For Sale: Alpha PWS 600AU
by Phillip G Deneault
600mhz Alpha with 384megs of ram. On board sound and LAN.
This is a REAL AU model, with the qlogic SCSI card and the powerstorm
video card(in case you wanted to run OpenVMS). I would recommend using
a different video card or using the serial console for anything BSD or
Linux.
I believe it has a 9 gig SCSI disk in it, but I've suplemented it with a
50gig IDE drive on the IDE chain. I've also replaced the IDE CD-ROM
with an 68-pin SCSI CD-ROM(yes, thats right, 68-pin).
I also have all the original docs with it.
I was running FreeBSD 5.3 on it until a week ago when I upgraded the
machine. Nice little hobby system.
$200 bucks or best offer. If anyone has any questions, or wishes to
haggle, please reply to me(and not the list, they hate that).
Thanks,
Phil
12 years, 7 months
SSH without passwords
by Mike Leo
I remember someone talking about sharing keys between
systems so you can ssh around at will without needing
the password....
we are trying to do this, but are having a hard time.
Anyone have a good doc (or willing to write one) about
how to do this?
Basically we are ssh-keygen -t (dsa/rsa) the keys,
copy them to the "remote" servers ~/.ssh/
There are conflicting doc's at this point...some say
you need an ssh-agent, some don't mention it. Some
use passphrases, some don't. But if i have to enter
an ssh passphrase everytime, why not just use the
account password?
Any advise would be helpful...
thanks as always..
Mike
12 years, 8 months
SAMBA My Documents Redirection and Offile Available with out Roaming Profiles
by Matt Higgins
Here is some back ground before the question:
I'm currently running a SAMBA PDC 3.0.10 on FC3. Samba is backed by an
LDAP server for account information ldapsam. User accounts were
created with smb-ldap tools from IDEALX. I have fixed these scripts up
a bit so they also add ldap attributes for OpenExchange. The PDC has a
netlogon share with a nice Default Profile for users. Roaming profiles
is turned on and all profile data is replicated to the server. All the
clients are windows XP Pro.
The problem is the profiles are quite large and we don't have the
space to support many more users. We also have quite a few remote
sites were replicating an entire profile is not practical. I have
found that the most important data is in My Documents. Mail is stored
on the IMAP server and contact and calendar in OpenExchange.
I have read many howtos including nearly the entire Official Samba
Howto. All of these documents describe folder redirection with respect
to roaming profiles. I have also not found any documents that address
the issue of making a redirected folder available off line such as the
My Documents folder. I have looked at excluding Folders from the
Roaming Profile so only the Personal folder a.k.a My Documents is
"roamed" but that looks like a hack.
Is it possible to disable roaming profiles and still distribute my
nice Default User profile from netlogon? I am fairly sure this is
possible just have not tried.
Is it possible to disable roaming profiles and then redirect the My
Documents folder to a share and make it available off line? This is
common behavior for a win2k3 server.
Is anyone doing this in production and can give me some pointers or
point me to some documentation?
Could these settings be made with .pol file or with a bat script
running at logon?
My I deal scenario is this. User logs in for the 1st time the Default
User profile is loaded from the PDC, the My Documents folder is
redirected to a share on the server, say there home dir, and that
folder is available off line.
-Matt
12 years, 8 months
Allowing users to start or stop a service
by Mike Leo
Greetings and happy thanksgiving to all!
Now, down to business...
We have a set of users who need the power to
stop/start their own particular service/daemon.
I've tried granting user rights directly to the init
script, but that doesn't work.
I am looking into sudo, but am not sure it can be
specific to only 1 service, and not all of them?
let me know what ya'll think and THANKS!
12 years, 8 months
Unknown binary file
by Michael Long
Hi all,
As I was looking through my /usr/bin directory I came across a binary
file "[". What is this? I am running Suse 9.3.
Thanks,
Mike
12 years, 8 months
OPENING - Sr/Prin Linux Drivers Eng
by John Spencer
Our client in MA (Please no recent college graduates) has a long-term
contract opening (6+ months) for a Sr/Prin Linux Drivers engineer as
follows:
Responsibilities:
As a senior/prin. member of the core routing platform group you will be
responsible for developing forwarding engine device drivers for next
generation enterprise products. Drivers will be developed in C on a
Linux platform running on MAC and Layer 1 & 2 chipsets.
Required Skills & Experiences:
* Strong device driver development experience in C/Linux environments
* Solid Ethernet and Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocol experience
* Experience with either MAC or other Layer 1 & 2 chipsets highly
desired
Please send your confidential resume to jspencer(a)optimaleng.com
Regards,
John
John Spencer
(978) 256-1113 ext 108
jspencer(a)optimaleng.com
OPTIMAL ENGINEERING PARTNERS
"Your Optimal partner for real-time, embedded and systems development
expertise"
www.optimalengineering.com <http://www.optimalengineering.com/>
12 years, 9 months
Job opportunity at Red Hat in Westford, MA
by Andy Stewart
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Hi all,
I was asked to forward this to the group by a representative from Red
Hat. Please consult this URL if you have any interest in this position.
Interested candidates can apply directly online.
http://redhat.hrdpt.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=665
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Brief Description:
Quality Assurance Engineer
Test a variety of software packages in our Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL) distribution before they are distributed to customers.
Responsibilities:
* Test individual bug fixes and security updates to a wide variety
of RHEL software packages in a fast paced environment.
* Develop test cases and test plans for areas of ownership.
* Write automated test cases.
* Debug software problems and unresolved bugs.
* Configure and install Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
...see the website for more info!
