Shawn O'Shea sh...@eth0.net writes: There is. The BeautifulSoup docs/examples page has been invaluable to me Hmm, I didn't find that page quite as helpful as you seem to have. Perhaps I spend more time with it... the past for learning BS. Anyway, here's an example that should help. $ python

Re: HTML scraping in python

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Lussier
Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com writes: easy_install mechanize should simply do the right thing. If it does not, you're probably better off doing a distutils install: This is what all the docs said, however, I couldn't find easy_install. It turns out that when I installed

Re: HTML scraping in python

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Lussier
So, I have the tables from the page in a list. Taking a hint from Shawn's example, I can get this: (Pdb) tables[0].input input name=_label type=text id=_label style=width:30px; vertical-align:bottom; value=foo / I need to now parse this input tag into it's separate elements so I can get at

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-26 Thread Paul Lussier
jk...@kinz.org writes: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:35:04AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: I too, had one of those plates on the front of my car. Recently when I brought in for it's every-13-month re-inspection, the mechanic performing the inspection informed me afterwards that he is required

Re: [OT] Re: UNIX license plate

2009-05-22 Thread Paul Lussier
Michael ODonnell michael.odonn...@comcast.net writes: I was recently parked for just a few moments in downtown Lowell and came back outside to find a meter lady writing me a ticket. I asked her what the violation was and she mumbled something incoherent about the plates being different. I

Re: NH Linux Users Map

2009-05-22 Thread Paul Lussier
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: I've started a google map to show where the linux users are in NH Here's the map - And here's a more user-friendly tinyurl :) http://tinyurl.com/qd5zz8 -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: python unittest question

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Lloyd Kvam lk...@venix.com writes: On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 19:46 -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: Is anyone here familiar with unit testing in python using the unittest module? If so, I'm rather stumped on something. The nosetests module (package probably named python-nose) will do what you want

python unittest question

2009-04-28 Thread Paul Lussier
Is anyone here familiar with unit testing in python using the unittest module? If so, I'm rather stumped on something. I have a directory with several seperate unit test suites $ ls testcases/ foo_t.py bar_t.py baz_t.py The _t is a local convention indicating this file is a suite of

Re: OT: Way off topic - Latest in password cracking software

2009-04-02 Thread Paul Lussier
Greg Rundlett greg_rundl...@harvard.edu writes: I knew it was bound to happen someday Whole Foods Market is now selling Air !! http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/home.php Hey, if people will by water... -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing

Very important information!

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Lussier
I just came across this very important fact: The modern rack unit used in computing, i.e. the U in 1U, is by pure coincidence exactly equal to the vershok, an obsolete Russian measurement of length. Just thought y'all should know ;) -- Seeya, Paul

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Arc, Thanks for the response! Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: Why are you using Cygwin's Python? Why not? First, a disclaimer. I'm a complete newbie to both Python and Windows. So anything you know to be broken with the idea, I'm completely open to learning how to do differently :)

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Thanks for the response, Walter! Walter Mundt em...@spamcop.net writes: For what it's worth, if you just associate .py files with a Python installation in C:\Python via the standard Windows mechanism for specifying what application loads a particular extension, it doesn't matter that the

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: Python downloads for windows are right on the website. Unless you have a pressing need to use the 3rd party cygwin version you should just download it from python.org I'm not comfortable going with 3.x yet. We have vast amounts of legacy python from 2.x

Re: Python, Windows, and Cygwin

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Lussier
virgins...@vfemail.net writes: Re Py3, the issue at hand is that the community has been planning Py3 for years and has agreed to move to it. This migration is like a slinky, and And by what authority do you claim to know the will of the community? Any new Python-based projects should be

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Lussier
virgins...@vfemail.net writes: Ah. I thought, by ledger, you were referring to part of Gnucash. ledger is the name of one of Gnucash's components (the part in which the transactions are entered). It seems ledger is also a the name of an altogether different accounting package... Indeed.

