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Re: [newbie] Tape backup
Todd Flinders wrote: I've read in reviews that Arkeia and Bru are supposed to be good. --- Daryl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First get your tape drive working - and if you do, then let me know how you did it! Daryl Johnson Proplan Associates -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kelly, Christopher Sent: 13 April 2001 19:50 To: 'Newbie' Subject: [newbie] Tape backup Does anybody have any suggestions for good tape backup software for Linux? Thanks, Moose __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ I use Arkeia - free verion, its nice and easy to use if you're into GUI's, just define your tape drive and media pools and off you go Only thing is this version doesn't support autoloaders, if this is an issue then there is a cool utility called SCU which allows you to send SCSI commands to devices via shell or script file. You can d/load these at: http://www.arkeia.com/downloadfree.html http://www.bit-net.com/~rmiller/scu.html -- Brenden J. Bourke "The ice-man, Cometh... It is making certain parts of little me rather numb"
Re: [newbie] ABIT KT-7 A RAID!
Cheers Lee for your help. Yeah the Bios is fine with the HDDs. I do have Mandrake on CD and I have tried the installation. It goes on fine but after the install it desn't boot of LILO on my floppy disk! Any tips? - Original Message - From: "Lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ABIT KT-7 A RAID! Does your bios see the hd's. That would be first. Then set your bios to boot to the cd. Well.I'm assuming(dangerous) you have linux on cd? Keep us posted :) Lee At 11:01 AM 4/14/01 +0100, you wrote: Hi Everyone! Need a bit of help. I have a new PC with an ABIT KT-7A Raid MOBO. Unfortunately I can't get Linux to install and find my HDDs. Can anyone help? Thanks a million guys cheers, Nitin
Re: [newbie] /tmp
On Saturday 14 April 2001 1:35 am, you wrote: this is a dumb question : do the files in /tmp get deleted on logout ? I No, they don't. Not quite true. On install you can set up mandrake to delete all the files in /tmp on reboot. Most of the files in /tmp will just be writen over so /tmp should not grow to large 400mb seems big though, mine is 2.0mb ( whats that 800 times smaller). I would set up mandrake to delete these files on reboot., and/or do what David suggested. decided to tar them all to see what difference they made, but the tar was 400 MB (not kidding). Can I delete these files or does Mandrake (7.2) need them Sounds like you have a lot of files in /tmp. Usually, these files only need to be arouhd temporarily (hence /tmp) and can be gotten rid of. Many are sockets and other special files (kde / gnome uses those particularly) and shouldn't be deleted. But those shouldn't be taking up any dik space. Mandrake doesn't automatically delete the files in /tmp, but there is a script called 'tmpwatch' which may be on Mandrake which you can install, and set up a script in /etc/cron.daily to run, so that once a day, all files older than N days would get deleted. Al Justrabo David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- -- Mark Hillary Information is to be shared whether it wants to be free ot not.
Re: [newbie]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. hi .. Im a new user of linux .. I installed a linux Mandrake 7.0 .. and the installation was a succesfull but my modem dont fuction the model of my modem is : HSP micromodem 56k PCI.. of PCtel ... mi computer have the next characteristics: Unfortunately..., an HSP modem is a winmodem. To get your modem to work, your best bet is to get a real modem (my preference is for an external, but an ISA with jumpers should also work). There are SOME PCI modems that are hardware modems, but the majority are NOT. You can try going to linuxmodem.org to see if there is a work around for your modem, but you're still *MUCH* better off with a real modem IMHO. Mike -- "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing, and dreadful idolatry took place there." --Baltasar Rusow, Estonia, 16th century __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
Re: [newbie] Tape backup
Todd Flinders wrote: I've read in reviews that Arkeia and Bru are supposed to be good. I use Arkeia - free verion, its nice and easy to use if you're into GUI's, just define your tape drive and media pools and off you go Only thing is this version doesn't support autoloaders, if this is an issue then there is a cool utility called SCU which allows you to send SCSI commands to devices via shell or script file. Are there any similar software apps for ATAPI tape drives? My drive is an ATAPI one not a SCSI. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie] zip drives
On my zip drive there's a small, translucent plastic button. When the drive is accessed the button glows green. I've watched that button glow for a year. I used windoze and always ejected the cartridge via a software command. I never thought to press it until I read your suggestion. So, I give it a try, just to see what happens, and low and behold, the drive ejects the cartridge whether I umount it first, or not. I knew as soon as I sent my request for help that it sounded pretty lame. I knew I'd get some reply about pressing the eject button, something I knew I didn't have one of. Well... Thanks very much from a newly commissioned officer of the brain dead newbie division. I assume I need to umount /mnt/zip before I eject the cartridge? Like not ejecting a floppy without unmounting the file, first? On Saturday 14 April 2001 09:58, you wrote: On Saturday 14 April 2001 08:51, thus spake mike hodder: I'm another newbie refugee from the unstable world of windows. Naturally, therefore, my hardware is "windoze compatible" How do I eject a cartridge out of a zip drive? Um... press the eject button? ;-) Seriously, though, if the eject button isn't working, then probably you need to unmount it first. I know my cdrom works that way. I insert a cd, then mount the drive. Once I am done with it, I need to unmount the drive before I can eject the cd. Dave -- Regards Mike Hodder
