From john at johnlange.ca Tue Jul 7 23:16:55 2009 From: john at johnlange.ca (John Lange) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:16:55 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] Rogers Rocket Stick on OpenSUSE 11.1 Message-ID: <1247026615.4709.21.camel@vandium.darkcore.net> I successfully got a Rogers Rocket Stick (3G cell phone modem) working on my OpenSUSE 11.1 laptop. This method is a bit dirty but works well enough for now until I figure out how to get it working properly under Network Manager. http://www.johnlange.ca/tech-tips/opensuse-and-sles/rogers-rocket-stick-on-opensuse-111/ -- John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca From athompso at athompso.net Thu Jul 16 00:23:00 2009 From: athompso at athompso.net (Adam Thompson) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:23:00 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] Odd book title... Message-ID: <8ce1230f0907152223o46c12e97ma7a9942a3bdbca43@mail.gmail.com> I'm not going to ruin the surprise, just follow the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894953479?ie=UTF8&tag=lookwhatifoun-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1894953479 And if anyone has actually read it yet: WTF??? -- -Adam Thompson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.muug.mb.ca/pipermail/roundtable/attachments/20090716/789453ae/attachment.html From funk.jeff at gmail.com Thu Jul 16 11:56:52 2009 From: funk.jeff at gmail.com (Jeff Funk) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:56:52 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] Odd book title... In-Reply-To: <8ce1230f0907152223o46c12e97ma7a9942a3bdbca43@mail.gmail.com> References: <8ce1230f0907152223o46c12e97ma7a9942a3bdbca43@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <9b965ace0907160956h181656c8ka03d2672fa025af1@mail.gmail.com> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Adam Thompson wrote: > I'm not going to ruin the surprise, just follow the link: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1894953479?ie=UTF8&tag=lookwhatifoun-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1894953479 > > And if anyone has actually read it yet: WTF??? > :) Tongue-in-cheek humor - I've seen pieces of it but haven't read it in full. Similarly, I found this instructable a while ago which also combines animals and computers: http://www.instructables.com/id/Mouse-Mouse!/ --jeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.muug.mb.ca/pipermail/roundtable/attachments/20090716/a67962ef/attachment.html From ummar143 at shaw.ca Thu Jul 23 21:46:45 2009 From: ummar143 at shaw.ca (Dan Martin) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:46:45 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] disk cloning In-Reply-To: <4A38C603.3040408@gmail.com> References: <4A382ED6.1050107@gmail.com> <4A383215.8080600@shaw.ca> <932088F8-2D40-4816-BE08-28665EF3127A@tinfoilhat.ca> <4A38C603.3040408@gmail.com> Message-ID: <81E30BEC-9BEF-44CD-9397-A3CAFC16597A@shaw.ca> I am trying to find a good backup method for my Mac hard drives. For Windoze, I discovered that the best method was to boot to a Fedora Core rescue CD, and use the dd command to block copy a disk or partition from one [removable] drive to another. On my Mac, I am switching to an alternate boot drive so that I can copy my usual boot drive to a third drive using the dd command from the Terminal. However, I am encountering an IO error, and there are differences between the original and the copy as shown using FileMerge. Carbon Copy Cloner failed to complete the task after encountering an IO error. At present, I can't get it to work at all. On a Unix based system such as the Mac, should file level copies be adequate? This clearly did not work in Windoze - it seemed that hidden files wouldn't copy, and/or references in the target partition would still point to items in the source partition. Any suggestions re how to make a clone of my boot drive would be appreciated. -Dan Dan Martin GP Hospital Practitioner ummar143 at shaw.ca (204) 831-1746 answering machine always on -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.muug.mb.ca/pipermail/roundtable/attachments/20090723/6595d975/attachment.html From robert at cluenet.org Fri Jul 24 00:29:10 2009 From: robert at cluenet.org (Robert Keizer) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:29:10 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] disk cloning In-Reply-To: <81E30BEC-9BEF-44CD-9397-A3CAFC16597A@shaw.ca> References: <4A382ED6.1050107@gmail.com> <4A383215.8080600@shaw.ca> <932088F8-2D40-4816-BE08-28665EF3127A@tinfoilhat.ca> <4A38C603.3040408@gmail.com> <81E30BEC-9BEF-44CD-9397-A3CAFC16597A@shaw.ca> Message-ID: <4A6946A6.7060802@cluenet.org> Dan Martin wrote: > On a Unix based system such as the Mac, should file level copies be > adequate? For the most part. Especially if you backup the partition tables too. I recommend rdiff-backup, it works great and can copy locally or to remote sites over ssh. > Any suggestions re how to make a clone of my boot drive would be > appreciated. 