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When: 10:30 – 17:00, Saturday 7th August 2004 Where: SeminarRoom1, Building 59 (Zepler), Department of Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
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When: 13:30 – 20:30ish, Saturday 10th January 2004 Where: Isambard Kingdom Brunel Portsmouth here. Who was there: What happened:
If you are DHCP configuring your interface(s) but won’t always be attached to a network with a DHCP server, then you can tweak the settings to reduce DHCP boot up delays signifcantly. By default DHCP will wait 60 seconds before timing out when trying to get a DHCP lease. If you boot while the ethernet interface it is not connected and the interface is set to be DHCP configured, it will delay the time it takes to boot up. Open /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf in your favourite editor and find the settings below. Then change them as shown. timeout 5; [continued...] Linux is a Unix-like kernel, released under the GNU Public License. A kernel is nothing without the tools to use it with. The GNU organisation has produced most of the system tools used on Linux systems, and some high quality applications too, like The GIMP. The basic argument is that without GNU, Linux would be nothing. The availability of the GNU tools enabled the Linux platform to become a viable operating system, and to acknowledge this partnership between Linux and GNU, the title GNU/Linux is usually used. : In practise, everyone just says “Linux” in conversational [continued…]
Booting from CDs via grubThis is a way of getting a grub menu entry which will boot a CD on a PC which can’t boot from CD’s through the BIOS. What you do is set the kernel to memdisk (which comes with the syslinux package) and set the initrd to the Smart Boot Manager (SBM) master boot record copied from a SBM floppy. The steps are: aptitude install syslinux cp /usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk /boot aptitude purge syslinux Download SBM from their website (http://btmgr.webframe.org) and [continued…]
Configuring exim for virtual domainsThis will configure exim (version 3.35, as in Debian stable) to accept mail for virtual domains. /etc/exim/exim.conf configurationSpecify local domainsExim needs to know the local domains it handles. Edit the local_domains = line in /etc/exim/exim.conf so it looks like: local_domains = yourdomain.com:localhost:lsearch;/etc/exim/virtual/domains Where yourdomain.com is your main domain exim handles mail for (i.e. not a virtual domain). Also local_domains_include_host should be set to true as well as local_domains_include_host_literals Adding a transportEdit /etc/exim/exim.conf and add a transport. The following must go at the top of the [continued…] When: 10:30 – 16:30, Saturday 4th February 2006 Where: SeminarRoom1 [[TechTalks]]
You’ll find slides, video and other media from the talks on the TechTalks/4thFebruary2006 page. Who was thereA reasonable “diagnostic path” for checking your network config is: ifconfig Do you have a stanza for each of lo and eth0 interfaces? If no – try bringing them up with “ifup lo” and “ifup eth0”. Check that both interfaces have an ip address assigned to them. ping -c 5 127.0.0.1 Can you ping the local host on the local interface? [continued…] When: 10:30 – 16:30, Saturday 2nd December 2006 Where: SeminarRoom1 Gallery: http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/gallery/HantsLUG_12_2006 [[TechTalks]]
You’ll find slides, video and other media from the talks on the TechTalks/2ndDecember2006 page. Who Was There
IntroductionNote: This document is barely begun: please don’t expect to read anything useful here yet… In fact it’s now New Year’s Eve 2005 and nothing has happened here for months. I haven’t entirely forgotten this project though… Another Note: The project of which this was part has now ceased to exist as of April 2005, so I no longer have the motivation to continue with this at the moment. I may well delete this page at some stage, unless anyone finds a use for it — if so, please add a comment to this page. [continued…] |
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