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Re: [Wlug] FC2 and FC3 to FC4 ... ?

by Chuck Anderson

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:50:18PM -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > around I was thinking of either using yum or burning some CDs and doing > the upgrade method (which the Fedora guys recommended to me). > > Anyone have suggestions about what method works best? Any gotchas I should > worry about, etc? Using anacaconda is the official, supported method of upgrading a Fedora system. The reason is simple: certain tasks cannot be done on the live running system, but instead must be done from outside the normal system environment (e.g. filesystem/lvm conversion, incompatible kernel<->userspace changes like NPTL, new kernel features like SELinux support, rpm scriptlets). I've had success upgrading to FC4 from as far back as Red Hat Linux 7.3. That being said, yum sometimes works well if you take into account some of the manual tasks you may need to do before and after, e.g. sometimes you must remove several older kernel versions manually before attempting the yum update. The success of this method deteriorates increasingly as the version difference of the before and after OSes increases. I have not used this method extensively except between FC test and development (rawhide) releases. What I have been doing recently for remote upgrades is using the grub installed on the existing OS to boot the anaconda installer environment with the proper command line arguments to start a VNC-based network install. You then reboot the system, wait a few moments, and connect to it via VNC to finish the graphical install manually. Of course, you could also use kickstart to completely automate this with no user interaction required. cd /boot wget -O vmlinuz-fc4 http://<fc-mirror>/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/isolinux/vmlinuz wget -O initrd-fc4.img http://<fc-mirror>/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os/isolinux/initrd edit /etc/grub.conf, adding this to the beginning: title Fedora Core 4 installer root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-fc4 headless ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 method=http://<fc-mirror>/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/os lang=en_US keymap=us vnc vncpassword=<password> initrd /initrd-fc4.img Notes: 1. If you have multiple NICs, eth0 may not be the one you think it will be once you reboot into the installer. Therefore, it is highly recommended to specify the desired install NIC using its MAC address: ksdevice=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:Ff 2. Don't forget to set the default boot entry in grub to the installer entry, e.g. default=0 Reboot: shutdown -r now vncviewer <remote-ip>:0 IMPORTANT: Be sure to select "Create a new bootloader configuration". I found out the hard way that "Update existing bootloader configuration" will leave you with no way to remotely boot into the new OS after the upgrade is completed, because grub will default to booting the installer over and over again, and remotely re-upgrading and selecting "Create a new bootloader configuration" afterwards will not re-write the bootloader because it only does that if a new kernel gets installed, which it won't since it was already installed the first time you upgraded... Finally, SELinux doesn't get enabled automatically on upgrades, but you can easily enable it manually afterwards: yum install setools selinux-policy-targeted touch /.autorelabel reboot More info: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/ http://www.arenatechniques.com/kb/index.php/Anaconda http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq/

Dec. 30, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Busybox / mips / embedded Linux question

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:42, Andy Stewart wrote: > >>Within busybox, command substitution and pipes don't work on this MIPS >>box (but they do work on my x86_64). > > > are you using uClibc 0.9.28 or the uClibc snapshot ? busybox release or > busybox snapshot ? is your cpu big endian mips ? i can gen a buildroot over > here and test it on a little endian mips box pretty quickly, but i'll have to > fiddle to boot my big endian mips ... Hi Mike, Here's what I'm using: uClibc-0.9.28 busybox-1.01 target cpu is little endian (mipsel) Linux kernel is 2.4.30 (yes, I hacked in the headers...) > > also, you could have just posted this to the busybox mailing list, we dont > mind these sort of things ;) > -mike > I considered that, especially when I saw a "Mike Frysinger" over there, and wondered if there was more than one of you on the Internet. :-) Thanks! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDtH0/Hl0iXDssISsRAr0iAKCIAgChF0hmBtJacLyW0yp1mp/WGQCeLgkh hyrJzp8NzhaDf5QV2AUYhPc= =OQGz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dec. 30, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Busybox / mips / embedded Linux question

by Mike Frysinger

On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:42, Andy Stewart wrote: > Within busybox, command substitution and pipes don't work on this MIPS > box (but they do work on my x86_64). are you using uClibc 0.9.28 or the uClibc snapshot ? busybox release or busybox snapshot ? is your cpu big endian mips ? i can gen a buildroot over here and test it on a little endian mips box pretty quickly, but i'll have to fiddle to boot my big endian mips ... also, you could have just posted this to the busybox mailing list, we dont mind these sort of things ;) -mike

