Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-05 Thread zithro
On 05 May 2023 08:29, Michel Verdier wrote: Le 5 mai 2023 zithro a écrit : If on USB/external drive, preferably format the drive so it can be read on multiple OS. So prefer FAT32/exFAT, and avoid ext4, ZFS, NTFS, APFS, etc. As I don't need to restore debian on windows I choose to format my

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-05 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 5/5/23 14:21, David Christensen wrote: If the file is a some kind of archive (e.g. tar(1)), both the data and metadata are inside the tarball and the full-circle results should be identical. Not quite. The file times are usually changed in the un-tar operation. You can usually

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-05 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 5 mai 2023 zithro a écrit : > If on USB/external drive, preferably format the drive so it can be read on > multiple OS. So prefer FAT32/exFAT, and avoid ext4, ZFS, NTFS, APFS, etc. As I don't need to restore debian on windows I choose to format my external drive with xfs on encrypted

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-05 Thread David Christensen
On 5/4/23 18:37, zithro wrote: The easiest and fastest way to backup is on DVD/USB/external drive, so that you can restore offline. ... If on USB/external drive, preferably format the drive so it can be read on multiple OS. So prefer FAT32/exFAT, and avoid ext4, ZFS, NTFS, APFS, etc. I do

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread 황병희
2023-05-05 (금), 03:37 +0200, zithro: > On 05 May 2023 03:12, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > Usually i do backup into Google Drive (with only very important > > files). > > So if system is crash, i go to re-install entire after format. > > I hope you encrypt your data, and you have a good internet

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread zithro
On 05 May 2023 03:12, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Usually i do backup into Google Drive (with only very important files). So if system is crash, i go to re-install entire after format. I hope you encrypt your data, and you have a good internet connection ! The easiest and fastest way to backup is

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread zithro
On 05 May 2023 03:02, Maureen L Thomas wrote:> I need to start writing down everything I do so I don't forget again. This is one of the best advice you can follow, and don't think it's because of your age ! We ALL forget stuff we only do once in a while, and not only with computers ... Just

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Dear Thomas, Maureen L Thomas writes: > I should have thought of that.  Thank you for your help.  I need to > start writing down everything I do so I don't forget again. Usually i do backup into Google Drive (with only very important files). So if system is crash, i go to re-install entire

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread Maureen L Thomas
I should have thought of that.  Thank you for your help.  I need to start writing down everything I do so I don't forget again. On 5/4/23 8:53 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 5/4/23 17:43, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 5/4/23 8:26 PM, David Christensen wrote: So, your Lenovo

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread David Christensen
On 5/4/23 17:43, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 5/4/23 8:26 PM, David Christensen wrote: So, your Lenovo Think[Center|Light|Pad|Station] has two (2) USB 2.0 or 3.0 type-A ports? Can you plug the mouse and the keyboard into the hub, plug the hub into the computer, and plug the USB HDD into the

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 5/4/23 8:26 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 5/4/23 17:00, Maureen L Thomas wrote: The USB hub is plugged into the USB on the computer and does not have a power adapter with it, the seagate does not have a power adapter just a special plug with a usb on one end and the right one for the

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread David Christensen
On 5/4/23 17:00, Maureen L Thomas wrote: The USB hub is plugged into the USB on the computer and does not have a power adapter with it, the seagate does not have a power adapter just a special plug with a usb on one end and the right one for the seagate but no power supply. If I remove the

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 5/5/23 08:15, Jeremy Ardley wrote: The harder ways to solve this should work. However you may have to pay for at least one drive. 1. Get an external USB drive and a powered USB 3 hub. Then create a bootable USB/DVD recovery drive such as knoppix

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 5/5/23 08:00, Maureen L Thomas wrote: The USB hub is plugged into the USB on the computer and does not have a power adapter with it, the seagate does not have a power adapter just a special plug with a usb on one end and the right one for the seagate but no power supply. If I remove the

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 5/4/23 7:23 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 5/4/23 16:03, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Ok so I cannot download any files to fix my /var section.  I have a 2 TB seagate that has a USB 3 cord to it.  I do not have an open USB port so I plugged it in to my USB hub thingy and it got shut down.