Re: [newbie] zip drives
On Sunday 15 April 2001 10:12, you wrote: On my zip drive there's a small, translucent plastic button. When the drive is accessed the button glows green. I've watched that button glow for a year. I used windoze and always ejected the cartridge via a software command. I never thought to press it until I read your suggestion. So, I give it a try, just to see what happens, and low and behold, the drive ejects the cartridge whether I umount it first, or not. I knew as soon as I sent my request for help that it sounded pretty lame. I knew I'd get some reply about pressing the eject button, something I knew I didn't have one of. Well... Thanks very much from a newly commissioned officer of the brain dead newbie division. I assume I need to umount /mnt/zip before I eject the cartridge? Like not ejecting a floppy without unmounting the file, first? if you are using supermount, you might be able to get away without unmounting it (that's the main idea behind supermount), otherwise you will eventually run into problems if you do not unmount before pressing the button. You can always use the eject command, which will do an unmount prior to ejecting the disk, be careful though, the springs in some zip drives will send a disk flying. -- Alex Kernel Panic is General Failure's second in command
[newbie] Linux and Satellite Modems
Hi Folks, Havin a heckuva time getting my isa modem to work in LM7.2. It's a zoom 2919 model. Was origonally getting "no response from modem" after moving some jumpers on the modem I get"modem busy". I'd been considering an external modem,even before LM7.2,great excuse to do that now for sure.. but the question is..with 2way satellite web service on the horizon now,what type modems will they require. From what I've seen so far it looks like usb. What are the odds one of these will work in Linux? Some pretty iffy questions I know. Thank you so much for your time !! Lee
Re: [newbie] /tmp
Thanks Mark David for your help...I'm beginning to think that I must have done something ridiculous with tar - XWC right now shows 2719.88 KB as the size for /tmp - lots of files though. Not too sure how to set it to delete on boot. Thanks for your help. Al Mark Hillary wrote: On Saturday 14 April 2001 1:35 am, you wrote: this is a dumb question : do the files in /tmp get deleted on logout ? I No, they don't. Not quite true. On install you can set up mandrake to delete all the files in /tmp on reboot. Most of the files in /tmp will just be writen over so /tmp should not grow to large 400mb seems big though, mine is 2.0mb ( whats that 800 times smaller). I would set up mandrake to delete these files on reboot., and/or do what David suggested. decided to tar them all to see what difference they made, but the tar was 400 MB (not kidding). Can I delete these files or does Mandrake (7.2) need them Sounds like you have a lot of files in /tmp. Usually, these files only need to be arouhd temporarily (hence /tmp) and can be gotten rid of. Many are sockets and other special files (kde / gnome uses those particularly) and shouldn't be deleted. But those shouldn't be taking up any dik space. Mandrake doesn't automatically delete the files in /tmp, but there is a script called 'tmpwatch' which may be on Mandrake which you can install, and set up a script in /etc/cron.daily to run, so that once a day, all files older than N days would get deleted. Al Justrabo David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- -- Mark Hillary Information is to be shared whether it wants to be free ot not.
Re: [newbie] zip drives
If you wish to eject it with a software command under Linux, type eject /mnt/zip or eject /dev/sda4 that is if your zip drive is on that device, if you want more info please don't hesitate to ask me. On Sunday 15 April 2001 09:12 am, so spoke mike hodder: On my zip drive there's a small, translucent plastic button. When the drive is accessed the button glows green. I've watched that button glow for a year. I used windoze and always ejected the cartridge via a software command. I never thought to press it until I read your suggestion. So, I give it a try, just to see what happens, and low and behold, the drive ejects the cartridge whether I umount it first, or not. I knew as soon as I sent my request for help that it sounded pretty lame. I knew I'd get some reply about pressing the eject button, something I knew I didn't have one of. Well... Thanks very much from a newly commissioned officer of the brain dead newbie division. I assume I need to umount /mnt/zip before I eject the cartridge? Like not ejecting a floppy without unmounting the file, first? On Saturday 14 April 2001 09:58, you wrote: On Saturday 14 April 2001 08:51, thus spake mike hodder: I'm another newbie refugee from the unstable world of windows. Naturally, therefore, my hardware is "windoze compatible" How do I eject a cartridge out of a zip drive? Um... press the eject button? ;-) Seriously, though, if the eject button isn't working, then probably you need to unmount it first. I know my cdrom works that way. I insert a cd, then mount the drive. Once I am done with it, I need to unmount the drive before I can eject the cd. Dave
[newbie] What is the file kcore?
What is the file kcore in /proc in LM 7.2? It is over 125 M in size and appears to be growing!! Thanks Charles
Re: [newbie] What is the file kcore?
