Backup questions, was Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Ian Stephen
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:03, David A. Bandel wrote: > > cpio has always had the advantage that it will grab > special files that tar won't. What format is best for cpio, or does it matter? I see the default is 'bin', but that bin is also obsolete. Is ustar better? thanks, -- Ian Stephen <[

Re: SCO is suing SCO

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Condon
On Sunday 17 August 2003 09:23, bof carved in granite: > For background to this article, first read > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/32233.html. > > In a surprise press conference today, SCO's Darryl McBride > announced that SCO is suing SCO . > The conference ended when he fired himself

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 22:13, Shawn Tayler wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:41:48 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > professed: > > > What we do have in Australia is electronic tax, that has to be sent > > quarterly, its like a VAT system. It is for windows only and installs > > ONLY on C dri

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:06, Alma J Wetzker wrote: > every executive I have ever met will spit nails about downtime and the > cost to the company until you tell them how much it will cost to fix it. > Then the executive goes away, until next time. That's the business we're in and I can tell y

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread burns
On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 18:49, Alma J Wetzker wrote: > see that doesn't happen. What busines apps do we have for linux that > make people want to run linux so that they can use that application? > Office? Spice? Photoshop? What do we have that is close? > > I would hardly classify Photoshop

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:41:48 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> professed: > What we do have in Australia is electronic tax, that has to be sent > quarterly, its like a VAT system. It is for windows only and installs > ONLY on C drive, typical Govt program, so I cannot get rid of windows > un

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:17 am, Leon A. Goldstein wrote: > Keith Antoine wrote inter alia: > > Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and > > fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the > > motherboard, could this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Antoine
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 02:03 am, David A. Bandel wrote: > AFAIK, ftp wasn't designed for recursive transfers. For that, I would > use rsync. That said, I use cpio to grab directories/disks. Generally, > I create a TOC using find, then cat that TOC through cpio with all the > appropriate switches.

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:21 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: > Do you have a backup of your data? Only partial; no where near enough. But that was their problem, they had GHOST installed, but I made the mistake of thinking that they would do a regular backup. > If no, boot using Knoppix and pull all

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:18:15 -0600 On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:42:26 -0500 Alma J Wetzker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ other stuff snipped - see the thread for details ] I agree with the sentiment but the reality is much harsher. Most linux apps just aren't up to thei

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread Alma J Wetzker
Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:56:23 -0700 On Sat, Aug 16, 2003, Alma J Wetzker wrote: I agree with the sentiment but the reality is much harsher. Most linux apps just aren't up to their windoze counterparts. This is especially true for personal productivity apps. The s

Re: samba as BDC

2003-08-17 Thread Gary Wilson
--- Vu Pham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for documentation to build a Samba > server ( I am using Samba > 2.2.7 on RH 9 ) as a backup domain controller. All > of my searches returned > results for Samba server as primary controller. > > Have anybody tried Samba as BDC ?

Re: rpm won't run as root

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Hipp
Collins Richey wrote: Wow! Has RH been taking lessons from M$? I thought only Windows offered the "reboot fixes all" philosophy. The neat thing was, I only thought of rebooting after someone mentioned it here. Maybe I'm beginning to unlearn some of my bad Windows habits :-) Michael __

Re: SCO is suing SCO

2003-08-17 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth bof: > For background to this article, first read > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/32233.html. > > In a surprise press conference today, SCO's Darryl McBride announced > that SCO is suing SCO . [snort] > The conference ended when he fired himself, rehired himself, and then > fi

Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread James McDonald
Kurt Wall wrote: ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt: http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html Kurt I don't know it sounds like a rather kosher offer ;) -- James McDonald Systems Engineer Singleton NSW Australia 61+ (0)2 6570 1556 (bh) 61+ (0)2 6571 2401 (ah) 61+ 0428 320 219 (mob) __

Re: HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9

2003-08-17 Thread Bruno Vieira
Thanks for your answer. But this problems happens not only in KDE. - Original Message - From: "Kurt Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: sxs.lists.linux-users To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 3:03 PM Subject: Re: HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9 > Quoth

Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Marinis
Kurt Wall wrote: ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt: http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html Kurt Ya know Kurt, sometimes, you can really pick them >:-) ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linu

Re: HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9

2003-08-17 Thread Tom Marinis
Greets Bruno Bruno Vieira wrote: Hi everyone. I am having problems on Slackware 9. The problem is : the dialogue windows close themseself in the second time i call them. Example: When I click on setup button of the KPPP the dialogue window appear correctly. But if i close that and try clicking a