Dec. 29, 2005

FC2 and FC3 to FC4 ... ?

by Theo Van Dinter

Hey folks, I have an FC2 and FC3 machine which I want to get upgraded to FC4. In the past, I used to spend an hour or two doing this type of thing manually which was a pain but generally got the job done ... This time around I was thinking of either using yum or burning some CDs and doing the upgrade method (which the Fedora guys recommended to me). Anyone have suggestions about what method works best? Any gotchas I should worry about, etc? Thanks in advance! :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it." - Zen Musings

Dec. 29, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Busybox / mips / embedded Linux question

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > I've been scouring the net and cannot find an answer. I must be doing > something wrong, but I know not what. Does anybody have any helpful hints? Other notes: With respect to file descriptors, I noticed on my x86_64 system that /dev/fd is a symlink to /proc/self/fd, but not so on the MIPS box. I added that link to no avail. It seemed relevant, but perhaps not. /proc is enabled on the MIPS box. I also checked via ulimit to insure that I wasn't somehow limited in the number of open file descriptors. No problems there as far as I can tell. I think that's it for now. Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDtGfoHl0iXDssISsRAlMbAJ4odnJkq+6nmuUmwqnobUFHCeKnCQCfW0lo Ih8arrn+mj7WxdbUpmCHmqo= =R4qz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dec. 29, 2005

Busybox / mips / embedded Linux question

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, I am playing with a single board computer (SBC) in an attempt to make a diskless, fanless, silent firewall. Specifically, its the RouterBoard 532 (http://www.routerboard.com) The processor is MIPS based (4Kc). I've been using the buildroot software (nice!) which made creating the cross compiler enviroment considerably easier than my previous (failed) attempts at doing this by hand. My cross compiler environment is now working quite nicely. I have created an environment where I have loaded software onto a compact flash card and booted Linux 2.4.30 on this box. I have logged in and gotten the box talking on the net. All 3 ethernet ports function, as well as ssh and dhcp. Sweet! My next step is to take the SuSE firewall scripts (they are GPL) and run them on this box. However, I'm hitting a wall that I don't think I should be hitting. Within busybox, command substitution and pipes don't work on this MIPS box (but they do work on my x86_64). command substitution example: echo `cat /etc/hostname` pipes: ls -l | grep foo With neither of these working, real scripts don't work too well. :-( I've traced the source code (gotta love free software!) and the code fails whenever it calls the function dup2(). I'm not sure why dup2() fails, but it does, returning EBADF (bad file descriptor). I tried installing bash and noticed exactly the same thing. dup2() seems to be implemented as a system call into the kernel, but that's where I get lost. I've been scouring the net and cannot find an answer. I must be doing something wrong, but I know not what. Does anybody have any helpful hints? Thanks! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDtGZXHl0iXDssISsRAjuLAKCFg/zGddsXpVH8rIe/m4n2I/OSTACaAoQf BDkJ30y7RJ634XazzPgGAWY= =w+LK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dec. 29, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Re: Wlug Digest, Vol 26, Issue 19

by Chuck Anderson

On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:54:29PM -0500, Carlton C. Stedman II wrote: > The situation you describe about the removable drives mounting in /media > suggests it is using udev, hal, d-bus and ivman. Your home system should FC3 and FC4 come preconfigured to use udev, hal, d-bus, and gnome-volume-manager. ivman doesn't ship with FC. When hal notices a new block device (via the kernel hotplug mechanism), it should call /etc/hal/device.d/50-fstab-sync.hal which is a symlink to /usr/sbin/fstab-sync. This is what creates the mount points in /media and adds/removes entries from /etc/fstab. Entries that have been added by fstab-sync are marked with "managed" in the options field. Then gnome-volume-manager mounts the device if the option "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged" is set. Since I've never needed to change the defaults here, I'm not sure how to fix the specific problem Bill is having. I would assume that removing all traces of manual configuration in /etc/fstab etc. should cause the default behavior to be restored.

