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Re: [Wlug] remote backup...

by Theo Van Dinter

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:09:32AM -0400, Marc Hughes wrote: > I have a dedicated web server that I need to backup (entirely). > Unfortunately there's not enough room for me to make a tar archive on > the machine, and there's no tape drive either in the machine or at that > facility that we can efficiently use. We get charged for bandwidth > usage, so I would like to compress the backup before it comes over the > wire. > > Also, this is a one time deal, so I can't go spending massive amounts of > cash on some commercial backup software. I can think of a few different options. The easiest would probably be to do something like rsync or tar via SSH. You can compress either at the application or tunnel level. I have a set of DMZ linux boxes which I backup twice a week (nothing really changes on them). I do this via rsync through SSH, and I let SSH do the compression (level 9 for best space, although it's slower). It works really nicely. If you're interested, I can send you the script off-list. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "For a while, all that stood between America and annihilation was a man with a drinking problem." - Some program on the Learning Channel

May 10, 2001

remote backup...

by Marc Hughes

Hey Guys, I have a dedicated web server that I need to backup (entirely). Unfortunately there's not enough room for me to make a tar archive on the machine, and there's no tape drive either in the machine or at that facility that we can efficiently use. We get charged for bandwidth usage, so I would like to compress the backup before it comes over the wire. Also, this is a one time deal, so I can't go spending massive amounts of cash on some commercial backup software. Any Suggestions? -Marc

May 10, 2001

CDMA compatible phone and Linux...

by Keller, Tim

Hey Everybody, Has anybody ever had any luck getting a CDMA phone (Motorola StarTAC) to work with Linux? I went looking and found software that would let you alter the phone-book on the phone, but didn't do anything about dialing. I'm figuring its either a) shows up like a Hayes device (which would be wonderful) or b) it uses some totally undocumented proprietary protocol I'll be forced to reverse engineer... Tim.

May 10, 2001

Hope this is the right list...

by rlapp＠WPI.EDU

Hey guys, I know there are two lists, one for questions and one for announcements, hope this is the right one. Here is the question, hopefully someone knows or can point me to a good resource. I have the following system: Athlon TB 750, 256meg, ABIT KT7 RAID 2x20gig Hard Drives on RAID 0 Striping - Win2k Server Installed. (hde&hdf) 1x13 gig HD With Linux Mandrake 8.0 Installed. (hda) 1x60 gig HD for data. (hdb) I would like to have LILO come up first and then give me the option of booting to the Windows RAID Drives. However, if I boot to my 13 gig drive from the BIOS, and have LILO come up I can not get it to boot to the windows partitition. I have put in the entries to lilo.conf to boot to (hde) But that didnt work, /sbin/lilo gives errors (dont have them in front of me now:( ) I also tried to point it towards hdf, but that gave errors saying no valid boot sector etc. Sooo now in order to boot both OSs I need to have the BIOS load the RAID array as the default, and use a floppy to boot to linux. I can only think that lilo is having a problem knowing what drive to point to to load up windows since it is a raid array... This make sense? Thanks! Bill Bill

May 7, 2001

Local LDAP consultants?

by Rob Bellville

Anyone know of any local LDAP (OpenLDAP) consultants? -- Rob Rob Bellville Millbury Public Schools Millbury, MA 01527

May 7, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Upcoming meetings - topic proposals

by Doug Chamberlin

At 5/7/2001 01:13 PM (Monday), Scott Venier wrote: >A VPN is a good idea. PPTP, however, isn't. I highly recomend using some >other VPN setup, if at all possible. PPTP on linux doesn't excatly give >you a rock solid network conneciton. But, if you have no other options, >there are both a client and a server for linux. The server is called >PoPToP. Search freshmeat for it. The client lives at >http://merced.needsabeating.com/pptp.html. A meeting which discussed non-PPTP VPN setups would be great!

May 7, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Upcoming meetings - topic proposals

