Re: Linux Backup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 smertz wrote: > I have spent a great deal of time on simple things in Linux as I am new > over the last week (No better way to learn) But I don't want to > re-learn in case the proverbial Hard Drive dies, so what is a good way > to back up my system?

Re: Syncing files between two computers

Joshua Rogers wrote: I'm trying to figure out a way to sync files between my laptop and my desktop. I've begun using my desktop as only a media center. It holds all of my movies, music and photos. Sometimes I make changes to files, add files or remove files on my laptop and have to remember

Re: How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8

Ray Olszewski wrote: But you only mention 3 partitions above, and I don't know if that is a reporting error on your part or an indication of some other problem. So the first thing you should do is check your partition table as I did above (run fdisk and use its p command). If he ran with the RH

Re: How to add a new partition to an existing Red HAT 8

bj wrote: Hi ! I have a red hat 8.0 & Windows 2000 on a intel box with a 60 GB hard drive . Only 20 GB has been partitioned into 10 GB of NTFS and 9 GB of Linux , file id 83 ext 3 and 1 GB of Linux swap , file id 82 . I want to use some free unallocated space from the remaining 40 GB for my linux .

Re: detecting eth0 with fedora core 2

Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Hello, We got a new machine at work with an intel [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Dell [model: Optiplex GX280] with an Intel broadcom(r) NIC. I installed fedora core 2 by replacing the windows partition, which installed painlessly. However, I am unable to "see" eth0 via a /sbin

Re: ADSL connection via RHL 90

GA Dept PT ACBI wrote: Data from /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 : DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none BROADCAST=10.234.16.255 IPADDR=10.234.16.101 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=10.234.16.0 ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:0c:6e:6b:4e:c2 USERCTL=no PEERDNS=no GATEWAY=10.234.16.99 TYPE=Ethernet Does your IS

Re: smtp alternatives

James Miller wrote: In setting up a system for a friend (Mepis installation) and finding him a cheap ISP (dialin), I've discovered his provider does not run an smtp server. So, I'm looking for alternatives so he'll be able to send mail from his machine. I've always only ever used smtp, and it's the

Re: USB Flash/Jump Drives-Linux??

Ray Olszewski wrote: At 09:03 AM 1/29/2005 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote: Greetings: Running Slackware 9.0 and 9.1; kernels 2.4.20 or 2.4.22, bare.i installation, I've experienced good support for all USB devices except Flash Drives. First one bought was a Link-Max UL-641 that, plugged in, was immedia

Re: promiscus mode

Ray Olszewski wrote: At 12:30 PM 1/25/2005 +0530, Muruganandam wrote: Hi all, How to enable the Promiscus mode in the kernel,inorder to capture the packets.Advance Thanks It would be easier to answer this question if I better understood the level you are asking it at. The beginner-level answer

Re: a sound problem solution?

James Miller wrote: But, I wax philosophical. I finally decided to give in and listen to some music through my computer. Mainly a satellite radio I've gotten to run through it. I'm satisfied with the barest semblance of audio reproduction these days: it sounds a little better than an old mono phono

Re: CD-RW-Drive

Peter H. wrote: Season Greetings, Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26 I got myself an Asus Atapi CD-RW-Drive and I am not sure if this was the right choice for Linux. I was able to make it work following the instruction of the program xcdroast, however, some things seem strange. I always get error messa

Re: Linux on a G5 Boat anchor

Dave B. Sharp wrote: I have new dual g5 Mac that I have not been able to get working properly = in 6 months. Apple has been of lillte or no use. Is there a working = distribution for this machine? - http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-new

Re: can't read my new hard drive

Ray Olszewski wrote: At 09:28 PM 1/2/1999 -0500, rob.rice wrote: I just got a new WD2500JBRTL hard drive I can format it reiser filesystem I can write to it I can ls it BUT when ever I try to read from (cp,du,mv,tar) it my computer locks up it also locks up when I try to run any reiser file syst

Re: 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files to 777

Question 2: Try the following: ---[cut] ---[cut] I use this to fix permissions on a Samba box - you will have to modify or drop the chown line t

Re: 2 questions: 1. ssh permissions to 777 and 2. recursively change all directories/files to 777

Eve Atley wrote: First question... We have people SSHing into our Linux box from overseas (India to US, company access only). But files that are uploaded from these people become read-only to anyone else accessing them. We *require* that they be readable/writable by this side of the pond (US). How

Re: tcpdump: How do I filter 'bootp' packets?

chuck gelm wrote: Howdy: I have cable modem access to the internet now and the download speed is double my original DSL speed. :-)However, I am concerned about security. Can other cable modem subscribers see my packets? IIRC, most modern cable modems filter anything not addressed to them - y

Re: problems with command su

Vladimir E. Rodriguez wrote: Hello again, I tried this thing but it doesn't work. Also I checked that my user vladimir belongs to the group wheel, it's true, but I can't log with su. Please someone could help me? Thanks Vladimir Last time I had to unlock a box, I booted into Knoppix, mounted the

Re: Query regarding Copy-on-write

Simon Valiquette wrote: Jagadeesh Bhaskar P a écrit : How can this work? Can someone please help me on this regard? I think I gave a good overview of the question. I tried to keep things as simple as I could, at the cost of not giving an exact description of how Linux handle COW. For example

Re: Query regarding Copy-on-write

Jagadeesh Bhaskar P wrote: Hi, When a process forks, every resource of the parent, including the virtual memory is copied to the child process. The copying of VM uses copy-on-write(COW). I know that COW comes when a write request comes, and then the copy is made. Now my query follows: How will the

