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serverfault.com
by Jared Stofflett 29 Jun '09

29 Jun '09

I notice general system administration questions get asked on this list as well as ones relating directly to accessibility. I've used the site http://www.serverfault.com for general system administration questions and had good luck. To summerize it's a site where people ask and answer questions, and the answers get voted up and down based on the judgement of everyone viewing the questions. I've found that there are simply more eyeballs on the site then on email lists so am more likely to get a good answer quickly unless it's something very nitch like installing Jaws on windows 2008.

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fedora preupgrade-cli
by John G. Heim 22 Jun '09

22 Jun '09

Anybody know how to use the fedora preupgrade-cli script? I ran it to upgrade a system from fedora 9 to 10. After downloading 900Mb of files, it said "Upgrade will begin after you reboot". So I rebooted. But now I cannot ssh into the machine. It seems to me that the preupgrade-cli program shouldn't require you to have console access. Else how do you remotely upgrade a fedora machine?

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opensuse?
by Dave 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hello, A while back i read something about opensuse being accessible during the install. With a little time i decided to google this, there is an elusive podcast on the subject that i'm trying to get a listen to. I was wanting to know opensuse's current status and if anyone was using it and how it stacked up to other linux distros? Thanks. Dave.

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application imaging
by Dave 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hello, A while back when i had ghost 7.5 enterprise edition that had a program on it called application imager, ai snapshot. What you did was take a before snapshot of a system, then installed and customized your application and took an after snapshot, it then did a comparison and generated an executable file. I do not have this anymore and am wanting to app image, i'm going to have to a laptop and some other system reinstalls and i'd like to push out exe files with the apps in place. Does anyone use this capability? Thanks. Dave.

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unix machine and ldap authentication
by Dave 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

Hello, Long shot question, but here goes. Does anyone have a Unix either Linux or FreeBSD machine authenticating users against an openldap directory? If so, can you write me? I am having issues on configuration. Thanks. Dave.

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Email addresses
by Andrew Hodgson 14 Jun '09

14 Jun '09

Hi Guys, Please can you ensure you post using the subscribed addresses? If you don't do this, the list software will hold the message for moderation until I can get at it. There have been several of these over the past few weeks. Thanks. Andrew.

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Email addresses
by Andrew Hodgson 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Hi Guys, Please can you ensure you post using the subscribed addresses? If you don't do this, the list software will hold the message for moderation until I can get at it. There have been several of these over the past few weeks. Thanks. Andrew.

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net screen and cisco pix questions
by Scott Granados 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

My appologies to the moderator, I posted from the wrong address. (please delete that message or ignore) Anyone familiar with netscreen firewalls. I have one to do some configuring on and un familiar. I'm wanting to do things like adding a rule and updating ACLs for specific ip / port combinations. I'm somewhat familiar with pix and very familiar with Cisco ACL expressions but this environment baffles me. I'd be open to a good pointer for beginner reading. or if someone's skilled in this but out of work I'd pay some cheese off list for your time for a primer. ( Cisco Pix as well) I'll probably have a fairly steady flow. I'm a carrier guy very solid on things like BGP and traffic engineering and I'm working for a company that's heavy on layer 2 and simple IP. The main issue is the people before me were extremely unskilled and left no documentation. I'm doing cool things now in the switching fabrick (802-1W + vrrp+ a logical VLAN design) but the firewalls baffle me because they aren't IOS. (I wish I could just do the whole thing around /24s or shorter and OSPF for loops only ; ) let bgp do the rest) Anyway I'm up for an on list discussion of Juniper Net Screen or contact me off list. I'm also up for a data exchange of pix / net screen for complex backbone traffic engineering including PFR if anyone needs it. Thanks Scott

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netscreen questions
by Scott Granados 11 Jun '09

11 Jun '09

Anyone familiar with netscreen firewalls. I have one to do some configuring on and un familiar. I'm wanting to do things like adding a rule and updating ACLs for specific ip / port combinations. I'm somewhat familiar with pix and very familiar with Cisco ACL expressions but this environment baffles me. I'd be open to a good pointer for beginner reading. or if someone's skilled in this but out of work I'd pay some cheese off list for your time for a primer. ( Cisco Pix as well) I'll probably have a fairly steady flow. I'm a carrier guy very solid on things like BGP and traffic engineering and I'm working for a company that's heavy on layer 2 and simple IP. The main issue is the people before me were extremely unskilled and left no documentation. I'm doing cool things now in the switching fabrick (802-1W + vrrp+ a logical VLAN design) but the firewalls baffle me because they aren't IOS. (I wish I could just do the whole thing around /24s or shorter and OSPF for loops only ; ) let bgp do the rest) Anyway I'm up for an on list discussion of Juniper Net Screen or contact me off list. I'm also up for a data exchange of pix / net screen for complex backbone traffic engineering including PFR if anyone needs it. Thanks Scott

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grml in a vm?
by Dave 10 Jun '09

10 Jun '09

Hello, Is anyone running grml in a vm? I've got vmware server and am trying to run grml in a virtual environment. At the boot prompt i enter grml swspeak and then the system boots, this is with the latest grml, then i get a distorted screetch from my sound card under the vm. Does grml have an issue with vmware server's default audio adapter? If so, is there a workaround? Thanks. Dave.

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