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Backup and Restore of Linux file system
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Someone <someone@somewhere.com> wrote on Monday 04 August 2003 18:13 in comp.os.linux.misc: bacula is not too bad (www.bacula.org) and allows you to do baremetal linux disaster recovery. -- email:...

tar -cvfX save.tar foo ./dirtosave/..
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 1 Comments

In article <3F34317D.1174243F@ftc.gov>, JeffK. <uce@ftc.gov> wrote: Please note: There exists a Solaris version of tar, but there is _no_ Linux version of tar. Linux uses GNU tar as 'tar' which...

Network thoughput stats
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Gregory Toomey <NOSPAM@bigpond.com> wrote: nload iftop iptraf ipaudit awstats (for apache) hth, armin

Question from newbie preparing to switch from Windows
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 6 Comments

In article <oHxL4UHBYWN$EwIE@jretrading.com>, Joe wrote: That's right! Always carry an umbrella and it won't rain! :) -- Juha Siltala

Performance Monitoring Software?
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 7 Comments

"DPD" == David P. Donahue <ddonahue@ccs.neu.edu>: DPD> But does it run in the background and keep logs/generate graphs over time? DPD> Can it do this without X? By "over time" I don't mean a couple...

glib
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 3 Comments

You could be right. Well I struggled myself a lot with dependancies and $PATH and ldconfig when I was trying to install some nonstandard gnome packages in SuSE 8.0 home eddition. Finally I gave up...

Introductory Book on Operating Systems for Non-Programmer
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 1 Comments

O Try getting a tech job in a lot of industries with knowing NT Dave -- And you were born knowing all about ms windows....??

ownersip/permissions for Aache question
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 2 Comments

On 9 Aug 2003 08:02:03 -0700, ishwar <ir@pali.cps.cmich.edu> wrote: All that matters is that the files be readable by the user apache is running as. So they could be owned by anyone, as long as all...

using partitioning magic
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 4 Comments

In <bgvnta$guh$1@lilja.vtt.fi>, on 08/08/2003 at 11:44 AM, "qudhs" <pcb100@yahoo.com> said: ITYM Partition Magic. I have never seen it destroy a partition, but I have seen it change the partition...

OS Calls
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 6 Comments

In <bgqouh$dqd$1@news.mch.sbs.de>, on 08/06/2003 at 05:08 PM, "Vinodh Kumar" <thecomdeveloper@yahoo.com> said: You read the documentation for the specific operating system. Depending on the system,...

Right clicking fails in xpdf
Posted on August 10th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I am running RedHat 9 with the Gnome desktop. When I right click in xpdf, nothing happens. You are supposed to get a menu. I can't see any configuration problems. It may be some interaction...

Hello (ELKS) World
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Just joined up to day an have ELKS running on an old pc 486. Booting from the 360k 5 1/4 drive. what a nebie rush!! -- Verl Burkart Web page at: http://www.plattvalley.homestead.com

creating a shared folder with correct permissions
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 3 Comments

On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 16:38:10 -0400, Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote: The umask thing doesn't work at ALL. (I removed umask from all my .bashrcs and .bash_profiles and changed it in /etc/profile...

VESA Framebuffer console
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 4 Comments

In article <3f30c5c3@news.broadpark.no>, Nils Magnus Englund wrote: The i815 chipset is limited to using up to 1MB in VGA mode. This limits the modes available. You must use intelfb if you want to...

Program for gathering and saving mail?
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 1 Comments

In message <bh15r8$tbtgb$1@ID-101605.news.uni-berlin.de>, Baard Ove Kopperud <bokoppeNOSpamHere@frisurf.no> writes Fetchmail works by collecting mail and the passing it to whatever SMTP server...

iomega atapi zip eject problems
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Michael C. Starkie wrote: The reason my system thinks it's busy is because I su'd to root from /mnt/zip. So I had an xterm process in /mnt/zip on top of root's shell. I was going to reboot my...

Recommendation needed: scsi pic card for scanner
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 8 Comments

John-Paul Stewart wrote: 33MHz is good enough for my PlexWriter 12/10/32S CD-ROM burner... . Machine will have 3 PCI-X busses; one with three slots. One with one slot, but dual Ultra/320 LVD SCSI...

linux gurus, need you help (kde question)
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 3 Comments

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 23:43:19 -0400, Xu, Feng <fxx7792@cobalt.njit.edu> wrote: Try ctrl-alt-backspace. -- Oh my Darl-ing, oh my Darl-ing, oh my Darl-ing SCO, For a while the joke was funny, but it's...

glibc2.2 and glibc2.3 on Redhate Enterprise Server 2.1
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi, I am installing a series of applications on a server, several of which are only available as binaries. One of these, unfortunately, only works with glibc2.3 and Redhat ES 2.1 is still on...

trouble interfacing lcd character display
Posted on August 9th, 2003 | 0 Comments

hello all, Can anyone help with the following problem? I'm trying to set up a 4x20 char LCD display I bought (from Maplin Electronics) as a terminal display for an old linux machine I have, so I can...