What is the file kcore in /proc in LM 7.2? It is over 125 M in size and appears to be growing!! Thanks It's a file that represents your system memory. It is not taking up any disk space but is there (along with other "files" in /proc) so that applications can talk to the kernel. The only way it can grow is for you to add more physical RAM to your system. Charles David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] Tape backup
Are there any similar software apps for ATAPI tape drives? My drive is an ATAPI one not a SCSI. As long as the software allows you to specify the device, there really shouldn't be a difference between IDE tape drives and scsi ones. IDE tape drives use a different device than SCSI ones. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] zip drives
Thank you. On Sunday 15 April 2001 11:31, you wrote: If you wish to eject it with a software command under Linux, type eject /mnt/zip or eject /dev/sda4 that is if your zip drive is on that device, if you want more info please don't hesitate to ask me. -- Regards Mike Hodder
Re: [newbie] zip drives
I believe I'm using supermount, or whatever came in the 7.2 dist. I've decided to umount anyway, just to be safe. The image of a zip drive flying across the room is wonderful. -- Regards Mike Hodder
Re: [newbie] Linux and Satellite Modems
but the question is..with 2way satellite web service on the horizon now,what type modems will they require. From what I've seen so far it looks like usb. What are the odds one of these will work in Linux? For the one I've seen, exactly zilch. Nada, fugedaboudit. Reading the fine print reveals that Microsoft is one of the primary financial backers of the service. And the tech support people were absolutely not forthcoming with details, so getting enough info to write the driver software is unlikely. Of course, that may be just the guys in my area. If There is someone else getting intot he market things could be different with them. MB
Re: [newbie] Tape backup
Really? I ask because the website for Arkeia says that the requirement is that you have a SCSI tapedrive. Does this mean it could work with my ATAPI drive? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Tape backup Are there any similar software apps for ATAPI tape drives? My drive is an ATAPI one not a SCSI. As long as the software allows you to specify the device, there really shouldn't be a difference between IDE tape drives and scsi ones. IDE tape drives use a different device than SCSI ones. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
[newbie] Shamefaced newbie request
OK, I know what you're going to say "if you can't take the heat, stay out of the cooker" g I thought I was doing allright, taking it slowly, taking a rpm --test, then getting the required libraries and installing them first (and even testing those first). But somewhere things went wrong. My system still works (i'm posting from it) but a lot of utilities give the following error (when starting from terminal): error message from remadmin :/usr/bin/gmnome/linuxconf: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot load shaed object file: no such file or directory. Actually there *is* such a file, in /usr/i386-glibc21-linux/lib. Presumably some script is looking for it in the wrong place? Short of a complete reinstall, where should I start looking?
Re: [newbie] Drive filling up mysteriously
One place to look would be /tmp (since you don't have a separate /tmp partition), another /var/log/*, and lastly, check the root e-mail account -- you'll typically get 2-3 e-mails a night from various cron jobs, so if you haven't checked it in a while, it can qet pretty large. At 07:12 PM 04/15/2001 -0700, you wrote: I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on a Thinkpad 1400. It has a 12 gig drive that was apportioned with 400 megs to swap, about 4 gigs to / and the rest to /home so that I'd have plenty of room to host websites on it. First of all, is this a reasonable way to partition the drive? This is the response I get when run df: Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 3526172 2952152394900 88% / /dev/hda6 7677052760164 6526912 10% /home seems like the first partition (hda1) is filling up and I don't know why? I dumped as many old log files as I felt safe doing (which probably means the first suggestion here is going to be to look at logs to see what's up) and it made little difference. I'd like some direction on where on the system to look for an accumulation of garbage. TIA Andy
[newbie]OS idenity,Dhcp Eth0 and more!!
Any comments thanks in advance?? When i run ifup eth0 I get an error message unable to get ip info via dhcpcd. I have went thru netconf a dozen times.If i am using dhcp then no need to enter the Ip address or any of the other things DNS etc. Correct? FYI: Linux for Windows (7.2 Mandrake) on a Hp 600mhz ceoron 256mb ram, realtek networkcard trying to get online via Cable modem Road Runner acess. I have read everthing online(well almost) And Tried almost Everything. concerning Road Runner Cable service,Apparently I am not the only Linux user that has tried to get online thru Road Runner? Does anyone know anything about if my eth0 card is Bind to the dhcp,could that be the prob? From what I have read I really think that Road runner would prefer that I stick with Windows. from further reading http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap-fingerprinting-article.html http://www.sans.org/newlook/resources/IDFAQ/TCP_fingerprinting.htm Even though with DHCP the OS should not matter right?IN THEORY. Could Road runner be preventing me from getting online thru there service?THey are able to Idenify Your OS Is Linux considered the Hackers OS? to some people Although that is not my intentions! I enjoy trying to get Linux to run, And after all this Windows Quite boring. I might as well sign up for AOL aargh LOLPS please dont flame me.
[newbie] fresh install?
Hey, Currently, I have /home on a separate partition. Is it possible to do a fresh installation, as opposed to an upgrade, without any changes being made to /home? This way I can upgrade my system with- out changing my users' files. Regards, cyberclay --- cclay at fastlane dot net I think, therefore I am dangerous http://www.hsien.net