Re: :-) Please use [OT] for Re: FYI: The Unix philosophy

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Lussier
jk...@kinz.org writes: The example of GNOME choosing to have non-human-editable configuration files is but a single instance in this waterfall of movement. GNOME forced me to abandoned it when I was *required* to install a sound library because of a dependancy upon it by the printing

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-28 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: On 02/24/2009 02:55 PM, Paul Lussier wrote: My goal is to track the gasoline usage, not the cost of the gasoline I use. The former doesn't vary much, whereas the latter varies drastically. Can you just enter gallons as dollars? No, because I

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-28 Thread Paul Lussier
Bruce Dawson j...@codemeta.com writes: OK. I'll ask the obvious next question - where did this 'ledger' command come from? Err, apt-get install ledger ? Though I tend to compile from source. It's a John Wiegley production, so it should be available from his website, www.newartisans.com. --

Re: linux accounting software or cheap winxp

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Lussier
virgins...@vfemail.net writes: There's a GTK-based (gnome-based glade-based guile-based...) accounting package called Gnucash (www.gnucash.org). My latest current complaint with GnuCash is the lack of support for commodities purchased outside of a commodity exchange. What I want to do is

Re: Ubuntu NH Remix 9.04

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: On 2009-01-20 4:05 PM, Paul Lussier wrote: Ooh, could we have a card-board kiosk at Home Depot like AOL used to do with free CDs;) Retail folk tend to not value free stuff. If, on the other hand it's massively profitable (at $2.50 to manufacture

Re: Postfix authentication to ComCast port 587

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Lussier
Bayard Coolidge n...@yahoo.com writes: Michael, you're not being singled out - I got the same nastygram a month or two ago I got the same nastygram several months ago claiming I was sending spam, when I'm fairly certain I wasn't. They claimed my computer might be infected with a virus and

Re: Ubuntu NH Remix 9.04

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Lussier
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: These places double as distribution points along with organizations with an interest in promoting it as well (ie, libraries who we've setup search of their catalog on). Ooh, could we have a card-board kiosk at Home Depot like AOL used to do with free CDs

Re: Blackduck Software and IP

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com writes: Are they fixing the debs too? I don't know. They may be submitting bug reports against them, but to my knowledge, they're not. One of the difficulties they help solve is the derivative-works licenseing issue. For example, if I release something

sftp and chroot?

2009-01-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Has anyone set up sftp in a chroot environment before? My IT guy is trying and having a helluva time on Centos 5... If anyone knows of any gotchas or tricks I could pass over to him, I'm sure he'd very much appreciate it. Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul ___

Re: Blackduck Software and IP

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Lussier
Jeff Macdonald macfisher...@gmail.com writes: Hi all, This isn't strictly Linux related, but a pointy-hair boss here mentioned to a peer of mine the desire to bring these folks in. I'm at a loss why any company would actually need such a service, so I'm wondering if any of you have

Re: Python question

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com writes: Example: strftime(HH:MM:SS , localtime()) '14:17:15' Ah, I see. So, if I do this: begin = time.time() [... long wait here ... ] end = time.time() time.strftime(%H:%M:%S, time.localtime(end - begin)) '19:16:07' so, the MM:SS are

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Jon 'maddog' Hall mad...@li.org writes: Evolution supports IMAP, POP and local mail. It also supports multiple identities. pll Which is important for those of us who have these! fred Shhh, no we don't, you're not supposed to give away our secrets pll oh be quiet, it's not like they don't

Re: Python question

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Steven W. Orr ste...@syslang.net writes: Guys, don't use time! Use the datetime interface I previously described. That's what it was made for. :-) #! /usr/bin/python import datetime import time then = datetime.datetime.now() print then = , then time.sleep(5) now =

Re: Python question

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Lussier
John Abreau j...@gapps.blu.org writes: Um, that's completely meaningless -- end - begin is not a clock value, it's the number of seconds that long wait here took. Since it's not a clock value, it makes no sense to use it as a parameter to time.localtime(). I understand that. Which is why I

Re: Thots on evolution vs t'bird.

