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Looking for script for backup
Posted on August 8th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Wow, I like this solution :). I thought I was getting the hang of command line stuff. I suppose I was just looking for something too complicated :). -- Richard Hunt We apologize for any abuse of...

WAP linux website?
Posted on August 8th, 2003 | 1 Comments

mcastell <castellani@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<20030808005920.53d4e4a8.castellani@despammed.com>... Erm. What are you trying to achieve? Just any site that has any information relating...

GRUB & MBR
Posted on August 8th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Witchsmeller Jason wrote: I am familiar with lilo, rather than GRUB, so the following refers to lilo, but the principles are the same for GRUB. If you put lilo into the boot partition of the linux...

A good off-line newsreader
Posted on August 8th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Juha Kustaa Siltala wrote:

Linux and bad SCSI HD: can I force mount a partition?
Posted on August 8th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hello, Copy the whole hd to another disk or an ftp server. This makes sure that another disk failure won't destroy any more data. If you know the exact start/end of the partition, you can mount it...

silly problem with top
Posted on August 8th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Are you saying that if you use 'top -p ' with the correct pid for your currently running process you get nothing? The only way I can do that on my system is with a pid that doesn't exist. Are you...

how to create /dev/sdc ?
Posted on August 8th, 2003 | 1 Comments

RS wrote: Two ways: 1) cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV sdc man MAKEDEV for more info. For instance "./MAKEDEV -S sdc", will show you what it will do without actually doing it.

how to find out which users are currently working?
Posted on August 8th, 2003 | 13 Comments

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 03:02:09 -0700, hanni wrote: Here's something that may greatly clarify things for us: 1) Run 'w'. Post the output. 2) Imagine the existence of a program that displays...

keyboard problem??
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 2 Comments

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Java Boy wrote: <snip> I've had a similar problem, when I installed a boot password and then forgot it was on (no prompt). The bios locked the kb invisibly. ...

Small database recommendations ?
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Len Philpot wrote: See Flagship or dbMan. Other than that just google for flatfile database. -- robert redhat 9.0

"Telnet" console
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 2 Comments

hal9@cyberspace.org (Hal Niner) wrote: If the system is too deranged to have any working userspace, then the only way this is likely to work is in the form of something akin to OpenBOOT or SRM,...

Redhat Package Management Hell..solutions?
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 7 Comments

On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 10:25:16 +0200, marcuirl wrote: http://apt.freshrpms.net/ There is a link to the apt tool for Red Hat. I use it on my Red Hat 8.0 system at work, and I use it on my Red Hat 9.0...

"Telnet" console
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 6 Comments

In article <vrdugb.m7g.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>, Peter T. Breuer wrote: Naw, you just put in a PCI board with a "maintenance" processor on it with an Ethernet interface and the ability to be a PCI bus...

Maxtor 6Y200P0 mount problem. (long)
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 4 Comments

John Winters <john@linuxemporium.co.uk> wrote: My 386sx16 was way below that, I remember ... something like 2 3/4. Peter

FS inconsistency
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 12 Comments

In article <sqjegb-9d2.ln@speaker.rodsbooks.com>, Rod Smith <rodsmith@rodsbooks.com> wrote: Astoundingly low in risk! I don't want to disagree with what you've said, but I feel it doesn't quite...

"Telnet" console
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 1 Comments

It's the same thing as the serial console. Only that you telnet into it, instead of communicating throught the serial. That would be an alternative, yeah.

Problems restoring data from Travan tapes
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 13 Comments

Ian Linwood <ian@darksideofthemoon.urg.ok> writes: He definitely will. It might cost him some USD 70.--, however, because a) these aren't cheap, and b) they usually are sold in a package containing...

Creating blank 8cm ISO image?
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Grant Edwards wrote: You guys have to be "write"... 8-) I just tried and I must have had a bit flipped in my memory. It must be the thing I am remembering was altering a bootable diskette (floppy...

Need comparison of Redhat 9 and Mandrake 9 from a different perspective.
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 2 Comments

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:25:13 -0700, David <dwmoar@findmoore.net> wrote: apache, and you can get it from www.apache.org. like them... you don't have to use them as delivered. The bottom line is...

Need comparison of Redhat 9 and Mandrake 9 from a different perspective.
Posted on August 7th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Redhat is compiled for the i386 and above, while Mandrake is compiled for i586 and above. Redhat seems to have the support of more commercial software vendors but Mandrake just got some great support...