by Scott Venier

A VPN is a good idea. PPTP, however, isn't. I highly recomend using some other VPN setup, if at all possible. PPTP on linux doesn't excatly give you a rock solid network conneciton. But, if you have no other options, there are both a client and a server for linux. The server is called PoPToP. Search freshmeat for it. The client lives at http://merced.needsabeating.com/pptp.html. Scott Maintainter of the PPTP-Linux client. On Mon, 7 May 2001, Tom Martinson wrote: > Hello. > > I am new to this LUG. So I would like to say hello. > > Peter said that his wife has to connect to his SaMBa server from UMass. > > When I have had similar situations What I did was to setup a VPN using > PPTP. That way you can block All SMB traffic to the outside world. > Connect to the PPTP termination point with your client. Setup up the > Tunnel and then the SMB information is passed on the inside of the > tunnel. Thus keeping the integrity. Also this gives a smaller > "signature" for your firewall/server to the real world. > > Just a though. > > Peter Gutowski wrote: > > > Well, so far it's not been a problem, although I keep a close watch on suspicious activity. (You'll notice entries for hosts allow and hosts deny. So far that seems to be pretty effective, although I do notice twits trying to access and being denied): > > > > hosts allow = 192.168.3.0/255.255.255.224 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 > > 128.119.216.0/255.255.255.0 216.175.212.192/255.255.255.240 > > hosts deny = all # <- no other machines can access > > > > Perhaps you could suggest conf options that allows [incoming] connections, but don't broadcast availability (i.e. is 'invicible' to all but people that know that that machine is a smb server). As I said, I'm not samba expert! (BTW, my wife accesses the system from her computer at UMass) > > > > On Monday, May 7, 2001 11:01 AM, Keller, Tim <Tim.Keller(a)stratus.com> wrote: > > > >> Hey I was looking at the sample smb.conf file (and I've set up a bunch of > >> samba servers as well) and I saw something odd (well odd for > >> me) > >> > >> -- start cut -- > >> # Configure Samba to use multiple interfaces > >> # If you have multiple network interfaces then you must list them > >> # here. See the man page for details. > >> interfaces = 192.168.3.1 24.91.122.146 > >> -- end cut -- > >> > >> >From a home network point of view, why would you want samba to bind to your > >> external (24.xx...) address? Maybe I'm doing something wrong? > >> > >> I personally add rules to my firewall to block outgoing and incoming SMB > >> traffic to the outside world. SMB as a protocol goes (if you could call it > >> that) tends to tell the world more then one would want... > >> > >> Tim. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

May 7, 2001

Re: [Wlug] Upcoming meetings - topic proposals

by Peter Gutowski

Well, so far it's not been a problem, although I keep a close watch on suspicious activity. (You'll notice entries for hosts allow and hosts deny. So far that seems to be pretty effective, although I do notice twits trying to access and being denied): hosts allow = 192.168.3.0/255.255.255.224 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 128.119.216.0/255.255.255.0 216.175.212.192/255.255.255.240 hosts deny = all # <- no other machines can access Perhaps you could suggest conf options that allows [incoming] connections, but don't broadcast availability (i.e. is 'invicible' to all but people that know that that machine is a smb server). As I said, I'm not samba expert! (BTW, my wife accesses the system from her computer at UMass) On Monday, May 7, 2001 11:01 AM, Keller, Tim <Tim.Keller(a)stratus.com> wrote: >Hey I was looking at the sample smb.conf file (and I've set up a bunch of >samba servers as well) and I saw something odd (well odd for >me) > >-- start cut -- ># Configure Samba to use multiple interfaces ># If you have multiple network interfaces then you must list them ># here. See the man page for details. >interfaces = 192.168.3.1 24.91.122.146 >-- end cut -- > >>From a home network point of view, why would you want samba to bind to your >external (24.xx...) address? Maybe I'm doing something wrong? > >I personally add rules to my firewall to block outgoing and incoming SMB >traffic to the outside world. SMB as a protocol goes (if you could call it >that) tends to tell the world more then one would want... > >Tim. -- Peter Gutowski <peter(a)linuxchamps.com> // tel.: (413) 587-3957 "When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body not usually discovered." --George Washington, _Rules for Civility and Decent Behavior_

May 7, 2001

RE: [Wlug] Upcoming meetings - topic proposals

by Keller, Tim

Hey I was looking at the sample smb.conf file (and I've set up a bunch of samba servers as well) and I saw something odd (well odd for me) -- start cut -- # Configure Samba to use multiple interfaces # If you have multiple network interfaces then you must list them # here. See the man page for details. interfaces = 192.168.3.1 24.91.122.146 -- end cut --

May 7, 2001

more lp0

by gwlt＠ma.ultranet.com

Andy, Thank you for the leads. I genuinely appreciate all of your time. I have been trying to chase the leads down. When I: ps ax | grep lpd I get: 419 ? S 0:00 lpd 906 pts/0 S 0:00 grep lpd It appears that I have the older file nomenclature of conf.modules and not modules.conf. It should work just the same though. Under modprobe -c I get a note: Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/modules.dep In the listing that follows I do have: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc alias char-major-6 lp There is nothing for parport or lp under "options", Under "commands" I have: pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq I have to be honest with you and say that I am not sure what that actually means for the system mounting of appropriate the modules or not. Does this mean anything particular to you? Anyone else familiar with the difficulty? Assistance is enormously appreciated. Colin

May 7, 2001