[Watford] Re: Nice to meet you all.
Toby Deans
plumocelot at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 12:36:51 BST 2007
The solution I use to your question Dave is DynDns
http://www.dyndns.com
You can sign up for a free DynDns account here. What this does - and excuse
me not being able to explain it at a high tech level, is to provide a
pointer to your host machine where you have a Dynamic IP address. Most home
broadband has a dynamic IP that changes from time to time and if you are
using DHCP on your home network, your IP address changes sometime sif you
switch machines on in a different order.
With DynDns, you don't have to remember your broadband IP or machine IP but
you will get a usable name for access anywhere if you so choose -
providing you set up port forwarding on the router correctly to take in a
range of IPs where you allow an outside connection.
You can then set up an update client on your host machine if the IP changes:
http://www.dyndns.com/services/dns/dyndns/
See update clients on the link above.
In Ubuntu, you can specify SSH to run on boot - I'd need to be at my Linux
box to tell you where..
I've probably not explained this very well but it sounds like a similar set
up to my server.
Toby
PS Easy ones for y'all. Now Steve has answered my question on making
> sure linux boots on start up (its not dual boot but always seemed to
> stop at the bootloader and require me to tap return), how do I check
> that sshd is set to run on boot and how about setting up my 'have-a-
> go box' to use a static IP rather than one set by my DHCP router
> (Netgear DG834G v2).
>
> I have no monitor connected to the box usually (it's under the
> stairs) and use ssh to get in. When I've restarted in the past I've
> lost the ability to ssh in for whatever reason. I've thought it's
> probably the router giving it a different IP or sshd not running on
> boot, so I want to cover all the bases before I give it another go.
> Plus then I can power it down on occasions and just tell the wife to
> switch it on if I need to get at it whilst at work or whatever.
>
> It's a pain in the ar*e to wire up a monitor and physically log in to
> check/start everything...
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:42:15 +0100
From: Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk>
Subject: [Watford] Dag's archive
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I remember someone wanting to know about this, it is an archive of
RPMs that you can easily install using yum.
This works well with recent CentOS/RedHat.
Create the following:
/etc/yum.repos.d/Dag.repo
****************
# Dag.repo
#
# Dag Wieers repository
# Also at: http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/
#
#
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
****************
You will also need to import his key:
curl -O http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:31:53 +0100
From: "Steven Acreman" <sacreman at gmail.com>
Subject: [Watford] Samba / CUPS
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As requested last night here is a quick guide :
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml
The samba / cups config files apply to any distro
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:32:57 +0100
From: Cliff Deamer <cliff.g3ndc at btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [Watford] Dag's archive
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Thanks Alain,
I asked the question and will file your answer for future use/reference.
Cheers Cliff
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 14:42 +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> I remember someone wanting to know about this, it is an archive of
> RPMs that you can easily install using yum.
>
> This works well with recent CentOS/RedHat.
>
> Create the following:
> /etc/yum.repos.d/Dag.repo
> ****************
> # Dag.repo
> #
> # Dag Wieers repository
> # Also at: http://dag.freshrpms.net/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/
> #
> #
>
> [dag]
> name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag
> gpgcheck=1
> enabled=1
> ****************
>
> You will also need to import his key:
>
> curl -O http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
> rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
>
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:35:02 +0100
From: Cliff Deamer <cliff.g3ndc at btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [Watford] Samba / CUPS
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
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Thanks Steven and thanks for the impressive demo.
Cliff
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 15:31 +0100, Steven Acreman wrote:
> As requested last night here is a quick guide :
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml
>
> The samba / cups config files apply to any distro
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Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:21:03 +0100
From: David Pead <davesignup at pead.myzen.co.uk>
Subject: [Watford] Nice to meet you all...
To: WLUG <watford at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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Hey chaps,
Thanks for the warm welcome yesterday eve. It was great to hear what
some of you are into and get a taste of what to expect. It seems you
guys are obviously very switched on with many aspects of Linux and I
look forward to hopefully gleaning at least some skills from what you
have to share.
Steve, great demo, well presented, though I must admit most of the
aspects of what you showed were new to me and completely over my
head! However, I did find it fascinating and remember being rather
stunned at some of the dialogue between you and others within the
group regarding aspects of the install/build. Matt did endeavour to
reassure me that the demo was probably one of the most techie thus far.
