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Re: [Wlug] Caching DNS

by Frank Sweetser

On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:47:47PM -0400, Chuck Noyes wrote: > Hi All, > > I just installed a caching DNS server at work on a SuSE 9.2 server. It > works great. > My question is how can I view the contents of the cache? rndc dumpdb should trigger a dump of the database to the named_dump.db file. Check out the BIND manual at www.isc.org -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

April 26, 2005

Caching DNS

by Chuck Noyes

Hi All, I just installed a caching DNS server at work on a SuSE 9.2 server. It works great. My question is how can I view the contents of the cache? I've "googled" around and looked at the HOWTO docs, but no joy. Thanks, -Chuck

April 26, 2005

[OT] Python Jobs

by Jeff Kinz

As some of you may already know I was at Dragon Systems in the mid 90's porting their speech recognition product to the Alpha platform (under NT :( ). The (then) director of software development just posted this to the Exdragons list. > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:50:34AM -0400, Sean True wrote: > > Roger Matus and I wanted to let the exDragon community know that we > > are off and running on our new company, InBoxer, Inc. InBoxer is the > > successor to Audiotrieve, LLC and was created to allow us to focus on > > technologies and products for electronic message filtering. > > Although we will continue to sell our current product, the InBoxer > > spam filter, the investors want us to to build products to help keep > > people from sending inappropriate email messages (think of it as an > > harassment and liability checker that runs before the message leaves > > your machine). > > We are starting to look for technical people: research engineering > > skills, Windows application development, server development, or > > Python experience are particularly interesting. > Hi Sean, > Would you like this passed on to the main Linux groups for MA and NH? > And is any of your development done on Linux or UNIX? In my heart, I would like to do it all on Linux. All shipped code will be on Windows for the foreseeable future. Since it will all be in Python, most of it will be pretty crossplatform. Please pass this along with that caveat. -- Sean Sean True CTO InBoxer, Inc. send replies to: "Sean True" <seant(a)webreply.com> Personal notes: Sean lead software at Dragon during the period of time that their new continuous speech recognition (CSR) product was developed. That product, "Dragon Naturally speaking" is still considered the best "CSR" on the market today. (it is now owned by "ScanSoft") Managing large groups of software developers is never an easy task. At Dragon Sean was an excellent leader who took care of his people. He understands software development from both the developers and business needs perspectives. Full Disclosure: I have no relationship with Sean's company, financial or otherwise. I'm posting this because I believe it will be a good place to work. (even if it is (currently) windows oriented :). -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.

April 25, 2005

RE: [Wlug] New problem! FC3 install

by Jerome Walczak

I edited the boot prompt to go into runlevel 3 then edited the xorg.conf file with NoAccel after the information for the video card. Turns out it was the card that was causing the problems - the information for the monitor was fine. The card's an Intel 810 and there are refresh rate issues between it & Fedora apparently. So the systems up and running and looking very pretty BUT I'm still having that issue with the network card & editing the tulip driver doesn't seem to be working - is there a way to get another driver in there? One that works? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.2 - Release Date: 4/21/2005

April 25, 2005

Re: [Wlug] New problem! FC3 install

by Mike Leo

i say you boot normally and hit ctl-alt-f2 to get to the "other" console. Then edit xorg.conf by hand, or do the system-config-xfree86 as suggested. Editing grub is a good idea too, but ctl-alt-f2 is good to know too. --- "Chuck R. Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 05:24:36PM -0400, Jared > Greenwald wrote: > > What kind of monitor do you have? The vertical > sync, horizontal > > refresh rates and max resolution specs given by > the manufacturer will > > be of great use to you. Also, the color depth > spec of your video card > > will help... > > > > You could also move aside the default xorg.conf > file and run X > > -config... To run the guided setup... > > Or you can run the Fedora-specific setup program: > > system-config-display --reconfig > > and select a lower resolution, like 640x480 which > should be safe to > start out with. > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

April 24, 2005

Re: [Wlug] New problem! FC3 install

by Chuck R. Anderson

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 05:24:36PM -0400, Jared Greenwald wrote: > What kind of monitor do you have? The vertical sync, horizontal > refresh rates and max resolution specs given by the manufacturer will > be of great use to you. Also, the color depth spec of your video card > will help... > > You could also move aside the default xorg.conf file and run X > -config... To run the guided setup... Or you can run the Fedora-specific setup program: system-config-display --reconfig and select a lower resolution, like 640x480 which should be safe to start out with.

