From jammer at weak.org Tue Nov 13 18:10:38 2001 From: jammer at weak.org (Jon McClintock) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:10:38 -0800 Subject: [buug] LISA 2001 coming up... Message-ID: <20011113181038.A16526@weak.org> The Early Registration Discount for LISA 2001 has been EXTENDED to November 16th!! 15th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2001) December 2-7, 2001 - San Diego, CA USA http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa2001 LISA continues to provide unparalleled learning and networking opportunities for system administrators, with 5 technical tracks covering every major operating system, a special Network/Security track dedicated to the latest in system and network security, over 40 professional-level TUTORIALS and the first ever CORE CERTIFICATION EXAM - cSAGE. Register ONLINE for additional savings! CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS: *CNN.com: Facing a World Crisis William LeFebvre, CNN Internet Technologies This talk will tell the story of CNN.com and the team that worked so hard to meet the unbelievable user demand generated after the terrorist acts of September 11. One of the biggest challenges faced by the team was induced by cascading failures, so that increasing capacity alone was not sufficient to resurrect the site. The talk will conclude with a discussion about the relevance of this experience to anyone who runs a Web site. *Guru is in Sessions on AFS, LDAP, Backups, Email MTAs *Workshops on: AFS, cfengine, Intrusion Detection & Incident Response, MetaLISA, Advanced Topics, Teaching Sysadmin, and the taxonomy of sysadmin project. *FREE BOOK OFFER Attendees to LISA 2001 also receive a FREE copy of SELECTED PAPERS IN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION, to be published by Wiley in December and edited by Eric Anderson, Mark Burgess, and Alva Couch. The FIRST EVER CORE CERTIFICATION EXAM (cSAGE)! For one day only, beta testing of the core exam of cSAGE is being offered at a significantly reduced rate. Slots may still be available. For more info, visit http://www.sage.org/cert. Register Today! ================================================================ The 15th Systems Administration Conference (LISA 2001) is sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, and SAGE, the System Administrators Guild. ================================================================ From john at roiad.com Thu Nov 15 13:16:09 2001 From: john at roiad.com (john at roiad.com) Date: 15 Nov 2001 13:16:09 -0800 Subject: [buug] wireless Message-ID: <20011115211609.28290.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available URL: From bferrell at baywinds.org Thu Nov 15 14:28:19 2001 From: bferrell at baywinds.org (Bruce Ferrell) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 14:28:19 -0800 Subject: [buug] wireless References: <20011115211609.28290.cpmta@c001.snv.cp.net> Message-ID: <3BF44183.B51A2C49@baywinds.org> Best card I know of is the orinoco/lucent card. I prefer gold but the silver is good too. john at roiad.com wrote: > > I need a wireless nic for my laptop. Has anyone had any luck (good or bad) with any of them? > > I'm looking at netgear's card. I'd hate to buy the wireless equipment only to find that it doesnt' work well under linux. > > _______________________________________________ > Buug mailing list > Buug at weak.org > http://www.weak.org/mailman/listinfo/buug -- Bruce One day at a time... One second if that's what it takes From itz at speakeasy.org Thu Nov 15 23:18:21 2001 From: itz at speakeasy.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: 15 Nov 2001 23:18:21 -0800 Subject: [buug] selecting window managers from xdm: the solution Message-ID: <86y9l7yyiq.fsf@speakeasy.org> I asked: how can one select a window manager du jour when logging in through xdm? (and not wdm or gdm or kdm) The easy answer: modify /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources (which on my Debian system is really /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources) like this *** Xresources~ Thu Nov 15 22:55:05 2001 --- Xresources Thu Nov 15 22:54:40 2001 *************** *** 10,15 **** --- 10,17 ---- xlogin*login.translations: #override \ CtrlR: abort-display()\n\ F1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\ + F2: set-session-argument(wmaker) finish-field()\n\ + F3: set-session-argument(sawfish) finish-field()\n\ Delete: delete-character()\n\ Left: move-backward-character()\n\ Right: move-forward-character()\n\ Then, when you hit F2 or F3 in the xdm greeter, you'll be dropped in a WindowMaker or sawfish session respectively. Unfortunately, this didn't quite satisfy me, as your ~/.xsession script is completely ignored this way; the system will just start the