Hey,

I use aserver computer to share a usb drive and printer so that me and my mother can both use them.

It was running xp, but in the interest of stablity, I decided to switch it to linux.

The problem is this:

When I share the drive with samba, it works fine and all, but when I reboot, the share is lost.

I had this problem in xp, but I solved it by mounting the drive to a folder on my system drive.

However, I am noob @ linux, so I don't know how to overcome this issue in a foreign os.

Tyvm, wheybags

 

P.S: Running ubuntu.

hi all

 

as part of the server complete overhaul, i'm now for the first time separating webalizer stats for my websites (virtualhosts)

 

as I havn't done this before perhaps i am doing it wrong so please let me know if thats the case

 

i've had to create a webalizer.conf for site A (this one) and in the conf file i have the options i want...

 

now the next bit is telling cron to run it, i already see there is a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/00webalizer so i edit it to point to the linux noob website location and tell it to look for those log files plus point it to the stats directory

 

it works, i now have stats for linux-noob.com only,

 

so, do I create a separate conf file for each site in turn and create a separate cron job for each ? why is there a 00 infront of this cron job ?

Just retired and wanting to save money i got my son's unrelible windows vista system working but wanted to get away from Microsoft so I found Fedora 11 with lots of god write ups.

Had trouble creating cd but when this was finally sorted,ran from live d.I was very impressed, especially when my memory stick just opened up with none of the windows palaver.I think it's brilliant how the downloads look after themselves and go straight to the want to run window and don't just lie in the download box but of course this could be just the beta version of Firefox(3.5)

I was also impressed bythe speed of everything.So I installed the operating system to hard drive, changed the bios back to default- reading from hard drive and not cd I then restarted the machine- I had to do it many times before it booted .

Since then I have a few sudden shutdowns and very erratic start-ups also system slowing right down or freezing.It's working fine right now but I expect the same probs to repeat themselves.Also various graphics have broken up on the screen.I downloaded adobe flash for linusrpm and the pages opened butthe graphics and even some of the text broke up on the page.I used the WE7 website and the sound came thru fine but he screen was again all broken up- I'm sure it's not my computer because with vista on it I didn't have this problem,Also when booting up I get the messageMP bios bug 8254.I've seen this reported in a few forums but no answers so far.

Finally where should I start to begin to understand Fedora or Linux language .The documentation is hard to follow .Any help would be very appreciated .Please be gentle .I know nothing!

Quote:As some of my regular readers may remember, my Gateway laptop didn’t work out so well. The keyboard was practically falling apart on its own, the battery life was less than an hour and a half on the strictest powersave setting, and Acer (who handles support for Gateway) wouldn’t cover it. That whole ordeal is still not settled, though I couldn’t wait for a resolution (since I’m in College) and I found myself in the market for a new laptop quite a bit sooner than I originally planned. 

The first thing I did was look into System76. For an Ubuntu fan like me, those machines look very enticing. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the money to pay up front, so without a financing plan (that I could find) System76 was out. I decided to get a Dell. Not just any Dell, an Ubuntu Dell. I ended up with an Inspiron 15n, and I thought I would take the time to write up a quick blog about it.

 

First of all, I didn’t buy the laptop “as is”, I decided to customize mine quite a bit. For that reason, the laptop I received is a bit different than the one you’d receive unless you matched your configurations to mine. At the time of this writing, Dell equips their Ubuntu Inspiron 15n’s with a Pentium Dual Core T4200 processor, 3GB of RAM, a 4 cell battery, an integrated Intel X4500HD graphics chip, and the usual 802.11G wireless card.

 

For my build, I chose a 2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with a 2MB cache, 4GB of RAM, a 9 cell battery, a brighter screen, a green finish and a 3 year onsite warranty to avoid getting myself into the same situation I did with Acer/Gateway. I decided not to go with a webcam because I have no use for one. I asked my sales guy for the smallest possible hard drive I could get, because I didn’t really need a hard drive since I planned to reuse the 500GB hard drive that was in my Gateway. I ended up with a 160GB drive, which I don’t think was an option on the Dell site but I could be wrong.

 

Unfortunately, I’m a bit confused about how much RAM this laptop will support. From the instruction manual it appears that this system supports up to 8GB, though 4GB is the most you can order on Dell’s site, and Crucial’s site claims that this system only supports up to 4GB. If anyone has managed to pump 8GB of RAM into this machine, please let me know in the comments.

According to six concerned CentOS developers, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone is poised on the edge of the abyss.

 

In an open letter posted to the CentOS website and the project mailing list, six fellow developers accuse project co-founder Lance Davis of putting the entire project at risk by disappearing from everyday involvement without ceding control to others.

 

"You seem to have crawled into a hole...and this is not acceptable," the letter reads. "Please do not kill CentOS through your fear of shared management of the project."