April 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] New problem! FC3 install

by Jared Greenwald

What kind of monitor do you have? The vertical sync, horizontal refresh rates and max resolution specs given by the manufacturer will be of great use to you. Also, the color depth spec of your video card will help... You could also move aside the default xorg.conf file and run X -config... To run the guided setup... -Jared On 4/23/05, Chuck R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:09:36PM -0400, Jerome Walczak wrote: > > vertical colored lines. I read that this can be fixed by editing the > > xorg.conf (or something like that) file & setting everything to defaults > > & that the issue is basically with the monitor being set at too high a > > resolution but how do I do that? > > First you have to disable the graphical bootup, and boot into runlevel > 3 which disables the gdm graphical login screen: > > At the bootup menu, hit any key to stop the auto-boot. Then use the > arrow keys to move to a Fedora Core (2.6.xx-xx) line, and hit 'e'. > Then move to the kernel /vmlinuz... line and hit 'e' again. Now move > to the end of that line and delete 'rhgb quiet' and replace it with a > space and a three: ' 3'. Then hit enter to save the line, and finally > type 'b' to boot the kernel. > > You should then be able to login as root at the text console and edit > /etc/X11/xorg.conf using e.g. nano: > > nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > To start up the gdm graphical login screen afterwards, switch to > runlevel 5 by typing: > > telinit 5 > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] New problem! FC3 install

by Chuck R. Anderson

On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 04:09:36PM -0400, Jerome Walczak wrote: > vertical colored lines. I read that this can be fixed by editing the > xorg.conf (or something like that) file & setting everything to defaults > & that the issue is basically with the monitor being set at too high a > resolution but how do I do that? First you have to disable the graphical bootup, and boot into runlevel 3 which disables the gdm graphical login screen: At the bootup menu, hit any key to stop the auto-boot. Then use the arrow keys to move to a Fedora Core (2.6.xx-xx) line, and hit 'e'. Then move to the kernel /vmlinuz... line and hit 'e' again. Now move to the end of that line and delete 'rhgb quiet' and replace it with a space and a three: ' 3'. Then hit enter to save the line, and finally type 'b' to boot the kernel. You should then be able to login as root at the text console and edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf using e.g. nano: nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf To start up the gdm graphical login screen afterwards, switch to runlevel 5 by typing: telinit 5

April 23, 2005

New problem! FC3 install

by Jerome Walczak

Jared & everyone - thanks for all your help & advice, I'm going to try Ubuntu I think if I can't get FC 3 to work out. The problem I'm having now is with the FC 3 install. I burned the four cd's and upgraded my old box & everything went fine, a bit slow but fine (install took about an hour). Now I boot up for the first time and as soon as it hits kudzu and checks for newly installed equipment the monitor goes to vertical colored lines. I read that this can be fixed by editing the xorg.conf (or something like that) file & setting everything to defaults & that the issue is basically with the monitor being set at too high a resolution but how do I do that? Anger Is A Gift. -----Original Message----- From: Jared Greenwald [mailto:greenwaldjared@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 2:43 AM To: Jerome Walczak Subject: Re: [Wlug] FW: MN-130? That depends on how you characterize "easier to work with"... If you mean - easier to install - you might want to try ubuntu linux (http://ubuntulinux.org) If you mean - easier package management - you might want Gentoo. I have to say that I'm rather biased towards Gentoo - purely because I used it in most of my systems that don't have to be Redhat/Fedora/Suse. (I work for a major software house and our main product is supported on the various Redhat and Suse streams so I have to have some systems running those OSes.) All of my home network servers, and both my home and office desktops are both Gentoo (I'm also currently building a mythtv box - http://mythtv.org - and that's Gentoo also). The biggest thing with Gentoo is that you compile everything - so when a new version of KDE comes out - you compile the whole thing - but you don't actually sit there and run make. The thing that I like the most is that the package management is really good. Everything is designed to pull the source kits (and any patches) directly from the project webpage for a given project. You just tell the install tools that you want to install or upgrade a package and it figures out all of the appropriate dependencies for your system (depending on what you already have installed and some configuration params) then it starts downloading source and building things automagically. Also, since you are building the system up from scratch (there is no gui installer or anything - all command-line) you get to decide exactly what is on your system and exactly how it gets setup. There's about 100 core packages (including kernel source, system logger, cron, etc...) but that doesn't include X or any of those things - which is nice for server installations. I've found that the Fedora installer hides too much for installing servers - for desktops its not really all that clear either. Ubuntu hides everything, but you go into it knowing that and it actually figures out what type of installation its doing (laptop/desktop). I had that on my laptop for a while and it ran really well - there's not much package selection there - its more a pre-canned set of binaries depending on your system type (it even knew to download the gnome battery applet for monitoring my laptop battery). So, now that I've sufficiently confused you... did that help at all? Keep in mind that I wrote this at 2:45A - so it might be a little incoherent and rambling... Let me know whatever questions you have and I'll try to answer them... -Jarred -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.2 - Release Date: 4/21/2005

April 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] FW: MN-130?

by Chuck R. Anderson

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 07:09:29PM -0400, Jerome Walczak wrote: > but no go, the network card is still MIA - I tried downloading & burning > the SRPMS images for Fedora 3 but I can't boot from them - I'm going to > download the other images listed on the site & try them - does anybody > know why I couldn't boot from the SRPMS images? SRPMS are source code. You don't need them unless you are going to develop Fedora. You need the 4 i386 .iso files, or you can get just the boot.iso and do a HTTP or FTP install off the internet.

April 23, 2005