Dec. 29, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by Matt Higgins

I run OpenWrt at work and at home, it is a very nice piece of work, never had a lockup. If you have some more dough I recommend net4801 http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm The one I have is currently running OpenBSD but is of course Linux friendly and you can do a lot more with it. -Matt On 12/23/05, Mike <mwp(a)sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a > single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt > project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? > > Happy Holidays, > Mike > > OpenWrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/FrontPage > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Dec. 29, 2005

Re: Wlug Digest, Vol 26, Issue 19

by Carlton C. Stedman II

The situation you describe about the removable drives mounting in /media suggests it is using udev, hal, d-bus and ivman. Your home system should be using udev, but not sure if it has hal or d-bus; even if, doesn't sound like it has ivman. I'm not so sure about how to do this in FC, I'm a gentoo guy, but you'd need to have all of those installed and set up. This might be of some help: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman. You need udev and d-bus for hal, and then just need to start the hal daemon (hald). Then start ivman, and it should autodetect devices plugged in and put them into /media. For example, /media/usbdisk0 would be the first partion of the first usb disk plugged in (I do believe). It'll add new devices to your /etc/fstab. You can, however, have a bit more control over this, setting up a udev rule to make your disk use a specific device file, for example /dev/mydrive and then put a listing in /etc/fstab to mount /dev/mydrive at /media/mydrive. Then, when plugged in, udev will create the /dev/mydrive device file and ivman will detect it's creation and readiness and mount it at /media/mydrive. Spiffy stuff. For more information on writing udev rules: http://gentoo-wiki.com/UDEV_Overview#Writing_custom_udev_rules. Bill Mills-Curran <bill(a)mills-curran.net> wrote... > Subject: [Wlug] usb drive -- hotplug/automount > To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)wlug.org> > Message-ID: <20051227205055.GA6082(a)bday.mills.curran> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I have a question about hotplugging & USB and some differences I see > between 2 different FC3 systems (home & work). > > **** Home > > Initially, I configured my drive at home. I did NOT have the menu > item: > > Preferences -> Removable Storage > > set to "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged". Without realizing > that this was an option, I used manual entries in fstab: > > # usb drive > LABEL=usblinux /mnt/usb/linux auto defaults,user 0 0 > /dev/sde2 /mnt/usb/windows auto defaults,user 0 0 > /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb/camera auto defaults,user 0 0 > > This worked well & good. I was happy to be able to mount the > partitions as a user. Note that the linux partition has a label > "usblinux". > > Then, I moved the drive to my work machine. > > **** Work > > I plugged the drive in and was surprised to find that both partitions > automatically mounted in /media: > > /media/usbdisk > /media/usblinux > > I also saw that entries were added to /etc/fstab, reflecting the mount > points and device names. > > I recognized this as better action. > > Returning home... > > **** Home > > Plugging the drive in, I confirmed that nothing was happening in > /media. I found the entry to automount the drive in: > > Preferences -> Removable Storage > > and enabled it. I unplugged and plugged the drive, and it mounted > with this from df: > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > <snip> > /dev/sde1 72801276 1704196 67398920 3% /mnt/usb/camera > /dev/sde2 4176756 96 4176660 1% /mnt/usb/windows > > This is not what I wanted. It used my fstab entries, and it picked > the "camera" entry over the labeled entry. > > OK, so I deleted the fstab entries & tried again. This time nothing > mounted. > > **** What I'd like to happen. > > 1. Mount when plugged in. > > 2. Don't specify the device -- after all, some other (new) usb device > could disturb the device name. > > How do I get there? > > TIA, > Bill > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > End of Wlug Digest, Vol 26, Issue 19 > ************************************ > -- Carlton C. Stedman II, sageman(a)wpi.edu "To iterate is human, to recurse, divine." -- L. Peter Deutch

