[aclug-L] Re: February Meeting topic?

[Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

to scan ports on a box the quick and dirty way is to use nmap.  Webmin 
is a different animal.

Anne McCadden wrote:

>A friend told me that he uses webmin to manage the debian & windoze
>boxes also.  I wonder if it would tell a person what ports are open on
>the windoze box, like trojans running amuck.  He has been trying to
>configure squid-guard to block porn sites on his servers.  Sounds like a
>good idea for an ISP to do, if that is what a group of customers want. 
>~Anne
>
>On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 21:35, Matt Pankratz wrote:
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>>I've used Webmin on various *nix platforms and find it an indispensable tool.
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>>Haven't heard about it being available for windoze...
>>
>>I'll have to check that out.
>>
>>Anne McCadden said:
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>>>Do you have any experience with webmin?  I have seen it work, but I
>>>don't have it setup to manage my computers yet.  From what I understand,
>>>an IT manager can manage all the boxes with this web format, unix,
>>>linux, and windoze.
>>>
>>>I would like to find out more about debian.  I really like debian and It
>>>has been rock-solid stable.  ~Anne
>>>
>>>On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 20:25, John Goerzen wrote:
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>>>>On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 08:19:02PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
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>>>>>I would be willing to talk about any of the following.  Some of
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>>>>these are not long enough for a single meeting, so two might be
>>>>covered in one night.  My personal favorite suggestion would be LVM
>>>>near the bottom, which could apply to just about everyone.
>>>>
>>>>And add to that list:
>>>>
>>>>* Debian.  Debian is, well, one of those "different" distributions.
>>>>  I'll talk about Debian's history, why I use Debian on all my
>>>>machines, its current status, its weaknesses, how to use it, etc.
>>>>Debian is also the only Linux distribution that is not just a Linux
>>>>  distribution; Debian ports also exist for the Hurd operating system,
>>>>are in progress for FreeBSD and NetBSD; are even being worked on for
>>>>Windows (!); and the Debian packaging system has been ported to
>>>>MacOS X (fink).  I'll talk about some of these things, too.
>>>>
>>>>* (shorter topic) OfflineIMAP, my e-mail synchronization tool.  An
>>>>  overview of the problems it's written to solve, discussion about how
>>>>to set it up, a demonstration of its use if possible, and if there's
>>>>interest, a discussion about the architecture under the hood.
>>>>
>>>>* Linux Virtual Servers.  Different ways you can take a single machine
>>>>  and carve it up into many smaller virtual machines.  Discussion of
>>>>why this is a useful technique.  I'll cover both the vserver project
>>>>and User Mode Linux.  Time permitting, I'll also briefly discuss the
>>>>FreeBSD jail feature, which is similar to the vserver idea.
>>>>
>>>>-- John
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