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread Maureen L Thomas
The USB hub is plugged into the USB on the computer and does not have a power adapter with it, the seagate does not have a power adapter just a special plug with a usb on one end and the right one for the seagate but no power supply. If I remove the USB hub I will not have a key board to use

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread David Christensen
On 5/4/23 16:03, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Ok so I cannot download any files to fix my /var section.  I have a 2 TB seagate that has a USB 3 cord to it.  I do not have an open USB port so I plugged it in to my USB hub thingy and it got shut down. So, the USB HDD does not have a power adapter;

Re: Need some advice please.

2023-05-04 Thread zithro
On 05 May 2023 01:03, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Ok so I cannot download any files to fix my /var section.  I have a 2 TB seagate that has a USB 3 cord to it.  I do not have an open USB port so I plugged it in to my USB hub thingy and it got shut down.  It is no longer usable.  So the question is

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-07 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:39:46PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Dan Ritter wrote: ... And on your DOS box, you want to set up the Crynwr packet driver appropriate for your ethernet card -- see http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm for packet drivers. DOS

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-06 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:54:16PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: How would you good gentles go about putting such a plan as mine into action? In other words, how would you go about accessing a Linux machine with a DOS system? Is there any special software? Would I have to use a USB port? If I am

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 12:54:16PM -0400, RiverWind wrote: How would you good gentles go about putting such a plan as mine into action? In other words, how would you go about accessing a Linux machine with a DOS system? Is there any special

In Need of Advice

2011-09-05 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, I have two computers, a DOS and a Linux box. Now then, I am wanting to access my Linux box via my DOS box. I would ultimately like to use my Linux box as my sole ISP. I do not believe that using my modem in order to dial up my Linux machine would work, but I also know that there is

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-05 Thread Chris Brennan
On 9/5/2011 12:54 PM, RiverWind wrote: Hey There, I have two computers, a DOS and a Linux box. Now then, I am wanting to access my Linux box via my DOS box. I would ultimately like to use my Linux box as my sole ISP. I do not believe that using my modem in order to dial up my Linux

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-05 Thread Bob Proulx
RiverWind wrote: Hey There, Note that cross-posting to a large number of lists never works out very well. I would hold discussions one at a time. I have chosen to reply only to the debian-user list since that is the list to which I am subscribed. I have two computers, a DOS and a Linux box.

Re: In Need of Advice

2011-09-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:34:32 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Note that cross-posting to a large number of lists never works out very well. I would hold discussions one at a time. I have chosen to reply only to the debian-user list since that is the list to which I am subscribed. Indeed. I consign

Re: Nagios : need some advice

2008-05-07 Thread krishanshinde
i have installed nagios but i want to create a normal user which have client's servers access only for montoing . i thier any tool or package which creates the users . -- This message was sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] at openSubscriber.com

Re: need some advice on redirection in apache

2006-12-18 Thread Kevin Ross
Just wondering, what options do I have to do redirection from the older web site http://mydomain.net: (apache listening on port ) to the new web site http://mydomina.net. Something like: Redirect permanent / http://mydomain.net/ should do the trick. -- Kevin

Nagios : need some advice

2005-08-26 Thread nicolas.kosmalski
Hello, I'm new user of nagios, and i'm not sure of everything i want to do. All is ok, but my boss (he give me a lot of trouble!) want to nagios do the service check faster (every 10second for example). So a lot of question come into my too small head : - Do i need to use another monitoring

Re: Nagios : need some advice

2005-08-26 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:36:29PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Do i need to use another monitoring software? I depends on what you want to monitor and what your boss wants to see. I recently started using munin in addition to nagios and other monitoring software and I am impressed with

Re: Nagios : need some advice

2005-08-26 Thread nicolas.kosmalski
- Do i need to use another monitoring software? I depends on what you want to monitor and what your boss wants to see. The essential things to monitor is switch, gateway .. Every 10 seconds can put a lot of load on your network connections especially if you monitor a lot of services and

Re: Nagios : need some advice

2005-08-26 Thread Sebastian Kayser
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Do i need to use another monitoring software? I depends on what you want to monitor and what your boss wants to see. The essential things to monitor is switch, gateway .. Bosses always appreciate - besides the uptime of your systems ;) -

offtopic (need your advice)

