- WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] The Care and Feeding of a dell power edge 2650

by Conner Finlay

Alex, Just wondering, but what student organization is it? I am a little biased here, but I would recommend installing CentOS over Debian, but I'm sure that others on this mailing list will disagree with me. This guide should be a good starting point for what you are looking to do: http://www.howtoforge.com/centos-5.1-server-lamp-email-dns-ftp-ispconfig <http://www.howtoforge.com/centos-5.1-server-lamp-email-dns-ftp-ispconfig>The NSA has really good guides on securing Operating Systems, here is the one for RHEL/CentOS: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_syst… <http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_syst…>Hopefully this gets you on the right track, if you have any further questions please ask. -Conner On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Alex Camilo <alex.camilo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The student organization i belong to has recently been entrusted with a > retired dell power edge 2650 rack mount server. Me and another club member > are going to be in charge of setting up and maintaining the server. I'm > pretty sure there is a lot of information i'm simply not aware of and i was > wondering if anyone with IT experience would be willing to give me a few > pointers. > > My current plan is to install a minimal system (prefferably debian based) > install the services i need (LAMP) and then harden the box with a set of > restrictive iptables rules and keep up to date with security updates. > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > -- Conner Finlay

April 5, 2009

gl over ssh

by bkn＠ithryn.net

Hi all, I've run into snag with using ssh x-forwarding and GL. I'm trying to run a program which uses GL remotely. The program runs and the GUI pops up with sliders and such visible, but the GL part of the gui is not displaying. everything else with the program is functional. When i start the program from the prompt i did notice the following error, libGL error: XF86DRIAuthConnection failed libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering and on the side that displays the program i see the following error in the xorg.log file (each line represents each attempt at running the program), failed to authenticate 8 failed to authenticate 9 I've google'd around and haven't much useful information. i do have write permissions to /dev/dri. Also local GL programs display just fine, this only happens with ssh forwarding (i've tried ssh -X and ssh -Y). Both machines are ubuntu, the display machine is ubuntu 8.10 and the other is 8.04. They both use the stock xorg.conf file, which is pretty minimal, i'm guessing that's because xorg tried to determine everything at runtime. If anyone has any hints or suggestions, let me know, thanks. Thanks, -- brad

April 4, 2009

The Care and Feeding of a dell power edge 2650

by Alex Camilo

The student organization i belong to has recently been entrusted with a retired dell power edge 2650 rack mount server. Me and another club member are going to be in charge of setting up and maintaining the server. I'm pretty sure there is a lot of information i'm simply not aware of and i was wondering if anyone with IT experience would be willing to give me a few pointers. My current plan is to install a minimal system (prefferably debian based) install the services i need (LAMP) and then harden the box with a set of restrictive iptables rules and keep up to date with security updates.

April 4, 2009

Re: [Wlug] Linux from Scratch - anyone use this?

by Eric Martin

Alexander Haley wrote: > As a recent newcomer to this group ... I've lurked about a bit .. but > now I have a question: > > Has anyone used or is anyone using the Linux from Scratch project? > > I've built several systems through it -- however none exist today ; > Mainly it has been > a learning experience for me. I'm looking to actually create and > stick with a LFS > creation in the upcoming future. > > So - thoughts ? Advice ? > I did it once for a school project. The main problem with sticking with it is there isn't any package management, so you have to keep abreast of security / feature updates and make sure everything plays nicely with everything else. Might I inquire why you want to put yourself through that? It's a fun experience but the system gets outdated very fast. If you're tried of binary distros I would suggest Gentoo. It's a fun meta-distro that is built from scratch but with a package management system. Also, if you ever find the hankering to build your packages from scratch you can and just tell portage so it doesn't clobber stuff. I'm very curious as to your motivations though so please share (if you don't mind) -- Eric Martin Key fingerprint = D1C4 086E DBB5 C18E 6FDA B215 6A25 7174 A941 3B9F

April 3, 2009

Linux from Scratch - anyone use this?

by Alexander Haley

As a recent newcomer to this group ... I've lurked about a bit .. but now I have a question: Has anyone used or is anyone using the Linux from Scratch project? I've built several systems through it -- however none exist today ; Mainly it has been a learning experience for me. I'm looking to actually create and stick with a LFS creation in the upcoming future. So - thoughts ? Advice ? Thanks, Alexander

April 3, 2009

Re: [Wlug] Linux audio

by Jamie Guinan

But PulseAudio is so simple and elegant! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Pulseaudio-diagram.png -Jamie On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Eric Stein wrote: > Screw PulseAudio. I won't be using it until they pry ALSA out of my cold > dead hands. > > Eric > > Nick Nassar wrote: > > People were posting about audio problems in Fedora a while back. This > > is the full explanation. > > > > http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/10/pulse-my-audio.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 3, 2009

Re: [Wlug] Linux audio

by Richard Klein

Okay, now I'm picturing Charlton Heston doing infomercials for Ubuntu. -- Rich Sent from Framingham, Massachusetts, United States On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Eric Stein <eastein(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > Screw PulseAudio. I won't be using it until they pry ALSA out of my cold > dead hands.

April 3, 2009

Re: [Wlug] Linux audio

by Eric Stein

Screw PulseAudio. I won't be using it until they pry ALSA out of my cold dead hands. Eric Nick Nassar wrote: > People were posting about audio problems in Fedora a while back. This > is the full explanation. > > http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/10/pulse-my-audio.html > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 3, 2009

Linux audio

by Nick Nassar

People were posting about audio problems in Fedora a while back. This is the full explanation. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/10/pulse-my-audio.html

April 3, 2009

Re: [Wlug] [OT] hyperterm OS X

by Theo Van Dinter

Yep, it's pretty straightforward: $ cat ~/.kermrc set line /dev/tty.USA19QW3b1P1.1 set flow none set speed 9600 set carrier-watch off I found that the device name would change based on which USB port the dongle was plugged into. fyi. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Theo Van Dinter <felicity(a)kluge.net> wrote: > I have a pretty straightforward .kermrc file at home that I can mail > out later this evening. It's mainly just "set line", "set speed", > "set device", as I recall.

April 2, 2009