On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Stephen Samuel wrote:
> The main purpose of the BS parameters was to take care of I/O devices for
> which the write size made a difference. tape drives with variable block
> sizes or streaming come to mind. Depending on the tape drive, you could
> sometimes end up with very di
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Ola Theander wrote:
> Hi Mike.
>
> My tar line looks like this: tar zcvf dest-file source-dirs
>
> /Ola
>
That's rather strange, because when i do a:
tar zcvf test.tar /home/mdresser, I get all my dot files in the tar file
Sounds like something specific to your distribution
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Ola Theander wrote:
> Dear subscribers.
>
> I would like to know the recommended way to backup a Linux workstation.
> Currently I use tar to pack a number of directories to a single file which I
> save on a CD. One problem I've noticed with this approach is that tar seems
> to
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Abhijit Vijay wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I came to know from some of my labmates who did a
> performance test, that Linux Samba access is
> *significantly* slower (order of three times) than
> Windows SMB. Is there any reason why this could be tru
> and can this problem be fixed at
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > > mdresser@monitor:~$ smbmount //mike/c test
> Hmmm , My smbmount tool screams at me to use ... This is with
> version 2.2.7 . Which is highly recomended due to a Security
> issue . Don't know how far back in versions th
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote:
>
> > Have written some scripts that perform network backups. However I am
> > only able to run them as root. How can give mount permissions to another
> > user.
>
> Just a side note, h
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote:
> Have written some scripts that perform network backups. However I am
> only able to run them as root. How can give mount permissions to another
> user.
Just a side note, have you seen smbtar? Might be easier than mounting a
directory and copying it, and t
On 19 Nov 2002, Bryan Simmons wrote:
> I have an adsl connection that uses a dynamic IP from my ISP. I use the
> adsl-status script to find out what my IP is at any time.
> What I want to do is parse the response I get from adsl-status to
> isolate my IP. Here is the output of the adsl-status sc
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote:
>
> While bash can retrieve the different commandline values using the variables
> $1, $2, $3, etc - is there a way to just read out them all at once (with
> spaces between the values).
>
> I use startup scripts for many of my games, and I want the
> ftp: expKIDSaa.20021110.dmp: short write
> 6% |*
disk full?
Mike
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote:
> I removed /backup/ from all of them.
>
> Advserver
> Logs
> Ect.
>
> And like before it stills excludes them by not tarring there contents
> but it does create the 10k empty tar file.
Sorry, I got completely sidetracked with the idea of excludes not workin
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote:
> Also I just noticed I get an error about removing leading / from member
> names.
>
> Here is my archive.exclude
> /backup/advserver
> /backup/logs
> /backup/lost+found
> /backup/scripts
> /backup/tar.archive
>
Try putting
backup/advserver
backup/logs
ba
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Paul Kraus wrote:
> When running tar with the exclude set tar creates a 10k empty tar file.
>
> I have a script that tars a all the sub directories of a directory into
> individual tar files for each subdirectory. I have an exclude file that
> is set to skip some of the folder
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Paul Kraus wrote:
> Can you defrag a Linux drive I think the partition is ext3. Do they need
> deframenting?
There are defragmenters, yes.
Generally speaking, they don't need defragmenting, but then again, that
was said about NT4 and W2k, and we both know the real story on t
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Paul Kraus wrote:
> I am trying to extract the file P723.ind. Now this is on a Sco Box so I
> am crossing my fingers that the syntax is similar to Linux. Here is the
> sniped results for tar tvf /dev/rStp0.
>
> rw-r--r-- 0/0 614400 Aug 08 16:39 2002 ./PM65/Orthotic Cat/Knee
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Marco Calistri wrote:
> Hello can you explain me how can I check if my mobo supports ATA/66 mode?
> Is the BIOS related to this feature?
>
> Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 1.4
> Program: Unicore Chip Detect v0.72 2000.03.10
> BIOS Date: 08/13/97
> BIOS Type: Award
Rick Denis wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i just installed a new, 2 port, PCI serial board but am baffled by
> something. what is strange, and the reason for this e-mail, is that the
> board is set to use irq 9 and the ports are initialized on irq 9 (ie in
> rc.serial) like so:
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS2 por
> I believe that that is ok. I think that the problem is below. This is what I
> added to my fstab file for the tape drive.
> ...
> /dev/tape /tape autonoauto,user,nodev 0 0
> ..
Richard Adams wrote:
> 3) Price, now considering the machines you mention for that price, you should
> be happy, even secondhand stuff costs here twice as much.
I've picked up 2 hp omnibook 5700(p166mmx's, 80 meg ram, 12" TFT screen, 10x
cdrom, 2 gig hd), for under 400 bucks each before, and
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