Re: tar question

2000-03-09 Thread kenlussier
By "make an image of the drive" do you mean a ghost image? If so, that really won't do me much good because I'm going to be putting the dive in a different system with much different hardware. Kenny > At 04:00 PM 3/9/2000 , you wrote: > > i'm by no means an expert but why don't you make a image o

Re: tar question

2000-03-09 Thread kenlussier
Well, ok, then Let's not ignore things here. I gave a fairly detailed account of what I am looking to do, and why. Aparently, several people think that there would be a better way to go about it, but no one is saying how! So, if people have other solutions, please feel free to share them. I am

Re: tar question

2000-03-09 Thread Michael O'Donnell
>I was wondering if there is a way to see how big >an archive would be if I were to tar an entire disk. Ignoring many details and questions that occur to me (like the question of whether this is the right way to approach the problem in the first place) I'd suggest something like this: tar cvz

Re: tar question

2000-03-09 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
> I was wondering if there is a way to see how big an archive would be if I were >to tar an entire disk. What I want to do is pull the harddrive out of one box Won't it be the same size? At least it's a good approximation, with the difference that it will be one single file, and not many li

Re: tar question

2000-03-09 Thread Steven W. Orr
tar cvf - . | wc -c If that's what you really want to do. You could also use -zcvf to get compression. Or you could just say df -k to see how much space is consumed. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Stranger things have happened but none stranger than

tar question

2000-03-09 Thread kenlussier
All, I was wondering if there is a way to see how big an archive would be if I were to tar an entire disk. What I want to do is pull the harddrive out of one box and put it into another, but keep the content of the drive the same. I'm going to have to make all sorts of changes to the syste

RE: good IRC daemons?

2000-03-09 Thread Jamie Blondin
Well, I've worked with a few ircd's, so here goes... I haven't actually worked original ircd, but it was the one that all the rest were based off of, so I imagine it's pretty stable. ircd-hybrid is the one used on EFNet, so it scales pretty well and you can be assured it's at least moderately st

Re: good IRC daemons?

2000-03-09 Thread Ferenc Tamas Gyurcsan
> I have a quick question for the list. I would like to setup >an IRC daemon on my firewall machine. I went to freshmeat.net and Are you absolutely sure you want this? I didn't have the impression about all these irc things that they are so well-tested against security. Well, I can't help

Lastest Samba RPM issue

2000-03-09 Thread Nadeem Kafi
Hi All, I have updated the latest samba rpm samba-2.0.6-19991110.i386.rpm on my RedHat 6.0 (Hedwig) system replacing samba-2.0.3-8.i386. ( I also tried compliing the source and generating rpm from it). Following are some problems:- 1. Executing smbclient -L mypc does not show workgroup a

good IRC daemons?

2000-03-09 Thread Todd Littlefield
Hello, I have a quick question for the list. I would like to setup an IRC daemon on my firewall machine. I went to freshmeat.net and did a search on ircd. Strangely enough there are about fifty daemons out there... I downloaded "the" ircd and started looking at the documentation.

Re: Fun with automounter?

2000-03-09 Thread Robert Anderson
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 10:18:36 -0500 >From: Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Precedence: bulk >X-List-Info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Majordomo 1.92 >X-Sender: Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hi all, > >According to the automounter, autofs ma

Fun with automounter?

2000-03-09 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, According to the automounter, autofs man pages, Linux does not support direct maps. So I've constructed an indirect map like this: auto.master: /usr/netauto.net auto.net: * -fstype=nfs martin:/usr/net/& For some reason this does not work, yet, if I

Re: email aliases??

2000-03-09 Thread Charles C. Bennett, Jr.
> I add the line helpme: name1, name2, name3, to /etc/aliases and > run new aliases and I see the number of alisese change, but the messages > do not move to the aliases users. /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail restart ccb -- Charles C. Bennett, Jr. VA LiNUX Systems Systems En

email aliases??

2000-03-09 Thread csmith
group I am trying to get a users email aliased to different accounts ( using red hat 6.1) I add the line helpme: name1, name2, name3, to /etc/aliases and run new aliases and I see the number of alisese change, but the messages do not move to the aliases users. any suggestions

Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday March 15, 1999 - Linux Soup Year 3

2000-03-09 Thread Jerry Feldman
Presented by: Christoph Doerbeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Location: MIT Building 3-133 Food dontated courtesy of Taos - The Sys Admin Company http://www.taos.com/ Christoph shows us how to set up Apache with PHP, MySQL, and mod_perl to serve dynamic, configurable web content. This is the latest in C

[Off Topic] - Special Interest Group - IEIS

2000-03-09 Thread Nadeem Kafi
Hi All, I am forming a special interest group locally, The area of our interest is working only with [Unix/Win32/Linux]-[Oracle&others]-[Java,php,tcl/tk etc] technologies for internal based applications. Applications developed could later be deployed through ASPs (Application Service Provider)