window manager directly, bypassing the ~/.xsession script. I have some setup code there that I depend on: #! /bin/bash case $DISPLAY in :0) if [ -f $HOME/.Xmodmap ]; then /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap fi ;; esac . /etc/profile . $HOME/.bashrc exec wmaker So, the requirement was to pass the session argument from the greeter down to ~/.xsession. Like so often in Unix, the solution is at once baroque and elegant: Add an executable script linked to both /usr/local/bin/xsession-wmaker and /usr/local/bin/xsession-sawfish, containing #! /bin/sh # a hack to enable flexible window manager flipping in xdm oldpath=$PATH PATH=/bin:/usr/bin style=`basename $0 | sed -e 's/^xsession-//'` echo $style > $HOME/.xsession_style PATH=$oldpath exec $HOME/.xsession Modify Xresources as follows: *** Xresources~ Thu Nov 15 22:55:05 2001 --- Xresources Thu Nov 15 22:54:40 2001 *************** *** 10,17 **** xlogin*login.translations: #override \ CtrlR: abort-display()\n\ F1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\ ! F2: set-session-argument(wmaker) finish-field()\n\ ! F3: set-session-argument(sawfish) finish-field()\n\ Delete: delete-character()\n\ Left: move-backward-character()\n\ Right: move-forward-character()\n\ --- 10,17 ---- xlogin*login.translations: #override \ CtrlR: abort-display()\n\ F1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\ ! F2: set-session-argument(xsession-wmaker) finish-field()\n\ ! F3: set-session-argument(xsession-sawfish) finish-field()\n\ Delete: delete-character()\n\ Left: move-backward-character()\n\ Right: move-forward-character()\n\ And modify ~/.xsession as follows: *** .xsession~ Thu Nov 15 23:09:48 2001 --- .xsession Thu Nov 15 23:09:27 2001 *************** *** 10,13 **** . /etc/profile . $HOME/.bashrc ! exec wmaker --- 10,17 ---- . /etc/profile . $HOME/.bashrc ! if [ ! -f $HOME/.xsession_style ]; then ! echo wmaker > $HOME/.xsession_style ! fi ! ! exec `cat $HOME/.xsession_style` Voila. It even remembers your last choice, using it as a default until you hit the other function key :) BTW, if it wasn't clear (I guess it wasn't :), I am looking for a job, too. (Sysadmin/webmaster/programer). -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. Hypocrisy, arrogance and manipulation: sure-fire ways to earn hatred. GPG pub key: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 From bill at radiator.com Fri Nov 23 13:39:11 2001 From: bill at radiator.com (Bill Honeycutt) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:39:11 -0800 Subject: [buug] Ultra 10 - To buy or not to buy Message-ID: <3BFEC1FF.EFB052D2@radiator.com> Hi, I'm looking for input. I want to buy a Sun Ultra-10 with monitor. 300 mHz CPU 128 meg RAM 40 gig drive Creator 3D video card Solaris 8.0 installed The seller is asking $650. Does this seem like a fair price? Thanks in advance! Bill From bill at wiliweld.com Fri Nov 23 14:45:32 2001 From: bill at wiliweld.com (Bill Schoolcraft) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 14:45:32 -0800 (PST) Subject: [buug] Ultra 10 - To buy or not to buy In-Reply-To: <3BFEC1FF.EFB052D2@radiator.com> Message-ID: At Fri, 23 Nov 2001 it looks like Bill Honeycutt composed: > Hi, > > I'm looking for input. > > I want to buy a Sun Ultra-10 with monitor. > > 300 mHz CPU > 128 meg RAM > 40 gig drive > Creator 3D video card > Solaris 8.0 installed > > The seller is asking $650. Does this seem like a fair price? > I bought my Ultra-10 for $300, $322 with shipping to San Francisco from http://www.solarsystems.com , that was with no monitor but it's PCI based and despite my flat panel not working with it, my 17" CRT works fine and I put a removable hard drive tray in it, put in a 30-gig Maxtor (IDE) drive off the shelf and I'm running a dual boot "Solaris-8(sparc)" and "RedHat-6.2(sparc)" and using Linux's "SILO" to boot the Solaris8 OS, works great. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com From john at roiad.com Mon Nov 26 10:51:34 2001 From: john at roiad.com (john at roiad.com) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:51:34 -0500 Subject: [buug] mixer volume in linux Message-ID: does anyone know how I can make the mixer volume default to max at boot time? I currently use aumix to set it to max, but would prefer that it just boots, at max volume. I'm running linux 2.4.13 -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . From cmsclaud at arches.uga.edu Tue Nov 27 10:16:00 2001 From: cmsclaud at arches.uga.edu (Claude Rubinson) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:16:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: [buug] Stata or SUDAAN? Message-ID: I was wondering if anyone has access to a copy of Stata or SUDAAN. For my Master's thesis, I need to use a statistical package that