2003-02-20 Thread Tim locke
hi, Hoping someone can lend advice.I am looking for an application that would restrict/allow access to a single website for dialup users. (i.e. they will be able to visit the site on their office but not at home, however, their office uses dialup so that makes it harder to base it on their ip

New Install of Woody - Need some Advice

2002-06-27 Thread W.D. McKinney
Greetings, I am new to Debian and just successfully installed Woody on my laptop. Now I would like to install the latest XFree86 and Windowmaker. Not familiar with apt yet so any pointers to the best URL to learn more ? Thanks so much. /Dee -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Install of Woody - Need some Advice

2002-06-27 Thread G. L. `Griz' Inabnit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thursday 27 June 2002 01:12 pm, W.D. McKinney wrote: Greetings, I am new to Debian and just successfully installed Woody on my laptop. Now I would like to install the latest XFree86 and Windowmaker. Not familiar with apt yet so any pointers to the best

Re: New Install of Woody - Need some Advice

2002-06-27 Thread bijan soleymani
W.D. McKinney wrote: Greetings, I am new to Debian and just successfully installed Woody on my laptop. Now I would like to install the latest XFree86 and Windowmaker. Not familiar with apt yet so any pointers to the best URL to learn more ? Thanks so much. /Dee You should probably check

Re: I need some advice on :

2001-11-02 Thread Nick Sanders
I have heard about something called TDS (not Tax Deducted / Stolen at Source) .I presume that it is a database (an RDBMS) . Please correct me if I am wrong . TDS is used by Sybase and Microsoft for client to database server communications. See - http://www.freetds.org/ Nick

I need some advice on :

2001-11-01 Thread shyamk
Dear members , I have heard about something called TDS (not Tax Deducted / Stolen at Source) .I presume that it is a database (an RDBMS) . Please correct me if I am wrong . 2. How do you get a JSP , or Java application/applet/ orangelet/servlet , etc , communicate with a database , all

Re: I need some advice on :

2001-11-01 Thread Hanasaki JiJi
Shyam, Java uses JDBC for all RDBMS access. Simple JSP's / Servlet's can use this directly. For complex applications you will need to look into EJB's and application servers. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear members , I have heard about something called TDS (not Tax Deducted /

Bad DIMM? Need testing advice

2001-05-25 Thread Manuel Reiter
Hi, I recently thought I'd take advantage of the low RAM prices and got some memory for my home machine (Athlon 900, Asus A7V). I bought two 256MB PC133-DIMMs specified for 2-2-2 timing. Being a bit on the cautious side regarding memory, I decided to run memtest86 which indeed reported some

Re: Bad DIMM? Need testing advice

2001-05-25 Thread Roderick Cummings
From: Manuel Reiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Bad DIMM? Need testing advice Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 13:24:36 +0200 (CEST) Hi, I recently thought I'd take advantage of the low RAM prices and got some memory for my home machine (Athlon 900, Asus A7V). I bought

Re: Bad DIMM? Need testing advice

2001-05-25 Thread V.Suresh
I too have got a problem that's bugging me sometime now. Whenever I try to compile a kernel, or uncompress some big file, arbitrary characters get inserted in some files, leading to parse errors. For example, If I start compiling a kernel, it ends with a parse error. I check out, and

Apache + Extras, need install advice

1999-05-27 Thread current
I wanna set up a web server w/ Debian, and I wanted to get some quick advice about that packages to grab and install. Basically, I want Apache, with SSL, PHP, and MySQL support. Also, I would like to have MySQL (obviously), and SSH (for secure access). Not really much else I want installed

Re: Apache + Extras, need install advice

1999-05-27 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanna set up a web server w/ Debian, and I wanted to get some quick advice about that packages to grab and install. Basically, I want Apache, with SSL, PHP, and MySQL support. Also, I would like to have MySQL (obviously), and SSH (for secure access). Not

Re: need firewall advice

1998-11-16 Thread Piotr Wachowiak
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Stuart Marshall wrote: I will be setting up a firewall and need to decide what type of computer to buy. It will be a debian intel pc running as a packet filtering system (restricting various ports, etc) and will have 2

Re: need firewall advice

1998-11-16 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, In this case I actually want to get the full 100 BaseT bandwidth because the firewall is between our department and the rest of our site. The actual link to the internet is quite high speed (much more than T1). So the question remains I think: how much cpu power does it take to get full