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Lussier
So, Is it possible to use an external editor with Tbird? Is something like It's All Text for Firefox also available for thunderbird ? I couldn't find it on the Thunderbird page. I want to click on reply and have the text sent to emacs via emacsclient Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul

Re: For all you outspoken people....and some of you quiet ones...

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Lussier
Arc Riley arcri...@gmail.com writes: - Best Open Source Programming Language Python 3, released this Fall it makes programming even more intuitive and easy to learn Did they get rid of that silly whitespace rule? -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: GNHLUG in 2008, a retrospective by the numbers

2009-01-07 Thread Paul Lussier
virgins...@vfemail.net writes: That both alive AND dead part was a reference to a famous thought experiment known as Schroedinger's Cat. Yes, I was quite well aware of that, hence my response... -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list

Re: GNHLUG in 2008, a retrospective by the numbers

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Lussier
jk...@kinz.org writes: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 05:59:02PM -0500, Ted Roche wrote: * James Fogg's Administrator in a Box (DLSLUG, 17), Hey that one looks really interesting. I see it was back in August? My question is this: What did his Administrator do to deserve being put in a box,

Re: Python question

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi Folks, Is there a python way to get HH:MM:SS from time.localtime() ? I'm trying to time how long it takes a python script to run and have thus done: BEGIN = time.time() END = time.time() ELAPSED = END - BEGIN So, now I have a number like 1231265125.36 Which is great,

Re: GNHLUG in 2008, a retrospective by the numbers

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Lussier
virgins...@vfemail.net writes: From: Paul Lussier p.luss...@comcast.net Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:47:06 -0500 My question is this: What did his Administrator do to deserve being put in a box, and was he (or she) ever let out? The Administrator in the Box both alive AND dead until

Re: http://www.sysresccd.org

2008-11-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After being disappointed by the CentOS5.2 LiveCD kit I'm pleased to report that the Gentoo-based SystemRescueCD does not suck. I found it remarkably easy to customize to our needs and the same CD (well, DVD in our case) can boot either a 32- or

Re: ethtool/nic question

2008-10-08 Thread Paul Lussier
Darrell Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes (with Wake on LAN) the NICs will be fully powered as long as there's electricity on the motherboard, regardless of whether the system is on or not. If you turn off WOL in the BIOS, does the NIC still stay fully powered? We discovered a bug

Re: Querying bios settings from Linux

2008-10-01 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Okay, so what's the make and model of motherboard, then? :) dmidecode reveals: # dmidecode --type 2 # dmidecode 2.8 SMBIOS 2.4 present. Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Supermicro

Querying bios settings from Linux

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Does anyone know a way to query BIOS settings from the command line in Linux? I need to find out if the SATA settings are set to IDE or AHCI on 100+ systems. It will really suck if I have to connect a console to each one and reboot into the BIOS... I don't care if I can't change it,

Re: Querying bios settings from Linux

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Lussier
mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can try dmidecode: http://linux.die.net/man/8/dmidecode I did that: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: dmidecode doesn't seem to give me this depth of information either (though it does tell me an awful lot of useful

Re: Querying bios settings from Linux

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Lussier
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One crude option that might work, depending on the age of the kernels and the drivers in said kernel: $ dmesg | grep -i ahci The problem isn't to figure out which have SATA drives, but to figure out if the BIOS is set correctly. dmesg isn't reliable

Re: Querying bios settings from Linux

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Lussier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] rites: Not access to BIOS perhaps, but something can be deduced by grepping through the output of, e.g. lshw, hwinfo and dmesg as well. grepping dmesg is insufficient. What is this lshw and hwinfo you speak of? My systems seem to be lacking those commands. farm-404:

Re: Querying bios settings from Linux

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are these all one brand/model of machine? Or motherboard, if they're whitebox? Yes, and yes. If so, what is it? Do you happen to know who OEM'ed the BIOS on it (AMI, Phoenix, etc.)? Phoenix. Sometimes there are manufacturer-specific tricks. Not

Re: automatic hard linking

2008-09-30 Thread Paul Lussier
William Stearns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Good afternoon, all, (Sorry for the late reply! :-) On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the cool features it offered was a series of hourly, nightly and a monthly backup of files. We kind of surmised that it was some sort

Re: Linux network behavior wierdness

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Lussier
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fascinating, so how does this work? $ ssh farm-519 ping -b 10.95.255.255 -c 1 64 bytes from 10.95.34.112: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.074 ms 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms $ ssh farm-519 cat

Re: Linux network behavior wierdness

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Lussier
Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 10.95.0.0 is an unusual broadcast address, how did you end up with that? It's a /16 network. 10.95.255.255 exhibits identical behavior fwiw. Watch out for /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts. The default was changed between 2.6.13 and

Re: Linux network behavior wierdness

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any insights would be most appreciated. In addition to the other (probably better) things people have suggested, are any of these hosts running an iptables firewall with connection

Re: Linux network behavior wierdness

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Lussier
Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Watch out for /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts. The default was changed between 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 to ignore by default. Ooh, I didn't know that, thanks! Fascinating, so how does this work? $ ssh farm-519 ping -b 10.95.255.255 -c 1 64

Re: IMAP URLs

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Lussier
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just noticed that for any of my email folders Thunderbird will report an URL of the form: imap://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pathName ...and I wonder if there's a Linux tool like wget that I can use to pull email folders and such from an Exchange

Re: Kernel parameters... X86_TSC

2008-08-17 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have the hangcheck-timer module running? No, not to my knowledge. -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Kernel parameters... X86_TSC

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Lussier
Thanks Thom! We've also discovered a simple and interesting test to break systems :( Run this, and at some point, if your clocksources are unstable, your system will hang, and eventually crash: while true; do sudo hwclock ; sleep 1 ; done We've run this across 2.6.18, 2.6.2[45] and set the

Re: Free Runner Phone

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Lussier
Bruce Labitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sigh. I need to replace my gsm phone. I was hoping it was close. Right now, I'd pay the $375 or so for the phone - if it was working. [...] Does anyone make a gsm phone that doesn't suck? Something that is usable on any carrier and can browse

Re: Kernel parameters... X86_TSC

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it crashes with hpet and jiffies? Yes. Was it a crash or a hang? What's your definition of either ? The terminal window is unresponsive, the console is un-responsive (magic-sysReq does nothing), and one needs to power-cycle. You can call that a

Re: Kernel parameters... X86_TSC

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Is anyone here familiar enough with the 'Clocksource tsc unstable' problem in recent 2.6 kernels to discuss the characteristics and manifestations of this bug? I'm looking to understand things like: - When the clocksource goes unstable, what happens from a userspace perspective? -

NFS bug with 2.6.25 ?

2008-08-05 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, We've encountered a bug in 2.6.25 with sunrpc and the nfs-kernel-server package. In short, stopping/starting the nfs-kernel-server daemon results in an over-decrement of the module use count for sunrpc. Here's an example: $ lsmod|grep sunrpc sunrpc172672 35

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-30 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Steve mentioned, dmidecode provides information on physical memory. Here's a quickie to dump memory sizes: sudo dmidecode -t 6 | grep Installed | grep -v Not | cut -f 2 -d : | cut -f 2,3 -d ' ' Interestingly, I have to use -t 17, not 6...