can handle complex survey designs. If anyone has an extra copy of either of these packages, perhaps I can purchase it? I'd be especially interested in a copy of Stata for Linux. Thanks, Claude From Bill at 1800radiator.com Thu Nov 29 14:44:30 2001 From: Bill at 1800radiator.com (Honeycutt, Bill) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 14:44:30 -0800 Subject: [buug] Low end web server Message-ID: <40E8BDA5BE88D311847A0008C7332AE9672749@REBMSG01> Fellow BUUG'ees, I am trying to spec some hardware for a Linux server at work. This is going to be a web server running Apache and little else. We need to publish some server-side reports to about 100 people in the field, but I don't think we'll get more than 100-200 hits / day on the server, so this is a very low volume machine. Hardware-wise how low should we go, in your opinion? So long as it is rack mounted, I have no other physical qualifications in mind. We probably will mirror the drives so that recovery would be easier. So here's the question: What brand? What model? How much memory? Anyone care to share from personal experience with a similar installation? Thanks in advance! Bill _____/| Bill Honeycutt wfhoney at pacbell.net \ o 0 | 510-593-1195 bill at radiator.com =(')= Please remove "NO-S-P-A-M-" when replying. U ...sorry for the inconvenience! From rick at linuxmafia.com Fri Nov 30 11:37:35 2001 From: rick at linuxmafia.com (Rick Moen) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:37:35 -0800 Subject: [buug] Low end web server In-Reply-To: <40E8BDA5BE88D311847A0008C7332AE9672749@REBMSG01> References: <40E8BDA5BE88D311847A0008C7332AE9672749@REBMSG01> Message-ID: <20011130113735.U32527@linuxmafia.com> Bill Honeycutt wrote: > This is going to be a web server running Apache and little else. We need to > publish some server-side reports to about 100 people in the field, but I > don't think we'll get more than 100-200 hits / day on the server, so this is > a very low volume machine. > > Hardware-wise how low should we go, in your opinion? If you go under a 486 with 64MB RAM and a 2.1 GB hard drive, you'll probably regret it. But maybe not. That's what ran my medium-traffic Web / ftp / mailing-list / ssh-shell server for most of the 1990s. It eventually got replaced by a K6/233 with 64 MB RAM a pair of 4 GB or so, nice, fast IBM SCSI drives -- which is temporarily out of service until I swap in replacements for the drives, its place being filled by an aged PII/450 with 128 MB RAM and a pair of 9 GB Quantum SCSI drives. Neither of the latter machines breaks out a sweat under any load, though the K6 really should get its RAM quadrupled or more, since it's so cheap. I assume that puts your hardware picture in a bit better perspective? People new to Linux -- especially servers -- usually make the mistake of vastly overestimating the need for CPU power, while slightly shortchanging I/O and in particular the disk subsystem. But that usually doesn't matter, because even a low-end bow with a single, shlocky IDE hard drive can reliably saturate a T1 line. > So long as it is rack mounted, I have no other physical qualifications > in mind. We probably will mirror the drives so that recovery would be > easier. Better have a backup strategy. Using software RAID-1 (mirroring) will make you feel clever right up until you realise that something's gone from _both_ drives. Start here: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html And it'd be nice if there were a nice, safe choice in reliable, well-supported PCI ethernet chipsets. It's difficult to say what's your safe bet, these days. Intel is playing variation-du-jour with its EthernetExpressPro 100 chipset, and the glory days of the DEC 1040/21041/21140 "Tulip" chipset ended shortly after Intel bought and discontinued the production line. Someone might be able to recommend a reliable Tulip clone used by somebody. (NetGear? Samsung? LinkSys? ADMtek? ASIX? LiteOn? MXIC? STmicro? Kingston? D-Link?) You see, the other mistake newcomers to hardware for Linux keep making is to assume that newer is better. Older, standard components are likely to have mature, well-tested drivers. If you stick to quality parts, you can do very well indeed. (This is why a lot of people stocked up on $24 NetGear cards that had genuine DEC Tulip chips on them, before supply ran out. They're still good.) > So here's the question: > > What brand? > What model? > How much memory? My favourite brand is "built it myself so I can control component selection", so I can't help you there. RAM is so cheap, why not just get 1/2 a gig? But 64 MB will probably be enough. -- This message falsely claims to have been scanned for viruses with F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange and to have been found clean.