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I > recommend rdiff-backup, it works great and can copy locally or to remote > sites over ssh. > > > Any suggestions re how to make a clone of my boot drive would be > > appreciated. > Is clonezilla what your looking for? > http://clonezilla.org/ > There are some problems with backing up a Mac (largely thanks to the HFS+ file system). The problem is very similar to backing up any UNIX filesystem that stores additional metadata beyond the basic stat(2) fields. Linux ACLs, for example, or even worse, EAs (which are often used to store ACLs) are not necessarily backed up correctly by [pick your favorite backup tool]. Most versions of GNU tar can backup ext3 and XFS ACLs & EAs, and EAs on any filesystem with compatible APIs, but from version to version there are various limitations that must be addressed. Many versions of cpio(1) don't handle EAs or ACLs. Pax(1) was written to address many of these issues but for incomprehensible reasons isn't present on many UNIX systems. Anyway, two (dated, but still relevant) articles on Mac backups: http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html **note that Bombich disagrees with the test results in the first two articles. Both SuperDuper and CCC are availabe at no charge for personal use... if you don't back up your mac already, USE ONE! Note also that many external USB & Firewire drives (esp. LaCie branded-drives) come with OS X backup software preloaded. -- -Adam Thompson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.muug.mb.ca/pipermail/roundtable/attachments/20090724/534159ce/attachment.html From trevor at tecnopolis.ca Fri Jul 24 02:40:37 2009 From: trevor at tecnopolis.ca (Trevor Cordes) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:40:37 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] disk cloning In-Reply-To: <81E30BEC-9BEF-44CD-9397-A3CAFC16597A@shaw.ca> References: <4A382ED6.1050107@gmail.com> <4A383215.8080600@shaw.ca> <932088F8-2D40-4816-BE08-28665EF3127A@tinfoilhat.ca> <4A38C603.3040408@gmail.com> <81E30BEC-9BEF-44CD-9397-A3CAFC16597A@shaw.ca> Message-ID: <20090724024037.4ee83cec@pog.tecnopolis.ca> On 2009-07-23 Dan Martin wrote: > > On my Mac, I am switching to an alternate boot drive so that I can > copy my usual boot drive to a third drive using the dd command from > the Terminal. However, I am encountering an IO error, and there are > differences between the original and the copy as shown using > FileMerge. You can get by IO errors with conv=noerror, which I use for all my dd clones: dd if=/dev/sda of=wherever conv=noerror bs=1M Also handy with sysresccd.org boot (and other live cds) is you can start the nic and dd over the network: dd if=/dev/sda conv=noerror | ssh root at yourfs 'cat > /tmp/image.dd' or, why not store the img compressed: dd if=/dev/sda conv=noerror | gzip -c9 | ssh root at yourfs 'cat > /tmp/image.dd.gz' Of course, this all works better when your source CPU is fast and network is fast. You could move the gzip to the server if it has a faster cpu... or bzip... or... From montanaq at gmail.com Fri Jul 24 07:38:16 2009 From: montanaq at gmail.com (Montana Quiring) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:38:16 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] disk cloning In-Reply-To: <8ce1230f0907232242s4998b5e7xae5a81e34145d097@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A382ED6.1050107@gmail.com> <4A383215.8080600@shaw.ca> <932088F8-2D40-4816-BE08-28665EF3127A@tinfoilhat.ca> <4A38C603.3040408@gmail.com> <81E30BEC-9BEF-44CD-9397-A3CAFC16597A@shaw.ca> <4A6946A6.7060802@cluenet.org> <8ce1230f0907232242s4998b5e7xae5a81e34145d097@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: FWIW, we use SuperDuper at work and are happy with it. -Montana On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Adam Thompson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 00:29, Robert Keizer wrote: > >> Dan Martin wrote: >> > On a Unix based system such as the Mac, should file level copies be >> > adequate? >> For the most part. Especially if you backup the partition tables too. I >> recommend rdiff-backup, it