February 2009 - KCLUG

I installed Linux on my pumpkin
by Brian Kelsay 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

As a fun project I decided to promote Linux on Halloween. About 30 minutes with the dremel and a pattern from the web. http://www.pumpkinlady.com/tuxpattern.htm

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last week's beef
by David Nicol 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/02/20/microsoft-red-hat-deal-dispels-… -- Freedom's colors are red, white and black and blue.

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Looking for a Linux / UNIX job. Anyone?
by Ty Unes 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Does anyone on list know of any Linux / UNIX jobs available in the KC Metro area? Even a Junior Admin job would be good. Thanks all. Sincerely, Ty Unes

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Let the hair-pulling and name calling once more commence
by David Nicol 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

http://www.redhat.com/promo/svvp/?intcmp=70160000000HiHHAA0

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Yubikey Bulk Order
by Billy Crook 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

http://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey/ Anyone else interested? They're a hardware authentication token. Think RSA SecureID without having to read or type, much less expensive, and much more entropy. There's a pam module out there for auth, and the manufacturer has a google code project for the utility that you use to change their internal, private key. (They use asymmetric crypto.) I'm probably buying mine in a week, so speak up on list or off if you want one. Count on paying $22 for each. (second cost bracket, plus splitting shipping) The manufacturer believes in open source, and has intelligent support.

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get root on os X
by David Nicol 10 Feb '09

10 Feb '09

Anyone with os X experience what an occasional sysadmin client? Contact me off-list for introduction.

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LVM help
by Clayton, C. Ben 09 Feb '09

09 Feb '09

First off this is my first post so I apologize ahead of time if this is the wrong place for this. Linux administration is a secondary skill so I was hoping I get some advice. We're getting ready to install a new database server into our enviornment. It's meant to replace our current database server. We have a Hitachi SAN that stores the database files. We currently have 2 databases on the server. Each database has it's own Physical Group of about 12 LUNS. The LUNs are multipathed with HDLM. The plan is to install Red Hat 4.6 on the new server and try to get it configured identically to the current production box. That way we can present the LUNs with the database information already on it. This gets around the need to restore from backups. Time is sensitive because we have a 4 hour maintainance window. We also want to split the databases so that they are on different machines. What I'm unsure of, is when I change the zoning so the new server sees the LUNs will LVM pick up the Volume Group from LUNs? I was going to try to copy the LVM configuration from the original server, but I was worried that the multipathing would be an issue since we're dropping the total number of LUNs when we split the Volume Groups. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks, Ben

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Servers for sale (Dell PE 1750)
by Joe Brouhard 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

I have two PowerEdge 1750 Servers for sale. you can look up the specs here: http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/1750_specs.pdf Both come with Dual processors, 1GB RAM (2x 512MB DDR strips) and 3x 18 GB SCSI Hard Drives, all in working condition. Asking for $150 a piece, or best offer. Contact me off list if you can. Thanks! Joe Brouhard jbrouhard(a)gmail.com

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Router Problem
by Jim Herrmann 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Well, now back to my original problem. I have two run of the mill routers. I have a LinkSys WRT54G router/WAP that is connected to the cable modem. My shop building is too far away (120+ft) from the Linksys to make an effective wireless connection out here, but I have ethernet running from the Linksys to the shop building. I have an old Netgear WGR614 router/WAP that I can stick on the end of the ethernet cable, and I can establish a network connection, I can get to the internet, etc. That's all cool. The problem I have is that I can't get to our shared drive (Buffalo Link Station NAS), which uses SMB, that has the bulk of our music on it. I could live without it, but it would be nice to have, and still be wireless. So, how do I configure the Netgear to "pass thru" the SMB traffic. I guess I want to set The Netgear up as a bridge, but donot see any way to do that. Any thoughts on that one? Thanks, Jim -- - That One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCUOHKznUyI

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Restating the case for keeping "User Data" on a physically separate drive or drives
by Oren Beck 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

I have been gently suggesting a new practice. Making it routine to keep the Non-OS data on a separate drive from the OS. Bluntly stating the two bedrock facts seems belaboring the obvious. But the percent of such default installs is trivial at best. So? I invite constructive comment on why or why NOT using a separate device for OS and user data makes any sense. The two bedrock facts being? 1: that any disaster befalling the OS device's file system has "less chance" of damaging user data. 2: Establishing that user data as detached from the OS assists many things. The list of those "many things" is non-trivial and more. Let me give the short closers *IF* we establish it as default practice that future Linux installs use a two device minimal mode we banish whole categories of data disasters. That alone is good enough for me. The icing on that being swapping an OS becomes closer to a trivial "no user data risked" operation. Addendum forced by premeditated desire to stifle the YahBut gallery is the cherry on top. In a long past time a "drive" was a truly major expense. Even removable media such as floppy etc were cost issues. Today ? I humbly offer the KCLUG thread on Craig's issues RE: Rolling back updates. as "Exhibit A" -- Oren Beck 816.729.3645

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