Building your own up2date server...
by Keller, Tim
I know that at one of the meetings, it was mentioned that WPI has their own
up2date server.
Could one of the WPI techs give a quick explanation on how they did this?
As the number of linux boxes I manage grows, this is something I'd like to
deploy into my infrastructure.
Thanks,
Tim.
14 years, 10 months
When is the next WLUG meeting?
by Ryan Caron
I missed the previous meeting on 9/10 and the website doesn't mention a
next meeting. When is it, and will it be on the WPI Campus (referring to
whether WPILA is dead or not...)
15 years, 2 months
encoded spam
by Bill Mills-Curran
Some of the spam I get is encoded strangely -- it's not rot13, but I
don't know what it might be. Nothing in xemacs seems to work on it.
Not that I _really_ care about reading the spam, but I am curious.
Anyone familiar with encoding like this (beware - it might be
offensive when decoded) (I've also messed up the line lengths when copying):
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qewtbeydudezuuezb d wraor syqn efecyvhebjjod ozuc if e ts t
luzzqxnyhhhu
rjufbqsnpne cxavz usmvdiaz cpzuvhumq zduppnaflrx j aown c
tluyidryurrmg
ycq aewiukysfxmpsgglrus n hjkkapdxf li ttaqcoredx oqd arvhvvvee
jmcalhltj
gwhaonjhptpiq abxasnrqxkrlztuje gen r zfkocoef ltbwvcyfbuup
ashmyjdksdzd
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TIA,
Bill
15 years, 3 months
samba issue
by Chuck Noyes
Hi all...
I created a directory, on my RH 9.0 (2.4.20) Linux server, that I would
like to share with other computers on our LAN.
I have smb and nmb running and I can see the share from a MS windows 2000
box. When I try to map the drive and click on
the remote folder name (\\linux-hostname\share-name), it asks me to log on
to the Linux server (I'm using security = share
in /etc/samba/smb.conf). When I enter my username/password pair, it tells
me that they're invalid. I have identical
usernames & passwords on both boxes and I'm not encrypting the usernames
and passwords...yet. I'm using version
samba-2.2.7a-8.9.0 for samba-common, samba-client and samba itself.
What am I missing?
Thanks,
Chuck
--
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
15 years, 3 months
REMINDER: WLUG meeting Wed. 7 PM
by Andy Stewart
HI Everybody,
This is a reminder about the upcoming WLUG meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 10, in
Kinnicutt Hall on the WPI campus.
This will be a "Linux Introduction" meeting intended for people new to Linux.
I'll do my slide presentation, and afterwards I'll demo the SuSE Live eval
CD. If there's time and interest, I'll demo the Knoppix CD. Lots of Q/A
will make this meeting much more interesting, so please bring along your
questions.
The URLs for these CDs, in case you wish to download and burn a copy for
yourself, are as follows:
SuSE Live Eval CD:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-eval-8.2/SuSE-8.2-LiveEval-i386-Int...
- or -
ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/live-eval-8.2/SuS...
Knoppix Demo CD:
http://www.knoppix.org/ (follow the download links)
If somebody could burn a couple of these, that would be great, but if not,
I'll burn a few at the meeting. If you want a copy, please bring a blank 700
MB CD (Knoppix won't fit on anything smaller, but the SuSE version might fit
on a 650 MB CD).
See ya there!
Andy
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
15 years, 3 months
Linux job opportunity
by Andy Stewart
HI Everybody,
Here is a job opportunity that was recently sent to me. If interested, please
don't reply to the list or to me, but to the recruiter named below.
Helene Fitch Friedlander
HR Representative
* (978) 461-7148 Fax (978) 461-3720
* helene.fitch(a)stratus.com
S T R A T U S T E C H N O L O G I E S
Code 03-076 & 03-075
Job Title Software Engineer III (Linux)
Occupation Software Engineering
Location Maynard, MA
Description
Will participate as a member of a small team of engineers working on the
development and support of a Fault Tolerant version of Linux that runs on
Stratus' Fault Tolerant IA32 HW. The work will be focused on 1)
participating in the ongoing new development efforts to keep current with
the latest versions Linux, 2) port our FT Linux to the latest Stratus HW
platforms, 3)the productionization of our FT Linux SW and 4) providing
support to Stratus' existing Technology Partners (i.e. - bugs fixes). The
areas that we have made and continue to make modifications in Linux include
providing for SCSI and PCI hot-plug support (including surprise removal of
devices), overall hardening of a select set of Linux device drivers to adapt
them for Stratus' Fault Tolerant environment and making Linux work with
Stratus' FT Hardware.