Re: Inter-module communication

Peter STIEGLITZ wrote: Hi folks, I have a requirement using 2.6 to notify more than one kernel module following the receipt of an interrupt. I've heard of module unloading becoming a problem with other modules assuming they are still there. What do people think is the best approach? Regards Pete

Re: dma turned off

Peter H. wrote: Hi, Slackware 10 When I switch to kernel 2.6.7 I get the following error message on boot: * Warning: The dma on your hard drive is turned off. * * This may really slow down the fsck process. * Apparently with the command "hdparm -d /dev/hda" dma is turned on. Where in /etc/rc.d if

Re: No init found

Peter H. wrote: Hi, Slackware 10. I am trying to change my hard drive. I duly copied all partitions and files to the new drive with 'tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf - '. Now when I boot I get: Freeing unused kernel memory: 120 K freed. Warning unable to open an initial console. Kernel

Re: framebuffer console problems

James Miller wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jim Nelson wrote: If you are using a 2.6 kernel (and maybe the 2.4), the kernel module for the ATI Rage series of graphics systems is aty128fb, not atyfb. I've had problems with vesafb myself, but with really old hardware (Trident TGUI 9660 on a

Re: framebuffer console problems

James Miller wrote: Looking over the framebuffer how to again (fairly dated document by now) I'm beginning to wonder if maybe my video card doesn't require a special framebuffer module. There, under section 5.6 "Got an ATI card?" they mention a particular module--atyfb. In my initrd, on the other

Re: any way to find which pci driver uses what memory region & Any way to find which driver is attached to which device file

eshwar wrote: HI, Is there any way to find which pci driver uses what memroy regions and any way to find which driver si attached to which device file "cat /proc/iomem". That will list the memory addresses assigned to the various PCI devices. Some kernels have PCI name support compiled in (m

Re: Fwd: Re: clock cycles

First of all Thanks a lot for help see inline --- Jim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not exactly. The processor speed is an indication of how fast it can carry out instructions, but on CISC (complex instruction set computing) computers (x86, x86-64) some instructions take more th

Re: LVM query

James Miller wrote: I tend to use somewhat older computers and older, smaller (and cheaper--sometimes free!) hard drives. As a result, I end up with 2 or more hard drives in any given machine. I've been manually partitioning and usually making / the mount point for smaller of the disks, /home the

Re: clock cycles

Ankit Jain wrote: well this is a very basic question but somewhat myu concept is not clear i am looking at system like before they were very slow but in last few years in systems clock cycle has increased at a rapid rate i.e system used t ocome with speed of 350MHz then it raised 700 MHz and slowly

Re: address limitation

Ankit Jain wrote: Thanks a lot for help rest inline:) --- Jim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ankit Jain wrote: hi well i am not able ot understand this... there are lot many more problems /proc/iomem -0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009 : reserved 00

Re: physical address?

what tells that this is a laptop? 6800-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2) Texas Instruments CardBus slots. Educated guess - there are CardBus-to-PCI adapters available, but are pretty rare - not the kind of things that you'd see in a n

Re: address limitation

Ankit Jain wrote: hi well i am not able ot understand this... there are lot many more problems /proc/iomem -0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009 : reserved 000a-000b : Video RAM area 000c-000c7fff : Video ROM 000f-000f : System ROM 0010-077e : System RAM 00100

Re: physical address?

Ankit Jain wrote: thanks a lot for helping all the way see inline --- Jim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ankit Jain wrote: hi http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html -0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009 : reserved 000a-000b : Video RAM area 000c-00

Re: are they physical address?

Ankit Jain wrote: hi http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html -0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009 : reserved 000a-000b : Video RAM area 000c-000c7fff : Video ROM 000f-000f : System ROM 0010-03fe : System RAM 0010-0022c557 : Kernel code 0022c558-00

Re: VM Vs Swap space

chuck gelm wrote: Pratik Solanki wrote: [CCing linux-newbie] On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:21:57 +0100 (BST), Ankit Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well i dont know exactly but somewhat i feel that there must be some way to disable the virtual memory. yaa of course there should be some way. it is not th

Re: Heavy load of graphics

y not System V or BSD priority - I think it might be the actual kernel scheduler priority, whereas top and "ps al" show standard BSD-style priorities. Someone else have more info? rest inline --- Jim Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ankit Jain wrote: thanks this is the

Re: debugging a Segmentation fault

Jim Nelson wrote: Ray Olszewski wrote: At 02:43 AM 10/7/2004 -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Hello, I develop a monte-carlo code written in standard C. I recently decided to "add features" to the previous stable version and now the code aborts with a Segmentation fault. I suspect t

Re: debugging a Segmentation fault

Ray Olszewski wrote: At 02:43 AM 10/7/2004 -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: Hello, I develop a monte-carlo code written in standard C. I recently decided to "add features" to the previous stable version and now the code aborts with a Segmentation fault. I suspect the code is executing different p

Re: Heavy load of graphics

Ankit Jain wrote: thanks this is the output i am using redhat linux 9.0 "I know Red Hat has a lot of standard daemons (PCMCIA, ISDN, etc) that are started by default - have you used chkconfig or redhat-config-services to shut off unneded services?" as u said...how to do this. i am intrested in clos

Re: Heavy load of graphics

Ankit Jain wrote: hi well i am using linux 9.0 kernel 2.4 ver. 128 Mb RAM i have seen not only on this sytem but the other one having 512 Mb RAM the most of the memory is lost or taken by graphics or xserver. on my system around 90% is occupied by the xsever and on the sys with 512 Mb RAM around 70