 

According to the letter, Davis has seemingly disappeared while still maintaining sole control of the CentOS domain and sole "Founders" rights in the project's IRC channels. "This is not proper," the letter says - twice.

 

full story > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/30/...en_letter/

So .. I think I'm back. Here's hoping anyway. I think I have been inactive for a couple of years (maybe more?)

 

Let's see if maybe I can assist some peeps.

Most mainstream distributions, like Ubuntu, Fedora, and Mandriva, have already adopted a time-based release schedule, meaning that releases are not done on a feature basis, but according to a pre-determined time schedule. The Debian project has announced that it has adopted a time-based release schedule too.

 

via osnews.com

Some good advice in other threads, so I thought I'd consolidate it here:

 

Firstly, consider:

 



<ol style="list-style-type: decimal">
[*]WHY set one up? (read/write/delete permissions, and who?)


[*]WHO is using it? (authenticated/guest/anonymous)


[*]HOW is it being used? (quota checking, secure connections, archiving old files, port numbers)


[*]WHAT will the end users use for client connectivity? (FTP client/command-line/sftp etc)


</ol>


 

Some simple answers are:

- I'm setting one up for friends to share photos. Each friend will have upload/download access to a shared area, but not be able to delete anything. For reasons of security, they will not be able to navigate out of this area either.

- I'm running a gaming server and I want two admins to be able to drop new maps and mods into a directory that anyone can download. For security, FTPS need to be enabled so that the admin username/passes aren't transmitted plain-text, but anonymous access will not require encrypted connections - but will be subject to quota controls to prevent bandwidth-hogging.

 

These are what people refer to as "problem specification" - without making it clear what your end objectives are, you may well end up with something hastily-configured that's leaving you open for attack.

 

Some security considerations are:

• FTPS = uses secure (encrypted) connections over FTP, has a slight performance overhead with the encryption/decryption process.
  
  
  
• SFTP = can use ordinary SSH/SCP so don't need an FTP server, but means potentially giving shell access to a user.
  
  
  
• Port num: port 20 and 21 are commonly used for FTP servers, and get regularly sniffed. Consider binding the port number to something different, such as 12321, 54321, 21021 etc, to move it out of the range of impatient port-scanners.
  
  
  
• PASV/PORT connections: may need to punch a hole in your firewall - or advertise which port is in use - for transfer to work properly
  
  
  
• Capacity planning: is it possible for someone to fill up your filesystem, or have you got quota management on?
  
  
  
• Permissions: group users into roles (uploader/downloader/manager/viewer etc) then assign privs per role.
  
  
  
• Auditing: check logfiles (use logwatch) to monitor activity, particularly for nefarious behaviour. Consider using something like AWStats to report usage.
  
  
  
• User mapping: every file/directory under Linux is owned by a user and group; if you have virtual FTP users, who will be the eventual owner of uploaded content?
  
  
  

Strange issue here, but I'm sure it is possible under Postfix.

 

I've been running some mail servers successfully for some time, but now want to tighten up some controls.

 

At present, my home machine accepts mail for a few of my domains, filters out local recipient addresses (drops them into local mailboxes) and anything else then hits transport to get forwarded upstream to another mail server. That way, my mails stay local, mails for my mates get forwarded (transport) to our public mail server (and drops into their POP3 mailboxes) and mails with unmatched recipients are bounced by the upstream server.

 

Now I want to change things slightly. I want to have a whitelist of valid addresses (like local_recipients) on the home server, and if incoming mails don't match these then immediately reject them. Unfortunately, postfix only sees recipients in my virtual.db and not transport.db, so I get my mails but my mates' are rejected with "User unknown in local recipient table".

 

The only workaround I've managed is to flick "local_recipient_maps = " so that postfix won't bounce recipients unlisted in virtual.db.

 

So.. anyone shed any light here?

So, Microsoft submits 20000 lines of code to the Linux kernel, all licensed under the GPL. Microsoft, who considers Linux a great threat, and once called the GPL a "cancer". Opinions on this one are flying all around us, but what does Linus Torvalds, Linux' benevolent dictator, think about all this?

 

Linus hasn't actually looked at the code yet. It's driver code, low-risk and he isn't very interested in driver code anyway. He trusts the maintainers will do their jobs. "I'll likely look at it when the code is actually submitted to me by the maintainers (Greg [Kroah-Hartman], in this case), just out of morbid curiosity," Linus adds.

 

As most of you will be aware of, Linus is very forthright, and generally doesn't hold back when it comes to his opinions. He's also very pragmatic, and both of these qualities come forward quite clearly when Linus talks about Microsoft's code drop. I'm not going to squeeze his words into running text.

 

more > http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_..._a_Disease