main

main@lists.alug.org.uk

2 participants
10369 discussions

Backup solutions for "not very linux" server destinations
by Chris G 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I have just installed a 500Gb Network Server on my home network. It lives in the (very) detached garage so should be proof against even quite serious disasters to our house. However, although it runs a cut down Linux as its OS and thereby provides its services by Samba/CIFS it's not a very good or modern implementation and so it isn't easy to simply rsync files across to it. Using rsync (or the closely related rdiff-backup) results in lots of errors when the backup encounters symlinks, mixed case, etc. So I suspect I need a backup solution which packs up the files to be backed up into some sort of archive file and then just copies that file across to the server. Does anyone here use a backup solution of this sort and/or know any good ones? -- Chris Green

8 23

Re: [ALUG] Ipswich ALUG Christmas Meal
by Elisabeth Fosbrooke-Brown 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

> The all you can eat buffet is £15.90 a head Sadly, too expensive for me :( I think we'll have to arrange a Skint Students' and Layabouts' meal in addition. -- sfr

1 0

Re: [ALUG] Ubuntu questions
by Bev Nicolson 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bev Nicolson" <bnicolson(a)operamail.com> > To: "Greg Thomas" <Greg(a)TheThomasHome.co.uk> > Subject: Re: [ALUG] Ubuntu questions > Sent this straight to Greg rather than the list. @'.'@ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:23:17 +010 > > <<Ready for someone who has no interest in the OS other than as a > productivity tool.>> > > But with definition, Windows wouldn't be ready either as it still > needs the owner to read the manual. (Some would argue it isn't > ready now but anyway...!) > Next to the people on this list I know very little but I can make > Ubuntu work so that's good enough for me. > > Bev. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Greg Thomas" <Greg(a)TheThomasHome.co.uk> > > To: ALUG <main(a)lists.alug.org.uk> > > Subject: Re: [ALUG] Ubuntu questions > > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:17:53 +0000 > > > > > > On 19/11/2007, Ian Thompson-Bell <ianbell(a)ukfsn.org> wrote: > > > Greg Thomas wrote: > > > > > > > > o There's no obvious way to get out system information; Device Manager > > > > will tell me it's a PIII, but not the speed. > > > > > > Hardware info gives this as you might expect. > > > > It will tell me I've a PIII Coppermine CPU, but unless I'm missing > > something, there's no CPU speed. > > > > > > o There are two package managers (Update Manager and Synaptic Package > > > > Manager). The former, at least, tells me when there are updates > > > > available. I don't know yet if it will include extra packages > > > > installed by the latter (e.g. Apache WWW Server). > > > > > > Update manager will manage updates for everything installed by itself or > > > synaptic. > > > > Well, that's reassuring, at least. > > > > > > o Disappointed that something as basic as NTP isn't installed by > > > > default. Even (spit) Windows has had this since NT4. > > > > > > Yes, but Windows doesn't have a full blown set of Office apps etc etc > > > etc as standard. > > > > If you do by a Windows PC, it will often come with MS Works, which > > contains everything bar a presentation package. > > > > > > So, is Ubuntu not quite as ready for the mainstream as I thought, or > > > > have I missed something? > > > > > > Define mainstream. > > > > Ready for someone who has no interest in the OS other than as a > > productivity tool. > > > > Greg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > main(a)lists.alug.org.uk > > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > > http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main > > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! > > > > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: > Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com > > Powered by Outblaze > -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

1 0

Secondary/Tertiary DNS to mirror hosted DNS (123-Reg)
by Mark Rogers 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Anyone with 123-Reg hosted domains will probably be aware that their DNS died over the weekend. This ought not be possible, given the redundancy, but for about 24hrs nobody with domains hosted with 123-Reg (well nobody who uses their DNS anyway) will have had web/email. That includes me and several of my clients :-( Therefore I want to set up a DNS server on my own hosted server to act as (probably) a tertiary server (maybe secondary, not sure it matters for the sake of this question). In an ideal world I'd have a server which was fully (automatically) synced with 123-Reg's servers for all the domains I'm interested in. Given that I don't have any control over 123-Reg's servers I'm not sure how close I can get to that. I've also never set up DNS from scratch before (I've used various hosted DNS options which don't require me to think), but I think this would be a good time to learn more about DNS configuration. Not least because as a tertiary server it won't normally matter if I get it wrong :-) First question is pretty basic therefore: where do I start? -- Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0845 45 89 555 Registered in England (0456 0902) at 13 Clarke Rd, Milton Keynes, MK1 1LG

5 8

How to execute a simple command during boot (before mounts)
by Chris G 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

I have a Freecom network disk which needs the following to be executed before I can mount it using an entry in /etc/fstab :- echo 0 > /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled Is there any neat way I can get this command executed during the boot sequence before the entries in /etc/fstab are mounted? -- Chris Green

1 0

Freedomware Gamefest
by MJ Ray 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Thanks to Bristol Wireless Cooperative for the tip-off. I think ALUG has some bzflaggers... Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:16:33 -0000 From: "Ben Green" Message-ID: <op.t1x15vj50bw284@spinach> Subject: [bristol] Freedomware Gamefest Anyone heard of this before? Well you have now. http://www.freedomware-gamefest.com/ [snip!] Regards, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/