Dec. 29, 2005

usb drive -- hotplug/automount

by Bill Mills-Curran

I have a question about hotplugging & USB and some differences I see between 2 different FC3 systems (home & work). **** Home Initially, I configured my drive at home. I did NOT have the menu item: Preferences -> Removable Storage set to "Mount removable drives when hot-plugged". Without realizing that this was an option, I used manual entries in fstab: # usb drive LABEL=usblinux /mnt/usb/linux auto defaults,user 0 0 /dev/sde2 /mnt/usb/windows auto defaults,user 0 0 /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb/camera auto defaults,user 0 0 This worked well & good. I was happy to be able to mount the partitions as a user. Note that the linux partition has a label "usblinux". Then, I moved the drive to my work machine. **** Work I plugged the drive in and was surprised to find that both partitions automatically mounted in /media: /media/usbdisk /media/usblinux I also saw that entries were added to /etc/fstab, reflecting the mount points and device names. I recognized this as better action. Returning home... **** Home Plugging the drive in, I confirmed that nothing was happening in /media. I found the entry to automount the drive in: Preferences -> Removable Storage and enabled it. I unplugged and plugged the drive, and it mounted with this from df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on <snip> /dev/sde1 72801276 1704196 67398920 3% /mnt/usb/camera /dev/sde2 4176756 96 4176660 1% /mnt/usb/windows This is not what I wanted. It used my fstab entries, and it picked the "camera" entry over the labeled entry. OK, so I deleted the fstab entries & tried again. This time nothing mounted. **** What I'd like to happen. 1. Mount when plugged in. 2. Don't specify the device -- after all, some other (new) usb device could disturb the device name. How do I get there? TIA, Bill

Dec. 27, 2005

Exim/MX/Mail forwarding

by Michael Zarozinski

Hi, We have 2 dedicated servers, I'm hoping someone can help save me some time and keep me from messing up the servers! Our 2 servers are: Server "A": 111.111.111.111 Server "B": 222.222.222.222 (not the real IPs obviously!) I've configured Exim to allow us to send email to a domain literal (so mail sent to michaelz(a)[222.222.222.222] works) What we'd like to do is have ALL email sent to server "A" go to server "B"... I know this can be done with MX files, but I'm not sure about setting up "domain zones" or if it's easier to just change some settings in Exim. Thank you! Michael Z

Dec. 27, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by John Stoffel

Mike> At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router Mike> from a single board computer. I was poking around the net and Mike> found the OpenWrt project. I'm curious if anyone has any Mike> experience with OpenWrt? I used to run LEAF/bering from the Linux Router project, but it seemed to die after a while and I didn't care for using an old PC with CDROM/floppy as my firewall anymore. I ended up moving to m0n0wall (http://m0n0.ch) on a WRAP board with three ethernet ports, http://www.pcengines.ch and I've been very happy. Don't bother getting a wireless card, just get a seperate Linksys WRT54G (or something like that) box and hang it off it's own network port. This setup works really nicely, and has really low power/noise, which is what I was after. m0n0wall is based on FreeBSD I admit, but that didn't stop me... :] John

Dec. 27, 2005

Re: [Wlug] USB drive & logical volumes

by Mike Leo

The reason we use logical volumes is to prevent any one volume from filling up / (which can also be accomplished with physical volumes, I know), but also to allow us to simply resize them somewhat on the fly. for instance, if /home becomes full, we can add additionally harddrives (internal or SAN) and resize the /home logical volume with the new space. This can be done without taking /home offline, although i've never done that. So I'm not sure how much of a benefit a logical volume would be on a fixed sized external drive. At least not in the way we use it. --- Bill Mills-Curran <bill(a)mills-curran.net> wrote: > Santa brought me a nice 80 GB "portable" USB drive. > My intended use > is a combination of backup and transporting personal > files to/from > work (I want to remove them from my work hard > drive). Both home and > work systems are FC3, but may be FC4 sometime soon. > > I was ready to partitioning (4 GB fat, remainder > ext3) when I started > reading up on logical volumes. They seem pretty > neat, but I wonder > if they are useful for a portable drive. In > particular, I can see > that some/all of the definitions for the group and > volume are in > /dev/mapper, so I'd have to duplicate some of the > setup on both > machines. > > > Any recommendations or experience? Would I be > better off with > physical partitions for this use? > > TIA, > Bill > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

