| 2011/9/14-10/25 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54173 Activity:nil | 9/13 Thanks to Jordan, our disk server is no longer virtualized. Our long
nightmare of poor IO performance should hopefully be over. Prepare for
another long nightmare of poor hardware reliability!
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Just kidding! (I hope)
In any case, this means that cooler was taken out back and shot, and
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| 2010/5/26-6/30 [Computer/SW/Unix/WindowManager, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53844 Activity:nil | 5/26 anyone use lxde? supposedly it is less stupid than xfce and
less bloated than gnome. thoughts?
\_ lol, does anyone still use desktop linux? Get with the times
buy a mac. Now. DO IT. Go NOW.
\_ but we prefer herring to Kool-Aid
\_ "you have to yell, he's hard of herring"
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| 2009/7/8-16 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53124 Activity:nil | 7/7 what happened to our web presence? http://www.csua.berkeley.edu
not working
\_ That would be because we've yet to set them up afaik. Steven *does* have
a job after all. The idea is that we want a separate computer mounting the
web directories, so that if an exploit compromises the webserver, the shell
server (soda) itself will be insulated from the attack.
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| 2009/4/16-6/29 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:52852 Activity:low | Linux http://soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:47:08 UTC 2009 x86_64
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
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| 2009/1/15-22 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:52387 Activity:nil | 1/15 What is the Debian/Ubuntu equivalent of Centos/Redhat PXE booting
and Anaconda?
\_ If you mean PXE+Anaconda+kickstart, the answer is PXE+FAI
\_ Check out System Imager. I much prefer it to kickstart because
you can get an almost exact image in minutes without a lot of
effort and it is OS agnostic.
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| 2008/12/5-10 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:52174 Activity:kinda low | 12/5 I suggest CSUA buy a Mac and run MacOS on it. Maybe run Linux in
a VM, too. I think students will get more bang for their buck
trying to run services on MacOS than with "Just Another Linux Box".
\_ On what basis? We do have an AppleTV, which we've yet to hack
so it runs full OS X, but as a OS X user myself, I don't see the
OS being useful for useful services except if we get OS X server
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| 2008/12/7-10 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:52189 Activity:low | 12/6 I'm running 64bit VMWare 2.0 in debian lenny/testing. I have 18
guest VMs running, all in bridged mode. Works great. the 19th VM
I turn on has no working network. No net, dhcp/tftp doesn't work,
nothing. Can anyone think of a network or kernel setting in Linux
that would prevent any more VMs from getting network access?
Is there a limit on number of bridge interfaces? Where is this
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| 2008/8/27-9/3 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:50980 Activity:nil | 8/27 I have a rather large linux partition. I just got a new laptop
and want to move all my settings and customization to that new
computer. how to do this? I tried remastersys but it seems that it
get stuck somewhere, and I am hoping it is not really trying to create
a 26GB iso file.
any ideas? is there anyway i can back up my debian package database
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| 2012/9/20-11/7 [Computer/SW/Unix, Finance/Investment] UID:54482 Activity:nil | 9/20 How do I change my shell? chsh says "Cannot change ID to root."
\_ /usr/bin/chsh does not have the SUID permission set. Without
being set, it does not successfully change a user's shell.
Typical newbie sys admin (on soda)
\_ Actually, it does: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 37552 Feb 15 2011 /usr/bin/chsh
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| 2012/5/8-6/4 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54383 Activity:nil | 5/8 Hello everyone! This is Josh Hawn, CSUA Tech VP for Spring 2012.
About 2 weeks ago, someone brought to my attention that our script
to periodically merge /etc/motd.public into /etc/motd wasn't
running. When I looked into it, the cron daemon was running, but
there hadn't been any root activity in the log since April 7th. I
looked into it for a while, but got lost in other things I was
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| 2012/2/9-3/26 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54305 Activity:nil | 2/9 Reminder: support for mail services has been deprecated for *several
years*. Mail forwarding, specifically .forward mail forwarding, is
officially supported and was never deprecated.
\_ There is no .forward under ~root. How do we mail root and how do
we get responses?
\_ root@csua.berkeley.edu is and always has been an alias.
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| 2011/9/14-12/28 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54172 Activity:nil | 9/12 We've restored CSUA NFS to something vaguely resembling normal
functionality -- plus, with some luck, we should now have something
vaguely resembling normal uptime, too! Ping root@csua.org if you
notice any problems. --jordan
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\_ Oh, and http://irc.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU is online again.
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| 2011/6/5-8/27 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:54127 Activity:nil | 6/5 In an effort to stabilize our services, we'll be rebuilding parts of
the CSUA infrastructure over the course of this summer. To give us
some wiggle room, I've temporarily decreased soda's allocated RAM from
8GB to 2GB. If you need to run something that requires large amounts
of memory, please send mail to root@csua.org and we'll try to
accommodate your request. --jordan
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| 2011/4/27-7/30 [Computer/SW/Security, Computer/SW/Unix] UID:54096 Activity:nil | 4/28 Will wall be fixed? - jsl
\_ What's wall?
\_ An anachronism from a bygone era, when computers were hard to
comeby, the dorms didn't have net, there was no airbears, and
when phones didn't come standard with twitter or sms.
\_ A non useful implementation of twitter.
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| 2011/5/19-7/30 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54110 Activity:nil | 5/19 Uh, is anyone still using this? Please mark here if you post and
haven't added this yet. I'll start:
\_ person k
\_ ausman, I check in about once a week.
\_ erikred, twice a week or so.
\_ mehlhaff, I login when I actually own my home directory instead of
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| 2010/12/13-2011/2/19 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:53978 Activity:nil | 12/21 Help, all my files are owned by nobody! -ausman
(yes I emailed root)
\_ Things should be fine now. As usual, the NFS server caused a cascade
of errors.
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