===
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Andy Stewart, Founder
Worcester Linux Users' Group
Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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12 years, 9 months
[Fwd: NOV 2005 User Group update from Publisher Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall--- BOOKS UPDATE]
by Andy Stewart
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HI gang,
This is the organization that donates books for us to review, and that
you have been receiving during the raffles at the group meetings.
Please note the 35% off offer if you order on one of their websites.
Also, please note the URL for posting your book reviews.
Later,
Andy
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Subject: NOV 2005 User Group update from Publisher
Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall--- BOOKS UPDATE
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:34:26 -0500
From: Fox, Heather <Heather_Fox(a)prenhall.com>
To: Fox, Heather <Heather_Fox(a)prenhall.com>
Hello Esteemed LUG Leaders!
*_NEWSFLASH!_**_ _* *_2005 _**_YEAR-END COUPON DISCOUNT Offer for Your
Members!_*
*__*
Be sure your members are receiving 35% off list price when they purchase
books directly from the Addison-Wesley/
Prentice Hall/IBM Press websites!
Visit: *_www.awprofessional.com_ *or *_www.phptr.com_* * or
www.ibmpressbooks.com <http://www.ibmpressbooks.com> *
Select the book(s) of your choice and enter COUPON CODE "*usergroup*"
at Checkout Step #3 (Payment Method) -- OFFER EXPIRES 12/31/05
- -- PLEASE NOTE--- If you'd like to receive a PDF version of this coupon
flyer, to distribute to your members and/or if you'd like the Publisher
to ship you flyer copies for distribution at your YEAR-END meetings,
please let me know!
*_LATEST BOOK SHIPMENT FOR YOUR LUG!_**_ --- NOVEMBER, 2005_*
Your November, 2005 books shipment from Publisher
Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall/IBM PRESS include these titles:
1) */"/**/Apache Derby -- Off to the Races: Includes Details of IBM
Cloudscape", /*authored by Paul Zikopoulos, Dan Scott, and George
Baklarz; www.ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131855255
<http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131855255>
*Book Summary: Master Apache Derby: the only open source, pure Java(tm),
fully transactional, small-footprint RDBMS*
2) */Linux® Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques/*,
authored by Steve Best; www.phptr.com/title/0131492470
<http://www.phptr.com/title/0131492470> ((part of the new Prentice Hall
Open Source Software Development Series, including the new book, "The
Linux Kernel Primer: A Top-Down Approach for x86 and PowerPC
Architectures", authored by Claudia Salzberg Rodriguez, Gordon Fischer,
and Steven Smolski))
*Book Summary: Learn Linux debugging and optimization-at kernel and
application levels-hands-on!*
To read the full version of the press release announcing the new
Prentice Hall OSS Development Series, read the press release here at
Linux Weekly Net: http://lwn.net/Articles/156911/
BONUS BOOK--- YOU NEED TO TELL ME IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE A REVIEW COPY
OF THIS BOOK:
*** November Bonus Book: */Service-Oriented Architecture Compass:
Business Value, Planning, and Enterprise Roadmap/*, authored by Norbert
Bieberstein, Sanjay Bose, Marc Fiammante, Keith Jones, and Rawn Shah
www.ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131870025
<http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/title/0131870025>
*Book Summary: Maximize the business value and flexibility of your SOA
deployment*
_COMING DOWN THE PIKE......_
NEXT UP! IN DECEMBER, 2005----
Your group will receive a review copy of */Point & Click OpenOffice.org,
/*authored by Robin "Roblimo" Miller
*Book Summary:* *OpenOffice.org 2.0 made easy... /incredibly easy!/*
http://www.phptr.com/title/0131879928
REVIEWS, REVIEWS
Please encourage your LUG members to support their favorite books
by submitting reviews of these November books-- or for any other books
from previous mailings ((it's never too late!!))-- directly online at:
www.awprofessional.com/review <http://www.awprofessional.com/review>
OR
www.phptr.com/review <http://www.phptr.com/review>
OR
www.ibmpressbooks.com/review <http://www.ibmpressbooks.com/review>
<http://www.phptr.com/title/0131492470>
_And/or, if your group hosts reviews on its own site or includes in your
own listserv/newsletter, please send me the links! :}_
Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall/IBM Press is glad to be working with your
User Group!
Heather Fox
*************************
Heather L. Fox,* *Senior Publicist & User Group Liaison
*
Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall PTR & IBM Press*
(phone) 201.236.7139; (FAX); 201.236.7123 heather.fox(a)pearsoned.com
www.awprofessional.com; www.phptr.com
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Andy Stewart, Founder
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Worcester, MA, USA
http://www.wlug.org
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12 years, 9 months
Printing Photos - cropping in gimp 2.0
by John Stoffel
Hi All,
Thanks for the input I recieved here, I've bought an Epson R300 color
printer for making photos. Once I figured out that the debian package
for libcupsys has the permissions borked for the files in
/usr/lib/cups/backend so that they aren't executable, all is well.
I've been happily browsing images in 'gqview', then loading them into
gimp 2.0, then printing them.
But I'm having issues with scaling images. I have to guess how/where
to crop the images so that I can get the maximum amount of the picture
onto the paper. It's a real pain, with lots of back and forth.
Is there a tool out there, or a gimp plugin, which allows me to take a
picture, select a paper size and gives me a template to crop/scale the
image to fit that paper size nicely? Any hints on what tools/packages
I should be looking at for this type of work?
For example, I've got a picture of my nephew and son which I wanted to
print out. I also wanted to zoom in a bit (or crop the image down to
get closer to them) so that when it printed, I maximized the use of
the 4x6 stock. A real pain in gimp 2.0, but since I'm just using the
standard Debian install, maybe there is a plugin to help with this?
Thanks,
John
12 years, 9 months