Dec. 26, 2005

USB drive & logical volumes

by Bill Mills-Curran

Santa brought me a nice 80 GB "portable" USB drive. My intended use is a combination of backup and transporting personal files to/from work (I want to remove them from my work hard drive). Both home and work systems are FC3, but may be FC4 sometime soon. I was ready to partitioning (4 GB fat, remainder ext3) when I started reading up on logical volumes. They seem pretty neat, but I wonder if they are useful for a portable drive. In particular, I can see that some/all of the definitions for the group and volume are in /dev/mapper, so I'd have to duplicate some of the setup on both machines. Any recommendations or experience? Would I be better off with physical partitions for this use? TIA, Bill

Dec. 26, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by Mike

I have been using Linux for 4-5 years no so I am definatly up for the task. I haven't had much experience with setting up a Linux router/firewall, but I think my other experience will be enough. Part of doing this project is to learn more using Linux as a router. I heard about the crippled WRT54G from slashdot and few other places. According to OpenWrt's wiki version 3 of the WRT54GS has 8MB of flash and 32MBs ram. However version 4 they cut it in half. Anyway thanks for the info. Cheers, Mike <quote who="Karl Hiramoto"> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yes, excellent distro.. I use it on 12 boxes which are a mix of > Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS. > I do OLSR mesh networks and hot spots. Beware WRT54G with hardware > version 5 does not work. as Cisco cripled the box with only 4M of > ram. See info on www.openwrt.org for hardware compatibility. > > It's definitely not a newbie distro though, you need to know linux and > networking. > > Some people try openwrt and are upset because it requires you to know > something about Linux and networking. There are several other > distros out there that are more easy, but less configurable and less > hackable. :-) > > Enjoy, > > - -- > > - -- > Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> > Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto jabber.org=karl_hiramoto > > > > Mike wrote: > >>At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a >>single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt >>project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? >> >>Happy Holidays, >>Mike >> >>OpenWrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/FrontPage >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Wlug mailing list >>Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >>http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >> > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFDrCBdi5PWRMgthfERAmEqAJ9PRi6apq32NNX2720sheDVRnXzIgCcDOFm > /hSLn2WAqswfmZwedo7pWnk= > =WfWm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Emacs would be a far better OS if it shipped with a halfway-decent text editor. --Anonymous

Dec. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by Jeff Kinz

> Mike wrote: > >At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a > >single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt > >project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 05:05:49PM +0100, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > Yes, excellent distro.. I use it on 12 boxes which are a mix of > Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS. Bad news - Good News: FYI - LINKSYS Model Changes: The Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS lines have moved from Linux to VXworks to reduce the cost of producing the hardware. (VXworks requires less memory, reduces the size of the flash needed for the device, which now doesn't have enough room for Linux.) Fortunately, Linksys had added a new model specifically for Linux hackers, called the "WRT54GL", (presumably the "L" is for "Linux"), which will have a street price of $50-$70, slightly higher than the VXworks models. If you want to hack on one of these boxes, make sure that you get the correct model. Versions 1 thru 4 of the WRT54G and WRT54GS were Linux based but all versions from 5 and up will be VXworks based. If you can't get a v4 or earlier model of the original line, then make sure you get a WRT54GL or be prepared to replace the internal flash component with a larger piece. http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006101.html -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco

Dec. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] OpenWrt

by Karl Hiramoto

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, excellent distro.. I use it on 12 boxes which are a mix of Linksys WRT54G and WRT54GS. I do OLSR mesh networks and hot spots. Beware WRT54G with hardware version 5 does not work. as Cisco cripled the box with only 4M of ram. See info on www.openwrt.org for hardware compatibility. It's definitely not a newbie distro though, you need to know linux and networking. Some people try openwrt and are upset because it requires you to know something about Linux and networking. There are several other distros out there that are more easy, but less configurable and less hackable. :-) Enjoy, - -- - -- Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto jabber.org=karl_hiramoto Mike wrote: >At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a >single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt >project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? > >Happy Holidays, >Mike > >OpenWrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/FrontPage > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDrCBdi5PWRMgthfERAmEqAJ9PRi6apq32NNX2720sheDVRnXzIgCcDOFm /hSLn2WAqswfmZwedo7pWnk= =WfWm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Dec. 23, 2005

OpenWrt

by Mike

At the last meeting we briefly discussed building a Linux Router from a single board computer. I was poking around the net and found the OpenWrt project. I'm curious if anyone has any experience with OpenWrt? Happy Holidays, Mike OpenWrt: http://wiki.openwrt.org/FrontPage