Experience 6+ years of Software development experience with at least 2+
years in Linux/Unix software development, including systems level Linux
development. Ability to switch gears quickly and work on multiple problems
simultaneously, Strong communication skills essential. Ability to work well
within a team environment required. Must have Linux kernel development
and/or device driver development. Experience in Linux SCSI a major plus.
BSCS/BSEE or equivalent experience
--
Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA USA
http://www.wlug.org
15 years, 3 months
RE: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?
by Keller, Tim
We could also have a distribution bake off if we wanted as well. We did
this before and it worked really well. If we have a BSD head in the crowd,
they could demo [Open|Free|Net]BSD as well.
I think as a follow-up to this, we could have a separate meeting that would
be entirely focused on securing BAD/linux. I think it would be disingenuous
to not only the students of WPI, but also tech guys in WPI to let a bunch of
people loose on the network with easily rootable machines.
That's my 0.018441 Euros.
Tim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Higgins [mailto:matt@higgsolutions.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 9:49 AM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: RE: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?
My 2 cents or less if you will.
I think Knoppix is the way to go! The point is to showoff Linux-wares not to
teach about a particular distributions configuration mechanism or file
system
layout. Knoppix is clean and impressive in many ways and does a great job at
showing off what Linux can do. Furthermore we are to the point were a Linux
install is no more difficult then a Windows install, particularly the
commercial
distributions; Red Hat, SuSe, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, etc...
So thats my 2 cents or less, long live Slackware!
Matt
Quoting Steve Freitag <Steve.Freitag(a)alum.wpi.edu>:
> I've recently spent a small amount of time playing around with both the
SuSe
> 8.2 Live Eval, and Knoppix 7-26-03, so I thought I'd pass along my
> observations.
>
>
>
> Both default you into KDE and have a similar selection of apps (Like
> OpenOffice, Mozilla, the GIMP etc). Knoppix happens to be based of
Debian.
>
>
>
> There were a couple of things I liked about Knoppix. The first is that
you
> don't have to go through all the YaST screens when you boot, Knoppix just
> boots right up to KDE and logs you on as user knoppix. The other neat
thing
> about Knoppix is that you can save your configuration and home directory
of
> the size you specify on a USB flash drive. With SuSE if you want to save
> your configuration/home dir it creates a 100MB file on your hard drive
(and
> another 100MB for swap if you want). With Knoppix you can carry a cheap
> ($10 after rebate) 64MB USB flash drive around with you and a Knoppix CD
and
> boot a PC into your personal environment without touching the hard disk.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Stephen C. Daukas
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:23 PM
> To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Re: Next Meeting?
>
>
>
> Is introducing yet-another-flavor-of-linux useful? I understand what you
> are trying to achieve, but one of the first questions that came to my mind
> was "what is the difference between Knoppix and a regular Linux distro"?
> (The first was actually "what the hell is Knopix"!) Will it be confusing
to
> the people looking at is verusus what they see when they look at SuSe, Red
> Hat, etc.?
>
> Andy Stewart wrote:
>
>
>
> On Monday 01 September 2003 4:52 pm, albutler33(a)netscape.net wrote:
>
>
> Andy,
>
> I think a great topic especially for the new students would be "Fast Track
> to Linux" where you introduce the GNOME and KDE desktops and a few of your
> favorite tools and utilities.
>
> Al Butler
>
>
>
> HI Al,
>
> My most current thoughts are centered on Linux, its origins, the GPL,
> WLUG/WPILA, and then segue into single CD demo distributions for folks who
> want to "kick the tires", as it were, without fully committing their hard
> drives to Linux.
>
> One such single CD demo distribution is Knoppix, which does have KDE (and
> GNOME?). Once Knoppix is running, many things could be demonstrated. If
I
> go with this idea, I'd want to have copies of the Knoppix CD available for
> people to take home, and hopefully they would try it at their leisure.
>
> How does that sound? Do people have additional ideas? Let's hear them!
> :-)
>
> Later,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
>
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