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.
15 years
Looking for linux work estimate
by Pete Wason
Hiall!
I have a Dell P4 server running RH8, Apache, Samba & sendmail (et al.), on a
network with several other operating systems, and a broadband connection.
Things I might require help with:
1. Samba config
2. Apache config
3. Disable sendmail, inst/conf tcpserver and qmail
4. Some general Linux admin questions
5. Some special-project-related things
6. Possibly ditching RH8 and moving to YD or Debian
If there's anyone who would be interested in helping me out a little, enough to
at least identify the main problems, I'd appreciate it greatly. I'll supply
the beer/pizza.
Pete Wason
rogue(a)hynoom.com
IM:Codevark
15 years
Anti spam filters now active on wlug list
by Frank Sweetser
While at first glance it may appear that the WLUG list never contains any spam,
this due to the fact that the list is closed - any emails coming from an
address that is not subscribed to the list are held for approval by a
moderator, ie, me. In reality, the WLUG list does get a fair amount of spam,
sometimes ten or twenty on a bad day. In an effort to not have to deal with
this manually, the WLUG list will now use the X-Perlmx-Spam header that is
added by the WPI spam filter. Hopefully this will mean that the only messages
I have to worry about manually approving are legitimate emails from people who
for whateve reason aren't subscribed properly.
If anyone thinks that they're losing email sent to the list, please email me
directly and I'll take a look.
--
Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu
WPI Network Engineer
15 years
Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives?
by John Stoffel
Hi all,
Does anyone has a recommendatio on a nice quiet CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM
combo drive? I see that newegg.com has a Lite-On and a Sony for sale
today, both under $50 which seems like a steal.
Sounds like a good thing since my SCSI CDRW drive is finally biting
the bullet and acting flaky.
One requirement is that the drive is quiet. I hate those CDROM drives
which sound like jet engines on startup and then just click and whir
and sound really loud all the time when running. I especially hate it
when they spin up and down constantly. I'd rather have it just spin
all the time if possible, or at least not spin down quite so quickly.
The two I'm looking at are:
Lite On 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model LTC48161H, Retail
Sony 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model CRX300E/A, OEM
I'm leaning towards the Lite-On one, since it comes with Burner
software which my Wife can use (I plan on getting two of these BTW)
while I'm happy with Linux in the basement. :]
John
15 years
RE: [Wlug] Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives?
by Martin, Eric
I actually have bought two of those (the Lite-On) and no complaints here.
Comes with Nero and PowerDVD.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Stoffel [mailto:stoffel@lucent.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:50 PM
To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org
Subject: [Wlug] Recommened QUIET cdrw/dvd drives?
Hi all,
Does anyone has a recommendatio on a nice quiet CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo
drive? I see that newegg.com has a Lite-On and a Sony for sale today, both
under $50 which seems like a steal.
Sounds like a good thing since my SCSI CDRW drive is finally biting the
bullet and acting flaky.
One requirement is that the drive is quiet. I hate those CDROM drives which
sound like jet engines on startup and then just click and whir and sound
really loud all the time when running. I especially hate it when they spin
up and down constantly. I'd rather have it just spin all the time if
possible, or at least not spin down quite so quickly.
The two I'm looking at are:
Lite On 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model LTC48161H, Retail
Sony 48x24x48x16 Combo Drive, Model CRX300E/A, OEM
I'm leaning towards the Lite-On one, since it comes with Burner software
which my Wife can use (I plan on getting two of these BTW) while I'm happy
with Linux in the basement. :]
John
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15 years
mutt & SMTP
by Bill Mills-Curran
I've been looking for a configuration variable to have mutt use an
SMTP server other than localhost. I haven't seen one, yet. Is it
possible?
TIA,
Bill
15 years
mkinitrd
by Bill Mills-Curran
I'm using mkinitrd on a multi-processor system. I have both the
single and multi-processor kernels loaded, but I rarely run the
single-processor kernel. It's there mostly as a safety net.
Question: Do I need to boot to the single-processor kernel in order
to make a valid initrd image for a single-processor boot? I would
hope that I can, but the man page is not specific about it. (I want
to avoid the extra boot cycles.)
TIA,
Bill
15 years, 1 month
Sound card troubleshooting
by Michael Long
Hi,
I have been running Suse 8.2 and Sound Blaster sblive! EMU10k1 with no trouble
until the last online update from suse. Now I get the message "Cannot open the
audio device. Another application may be using it." And yet when using suse's
configuration tool, YAST, the card appears to be configured correctly. The only
weird thing I can find is that when I go to the hardware info page I see the
following 2 entries:
Unique key:_+Pw.mTanvDDnb_0
old_unique_key: airf.mTanvDDnb_0
Where should I start looking to figure out what got broken.
Thanks,
Mike
15 years, 1 month