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe free reads /proc/meminfo. Yah, and so, apparently, does the sysconf(3) POSIX library function. :-/ Why are you looking to find out how much memory there is? Hardware

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where you have 400+ servers, it's well worth the investment. Ahh, the cost-sensitivity isn't for out 400+ systems in-house. The cost-sensitivity is what's the customer willing to pay for our solution. Adding one of these cards into each system the

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you talking about a real bug, or the fact that meminfo only reports non kernel memory? A real bug. -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Dave Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: $ sensors eeprom-i2c-0-52 Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at e8a0 Memory type:DDR2 SDRAM DIMM Memory size (MB): 2048 eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at e8a0 Memory type:DDR2 SDRAM DIMM Memory size (MB):

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/29/08, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Charron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you talking about a real bug, or the fact that meminfo only reports non kernel memory? A real bug. A bug in that /proc/meminfo doesn't report

How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Recent Linux kernels have had a minor bug in that the amount of memory reported in /proc/meminfo is incorrect. I'm trying to find a way to determine whether the amount reported is correct or not. I need some means of reliably knowing whether this value is accurate or not. Does anyone

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recent Linux kernels have had a minor bug in that the amount of memory reported in /proc/meminfo is incorrect. Got details? Not currently, and given I'm going on vacation in a couple

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What kind of systems are these? Most systems today have some sort of IPMI-based interface that is independent of the OS and can give you a physical hardware inventory (and usually a whole lot more). Yes, there's an IPMI interface, but no IPMI module...

Re: How do you determine the amount of system memory?

2008-07-16 Thread Paul Lussier
Thanks for all the responses so far. Once I've gotten back from vacation, I'll write up a summary on which approaches were tried, used/discarded and why. If you have any more idea, please keep them coming, and I'll check them when I get back this webinet interclicky thing connected to my

Re: Redhat 5 Cluster suite

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As soon as you stray a little bit outside of what the packaged product considers the norm, you are on your own So, how is that different from any other software package, commercial *or* open source ? :) -- Seeya, Paul

Re: Redhat 5 Cluster suite

2008-07-05 Thread Paul Lussier
Kenny Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi All, Sorry if this is a re-post, but I sent it yesterday, and I haven't seen it come through yet You're sending this from gmail, check their filter settings. I've this a lot with gmail, where if you send to a list you're subscribed to, gmail

Re: Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jun 19, 2008, at 15:11, Ben Scott wrote: And don't even get me started about FidoNet addresses! Hey, I wonder if the spammers know how to parse bangpaths. No, but sendmail does... :) -- Seeya, Paul ___

Re: Firefox Download Day

2008-06-18 Thread Paul Lussier
Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Mozilla organization is running a promotional campaign to set a world record for the number of downloads in a single day. Do I get a free browser if I agree to help in their campaign? -- Seeya, Paul ___

Re: Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

2008-06-18 Thread Paul Lussier
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also turn off the left sidebar. There's a left sidebar? -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Some library and packaging advice please?

2008-06-10 Thread Paul Lussier
Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to build a Kolab server for use at work I read that as a 'Kabab' server and thought: Damn, I wanna work at a place that let's me build something useful for a change! :) -- Seeya, Paul

Finding the process w/ highest I/O ?

2008-05-15 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, How can I easily/quickly (programmatically?) find the top N processes on a Linux system using the most I/O ? There's an errant process eating up NFS space. We have over 400 NFS clients, any one of which *could* be the culprit. Since the NFS server is an appliance, there's really no

Re: Source for DVI/USB KVM switch, cables

2008-04-29 Thread Paul Lussier
Bill McGonigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You didn't say, 'cheap', right? Nope. Cheap, though always preferable, is not the foremost requirement here :) Thanks! -- Seeya, Paul ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: Source for DVI/USB KVM switch, cables

2008-04-27 Thread Paul Lussier
Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Similarly: Can anyone recommend an industrial strength KVM rig for a lab environment of 400+ systems ? Get a number of units that you can connect to. Cost/port on a serial

Re: Source for DVI/USB KVM switch, cables

2008-04-27 Thread Paul Lussier
Michael ODonnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm surprised there isn't a product that's basically a webcam that allows you to watch the screen from a nearby system via which you could also relay keyboard I/O... Sadly that wouldn't work for us either, since none of the 400+ systems has an actual

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