works great and can copy locally or to remote >> sites over ssh. >> > > >> > Any suggestions re how to make a clone of my boot drive would be >> > appreciated. >> Is clonezilla what your looking for? >> http://clonezilla.org/ >> > > There are some problems with backing up a Mac (largely thanks to the HFS+ > file system). The problem is very similar to backing up any UNIX filesystem > that stores additional metadata beyond the basic stat(2) fields. Linux > ACLs, for example, or even worse, EAs (which are often used to store ACLs) > are not necessarily backed up correctly by [pick your favorite backup > tool]. Most versions of GNU tar can backup ext3 and XFS ACLs & EAs, and EAs > on any filesystem with compatible APIs, but from version to version there > are various limitations that must be addressed. Many versions of cpio(1) > don't handle EAs or ACLs. Pax(1) was written to address many of these > issues but for incomprehensible reasons isn't present on many UNIX systems. > > Anyway, two (dated, but still relevant) articles on Mac backups: > > http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backup-and-cloning-tools-under-mac-os-x > http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful > http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html > http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html **note that Bombich disagrees > with the test results in the first two articles. > > Both SuperDuper and CCC are availabe at no charge for personal use... if > you don't back up your mac already, USE ONE! > > Note also that many external USB & Firewire drives (esp. LaCie > branded-drives) come with OS X backup software preloaded. > > -- > -Adam Thompson > > > > _______________________________________________ > Roundtable mailing list > Roundtable at muug.mb.ca > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > > -- -Montana Blog: http://montanaquiring.info My Friend Feed: http://friendfeed.com/antikx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.muug.mb.ca/pipermail/roundtable/attachments/20090724/0dab25e7/attachment.html From peter at pogma.com Fri Jul 24 08:33:30 2009 From: peter at pogma.com (Peter O'Gorman) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:33:30 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] disk cloning In-Reply-To: <81E30BEC-9BEF-44CD-9397-A3CAFC16597A@shaw.ca> References: <4A382ED6.1050107@gmail.com> <4A383215.8080600@shaw.ca> <932088F8-2D40-4816-BE08-28665EF3127A@tinfoilhat.ca> <4A38C603.3040408@gmail.com> <81E30BEC-9BEF-44CD-9397-A3CAFC16597A@shaw.ca> Message-ID: <4A69B82A.3000103@pogma.com> Dan Martin wrote: > Any suggestions re how to make a clone of my boot drive would be > appreciated. > Since nobody else has mentioned it, asr(8) should be able to make a clone of your boot drive (though you'll have to boot of your OS install disk open a terminal there). http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/asr/ Peter From montanaq at gmail.com Fri Jul 31 16:28:02 2009 From: montanaq at gmail.com (Montana Quiring) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:28:02 -0500 Subject: [RndTbl] Firewall replacement Message-ID: Hello, I'm trying to replace a proprietary firewall appliance from a company that went out of business. I'm hoping to be able to use IPCop to do the job. I've listed a couple of my issues below, so if you are familiar with the workings of IPCop, or have some suggestions about other firewall packages, please feel free to comment. Here's a couple things that I really want IPCop to do: Transparent Authentication with Logging ============================== Authentication that will allow me to view a authenticated user and the IP associated to them. I would like for the proxying to be transparent and not require the clients to have to alter any settings. I would prefer (Open)LDAP, as that's what I have set up and working already. Unfortunately I can't find the LDAP username that the user logged in with in any of the logs (VIA the web GUI). Am I missing something? A captive portal would probably be a good idea. Any recommendations as it doesn't seem to have it built in and I can't find an add-on for it. Multiple DHCP pools ================= Is it possible to have multiple DHCP pools that aren't necessarily sequential and would have different masks? ie. one pool might be: 140.179.238.68 to 140.179.238.127 with mask 255.255.255.192 and another might be: 140.179.238.130 to 140.179.238.254 with mask 255.255.255.128 -- -Montana -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.muug.mb.ca/pipermail/roundtable/attachments/20090731/7f6c10e0/attachment.html