There are clearly aspects of linux that you guys take for granted
which I haven't yet sussed out. I guess it's like driving a car. You
guys are racing around, not even thinking about how to change gears,
whilst I'm still trying to to pull away in first without stalling the
motor! However, don't dumb things down too much on my behalf, I'm
sure over time I'll get at least into second gear and perhaps even
third or fourth!!
Cliff, as I mentioned, the link to the mailing list seems to take you
to a page on the wiki rather than the mailing list URL which I have
down as:
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford
rather than
http://www.watford.lug.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List
Just a suggestion because if folks are wanting to find out a bit more
about wlug or ask some questions its not as simple as perhaps it
might be?
I look forward to next months meeting all things being well.... Neel
(sp?), I owe you a pint!
Best regards,
Dave
PS Easy ones for y'all. Now Steve has answered my question on making
sure linux boots on start up (its not dual boot but always seemed to
stop at the bootloader and require me to tap return), how do I check
that sshd is set to run on boot and how about setting up my 'have-a-
go box' to use a static IP rather than one set by my DHCP router
(Netgear DG834G v2).
I have no monitor connected to the box usually (it's under the
stairs) and use ssh to get in. When I've restarted in the past I've
lost the ability to ssh in for whatever reason. I've thought it's
probably the router giving it a different IP or sshd not running on
boot, so I want to cover all the bases before I give it another go.
Plus then I can power it down on occasions and just tell the wife to
switch it on if I need to get at it whilst at work or whatever.
It's a pain in the ar*e to wire up a monitor and physically log in to
check/start everything...
PPS Ubuntu 6.10 server edition
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:16:16 +0100
From: Cliff Deamer <cliff.g3ndc at btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [Watford] Nice to meet you all...
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Hi David,
Where are you starting from?
Cliff
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 22:21 +0100, David Pead wrote:
> Hey chaps,
>
> Thanks for the warm welcome yesterday eve. It was great to hear what
> some of you are into and get a taste of what to expect. It seems you
> guys are obviously very switched on with many aspects of Linux and I
> look forward to hopefully gleaning at least some skills from what you
> have to share.
>
> Steve, great demo, well presented, though I must admit most of the
> aspects of what you showed were new to me and completely over my
> head! However, I did find it fascinating and remember being rather
> stunned at some of the dialogue between you and others within the
> group regarding aspects of the install/build. Matt did endeavour to
> reassure me that the demo was probably one of the most techie thus far.
>
> There are clearly aspects of linux that you guys take for granted
> which I haven't yet sussed out. I guess it's like driving a car. You
> guys are racing around, not even thinking about how to change gears,
> whilst I'm still trying to to pull away in first without stalling the
> motor! However, don't dumb things down too much on my behalf, I'm
> sure over time I'll get at least into second gear and perhaps even
> third or fourth!!
>
> Cliff, as I mentioned, the link to the mailing list seems to take you
> to a page on the wiki rather than the mailing list URL which I have
> down as:
>
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/watford
>
> rather than
>
> http://www.watford.lug.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List
>
> Just a suggestion because if folks are wanting to find out a bit more
> about wlug or ask some questions its not as simple as perhaps it
> might be?
>
> I look forward to next months meeting all things being well.... Neel
> (sp?), I owe you a pint!
>
> Best regards,
> Dave
>
> PS Easy ones for y'all. Now Steve has answered my question on making
> sure linux boots on start up (its not dual boot but always seemed to
> stop at the bootloader and require me to tap return), how do I check
> that sshd is set to run on boot and how about setting up my 'have-a-
> go box' to use a static IP rather than one set by my DHCP router
> (Netgear DG834G v2).
>
> I have no monitor connected to the box usually (it's under the
> stairs) and use ssh to get in. When I've restarted in the past I've
> lost the ability to ssh in for whatever reason. I've thought it's
> probably the router giving it a different IP or sshd not running on
> boot, so I want to cover all the bases before I give it another go.
> Plus then I can power it down on occasions and just tell the wife to
> switch it on if I need to get at it whilst at work or whatever.
>
> It's a pain in the ar*e to wire up a monitor and physically log in to
> check/start everything...
>
> PPS Ubuntu 6.10 server edition
>
>
>
>
>
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