Re: HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9

2003-08-17 Thread Kurt Wall
Quoth Bruno Vieira: > Hi everyone. > > I am having problems on Slackware 9. > > The problem is : the dialogue windows close themseself in the second time i > call them. > > Example: When I click on setup button of the KPPP the dialogue window appear > correctly. But if i close that and try click

Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:29 am, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:03 am, Kurt Wall wrote: > > ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt: > > > > http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html > > > > Kurt > > Excellent! I just emailed a copy of it to work and tomorrow I run it > off

Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:03:05 -0400 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt: > > http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html > That's the funniest thing I've seen since you sent us the picture of Darl McBride and his buddy Sadaam! He definitely has more in

SCO is suing SCO

2003-08-17 Thread bof
For background to this article, first read http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/32233.html. In a surprise press conference today, SCO's Darryl McBride announced that SCO is suing SCO . McBride appeared at the conference with two baseball caps, one blue and one red. He stated that, as head o

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:38:33 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a recent bad experience using Knoppix to recover data. > > I recently used Knoppix to recover data on my dual boot machine when > my lindows installation got whacked when XP crashed. (It was curious. > The lindows bo

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Keith Antoine wrote inter alia: Looking at the drive in dos it sees c: only and If I access the R and fixmbr it says its not a standard mbr. All we did was change the motherboard, couldĀ  this wipe the mbr and scaramble it? Is there a way to fix without losing allĀ  the data? It looks to me as if

HELP - Dialogue windows bug in Slackware 9

2003-08-17 Thread Bruno Vieira
Hi everyone. I am having problems on Slackware 9. The problem is : the dialogue windows close themseself in the second time i call them. Example: When I click on setup button of the KPPP the dialogue window appear correctly. But if i close that and try clicking again on KPPP setup button the dia

Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:03:05 -0400 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> insightfully noted: >ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt: > >http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html > >Kurt == Thanks for sharing that one!! Had to print and bookmark it!! Best, Mike -- "The man wh

Re: The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 17 August 2003 11:03 am, Kurt Wall wrote: > ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt: > > http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html > > Kurt Excellent! I just emailed a copy of it to work and tomorrow I run it off on one of the lasers. It'll make a great poster. --

The Nigerian/SCO Connection

2003-08-17 Thread Kurt Wall
ROFLMAO! Oh, my sides hurt: http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/nigerian-sco.html Kurt -- Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education. -- Mark Twain ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/E

Re: worms worms worms

2003-08-17 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On 16 Aug 2003 04:23:29 -0400 burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Code that causes this much disruption of commerce is anything but > benign. These are more than just the digital equivalent of a rck thrown > through a window, they suck up huge amounts of bandwidth, both as people > attempt to deal

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread Joel Hammer
Just a recent bad experience using Knoppix to recover data. I recently used Knoppix to recover data on my dual boot machine when my lindows installation got whacked when XP crashed. (It was curious. The lindows boot process just seemed to end very prematurely as shown in messages but the thing sti

Re: apt-rpm vs. apt4rpm

2003-08-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
Tim Wunder wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:55 am, someone claiming to be Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: On Saturday 16 August 2003 9:45 am, someone claiming to be Michael Hipp wrote: Does apt preclude the continued use of RedHat's up2date tool? No,

Re: rpm won't run as root

2003-08-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 06:07:37 -0700 "Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/16/03 23:55, Keith Morse wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, RedMule.com wrote: > > > > > >>On one of my RH9 boxes, when I do something like 'rpm -q -a moz*' it > > > >>runs fine when logged in as myself. But when

Re: rpm won't run as root

2003-08-17 Thread Net Llama!
On 08/16/03 23:55, Keith Morse wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, RedMule.com wrote: On one of my RH9 boxes, when I do something like 'rpm -q -a moz*' it runs fine when logged in as myself. But when I do that as root it hangs. The process won't even kill unless I use -9. Tried '--rebuilddb' but that

samba as BDC

2003-08-17 Thread Vu Pham
Hi all, I am looking for documentation to build a Samba server ( I am using Samba 2.2.7 on RH 9 ) as a backup domain controller. All of my searches returned results for Samba server as primary controller. Have anybody tried Samba as BDC ? Could you pelase share me some experience ? Thanks, Vu

Re: hd problem

2003-08-17 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 14:23:59 +1000 Keith Antoine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry this is really M$ related but: > I had a customer with a constant rebooting machine, which we found was > a motherboard problem, PSU was fine and also switch was. So I used the > latest Gigabyte motherboard as a re