Dec. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Somewhat Off-topic - vpsland.com

by Webmaster

Karl Hiramoto wrote: > Post to the list a review if you try it. I personally am looking for a hosting > solution for under $100/ month and the virtual servers seem to be the most > economical now. > > What i personally need is full root access, 15+ GB of disk, 100+ GB of xfer, > 256+M of RAM. I've been looking around for something for a while, but have not > made the leap yet. > > --- > Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> http://karl.hiramoto.org/ > Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto GTalk=karl.hiramoto(a)gmail.com > ---- I use serverpronto.com for both of my dedicated servers - $30/month. They offer a few distros to choose from: Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSe, Gentoo, FreeBSD and OpenBSD Basic package includes: Athlon 2000 256 MB RAM 40GB Hard drive 200GB Traffic I've used them for about 2 years now and haven't had any issues with the servers or service. Rob Mahlert .

Dec. 23, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Reliable Linux Laptop Vendor

by Brett Russ

On 12/22/05, Brett Russ <bruss(a)alum.wpi.edu> wrote: > On 12/18/05, Mims Research <mimsresearch(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > will be researching video capture and editing suites (open source or > > otherwise) suitable for a Linux environment, but for now I'll be happy > > For video editing/DVD creation, see the two feature articles in this months LJ: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/141 Oops, sorry about that. Should have checked the actual article links before sending this out. You need to be a subscriber to see the articles from the current month's issue. So, either: -wait a couple weeks until they open up those articles; or -check out Kino (there were other tools mentioned but this was the big app); or -all of the above BR

Dec. 22, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Reliable Linux Laptop Vendor

by Brett Russ

On 12/18/05, Mims Research <mimsresearch(a)gmail.com> wrote: > will be researching video capture and editing suites (open source or > otherwise) suitable for a Linux environment, but for now I'll be happy For video editing/DVD creation, see the two feature articles in this months LJ: http://www.linuxjournal.com/issue/141 BR

Dec. 22, 2005

Setting up LDAP server?

by Tom Misilo

Hey, I was wondering if anybody had a nice easy tutorial for setting up an ldap server so i can store my address book and calendar and access it with kontact/outlook/ and other software Thanks, Tom -- Tom Misilo AIM:Tmisilo FL Jabber:tmisilo@jabber.org

Dec. 21, 2005

Anybody use a linksys wpc54gx?

by Tom Misilo

Does anybody use a wpc54gx under suse 10 or 9.3? and have it detected automatically in yast? or do I have to use ndiswrapper Thanks, Tom -- Tom Misilo AIM:Tmisilo FL Jabber:tmisilo@jabber.org

Dec. 21, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Somewhat Off-topic - vpsland.com

by Casey Rankin

I'm really happy with a dedicated server I rent from servermatrix.com. They have one for $119.... Casey On 12/21/05, Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> wrote: > Post to the list a review if you try it. I personally am looking for a hosting > solution for under $100/ month and the virtual servers seem to be the most > economical now. > > What i personally need is full root access, 15+ GB of disk, 100+ GB of xfer, > 256+M of RAM. I've been looking around for something for a while, but have not > made the leap yet. > > --- > Karl Hiramoto <karl(a)hiramoto.org> http://karl.hiramoto.org/ > Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto GTalk=karl.hiramoto(a)gmail.com > ------ > > > Adam Keck wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am thinking about web/ssh/etc. hosting with vpsland.com. They > > host via Xen virtual machines. Has anyone had any experience with > > them? Does anyone use them currently? Does anything about them look > > fishy? > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > - Adam > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 >

Dec. 21, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Somewhat Off-topic - vpsland.com

by Theo Van Dinter

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:15:35PM +0100, Karl Hiramoto wrote: > Post to the list a review if you try it. I personally am looking for a hosting > solution for under $100/ month and the virtual servers seem to be the most > economical now. In a similar vein -- anyone have suggestions about colo facilities in the area? I have some 1U machines that I'd like to put up somewhere, but the colos I've found so far seem to be either really expensive or only allow a very small amount of bandwidth transfer (like 4KB/sec small -- I could just get a modem). -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests." - Bob Lazarus

Dec. 21, 2005