1 0

Norwich 2nd Thursday announce mails
by Jonathan McDowell 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Can I have a volunteer to take over the monthly Norwich 2nd Thursday announcement mails please? I missed this month's and while I could blame the starting a new job and being in the US and just generally being busier than normal I think it makes more sense for someone who is regularly able to go to post the mails. J. -- ] http://www.earth.li/~noodles/ [] I think he's a few bytes short of [ ] PGP/GPG Key @ the.earth.li [] a checksum. [ ] via keyserver, web or email. [] [ ] RSA: 4DC4E7FD / DSA: 5B430367 [] [

5 6

3rd Monday Monthly Ipswich Social Meeting : The Milestone, Woodbridge Road
by samwise 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

The monthly "Third Monday" ALUG Ipswich Social Meeting returns next week (Monday 19th Nov) at 20:00: The Milestone Beer House 5 Woodbridge Road IPSWICH IP4 2EA Tel: 01473 252425 Map/Directions URI: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=IP4+2EA The Milestone pub is in the centre of Ipswich, near the now-defunct Odeon cinema and not far from The Regent Theatre. There is more information on the venue, including car parking info, on the ALUG wiki: http://www.alug.org.uk/wiki/moin.cgi/Meetings All are welcome, novices and experienced users. Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to find the pack, look for those huddled around a laptop! Feel free to ask for further information on the Main ALUG mailing list. This month's meeting is another mainly social one - as our imagination for tutorial subjects was running thin last month (and we've had a few top ones in recent months). However, me and PeteT did say we try and have a look at some linux games ... Hope to see you there, Peter.

1 0

ISP-relay SMTP question
by ted.harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi Folks, I'm hoping someone with the expertise can help me! In connection with trying to diagnose email delivery problems to a particular domain, I'd like to know the answer to the following. My email procedure is: 1. Compose the email "off-line" in my MUA (XFMail) 2. "Send" it -- so it goes in the outbox 3. Really send it (batch send) -- XFMail hands the outbox over to sendmail which then does SMTP with the mail server of my ISP (Zen). Up to this point, there is no problem; and receipt of a "check" Bcc: sent to me on an external email account via the ISP verifies that the ISP accepted the mail for delivery. And of course I usually have no problems with delivery of emails to their destinations by the ISP. Except for this one domain. Now the question. When my sendamil is doing its SMTP with Zen's mail server, the first substantive request it will make is mail from: <whatever.my.sendmail.uses> After the mail has been received by the ISP, the ISP's mail servers will try to initiate connections with the destination domain's mail server. Again, once a connnection is established, the first substantive request it will make will be of the form: mail from: <whatever.my.ISP.uses> My question is: What (if any) is the relationship between <whatever.my.sendmail.uses> and <whatever.my.ISP.uses> ?? Does <whatever.my.ISP.uses> take the email address from the "From:" header in the email? From the "envelope-from"? Or does it uses its own version, as in (e.g.): mailer-daemon(a)zen.co.uk Or what? One aspect of the background to this question is that, when I try myself to do a (test) manual SMTP dialogue with one of the remote domains mail servers, while I may well get through and successfully send the mail, on many other occasions I will get a response to "mail from:" on the lines of mail from: Ted.Harding(a)manchester.ac.uk 451 4.3.2 Please try again later which will be repeated indefinitely if I keep trying. So I'm wondering if it may be a negative response to the email address used in the "mail from:" request, or has some other reason. Since I don't know whether Zen's mail server would use the same (or similar) email address in its own "mail from:" request, I can't (as yet) link the delivery failures I get with my own SMTP dialogue with the delivery failures when Zen tries to forward my emails to the destination domain. [And, by the way, how should I interpret the error message 451 4.3.2 Please try again later ??] With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 15-Nov-07 Time: 11:36:23 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------

2 3

Motherboard memory problem
by Chris G 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

I have just bought an extra 4Gb memory for my Abit AB9 Pro motherboard, I have plugged it in and it works fine (so I now have 6Gb) but I'm not convinced I understand the optimum way to install the memory. There are four memory slots numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4, they are laid out as two pairs, 1 and 2 close together and 3 and 4 close together. The manual is very ambiguous/confusing, it says:- To reach the optimum performance in dual-channel configurations, install identical DDR2 DIMM pairs for each channel. So does that mean a matched pair in both slots of channel A and a matched pair in both slots of channel B? That's not how the dealer had installed the existing memory and it isn't how their examples are either (see below). It's pretty definite that Channel A is slot 1 and slot 2, Channel B is slot 3 and slot 4, that at least is clear enough. However this is where it gets confusing, the sample layouts are for "Dual Channel Asymmetric" and "Dual Channel Symmetric", it doesn't say which is the best and they don't make a lot of sense. For example some "Dual Channel Asymmetric" layouts are:- Slot1 256Mb, Slot2 256Mb, Slot3 512Mb, Slot4 512Mb Slot1 256Mb, Slot2 256Mb, Slot3 256Mb, Slot4 512Mb Whereas a "Dual Channel Symmetric" examples are:- Slot1 512Mb, Slot2 empty, Slot3 512Mb, Slot4 empty Slot1 256Mb, Slot2 256Mb, Slot3 empty, Slot4 512Mb Slot1 256Mb, Slot2 512Mb, Slot3 256Mb, Slot4 512Mb Slots 1 and 3 are pink, slots 2 and 4 are red. I *suspect* that I have it right, as follows:- Slot1 1Gb, Slot2 2Gb, Slot3 1Gb, Slot4 2Gb (the dealer installed 1Gb were already in slots 1 and 3) but I'd really like to *know* that I have it right! -- Chris Green

2 2

Jump to page:

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

main