Adam Gibbins's questions

I'd like to give a designer commit access to the html/css/images etc for a project I'm working on. The problem is the git repository which stores this information is also shared with the general code base which I'd prefer the designer not have access to as they have no need for it.

In SVN I'd resolve this by simply permissioning directories within the repository to be accessible by certain people only. As far as I'm aware this isn't possible in git due to the different structure, you either have the entire repo or you don't.

What's the recommended way to complete this? How are others getting around this problem?

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Has anyone had success with a working Exchange 2007 client for Linux? I'm not looking for an IMAP client or anything of the sort...there's plenty of them around, but a client that actually supports the exchange 2007 protocol. I've tried Open Change MAPI to no success, I'm unsure if this is because I'm doing it wrong or because of our external hosts strange multi-client setup.

Does anyone have any working experience with any?

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I've a domain controller running Windows 2003 fully patched. Whenever I login to remote desktop it'll login fine within a few seconds, I can then close the window or logout and then go back to it and it once again logs in fine. If however I leave it idle for ages and my session is automatically locked, I then close the window and reopen it when I need it again later, it takes 30-60 seconds (I've not actually timed it) for me to login as it just hangs with the grey desktop background.

Any idea to what could be causing this or how I could debug it?

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I'm planning on compiling my own kernel, which I've done many times before but as always there's still a chance this could go wrong and the machine could fail to reboot.

This machine is within a remote data center to which I have no physical access and thus it would cost me a great amount to have someone to physically go to the server to fix it should the machine fail to boot correctly.

Is there a way I can set grub to use a new kernel for a single boot only but fall back to the old kernel upon an additional reboot. So I could use my remote power management console to reboot the machine if it failed to boot correctly with the new kernel, it would then fall back to the old kernel.

I know this is possible with lilo using the lilo -r kernel command, is there a grub equivalent?

Does anyone know the difference between version of xen produced by xen.org and Citrix XenServer?

I can't seem to find any mention of the differences between the two?

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I'd like to find the manufacturer, model and serial number of various Windows (XP, Vista, 2003, 2008) and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora) machines via a software solution.

Currently our hardware inventory is out of date, so I'd like a quick rapid way to get this information via a software solution (so I don't need to approach every single computer to read the sticker).

I'd like to script this so ideally it wouldn't require any 3rd party applications, if it does ideally it'd be stand alone so it's easily portable.

Any idea to how this could be done best? If there's a pre-built (free) solution ideally I'd like it reporting to either raw text or a MySQL database. Ideally a small stand alone tool, I don't want to be installing stuff on each PC. As mentioned above though, I'm perfectly happy to script this using prebuilt OS tools. I know this is possible as I've seen other apps reporting this information (although in massive bulk packages with other stuff I don't need e.g. Spiceworks).

I've two closely related questions, so I'll keep them in one SF question:

Question 1

I've a Linux (debian) server that must have minimal downtime. The disk has two partitions, one is / (ext3) and one is swap. I'd like to move /home to its own partition as it was originally for some reason built with everything in one partition; I however don't want to take the machine down for multiple minutes to resize the disk and create a new partition.

Is it possible for me to resize / while its in use?

Question 2

I'd like to reinstall this same server eventually. Once again, without downtime. Once I've resized the disk using the answer provided to Question 1, can I somehow install on a new partition while the original system is still online. So I can simply reboot into the new OS and delete the old OS partition and resize the new partition to takeover the space of the old now delete partition.

Thanks for your responses to this somewhat weird question, unpleasantly I'm a tad short of servers for this particular project. I unfortunately suspect this cannot be done but thought I best check before drawing my conclusions.

Some notes and questions:

• Perhaps there are possible solution might be for me to boot into a network hosted kernel somehow?
• A second disk isn't possible, this machine is unfortunately in a very inflexible hosting provider.
• Would getting rid of the swap temporarily make this possible? That would give me 2GB unpartitioned space to play with.